Astros Lose 6-4 Sitting 43-32 & #3 In The American League, Pacers Force Game 7 In the NBA Finals Winning 108-91

Astros Lose 6-4 Sitting 43-32 & #3 In The American League, Pacers Force Game 7 In the NBA Finals Winning 108-91

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Ten one in h Town. Good morning, and welcome to
a Friday edition of The Matt Thomas Show and Ross.
This is Sports Talk seven ninety. Come on, Cheeks, you
deserve better than that from Sports RV. You said that
he was always angry and bit you every chance he got. Yeah,

(00:25):
it doesn't love him.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Okay, artist, hardest Friday clips to fix because there were
so many funny ones this week.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Man, mm hmmm, good morning everybody. Hey Matt Ario, I'm
having a great Friday. Ten oh five Sports Talk seven ninety.
It is the Mount Thomas Show with Ross. Hope everybody's
in a good mood today. It is like it is
each of the last what the show's been on almost
sixteen years? Did you start that from week one? Pretty quick?

(00:53):
Anything goes Friday? Yeah, okay, it's a good radio classic.
But I didn't steal from anybody. Oh yeah, but it
feels like it's like we call it open line Friday.
It was what Rush Limb I used to call open
line Friday open on the EB network. Kill rushbuo here
in front of the golden microphone. Ye moost snurtly, stop
describing me in that back area there. Uh but yeah,

(01:15):
and it goes Friday us on the radio program today
and you're saying, well, what if anything goes Friday and
Rossville nounced her to tell you all about it. I
am here to tell you, Matt. It's seven one three, two,
one two five, seven ninety the longest leash, and the
biz gets even longer. You've heard the day drunks on
this show and the morning drunks as well, and quite frankly,
maybe things are slower in the ten and eleven o'clock
hour these days. We're trying to build that. All these

(01:37):
lines are open. You can talk about anything you want
to get to seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. If you want to talk about the Astros
getting walked off twice in one series after doing it
to the Twins twice in one series, we can get
to that. If you want to talk about the latest
and greatest on Kevin Durant, you want to talk about

(01:57):
how about Jonathan Allen's got to be feeling good pays
forcing Game seven in the NBA Finals. Oh, I was
still happy last night? Pacers in seven? How we feeling? Seriously,
if you're a Colomba city, I mean, I know you're
getting a seventh game at home. And there's nothing better
in quote unquote sports than a home game seven of anything.
But my goodness, you laid an egg last night says

(02:19):
exactly what ABC is probably finally happy about this series.
You should get at least some ratings for a game seven,
I would hope. Yeah, that's interesting that you know Sunday night.
This thing started. I believe the game one of the
NBA Finals was in early May, and they're finally wrapping
this thing up after seven games. Yeah, and then they
go to hit winter break, I think, and then they
finish it up. So you know what I got asked

(02:40):
this to Vanessa, who's been working the hoops streams broadcast
for ESPN YouTube channel. She worked the NBA Finals or
the Western Conference finals, did this, and then she did
the NBA Finals. I don't know if she's been home
in like four weeks. That's yeah, it gets it gets

(03:00):
tough now. I do like to travel. I like to
stay in five stars, and I'm assuming that she's on
the ESPN Dimes. She's not staying in the road to ends.
You know what I'm saying. I get tired doing all
the playoff games and I'm here. I don't go anywhere.
So if you think about these had these long days
off in between Vanessa, Mike Breen and Richard Jefferson and

(03:23):
Doris Burke and anybody that's covered it, Huh. If you've
been in the Western Conference covering the Western Finals in
the NBA Finals, you have been in three cities in
a month, Oklahoma City, Minneapolis, and Indianapolis. I mean, all
have their positive attributes, but there's no La, there's no

(03:43):
New York. There's no Boston. Or's no Chicago, there's no Miami,
there's not even Phoenix, Orlando. It's the heartland of America.
And the downtown vibes, the city vibes are okay. But
you can only go to that same steak restaurant, you know,
in a certain amount of time. Well you can find

(04:05):
I guess you can try to find. Well, you probably
have limited options, not limited options, but not as many
options in Oklahoma City. Like, for instance, Oklahoma City, we
would go to, Uh, I've been I've been going the
last ten year, nine years, and UH, the late Toby
Keith has a barbecue restaurant and we've been going there
and the food's been okay, nothing spectacular. We had a

(04:26):
really bad time the last time. So we decided, as
a collective group, we're done with Toby Keith's barbecue place.
I love this bar bar Yeah, food was mid service
was average, and you know there's no chance seeing Toby
a there third marching the good name of Toby Keeth. Well,
I mean, I'm sure he's doing just fine. No, he's dead.
I mean you know his family's doing. I mean, they're

(04:47):
probably sad he's gone. But you get my drift on this. Okay,
But you know, you go to Chicago, New York, and
for that matter, even Houston, Dallas, there are fifty downtown
restaurant That's true. You got great barbecue in here right
in Dallas. You have great world cuisines here in Houston,
Like if you want really good Thai food, like authentic.
Is there a place to go in in Oklahoma City? No?

(05:08):
I mean, is there a great Mexican restaurant in Mexican
in Indianapolis? Probably not. Oh, you go to Taco Bell.
You're really lucky. We are an incredible foods. As a
matter of fact, I was telling my wife yesterday, I said,
we got to go get some cream barbecue. We'll take
a ross with us because okay, show you the ropes.
She's like, have your had pork belly before? I said,

(05:29):
just ironically enough, we did it when we went to
have cream barbecue and it was spectacular. You have had
pork belly before, Matt? Yeah, bacon, yeah, but I mean
like in the most authentic form possible. Now, I was
gassy for three days after. But that's you ate a
lot of kimchi. Oh my god, it's fermented cabbage. That's
why that's a one two right there. This is getting uncomfortable.
It's good probiotics, man for gut help. You mean a cleanser, yes, exactly, exactly.

(05:54):
So what are they doing out on the road. They
formed like a book club or something. Should we call
her today if you want? I mean she could be
try and not only that is the traveler else. I
mean there's no nonstops between Oklahoma City and Indianapolis. She
has to change planes somewhere. I mean that's it's probably
an in a sense a day just to get traveling.
What do we have on the show today, Well, we
have at eleven thirty, I'm sorries, okay, and at twelve

(06:16):
o'clock we have the news. Uh. We gotta wake the
strippers up. We have Oh, we have the return of
the Fantasy five today. Oh that's right. Oh, I got
to write a list. So, Jonathan, this is gonna be
an audio Fantasy five. So do you think we need
to bring in Cole Thompson to help a little bit?
This is Are you sure? Yeah? Okay, it's a fantasy.
It's a fantasy five of songs of summer. Yes, so

(06:40):
it has to have like summer or heat in the title. Well,
I will say this when we do our draft, but
we'll draft before we go on the air with these
things or mention the summer. We'll have to get something.
You have to We'll have to get like Mark Sherman
to come in here and say that's not a summer song. Okay,
don't you think that's true? I think like I'll just say,
a random song sitting on the dock of the Bay

(07:01):
of bis otis redding. Is that a summer song? H
I would say, yes it is. I don't know, like
closing time would not be a summer song. Okay, we
are Family is not a closing Is that a summer show?
Feel summary? Wow? Okay, all right, so we're just it's
a little too arbitrary. Maybe we should go with heat
or summer or something in the lyrics. It's about heat summer. Okay,

(07:25):
that's fine, Heat or summer. You present evidence in the
lyrics if you have to, if it's not in the title. Okay.
So you want heater our summer in the title. Is
that what you're telling the audience? I think so okay.
Because there's some songs like hot Weather. There's some songs
that we'll be talking about romance that will be got now,
like hot Blooded by Foreigner that's about trying to have
sex with an underage girl. Oh that is really quick

(07:47):
on the show. Well he wrote it, I didn't. That's true,
all right. Ten twelve is the time it is the
Matt Thomaschell with Ross.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
And then we'll have hell Yarin out Today is we're
gonna do a live or dead? Nothing really pressing in
terms of the main thing. Kevin Durantz is he a rocket?
Is he a spur? Is he a heat? Is he
a timberwolve? At this point we still don't know on that,
and uh, we'll never know what else going on. Seven
one three, two, one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five, seven ninety. The Astros split

(08:15):
in Oakland. No they don't, do they split in Sacramento.
I guess they do. Details in that next seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
Here's a two to one. Kurtz hits an eye in
the air, pretty deep to center. This is gonna win
the game. Myers is back and it's gone. A walk
off two run home run for Nick Kurtz, his second
walk off two run home run of this series, and
the A's win it in the bottom of the tenth,
six to four. Home run number nine on the year

(08:46):
for Kurtz and his fourth home run in the last
five games.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I believe Nick Kurtz has hit all of his home
runs this year against the Astros. Certainly feels like it
after watching last night's game. Mine goodness. And by the way,
if you took the under like I told you to
take yesterday, you were a winner. Yes, you were a
half run. Pretty good number they made. I had the over.
If Mauricio Dubon had had his whaedies in the morning

(09:11):
and that shot he hit would have went over the
fence instead of at the very top of it. I
don't want, but I didn't. It's funny. I am a
terrible sports better with the exception of over unders in baseball,
especially in first five. Yeah, especially with zero research. Yeah,
it's just pulled onto my ass, is what it is, basically,
and it works. It does because you and I yesterday

(09:32):
said we're gonna put a huge bet on it, which
really not going to beat No, and I said take
the under ten. And I also said take the thunder
in the points. Yeah, whoops, I'm doing it again, though
we're doubling down on Sunday. Thunder Mine is seven and
a half. Uh, And we got to get to more
of that because I do want to get your thoughts
if Indiana was to win the series. But let's get
first to the Astros. So Josh Hater proved to be

(09:54):
human that song, I'm only human, born to make mistakes. No,
we're going to play that for you then at some
point today, okay, because that's really what it was. So yeah,
Vanessa's going to join us in a few minutes. We'll
figure out a time, okay, because I'm very curious forget
about the game. So you just want to ask her
where she's been living. But I look, I've been I've

(10:18):
been on on the I've been on the road on
a five game road trip like ten to eleven days.
And I've also when I worked the Olympics, I was
gone for a month, but at least you had a
place to settle in and get comfortable. I mean, she's
bouncing around from city to city to city to city
to city. That could that could probably get a little
bit tiresome when you not think, I would imagine. So
we'll get some insights from her coming up. Whenever, Yeah, whenever,

(10:40):
all right, So Josh Hater suffers his first loss of
the year. Wasn't a blown saved because it was a
tie game, but it was a loss, his first loss
of the year, and he's human. Yes, And the Astros
split the series again. They lost a half game to
the Mariners because they weren't playing yesterday. So the Astros

(11:00):
have a five game lead in the division, still sitting
pretty yeah, though, you know, you play the crappy as
you'd like to win the series, so now they'd like
So now the four games are done in Sacramento. It's
our first taste of that. Major League Baseball should be embarrassed.
They don't drawn. They don't even draw nine thousand a game.
It's ridiculous. It's probably only gonna get worse. I mean,

(11:23):
Sacramento Ross is got to be population wise, probably Metro
two million people. I mean it's not tiny. They fell
six seventy yesterday. They fill up the Kings games. They
like the bean Yeah, I mean it's out of the
River bandit stew or whatever they got. My guess is
the Mountain Lions. It's so weird. Yesterday or day before,

(11:45):
Robert Ford took a photo of a schedule like on
against a wall that had the A's games on and
the River Cat So, if you wanted to watch baseball,
you're basically got a chance to watch one hundred and
fifty hundred and sixty games in one stadium in one year.
If you have no life, would think yeah, I mean,
I I can't imagine. It'd be like, hey, let's go
to the river Cats game on Monday and the A's
on Tuesday, and you have a thousands and thousands of

(12:08):
dollars to blow. Yeah, and you want to see some
crappy baseball in hot West Sacramento, California. Yes, sounds like
a great summer. Yeah so uh but yeah, so missed
opportunities for sure, close calls, yes, but you know. Look,
I'm not going to wig out out over it. I
did want to check Astro's Twitter. I did go to

(12:29):
the tweet that's simply the Astros put out, and I
don't know if it is it. We haven't done Ai
and Ao excuse me, Ao in a long period of
time Astros overreactions because they've been winning. Yeah, so funny
how that works. So with that, and I don't even
think has Jonathan have been on the on the on
the watch of us doing the show with Ao at
this point, I don't recall. I don't think so. Maybe once,

(12:52):
so we may have to get him tuned in ready
for that. Maybe. If they're the Mets series, they split
that series and then the three they swept what I'm saying,
yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, they know they didn't They won
two out of three against Events. Oh that's right, they
won the series and then they got swept. Yeah, I
don't know. I was thinking there was a four games,
all right, So let's just get a rando sampling of

(13:12):
what's going on in the old Astros twitter verse. Okay, uh,
And I'm going to separate those that are not Astros
fans because there's a lot of non Astro fans jumping
in on this rational one from Dimitri Manzanos has blown
opportunities and extra innings for Astros and bases loaded earlier
with only getting one run. Forget this game and move
on to the next series. That sounds rational, right mm hmm.

(13:33):
By the way, is this the first Astro extra inning
loss of the year? Yes, there were four? Oh okay,
these things tend to even. Uh I am me. HTx says,
well that sucked. Okay, that's fine. Dan Phillips says, boo.
Uh at the U N T six as I said
it for this game, Yeah, that's what it is. Let's see. Uh,

(13:55):
here's one. This will be one. We want to run
up your alley ROSSI J pro six eight nine. What's
so hard about bunting had a chance the knife and
no outs and two on and didn't bother in the tenth?
Dumb dumb h Tony Totab says, Lamo, how a t
F do you lose the team with known home? That's

(14:16):
a good point at Gulf Coast clowns says hater washed
that's a joke, of course. Mm hmm. Here's one. This
has got to be a bit. Now I'll I'm skip that.
Why am I gonna do it?

Speaker 3 (14:29):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Hey, Brett Fine says, Hater's a bum. Let's see here,
here's one from cr with a bunch of numbers. Don't
ever throw a single pitch to Kurtz again for the
rest of his career. Steven says, Nick Kurtz owns the Astros,
Yes he does. Tyler says, stayed up just to get
walked up by Nick Kurtz. What a day. Joe Boo

(14:51):
says Kurtz own you. Emily, who looks fairly attractive, says
I stayed up for you and you do this to me.
And last of dinas is Seeamroco game. So it's not
completely nuts. So over there. Now, if the Astros drop
two or three of the Angels this weekend, we may
have to revisit Aos on Monday. Don't want to do it,
but may have to do it. So yeah, but the

(15:14):
first extra ning loss, first bat performance, it's Lefty lefty too.
I mean, you would have thought that Hater would have
had fun with Kurtz, but gott Kurtz has had a
fantastic series and is Robert Forts had four home runs
in the last week or so. Yes, So and crushing
the astros and walking I mean, you stay up for
these late night West Coast games just to watch them

(15:35):
get walked off. It's painful. Yeah, it's funny, painful, but
yet it's still a five game lead. And I'll have
the on deck show for you tonight. You will, and
I will be doing time seven thirty woo, And I
mean I'm doing the tent Enning show. Run is that
five nightcaps for Cole Thompson tip of the cap to him.

(15:56):
It's not an easy show to do. No, it's not, No,
but I mean, but it's a good precursor for what
we're gonna do at seven thirty. Yes, so of seven
thirty on deck and then I'll have the tenth inning
call and show on a Friday night after an eight
you we'll call you, Matt. No, I don't want to.
I might be liquored up. No that I definitely want
you to call you, definitely should. No, we in safe
harbor by then, see eight thirty CC goes to be

(16:18):
eleven o'clock eleven thirty ish. Yeah, they call it safe
harbor folks. The FCC. You can curse after a certain time, yeah,
but you can't go on and just drop f bomb. No,
you can't do that. You can basically keep it casual.
I guess, but I mean if you were to curse,
we would delete it. We just because we're safe and
we're a family Ownerady in programming, that's rude. Why are
you trying to censor me?

Speaker 5 (16:35):
All right?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Ten twenty six on Sports Talk seven, U ey, isn'
anything goes farty? We're gonna say something, no, all right?
Seven one three two one two, five seventy. We'll check
in with Vanessa at about twelve twenty today, Okay, so
we'll find out what's going on with her travel life,
because that's the standside stuff you won't get from other shows.
That's that's yes. I mean, Tyre's Haliburton. We know what

(16:56):
he did. We know what we know what the thunder
didn't do it. We didn't know. We certainly didn't know.
But that Halliburton to to Siakam breakaway dunk all over
Jay Williams face. That might have been the play of
the season. Are we calling him Jay Williams?

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Now?

Speaker 1 (17:12):
What did I say? Jen? Jalen? Oh there you go, Jalen? Okay,
all right, Jaen? Sure all right? Uh a Kevin Durant
update on the Matt Thomas Show. I mean we do
have we don't really have one. We're just gonna go
over the same things that everybody are saying. Is there
a substance submit or not? There's not, But I mean,
are you telling me?

