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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show ten oh two
at ah Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the
final Matt Thomas Show with Ross of twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
I mean, we're holding on for dear life over here,
trust me. But we'll be back on Thursday. Will we
flipped to Tejana at midnight tonight? We'll see, Yeah, which
neither one of us could actually be on the show,
that's correct.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Uh, it is nice to have you with us on
this shorter edition of the show. We used to go
three hours, then we were given fourth hour. Now I
don't have to pace myself. You just go full Toronto,
full bore. Baby, let's go. You're gonna have the good
energy for the entire and eighty minutes. We'll see wake
up in about an hour.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I got you. You didn't get this coffee? That was nice,
So that's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Connor Dy's like he didn't drink coffee, but he will eventually.
It'll everybody eventually be a coffee drinker to the dark side.
I didn't drink when I was his age either coffee,
I mean alcohol. I did, and look what happened to you. Yeah,
your lover is a hot mess right now, that's not true.
I'm doing all right. It's been a rough month on
my lover, though. I bet you go on a vacation
New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Today is a very important day. It's a day that
we hold even these truths to be self evident. Is
very important. It's a responsibility that we, as major market
radio host have to.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Take on.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Others have tried but failed. We here at the Matt
Thomas old Ross for oh god, fourteen fifteen years, have
handled this responsibility very well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Do you know the anniversary date of this show? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
January third, twenty ten, third, Yes, Okay, I'm just here.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
And the reason why I know that, real quick story
is that it's I spent New Year's even some BFE
town in Kansas, Okay. And the next morning I get
the BFI that's Buoxi Falls East. The next morning I
(02:00):
get in the car and I drive the rest of
the way from that town in Kansas. I think I
want to say I was an old lathy, but I'm
not for sure. I did go through Camas, was gonna
we're just gonna spend the night in Kansas City. But
I was making good time so I said, well, I'll
just continue to go. And then about seven o'clock at night,
I started getting dark. It was New Year's Eve and
I called Kim and I she's already. She was already
in Houston. I said, can you get me? Maybe she
(02:23):
was in Minneapol. So that's what I said, Just find
me any town on thirty five and just find me
a hotel. And so she found me something. So it
was a kind of a depressing December thirty first, two
thousand and nine was very depressing because I'm in the
middle of this is Kansas town.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
I've never been to.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
A bot to move to Houston, yeah, where I'm gonna
be working with people that I don't know and probably
don't like. For dinner, what was open?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I think I had Chinese?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, in in a small town Kansas, I mean it
was it. I mean I like Chinese. It's like sex.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
You can you know something is better than others, but
generally speaking, you'll always take it.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, it's four minutes, and I think you know what
I'm saying. It's like sex Chinese and pizza said it
one hundred different things. Okay, pizza, pizza, pizza.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
It's like a slice of pizza. You'll have, you'll always
there's some better than others. Where's I go with this?
I don't know, start calling you horn dog Tom Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
So January first, our assistant program director at the time,
his name is Alfhar's Front of the show Yes, called
and said hey, Happy New Year.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
I'm like thanks.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
He goes, I said, you know, yeah, I'm gonna probably
get to Houston. Latest is on a Saturday late, and
he goes, good, Well, we're ready for you to start
on Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'm like, you are. I wasn't ready to start on Monday.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
So it was I want to say, Monday January three,
three days off of this company. Man, Monday January third,
two thousand. Well, yeah, the eighteen is probably not working today.
There's a stunner. It didn't work Christmas Eve. Correct, they're
not working today. Correct, they're not working tomorrow and on
Grand all of us are not working tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Thank god, We're gonna watch work. We're working. I got rockets,
I'm doing I'm doing primp ooh ooh that hurts.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
I'm sorry. That was a sense of I should have
brought that up. Why, because I mean, that's rockets are
my second job.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's my choice. You were given that assignment, poor kid.
