BIG 12 Comments On Norte Dame, Astros Quiet At Winter Meetings, Texans Start Prep For Cardinals

BIG 12 Comments On Norte Dame, Astros Quiet At Winter Meetings, Texans Start Prep For Cardinals

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross tell him when
I found good morning and welcome to a Wednesday edition
of The Matt Thomas Show. And Ross it is hump Day?
Did did Lebron steal hump Day? Or do you just

(00:23):
steal Taco Tuesday? He tried to trademark Taco Tuesday? Yeah,
come on, it's a winde Wednesday series. Like, I got
a new phrase. I'm trying to trademark happy Hour. I
invented it. Really, it's mine. Yeah, it's where drinks are
cheaper and appetizers as well. I'm actually uh trademarked. I'm

(00:44):
even in case of the Mondays. Okay, yeah, I like that.
I think you'd appreciate that. I think we might get denied. Yeah,
you know what you bring up trademarks? All right, stop
it hurts still, all right, let's move on. I know
we should be like it was eight ten years ago,
it was fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, and move on. Let it go, man.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
And when you put an when you watch an Astros
game on Space City Home Network, was the very first
thing you see on there. And we're gonna have a
have a funeral for a few things on this show.
What would you like bring it up, Crushed City. Right,
here's what I will give up. I will give up
traffic conversation. Oh well, I mean I get at least
that's a renewed frustration. The Crush City thing was ten

(01:25):
years ago. It's time to let it go. It'll hurt
and gone. I mean it's like that was still scribbling
with crayons. And I'm not talking about it s FA.
Oh that is the old timer.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
That was a good one, even old timer.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I'm sorry, trying to catch it strays two minutes in,
all right, sending everything up.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
I mean catching strays, catching STDs, all things at SFA.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
It's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I don't know. There's the STD count fairly high at SFA. Okay,
I'll let you considered. Yeah, I just imagine.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
It can cross pollination. It's the it's the it's the
it's that's the love of my life. But it's crush City.
But it was, but it was. I could have made
some decent money on it. I was short lived, the
one that got away. But ten years ago. I don't know.
I still see Crush City shirts all the time. No
you don't.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
When's the last time you saw one?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
I bet you. I could go to any one a
variety of T shirt companies right here, I was gonna say,
an unlicensed T shirt company, Yes, yes, and I could
sue them and make some money.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
And you know some of them are folding up the worst.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
The worst read Ryan called me. Okay, okay, I gotta
move on. I you're right, I am putting an end
to any sort of that making any money off of
Crush City Okay, good, the curate lasting Okay? What what
would have cost me to trademark? I don't even know
what a trademark cost. I think it's pretty cheap. Actually, Okay,
I don't know though.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Sports News of the day.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Wednesday, opening up the refrigerator and a sour cream and
mel I might have that. Please tell me they might
have that. Please tell me talk Okay, you know, pimp
your instinct? Will you follow people? Follow me out on
somewhere else at thirty one hundred. Y'all need to follow
me on Instagram, you tennis clockers, because I love look

(03:19):
I am.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
You're trying to be an influencer.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
We me too. We try to have a special in
relationship with you ten o'clockers, because we just don't know
how many of you are out there. Yeah, we know
who's there between twelve and two. It's just those ten
o'clockers are a little concerned about. So if you're a
ten o'clocker and we love you, give us a following Instagram.
There's no guarantee I'll follow you back. Chance I probably
I won't follow you back. But that's not the point.
The point is following me for ten o'clock. If you're

(03:42):
a ten o'clocker for life, follow me on Instagram. I can't.
That's fine, you'll find eventually. All right, Uh, what do
you want to get to? So last night it's kind
of weird. This has been a weird week because when
you're in the NBA schedule, you're playing every other night
or may you have three games in four days. So
here we go. Here's here's what we got going on
to the day on the show, it's my computer refrigerator door.

(04:04):
It over hold on. It's like when you put your
speaker on and it missed it the first couple of song.
Hear the whole song. All right, we open up the
refrigerator door again, looking for a big tasty sports story,
and there's milk sour cream o G. That's about it, man.

(04:27):
There's nothing going on today, just the way you would
open a radio show. Nothing else. We can entertain ourselves.
That that's just conces us up. That's how you don't
do it.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
John was asking us about He was like, who's this,
Charlie Polga. You guys are always referencing, and well, that's him.
That's him right there. That's him. Okay, okay, so that's Charlie.
Shout out to you, Charlie, you're listening. Mm hmm. The
founding father of Sports Talk seven ninety. Yes, he was
the He was the first real high I was what
I understand, got a hillaciously outrageous contract. Good for him,

(05:02):
I mean he negotiates. I'm not nearly savage and negotiators.
He got no comment. Yeah, all I remember him. He
would talk about it on air. He's like, well, I
sent him back a few amendments to my contract. Oh yeah,
Because when I was living, that was what when the
Sports Animal, when they brought him over at ESPN seven ninety,
would have been probably what a two thousand and five
or six somewhere there, briefly ESPN seven ninety, then the

(05:24):
Sports Animal and then we blew it all up and
became sports talk when you came right, Yes, I was
a lineup refreshed.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It was Adam and Matt Jackson.

Speaker 6 (05:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
So when I was living in Many, Utah or Saint
I don't remember where I was, people were like texting
people in the market like you wouldn't believe what Charlie's
gonna get. And I'm like, what are you get? Like
he's doing this, He's doing this. If they bump him
for a game, he gets this ball. I mean, it
was like this amazing contract. You guys knew every clause.
I didn't know that. I didn't know that either until
we were like, feed me the information. I didn't ask

(05:55):
for it. I'm like, I actually, I could try to
do this in twenty ten. I tried. Was sixteen years ago.
Fifteen years ago. Now you're about we're about to hit
sixteen years friend. Shout out to Anthony tweeting in ten
o'clocker shout out to Kenneth. Kenneth, shout out, clockers, we
love you, We really do, We really do all right
on the show today, we're gonna we've got to shut

(06:16):
you bum mass up. Eleven thirty.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
It feels like it's gonna be half an hour of
that with Notre Dame football. What do we got more of?
Was there more? Surely not more? But we have a
Big twelve response.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh yeah, I think this guy is pissing and moaning
way too much. Bavakua, Yes, PDB, let's go PDB.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Uh so we're gonna hear the response from the Big
twelve about which is surprising, because look, I love me
some Big twelve. We could use a talent boost. I mean,
the Power Fours were the fourth of the powerful. I mean,
I don't know what you say. Acc now you think
so you think Big twelve is worse than better than
Power for if.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
You see if you are accept it?

Speaker 1 (06:56):
No, I don't know. In theory, but right dog Water
Texas Tech plays Miami, who wins the game? Texas Tech
is would be favored, I would amagine. Okay, so then
that's we're better than that, all right, Okay? But then
after that b YU is second best team would play.
I see five ranked teams in the Big twelve. I

(07:18):
see three in the A C C. Okay, B why
you play right now? B YU, Utah Cougars and Arizona
Wildcats not Arizona Waldcats, I says, Arizona Waldcats number seven scene?
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (07:32):
We be in Arizona though, Okay, okay, what I stand corrected?

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Twelve? Yeah, suck at a C. Suck at a CC.
So you know what, improve yourself. So we got but
I I would take Notre Dame in a heart It's
muchly been bitching, but I would take him in a heartbeat,
except maybe the No, they would all take them if
if they got rid of you know which there the

(07:57):
name is going to be like, no, we're going to
shut about mess. Thank you these checks. Yeah, so we're
gonna hear from Brett Ormark, the big twelve commissioner who's
not afraid to say a couple of things, and so
we're gonna let him here and see what he had
to say. Coming up, we've got Dana Brown and the
rest of the Astros front office and managerial staff down
at the winter meetings in Orlando. We thought about having
some guys on, but there's nothing going on yet. Okay.

(08:21):
I think Channel Rome was on the A team.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, so, I mean, I don't know there's any Tager
down there.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
I mean I think mctagger there McTaggart probably, yeah, but
I don't want to interrupt him. He's probably having some mimosas.
He's probably having like deep thoughts at the dock. That's
usually what he's posting. Usually he's, you know, when he's
not posting photos of of U of H stuff or
with stuff about baseball. Fighting with Memphis fans, Yeah, he
does hate Memphis. Always fighting with Memphis fans on Twitter.
I love it. Yeah, he's not afraid to go right

(08:47):
to them. And again it's it's a fine group for
those of Memphis don't know. Memphis, UH basically called the
Big Twelve and said we'll bring a half billion dollars
to the table for Big Twelve compets and money. And
the Big Twelve's like, we're gonna, okay, well listen to
this and we'll find out what's going on. And they're like, no,
that was not really accurate. So Memphis, thanks, but oh thanks,
we don't need you. If the Big Twelve is gonna

(09:10):
go get somebody, they're gonna go get somebody that upstill level,
not just to grab a team, just to grab a team,
because I think what you've said, we've talked about before,
we're going to eventually get to the thirty teams and
just call it a day. Right, Do you think we're
gonna do like we doing high school football Texas? Where
you know you have six you know you have six as,
oh five A, six A, and then you have the
Division one six A and the Division two six A.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
You could do that ultimately if you wanted to.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
That's not I wouldn't say it wouldn't It wouldn't be great,
but you could do it that way. I don't know
if they how much more they're going to try, how
much consolidation there's going to be, because think about this,
if you're the if you're a six A school and
you win the Division two six A championship, you're still
pretty happy with yourself. You were really blessed you. Yeah,
but this college football is different. Do you want college footballs?

Speaker 7 (09:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
I know, I know.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
I'm just throwing it out there, all right, So.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
We'll get we'll get to some data, had to say,
and then they play each other like conference champions I
don't know, what do you do? I don't know, like
AFC and NFC. Hmmm. Well, the thing is I just
saw college football. The thing about it, the difference isn't.
It's only based on attendance. So one year, if you
are in a district that has two schools that are
really good but small attendants, yeah, you're just going maybe

(10:19):
a Division one to one year in Division two. So
it doesn't really matter, all right. Uh So we got
Dana Brown at the winter meetings. We'll hear a couple
of comments from him. I was going to watch some
NBA basket you know, this NBA on Tuesday thing has
been pretty big, and they've had some good games and uh,
you know they you know, NBC has done a terrific
job with the production. The ratings for the NBA Tuesday
Night games are really good. And then I go to

(10:41):
put on NBC. They watch my Tuesday Night you know,
Coast to Coast and it was the Knockout Round games
on Prime and I thought, okay, I'll put the Prime
n see what's going on.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
They were It was all the East yesterday and in Rossa.
I love the NBA, I just can't get into the East.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
It was Miami, Orlando and the Knicks in Toronto, and
I'm like, am I'm good. I'm telling it's a little
bit better because it's the Western teams. Yeah, neither of
those games are really that interesting. So what I put
on instead truth be told. A Motown Christmas was on
A Motown Christmas from like nineteen sixty seven. No, this
was this was filmed obviously sometime this year, probably in

(11:19):
the summertime. Oh really yeah, so it's like what's left
of the Pips? But it had last Night was on there?

Speaker 2 (11:25):
Oh really?

Speaker 1 (11:25):
There were some members Dina Wonder, Stevie Wan. I don't
think it was there. Diana Ross was not there, but
they did have some hard again they'd no, definitely not there.
They had some current people singing Motown songs and they
had some Motown like the Temptations were there, but I
don't think any of us.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Sohew Robinson, he's been in hot water.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Host of the show. Oh, I guess that's which I
told said down Christmas. I was like, are you sure
he should be doing this away the show? Wow? And
for those that don't, No, smoking and his wife are
in some legal hot water. Yeah, he was getting he's
getting sued for by his housekeepers or something right, for

(12:08):
sexual improprieties, for harassment and or abuse. Yes, and the
wife is also involved in this as well. So I thought, man,
are you sure you want to do this? You want
to do it? You want to do a Motown Christmas
now again? If you want to have Goddess Knight the
hosts of the show, I get it. Who else has
sold a Motown arrangement is alive? From Motown? U Dan

(12:32):
Ross would be alive, but she wasn't a part of it.
Any of the original Temptations, No, no, they were all
they were all younger and they were having their forties.
But they were not any of those guys, the four Tops.
I don't think you were any of them arrived. Point
being is Martha and the Vandellas. I don't think Martha's
still run I'm dancing in the street anymore. But the
reality is this, you probably could not get anybody alive

(12:53):
except oh, I don't know, Smokey Stevie's alive. He probably
they didn't cut enough check. Probably he was like, cut
that check and he would know what camera to look at.
He's relatively young, alright, He's relatively young for somebody because
he became a star so young, Yes he did. He
was a little stev Yeah, yeah, yeah, So I watched
So that's what I watched last night. Yeah, Stevie Wonder

(13:17):
is only seventy five and sounds pretty fantastic. That's pretty
young for a Now last night sounded good too. But
Gladys Knight's face doesn't move anymore, so I don't know
how old she is. Okay, it is what it is.
Smokey Robinson eighty five and his face hardly moves. No,
but definitely Gladys did not move. Remind me Ross when
I get older, Say, Maddie, do you always going Maddie,

(13:39):
don't don't don't get you yeah, yeah, don't get any
plastic surgery. It's just it's not It's gott Weng Wolf Botox,
you know, and my probably in my temples. I could
you could. Yeah, okay, that's what the wife says. But
I'm oh wow, I'm you know, it's fine.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
I know.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Tell her you're aging gracefully. All right, let's on radio.
Let's see exactly Texans getting ready for the Cardinals Sunday.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
You talk, you talk about it. They must win game. No, no, no,
why not? I got terrible news for you.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
By the way I heard. There was like Texans players
after the game, this is a must win game. You
don't want every week's must win game, and is everyone's
a must winning? I know, well, you know what you did.
You you basically told Kensady you gonna go away, so
you did. It was a must win for that kind
of opportunity to do so seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven to one three two one

(14:28):
two five seven ninety It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. We are with you today until two o'clock.
And if you're a ten o'clocker, we love you especially.
We love all of our four hours of the show,
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The news at noon is coming up as well, and
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show that I w want you to be a part
of it. Up next what is Danna Brown saying at

(14:48):
the Winter Meetings? We'll tell you about that next year.
On seven ninety looks shot our shout out our ten o'clockers,
ROSSI do you think, Uh Kathy, good morning to you
young lady.

Speaker 6 (15:03):
Bryan.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
What's up? Uh y'all? Easy girk boy, Uh Kenny, shout
out to all you ten o'clockers.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
We should you know, you know we need to do
is we used to? You know, we would go.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
We'll go on occasions to a few locations we should
look at like a brunch one day, like sorts, some eggs,
bikes at benderdeck the front plate. Of course, no melons
will be part of that unless you want to go
watermelons or grapes. Nobody likes candleope or or the honeydew. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa?

Speaker 8 (15:30):
What's up with the candle op?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
Pay some good? That's some good fruit? Hell have you
not looked at my Twitter account? I go places around
this country and people don't eat the honeydew and the candlelope.
I have seen one picture one I got like forty.
I'll send them all to you. You send them all,
I keep them my photos. Yeah, they're the they're like
the cheap cheap. Oh well, here's the problem with candle up.

(15:54):
I don't think probably candle up is terrible.

Speaker 9 (15:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's one of those things I had as a kid
that I had so much of it that I got
sick one time.

Speaker 10 (15:59):
Huh.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
And now like there are three things in life that
I don't eat anymore because I had so much to kid.
One is orange soda. I'm not in an orange soda
since nineteen seventy nine.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
I had orange soda. When we had a hot pot,
I know.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
You know, I was like, man, you going for the Fanta.
Number two would be candalope and number three wolf bran chili. Ooh,
hey chili. No, don't knock wolf bran chili. I am
knocking it because every day I'd come home and put
it on my on my hot dogs, and then I
could violently ill. Okay, well, that's fine.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Kill.

Speaker 1 (16:31):
It is like many other fruits. If you get a
bad one, it's horrible. If you get a good one,
it's pretty good. People put salt on it too, which
is like watermelon. Watermelon too. No, I don't that's gross. Okay,
So you pineapple. You can get bad pineapple. You can
get really good pineapples, the best. Oh, I love pineapple.
That's good. It helps, all right, ross, let's get to
it helps. What it's a delicious fruit. Oh yeah, it's

(16:56):
I'm potassium gracious. Yeah, as I said, that's helpful if
you like real all right, I like that on my
pizza too.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
All right, that's enough I'm gonna are you you go
to these.

Speaker 1 (17:06):
Danner cuts, I'm gonna send I'm I'm sending Jonathan you
don't want nobody wants to see your melons.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
I believe you. I believe you. You're you're getting texts
pictures of your melon?

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Too bad? All right? Dana Brown MLB Network Winner meetings
had a lot of interesting things to say, a number
of things to get to, but let's go ahead and
start with what has been a big off season topic
of discussion. What's going on with al Tuove left field?
Second base? You'rd on left field? D H. You want
to dh al Tuove paradis? Where is he playing? Here's

(17:35):
what Dana Brown had to say about that.

Speaker 11 (17:38):
Yeah, I mean it's gonna be a combination of we've
got to get a lot of guys at batch, right,
So sometimes it's gonna be your dye, Sometimes yourdine is
gonna DH. Sometimes it's gonna be.

Speaker 12 (17:47):
OL two A. Maybe Forerettas could play second.

Speaker 11 (17:50):
You know, sometimes you'll give Walker a day off for
Rettis to play first. Sometimes you'll give Correa a day off,
you'll play third. So we got some guys that, you know,
we feel like you're a point in their career where
they made these some days off. And we don't want
to give up any of these guys. We need these
bats to get through the lineup, to get through the
year of one sixty two.

Speaker 12 (18:09):
And you know, at the end of the day, these.

Speaker 11 (18:11):
Guys, uh, they got a chance of carrying us, you know,
at each of their times during the year.

Speaker 12 (18:16):
And if we pitch, we're gonna be good.

Speaker 11 (18:17):
So, uh, those guys, we're gonna mix them up in
the outfield, mix al two a up at second base.

Speaker 12 (18:23):
But we want to keep the core of bats together.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Okay, I got a variety of things.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Discuss references to parade is at second. I got a
variety of things. Okay, Number one, I don't know, am
I That music in the background is like nineteen eighty
six disco? Correct? I mean maybe German disco? Yeah, yeah, right,

(18:49):
this is my favorite song. Yeah, that's but that's not
really that important. Okay, Number two, it feels very convenient.
I will give a day off here, a day off. There.
Have you met major League baseball players, You know how
hard it is for a hose and Carls creating get
a day off now, And they're also getting longer in
the tooths. Yes, so maybe it's a little bit easier.

(19:10):
It is easier ross to me as I'm listening to that,
it certainly sounds like there's still one too many bodies.
They played L two a too many games last year
that he played one hundred and fifty five. I think
that was not their plan, but there were so many injuries.
I mean, remember down to the stretch he was playing
with a hurt foot.

Speaker 9 (19:29):
So do you.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Really believe when and again, Dana is not a liar,
but he probably has to say what he has to
say because of the way that the roster is currently constructed.
Do you really believe that it's gonna be a plug
and play that on a Monday, this guy gets a
day off a Tuesday. I mean, it sounds way too
simplistic here, and I think it's gonna be a little
bit that way with Correy and L two ve. Jordon's

(19:52):
gonna play one hundred and thirty plus games?