Speaker 7 (17:30):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Are you going to the for U tab for all this?
Because it's crazy out there. Really, I try to stay
off there as much as possible. All right, let me
tell you about shell oppoly. Can I do that for
you real quick? Absolutely? How do I play Matt? All right?
So I answer the question that I put on the
pre show tweet earlier. Is Kevin Durant Still's son? The
answer is yes. And if you go to the four

(17:52):
U tab, you see a variety of things out there,
and it could be reckless speculation. It could be one
friend has a sore, so that says this, an agent
says this. He could be also a massive smoke screen.
He could be a hey, I'm gonna give you some
erronious information to get you off the scent. Whatever the
case may be. The latest thing I am seeing this

(18:12):
is one minute ago. This is from our website, the
NBA Central, which is the legitimate not the sentel but
in the central it's an aggregator, okay, And it says
this is from Brett siegelal NBA, and he is a
reporter for Clutch Points, got twenty two thousand followers. He's verified,

(18:35):
which doesn't mean to hell of beans right now. Yeah,
it means you're dropping ten bucks a month. God, it
feels crazy. Teams are on the league believe the Miami
Heat are close to the finish line and acquiring Kevin
Durant and may need to add khalil Ware to the
package to finalize the deal. This according to Brett Siegel. Okay,

(18:55):
he says, quote, although the two sides are not right
at the finish line yet in trade talks, one player
can get them there. That would be khalil Ware, a
rookie standout in Miami's front quarter, is a giant with
a seven foot four wingspan and two way potential. If
the Heat include wearing a revamp package to what they
have already offered, talks with the Suns would reach a
whole new level. As he is the player Phoenix wants

(19:15):
and discussions with Miami. As I've said five hundred times
and I'll say it five and more times, and again
we're just bringing up this just because NBA Central does it.
I mean, they've got a fair number of people that
follow them, and they don't typically put out stuff just
to put it out. And they've got over and almost
have two million followers, so people, so what Okay, I'm

(19:37):
not saying they don't put stuff just to put stuff out. Well,
I'm saying they don't. They don't go to a guy
that's got eighty five Twitter followers and go this guy
is the NBA reporter. I mean, there's a lot of
fake media in Houston. We've talked about that at nauseum.
There's a lot of fake meat in every city. Then
they're not putting a lot of fake media out from
other cities. This guy, Bretziegel, obviously is an employee of
some Clutch Points. Is not really a Is that just

(19:58):
just like a website? Oh okay, well then I mean,
like I said, yeah, take over the hill of beans
or a grain of salt? All right? Is there any
more cliches we can we can knock out here in
the next three out and nobody takes it with the
hill of beans. I don't think takes it with a
hill of beans. I've never heard that.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
I was.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
I just want to say that you've used it. What's
the hill of beans? I don't know it's worth a
hill of not worth the hill of beans. Yeah, that's
what I was saying. Okay, maybe maybe it's not worth
a hill of beans. Okay, you're in a hillo beans
or Jonathan, I don't even get that analogy right now?
The good things. I watched your close your eyes for
a second. All right, you got them closed. Think about

(20:38):
a hill of beans. What's their value? Nothing? There you go,
that's not true though, what you can't I mean, beans
is a good source of protein, fiber, but but the
retail value is minimal. The retail value, but a hill
of them is pretty valuable. You can eat that for months. Yeah,
but I mean a hill of baked beans costious seven
eight dollars, hill of green beans? Baked beans? How about

(21:01):
up matt like beans? You do? Huh? Lima, not so much.
We're done a fantasy five on favorite beans. Oh that's
the that would that would supplant soup is the worst
one ever. Was amazing. It was so bad, it was
so good. I'll take a bean and bacon. Terrible climb
chowder for the wind baby, all right, Uh as a chowder,

(21:22):
it's not a soup. Just kid, It's okay. So, like
I said five hundred times, I'm gonna go with whatever
Shams tells me. If Shams has something on the scent,
I believe him. I believe wind Horst. Shams isn't Tier
one by himself, then you go what wind horse win horsed? Uh? Probably,

(21:43):
But we put Mark Stein tiers He's he's in Tier
two to me if he if he puts something, it's
not gonna not be true.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Sam.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
Same thing with Chris James. Put Chris Hams Sam Amy
taste Tier three three. But I mean it's also it's
not like they're gonna get stuff wrong. No, but they're
just not gonna get to it as fast as other
guys are. Every NBA team has a direct pipeline to Shams,
just like that have a direct pipeline to Whoa. And
a lot of people are saying, well, why would why
would they do this? Because in today's journalism there is

(22:14):
a little U scratch I back, I'll scratch yours. Yes,
he's putting all this stuff now, and it's not saying
that it's not true. But all this stuff he's putting
out about all these teams in these different trade packages
and who's getting what's done and who's close to the
finish line. That's the drum up the market that benefits son.
I think he's getting that from the Suns. They're telling
him to hey, hey, put this out here. Then these
other teams know and get confirmed. He has that the

(22:35):
market is robust. He has a great reach on his Twitter.
He has a huge reach on the networking which he
works for. And if you give him stuff and he
appreciates that, when a job opening up opens up somewhere,
he may do you a solid and throw your name
into a mix for a job that you may want,
whether your name is really being considered. I'll give you

(22:56):
a perfect example. In my mind, he was the one
that broke the Desmond Bane trade. And if you recall,
everyone was like Desmond Bane for four first round picks,
This is ridiculous, how did this trade get made? And
literally like his next tweet or one of his next
couple tweets was like, Desmond Baine is a great two

(23:16):
way player who's average nineteen points. He's like putting up
all these stats and talking about how great Desmond ban is.
That's on behalf of the agent. I'm sure the agent said, hey,
I gave you this news. It's getting a little backlash.
Why don't you talk about how great Desmond Bain is
and talking about how what great value Orlando is gonna
get exactly exactly so, And while I believe Shams is

(23:37):
a thorough journalist, he's only dealing with people he doesn't
have to get second and third sources from. He's dealing
with the agents and the general managers and perhaps even
the coaches. And in return, again he's gonna put favorable
things out. And it's a and that happens and ross
for it may be a part of the new media,
but it's probably it probably happened in nineteen fifty eight two,
you know, with various it was us people and stiff

(24:00):
to the extent now because in those days the media
need they the leagues needed the media. They needed to
be in the press, they needed to be in the newspaper,
to need a radio because they need to generate revenue.
The NBA has made right now they they don't need
fifteen beat reporters to be breaking news on them. They
don't need the coverage as much through them those avenues
as they do with the TV networks and the talking

(24:22):
head stuff and the websites and all that type. So
I found the tweet. Yeah, Shams Sharania Bain is one
of three NBA players with eight hundred and three pointers.
Blah blah blah blah blah, major boost for the Magic.
An agent told him to say that, correct, and if
Shams denied that, he would be lying to yeah. But again,
if we're in Shams spot, I'm not trying to No, Hey,
I love I mean you. If you are the pipeline

(24:44):
to every significant NBA deal, that's a big deal for it, right,
I'm not Yeah, I'm not trying to. I don't know
besmirch the good name of shamp that's the game. I
don't know Shams, but I've heard nothing but really good
things about him, so it's great. But again, in that position,
and this is the same thing with Adam Shefter the NFL,
You're gonna see when Adam Schefter finds out a deal,
there's gonna be a follow up tweet or a commentary

(25:05):
about you know, Uh, let's say Aaron Rodgers agent told
Schefter that he's going to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The follow up subsequent co TWEETE would be Aaron Rodgers
has worked out hard. Aaron Rodgers feels like it's a
great really, I mean there'll be there'll be some other
parts of his compared to just just reporting that Aaron
Rodgers now Pittsburgh Steeling And it works too, Because I
even read that tweet from Shams, I like, hey, you

(25:26):
know what, Desmond a and is pretty good. It worked
on me accomplished. Yeah, that's exactly right, that's exactly right.
It's like dang disnet Ban's knocking down threes, all right.
It could have been the magic or the agent or
both that told him to put that up right right,
all right? Seven one three two one two five seven
audience and anything goes friddy here on the radio program,
A's again splitting the series with the Astros. Not the

(25:47):
end of the world. He's been actually playing with They
want no, you want to win the series. Don't get
walked off twice. They've won six of eight of the a's.
I'm just saying seven of eight would be better. That's true. No,
six of uh, five of eight would have been better.
I'm talking about the a's of one, six of eight. Oh,
the a's of one. They swept Kansas City before they
way around. No, no, oh, you mean overall. I thought

(26:10):
you're not against the Astro. No, no, no, no, I'm
talking about the last week. I'm just gonna sit out.
You don't know. I want you here. It's Friday. We're
paying you to speak. I don't know why. I don't
know how much we're paying you. But it's stupid by way.
You come up here and I talk about sports and
they give me money. That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Yeah,
because most of your takes aren't worth it. Nime, Please
don't hear this. Please don't hear this. Bosses. Hey, let
me tell you some iHeart you know. If you come on, man,

(26:32):
you can't leave. Is No, you're not on thin ice.
You're you're on solid ground. You're on solid ground. You're
not going anywhere, all right? Seven one seven, one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (26:48):
We've got the Astros, We've got the NBA, we got
Kevin Durant. Oh, speaking of that, we have a game
seven because last night Oklahoma City didn't show up. Tyres.
Talliburnt was running at about forty percent. Would be fair
to say, yeah, he was gimping'. They said, Sham's put
out there before the game started. That a normal time

(27:08):
frame for the thigh is that what are they call
a contusion or a calf That's right, calf was about
three to four weeks. He's like, it's game six of
the NBIA Finals. I'll be out there. It's almost Walt
Fraser like when he was with the Knicks back in
the seventies, where he'd just labor to get out there.
It does worry me because I remember in a finals

(27:28):
Kevin Durant or was it Nose in the Rocket series,
Kevin Durant was playing through a calf injury and he
snapped his achilles. So I'm worried for Halliburt. I want
him to make it, but I also think he's gonna
be real sore come Sunday and the thunder are gonna
cover the seven and a half doubling down, are you yes?

(27:49):
Are you going to the border to do this or what?

Speaker 8 (27:52):
I might?

Speaker 1 (27:53):
We need sports gambling in the States so bad. I'm
gonna go with me. We stop in the Viterer, Mary
mean on the way back. They know us there. I
always use m's and you always use bees when we
rhyme the berry meme, the berry bean, verry bean. It's
not it's not bad. I got fish. There wasn't terrible.
I couldn't believe you ordered fish at Mary Mean you

(28:16):
ordered a corn dog. It was ninety nine cents. That's different.
Fish is like it's a ten dollars risk your brother.
N Yeah, it's that's true. Number one. I ordered up.
Look if I lose out on the corn dog at
Merry means all, I only dropped ninety nine cents. It's
not that big of a deal. Your poor brother paid

(28:36):
ten dollars for two pieces of fish for me. That
was low risk berry bean at the risk, high reward,
and it wasn't It wasn't good.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
Don't do it?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Yeah, all right, what else got going on? There is
a video of last night's game with involving the Dodgers
that I did tweet off of awful announcing that's going
to make you very mad. Great, there was a chance
for an immaculate inning yesterday and we'll test Oh my god,
the hell did you see what? What was yesterday happening

(29:05):
in the batter's box or the what would you even
call it at the strike zone? You mean inconsistencies throughout egregious.
We'll talk about it. Seven one three two one two
five seven, Honny, whatever is on your mind, it is
fair game for anything that goes Friday. Here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one
two five seven. Hounty his hand and goes Friday. Matt Thomas,

(29:29):
Ross Villareale with you here. Jonathan Allen is our producer.
Wake the Strippers up coming up at twelve o'clock we
have I'm sorry, it's an eleven thirty. What do you
got apologize for? I think I've listened to a lot
of the show on the iHeartRadio app on the podcast,
you got a lot of apologizing, dude, just for just
general comments this week. You have been me. Yeah, you've
been a little surly. You're talking to me or Jonathan

(29:49):
Jonathan yourself? Sin's ave Ross been kind of inappropriate. First
of all, what did I do? He's you took a
lot of jabs at cheeks. I didn't take any jabs
at cheeks. You took a lot of jabs at me. Trevor.
Oh yeah, you're getting to Trevor's Girls GMS, not in
her DMS. I never DMed her once, like in all
of her photos. I didn't like any of her photos,

(30:10):
so I went and looked through my legs. So it
was a case of mistake and identification. No, it must
have been a story or something. I don't know. I'm
figuring it must have slipped ten forty nine. Anything goes
seven one three, two one two five seven. Anti, I'm sorry.

(30:31):
He's coming up at eleven thirty. Our friend Vanessa's going
to join us at twelve thirty. I don't know if
she's she just landed. I don't know if she's landed
in Oklahoma City or she's changing planes or whatever's going on.
But we'll talk with her and just get to the
travel stuff because that's the way people want to know
the games itself. We've watched the non competitive bit has
been too much, but you know, uh, but yeah, let's
go and talk to Frank on the north Side on

(30:53):
Sports Talk seven ninety and ten to fifty. Frank, thank
you for holding a good morning to you.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Hey has gone, Matt, I got a two questions.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Mat is Jalen Green the leading score on.

Speaker 8 (31:04):
The Rockets team.

Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yes, he was for the twenty twenty one points per game? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (31:11):
For what about last year?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
The year before? I think? Yes? Okay, Frank, Im Can
I ask you, Frank, I ask you a question. Yeah,
what do you do for a living?

Speaker 9 (31:21):
Man?

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Ask?

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Are you retired or you do you work today?

Speaker 8 (31:24):
Now I'm retired.

Speaker 1 (31:26):
Do you own a computer? Do you want a computer?

Speaker 8 (31:29):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (31:30):
Do you know how to use it? Come on, man,
I believe he's trying to make a point.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
Matt.

Speaker 8 (31:36):
That's good.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
I think.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
Well, I mean you're well, You're I don't know what
I'm reading.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
I'm asking. This is the question I got.

Speaker 6 (31:44):
Yes, what team has traded the number one score and
won an NBA championship?

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Now you're really number one score? Okay? Last year? Actually?
Uh okay? So last season it was Jalen Green. The
year before it was Alpera and Chingoon.

Speaker 8 (32:08):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Where you headed? Where you have to turnsing line? Where
are you going? I'm curious what.

Speaker 8 (32:14):
I'm sitting here in traffic?

Speaker 1 (32:16):
Is what center? You know? I hate traffic? What's what
intersection you at?

Speaker 8 (32:20):
I'm at West Hammer and sixteen.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
Oh sixten sucks, Frank.

Speaker 8 (32:27):
Dude, and being the lights of flashing.

Speaker 1 (32:30):
Oh hell no, hell no, the lights are flashing. Now,
let me tell you something, I Frank, I sincerely feel
terrible for you because at a first of all, six
ten sucks, West Timer sucks, and having flashing lights at
the intersection suck. You're right around the corner from us,
not too far.

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Actually, I want to know what is the big deal
about trading Jayden Green. I think that we should just strengthen,
not bench.

Speaker 8 (32:55):
That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (32:58):
Well here here's the thing, Frank.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
The reality is the bitch players we have that played
guard a bunch of midges.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
You can't say midges in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
Okay, people.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
Work, but anyway, and that's van Fleet, Shepherd Holiday and
who else.

Speaker 8 (33:25):
Is over there on the seat?

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Well, men Thompson can but he's not short.

Speaker 8 (33:30):
Yeah, men Thompson not short. I see it under sixth
seedt Okay.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
You mean small small people?

Speaker 8 (33:37):
Yeah, small people.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
So So, if if our bench is the problem, why
do we need to trade one hour starters? Have people
haven't been watching the playoffs? Every superstar that was in
the playoffs that got knocked out didn't didn't score a
lot of anthony.

Speaker 8 (33:56):
It was didn't score a lot of points lost, Well,
they lost, they not in the finals.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Did you watch the playoffs? Frank Jalen Green scored and
Dutch Jalen Green scored in double digits in four of
the seven games. Anthony Edwards has not scored single digits
in a playoff game ever in his career, and he's
been to two Western Finals.

Speaker 8 (34:20):
My exact point and y'all want to train it?

Speaker 3 (34:23):
What guy?

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Just twenty two years?

Speaker 7 (34:25):
How's that?

Speaker 1 (34:26):
You were? Exact point?

Speaker 11 (34:27):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Waitute, Frank, Frank? Did you did you see Frank?

Speaker 8 (34:30):
Who want to trade?

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Frank?

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Did you see what happened in Dallas this year? By
any chance?

Speaker 8 (34:36):
See? That's the problem. You're not listening to what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm we're listening to you, Frank, Frank. I want you
to roll the window down. I want you to roll
the window down in your car, and I want you
to scream six ten sucks because all this terrible.

Speaker 8 (34:51):
Traffic, Yeah, sixteen sucks.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Continue it anyway.

Speaker 8 (34:56):
I don't know who the worst man? You are your back.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
He is back.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
I want to say my backup, My backup is the worst.
Who's your backup?

Speaker 9 (35:06):
You?

Speaker 1 (35:06):
You're the back backup? Is Dan Matthews when you're out.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Yeah you do.

Speaker 8 (35:10):
Yeah, backup, suck?

Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah, I do you know you said, Frank, you suck.
You don't even. You don't even listen. You don't even listen.
I'm talking, Frank, I said Jalen Green didn't even He
scored single digits in four games. Frank, I value you,
my friend. We are we are friends at the end. God, Frank,
you have the intelligence of cheeks. The hamsters. Yeah, yeah,

(35:35):
what happened? They chose yeah, and then they chose get him, Frank,
get him, Frank, I'm out on team Frank.

Speaker 8 (35:41):
What are you call? What would? What did they do?

Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's twenty nineteen n I T Champion Texas Longhorns. Put
some respect on their name. What's up?

Speaker 8 (35:51):
Chicks champion champion?

Speaker 1 (35:53):
What softball? Rowing? Tennis, swimming and diving by women? Track?
What's women? Don't matter? Frank, assess, that's not right.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
I know, I know.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
I'm trying to I'm trying. I'm trying to improve my bench. Hey, Frank,
I'm trying to improve my bench, just like you're trying
to improve the rockets bench.

Speaker 8 (36:22):
Exactly.

Speaker 6 (36:23):
He just hat he got a more head.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
That's exactly right. That makes see again that makes no sense.
You're saying, I'm envious of of baldness. He's not even
a good looking man, Like, come on, thank you. You
have the intellect of an eight year old Frank. I mean,
come on, good God, get off the road. Frank, you're
gonna hit somebody. Clearly you're lacking an intelligence and they
are disconnected neurons in your brain. Frank, never be a

(36:48):
stranger of the show. Love having you on. That was
one of the dumbest people I'd ever heard, called you
the backup. That's terrible, that's fine, it's whatever. I'm just
happy people know exist.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
You know what you know.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
It doesn't even care you're the co host. I don't
want to hear it doesn't matter. And Frank, you cannot.
You cannot use the word midges anymore either. You just cannot.
And first of all, well that doesn't matter and read
Shepherd's on a midget, so you can't hear it. Trade
Jalen Green, who I said had four single digit playoff performances,

(37:23):
scoring in the playoffs in seven games. Anthony Edwards in
forty two games, has zero And he said, I'm making
his point. You're stupid, Frank, Frank, I mean go Cougars.
First of all, that's also a bit. You're also not
stupid enough to or smart enough to realize I'm just
messing with Matt with the Cougars number one. All right, whatever,

(37:44):
I'm done, have a great day, Frank, Frank, be careful
the best.

Speaker 9 (37:48):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
I'm apologized to Frank coming up in thirty minutes. I'm sorry, Frank.
Frank in thirty minutes, stand by because the backup's going apologize,
but get off the road. Seven one three two hurt
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(38:09):
Sports Talk seven ninety Matt Ross and apparently Gordon decided
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Speaker 5 (38:19):
Well, I mean I gave I gave some time away
to Frank. He gives such great insight and phone calls.
I had to give way to him.

