Christian Walker Injury Update, Cam Smith Playing 3B, Are Texans A Trade Destination For DK Metcalf?

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, ten oh one
innh Town.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Thursday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Half of us today
from New Orleans, Louisiana, and where the tonight the Houston
Rockets will take on the New Orleans Pelicans. Ross back
in our Houston studios. You guys traveling throughout the streets

(00:29):
of Houston, y'all be careful today if you're listening to
us on the iHeartRadio app no matter where you may be.
Thank you very much for doing that. And we are
with you today until two o'clock, where we will get
into some of the headlines the day, which will include
another wide receiver may be available that the Texans have
been linked to. So says one NFL quote unquote insider,

(00:49):
we have a major defensive star in the NFL be
looking for work. We have Cam Smith starting at third
base today and ROSSI any idea on a Christian Walker
update at this point at ten o'clock.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh no, we don't have to make one of those
coming up, do we?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Now there are they play let's say today's six. They're
planning a night game so they don't even have to
talk to the media till about two o'clock today. M. Okay,
so Adam and Adam will be on the case Soladam
Adam will have all the breaking news on Christian Walker.
We appreciate them. All we need ross is prayers. We
cannot have the new first basement with a fresh three
year contract having a left oblique issue for a significant

(01:31):
period of time. M. Apparently he's missed time with an
oblique issue three times, I know, since twenty twenty one.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yes, but it's okay. He hasn't missed major time any
of those times. Mostly missed with a month when that
was last year.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, so your glass is half full.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
On this, Yes, are you shocked? Let's go. It's spring training, baby,
not gonna be dooming bloom yet.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah. Well, we'll save ourselves for April. For the first
week of April, and Nolan aeron outos. Stuff won't go away,
won't it? Uh? I just don't. I just don't see it.
I mean, I don't think he's overly enthralled about coming here.
I mean I don't. Isn't part of the requirement of
getting a player wanting a player that actually liked to
play for the team he's playing for.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
I mean, what are the Astros doing, are they They're
they're trying to have their cake and eat it too.
We're rebuilding, but we're retooling. But we're trading away Kyle Tucker,
but we're signing players.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
It's a little not unsettling, but confusing. Is that would
that be a better fight? Yes? Yeah, I I do
believe they're in wind mode. I do believe that they
did make the right move for Kyle Tucker. I do
believe they put together. At the end of the day, if.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
You're a wind mode, you you can't trade Kyle Tucker.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
But I but I think there I think there's two
levels of wind mode. There's wind both the long term.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
I'm just saying, yeah, they're they're at the half gas.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well. I don't think they want to be sitting there
with their hands empty a year from now when Kyle
Tucker tells them I'm out of here. I mean, that's
what I mean, That's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Mm hm, Well, they'd get a conpensatory pick, but that
wouldn't be Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I don't think you put copensitory picks on the front
of dyk in parks, so little walls right by the way.
They they they got the dyking I think I saw
one Dike in Park name on the stadium, but I
haven't seen very many. I mean, it's gonna take a while,
I think.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Okay, I imagine it'll be very for oping day and
time will be there till then.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
But don't you think that they should like you know,
they put up the players and what players are showing
up on the dyking wall on the stadium wall. You know,
they put those long long thing those little whatever what
are those things called? Not posters but banners? Banners? Yeah,
those big long banners. Jake Myers, you don't be really

(03:55):
cool if they put you and I on there with
a big promo the Matt Thomas show. Ross said the two.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, let's hold our breath on that one.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
I mean, wouldn't that be the best marketing in the
history of this radios paradis.

Speaker 3 (04:04):
He's gonna be locking down the infield for several years.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, that sounds good. That sounds good. Thirty bombs ops
of eight twenty I'm okay with that.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Let's talk unbelievable stuff. Yeah, yeah, I don't.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Know, Uh, are you confused, and this isn't a serious question.
Are you confused about the future of the Astro. I'm
not confused.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Okay, it's really what they're saying is we want to win,
but we also want to standard the tax.

Speaker 5 (04:29):
Well.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Also, I don't even think it's so much the tax
I think it's more of the I don't want Kyle
Tucker to go away and go hey everybody, at least
I got a competed story pick out of it.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
Okay, then why they trained Ryan Presley.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Because Ryan was in it was in a bad mood.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
Here cause he's staying in the text.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Okay, I mean there's part of it. I mean I'm
not blind to that. But yeah, yeah, yeah, I know
the buop. Look, if a Bray who doesn't pitch ninety
five times his arms should be great for the eighth
inning of games.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, as long as he doesn't pitch as much he's
as he racking up stats on volume from last year.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
And like I said, as long you know, and again,
if the Astros want to use him as much as
they have the last two years this year, just change arms.
Let's keep it one arm fresh. Mm hmmm.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
They're certainly going to ride to the Brian A Bray.
You train until he hits arbitration, and they still have him.
I think he's under control for maybe this year and
maybe next.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
I think, right right. And the reality is also this Ross,
I don't think a lot of other parts of the
bullpen are settled at this point. I mean, there're gonna
be some names, but that could That's really what most
of major League baseball team. I mean, how many baseball
teams leave camp going, oh, we know who are six
hitting guy?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Is?

Speaker 2 (05:39):
We know who are seven thing guys? It's a combination
of folks that to me is not a storyline for
me for Astro spring training, for that matter, any spring training.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, they got a bunch of candidates. They're gonna shake
the tree and a couple of guys will fall out
and be good. I think, yep, that is right.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
All right. We are with you today until two o'clock
this afternoon. We have I just don't get it. At
eleven thirty, and is of course blackjack related, Ross.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Oh oh, how'd you do? Can you even say publicly?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I will tell you what happened? Uh? Oh good? Tell
me up at eleven thirty you want wait? T eleven
thirty Okay, so it's.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
A lengthy tease, but it's a good tease, Matt.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, I mean I think it's worthy of sticking around.
And again, I feel like if you've listened to the
show for any length of time, anytime I go somewhere
where there's gambling, I always have a loss. I have
a blackjack idiocy story to give you, and I have
another one. And I was playing at a very high
table last night, and I thought, and again, this would
be the last thing I thought when you played a
really high limit table that you'd get better players. And

(06:41):
it's just not the case. No, stupid is as stupid does.
How do you add a stupid blackjack dealer too? By
the way, And the last thing on that is he
was showing a six. I had a twelve, he says.
I said, stay, And he goes, are you sure on
against a twelve? I said, yes, I'm sure. To check
the book. He went to check the book to win.

(07:01):
Oops the dealer. The dealer, Oh my god, was he new?
I don't know, but he was really stupid.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
People get really mad at you on the when you
hit it. What is it a three against the two?
But you're supposed to do that.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
Yes, I wish I did every time. Yeah, but twelve
was your friend, thirteen not so much. But against the six,
everybody should know he didn't even know. I mean, Ross, Seriously,
I'm losing Ross. I'm losing faith to humanity here.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Uh, we're getting stupid or Matt. And it's not by accident.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Well, the house already has an advantage because of the
game itself. But don't give him more of an advantage.
That's all I'm saying. Ross.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
I think that I think casinos make their most money
on Blackjack.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Well, that's because they have stupid people playing it.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
That's the reason why, which is crazy, because it's it's
the only game that's actually beatable.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
Yeah, if you if you okay, We're I'm just I'm
just mad. I just don't.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
I just yeah, this is good content. Angry MT gives
us good content.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
I just want people to play by the rules. That's
it there. And I told them. I tell one of
the guys at the table, I said, the game within
a game. One of the games is called Blackjack. You
got a game is called twenty one. They're played by
different rules. He goes, how do you mean? I say,
it's all depending on what the dealer has, what you have.
It's not a race of twenty one. It just isn't, Matt.

(08:26):
It's just as likely to help has hurt. You Just
let them play. You gotta leave them alone. Okay, when
I give you what he did, you're gonna be like,
you're right, Matt. Sorry, No, I'm gonna be like you
let him play his money, but we'll talk to we'll
discuss here. I'm gonna I'm gonna just stop playing. I'm
gonna start playing black their by myself. You can. I'm
going to him, gonna pull every put every money in
every one of the bets and just say, you know what, I.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Don't know if they're gonna lie you you would do that,
You're gonna be shocked up in my spare room and
no time.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Get that right? All right? Headline of the day, Rossie,
what do we got here? We got Rockets Pelicans. Tonight
We've had afuge night night game with the hated New
York Metropolitans. Why wait, what are they playing night games?
Four in spring training? So those people can't they're eating
dinner at four thirty, they can't go to games at
five o'clock, six o'clock local time.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
It's nice to get a day at the beach and
then go to the game.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Not going to the beach, they're going to see their
medical doctor. They got there are four doctor's appointments, so
that's the reason why they do it.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
That's helpful too, Matt.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
But I mean it's only a smattering of people. Let's
let the astros play these day games.

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Oh whatever, You just want more time off.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Well or sure shows we we haven't taken the time
a day off on this. We've been worried, we've been
ground than every day. Yes we have. Yeah, all right.
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d Govern uh uh okay. We got rockets, we have astros.
We have DK Metcalf rumors out there. He's the number
one receiver for the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 7 (10:07):
Was he?

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Now until what's the guy with like the hyphenated name
elisaber Jackson Smith Injigma. Yeah, he he kind of took
over for Metcalf.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf gone the end of
an era.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Well, Metcalf's not gone. He wants to betray, he wants
to be gone. But yeah, yeah, early word is somebody
said a first and a third. I'm like, no, no chance,
no way. Now who said that? Well, plus on top
of that was just some man on Twitter and it
was like an NFL person. And then then and then

(10:39):
you gotta realize he's making a boatload of money next year.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, first and a third andary No way you.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Think you think conservative Casario is going to give up
a first a third and then pay thirty million for
the guy next year when you're already paying me Nico
Collins as much as you are. Well, you keep calling
him conservative. He went all in last year. Well it
didn't work, traders, Now, it didn't work. But he tried that.
That wasn't conservative. If he tried, he failed. He let
the city Houston down. Oh please get it.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
We're done trading for Stefan Diggs giving up a second round?

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (11:05):
The second rounder isn't conservative?

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Okay, let's say let's be him. Pull up this DK
Metcalf deal. Now, I don't be serious. Let's go now
you can go get these second tier guys. But isn't
it crazy this year? ROSSI all of the the number
of once stars now I wouldn't say mid but step back,
step slower, a lot of wide receivers. Yeah, it's crazy

(11:31):
this year of all years to do it. And reality is,
if you think about it, for Texans fans, you should
get one of these guys. And I'm including Digs in
a mix. You have an opportunity in twenty twenty five
to put a legitimate number two receiver next to Eco Collins.
There won't be a lack of candidates for that matter.

(11:51):
So just I'm just gonna stand by and watch and
see what happens. I mean, I think that the next
receiver that will be adjacent to Eco Collins on the
football field for the Texans next year will be somebody
we recognize, and it'll be up to Nick to figure
out how much money that's worth, whether it's training for
a player or whether that's trying to sign somebody on
a one year deal. You know, Nick is the king

(12:14):
of the short term deals, which is I think is
not a terrible idea to do, you know, trying to
catch lightning in a bottle for some guys. Also, you
know what, you play really well for one or two
years will either compensate you for the future or you
go test your war somewhere else. But of all years,
for the Texans sitting at number two, with now Tank
Dell definitely out for the season, this will be the

(12:36):
year to do it. So I'm kind of I mean,
I'm honest, I'm kind of excited to see what comes
up because I think whatever the Texans do with the
receiver Ross, it'll be somebody that we go. Okay, I
get it, as long as you don't ever pay for it,
and I don't think I don't think his Sarah is
a big overpayer. Now, he may not be the best evaluator,
but he's not going to overpay.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
So I think he's done good with players who have
NFL truck records better than he has in the draft.
So yeah, I'm feeling good, Matt, even though you're a hater.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
I'm not Casarah hater. No, I mean, I just we
got problems here. What kind of problems you guys got, beef? No, yeah, no, No,
He's been on the show with us, so I mean,
have you how many time has he been on the
show with us zero. That's fine.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Well you say his content's no good, So what are
you wanting for?

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Well we we we enjoyed the SoundBite so much better,
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Speaker 2 (15:32):
Ten twenty two Sports Talk seven ninety Matt and Ross
with you here. We're in I'm in New Orleans for
the Rockets and the Pelicans tonight. We'll have the broadcast
beginning with the launch pad at six six point thirty,
will be the network pregame in the middle of the
tip time just past seven o'clock. Astros with a night
game tonight. So I believe the game the Rockets is

(15:53):
going to ktch AM.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
I correct on that, yes, and I think there is
no local pregame.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Oh dang, who's in the host game tonight? That would
be me, Matt. Oh lordy, you won't be on very long.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
I'll be talking to all my great friends on news
radio seven k t r H.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
No chance, where's Mark Levin turn this guy? Nope, nope, no,
I think we just always gone Barry over and where's
Michael Berry?

Speaker 3 (16:17):
I can't compete with that, Matt, But I'll be talking
some Rockets, Pellies basketball on News Radio seven forty.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
I love you like a brother, Ross, but I'd rather
listen to Michael Berry repeats in your postgame show.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
That doesn't sound you like you look like a brother.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Are you a comp like I was. I'm okay, that's fine.
I just need some water, but I don't have any.
I can have some delivered. Fine, I'll go get some
in a minute. That's fine. We're going to power through.
That's what we do here ten to two every day,
even when the sports head lines are not really overly robust.

(16:59):
That's upright. Some other shows we could just beat us.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
You know what, mad This happened off air, but I
just want to say it on air to commend the
great employee that we have here. Connor mc govern just
volunteered to.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Get you water. He just walked out of the control
room to get me some water. ID me the best,
He's the best. He's such a sweet kid. We should
do everything we can to keep him under all circumstances.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
We'll say this one while he's gone. He's great, runs
a great board, and he's very nice. Goes above and beyond,
and he's getting me some water right now.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
But going and the Friday opens our classic, Oh timeless
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Speaker 3 (17:32):
Yes one day, remember that one Friday he was out
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Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't disagree. I don't think the Friday get together
is nearly as fun on the show without those opens.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
So hold on, uh hey, Jose, Connor mc govern's gonna
be in there second.

Speaker 2 (17:51):
He's running me some water. Gonna put you on whole tanks. No,
he hung up, Jose, here's my water, Matt, don't call
the show and you all can let it ring three times.
We're gonna get to a promise you. We are a
caller interactive show. We do all enjoy talking to the people.
Oh man, I'm good now. By the way, the water
in my room are they're in cans? Oh? Really? Yeah, man,

(18:14):
this is the brand m I can't I can't no, no,
I can't see it from here. That's by my book.
I can't really tell you. But you know, the only
time I ever saw water and the cans was on
a Dark Breast Airlines plane.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
Well it's it's generally they hand them out for a
like hurricane relief.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I thought, I don't know if that's accurate or that,
but I will give you the brand name in just
a couple of minutes. I don't want to take the
head because there was.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I was actually in a in a tent during Rodeo
cookoff and they had cans of water.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Does that defeat the purpose? I mean, is aluminum better
or or plastic better for the water? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
But somebody I was with was trying to walk out
with one and they thought he had a beer there.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Like, sir, sir, you can't leave with that, sir.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah, And he was like, this is a can of water.
It's not their fault, but they were kind of pushy
about it. You know, these security people can be yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Where's the war? Is the worst security in Houston right now? Worst?
We'll play this out there. Like, in terms of grumpiest people,
I can't use Totis Center as an example because I
know a lot of those people, but.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
I guess they kind of yeah, I know them a
little bit too, some of them not as much as you.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Of course. No. I think Minute Made Park generally speaking
is pretty nice. I think I don't. I don't go
to energy very often, so I can't really use that.
I mean I would say I would, unfortunately have to
say probably TDECU Stadium is probably got the grumpiest security
people really.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
I mean, they see the least out of all those.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
I know what you mean without really saying it on
the air. I think I think we're trying to say
there's very few people in the stadium. No, no, man,
I'm saying there's only what six or seven.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Home games Astro those is eighty one, it's uh a
forty one for Rockets, And it's just it's fewer.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
Matt, what are you talking about? No, I think people
when they heard you just say that, they knew exactly
what you meant without really saying what you meant. No,
it's fewer games, fewer people at it. You were not
thinking few. You were not thinking fewer people in terms
of like empty stands. No, he's something things, things are

(20:23):
critic change. God, I hope. So let me tell you something.
If you as football doesn't change, we're in trouble.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I believe in Willie Fritz.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
The reality is, if your football program isn't very good,
you can't stay up with the big boys. You can't
stay competitive in NL. You can have great basketball teams
you want to. You can have great soccer teams and
swimming and diving programs and baseball teams, but Brah, you
just you can't survive you can't survive. But if there's
anything during this nil time and television contracts and revenue

(20:54):
distribution ross, it is about your football team must not
only be good, but it must be something that television
teams want to see. Yeah, I can argue with that,
And I guess it's always been that way. I mean,
I'm not making something up right, It's always not that way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
I wonder how much bigger the golf got over the
years between basketball and football.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Like, for instance, Indi Anna and Kentucky. I mean two
I mean legendary schools known for its basketball their football
money is. I mean, I don't know what the what
the ratio is between the two, but I can guarantee
you that if the athletic director said he'd rather have
one team successful of the other, they'd both say basket.
They both say football. They just would. By the way,

(21:38):
we're gonna crush next year. We're gonna get huge crowds
for the August twenty eighth Thursday night game against even
f Austin.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
The huge well, it might be nice Lumberjacks bump.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
And then we have Dean Sanders coming to town September
the thirteenth. That should be awesome. And then we got
Texas Tech coming to enter to a TDEC. That's all good,
that's huge. Texas Tech fans will travel.