It's okay, It's called being a team player. January first,
I'm working baby.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
So really Franklin, whoever's not working with me on Rockets,
Clinton or Wrexler could have assumed the January first spot.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
That is correct, but they're not going to That's fine too.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So yeah, we will double check the aniversion. But if
it is, I believe it'll be Friday, will celebrate. So
if it's twenty ten and we're gonna be in twenty
twenty five, is this starting our sixteenth year or starting
our fifteenth year? Twenty twenty five will be starting the
sixteenth yeart six fifteen years will be complete. So well,
the fifteenth year anniversary of this radio show will be
(04:49):
on Friday.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I think I'll double check it out. Thirteen fourteen, fifteen six. Yeah,
twenty five is the sixteenth use it believes your fingers
like that? Hey seven one three two one two five
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
As Connor goes through the notepad, he's already playing it.
We're four things already. In the first segment of the show,
there's a there's a person on Twitter that hates the
show and tells us how goofy we are just mute him,
just move on. I thank you for a service, though,
block him or mute him. I can't block because he
still get to see my stuff. And I know that's
why they meet buttons your friend, you won't see their stuff. Yeah,
(05:30):
so I did think it for a service though.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
That's okay, that's great. Nice. Yeah. Would they work at
Target or something?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
No, he used the military military, okay, great, yeah, all right,
So in one half hour, we will make the grand
declaration of the four nominees four D of the Year
wow D of the Year, as as usual the case.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Three of them will be sports related. One will not
be okay, One is on a tweet. One is from
a singular tweet. One from a singular tweet okay, from
a person I did not know, but it was so
bad that I hashtag the D of the Year way
back and I have it in my archives.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, so I had.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
If you are, have you hashtag in your archive, but
you have to use it, So that'll be one of them.
Two of them are governing boards of sports okay, and
one is one individual okay, who I believe will hands
down know if Ans or Butts.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Will be the D of the year. D of the year. Okay, Now,
you cannot call Jeff Passing D of the year. He's
like a D. Why not, He's a D of the year.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
O G.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
He's always going to be a D of the year.
He's he's in. He's in the Hall of the Fame.
Stop saying that phrase. Okay, Mark Davis the official who
don't say it, Mark.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Davis throughout e May and Ben Simmons just depends on
Mark Davis is candidate. Ben Sullivan is uh, he's not
a candidate. You can't you can't give it one here
On December the twenty nine.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Thirty, Angel Hernandez in retirement.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
That's a blessing, Frank, Yeah, I mean he should go
in the OG Hall of Fame on that whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
So we'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So we will have the now nominees at ten thirty
this morning, and then we'll let you guys vote. We'll
let you the voting will close tonight at eleven fifty nine.
By the way, tonight, y'all, first of all, be really
careful whatever you do. And number two, this is gonna
fall on deaf ears for any of you that have dogs.
This is their worst day of the year. So when
(07:25):
you go get your homemade fireworks, which I think are
complete travesty to begin with, just don't go get them.
I'll just say that because our poor pups and we
are we are house sitting a dog a dog sitting?
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Are we have three in the houses? How are you
doing with that? Great?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
He's great, But the point is we got three of them.
They're gonna lose their mind tonight. Yes, so just be
be respectful of the of the pups because the pups
don't like the fireworks. They will see you in the
emergency room, folks, and you're a great example of that.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, that's why I hate fireworks.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Thinking about how normal you would have been if not
for that accident way back in the day. It did
scar me well more ways than one, for sure. I
mean physically it's one.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah. My little least was like, how can we have
a bald spot on your limp?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Because I got hit by a firework? Yeah I am.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
I love the fireworks ceremonies, you know, the grandiose, the
ones that are the ballpark made are really cool. Yes,
but I'm I couldn't be more anti amemade fireworks or
local down the street firework guy to me in general
the benefits. Uh, I know e Connor mc government loves fireworks.
I hope he blows a digit off tonight. It's just
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it's the risk awards not there.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But that's fine. By the way, the stories, you won't
be near it.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
And by the way, what happened to one of them
flares off into somebody's house and it catches fire. Yeah,
it starts literally starts fires. There's trash all in the street,
crash and I live on a cult de sac, so
everybody runs our house.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, you straight to the cold de sac. Yeah, so
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I'll just be careful tonight and just keep you know,
be respectful of us as humans and the dogs because
they just don't like it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
To each his own, not really in this case, to
each don't do it. And you know what, I will
also say this, it's fine if are we doing shut
joe By mess up this week? No Thursday?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Okay, well I guess I'll say that. But people, if
you want to do it on the thirty first, that's fine.
