Browns Defeat Steelers In Snow Game, Texans' Hannah McNair Shades Titans, McTaggart Does All The Bits!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show tenh.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Two in ah Town.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Friday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Our buddy Brian McTaggart
is in this sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (00:20):
Well, I help all those players break their elbows and uh.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
What, okay, you hope nineteen year olds break their elbows?

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Required they're young. Last, they're young.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
You should be embarrassed, should be embarrassing to yourself, you
know what. The other reason why there's no buzz for
this game, there is buzz. There's zero buss. I'm buzzing
hard right now. I know you're buzzing, Harvar for different reasons.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
They're having a lot of success in the first half
and then they're coming out not flat, but just not
inspired in the second half. And I'm wondering if maybe
they should just try thinking about baseball.

Speaker 6 (00:49):
For the first half and saved it and then whenever
the second half.

Speaker 5 (00:51):
Comes, just really you know, getting at it, because that
seems to work for me.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I'm not gonna let a man named Pooky ever influence
me on anything. Is Monday the suck off. That thing
is gonna be big and red is what is it
going to be? You're trying to pick up the nine
point five? Then she goes home with someone else. Guess
what you got to scramble to. Something that's seven is
more fun, Mattie. Seven will do more things, not as
much work. I gotta go. I gotta go fewer.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
Drinks, less cuddling.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Are you using AI to make me say things I
shouldn't be saying? That's all you got? Oh my god,
you have to get Tripoli, the producer of the Shawn Salisbury.
Those boys gotta be saying things like that in the
morning too. We gotta start catching other people because I
feel like I'm this is just an impersonal indictment against
all the things I say between ten o'clock until two. Hey,

(01:40):
our buddy Brian McTaggart is here. You hear them Thursdays
during the baseball season. But don't I said, like this
lazy ass didn't do anything. The Astros postseason ended early.
He's been on vacation, hadn't got a haircut since the
end of the season.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
I brought you in.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
All that is true. Good to be here. Seriously, your
main is just it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's uh.

Speaker 7 (02:00):
I never realized having long hair was like hard to
uh would be so hard to manage. In fact, now
when I travel, I have a separate toiletry bag from
my hair.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Oh oh my god, what is wrong with you? Hey,
there's not much grain there by the way, is that
kudos to you? Or are you're calling that bad boy out? No,
no coloring, this is all natural. So yeah, I mean,
if you got it, you got to fly on it, right,
So I'm gonna I'm gonna ride this out for a
little while. Clip that for next week. That's perfect. We
got we got a Brian mc I love it.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
It took us three minutes. All right, Brian McTaggart is here.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
And when I called Brian and I said last week,
I said, hey, why don't you come in? Because first
of all, Channel Rome came in the week before with
the A team he did and he killed it, and
I was like, well, I got to see h McTaggart
wants to do this and we'll see how this works.
Because Brian's you've been obviously associate with the Astros for
a long period of time, but you are a Houston
sports fan through and through.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
We have a great love for the cougars.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Uh a great disdain for anything, the University of Memphis
and the city of Memphis and related. I see her,
How do you know that your tweets but covered everything.
So we'll get into a variety of different things. But
he said, yeah, I'll come in. We got to do
all your bits. So for the first time in the
history of this radio show, we're gonna take every bit
that we do, are almost all of them, and we're

(03:13):
gonna do them on the show today.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
Oh yeah, I love the bits.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, all right, So at the bottom of the eye,
we're gonna do gut feelings. Now, Connor and I have
already had gut feelings about things. We don't know your
gut feelings does that to be sports or thinking mean
about anything?

Speaker 8 (03:26):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (03:26):
But gut feelings are predictions.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay. So I don't know if you want to predict
the next Oscar winning movie or the next number one song,
but I think people that know you and love you
want your predictions on. I don't know a certain baseball
team you cover, so just be prepared, preparing to come
out with those predictions and this saying it.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Okay, then at eleven thirty we have shut your bomb.
Ass up. That's what I'm really looking forward to. That's
what everybody looks forward to.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Everybody.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
I'm at restaurants.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Or I'm at a bar and somebody say, hey, man,
shut your bum ass up, and I didn't know anything
is no, we just I just want to say that
to you. I like, Okay, so we'll do shut your
ball mass up. And that means because McTaggart's doing it,
you guys could do it too well. Also the gut feelings.
And then at twelve thirty we're gonna do a Fantasy
five and McTaggart is gonna be at the Baylor Houston
game tomorrow, and you're gonna be tailgating yep, with your daughter,

(04:15):
who's a Baylor alum. Right, both of them are just one.
I have two, but only ones in towns. Okay, okay,
so you'll be tailgating. Are you in charge of the
menu or are you just jumping in on jonesing in
on somebody else's menu.

Speaker 7 (04:29):
No, I'm sort of in charge, but we don't put
a whole lot of thought into it. It's probably gonna
be like a last minute run of the grocery store.
I see, here's the food, and right, the drink's the
most important thing.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
Okay.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
So what we're gonna do?

Speaker 3 (04:41):
And I told him, I said, we're gonna do a
Fantasy five. We're gonna create the ultimate tailgate five items
and whoever's the better list will win. And you and
I don't decide the winner. It's the judges that do.
And Connor, you will be a judge number four today.
So if it comes down, it's the best of seven
of the Fantasy five and you'll be judge number four.
So take good notes on that. We'll that coming up.
We got Doctor Rhodo at one o'clock and then we've

(05:03):
got from the Non Florida stories we got to believe
it or not. We got the news at noons. We've
got a very busy show today. We want you guys involved.
By the way, I don't if you know it's not Brian,
but is anything goes Friday here, okay, and anything goes Friday.
We talk about anything. I mean, there are no limits
under any circumstance.

Speaker 7 (05:20):
When anything goes Friday. I can tell you something you
won't talk about.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Go ahead. Politics. That's you're right, that's anything goes Friday.
That smart except politics. I like everybody I don't care
what your political stance is. So I was thinking about
this this morning. So I left town for five years.
I went to Salt Lake City for two, Minneapolis for three.
But did we go to school together? Did we have
any classes together at U of H or we were

(05:45):
just there at the same time.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
I don't remember, like actually having a class with you.

Speaker 4 (05:50):
When did you graduate? I graduated in ninety five.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Okay, because I was going to school there from ninety
one to ninety eight, don't well did eighty nine to
ninety five? I mean because I was working in the business,
and I think you were in a business too.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
I was at the Houston Post, like getting real world experience.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, so I was in radio, going to school part
time as compared to most kids go to school full time,
and then Moran radio part Yeah.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Yeah, So we took our time.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Plus we enjoyed being getting on campus as often as possible,
so we did that. So I remember we were around
the same time and got my way through the business.
So you were a post and you went to Chronicle
and then you've been with MLB dot com for how long?
Fifteen years? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah, the I graduated from UH in ninety five, and
then the Houston Post closed like a month later, and
then I got married a month after that.

Speaker 3 (06:37):
So this new wife is like, I just married a
sports reporter who's out of work.

Speaker 9 (06:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
In fact, in the h Are we had we put
in the local paper our wedding announcement, like they used to.
Don't know if they still do that with the picture
and it's it said that I was a sports writer
at the Brassessport facts. I was there for three months.
But that's uh, that's in the wedding announcement. So you
still have a picture of that. Nah, I think they all.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I don't think my wife and I did the wedding announcement.
They should do engage it. I used to always look
to see who was hot and who wasn't. And that's
when I was single. I was like, man, that girl's hotter.
That guy is way overmatched.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
Yeah yeah, I mean they used to be in the
paper you're flipping open on Sundays and there they were.
But I think it was in the Pasadena Citizens.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
So because if the girl was by herself, that meant
the guy was ugly.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yeah, we were both in the picture. So there you go.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well I'm not going to judge kudos to me. I
was going to say it. So apparently they thought you
were at least a halfway I'll kick the coverage. So well,
there you go.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
Good for you.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
All right, So you've been on this speed for a
long period of time, and when you are nominated for
the Houston Media Wall of Honor, I will be voting
you in. Oh thank you. There are a lot of
people on that list that haven't been to a baseball
game in thirty years, and I mean, I guess they should.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
There's some credit. But you need to go in there
pretty soon. Uh yeah, I mean I think it will
happen eventually. I mean I kind of told the astros
I kind of don't want it until you retire so
I'm done. Yeah, I just don't want to walk in
there and see my face on the wall every day.
Plus it's kind of like an end of the career
thing to me, you know, if it happens. So so,
I actually had that same attitude.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
I mean, I've done more astro postgame shows than anybody
in America and in the history of Houston Sports radio. Really.
I mean I don't know the exact number, but I
would think of all the years of Astros, good times
and bad.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, a lot of bad.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
We took a lot of phone calls at one o'clock
in the morning going please put on Coast to coast
and stop talking about the Astros getting there. Ask kicked
by the Giants nine to two. You were definitely media
Wall of honor. That's worthy. Thank you for nominating.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
All right, So we got a lot to get to today.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
Look, and I don't know, you get on television a lot, which.

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I don't frankly understand, but it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Uh, you must get people ask everything you go somewhere,
what's going on with the team, what's happening with the team.
And we will get to that.

Speaker 9 (08:39):
Well.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
I don't want that to be the whole show, but
we will do a lot about that because that is
your forte. You are a huge Texans fan. You cannot
wait for it. You cannot wait for Sunday's tilts with
the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
I'm a Texans observer, Like I watched it, yeah, and
people get mad at me. I watch it and win
or lose, Like, Okay, I'm on now. I mean, because
we grew up Oilers fans.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
That's exist. This is not our team. We're blood brothers,
We're brothers with different mothers. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (09:07):
Now, the when I when I was twenty two, if
the Oilers lost, my week was ruined. Correct, and the
Texas if they lose, like okay whatever.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Yeah, But I think it's good because there are so
many unfortunately in this market, there are so many super fanboys.
We have to kind of balance it out. Yeah, and
that's what we do when they win. It's good because
it's good for my audience. We got a lot of
Texans fans that listen to the show and are excited
about the team, and they should be. They should be,
and I want them to be excited. I mean, it's
better to talk about winning than it is losing. Case

(09:35):
in point, many many years of Rockets utility the last
few years and obviously the Astros between what seven and
fourteen or whatever that, So we want things to go
in but we just people always.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Say why don't you text me?

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Because I've had enough turbulence in my life sports wise,
I just I don't have any more room for it.

Speaker 9 (09:52):
Right.

Speaker 3 (09:52):
So I'm a good Texans observer observer, and I'm going
to observe them kick the crap out of the Tennessee
Titans on Sunday.

Speaker 7 (09:59):
Is that is that a gut feeling. It's not a
gut feeling. It's a garontee guarantee.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
There you got, all right, So if you got any
questions for McTaggart on life is a Houston sports icon
medium icon on the Astros, we'll get to some Texans.
We got the Rockets playing in their end season tournament
game tonight against the Portland Trailblazers. The Rockets the number
three seed last time I checked in the Western Conference. Wow,
let's go.

Speaker 7 (10:23):
I've watched more Rockets basketball already this year than like
the last three or four years combined.

Speaker 4 (10:27):
I'm so happy. I'm so happy.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's it's getting it's a slow it's a slow con Yeah,
it's like twenty fifteen once for the Strokes, right. People
weren't buying it until all a sudden, Cocko went on
this great run and they were nitting a bunch of
home runs and crushity took place. And of course I
didn't copyright it and read Ryan called me and said,
I'm gonna put it on a bunch of shirts. I'm sorry,
You're gonna gett nothing out of it. I'm so okay,
but I'm not bitter. Seven one three two one two

(10:50):
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zeros. How you reach us? We have Gut
Feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. McTaggart's in.
I'm Matt, and this is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross He is in I Believe Greenland Today seven one
three two one two five seven ninety more Matt Thomas now.

Speaker 10 (11:12):
On Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
We've got a special Friday edition of Gut Felix coming
up at the bottom of the hour here, and this
is honor of McTaggart making some predictions on things Texan's
getting ready for the Tennessee Titans. Thomas Sports Enterprises is
very bullish on wool Lewis, although we had a reporter
on yesterday from Nashville the city sucks and that the
Titans are going to go after another quarterback. Man. I

(11:38):
heard that. You know it's crazy, though, tags and I
don't remember this being this way twenty thirty years ago.
And I hate to be that twenty or thirty year
ago guy, but you could get away with having an
average quarterback and just having everything around you be just spectacular.
A good running game, solid offensive line, solid defense, and
you could figure out a way to kind of sneak
a you know, a ten win season in maybe one

(12:00):
playoff two game or two game. The money that is
spent on quarterbacks is justifiable, for the good and for
the bad. If you get a good quarterback and you
pay him, you've got yourself locked in, like Pat.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Mahomes and Josh Allen and CJ.

Speaker 3 (12:14):
Strada ultimately, But if you have a lot of money
locked in a quarterback and he sucks Trevor Lawrence, Dak Prescott,
it's crucier franchise.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Back in the day, it was like the quarterbacks would
be with their teams for five or six years and
they weren't that great. But I get teams didn't pass
as much back then, and there wasn't the shotgun and
the RPO. It was hand the ball off to this
running back who would carry the ball thirty times a game.
You don't see many of those running backs anymore either.
I mean, Barkley and some of those guys. But those
guys are going by the wayside too, So yeah, I mean,

(12:47):
you got to you gotta have the top nuts quarterback
back back in the day that wasn't always well, think about.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
This, Deshaun Watson gets this huge deal at Stay in
Houston and one's excited about that, and then all of
a sudden, the stuff off of field goes on. Then
he wants to leave, and then Cleveland has to give
up all those first round draft picks. They signed another
holatious guaranteed contract. And I know the Browns won last night,
but they're screwed. I mean they're they're three and three
and eight, I think, and there's no one thinking that

(13:14):
they're gonna turn that bad boy around.

Speaker 7 (13:15):
No, and then you got Baker Mayfield going to Tampa
and playing really well. Yeah, like you know, maybe you
should have given him a longer lease, you know, a
better chance. It just seems like everything's in sports these days,
like society. It's like, what have you done for me lately?
And Okay, we're gonna go on to the next guy
and you're out the door. Head coaches, the turnover, especially
in the NBA, is like I could probably name two

(13:36):
NBA head coaches. The turnovers just crazy. Well, they all
want up getting different jobs of other places. Yeah, and
they all go to they all go to different teams,
like yeah, like I were musical chair.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah, but if you screw the quarterback spot up, it
ruins your franchise. It does. Yeah, Speaking of the Pittsburgh
Cleveland game, I would never not normally watch a Pittsburgh
Cleveland game on a Thursday night. I mean, I, you know,
with my busy NBA schedule and traveling and whatnot, if
I have downtime at the house, so I'm gonna be
watching some other things, catching up on my shows. But
when the snow started to fall yesterday, and I mean tags,

(14:08):
it wasn't like a dusting.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
It was a full on blizzard.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
For those who don't know, Cleveland Stadium is right next
to the lake, I mean literally steps you know, the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next to that. So
it's really a fun, interesting little complex. And I think
Cleveland's kind of an underrated town. Yeah, good food, nice people,
lots of stuff to do. But when that lake effect
snow kicks in, it was awesome last night and I
couldn't I couldn't turn it off.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I think I wanted the game.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
To go like the seven overtimes it doesn't do that anymore,
but that's what I wanted it to do. Yeah, funny
should say that.

Speaker 7 (14:39):
Because I was watching a show and like on the commercial,
I checked my phone and somebody screenshoted the picture of
Tom with snow on his beard.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (14:48):
I immediately went to Amazon Prime. This is the first
time I've ever put a game on Amazon Prime. I
wasn't even sure I could get it, and I put
it on us. Oh, your wife, make sure that that's
the possibility, don't worry. Yes, yeah, I'm the same. And
I watched like the last five minutes. I couldn't get enough.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
It was great. Even al Michael sounded like you gave
a crap about it, which al Michael doesn't care about
any of the games and does anymore.

Speaker 7 (15:07):
Would you sit through a game like that and that
in that snow, No, really, I would like to do it,
just once.

Speaker 3 (15:13):
I'm not going to sit through any game unless I'm
in club seats. Okay, I forgot I'm talking. I mean true,
I need to I need to on your roof and
some nice dinner. Yeah, I'll get out there with the fans,
but I I know you will and I and I
appreciate it. Because I see you out there. But I
will say this, I kudos to Cleveland fan. Their team sucks.

(15:36):
It was snowing. I'm assuming it was pretty windy. It
was cold, and it looked like every seat in the
stadium was completely jammed. Every seat nobody and nobody left
at the end of the game. They are playing the Steelers,
who you know, their big rivals.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
There's a lot a lot of Steeler fans that were
there and a lot of Steeler fans, but yeah, yeah,
kudos to them. I think everybody that was going there
knew what they were in for, and they were in
it for the long haul, and hey, there were being
a pretty pretty good game, a pretty good finish.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Because it's a big equalizer. I mean, you had Pittsburgh
and two losses going against Cleveland that had two wins
and Jamus Winston of all people in Florida state warm
weather teams whearing God knows what to keep himself layered up.
I mean, he would scare me to but Jesus to

(16:24):
run a pass route, to take a seven step drop
to run the football. I mean, the safest people on
the field the other night last night were the Gliman
because they didn't the move anywhere.

Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yeah, I think I read that was the first game
he had ever played in under forty degrees and it
was a thirty two degrees Blizzard and he got it done.
I mean that game, that game winning touchdown pass was
right on the money. You know, kudos to him, But James,
He's had an interesting career. Jameis Winston, and I don't know,
I kind of like him. I'm a fan of Jamis went.

(16:53):
I like hearing him talk, I like hearing his interviews.
He just seems like a guy that win his career's
over is going to be behind one of these microphones.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, didn't he.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Come to the defense of of uh, of Deshaun Watson.
I think people were like there was now that was
that was authentic booing or people piped in some booing
to their video. But he was very upset to the
reaction that people had when Deshaun Watson got cart off
the field.

Speaker 4 (17:14):
Oh was he Yeah? Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 8 (17:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
He had a long, like a diatribe in the interview,
right right, right.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
So you know, all I remember him is being is
a great college quarterback and stealing the crab Lakes and
the wind Dixie mm hm. And I think one time
didn't he get caught get in trouble for getting on
top of a table at Florida State and swearing and
saying a bunch of vulgar things? Right? I mean that aside.
I think he's a good guy who doesn't do those
type things.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
When you're in college.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
If you went to school with Brian mctager University Houston,
what was the craziest thing he ever did? Let us know?
Seven one three, two one two five seven. I Uh,
let's go to and I'm having a tough time potting
this coller up?

Speaker 4 (17:50):
Can you go to line one from me? Real quick?
Brian on seven ninety on with Matt and Brian mctagger.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
Hello, Brian, Hey, guys, how y'all doing good?

Speaker 11 (17:59):
So man, that that game was a little nostalgia in there.
I remember the uh the Brady fumble it was I
think it was Patriots and Raiders and the fumble that was.
But wasn't this the last time I seen a game
like that where he hates not too interested in the teams,
but you know what, the snow and the man, it
just was still cool. My wife had been trying and
she hates football, so that's saying something. But hey, Tags,

(18:22):
what do you think about Bragman? We get him back man?

Speaker 4 (18:25):
How about that? Congratulations Brian.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
We went twenty five minutes without someone asking about Alex Bregman.
How about that.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
That's longer than I thought I was gonna say.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I tex to tylor Roba, I said, as how long
as it's going to go before a question comes in
for Tags about Bregman? I like, I want to try
to put it in about fifteen minutes. You know what,
it's the number one question was asking Brian. For sure,
I understand, yeah, and I wish I was able to
give you an answer. The way I would say it
is right now is that, Uh, I don't think anything's
going to happen to Juan Soto figures out what he's
going to do, and he's been being courted by a

(18:56):
lot of teams. But I think the ass are going
to make a strong effort to try to resign Bregman.
But at the end of the day, I just don't
think that they're going to be able to go to
the years or the money that is going to require
to sign him to bring him back to Houston. It's
just not the way they do business. You just have

(19:16):
to look back at, you know, the Krea and Springers.
You let them walk, and the fact that they've done
that and they've continued to win, I think only only
confirms sort of Jim Crane's way of doing business is
not handing out these deals. He's pretty adamant about that
that if you give these guys these ten year deals,
ninety five percent of the time they end up being
bad deals. So it's going to depend how the market

(19:38):
shakes out for Bregman, and you know, maybe he comes
back down to a little bit of an area where
the Astros can meet him in the middle and they
get deal done. I think he wants to be here.

Speaker 7 (19:47):
His wife's from here, and I think he's jose al
Tuve coming out saying that he wants him to be back.
I think carries some weighting. And Jim Crane told us
that on Monday that certainly when al tuo Ve talks
that he listens. But unless something changes, I just do
not see, uh, the Astros being able.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
To go on that deep end of the pool.

