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January 10, 2025 • 166 mins
Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" give a final preview of the Houston Texans hosting the Los Angeles Chargers for the opening matchup of NFL Wild Card weekend. Matt and Ross also:
  • recap Notre Dame defeating Penn State to advance to the College Football Playoff National Championship
  • preview the Texas Longhorns facing Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl semifinal with Chris Gordy and Sam Khan, senior writer for The Athletic
  • discuss the Astros avoiding arbitration
  • celebrate Derek Stingley Jr. earning NFL All-Pro honors
  • review the 2025 Rodeo Houston lineup
  • tell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten o two
in h Town. Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition,
but the Matt Thomas Show with Ross in Atlanta Sports
Talk seven ninety. Sometimes you get teached too long and
then you know, wind up getting all flustered. So you're

(00:23):
you're dangling bait and I'm not taking it, Matt. You
need to I'm good. I'm not gonna dangle as much
bait as I have in the past. Freddy and Jalen,
I mean you're not. There's no girth right, It's not
girthy enough for you. It's not like a Davis Mills neck.
You know that happens sometimes when you take people to restaurants.
The restaurant is so good and then they go sounds
all right, and you're like you I want to punch

(00:44):
you right in the throat. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. I
couldn't do it longer. Just one segment. It's like me,
he's got dad boy, It's like the bad girl's the
funniest in the group. Do you want to repeat that?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
No?

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I thought that's something I would have said it did.
You're you're infecting my brain. You couldn't say it one
more time. There's too much one more time. Generally, the
funny one in the girl group is the big one.
Am I wrong? That's what I'm used somebody's ticket, bitch.
All right, you're not coming over for a weenie roast
as much as you want to, Matt, Yeah, no weenie

(01:16):
roast aloud here on Sports Talk seven ninety. Good morning everybody.
Oh my god. I love a lot of our segments
on the show. That may be my favorite thing.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
I don't know if I look forward anymore than a
ten o'clock open on the Friday edition of The Matt
Thomas Shows All Sports.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Harvey, how the hell are? I'm great? And it was
always a big hat tip to Connor McGovern for putting
it together. Man, I'm telling you, folks, iHeart.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
If you're listening, Bob Pittman, the chairman of our company,
please make sure we compensate this, young fellers.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
It doesn't leave us in six months. O, don't set
it over under that's true. That's a stay away from me. Yeah,
I know, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
We should never keep track of the conmomer government. Month's
still with us? Maybe an ugly number.

Speaker 4 (02:05):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Hello from Atlanta, sports RV worried is snowing and they
don't get much of that here. So the city, the
city is shut down. Oh wow, completely shut down. How
are you gett into the arena today? You walk in
the games tomorrow? Oh okay, that's right, tomorrow whatever they're
going to practice.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
But it's somewhere about five minutes from here. There are
there are some people out, but the airport's largely closed.
It's you know what, it is, not the good old
weathery on you here, but it's that thirty two degree
rain snow mix, which is probably as bad as it gets.
If it just just snows like it's like fifteen and
just snow, that's one thing. But you're mixing precipitation rain

(02:43):
with snow and it's kind of and then people that
don't know what they're doing driving on the roads. It's
it's a little recipe for disasters. So everybody in Atlanta
has been told to stay home. The air the hotel
where we are out here in Atlanta is scarcely, scarcely scarcely.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Enow. I didn't mean to go on Iris shaw on,
you know, Irish. It's a bunch of.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Crap that's Scottish man, you've been the same difference Scottish.
It's a bunch of crit quoting us for fifteen years
now on the show, We're sick of a tour, not Scottish.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Those are our mortal enemies.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah yeah, so uh yeah, needless to say, we are
landlocked at the hotel today. Uh and we'll play the
Hawks tomorrow and then get back to Houston.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
So and you have hired a shirt but a show
you around the city tonight. I believe I believe I'm
going to be getting a massage in the hotel right
after the show. Really yeah, Okay, it's a little pricey,
but it'll be fine. Yeah. You put a put a
charge to the charger just right down. Tea for Tita
when you sign for it. Well you put M for
Tita like I'm his distant cousin, ninth cousin for Tita.

(03:46):
That's right. Hey, I want to ask you. I we
begged the audience yesterday to call you after the show
last night if the Rockets beat the Memphis Grizzlies. How
successful was us begging? I got Biscuit and Drod and
I think one more Stanley. I think I got three calls.

(04:06):
So he got a fifty percent bump. It was weird.
It was like the old school. Now this is a
big win the Rockets had over the Memphis grizzily last night,
which of course we will cover on this show. Match sure, Sure,
it was a hybrid. I did a really long monologue
to start the show because no one was calling, and
then when I hit break, all the calls came in. Nice,
So I appreciate the folks. Yeah, we were on for

(04:27):
about an hour. I had a good time, played some audio,
took some calls, talked to some Rocket Ball. It was great. Yeah,
I thought last night's game, in many respects sucked. It
was very collegy in terms of the whistles were blown
a lot. It was uh ebbs and foes of utter madness.
I'm not a big fan of watching free throws being missed,

(04:50):
generally speaking, seventeen for the Rockets, eight of the Rocket
sprenching goon.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, the Rocket should have won by ten or twelve
last night. I mean, that's the reality of it. They
You know, Morant was good for a while, Jared Jackson
was good for a while.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Something called Luke Canard was hitting a couple of crazy
ass threes. But the Rockets were the better team last night,
the greatest three pointer shooters in NBA history. And that's
that's actually true, That's actually literally true. Oh I believe you.
I believe you. But Memphis defense is man. Rockets took
advantage of that, and the Rockets won the game. So, yes,
they did. They started off that first quarter they looked

(05:26):
like they were ready to win a championship. And then
of course they slowed down after that. But yeah, I
kept asking my stet a'sition.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
I said, man, we gotta look at the point totals
for most and a half, most in a quarter, and
you know he's had all locked and load, and then
things kind of just came to a screeching halt because the.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Rockets could hit free throws. But they won it nevertheless,
so stick.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
Yes, yeah, game and a half lead over Memphis for
the two seed right now in the Western Conference. All right,
ladies and gentlemen, As is the case every Friday on
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross for the last fifteen years,
we give you ROSSI, as the kids will say, the longest.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Leash in the business. Oh my gosh, have you heard
our drunk day drunk colors? I mean my goodness, it
isn't any thing goes Friday. Seven to one three two
one two five steven ninety.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
That's the number. Seven to one, three two one two
five seven nine zero. If you want to chime in
on anything about the Rockets last night, if you want
to get into from ber Valdez getting his UH deal
done for next year, Kyle Tucker having to go back
to arbitration court again, that can't be a good sign

(06:35):
if you're a Chicago Cubs fan.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
We'll get to that. We will get to the football
game last night between Notre Dame and Penn State. Now, Rossie,
fully honest, all I saw was the winning field goal
in the final couple of plays because I was busy
calling the Rockets gap. I was locked in on the
Rockets Game two. I had it on the back, you know,
secondary TV.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
But it's funny schmish Morny, who is our program guru
and a host of lockedown SEC. And I believe he
does twenty three radio hits throughout the South probably my guess,
I can find him in four different Atlanta radio stations
here today. If I needed to, possibly going quickly to
the Brian Kelly defense card of cour Notre Dame playing
for the National Championship.

Speaker 1 (07:12):
Book coming up next week or whatever. It is. Shocking
He's defending something at LSU. I know, isn't it crazy?
Oh quick, man, I missed my opportunity. Somebody was talking
about this. I wanted to play it, eh, gree James.
It's the Matt Thomas Show on a Saturday afternoon morning.
And of course you know that anything goes. Oh then

(07:33):
Uncle Greg do went for us too, and we lost
that one. Matt. You know I'm here for you.

Speaker 5 (07:42):
Hey, sports fans, this is Uncle Greg. Hey, and you
just want to sit around listen to a ball headed,
big fat piece tub of goo. Listen to Matt Thomas
on Anything Goes Friday. And when you say anything goes,
you know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
That's my boy. Hey, Matt. Yeah, they got to re
record those you lost a lot of weight. Yeah, I know,
he's He would still call me a tub of goof
he saw me, I would dare to call you gaunt
now these days. God bless Uncle Greg. All right, and
then goes seven one tonight is a huge game the

(08:16):
college football I mean from what I understand, And again
I just saw the hoighlights this morning when I turned
on Sports Center. Uh, back and forth.

Speaker 3 (08:23):
He saw game after kind of a sluggish start for
the first half of the game between Penn State and
Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Uh, but Notre Dame is advancing, and Uh, the.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Notre Dame alumni base, I don't know if it's alumni
or fan base.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
They've got a national following. I don't know if it's
because of the Catholic Uh yeah, Catholicism, Catholicism, or if
it's just the brand, But man, they Notre Dame fan
is coming out of nowhere the last three weeks or so,
and they're really happy. Yeah. People were calling that game
a game between two fan bases that support child molestors,
and that just that just wasn't right. Oh, that just

(08:56):
ouch over the line. Ouch. And by the way, I
think they're getting twenty million dollars to play for the
championship next week, I think is what it is. Or
somewhere are they already received it in their own pockets. Wow,
and it goes all to them. You know how much
sacrament wine that can buy. That's great. Good for them.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
Meanwhile, James Franklin before the game this week said, you
know what if you don't play in a conference championship game,
you probably should be playing for a national semifinal. So
his thought was, either you must play in one, or
we just get rid of all of them, and in
these conference commissioners like whatever, you whatever, we're.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Playing a conference championship game.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
We're gonna fill a stadium up in a neutral site,
get a lot of money from our TV networks.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
We're playing it.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Yeah, well yeah, Notre Dame can nil to You're blue
in the face now they've I mean, they're getting every
bit of the money that other teams have to share
with their conference brethren.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Good for them. Could just keep the exact minds in
your voice. It's fine. I mean it's I'm not pocket
watching pocket watching colleges, right, that's for sure, all right?

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Seven one three two one two five seven hoy and
oh by the way, Ross, we got a football game
coming up tomorrow, three thirty ins on Energy Stadium, huge ship.
We have a national semifinal game tonight in Arlington. How's
the weather up in Arlington?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Right? It looks really snowy yesterday. I don't know what
the morning update is. We should actually ask Chris Cordy.
He's going up there. Wait a minute, I thought he
was too busy handling programming duties. Here at seven ninety.
He's a man about town and the country. Is he
Is he doing? Locked? Well? He is? I guess he
is representing the SEC. Yeah, the Longhorns in their first

(10:33):
year carrying the flag for the SEC in the final four.
Right now? You know who doesn't care?

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Vanderbilt. You know who doesn't care? Who's then other Suckey
team in the SEC Mississippi State doesn't care.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Oh, it seems like the East the SEC cares about
Conference Pribade more than any other. So I don't know
if I would say that, But I don't know. That's
more of a question for Chris Cordy. I'm new to
this SEC game. Yeah, all right?

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety isn't
anything goes Friday on the radio pro with the Strippers
up at twelve at one thirty, we have a non
floorest story to get to. We have believe it or
not today hell ya are not? At one point fifty.
We have rockets to get to Texans playoff game tomorrow.
College football and the agenda and some baseball chatter as well.
Seven one three two, one, two, five, seven fifteen. Here

(11:17):
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (11:20):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Anything goes Friday on The Bat Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I'm here in Atlanta, where if you are trying to
travel here, good luck there. It's been a ground stop
at Atlanta Airport until two o'clock. Atlanta I think is
either the busiest or second busiest.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Airport in the country. That I'll be fun for people
traveling today. It's weather yeesh.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
We've got a poll question up, Rossy, very simple. It's
called your shot. You like the Chargers or the Texans.
You've got twenty four hours to get a vote on
that on my Twitter account at sports mt Very early
in seventy six percent of the audience thinks the Texans
are gonna be at the Chargers tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Let's go, baby, That's what I'm talking about. By the way,
Hartsfield Jackson number one. Matt, is that right? Can I
guess the top five? You probably can. You're the biggest
air airport horror I've ever heard. Horror would be an
exactly and yeah, that's my that's my that's my pseudo
it's your forte.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, I'm gonna go Atlanta, Hartsfield Chicago, O'Hare oh hair
number five, DFW number three, l A X number two.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
So I'm missing one. Huh yes, JFK JFK is six?
What am I missing?

Speaker 7 (12:45):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:45):
I'm gonna go sneaky off the board. I'm gonna go Charlotte.
Charlotte is ninth, so you're not. That's not crazy. Okay,
So I'm missing La Atlanta Chicago. Give you the ones
you got in order. Atlanta won LA X two, DFW three,
and then you missed four, and then O'Hare five. Can

(13:06):
I go Denver for Denver is four? Yeah? Hashtag airport whore.
I'm so proud of you, Matt. I mean, when you
think about it, at the end of the day, I
am the king of useless trivia. Hmm. Okay, well, especially
if it's about like soap operas. Yeah, it's true. By
the way, they are preempting the prices right here in

(13:27):
Atlanta for they're calling first weather coverage. How mad are you?
One to ten zero. I'm sitting here doing a radio show.
We're just gonna hate watch Drew Carey. Anyways, I don't
know why you bother watching the show you know what
I thought?

Speaker 8 (13:38):
You know?

Speaker 3 (13:39):
For twenty twenty five. To get rid of some things,
hate listen to bad sports radio. Hate listen, hate stop.
I hate watching that Drew carry hosted prices. Right, I
can't get rid of these things?

Speaker 1 (13:51):
All right, One more airport question for you. Can you
guess what number George Bush Intercontinental comes in it it's
gonna be lower than you think. I'm going to go
it is lower than I thought. Fourteen. Wow, you are
an airport whore. Fifteen okay, just behind Phoenix.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Well, it all depends on who the hubs are. Southwest
is a huge hub in Phoenix. American's got a huge hub. Okay,
USh American excuse me? And Dark Breast Intercontinental has just schmided.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
So who's the Seattle hub? Well, it's actually a state,
so I can say it's Alaska. Oh Alaska Airlines, Yeah, okay.
And they also had a lot of people going to
Asia off out of Seattle. I know that from looking
from flights looking for flights. Did you have to change
blind the Seattle Did you know you change planes in DFW? Yeah? Okay,
I gotcha. All right? What else going on? Rossie? We go,

(14:46):
let's go over the headlines of the day again. Texans
going through a walk through today to three thirty. Kickoff
is tomorrow. Oh, by the way, and.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
I think, did it happen on our watch? Minnesota Rams
are going to Phoenix to play the game. It's a
significant advantage for the Minnesota Vikings. I think, no, they
were gonna have. They probably have more Vikings fans in
the building ready to go in La.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Oh. There's probably more Vikings fans in LA than Phoenix. No,
because I think people would have to travel there. And
my guess is the city of La has told people
to just stay away for a while, if you know
what I mean. I'm saying even transplants, even with like
the people that there's probably more Vikings fans in there
are Rams fans season actually decent Chargers is worse. Yeah,
the Chargers are the ones that have the fans from

(15:30):
other places. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I mean, think about all the Minnesotans that retired to
the Phoenix area.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
I mean, okay, that could work.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
You're looking at you look at the average age of
the games, a fan of about seventy one, seventy two,
somewhere in that range.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
So you're saying the handicap spots have been snapped up.
I'm saying, what do you think the crowd is gonna be?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
I could they put forty thousand people in that stadium
for that game?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
I want to say yes, especially if they're really cheap.
Well are they really cheap?

Speaker 3 (15:55):
I don't even know. We have to have to look
it up. I wonder if if the demand is that low,
the will go down. But I mean, I wonder if
you just went to the what is the name of
the stadium?

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Bankup? Is it something Bank of something stadium in Arizona. Oh,
it's something like that. It used to be a University
of Phoenix Phoenix, right, and they've changed the name of it.
But if you went to that STADIU Oh, No, I know,
State Farm Stadium, I think is what they call it. No,
that's in Atlanta. No, I'm just kidding. State from Arena
Atlanta and that's right, great rhyme arena.

Speaker 9 (16:24):
You know.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
I'm sorry, but I mean the State Farm Stadium. How
much money are these people taking from us? They've they're
sponsoring two stadiums. Uh. Jake is on the TV every
five seconds? Yeah, from Rake Farm. Yeah, I mean they've
got Drake in these commercials and whoever else, like for
the longest time, Pat Mahomes, Travis Kelcey, my god, whatever

(16:51):
it is, it's working because I continue to spend lots
of money and advertising and they get nice to talk
about it. For men, were they the ones that got
out of the Pacific Palisades area like last year? Yes? Yeah,
so that's that's the kind of publicity you don't want.
That's how you keep well, that's how you keep printing money. Yeah.
Have you seen the number of famous people that have
lost their home? I mean, just having sports. Steve Kurr's

(17:14):
mom lost her Is she okay? Well she's ninety? Oh gosh,
because I know his dad was shot and killed back
in the day. I hope his mom's okay. Yeah. JJ
Reddick had a rental home up there. He was when
he's taking the Lakers' job. He lost the home on that.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Who else is James Woods has been talking about all
of his neighbors have lost their home. I mean, it's
you know what it is, ROSSI and I don't mean
to get nonsports us on us here, but it's it's
like a nineteen seventy five movie.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Yeah, yeah, the pictures and that well, the guy that
we had on from LA yesterday, I said, the best surreal.
It's just surreal. But literally, you know, back in the seventies,
they made movies about you know, one of the most
famous movies in the seventies is The Towering Inferno, and
then they made all these movies about airplanes, you know,
Airport seventy four, Airport seventy five and and all. I mean,

(18:06):
it's you. You could literally create a storyline of fires
being set and destroying an entire coast and it's been
happening in real life. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy. Yeah, terrible.
So the Lakers game got postponed last night. The Spurs
are out in California right now. They're supposed to they were,

(18:27):
I think they're supposed to play tonight or tomorrow against somebody,
and they have they were staying in Santa uh, I
think they were staying in Santa Monica or whatever. But
they've they've changed hotels. But they're gonna try to play
those games after all. So yeah, it has. It has
absolutely created a standstill for life, and that's why it
was the right decision for the NFL to play it
play the game of Phoenix, get those guys out of town.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
And but I mean, I can't imagine anybody the Rams
are going, damn, this is gonna cost us here. If
you're gonna beat if you're gonna beat the Vikings, you
don't care. If there's seventy five thousand people, are you
gotta play better football? And neutral field is the true
test anyways, exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
You know, it's funny what we say. You play these
two teams on are neutral field, how would it go? Well,
we're gonna about to find out. Yeah. Seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. One of our former
favorite astros did not get the paycheck he wanted. We'll
tell you about that next seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two

(19:25):
five seven ninety ten twenty eight. This is the Matt
Thomas Show with Ross. I'm here in Atlanta on Sports
Talk seven ninety and ten thirty three, and then it
goes Friday.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 1 (19:44):
Ninety is how you reach us? I'm here in Atlanta,
where the you know how TV likes to take advantage
of weather situations and just dramatize things. Yes, well, Atlanta,
everything is closed here, schools are closed, and they just
had a live shot from Georgia Tech, one of the
great institutions in America, where the kids are outside throwing snowballs.