Speaker 1 (38:26):
He called Ross the backup. I just done with this
for fifteen plus years in the backup.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
A little bit of an right.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
No, I would say, no, I'm the cost of this
show for six years along the studio, but we put
your name on it. Anyways, and apparently Frank called in.
He's threatening violence against me if I call him. Oh Frank, Yeah,
he's not. He's like he's a teddy bear. Okay, well, Frank,
I'll stop telling tigers they have stripes. I don't know.
You can apologize in a half an hour, I'll apologize.

Speaker 5 (38:54):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (38:55):
I'm angry right now though, because whatever I'm moving on,
I'm taking deep breaths. I'm gonna count to ten, and
now you guys can talk, all right, Dan Matthews, Uh,
why am I ever gonna have Dan's name? I don't
know I was. You guys are talking about Dan? You
know what I'm saying. Let me focus here. Oh, by
the way, best elect to Coastal Carolina in the College
World Series best of three? Why a you're for that?

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
You got so damn lucky with their pants, were going
to beat them yesterday? We got a lucky by a
choked job whatever terrible you got. You had a stupid
defensive play at shortstop and then a horrific Aaron left
field boom.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
Okay, lucky, we intimidate the opponent. The power of college
baseball l s U. There's a thing in the right
field called the intimidator.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Why aren't you in Omaha? By the way, look, I
was looking at prices.

Speaker 5 (39:48):
It is not cheap. Well, most of the flights are
sold out on Southwest, but like to get there, it
was gonna be about a.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Grand Are you gonna fly Dark Press ever again? Yeah,
that's what I got my credit card through. Okay, so
you are you guys are okay? Now after that long
trip you had and corporate we got we got flight credits.
My wife was showing me, but they all went to
her account. I didn't get any on my account. She
got like eight hundred dollars. It was, she got two hundred,
and then she got another two hundred. She woke up yesterday.
They're like they sent her another hundred. Like they just

(40:17):
keep like adding stuff. Got Bubby's so sorry, we didn't
ask for anything. Well, you guys fly together all the time.
It's fine.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
I think they're just like, how many hours were they
on the tarmac and you give them six, you give
them two hundred, and give them another hundred hundred adding
on credits.

Speaker 1 (40:30):
Well, I brought this up to the audience I was
yesterday day before. If you are a fan of LSU
or friend of any of those really good college teams. Yeah,
and even I guess if even if you're not a
die hard fan, or you're a fan that doesn't have
a t like Murray State, you didn't plan to go
to Omaha, right, but you love Murray State baseball. To

(40:50):
fly there is expensive to stay there, even if you drove.
Let's say you just got in the car with a
bunch of buddies. It's fourteen hours. It's first of all,
crazy far to drive. Second again, I probably spent five
grand last year myself on that. That was just in
three games series. How do people do it? Even if
you bring the r V up, it's still gonna cost
you thousands of dollars.

Speaker 5 (41:08):
Well, I've brought this up for college football too, with
this stupid expanded playoff, I know we all love it.
Oh yeah, playoff, more teams. Yeah, let's add it more rounds,
more travel Like for Texas last year, what Texas played
at home against Clemson the first round? Then what was
the second round? Ross they had to play Arizona was
at where's the state?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Uh huh, where'd they play them?

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Uh it was the Fiesta Ball. No, it was the
it was one of the Bulls peach ball. No in Atlanta.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
I think you're right. I think it was Atlanta because
they went back to where they had just played in
the SEC championship game. So I think this is you're
a Texas football fan, and let's say you went to
one or two road games last year. Then for the
SEC title game, you had to find a good way
to go from Austin to Atlanta to go see Texas
lose to Georgia. Then then they got the home playoff
game against Clemson, they had to go back to Atlanta
to see them play the next payoff game again and

(41:57):
win in Arizona State, they had to go to Dallas
the Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
When you don't have to do any of those things.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
I'm just saying, like, it's absolutely insane the travel you
have to put on the fan base just to make
it through this playoff.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Well, yeah, they're putting they that's why they're here, that's
why they're making they're making all this money. That's why
the playoff is here for all this money making.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
But here's the stupidity of it a fleck. Uh, Fredo's
whatever the us?

Speaker 10 (42:22):
What do we do?

Speaker 5 (42:23):
Why why not put the naming rights but put them
on college campuses? Like why can't Texas if they're the
one or two seed, play every round at dk R
and put the naming rights on the stadium Amazon the Amazon.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
Playoffs if they give ticket. Yeah, they'd still have to
give tickets I guess to uh to the sponsors and
have those kind of events and schmoozing stuff. And I
mean maybe they'll do that, but that's what it's all about.
It's not about pageantry. And but how are you to
know this?

Speaker 5 (42:51):
But having to go to all these cities, it's just
it's not fair on the fans.

Speaker 1 (42:54):
It's and then what do the schools keep doing?

Speaker 5 (42:56):
Guys? We need more money for nil guys, we need
more money. Hey, we're gonna go up one season ticket right,
stop asking the f you're pricing out college football fans.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
Well, it's kind of happening everywhere, Gordy. Cost of housing
and food is going up and wages are stagnant. I
mean still around.

Speaker 5 (43:12):
Here college football is becoming it's for the elites. Correct,
You have you have to have money to go, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
Absolutely, and they don't care because if they're gonna put
they're gonna make more money putting these games all around
the country. And they're still let's see the uh, well,
the Atlanta the the game again in the Peach Bowl,
it was in Atlanta, seventy one thousand, of course, one
hundred thousand plus in the game against Clemson. The home
game seventy five thousand at Cotton A and T and

(43:38):
T Stadium for the Cotton Bowl Classic in the semi final.
They're getting people in there and they're making money off
all these tickets. Here's here are thousands of dollars. The
reality is it's it's for ninety percent of it's for
the elite rich, and then you have a ten percent
group that And I saw this when I was going
to watch the Cougars in Kentucky. Kentucky fans budge for

(44:00):
long tournament runs. They saved to Nashville for the sec
They budget everything. They don't because I sat and nextok
a tech family and they're like, yeah, we budget for
these things. So you have ten percent of budget, you
probably have eighty percent that are just super rich, and
you have ten percent that just go broke trying to
go for follow their team.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Well, and here's the other part too. Texas makes a
playoff run for the first time, everybody's excited. They're oh,
I'm gonn follow him everywhere. You start doing it every
year you start to go, you know what, I'm gonna
check out of the first two rounds. I'm gonna save
my money for the third get playoff games. I was
already there if they went to the champions You went
to the Sugar Bowl two years ago. Uh, yes, Well
I didn't want to, but I did, and I want also,

(44:37):
I got I looked at cheap tickets through through here
because right because we can.

Speaker 1 (44:40):
You gotta start budgeting and planning it out absolutely. And
then that's why I only want to save money for
if they make the championship game.

Speaker 5 (44:48):
I just wanted, guys that we canna get to a
point we're gonna have some playoff games that like end up.
Let's say, uh, I don't know. Let's say like an
NFL stadium gets involved. What's the one nor of the
forty nine ers playing Santa Clara. What if they go, hey,
we want to want a playoff game and you end
up having Bama versus Clemson and in a first round
playoff game in Santa Clara, and.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
There'll be plenty of it. There'll be plenty off we'll go.

Speaker 5 (45:07):
No, I just agree half the stadium will be empty.

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Alabama's got a big enough fan base they'll travel anywhere
they want to go. And number one, yeah, they don't
care if it's half empty anyways, because they're getting all
the money from ESPN. Okay, say it's SMU versus then
you're talking in Colorado. But you mean you're looking at
about ten schools here. Let's talk about schools that don't
don't worry about empty stadiums. Texas not worried about it.
If A and M was to get that far, they'd
fill the stadium up. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Michigan. I mean,

(45:32):
I could probably go twenty deep. So if we're basically saying,
these are the same twenty schools that are competing for
this national championship every year, it's the same twenty schools,
they can fill the stadiums up.

Speaker 5 (45:42):
But I don't know what you're not acknowledging is it's
it's one thing to say, yeah, Notre Dame and versus
Miami out in Santa Clara. Yeah, they'll sell those tickets,
but I think those fans are going to start to go. No,
I'll catch them the next round in Indianapolis or wherever
the next round game is, you know what I mean, Like, oh,
if they went out when they're in the Cotton Bowl,
so we'll skip the San Francisco trip.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Okay, how many empty seats were there in the first
round this year of these games?

Speaker 5 (46:06):
Well we say first round. The first round was college campuses.
This year it's that next round that goes to all.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
The other I can try to find the attendance of
all the games. But well, if you think home campuses
are a long term thing, Gordy, you know you're wrong.
I mean's going to go on. You can fit more people.

Speaker 5 (46:22):
You keep the Packeger of college football, because you know,
the whole thing is it's college. So maybe you do
it on a college campus instead of going to these
stupid NFL stadiums that don't even see as many people.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
To a Penn State Boise State Fiesta Bowl had sixty
three eight fifty four, so basically sixty four thousand. That's
probably a lot of empty seats right where in the
Fiesta Bowl at the Stadium. It's probably seventy or eighty, right,
I probably guess I'll look it up. You guys keep talking.
Peach Bowl with Texas, Arizona State had seventy one thousand,
This says in Atlanta Mercedes Benz Stadium, Rose Bowl had

(46:58):
ninety thousand. Ohio State Oregon. Yeah, I mean, come on,
Sugar Bowl Notre Dame Georgia was only fifty seven thousand.
Now that was a schedule because of the at That's
why it was so down. But Orange Bowl Notre Dame
Penn State was sixty seven thousand. State Farm capacity in
Phoenix is sixty three four hundred. Okay, so that was

(47:20):
pretty sold out.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
I'm just saying, it's do we need to find a
way to get these playoff games back on college campuses more.
You could put the corporate sponsor game.

Speaker 1 (47:30):
It'd be cool. But I think you're going I think
you're going just the opposite. Yeah, it's not gonna word
for I let you go. We got to call it.
People actually want to talk to you about something, George.
What do you got today?

Speaker 12 (47:39):
Yeah, So it's an interesting discussion about you know, college
it started off college baseball, shift to the college football.
But there's a certain amount of illogic here. First of all,
I don't believe that the solution to making UH to
being more affair to the fans is to make it
is to make the college football playoff loads more favorable

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to half of the fans by doing it at home.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
Well, but isn't that the benefit of earning a top seed.
You get to play at home? I mean, sorry, if
you're there, the.

Speaker 12 (48:11):
Same as fairness, but that that's not the same as
fairness to the fans. That's maybe advantageous for on field success.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
You're telling me a Notre Dame fan wouldn't want I
get like, it's gonna be tough to go on the road,
but Notre Dame at Texas in the second round. You
don't think Notre Dame fans would. Man, I've never been
to Austin. I'd love to go see that college campus
like fans would. Fans would appreciate it, that'd be fay.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Well, what I mean, what's the good tail game?

Speaker 5 (48:36):
Jerry's parking lot out in Dallas, Like there's no obviiance
there at all.

Speaker 8 (48:41):
I think I think the.

Speaker 12 (48:43):
Visiting fans would rather play at a neutral site than
play at the other time.

Speaker 5 (48:46):
Yeah, because you're scared. You're scared you're gonna get your
ass beat. But put my answer that is play better.
If you win your damn division, you'll be a higher seed.
You won't, you'll play your games at home.

Speaker 1 (48:55):
Okay, so you're you're you know what the reasons like
the Texans said, I don't want to go to England.

Speaker 7 (49:02):
Side.

Speaker 1 (49:02):
Can we play? Can you play?

Speaker 5 (49:04):
The Patriot?

Speaker 12 (49:05):
Addicting yourself, you said you're concerned. Earlier was fan fairness.
Now you say you're concerned is advantaging the team with
the better record.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Because you brought it up. Dufus the one you're not as.

Speaker 12 (49:17):
You're the one who started by talking about fan fairness
and you weren't being logical about it.

Speaker 5 (49:22):
I'm sayings from a standpoint of college it's college football. Hey,
here's a crazy idea. Maybe you play the games on
college campuses and stop playing them at NFL stadiums.

Speaker 12 (49:32):
It's stupid, right, But that that's not the reason you
originally gave your originally you originally gave the reasons is
unfair to the fans, and yet what you want to
do is give an additional advantage to the one set
of fans.

Speaker 5 (49:42):
I'm saying it's for the fans to travel all the
way across the country constantly following their team just for
corporate sponsorships. If you've got to travel across the country
to go play yet another in opposing stadium, that's again,
that makes more sense to me.

Speaker 7 (49:56):
And there's a.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Larger level of I logic here, which is it?

Speaker 12 (49:59):
If you if you think it's surprising and frustrating that
the college athletic programs have basically sold entirely out to
corporate revenue and television revenue, what did you think was
gonna happen over the last couple of years when you've
been one of the loudest advocates for the complete liberalization
of NIL payments, you.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
Think it would be anything else?

Speaker 12 (50:21):
And if you did think of anything else, you are
incredibly short sighted.

Speaker 5 (50:25):
Well, George, I'll work on my thesis and we'll get
back to you when we do forty eight hours of research.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
George, don't be a stranger to Shahin is a disconnect
one doesn't have to do with the other NIL and
the corporate sponsorships is like he's talking about with the
Fiesta Bowl, and it's.

Speaker 5 (50:40):
Been on that bowl game in Atlanta long before nil.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Yeah, the corporations have had their hooks into college football
for decades.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
All I'm saying is, or I don't know, give me
a give me a bowl game sponsor.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Capital One.

Speaker 5 (50:53):
A Capitol One could still put their logos all over
dk R and have a game in Austin and still
be a Capitol One Bowl.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
But our friend George's is conflating the ideas. There is
one n I L and corporate sponsorships are two different things.
I think it is genuine of you to want to
have these on collage campuses. Yeah, it's a cool idea.
It's a nice idea.

Speaker 5 (51:12):
It's a novel cause college football on the college.

Speaker 1 (51:15):
You're about to get a new source of revenue by
putting these in NFL stadiums. And that's what the if
you're if you're now asking NTBLA to fill to pay
these colleges, they're gonna say, we need additional revenue sources
to pay these athletes. We're gonna put these Do the math.
What's the NRG seed sixty eight thousand? Okay, what's what's

(51:36):
the college? Most of the SEC school seat one hundred thousands.
But you can't guarantee that the game's gonna be played
in Bryant Denny Stadium. You can't.

Speaker 5 (51:42):
If you're the number one seed, you're gonna be the seeds.

Speaker 1 (51:45):
But you can't guarantee that every of that. I can
guarantee if I put a game at Jerry World, I'm
gonna one hundred thosand people. I'm gona if I if
I'm gonna put a game at NRG, I'm gonna have
seventy thousand every single time. I can guarantee you're gonna
have to get that money split. What if? What if?
What if tcusnumber one seed a stadium, they won't You
can't presume that mean I you logically thinking, I understand

(52:06):
what you're saying. But Amon Carter forty thousand, is.

Speaker 5 (52:10):
If your home stadium seats lessons sent to the nearest NFL.

Speaker 1 (52:13):
State, a right exactly? You know you have ach ends
up in the playoffs. They only have they're a little
baby stadiums. And one more thing for George, how is
it the liberalization of n I L it's free market, right,
it's not state controlled.

Speaker 3 (52:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
Let let now they're trying to make to make controlled.

Speaker 5 (52:32):
Yeah, I mean, come on, Tommy Teberville I don't like
all these bulls making money. We gotta we gotta restrict this.

Speaker 1 (52:37):
Why does it sound like you're seventy, Sam.

Speaker 5 (52:39):
Because that's who Tommy Tupperville is. Again, I do declare
these young men don't make too much money.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
That's just fog hornon leghorn. Now, yeah, you're seventy, same
as a bunch of angerer lodder. So if you're seventy,
Sam was thirsty, what would you want to do and drink?

Speaker 5 (52:55):
Well, he might be saying, I do declare, I need
a Crawford Bach from all friends at call Back Brewing.
And if you headed, if you're watching the Astros this weekend,
watching them at home, listen at home to the Angels
late night affair again, guys love this week out in
Oakland or Sacktown, wherever they are Astros playing late night games,
make sure you got the FRIGI loaded with playing at
Crawford Bok form. Our friends at Carbok Brewing was out

(53:16):
of the establishment the other day and they had to
Crawford Block on top.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Love to see it.

Speaker 5 (53:21):
Love to see it around town, whether you're at the grocery,
gas station, liquor store, wherever it is, you can find
the Crawford bak loaded up and stocked all over town
and then the Astro was back in town next week
at Dyke and Parking and get yourself an ice cool
Crawford box. Just goes better watching the Astros listening to
the Stros do so right here on seven night.

Speaker 1 (53:38):
And go Coastal Carolina eleven eighteen on Sports Talk seven nine.
During the next month or so four, things really start
to heat up again, and we got at the Baseball
Pennant Drive and we'll have Texans training camp and start
off to seeing we're gonna get Eddie Nuniez come in
the athoughdi director at you of acause I just I
don't really understand much about the revenue stream teams in

(54:01):
terms of who gets what, how, who pays for what,
what the rules are. And maybe Eddie won't be able
to give us a great clarification, but it's highly confusing.
But I can guarantee you that they're going to take
these games away from these stadium sites. These first round
things are gonna be think in the past, oh you
think so, absolutely, may not be tomorrow, may not be

(54:21):
two years, but they're Are you telling me you're gonna
go to a sixteen team format, right. I don't want
them to, but they're going to and they're going to
have open up what four more stadiums they can go
to to play? What do they do with that? Are
they going to do sixteen? Like one play sixteen? Like
if you're the best team in the country all season long,

(54:43):
you don't get anybody, maybe maybe you have no buy.
Well maybe you would have to do a double buy.
Maybe one to four gets a buy first eight play
and those four go play the next eight in the
next four. Yeah, they don't even know the answer to that.
But you either get a double buy or no buy, right,
And that's ridicu us. How many games is that? Oh you?

(55:04):
When when do we start worrying about how many games
of college athletes gonna play? That was all the talk,
but even when there was no playoff, Remember all these
student athletes. It's it's all about the student athletes. They're
gonna miss their finals. Now they don't seem to care
when all that cash ESPN's gonna pay us how much? Okay,
let's go. I mean, when is Disney gonna stop paying?
When is the Disney shock stareholders shareholders gonna go?

Speaker 5 (55:27):
Are you sure, we spend in this.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
When they stop making money off of it at college
football is a is a huge boon for them. It
clearly the ratings are great. People watch. We could plan
about it, like like you've said, Matt, and we've said,
we talk about n I L and conference realignment and
all that stuff, and then what happens Saturday night. It's
a it's Alabama and Georgia. We're watching. It's Houston versus everybody.