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Willie Fritz is like I said it was, who was
the right hire got a quarterback? Now, rest of the
team falling in line, let's go.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Yeah, Connor Rigman, I'm gonna say it's safe to say
all American candidate maybe maybe shortless Heisman.

Speaker 3 (22:18):
Uh yeah, No, I think he's he's got to be
the Heisman favorite. I haven't checked the odds, but he's
got to be number one.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
You know.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
It's actually funny, though, why is Archie Manning like number
one in a Heisman.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Odds? Because his name? Yeah, and oh Boba, he did
play a little bit last year. It's not like he
he will not step on the field like he's never
been on a football field for the first time.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Yeah, but he wasn't that good.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I don't know. I just feel like that. You. I mean,
I'm bullish on him. I think he's gonna be really,
really good. I mean, all the stuff coming out of.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Here, you said he's gonna be a bust and he's
gonna be at some other school like five times.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
No, I said he's gonna transfer because he's gonna get
tired of being considered a narcisst for going into.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, we're wrong. So he was solid last year. But
I mean they went with Quinn Yewers with a torno
bleak or whatever he had. Was it a torno bleak
I think, or a target with some sorry injury.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
Are you resembled by the way of him going out
there with that or do you go? Man? Good for him?
He will he played through pain.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
No, I mean I think everybody knew. I don't think
Star Steve Sarkeisan didn't know, and that it does explain
he does. It does a good job of explaining some
of his mid performances.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
All right, ten thirty. More on this and other topics
coming up on the radio program today seven one three,
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Speaker 1 (25:05):
Matt Thomas Rossi Biel is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (25:15):
The name of being a can of water is called
open Water, and their logo is more ocean less plastic
made of carbon neutral cans about that this is more
environmentally friendly and probably Okay, that's great for them. I'm
okay with that. That's fine. Tastes the same to me.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
They're spinning into the wind, but I applaud their effort.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
That's true, all right. Um, let me get to I'm
not a video game player, Rossie. I know that a
lot of our audience is, uh, my family is a
big big time video games players of course, uh my
son and my daughter. I have the MLB at the
NBA two K game that I've been voicing and they've
never heard me on there yet. But that's I don't

(25:59):
think it's a huge sound. It respect and just like MLB.
The show ratings are out for the twenty twenty five season,
and the Astros have five players on that list in
the top group. That's actors said. The top five players
for the Astros Jordan Alvarez, Christian Walker, josel two Bay,

(26:19):
Yon Air Diaz and from ber Valdez. Now, do you
play MLB the show at Europe?

Speaker 3 (26:23):
I have not played an MLB game in years and years,
so I'm I'm the last guy to ask.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Unfortunately, Okay, I'm assuming that overall one hundred is the
top point number on that. Yeah, I would imagine us
uh Frober has an eighty five, Yon Here eighty five,
joseal two, BA eighty eight, Christian Walker eighty eight, and
ord and Averez ninety two if that makes anything.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
Eighty two, Yeah, who's the best in the game?

Speaker 2 (26:51):
One Soto gotta be right.

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Ninety two seems low unless they're like FIFA ratings, where
some people are ninety two or ninety three is about
as high as people get on FIFTA.

Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know who really gets mad about these ranking it's
the players itself. The players do.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Yeah, we only had the it would news At noon
one of the weeks we did, the coach was talking
about the biggest headaches for him. Was it nil or
anything else? It was the players upset about their college.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Ranking, right right, that's exactly right. Okay, hold on, they.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Got Aaron Judge in ninety nine overall, I guess he
plays the field. But Aaron Judge in ninety five and
Jordan is a ninety two. Hold on, folks, I guess
it's because he doesn't play the field. This is this
what's hurting him so much? Can we get somebody who
who plays MLB The Show to educate us on this?

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think it's yeah. If you're an MLB the Show player,
let us know how outraged you are, because I happened
to see somebody on Twitter retweet what I just read
and they're just losing their minds. Okay. On ninety two
Jose Ramirezkay, let's let's figure out why he's on one hundred.

(28:02):
Does he strike out too much? No, but sluggers always
strike out. He doesn't.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
He's not doesn't have the super high strike outs. He
doesn't strike it out as much as U areon Judge overall?

Speaker 2 (28:12):
Does he drawn off walks?

Speaker 3 (28:14):
A good amount of walks?

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Okay, he has a good arm in left field, but
for a defensive player, he still would be considered what
a minus player right defensively?

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Yeah, this this must be just factoring in both sides.
So that's fine whatever. You know what, I'm not gonna
get upset about something I didn't know about five minutes ago.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I'm dropping it, Matt, I'm leaving it. Okay. That's that's
one way if you give you a little radio one
on one if you're a player that you aren't, you
haven't interviewed before, and you're trying to like, well, what's
a good ice breaker? Ice breaking? Good? It would be hey, man,
you see your mL MLB ratings? Oh yeah, and that awesome.
Or you want to go hey, you want to get

(28:57):
on his good side and say, I gotta be honest
with you. Your on You've got a ninety two rating
on MLB the show. That's outrageous. How do you feel?
What are your emotions about this? Right now?

Speaker 3 (29:04):
Wait a minute, Sonny Gray's and ninety and Frommer's at
eighty five?

Speaker 6 (29:08):
What is this?

Speaker 9 (29:10):
Sources have told me that your son Cameron is good
at the game. Really, yeah, you didn't even know.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
No, Well, apparently he's got a lot of free time.
I don't know why, but it's a different issue. By
the way, speaking of camerack, I mentioned in camera before
we go the phones. Okay, he sat first row at
Wreckling Park last night. M hmm for the U of
H Complete Annihilation of the Rice Ols. Yes, so the

(29:41):
game is on ESPN Regional or Plus whatever, you know,
the channel that we do games on. He's pretending he's
the umpire behind home plate. Should he go viral? I
don't know if he's going viral, but he very well
could have. He gave a strike call standing up in
the first row of the lower level of Wreckling Park. Wow.
He is his father's son. And I was like, this

(30:02):
is one of my protest say, you've never been more proud.
First of all, he got this, he got into the stance,
which was props for him on that, and then he
gives a strike call. It was authoritative, it was demonstrative.
It was it was right away. He didn't have to
wait for the umpire.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
He guessed the strike before the strike was even called.
Both the homeplok the Relegiti homeplate umpire.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
That's pretty funny. How did you see video of this?

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Somebody on his Instagram account.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Oh okay, well, let me follow him on Instagram.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Probably just follow sports Harvey on Instagram. It's it's really
good hit. I mean for the three times a year
he puts on trying to use it more. Man, I'm
trying follow me in I G two.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
My latest post has a bunch of pictures of you.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
I just didn't follow. There you go, Matt, I got
I followed you. Okay, thank you. I'll follow follow both
of us and uh if we think you're interesting, we'll
follow you back well. Guarantees at sports empty at sports
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(31:07):
All right, we're gonna get some clarity here. Roddy and
Katie at ten forty one, Roddy, these rankings give us
your raw emotions. After hearing the numbers about these five.

Speaker 8 (31:17):
Astros, they sound legit to me, I think, like what
you were saying Ross, like the FIFA rankings.

Speaker 5 (31:26):
It's kind of like that.

Speaker 8 (31:27):
They're not like you know, with Madden, how the best
player would be ninety five or above, So ranking your
down at ninety two, it sounds about you know right
to me, just all you know how they've rated all
the other players.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
It's a fun game. I'm totally addicted to it.

Speaker 5 (31:49):
Ross.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
I don't know if you remember me telling you about
getting that game. Yeah, and I play it every day.
I go home on my lunch break, I'm playing Yes
after word like.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
It's fun. Man, It's it's a really fun game. Thank you.
Rowdy had no problem. Thanks, Roddy. Do people go home
at lunch and play video games? I does? I mean, Roddy,
you're you you. I don't know if you're the one
off or not. I can tell you that in college,

(32:24):
I think that's probably pretty frequent that people would go
back to their apartments of their dormas and play games
during like lunch breaks are in between classes. But as
grown adults, you know, teach his own. Ain't gonna shame you.
It seems like you're trying to No, not at all.
By the way, Alex Bragman comes in a eighty two.
Does that feel a little disrespectful for the gold Globber.

Speaker 3 (32:47):
I'm sure he feels disrespected by it.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I don't think he cares. I think it's forty million
dollars a year for the next at least one season,
if not more than that. But yeah, you want to
you want to draw up emotions for a manor League
baseball player for that matter, any athlete football. Don't think
football players are probably the most irritated by quarterback ranking,
like with Madden. Yeah, isn't that always a thing once

(33:12):
a year ross where you you players will go to
their Twitter accounts and social media and say, how did
I get this ranking? I'm better than that?

Speaker 3 (33:19):
Yeah, or it's it's definitely a go to when the
ratings come out for it to be talked about on
podcasts or social media.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Oh, the radio row rankings are out and I am
at a ninety nine. That's nice, thank you, Ray.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now that's out of a thousand. That's that's tough.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
No, Jason Barrett that has been a radio programmer who
does a stupid website, got me in a zero.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
They don't get you at a zero. Matt, you're like
a solid sixty seven.

Speaker 2 (33:47):
Well, because I don't pay for his services. No, I'm
not a goof all right, Matte seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety I just don't get it coming up.
And yes, it's blackjack related, and I'm maybe this will
be the last time I ever bring up playing blackjack

(34:08):
ever because it's not going to change, you know how, Rossie.
We have political strife in this country. Republicans think, when
Republicans think, democrats and everybody's trying to change everybody. Nobody
ever changes, right, pretty much? Should Maybe I should stop
shaming crappy blackjack players, especially in New Orleans. Yeah, maybe
you should. By the way, Ross and I have our

(34:32):
bets in for the NCAA tournament.

Speaker 7 (34:36):
We do.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh yeah, this is terrible. It was twelve to one,
like a couple of weeks ago. Well you should have
jumped in.

Speaker 7 (34:43):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
We don't have legal in a casino. I don't know.
We gotta get to fix ten forty four. Matt thomaschew
Ross seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four.

Speaker 5 (35:02):
Today we have I just.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Don't get it at eleven thirty, the News at noon,
believe it or not. Today we still we still have rockets, nuggets,
get tickets to give away.

Speaker 9 (35:11):
No, we gave away our last pair yesterday, but we
got tickets to go see The Offspring.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
It's a great concert, all right. That's a recommendation. The
Offspring is the tickets will be giving away today are
the tickets are giving away today here on Sports Talk
seven Andy. All right, so Harden last night scores fifty
points for the Los Angeles Clippers in their victory, and look,
the Rockets need two wins here in the next three days.

(35:36):
They don't need to beat the Pelicans twice. I know
the Pelicans IOH. Wimson's playing and doing pretty well, but
they're not there obviously in let's wait for next season mode.
They need to win these next two games, get back
in this upper echelon and not let the teams behind
them think they got a shot at them five or
six spot. So the Pelicans, excuse me. The Clippers beat
the Pistons last night, one twenty three to one fifteen.

(35:57):
James Harden scores fifty points for the first time. I
don't know where he is on statsause I don't spend
a lot of time looking at NBA numbers. They're probably
the least important of all when it comes to stats,
you know, like baseball guys are always so so much
stat driven. Do we under we as a collective basketball
fan base ross undervalue James is an all time great?

(36:18):
Is he properly underrated or overrated for what he has
done now. Postseason success still eludes him. He's only been
to one NBA Finals, and it was a six man
for the Oklahoma City Thunder, very very early in his
NBA career. Lots of Western Conference appearent playoff appearances, nothing
to speak of as a net nothing to speak of

(36:40):
as a seventy six er as a Clipper. I mean,
they got a shot. I mean, I don't know if
Kawhilin is gonna be able to withstand and staying up.
They're obviously trying to get back into the top six,
and the Rockets gonna be careful of that pure score
free throw line ten to fifteen times a game. It
felt like they're in the heyday of his career. Great,

(37:00):
great passer, good assist numbers for a huge scorer like
he is. I would say an average defender probably better
is a low block defunder than he would be on
the perimeter. Not an insatiable thirst for staying in shape
twenty four to seven. But look what he's doing at
his age.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Seven seasons as top five MVP, three scoring championships, one MVP,
two assists titles. Yep, He's a Hall of Famer who
just isn't in the inner circle of Hall of Famers,
thirteenth all time scoring.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I'll pull up the assists as well. Yeah, if you
and I were sitting at a bar or at the
barbershop and we were just running through the all time greats,
it would take a while to get to James Harten,
would it not. As a rocket, he was excellent. I
enjoyed calling his games. In fact, he's been friendlier to
me as a non rocket than ever was as a rocket.
I don't know what that is, but that's a difference.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Is probably because you were crushing him on air every day,
not at all. I'm just kidding. There was thirteenth all
time in assist behind Andre Miller.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
It's a weird guy to bring it up.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Then he Yeah, then he gets better the list Gary Peyton,
Isaiah Thomas, Russell Westbrook and then it's like it's the
elite point guards of all time. Right, So once he
passes Andre Miller, which I think he will hold on
one second, come in, Are you serious right now?

Speaker 2 (38:24):
And my stats are coming in, I can't come in.
Come on here, guys bringing in the stor sheet. Thank you, friend,
I appreciate it very much. Have a nice day. Okay,
f Live Radio. Wait, I don't know. I don't know
what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna sit here it
soak it in. Okay, back to what I was saying.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
Eleven time All Star, three time scoring champs, seven time
All NBA MVP, seventy fifteen sixth.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Man of the Year. Yeah yeah. Listen to.

Speaker 3 (38:59):
These nicknames listened for him on Basketball Reference.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Have I ever mentioned any of these names on air
during a James Hard broadcast?

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Okay, the first one is the Beard many many times.
The next one is El Choppo, never Jimbo Slice, never.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
Honey bun. Now the honey bun is because didn't he
buy something for a rap buddy of his that included
honey buns and air? Yes? Was it little Baby or
dub Baby or one of the babies? Yeah it was.
I think it was a weezy baby. Yeah it could
have been. Okay Uno Nope. And the System No, none

(39:46):
of those.

Speaker 5 (39:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I remember him saying, people are like, oh, they talk
about me being a system player, I am the system.
I remember him saying that.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Only story I will tell you off air about James
I'll tell you too quick work ones one is he
insisted on playing loud rap music on the planes. We
would go even in the middle of the night. We're
trying to get home, you know, from Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Miami,
wherever we were. It didn't matter if it was a
forty five minute flight or a four or flight. It
didn't matter if we left the airport at eleven thirty

(40:20):
at night or four o'clock in the afternoon. It was loud, loud,
loaded rap music. Nice. Not nice when you're trying to
get us. Sounds amazing, disease, sounds like a good time,
not at one forty three in the morning.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
You know what they say, man, if it's too loud,
you're too old.

Speaker 10 (40:39):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (40:39):
Starting number two, I would have to say among athletes
in sports, you know how they always say athletes, you
have to have rest, You have to you know, you
have to keep your body right and whatnot. The man
is the most productive athlete I ever been around in
my entire life who didn't sleep. And how I know

(41:00):
this is I got to know his security people over
the years. They all quit year after year after year
because nobody works like James does in terms of going
to play a forty two minute game and then going
over and going out after the game and parting till
five or six o'clock in the morning, and then going
to bed at seven, getting up at ten, going to
shoot around and play the next day. I mean, he

(41:23):
was a machine. He was a He was not a
human in effect for a man who has been I'll
say this, he may be the greatest athlete ever been
around that didn't sleep of all time, okay, which is weird.

Speaker 3 (41:35):
So he's on the he's on your insomniac all time
starting five.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
Yes, And then third he had friends and I know
somebody that was able to express their appreciation for James
being a friend, and it was her birthday and apparently
he forgot, so he just took a wat of cash
and threw a bunch of one hundred dollars bills in

(41:59):
her purse and said, go get yourself something, okay, which
is the gift that really nobody could ever possibly be
upset about. If somebody just came at me, like if
James want to saw me and said, hey' your birthday
in JUNI forgot, let me give you this. I gave
you a bunch of hundred dollars bills. I'd be like,
thank you, James, it was really kind and thoughtful of you.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
That sounds wonderful. Nice guy.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Have you ever thrown a bunch hundred dollar bills in
a woman's person said go get something else, something nice.
I've never had a bunch of hundred other bills. I
get it. And Fourth, and most importantly, during his heyday,
he knew that he could control what was being done
in terms of how he traveled, where we stayed, and
how the game was Coach Mike D'Antoni one of my

(42:44):
very good friends, he says, I got to keep James happy.
He knew it, and coaches know that today maybe and
is it a little lesser in twenty twenty five are
about the same. You got to keep the superstars really health,
happy and wanting to be in charge, or you're out
of work.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
I would say about the same.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, you're maybe running that.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
It's a little different here in Houston because em dok
is clearly running the ship. But also there's no superstar here.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
Yeah, that is crazy. That is crazy, that a you know,
and that's why coaches don't mean I know that Mike
Budenholzer and Kevin Durant kind of got sideways for like
two seconds yesterday or a couple nights back, and they said, hey,
that's just us being us. But if Kevin Durant doesn't
like Mike Budenholzer, Mike Puttenholz, and maybe that's a bad
example because the sun's maybe gone. Yeah, but if Kevin

(43:33):
Durant doesn't like you, you're not gonna You're not gonna
acquire him first and foremost, and you're probably not gonna
stay long term. That's the business. That is a business.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
That's what happened with Booneholzer in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Right, yeah, oh, absolutely sideways with the honest and also
the other coach that got fired their midseason before Doc
Rivers took over. Yeah, yeah, I think it's Adrian Griffin. Yeah, sure,
why not. Could you imagine being a boss somewhere and saying,
if you can't keep your happiest employee happy, you're out.

