Cam Smith Plays RF, Altuve Makes Blunder In LF, Getting Real About Astros, Rockets DOMINATE Suns

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Mattapa Show.

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This is Sports Talk seven ninety He goes Roy so
Neil and you lost the basketball. That's an unforced turnover
into the hands of Brooks. Here goes Easting, gets turned
back of the lane outright side of Van Bleek and
the Lani goes and Freddy has got five first quarter points.
Rockets up twelve to nine. Coming right back fred Vambley
bounced past out the dB D, beat the right elbow
out left side, Jalen catch shoot launch score three pointers.

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Shalen Green did give it rockets at nine point. Lady's
got twenty six. On the ninth Vamlee bounced past right
side over to Jabbari left troll drive against Durant, pulls
up fourteen foot shot. Yes, Jafari Smith not a huge
part of the offense tonight. It's got six with the
clippers of rockets and.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Double digit lead again.

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Ninety eight four double team comes to Green to Brooks,
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What a beautiful time. That time for the Rocket Center.
What woar is gonna hold on the basketball at his
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to eleven and Phoenix one o four. It's funny for
my friends that bashed me for my unabashed love. Unabashed,
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Uh huh I put this song on there, like okay,

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this is a really good song. Yeah, there's some jams
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another Rockets victim. Here comes an ass whoop in Phoenix
Suns in a game that was not a niggative of
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I mean five minutes and five missshots. It was crazy.
Maybe it's a poofed out. Harry's got going now, h
gotta get the braids back whatever it's gonna have to take. Hey,
Rockets won last time. Good morning it is Matten Ross.
We are with you today until two o'clock. It's our penultimate.
Is a penultimate for the week. Yeah for Connor too,

(02:35):
oh for Connor.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Whatever we just said goodbye to. I'm not looking him
in the face. We're down the two days off of
Connor McGovern He is leaving to go get a full
time job with great benefits and out standing pey. What
what a idiot? I mean, what are you doing. I
didn't tell him. I didn't tell him. We're gonna have
to call him for a variety of things that you know,
I only have to call him with a get a

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loan show related stuff, even though he's on a to
the show what they wore. I need that. I need
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Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
By the way, he is promising us one well of
a Friday open tomorrow, Yes, the last one under his watch. Yes,
now those will return. We've got a new producer coming
up next weekend. So there's and don't if you'll know this, son,
there's a few layers of this show, and so it
takes a while to get to the show. People, uh,
you know, and I'll even say further. People around the

(03:24):
building know that Matt Thomas is the most demanding person
when it comes to producers in the building, so that
is far from accurate. It would be Michael Berry, but
he's not in the building, so it's you, Connor. Is
that true? Was my reputation worse or better than what
you had originally heard? The reputation was worse. People people
had me a little scared, not scared, but prepared to

(03:46):
get some like rude comments. Yeah, but I'm rudy regardless
of the show working out right or not well. The
thing is Matt he doesn't deal well with incompetence, and
you were very competent, Connor, So you were spared and
rude Maybe wasn't the right word. Maybe he's just frustration,
but not Sai personally. I Will was told never to
take any personal Yeah. I get frustrated very easily, and
I have not been frustrated with you. So thank you

(04:08):
very much for your time. And you're well, we're gonna
go celebrate tomorrow for a little lunch because we got
a shorter show tomorrow. That's right, But we're here today
for a day. This week's we're full four hours today, well,
we were full three hours and forty nine minutes because
you know, that's fine, that's fine, that's all right, all right,
on the radio program today, I just don't get it.
At eleven thirty, okay, twelve one o'clock, e Doka is

(04:30):
going to join the radio program the Emama Doka of
your Houston Rockets, and damn it, Ross, I am standings watching.
Everybody else is moving up and the Rockets are just
staying at number five. The Memphis Grizzes are now on
the two scene in the Western Conference. Yeah, but you're
just a game behind. But we're also really close to
the six and seven smallbe you should just let go.

(04:50):
I have I have a problem. Don't watch the scoreboard.
You're probably watching the scoreboards more than emy Doka. I'm
having like the client and Wexer read scoreboards in the
middle of the game. I'm just that obsessed about it.
You gotta relax, man, right, Someone throw this out right now,
right now. And I don't know ife he's listening or not.
And if you are, thank you. Is there something in

(05:12):
sports that drives you so crazy you can't do it anymore? Hmm,
you can't do it anymore. I can't do anymore. For instance,
I'll give you a very small example. I can't I'm
going to continue to do it because I'm a fraud.
But I shouldn't be looking at the standings in the

(05:32):
Western Conference, I shouldn't be scoreboard watching, but I keep
doing it with March. Maybe that's a better Maybe that's
a better question. What is something you know you shouldn't
be doing in sports, but yet you.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Continue to do it?

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Might be being a Texans fan, might be a Casio Truther,
It might be playing golf, and you think of something
you do. Is there something that you that involves sports
that you know you shouldn't be doing, but yet you
keep doing it?

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Hmmm?

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I got sports? Not even a guilty pleasure. No, it's guilty.
It's guilty, just terrible. Because here I am Rockets, a
terrible The Rockets have won four straight game. They get man,
they're gonna move with the latter and they're still in
that damn five spot. Yeah, but they're getting closer, all right,
because Denver did lose last night to Minnesota, but Minnesota
got closer. Now, Yes, Minnesota's winning. The Lakers have lost

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a couple in a row. So if you get something
in your life that you know you shouldn't be doing
in sports, but yet you still do. M M, I
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Peter Ross, we ask of you to listen to Rockets
Radio because I think we do a pretty good job.
It's a you know, not nearly as talented as Craig
and Ryan and VNSR, but know who can be. So
last night Appera and Shingoo nearly posterizes somebody for the Sons.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
I forgot who it was.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
Couldn't have been Plumbing because he was tossed after he
got into a wrestling match with Steven Adams for a
short period of time, yes, and so there was no poster,
but there was a found some free throws coming up.
And Adam Clanton likes to ask me a variety of
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me last night. Who was on the poster in your
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two girls not in the same poster. Well, I was

(08:30):
about to say, that'd be very interesting. Two are the girls?
They were just laingerie girls. Free throw one for green
is upon you asked, why do I do this to
the audience? I thought they were like famous. No, no,
there's lingerie models. I can't remember that that poster like

(08:51):
it was yesterday. All right, we don't need you reminiscing
about those times. I mean was fifteen discovery, That's what
it is. Remember you remember, Remember you asked me a question.
I'll answer it. It's not like brutal Ross or honest Ross.

(09:12):
I don't recall that. Retire that second that was that
got you in a little bit of trouble there, So
we don't need that. Uh. But yeah, that's what's going
on with the Rockets. They won last and over the
Phoenix Suns. Rockets remained in fifth place in Western Conference.
We'll get to that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Today.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
We have a pair of spring training games for the
local nine today split squad, and one of them will
feature Cameron Smith. Nobody calls the camera. He's just Cam Smith.
He's in right field today. Good, good for him, get
him some work over there. Mm hmmm. Oh so yeah,

(09:52):
that's not that's not a good situation at all, that
you're going to potentially open up the season with a
left fielder he hasn't played before, and maybe a right
fielder hasn't played before. I don't think you're going to
open the season with that. I agree with you. I'm
just saying we have to continue to bring up that possible,
this potential. I don't think it's happened. I don't think

(10:19):
so either. He's hardly played out there. But if that
was to happen, and it sounds like to me that's
very much a possibility at some point this year. Is
Jake Myers like, man, do I have to cover the
entire outfield? He would? That's one other thing again, one
of the luxuries you have is that he can cover
so much ground out there. I wonder if this is
part of it is because Chas mccormanck can't field his position. No,

(10:43):
it's the bat or more importantly, maybe Cam Smith. We
will start to find out maybe isn't a third baseman
that he would be better serve as a major leaguer
in right field. There has been talk about him and
the third base work. I get him somewhere else, it's fine.
Get him on the field, get the bat in the lineup. Yeah,
if it's going to produce again twenty played appearances above

(11:03):
Abell spring has been great, but we I think we
need to pump the brakes a little bit. But I
will say the argument against that is that Dana Brown
doesn't pump the breaks when it comes to prospects. He
moves guys up. But previous general managers have definitely pumped
the breaks. George Beringer's like you know ed did you

(11:24):
pump the breaks? Didn't even drink the car on? Yeah?
And I'm not going to be signing back with you guys. Yeah,
I don't know. We'll see. To me, I still have
May fifteenth down, and I might even be a little
bit early. I may have been too late on that.
Unless McCormick does bat his way into the lineup and

(11:49):
that there's really no spot for him, because again, I
don't think you bring him up here to sit him
four to five days a week. If you're bringing Camus
Smith up here, it's because he wants to play. As
you need him to play. Yeah, we'll see. Now let's
go glass half fall on this you ready? Mm hmm?
My glass is normally half full.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
Well, I know they call you mister glass half full.
That seems a little wordy. It does, so that's why
I don't call it to you very often.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
If he is successful, you've replaced Kyle Tucker, who is
going to leave with a phenomenal bat in right field.
All right, again, this is glass. I'm gonna spilling over
all right, glass thirty to thirty. Guy, we're talking about.
You're replacing gold glove. Stay with me in this glass overflowing. Okay,

(12:37):
you first round pick. Obviously somebody thought how high enough
of him? Meaning the Cubs a draft from the first round.
There is obviously something to his game that says this
is going to be most first round picks making the
major leagues most due, not all, but most. I mean
they're great, but they're at least get there. Okay, Okay,
he plays every day in right field. He's significantly cheaper.

(12:58):
I'm not saying he's the same target side power or
takeover games, but you're not missing much of a beat.
Much like Jeremy Pania when he took over for Carlos Gray.
You missed a little bit of the beat, but you
didn't miss the whole beat. You still miss a lot
of it. You miss Yeah, we had a great postseason
run in twenty years the bats not being good at all.
I know, slow, stay with me on this, a stay

(13:19):
with me on this. Where is this coming from? I'm
just giving you both sides of this, Okay. The negative is,
how in the world would you get rid of Kyle
Tucker knowing that you're going to put Jose al Twoba
out in the left field, knowing that was going to
be a minus play in the outfield, and then you're
adding a minus player out in right field who's never
played but the position before. That's the negative of what

(13:41):
were you really thinking? Or how about this? What were
you really thinking thinking that you're going to put Chas
McCormick in right field and say, oh, the Chas McCormack
of two years ago was going to be the guy
that was going to come in and help this squad
in twenty twenty five. Your because you had you wanted

(14:02):
to stay under the text. You know that Kyle Tucker
is gonna leave. You want to get some value for him,
and you shored up the infield with Paradis and Walker. Yeah,
because you were gonna have you couldn't. You just didn't
have the money to plug every hole on the roster.

(14:22):
So what what is there going to be closer to being?
Are we going to be like wanting to enshrine cam
Smith and the Astro's Hall of Fame right away? Or
are we going to be missing Kyle Tucker more than
we ever thought we were going to be miss him?

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Man?

Speaker 2 (14:37):
I guess it could be a combination of both, especially
if Kyle Tucker rakes it at Wrigley Field.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Do you want?

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Do you want realistic astros talk? I know we can't
do this in March. Let's do it when come back. Okay,
realistic astros talk. We have to be real realistic, so
you and I will both be realistic here. Okay? Is
there a song with the word realistic or really in it?

Speaker 3 (14:58):
What is it called? Uh?

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Uh, I'm too real? Okay, look up the song Connor
I'm Too Real and see where that ends up. Seven
one three two one two five seven I'm too Real?

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Okay, I'm sure you'll you'll find us a realistic song.
Got to be Real by Cheryl Lynn. That's a great
I'm Real by Kendrick Lamar. We don't play Kendrick Lamar
on the show. He's kind of a one hit wonder
seven one three, two, one two five not accurate seven ninety.
He's got like four top ten hits, like right now,
got to be real. Yeah, but I don't listen to
his music top ten. Okay, just because you don't listen

(15:33):
to it doesn't mean we can't play. So you're telling
me that on the Billboard Top ten he's got four
songs he has recently. Yeah, wow, okay, good super Bowl.
That Super Bowl performance, he did it well? Did it?
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Happy birthday, man, Happy birthday. Turn the microphone. That it's fine?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Is that this one is? Oh?

Speaker 2 (16:56):
Are you no longer employed by It's correct?

Speaker 3 (16:58):
No, I'm not. I'm I'm not gonna say whatever you want.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Absolutely can't. Aren't you to noncompete? I am an, I
am is it? It's Thursday, so we don't get any
good morning? Like?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (17:09):
What should we do? That's wait? Y'are working a full
show today? Yes? Okay, the eight teams? Not, by the way,
there all Matt's not because you're your your horns are
playing Texas A and m What are you doing, Matt?
This is what he does. I'm listening on prep in
his calendar like this show. I just wanted to get
in for at least five minutes. You know, worked with

(17:29):
you guys since twenty eighteen, and I can't ever get
an invite to do a filling show with you guys.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
We called you.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Did Yeah, I rosted? Actually yeah, yeah, we've called him
on air before. He was he was taking a nap
whatever that means, that's right, yeah, because they were probably
with somebody else. I was taking an taking a working nap.
It's fine. You've done Morning Drive in your career. We
talked about yesterday. The worst is it's the worst.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Look.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
I'll say this, and I said to you on off air.
We should be paying Sean as much as we are,
although I don't know if there's great value in that,
but we're still paying him a lot. Uh morning drive
of just sucks the life out of here, it does. So, yes,
I was, I take anap every day. I'm going home
and taking an ap right now?

Speaker 3 (18:04):
All right?

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, maybe some patio beer. So knows though that sounds
eighty eight today? Bear no, shower Beer's most underrated beer
of all time. Have you all that discussion yet, Matt Hayde, No,
don't even try to smile. You'd be smarts the good
name of shower beer for years. I just don't get it.
What do you what do you mean? You don't get it?

Speaker 3 (18:23):
I could sit back.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Where did you go to college? University of Houston? Did
you live on campus or no? Okay, so so you
stayed home with with your parents? You got an apartment?
Got apartments?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (18:33):
So you never when you're pregame, where'd you go back
in the day Wild West? Was that still around?

Speaker 3 (18:37):
No?

Speaker 2 (18:38):
I was staying at home. I was working, So you
didn't party. I parted with the rockets, okay, and you
never had a shower. He was playing the Wheel of
Fortune home game by himself. That's what he was doing.
I was playing Plinko. It's kind of like you know
what I mean? No, No, no, go ahead, say that's
kind of gay. You say that, right, you're no longer

(18:58):
employed here, right, we sit on here this morning. I'm
not happy. Apparently you're filtered. Is no longer working either.
I just want to know what why you don't respect
to nothing at all? Actually one of my my cousins
is gay, so it's fine, thank you for that. It's
fine anyways, what you guys, what you guys never said
that before? No, not really no, okay, I mean I've

(19:20):
been in year to fill in. Yeah, it's fine though,
it's all right, all right, well this has been great.
It's good.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
It's like we're at our company party. What are we
talking about? What's what's this? What's the topic? Oh here,
we'll let you do that. Uh, we want to be
real about cam Smith, Chance mccam. I said, we're gonna
have some real astros to Jose Altuve. Look in your
crystal ball.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
All those boys gonna do this year. Well, as long
as Jake Myers is not on the roster, I'm good.
Get out what President Myers fan? I know That's why
I said it. The dude is, what's a be real? Okay?
Can we can we stop putting Cam Smith on the
All Star team already. We have to roll out doing that.

(20:06):
We have to Oh you're bros, your little astro Twitter
astro Twitter this night, by the way. Yeah, that's all
your possible know. It's not Oh god, he's gonna play
right field. Kyle Tucker is a thirty thirty guy. Let's
be realistic about this. It's more likely that Cam Smith
is not going to be a good Major leaguer than
it is that he's going to be a thirty thirty guy. Yeah,

(20:27):
by the odds, I think that's the odds. Yeah, Okay,
that's being real. Two days in the twilight of his career,
he's turning thirty five. They're moving him to the outfield.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Craig Bizio got moved to centerfield when he was thirty seven. Yeah,
so we have that real. Yeah. Jake Myers isn't gonna
wake up and hit twenty five bombs. No, he's not.
We have to be real. So who plays center, Chas
McCormick or Jake Myers. I mean it's gonna be Jake. Yeah. Yeah, Okay,
so what happens Joes and left? That's true. Yeah, but
then you got to worry about them crashing into pal Yeah,

(20:58):
but then what happens? No, no, no, no, Jake's gonna call off Jose.
I don't sometime what happens we were joking that with
the in the locker room in the clubhouse. Yeah, or
like you're just gonna call off Jose on everything. He's like, yeah, yeah,
I'll get wird. But what happens when Jake Myers hits
a buck seventy for the first three months of the
season twenty eight last year with a little pop thirteen
home runs?

Speaker 3 (21:19):
Are you a Jake Myers, Stan Mass?

Speaker 2 (21:21):
He's fine?

Speaker 3 (21:22):
What?

Speaker 2 (21:22):
No, He's not fine. He's you know, a good defender.
He's my ninth place hitter. What am I expecting? That's true?

Speaker 3 (21:27):
How as the nine.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Hole and they succeeded, But he also was a big
valuable piece in the clubhouse. And everything that was made
about Jake Myers sucks. He's not good. I'm sorry he
was offensively he had two wins above replacement last year?
Did he have two war Yeah, you guys, big war guys. No, No, no
wins above replacement not not like not like what's going
on over other places.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
No, like.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Once you break down the whole Israel pass You don't
you have no podcast to go do? Or what do
you think about Ukraine? This is gotta lighten up round,
No wonder we didn't have all the show. What you've done?
You've drugged this show down on bad levels. You may nine?
What is that supposed to me? That's you should believe
it or not? Should be about Zelensky? Jake Myers war

(22:15):
two point zero? Okay with one point two? What's up?
What's the league average? Josh Hater point nine?

