Chandler Rome Joins the Show Assessing the Astros Quiet Offseason as Texans Prep For Raiders

Chandler Rome Joins the Show Assessing the Astros Quiet Offseason as Texans Prep For Raiders

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Ten or One Night's Down. Good morning, and welcome to
a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Today,
I'm in New Orleans, Louisiana. Worry Tomorrow night the Rockets
will take on the New Orleans Pelicans. I want to
think of New Orleans. I think of one man, not
Chris Gordy, but LSU's own channel, Rome Channel. How the

(00:29):
hell are you?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm very jealous that I'm in Houston, Texas and you're
in New Orleans. That doesn't seem like a fair trade off.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Now, wait a minute. You tell me every time you
go to Vegas? Do I get mad at you? I
mean sometimes, yeah, I do? I actually do. Yeah? You?
And then you tell me about all your fancy life.
I mean, I love a fancy lifestyle channel. I ain't
gonna lie. But the things you send to me, and
you can make public what you want, you do quite
well for yourself. When you're in the these towns of debauchery. Well,

(00:58):
I mean, why else am I there? Like you? Well,
you might as well live it up like that's right?
Why go to Yeah? That's right? How are you? You
were bouncing around the General Managers meetings and the Winter
meetings a good time had by all? Is it basically
just a bunch of guys standing around and then you
go out and drink till three o'clock in the morning
and then see who's talking business and who's not.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yes, that that is essentially with both the GM meetings
and the winter meetings.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Are you.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It is a lot of standing around, It's a lot
of walking, Like you make laps around the lobby, around
the resort, wherever the place is, wherever the thing's being held.
Do you just make lapse and hope that you run
into somebody that you know, and occasionally you do, But yeah,
it just becomes a test of wills, like do you
want to stand around for thirteen hours? And how much
do you want to drink at night? And how much

(01:46):
do you want to wait until the right people get
the right amount of liquored up to start to really
hear what's going on. But, uh, it's a it's a lot,
it's burdensome, it's tiresome. I'm glad I've had a couple
of days to decompress a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
Yeah, and how how's that athletic expense account? I mean,
and somebody says, hey, let's go have a COCKCOI. Yeah,
I thought I's got to pick up the tab on
it right. Dinner with Source, that's all.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
That's the that's the greatest designation and known to mankind
in expense reports that it's the best.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Shanna's going to hang out with us for a couple
of hours, and obviously we'll talk quite a bit about baseball,
because he's one of the premier baseball writers in his country,
only locally but across the country. Well, it makes it
a couple other things, including U. Last night I found
myself being old for the very first time. Normally, when
we go to a city where there is a casino,

(02:33):
I'm there within forty five minutes, and especially here in
New Orleans, where i'm literally I can see Caesars from
my hotel room. So the sign of me being old
was last night. We got into New Orleans fairly late.
We left Denver late late yesterday, went and had dinner
on Bourbon Street and then, oh, why why did you
go to Bourbon Street for dinner? Because I didn't choose it,

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it was it was chosen by me somebody else. It
was fine, And then I passed the casino up and
went to my room and went to bed. I'm serious.
I don't know if I'm losing my touch, but I've
disappointed myself. I've disappointed my family, and actually my wife's
very happy about it, because you knows, sometimes the things
don't do well. But I just it was a signed

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But I will take of this because I'm going to
rally as you would expect me to channeler at two
oh one when the show's are worth today, I will
be across the street, hopefully h winning and getting Butler
service at some point, Hey, spos, I gonna take Oh. So,
last time we're at dinner and in the restaurant, it
was on a sports bar. It was saying legitimate New
Orleans restaurant. It had about ten or eleven TVs. All

(03:36):
of them were on last night's Montgomery Alabama Bowl. I
think it's the Salute to Freedom or Salute to Service Bowl.
I don't know what the hell it was. It was
Troy versus Kenasau State, and I'm sure you watched quite
a bit of that, right Oh, I was locked in
every play? Yeah yeah, right, So no one had the
NBA Cup game on, and I'm I'm and the guys

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in my part and were like, Hey, I'm gonna surprise
nobody's got any said, well, first of all, it's streamed
on Amazon. And secondly, I don't know if New Orleans
would be considered a robust NBA city. But it made
me think about this, and I know that the world
of sports, including the sport that you cover, primarily baseball,
is going to go to a much heavier streaming package.
We've seen it ear in the NBA. We're seeing NFL

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games on Christmas, we have the Amazon Prime games on Thursday.
But there is a segment of the population that might
watch something at a sports bar or a regular bar
that's not going to tune into it. And I thought
last night was a pretty strange indication. Every one of
the televisions on in this restaurant we were on had
these Montgomery Alabama ball and no one was watching it.

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But you would think maybe a glimpse of an NBA
game would be cool, and I think, really the NBA,
and look, I love the NBA, I love basketball, I
love the Rockets, but this streaming is going to take
some viewers out of this. And I know that all
these different networks are trying to boast about their great
viewership numbers and Netflix and Prime and things up and up,
and but there's a huge stegment of the population that
sports bar or that restaurant crowd that's never going to

(05:06):
see these games because they're streamed in these these restaurants
are not going to spend extra money to stream games
when it's probably a pain the ass when to get
those TV those games and the TV to begin with.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'm not sure that I'm not sure that what happened
last night maybe is an indictment on the whole operator, because,
like I think what you said at the beginning that
New Orleans is not the the NBA destination. I mean,
I think if you look at the crowd you'll see
in the blender tonight, I think if you look at
the product on the floor, and I think if you'll
look at just like the NBA is down the rung
of importance in New Orleans. I think if you were

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in a place where the NBA was more prevalent, was
more popular, they would have like found a way to
get the Cup game on maybe some television because streaming it.
Because I just think New Orleans is like checked out
on any NBA anything.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
And probably sports in general because the Saints suck too, so.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Right or I mean they're just they're airing Lane Kiff
and infomercials for for fifteen hours, which I'd endorse.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
I would. So you are and where did you grow up?
I grew up in bat Rouge. Okay, so as a
young channel Rome. How often would you run to New
Orleans or were you guys that stayed in batter Rouge
most of the time.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
As I got older, Like when I was growing up,
like my family, like we didn't go to New Orleans much,
But as I got older, like yes, like Marty Grass
became more prevalent in my life. Just being able to
hop over. I mean it's a you can make it
under an hour if you leave at the right time,
when you know where you're going. It's less than an
hour from batter Ridge, New Orleans. So yes, I seized
advantage of that multiple times as I got older. But

(06:39):
I wouldn't say it was like an every weekend thing
or even in every other weekend thing. Maybe like once
a month, once every couple months.

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Were you destined to go to LSU or did you
have you think about the place besides there?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
You know, it was weird and Matt like, I mean,
you've got you've got kids that are around college age,
like you maybe you can relate to this as a parent,
But like for me, like I wanted to like kind
of get away a little bit because I grew up
in bad rouge, right, I grew up like in LSU's backyard,
and so I always had this feeling that like college
means you get away, right, like you you go start
a new somewhere else, and like you just all new surroundings.

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And then kind of once I started, I looked around,
like I looked at Tulane, I looked at some other places.
But you know, once I kind of got the feeling that,
like I can still like start a new while still
being in a place I grew up, Like while I
can balance both of those things, Like it became a
little bit easier. But I was actually like really hesitant
to go to LSU at the beginning, just because like
I had this like thought in my head that college

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needed to be like you get away, right, like you
go somewhere new, and I'm it's the best decision I
ever made one LSU. Like, don't get me wrong, but
early in my picking process, my selection process, like that
was something that just stuck with me, and I'm glad
I kind of pushed that to the side a little bit.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, I'll say, with three kids, two of which are graduated,
my oldest went to Texas Tech and loved West Texas
now West Tech. People that go to Tech me either
you love it and you can't stay there long enough,
or you can't get away fast enough because you're so
far from home. I mean, nobody's from Lubbock in theory,
based from somewhere else. But my oldest son loved it.
My middle son was destined to be an Aggi and

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that was always going to happen. And my daughter was
going to chase her volleyball dream and as a matter
of fact, Channel let you know, I didn't send her
to LSU's volleyball camp and she did not have a
great time. So I tried to get the tigers in
the Thomas family but was unsuccessful. But my point is
on the LSU side is so you have watched this,
and I don't know how big your fandom is. I

(08:32):
mean I look at your tweets and I mean you
bring up some LSU occasionally, but it's not like you
inundate with oh, I can't wait for us to beat
X y Z team or I can't wait for this guy. So,
as you are a fan and part time observer of
the college sports and obviously a full time reporter, how
did you think the whole situation with a link Kiffin

(08:53):
is as an alum thinking about this coach who obviously
moves along from place to place to place. He does win,
but he does have, let's basically say, some character flaws.
What was your take of the entire LSU situation Lane
Kiffinn come in there.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
I thought the lead up to it was just so embarrassing, right,
it was just so Louisiana. It hurts with the governor
doing what the governor did with pushing out the age.
I thought the lead up to it was embarrassing and
just poorly handled, but I can't complain with the end result.
I think we should cherish, we being the LSU collective,

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we should cherish to two and a half years, Lane
Kiffin will be in baton Rouge because he's gonna do
this again. He's gonna do exactly what he just did,
leaving ole mess like he has never left a place amicably.
He's never left a place normally, and I firmly believe
when people tell you who they are, listen, and this
is who he is. So when Texas fires Sark in

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two and a half three years, or when Alabama needs
a coach, or when the Cowboys need it, like, he's
going to leave, He's going to get a better offer
somewhere else. He's gonna go chase what's next for him.
And that's fine. I'll relish the two and a half
to three and a half years that that LSU has.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Him, because my guess is he's gonna win. I mean
he winds.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, I will say this, what has he won? Like,
he's won a bunch of regular season games, Like he
has not appeared in a conference championship game. This will
be his first playoff appearance, and he will not appear
in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
That's the only thing that kind of gives me pause, right,
is that he hasn't won anything. And to make this
much hoopla about someone that, quite frankly, at this point
in his career, has not won anything, it's a little weird.
But the hope is that with the resources and the
commitment and the alignment and the money that lsu is

(10:50):
going to pour into everything that that can get him
over the top.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
But who knows. Well, I want to say it this
and we do make fun of say Louisiana for a
variety of things. I don't want to hear about how
poor Louisiana is anymore. Spend them. If the governor is
getting intimately involved in this, you know wh where the
money is coming from and how he's going to be
paid out.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
If they this this whole saga has shown me like
if they if they need to find the money, they can.
If they want to find the money, they can't. All
this talk about them we don't have money. Like when
they want to do something, when they're motivated, they can
find the money.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
All right. So we got a lot of things to
get to as channel's with us till noon and then
I will take it solo between noon and two. As
a matter of fact, coming up later in the show
around one thirty, Andrew Catalan, who works for CBS Sports,
is going to call the Texans and the Raiders game
this Sunday on CBS and he'll join inst at about
one thirty this afternoon and we'll talk to him about
the game this week. That he calls, we will be calling.

(11:41):
And the game he called last week, he did call
Philip Rivers return in the Indianapolis Seattle games. If you
saw that game on CBS's past week and I heard
the voice, it was Andrew Knlon. He'll join us. Come
o up at eleven thirty today we'll have our regular
Wednesday Future shut your ball mass up. Anybody good time
for that. This will be what Channeler loses his virginity
in this segment because only he's ever called or done
anything on this So I look forward to that. We

(12:03):
will also get to a lot of baseball as Look,
the Texans are on the practice field against the Raiders.
They're gonna kill the Raiders this week. So it's not
I'm not going to do a deep dive. I'm gonna
discuss uh twenty hours of Texans Raiders preview.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
The NBA did say they were sorry about three calls
that were missed last a couple nights back in that
game against Denver, So we'll get to a little bit
of that. The NBA Cup.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (12:25):
I think there's a collective who cares around America. Charles
Barkley said as much. Just a couple of days ago,
but I do want to get into some baseball chatter
because that's what Challenger's prime focuses, as he is the
beat writer for The Athletic on the Astros and also
covers the sport as a whole. Seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI. If you want to chime
into the conversation today, seven one three two one two

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five seven ninety. It's ten thirteen. It's a Matt Thomas
show with Ross. Our friend Channel Rome is stepping in
today for a couple of hours. I'll be with us
again tomorrow from ten o'clock until noon, and we look
forward to talking with you again. It's seven one three
two one two five seven NINTI. I'm here in New
Orleans and this is sports seven ninety because we as degenerates,

(13:06):
do what we do. Ross and his brother were in
Lake Charles yesterday and they made it rain. Congratulations with
both those boys. They showed me a video of several
hundred dollars in bills on their bed, which is nice.
And uh, that's what bros do. When we go to
Lake Charles, or in Las Vegas, or to New Orleans
and win. If we lose, we just kind of tuck
and run away and don't talk about our experiences. Chandler

(13:28):
Rome has done that a few times in his life.
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Chandler, with
us in our Houston studios. I'm here in New Orleans
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninti Uh, I
know that you're a big Quinn yours fan of Chandler
Ward coming out this morning that he will start for
the Miami Dolphins this week.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
So I know no one cares about personal fantasy football issues.
I needed devon a chain to get I think I
needed twenty points from him on Monday night to get
into the uh super Bowl of my league. He scored
seventeen points. And I'm blaming to a tongue of Iloa
totally because God, he is terrible. He's terrible. I had,

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like I had I watch. I'm like a very casual
NFL follower, Like I didn't know Pete Carroll was the
Raiders coach until last day. He will be very long
like i've i've I did not know he had gotten
that bad. Like I watched that game beginning to end
and I was like First of all, I watched him,
I was like, how are the Dolphins still contending for

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a playoff spot?

Speaker 2 (14:31):
And then like, man Tua was? That was rough to watch? Well,
it's a byproduct again, And we talked about this a
little bit with CJ. Now, not to the level of Tua,
because Tua has been hurt and bad as compared to
CJ has been occasionally hurt and occasionally erranic. But when
you tie a lot of money into a quarterback, especially
on a second contract, hed better be good because if

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he's not. First of all, you're sitting there with a
guy paying a crazy amount of money. And secondly, it
hampers your other positions because you spent so much money
on one position. And I've always and Ross and I
argue about this. I think there's got to be a
way to put some sort of salary cap on a quarterback.
But you really can't because he is the most important
player on your team, and you go as far as
your quarterback goes. But the discrepancy between the quarterback and

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say your left tackle or your number one defensive end
or your number one receiver is significant. And Miami as
long as they keep two on the books and This
could go for any NFL team. The a lot of
money you spend can really hurt you. I mean, Trevor
Lawrence makes a lot of money for the Jacksonville Jaguars
and they're good this year. But by and Larden's they
have had issues being good and he hasn't been great.

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And so when you have a mid to below average
quarterback making thirty five forty forty five fifty million dollars
a year, you're screwed for a long period of time.
I'll say this, Devon A. Chanin's really good. He's awesome.
I have him in my Fantasy League two.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
I mean not even just because I had him on
my Like I've watched him, like watching him play.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Like he's like he's very very good.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
So like that has to help, right, Like he's and
like there's still surround like Jalen Waddles on that team,
Like they've got guys around him that should be they've
got guys around two of that that team.

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Should be better than it is.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
So yeah they're And that thing about me, I'm in
the playoffs. We have a uh we play fifteen regular
season games and we play two playoff games. I'm really
scared to death, and I gotta talk to doctor Roto
about this. On Friddy, I I don't want to. I
don't want to liter my team full of players that
aren't gonna be playing for anything. I mean, I got
eight Chain going this week, which obviously I have to
because he's one of the best running backs in the league.

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But who's to say that they're gonna rest him or
not trying to get him hurt? I mean Miami's toast.
I mean it could be for a lot of different
people in the NFL. If you've got Jamar Chase of Cincinnati,
they're not going to the playoffs. I mean, how much
is he gonna be vested the rest of the season.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
If they're already benching to a then like that should
just tell you that they're going to there. They've moved
past the trying to win stags, Like, all right, right,
let's evaluate, let's see what we got for next year,
Let's see who we want to bring back, things like that.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, so at least some of the playoffs. I'm happy
about that. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
We'll get to more big picture Astros up. But I
know that you reported a few minutes ago that Martin
Maldonano is going to the Atlanta Braves as a special assistant.

Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, good for him. Good for Maldonado, who I know
is a polarizing figure among among Astros fans and things
like that. But this has kind of maybe the first
step in his post playing journey. You know, I think
he's long been viewed as a guy that's going to
be on a whether whether he is a manager or

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whether he is like a bench coach or something of
that effect. Like he's probably like the next like because
I don't know if you've noticed Matt like the way
major league managers now are being hired, Like Steven Vote
with the Guardians was I think two years out of
playing and they hired him as their manager. He's back
to he's one back to back manager of the years,
taking the taking the Guardians to the playoffs two years

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in a row. Kurt Suzuki who retired like two years ago,
he's a new manager of the Angels. You're seeing a
trend of younger managers that are just off the field,
that have just finished playing, that maybe have a year
or two under their belt of experience elsewhere. I think
Maldonada will be next in line for that. He will

(18:17):
be you will hear his name for managerial jobs maybe
in the next two or three years. And I think
this is just a first step for him to see
maybe how franchises work from a ten thousand foot view
as opposed to being in the clubhouse and a player.
I think it's a good first step from I think
it's I think it's an organization that the Braves are
very very well thought of in the game as a

(18:39):
well run organization that does things the right way, that
have a good blend of analytics and feel, and I
think it's a good.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
Spot for him to start his post playing career. Well,
the reality is this, and we've seen this probably for
about thirty years in Major League Baseball. We're seeing catchers
left and right getting managerial jobs. Now, some do work,
you know, Mike Sosha, don't work Brad Ostmas. So it's
out the owner. But I mean, you guys have been
talking about this forever, that Maldonado can carry himself and

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that and let's face it, for all the things that
people didn't like Dusty about it, Dusty was very very
adamant that Martin got his fair share of playing time.
And I don't know if it's because of the intangibles.
Certainly wasn't the bat, wasn't his glove work towards the
end of his career. But there's something comforting about a
guy on a field, And this could be for any

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sport that can be your unofficial coach while still competing
on the field itself.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
And it's just the way that maldon I don't think
we did a good job maybe as reporters covering the
situation of like articulating, like how what Maldonado the difference
he makes on the field and just the things he
sees and the things he can pick up from behind
the plate, the things he's able to maybe control a
game in a different way, And those things are sometimes

(19:55):
hard to quantify, hard dark Like you can't find a
stat for that. You can't find a stat for ma
Donado being one of the smartest and savviest players in baseball,
Like there's no there's no stat on Baseball Reference for that.
But believe me, it matters, Like it matters when there's
comfort from the picture, It matters when there's guys on
the field that you know. Look, I don't say this pejoratively,

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but Martine Mamma's reputation in the game like he is, Like,
people get kind of nervous when Maldonada's on the field
for no other reason than they know how savvy he is.
They know things he can pick up all legal and
I'm not saying anything the fairius is going on, but
they know the things he does very well, and he
just his presence can be I don't want to say

(20:40):
a distraction, but his presence can certainly like put the
fear into some opposing teams that, oh, man, like we
got to be on our stuff, We got to button
up everything, because this is a guy that if we
have anything showing, if we have any sort of weakness
or things, he'll find a way to see advantage of it.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
All right, Dad is channel Rome for the athletic He's
with us for the next ninety minutes. If you'd like
to be a part of the sh Joe, come on
in and do so at seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Uh. We've still got a lot of
things to get to, including the rockets got three. I'm
sorryes in the NBA yesterday. Uh Ima Adok at this
point has not been fined.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
So I love that guy. Man, can we talk about it, like,
let's talk about that later. I love that dude. Yeah,
let me let me.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
I want to go over your quick kind of astros
off season to this point, but we'll do before the
top of the ur because I do think it's worthy
of it. And uh, you know, look, I I get
a chance to talk to him every game. We do
a weekly visit with us. He'll be with us on
the show tomorrow. He don't mess around and he is
the kind of how do I put this, Uh, there
is no filter and I think he has like a

(21:44):
budget chandeler. I don't know if other managers do as well,
other coaches that like, all right, I'm I'm making X
amount of million dollars per year. I'm going to set
aside two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for fines because
I think that's when he gets it. And he knew
he was going to get fined or he's going to
get fined. He knew what he was going to do,
and he took out some bodies, certainly yesterday seven one
three two one two five seven nineties, Jennero from the Athletic,

(22:07):
whether it's in studio in Houston. Matt Thomas with you
from New Orleans seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety. We will get to a variety of things
in going the rockets, getting the two minute report yesterday,
which I don't even know if they should do that
because it doesn't make anybody feel any better. We will
get to the Texans and the Raiders throughout the course
of the show, including coming up today at one thirty
Andrew Cantalan from CBS going to join the show we

(22:29):
believe or not. At one fifty we have shut jo
bum ass up. At eleven thirty, we'll look forward to
seeing what chandlers are grapping about these days. But before
we go to the phones at seven one three two
one two five seven NINTI all right, when do we
get to this infield decongested Channer Rome. I don't know
if you will. I I don't know.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
I think I'm gonna be one of those reporters that
I hate right now.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I wouldn't be surprised, I'm gonna I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Be surprised if something gets done before the holidays, before
they like shut the all office down for the holidays,
just because you know, that's that's kind of been Dana's mo.
Remember they they signed Christian Walker like around this time
last year and the press conference was the day before
Christmas Eve. I remember that, So Dana's got there's precedent

(23:17):
here of Dana wanting to maybe get something done before
the holidays. They've got a lot of and no one
wants to hear this. They just want to hear, like
what's going to happen? Like definitively, I don't think they
know yet. I think they have a lot of irons
in the fire. I think they're talking to a lot
of different teams about a lot of different possibilities on
the trade market. As I have reiterated, and as basically

(23:39):
everyone that covers the team is reiterated, I would imagine
that most of their off season work will come via trade.
And so because of that, I mean it it's it's
harder to pull off a trade than it is to
just sign a guy to a free agent deal. Like
if you if you give the guy what he wants,
like you sign the guy and it's done. When you're

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negotiating a trade, like the other side can can counter
and things like that, like it's a little more difficult
to pull off a trade when you've got another team involved.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
So I think they are.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
They are actively discussing trades for starting pitching, and that's
been the that's been their their goal all season.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
There's been their goal all winter.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I should say they need young, controllable starting pitching. That
is what they want, that is what they're looking for.
We have talked about the areas that they can trade
from this team. What happened at the Winter Meetings didn't
really change my viewpoint. It only reinforced that. I'm just
not sure there's going to be enough at bats to
go around. If, as Joe spot Is said at the

(24:44):
Winter Meetings, Jose al Tuve is playing second base more
often than not, and if jord And Alvarez is dhing
more often than not, I just don't know how you
spread enough at bats around the Estac Paradus and Christian Walker.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
There's so many questions. I've got to ask you. First
of all, what do we know about east sak Predes
his hamstring?

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (25:02):
And I don't know if the astro has been forthcoming
they don't have to say anything, honestly until somebody really
ask about it. But I mean, are we expecting him
to be ready to go for the start of spring
training and or the start of the season.

Speaker 3 (25:13):
Every indication that Dana Brown gave us at the winter
meetings is that he will be a full go when
spring training starts. We did ask whether he'll play in
the WBC for Team Mexico. It sounds like that's a
little more up in the air. I wouldn't be surprised
if just out of an abundance of caution, they don't
allow him to do that. But every I mean, we
asked straight out, will he be ready for spring training?

(25:34):
He said they expect him to be a full go
when they report to West Palm Beach in February.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Okay, that's that's obviously a good sign, because I would
think if you are trying to throw him out there
as a trade chip, that they're going to be obviously
want to look at some X rays and medicals and
that whatnot. Then it feels like to me, and maybe
I'm missing a couple of people in the mix, that
Zach Cole and Jacob Melton are going to have not
necessarily the bulls eye him. But man, a tremendous amount

(26:01):
of pressure on those two young men, especially if and
when Jake Myers gets traded.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Yeah, I kind of the way I view this is
I kind of listen to what these guys say more
than you know. Just it's no coincidence that Dana Brown
and Joe Aspota have spent the last month and a half, unprompted,
really hyping up Zach Cole, like really hyping him up
without even being asked, just oh, yeah, this is a
guy that we want to give a long look at.

(26:27):
It just shows you that they want to create a
way to get him on the team, to have him contribute.
And Joe reiterated at the winter meetings a couple weeks
ago that his philosophy has not changed. If you're going
to carry a young player like that on the team,
Joe wants to give him every day at bats. There's
and again, all that smoke being there just reinforces the

(26:51):
fact that that Jake Myers is probably the most likely
guy to get traded because they feel they can backfill
that They feel they can back fill his production with
what they have internally. This is the highest Jake Myers's
value will probably ever be so they need to strike
while the iron's hot. And the other thing that I
really don't think many people are talking about is like
Zach Cole is also a left handed hitter, and this

(27:13):
team doesn't. I mean, has Jordan alvarezon that's it. They
lost Victor Kartini in a free agency, like they need
the balance, and I think adding another lefty bat in
there is certainly something that they're that they're that intrigues
them about why another reason why Zach Cole would make
a lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
All right, let's go to the phones and we'll talk
more about this throughout the course next to hour and change.
But let's say hi to Gym on seven hint and
ten forty Jim, Good morning.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
Hey guys, how you doing. I just wanted to talk about.
Is it the kid from Chicago we got.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
In the Tucker deal.

Speaker 7 (27:45):
I can't remember his name.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
Pardie cam Smith. Why in camp Smith or parade.

Speaker 7 (27:52):
In the world parade? Okay, why in the world will
we Why in the world would we trade a guy
that is the most patient hitter, one of the most
patient hitters in Major League Baseball. His contact rate is high,
he Walks, he works the count. He's just exactly what

(28:13):
this lineup needs.

Speaker 8 (28:14):
Now.

Speaker 7 (28:14):
I totally trust the Astros on developing mid range, mid
range pitching talent. But you know, I mean, I like
the closer kid, but you know that contract is questionable.
And then you know, I guess it's the case of
trading a guy when he's at his highest point, just

(28:36):
because the Walker at first he had a bad year,
so his trade value, he's probably hard to move with
that price. But I just don't see why we would
get rid of Parades. And in the young kid that
played right field, I mean, he really regressed. I think
his OPS was in the five hundreds towards the end

(28:57):
of the year. So can he go down if we
need him too? And thirdly, I mean is al touve
Is this what we're going to get from him? Are
we seeing just a massive decline or do we think
he's going to regroup? And I'll hang up and listen,

(29:18):
Thanks guys and enjoy having Chandler on the show.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Appreciate it. There's a lot there.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
It is.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Let's go to again and I'll start it on the
pretties trade front. And again, we're not throwing anybody out there.
But the realistic expectations are is that it's significantly more
easier to trade Jimmy Prede or a Estik predde Is,
and it would be the Christian Walker who's got two
years left in a contract, who had a subpar first
season as an astro. I mean, is a more simple
politic than that?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
I mean, I think the most simplistic way to put
it is like, when you're trading someone like you want
to get the most value back you can get. An
Estak Paratus is fifteen times more valuable right now than
Christian Walker. Like the Ashers are not making these trades
to to like to cut payroll, to like weaken that
they're trying to make good baseball trades. They're trying to

(30:07):
dangle a valuable asset for what another team has they
view as a valuable asset. So what he's what what
he said is like perfectly reasonable, like why would you
trade a guy that was your best hitter for stretches
of the season and is exactly what this lineup lacks.
Like I agree, like that's perfectly reasonable take, But when

(30:29):
you get down to it, if they're not going to
run a three hundred million dollars payroll if they're not
going to go out and spend exorbitantly in free agency,
which this team has never done. There's only so many
ways you can improve your club. There's only so many
ways you can improve your roster, and this is one
of them. And there's just you know, I get the
fans centiment as, oh yeah, just dump Walker, Just dump

(30:50):
Christian Walker like he didn't like pay down some of
the deal and just go Like. They want like actual
value back in trades. They want to make their team better.
They want to like enhance their their weaknesses on these
teams with these trades. And Paradus is one of the
few guys on the roster that's a realistically a trade
candidate and b can help you get that value back.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
All right, mar Chandler coming up in a minute seven
one three, two, one two, five seven ninety. He's with
us until twelve new We will get to other things
about cam Smith. We will get to the lack of
pitching at this point and the Astros roster movie for
twenty twenty six, what's the depth and the outfield of Indeed,
Jake Myers has gone lots of things to get to.
We also shut your bone mass up at eleven thirty,
the News at noon and one thirty. Andrew Cantalan from

(31:33):
CBS Sports will be with us on this show seven
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I'm at in New Orleans and this is Sports Talk
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athletic till twelve o'clock. We got to shut your bow
mass up at eleven thirty, Chandler. You know that you

(31:53):
can really just open up a can on shut your
bone mass up. We don't judge you. I'm looking forward
to it. Okay, I'm going to go after a co
worker at our station for shut your bum mess up
at eleven thirty today, So I'll be ready for that
ten fifty one we got. We'll talk a little rockets
coming up the top of the hour. Still waiting to
hear if Emae Doca has been fined. The NBA said

(32:13):
I'm sorry on three different occasions for calls in the
final two minutes of the game last night or two
nights ago. He did the NBA. He did say that
the call against him in Thompson, which was reviewed on
the shin to Tim Hardaway's slippage was a correct call,
but they reviewed it at the site, so there wasn't
even a need to review it yet again. All right,
so let's go back to their stuff that we're talking
were talking about Perettis being a potential trade chip. Is

(32:36):
there any buzz of Christian Walker maybe if you send
some money in the other team's direction, that Christian would
go somewhere else as a possibility.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
At the winter meetings, I was I kind of poked
around that. I was told that the interests the Astros
have received as minimal, and that's putting it mildly. I
think Christian Walker has maybe more value than his.

Speaker 2 (33:00):
Stats would lead on. I mean, he he had an
eight hundred.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Oh ps in the second half last year, he hit
twenty he hit twenty seven homers like he led the
he had a he led the Astros and home runs
like this is not like he gets lumped in with
jose A Brady a lot, and I understand why, but
this is not a jose A Brady situation where this
guy is unplayable, where this guy has just lost it,
Like I mean, he was a really good hitter in

(33:25):
the second half of last season. Now the problem is
the contract. The problem is the contract, and the problem
is the age. Because it's great that he had a
resurgent second half, but like you do, look he's only
gonna get older, and that's a lot of money. So
I think there are teams that could use him. I
think he I think there is certainly value, more value

(33:45):
there than maybe meets the eye. But Paradus obviously has
far more value. And I just don't think teams right now,
as we talk on December seventeenth, I don't think many
teams right now are like itching to get Christian Walker. Now,
as we get later into the offseason, and as maybe
some off season injuries start to present themselves, and as
maybe got teams that missed out on some free agents

(34:08):
or missed out on some trade targets start to kind
of reevaluate where they can get some right handed thump,
then I think maybe you see a little more interest.
But right now, I just don't think teams are rushing
to that.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
All right. Also, Ross and I had this long standing
bet I am one for one on bets. I had
the Bregman contract under seven years or whatever it was
and I got a dinner out of that, and he
blames you for that because he gave you. You gave him
the sage advice. But look, that was a one year
dealing bo Way. Speaking of Bregman, this stuff about him
going to Arizona is not a surprise. He lived. He

(34:39):
doesn't he still live there in the off season.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
I believe he does. Yeah, and he makes a lot
of sense for them like that. Again I don't. I
don't think he ends up there, but he makes a
lot of sense for them, like he's he's exactly what
they need.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Okay, so give me a give me a Kyle Tucker update.
He he has been We're betting on a botchy dinner
on this, and he is like he plays a sound effect.
He's talking about he's going to get the the finest
cuts of meat. I have it at under seven and
a half years. Every one of the reports I've seen
from your website and from major other websites too that
I consider legitimate, have this is a nine to ten

(35:12):
year deal. But he even admitted he says the longest
it longer this goes, the more that he's not feeling
nearly as confident. And my point is. He's definitely worth
a super long term contract. But do these teams want
to do that with basically the thought of a potential
lockout one year away? What's the total seven and a half?

(35:33):
I have it, it's under seven and a half. Oh man,
that's tough. That's a that's a no, Jonathan stop an
Jonathan's going to He doesn't care. He's getting a free
meal out of this Jenner regardless of who wins the.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
Bat that's a nasty hook. That half, that's seven and
a half. I'd cautiously take the over. I wouldn't feel
great about it, but I would cautiously take the over. Yeah,
everything you know, you hear like Kyle is a very
reserved like he doesn't really like let out hints like
you don't really know what's going on in Kyle Tucker's

(36:05):
head a lot, just because that's he's not really he
doesn't give you much. That's just how he is, and
normally he is. To get real inside baseball, he is
represented by an agent and a group that normally does
not leak a lot of stuff, so you don't get
maybe the blow by blow that you get from the
Boris guys or other agencies things like that. So he

(36:28):
did visit the Blue Jays spring training complex a couple
of weeks ago. The Blue Jays, who apparently have more
money than God to spend now that they made the
World Series. That makes a lot of sense. He and
George Springer are tight, you know, Miles Straw is with
the Blue Jays. That I mean, I'm I'm pulling hairs here,

(36:49):
But like Kyle Tucker was a groomsman in Miles Straw's wedding,
like their friends. Like, there's a lot of connections there
that would work. And they need a corner outfielder because
George Springer is not going to stay in the outfield
for the entirety of this contract. They probably need a
guy to entrench in one of those corner outfield spots
for a while. And the Blue Jays have shown a
willingness to spend a ton of money, so I wouldn't

(37:11):
be surprised.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Mean's up there, But how much If you're an owner
and you are going to spend big money, and there's
still some teams that do so, in Toronto being one
of them, why do you want to attach a super
mega deal with maybe the economics of baseball changing in
one calendar year. I think it really depends on specific owner.

(37:32):
It depends.

Speaker 3 (37:32):
I mean, the Blue Jays already gave Dylan c seven
year deal like a year before a lockout, so they
don't seem to really be bothered by it. You're seeing
the Dodgers spend money. They haven't given a long term deal,
but they're spending a bunch of money, like and you
even saw it, like even the year the lockout happened
in twenty I think it was twenty twenty two, right,
it was the season after the Ashers won the World Series, Like,

(37:55):
there was a rush to sign free agents right before
the owners locked the players. That was when Corey Seeger
got the big deal from the Rangers. That was when
Marcus Simon got the big deal from the Rangers. I
think that was when Trey Turner got the big deal
from the Phillies. Like there was a rush to sign
guys right before the lockout. So I don't think. I
think for some owners that will make an impact, But

(38:16):
I don't think league wide, I don't think it's gonna
be one of these massive deterrens.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Now. I'm telling you that's I'm talking myself into this
because Ross is really like he wants to get scallops
and steak and chicken, and he wants to get dessert,
and he wants to get the fried rice. He doesn't
want the steam. Chandler, this is good. This is going
to be one for the ages. He is so he
was so confident and like I again, the Chuck tells

(38:42):
me it's going to be more than seven and a half.
But just I need a little bit of hope.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
And Tucker's age too, that's the thing, like he's he's
so young, there's relative to relative to other freemes. Again,
I would cautiously take the over I don't feel like
overly great about it, but you may be in trouble.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
I don't care. If I had said and half years,
I've been much happier. All right, let's get We're gonna
get a couple thoughts in the rockets start the next
hour plus Gary and Steve want to talk to some
masters baseball. We got our buddy Channel Roome with us
for another hour and we got Shut your Ball mass
up at eleven thirty here on Sports Talk seven ninety
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(39:21):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross that here in New Orleans,
our friend channel Rome f Maathletic with us for another
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two five seven ninety Rockets right now heading on the

(39:44):
practice court here in New Orleans. We'll take on the
Pelicans tomorrow night here in the Big Easy. I'm sure
you heard the quotes uh mister Rome of uh E
May's thoughts about the officials from the game two nights ago.
I did.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
I loved it. I watched the into that game, but
that was high. That fourth quarter was high level basketball
like that was. That was an incredible fourth The first
three quarters were very kind of so so, but that
fourth quarter was something. They were just trading haymakers.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
It was.