(44:06):
No matter how productive you are, no matter how magic
to our, matter how good you are x's and o's,
no matter how you communicate with others, you got to
keep your superstar happy. Oh yeah, we got to keep
Michael Berry happy. Maddie, let's go. Oh you know what,
that's a great example of Eddie Martini forget about us
a little seven nuinety guys. You keep Michael Berry happy,
you have to keep your job. Ten fifty eight Sports

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Speaker 2 (46:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show, eleven L three
Sports Talk seven ninety. It is the Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. I'm coming to you today from New Orleans
where tonight the Houston Rockets will take on the New
Orleans Pelicans. The Rockets are facing pressure from teams behind
them in the Western Conference. Let me give you the

(46:25):
very latest standings as we speak, and I can do
that right now, as soon as my phone works, I
can do it. I can tell you that I'm here
for you, all right. So the Rockets right now are
in the five spot in the West. They're a game
behind Memphis, who lost last night to Oklahoma City. Wonderful
Rockets would have the tiebreaker over Memphis. Yes, so if
it's a four to five matchup with Memphis. The Rockets

(46:47):
have won three of the four games against the Grizzlies
and we have home court. The Golden State Warriors are
three back of the Rockets for the five spot. Also,
Minnesota is three back of the Rockets for a five spot.
In Minnesota is at seven. The LA Clippers are four
back of the Rockets. Jesus, the Kings are four and

(47:11):
a half back, and the Mavericks, who are gonna drop
out of the ten spot for sure, are five and
a half back. The question is will Dallas, Philip Phoenix,
or maybe this hot Portland team inherit that ten spot,
because now there's no way Dallas can compete with a
d still missing time and Kyrie Irvings done for the year.
By the way, Dallas got destroyed last night. In the NBA.

(47:32):
So I'm getting rot they just didn't. I mean they're
not they're not must wins. But if they don't, they
don't win, both games will be I think it'll be
considered it.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
It'll be a disappointment. I mean, well, they've already been
disappointing us.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
I don't know, they have basically been a five hundred
teams since the calendar turn not great.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Fred van Vlietz correct.

Speaker 2 (47:59):
Yeah, it is definitely a for today. Is it because
Fred's been gone so much? Is it because the team's
kind of caught the teams have caught up with the Rockets?
Is it because the Rockets have turned the ball over
a lot? Is it because of the Rockets? And this
is not my words, I mean he makes I think
he's been looking for an intensity boost here and it
hasn't happened.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
I think it's a combination of all those things.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
You know, one of the things that WEX brought up
listening the A team and the iHeartRadio. But you'll word, yeah,
he doesn't, Yeah, he doesn't see the Rockets getting overly
upset when they lose. Now, I've said this before in
every professional sport I've ever covered before, in my life,
fans and media take losses way more in terms of

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passion and motion, fire hurt than the players ever do.
And that's not just the Houston Rockets, that's the Los
Angeles Kings, that's the Denver Broncos, that's every sports team.
Some guys are obviously upset, but most of them rossy,
it's just one game on the schedule, or it's one year,

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or it's I've got my money or right, you know,
we just don't. We don't ever think that, so we
should think that players are as upset about losses that
we are. And I'm not saying the Rockets are guilty
of this more thannybody else. But point being is this
is that they shake these things off. Because if you don't,
if you all of a sudden, let a game against

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Brooklyn where you lost two weeks ago, sit there and
manifest you're never gonna get over. You have to shake
it and move on.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Yeah, a lot of these look to reach these heights
that they do. You're talking about a lot of mentally
strong players, and they also generally do view it as
a business. Remember, like speaking of James Harden, remember they
had that horrible loss to San Antonio and then there
was video of hardened the club and a bunch of
fans got all upset, like, how could he lose and

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then go to the club. This is unbelievable. So oh
he had a bad day of work and he went
to go drink at the club. If you're shocked, relaxed people.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
And I think there's really no better example of things
is when you see two teams play a game, what's
the very first thing to do once the buzzer goes off,
They go to their team and go hug the player.

Speaker 3 (50:14):
Yeah, and that especially happens more nowadays because a lot
of these players grow up in the same circles and
train with each other in the offseason, have the same agents.
It's just a different time now.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
I'll say this, I don't think if you all of
a sudden, if the Rockets lose tonight to New Orleans,
should anybody go in the locker room and throw the
food around and the water in the gatorade bottles. I mean,
that doesn't last either. Sometimes you have the heart to
have the heart to heart talk. Sometimes you have to
have the team only meaning whatever the case. And it's
funny anytime anybody you hear of a having a player
is only meaning I'm like, oh, oh, something's really wrong.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I usually means the season is about to get worse.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
Right, so it is a marathon. But I what I
would say is this, I would hope the Rockets can
put together some sort of mojo here towards the last
third of the season because they work so hard ross
in the first two and three months of the season,
right really in the first two and a half months
to be the second best team in the Western Conference.
They did work their ass off to get to Las

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Vegas to play in that game. They did knock off
Golden State in the first half of the year. They
did beat Cleveland twice this year. They did beat Boston
in Boston, they did beat Oklahoma City, They've beaten down
and then they have a lot of quality wins. And
I would hate for them not to be ruined because
of all of a sudden, this five hundred team they
have been basically for the last two months or so. Well,

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it's very simple. Yeah, they just have to to avoid
all that. Just win games.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
You've you've got the weakest schedule of those teams that
we talked about, and we've been talking about this for
a while. Yeah, the Lakers, Nuggets, and Grizzlies all have
harder schedules than you, and you've lost three in a row.

Speaker 2 (51:50):
And the reality is this, I think at this point
of the season, for them to play seven to fifty
basketball the rest away is at Patentley, I'm surd You're
not gonna win every game. I just think at this point,
with all of the subpar losses, the Rockets have picked
up since the counter you're turned and I'm talking about
the two games against Brooklyn, the Utah game Detroit no

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longer is a bad loss because Detroit's about to move
up the Eastern Conference standing they're really quick. I'm trying
to think there anybody else that was a terrible, terrible loss.
M Sacramento at home wasn't great because again, you want
to win home games. You're supposed to beating teams that
you think are talent wise, my point is is, I
don't think there's any more room for the shaking my
head loss hm no, because if you get much more

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of that, you're gonna be sitting there, maybe dropping to six.
And then if really things get dicey, maybe you're having
to play that playing game. I mean, to go from
two to seven I think would be a huge buzzkill
for what has been overall a very positive season for
the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Opponent win percentage and strength of schedule remaining Lakers second,
Denver fifth, Memphis E eleventh, Rockets twenty third. Get it done,
no excuses, and.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
That would include again you think about this, you have
the two New Orleans games, got tonight here New Orleans,
and then you have Saturday for New Orleans, and then
you got a boatload of home games. I mean, let
me look at these home games real quick before we
move on to some other things. Here, Rockets have six
of the next seven at home at New Orleans tonight,
then six straight home games New Orleans, Orlando, they're tanking quick. Phoenix,

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they're the eleventh spot in the West or the Yeah,
they're eleventh. Dallas, No Kyrie, no more Luca, no Anthony Davis,
Chicago who has sucked all year long in Philadelphia, who
sucked all year Ross That's that's a six and one
stretch correct unlesson that would be disappointing. And then you

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have the then you have the Flora swing with Orlando
and Miami. My guess is you know you haven't played
really well in Miami the last handful of lars. A
lot of teams don't play with all Miami because I
mean it's Miami. Then you have Denver Atlanta, who cares
at Utah at Phoenix and the Lakers. That's a two
and one road trip, you hope. Then you have Utah
Oklahoma City. You hope to split that at Golden State,

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at the Clippers, at the Lakers and a home for Denver.
That's a that's a tough four game stretch to end
the year. Yeah, Ross, I'm gonna say if this team
does not go six and one, and no one will
publicly say this, but I think that internally within the organization,
they'd be thinking we gotta win six the next seven games.
That'd be nice, and that would I think would put

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a lot of people at He's now. Again, I don't
think the Rockets are considered by many folks as NBA
title contenders, but I think for this to be a
season where you go, man, this really was fun. There
were some ebbs and flows, and sometimes there were some
down moments, and there is in any NBA season there
but the Rockets have risen the occasion and What makes
things worse, unfortunately, is the fact that you got the
teams in front of them, for the most part, playing better.

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The Lakers don't seem to ever want to lose, Denver's
playing better, Memphis is is in a tail spin, but
Golden State, Minnesota, the Clippers are all playing better right now.
So selfishly I want six in one, and based on
the calendar and who they're playing, and the fact that
six of those seven home games are those games are

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at home, they should go six and one.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
It'd be nice. Not gonna hold my breath, it'd be nice.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
That would put them that at forty three and twenty
six sounds a lot sexier than right now at thirty
seven and twenty five. Is the Rockets. I think I've
lost what eight consecutive road games. I think haven't won
a game this month road or in February for that matter.
I think the last road win was in Atlanta and
that was in late January. That mikey Kuldar NBA conversation

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to day Ross. I hope it doesn't, but you know what,
we we do want to move around with variety of
different topics of the show.

Speaker 11 (56:05):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
I just don't get it coming up at the bottom
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We will not get any word on Christian Walker until
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about two thirty ish local time. Is that game today

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Speaker 1 (56:54):
Mattin Ross returns return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
I just don't get it. In the next segment of
the radio program seven one three two one two five
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conversation seven to one three two one two five, seven
nine zero. John Singleton likely to play some first base
Rossie for the foreseeable future. As Christian Walker. Now again

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this now, he could wake up today and we won't
know this until everybody gets the ballpark later tonight. But
Christian Walker and be like, oh, I feel great, no problems.
You have had left oblique strains before, but this was
just a bad night's sleep.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
I'm gonna say that's probably not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
I think you're probably right.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
I'm gonna say he'll miss a couple of weeks and
he'll be fine for the start of the season.

Speaker 2 (57:46):
Okay, I hope, I uh, I hope your optimism is accurate.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
It's certainly not going to be a super long term thing.
Although how many games I'll too. They missed a lot
of games with the oblique injury a couple of years ago.

Speaker 2 (58:00):
Yeah, I don't remember Christian Walker's buy out being injury
riddled though it I mean, am I right on that?

Speaker 3 (58:07):
I mean, he missed thirty games last year with him
oblique injury, But he's fine, It's fine.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
What are we supposed to expect from our major leaguers
these days? Knowing the way the guys need days off
here and there can if they get to one forty
five or you.

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Gonna say one forty yesh yeah sure. Oh look before that,
one fifty seven won sixty games played by Christian Walker
and one fifteen twenty one because he had two oblique injuries.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
If you have the same injury over and over again,
is that it's just because the body wasn't prepared, That
wasn't racy.

Speaker 3 (58:40):
He swings so violently, Matt. I mean, the blak injuries
are very common in baseball because of the that they are.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Debate the bat swings. Yeah, it's gonna be fine. I
appreciate your optimism.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
So just so I have this trait, Jim Crane doesn't
want to sign long term deals because he doesn't want
thirty four year old's getting paid money. But he's okay
signing a thirty four year old to a three year contract.

Speaker 2 (59:04):
Yeah, I think I think that he gets hurt internet show,
which you just said, it's completely accurate. I'll sign thirty four,
I'll sign mid thirties, but I'm not signing for long term.
And that's the reality is. I don't think Christian Walker
was gonna get deals like that anywhere else. I don't think.
I don't. I'm assuming that Christian Walker wasn't getting five
year deals from other cities.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Well, if he signed Alex Bregman to what is Bregman
thirty one to a six year deal, he'd played till
he's thirty seven, he signs a thirty four year old
or three year deal, he's gonna play at least thirty seven.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
But isn't there less financial numbers attached to Walker's numbers
than they were to Bregman's.

Speaker 3 (59:40):
Yes, there are, but it's but he says, it's about
the years. It's not necessarily about the money. Just saying
just thinking out loud.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Umm, I can't completely nick eight what you're saying, but
I would say there is a little bit of difference.
I don't think I'm looking for hypocrisy. I think I'm
looking for maybe that's all you were worth to us

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at the end of the day, that we were able
to size things up and say, we like you, will
give you six years, but we don't think you're a
thirty million dollars year player. Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 12 (01:00:37):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
I'm not. I don't think we're trying to We're not
trying to put the astros in a what are you
doing with player A that you're not doing with player B.
I don't envision that, but maybe I'm miserating this, but
when I saw Christian Walker's deal, you want slog at
first base for sure. You want somebody that can defend
the position well, because defense has always been at least
for in this organization, with obviously Jeff Back doing the

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things he's it at first base for all those years.
You look for value in that. You look for a
guy that's going to have a lot of home run
potential at minute made part, and also a guy that
never you know again. For much we love Bregman, there
was a history of very slow starts, and maybe there
was a part of last year because a slow start

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was so prolonged that you're like, you know what, maybe
his regression would be a little bit faster than say
other players.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
You're dealing with some more complete information because we know
that as a thirty three year old, Christian Walker was good,
and we don't know what Alex Bregman looks like as
a thirty three year old, right, I'm just saying this
just strikes me funny that we don't want to pay
somebody does thirty six or thirty seven unless it's Christian
Walker or Jose Brady or getting back Verlander twice.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
And also, frankly a dire need. I mean, you ross,
you just couldn't not put John Singleton at first base
for one hundred and twenty games next year this year.
That that just doesn't make any sense. I mean, yes,
he does hit titanic home runs the right field, but
he's limited defensively. It's in the best shape of his life. Man,

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It's like I care about that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
It's like a tiger cat out there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
So you can tell me he's got zero body fat,
very little, Okay, I yeah, I didn't see him.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Yeah, crack you in half, make you humble.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Let me tell you last year he could have cracked
me in half. That's true. Five years ago, John Singleton
could have cracked me in half. I don't know, do you?
You are thinking out loud and this is a live
radio show where you tend to generate thoughts on the spot. Man,
I can't crush your take, but I'm gonna slightly disagree

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with it, okay, because I don't you made the move
with Kyle Tucker. You got Paradis, who's got it obviously
whole power. You obviously had him on the radar. As
you mentioned many a time before, he is in arbitration control.
So if you keep him here for a couple of years,
you're not gonna break the bank with a guy. You

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may not see much of an ops drop between the two.
You will see a defensive slippitch. And obviously Parid's yesterday
had an air in the game, not the spring training
airs or everything, but they did to have one.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
Well, even Joe a spotted right we were right there.
Somebody asked him about his third base defense. He was
like this average. Yeah, I was kind of shocking coming
from it was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
He said how average it was, and then he started
talking about all the things he does. You know, he's
got good range, he's got a soft hands, he's you know,
he's got good movement. I'm like, wait a minute, you
just described him as average. The things you just said
do not match up the description. You gave him a name,
and then you and then you gave him a bunch
of super limbs after the name. Yeah, I don't know.

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I just I will say I wasn't really excited when
Christian Walker was signed that I thought good money reasonable not.
I mean it was. It was a perfect Jim Creen contract.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
I'm glad he's here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
And the reality is ross those those those long, longer
term deals aren't found for many astros. Jarron's got one,
Altuve's got one, Christian Heavier has one. Anybody else or
off the topic that I'm thinking of as a long
I mean, Pain is still under arbitration, uh Yer Diaz
is under arbitration. I mean there's this team is still

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littered with players that are not tied long term to
this team for the for the foreseeable future or under
club control.

Speaker 3 (01:04:40):
And not as much star power as years past. But
we'll see what happens, especially with the young pitching.

Speaker 2 (01:04:44):
Yeah eleven twenty Sports Talk seven to ninety. It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. I'm gonna ask you
a very simple question, Houston, because I do love you.
Is there something in life you just don't get? I'm
gonna ask you that again. If there's anything, whether it's
something about sports, whether it's about the way that your
wife treats you, whether it's the way that uh people

(01:05:05):
are driving across major interstates around this area, whether it's
something that's done at the grocery store, or when you
go to the pet supply store. Whatever you don't in
your life, you just don't get. I want to hear
from you, Ross, and I want to hear from you.
And we're here to help you because that's what we
do here on the program. If there's something you don't get,
you call seven one three two one two five seven

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ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety eleven,
twenty seven Matt here in New Orleans, Ross Back and Houston.
We thank you for listening to this program on Sports
Talk seven ninety Do you've have something in your life
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need to press. We will just doess for something. Just
see if we comprehend the things that make then use
our friends. It's time to say, I just.

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Ross. I'm at a fifty dollars table last night.

Speaker 3 (01:06:06):
Okay, you don't even enter the segment. You've been waiting
to get this off your chest.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
The guy's playing one hundred dollars a hand. So can
I think when you play one hundred dollars a hand,
you've got some comprehension of the basic rules of blackjack.
Dealer shows a four. He's got thirteen. The two three
people in front of him wave it off. He hits
the thirteen against the four, he bust out. The person

(01:06:39):
next to him skips, The dealer draws to twenty one,
and the entire table loses. If he would have taken
that card, which was a ten, it would have busted
the dealer and all of us would have won, including him.
I just don't get incompetence at the black check table.

(01:07:01):
And I've been talking about this for years and years
and years, and some of you are tired of it,
and for that, I wholeheartedly apologize to you. But I
just don't get incompetence at the black jet table, especially
when the limits are fifty dollars a hand sports RV.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
I'm sorry to say, I get it, man. It's just
very simple. People are stupid. People like to give money.
Just because you have money doesn't mean you're smart. People
are idiots.

Speaker 2 (01:07:35):
And I screamed, I dropped a massive F bomb. You did, yes,
because I was Did you get a confrontation? I played
two hands and also one hundred dollars on that one hand.