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Is the plan?

Speaker 1 (19:57):
That's true? It's always a point play one hundred and thirty.
One hundred and forty plus games would be the plan.
He got hurt twice last year, And I mean, is
there going to be a move in the infield.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
So here's the reason.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
Why you don't make the move, because you were strapped
with all the injuries. But do you really want to
believe that that that the amount of injuries from the
year ago are going to repeat themselves again in twenty twenty.
If it does rossy, then they probably need to go
get a whole new set of doctors and a whole
new set of bionic partially skills. Right, you've got new.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Trainers, everything's fixed.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
But my point is that that that was not necessarily
a one off, because that could certainly happen again, but
it was certain it was certainly unprecedented the amount of
how lengthy the injury list was. And I guess you
could say that makes sense to keep depth because you're
gonna need guys and this team's not gonna be completely
healthy for a full one sixty two. I buy that well,

(20:57):
But you're going to move Jake, which makes you even
leaner in the outfield as it is before the season even.
I mean, you're relying on Jacob Meltin and Zach Cole
to be fighting for spots. Those are guys that weren't
even on the radar six months ago, and haven't done enough. Frankly,
deserve six days a week to play. I mean you're
gonna have too many spots in the infield and probably

(21:19):
not enough in the outfield, which means that's that's why
Jose l Tube. Well again, you can't play Jose and
you're on in left field in the same time. Well,
our friend Chandler Rome with The Athletic the latest headline
of his latest article with Alvarez and Trench at dh
astros have little choice but to trade an infielder. I

(21:41):
don't disagree trading an infielder for an outfielder would make sense,
because again or an arm or oh no, no arm.
I think arm goes without saying you have to go
because it sounds like me that we're not getting involved
in any sort of major free agent signings except for
maybe justin Verloner and that's not really major at this point.
Has drawn interest from the Red Sox Okay are amenable

(22:05):
to moving some of their young, controllable starting pictures in
any trade. I don't know. Look, Zach Cole could be fantastic,
Jacob Melt could be great. Whom who am I forgetting about? Uh? Oh? Cam,
I mean tell me that you feel good about the
slug of the outfield next year, not that, notother that
Jake Myers was a slugging guy, but at least he

(22:26):
made contact and he had around three hundred, and he
was certainly worth his weighting gold with the glove. I
don't know. Ross that to me seems like as big
of a of an obstacle. I can live with the
moving pieces around in the infield. I'm worried as hell
about six days a week outfield.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Al twove and center. Let's go, so, who's a left fielder?

Speaker 1 (22:50):
Your left fielder is a combination of yourn al Tuove
and Zach Cole. Jacob Melton is going to be your
center fielder if and when you trade Jake Myers just
seems inevitable. And maybe some Bryce Matthews mixed in both
those spots. Is there somebody who we're forgetting?

Speaker 13 (23:11):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (23:11):
There has to be I think that you guys are
you brought up Cam Smith Sanchez?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
All right? You didn't jump out of your chair with excitement.
I mean, I don't mean, I don't I don't mean
to be silent on the show. Audio does make the
world go around, especially radio.

Speaker 12 (23:32):
Oh is that.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Deznzo, Hazers Sanchez mm hmm, and we forgot Dezenzo. He
was hurt. I mean, Decenzo shows a little pop, strikes
out too much. Stop me if you've heard that before.
Cam Smith's like caled my beer starting pitching one outfield,

(23:55):
two cotending next, I can I can live with the outfield,
I can live with the infield. Does this that we're
not doing this? We're not doing that challenging in the January.
We're not doing this, Justmber. We just went with Cam Smith,
Jacob Melton, and Haesu Sanchez to the outfield. Jose L
two va around in there somewhere. He's declined three straight

(24:17):
years at the plate. He's been bad in the field
for more years than that. Christian Walker is your first
basin right now, Carlos Corey is getting older. Half your
pictures are on the I l all right, Yeah, let's
take a break. Yeah, I know, you know, I'm gonna
go around here.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Oh something positive?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Seriously, is there any other Is there any sound by
some data that are positive that makes us feel wonderful? Well,
we'll get some more.

Speaker 9 (24:46):
Wink.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
We come back when we come back ten thirty on
Sports Talk seven ninety. Shout out to my Cougar brethren.
We bought up all the allotted tickets that were on
the Cougar side of things for the Texas Bowl. So
that's nice because they know that we're gonna beat that
lsu ass.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
That's good. What's the allotment?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
My guess is eight thousand, oh man, that's what's all
you require to If not, you take a loss on it.
So we bought all. I mean again, I don't know
the number, but good. I'm glad we did. And you
know what, it's December twenty seventh. It's a Saturday night,
sink fifteen, I mean, nothing else to do. Rockets play

(25:27):
that night. But what day is it? It's on a Saturday,
December twenty seventh, Oh, twenty seventh. Okay, Caviler's rockets that night,
which is a good you know, I'll be an obvio
a big one. That's a big one. Future NBA Finals preview,
maybe saying could be sure could if there's some kind
of devastating bus accident for the Oklahoma City Thunder, I'm
not gonna let you do that. I'm not gonna let

(25:48):
you steal my joy. What you're the one hold on.
You're the one that had been wishing for them to
get injured. I am still wishing for injuries, and maybe
there will be a torny ACL in the mix before that.
Oh my god, their players. Okay, I have, I have,
I have. I'm petting and mean and hope bad things

(26:11):
to people. Okay, for my own well, good, NBA finals
would be excellent. Can I can I travel with you if, if,
if the Rockets make the NBA Finals, Yes, unless it's Cleveland.
Actually no, no, no, you're no. No, Let's see Detroit pass
on that stops New York. Let's go stop. You are
a you have been a Rocket fan your entire life.

(26:31):
You are definitely going to want.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
To be doing these damn post game shows for eight years.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's been rough. Now, I did travel to I did
not go to the ninety four NBA Finals in New York. Okay,
but I didn't go to the ninety five NBA Finals
in Orlando. I was right there when Nick the brik
to miss the free throws. Okay, you know what, I'd
rather go to New York or Boston. Detroit's I've heard
Detroit's underrated these days. It's about them back. True.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
First of all. The arena is amazing, it's good.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
The media dining is the best in the league, second
best league behind Utah Thurd.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
This is a casino within walking distance of the hotel.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Win win win. All right, let's go to Detroit. Yeah, Detroit.
Cleveland's got a casino literally in the building where we stay.
I remember when the Rockets were supposed to get the
number one pick when it was Kad Cunningham. Mm hmm.
He's good. Now he's a quadruple machine. He does score

(27:27):
rebound assists. He also turns the ball over about nine
times a game too. So yeah, it is what it is. Oh, okay,
so he'd fit right in, all right. Back to Dana Brown, Yes,
back to Data Brown. Okay, so we got to figure
out what's going on with L two, Vay, Jordon and
Paratus also though, of course, one of the major offseason
storylines and changes has been the hitting coaches and Dana Brown's.

(27:48):
Has a change had to be made?

Speaker 11 (27:51):
Yeah, sometimes you just need a new voice. Look, and
you know the two guys that we had, Centron, you know,
he had been really good here for a long time.
Help the organization do some some good things. Nicker the
same way, we felt like we needed a new voice,
and you know that's why we went out and did
what we did, and we went and got you know,
two guys that are veterans that they've done it for

(28:13):
a while, you know, Rodriguez and Ayapoci. Both these guys
we feel like going to really make an impact. And so,
as I said before, sometimes you just got to get
a new voice in the clubhouse and then the dugout.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
New voice in the clubhouse.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
I hope again, if this team struggles offensively, you can't
blame the hitting coaches. No paradis and you are not
gonna be healthy. The offense gonna be better, and they're like,
see see Ross and Matt, you were wrong. These new
I don't know why I talk like Hank Hill, but
these new hitting coaches are are changing everything. Okay, yeah,

(28:49):
when it's not. I can't even remember Zach Short. Was
that guy's name? Yeah, that's Taylor Tremmell. Yeah, but know what,
I'll shut up, No, no, maybe the new hitting coaches are
what about that wrong? How about this for a more
torum in twenty twenty six and you can't call about
the hitting coaches and you and we can't critique them
or or give them praise and or foe for their mistakes,

(29:12):
because nobody can work miracles. There's I guarant Let me,
let me promise you something. These hitting coaches, and I'm
sure they're wonderful human beings and are well are well
trained in their craft. You have Carlos Krey has played
thousands of major league games. Carlos to eight thousands of
major league games. Yes, uh, you're an Alvarez parts of
thousands of games. H huh, they're there ain't nothing they

(29:34):
haven't seen.

Speaker 6 (29:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
There may be a small, little intricate part of shifting
of the feet, maybe an elbow placement, maybe a pitch detector, whatever,
but they are who they are. They have been swinging
a bat since they were six years old. It's not
saying that, Matt. Why because the hitting coaches are going
to change everything. Well, if they do, then they should
get their love tomorrow on the show or the next

(29:57):
year on the show. That's all I'm saying. Seven one three, two,
one two, five seventy one more. Dana Brown cut sure,
how about Dana Brown on Jeremy Pania showing his value
last year?

Speaker 11 (30:12):
Jeremy Pina last year was definitely back to the Jeremy
Pinia of the postseason, and I think that was twenty
twenty two. I wasn't here though at the time, but
when when he went down, that hurt a lot for us.
He's our leader, he's our leadoff guy, he's an elite
shortstop and so but he's fully healthy. Now we get
him back and he'll be locked in again. We felt

(30:34):
like he really turned the corner and became the player
that we know he's capable of being, all.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
Right, and we're going to try to resignhim in the offseason.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Meaning now, yes, Also, I don't know that we have this,
but I saw the comments from Dana Brown dismissing any
thought of a trade of Jeremy Penion, which we've kind
of floated. As we're talking about trading an infielder, you
got a glut. The guy who has the most value
but also least likely to be trading because he has
the most value would be Jeremy Penia. But he is
under control for two more years and could get quite
a haul for a for the Astros, as you got

(31:05):
with Kyle Tucker with one year left.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
All right, that'll be a lot of fruit.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
So let me ask you this, Do we have the
conversation twelve months from now, I would say yes, absolutely,
especially if things don't go the Astros way this offseason,
especially if this selling off of the affiliates is a
precursor to Jim Crane divesting as majority owner and you

(31:31):
don't want to pay a guy. Oh, I don't know,
and I'm not sure, and I'm not sureing it's happening.
I'm not trying to be naive. I'm not saying that's happening.
I'm just we're talking. Okay, So since we're just talking,
we're bros at the bar beverage. Yes to me, and
again I have not been given any information on this.
To me, it's I got a deal I couldn't refuse.

(31:53):
I agree, That's what I think it is. Because this
private equity company obviously sees value in buying multiple minor
league teams. It's not like the Astros world one off.
They have to be overpaying. That's what these private equity
companies do. They swoop in, They overpay so they can
gobble everything up and monopolize whatever they're doing, whether it

(32:14):
be you know, any sort of property owning or whatever.
They overpay, they give you an offer you can't refuse,
and then they hold a monopoly. That way they can
profit more. That's that's just there. Can remember again, it
doesn't change Dana Brown's process of evaluating players. And it's
just simply any profits And here's the thing, and or
expenses go to this private equity group as compared to

(32:37):
the Astros parent club. And like I said, you go
get a Bob's truck stop or you know, or rac
a Rarol and they can put them in twenty five
different ballparks a logo and sell it that way. And
you can also take five minor league teams and have
one staff of marketing people and pr people and you know, nutritionists.
And I mean, it's what you do. You you pair

(32:58):
things down. Yeah, to me, this I'm I don't. I
don't see this as a warning sign. Now, even if
they didn't do this, part of me thinks that Jim's
not going to own this for ten more years unless
the kids do want involvement. But they really hadn't been
involved yet. He loves baseball, he's not it's not like
he's near death. No, but I was not Jerry Jones level. No, Well,

(33:21):
Jerry Jones has been at death level for five years
and still is the general manager.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
But that's a different issue for a different time.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
All right, ten forty three the topic for the ticket, Yeah,
thirteen ten the ticket seven one three two one two.
We've been done. You know what, where's our man James
of Garden Oaks. We haven't wn in for a long time.
We haven't heard from since the Yankees. We are going
to hear from him during the baseball season. He hasn't

(33:47):
called about the Jets or Giants. We told us the
Yankees are gonna win, win it all. We hadn't heard
from Juicy. By the way, who who the big dog
favorite is to be the new coach in New York Giants?

Speaker 2 (33:56):
Rhyme's the darkest meman.

Speaker 1 (33:58):
It makes sense, it does. When the ad was loving
on him yesterday. Man oh man, he's family. He's I
bought him five extra Christmas gimes. I told my kids,
not this year. It's got to go to Marcus instead.
Smart seven one three, two, one two five seven, ninety.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Ten fifty one Sports chart seven and a couple of things.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Number one U six thousand tickets were sold on the UHIE.
That's that's what the alignment was.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
So LSU.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
You're on the hook for six thousand as well.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
And I'll tell you, I don't know how the fine
I don't know how the Texas bull does their marketing,
but you know, since the game is owned by the Texans,
they should probably send them an email blast out saying hey,
Texans fans want to go check out LSU Houston will
give you your seats that you normally sit in for games.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
And you know that's that would be the easy way.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I think it was. I know how they do some
marketing via Chris Cordy. Yeah, all right, got the five
O six mat for the NFL games? The what now
the five five O six? The website that tells you
what cities are getting which games? Okay, Green Bay, Denver
is expected as the I mean, this is the nicest
way possible.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
You're such a broadcasting nerd.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
I am a nerd. This is exactly right. So Indianapolis
Seattle is not the main game. Okay, it's being shown
in Indianapolis. It's being shown in Louisville and Fort Wayne
and South Bend, and it's being shown in Jacksonville, Okay,
And it's being shown on the West coast because it
is a game that features West Coast teams you know
NFC West obviously, and.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
The one city in Texas being shown in Houston.

Speaker 6 (35:28):
Love you.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
Really, the nation's not captivated by Cardinals Texans.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I was talking about Indianapoli Seattle. Indianapol Seattle. Sorry, yeah,
I was gonna try to get Mark Schleret's on the show.
He's doing the color for the game on the Texans game,
and I sent him a really nice text. He did
got three weeks ago, and he never responded, Oh uh, well,
should do it again. I don't know for tomorrow as Dan,
maybe he's buddies with him. Dan knows everybody in this industry.

(35:55):
He's mister Rolodex, but people don't even know what to roll. Jonathan, Yeah,
what's a rolodex? A rolodex? Yeah, no idea, it's a
It's just a term. What do you think it is?
Take a guess? Mm hmmm. Talking about people.

Speaker 8 (36:13):
He knows people.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
Like a roster.

Speaker 2 (36:17):
Get kind of like an address book. You get a
half credit.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
Okay, okay, okay, that's fine, give me a see on that.
I'll just mess credit later.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
Yeah, you're see what the extra credit we gave you?
A stroud.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
You gave. Honestly, you look at I know that you're
all into the extra you're into the E p A
analytics and all that stuff. Half grades.

Speaker 9 (36:43):
I'm not.

Speaker 1 (36:44):
Uh yeah, he's basically when Ray called him mid mm hmmm, who.

Speaker 6 (36:50):
Is he rolled right?

Speaker 1 (36:50):
Then wrong? He's kind of right.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
Why didn't you say anything the other day?

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Well hold on, no, he was he was.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
He was not mean, he was he was calling him hot.

Speaker 1 (36:59):
Garbage is what he was. He needs to improve, he does.
You are seeing that you can win with c J. Stroud,
You can win with Davis Mills. You just got to
have like an all time dominant defense, okay behind him.
So I'm gonna tell you something right now that you're
gonna make hear me really mad at me. Okay, I
can't pay him sixty million dollars a year. You're saying that, you're, well,
we're gonna see what what kind of money he is

(37:20):
going to command. I understand what you're saying. I've never
said you're insane and you're stupid for saying that CJ.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Stroud can't get paid.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
I stand where you're coming from, Okay, but I'm just
saying that doesn't happen in the NFL, because your alternative
is to keep searching. You have somebody who is good
enough that you can win with, and you're hoping that
can develop and improve. He's twenty four years old. Twenty okay,
that's again. If he's gonna play fifty more years, that's fine.
But twenty four is about to hit the prime of

(37:49):
his career. Okay, we can go to examp. There are
examples in the NFL of guys who got let go
and we're pretty good elsewhere Sam Darnold Packer may Daniel
Jones to an extent before he ripped his achilles. He
could also be a Kirk Cousins guy, just get franchise
tag and then bounce some team to team the teammate.

(38:09):
It could also be somebody who's just not the guy
who gets paid and then you're asking why did we
pay this guy so much? I mean Trevor Lawrence. We
don't think he's very good, do we. Jaguars are nine
to four in the first place in the AFC South.
He's a guy you can win with, You're right, but

(38:32):
it's gonna be uncomfortable. After his rookie year, we were
talking about him literally in top five conversation. Yea, what
happened was their tape on him? Yes, lazy, I don't
think so. I don't think he did spend a lot
of time, he said season two. He said it himself.
He did spend too much time on the press tour, correct,

(38:53):
he did, and doing worldwide podcasts from like a Bucharest.
I mean he's a Malaysia with Michael Parsons or whatever.
By way, I don't know if Cow is going to
let he's gonna sign him. Because Cal he put his
high up for a high five again in Kansas City
and he left. Is that real?

Speaker 2 (39:09):
I only saw that from one person.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
Now I saw it from one person too, But and
then he isolated to Cal who had his hands sell
up in the air.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
That's what I'm saying. I can't let your own hangar
account all. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
One Instagram account I saw mine on Twitter could be
the same person. Sure it was the same video. Yeah,
it was the same Instagram video. So I'm not saying
it's not real. I'm just saying, is this in this
day and age?

Speaker 2 (39:33):
You never know? I like, i'd like multiple sources.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
I don't. I can't remember the last time I was
left hanging like that, Now, am I guilty of I
go for the high five and the person goes with
the fist bump. I'm more of a fist bump than
a high five guy. But there have been times when
we have the person on the other side of me
have not We've not connected because I got to get
the fist bump cocked and ready early so they see it.
You got to put it to your side exactly by

(39:58):
your ribcage. You got to know it coming, You got
to raise it. Yes, you got to do early signals
so we know what's going on. So next time you
all see me in public, cock your fist to your
rib cage and then Jammett headed that direction. Then we
can boom hit it together. I'm trying to be I'm
converted to team fist bump over. But sometimes you know,

(40:20):
just because poor cat, if that's a real thing, that
first bunch guys going for each and the other. This
happens to me all the time. I know. But the
problem is if that if he was really left hanging,
that's going to affect his contract status. You cannot leave
your owner hanging. Second hour of the show, we'll feature
some phone calls from you guys, I just shut your
bum mess up. And we got to hear from Brett Yormark.