Speaker 3 (40:16):
That was something to watch and I I I didn't
like that the refs took over late, but it certainly
seemed like most of the fouls were warranted. But the
whistle got up, the whistle got heavy toward the end,
and it really disrupted what was a really high level
game on both sides.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
So to put things to perspective, the NBA, in the
final two minutes of a game, get push put it
a report of all the calls that were made and
also includes any overtime. Well, obviously we had an overtime
game the other night and the call with Aman Thompson,
which was not on the two minute report, apparently because
it was already reviewed at the site, so they needed
to do it again. But there were three calls in

(40:54):
the final minutes of the game and overtime that went
against the Rockets. So, and I've gone back and forth
about this. We love transparency, so it'd be hypocritical for
us not to say we don't appreciate it. But when
you see these things, it feels like to me, if
I'm a coach, I'm going to get more pissed off.

(41:14):
If I'm a fan, I'm going to further criticize the
officials saying that my team got screwed and when they
called when last night, there were three calls in the
game two nights ago that were against the Rockets and
home for the Nuggets, and in this particular case, it
just makes things worse. This may be an unpopular opinion,
but oh oh, here we go. But I like the

(41:35):
way this is done, like because I'm I'm I'm in
favor of having some form of the human element in
every game. Like I think when ABS comes to baseball
next year, I think the challenge system is perfect. You
can challenge a couple pitches like you can challenge pitches
at a crucial part of the game. It also adds

(41:55):
to strategy as to when you're going to use the
challenges in the game. But it doesn't mean every pitch
which is going to be scrutinized by a computer. It
means there is still some element of the human element.
Same thing here with you can acknowledge and hold referees
accountable that, hey, they missed a call here or they
missed a call there. But also like you don't just.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Get to go to the monitor and everything gets overturned
and everything. I like the balance of still having the
human element in there because that's how the game has
always been played. That's how basketball has always been. There's
always been ticki tac foul calls since they invented the sport.
Same thing with baseball. There's always been you know, you know,
pitch strike zones that are inaccurate or inconsistent.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
So I like it.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
I get how it can drive fans crazy, and I understand,
but I think it's a perfect way to hold referees
accountable while also keeping the human element very much.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
In the game. Yeah, you know, I've always been team
human element, but I'm losing faith in the humans channel.
And that's not just in sports, that's in life in general.
So I'm like the challenge just in the NBA. Unlike
other sports, you only get two and if you have
two bad calls, you know, and even they're having the

(43:08):
first quarter or the second quarter, and you you know
you're right because you got iPads on the bench and
the guys can look really quick. You gotta be careful
when to use them because you don't have unlimited ones.
And that's where I would want to change that. If
I could get unlimited ones, that would help. But the
problem is you're not gonna be able to use tiki
taki stuff if you're out of challenges, and if you again,

(43:30):
if you ticky tack everything, you are going to wind
up being in a basketball game for three hours. So
I don't know where the balance is on this. I
do like the ABS that's coming into play my partner
who wanted every single call. I think that would extend
the game too much. The challenge doesn't look good. I
thought the All Star Game this year with the challenges
was awesome, So I can't wait to see them during
the regular season.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah, and there's gonna be a lot like the same
strategy you just talked about, Like be fascinating to get
Joe spot And when we get down to spring training
and they've started to talk about this, like when, like
when are guys allowed to challenge, because there are gonna
be teams that are gonna put in parameters like we're
not using a challenge until this inning or like we're like,
it'll be very interesting to see how these teams deploy it.

(44:11):
And are the catchers allowed to challenge? Are only the
hitters allowed to challenge? Like, it'll be very interesting to
see how teams deploy this and how they were gonna
use the challenges, Because Matt, you watch it like it's
it's in every sport, right, Like there's always guys that
think every pitch is outside. Like if you leave these
guys their own devices, you're gonna be out of challenges
by the second inning.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
But the reality is though, and we've got umpire scorecard,
Twitter accounts, we've got fan grabs, we've got all sorts
of things. And again, the views that we are seeing
as a general public are different than what the folks
are seeing at the Major League Baseball offices. But it feels,
like Chandler, just as you've covered baseball on a regular basis,
we're seeing more and more inaccuracies with the home plan
on hiring, and we are seeing even team broadcasters lose

(44:53):
their mind, which you're not supposed to do that, but
we're seeing it, and I do believe it's gonna be
a conundrum that And again, all points are created equal
in sports. Every back counts the same and at bat
and the seventh thing doesn't count the event any more
than in a bat does in the third. But you know,
the tenor of a sport does matter. You want to
save things for later. I hate when the Rockets are
for that matter, any team challenges in the first quarter,

(45:15):
But if it's a three point play or a four
point shot or two key free throws in a back
and forth game, I understand why coaches doing. And sometimes
there's things that are so obvious that you have to
get a change. But if I'm a manager in baseball,
I'm saving it for late. If I'm a coach in
the NBA, I'm saving it for late, because I do
want to have those in my back pocket if in
case the need arises where a critical possession comes into

(45:36):
play or in a bat gets extended.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
The eighth the name of a three to three game.
Talk about home broadcasters loosing their mind. I was worried
about Craig on I was worried about and during the
Nuggets game, like he, Ryan was trying the Ryan was
trying to settle it down a little bit, but Craig
was getting very worked up.

Speaker 2 (45:55):
I was worried. Yeah, yeah, I look, look, there's nobody
that wants the Rockets to win more than me. But
I I just think you have to be and and
Craig does a great job.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
But I yes, that wasn't that wasn't meant to be
toward him, but he was, Uh, he had had it
with the some of the calls toward the end of
that game.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
And see the thing about him is he gets he
gets to see it right in front of him, Like
I'm in the second deck of the ball arena. So
I I don't see it as clearly as he does,
so I have to go off of replay like everybody
else does. But the point being is that, uh, you know,
if you there are somebody at my contemporary and my
fellow co workers in the industry, and this is in
all sports, that's just bemoan umpiring and refereeing and efficiating

(46:33):
that it takes away from the enjoyment of the broadcasts. One.
It's lazy too.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
It's like, it's just yeah, it's it's a lazy crutch
to get on if if all you're gonna do every
day is blame the umpire or blame the referees, like,
it's just lazy. That means you don't know the sport.
It means you are aren't nuanced enough to watch the
sport and understand that there are other reasons why your
team is not.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
I just don't want to be a cry baby, that's
all right. I don't want to make you know.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
And there are sometimes right, sometimes it's hoarnted sometimes like
sometimes it's warnted to bash the empire or bash you,
But it's not every time your team loses or every
time something goes against your team.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
Because what it does. It's like the boy who Cry Wolf.
I mean, you don't you want to if you hear
me do a Rockets broadcast and I am bemoaning the officials.
It's probably for a very legit reason, because I want
to have that in my back pocket. I want to
be able to say, all right, this is the time
that I need to say, hey, the Rockets are getting screwed.
Let's go to some folks on the phones. We'll start
with Steve and Huffman at eleven ten on seven Andy, Steve,

(47:29):
good morning to.

Speaker 9 (47:29):
You, Matt, Mike Kingwin friend, how are you amazing?

Speaker 6 (47:34):
Chandler.

Speaker 9 (47:35):
I'm just going to say one thing. I got to
move on to what I want to talk to you about.
I agree with you. I grew up in the fifties.
Let's let it all be natural. I think the calls
even out. I don't give a diar what sport it is. Anyway,
I've said enough, Matt.

Speaker 10 (47:47):
We can argue that another day.

Speaker 9 (47:49):
I know you probably your hairs are on the back
of your neck when I talked, Okay, here's what I'm thinking.
Bregman's still available, right. I know Jim Crane hates to
spend money like the Dodgers. Okay, let's just say play
along with me that Jim Crane says, well, what ms
if we got Bragman and we put him at third,

(48:10):
and we moved Parade as the first, and we traded
Walker and not just trade him, but correct me if
I'm wrong. Didn't he have really great stats in Dodgers Stadium?
I think he down near beat him last year when
we played him there by himself. I know the Dodgers
are deep set, but if not the major league roster,

(48:31):
maybe you know, we're kind of light as far as
prospects are concerned.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
In the minors.

Speaker 9 (48:36):
Maybe we could get some good players on him, like
you know Alvarez of years ago. I was lucky we
had that happen, but I think there's possibilities there of
doing something, maybe not the Dodgers. I think he had
great stats at Fenway Park too, and probably some other parts.
So I just want to throw that out and see

(48:58):
what you guys think about that web of possibilities.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
So sign Bregman, put him at third, move Paradis to first.
What are you doing with what are you doing with
Carlos Korea? He's on the team now, rays back, That's yeah,
it's tough.

Speaker 9 (49:19):
I knew there was something wrong in my with my
flawed its thinking there, Yeah, we're not getting rid of
Jeremy right right, like.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
You got paying you too. Yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
There's just I've I've spent more time than I would
care to admit trying to find ways in which this
setup would work carrying all these guys on the twenty
six man roster, and I just can't come up with one.
And look, all these guys are Team guys. I think
if Joe went. I think if they do end up

(49:49):
doing this, and Joe would have to go to them
and say, look, some of you guys are not going
to play every day. I think they would accept it publicly,
but privately I don't think that would go. And then
you get into the whole thing of Christian Walker is
gonna make twenty million dollars next year, Carlos Korea is
gonna make somewhere around thirty million, Joseel Tuve is gonna
make somewhere around thirty million, and Estac Paradis is gonna

(50:12):
make somewhere around ten million dollars. You're gonna have that
much money committed to guys that you can't guarantee every
day at bats too. It just it just doesn't seem
like a practical use of resources, and it doesn't seem
like a practical roster construction.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
And the reality is this, Chandler, the two guys that
will probably get the most playing time are getting it
because of contract value i e. Christian Walker and because
of legacy. Josel tu Bay in my mind the greatest
master of all time. But if you were to you
were to put a white out over their names and

(50:50):
look at their stance, Joseel Tuofy wouldn't play every day.
He just wouldn't. He would hear the problem.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
No one wants to really say out loud, and I
guess I'll say it out loud. They have a lot
of dhs on their roster. Like Yaner Diaz is probably
Janar Diaz is a DH. He will probably end his
career as a DH. Jose L Tuve at this point
in his career is a designated hitter. Jord And Alvarez
at this point we've been told, will be the designatory.
They have a lot of dhs on their team and

(51:18):
they just doesn't create a lot of flexibility for what
you can do defensively doesn't create a lot of flexibility
for how Joe can can cycle these guys in and out.
They just and Christian Walker, while he does play defense,
he's a first basement only.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
He can't play anywhere else.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Like, there's just a lot of inflexibility and just not
a lot of room for to maneuver this around. They've
got a lot. It's a very inflexible roster. All right,
back with more on the phones, Gary and Brian will
get to you. We got Checha bum mass up at
eleven thirty seven one three two one two five.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Seven ninety two. So today's the tion I Believe it
or Not? At one point fifty will be all things
about Quinn yours. He's going to get the start for
the Dolphins this Sunday. And we did a queen or
Believe it or not a year ago, So I'm going
to use all the questions because they all fit. So
if you listen to the Matt Thomas Show on January
the fifteenth of twenty twenty five, earlier this year we

(52:10):
did Quinn Yours believe or not, we're doing it again
the exact same question. So go back in your podcast
right now, front of the show, Chandler wants me to
ask you, Grace about your thoughts about the favorite new
track on the new Taylor Swift album. Which one is
your favorite?

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Fate of Ophelia, It's not even close. Fate of Ophelia
is great. Honey is low key awesome too. It doesn't
get talked about much on the album, but it's great.
Opaite is just like a banger, like if you're out
and need something to do, if you're out in a bar,
like it's the song that's gonna I get everyone going
at the bar. It's a great banger. I can keep

(52:49):
going if you'd like rate the record. Rate the record.
They call him records, what do we call him?

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Album? Album? Album? Excuse me because my daughter has seen
tedyor in New Orleans, Dallas, and Houston. She's moving to
Rhode Island to play volleyball at University Rhde Island. But
she's also hoping to get invited to the Travis Kelsey
Taylor Swift wedding, which I don't if it's gonna happen
or not. She says. The album generally speaking, is pretty

(53:14):
mid its compared to the previous stuff. Let me get
your thoughts about it.

Speaker 3 (53:17):
Yeah, it's I wouldn't. I wouldn't put it like her best.
It's good, Don't get me wrong. I think I think
her assessment's right. It's it's in the middle like there's
some there's some good bops, there's some there's some really
good writing, but it's also there's some skips. So it's
it's very much like it's very good by her standards,
but not certainly not her best.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
All right, one more question for me, and I'm gonna
get to Gary and Bryan here. Any whispering of Kyle
of Hunter Brown and or Jeremy Pania contract negotiations.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
No, I I again, both of them have Scott Boris
as their agent. I will reiterate till I'm bluing the face.
It's not as if Scott Boris does not do prefer
agency extensions. He did one with Lance McCullers, he did
one with jose Al Tuvey. Both of those guys, however,
made it known to Scott that they did not want
to leave Houston. I'm not saying that Jeremy Panna and

(54:11):
Hunter Brown are not are not saying that, but Scott's
not going to do it for not like the Ashers
would have to blow Scott Boris and those two guys
out of the water with their contract offers for them
reasonably to take it, and the Ashers are just not
They have never blown anyone away with their contract offers.

Speaker 2 (54:33):
It's just not what they do.

Speaker 3 (54:34):
So I think I think it's more important and it's
incumbent upon them to really this season, really try with
Jeremy Panya. They were very close before Jeremy Panya hired
Scott Boris and left his former agent, they were very
close to an extension. So it shows that they are
at least that they can at least get there, because

(54:56):
if they don't extend him this season, Matt like, I
feel like we're going to be doing the same song
and Dancer did with Kyle Tucker last winter.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
We're gonna be doing that next winner. Yep. Yeah, this
is this is the most two years out of the
year that it really needs to have the serious negotiations
or at least conversations. Gary and Spring on seven ninety Gary, good.

Speaker 6 (55:14):
Morning, Hey, good morning.

Speaker 11 (55:16):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Okay, yes, sir, okay, great show.

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Guys.

Speaker 6 (55:21):
Uh, good morning there, mister room. I appreciate the banner here.
I called earlier and listening to you a couple of
times back it was like listening to myself talking. But
my take on the Astros is this the whole team.
They don't have. They have very few weaknesses on the
position players and the batting and everything. I don't the

(55:45):
only weaknesses that I see is not really weakness. It's
just a couple of average positions, and that is left
field and catcher, which they can suffice with what they've got.
I am so pro Oh man, I'm so I forgot
his name, Jake Myers in center. I think he had
his best year. He is at his peak for trading,

(56:06):
but he plays so good in uh centerfield, and he
was bad like three hundreds, so I think giving him
another year. I am anti on getting rid of the
first baseman Walker. He led the team, like you stated earlier,
and home runs RBI's and he plays probably the best
defensive first base I've ever seen in my life, So

(56:27):
getting rid of him, you're not really going to get
anything that's going to be much better than that. And
all all home run hitters RBI leaders, they all strike
out a lot, so and I say keep All of
the infielders are all golden gloves. I don't see any
weaknesses on this team really, uh, because somebody's going to
go down in injuries and then you got a you know,

(56:50):
an all start to take their place. So I know
it can't always do it price wise and financial wise,
but the only weakness I see in the team that
they need is starting pitcher. And I am so pro
blue ball that young pitcher. I want him in the
start lineup, fifth, fourth, third, whatever. I think he's going
to be a great asset to the team. So anyway,

(57:12):
I wouldn't change anything unless you guys got a superstar
coming because you've got some really really good players and
they're gonna have injuries and need all.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Okay, thank you Gary for the phone call. Appreciate it.
I don't see unfortunately, I don't see this simplicic as
Gary does.

Speaker 3 (57:30):
I Their top six is really good, right like they've
got They are a front loaded they are a top
heavy team. They need depth, They need to supplement the roster.
Like this is not a situation where they have to
go out and get a superstar because if jr. And
Alvarez plays one hundred and forty games next year, like
he's one of the five best hitters in baseball. Like

(57:53):
they've got superstar talent on their team. They don't need
to go out and get that, but they do need
they need depth. This is not and especially in the rotation,
they need more prove than established depth. And I think
what you worry about is you worry when you're so
top heavy, you worry about you know, one guy's under
performance or a one stretch where you're missing one guy

(58:16):
can really cripple you. And I think they need to
get to a point where they don't get crippled by
just one guy going out in the lineup.

Speaker 2 (58:24):
Yeah, I'm worried about the rotation. I'm worried about the
congestion of the infield. I'm worried about outfield depth. I was, look,
your back end of your rotation is amazing. You're always
going to fill in the missing pieces that that's every team.
But you're starting rotation after the I mean, what's I mean?
We don't have the answer this channel. What the hell's
Christian's Christian Hovey are gonna be in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
They need him to be the guy that they gave
sixty four million dollars to On an extent, they need
him to be like the dark horse cy Young candidate
that a lot of people thought he would be before
his surgery. And look, the opportunity is there because this,
you know, I don't. I think there were way too
many expectations put on him last year because when you

(59:06):
have a guy coming off of Tommy John, like the
first ten starts are not going to be great. Now
that he's got a fall off season, this will be
his first full season back from Tommy John surgery, Like
this is where you usually see the return to form.
And I think for them to get where they want
to go, they're gonna have to have Christian hobby or
you know, fulfill that expectation.