Speaker 9 (01:07:48):
MM, so can we just clarify for people like me?
Who don't gamble that much. You you're always staying on thirteen.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
You are depends on what the dealer are showing. There's
one card that's hitting one and showing.

Speaker 3 (01:08:01):
You assume Aten is coming, and you yet you assume
Aten is coming, and you assume the dealer's got a
ten and is getting a ten.

Speaker 2 (01:08:07):
Got you okay? And that's how you play the game.
One part of the game of blackjack is getting to
is getting to twenty one. The other part of blackjackets
keep me is staying in the game so the dealer
can bust. Doesn't always happen. Percentages are there's no there's
no guaranteed rate of return when you don't hit on
a car that the dealer's got a bust. But you

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want to stay in the game as long as you can.
And if you play by the rules, and there are
little cards you can go buy on Amazon, you can
go to the grocery store, you can go to a casino.
They'll give you the card to say, when the dealer
has this, and you have this, playing by the odds,
do this. Connor, I dropped the massive F bomb, and

(01:08:53):
that all the tables around me heard it. I got
up and I said, play some gd F and cards, right,
you said that, yes, And the guy didn't say A
guy looked at me and he didn't say a word,
because oh I, oh my god. There are very few
things in my life that will get me upset and
blanky card players. Wow, that's why, and that's why I've

(01:09:20):
decided from here on out, I'm going to try to
play it by myself as much as possible, because the
only person I can blame is myself. But I play
cards right, so it's not a problem if I lose.
That lose because the cards weren't coming my way. But
I'm not going to give the dealer an advantage that
he already doesn't have.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
To begin with, Wow, you you're a He must have
been a short, small man. He probably wouldn't six foot.

Speaker 2 (01:09:43):
Found No, he's obviously very successful. He had he had
about two thousand dollars in chips with him. Wow. He
had a bunch of bling on his hand because that's
what he likes to do. He wanted to show that
he's hit a small penis. He wanted to put as
much as jewelan as possible.

Speaker 11 (01:10:00):
Oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
And then two there were two Rockets employees that were
at the table across and they're like you okay, I'm
like no, So I just don't get it. Hmmm, man,
But Ross, if you were with me, you and I
are very tight. We've done this together for a long
period of time.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
I haven't seen to react that poorly.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
You would have done the exact same thing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
I don't think I would have. No, I wouldn't have.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Well, then you're a better man than I am. Then,
because I lost my blank. I mean, granted it was
twelve fifteen in the morning, so I'm probably swearing more
than I should have to begin with. How many Voka
cranberries had you had? I actually was doing Coronas the
last night. Oh okay, yeah, you've been a corona man.
I do like coronas.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
It is the white man's Mexican beer.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I had a Corona and a model last night, so
I'm mixing. Okay, Ross, what don't you get?

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
I was gonna say, I don't get you screaming at
other back tack players.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
It's an illness I have, and I'm sorry. I just
let me tell you something. I enjoy playing blackjack, and
sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But I just don't
want to give the house any more of a demandage
they already have. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Okay, I'm sorry, Matt, are you really I'm a little
bit sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Actually, thank you. I mean I'm worried for you. I
don't want you to get sympathy, you know at this
point if I don't want you coming to blows over blackjack. Well,
I mean it was one hundred dollars. I mean, I
don't I don't make crazy money. I make good money.
I don't make crazy money. But we would have won
the hand. I mean, I understand if we'd have lost
the hand and some people would have busted someone, but
the entire hand, the entire table would have busted with

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the dealer taken that ten. That jerk off to the
left and he took Okay, as you were, Connor, What
don't you get?

Speaker 9 (01:12:00):
Mine's kind of simple. I just don't get why people
make social media accounts for their pets. It's just I get,
you know, social media accounts like they suggest people to follow,
and it's because of my contact list and their phone
nubers are saved with their account. I get suggested to
all these all these accounts, and it's just social media
accounts for their pets, like, I don't need to see that.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
Your dog isn't an influencer. You know, I'm gonna go
with I get it because people are bored. How about
that people really love their dogs, which I do. I
have two great now dogs.

Speaker 3 (01:12:38):
People want to show other people how much they love
their dogs.

Speaker 2 (01:12:42):
I'm a dog.

Speaker 3 (01:12:42):
People also think that they're somehow going to have their
dog turned into an influencer and make a bunch of
money and get a bunch of followers.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
They have dreams of that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:50):
I've known people that started Instagrams for their dogs and
they're like, Yeah, I'm gona make a bunch of money
off my dog's Instagram. Then six months later they're not
posting on it. Yeah, Now I got news for you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
I pay one hundred and sixty dollars for the dog's food.
Is they get the good stuff? If if I could
put my dogs as influencers for their brand of food
they buy, I would do it in a heartbeat. Exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
People are trying to do that. And then I got
another reason for you, Matt, go ahead. People use their
dog's accounts as burners.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
They're browsing or liking or looking at things that maybe
they wouldn't otherwise. Huh So I don't have a dog Instagram?
Got you on that? Do any of you use your
dogs and cats as burner accounts? Seven one three two
one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 9 (01:13:31):
Next pet account? I say, I'm gonna go with their
follower list and see who what they're looking at.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Why don't you send a d into those dogs and cats?

Speaker 3 (01:13:37):
And it's a way for them to browse social media
and kind of not have an account if they don't
want to.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
M Okay, you know what? Now? After Ross just explained that, Connor,
I gotta tell you, I totally get it, totally get it.

Speaker 9 (01:13:51):
I guess I get it too. But now I'm just
I'm just curious. I'm just even more curious about it.
What are they looking at? What are they hiding behind
their pet? What are they hiding?

Speaker 13 (01:14:04):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Man, excellent work, excellent work? All right? What don't you get?
Ladies and gentlemen? Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
ninety time's in downtown, Tom, I have one s up
a question for you? What don't you get? What I
don't get?

Speaker 6 (01:14:20):
And this seems to only happen in the Toyota Center
in Houston. Wise, every every time I go see the
Rockets play, like I did this weekend, I always get
to there and there's a whole bunch of fans, either
in Rockets gear or the opposing gear. But then there's
always like a gaggle of like random jerseys from teams

(01:14:41):
that aren't there, players that aren't there. They're not throwbacks
like I was in the King's game, somebody's walking around
with a Curry, you know, jersey, and in a Davis jersey.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
And a Lebron jersey.

Speaker 11 (01:14:52):
I'm like, why wear a jersey to a game for
a player that's not on either team and was not
ever on either team and not gonna be playing in
that game.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
I don't get it either, but it's happening tom in
every NBA arena I go to, Like tonight here in
New Orleans, they play at the Ruthy Ring Arena. Do
you get ruth Yeah, but I don't drink it too much.
But if you come, if you ever come with me
to a game, I'll give you. I'll get you mine
if you'd like I did what I came there one time?

(01:15:29):
Yeah you did. I'm seeing it every I see it
in every NBA arena. Maybe it's just people just feel
like they got to put a basketball jersey on to
go to a basketball game. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
I can't think any more than that They're like, yay, basketball,
I got a basketball jersey, Let's go to the basketball game.
I think it's people who aren't huge fans.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Like, here's what I'll do tonight, ROSSI anytime, I will
take a picture of anybody I see wearing either a
non Pelican or a non rocket jersey. Okay, and you
make a montage. Well, let's say, do you think I
could find three people in the arena tonight at least warring.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Something that minimum and probably in the first three minutes
of you being there?

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Okay, So yeah, I will take some pictures tonight and
show him on no socially, and I'll ask for I
don't want to be like a creeper going, hey, why
are you wearing this bus jersey? Yeah, they still might
sock you right in the mouth. It's true, But you
know what, I wasn't even I wasn't even afraid of
that guy with all that jewelry on yesterday socking me
in the mouth because you're you're blind with rape bomb. Yeah,

(01:16:29):
it takes the joy out of playing cards when I
have stupid asses around me. It just does. Man.

Speaker 9 (01:16:33):
Maybe you should just calm down, take some deep breaths. Though,
did he know it was directed at him?

Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
Their hat? When you drop an F bomb and you
slam both hands on the table, I said, f the
dealer would have busted if you didn't take the card.
Figured it out.

Speaker 9 (01:16:51):
Maybe he just thought, and this well from the previous context,
I thought, maybe he just thought you were angry because
everybody lost the hand, but not directly at him.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
If the guy has an eye Q of seven, he'd
to figure out that him taking the face card against
a thirteen with the force showing and the dealers putting
twenty one after that had been his card, then that's
on him. Hmmm. It's tough. Mean, while his buddy was
net was two tables down from my screaming, got new shoe,

(01:17:19):
Get over here, man, get over like shut up. We
don't want to be yelling at damn casinos at twelve
o'clock at night. We need to be playing cards, drinking
our modelos or our Coronas and calling it a day.
Our Irish coffees, which I had one last side that
was quite refreshing. By the way, I love Irish coffees.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
By the way, I remember what I wanted to use
for I just don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Go ahead, Oh let's say we do it. Come back, okay,
eleven forty three News at Noon coming up in fifteen minutes.
If something you don't get in life. And maybe I
should just give up on black jack, But I mean,
I lose the craps, so I've given up on that.
At least I have smartened up to that. But I
used toill enjoy blackjack. And I'm sorry again if you've
heard the stories before, I I in all honestly apologize.
I really do.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
You need to remember the times that they play wrong
and it helps you, man, because it does happen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
It does more times than that. If you play with
other rules right, you got a better shot. That's just
likely to help his hurt.

Speaker 9 (01:18:15):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:18:16):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
The Man Tana Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 13 (01:18:30):
You're not supposed to hit on seventeen, but if I
have seventeen and the dealer is showing ten. I'm supposed
to assume that the is other cards at ten. So
I'm staying on seventeen because of twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
I'm going out like a bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
That's not how I like to live.

Speaker 13 (01:18:43):
So sometimes I hit on seventeen. Situation, it came a
pac table. I have seventeen dealers showing ten. I was
the last one to go before the dealer ford again.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
I said it. Everybody at the table gasped, Oh no,
this dude is on till he's on full, till he's
out of contract.

Speaker 13 (01:19:01):
Even if Dyla said, are you sure, Yes, I'm sure.
I'm hitting on seventeen. I busted out twenty seven. Turns
out that his other car was a five.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
I took his ten. He would have busted out with
twenty five. His next car was a six. He got
twenty one. Everybody lost. I took everybody down with me.
I don't know if that was as to make me
feel better, but now I feel worse. A friend of

(01:19:41):
the show, Billy D. Washington, says, I sat with Aretha
Franklin and washed her split tens in Atlantic City for
two hours. Aretha Franklin, Yes, God rest her soul. She
would be Blackjack, the Queen of Soul. Oh my god,
I could you. I would, I would. I would let
her hit six against sixteen. If the Queen of Souls

(01:20:02):
with me, let me finish this tweet. She made me
sit with her and bankroll my failure to compete for
the entire time I with her, toured with her for
three years and never went to a casino with her ever. Again,
that's a great story. Wow. He also sends another tweet.
He says, I don't get how we have no idea
what the names of the remaining Maroon five four guys are?

(01:20:27):
I couldn't name one of Maroon five if you paid
me to Adam Levine. Oh that's right now with Queen
or what is it with Queen and PJ Morton, PJ
Tucker or PJ Morton? PJ Morton. Adam Levine and Adam
Lambert are two different people. Yeah, it's fine. So which

(01:20:49):
one do we like? Lambert or Levine? Which one's more
talented of the two?

Speaker 9 (01:20:52):
Lambert is the one that's the front man for Queen.
Adam Levine is the front man for Maroon five. Okay,
there you go, very and then Adam Clanton is on
two to six. And then his partner is Adam Wexler,
who's not in a band either. Neither one of those
two guys are in a band.

Speaker 2 (01:21:07):
No, Ross, most famous person you ever played blackjack with
ever in your life.

Speaker 3 (01:21:11):
Was besides me, nobody. We played craps with Omar Epps
and you didn't know who he was in New Orleans.
In New Orleans? Actually yeah, uh me, so I know
with blackjack? Can I say it was with you and him?

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
Who? Former Rocket? Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:21:33):
Eric?

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Yeah, we can say okay, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
Eric Gordon is the most famous player Center played blackjack with.

Speaker 2 (01:21:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:21:40):
That's he was playing very low. He wasn't getting crazy.
I was actually disappointed. I was like, oh my god,
Eric Gordon sitting down with this is gonna be amazing.
He's gonna be betting like a thousand dollars a hand.
He was playing like twenty five to fifty. He was
just casual hacken time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:53):
The most the craziest Rocket blackjack player ever played with
was Corey Brewer, now an assistant coach in the NBA.
He was betting, Yeah, seven hundred dollars a hand. Good
for him. He could do, he could afford it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
Yeah, that's what I'm saying, like, Uh, Eric Gordon was
playing correct strategy, he was playing the limits. He was
just so so so is Corey. I got an own
problem of Corey's game zero. Yeah, he was very chill
and fun. And then we were playing craps with Omar
Epps and you didn't know who he was.

Speaker 2 (01:22:22):
I still don't know who he is, not Omar F.

Speaker 3 (01:22:25):
Scarry, Mike Apps, Mike Apps, and I believe they actually
are related, all right. And then Mike Epps was in
Friday after next. He's in a bunch of movies. And
the only reason you knew who he was when I
said he was Black Dug in the Hangover. Yes, that's
when I finally got it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
Okay, that makes sense, Ross. Before I wrap things up here,
I mean, by the way, if you got a last
call for something you don't get seven one three two
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven, Ay, Ross, what don't you get?

Speaker 3 (01:22:55):
I I was at the Rockets game as a in
the as a fan on Saturday. He gets the Sacramento
Kings Yep, shout out, Adam Plan, thank you for the tickets,
And it was hello, Kitty Night, and again all these
people are going nuts for Hello Kitty. And now the Astros,

(01:23:16):
for the second year in a row, have two Hello
Kitty Knights. Where last year I happen to get tickets
from work on a dollar Dog Tuesday or something like that,
just happened to get to the game earlier than normal,
like an hour early, and they were completely out of
Hello Kitty stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:31):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:31):
I understand people go crazy for some cartoons and whatnot
and children. I don't get how it's it's over the
top for Hello Kitty. What is going on with Hello
Kitty that I don't know? The people go absolutely bonkers
for Hello Kitty stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
You have to ask Craig Ackerman. He is a huge
Hello Kitty aholic.

Speaker 14 (01:23:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
Why Craig Akerman is the weirdest.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
You know what I love about Craig Ackerman, Matt, cause
I feel like if we're talking about a certain something,
I can kind of maybe formulate what your opinion is
going to be on it, just because I kind of
know you and your your leanings or whatever, right, and
you can probably do the same for me. You're like, oh,
you wouldn't like that, or oh you do like that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
I never know with Craig Ackerman when it's food, when
it's a band, when it's Hello Kitty. I never know
with Craig Ackerman more than probably anybody that I know. Yeah,
in a nutshell, Craig does not like He has adverse
to mayonnaise and ranch like huntiness. His palette is probably

(01:24:34):
ten times worse than mine in terms of choices of food.
He likes eightym music.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
Exactly like where does that come from?

Speaker 2 (01:24:44):
Which is weird? But we're gonna go to see the
day the festival. No you're not.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
There's a chance once you see the tickets are seven
hundred dollars, you're gonna be like.

Speaker 2 (01:24:51):
I'm out, I get media credentials, credential meet.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
They're not gonna credential youth to cover is a is
a Houston Rocket performing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
No Steven Adams have a set, But I'm an influencer.
Man can happen? No, you're not all right. And he
also loves Hello Kitty, and he's got an insatiable thirst
for Fran Dresser of the Nanny. That's his number one
bucket list. She could just make that noise was Fran Ever.

(01:25:21):
I mean, I don't mean to be speak poorly but
she was cute, but to be the number one?

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Wait, hold on, she's beautiful, Come on now, Prime friend,
Dreffer Dresser is beautiful.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
Okay, Okay, I don't know. The voice is so irritating though, right.
Can you just put some like some band aids over
her mouth? Okay, I'm glad you said that. I was
really scared for you. What do you think I was
gonna say something else? Oh? I know what you were thinking.
You're wrong. Christopher on seven ninety eleven fifty five, Christopher,

(01:26:00):
good morning, what's on your mind?

Speaker 7 (01:26:02):
I want to say that I don't get it either,
but Hello Kitty Night for the Astros, which has two nights,
are the first tickets that are given away that I
give away to builders and contractors because they want to
take their daughter.

Speaker 2 (01:26:15):
And that also goes for Barbie Knight and Princess Knight.
But I don't get it. But it's always packed on
those games. So why does a grown ass meal of
being obsessed with Hello Kitty? Isn't there? Yeah? I mean
he's grown.

Speaker 5 (01:26:35):
I just think it's the guys taking their ten nine ten.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Year old daughters that want it. So he's got two,
he's got two adult grown sons. Thank you Christopher for
the phone call. Craig. I just don't get it. We
can call him. You want to call him and see
what he would say. Do you have Craig's number? We
can call him real quick. Sure, on time? It's fine?
Maybe next maybe, next show, next, the next time we

(01:26:58):
bring up Hello Kitty on the show, which would be
win never fifteen, I'll bring him tomorrow. All right? That
was I just don't get it for the show. I mean,
I can't if you have gotten young daughters like my
daughter is seventeen, she doesn't care for Hello Kitty. No one, No,
I don't get it. I just don't get the l
kitty fascination me either. Matt, all right, the news at

(01:27:22):
noon is next. Here on the radio program that we
call the Matt Thomas showed Ross. If you'd like to
join us over the main headlines of the day, you
may do that at seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Oh. By the way, yeah, y'all easy. Frand
Dresher or Jennifer Coolidge hmmm, Treasher Coolidge in American Pie Mom. Yeah,

(01:27:52):
and only the first one, just the first one. Okay,
she started getting a little heavier in the second one
wasn't nearly as attractive. More plastic surgery, A lot of
a lot of work done, A lot. I mean those lips,
I mean, my god. Yeah, all right, let's talk about
Big City Wings Circus and that voice. To Jesus, which

(01:28:17):
voice would you list what I'm saying?