Speaker 4 (20:06):
Thanks Brian for the phone call. We appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Well, there's your first gut feeling, So I guess the
question is, and we'll preface this by saying, if he
doesn't sign with the Astros, we'll have a gut feeling.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
I remember, this is not a super predictions.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
If you don't if you don't get it right in
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Speaker 1 (21:53):
Listen it up.

Speaker 10 (21:55):
Segment so.

Speaker 12 (21:57):
That tom it you'll they got a good deal.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, I don't want this to be a quiz
fest to mctaggard, but since he called for the bit,
it's gonna have to happen.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
I'm sorry if any of you out.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
There want to get a gut feeling because you didn't
do so on Tuesday. These are again, these are just
random predictions. Connor, do you have anything for your that
you forgot to.

Speaker 4 (22:20):
Do on Tuesday?

Speaker 13 (22:22):
I'll say Indiana's undefeated season will end tomorrow against Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
All right, close game or blowout that's actually gonna be close.
I think people don't give Indiana enough credit. All yeah,
Indiana I think is a thirteen and a half point
underdog for that game. I'm gonna go Ohio State covers,
so I'm gonna say it's not as close as you're
thinking it's going.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Do you think it's a one score game?

Speaker 9 (22:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I think so.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
I would say for Indiana fans and for college football
fans of the underdog, it needs to be a one
score game because if not, people are gonna say, you know, Indiana,
you have played the one of the weakest schedules in
American You got your ass kicked by So if you
love the underdog, you want this to be a really
close game. Forty to ten Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
I've never been to the Horseshoe. I've never been to Columbus.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
There are three major metropolitan cities I've never been to, Okay, Columbus, Buffalo,
and Jacksonville.

Speaker 7 (23:13):
I branda to Buffalo with the Astros played the Remember
they played the Vue Jays. There was there anybody in
the crowd or no? Yeah, it was at the minor
league stadium. There were a few thousands. That's kind of fun.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
All right.

Speaker 4 (23:24):
What do you think of Buffalo as a city?

Speaker 3 (23:25):
Do you like it?

Speaker 7 (23:27):
I was there in the summer, so yeah, I would
not want to be there in the winter. Went to
Niagara Falls, did you really? I mean, you're still an
adventure so I don't. I don't leave the hotel a
lot of times when I go out. That's true. But
my wife came with me, so we let the venture out.
I got you, I got you, all right. Name one
ofer city you've never been to that it would be
a big city. Jacksonville is probably the biggest. Yeah, been
a Sacramento.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
Driven through it. I'll go there and go next for baseball. Yeah,
by the way, what a joke baseball. I mean, they're
gonna play in this triple A stadium on artificial turf.
And by the way, those that don't know, Sacramento in
the summertime gets super super hot.

Speaker 7 (24:00):
I didn't realize, but it gets like one ten, it
is going to be grass. By the way, they are
going to be grassing there. Yeah, it is gonna be grassed.
So that'll hope.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
And then you got you're gonna be watching games at
the Yankee spring training facility in Tampa to watch Tampa
Bay Ray's.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
Regular games, right, and that that's like almost like a
big league state.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Have you ever been there?

Speaker 10 (24:15):
I have.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
It's it's almost like a small big league stadium.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
So I wonder if they stay there for more than
one year, will the Rays ask for more seats be
put in. I don't thin they can do. It's only
as he it's about eleven thousand.

Speaker 7 (24:26):
Yeah, the spring training they're gonna put you know, some
signage up there for the Rays to try to make
them feel at home.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
But I don't think they stay there more than one year.

Speaker 7 (24:32):
I know that there's still this whole thing with going
back to the Tropicana field in twenty six and now
is uh, you know, kind of iffy.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
So they got some issues to work through there.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Yeah, all right, so here we go seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. If you've got any
gut feelings that you did not get in on Tuesday,
so let's go. We'll we'll, we'll build a crescendo to
this gut feeling. Not prediction, but just to kind of
which first off the cuff, answer you Saekakuci is an
astro in twenty twenty five? Yes or no? Yes? Oh really? Okay,

(25:06):
I remember you do hold a little of water, so
you need to explain this or you don't have to,
but it would be nice maybe like one sentence.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
I just think he fit in really well here. I
think they could use a starting picture of his caliber,
a middle a you know, a middle tier starting pitcher
to put in the rotation because so many injuries at
the end. So yeah, I mean, I think I think
there's going to be a match there.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
Okay, Justin Verlander is an astro in twenty twenty five. No,
can he find a place of pitch in twenty twenty five. Oh,
I think you will. I mean, someone will give him
a chance. You know, he's not going to be making
thirty million a year anymore. But maybe he goes back
to Detroit.

Speaker 7 (25:43):
Doesn't that feel like that makes the most sense? Aj
Hinch back to where he started. The team's on the rise.
Put him in that young rotation makes a lot of sense.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
I'm not going to talk out of school here because
I don't think aj would mind. But of all the
pictures that Aj I have talked about over the years,
and it's been a couple years and we talked about this,
the hardest picture he'd ever take off the mountain was
it was Justin Verlain.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
Maybe Justin's changed a little bit.

Speaker 7 (26:04):
Yeah, he can be high maintenance if you're you think,
and I mean, yeah, he's gonna be forty two next year,
so I think he. I think he did change after
he missed you know, two years pretty much with the TJ.
But he's still Justin Verlin or he still wants the ball,
and he's still you still don't want to be around
him on game days when he walks into the clubhouse
with those headphones on, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, and again to imagine being a manager and not
being able to go up there comfortably and say it's
your time, when when you know the JV is giving
you the death stairs, you're walking towards the hill, all right,
So we got the little hanging for Okay, let me
do a few more of these, so I want to
we'll say the last for best for last. Luis Garcia,
when do you anticipate do you think what's your gut

(26:43):
feeling when he pitches for the first time.

Speaker 7 (26:47):
My gut feeling is it will be into the season
a little bit. I'm gonna say, may that's just that's
just a rank gut just don't think he'll be ready
for the start of the year. And that's an that's
that's a concern for them going into the offseason and
the offseason now is h He was a guy that
you penciled in to start the year, you thought, you know,

(27:08):
maybe six months ago. But I just think he the
rehab hasn't gone as smoothly as they hope. So I'm
going to say he's not gonna be ready for the
start of this year.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
Lance mccullors.

Speaker 7 (27:19):
Gut feeling, I musta say no, really, yeah, I mean
I think he's throwing again. I mean until until I
see him back out there pitching, it's hard.

Speaker 4 (27:27):
There's no need to make a prediction. There's no need
to make a prediction.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, Christian Ovire.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Uh, he'll be back in July, July or August, probably.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Okay, because I kind of felt like we said that
last year with Luis Garci and they just said, yeah,
we're good, Well we'll see you in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 7 (27:44):
Yeah, and he had that set back. I mean he
was pitching in minor league games and he had a setback,
and then he's not throwing, and then he's not throwing,
and that he doesn't come back at all. So I
mean you never know, but I yeah, I'm gonna say
how they'll be back in July August.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, the new third base coach have as fast a
meal as Gary Pettis used to have.

Speaker 7 (28:01):
Probably not, but he comes well respected. I mean he was,
he was with the d Backs for for a long time.
I know Joe Aspota loves him. I think he was
the guy he wanted to obviously over Pettus at this point.
So so we'll see. I mean, he's going to be
in charge of their base running and their base running
was not good last year. I mean, and this this

(28:21):
is not just getting guys thrown out at the plate
or whatever.

Speaker 4 (28:24):
I mean, that's all anyone cares about.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
If you watch this team on a daily basis, you
know they make a lot of outs on the basis. Yeah,
they got to clean that up a little bit, and
they felt they needed a new voice.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
The two signs that I thought this year's team, who
was starting to backtrack a little bit. Defense was not
nearly as statised it had been the previous fore years.
I don't think the base running was another thing. Who
gets the most starts at first base in twenty twenty five,
Oh that's a tough one.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
How about somebody who's not on the forty man roster
right now?

Speaker 9 (28:52):
So?

Speaker 7 (28:53):
Oh really, yeah, Carlos Santana perhaps, Okay, I think if
they go into and with single and Decenzo or whoever else.
Nothing against Singleton, he did a nice job. But they
have to upgrade. They have to upgrade what they get
at first base. I think they were twenty eighth out
of thirty teams in ops at first base, so they

(29:14):
can do better. And I think they're trying to do
better starting center fielder. I think it'll be Chas McCormick,
Jake Myers on the team. Yeah, I think, I think
out unless they get traded. But yeah, I think I
think the outfield Now they might add another outfielders to

(29:34):
put them in the I mean they traded for Taylor Trammell,
but I think the four main outfielders are going to
be the same guys.

Speaker 3 (29:40):
Okay, Jason Heyward on this squad? No, Okay, Connor. Is
there anything else I can ask before I get to
the last question that I absolutely must have to ask
our man.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
Brid Retackler.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
I think I think I've I think I've done everything
humanly possible to delay it. Yeah, I think you just
go ahead. Oh oh, who plays the most games at
the base for the asterisk twenty five? Well, feeling we're
not holding into it, feeling we're not we're not holding
into it.

Speaker 4 (30:13):
Not Alex Pragman. That's all I can say.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Say. I have it at zero percent. I don't think
there's any chance and it pains me. Yeah, I love him,
but I just I think he's thinking.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
About, you know what this this is.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
It's been a great run. I want to try something different.

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Yeah, I would put it a little higher than zero, because,
like I said, I think if the market comes down,
the Astros might be able to meet him, and it'll
take a deal bigger than Crane has ever gone before.
Six years obviously going to be more than one hundred
and fifty million. It's going to be two hundred million.
And maybe this is the guy that he decides you know,
things are going to be different. But yeah, I agree,
I would be very surprised.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
All right. So Ross and I have a late lunch bet.
Six years we go Dutch. Bragman gets a seven years
or higher, I have to buy him lunch. If he
gets five years or less, he buys me lunch. How
we spending our lunch money? Say that again? Seven in
the contract. Whenever contract he signs six years, we go Dutch.

(31:07):
Five years or less, he buys seven years or more,
I buy. I think you're buying.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
You think he's geting a seven year deal?

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Really, I do? You and Grome are on the same
page that, yeah, because he's the one We were kind
of josh about it because I think Ross is gonna
buy us.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
I think there's a market for him there. They're a
handful of big market teams in the third basement. That
and he's the top third basement excuse me, I mean
one of the top position players on the market.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
He picked a good time to be a free agent.

Speaker 3 (31:39):
All right, super gut feeling team that he plays for, Uh, Yankees.
I don't like to hear that, do I don't know
if Houston is ready to hear that. Yeah, that would
be a tough one. I mean, because we mentioned this before.
The teams we can't we can't live with him playing
for anybody the Mare League West, especially Texas in the Yankees.

Speaker 7 (32:04):
Yeah, I don't see him going to Seattle. I mean
that that's just a tough place to play. I mean,
he grew up a fan.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Of Derek Jeter.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
One of the reasons he wears number two. He's from
his family, you know, he's from the ec Are. He's
got ties up in that area. Uh, they're gonna throw
him a ton of money. Perhaps they have. They could
move Jash Chisholm the second base now that Torres is
out of the pitcher. It just makes a lot of sense.
And I mean we've seen former Astros from this era
go to New York. Cole and even Barwin Gonzalez but

(32:34):
this one would be different. This is the epitome of
the Houston Astros and the Golden Era and one of
the few guys that have won two World Series Championships
in pinstripes.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
That that would be a tough one way. And the
reality is if he does go there, I'll never want
to hear from another Yankee fan again about anything about
twenty seventeen.

Speaker 7 (32:52):
Yeah, that's fair. It should be off that, it should
be off the table. But you know that won't.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
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Speaker 14 (34:39):
Yeah, we're talking about the Giants on sixty six WFA
n mctagger you hear in the news Daniel Jones gut
released by the Giants.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
Unbelievable, just unbelievable, Unbelievable's get your calls in two one
two WFA in sports. It's got a Guido start out
on you on sixty six. That's terrible. It's just I'm
embarrassed for myself. It's fine, it's not bad. He wasn't great.
We're talking about quarterbacks that you spend a lot of
money on. Screw your franchise and there you go go. Yep.

(35:13):
So Daniel Jones earlier this week gets the downgrade from
first string to third string and then they show him
at practice I guess either yesterday or the day before,
like he wanted to be anywhere else but there, and
then they release him. Now he can go anywhere else
but there, any go anywhere else he wants to, and
no one's gonna want him. He's got the clear waivers.
The Giants are going to have to pay out that contract,

(35:34):
whatever's left in that deal, and then he's gonna probably,
I mean, he'll sign him in him deal somewhere. He's
been somewhere but got him mighty Yeah. That thing was
mishandled from the get go. I think with him right well,
he had like a handful of decent games a couple
of years ago, and they, in typical NFL fashion, they
just pay a lot of money overpay the spot. Yeah,

(35:56):
yeah for sure.

Speaker 7 (35:57):
Yeah, you have like a five week span and all
of a sudden and you get a five year extension.

Speaker 3 (36:01):
You know.

Speaker 4 (36:03):
They do that in the NBA though, too, don't.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Oh well, especially if you get named to an All
NBA team. Yeah, that's the thing that's crazy?

Speaker 4 (36:09):
Could you? And the NBA has got to fix this.

Speaker 3 (36:12):
If you make a first, second, or third team All NBA,
you get a Supermax deal which puts you in ungodly
amounts of money. The worst example, maybe that was John
wall a few years ago, gets this super Mega deal
after being like named thirteen All NBA. Rockets acquire him
and wind up having to eat forty million dollars a
year because of it.

Speaker 7 (36:29):
So who was the Rockets big man like twenty years ago,
who had like a good preseason. Then they get oh,
Kelvin Cato. Kelvin Cato. Yeah, Kelvin freaking Cato.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (36:38):
I was thinking stro Mile Swift, but no, no, it
was Kelvin Cato. He's LSU guys. So yeah, yeah, he
got like a big deal off preseason, right.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think Kelvin went to Iowa State. Okay,
he had a surly he signed that contract and went
from all smiles of being a surly sum bitch. It's
too bad. It is what it is.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
The big question of the morning on the FS one
and who's it fault for Daniel Jones failure. I got
an answer for you, Daniel Jones. That's the thing this people.
People don't want to blame the players in this society,
even even with like the Astros and how many times
did I hear or get emailed or social media the
coach a coach has to go. They need to fire
a hitting coach. Once you blame the players like they

(37:22):
know what to do, they're not. They didn't get it done.
It's on the plane and you can't fire the players.
I get that.

Speaker 7 (37:27):
But still when the team underperforms, the players deserve the
majority of the blame and people want to fire the
hitting coach. They have no idea what the hitting coaches
are doing. They don't even know their names. We had
one guy called during the season this year. We kind
of make fun of them.

Speaker 3 (37:41):
That call in wanting the Alex Cintron to be fired
as a pitching coach and was like, if you're gonna
fire something, if you're gonna come on a radio show
and fire somebody, you probably need to know who the
people are.

Speaker 7 (37:52):
Yeah, exactly. And those those guys put in long hours.
I don't know if they're good hitting coaches or not.
I mean they put in long hours. They seem to
know what they're talking about. At the end of the
day comes about. It comes down to the guys on
the field, the guys that have the bat, the guys
throwing the ball, whether they perform or not.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
That's yeah, that's just the way I think of Daniel
Jones twenty four forty four and one as the quarterback
of the New York Giants. It's not good boy in
New York sports. Jets are awful, Giants are terrible. Nicks
aren't bad. To be determined on the Yankees, I mean
they didn't go the World Series. Mets are good, Mets

(38:26):
are good. How about the Islanders there? You're asking, right,
I have no idea. You almost saw me for a second.
I almost thought it like, damn, mctager knows what about
the Island or hockey? I have no idea. You want
to give me a breakdown of ston A Seaton Hall
basketball this year.

Speaker 7 (38:40):
How's Rutgers football. Rutgers basketball's pretty good. That's they got
a couple of big time recruits.

Speaker 4 (38:46):
I think, oh what their names? You don't even know.

Speaker 7 (38:47):
They're in the top twenty five of those Okay, look
at you college basketball.

Speaker 3 (38:51):
I love college basketball. It is good. Yeah, it is
good for and we're lucky because for Tita Center is
amazing to watch a game.

Speaker 7 (38:56):
Amazing, and it's an amazing team and uh yeah, they're
fun to watch. I'm gonna go watch U of H
play next week in Vegas. They play Alabama. Wait a minute,
they play Alabama, who's ranked in the top ten. It's
gonna be a showdown.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Wait minute.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
You're gonna spend Thanksgiving in Las Vegas.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
I'll be back Wednesday. So you're going for how many games?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Just one?

Speaker 4 (39:16):
You're gonna go to mid week to Vegas for one game? Oh,
there's other things to do in Vegas?

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Right, and you're taking the family or just you No,
my wife's going with me.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
So you guys are gonna go mid week Vegas.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
We're gonna go to two games. We're gonna go to
Duke Kansas. Also, Oh, do not tell my wife about that.
She's a big Duke fan, right, Oh, huge.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
Duke Kansas and then Houston, Alabama after that.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
That's four top ten teams. Beat that.

Speaker 15 (39:39):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Yeah, I know you're not paying for the rooms. You're
using points and using miles too.

Speaker 7 (39:44):
I'm assuming. Yeah, okay, so it's it's working. I'll be
back for that, I'll be home for I'll be home
for the holidays.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Don't worry.

Speaker 4 (39:49):
By the way, have you ever I've never cooked a
turkey before in my life?

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Have you?

Speaker 16 (39:52):
No?

Speaker 3 (39:53):
Never have?

Speaker 7 (39:53):
I've always been to other people's places. Yeah, and I
probably always will. I've never Yeah, we don't. We don't
even cook Thanksgiving anymore. No, we just go out.

Speaker 4 (40:01):
Yeah, I always go to in laws or somebody else's house.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
But I mean, have we failed ourselves as human beings
and his grown ass men? We're both around the same age.
We've never cooked the turkey before.

Speaker 7 (40:12):
I don't think so, because when you gather at Thanksgiving,
it's like, you know, four or five families together and
someone's probably always going to be the cook.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
There's no reasons. But every single time, in all of
our years, we've always skipped out on cooking the turkey itself.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I probably never will cook
a turkey. Never smoked a brisket. I tried it once
and it was okay, and I decided it was way
too much work.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
I'll just buy brisket.

Speaker 15 (40:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
By the way, Yeah, if you're if you're a rookie
brisket smoker, the other people that want to help you
are going to be very no a allish. And I
don't want to have to. I don't want when I'm
cooking a piece of me and I don't want to
be a lecture.

Speaker 7 (40:48):
Right, There's nothing worse when your backyard grilling and like
someone's walking up behind you and starts saying, hey, what
you got there?

Speaker 3 (40:53):
I'm like, just leave me alone. Yeah, let me let
me smoke my own brisket. Right, Well, you gonna put
some more water in the area, and what kind of
charcole you got on?

Speaker 4 (41:00):
How you how are your bricks?

Speaker 7 (41:01):
Yeah, I'm just gonna hand you dispatch alone, like you
know what, I'll just go and just get it.

Speaker 3 (41:05):
To a local barbecue place and call today. I'm with you.
All right. That's one hour of the show, and we
got to mctager's gonna be with us for a couple
more hours, and then we got doctor Roto joining us
at one o'clock today, if you would like to join
us seven one, three, two two five semoday. So, so
gut feelings didn't hurt you. We we wrote them down.
Now if again, if you're right about any of these things,
we give you credit, and if you're wrong about all them,
we don't give you too much hassle.

Speaker 7 (41:24):
So can can I throw out a gut feeling you
never asked about? I think Auburn is gonna beat A
and M?

Speaker 3 (41:33):
How about that.

Speaker 4 (41:36):
Aggie fans?

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Brian McTaggart has just said, you're the Auburn Tigers are
going to beat the Aggies tomorrow. Is that gonna make
the make tomorrow our next? The following Saturday's game less sexy?

Speaker 7 (41:47):
What's the following Saturday? Oh the ut yeah? Oh wood yeah.
I was surprised to learn that U T and A
and M are the only one lost teams in the SEC.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
That's that's snuck up on me. I had no idea.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
So have you done a deep dive?

Speaker 7 (42:00):
And Auburn you're just hoping this happens, not hoping. I
just what's the spreads like two and a half. But
it's gonna be a tough place to play. Night games
of Jordan Harre are not easy. Yeah, I just think
it's gonna be tough. Believe you've been driven through Auburn,
Alabama before. I never had this between Birmingham and Atlanta.
And if seriously, if you blink your eyes, you missed
that small town. It's that small. I've driven through Tuscaloosa.