(55:54):
It's on ESPN U at three am, and nobody cares.
That's not true. We'll be We'll be on ESPN Plus
and prime time for an opening Thursday night game against SFA. Really,
I think there's some badminton on that I'll be watching
instead on the ESPN Plus. But yeah, it is. Uh So,
let's just if they go to sixteen teams. Let's say

(56:15):
it would give the top four buy. That would mean
five would play sixteen. Boy, I have to get out
of algorithm. The top eight would play. That would leave four.
Then you're down to twelve. Then they would play the
next four who got one by and that means one
through four would get two buys? Does that make sense?
Not really bad? I think if you show it to

(56:37):
me on a map. It'll be fine. I trust you
more than if you go eight. So you start with sixteen,
you eight play four, win, you're down to twelve.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Then the next eight play four when you're down at eight. Yeah, okay.
So really, if you are a top four, you get
two weeks off. But I don't know if they would
do that, or you just do one play sixteen and
that's that. Well, what'd be crazy to go through a
whole season? You win your you've won the see your
Big ten championship. One one seed is likely going to
be the Big ten or SEC champion, and then you

(57:06):
can be out in one game. That's if sixteen was
to play just like the college basketball take football, you
get two pick six is you're basically could win the game.
Or you're in college basketball and you're playing you're three
verses of fourteen, and you missed a bunch of free
throws or three point shots, you're done exactly. But I mean, hey,
it creates drama elimination. But you know, we don't seem
to hate that, No, we don't. I've I mean, I've

(57:29):
talked about it in general. I wish there were some
better system that they would do. Yeah, but it just
doesn't make sense. I guess what would you even do
the top twenty four teams in the country and three
game series or something. Well, you're going to get the
college basketball it's going to expand to probably seventy two teams.
What if they did football? What if they did top
sixteen three game series like the play like the NBA playoffs. No,

(57:55):
that'd be cool. You can't play series and I know
no I'm not. I'm talking about basketball. Oh yeah, yeah,
in playing one. I would never do it. But no, no, no, no,
I think march I think is like march Man is
ain't broke. We ain't going to try to rise, except
we're just gonna add the best pt in the country
doesn't always win. That's the best teams in the country
last year were Duke in Houston. You see my head

(58:18):
just drop right there. I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to
take a shot. No, no, no, no, no, I take
a lot of shot. I know when you take shots.
To me, that wasn't a shot. That's what it's like
to be an elite team is that when you don't
win it, you are super crushed. Like if you're a Nuns. Man,
if you're a mark at and you lose, okay, so
what yeah, like twenty one Astros didn't win it all,
It's like, okay, yeah, the Braves were better. What if

(58:40):
you're Notre Dame basketball. Oh you're a sixty, that's great.
You're probably gonna get bounced in the sweet sixteen. That
was a good run. Yeah, I try to think I'm
with you. I didn't think the Longhorns were the best
team in in football the last two years, but I
think they could have won in two thousand and nine
when Colt McCoy got hurt. But here's the crazy part
about you of age. We're gonna be pre since Hur's
number one MM, which means Bullseye is right on us. Yeah,

(59:03):
that's nobody did not. But since the point my point is,
I'm not used to this. Nobody's taking the Cougars lightly
for the last several years. I know, but I'm not.
I'm not accustomed to this.

Speaker 3 (59:11):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
I've never been a favorite in anything in my life.
That's what underdog Thomas. All Right, we got an update
quickly on the Rockets. We'll save for the news at noon.
I'll read it allay, Sure, I'll throw it to you, Matt.
It's more NBA Central stuff, okay, but again it's just
more conjecture central. I do the centil I don't because
if you get fooled by it once, it's a block.

(59:35):
It's an easy one, all right. What do you want
to apologize for? There are a lot of you need
to apologize to. Frank, we'll see. I think it's very appropriate.
I think some of the bad mixing this week by
Jonathan Nosen is an apology, and the listeners an apology
will have that coming up for you in a matter
of minutes. Seven You should be laughing. I mean it

(59:56):
was a slight jab, not a big one. Seven one
three two one five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninty. It is the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross. If you want to apologize to any
one for anything, seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
eighty time for you to say your sorry.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Nick.

Speaker 9 (01:00:20):
You need this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
Rosster as hell needs this. I guarantee you John that
needs this. Time for you to call and say one
little simple phrase to us here at seven ninety I'm sorry,
so sorry.

Speaker 7 (01:00:40):
God.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
Thank Yeah, this is the opportunity for the next twenty
five minutes to call the radio program. You've sent something
to your in laws, You've sent something to your coworker,
somebody on the street, maybe the neighbor that's making too
much noise at two o'clock in the morning, maybe that
driver you cut off, maybe that collar that you were
rude to it was struggling at six ten in West

(01:01:06):
tim or earlier today. You call seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI and say these very simple words,
I'm sorry. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninty Ross. You are first, I'm first, all right, fine
to the sweet, lovable furry and always biting the Thomas family,

(01:01:31):
hamster cheeks. I made a number of cold, crass, uncaring
remarks about your recent passing. Go ahead and do it,

(01:01:52):
And it wasn't right. You lived a great life with
your cotton balls and your water spigot. And I'm sorry.
I didn't mean that the Thomas family except your apology.
Thank you, Yes, And I would like to apologize to
the Thomas family as well. I like to wish my

(01:02:13):
like to wish my son Cameron a happy twenty fifth birthday.

Speaker 8 (01:02:15):
Today.

Speaker 1 (01:02:16):
Really. Yeah, I'm gonna text him on and I would
like to apologize to him in advance for telling him
happy birthday and now clean up my office. Wow, I
didn't even separated on one text. Was rude. You couldn't
send two different ones. You couldn't hit period and send.
I didn't. What I should have done is happy birthday, son.

(01:02:37):
I give the exclamation points so they at least get
the confetti pop up on the iPhone. I always try
to do that, and then you follow up Matt, Yeah,
at least give him a moment of confetti. Yeah. I
didn't do that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, man, that's that's rude.
But he did. My office is a mess because of him.
He's got all his golf equipment all over the place, golfootball.

(01:03:01):
What's he doing? He's playing a lot of golf. I mean, yeah,
you would think when we got a golf woman and
he's playing golf.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Ron.

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
I don't know if he was caddying or no, who's
caddying anymore?

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
When do you go caddy?

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
You're at the Kingwood Country Club and whatnot. All the
time he's in Kingwood Country I don't know, that I've
never been to any country club. Well, you're not invut ours.
I know they try to make me go through the
service entrance. I know it was messed up. Yikes, Jonathan,

(01:03:32):
what are you gonna apologize for this week?

Speaker 9 (01:03:34):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
I gotta apologize to the dental secretary at the office.
You were hitting on her, weren't you. Oh she was
hitt on me. She said I had a beautiful smile.
But that's all. That's what all the dennists say.

Speaker 5 (01:03:49):
But I was told that I.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Wasn't getting my consultation at one o'clock. Yeah, uh, Friday morning, hands,
Oh can you come at eleven? I'm thinking I'm gonna
have my consertation and then my surgery right eleven.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Oh cool.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
We get there, due the whole thing, and I have
to get somebody with me, so I brought my dad
because I was gonna be under anesthesia. Yeah, we do
the whole thing, pay and everything. It's like, okay, just
sit outside in the lobby and then we'll come back
and get you. It comes to one point fifteen. I
don't know way everybody in front of me gets their
name called. So me and my dad kind of went

(01:04:25):
up to the front that day and kind of had
a couple of words with her and was like, wasting
our time.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
My dad had to be somewhere. I was just upset
that I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
I was sitting there in that boring office with no
internet service, and I took it out on her and
kind of, uh, she kind of had got a little
teary eyed, and wait a minute, it was a double team.

Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
I wouldn't say it's fully my I.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
You know, I tried this escape, but I really wanted
to apologize to her today because I was thinking about
her and I'm like, you know what, she didn't deserve that.
She was just doing her job and the poor management
wasn't her fault. So I wanted to say I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:05:00):
I'm so sorry. All right, so let's get let's take
a step back.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
You made the girl cry. I I've been going to
doctors and raw, She've been going to doctors for But
all our life, have you ever made a receptionist cry? No,
me either, not even close. We're looking at between. We're
ninety plus years from the two of us, and in
all those years, we've never made a receptionist. Now, doctor, no,
I'll Dennis, no, no, I'll tell you this general practitioner.

(01:05:27):
No what No, we got, we got our appointment. We
got I got called in the next five minutes. Though,
I'm just saying, did you ever apologize to her while
you were there? I didn't see her afterwards. I probably
wouldn't have either. Why don't you call the dentist and
do you know her name?

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
I have no idea who what she was. You're gonna
let this linger on for the rest of your life,
aren't you.

Speaker 13 (01:05:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
That was fine afterwards? Okay, okay, she did with more worse.
People like Matt Thomas and Ross.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Who have never made anybody cry. I never met an
office receptionist cry. I said, she got teary eyed, she
was conflicted with emotions. She probably was pissed. Let me
ask you this question, This is a necessarious one. Have
you ever made someone cry because of a complaint you've made? No,
And I've been mad about things. I mean, that's just
human nature. But I've never made anybody cry. I made

(01:06:19):
my kids cry, my wife cry. I've complained about a
variety of things, yes, but never an employee of something.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
Is your dad?

Speaker 1 (01:06:29):
Is your dad hot blooded?

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
And my mom my dad was. When I started it,
and then you know, I piggy back it was it
was it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
Was a.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
You're throwing dad under the bus on the show. That's
what it sounds like. It seems like I'm apologizing for
us together. Does he know about this apology? Does he
authorize this? That's funny. He ever made a waiter cry?
No waitress?

Speaker 13 (01:06:53):
No? No?

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
I yeah, I mean I can criticize, believe me, made
you ever made you cry?

Speaker 9 (01:06:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
I got work to do. Then I would have to
take you seriously. First, I would like to apologize to
Chris Gordy for doubting him that he was on a
tarmac for six hours on Monday. You should apologize. Actually,
that was bad. You called out a fellow worker, and
you called him a flat out liar. I didn't say
flat out line, I said, I think he's lying, but
I wasn't for sure. I said I think. I didn't

(01:07:22):
said definitively new. That was crazy. And how about if
you if you didn't hear Gordy earlier today, he got
zero travel certificates, his wife got e hit Bucks probably
pay for the tickets anyway. Yeah, that's probably why it went. Yeah,
I was gonna say, you usually reward those that actually
put the credit card in the name. Some might feel
that bad for my mom, but I'm sorry that he

(01:07:45):
had to send on a tarmac for six hours. I
would lose my mind if I was on a tarmac.
It seems a little excessive. Why was the plane bubbling?
By the way, did we ever get to the bottom
of that? You don't know that. Don't planes usually bubble?
After me? No, roof, I will start praying that was Yeah,
it's like the blob is trying to get in. It's
not good, all right. If somebody wants to get on

(01:08:06):
the phones and they're a little sorry, okay, fine, I
will apologize. Hold on a second. I'm telling you we
have lots of listeners. Okay, we do, and you go
awed listeners. It's fine. We have great people that listen
to show that don't normally call or just or maybe
they sometimes they call something. Maybe they're busy. You guys,
it's eleven forty on a Friday. You've already mailed it
in the rest of the week. You're you're like our

(01:08:28):
sales staff for the most part. Okay, you've checked out.
You do apologize for the sales stoff, you do. It's
a holiday week. It's not a holiday. Today is a
regular day. Yeah, but I told you a donut hohole.
A lot of people taking this day off. Okay, you
need to call in an apologist. Nobody that listened to
the show and that's done everything right. So I'm calling

(01:08:48):
y'all out, and I'm not sorry for doing it. Ross,
What were you gonna say? I'm sorry to Frank Good,
I'm calling you stupid. Yes, I mean I made a
point that would completely conflicted with what you were saying,
and you said it made your point, and then you
somehow said I was jealous because I had hair. I mean,
that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. But I'm

(01:09:11):
sorry for calling you stupid. Oh sorry, and I'm gonna
leave it there. Sorry, Frank, have a great have a
great Friday, and have a great weekend. Frank the backup
says he's sorry right now to be nice. I'm trying
to be nice. He liked that. I can't believe he

(01:09:38):
called you the backup. That's terrible. He's here every day,
he's the coast. Poor phrasing. Poor poor phrasing. Some would
say that shows a lack of intellect, but I'm not
gonna say not saying it. I'm not saying, and I'm
saying I'm sorry for the instigating I am gazing look

(01:10:00):
at you now, you're okay. So let's put things to
perspective here. We've got one my co host rips on
callers and my producer rips on just receptions to have
nothing to do with his solizen teeth being pulled. You
know that's true. He's very young. But does does your
father feel bad about this situation? Absolutely not. Okay, that

(01:10:23):
may be the bigger issue. All right, if you want
to come and apologize, your last call is coming up next.
Gary's going to start a new Caney seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero five five. All right,
we got some people that finally stepped up to the
plate and are gonna apologize for their actions. It is

(01:10:45):
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We're with you till
two o'clock that we have the strippers are gona wake
them up at noon today. That's great. We have someone
in here listening to the show right now, who is
uh not? From my perspective, I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (01:10:59):
I think.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
Well, we'll put a good word. Yes, she doesn't know
the show, so she's she heard about she's now hearing
about the strippers. So this young lady's introduction to your show,
our show, right, is going to be you screaming strippers
at the top of your lungs in ten minutes. Yeah,
And she's like, what kind of creep is this? I'm
about to work for? And if you want to, you
can sell the show if you want to. Sports Tend

(01:11:24):
the New ten the two. All right, let's talk to
Gary in New Kenny. Gary, what do you have to
say you're sorry for?

Speaker 3 (01:11:32):
Well?

Speaker 8 (01:11:32):
Man, I want to tell you, I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (01:11:35):
I went to the country club the other day and
met your wife.

Speaker 9 (01:11:41):
We had a great time.

Speaker 8 (01:11:43):
I'm just sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I should have never done.

Speaker 11 (01:11:45):
That to you.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Predator killer of killers. Yeah, he's a predator. That was horrific.
I miss it. He called Gary called and said he
saw my wife at the country clubman apologized for what
he did.

Speaker 13 (01:12:15):
What.

Speaker 1 (01:12:16):
Yeah, that's exactly right. That's the best. That's the best
material that somebody's driving around in a city of six
million people. Have you had all day to come up
with that? All day? So disappointed? Robert, what do you
gotta apologize.

Speaker 10 (01:12:30):
For Yeah, I've kind of I don't feel really bad
about this, Okay, I need to apologize about my gossiping
and talking bad about Jake Myers.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Oh yeah, I'm talking about let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:12:51):
Well, No, I.

Speaker 10 (01:12:53):
First, he's starting to swing the bat while he's going
the other way.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
He's really I feel like he's really he's.

Speaker 10 (01:12:59):
Moved into a good place with his swing, so that
I feel really good there.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Good swing decisions, good contact. Absolutely.

Speaker 10 (01:13:08):
Now I he he makes okay plays in the outfield.
He doesn't make the great play. What he's had trouble.
He's had trouble with balls over his head as he's
running towards the fence. Now those are plays that He's a.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Gold Lead finalist last year. Robert, I'm not a not
a cool Okay, though the Robert rankings are different, I
get it, But he was a Gold Glove finals for
Major League Baseball. What exactly the Robert rankings?

Speaker 10 (01:13:34):
The Robert rankings are I kind of hold, he's not
a George Springer, he's not a who's an Andrew Jones?
But guys like, oh, yeah, I'm sorry, he's not Andrew Jones,
one of the greatest center fielders of all time, who's
at twenty nine years old in arbitr not even in
arbitration making like a million dollars. He doesn't even really
feel like I'm sorry right now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Yeah, it doesn't you're sorry at all. It's also part
of the bit of this second. You're also being a river.
Rob Ross has been very aggressive today. Sorry, President of
the Jake Myers fan Club. I got a stump from
my guy. Yeah, I knew that. Go ahead, you know
this in fun. He should probably hang up and try
this again next week. Okay, take the all and have
a nice weekend. Thank you very much. Robbers laugh and

(01:14:14):
he knows we're having a good time. Good guy number one.
He's called us from Virginia number one in demographics in Virginia. Absolutely,
they love us there. I know, big sails to be
made over in Virginia. Port News loves us Alexandria, Alexandria
Big fans of Beach can't get enough of the matt
Town child. Jake Myers is hitting three oh four with
a seven to seventy one ops and playing at gold

(01:14:38):
Glove center Field. I'll say it, he missed. He's been
missing a couple He is right, He's missed a few.
He's got gold glove range. I've had some trouble in Sacramento.
I mean the start of the games. The sun's been
coming down. I don't know. I don't know. He forgot
his contacts on the road trip, but he he missed
a couple of playss and I will give him that.
He's not as bad as that Arkansas left fielder was, though, well,
who is Lord? Beer League? Stuff?

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
Bad?

Speaker 9 (01:15:01):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
Brian on seven on ey, Brian, what do you have
to say you're sorry for? I would like to apologize
to you personally. Thank you.

Speaker 14 (01:15:08):
I said you were completely anti nhling. That's not characterized.

Speaker 1 (01:15:15):
Thank you an old clip you were. You are skeptical,
skeptical for sure.

Speaker 9 (01:15:19):
True.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
So, Matt, I'm a big enough man to say I
am sorry for miscate.

Speaker 14 (01:15:25):
It will never you're antipathy to NHL working characterizing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
We're having phone issues. Yeah, that's Brian. You sound like
you're thirteen years old, and that's fine sounding. He had
a helium balloon. That's not his fault, Brian, your fault, Brian. No,
I'm sorry that our phone systems we moved to web
based phones and they're horrible. Yeah, I'm back here, guys.
You your fault. Yeah, it's not your fault. I mean,
it's easy to blame you, and we probably will eventually.
Not right now, under our breath, let's go to Ed
and Magnolia. Ed, what do you say you're sorry for?