(40:41):
We'll hear that coming up as well. He was none
too pleased with the way Notre Dame has handled this
entire sliding of being in the college football playoff. Ten
fifty seven. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. If
you would like to join us, we'd love to have you.
Seven one three two one two five seven Nini seven
one three two one two five seven ninety is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Spot eleven O one Sports

(41:06):
Talk seven ninetie. What did Brent your Mark, the Big
twelve commissioner have to say about Notre Dame's behavior. We'll
hear that coming up in just a couple of minutes.
Our behavior, we think it's usually exemplary. Seven one three
two one two five seven NINTI seven one three two
one two five SEVENANTI is a Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
We have no rockets till tomorrow. Take on the clips. Yes,

(41:30):
I wonder if James Harn's been hanging out the strip
clubs in the last couple of days. Yeah, is he
gonna like he's gonna be rejuvenated in his old hangs.
They haven't played since Saturday. When you come here and
make a little vacation when the unction comes into town.
Is Paul George playing for them? Still? Uh? What's how's
Kawhi Leonard doing? I know Chris Paul's going last box score?
Paul George is Okay? They signed like everybody over thirty

(41:51):
eight in the NBA, So I can't keep track of
all the Clippers.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
Uh they have a bog Dog Bogdanovich.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
I think they got Nate Thurman on ten day. Uh,
it looks like George Miken is here to ten day contract.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
That's all.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
I guess we should name clippers.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Pietowski came back for there's not a single person in
this audience and knowsh Eric pie Cony, Yes there is.
Come on, baby Clippers legend. Have you met her?

Speaker 9 (42:14):
Honest?

Speaker 2 (42:14):
He used to crush the rockets.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
He would come. He would make like five threes and
I'd be like, well, come on, man, Eric Pietowski, you
want to go with you know, here's what we're gonna
do today, Clipper or not? Okay, and you have to
get three in a row. Oh, let's see Corey mcginno
I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about their audience
for believe it or not, today, there's your teas for today, Okay,

(42:36):
highly googleable. Yes, we will have a list of fifteen.
You gotta get three in a row, right, all right?
If this person's everbody ever played a clipper or not
clipper or not that's guy.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Actually pretty easy for.

Speaker 1 (42:47):
Us seven one three, two one two five seven ninety
Ryan's with us on the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
Ross, Ryan, thank you for holding a good morning.

Speaker 14 (42:56):
Warning fellas. Uh so, I've ear when we all were
talking about it, but my boss walking into my office
and was going over some stuff. But if you were
to google log jam, the ASTROS organization would pop up
on your computer. I have no idea what we're gonna do.
We used to have a stack outfield. Now our outfield
is looking just more and more sad every day, and

(43:17):
we have too many infielders and we know what to
do with and I just I have no idea how
we're going to go anywhere with that. But I have
I have a bet, and I so Ross, this is
more for you, but I'll take both of y'all. I
believe having listened to the show, for a long time. Ross,
I don't think you're ever going to get that hibachi dinner,
but I'll do you one better. If you're on Alvarez

(43:39):
plays one hundred and thirty games, I will take both
y'all the VIC and Anthony's my tree.

Speaker 12 (43:45):
Ever.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
Repeat this again, Repeat this again? And what if we
lose hold on? I want to hear it again? What
is again?

Speaker 14 (43:53):
If you're on Alvarez plays one hundred and thirty games
this season, I will take both of y'all to and
Anthony's my tree.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
All right, I'm getting the most expensive bottle of cabernet.
So let me get this straight. I don't think he's
ever gonna play one hundred and thirty ever. Yeah, so,
so you would take that beat, so I would value
I would value so you actually were on the same side.
He's played one hundred and thirty plus games three of
the last five years.

Speaker 14 (44:20):
I think that was trending downward.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
Bro, this is great.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
He did it two years ago.

Speaker 1 (44:25):
Okay, whatever, all right, so he's gotten Hey, all I
gotta say is fine to say it for one year.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
McKees bad hands.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
He's like twenty seven, but he plays thirty four and
I love him. But let's be honest. I'm sorry, he's
twenty eight. It's when he gets hurt. It's something that
it's not an ali. They're gonna d h him. Okay,
so I gotta swing hard.

Speaker 14 (44:49):
Let me know if you want to accept. Let me
know if you want to accept.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
The BET's rehearse, all right, see you right.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
I don't think it was a reverse. I think he
just wants to get a free you just want I
think he's just this is just let me take the
guys out to dinner. Yeah, which we will take. We
will accept Vic and Anthony's. I'm more of a Mastros guy.
Either one is fine. We can use my discount card.
That's true. Matt knows people I do. All right, Uh, okay, look,
you could be right. I'm just saying it's a ridiculous.

(45:18):
Let me tell you. Part of this is we say
things on the show to create a conversation. People.

Speaker 2 (45:22):
No, I don't do that. I'm not saying.

Speaker 1 (45:24):
I'm not trying to say it's a hot take. I'm
saying that that's not a hot take. It's a hot
take never in his career. He's twenty eight. All right,
I can't wait to be right. I told you about Zion.
I'm right, so far, so far. Yeah, his whole career
ahead of him. Yeah, yeah, you also never mind. I'm
gonna be nice. I love you. Say what you want

(45:46):
to say.

Speaker 2 (45:46):
No, No, we are brothers. Go ahead say it.

Speaker 1 (45:49):
Sorry, just do it. He also had to back off
saying that the Texans are never gonna win a Super
Bowl with Count McNair's owner. Yes, but I'm not backing
off of that. It's gonna be with the general manager, Nicosio. Okay,
Nickosario cannot will not be able to ever put together
an offensive line we're proud of. They could get to
the Super Bowl this year. They could. Their offense will

(46:09):
not allow them to do it. We'll see. No. I
believe in CJ. I believe in J. Can't. Okay, I don't.
I don't believe to be brilliant. I don't know who
the hell's going to but Arianta's gonna get it together. Illegal.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I got two words for you, illegal formation.

Speaker 1 (46:26):
Can we stop doing illegal formation?

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Can we gets for you?

Speaker 1 (46:31):
Can we call a team.

Speaker 7 (46:32):
Meeting on the rules of football?

Speaker 1 (46:35):
How many illegal shifts and illegal formations can be called?
We're into week thirteen fourteen. You're still formating illegally formating.
I made up a word. Okay, we said, that's a fact.
It sounds good. I will accept formally illegal formation. Can
you stop it? Can you read the rule book? Nick

(46:57):
Kyley and C. J. Stroud, And let me ask you
another question, not revolving around penalties, and they've been going
with this six man offensive line to put yes, when
you report is eligible, you gotta have somebody covered up
or whatever all that crap. Let me ask one of
the rules. When are other team's defense is going to
pick up on this? And if they're not already doing,
somebody does that. Yeah, they do play action out of it.
That the the the jumbo lineup has been Actually, it's

(47:20):
been kind of big this year in the NFL. It's
got in vogue. As they here is a grandiose statement.
That's not how to take It's just how I feel
this defense is going to win the season. Ends gonna
put their helmets and take their pads off and go,
damn it. We were good enough. We were good enough
at top. They're not going to the super Bowl because

(47:42):
they can't score enough points. Yeah, well that's I mean,
that's the NFL. Nobody's everybody it's hard for everybody when
if you're dominant on both sides of the ball, you're
gonna win the Super Bowl. Yeah, generally, Eagles last year
dominant both sides of the ball won the Super Bowl.
So all I'm asking you to do, Ross is to
tell all your people in the Techsonville to let's get
the Texans offense to average. If it gets to average,

(48:04):
you got a shot. I think it is about average.
I mean I haven't looked at the latest dvoa's and
points and yards and all that tough too many penalties.
Third quarter was a disaster. Now and CJ, to his credit,
here's where the credit comes in. Okay, he gives you
three throws per game that you're like, oh my god,

(48:24):
that ball is going to be picked off. He can
make place under duress. Oh my god, he's gonna be
sacked for a sixteen yard loss. Okay, they're number one
in points and yards, which is crazy that they're the
same in both. It's also crazy to the same in
both offensively, would you like to guess points and yards
both the same rank out of thirty two twenty sixth twenty. Okay,

(48:45):
that's not average, just below average. Yeah, needs get better.
All about how second third go? Look goodur buddies at PFF,
the poon Hounds. How's our offensive line looking this week?
You want to do this right now there, right now?
Then're gonna go break your mark ahead of week fifteen,
and week fifteen's coming in Denver Broncos number one.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Funny how that works? Offensive line?

Speaker 1 (49:09):
Hold on? Hold on? So it's a mid level quarterback
has a great offensive line. This surprises me. Go ahead,
they moved up a spot. Okay, you know what. That's
why PFF gets that. If you watch that game, that
was not a good offensive line performance. Well it was not.

(49:30):
I'm sorry. They passed the Chiefs. One of the team,
the team that was ahead of them that they passed
with the Chiefs. So they really just probably would have
stayed the same, except the Chiefs got wrecked. The Chiefs
went from twelve to twenty. And honestly, Texans defense can
wreck offensive lines.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Yeah, so it's a week to.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
Week ranking, so it's not necessarily they were good as
the Chiefs were that bad. The Chiefs were ahead of
them and went behind them. Let me take anybody that
watched that game on Sunday could not have come away
going that's about what we've seen week to week from
the Texan The test offensive line has performed better than
what they.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Saw all thirty two teams.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
They did. They also wut on any friends exactly, so
they have time to break down all thirty two teams.
Maybe you're right people without friends. I mean that you're
helping their argument. Yeah, we got no friends. We're watching
football or the poon Hounds are out and didn't really
drive mailed it in Houston, dropped back thirty five teen

(50:25):
times and yielded fourteen pressures, with two sacks and three
quarterbacks hits. H third to last their past blocking efficiency.
In week fourteen, at Ingram struggled mightily seven pressures. He conceded, So,
I mean, I'm gonna ask you this question, and I
promise we'll get to pret your mark in the next segment.

(50:48):
If you are all in on the Texans defense, and
if you aren't, you you have absolutely zero football like you.

Speaker 6 (50:55):
Yes, you.

Speaker 1 (50:55):
You have to respect and admire the defensive intensity this
team has brought week after week after week. Are they perfect?

Speaker 10 (51:04):
No?

Speaker 1 (51:04):
But are they elite? Yes? They're the best in the biz. Okay,
they're the best in team history. But are some Texans
fans and maybe you're in that group. No, I'm talking
about you. I'm talking about the audience. Are you trying
to sell me? Eh, Texans offense ain't that bad.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
We'll be fine. Defense so good.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
I don't I think to win a conference championship even
though there are so many flawed teams in front of them,
not flawed but unproven. Mm hmm. I think we're finding
ourselves over selling what this Texans offense can be because
we're trying to justify to match the excellence of the defense.
I don't think anybody's over selling. Hey, who has said

(51:49):
that this Texans offense is good? Danelovsky was foaming at
the mouth two weeks ago about how Nick Cayley has
grown as an offensive cord and they've gotten better. Yeah,
well they went from dogwater to see Yeah, that's an improvement.
That's what the offensive line did. They be from thirty
second and they went from thirty second in the league
to seventeenth. That's an improvement. Decent can't win your AFC, No,

(52:11):
it can. With this defense. You have to be good enough.
They're not good enough. They still have to improve. And
I imagine that actually the Cardinals defense is not that bad,
but you are going to be home. It's the offensive
line certainly struggles. They always struggle against Steve Spagnolo. He
always does the you know, the these uh mug fronts
where you have seven eight guys showing and they can

(52:34):
never figure out who's coming like.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
They certainly have issues with that.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
So I think at home they're gonna be a little
bit better, do you c J Stroud? That was he
was under durest the entire game. It was second game
back from a concussion. He looked bad. For sure, he
has to be better. I still, I still think I
can see this offense improving. I'm not saying they're good
enough to win the AFC right now, But are the

(52:59):
Bills good enough to win the AFC? Yes? The Texans
beat them with Davis Mills. Are the Colts before Daniel
Jones went down good enough to beat the to win
the AFC? Yes? The Texans beat them in their house,
so they can get it done. It's just gonna be
one score madness every week. That's what we're seeing. That's

(53:21):
Texans football. We're gonna be living on the ragers edge
and we're gonna be like pounding our fist every time
there's bad penalties, and then we're gonna be saying, oh
my god, this defense is insane.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Or red zone lack of touchdown red.

Speaker 1 (53:33):
Zone yeah, lack of lack of red zone efficiency, conservative
play calling, keeping it close to the vest from Demico Ryans.
It's gonna be frustrating and we're gonna be like, oh
my god, this is horrible. I want to claw my
eyes out watching this offense. And then they win twenty
to sixteen. That's Texans football. The Texans defense for your marriage,
you want to take her on a second honeymoon, okay,
the Texans offense you want to file for divorce.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Hmm hmm. Think about it.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
You love your spouse so much, you're like, I can't
live another moment without her.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
Then even argument a legal formation, I'll go the other way.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Please. Every the Texans, uh is, the offense is like
the day to day life. She's whining, complaining, nagging, bothering
you Texans defense. When you hit the bedroom, it's sex.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
And you're like, you know what, it's kind of worth it.

Speaker 1 (54:34):
So you're telling me the Texans defensive sex is better
than the day to day having her wine and bitch
and moan all day long.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
The crazy wild girlfriend. She's crazy and wild.

Speaker 1 (54:44):
It's the offense when she's crazying, wild and swarming that
Texans swarm in the bedroom. That's when you're like, it's
all right, well she swarms you. You work this out.
What if she overdraped? What if she overdraws your account
all the time? Yeah, the comptant put on this show
Pro Football Focus. Can't do that, and then you know

(55:07):
what it's like. No, no, it's life in the bedroom. All right.
Brett Ormark goes off on Notre Dame. We'll hear from
him next. He's the commission of the Big twelve. You
don't know seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Ninetys All right, Uh, we got.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
To shut your ballment stuff. I ain't nobody got time
for that. Coming up in about ten minutes here on
Sports Talk seven ninety so, Bett Brett Yormark was a
part of a sports business journal, sports opportunity. I don't
know what. It was, some sort of uh focused talk
with a bunch of people intendants and uh he was
you know, there was uh some chatter about whether or

(55:41):
not Notre Dame being so mad and upset at the
ACC yesterday during his press conference, whether that would affect
their future for the ACC and the first thing I
thought of as well, I mean, this is an opportunity
for the Big twelve to come in and scoop it
and say, hey, if you don't like what the ACC
is treating you, come to the Big twelve will love
on you and my guests, will let you keep your

(56:02):
your NBC deal and you can schedule however you want
to schedule your Big twelve opponents. Well, Brett, you or
Mark Uh I would say, of all the commissioners, now,
I know that the SEC commissioner is the most important
one because he's the most powerful UH leader in college athletics.
He is the most powerful conference. Bert your Brett, your
market ain't afraid of a microphone. I mean he says

(56:24):
more things than any Greg sank you were talking about
the SEC guy. He doesn't speak a lot, but when
he does, he speaks with heavy stick. Brett.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
It doesn't turn the microphone down.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
So he was asked yesterday in front of a crowd
of people, what do you thought about how Notre Dame
was handling this whole slighting of them not being in
the CFP.

Speaker 15 (56:40):
I will say this, and and I'm a little lot
spoken about it.

Speaker 9 (56:44):
I don't like how Notre Dame's reacted to it.

Speaker 15 (56:47):
So okay, I think I think Pete's his behavior has
been egregious. It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips when
they save Notre Dame during COVID. We all knew, and
it was very transparent. Hunter was very transparent about it.
The chair that as Notre Dame in Miami got closer together,
head to head would be a factor.

Speaker 9 (57:08):
Okay, b why you lost?

Speaker 15 (57:10):
They came closer together head to head made a difference
in that decision.

Speaker 9 (57:15):
So I think he is totally out of bounds in
his approach. And he was in the room. I tell
him the same thing.

Speaker 1 (57:24):
He said, exactly exactly. He's exactly right. We talked about this. Yeah,
they said head to head. It was a hint. It
was a hint to Notre Dame. As teams get closer together,
head to head's gonna matter more. Whether you agree with
that or not, that's beside the point.

Speaker 9 (57:42):
It should.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
But there were so many there were so many common factors.
We've gone over this, so many things that were put
Notre Dame in Miami in the same category. In the
one determining factor at the end of the day was
the head to head matchup. So the FORO you tab
it is what it is?

Speaker 6 (57:56):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
I have been trying to stay out of there.

Speaker 1 (57:59):
It's good because Notre Dame fan has gone to videos
of you know, you don't know what you're talking about.
You don't know how powerful we are and how we
say the ace. I mean, just this holier than thou
Notre Dame. And then you all these Notre Dame alumd
that are like, yeah, preach from the top or hear
say it louder for the people in the back, all
that kind of goofy ass twitter crap, uh huh. And

(58:22):
the number one result has been as follows, join a conference,
shut up. Don't think you're better than everybody else, because
when you are an independent, you do believe you have
every better anybody else. Say what you will about the
sec supremacy. They're at least in a conference. They understand
the value of a conference. Notre Dame, if you really

(58:42):
want this to end, if you really want to end
the notion and by the way, if they're in the
top twelve next year, they gotta they got a little bonus.
They don't. They got even a special rule. This won't
happen to the game. Won't happen to them again next year. Yeah,
they're having their cake and they're eating it too. But
if you surely want to end this up, go to
the ace. See beat up on them, because you beat
up on all the second tier teams. You did, you

(59:04):
played to begin with, except Miami. Conference would have been
a conference loss. Is what it is. Go to a conference,
win it, play in the championship game, and stop your bitching.
But Brett, you or Mark I really thought that we
would have kicked the tires week because I'm a big
twelve member, But yes you are. Now, maybe that's your
Mark just saying it because he wants to look good,

(59:25):
or maybe that he's already called the big notre dame
or microphone.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
Oh yeah, he ain't affraid to talk.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
We're gonna try to get him on the show here
down there really next few months for sure, because he'll
say something and not that we're trying to incite him,
but he'll say something that will that will resonate with people.
He's not gonna give you the politically correct answer. Now,
this also could come off of the fact that Brett
you or Mark called Notre Dame, and Notre Dame's like, mister,
your mick, we don't have time for your phone call.
And if you don't have time to speak, speak to

(59:50):
break your mark, then maybe that was a little bit
of retaliation to say you don't want to come play
with our conference. Well, I'm gonna take some shots at you.
It's like when you, you know, when you ask a girl
out and she says no, and then you say you
go anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
That's what you do. You have bad breath, gott to rationalize.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
So maybe Notre Name's got bad breath, uh huh. But yeah,
he he didn't mince ward yesterday, and he didn't in public,
and he got in it and people were filming it,
and so he knew exactly what he was doing. Well,
and now apparently the ACC commissioner is commenting on Notre
Dame as well. Whoever that guy is, Okay, I don't

(01:00:29):
even know who that is, and I think I'm okay
with not knowing who that is.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Jim Phillips, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
He's also the chairman of the conference commissioners. I believe,
if I'm not missing, he kind of runs the commissioner's meetings.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
When they meet, he's defending Notre name. Now, oh, now
we're gonna kiss and make up. This sucks.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
Go on.

