Astros Getting Cam Smith Hype, Rockets Rest Starters In Loss To Thunder, Things Keep Getting Worse For Mavericks

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Launch timers. This is The Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Two inn h Town.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross from Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety webside. Make it right
side for Reid to his right.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Nate Williams left hand ribble drive goes the window and
scores in.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Nate Williams on the scorecard.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
Rockets let at thirty five or thirty one, Williams left
hand riblet turns to a right what backup? Flips it
over the backboard. Missed the shot? Put back there. That's
gonna be the fallly. Dante with his first NBA field
goal nut He's seven to eighty nine, eight point deficit.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Rockets trying to hang around prior.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
To Roberts right wing send it to use and left
wings use ana step back left corner. Three got it yeah,
loos use and drills it from the left corner. It's
the seven point lead, largest lead of the night. Checker
on the floor to start the fourth gets a scream
from Dante. Lobs up to the fall. He'll jam it
down with a foul.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Combinations I did not have on my bingo card reach
Shepherd and the fale Dante for the flush with a whistle, Roberts.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
To Cryer dribbles the baseline prior into the front court.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
There's no horn and the coovers win.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
Houston becomes the first team in Big twelve history to
win eighteen conference games, yes, sixty five to fifty nine
to the final.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Well, we know who the Houston Cougars are.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
I don't think many of you that happened to listen
or watch the Rockets game knew who the Rockets were
last night. But nevertheless, a competitive effort, except for the
fact that Shake Guilders Alexander scored four fifty one points
and fifty plus for the fourth time in like a month.
Good morning, It is the Matt Thomas Show here with
Ross on Sports Talk seven. Honey, sports are vy, How

(01:57):
the hell are you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Great, man's having a fantastic day. It sounds good. Glad
you're in a good mood. Uh huh. Yeah. That was
weird last night, really really weird.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
And I know that Rockets Twitter again, that's a small
minority of grouping that was quite upset.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
With the lineup.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
But we're dealing in twenty twenty five NBA Reality and
you got three games in four days. Oklahoma City, ross,
can I tell you? And I've seen them in person
now five times, including the preseason, and I love my Rockets.
Oklahoma City is going to crush the West.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Uh yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, as
long as the barring health, of course.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Barring health, and of course the Rockets put together an
amazing run or anybody else with that. Mates are playing
better rock But oh my god, I mean, you got
Jalen Williams, you got Chad Holm Green if he stays hell,
You've got Isaiah Hartenstein who doubled doubles every night except
for a last that not necessarily needed SGA just as

(03:07):
fluid as all get out. They've got a bench. I mean,
oh my god, it was so it was. They're good.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
They're so ridiculously good they are. But did you find
it curious in the end of the game when it
was getting within six, that I may stuck with the
bench guys? A little curious?

Speaker 3 (03:30):
But that's the second time that's happened this year where
and I go back to the Golden State game where
the Rockets were getting blown out with the starters and.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Emais like I'm good I'm gonna get seem but this
is different. They weren't down thirty. They were they didn't
get down more than twenty the whole game. Yeah, So
I found that curious at the end of the game
that there was no Jalen Green didn't play a second
in the fourth quarter into and got under He played
twenty five minutes, And yeah, maybe there was some preservation.
But if you get within six in the fourth quarter,

(04:00):
I thought that Iman and Doka might give it the
old college try.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah, and that's something that I'm sure we'll be asked today.
I don't know if it was asked last night after
the game or not, but it was certainly an interesting
lineup out there. It was a would you say, a
coming out party for Reed Shepherd? I mean, for absolutely
not even close.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
I mean it wasn't even the other game where he
had with like sixteen points. He knocked down a couple threes.
He wasn't really scoring efficiently. I think he got up
a number of shots, like a bunch of shots in
that game and wasn't over fifty percent shooting. Last night,
he looked confident. He was he was dropping dimes. He
looked the term used by Craig Ackerman and Ryan Hollins

(04:41):
was wiggle like he's got a little wiggle to him.
He just like a little swagger, a little more confidence.
He looked like he belonged.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, And if you're in the Cam Whitmore stand group,
I mean you loved last night too. I mean that
guy was balling too emphatic throwdowns. I had a couple
of misses and he had some defensive lapses, but he
can He's just a scorer. It ain't the most efficient
thing out there. But when he got to take over
a game, he can do that.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Three block shots too for game winmore. He was all
over the place.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
So there was there were some positives in last night.
And again you to realize, folks, and I know you
don't want to hear this, but this will be that.
This is what san Antonio did for so many years.
This is what the Lakers have done on occasion as well.
It's not great, but it is the NBA and they're
trying to preserve some folks and they're thinking, my guest

(05:31):
is Ross and you are mister analytical, of the two
of us on the show, are they just putting the
numbers together and saying, hey, three games in four days.
This is a San Antonio, this is a Oklahoma City
team that's that's got the Rockets number except for that
one time the numbers say, get the guy's rest. So
you have a better chance of winning here tonight in Indianapolis

(05:51):
and a better chance of winning with a day off
in New Orleans on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Again, I'm I'm not trying to justify it.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
I'm just telling you that this is the new trend
of the n I don't but it necessarily is a
great trend for the NBA. But there were some banged
dep guys and they said, you know what, let's give
them an extra day off and hopefully they're better for
tonight's game against the Pacers.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Yeah. And I mean, obviously we can find out. And
that's the good news is this is a smart organization.
We have a smart head coach, and if there is
something that happened, generally, whether it works or not, there's
a reason for it. And that's all you can ask.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I'm just gonna say this, And I don't know if
this will be much of a conversation piece on a
show today, but imadoka is doesn't come across to me
and I've known him for a year and a half.
I mean, we're not like best friends. He hasn't bought
me Amelia, which shold probably should have, but that's different
for different time. He doesn't come across to me as
a big fan of finesse basketball, meaning he you know,

(06:46):
he's not thinking about this kind of stuff. But there's
obviously either guys that were not one hundred percent saying
I'm not gonna put my stars out there at sixty percent,
and if they reinjured themselves or further have ailments, is
it gonna cost me a more down the road than
it would be on a situation against an Oklahoma City team.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Again, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Emay has always been very forthcoming with us, so I'm
sure when he toined his letter this week he'll address that.
But the bottom line is they were competitive last night.
It did give it opportunity for a couple of guys,
especially Reed Shepherd, and I got some news for you.
Did you have no Fani Dante with a double figure
game in his first NBA game on your scorecard line?

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yes? I did? Actually did you really for you? Yeah?
Actually I nailed it on the head. I had I
had ten points nine rebounds and two blocks.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
I think what he did, and I guess just a
one game empisodes, he might have supplanted Jack Landell is
the backup center.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
I wouldn't say that, but he looked good. He looked
really good. He looked at for me. Oh you know what,
Oregon guy. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Emay dok is giving
him a shot. He's putting him in the starting lineup
next game. I forgot about the EMA. It takes care
of those in the Pacific Northwest guys. I forget about that,
all right, Rossie. We have a busy show today.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
We have something that's going to happen in forty minutes
that has never happened in the history of the Matt
Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
It is a sports empty theater involving people that work
at seven ninety. Oh my god, I knew you were
going to do this. It's called entertainment, Rossie. I knew
you were going to do this. Number one and number two.
You roped me into this, Yes, I did, and it
worked out for tue perfection. It's all for the sake
of the show. Rosses. Is enough, but okay, whatever, Well.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
It just involves me jumping in, getting out and then
other people jumping in, so they will be a three
person sports empty Tha up on the show, okay, you,
me and Adam Klant will be on there. We've got
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At noon, we have NFL rewind with Ross at twelve thirty.
Gordy's gonna stop by at one o'clock. You will give

(08:47):
us a little bit of his Astros takes on things.
And then we got believing or not today at one fifty?

Speaker 2 (08:55):
What else?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
Anything else? Major headline. We're kind of a slow time
in sports. You agree or disagree on these things?

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, I would say, I mean this is but this
is every year, Matt. It's it's after the super Bowl
and it's before baseball gets going. Yeah, and March Madness
will carry some of that. But thank god for left
field talk. Yeah, how do you do yesterday? By the way,
I have no idea. Does that make me a bad am?
I a bad Astros fan or astrom this.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Quick time out, you will give us a complete recap.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Day yesterday wonderful, like from really like from when he
woke up. I'm in a high protein oatmeal. If you
want to text him, then find out exactly what he did.
That's fine, okay.

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Speaker 2 (09:43):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
I'm here in Indianapolis, Indiana for tonight's game with the Pacers.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
As we appreciate you listening to Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (09:49):
Ninety Matt Thomas, Ross Virel.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Ten seventeen does a Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Good Morning, Houston, Texas.
I'm here in Indianapolis. Ross is back in Houston tomorrow.
I'll be in New Orleans. How about that? Is this
in the history of the show. Well, I have been
in three cities in three days on the show.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh it feels like probably at some point. Yeah, this
is this is You're a man about the country like that, Matt?
Is that what that is? Okay?

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Also sleep pribely, that's not a here and nor there.
Uh seven one three two five seven ninety If you
want to jump into the conversation, seven one three two
one two five seven hoty uh, I gotta tell you,
in all seriousness about spring training storing line number one,
Ross is host out two Van left field is storyline

(10:49):
number two. Camp Smith just crushing hearts and souls in
spring training baseball.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
I think that would be it. He's a beast. He
is a beast.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
So do we need to said an over under when
he shows up for the team?

Speaker 2 (11:03):
I guess we could. I was looking at our good
friends' baseball perspective, so I knew he was like top fifty,
top sixty. MLB has him fifty nine. Our good friends
at baseball perspective has as the number twenty prospect in baseball.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Okay, So, and I've asked this to you, I've asked
this to Chandler, I've asked this to anybody. I'll ask
the audience to think about this. Why would the Chicago
Cubs give this dude? And he's obviously a dude, right,
I don't think he's ready. He's not gonna be the
major league roster coming out sprint training. Okay, that's not
gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, if he's hitting the two home runs and triples
all the time, yeah, still probably not.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I still probably would say I would put it at
one percent chance.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I mean, so yeah, yea very low. He's hitting five
seventy one. By the way, that he is in spring trading.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
The Chicago Cubs are the greatest example Ross I can
think of in recent days upgoing literally all in, you
trade your first round pick, you trade a starting infielder
for a bro in Kyle Tucker, who might only play
in Chicago one year in.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
All likelihood will only play there for one year. Yeah,
isn't that That's ballsy?

Speaker 3 (12:18):
But it also canna be really stupid at end of
the day, right, Yes, So I don't know what's going
to happen on that, but man, I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Well there's let's face it, Ross and the world of
sports we've had. It just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
I mean, does Nico Harrison get the I just don't
get it. A Hall of Fame entry the first participant.

Speaker 6 (12:38):
In that.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
Probably, Yeah, Nico Harrison. Nico Harrison. I don't know what
I said, but uh but yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
By the way, Kyrie Irving's une for the year, believe
it's an ACL if.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I'm not mistaken. Oh geez. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
And then in today's edition of Not Reading the Room,
the Dallas Mavericks racery season, take a break next year.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I saw that. Man, it's crazy. Just more and more
and more and more and more as asked of us
as consumers, it feels like.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, I look, the NBA ticket is ridiculously expensive to
begin with, it just is. I mean, you can get
some value late last second.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
For instance, one of our listeners, uh metsa means Oklahoma
City Esterraaning came and said hello, and he got a
baseline about ten rows up for seventy one dollars at
the Thunder game last night, which he thought was really
good value. It seems like pretty good value. Yeah, that's
not bad. I mean lower level for seventy one bucks,
especially as.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Close as he was, but it's just not cheap. It's
sports events ROSSI as. I mean, this is zero breaking
news on this for the audience as well. It is
an serious one hundred percent investment. If you want to go, yeah,
watch on if you want to watch on TV, that's
one thing. But Jiminy Christmas, you have to you have

(14:00):
to legitimately separate. Well, do I want to pay my
electric bill on time? Or do I want to go
see an Astros game or a Texans game? Or a
Rockets game. It's crazy the money that's being spent on
tickets these days.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, and it's every sport. I mean it's gone up.
And because Messi came to the MLS and then all
the tickets went up there. I mean this weekend when
when Lionel Messi was supposed to play there, it was
two hundred and fifty dollars get in price at a
Houston Dynamo game. And that's a one off thing. But
that s face value? Is that what they were doing?

Speaker 7 (14:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (14:29):
No, I don't think that. I don't I think you
had to buy season tickets. It's a whole or deal.
I don't know. Your son's probably better to ask than
anybody else. Probably. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:38):
By the way, on that we didn't even bring that
up yesterday. Are you surprised? I mean, I don't know
anything about it. So I'm speaking of ignorance here, which
I do a lot of times sending to you on
here on this radio station.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Uh, we did we didn't think he was really coming?
Did we? Did we really think he was coming?

Speaker 8 (14:54):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Who is that? Sorry? Messy? He was supposed to but
I guess he had an injury or something. My feeling
is he's just.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Gonna play really about every about every other home game
for Miami and maybe a couple of one offs, like
in New York or something like that.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
Be l a.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
But he's thinking, look, I'm in the twilight of my ears.
I can pick and choose my schedule. I'm playing in
a B league. Would you say mL is a B league? Okay,
he's gonna pick and choose his schedule, right, He's he's
not gonna make a Rando trip to Houston.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
I honestly don't know. I have been seeing. I haven't
been checking how many games he played in Kansas City
in like three degrees. Well that's okay, I'll get props
for that.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
But bottom line is I felt bad for the Dynamo
books because that's their only way to release selling tickets.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
I mean, just the reality of it here. But yeah,
it didn't happen, all right.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
So back to we were talking about before oh the
Cam Smith, what were the what were the Cubs thinking?
They were literally thinking we've got to win the World Series,
or we're going to this or they're thinking we're gonna
just cash whip. Kyle Tucker. So he wants to play
in Chicago for the rest of his.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
Major league career. Yeah, the only thinking. Yeah, maybe it
makes sense that they wanted to get him in the
building and then that makes it easier to sign him
long term. I don't know. Yeah, it's to me.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
I mean that's what gets general managers fire.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
Would you say?

Speaker 3 (16:24):
I mean if if he leaves and all of a sudden,
Cam Smith is the cornerstone third basement or maybe he's
the cornerstone right fielder for the.

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Astros for the next five to six years. Yeah, I
mean we he was their number six prospect, was Cam Smith?
So then then he immediately became the number one I believe.
Is that just shows you how where the monor league
system or the Astros is.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
They went from being the sixth prospect on a mid
baseball team to a number one prospect on a team
that has been as good as they've been for the
last you know, seven or eight years. M hm wow,
mm hmmmmm. Well hopefully we can. But Kyle Tucker enjoys
himself in Chicago. I'm wishing him the best. Actually, I'm

(17:07):
wishing him a forty home a forty forty season.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
And then, oh, because you want to win the bet,
don't you. I was wondering, I heard those gears turning.
There's always alterator. I heard those gears turning something. Well,
I'm not feeling confident after this spring. Let's just say.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yeah, yeah, but uh, but yeah, I don't I mean,
Cam could bat nine fifty during the spring.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I don't think he's going to start the team.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
I think they want to see if McCormick can uh
you know, remembery, I don't think Cam Smith is play
anything higher.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Than Double A at this point. Remember he's not.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
Is Cam Smith doing this against major league players? Are
they doing against guys with the uniform numbers of seventy five?

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Those are the guys he's going to be facing in
Double A or if he goes to Triple A. We'll see.
He got twenty plate appearances in Double A last year.
That's it. That's it, and he slugged four thousand. He

(18:09):
hit every ball to Bayer. Yeah. So, I mean that's
probably one of the reasons, for whatever reason, the Cubs
felt he was expendable because they have a well stocked
farm system and they want to win at the major
league level now and Cam Smith not necessarily going to
do that for them.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
All right, Speaking of Cam Smith, here's how it sounded yesterday,
and these airwaves we.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
Call sports talk seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (18:32):
So.

Speaker 6 (18:32):
Now Cam Smith with a basis full two outs, actually
a one to two count on Smith, a pitch home
swung on, hit high in the air, deep to center field,
all the way back piner near the wall, that balls
off the top of the wall. One run scores, two
run scores. Here comes the go ahead run hill score.
Cam Smith claars the bases with a triple off the

(18:55):
top of the wall in center and the Astros lead
this game four to three.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
That is a strong man, Camp Smith.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Does it ever sound like to you when you listen
to a spring training game that they're the games are
being played in a comedy club?

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Kind of always? It sounds like a liter league game
to me, or maybe collegeuse there's a little bit of
echo there. Yeah, you could hear the cheers bouncing off
the over you know whatever you call it. Yeah, i'll overhang,
I'll buy the next round of beers. Oh there's a
big hit, let's go cheer for it like I've roar.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
The crowd in spring training are two sentences, You are
afraid that you won't nott using the.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Same sounds.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
Gotta beat those pesky Marlins last night. That's what they
did training. Take by the way, sprinking Marlin spring.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (19:47):
The big deal yesterday was the Red Sox played the
Orioles in Sarasota, which is about seventy five miles from
Fort Myers where the Red Sox train. And it was
a big deal EO that Alex Bregnan got on the
bus with the bros And went to to Sarah started
to play the game.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Wow, what happened in the game? Integrate himself. Nothing, he
just played. No big deal.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
But it was like man veterans getting on a bus
and going up an hour and a half to want
to watch a baseball game.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Man, that's that's leadership. Good for him, he's the leader.
You better go again on the bus and play.

Speaker 9 (20:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
It was a six to sixth time, yes. And they
had some woman on there, some old lady on there.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
It was awesome. She was like eighty five years old.
She's been everything.