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Probably not either, but no, Frantis is a bit.

Speaker 2 (01:28:22):
But actually both of theirs is a bit. They both
have normal voices. Yeah for sure, both are a bit.
Yeah for sure. Seven one three two Goldweight. Sorry, go ahead,
that's okay. I'm just I'm just happy you pronounced his
last time. I keep talking to get us a break,
and it's making him more and more upset. That's pretty funny,
all this. Yeah, seven one three two one two five

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now and two o'clock today, But right now the top
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Sports RV.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
All right, man, I mean so many great, huge headlines.

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
I don't believe it. We're gonna see how really interesting
you can make this here in the next t handful
of minute.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
I'm gonna make it extremely interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
As you know, the Houston Astros still in the spring
of training action in the Grapefruit League five to ten.
First pitch later today as they take.

Speaker 2 (01:30:42):
On the Mets.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
Dana Brown speaking yesterday on a number of topics. Let's
hear what he has to say about jose L Twove
playing left field.

Speaker 12 (01:30:55):
I don't think that we're fully committed to it. I
think that we are excited about it. We like the
path that is taking the trajectory of it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:03):
It's good.

Speaker 12 (01:31:04):
Uh, He's taken well to it. He's actually running balls
down in a gap. Sometimes you forget how fast he
is until you know he went to the outfields. Like man,
he's got pretty good foot speed. I think it's working
out well, and we're going to continue to see what
it looks like during spring training Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
I don't believe him.

Speaker 3 (01:31:23):
Now he says, I don't think we're fully committed to it.
But wasn't Joe Spota saying the other day he's going
to be out there in left field more than he
is at second.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
Yeah, I don't believe him. I believe that that the
primary position for Joseale Tuoban unless it just becomes a
catastrophe in terms of not being able to throw runners
out or misplaying balls. As long as he's adequate, as
long as he's just replacement level ross josel twov' is
your left fielder this year.

Speaker 3 (01:31:51):
Yeah, that's interesting, especially.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
If they go wind up getting Nolan Aeronanto after all,
after all this talk, I don't know what the hell's
going on with that, But yeah, I would say that
you can pencil in Jose Altube in left field. I
would say, I don't know four times as much as
you would if he is playing a second base.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
I'm gonna make a statement, man, and you tell me
believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Oh, I like this, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
It seems to me that there may be a disagreement,
just from what we've been hearing between coaching and front
office on this. Altuve move to left field. Believe me
or not believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
Interesting because it seems like it's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:32:39):
And here's the bigger thing. When you had Jeff Luno
with those young managers, not young age wise, but gunning
experience wise, Bo Porter and Brad Mills, you one ross

(01:33:00):
was Brad Mills ever with Leuno? Or did you get
rid of him right away? Might have been after? I
think it was Porter. When did Luno get in fifteen
or fourteen? Well, what's just for the sake of this argument,
let's go. I think Bull Porter did not control the
lineup card. I think Jeff Leno did. I would agree
with that. I think we're going to figure out who's

(01:33:22):
really controlling this team based off of what we've seen.
How many times Jose Altube plays left field. I think
it's gonna be all of a sudden he does if
it's a fifty to fifty mix, which would be which
I don't think would be in the in the best
interest of Altube. If Altube is going to spend the
last quarter of his seat of his career Rossie playing
in Major League Baseball, he needs to adapt to a position.

(01:33:43):
He's not gonna get any better if he doesn't play
left field. He doesn't know the knooks and crannies of
playing in ballparks all across baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:33:49):
Yeah, Luno got there in eleven. Brad Mills was there
till twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:33:53):
Okay, so one year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
Yeah, Then it was Porter and then Hinch was fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:33:57):
Yeah. I firmly believe that we will find out for
shirt base off how much else Jose l Two plays.
Who's running the lineup card? And I would think, if
if I, if I, if I'm a fan of a
baseball team, which I am, I want my manager running
the lineup card. I don't want. I want my general
manager creating the team, giving the pieces to the manager
to work through his lineup and his bullpen and his

(01:34:18):
starting rotation in his everyday lineup. But I want the
lineup card signed by Joe Spottle because Joe Spottle wants
that lineup.

Speaker 3 (01:34:25):
Why can't they be on the same page? But I think,
can't they collaborate? That's what they should That's what should
be happening teams do.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
I'm not arguing that, but I would say I am
against this, whatever perceived mix that might happen. If you're
gonna go. If you're gonna go, it'd be like, oh,
here comes a terrible let's go all right, time, take
your time. Here it is. I'm gonna diet five days
a week and eat whatever I want two days a week.

(01:34:52):
Are either gonna commit to the diet or you're not
gonna commit to the diet.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
Hmm okay, that's not bad, terrible, that's not great.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
It's fair.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
But how about you're you're in a band and they
want you to play. You're playing bass, and they want
you to go to drums, but you only play. You
gotta play drums, like every set. You got to get better.
You can't just half ascid.

Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
I like mine. Better continue on, Oh mine's better. Cat's fun.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
Okay, let's keep it going with Dana Brown his thoughts
on our good friend Cam Smith for end of the show.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
What's going on with him at third base?

Speaker 12 (01:35:26):
The most exciting thing for me right now is to
watch Cam Smith and and watch him develop and to
see him really play third base. I end up seeing
him last year during the ACC tournament. Uh, you know,
we liked him, didn't know if he was going to
be able to play third Looking like he's developing at
third base. So he's really creating a lot of conversation
and he's playing well right now.

Speaker 3 (01:35:52):
Third baseman of the future Cam Smith May fifteen outfield
after it. But you said May fifteenth, Wow, I mean
they get aggressive. That's would be way aggressive.

Speaker 2 (01:36:05):
Because here's the thing. Two things can happen if he's
May fifteenth. Either he's slugging over a thousand a triple
a right, yeah, or Chas McCormick's batting two o three.
That could happen. Joe Spotta talked about short leashes for everybody. Basically, yeah,
I mean, I think Pariders will hold his own. Now.

(01:36:26):
The only issue why you maybe hold him back is
because if you're bringing up Cam Smith, you're gonna not
do this hole. Is he a right fielder or is
he a third baseman's If he's if he's your third
basement in the future, you're bringing hibout to play third base.
But I don't think they're can pot committed to that
exactly at this point, would be my nest. Okay, we'll see.

(01:36:47):
All right, all right, man, let's keep it moving on
the news at noon.

Speaker 3 (01:36:53):
Uh, you have a couple of things happening in the
NFL Joey Bosa has been released by the Los Angeles
Chargers after not years. There has been some decline in
his game and he has been let go. And now
you also have the re signing of Max Crosby a
three year, one hundred and six million dollar deal by

(01:37:15):
the Las Vegas Raiders. The highest paid non quarterback in
football is Max Crosby.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
Is he worth it?

Speaker 3 (01:37:24):
If his time is up? He's a great edge rusher.
I will say yes. He's one of the shortlist best
guys in football. We also met Believe Good.

Speaker 2 (01:37:35):
He spells his name m a xx right. That is correct. Now,
I thought only adult film stars did that, added exes
of their names for.

Speaker 3 (01:37:44):
The most part. I mean he didn't name himself.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
Yeah, but Max, he could probably drop one of the exes.

Speaker 3 (01:37:51):
Speaking of people that will crack you in half like
an egg.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
Yeah, that's true. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna walk
up and say, dude, why why you get a poorn name?
He would not. I don't think he'd appreciate that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
On orny he probably wouldn't. No, just seven and a
half sacks last year for Max Crosby. Before that, fourteen
and a half, twelve and a half, a lot of pressures,
a lot of tackles for loss. Max Crosby was with
a big deal in the NFL. Also, Cowboys reworking Dak
Prescott's deal as they created fifty six million dollars in

(01:38:23):
cap room by restructuring him and ceedee lamb Dak Prescott.
I believe I'm trying to find the exact number in
this article because I had heard sixty million dollars a
year is what's Dak Prescott is saying.

Speaker 2 (01:38:37):
By the way, and by the way, also we should
mention that the Cleveland Browns renegotiated Deshaun Watson.

Speaker 3 (01:38:43):
Yes, I was also going to mention that, but yes,
sixty million dollars a year. The highest paid quarterback in
football is Dak Prescott.

Speaker 2 (01:38:53):
Not worth it? And I'm Dak press I mean Dak
Prescott was an initial member of the Thomas Sports Enterprises family,
so props to him for getting that money. But good,
not great?

Speaker 3 (01:39:04):
Right, here's your list of the top paid quarterbacks in
football by aav go Dak Prescott, Yeah, Joe Burrow worth it,
Jordan Love not worth it, Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (01:39:19):
Definitely not worth it. To a tongue of a law
ah when healthy worth it, but he just can't stay health.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
And Jared Goff, that's your top six.

Speaker 2 (01:39:31):
Yie, what a blessing to be a quarterback. What a
blessing ross to be a mid quarterback. I still will
tell you this, and I've told you this but many
many times. If you want to get you really want
to tell your young player, your young man out there
to become quarterbacks, to be middle of the road quarterbacks,
maybe a slightly above average. Go look at the career

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earnings of Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
Yeah, that's a little harder though these are like the
top tens. These are still top fifteen quarterbacks on the planet.
So I'd go with a long snapper.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Still, John Weeks is like, man, I'm still gonna go
get real estate license after this job. He made fourteen
million in his career. He should be good.

Speaker 3 (01:40:13):
He's got full pinchion.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Think you would think, what is the NFL full? Next
time I got John Weeks on the show, will ask him,
are you ever going to work again after your NFL
career is over?

Speaker 6 (01:40:23):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:40:23):
Probably these guys don'd do something. He's like a kid,
just sit on our beach. He might try it, though,
let's see full pension is forty three k year from
the NFL. This is I thought it'd be more.

Speaker 2 (01:40:35):
That's it. Forty three thousand hours a year. Yeah, once
you're fifty five, not based off a percentage of what
you earned. It's a player, guess Nut Pikes. All right,
anything on the off, off the beaten path. There we done.
Now we get hit break. Let's do it. He hit
our breaks on time's time, we do okay. Twelve fifteen

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Speaker 2 (01:42:36):
It is the twelve twenty Good Afternoon, Houston, Texas. It
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Sports Talk seven
ninety at seven one three, two, one two five seven ninety.
If you want to jump in on the conversation seven
to one, three, two one, two, five, seven nine zero.
We've brought up Jim Bowden's name a few times, right,

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former general manager.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
I'm more of a Terry Baltain. Yeah, I'm more Bobby.

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
May he rest in peace. He died many years ago.
May he rest. You know, the nicest thing Bobby Bouten
never did.

Speaker 3 (01:43:14):
What did he What was the nicest thing he ever
did in my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:43:18):
When the Marshall plane went down. He was coaching. I
want to say at West Virginia. Don't hold me to that,
but he basically opened up his arms of the new
coaching staff and all the new players that anything you
need from me, you can will help you get your
program built up again. Wow m hm, good for him. Yeah,

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great Southern draw, Bobby Bouten. That's true. Back to gym.
Let's let's seg way back to what we're gonna get to.
So we built do do this to each other. So
it's something out of the ordinary. Talking about what the
Astros did in the off season. Uh, three years, sixty million,
four Christian Walker, Ben Gammle one year, one million. Huge,

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that's a huge one. Trades, Cam Smith, Hayden, West Neski
Isaac Essach Perettis for Kyle Tucker one bellow and from
the Cubs for Ryan Presling cash. They also acquired right
handed pitcher Matthew Lynsky from the Diamondbacks for Great Kessinger.
He says, this is Jim Bowden. The best move was
Christian Walker, who has three consecutive Gold Gloves while averaging

(01:44:28):
thirty two home runs a year. Under the radar moves,
he says. Snagging Cam Smith, the Cub's first round pick,
to get six major league years of Smith, and the
deal for Tucker, whom they controlled for only this year,
was a coup. They can always try to resign Tucker
and fragency next winter. Please, Jim, that's not come on,
I can't believe I haven't read that. Smith Homer in

(01:44:49):
his first who spring at bats with the Astros should
be back to the big leagues quickly, either playing third
base or right field. For them, what has hurt or
help their grade? The departures of Tucker and Bregman hurt
their grade and singled an end of an era for
the Astros, who have made the postseason for eight consecutive years.
Storyline to watch, how will Jose al Twova's move to

(01:45:13):
left field goal and what kind of offensive production will
the Astros get from the rest of their outfield. The
latter will determine if they make the playoffs, extending their streak.
The prediction for Jim Bowden this year for the Astros
third place in the American League West, by the way,

(01:45:34):
predicting the Astros to finish in third, the Rangers to
win the American League West, the Mariners to finish second
and win a wild card, the Astros to finish third
and miss the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:45:46):
Entirely believe him or not, it's in the range of outcomes,
but I'm gonna say nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Oh it is, it is. I mean no, none of
us can turn a blind eye to the fact that
when you lose a high leverage reliever and Ron and
obviously Presley was to lose your goal glove third baseman
who still at a really good to ops especially second
half of the year, and to lose Kyle Tucker and
again grand you lost him for three months last year.
But it was a five tool player when healthy and

(01:46:18):
playing well, and he was really playing well until he
got hurt. Those are losses. We can't shake that. And
if you are shaking and saying, well, they weren't going
to be here long term, already, screw them. Then you're
just not really an objective baseball fan.

Speaker 3 (01:46:34):
You lost a lot and you didn't gain as much back,
but you're supposed to be a lot better. His first
base was a sinkhole. As you mentioned, Kyle Tucker was
out a long time. Last year, you still won eighty
eight games. A lot of that was the pitching, and
a lot of this is going to be on the
shoulders of the pitching. And I think it is going
to be similar to last year to where the offense

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is going to be. You're hoping top ten ish and
then you need the pitching to be top.

Speaker 2 (01:46:59):
Five and you're hoping me al two Bay moves to
the left field is a disaster. Isn't a disaster.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
It's not gonna be an even if he's a complete
butcher out there, which he's not gonna be. I mean
you basically, you don't as we saw in the first game,
he didn't even get a ball in six innings. That
can happen in any given game, right, So he's not
normally gonna he's not gonna be costing you too many runs.

Speaker 2 (01:47:22):
Out there, And the reality is if there's gonna be
any panic with the Astros offense, it's gonna be because
of the following Isach Pradies can't hit for his position
and you're getting nothing out of Myers and McCormick. That
can all happen, I know, I mean, look, I know
who Mauricio Dubon is. You know who it is.

Speaker 3 (01:47:42):
Yeah, we all do well. Some of the fans, don't.
Some of the fans think that he's uh, he's Ichi
ro reincarnate.

Speaker 2 (01:47:50):
Yeah, I mean, you don't be nice. Would before even
the catching spot in their Diaz and our Victor Carratini
to hit to move their slugging numbers up a little
b Wouldn't that be fair?

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
This is the thing, though, you were having Karatina play
a bunch of first last year. Where's yonr Da is
gonna play? You want to use that? That is something
that we're kind of not talking about that. I'm curious
how it's gonna play out. Christian Walker, he said right
in front of his matt I'm in. I'm first baseman.
So if he's locking down first base and you can't
get young Yourdeas and Victor Carrottini in the lineup both

(01:48:25):
times with jord On Alvarez. I've gone on spleets.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Yeah, I've always believed the Astros were going to move
Diaz to first base, and I would have said last
year it would have been sooner than three years. If
Christian Walker plays this contract out, and Christian Walker plays
as much first base as he has done in the

(01:48:49):
pre in his previous stop in Arizona, you're looking at ask,
You're looking at you on your das maybe being your
first baseman for the start of the twenty twenty eight season.
That's still relatively young for him, but I would have
thought they would have made the transition a little bit faster,
especially if this Walker Walker Johnnick or Janick we gotta

(01:49:12):
figure out his name, is on the fast track to
becoming the Astros catcher of the future. It feels like
to me, Roster, there's a lot of moving interesting parts
right now for the organization. Who's the future third basement?
If you've got Bryce Matthews in the mix, You've got
Cam Smith in the mix, can you move Paridius to
second base? Can you? Can't? You know what's going to

(01:49:35):
happen at first base? If Christian Walker's occupying the spot.
If Yanick is the is the next superstar catcher in
terms of defensive work, especially, do you give up maybe
the diz numbers behind the plate to move him to
a different position. You're always looking to figure out who's
going to DH on the regular, which I still think
is going to be yourd On Alvarez at the end
of the day. I mean, these are these are not

(01:49:56):
terrible problems to have, but there's no quick rebony in
any of this stuff right now.

Speaker 3 (01:50:01):
Yeah, it's a real problem. Are we just never gonna see.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
I think it's it's a I wouldn't say it's a problem.
I would say it's a Is there such a thing
as a difference between a dilemma and a problem?

Speaker 11 (01:50:14):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:50:14):
Sure, I'm players.