Speaker 1 (01:00:47):
If you're leaving teams out of the playoff that could
win a national championship, then you don't have the right number.
So he wants sixteen. It's gonna happen, and he's not.
You know what, Rossi's not going to protect his ACC.
I'm proticting Notre Dame. He's protecting ACC because if he
had sixteen, you would have Duke in. They would make

(01:01:10):
they would make the conference champion autiment A qualify, they
would they would have the a SEC champions still might
be left out. Was this way, okay, let's do this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Let's so if you have sixteen, let's think about it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:21):
Let's ad those four real quick with the highest champions
the way that they did. I like that. If you're
going to sixteen, I think get rid of it. If
you're staying at twelve, I like it. If you're going
to sixteen, it's fine. No, you're going to guarantee the slots.
So let's you know, I'm right, Duke shouldn't be in,
So Duke would be in that they shouldn't be that's
team thirteen. Notre Dame would be team fourteen. B Y,

(01:01:44):
you would be team fifteen. And who would because your
exis was next in the ring. And then you have
Texas at sixteen Texas on the road Indiana. That'd be tough, no,
because Inanna would have a double buy at that point,
right you? Oh you want to double buys? Yeah, I'm
presuming I'd be like, would you do? So there you
go the four teams that would be in if you

(01:02:06):
had a sixteen team on the road at Bama. Oh,
I've never gone to a game in in that's on
my bucket list. I heard it's pretty good. Yeah, I
want to go to I want to go to Ole
Miss and I want to go to Texas. I mean
to uh to uh to Alabama. I went to Tiger Stadium,

(01:02:29):
but the environment wasn't very good. I've been to Tiger Stadium.
I have been to Texas obviously. I've been to Texas
A and I have I'm been Oklahoma. There's nobody else.
Is there anyone else in Nicscy? I have to go
like just do I want to go to Georgiaeland? I've
been the never been to Kneeland either. Apparently that's like
that's a party. Yeah, that's one hundred and ten thousand
people to watch a six win football team. They're better Tennessee.

(01:02:50):
Well were they in Tennessee? You know what they've been,
but they have been. I mean when Tennessee been super
overly relevant in nineteen ninety eight Philip Formers's I was going,
don't forget about me, T Martin. Yes, that's it for
my tennis. Oh, Peyton Manning, Peyton Manning. Of course, never
beat to Florida though, Oh do you want to go
to Florida for a game? What does that interest you? Yeah,

(01:03:12):
the swamp would be great. I didn't but I'm just
gonna presume they have club seating for all these sections, right,
I mean high end donors. I kind of thank my god.
Sit with the people. You're so hoity toity, But can
you get a little sweat on your brow?

Speaker 9 (01:03:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:03:24):
Can you get a fieta bar faheta bar?

Speaker 1 (01:03:26):
Yeah, like you're talking about like chick peppers, onions, queso chips,
I guess, like catered, Yeah, like a club section you know,
I'll sit in the seats.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
I need a club section at halftime.

Speaker 1 (01:03:37):
Though. You know what my first thought is when I
went back to DKR, like this is old. It's they
put some lipstick on that pig. How are you gonna
fix it?

Speaker 12 (01:03:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
I know, I mean the building, the structure. I mean
it was built a hundred years ago. Yeah, speaking of that,
the Moody Center, which is amazing. They had Southern coming
in today. Yes, empty? Well yeah, oh for Southern. First
of all, the team's not very good. You want to
watch Manta's vocatitis and the boys. I watched that game
and look good. Was a final beat up on Southern.

(01:04:07):
I can't remember what the f I kind of checked
out when they were up thirty. Cougars have a big
game tonight, but yeah I did. The Moody Center did
look empty. We're taking on a big team from Mississippi
Southern Nope, MISSUS Southwest, Mississippi Central State Nope. Who is
it Jackson City? Excuse me? Yeah, so being met ninety

(01:04:29):
five to sixty nine wasn't that big of a blowout?
Long worn basketball not very good. We're playing Jackson State tonight.
What is the line of the game. Let me see
I can saving God. You try to guess? No, guess
where Texas plays next? Oh, the Cougars are forty point
five favorites, almost forty one point favorites. Longhorns play at

(01:04:50):
Yukon this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
Oh that's natural TV.

Speaker 1 (01:04:53):
Great. Ain't nothing wrong with that? Get their ass womped?

Speaker 6 (01:04:58):
Not good?

Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
We are a forty and a half point favorite. They
already got thrashed by Duke. They got destroyed by Virginia.
Let's focus on the more important team Houston. No, we're
talking about Texas basketball. Houston America team eight and one.
Jackson State is one in seven. Terrible. You should be
embarrassed Texas. Meanwhile, he's getting whooped by Duke and Yukon.
At least they're playing some teams out here approaching it. Yeah,

(01:05:23):
getting some seasoning and man, it can't hurt. It'll help
you if you get. It's a Q one win if
they win, right. I don't even want to know what
that line is going to be. I'll look it up,
glad you asked. Uh, it probably won't be posted yet
when it's the game on Sunday or Saturday running on Friday, Fox,
Who look at me? On Fox four K you watch that,
bad boy, you have a fourteen point six percent chance

(01:05:45):
of winning? Is that good? It beats zero? All right?

Speaker 6 (01:05:51):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Uh you reready to shut your brow mass up. I'm
ready for you to shut you You're ready to tell people?
Ain't nobody got time for that?

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
Seven one, three, two five seven oney, by the way,
you can on nine to one Texas seven and three
Yukon's beat BYU. I was thinking about what I was
thinking about going to Florida. I was thinking about going
to the Houston game. Now I can't go to a
game their forty point five favorite. Yukon's running the gauntlet.
My god. Yeah, but nothing else to do up there, Hibernate,
they're getting No, it's bad. It's gonna be bad. Yukon's

(01:06:19):
win this year have come against Florida, Good East, Texas
A and M, and they won against Kansas in a
neutral syn game and BYU was top was top ten
when they beat them BYU with a buzzer beater win yesterday.
There's your college basketball talk for the day. Seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety. Will the Cougars cover forty
and a half against Jackson State?

Speaker 9 (01:06:38):
He again let again.

Speaker 4 (01:06:40):
Here let again, he again, dear, let again, he let again,
he let again, deer let again.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
Damada Letter thirty six, Sports Talk seven ninety Matt and
Ross with you shut.

Speaker 2 (01:06:57):
Yo Obama ass up and anybody got time for that?

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
It's our right now. And if you're new to the program,
first of all, warre you the hell of you man. Second,
dang glad to have you. And third, here's how it works.
You will call at seventy one three two one two
five seven ninety and you will say it's something that's
bothering you. Not necessarily sports floater, it can't be sports fooded.
But if something is bothering you, whether it's a person

(01:07:20):
at work, whether it's the traffic, whether it's uh the
cost of living, whether it's your your family can't decide
on what they're doing for Christmas in terms of who's
having Christmas Eve dinner and who's doing.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
Christmas Day and anything of that sort.

Speaker 1 (01:07:35):
You call on me saying nobody got time for that.
You guys, Hey, nobody got time for Let's say, somebody
at your office. It's just blathering endlessly and doesn't let
you focus on your job. Oh are you looking at me,
and it's needless conversation that doesn't have a beginning or
an end, but it just ripples along and along and along.
Just tell them to shut their bo messes up.

Speaker 12 (01:07:54):
Shit, so bum mess up.

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
Man. Now, I can't say that to you because you
and I are responsible for speaking for four hours to
the Twitter person on that has his name Stephen with
a bunch of numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
It called me a dumb dumb. I already had that
guy muted.

Speaker 1 (01:08:10):
Shut your bumb ass up up, catchy? Is it responsible
for technical situations.

Speaker 2 (01:08:16):
That didn't send the video players dumb?

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
First of all, if you're a grown man calling another
grown man dumb dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
We'll step outside you some real names.

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
Matt's ready to throw some hands.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Oh you know it's the perfect time. That's how you
met dumb dumb.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
Debbie called again this morning saying that you need to
apologize and that was extremely disrespectful about notre dame.

Speaker 1 (01:08:41):
Double on it, Debbie, either you call the show, Debbie,
shut your bumb mess up.

Speaker 8 (01:08:49):
You hear that.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
I'm not even calling you, Debbie, I'm calling you directly, Deborah,
Deborah Debs, Debbie Doo, Debbie Downer. If you can't have
the Stones to call the show and tell me Notre
Dame was being disrespectful to America. Yes, Notre Dame. The
boring ass press conference needed to have some commentary. I
don't normally do that, but sometimes you gotta make that
a tot decision. So Deborah, shut your bomass up sits

(01:09:12):
obamass up. Man, you got Deborah Leaves leads me to
what I was gonna have for our good friend Pete
bavaqua ad Notre Dame babe PDB. Yeah, dude, did you
really call a press conference to whine even more about
the a you're going with? The ACC social media team

(01:09:37):
d meat to mean tweet about us day said enough
said yeah, you lost head to head. Listen to the committee.
They literally said, as teams get closer, head to head
will matter. That's how you got flipped. Why are you're
either playing stupid or your ignorance? Which one is it?

Speaker 7 (01:09:56):
Shut your bomb ass up sits Obamas listen you want
and cry for forty five minutes about how you got left,
and then to say you went on the most dominant
run in the ten game run in college football history,
and you beat Syracuse and Stanford and other terrible team

(01:10:16):
Boston College.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Shut your bomb ass up. Shit to bum ass up, man,
we speak for America. Shut your bumb ass up. One
of the most dominant runs in college football history. Sh
Mary a top twenty five team in that list used
to be this is two yeah, and you were time

(01:10:40):
traveled and played all the teams throughout history. I didn't
realize you're playing Doug Flutie as John Elway Wells Pittsburgh.
We can get your retro teams be really good. The
Kirrlin's not so much. Boston College won like two games.
Jona wentzon matter. We didn't run the gauntlet.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
H I keep seeing this I'm driving and I was
so glad that I saw it today going to the show.
I have my in the AC. I had the circulation
like getting the fresh air. You know how it has
a little circle with the arrow on it. You get
their fresh air on the a C. And this truck
dude in front of me had is like through two

(01:11:19):
cigarette butts that lit up and gets your smoking.

Speaker 8 (01:11:21):
I was falling behind him.

Speaker 1 (01:11:22):
I kid you not.

Speaker 3 (01:11:23):
I had the smell of the cigarette burning engine. And
now I'm sitting here like nobody has time for that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
You got it?

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
If you're smoking your car ready, you got them yellow
walls that stint in there. You might as well have an.

Speaker 8 (01:11:34):
Astray and put it out there. Ain't nobody good time
for you throw down the street littering, and I gotta
smell it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
I don't know I got time for that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:40):
You know, I'm sorry cigarette smokers in general. Ain't nobody
got time for y'all. It was not even cool in
the seventies. It was cool to smoke cigarette. We can.
We walk by you in the hallways, just go stink.
We see your brown teeth, they stink. You're leaving. You're
leaving cigarette butts all over the place. We can smell
it in the elevator ten minutes half you get out

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of it. It lingers everywhere. And oh, by the way,
you're giving yourself lung cancer. Nobody get time for that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
This is this is like three guys in this building
that go on the fifth floor of the parking garage.

Speaker 8 (01:12:14):
Yes, and blaze it up. I'm walking out here. I
got like three.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
You can smell it fifty yards near them.

Speaker 8 (01:12:22):
Go to the first floor, take a walk. Why are
we sitting here with all the cars here? I don't
I don't get that nobody.

Speaker 1 (01:12:27):
I want to ask this is this is a stereotypical question.
Name a cool person that you know that smokes. Nobody.
It's generally a waffle house night shifters. Because I mean, honestly, no,
you you weren't alive, but we were. I was younger.
It was cool to smoke in the sixty sees. It

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was until you realize how damage the air to your body. Yes,
and you smell and you in your teeth are gross
and what else? Yeah, nicotine is highly addictive and your
boice gets older dark.

Speaker 2 (01:12:59):
I mean, you can have your vice.

Speaker 8 (01:13:00):
Is man that has some proper etiquette.

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Like Nat King Cole used to smoke like two packs
a day because he thought it made his voice sound good.
Then he died of lungcans. Now I'm telling you just faith.
I don't fade, but I'm team Vade, do it. I
think even that's not good.

Speaker 8 (01:13:14):
I think I think it's almost worse.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
You can get like nickel and aluminum and all that stuff.
Don't do that either, tobacco. So it's like straight nicotine. Yeah,
it's all right, Maybe I stand correct that. So I
shut my own mass up on that one. That's fine. Man,
we're hearing from the health board. They're telling you to
shut yours up. All right, we got exactly. There's a
radio host in Houston is saying pro ieart media legal

(01:13:39):
team here. The opinion is what I'm saying. But do
what I'm saying.

Speaker 9 (01:13:43):
You know, I.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Understand the evils, it's right. This is I just don't
get it. And I'm not blaming WEX for this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Uh it's morm.

Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
I just don't get it. But he was doing commercial
for bud Light, proun sponsor, and he says it's a clean,
crisp taste. And I've done commercials for beers before they
say the clean. Have you ever had a dirty beer?
When is a beer dirty? I've had a lot of
dirty beers when the restaurant's not cleaning the taps properly.
But I mean if you went to if you would
to a command in store, huh, and you went down

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the list of all the different beers out there, and
we want obviously WEX wants you just to drink bud Light,
and we want you to drink bud like is bud
Light's a great sponsor this show at the station. Are
you looking. Do you go to the person say, excuse me,
I'm I'm really looking for more of a dirty beer
this week? Yeah, you get like a coffee stout that's
dirty and dirty er.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
But that was intentional.

Speaker 1 (01:14:42):
Yeah, I'm just not catching on, Like, why would why
would anyone choose a dirty beer? If you all something,
you can have a crisp, clean look, why would anybody
choose a dirty Look?

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
The things that I think about, I know, don't say it,
don't say it.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
I'm just saying a word.

Speaker 2 (01:14:58):
I just I just hear people say, oh, the clean,
crisp taste. Yeah, clean crisp rather dirty. That difficult of
a concept.

Speaker 1 (01:15:08):
I mean, if I'm drinking Milwaukee's Beast, maybe that's a
dirty Maybe that's a dirty beer. Maybe what's the worst
beer everhead in your life? Big Flats from Walgreens? Really?

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
Yeah, big flats? You get a six pack for like
two bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Back in the day. I will say this, and I
thought bud Dry was terrible. Trying to think of anything worse.
Bud Light Line was kind of bad, pretty bad. See,
I like lime on my beer, so I didn't mind
bud Light Line. They like brew it in there. Oh,
so it's like, okay, not good. My Forest Bud dry

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Canadian black label was the one I used to drink
when I was in high school. Sorry, mom, PBRs terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Best bad beer.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
Although I drink.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
I do drink PBRs when I'm in Milwaukee just because
you have to.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Yeah, I went in Rome, I went to Seattle. I
was drinking Rainier.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
I do commercials for Stros when I was in Minneapolis,
and it was kind of a running joke about if
you really if you really just bored and have nothing
else to do, go get your strows straight up. Course
is probably not great.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Banquet think it's not bad any other ones. I don't know, John,
you know how much your beer drink?

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
Are you? I was gonna say, I don't know how
to say. It's uh brush bush lush. Now we had
a couple of bush lottes tailgate. It's not that bad.
Is called bush lattes. Yeah, I got to make sure
they're ice cold first out. If it's not ice cold,
then yeah, you're gonna run into some problem. I couldn't
do it yet. Ice cold bush latte.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
It's not that bad.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
I think when you're in Santonio, like an ice cold
Keystone is pearl still rounding from San Antonio.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
I don't know they got pearl snap. That's an Austin
beer works.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
That's good.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:16:56):
Steel reserves pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (01:16:57):
Have you ever had that? Keystone is horrendous. We used
to do Edward forty hands in college. You can get
for you tape two forty to your hands, so you
got to drink them before they get cool. By the way, okay,
we'll see you know what that's actually it's actually a
graduate level class. And that's okay. We're not losing the recipes.
We're still doing Edward forty hands in college.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
That's the Thanks for you. It makes me happy.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Let's go to Lannie on seven one. Ey, Lonnie.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
What's the matter with you? Lonnie?

Speaker 16 (01:17:25):
Oh, nothing's the matter. I was just driving to work
and you guys said nobody. I agree that it's the
worst habit. I've never smoked. This one guy that's smoked,
that's uh. People will probably really looked up to you.
I bet he's been a billion dollars worth of benefit
for the tobacco industry. And it's Billy Bob Darton on
Land Man.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Mmmm, he's a cool smoker.

Speaker 1 (01:17:47):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Is he's still smoking land man.

Speaker 16 (01:17:50):
Yeah, oh yeah, every time he can.

Speaker 1 (01:17:54):
Every episode.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
I just like it when I was a miss every episode.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Thank you. By the way, my wife will agree with you.
I love when as a Minnesota nobody ever called it
smoking sickers. They said, let's go burn a heater. Oh really,
they call them heaters in Minneapolis all the time. They
don't call them cancer sticks. Because it's love and degrees
below zero, you gotta go heat yourself up.

Speaker 6 (01:18:11):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
By the way, I was just told that bud light
or bud dry is basically headache and it can.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
That feels about right.

Speaker 4 (01:18:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
What about but ice? Oh, I forgot if I ever
had a but ice?

Speaker 1 (01:18:23):
What's the difference?

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
But I.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Lords that was my pop's favorite. That a couple but ice.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
But I mean I had the commercials for Steve had
Stros No, I never heard of that sounds made up? Yeah,
and I think, I think, oh, what was the one
uh Schaefer beer? When one beer simply isn't enough. You
had a Shaffer beer that's out there advertising we're simply
for binge drinkers. True God. All right, let's talk to

(01:18:58):
Johnny and San Diego. Johnny with some matter with you.

Speaker 10 (01:19:01):
Oh, I'm still not in San Diego. I'm in southern
Oklahoma now, just south of Dallas. Oh my god, I
don't know that's right.

Speaker 9 (01:19:11):
You are.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
We're gonna have to change your titles Southern Oklahoma. You
are the military, correct?

Speaker 6 (01:19:17):
I was, yeah, I just retired in September.

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
So you said I'm gonna leave beautiful San Diego, California
to go to Dallas.

Speaker 10 (01:19:23):
I didn't go to Dallas. I'm like forty minutes south
of I'm not quite there.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Oh, you're like, are you liking Ennis.

Speaker 6 (01:19:30):
Close to it? I'm gonna watch to Acchie, same county.

Speaker 1 (01:19:33):
Oh my gosh, I know where you are. There's a
bookstore I go to occasionally there. Go on, sir, all right.

Speaker 10 (01:19:38):
So I was calling to talk about the college football
playoffs and y'all started doing the shut your bumb ass up.
And I figure, there's a way that we could preemptively
tell all the teams that didn't make the college football
playoff to shut their bumb ass up. We could do
an n style tournament for the teams that didn't quite
make it in. And I looked at the final rankings

(01:20:02):
for the for the college football Playoffs. There's some pretty
interesting matchups. I mean, Texas would be playing University of Houston.
That's probably the worst game there is, But the rest
of them are actually pretty decent matchups.

Speaker 6 (01:20:15):
You don't sell tickets to the.

Speaker 10 (01:20:16):
Bowl games, you know, the Papa John's Bowl or whatever,
and you know people don't tune into them unless they're
a fan of the team.

Speaker 6 (01:20:24):
Turn it into a secondary tournament.

Speaker 10 (01:20:26):
I'm not saying they get an automatic bid like the
NIT would do, but if you look at the next
twelve teams that didn't make it into the college football playoffs,
you know, give them their own little playoff and you know,
create some money for some different businesses. Keep these players
from going into the or not going into portal but

(01:20:46):
declaring for the draft that they don't get into the playoffs.
You keep your better team better teams on the field.
I feel like it's a win win so they can
shove their bone asses up. Is that what you're looking for, we're.