(20:07):
That was the lead headline here in the level. Oh
that's funny. I'm glad they went lighthearted. Nobody getting murdered
in the snow, I.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Don't I don't know, is crime lesson and because nobody
wants the criminals, nobody's outside?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I think so. I think you're right. Uh seven one three,
two two five seven eighty. So, Russie, if you make
a trade with whatever, whatever the sport may be, don't
you want to endear yourself to the guy that you've
just traded for to hopefully commit to that franchise long term.
Wouldn't that make a lot of sense if you'd given
up major league level players and a prized prospect and

(20:41):
you want that trade to bear fruit and build a
relationship and lay the pathway for a long term relationship.
I would think. So, Matt sounds great.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
So the Chicago Cubs and Kyle Tucker were exchanging arbitration
dollar numbers for his final year.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
He'll be a free agent after next season.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Again, for arbitration your first three level years of your
major league career, you're at a certain dollar amount the
last three and can be negotiated through arbitration or you know,
you say you're worth this, the other team says you're
worth this, and you can either come to a common
ground or you can agree on it whatever.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
But if you can come to an agreement, you go
to an arbitration here anywhere.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
As we talked about on the show yesterday, you can
create some bad feelings because you have to go in
and state your case, and meanwhile the team you're currently
working for is going to tell you about how sucky
you are. Well, apparently the Chicago Cubs are going to
go to an arbitration case with Kyle Tucker. Kyle wanted
seventeen and a half million dollars this year. The Chicago

(21:36):
Cubs are willing to offer fifteen million dollars. They could
not come to a havebsi's and so they're going to
go to arbitration. Kyle Tucker's gotta be going Damn, Do
I have a bad agent or am I really overestimated
my value or am I just running into a cheap, frivolous,
miser league baseball team.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
That's I wonder. Yeah, where the blame lies. That's a
great question. I was thinking about that yesterday, like is
it his representation because they lost? Now we talk about
the hearing here in Houston. They lost that hearing, yes Ky,
the Astros won, so their side was correct. So on
one side, I want to blame the Cubs and say, hey,
you know what, just pony up the money, build the relationship.

(22:18):
But if their representation is overvaluing Kyle Tucker again, then
I kind of get if the Cubs want to draw
a line in the sand somewhere.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
So do me this favor, ROSSI give me his numbers
from last year. Now, obviously we know he missed basically
three months of the season with.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
His numbers are great as far as you know, ops
and all that, but he only played, like, I don't know,
you even played ninety games. I'll pull it up.

Speaker 3 (22:46):
So I wonder, if you're the agent and you're trying
to figure out what a good value is, did are
they did they go reach for the stars or do
they say, look, when he was health he was as
productive as you can find in Major League Baseball five
tool right fielder, speed, power, average, arm, all the good stuff,

(23:12):
and unfortunately a foul ball hit him in a bad
spot that wind up.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
You know he was hidden before over that week, the
same weekend. Yeah, so how much does that come into it?
And how much did the the did the Cubs go?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
You know what, man, we love you and we're gonna
pay you in really really nice salary.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
But man, you missed a boatload of games last year,
seventy eight games played. Now he still had Oh my,
he's still in a four point seven war this five
point four of the year before and one hundred and
fifty seven games played. That's how good he was. Yeah.
But twenty three home runs, I mean, he had like
a good season. Twenty three home runs, eleven stolen bases,

(23:55):
nine to ninety three ops, which is just insane. Yeah,
a plus off one to eighty one. That's better than
say one Soto last year. But as a good friends
tom me Rossy, attendance is part of the grade. Attendance
is part of the grade. Well, he got an half
in attendance.

Speaker 3 (24:11):
Yeah, he did, unfortunately for him. I mean again, it
was a fluky injury.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
It wasn't like he was out of shape or trying
to do things, you know, being dangerous. It was just
he swung out a ball in the ball, landed in
a bad spot and wound a cracking his feet in
about nine different loc spots or a shin. But it's
just a bad vibe. Isn't it to have to go
to arbitration twice in your major league career when most

(24:38):
players and most agents, and frankly for that matter, most
teams don't like to go to arbitration. Yeah, that that's weird.
Two and a half million. They can't. They can't just
meet in the middle on that. That's what I'm guessing.
Did somebody say that on either side of the negotiation, Hey,
let's let's cut this thing and happen, go and be done.
That's usually what they do.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
So it makes me think a little bit about what
it's going to be like watching Kyle Tucker try to
get a job in twenty twenty six when he goes.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Test for agency. If he can't get along with two
if his agency can't get along with two teams, how
grumpy is he going to be with his representation when
maybe he tries to go get that three hundred million
dollar deal somewhere, and he can't get it because teams
are like, man, you know you've missed a lot of time. Now,
if he comes out this year and plays one hundred
and fifty five games and has an OPS above eleven hundred,

(25:31):
well you know, it's a moot conversation. But again, I don't.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
Know the inner workings of it, and I would love
to steal an agent away for a little bit and say,
how do you see this from a distance, But just
the pure general baseball fan of me says, somebody overvalues somebody,
because then you're basically telling me the Astros who have
spent money in the past, the Cubs, who have clearly

(25:57):
spent money in the past, are say many, we love you,
but come on, man, let's they'll steal in some realities here.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
You didn't play much of last year. It was also
a freak accident, it was, And also part of me thinks, again,
you're the Chicago freaking Cubs. Are you really going to
create some animosity over two and a half million dollars?
I know that sounds crazy, but that's what it would be.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
It's gonna there's no way unless even if Tucker wins.
Even if Tucker wins, he's suck at me, Like, why
y'all making me do this again?

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, Well, he played one hundred and fifty seven games
the year before, one hundred and fifty the year before,
one hundred and forty year before that, fifty eight before
in the COVID year out of sixty. So he's played
full seasons or thereabouts for four years before last year. Yeah,
and he's twenty seven years old, And yeah, I don't
think injury stuff is going to factor in too much.
But why again, if you're the Cubs, if you just

(26:50):
traded for him, why are you getting sideways with him?
So this is not a way to build a relationship, right, Yeah,
I would say this is a situation where you, rather
than drawing a line in the sand like you have,
you bite the bullet and you get as close to
that number as you can take. Because here's the risk. Ross.
They gave up a lot of high end talent and

(27:13):
if they lose him after this, and again remember relationships
can be hurt by the fact that you don't you
have to go to arbitration. That's a lot to give
up for a guy. For one year when you could
have gone and just gotten him the year after that
and paid him with you know, and gotten into the
world of negotiations and saying, hey, here's what we think
you're worth. Doesn't that make the case for the Kyle

(27:35):
Tucker side, Like, uh, guys, they just gave this this
top prospect, that's the number one prospects in the Astros system,
and two major league players for Kyle Tucker. I think
he's worth seventeen and a half million, by the way.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Yeah, and again, I don't know the Cubs track record
of whether or not they come across miserly.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
In some of these things, but I don't think so.
I think they've always had a top seven ory, top
eight payroll. Yeah, you know what, frankly, And maybe the
Astros knew this, Maybe the Astros knew that it was
going to come down to this again, and maybe Kyle's
and again I firmly believe Kyle's representation said, look, this

(28:13):
is just not gonna happen. We're not We're going to
go somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
And the Astros an't all be sitting there holding nothing
in their hand as he goes and play somewhere else.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
And Frankly ross the corner.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Outfield spots for the Astros are set for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I mean Predace. I can't wait to see what he
does infield. Infields, it's like, h Matt, no, no, no, no,
excuse me. That would be what my first thing was, like, Wow, really,
Matt's a real big chazz get no no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Chazz got a chazz and Jack Jake got their arbitration
dollar set.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
Yeah, Jack got more than Jake. That was that was
disheartening for the fan club. Oh you know what, the
fan club, they need to do a go fund me
count because that sneaky snake man. Fine cat. Hey, even
if it's just me in the room by myself, the
fan club lives on. Baby, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Well, you know we're gonna do. We're gonna get Jake
and we go to a spring training next month. We're
gonna get Jake aside and we're gonna sco We're gonna go.
We're gonna get you guys do a video. It'll be
very funny.

Speaker 1 (29:10):
No, I'm good. You don't want to do a video
with Jake. No, Matt, I don't need to make it
about me. About Jake. It's not the Ross Villa Reale
fan club, it's Jake Myers fan club. Man. I don't
want to be in a video. I'm good, all right,
it's trying to get trying. I'm trying to build your
brand sports. All right. Fine, I'll wore myself out and

(29:30):
put in a video. There you go. That's my nice
ten forty three on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one
three two one two five is seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven eighty. The pole question
is out caug your shot.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Texans or Chargers will tell you how that's going with
you guys a fan base out there and start getting
into a little bit of the in the uh conversation
of what's gonna happen to pree thirty till about seven
o'clock at Energy tomorrow. Texans and Chargers, if you want
to join us here and anything goes Friday, it's seven
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Speaker 6 (30:05):
Matton Ross returned return on Sports Talk seven ninety Wow.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
We were beginning a.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Live report from somewhere along I forty five. Chris Gordy
locked on SEC locked in Atlanta, locked on jackson Mississippi,
locked on Jacksonville, locked on Colombia, locked on.

Speaker 1 (30:32):
Gulph in Alabama, locked on Monroe, Louisiana. All that coming
up at the top of the hour. Wow, every single
one of those. Yeah, he's locked on everything. He's locked
on the Southeast, every state. We appreciate that for him. Okay,
So he'll join us at eleven o'clock for a live
report on his way to Arlington for the A lot
of people are saying, it's the national it's the WORAL

(30:54):
National Championship, de facto National Championship as it were. Did
that don't work that way?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Does that mean that the does that mean that the
committee screwed it up? That we have this as a
semi follower, just that things turned out.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
That's how things turned out. I mean, yeah, I wish
that Texas would have won the SEC and then they
could have had to play one less game. But we'll
see how it goes. They're still in the final four,
all right.

Speaker 3 (31:15):
The Paul question has been up for twenty nine minutes.
Of one hundred and eighty four votes are in ROSSI
sixty nine percent of those people that follow me on
Twitter voted for the Texans to beat the Charger tomorrow sixty.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Nine to thirty one. Wow. Yeah, I don't know if
I voted make your name it's an at sports MT
or I'm having to consistently block bots. It's okay, you
know what. I'm trying to build the brand, Matt follow
ad sports RV. You should build it. And by the way,
most of the bots are coming in. I told you
this before. There's another radio person in this town that

(31:45):
has he follows these bots, and now they're following me.
I mean, yeah, I don't know why you obsessively care
about these bots. Just let them follow you a lot
of times. They'll go away. Anyways, you're wasting your time.
I like it. The bots can't hack you. It's not
about authenticity. Nobody cares how many followers you have. No,
I don't. Nobody can send to you except me. I
just want the authentic ones. Oh my gosh, it's funny.

(32:05):
And a lot of these ones that are bots are
like that. They just want a loving man who will
take care of her and the photo of them. Oh,
that's why you block them. You don't be tempted to
send more cash. You've been catfished and that's alright. Maybe
so all right, ten fifty one is it?

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Anything goes Friday seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety all.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Right, So let's get to a perfect scenario here. If
I told you, if you told the audience right now, Rossie,
the Texans are going to win the game. Say, let's
say twenty seven to twenty. How do you envision that?
All right, if they're getting to twenty three seven tons,
I'm gonna say, if they got to twenty seven, there's
a pick six in there, or turnovers with short fields
or something like that. I think that the formula for

(32:47):
the Texans is gonna be the formula for what it
has been for a lot of Damiico Ryans's tenure is
you established the run, you play good defense, you get
a good lead, and you play not to lose. That's
how they were winning early on, That's how they beat
the Buffalo bill and harassing Josh Allen in that game,
they're gonna try to harass Justin Herbert, who everything I've
been reading he's been He's one of the best quarterbacks

(33:09):
in football. With no pressure, you put him under some pressure.
He's gonna have some issues, but of course easier said
than done. They have one of the better offensive lines
in football. Well, we had our guest don yesterday from
Los Angeles is that Herbert's have not been throwing very
man of interceptions this year. To me, how I envisioned
this game tomorrow if the Texans win is I do

(33:31):
believe there is going to be some theatrics to it.
I think there's going to be a deep ball thrown
that CJ. Stroud's going to score. Throw a pass up,
say fifty ors more yards and Nico Collins. I was
gonna say, you only got one option for yeah, Robert Woods,
so you didn't. I didn't say Zavia Hutchinson, No, you shouldn't.
I didn't say an eleven grab day for Dalton Schultz.

(33:52):
Something's really gone wrong. If he gets eleven, then he's
passed seventy times and they're losing big. I think it's
a dynamic play of some sort. I'm not saying trickery.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
I'm just saying a seven step drop, one on one coverage,
Nico wins the fifty to fifty ball and takes in
the end zone. I do believe it is a multi
turnover day for the Texans. Not necessarily has to be
all through the arm of Herbert, but I believe if
you can force at least two turnovers, that probably is

(34:22):
a big part of the reason why the Texans win
the game tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
If they do, I would agree with that. I don't
necessarily think that Joe Mixon has to have one hundred
yard day. I just don't think that. If you, if
we look at a winning box score, Rossie, Joe Mixon
has got to be above, say, four yards of carry.
Would that be fair? Yes, I'm gonna go over that.

(34:47):
I'm gonna say he I'm not gonna say he needs
to have a hundred yard game, but over a hundred
is gonna be It's been a pretty good formula for
them winning games. I don't know. I just feel like
that in a game where they fall if they fall behind,
they have abandoned the run largely. Can you, man, can
you consistently get four or five yards of carry to

(35:08):
set up third and shorts? Can you, you know, take
Stroud's accuracy, especially in the short passing game, and use
that to your advantage. Can you keep Stroud upright? Can
you keep him from facing a lot of hurries and
a lot of pressures and a lot of hits on
I mean, I feel like ross We've been a broken

(35:28):
record on this for about the last eight weeks. And
the answered Larner did a lot of these things is no, Yeah.
The question is how much was of a benefit. Because
Joe Mixon had multiple ankle injuries throughout the year, he
only played one drive on Sunday against the Titans, so
he's largely been resting since that time. CJ. Stroud has

(35:49):
had a lot of rest there some of your banged
up guys as well, So you essentially had a bye
week against the terrible Tennessee Oilers and you still beat them,
by the way. Uh, I'm wondering if that's gonna help
them be fresh ready to go at home loud crowd.
I'm feeling confident. I'm feeling confident, so more so than
you were on Monday or Tuesday. We were talking about it,

(36:10):
didn't I tell you though? I said, I'm always scared
on Monday, and I'm more confident. He's always scared on
Monday for sure. Oh my god, Khalil Mack's gonna get
six sacks in this game. Joey Bosa is gonna be
acting like he was in his first three games, and
the running game is gonna get one hundred between Gus
Edwards and JK. Dobbins and Quentin Johnson's going for one

(36:30):
hundred and twenty in a touchdown. Lad McConkie is going
to be tough to stop. They are a really good
football team. It's the playoffs. There's no buyes certain former
defensive coordinators and coaches in the NFL. But the Texas
got I got them winning Timey Fairburn game winner. Let's
go oh, so it's a field goal game? Yes? Is

(36:54):
it a field goal game that was decided it was
twenty to twenty with a mint left to goal or
was it like this is what's gonna do twenty and
it's a last second kick, An iron Eagle goes Clutch
City again, Kimi Fairburn, this is what's gonna happen. The
Texans are gonna score a touchdown within their first two drives.

(37:15):
They're gonna get up, We're feeling good. Then they're gonna
get another good drive, but they're gonna stall out with
penalties or something and get a settle for a field goal.
Then like another field goal, like maybe even three. It
might be even like a nineteen seventeen tight deal. That's
what That's what I'm predicting. We're gonna we're all gonna
be like, what the hell is this team doing in
the middle of the game, and they're gonna be like,

(37:35):
oh my god, Kymie Fairburn made that kick Day one.
That's my prediction. Let me ask you this, in the
last two years since Jumiko's taken over, do you think
and I think I know. The answer is, I think
they're the best last two minute team in football in
terms of squeezing points out of a small segment of time.
They're pretty good at it, and especially last year. Yeahs year,

(37:57):
it was really good. Last year. There were miracles worked
in that season, and I think Nick Cassario tried to
warn us of that in the off season.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
So I would say, if you're watching the game tomorrow,
which you're presuming most of you are, you want to
be in a spot where you want to see your
team do something offensively in the final two minutes of
both halves, especially the first half, because those are those.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Are sneaky points that you want to take take with
you to halftime. Yeah, I like that you're trying to
You're you give me a good cell job on why
they're going to win this game tomorrow, thank you, And
you want me to give the cel job on why
the Chargers win. See, here's not that difficult. Herbert's been

(38:41):
remarkably accurate this year. Yes, it's got two healthy running backs,
and Khalil Mack is going to be in CJ's face
the whole day. I'm in. I'm Laramie Tunsseel's got him
locked up more worried about Joey Boo to move Khalil
Mack around towncil is already planning first Pro Bowl. Now
that's not true. Laramie Tunseel is one of the best
pass blocks now when he's not going off sides, which

(39:02):
he goes, I mean, uh, when he's not even false starting,
which he does so much. But that's he lives on
that edge. That's one of the reasons he's such a
good pass blocker because he he's normally getting off the
line of scrimmage like at the snap, and sometimes seems
he's mistiming it and that's why he gets his false starts.
It's almost always in past sets where he's just he's

(39:22):
just going a little bit early because he's trying to
be there and live on that razor's edge, which helps
him as a pass blocker. It's his blessing and his curse. Man. Okay,
maybe some maybe some more in the preseason next year
when actually once put the pads, I will help with
the fix that a little bit. Yeah, well, we'll see
what happens and Demiko I will trust. Got a little

(39:42):
breaking news from the NFL. We'll tell you about that
coming up at the top of the ar. Involves a
former Texan. Plus we check in with Gordy on the
road seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven.