(42:20):
I've been there myself. Yeah, never been to the stadium,
but no, I have not been to Auburn.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
By the way, I just got an email. Brian mctagger
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Speaker 7 (42:30):
You saw me, I know a few minutes ago looking
at the proof is happening in real time? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3 (42:38):
The headline is this prospect could make an impact in
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Speaker 1 (44:47):
Lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show eleven.

Speaker 3 (44:52):
Four on Sports Talk seven ninety. The Browns beat the
Steelers yesterday. Pittsburgh's five game winning streak is Gonzo the
Snow Game.

Speaker 4 (45:02):
And you know, there's a part of me that thinks
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Intentionally puts as many games on in cold weather venues
at night as possible.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
Case in point. You know, next Thursday is the Thanksgiving
Day games.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
You know, Detroit and Dallas always play, and then they
always find a third game to play at night, the
Thursday night and night game. I think, well, I know
it's in Green Bay. I gotta look and see who
they're playing. But it's a night game at lambeau Field
in late November. What are the chances that weather's going
to be about I don't know. Fifteen degrees with snow

(45:37):
flurries really good? We we as sports fans, it's the mind.
Oh it's even better. It's the Dolphins going on Green Bay's.
That's like a four touchdown game. I think we as
sports fans like weather issues. I think so for football, Yeah,
I think so, as long as it's not like we
would never mind watching a game in Miami in a

(46:00):
l use big rainstorm, as long as it's not lightning
that you know, could potentially hurt people. But you want
a good old fashioned quagmire, I mean, orse like last night,
you got me for more of that game. As soon
as it started snowing that I ever would have ever watched.
The game was like forty three degrees in clear skys. Well,
like I said, I wouldn't even put it on Amazon Prime.
Had not seen that picture of the snow. But I

(46:20):
saw a picture on X yesterday.

Speaker 7 (46:23):
It was just a simple picture of Kenny Stabler and
George Blanda walking onto the field in the Oakland Coliseum,
I think, but the early seventies, right, and they were
walking through a mud pit just to get to the field.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
I miss that.

Speaker 7 (46:36):
I missed when the fields were muddy and it's, like
you said, a slog fest. You just don't see that
in all the fields are so well manicured or it's tough.
I missed those games where it's just the you can't
even see the numbers because the guys are covered in mud.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
That's the football that I like. That's Brian mctacker, by
the way, MLB dot Com on the Astros beat with
US today, filling in for Ross. So I believe it
is in Portugal today. I hoping that things are going
well for him. Seven one and three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven audience and anything goes Friday today, which means you
get to call about anything you want to. Obviously, Brian's
Forte is covering the Astros and MLB for Astros dot

(47:12):
Com at MLB dot com, but he is well versed
in all the different sports, as we have talked a
little bit about the game last night from the Browns
and the Steelers. By the way, Jameis Winston did not
get caught with the snow crab leggs.

Speaker 4 (47:25):
At the wind Dicksie. It was a Publix Publics and five.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I was being admonished by a member of our air
staff or that said I misnamed the grocery store.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
You got a stride for accuracy, right.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
I mean it'd be like saying that I McDonald's and
Burger King. I mean the general just was that I
got you know, he was stealing snow crack, right right.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
That wasn't the subject of the Uh yeah, the topic.
You ever stole anything on a grocery store?

Speaker 7 (47:51):
Uh No, But I can tell you when I was
a kid, and I guess the statue of limitations is
probably over since it's been forty five years, but we
would go to seven eleven. We would get a big
gulp cup. We'd fill it up with our whatever drink
we want. We'd leave probably a third on the top,
and we'd go down the candy aisle, get a couple

(48:11):
of candy bars and slip those bad boys in there.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Pay for the big gulp. Wait a minute, wrapped or
unwrapped on the candy bars. Oh, still wrapped. So you'd go,
you go, get big gulped. You'd filled up three quarters
of the way, right, Jam candy bars in there, a couple,
so you'd have a sugary soda followed by sugary ice cream,
I mean candy bars.

Speaker 7 (48:35):
Yeah, like any twelve year old, and maybe buy a
pack of baseball cards.

Speaker 3 (48:38):
And you never got caught.

Speaker 7 (48:39):
No, I only did it like two or three times
because I was really worried about if I did get caught,
what would happen, which would would not have been good.

Speaker 3 (48:46):
But you know, I told a story about maybe ten
years ago, and people that listened to the show knowed
me for this is that one time I was at
a grocery store rhymes with bTB, and.

Speaker 4 (48:59):
I spent like two dollars. I was in the grocery
for like an hour, and I was thirsty.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
So I went and got one of those drinks that
are by the register, and I drank it all before
I was able, before I was done grocery, because we were
there for a long period of time and I forgot
to puye it, I forgot to pay for it, I mean,
and make it like a forty minie. What an outlaw
you are. And I had people to this day to
give me crap about like you thief, you should have
been arrested. I was like, you guys are so holier

(49:23):
than dal And I've, unfortunately, to my maybe my detriment,
I've tried to justify by saying I spent two hundred
and twenty five dollars at rachrie Re.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
The least I can do is offer me a nice
cold beverage as part of an appreciation.

Speaker 7 (49:37):
Yeah, and I guarantee you nobody noticed it was gone.
Nobody don't. They don't care, didn't.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
It was just almost an It's almost like invite yourself
to have a cold beverage. Yeah, you're paying nine dollars
for a quarter of ice cream, have a cocktail.

Speaker 7 (49:50):
How many times have you gone the grocery store and
you came home and something wasn't in the bag. So
this is just like trying to playing field.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Like if you bought a gallon of milk and it
was spoiled, right, you don't go back. Yeah, you take
it as an l You're just getting what's yours. You
know what, Folks, It took Brian mctagger coming in here
late twenty twenty four to me feel justified about grabbing
that one cold beverage. It was like it was like
a forty nine cent generic soda from the grocery store.
It wasn't like it was a coke or a sprite

(50:18):
or a mountain dew or a pepsi.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
It was generic. Thank you. I know it's a good
reason why I brought you in here today. It was
for that.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
I do want to add about this big up story.
Seven eleven used to have these baseball coins at the
bottom of cups. Yes slurpy, and if you the bottom
on the outside, you peeled off the thing and there
was a coin in there, like a little hologram. Yeah,
CAYL Ripkin, Dave Winfield or whatever. So I did try.
I was getting braver, So I did try. One time.
I put two of those cups together and sat it

(50:48):
on the counter hoping to get two coins, and the
guy wasn't having it. He's like one cup, one cup,
So I had to only go Now, were you by
yourself or do you have some other cronies with you? No,
we had we had a crew. We had a crew
that the big gulp crew that did that.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
So something guess young twelve year old Brian mctagger does this,
he gets his two free candy bars out of it.
Actually not free. You stole them and you get out
of there. Do you eat them as fast as possible
hoping not to get caught? Or are you like, man,
we got that sucker again. No, they're gone by the
time I walk home. Yeah, I'm probably barefooted just walking
the streets of Pasadena eating this.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
Yeah, I forgot you're from Passing.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Get down, Diana. That would kind of mean. I'm surprised
you even had a bike at that point. I'm just kidding, Passing.
I love you all, good people, great people. See you
had no shoes on going to seven eleven to steal
a couple of fire east a couple of times. Okay,
I'm gonna put at least you have to use your

(51:42):
second hand because for the number of times you did it.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
Uh no, I think it'd be less than five. Yeah, okay, good.
I just didn't feel right, you know. I just had
to do it for the thrill of it, and then
after I'm like, it doesn't feel right.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
All right.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
I never stole anything as a kid. I don't remember
doing that.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Yeah. Now, I did send my mom's quarter when she
used to sell big lighters and she deposit the quarters
into a brown paper bag and I could play video
games with them. And then she caught me one time
and that was a terrible situation. But that's bringing up
terrible childhood memories.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (52:12):
So now are guilty conscious and we okay down and
we've we're not cog anymore.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
This is like it's and it goes. Friday's what it is.
Anything is going, that's right.

Speaker 3 (52:22):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Texans getting
on the practice field today, A light practice today that
we take it on the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. Daniel Jones,
the Big NFL headline of the Day has been released
by the New York Giants. Last night's game between the
Steelers and the Browns give me more of that and

(52:42):
college football.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
This weekend, we got Baylor Houston.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
You know, the Cougars have not beaten Baylor since nineteen
ninety three in Houston. Now, they won last year in Waco,
but they had have not won since the two teams
played in the Asterronyom. Now, granted they've been in different
conferences for a long period of time, but twenty one years. No,
it's thirty one years since they've beaten the Bears in Houston, Texas.

Speaker 9 (53:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
I mean, well, Baylor, I think some only hasn't been
here since ninety five. So yeah, so it's not a
very many opportunities here. Yeah, but yeah, U of AH
can still go to a bowl game. Beat Baylor, beat
BYU six and six. I never would have seen that coming, right, Well,
I I don't think b YU is gonna lose a
game again. And now granted the didn't think they were
goun lose a game period, but Kansas beat him last weekend.

(53:26):
I'm going to provo with the team next week, so
I'll be looking forward to seeing that. But I mean,
it would be quite a victory.

Speaker 7 (53:31):
It would if you would have told me before the
year you of h would beat Kansas State, Utah and
TCU and almost beat Oklahoma. I wouldn't I thought I
would not have believed that. Now those teams didn't know
turn Yeah, as good as.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
We thought, but right and then you had Then you
have two games they were shut out, two other games
where they'd scored one time. So it's just been a
been a weird season. I have no idea what to
expect the bar against Baylor. So now you've got a
daughter that went to Baylor. I have two had two
that went to Baylor, one that went to ut Now
was your daughter your daughter's Are they gonna be like,
well one of them is going one of them is?
Are they over the top Bailer fan or just hey,

(54:05):
dad's going to the game. I'm gonna spend time with
my pop. Probably somewhere in between.

Speaker 7 (54:09):
They they follow they she went up there to a
couple of games in Waco, so she's not at like
a over the top but she's she's a fan and
she'll she'll wear the gear and yell at me and
that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
So will you be amongst you of eight people tomorrow
or batter people or a mix? A mix? Yeah, it'll
be a mix Okay. By the way, we've got the
Fantasy five today coming up at twelve thirty, where we're
gonna create the ultimate tailgate menu. Do you need a
pad of paper or something? You want something to write with?
You didn't bring anything. I didn't bring anything. I got
my phone.

Speaker 7 (54:37):
I've got some ideas on here, some killer ideas right here.
It's not going to be that difficult. I'm psyched that on.
Now here's the issue. We're gonna get one a little
bit of advice real quick. Connor, do you want is
you're one of our judges on this Fantasy five, do
you want a traditional tailgate?

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Or do you.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Want like, oh my god, this is the greatest tailgate ever? Like,
what will help you decide who wins the Fantasy five
base off of tailgate items?

Speaker 13 (55:04):
I think it's gotta be something like you can reasonably
expect at a tailgate. I don't know if you can
go like five starred menu items.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Because I'll tell you this, the best till gate ever
been to my entire life, was for a Miami versus
Florida game at the Orange Bowl. This's going back probably
twenty five years. They were serving lobster tail Wow. They
don't do that in the third ward. No, I don't
think they're in anybody's ward. Eleven fourteen, Sports Talk seven
Nattie seven one three two one two five seven Nattie

(55:35):
seven one three two one two five seven to eighty
Shut your Ball mass up.

Speaker 4 (55:38):
Special Friday edition coming up at the bottom of the hour.

Speaker 1 (55:42):
More Matt Thomas.

Speaker 10 (55:44):
Now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Is uh really nice that mctagger come in and hang
out with us Today? We got Doctor Rhodo at one
o'clock for fantasy football. We got non Flora stories at
one thirty, believe it or not, today one fifty, the
news at noon. Connor's gonna handle that today with the headlines,
quite a few headlines coming in mentioned Daniel Jones is out.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
By the way, the NFL.

Speaker 3 (56:08):
How about this, If there's any doubt in anyone's mind
that the NFL is controlled by its television networks, they
are flexing a Sunday.

Speaker 4 (56:19):
Game to Thursday.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (56:22):
First time it has ever happened in NFL history. Now, grant,
there hasn't been a lot of flexing to begin with,
except for when the NBC got its games and years
ago they would flex some games from Sunday afternoon to
Sunday night and vice versa.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
The Browns.

Speaker 3 (56:34):
Excuse me, the Broncos Chargers game in Week sixteen goes
from a Sunday December twenty second to Thursday, December nineteenth.

Speaker 7 (56:45):
What about the sports writers who've already made their travel.
Oh my god, that's why. First no one cares. Now
they have to change there's change fees involved. It gets
so dicey, is that right?

Speaker 4 (56:54):
Really? You think you think the NFL is going to
all fly the charters.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Okay, so maybe I should. I'm gonna go ahead and
say that since these then these fancy reporters are not
paying for these these flights that you do not have.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
To worry about. Oh, okay, you're probably right.

Speaker 3 (57:10):
And Frank, you're probably getting another day of a higher
rate because midweek hotel ryans are more expensive.

Speaker 7 (57:14):
That's true, you get more points. Remember when we were
growing up, like Monday night football was the thing. It
was the only game played outside Sunday.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
And it was like once in a while they have
a Thursday night game once on a boon and that
was a big deal.

Speaker 7 (57:28):
Right, But now there's football out every night of the week.
I'm not so sure.

Speaker 3 (57:31):
I like that.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Oh, I won't care with it now.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
I won't watch the goofy ass Mac games on Tuesday Wednesday,
like Ball State plays Eastern Michigan. I don't care. Yeah,
but if there were two Mac games on this yeah,
well that's if you're the Mac you have to do
it because that's the only way you're gonna get on television.
But I don't mind. The Thursday games. Generally speaking, suck,
but they've been better this year. I don't know it's
because the matchups are better or just the teams are

(57:54):
more prepared for, but they've been better.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
You got a Black.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Friday game coming up next week with the Raiders and
the Chiefs. We had a Friday game in Brazil this year.
The International Games, we do a segment gut feelings. One
of my gut feelings many weeks ago is that at
some point in the NFL's future, I don't win, that's
gonna be everybody's gonna play overseas once a week. I
think the NFL is running out of ways to make
money here. And if they put eighteen games the season overseas,

(58:20):
where everybody has to go over at least once, that's
eighteen more buildings that are full of stadiums that don't
typically have NFL stadiums, and more money and more national
television dollars. I think you're gonna do it.

Speaker 4 (58:30):
Yeah, I could see it.

Speaker 7 (58:30):
I also think that within the next five years, I
will go to Spring Training and I will watch the
Super Bowl in West Palm Beach, Florida. I think the
Spring Training and the Super Bowl or overlap at some point.
They're really close now, but I think it's like a
week away from each other. I think it'll overlap at
some point.

Speaker 6 (58:47):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
I think we're getting We're we're gonna get in eighteen weeks,
get season. We're going everybody's gon get two by weeks,
and they're gonna stretch as bad bar as much as
they can, and they're gonna get you know, you'll be
able to get another TV contract out of it. You know,
something else is gonna either add some more games of
their schedule or get another TV provider. The Netflix interest
situation will be interesting because they are going to do
those Christmas Day games, But at this point, we don't

(59:09):
know they're gonna be able to handle it, because they
couldn't handle the Jake Paul, Mike Tyson fact this past weekend.

Speaker 7 (59:14):
Yeah, it has to be something I'm really interested in
sports wise, if it's gonna stream for me to go
to the lengths to turn on like like the Amazon
Prime last night because of the snow. But I don't
anticipate me on Christmas Day turning on Netflix to watch
whatever game.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
Well, the NBA doesn't like that because they're gonna have
a bunch of games on Amazon Prime and Peacock next year,
so they're not really overly Heckart excited by hearing what
you just had to say. Let's go to talk to
some people. Let's say hello to Ryan and Montgomery. At
eleven twenty two on Sports Talk seven Hoey, Brian mctaggered
in for Ross today.

Speaker 4 (59:42):
Hi Bryan, Ryan, Hey, how't doing good?

Speaker 3 (59:46):
Good?

Speaker 4 (59:47):
Awesome?

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Hey?

Speaker 17 (59:48):
I just want I wanted to pick Tag's brain on
one thing and then I'll tell you a story make
it feel better.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Mad about the coke U?

Speaker 17 (59:55):
I uh, do you think Alex Bregman would be the
type of player to take a more team friendly deal
to stay possibly take a less less years or less
money to stay with the Ashos or I think he's
all in on a massive contract and also mad. Back
in college, we used to go in two people into
a gas station and one would distract the guy behind
the counter trying to pick obscure cigarettes and we'd take

(01:00:18):
two thirty racks of Natty at a time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:19):
So don't worry, a coke is not a best Thank
you very much, Ryan, I appreciate him. My back makes
what i'd look saying like, baby. Yeah, I was going
to say, Ryan, you should be in prison for what
you just did. But thank you anyway for the phone
step up my game. No, I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:00:31):
I don't think he'll take a team friendly deal, and
I mean this is the only time he's probably going
to be a free agent, and he's going to try
to cash in, which he should. He's earned the right
to be at this spot. He's going to be what
thirty one thirty two next year on opening days, so
he's going to try to get every penny of his
market value, and I think he should. I mean, al

(01:00:51):
Tuvey was a different situation he last year when he
signed that extension, he probably could have gotten more in
the open market. He was older, third extension with the Astros.
He's more entrenched with the Astros than any other player.
So that was kind of a different deal. He told
Scott Bors, he wants to remain in Houston. That's not
the deal with Alex. He he wants to get what
the market value is, and he should.

Speaker 3 (01:01:15):
When Bregman had those arbitration years bought up, were those
at value for the Astro or did he get be
Obviously he would have got. He got beyond what he
was going to get paid arbitration wise. But was that
still a good deal for the Astros? It felt like
it was right? Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:01:27):
What was it, five year, one hundred million extension? I
think in nineteen So yeah, I mean I think it
turned out to be a probably a good deal for
both sides.

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Yeah, I would say so. Even though he is testing
free agency for the very first time at his age,
he could have done it a little bit sooner if
he had not had those arbitration years bought out.

Speaker 7 (01:01:42):
Right, That's why he's a free agent at thirty one,
thirty two, not twenty six or seven.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
Like Tucker, I think we have to do something as
sports media then we have to stop talking about this
quote unquote hometown discount. Because of every one hundred athletes
that are up for contracts, two of them take the
hometown discount.

Speaker 15 (01:02:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:02:02):
Roger Clemons twenty years ago, he's what thirty eight years old,
made gobs of money.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Bigio took a hometown discount, Bizio, Yeah, I'll two eight.

Speaker 7 (01:02:11):
There are rare situations, but it's not a guy in
the prime of his career who's the first time free
agent typically who's one of the top free agents on
the market, right and he's gonna have four or five teams,
big market teams coming after from those guys aren't aren't
taking team friendly deals, nor should they.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
But I mean we just when everyone Springer wasn't taking
a hometown discount, like he wanted to do the opposite.
He wanted to screw the hometown. He was like, you
would've don't untill twenty five to become a major league
baseball for you're not getting you're getting zero discount.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
And then some Yeah for SUREVN.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Garrett Cole, who wanted to be a Yankee in the
worst way.

Speaker 4 (01:02:45):
Didn't take a discount.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
No, No, nobody's taking discounts anymore.

Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
Yeah, he's signing Yankee forever.

Speaker 7 (01:02:51):
It's not doesn't mean he's gonna work for free, means
you're gonna pay him what he's worth him.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
He'll be a Yankee forever. We got a minute left
in this segment. You're dealings with Scott Boris much beyond
press conference, a casual gathering here or there. I mean,
have you what kind of dealings have you had with him?
And what are your initial impressions? Not initial, what are
your impressions of him? Yeah, I mean he's Yeah. You
see him at the winter meetings, the GM meetings, he'll

(01:03:14):
hold a scrum. It's impossible to get, you know, one
on one FaceTime with him. Now, when you when the
Astros went to Anaheim and San Diego this year, especially
in Anaheim, he's always there. It is sweet.

Speaker 7 (01:03:25):
Which is right at the on deck circle, You'll see
players go over and talk to him all the time.
If you go up to talk to him, he's very affable.
He knows who you are. So he called you by name.
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean if I've talked to him
before one on one and he'll call you, I mean,
I've had pleasant dealings with him, you know is yeah,
I really can't say anything now when when it comes

(01:03:46):
down to time, when one of these players signed, he
is he gonna help me with a story. I'm not
so sure. I mean, I remember when marka Pell signed
with the rumors he was signing. I went to the airport,
channeled my inner berman went to the airport. Scott Boris
came in and I was like, Hey, I want to
talk to you about a PEL. He's like, well, maybe
that's not why I'm here, and he started laughing. I

(01:04:07):
was like, well, why else would you be in Houston
at this point? And we went back and forth and
he ended up giving an interview about a PEL. So
he's pleasant to deal with.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
And just one of the most powerful people in the
history of sports.