Speaker 2 (59:26):
And does or does Lance mccullor's role in this as
he started? Is he out of the bullpen? Is he
none of the above? These are all things to get to.
Let's go to Brian apparently before we get to shut
your bumbs up, Hi, Brian.

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Hey, guys, Hey Chandler.

Speaker 8 (59:39):
First of all, love the podcast with you and Tyler.
Mainly listen to her on Spotify because I'm driving all
the time, but love them you guys, so enjoy listen
to that when I can. A couple of quick questions
for you. A name that intrigues man, I don't know
if Paradus would get this done alone. Is a lefty

(01:00:01):
from Kansas City, Cole Reagan's.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
I think he.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Would fulfill that spot in the rotation.

Speaker 8 (01:00:06):
Left by Fromber. He's still got a little team control,
not making a ton of money, so I think you
can get him for Paradus. Maybe you have to throw
on a Myers or something like that. And another name
I am partial too, because I am related down the
line to him, second second or third cousin, and he's
actually done fairly well. He can spot, start and relieve

(01:00:28):
is Tyler coolek. I know he was in the Freddy
for Mean deal and actually had a good second half
of the year when he got to Kansas City.

Speaker 6 (01:00:35):
And then when it.

Speaker 8 (01:00:35):
Comes to the work stoppage, I know it's mostly about
salary cap. Do you see any budgeting, say from the
owners or the players, and allowing maybe what the NBA
has in terms of the current free agency with that team,
maybe get a little bit more of a like the
max contract can be offered, whereas you're gonna go to
a different team they can't offer you as much.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Maybe just to.

Speaker 8 (01:00:56):
Create a little bit more of acentive for these guys
to get a little bit more money to stay where
they are. And so I'm not sure if you're hearing
any of that. If we do, because I do fear
it's going to be probably a half a.

Speaker 4 (01:01:08):
Season work stoppage at most, it's not, if not longer.
But just curious to see if anything like that has
been proposed, or if you think it's even something the
owners would entertain, but appreciating, curious to get your thoughts on,
like Reagan's or logo or maybe more or somebody along
those lines.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
I cannot envision any reality as we talk on December seventeen,
the kind of envision inner reality where the union acquiesques
to a salary cap or any sort of artificial limit
on what can be offered. That is one thing that
the Baseball Union has. That's why they have one of
the strongest unions in sports, is because they have. They

(01:01:47):
have for forever been so anti salary cap, so anti
salary floor, any sort of limitation put on salary. I
cannot see that happening now. Again, I don't cover it
as close as other people do, but could could things
evolve between now and the negotiation a year from now. Sure,

(01:02:08):
but it's just that is the one thing that players
in the Union have always been firm about that they
are not going to ever, in any form agree to
a salary cap. Cole Reagan's is a good name. I
will say he's gonna cost a lot. Like east Side
Paradis alone would not get you Cole Reagans, like the
Royals are going to ask very high on him, as

(01:02:29):
they should. I mean, he finished fourth in cy Young
voting in twenty twenty four. Like this is he when
he is on He is an elite, elite arm but
he is in that. He's in that ilk of what
the Ashlers are looking for. Cost controlled, durable has has
thrown a lot of innings, but it's going to take
a lot to get him. He you Paradus, Sure, could

(01:02:51):
he be in the deal? Sure, They're gonna need a
lot more prospects in that deal. And I think if
we know anything, the Ashers are not going to win
a bidding war or when it comes to prospects, that's
just not Their farm system is not in a scenario
in a situation where they can compete with other teams
that may be in on Cole Ragan's with the Royals.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
We've got a lot of great hot stove conversation, and
Channel is gonna be with us again tomorrow and we'll
do some more of this as well, So get ready
for those baseball questions in tomorrow. But we're gonna let
him have the next half hour to just vent. Jonathan,
I want you to give Channler some great advice about
how to do shut your bumb ass up. That's coming
up next eleven thirty three on Sports Talk seven. Anty,

(01:03:34):
you guys know the bit. If you want to attack, crucify,
crush someone, tell somebody to shut their bumb ass up.
Seven one three two one two five Sevenatti seven one
three two one two five seven Anti shut your bum
mess up. Ain't nobody got time for that. That's next
here on seven ninty.

Speaker 11 (01:03:50):
Cheer again, here.

Speaker 12 (01:03:52):
Again, Cheer again, Cheer again, dear again, here again, tam Forday, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:04:04):
We're gonna tell some people to shut their bomb ashes
up to seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninty.
Jonathan and I will go first and second. Chandler, you
get a chance to lose your virginity on this segment.
All right, here we go. This is to my coworker,
Chris Gordy. Yesterday last night, I mentioned I was in

(01:04:25):
New Orleans and we went and had dinner, and we
went to a restaurant that one of my coworkers likes
to go to called Old New Orleans Cookery. And look
all to me, there's hundreds of great restaurants here. But
it's also eight thirty at night. We were traveling all day.
Wanted something quick. I got me an amazing poor boy.
It was delicious at Crawfish and Shrimpet, had a mushroom

(01:04:48):
gravy to it. It was delicious, and I put a
photo of it on my Facebook page and also put
on my Instagram. Chris Gordy goes on there and goes,
why are you eating on Bourbon Street tourist traps with food? Okay,
that may in fact be accurate. I didn't go to
Crystal last night, though, Okay, I went to a place
called Old New Orleans Cookery. Why do people go on

(01:05:11):
your Facebook page when you put food on there and
they immediately criticize where you went? I say it, Chris Gordy,
shut your bumb ass up. Let me enjoy my meal. Shit,
your bum ass up? Man? Well are you seeing on Facebook?

Speaker 1 (01:05:27):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
You should have gone here instead. It's much better. Like
if I go to Cafe Dumont tonight, I guarantee you
I'm gonna get a Well, there's better Beignetes three blocks
down the street. The bittest Cafe Dumont is a New
Orleans treasured place. Okay, it may be tourists, it's fine,
but it's known worldwide. And when people go to Cafe Dumont,
they get the coffee, they get the root service, you
can get cash, you get the Begnets. There's probably ten

(01:05:50):
better places you could speak to public eight of them Chandler.
But I would hope if I put Beignet's on my
Instagram account tonight, you will not rip the crap out
of me. So again, Gordy, shut your bumb ass up, Joe,
bum Man's up, man, Jonathan your next Uh?

Speaker 13 (01:06:04):
You know, I wanted to bring something attention because I
went to the mall recently, you know, Christmas shopping and
everything like that, and every time you walk past the store,
it's like you you see something like, Okay, I'm going
in there.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
You get two or three people you need help with that.
You know where're going?

Speaker 13 (01:06:19):
And I kind of sound like a wet rag, but
that is annoying. Ain't nobody got time for you to
be sitting there waiting for someone to come in and
then bother them.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
I maybe I just won't look around. Maybe I just
won't look around.

Speaker 13 (01:06:30):
And the second thing I got is for national sports
media and Joe Clatt always talking down like yesterday talking
to him tucking down instead of a tournament with march madness,
what's what.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
It's going on?

Speaker 13 (01:06:42):
And we had Kirk herbsheet earlier this year almost selling
what's gonna get more of an engagement than what's better
for the sport?

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
You get what I'm saying? And anybody got to that? Yeah,
Joe Klatt said that the NCAA basketball tournament is a
travesty that nobody likes cinderoas we live for cinder rollos
in sports. Don't I don't need my football guys giving
me basketball tournament breakdown? And back to your first point,
So you're getting mad, Jonathan that the people at the mall,
at at the stores come and say hey, can we

(01:07:11):
help you? Is that what you're trying to send? Yeah,
y'all don't y'all don't feel this way. Are you serious?
No job? What are you talking about? Ro help me out?
I feel I feel like they are trying to guilt
you into buying. Say thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
I agree with you, because, like I always feel weird
if I'm just going in somewhere to browse, and like
if I get latched onto a salesperson, it's like, I'm
gonna have to get out of here without buying anything,
and you feel so guilty when you walk away and
you don't buy anything.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
I get exactly where they're coming about you. I got
news for both of you. Hey, I'm just looking thank
you very much. It really solves it. Most times, I
still feel like they're lingering around you, you know what
I mean. I just I just walk out. I'm I'm
gonna come back. I guess. I don't know. I just
cut my whole experience. Well. I had a friend of mine, Jonathan,
that went to go to the bathroom in a high
end store in Los Angeles and he did a number

(01:08:00):
two at the at the store and the guy called
him out for it, and he and my other buddy's
name is Larry, wound up buying a five hundred dollars
jacket from the guy, so the worker called him out
for it. Yes, I get the spit. I get the spit.
Are you you put? This is like a show like what.

Speaker 14 (01:08:22):
He uh?

Speaker 2 (01:08:23):
I get it? I get? I know, I know, man,
I have I have two, I have one of each.
I'm excited. Go Matt. You you travel a lot, as
do I.

Speaker 3 (01:08:38):
I lose more faith in humanity every time I watch
people board an airplane.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:08:45):
It is one of the most frustrating and most exasperating
things for me to watch is people walk on an
airplane and completely lose any semblance of common sense. This
isn't hard, guys, Like it says on your boarding pass
eight E. You go to row eight and you go
into E and it's they walk on a plane and

(01:09:06):
it's like they can't even fathom that the rows are
in chronological order, that are in numerical order, and that
it's abcdef Like people completely lose their minds. It's a
awful process. And ain't nobody got time for watching people
that don't know how to boord an airplane. Ain't nobody
got to you know what it is, Jonathan, And I'll

(01:09:27):
beg you up on this Channel. We ought to have
like separate planes for like rookies and veterans. Now I'm
not saying that the veterans plane should have first class seats,
but if you're a veteran traveler, and I'm goat.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
If you don't travel a lot, that's okay too, but
you should be with your own group of people that
don't travel very much. You can all make the same
mistakes us FETs. We need to get to our seat,
put our eyeglasses on, our shades on, put a hat on,
and go to sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
And I'm empathetic to those that have to store their
luggage in the overhead container. I know that takes a
little bit of time, but it's like they get on
the plane and then it's just they lose all sense
of common sense, Like it's it's not hard, go to
your assigned seat, get your bag in the overaight containers,
sit down. Instead, we're standing in the hall and we're
standing in the aisle and we're looking at the boarding
pass and where oh, like, oh I just passed eight.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
And I'm in nine.

Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
And it's like, guys, this isn't hard, Like it's it's
so infuriating. Also, go I'm gonna U. I'm gonna this
is to some fellow media members, no one in particular,
but the one thing I cannot stand on social media
from reporters, from people that are covering teams. If you

(01:10:38):
start a post, if you start anything with I asked,
just stop. No one cares that you asked the question.
Only people care about is that you got the answer
or that the ant like stop trying to insert yourself
into what is scrums into what is like a collective

(01:10:59):
media group doing job like.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
No one cares.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
No, shut your bumb ass up that you asked a
question like congratulations, you did the bare minimum for having
your credential. You asked, bum ass up, man, you asked
a question, congratulations. The whole world doesn't need to know it.
You don't need to pat yourself on the back because
you asked a question.

Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
Oh man, I know you agree on this. Oh hell yeah,
you know. I also hate the confirmer too. I hate
confirming people like let me, I got news for y'all,
and we're peeling the curtain back here. If generally speaking,
Adam Schefter or John Hayman or uh Shams, I'm just
going over to the national if they break stories and
involves your local team, you probably don't need to confirm it.

(01:11:40):
They're probably getting it right and you're just late and
by you ate, confirming something is stupid. So if you're
a confirmer, shut your bumb ass up. Shit, so bum
ass up man, that's media. It's not for him my part.
But I just I speak the truth. Just do all right?
Ray and Kevin wanted to tells people to shut their
bumb asses up. Let's get you in at seven pet
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three

(01:12:02):
two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 12 (01:12:04):
Age everybody get tamp today. He let it get damp
today today.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
Channel I was able to find video my friend Larry
and I couldn't your job to get today. That's what
happened in the store because it was an uncomfortable situation.
He's not right for that. Held out all right for
that at all. You're young. It's gonna happen. Let's go
to the phone seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nintie Kevin, what's the matter with you? At eleven fifty one?

Speaker 1 (01:12:35):
What's the matter with me?

Speaker 8 (01:12:36):
Is?

Speaker 15 (01:12:36):
Uh?

Speaker 16 (01:12:37):
I want to go Paul football I want to talk
about Travis Kelsey has been a hitch, cry baby and
powder for the last two weeks. You know, if you
said you're gonna retire at the end of season, why
don't you just go ahead and retire? Now, go home
to your pop star wife feature wife and for that. Uh,
ain't nobody got talk for your declining internews and set
your bumb ass up?

Speaker 12 (01:12:55):
Man, Ain't nobody get tapped today?

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Can't hit to bum ass up?

Speaker 11 (01:12:59):
Man?

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
I don't know if you noticed this, but Travis Kelsey
likes a microphone channel only when he wins. When they
lose in the last two games, he doesn't like to
speak to the media.

Speaker 3 (01:13:06):
Yeah, that's funny. He's gonna go on a po I
have many thoughts about that. Yeah, like if if you're
if you have gotten to that point, if you're finding
in front of a microphone when it's convenient to you,
you should be able to have enough gumption to stand
up when things are going on not happening.

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety. If
you got something you want to tell somebody to shut
their bumb ass up? Anybody got time for that? Seven
one three, two one two five seven ninety rays, whether
it's on seven ninety ray, what's the matter with you?

Speaker 14 (01:13:37):
It's for the NBA, and nobody got time for your
little fake mini cup. First of all, the Knicks are
going to be nowhere near the least standing team, and
it's trolling, really trolling.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
At its fine is to get us to.

Speaker 14 (01:13:52):
Watch this stuff. You have to you So you're telling
me you have to pay these guys extra money, a
bonus to play harder, and you're already giving them millions
of dollars. Ain't nobody got time for that, councel the
tournament and then let's see what how would the chicks
fall in June?

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Like, yeah, Matt, can you explain to me why they
do this? Why to generate some early season buzz, Because look,
there's a lot of people that think the NBA doesn't
really even start till Christmas, So they thought this in
season tournament would generate some Uh, first of all, generate
some early season buzz. Number two, would be able to

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get some players to play in games in November that
they might take off because they want to work, they
want to reduce their work schedule. And three, they were
able to sell it to TV partners in order to
raise more money and create a bigger buds for these
said games. And look, they're paying these players hundreds of
thousands of dollars to play already what they're gonna supposed
to be playing for for their salary. And look, last

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year I was in Vegas, I got caught up in it,
but Las Vegas didn't care about it. Las Vegas, in fact,
they didn't care about it this year. And Las Vegas
is not gonna be the home of this N Season
Cup anymore because they've already taken the semifinals away. They're
probably gonna take the finals away and put them in
different venues next year. So, uh, I see what they're
trying to do. They they've done it. I guess they
do it in soccer, where they do an N Season

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tournament to trying to generate some stuff in the middle
of their year. I mean, I give Sober credit for trying,
but I don't think it resonates outside of the directly
of the teams that are playing in. I mean, there
was a there's a video out there this morning Chandler
of a New York Knicks fan outside of Madison Square
Garden yesterday saying hey, buddy, the Knicks one the nd

(01:15:37):
season Cup and there was no one around is walking around.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
I did see that They're not going to raise a
banner in Madison Square Garden commemorat again commemorating they're gonna
be a Cup championship.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Can't do that, you just can't.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
I again, I'm a casual NBA observer. I watched the Rockets.
I don't watch a lot of other teams. Like, is
that caller right? Are the Knicks any good?

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
They're good? Okay, I mean they're good. Jalalen Brentson's good,
Crown Towns is good, Mitchell Robinson was great for them
last night. I mean they're The East is wide open.
I mean Indiana's hurt, Milwaukee is maybe training Giannis. You know, yeah,
they've they've they're Boston's got no Jason Tatum this year.
I mean the East is wide open. I would say
that I wouldn't think the Nicks are a favorite. Have
the thundersto only lost one game and they lost two times.

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They lost to San Antonio and not get in the
semifinal of the in season in the Las Vegas games.

Speaker 3 (01:16:23):
Again, maybe because I'm not the person seeking it out.
Maybe if I actually like read some more NBA coverage,
that it would be out there more. But it feels
like that is going like under reported and under talked
about nationally. That A professionals that A that an NBA
team started their season twenty four and one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Yep, that's incredible, pacing to be better than Golden State
of a handful of years ago, and better than the
Knicks teams and better than the of the Bulls teams
of the championship run. I got one for you. You
and I have never even talked about this. I don't
like the BBC. I just don't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
It'll be interesting because it's in Houston this year and
you'll be able to I will say this, if you
go to a game, if you are in there, like
it is lit, like it is an raucous environment, and
like it's really like I think it's one of those
you have to be there to experience it. I understand
it's I understand fans get a little weary of it

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just because of the injury risk. Obviously the Astros had
that happened to them a couple of years ago. But
I think it can't be understated or it can't be
overstated I'll say about how much it means to the players,
and especially the players from Latin American countries, Like it
is a huge deal, and I understand it for some people,

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I understand now, I get it, but I'm just it'll
never go away because it is that big of a deal.
And the fact, you know the way it ended last year.
I mean, I know they didn't script it this way,
but haven't end with Otani on the mound, trout at
the plate, and that was it was pretty cool to
see it end like that. But I understand the reservations.