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Ninety lunchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
A couple of bits of news to get two, one
involving the Texans and one involving a former Texan. Diana
Ricini of ESPN reporting that Deshaun Watson is hurt again.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
ROSSI, yes, I first saw it from Schefter. I don't know.
It doesn't matter who it really matter.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Yeah, okay, Schefter, I'm looking at the Schefter tweet right now.
Tore his achilles again, underwent surgery yesterday, and his status
with the twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Season is up in the air. Wow.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
This is the second straight year his season ended because
of injury. He tore his achilles tendon is right achilles
tendon on October the twentieth.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
I don't keep track of these kind of things, but
I know somebody will.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Will. This be the biggest tray bust in NFL history.
Not only got to do you trade him for the
first round picks three of them, but you renegotiated his contract.
But when you made the trade to make him the

(41:16):
richest quarterback in NFL history at the time, way overpaying,
and basically, Deshaun got to figure out where he wanted
to go because he wanted to get the extra year
in the extra cash. He did everything in his power
to control the narrative and then he goes out there

(41:37):
in plays poorly and then he's been nothing but hurt
for about eighty percent of his Cleveland Browns career. Yeah,
first name that came to mind was the herschel Walker trade.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
This might jump that, and I think you're absolutely right.
The herschel Walker Dallas Minnesota trade might be one for
the ages, but this one may top it.

Speaker 1 (41:54):
It's man, he tore another Achilles. That's insane. Is it
the same one? It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
I mean I don't think it matters. No, yeah, I
don't know exactly what's the same one? Oh yeah, least
this is what Ian Rappaport says. Less than three months
after the original tear, it happened again.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Wow. Wow, all right. Here's a CBS article from March
of last year. Worst trays. It does have. The herschel
Walker trade is number one. Here's the good one that
it's a good one. They have at number two Broncos
for Russell Wilson. Oh that hurt to rally. They're in
the playoffs again. Yeah, but that's not with Russell Wilson.

(42:35):
That's true. That's true. They sent the Seahawks to first,
a second, and a fifth, plus Noah Fan and Drew
Locke and a and a defensive lineman Shelby Harris. They

(42:55):
get the Browns trade. Fit. That's gotta go up. No,
it's going up. That's that's prior of what obviously what
happened today. This is gonna be talked about in the
same NFL news circles as the herschel Walker tree. But
hell at least herschel Walker helped a little bit. Yeah.
I pulled up his stats. Actual he was terrible, even

(43:17):
from Minnesota. He only played for two years from Minnesota. Yeah,
and he was under a thousand yards both the series
both years, Okay, which I thought, I'm with you. I
was like, I thought he had at least a thousand yards. SERI.
At the time, people are like, that's the that's the
that's the last piece of the Minnesota puzzle, because you know,
the Vikings during that time in the late eighties were

(43:37):
just going to the NFC Championship game and losing the
Chicagos of.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
The world and the Niners. They thought, you know, we're
gonna get a legitimate running back in here and nope.

Speaker 1 (43:46):
All right. Other bit of news, congratulations to Derek Stingley.
He is officially an All Pro in the NFL. What Yes, ap,
the real All Pro, first team All prow for the
first time in his career. Congratulations to him. Wow, great
pick by Nick Cassario in the Houston Texans. Yes, I

(44:07):
mean Sauce Garner would have been better, but that's still fine.
It's still worked out for both sides. I'm sorry with
Sauce Gardner. First team All Pro this year. Nobody's been
twice before, so he's good. Well, scoreboard, baby, you're only
as good as your last season. Okay. Zickery Stingley the
right pick suck at Tsese. TSC remains bullish on Sauce
Garner and a little bit on U. Go ahead, said

(44:28):
go ahead and said say chess Maddy. Come on baby,
Oh no, he's in the background. He's one of the
background singer. He's one of the pips. Yeah, come on.
Other names on that first first team All Pro real
quick that you would recognize Lamar Jackson, quarterback sa Kwon Barkley,
running back Rock Bowers, a TSESE client is at tight end,

(44:52):
Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, I'm on Saint Brown offensive line.
You don't care about defense, Well, you don't have to
read on the show. I'll look up first team defense,
Miles Garrett, Fred Warners, rokwand Smith, Patrick's retained, Derek Stingley,
Special Teams, Rice's own Chris Boswell. I believe Jack Fox

(45:16):
is also a Rice album. I correct on that, sure,
why not? And that's about it? Okay. Second team offense,
Second team Josh Allen, Derrick, Henry Ceedee lamb aj Brown.
Second team defense would include T. J. Watt, Jalen Carter,

(45:38):
Bobby Wagner. Let's see here, I think that's just the
first That's all I got here. It's the first two
teams among players. You guys don't look it up, but
there it is.

Speaker 3 (45:47):
That's so congratulations to Derek Stingley taking a leap up
to put himself in that same category as one Sauce
Carner worked out well for both sides seven one, three,
two five seven on Lbert san Antonio. We'll get to
you in just a couple of seconds. Right now, it's
gonna eye wouldness report. We are locked on I forty
five with Chris Gordy of Sports Talk seven Honey, who
covers everything SEC. He's also the biggest Brian Kelly defender. Gordy,

(46:13):
how the hell are you and where are you?

Speaker 6 (46:15):
Hey?

Speaker 8 (46:16):
I heard Derek Singley said he owes everything to what
he learned playing college ball at LSU. So it congrats
to the first team.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Yeah, why did you late at night go on a
Brian Kelly a rampage?

Speaker 10 (46:27):
What?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
What?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
What?

Speaker 5 (46:27):
What?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
What? What? Precipitated that?

Speaker 8 (46:30):
Because for some reason everybody hates Brian Kelly and like,
I don't know, I've interviewed the guy a couple of times.
He's been pretty damn nice to be and pretty assable guy.
I mean, he wins at a seventy five percent clip. Like,
I don't know why everybody just loves to crap on
Brian Kelly whatever they can. They'd never say anything nice
about it. There's never a national person going, hey, great

(46:51):
job by Brian Kelly and what a win. Like even
all the Notre Dame people are crapping on him forgetting
they were in the doldrums of Charlie Weiss and Ty
Willingham before he got there. It started to winning nine
ten games a year for them. So, like, I'm not
a Brian Kelly defender. I just think it's absolutely ridiculous
that everybody loves to grapple the guy and all like
does his wins. He wins seventy five percent of his games.

(47:12):
He's one of the He's in the top ten category
of winning his coaches currently at college football.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Notice Ross how Gordy raised his voice on his own
cel phone the way up here.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
It's very upset. Let's see ten and four, ten and three,
nine and four Texas bull victory. He's doing great.

Speaker 8 (47:29):
Yeah, yeah, i mean won the SEC West in the
first year, you know, had a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback
a year ago. I mean, he's doing fine. It hasn't
been championship, which is what everybody wants, but he's working
on it.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Uh. He just seems fake. I mean he came down
there and there initially and he's trying to talk in
a Cajun accent, like he's grinding on players and recruiting videos.
He's just he's a walking joke. He just seems kind
of fake to me. That's that's why.

Speaker 8 (47:55):
And who and who grabbed that audio and blew it up.
The national media who continues to make fun of them.
They never grab anything good about it. It's a joke.

Speaker 1 (48:02):
Yeah, the national media has gotten Brian Kelly in their
crosshairs and he's just a perfect, great human being. That's
what's happening.

Speaker 8 (48:09):
Well, I mean they could harpall in the you know
the alcoholic coach who got fired from USC who is.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
Yeah, that's called the redemption story, my friend. Yes, he
has rosen from the depths of USC like a phoenix.
He flies into the Final four and has been much
more successful at Texas than Brian Kelly has been at LSU.

Speaker 11 (48:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (48:35):
Pretty close, you're in the Texas Bowl.

Speaker 1 (48:37):
Brother, you're in the.

Speaker 8 (48:38):
Texas Bowl five and seven?

Speaker 1 (48:41):
You are you are shilling barbecue sauce at the Texas
ball stop.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
By the way, Who would show barbecue sauce? I don't
want to just catch him in a bunch of pepper.
Who would do that? That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Come on, now, Texas.

Speaker 8 (48:52):
If Texas they played anybody other than Georgia this year,
that they probably would have taken more up two playoff
games they've won.

Speaker 1 (49:03):
That was targeting and you know it all you're talking
about the one on Isaiah Bond. I agree.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
When is hey, Gordy, when are you starting locked on
Notre Dame playing for the National Championship?

Speaker 1 (49:13):
When's that? When's that podcast starting up?

Speaker 8 (49:15):
Hey? It's congrats to them. But you know what nobody
wants to say is if Brian Kelly had stayed at
Notre Dame, he's probably coaching still and got them in
the championship. It's not like Marcus Freeman with some miracle work.

Speaker 1 (49:25):
Now they would have lost three games.

Speaker 8 (49:28):
It's the same players he's winning with. Brian Kelly's players.

Speaker 1 (49:30):
You see how the SEC guy Matt goes to the hypotheticals.
You always got to go to the hypotheticals when it's sec'y.

Speaker 8 (49:39):
We're all SEC tonight. We are all in on the
Texas Longhorns. I'm making the drive up to Dallas. Tons
of Texas fans. I've already passed about six range rovers
with their Texas gear out. A few private jets I've
seen overhead with their Texas gear on. So they're all
making the truck up to Dallas. Should be a fun game.
And our sister stations thirteen hundred to zero and going

(50:00):
up to see those guys, they're doing a live broadcast
for their pregame show. So coming up to Boomer Jackson Arlington,
if you're if you're making the.

Speaker 3 (50:06):
Way up, no one's going, no one and the weather's terrible.
No one's leaving Houston. What are you talking about. That's ridiculous.
Nobody's leaving.

Speaker 11 (50:14):
I'm not.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
I've not encountered any ice.

Speaker 1 (50:15):
On the road, just as it yet, all right, and
we say that there, what's what? What? Where is the
official locked down SEC hotel? What do we know? I mean,
do you is it? Do you have.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Do you actually have an elevator to get to go
right from the outside of your room.

Speaker 8 (50:29):
You know, we'll figure out the hotel thing. We may
just come on back to Houston.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
After this somewhere Gordy, Yeah, just sleep in your car. No,
it's it's too cold for that.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
No, I have a I have a hotel. But it's again,
it's it's just a quick in and out trip. We'll
get to go see uh and hopefully Texas doesn't embarrass
the Conference. I mean, you're you're playing for the pride
of the SEC now, and all our hopes and laurels
rest on you, although the majority of other SEC fans
I've talked to have said, the hell with conference pride.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
We hope Texas loses, all right, So who's gonna win
the game? Honestly, being as objective as you normally are,
Who's who? What's the game gonna end up?

Speaker 8 (51:06):
Like tonight, Ohio State is going to see the toughest
defense they've seen all year. Those receivers that have been
running wild the last couple of weeks against Oregon and
in Tennessee. Texas has got the secondary that can lock
down Jeremia Smith and a Mecca book. I'm looking forward
to Makooba and Barron and Michael Taff and all these

(51:29):
guys playing zone doing what they need to do, locking
him down and Quinn yours despite all the transfer nil
deals offers he's got on the table, will play his
butt off tonight for the Texas Longhorns. They will get
the run game going. With the right to Apple, Cam
Williams back healthy, Isaiah Bond's supposed to play. Texas Longhorns
win in a close room tonight thirty one to twenty four.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
By the way, when Gordy comes down Ross to give
us his predictions, see he's usually right. He helped us
with a big winner last week. He Gordyon didn't give
us on a recorded line, us on a live line,
so I trust him. He knows the scut I'm happy
for I'm happy for you. I'm happy for that lock
on SEC is back on an SEC school. I'm nervous

(52:12):
all right, Hey, uh money is there? We see?

Speaker 8 (52:16):
Like I said, I just saw another ranger overs.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
Were they sitting tea with their with their pinky eup?

Speaker 8 (52:23):
I believe so? Yeah, Texas Texas University.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
There right now? Are you and are you and Gordy
and Raw Are you the two of you gonna drive
to Atlanta for the championship if this happens, what's what's
the game plan on that.

Speaker 8 (52:37):
Very busy that's that's a long trip.

Speaker 1 (52:40):
Oh you're not going? Oh can you put a credential
line for me? Sure you'll be sitting in row eight hundred.
I mean, if that's what you really want to watch.
Unfortunely is gonna have to be a spirit trip looking
at these flight prices, but I've been looking all.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
Right, Chris, good luck to you, my man, save travels,
go the speed limit, and we look forward to hearing
from you next week case we celebrate the National Championship
game Texas versus Notre Dame.

Speaker 8 (53:06):
All right, some bad news for you guys. I just
passed the Sam Houston statue. He was not wearing his
deep steel blue Texans jersey. So maybe some bad luck
for the time.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
Oh well, Darling, we'll get over there and put a
wrap him up in it.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Uh and Tampa stro says Freeman is Gordy said Freeman
is winning with Kelly's players. Not one player is left
from Kelly's time there. Oh, Brian Kelly is a fake
pos crap coach, Gordy just jelly. All Tampa Strows does
is spit spit fac so you know, I mean, I
don't know. I haven't looked at having combed through the

(53:40):
too deep at Notre Dame. But I'll take him at
his word. No, Mark, are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (53:45):
Notre Dame fan is if if you and I were
Notre Dame fans, Rossie, we be living this up?

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Are you kidding me? Brian Kelly's playing in the Texas Bowl,
We're playing for national championship. Yeah, I would be living
the up like you wouldn't believe. I like how I said,
Sark has been more successful at Texas than than Kelly
has been at LSU, and Gordy trying to push back
on that, he went right to the alcoholic card.

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Twelve twenty, on Sports Making eleven twenty. Excuse me, I'm
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Speaker 1 (55:34):
Sports Talk seven ninety Matt and Ross with you until
two o'clock today. We've got non Florida stories coming up
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(55:56):
it's it's very matt Thomas of you.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
I mean, it's Friday again, it's thirty three degrees, it's
snowing in Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
I'm stuck in the hotel all day. Might as well
talk about longer. Oh you, poor baby, You're stuck in
a luxury hotel all day, Poor Matthew. It's a luxury hotel.
All right? Can I give you a very quick hotel
story today? And then? Yes? On quickly? Well? Can we?
I want to do guess the meal again? All right?
It is a Belgian waffle? Okay, bacon, okay? Coffee? Yes?

(56:27):
With tip? How much should I spend?

Speaker 3 (56:29):
You get a four dollar range's sixty one to fifty.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Fifty four dollars? Dang, so DC was so expensive? I
shot I overshot it. I gave her sixty dollars. I said,
I'd like six hours change back. Oh, how is the
story gonna go ahead? Finished? You can finish it? She's like,
I don't have the cash, but I'll try to go
find it. That's that continue on your your one Hunters

(57:00):
per she can only bring you back a five. Nope,
keep going, she'd only bring back one. Keep going? What
she checked with the bell desk, She checked the front desk,
and she said she could not find change. Oh, couldn't
find change at all at all. Yeah, man, people don't
use cash these days, unfortunately, well.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
Heard I using cash. Gator gave her a really nice tip,
so I said, just keep the other six bucks. Yeah,
that's how it's supposed to work.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
So at the end of the day, Belgian waffle, bacon
coffee sixty dollars. So I was still right, I said,
sixty one fifty. Yeah, I guess you were right. You
were with n range. She just got a really good tip,
but I really expensive breakfast. That's right, all right? Is that?

(57:52):
Is that a scammardy thing? That's tell her? You the reason?
Get you the reason why I didn't. I didn't care.
First of all, it's the weather's not good here, and
she she's obviously drove in to work, and you know,
and there's probably a limited staff here. I was like,
who cares, it's six bucks. Yes.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
The holidays, Matt, Happy New Year, brother, Happy New Year,
Happy New Year. Seven one three five, seven, hoy Gilbert's
been very patient in San Antonio, and we thank him
for calling the Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Honey Gilbert, good morning, Good morning.

Speaker 9 (58:22):
I want to talk about the Texans. I think they're
gonna win too, because think about the games that San
Diego won.

Speaker 1 (58:29):
Who did they play?

Speaker 9 (58:30):
They really didn't play really nobody, and they struggled.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Texans.

Speaker 9 (58:34):
On the other hand, we had a contlet and we
went through it, and then we beat Buffalo. We came
close to beating could have won that game against Detroit,
became close to Green Bay, and I don't know what
happens to a Boltimore games, but anyway, we'll forget about
that one. But anyway, what I'm saying is if we
have the defense, and we do have the offense, and
I don't think San Diego could deal with our defense.

(58:55):
Another thing, the Longhorn is going to win too because
they have a defense to deal with. As far as
it's like what Penn State's gonna have to do. I
mean not to state the Ohio Satan. So I'm thinking,
but I think the Texans gonna win, and I think
the Longhorn is gonna win too, and they're gonna be
up against Notre Dame and then I guess we're gonna
play Kansas City. I guess that's the stick, right, but
I think the Texans gonna win and Longhorns go Texans.