Speaker 3 (22:22):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (22:22):
More valuable than Jeff Hayter? Well, what's what's the league average?
Let me take you?

Speaker 4 (22:26):
So are you?

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Are you with your bros at the bar? Going man?
Josh Hatter's point nine? War? Nobody's doing that.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
I have been.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
You asked because you have no friends. I guess talking
yourself at the bar. That makes no sense. I guess
you guys don't listen to Sean Salisbury show from six
am to ten am when I was on it. I'm
not up right, yeah, because I hate them in traffic
I can't stand stats. I hate him, I hate advanced stats,
I hate the advanced tats nerds, I hate the replacements.
Just dontt of all time. Guess what every organization, every
general manager, every front office, the players, they're all using

(22:55):
the numbers, the managers, everybody, but you path, when did
you get on board with Jake Myers? Like so heavy?
Like have you been ross?

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Now?

Speaker 2 (23:04):
When he first came up, he was I'm gonna tell
you exactly. He had the shoulder in drink. That's when
I that's when we founded the Jake Myers Fan Club.
When he first came up, I was like, he was
putting together good at bats. He was showing some good eye,
he showed some pop. Yeah, he had great range in
the field. He was making five star catches. I was like, man,
I like this, by the way to now. I never
thought the guy was going to be an All Star,
but I thought he would be a good everyday player.

(23:26):
But that's when we founded the Jake Myers Fan Club.
Look it up. You know who, honestly, you know who
is better than him? Who Jake marisnik Look it up.
You know the reason why he's I just figured it
out that he got so much love in the last
two hours of the show. He's looking about hashtags. Hear

(23:50):
me out hashtags the same no no, no, no hashtag.
I said what I said hashtag drink wall of water,
hashtag good morning. I just don't have get to do
any shows with you guys or you know ross we're
gonna call I'm ready to go.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
No, I'm not gonna think you.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
What's your hours? Like you never responded my text?

Speaker 5 (24:08):
You know.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'm sorry. I'm about text you. You are the worst.
Test called Matta way worse. Yes, I called back. He
called me yesterday in the way of the Tote center.
I left the message two weeks somebody's worse than me.
Two weeks ago. I finally called him back and say, hey,
I'm sorry, but I'm bad too, because I just realized
you didn't text me. Hours are gonna be? I work
from home, all right, so we can get you fill in? No, No,

(24:29):
he's gonna he can call in him six months we
want to fill in? Yeah, yeah, but no, like Matt
will never ask me to do a show with just
me and him. No, No, I'll be happy.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
And then the guys below, the guys in the in
the afternoon, they don't work. They don't ever. I've never
gotten Adam Clan invited me one time, and it was
because it was on location at gallery just because you're
on four hours in the morning. We don't want to
bother you. Look, man, I'm a team guy, all right.
We didn't know that. If you want to call him
too much time, you're gonna miss Brian leemc.

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That was the whole morning show.

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BM?

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You're still on the company WiFi though sports hold on,
it's not that bad. What is BM stamp? Bowling management?
Benjamin Moore in company? Nope, bowel movement there. That was lame,

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eight Sports Talk seven ninety seven to one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Rockets will win last night over
at the Phoenix Suns. Astros in action today with Camsmith
playing in right field. Looking forward to hearing some of that.
Maybe something impactful at least is that the game we'll have.
I know it's a split squad. I'm you know, honestly,

(27:29):
I don't know which one we're doing. There's two, we
all even one, so I would assume the one that's
going to be in West Palm Beach. Okay, So tape
delay astroline at six o'clock tonight, wow. Then at seven
o'clock the tape delay of the game. Can't wait. And
then today, by the way, what's today? We've got our
show till full two o'clock, and then we're going to

(27:50):
A and M versus Texas in the SEC tournament. That
is correct. It doesn't do anything for it, does it.
What do you mean A and M Texas back? Oh, Mid,
there's a little extra juice. I'd say, I would say
A and M's comfortably in the tournament. Yes, Texas could
certainly use a victory over A and M to build

(28:14):
their resume. Mm hmm. They are six and a half
point dogs, are the Texas Longhorn? Have you checked in
on Najoel Nardie's bracketology after life? I have not usually
posted a fair amount on Twitter. I don't follow him,
but it always shows up.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
My four US.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Finished six and twelve in the SEC. Now, the SEC
is tough, but I mean they're still like what I've
seen him in the last two weeks there, they've fallen
out of that first four last four in They've been
in that first four out category for quite some time. Yeah,
they lost to South Carolina in Georgia. They got beat
down and they should have won both of those games.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
M hm, whatever, I don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
You're almost and I want to put words in your mouth.
You're almost like, let's get this over whistling a new coach. Yes,
I will be rooting for the Longhorns to win, though.
We're gonna go watch the game somewhere where you want
to go. I'm going to my house. Yeah, I know,
you see, you're always from wanting to be invited somewhere
you're always saying we're gonna go somewhere and then you
should go home. Yeah, but it's it's.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Thirty afternoon basketball.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
That's what's wrong with that. That sounds perfect, but it's
you're off it too. It's a lot get off it too.
I have a couple of pops and watch the basketball.
I want to go home and and do watch. Gonna
get on your phone and watch a bunch of old
answers from the I don't even know, some some game show,
and then it's not true. Yeah, I'm not a watch

(29:35):
of rockets. What are you doing with the rest of
your My middle son painting his home for a spring break? Okay,
so we're gonna probably just go watch a game with him.
You just like to watch. He's done watching. That's good. Actually,
it tempers him a little bit. You check his phone.
Quite volatile on the athletic front, It is what it is.

(29:55):
He just has an intense passion for agi athletics and
doesn't really accept losing very well. What it is. Maybe
you should have picked a different athletic program. Yeah, but
every school, I mean, who in sports doesn't ever lose.
Everybody loses. The Aggies are worse than most. Come on,
they literally never made an Elite eight ever in their

(30:16):
basketball history. Come on, let's pipe they went to the
College Series. We got to be a real championship game. Yeah,
and they lost in three. Okay, they haven't won a
they haven't won a conference championship in football since nineteen
ninety eight. Your son was not born, I know, so
let's be realistic. I'm sorry. I don't mean to hurt
the Aggies feelings, but you're hurting the boys feelings homes

(30:37):
he's been home all week with the summing flu.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
That's what you do.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I would say, more hype with more disappointment than any
program in the country. What's up? And by the way,
we'll be getting more money from a third party marketing
group than anybody else in college athletic that's right. I
don't think they're gonna bether get that. I would be
asking Phillips checks in advance, well in advance, because I
don't think it's gonna pay off. But that's a different
business for a different time. So much money is pumped
into that program. It's incredible, Like if like this, this

(31:03):
marketing group is spending like thirty million bucks a year
on them, or I don't know what the dollar man,
it's something crazy for a long period of time. I mean,
you can only put so many signs up, you can
only put so many pieces of advertising in a magazine.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
You can only get.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Every yard line sponsored rather than just like the red zone.
Like you know, they superimpose in professional sports. Yeah? Are
do they super imposing in college sports? Now?

Speaker 6 (31:27):
Ah?

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Not that I can recall. But the problem is you
can't control that because you're that's that's SEC money. That's
not a MTV now, that's ESPN or Yeah, yeah they can,
that's their responsibility. They're just doing radio and multimedia whatever
that means.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (31:42):
Does it bother you on the superimposement of things, I
don't know. It really started around the pandemic, right, That's
what I feel like. Yeah, yep, I'm used to it.
On the Rockets floor now, I mean look, basically the
whole floor is covered when you watch a Rockets game. Now, Sam,
I only say what I see in front of me.
I never see the supermposing stuff. But yeah, it's I

(32:05):
always thought, man, I can't believe they put that there.
And then on the second but we have to realize
that the advertising dollars drive so much of every part
of the economy, but it's certainly the sports economy. Yeah,
our jobs. Yeah oh yeah. Advertising would around the Astros games,
the Rockets games, the TV dollars. It also from advertising dollars.

(32:26):
Whose fault is this when this all really started? Who's
fault is it? George Washington? I don't think he goes
back that far. Oh, that's where I kind of started.
Was it was it with the advent. They wanted to
throw a bunch of tea in the water. You're going
Boston tea party. Okay, I was gonna go War of
eighteen twelve, but that, you know, teach his own on that.
That was more of an invasion. Oh are you a

(32:48):
righteous Gemstones guy. I've watched the actually first couple of episodes.
I liked it, but I didn't fall. So there's a
pre There was a prequel this past week, and it
was it was about the Gemstone family patriarch right. Uh,
he was working during the Civil War. John Goodman. No,
that's that's the that's the dad and this is what God,

(33:09):
it's gotta be John Goodman's character's grandfather.

Speaker 3 (33:11):
Probably.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
Okay, by the way, you who played the role of
the original the very first Gemstone in this prequel Bradley Cooper. Okay,
so I mean that's a good pull for our buddy,
Uh Danny McBride Jim Stone Talk seven ninety Yeah it's
it sucked, but yet I still watched it. You said

(33:34):
you quit that show like in season two. It's like,
my it's like my thing for fantasy footall. I'm gonna
stop playing, stop paying. I wound up playing. Mmm, you
come back, No we need you. No, I'm good because
now Brian Lilma left. Why why don't you a text
Rhodo help you in for you? He's only got no
Rodo is going to be on the waiver wires claiming
like eighteen players a week. We can't do. We can't

(33:55):
have him for you're looking for an upgrade. Aren't you
know what I should have done? Where you know where
I messed up? Wino Aarraghetti was like one hundred percent
in the league. Well I never follow the home in
two weeks. You can talk to him then, okay, but
the clubhouse introduce yourself against Hey, remember you, we got
a spot in our leg to get.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
You in the league. Bro.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
I was like, what's your ESPN email.

Speaker 3 (34:12):
That is interesting, that's funny you say that.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
All right, we have I just don't get it coming
up at about thirty five minutes from now. Uh, anything
new going on in the NFL has been quiet the
last couple of days, mostly quiet on the NFL front.
Texan's making any big time moves. You know, we're honestly
waiting for us where Aaron Rodgers is going to show up.
There is Aaron Rodgers talk to Minnesota of all places.

(34:37):
I thought I saw somebody reported it was the Giants
in somebody else. No, Minnesota's definitely in play Giants in Minnesota. Yeah,
I still think he's going to the Giants. But that
was just kind of like a gut feeling I had
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(36:55):
win last night, have now put together four consecutive wins
Rossie I had him going six and one of these
seven so far on the path towards that six and
one more. Let's go Dallas Mavericks will being on Friday,
the Chicago Bulls Saturday, Philadelphia on Monday, and then we
hit the road for a few days.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
To go down to Orlando in Miami.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
So only one game behind two the two seed. The
problem is you can't think of it as one to
one because you got two teams to hop as well.
Everybody has to fall. And the fact is the last
ten games of the season for the Rockets will feature
two against the Los Angeles Lakers, one against Golden State,
one against the Los Angeles Clippers, teams that are in

(37:32):
and around your area trying to snag your spot in
the Western Conference standings, and one more with Oklahoma City
by the way, who, by the way, last night beat Boston. Gosh, yeah,
they're good, and yet they continue them in Cleveland. You know,
Cleveland's won fifteen consecutive games for the second time this year.

(37:55):
That's insane, and no one is giving well, I shouldn't
say no one, I would say national pundits are giving
them very little respect. I yeah, uh, well it's because
the national pundits don't even know who's coaching every team.
Do you. This to me comes across as the national
narrative is praying for television numbers, like, for instance, it

(38:17):
shouldn't matter to anybody that works for ESPN. I'm talking
about the on air talent or T and T they're called.
They're being paid to call games. I if I was
a play by a play broadcaster, or an analyst or
a studio host, I mean, I want the best matchups possible. Yes,
I think I think Cleveland's getting some respect around the

(38:38):
NBA spheres. How could you know everybody in their mother
is picking Boston in the East, everybody that I can't everybody.
I can't find anybody that says to Cleveland. I haven't
gone through all the punnits, but I watched them watch
around the Morning. Yeah, you watch it more than I
did to do that, I guess, But I mean I've
watched the sick inside up and covered year. You should stop.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
I know.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I think most legitimate media, and I follow more on
Twitter NBA people then I do on these talking head shows,
and I think everybody's respect. How could you not They're
fifty five and ten. It's ridiculous. Do not respect? It
is absurd they don't get their respect. Well, I mean, look,
Boston are the reigning champs because it's a toss up

(39:17):
at this because they're still saying at the end of
the day, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, Chris aps Porzingis, Derek White,
Peyton Pritchard, those guys have been there, done that. Where
Cleveland is going into an area they'd never been before. Yeah,
I mean most people, I mean, but Darius Garland. People
don't talk about him in a national sphere, but he's
been great. He's been an All Star. Same thing with
Donovan Mitchell is great, Longhorn legend, Jarrett Allen, Evan Watson

(39:40):
playing amazing. Yeah, they've got a great team. So back
to my original point, they if you're on the air,
you shouldn't care who's in it. You shouldn't be wishing
for man.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
Cleveland and Oklahoma City are cool, but man, wouldn't it
be awesome if we had Lebron versus the Celtics. I
think that's what ESPN wants they do. I'm talking about now,
the shareholders and the network executives do. But if you
are Kendrick Perkins, do you particularly care who's playing? Or
do or are you? Are you caught up in the
glamor of Well, if it's Lakers Boston, I'll have more

(40:14):
people watching me than if it would say Oklahoma City
versus Cleveland. I can't really answer that question for him,
but I or them, I don't imagine that they do
care that much as long as it's good basketball. Like
Kendrick Perkins is the leader of the I got Boston
one of the East. I mean because he played there,
like Kendrick Perkins. Even though he doesn't have good opinions,
in my opinion, he still loves basketball. I think Cavalier's

(40:35):
Oklahoma City would be a great finals. ESPN disagrees. ESPN
would be crying over that. The funny thing is too
they wouldn't be crying if it were the Westbrook Durant
Hardened Thunder versus the Lebron Calves. Just like in a whatever,
like the cities, it's about the stars. It's about the players,

(40:56):
that's right, and I mean beyond in the NFL had
many many. Brett Favre was a major stock absolutely in
Green Bay, Wisconsin. It's not about the city name. It's
about who's on the team that sells the sex and
that right now, those teams and maybe the NBA will
always be this way ross maybe we're just never going
to get the flashiest of flashiest players to play. I mean,

(41:18):
for as awesome as Giannis is, you're not seeing Giannis
on McDonald's commercials. He's got I think he's got some advertising,
but it's not La. The NBA flashes to it as
cities more than any other school. It's just i just

(41:38):
think I don't think as much in twenty twenty five
as it was in years past. Can can the average
NBA fan I'm talking about the average NBA fan name
a member of the Oklahoma City Thunder not named Schego,
does Alexander? I would say yes, they would probably go
to chet Holmgrin next after that, he's running named their

(41:58):
second best player, the second best play william I would.
I would agree with that. Jaylor Williams eight by there's
two Janla Williams. I think the average American would name
luginz Dort. I don't believe it to be maybe zero
would There's no chance, no way, no how. But you
know how you make those guys stars. Put them on
the NBA FI they win finals. But but they've been

(42:19):
on television a lot. I don't know what the ratings are.
But did you see what ESPN did the other day?
They put the Lakers Celtics scam on ABC and it
was like their highest watched NBA game in the year. See,
this is the thing too. We crush these networks for like, hey,
why don't you build up these guys and blah blah blah.
People don't watch if it's not Laker Celtics. That's right,
So it's uh, I can't blame me sp We complain

(42:41):
about dumb analysis, we complain about the put putting these
teams into our face, But what happens when they put
these teams on the ratings go up? And what happens
when you get somebody breaking down like a bunch of uh,
here's a horn set from the rockets and what they're
trying to accomplish with Jaalen Green at the top of
the key, you lose everybody. So it's part of it

(43:01):
is a mass dumbing down of our society in general
in everything to where we have so many options and
streaming and all that type of stuff Lakers and Celtics on,
you're more likely to click it the general public. NBA
ratings were down ten percent before the calendar turn. They

(43:22):
are now down three percent, so they have rebounded. They
have rebounded nicely since they turned the turn of the
twenty twenties basketball.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Me or you rebounded? That was you or me?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I don't know who said it. Me or you team
equal credit. I'll give you full credit. So they're getting better.
This weekend the ABC Game of the Week, I'm going
I believe it's going to be involving the Golden State Warriors.
Let's take a look here it is, uh yeah, Nix Warriors.
You have the largest market in the East and you've
got the most successful franchise in the last ten years

(43:54):
on the West side. I mean, if I'm the network,
because I don't, I don't you know, I don't. I
don't argue with him, I just don't you Rather than yeah,
you go to where the people are going to be
and then they're gonna they see Lakers. Now, see today
there are three games on national television Sunday. It's the

(44:16):
Magic Cavaliers. Magic are terrible. Cavaliers should destroy Sun's Lakers.
That seemed like a sexy matchup two months ago. Not
nearly as much because the Suns don't ever win and
you have the Thunderbucks at eight o'clock that night. But
it's spared on a Sunday night when people are trying
to get their kids ready for school the next day
and just chilling out. I mean, that's gonna be one
of those flippers. All its games happened to beyond, so

(44:37):
we'll say I don't know, yeah, but I mean, look,
if if the thunder rip off three championships in a row. People,
more people are going to know who they are. Yeah,
because let's face it, twenty years ago, Golden State Warriors
were atrocious. Yeah, nobody cared about nobody Cardrin and the
Donald Foyle and the boys. What a pull for you.
There's nobody else in the marketplace. So that had dropped
on Adonna's boil Donald Foyle oil, whatever his name is on,

(45:00):
Like you just did. That's what we're here for, Matt.
But it doesn't do us any good. I'm sorry. The
audience is like, who what does that have to do
with the astros. I feel like at least one person
appreciated that reference one listener, maybe one, maybe one seven
one three two one two five seven nine. If you
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(45:23):
Tournament is back in play, in fact, the Big Ten.
There's a lot of games by way, I've got the
Cougars are playing today. Uh, they're going to be playing
at two o'clock in Kansas City, the Big twelve Tournament.
That'll be over a nine to fifty today. If you
want to listen to that, I'm good and then you've
got seven ninety. We'll have the Aggies versus the Longhorn.
So we are like your college basketball mecha tier this afternoon.