You want to do a July fourth, that's fine. But
it's been all Christmas week I've been hearing fireworks.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I love going to stadiums. I love going to like
down to like Miller outdoor theater where I was a kid.
We used to go all the time. Great fireworks with
music behind it.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean it.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
It's yeah. And the Friday night fireworks at Minute May
or whatever, the dyking park. It's gonna take some it's
gonna take some while spectacular. But the homemade stuff where
your hands can explode and you can start fourth, you
can start fires in people's neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah, I'm good. It's not homemade, but you know I'm
no use.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Yeah, like down the street with a guy that's got
like four teeth, He's like, man.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I've got you get bad, willing to get nineteen for you, dude,
we're your gums. Dude.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Well those smallers taken out by name eighty. I mean,
I mean, I'm not telling the stereotype.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
But all right, so, uh, you won your fantasy league,
our fantasy league, yours. I'm out. I'm out.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I was not unsure if I was gonna win. Quite frankly,
it was a pathetic performance by my team.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I got lucky.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
I mean, there's so much luck involved in Fantasy Football
of Salesperson of Ours Robberies had the far, far and away,
no doubt about it, best roster all year long and
the playoffs, and I got lucky.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I beat him last week.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
And then you beat our former producer Tray, and I
beat Trey, and and now I'm champion for back to
back to back years. Now Trey has a hard time
paying his bills, but you're still gonna take second place?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
What do you mean? I mean he he could he
could have used the first place money.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Oh no, I just saw on Instagram that he just
bought a house, so I think he's doing okay.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
I'm not worried about him.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Boy, if y'all don't follow kill Tony Instagram, you'll find
out Tray it once in a while showing up there.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
It's hysterical.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
I don't know if that's making him money or if
he's if the comedy's taking him. And his girl was
on there too, lady's doing cupcake business and all that.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
So I don't know what's happening. But hey, so he
should be so I WI shouldn't feel sorry. I'm feeling sorry.
I got you.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I'm okay. I need the cash too. Still, reeling from
that Korea trip. Fair enough, by the ways, I don't
mean to horribly. I'm not gonna horribly segue because it's
been a bad, bad month for like airplane. You see
the Gonzaka plane almost ran into the Delta jet yesterday
a la two days ago.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Lax, I mean, what is going on with our air
with our air system? This is not good? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Another, Yeah, I don't know. I get weary enough in there.
I'm usually I used to be. When I first would fly,
I would get a little worried off takeoff and landing.
But now I've been pretty good. But now I might
get worried again. Yeah, I'm starting wrinking. I'm start drinking more.
Playing mean, it's a lot of our control anyways. Man,
is you're gonna die on the plane. We're gonna die
on the plane. It's not like you're gonna go into
the cockpit and start making moves. It's true, like, hey,
(12:01):
y'all are doing a bad job. I think with my
zero experience, I can help plane this plane a little
bit better.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Landing gear well, gut, I got this. But even in air.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
The movie Airplane, Robert Hayes's character was a war was
a World War Two fighter pilot. So okay, that's true,
but you weren't. But and then the and then the
colt and then the co pilot was a blow up. Yes,
we're Julie Haggerty. Then Roger Murdoch was there or whatever
his name. No, he got sick. Oh the fish, the fish.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Why aren't the Jalen Rose dings coming in? I just
moved your reference. So that's that's full. Damn Matthew, full,
damn Matthews right there. Uh has Conor McGovern seen Airplane
the funniest movie I've ever made? Period?
Speaker 2 (12:41):
In the story, I have not. Okay, it's good. I
like to make fun of a lot of Matt's taste
and a lot of things. Airplane is hilarious and cannot
hold up. Oh uh no, I can't. Four elements would
not appear in the movie today.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
The entire movie. The entire movie could not hold up.
Oh yeah, this is a good one from Joan and
you idiots shooting guns in the air. Yeah, that's another one.
We'll say that for Thursday. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
As far as sports is concerned, Detroit San Francisco High
Scoring Game. The coach of twenty twenty four Class twenty
three class resides in Detroit. Love Siege. I love Demiko.
You're talking about Nimit's legend. Aaron Glenn, defensive coordinator Detroit.
(13:35):
I was thinking of one of his close friends. Seven
one three two one two five seven AUTI on the program.