Speaker 7 (01:04:19):
Yeah, unbelievable, just the amount of agent, amount of players
he has, and the the uh the level of the
players and the money they commanded. It's just it's it's
really fascinating. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
When we found out last week that Hunter Brown Simon Boris, Yeah,
the first words out of my mouth were, uh oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:04:39):
I mean, you know, he's always going to try to
get the most money out of his out of his clients,
that's for sure. But I can see why players go
to him because guess what, he gets the most money
for his clients. Uh, for the most part. I mean
and look look at the Al Twoveay situation. He's he's
a Boris guy. Altuve wanted to stay in Houston. He
was able to get that deal done. So it's not
always like he goes to Boris and bad things are

(01:05:02):
gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:05:03):
It's and it's crazy because he's got so many clients
you would think, well, he's not gonna take care of me.
He has so many lieutenants under him. M hm, oh yeah,
that every one of those guys have never said I now.
Some guys have fired him. Jordan Montgomery fired him. This
pass off here because Boris had a bad offseason last year.
He had all of his guys wait for the very
last second and it didn't work out for any of them.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
So I think probably Scott learned a little bit from that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:26):
I thought, that's why I think you were gonna hear
from Bregman here pretty soon, and Juan Soto and then
like other of his other players.

Speaker 8 (01:05:32):
But.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Most of them seem to just he's getting new clients
every year because he he walks into the room and says,
I got this for this player, I got this, I'm
gonna take care of you, and he always figures out
a way to do it.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Yeah, look at his track record. I'm sure when he
bucks in there he sells these guys really hard.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
You ride.

Speaker 7 (01:05:51):
He has an amazing team of people. Everything's probably covered.
There's nothing the players have to worry about. And it
would be hard as a star player to hear that
pitch from Scott and that say Okay, I'm gonna sign
all right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:03):
Another Brian McTaggart staple is coming up next. He wants
to tell he's giving me a list of stuff. This
might be I meant to say it were the next segment.
You guts people who want to shut their bumb asses up?
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Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
Here let again, he let.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Again, Here, let again, Tamaday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Here let again.

Speaker 3 (01:07:09):
Today, gear let again, hear let again? Here, let me again,
hear let again, Tampaday.

Speaker 10 (01:07:16):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
We don't do this on Friday's ever, except when we
have special guests. And Brian McTaggart and said, hey, you've
got to do all your bits. So we did that.
We did the gut Feelings at eleven thirty or ten thirty.
We have the Fantasy five at twelve thirty. Best tailgate.
So I'll create a menu. You'll create a menu, and
then the audience will decide I love the bits. The
bits are good. It's fine. It helps, it helps past time.

(01:07:38):
We're not We're a super juicy news market. Here, by
the way, some more interesting NBA and sports news. Uh,
did you see that they're thinking about using the challenge
system for spring training games next year major League Baseball
for strength calls. I did, they're gonna They're gonna say
they're gonna sample size that next year. I like that.
And when the NBA expands, they're gonna expanded thirty two teams.

(01:08:01):
They're going to go maybe perhaps to a one.

Speaker 4 (01:08:03):
To sixteen format.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
You go and play in the playoffs regardless of what conference.
So if you're if LI said the Western team conference
has thirteen playoff teams and the East has.

Speaker 4 (01:08:11):
Three, so be it. You'll see that.

Speaker 3 (01:08:14):
You'll see one through sixteen two to play fifteen.

Speaker 4 (01:08:16):
Regardless of where you are.

Speaker 3 (01:08:17):
Interesting, So you could be playing like the Warriors in
round one and you could play the Bucks in round two.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
I'm a traditionalist. I like East versus West. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
I want Seattle to get a franchise and want Las
Vegas good a France. Those like the two teams. Those
would be the two leaders in the clubhouse. Yeah, Kansas
City would be possibility, to maybe Mexico City, but I
think it's going to be Seattle in Vegas.

Speaker 7 (01:08:40):
It's amazing when I go to Seattle and you walk around.
You see supersonic stuff everywhere you look in the stores,
and they sell supersonic stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
People love the SuperSonics.

Speaker 3 (01:08:49):
Yeah, and they should be That should be the name
of the team when that when they get no doubt.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're mad about somebody
or something or something's got too irritated and you want
to tell that person and to do something, Connor tell them.

Speaker 15 (01:09:02):
What to do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
Shit to bum ass up man seven.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
One three five seven, honey. Also, let's say somebody's at
the office and you guys are having a bad month
of the office, right, sales are down, and then some
of this one guy comes around and says, well, I
sold a forty dollars ad anybody got time for that?

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
We're down, We're down a.

Speaker 3 (01:09:21):
Million five and you're telling your selling a forty dollars widget,
you may have got time for that. So he can
also shut your bum mass up on that too.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Go out and send her sell some things. Stop bragging.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Let me try shut your bum ass up. Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
Shit to bum ass up? Man, Connor?

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
That was weak.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Did you hear that?

Speaker 3 (01:09:37):
He's laughing. He liked it. He's laughing because it was
so bad, gotta get fiery. Well when I that was,
that was like my practice. Let me see if I
can let me, let me say, I can give you
an example.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
What has made me mad?

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Todam Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:09:50):
How about that traffic that was?

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Well, that's that's old material for me trying to think whatever.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
I'll a, I don't want it to be. I want
to be organic.

Speaker 3 (01:10:02):
I want to be something that really ritrat So without
any further ado, what's the matter with you? Brian?

Speaker 7 (01:10:06):
Okay, it is this this time of year, it's almost Thanksgiving.
I said earlier. I'm a traditionalist, so you know where
I'm going with this. Okay, No Christmas music until after Thanksgiving,
no lights until after Thanksgiving. We need to enjoy Thanksgiving. Hey,

(01:10:27):
nobody got time for Christmas music and Christmas lights?

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
WHOA?

Speaker 4 (01:10:32):
You must not be listening to Sunday nine.

Speaker 7 (01:10:34):
And nine point We can't do it if it comes on,
I turn, I can't do it now. Next Friday, I'm all,
I'm gonna be sunny all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
So you're telling me you will not listen to anything
Christmas related until after Thanksgiving? That is true.

Speaker 4 (01:10:47):
I got a stronger take than that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
I will not listen to Christmas music until the week
of Christmas. Wow, yeah you heard me. Oh, I got
one for you. I like Christmas music. I don't so
I am very heterosexual. Okay, car are you okay? I
have to preface this sometimes I'm just so don't. I

(01:11:10):
don't know where this is gonna go. Well, I am
ridiculously heterosexual, but there are some metrosexual performers that I
really like.

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
I'm a huge share fan. So Share was on Howard.

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
Stern yesterday and I was listening to it last night
while I was working on my U of h pregame
stuff for this weekend, and my wife rolled her eyes
and said, you like share. So to my wife, shuit
jo bumass up woman.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Shit, So bum ass up man.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
There is nothing wrong with a ridiculously heterosexual man like
me like it to share.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
And if you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:50):
Think if you think it's a problem with that, then
shut jo bummans up man, shit, Jo bum mass up man.
Share is fine. Love Share Share back in the seventies,
Hot Share now old. Still a megastar. Okay, we fly
a lot, right, we do. You're on the fancy charter.
It is true. I'm in row twenty one f okay.

(01:12:12):
First of all, I always look at you on the
elite status line. You're doing okay? I know you text
me like you might get upgrade at this. That's so
weird of me to do that.

Speaker 7 (01:12:21):
I'm this happens ninety nine percent of the time I'm
waiting for a flight when they come on and they
try to tell you you have no chance for overhead
if you get on late, and that they say the
flight is completely full as opposed to just full. You
can be full or not full. There is no completely full.

(01:12:42):
There's a there's no difference. A flight is full means
there's nowhere to go. There's no completely full. Really, yeah,
such a bum ass up every airline, but particularly airline.
It really schmied. Yes, it drives me nuts. So it's
not just full, it's completely full, so we get sitting
on the wing. No, it's just full fullest fine, it

(01:13:02):
doesn't need a qualifier.

Speaker 4 (01:13:03):
I'll give you an airplane story.

Speaker 3 (01:13:05):
Mind. I flew Dark Breast Airlines this past weekend to
Chicago because I was not feeling well and so I
didn't join the team until late. But I got there
Saturday night and I decided to buy the upgraded boarding
A one to eight fifteen on Dark Breast somethink I'm
gonna be one of the first fifteen people on the plane.
I paid to get on the plane earlier, did pay
for a better seat, but just paid to get on earlier. No,

(01:13:28):
Dark Breast Airlines says, first of all, people with kids
that can bring somebody with them, people who need special assistance.
Then they were talking about first responders, which I'm okay with.
Military people I'm okay with. They went through like forty
different categories of people they could go on the plane
before I could. People that enjoyed a good musical that

(01:13:51):
got got on the plane before I did. People who
voted in the election got on before the plane that
I did. People who like sealery and ranches and appetizer
got on the plane before I did. And then by
the way, okay, a one to a fifteen you now
get to get in. So by the time I got
to my eight to one fifteen seat, there were't fifty
a people on the plane. Ain't nobody got time. Dark
priced Airlines for charging me forty dollars of getting the
A one to fifteen barning groove, and I got on

(01:14:13):
like the seventieth person on the plane. Ain't nobody got
taped for Dad? I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
You shouldn't like it. No, I agree with the other guy.

Speaker 7 (01:14:21):
Was gonna say, another airline I fly is the same
way I do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:25):
Have one more.

Speaker 7 (01:14:26):
Take your time. This time of year, the weather changes.
In the summer, you know what the weather's gonna be, like,
everything hot, So this time of year, it's up and down.
So I watched the weather in the mornings to see
what's going on. What's what's gonna happen. Every time I
watch the weather, they try to tell me how to dress.
They're like, it's gonna be forty in the morning, seventy

(01:14:47):
at night. So when you go out in the morning,
take a sweater and then you're gonna have to peel
it off and then you'll be able to walk around
in short sleeves. Or they say it's raining, take an umbrella.
Make sure you make sure you have a raincoat you
go to the beach. Oh, make sure you take your son's.
Just tell me the temperature and I will decide how

(01:15:07):
appropriately to react. I'll decide what to wear, when to
wear it, and I will tell you if I want
an umbrella or not.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Hey, nobody got time for that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
Hey nobody got it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
So you're saying you have no time for weather person
small talk telling me what to wear.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
I'll decide. I got one more for you.

Speaker 7 (01:15:26):
If I'm to go outside at forty degrees and wear
short sleeves, let me do that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
Yeah, okay, so don't shame it. Don't be judge you mcjudge.
I get you. I got one more for I go
to the phones. What was I thinking? Oh no, I
forgot what it was.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
Dang it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:42):
Okay, I'll think about it.

Speaker 3 (01:15:42):
You want me to go?

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:15:43):
Go?

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
What you got? What's wrong with you? I was at
a U of H event last night? What yeah? It was?

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
It was?

Speaker 4 (01:15:49):
It was an open bar at this rooftop spot.

Speaker 3 (01:15:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:15:51):
I was getting a drink for me and my date. So,
like I said, it's open bar, it's busy. It's only
two people working at the bar. I'm being patient, waiting
my turn, moving up as base becomes available. I finally
get to the front and begins talking to the bartender.
But then I was really interrupted by two women behind me,
tugging on my suit jacket and saying, why are you here?
Who are you? I don't know why I was so offended.

(01:16:13):
But I'm getting agitated just thinking about it again. So women,
who are you? Shut your bum ass up? Why do
you think you're more important than me? Let me get
my drink and wait, yo, turn, shut.

Speaker 2 (01:16:22):
So bum ass up?

Speaker 18 (01:16:23):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
So they were not small talking to you. They were
like shaming you for being there.

Speaker 13 (01:16:26):
Yeah, they were like talking to my suit jacket, like
why are you here? Like move out the way. I'm like,
I was just here waiting in line for fifteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:16:32):
Why are you at an event with valley girls?

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
The U of H sorority?

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
So you're dating young girls on, aren't you?

Speaker 19 (01:16:40):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
I'm twenty three, Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
I guess you twenty three. I was about to say,
why why didn't we get invited this uh event? But
that's because the rules half plus seven? You know that rule? No,
you cannot be talking to any girl half your age
plus seven.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Okay, so just think about that when you talk.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Seven one three two one two five seven natty, you
want to tell somebody to shut their ball mass up,
let's go seven one three two one two.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
And I'm about it because I had something I was
think about.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
I should have written it down seven one three two
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seven ninety more.

Speaker 10 (01:17:21):
Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
Eleven forty eight Sports Talk seven ninety bonus edition to
shut your ball Mass up.

Speaker 13 (01:17:37):
This.

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
This is how much I like you, how long we've
been friends for this long period time that we don't
normally do a second one in one week, but because
you're here, it was kind of a special occasion.

Speaker 4 (01:17:44):
It was strong. When are we going to see the
ratings off this show?

Speaker 8 (01:17:47):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
I don't think you want it's gonna be hot.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
No, yeah, I guarantee you it's gonna be like Mass ratings.
Nobody knows what that means. Uh, Connor, what does that
mean when he says Mash because it wasn't the season
the series finale, masch like the highest viewed.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
Oh my god, there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
You know what, Matt, I'm telling myself, shut myself up.
You knew that. I'm so happy that you knew that.

Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
Popular take.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
I didn't find Mash funny at all.

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
Uh yeah, it was fine. I mean, I've probably seen
a handful of episodes.

Speaker 3 (01:18:21):
Been most overrated comedy of all time? Mash Period, I
said it don't at me. I can see it. What's
your most overrated comedy of all time? Which showed I
think is so hilarious, Like I don't get it? Uh boy,
I think about that arrested development for me. I watched
one episode. I I didn't get it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:40):
I never saw it. It seems like something I wouldn't get.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Greatest TV show of all time, Cribby Enthusiasm, Period Into Story,
Funny Sopranos, Oh comedy comedy.

Speaker 7 (01:18:52):
King of Queens? What so funny? Seriously, that is the
funniest sitcom ever? King of Queens?

Speaker 4 (01:18:59):
Have you Liam Remedy's Hot? I'll give you that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:02):
But so it was fine. Jerry Stiller, Kevin James, that's
good I put I put him in the Jack Black
comedy category. It's funny.

Speaker 7 (01:19:12):
I laugh out loud more than that shows. Yeah, I'm
laughing just thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:19):
The things I learned about you after all these years.
Roger on seven ninety eleven fifty Roger, what's the matter
with you?

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Uh? Taka? Rocko's a row row?

Speaker 3 (01:19:30):
I should give him the real name.

Speaker 20 (01:19:31):
So how can provided as the currency to the people
who are listening, because you know it's messed up what
they do.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
So, uh, I'm going over there.

Speaker 3 (01:19:39):
I'm ordering my tacos and I put it in my
order and.

Speaker 20 (01:19:43):
They they want on the receipt to ask you for
a tip that gives all the percentage of what kind
of tip did I give him? And I guess based
on the strength of your tip with the side and
how fast or how slow your your food comes out,
and if whatever's in there is the quality or not
so it they ask you for a tip before they
even provide you the service.

Speaker 9 (01:20:04):
And to that, I say, ain't nobody got time for that.

Speaker 20 (01:20:08):
What was the name of the place again, Rocos Tacos
are Go Go go?

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
Okay, yeah, I got you.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
Nobody get that. I don't know the bit, but we don't.
We don't get a free spot.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
Yeah, oh, I got I know what I was gonna
say to uh, the new baseball stadium down the old
baseball name of the new name. It's named after an
air conditioning place. And that's fine. Warm up the press box.
I have to text you, Brian le Atackard every single

(01:20:40):
time to know how many layers of winter coats I
have to bring with me on a July eight to
an Astros game because it's always thirty five degrees. So
Jean Das, Steve Grand uh, Mishaq Sullivan, anybody else.

Speaker 1 (01:20:54):
Over there, turn the damn air.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Conditioner down so we can actually watch the game in peace.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Ain't nobody got time to.

Speaker 4 (01:21:01):
Get icicles on my nose.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
In the middle of summer.

Speaker 4 (01:21:03):
Ain't nobody got ch on, brother?

Speaker 7 (01:21:05):
It is so cold in that press box, especially in
the in the middle of the summer when they never
open the roof. Yes, and then when it rains, because
it cools off outside and the ac keeps pumping inside,
you have to bring a coat to work.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
I want somebody in the Baseball Riders Association to step
up and make that happen, you know, anybody.

Speaker 7 (01:21:23):
Hey, I've lost all kinds of complaints and it did
get better last year at the end, So we'll see
what happens next year.

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
Raymond on seven Niney Raymond, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 1 (01:21:33):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
I got one.

Speaker 18 (01:21:35):
I'm sure everybody's had this happened to him. You know what,
you got your vacation in for the holidays, ready to
rock and roll, ready to leave early on Friday, and
you know what gotta go. And the guy, one of
the employees quit the day before, and then you got
to pick up all that extra slack. And the bussman

(01:21:55):
comes out there and says, man, sorry, man, can't go
on vacation.

Speaker 1 (01:21:58):
Man, we need you.

Speaker 18 (01:21:59):
Uh huh what Ain't nobody got time for that? You
need to shut it man.

Speaker 3 (01:22:03):
That's exactly right. You got the Bear's book, the hotel,
the tickets bought to go see some theatrical stuff for
go to a ball game or a.

Speaker 4 (01:22:12):
Trip to the Line country.

Speaker 7 (01:22:14):
Quick story. I had a job. I was in between jobs.
I got a job at some golf magazine in Houston.
I don't even know what it was, but I was miserable.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
I hated it.

Speaker 7 (01:22:23):
This was ninety five. The Rockets were playing the Spurs.
I was there in the West Finals. Yes, and I
decided I want to go to that game that night.
So I pulled out a piece of paper, wrote on
this piece of paper, I was quitting, sat it on
the guy's death desk, got on iten went to the
Rockets game, never looked back.

Speaker 3 (01:22:41):
How about that? Did you have a job waiting for you? No?
I was just done. You quit this magazine over a
Rockets playoff game, but I know I quit because I
hated it and I was miserable.

Speaker 7 (01:22:50):
And then the playoff game that was the Game of
Elijah and destroyed Robinson.

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
So yeah, Robertson, we took like five bust loads of
listeners to that game.

Speaker 4 (01:22:58):
The Almaldom. You could put thousands of pep in there,
so it was well worth it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (01:23:02):
Oh look who's there our buddy James and garden Oaks,
New York.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Now James has this terrible uh storage space? Is this
gonna be about your storage space again?

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
James?

Speaker 8 (01:23:24):
No, No, Governor, Governor Thomas, and thank you for taking
my call off, Governor Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):
I got two things.

Speaker 8 (01:23:31):
I got a two shows that's classics, nobody can ever
rip and everything that's Taxi and Seinfeld two of the best, Uh,
just very good. And then one I think that's kind
of overrated. Is that Beverly Hills ninth nine two one? Oh,
that's kind of overrated. I was watching that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
A lot of times, James, James, James, I love you,
but I love Jenny Garth Moore shots your bummass up
bank right back to it, go ahead, okay? And uh
and uh, what I wanted to talk about.

Speaker 8 (01:24:03):
Look, I'm glad, I'm glad that all of the you know,
the prizes were giving out, all the awards and everything,
and look they've been ripping on my boy, Aaron Judge forever.
All those dumb masses from Fox Sports, that Jason Smith
clown and Ben maland that Through Fisher that works on
in the night and radio and any anybody in between,

(01:24:23):
Steve the Sega, all those West Coast apologists. Look, we
know what Tany's good, but he's in the National League
now and you could put him up there on that
pestel all you want, but please stop ripping on Aaron Judge.

Speaker 2 (01:24:35):
He had one bad moment in the sun.

Speaker 8 (01:24:37):
He actys had to pay for it, along with Garret Kole.
If everybody makes fun up curbit, but you know, let
it rest. I mean, let it rest. I mean that
guy's powerful pound He's the best at it in the game,
regardless of how many times he strikes out. Okay, So
I appreciate you taking my call government.

Speaker 3 (01:24:54):
Tell me you are the man.

Speaker 9 (01:24:55):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Yeah, I don't know this, but James likes to talk
Yankees and everything in his lives are about Aaron Judge
and the Yankees.

Speaker 7 (01:25:04):
And the massive disrespect the Yankees agatting Ashley. Yeah, so
much disrespect for the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (01:25:09):
Yeah so much. All right, come over if we get
to the news at nude Brian in Paarland on seven
onty Brian, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 16 (01:25:15):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:25:15):
Not much, guys, Hey tags.