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
Well, I gotta apologize to all you guys, you and
Ross and Jonathan. Really, when I called the other day
on my dumb ass call and I regretted it ever since,
I felt like dirty afterwards.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
So oh no, we're family. We're family.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Ed, I gotta I gotta apologize to you and Ross
and John's and really when I I mentioned that I
was called meant to talk about the NHL, and uh,
I don't dig all these no ice states winning winning
the Cup. But that's that's just me. I'm a night

(01:16:31):
I'm a hockey purist.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
From I understand. I understand that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
But anyway, listen, man, I just want to say I'm sorry.
And my original attempt was to compliment you guys on
your show and I got a little side. I got
a little sideways, and that's my bad, dude, So I
felt bad about that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
You're the best. Get We didn't we didn't think twice
about it my friend. I was supposed to. Actually, I've
been sleepless. Thank you, Ed. No, Ed remember Ed said that,
Uh I was okay by myself because I had Yes,
that's right, he said I was. Yeah, he said I
was trying too hard. Yeah, he told me on the
phone that it was about and did not even talk

(01:17:08):
about it. I remember that. Yeah, yeah, I don't care.
He will. He criticized. At least he criticized every single
show in our lineup. Yeah. That made me feel a
little better. And we did like morning shows terrible. You
guys are not good, especially when you're not a get
to and and what did he say? Two to six
is a snooze snoozefest And he also talked about Sean
Salisbury's numbers in the NFL for games he wasn't there for,

(01:17:29):
but that I don't know that was him. I okay, Well,
thank you, and he apologized. Yeah, we're still listening. Yeah,
the keto great friendship with radio listeners and your relationships
in life in general. It's to be able to apologize. Yeah, communication, warmth,
m kindness, openness, open your heart, Matt, be ready to perfect. Yeah, exactly,

(01:17:51):
all right. Eleven fifty seven on Sports Talk seven, and
we have a fantasy five. We got a draft four here.
Oh my god, I haven't even written my list. I'll
write my list in the next five seconds. Okay, Now,
how are we gonna get these songs played? There's no way,
John Jonathan can't do this.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Why not?

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
It's a lot of work in a short period of
you talking about I gotta put the song on. So
as you say, I'm like, yeah, we're gonna send you
the list of ten songs. You're gonna pull up a
few tabs of YouTube and have the ones in the system.
We're good to go. Matt, Okay, I what was that noise?
What do you what kind of you got a nervous
click over the.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
Coffee?

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Hot?

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Are you in a Tejano band in your off time?
If anybody's hire, hey, hey, hey, never mind, you play
the accordion? All right? We gotta wake the strippers up next,
which is going to confuse this young lady that's in
our office right now. She's like, what are you talking about?
I'll tell her this story during the break, please do.
And we have to get the noon open ready. Vanessa
Rich is going to join us at twelve twenty. She

(01:18:46):
is I think traveling it mays she may be in
a different airport. I don't know. She may be back
in Oklahoma City. Whatever the case, but we'll talk to
her coming up in about twenty minutes from now. Seven
one three two one two five seven nine. If you'd
like to be a part of our radio show today,
that's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
You want to follow us on Twitter, we'd love for
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(01:19:08):
and at Sports Talk seven ninety one, twelve O four
in h Town.

Speaker 7 (01:19:21):
Good morning, Ster and bars.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
And welcome down three of them. Thomas show it Ross.
There's his Sports Talk seven ninety all ip chicks, Cheeks
a hamster wants to listen to the show the demo.
I don't think cheeks is in demo. Actually two year

(01:19:57):
old hamster center demographic Now no kind of disposable income?

Speaker 3 (01:20:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
By the way, my girlfriend said that you killed the
hamster by feeding him too much.

Speaker 1 (01:20:07):
Wait a minute, she doesn't know anything. What are you
talking about? She was listening to the clips. She didn't
know what. When did she become a hamster expert?

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
You?

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
I'm just just because girl says doesn't mean it's truth.
Oh that's ridiculous. Did you know why he got cancer?
I don't know. You can't get cancer by feena hamster
too much. The hamster lived longer than the average hamster.
Loves that hamsters appreciate the food we fed. We got
a prime corn on the cob. We got them prime

(01:20:38):
the seeds. Guys, there's there's no sense in fighting over
what happened to cheeks. I don't need branch dressing girl
to tell me that what's going on. Damn, you just
have to We just have to accept that cheeks is gone.
I don't even know his girl, and she's taking shots
to the way I raised my hamsters. That's weird. That
is the interesting you. That's a sentence you never thought

(01:20:59):
you'd say. Never my entire life, Yeah, my entire life.
All right, it's twelve waight time now for the new
ze noon. And with that we go to the sports laboratory. Yes,
we're ross Hill Real has put together an amazing summation
of what's happening years. I've been working on this for hours, Matt. Yeah,
but we will start with the Houston Astros. A disappointing

(01:21:22):
walk off lost the second one in four games in Sacramento.

Speaker 4 (01:21:27):
Here's a two to one and Kurtz hits him high
in the air, pretty keep to center. This is gonna
win the game. Myers is back and it's gone. A
walk off, two run home run for Nick Kertz, his
second walk off two run home run of this series
and the A's weint it at the bottom of the
tenth six to four home run number nine on the

(01:21:49):
year for Kurtz and his fourth home run in the
last five games.

Speaker 1 (01:21:55):
Nick Kurts, Nick Kurtz. Nick Kurtz with a home run,
two walkoffs in one series against the Astros. They lose
six to four. That's the under ten and a half
for you, Matt Thomas. Yep, Josh Haters era up to
one point sixty seven because only one of those runs

(01:22:15):
was earned. Colton Gordon was solid enough five innings to
earn excuse me, three runs, two of them earned a
walk for strikeouts. Got a four point five to four
ERA on the year. Jake Myers the only out. Sorry,
Jake Myers and Jeremy Payne are the only Astros with
a multi hit game in this one. See Astros lose
and now fight Anaheim or of course they're already in

(01:22:38):
Anaheim for an eight thirty eight first pitch tonight on
Sports Talk seven to ninety Matt Thomas with the Astros
on Deck show coming up at seven thirty, and it'll
be you say, Kikuchi going against his old teammates. Yes,
Hunter Brown, I would favor the Astros in that. Astros
still five games ahead of the Seattle Mariners as they

(01:22:58):
continue to hold an advantage in the American League West. They,
by the way, are a half game behind the New
York Yankees for the second seed in the American League. Yeah,
because the Yankees did beat the Angels yesterday. Yes, all right.
Also in the sports news last night, the Indiana Pacers
defeat the Oklahoma City Thunder to force Game seven in
the NBA Finals, one OA to ninety one, the victory

(01:23:22):
for the Surs, as they call them. How do you
feel about that nickname? By the way, this sirs no opinion? Whatsover?
I think it's terrible, but it's so bad it's funny,
so I kind of like it. Does that make sense?
It's stupid? Yeah, I don't like it. It's so bad
it makes me laugh. What does it called? The they called?
They have the they wear shirts that say yes sirs. Well,
Vanessa Richardson, who is a pacer fous growing up, Okay,

(01:23:46):
we'll ask her opinion about it. Okay, she'll be joining us,
and she gives us her trials and tribulations of traveling
in about ten minutes. My opinion is it's so bad
it's good. Tyrese Halliburton playing on a hurt calf, he
still had fourteen points five the cysts, and it was
a lot of bench work for the pacers. Twenty points
from Obi Topping, twelve from TJ McConnell. Let TJ Cook

(01:24:11):
twelve points, nine rebounds, six assists. He's been one of
the unsung heroes. Matt, I cannot believe this game, this
series has gone seven games. I am stunned, and not
only my stunned me two seven, but how game six
was lousy last night? Was anything can happen in a
game seven that thunder seven and a half point favorites?
And I believe it's gonna catch you more than about
fourteen hundred dollars a ticket if you want to be
in the game building for game seven. Well, that's the

(01:24:34):
price of poker. You know what I love about these
finals play cells. The crowds, the Pacers fans were standing
up the whole game, right, Well, everybody wears the shirt. Yeah,
nobody at certain arenas that might run with Moyota Minter
wear the shirt. They just take them home if the
seats are even full. But I love that both of
these teams they have two of the best crowds in basketball.

(01:24:57):
That's really added to the experience of watching the NBA Final.
If you said, Matt, send me on an NBA road
trip to five cities that embraced the game and the event,
they're on my list. Yeah, both of them. But also,
if you want a good city for restaurants and things
to do, I would choose Indiana, but I wouldn't go
there like six times in two weeks. Yeah, okay, Oklahoma
City's I mean, Toby Key's restaurant wasn't very good. So

(01:25:20):
I'm done with it. One more thing, Matt. Things as
far as tensions are boily over between the Dodgers and
podres Otani taking a one hundred mile an hour fastball
to his right shoulder blade, you also had Fernando Tatiste
Junior getting hit twice in a game last night. Benches
clearing between the Dodgers and Padres. The rivalry in the

(01:25:41):
National League West is alive, and well, do we even
have a rival right now? The Astros? Who's I would
say Rangers over the last several years, biggest rival. But
who who's the last time in the Astros gonna fight
with anybody? It would be the Rangers. I think Dolas
Garcia and Camartine malden Well, that was in the regular season.
I think Marcus Simeon who stumped on the home plate

(01:26:03):
with Garcia or Simeon Simeon and then Martin Maldanano got
all pissy, yeah, and then benches cleared. Oh, then they
had it was uh when Hector Narris went after was
it Julio Rodriguez when he struck him out with the
Mariner because the Mariners were hitting everybody? Hector got it suspended, correct, Yeah,
something like that. Yeah, Okay, how about the Mariners. We're

(01:26:24):
anti Mariners. Mayners suck. Yeah, they're overrated. All right, And
that's your news at New Thanks very much.

Speaker 3 (01:26:28):
Try.

Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
We're gonna check in in with Vanessa in Oklahoma City,
see how our travels that are going. She there already, Okay,
I think so she's our plane land like an hour ago. Okay,
we'll check in with her next wonderful twelve fourteen. It
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one, three, two, five,
seven nine, And if you want to jump into the conversation,
you may do so. We're also gonna draft Ross and
I are fantasy five of songs of Summer. Bette's's gonna

(01:26:52):
join us in a couple of minutes. I think she's
getting on the plane, probably in first class. All the
miles she's flying these days can be a Centel went
to Brent. This guy, Brett Siegel again, Ross Central Central,
cent Central Central, excuse me. The Rockets have repeatedly offered
Jalen Green in the tenth pick for Kevin Durant and

(01:27:13):
have refused to include players like Jabari Smith, Junior, Tari Easton,
and Reed. Shephard all right, see quoting this will give
you one more thing. Go ahead quote Jalen Green in
the tenth pick to this year's draft presents a clear
opportunity for the Rockets to swing a deal, but the
Sons have demanded more. Sources say Jabbari, Tari and Reed
are among the young talents in Houston and Phoenix has
expressed interest in the Rockets have not been willing to

(01:27:34):
part with any of the three to this point that,
according to Brett Siegeal of Clutch Points, agreed repeatedly they've
repeatedly said, hey, Jalen Green in the tenth. No, that
doesn't sound right to me, you know what I'm saying.
Why would they repeatedly offer the same thing. I don't know.
Maybe I'm just misreadings hearing. How about this, if the

(01:27:54):
Rockets said I will give you Jalen and the tenth,
the son say no. The Sons say give us Jalen
ten and read, and the Rockets can say no. So
there's about there's a bunch of people repeatedly saying no
to each other. That's why. That's how I interpreted it. Okay,
every time, but the Phoenix Suns asked for something, the

(01:28:14):
Rockets say no. That's how when I when I hear repeatedly,
that's what I think of. Then another thing is happened
on in this NPA NBA Central According to Boogie Cousins,
Boogie Cousins and Breaking Boogie nothing to do with the Rockets.
According to Boogie Cousins, the Phoenix Sons reportedly had multiple

(01:28:35):
fights in their locker room this past season. Guess who
chimed in on that on Twitter? Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant
did Kevin de is why I love Kevin Durant Being
on Twitter? He says the following, I have to contest
this ninety four footer. This some bs and he puts
the word on there to throw on us. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

(01:28:57):
we were trash is here ha ha ha. But we
never got close to this. Never now. I called half
a boogie season's game. Remember he was a short term rocket. Yes,
he scared me, okay, and I think after watching him
beat up a fan in the stands a little while

(01:29:17):
ago overseas, I think he still scares me to this day.
He looks like the most unhimpy man in the history
of human beings. Hmm. Certainly, you would say, certainly, but
why would Boogie make that up? And I guess the
question would be, could Boogie.

Speaker 13 (01:29:33):
Make that up?

Speaker 1 (01:29:36):
Hmm? I don't know. Maybe there were, maybe there were
heated arguments, but not fist fights shoving. But Kevin Durant
was so mad about he went right to his Twitter
he said, never got close to this now Kevin Durant
is always on Twitter, which I love. He once he
got caught in the burner. He's like, you know what,
screw it. I don't care about you all. I'm gonna

(01:29:57):
be on my regular Twitter, on my main account if
he if he becomes a rocket, I'm gonna ask him
to follow me. Okay, get my Twitter count up. He
is following almost fifteen hundred accounts. I mean, what's fifty
on one among friends? That's what I'm saying. He follows
boss X Sports. Oh geez all right, let's say, ahead
of Vanessa, where are you? By the way, I just.

Speaker 13 (01:30:17):
Get my apartment. I am doing laundry before I go
to Okay seek for game seven.

Speaker 1 (01:30:23):
So I was gonna ask you. And by the way,
we don't care about the game. Don't care about you,
h hot. I know, have you been home much?

Speaker 7 (01:30:31):
What is going on?

Speaker 1 (01:30:32):
Where have you been the last I mean, I know
where you've been. What do you mean what is going on?

Speaker 13 (01:30:35):
I'm working part time for I know that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:38):
First of all, why are you calling me in your bathroom?
Are you in the shower right now? What's going on
with that? It sounds like you're in a tunnel.

Speaker 13 (01:30:43):
No, I'm not in the bathroom, but I wouldn't tell
you if I was.

Speaker 1 (01:30:48):
Okay, stay in my apartment building. Okay, So they've let
you come home for a couple of days each time.
I mean, you've been home in Houston a lot or
not at all? What's going on with that?

Speaker 13 (01:30:58):
No, hardly at all. I mean it's just like if
I need to do laundry or get some things. But
you know, we also have typically have player availability the
day before the game. So even though there's multiple days
between certain games, you know, you still typically have to
be in this city to be ready.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Okay, So for the last month, you have been in
Oklahoma City a bunch. You have been in Minneapolis, you
have been in Indianapolis. How many days have you been
in Houston in the last six weeks?

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:31:29):
God, maybe four or five?

Speaker 1 (01:31:34):
Who's checking your mail? Nobody? So you've so you've come home.
You have a stack of mail in your bedroom, in
your in your apartment. Right now, Bill's got to get paid,
dry cleaning's got to get dried. I mean, the life
of a national national broadcaster. Now knew.

Speaker 13 (01:31:56):
I knew.

Speaker 3 (01:31:56):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:31:56):
The reason why we were calling you first is because
I was talking about the fact that you've been probably
gone a lot of the time, and that we knocked
off a restaurant on our Oklahoma City travel tour this year.
We said we're not going to go to what's the
place where IL said the Kobe t Yeah, because the
food was terrible. So I mean, if you're in New York, LA, Chicago, Miami,

(01:32:17):
there's plenty of place to go. No disrespect to your
hometown of Indianapolis is a great city, you know much.
I love Indianapolis, But are you kind of running in
the same restaurants over and over as you go to
these cities?

Speaker 13 (01:32:28):
No, I mean, well, Oklahoma City, Yes, indianapolcause of actually
groping beside the city it is. It has a good
food scene, and it's becausely guilt it to be a
convention city. So between mass ab and Broad Ripple and
different areas, they actually do have some good restaurants. But
Oklahoma City it is a struggle. I feel like I've

(01:32:50):
gone to they have a stay host there called Mahogany,
and I feel like I've eaten there at this point
probably ten times. That's not an exaggeration. So definitely difficult.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
You can hit the chilies or the TGI Fridays or
something I'm not.

Speaker 13 (01:33:05):
I'm not opposed to a good GGI Friday. I am
not too good for that.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
You know they at Chili's they got the chips, burger
and drink for like eleven dollars. I mean, that's not
a bad Yore.

Speaker 13 (01:33:17):
Here's what I want the listeners to know. The only
time I've gotten mad, I've gotten mad at nom twice
regarding food. That the time was when we wanted to
go to the Chief take practice. We're in La said,
I like the cheesecake factors, but when we're in y
are nice enough to let us stay on your day.

(01:33:39):
We are not going to the cheesecake factory. The second
time I got mad because I had I don't want
to put your friend out there, but there's a certain
restaurant in certain city but I didn't like the first time. Yeah,
we were told it would be better the second time,
and then I got got a little food poison.

Speaker 1 (01:33:56):
Yeah, oh my god, Yeah, I accept those. Wow, Vanessa.
Of all of Matt's weird food uh proclivities, which one
offends you the most? There's I don't offend her with
my food choices. That's ridiculous. No, No, that's true. He's

(01:34:16):
the worst.

Speaker 13 (01:34:17):
Won't eat anything white. So he won't eat ranch, he
won't eat white fevers. What he won't like it's very odd.

Speaker 1 (01:34:27):
Yeah, so he'll have cheddar, but he won't have white cheddar.

Speaker 3 (01:34:31):
Correct.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
Well, it's like, tell Vanessa, let's get him on the fleet.
We go, we go to eat, and we say, i'll
have a steak, I'll have it medium, I'll have a
salad maked potato. He runs through, Well, what does it
have on it? And what things are you have to
take it? It's like the ordering takes twenty five minutes.
Why didn't he do his research beforehand? And do you
guys a favor? It's terrible, It's just awful. Okay, so

(01:34:54):
let's do a couple more things here. You've been bouncing
back and forth. Uh, who is the most Who's the
most famous person you met during this little NBA Finals
run of yours? Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:35:04):
Most famous person? That's a good question. I mean, obviously
a lot of the you know NBA great like Oscar
Robertson and you know, Reggie Miller, and a lot of
I mean I already met Reggie, but a lot of
a lot of the NBA greats are around, So that's
been a rick box on his stream that my guests

(01:35:26):
and we had shack and so, yeah, it's been fun.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
So are you tired of traveling? Are you okay? Because
this I mean you're gonna be first of all, game
sevens are awesome, so you're gonna be in the in
the best place to hang out. But are you are
you getting a little fatigued? Are you doing You're hanging
in there all right?

Speaker 13 (01:35:41):
I absolutely haven't question right, yew, So, I don't know
that my body likes to traveling as much as I
enjoyed it. But you know, overall, it's been good. Looks
little really spoiled when we travel with the Rocks because
we fly you know, private, and we fly on that
beautiful seven sixty seven rocket shifts, so it is a

(01:36:01):
little bit of an adjustment. And the other thing is
there aren't direct flights between Oklahoma City and Indianapolis like
there are pretty much none. So yeah, the travel has
definitely been a little bit of a challenge, but it's
been super fun.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Well, congratulations, I'm glad you're home. I'll let you get
back to your cleaning of the clothes. When are you leaving? Tomorrow.
Are you leaving tonight?