Speaker 1 (59:20):
All right, there you go. You ever got his maturial
and hung up as soon as he could. It's an
underdog weekend, Maddie. Let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:28):
I don't think schedule strength plays a factor at all
in terms of who what's going on at this point?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Now? Did you see that stat put out by Adam Schefter?

Speaker 8 (59:38):
No?

Speaker 1 (59:38):
I didn't, So I'm gonna eerily wait because it sounds
ominous on your part. Teams point differentials against playoff teams
this year. All right, running through, let's go. Best Baltimore
Ravens plus one twelve. That's insane, by the way. Worst

(59:58):
your Houston Texans a minus sixty six against playoff teams
this year.

Speaker 3 (01:00:06):
All right, let's think about who those games were. Baltimore blowout, Minnesota.
Baltimore basically covers it.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
Yeah, Minnesota bolt Kansas City was what within ten? Right?

Speaker 10 (01:00:15):
Am?

Speaker 1 (01:00:15):
I right? They lost by seven or eight in that game. Okay,
I think it was nineteen twenty seven, nineteen or something. Yeah,
let's see what else didn't play, the Chargers didn't play.
The Commanders didn't play. The Bucks beat the Bills, beat
the Bills, so that helped them out. Lost of the

(01:00:36):
Packers by two, lost of the Lions by seans three.
Does that Detroit loss eat at your crawl a little bit?
M No, it didn't have any material impact on the
on the results of the year. Yeah, I would have

(01:00:57):
to say. The bright shining more moment of the twenty
twenty four season was the fact that they made Josh
Allen look like rookie Josh Allen Kyle Allen. Oh, hey,
that's rude. I mean it's truth though. And then the
low water mark was the embarrassment against Baltimore Christmas Day. Yes,

(01:01:19):
nobody will remember that. Okay, well we'll still remember it,
but we won't remember as much if they went on Saturday.
That's unfortunately wrong about that. When you lose a game,
I said, I said, not nobody, I corrected myself for
lax thirty thirty one to two. ROSSI that you can't
even if you were to say, hey.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
Let's do a let's do a radio show in a
one hundred different markets and give people one hundred different
final scores.

Speaker 1 (01:01:40):
No, one would have put thirty one to two in
the mix. Yeah, it wasn't a score gami though it
happened in the sixties. Yeah, I believe it was the
Chicago Stags knocking off the Canton Bulldogs thirty one to two. No,
it was in the fifties. That was the thirty that
If it was the thirties.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
You are I mean, you do very You have a
few voices that are decent. You're your nineteen thirty three
NFL voice is not bad.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Okay, thank you? So so ah. The Boys from Baltimore
defeat the Boys from Houston down South thirty one to two,
one of the worst losses in the history of the
National Football League, which is now fledgling. Now you're getting
Seinfeld mixer George Hallis called it the worst game he's
ever seen. Hottiest, gorgeous too. What's the deal with what

(01:02:37):
Jackson football? They only use the ball foot a few times?

Speaker 12 (01:02:44):
C J.

Speaker 1 (01:02:44):
Stroud's playing like an infant? All right? Endless weather coverages
ended here in Atlanta. Thank god. Oh, now you can
get to your you can get to your yodeling game,
whichever one that was, No, No, just in time for
the young of the we're good. Oh my gosh, eleven
twenty seven, it's Sports Talk seven. Focus on the show, Matt,

(01:03:06):
I have focused. Yeah, right, you're watching wyan are. Although
the Atlanta TV anchors are kind of hot, I'm just
gonna throw that out there. Where are the TV anchors
ugly that you're going to be in an NBA city
Grand Rapids, there's no graz that's g league, Matt. We're
talking about Reed Shepherd's going next. Oh god, oh from

(01:03:27):
the top rope rossy what yikes. He's coming back soon.
He's back next week. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
He may have told us where's NBA TV market in
terms of women? Oh Jesus would have to be probably Memphis.

Speaker 1 (01:03:46):
Huh. Then I don't think there were very many hotties
in Sacramento. Minneapolis. Could do somehow, could you could use
some work where they bundled up and scarves and gortex
a little heavier. I think it's good. Philid Philadelphia is
a bunch of hags too. No, they got hot women
on TV in Philadelphia. There's no doubt in my mind.

(01:04:08):
You're probably right. All right, I love it, Yeah, just
play it at anytime. Matt's doing some horn dog type stuff. No, yes,
like this, guys, I'm talking what people like the guys
are talking about today. Anytime MAT's unnecessarily horny on the
showy unnecessarily when you ever know, unecessarily a morning what
about like anytime he just starts, I think we did

(01:04:32):
there we go No this, No, this is making me uncomfortable. No,
this is definitely going to a break on this with
silk pajamas on, I got I'm head to toe in
cougar stuff. You have eight shirt, you have eight shorts. Okay,
you like the cougars. That's what you're saying. Stop seven

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(01:05:14):
just announced it a few minutes ago. Wow. Yeah, that's
that's good, really good.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
And I think I'm sure many other sports teams and
not only in our community but around the country will
do the same thing. Man, that's that won't do much, unfortunately,
but it's a thought that means everything and just terrible, terrible,
terrible situation with people losing their homes and valuables and
just terrible. So bravo to the Texans were doing that

(01:05:41):
all right. Seven one three two one two five seven
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two one two five seven ninety I was scrolling through
the for U tab ROSSI it it comes across around
the NFL circles that if DeShawn, first of all, do
you come back from back to back Achilles and ever?
I mean, do you really?

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
Yeah, we'd have to find some sort of yeah, some
sort of precedent for that. I mean, if he when
he comes back, if he does, he's not able to
move around, He's gonna have the he's gonna have the
running abilities of of of a slower Peyton Manning and
Tom Brady. Yeah, I mean he he developed into a

(01:06:25):
much better pocket passer than he was early in his career,
but a lot of his game is helped out by
his mobility and moving around and not necessarily running, but
getting into the open field and finding guys from there.
So I'm looking at just again, just random people in
the NFL that I do look at it will be
the worst contract ever. It'll be the worst trade in

(01:06:46):
NFL history, because not only are you did you trade
the first picks, but you gave him this obscene amount
of cash to not perform and a lot of it
people will say will be karma. But at the end
of the day, I mean, Karmela always does get your rossie.
But he also has a lot of money in the
piggy bank for not playing. Yeah, I mean he's already

(01:07:10):
won from that standpoint, and his legacy is permanently tarnished
depending on how much these payouts were. I mean, Deshaun Watson,
whenever he calls it a career, will not be on television.
Deshaun Watson will not be.

Speaker 3 (01:07:24):
I mean, I don't know if he's does he have
any kids, I don't know, But I don't know if
he was to have kids. He's not gonna be able
to go to a to a fly to a flag
football field and see and are people are gonna be
turning away going is that the one that was having
all the action with the messuse?

Speaker 1 (01:07:41):
I mean, you should puts on. He's just not gonna
have much. It's not gonna be a oh there's DeShawn.
Let's go say hi to Shaun. What's going on? Man? Hi?
Things do okay? I mean he doesn't gonna have that life.
People will forget. He has some supporters as well. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
He had too many supporters in Houston that were just
turning a blind eye because they were Texans Homers, and
I was embarrassing for them.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
I mean, Ojoy Simpson was walking the streets and he
had he'd killed two people.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
Guess So, but would you want if oj was alive
with you and he he went to the same.

Speaker 1 (01:08:15):
Restaurant, You wouldn't go take a picture with him, would you? No?
I wouldn't. Somebody gave me a kitchen knife. Oh too soon? Sorry,
what's it been thirty years? Yeah, it's always going to
be too soon? My bad. You know I met Ron.
I met Ron Goldman's dad before that poor guy. You

(01:08:37):
might have paying that poor man had been in Oh
my god, I don't know what is he still alive? I? Oh, man,
this is a question for Adam Clanton. I know he
would know else you would know me. He'd know his
birth date and place and where his gravestone was if
he died.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
So I was working at seven hundred and nine to
fifty at the time when Goldman he was doing some
radio hosting.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
Yeah, Fred Goldman is alive. He is eighty four years old.

Speaker 3 (01:09:01):
Okay, so this is you know, this has got to
be ninety six, ninety seven, somewhere in that range.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
So this got almost thirty years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:09:08):
And I don't think I said five words, and I
just shook his hands to welcome heues.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
I was a producer at the time. I said, I
just want to make sure he was comfortable when he
was doing But yeah, he was trying to do a
little bit of a talk radio career just to kind
of you know, because he had gotten so much attention
during that and I think he just said that this
isn't worth it. But he did.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
He did some radio appearances and didn't want him here
in Houston many many years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
He was on a crusade for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Yeah, it was very surreal, very surreal seeing a guy
that was part of the Trial of the Century in
the radio studio in which you worked at.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Very very weird. Yeah. I think it was a way
to grieve for him is to toy. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Yeah, I think the same thing when Nicole Brown's sister too,
the brunette. She was like, you know, I want to
get out there and say all these things and do
whatever I can.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Then she kind of just, you know, took her fifteen
minutes and went away. So how do we segue from
Deshaun Watson O. J Simpson? Way, we that's quite a
same something goes Friday. Yeah, that's one thing you've learned
from me is your segues are incredible mine. Yeah, because

(01:10:12):
I would do something like that and you helped us.
You have you helped make this. I was like that
in like eighth grade. Oh really, okay, all over the place.
I think I think you never It was a serendipitous Matt.
We were very similar independently in many ways, different than
you're finally willing to admit how close we are like that,

(01:10:32):
That's what I appreciate said, very different in many other
ways as well. Explain no no comment, Yeah, I didn't think. So.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
We have not talked about the Rockets from last night
they won beat Memphis game and a half leave of
the second spot. Wah, can we talk some Rockets ball.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
We're gonna talk about you know, We're gonna do this
segment and in the next segment on the Rockets. And
if you're a Rocket fan, I got news for you. Your
Rockets have the second best record in the Western Conference
Rossfield Reale. And we're into like the middle of January. Yeah,
we're almost halfway through the season. Yes, and they beat
the number three seed in their arena. And if they

(01:11:15):
didn't miss seventeen free throws, it would have been worse.
It was pleasant to see the difference in the second
and third best team, especially because the third best team
had all their players back. John Moran did play yesterday.
Jared Jackson did play yesterday. Desmond Bane did play. I mean,

(01:11:35):
it wasn't like you were taking on the Knoxville Grizzlies.
It was the full fledged Memphis Grizzlies. Yeah, John Moran was.
You could definitely see a little rust. He was turning out.
He was losing the ball and the dribbles and stuff
like that a little more. And by the way, Matt
I was kind of talking about this on the on
the post game last night, is he the I'm two
names come to mind are the quickest players I've ever seen,

(01:11:57):
not fast, quickest in short areas and it's Alan Iverson
and is jam Moran. I think he went eighty feet
in a second and a half yesterday. Yeah, he has
it all. I mean yeah, the top speed, the top speed.
I feel like I put Russell Westbrook, you know, Derek Rose,

(01:12:19):
some guys like that into a men Thompson may reach
that level, but from like not only from zero to
ninety four feet, but like from zero to ten feet.
He's so fast, so so explosive. You mentioned it already.
A men Thompson's got that too. Yeah, when a men
Thompson takes off after a missed shot, his zero to

(01:12:40):
sixty is incredible. He runs by everyone. He looks like
prime Usain Bolt, just like looking back at everyone. What
are you guys doing back there?

Speaker 3 (01:12:47):
By the way, I'm ready to put my name on
something when it comes to men, when we come back,
when we come back, love it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I'm getting the No strongest file out.

Speaker 3 (01:12:55):
Oh you're you're not going to need to get that out, Oh,
because I think.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
You know well, I said it earlier this week. I'm
just gonna double down on it and you and you
agreed with me, onis, So if you want to be wrong,
I'll put it on the file. Yeah. I don't care
about me being right. I care about you being wrong, Matt.
That's the whole file is. Therefore, I'm gonna lose on
that bad boy.

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seven ninety at eleven forty eight. I think we're gonna
get our buddy Sam Knon from the Athletic He is
covering the National Championship game and go Kooks. He's a cougar.
He's also the best dressed sports reporter in college football. Yes,

(01:15:01):
multiple time winner. Yeah, I mean, where is a but no?
I was called a fed door. It's a kangle. Where's
a kangle? But he doesn't wear a kangle? Does he?
I think so? No? I think he's a Fedora guy.
Kanggles like what you had? What? Well, Indy Kalu got
you one mm. Carson Beck, the former Georgia quarterback, committed

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to Miami. It's committed. It's over it's overdone. I saw
that he entered the portal and maybe Quinn, maybe you're
gonna be right and Quinn is gonna transfer.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Uh, thank you, Okay, I'm just saying Sam con confirmed
for twelve thirty, So thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Let's go second. Yeah, I'll let you go ahead and text. Uh,
you know what folks follow at Sports RV on Twitter.
We're we're committing ourselves to rebuilding the brand. All right,
We're gonna ask him again, Yeah, what's the follow Sports RV.
I'm seventy uh you know what, I'm seventy four away
from twelve thousand. Yeah, but can I go see what?
HOWM gonna followers years or bots? And we'll see never

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does so I don't care. Why would I do that
because or not. I'm not some kind of psychopath that
is going to go combing through my followers and then
and then mute and block people that I think are bots,
and then they're going to go to my co host
and ask them to unblock them because I blocked the
wrong people. Yeah, who would do that? That's do all right,
real quick.

Speaker 3 (01:16:19):
The Cleveland Browns did release the statement on Deshaun. Here
it goes, and then I want to give you my
put your name on a prediction on the Rockets. Yesterday,
Deshaun Watson underwent a second surgery to repair his right
Achilles tendon rupture. Watson initially tore the tendon during the
Browns game against the Bengals in October the twentieth. His
first surgery was performed in October twenty fifth. Earlier this week,

(01:16:41):
when Watson reported the Cross Country Mortgage Campus for his
exit physical as part of the brown season ending process,
he complained of discomfort after rolling his ankle in Miami.
MRI results demonstrated a rerupture to his Achilles tendon. Doctor
Bob Anderson, a foot of ankle specialist in Charlotte, North Carolina,
performed both surgeries. Watson's recovery time and return to place

(01:17:01):
status is uncertain, and he will likely miss significant time
during the twenty twenty five seasons. So my guest is Rossie,
if we see Deshaun Watson ever play again in the NFL,
it will not be till twenty twenty six.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
Uh yeah. David Chow, who is believe has been on
this show. He has at Pro Football Doc was the
doctor of the Chargers for years. He says hazard of
pushing too hard is retear upside as Brown should get
their insurance money as Deshaun Watson won't be cleared to
play next season. Yeah. By the way, cam some of
on twitters at cam Akers double rupture. Well, cam Akers

(01:17:34):
is about twenty percent of the player he was before
that he got hurt. So yeah, cam Akers was much more.
Dynamics largely been a death now for running backs. JK.
Dobbins had two really great games to start the season,
but then his has faltered off of his achilles tear.
Deontay Foreman really hasn't been back cam Akers. I mean
we can point to dozens of achilles really the probably

(01:17:57):
one of the worst injuries you can suffer. Yep, all right,
put my name on it ROSSI I'm writing it down.
You already wrote it down earlier this week. I'm putt
my name on it down after watching this team the
last week or so. Yes, you can pencil Amn Thompson
as long as he's healthy in the starring lineup for

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the rest of his Rockets career, for the rest of
his Rockets Korean stutterr Whooo. I like that. I mean,
like I said, the only pushback I would give is
it does. It put too many non shooters on the floor,
but he is so fascinating to get your basket. Yeah,
I know, I'm with you. Yeah, I would say you're
you're what you're saying is the favorite. Yeah, and you

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know what you do. Bring up a good point about
the shooting.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
But if Jalen, if this is the Jalen of the
last two weeks, which has been better four of.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
The last six weeks, will that be fair to say
on Jalen? All Right? I cautioned you. Always caution you
when you say if this How many times have you
said to yourself? If this is the real Jalen Green?
That's That's the only thing. I'm with you. I want you.
I'm with you, Matt. We're Rockets fans. We root for
the Rockets. Do you do the games? I do a
lot of the pre and post. I want them to
win and be successful. Yeah, I don't want to be

(01:19:16):
a wet blanket. But here I am. We've said this
a lot. This is the real Jens. I think you
can go Jalen and a man and go athleticism and
I mean ross, Let's be brutally honest here, brutal. This

(01:19:36):
team is a bottom five shooting team in the NBA. Yes,
and it hasn't made that big of a difference. Correct,
They're still that good. They still get to the pain enough.
Three point shooting is horrible. I think it will improve.
I still think. I mean, I keep waiting and waiting
and waiting. At some point, fred Fred can't get much worse.
Fred VanVleet is gonna get close to his career high

(01:19:56):
at some point, he's gonna, mark my words, he's going
to get hot from three. At some point. I just
keep waiting. By the way, for Fred van Vliet. Haters,
you can stop. Yeah, I'm there's you know what it's.
I mean, I know he's very hot and cold shooting,
but the rockets. I mean, if you can't already tell

(01:20:17):
Ema loves veterans, he can trust. He trusts Fred van
Vliet a lot. He doesn't turn the ball over. He
had what four steals last night? Mm hmm. He can
get hot offensively, but but but this offense doesn't run

(01:20:38):
around Fred vaner No, he's not the engine of the offense.
He's the setup guy, and he's great at it. He's
got one of the better assistant turnover ratios in basketball now.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
Do I see a day in a few years where
Fred is not the starter and that a man is
maybe the point guard.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
I mean, sure it might be next year. Who knows,
it could be next year, it could be I mean,
do you're right? But a man's a multi positional player.
You you just put him on the floor and say,
be the apple. It's like it's like having a guy
on a football team that can catch and run. I mean,
he's multi He's a atch athlete, is what he is? Oh?

(01:21:13):
I like that? This guy what we call you? Mister analogy?
You know what that was? That was one of my
better analogies of the week. I all right, we gotta
wake the strippers up in a couple of minutes. Are
you ready? Yeah, you do. I'm just gonna kick my
feet up. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:21:29):
We got to play our twelve o'clock open like we
had our ten o'clock. By the way, again, we need
to send a set up a GoFundMe account to keep
Connor employed by us.