(45:44):
This is the time breaker. This is the rubber match
between the long Horns and the Aggies. By the way,
the Cougars are playing Colorado, Colorado, I believe was were
they the sixteen seed in the tournament and they beat
West Virginia. I want to say one of those super
mega upsets. Okay, yeah. By the way, the Cougars are
seventeen and a half point favorites.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
WHOA.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
That's a lot for a college game, too, especially I mean,
now the Cougars are scoring this year. It's not like
they're out there like the running ReBs back in the
nineties or suret correct. Seventeen points is a lot. I'm
just telling you.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
After being in New Orleans last week and betting at
college a couple of college games, uh huh, you were right.
March Madness is fun, but just a random day to
pick a college basketball game. I find no enjoyment in
betting on that, especially because I had one team that
was heavily favored and I gave up the points and
they wind up winning by one less point. As the
kids would say, it was a bad beat. Oh yes, shoot,

(46:44):
I forgot, I forgot. We're gonna have Joseph Dorothy joined
us from Kansas City next when right after this break?
All right, what's the believer or at?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Yeah, oh man, I'm texting him. Oops, I forgot about that.
Don't tell him that, Just say, all right, great following
a hula, get you on nice? I said, eleven o'clock.
That's totally on. I set the time. Wow, that's your
friend too, I know he he's man Thomas. I can't
believe you. Actually, I believe it.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
You shouldn't believe it.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Joseph is going to join us next year, okay at
seven one three two one. What the hell?

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (47:22):
Seven one three two one two five? What is that
face emoji I see on your phone? And the middle
finger emoji looks like kidding? He's he sent me a
one finger salute fronically enough seven, Come it up next,
Cow it up next, Joseph Torte from Kansas City. It
is the Matt Thomas Show. Sports Talk seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
All right, we'll be getting ahold of Joseph towards Ana
matter moments here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
we have I just don't get at eleven thirty.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
And I called it.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
This is such a douche move on my part. I
called him A texted me yester, I said, can you
available eleven o'clock? Yeah, I'll be happy to And I
totally I didn't even put him in the pre show tweet.
I didn't put I didn't totally forgot. What's wrong with me?
All right, try to call Joseph again. I think it's
the phone's working again. Georgia Tech leads Duke ten to
eight minutes, six minutes into the first half in that

(48:32):
game in where are they playing? Is that Charlotte for
the a SEC Tournament? I think, sure, why not? I
think it is Cooper flyag By the way, look at
that guy in Georgia Tech. Is that guy that is
some serious tats? Oh my god, I wonder if you
got those in an NIL deal had to be. I
think his entire family's on there. That's the girls like

(48:52):
that kind of stuff. I think some of them. Did
you catch the big cal Stanford matchup Matt in the
Atlantic Coast Conference. Was it very good? Yeah, it was
a good one in the Atlantic Coast Conference. So those
two teenaments are separated by I see Berkeley to Palo
Alto's probably twenty five miles. Yeah, and they move far

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away from they from the Atlantic Coast. They were they were, well,
not far at all. Their schools are far from it.
But they're from Atlantic Coast themselves, very far their schools.
I know they're only three thousand miles away. I wonder
how we aren't having phone issues? I don't know. Yeah,
what is going on? When don't we got the phones dropping?
This is one last time for you, Connor. Connor company

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is so great. We just said the best equipment.

Speaker 6 (49:36):
We just do.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
That's fine, God bless it. No, some of you. You
know what I could have done. I could have blamed
the equipment.

Speaker 3 (49:43):
It's compared to us.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
Your phone lines were reliable, Matt. Why do we go
to web phones? Guse are not reliable and they're significantly cheaper.
Are they that much cheaper? It had to have been
web guess. Yeah, true, Well they certainly would be right.
If they were more expensive, it would be open. But anyways,
so on us we do securely and aligne the do
the interview with me, Man asked me questions about the
cougars best. I don't want to know. I don't want

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to I don't know anything. You're just going to piss
people off by doing that. I really think chicken Noles
are going to have a big, big twelve tournament. Can
you you can you name any cougar besides Chickennoles. There's
only been ten guys in Ambien in the last five years. No,
none of them. God, here, what's wrong with you? This

(50:26):
days has gone great so far. The phone line's not working.
A dward team mad at me. You were here with me?
It's what does that mean? It's just I've been I've
been nice today because you're actually here. I'll be here
tomorrow too, so I'm happy and here Monday. That's gotta
be some kind of streak, not for the whole show,
but for most of them. Oh that's right, you got
to leave early. I forgot yeah, Oh my god, it's

(50:48):
only an hour earlier. That much earlier. Now you're doing
three hours. You're going the nostalgia onis to throw back.
I think I think I'll be working the three hours
I was sign up to do it originally. It's a
throwback Monday Georgia Tech Cup five on Duke. Is Duke
a true contender? Hey, I say, what if Duke loses?
Because that can that squeeze the Cougar's into maybe a

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top two.

Speaker 7 (51:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
That exploit if you just heard screamed was from your
wife when you said if Duke loses. Yeah, I said,
you know what, there's a chance at Duke and Houston
could be in the final four. I know what if
they play each other in the final four, it's going
to be like y'all gonna go. Uh. I think I
got Rockets games before and after, but I probably could
get there and then have to come right back. Hmmm,

(51:35):
y'all might like y'all might scrap in the stands.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Would she sit next to this? Kidding? I don't want
to joke here.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
I don't want to joke about domestics, So I'm still
ruling here. She is a diehard Duke fan. Yes, never
stepped on the campus until we were married when we
got tickets to get to the game. She just was
a fan from a distance. Yes, we met at the
University of Houston. She got her degree from the University
of Houston. What was her degree? And by the way,

(52:04):
radio television broadcasting. Really, yeah, that's how we met. Let's
get her on the show. I'm like, years later, I
was like, why she goes? I don't know why, and
her parents or her family, I don't know why she
got it because she she's somewhat bashful when it comes
to this kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
Fan, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
But what's the ruling she should say? She should root
for my our school. Correct? The ruling is whatever the
wife says, goes. But she's been a Duke basketball fan
for Houston. She does root for Houston, but she's rooted
for Duke longer. Yeah, the ruling says. Survey says, all right,

(52:52):
so what you Connor? The phone lines down? I need
some sort of intelligence here. What is going on? Somebody,
let's Gordy and rescue us here. Let's plan for the
phones not working, because clearly he popped up calling him
like five times. So I'm gonna say it's not working
right now. I think the phones are fine, but I
tried texting Joseph. Has has he responded to you? It's

(53:13):
it's delivering. Do you have the right number. Send it
to me again in case, all right to give on air. No,
I'm not giving it out of a Yeah, Matt, if
you if your wife the Duke Fan and the Houston
Cougars are playing in the final four, she's gonna her
Duke Fandoms is gonna it's gonna be her call. Let

(53:34):
me be your call. But we met there. I know
it's our alma mater. I got degrees from there. It's
very very unlikely. I don't think. I don't think it's
hot unlikely that all these two teams play each other.
Very unlikely. I mean, I still the odds are the
odds are still not in favor of but every one
seed makes the final four. But it feels like this

(53:57):
is a top heavy tournament. It always feels like that, Matt.
And then the tournament comes and then there's upsets galore.
All right, George is calling now, I think let's get
him next segment. Yeah, I just don't get it. I
got I just don't get While we don't want to
real phone numbers. It's twenty twenty five. We gotta get

(54:19):
web the web phones that are great, Matt. All right,
do we got them? That we do?

Speaker 3 (54:22):
Now?

Speaker 2 (54:23):
All right, Joseph. We were trying to call you for
like the last five minutes. We have terrible phone lines.
How are you, sir?

Speaker 4 (54:29):
Now what kind of operation were running over there? Matt?

Speaker 2 (54:31):
First of all, I apologize for forgetting about you. That
was not intentional. And I know that you're.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Going the raw show with Matt Tom Oh.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
My god, that's terrible. That is embarrassing. You know, got
a nice ring to it, all right, so apologies on me.
How is Kansas City?

Speaker 3 (54:50):
By the way?

Speaker 4 (54:52):
Okay, this is good.

Speaker 5 (54:53):
You know made up made a barbecue run last night.
It didn't disappoint.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
Did you run into Jeff Goodman today and see why
he's complaining about his press box seat.

Speaker 5 (55:05):
No, I'm down on the court, so I don't. I
don't mingle with those folks.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
Good for you guys bitching about his press row seat.
The tournament properly?

Speaker 3 (55:14):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (55:14):
You have into three big twelve games as you're shut.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Your bumb ass up seriously? Good lord? All right? Uh?

Speaker 2 (55:23):
So are we locked in? We being the University of
Houston locked into a number three overall national sea Do
you think is there any room for moving up or
down in this bad boy?

Speaker 5 (55:34):
Uh? You know, I don't think there's I think threes
three is where it's gonna stand.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (55:39):
You look at the the body of work. Auburn is,
you know, quad wind wise headge shoulders above everyone, and
and and Duke is. Let's put it this way, even
if even if there's movement, I think that the sites
are set, You'll have Auburn in the south, You'll have
Duke in the east. And I still think Houston goes
out west as the Umber three. So uh it will

(56:02):
it matter? I don't In the big picture, I don't
think so. But I think Houston is comfortable and set
where they are at the three.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
Joseph harr is, how is the team right now health wise?
And there have been a little bit of aches and
pains the last couple of weeks, guys missing some time,
seeing limited minutes. Where is his team health wise right now?

Speaker 4 (56:22):
They're good?

Speaker 2 (56:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
I spoke with the head trader John's Houston U prior
to their departure this week, and you know the main
ones l J. Cryer he's been playing with that that
knuckle injury on his shooting hand. But you know he's
has the skipped to beat, uh, the one the one
that I'm I'm kind of watching.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
Is Emmanuel Sharp.

Speaker 5 (56:41):
You know, he's dealt with that foot injury for for
the better part of you know, probably two months, and
he's got some ups and downs. I don't know how
much of that is causing his shooting and maybe his
rhythm to be off. He'd be the one to watch.
And then Ramon Walker he had a hand injury. He
hasn't played since December and the expectation is that he
won't play at all the rest of the year. They'll

(57:04):
try to do some type of medical red shirt and
the act. So they're they're in good shape. It's just
a matter of staying that way, as you know, for
the duration, and that hasn't, unfortunately been the case. But
they are good as of now going into the tournament.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Do you think the perfect road record this year in
conference play has a unintended or maybe intended benefit about
playing in neutral sites for the rest of the season.

Speaker 4 (57:32):
Well, I guess it can't hurt you.

Speaker 5 (57:34):
I mean, you look there, they're really good at home
and you know most of the times if you're gonna
have a slip that it's on the road. You know,
you look at the neutral site game they lost to
Auburn at Toyota Center. They were winning that one. They
lose to Alabama at a neutral and they could have
won that one. The same thing with the San Diego
State game. So three of the four losses have come
at neutral sites and the other one at home the

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Texas Tech.

Speaker 4 (57:57):
So you know, that's that's the way this team has been.

Speaker 5 (58:01):
I mean, they haven't lost many games in any season
in the last you know, five or six years, So
I don't know if if there's an attending consequence to it,
but I mean they certainly show that big environments don't
phase them. And you know this week Iowa State it's
gonna pack it and in Kansas will pack it in here.
So if they play either one of those, you know

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you're you're gonna basically be playing in essentially a road game,
and that hasn't been a bad thing.

Speaker 4 (58:27):
For Houston this season.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Jelse Towardte covers the Cougars for the Houston Chronicle and
you can find him on Twitter and all the different
platforms that he gives you great insights not only in
the paper online but on his Twitter account. So of
all the years this team has been where it has been,
which is final four Sweet sixteen. This feels like the
most complete team of the Calvin Samson era because not

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only do they have the little post starts with three
different players, but they've got the outside touch as well.
Is this the best that you've seen or do you
feel like even last team or the team that went
to the Final four. Again, if you're trying to measure
up year by year by year, where do you size
up this group as compared to years past?

Speaker 4 (59:10):
Well, to me, it starts with the Final four year.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
And you know, this one is sort of a TVA
on whether or not they eventually take that spot away,
but you know, you do it first and then you
kind of look at all those things.

Speaker 4 (59:23):
But I do agree with you this is this is
probably by far his deepest team.

Speaker 5 (59:28):
You know, they go eight maybe nine deep. And the
biggest change or the addition is, you know, we've always
known their good defensively, they're good rebounding, but this is
a team that can shoot the ball. They're very efficient
and three point shots. And the difference or maybe those
early years, like maybe that nineteen twenty team or that

(59:50):
the twenty twenty one team, they could beat you with
first shots, this one is maybe not a first shot
type team, but when they do the rebounds and get
second chances, they're really good. So I say it's top two,
maybe top three since Kelvin's been here, But you know
that can certainly change if you up, if you do

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what many people think they can do and get to
San Antonio and specifically the Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Night Joseph, Is it too simple to say that the
key for this team is to make sure Francis, Tugler
Roberts do not get into foul trouble. I mean that
could be said for about any team with a couple
of big men, but it feels like that there could
be some games, and there are certainly have been in
years passing tournament games where big men have gotten into
two fouls early contest and are always chasing to stay

(01:00:38):
away from that third and fourth. Is foul trouble of
a concern to you for those guys, especially when whistles
can be pretty tight come tournament times.

Speaker 5 (01:00:48):
I think it's it's big for in this order Tugler
and Francis, So those are the two guys that typically
get in foul trouble the most. J One Roberts is
a veteran. He's been pretty good about staying on the floor.
They like to run things to him, so having him
on the court really helped him a lot. Cut was
the defensive player of the year in the conference. I mean,

(01:01:09):
he's a difference maker, he's a shot alter. That's the
guy you got to keep on the court. And you know,
we've seen some games where he's picked up two in
fourteen seconds. I mean, I mean, it's just been wild
the number of games that he's he's had three and
four thousand and have had to sit on the bench.
But you know, the big men, that's going to be
certainly a key. They're the guard play. They're really smart

(01:01:31):
about about not getting into foul trouble. So you know,
i'd agree with you. You know, for this team, a lot,
a lot of what they do centers around those three,
whether it's on the defensive end or trying to work inside.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
So you got to keep them on the court.

Speaker 5 (01:01:47):
And because you don't get any doovers this time of
the year, you have one bad game or or something
goes wrong like foul trouble, you could look, you know,
it could be the end of season. Look at the
A and M game last year, they were down to
a walk on on late because of all the foul
troubles they had and they had to really pull out
that one in the second round just to advance to

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the second weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
Farlot, you run, Joseph. We don't know the teams are
going to be in the region obviously, so let's do this.
If you can do this, give me a style of play,
a type of a team that could cause the Cougar
some issues, maybe a little bit deeper into the term,
and say Sweet sixteen Elite eight round.

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
Oh, you know, that's interesting because you look at you know,
we've seen a little bit of everything this year. You
see teams that are lots of possessions and try to
go fast paced, and then Houston makes you play their
brand the ball. They slow it down, They force you
into their game, like for instance, you know the Arizona game.

(01:02:52):
Arizona was averaging eighty plus points a game and Houston
holds them to a round sixty.

Speaker 4 (01:02:58):
That's the kind of game.

Speaker 5 (01:03:00):
If you're Houston, you know, and I've seen this in
the past, in the past tournament. You know, they played
Arizona in twenty twenty two. And then you look at
a game like in Illinois, a few years ago where
they had a dominant big man and that didn't seem
to face Houston. And also, it's really interesting because it's
not necessarily the matchup on the other end that can

(01:03:22):
get you. It's what Houston sort of dictates because they're
really good at forcing you to play their game.

Speaker 4 (01:03:28):
They feel like if they can keep it under sixty.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
Points of the opponent, they've got a really good chance
to win, and they do that a lot of the time. So,
you know, I was looking at and I saw Memphis
as a possible second round matchup that would be intriguing
based on sort of the the style that memphisides to play.
So you know, I'd be guessing at this point, Matt,

(01:03:52):
But I just think that Houston, for as much as
other teams try to do stuff, Houston usually has a
pretty good game plan and a way of attacking other
teams to make them do what they want them to do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Very last question, where are we going to talk to
you next week? Where do you think they're headed?

Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
They're going to witchital I'm almost one hundred percent sure
on that. The difference is if they're in the Midwest
or in the West, But that first week weekend of
the tournament, they'll be in Wichital and I think in
the other side of it you'll probably get either A
and M or Texas Tech, So it'll be interesting. There'll

(01:04:33):
be a couple of Texas teams in my opinion, that'll
be in Wichital next week. And of course Houston it'll
get the sixteen seeds if they're number one, which you know,
we pretty much all expect that to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Great soap, My friend, thank you again. We'll talk with
you next week. Save travels, and our friend, our mutual friend,
Taylor sends our very best thank you, Beddy, thank you.
That's our good friend Joseph Torte from the Houston Chronicle
with us, and he'll be with us as the Cougars
make their big run towards the tournament. And when the
Longhorns make it ross, we'll have a Longhorn correspondence. We'll

(01:05:04):
get to what the tournament. It doesn't seem like it's happening.
By the way, I didn't mention this yesterday on Twitter.
Red Panda will be at the NIT finals this year,
so if you want to go check her out and
check out your beloved Longhorns playing for the championship. Yeah,
it was a bad joke. The long Horns aren't gonna
accept an invite. They should. It's their tournament. It is
the people's tournament. Don't get me wrong, all right, I

(01:05:25):
just don't get it. I don't get you. What don't
you get, ladies and jib seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven nine zero eleven thirty four? What don't you
get in life? Let us know? Seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI.

Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
Do you have something in.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Your life that you just don't get?

Speaker 1 (01:05:50):
No need to worry, no need to press.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
We will just does the topic to see if we
comprehend the things that they can use our friends. It's
time to say, all right, Connor, this is your last
I just don't get it, at least on the airwaves.
You probably do a lot of it. Just don't get
in your life. Connor's is second to last day with

(01:06:14):
us year on the program is we're taking care of
those that want to go get full time wages and
great benefits and excellent paying company benefits.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
The nerve are you, Connor?

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Real? Ahole? I mean I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
I get it too. This is sad.

Speaker 2 (01:06:31):
Guy's gonna make more money than Ross is excellent vacation time.
And I'm sad too. He said he's gonna bring us
some food or something. Would you say, we're going to lunch?
I think, right, yeah, when I when I get my
first paycheck from the new job, and we're going to look,
we're going to get barbie. We're going to get BBQ.
All right, tomorrow, we're going to get barbecue. You want
to get kreen and barbecue tomorrow? Right, that's correct. Paying
off from that's a different It's not a bet, it's

(01:06:54):
a reward. It's a reward. I got you for everyone? Yes,
all right, Connor d what do you got? What is
your final I just don't get it.

Speaker 8 (01:07:01):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Last night I was I was flipping between watching the
Rockets and watching a little hockey, and the Buffalo Sabers
were playing the Red Wings, and in the third period
it turned into a little bit of a blowout, with
the Red Wings winning seven to three, but the third
period was full of fights. There was eleven players assessed
misconduct penalties, and if you're assessed to ten minutes misconduct
with less than ten minutes left in the game, you
just sent off the ice and the ref actually had

(01:07:22):
a pretty good call last night. Croy's gonna have a
man for roughing and all the other guy's gonna have
a misconduct buffalo a power.

Speaker 5 (01:07:32):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
It was too many to name. So you said, all
the other guys, what is that guy's accent from? He's
not He's French Canadian the referee, Oh, I see, okay,
Jean nick clei le maire something like that. All right,
But so I just don't get it in any sport,
but especially in this instance. Why you're fighting when you're
when you're getting blown out. I mean, the game has
been over. Should have used that energy earlier in the game.
You're asking us to figure out why you don't get

(01:07:54):
something in hockey. You're the hockey guy. I talking about
all sports, though, if you're gonna fight, make it matter.
Like Steven Adams last night, that was a good one.
That was like my microphone is off. Yeah, that was
uh Iman Doko was asked about Steven Adams. One of
the kind of wrestling is that wasn't really wrestling, and
Steven Adams on a wrestle, he beat the crap out
of him. I think they should allow fighting in every
sport like they do in hockey. They should do the

(01:08:17):
same thing. Power play Steven Adams plumbly you're out for
five minutes, bring back four, saying what you could end
up with power plays, Matt, I know that's not a
power play. You go five on four for two minutes.
I'm gonna say, I don't get that under any circumstance.
And why how come you can fight in hockey You

(01:08:37):
can't fight anywhere else because hockey is on a real sport,
so it's the sort, it's the sport of goons. I mean,
let's people really honest. I think they should fight in
the NFL games too. Why do you gotta get ejected
five minutes? Terrible soccer when you get a red card?
But nobody cares about soccer either. That's not true. It's
the most popular sport in the world. But soccer is

(01:08:57):
the rest of the game. You're playing down. Yeah, yeah,
crazy antiquated, old ass nineteen or eighteen forty six rules
I know, don't get anyway. No, just do it as is.
You cannot endorse fighting. People can get hurt. Just kick
him out. Do what they did. They both have been
jacked yesterday. Yeah, I thought, you know, I thought it
was inappropriate timing as well. Connor watching the game, I

(01:09:18):
was just I was flabbergasted that you hear that sarcasm
coming out of his velvety voice over there. It's fine, terrible,
all right, mine's going back to what happened we talked
about on Monday. What Dark Breast Airlines? Yeah, I mean,
do you get it? I go ahead, I just don't
get the number one thing that separated you from the

(01:09:39):
other airlines.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
And you said, effet, it's because.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
They got bought by an equity firm. Equity firms don't
buy things to lose money. But then my point again
is this ross and maybe I'm just not very good
on the old economic charge fifteen dollars more ticket slide,
the air faring and the money you need, and that
we'll still buy the tickets. But there's a there's a

(01:10:06):
perception of well, if I'm paying two seventy nine as
compared to sixty on another airline, at least I get
two bags free, and I feel better about myself and
it's a nice airline and I don't have to worry
about jamming things out of my you know, that's the
thing about airlines that we make fun of is you
have to pay for bags, you gotta pay for your seats,
you gotta pay for this. You didn't have to worry

(01:10:26):
about that. With Dark Breast and Dark Bress, you're losing
their marketing my business. Yeah, when I go on these
camping trips to say, you know, the the national parks
and I fly to Oregon or whatever, I check camping gear,
so I always use Southwest always when I go to
a national park, right and now I'm gonna shop around. Unfortunately,

(01:10:47):
gonna be shopping around and every airline is gonna say
everything's gonna cost me more. But at least Southwest had
one hundred percent of my business when I go camping
because I check camping gear. Right now they're gonna have
less than one hundred percent of my business. I kind
of get it, though, because when you're looking at airfares,
there's still the airfares are still going to be cheaper,
and people don't see the add on cost for bags. Now,

(01:11:08):
I think people, I think that's changed. I think people
now it's been there's been since nine to eleven. The
bag thing has been a part of American airline flying,
not the American airlines, the American airlines, the American flying experience.
It's yeah, I get But what Connor is saying is
people are stupid and they're gonna think about this, but
they're not gonna pay attention. They're gonna look at the

(01:11:28):
raw airfares and then they're going to factor in bags.
I think people are doing that. People are stupid and
they want money. It's an A and B. I get it.
I don't like it. I don't want it to happen.
I don't want all these corporations to be coming for
every single diamond, cutting everything to the bone with the
layoffs and all this stuff, and then taking more and
more from us. But it's I get it. That's just

(01:11:49):
how that's how the system works. I am just a
huge fan of marketing and winning an element and winning
a share of an of a prospective client base because
of your marketing arm and I think they're that dark
breast lost it. Making your customers happy doesn't show up
on the earnings report. They just want the earnings reporting,
all right. If there's something you don't get seven one

(01:12:09):
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven Honey, by the way, real quick.
I don't get you guys ripping on fish sandwiches. I
just saw a commercial for Robi's. That that fish sandwich
on that Robbie's commercial looks really damn good. Yeah, it's
wint you're gonna see those types of things advertisement. So
let's go get a Robie's on Friday. We can't eat

(01:12:30):
cream Barbie on Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Came.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
I'm not a practicing Catholic, Okay, I mean I grew
up Catholic. I'll call the priest first, Yeah, ask for forgiveness. Boom,
we'll go what do you mean? Yeah, yeah, we'll go
to lunch at two and reconcilation at three. Yeah, confession,
we're all good. Forgive me for my sins. Let's roll
kind of like how you think, all right, something you like,

(01:12:54):
something you just don't get. Seven one three I've just
taken religion, and that's flippant. Seven one three two at
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seven one three two one two five seven nine eighty.
If something you don't get, let us know. I can
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Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
The Tana Show with Ross continues so on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
All Right, another thing I don't get seven one three,
two one two five seven out eight what if you
have an iPhone and you use the red function on
your text so I can see that you read it. Yes,
I would say, why do you do that? Why would
you ever allow me to let me know that you
read my text? Because if you don't respond, that makes

(01:14:38):
me irritated, that pisses me off. That's that's that's such
a good one because I have the same reaction. Why
do you leave read receipts on and then don't respect,
don't respond? Yeah, I want to make it known that
you didn't have the time to respond. I didn't want.
I'll get some texts and I can't respond to them,
but the last thing I want is someone to look
at my red and have a read receipt and then
not respond to me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
I just don't get.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
It's because they want to be passive aggressive. I see
how y'all are. Maybe people are doing that on purpose,
I don't know, but I mean people turn on read
receipts especially. I feel like I like a lot of
our sales staff and then they leave me on right.
But you know, business people, I believe there's no I
believe there's no quality in having red receipts. I turned

(01:15:20):
my off because I understand I'm a bad Texter. You
are horrendous and stuff. Sometimes they'll get coot, you know,
during the show, and I'll tap it on my watch
to dismiss it, and that counts as right because what
I will do then, I will say, if I send
somebody a text a day or two ago and they
don't respond to it, I'll say, hey, did you get
my text? That gives me one more opportunity to say something.

(01:15:42):
But if you if I send a text and you
read it and you don't respond, that it's the ultimate
sign of disrespect. This Cooper flag turned ankle, doesn't look good.
Might really be winning it all? Oh yeah, yeah he turned.
Oh he's love into the locker room. All odds are

(01:16:06):
looking better for Vegas, for the for the champions, you celebrating.
It's a youth. I love this. You discussed me.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Another player that got hurt too, and number six was hmm. Well,
I've always felt like there was the big three going
into the tournament, Auburn, U of H and Duke Alabama
probably in the mix two right, not as high, but
certainly in that group. And Auburn's been losing lately. Auburn v.
Houston for the National Championship. Bruce Pearl shamed out of

(01:16:35):
losing his job. I mean, you're gonna be a one seed,
which is basically a free pass of the Sweet sixteen.
Hopefully maybe they get some breaks like they did that
last time they made the Final four, when they didn't
face a single single digit seed and then once they lost.
Saw when the.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
People check that ou as soon you start talking like that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
What did I say? You just started making a bench.
I didn't even get to do my I just don't
get it, did I please do? The reports are coming
out now in baseball that the Tampa Bay Rays are
not moving forward with new stadium plans. Okay, why are

(01:17:13):
the Tampa Bay Rays still in Tampa Bay?

Speaker 4 (01:17:14):
They're not.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
They spend no money, the team, nobody cares about them.
Their stadium has been a disaster. Now they have this
stadium issue. How have they been here for so many years?
If the owners don't care to spend in the city,
doesn't care about your team, what are we doing here?
They're not saying, I don't get it. They've made no

(01:17:37):
attempt to refurbish Tropic Candadfield, or they say it won't
be ready for years. But that's just a waste of
money because they're building a new stadium anyway, Why would
you why would you put a roof on that stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:17:45):
When they're not gonna use anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
They're gonna it's they're gonna be the Portland Rais, the
sat Salt Lake City Rays, or the Nashville Rays Nashville.
There's no Rays in Ashville, Jazz in Utah. They're gonna
they'll change the name. Points is that five years? This
is saving it for next week. Five years from now
there will be no more Tempa.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
Just say five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Yeah, I'll go five. Five more years from now. Two
no more Tampa. Bevery okay. No, we have the Las
Vegas Athletics going. Are they gonna change the name there?
They should? No, that's that's from back to the Philadelphia Athletics.
Vegas name. Yeah, gotta say the twenty ones for the
NBA franchise. That's not happening, Matt. Why not. Nobody calls

(01:18:31):
it twenty one unless you're eight years old. It's blackjack.
You can't call. They're not going to use a lot.
They're not calling the Las Vegas black Jacks. They're just
they're not not gonna do that now aren't came a
Las Vegas as Spades either. No. Uh northwest Side Joe
eleven fifty six, Joe, I got a question for you.

(01:18:53):
What don't you get.

Speaker 9 (01:18:56):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:18:56):
Yes, Sir Matt and ros how y'all do them?

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
I don't get it while why people are so well
put off or or offended if I don't.

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
Return their text right away, even if I read them.
I mean, sometimes you're driving your car or you're in
the middle of something and you're like, Okay, I got
a text. Let me see if it's you know, really important,
and they'll check it.

Speaker 10 (01:19:23):
Okay, I could get back to them later.

Speaker 7 (01:19:25):
You know, it's not an emergency.

Speaker 1 (01:19:27):
Right, But don't be offended just because I don't text
you back right away.

Speaker 7 (01:19:32):
I mean, it doesn't mean I don't love you or
I don't care about that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
I know, Joe R.

Speaker 1 (01:19:37):
Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
The rule should be two hours. I'm giving you a
two hour gra experience. What if I'm in a movie,
that's fine, Well, I mean three hour movies you're going
to weekly. No, that's not true at all. That's a lie, Joe.
The rule is you should return to text within two hours,
especially if you read it, and if you don't your
phone should be locked.

Speaker 7 (01:19:57):
You're wrong, Matt, Matt, Matt. But what if, like the
Roth said, I'm coming out of a movie and I've
got a date with me.

Speaker 8 (01:20:06):
Yeah, and I got my arm arounder.

Speaker 2 (01:20:07):
Come on, Joe, it's hard.

Speaker 10 (01:20:10):
It's am I supposed to say, wait a minute while
I check my text?

Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
Yeah, Joe, Joe, it's twenty twenty five. Everybody's on their
phones constantly. You have not gone two hours out looking
at your phone, and I don't know how long. So
stop this. Well, I'm in a movie, I'm on the date.
Pull Loni. You're checking your phone. She's texting her, she's
checking her phone. You guys are texting your bros. You're
texting your ladies. How's the day going. It's going great,

(01:20:34):
Joe or too. You get a two hour window, my friend,
and thank you for the phone call. That's what I'm
talking about. You get two hours, Connor, you're you're twenty something.
You cutting a run for an hour and a half.
It's fine. Check your text me go off the dance floor. Correct, Yeah,
thank you very much, Joe, and King would wrap up.
I just don't get it, Joe, What don't you get.

Speaker 11 (01:20:54):
I don't get while managers and players have to eat
while they're playing baseball.

Speaker 8 (01:20:59):
Wow, you're supposed to be athletes.

Speaker 11 (01:21:01):
Out there running around and you got a mouthful of
sunflower seeds.

Speaker 8 (01:21:04):
Don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
Past the times. Not the fastest going throwing going sport
out there, No, I I mean, if if Josel TV
wouldn't went out there with a slice of pizza, probably
an issue. But of some flower seeds, I don't care.
It's chewing gum. It's better than tobacci, right, yeah, lotsafer, lotsafer,

(01:21:28):
so less mouth cancer from double bubble than chew. I
will say this, Joe and Kingwood, if they have if
there's an omelet station in the middle of the dugout,
that'd be a problem. That actually would be a good
idea the whole protein Wait a minute, you cannot have
a chef saying you want peppers onions. I'm gonna go
peppers onions and cheese baked tomatoes as well, peak at

(01:21:49):
a guy on the bacons.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
You cannot ask for that the middle of the game.

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
Not not in the dugout, before the game, after the game, sure,
but not in the middle of it. And you love
a good omelet station at the hotel breakfast. Don't you
think they're I am not endorsing a checuterie board at
Third Base. I like that actually, some almonds, some pro yeah,
and some of that muda and some gerkins. By the way,

(01:22:18):
the rockets of an ic secutery board at Tota Center,
it's right next to the melons that nobody ever eats.
That's charcoterier board is dangerous.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
You can do, and do quite well.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
Because usually the entrees are mid. So I would agree
with you. Shout out to my boys at Levy who
brought me a little snack at half him in our day.
Thank you. We got on moren Have you got the
news in noon? Ready? You don't? So you get to
you to get a minute here, Philip and Philip and
Parland Philip.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
What don't you get.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Philip?

Speaker 9 (01:22:48):
I associate a credit engion of Texas. I don't get it.
If I don't use my online account every six months,
they're gonna kill my credential. What I gotta set it
up again, so I gotta check in every six months.
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
What a hassle, Thank you, Philip, And that is the
I just don't get it for this to all my
banking online. You don't sign up for six months? Yeah,
what are you doing? You don't check your bank account
for six months? Philip, I don't get that. He's got
a lot of cash. News at Noon, Jim and Heights.
I was gonna get to you, but you can't because
I got hit our breaks. Twelve It's fine, twelve oh one.
The News at noon is.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
Next, lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Show, Total five and h down. What's happening to lunch timers?
Welcome to hour number three of the Matt Thomas Show.
Was Ross here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Let's get
to the News at noon. Alright with that, here's Ross Philery. Yes, Matthew,

(01:23:53):
I mean so much going on in the news here
in Houston, Texas talking about sports news. But we will
start with your Houston Rockets getting the victory last night
against the Phoenix Suns. Double team comes to Green to
Brooks Shaggubahy the back pass inside for a flush Toatari.

(01:24:15):
What a beautiful dime. Not time for the Rocket center.
Oh look the rhyme, the beautiful time rhyme dime. That
time for Matt Thomas. Jalen Green leading the way for
the squad with twenty nine points on eight of sixteen shooting.
He also got to the free throw line a lot
ten of eleven there. Coach U Dooka speaking after the

(01:24:36):
game on what he liked from Jalen Green's game.

Speaker 3 (01:24:39):
Yeah, he's taking what they do and making the right Reid.