Speaker 3 (20:28):
She's been a season ticket hold her for the Worlds
for like fifty years. And Buster Only was interviewing her yesterday,
m hm, and she's like, so, what are your thought
about American League East? And she goes, I hate those
crankies because they're gonna cheat their way and they're gonna
spend their way to a towards the champions, so I
gotta worry about them. She called them the crankies. Hmmm
or the she said.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
She was something like that.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Yeah, maybe crankies are cheater. It was something that was
something mixed here with the Yankees. But she's now trending
on Twitter because, Uh, first of all, she was not
enamored by Buster only She's like trying to score the game. Buster,
get out of my skankies, she said, just a matter
of factly, skankys. Yeah, it's cool when eighty five year
oldmen calls some me a skank. Right, Hey, I guess so.

Speaker 9 (21:13):
Good.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
First he calls some a skank ross uh, skank Uh?
Probably last Thursday at the barbecue.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Come, you also used ass meat in the same sentence
as you not.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
There was some ass meat there. I'm just letting you know, Matt.
There was rib meat, there was a brisket meat, and
there was ass meat. When was the best meat there? Hello, Okay,
don't don't clip that, Connor, I don't care what you're doing.
Don't clip that under any circumstance.

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the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four. You mentioned
nicknames in your story earlier. His nickname is sweet pickle.
It's what sweet pickle. His cousin gave it to him

(23:22):
when he was struggling as a hitter. He said it
just made him laugh one day, and that's what he's
been called ever since.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Sweet pickles. Sweet pickle.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Cam Smith might not translate at the big league level,
but that's what it was in high school and all
the way through FSU.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
Oh yeah, I wouldn't mind that name, straight through the
cow to Cam. Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Cam Smith has zero body fat. I'm not calling him
sweet pickle. Yeah, that's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Ross, HM, all right, I got I got coldbrew coffee
in my throat. Are you okay?

Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (24:03):
I'm great?

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Is what's happening with you? Twenty twenty four five has
not treated you very well?

Speaker 2 (24:11):
That sweet pickle line really got him.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Is that what you're knocking back is a sweet pickle
right now? You know those pickles can be tart at times.
Be careful at there, Ross, he's turning red. Seriously, all right,
let me take a phone calls. Ross can't speak for them.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
I cash, you know, I'm just learning how to drink liquids. Okay, seriously,
turn the microphone off. We're worried about you. I'm fine.
I'm just surprised that Steve Sparks could hold on as
long as he did before making a comment. I don't
really tried to restrain himself, but he couldn't help himself. Yeah,
that's the That might be one of the five worst
nicknames someone will give you. Right, it's not that bad.

(24:49):
You like sweet pickle? Yeah, you don't want to be
a sweet pickle man.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Well, it depends if it's a big pickle or not.
You know, you know the ones you get in they
they call them girkins or something like that.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Those aren't those. Yeah, you don't want to be called
sour girkin? What's wrong with sweet pickle? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:07):
But are you like we are you like a big
deal or are you like a little gurkin.

Speaker 2 (25:17):
I'm not particping. I'm not participating in this.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
It's probably smart Louise and Katie. At ten thirty six
of the Matt Thomas showed Ross Luise good morning and
thank you for holding.

Speaker 9 (25:25):
Good morning guys. I'm probably I'm asking something that he
was already discussed, most likely, but I just show him lately.
But yesterday on the Rugget skate, on that third quarter,
they were really close, and somehow the turnouts they wouldn't
boom from being very close to a wide open game.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
Then they came back.

Speaker 9 (25:46):
But I don't know what coach didn't and I don't
know what he Sometimes I don't understand. He's a he's
a strategy to put the guys because the souther him
to speak.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
Guys on there and we take it's again it does great.
But with that thing on the bench, which was mainly surprised,
and I pressed to surprise, why why he just let
the game go and go for very close to just
completely uh fifteen fourteen points apart.

Speaker 9 (26:23):
I want to just hale believe it because I would
like to understand more.

Speaker 8 (26:26):
Coach is a great coach. Moultivator loved that they came
back lost Shepherd. But that was a really pleasant surprise,
and I don't think you use it enough.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Yes, guess the two big guys on this.

Speaker 9 (26:39):
Outher all right, guys, thank you very much. I had
and I'll hung up on listen by.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
Thank you, Louise with all their respect, Louise.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
I don't think we can really get into rotational substitution
patterns with anything involving yesterday's game. If you did not
catch the game, no Opera and Shangoon, no Amen, no
Dylan Brooks, no Fred Van Vliet, no Tari Eason, no
Steven Adams.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
He was in uniform, but he wasn't gonna play. It
was like emergency. Yeah he was le Yeah, just if
we did it for like one minute. Yeah, I can't
use that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, I mean you had you had guys on the
floor that were making their NBA debuts or at least
Rocket debuts. So I can't really tell you what what
the substitution pattern wasn't whether when it made sense or not.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Third quarter was Oklahoma City's big one. That was when
Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Said, all right, we had our n app at a halftime,
we're gonna go out and we're going to let SGA
score a botload of points.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
He's he's really good. My god, is he good. And
he is set to make He's got a four year
deal ross super Max coming up next year. He's gonna
be making And we did this on the broadcast last
night if he signs it, which he's going to because
he's not a STUPI guy seventy four million dollars a

(28:02):
year each to the next Excuse me, he excuse you? Right? Yeah, American? Well,
I mean he is from Canada, so I guess it
would you could ask that question. It's not Canadian dollars,
it's not pesos, yeah, it's not Turkish lira. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
I have a stat service that sent me that note
and said that he is doing.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Oh well, there's sometime dodgy that' stat service. You're right
about that, Rossie. Maybe maybe I get out to you
wrote his information.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
Yeah, I'll pull it up in just a second, but
I do want to let you know that he's so
he had zero fifty point games up until January of
this year, and he said four since then.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (28:40):
He probably could add sixty. He didn't shoot well in
the fourth quarter if he be really wanted to. But
he finished with fifty one. He goes the free throw
line like twelve times a game, he makes ninety percent
of his free throws, he doesn't take bad shots.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
And oh, by the way, he dishes out like five
or six assist a game. And he was traded to
the thunder four. Oh, I don't even know this. Who's
the Paul George deal? Right?

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yes, Paul George now of Philadelphia Fame.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, he said he's gonna stop his podcast to focus
on a championship and now he's hurt. Howd that go
for him? By the way? Not great?

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Yeah, Philadelphia is a hot mess, although they did beat
Golden State the other night. Yeah, I mean the Western
Conference is really really competitive. I think obviously Golden State's
playing a lot better. The Lakers with Luca and Lebron
are playing a lot better. It's gonna be a mess.
I'm talking about just ear Rossie. I'm talking about for

(29:40):
the foreseeble future. That's why I think the Kevin Durant
sweepstakes are gonna be very interesting and whether or not
we really should believe that the Sons are gonna build
around Devin Booker or maybe they decide, you know, on
second thought, we'll try to trade him too, because we
need to do a complete overhaul.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see because I mean it
was the Mattasheeba, the owner, his spare note, expense, no expense,
and he's learning very quickly, kind of like Stephen Cohen,
that you can't just spend your way to a championship.

Speaker 3 (30:13):
No, that's the best part about the NBA is that
you just can't cash whip everybody that you're ultimately going
to have to pay a price if you if those
guys get old, or the chemistry is bad, whatever the
case may be. But that is a bad situation in Phoenix,
and thankful the Rockets have two more games with them.
All right, So let me give you the Let me

(30:34):
see what my note says about Shake Gilders Alexander. It
says he's in line for a projected super Max extension
this July four years, two hundred and ninety three million
dollars Rossie. Good God, four to three hundred is seventy
five a years. So what have we talking about? Seventy
four million dollars a year?

Speaker 2 (30:53):
M hm in Oklahoma. That's like making one hundred million
dollars anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
So Adam Klint last night made a jab at Oklahoma
because George Kittle's of the game yesterday.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Huh huh. My statistician and my engineer were next to me,
were listening to that. They wanted to throttle him. By
the way, George is there Oklahoma NA Natives? George Kittle's
not from Oklahoma, isn't he? No?

Speaker 10 (31:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (31:18):
It It was such a random why he was there yesterday.
You know how when you go to New.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
York, there's celebrities and you go to LA Laker games
or celebrities, and in Oklahoma City got.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
George Kittle randomly? Yeah, but yeah, four years.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
I mean, I think if you're gonna pay somebody seventy
four million dollars a year, shouldn't you have a cure
for cancer or something? I mean, I loved that SGA.
He's a great player. But can Oklahoma City afford that?
Can anybody afford that? I mean, damn NBA. That TV
contract must be awesome. It is absolutely incredible.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
Absolutely salary. I'm trying to find out the salary cap
for next year is estimated at one hundred and fifty
five million dollar.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
You're gonna pay seventy five to one dude, We're like, yes,
you can, because everybody else is cheap. I mean Hartenstein.
It makes Isaiah hart remember Isaya Hart and.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
Sign I went to a decent deal, not like, yeah,
three seven million dollars. Yeah, that's not decent. That's good cash. Yeah,
that's not pennies. So our little friend Isaiah.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
Hartenstein seven feet tall, eighty seven million over the next
three years. Dort must something much. Jalen Williams mustnake. I mean,
there's nobody else in this roster's making a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
So feels like lou Dort's going to be doing an
extension if he hadn't already signed one. Oh, Chat Holmer's
on a rookie deal still, I mean, okay, yeah, loud
Dowort did sign an extension. He's making sixteen and a
half this year, seventeen eighteen next year.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
But again, if I said if I went to a
if we went to a sports bar ross and said,
what do you think shake Gildes Alexander's worth, I think
probably seventy percent of people were like, well, what does
he do for a living?

Speaker 2 (32:57):
And then secondly, seventy four million dollars a year, Yeah,
he's worth it because I mean, it's again just point
out how much probably the owners are making if they
can dole this out. Well, you know what it is.
If the NBA, just like a quarterbacks in the NFL, if.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
You're really, really good and you're elite, your top five
in your position, you're going to make up sne cash.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
We're gonna see seventy million dollars quarterbacks soon, aren't we not.
If so, the NBA super Max has to be the
highest aav in sports though, right, oh for sure, for sure.
All right, let's come back. We have a sports empty
theta coming up next. It's a three man sports empty theater.
Who am I playing? You're playing Ross?

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Okay, I'll play Matt. Adam Klant will play Adam Clinton.
So oh he's calling in, We're calling he's calling in.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
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Speaker 3 (33:46):
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Speaker 2 (33:57):
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Speaker 3 (33:59):
Talks any time now for another edition of It's ball
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Speaker 2 (34:06):
Playing the role of Matt Thomas will be Matt Thomas.

Speaker 11 (34:14):
Playing the role of Ross vill Real sports Ve Ross
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Speaker 2 (34:25):
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Speaker 3 (34:37):
Matt Thomas John Cena's heel turn An Elimination Chamber has
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Speaker 2 (34:55):
That's what I tweeted yesterday during the Rockets game because
I was bored. You retweeted it, but I did put
up at the top of the screen.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
I Coote tweeted, I put Now. I know Sports RV
is looking forward to WrestleMania.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Then I said, Mom says I can't come over for
wrestle Mania. I have too much homework. Next at Sports MT.
What if I just serve? What if I serve delicious
fry cheese cc at Adam Clanton really tempting to watch
the hair dyed forty seven year old and George's follow

(35:34):
his script, but I'm gonna pass next sat him. There,
I'm clanting, and I'm cleaning your up planting. Are you there?
This bit is dying on the vine. Where's Adam, it's up.
I hear Jay, didn't this didn't You? Probably your turn.

Speaker 12 (36:00):
You'll probably be too busy watching Euros flop around a
pitch in their kits while never scoring.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Anyway, games will be over in Greenwich.

Speaker 13 (36:11):
Meantime, keep up, there was more contact in this post
than ninety five percent of those dorks encounter before writhing
around on the ground in quote pain while the official
waves a color coded three by five indexed card over
his head and the clock just runs with no.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
One able to hit a stop button. Yet it's still
miles more popular than a scripted soap opera for adolescents.

Speaker 12 (36:41):
Well, most of the rest of the world still lives
in the Stone Age, so that's not surprising playing the role.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Of at copper corrosion me. I can't believe a waste
of topping this reading was bad enough? What does that
even mean? By the way, he was not hacked with
the threat and that my friend wasted time top typing
what this tweet tweeted? You said that my friends was
empty theater. So Adam, we're gonna try to have a

(37:14):
WrestleMania party because you're gonna probably get deny credentials. Now
that it's so popular. So, uh, where is it? It's
in Las Vegas. Oh, now you.

Speaker 9 (37:25):
Want to go, I don't go.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'll go to Vegas. I'm not gonna go to WrestleMania.

Speaker 12 (37:30):
Hey, real quick, I have a surprise for you guys. Yes, well,
somebody wanted to weigh in on the whole fried cheese situation.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Oh get it, get him, get him right now? Oh
my god, get him.

Speaker 12 (37:43):
Could you come over here at lovely young Italian lady?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Oh, I do not make those mazzarella sticks exactly from
Costco exactly. That's what I said. We're on the same page,
but he's still ripped on Meg always gets upset like
I did some huge faux pas. First of all, I
was asked about the food and I gave my honest
opinion number one, number two if you're serving, they weren't

(38:06):
that great and it's not like you made them. So
I was just trying to, you know, give a public service.
But it's just like you don't you didn't have to say, right,
you didn't.

Speaker 9 (38:18):
Feeling all night because of that.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I don't believe you.

Speaker 9 (38:22):
That's a lie.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
That's a lie. Remember.

Speaker 12 (38:26):
But by the way, I want you guys to know
she's doing the Italian hand gestures while.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
She says this to you, you're so screwed raw, you're
gonna get shived. Well, we'll be the first time. All right,
thank you, Clinton's goodbye bye.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
That was Adam Clinton And it was a drop in
with a what do they call it, surprise cameo by
Teresa Clinton?

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Sure, why not?

Speaker 9 (38:50):
All right?

Speaker 3 (38:55):
That's that's what separates our show. That was awesome supports
empty theater right there. It was a live like you know,
you had a like a Nebravo you have the Real
Housewives show, and then they had like the post show
meeting where they all get together on a couch and
yell at each other.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
That's exactly we just did. I'm glad we're all on
the same page. She didn't make that, she didn't make them.
It's not a big deal. She shouldn't be offended. And
she sounds like she's not no, but she's you didn't
have to say that, which is that was my key
is that, you know, sometimes honesty is not the best policy.
Ross Again, it's not like she's in the back hand
breading them.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Would that have been credit credible? If they would have
been handbriided, and they still would have tasted bad.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Then they wouldn't have I trust Teresa's cooking skills and
her Italian heritage.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, do Italians even accept fried cheese? Is an Italian dish?

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:46):
Like to true people from Mexico, nachos is a Mexican dish.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
I mean, yeah, it's more of a text mex you
know thing. Yeah, but right, it's not the same thing
for fahitas. Mad I'm sorry to tell you what.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Fajitas are not text mechs or they are text.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
Mex Yeah, but they're not like real Mexican food. So
if you and I went to Alcopolco, we couldn't walk
up and say, I'd like two fajita tacos please. I mean,
you're gonna get some kind of chopped beef, but it's
not gonna be like inside skirt. I'll tell you the
story that I always go to please my dad, And
when he would tell my he told my great grandmother
may Rose Alinda May she rest grandma, how come we

(40:26):
don't serve? How come you don't make fijitas? And she said,
because we're poor, but we're not that poor. Hmmm.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
That that fits, absolutely hundred percent fits.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
It's a marketing scheme and now it's the most expensive
thing on the menu. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
Yeah, by the way, win, When did fijitas and brisket
all of a sudden become two hundred percent more expensive?

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Mm hmm? And chicken wings and chicken wings except for
buy one, get one free of pie.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
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Speaker 1 (42:54):
This is the Matt Thomas Show, eleven oh.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
One Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (42:58):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Him here
from Indianapolis, Indiana, where tonight the Rockets are gonna take
on the Pacers.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
I do know the injury port for tonight.

Speaker 3 (43:07):
They don't have to put anything out until I think
one or two o'clock our time here, so I don't
know exactly who's going to play and who's not. Hopefully well,
I would be safe to say, Rossie, probably a much
fuller lineup tonight for the Rockets as they were last
yesterday against Oklahoma City. But it wasn't a good basketball
night overall, as the Houston Cougars picked up their eighteenth

(43:27):
Big twelve win in nineteen tries. Ross All I need
now is a Houston win at Baylor on Saturday, and
one of my all time gut feelings will hit.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
It's not an all time what makes it an all
time gut feeling.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Well, first of all, that's a difficult gut feeling. I
mean to say the Cougars are only gonna lose one
time in conference play.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
That's pretty much time. Yeah, conference is down. It's not
as strong as say the SEC.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
Well, I mean we kicked we kicked the gutter trash out.
I mean we did that, and so you know that
we had we had to this pair thing down a
little bit. And then of course you want to be.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
The gutter trash. Yes, gutter trash goes from the Big
twelve to the SEC. Well, I mean you're gonna be. Look,
you're the gutter trash they let in after everybody else left.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Now you're you don't enjoy hope. The n I T
will be great for your Austin. You're gonna have a
top four seed.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
Might even n I T bound? Oh yeah, they're any bound.
Let's go ceb I al right, so you and not.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
That we're gonna spend a whole lot of time on this,
but it's worth obligatory. Mentioned you any any any rumors
about who the University of Texas might go get if
they decided to get away from no.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I heard that guy from the Young Up and coming
coach from Tennessee. And also there's a really good coach
over at Marquette. I think they're keeping their eye.