Speaker 1 (01:21:37):
We're working on it. Is that? Where is it? Really? Yeah? No,
all right, take care of him. I got him some
wings yesterday? You did, or Adam and Adam did. We're
gonna have to talk about that. Yeah, us, No he
did not, so I mean your false gifting. Uh sure,

(01:21:59):
why not? Well it'd be like it didn't even go
get him for me. Wait a minute, well, when I
do that, your legs work. I only got him for
somebody whose legs don't work. That's true. Ain't that a blip?

Speaker 7 (01:22:13):
So?

Speaker 1 (01:22:13):
Women, so what exactly what's your role in the whole
wing bit? Zero? I'd let him know they were there,
that's true. There you go. He wouldn't have known they
were there without me. He probably would have are gonna
call you. They're gonna call you the great communicator of
seven ninty. Right, I really am, And honestly I'm not
a great communicator, but relative to others around here, I am.

(01:22:34):
That's true. All right, let's wipe the strippers up.

Speaker 3 (01:22:37):
Next eleven fifty six Sports Talk seven ninety It is
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Fair not fair. I thought you were getting break. I
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I'm the one who only spills things, notly on myself.
I didn't knock over an entire full cup like you do.
Are you burned up? And you know what, I'm trying
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Let's go talk it to a thousand. Your Instagram is

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useless largely, you know nothing on there. I don't like it,
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Speaker 1 (01:25:41):
To the third hour of The Matt Thomas Show with
Ross's Sis Sports shot seven ninety. Sometimes you can tease
too long and then you know, wind up getting all flustered.
Then you're in You're dangling bait and I'm not taking it, Matt.
You need to I'm good. I'm not gonna dangle as
much bait as I have in the past. Freddy and Jalen,
I mean you're not. You just no girth, right, it's

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not girthy enough for you. It's not like a Davis
Mills neck. You know that happens sometimes when you take
people to restaurants. The restaurant is so good and then
they go, this sounds all right, and you're like, you
all want to punch you right in the throat. Yeah, well,
I'm sorry, I couldn't do it longer. Just one segment
that's what I'm used eBrace ticket bitch, all right, that's
like me. He's got dad boy. It's like the bad girls,

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the funniest in the group. Do you want to repeat that?

Speaker 7 (01:26:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
I thought that's something I would have said it did.
You're you're infecting my brain, but couldn't say it. One
more time's too much say it one more time. Generally,
the funny one in the girl group is the big one.
Am I wrong? You're not coming over for a weenie roast?
As much as you want to met is Anything goes
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I'm here in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
So they've interrupted to young the wrestles for freeze coverage. Okay, no,
it's snowing, it's icy, it's cold's raining. Let's move on,
curiok Victor Newman's got something to Rossis has got some
things to say as he presents to us, as he
does every day around this time.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
The news that noon. All right, man, a lot of
stuff going on in the sports world this weekend, and
not a lot of times, so let's get it rolling.
You're Houston Texans holding as two and a half to
three point underdogs, to the Los Angeles Chargers this weekend.

(01:27:29):
Will Anderson Junior, what was your message to the team
at the end of practice yesterday today?

Speaker 4 (01:27:35):
When I broke it down, I was just saying, like,
you know, Derek Barnett, coach, asked us to go around
the room in our position meetings and say, like our
planef experience, and you know, Derek Barnet's been blessed enough
to win a Super Bowl, and Dure just saying like
all us seems like physical, Like yeah, but it was
just mentally. So I just reiterated that to the team
and wanted to repeat that because that's really all it
is with our team, just like we got to be
mentally sorry, but we got to be mentally Siunding, it's

(01:27:57):
no room for errors.

Speaker 1 (01:27:58):
No room for errors mental. For the Houston Texans in
the playoffs, a.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Lot of think it's mental problems. I think it's just
going to be protection problems.

Speaker 1 (01:28:09):
Well, yeah, they can get their mental mentally, if they
can see who's got who and communicate, then they won't
have free runners. If there's free runners in the backfield,
that means there was a mental breakdown somewhere. And then well,
if you're getting physically pushed into the backfield, which happens
to some of the Texans offensive line. That's another thing altogether.

(01:28:32):
I suppose Derek Fisher, not Derek Fisher. What's uh guy
on the right side, Blake Fisher or Blake Fisher Derek
Fisher's I mean, Derek Fisher probably big up the playoffensive
line out this point in his life. But that's is
he which one they are? Astros untouchable, Astro's legend.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
No no, I was thinking more like the journeyman NBA
player that gets Booty was trying to fist fight.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Matt Barnes. I believe that's right. That's right. Good times,
good times. When are we locking in? Final predictions? Score
predict for this game? Matt in one hour?

Speaker 11 (01:29:02):
Ooh?

Speaker 1 (01:29:03):
I like that? Okay, one hour Final predictions Texans v.
Chargers total holding at forty two and a half as
they take on well the Chargers. As I just said,
n Oerg Stadium. That's also on paramount plus, Matt, if
you want to catch an episode of Yellowstone and then
go flip over there, I've never watched one episode of
Yellowstone me either. I think if you're like, if you're

(01:29:26):
like fifty to seventy five. Yellowstone is your jam.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Now the missus loves it, but the show's already over.
I mean, how can you love a show that's been
on just like three years and then one of the years,
I mean, not to be a.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
You know, storyteller ruiner here, but a spoiler, spoiler, Kevin
Coster wasn't on the last season. What's I mean that, wholer?
I'm just saying, well, Steve Carell wasn't on the final
couple of seasons of the Office, and then those episodes
sucked in the show tanked. But I digress. You like,
success wasn't Succession like three or four seasons. I don't know,

(01:30:02):
but they can't. They had like twenty episodes each year.
I mean, there was a lot that you want. You're
a liar. I just looked it up. Thirty nine episodes
total in four years. I believe there were sixty three
episodes in six years. Liar, Let's go on, hold on,
I'm trying to look on how many episodes of Yellowstone.
There has been fifty three episodes. There's already more than

(01:30:23):
a whole all of Succession. Chuck Joe bomass up, Kevin
Coster gets killed, bad there you go. They're just spoiler.
How about that? Suck it, serious, suck it. I wasn't
gonna watch it anyways. Oh my god, if you don't

(01:30:44):
watch it, now, there you go. And his daughter's a
whrror on the show than that. There you go, there's
your episode recap. Oh my god, you're one of one,
Matt Thomas. We love you the Houston Rockets. No, no, no,

(01:31:06):
you forgot a texting story big one today? What oh all? Probably? Yeah? Sure?
Why on the news, And now we've brought news, I
was moving on. I'm focus in the playoffs. Man, It's
not about individual accolade accolades. It's about the team and
getting there after seven o'clock on Saturday night. It well,
come on, there's a foreshadowing for next hour. Uh fine,
Derek Stingley first Team All Pro your thoughts congratulation? Well

(01:31:29):
he has. TSC released a statement on Derek Stingley's First
Team All Pro selection. Uh he's on a TSC client,
so thus he cannot be talking about other people's clients. Okay,
it's like a tampering exactly, I got you. Okay, Well,
then we will move on to the Houston Rockets big game.
Last not no, oh my plate to play two highlight.
I was playing post game. I'm gonna play by play.

(01:31:51):
It's much better Robert. You know, Robert forgets a lot
of jam time. I want something. Oh my god, this
is embarrassing here. I'm gonna pick a random one. I'm
not even looking at what it is. Eb Fleet. It's
the play call for the sideline shot clock at six,
down to five going against Kannard with three with two
bump free throw jumper coming up. Fred van vleetins with

(01:32:12):
one on the shock clock. Rockets up one, seventeen one fourteen.
Freddie b with twenty two. That's amazing. I blindly clicked
a highlight and it was like the biggest bucket of
the game. So congratulations to Fred bam Bleeders. The kids
call him Freddy Bee, or as some people call him
on the postgame, Fred van Fleet. Yeah, it's fine, that's okay.

(01:32:35):
Fred van Vliet had twenty two points. AUPBRN Shingoon leading
the way with thirty two. Big win for the Rockets,
not only just for the standings, but also a statement
they looked like they belonged in din Some against the
Memphis Grizzlies, Aupbryn Shin Gooon with a big first quarter,
leading the way with thirty two points and fourteen rebounds.
Here's what Coachidoka had to say about what Shingoon was

(01:32:56):
doing well early.

Speaker 7 (01:32:57):
On, scoring in a bunch of different and making the
right pass that kept him loose, kept him off him
a little bit, and then they just sold it out
throughout the rest of the game to go after him,
and you know, moved him around quite a bit up top,
on elbow and on the on the post and kind
of had his way with whoever was on him. So
to his credit, didn't try to force it, try to

(01:33:18):
get guys involved. We missed some shots that we should
have made on the kickouts, but he does.

Speaker 1 (01:33:24):
Uh Matt. We've seen it multiple quarters now, the third
quarter against the Wizards, first quarter against the Grizzlies, alprynch Goon,
Jalen Green flourishing. At the same time. I think that
portends well for the rest of the season. It definitely pourtends.
That's right, okay, all right, second place, second place in

(01:33:46):
the West, not going to reach number one because I
don't think Gold. I think Oklahoma City is gonna win
sixty eight games this year. They're that good. Yeah, Oklahoma
City's got the ones, he locked up. Yeah, but if
the Rockets gol on on the two, are you kidding me?
I'm I'm telling you, at this point, they're at worst
the fifth best team in the West. They're making the
top six.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
I agree, And I am so excited to say that
because we haven't had playoff basketball on a long time.

Speaker 1 (01:34:10):
Rossie, and I'm kind of I'm kind of looking forward
to listening to full phone lines of the Rockets rap Yes,
I talked about this. Also, speaking of the Rockets rap
man about recalibrating expectations. I've already had recalibrated from let's
get the play forty five wins in the playing in
to Okay, let's get top six. Now I might be
recalibrating to let's get home court in the first round. Oh,
I love it. I love the optimism. What we call

(01:34:32):
you optimistic? Ross ab absolutely, Matt. Also in Arlington, it
is the Cotton Bowl Classic at Jerry World, Steve Sarkisian
asked about his massive underdog comment. We mentioned that how
nobody's given us a shot. Nobody's given us a shot.
You're in the final four. No, it's not, and there's
no situation where nobody's given you a shot. Here's what

(01:34:52):
Sark said when asked about that. Well, starting with the
question and for.

Speaker 14 (01:34:57):
Coach sarkisia, you said in our zoom thing last week
that you were a massive underdog.

Speaker 1 (01:35:03):
Why do you think that?

Speaker 14 (01:35:04):
I could probably pull everybody in this room and you
probably all agree they're the favorite to win the game.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
And that's okay, But that's football.

Speaker 14 (01:35:11):
That's sport. That's why we have to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:35:12):
We do so I don't. I don't. I'm not gonna
back off of what I said.

Speaker 14 (01:35:16):
The reality is the reality. Now we have to go perform.
That's our responsibility as a football team to go perform.
But they've earned that right because the way they've played
here the past couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:35:28):
Sorry, not backing down, baby, good, stay strong and carry on.
Uh No, just stay strong. Okay, that's an in is
new all right. When we return, we're gonna talk to
Kenneth in Orange about the Texas and Rockets, and then Rossie,
we're gonna break down the Houston Live Socks Show and

(01:35:50):
Rodeo celebrity list this year. We are Yeah, Okay, sure,
it feels like people are generally speaking, very disappointed. I
saw a lot of people very happy, mostly country fans,
I think, which I mean. It's throdio. This is not
me and my expertise on Conny McGovern is our music.
He's a man who that's true.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
He is a dance and fool. He will tell us
how he thinks this year's roster compared to previous year.
It bottom of the hour, Sam con the Athletic on
his way to Dallas. He is driving with Joseph d'orte
from the Chronicle up the Dallas as we speak. I
wonder if the he maybe if you had Sam con
versus Chris Gordy in a drag race on I forty five,
who wins that?

Speaker 1 (01:36:31):
I'm gonna go with Chris Gordy twelve fifteen. It is
the news and noon continues in a moment on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (01:36:39):
In fact, to Matt Thomas and Ross via real fine
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Speaker 1 (01:36:50):
You should folks on the lois. Let's talk through the
great people of Southeast Texas. We go to Orange.

Speaker 3 (01:36:55):
We are the official sports radio station of Orange. Kenneth
on seven ninety at twelve twenty, Thanks for hi, can I.

Speaker 15 (01:37:03):
Yeah, what I wanted to hit on. I wanted to
hit on detections more. But the Rockets answer the Rockets. Man,
you know, I don't see no reason to go get
that drama queen out of Miami even looked his way. Man,
you know they doing damn good man. And this coach,
he turned this team around in such a short time.

(01:37:23):
And and and looking at what the right said. And
see this.

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
Tells me a lot.

Speaker 15 (01:37:28):
You had a team not even at seventeen seventeen free.

Speaker 1 (01:37:32):
Throws and still win.

Speaker 15 (01:37:35):
You know, that's that's the show, un that somebody to
go out and find a way to win, you know.
And like I'm saying, man, don't don't fit, don't don't, don't,
don't go add Now, this is not like the old,
the old western uh uh of of the NBA where
you had to have a big man in the West
to survive. You know, everybody had to have a big man.

(01:37:56):
Were not in those days no more, you know, And
these I say, you don't need that standout superstar all
the time because these guys end up being cancers. And
right now, when have you know, we can't we remember
any time where you had one of these wine and
complaint want to be traded. Uh, superstars go to another

(01:38:19):
team and take them somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
You had them go.

Speaker 15 (01:38:22):
People go different places, you know, like Lebron you know
he did and stuff like that, but he wasn't a
drama queen, you know. And as for those those Texans,
man and and and and this is what I wanted
to dive into. Now, look at this right here, you
got that left side of that line.

Speaker 1 (01:38:39):
It's weak.

Speaker 15 (01:38:40):
We looked pat we look we look like a problem
that they couldn't tackle. They didn't have a running game.
They're the one that established all of that. And you
look around right now, man, it's not all those problems.
It's right there the offensive line. And right now, I
believe if you going and right now, I would take
Kenyan Green and try to get something for him while

(01:39:02):
he's he's in good shape, Get rid of him and
get much as you can for Lammy Tafe and just
go stack up on all of the line as you can,
we through them and deal you a solid line, because
a solid line can either can make a phenomenal quarterback
look good man, you know. And I just want to

(01:39:24):
add to thank you all.

Speaker 1 (01:39:26):
Right, thank you Kenny.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
First and foremost, don't worry about Jimmy Butler's not coming
to the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
Okay, don't worry about that, Froston, don't you great? Noygree Yeah,
non starter? What what what did you? What do we
see last night that makes you say this team needs
Jimmy Butler? No, I think they're gonna can I was.
We talked about this earlier in the week, about I
thinking I'm thinking they're they're staying the course and trusting

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the process, even after last night's game. That even emboldens
my belief that they're they're not going to be any
any sort of earth shattering trade is gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
No, I would be stunned if you're gonna have something
that kind of or shattering around these parts. Second ball,
you can't get a bag of donuts for Chicaca and
Green right now? I mean, I guess you could you
get one of those like those Dona matis and little
mini donutes for Jef No for Kenyon Greens.

Speaker 1 (01:40:18):
About Kenyon Green, Yeah, uh yeah, I don't know. Maybe
maybe you can get one of those big tires they
flip in practice.

Speaker 3 (01:40:31):
I don't think you can trade Laramie Tunsel either for
because Larmie Tunseel is just the contract's too big.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
You're not going to trade him. He was just a tackle. Yeah,
he's still a capable player. I mean, do I think
he really cares a lot?

Speaker 8 (01:40:42):
Not?

Speaker 1 (01:40:43):
Really? Do I think he commits a lot of false
star penalties? Yeah, but he's still I mean, it is
what it is. He's the best of the group. You're
not taking a woeful position and making it worse. You're
not gonna get better by trading Lemmi Tunsil. So yeah,
all three of those things are non starters. Don't worry
about Jimmy Butler at Trey Canyon Green, and you're not
training Larmry Tunsil. I like that, well, said Matt sinc

(01:41:06):
to the point.

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
All right, So real quick before we get to our
Sam coma con update from on his way to Dallas,
A thought or two about the Star. Now, let me
tell you real quick, Raebond McIntyre megastar Right.

Speaker 1 (01:41:21):
Oh hold on, let me go to the list. I
guess yeah, I mean, I guess what are Connor jump
in on this? Her television work than her music, So
I mean I'm not I'm just pleading ignorance on this.
Somebody explained to me she's had like a bunch of okay,
multi decade megastar country music huge. Okaynnie hits lightly, but
everybody goes with mega hits of the current stuff. Her

(01:41:42):
TV shows coming back Reba, Yeah, she's got a show's
on another version of the same show. America's got talent
or the voice are one of those? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:41:51):
And she's beautiform, and she's like this generation's Dolly Parton.
I mean that may people will.

Speaker 1 (01:41:56):
Love her that way. I feel like Dolly's more talented.
Riley Green, have no idea who that is? Rileygh Green?
Surprising young fella? Okay, I don't know, Yeah, I can
we need the young and break this down for us.
I don't know who Riley Green is. Oh my god,
he really sucks. A j R. March sixth, No idea.

(01:42:19):
Oh they're fun. I'm trying to see that a j R.
What kind of music is that? They're kind of a
j R? Okay, I'll try to play song. They're they're
kind of pop, kind of pop. How do you how
do you sort of pop? You could be pop and
rock or pop R and B or that's true pop rap. Okay, uh,

(01:42:41):
next day, bun Bee's birthday bonanza. Oh wonderful, happy birthday. Yeah,
next day Bailey Zimmerman. Never heard of this person. I
thought you're gonna say Bailey Zappy. I didn't know he
had it like that. I know, that's weird. He's kind
of like country country pop. Oh I know a j R.
My brother loves these people. Yeah, they're fun. Yeah, yeah,

(01:43:04):
this is like pop. I don't even know what if
you'd call except for purely pop. Wikipedia says indie pop. Yeah,
that's kind of accurate. Okay, so let's let's break this down.
You have indie pop trying to fill up a rodeo stadium. Yeah,
they've had non country acts every refer day. I mean,
but I understand that. But I mean, are they that pop?