Speaker 6 (01:24:42):
So he's been getting off the ball, sharing it obviously
in attack mode as well, so with them in out,
read out and fred out. Until today, he's been having
a lot on the ball in his hands a lot
more and been basically backup point guard once otain guys
go out and done an excellent job.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
Four wins in a row for the Houston Rockets, but
not able to move up in the standings as far
as where they are in spots, but closer, just one
game behind the Grizzlies and Nuggets who are tied at
two and three and just a half game behind the
Los Angeles Lakers who are in the four spot, and
the Warriors keep on winning. Rockets three and a half

(01:25:20):
games clear of Golden State. However, and Emdoka joins us
in fifty five minutes. Yes, any reaction to the Rockets
and the four game win streak mass we're gonna move Okay, fine, fantastic, Okay, Well,
we're just gonna keep it moving. Then on the top
sports headlines of the day mentioned this on I don't

(01:25:42):
just don't get it. The Tampa Bay Rays will not
be moving forward with new stadium plans. Citing hurricanes and
costly delays, the development of the one point three billion
dollar baseball stadium in Saints Petersburg will not be moving forward. Apparently,
the Tampa Bay Rays had to provide documents that could

(01:26:03):
prove they could basically cover their minimum seven hundred million
dollars obligation in order to secure the public funds. They
were not able to do that because all the setbacks
from the hurricanes. Tampa Bay Rays no new stadium. Why
the heck are they still there?

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:26:21):
All right, so let's do this. I've given you three cities,
Nashville just to pure you think Nashville. I think it's
going to be Portland. I think they would stay eastern
just for divisional purposes. I think the stadium's development is everything,
and I think that Portland is ahead of the game.
I think Saltlate they do have a game, they have

(01:26:42):
a stadium. Portland has a. They just announced this past
week of renderings of a new facility in downtown Portland
about thirty two thousand seats, okay, which seems kind of small.
It does seem small, but isn't that around with the
that's what the athletics are going like, he's gonna go
with that In Las Vegas. I think the new Tampa Park,
if they were going to build it was going to
be in that range. Maybe maybe they're not worried about

(01:27:04):
three million population because eighty two eighty one games times
thirty two thousands. But two point five million ish, that's
if you sell every ticket, which I can. If you
say too, that's good. Yeah, if you is it like
Scarcity Marketing Act. You make fewer of something available, charge
more for it, and you can offset that. I think
in the first five years you absolutely could do. If
you charge thirty percent more, it's the same thing as
filling up forty tickets. But I don't know. I guess

(01:27:26):
if Portland's going to go for that. Yeah. I think
Portland in Salt Lake City had their Stadium Act together.
I have not heard much about Nashville litly, although I
would say of the three cities, Fross Nashville probably has
the most money. You're ready to go to spend for
a facility. And you get some celebrities involved, like justin Timberlake.
You know itast from Memphis. You get Brooks and or

(01:27:48):
Done involved. Are they they're from Nashville. No, I'm just
throwing out a round their country act. Sorry, that was
a bench analogy. I mean maybe it works. I'm cracking
myself up for Overason's Sorry. It's okay, Matt Sarah, Welcome
to the Matt Thomas Show. I apologize, you should apologize. Uh,
by the way, my wife is crying right now. Cooper

(01:28:09):
Flagg has got a bad ankle injury and is hurt
right now for Dookie. Yeah, that's it. So normally for
their show, I just go check on what's the top
supports news items at ESPN. It was the Tampa Bay
Rays one.

Speaker 5 (01:28:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
Literally, as I as I refreshed Cooper flag leaving the
ACC Tournament quarterfinal game with an apparent ankle injury, it
didn't look good. Matt, put your name on it. Cougar's
are gonna play Auburn for the national championship, But the
name on it, baby, who's gonna win? What's up on
the headlines. Okay, the headlines after that not great unless

(01:28:47):
you want to talk about Julian Alvarez's Champions League penalty drama. Matt,
did you catch it?

Speaker 5 (01:28:52):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
But we got camp Smith playing in right field today?

Speaker 2 (01:28:54):
We do have Oh yeah, you're right, camp Smith playing
in right field for the Houston Astros. And uh, well,
how do you think that's gonna go? Anti climacting must
two day's debut and leftfielder is right, he's gonna make
three or four plays. How about he's gonna gun somebody
down running from second to home. But that will be
first a third. I would think you'd brother, he can

(01:29:16):
get somebody from second to home. What is he gonna
skip third base?

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Going from second around in third?

Speaker 3 (01:29:22):
Five?

Speaker 2 (01:29:23):
Okay, this is how baseball works, Matt. Second, you got
to go to home place?

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
Here we go.

Speaker 2 (01:29:29):
How you score what's known as a run? I got
the baseball bunch with me here, am I right? Thank
you very much? That's the news in noon? Sure? Why
not Gem of the Heights? What can we do for you?

Speaker 8 (01:29:39):
Well, here's something I don't get. I was born at
Hikes Hospital, so I support the Houston teams my whole life, win,
lose draw.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
That's my guys.

Speaker 8 (01:29:49):
What I don't get is when people applied that logic
of following the sports team to politics. I don't get
if you stick with that brand, regardless if you know
they elect the devil or the guy that steals everybody's money.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
I don't get that.

Speaker 8 (01:30:07):
It's sports is one thing. Being an American is a
totally different thing. And by the way, you guys have
the very best freaking show on the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Well, that's nicey to say that, thank you. I don't
quite understand. Do you understand this parallel? I think he's
saying that one party loyalty when it comes to politics, Oh,
you should vote for the party. There are people that
do that every time. There are certain people you know
in your life, Matt, that every time a Republican does something,
they're going to back it. Every time a Democrat does it,
they're going to say it's the worst. I have vice versa.

(01:30:41):
I have two really fun friends of mine. I wouldn't
say they're super close, but they're friends, okay, and I
follow them both on Twitter. Okay. One despises every single
thing a Democrat does. M The other one described despises

(01:31:02):
everything a Republican does and they don't get off brand correct.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
And I've had a little slight.

Speaker 2 (01:31:10):
Conversation with the with the person who thinks that everything
the Republicans do is the worst thing ever. And I said,
it can't be that way every single time, and she
said to me, yes, it can be. She was not
willing to budge off of the fact that every Republican
is going to the earth. Now, I've not had that
conversation with my friend who thinks every Democrats is. I

(01:31:32):
haven't really talked about it. I don't like talking politics,
so that's I'm just saying. But you bring it up
every time, like every day, during every break.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
It's weird.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
It's not true at all. I'm anti I'm antide, but
I just I don't bring up politics because I'm like, yeah,
and it doesn't matter. Yeah, I don't like Republicans or Democrats,
and I don't participate in these shim elections either. You know,
also take part in blackjack at six to five, which

(01:31:59):
is a long in your mind, I do not. Okay,
sometimes you gotta have principles in this world, Matt. I'm
going to down next week where I fully assume there'll
be six to five tables and I'm gonna play because
I like playing black jack. Well, you have a good time, Matt,
appreciate it. You're the reason casino's put six to five everywhere. Now, Well,
I mean it's either that or playing I don't want to.
I don't want to do the slots. Nothing for me,

(01:32:19):
blackchack does something for me, makes me win. Oh yeah,
I had a good year. By the way, great twenty
twenty five has been good for the sports empty Blackchackiekeadedy
rather be a three to two, but I'll take six five. Well,
it doesn't matter. There's no difference. No, there's a significant No,
there's no difference. Difference, No, no, no, there's a lot

(01:32:40):
of difference. Jason and Katie. We'll get to you when
we come back. Twell fourteen hit my brakes on time
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More Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
This song sucks. Sorry, We're ever gonna play it. I
sent a text to the Thomas family text thread saying
the Cooper flag is leaving the game, leaving the arena
in a wheelchair, and my wife just said stopping all
caps on an exclamation point.

Speaker 4 (01:34:33):
Uh oh.

Speaker 2 (01:34:34):
I also put into the cougars a running the championship,
so her, why are you doing that? Why are you
twisting the knife? Because I want to see where her
affinity was and her affinity allegiances. Her allegiance is Duke
greater than Houston.

Speaker 3 (01:34:46):
It's fine. I will not be.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Mentioning her name when someday they put me in the
University of Houston Athletic Hall of Fame. They are, I'm saying,
someday for what? For being just a cool alum? Hmm? Okay,
I mean jim Nantz got in there, and why can't I?

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
Bill were?

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Oh got it? Why can't I? Okay, do they do
like a like a bronze bust or what do they do? No,
it's exactly so athletics. It's the university. They have an
alumni association, as every school does, and they have an
alumni gala where they honoree They have big honors of
not hall of fame, but shrinies of the hall. I

(01:35:30):
don't know what they call it, Hall of honor something
like that. Okay, we can get you in that. I mean,
I've been playing business for thirty years. Yeah, I mean,
I'm kind of I've been representing the school. I don't
embarrasses games for a while. Yeah, did you have age
games two different times? No major criminal incidents, not that
it public knows about. Correct, you have it all expunged.
I mean I did have good proper legal representation to

(01:35:51):
help up that one time. Shout out Rusty Harden seven
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this in forty minutes here on the program, let's talk
to Jason and Katie on seven on a HILLO.

Speaker 10 (01:36:05):
Jason, Yeah, I've just got a question. Why hasn't San
Antonio Austin are been brought up to move the race too?
And you think about it, that is the largest concentration
of population in the country that only has one professional
sports team, and it's not even close. I mean that
area has a bigger population than the state of Utah,

(01:36:27):
probably than the state of.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
Oregon, because first of all, the state is already saturated
with two major league teams. Third, secondly, you'd have to
have some sort of ground swell. Let's build a stadium,
and neither San Antornio nor Austin has shown that. And
I think putting a stadium in San Marcos is what
the difference would be a waste. And I just don't

(01:36:50):
think there's just enough affinity for Baseball to carry a
third team in the state. Uh, well, I have to
disagree with you on that, but well, I mean, what
what do you How is there a possible disagreement. We've
never heard any inkling of San Antonio also getting a team.

Speaker 10 (01:37:08):
That's what I'm saying. Why haven't they gone out to
get one?

Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
I mean, it's gonna.

Speaker 10 (01:37:14):
There would be a lot more affinity for it. There
would be people going. Of course, I know people who
drive here from San Antonio just to go to a
ball game, and same thing. I'm sure in Dallas, just
so they can go to a ballgame.

Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
There isn't any there's a there'sn't enough interest. You're talking
about a multi billion dollar operation in terms of a team,
hundreds of millions of dollars to put in for a stadium. Uh,
there just isn't enough interest.

Speaker 10 (01:37:39):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
I was just curious, all right, thank you for the
phone call.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
Yeah, I didn't know this, but I was just googling it.
There's a group called the Austin Baseball Commission that is
trying to work on a plan to make a bid
for Major League expansion. By the way, uh, email, a
Twitter follow of ours just sent us something. Uh, This
is from our as JR.

Speaker 5 (01:38:00):
D K.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
The Nashville Stars yesterday, just yesterday put out a new
logo and cap called a group called Music City Baseball
trying to bring an MLB franchise to Nashville, and it
kind of looks like the Chicago White Socks. If you
look at it, you see that they're not that they're
trying to get the White Soxe out of Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
They wouldn't leave.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
But my point is this is that, yeah, if Tampa
does leave that area, there are three cities that want
a baseball team very badly. I think it's going to
be quite a chase between Portland, Salt Lake, and Nashville.
Baseball is dying, though, Matt Nuh yeah, according to people
that don't like baseball, those who think baseball is pretty cool,

(01:38:40):
they seem to think it's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Huh No.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
I don't think there is enough of a population between
Austin and San Antonio of a sports fan population that
would be able to justify a third team in the state.

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
But I could be wrong, but I you know.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
Why can't you get three in a state as big
as Texas? Well, Austin, Dallas, Houston got to be as
close as like, I don't know, Boston, New York whatever.
First of all, you can't take you can't take two
cities and split a team, and you can't put a
team in San Marcus. Me guess you could, but it

(01:39:15):
just it just wouldn't make sense. I mean, you're also
what water stadiums, quarter stadium costs going for these days,
billions billions of dollars. I don't think there's enough this structure.
Article I have from Fox four in Austin says they
need it's a million a minimum, a four billion dollar enterprise.

(01:39:38):
There's an expansion fee, stadium, and then operating budget. You
add it all up, it's around four billion dollars, is
what they're saying in Austin. I mean you could say
the same thing about a lot of different parts of
this country that have a huge population base that that
just can't But I mean, Austin's got to be the biggest,
one of the biggest cities or metro areas without counting

(01:39:59):
soccer team, well yeah, uh yeah, I think Austin's probably there.
I would think if Austin is going to get a
professional sports team, my guess it would be some sort
of of a well, you're not gonna hear this, but
it probably may be convincing the Spurs to leave San Antonio,
which I don't believe is gonna happen, and the Austin Spurs.
I think San Antorio's is going to build a new

(01:40:20):
downtown arena for the Spurs.

Speaker 3 (01:40:22):
That's what they want.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Austin is the biggest metro.

Speaker 3 (01:40:26):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 2 (01:40:27):
The population two point two million. No, none of the
major big four leagues. Wait, san Diego doesn't have anything. Yeah, no,
the Padres, Oh yeah, the Padres. Never mind, Well why
is it he? Thank you Google?

Speaker 7 (01:40:41):
Ai.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
I was like, what, yeah, no, I mean honestly, no, really,
no disrespect to San Antonio, but sounds like you're about
to disrespect. It's funny when you say no disrespect too
with all you can say all due respect, because maybe

(01:41:02):
there's no respect. Do Matt with plenty of respect to
that city. I don't think it could serve. I don't
think it would buy. It does economically, could not put
up enough to put up a Stateum. Hell, they built
the Almald Dome with the hopes of NFL team coming
and they got shot down pretty quick. Austin, for as

(01:41:23):
population heavy as it is, we see. I don't, you
know what, I don't want to talk on my ass
of this one. I don't It doesn't feel like to
me that is a Longhorn town. There's a lot of
transplants there these days. For instance, I mean Columbus, Ohio.
Ross is the biggest city in Ohio. It's bigger than Cleveland,

(01:41:44):
and it's bigger than Cincinnati. It's got plenty of industry.
They have an NHL team. No one's ever thought about
putting an NFL team in Columbus, or a basketball team
or a baseball team. Hey, the NFL started in Columbus. Columbus,
what it was like the Superstars or something? It was
like in nineteen twenty. You see what I'm saying, though,

(01:42:06):
I mean, there's just some cities that I when I
think of, man, that city could use this, I don't
think of Austin going. I don't think the city Austin
wants to build a two billion dollar baseball stadium. Okay,
I mean, I have really nothing much more to say

(01:42:27):
than that. I just it just doesn't come across to
me as a place that would be if I was
scared that if I was a race fan worried about
Tampa Bay losing, I wouldn't be I'd be way more
concerned about Nashville, big metropolitan area at one of the
fastest growing cities in the country, Portland, huge growing area,
Salt Lake City majorly aggressive in grabbing sports franchises. Nashville

(01:42:49):
metro pop two million, two point zero seven two. It's
two point four in Austin for Austin. Wow, Man, Austin
is just ridiculously gotten vizier. But yeah, I would say
the Rangers and the Astros probably do not want a
team in Austin. No, I want to think of block him.
There are territories to it, but you remember, it's all

(01:43:11):
about the check. If somebody, if they get a big check,
they'll but they get that check. My mother places. When
I was there, it was an Astros town. That was
when you know, the Beltran trade happened. And I'm talking
about Austin. And then when I was there the later
years when the Rangers started winning, it became a Rangers down.
But so but you have the ability to have both, Yeah,
Rangers and Astros interest there all right. Twelve twenty nine,

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Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
Lunchtimers, lunch timers, it's a Matt Thomas show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
Ninety one of our Twitter followers like, Hey, san Antonio
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(01:45:09):
fifteen bucks. That ticket's going to cost you seventy five
in the major leagues eighty dollars, marching thirty dollars. We
have a jose L Tuove play in left field that
he didn't make. Matt, we had the audio of it
or no? Oh, I don't know if we have that.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Oh we do.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Let's hear it.

Speaker 12 (01:45:26):
Three to one. That's lifted in the air pretty deep
to left. It sends back al Tuove gets turned around
on the warning track. He leaps at the wall and
he can't make the catch. It hits off the wall.
Herrera on his way to third throwing it into third
base as Myers, but not nearly in time. As it's
a triple for Herrera. I wonder if Altuve with his

(01:45:48):
inexperience out there in left field, was unsure of how
much further.

Speaker 2 (01:45:52):
He had to go.

Speaker 12 (01:45:53):
It would have been a difficult play had he made it,
but it seemed like a ball that that was potentially catchable.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
He never got there.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
But you're right, it hit a hit eye off the
wall and alto. They just was unable to time that
jump at the top of the fence to come down
with the baseball. Yeah, clear you can. Brian mctagger tweeted
the video. I retweeted it just missed time. He missed
time his jump. Okay, I'm not saying should have been caught?

(01:46:23):
Oh sale was gonna ask you, should it have been caught?

Speaker 4 (01:46:25):
Ball?

Speaker 3 (01:46:25):
Should have been caught?

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
A god rossy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
I'm gonna ask you again.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
Is there any chance that that above average left fielder
would have not made the play?

Speaker 9 (01:46:39):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
Very little chance. Can I also say something that maybe mean,
but I think it's true. Can you put music behind
it or no?