Speaker 2 (01:50:18):
Yeah, I would say it's more dilemma than problem. Is
you don't have anybody to backing up position players, or
you're throwing somebody out there just because he's on your roster.
Rick right now, honestly, Ross, I'm really concerned about the
outfield offensively, very concerned. Mm hmm. And that's why should

(01:50:43):
be and that's why camp Smith. He may be fast
tracked for third base, but he may be needed in
right field, especially if McCormick cannot pick up already did
a couple of years ago. Twelve twenty nine, Sports Talk
seven nine eighty. This is the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross seven to one three two one two five Ross.
What is today's edition of Believe or Not? I don't know? Okay, Now,

(01:51:04):
remember I've given you multiple warnings earlier yesterday in the show,
and you came up with a masterpiece, although it was
very late in the ball game. Oh well, tell me
what did What's the topic meant?

Speaker 1 (01:51:14):
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Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
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It is a great game. It's it's part of your spectacular.
I'm gonna go with its.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
DK Metcalf, he didn't even get traded. No, it could
be could be anybody die recently, famous, anybody die recently.

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
I'll give you an answer coming back. Thank you. Twelve
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Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
Yeah, we're gonna stop talking about Dk Metcalf as a Texan.
The sea Hawks, according to Diana and Rossini, are asking
you for a first and third round pick, and also
Metcalf wants a new contract worth about thirty million dollars
per year. Bye, enjoy that, Go and go get that
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got need no money Collins money spent. You just you
just can't do that. Sorry.

Speaker 1 (01:52:22):
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Speaker 2 (01:52:22):
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ABTT Thomas Show at Ross seven one, three, two five, seven, Hoy,
Jay and Spring with us on seven. Jay, Good afternoon, Hey, Yeah,
I doing today, Fella good.

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
Just a little article that you had read out about uh,
Kyle Tucker about the possibility of Kyle took A getting resigned,
which is ridiculous, ridiculous. I was just calling, yeah, I
was just calling. Uh, if you either one of y'all
have a case where not necessarily that that happened, Well,
somebody was traded away for prospects and then they signed

(01:52:55):
back for whatever reason. If that were to happen, would
that be some type of collusion thing? Would it be
an investigation? You think if something like that were to happen,
where you trade a star you didn't like. I guess
it's like an under the table thing where you know
you're going to pay him, but you trade him away
from prospeccity then he comes back. Anyway, has that been

(01:53:17):
a case like that that you could think of us
something similar or closer.

Speaker 3 (01:53:20):
To that role as trapman went back to the Didn't
he get traded by the Yankees and then came back?

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (01:53:28):
Was it for a high draft like high picks or whatever?

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Like you restart, I got a few prospects?

Speaker 4 (01:53:33):
Yeah, okay, would you think that that as morally incorrect?

Speaker 7 (01:53:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:53:39):
The way I guess he's a free agent.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
He can sign wherever he wants, and I don't think
the Astros arecluding with him.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
I don't know about you meant, uh, you know what,
Jay would never be able to prove it. So I
can't say that the conversations like that have ever happened before.
But there's not so many examples of what you're just
talking about. Would make me go, what is going on
in baseball for that to happen? Most got most I
mean I shouldn't say most, but players that get moved

(01:54:08):
go somewhere else after that or stay with the team
that got traded to. I mean, I just think there's
just too few examples of what you're explaining, But I mean,
as it happened before, probably has there been some underlying
talk of hey, we're going to make this move and
you know what, you can find us at the end
of the year. Yeah, but there's just not enough examples
for that to happen.

Speaker 4 (01:54:26):
Okay, Yeah, I was just wondering, like, would it be
an uproar Do you think it'll be an uproar if
that were to happen, Not necessarily with Kyle took it,
just with any team if like that big of it,
like that quick you trade them in the end of
the season, he comes right back besides that big deal
or whatever. So you kind of you know what I'm saying, like.

Speaker 2 (01:54:47):
Yeah, yeah, it's a very good conversation piece, Jay, Thank
you for the call. Again, I who knows what happens
on phones and text and face to face visits. It
just doesn't happen enough for us to go what's going on?
Something doesn't smell right. No, it wouldn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (01:55:07):
The Astros would like to have Kyle Tucker here at
the major league level because they need him to try
and win, or they would have, or they did they
traded him because he is not going to be here
long term. Yeah, And that's the way that they felt.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
And why would you if you love somebody, why would
you give them this to go somewhere else? And maybe
that player loves that new team he's gone to and said,
you know what, I really liked Houston, but man, this
Cub situation is a lot better. I'll stay. I'll go
with the Cubs.

Speaker 5 (01:55:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:55:36):
In twenty sixteen, the Yankees traded Roldist Chapman of the
Cubs for some minor league players, including Glabor Torres. Okay,
and then he came back as a free agent with
the Yankees. That's the only one, off the top of
my head I can think of where that happened. That
was also a deadline rental deal.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
And honestly, my guess is Ross, if we were to
think about this had ever happened, it would evolving probably
low end major league players, you know, like I just
throws as example, not that has happened, but like, do
you know how Jed Lowry came back like two times? Yes,
a Jed Lowery type player would be like, you know what,

(01:56:18):
I understand why you're moving me to this team. I
liked it here I'll come see y'all that next year
and we can do something. It would be nobody that
would be that would be a game changing type athlete.

Speaker 3 (01:56:28):
Yeah, the Astros let Verlander hit free agency and then
sign and then trade it right back for him.

Speaker 2 (01:56:33):
Yeah yeah, but that's different. Yeah, it's different. So uh,
not a bad point.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
But no, it wouldn't be collusion. I don't think there's
Tucker and Astros are colluding.

Speaker 7 (01:56:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:56:47):
I think Kyle Tucker told the Astros a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
He's gonna hit free agency and probably gonna hit a
level of bidding that the Ashros are not going to
be able to stay in.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
I bet you Kyle Tucker would love to play in
Tampa Bay. Promise they don't have spend money on big
name for you. Ada. He's I think he's resolved to
the fact that he's never going to play for a
team that he in the city in which he grew
up in.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
Poor guy, I'll just have to take three hundred million
from someone else or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:57:13):
Okay, So have we decided once and for all our
whether we're betting a bag of chips or a meal,
what are we going to do on the Kyle Tucker deal.
What have we decided on this? What do you mean
how many years we did? We did years? The line
is seven and a half.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
And as I told you after after speaking around and
knocking around in spring training, I'm feeling like you're gonna win.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Okayt Salars attached to that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
No, it was a fast casual lunch you tried to
up at night. Said no, but I still you a
fast casual from Bregman budget here. You know, I've seen
you like three days this year, so well, you're not
going to see me till probably next Tuesday. I'm gonna
see it with the Rockets.

Speaker 2 (01:57:53):
Game on Monday and see me there. I don't think
I'm working that one. Okay, I'll see you next Tuesday then,
all right, Uh see you alright, I can't say that
you did that me. Let me segue seven one three
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Speaker 6 (01:58:15):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Look, I'm getting ready for this Rockets game tonight. You
know that Zion Williamson averages last year against the Rockets
twenty six points a game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Sounds about right.

Speaker 2 (01:58:29):
He averages twenty five a game. That's pretty good. He's
got who hardly plays, averaging twenty five. When he plays,
he scores twenty five points a game. He's only twenty
four years old. Can you believe that? Yeah, first pick
in the twenty nineteen draft, six to six listed.

Speaker 3 (01:58:45):
It seems right, Okay, two eighty four. It could be
right now, could be right now. Probably wasn't right in
the offseason.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
Has it been three hundred before I'm gonna go ahead
and say.

Speaker 3 (01:58:58):
Yes, he's a triple double threat every night, scores easy
with his athleticism for not being for being a bad
three point shooter. It's crazy how well he can score.

Speaker 2 (01:59:10):
Yeah, he shoots twenty three percent from three and only
sixty three percent from the line. Imagine how many points
he leaves on the table by missing free throws. It's
a lot. Took twenty three shots against the Lakers on Tuesday,
zero three point shots. He was seventeen of twenty three
from the floor. That is freakish athleticism.

Speaker 5 (01:59:32):
What that is.

Speaker 2 (01:59:33):
And when you watch him in person, which I have done,
not as much as others because he hardly plays against
rockets the last four or five years, but you can
tell why people were enamored with him because of his
freakish athletic skills, especially inside the arc.

Speaker 3 (01:59:48):
I mean since he was in high school. I mean
he had his YouTube, like the montages of his dunks.
He was throwing down in high school.

Speaker 2 (01:59:56):
Yeah, but he just likes to eat. And if he
keeps his if he got his weight to two sixty
and kept it there as another twenty five pounds less,
he would be impossible roster guard.

Speaker 3 (02:00:09):
Hmm, well, I see if he can do it. It's hard, Matt.
Maybe he's got a food addiction. It's hard, it's difficult.

Speaker 15 (02:00:18):
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Speaker 3 (02:00:18):
I was watching the Luther Vandross documentary. He was talking
about how he wakes up he's thinking about food, and
he goes to sleep. He's thinking about food all day.
Luther Vandros are dead.

Speaker 2 (02:00:28):
Correct, Yes, so he's not thinking about food every morning.
Well not anymore, he's dead. No, Hey, seven one may
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Speaker 3 (02:00:37):
I'm gonna go with that never too much?

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Connor dmgovern. Are you a bunch of a I don't
know the answer this question. Were you ever a baseball
car collector when you were a kid at Ross? Yes?

Speaker 3 (02:02:54):
When I was younger from I don't know, ages six
to fifteen.

Speaker 2 (02:02:59):
Ish, you know what I would do. I would buy
box sets and I would never open them up, which
I was like, why am I doing this far? Is
this for an investment? Or should I be opening the
cards up and seeing how look? How cool?

Speaker 3 (02:03:08):
The people do that now and they make content out
of it too. They go to eBay, they buy unopened boxes.
You should sell those when.

Speaker 2 (02:03:14):
You have any of them met Probably in my garage
needs to be cleaned out, but that's not the hereing
r there.

Speaker 3 (02:03:21):
M And then they do opening boxes, they do opening
of cards and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
Yeah, a one of a kind of autographed baseball card
featuring a patch of the number thirty jersey that mister
Sken's the Pittsburgh Pirates War is going off to auction.

Speaker 3 (02:03:41):
Yeah, wasn't there some kids? So some kid found it.
It was going to be a one of one. The
Pirates offered like thirty years of season tickets and whatever
else and a date with Livy Dunn or something like
that is pusking lady lunch.

Speaker 2 (02:03:56):
And I think they get the second base too, which
is kind of weird. I don't think that's accurate, Matt.
And probably it's called prostitution. Matt. Oh, that was a
good line.

Speaker 3 (02:04:08):
The kid was like, shut you, Obama ass up. Here's
I'm gonna put this bad boy in auction.

Speaker 2 (02:04:14):
Yeah, Paul Skeen's rookie debut patch autographs officially here. The
card was released in November of last year. An LA
area kid received it as part of a Christmas present.
He declined the offer, and now it's up for grabs
cash wise. A twenty twenty three card featuring Schemes picked

(02:04:40):
up sixty three thousand dollars in August. That was when
he was a senior at LSU.

Speaker 3 (02:04:48):
M h, I mean, wow, speculation as it could go
for one million dollars or more.

Speaker 6 (02:05:03):
I am.

Speaker 2 (02:05:06):
I'd be uncomfortable owning something like that. Like if I
was a multi millionaire, I don't know, what would you
want a lot of artwork in your house? Would you
want a lot of amazing I mean, I guess it
all depends on what you'd want to spend. But don't
you if you were to bet on this and win this,
when you just take it to a safety deposit box
or to get to your local bank and lock it

(02:05:27):
up and never see it again because you'd be so
afraid to touch it or somebody we might hurt it.

Speaker 3 (02:05:30):
Yeah, it only has value if everyone else believes it
has value, right, Like at the end of the day,
it's a little patch and a piece of cardboard.

Speaker 2 (02:05:39):
Yeah, And if Schemes becomes a seventeen game loser in
the next five years, it's gonna be the value is
gonna drop considerably.

Speaker 3 (02:05:46):
It's the same thing with I don't know, Pokemon cards
or vintage cars or whatever, or people who are in
the shoe game, Like you'll have some Jordan whatever colorway
of some shoe that's valued eighty dollars and then Lebron
wears it and it goes up to three hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:06:02):
Yeah, it's just the value.

Speaker 3 (02:06:04):
And also, what if Paul Skins gets Tommy John three
times and never develops into the star we all think
he's gonna be, then you've wasted a million dollars. But
I just it's a gamble.

Speaker 2 (02:06:14):
Yeah. For instance, if I was gonna go spend serious
money on memorabillion sports, I would probably go with somebody
that that already has a tremendous track record, noth that
Paul Skins couldn't do this, but everything on that he's
fast tracking himself to being one of the elite pitchers
in the game. But there's still a relatively speaking, there's
a small sample size attached to it. It's still a

(02:06:34):
risk where if I go by a Lebron James autograph Jersey,
I know what the value. The value is not gonna
go away. He's the second greatest or the greatest, depending
on who you talk to, the greatest player of all time.
If I go get a Jerry Rice autograph jersey, I
know that I've got one of the best players in
the history of the NFL period. If I have Walter Payton,
I I mean, I know it's there. I'd be because

(02:07:00):
if you're spending you said, you say the car could
be worth a million.

Speaker 3 (02:07:03):
Yeah, so you're doing that and saying in ten years
it's gonna be worth four million, five million or whatever.

Speaker 5 (02:07:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:07:08):
Yeah, it's like a stock basically, right, you're gambling that
it's gonna go. But one of the most expensive basketball
cards ever sold. I know this because we didn't believe
it or not or something.

Speaker 2 (02:07:17):
I saw it.

Speaker 3 (02:07:18):
It's like a Luka Doncic rookie card. He's twenty five
years old. But you're spending millions and millions of dollars
on this hoping that it's going to be worth much
more later on.

Speaker 2 (02:07:28):
Okay, So Luca is a really good player, right m hm.
He helped the Mavericks go to the NBA Finals last year,
and the person and the notion that he could probably
do that again the Lakers is pretty good because he's
now with a very successful team. They've played well since
he got there. Lebron is with him, so but that

(02:07:49):
doesn't seem like to me a type of player that
I don't want to put a lot of. I mean,
the Mavericks disagree with these sales.

Speaker 3 (02:07:56):
I know, I know, yeah, I know what you're saying.
It's gamble, so I'm pulling it up. The most expensive
card ever is a Steph Curry some card for a
rookie card for five point nine million dollars. Second is
the Lebron James rookie at five point two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:08:11):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (02:08:12):
Third is a Luka Doncic rookie card. This is the
same thing, kind of. I think it's a one of
one autograph four point six million dollar card and another
Luka Doncic one for three million. That means those two
cards are worth more than any Michael Jordan card.

Speaker 2 (02:08:28):
So let me ask you this. If you're going to
get more value on that Luther's Luca cards, he's got
to do more today than he has done previously in
his NBA career. Or maybe you're just a huge Luca fan.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
I don't buy this part of it. It might have
been in one of these two. So the Michael Jordan
card most expensive one is a two point nine million
dollar card. It was sold in twenty twenty four. These
other cards were sold for more, but from Luka Doncic. Wow,
this is crazy. Actually the hell are these people doing?
And also people say maybe his money laundering or people

(02:09:03):
that have just money to burn. Well, and there's some
of that in there. I mean, yeah, you're buying a
card for three million dollars, you got money to burn?

Speaker 2 (02:09:11):
Yeah, Like we have some memorabilion in our family, but
they were all past tense, long retired players that it
was big, Like you know I got I have a
George Foreman boxing glove that you got for free from work. No,
you didn't pay for it, did you know? My father

(02:09:33):
in law gave you to Oh okay, that makes sense.
So there's value in that because George Foreman is a
former world champion. He's one of the greatest boxers of
all time. There's no way it's going to go down
in value unless people just say, well, George is you know,
dead or ninety years old, and nobody knows who care.
I mean, but if I was going to memorabilia buy

(02:09:54):
it would be probably I would be on the end.
I'd be on the other side of it, I'd rather
go after I'd rather pay more and go after something
that I know is already gonna have value as compared
to going to Paul Skins and going, man, I hope
you can. I'm gonna buy you now. It will buy
you low at one million, and maybe if you win
twenty games a year for the next six years, where
that card's worth triple.

Speaker 3 (02:10:14):
Paul Screens is gonna be a superstar like all. It's
just as long as he's healthy, unless his arm falls apart,
which it could.

Speaker 2 (02:10:22):
It could. Yeah, there's a lot of guys that have
been that have been rookie phenoms and two or three
year one. I mean, let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (02:10:27):
Harry Wood says, Hello, Yeah, I get you.

Speaker 2 (02:10:28):
You get it, You get a t J and you're
done for a while.

Speaker 3 (02:10:32):
Carry would and Mike Pryor is saying, what up, Paul skeens,
I get.

Speaker 2 (02:10:34):
It, noaid Mike Prior. And it's not Mike Mark, I
said Mark, Mark Prior. That's what I said. Oh you
said Mike. His cousin Mike also believes that Mark Prior
was a one year wonder too. Luca cardn Lebron card
I could see Steph Curry Carr, you want to buy that.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
I get that the card probably went up in value
now that he's a Laker.

Speaker 2 (02:10:56):
That's true, especially if they win a championship this year.
The national everybody's pushing hard for the Lakers. In the
West Man they are pushing hard. Oh yeah, to the
NBC and Prime Video and all of their prime They're
hoping that too, because they can put a bunch of
their games on their national packages starting mixt year with
all the new TV games.

Speaker 3 (02:11:17):
I'm just scrolling through these most expensive cards of all time.
They're almost almost all of them are Lebron and Jordan, which.

Speaker 2 (02:11:24):
Is funny because most people, most kids like including you meet,
grew up with baseball cards more sore than anything else.

Speaker 3 (02:11:32):
Yeah, isn't the most expensive baseball cards like those old
Honus Wagners or something.