Speaker 1 (01:21:03):
Looking, we're looking.

Speaker 6 (01:21:07):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:08):
That was pretty funny. He's like, uh, shut the rosses up.

Speaker 1 (01:21:12):
Whatever you were happening to say, Like, Man, I'm so
sick and tired of broccoli cast roll in my house.
Shut the mass up, mom, that's how you have to
do it. Any think it's anything. You can bring up
anything you wanted to, as long as you say shut
your mess up at the very end. We we kind
of allow that as a free form. That's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
All right, Let's talk to h Roger on seven iey Roger,
what's the matter with you?

Speaker 4 (01:21:34):
What's the matter with me?

Speaker 13 (01:21:35):
Matt is some of the people that loot blue bees
that bad look at the serving line because some I
get these servers that are caught in the head deer
deer cotton the headlights look and they don't actually know
the portions correctly. So I'm not saying I'm just some

(01:21:55):
big heavy shit guy, which I'm not, but I want
my friend share forces correctly, uh distributed on the play where.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
I can't it.

Speaker 13 (01:22:04):
I can count my corn my corn kernels like five wow.

Speaker 2 (01:22:09):
Now wait a minute, are you getting the land? Are
you getting the land or are you getting regular size portions?

Speaker 13 (01:22:15):
I'm getting the regular side I do. I'm just like,
I'm a creature of habits.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
It's porn it done, got it.

Speaker 13 (01:22:22):
So I'm like and they're like shaking their shaking the
food and doing all this other extra curriculus of I'm like,
can I get somebody with nothing doing here? I got
to have the trainee.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
Uh so, yeah, I don't get all right, thank you
very much, Roger. Roger, I'm on team on your side,
because let me give you two examples. I have gone
to McDonald's before and gotten a large order fries and
then filled up large enough so I totally add some
more fries. And we went to a supposedly hoity tody
Burger place about a month ago the three of us
did here on the Old show, and I ordered a

(01:22:58):
side of of curly fries, and I think I got
six curly fries, and I yelled them from across the
room and knew Jack squad about it.

Speaker 9 (01:23:07):
And we were there, so to Burger.

Speaker 1 (01:23:09):
I'm not gonna mention her name. They don't get an
advertised ahead burger blank and had time for six waffle fries.
They weren't named it named a topstaurants and they can
suck it because if you can't. They were not a
top one hundred French fried just distribution placed order. Yeah,
you got a kid's burger, so you got the kids fries.

(01:23:30):
I ownered adult ass fries with the kids Burger. Maybe
they got confused, they thought you wanted the kids fry.
Maybe that's a good point. Jonathan up Man. By the way,
speaking of that, I was at Ruffalo, Well, yeah, Ruffalo
Wild Rings.

Speaker 2 (01:23:45):
It wasn't my choice.

Speaker 12 (01:23:46):
It wasn't my choice.

Speaker 1 (01:23:48):
It wasn't my choice. It wasn't my choice. And I got,
we got, we ordered some cheese curds and there was
like three cheese curds in the order. Yeah, zero surprise.
You deserve that you mistakes were made. What was my call?
I used to make fun of people for ordering Luanne
at Ruby's. I'm team Luanne now because I can't as
much like you know that means either Luan as you

(01:24:09):
get the half size of everything. When you get sized,
and I think you get a pack of marble reds.
And by the way, Luyne, you get the yuan at
Ruby's and it's like fourteen dollars. You get the regular
sized portion, You're like forty one dollars at Ruby's. No
one of Ruby's is in trouble because they're expensive. Too expensive.
I'm not paying thirty nine dollars for a filet of fish,

(01:24:29):
patty and mac and cheese, Okay, And it comes with
a small dunking bath for your dentures. Up, man, you
like this, a small dunking bath for your ditch. You

(01:25:00):
don't know how about true?

Speaker 2 (01:25:01):
That is though, that's a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
That's crying. I'm so proud of Okay, we will have
to get a break. We're gonna carry this over one
more second break. Brian and James have to get there.

(01:25:37):
You want to talk about the after. I don't think
Steve wants to shut the astros over. We are It's fine,
twelve oh one. We're gonna go. Dunkard dentures be back
in a minute. Is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Our dentures were back in. We are here with our

(01:25:57):
number three of four of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross twevel five.

Speaker 2 (01:26:00):
Sorry time, Let's.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Get to the news at noon and we will do
that with the Danielle Guzman of Houston Sports. Thank you, Ros.
I don't think I'm that good looking. But mornings now,
by the way, uh huh, good morning, Danielle. Is it
Danielle or Daniella Dji?

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
We call her and Danielle Kusman Andiela. It is Justine
Sapleton's our morning guy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:25):
Ross Viarriale hero the news at noon really worries my squad.
Viarrial is losing to Copenhagen right now in the Champions League.
So that's that's some breaking news for you. Justin Hamilton
is the morning with a guy he listens to us,
come on yellow submarine. All right, well we got some
breaking news here. How big is Daniello? By the way,
Daniella kusman, he's uh, is this just probably just one right?

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
One? Pete Alonzo is now a Baltimore oriole It is
a five year, one hundred and fifty five million dollar contract.
Do you think he was like, give me a little
more than shwarps? Sources telling it Jeff Passing Alonso leaving
the Mets to make a loaded al East even better,

(01:27:14):
says Jeff Passing. His deal with the Orioles gives him
the highest AAV ever for a first baseman. What he
ends up with one hundred and eighty five with his
salary last year? Okay, shut up, Jeff Passon. Sorry, that's
his bs from the from the agent. I'm sure one
hundred and fifty five million, five year deal he's trying

(01:27:36):
to add last year to make it six point five
I don't know why that even means. So Edwin Diaz
goes with the mess of the Dodgers, Pede Alonso Mets
the Orioles, which means the Mets need to make a splash. Hmmm,
where were they maybe for an outfielder. Well, they already
paid five hundred million dollars a soda to play right field.
Well he's a butcher out there, though you moved to
the left. Could you dah him every day? Who's not

(01:27:58):
every day? I don't know. I don't know who the
d h is nowaday days. Pete A.

Speaker 2 (01:28:01):
Lonza was doing some of that and playing first base.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
I don't know. But Steve Cohen guess hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
I'm not going as much cash really makes you think.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
So let me ask you this. When I pay off
on this meal, why do I go to the wife
and tell her that I'm paying this extraordinary amount of
money for one year? Talked about it? Well, we sort
of did. She doesn't know how expensive it's gonna pay
for the upgrade to fried Rice. I'll pay my no, no, no,
you get the base. Pay this out of my gambling stash,
or do I pay it out of.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
The checking account? You go for the checking account, right.

Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
I don't think so. You asked for forgiveness later. That's true,
because you mean she spends money too. I don't spend frivolously.
You get a couple of carrafsa sacking, hot saki. I
know you likes hot saki squored in your mouth. When
Denver we get I'm going to Denver next, but I'm
gonna I'm gonna get ABATCHI in Denver. That's a done deal. Yeah,
continue on, We'll talk about scoring later elsewhere. Jayden Daniels

(01:28:59):
rule out now he will not play Sunday against the
New York Giants. According to head coach Dan Quinn, he
came back Doctor Roto told me to play him in
a must win game and I lost by two points.
He came back in a thirty one to nothing loss
against the Vikings, but then of course left that game
earlier as he re injured his left elbow. He will

(01:29:22):
not be playing this weekend against the New York Giants
in a game that I mean, does anybody those two
markets even care about those teams right now?

Speaker 6 (01:29:33):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:29:33):
I mean those are two in it? Yeah, well, all
of us have for decades that when the Giants in
this in well Skins and or commanders played. I mean
it was knockdown, drag out NFC supremacy. And now it's
a game that's being seen in like parts of Delaware
and that's.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
It, yes, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:29:50):
Elsewhere you have Big twelve Commissioner Brett Yormark calling Notre
Dame Athletic directors Pete Bevakua's criticism some of the acc egregious,
and he doesn't agree with the way Pete Bavaqua has
been going about things, saying it's been egregious to go
after Jim Fins Phillips. They saved Notre Dame during COVID.

(01:30:13):
The chair said that was Notre Dame in Miami got
close to closer the head fact, head to head would
be a factor. He's right, He's right, Brett Yormark. Of course,
the Big twelve commissioner. Else where are you also have
Dana Brown speaking on MLB Network talking about a number
of different topics, but the big topic has been what

(01:30:35):
is going on with potential trades in the infield. Of course,
Jordan Alvarez supposed to be regular DH Where does josel
tu Vego Dana Brown's shutting down trade talk about Jeremy Pania,
saying his name has not come up, and I think
under teams understand if you're a winning team and you're
trying to go back to the postseason, there's no way

(01:30:57):
you can trade your starting shorts. So it's something we've
been floating a couple of times, Matthew whether or not
Jeremy Pania could be on the trading block for the
Astros because they did trade Kyle Tucker early last year,
but he had one year left, two years left for
Jeremy Pannia. Dan Brown says it ain't happening, believe him
or not for the next twelve months. I believe him. Yes,

(01:31:19):
after twelve months, thirteen months, we could have been having
a different conversation. Yes we could.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
Apparently there also is not. This is gonna shock you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Not a whole lot of trade interest for Christian Walker
right now for the Astros. But Chandler Rome in his
latest athletic article the title or it should say? What
do you call it? The headline Jordan Alvarez, entrenched at
dh Astros have little choice but to trade an infielder,
saying that the Red Sox, among others, are interested in

(01:31:50):
Escock Paradis shouldn't be shocking. Not a whole lot of
interest in Christian Walker, who would make the most sense
to trade him away and keep escoc Paratus in the
infield playing a lot of fris because there is a
log jam there, especially if you'd on is gonna be
dhing a lot? Man, I am.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
So this is Look, when we go.

Speaker 1 (01:32:08):
To spring training every year, it's kind of like, all right,
here's one star here. What's it like defending American League Pennant,
what's it like winning the World Series? This feels like
this will be the juiciest spring training we've been to
in seven or eight years. It really does. It's just
so many question marks, and I don't even know if
they make Like the moment that Jake Myers gets traded

(01:32:29):
will solve some of this, the moment they sign justin Verlinna,
they we'll solve some of this. But I ain't gonna
solve the infield unless somebody gets moved, and it sounds
like that's not on the top of the agenda. It
feels like somebody is gonna get moved. But the guys
you would like to move the most have the least value.
I mean, that's just that's just kind of how it
goes right, and there's your new it's a nude man.
Thank you very much, appreciate that very much. Let's go

(01:32:52):
to the phone's next, we'll talk to Steven the James
and also coming up at one, We've got to Believe
It or Not today seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety and we have an NFL media type respected
who I respect a lot. Yes, really over selling, really

(01:33:14):
over selling the Texans offense because he loves the defense
so much. Believe me or not.

Speaker 2 (01:33:23):
He broke down the tape. Is a tape breaker, can
break the tape down?

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
I duh, you got the all toy two on the
Texans Insider, All right, twelve thirteen on Sports Talk seven
ninety twelve nineteen, Maddon Ross with you on the Sports
Talk seventy. If you listened to show my hour ago,
you know what today's topic I Believe or not is?
We cannot tell it again, but it's very easy. I
think it's easy, right, Yeah, you gotta get three in

(01:33:48):
a row, correct though, to win these things. And it's
simply either yeah, well that's all I can say. It's
NBA related, it's about a Rocket's opponent. But that's it
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
to one three two one two five seven Steve wants
talking about the astros here on seven honey, Steve, good afternoon.
Do you thank you for holding.

Speaker 6 (01:34:07):
Good afternoon?

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
Guys.

Speaker 17 (01:34:09):
You know you guys earlier were talking about bad tasting beer.
Have you guys ever tried slits?

Speaker 1 (01:34:15):
Yes, it's a malt kicker. I've never I've heard of it,
but I never had it. Yeah, it's malt liquors. It's
not even really a beer. It's terrible.

Speaker 17 (01:34:25):
Oh my god, it's it's horrible. My grandfather used to
drink it, and that was my first experience with beer,
and I don't drink beer since.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
So, Yeah, to ask you a question.

Speaker 17 (01:34:37):
About the Astros. Dana Brown, he came from the Braves, correct, correct?

Speaker 1 (01:34:41):
And Blue Jay's background two pirates, I want to say, too,
right during it all the time, he's got he's got
multiple ta.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
Well, why did they land and get rid of him?

Speaker 2 (01:34:51):
Didn't get rid of him? He took the job here, assistant,
you've got a promotion here.

Speaker 17 (01:34:57):
Well, I have to tell you something. I'm not very
very impressed with Dana Brown at all. I think if
I gave him a grade. I'd give him about a
C minus.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I'm just not impressed.

Speaker 17 (01:35:11):
Why do you get rid of Dubon? I understand he
was owed some money, but you bring in a guy
that's batting two twelve and is I just don't understand
the logic there to bring this type of guy in
When you had Duban, which probably would have given us
a home down discount because he seemed to be a
great guy.

Speaker 6 (01:35:29):
And wanted to be here.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
He was an arbitration. It wasn't a matter of hometown discount. Yeah,
there was no d he was. He was going to
be under a under a salary arbitration situation. Let me
give you the reasons and you can either accept or
deny them, depending on your opinion. Number One, they were
looking to shape some payroll. There's no ifans or buts
about that. Number two, but not Dana Brown's call. By

(01:35:52):
the way, No number two. They had a congested in
field to begin with, and so to this point, Stevie,
you would know is still congested.

Speaker 2 (01:35:58):
Number Three.

Speaker 1 (01:36:00):
Dubon playing five to six days a week, like a
lot of people want, would give you negative offensive production.
Now do I appreciate his versatility? Yes, do I appreciate
his clubhouse demeanor in leadership, absolutely, But the reality is,
you can shave payroll. You got to already congest an
infield and you can. You're gonna eventually lose him because

(01:36:23):
he's not going to give you a hometown discount. Players
don't give hometown discounts anymore, and there's only a certain
perceived value for a utility guy. And it just kind
of made sense. I'm not in love with the deal,
but by no means am I going what the hell
are they doing? It doesn't make Dana Brown a bad
general manager because he moved a utility infielder.

Speaker 17 (01:36:43):
No, I understand that, But I mean, would you rather
have Dubon or Jose in left field?

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
It'd be Dubon Steve.

Speaker 1 (01:36:52):
Again, this was for payroll shaving, not Dana Brown is
under constructions from Jim Crane to what the payroll is.
If the payroll can only be a certain amount and
he needs to shave money, he's got to do it
some way.

Speaker 2 (01:37:04):
That's why he moved Dubon.

Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
Okay, Well that's not Brown saying you know what, Yeah
it was a money shaving measure, Yeah, but think it was. Yeah,
it was a bad It was a bad deal. Yeah,
it was a bad deal. Yeah, every yeah, everybody. I
mean we liked the deal at the time it was made.
I mean it was it was a Kyle Tucker deal
was good.

Speaker 17 (01:37:28):
Yeah, I mean Pettis, I mean, very was very surprising
this year until he got hurt. I was very impressed
with Ill and cam Smith.

Speaker 12 (01:37:37):
Did okay in spots.

Speaker 1 (01:37:39):
Cam Smith was still a plus player at the end
of the day because how good his defense was. And honestly,
you if you take a Coucy, it doesn't pitch for
the Astros two years ago. They don't win the West.
They needed him a starting rotation, so and you give up. Yeah,
I mean there's look, nobody's going to bat a thousand Steve.
And I understand it, but uh, I don't. I don't
think C minus is a fair grade for him at all.
Isn't an a no? But it's not as Yeah, I

(01:38:01):
mean I think of finding a lot of the pitchers
that they were able to find and contribute last year.
Here's the one trouble spot I still have. Okay, miling
system is still terrible. It's unless unless you want to
tell me, And I'm sure I can get a general
manager tell me it takes five to ten years, but man,
it has been bad. It continues to be a sore

(01:38:23):
spot because you can't trade prospects. You don't have any
all your top guy, yeah, you have to trade away prospects,
and all the top guys are Dana Brownick's acquisitions. They
just aren't you know there. You have guys who are
like fringe, top hundred guys. You just don't have top
twenty guys who are gonna come up and be actual
impact players. But everybody up there is basically last I checked,

(01:38:46):
Like all the top five guys or so are recent
and the reality is of Dana Brown.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Jacob Mountain was considered a high end prospect for the team.

Speaker 1 (01:38:56):
He's here. Bryce Matthews considered a super high prospect. He
was here for a while. Cam Smith was a first
round pick of the Chicago Cubs and you and he's here.
Uh Yanick is a catcher that's probably in waiting to
eventually replace Janier Diez if Diez stays with the team
or he gets moved to a different position, probably first base.

(01:39:20):
Miguel Ujola has been in the system since before Dana
Brown got here, but he's a top guy. But that's
he's been a minor leaguer for a long time. He's
twenty three years old. I mean he's going a factor
in next year. Yeah, I think I think so too.
Um No, if you need and I'm not talking about
just the one caller. Every general manager can't bat a thousand.

(01:39:44):
You think jeffly know a bat in a thousand, He
didn't bat a thousand. He traded for Mike Fires and
Carlos Gomez that one in a thousand. Josh Hater was
involved in that trade. It hadn't been was Milwaukee was
involved in it somehow? So No, in every free agent
acquisition now have the team been hurt by some of

(01:40:04):
their moves. Look the Jose Bray you deal horrendous. The
It wasn't Dana Brown though, No, I'm talking about in
the organization in general. It was Elfe That was the
second greatest aster of all time, the greatest aster of
all time, with of course JOSEO two being the most
beloved aster of all time. Postseason't part of the grade

(01:40:29):
and attendance. Actually Jeff played a lot, So that's sexual
part of it too. No, Okay, back to it. Rafael
Montero that was pre Dana. But when you pay money
to players, it means other players are not getting money
or you can't trade them because you have to send
them salary back. I mean, it is what it is,
and the fact of the matter is, I don't think

(01:40:50):
Dana Brown would be probably the leading the Justin Verlander
coming back to the Astros for a nineteenth time, but
Jim Craid likes him. Dana Brown has made three first
round picks according to MLB Pipeline. Those three are three
of the top four prospects for the Astros. And he
kind of have to, don't they. Maybe it's like when

(01:41:10):
Rick Smith was a gentle manager of the Texans. Oh,
we hear the first round pick? Well, duh, you're supposed to. Yeah,
you're supposed to. But the first round picks miss every
year that they do. By the way, I didn't realize that. Uh,
having the pope behind you gave you the first overall
pick in the draft. She's got a White Sox one
the draft lottery yesterday. M wow, he's a White Sox

(01:41:31):
fan too, of course not. Of course, you could be
a Cubs fan if you wanted to be. You could
have shose sides and he went south side, south side,
south side, south side, south side. Are you okay? Youah
have fine? Mt Bot is malfunctioning. I hear that song
in every Rockets game before games. It's a little key
key classic, Matt. That's what I'm saying it here is

(01:41:54):
that song on my phone?

Speaker 12 (01:41:55):
Yes?

Speaker 8 (01:41:55):
Or no?

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Give me give me the other time? No, no, no, no,
no no no, A little Kiki of the Dawn, Maddie,
come on now. But he's a south Sider.