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I understand people that don't like it, but I would encourage, like,
if you can get tickets for when it's in Houston,
go because being there is a whole lot different than
watching it on TV.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Now. I'm not blaming al Twove's broken hand on the WBC.
I am, however, blaming that the WBC is being treated
like a very important playoff game and frankly, bodies in baseball, arms, legs,
bats aren't ready March thirteenth, March fourteenth to play a

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one to sixty two grind. I know these athletes are
coming into these teams a lot more physically prepared their
off season workouts are more intense. I get all that,
just to say, however, there's a reason why they play
them on the spring training games, to ramp these guys
up and all of a sudden, ramp them up and
then go into this mode where you're playing for your country,

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and then ramp it back down to go back with
your team. I just don't think it does about any good.
I just don't will say this.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
And I don't want to say any names because there's
still a lot of that's fluid in the air. There's
going to be less astro representation in WBC than maybe good.
Then maybe you think there are some guys that I
thought going into the Winter meetings we're definitely going to
play in the WBC that I found out are either
not going to play or very much like on the

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outside looking in so correct. I think Carlos Beltron said
at the Winter means that Carlos Kara is going to play.
I think Jiner Diaz is going to play for the DR.
I think you'll see some other guys here and there,
but Josel Tuvey for now is still on decide. I
think he wants to play. I think it's just a
matter of a medical clearance, but I don't think there's

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going to be many more. Maybe other than those three guys,
you may see a couple other ones, but it's not
going to be the huge representation you saw a few
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
Thank you for the time, Frank. We'll do this again
tomorrow at ten o'clock until nuon. Yeah, it'll be great.
Appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
We will have nothing to break down, No Raiders Texans preview,
no Rockets game to get to. Maybe we'll get a train,
maybe you'll be busy working on training. We'll have that tomorrow.
Channel is gona hang out ten o'clock at the New
of Us tomorrow as well. All right, it's you and
me the rest of the way. We are gonna have
Andrew Kantalon from CBS Sports. He's gonna call the Texans
in Raiders game and then it's coming up. He'll be
with us at one thirty between now and one thirty

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at you and me, come on, enjoy the conversation. Seven
one three two one two five seven ninetie. I do
love the Hostoleblie conversation. I think it's always good. So
if you want to get into that, you want to
get in some rockets. The NBA said, I'm sorry for
three calls yesterday. UH in the game on Monday night
against the Denver Nuggets. UH Texans on the practice field
getting ready for the game Sunday with the Raiders. Seven

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one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven ninety is The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross twelve four and h Town our
number three underway on The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Ross's collecting his winnings in Lake Charles. Thanks to Channel

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Rome for dropping by hanging out with us between ten
o'clock until noon, and they he'll do the same thing
for us tomorrow. That means that you and me and Jonathan. Remember,
if you don't want to hear SFA talk with Jonathan,
you gotta call the show. I can break it down
right out. Not really, but you know, no, you're not.
I don't even know how your basketball team is doing
order to any particularly care, so don't worry about it.

Speaker 17 (01:21:21):
UH.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine. Let's get
to the news at noon. We'll start with the NFL.
The Miami Dolphins lost Monday night to the Pittsburgh Steelers
and sub four degree temperatures. Well that's no surprise of
Dolphins losing in cold weather. Quinn Ewers, the former University

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of Texas quarterback, is going to get the start this
week for the Miami Dolphins as they place Cincinnati. So
good luck to Quinn. Yours seventh round pick. Could have
stayed at University of Texas one more year, could have
also transferred yet a third time, but instead he is
going to go to the NFL, and that's what he did.
He has been backing up all year long and now

(01:22:05):
he gets to start for the Bengals, who are out
of the playoff contention. Basically is going to try to
save I think Mike McDaniel's career as a coach in
Miami at least for one more season. But yeah, the
Bengals and Dolphins will play down in South Florida on Sunday.
The New York Knicks last night defeat of the San
Antonio Spurs to win the In Season Cup and the

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Folks at MSG. The owners of the Knicks have decided
not to put a banner up in the arena after
they won the championship. The Lakers and the Bucks have
done it. The Knicks have not won a banner and
hung a banner since they won the Eastern Conference in
nineteen ninety nine. Very very smart, because I would think

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that New York fan would just lose their mind seeing
an in season Cup after not having a banner put
in their arena for twenty six years. Very smart on that.
Speaking of the NBA Cup, they are not getting the
buzz they want in Las Vegas. They are thinking about
having semi final events in home arenas, that meaning the

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four teams, and that maybe the championship game would be
played in historic college venues like Cameron Indoor or Paul
Pavilion in Los Angeles, or Rupp Arena or Allen Fieldhouse.
I think that's actually a very good idea. Changings up
a little bit, give a city, give a college campus

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that is a big basketball community chance to host an
NBA game of that stature. I think it's actually a
very good idea. Now, a lot of people don't even
like this whole idea to begin with, but the reality
is anything to gather any sort of in season buzz
in the middle of December when it's college football playoff
time and NFL season going on. I'm all forward. So

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if they do it to like where the Rockets could
play the Bucks at Cameron Indoor, I'd be there and
enjoy it. Texans are back in the practice field getting
ready for Sunday's game with the hated Las Vegas Raiders.
Depending on what book you look at, the Texans remain
either thirteen and a half fourteen or fourteen and a
half point favorite against the Raiders on a Sunday in

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The NBA yesterday announced their two minute report three calls
late in the contest, not including the m N Thompson
hit from his shin to the body of Tim Hardaway
which allegedly forced him to trip and fall that was
on the list. Three calls late in the game in
the final two minutes in an overtime benefited the Denver Nuggets.

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So basically, the NBA telling the Rockets we're sorry. Now
they really want to be sorry. They should say, emy, doc,
I know you attack their officials, we won't worry about
defining you, but that's not gonna be the case. And
I still got the fine at fifty thousand dollars. You're
gonna go over on Jonathan on the for fifty g's
for coach.

Speaker 13 (01:25:02):
You know, I was thinking the finals and happened today,
So I'm staying like one one ten, one to one ten. Yeah,
one didn't doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:25:11):
Yeah, I don't know the ten thousands.

Speaker 13 (01:25:13):
You have to make an example? If you're silver, what
do you you have to say something here? There's no way.
You just don't do anything right. I don't know, no, no, no,
there's there's gonna be. I mean, as like it was
telling Chandler last hour.

Speaker 2 (01:25:24):
You knew that I may knew that whatever he was
going to say was gonna cost him some money, but
it basically said if you didn't hear it, you basically
said that the two of the three officials never should
have on the court to begin with, and the third
got starstruck. I got. I guess the question was saying there,
how much of it indirectly goes to the integrity of

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the NBA by putting officials in e May's mind that
were not qualified to be on the court. I think
NBA goofed however that, I mean, you cannot put two
inexperienced officials on the court with a crew chief who's
been around a long time and say, okay, well the
old guy, the guy's been there, done that it's going
to be able to balance up the two guys, or
that it was a man and a woman who haven't
done a lot of games. So we're still waiting to

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find out exactly what's going on. Rockets here in New
Orleans are practicing as we speak, and we'll take on
the Pelicans tomorrow night at seven o'clock inside the Smoothie
King Center. And that is your news at noon. So
I'll ask you this, Jonathan, We'll ask the folks this too.
When and this isn't all sports, when an NBA does

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their two minute report and does their five minutes, you know,
any two minutes, any call in the final two minutes
plus overtime gets part of this two minute report that
the put out the next day. When when these leagues
say we goofed. And we've seen this in football before
with timeout cards and calls. We don't see it very

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much in baseball because nobody really goes ask what things
happen in lesson thing really really happen. But when you
hear a league like the NBA come out and do
this and say, all right, in the final two minutes
your call, your team did not benefit from city calls.
Does it make you feel better, does it make you

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feel the same, or does it make you feel worse? Honestly,
it makes me madder. Yeah I was, I'm on the
same page.

Speaker 13 (01:27:24):
It makes me like, okay, so we couldn't figure it
out then, but now you're telling me three days later
and then we should have won or they should have won.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
Like no, Well, here's the thing. If you do something
wrong at your office and you get called down on it,
now you could clearly they can say mistakes happen, you own,
whether you owned up to it or we have evidence
of it. Maybe nobody's perfect. That includes NBA officials, that

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includes baseball umpires, that includes football, like anybody that officiates
anything and in life, nobody's perfect in every part of
their job. But sometimes if you make significant goofs, and
now the question is gonna be as how significant were
three missed calls in the late game between the Rockets
and Nuggets. I mean, it sounds pretty pretty big to me.
Shouldn't that mean that you don't get the best assignments?

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Shouldn't that mean you should work less? Shouldn't that mean
that you should not be allowed to work? I mean,
for instance, if I had two of those officials in
the game of that are night make those calls that
were wrong, those officials should be working lower level games,
right or not working as much? I would agree. I

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would agree, But I'm going to watch and see where
those two officials go in the next week or so.
And if they're calling a game between Oklahoma City and Minnesota,
then the NBA just turned a blind eye to it
and said, oh, we've got we've got things scheduled anyway.
So it's almost like I like the transparency, and I
like when you admit when your officials do something wrong.

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But what are you gonna do about it? Are you
simply going to say it's human and blank happens, or
are you going to say, well, we're not going to
let this happen in a super meaningful game. We're going
to give you a lot of Charlotte games against Washington
the rest of the way because I need and you need.
And this goes for any sport. When the Astros are

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playing the Seattle Mariners, we should have a really good
umpiring crew. When the Texans are playing, say the Chargers
in two weeks, there should be a top flight NFL
officiating crew working in that game, because that game is
going to mean something. Now, if you are a professional
referee or official, you should be really good at your job,

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regardless of the teams that are in front of you.
But human nature is you put your best people on
your best games. And that's why I want to see
what's going to happen. Are we going to have to
see two of those three officials again in the not
two distant future, because look, the Rockets are going to
play some important games coming up now. Tomorrow night should
be a winnable game. Orleans is one of the worst
teams in the NBA. But guess what that Rockets Nuggets

(01:30:04):
game on Saturday afternoon in Denver, it's gonna mean something.
Rockets play on Christmas Day against the Lakers gonna mean something.
I would hope that these officials be man man we
goofed and that they should work more Charlotte games. It's
we n't have to see him in front of us,
so they don't have to send these apologies when they
make wrong calls. Now, again, this is not I'm not

(01:30:26):
trying to sound like bitter Rockets fan or Rockets announcer,
because again and I'm not gonna spend a lot of time,
generally speaking, criticizing officials, because again, in my mind, it
always balances out. But what I am saying is is
that if you are going to take the time to
tell us that the people that you employ for these
games are not doing their job, what's the consequence? Old

(01:30:51):
golly g shucks, old golly won't ever happen again. And
I can buy that too. We all can do that. Hey,
I make a mistake, I won't do it again? Or
are we going to see the NBA? Really all right?
We need to put our best people on our best
games on a consistent basis, so the chances of making
similar type mistakes are going to be less often than

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with putting younger officials up there that maybe aren't as
qualified as some of the older veteran guys are around
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Talk seven ninety Andrew Cantlon is going to join us
here at one point thirty. Does New Orleans get a

(01:31:33):
batter from any of you? Or do you think it's
some one of the most dynamic cities in our country.
I think the opinions of that are mixed well. In
a minute, we also g if you want to talk
some more astros like we did earlier today with Channel Rome.
That was good stuff. We'll do that tomorrow as well,
from ten o'clock until noon, and again Andrew Catalan, it's
going to call the game on CBS. Going to join
us in a little over an hour from now, So

(01:31:54):
please come on and be with us as we take
this program till two o'clock this afternoon. All things quinn yours,
believe it or not. But first awards for uptown Appliance
Repair coming up at the bottom of the hour. We're
going to talk about all the college football coaching changes
just within the teams that are playing in the College

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Football Playoff. I'll range you some numbers about that coming
up in about five minutes from now. But it's quite startling,
and there is a sentiment that I hear from college
coaches that I think is just blatant hypocrisy. So I'll
give you that a little bit, all right. So New
Orleans runs mixed with people in our traveling party with

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the Rockets. There's about sixty of us give or tank.
That's coaches, players, front office people, scouts, video people, medical staff, trainers,
equipment people, media like broadcasters. So it's not a super
big group, but it's a siroup. It's got a good

(01:33:00):
sample size. And I would say that probably, and I'm
not like gone to every one of the players or
every one of the coaches, but I would say there's
it's a mixed bag about how New Orleans is treated
and whether or not this is a good town to visit,
or a good town to play games in, or a
good town just to do anything. You know, I gotta

(01:33:22):
be really honest with you. I run hot and cold
with New Orleans. The food is generally speaking, amazing. It's
one of the best food towns in America. I mean,
the food scene here in New Orleans is significantly better
than the food scene and say Sacramento or Minneapolis or
you know, Cleveland. I don't feel as safe here. I

(01:33:45):
feel like I'm I have to watch my pockets a
little bit closer because I think New Orleans, says, generally speaking,
has more crime than in the other cities we go to.
I feel safer in Oklahoma City. They do feel here.
But I mean that that goes with every city that's
not just New Orleans. And this the city does stay
open later. I mean Bourbon Street, you know, two three
o'clock in the morning. The casino's open twenty four hours.

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If you want to go get something to eat or
go have a cocktail at four o'clock in the morning.
It probably wouldn't take you very hard to do a
long time to figure that out here. And I would say,
generally speaking, the people here of New Orleans are very nice,
So I would say I'm more pro New Orleans than
I am anti New Orleans. But there are a couple
in my group, in our group that just like if

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the Pelicans move somewhere tomorrow, they wouldn't care. So I'm
just curious how how y'all typically feel about New Orleans.
I wouldn't want to live here, but for a place
to visit once or twice a year, I mean they
you know, look, the super Dome is still a majestic facility,
gets all the big concerts, probably maybe even the more

(01:34:53):
of the more stadium shows than say Energy does. My daughter,
uh and my wife came here to see Taylor Swift
and in New Orleans last year, so they do quite
well in terms of that there's always something going on.
It's much more of a celebratory community than say, you know,
downtown Indianapolis on a random night. But you know, I

(01:35:15):
don't know, I don't know how it runs. Jonathan, you've
been to New Orleans very much in your life.

Speaker 13 (01:35:18):
I actually I have never. I've only been to La Charles.
That's the only part in Louisiana I've ever been since.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
Really, you've never been in New Orleans before. I've never
never never been at Oxford, Mississippi and all those places.
That doesn't count, although Octar's not too far. But no,
Lake Yeah, you can't even you can't even compare Lake
Charles to New Orleans. I mean, New Orleans are one
of its kind. But I just don't know if what
y'all thought about it, If you if it's man, I

(01:35:43):
can't wait to go. I don't think. I don't think
I would come here just to do the drinking in
debauchery coud. You can do that any town. But if
there's a sporting event here, I mean, would you rather
go to a bowl game in New Orleans or rather
go to a bowl game in Dallas? Would you rather
see the Cougars playing the NCAA tournament in New Orleans

(01:36:04):
or would you rather them see them playing which tog Kansas.
There's yeah, there's just you know, like if someday the
SFA was to play somebody decent, you know, you'd want
to come see him play here, provided they would play
somebody decent that in nakadochis I don't know. Manncadolgias in
New Orleans? Hmmm, they the bumbling basketball community over there.

(01:36:27):
I don't know. I don't know, all right, I see
what you're saying, but I I always I think frankly
New Orleans gets kind of more criticism than probably should.
It's not without its warts, and clearly, uh the weather
in Flin it rains here, it floods pretty damn quick
because we are below sea level. But you know that's
you know, we live in a city too that floods

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pretty quick too. I would say the reason why I
love it so is because it's an easy walk in town,
provided you don't get pickpocketed. You can get a beverage
whenever you want to if you are so inclined to
do so. The food is really good. I min I'm
talking about necessarily having this, you know, having too much
spicy Ford. I'm just saying it's just a good food town,

(01:37:11):
different stuff, and you know as I as you guys know,
I do like to play, uh go to the casino,
so it's right downtown and it helps out to so
I'm I'm more pro New Orleans than others. But there
are there's a few in our group that'd be like,
you know what, if the Pelicans became the I don't know,
the the Seattle Pelicans, they wouldn't worry about it. Seven

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one three two one two five seven ninty seven one
three two one two five seven. I just want to
bring it up because something was curious what y'all thought,
because look, I again, I don't think i'd come here
specifically just for a trip, but as a sports destination,
like if the Texans for the Saints. I mean I've
I've been to a Texans Saints game before here. It
was a pre season, but a lot of people came.
People liked it. Let's go to uh add on seven

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ninty get twelve thirty high. I had good afternoon to.

Speaker 18 (01:37:56):
You, Okay, I got a little dispute with you, all right,
everyone one dog yeah, everyone talks about how great the
food is in New Orleans. New Orleans is a one
trick pony. They're good for creole food and seafood, but
in general, they're not like say, are Houston. No matter

(01:38:19):
what you want to eat in Houston, you can find
a great restaurant that serves it. That's not the case
in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Well, so you're saying that the Italian scene in New
Orleans is not great.

Speaker 18 (01:38:35):
The Italian is all right, but I'm not going to
New Orleans for Italian food. I would go to New
Orleans for creole food, for Cajun food, for chase hood.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
So if you like that, I mean, let's be honest.
The city of Houston at is a wonderful food city,
but for specialization of Cajun food and creole and seafood,
I would choose New Orleans over Houston. That's not fun.

Speaker 18 (01:38:59):
Absolutely again what I'm saying. But if I said I
said to my significant other, let's go on a food trip,
I'm not going to New Orleans. I'm going to go
to well, I mean Houston, but I intend to go
to Chicago or New York. I'm not going to go
to New Orleans for general great food.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
Well I was, but I wasn't.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:39:22):
When I was talking about the food, I was saying
that you can get some amazing Cajun food in this community.
I wasn't talking about Man, the text mix here is amazing.
I don't think anybody was figuring that out. If you
if you love crawfish and shrimp and fish and catfish,
this is this is your heaven oysters.