Speaker 3 (44:45):
On those that's past tense. My friend passed tense.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Both of those teams ranked Texas not. But that's fine,
all right.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Uh So we got the Cougars winning yesterday against Can.
We have the Rockets losing against Oklahoma City. We had
the Astros playing the Marlin's yesterday. Cam Smith with a
basis clearing triple that almost was a salami, and the
Astros went against the Marlins. We had sports empty theater.
We got gout feelings coming up in about twenty five minutes.

(45:18):
Anything else, mainly headwind, a lot of wise we need
to get to. I don't think there's it's a getting
We're kind of in a call before the storm, really,
but opening day is on a storm.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yes, it is full coverage all day long coming at
you Sports Talk seven ninety. Yeah, it's what four weeks
from Thursday? Am I writer give her take three weeks
right in twenty seventh, that would put it at the twenty. Yeah,
it is. It's crazy that's spring that baseball starts in March. Now.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
I always felt like it was like right like April fifth,
sixth when they would start the opening.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Things have moved a little bit. Well, it doesn't start
there in Minneapolis, I guess.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Oh hell no, I mean you get the like I
think the Astros first road is the first road game
against Minnesota. Well, they have to take a day off
on Farnie dis in case they snow out or something
on cold out.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
That happened last years, that happened this year too. It
was Yeah, I don't know where it was, but it's
just it's weird that they would do that.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
I mean, honestly, I'm surprised that anybody that's not a
dome stadium in the in the North doesn't take a ten.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
Day road trip to open up the year. No, yeah,
you're right, it is Uh, it happens again this year.
Didn't that happen last year the year before? Maybe? Yeah? Yeah.
They play April third against the Twins and then the
fourth is off, and then fifth and sixth against the
Twins in Minneapolis against the can you they built They
built a stadium in Minneapolis and didn't put a roof
on it.

Speaker 3 (46:41):
Oh dude, I was there when they were building it.
And the number one thing that was said was because
hold that family. It was you guys are cheap, and
they're like, we're giving you enough money, We're not giving
another dime.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
And they didn't build it. It was it was never
on the table. It's a really nice facility. Went there
for the playoffs a couple of years ago. It is
a beautiful ballpark. It is a beautiful park park.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
It's the smallest acreage from any ballpark in Major League Baseball.
I mean, they took up every crack uh and krevy
to build that place. And they were worried about it
when it was first built that it was next to
a what do you when you take trash and you
burn it? This cenerator facility, and they were worried about
the the waft of burnt trash smell or smell. But

(47:27):
it never became a problem.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
That's good. I yes, you are burn trash most of
the time.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Yeah, you've actually been there more than not more. But
you've been there sooner than I have because I went
the first year it was opened.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Uh huh. But it's a good It really is a
great sports city. Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 8 (47:41):
It was.

Speaker 2 (47:42):
It doesn't surprise me for you to say that it's
on low acreage, because it did feel kind of small,
but it felt like kind of homey in a way,
not like not like Mickey Mouse. It just felt homey.

Speaker 3 (47:52):
You know, what the realities is with these sports ballparks
is that they're just giving up parking space. Think about
Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for a little of there's
no where to park it. For raider games, there's I mean,
all new considered, I mean, there's not a lot of
spots to park a min at Dykin Park when you
think about it. No, there's the A, B and C lot,
but A lots tiny, B is small, and C it's

(48:14):
kind of big.

Speaker 2 (48:14):
But other than that, there's not even then that's hardly
any parking. Yeah. Yeah, you go to these new facilities.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
That's why if you build outside of like downtown areas
and you build in suburbs, you're gonna have more spots
ross way for this sell more parking spots.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah, then you get more drunk drivers, So maybe maybe
you should want fewer parking spots.

Speaker 3 (48:37):
I just think I think today in ballparks now you're
gonna have to probably just really have an amazing uber
game or a lyft game. When you build these facilities
and have it Because when a few years ago when
I took my son and my wife and I went
to go see the Dodgers and Astros play.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Dodgers Dame has.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Been around since the sixties, so, I mean it's beautiful,
but it's still a ballparkings an area town that's been
around for you know, six years. Their uber situation was
a hot mess. I mean just could not figure out
where to pick it up, where to go. They were confusion.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Yeah, they had the Dodger Blue bus lines or something
like that. That's what I took. I took a bus.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Did you were able to avoid injury at any point?

Speaker 2 (49:16):
Yeah? What do you mean? Well, you know there's a
lot of crime at Dodger Stadium. Yeah, well did you
get hurt in Dodger Stadium? I had a switch play
with me, so we were fine. Were you ever threatened
or yes, no, you weren't.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
You're right, I didn't worry Astros Gear. I was like,
I'm not being stupid about this. I told Cameron to Kim,
I said, well, you guys are not.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
We were. We were Astro Gear in San Francisco. We
fell a little safer there. Now at least I went
before the year, but I think I went in sixteen
or fifteen, so it was before the whole unpleasantness, before
people were getting bottles thrown over their head and yeah, concussing,
and well that's been happening at Dodger Stadium for decades.
That's probably so, that's probably so, all right?

Speaker 3 (49:52):
Seven one three, two, one two five seven, nine zeros,
how you reach our show seven to one three two,
one two five seven on any other headlines to talk
about really quick? Kyrie Irving is done for the year,
is it?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I think it's an acl If I saw that correctly
a little while ago, that can't be great for that
fan base.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
My god, I mean Dallas Maverick fan yeesh, Yeah, a
torn acl for Kyrie Irving.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
He's done.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
Anthony Davis is still hurt. Good luck for that shocking
and shut him down and uh yeah, shut him down,
get out of the playoffs, and meanwhile, watch Luca and
the Lakers go from the sixth seed about two weeks
ago or the number two seed in.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
The Western Conference.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
I want to ask a question to localize it a
little bit. Okay, has there been something good? I think
the term I would use if I was a Maverick fan. Remember,
Dallas is not known for a big Dallas Maverick culture.
Let's be really honest here. It's about ninety cowboys and
five percent everything else. But they are They have obviously

(50:57):
a vocal minority that are just I'll use the term seething.
They just they are beside themselves. Have we ever in
Houston's sports history been seething about something that one of
our teams did?

Speaker 14 (51:13):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (51:15):
Seething?

Speaker 3 (51:17):
I think everybody knows what the term seating means. I
mean just in thinking about you, you're shivering in your bed,
you are angry at work.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
I mean just Bud Adams moving the team, that would
be it. Yeah, because there was some sadness as part
of it. When when a chem was traded, it was
kind of time. Everybody knew he was done right. Nobody
was like, no, you can't be a raptor.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
You're gonna go up there and score twenty five points
a game for five years and then he didn't. Yeah,
we were definitely seating when the owners left, but that
was a slow It was like a war of attrition. Yeah,
that was a blood letting a little bit. That was
Oh Bob leaner can't get along with butt Adams. Butt

(52:07):
Adams threatening to go to Jacksonville. Then you tear up
the scoreboard in the dome, and then you had more seats,
and then the team wasn't doing well, and then you
had the game in Buffalo, and then you had half
the people going, you know what, if you can go
find a better deal, go somewhere else. We're not going
to sell our souls to a team that's never been to.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
The super Bowl. Blah blah blah blah. Mean, but it
wasn't a direct hit. I'll give you one that I'm
I'm not sure if you think it qualifies. Happened last
year to the Houston Astros. The Cakucies trade people were upset.

(52:43):
Maybe it wasn't as large scale as somebody as large
scale as like the Luca thing. People were pissed because
the Joey Litt braffito mess was just driving joe little
buffetos going in Hall of Fame. What are you doing?
They ain't not broad already of your mind?

Speaker 9 (53:01):
Yeah, yeah, f and mind.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Low b fedos of god G A W D.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
Yeah, I would say, to a much smaller extent, but
people did lose their blank like I can tell you this.
We should have booked marked every one of the overs.
Well it was well, it might have been the all
time overreaction.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Oh here's a good one from h down uh Lee
low or l E l O whatever. Hopkins trade seething
one seething. We were in disbelief first complete shock.

Speaker 3 (53:42):
Let me tell you that's ROSSI. That's that's the that's
the that that that's the plants, the Kakuchi move. Yeah,
for sure, because we were seething on the air. We
were in disbelief on the air.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
Like you got a second round pick and a broken
down running back.

Speaker 3 (53:56):
Broken down David Johnson, broken down Texan eternalists.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
Well maybe I changed the sceatory, maybe the offensive linel No,
he's beat up, he's three yards of carry. Maybe good times. Yeah,
see that's it.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
I asked somebody to trump the seating that we had
when the astro of the Texans moved DeAndre Hopkins, did youannor, by.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
The way, retire? Did he retire after the game this
this year? I don't think so. Did I see that
I'm making making that I think he did retire. Mmm, no,
I'm saying this. He's just a free agent. That's still well,
his best days are behind him.

Speaker 3 (54:47):
I will still say, in the history of me watching receivers,
he's not a Hall of Famer, He's a Hall of
very good.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Maybe what it's a look up? How many Pro Bowls
that you have? Let me fall pros? Go ahead? He
is the best fifty to fifty guy I've ever seen play. Yeah,
contested touch, Yeah, you go up and go. You want
a sky for you want to throw a ball up?

Speaker 3 (55:10):
He saved many a quarterback in this town with his
ability to just go up and out jump any of
the cornerbacks or safety that were on him.

Speaker 1 (55:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:21):
All very good. Probably five time Pro Bowl. You're trying
to sell me, you're just going to No, I'm just
see I'm just laying it out. Three time first team
All Pro.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
That's more impressive me than the five tens Pro pot Oo.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
It was pretty good.

Speaker 3 (55:41):
But no, I think do you think all the teams
that he went too late in his career hurt his
cause a little bit?

Speaker 2 (55:47):
Bumping around? Yeah, but I mean I feel like I
feel like all receivers do that are all? I mean,
any great players for the most part.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
YEP eleven fourteen Sports Talk seventy. We have callers in
the line. If there's any bin is there any third
move in Houston sports history that has had you seating
like we had DeAndre Hopkins seating that that is really
good seven one three two one two five seven ninety
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Speaker 5 (57:15):
Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
Oh my gosh, I'm just getting some funny texts the
world in which you live in okay, seven one three.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to speak in that way.
We had a call but with drop if you want
to get in seven one three two one two five.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Do we have the audio it's worthy of playing once
or twice a year on the whole DeAndre Hopkins? Do
we not we have that sung? Oh gosh, I don't know.
Maybe top and audio.

Speaker 1 (58:09):
That that.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
We've had some interesting moments live on air with things.
Frankly eighteen gets more benefit of that than we do
when it comes to these massive trades and whatnot. But
that was pretty incredible for us. Uh for those who
don't know that haven't with us. We were on the
air when the DeAndre Hopkins trade got made between the
Texans and the Cardinals. Part one of it was us
just finding out that DeAndre Hopkins got traded and I

(58:33):
kept saying, ross well, we better get a major haul
back in return much of draft picks, a bunch of players.
And then part two of the hysteria was the fact
that the Texans didn't get much in return. A pick swap,
a second round picking David Johnson was part of it.

Speaker 6 (58:48):
So it was.

Speaker 2 (58:50):
That that was the gift Rossie that kept on giving
for us for months. Yeah, we guess, Bill O'Brien was
we got to talk about that for a while. Do
we need we need some like that? We're kind of
the dog days of sports and we're trying to move
things around the pup of a variety of things. What
do you need some what do you want to earth
shattering moments around these? How do you have this? Connor?
So resourceful Texans are getting picked, They're buying draft picks.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
This happens all the time. And mention the baseball players
except that you don't do draft picks. You you pay
for prospects. And that's what the Texans they better be
paying for draft picks. And this goes to the line
of of why DeAndre Hopkins name has been brought up
in trade conversations. They need draft picks badly?

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Uh oh oh no? What do we gott now?

Speaker 6 (59:38):
What?

Speaker 2 (59:40):
What?

Speaker 15 (59:40):
What?

Speaker 16 (59:41):
What?

Speaker 2 (59:42):
What?

Speaker 16 (59:43):
What?

Speaker 2 (59:44):
Hit the Brisie New Center? What this can't be true,
Adam Schefter?

Speaker 10 (59:51):
What? No?

Speaker 2 (59:53):
No, no, the Texans are trading DeAndre Hopkins to the
Arizona Cardinals. What okay? Better be a lot of draft capital.
Holy smokes, it's gotta be a lot of draft capital.
It wasn't Oh what what?

Speaker 10 (01:00:21):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
Why? There we go again. We better hear We're gonna
hear Larry Tunzel and Deshaun Watson locked up long term
pretty quickly? Here DeAndre Hopkins is an Arizona Cardinal. What
mm hmmm, Lee Smokes. Listen to our voices. I don't

(01:00:51):
even know what to say, folks. We have microphone where.
There is very bad in our business. I'm stunned. I'm stunned.
I'm shocked, bamboozled. You better begin the entire draft class.
I mean, I'm telling you it's gotta be a lot

(01:01:12):
what DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth round pick go to
the Cards for David Johnson and a second round pick. No, no,
this is ju John macclin. DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth
round pick. Go to the Cards for David Johnson and
a second round pick this year and a fourth round
pick next.

Speaker 8 (01:01:30):
It.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
That's it, that's it.

Speaker 7 (01:01:32):
Listen to me.

Speaker 2 (01:01:34):
Continue to be supporters of the Texas. What the hell
is that you just gave away the best receiver in
football for for a broken down running back and a
second round pick. Line people, listen to me.

Speaker 1 (01:01:51):
If you are.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Something the Texan on Twitter, or you are a Texan
fan for life, or you're anything with the word Texan
in your avatar, are.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
What the hell?

Speaker 3 (01:02:03):
Okay, I'm gonna read this again. Make sure I'm not
missing something on this. DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth round pick,
go to the Cardinals for David Johnson in the second
round pick this year in a fourth round picnic.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
What hmm?

Speaker 3 (01:02:19):
That was our Luca moment Ross, That was what we
lucd before Dallas lucid. Well, yeah, but honestly, Dallas is worse.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Dallas is worse. It's a bigger scale, is gonna be
ultimately a much bigger scale. But that's as close as
we got.

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
By the way, a lot of people are our friend
Christy send us a tweet when Bud fired bum Phillips.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
That's a pretty good one. That's a real good one.
We were seating ross seating. I'll take your word for it.
I was teething. You were. You weren't even teething you
were you were. I don't want to say what you were.
Oh man, I'm telling you.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
We've had we Look, we've had our our ups and
downs as the Houston sports community. But and it is
funny that it's happening to us in the world of
sports for a team that's four hours north of town,
that really has a good fan base, but not spectacular.
But I think people are not on the editor seats
for Dallas Mavericks stuff, but they And the reason why

(01:03:27):
we brought this up is because not only are the
Lakers playing better basketball, but the Mavericks announced yesterday that
they're raising season ticket prices.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
On average of eight percent. Why do how ballsy is that?

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Why do sports teams do such a miserable job in marketing?
Because here's the thing. The number one thing you can
do to market a sports team is just win.

Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
You can have.

Speaker 3 (01:03:53):
Look, the Rockets did a great job of having all
the bells and whistles of hey Margarita Mondays and two
for Tuesdays and hot Dog Wednesdays and buy one ticket
to get another twa. I mean, but if you got
Christian Wood coming out and playing major minutes, it's no
one's gonna go see that, and nobody did you know
what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
M hm, you have to ultimately win. But the Mavericks
are tripled downing. They first of all, move a quote
unquote generational player.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
Secondly, those that wear fire Nico shirts have Mark Cuban
swearing at them and getting kicked out of the arena.
And then on top of that, hey, everybody, we're gonna
raise our prices eight percent for.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Next year, and Kyrie Irving just towards acl go buyer
season tickets. Now, I mean, if we were teaching a
sports marketing class, or for that matter, any marketing class,
you couldn't butcher to any worse than the Dallas Mavericks day.
It's pretty I would almost feel for mab Sens, but
then I know, for they're from Dallas and they're Cowboys fans,

(01:04:55):
so I don't. Yeah, but I don't feel I mean,
I don't feel sorry for me. I don't feel sorry
for the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
All right, let's do some gut feelings Rossy seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. If you have
something in your predictions that you want to make and
you want to tell the great people of Houston, Texas,
what's gonna happen in sports, we want to hear from you.
And if you've ever gotten a sports uh, a gut
feeling correct, let us know that as well, because it's

(01:05:20):
sam for you to brag. And we'll tell you how
we did last week and look forward to uh looking
to this week's sports predictions.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
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Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
If you have a gut feeling anything sports related. Seven
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Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
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Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
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Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
This is their gut feeling. On the Matt Thomas Show.

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Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Ninety it's time for you to make some predictions. Make
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Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
Lord of Knows didn't take much to beat us when
it comes to intellects seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Time now for gut fieldings here on
the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
With Ross Ross. How do we do laft from last week?
Let's see, Matthew, Uh, you said Rockets win their next two,
which I think they did well.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
That'd have been Tuesday, Wednesday. I've Milwaukee, San Antonio. Yes,
that's a win. Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
You're welcome. Good for you. We're proud of you. Thank you.
You also said the Texans trade up in the first
round to be determined.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Yeah, although I don't feel nearly as strong about that
as I did say last week when I said that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Hmmkay, Well you know, uh, NFL dot COM's Mance Merline
had the Texans trading up for tackle, and she usually
plugged into the Texans. You think you think man's's bit
zealing for me? No, zero percent chance. Sorry, yeah, I'm sorry,

(01:07:03):
it's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
I just to me, I don't Nick is so close
to the vest, not like the sweater vest he always wears,
but just the best in general.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
He likes trading up. He just liked trading up.