Speaker 21 (01:25:17):
I used to report in uh Saint Thomas High School
football scores to you years ago, back when you worked
still at the Chronicle and we had to call in
the weekly score reports.

Speaker 3 (01:25:29):
Oh yeah, I remember those days.

Speaker 21 (01:25:30):
Yeah that having a good time, but uh no coming,
we're coming up here on the holidays and holiday travel.
This is to everybody who's going to be consuming the
malls or public stores, public spaces.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Air parts.

Speaker 21 (01:25:44):
Don't walk around with your head up your butt, have
a plan, walk with a purpose. None of us shoveling
your feet, looking around like you're lost and you don't
know where you're going. If you lost, all over to
the side. Don't stop in the middle of the walkway.
Let the people who know where they're going and know
what they're doing past, and you don't call the damn

(01:26:04):
traffic jam. And the malls, in the airports, whatever other
public space is off.

Speaker 3 (01:26:09):
There, that's gonna be a crazy busy way.

Speaker 4 (01:26:13):
Nobody got time for that.

Speaker 7 (01:26:15):
Nobody get taped for dead and BUCkies too. Will you
walk in BUCkies on the holiday? No know where you
want to go, especially if you going in to the restroom.
Don't shuffle in there when there's twenty people behind you
waiting to get in.

Speaker 3 (01:26:26):
Go move your feet. By the way, do not spend
a half hour BUCkies. The average person could get their
stuff done in about tote to fifteen minutes. Two minutes
in the bathroom, two minutes of the drink counter, five
minutes in the food, two minutes in the line. Boom boom,
boom boom. Let's let's get out of there, and if
you get gas, maybe a couple extra minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:44):
But going.

Speaker 3 (01:26:46):
The Thomas family likes to spend thirty to forty five
minutes of BUCkies. I want to get back on the road,
So the Thomas family. That's Kim, that's Carly, that's Peyton,
that's camera. Shut your ball ass up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
I ain't got time.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
There's been forty five minutes of BUCkies. Ain't nobody get
tab for dead or the money that's associated. I'm spending
forty five minutes there. Geo on seven AUTI what's the
matter with you?

Speaker 14 (01:27:05):
All right?

Speaker 12 (01:27:05):
Man?

Speaker 16 (01:27:06):
Real quick, great show as usual, guys, but I'm gonna
have to agree with tags.

Speaker 6 (01:27:10):
On this one.

Speaker 22 (01:27:11):
Man, Kings of Queens is one of the.

Speaker 3 (01:27:12):
Greatest shows a long time and one of the one
of the greatest theme is the greatest theme songs of
all time.

Speaker 11 (01:27:19):
So man, I don't appreciate you going shay it on
Kings Queens set it by mass up.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Man, Oh, I don't know King of Queens hate the
march for the Wino Jeo.

Speaker 1 (01:27:30):
He knows.

Speaker 3 (01:27:31):
I mean it's I wouldn't say I laughed at the show.
It was amusing and Leia rah Hemmy was hot. I
mean it still is. It's laugh out a lot funny.
But she was a scientologist back and then she got
straight and figured out all that crap it was not.

Speaker 7 (01:27:44):
She hosts a game show now, she should know that.
You're I know, people, people, Puzzler, people Puzzler.

Speaker 3 (01:27:51):
It's ridiculous.

Speaker 7 (01:27:53):
Everybody in the world is hosting game show, but me.
Rob Lowe's on one the other floor.

Speaker 3 (01:27:58):
Have you watched that? You know who's the new host
of The Holly with Squares, Nate Burlson, What That's what
I'm saying, utterly ridiculous. Your time's coming, Mack, when I'm
fifty two fricking years old. I can't wait till I'm
seventy five. I went till he was ninety, So you
get okay, So can you knock off Drew Carris? I
can go do the prices right and call it a day.

Speaker 11 (01:28:19):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
I can do rockets and prices right. Probably can't do
the show every day, but I can do prices right
in the rockets. Yeah, they probably do like five and
one day anywhere. So what I'm saying, I working on
my schedule. The news at noon is next Sports Talk
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
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Tomorrow at ten thirty, they'll be there at Big City
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Sunday Direct TV will have the Sunday ticket not to

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Direct TV, but you know Sunday ticket will be there
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Speaker 4 (01:29:05):
So let me tell you you're.

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Not gonna want to miss out on the opportunity to
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Speaker 1 (01:29:34):
This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Twelve O four Town, Good.

Speaker 2 (01:29:54):
For Eter.

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
And welcome down three of the Night Tommys Shovin Ross
taxes hair.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
There's this sports Tucks seven.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
I hope all those players break their elbows and uh.

Speaker 2 (01:30:08):
What, okay?

Speaker 4 (01:30:10):
You hope nineteen year olds break their elbows? They're young, lost,
they're young.

Speaker 23 (01:30:15):
You should be embarrassed, should be embarrassing to yourself.

Speaker 1 (01:30:19):
You know what?

Speaker 4 (01:30:19):
You know the reason why there's no buzz for this game.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
There is buzz. There's zero bus. I'm buzzing hard right now.
I know you're buzzing, Harvar for different reasons.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
They're having a lot of success in the first half,
and then they're coming out not flat but just not
inspired in the second half, and I'm wondering if maybe
they should just try thinking.

Speaker 24 (01:30:33):
About baseball for the first half.

Speaker 5 (01:30:35):
And saving it and then whenever the second half comes,
just really you know, getting at it, because that seems
to work for me.

Speaker 3 (01:30:40):
I'm not gonna let a man named Pooky ever influence
me on anything.

Speaker 4 (01:30:43):
Is Monday the suck off. That thing is gonna be
big and red.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
That is what is it gonna be. You're trying to
pick up the nine point five. Then she goes home
with someone else. Guess what. You've got to scramble to something.
Remember that's seven more fun, Mattic. Seven will do more things,
not as much work. I gotta go. I gotta go,
fewer drinks, less cuddling. Agree or disagreement, Brian mctager. You

(01:31:07):
get more, you get things more accomplished with sevens and
nine and a half's you don't want to comment, That's fine,
I understand that is this working? It is, it's not.
That's to your detriment, all right, the strippers are awake.
Brian McTaggart's here another hour with us, all right. It's
kind of flying by in it it is. Yeah, it's

(01:31:27):
not bad. Yeah, we've done a couple of bits. But
what a living you have. You come in here, time
flies by, and you get on your charter flights and
you stay in your fancy Chicago hotels. Oh this hotel,
we say in Chicago is so good too. How did
you know where I was staying in Chicago?

Speaker 4 (01:31:41):
You just guess?

Speaker 7 (01:31:41):
Or do you have good I've talked about this before.
It's across from a pizza place, right it is. Yeah,
I've heard it's like the nicest. It's the nicest hotel
maybe in the NBA. Yeah, I'll go and say it.
It's the it's a dominic. No, no, it's the not
the dominic that's in New York. Peninsula, Peninsul, Yeah, peninsula,
these fancy names. Yeah, astros stay there too, and people

(01:32:03):
rave about it. Peninsul is nice, first of all, great location.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Second ball, they used to have printers in my in
my room, and they got rid of the princess. I
think nobody was using who print stuff typically. Have you
ever stayed at a MOXI, Yes, that's a little different story.
There's no desk, there's no closet. The ironing board is
in the hall. It's like a community irony. Yeah, it's
like it's not now I will say this, and I

(01:32:27):
forgot to mention this with anybody got time for this?
So some of these hotels we stand in are so fancy.
They're trying to reinvent the engineering wheel in the bathroom.
And I brought this up before we can get the
news in doon here in just one second. My glass
door glass shower doesn't have a it's not completely closed.

Speaker 7 (01:32:44):
Yes, I've seen, yeah the hotel estate in spring Training.
Yet it is half a glass in the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:32:48):
Half a glass of I'm sorry, but everything gets cold
and shriveled up in there.

Speaker 4 (01:32:52):
It just does.

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
See.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
You have to have it extra hot in the shower
or everything else is going to get cold. Yeah, I'm
not a fan. Why would anybody want to get into
a shower that you can't completely close up. It's a
good question, you know why? Because they want your ass
out of their fast. They don't want you in there
for twenty minutes taking a long shower. Good point burning
you know, is spending their money on water, and it works.

(01:33:14):
As I get in there, I get out. Yeah, normally
I'm thirty five minute shower guy. Yeah, it's miserable.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
I just don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
I just don't get why you can't give us full
glass closure on a shower.

Speaker 4 (01:33:25):
But they probably have a big fluffy robe right there
waiting for you. Right. That is that with slippers. That's true. Okay,
see bounces bounces in and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
All the controls for the TV and for the contemperature
in the room or on an iPad. I don't like that.
Oh it was good. I owed a room service off
the iPad too, it was really good. Quick hotel pet peeve.

Speaker 7 (01:33:47):
When I check in, the first thing I do is
usually just flop on the bed because I traveled and
I want to like turn on the TV. And the
remote is always by the TV. Why is the remote
by the TV? If I could just change it by hand,
it should be on the nightstand. Don't put the remote
by this.

Speaker 3 (01:34:00):
Don't you take the initiative and when you walk in
the room, before you go somewhere, search out the remote.

Speaker 7 (01:34:04):
Control and then go drop on yourself on the bed.
I'm so tired, I don't think about it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
So tired. What did you use?

Speaker 3 (01:34:09):
Tough travel?

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
You didn't fly the plane?

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
Tough travel?

Speaker 4 (01:34:12):
Oh my god. Time now for the news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:34:16):
We go to the seven ninety news to ask where
we find Dan Connor. You've been all over the place
this week, You've done the Rotten five, and now you're
going to do the news at noon. That's right, what
do you got?

Speaker 13 (01:34:28):
The Houston Rockets host the Portland Trailblazers tonight for their
second game towards the NBA Cup. Both teams are one
to zero in group play.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
And it's gonna be a nice twenty four point victory
for the Rockets tonight. And I've already booked my trip
for Vegas. Is that's where we're gonna go. We're gonna
win the knockout round game and then we're gonna go
win the whole tournament where the Rockets are gonna share
five hundred thousand dollars and give me zero of it.
I'm invited this time. I mean, seriously, if you want
to go to Vegas, you're more than will I will

(01:34:57):
get two Queen, beds. Okay, if we get a lot
of guys going, we'll just get pillows, separate ourselves. Perfect.

Speaker 4 (01:35:03):
You get four guys in a room, you've done it before.
Tag right, lately lately?

Speaker 3 (01:35:07):
No? Okay? Last ten years, no twenty, no twenty five,
No okay, bad person to ask what else is going on?

Speaker 13 (01:35:14):
The Texans host the Tennessee Titans on Sunday for an
AFC South matchup.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
Yep.

Speaker 13 (01:35:18):
Texans Foundation Vice president Hannah McNair had some fiery words
while visiting a Houston fire station yesterday. No pun intended
regarding the rivalry and the history between the two teams, saying, quote,
we've taken over Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:35:29):
We've taken our fans back. So they're just the Titans now. Okay,
So she's assuming that the town was split between Titans
and Texans fans until recently. Yeah, and the drama over
the Jerseys and the Oilers and stuff like that. This
is when the Titans left or the Texans, the Oilers left.
Ninety percent of the fans left too. I mean, there

(01:35:52):
was ten percent of people around town that. But this
was never a split town. When the Texans came into
play in two thousand two. It was Texans city.

Speaker 7 (01:35:58):
That may be mad when when Houston oiler fans stayed
with them when they were in Nashville, or but that
number was dwindling every year.

Speaker 3 (01:36:07):
It's gone.

Speaker 7 (01:36:08):
You know when the when the Texans went there last
year and beat the Titans while they were wearing the
older uniforms keen him at the quarterback. Yeah, that was
very cathartic for me. That like almost put the whole
thing to bed for me.

Speaker 3 (01:36:19):
That is exactly see you and I seriously we are
too alike, which just troubles me a little bit. That's
exactly for me because I had a hard time seeing
anybody wear the Columbia blue and the old Eric until
they did it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
And now it means zero to me, and they blew
a big lead.

Speaker 7 (01:36:34):
It was just so it was so perfect, like you
want the Columbia blue and the well, you got it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:37):
You got the whole experience on that day. So was it?

Speaker 3 (01:36:41):
Where do you seeing Hannah and col wearing fireman's outfits? Yeah,
it's kind of goofy, And I mean I don't see
Tillman and Jim Crane doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:36:49):
No, Crane would never do that. Though It's yes, sort
of goofy. Man, Hannah.

Speaker 3 (01:36:54):
Tells cal what to do and he will do it
and not even argue about it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
Were they at least raising money for something, or I'm
sure they were.

Speaker 3 (01:37:02):
They were honoring first responders, which is which is a
great because I've got a good friend of mine and
that's a firefighter, and I'm so a little sign of
solidarity and support is always good.

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
But it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
They just it was just weird because they're putting on
these heavy coats and stuff and they weren't gonna go
fire fight a fire.

Speaker 4 (01:37:18):
But it's just it was like a field school field
trip or something.

Speaker 3 (01:37:23):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:37:23):
Yeah, Yeah, it's little weird, a little.

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
A little bit, not not super, but just a little
bit weird. Yeah, all right, what else you got?

Speaker 13 (01:37:28):
Despite a cease and desist letter from the NFL last year,
the Cougars will be wearing their Houston blue Hell Yeah,
this time against the Baylor Bears tomorrow night. Oh hell
wins shy being Bowl eligible, but Baylor's on a four
game winning streak.

Speaker 3 (01:37:42):
Thoughts on the matchup. Cougar lumps Baylor by the way,
is Bowl guarantee they have won. I listened to Dave
Randa yesterday for our pregame show. He seems like a
guy to be hard to get anybody motivated.

Speaker 7 (01:37:53):
If you're talking, he's very emotional. Even on the sideline,
he's very emotionless.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
I mean he I mean, it's like we're winning and
we're trying, we're playing hard and it's tough to win.
And I was like, I was falling asleeplessen to this thing.
Is it because Willie Fritz? You know, there's a reason
why his voice is so gravelly. It's because the guy's
been yelling and trying to get people fired up for years?

Speaker 4 (01:38:13):
Oh yeah, yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:38:16):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:38:17):
I think this is Baylor's first time ever to play
on U of H campus in football, Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:38:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:38:23):
Okay, they're coming to the third Ward Blue uniforms night game,
final home game of the season for the Mighty Koogs.

Speaker 4 (01:38:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:38:33):
Better's got a very efficient quarterback and they've got a
dangerous receiver slash kick returner. Watch out special teams, mark
my Wards on this one. Special teams will make the
difference in this game. Period into story. Okay, I think
it's gonna a one score game and whoever has a
special better special teams win the game. Tomorrow night, six
o'clock I think the Cougars win and they go to

(01:38:54):
b Yu and pull off the upset six and six.
Because let me tell you, I'm going to Provo next
week for the game. It's gonna be like in the thirties.
Have you been there for a game before. Yes, it's wonderful,
isn't it beautiful? It's fine, it's very nice. I mean
I used a little at saul Like city, so iping
good time. Yeah, But except the caffeine you can't get.
You can'tnot get caffeine. You can get root beer and sprite,
but you cannot get Die Coke or Coke zero. It's

(01:39:16):
got caffeine in it. They serve great media food though,
and it's a pictures place yea.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
They have a huge fans.

Speaker 3 (01:39:22):
And I think gift Nielsen's family still has a house
right next door to the stadium. Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
Yeah, I think he works for the church. Now knows
what gif Nielsen is?

Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
All right? Anything off beat?

Speaker 4 (01:39:31):
Are we done?

Speaker 3 (01:39:32):
We'll do one more?

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
All right?

Speaker 13 (01:39:33):
If you're suffering from Kelsey Brothers fatigue, brace yourselves. Jason
Kelsey is trying his hand at late night television. Early
next year, the former NFL center annouced during appearance on
ABC's to mc kimmel Live Last Night that he will
host they call it Late Night with Jason kelce on ESPN.
The one hour show will tape on five straight Friday
nights beginning January third, that coincides with the last week
of the NFL's regular season in the playoffs. The show

(01:39:55):
will be filmed in front of a live audience from
Union Transfer in Philadelphia.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
The first four episodes.

Speaker 13 (01:40:00):
The first of four episodes will air at one am
Eastern starting January fourth.

Speaker 4 (01:40:04):
Yeah, that one's gonna be a hard passed.

Speaker 7 (01:40:06):
I had never heard of Jason kelcey until that Super
Bowl where they played. The brothers played, and that was
a big storyline. Never I didn't even know Jason kelcey existed.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
Now, Valu's everywhere, they're fifteen minutes needs to run out
pretty quick.

Speaker 4 (01:40:18):
I'm getting Kelsey fatigue.

Speaker 9 (01:40:20):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:40:20):
They're on my cereal boxes, They're on my pregame shows,
every commercial, every commercial, the moms in Hallmark movies.

Speaker 4 (01:40:28):
Now, don't ask me how I know that. I just do. Yeah,
it's too much. I think we're getting Kelsey fatigue. Yeah,
I agree, all right, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
The news at noon twelve sixteen on Sports Talk seventy.
We are fifteen minutes away from the Fantasy five. Now
here's the bit on the Fantasy five. We need judges.
Don't call now because I won't do any good.

Speaker 16 (01:40:44):
We need.

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
We're gonna need six judges for a best of seven
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More.

Speaker 10 (01:41:51):
Matt Thomas now on Sports Talk seven, ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
Twelve twenty three on Sports Talk seven, I think we
got the Fantasy five coming up in a few minutes.
Brian mctagger at MLB dot com astros dot com with
us on the show. How weird was it for you
to be sitting there October fifteenth without something to write
about or a flight to catch or something.

Speaker 4 (01:42:24):
It was it was bizarre.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Yeah, it was weird.

Speaker 7 (01:42:28):
I mean, uh, October fifteenth, when you're talking October third,
it was over, and I watched a lot of the playoffs,
and then I watched all the LCS and when they
got to the World Series, I was thinking, I've been
watching baseball on my couch for three weeks. Like, you
lose sight of how long this is and how much
of a grind this is. If you're you know, when

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when I was covering that every year, I mean, you
just you're so wrapped up in the moment and the
travel and the work that you don't realize it's covering
the baseball playoffs is just it is. It consumes everything
about your being. You don't get a day off. The
travels brutal. So yeah, not doing that this year was
it was really refreshing. There was I think it was No.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
Five.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
I got up for like a four am flight for
the Saint Louis for the NLCS, super tired. I get
to TSA. They bring out the tray and I put
my shoes. This is before pre check. I put my
shoes on the tray and I had on two different shoes,
which and it didn't even phasee me.

Speaker 4 (01:43:27):
I was like whatever, it's just like really close. One
was brown, one was darker brown. So it wasn't terrible.

Speaker 7 (01:43:33):
You didn't felt super embarrassed. Yeah, but I wouldn't have
cared any I was just so tired. So it's just
the travels really tough. So I'm sure people really feel
sympathy for me. But yeah, I was gonna say, if Jack,
if Jeff Can would have been there, he'd really been
upset for you. Yeah, only covered him one season, Yeah
it was four so four Yeah, and uh yeah he

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scared the Bejesus out of me.

Speaker 3 (01:43:56):
He was not a very nice person and you could
clearly till it during the World Series when his son
was playing for A and M and he was just
like whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:44:03):
Yeah, I've dealt with him a couple of times since then.
He's come back and we interviewed him in the press
box and he seemed a little more affable. But yeah,
he's hard nosed guy for sure. All right, give the
list of your we were doing we're gonna do Fantasy
five lists. Give us your three or four favorite people
to talk to in the history of you covering the team.

Speaker 3 (01:44:22):
Well, number one's last Berkman by a wide margin, just
because he was friendly, he was smart, he was a
great player, approachable, would give you grief right back.

Speaker 1 (01:44:35):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (01:44:36):
Just I'm sure you've dealt with that. Absolutely one. Wonderful
guy and great players. So he's number one.

Speaker 9 (01:44:45):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
Bigio's got to be up there for me, just a pro.
You know Bigio and bagwell I sort of lumped together,
just just pro. They were always at their locker. Bigio
and Bagball both would come to you after a game
and say do you need me, and then when you
say no, they go about their business.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Play don't do that.

Speaker 7 (01:45:01):
Alex Bregman does that from time to time, but for
the most part, players don't do that. I remember Hunter
Pence's rookie season. His locker was right next to Bigio,
which was played and Pen's had a really good game.
So we're all standing around his locker and Bigio is
getting dressed. Bigio's final season in Bigio starts to leave
and he stops. He says, h are you waiting for Hunter.