Speaker 6 (01:42:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:42:05):
And the White Sox s gott the number one pick.
I think the Astros had a point three percent chance
didn't get it. Oh well, that's a shame, all right.
Twelve twenty seven, It is a Mount Thomas show Ross
seven one three, two one two five seven nine, and
we return. We have found the person that I respect
a lot on television that is trying to sell you
the offense because the Texans defense is so good. Is

(01:42:27):
that fair? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
I think it's an over sell.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
Now you're over. I think you're over something. I think
you're you're Texans hater, Matt. No, you can't handle some praise.
Let me tell you you're now you.

Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
Say you made I am a respect and I am
a Texans realist.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
If Dan Orlowski would have said, I'm not a boot
liquor that goes to Texans and asked dumb ass questions,
could you come on a YouTube, bitch, please?

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
Dan Olowski's not a Texans boot liquor.

Speaker 1 (01:42:51):
Yeah no, but how he sees it? And you say
you like his analysis, I like said the Texans offense sucks.
You would have said it's a brilliant analysis. But he
since he says they're good and your Textans hater Matt,
now people to respect me because I'm a realist and
I'm the insider. I told you about Joe mixing many
many weeks ago. By way, when's he coming back? No bootles,

(01:43:12):
didn't he he tweeted that he did Ian rapport. Didn't
know what he was talking about. How's that going to
suck it? That's what he says, saying, shut Joe Bam,
mass up, Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk
seven ninety Hell hooray, just flying by, by the way,
we have a good time. No, all right, you're doing great.

(01:43:33):
I didn't ask how I was doing. I mean, I
appreciate the faint praise. That's what's faint.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
I just said you're doing great. Yeah, but you said
you're doing great at least six times a week.

Speaker 1 (01:43:42):
Some people can't. Can't. Then have you heard him say
you're doing great at least three times a week? Yes,
maybe you could pay maybe six. Yeah, it's it's not
the time talking about you're doing what? But I mean,
what's wrong with that? Just saying you're doing spectacles, you're
working with you, you're doing a fun learn so much
you FANTASTICO.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
I wish I had learned some what to do and
some what not to do.

Speaker 1 (01:44:04):
Oh my god, terrible. All right, dan Orlovsky respect and
I do like it because he's not a bunch of
hot air. He is going to tell us right now
about how much he respects the Texans offense, and I
think he's doing it just to overcompensate. Again.

Speaker 2 (01:44:24):
Oh, here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:44:26):
What go ahead. That girl loves you, Okay, she cooks
your meals, she gets your dry cutting for you. Okay,
an stay with me on this. She she's uh, she
understands you need your bros on out once a week,
she understands date night. She watches sports with you. Okay,

(01:44:48):
you I mean you think she's fantastic she's the bee's knees,
but she's missing four teeth in her and her noses
too big. What if you're into that?

Speaker 2 (01:44:56):
Who's in the missing teeth and big noses?

Speaker 4 (01:44:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
To each his own.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
The son of genre a genre of what matt of
what you want from a woman.

Speaker 1 (01:45:08):
It's just not the and they're sick. So okay, what
does this have to do with what dan Orlowski has
to say about the Texan speaking?

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
Can you please tie this in here?

Speaker 5 (01:45:18):
It is?

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
This isn't This is an over selling of the Texans offensive, right,
just listen to it. Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (01:45:24):
So last week it was the pocket movement by CJ.
And this is not just last week, but it's been
their trend for a couple of weeks now. It's their
six offensive lineman offense. Okay, so it's not just their
run game, but I do like the fact that it's
allowing them to be someone efficients in their run game.
Six offensive lineman Blake Fisher, the second year player from Notre.

Speaker 1 (01:45:43):
Dame, comes in for the tight end position.

Speaker 5 (01:45:45):
I think it allows the double teams to be a
little bit more sound, them to at least get the
run started that's been a huge deal. This past week
they implemented a little bit more of the play action stuff.
Why does that matter, Because then one you can block
a defensive end one on one with the tight end.
That's sixth tackle, and then that shores up the five
offensive lineman. Essentially blocking only three defensive linemen gives you

(01:46:07):
the chance to push the ball downfield. And this is
an offense that doesn't need to be explosive all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
It doesn't need to create a ton of big plays.

Speaker 5 (01:46:15):
It just can't be negative play dominant.

Speaker 1 (01:46:18):
I think that kind of core part of who they.

Speaker 5 (01:46:20):
Are offensively at least gives plays the chance to get
started and.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
Then some shots down the field.

Speaker 5 (01:46:26):
CJ's a good enough player to make up for the
other parts. I think their offense is good enough to
make a playoff run.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Okay, that's that's and then ends it with a playoff
r Well, of course they're good to make a playoff run.
They're going to be in the playoffs. He means a
playoff run, as in a run in the playoffs. I
think that's why ose is that one victory has had two.
I don't think one's a victory. I don't think one's
a run two is a run. So we need to
pull Dani or Lobski's side and say, are the Texans

(01:46:53):
going to the AFC Championship Game. I mean there's a possibility.
I need they need to not be in the seventh seed.
They need to get out of the seventh seat for
the for for me to predict that if they get
out of there. Someone asking this, so is it because
you're afraid of New England? Because we don't. Here's the
reason why I think we're afraid of New England. We
don't know enough about New England. We don't watch Patriot games.

(01:47:13):
Do you think we need to start enough to know
they're good? We know that Drake May's having a fantastic season.
I know from a fantasy perspective, he's killing it for him.
He's not thrown for a lot of yards, but he
also can can make plays with his legs. Doesn't turn
the ball over. Given the Texans fits previously, I mean
it gives every defensive coordinator gets fits. Nobody likes a
quarterback that can win with his with with his feet. Okay,

(01:47:34):
So I think I've got to do my personal joke.
I gotta watch a Patriots game. Okay, because I don't
go break because I know what Denver is. Okay, middling offense,
outstanding defense, Jacksonville fraudulent Franklin both ends of the field,
but probably less fraudulent on the defensive side. Oh, Stefan

(01:47:55):
Digg's revenge game, the card B game, card to B
is not gonna be there. You don't know that she
probably can fit the airline seats she wants. She could,
and if it's twelve degrees with with us blowing snow,
and she'll be in the suite. Yeah, okay, uh seven
hundred yards for Stefan Diggs, three tuddies. I don't think

(01:48:19):
I don't think he's thinking revenge. He didn't leave here
because he didn't like it. He just got to deal.
He couldn't refuse, and it turned out to be really
well for him. Okay, Okay, So you when you when
you say they're gonna make a run, you think he
think he's thinking too. He's thinking AFC champions. You think
of making a run would be winning two playoff games, right, Yes,
compared to what it's been. I mean one and done,

(01:48:40):
we I mean two and done.

Speaker 2 (01:48:42):
We were used to that.

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
Yes, get the division around and then so you, so
you will decide what the Texans do based up with
their seating. That's not I mean, that's yeah. I think
it'll be a lot more difficult to go on the
road to New England and on the road to Denver
to make an AFC championship game then to go on

(01:49:03):
to Jacksonville. Let's say they sneak into them, probably Pittsburgh.
Let's say they sneak into the AFC play they win
the AFC South Okay, and let's say that, uh, that
would be it'd be the three seed. Right now, Jaguars
are a three seed. Yeah, if they get a home game.
Who's a six right now in the AFC Buffalo Bills. Okay,

(01:49:28):
I'm glad I've got a little bit pause.

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Then they could beat the Bills at home. They literally
did it with Davis Mills.

Speaker 1 (01:49:34):
Buffalo v. Houston in Houston. You would take the Texans
to Houston. Texans, let's go. What's up? Okay, I'll let you.

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
Boy, ain't scared. Ain't scared of nobody in the UN's.

Speaker 1 (01:49:46):
Scared of playing in Houston's Josh Allen, he said, terrible
games here, Yeah, the history of them. He's going to
have another one. Coming there. You go, get bit fired up.
Robert seven ninety and twelve thirty nine, Robert, thank you
for holding a good afternoon.

Speaker 4 (01:49:58):
Hey, this Roberts from side christ. I want to talk
about the offensive line.

Speaker 10 (01:50:02):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (01:50:04):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:50:04):
We got what we gotta do. I know it's too
late to get him pick anybody up. But you think
Jake Andrews man the center is good for the playoff,
I mean good for the end of the season. Maybe
impossible for the next season, or we wouldn't have to
draft the left tack. Definitely got to draft a left
tack on a center.

Speaker 2 (01:50:23):
You know they need guard help too. Yeah, I would say, Robert,
they should.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
They should go all in on nothing but offensive linemans
for the first five rounds. Yeah, but.

Speaker 2 (01:50:36):
He picked he picked uh, Blake Fisher, he picked Juice.

Speaker 4 (01:50:40):
Scruggs, Blake Picher comes down, man, come on man.

Speaker 1 (01:50:44):
Yeah, I'm saying yeah, but Nick Caserio picked all these
guys in the draft. He tried to address offensive line.
He just failed. Ed Ingram has been very good.

Speaker 16 (01:50:53):
Go go boy.

Speaker 4 (01:50:55):
What you think improved this line? That's what I'm asking.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Yeah, they need help attack garden center.

Speaker 4 (01:51:02):
We understand it. But who who should they get?

Speaker 9 (01:51:04):
I mean, we don't know that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:05):
We're not gonna break down, Yeah, we don't. I don't
know who's coming out for Gooseby. I'm gonna go with
Haymore Haymore Miller is uh okay.

Speaker 4 (01:51:13):
What about the left? What about the left guard for
Penn State?

Speaker 1 (01:51:18):
Fantastic?

Speaker 4 (01:51:19):
Okay, we'll keep guessing the whole year.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
Then, No, what's not our job. We're not gonna We're not.

Speaker 1 (01:51:25):
We're looking at an offensive lineman for Penn State. Yet
that's that's that's our draft season. It's the Draftnicks. But
we got the season is not over, Robert, And you
want you want draft picks? You want drafting out?

Speaker 9 (01:51:39):
Are you?

Speaker 1 (01:51:41):
Are you demanding drafting out this four weeks plus playoffs
and then the Super Bowl for to watch and then
you you want draft picks right now, right now?

Speaker 4 (01:51:50):
No, No, I'm not saying get a draft pick. I said,
who's looking good so far?

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
I will run through some names from my God. Let
me give you some names. You want to bring you
the top tackles? What do you want?

Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
All right? Let me give you some names? Go do
here we go? What do you?

Speaker 13 (01:52:06):
Let me?

Speaker 5 (01:52:06):
Here?

Speaker 10 (01:52:06):
We go?

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
Go ahead.

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
I think Bobby Womeck out of Miami's looking pretty good.

Speaker 6 (01:52:14):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
There's a guy named Richard Cunningham. He plays at Wisconsin.
Excellent Number one, Uh huh, number two. I'm gonna go
with Sam Malone Boston College. I think Larry David's been
looking pretty good. You saw a lot of his tape, right, man,
a lot of his tape. I don't, I don't. I
never want to curb whose enthusiasm for the game of
the game. I'm going to go. Oh, there's a guy

(01:52:38):
that plays at Rutgers, a George Costanza. He is amazing.
Uh huh. Sometimes he gets upset. And I heard he
likes his chicken spicy. Yeah, and he was once a
hand model. He's got a lot of tenacity. He's crafty
as well. But don't catch him out of the pool.

Speaker 10 (01:52:55):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
He can shrink. He can shrink in the cold.

Speaker 6 (01:52:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:59):
We've had a lot of offensive lineman for the Texans.
Shrink up here. All right, that's enough, take a break.
Let me tell you something. We apologize for that. No, no,
but I mean, come on, we're not doing that. First
of all, audience could couldn't name five linemens. Second of all.
We will have people on that will discuss it when
the time is appropriate. We got Rossie last time about you.
We had four games off in the season, correct, yes,

(01:53:21):
and at least one playoff game. Well, there's not a
lot of linemen at the top of this board of
the PFF board, and I'm pulling up I like the
PFF board. They don't have any lineman like in the
top fifteen. Not offensive lineman. They have defensive A lot
of defensive linemen, a lot of edge rushers in the
top twenty. Spencer Fano tackle out of Utah. Oh, they

(01:53:44):
think that Utah tackles are both supposed to be good?

Speaker 6 (01:53:48):
Are they?

Speaker 1 (01:53:48):
Are they declaring or you know they're on by private
equity that life could change really quick. Gosh, private equity
getting into college football. What could go wrong? Nothing? Utah
has got zero issues with it. They have just what
they basically said is college athletics is a business now.

(01:54:09):
That is and you can, by the way, if you're
a Utah, a lumber you just love Utah, you can
invest in and you can buy it in the private
equity company. I'm sorry, I'm trying to look at specifically
Penn State lineman now where's Todd McShay. Wait, he got
to let go?

Speaker 13 (01:54:22):
Right?

Speaker 6 (01:54:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:54:23):
Is there any NFL draft analysis that focused primarily on
offensive lineman?

Speaker 6 (01:54:27):
Hm?

Speaker 1 (01:54:27):
Hm, I can't think of anybody. Nobody, any may come
to mind for you.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
Oh, I think NFL dot Com slants there online.

Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
I hadn't heard of him. Okay, is he new? No,
he's been there for some time. Does a good job.
All right, we should get him on the show. Then
Francis ma Joga Miami tackle, Spencer fanout, Utah tackle, Caleb
Lomu Utah tackle there.

Speaker 2 (01:54:55):
I'll put it this way.

Speaker 1 (01:54:55):
Let's make a nice generous say, Utah win more games.
They got two of the top tackles in the country.
If the Texans do not draft an offensive lineman in
the first round, all right, you're gonna battle right, you're
downe with him. That's not true. It absolutely is true.
When I chose to be a Texans fan, when I
chose to be battle Red Ross. First of all, it

(01:55:15):
is because you gotta let go of the Oilers. I mean,
Frank Whitejack ain't in the league no more. Let them go.
I let him go long time. Second, second of all,
that's I choose allegiances for life. I'm no half assed fan. Okay,
I suffer. I was watching long worn basketball versus Southern
on Monday. Okay to my own detriment. That makes hell?

(01:55:37):
Would I do that?

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
That makes you borderline pitiful?

Speaker 8 (01:55:39):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:55:39):
Why am I watching kidd of Weaver? I'm gonna watch
my Cougars play Jackson State tonight. Whatever, forty one point favorites.
I'm battlered Ross. I'm not hopping off the bandwagon for
Sweater Vescusario or anybody. Once they got rid of jackieast
to Be, I was like, you know what, let's do it.
I never was there. I know all right, and I

(01:56:00):
will be there once we go to the super Bowl
for a week of shows. Actually I won't be there,
but you'll be there. Can we afford to go? Could
be going this year? Where is it, Santa Clara.

Speaker 6 (01:56:10):
Early?

Speaker 1 (01:56:11):
There's no way you're doing the show. You can't get
up the early, get into San Jose. You can't get
that it's two hours early. You can't do a show
at o'clock in the morning. You have a tough enough
time at ten, that's fine. Are you sure I could
make it near that? Gordy?

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
I did the Super Bowl? Shut your mom ass up.

Speaker 1 (01:56:26):
When the super Bowl was Indianapolis, I was working fourteen hours. Sorry,
I was there. That's Eastern time zone. That's till there though.
You're not doing a show at o'clock in the morning.
Yes it was. It was seven o'clock. I was there
for the morning show booking guests, so shut your mom
ass up. I wasn't doing the show. I was carrying
your show. I was booking guests in the morning, and
then I was working booking guests at night. So yeah,

(01:56:48):
I can do it for a week now. You asked
me to do it for a year. It's different. That's different.
And it's amazing. You did all this with a violin
on your back. It's certainly crazy. Set these fine jewelry
and I'm gonna get you some fine jewely for all
your heart work doing that Super Bowl week.

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
You should there's some pinky rings, pitflap you you know what?
That was rude?

Speaker 13 (01:57:05):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
Yeah, say you're sorry, I'm sorry, Thank you. By Rosse's
Timothy on Twitter says.

Speaker 1 (01:57:19):
If Jeremiah Love was available, would you take him as
a first round pick? That's a running back that probably
is the highest rated. Am I correct on that. I
don't know some people have him top. I think he's
like top five on some people's boards. Well then that
when the Texan would not be in that spot. No,
but I mean running back slip relative. Everything's relative to position,
usually like a quarterbacks five or ten and they go

(01:57:41):
one or two.

Speaker 2 (01:57:42):
Because right, there's what you need relative to positions.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
So I did say you need to get rid of
battle right if they don't take an offensive lineman. What
if love was there? You needed running back, yes, and
all you needed cheap yes, Because you you're gonna be
spending money on some quarterback and defensive end before you

(01:58:07):
know it. I mean serious money. I am philosophically against
taking it would be a sexier selection for the fans,
but you shouldn't be doing it for the fans. ESPN's
got him number one on the board, all right, he
ain't gonna be there, so it's the mood, that's the
moo conversation. Think about it. Okay, wow, that's pretty crazy.

(01:58:31):
PFF has him number six on the board, and we
know that Cascero doesn't have attendance. Well, he did move
up to get will Anderson. So yeah, although Hannah said,
you're getting a quarterback too, So you can go get
Will Anderson. You're gonna get me a quarterback too, Trade
up for Kenyon Green? Oh god, ugh ah the league.
Keny'm saying, do we need him to be picking offensive lineman?

Speaker 2 (01:58:52):
Let somebody else pick the old lineman?

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
How do you do that? How do you know this
is not cald k don't know where he is? Does
Hannah say let me see, like for instance, I'll let
you do your job, but I need to look over
it first. No, Hannah's not breaking down offensive line tape.
She doesn't know any about that. She gonna say no, No,
Nick writes gets and then Hannah comes in and says

(01:59:17):
that you need to take that number one guy and
move him down to the four move four.

Speaker 2 (01:59:20):
No, no, she's not she's she's not breaking down Utah
tackle tape.

Speaker 1 (01:59:26):
Then who do you trust? You have to trust your
guy guys, miss on picks. I mean, if we could
weigh one position every year, though, what if we waved
the magic wand and ken Young Green was a hit,
and Blake Fisher was a hit and arianta Ercy was
a hit, this team would be winning a super Bowl.
They're tried, they just have failed. Okay, Well, if we're
gonna do that. Then let's make Joe Mixon healthy. Yes,

(01:59:48):
let's have Stefan dick oh tang Dell hasn't had back
to back season, and yeah, you get Joe Mixon and
then three hits on the offensive line in the draft.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
This is yeah, We're winning the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:59:57):
Be funny, and I think and I think Kansas City
would have three o their linemen not hurt.

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
They would love it to be the super Bowl. Well,
you're just creating stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
I'm just saying if Nick Casaria were good at picking
offensive linemen, this team would be in a good spot.

Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
We're going to in the start of the final hour
of the show.