Speaker 13 (01:36:23):
Leaving tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (01:36:26):
And the Haunted Hotel has been okay or any issues there.

Speaker 13 (01:36:31):
No issues so far, although I was they did have
me on the haunted floor. The tenth floor is the
one that's haunted and allegedly and I didn't like that.
They had some creepy pictures in the room. So maybe
they're just playing it up. But yeah, I mean I wasn't.
I wasn't a fan.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
No, No, that's that's terrible. That's terrible. All right, Hey,
we're very happy for you. Congratulations all your success. You're
killing it on ESPN radio and now I'm doing the
ESPN YouTube page. Watch that again, and i'man Shepherd's uh,
it's it's been fun working with him, I'm assuming.

Speaker 13 (01:37:03):
Yeah, it's been great. He's been awesome. He's been a
really great teammate.

Speaker 1 (01:37:07):
And the the traction you guys got was when Shams
had a little bit of a facial expression other day.
But that was kind of funny.

Speaker 13 (01:37:15):
Yeah, I mean, he brought him on to talk about
we brought Sean Zan to talk about the NIXT coaching
search to Kevin Durant, you know, Saga and everything that
that's been, and then I think there was maybe one other.
Oh yeah's Bay Trade, and so we brought him.

Speaker 9 (01:37:30):
On and.

Speaker 13 (01:37:32):
Sean he didn't know which caver to look at, so
he was like trying to figure out what camera to
look at. And then people like clicked that and thought
that he was trying to spend signals with his body
language saying that Kevin Durant was going to the Spurs,
And so Sean had to on the patin Apafee show.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
Yeah. Imagine having to somebody taking something on social media
and in misconstruting it for something else. It's a stunner.

Speaker 13 (01:37:56):
That's stunning, terrible place.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
All right, young lady, be careful going up there, and
we'll talk with you when you get back to town.
And congratulations on your success. We'll talk to you soon.

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
Oh you got it.

Speaker 1 (01:38:05):
Vanessa Richardson the Star of ESPN on the YouTube page
and on ESPN Radio and our Space City and all
that stuff. I just hope she remembers us when she
hits the big time. I was thinking about the people
that I've worked with my life, one of them being
Andre Ware does now college football in the Texans. I
don't like this list who also worked with us gone on.
I'm still sitting here. Who else Tom Lougan Bill who

(01:38:28):
did a regreen in football with me, Now he does
ESPN college football. Dan Patrick is lieutenant governor Hirst was
Actually he got me and he's a lieutenant governor of
our stock. Okay, still yeah, still he's not the one
under Who's the one that got indicted? It's Ken Paxton
or was it him? Now one Damn Patrick? Okay? Who
else have I worked with? It's gone on a bigger

(01:38:48):
and better fame. We'll figure Vanessa Richardson. Vanessa's clearly doing
well for herself. Yeah, not that way, you know. I
think we'll think of some other people. Some of if
you I've worked with in radio have gone on to
other radio jobs, done quite well for themselves. And you're
you've you've made the executive decision to stay here with me,
and that's for that. I appreciate you. Let me see

(01:39:09):
what the jobs looking like you're doing. You're not going anywhere.
We'll play by playing Jefferson, Iowa. It's open here. I've
never been in Jefferson, Iowa. Me either, doing Jefferson with
a three A high school football.

Speaker 11 (01:39:23):
Yes, so.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
I don't think it pays gonna be great. Probably not
all right. Twelve thirty two, we've got the Fantasy five
draft of best Summer Socks coming up at one twenty.
We've already drafted, and I think my list is superior.
That comes to zero surprise. But I think your list
is good, honest about I don't have I don't have
any issue with any pick you made. Well that that's

(01:39:46):
the first time for that. That's not true. The judge,
I think these are I think they're pretty late. This
is a good battle.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
By the way, you will be judging this time. You
want to judge or no, he judged last time and
he chose you.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39:58):
All the judges okay, yeah, the callers are gonna do.
You're gonna be judge number four this week, Judge number four.
Judge number four was a big swing judge. It's just
he's a swinger.

Speaker 7 (01:40:09):
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

Speaker 1 (01:40:11):
He said it, not me. It's throwing that out there.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to chime in on anything goes Friday seven
one three two one two five seventy would Boogie cousins
lie about the Oklahoma, the Sun, I mean the Phoenix
Sun's fighting. Well he could have heard that from somebody. Yeah,

(01:40:31):
you look, you hear something. Oh, man, did you hear
there's a fifth fight? You can hear from somebody who
heard from someboday fight. And there was this argument. Man,
Katie went right to it. He's like, what are you
talking about? Yes, he did. All right, let's talk about
risehealth dot com. This song, by the way, did not
make our Fantasy five. There's on my list. It's a

(01:40:52):
great summertime song. It's a it's a Diddy, not a
like we can't even say Diddy, can't we? Why not?

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
Because of Diddy? P You know, this is my favorite
Mungo Jerry song. Matt, what's your second favorite Mungo Jerry songs?
There's so many choices. I'm gonna go with h Darland.
I need you more than ever.

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
That was.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
That was a sleeper hit man so sleepy. That was
a This is a worldwide number one hit, number three
in US. I was just pulling it up number one
in Germany, Ireland, Belgium, New Zealand, across the planet. Basically,
good for him. What year nineteen seventy and he never

(01:41:40):
had another US Top forty hit one hit. Wonder, Mungo Jerry,
Are there bands that you've are there songs you've heard
that you're surprised they've only had one hit? Does that
make any say to you? Surprised to just read Mungo
Jerry only had one hit? Couldn't get another one? Mungo?
Can I give you a band that's from Texas that
I think? I'm stunned they only had one hit? Okay,

(01:42:05):
Breakfast at Tiffany's. Who sings that deep blue something? You
don't know who they are? Yeah, you can't be that surprise.
That song is really clever and interesting and sung well.
Uh and they're from Texas. Yeah, I think they know that.
I think they went to sam Houston. I think really
hold me to that Craig. Craig always gives them credit

(01:42:27):
for being sam Houston guys. Hmmm, uh deep blue Something
yet from the origin of Denton, Texas. Okay, so from Denton.
I knew they were from. Now this is North Texas?

Speaker 7 (01:42:39):
You know I knew you know what?

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
That's right? He is such a fraud because I thought
they were North Texas guys. And he kept he's telling
about and the mother there's Sam Houston. Guys. He's wrong though,
unless the Wikipedia is wrong. What no, no, no, no, no,
no no no no no no your peeps. Yeah, well yeah,
for a while they were in Denton. That's good. You'd
like that. Well, no, I don't think I would. You
don't even know Dan. It's a college town of no Texas, okay, small, tiny,

(01:43:02):
got a mall. What's the population of the raffles? It's good, exactly,
got a bed Bobster what they call the like the
string of bars, and didn't text her was there. They
just call it the strip. So uh, the movie uh
Necessary Roughness was filmed there, and I met uh Kathy
Ireland okay back in the day when she was a supermodel,

(01:43:23):
really and she was in the movie. She was awesome,
very very nice, and she called security on you. And
then we went to bed Bobster one time, bed Bobster
and Sindbad was sitting two tables over from us. Really, yeah,
the Sindbad. Yeah, alive or dead? Don't don't even say it,
no you, I'm asking you. He's alive, not doing well,

(01:43:46):
but he's alive. Yeah, I thought I heard he strokes
yeah yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:43:51):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Uh seven one three, two, one two, five, seven ninety.
Let's talk to Biscuit of the Matt Thomas Show at
twelve forty two. Biscuit, what do you got today?

Speaker 3 (01:44:00):
Coo?

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
You're mad?

Speaker 9 (01:44:01):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:44:01):
First of all, Man, don't try to don't try to
give our home world away.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:44:05):
Tell your hometown is Naptown. She's a hotion man.

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
Terror hold Intianna.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Baby when I find her.

Speaker 11 (01:44:14):
Yeah, and I'm glad to see she's doing a well job.
I thought I was checking one of my cousins. He
kind of did some checking on because I was trying
to see. I don't know if you on the on
the on the Cavaliers, they have a guard that played
for Wichita State, Craig Porter Jr.

Speaker 3 (01:44:31):
And he's from Uh.

Speaker 11 (01:44:32):
He went to the same high school as Vanessa. But
I think they're as a as a four or five
year gap in between them. But anyway, man, Uh getting
to the Pacers, Man, I'm telling you, I'm telling you,
and Rass you can you can chime in on this.

Speaker 3 (01:44:49):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 11 (01:44:49):
If you got Shaye and Wims right, and then you
got on the Pacers, you got Haller, Burdon and Siakam.
If you take those four off the page and then
compare both teams and then has the better teams. The
problem is, can Siakam and Halliburton play close enough to

(01:45:14):
Shade and Whims? What the other guys can make the
difference if they within fifteen points? I think the other
guys on the Pacers could make the difference.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
And it don't even matter.

Speaker 11 (01:45:24):
It could be one night, It could be Obie one night,
it could be uh, what's the math room? That they
got so many different guys that that you know, none
of them are counted upon it. They just need one
or two of them to come through and it's gonna
be interested in the game seven. But the reason I
call it in Matt is that I'm asking you and
Ross looking at the Pacers, does that give you pause

(01:45:47):
if you the Rockets about chasing the superstar? Because to me,
the Pacers don't have a superstar. They just have a
good team with a bunch of decent guys. Do you
think the Rocket shit, I think look hard about making
this train for KD or whoever and breaking up the
Young Nucleus.

Speaker 1 (01:46:05):
I don't think they're looking at this series going. We
need to make a decision one way or the other.
I think they're looking at this as this is Oklahoma City.
This is a league with Denver in the West. Is
a league with who else Lakers, Timbers, Timberwolves are up
and coming. It's a it's a league that's got four
or five teams in the Western Conference to claim the
Western Conference championship next year, and we got to And

(01:46:27):
the Rockets are thinking, is this move? Could this move
be the difference on us being who we are at
fifty two wins or maybe being better? And I think
that's the decision.

Speaker 4 (01:46:36):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:36):
They could just stay with the core and that'd be
fine with me as well, and they could go to
fifty five fifty six wins and maybe be a top
three seed and maybe be a team that knocks ouf opponents.
But that's an that's those are internal conversations, but they're
not They're not looking at Indiana going well, Andrew Nemhart
is playing well. We can't we don't need to go
get Kevin Durant.

Speaker 11 (01:46:53):
No, I'm what I'm saying, Matt is, though, if you
just stay young instead of trying to chase superstar unless
the young guys grow, and maybe that's the best way
to go long term. Because you mentioned the Lakers, they're
gonna kind of fall off. Some of the other teams
are up in age, you know what I mean, the

(01:47:14):
Rockets already with a second seed. They can't do nothing
to get better in my opinion, So I mean I
might stay the course. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
Ok, you know, yeah, I mean, yeah, I don't think
And thank you Biscuit for the phone call. I there's
probably people in the Rockets camp that are in your cornerer,
some other people in the corner. They're probably saying we
need to go. I mean there obviously thinks that Kevin
Durank can help because they're still involved in the contract negotiations. Yeah,
the trade, Yeah, trade negotiations. And yeah, you can say,

(01:47:45):
and it will be true that NBA players don't peak
at twenty three and twenty two, which is what Jalen
Green and Alprinching Gooon are and there can be room
for both of those guys have grown in different ways
in their career and gotten better. The question is not
can the Rockets get better, which they will, it's can
the Rockets be better than those other teams in the

(01:48:09):
Western Conference They were out in the first round. I know,
it was a great season, they were number two seed
and all that stuff. They were out in the first round.
And one thing we always forget about is that we
assume this is in any sport, that if our players
are getting better, then other teams players are not getting better.
Why can't Anthony Edwards get better? Absolutely? Why can't Why

(01:48:31):
can't Luka Doncics drop a few pounds? And I mean
that remains to be seen if that's gonna happen, But
why can't he be better working with Lebron in a
full training camp? And that's why, again, these are all
things that are being mulled over right now. Luka Doncics
is what twenty five or six? Yeah, shake Gilless, Alexander's
twenty six. There's no reason why those guys can't be better. So, yeah,

(01:48:52):
it's hard out there. And so if you want to say, hey,
you know what, we're gonna bank on our guys growing internally,
can they overcome everyone else in the West, or you
can just say, hey, we're fine being a two seed,
making it a couple of deep rounds deep and it's
not a championship or bus process for us. And that's
okay too. Actually, That's fine because we do get obsessed
with with rings, rings, rings and championship or bus and

(01:49:15):
chasing is difficult, especially when you if you think that
the guy you're chasing is not in his prime chase
you wanna go chase Giannis in his prime, then that's
a different conversation. Phoenix Suns chased Bradley Beal and Kevin Durant,
and they were they were on the outside looking in
the playoffs. The Brooklyn Nets traded for Kevin Durant and
they had Durant Irving and they traded for James Harden

(01:49:40):
and where are they right now? So yeah, we can
point all around the NBA for guys and teams that
pushed and swung for the fences and missed. Twelve forty eight,
Sports Talk seven ninety seven, one three, two five seven
Anti Fantasy five will need judges coming up at one twenty.
That's a jam. Rest in peace to sly Stone. I'm

(01:50:04):
surprised neither one of us chose this. I've put this
more on myself. It was on my list. I mean,
I like my list, got a good list, Matt, Yeah,
coup more of my flavor of songs, per se, So
you'll figure that out, and we have the Fantasy five.
We got Fantasy five coming up at one twenty today,
and we will need five judges. Actually we may need

(01:50:27):
six because we we do a best of seven. It's
first of four to win. If we go to a
game seven, we go to a game seven, and Jonathan
is the fourth vote, and he voted for me in
the last Fantasy five. My guess is he will vote
for you this go around because he feels like he
needs nothing because my list is better. He needs to
be fair and balanced because my list is better. Okay, whatever,

(01:50:47):
All right? Twelve fifty four on Sports Talk, someone in
down becoming I'm playing psychological games with Jonathan. I'm not
playing psychological music. Vote with your heart. Votes all heart, Jonathan.
It's all about the music. It's exactly exactly right. All right,
real quick? What else we got going on here? I
want to We'll get to the Astros top of the
ur I want to give them a little more room.
We mentioned the NBA Kevin Durant. Anything else going on

(01:51:09):
Astros in Anaheim? Yeah? With you say, Kakuci going there? Uh,
Kakuchie having a good season, by the way, he's two
and six, But he's got a three point zero five
earned run average, although the whip is pretty high at
one point four eight. You know, it's funny we've we
talked about how maybe we worry about NBA TV ratings

(01:51:30):
too much. I'm looking at the sixth story on the ESPN. Oh,
I don't think the thirty point below up was rated well.
Probably Stanley Cup ratings drop lower than four Nations. You
know they did. You know, they did a four Nations
like a mid season event that did very very well.

Speaker 12 (01:51:44):
What.

Speaker 1 (01:51:45):
Yeah, the final of your sport is lower rated than
an exhibition tournament. That's pretty crazy. Average of two point
five million viewers watched the NBA or the NHL's uh
Stanley Cup on T and T. That was Game six.
They had a four point one seven million watch on

(01:52:06):
ABC last year. Headline from Awful announcing Lakers ten billion
dollar value proves there's nothing to worry about with NBA ratings.
I would tend to agree with that. If the league
was dying and the ratings are bad and nobody cared,
Lakers wouldn't be worth ten billion dollars. Yeah, it was
interesting talking about Brian Windhorst here for a minute when

(01:52:27):
he was asked about what he thought about the ten
billion dollar deal. What is it, what's an indication of it?
He says two things. One, the Lakers have been so
old school that they're going to the new ownership, who's
part owner and the owners of the Dodgers, is going
to kind of revolutionize how the Lakers do their business,
which whatever that is. But it sounds like they want

(01:52:48):
to get old school in what sense. It's like marketing tickets, advertisements,
branding all that. They're just gonna They're gonna just put
a fresh coat of paint on there and whatever that is.
I'm presuming that's the things I just said. Okay, But
the second thing I said is the NBA owners now
know that you can get this kind of money for

(01:53:08):
an nhlp for a team. They're going to expand the
NBA by two teams. Expansion has been discussed and we
saw what was it last a few months ago? The
Rockets value valued at six billion when they when Telman
bought them for two billion. What was that in seventeen
or where around when we were in Dalla, Yeah, about seventeen,
somewhere in that range. Joe Stone in the heyday of

(01:53:30):
James Harning Company eight years tripled in value from two
billion to four billion. And I remember when it sold
for two billion, I was like, oh my gosh, two
billion dollars. So with this money, the ten billion dollars,
there's gonna be two teams that probably are going to
get Two cities are going to get NBA teams because
they're gonna They're not saying that each team is going
to be sold for ten billion dollars to get in,

(01:53:51):
but there's obviously some people out there that want to
get involved in the NBA. Seattle in Las Vegas, those
would be the heavy favorites. I would say, Uh, Plan
C would be involving Mexico City. A distant Plan D
would be maybe putting a team in London. I don't
think so, but I think I think it comes down
to Seattle heavy favorite, Las Vegas heavy, favorite, Mexico city

(01:54:15):
in the mex In probably Kansas City. Can they get
the Sonics name back in all the history? I believe
it'd be part kind of like what happened with the Browns.
I would be stunned that the new team wouldn't be
called the Super Sonics, And you know what, it'll help
that out. Too is if it's Thunder win this championship,
they'd be like, we got our own history boy, our
buddy Softy who does radio in Seattle. They are so
they have such hatred for the Thunder. Oh man, you can't.

(01:54:37):
His Twitter account is full of go Pacers win by thirty,
crush them. We all hate watch stuff. That's that's like
one of the all time hate watches. Well, I'll tell
you this. When the Titans win the Super Bowl, I
did the exact same thing. I was saying, go Rams
a whole way. I was rooting for him. Actually I would.
I mean, but this guy like Steve McNair, I liked
Eddie George. Yeah, I like Whitecheck, I like the players

(01:54:59):
that was my team wearing a different uniform, different city.
I totally understand that. So I'm I'm usually we crack
on Softy variety of things, and that's one of the things.
I would not do that because I know exactly what
he's going through. All right, let's get to the final
hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It isn't
anything goes Friday, which means you get to talk about
anything you want, whether it be the Astros performance against

(01:55:20):
the A's as they split the series, have a three
game set with Anaheim. We're also going to go back
to this automatic ball strike situation. There was a tweet
that I want to give you a little and I
wish I could do it, but you know, we'll do.
We'll play the audio of it because this is Dodgers
TV that just lost their mind over a non strike call.
Do that final hour Matt Thomas Show Ross twenty minutes

(01:55:40):
from now. It's a Fantasy five here on seven ninety
all right, one hour left to go. It is the
Matt Thomas Show at Ross. The Astros will begin a
three game series with the Anaheimers tonight. We'll have the
on deck show for you at seven point thirty. First
pitch will be at eight thirty eight, which means because
it's pre nin and I'll be hosting the tenth inning show.