(01:45:22):
I'm like, yeah, he said one second, and he goes
into the launch room. I can hear Bigio's voice, I
can't hear what he's saying. Hunter comes walking out like
wiping food from his mouth, immediately stands there and does
the interview, just because Bigio told him he needs to
do his interview. The next day has another big game.
We go into the clubhouse. He is at his locker
in full uniform, waiting for the media. Uh he's been trained, well,

(01:45:43):
he's been trained. Well, yeah, that's awesome. But Bregman's up
there really good.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:45:49):
Barteen Maldonado was great to talk to you, great insight,
you know, really miss not having him or there's so
many but Maldonado's up. But Bregman's in my my, my
top group. He's right up there with those guys for sure.
All Right, you can hold this private if you want to.
Do you want to name two or three of your
least favorites. Uh no, I mean I really don't. I

(01:46:09):
mean Kent was a guy who was He was tough
to crack.

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
Uh. Tim Redding wasn't always fun to talk to.

Speaker 7 (01:46:18):
But guys who are like you realize that they don't
want any part of the media or they're not good
to talk to, you just stay away and you just learn.

Speaker 4 (01:46:26):
Okay, just let him do his thing.

Speaker 9 (01:46:28):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (01:46:29):
Justin Verlander loved dealing with Justin Verlander, like he is
a diva and he is the guy when he walks
in the room and you have to pick your spots.
But uh, always very fair to give me time. His
quotes were great. Uh, just yeah, he was. He was
good to cover.

Speaker 4 (01:46:44):
Just a pro, real pro.

Speaker 3 (01:46:45):
So next year if he comes back and signs, you
got to say God. Justin as listening to Matt Thomas
the show, and by the way, it's very entertaining. He
was talking about you're the only astro that's never been
on the show before you should go on it. It's
really good. He talks so highly of you, thinks you're great,
and you got to go on the show. It's really good, good.
And then he would reply back to you, what's his
audience numbers?

Speaker 7 (01:47:04):
Are they big enough for me? He said, no, I'm
not doing that. But I've told you Ryan Presley loves
your show. I know Ryan, I'm a big Ryan Presley guy.
He's told me a couple of times he likes you.
I wish and I don't know if Ryan's listening now
what does he live in the off season.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
He's in Houston. Okay, Well, Bryan, if you're listening, we
love you. But yeah, I felt bad because Ryan really,
really generally speaking, he or has.

Speaker 4 (01:47:23):
Had a really good astrois career, really good. Last year
was just.

Speaker 3 (01:47:28):
It was tough because I don't think he'd like to change.
I think it took him a long time to get
over it, and father time always wins. I think the
stuff isn't as good as it was a couple of
two three years ago, but it doesn't mean he didn't
have tremendous value for this team. When I think of
the twenty twenty two posts, the World Series Championship. I
think of Ryan Presley being a nails, lockdown ninth inning

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guy for this team, and nobody can ever take that
away from him.

Speaker 7 (01:47:51):
No, even even the seasons leading up to twenty two.
I mean, he had never blown a save in the
postseason until till last season. So yeah, his uh, yeah,
he's gonna go down. Is one of the top three
four Astros closers of all time at least. Right now,
what do.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
You put right, and we got before we get to
fantasy feveral quick, what do you put Justin Verlander on
the Mount Rushmore of ASTRO starting pitchers?

Speaker 7 (01:48:13):
Well, he's the only one to win two Cions with Astro,
so he's got to be on the Mount rushmore.

Speaker 3 (01:48:16):
Right, let me give you my list. Nolan roy Oswalt.
I think I put JV on there because of sustained success, and.

Speaker 4 (01:48:34):
I'm probably.

Speaker 3 (01:48:37):
Do I put I mean Larry Dirker, but I never
saw Larry pitch, but obviously longevity, long run, sustained success,
especially for a lossy baseball team. I have a hard
time kicking putting Mike Scott on there because the fact
it was such a short term run for him. Kind like, yeah, so.

Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
It may help me out. Is there somebody we're forgetting
right up?

Speaker 7 (01:48:58):
I was thinking I was thinking Derker, Yeah, I don't
you know, going way back, Don Wilson.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
Yeah, I'm not going to count that. So yeah, I'll
put Verlanders on that list. Correct, I'll definitely put Verlander
on that list. Yeah. I mean, do you put Clemens
up there?

Speaker 25 (01:49:16):
One?

Speaker 7 (01:49:16):
A cy Young? Probably almost one another, but again he
was only here three years.

Speaker 3 (01:49:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:21):
I do believe part of the intendance is being in attendance.

Speaker 15 (01:49:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:49:25):
So all right, are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
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right now and be judges for the Fantasy five. Brian
mctagger and I are going to create our master Tailgate
food list. The question will simply be whose tailgate would
you rather be at? Mine or McTaggart's. Okay seven one
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Speaker 26 (01:50:43):
Matt Thomas putting the age in angry, want to just
scream for a second. H Towns Sports for lunch on
seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:51:01):
You know what, maybe doing food at this time of
day was a terrible idea for us because we both
said we're starving.

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
I'm really hungry.

Speaker 3 (01:51:09):
I got a breakfast this morning on the way I went.
I be honest, I go to McDonald's for breakfast. I
like it. I got the steak, egg and cheese bagel,
and as usually that's the heaviest item they have and
I thought it would carry me over. But I could
go for a sandwich right now, that's a different issue
of a different time time.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
For the Fantasy five. Here's how it works.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
We have a created a list of five things that
will be the best absolute things you will want to
serve at a tailgate party.

Speaker 4 (01:51:31):
Brian, you are the guests, so we play.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
We do a snake system and we'll give our list
of five things, and then after that the judges will
decide who has the best list. Now, would you like
to go first or you want to give me the
first pick? And you take selections two and three. You
are up first. With that option, I will take the ball.
I will go first and I will score. Okay, you
your very first thing that we're going to find the

(01:51:54):
n a Brian McTaggart tailgate will be what.

Speaker 7 (01:51:59):
Hamburgers you throw? Easy to throw on the grill. Everybody
loves them. Everybody loves hamburgers. You gotta have a hamburger
to tell you who doesn't like hamburgers. Everybody loves hamburgers.
But unfortunately you're going to lose.

Speaker 3 (01:52:13):
This because when you and I've been to tailgates in
college stadiums across this country. This year, I went to
a tailgate at Oklahoma. I went to a tailgate at Kansas,
which was weirdest was at Arrowhead Stadium. I've been to
you of hed tailgates. I've been to tailgates and NFL
places I've been. When you walk into an area and
you can smell a broughtwurst being grilled outside a stadium,

(01:52:40):
that's the definitive, no doubt about it, gotta have it
tailgate food item. So my first round pick is broughtworst. Okay, Okay, next,
finger foods are very important, and I'm going to go
with trotten too formula we you can get them with buffalo,

(01:53:07):
you can get them in you know, you could go
with onion. You get that onion. You could go with
let's say, uh spicy, you could go with sweet and sour. Wings,
you could go with teraake, you could go bone in, boneless.
I'm going I'm taking the whole damn wings category with me.
So I've given you brats and wings and you're gonna

(01:53:28):
have a great time at my tailgate.

Speaker 7 (01:53:30):
How many cook wings at a tailgate that you gotta
bring them. That's like you can grow them on the
girl too. I don't know about that, all right, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
You hat.

Speaker 7 (01:53:37):
The next two picks were tailgating and late in the season.
It's a little cold outside. You need something to warm
you up. Yeah, and he gets some chili.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Chili.

Speaker 7 (01:53:49):
Yeah, yeah, I'm here prepackaged, and that you bring. You
get the pot with the propane, make your chili right there.
Oh yeah, but what if.

Speaker 3 (01:53:57):
You got to go to the bathroom before the tailgate ends?

Speaker 2 (01:53:59):
You know where to lot?

Speaker 7 (01:54:01):
You said you want to have You not seen the
porter potties? All right, chili think think of cold game.

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
Okay, very good.

Speaker 7 (01:54:09):
I get another one, right, yep, okay, it's eleven am kickoff. Yeah,
you're out there drinking beer at eight am. Yeah, gotta
have the breakfast taco.

Speaker 4 (01:54:21):
Now that's gonna that's gonna ring true.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
That's all right, all right.

Speaker 7 (01:54:24):
Eleven am kick you gotta have the breakfast taco. So
what is in your taco?

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
I make it with the water burger.

Speaker 3 (01:54:34):
Meat, uh, with the egg, and then put some cheese
on it and then some salsa.

Speaker 4 (01:54:40):
Okay, mild sausa. I don't like the hot stuff now
all right, yeah, because you're getting older.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
Yeah, all right, So you're picked so far Hamburger's Chili
and breakfast, so you get a lot of beef. It's
a tailgate, yeah, but I'm mixing man up with Brought
Worst and wings. Next, you gotta have a dip. And
if you're gonna go dip, you're gonna go seven layer
dip for a little Texas flare. And I'm not a
huge I don't like walkam oil at all, but a

(01:55:06):
very thin layer as the seventh layer to the dip
is okay. The bean, the salsa, the cheddar cheese, if
you like olives, I don't like them. But at the
end of the day, you get you a good seven
layer dip with some chips, and people are gonna love
your tailgate party. Okay. Next, this is kind of a
sneaky you wouldn't think about.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
It as a good selection.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
But you've had the heavy, Brought Worst, the wings, you
have the seven layer dip.

Speaker 4 (01:55:34):
I need a little dessert. I need something to wrap
it all up nicely.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
I'm gonna get some brownies made and I'm gonna put
them in a plastic tupperware container and you're gonna see
people running to those brownies. Like all of us have
one to wrap things up, but the one I'm taking
four or five. Get you a plate of brownies, and
people are gonna love you at the tailgate. I'm going
brownies as my dessert item here at the old tailgate.

Speaker 4 (01:55:58):
Okay, is that you're done? No, I got one more
for that, but you got the next two. You're done?

Speaker 7 (01:56:02):
Okay, Okay, we're tailgating at a LSU game, maybe a
two laying game, maybe a raging Cajun game.

Speaker 4 (01:56:09):
I know you're going.

Speaker 7 (01:56:10):
Okay, we're gonna have some boot am balls balls.

Speaker 4 (01:56:14):
Oh yeah, so good.

Speaker 3 (01:56:17):
Okay, boot heading balls, all right, so good, all right.
And then this is the last one. This is important
for you.

Speaker 7 (01:56:29):
I don't know if does this fall in your dip category.
You gotta if you have some chips out there, you
gotta have some GUACAMOLEA. Okay, just standing up, you're waiting
the chips in GUACAMOLEA. You're waiting on these cheeseburgers and
the boot am balls to be done. You're you're eating
some good chips in guacamole. I suggest mild from a

(01:56:51):
grocery store. That has three letters. We don't We don't
need people to guess those letters. All right, So you're
going chips in guacamole.

Speaker 15 (01:56:57):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (01:56:59):
You know, I was thinking about this tailgate you went
to at LSU, and I was thinking about that tailgate
you were talking about when you were in Baton Rouge.
I'm thinking about the tailgates in those cities, plus shree
Port Rusting. I'm thinking about the tailgates basically anywhere, maybe

(01:57:22):
even as far east as say Amobile. I'm gonna put
a bottle gumbo out there, and we're gonna have gumbo
at the tailgate. Okay, all right, So with that, let's
recap our tailgate menu. McTaggart says, Burger's chili, a breakfast taco,

(01:57:42):
buddhan balls and chips and guacamole. Oh I'm so hungry.
I'm going Brat's wings, a seven layered dip, gumbo, and
brownie for dessert. How what are your people gonna have
from dessert? Beer? Yeah? That goes without saying that's at
my tailgate?

Speaker 16 (01:58:00):
Two?

Speaker 4 (01:58:01):
All right, boy, neither one of us went with Queso.

Speaker 25 (01:58:05):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
Yeah, but that's almost like someone's gonna bring it and
somebody's gonna bring it just kind of. It's just you
know what you did, you Bilvet.

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
It is what you did.

Speaker 3 (01:58:12):
Yeah, you didn't sit there and spend hours on it,
put it in the crock pott in the Yeah, it's
not a big deal, all right. So the question we
have for you is who has the best tailgate?

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
Seven?

Speaker 3 (01:58:19):
One three, two one two five seven naughty and.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
Again you're gonna say, will you miss this?

Speaker 2 (01:58:24):
She missed it?

Speaker 4 (01:58:24):
Of course we missed. We only had ten items in here.
We're gonna some. I'm sure we missed. Recap again.

Speaker 3 (01:58:29):
McTaggart's got Burger's Chili, breakfast, taco boot and balls and
chips and guacamole. I have brought worst wings, seven layered dip,
brownies and gumbo. Which one of those has the better
tailgate menu?

Speaker 4 (01:58:42):
Corey?

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
I mean so like, punch this up here real quick,
that this stay with me on this and Corey on
seven ninety Corey, who had the best of Fantasy five
tailgate menu?

Speaker 11 (01:58:55):
Hey man, I've done a lot of tailgates with my
traveling Texans screw buddy, but you crushed it out of
the park.

Speaker 4 (01:59:03):
I want your brought worst in my mouth now.

Speaker 3 (01:59:05):
There you go.

Speaker 24 (01:59:05):
Let me go your name Tags.

Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
I'm good and not getting that one.

Speaker 3 (01:59:10):
Uh, Corey's a weirdo, he's clinically ill, But I still
get the vote. It counts. It does.

Speaker 4 (01:59:19):
I don't know if it should, but it does.

Speaker 3 (01:59:23):
Seven two one two five seven Uh David Spring Dave,
who's got the better Fantasy five brought worst menu?

Speaker 4 (01:59:31):
I mean of tailgate menu?

Speaker 15 (01:59:35):
Well, I think Matt showed a little more creativity, But truthfully,
I think I'd rather eat the food that Tags came
up with.

Speaker 9 (01:59:42):
So I'm gonna go McTaggart.

Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
There you go, Dave, Dave, you suck. Help you have
a terrible weekend. Come get your chili. Hope you get
some food poisoning. All right, that's one vote apiece seven
one three two one two five seven ninety Johnny who
has the best tailgate menu? Mister Matt, that's it, you do.
Thank you very much, appreciate. That's two to one, but

(02:00:05):
we needed a couple more votes if you guys want
to get into it. Seven one three you have a
good four four Okay, So.

Speaker 4 (02:00:11):
I'm up two to one. Now it's time for judge
number four.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
Connorny McGovern seven one three two one, two, five se
We need two more people to get in vote on
this seven one three two one two five seven nine.
If you want to help us, vote who has the
best till Game menu? You have vote number four. Who
are you going with?

Speaker 13 (02:00:27):
Brian started us strong with the Hamburgers, lost me a
first second with the chili, but I came back with
the breakfast taco. Not pretty strong with the brought worst
and chicken wings. Lost me with the seven layered dip.
I think I I think I would have sold it
with the buffalo chicken dip or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:00:42):
But uh yeah, I need the dessert. I need the brownies.
I'm gonna go with Matt here.

Speaker 4 (02:00:46):
Yeah, see sneak. It was a sneaky pickup. Boo, you
know what it was.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
It was like getting that extra utility player on the
twenty five man twenty six man roster. Okay, you went
star power and I need I need a Mauricio Dubond
somewhere and the brownis and my Mauricio Dubon.

Speaker 4 (02:01:01):
I got people to tail get watching their way.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
You do not.

Speaker 4 (02:01:05):
I've seen your group three to one.

Speaker 3 (02:01:07):
My lead Steven in Los Angeles, Steven who wins the
Fantasy vive tags are myself.

Speaker 24 (02:01:14):
I'm sorry to say it wasn't even close, But Matt,
you crushed it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:17):
Oh that's it.

Speaker 24 (02:01:20):
I think one key component to your list, Matt, is
that you can do all of your foods with one
hand and have a beer in the other.

Speaker 13 (02:01:27):
Oh, that's not really true about gumbo.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
But yeah, yeah, you got a hold.

Speaker 4 (02:01:33):
In your I guess that's true. Thank you, Steven. I
don't care about his logic. I win. I don't like this.

Speaker 3 (02:01:38):
This game's done.

Speaker 4 (02:01:41):
It's funny. Ross says that all the time when he
loses too.

Speaker 7 (02:01:43):
I'm gonna go and eat a bunch of this stuff
right now while you're in here for another hour.

Speaker 4 (02:01:47):
All right, So, Connor, who do we forget? Who do we?
What foods we forgot? We forgot?

Speaker 3 (02:01:50):
Kso, pigs in a blanket? Pigs in a blanket would
have been a good one. What else do you go
with the ranch and dip and vegetable? I mean, do
you do you bother with that? No?

Speaker 4 (02:02:02):
That's lame.

Speaker 7 (02:02:02):
Okay, you go chocolate through cookies, tall House. I thought
about cookies, but yeah, I mean, but.

Speaker 4 (02:02:09):
Buffalo chicken dip to me?

Speaker 3 (02:02:10):
I want to go there. I don't be mean, but
it feels overrated. If I want buffalo chicken, I want
buffalo chicken wings, Why would I want to dip?

Speaker 4 (02:02:16):
I got the wings.

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
It's so good though, with a little tartilla and tortilla chips.

Speaker 7 (02:02:21):
I think more people need to eat boot An balls.
You just like saying boot A balls, don't you. It's
very good?

Speaker 3 (02:02:27):
All right? Final segment with our buddy McTaggart is up next.
We have doctor Roto coming up at fifteen minutes here
on Sports Talk seven euty.

Speaker 10 (02:02:35):
The Matt Thomas Show continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:02:45):
Well, our final segment here with tags.

Speaker 3 (02:02:46):
We got doctor Roto coming up to give us some
fantasy football advice.

Speaker 4 (02:02:52):
Nobody plays fantasy baseball anymore. Too much work.

Speaker 3 (02:02:55):
Yeah, the day to day of it, I can.

Speaker 7 (02:02:56):
I can barely get my fantasy football lineup, you know,
out every day before there's some you know, making sure
everyone's not on the bench.

Speaker 3 (02:03:04):
There was the I have not played fantasy baseball in
so long. The last time I did, I'd have to
go get my box scores, not from a computer, not
have an automatic typelo. There was a national news publication
called The National that was great in the early nineties that.

Speaker 4 (02:03:21):
Had every box score of every game from that previous week.

Speaker 3 (02:03:24):
And that's how you caught up on your fantasy baseball
stats because you go look and see, how like I
had one year, I had Barry Bonds, and I'd go
see Barry Bonds would played five games in a week. I'd
have all the box scores in one paper. Yeah, don't
you miss that? Getting the paper and reading the box scores.

Speaker 7 (02:03:37):
And then on Sundays they had like all the leaders
for every Yeah, and you would go sit there while
you're eating your your cereal or your breakfast tacos, and
you'd go over all the leaders and then there was
a hardboard and balls. Yeah, and there was a page
column by the Baseball Rider.

Speaker 4 (02:03:53):
It was just that was great. Yeah, I missed that.

Speaker 3 (02:03:58):
I mentioned this very briefly before during the news and
Univer just before it. They're gonna they're gonna try some
of this experimental challenge system. What's your gut feeling on
how deep are we going to get into the challenging
of strikes and balls in baseball down the road?

Speaker 4 (02:04:14):
Do you think, Oh, I think it's coming to the
big leagues. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 7 (02:04:16):
I mean I think the ABS system, a challenge system.
I mean all that something like that's gonna come for sure,
and maybe not next year, but the year after. I mean,
if they're doing it in spring training, they're really serious about,
you know, testing it out and seeing it. I think
the players will be for it too, So I mean it.
They had it in the minor leagues and I watched
a couple of games last year.

Speaker 4 (02:04:37):
Who'd you think. I thought it was good.

Speaker 7 (02:04:40):
Like the Verlanders rehab start at Sugarland, I think had
the challenge system and if he didn't like a pitch,
he would tap the top of his head and they
would show it, show it on the scoreboard and you
would see, you know, hey, the pitch caught the corner.

Speaker 4 (02:04:52):
It's a strike and you move on.

Speaker 3 (02:04:53):
So I like it. My partner Ross thinks that everything
should be judged by this and forgetting about challenge. If
you can get it right, and it's right, they're just
let's add one second each thing. As soon as the
ball is thrown, the computer or the robot would say
it's a striker, it's a ball. The Empire home planting part.
Why why even go to a challenge system?

Speaker 7 (02:05:13):
Well, I think eighty percent of the pitches are going
to be clear cut balls or strikes, So you're talking
about a small percentage of the pitches. I mean, you're
gonna need umpires. Dumpire is gonna have to be there
at home plate, and you know there's a lot of
calls he has to make outside of balls and strikes.

Speaker 9 (02:05:26):
So but uh.

Speaker 7 (02:05:28):
Yeah, I mean I think if you if you know
the challenge system, I think you only get a certain
amount of challenges. I mean, you can't challenge every pitch
the game down. His argument is if you get every
call right, why even go to that? And my philosophy is,
first of all, mayby steps.