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
I have two of those? Really? I think you shoul
keep them forever. Matt, No, I don't have them. I
wish it could. We have an hour LEFTIC on the show, Ross,
what do you want to lead off? What is topic A?

Speaker 3 (02:11:45):
In the final of the I tell you what we're
gonna talk about during the break. What the heck is
believe it or not. Paul Ski cards Values, Google a
ball card values, card Values. We've done this before, but
I'll do it again.

Speaker 2 (02:11:55):
It's fine. You know what we're down on now? Yeah,
we can regard to Tate seven one three two one
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(02:12:16):
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(02:12:44):
Kawahara from the Houston Chronicle talk to Christian Walker ten
minutes ago sports Are you Are you ready? Yes? Do
we need to ear music behind medical song? I mean
I should have told you ahead of time. It's my phone, okay,
So whenever the music's ready, I'll read you the update.

(02:13:06):
This is from Matt Cara Kara Cara harra, excuse me,
it's a lot of there's a lot of syllables there.
Don't hurt yourself, Matt. Matt says that Christian Walker says
his side is quote a little sort today, but definitely
not worse than yesterday, which is a good sign. He

(02:13:29):
being Walker said the issue does not feel as serious
as the oblique injury that kept him out a month
last season. Walker said he had some ultrasound testing, but
they are waiting for swelling and inflammation in the area
to go down before doing further imaging. Oh hell no,
oh hell no, swelling an information. No, it's gonna be fine. Frossy,

(02:13:56):
it's spring training warnings and you go play golf, but
you swing, you go eat, you eat sushi and stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:14:04):
He's okay, he can do all those things. Well, he
can't swing your golf club.

Speaker 2 (02:14:07):
I hope God no, God, please.

Speaker 7 (02:14:11):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (02:14:15):
I don't like to hear the term swelling an inflammation.

Speaker 3 (02:14:18):
What'd you think they held him out with? You think
it was totally normal?

Speaker 2 (02:14:21):
Honkey Dory. Know what, go get a shot and get
your ass back out there. Stop three year guy, let's
go spring training. He's thirty four.

Speaker 3 (02:14:29):
We gotta preserve his body for as long as possible. Anyways,
wrap him in uh in the bubble wrap? Yes, all right,
So it's not as big of an hour yesterday as
it was. Well, it wasn't any work. Swelling is going down,
but not to the point where they can get imaging
on it.

Speaker 2 (02:14:46):
They can't get imaging on a swell. Oh God, that's
not good. Why not good?

Speaker 3 (02:14:53):
I told you he's gonna miss a couple of weeks
and be fine for opening day.

Speaker 2 (02:14:58):
Oh, let me ross, Let me throw some cret annual
leak injury. You miss time in spring training? Does that
mean April March twenty ninth or whatever he's gonna be.
He's gonna go four for four, two home runs, that's
what you're saying. Color shot Yes, o God, please, no, no? Whoa,
The swelling is not down enough for him to have

(02:15:23):
or ultrasound or whatever. He be serious? You cannot be serious,
John Singleton? Who will get more ebs? Shot? Who will
get more aps in a month of April? John Singleton

(02:15:45):
or Christian Walker? Answer me?

Speaker 7 (02:15:48):
Now?

Speaker 2 (02:15:53):
Where are we ad in society today? It's a grown man? Yeah.
Hashtags sluggish start to twenty twenty five? Do you got
the time and the cash I got the head. Oh,
I don't know how I got in there. I was like,

(02:16:14):
that was a mistake, Yeah it was. I could tell,
damn you, Matt Thomas, damn you, Christian Walker, stretch that
od bleak out. You like it hard, she likes it soft.
We were talking about taco shells. Correct, it was actually

(02:16:37):
you were doing a mattress spot your tacos. You're like
a hard shell or soft shell? Soft shell? What do
you say with heart?

Speaker 13 (02:16:48):
No?

Speaker 14 (02:16:48):
Yeah, I'm indifferent. I go either way, hard or soft,
either way m one o six fifty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:17:01):
Yeah, he will be playing this now.

Speaker 3 (02:17:04):
We know you like it hard?

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
What is this drop?

Speaker 8 (02:17:10):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:17:11):
Where did we get a cat? Where did that come from?

Speaker 9 (02:17:16):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:17:16):
No, all right, folks, are you ready for a twelve
and thirteen month of April. Let's go. Let's beat a
good deal of realities here. Ah man, I mean god,
I know, no, God, please no. John Singleton's three or
four upper deckers. But he's also making a strikeown like

(02:17:40):
nine times in two weeks. It's our last half of
a full now because John Singleton's ripped body, frustrated, I'm angry, sucks.
John Singleton has muscles in areas where you shouldn't have muscles.

(02:18:00):
He's that ripped. I'm gonna read the quote again. Oh
please don't, it's too late. What is this one?

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
Eleven hundred dollars for three inches four on a good day. Wow,
I got a lot of stuff in here.

Speaker 2 (02:18:27):
Man's surprising because most of stuff got deleted.

Speaker 3 (02:18:30):
Man boobs.

Speaker 2 (02:18:32):
Walker said he had some ultrasound testing, but they're waiting
for swelling and inflammation in the area to go down.

Speaker 3 (02:18:41):
Hen't nobody get to Ford dead right?

Speaker 2 (02:18:46):
Astros lineup today, Hummel and left, Smith at third, Cooper
humbosol the squad. That's great. Jannar Diez catching him betting third,
Singleton at first, betting, lean up, Jazz Fizz in center
today batting fifth. Let's go Chazzy. Something called a d H.
Hamilton is batting sixth, Rogers hit second base, batting seven.

(02:19:11):
Brendan Rodgers, Brendan Rodgers, Brendan Rodgers. It's like Roger Clevens
coming to the Yankees. Kevin Brendan Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (02:19:23):
Quinn, it looks like it's Quincy Hamilton number two.

Speaker 2 (02:19:26):
Eight. Excuse me? Is it really no? It's not? Is
it non? Rest or invitee?

Speaker 5 (02:19:32):
Is that him?

Speaker 2 (02:19:32):
Oh Rogers batting seventh? Okay Melton and Ray is at
Jacob Melton, Yes, vj DJ Giormey is the shortstop today? Wonderful?
And the Gusto is going to pitch? Who Gusto Ron Gusto, Gusto,

(02:19:53):
Gusto whatever, Gusta Gusto. That's the one who was supposed
to pitch in the last day of the season with
nine hours of rain.

Speaker 3 (02:19:58):
Out as soon as somebody gets some show older soreness
or some elbow technists, so he's gonna be the first
one off the bench.

Speaker 2 (02:20:04):
So, needless to say, not the twenty twenty five World
Series roster of the Astros will put out there for
the Game seven. It could be mm hmmmm, all right,
there we go seven one three two one two five
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(02:20:26):
and at Connor d McGovern. Gosh, almighty, the swelling has
to go down. What the hell was he doing? Did he? Was?
He just swinging too hard?

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
It's his annual bleak injury. It's like, you know, you
go up, go go to Aspen every year. Christian Walker
gets an oblique injury every year.

Speaker 2 (02:20:45):
It's fine. What injuries do you have on the yearly basis?

Speaker 3 (02:20:49):
Calf injury?

Speaker 2 (02:20:50):
You do not. I've ever seen you with a calf
injury in my life. Every winner gets a little chilly.
I suffer from a fatigue carrying this show, carrying my
life that I live. I mean, that's yearly for me.

Speaker 5 (02:21:03):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (02:21:09):
In Singleton, we trust say it with me Houston.

Speaker 3 (02:21:14):
And John Singleton. We trust who had.

Speaker 2 (02:21:17):
More hits in March last April, John Singleton or Christian Walker.

Speaker 3 (02:21:21):
Well, remember we were earlier talking about how this is
gonna we we need Victor Carrottini in the lineup more.

Speaker 2 (02:21:26):
Oh Carotini at first? Okay, I see it. Creative y
Diaz playing for the first base, Carotini behind the dish. Maybe, Hey,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (02:21:41):
She is a bit of a butcher at first. By
the way, I gotta crack something, okay.

Speaker 2 (02:21:46):
Uh. David on Twitter, seth, I purely guessed you or
my Lady was by Luther Van Dross. That's Freddy Jackson
singing you or my Lady. That was just a complete yeah,
that was wrong, your lady. It's a jam. By the way, Okay,
you play that with the ladies back in say, eighty
eight eighty nine, they loved on you big time. I'll

(02:22:09):
take your word for it. Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:22:13):
You know Lucy Vandrows wrote songs and the Whiz. He
wrote songs for Chic.

Speaker 2 (02:22:19):
Who wrote Did you write Eon down the Road movie? Whiz? Maybe?
All right? What was your favorite Christian Walker's an astro moment? Stop?

Speaker 3 (02:22:31):
Do you I want to punch you right in the throat?
You can't three hundred miles away from you. That's a
great drop. Can we we hear that one more time?
Do you I want to punch you right in the throat?

Speaker 2 (02:22:40):
No? I can't. I thought it was really you saying
that too. That's funny. Uh maybe we should have the
last hour in all a all drops down by I
gotta drops.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
I'll get in front of the mirror do it for
two hours tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:22:58):
What the heck was that context? I don't know, but
that's fantastic. At least some of your drops are dropping
in the show one thirteen french men wearing.

Speaker 3 (02:23:07):
Speedos that had packages. You were talking about Hawaii or something?

Speaker 5 (02:23:12):
Right?

Speaker 2 (02:23:15):
Uh? Oh, yeah, that's when I dined and dashed that
one time in Halloweah. Yeah, years ago. I tried to pay.
Nobody was there to take my money. You know what
I gave.

Speaker 3 (02:23:22):
He was begging for and I gave it to him
because I want to see him completely make it for
seven to twelve minutes.

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Speaker 1 (02:25:33):
Texas, Doctor Matt Thomas and Ross via Real Fine Fine
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:25:47):
On twenty on the Matt Thomas showed Ross here from
New Orleans, Louisiana. By the way, I can just say this,
went to Bourbon Street a little bit last night, Rossie.
This is still a fantastic city. It's very pleasant except
the crime in the urination and the vomit. The food
is amazing. Went to an amazing steakhouse last night. Had

(02:26:08):
went to a little bar for listening a little bit
of music for a while. And then obviously you went
to the casino and saw a man spend one hundred
dollars on hitting thirteen against a four steakhouse. Yeah, you
gotta go to a creole joint. Oh I know what
you did.

Speaker 3 (02:26:22):
You wouldn't got You're gonna play discount, didn't you?

Speaker 2 (02:26:25):
No, no, no, no, no no. I'll tell you the
matter of fact, the place I went to it has
been around. I want to say, for seventy five years,
it's called Dicky Brennan's Steakhouse. Oh, okay, delicious. Dicky Brennan
Steakhouse has been in New Orleans on Abbeville Street. That's

(02:26:47):
not how doughnut yourself.

Speaker 5 (02:26:50):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:26:52):
I think it's been around. It's it's been ridiculously around
forever and ever and ever. So yeah, it's good, but
lots of I mean you can eat fried food here too.
I mean your cholesterol level in this town is.

Speaker 3 (02:27:04):
You eat everything everything. I love New Orleans. Oh, you
know the pizza. The pizza scene apparently is getting better, Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
You know what you can get? You get slices up
right on Bourbon Street with like a beer pizza combo.
We just fine.

Speaker 3 (02:27:18):
Yeah, there's this new Loki Lucky uh Lucky Dog, I
think is the place you gotta try, Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:27:22):
It's new local dog joint. No, the Lucky Dogs across
the street at the casino, and I have a Lucky
Dog little dogs. I'm gonna get one at two o'clock
the day. I can take you that for damn sure.

Speaker 3 (02:27:31):
Now they have them all on their card on a
I don't know if you know what I think I
have had a lucky dog before, have you?

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
Yeah, but I was drunk, so I don't remember what
it tastes like. It's fine. Okay, let's go to uh
Rico at one of the Matt Thomas Show. Hello, Rico, Okay,
what's going on? Man? I got the other day?

Speaker 15 (02:27:51):
Amazing, amazing, it's a good day, brother, just real quick man.
As they say about my little in in in December too,
I'm under the guild.

Speaker 5 (02:28:03):
Uh but they haven't played him yet, man, can well
you have a chance. Can you have Joe Dirt? What
is give because goes out of his chance to play
so he can show what he has.

Speaker 2 (02:28:17):
This is your cousin, Yes, sir, is in December. What
position does he play?

Speaker 15 (02:28:27):
He played outfield man, so actually we need outfields man.
And he's a left hand a power hitter man. Once
once Joe Dirt gives him his chance, y'all gonna forget
about Albreas.

Speaker 5 (02:28:38):
I'm gonna tell you that right now. Are is gonna
be in the in the back seat?

Speaker 2 (02:28:42):
Brother, wa whoa whoa your rolldown family member?

Speaker 5 (02:28:46):
Come on now, come on man as this week man, oh.

Speaker 2 (02:28:54):
Let me tell you what I just did. I want
to look at your your cousin. His face isn't even
on the Don't Like Baseball website. It's a dark picture
of nobody there sitting there.

Speaker 5 (02:29:04):
Look, I mean, they just signed him. But if you
look at his stats, man, he got he's got my
stats man.

Speaker 15 (02:29:13):
He led the lead his team last year with home runs,
RBIs and I believe also bad than the average if
I'm mistaken.

Speaker 2 (02:29:21):
Do he go to Spring High School? Yes, sir, he's
six foot two twenty probably could lose a few pounds.

Speaker 15 (02:29:29):
Yes, hey, but he's stick though. He's out there muscle
muscle brother.

Speaker 2 (02:29:36):
Okay, ho buy that I give you to you? That's fine?

Speaker 5 (02:29:41):
Man, what Joe dirt? Gives it his chest? Huh?

Speaker 2 (02:29:47):
I can't. I cannot call it. I cannot call Joe
a spot of Joe dirt. That's not going to happen.
That's not going to help you, your cousin's cause.

Speaker 5 (02:29:55):
You probably right about that, man. But I wish, I
wish you would give it his chest.

Speaker 2 (02:29:59):
Man.

Speaker 5 (02:30:00):
He was man, he's got he's got power. Man, he's
the left he has power.

Speaker 8 (02:30:05):
Man.

Speaker 15 (02:30:05):
Man, I'm telling you, man, what's what's Joe gives him
his chance? Y'all gonna forget about areas.

Speaker 5 (02:30:11):
I'm right.

Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
Oh whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. He played independent ball for
something called Yolo last year in the Pioneer League. Yeah,
I'm not moving a guy and Alvarez out for your
cousin who was a Pioneer League All Star.

Speaker 5 (02:30:26):
Come on, now, I'm telling you, man, he's he's got power. Man,
he's good.

Speaker 2 (02:30:34):
And I'm not just saying that, but he We love you,
We love you like you love Jose. Okay, here's the
bottom line. You calls about every thirty days with an
update on his life. Okay, would you do that for us?

Speaker 5 (02:30:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:30:47):
Well, and if he and if he sucks, if he sucks,
you gotta call him the numbers and if he's great,
we'll help We will help you. I'll get in front
of Dana Brown and drop his name. But if he
bats two O nine single a, then you better come
and correct an apologize to the audience to Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:31:05):
Oh I will, I will, hey, hey, hey, hold up,
hold up, hold up.

Speaker 2 (02:31:12):
He's twenty four years old too. What the hell we
gotta get going here?

Speaker 15 (02:31:17):
Father time, ain't this one well it's it's a long
story behind it, but he should have already been in
the in the major right, Okay, behind that, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's a it's a law thory behind that. But uh,
you know, I'm just happy that you know, they you know,
uh Daniel Brown game a call game. You know, actuals

(02:31:38):
were looking at them, man, and they decided they signed
to a minor league deal man, So let's let's get.

Speaker 5 (02:31:42):
Him on the show man so he can show people
what what he sd what to do.

Speaker 2 (02:31:49):
Okay, he's a left fielder, a first baseman in a
right fielder, Ladies and gentlemen. The official minor leaguer of
the Matt Thomas Show. Forget about Bryce Matthews, forget about
Jacob Mountain, forget about Cam Smith. The official rookie of
excuse me. The official minor leaguer of the Houston Astros
is Jose Gonzalez, who is six feet tall, two twenty

(02:32:10):
probably got some bit of a belly, don't know that
for sure. He went to Texas State University, he went
to Kline High School, and he's gonna rake and his
and his cousin Rico calls the show and for that
we love him.

Speaker 5 (02:32:23):
Yeah. Yeah, I hope Joe get in this shot man,
so he can prove the people what he can do.

Speaker 2 (02:32:30):
Okay, there it is. We're all in. We're all in.
Thank you, Rico Ross, were all in for this guy.
Can't wait. I don't believe you. First. Jose Gonzales, Okay,
it's a it's a rare name in the hispanis he's
ready to mash well the Astros, dirty Joe? Would Joe

(02:32:53):
Dirtill give him a chance? Yeah, you can't.

Speaker 3 (02:32:55):
I cannot call him. He's up to Joe's spotted. Can't
just call him up. I don't think it's up to him.
He goo, Yeah, talk to Dana Brown.

Speaker 2 (02:33:03):
Last year, he played last year for something called the
Uba Suitor High Wheelers Ubas Suitor High Wheelers. Yeah, I
don't know what that means. Where the hell is Uba.

Speaker 3 (02:33:17):
Suitor Uba Suitor also known as the Yolo High Wheelers.

Speaker 2 (02:33:22):
He led the team in home runs, RBI's and ops.

Speaker 3 (02:33:26):
Marysville, California.