Speaker 4 (01:46:48):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
I mean, I'm just gonna say it. I think a
six footer probably doesn't even have to jump for this ball.
I'm here, it's one spring training play. I need out
to me. Matt is screaming in the hallways. Now I'm

(01:47:09):
just I'm just saying, look at the video and then
try to refute what I just said. But it's gonna
He's gonna hear that, folks. He's working out the king,
the greatest aster of all time. Jeff bank Wells out there,
stops stop, is trying something new, and my radio partner
will give him no grace whatsoever. Not true. I just said,

(01:47:31):
he's gonna You just said a normal outfit of would
have made the play.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
I can also be honest and factual. Okay, six footer
would have jumped, I think, but a more of a skip.
He just misstime his jump. He'll be fine. This is
what spring training is for. It's for these mistakes. This
game doesn't matter. It's all good. You have collectively ruined

(01:47:59):
the bull's image of the greatest, greatest master of all time.
I haven't done anything. He's fine. I don't like this,
I don't appreciate it, and I will not have slander
of the greatest master of all time Chandler Room. After
the inning, jose L Twove and Jake Myers talked for

(01:48:22):
a while as they walked back to the dugout. Then
al two and Dave Clark's been a few minutes talking
before Clark went out to coach first base. They're working
on it, so let's interpret there was What do you
think they were talking about? Hey, no, I think they're
talking about timing jumps in the wind. And I don't

(01:48:43):
know the game is on? Yeah, I just put it on.
Why didn't have it on an hour? Jacob Oh, Jake
to love set it makes the catch? Yes, Jake sor
right hero And by the way, Lilma was with us earlier,
slander and Jake Myers, Yes, he was shut You mass
out buying the lima. Okay, if you don't work here
or not anymore. Mmm, I got Arragaty's on the mound. Yeah,

(01:49:07):
he's into the third inning. It's scoreless, so it's gotta
be good. It's gotta be really good. How about the
Cardinals wearing their real uniforms in spring training. That's kind
of a waste, right, That's a lot of extra laundry
for no reason. What are they supposed to do do
what the astros are wearing. We're in their spring training gear. Well,
this looks like the Sunday Blues. Yeah, but but it's
it's the mainly the spring training gear. Most teams don't

(01:49:28):
wear their real uniforms in spring training. Okay, Cardinals are training.
It is like Game seven the World Series out there.

Speaker 3 (01:49:36):
That's okay.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
If you say it's a big deal, I'll take your
word for it. Matt, all right, urregetty dealing down two
l on the count. You're trying to do a live listening. No, no, no, no,
probably a minute. Yeah, we're like, we're at least two
minutes behind. Jake Myers has probably made three more is
probably four to two by now by the time we
catch up with this video.

Speaker 3 (01:49:55):
Fan's not accurate, a right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:57):
It actually isn't that bad. It's pretty far off. Okay,
that's fine, all right, So if anything happens with right
field with Cam Smith, we'll be happy to push that
along to the audience as well. So we had, Yeah,
we're gonna be We're gonna be watching that left field
like a hawk, aren't we. I'm used to be watching these.

(01:50:17):
Jake Myers catches baby fourteen outs, above average, fourth among
center fielders. You're droppings stats. It is on the Okay.
I wouldn't tell anybody that, Oh, can Jake hit two
fifty and we can leave him alone. Nice place, hitter.
But I mean two fifty is fine. You gotta be
twenty five is gonna hurt this two twenty eight with

(01:50:39):
thirteen bombs.

Speaker 5 (01:50:40):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
No, it's not good, terrible. No, I know you were
gonna say it was not terrible. No, no is ops
losses seven hundred, Yes, it was not good. Okay, well
he's se he's out there catching this. This center field
is a premium It's not like he's playing first basin
doing that. Who so Krotena lost the handle on the
steal there Your odeas is like you're move me out

(01:51:05):
to catch out my ass. I'm telling you I'll be
there for the rest of my life. Mm hm. Carotine
is a better defensive country. I didn't show it there training.
See in doubt, it's pretty where's our Just the preseason drops,
we've lost those. I think I might have like one
or two of them, all right, seven one three, two,
one two five.

Speaker 4 (01:51:23):
Seven means nothing year.

Speaker 3 (01:51:26):
Let me tell you to much a man, it's just the.

Speaker 2 (01:51:29):
Preseason that is epically good. It really is now, of course,
I don't know it's rainy Montreman savage. Okay, it's not
really him. Umm? Oh, man, Now I'm bummed out. We
played that highlight.

Speaker 1 (01:51:47):
I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
No, bummed out. It's fine, It's gonna be okay. Are
you sure?

Speaker 3 (01:51:53):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
You know we're gonna do to fix things. Let's get
to call in some soccer in high style. Oh, let's go. Hey,
what's up? Man?

Speaker 3 (01:52:01):
Hey? Ross?

Speaker 10 (01:52:01):
How about Real Madrid?

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
Man, dude, you you got the luckiest call in the
history of the Champions League. Coulian al Rez's foot did
not double touch that ball and you know it. You
know it, don't you? Hey, yeah, I know it.

Speaker 4 (01:52:15):
But hey, if the VAAR says that, you know, you gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:52:20):
Go with it. You know. Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
That was crazy. I'm going to be rooting against Real
Madrid against whoever. Liverpool's already out, So I'm good there.
Now I just need Arsenal and Real to lose and
then we're good.

Speaker 8 (01:52:31):
Hey, I have another thing to ask.

Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
Have you seen the leak of the new uniforms and
what do you think about them?

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
In w Man, have you seen the leak of the
new uniforms? I have not. Oh yeah, this is hilarious. Yeah,
nineteen ninety two calls. He wants it sports take back God?
So archaic, Sal Okay are hired and tried and lame.
It still works. Yeah, it's hilarious. Hey, Sal, You and
ocagenarians everywhere agree, sal Listen to be very carefully. I

(01:52:58):
have not seen the uniformly. There is no way to
know how I could have possibly have seen what they're
thinking about putting out there for their center special City
Connect uniforms. I have no idea what they look like.
Ross about you. I've seen them. When I first saw
the graphics, the initial ones, I thought they looked really terrible.

(01:53:19):
But then I saw something else that was leaked. It
looked a little bit more sharp. I think they could
be okay. But if I think there was, somebody made
their own rendering of them in the dark astro blue,
and I think they looked spectacular. If the uniform leak
is accurate, I love them. It's like a tequila bag

(01:53:41):
and I wouldn't have seen them. Make sure I haven't
seen them. I haven't seen them. But if they are
what I think they might be, I love them because
I have been on the record. I liked the hats
last year. The tops were okay, the pants were terrible.
The whole combination was a below minus grade for me.

(01:54:01):
If these leaks, which I've not seen and never would
tell anybody I've seen anything, if it's what I think
it is, I love them, I'm gonna go with like,
not love. I would like to see the see what
they actually are when they're supposed to be revealed like
next week or something, right, I don't know, Okay, but
the leaks are out and we have not seen them.

Speaker 5 (01:54:24):
Ross.

Speaker 2 (01:54:25):
I would never ever even pretend to think I've ever
seen them, even when I saw them. I'm on social media. No, no, no, no,
I never I'm never on social media. I don't see
them either that way. Twelve forty four, we've got em
a dooka coming up in fifteen minutes. By the way,
who's batting for the Cardinals. Did you see the guys name?
I didn't see lost news Bar? Oh yeah, no, in
Lars Nubar.

Speaker 3 (01:54:44):
Who is that?

Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
You know who Lars Newbar is?

Speaker 3 (01:54:46):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
Yeah, he's like a Dutch or something. He's been there
for years. I think he's been an All Star.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
It's got a triple he was he.

Speaker 2 (01:54:53):
Won the he was with the Otani on the Japanese
team that one. Yeah, maybe a you just said it
was Dutch. Whatever. It's a Dutch name, isn't it. You
just smacked the ball to straightaway center field. Yeah, father's Dutch,
mother's Japanese. What was the name and you got it right,
Lars Nutbar. I'm sorry, I must have I was thinking

(01:55:16):
All Star. I must have been thinking World Baseball. Can
you does the crack the pepper celebration?

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:55:23):
Come, by the way, you don't know a Lars Nutbar.
When you all reach me in Orlando next week, I
will Would you stop doing that with your hands? That's disgusting, Connor,
That's just a celebration. Yeah, but you using two hands
usually only takes one to celebrate, which you want to
celebrate in the pepper? Yeah, I bet you've been cracking
a lot of pepper. Twelve forty four on Sports Talk
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Just remember you'll have to feed him.

Speaker 2 (01:57:02):
All right to make y'all feel better. Jake Myers and
for those of you that are part of the Jake
Myers fan club, we have some great defensive work for him.
Too legal opportunity. We did play the jose L two
a attempt to grab him left. So and now here
is what Jake Myers does with his glove in spring

(01:57:22):
trening baseball, and he swings breaks his bat a fly
ball at a left center field and a diving effort
by Jake Myers, and Myers makes the catch. Jake Myers
dashing to his right, full extension in the alleyway, comes
up without number one full extension in the alleyway. Matt,
you love to get some full extension in the alleyway.

(01:57:45):
I haven't gotten full extension since the late nineties. I
got pills for that. I've tried them. Twelve fifty two
Sports Talk seven ninety is a Matt Thomas sheld Ross
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I think I think the Friday Open tomorrow should be
just ten minutes of his best drops. Well, yeah, I've

(01:58:07):
got the best of like that was hard enough to
choose than you guys are giving me some new more stuff,
So I'm just gonna have to those will just be
all uh for future.

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
So I'll just put him in your folder.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Ross, all right, So we have we met our new
producer yet, Yeah, I have You're never up here? So
but where is he? Could he be working today with
us or something?

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
He'll he'll be tramorrow. He Uh, Unfortunately, he's working a lot.
He's working like he's we're a little short staff. We're
little thin up here right now, Matt. Okay. Uh, he's
doing overnights right now, filling it. But his name's Jonathan.
So he'll be here as a nice kid. Oh yeah,
very excited. Yeah, all right, he's got personality. You think
you can handle all the nuances of like the Friday

(01:58:43):
opens and stuff like that and all that kind of stuff.
I think it might take him inte for the opens,
but it took me a while. We didn't put that
on his plate till very deep in the game. How
about believe it or not? Can believe or not?

Speaker 1 (01:58:52):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:58:53):
Yes, he'll learning process. Yeah, he'll he'll have some help.
He'll be good and shut. We got a lot of bits.
Shut your bub ass up. Yeah, tomorrow shows all about
the bits we got. Tomorrow I got. I'm sorry Friday,
we gonna apologize a bunch of people. Hmmm, are you
gonna apologize for besmirching the good name of Jake Myers.
I didn't besmirch it. It was Melima that besmirched it.
Are we gonna do non Florida stories because I have

(01:59:14):
a good one? Finally, finally, yeah, yeah, where's you're from?
Yours from matt uh Cincinnati, really yes, okay? And involves
crappy chili man. I found a good one the last
week and then I realized it was from Jacksonville, Florida.
It's you know, next Friday, I build to do a
Florida story because you will to Orlando in Miami. Rule,
Is there anyway either what any of us are in Florida?

(01:59:35):
You can't do it. By the way, let me give
you stories that I have been sent from my research
department that I don't think I'll be bringing you up. Okay.
A dog managed to fire a gun and wound his
owner in an accidental shooting in Memphis on Monday. Oh
that's I'm sorry, that's tragic. Another one is uh Man
embarked on a pest control mission and ended up with

(01:59:56):
an unexpected trip of the hospital. A woman was hospitalized
after being stung by a scorpion at Logan Airport in
Boston on Sunday, I've been there. My boyfriend has a
micro penis, and here's what our perfect sex life is
like on man, we don't need to hear that. These
poor guys. I feel so bad for that. And ornate

(02:00:17):
dangerous snake was discovered in the box of a bananas
at a New Hampshire grocery store. My god, the research
team is on top of it. Team dies after injecting
himself with butterly remains. Butterfly remains?

Speaker 4 (02:00:30):
What?

Speaker 6 (02:00:31):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
I think I saw that one. How many links do
you get a week from this research team? That's over
about a two week span? My god. You know people
want to know which stars I am fighting and scrapping
for any one story I can get. You got a
whole dossier. I have a research department. I see that,

(02:00:54):
but I won't use any of those tomorrow, I don't think. Okay, Conner,
you weren't with us all time. All time non Flora
story for me was out of San Antonio. Do you
remember what it was?

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
Was that the blood coming through the room. Yes, I
knew you were gonna say that because that wasn't an
all timer. I think it was Connor.

Speaker 3 (02:01:10):
No.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
The al timer was the guy who had the guy
from Alabama who was getting met to his squirrel and
it attack people or he was like he had an
attack squirrel. See that wasn't that was your story. I'm
talking about my personal all time Okay, my personal timer
was a woman was lying in her bed and she
was her wall was at the top of her wall
was dripping things. That was the most disgusting one. Yeah,

(02:01:34):
and it was dripping blood. The guy that lived above
her died and the blood was seeping through the wall,
the carpet and the ground of the Apartmenteah. Doesn't that
sound like a great terrory? Doesn't that sound hilarious and fun? Connor?
So then so then she goes after the apartment complex.
The apartment complex, you didn't pay your rent, bitch, let's

(02:01:57):
go wow, I think you should get rent for a
six months minimum for blood spattering into your home. And
the worst part was Connor, is that her ceiling fan
was on, so the blood would hit the ceiling fan.
Let's go to break good God. That's my all time

(02:02:19):
non Florida story. And it happened just in San Antonio
as a real life horror movie. It's funny because I
don't even like horror movies. I mean I I have
I can't remember the last time I saw a horror movie.
It's gotta have been thirty years. We do already have
comments from Joe Spot on the jose Al Twovey jump

(02:02:41):
when we come back.

Speaker 3 (02:02:42):
We had only for twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (02:02:44):
We'll talk to email about it. No, Eman doesn't care
about why not Al two Bay's jumping a mill. He's
not playing playguard for the Rockets. Now, fine, I'll read it.
Read it. On the television broadcast, Joe Spot said his
first step was good. His direction was exactly what we're
looking for. He got to the right spot. He just
needed to find the and leap. He jumped a little
too early, and he also said he better fixes quick.

(02:03:06):
He didn't say that you're all good.

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
He didn't say that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:09):
Twelve fifty seven final hour The Matt Thomas Show and
Ross begins with Emeya Donkin next on seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:03:17):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show on a.

Speaker 2 (02:03:21):
One Sports Talk seven ninety. The Rockets with an off
day today, back to back games tomorrow against Dallas on
Saturday against the Chicago Bulls. Rockets have won four consecutive
game to talk about that and other things. Houston Rocker Late,
it is the head coach, Imo Doka here on the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross coach.

Speaker 3 (02:03:39):
It's Matt Ross.

Speaker 2 (02:03:39):
Good afternoon, Congratulations on the four game stretch, and I
brought this up to you yesterday. Is it somewhat nice
in a world of NBA when you feel like you're
in five cities and ten days and it's been nice
to kind of be home for a little bit to
kind of get in some sort of routine here.

Speaker 6 (02:03:55):
Yeah, I would say it is after the hectic travel
schedule that we had. Yeah, I think at some point
thirteen to seventeen on the road and come home for
a game and right back out on the road.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
So it's good to be back for a little bit.

Speaker 6 (02:04:06):
I don't really mind it, but I think the players
like to sit down, settle down and be with their
families and get on their regular schedule. But it's also
nice to be at home for a while and take
care of our home court advantage, and we did that lately.

Speaker 2 (02:04:20):
How tired of you were you of Fred VanVleet the coach,
and how happy were you to have Fred VanVleet the
player back on the floor for.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
You last night.

Speaker 6 (02:04:28):
Well, we'll get tired of him as far as what
he does for our guys as far as coaching sitting there,
and he does that while he's playing as well, so
we don't get tired of that part.

Speaker 3 (02:04:35):
But it's great to have him back on the floor, you.

Speaker 6 (02:04:38):
Know, settling things down and just you know, finding his way,
getting his rhythm back, and you know, had a nice
sufficient game overall. I think, you know, just to get
the rust off and have him back out there obviously
benefits the team.

Speaker 2 (02:04:50):
You know what, this is a Phoenix team that scores
a lot of points. It's really strange. In the last
two games you faced two different teams, have played different styles.
But frankly, I love the defense in those last two games.
I'm very good for your squad.

Speaker 6 (02:05:04):
Yeah, we got back to guarding at a pretty high level. Obviously,
if you score or you hold somebody in the eighties
like we did Orlando, that's a great feat nowadays in NBA.
But even except for their late run by Phoenix making
some threes late, you know, we held them in the
ninety for the most part, and so especially with Bill
Booker and Durant out there, I think we did a
great job of paying attention to detail, making them work

(02:05:27):
extremely hard. And you know, obviously, when you can hold
Durant and Booker to nineteen each, you're doing a really
good job.

Speaker 7 (02:05:34):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:05:34):
Do you coaches have a nickname for the Jabbari Smith,
Steven Adams, Alprin Shingoon lineups?

Speaker 3 (02:05:42):
No, we don't. I'm sure people are in the media or.

Speaker 2 (02:05:44):
If jump package is what I've heard, how do you
like that making.

Speaker 3 (02:05:48):
Our names for that? But it sounds good to me.

Speaker 6 (02:05:50):
Double Biggs has been really good for us though, and
when you include Jabari at the three. Obviously, with the
men out right now and some guys in and out
them back to backs, we have to go with some
unique lineups, but they've all done a really good job
of adjusting and making taste.

Speaker 3 (02:06:03):
Hey, it comes down to.

Speaker 6 (02:06:05):
War of will with the bigs and smalls out there
and who could take advantage of what?

Speaker 3 (02:06:09):
And I think our bigs have been taking advantage.