Speaker 3 (02:05:45):
Secondly, I do believe if you had, if you had
to wait for every single pitch to be determined, then
I think you could potentially find yourself on a delay. Plus,
if the computer is not working, are we sure they
can properly calibrate it. I mean, again, these are all
things that I've been working on for a long time.
The challenge system to me, seems like to be a
nice easy medium between the human interaction, keeping the umpires

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union happy, which is part of it as well, and
ultimately having computer technology to help you get some of
these calls right.

Speaker 7 (02:06:14):
Yeah, I think it would drag down the game if
every pitch is up on the screen, and I think
we would get too hung up on every single pitch.

Speaker 4 (02:06:21):
I mean, baseball is not a game like that.

Speaker 7 (02:06:22):
You need to sit back and watch it and you know,
the balls and strikes go on, and you know, you
talk to your friends during the game, and we just
don't need to see every single pitch analyzed like that.
So but I do think we'll have some electronic balls
and strikes coming up sooner than later.

Speaker 2 (02:06:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:06:40):
Evandralic, former Houston chronicer reporter, reported this story yesterday and
says that the system will not be implemented implemented into
every single spring training game, but every team's.

Speaker 4 (02:06:49):
Going to stay it at some point during spring training.

Speaker 7 (02:06:52):
Right, Like I know, at the Astro Spring training Park,
they do not have stat casts, So if you want
the exo velocity and all that stuff, they don't have
it at that park. But if you go to Jupiter,
which is nearby, or St. Lucy, which is as far,
they have that stuff. So maybe it'll be a situation
like that where a handful of parks have it and
you get it when you go on the road in
those Parks, So I definitely see something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:07:12):
All right, got to get you out here with quick pregnant,
so you kind of your gut, says Yankees. I think
the Tigers could be in play just for the up
and coming team he knows aj very well. Could the
Nationals be in play in this? I know they're a
team that wants to start spending some money again. I mean,
I think the names that are being out, they're the
ones I've heard, and I've all three of those have

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been brought up. Aren't don't seem to be just pie
in the sky choices. They seem like to be a
legitimate option. Yeah, the Tiger connection is very real. I
think for sure the Nationals. He's got some really deep
ties to Washington baseball. His grandfather.

Speaker 7 (02:07:47):
Used to be i think the council for the old
Washington team back in the day, and his dad sat
on Ted William's lap when he was managing that team.
So the Bragman family has deep ties to Washington baseball.
So I mean that's you know, that's something you know,
maybe that could interest him as well. Spring training in
West Palm Beach. That'd be weird seeing him on the
other side. My God, it would be you see him

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like six times. Yeah, do the Mets get involved if
they don't get so too. I mean they got tons
of money. Their owner throws around money like crazy, so
it's gonna be interested. I would like to see him
come back because he's a like I said, he's one
of my top five shows to deal with. He's just
a pro and you'd like those guys to hang around.
But hey, go get that bag and wherever he winds up,
he winds up. Thanks for coming in and we maybe

(02:08:31):
bother you again in the next couple of months. Have
a great time at winter meetings. Yeah, this was fun. Yeah,
come back with a big story for us, would you. Well,
hopefully it will happen down there and we can get
it done and move on.

Speaker 3 (02:08:40):
I'm gonna chase you down there and I'll send you
some Venmo for Starbucks while you're down there. Okay, sounds good.
Brian mctagger at mlbanastros dot com with us here today.
We appreciate him stepping in. We come back to talk
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you're going to become Meteorologist Roto because we could have
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But next week when Miami goes to Green Bay for
a Thursday night game, it could be snow in twelve degrees.
I mean, you guys are watching these weather forecasts, we
have any problems anticipated this weekend?

Speaker 2 (02:10:44):
Well?

Speaker 3 (02:10:44):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 15 (02:10:45):
If you had asked people do you think this game
would be high scoring last night, people would have said no,
But all of a sudden it was higher scoring than
people expected. What I always say is this, The key
is the wind. Snow doesn't bother players as much as
you think, right, because and the offense knows where they're going.
It's a defense that doesn't know where the offense is going.
And you can't even hold a player in the first

(02:11:05):
five yards, so otherwise it's a penalty.

Speaker 4 (02:11:08):
So the key is the wind.

Speaker 15 (02:11:09):
If the wind is bad, then the quarterbacks aren't throwing
nearly as much. But if the wind is not too bad,
don't panic about whether. I think people tend to do
that and that gets them into trouble.

Speaker 3 (02:11:20):
All right, So are using Jamis Winston as a late
pickup because I still got some folks by, you know,
battling bye weeks these days here.

Speaker 15 (02:11:29):
Yeah, look, what's not to love about Jamis Winston. The
guys has the best, you know, interviews. He's just happy
to be there. He's excited, and he's got a team
that throws the ball. So I'm looking at his matchups
here moving forward, they're pretty solid.

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
Let me see.

Speaker 15 (02:11:46):
So the Browns have Denver, which is tough in Pittsburgh,
Kansas City, Cincinnati, Miami in Week sixteen against Cincinnati, that
could be a really high scoring game.

Speaker 4 (02:11:55):
All right, let's get to this week's action.

Speaker 3 (02:11:57):
Kansas City has been playing one tough opponent after the other,
one close game after the other, maintaining this win streak.

Speaker 4 (02:12:06):
They get a layup drill. Now it is back to
back road games.

Speaker 3 (02:12:09):
But that being said, is this a chance for them
to kind of say, Hey, we're Kansas City, We're going
against a terrible Carolina team. We're gonna score thirty five
points in the first three quarters and then everybody relax
into fourth.

Speaker 4 (02:12:19):
Can we see it that way or is this thing
gonna be close this week?

Speaker 15 (02:12:23):
No, we can see it that way for sure. I
like DeAndre Hopkins a ton obviously, Travis Kelcey is always
in play.

Speaker 4 (02:12:30):
Isaiah Pacheco might be.

Speaker 15 (02:12:31):
Making a return to the lineup, that's not confirmed yet.
If he doesn't play, then kreamhont is a living lock.
If Pachecko does play, then I expect them to split carries.
Homes I think should go for two hundred and fifty
yards and two touchdowns. On the other side, Adam feel
and I expect to be back. This is the name
we haven't heard in forever, and Jonathan Brooks should be
making his NFL debut. Don't expect the world, but I'm

(02:12:54):
thinking about six or seven carries for thirty yards.

Speaker 3 (02:12:57):
All right. Detroit wins in every facility, especially, they're really
good in indoor facilities.

Speaker 4 (02:13:02):
How much fun they're going to have against the Colts
this week?

Speaker 15 (02:13:05):
Oh, they're going to have fun. So first of all,
on the road, they always tend to get the ball
to David Montgomery. It's like they want to take the
time of possession away from the home team. They want
to take the crowd out of it. Montgomery is always
good for like those seventy or eighty yards in a touchdown.
There's nothing I don't like about Jamior Gibbs and amal
Rod say Brown is playing against the cover three zone defense.
He feasts on that defense, so I love him. On

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the other side, don't laugh. I think in any Richardson's
in play. I do. I think he's in play this week.
You know, the Lions don't put a lot of pressure.
Now the Hutchardson is out, Richardson should have time to
throw and more importantly, time to run. And the Lions
have struggled against running quarterbacks. So Richardson is absolutely in play.

(02:13:50):
And I like Josh downs too.

Speaker 3 (02:13:52):
Let's get to Dallas and Washington. Look, the Cowboys are
a hot mess, but Cooper Rush did throw for three
point fifty four so there are some skill position players
doing quite well getting the pass the balls from him.
So tell me, does that do anything for you this
week as they go on against the Commanders.

Speaker 15 (02:14:08):
No, but I'm going to play a lot of Commanders
in this game. I'm certainly going to play Daniels, who
I believe is finally healthy. Dan Quinn said, who's healthy.
Brian Robinson should be a living lock for a touchdown.
I love Terry McLaurin this week. We haven't heard much.
Last week he basically did nothing one catch for ten yards.
I think he has a big week this week. On
the other side, at ce D Lamb one thousand percent.

Speaker 1 (02:14:29):
After that, maybe Rico Dowdell.

Speaker 3 (02:14:31):
Look, this is a tough week.

Speaker 15 (02:14:32):
There's six teams on by There's very few good running
backs out there. You may be starting Rico Dowdell and
having no choice.

Speaker 3 (02:14:39):
Rock Perty questionable leading into this game at Green Bay
for the Niners.

Speaker 4 (02:14:42):
First, I'm benching him.

Speaker 3 (02:14:43):
I'm going to go with Herbert in LA but that's
a different issue. But for the Niners, if he can't go,
how much does that impact their offense?

Speaker 15 (02:14:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
Dramatically?

Speaker 15 (02:14:54):
I mean, And look, if I were you, I'd be
going justin Herbert as well. I think that's the right play.
I mean, Perdy's been good, hasn't been great this year.
And when you look at the forty nine ers, you know,
Brandon Allen, Josh Dobbs, all these guys will be fine
because Shanahan is a great coach. But I mean they're
gonna feed McCaffrey, they'll feed Jordan Mason, They'll throw some

(02:15:16):
quick passes to Deebo. You know they've got great skill players,
But I mean, do we really trust them to throw
for more than two hundred yards in one touchdown?

Speaker 4 (02:15:23):
Probably?

Speaker 9 (02:15:23):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:15:24):
All right. Arizona Seattle playing for like supremacy in the
NFC West. I don't think, generally speaking, anybody here in
Houston Carris who wins that bad boy? But from a
fantasy perspective, who are you playing in? Whom we sitting in?
This one? Arizona to me always feels like teams and
players that I forget about until I realize that Murray
and those boys are putting up a lot of points.

Speaker 15 (02:15:42):
They are Kyler Murray has had one of his best
seasons of his career. James Connor has a sensational matchup.
They run these zone schemes on offense, and their offensive
line has been playing great for the Cardinals, and I
think they have a real statistical advantage over the Seahawks defense,
So you want to take advantage of that. I really
like Marvin Harrison Junior this week. So those three guys

(02:16:04):
etched in your lineups. On the other side, I think
you got to play Jackson spent the JIGBA. I mean,
because the Cardinals are a pass funnel, especially plays guys underneath,
which is where JSN plays. And I think now that
DK metcalf is back, now that he's healthy, now that
we've seen him a second week, I think he has
a big week this week against the Cardinals.

Speaker 4 (02:16:22):
Giants quarterback change.

Speaker 3 (02:16:23):
In fact, Daniel Jones earlier today was released by the
Giants and that means Tommy DeVito goes back into play.
What was he like last year and what are you
just spinning this week against the Bucks.

Speaker 15 (02:16:33):
I thought he was respectable last year. It was he
worse than Daniel Jones, I don't think so. I think
that'll go down as one of the historically bad moods
in Giants history to pay Daniel Jones and not say
Kwon Barclay, you know, look to Veto. They threw the
ball a ton last year with him. I think it
was like the seventh most passes, you know, the passerwaight
over expectations, so they were letting him throw. I love
Molakue Neighbors. I like Tyrone Tracy. This kid, Theo Johnson's

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another rookie out of Penn State. I think is is
it in a good matchup there? So yeah, I think
the Giants aren't playing On the other side, you play
Bucky Irving, you play with Shaan White, and you one
million percent play Mike ke Evans, who's two back.

Speaker 3 (02:17:09):
Interesting pair of Los Angeles games. Both in primetime Rams
home Sunday for Philadelphia, then Baltimore plays the Chargers on Monday.
Two teams East coast, middle of the playoff chase going
cross country. I feel like both these games could be
fairly high scoring. I know, although last week Baltimore played
a low scoring game with pittsburghor Pittsburgh. The Ravens, ever

(02:17:32):
played well in Pittsburgh. What are anticipating with between these
four teams.

Speaker 15 (02:17:35):
Yeah, that was a divisional rivalry games, so you know
that that is that wasn't unexpected. I love this game
this week the Raven Chargers. I mean, you're glad that
you have Herbert. They're in a great spot. Lad McCaughey's
been sensational. This is the JK. Dobbins revenge narrative game.
I mean, this has it all. Greg Roman revenge narrative.
The offensive coordinator. I think she plays Jay Flowers and

(02:17:58):
I think Isaiah likely he's back in play. He matches
up very well against the Chargers zone. You're always playing Lamar,
You're always playing Jarre Hennery, You're always playing Za Flowers.
So I mean this is a game where you really
want to get your players on the other side. I
think you're going to see players DeVonta Smith, a name
we haven't said a lot. The Rams play a lot

(02:18:19):
of zone. I think we're going to see some of
Smith this week. I think you're going to see more
Dallas Goddard this week. I like AJ Brown, I don't
love AJ Brown. Jalen Hurts is going to feel a
lot of pressure, so he may run a little bit.
On the other side. Obviously, Pookinakua, the Eagles play a
lot of man man coverages. Exactly what pookin Akua feast on.
Kyron Williams be careful because I think that the Eagles

(02:18:41):
run defense is decent. And of course you're playing Cooper
Cup all right.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
Lastly, Tennessee Houston will love us getting yet another opportunity
to try to do something offensively with that Titan scene
who just can't never seem to get past nineteen twenty
points per game. Texans were having a relatively easy time
against the Cowboys in Dallas. Uh tell me who sits
and stays in this matchup this week.

Speaker 15 (02:19:04):
Yeah, you're not playing many Titans. You're not playing Will
Levis to Jay Spears is out. I mean, I guess
Tony Pollard is in play just based on the fact
that six teams are on by but it's a hard
matchup for him. Texans are pretty good against the run,
so I don't love Tony Pollard. Calvin Ridley may get
there based on volume, not based on matchup. Four for
the Texans, Look, you're playing Stroud, You're definitely playing Joe Mixon.

(02:19:28):
I really like Dalton Schultz this week. The Titans run
a lot of zone coverage. Schultz does very well against
zone coverage, so I think he's gonna be better week
than we've seen. And look, Nico Collins is a top
five receiver in the league, and I think he's going
to score this week.

Speaker 3 (02:19:41):
All right, now up Tony for you to get your
questions in for Dr Roto, and you.

Speaker 1 (02:19:45):
May do that.

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Here on seven ninety, let's go to the phones and
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Speaker 3 (02:21:44):
We'll start in Brendan and Magnolia for Doctor Rodal one
seven ninety Hih Brendan.

Speaker 6 (02:21:49):
Hey, guys, basically just have two questions. The first one
I think you might have already answered, trying to pick
between Herbert or Mayfield. And I'm also trying to pick
between and Ertz.

Speaker 12 (02:22:01):
Thanks.

Speaker 15 (02:22:03):
Yeah, So first I'm playing Herbert. I mean, Baltimore has
been really bad against opposing wide receivers. They've got a
ton of yardage, a lot of touchdowns, so let's play Herbert.

Speaker 2 (02:22:14):
I think, Look, the Giants have been.

Speaker 15 (02:22:16):
Tough against tight ends. However, they've let up a catch
rate of like eighty eight percent, So that's saying when
people are throwing the tight ends, tight ends are catching it.
I don't trust ertz Aton has been tremendous. So I
know you might want the hookup with Baker and Aunton,
but I think the best statistical players Herbert not.

Speaker 3 (02:22:33):
I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but
has a tight end position underperformed this year generally speaking?

Speaker 15 (02:22:39):
Yeah, you know, look, think about the guys. Travis Kelsey,
I'll take him early, Mark Andrews, I'll take him early.
Kyle Pitts, I'll take him early. You could have waited
till run nineteen to get Kate on and you probably
have been and you would have been much better off.
How about brock bowersers going around nine or ten. So yeah,
I think people always overvalue tight ends.

Speaker 3 (02:22:58):
Well, I was the king of Kyle Pitts taking early,
and I've been regretting it ever since. Then they went
and got the Green Bay tight end who didn't catch
a damn thing last week and didn't throw to him.

Speaker 2 (02:23:07):
Miss uh.

Speaker 3 (02:23:10):
Sorry, just reason number eight hundred for the fantasy Doldrums.
I'm in Corey in Paarland for Doctor rhodel On seven
ninety high Corey, Hi, anybuddy.

Speaker 12 (02:23:21):
Two quick questions. I had to sit Jared Allen this week?

Speaker 2 (02:23:25):
Or Allen this week?

Speaker 12 (02:23:26):
I had the poop poop latter for some Should I
go with a picked up Drake May? But hearing you
talk about Anthony Richardson, should I play him instead? And
also Rams or dub bears by Maddie love you?

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
Why about?

Speaker 3 (02:23:40):
Why are you warm on Anthony Richardson?

Speaker 2 (02:23:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (02:23:45):
Because the Lions don't pressure the quarterback and Anthony Richardson
doesn't like pressure. So when he's sitting there, he's gonna
have a chance to throw deep, which is the one
thing he does well. And the other thing he does
well is run. So the Lions have struggled against mobile quarterbacks. Look,
I'm not saying Anthony richard is great, but last week,
what do you do fantasy? Whyse he scored two rushing
touchdowns through for two hundred and seventy something yards. When

(02:24:08):
you put those numbers together, they become astronomical quickly. I
like Drake may I do. I just don't love the
matchup this week.

Speaker 3 (02:24:14):
All right, let's continue on and talk to Keso for
seven nineties Doctor Rotal Hi Keso.

Speaker 22 (02:24:21):
Hey, guys, two quick questions, Josh Jacobs or Javonte Williams,
and I have Dallas Goddard, but I'm looking at picking
up Disney. I do have a Conky on my team though. Thanks.

Speaker 15 (02:24:35):
Yeah, so a couple. First of all, I want to
go back to the other question. I would play the
Bears over the Rams defense. I'm playing Josh Jacobs over Javonte.
So listen, nobody ever understands what Sean Payton's doing. Everybody
picked up Estimate and all of a sudden, Javante's playing.
Let me tell you something, would it shock me if
Estima played this week? It wouldn't. I don't trust Sean
Payton as far as I can throw them. So Disley

(02:24:57):
has been really good. He's been this offense. I think
that you know. Also, Baltimore has been wretched against opposing
tight ends. I think Disley is a solid player. I
don't hate Dallas Goddard, but I mean it's hard to
argue against Disley right now.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I meant to ask you about the Niners Christian McCaffrey.
What's his result's been coming back from injury.

Speaker 15 (02:25:18):
I mean, the first game was pretty good, last game
wasn't you know? It's I think our expectation is, hey,
this guy is the best player in fantasy football. The
forty nine Ers aren't playing like the best team in
football right now, so it's hard to imagine that McCaffrey's
going to play at that same level that we're used to.
But still he's still a good star. He's still Christian
mccaffery's still worth, you know, sixteen to twenty two points

(02:25:39):
per week. But if he's not finding the end zone,
he's not creating that difference between him and the rest
of his competitors.

Speaker 4 (02:25:46):
Greg and Lovingston for doctor Rodell.

Speaker 6 (02:25:47):
Go ahead, Greg, yes, sir, just really one question?

Speaker 1 (02:25:52):
Oh because the Rodo we got name.

Speaker 6 (02:25:56):
But I'm eleven Edison and that's all.

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I have here.

Speaker 4 (02:26:00):
It was all broken up. Try one more time or oh,
I'm sorry, Elite neighbors or Addison mens All right, I'm
gonna play.

Speaker 15 (02:26:08):
Yeah, I'm gonna play the elite neighbors. I don't care
about Tommy DeVito. I don't think he's bad. I think
he can't be any worse than Daniel Jones. Neighbors is
their number one target. Look, Addison is fine, but the
Bears play a lot of zone coverage. Addison is not
great against this coverage at all. So I think that
this is gonna be an ugly game. I think the
Vikings are gonna win, but it's gonna be one of

(02:26:29):
those twenty to nineteen games. Give me Neighbors against a
Tampa Bay team that lets up a lot of yards
to opposing wide receivers.

Speaker 4 (02:26:37):
Chad for doctor Rono one seven on me? Hi, Chad, Hey.

Speaker 9 (02:26:41):
What's going on, guys? Thanks for taking a call. Just
got a notification. But Checko is out Sunday, So there's that.
But my question is, I've got my quarterbacks on by,
so I've got to choose between Tommy Cutlet's Drake may
or Caleb Williams.

Speaker 15 (02:26:56):
Thinks yeah, So, I mean, look, this is a tough one.
Caleb Williams played well last week, but he's going to
see a blitz. He's gonna see blitz on every five
seconds right by the Vikings. Brian Brian Forlord is going
to do that. So I don't want any part of
Caleb this week. I don't hate Drake May. I like
when teams pressure Drake May because then he runs more

(02:27:16):
and I love the mobility. Look Tommy cutlis Is, I
like the matchup, I don't like the player, So I
guess I'm gonna go. If I'm clicking it, I'm probably
clicking May over to Veto. But it's close. I'm not
playing Caleb. I think he's gonna get kill this week.