Speaker 3 (01:07:16):
But you know, maybe, yeah, I'll stay with them. I'll
stay with he's gonna try.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
To trade up. Texans are in when now mode. That
was the reasoning from manth merline, I got you, which
they are. So if they find somebody they really love
and they want to do it now, it would make
sense to do it for somebody like Kelvin Banks the
tackle slash guard depending on who you talk to out
of the University of Texas. All right, and then you

(01:07:41):
have alansmoccullers junior not throwing on a mound until or
I guess in a game, in a game until May fifteenth. Yeah,
I feel good about that, And thank you doctor Thomas
for that one. That assessment what I do. Go to
WebMD for that. But he did. I had the Rockets
winning the next two as well. I had a defensive

(01:08:01):
interior taken by the Texans and the draft at some
point maybe two, okay, And I went with wide receiver
in the first round. I like that a lot. And
I just said Lance mccullor' junior contributes on the field
for twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with. But I'll
still accept it because he hasn't pitched it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Some people are saying he doesn't, you know, what I
wasn't realizing though, what when I made that? And I
did realize it the other day. Do you know how
old Lance mccullor's junior is. Thirty thirty one? Oh my god?
Can you believe that he's done quite well for himself?
He's thirty one and hadn't pitched in two years. When

(01:08:42):
you say that out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
Well, he's gotten thirty four million dollars to not pitch
a single major leaginning.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
Let's say, look, he's hurt. I mean, I get it,
It's it's not his fault. He wants to be out there.
He wants to be out there, but the body is
selling him two different things. Let's just say realizing he
was that old made me a little more shaky in
my gut feeling. But I'll stick with the one from
last week. All right, good, good for you, And this
is all I have written down for Connad McGovern. Mazoom

(01:09:13):
makes so sweet sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:09:17):
Bowie, Why didn't Connor de McGovern bring up ninety thousand
people at Ohio Stadium over the weekend for that Columbus
outdoor hockey game.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
The Stadium series? Yeah, what about it? You should have
been bragging about that, like, your league is so progressive
and going to Coylege stadiums and putting huge crowds out there.
I mean, that was a big deal.

Speaker 15 (01:09:36):
It's not the first time they've done that in Columbus though,
I don't know about in Columbus, but I mean, obviously
they have the Winter Classic every year, which is an
outdoor game, and then they started doing the stadium series.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
I would love to see an outdoor hockey game. I
would actually go out and sit in the weather at
fifty degree weathered for that to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
I'm good. I want it's fifteen. You would not, You're
a liar. I want to go to a Winter Classic game.

Speaker 15 (01:09:59):
But I also if you're sitting way back there at
a football stadium, it's gonna be kind of hard to see.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
So you're saying, if I got you tickets for an
outdoor game in say at lambeau.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
Field, you wouldn't go. No, I am gonna go. I'm
just saying, you can't even see the puck when you're
in the first row. Yeah, that's not true. Well, he's
not far off. He's exaggerating a little.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
Little not much, not much from Embellisher, but a little
bit of an embellishment.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Okay, all right, boys, this week, what do we got?
Let's go? Uh oh, I thought you were starting us off. Man,
I'll start this. Rockets forty five home runs, I think
based on your takes from yesterday, here we go. Two
are at the top. Rockets win tonight, Rockets win Thursday,
New Orleans. There you go, boom but bing, But what
about why don't you go ahead and go for the sweep,
the home and home sweep. Oh it's home in New Orleans.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
Oh yeah, I go, I'll get off of my name now, no, no,
god feeling okay, So everybody was thinking about this Oklahoma
city being Yeah, it was just a blemish.

Speaker 2 (01:10:54):
You know, rest was good. I'll go the New Orleans.
The Pelicans are terrible. They are terrible. I'm gonna go
I'm gonna throw in Monday's game against Orlando. What and
I'm gonna go three and one? Oh okay, that seems fair.
I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:11:15):
Alex Bregman ops above eight fifty the month of April.

Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
Oh please, no, I won't like it to see it,
but it could happen. He could go, yeah, okay, no, no, no, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:11:37):
Oh okay, it's a hundred points. Oh, come on, but
eight is considered good. No, I can't imagine him having
that eight fifty. Let's go, you said, he hits the
ground running.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
No, no, no, I'm monster. I am sleep deprived. Seven
fifty Breggs for life, sleep deprived. Okay, seven fifty. He
hit seven sixty eight last year. All right, well, let's
put the difference. Are you a word? A word? Eight hundred?
One of my favorite things to do is go to
you in me flustering, and it works every time. Work.

(01:12:12):
I love you, Alex, Yes I have missed. I haven't
missed you this week so far. Fine. First, I'm not
getting me to a casino. Oh you go to Nola?
Oh well wait, you just won me some money. By
the way, if you want me to get to door,
well see, I wanted to when when the Cougars were
twelve to one, I was all in. Now they're like
eight or nine to one. Tell me what the odds
are when you get there, I will, but I want

(01:12:33):
you to be want me some money? Okay? By the way,
astras of the day offs and then some futures on
the on the Longhorns basketball to win the n I
t oh my god. Do you want no part of that?
What do you mean the People's Champs? You can't n
I T until the n I T gets announced by man.
You can't assume something you can't do. There's no futures
on the n I T right now.

Speaker 3 (01:12:53):
There is none right now, dang it. And if you are,
if you you know your program sucks. If you're an
n I T.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
Future, It's the People's tournament, Matt. It's not for all
this prestige and these corporate cronies. It's for pride, it's
for basketball, It's for heart, the People's championship, the n
IT You keep selling that twenty nineteen n Champs? All right?

(01:13:20):
What else we got? I don't know? Conomer government? Would
you say, I'll say Rockets win next four? Who I'm
usually a negative Nancy when it comes to winning streaks.

Speaker 15 (01:13:31):
No, I'm gonna say next four. Alpie scores at least
twenty five in one of those contents. If he plays,
If he plays, how's his back? And then pickleball is
an event for the twenty twenty eight LA Olympics. He's
good about here to tell the truth. Yes you are
if you are fading me, aren't you? I see what
you're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
It could happen. I guess we'll check with you in
four years. Let me ask you this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
And I'm not trying to be anti pickleball because look,
people in this traveling group play pickleball. So I want
to be very careful how I walk the heat.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
So you you're saying you want to be anti, but
you just don't want to get beat up by coach
Dooka bingo. Do you think it's act athletically good enough
to be an Olympic sport? I don't know it's for octagenarians,
but I mean tennis is I mean badminton is? I mean?
I guess it would be. I don't know those guys.
I feel like you might move more in a table

(01:14:18):
tennis game, certainly if you're playing. Do they even have
singles pickle ball? I've only seen doubles. I've only seen
doubles myself too. By the way, can we play some
badminton soon? Why?

Speaker 3 (01:14:30):
That feels like you can hit the shuttle caddle cock
really hard and you can move around a little bit.
You get a little sweat going, you throw your bracket around,
you hit that shuttle cock and try to get it
over the net.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
It feels like that could be more athletic than say
a pickle ball on a plate. Connor on a plate?
See that one on Friday. That's what it's called, right,
A shuttlecock? Right?

Speaker 9 (01:15:00):
Mm hmm?

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
What other names of it is it called? Uh? I
don't know. They have a certain amount. Isn't it a
certain type of feather and a certain amount of number?
It's like, is it like thirteen goose feathers or something?
You're asking a wrong person. All right, here's what, uh,
this is? Sixteen sixteen feathers on an official shuttle shuttle.

(01:15:28):
I guess I think we were younger. I think all
of our coaches in elementary school just called it a shuttle. Yeah,
because they didn't want that, right, You don't want the
kids a version of coming into play. Anybody, let's go
hit that. Do you want to touch my shuttle?

Speaker 9 (01:15:42):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
Danny Wes Houston eleven forty one seven on Danny, what
is in your gut this week?

Speaker 10 (01:15:49):
Kud's gonna win it all? They play, They go nine dates,
they say in three point line, and the team's go experienced.
No moment's going to be too big or perfect. Example
last night, Dampson doesn't care if they go over seven.
Did they play defense? They played defense as good as
they did last year. They're more talented on offense, and

(01:16:11):
they won it off.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Your mouth, the basketball god's ears. Hmm, wow, you would
be exercising the demons of decades of failure. Decades. I mean,
doesn't every school have decades of failure? Yeah, I mean
it would basically.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
And Calvin Sampson, I can take this from with absolute certainty,
would never want to hear the term final CLIMAGENDMA ever
mentioned in Houston ever again, if they won a national championship.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
How many programs have won is went to as many
final fours as the Cougars without a championship. We've been
to what six or seven? More? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
Well, there's three in a row in the eighties, you know,
the one with Sampson.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
That's four. How many before that? I don't even know.
I guess I should know, but I don't. Let's see
sixty seven, sixty eight, yeah, six six, two in the sixties,
three in the eighties and one in twenty twenty one
or twenty two. That's got to be close to some
kind of record. The programs have been snake bit Matt

(01:17:20):
let's be honest. I like I like it. Snake bit.
That's that's that's a good way to put it. Snake bit.
All right, let's take a time out.

Speaker 3 (01:17:28):
If you guys got any gut feelings, let us know
right now seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seventy and
ross Do I understand that?

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
The news? And then we have a song we're gonna
play today? Is that right?

Speaker 14 (01:17:42):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
Oh, we had somebody that wanted to sing. Oh, I
thought it was a song we were gonna rush and flush,
but uh, he's not on hold anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
Oh, well that person wants to call back. Well, do
we can do a rusher flush at twelve twenty?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Don't you think? All right? Whoever that was? Who was it?

Speaker 10 (01:18:00):
Was?

Speaker 15 (01:18:00):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Granky guys out what it was? Oh, that guy's a
terrible dork. I mean he's a great kid and everything,
but he's.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Most final fours without an NCAA champions. Don't do it,
don't do don't even say it. Don't even say it.
Houston cougars by far.

Speaker 16 (01:18:16):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Illinois has five, we have six, Oklahoma has five, Kansas
State and LSU with four. Oh time to exercise those demons.

Speaker 3 (01:18:31):
Eleven Sports Talk seven ninety More gut feelings, Let us
know what you got in your gut seven five.

Speaker 5 (01:18:38):
Seven The Mantin Tana Show with Ross continues. So on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
All right, we're gonna interrupt gut feelings here because a
friend of the show, Eric in Bay City, who has
terrific horrific, I should say, takes on.

Speaker 7 (01:18:58):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Zach Granki has created a song for us. And we
never want to quash creativity on the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. So Eric in basity is with us here. Eric,
First of all, thank you for joining us in Good
morning to you. What made you decide, Hey, I'm gonna
sit down, put pen to paper and write a song
about a former astro pitcher.

Speaker 14 (01:19:19):
Well, I came home sick today and so I'm sitting
here eating some saltines and drinking some sprite, trying to
fill my time with a little something.

Speaker 2 (01:19:29):
And so this is what I did. The flora is yours,
my friend.

Speaker 14 (01:19:35):
All right, here goes the astros rotation is looking kind
of stinky. We better go out and bring back Zach Granky.
Zach is a legend, and that's no bib. He's not
a piece of garbage like the McRib. Zach's fastball might
not break any glass, but he could teach a pitchy
psychology class. We got to bring back Zach, Bring back Zach.

(01:20:00):
Lance Berkman, best astros hitter ever. Alex Bragman the Hall
of Famer. Never Alex Bragman is a cheating piece of trash.
Alex Bragman left us for just a little bit of cash.
I got an idea that's kind of funny of what
we can do with that leftover money.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
We can bring back Zach. Bring back Zach.

Speaker 9 (01:20:22):
You guys like it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
It's not a question of whether we like it, it's
whether or not the city Houston likes it, Sir, Eric,
They love it in Bay City, base love it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
It's all Bay City can talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
You mean, at the Golden Corral, That's what they're talking
about in Bay City is this song?

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
Is this song?

Speaker 14 (01:20:44):
Then shut down the Corral a long time ago.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Unfortunately, Well, Eric, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Not feeling better by the way the saltines and sprite works. Absolutely,
we're gonna put you on a hold because it is.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Time for it's time. It's been a while, it has
been a while. It's been a while moving down that pole.
one three two one two five seven ninety Eric Con
Bay Cities Zach.

Speaker 3 (01:21:15):
Granky rap song, Rush it Ahead. It's a rushing or flushing.
The name of the song is bring back Zach, Bring
back Zach.

Speaker 2 (01:21:31):
Here's how it works. If you're gonna familiar with the
rushing or flushing, you simply call in. We don't even know,
we don't even screen you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
one three two one two five seven ninety first votes
either rush or rush it or flush it? First of
four wins. On the instapols, We've said ross for many,
many years. The instant pole never lies.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
No, it doesn't matter, it does not. Let's go to
uh Craig online one Craig Russian or flush it flushing?
He trashing mcgrib ouch you trash mcgrib. You're gonna mcgrid.
Truthers are gonna come at you. They did.

Speaker 3 (01:22:11):
one three two one two five and seven ninety Mike
and Beaumont Mike rushing or flushing?

Speaker 8 (01:22:21):
Flush it?

Speaker 3 (01:22:22):
Oo oh and two, Eric, and basically standby will be
going back to you momentarily.

Speaker 2 (01:22:28):
Reaction from the audience. Andrea on seven NINETI Andrea rushing
or flushing?

Speaker 8 (01:22:34):
Rushing?

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Oh oh, ladies like it? Bring back Zach, I say,
bring back Zach. Two votes no one yes, Joe and
deer Park rushing or flush it? Flush it? Mm hmm,
there's three run He's down three to one. Mike seven

(01:22:58):
ninety Mike rushing or flu and bring back Zach.

Speaker 8 (01:23:02):
Can't pay that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
I agree with matt Ron, but I'm got to say
creativity there, run it, rush it second.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Three and two, three and two. There have been deficits
in the sports, been down overcome three to one. Troy
on seven out of Troy rushing or flush it?

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
Definitely flush it without a doubt. Six games. Let's go
back to Eric.

Speaker 3 (01:23:28):
Eric doing very well in city, but the rest of
Houston thinks it sucks.

Speaker 10 (01:23:35):
Oh well, I appreciate you all for putting it out there.

Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
I'll work on it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
Bring back Zack, I say, bring back Sack. It's kind
of cat. It's catching that I thought it would be. Honestly, Uh,
let's see Pedro tweets in a gift of someone flushing
a toilet. Katn Tobo Girl has tweeted, holy beleeve flush that.
All right, let's turn the Paul off. Thank you er.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
By the way, can I I gotta tell you something
that just happened here in the hotel room.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
I don't think we need to know this, Matt, Well,
it brings it talking about flushing it. I went to
the bathroom during the break. See, like I said, we
didn't need to know this, go ahead. I think the
people in the room next to me are having relations.
What makes you think that, Matt, Because I went in
there and I heard a squeaking bed. Hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:24:31):
First of all, mad props for a little twelve fifty
Eastern time love making session.

Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
This a whole afternoon delight because the squeak is gone.
Oh obviously they're not there for lengthy. It was a
little wambam, Thank you, ma'am. It was a quick Maybe
maybe they're maybe they're in a convention here in town
and there. I think they had to go up and chain.
You know how, sometimes you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
Change clothes to get into more formal outfit, or you
had a little lunch break and you want to go
upstairs check your email and whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Sometimes you go check something else. Hmm. I love you
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
There is no more squeak in my bathroom, so the
room next to me at this very nice posh Indianapolis
Downtown hotel. I hope that it worked out as a
wolf for you. Is it worked out for most people
that are having literally noons?

Speaker 2 (01:25:28):
I'm gonna find my baby, gonna hold it. This song
is such a jam wossy lie. My motto has always been,
when it's right, if you had a love making seventies song,
epic run of hits, this is the this is the
top of the jam, right, Russell gets some people going.

(01:25:49):
Let me tell you, people in nineteen seventy seven did
crazy things of this song. They just did daylight loving
sticks and stones again and make the spots in the
thought of you was getting song sited instead again rockets.
I was five, so that doesn't really make it applicable

(01:26:11):
for me. But you know, twenty three year old twenty
four year olds number one single, July tenth, nineteen seventy six.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Oh seventy six, I was off here, okay, this was
the number one song in America.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Gotta love the seventies started out. I'd never heard it
until Anchorman, great song.

Speaker 3 (01:26:35):
All right, it's time for the news at noon. Well,
we have moved along. We had a rush at or flushes. Yes,
people having relations in the room next.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
To me, Yes, little afternoon delight, afternoon delight. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
And we have the Rockets almost beating. Would you say,
was when the G League Rockets?

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
Was it?

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
It was pretty close?

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Right, basically pretty close? Pretty close, I want to say,
almost beating. It's not like they had a late lead.

Speaker 11 (01:26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
The Cougars won again yesterday, Yes they did. And we
have some other headlines to get to all part of
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Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show twelve o.

Speaker 2 (01:28:14):
Three in h Town. What's happening to lunch timers? Welcome
to the third of four hours of the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross Here on Sports Talk seven ninety Every
day at around this time, we ask you to sit
back listen to the top headlines today as Rossville Royale
presents to you the news at noon. Oh yes, it's
about you. Got a whole lot of stuff going on

(01:28:35):
into the world of sports here in Houston, Texas, including
last night the first half of a back to back
the Houston I Rockets quite shorthanded against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
That means other guys had to step up. That's including
Reed Jeppard Shepherd right side screen set by tap Read's

(01:28:56):
gonna try another three pointer.

Speaker 3 (01:28:57):
It's deep and it's up and it's in back deep
triples off the hands of the rookie from Kentucky. Ten
point game now one twelve one oh two. By the way, Ross,
we probably need to not clip that for Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
That was part of that was Friday the same What
do you mean play that?

Speaker 8 (01:29:18):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
I'm sorry, I was checking by notes. I must have missed. Uh,
let's see is this clippable Connor.