Speaker 6 (02:06:11):
Of the smaller lamps and not getting hurt too bad
by them as well.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Rocket Tech coach Ima Dedoko with us here on Sports
Talk seven ninety. What are your conversations or I guess
offensive philosophies with Dylan Brooks. His scoring has been up.
He's been getting his shot a lot more as well,
and really helping you guys offensively, but not normally one
of the traditional kind of engines of the offense for
you guys.

Speaker 6 (02:06:36):
You know, the thing that for him is to be
aggressive and take the right shots, which he does. He's
obviously shooting at a really high level from three, and
I always say he finds a way to impact the game,
whether it's getting down transition, relocating off of Alpi and
Jalen and finding his spots, especially when I don't call
a ton of plays for him, he impacts the game
in a great way.

Speaker 3 (02:06:53):
And from there it's just make the right place.

Speaker 6 (02:06:55):
You know, a lot of times the team will have
a lesser defender on him, and we want him to
take advantage of that, whether it's on the offfensive glass
or occasional post up here there just hunting the shots
when guys are helping.

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
Off of them.

Speaker 6 (02:07:05):
So he's been doing a great job of that, making
teams pay and need that aggressiveness. Obviously, the focus is
on some of our leading scores, and he's done a
great job all year being very consistent knocking down those shots.

Speaker 2 (02:07:16):
Steven Adams gave you a double double a couple nights back.
Obviously he could not do that last night because he
and Miles wanted to play WWE in the court last night.
But he's always been a good offensive rebounder. You know
that from all your time watching him over the NBA.
Is it brute strength, is it just pushing guys aside?
Or does he just had the innate ability to know
where that ball is going to bounce, especially but does

(02:07:37):
not come off and down then.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
Through the hoop.

Speaker 6 (02:07:40):
With all the above, in order to be a really
good offensive rebound like he does, you have to have
a great sense of of where the ball is going
to come off the rim. But starts with his strength
and wedging guys, under carving out that space for himself
and a lot of times he's going to get the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:07:55):
But also he commands a double.

Speaker 6 (02:07:57):
And triple team on the glass and he allows other
guys to clean up and get those opportunities as well.

Speaker 3 (02:08:01):
So starts with the strength.

Speaker 6 (02:08:03):
Obviously he's a he's a load down there, can kind
of wedge guys in, but he has a really good
understanding where the ball is going to come off, and
then a great understanding of where the shooters and scores
are out of that hitting guys going to the basket,
kicking out for threes, or finding those footbacks for himself,
and so all the above. He's a really smart player
and has obviously worked at that for a long time.

Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
Let's say last night that he and plumbly got after
it like they did and no one came on the court.
How that I have ended?

Speaker 3 (02:08:31):
It would ended? It would have ended with Steven and quickly.

Speaker 2 (02:08:37):
I'm afraid of him, he may. I mean, I'm afraid
of you, and I'm afraid of him?

Speaker 3 (02:08:40):
Are you guys?

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
I mean, y'all are some scary mofos. I'm gonna tell
you that right now. He's just not a He's not
a friendly gat but I appreciate what he brings the table.
It's kind of nice to have that a little bit
of moxy on Thatt squad. You've got quite a few
guys that'll do that if need be.

Speaker 3 (02:08:54):
That was good. I mean, he brings the edge to us,
you know.

Speaker 6 (02:08:56):
I obviously he's a big teddy bear off the cory,
great personality, as most guys do. And sometimes it's just
a flip that gets the switch that gets flipped on
the court, and so he brings that's the toughness he's
carved out his career.

Speaker 3 (02:09:09):
Doing one thing.

Speaker 6 (02:09:10):
But yeah, we love that about him, and obviously it's
it's important to what we're trying to do be the
number one offensive rebounding team in the league.

Speaker 3 (02:09:17):
We have great wings that do it.

Speaker 6 (02:09:18):
But for him to come in and do it the
way he has, obviously he's been helpful as well. But yeah,
and don't I don't want to take anything away from
Plumbley as my guy.

Speaker 3 (02:09:26):
He was with us with USA Basketball, but great guy
as well.

Speaker 6 (02:09:29):
But Steven, to your point, is a very formidable opponent
in all those aspects.

Speaker 2 (02:09:34):
Yeah, for sure. You may doka with us here on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross coach. Give us an
update on a man.

Speaker 3 (02:09:40):
What is he doing? I know, rest rehab.

Speaker 2 (02:09:43):
You got a great training staff that's watching him probably
every minute of the day when they can. Where is
he on his progression in his ankle.

Speaker 6 (02:09:51):
It's been good, obviously precautionary, you know, you get the
X rays and all that, and those are all negative,
but you keep him at a walking food just the
limit swelling and all those things and so that's been good.
He's getting the running in on the alter G treadmill,
the wait non weight bearing treadmill and moving around looking
very normal walking around, and that's a great sign. No
limp and a lot of the swellings getting pushed out.

(02:10:12):
So yeah, to your point, around the clock treatment to
get him back strengthening work, and then obviously he'll build
up little by little till he's on the court and
getting back to who he is.

Speaker 2 (02:10:22):
Yesterday used cam it a little bit in the second quarter.
I know he had not been playing much before him.
Was that just a kind of was that situational? Was that, Hey,
I want to sneak in a few minutes here see
what he can do, because I know he probably hasn't
been overall very pleased with his work, probably since that
game where you started him against Oklahoma City.

Speaker 6 (02:10:40):
Yeah, I mean, well, with the injuries out, we got
to go different lineups. I think we ran Jail in
the entire first quarter. He was on a on a
hot streak there, which we usually don't do.

Speaker 3 (02:10:50):
And then it was situational with the fouls.

Speaker 6 (02:10:52):
Tari and Tari and Dylan both got two fouls in
the first quarter and didn't want to go to crazy
different lineup and he obviously, Cam is a really good
scorer that can come in and give us a spark.
So when we got jailing out, we brought him in
to do that. It was a funky line up out
there for sure. But that's what it's going to look
like at times.

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
When you have read out and you have I'm in
out obviously, and then you get in.

Speaker 6 (02:11:15):
Foul trouble and things of that nature, and so all
the guys got to be ready and they always are
for the most part. You see Aaron, Jock, Jeff Jay,
Shawn Cam as well work putting in the work, and
when the numbers call it, they got to be ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (02:11:28):
Do you as a coach kind of relish and these
opportunities to where things kind of don't go to plan.
You've got to figure things out.

Speaker 3 (02:11:35):
You've come up with.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
There's been the zone lineups, there's been the big lineups.
That type of stuff. Does that make the job fun
for you?

Speaker 6 (02:11:42):
I wouldn't say fun to the fact that the injuries
and you know, unavailability on back to back, so you
understand those things are going to happen throughout the season.
The luck of being totally healthy throughout the season is unrealistic.
And we had good help for them first, you know,
three four months or whatever it was.

Speaker 3 (02:11:59):
And now it's been hit.

Speaker 6 (02:12:00):
Obviously with the back to back guys and obviously Fred
being out quite a while. And so I would say
our relatship. But you have to be ready for everything
and be able to be able to adjust on the fly.
And that's the blessing that we have with our team
is that we have a lot of interchangeable parts where
if someone goes out, I'm in could kind of plug
in the hole at every position. Jabbari's doing the same,

(02:12:22):
playing small ball five or playing the three for us,
and then all of our big wings and even our
guards play up as well.

Speaker 3 (02:12:27):
Fre as a tough guard. The Aaron can play up
as well, and.

Speaker 6 (02:12:30):
So you can mix and match pretty much a lot
of different lineups to put guys in spots. But that's
the beauty of the team that they all have to
be ready for everything. And I think we can go
to zone, we can go to double bigs, and it
will all work out well for us in the playoffs
going forward.

Speaker 2 (02:12:44):
Lastly, and I told this to the audience earlier today,
you may I am watching the standings too much. It's
a sickness I have. Are you doing that or I mean,
I think I know that your answer, But damn we
keep winning. But everybody else in front of us and
behind us is keep winning. There's not a whole lot
of seismic shifting right now in the Western Conference.

Speaker 6 (02:13:03):
Yeah, that time of the year, we all understand how
tight it is.

Speaker 3 (02:13:07):
Tight.

Speaker 6 (02:13:08):
It is basically from two to five, Gulam State and
Minnesota right behind there. So you have to handle your
business first and foremost, and then from there, you know,
get some luck on your side. It always works, but
not have to rely on anybody to win or lose.
And then you know the games we've given away some
early in the season and had that little slump obviously
with the injuries and guys in and out. That hurt

(02:13:28):
us some and we'd be in a good spot without that.
But now it's filling our hands to you know, us, Denver,
Memphis and Lakers basically the four way tie or one
game apart for second to fifth, and so have to
handle our business, take care of the home stretch, and
then go win some games on the road.

Speaker 2 (02:13:42):
I like your approach to that, Thank you very much
friend for the time. We'll see you tomorrow night against
the Mavericks.

Speaker 3 (02:13:46):
Thank you, you got it.

Speaker 2 (02:13:47):
A team Adoka with us here on the radio program.
It is a Matt Talmas show with Ross. Thanks aging
to email for joining us, and he will be with
us again next week on the road, as the Rockets
have three more home games before heading to a Florida
trip to Orlando and Iami. One twelve is our time
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got some college basketball coming up. At the top of
the hour on nine p fifty you'll have the Cougars
against Colorado, and right here on seven ninety you've got
the Aggis and the Longhorns. Huge.

Speaker 3 (02:14:24):
Well, Dad, just listen to.

Speaker 2 (02:14:25):
Basketball and the radio.

Speaker 3 (02:14:27):
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Speaker 2 (02:14:28):
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Speaker 3 (02:14:31):
Yes. Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:14:32):
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Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
One eighteen. On Sports Talk seven ninety it is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three two one
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(02:16:45):
it's not like we traded Luca.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
Ooh.

Speaker 2 (02:16:50):
So they're trying to be funny and edgy. And they
also know they're not a corporate sponsor of the Dallas Mavericks.
They could probably have a little more leeway than if
they were, say, corporate sponsor the Dallasicks, because of course
they play at Shamerican Mareline's arena or center, Yeah, yeah, whatever,
whatever it's called. By the way, Northwestern is not being

(02:17:10):
treated very nicely at the Big Ten Tournament. Why not?
Their coach says that their hotel, their end, does not
have air conditioning and that players are staying in rooms
that are eighty five degree seperature. Feels like there's a
little bit of a lie there. Do you think that
he's lying. I feel like that if there was an
air conditioning issue that they would have moved the players
out of the hotel. Is there coach still what's his name? Collins?

(02:17:32):
They weren't going to say, suck it up, Nancy. It's
Northwestern basketball. I mean yeah, I mean, I think they've
won one tournament game. If you're you know, if you're
what Michigan State, I kind of get it.

Speaker 3 (02:17:46):
You're Northwestern. You should be just happy you got the invite.

Speaker 2 (02:17:51):
Oh wait, they actually know they won tournament games three times.
They had never made the tournament until twenty seventeen. That
was the first time they ever made it. Well, so
you know what, I'd be happy they get a roof
over their head of the hotel. Good for them, wishing
them the best. Do you think and I don't mean
to point out Northwestern, but let's be real. When you

(02:18:11):
think of teams that are very schools that are very
lucky to be in the conference they in because they've
been grandfathered in for all these years and they're getting
this huge piece of the pie. I mean, does Northwestern
not come to the top of the list. I would
say so. Vanderbilt certainly on the top of that list,
what else would be Houston Cougar's. No, we just got
recently invited the Big Twelve, so we wouldn't. We had
to work hard to get our way in for a mass.

(02:18:32):
Exodus wasn't mass. It was two teams a mass. I'm kidding.
But my point is that there are a handful of
schools that have not done much like Purdue, for instance,
has had a pretty good basketball program. Football's done, not squat.
Kentucky football not squat. Generally speaking, Indiana football just didn't

(02:18:55):
become relevant until what the last couple of years. Maybe
sometimes you just can't every everybody can't be winners, Matt.
But so my question is this, there are winners and
losers in life. When when we do get this ultimate separation,
this next round of realignment, uh huh, are any of
these big schools going to have the stones that tell

(02:19:15):
the little schools of these conferences? You know, we get
to bring Clemson in, and we get to bring in
North Carolina or Florida State, or we got to kick
you know, Indiana Purdue. But I'm talking about this is
football driven. Could you imagine being I should say imagine

(02:19:38):
could you picture where we have just football conferences and
then everything else aligns up with the traditional conferences we
have now. Oh okay, meaning if you if you were
a ACC and everything but football, if you're really gonna
have thirty six teams play for a national championship, the

(02:19:59):
KREMDA like the top thirty six. Okay, you're not putting
Northwestern in there. You're not putting Illinois in there. You're
not putting Vanderbilt in there. You're not putting Kentucky in there.
You are not putting in Uh who else would be
from a powerful who would be another one?

Speaker 3 (02:20:16):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:20:17):
You don't need more, but Kansas would not be in
the mix. You know what I'm saying. Okay, do you
kind of go We love you, We'll play you in basketball,
there's value in you and playing you in baseball. But
if we're gonna really share this outrageous pot of money
that ESPN, Fox, NBCC, BASS is gonna give us, we

(02:20:37):
need to give it.

Speaker 3 (02:20:37):
To the schools that really did me.

Speaker 2 (02:20:39):
Because when when you put Northwestern on CBS against anybody,
people are like, Eh, I'm not gonna.

Speaker 3 (02:20:44):
Watch you put Michigan State, Ohio, Ohio State down.

Speaker 2 (02:20:49):
You're gonna watch you're putting Indiana versus Purdue on the
CBS game week You're not gonna watch, You're just not.
I don't know it's different because I mean these team
these TV broadcasting companies that bry the the rights to
professional sports, like well you talk about ESPN, they don't
put on I don't know, the only Washington this week,

(02:21:12):
but the Wizards and the bad teams or whatever. Yeah,
they end up on the You know, Northwestern plays a
lot on the Big ten network, a lot, a lot
of Peacock games. Yeah, a lot of Peacock games. So
I don't know, you kinda have people. You can't have
a tough game every single week. You gotta have easy dubs, Matt.

(02:21:32):
That's what you need, Northwest. But even if you took
the top thirty six, I'm just throwing them just a
number out there. Well, like one mega conference of thirty
six football teams and your North and South of their
own TV deal. Yeah, is that what you're saying? Somebody
has to be eighteenth in each one of those divisions.
Somebody's gonna have to suck mm hmm. Like Nebraska carries
a huge college football presence, a history. Yeah, they used

(02:21:58):
to used to, not anymore but I could see a
world when Nebraska is going to be in a group
of thirty six. I can't see a world where uh,
Colorado is long term.

Speaker 3 (02:22:10):
Going to be in it.

Speaker 2 (02:22:11):
As long as Dion's there, they're good. You know, it's
a question of how long he's going to sort it out.
Because I just thought it was funny that Northwestern just
feels like they're not being treated equally, and in reality,
if it was a football world, they would not be
treated in that hotel. The Big Ten does the Big
team determine the hotels for the turnament? Big ten tells
you what hotels are going, okay, And my guess is
that there is something of a default. I mean of

(02:22:33):
a of a of a let's get him some window units,
let's go. I don't even know where it's a Big
Ten tournament wearing. Oh, it's in the Indianapolis this year,
I think. So. There's a lot of nice I was
just in Annapolis last week. There's plenty of nice hotels,
a lot. Now, granted the conference is bigger now they
got them in the Rotael Ricks. No, they're probably at
the Dampton Rin.

Speaker 3 (02:22:52):
It's not that bad.

Speaker 2 (02:22:53):
I've been to the Dampton run before. I spent many
a night in the Dampton. If you get free breakfast
of the Dampton once, but not bad. Huh, it's fine.
I like the Moory, I know you do. Fross wanted
to find a rowery in in or In in West
Palm Beach to eat dinner. I'm like, what do you mean,
not that good? It's not that bad. It's not great. Hey,

(02:23:13):
it's good for the budget. It's chili mac.

Speaker 3 (02:23:15):
I mean, it is what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:23:16):
It's good for the low budget. If you want chili mac.
It's like a ka meatballs they stole from my key.
That is so Franklin is just incredibly accurate. It troubles
me that it's so accurate. Seven one three two one
two five seven out eight. David and King one want
talks some Cougar basketball. You know what American want talks
some Cougar basketball. Especially Cooper Flag is hurt. You're you're

(02:23:41):
the worst. You are celebrating a young man's major ankle injury.

Speaker 3 (02:23:45):
Let me tell you this right now.

Speaker 2 (02:23:46):
He was weird out of the arena. Thoughts and prayers
to Cooper Flag's ankle. Mason win from Kingwood, pop fly,
they'll be able to win their first and maybe their
second game without him. So if that'll buy you a week,
that'll buy you two weeks. So you're telling me Duke
gets to the Sweet sixteen and then they filled that
yeah mad, the face that he is making, folks. I

(02:24:12):
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dot com.

Speaker 1 (02:25:40):
Matt Thomas and rossbyurreal two guys extremely passionate about Houston sports.
You can tell them to go get a room.

Speaker 2 (02:25:49):
We've shared a hotel room, but they already have and
then've shared evand thanks for the visual pillow in between.

Speaker 1 (02:25:57):
There's no pillow between you and more unchime. He was
do in Sports Talk on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (02:26:11):
So.

Speaker 2 (02:26:11):
Cam Smith. Rossi played five innings today for the Astros
against the Saint Louis Cardinals in West Palm Beach. I
heard he was Gold and Glove caliber. He did not
commit an error, that's correct. He did not have an assist. Yes,
he did not have put out, so he didn't touch

(02:26:35):
the ball. Nope.