Speaker 1 (02:00:13):
I have a quote that I just saw from and
I can't even say who it's from because it'll help
you give away. It's a It's a quote discussing a
man's future with a with his job. Okay, does that
make sense to you? I will read you and Marcus Freeman,
I'll give him whatever he wants. It could be I'm

(02:00:33):
going to read you a quote from a man about
his future, Okay, And I want to see if you
can figure out who I'm speaking of. Don't look at
Twitter in the I Okay, it's not breaking. It's just
something I just happened to see that I thought was
very intriguing. And the person that got this quote, you
and I both follow So that's why don't you looking? Okay,
I believe it out today. Believe it arount today is

(02:00:53):
highly googlable. Oh I got to do that, but yeah,
I takeive seconds. You can't seven one three two one
two five seven two one two five seven. There is
someone that would like to retire with the organization which
he's currently with right now, we'll take here. That is
Next on seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show with

(02:01:14):
Ross one o two on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right, Rossie,
time to play Guess who said it? Okay, I cannot
tell you who got the quote because it'll give it
away here it is okay, Blank and I had the

(02:01:39):
conversations that we would like to retire here. Oh I
know who said this. I saw this earlier. Damn it
go ahead.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
That's our goal.

Speaker 1 (02:01:49):
The way we're going to be able to do that
is to put a good team together, win, get deep
in the postseason, and our contracts will take care of itself.
See you really d are so okay, everyone's a damn.
The answer is that's Dana Brown speaking to Channel Roam
about Joe Aspata and Dana Brown's contract status, which they
are both in the final year of their contests.

Speaker 2 (02:02:10):
They're in lame dug deals.

Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
I'm going to go look at the responses that the
channel received off of this tweet. Okay, well you're gonna
have to make the playoffs.

Speaker 6 (02:02:27):
Yeah, that comes.

Speaker 1 (02:02:28):
That's kind of It's a little bit of an obvious one.
Is he aware that the last two guys that all
those things and still got fired, Well, damn, one guy
won a World Series and got fired. Yeah, I mean
poor James Click, and then you had Russ.

Speaker 2 (02:02:45):
Is he still with the Jays? He got interviews?

Speaker 1 (02:02:48):
Right? Yes? Did he land anywhere that? I don't know?
Next now he's still with the Blue Jays. Get ready
for those hundred lost seasons. Hey, come on now, and
one some guy Dana has diarrhea of the mouth. Nobody
should listen to anything he says to the media.

Speaker 12 (02:03:04):
That's you know what.

Speaker 1 (02:03:09):
Is that on Twitter? He follows me, I'm gonna find
that person and mute them. Nobody's got time for this negativity.
That's here. He is here, He is right there, I mean,
you can give your opinion, but calling somebody a diarrhea
of the mouth.

Speaker 2 (02:03:24):
That seems hard. That's a little much.

Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
I if I'm Dana, I mean, if I'm Donna, if
I'm an Astro fan listening, I believe that I don't.
I don't think he's trying. He's not trying to leverage
himself against other cities. Something else is going to say, yeah,
we it. It's also say I'm not worried about it.
But when somebody says I want to retire her, that
means I'm pretty happy and that I like the situation.

(02:03:54):
When I mean, look, Dana was a lieutenant for a
very long period of time. He has the control of
the baseball office. Now does he have one hundred percent
full control? Because the owner likes to get involved, my
answer would probably know to that. But I also think
that most owners just don't ever say, hey, wake me
up when you make a big trade. I think most
owners some more than others, but I think most of

(02:04:15):
generally speaking, like to check in with a general manager
in our fairly regular baits and saying, Hey, what's going
on in the world, what's the hot stove? How hot
is it right now? Yeah, something like to medal and
it seems like Jim Crane likes to medal and he
Dana Brown gets the weekly email how can we get
Justin Verlander back? And they try to figure it out.
Let's again, I'm just gonna glow a paint of the
broad brush here. What has Jim absolutely wanted that he

(02:04:36):
got that maybe pushed through more so than another owner
would do. His affinity for Justin Verlander, but that is
paid off. Yes, okay, that's Justin Verlander has been a
winner for the Houston Astros period. Just Jim wanted Josh Hater.

Speaker 2 (02:04:59):
I was he a bring you. He wanted Jose to
bring you. He wanted deal.

Speaker 1 (02:05:04):
He wanted to run the baseball ops with his lieutenants
as a leader. He was in no hurry to get
a general manager. And I think they paid the price
for that the A bray You deal and the Montero deal.
And he also hired a general manager in Dana that
had never been in charge before. So it wasn't like
you were hiring theo Epstein to come in here that

(02:05:24):
said you stay out of this. I'm the general manager.
I'll i'll make your profits, I'll build you a good
baseball team. But I don't need you involved. I think
the data was that that Jim was going to hire
a general manager. It was going to allow him to
peek in the room once in a while. I don't
get the impression that Jim, like Jim is by no
means of Jerry Jones. He's been compared to Jerry Jones

(02:05:45):
by somebody. I would agree that that. But he medals. Yeah,
but Rossie, if I'm an owner of a team, I'm
medal like Raina doesn't medal with the Rockets. He's involved.
You don't think Patrick news out running things. It's not
involved in Hi McNair's that medal in anything. No, Cal's
not meddling. He doesn't even know. That's an exception. You're

(02:06:06):
right about that, but most owners should. If I owned
a sports franchise high baseball, people like trade, he didn't meddle.
He meddles more now with with James Clicking and Dana
Brown than he did with Jeff Luno. Well, part of
that is because he also watched a cheating scandal. I
guess he didn't. It was either turned blind eye or
didn't know about it at all. And he's like, I

(02:06:26):
can't let that happen. It correct, I'm sure he feels
burned by that. Yeah. No, I will not ever tell
an owner to stay out of it. Now, you have
to have smart and I am not saying as you did,
but you have to have You have to give the people,
your lieutenant, you got to give them a little bit
of of of leeway and space and you I mean,

(02:06:51):
you tell me. I think the Kyle Tucker trade had
to go through Jim as it should. Yeah, but if
but if going to get hay Sue Sanchez the trade dead,
I don't think Jim was like knocking down the door.
I think so he was. He was involved in the
Romo and Ureus deal. But as you said, the Hater deal,
I'm sure he had to prove that because it puts
you into the luxury tax. Yes, the Kyle Tucker deal,

(02:07:12):
I'm not saying it was his idea, but maybe like, hey,
how can we get some giving us no medication he
wants to come back. We're not paying Kyle Tucker. So
we got to figure this out and got good return
on that. Yeah, for the most part, we stick. I
mean when he came to be a manager the leaguer
for sure, But the pradiest deal until he got hurt,
was that was a huge win for the team because
Kyle's not by any means guaranteed to say with the

(02:07:33):
Chicago Cubs, how do you think? How do you feel
if you're the Chicago Cubs right now? You are you
wigging out that Kyle Tucker's not coming back to you?
That a one season and done for all that which
you gave up. That's tough.

Speaker 2 (02:07:44):
What's the name of the the GM over there?

Speaker 1 (02:07:48):
All right? Well, I'm thinking of Jed Hoyer. It basically
seemed like a desperation move to get into the playoffs. Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:07:54):
And it worked, yes, but job, yeah, Now.

Speaker 1 (02:07:57):
He made that deal to make the team more competitive,
to get them into the playoffs, to stay his job,
and they won ninety two games, so I don't know
how much he's regretting it. Camp Smith was good for
the Astros. But is he looking like future Hall of
Famer right now?

Speaker 6 (02:08:10):
Nope?

Speaker 17 (02:08:10):
Not.

Speaker 1 (02:08:10):
After the start of the season, easta paratus is good.
You got the pitcher who got hurt. Hurt was not Arrogetty.
It was Hayden.

Speaker 2 (02:08:18):
Wasn't Esky front of the show. Hayden was an Eske.
He ripped his arm in half.

Speaker 1 (02:08:22):
He suck Paradis missed a lot of games, and then
camp Smith petered out by the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
So I mean it was a good trade for the Astros.

Speaker 1 (02:08:30):
The upside is, especially if Kyle does not say with Chicago,
the upsides on the Astro side, the Astros have a chance.

Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
We'll have a chance to win that trade.

Speaker 1 (02:08:37):
It will not take much because of the fact that
if Kyle leaves. First of all, Kyle was brought there
to take the Cubs of the World Series and didn't
even get there. And if Kyle leaves, you're holding your
hand with the I guess you offered a qualifying offer, right,
you get a draft pick. Yeah, but that's.

Speaker 13 (02:08:58):
So.

Speaker 1 (02:08:59):
I don't mind mind that my general manager like, I
like it here. I want to stay here. I like
my parameters. And again it could be lip service, because
you know, when you're down to zero years left in
your contract, you're gonna say things. But he could have
been a lot different. He could have been. You know,
I'm not worried about my future. He said the opposite.
I'd love to stay. I'd love for Joe and I

(02:09:20):
to retire here. He's not gonna say, yeah, it's you know,
it sucks here. I'm saving my money, he said, you
know what. He he could have said, I'm gonna kick that.
I'm gonna do kick some butt this year. I'm gonna
win us ninety five games. I'm gonnana find me a
better job.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
Don't say that they're not winning ninety five games.

Speaker 1 (02:09:35):
You don't know that. I get Okay, let's bet. I'm
I told you no more bets in twenty twenty six,
No more bets. You're done. Come on, Oh we're done.
You're gonna well you lost the seven and a half.
You owe me a Deli lunch. It's fine. Take your chips,
man at the catch that in right now. A little
hungry stomach's a ground many cash. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
They close it too, So yea get it.

Speaker 1 (02:09:58):
I can make it. He can do it. I got
some uh, I got some leftover spaghetti. I made homemade sauce.
Absolutely made it from scratch. I didn't crush my own tomatoes,
but then I made it from scratch. It's funny. I
had a homemade I had a chef come to the
house everyday. Really, his name was Boyardee. Oh I know him. Yeah, hilarious.
That's the other thing. One of the things that you
don't eat anymore is a kid. I used to kid.

(02:10:20):
I used to can spaghetti all the time and got
sick like that. Make your own sauce, Matt, so I
get when I was eleven, Eat my recipe. I bring
you some sauce, please, No, I want to eat it all.
That's fine. I might bring you a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:10:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:10:31):
I'll bring you a little taste of my sauce. Others
have tasted your sauce before.

Speaker 1 (02:10:37):
They love it. Something it's a little bitter. No, I've
heard it's I've always heard rave reviews. Very chunky at
times too one to eleven is sometimes your sauce is
too chunky.

Speaker 2 (02:10:46):
No, I think it's rather smooth, flavorful.

Speaker 12 (02:10:50):
Seven.

Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
Okay, we need you to call the show because he's
going down the road. I don't want to go tomatous,
all right? Uh seven full of nutrients seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two's five times fault. It's your fault. I didn't
do anything talking about your sauce. Seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero U still to come.

(02:11:14):
Uh we pluyed. Then do we play the dan on Ofski?
Do we play the audio he was, Yeah, he was
loving on him. Got that taken care of. We got
day at the general manager meetings, we have uh the
Brett Yormark the eighty at Uh. Oh, let's say, let's
play that again coming back, because that's worthy of playing.
Notre Dame probably isn't going to be going to the
Big twelve many times soon. We'll explain that coming back

(02:11:35):
in a minute one twelve month Sports Talk seven eighty.
It is so one eighteen on Sports Talk seven eighty.
Here's Brent or Mark uh basically telling Notre Dame ethotic
director Pete Bevelockwood to shut his bum ass up.

Speaker 9 (02:11:51):
And I'm a little lot spoken about it.

Speaker 15 (02:11:53):
I don't like how Notre Dame's reacted to it, So okay,
I think I think Pete's his His behavior has been egregious.
It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips when they saved
Notre Dame during COVID.

Speaker 9 (02:12:07):
We all knew, and it was very transparent. Hunter was
very transparent about it.

Speaker 15 (02:12:10):
The chair that as Notre Dame in Miami got closer
together head to head would be a factor.

Speaker 9 (02:12:17):
Okay, b why you lost?

Speaker 15 (02:12:19):
They came closer together head to head, made a difference
in that decision. So I think he is totally out
of bounds in his approach, and he was in the room.
I tell him the same thing, Oba, mass up man.

Speaker 1 (02:12:37):
And if I call you again you tell me not
to the Big Twelve, to Notre Dame of the Big Twelve,
I'm gonna say more disparaging things about you.

Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
I'm just guessing that was I don't know that for sure.

Speaker 1 (02:12:47):
And didn't sound like Notre Dame's coming to the Big twelve. Matthew,
that funny, as floated out by certain lockdown members.

Speaker 2 (02:12:56):
Yeah, do you do?

Speaker 1 (02:13:00):
Does Notre Dame wake up to this? Since I got
to join a conference, They're like, we're freaking out now.
It feels like they're their opinion themselves is significantly higher
than the rest of America. Well and yeah, but not
necessarily higher than the CFP. They got their little sweetheart deal.

Speaker 4 (02:13:17):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:13:17):
Yeah, for those who don't know, next year, if they're
in the top twelve, they automatically get an at large
spot they could put so if we apply that rule
to this year, yes, they would leap frog Miami correc
beat them head to head. Yes, and that would cause
another controversy. Yes, and the Miami would be all upsets
an argument.

Speaker 4 (02:13:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:13:38):
I mean, look, nobody's gonna be happy. But at least
we're talking about eleven and twelve rather than five. We're
going to sixteen. It's gonna happen, and seventeen or eighteen
is going to be a very very minimal conversation. Twenty
might happen. Well, the twenty format would be would it
be double buys as well? I would presume. So if

(02:13:59):
you're if you're not going one v. Sixteen, you're gonna
have to have double buyas Yeah. I mean, did your
marks just speak on that? Because he was just question
asked and answered or was he saying I've got a
little message I want to send out. There was probably
asked to him, I think, but I don't know that

(02:14:20):
for a fact. But he didn't call He didn't call
a special No, no, no, no, no no. He was
definitely asked about it. I'm just curious if when you
get asked a question you can sometimes give out some
extra meat. He had to be prepared for that question,
of course, he did you know, hmm hmmm, if you're
notre dame. Did the ACC hurt your feelings so bad?

(02:14:44):
Through their twitter count? Run by a twenty three year old? Seriously,
in the ACC network, which no one watches, I mean
watch fewer people watch ACC network, and even the Longhorn Network,
we know nobody watched. Her network had some bangers.

Speaker 2 (02:15:00):
Really, Yeah, what was his best show? USC?

Speaker 1 (02:15:02):
Texas Replay, Yes, that was the number one and Bacon
Pie with Mountain. Sometimes they would put on the two
thousand and eight Fiesta Bowl Kwan Cosby from Colt McCoy
late touchdown in that one. They put that dramatics. They're
put that Texas Houston CBI game on. I would put
the two. No, when Prince eBay missed like fifty free
throws and those Texas lost, No, that was not awesome.
Loved it. Then Kevin Eschenfelder was talking trash to me

(02:15:26):
about U of AH basketball.

Speaker 2 (02:15:29):
M I was like, they had made the Final four
since I was born, but now they have.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
Yeah, we were regular participants now yeah, well regular I'm
skinning so much grief from my uh people like, hey,
you're gonna go to the championship. I'm like, I guess
I could go, but it would be, Oh, you gotta go,
Are you sure? Yeah? They can't lose it again. They
can't choke like that again. I mean that was heartbreaking.
I would have to be can get a shot off? Well,

(02:15:57):
that's got to hurt. I would be in San Francisco
on Sunday. The Monday championship game would be in Indianapolis. Yeah,
COPETI I gotta be Tuesday in Phoenix. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:16:08):
It's like a it's like a latent connection.

Speaker 1 (02:16:11):
All right, I'm gonna tell you this, right from Chicago
to Orlando to Houston on a connection. Tell you right out,
I'm taking those days off if it happens. I guess
I I I burnt the candle on both ends too
bad by doing the show and doing We'll be fine. Okay,
you meet me there, meet you in Indianapolis. That's where
it is. That's a great I can't I love Indianapolis.

(02:16:34):
Great city. I mean, I know Mark Sanchez doesn't like it,
but I think it's great. He likes a little too much. Yeah,
having a ball over there too much. Cast him a job.
M Drew Brees didn't seem to mind. No, Drew's like,
thanks for the opportunity, bro By the way. I sent
a text to a national sports broadcaster hoping to get

(02:16:54):
him on the show. I sent one to him several
weeks ago, didn't get it returned. Okay, I have sent
another one to the same exact person at twelve seventeen.
It was an hour and six minutes ago and no
return there. How does this make you feel mad? I'm
not tac I don't know. I'm sorry. And this person

(02:17:15):
is a fellow radio host too. M Usually radio guys
take care of radio guys. Let me tell you something
I have never flat out go ahead, why you know
what we need to find? Like a lie, mad is

(02:17:35):
lying sounder. I didn't finish my study. Yeah, that's good,
you didn't lie. I was like, I was close to
line to you all. I will say this, this is
the adnaest truth. Ninety seven percent of the interviews that
I asked for I do. I'm sane if I can
make it, yeah, and if in yeah. Usually when I

(02:18:00):
say no, it's I always like to schedule or I'm
in flight or something like that. But yeah, you're very busy, man,
I get it. I almost sad one hundred percent of
the time. But that's not true. Yeah, I know, that's okay.
Ninety is pretty good. That's really good pressing. But I mean,
at least send me a return text like no, go
to hell. But I mean, I feel stupid. That's how
I felt about Steve Tasker, who thought he people thought

(02:18:20):
he was dead until he went on Twitter and said no,
I'm here. Well that's a shame, all right? Uh seven
one three two one two five seven ninety. What do
you want to get to the next half hour?

Speaker 6 (02:18:29):
We got?

Speaker 1 (02:18:30):
We got one more incredible segment of content that we
have to believe or not. After that, we had the
Rotten Five. Tomorrow, you're seven, the last Rotten five of
the year.

Speaker 2 (02:18:41):
I'll give you a hint. Who's gonna be last?

Speaker 6 (02:18:44):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:18:44):
No, I didn't know.

Speaker 1 (02:18:45):
You can't be.

Speaker 9 (02:18:47):
No.

Speaker 1 (02:18:48):
Oh, I know who the new Rotten five is? I
think so it's the team that they beat. Could be
they were four does losing to the Titans, bumpy all
the way down to one. We'll find out. And by
the way, did you I don't did you read so
much this past weekend? Yeah? Was it not awesome watching
since any Buffalo and that snowstorm? Was it not fun

(02:19:08):
watching Tennessee Cleveland and that snowstorm. It wasn't a snow storm.
It was a couple of inches. So yeah, it was
raining in Jacksonville. Though they were worried about it, lightning
and wind delays, the didn't have. They played the full game. Yeah,
they can handle a couple of inches in Buffalo. That's

(02:19:29):
why you have to you have to avoid Texans and
Patriots New England because they're putting that bad boy on
at night. They the NFL loves it cold and they
want the weather to absolutely play a factor. Yeah, and
you'd win a bet. I don't remember what we bet
though yesterday I feel it was just I think just
a gentleman, just gentlemen's bracket, dosh's bet. That's good. You
have three thirty and I had the field. Yes, if

(02:19:51):
it's the Texans Jaguar, the Texan Jaguars, you win. I
have three thirty and no playoffs, but they're gonna making Yeah,
I mean yeah, if it's Texan Jaguars winning, that thing
won't even be on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (02:20:03):
Jeez, I need Texans Jacks.

Speaker 1 (02:20:04):
It'll be on the home on channel.

Speaker 2 (02:20:06):
Need me some Texans Jags.