Speaker 18 (01:39:39):
No question, you know. But everyone usually prefaces by New
Orleans has great food.

Speaker 2 (01:39:48):
And you know what I'll do for you. You know
what I'll do for you, ed, I will say they
have great Creole Cajun food. Does that make you fit?

Speaker 1 (01:39:55):
Is that?

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
Okay? Now?

Speaker 11 (01:39:55):
Did I did?

Speaker 2 (01:39:56):
I gotta get some points back, all right, thank you?
All right? And the gravy. Don't forget the gravy. That's right, Yeah,
all right, So now I will I will change it.
They have great Cajun food, great seafood. And again you
get in, you know, forty ounce margaritas for like eight bucks.

(01:40:17):
If you're so inclined to do that, let me go
to Larry on seven ninety. Hello, Larry, Larry. Larry is silent,
quick time out in the program. We got a few more.
You want to get to chime in again. I sometimes
you just go off the beaten path a little bit.
And we were just again having a pretty intense conversation
about the attributes of New Orleans. And again I'm more

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pro than Antai. I understand it's got its warts, but
you know what, we in Houston have its hoarts. So
uh seven one three two one two five seven NINTI
seven one three two one two five seven NINTI. I
do want to get into as well, coming up in
a few minutes, about a tremendous amount of hypocrisy in
the college football coaching landscape. I've talked about that too.
Plus at one third Andrew kennel On from CBS Sports

(01:41:01):
twelve thirty three on Sports Talk seven ninety kill the
curtain back here on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.
I just took some Harper medicine, Jonathan, just to prevent
myself from riving Harper and Letter tonight. Oh okay, you're preparing, okay, okay, okay.
I'm going on to a little Cajun restaurant this evening
or whatever it is, creole whatever, whatever. People in New Orleans.
I think I think Cajun's more Batton Rouge and Creoles

(01:41:23):
more New Orleans. You gonna get your you canna get
your Louisiana vernacular. Right. Another thing, now, you know, Jonathan,
they call Ross calls me five diamond Matt. All right,
you're not You're not five dimon that. No, I'm I'm
I mean I like an ice hotels. Okay, I only
want to stay in five stars. So this morning I

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went and got breakfast, and we're gonna get to Vincent
to Ryan here in a second. I went and got
me an oatmeal and some bacon. Okay, all right. The
can was nine dollars, one worth it, but you're paying
high end hotel prices. The oatmeal was fifteen dollars. It
was a great oatmeal, but again, oatmeal probably cost some

(01:42:06):
dollar to make, and the profit on that it's significant.
So I'm looking. I was looking at the room service
menu here. You know how they charge for room service.
They charge you like a delivery fee and a super
high tip on that, right, So you're automatically going to
pay for the huge price increase on the on the
service charge. They also jacked the charge up of the

(01:42:28):
price of the oatmeal and the bacon a couple of dollars.
What do you mean by a couple of dollars like
three four? Well, I mean if if I wanted to
get like this morning, I got the bacon and the
oatmeal in the restaurant, it costs me twenty five dollars
minus the tip mine it'd be twenty it'd be twenty
eight dollars. If I had it brought to my room

(01:42:53):
and and they were charged. I'm looking for the charges
on the you know, it's not even on the room
servicemen charge. They're shysters. Yeah, just my my advice to y'all,
don't ever order room service unless you just cannot get
out of room because you're hungover. Right, that's the only

(01:43:14):
that's the only reason, I mean only reason.

Speaker 13 (01:43:16):
But if you're hungover, you probably made some bad decision
that and that last night, so you probably want to
go down there it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
So watch me tomorrow morning. Shoot you a voter a
text of me having breakfast in a room. I hope
it doesn't compete A Yeah, I've decided I'm not going
to have any beverages when I'm at the casino. In
about an hour and fifteen thirty. You decided that like,
are you sure? Are you for sure? I'm sure. I
didn't gamble last night. That's why I'm old. I mean,

(01:43:43):
you just said Ross and his brother one, so that
might have got you a little motivated. They did get
me motivated. They were throwing a hundred dollars bills on
their bed. See see, you can never said that ever
you ever laid enough, you ever laid one hundreds of
dollars of bills before in your life. I wish my
wife has. It was a good trip. Something is wrong

(01:44:12):
with you, you know what. I'm gone for a few days.
It's the only gonna get worse. Ryan on seven ninety
twelve forty Ryan, good afternoon to you.

Speaker 10 (01:44:28):
Good afternoon, guys. This is going to be directed more
at Jonathan. From what I've gathered, you're a younger, younger man.
You got a girlfriend. Go to New Orleans one time,
one time.

Speaker 1 (01:44:40):
It's a blast.

Speaker 10 (01:44:41):
We'll do it before hangovers last several days.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
Okay.

Speaker 10 (01:44:45):
Outside of that, I'll never go back. After the bachelor
party I had with my brother, it was the most
fun we ever had until some guests that one of
our buddies picked up on the way back home decided
to rob us a line. Everybody thatt me because I've passed,
because I've passed out drunk with my wallet on me,

(01:45:05):
they couldn't get mine. They took three thirty two hundred dollars.
Look they stole oh up until then though, fantastic night. Also,
did you want good food Luisiana? I think Lafayette might
be better.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
You know what I've had before? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I
might be with you on that. Lafayette food really good.
Everything else is crap, but that's the food in Lafayette's good. Ryan,
I got a story for you, not nearly as dramatic
as yours, but uh we went. We came here for
the Texans Saints preseason game. My wife and I came

(01:45:47):
with me. We came with me and we had a
few too many beverages and we were hailing a cab.
This is before Uber and Lyft were around. And we
got the cab and we sat down and we were like,
where is this guy? You can you're waiting for him.
Guy gets in the car says, what are you people doing?
We got into somebody's car by accident. It was in

(01:46:09):
a cab driver.

Speaker 10 (01:46:10):
Oh no, that's rough, that's that's never good.

Speaker 1 (01:46:14):
We were.

Speaker 10 (01:46:14):
We walked everywhere because we were just on Bourbon Street.
But now you gotta, you gotta what is it, padd O'Reilly's,
You go to the restaurant heat, you go to all
the other fling places that I'm not gonna stay on
the radio for a bachelor party. Oh man, we were,
we were, we were grooving, dude. It was a good
time until we woke up for a rogue and we
were we.

Speaker 2 (01:46:34):
Were having to call. I certainly hope to pay to
get home. I hope, I certainly hope Ryan, you did
not go to the Bustler bar on Bourbon Street.

Speaker 10 (01:46:46):
No, they got better options than that.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
Yeah, they do overrated. Thanks for the phone call.

Speaker 1 (01:46:51):
Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:46:52):
By the way, any of those places, Ryan or Jonathan
offer strip clubs and you know, the Hustler Club and
all that. Don't don't waste your time. Yeah, I'm got
to hear that story. Man, I've got to leave my
wall thirty two hundred dollars. Damn. You gotta be careful here.
Apple pay is a friend, you got it. You gotta
be care You can't Apple pay a stripper, can you?

Speaker 13 (01:47:14):
You know I'm not the person to ask about guarantee
we can find someone to ask the question.

Speaker 2 (01:47:17):
I bet you can't, all right, if you've ever venmode
a stripper seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninty
Vincent Michael will get to you guys next, plus the
hypocrisy of college coaches. It's a twelve forty two on
the Matt Thomas Show here from Nolins on seven ninety

(01:47:37):
twelve forty eight. Matt here in New Orleans ross off
the rest of the week. You know, I asked, y'all,
I said, does any if you ever venmode a stripper? Money?
And I said, call the show at seven one three
two one two five seven hot and show look and
tell the audience what showed up on the call screener.
About two minutes ago, Jonathan uh Cool cal Thompson called

(01:48:01):
the show. Now he's not staying on the line for
some reason, just saying, you never know what you do
with the morning shows on these radio stations. I'm not
saying Cole venmo tougue stripper. I'm just saying the cole
called as soon as I asked for someone to call

(01:48:21):
with a stripper seven two two five seven ninety events
is with us on seven ninety events. Good afternoon, Hey,
good afternoon, guys.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
Hey, So just real quick on this New Orleans thing.

Speaker 11 (01:48:34):
The first time I went to New Orleans was back
in the early eighties and was going going to a
concert at the Superdome. And so we're driving there and
it's raining pretty much the whole time. We're driving there
pretty hard, and get we get to our hotels, raining
at the hotel and so, uh go in the room,
I throw my suitcase on the on the on the

(01:48:55):
bed and I hear squish. The bed was soaking wet.
So that just gave me the weirdest feeling ever since then,
I just such it, you know. I had to go
back northerns a couple of times after that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:09):
For some business, but but here.

Speaker 11 (01:49:12):
Recently, a friend of mine moved to New Orleans, a
musician whose dream was always to be a New Orleans musician.
He's doing really well there now and so he had
his own show coming up. I went to go see
a show. Fantastic. Actually, I brought my wife with me,
she had never been, and we had a great time.
With the music scene there. The music scene there is incredible,

(01:49:34):
it really is. If people like music. But still the
place is just gives me the creeps. You know, I
had to take my wife down Bourbon Street. It's just
like just loud music. You can't even think, you know,
it's like it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
Who's just too crazy?

Speaker 11 (01:49:48):
Too many drunk people, too many people trying to make
asses out of themselves.

Speaker 2 (01:49:52):
So yeah, again I would not to me. It helps
Vince when there's something else to do besides, like if
you just said, let's get in the car and go
to New Orleans for three or four days and drink
and eat. I mean, you know, if that's what you like,
that's what your cup of tea is, then you can
do that. If you like loud crowds, if you like

(01:50:13):
you know, walking the streets and throwing beads at women
and them showing their tops to you know, taking their
tops off, if that's something that's up your alley, then
that's seats your own. It's just it's a good place
to come if you're going to do all that. Plus
you're going to see a concert or a movie, or
you're meeting your friends or a bachelor party. But you
know it again, and not to say that you get older,

(01:50:33):
you would change your expertise but you have to kind
of know that this is not going to be This
isn't a Honolulu, Hawaii. Basically, that's what I'm trying to say.
It's it's it's got its issues.

Speaker 11 (01:50:43):
Yeah, hey, but real quick, there's a really good breakfast
place I could recommend to you, Matt that you would
goodly like if I can do it over the phone.

Speaker 2 (01:50:50):
If not sure, why not?

Speaker 11 (01:50:51):
Then it's called Two Chicks. Hold on a second, Two
Chicks Cafe nine to twenty something like that. Ok, that's off.
Like it's about three or four blocks off the Canal
Street and Bourbon Street.

Speaker 2 (01:51:05):
Really really really they don't charge fifteen dollars for oatmeal.

Speaker 11 (01:51:08):
Do they? No? No, no, no, And all their stuff
is fresh they got It's an excellent, excellent breakfast spot.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
All right, thanks Vincent the front call. Appreciate the at
the recommendation. It's funny, I don't you know. I put
up a photo on my Instagram at sports MT if
you want to follow me there and on my Facebook,
and I get ridiculed by gordiecause I didn't go the
right restaurants. I don't think I've ever I don't know,
and maybe I'm wrong, and maybe my friends could say, yes,

(01:51:38):
I've got evidence to come to the contrary. If somebody
puts a photo up of somewhere they're eating, and that's
what Facebook to me should be. It should be about pictures,
your kids destinations. It shouldn't be about politics, should be
about religion, should be about raising your kids. It shouldn't
be to kiss your wife's ass because you've been mean

(01:51:58):
to her and you want to talk around about how
awesome she is he wants other people to like it.
It should be about the simplistic little things that just
don't mean anything. But if I put up some food,
what to do occasionally, because I mean, you know, the
New Orleans style of the food you're not gonna get
in Houston, and young geting Houston style food in New Orleans.

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
It just is what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Man Gordy shaming me. You go, you went to the
French Court, you went to the Berberstree d. I'm sure
there's plenty of other places better than I went to
last night. But it was nine o'clock at night. We
were looking for a poll boy. We weren't looking for
a Chateau Brion seven one three two one two. I'm
ex used ten of covers seven one three two one

(01:52:37):
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety Texans on the practice field, Uh, getting
ready for Sunday's game with the Houston Tech or the
Las Vegas Raiders. If you thought the Cardinals were bad,
the Raiders are worse. And Pete Carroll is a really
good football coach at least was obviously with his days
with Seattle and before that at USC. I don't know

(01:53:03):
if the team is just god awful or they're just
underperforming to obscene levels. And again, Gino Smith wouldn't have
been my choice to run us, to run a football
team quarterback wise, but they're embarrassingly bad, and I've got
to think that part of it is, you know, does
Pete Carroll had the you know, when you're over the
age of seventy that means you can't be seventy plus

(01:53:25):
and not win football games. I mean, Mack Brown showed
that you could do that at North Carolina after leaving Texas,
and Bill Belichick won games, and well, he's at least
trying to at North Carolina. But it's low hanging fruit
when your team underperforms and you're trying to grab one
last chance of being a coach, and you're seventy plus
years old and things aren't going well. If you're going

(01:53:48):
to the Texans game on Sunday, i'd bring something else
to do besides watch the game. So when all your
buddies and members of the media who could free passes
to the game shoot photos of how empty the stadium is,
it might be for a good reason, because you'd rather
go see your daughter's Christmas restital, or you'd rather go

(01:54:11):
see you'd rather go Christmas shopping for those last second gifts.
Because the Raiders absolutely suck. But the Texans can't let
themselves down and can't play down in the competition like
they didn't do last week when Arizona came in here
and Texans won the game comfortably. Nothing it's ann perfect game.
There could be another night where you know, a Raider

(01:54:33):
tight end scores a bunch of receiving yards and a
bunch of catches in a couple of touchdowns. But generally speaking,
there's nothing that the Raiders should be doing on Sunday
that should scare anybody that's the Texans fan. All Right,
we got one hour left to go. What would you
like to get into Rockets basketball playing New Orleans tomorrow night.
Did any of you watch the NBA Cup. I'm not

(01:54:58):
being rhetorical. I'm literally asking any of you watched the
NBA Cup. I did, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
You.

Speaker 2 (01:55:05):
I'm so proud of you. That's dude's watched the whole game.
I'll go to the Knicks.

Speaker 13 (01:55:11):
They're Jordan Clarkson looks pretty I mean, they look pretty solid,
they look pretty well rounded.

Speaker 19 (01:55:15):
I'm not gonna lie. Here's here's a bigger question. How
good is San Antonio? I see, I'm not I'm not
gonna answer that question. I feel okay just because I'm
afraid someone's gonna say, and it may not be you.
I'm afraid someone might say there may be better than
the Rockets, and I hope that's not the case.

Speaker 2 (01:55:35):
Don't to me either, me either either.

Speaker 11 (01:55:37):
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
Don't do it. But record wise, they again, there's stall
fifty plus games left to go. San Antonio won a knockout,
wrong game, they won their semifinal game, and Victor Webbin
Yama is coming off the bench for them. We, as

(01:56:00):
a fine Houston sports community, can simply not allow San
Antonio to be better than Houston in anything. If Oklahoma
City is gonna win seventy games this year, so be it.
If the Lakers are gonna win sixty games, Okay, fine,
I'm used to that. If Minnesota's gonna win their games,

(01:56:20):
If Denver is gonna win fifty eight games a year, okay,
Yokis is one of the greatest players of all time.
Looks like I can live with that. I cannot live
with the Spurs beating the Rockets. I watched it for
like ten years with Duncan Robinson, Jannobili Parker, hell, even

(01:56:41):
Robert Ori Houston. I can't, you can't. We got to
put some serious nasty juju on the San Antonio Spurs.
They cannot be better. Final Hour The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross Here in New Orleans seven to one to three,
one two five, seven ninety's The mac Thomas Show with

(01:57:05):
Ross John I just got a text for my buddy.
We'll keep his name silent on this said from my
from my Texter. My buddy Kirk got mugged by a
stripper on Charter Street and when he tried to get
back his cash, she pimp slapped him. Jonathan, you ever

(01:57:31):
been pimp slapped?

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
Never?

Speaker 2 (01:57:34):
In my life, have I been pin slapt? So let's
get your interpretation. That's for to go back to the phones,
to go back to the world of sports. What is
the difference between a regular slap and a pimp slap?
Pimp slap?

Speaker 13 (01:57:48):
You know, if you want to get technical, usually gotta
you got a ring on you and you uh, you
pimped the pimp slap with the back of your hand
straight across the face.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
Okay, So as compared to a regular slap, which is
probably done an aggression or our anger.

Speaker 13 (01:58:05):
Yeah, but a pimp slap's more like you're like, it's
it's more degrading, you get what I'm saying. It's more like, uh,
it's almost like the same energy as your mom slapping
you to put that thing away, like you grab some
from the store something.

Speaker 2 (01:58:19):
No, I don't no, no, no, no, I disagree. I
don't think your mother would pimp slap you. No, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 13 (01:58:23):
I'm saying the energy of a pimp slap, like to
open hand like open handslap is like like straight aggression,
right like.

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
So pimp will be more of a backhanded slap.

Speaker 13 (01:58:32):
It's back it's backhanded, like you know, like I'm trying
to keep it radio PG.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
But you know what I mean, Like, no, I don't,
so go ahead and make it. Make it radio PG thirteen,
just to you know, just protect the license. Like look,
all right, let's say this.

Speaker 13 (01:58:47):
You're in the parking lot and say, Matt, you messed
up my spot or you nicked my car, and I'm
coming to you. I'm like, yeah, you know, we started
exchanging words and you're like, man, blank you da da
da da.

Speaker 2 (01:58:58):
I'm open hands. That's more like we're starting to get
the fight right now.