(01:56:02):
Thank you, Matt. We appreciate you putting in the time
real quick. Before we get to this audio, I want
to play and we'll get some masters's conversation.

Speaker 5 (01:56:08):
You know what they need.

Speaker 1 (01:56:09):
They should put you on the on the Hall of
Honor at dyk In Park the press pot. You can
nominate me. I can't. Yeah, you will get an emails.
Please submit your nomination. Does it cost anything? No, I'm busy.
What is the cost of how busy you are? Have
anything to do with it? With each other, stuff to do? Okay,
I mean you don't have to, that's fine, but you should.

(01:56:31):
You should be nominated at least. Okay, I mean I
don't think I'm gonna get in, but it's yeah, it's fine,
all right, let me let me get to You know
that there's a Happy Gilmore two coming out. Yes, I
saw the trailer. I saw the first trailer. I didn't
see the extended trailer. First trailer was very underwhelming, and
Happy Gilmore is one of my favorite movies of all time.

(01:56:52):
Movies I've seen most like you know, when you're a
kid in the VHS and you watch it like fifty times.
Friday's one, Happy Gilmore's two, So it's a movie. I've
seen The Gilmore a million times. I'm I'm all for
reboots and I'm all for seeking them. I don't mind them.
I hate in fact, I in fact it brings me
back to yesteryear and makes me think of the great
movies there. Usually, Yeah, they're tapping into nostalgia, which we

(01:57:14):
all love nostalgia, but it's terrible. It feels like we've
had the second versions of these movies that have been
like Coming to America was an amazing movie with Eddie
Murphy and Arsineo Hall James coming to America. Apparently coming
to America. The number two didn't do so well. I
didn't even watch it. Did you watch it?

Speaker 7 (01:57:33):
And watch?

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
And there have been some other ones too. I'm feeling
we're gonna be a little underwhelmed with this one. I
think so too, because what do you do with happy
Gilmour one that you could possibly shake things up? And
happy gilmore too. I never even saw Zoolander two. Never
did any I liked Zuelander. I saw Dumb and Number two.
It was not good. Oh that's another good example, dumb

(01:57:59):
a number two and workout. Now I'm talking that there
have been a lot of sequels to movies that have
been relatively quick after the first one was made. You're
talking about the min what mid nineties for Gilmour? Uh huh?
And the second one is now in twenty twenty five.
I mean you, what do you it would be like?
What's a great movie of the nineteen nineties? And did

(01:58:21):
you watch the Beverly Hills Poe remake or no sequel.
No neither. The first and second ones were good enough
for me. Three and four and now five or whatever
it is terrible. Did you like it'd be like a
risky business two? Yeah? I mean I saw Joe Dirt
two was horrible. I turned it off. I never finished. Hey, hey,
now Joe dirty dirt. Oh christ terrible? Oh, I said,

(01:58:44):
all the timer. My point is that if you're going
to do a sequel that's thirty years past the first one,
you better be really good with it. Bad Centa two
was I thought was underrated. I thought it was pretty flunny.
Bad sound of one, of course, is an old timer
like that. I didn't mind. Airplane two wasn't nearly as
good as Airplane one, but it followed up relatively quickly

(01:59:05):
after Airplane. You watched the New uh, the New Vacation, right.
I did not like that, okay, but I could see
how people I mean, but it was definitely there was
only a cameo of Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angel on it.
It was primarily Christina Applegate. And there's a new Austin
Powers coming out. Is this real? I just put, I
just picked up a list of like a sequel late sequels. Okay,

(01:59:28):
all right, solemn, let me get back to I just
what we're talking about. I just I don't know if
I'm gonna be overly excited to run to go see
Happy Gilmore two Zoo Letter two has a four point
seven out of ten rating oops IMDb. All right, so
last night, the Yankees are playing the Yankees. The Dodgers
are playing a baseball game. And there's a pitcher for
the Dodgers that's about to throw an immaculate inning. And

(01:59:49):
here's how pitch number nine went down. Here's the O
two is. Oh no, Marvin Hudson cost him an immaculate inning.

Speaker 9 (02:00:09):
I mean that's not even that is wow, Marvin. I
mean that wasn't even border That wasn't even borderline or anything.
I mean that was borderline middle middle.

Speaker 1 (02:00:29):
Oh can we uh can we get abs on over
the night from triple A? Goodness?

Speaker 9 (02:00:37):
Well that's a bummer, Yeah, flads, I'm striking out the side,
but a much more routine.

Speaker 11 (02:00:46):
Version of it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:47):
Yeah. Yamamoto was the picture for the Dodgers, and it's
the video is on my Twitter account if you want
to check it out. The strike would have been the
strike nine m h upper half of the zone, but
in the zone one percent the entire baseball was in
the zone. Ross, yes it was. And again just one

(02:01:10):
pitch and people make mistakes, but my god, was it
a butcher of vocall. It shouldn't have been made at
the major league level. It's ridiculous this this continues to happen.
And I'm trying not to. I really, I really try,
Matt not to always complain about umpires, and that's why
I was olirily bringing this up. But I was like,
this thing that wasn't like a scosh of it would

(02:01:32):
hit the zone. It was upper half, it was at
the letters, but it was the strike. Every metric, every replay,
the box, the replay, the zone, the the little system
they use, strike, strike, strike. It is three times as
rare as a no hitter. There's been over three hundred

(02:01:58):
no hitters. There has only been one hundred and eighteen
immaculate innings in baseball history. Now, look, it's not gonna necessarily,
you know, he's not gonna get an award for it
or whatever, but it's ridiculous. And then and then the
strike zone last night for the for the Astros and

(02:02:19):
the A's and Sacramento was ridiculous as well. You had
there there was a time where Colton Gordon issued a walk.
Two of the balls were well within the strike zone. Yeah,
it still blows my mind. We have the technology, then
they're gonna go to this ridiculous band aid with the

(02:02:40):
Challenge system for what for what they're just And again
I continue to give you excuses because you don't want
to hear them. No, I think they're probably human Element one.
I know you get mad at me. And number two,
I think they're worried about time. That's what I just
tweet to. How much more time is it gonna take?
Is it gonna be? I mean I'm asking, I'm out
because I don't know seconds, milliseconds. Is it going to

(02:03:04):
add five minutes to every game? More? The Challenge system
is going to add time too. Yeah, but human everything
that they're worried about timing and everything. Because I've been
the leader of let's add five seconds of the pitch
clock and no one's even talking about that. I don't
want to do that. They want to keep me out.
Human element again is a euphemism for bad calls. I
want human element in my calls. That means you want

(02:03:24):
bad calls. That's what you're saying. That one was terrible.
Take a look at it. Jay Is on seven eight
one to eleven. Hij Hey man, Hey.

Speaker 8 (02:03:33):
Uh you know, uh seeing the Kakuchi pitch tonight is
going to make it harder for you to get over cheeks.

Speaker 1 (02:03:42):
I think it'll help. Yeah, can I may have sixty
seconds here. You folks just arenest fun as we are,

(02:04:04):
and I know that you're trying to call and go
I gotta get a joke in now. I'm not gonna
ban you from the show or erase your call.

Speaker 9 (02:04:12):
You.

Speaker 1 (02:04:14):
I just want you to know you're never gonna be
as funny as I am. And I'm not a youngster.
I think I got some funny lines. I'm witty. I'm
not a joke teller, but no, neither are any of you.
How many times in the history of this show, Ross
if we said that call we've had is legitimately funny,
there's some of you that are really funny. It's sad,

(02:04:35):
but it's We've had two people today try their one
liners on us, and they both are god awful. One
out of area. You're embarrassing yourself twenty. I mean, it's
just I've been doing this for thirty years. I've had
maybe ten people that have called this show that have
been legitimately funny people. And if you're one of the
ten in the thirty years I've been doing this, I

(02:04:57):
applaud you. But most of you aren't. You can keep trying.
And because we're affable and we take phone calls, we
ain't going about one thousand on these bad boys at
lest we talk to y'all.

Speaker 7 (02:05:13):
But that was just God.

Speaker 3 (02:05:15):
You just.

Speaker 1 (02:05:18):
I think people driving around are going, Man, that guy
is in our streets, that guy has taking our trash out,
that guy is on our streets and freeways. Just remember
something very clearly. I'm gonna be funnier than you are
just about every single time. All Right, we need judges

(02:05:40):
the Fantasy five Songs of Summer, Songs of Summer. If
you would like to be a judge in our Fantasy five,
we'll take you and welcome you.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
Next.

Speaker 1 (02:05:52):
Jonathan is judge number four. We need six of you
to be the rest of you on the judges seven one, three, two,
one two, five, seven ninety. Here we go with the
Fantasy five. It's the songs this summer, any song related
to summertime, and we've all deemed to be these ten
songs to be summer applicable. Correct, We've no debates on

(02:06:12):
any of these, I don't think, so okay. I won
the last Fantasy five, so I got the choice of
going first or giving the first selection to Ross. And again,
there are so many great summer songs. I just wanted
to pick one that made sure was on my list.
I went to two different surveys on the interwebs, and
that doesn't mean it's necessarily the best, but the two

(02:06:34):
that I went to had this song number one. Wow,
you must have used a different source. I didn't see
this one anywhere. I think it's a great, good pick,
and it is my all time favorite band that is
the Beatles, and it's Here Comes the Sun. It's a
good pick. Probably George Harrison's Oh Something is really good.

(02:06:58):
Maybe he hits his second best song. What about a
Walmye guitar gently Weep? That's a great one too. This
reminds me of Beatles love that we saw at the Mirage,
made the Mirage rest in Peace? Yes, great show? All right?
So I went with here Comes the Song with my
first selection, and you're next too. That's a good pick,
all right, Matt, I went next. Now, this doesn't really

(02:07:18):
have a summer or heat in the name, but you
cleared it.

Speaker 9 (02:07:22):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:07:22):
I went with it. This it feels like a good
summary song that you can belt out in karaoke. Put
it on the jukebox and everybody sings along, talking about
sitting on the duck of the bay. Great song, otis Redding,
May he rest gone too soon at the age of twenty.

Speaker 7 (02:07:44):
Six, sitting in the morning song, And.

Speaker 1 (02:07:50):
This is really one of my favorite songs of all time.
It is true regardless of the season, Matt, watching the
ship's all right, we'll keep it going. I went with
another Summertime.

Speaker 5 (02:08:00):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:08:00):
I didn't think you would draft this one, but I
wanted to make sure I snapped it up because this
is also one of my old time favorites. Reminds me
of being a kid, reminds me of the nineties, reminds
me of the Summertime with DJ Jazzy Jeff and the
Fresh Prince with Summertime Please. Yeah, you're making a face, Matt.

(02:08:26):
This was on my list. It was further down my list,
but it was on the list. Okay, this feels like
you're at a in the backyard having a picnic with
your relatives. Yes, you put this on at the summer barbecue,
for sure, Matt, And you're next up, All right, next two.
I'm gonna go back to the late sixties for a

(02:08:46):
band called the Loving Spoonful. This song feels like you're
getting in your car. You're gonna head down now. If
we lived in California, will be on the pch with
this song. Okay, this is we're not in the Texas
or on I forty five headed galveson. We're gonna play
Summer in the City. In the city, I'm like eight

(02:09:14):
o'clock at night, it's dusk. It's very aggressive and angry,
and you're in a in a convertible. I mean it's
a good song. It's been in a couple of movies. Yeah,
it's all right. So I'm going on my Summer in
the city next, I'm going back to the Beatles, and
as you know, I probably would.

Speaker 3 (02:09:35):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:09:37):
And when the sun is out, it makes it a
good day sunshine. This is such a jam too. Don't
you get all.

Speaker 10 (02:09:48):
Scrolly for me.

Speaker 1 (02:09:49):
See, I'm trying to be nice today. Shine Light Airy Funds.
People love this song class late sixties Beatles. That's got
a nice ballad to it. God some that's my third pick.

(02:10:09):
It's all right, okay, now it's my turn. Of course
we do the Snake Draft. Two for you, Matt, two
for me. I will start with another summer classic with
Brian Adams in the Summer of Course of sixty nine.
Speaking of karaoke classics, have you ever sung this in karaoke?

(02:10:33):
You haven't. I've heard it. I've remember saying I have it.
It is a little too up up the register for me, Matt, Well,
I can't sing much of anything, but yeah, what is
your I don't even know what your go to is? Uh,
I don't know. I like do Sinatra well my way
and really start singing it like this. But Brian Adams
Summer of sixty nine a summer classic song, and let's

(02:10:56):
move on as I will go with a song that
also reminds me of my childhood, reminds me of the
good old days. I'm talking about The Heat is On
with Clint Frye from Beverly Hills cop in nineteen eighty four.

(02:11:16):
This will always remind me of Eddie Murphy. And that
movie and a great summer song. I'm just bothered by
the fact that these guys had hits without their were
Eagles counterparts. Why not. It means they're all very talented
in their own right, like the Beatles. They all had hits.
There's Ringo, I mean he had some hits, but Ringwind

(02:11:38):
way more hits than you want to say. Gone, I'll
bring that stupid as song up. Ringos terrible songwriter, I'm sorry.
The other three very good. Okay, I have two songs left. Okay.
I think the number one definitive baseball song is center
Field John Fogerty. I think this is the second one,

(02:12:02):
the Boys of Summer. Speaking of the Eagles group. Yeah, well,
Don Henley for you here. I'll give you a little
behind the scenes folks. I was deciding between this song
and The Heat Is On by Glenn Fry, both Eagles members.
I went, what the Heat Is On? It's sentimental for me.

(02:12:23):
I love Beverly Hills cop as a kid. But this
is a good pick. This is a good one. I
think I hear this song. It makes you want to
go out and play them pick up baseball with your buddies,
isn't it? For sure. Centerfield definitely does that, all right.
And lastly, you we've said, we've argued about the how

(02:12:44):
great the Beach Boys were, and I said, they're the
second best band of the sixties. You could argue, maybe
you could argue maybe Rolling Stones the second best. Rolling
Stones and led Zeppel and I'd put above the Beach Boys. Okay,
what everybody, it's an American band, American band. How about
the best American band of the sixties. That makes the
perfect sense. And you want to find the definitive summer

(02:13:06):
song from them. This makes you want to go get
a surfboard and hang ten at the beach. Okay, a
little good vibrations. This is a really good Beach Boys
song too.

Speaker 7 (02:13:19):
Though I think I.

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
Would have went to California Girls if I was going
Beach Boys, I thought you were gonna do that. This
is depressive. I'm not a big California Girls fan. Oh really? Yeah?
This song to me, We're surfing USA summer, that's surfing
USA is cheesy. Well yeah, and they ripped it off
the Chuck Berry as well. This is this is just
good songwriting right here. This is a knee slapper, as

(02:13:45):
the kids would say, a toe tapper a banger. Yeah, okay,
all right, I mean so that's my five, Yes, and
I have one more, Matt. There was a number of
different directions could have gone. A lot of stuff left
on the list. I can't believe I left Summertime by
Sam Cookoff. But I went with cool in the Gang

(02:14:07):
because Matt. Out here in Houston, Texas, it is too hot.

Speaker 3 (02:14:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:14:13):
You know how I feel about coons. You know this
is a jam. This is a jam. Hm, this is
this is just summer to me. No, this is hot.
This might be summer romance to me, works other than
the new temperatures. About what's going on in the bedroom.
It's getting too hot? Yeah, this is you don't do

(02:14:34):
the weather. This is about what's Wait a minute, I
made in a ruling on this. Oh please, No, you're
too late. We drafted two hours ago. Now, sirch, this
is too hot. The it's too gotta run for shade.
It's too hot for sheltering the people. No, it's too
hot for shelter. We gotta run for shelter, we gotta

(02:14:54):
run for shade. It's too hot. It's Summer's Oh my god, ridiculous.
Go ahead, play the chorus. Is a good song.

Speaker 7 (02:15:06):
It's too hot, too hot.

Speaker 1 (02:15:11):
Yeah, it's too you gotta run for shelter because you're
you're just still got to run for shade from what, Matt,
what are they? What are you shrinking from the lust
and the passion to the heat of the sun because
it's too hot in the summer. Okay, you're trying to
strike this because you know it's a great pic. Okay song,
but I don't know if it's applicable to summertime. All right,
And with the heat today, this is a hog is hard.
All right, Here we go, uh Ross has sitting on

(02:15:33):
the dock of the Bay, summertime, summer of sixty nine.
The heat is on and it's too hot. I have
Here comes the sun summer in the city. Good day, sunshine,
the boys of summer, and good vibrations. We'll get the
votes in next one twenty eight on Sports Talk seven ninety,
there is a song on my list I'm not on
my list that I would have gone with, but I

(02:15:54):
thought it was so nineteen seventy four that I thought
it would have been too summer. Breeze by Seals and
Croft would have been what I would have gone with.
Is that the song ring a Bell to You. Yeah,
I remember it, Nick, so I, Nick, I appreciate the email,
but I would have thought it would have been little
too Minutia. He was Martha and the Vandellas. Oh he

(02:16:17):
waves A good one was on my list. A lot
of good summer songs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, so
let's go. Let's figure out what you guys want to
do there. Texas Sun by Leon Bridges is a good
one from Kathy. Okay, I could have drafted that, all right,
Ross has sitting on the dock of the bay, summertime,
summer sixty nine. Heat is on and it's too hot.
I have here comes the sun, summer in the city.

(02:16:37):
Good day sunshine the boys this summer and good vibrations.
Let's find out who wins the Fantasy five vote. Number
one belongs to Miguel. Miguel who wins the Fantasy five
me or Ross hands down, go to hell. All right,
let's say you, Miguel, have a great weekend. M one
appreciate you. That's one. Michael on seven ninety Michael who
wins the Fantasy five me or.

Speaker 5 (02:16:58):
Ross Ross in the landslide.

Speaker 3 (02:17:01):
The Beatles are.

Speaker 1 (02:17:01):
Okay, shut up? Why you hang up on him because
he's gonna say something derogatory with the Beatles? What if
he was gonna say something bad about somebody that you
did I picked, you would have let him talk. That's accurate. Man,
you were such a child. Greg on seven ninety Greg
who wins in Fantasy five Me or Ross?