Speaker 2 (02:33:30):
He is expected to sign either US play with the
Asheville Tourist, which is High A or double A Corpus Christie. Oh,
let's go the late Bloomer. Can you menagine being twenty
four of me in a High A? I mean you
gotta ber for everyone? Yeah, you gotta buy beer and

(02:33:51):
booze everybody. You gotta be the one, you gotta be
the I met this. There was this one old minor
league rosson if you know. He went to a ballpark
and he turned all the sprinkles on and forced to
and forced to rain out. Hmmm, that sounds familiar, Matt. Yeah.
And he was he was in charge of keeping this

(02:34:12):
monor league. I don't have a f his name, yeah,
but he was. He was in charge of this young
pitch of this phenom, and so this phenom wouldn't listen
to him. He would tell the batters what pitch was coming.
M hm. And he kept calling this star meat it
was really wrong or him. Yeah, and they were both
in love with a busty redhead. They both had relations

(02:34:34):
with this busty redhead who apparently had relations with many
minor leaguers and even talked about one of them wearing
socks during sex. Hmm. Yeah, Jose, we gotta we gotta
get Rico's cousin Jose out out of high a twenty
four years old. No, you don't. You're buying pizza and
beer for everybody. Now, those nineteen year olds can't afford
that kind of stuff. All right. Jose Gonzales, official minor

(02:34:57):
leaguer of the Matt Thomas Ship one twenty nine on
Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven nine zero. On Twitter, you can follow us at
sports MT, at Sports RB and at Connor DM govern
Quick Time out Back with more with Believe It or
Not in twenty here on seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:35:20):
Matt Thomas, Ross viel It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:35:33):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety If
you want to jump in, It's a Matt Thomas Show
with Ross tomorrow before anything goes Friday. We've been on
flour stories coming up on the show tomorrow. We have
hopefully a rockets factory to talk about tomorrow. And oh,
Camp Smith's siding today for the Astros against the Metropolitans.
We'll have it for you right here on seven ninety

(02:35:54):
beginning at four point fifty, and what else is going on?
Any more? Veterans Wild Receivers to be released the next
couple days. By the way, again, DK Metcalf of the
Seahawks wants to be moved. He wants thirty million dollars
a year, and the Seahawks in return want to give
up a want the teams that acquire him to give
up a first and the third round selection. Thank you,

(02:36:15):
but no thank you on that one. What else we
got going on today?

Speaker 1 (02:36:21):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (02:36:21):
By the way, can I mentioned this to you very
briefly yesterday? Ross steven A. Smith went on the Tonight Show.

Speaker 3 (02:36:29):
Last night he did and he was he talking again
about how he's not running for president.

Speaker 2 (02:36:33):
Correct. You know how you you know what you do
when you don't want to be brought up as a
potential presidential candidate. You tell the interviewer, I don't want
to talk about this because I'm not doing it. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (02:36:46):
Yeah, going on like ten interviews and telling people you're
not a pedophile is not a good way to pink
people think you're not a pedophile.

Speaker 2 (02:36:52):
Wow, that went dark all of a sudden, really quick.
But the point is this, How many more shows does
he have to go on to the world he's not
a candidate.

Speaker 3 (02:37:01):
I don't know why. Why is he making all these appearances?
I guess ESPN's trying him out there, Like we're paid
eight million dollars let's.

Speaker 2 (02:37:07):
Go, because what he's doing is he's not turning anything
down because he wants to build his brand. Second of all,
he wants to get the biggest contract in the history
of ESPN for a television personality. He wants to trump
Pat McAfee, and he wants his name being constantly talked about. Hmmm,

(02:37:28):
and guess what this show is doing for about another
forty five seconds talking about him. I mean, look, the
Democrats have made some mistakes. They admitted to some of them.
The biggest mistake you could put is putting Steven A. Smith.
If Steven A. Smith doesn't even know what players are
on what teams, how the hell do you want him
to balance a budget? Let's do it.

Speaker 3 (02:37:51):
Skip Bayles's Republican, Steven A Smith Democrat.

Speaker 2 (02:37:55):
But they actually get Those two guys get along. They're
like pesty. They could be like a one to two punch.

Speaker 3 (02:37:59):
Yeah, but they've debated each other for years on TV.

Speaker 2 (02:38:03):
Oh so you're saying basically that you would then want
skipping Shannon to be a party ticket.

Speaker 3 (02:38:07):
Okay, yeah, okay, I don't know if Shannon wants to
be the vice president of anybody, though he might have
to run of the primaries.

Speaker 2 (02:38:14):
Yeah, there's also a film with him out there too.
That's not overly flattering. He was the audio of him,
his audio in the background. That's fine, that's sure. Video Yeah, hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:38:30):
Okay, anything that that boosts his candidacy, that's true. He's
getting stuff done.

Speaker 2 (02:38:39):
So maybe you should do something embarrassing on video and
it pumples, you know, like remember that time when Jerry
Springer wrote the check to the prostitute. I mean that
only improved his image at least for that fam Kardashian's
entire fame. Yeah, j right, Yeah. What does Reje doing
these days? Uh, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:39:03):
He may be touring. He had a couple of hits
back in the days, mostly known as uh Brandy's brother.

Speaker 2 (02:39:12):
Yeah. I couldn't name one song of his.

Speaker 3 (02:39:15):
I can't remember the songs, but he had like a
couple of my small hits.

Speaker 2 (02:39:19):
Yeah, I just again, it's for you. I know it's terrible,
but for you is full of Steven A. Smith wanting
to run, telling anybody that wants to hear him he's
not running. Well, then stop doing it. Go on your
podcast and say I'm not doing any more television. You
want my opinion on sports. You want my opinion on that?
Really accept that I don't want either one of them.

(02:39:45):
You could put up Donald an AI had Donald Trump
in four years, AI Donald Trump beat Stephen A. Smith.

Speaker 3 (02:39:52):
Uh, well, I would be AI. He's not gonna croak
before then, is he?

Speaker 9 (02:39:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:39:58):
But I mean, you can't run for a third term
unless they change the rules. I was gonna say he's
gonna try to get a an amendment past. Yeah what
amendment is that? By the way, we I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:40:08):
He just declared martial law.

Speaker 2 (02:40:10):
That's true. But seriously, the next time Steven A. Smith
tells us he's not running for president, which means you
know that Steven A. Smith for pres. Dot Org is
gonna be up and running.

Speaker 3 (02:40:20):
Well, he will not be getting a yet again. I
will not be participating in a presidential election.

Speaker 2 (02:40:25):
Yeah, I think I'm done with that too. Uh. Seven
ninety let's talk to Alex on the Matt Thomas showed
Ross Alex, good afternoon to.

Speaker 5 (02:40:32):
You all, right, guys.

Speaker 10 (02:40:35):
I don't want to blame y'all directly. I'm not that guy,
but all the gambling talk got my blood all rolled
up and I had to go to New Orleans and
I think October for a wedding, and I was inspired
by just all of your all of your conversation. I
was like, these guys have got me set right. I'm
ready to go. I'm gonna go play me some roulette

(02:40:56):
and I'm gonna win big. And Matt, let me tell you.
I walked in there, I guess around midnight. None of
the roulette tables were open except for like the twenty
five dollars spots, and I lost.

Speaker 5 (02:41:11):
I lost with the swiftness like there was there was
no there was no lull.

Speaker 10 (02:41:17):
It was just they just took my money and it
was gone. And I'm trying to figure out what I
did wrong. Where can I play cheaper that's not twenty
five dollars? And I think it was like actually like
fifty dollars that I had to put down because you
had to have like four spots on the table or
something like that.

Speaker 5 (02:41:34):
And man, it was.

Speaker 10 (02:41:35):
It was a horrible experience and I want to enjoy
it the way that y'all do. And I don't know,
I don't know what I did wrong. So if you
could just maybe illuminate the correct way to do it,
that would be fantastic.

Speaker 2 (02:41:47):
Any time about playing roulette. You talking about the whole
gambling experience, well.

Speaker 10 (02:41:53):
Roulette specifically, but the gambling experience as a whole even
would be better, because man, it just really turned me off.

Speaker 5 (02:42:01):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:42:03):
I'm gonna tell you right now. Here comes some realities.
First of all, if you're coming to New Orleans for
the intent purposes of gambling, you're picking the wrong Louisiana city.
The tables are never low here, never, ever, ever, ever.
I went across the street this morning to get a breakfast,
and the blackjack tables are twenty five dollars. We're talking
twenty five dollars mid week, eight o'clock in the morning.

(02:42:26):
So if that's I'm sure the same for the crabs tables,
and the same for the relet tables. Secondly, I don't
ever play roulette. I find it not enjoyable. I have
no interest in it. I don't know if I'm in
the minority or the majority. I just don't play it.
Don't think it's any very much fun um, and that's
about it. I think that's all I got covered there.
I think roulette's a bat aim and I think New

(02:42:47):
Orleans is not the place. She if you're coming to
New Orleans to eat drinking, oh by way, play some cards,
that's one thing. But if you're coming here to gamble,
you just go to Lake Charles. Save yourself the time
and hassle.

Speaker 11 (02:43:00):
Man.

Speaker 10 (02:43:00):
I came in looking for backer rat and there was
not one single backer at table open and and so
like after Roulette, I kind of resorted to just playing slots,
and I was looking for penny slots. I was looking
for some cheap stuff in My buddy was like, no, no, no,
we got to come over here and play this Buffalo one.
This Buffalo one's going to pay you out. And I
had just seen him win four hundred dollars on this thing,

(02:43:22):
so I was like, yeah, dude, this is this is
money in the bank.

Speaker 2 (02:43:24):
Let's go.

Speaker 10 (02:43:25):
And basically I lost forty dollars in about five minutes.

Speaker 5 (02:43:29):
He's horrible.

Speaker 2 (02:43:31):
Wow. But I know why I would probably play roulette
is because nothing anybody can do on the roulette table
can affect the way you play. Going for all right,
maybe next time I.

Speaker 3 (02:43:43):
Would just go to those limits. Yeah, you look, you
get high limits in Caesars and New Orleans. We always
talk about it. Matt go to downtown Vegas somewhere you
can play small for a couple of dollars a hand,
or you know, just kind of dip your toe in there.
You got to jump in. You got to dive in
into Caesars New Orleans. You gotta be ready to drop
some cash.

Speaker 2 (02:44:03):
It's like it's like, hey, I want to go to
a baseball game. Ad minute at the dyke In Park.
Which game you want to go see? The Yankees? Oh?
You're gonna pay higher prices for the Yankees. Yeah, if
you want to die per toes and the Astros going
to a home ball parks, go check and play the
Cleveland Guardians.

Speaker 3 (02:44:15):
You'll be just fine our Wednesday day game against the A's.

Speaker 2 (02:44:18):
Yeah, exactly. That's the big leagues over there. They don't
miss five dollars a hand. Another thing I'm a bitch about.

Speaker 3 (02:44:25):
It's six five I can't get so, oh, don't sit six,
don't sit at six five, Just don't it's six y five.

Speaker 2 (02:44:32):
Don't do it.

Speaker 3 (02:44:33):
It's literally you're throwing money away.

Speaker 2 (02:44:36):
Oh if I can't throw the money away by not
getting blackjacks, So it doesn't mean you could be could
be nine to one on a minion in blackjacks I
ain't getting it.

Speaker 3 (02:44:42):
It's just a fact of life. Three to six to
five you shouldn't even sit down.

Speaker 2 (02:44:46):
Well, I made some money, so it's not like I
mean six or five didn't hurt me, couldn't help me more,
but six five didn't hurt me. It is it, dead man.
You don't get twenty one, you don't get you don't
collect on anything three two, nine, five, six five, eight
to one. If you don't get twenty one, you don't
get twenty one. When he on a night, when a
he getna hand? When are you at a table? Hold on?

(02:45:07):
Stay with it? When do you get a table on
a nineteen? On a six five table pays off the
exact same as it pays on a three two table.
That is correct?

Speaker 3 (02:45:16):
Okay, Matt, you know what you got it figured out? No,
I don't I like it at all?

Speaker 2 (02:45:21):
Sail five same thing as three to two. Whatever? Know
me tell you something? Oh I'm sorry. I'm not gonna
play blackjack as at six to five. I don't like it,
but I get black chacks three times a game. I'm
not gonna ruin my night because I can't find a
three two table. And if they aren't offering I'm not
gonna say, oh, I'm gonna go blue slots instead.

Speaker 3 (02:45:38):
Hell no, it quadruples. The house edge quadruples, but.

Speaker 2 (02:45:43):
Not when I'm not when he's busting on twenty three.
When I got that's fine. I mean, if you don't
get black checks, it doesn't make any different. You're right, Matt.
You gotta figure out. No, you're right, walk we through this. No,
what if I don't get twenty one? No, it's free money.

(02:46:03):
Just keep playing free money. I'm betting the hands if
I get. If I keep one of them with twenties,
it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:46:08):
Matter if I get right. Absolutely, you're right.

Speaker 2 (02:46:13):
I'm telling you. Rossalytics is not great. I mean something's
Ross is good on, but Rossalytics on this one's not.
If you don't get twenty.

Speaker 3 (02:46:20):
One, yeah, three to zero six five, same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:46:23):
You know what I want you to put those saying
that shove them up your ass? Yeah, there you go?

Speaker 5 (02:46:27):
What was that?

Speaker 2 (02:46:28):
Play that?

Speaker 5 (02:46:28):
Agad?

Speaker 2 (02:46:29):
You know what? I want you to put those metrics
and shove them up your ass. By the way, apparently
it's the worst odds than the table. I don't play with.
That's another thing, don't Ummmmm, yeah, it's by the way.

(02:46:54):
Congratulations to Ben Verlander. He's engaged.

Speaker 3 (02:46:58):
Oh it's great for him.

Speaker 2 (02:47:00):
Yeah, very excited for him. Couldn't be happier, couldn't be happier.
That's some more people to gravy train off of seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nighty. Let's play believe
it or not? Next? What's the category? I don't even
know what the category is. We'll figure it out, Okay.
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(02:47:21):
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(02:47:43):
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(02:48:30):
Coach Stark here, touchdown, Texas. You've got Sports Talk seven
to ninety Houston's homes of Longhorn Football. The Matt Thomas
Show continues now, five minutes left to go on the show.
We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show.
We simply call it be leave it on it. Here's

(02:48:51):
how it works. You'll call seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven NINTI. Today's edition of Believe or Not It
is all things about baseball cards. I'll reduce statement about
baseball card. If the statements utterly aker, you'll say this
believe it. If the same as erronious full of bull comdup,
you'll say this not to believe it or not's in
a row on baseball cards, win your prize? Kind of

(02:49:12):
were we playing for today?

Speaker 9 (02:49:14):
A pair of tickets to see the Offspring on their
super Charged Worldwide in twenty five tour with Jimmy World
and Newfound Glory on August twenty third at the Woodlands Pavilion,
and some seven nine t shirts.

Speaker 2 (02:49:23):
Seven one three two one two five seven nineties seven
one three two one two five is seven ninety Yankees
Keith on seven NINTI hy k you ready to play?
Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:49:35):
I thought it was for Rockets tickets man, But yeah,
I can try it.

Speaker 2 (02:49:40):
Well. I'm so sorry you couldn't win the other day,
my bad.

Speaker 5 (02:49:47):
Man, I got it.

Speaker 2 (02:49:49):
Baseball cards were produced as far back as the eighteen sixties.
They were generally thrown in items to boost sales. Believe
it or not, Believe it, Believe it stay number two
for the big prize. Two of the top five most
expensive basketball cards ever sold are Luka Doncic cards. Believe
it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:50:10):
Oh, I heard you'all talking about it earlier. Today he's
number three.

Speaker 2 (02:50:15):
Oh yeah, so believe it? There you go. Yeah there,
you nicely done. Kevin on seven ninety Kevin ready to play.
Believe it or not? Believe it. The most expensive football
card ever sold is a Pat Mahomes autograph card. It
sold for four point three million dollars back in twenty

(02:50:35):
twenty one. Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:50:38):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:50:39):
Believe it statement number two for the way and the
most expensive baseball card ever stolen was a nineteen twenty
seven Luke Garrett card. It was stolen from billionaire J.
Paul Getty. It has never been recovered. Believe it or not?
I nah, that is correct. Congra do what you're host, Rossell.
Kevin loves playing, believe it on and winning. Yeah whatever, Kevin.

(02:51:05):
Another one on seven on Kevin, You're ready to play.
Believe it or not? Believe it? I do too. The
most expensive baseball card ever is a nineteen eleven Honus
Wagner card. Believe it or not? Believe it? Nope. Mickey
Mann on nineteen fifty two. Dude Andrew on seven on Andrew,
what was your favorite part of today's radio show, A

(02:51:27):
hearing about the baseball cards. Flair Baseball cards went to
funct in twenty ten and May and May, and many
of their cards went up in value as accidental last
editions of the company's cards. Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:51:43):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:51:44):
That's correct, statement number two for the win. The plot
of the nineteen ninety three film The Sandlot revolves around
Scott Small's trying to retrieve his father's Babe Ruth autograph
baseball card. Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:51:55):
Believe it?

Speaker 8 (02:51:56):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:51:58):
No slund baseball. I never saw the movies the ball,
not the card. Oh duh? Michael on seven, are you
ready to play Believe It or not?

Speaker 10 (02:52:09):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:52:10):
Tops baseball cards were first put out in nineteen twenty
one in connection with old Gold cigarettes. Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:52:19):
Believe it?

Speaker 2 (02:52:21):
No, No, No, that's it for the program Tomorrow, Anything
Goes Friday starts at ten o'clock. Rockets Tonight, It's seven
on k T rh UP. Next, it's Clinton, It's Wexler,
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