Speaker 3 (01:29:25):
Shepherd right side screen set by Tate Reid's gonna try
another three pointer.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
It's deep and it's up, and it's in back to
back deep triples off the hands up the rookie from Kentucky. Yeah,
ten point game now twelve one oh two. It's deep
and it's off and it's end. It says Matt Thomas,
no comment, You don't have to comment. But how about
let's get Ema Udoka's comment on the night from Reed

(01:29:50):
Shepherd twenty five point ten of seventeen from the field,
also had five assists, couple of rebounds, coach Udoka saying
Reid looking more and more comfortable out there. It was great.

Speaker 16 (01:30:00):
I think you saw him, like right in front of
your eyes, kind of get into a rhythm, become more aggressive,
making the right play, getting downhill, getting the shots off,
and so it was good to see that guys got
opportunity and him and gam and some other guys really
took advantage of it. But it's good to see him
be more aggressive and you'll compete on both ends.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Fifty one points for shay Gilgis Alexander on eighteen of thirty,
shooting a perfect ten of ten from the free throw line,
a couple of those from technical fouls, but anyways, also
at seven assists five rebounds, He and Jalen Williams proved
to be too much for the Rockets, who got close late,
but Koachidoka electing to shy away from starters like Jalen

(01:30:43):
Green and Japari Smith Junior there in the fourth young
guys couldn't get it done. And we're on to Indianapolis.
That's where I'm now. How's it doing, How's that? How's
the weather over there.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
It's I want to say, into the fifties. I'm not
leaving the hotel. Don't want to go Okay, Yeah, that's
per usual.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
Well it's back to back plus a four hour radio shop.
You know, a ross. I woke up. I pulled a
ross today.

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
I woke up at nine to fifteen local time or
a ten to fifteen local time?

Speaker 2 (01:31:13):
How was it before that? Yeah, but that's what I'm
saying usually, Or mister forty five minutes for the show
stre that's not true. That's not true. I used speak.
That's not true. You're growing up. They call me mister
show prep. They do. They call you mister advanced notice.
All right, Matt, Well let's keep it moving. Also in
the news at noon, the program with the most final
four pence. Oh my god, you're terrible with the chick

(01:31:36):
good Ship. They're on a mission this year, Matt, to
erase decades of disappointment the Cougars with them. Is this correct?
The most big twelve wins in the league history? Yeah,
twenty Roberts to crier.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
Crier dribbles the baseline prior into the.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Front port and there's no horn and the Cougars win.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Houston becomes the first team in Big Twelve history to
win eighteen conference games. Yeah, sixty five, fifty nine, the final.

Speaker 2 (01:32:11):
Dynamite stuff there from Helvin Hayes. And there's your winning call. Yeah,
I'll bet it was Chuck. He's a big chuckler. That's fine.
One of my close friends. Give me a Bullet's autographed
jersey with his name on it. Really amazing. Oh yeah, wonderful.
Twenty six and four. Your Houston Cougar's eighteen to one

(01:32:32):
of the Big Twelve. It's pretty dunn good, pretty good.
All right, let's keep it moving on the news of Dune.
Are you eating? You know I'm taping stuff? Oh my god,
but you know it's bringing you know, Craig's bringing me lunch.
Isn't that nice? That's very nice, Matt. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
A lot of radio TV broadcasters for teams don't get along.
Craig and I get along.

Speaker 2 (01:32:56):
Great, that's good. That's great. Or maybe you both secretly
hate each other and neither one wants to admit it.
There has been some of that, but not with him. Okay,
that's sure, all right. Well, some other news in the
world of basketball. Matt Kyrie Irving has torn his acl
in his left knee. The thirty two year old sustained

(01:33:18):
the injury late in the first quarter of the Mavericks
loss to the Sacramento Kings on Monday night. Of course,
he will be out for the remainder of the season,
so he's out for the year. Anthony Davis had started
to have a breakout game against the Rockets, then had
a non contact ab injury. Luca Dons has just traded
away and the Dallas Mavericks are raising their season ticket

(01:33:40):
prices by eight percent. How's that gonna go? By the way,
any gestimation, I'm gonna guess that it's not gonna go
so hot.

Speaker 3 (01:33:47):
Yeah, they were getting beat up by the Kings last
night and there was apparently a mass exodus at into
the third quarter, and everybody was shooting film of it.
So he had any way to put out your promotional
video for buying it's for next year?

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Then almost so planned. It was so bad. But I
don't I guess it wasn't. No, I don't think it was.
I think it just it's planning.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
You plan on doing it when your team sucks after
three quarters?

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
Yeah, yeah, they were terrible. All right, man, Let's keep
things moving along with some more news. You have nothing
planned to you. The Jets are planning to cut tides
with Davante Adams in the coming days. Should the Houston Texans.

Speaker 3 (01:34:29):
Be what don't don't don't be a Texan fanboy on Twitter?

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Please? Can what do you mean doing that? You know
exactly what I mean. You don't want the tech, You
don't want the Texans to be interested in DeVante Adams?
Is that what you're saying?

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
Matt asked his prime done, said Anito, he had a
good game against the Texans. M probably late breaking news
on the Rockets. Jack McVay and Thefalie Dantevid sent back
to the jeep.

Speaker 2 (01:34:58):
Oh dang, can I give you? And I just don't
get it? Please? How does Jack McVeigh have an NBA contract?
He's very unathletic. He's on a two way contract, but
still you know he's two. He went two for two
last night. He took two threes and made both of them.
So he's to shut your ball mass up all right, Matt, quick,
quick offbeat story for you love him? Love him now?

(01:35:22):
Have you heard? Of course? As the Gulf of Mexico
has been rebranded as the Golf of America. Well, according
to some people, not everybody, right. Well, Matt, your good
friend Dan Patrick, my former boss, has announced on the
social media he intends to go to the Texas Senate
and work with lawmakers to pass the resolution switching the

(01:35:43):
New York Strip to the Texas Strip. Now that's a
great call.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
Actually, why because first of all, I was I was
team Ribi for the longest time. But I've gone on
to the strip and had a great time with it.
I have no problem boasting our state over in New
York State. So I will go with you, Stan Patrick,
I stand with you. I look forward to tomorrow night

(01:36:12):
in New Orleans having a nice Texas Strip at dinner somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
Hmm. I thought you could also call it a Saint
Don't people call it a Saint Louis strip as well?
Uh no, that's only with the the baby back ribs.
And I didn't say Saint Louis ribs.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
They do say Saint Louis rips. I know, Ross, How
could you be against this? Why would you want to
give New York any more props than they already had?

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
Who cares? It's been named New York Strip for ages.
Why would we change it? I don't care. Oh, I'm sorry.
We're changing baseball automatic ball strike, so why can't we
change strip? That is one of the worst analogies you've
made in the history of this show, in the history.
I knew you're gonna get that rejection. You're cheese. I'm sorry.

(01:36:58):
It's a Kansas City strip, that's what it was, not
Saint Louis, isn't the New York Strip also known as
the Kansas City Strip. Okay, let's call it the Texan Strip.
Who cares? Love it? But yeah, I'm with you New York. Look,
Filam Mignon has no fat. Ribbi is like all fat.
Like I love a good ribbi, but you gotta fight

(01:37:19):
the ribbi. You gotta pick and choose it. You gotta
hack it up. The New York strip. It's the happy
medium to me. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You didn't
you and I have dinner with strips one night, not stripper.
I'm normally a strip guy. Now it depends. I'll get
a ribby here and there. But yeah, stripper ribbia, Fila Mignon,
you're wast Santa. It doesn't have the same flavor. There's

(01:37:40):
a reason why a lot of places wrap it in bacon.
If you're thinking, if your steak needs to get wrapped
in bacon and ain't got flavor, you're you're spitting facts.

Speaker 9 (01:37:49):
I can.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
I'm with you, but there you go. Your guy Dan
Patrick wants to rebrand it as the Texas Strip.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
I mean, yeah, I know our school system needs improvements
and our older yes, whatnot.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
But I think right now the focus on the important
stuff minds is renaming stakes. I'm off, I'm in. This
is it. This is an easy one. I am team
Texas Strip. Massive economic issues, issues with as you said,
roadways and education, wars, bombing countries. But let's just go
ahead and rebrand the Let's let's get send the Texas

(01:38:23):
Senate spending time on rebranding what a steak is called.

Speaker 3 (01:38:26):
Two greatest things that Dan Patrick's ever done. One find
me as a talent and number two renaming a steak.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
Wonderful. That's the news of me. Thank you, Matt, Back
to you, and then back to you again.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
At twelve thirty for NFL, rewind, We've got a few
little nuggets to.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
Get to on the world of the National Football League. Wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:38:47):
In fifteen minutes or so, it is about Thomas Show
with Ross. This is Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (01:38:51):
Ninety more Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
To take this up to make your stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
By the way, Travis Scott Ross legitimately hurt Cody Rhodes
during the end of the Elimination Chamber.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Pay per view over the weekend. Oh no, that's what
I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
If you're gonna get into wrestling, you gotta play by
the rules, meaning don't hurt somebody mm hmm and follow
the script. Apparently, according to Dave Meltzer, who is a
wrestling reporter, Cody Roads reportedly suffered a busted ear drum
and black eye during the Elimination Chamber part where Travis

(01:39:41):
Scott went in there and beat the crap allegedly beat
the crap out of uh Cody Roads.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
Travis Scott busted his ear drum. Yeah, and with a
black eye too. Hmm. That's unfortunate. Oh sorry, we couldn't
squeeze that into the news at noon. Well you need
to why was Travis I mean, is he is that
how you sell records?

Speaker 3 (01:40:04):
Is interfering in a amazing sports entertainment event known as
the Elimination.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
Chamber maybe he's just a big wrestling fan. He's been
around wrestling for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
Right, It's a lot of celebrities are involved in wrestling.
Karl Malone wrestled like Tyson Shack.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Okay, oh thank god you got to one that wasn't
a rapist. David Arquette. Who else has been involved in.

Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
David Arquette, Yeah, he was a former WCW champion for
a sure time.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
The actor, Yes, don't even ask.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
It was part of the reason why WCW is in
around because they they did a horrific story.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Writing that guy that married Courtney Cox. Yes, probably win
for him, big time win for this an old timer.
You to great with a smile on your face with
that one. We have we done a fantasy five of
biggest overmatch. Uh no, you've talked about it, but it's like,
how do you vote on it? It's oh, because you're
being rude essentially five. It's not rude, it's just like,

(01:40:59):
how do you discert and one from the other. Like
for me, the all time over your not over your
skis what would be I'll kick your coverage. That was
what I was thinking about. Would have to be Hyle
love it marrying Julia Roberts. Right, that's up there. That's
the all timer Urquet and Courtney Cox absolutely has got
to be in that shirt list. I thought it was

(01:41:20):
going to be Anna, Nicole Smith and that guy in
a wheelchair. Yeah, it's true. I had never quite thought
of it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
How long were they married? They were they even married
a year?

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
I don't think he was that I think he died.
I think he died shortly thereafter. Do you know who
will win this contest if they do get married? Uh,
Shane Gillis and whatever hot piece's with. Nope, somebody that's
in sports? Okay? Is it Bill Belichick? Bill Belichick and

(01:41:55):
his girl? Yes? Yeah, I guess what are there years difference?

Speaker 14 (01:42:02):
More?

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
No, we're around there, around there, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:42:06):
They're round fifty. But it's at least she could be
his grandfather. He could be her grandfather's grandfather. Yeah, Okay,
he's said he's seventy two, what is she?

Speaker 2 (01:42:15):
Twenty five? Twenty six? And that's young for a grandfather. No,
it's not. Seventy two is not old young for a grandfather.
But I'm talking about for having a twenty like you.
Most people do not have grandkids at forty six. Unless
you got married at a young age and then your
child got married at a young age. He could have
a beer. Oh okay, could very easily be. He could

(01:42:39):
be her great grandfather. Who really want to squeeze it? Ooh,
that's creepy. Any anything that Hugh Hefner was married to
would be it would be an all time it's a
forty eight year old age gap. She is twenty four,
he is seventy two. Yeah, there definitely could be a
diff that's definitely grandfather ish. Ooh, that's creepy. That is
absolutely creepy.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
Well uh oh, Billy Billy Joel for over christ with
Christie Brinkley, Is that an Ald Timer?

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
I don't know. I mean that was more handsome back
in the day. Well, but she was young, Billy Joel, she.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Was a super model. Like, isn't she rather tall? Like,
isn't she like significantly taller than Billy Joel is?

Speaker 2 (01:43:19):
Maybe? Probably Well, if he's short, what is Billy Joel say? Yeah,
before he started drinking pine sal he's he's probably looking
a little mony. Billy Joel's five to five. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Christie Brinkley height is she's seventy one? By the way,
Oh my god, she's seventy one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Google says she's just five nine. It's fine, but that's
still that for a for a guy to a girl
four inches bigger. No, that's that's significant. That is significant.
Twelve twenty four.

Speaker 3 (01:43:58):
By Louise sent me a tweet says try Scott was
the theme song of Elimination Chamber.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
I did not know that. I didn't watch it, so
I'm all going off of what I saw in video.
But thank you you are you were even watching when
the heel turn happened. No, I was busy. Oh some
wrestling fan you are. You didn't even watch at a
Rockets game? Well I couldn't. I couldn't watch both. Terrible disappointing,
but not surprising.

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
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Speaker 2 (01:44:33):
McGovern.

Speaker 3 (01:44:33):
Congratulations ROSSI to former University of Houston athletic director and
current athletic director at Banner University. Mac Rhodes is now
in charge of the College Football Playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
He is the relay chair. Yeah, and he just keeps
moving on up. He's made a lot of moves.

Speaker 3 (01:44:57):
He was before he was the AD at Houston, he
was at some.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
Small school an I didn't know that I pulled it up.
I was gonna say.

Speaker 3 (01:45:08):
He went from Akron, Yes, to Houston, to Missouri, and
he's like, I gotta get the hell.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
Out, get the hell out of Columbia. He was only
there two years, he was hardly there. And then he
goes to Baylor from Missouri. I would have thought stay.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
In Missouri would have been a better play because of
the SEC money.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
But Baylor cash probably not bad.

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
I don't say you've got a pipeline. The Drake McClain,
he built him a stadium, so good for him. Other
people on this committee Mark D'Antonio, the former remember the
former head coach at Michigan State and at Cincinnati.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
He is out there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:45):
Damon Evans is the athletic director at the University of Maryland.
I'van Mayzell, who was the former sports writer for the
Atlanta Constitution, sports illustrator the Dallas Morning.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
News in ESPN, m H.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
Chris Massario, he's the AD at Middle Tennessee State.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
What's he doing there?

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
I don't know Middle Tennessee State's never gonna be in
the college football playoff. And some guy named Wesley Walls,
a former American All American tied end from old mess.
I think he was a Dallas cowboy if I'm not mistaken.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
Okay, it's not bad. So mac Rhodes is she gonna
stump for the Big twelve?

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
Somebody has to where obviously disrespected constantly?

Speaker 2 (01:46:26):
Mm in what way? It's a meritocracy? Nobody wants to
play us? Yeah, it's because you're not even good. No,
it's because we we we we we still your lunch
money in your game? Oh really, who's the best Big
twelve program in football?

Speaker 9 (01:46:41):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (01:46:45):
Can'd exactly your silent speaks? Volumes tu used to be
Baylor used to be is gonna be? Eh, stop respect
my conference, Respect America's conference. Arizona State gave Texas a
run for their money with Cam Skataboo. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:47:04):
By the way, Texans did talk to camp Scataboo while
he was in Indianapolis and they said, Cam, I'm nic Cassario.

Speaker 2 (01:47:10):
It's nice to meet you. Would you like to be
a backup fullback for us? Yeah? He refused to run
the forty wonder what time.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
There's the reason he's been eating all those cheeseburgers is
one of the reason why he didn't running the forty.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
He's got great contact balance. As the kids say, Matt Ross,
I just don't think if you ever say no to something,
it means you're trying to hide something. Do you not
agree with me? I mean it depends. In the case
of the quarterbacks, I get it, because you have way
more to lose than gain, right, especially with receivers that
you're not on the same page with if you want
to wait, yeah, but as far as running the forty,

(01:47:44):
normally that's a no figure. They would do it, especially
for for Okay, I'll put it this way, for a
guy who's not thought of as a surefire first round
pick or anything like that. If you're like Ashton Gent
and you're already gonna go on the top ten and
your tape speaks for itself, and you're like, I don't
need to run you guys need to take me, then
he has all the leverage. Cam Scattabho doesn't have that leverage.

(01:48:05):
He's trying to take you.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
What he should have done is piggybacked off that one
game he had and turned it into an opportunity to
move up the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
Instead. When you say no to the forty time, it
means you're again I think you're hiding something.

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Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
Welcome back to the Man Thomas Show with Ross. Right
now is the time of the week where we do
the n f L Rewe we take a look at
things that are going around the NFL.

Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
Still a lot of news these days.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
It is a year round news factory in the NFL,
and well, we have a certain number of things to
get too, starting with franchise tags, some of them happening
in some places, some of them not happening in others.
The Cincinnati Bengals have placed the franchise tag on T

(01:50:27):
Higgins for the second straight year. T Higgins announcing on
X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it,
tag I guess he is. It doesn't sound like he's
very happy about it. Bengals later announcing the move, saying
they did so with quote the intent of continuing to

(01:50:48):
work towards a long term deal in the Cincinnati with
higgins franchise tender paying him twenty six point two million
dollars for the twenty twenty five season. If he is
unable to to a long term deal with the Cincinnati Bengals,
I wonder what the long term implications this are going
to be as far as well the NFLPA, unfortunately the

(01:51:11):
three major sports is the weakest. But being able to
franchise tag him for a second straight year, not allowing
T Higgins to reach free agency, now you do have
to go up. I believe it's like twenty five percent
from one year to the next when it comes to
franchise tagging somebody. So it's not like he's not getting anything.
It's not the hugest slap in the face to be

(01:51:31):
handed twenty six point two million dollars completely guaranteed, but
not allowing them to test the free agent market two
years in a row. One year franchise tag, I guess
makes sense, but it's not available in any other sport.
Two years seems like a little much. Cincinnati expressing optimism
they can get deals this done. I mean they have

(01:51:53):
to sign Higgins they have to sign Jamar Chase. Defensive end.
Trey Hendrickson had a big year for them. Joe's already
making big money. Be interesting to see what's going down
there on Cincinnata because we saw it last year. I mean,
when T Higgins was out or Jamar Chase when he
didn't have both, Joe Burrow's production went down significantly. So

(01:52:14):
T Higgins unfortunately not hitting the free agent market for
teams that would be interested. What I can.

Speaker 3 (01:52:24):
I'm sorry, Matt. How you doing, Matt, I've been better. Okay,
I'm trying to fast eat during a break and that was.

Speaker 2 (01:52:32):
Not smarter than to do that. We appreciate you. T Higgins,
Matt Thomas. You've been saying he's gonna be a Houston
Texan for like three years now, I know, but he
will not be Nope. Elsewhere in the NFL, Sam Donald
not franchise tagged. We talked about this. I remember there

(01:52:54):
was a certain host saying I was crazy to say
that Sam Darnald was going to walk for the Minnesota Vikings.
I thought he's gonna get franchise tag. But they've said otherwise.
They have said they will not franchise tag him. They said,
they do hope to resign him. Actually, but I mean
it feels like other teams are going to be in
the market, whether it be the Jets, Giants, Raiders. Sam

(01:53:16):
Darnold thirty five touchdown passes. If he does not end
up back with the Minnesota Vikings, that would be the
most touchdown passes by a quarterback in NFL history that
was not retained the next year by their team. Of course,
JJ McCarthy waiting in the wings full the Minnesota Vakans.

(01:53:39):
How much is he gonna get? You think? Is he
gonna get thirty million dollars? I would have to? What
was the kirk Cousins deal to Kirk Cousins ever, right,
because all he doesn't get overpaid everywhere he goes. That's true.
But I mean, let's see, it was a four year
deal with the Falcon but basically only two years of it.

(01:54:06):
If four years, whoa, oh, he ain't getting this four years,
one hundred and eighty mili no chance. Fifty million dollars
signing bonus one hundred mill guaranteed for Kirk Cousins for
mid Do you understand Ross? That's midas good, he's mid.
He's he's never how my playoff win does he have?

(01:54:28):
I don't know if he has anyone. I mean, god,
he has made so much.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
I mean he may be the all timer of compensation
for doing nothing but stat padding.

Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
Largely, I disagree. I think Kirk Cousins a little better
than just a stat patter. Although last year in Atlanta
he was a disaster and got replaced by Michael Pennox.
I stand him, stam, Okay, that's fine. He went thirteen
and four with the Vikings in two two. Yeah. And

(01:55:00):
how's that ring he's worring? What size is it? Let's
see has one postseason victory? Wo Okay, don't don't even
do that. Don't go there. You ain't got no rings,
He's got no ra sucks he's honorable. Damn Marino, got
no rings. He's terrible. No rings, no good whatever? All right?

(01:55:21):
Continue on? Uh okay, I will continue on. Matt, Did
you see the story? I actually saved this from last
week for the NFL rewind The NFL is considering it
changes to regular season overtime rules, Please explain, League executive

(01:55:43):
Troy Vincent saying that Wednesday, at the scouting combine of
last week, teams who receive the ball first in overtime,
winning fifty six point eight percent of the games from
seventeen to twenty four. That's up from what it was
before a rules change. They could go with, everyone gets
the same overtime rules as in the playoffs, when both

(01:56:06):
teams get the ball, no matter what. They also have
considered extending the overtime period to fifteen there they go,
that's my boy, that's why I love the NFL. You do, Yeah,
they take my sage advice. I don't. And this is
quirky on my part. Ladies and gentlemen. I apologize for this.
I think ten minutes is too short. I think you

(01:56:28):
play a fifteen one. There were zero ties this year, okay,
let's see last year. Zero ties last year. Yep, So
they're getting resolved, obviously, let's go to twenty twenty two.

(01:56:48):
There had to be some ties. Looks like there was
two ties in twenty twenty two. The last three years
two ties total. And it's in ross. Honestly, it's just
quirky for me. I just like I think I think
you're gonna play fifte minute quarters. If you're gonna play
an extra quarter to decide one, I think it's for
player safety is why they do it, and there haven't
been many ties, right, so probably right? Yeah, there you go, Matt,

(01:57:08):
All right, nice, so done. Do you think they should
go to a system where like the playoffs where both
teams get the ball no matter what? That would probably
lead to more ties, It would take more time off
the clock.

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
I think if you do that, you have to add
the five extra minutes, because what if some team takes
eight minutes and forty seconds off of drive, You're gonna
been penalized that our team for only having a minute
twenty to do something.

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
I mean, like, yeah, who knows these how many times?
How many? How many games go to overtime per week? Anyway?
Maybe one, maybe two, maybe a week tops. Oh, by
the way, something we've been talking about for a while.
This is also in that same article I forgot. I
wanted to mention this NFL planning to use its virtual
measuring system to determine first downs in twenty twenty five,
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
Twenty twelve said this was too long for this to happen.
I mean, this could have been this should have done
ten years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
Fifteen years. The tracking system notifies officiating instantly if a
first down was gained after the ball is spotted by hand,
so it's still hand spotting, but it wouldn't be hand measuring. Yeah,
the whole ten yard chain thing seems and acquitted at
very best. Kimberly think as a kid would say, Yeah,
you get out there with chains and markers like it

(01:58:17):
was nineteen ten. Yep, it's ridiculous. I mean, here you go, man.
There they're using the same ones that Sid Luckman used
when he was playing in the NFL. Yes, he was,
and Autogram and the boys and gyms up excellent NFL
rewind Ross, it was, yes, I mean, thank you, Matt.
It's a Tuesday State of Publisher. Absolutely all right?

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
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Speaker 17 (01:59:21):
Rockets coming along from Hey, everybody, this is Craig Ackerman
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Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
Thankfully.

Speaker 17 (01:59:27):
And finally I am socially distancing myself from Matt Thomas.

Speaker 12 (01:59:30):
Wait, bye bye to your cash cow because it's leaving
the past year.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Now back to your show, Ross, I didn't catch part
of your NFL We Want. Did you officially have the
DeVonta Adams been cut by the Jets? I did not. Okay,
that came down within the last half hour. Yeah, well,
we talked about it earlier about him going to be cut.

(01:59:55):
It's official now. It's official now.

Speaker 18 (01:59:57):
So I'm sure all the text and fan bloggers that
were like, let's go get let's go get DeVante and
cousin disgustin. If you want to, I'm just you know what,
if you're gonna go get somebody, just go just re
sign Stefan Diggs one year deal, heavy incentives as long

(02:00:17):
as he's reasonable on his guarantee.

Speaker 2 (02:00:19):
For the year. That you know what you got.

Speaker 3 (02:00:22):
I mean, DeVante's been bouncing around from team to team
to team the last or four years. He's fifty percent
of the player he was two or three years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
Eleven games the Jets, eight hundred and fifty yards, seven touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (02:00:39):
Davante Adams at twenty million dollars a year or Stefan
Diggs at twelve million dollars a.

Speaker 2 (02:00:45):
Year, Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get Anto DeVante Adams
a business I don't think.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
I don't think that's in if that's in the DNA
of Casario. Because remember when you when the trade was
made for Stefan Dick, he was still at a very
high elite level.

Speaker 2 (02:01:03):
I mean, he had a little regression in his last
year in Buffalo, but it wasn't like he would fallen
off the map. Now, granted this injury he has now
may have obviously taken some wear and tear off of
his turne off the tires shirt a little bit.

Speaker 3 (02:01:14):
But I just Devanty's moved a bunch of the last
handful of years, and he's just gonna cost a lot
of money. Do you think wide receivers ross don't know
their value like overesturbate their value more than any other
position in sports?

Speaker 2 (02:01:32):
Hmmm? Uh, No, quarterback would do it because quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 (02:01:40):
We already kind of know what quarterbacks are getting because
the crazy even for mid quarterbacks are getting crazy money.

Speaker 2 (02:01:45):
We know that they're getting it. Yeah, I would say,
I mean they're probably fourth right, highest paid would be quarterbacks,
and probably tackles and ed rushers in whatever order, and
then probably receivers. They're getting paid a lot.

Speaker 3 (02:01:58):
But they have kind of like the same shelf life
of running backs, although the difference is at least the
wide receivers get paid big time money as compared to
the running backs who don't.

Speaker 2 (02:02:07):
And I think it's I think it's a more valuable
position than then running back is these days, like a
dynamic number one wide receiver is harder to find than
a than a number one running back.

Speaker 3 (02:02:22):
That's why the Texans were wise to settle up with
the Nico Collins this past offseason.

Speaker 2 (02:02:27):
That was huge. They bet on he he took the
money and the Texans bet that he would outperform it,
and he did and has. Yeah. Yeah, that was a
good move by them, for sure. Great job Nick Cassario,
Good job overall, Glizard. That's great job. That's that's like
the one of the best wide receiver contracts in football.
All right, then I'll talked about it.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
Talk about his negotiations with offensive lineman.

Speaker 2 (02:02:48):
Tell me how that's gone. What do you mean? Overpaid
guys up there? Who Laramie Tunzel, the pro bowler? Overpaid?

Speaker 3 (02:02:58):
Okay, his insatiable thirst for mid level first round picks
again moved up in the draft that played in college.

Speaker 2 (02:03:06):
The draft. The draft history has been spotty. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:03:09):
No, I think he's been a good general manager, and
I don't think he's been an elite, but he's top
half of the league. I don't think he's embarrassing himself.
He didn't let a player go for you know, he
didn't pull the DeAndre Hopkins straight. I mean, I think
he's got he has a firm grasp of what the
market is. I think the biggest issue for Casserio as
a general manager is is maybe perhaps talent evaluation, and

(02:03:31):
that's not necessarily him per se, although he's got he is,
he's the one that has to make the pick. It
might be the people underneath him, but I think his
I wasn't a huge fan of the Stefan Diggs renegotiation
and chopping the last couple of years off the contract,
especially for what you gave up, but as you brought
up up many times, it was about a let's go

(02:03:52):
win the whole damn thing next year or last year,
which is now this year.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
Yeah, they tried, didn't work.

Speaker 10 (02:03:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:04:00):
Kamari Laster was a good pick, Cabari was good. Derek
Stingley's been a great pick, had a better season than
Sauce Gardner.

Speaker 3 (02:04:06):
I was still taken Sauce and I'm on the record
for that and im winning on that. But but it's
not like Stingley's performing literally first team All Pro.

Speaker 2 (02:04:15):
Yeah, it's fine, it's pretty good, pretty good, but there
was a there was a better player two years ago,
the year before that. And why I'm talking about Mac
bro I'm talking about I don't know why you're doing that.
We do this every time. But it's fine. Will Anderson
good picks. He's just really good pick yep. Jalen Petree good,
not great, I would say really good pick. Where was
he taken second or third round? Can't talk, can't tackle

(02:04:37):
in space? Better than he's great? He can tackle? What
do you mean that's what he's good at. He's not
a coverage guy. Oh, I was mixing him up. Miss safeties. Yeah,
Peatre's okay. Peacher's really good. He's a plus player. They
missed him big time. A year has been okay as

(02:04:59):
long as he behaved as a when he's not getting
suspended for trucks sticking. Trevor Lawrence yep, No, I think
that that. In terms of security, I think the coach
is very secure in his spot. The general manager is
very secure in his spot. And there's very few teams
in the NFL they can have that.

Speaker 3 (02:05:21):
I mean, who has that right now? Kansas City with
their with their situation.

Speaker 2 (02:05:26):
He is probably doing pretty good right now. Although Philadelphia
had to fire pair of Cordners last year to you know,
to make the well, you're winning a super Bowl buys
you some time.

Speaker 3 (02:05:34):
It does buy you some time. Who else is really
super secure? I mean who are the elite? I mean
Giants know Bears. No, they just made a change. Cowboys
just made a change.

Speaker 2 (02:05:47):
No, Jerry Jones is the most secure guy in football.
I'm talking about I'm talking about the head coach GM combos.
He'll be there, Jerry Jones will be there as long
as he wants.

Speaker 3 (02:05:57):
Speaking of that, did you see that, Jimmy Johnson were
tired yesterday?

Speaker 2 (02:06:00):
From five?

Speaker 7 (02:06:01):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:06:01):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (02:06:01):
I meant to mention that in the NFL rewind Yes,
I did you want to do it right now? Yeah?
Here audio?

Speaker 4 (02:06:05):
Do we know?

Speaker 1 (02:06:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:06:05):
Here we go. Made an extremely difficult decision.

Speaker 7 (02:06:10):
I've been thinking about it for the last four or
five years, and I've decided to retire from Fox and
I'm gonna miss it. I'm gonna miss all the guys
and I'll see them occasionally. But it has been a
great run, starting back thirty one years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:06:28):
Thirty one years when Fox got the NFL package from
CBS the NFC games, it was like somebody murdered the
CBS children.

Speaker 3 (02:06:43):
We're so despondent and sorrow like, oh my god, we're
losing the NFL. We've had the NFL on since the
thirties on CBS, and this upstar channel that's got twenty
one Jumpstreet is gonna carry NFL games.

Speaker 2 (02:06:57):
I can't do that. But they did, Yeah, they did,
and they had the very first thing they did that
changed the landscape of probably watched televised sports. Now do
you remember, do you remember? Can you think of what
it would be? Was it the first down line?

Speaker 3 (02:07:15):
No, but you're that's not a bad guess. They might
be that too, bid, I'm picking something even more crazier
than that. Okay, there was a score on the screen.
They were the first ones to do that, first one
to do that. You know, well, I didn't anybody do
that before. That's exactly when I watch old games in
the NFL network from like nineteen eighty nine. I'm not

(02:07:35):
talking about like the back in the sixties and seventies
when NFL TV was honest, you know, not the way
it was like Monda Nay Football didn't even do that.

Speaker 2 (02:07:44):
Wow. You would turn a game on and you'd have
to guess what was going on in your own the
game that you were watching. You had to actually pay
attention to them. Yeah, you get you check your iPhone.

Speaker 3 (02:07:55):
No, you couldn't check your iPhone nineteen eighty nine, Oh, okay,
I remember when NBC Sports used to have a ten
minute ticker ross they give you scores of other games
every ten.

Speaker 2 (02:08:05):
Minutes, like on the Zeros and you were on the
fives or something and you'd have to make sure you
were there. Yeah, they were like, we're gonna give you
scores every ten minutes, Like, oh, thanks you. I gotta
go to the bathroom, but I gotta wait for these scores.

Speaker 3 (02:08:17):
Yeah, now you get it, like every score everything, every
three minutes was they rotate different games around the NFL,
so uh yeah, but Jerry Jones, Jimmy Johnson thirty years
at Fox.

Speaker 2 (02:08:30):
Do you know who the first set was on that show?
First set?

Speaker 3 (02:08:34):
Yeah, people on the Nfox NFL so oh on the set,
I believe it was O. J.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
Simpson. No, No, not OJ Simpson.

Speaker 3 (02:08:45):
I think it was Terry Bradshaw who's still on there.
Howie long, Jimmy Johnson, and the host was James Brown
is now at CBS.

Speaker 2 (02:08:56):
It was that long. I mean I remember that crew
that was the first one yep in the nineties, Okay, yep,
and then uh that one of.

Speaker 3 (02:09:04):
The broadcast teams was Kevin Harlan who's now at CBS.

Speaker 2 (02:09:08):
A friend of the show. His partner in those games
was Jerry Glanville. Hmm, how was that?

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
Is there anybody else give you more TV minutia than me?

Speaker 2 (02:09:21):
Uh? Probably not, Matt. You know, if it's charming or
annoying one, I don't know. I think it's it's it's incredible.
Don't believe I can. I can hear the sarcasm from
a thousand miles away from That's not true. Didn't they
get Pat SUMMERL didn't. It wasn't a major cu to
get Pat somemerl and John Madden roll and John Madden left.
Where were they before CS? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:09:44):
Yeah, But Jerry Lanmville was doing games with Kevin Harlan.
This is Kevin Harlan like, it was in his late
twenties and he's like and Joe Buck was doing games.
So that's what we got to know Joe Buck for
the very first time.

Speaker 2 (02:09:53):
And people got upset with him. Nope, they didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:09:56):
They got upset with him when he forced Pat Summer
all of.

Speaker 2 (02:09:58):
The curb I'm reading here on the Fox NFL on
Fox wikiph They did the Cardinals Chargers game. They did
an experiment with Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson, giving analysis with no
play by play. Ooh, that had to be wretched.

Speaker 3 (02:10:11):
Well they didn't stick with it, no, not at all.
All right, let's get it up there, and what's going
on with the local baseball team. We call them Astros
and when they're you're home for Astros Baseball Sports Talk
seven nine eighty and we'll hear from you. Is Gordy
our Astros insider again?

Speaker 2 (02:10:26):
Karen need one?

Speaker 6 (02:10:27):
Do we not.

Speaker 2 (02:10:29):
Just throwing it out there?