(01:43:26):
But they can try to fill the building up. I
guess that those I think Ajar is extremely popular. Okay,
bud Bee's birthday bonanza. Then you got Bailey Zimmerman. Who's
bay What does Bailey Zimmerman do? Zimmerman country pop, Country's
cream in Kansas back in the eighteen nineties, twenty four
years old headline in the Rodeo good for him, But

(01:43:47):
the first flavor known as carmel fudge. That seems a
little complicated for the first flavor. I'm gonna go with vanilla.
March ninth, Karen Leone Karen Leone Leon, Nope, don't I'm
not familiar. Next day Brad Paisley, country star. I know

(01:44:07):
that name. Yeah, he sounds familiar. March eleventh, zach top
Es compared to Carrot Top. No, it's zach Top I
don't know. Again, I go to Connor. Who's zach top Country? Bluegrass?
Not very popular now, okay, he's twenty seven. Next day,

(01:44:31):
Lauren daggele Oh, that was the that's the in studio
in stadium host for the astros back in the day,
did some TV stuff. No, that's Lauren something else. I
believe she's a she's a Christian artist, that Christian music.
Oh okay. Next, all praise be John Party p A. R.
Dot d I, oh, okay, is that like Party B

(01:44:55):
country artists? He's pretty popular. Okay, thank you quickly. Journey
the next I know somebody I've heard of this one
Journey so that I don't even get into that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:07):
We don't even it's the battle lead singer Warren ziders
the next day.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
After that Unfamiliar, I think country Grupo Fronterra. After that, Oh,
group in Fonterra got the hits. Charlie Crockett, I don't
know post Malone. We know Post Malone's there. Is he
gonna do? His country hit? Is country? I'm a uh,
you know, I'd have tapped out the hip hop commedy.

(01:45:33):
I'm gonna griffs of country music hits? Is that what
he's doing now? Next Old Dominion Richly they playing Seaton Hall. Yeah,
Cody Jinks familiar, that's the Uh. Yeah, it's the former
closer for the White Sox. That's Cody Jenks. Oh, he's

(01:45:53):
actually Bobby Jinks, Bobby whatever, same difference. Parker McCollum, I'm
assuming that is uh, the shooting guard for the New
Orleans Pelicans. I've heard of him. He's from Houston and
reps all like the city's teams with Woodlands High School.

Speaker 3 (01:46:09):
Okay, Brookston done, we know who that is. Luke Bryant
closes out the show March twenty third. Okay, see y'a
on Easy Sys. Sorry mt No Hall and oates with
a rodeo. They're still beefing that. Dang, can't you get

(01:46:30):
one of Hall or Oats?

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
If I'm gonna take what, I'm gonna take Hall because
Oates only has like one. So let's do Matt Thomas's
dream line up Haul and Oates.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
Let me tell you, let me tell you we're gonna
get We got sam Con coming up next. I'm gonna
go pull the nineteen eighty four Rodeo and I bet
you I had know eighty.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
Percent of the people in that group in that list. Okay,
and that will be my jam. Okay, we're gonna do
that in a twelve fifty the nineteen eighty four Rodeo.
That's eighty four rodeo. Oh this is Oh, this is
a remix or something. Yeah, this is not Hollingoks, missus

(01:47:08):
Brooks and Brooks had done. Yeah, this is with Morgan
Wallin Whalen sam Con. This sucks. Yeah, this is I
wouldn't go pattany that he's no Brooks and or done. No,
he's not. He's not mentally over Ellie. Let's talk to
sam Con next. Twelve thirty one Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 6 (01:47:28):
Ninety Matt Thomas Ross VIIEL It's the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
With Ross Sports Talk seven ninety A great friend of
the show who's been super busy, but yeah, he always
comes through. I don't ask much of him. He's the
best dressed man in college athletics. He's a significantly better
dresser than Joseph Torte The Houston Chronicle, Sam con with
The Athletic, A fellow Houston Cougar, Samuel Howard. Things that

(01:47:56):
worry you right now.

Speaker 16 (01:47:59):
Between I think I'm getting close to Enn. It's actually
just pasted in it. So I'm very close to Dallas
as we speak, and so far the roads are smooth,
so uh knock on wood hopefully continues that way for
the last forty five fifty minutes of this drive.

Speaker 3 (01:48:12):
Now, I'm not gonna I'm gonna tell a little secret.
You're driving with Gworte right now. Who decided to drive
and who is paying the gas?

Speaker 16 (01:48:21):
I am driving because I ended up getting the REDT
car and I don't use my own car on some
of these trips because I've got an old car that's
fourteen years old, got one hundred and eighty thousand miles,
and I'm trying to make sure that thing can survive
as long as possible. So I don't have another car
payment anytime.

Speaker 8 (01:48:35):
Food.

Speaker 16 (01:48:36):
Yeah, so I got the rental and the Athletic will
be paying for the gas after I after I submit
this proceeding, I get back to Houston.

Speaker 1 (01:48:43):
So basically, Georgie's got a free trip out of this.

Speaker 16 (01:48:47):
Yeah, kind of sort of he you know, on the
flip side, he keeps me occupied and you know we
we exchanged some istry secrets from time to time, so
you know, share some intel. So that's a little makes
it a little bit fun.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
Well, I want to know is uh he took when
he and I drove up to Dallas last year. I
think we were going to, oh the TCU game, and
fourth we stopped off and had great chicken restaurants that
he will take you to. I'm sure that they got
the family style babes.

Speaker 16 (01:49:14):
Yes, I love me some babes.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
Oh god, babes is so good. All right, to the
game itself. And by the way, thank you for joining us.
I know you've been slam slammed and it means a
lot to our audience. Sammy, give me a thought or
two about Look, Ohio State was beyond dominant against Oregon.
Did that come across a surprise to you and for
those that are Texas fans listening.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
What is it what makes Ohio State so good so
far in this postseason.

Speaker 16 (01:49:39):
Yeah, I think it's a few things. One, I think
they have a really good staff. Ryan of course, the
veteran head coach. We've got two really excellent coordinator, Chip Kelly,
who was of course a long time former head coach
at the college level in the NFL level, uh Jim
Knowles who was evens coordinated to Oklahoma State for several
years at one of the best defense in the country.

(01:50:00):
So they've got, in my opinion, the best roster talent
in the country. And you pair that with some really
smart coaches at the coordinator level, and I think they
just have unlocked the other gear. I don't know what
has happened since the Michigan lost when they really looked
like a shell of themselves, but this has been like
a rebirth, a real way for them. It's been a

(01:50:23):
whole new season. They dominated Tennessee in the first round,
and the way they beat Oregon, I was shocked. I
did not expect them to slap fer again around quite
like that. But what makes them so good is just
the level of talent that they have, how they deployed.
They're very smart about how they utilize their guys. And
it's also hard for an opposing defense to account for
all those guys. Because you've got a veteran quarterback and

(01:50:44):
Will Powered, You've got excellent receivers and Jeremiah Smith the
true freshman. You've got Mechabuka, who's would be a number
one receiver anywhere else. Jee's got the tied end.

Speaker 1 (01:50:53):
They got two really good.

Speaker 16 (01:50:55):
High level running backs, a good offensive line. They've got
they really don't have question marks on the offensive side
of the ball, and on despense, they can pressure you
with four without having a bullitz. I was watching them
against organ they were getting a lot of pressure on
Dylan Gabriel without having to send extra rushers, and that
makes it a lot easier people play on the back,
and so all the towns they've accumulated and spent money

(01:51:15):
on over the last couple of years, it's really paid off.
And why they're the favorite now to this point to.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Win at all. I want to ask you, because you
brought up the money and you look you do an
excellent job covering college football for the Athletic. Are you
when you and this is another thing in regarding the
game itself, and Ross is gonna get a couple of
questions in about the Texas side to second here. But
as you cover this sport now obviously a lot differently
than you did, say ten years ago, are you amazed

(01:51:42):
at the dollar amount you are hearing about? What is
being spent on just a general player, at the power
for institutions? And do you think there's any evidence of this, Quinn,
you were six, he's got six million dollar offers somewhere
or do you think that just internet rumors?

Speaker 16 (01:52:00):
Yeah, the amount of money. Yes, It's it's interesting to
hear some of these numbers because it was just a
few years ago before NIL rolled out in twenty twenty one,
that obviously wasn't allowed to do that. You weren't you
weren't not gonna allowed to pay players, and so it
went from when NIL first started, it was a lot

(01:52:20):
of endorsement deals things like that, but it quickly became
used as a recruiting tool, and it feels like that
money has gone up really quickly, especially now that we're
getting close to the revenue sharing era. If it's house
settlement gets approved in schools, can directly share revenue next year.
And there's this twenty twenty five million dollar cap for
all the schools that want to participate in it. That's

(01:52:42):
going to change what it looks like. And I know
when I talked to personnel people or gms at college programs,
they're going to structure their rosters in a similar way
to the NFL. They're going to put value at certain positions.
And a certain position is going to count for this
much of your half, as opposed to like an offensive

(01:53:02):
tackle or a quarterback or a defensive end is going
to be worth a lot more money than say a
you know, a running back or an interior alignment. And
so it is amazing to me a how quickly it's
changed and be how fast it's gotten up to the
level it is, and really where it has it lives
mostly in the transfer portal. As you mentioned with the

(01:53:23):
quinn Ewers rumor, I don't know how valid that is.
I mean, I think one three reported it a couple
of weeks ago. I'm sure there are teams out there
that if Quinn you Weres decided to come back, would
be more than happy to have it and would be
willing to pay a lot of money for him. I
am just I will tell you this. I have not
gotten any indication out of Austin or anybody around that

(01:53:44):
program that Quinn is going to do anything other than
go to the NFL. Now there, he'll still have time.
Whenever the season is over, he will have five days.
Everybody on the Texas team that is draft eligible will
have five days to make a decision to whether or
not to declare for the draft, and then they'll have
till February seven to full name out if they want to.
So there's still time for things to change. But I

(01:54:04):
just think he's thirty five starts into his career. I
don't know that it coming back to college for a
year is going to change how the NFL scouts view him,
because he's already got so much tape on him. I
think he is what he is, and with a really
shallow quarterback draft class where you don't really see a
lot of elite quarterbacks beyond that he can't award and
should or Sanders at the top, I think there's a
chance for him to actually go fairly high. I don't

(01:54:25):
know that he'd be a first round pick, but I
could absolutely see him go high in the second round
after he goes to the pre draft process, because he's
got first round tools that I think a scout will
fall in love with.

Speaker 1 (01:54:35):
Sam cong with us here on Sports Talk seven ninety
Ross with you as well, Sam, and as a Longhorn fan.
To me, I'm curious your thoughts if I picture a
scenario where the Texas Longhorns win this game. I think
it has to be with the run game. As you mentioned,
you know Quinn Eewers. Sometimes you can count on him,
sometimes you can't. Run game wasn't there against Arizona State.
They got off ninety seven plays. The defense was on

(01:54:57):
the field so much so it's too pronged. It helped
twin years, helps the offense and then also keeps the
defense off the field that they can get that run
game going.

Speaker 16 (01:55:07):
I agree with you one hundred percent if Texas is
gonna win tonight. The formula to me is a great
defensive effort and a strong running game. The four games
this year that they have had their lowest rushing totals
have been the ones they've had the most trouble. The
two losses to Georgia. They don't I don't even think
they reach fifty rushing yards the overtime double overtime win

(01:55:29):
over Arizona State. I think they ended up around fifty
or sixty rushing yards. And then the other lowest rushing
total was the twenty seven to twenty four win over Vanderbilt,
which they have to scratch claw to win that one.
So when they run the when they hit the one
fifty mark or get close to two hundred and Trey
Wisner and Jayden Blue are going and they're flowing, then
they control the ball.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
So much.

Speaker 16 (01:55:49):
The Sarkisan's offense is built off a play action pass
and so much of it can work and you can
hit those shots. Played a lot easier if the run
game is a threat, because you're having to commit a safety.
They're going to have to be looking in the backfield
for that. If Ohio State's able to shut that down early,
it puts it all on when you were shoulders, and
that makes it hard at any quarterback, not just when
any quarterback that doesn't have a run game presence, unless

(01:56:11):
you're Colorado and you just decide not to run the football,
which they did in a lot this year. Most teams
need that balance and and like you said, it helps
the defense because you're going to control the clock a
little bit more. Ohio States not going to play fast,
They're going to play ball control as well. So this
can be a game with not as many possessions and
so you're gonna have to maximize what they have. And
also having that running game going is going to help

(01:56:32):
you in the red zone, which at times in the
second half of the season, Texas hasn't been able to
starty punch it in the red zone from the as consistently,
and having the run game presence effectively will be able.

Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
To help that.

Speaker 3 (01:56:47):
Sam, thank you so much for joining us. Safe travels
my man. We really appreciate it. I'm so happy that
your career continues to be as successful as it is.
You're an excellent rider. You're better than Dwards ye, but
don't tell them that. And I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:57:01):
Hey, give me a final score on tonight's game and
wrap things up.

Speaker 16 (01:57:05):
Thirty four to twenty seven Ohio State. I think I
think Ohio State's gonna outlast them, and I think the
talent level and I just Textas hasn't been consistent enough
for my taste.

Speaker 1 (01:57:13):
I think they're going to do it.

Speaker 16 (01:57:14):
But if they do the things I said earlier than
they absolutely can't win this game, but I think go
State by touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:57:20):
Thank you very much, Samuel, Thanks very much again, best
dressed man at college athletics.

Speaker 1 (01:57:23):
At least from a reporting perspective, we appreciate your time.

Speaker 8 (01:57:27):
Thanks so much.

Speaker 1 (01:57:27):
You take care, you got it, sam Conn with the
athletic ross, we do want them on the show again.
Despite the fank he's got your squad losing bite. That's fine.
I mean, Ohio's really good, and that's what it'll come
down to. I feel like in your sports fandom, the
ones that you really look back on and are hurt
are painful are as teams that lose that you think
are the favorites. The nineteen Astros, the I don't know

(01:57:51):
that to the two thousand, well, we'll see what would
have happen with the two thousand and nine Longhorn. Stuff
like that. This is to me the Texans are rightful dogs.
Can they win? Yes, And I'm gonna be nervous, I'm
gonna be rooting hard. But it's not like it's some
scenario where you know, I think that the Longhorns are
gonna dominate and if they lose, I'll be devastated. All right.

Speaker 3 (01:58:09):
I found the nineteen eighty four rodeo lineup. It's okay,
but I think I can find like eighty seven may
be better. Okay, It's gonna run.

Speaker 1 (01:58:20):
Through a few of the history years of great rodeo
lineups and does it match up with what it could be?
In twenty twenty five, twelve forty five, Sports Talk seven ninety,
we have non Florida stories Ross today at one thirty.
Where's yours from today? Rossie? I think the outside of
the state of Florida, man, of course, all right, and
believe it or not today hell yeah or not is
google ble And that's where we're gonna leave it. All right,

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Speaker 6 (01:59:53):
Matt Thomas, Rossburiel, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (02:00:04):
All right, Rockets play the Hawks tomorrow, Rockets meet the
Grizzlies last night.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
We'll talk about that. We'll get into the Texans and Chargers.
We're looking for you guys to call your shot. We'll
do that at one o'clock as well. We got Non
Florida stories at one thirty and a very googleable edition
of Helly are not related to the Rodeo. At one
nineteen eighty four, Ross were Quick. The stars were Roy
Clark who he was the heathw co host. Okay, I

(02:00:32):
guess I missed those episodes. John Conley name sounds familiar.
I don't know his music, but I'm wishing him the best.
The Commodores, Oh, there we go before they broke up
or without Lionel Richie. They were broken up around then, right, yeah, yeah,
he was a soul artist at that point. Leeke Greenwood. Okay,
he played on Proud to Be Americans six times and

(02:00:54):
then got off the stage.

Speaker 3 (02:00:56):
Literally a one hit wonder. Whylon Jennings. Okay, Anne Murray,
she's a good one. I don't know her, Ray Price,
old school Eddie Rabbit, great sinn Eddie Rabbit, Eddie Rabbit,
and making her debut at the Rodeo in nineteen eighty four.

Speaker 1 (02:01:15):
Reba McIntyre. Wow, so she's been going there for forty years.

Speaker 3 (02:01:19):
All right, So let's do a couple of more here,
just for blanking giggles. Let's go to nineteen eighty eighty.
Okay with that, No, not too bad.

Speaker 1 (02:01:28):
Nineteen eighty eight.

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
Alabama, of course, Laura Brannigan, Gloria one hit wonder, no idea,
who that is?

Speaker 1 (02:01:36):
Emma Lou Harris, what Naomi Judd? Okay? The Jets, the Jets,
what do you mean? Like Benny and No just the
the I don't know what they were. They had a
couple of hits. The Juds went back when Wynona was thin,
So Winona came back. She went on stage and then

(02:01:57):
came back with the Jets. Yeah, Loretta Lynn sure Verry
freaking man a low baby. Oh wow, I heard he
was boot off stage. Ann Murray, Willie Nelson, all right,
now that's a good one. The Oakridge Boys, Okay, Restless Heart.

(02:02:18):
I don't know who that is.

Speaker 3 (02:02:19):
Kenny Rogers, the Kenny Rogers. Something called Sweethearts of the Rodeo.

Speaker 1 (02:02:26):
Sweetheart. That sounds like somebody canceled. And they're like, I
guess that's like five women that have had one hit
tunk combined. Yeah, I feel like there was a band
that canceled on them. They're like, I don't know, just
get the closest singers you can have. We'll call him, uh,
Sweethearts of the Rodeo. Tiffany, I think we're alone now.
One hit Tiffany I think she had two hits. She
probably thinks she had two.