Speaker 1 (02:20:09):
Texans Pats are gonna be playing at night either Monday
Night or Sunday night or Saturday. So it's at Texans
Steelers three thirty, Texans Ravens three thirty, Lamar Jackson and
the Ravens if they make a sneak into the playoffs somehow,
any game in Houston is three thirty. Oh yeah, because

(02:20:29):
the weather is going to be no will make a difference.
That's some Okay. Yeah, they could win the division and
cow will be calling the league because you know Col's
bedtimes on Saturdays.

Speaker 2 (02:20:37):
Better bets fifty to fifty. It is, it's true.

Speaker 1 (02:20:39):
All right, Well, we have one more segment if you'd
like to join in, join us on anything that it's uh,
we've actually gone through the pulpourri of topics today. We've
given you some Dana Brown. Yes, we gave you some
uh dan Orlovsky. We've given you some college football, the
thing those we are missing so far. Texans are back
on the practice field right now. Yes, And what's our

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Texans insider Adam Weser I have to say about. He's
our reporter. He is there shooting videos of running backs
I've never heard of before in my life. Oh, I
got one for you. This is an NFL. Is there
a slight going on in Indianapolis. A slight explain when
we come back on Sports Talk seven ninety one thirty two.

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Sports Talk seven ninety is the Matt Thomas Show. Ross
full breakdown on what happened at Texans practice today with
our Texans reporter Adam Wexer coming up at two o'clock today.
So the culture back of the practice phel ross getting
ready for their game against Seattle in the game you
will see on locally on Channel eleven on Sunday. Thank
you very much to the great executive at Channel eleven
for making the right decision on that. Yes, and you

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know there's a quarterback that's on the practice squad, and
my guess will probably be activated before long, if not
this Sunday, certainly before the end of season. His name
is Philip Rivers. Okay, a borderline Hall of Famer. Being
able to take him a war line, I'd have to

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go through the resume. Eight time Pro Bowler, zero time MVP.
Oh mmm, I don't did he make it All Pro Team?
I don't think he did, but I mean he also

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played in the Manning Brady era. What do you think
eight time Pro Bowler, comeback Player of the Year and
it's gonna yep, damn all right, So here's the reason
why I brought him up. Okay, what number does he
wear or did he wear when he was a player? Seventeen?

Speaker 12 (02:22:48):
Yep?

Speaker 1 (02:22:49):
Okay, what number did Daniel Jones wear? I don't even know?
Was it seventeen? Seventeen? Okay? Who cares? Daniel Jones was
a huge part of the reason why the Colts are
having the winning season they have. Okay, Daniel Jordens was
on the football field when he tore his achilles. Yes,
wearing number seventeen.

Speaker 4 (02:23:08):
Uh huh.

Speaker 1 (02:23:11):
Philip Rivers today practice wearing number seventeen.

Speaker 3 (02:23:14):
So what.

Speaker 1 (02:23:16):
That's disrespect? No, no, why? Probably Philip Rivers got his blessing.
Daniel Jones probably signed off on this. I gotta wait
to find out. Okay, Not that Daniel Jones gonna make
himself available because he's got an achilles try not walking
around and he's hobbling. Well, I don't that doesn't matter
to me at all. That's Philip Rivers' number. If anything,

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Daniel Jones probably gave his blessing. And who cares, You're
off the team, bruh, Philip Philly Rivers number seventeen your
number is zero. I'm disagreeing, Okay, I don't think that's no.
No again, maybe uniform numbers don't make a difference to
a lot of players. Some yeah, and maybe maybe Danie

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Jones like, I don't care. I'm not playing anymore this year.
I mean, it's just a number. I don't know why.
And maybe he's like, yeah, big Philly you are. You
are a guy that's been around a long time. You've
thrown a lot of yards. It's just I don't know,
just good, I'm not gonna fall my sword saying this
as an outrage, but it just covers is more so,
I didn't know that Daniel Jones was even seventeen. I
didn't remember that. Yeah, Philly Rivers is the number seventeen.

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And also, okay, if you've changed in nineteen, who cares?
Whoa whoa, whoa, whoa what nineteen? That is way bigger
and okay whatever, you know, I'm just throwing number. That's
why you brought at nineteen. Oh no, just kidding. Maybe
maybe they're running out numbers. Bear Brockmeier made you wear

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forty seven. You can wear forty seven. Yeah, I just
I'm trying to think, uh can I don't even know
other great Andrew luck was twelve. He's he's getting useder
as a retired by the Colts, right, I guess, yeah,
well he retired early. Yeah, because it's like I want
to be able to be able to know my name

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and one day to the next. I just I don't know.
It's just wants to grow his neck beard in peace.
You know what he's doing. He's trying to raise money
at Stanford. How's that going? Very well? We talked about that.
People that remember a game at four er million dollars
last week? Did you see Troyyickman said he's done donating
for nil.

Speaker 12 (02:25:21):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:25:22):
For those who did not see this, Troy Aigman was
asked by his alma mater UCLA to cut a check.
So he did m because he's able to do so.
And uh, he says, I'll never do it again. That's
the rite off too, is it? Right off? But I
mean donating to the school. It's a donation. It's like
a charitable donation. I guess it's to the cause. If

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you he had to write it to the collective as
our collectives five O one three c's I don't know.
I think so that I can't tell you yet. Don't
quote me on that point. Is he wrote the check
and he's like, that was a waste of time. Not
only did uh the guy left whoever it was, but
he didn't say thank you, donor fatigue. I guess the

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question would be did the player even know it was
from Troy? Yeah, it's like a sponsoring the kid. Now,
if you get a scholarship, is it like when you
sponsor a starving kid in Malaysia? Like if you get
a scholarship at school, you can say you're getting the
Rossville Real Scholarship with a Matt Thomas scholar UCLA buddy system.
He's gotta like, uh, go on, go have lunch with

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him and be comfortable.

Speaker 2 (02:26:27):
Like if you donate a certain amount, you get this.
So you're sponsoring a.

Speaker 1 (02:26:30):
Kid, Yeah, I mean I would think maybe a nice text.
I mean, nobody's writing hand written Leonard anymore. I forget
that you can't send postcards. But all Troy wanted was
to thank you and maybe to stick around at UCLA.
Well he got neither.

Speaker 2 (02:26:45):
He's like, I'm done with that. You know WHI I'll
tell you what.

Speaker 1 (02:26:49):
If I'm UCLA, I would never would have let that
go that far, because not only is that going to
affect UCLA, that's also going to affect other people of
significant financial means to say, well, if if Trademan's getting
treated this way, how am I going to be treated?
Gotta take care of? Or on the opposite, if you're
another school, do you go, oh, we better make sure
we take care of We said plenty of nice thank

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you notes and hugs and autograph pictures and whatnot. Yeah,
that that to me sounds like a significant damage by
U c l A for letting that happen the way
that did Detroit, And we would even publicly say that, Yeah,
he's clearly pissed.

Speaker 9 (02:27:27):
Donor.

Speaker 2 (02:27:27):
When you said donut fatigue, when are we.

Speaker 1 (02:27:29):
Gonna get it? We're never gonna get it, Ross, he
promised me, promising you what happened with Troy Aikman.

Speaker 2 (02:27:35):
Cody Campbell said, donort fatigue.

Speaker 1 (02:27:37):
We're all good. No, don't he's he does he? What
is the anti fatigue he's got? He's got he's got
Donor energy. Well, those uh, those Aggie recruiting classes went
down for a couple of years when they got like
eight a one star, I mean five stars, and then
they all went away, but then they bounce back. There
goes in waves. Cody's doing well. He was on a
video not too long I saw over the weekend. He's like,

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how did y'all, How did y'all do this? And he's like, well,
we knew the portal was going to open up much bigger,
and we jumped in quick. Yeah, they wanted to jump
in because now they wanted to get in before the cap,
right right before the clearinghouse or whatever. For the clearinghouse. Yeah,
but basically saying we want to pay this guy two
million dollars to discuss how great his slushy was, ironic,

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And they're like, well, you can't do that, it's not
worth it. But now you can't.

Speaker 2 (02:28:22):
Clearinghouse shit, you bump ass up. Whatever the kid is
paid is what he's So now you've got tutor things.

Speaker 1 (02:28:25):
You have the clearinghouse that determines what an nim that
tupe it is and we have and then you have
the budget of the school that can spend right now
twenty point five million dollars. Although you heard notre dames,
I thought the director was yesterday say he'd like to
see that bumped up. Yes he would, because my guess
is the nil money isn't coming in as nearly as
uh much as much as other schools. You got to

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tie to the Pope and then the Catholic Church and
the bishops, and then you got to tie the Notre Dame.

Speaker 2 (02:28:49):
It's a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:28:50):
Can the Pope write the check? I don't think. I
don't think you can get a check from Vatican City
for Notre Dame football. But I don't know if any
place could get money, it would be Notre Dame rights,
I mean, does the I guess the LDS church is
not right checks to by You've been writing checks? Or
haven't they? Yeah? They're number one, the highest paid college
basketball player plays for b YU. Yeah, they're their top

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ten or they want They won a game last night
against Clemson. I want to say in Madison Square Garden
and a buzzer beater. Okay, And I don't know why
I know that, but I just do because you love
BYU basketball. I love college basketball. They're eight and one.

Speaker 2 (02:29:24):
Their only loss is to Connecticut by two points.

Speaker 1 (02:29:30):
So basically, if you don't beat Yukon, we wouldn't let
you in the Big twelve. Then what do you mean
your texta Longhorns. You what, Yeah, you gotta win, because
if you want to come back to our conference, you
gotta start carrying your way with basketball. Do a better
football and basketball conference. All Right, we'll see come tournament time.
It was last year. I don't know about this year. Yeah,

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Cougar's played Jackson State tonight. I was talking about thinking
about going and then it's like, nah, I'm all right. Oh,
actually there's not an SEC team in the top ten.

Speaker 4 (02:30:00):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
Second tier. Last year their first tier. It goes in
Waves got the officials to help them win a national championship.
Icking tay Alabama is twelve. Oh, Vandy's fifteenth. Who's dropping
all this cash for Vandy? Vanderber's always had a good program.
Arkansas seventeenth, Florida and Tennessee. Oh you know John Colla

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party's got money somewhere coming. He knows people. Okay, seec's
looking a little decent. Texasill crack the top twenty five.
I don't hope so gives a good smack town the
shame in their conference. Cougar's play Jackson Say their forty
point five favorites forty and a half point favorites. Well,
Texas is gonna get a beat down from Yukon on Friday,

(02:30:43):
So looking forward to that. We'll get a lot of
calls in that. On the following Monday, when you're not
watching it Fox, I'll be watching their ass beating Fox.
Four K. I can't wait. Is four K that much better?
I love it? Yeah, it's way better. You get a
nice Steve. You've got a good TV, got a nice
O lead TV. I don't want to have a Q
lead mini lead. Don't know what I have.

Speaker 2 (02:31:00):
You're probably not know lid. Yeah, I got other expenses.

Speaker 1 (02:31:04):
Yeah, so what I'm saying I got, I don't so
I can splurge.

Speaker 6 (02:31:08):
Good for you.

Speaker 2 (02:31:09):
You and I had this brief argument. I thought the
peacock feed.

Speaker 1 (02:31:14):
We have one main television does our main peacock and
we have other peacock televisions?

Speaker 9 (02:31:18):
What are me?

Speaker 1 (02:31:21):
If it looked a little grainy, you can argue if
it looked grainy in your house, that's cool. It doesn't
look Peacock looks excellent in my house. Now, Amazon Prime
looks spectacular. Amazon Prime looks very good too. Yeah, I
will say Amazon Prime looks better than Peacock. And I
mean maybe I'm going off of Sunday up football always
looks spectacular, but you don't watch it on Peacock.

Speaker 12 (02:31:40):
Yeah I do.

Speaker 2 (02:31:40):
I watched it a football on Peacock because it looks
better than my cable.

Speaker 1 (02:31:43):
Really, huh. The things you learn. That's a little pro
tip for you folks is go to peacock. Yeah, it
looks better. The picture is better to me. Okay, thank
you very much for that. Let's play Believe or Not.
The topic today is highly googlable. It is about you
can do this in four minutes seven, I'll highly google

(02:32:04):
about the UH team the Rockets are playing tomorrow. We'll
leave it at that one on Sports Talk seven ninety.
If you would like to play, of course you would
seven one three two one two five seven. Honey, remember
you can only win once every thirty days. If you're
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You can only win once every thirty days. Seven one
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(02:32:25):
three two one two five seven. I needy to play
Believe it or not? Is this the wussification of the NBA? Ross?
You ready for this? So I am looking at my
Clippers notes for tomorrow's game of the Rockets and Tyron
lew is the head basketball coach. He has eleven assistant coaches.

(02:32:55):
I'm not kidding. I'm gonna count this again. One two,
Jeff Van Gundy's assistant, Brian Shaw, former NBA head coach,
jay Lernega, former college coach, Larry Drew, former short term
head coach, and then a bunch of guys have never
heard of. Dante Jones, former NBA player played at Duke.
He's got five ten assistants, and then he has a

(02:33:15):
vice president of player performance slash assistant coach eleven. Do
you know when the Rockets won the championships in the
nineteen nineties, Carol Dawson had two assistant coaches, That's it.
And one year I think he got three, and I
was like, why are you a third? An NBA team
has a head coach and eleven assistant coaches. I mean,

(02:33:38):
come on, these leagues, folks never feel sorry for them.
They have plenty of money. The NBA TV deals are
allowing the Los Angeles Clippers, of all things, to have
an eleven assistant coaches. Absolutely crazy? All right, tomorrow on
the show we have I just don't get it coming

(02:34:00):
up at eleven thirty, which will feature Disney World stuff.
I'm just gonna tell you that right now. And it's
a second time appearance for this category in I just
don't get it, okay, And I don't know if you
agree with me or disagree with me about this cy
that's tomorrow. The news at noon Friday will have be made,

(02:34:20):
Doka on, Doctor Rhoto will be on, and we will
make a prediction. I already got the Texans covering the
ten points against against Arizona, right really, yeah, okay, does
Arizona even show up? My gut feeling is that it's
a one score game because that's what the Texans are
always in. Well, that set set off panic in this
town except for I guess.

Speaker 6 (02:34:39):
Well.

Speaker 1 (02:34:40):
It was a two score game against Kansas City, but
that game was close all game. The Niners game was
a two score game. The Ravens game was a two
score game. But it's feeling, I don't know. I'm just
not feeling like this offense might not be good enough
to blow anybody out. But well, if Kobe Brissett beats

(02:35:00):
the Texans, all right, he owns he gonna put him
in the Ring of Honor, and you're gonna say doors
right out of my mouth. I'm sorry, you know what
I mean. Let's say who's already up there? T Y Hilton,
Marvin Harris, Peyton Manning is up there, Derreck Henry is
up there. Andrew Luck's probably up there too, Andrew probably
pretty close. Jacoby Brissett. If he wins the game, he

(02:35:23):
is going into the Texans Hall of Honor Ring of
Honor right next to janis.

Speaker 12 (02:35:30):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (02:35:30):
That's what's to play for on Sunday. Okay, five minutes
up to go on the show, what should we do?
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show.
We simply call it be leave It or Not. And
here's how it works. You'll call seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one

(02:35:50):
two five seven NINTI. Today's edition to Believe or Not
is then we talked about in the first hour of
the show today for the LIEU ten o'clockers, We Love You.
Has this person, this player ever played for the Los
Angeles Clippers.

Speaker 2 (02:36:03):
If they have, you'll say this, believe it. If they
have not, you say this.

Speaker 1 (02:36:08):
If you get three in a row, you gotta get
three of these because this is not overly difficult. Three
Clippers players, whether they played or not. You want a prize.
Here's how what you play for today. You're beginning either
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(02:36:31):
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ninety Scott on seveninet you ready to play Believe it
or not?

Speaker 6 (02:36:51):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:36:52):
Scott, Good luck to you. Jamal Tinsley was a Clipper
Believe it or not.

Speaker 13 (02:36:57):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:36:57):
That's correct name number two for the way. Jason Richardson
was a Clipper Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:37:03):
Believe it No, he never was.

Speaker 1 (02:37:08):
Our people were running to their all time Clippers list.
Frank on seven ninty ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 6 (02:37:16):
Love that rib Matt believe it.

Speaker 1 (02:37:17):
Thank you, Frank. I'm really personally rooting hard for you today.
Quentin Richardson was a Clipper, believe it or not, believe it,
believe it. PJ.

Speaker 2 (02:37:28):
Tucker was a Clipper, believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (02:37:34):
Not he was it. Oh damn catting, get it with
extra sauce next time you won't. Just thank me later.

Speaker 2 (02:37:42):
Clifton on seven, Ninty ready to play.

Speaker 1 (02:37:43):
Believe it or not, believe it. Percy Hawkins was a Clipper,
believe it or not not not name number two for
the way for the number two. Ben Gordon was a Clipper,
believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (02:37:58):
Believe it?

Speaker 13 (02:37:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (02:38:00):
Is this too hard for people?

Speaker 6 (02:38:01):
Ross?

Speaker 1 (02:38:03):
Is you know what we're gonna remend it. We're gonna
go to in a row. Then no, we've had no
we get away.

Speaker 2 (02:38:09):
We're giving away tickets. You gotta give them away.

Speaker 1 (02:38:11):
It's part of giveaways, not not takeaways. Matt on seven,
Ainty Matt, what was your favorite part of today? You
send the to radio show?

Speaker 6 (02:38:19):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (02:38:20):
Leandro Barbosa was a Clipper, believe it or not not
not name number two for the way. Nick Young was
a Clipper. Believe it or not, believe it. There you go, congratulations.
Tim on seven Ninty ready to play Believe it or not?

(02:38:41):
Believe it? Matt Barnes was a clipper, believe it or not.
Believe it, believe it, name number two for the way
in Dominique Wilkins was a clipper. Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:38:55):
Oh he was?

Speaker 1 (02:38:56):
I remember that. I forget everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:39:00):
Ryan on seven? Are you ready to play?

Speaker 1 (02:39:01):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:39:03):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:39:03):
Glenn Rice was a clipper, believe it or not.

Speaker 6 (02:39:07):
Not?

Speaker 10 (02:39:08):
He was?

Speaker 1 (02:39:09):
How do you know? Have the clippers on the brain here, folks?
Daniel on seven, Aunty Daniel, your favorite favorite part of
today's ten the two radio show All of It? Katino
Mobley was a clipper, believe it or not, believe it,
believe it? Name number two for the Way.

Speaker 2 (02:39:25):
And Corey Brewer was a clipper believe it or not.

Speaker 1 (02:39:29):
Not. There you go, another winner, Good job last one.
Eric on seven? Are you ready to play? Believe it
or not? Sam Cassell was a clipper, believe.

Speaker 13 (02:39:42):
It or not not?

Speaker 1 (02:39:44):
He was was a clipping, was definitely a clipper, all right.
ROSSI a little disappointed. I thought we'd have more winners
than we had that we had two today, so it's
not twos is good two winners are good.

Speaker 2 (02:39:59):
We need to give away more prizes now, We're good?

Speaker 6 (02:40:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (02:40:02):
Hey, everybody stand by complete Texans. Who practiced today and
who did not? And who's wearing what uniform numbers? Up
next with Wexler, our texts reports like breakdown from wex Hey,
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It's deity on sports Talks, cividitis