Speaker 3 (02:10:31):
We got Brian mctagger right and Brian Bogus seven coming
up short in the next couple of weeks, too, very
let's go seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two, one two five seven nine zero.
It is the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross We got Believe It or Not today, which
is coming up at twelve at one fifty rosso to

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at Ross here, I'm in Indianapolis. Ross is back in Houston,

(02:12:21):
and Ross has a friend of the show, Chris Gordon.

Speaker 2 (02:12:24):
Studio with him. It's a insider. Eh, we'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (02:12:28):
We'll figure out how much he knows on the astros.
We'll kind of give him some Q and A here
and so test his insider knowledge on these things. How
about this, Gordon, can we please top telling the world
the camps it's going to make the Manor League roster
coming out of spring training.

Speaker 2 (02:12:41):
Well we'll get to that in just a second, Matt.

Speaker 17 (02:12:43):
But you know what today is, right, I mean, this
is big that you got me on today, of all
days on your show, Les le Bontulay, it is fat Tuesday,
or as we say around my parts, Mardy Graw.

Speaker 2 (02:13:00):
Mad Hey, I'm going to New Orleans tonight. Maybe I'll
be there at two am. That'll be party. When I
get there.

Speaker 17 (02:13:06):
There will be so much vomit in the streets. When
you get there, just watch where you step.

Speaker 2 (02:13:10):
None of my high end. How are you gonna get
to the hotel room? All people in those hotels are vomiting.
Get you some king cakes. Yeah, No, they're not, they're not.
They're not.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
Vomiting at my hotel, man, maybe vomiting at the facility
next to my hotel.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
I've been there. I was vomiting there, all right.

Speaker 17 (02:13:27):
They actually had to cancel a lot of the praise
today because it's pooring that rain in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:13:31):
So but that won't stop the party, Hasn't it like
fifty mile an hour winds in rain they're canceling Stuff's
all right, they have parties and hurricanes there. Why are
you working? Today's just like this is like a federal
day offer. No, especially in our office, man, there's like
five different kinds of King cake out in the in
the kitchen. Are there enough employees in the office to
have five King CAGs? No tuesdays? They come in Friday?

(02:13:53):
Is not so much, Okay, hold on call is very busy.
You can move on from the music, Honnor.

Speaker 17 (02:13:59):
I just want to sell Themtle Marti gra And look,
if you're a camp Smith fan, it might be Marty
Grotty you. You might be throwing beads around.

Speaker 8 (02:14:06):
It is uh.

Speaker 17 (02:14:07):
And by the way, a little spring training update here
presented by friends are Cardbock Brewing and the Crawford back guys.
I'm gonna give you some stats. We can reoverreact. It's
an overreaction, right the Astros. This is their first day
off so far in spring training. They will not have
another day off until March seventeenth. So we are ten
games into spring training. The Astros are five and five.

(02:14:28):
Do you know who the Astro's hottest hitter is?

Speaker 2 (02:14:30):
Camp Smith?

Speaker 17 (02:14:31):
It is camp Smith, their top prospect, who was batting
five seventy one, two home runs, six Ribby's four walks,
four runs scored. I will say this, he will not
make the opening day roster. They're not gonna burn his
service time to make him start on opening Day. But
if he keeps us up. We talked to Joe Spot
in West Palm a couple weeks ago. He said, he

(02:14:53):
told me he goes Chris. If he hits, we can't
not bring him up. So at what point in the
season will that be.

Speaker 2 (02:15:00):
We'll see.

Speaker 17 (02:15:01):
But I think this kid is just I mean, he's
crushing it. And look at everybody else in this roster.
There's a whole lot of people doing nothing. He's taking
advantage of his opportunity.

Speaker 3 (02:15:09):
All Right, the three of us right now, we're gonna
bet a king cake on this right now. Oh, gosh
hashtag stale simon roll.

Speaker 2 (02:15:19):
See if you're Matt. It's from the guy who likes
the mcgrib though number one exactly. This is why we
don't argue food, is Matt kink. If you're getting a
stale one, you're not buying from the right place. How
about I'm not just bout up. We didn't we get you.
We brought him some night. Didn't you bring him some
nice and he liked it? You're a fraud and a liar.

(02:15:39):
He's talking about like those a tb ones. In fairness
to Gordy, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:15:45):
My wife brought a King can't come the other day
and I had one bite on and I'm like, this
is stale.

Speaker 2 (02:15:49):
This is not any good.

Speaker 17 (02:15:49):
That's like going, oh, you've never had tacos before. I
got some really good ones from Atlanta. Here, try these,
like what's Atlanta from the.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
Grocery store atlant ry tree? Ree is Texas? Okay, it's
not good, Kingcake stop, you never had to Molly's here.
I got this from Boston. They're really good. What see,
we're arguing with a child. Let's move on, all right,
Go for a New Orleans style kincake delivered in from
the What's the best Bakery New Orleans? You gotta randazzos, randazzos.

Speaker 3 (02:16:20):
Let's put a date on when Cam Smith is a
Houston astro this year, Gordy or I guess you may
go first, you know, closest win.

Speaker 17 (02:16:29):
I'm gonna go August first. I'm gonna say late season
call up. I know that that is contradictory to the
whole point I was trying to make here. I just
think that's the safe bet. I think Dana Brown, you
know what, I think we're gonna get tons of Dana
Brown in June and July. Yeah, this kid's really knocking
on the door. I mean, he's just really doing some
great things. Like I think they're gonna delay this.

Speaker 2 (02:16:48):
I'm gonna go opposite with you. I'm gonna go make twentieth.

Speaker 3 (02:16:50):
I think that there's gonna be somebody that's gonna struggle mightily,
whether that's Partis or McCormick. And they're gonna say we
have to kids crushing May twentieth, and I think I'm
gonna lose. But I'm just throwing a date out just
be different. But I'm gonna say that the offense there's
gonna be some pressure to get a boost in the offense,

(02:17:10):
and it may be bringing him up too early, but
if he continues now, he's gonna open up the year,
probably at sugar Land Rights.

Speaker 2 (02:17:16):
My best guess. I would think, I can't imagine a
world would they send him down to Corpus. It would
be really a waste of time. Yeah, so I'll go
May twentieth. Uh would you say August first? Yeah, I'll
go August second. Oh wow, we're going. It's because if
it's any time after I win, right, Yeah, there you
go August second. That's my bid.

Speaker 17 (02:17:39):
Okay, but you remember the legend of Joey Lo Praffito
last year. I mean fans were getting that's true. It
was it was April and they're like, bring this kid up?

Speaker 2 (02:17:47):
What are we doing? M hm? Is that what our
listeners sound like?

Speaker 8 (02:17:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:17:53):
Pretty much? Is he's twenty two years old. He's I mean,
he's a top hundred guy. But I'll say later in
the season he will be a guest on an astroline. Tomorrow,
he's a guest on this show. Matt Thomas was supposed
to arm wrestle him. Yeah, huge get he was afraid
of wrestling me. He didn't want to hurt That's true.

Speaker 6 (02:18:10):
He was.

Speaker 2 (02:18:10):
He was quaking in his boots, I remember now. So
he was like, I don't want to hurt this. This
uh felt good looking. He didn't say he doesn't know
what's first of all, it's it's felt felt. Okay, he's
in the sphere of scheldt. Do you guys want some
of this other great research education. He's Matt, He's got
like a stack of papers research. Let's let him get

(02:18:31):
to it. I'm gonna step out, I'm gonna eat my
kin cake.

Speaker 17 (02:18:34):
I'm gonna ask you guys for feedback here. As for
everyday players, do you know who's batting the best so far?
There's two guys in No dang, Victor Carrotine's batting two
twenty two, which I guess is good for Victor.

Speaker 2 (02:18:48):
Carrots I don't have the retraining stats in front of me.

Speaker 17 (02:18:50):
So new first base when Christian Walker is batting five hundreds, Oh,
that's right, he's he's in a small sample size.

Speaker 2 (02:18:55):
He's four for eight, but he's got three doubles. That's good.

Speaker 17 (02:18:58):
Three doubles in eight at bats, two walks as well.
Jeremy Pana battings three seventy five. So now just one bet,
one run batted in. But he's three for eight at
the plate. It's pretty good, all right.

Speaker 2 (02:19:12):
Now go ahead and give us the opposite because there's
one of them is involving one of Ross's buddies.

Speaker 17 (02:19:16):
So yeah, one more guy in here. I'm putting east
Soak Paridis in here. He's batting two fifty, but he's
got a home run, he's got three walks. He's two
for eight with an RBI solde or two RBI, So
I like him. I think Paraiates is gonna have a
nice year.

Speaker 2 (02:19:27):
This is massive stuff.

Speaker 17 (02:19:28):
Now on the opposite end of the spectrum, you're expected
starting second basement is Ross. Maurice dub Marissia Dubon is
an for twelve at the plate so far this spring.

Speaker 2 (02:19:40):
Right, he's getting out of the way, is good. Strikeouse
is good. We know who Mauricio Dubon is, might be
who he is now he's not oh for twelve guy,
Chas McCormick. You're starting right fielder. Correct. He is one
for nine with two sh He's working on some kinks.
It's fine. Victory two game sample size.

Speaker 17 (02:20:00):
Jan er Diez is batting one eighty eight, Jake Myers
one eighty two, josel two A one twenty five, and
your Navarez one eleven.

Speaker 2 (02:20:06):
Yeah, see, not worried. Small sample size, an extremely small
sample sizes. Stop it, don't make that face. I'm just
telling you if people like you Twitter account, Gordon, is
that what they like to pull the Oh it's only
spring training. It's only spring training. Can we play aos
for for Chris Cordy right now? God almighty? Now about pitching?

Speaker 17 (02:20:24):
Wise Spencer Spencer arrogaty four innings pitched, five strike cuts,
zero Yarra very good, Spencer wonderfully Hunter Brown two innings
pitch so far, zero runs A zero yrra.

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
Two guys made appearances on the Matt Thomas Show Ross
while we were down there.

Speaker 17 (02:20:40):
Nfah An empt blessing Hayden was Nesky four innings pitch,
one run allowed to twenty five r Ray.

Speaker 2 (02:20:45):
That's great. Love it there. Another guest of the show. God,
We're just all we're doing is bring positive vibes.

Speaker 17 (02:20:51):
Now, perhaps you're number one and two in this rotation
from Braveldez three and two thirds innings, four ninety one ERA.

Speaker 2 (02:20:58):
That's fine, three walk, three strikeouts not worried about it.

Speaker 17 (02:21:02):
Runout Blanco three and a three and a third innings,
five runs, three of them earned an eight ten e R.

Speaker 2 (02:21:09):
It's fine, gotta do a little bit better their blonk
going from can I can I give you a early
March hot take? Uh oh, go to mark this down
and gut feelings. I don't want you to write it down, Okay,
I won't right now? Is going to regress this year?
Well yeah, he's probably not gonna two eighty e r
A guy he was top and e r A West

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Brothers to you significantly regress. Let me give you the
relievers real quick.

Speaker 17 (02:21:38):
Brian King three and two third innings, four ninety one ERA,
Taylor Scott and Era of three, Josh Hater one inning pitched,
two runs, two runs, one home run, A sixth eighteen ERA.

Speaker 2 (02:21:50):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 17 (02:21:51):
And then you have three relievers that have been flawless.
It'spree training guys and zero point zero era. They are
named Brian Ebray you, Rafael Montero and Forrest Whitley False Wickley.

Speaker 3 (02:22:06):
Bounce back really picture of the year, Rafia Montero.

Speaker 2 (02:22:10):
Booking can't get anywhere?

Speaker 3 (02:22:13):
How do I fade this bookt remember, bounce back is
realtive because he was completely atrocious. If he's mid this year,
it's a bounce back, he says. A roster he makes
a roster, it's a it's a bounce back.

Speaker 17 (02:22:28):
That's like celebrating games. When Jose bre You would get
a hit, it would be like a miracle.

Speaker 2 (02:22:33):
No, I would celebrate. I started celebrating when he would
have a five pitch at back because at least he
was wearing the other picture down. It got that bad.

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Speaker 2 (02:23:06):
It just does. It's not even an endorsement. That's just
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It's every other year. Yeah, they'd put teams every other year.
That's why Texas was in a Las Vegas tournament. Whose
idea is that, why would you have to have a
I don't.

Speaker 17 (02:23:24):
Know whose rule that is that they can't have them
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Speaker 2 (02:23:31):
I was there. My son told me there Michael early
maybe a bit early to hire him? Maybe a bit early?
Oh man, But how's Texas baseball this year? They won
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Speaker 3 (02:23:50):
Don't use this term loosely. He's one hundred percent douchebag
d bag.

Speaker 2 (02:23:55):
But he's a hell of a coach, hell of a coach,
but a hell of a d bag. Yeah. I was
gonna say, I mean, if you've heard that before.

Speaker 3 (02:24:03):
All right, So we got we got college baseball and
pro baseball in one conversation here and mar and Marti Gras,
So what do you what are the Gordys doing tonight
to celebrate Marty Gras.

Speaker 8 (02:24:13):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:24:13):
We usually pull up the YouTube and watch the parades
and get some BB's or something beats oh bbs. Oh
come on, man, you're asking your wife to do they
do they spend money with us?

Speaker 6 (02:24:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:24:27):
They don't. Okay, Yeah, that's terrible. Don't go rees. It's
not a lot of great kids.

Speaker 3 (02:24:33):
Yeah you can, though, they're they're mad and they're expensive.

Speaker 2 (02:24:38):
Campbell's chunky gumbo might be better. No, God from the
top rope.

Speaker 17 (02:24:44):
The day I eat blue Runner beans, just put a
knife in my throat. I'm done.

Speaker 3 (02:24:49):
There's Gordy for certain beer's and tell you more about
it right now, and then we're gonna continue on the
Matt Thomas Show Ross after Gordy tells you about that.

Speaker 2 (02:24:56):
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Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
You're home for the Astro Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 5 (02:25:37):
Back to Matt Thomas and Ross Vireal Fine One Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (02:25:46):
Two on the Matt Thomas Show With Ross, you know
we are having some foe with Gordion. Those numbers, ROSSI
I learned a long time ago when I started first
talking about baseball on the radio. You don't remember numbers
from the month of March, and you know remember numbers
in the March of September.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
Everything was the greenest. Humh. Wow, you're like a baseball Buddha, Matt. Yes, well,
I just think that you just running. You fall in
love with players based off of going against guys that
are either pitching to guys that are in the batter's
box with the number ninety five on them, or you're
pitching you're taking pitches from guys with the number ninety

(02:26:24):
five of their jersey, or ninety five and no last name. Oh,
that's really the disrespect, right. It feels like, yeah, you
can't even get your name on the jersey, guys, or
does that take five minutes?

Speaker 3 (02:26:34):
There is nothing worse than having a spring training television
or radio broadcast with announcers that don't know who's in
the game, and it's through no fault of their own.

Speaker 2 (02:26:43):
Because these broadcasters prepare for it, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:26:47):
Like I used to do some Division one basketball against
some teams that didn't have sports media departments, and I've
done a game or two where the players come on
the court with no last name and just a number.
Nine'm like, this guy's not my statuet.

Speaker 2 (02:27:00):
Hmmm. It's a lonely feeling, Rossy. Yeah, I'm sorry, Matt,
Sorry you had to endure that. At least now you're
doing NBA games and everybody's got a jersey with their
name on it. Yeah, just some of them are harder
to read than others.

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
Some of them are Hard in the uniforms of Summer Heart.
By the way, I don't know much about this Indiana team. Remember,
Johnny Furfey, you had a bunch of threes against the
Cougar last year.

Speaker 2 (02:27:20):
No place for continue place, Johnny? What now Furfey? Hmmm,
that sounds made up? F you are p h y
Furfey feet johnnath And there's uh Andrew Nemhard Okay, I've
heard of him. Andrew ne Smith, I've heard of him.
Jaris Walker, the former Houston Cougar. Yes, Cougar legend. You're

(02:27:43):
always the Cougar? Sure? Why not? And that's really about it?
Long horn a long horn legend, Myles Turner, come on, hey,
he's been around a long time. Tyrese Halliburton. They're good.
They can score a bunch of points. Iowa State legend.

Speaker 3 (02:28:00):
Yep all tonight six o'clock with the rockets launch pad
at five o'clock.

Speaker 2 (02:28:08):
Right, it's gonna be one of the Adams. Whoever's not
working with you, I don't know, and they'll be grumpy
about doing it. That's fine. I don't keep track of it.

Speaker 3 (02:28:15):
And who's doing the rockets calling show tonight?

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
I think it's Dan Matthews. Where the end of that
hurts me? Let me look, it's Dan okay. I will
be on Thursday and then next week you go. Oh,
by the way.

Speaker 3 (02:28:31):
Dylan Brookston on the injury report, Aman Thompson on the
injury report one Jomprin Shangou none of the injury report.

Speaker 2 (02:28:36):
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:28:38):
Tarry Easton on the injury report. Only person out tonight
for sure is Fred van Vliet.

Speaker 2 (02:28:45):
Frederick van Vliet man. He said it's a different angle.
It's the same ankle, but it's a different ankle injury. Yeah,
I didn't even see that. Yeah, Apparently the hit a
referee on the foot early in the game on Saturday.
Whose fault do you think that was? It could be anybody's,
who knows. I don't think he was tripped by whoever

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the ref was. Well, he's had some beef before.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
Yeah, but if anybody's gonna be get hurt by a referee,
probably Dylan Brooks. I wouldn't put Fred among the tops
on that list.

Speaker 2 (02:29:17):
Yeah, but didn't It didn't if it wasn't there a
referee that Fred van Vliet called out by name and
had beef with or something.

Speaker 3 (02:29:23):
Uh yeah, I mean all of all the rockets. Apparently
a beef with some of the officials, that's true. Em
got a teed up again last night. I was surprised
he stuck around. I thought he was gonna get the heave.