Speaker 12 (02:26:39):
See you had.

Speaker 2 (02:26:39):
If your pitching staff good enough, you don't have to
worry about the outfield at all. Really, defense, well, if
you Jake cover and everything, you got Jake Myers covering everything,
you don't you know what again, I would rather take
those two infielders, two outfielders and put them in the
infield and have Jake cover the entire outfield and have
a bunch of people on the infield so nothing in
the infield gets spy. It's making a lot of sense. Well,

(02:27:01):
I mean, if Christian Walker is not playing first base
and John Singleton's playing a lot of first base, your
range over there at first not nearly as good as
it could have been. You put somebody between first and second.
Call today, just put Jake in the outfield. Perry, he's
got it, you know, the other guys on the foul lines,
and then Jake covers everything else. So here's what happens.
If it's a right handed hitter, you shade him to

(02:27:22):
the left center. If it's a left handed hitter, you
shot him to the right center. Wells's it's the pool
guy versus you know, you have to cook of the matchups. Matt,
look at your little matchup card they keep in their
back pocket. Yeah, he looks at his matchup card. Oh crap,
where am I supposed to go? Maybe he just moves
around like a toggle switch, you know, move him left
and right. Absolutely, I'm sure. Yeah, if there's anybody that
can cover?

Speaker 3 (02:27:41):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (02:27:43):
What from one field? What is the dimensions between one
left field line and the right field line? I guess
it depends right. Yeah, so are you trying to find
the high pot noose? Yeah, that's big math. I don't
want to think. I don't want think.

Speaker 3 (02:27:55):
I want to go down this avenue.

Speaker 2 (02:27:57):
What is what is the distance between the left field
line and the right field line?

Speaker 5 (02:28:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:28:03):
Are we supposed to know this? I have a squared
plus B squared connor are we supposed to know this?
Right offhand? The different different different field right. So we
got a Pasagoras from line online. Two calls you Dan,
what is the difference between how far is it the
cover left field to right field line. We can find it.
David and Kingwood at one thirty five on seven ninty David,
good afternoon, Stay there man. How you doing, buddy, good friend?

(02:28:27):
What's on your mind?

Speaker 3 (02:28:27):
The same?

Speaker 11 (02:28:29):
I'll just face and watch his coops turning a little
bit by the way, Kingwood, I know you're you freak
with us. Are you've been that Perry's yet? Parry As
if you haven't tried out. It's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (02:28:38):
The pizza place.

Speaker 11 (02:28:40):
Yeah, pizza and draft house. We're appreciate the coops out
over here, me and my son and friends. Pretty good place.

Speaker 2 (02:28:47):
Every time I try to go, there's like an hour. Wait,
I can't wait an hour. That's too long.

Speaker 4 (02:28:52):
I got you. I got you on that all right.

Speaker 11 (02:28:54):
First of all, like the backtrack to I mean, last hour,
he's talking about getting the the U of H.

Speaker 4 (02:29:01):
Not the Hall of Fame. Get to get your something.

Speaker 2 (02:29:04):
Hey yeah, yeah, yeah, I was seasing.

Speaker 4 (02:29:06):
Yeah, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 11 (02:29:08):
Just the mere fact that you talk about the Cougars
the only one in the city that does should qualify
for that. Because I prayed for a lot of stations
to listen y'all at twelve, but ust the stations, no
one talks about Cougars rarely that fact that you get.

Speaker 2 (02:29:25):
Thank you very much. I appreciate your vote.

Speaker 4 (02:29:29):
There you go, Hey, I will keep you. I got
this couple of things.

Speaker 3 (02:29:32):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (02:29:32):
I like the way the Cougars have.

Speaker 11 (02:29:36):
Slowly gotten really good this year they started. I don't
want to say it's art of all slow, but the
development of Usan and everybody else. I love the way
they came together. I think they're peeking at a good time.
I like the way they're looking right now. And uh,
I kind of like their quiet, even the rate number two.
They don't get a lot of national press, which I
like too. My second point is you think Sampson approaches

(02:30:01):
this conference tournament any different? I mean you talked about
Cooper flag will go rolling as a right that happens.
And do you think if they didn't win the championship
that would have picked the number one seed at all?

Speaker 4 (02:30:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:30:13):
No, thank you for the phone call on nice words, David,
appreciate the k would love. No, they're number one seed.
They're going even if they were, They're not gonna lose
it at Colorado because Carl's terrible. If they don't win
the championship and the big twelve, they're still gonna be
number one seeds. As dwardte Me and Josep Dwarty mentioned,
I think they're locked in the number three overall.

Speaker 3 (02:30:33):
I think it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (02:30:36):
Auburn one, Duke two, meaning they're four number ones, and
I think they'll be the third of the four number ones,
is my guess. Now, if they win the Big twelve
and Duke doesn't win it, could they change. I'm not
smart enough to figure that out. The bracketology right now.

(02:31:00):
This is of Joe Lonardi Auburn in the South, Duke
is the number two overall seed, would be in the
East the Rocket Rockets, the Cougars will be the number
three seed in the Midwest and the first overall Sea
in that division third overall, and then Florida would go
west as the number four. That's that's if that holds.

(02:31:20):
And he did that as of eighteen hours ago, and
the Longhorns first four out, he has last four, first
four out Texas, Ohio State, Boise State, Colorado State, next
four out, Dayton, Wake Forest, you see Irvine in Cincinna.

(02:31:41):
Sincenay's gonna be out. They lost yesterday, so they're definitely
gonna be out thirteen bids to the SEC Cardilla Lenardi. Wow,
nine to the Big Ten, eight to the Big twelve,
five of the Big East. We four in the AC
four acc Wow. That what has happened that league? Six
teams and only yeah, you would say by just by

(02:32:03):
sure numbers it would be crazy. And then three to
the Mountain West and two to the West Coast Conference.
Last four in Oklahoma. They've got in Indiana. They have
in Xavier in North Carolina who won yesterday in so

(02:32:23):
Indiana fired Mike Woodson or told him he's not coming
back and he's probably going to be in the tournament.
Good for him. It's a bit of a higher bar
there at Indiana than just Man and I kind of think, So,
do your figure out the distance? Oh four hundred? Well,
the the high I did was it three fifteen to left.
The high pot news of three fifteen to three fifteen
is four hundred and forty five feet. I respect that,

(02:32:49):
but you're assuming every three fifteen to twelve, and is
not every left field twenty five is tour I guess
I should know the dimensions. It's three fifteen to left
and then like three twenty five to right or three
twenty six to right. Right point being is, can we
put Jake Myers on a mad sprint like the mister
Freeze guy uh in Atlanta? Yeah? Has Jake Myers and

(02:33:09):
mister Freeze ever been the same facility before?

Speaker 3 (02:33:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:33:13):
Three fifteen to left, three twenty six to right. All right, fine,
I'll find it right now. No, that's okay, you did
you did good? No, that's fine. Here we go four
hundred and fifty three feet he has to cover. That
doesn't count all the way back to center, and the
nooks and crannies of it too. Don't forget that either
or the Yeah, you can't forget the crannies.

Speaker 3 (02:33:31):
Mat you can't a.

Speaker 2 (02:33:32):
Forget the crannies. U. By the way, I'm watching John
Singleton play first base for the Strows and that's fine.
What's wrong with that? Well, I mean, what do we
keep hearing about Christian Walker? Know about how John Singleton looked.
He's getting the best shape of his life. Yeah, this
is batting average in spring training. It doesn't matter spring training. Well,

(02:33:53):
it only matters if it's good and it's Cam Smith.
There's bad. It's just spring training. Since you asked good,
He's going to the the Damsith's going to Hall of Fame.
Since you asked, Uh, Singleton today is zero for two.
He's batting one o seven in spring ops of two
sixty eight. Yeah, but what's the XBA man? But he's
got a lot of hard hit balls. Maybe he's been
scorching him. I thought he was so ripped that he

(02:34:13):
would get hit space off just as intense muscles. He's strong,
Big John Singleton. It's fun to say big John. He
only has two buttons down too, as a matter of fact,
not knowing now, I mean normally you three or four
of the He's trying to say light and airy. He's
not light and airy is not a part of John
Singleton's repertoire. Air conditioning, Matt well ventilated. He's all good.

(02:34:38):
So you're telling me a guy that bets one oh
seven in the spring of all sung going to be
a three hundred hitter in case you needed to play
first a happened. Absolutely not that. I'm not telling you
John Singleton's hitting three hundred. I never said that because
you're hoping for he's gonna hit better than a hundred seven. Oh,
I would hope. So I think you and I could
beat better than one. Se I don't think I could,
nor could you. I'm telling you that one time I
took batting practice and your hands are blistered hand I

(02:35:00):
couldn't move them for days. So I asked Dino Eevil,
who was the manager of the Salt Lake Bees at
the time. I said, Dino, what were you're throwing me
at about? It's about fifty oh my god, and my
hands are permanently like. The last time my hands hurt
that bad is when I shook Adrian Peterson's hand. That's
how bad they hurt. All right, believe it or not,
today is highly googleble. It's about baseball, right, Yes, that's

(02:35:22):
all you're gonna say. That's all I'm saying. And uh, Connor,
what are we playing for? We have some amazing answer
quick answer quicks. You get two seconds, and we're playing
for some amazing prizes. Correct. Yeah, we got tickets to
go see Journey at Houston Rodeo and also take us
to go see the psychedelic Furs of the House of Blues. Okay,
so psychedelic furs love it something when when the bros

(02:35:44):
are hanging out in their in their garage, right and
they're they're they're jamming. We need a name of a band.
Did somebody go psychedelic first? That sounds fantastic, probably, like
what's the worst name of a band you know of today?
Like a famous band? How psychedelic first? Me could go

(02:36:04):
on it.

Speaker 3 (02:36:04):
You could have gone easy with Eagles.

Speaker 2 (02:36:07):
That's not bad. The Beatles are the Eagles? Are they
the Eagles?

Speaker 3 (02:36:11):
The Eagles?

Speaker 2 (02:36:11):
No, I don't even I'm I'm being serious. Van Halen
named after Eddie? Yeah, that was easy. Errol Smith not,
It's okay. The Beatles is kind of like it's a
lame pun. I'll give you one. It sucked the pet
Shot Boys and what does that even mean? That's creepy.
Mister mister was a bad How about basically anything in
the Eddies band name? Mister mister is probably the worst?

Speaker 3 (02:36:34):
Was not.

Speaker 2 (02:36:37):
Uh huh oh aha aha, that's terrible. I'm googling worst
eighties band names. Tim Buck three. Imagine Dragons is pretty imagine.
First of all, their music sucks, and the name of
that band sucks. Hey, children love them, and my brother
you probably likes Imagine Dragons. We've talked about this. He
loves them. He's not going with us like Charles separate cars.

(02:37:00):
All right, let's play Believe it or not? Next seven
one three two one two five seven onty highly googleable
about baseball? That's all the band that was pretty bad?
Do you know what I like? I like city names.
Chicago that's good, Boston, Kansas, it's close enough.

Speaker 3 (02:37:17):
That's not bad.

Speaker 2 (02:37:18):
Not a city Alabama? Yeah, for country, that's not bad.
It's fine. Uh Oh, how about the Miami Sound Machine? Underrated?
Kind of a techno feel to it, though it was
it Really we could also head over to the C
and C Music Factory. Oh we could, it's true. Seven
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Speaker 1 (02:38:34):
Matt Thomas, Ross Veriel. It's a Matt Thomas show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:39:01):
Space City using a commercial with me in it. Imagine
that it's a promo for Rockets All Access. Well, they
had to find somebody that was around thirty years ago,
and they found you, Matt and Calvin Murphy and Calvin
two hall of famers. What hall of fame are you in?
May Creek Hall of Honor? Hall of Honor? I guess

(02:39:23):
an on a Hall of Fame accounts or something it does.
I think, Matt, thank you, I appreciate you doing great.
Shout out to all of us rams that are out
there made Creek rams. Well like those of these are
aren't imprisoned. I mean, it's been it's been twenty years
of rough times over there.

Speaker 3 (02:39:41):
It's what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:39:43):
Yeah, I heard they're folding up the school. No, the
school is twice as big as it was when I
was there. Oh, maybe that was the nimits I was
hearing about. Yeah, I don't even know. Does every high
school have like, not light detectors, metal detectors, metal detectors?
I think so, I don't know. Well, okay, I'll tell you.
I only have an experience at one high school. The

(02:40:04):
answer was there was metal detectors. Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 3 (02:40:08):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:40:08):
Tomorrow on the show, it is our final day with
Connor as he leaves and goes on to full time
salary and benefits. This is your fault on me. I mean,
it was only a matter bring it up every days,
this last show with this, we look the next producer
we get, don't talk about them leaving, Matt. That's the
only rule I have. You know what we're gonna do
the next producer. We we're gonna say, this is the
best job you've ever gonna get. You've got that, You've got,

(02:40:29):
You've got nothing else to look forward to. You got
a guest live this is your ultimate job. That's what
I'm talking about, all right, five minutes up to go.
In the show, what should we do?

Speaker 3 (02:40:39):
Wait?

Speaker 2 (02:40:40):
Should play? America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We
simply call it be Believe It or Not? And here's
how it works. You call seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two, one two
five seven ninety. Today's edition to Believe or Not is
did this player ever open up an Astro season in
right field? If they did, you'll say this, believe it.

(02:41:03):
If they didn't, you'll say this. Yeah. To Believe It
or not's in a row when you're prized Connor are
you playing for today? We've got a four pair of
tickets to see Journey on March fourteenth at Roady Houston,
a pair of tickets to see the Psychedelic Furs live
on July twelfth at the House of Blues, and some
seven ninety t shirts. By the way, these are left
field and right field, not just those. So it's either
left field or right field for the Astros. Let's talk

(02:41:25):
to Ruben on seven Anti Rubin, you're ready to play
Believe It or not?

Speaker 3 (02:41:28):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:41:29):
Carl Everett started in right field for the Astros in
nineteen ninety eight. Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:41:35):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:41:36):
No, it's Derek Bell brent on SEVENINTI Brent, what was
your favorite part of today's radio show? Looking into how
much you guys don't know about music? Twenty seventeen. Is
you a big mister mister fan?

Speaker 3 (02:41:53):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:41:53):
Apparently two thousand you guys go off on like music
and it's you guys. Knowledge of sports is so awesome.
That's why I love your show. But when you guys
start talking music, it just crashed me up. Well, so
we're here, we're four hours. We can't mean we can't
break down linebackers for four hours. It's said that'd be
boring US radio. All right, here we go. Nori Aoki
left field twenty seventeen.

Speaker 3 (02:42:14):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:42:16):
Not believe it? I don't remember this, but do you
really are believing Opening Day seventeen? Huh No, No, I'm lied.

Speaker 3 (02:42:22):
I made it up.

Speaker 2 (02:42:23):
Well, I mean you could have Rick on seven Ninetie Rick,
You're ready to play, believe it or not? Two thousand
left fielder was Bill Spiers. Believe it or not? I
believe it. Believe it? Name number two for the wed
In nineteen sixty two, the opening day right fielder was
Rusty stob Believe it or not, you're right? It was

(02:42:46):
Roman Meehause dull nicely done seven one three, two, one
two five seven Hontie Brian on seven ainty Brian, you're
ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:42:57):
Believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:42:57):
Twenty seventeen Open day right fielder was George Springer. Believe
it or not. Believe it, No, it's Josh Reddick Dave
on seven ninety day, Have you ready to play?

Speaker 3 (02:43:11):
Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (02:43:13):
Nineteen ninety two's opening day right fielder was Pete Incavillia.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 4 (02:43:21):
It was.

Speaker 2 (02:43:25):
Joe on seven ninety Joe your favorite part of today's
four hour radio show?

Speaker 3 (02:43:29):
Joe, I love all of it. Matt Oh, it's one.

Speaker 2 (02:43:33):
Of our top prize horse. What's up?

Speaker 3 (02:43:35):
Joe?

Speaker 11 (02:43:35):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:43:36):
Joe, don't listen to him. You love you. Brian Doga
Sevic played right field for the Astros opening day twenty twelve.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (02:43:44):
Right field?

Speaker 2 (02:43:45):
Yeah, right field. Oh, he's looking it up. Believe it
all right, Believe it quickly. Nineteen eighty six Open day
left fielder was Jose Cruz Believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (02:43:56):
Yeah, believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:43:57):
Believe it was Eric Bolach. Jose must have been hurt
steing on seven. Are you ready to play? Believe it
or not? David two thousand and two Open day left
fielder was Daryl Ward. Believe it or not. Believe it?

Speaker 3 (02:44:12):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (02:44:12):
I believe it. Twenty twenty four, just last season, Open
day left fielder was Mauricio Dubon. Believe it or not?
Uh not, it was Chas McCormack. Congratulations Dan, I thought
I was gonna get a win with that one. All right,
Tomorrow non Flora stories get bumped up to twelve thirty.

(02:44:33):
Hell y, are not twelve forty five tomorrow doing that
because it's the last one. We've gotta believing on all
things Missouri and Connor McGovern we don't have time. We're
gonna have time. We're gonna make it because you got to.
We're gonna be out by fifty. We'll move everything up
really quick. Geez, break on time, Connor. I want to
do Believe or not tomorrow, Ross is not all things
about you.

Speaker 3 (02:44:54):
I guess we're out of time.

Speaker 2 (02:44:55):
We can do it. Stand by Aggie Fighting Texas Aggy
Basketball Laron found Arns against the Longhorns. Talk to you
all tomorrow at ten here on seven. It's a long
horn called High Greagway.

Speaker 3 (02:45:08):
M h m hmm

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