Speaker 3 (02:27:31):
On Twitter Stroud or Kyler, DJ Moore, Worthy Lagett or
on doonsay.

Speaker 4 (02:27:37):
You got to pick two of those four?

Speaker 15 (02:27:39):
All right, I'm gonna go Kyler over Stroud And what's
my other.

Speaker 4 (02:27:43):
Tit more Worthy Legett or on Doonza.

Speaker 15 (02:27:47):
I mean, do you want to play two bears? I
don't even want to play one bear? Could Worthy school?
You know what, Let's go with Xavier Legette and some
garbage time there. So give me, give me Romadunza and
gimme Ligett. Now, I know this sounds crazy that I'm
not playing Dj Moore. When teams blitz Caleb, he throws
to Adunza all the time. Just one of those things,

(02:28:07):
you know, quarterbacks have their preferences. That's his preference.

Speaker 3 (02:28:11):
Let's go to Brian and Alvin on seven onety for
doctor Royal, Hi John or Hi Brian?

Speaker 11 (02:28:17):
Hey, guys, so do I go with love or Tua?
Or what do I do with Chubba Harbert? Do I
go get someone? Because I know that case defense as stat.

Speaker 15 (02:28:30):
Yeah, so Cuba Hubbard's gonna in a rough, rough spot.
So first of all, Jonathan Brooks is back, and then secondly,
the scheme that Cuba does best at, he's not seeing
that this week, right, So he's going to see a
Kansas City Chiefs run defense that's going to stop him.
He's not a great start. I like to a ton
I do, and I really like my play of the

(02:28:52):
week that's coming up in that same game, But yes,
I would start to it.

Speaker 4 (02:28:55):
Thanks very much for that.

Speaker 3 (02:28:57):
Let's get one more in before we close it out
and go back to John and one one twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (02:29:01):
Go ahead, John, Hey, how's it going, guys?

Speaker 3 (02:29:03):
I got two questions?

Speaker 16 (02:29:04):
Uh, Brandon Aubrey or Jake Moody and de Ho or
Jacoby Myers in the Flakes?

Speaker 2 (02:29:15):
All right, I'll let Joe.

Speaker 4 (02:29:16):
Thanks Joan, all right, you got it?

Speaker 15 (02:29:18):
So look, I actually like both those guys. But I
really like Hopkins. The Panthers run a lot of Cover
three defense, and Hopkins just plays so well against that,
and I think he's going to get peppered with targets,
probably will score. I don't hate Myers, but just like
Hopkins more. When it comes to kickers, Look, I don't
trust Jake Moody. He misses a lot. Aubrey could always
kick a sixty yarder. Maybe he kicks two of them.

(02:29:40):
I don't know. I give you the best player at
the position, and I think Aubrey's the best kicker of football.

Speaker 3 (02:29:44):
All Right, ladies, gentlemen, we asked Doctor Rodo once week
to give us a number one can't miss prospect for
our fantasy football leagues.

Speaker 4 (02:29:50):
We present to you Doctor Rono's lock of the Week.

Speaker 15 (02:29:56):
Mce I told you before, like I'm al Ross Saint Brown. However,
I like Tyreek Hill even more. He's starting to find
his rhythm with Tua, and now for the first time
in a long time, he's playing a team that plays
man coverage. There's no better receiver against man coverage in
the league than Tyreek Kill. Christian Gonzales maybe six ' three.

(02:30:17):
He may be fast, he's not Cheetah fast, Tyreek Hill
goes for one hundred yards in a touchdown, and.

Speaker 4 (02:30:22):
Ladies, gentlemen, that, my friends, is Doctor Rodo's.

Speaker 3 (02:30:27):
Lock of the week. And I love you when you
pick a player on my team that has a lock
of the week. So you're telling me Tyreek's going to
have ten for one to seventy five and two scores.

Speaker 15 (02:30:36):
If he does, then you're a winner MT and I
hope he does for you.

Speaker 3 (02:30:38):
All right, So we're going to talk to you next Wednesday.
But if we need to get a hold of you
between now and then obviously to this week's games, where
we're gonna find you, right.

Speaker 15 (02:30:46):
He could always find me at Twitter at d R
r ot O. You can find me on my website
at doctor roto dot com. We do a great Sunday
morning discord show for an hour and a half where
you answer almost every single question he possibly can for people,
And of course I'm serious. Second Fantasy Sports Radio Saturday
mornings from eight to ten am Eastern.

Speaker 3 (02:31:03):
All right, one last Twitter question came in, Uh, John
new Smith or Sam Laporta this week.

Speaker 15 (02:31:09):
I don't know if Laporta plays, so let's just say
JOHNU for now until we know more from about that one.

Speaker 3 (02:31:15):
All right, good stuff as always, my friend. Enjoy the weekend.
Hope your family is feeling better, and we'll talk to
you next week.

Speaker 15 (02:31:20):
All right, talk to you on Wednesday.

Speaker 4 (02:31:22):
Thank you, Doctor Rode with us here. On Sports Talk
seven eighty.

Speaker 3 (02:31:25):
Connor and I have non Florida stories up next. Where's
your non Florida story from my man the great state
of Georgia. Mineus from a manufacturing district and a miss
in a missprint, We'll put it that way.

Speaker 4 (02:31:40):
One point thirty on Sports Talk seven ninty we.

Speaker 25 (02:31:44):
Find interesting stories the sure outside the state of Florida
and share them with the people of used.

Speaker 1 (02:31:57):
It's every Florida. I's time for Florida.

Speaker 25 (02:32:15):
Stole on coast to coast, well grading, strange and wild.
No alligator tales, but something that will make you smile.

Speaker 1 (02:32:31):
It's time for last from far and wild. In this
crazy world, there's nowhere alright.

Speaker 3 (02:32:45):
One thirty five on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 4 (02:32:50):
Count and I.

Speaker 3 (02:32:51):
Figured out yesterday we have an appreciation for a certain
actress slash singer, Ariana Grande. Find her very very attractive,
very talented, and perhaps I'm not a big fan. I
mean I know her music a little bit, but I'm
more of a fan of her impersonations. She does spot
on impressions of a lot of other singers.

Speaker 4 (02:33:10):
Yeah, there was.

Speaker 3 (02:33:11):
A skitch she did when she was on SNL a
few years ago where the power went out and she
had to like basically had to recreate a bunch of
different songs with different artists, and she hit them all
spot on. But she's really adorable and I think she's great.
And she's in a brand new movie that came out today.

Speaker 4 (02:33:27):
Correct, it's called Wicked.

Speaker 3 (02:33:30):
Well, Wicked decided to put together some dolls.

Speaker 4 (02:33:35):
Have you heard about this?

Speaker 25 (02:33:36):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:33:37):
Yeah, I think I know where you're going. I'm good. Well,
Mattel is the ones that created these Wicked dolls, and
there's not an issue with that. But the problem is
there was a printing on the packages for the Wicked
dolls that caused the issues. Well, if you wanted to
go to the official website of the movie adaptation of

(02:33:58):
this Tony Award winning musical, you would go to wickedmovie
dot com. Seems right, right, Yeah, Well, if you were
just to guess connor what website the name of the
movie would be, that would be at the website associated
with the movie.

Speaker 4 (02:34:16):
What would you go with.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
I just think you would be like, uh.

Speaker 4 (02:34:21):
You do a Google search, right, Yeah, you'd be safe
Google Wicked.

Speaker 2 (02:34:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:34:26):
Well, they wanted to save you a step, so they said,
you know what, go to the website Wicked dot com.
That's only one problem. That's not the website for the movie.
If you go to Wicked dot com, it's a point account.
And I, because I'm a really good researcher, Connor, Yes,

(02:34:49):
did go to Wicked dot com. I'm looking at it
right now. You're yeah, Adam, on your work computer. It's fine,
there's nothing wrong with it. You're crazy. They're having a
Black Friday sale five dollars a month to join the
Wicked dot com. It is the ultimate destination for award

(02:35:09):
winning adult content.

Speaker 4 (02:35:12):
It is not the.

Speaker 3 (02:35:13):
Site you go to to go information about the movie.
That'd be, of course, wickedmovie dot com. Hi, Adam, I've
been in here for thirty seconds. Yeah, I mean, is
this what happens when Ross is out to keep you
in line but you're just watching porn on company time?

Speaker 2 (02:35:31):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:35:31):
I didn't click the other thing? Are you on the company?
I didn't like? I just yeah, but I didn't click anything,
I just went to HR.

Speaker 3 (02:35:39):
Mattel was made aware of a misprint on a packaging
of the Mattel Wicked collection dolls primarily sold in the US,
which intended to direct to consumers to the official website
wickedmovie dot com.

Speaker 4 (02:35:52):
What kind of dolls.

Speaker 3 (02:35:53):
We deeply regret this unfortunate air and are taking immediate
action to remedy this.

Speaker 4 (02:35:58):
Remedy this. Here's the best part.

Speaker 3 (02:36:00):
Parents are advised that the misprint incorrect website is now
probably for children. Duh. Mattel also says people who have
already purchased the dolls are advised to discard the packaging
or obscure the link.

Speaker 4 (02:36:13):
Well guess what.

Speaker 3 (02:36:14):
Seventy percent of the dads that bought this kept the packaging.
Ironically enough, I don't know why. Part one of Wicked
debuts today. The second film is expected sometime in November
of next year. So for those of you that have
kids that are gonna go see Wicked tonight, it's wickedmovie
dot com. And for those of you that don't have

(02:36:36):
kids that want to watch other action films, it's Wicked
dot com.

Speaker 4 (02:36:41):
And that, my friends, is my non Florida story that
was great, thank you. What are yours?

Speaker 3 (02:36:48):
My man?

Speaker 13 (02:36:50):
So there's a city in Georgia that is bringing in
the new year, and not really a special way, but
kind of a unique way. We learned a couple months
ago that you and Rostal like fireworks, right, no despise them?

Speaker 3 (02:37:01):
Okay, well how about this?

Speaker 13 (02:37:03):
The Make and Bibb County Commission on Tuesday approved a
plan to implode a vacant sixteenth story hotel at midnight
on New Year's Eve. Macing Bibb County spent four and
a half million dollars last year to buye the hotel
in federal bankruptcy proceeding the city. County agreed on Tuesday
to hire a demolition firm to blow up the building
at a cost of two point six million dollars, and

(02:37:23):
they going to do it as the clock strikes midnight
on New Year's Eve. As simply put by the Macon
mayor quote, we acquired this property to blow it up.
The hotel was opened in nineteen seventy and its guests
included Elvis Presley, but it was never a financial success.
The hotel has actually some more history, like most notably
the New York Banking Department sees the hotel in nineteen

(02:37:44):
ninety one, saying it was one asset that was part
of a fraud and money laundering scheme linked to the
Bank of Credit and Commisary National. It was also accused
of helping Saddam Hussein hide Iraqi oil profits and backing
arms deals in Iran. It last operated as the Ramada Plaza,
but has stood vacant since they closed in twenty seventeen.
H And yeah, so if you're in Making, Georgia and

(02:38:06):
you're tired of watching the ball drop in New York
City on TV every year, you can just go watch
the implosion of a vacant hotel to celebrate twenty twenty five?

Speaker 4 (02:38:15):
Are they properly?

Speaker 3 (02:38:15):
Do they have a proper security around so nobody sneaks
in the hotel?

Speaker 4 (02:38:18):
Hopefully?

Speaker 15 (02:38:18):
So?

Speaker 3 (02:38:19):
Look, yeah, that's one concerned.

Speaker 13 (02:38:21):
Local business owners around the area are also concerned about
potential damage as a result of the demolition of any
debris hitting their billings.

Speaker 3 (02:38:29):
So I don't know if this is I don't know
how this got approved, but.

Speaker 4 (02:38:32):
You shouldn't know.

Speaker 3 (02:38:33):
You shouldn't make this a no, this is something to celebrate,
taken down piece by piece, and don't use fireworks.

Speaker 4 (02:38:41):
Especially the ones that are homemade that when you buy
down the street.

Speaker 3 (02:38:45):
I got time for a Houston story. Fee the Win,
forty six years old, was arrested recently after a violent
attack on his Katie neighbor.

Speaker 4 (02:38:57):
Channel eleven reports this.

Speaker 3 (02:38:59):
Jackie says her surveillance camera picked up Win pouring gasoline
on the outside of her house and setting it on fire.

Speaker 4 (02:39:08):
Quote.

Speaker 3 (02:39:08):
I came out, I confronted him about it. He admitted it,
and then he thinks my home was going to burn down.
He tried to come back, you know, with a sword
to attack me. Winn also allegedly threatened to Harris County
deputy with this sword before he was tased. Other neighbors
said they've had run ins with Wind too. He was

(02:39:29):
charged with arson and aggravated assault and held on two
hundred thousand dollars bond.

Speaker 4 (02:39:33):
So somebody was trying to get somebody with a sword. Yeah,
how many people are run around Houston, Texas with a sword.

Speaker 3 (02:39:38):
Have you ever been in an area where you felt
like you were you're a neighbor was going to attack
you with a sword.

Speaker 13 (02:39:42):
No, I didn't think I was walking out of the bar.
I got to be scared of somebody trying to mug
me with a sword. Yeah, you just yeah, that's not good.

Speaker 4 (02:39:49):
You just have run.

Speaker 3 (02:39:50):
You just you went to U of H mixers and
got at a rude experience. A right, I feel terrible
for you on that.

Speaker 13 (02:39:54):
Yeah, he'sird lyne where you turned to get to the bar.

Speaker 4 (02:39:58):
Let me go first, all right? Do I want to
read one more here?

Speaker 3 (02:40:02):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:40:03):
These are really great?

Speaker 13 (02:40:03):
I think a couple of weeks ago Ross told us
the story about monkeys and medical research guy. Yes, yeah,
so obviously they were on the loose.

Speaker 3 (02:40:12):
It was a couple dozen, Yes, are they Are they
still on the loose?

Speaker 13 (02:40:15):
Apparently, according to the South Carolina Medical Research Facility, there's
six monkeys still on the loose. So those local neighborhoods
need to be on watch for those six monkeys running
around their streets.

Speaker 3 (02:40:29):
That's that happened to Kingwood. You hate it with when
monkeys are around your neighborhood, all right?

Speaker 4 (02:40:33):
One more.

Speaker 3 (02:40:35):
November fourth, a British tourist made an alarming entrance at an
internet cafe nearing his hotel in Thailand. Staff of the
Freelancer hotel heard groans and banging coming from his room,
which wasn't necessarily unusual in the red light district.

Speaker 4 (02:40:52):
This is the story, not me.

Speaker 3 (02:41:00):
The fifty one year old man fell from a balcony
and through the ceiling of the adjacent cafe with just
his naked legs showing to about twenty patrons below. As
onlookers called for help, they realized the nudeman was covered
an excrement. Oh. He was taken to a hospital to

(02:41:20):
sober up and address his minor injuries. So he fell.

Speaker 4 (02:41:33):
So like himself. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:41:37):
As onlookers called for help, they realized the nudeman was
covered an excremen. He was taken to a hospital, sober
up in his dresses injuries. Police checking out his hotel
room found feces smeared on the floor. We have some
idea about what he was doing in the room to
make it so dirty, but there was nothing illegal. You'll
have to speak with a hotel and negotiate the bill.

Speaker 2 (02:41:57):
So he just went to the.

Speaker 3 (02:42:01):
So he messes up the room literally, then falls out
of this hotel down to a cafe where his legs
are showing.

Speaker 4 (02:42:11):
With smearings.

Speaker 3 (02:42:13):
He wasn't like intoxicated or anything. It hadn't have been Yeah,
there's no way that. Yeah, I don't think it's.

Speaker 4 (02:42:19):
To be sober. And just like go to the bathroom
in different parts of a whole ten room that didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:42:23):
Involve a toilet. Did the story not say?

Speaker 2 (02:42:25):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:42:25):
It is not. Can you imagine being in a cafe
having a nice coffee, maybe a croissant, a beignet, and
a man's legs covered in.

Speaker 23 (02:42:37):
Just shows up. I would never go back, that's true.
Do you get like a free bit Danish with that
man drops?

Speaker 3 (02:42:48):
Man drops trying a cafe and you get a free cafe,
You get a free coffee and don'tut. And those are
non Florida stories, not my breastwork. But you know what,
it's a Friday. We're gonna do hell, yeah or not?
All things about Daniel Jones up next our time is
one forty five. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Ross today is in Mexico City, and we'll look forward

(02:43:10):
to having him back in another week and a half
or so. Seven one three two one two five seven
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Speaker 4 (02:43:17):
If you want to play hell, y're not. We're playing for?

Speaker 2 (02:43:19):
What are we playing for?

Speaker 9 (02:43:19):
That?

Speaker 4 (02:43:19):
I have no idea what we're playing for.

Speaker 13 (02:43:21):
I think we got one more pair of tickets left
to the uahed Cougar game, okay, and then we've got
tickets to go see comedian Lewis Black.

Speaker 4 (02:43:26):
Is he funny? Generally speaking?

Speaker 3 (02:43:28):
I'm not familiar with his work?

Speaker 4 (02:43:30):
Is he been an SNL? Dan would know that Dan?
Has he been an SNL?

Speaker 3 (02:43:34):
Has Lewis Black been on SML? Thank you as Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:43:37):
I think he's been on before.

Speaker 3 (02:43:38):
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outs in a row in your prize. What are you
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Baylor Bears tomorrow this Saturday, November twenty third, a TDCU
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Friday November twenty second at seven one through Music Hall
and some seven ninety t shirts.

Speaker 4 (02:45:59):
Let's play.

Speaker 3 (02:46:00):
Let's go to a line number four Eric on seven
out of Eric, you're ready to play?

Speaker 1 (02:46:05):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:46:07):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:46:08):
Daniel Jones's nicknames, at least one of them is Danny
Dimes hell yeah or not? Hell Yeah? There you go
statement number two for the Wind. Daniel Jones was the
ninth pick of the Giants in the twenty nineteen draft,
where he played his college football at North Carolina. Hell
yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:46:29):
Hell yea?

Speaker 3 (02:46:30):
No, he was a six pick and he went in Duke.
Come on, now, get your wikipedia ready to go here?
John Paul on seven out a JP, what was your
favorite part of today's radio show.

Speaker 9 (02:46:43):
When you woke up all the hard working girls?

Speaker 4 (02:46:45):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (02:46:46):
Daniel Jones wasn't recruited much in his high school and
it planned to go to Princeton before signing with Duke.
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 9 (02:46:54):
Hell yeah? There you go?

Speaker 4 (02:46:56):
Statement number two for the Wind.

Speaker 3 (02:46:58):
Daniel Jones had an eighty eight rating on Madden twenty four.
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 24 (02:47:04):
Not?

Speaker 3 (02:47:05):
Hell you did now? I don't play Madden. Connor is
at a good rating or a bat or any eighty eight.
It's pretty average.

Speaker 13 (02:47:11):
Mean as the quarterbacks, so most of them are higher
rated than other positions.

Speaker 4 (02:47:16):
I got you.

Speaker 3 (02:47:16):
Let's go to Roger on seven NINTI Roger, You're ready
to play? Helly aa or not?

Speaker 20 (02:47:22):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:47:23):
Daniel Jones on Instagram has two hundred and sixty three
thousand followers, but only twelve post hell yeah or not?

Speaker 22 (02:47:31):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:47:32):
That's right? Hell statement number two for the way, And
Daniel Jones chose jersey number eight because his favorite football
player growing up was Treyman.

Speaker 4 (02:47:40):
Hell yeah or not not?

Speaker 3 (02:47:44):
That is also correct? Nicely done, Sam on Magnoia on seven.

Speaker 4 (02:47:51):
Nintie Sam, You're ready to play? Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 22 (02:47:54):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:47:55):
Daniel met his longtime girlfriend Christy when he was on
a flight to the NFL Combine and she was one
of the flood attendants.

Speaker 4 (02:48:01):

Speaker 3 (02:48:07):
Nah yeah? I made that up.

Speaker 4 (02:48:09):
Statement number two for the way.

Speaker 3 (02:48:10):
And at the end of the season, Jones's career earnings
will be more than one hundred and eight million dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:48:16):

Speaker 1 (02:48:22):
It will be How do you not know the guy's salaries?

Speaker 6 (02:48:27):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:48:27):
So one winner today on hellyeron and hopefully you'll be
enjoying those Cougar tickets against the Baylor Bears tomorrow at
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Up next, Adam Klant Adam Lux are going to entertain
you on this Friday. They'll take you at six o'clock.
Then Rockets basketball at seven against the Portland Trail Blazers.
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