Speaker 2 (02:29:33):
Yeah, here again, Jalen Green got again got beat up
last night. I'm telling you he's not been getting a
good whistle and the Googlees they gat no whistle, zilch.
He's like bleeding out in different parts of his body
after every game. Yeah, but hopefully he's fresh on. He

(02:29:54):
played twenty five minutes last night against Oh no, he
didn't hit twenty points last night. No, at eighteen, didn't
play a second in the fourth quarter despite the game
getting close multiple times.

Speaker 3 (02:30:05):
He was six or fourteen. He continues to not be
overly efficient.

Speaker 2 (02:30:08):
Sadly before that, before the few days he's been efficient,
I think is h three point percentage was flirting with
thirty six. Recently it's at thirty six right now, thirty
five point eight.

Speaker 3 (02:30:18):
Yeah, oh, let's go remember last year in March, hugod
he was yes twenty eight points per game, forty nine
percent from the floor, forty one percent from three.

Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
Is that off? The top of my head, or do
you think it's in front of me with the stay
I think it's so funny.

Speaker 8 (02:30:31):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:30:31):
Do you remember a preseason I said, did I got
feeling or did I put my name on this that
he's gonna have his best offensive year of his career? Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:30:42):
Either case, you're right, I think Jalen has taking a
step up offensively for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:30:48):
Yes, I mean there are there have met and been
very many of any in one of those two for
fourteen duds. M No, he has, he's been, He's been
much better.

Speaker 3 (02:31:00):
Yeah, I don't know if it's a new contract or
just maturity. I mean, as crazy as this sounds, and no,
people don't want to hear this. He's still just twenty
three years old. He's a baby. He really is a baby.
I'll be twenty two years old. I mean these are
this is still think about this lineup. Shengoon's twenty two,

(02:31:22):
Jalen's twenty three, Thompson is twenty two, Jabari is twenty one,
Tari's twenty three.

Speaker 2 (02:31:30):
I mean they're all.

Speaker 3 (02:31:32):
That's why if you d just a little piece ross
whatever that is to a team that is ascending, I
mean they have ascended. They went forty one and forty
one this last year. They're on pace to win about
forty eight this year. Do you go all in on
this group and say one more year to get to
fifty and maybe legitimately go or do you say, you.

Speaker 2 (02:31:53):
Know what, I like what we got.

Speaker 3 (02:31:55):
But because Oklahoma City is so good and because Luca
is now with the Lakers, you got to do that.
And you know, maybe uh who Denver is not going away,
that you have to go make that mega deal to
really get yourself over the top.

Speaker 2 (02:32:12):
Because this West is so filthy close, you have the
flexibility to go for something like that, and if it
doesn't work out, you can just continue to hope for
internal growth what you've been getting. Yeah, Kevin Durant is
that's what you're going with. I don't know if I'm
going with it. I think Durant.

Speaker 3 (02:32:30):
I think Durant in the Rockets are gonna be associated
with a lot of rumors.

Speaker 2 (02:32:33):
I do, I don't. I do believe there is not
a flame, but there's definitely smoke. Hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:32:40):
Okay, not because somebody said, hey, Matt put that into
people's ears. I'm just I just get the there's too
many respected journalists that general managers and coaches and agents
use that are saying durant to the Rockets, not a probability,
but a possibility.

Speaker 2 (02:32:59):
Mmm, it's there's Yeah, there has been a lot of smoke.

Speaker 3 (02:33:05):
The only question I have about it is what do
you have to give up for a guy who will
be what thirty seven next year?

Speaker 2 (02:33:13):
It's been doing this for a very long period of time.
But as I saw him last month when he was
in town, and I watch him a lot of times
on television, the only thing he doesn't do particularly well
anymore is he does turn the ball over a lot.
But if that's the biggest blemish in his game, he's
still shooting at a high level.

Speaker 3 (02:33:30):
He wakes up at thirty points, he grabs nine or
ten rebounds, dishes four or five assists.

Speaker 2 (02:33:36):
I don't know. Would you consider him a plus defender
at this point? I don't. Probably not, but not you
know not, and certainly not where he was in his prime.

Speaker 3 (02:33:43):
But for him being six or eleven in guarding at length, yeah, yeah,
he's still gonna be able to get in there and
at least be competitive on the defensive side.

Speaker 2 (02:33:51):
Just things to think about.

Speaker 3 (02:33:53):
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Speaker 2 (02:34:13):
What's the category? I don't know who's likely to be.

Speaker 3 (02:34:20):
I suggested Badman and we were talking about the shuttlecock earlier.
By the way, the kids can call it birdie and
if you knew that.

Speaker 2 (02:34:27):
Or not, okay, So I just want to give you
a little heads up on that.

Speaker 3 (02:34:31):
Uh oh, the prize we're playing for today, somebody's going
to go and see the Nuggets against the Rockets in
play in a regular season matchup.

Speaker 2 (02:34:39):
Is that the That's the that's got to be coming
up in the next couple weeks.

Speaker 3 (02:34:42):
We have Rockets Nuggets tickets to give away today on
the radio program. If you want to play I Believe
or Not, we'll do that coming up in about twenty
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Speaker 2 (02:36:35):
Steven A.

Speaker 3 (02:36:35):
Smith Arross went on the View today to tell us
for the five million time he's not running for president.

Speaker 2 (02:36:47):
Says he's not gonna run. No, he's not. This is
absolutely preposterous. I cannot be the president out of the
United States. I am not going to run. I just
feel like, when you keep telling this, you're not gonna
do something, You're gonna do something. I don't even want
to talk about this. All right, move on. This is
what I'm just saying. I mean, you know, I mean

(02:37:09):
in general, like, this is what our country is coming to.
We're talking about a sports pundit running for president. Yeah,
what qualifications does he have? And in any sort of
government or or anything.

Speaker 3 (02:37:21):
And that's what and that's what he's saying that he's saying,
I have no qualifications. But yet he's going on Fox,
he's going on the View, he's telling the whole world.
How about just not going any of these and say,
you know what, I'm.

Speaker 2 (02:37:34):
Not interested, because all you're gonna do is you're going
on these political shows and telling us how I'm not interested.

Speaker 8 (02:37:39):
You are.

Speaker 2 (02:37:39):
You're trying to gain interest.

Speaker 3 (02:37:40):
You're trying to see, you're trying to you're trying to
see if there's a vibe out there for you doing it.

Speaker 2 (02:37:46):
I don't know. Maybe he he'd be good at the debates.
He's been doing that for a while.

Speaker 3 (02:37:53):
Yeah, and you wouldn't have to have facs in front
of him because he doesn't get that's during.

Speaker 2 (02:37:56):
Oh god, there's no facts in the debate either. Yeah,
that's true. Yeah. Thank how we carry we talk about sports?
Ooh so much easier.

Speaker 3 (02:38:08):
Yeah, but whatever, all right, anything else going on in
the world of sports we've not discussed so far.

Speaker 2 (02:38:15):
Today we mentioned the rockets within. Yes, there were some
recent breaking news. Please, well, yeah, I don't think we
need a sounder and you can go for it if
you want. Sure, why not Connor got over there and
make him work. The Eagles are rewarding Saquon Barkley with
a two year, forty one point two million dollar contract extension,

(02:38:37):
making him the highest paid running back in the history
of the NFL, according to Adam Schefter, the first twenty
million plus per year running back in NFL history. Wow.

(02:38:59):
All I can say is the Giants. Did they pull
Luca off in the in the NFL there by trading him? Well,
they didn't. He was a free agent, wasn't he. Yeah,
they could have signed him. By the way, it looks
like a good fifteen or so wide receivers make more

(02:39:19):
than twenty million a year.

Speaker 3 (02:39:24):
I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with with doing that.
I just I think the NFL's got it right. I
know it's collusion, but running backs can be replaced. They
can be great. I mean, think about this ross two
years ago. Damian Pierce was, Oh, this guy's going to
be a star for the Texans.

Speaker 2 (02:39:45):
Yeah, but they also changed schemes and it's it wasn't
a good fit for him with Bobby slook over here.
But but the Giants thought they could part ways of
sekwon Barclay and be fine, dude won a Super Bowl. Titans. Oh,
it's fine. We got Tony Pollard instead of Derrick Henry.
Derrick Henry in some respects had a better season than

(02:40:07):
Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 3 (02:40:10):
Mm hmmm, uh yeah, Henry's demise was largely over exaggerated
by not only the Tennessee Titans, but everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:40:20):
Around the NFL. Yeah, and by uh most people in
our fantasy drafts. I used to have him for many,
many years, and now you're retired. Yep. Feeling good about
it too. I'm Jimmy Johns.

Speaker 3 (02:40:33):
I had a great thirty year run as a fantasy
football owner, and it's time just called a career.

Speaker 2 (02:40:41):
Man. Did you have a great run? He won championships.
I won the championships in my mind for sure, need
your mind. I think you're a runner up. And then
that's when Clinton dropped a fifty bomb mind you with
Jamar Chase.

Speaker 3 (02:40:52):
Oh I think I lost by like two points in
an event too.

Speaker 2 (02:40:55):
Isn't that terrible? Yeah? I can pull up the box
score if you want. I mean, if you insist, no,
i'd be rude. Is that rude?

Speaker 8 (02:41:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:41:04):
I don't think it's polite. Hold on, I just have
to cycle through all these box scores that have me
as back to back to back champion. Just the second here.
You know what you remind me of?

Speaker 3 (02:41:14):
What like you're like a YMCA Flag football champion or
something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:41:19):
You know what, You're just bragging about something nobody will
be bragging up. I wasn't bragging it. I was talking
about cycling through the years. I'm sorry. I'm trying to
find the league year where you where you got second?
What was that twenty one twenty two? I was robbed?
I know, Matt, it was a tough season. Yeah, yeah,
you got second place in the in the twenty one season.

(02:41:40):
We're all proud of you, Matt. I mean I have
won more money than I've lost. I think there's no
way zero championships.

Speaker 3 (02:41:50):
I don't even I don't even get tie. Uh, I
don't even get like top point totals per week.

Speaker 2 (02:41:57):
You lost by nine. How you would have history of
our fantasy football league in your computer is astonishing to me.
What do you mean it's ESPN Jamar Chase dropped fifty bombs.
You lost by nine. You had Matthew Stafford get eighteen.
You had a good squad. Boston Scott got you twenty two,
Mason Crosby got you thirteen. Oh, this is when you

(02:42:20):
had these wonky kicking rules where everybody's getting like fifteen
points from their kicker. I had to change that, all right.
He lost one fifty one to one two to Adam Clinton.

Speaker 3 (02:42:34):
Why don't you just bring up all the blummishes in
my life? I mean, we got a minute left in
the segment.

Speaker 2 (02:42:39):
Rememb when you asked that girl out in eighth grade.

Speaker 3 (02:42:42):
Oh, April CHRISTI bringing the fourth grade so makes me
cry to this day. I think she's a lesbian. Now
you turned her so I never really had a chance
to begin with.

Speaker 2 (02:42:53):
All right, well I'm sorry, h oh okay, let's do this.

Speaker 3 (02:42:59):
Let's let's let's let's end the show on on a
positive note. After celinically depressing me, here with all my
fantasy football the.

Speaker 2 (02:43:06):
Deficits two hundred and sixty six yards and three touchdowns
with eleven catches for Jamar Chase. And what's the worst
part about that league? What's in that league? That was
Adam Clinton when they that's the worst part right there.
I know if I lose to way kind of get it.
But Clinton, Yeah, he's quitting the league too. Now well yeah,

(02:43:26):
two open spots, Well we might have more. Yeah, hey,
let's uh give you the phone number to play Believe
It or Not?

Speaker 3 (02:43:32):
Seven seven And we have Rockets Nuggets tickets and I
think something else we want to give away too?

Speaker 2 (02:43:37):
What else we got besides that Connor in the prizevault today.

Speaker 15 (02:43:40):
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Speaker 2 (02:43:50):
Mine is? Isn't she lovely? I didn't know they covered
Stevie Wonder. That's how talented they are.

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Speaker 2 (02:45:54):
Welcome aboard Flagship Station off Fjoro. A couple of minutes
remaining The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ahead of Adam
and Adam and the A Team, which will be cut
short because we will go into Rockets coverage at five
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(02:46:16):
the second half of it, back to back six o'clock
tip off with the one and the only man Thomas
on the call. They're not doing a full show today, No,
they're doing almost a full show. It's three hours. Yeah,
well that's what they've signed up for. It was a
full show at one point, but no, no, it's okay,
four hours of greatness. Yeah, it's more. It's more. Adam

(02:46:38):
Adam to love mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:46:40):
Can't get enough, You can't, you can't, honestly, all right,
tomorrow will be in New Orleans. So if you thought
the energy was high today, imagine me being down in Orleans, okay?

Speaker 2 (02:46:50):
Or are we going to do New Orleans stories?

Speaker 8 (02:46:53):
Mm?

Speaker 2 (02:46:53):
That couldn't. We could do a whole segment of New Orleans.
We feel like we could find some kind of post
Marty gross stories in the news. Got that right? Plus
Gordon give us a live report from down there.

Speaker 3 (02:47:02):
Yeah he could, but he's busy on the air down baby,
And I'm not going to Mother's tomorrow for breakfast?

Speaker 10 (02:47:11):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:47:11):
A vomit in the trash? Juice? Have you with? Baby?
You know what they are? They are nice people. I
love New Orleans. I went there for my thirtieth and
my fortieth. Because you're a hypocrite, I think, what love?

Speaker 3 (02:47:24):
Because you hate Galveston and don't and don't love New
Orleans and you love New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:47:28):
They're eventually essentially the same thing. Okay, what in fact?
But it's probably less crime in Galveston. There is a
New Orleans. There's what less crime? Well? The murder rates

(02:47:48):
might be pretty similar. Who knows? New Orleans and Galveston
are essentially the same thing that that sentence just came
out of your mouth. I'm sending this to all of
our bosses, including Chris Gordy. I'm pro Galveston. Oh my god,
you do it? Shall we compare the amount of visitors

(02:48:09):
per year? Not even close.

Speaker 3 (02:48:11):
It's the one's a major metropolitan city in the otherlands
of town. I get it, okay, but I think the
slander on Galveston is is unacceptable.

Speaker 2 (02:48:19):
If you're loving on New Orleans, you mean the Galveston
is great? Mm hmmm, doesn't have the let's see Galveston
seafood's good. There's not even any options as New Orleans.
It's not even close. No one has a casino. Come on, now,
that's a big bonus. Hey, booth do have the old

(02:48:39):
world charm and a feel, but it's a little bit
more pronounced. I feel like with New Orleans there's more
things to do. There's no beach, but it's also a
dirty beach, so it's really not a big advantage. Let's
debate this on an under show tomorrow. Oh yeah, four
minutes up to go on the show. What should we do?
We should play a very fast edition. Leave it out
in here so works you call seven one three two

(02:49:01):
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Today it's all things about Jimmy
Johnson I'll read you statement about Jimmy statements completely utterly
Acer You'll say this, believe it. I have the same
as Erronius full of bucke. Mit up, you'll say this
not to believe it or not's in a row. Win
you some great prizes, Connor, we are we playing for today?

Speaker 15 (02:49:17):
A fourth pack of tickets to see the Rockets tick
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A pair of tickets to see the Offspring on their
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Speaker 2 (02:49:30):
Aint you ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 9 (02:49:32):
Yes, Sir.

Speaker 3 (02:49:33):
Terry Bradshaw presented Jimmy Johnson to the Hall of Fame
when he was inducted back in twenty twenty.

Speaker 2 (02:49:37):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:49:39):
No, Yeah, it's Troy statement number two for the way,
and Jimmy Johnson was classmates with Janis Joplin at Port
Arthur Memorial High School.

Speaker 2 (02:49:47):
Believe it or not? Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:49:49):
Believe it right, You're going to the game nine shredin
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Speaker 9 (02:49:57):
Believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:49:58):
While Jimmy Johnson is not top three in Miami Hurricanes
head coaching history, he is number one in winning percentage
for non interim.

Speaker 2 (02:50:05):
Coaches Believe it or not not, Yeah, it's Dennis Ericson's
stay of number two for the Way and Jimmy Johnson
appeared in an ad campaign for the male Enhancement Supplement
extends in twenty ten. Believe it or not, Let's believe it.
That is also Craig where they have let for tickets, Connor,

(02:50:26):
we still got tickets left and we done with those. No,
we still got tickets. I think all right, let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:50:30):
Let's talk to uh Ray in Pairland on Sevenny Ray,
you're ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 9 (02:50:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:50:37):
There.

Speaker 3 (02:50:38):
Jimmy Johnson has owned a restaurant called three Rings. That
is also the name of his fishing boat. Believe it
or not, It is.

Speaker 2 (02:50:49):
Down the boat several times. It's very very nice.

Speaker 3 (02:50:51):
Let's go to JP on seven on a JP. You're
ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:50:56):
Let's go Matt.

Speaker 3 (02:50:57):
While acting in the two thousand and five film Two
for the Jimmy Johnson said he was spooped by al Pacino,
never breaking character, and he almost quit the film.

Speaker 2 (02:51:06):
Believe It or Not Believe It?

Speaker 3 (02:51:09):
No U Joe in Deer Park on seven hointy Joe,
You're ready to play Believe It or not?

Speaker 2 (02:51:17):
Believe it? And Gallus is nice? Thank you well. He
was an assistant at Louisiana Tech. Jimmy Johnson's quarterback was
Duck Dynasty star Phil robertson Believe It or Not? Not
Believe It? Thank you very nice. Comments My Keith on
seven Nintie Keith, What was your favorite part of today's
radio show with my What favorite part of the radio

(02:51:40):
show today?

Speaker 8 (02:51:42):
Ah?

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What we're doing right now.

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