Speaker 13 (01:59:03):
Re run that same scenario and you started talking back
to me, I'm just gonna pimp slap you and look
across the face like what'd you say? And you can
be kind of taking it back because it usually it's
saying usually you want that ring on you. You know
it's hurt a little bit, you know, And I know
the story is coming from you got you gotta ask
some more details about the story.

Speaker 2 (01:59:22):
That's all I got.

Speaker 13 (01:59:23):
Okay, I'm what I'll say, no names the person as well,
had to I think something broken in his face too.

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
He did his nose break. Nah, some part of the cheek.

Speaker 13 (01:59:36):
I think you got a broken cheek when you got
to the opraor right in next to his eye or.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
The orbital bone, like by the eye. That doesn't sound
good at all. Look, I'm not trying to not tell
you to come to New Orleans. I'm just saying you
gotta be careful. You've never been pip slap before. Math,
You've never seen that before. I had never been pimp slapped.
I've been slapped. I never been pimp slapped. That explains
a lot, pimps. What do you mean explains a lot?
Don't nobody, Nobody should aspire to be pimped or slack
for that matter. I love you, Matt. Let's go to

(02:00:09):
John before I got I gotta get this colleging off
my chest. John, Good afternoon to you.

Speaker 5 (02:00:15):
Hey, what's going on?

Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
How you doing?

Speaker 2 (02:00:17):
Good?

Speaker 5 (02:00:19):
Good, good, good man. It's always a pleasure to talk
to you.

Speaker 18 (02:00:21):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:00:22):
So, yeah, believe it or not, my wife and I,
since we're on the topic of New Orleans, we're thinking
about going to New Orleans on the twenty eight through
the thirtieth for our anniversary. And yeah, we're we're a
Christian couple. We're actually going to do some mission work
while we're there. And I wanted to know a couple
of yes, sir, and I wanted to know a couple

(02:00:45):
of the things to maybe get into.

Speaker 4 (02:00:50):
In terms of sites and food and things of that nature.

Speaker 5 (02:00:55):
Yes, because I know you do a lot of traveling.

Speaker 2 (02:00:58):
Well, I'm gonna tell you right now. Food you're not
gonna go wrong. You should actually email Chris Gordy, our
program director. He'll be on with me on Friday. You
should call us back Friday, John, because he'll give you
the place to go eat because he's he's from here.
But if you have some free time, John, you one
hundred percent must go to the World War Two Museum.

(02:01:19):
It is a and I'm not even a history buff
per se, I was blown away by it. It will
take you a full day to experience everything at this
World War Two museum. It's awesome. It's well worth the
President mission. You can They have a restaurant there so
you can actually do half the tour in the morning,
have some lunch and then watch and then go to

(02:01:41):
the other half of the tour. It is well worth
the Prisent mission, well worth your time. There's also an
aquarium here. The live music scene is really good. Even
if you're not necessarily into doing a lot of drinking
or debauchery and whatnot. You can still do that. But
there's plenty of stuff to do here for sure. But
I I one recommend that the World War Two Museum.

Speaker 11 (02:02:01):
World War Two? Okay? Okay?

Speaker 5 (02:02:04):
Would that get into the whole romantic thing? And I'm
trying to get going with the with the.

Speaker 2 (02:02:09):
Anniversary, okay, John, So let's let's be brutally honest here.
Have you ever tried to get romantic with a woman
in the museum before?

Speaker 5 (02:02:20):
Well, I'm taking my wife out, uh to the museum.

Speaker 4 (02:02:26):
I found arts and then we went and had.

Speaker 5 (02:02:29):
A nice dinner at Morton this one time before. So
you know that kind of worked out, you know.

Speaker 2 (02:02:34):
Yeah, Okay, I'm gonna say that if you're going to do,
if you're gonna try to romance at the World War
Two Museum, wouldn't be the thing I'd go to. You can, definitely,
you can definitely. How do I put this? You guys
are not drinking or you are going to have a
couple of pops.

Speaker 1 (02:02:52):
We literally have never had alcohol, And believe it or not,
is that right?

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
Good for you? Your liverly appreciate you. Well, I gotta
be brutally honest.

Speaker 11 (02:03:04):
With you.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
New Orleans is a heavy drinking town, So I don't know,
not that I not that I'm gonna do a lot
of it, but I'm just saying that. It's usually if
you're walking Bourbon Street, you you're usually going to have
an alcoholic beverage in your hand. That's it. It's part
of going walking from bar to bari bars or trying
differ different stuff. So, uh, you know what you gotta do. Yeah, well,

(02:03:26):
not the only reason, but I mean, I guess you
could do it sober if you needed to. And if
you do, then you know I wouldn't. I wouldn't drink
just for the sake of drinking. So John, do me
this favor. Are you gonna are you this the girlfriend wife? Okay,
So you're gonna try to do New Orleans for the
very first time without having any drinks. Okay, you have

(02:03:47):
got to call us back when you get back next
week whenever you guys go or whenever to that for
the holidays, and tell us how the trip went. Okay,
and again, don't try to get romantic. Don't try to
get it fresh with your wife at the museum. That'll
be kind of awkward. Thank you for the phone call. Frame.
We appreciate it, thank you.

Speaker 5 (02:04:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
I didn't know that he wanted to he what he Jonathan.
I think he wants is he wants to know when
can he show his love for this girl in a
town that openly?

Speaker 11 (02:04:17):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:04:18):
I mean, how do I put this? Gordon's out of
know some spots. There's no way, there's no you know,
he wants to get romantic in New Orleans and I'm thinking,
you know what your hotel room will do? Just fine.
Don't they have those steamboats with the jazz players and
all this, uh the you know, I guess you Yeah,
they got boat rides mision. I've never been on a
boat ride here, so I can't speak to that. But

(02:04:39):
I mean it's we're right at the Mississippi, so I
was assumer there's gotta be some boat rides, the steamboats
that might be. I don't know, I've never been. That's
a good idea, John, You hear what Jonathan just said?
What matter for Jonathan? You need to hook up with
John y'all fording to go double date in the north Yeah,
and see if you can get romantic on a steamboat.

(02:05:00):
I think John's got that. I think John's got that, Yeah,
he probably want you round all right, one ten on
Sports Talk somebody. We're going back to sports here. By
the way, quick update from the Texans on the Wednesday practice,
and again, remember it's Wednesday. It's not the big day.
The big practice days are frankly, Thursday and Friday, and
if guys are not working out those days, that should

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be a sign that maybe something's going on with some injuries.
But as far as what the Texans are saying, Wex
is saying that he does not see what he marks.
Kamari Lassiter, Derek Stingley, Trent Brown, Sheldon Rankins, alsi's Al
Shaher at the media viewing portion of the Texans. The
running backs that are working out today are Jordan, who's
got signed to the full roster, Chubb, a Google walle

(02:05:44):
In Brooks.

Speaker 11 (02:05:47):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (02:05:49):
But apparently Nick Chubb is ready to practice today, which
is a good sign. You gotta have some depth, especially
at the running back spot. Even though Juar Jordan had
a great game one hundred and five yards against the
Arizona Cardinals this week. You want as much depth as
possible and certainly have all the running backs. I need
what he marks to be at his best because he
has been the best blocking running back. He's been a

(02:06:11):
very good running back out of the backfield, and he
also inherits fumbles and scores touchdowns. By the way, did
you see how the fantasy football world is reacting to
Woody Marks's touchdown against the Cardinals, Gentleman on Sunday? No,
so what's the reaction? The reaction is the official NFL scorecard,
And maybe this has changed. And if any of y'all

(02:06:33):
have Wooding Marks in your fantasy football let me know.
But apparently on the play by play stat sheet and
went in the official is that on that what looked
like to be a direct snap, he was actually a
bad snap that resulted in a fumble that wood He
Marks inherented fumble, recovered it and scored a touchdown. So

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when you fumble recover and score off of fumble recovery,
that's not a rushing tempt, that's not a receiving attempt.
You get no points for that in fantasy football.

Speaker 8 (02:07:06):
What.

Speaker 2 (02:07:07):
Yeah, Now, I don't know how many people in your
y'all's fantasy football leagues are using Woody Marks. I wouldn't
think a bunch of you. But you know what, guys
are on you know, guys get hurt. Maybe I don't know,
nobody was gonna buy this past week, but you get
my drift. So did anybody get screwed on Woody marks

(02:07:28):
not getting a rushing touchdown? And maybe in perhaps some
of you, the league has changed it. But I want
to say matter fa. I'm gonna look it up right
now on ESPN. I want to say that ESPN labeled
it a fumble recovery touchdown, which would then mean you
don't get you don't get the points for a touchdown
because it wasn't a rushing attempt. Remember, Rushing touchdowns get

(02:07:51):
you so many points. Receiving touchdowns get you so many points.
Not fumble recoveries don't get you points. I'm gonna look
at the box score right now. I'm going to NFL
dot com. Here, let's see what do they say?

Speaker 13 (02:08:03):
It is?

Speaker 2 (02:08:04):
Recap? This is I'm doing? This is not great radio here,
it is looking look and look and looking, Uh, where
is it? Where is it? Mcguy? So the McBride's score.
I'm looking for the where hell?

Speaker 20 (02:08:19):
Where is it?

Speaker 2 (02:08:20):
Should be a fumble recovery somewhere? When did that happen?

Speaker 1 (02:08:24):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:08:25):
Yeah, here it is c J. Stroud a boarded snap,
c J. Stroud fumble what he marks one yard fumble
recovery that made it seventeen to nothing. I don't think
you all get credit for that. And if you all
got screwed by that, let me know and see if
the NFL we should build a case for it. Or

(02:08:46):
maybe you got a bat you get a bad beat
in your fantasy football league because of that. One fourteen
of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross seven one three
two one two five seven. Auntie Andrew Catalan from CBS
Sports joins us in fifteen minutes here on Sports Talk
seven nineties. I've won three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 11 (02:09:03):
So there's a.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
Story here in New Orleans about LSU, and you know
they're gonna play my Cougars and they're gonna lose to uh,
the Cougars and the Texas Bowl next week. And apparently
Frank Wilson, who is the interim coach, as soon as
he's done with his game, is gonna go coach at
Ole Miss. And that's fine. I mean, coaches are moving

(02:09:25):
left and right, but there's now become this opportunity here
real quick for people in coaching to go. You know,
we gotta we gotta keep our coaches here, and we
got we're gonna stop watching guys get leave jobs before
this the job, the season is done, and so we're
watching coordinators getting head coaching jobs, and we're seeing position
coaches getting coordinating positions. Every single football coach I have

(02:09:50):
seen with a press conference in the last two weeks
has bemoaned the amount of coaches that are moving from
team to team and team like they've been bemoaning the
number of players that have been moving from the via
the transfer portal. And all I want to say is,
I think it's a tremendous amount of hypocrisy unless the

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college football group whatever that is, group of five, power four, whatever,
collectively come together and set timelines for when you can
hire and fire coaches, when kids can go to the
transfer portal, and when they can be per plecked out
of it, when coaches can leave to go take other jobs.
I don't want to hear about anybody else being I

(02:10:32):
hear this all the time. Our system is broken. It's
not working well. So what do people do when they
tell me that the system isn't working well? You got
one or two options. You can either do something about
it and try to help legislate change, or you can
sit back and just watch it happen. And that's what
I think what college football is doing. We're all getting

(02:10:53):
mad about the transfer portal and nil and how crazy
things are going. Well, then do something about it. Go
put together committee, go find a true legitimate college football commissioner,
and let's regulate some stuff if it's so terrible. I
don't like it, but I'm living with it. Kinders, Texas
ball dot com. Are you upset that Frank Wilson's gonna

(02:11:15):
go take the job at All Miss as soon as
his game's over with Um, I'll tell you this.

Speaker 20 (02:11:20):
He's a really good recruiter, a lot of ties around
Louisiana and in the New Orleans area. But I think
times have changed down Matt that Lane Kiffin, as much
as he likes the idea of keeping him, he wants
his running back coach in there. And I dug through
the numbers Lane's had. I don't even remember the guy's name.
Kevin Smith is his name, former running back for the Lions.

(02:11:43):
He's been Lane's running backs coach since FAU and every
year at Old Miss, every year at Old Miss, they've
been top five in the SEC and rushing. LSU was
terrible at running the football this year. So as much
as you like the guy the running back coach who
can recruit, give me the running back coach who can
actually coach. So and I think the landscape's changing now

(02:12:04):
you're gonna you're not gonna recruiting. Ties don't matter as
much in twenty twenty five as they did in twenty fifteen.

Speaker 2 (02:12:11):
No, the checkbook does way more important. Exactly. All right,
I'm glad you're in here because I'm glad you're hopefully
you were listening. So we had a caller, John ask
about romantic stuff to do in New Orleans. It doesn't
involve alcohol, And that's that's a tough ask.

Speaker 20 (02:12:23):
Would you not say romantic stuff? Yes, I mean you
can go to a jazz club and drink coke and water.
You don't have to direct.

Speaker 2 (02:12:31):
Sure you could. Of course they did, Robbie, they do
the Cays, that's right.

Speaker 11 (02:12:37):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:12:38):
We talked about the steamboat. Can you can you go
on a boat ride down in Mississippi? Here in New Orleans?
I'm sure we can't run the notches.

Speaker 1 (02:12:45):
All right.

Speaker 2 (02:12:45):
So Robbie says on Twitter, Museum of Fine Arts or
the Museum of the Deadliest War in human history? Which
one is more romantic? Empt If someone was trying to
give me romance advice, I'd pick in the World War
II Museum A time to go to the museum. I
didn't realize he was trying to he was trying to
make sweetly. So that's why it was kind of an
awkward conversation.

Speaker 20 (02:13:02):
Yeah, talking to ninety year old war vettes about the
Pacific Theater maybe not the most romantic.

Speaker 2 (02:13:08):
Now, all right, stand by here, we'll see. Let's see
what Paul can help us out here. Gordy Paul on
seven ninety Good afternoon.

Speaker 15 (02:13:15):
Good afternoon, and a little bit of my thunder has
been stolen. But I have three ideas for going to
New Orleans for and I've been there many times for work,
but also for taking my wife. One was the boat ride,
and you can get the boat rider sometimes the boat
ride has it like a dinner cruise on it, you know,
so you take a river boat ride with a cruise.

Speaker 1 (02:13:37):
Okay.

Speaker 15 (02:13:39):
The other one was if you're kind of into history
and you can take the good and the bad of history,
the plantation towards and you've got to take the good
and the bad what you see. But you know, it's
good to be curious and see what you're seeing, not
just the gone with the wind look, but the real look.

Speaker 2 (02:13:55):
About what it's like.

Speaker 15 (02:13:57):
And I find it very educational in my mind. My
wife kind of anyway, she was not upset by it.

Speaker 1 (02:14:04):
I thought she would be.

Speaker 15 (02:14:05):
But anyway, and the last one was, uh, they have
and they're not scary or morbid. They had the most
incredible cemetery tours.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
In New Orleans that speaks of sweet love.

Speaker 15 (02:14:21):
If you want to go and see where Nicholas Cage
is going to be buried.

Speaker 1 (02:14:24):
In that pyramid, it's already there.

Speaker 2 (02:14:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:14:27):
Oh, and.

Speaker 5 (02:14:31):
I'm serious.

Speaker 7 (02:14:31):
They go on for blocks.

Speaker 11 (02:14:32):
I think this on Saint Charles Street they.

Speaker 5 (02:14:34):
Go on for no.

Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
No, I've heard of them before.

Speaker 11 (02:14:36):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:14:37):
I know you're being completely honest. I'm not kidding. I
have never been on a cemetery tour, Paul, thank you
for the great advice. Cemeteries kind of freaked me out.
Cemetery is kind of freaked me out. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (02:14:46):
Cadle Street is where a lot of those are. Metry
road meets downtown or uptown, New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:14:53):
So I'm assuming, because you're in here in the studio,
you're going to be talking about a place. It's not romantic,
but a great place to watch a college football game
coming up and in a couple weeks or from now.

Speaker 20 (02:15:01):
I already did that, but I just I heard you
talking about it. I heard you saying that you wanted to.
You were talking about the Texas Bowl and we we
still have not made an official bet on this yet.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
You of H versus LA Friday Show Friday, as long
as you don't beg out for some stupid reason like
a white elephant party or something.

Speaker 20 (02:15:17):
Well, our five star right tackle just entered the portal today,
so this is this is going swimmingly that you know
we're I think we might actually be calling Willie Fritz
and asking to borrow some players to get through this
bowl game.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
You can't have our players. First of all, your LSU
students wouldn't be able to pass one class at U
of H. That goes without saying. You're probably number two.
You know we're we're we're moving up the Power Conference list.
You guys are staying mid That's fine.

Speaker 20 (02:15:46):
Kinder's Texas Bowl dot Com for tickets if you want
to play, great seats available for you of h versus
LSU a week from Saturday. By the way, I've been
doing this for the Texas Bowl for a lot of years.
It's been tough at times. If with an eight fIF
fifteen kick on like a Tuesday or Wednesday, it's a
Saturday this year. That makes it awesome. I mean you're
talking get out there tailgate concerts. We're being at RG

(02:16:10):
past midnight. It's gonna be in a Sunday.

Speaker 2 (02:16:12):
Are you ready?

Speaker 12 (02:16:13):
You know?

Speaker 2 (02:16:13):
Are you wearing LSU gear to the press box? Are
you gonna sit in the stands? I will be a
neutral observer. Oh she didn't want to pay for the tickets. No,
I'm fine.

Speaker 20 (02:16:23):
I'm just I am there covering from a lockdown SEC
splash sports talks.

Speaker 2 (02:16:30):
I forgot about that, all right?

Speaker 5 (02:16:31):
There?