Speaker 5 (02:17:20):
Gotta go with Ross?

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:17:23):
Three to zero. Hope you don't hope you don't lose
your job. I hope you have a great weekend, was it? Greg?
Three er leads have been blown in this in Fantasy
five before it has happened. Matt, all right, vote number four, Jonathan,
What do you got? Otis? Reading? Is one of my favorite?
Ross won that by the last time. Just sorry, man,
I'm sorry. That's fine. You can't go two Beatles. You can't.

Speaker 7 (02:17:44):
You can't do that.

Speaker 1 (02:17:44):
I love the Beatles. Vance who wins a Fantasy five
Me or Ross?

Speaker 3 (02:17:49):
I say, Ross and a Squeaker. I can't believe one
of you guys didn't have the slice own song on.

Speaker 1 (02:17:54):
The Yes, Slidestone was on my list. Yeah, I agree,
But that's five oh five. We can we can shut
this down. Matt Jeff who wins a Fantasy five Ross
for me, lazy Beatles picks sink Matt, lazy Beatles picks
lazy sink Matt. Too easy, you suck anyway, Jeff, go

(02:18:16):
to hell all right? And as a six or seven
I lost track. It's you're gonna win like twenty five
in a row. I don't care. It's a beat it's
the Beatles. Geo who wins a Fantasy five? Me or Ross?

Speaker 10 (02:18:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (02:18:29):
I thought you were gonna pull this one out for Cheeks,
but Ross in the landslide?

Speaker 1 (02:18:32):
Man, your list up? Okay? I want you don't get
hit by a train this weekend, don't. I want you
to have a great weekend. Geo. Seven nothing, Geo, I
hope you get pulled over for speeding, can get a
big ticket. I just gotta sink. Folks make you feel better?
Do you think they're gonna keep going? Ross?

Speaker 15 (02:18:48):
Because the champ has his belt back and he's right here.
Seven nothing. That's fine, that's that's unfair, it's fine. That's
a Cheeks versus the gas mask. That's just ain't right.

Speaker 1 (02:19:06):
So I want you to know something. You've let him win,
and he's vicious and mean. You just hook up on
people and told them to go to hell. Yeah, but
that's fine. I don't really mean it. Well, I do
mean some case, I like your loyal listeners too. Yeah, No,
they know it's a bit. Yeah, they know. I don't

(02:19:28):
want them going to hell. You don't want them getting
in a car crash. I mean it's a I don't
want him to get hit by a train. Oh man,
just just know that when you need me, I'm still
gonna be here. Despite the fact you hated my list.
It's fun. Seven nil, that's rush. You could probably go fifteen.

(02:19:50):
I mean, there's people want people backing on Twitter. It's fine.
Let's see Pedro says, Ross forty nine, Math fifty both
great lists. Thank you? Did you want Michael wanted to
get his little bote for you? Well, let's go. Let's
try Michael who wins the Fantasy five Ross for me? Man,
I'm gonna go for you, Matt. Just the Beast Boys
song put me over the top there, man, Thank you,

(02:20:12):
very good job, Michael. Yeah, we get pity votes. I
lost seven to two, probably could have been eighty five two.
Oh you're counting one guy t read other tweets.

Speaker 3 (02:20:22):
No no, no, no, no no no.

Speaker 1 (02:20:24):
Might go a little other way. No, it's probably gonna
be one hundred and fifteen to three. That's fine. Oh,
Beck says, no schools out. I thought about that one
school's out for the summer, Alice Cooper. You consider that one,
matt uh, schools out for the summer, Alice Cooper. Right,
that's a good song. That's not bad. Let's see what
else did we know? Oh under the Boardwalk by the Drifters.

(02:20:46):
I love that song. It is a good song. But
I mean that's like as Wales School as was summertime
with Sam Cook, which, by the way, did you see
Billboard put out the list of the top one hundred
R and B artists and were Sam Cook He was thirteenth.
They had r. Kelly ninth, ahead of Marvin Gay tenth,
and they had Kendrick Lamar number one, which this reason.
He's a rapid hip hop artists and he's the first

(02:21:09):
person to win a Pulitzer Prize for music not in
jazz or or classical, so he had great I mean,
that's world renowned artists, renowned, selling out stadiums across the
tears from now we're like, man, I cannot wait here.
Kendrick Lamar's greatest hits yeah, back absolutely, twenty two time
Grammy winner. Stop Biscus on here calling me. He said, Man,
I know that's not your real list, man, You're not

(02:21:31):
your bar from the show for a week. How about that? Uh?
They had they had Marvin Gay ten, R Kelly nine.
Now I love Okay, before all this stuff happened. R
Kelly was are allegation, re allegations. R Kelly great all
time R and B artists, But to have him ahead
of Marvin get Marvin Yay, I'm gonna bring this list

(02:21:54):
back up. Stevie Wonder, that's okay, that's Stevie Wonder. Won
Aretha Franklin too.

Speaker 7 (02:21:59):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (02:22:01):
Argu mentioned, but that's okay. Yeah, that was That was unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (02:22:10):
I was.

Speaker 1 (02:22:11):
I saw that. It was like after the Astros game.
It like for twenty minutes. I was angry and couldn't
go to sleep. So you hat, Stevie Wander, this is
best R and B singer R and B artists, So
not necessarily singing voice, but I think overall artistry, music, songwriting,
all that I believe andres in this list. Oh, I
just crossed him. Hold on, I'm trying to um Ooh,

(02:22:31):
Donnie Hathaway twenty one.

Speaker 3 (02:22:32):
I like that.

Speaker 1 (02:22:33):
Let's start from the top.

Speaker 9 (02:22:35):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:22:35):
Yeah, this is another one that pissed me off. Usher twelve,
Sam Cook thirteen. Usher was like, I'm too high, Drop.
I sure had some hits now us. Your Tiny Desk
was great if you watch the Usher Tiny Desk, Marian
Carry eight, Prince seven, James Brown six, but I think
of him he's more of a funk artist. Do you

(02:22:56):
call that R and B because I mean, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's appropriate. Whitney Houston five, and honestly I love Whitney
Houston that Diana Ross.

Speaker 14 (02:23:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:23:07):
But Whitney Houston was kind of more poppy to me.
Whitney more of a pop art. The answer to somebody
is pop exactly. I will always love you. That's a
country that's a Dolly Parton country pop. That's what I'm saying.
Kick her off the list, saving all my love and
for you, I mean, Dina Ross hold on. Michael Jackson three,

(02:23:31):
look Stevie, Michael than uh. I would also call Michael
Jackson more pop now. Young Michael Jackson with the with
the Jackson five was more R and B. Diana Ross
twenty ninth, that's too low for her behind. I love
Erica bad I love Erica Bidu, but Diane Ross Chris
Brown twenty sixth oh Bill Withers twenty fourth. I think

(02:23:54):
that's good, Teddy p twenty three, Luther Vandross twenty two,
Michael Bolton, I don't thin VI's Donny Hathaway not a lot,
not a lot of super light complexion on this list,
Matt Donny Hathaway twenty Donny Hathaway underrated. I'm telling you
right now, listen to some donnieye. I was making you
listen to Donny Hathaway live on the Way Too Terrible,

(02:24:16):
on the Way to Lake Charles len bad. How about
young Elton, John Algreen eighteen, Janet Jackson seventeen, Mary J.
Blige sixteen, Isaac Hay's fifteen, Curtis Mayfield fourteen, Sam Cook thirteen,
Usher twelve. If you got Sam Cook behind Usher, I'm sorry.
It's today's kids. These kids today, these kids today, these

(02:24:38):
kids today do not appreciate the Beatles. Listen to this,
How listen to this? Three in a row? Ray Charles eleven,
Marvin Gay ten, R. Kelly nine. What member of that
group does not fit? This is not like the other
come on now. All right, am I taking? Am I
really taking this call? Why do I have to do this?

(02:24:59):
What is it myself? Since Matt's he's gonna vote for you? Man, No,
it doesn't matter. The voting is done.

Speaker 9 (02:25:04):
You know what.

Speaker 1 (02:25:04):
I'm I am Ducaucus against Reagan. All right? It was
the Caucus Reagan, right?

Speaker 14 (02:25:10):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:25:10):
I was it Mondale? No, it was definitely Mondale Reagan
for one of them. Okay they were to maybe it
was the second time. I don't know this. I was
three years old. All right, yeah, do Caucus. You're right,
Mike seven niney. Good afternoon, Hey, Matt, good afternoon.

Speaker 10 (02:25:26):
Dies.

Speaker 5 (02:25:27):
I just want to let you know I loved your list, Matt.

Speaker 10 (02:25:29):
It was the best list, greatest list of all time.

Speaker 3 (02:25:32):
With Boys of Summer that had me going.

Speaker 1 (02:25:35):
That was my all time favorite.

Speaker 5 (02:25:36):
But I really think both of you missed out on
Magic with the Cars. Summer turns me upside down. It's
a great song.

Speaker 1 (02:25:43):
Okay, that's all I got.

Speaker 5 (02:25:46):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:25:47):
I you know, I'm not thank you Mike for the phocal.
I'm not a cars fan, Darrell. I would say they're okay.
We always do overrated under it properly, properly cars had
some hits. Let me, let me pull the car songs Drive,
Let's go Magic? Mm hmm, all right? Is driving just

(02:26:11):
what I needed? I gave you just what I need it.
That's good.

Speaker 7 (02:26:15):
Eh.

Speaker 1 (02:26:17):
Summer songs though, well he said is mentioned summer in
the lyrics? Oh did he say? I didn't remember what
he said? Was gone with the summer breeze. I don't
know you lost? You lost seven or nothing? In my book,
I lost seven to two. I'm using Internet voted. By
the way, Beyonce four ahead of Whitney. By the way,

(02:26:40):
Beyonce pop I would now, especially early on Destiny's Child,
I would. I'm sorry, Whitney's on this list should not be.
She should be on the pop list. Okay, I'm gonna
agree with you, and two things are true in my opinion.
I think she's on a pop list, but if she's
on the R and B list, she ain't behind Beyonce.
I'm sorry, I'm not to agree with Ross on that one.
Whitney is just wants to be above both of them.

(02:27:04):
I can't believe she's twenty nine the Supremes. You're right,
a right, right, Yes, this is why they make these
lists though, to make us mad exactly. I like eighteen
Like yeah, this this pocket from like eighteen to twenty
of Al Green, Smoky Robinson, otis reading Donnie hack Smoking

(02:27:28):
Robinson despite the issues going on with him that I
think it's still being litigated. Those of you that don't
know he's had ast to anybody you've had. He had
a variety of house uh housekeepers. Yeah, and he apparently
sexually assaulted and intimidated them. Yeah, held back pay and
by the way, missus Robinson was a part of that

(02:27:50):
as well, not having sex with the maids, but basically
holding back money, underpaying them and harassing them. Jeez, I'm
gonna listen to Smokey's Uh It's sold. I think it's
called Smoky Soul Town on Sirius XM. That sounds I
feel dirty even listening to it. Lionel Richie thirty second,

(02:28:13):
Donna Summer thirty four, baby Face, baby Face should be
Highna Summer thirty four, baby Face thirty five for Everything Revolutionist.
We got to move all three though. We gotta move
Richie up. We gotta move uh Donna Summer. We're gonna
move Uh Diana Ross up. Gotta take Whitney off the list.
Aliah fortieth, Brandy ahead of Berry White forty one, on

(02:28:35):
Barry White forty two, Dion Warwick, I would say, possibly
underrated forty three, very much underrated. Sis I had forty
forty Okay, Deanly who had some hits. Now this was
a group that has got some hits. This is twenty
two year olds doing this. Lie Rianna forty six, The
Weekend forty seven. Honestly think those are I mean those
could be Lauren Hill. Great albums, but short career. She's

(02:28:58):
forty eighth. Let's play helly, Aaron. We're doing alive or dead?
Very simple. If they're alive, you say hell yeah. If
they're dead, you say not. On seven ninety, I love
this song, but I would get destroyed by you weirdos
that hate the Beatles. So I knew I wasn't gonna
take this. I mean, Here Comes the Sun was great,

(02:29:19):
the second one was a little much. I felt like,
that's fine in my opinion, it's fine. Remember that recommendation
you're looking for, Jonathan sure Russell will carry a lot
away with that one. No, I got you? Yeah, what's up?
People know me love the Beatles? Actually, you know, thank
you very much. I appreciate look at this guy, all right.
Beatles number one. By the way, the Beatles channel on

(02:29:41):
Sirius XM is the number one music specific channel on
their network. So suck it all of y'all the hate
the Beatles. And by way, if you think it's cool
to hate the Beatles, so y'all can suck it too.
I don't hate the Beatles. There's not my jam. Okay, nice,
they revolutionize the game. Thanks like the same as thing,
But I know I respect the Beatles more than the
Beach Boys. I would listen to the Beatles more than

(02:30:01):
the Beach Boys. There's no Beach Boys channel. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't go to a certain disolay of the Beach Boys.
Beatles Love was spectacular, like surfing USA is a very
tough yeah, but Beatlemania stuff isn't very good to me
eight days a week. And the early like the early
stuff around Help is when they really started to mature.

(02:30:24):
Revolver Rubber Soul was very good, Sergeant Pepper when they
really hit their stride. Parts of the White album was excellent,
Abbey Road let it Be, but then they're like, yeah,
you know what, we're busy ringo you write a song
and then it was terrible. It don't come easy Ross.
I guess he's got the lyricism of the third grader. Yeah,

(02:30:47):
I would never.

Speaker 5 (02:30:47):
I would have in the Yellow Submarine.

Speaker 1 (02:30:50):
By the way, I mean, I put him in the
Songwriters Hall of Fame. We probably shout out to three
members of the Dude Brothers for getting in the Songwriters Hall. Well,
the two originals Dale Douby, Donnie Dooby and Uh and
Michael McDonald's the guy you hate again. He's just not
my jam. Five minutes left to go on the show
What should we Do?

Speaker 3 (02:31:14):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (02:31:14):
Should Play, America's fastest growing sports radio game show. Monday
through Thursday, we called it beat leave it or Not,
but on Friday we call it a Hell Yeah or Not.
And here's how it works. You'll call seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety Today's edition of hell Ye
air Nati is are these people alive or dead? Am

(02:31:36):
I helping with this? You can how al right, close
my laptop lo A this all right? If they're alive,
you'll say this hell if they're dead, you'll say this too.
Helly aarons in a row when your prize will be
playing four today? Jonathan, you have.

Speaker 2 (02:31:51):
Three prizes, of course, the Sports Talk seven ninety t shirt,
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Speaker 1 (02:32:12):
Well you know I gotta say to that, Jonathan, don't you.

Speaker 5 (02:32:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:32:15):
Yeah, yeah, y. All right, here we go. Let's talk
to John on seven on eight. John, you're ready to play?

Speaker 8 (02:32:22):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:32:23):
Or not?

Speaker 8 (02:32:24):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 7 (02:32:25):
All right.

Speaker 1 (02:32:25):
I'm gonna ask Ross first. He'll give you you his answer,
and then you give yours. Okay, just a recommendation. Oh gosh, Ross,
Jerry Mathers the Beaver, Hell yeah, not no clue, John,
no clue. I'll say he's alive, but I don't know.
Hell yeah, yeah, he's seventy seven years old, great golfer
Lee Trevino. I think John, I think he died recently, John,

(02:32:51):
or he got sick.

Speaker 8 (02:32:54):
All right, Ross I'm go through his man.

Speaker 1 (02:32:57):
He's alive. He's eighty five. Sorry, sorry, John, I told
you I wasn't sure. I did he get sick or something?
Or was it somebody else that died recently? Brian on
seven are Orady to play? Hellyer in Sonos is not alive?
Hell yeah? I feel horrible. Former Boston Celtic Robert Parrish
Hell yeah or not? Oh my god, this is a
good one, Brian. I don't know. I think the Big

(02:33:21):
Chief is dead. I want to go with Ross not no,
he's alive. Sorry, seventy one. I don't want to do
this anymore. I've cost two people prizes.

Speaker 8 (02:33:34):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:33:35):
Roger on seven nine he ordered to play hell yeah
or not? Yeah Florence Henderson, she was the mom on
The Brady Bunch, Hell yeah or not? I have no,
I'm not. I don't really know, Roger, but I think
she's alive. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:33:49):
Yeah, we lives because of her.

Speaker 1 (02:33:52):
Nope, she's dead. She died in twenty sixteen. Okay, this
is one of your worst efforts. I'm doing this one
with that. Anthony on seven ready to play hell yeah
or not?

Speaker 3 (02:34:04):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:34:05):
Jimmy Walker from Good Times, Hell yeah, or not. All right.
I'm like, I'm like one for four Anthony, but I
think he's dead.

Speaker 3 (02:34:14):
I'm gonna go with not.

Speaker 1 (02:34:16):
He's alive. He's seventy seven. This is the worst. This
is the worst ever. I was doing great in the
last three. I told people, don't listen to me, Chris
on seven, you ready to play hell?

Speaker 14 (02:34:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (02:34:27):
Or not?

Speaker 7 (02:34:28):
God?

Speaker 1 (02:34:29):
Oh yeah, Sandy Kofax. We did this one recently. He's
alive alive, that's right, eighty million And last time I
said last time, I was like, oh, he's long dead.
Name number two for the man Billy Jean King. Oh
they just did a documentary on her. Isn't she alive? Chris,

(02:34:50):
I don't trust you before your track record gone. Nope,
she's alive. You should trusted. Yeah, I'm not even I
can't even get mad at three. Lastly, would people go
a get I'm like, yeah, suck it, but no, I've
been horrible. Jeremy, you ready to play helly air or
not kill you? Former boxer Hector Macho Camacho. I don't know. Okay,

(02:35:11):
I think he's right, Jeremy, go ahead, Yeah, so died
in twenty twelve, fifty that sounds good. Uh, former Rockets
black Magic Lewis Lloyd. I think he's alive. Jeremy, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:35:23):
Ooh, I gotta think loss has got you. Wondy's right,
so I'll go a live No, he.

Speaker 1 (02:35:29):
Died in twenty nineteen, ages sixteen. That's it. I nailed.
That was the worst one. Well, this is why you
asked me to help, because I don't know who's alive
or dead. This is the whole bit. And you failed
the audience and you failed me. It's like four people
up next Clanton Wexler. They city about Sports Talk seven one.

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You have a good weekend. Talk to you for Asthros
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