Speaker 3 (02:02:45):
Randy Travis made his first appearance in nineteen eight eight, Wow,
Ricky Van Shelton, No Idea and something called Zapp featuring
Roger What you don't know.

Speaker 1 (02:02:57):
Zap and Roger? No, are you we've actually been what what?
Zapp and Roger had the hints?

Speaker 3 (02:03:04):
Maddie, Come on, man, all right, one more we're gonna
do here before the top of the air.

Speaker 1 (02:03:08):
Let's go to nineteen ninety four. Okay, Willie Nelson TG Shepherd,
who TG Shepherd? And then Randy and Randy Travis. That
was it for nineteen eighty four. Way, I mean more
than that. You never heard of Zapp and Roger? What's
what's their most recognunzable song? Tell me? I mean they
got a grape Vine was a great hit. More bounced

(02:03:31):
to the ounce? Uh do wa Diddy? Computer Love? You
gotta know computer love? All right? Nineteen ninety two, Waylon
Jennings Paylo LaBelle, Randy Travis, Hank Williams Junior. Yeah, here
we go. Well Zap and Roger for you, Maddie, crack
this up. You don't know this. He gets the people

(02:03:58):
going it does. Huh, Wait a minute, whats this is
a bad cover? Bad? All right? I'm not taking a

(02:04:18):
Barbi Gay song classic and making this out of it.
Oh man, it's classic. Oh yeah, this gets the people going.
It's no one going, you're a liar and you're wrong.
They're playing at the rodeo. Dad, Get somebody going, you're
playing right, you're right? My bad, my bad. Oh. I
know somebody's coming to call in to get you. I
think who. I don't know them? That's all right, all right, man,

(02:04:44):
I'm telling you you get get in your get in
your convertible bug. Put the Zapp and Roger got a
convertible bug at the house. Ironic, That's what I'm saying.
Get in your convertible bug, put the Zapp and Roger
greatest hits on. I'll sit in the passenger seat with you.
We're gonna be jamming.

Speaker 3 (02:04:58):
We've been in that car together before, you know that. Okay,
all right, we're gonna do one more. This is I
could do this for like an hour. It's not great sports.
It's not great sports.

Speaker 1 (02:05:06):
I think it's fantastic. All right.

Speaker 3 (02:05:09):
Let's take a look here. Who was in the year
two thousand This is going back twenty five years ago.
Merle Haggard, Naomi Judd, the Judds, Willie Nelson, Reba, Kenny Rogers,
why Nona, Steve Warner.

Speaker 1 (02:05:27):
I mean I felt like the hits were coming. Baby,
what happened? We got Brad Paisley this year? Okay, I
want to talk about I want to take the biscuit.
We got Brooks and Done and they're back, or they
were in eighty eight. No, I'm just saying we're talking
about twenty twenty five. Yeah, how are they doing? By

(02:05:48):
the way, they in good shape? Uh yeah, I mean
they're making the casino routes. That's good. Is it the original?
The original Brooks and Were done? They didn't have any beef,
did they? No? No, they're not hollow oats. That's good.
We got too many people that are having too much beef.
We got Lindsey Buckingham and Mac Fleetwood and Stevie Nix
all hate each other. Now, what's happened to our great bands?

(02:06:09):
They can't get along. I don't know. Drake and Kendrick Lamar,
I mean it's just too much. I mean Paul and John,
I mean, god, well they made it up before he
was shot dead. Correct, that's true. They did break up
fifty two years ago. Imagine the money the Beatles would
have made if they would have all would have been
able to get past all that, and then you know,

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unfortunate John didn't pass. I mean, they could have made him.
Oh my god, billions of dollars held, Paul making billions
by himself. Ringos sitting here. I got a bunch of
all stars, you know, getting Matt Thomas and his son
at one hundred and eighty five dollars dollars a ticket
to Vegas. Insane. You gotta quit that, Matt. That's fine.
I've got my good dad. It's like the keyboards from

(02:06:52):
el O and Ringo Star and like, don't forget the
lead singer for mister mister was on the group, Okay,
the bass player from Duran Duran. Hey, don't don't rip
on total either. I don't want to hear it from you.

Speaker 3 (02:07:06):
All right, final hour of the Matt Thomas Show, Call
your shot. We'll give you an update on what people
think it's gonna happen between the Texans and the Chargers
at three thirty Saturday at Energy Stadium, twelve fifty eight
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:07:20):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. What Old three
on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross, I'm hearing Atlanta
where people are still freezing thirty three degrees winterrey mix Ross,
as the kids would say, with freezing rain here in
the Greater Metro Oh what trim mix?

Speaker 15 (02:07:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (02:07:38):
This even Atlanta? Jaw Joe. Oh if you're flying to Atlanta?
No you're not. Oh maybe next Sunday, hopefully. What's what's
the merrit gonna fly? You cast you these days to
get to Atlanta. That's not terrible. You wear all your
clothes on your body, so you have to worry about
I mean, you get a backpack. I'm literally would be

(02:07:58):
going for two nights. I can fit everything I need
on I I just hate the fact that you'd have
to use a coin to open up the bathroom on
the back of the plane. That's fine. You know what,
if you want to upgrade me, I'm welcome to that. Man.
Do I owe you a gift of some sort? I
don't know if I do. No, I think I owe you.
That's fine.

Speaker 7 (02:08:17):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (02:08:17):
We're so waiting for the Bragmant contract. What's going on
with that we're gonna get that soon. It's I mean,
we're a month away from spring training. Let's got bore
Us had his handle for his client.

Speaker 1 (02:08:28):
Mmmm. I don't know. It's getting closer and closer. Do
you win in our bet? It's gonna be that short
term deal with Outdas. Why would you do that thirty years?
Just man, everyone is really holding a hard line. I
guess nobody's buying that he's that much better than Matt
Chapman and that the market reset with Soto. I guess yeah,

(02:08:53):
I'll say this, did Soto give people the impress that
Boris was just this incredible negotiator and that Soto was
this was the outlier on this and that everything else
that Scott Boris kind of miss misreads the crowd or
I mean, I can't know.

Speaker 3 (02:09:12):
I'm not gonna say that, but it kind of feels
like it. I don't know, because he didn't have a
very good offseason last year. A matter of fact, he
lost a client. Joran Montgomery hates the guy.

Speaker 1 (02:09:25):
Yeah, it seems like, yeah, the last couple of years
he's overplayed his hand, and that's why we made this
bet that did you with you you having the under? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:09:34):
But you know what, maybe maybe somebody will We'll bite
and say, all right, look, Bregmant's out there.

Speaker 1 (02:09:39):
It feels like there's not a lot of buzz for him.
Let's go in there and get him what he wants.
Let's sign him. What was the date of the Josh
Hater deal? I can go look January twenty second. That
felt super late in the game, and that's two weeks away. Yeah,
the catcher's reporting what but forty days give or take. Yeah,

(02:10:03):
mm hmmmm. All right, let's go to the phones. A
man who calls you on the Rockets wrap shows and
you just talked about him not not too long ago. Yeah,
appreciate Biscuit. It's almost like it's like the Biscuit Show
with Ross on the Rockets wrap. That is true. Good
afternoon to you. What's going on?

Speaker 11 (02:10:21):
Coogler math Cougar Math Man, I'll be getting on the
Lima in the morning, man, but I might.

Speaker 1 (02:10:27):
Have to take your black card back.

Speaker 9 (02:10:28):
Man.

Speaker 11 (02:10:28):
You don't know who Zapping Roger is.

Speaker 1 (02:10:35):
Let me tell you. I know who cool in the
gang is.

Speaker 11 (02:10:38):
Oh come on, man, come on, now, I know who is.

Speaker 1 (02:10:45):
Computer Love. I can make more bounce of the outs
more bounced to the outs.

Speaker 11 (02:10:53):
Come on, heard it through the grape vine. Your dad,
don't Hey, don't that is Barvin Gaye.

Speaker 17 (02:11:03):
Night.

Speaker 8 (02:11:04):
What's that other dude?

Speaker 15 (02:11:06):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (02:11:07):
There's been about five people doing that one.

Speaker 1 (02:11:10):
Hey the Ross.

Speaker 11 (02:11:11):
I'm gonna give your number Ross. Okay, fourteen fourteen slash
fifteen dealing with the rockets. Okay, fourteen shots in fifteen minutes.
Cam Whitmark, I wonder who that, yes, sir, and he
wondered why he's on the bench. Man, he just be jacking.

Speaker 1 (02:11:34):
Use me say that for next Friday and shot next Friday.
You're on the show. Now you're stuck. You got, you got,
You're on the open next Friday. Go ahead.

Speaker 11 (02:11:45):
You know what I'm saying. Jalen Green on his shot
twenty times, you know what I'm saying for twenty one.
This dude shot fourteen times at fifteen. He never saw
a shot he didn't like. That's why. That's why in
the fourth quarter yesterday, guess what we in the game.
He put Tate in instead of pitting with more. He's
behind Tate. Now, Man, you gotta do what the coach

(02:12:09):
till you to do. Man, you gotta be a team player.

Speaker 1 (02:12:11):
Man, that's all I'm say. Wrong, Thank you, Biscuit, appreciate it.
You were you out there selling Cam cam Whitmore to
the audience. I don't think so. I like Cam Whitmore.
I think he's good. He definitely was out of control
with the shot selection last night. There was a he
was he was like pull up mid range defense all

(02:12:31):
over him a couple of times. I think he went
to go try and hit a layup over Zach Edie
when he should have just stopped and kind of pass
the ball back out. Zero assists, by the way, three steals.
He's young, he's like, what twenty one years old?

Speaker 5 (02:12:50):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:12:51):
Yeah, he's only a second year. I mean played one
year at Villanehomp. Mean, he's twenty twenty one years old.
He's twenty. He will be twenty one in July. He's
got some he's got some tools. He's a good player.

Speaker 1 (02:13:02):
He's got some learning to do. Only shooting twenty nine
percent from three this year. By the way. Yeah, how
about I'll be finally hitting a three pointer yesterday. That
was good to see. That was nice. That was as
got a court. He never gets a corner. Look it
was a corner three. Yeah, Yeah, he's every time he
takes it three. There's like the hardest ones that the
above the break top of the key. Those are the
lowest percentage in basketball, and it feels like those are

(02:13:23):
the only ones he takes. Yeah, yeah, that's right. But
you know what, keep the rocket chatter going, Houston, Texas,
because like got news for you. Oh we got to
make our predictions. Hey, you said in an hour or
when we come back when we Okay, next thing, we
need some grandiose uhuh football prediction. Yeah, he'll play some
Zap and Roger. So am I really getting a foul?

(02:13:47):
I don't know. I grew up listening to I mean
my parents did it too, so yeah, maybe if he
didn't grow up with it, you didn't hear it. Yeah,
I mean it's not that I would avoid it. Yeah,
I mean my mom had the Zap and Roger Great
has Hit CD. I'm telling you, Matt, you put it on,
We're gonna have We're gonna be haing some jams. Is it? Uh?
Is it Bro's hanging out playing cards kind of music

(02:14:07):
in the background or is it in state music or
what it's hitting the dance floor? Music? Would could Connor
Dee cut a rug to it. Oh my gosh, he
would be moving and grooving. All right, you all right
over there, I'm just coughing worried about you. Oh geez.
All right, Matt Thomas has got the black lung. So

(02:14:29):
if you like to get in and help us out,
I don't even smoke. Seven one three He was in
the coal shab coal mine shafts over the weekend in Tennessee.
You like to get in seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety all right? Okay, great? Uh yeah,
my my eighties. Okay, is this more bounce? You haven't?
You haven't heard this, poor bounce? This sounds overproduced. Oh jeez,

(02:15:01):
you don't think Connor could chance to this? Just getting
the people going? Matt, give me Joanna by cooling the game?
Oh jeez?

Speaker 17 (02:15:15):
What?

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
Yeah, Ladies Night, give me some commodorees with or with? Okay,
you hate Zapp and Roger, It's fine, I don't hate it.
Just didn't do anything for me.

Speaker 3 (02:15:26):
Okay, give me, give me, give me rosk have Connor
give me Ladies Night by cooling the gang?

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
Why? Because that's the jam? What was I gonna do?

Speaker 7 (02:15:38):
Just?

Speaker 1 (02:15:38):
Okay? Met a net crap? You just played Wow, disappointing Matt,
Me and business. That's like somebody went into a record
studio and overly produced a song with a bunch of
mid singers. Me and Biscuit are disappointed in you. Yeah,
he Biscuits disappointing me mid singers. We're not talking about
the Beatles. Oh, here we go. It doesn't have to

(02:16:01):
be one or the other. I enjoy both. If you
only your choice of one, what you go with me
depends on the night. What if it's the lady's night,
I'm going to Zap and Roger turn it out. Oh yeah,
people are founcing out of town right now. Much better. Alright,

(02:16:40):
up next, we make our predictions and let's go. And
if we're gonna go with the eighties R and B early,
let's go with the Gap Band too. You want to
go with them? No, they're terrible sounds, overproduced? What do
you Why did Ranney mcaward come in the studio all
of a sudden, Hey man, think the Texas got a
shot this weekend? That's awful. You gotta be embarrassed you

(02:17:07):
brought it up. I wasn't trying to leave you and
Randy mckiboy. I wasn't what thirteen predictions are up next?
That's Sports Talk seven lunchtimers.

Speaker 6 (02:17:17):
Lunchtimers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:17:37):
Mister Jams, this is me listening to Magic one two
back in nine eighteen to two, listening to Magic one
two tonight with the Quiet Storms as you get you
on there, Matt, No, you don't know Zapp and Roger.
You can't be on one or two Magic? Can I
be on Sunny? Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (02:17:56):
You're more You seemed like more of a sunny guy.
A couple of things sports related. It could be the
mail Delilah. You know, I can people can call in
and give me their story. I like that, Melilah. Yeah,
that's that's not a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (02:18:16):
It would be Sampson would be the male Delilah. Correct.
Uh yeah, I could be the Herb of the peaches
and Herb. I like that.

Speaker 3 (02:18:26):
By the way, if you're flying to Atlanta, no you're not.
Eight hundred and ninety flights have been canceled.

Speaker 1 (02:18:32):
What is okay? So let's see the entire country on
the West coast is on fire and then everything else
is under ice.

Speaker 3 (02:18:38):
Correct, Basically that's today You're the al Roker of seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:18:42):
You just get the national weather forecast. Make it stop, Matt,
make it stop. By the way, speaking of LA, there
was a political pundit, Charlie Kirk. I don't know who
he is. I've never I just see his tweets occasionally that,
okay he is. I believe he is on the squarely

(02:19:03):
on the right. Okay, whoever he is, he doesn't he
thinks that this is a sign that maybe LA should
not host the Olympics. Hmmm, that if something like this
was to you know, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (02:19:20):
If you're if you're hosting the Olympics, aren't you always
gonna have some I mean every major metropolitan city unfortunately
goes through some sort of I don't want to say catastrophe,
but issues like wasn't there security issues in Guitar like
before they had the Olympics there? And yeah, I always
feel like every year, every every Olympic city has you

(02:19:41):
shouldn't go there because of this, or the stadiums won't
be structurally functionable and they're.

Speaker 1 (02:19:46):
Not ready yet and all that kind of things. Paris
is worried about terrorist activity. Well, I mean, what's what
what city is not is immune from any sort of
natural disasters of some sort. I mean, yeah, I don't know.
And this was like it was an this is an

(02:20:07):
unprecedented event. I mean, I'll be honest with you. I
didn't think of these terrible fires and think, well, the
Olympics should winner of the Olympics in there four years,
three year or three and a half, whatever it is. Yeah,
that didn't cross my mind. But people, a lot of
things don't cross my mind. I'm about to hear in
the now Sports RV. That's great.

Speaker 3 (02:20:31):
All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is time for us
to make our predictions. Do we have the appropriate music
for the prediction segment of the show?

Speaker 1 (02:20:42):
Do we? This is what we're going with. This is
this is a jam. This is great. Let's go with

(02:21:05):
all the games. This is our NFL prediction music. Yeah,
this NFL another show in the Rocketplace. Is gonna use
the song as a backer. It might be smarter than us.
Go ahead, that's right, let's go with all the games.
And oh my god, hey, you know what, we never
reviewed our pre season predictions. You want to look at
those yet? I mean we predicted divisions and stuff like that. Yeah,

(02:21:28):
all right, Well that would call advance preparation. What we
have it right here. I'll go ahead there, all right, Matt.
For the divisions, we both had the Lions. With the North,
Connor had the Packers. Okay. In the East, you had
the Eagles. I had the Cowboys. Connor had the Eagles. South,
you had the Falcons. I had the Buccaneers. Connor had

(02:21:50):
the Buccaneers. We all had the Niners. For the West. Oh,
and you had the NFC champions San Francisco, Go oh God.
I had the Ravens in the north, shout it outisodd.
Connor you had the Bengals. In the north. We all
had the Bills. In the East, we all had the Chiefs.
In the West, we all had the Texans. In the

(02:22:10):
South AFC South AFC champions. I had the Kansas City.
You have Cincinnata. Yeah, mine's not gonna hit. Connor has
Baltimore over the Texans. I had Kansas City over the Texans. Okay,
And well, let's basically whre we're stand right now. Super
Bowl Champions. Matt, you had the Bengals. You are eliminated.

(02:22:31):
Connor had the Niners. He is eliminated. I am still
alive with the Chiefs. Yeah, I'm very proud of me.

Speaker 3 (02:22:36):
All right, let's write these down real quick and then
again normally picked segments are terrible for sports radio.

Speaker 1 (02:22:41):
Nobody really cares. But we have great music behind us.
We can at least kill two. Okay, great, it's a
four hour show. It is a four show. We'll go
in reverse.

Speaker 3 (02:22:49):
Sure, Monday night game, real quick, all three of us.
Right now, Minnesota is a minus three against the Ramps.
The game has moved from Los Angeles to Phoenix. It
is is Minnesota minus three. I like the Vikings covering
the three points.