Speaker 2 (02:16:31):
It is friends. As long as Gordy has nothing else
to do in his life, He's gonna COEs with me
Friday ten o'clock until noon. If there's literally anything else,
like there is a repeat of Sweep MeV still Magnoia
is on. He will not be on the show, but
literally nothing else going on in his life, He'll be
on with it. At least I know how to find
good food in New Orleans. Oh my god, I called

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you out on it earlier today. Yeah, it's like it's like.

Speaker 20 (02:16:56):
Going, guys, I went to New York. There's this great
place in Times Square. Got a try like no, get
off the beaten path.

Speaker 2 (02:17:02):
Rob Reese crushed you, our fellow.

Speaker 20 (02:17:05):
Cadas though he's been he's been living here too long,
he's too disconnected from New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (02:17:10):
All right, I'm going to talk to him. A real
reporter CBS is Andrew Catalan's going to join us next here.
That's a good get right there, and they're right Chris, Gordy,
that's Gordy. He'll hang out with us Friday, ten o'clock
until noon. Andrew Catial on CBS Next on seven ninety
Matt Thomas Show continues with Ross here from New Orleans.
Rockets off Tonight. Tomorrow night, we'll take on the Pelicans.

(02:17:31):
Hold the broadcast for you beginning at six o'clock with
Rockets launch Pan. I'll have the play by play here
at seven o'clock. Speaking of play by play, one of
the most versatile and talented sports broadcasts we have today
is joining us on the show about to call his
two hundredth game NFL game on CBS, Andrew Catalan with
us here on the program. Andrew, it's Matt. It's a

(02:17:51):
pleasure to have you on. I'm a big fan of
your work. And by the way, I think Texans fans
love when you and Spiroddas do games because I think
Texans have a winning record with you. Two guys call action.

Speaker 1 (02:18:02):
Well.

Speaker 17 (02:18:02):
I appreciate the con words and it's great to be
with you. And yet it's been a while i haven't
had the Texans this year, so I'm excited to see him. Obviously,
I think they're one of the hottest teams in the
league right now for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:18:14):
And I'll be birdly honest with you, Andrew. We're not
gonna spend a whole long time breaking down Texans and Raiders,
because let's face it, you're gonna have to probably have
some storylines ready for the second half. But that's a
different issue for a different time. Let me go back
to last week because I begged the local CBS affiliate
here in town to broadcast the Indianapolis Seattle game for
obvious reasons, because the Colts are still competing with the Texans,

(02:18:36):
at AMC South and oh, by the way, Philly Rivers
was going to perhaps be on the practice squad. He
winds up starting. Take us through last week. When you've
officially got the word that Rivers was going to start,
you get the chance to talk to him. But the
night before and then as you're calling the game, did
you feel like you were in twenty fifteen all over again?

Speaker 1 (02:18:55):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 17 (02:18:56):
I mean it was surrea when he walked into the
meeting room in the hotel the night before in Seattle,
just say I called so many of his games over
the years, and to hear him say I'm back in
twenty twenty five was just absolutely wild.

Speaker 1 (02:19:09):
And you know, when we met with him the night before,
I was fascinated by his perspective because he was so
honest with us. He said, look, I could.

Speaker 17 (02:19:17):
Get hurt on the first play of the game, pop
my calf. I might stink out there, throw four interceptions.

Speaker 1 (02:19:23):
You know what. None of that bothers me, he.

Speaker 17 (02:19:25):
Said, I'll never know what could happen if I don't
try it. And to me, this was just bonus football.
It's an opportunity to play for a coach and an
organization that I really respect and love and why not
why not give it a try and send that message
to his high school football team, which he now coaches,
that you'll never know what will happen if you don't

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give it a shot. So I absolutely love that perspective
from Philip. He did not care if he was embarrassed
or got hurt. That was not going to bother him.
And then you fast forward to the game the next day,
and look, I thought Shane Stiken did a really good
job of hauling plays for Philip. We talked a lot
on the broadcast about his inability to really push the
ball down the field. Now maybe that'll change this week.

(02:20:08):
Maybe now that he has a week under his belt,
they can kind of, you know, try to stretch.

Speaker 1 (02:20:12):
It a little bit more.

Speaker 17 (02:20:13):
But I thought he controlled the line of scrimmage and
gave them a chance to win, which they almost did.
And that's exactly what that organization was looking for. Now
they're hoping just to turn the corner and get a
couple of wins here coming in.

Speaker 2 (02:20:25):
All right, you are doing a little bit of prep
on for this Texans team. You know, we always hear
the narrative Andrew the teams that go, oh, and two
to make the playoffs certain length of time. Oh and three,
which the Texans began. It's even lesser percentage and less
things completely crater here. The Texans not only are going
to make a playoff spot, but they could win this division.
And from what your brief study is about him so far,

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you'll see him for the first time this year. It
goes down to, obviously the outstanding defense. You're not We're
not speaking out of turn here. It's the offense that
people still want to know how good they can be.
You obviously have seen the numbers of the last few weeks.
It is getting steadily better. But you also have seen
other teams around the AFC. Can the Texans make a

(02:21:08):
legitimate Super Bowl run if the Texans basically give you
an average offensive out but the next handful of weeks
and obviously come playoff.

Speaker 1 (02:21:16):
Time, Yeah, I mean I think they can.

Speaker 17 (02:21:20):
I have not overwhelmed by what I've seen in the
AFC compared to previous years. Now, all these teams we
want to throw Denver, Buffalo, New England, Jacksonville, the Chargers
I think are a good team.

Speaker 1 (02:21:32):
You know, are they gang? You know?

Speaker 17 (02:21:34):
It's not like the years past. We have a dominant team.
I mean, you can make a case for all these teams.
If I'm a Texans fan, would I like to see
the offense play a little bit better?

Speaker 2 (02:21:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:21:43):
I would. Now they did look good last week.

Speaker 17 (02:21:45):
I thought, obviously the opponent was not, you know, the
seventy two Dolphins. But at the same time, you know,
I think that maybe they're trying to, you know, get
their stride a little bit, find some momentum. CJ's now
back in the mix. In was a nice little bonus
last week. You know, it sounds like Chubb practice today.
Those are all good signs, But I just think this

(02:22:07):
is the year where you know, you don't have to
be a great team. You just got to get hot
at the right time. And it seems like they're headed
that way right now, which is a tremendous sign for
Tamiko and the Texans.

Speaker 2 (02:22:18):
Andrew Kettle on CBS Sports joining us. He'll be on
the call this Sunday for the Texans and Raiders at
three twenty five. With your schedule and the fact that
you've not seen the Texans, you've seen everybody else. You've
seen Jacksonville, you've seen Buffalo, you've seen New England. You've
seen Denver and I threw this at Iron Eagle a
handful of weeks ago. I'll ask you, because now we're
even deeper in the season than we are now today,
who do you like in AFC? And I'm not asking

(02:22:41):
going to make a grandiose prediction, but there's all warts
among everybody in this top seven, So you give me
the complete package. Wor do you like the most at
this point?

Speaker 17 (02:22:51):
Yeah, I mean, I think the best player left is
Josh Allen, and for that reason, I think the Bills
are scary. I feel like they're a team that could
win on the road if they don't get home field
advantage or don't get a couple of home games. Their defense, though,
is certainly their ward and their weakness, and then I
don't know if that defense is good enough to overcome,
you know, making a run here in the playoffs. A

(02:23:12):
team I've also seen a couple of times now is
the Chargers, and they've been so beat up along their
offensive line. Obviously, the Texans will see them next weekend,
but I think there's a lot of nice pieces there.
With Los Angeles, they're not blowing teams out there. You know, again,
it's not a dominant team, but there's enough parts where
if Herbert can stay healthy and they can put things

(02:23:34):
all together. I'm really fascinated by that game next weekend
with the Texans out in LA.

Speaker 1 (02:23:39):
So those are two.

Speaker 17 (02:23:40):
But as we said before, you can make a case
for any team, and I think the Texans are just
as good as both those teams I just mentioned.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
Andrew, you do the Bills preseason games that you lived
in Buffalo for quite a period of time, correct.

Speaker 17 (02:23:54):
I went to Syracuse, and I lived in Albany, New
York for quite some time, so not too far down
the road.

Speaker 2 (02:24:00):
I was gonna say, I don't know how those people
in Buffalo do it. They're such die hard fans and
I respect the hell out of them, But that lake
affects snow, and that new stadium, which you'll be calling
games in next year, open air, What the hell? What
are they thinking up there? I don't know. I don't
get it.

Speaker 1 (02:24:17):
Well.

Speaker 17 (02:24:17):
First of all, I love doing the preseason games because
it's August, so it's a nice time to spend a
couple of weeks up there.

Speaker 1 (02:24:23):
You know, I think that's part of their advantage, that's.

Speaker 2 (02:24:25):
Part of their charm.

Speaker 17 (02:24:26):
You go to a game there and the tailgating scene
is second to none, and you know they they love
that at Firement. Now they will have a canopy over
a good portion of the seats at this new stadium,
so that'll help in terms of you know, rain and snow.
But yeah, it's gonna be cold there and that's that's
just the way they love it. So you know, you
might see the NFL h mu's, see the NFL Draft

(02:24:47):
go there. But I don't know if you'll see a
super Bowl there.

Speaker 2 (02:24:49):
That might be a little tough probably, So Andrew call
in a couple more minutes with us here from CBS.
And Andrew does not only the NFL on CBS, he
is a huge part of their NCAA tournament. He works
with Steve Lapis. I want to say, and I'm a
University of Houston alum and have gone to games. I
called their games many years ago before I joined the Rockets.
So as matter of fact, I flew to San Antonio
for the National Championship game in between a Rockets game.

(02:25:11):
So you working with Steve and first of all, very entertaining.
The accent though is incredible for him. Do you have
to sometimes catch it and rewind to say what he
said and maybe comprehend it like five seconds after he
said it.

Speaker 17 (02:25:25):
He's the best. We had Houston in the Elite eight
last year. That was a ball out in India, and
what a performance they put on. And Steve and I
have called man, it's got to be between three and
four hundred games together now.

Speaker 1 (02:25:37):
I mean we've been doing this for a long time.

Speaker 17 (02:25:40):
As you know, when you have continuity with one person,
that makes a huge difference on the air, So you know, certainly,
and I'm from New Jersey and he's obviously from New York,
so I kind of can speak the same language as him.

Speaker 1 (02:25:54):
But he's the best.

Speaker 17 (02:25:55):
We have a lot of fun together and I'm looking
forward to getting with him here soon after the NFL
season in.

Speaker 2 (02:26:00):
Yeah, it's a highly entertaining crew and look forward to
you hopefully calling many University Houston tournament games, and then
after that you get to go golf and work the
Masters on other CBS events. And I always we always
make fun of golf announcers on our show about how
you have to whisper or nuts. Do you catch yourself
leaving the booth, getting in your car, going to the
hotel and oring food and having that master's whisper voice

(02:26:21):
still going. I can speak it full for if I
need to.

Speaker 17 (02:26:25):
Yeah, it's funny last week called a sixty yard field
goal and then a fifty whatever by Meyer's fifty six
yard field goal late, and I felt that the next
day with my voice, I was like, wow, I really
kind of blew it out there, and that doesn't usually
happen after, you know, a golf tournament. So I love
going to New Orleans where you are.

Speaker 1 (02:26:43):
For the the Zurich Classic.

Speaker 17 (02:26:45):
But it's definitely a little bit of a different field
than calling an NFL game. I love it just as much,
but there's no doubt that it's a different voice, a
different tone, and it's really enjoyable. It's a great time
and I'm fortunate to be a part of it with CBS.

Speaker 2 (02:26:59):
To wrap it up, go back to football, it feels
like to me, and I've been telling this to the
audience because look, the Texans have only gone to the
divisional playoff, never have been an ANFC championship game, as
you know. But it feels as wide open as possible,
and I know that people are some people are bemoaning
Kansas City's not in it, and how are we going
to live without that? But if I'm Buffalo, I feel good.
If I feel like I've got all healthy Lamar Jackson,

(02:27:21):
I think Baltimore's got a shot because they've been there
and done that. You've got the Chargers you mentioned playing well.
The Texans defenses is obviously super Bowl caliber worthy. It
feels like to me, Andrew, of all the years you've
been working these games that every week. Now, for the
next couple of weeks before the end of the season,
you're gonna have some meaningful matchups. And no one should
go into January thinking we're the series favorite to win

(02:27:41):
the AFC.

Speaker 1 (02:27:43):
No, no doubt.

Speaker 17 (02:27:43):
I mean, a seven seed in the AFC or NFC,
especially the AFC has a really good chance to make
a run and get hot and get in to the
super Bowl. So I think it is one of those
years you just said, you get into the you get
into the tournament, you can certainly dream about the super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
It is realistic.

Speaker 17 (02:28:01):
You know, the home field advantage, I don't know how
much that'll come into play. There's some younger qbs in
the AFC outside of you know, Allen and Jackson, and
who knows if the Steelers get in with Rogers, you know,
but I don't know how you know, other than like
maybe Buffalo in the snow.

Speaker 1 (02:28:17):
I don't know how big of a deal home field
advantage is going to be.

Speaker 17 (02:28:21):
I think any one of these teams can go in
and get hot and win, and I can't wait to watch.

Speaker 1 (02:28:25):
It's going to be a phenomenal Playoffs.

Speaker 2 (02:28:28):
Pleasure having you on the show. Hope we can bug
you once a year. Safe travels to our community and
again and really enjoy your work and looking forward to
your broadcast on Sunday. Thanks for the time.

Speaker 1 (02:28:36):
Yeah, right back at you, Thanks so much.

Speaker 2 (02:28:38):
All right, Andrew takulre yourself, Andrew catalot with It's from
CBS Sports Talented with the NFL INCAA tournament and the
Masters in Golf coverage on that network. Let's play Believe
It or Not next, it's all things about Quinn yours
and we just found out from our promotions department we
are going to add some another bonus prize today to
today's edition of Believe It or Not. Bargazzi tickets are

(02:29:01):
gonna be available. That's the guy. That's that's the comedian, right, Jonathan.
That doesn't swear I actually have never heard of him before. Yeah,
he's on the Big Dumb Eyes World Tour. I want
to say that's him. I'm gonna look him up on Google.
But I just got this email like two minutes ago.
So we're getting to have tickets to give away. It's

(02:29:21):
all things about Quinn Yours, who's gonna start Sunday for
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If you want to play Believe or Not, it's next
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(02:29:42):
the voice. Hopefully you did. And they'll be on that
call Sunday for three twenty five Texans and the Las
Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 11 (02:29:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:29:51):
Tomorrow on the show, we will spend some time with
our friend Channel Rome. We gonna be back in for
a couple hours again tomorrow ten o'clock until noon, so
it's some more hot stove league conversation to get to.
We will also have I just don't get it at
eleven thirty email A Doka is going to join the
show tomorrow at one at twelve thirty, and I don't know.
We got some good prizes Nate Bargazzi. I think he

(02:30:11):
is the hottest comedian to the country and apparently does
not swear or bring up sexual content. So if you're
looking for some family friendly comedy comedy, we're gonna be
giving that away here in just a couple of minutes
among our other prizes. But first, well, five minutes left
to go in the show. What should we do that
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show.

(02:30:36):
We simply call it it be Believe It or Not It.
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two five seven ninety Today's edition of Believe It or
Not is all things about Quinn Yours. I'm using the
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horize it. You know you didn't, But I'm gonna ask

(02:30:56):
you questions about Quinn yours. He is the new quarterback
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(02:31:17):
the Tota Center. Tickets go on sale this Friday at
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(02:31:39):
at the House of Blues. Those sets of tickets are
available at ticketmaster dot com. But first, let's play Believe
it or Not. Let's talk to Kenneth on seven. Unty
Kenneth A you ready to play Believe it or Not? Yes,
sir Kenneth, Good luck to you. Quin Yours major while
he was at the University of Texas was health communications.
Believe it or Not?

Speaker 1 (02:32:00):
I believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:32:01):
No it was actually physical. Uh uh. Davis on seven
ninety Davis, you're ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 11 (02:32:13):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:32:14):
Quinn Yours first Division one scholarship offer came from the
University of North Texas when he was in the sixth grade.
Believe it or not? Believe it man, y'all didn't listen
to show. On January the fifteenth, Rob on seven Ninty Robb,
who was your favorite part of today's ten to two

(02:32:35):
radio show? I actually enjoyed your last interview. Thank you.
In twenty six starts at the University of Texas, quin
you weres finished with a twenty one and five record
Believe It or not?

Speaker 4 (02:32:47):
Believe it?

Speaker 1 (02:32:48):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (02:32:48):
Believe it statement number two for the win. Quinn Yours
cut his mullet off in order to become more marketable
at the urging of his nil agency Equity Sports. Believe
it or not.

Speaker 11 (02:33:00):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:33:02):
That is correct? Who just wanted to do it? What
he wanted to do is congratulations. Don't foch from the interview.
Too nicely done. Let's go to Paul on seven. Unty Paul,
you're ready to play Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:33:11):
I believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:33:13):
Quinn Yours girlfriend is is a former ut volleyball player.
Rudda beinme, but he does not answer questions about her
in interviews, citing his privacy. Believe it or not and
not that's right? Statement number two for the win, quinn
Ewrs was the first amateur athlete the Senate nil deal
worth one million dollars. Believe it or not? I believe it?

(02:33:35):
Maybe said congratulations Paul, Paul facted it. Paul's one of
our better prize horse, winning once every thirty days. Let's
go to Carlos in downtown Carlos on seven ony. What
was your favorite part of today? He's tend the two
radio show.

Speaker 4 (02:33:48):
Oh, the last five minutes of the show.

Speaker 2 (02:33:51):
Out of over two hundred and fifty quarterbacks rated, Pro
Football Focus ranked quinn Ewers last year as one hundred
and twenty fifth best college past in twenty twenty four.
Believe it or not?

Speaker 1 (02:34:03):
Believe it?

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