We're only here to one o'clock today because we've got
LSU football.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
They're playing huge games. Or is Gordy? Is Gordy here today?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
He was in New Orleans at the Sugar Bowl Sugar Bowls.
It's not for a couple more days, I don't think. Okay, yeah,
I guess he's hanging out pregame Sugar Bowl. He sent
us an email essually I'll be in the office Tuesday.
There's no sign to him here. Do you think he
did that to spacify his bosses?
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Was he doing Sugar Bowl coverage? And he didn't say
for the game. He's got to be coming back. That
hits his beloved LSU Tigers set some well earned vacation.
Is it two thirty today?
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Right?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
And we're carrying it. Hey, Okay, this will be the
only station in town that has the Texas Bowl. So
if you want to listen, to the game on the
radio exclusive home of the Texas Bowl, is right, regular
Bear fans.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
No, we're doing the LSU version.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
I mean well, yeah, but they could still hear the game,
I mean good, but they will really be able to
understand all the consonants and vowels that are not being used.
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Speaker 8 (16:00):
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do you say?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
You know how that horn goes off with the magazine.
That's what I.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
All right, we'll talk about shell the next break ten
A Tina's Sports talks of of that, no fear.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
No worries, and no hair. It's the Matt Thomas Way. Houston.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Sports Talk continues with the Matt Thomas Show. Gordy is
gonna call us on his way from the Texas Ball.
He doesn't know this ship. I just texted him until
he was call him. We need a full, full breakdown.
Speaker 9 (17:01):
We do.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
You know what you eat from him? Rossie. We need
some serious smack talk Baylor smack talk. We do. I mean,
that's what bowl games are about. That, I mean, Taylor
versus LSU smack talk. Why not?
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Sign me up.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
I'm all for it, all right. Ten twenty three on
Sports Talk seventy. The drama is building in the community.
Not for the Texas Ball. Oh, nobody cares for what?
For the D of the year.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
For a call D of the Year.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
I thought it was for a cold front. Oh, we
asked us drama and chili. That's I will agree with
you on that.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
Jeez.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
See, I am and I'm so the opposite everybody. Everybody
loves it when it gets colder here. If you want
to give me eighty five degrees twelve months a year,
I'm more than happy because again, I lived in Salt
Lake City for two years. We had four seasons, so
it was okay. But in Minneapolis it was three years
of ninety seven with high humidity because the lakes or
(18:01):
twelve below and there was no middle ground.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
And the middle ground to me is eighty five degrees.
It just is yeah. But when it's eighty five inhumid
on Christmas, that doesn't feel right. It's New Years side.
You'll never know any degree.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
You'll never know.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Let me the president of president. We suffer all summer
long where it's like one hundred and five degrees and
the feels like temperature is one hundred and twenty and
it also feels like you're walking through the ocean because
it's so humid. So we're supposed to get a little chill.
I'm asking for I'm not asking for it to be
thirteen degrees. I'm not asking for a big freeze to
roll in. I'm asking for under seventy degrees. All right,
(18:39):
here we go, sixty four for high for the next
four months. That's great, and fifty two fur low that
sounds in the story. That sound hoodies. Let's go hoodie. Yeah,
hooey weather hoddies. I'm just asking not to be sweating
in shorts and on December twenty eighth, That's all I'm
asking about.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The moment December twenty ninth, two thirtieth, two thousand and nine,
when I left Minneapolis and it was a great place
to live for three years, I said, I'm never bitching
about the heat I'm about to enter.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm not gonna be consistent. The heat is horrible. You
can't even walk outside. So I'm asking for this. Why
these pasty white legs don't get a little relief? All right,
it's all I'm asking.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
I think you're gonna get some good like this next
road trip I'm going on next week, Washington Minneapolis or
Washington Memphis, Atlanta. It's all thirties the whole trip. Yeah,
I don't I don't want any of that. So what
I'm saying that's why. That's why I come back, and
I enjoy the warmth, the weather, the women, and the culture. Okay,
not the traffic of Houston. Everything else is great. By
(19:35):
the way, today was a piece of k't come.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Of the office.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Yeah, it's New Year's Eve. I think I want to
work every Houray. True, people dedicated to their craft are working.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
If you don't work on a holiday, you're just not
a real professional, especially in radio. I mean, you and
I were here yesterday.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I can't. Yeah, we were.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Yeah, we're gonna be here in the second. We'll be
here tomorrow. Well, I mean we'll be working. We'll be
working tomorrow. Let's just see it the arena, you gonna
be there, We'll see Luka don is still out and no,
you may have Doka tomorrow, so you can't use that
for forteen minutes of your conversation your pre game show.