Speaker 1 (02:23:08):
I will go with the you know, I'll go with
the Vikings as well, four Kings, all three of the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (02:23:18):
Next on Sunday, Washington at Tampa Bay, Tampa Bay minus
the three.

Speaker 1 (02:23:27):
I will take the Commanders plus the three. Damn yeah,
this is that. I just don't get it. Buccaneers, aren't
they beat up on a bunch of bad teams? I
think did they not beat one playoff team all year?
I'm going to Commi's as well plus the three, and
I'm gonna go over on this as well. Okay, we'll
all worried about is the points for? But I see
what you're saying, I got you. What's your name on it? Man,
don't be scared. Let me scared. I'm just telling you.

(02:23:49):
Washington plus the three, I'm taking it. Connor, is the
Buccaneers given the three? Okay?

Speaker 11 (02:23:54):
Like it?

Speaker 1 (02:23:56):
Next? You got Green Bay and Philadelphia. I will take Philadelphia.
Month it's the five and a half. Mmm. I'm taking
the Packers to cover but lose close. Cant got it.
I'll take Philadelphia. Next. On Sunday, Bills Broncos, I will

(02:24:16):
take Buffalo giving the nine. It's gonna get spicy. I
think the Broncos can score in that bad Bills defense.
Josh Allen's gonna have to have a bunch of touchdowns.
I got the over and the Broncos covering a nine
lock in a week on a recording line on wg
I Buffalo sports Leader. Hm. Okay, Connor Strick, Oh oh,

(02:24:43):
look you there, Matt. I thought you were just enjoying
the sheryl in. I am enjoying it. I'll take the Bills,
all right. So Connor and I have the Bills view
of the Broncos. Yes, Steelers Ravens Baltimore minus nine and
a half at home Pittsburgh has been.

Speaker 3 (02:25:00):
Futured the last month. I will say, Ravens win close game.
I'll take Pittsburgh. I'll be all writing this down Pittsburgh plus.

Speaker 1 (02:25:13):
I'm with you. A garbage time score gets them within
the number. But the Ravens win, Ravens blow them out.
That'd be fun.

Speaker 3 (02:25:23):
Here rivalryes like this that have played each other a
bunch of times in the last few years. I just
think it's gonna be a closer game. Last, but not least,
Chargers minus three inside Energy Stadium three point thirty tomorrow,
Paramount plus.

Speaker 1 (02:25:40):
CPA Connor, you go first, Chargers. I will take the
Chargers given the Texans, the three doesn't matter the Chargers
minus t. Texans with an early score don't do much

(02:26:01):
till the end, and they have a bunch of field
goals as the clock hits zero. Kayami fairbar with the
forty seven yarder through the uprights. Texans win nineteen to seventeen.
What's up? Chargers win twenty four sixteen. I hate you,

(02:26:23):
that could happen. What there we go? I'm going with
the dog. Sorry, I'm just enjoying this. Cheryl Lynn, It's
been a funky Friday in the man time show. I
feel it is a funky Friday. I like it. And
the one thing we don't do in the song show
is sing, although I'm quite a crooner in the That's
what I heard. You were bringing the house down even

(02:26:45):
though like four people were in the house. Yeah it
was a small house.

Speaker 3 (02:26:47):
But I'll cut it down all right real quick before
we get the non Florida story. So let's talk to
our buddy Jacob seven ninety at one twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:26:54):
Hi, Jacob, Hey, I can't believe you'll know. I'm you know,
computer love.

Speaker 17 (02:27:01):
Roger was before his time, because computer it's a lot
of computer love going on now and these are these days,
and it was that.

Speaker 1 (02:27:07):
Was written in the eighties.

Speaker 17 (02:27:09):
But I got the Texas blowing them out by two touchdowns.

Speaker 1 (02:27:14):
Okay, so I'm going with seventeen twenty eight.

Speaker 18 (02:27:20):
So that's that's kind of twenty eight, all right. I
got I got seventeen twenty eight. Put me down on that,
and then I got the Ravens, and then I got
a Buffalo Ravens and DC Washington.

Speaker 1 (02:27:33):
That's that's all. That's all. I wantn't even predict on him.
I talked to y'all next week, man, all right, be good,
Thank you, Jacob. He's making a lot of good points. Man.
He did, what's the best point of the group, that
the Texans are going to win by fourteen, but then
he had him winning by eleven, so huh, yeah, it's
either twenty years old, it's either fourteen or eleven one.
Oh yeah, that's fine. All right. Time Now for some
non Flida stories, we'll have it for you next.

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Speaker 6 (02:28:55):
It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (02:29:01):
We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of
Florida and share them with the.

Speaker 1 (02:29:11):
People of Houston. It's time for non Florida.

Speaker 10 (02:29:23):
It's time for non Florida. Store on Coast to coast
will bring strange and wild.

Speaker 1 (02:29:40):
There's no alligator tales.

Speaker 6 (02:29:43):
But something that will make you smile.

Speaker 1 (02:29:49):
It's time for last from far and wild. In this
crazy world, there's nowhere ROSSI.

Speaker 3 (02:30:06):
Love has no boundaries, and that's the theme of my
non Florid story. This week, We're gonna go to waukesh
uh Okay, wauka Shaw, Wisconsin. I think it's how you
pronounce it, Waukashaw wacky shot a shot was.

Speaker 1 (02:30:21):
God they got bearing a brown Oh yeah.

Speaker 8 (02:30:25):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (02:30:26):
There's a couple that have been together on a few occasions.

Speaker 3 (02:30:32):
His name is Desmond Cleveland and he's twenty nine years old.
His lady, her name is Karen Hill, and she's sixty seven.

Speaker 1 (02:30:45):
Excuse me, yeah six, say those ages again. Desmond's twenty nine,
Karen is sixty seven. Wow. Love No, Love knows no age,
love knows no bound. Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
Well, last year they got in trouble for having sex
in the Waukeshaw County jail lobby. Okay, and that feels
like that's probably among the least attractive places to actually
express each other's love. Recently, and this comes up within

(02:31:22):
the last couple of days, they got caught again expressing themselves.
They were in a laundromat on Christmas Eve. When we're
having sex at the laundromat. According to the criminal complaint,
the owner of the Flash laundromat in Waukeshaw went to
police after seeing the two on security video lying under

(02:31:43):
a blanket on the floor. The owner kicked them out
and apologized to patrons. The complaint said that no time
the video are the two seen using the laundromat for
cleaning clothes.

Speaker 1 (02:31:55):
Wow. So they were fluffing and drying each other, but
not the clothes. Was there a spin cycle in there somewhere? Oh,
I'm well, it depends on how flexible she is.

Speaker 3 (02:32:09):
At sixty. It was probably a quick rinse and okay,
we're permanent press. Yeah, apparently they were making love in
the delicate cycle.

Speaker 1 (02:32:27):
All right, I'm tapped out. Yeah, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 3 (02:32:31):
Anybody else have any more wash your dryer beduts. We
will take yours on Twitter at sports empty again. The
story is my non floor story. Yes, twenty nine year
old Desmond sixty seven year old Karen arrested for disorderly
conduct or not bringing clothes to a washer, to a
laundromat to wash them or dry them, but simply find

(02:32:55):
a blanket and have sex in it some.

Speaker 1 (02:32:58):
Other thing, public thing. Yeah, clearly, clearly, clearly that's their jam,
and that, my friends, is my non Florida story. Okay,
I'm going next to we got to work, I believe
it or not, Matt, let me tell you about a
thirty year old woman named Sherry Villa Lobos via Lobos Santoyo,

(02:33:18):
Hi Share in Harris County, Texas. Apparently she was at
an Alta beauty store where she was shoplifting items valued
at over one hundred and eighty six dollars yikes. She
was caught shoplifting the items, at which point Harris County

(02:33:41):
Precinct four constables were called, where the officers located and
apprehended apprehended Miss Villa Lobos Santoyo following the theft Okay,
the six situation then took a turn. While she was
being transported to jail, the accused shoplift her made a
shocking proposition to a mail deputy in order to secure

(02:34:05):
her freedom. Reports say that she offered the deputy sexual
favors and cash in exchange for her release, an attempt
that ultimately failed to sway the officer. Do we know
what the exact offer was, we do not. Upon reaching

(02:34:27):
the county jail, Via Lobos Santoyo was formerly charged with
the shoplifting incident and bribery for her ill fated attempt
to influence the deputy so sex and cash to get
out of the charge. She had that much cash? Would
she be stealing one hundred and eighty six dollars worth
of makeup, which, by the way these pictures she wears

(02:34:48):
a lot of makeup. So do we have an update
on what she's doing right now? Is she's still in
the county jail. I don't know, Matt. Once you find
her on Facebook, Why do you think she's on Facebook?
Maybe she's in the igs of it. Could be probably
there with all this fake makeup and she got you know,
fake puffed up lips. Maybe I had a TikTok in
about a week or so, apparently the incident. Yeah, so

(02:35:09):
she is being she has been indicted for shop litting
and a bribery. Not sure where she is because this
happened literally yesterday, probably in the county jail. M propositioning
a cop with sex and money. Huh, Yeah, there you go,
At which point the cop reached for statements said I

(02:35:29):
wish I didn't have a body camp. No, I'm just kidding.
Hid in second, Oh my god, kidding. Wow.

Speaker 3 (02:35:39):
I've had a comments to my own stories that seemed
inappropriate that may have that will top anything I've ever
said in the last twelve months.

Speaker 1 (02:35:46):
I can tell you that for sure. And that's my
non floor story. Yeah, thank you Rossie for that. Involving sex, alcohol,
not alcohol, sex, money and cosmetics. Way, the flight total
cancelation now at nine to sixty at Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.

(02:36:07):
Let's go to a thousand, Let's go Atlanta, Let's drop
some more flights, Connor, what is your non Ford store?

Speaker 12 (02:36:14):
Skiers at a snowy Colorado resort were shocked to find
a car parked on one of the ski slopes. Police
said that a man took a wrong turn while following
his GPS, which apparently let him down a ski slope.
The man put the car in park and left it stranded.
Officers said they found a note on the window from
the driver explaining that he took a wrong turn and

(02:36:35):
ended up driving on the ski slope. Police managed to
get a tow truck to the slopes and safely recover
the car and returned it to the owner. So there's
a nice ending to your story after all.

Speaker 1 (02:36:50):
Yeah, he's probably a little panics driving down a ski slope.
Alcohol involved. Didn't say drugs. Can't rule it out, ellucigens,
he was in Colorado sniffing of bleach. It's all very probable.
You've been skiing, Connor. I have I enjoy it. I

(02:37:13):
think you've got to be really physically gifted to ski.
I just I have never tried it. Don't have any
interest in doing it, But man, it just feels like.

Speaker 3 (02:37:20):
It's you had to put a bunch of gear on.
You're very sore because you're moving at pirates of speed.
You're moving using muscles you've never used before.

Speaker 12 (02:37:30):
So I come from the like playing hockey when I
was younger, so it's kind of similar motions.

Speaker 1 (02:37:35):
I'm serious. If we get an NHL team, you are
official beat reporter. Oh yeah, I've already said that to
Gordy and he said, what, We're not give you any
more money to do it though. Oh. He was just
kind of like, yeah, we'll see what we'll see if
it happens, all right. Would you be okay if the
team was called the Houston Arrows or would you want
something completely different?

Speaker 12 (02:37:52):
The Houston Arrows would be cool even with the colors
and the logos that they originally had.

Speaker 1 (02:37:56):
Yeah, I don't know. Well, if I was a betting man,
I would belie they would not call them the Earros.
Would the Iowa wild still own that? I don't know.
That's a good question. I don't know, but I think
my guess is anybody that brings hockey in here they
want to have that, they want to be, They want
their name attached to it. Maybe they'll go Houston Hockey
Club for a year while until they figured out that's

(02:38:18):
what Utah has done the Utah Hockey Club for one season. Basically,
it was a quick grab and grabbing some uniforms for
you and they can change it makes some more money
that way. All right. That's it for non Florida stories.

Speaker 3 (02:38:29):
Up next, it's a highly googable edition of Hell Yeah
Not the categories things revolving around the Houston Livestock Show
in Rodeo.

Speaker 1 (02:38:37):
If you did not hear yesterday, they did announce their
celebrities of their artist for the two thousand twenty five
series of.

Speaker 3 (02:38:44):
Shows seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety.
If you want to join our conversation seven one three
two one two five seven ninety, it's hell Yeah or Not.
Final segment of a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas
jol Ross is straight ahead as you listen to Sports
Talk seven ninety.

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ninety your home for Houston Astros baseball cross. Are you
a believer in information provided by Jeff Ketchum? Yeah? Overall

(02:40:33):
he misses stuff sometimes, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:40:35):
He has soft played a little bit of breaking news
on the Longhorns. Okay, barring a change of direction in
the pregame eye, I'm told that junior Willstone will handle
place kicking duties for Texas instead of Bird Aubero.

Speaker 1 (02:40:50):
You think you're okay with it? Right? Sure? Why not?
And by the way, if if this will Stone has
to do anything tonight, Sarry, don't go talk to him,
don't give don't grab his helmet, don't give him a
high five, don't smile him. Just say, go out there
and do your job. Will Stone, two star kicker out
of Regent's School in Austin. He is a junior bird Albin.

(02:41:17):
Not a very minute, not a very enterprising man. I mean,
I wish, I mean, I'll hate Bird Auburn personally. Just
when he gets lines up the kick, I'm nervous teld
him that he has tremendous value in your life except
for the fact that he's a kick. I'm sure he's
a fine young human being. He's got great hair. Gotta
respect the hair absolutely, Ladies jump in. Five minutes left
to go in the show, what should we do? We

(02:41:41):
should play? Uh Merrick has fastest growing sports radio game show.

Speaker 3 (02:41:46):
Monday through Thursday, we called it be leave it Out,
but on Fridays we call it a hell yeah or
not that Here's how it works. You'll call seven one
three two one two five seven nunty seven one three
two one two five seven honty today's category and believe
it an out or hell at or not? Is did
this person ever perform at the Houston Livestock Showing Rodeo.

Speaker 1 (02:42:05):
If they did, you'll say this hell y.

Speaker 3 (02:42:08):
If they didn't, you'll say this not two helly airs
or not hell yeah or not? On a row on
whether or not this performer ever was at the Livestock
Shown rodeo. When your prize connor what'll we playing for today?

Speaker 12 (02:42:20):
Our final four pack of tickets with Pitt passes to
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some seven ninety t shirts.

Speaker 3 (02:42:27):
Seven one three two one two five, seven ninety seven
one three two, one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:42:33):
Kevin on seven ninety You're ready to play hell yeah
or not? Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:42:38):
Gene Autry played the Rodeo in nineteen forty two.

Speaker 1 (02:42:42):
Hell yeah or not? Oh yeah, there you go name
number two for the win. Cool. The Gang played the
Rodeo in nineteen ninety six. Hell yeah or not not?
Oh did?

Speaker 6 (02:42:57):
Were you not there for that?

Speaker 3 (02:43:02):
They played celebration like six times. Mike and Katie on
seven ninty Mike, You're ready to play hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:43:12):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:43:13):
Elvis Presley played the Rodeo in nineteen seventy Hell yeah
or not? Hell yeah? Quickly people, let's go. Yeah, you
gotta be faster. Donnie and Marie Osmond play the Rodeo
nineteen seventy nine. Hell yeah or not not? They didn't.

(02:43:34):
You're right and granted, ain't you?

Speaker 3 (02:43:38):
Jeff on seven ninety Jeff, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?

Speaker 16 (02:43:44):
It's all over here about the ass.

Speaker 1 (02:43:48):
When Roth all right, I'll take that as he dropped.
All right?

Speaker 17 (02:43:55):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (02:43:56):
John on seven ninety John, ready to play hell ya
or not? Hell Yeah? Enrique Iglesias played the Rodeo in
nineteen ninety nine. Hell yeah or not play it hell
yea name number two for the way. And Ricky Martin
played the rodeo in two thousand and twenty two. Hell

(02:44:19):
yeah or not not hell Yeah? He was Rossy Levita
live in Levito Loca. Yes he was all right. Kind
of prop of that. Pull Dennis on seven nine. He's
ready to play helly aa or not.

Speaker 15 (02:44:37):
Hell Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:44:38):
Casey in the Sunshine Band played in nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 1 (02:44:43):
Hell yeah or not.

Speaker 16 (02:44:47):
Hell yeah, hell ya.

Speaker 1 (02:44:49):
Bob Dylan played the rodeo in nineteen seventy six. Hell
yeah or not hell yeah, No chance La.

Speaker 3 (02:45:00):
He missed the tambury. Bob Dylan the most overrated singer
in the history of music. Don't fight me, uh, Josh
on seven ninety Josh, you're ready to play?

Speaker 1 (02:45:13):
Hell yeah or not? Hell Yeah. Stevie Wonder lay the
rodeo in twenty eleven. Hell yeah or not not not
last one for the win. Wayne Newton laid the rodeo
in nineteen seventy two. Hell yeah or not. I'm gonna

(02:45:35):
go with not hell you. I'm sorry Ross, I like
that category. That's a good one. Dounca Shane, You're welcome.
Wayne Newton has an axtile in Vegas. I mean I
make fun of Berry Man alone, but Wayne Newton's got

(02:45:56):
I mean, if he performed fifty two years ago, how
old has Wayne Newton got to be at this point?
Are you sure it wasn't animatronic Wayne Newton? You mean
AI No, like a Chuck E cheese. Oh what will
be the character's name? That's what his face looks like. Anyways,

(02:46:17):
you are so rude? All right, Rockets tomorrow against the Hawks,
Texans and Chargers. What a Saturday?

Speaker 3 (02:46:25):
And Ross you get the final twenty seconds about your
belover Longhorns quickly.

Speaker 1 (02:46:30):
I hope they win. Texas versus Notre Dame would be
a classic college matchup for the championship.

Speaker 3 (02:46:38):
Everybody, have a great weekend. Up next to the biggest
Wayne Newton fans. I know it's Adam Clinton, Adam Wexer.

Speaker 1 (02:46:44):
They are tea on Sports Talk seven second
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