We'll figure something out forget you would. I'll probably go Sunday.
(20:15):
It's an interesting week. Wednesday, Tomorrow night is Dallas, Friday
is Boston.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I'm not working.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Friday's game, and then sunday's a link like that one.
I'll probably yeah, I'll probably go. By the way, heavy
birthday to Lebron James yesterday turned forty. Yeah, I mean,
I mean i might end up getting drunk tonight, so
I'm not probably not gonna go to the go to
the arena tomorrow, he says.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Lebron says he wants to play five to seven more years.
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
I you know what, I'm gonna tell you this right now.
I totally believe him. He's he's insane. I mean, he
he could obviously, first of all, my guess is physically
he can do it. Not a lot of guys that
can do it. But I mean he's slowed down at forty,
but he's by no means slow all right, conspiracy theory
on this, not necessarily conspiracy theory, but believe me or not,
(21:02):
in Lebron James's mind, he has always been chasing the ghost,
his words, chasing that ghost of Michael Jordan.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Right.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
He knows he's not getting six rings, So if he
wants to enter the argument, not in a championship way.
The way to do it is longevity. And he knows that,
and that's why he's going to continue to play as
long as he can, to continue to compile up stats
to get into to that argument. Some people have him
as the greatest of all time. I would say the
majority of people have Michael Jordan as the greatest of
(21:31):
all I think five years ago, the final vault was
tallied on both sides. I think five years ago we
knew that the Bronze next five, which are the five
we just finished, which were incredible, by the way, we're incredible,
but we're not going to lead to championships. Well, he
won in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Okay, So my point is this that when he won
his last that was a bubble championship, that the Lebron's
final champion. Unless he was to go jump on a
team late as a seventh eighth guy off the bench
kind of thing, he could be this. No, he's the
second or third best player on a championship team right now.
He's just not the best, but I mean he's the best.
(22:11):
No one's considering the Lakers to be a championship quality team.
They didn't think about it last year. They're not gonna
think about it next year. I mean that whatever he
does is not for championships anymore. It's for the individual accolades.
I just don't think I think that if you are
a basketball fan, you made up your mind five years
ago about Lebron. I don't think there's anything that Lebron
could do in the next five years that would change
(22:32):
a Jordan fan into a Lebron is number one guy.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Lebron to me is number two.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I've moved him as high as one as I can
call him one b But to me, Michael six championships
saved a league, along with my magic and Larry, But
it was more about Michael than anything else.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
To me, he was the greatest.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
But Lebron is a solid, solid number two. No matter
what goofy ass things he says off the court, I
judge him as an on the court individual, and for me,
he's the second greatest player of all time.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
And I think I've been consistent about that for a
long time.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Okay, and I think some and I think, if you're
a Lebron guy, you haven't changed your mind about taking
him off the pedestal. Where are you maya argument? My
thing is, there's there's argument for three, and I'll accept
all three.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Who's your third?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Kareem six MVPs played till he was forty probably the greatest,
most prolific big man of all time, six championships. He
checks all the boxes. I mean, you're talking about UCLA
as well.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Uh, if you're starting a franchise with one of them,
I'll tell you this, if you're starting If I'm starting
a franchise with one of those three, I'm picking Jordan last.
Is that because you think Jordan would be harder to
adapt to twenty twenty five? No, just because the value
Lebron is being the engine of an offense. Same thing
with Kareem as a man on the low block with
the unstoppable skyhook.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I would probably start a franchise with Lebron if I
had to have the three. Yeah, but that's not what
the category is.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Yeah, exactly. So it's a different argument. The greatest basketball player.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Steph is the greatest shooter of all time, but he's
not anywhere the defender that any of those guys were.
Ladies and gentlemen, I need to get your pens and
papers out, and I need you to write down the
four nominees for D of the Year.
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the twenty twenty four D of the Year.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
D of the Year. We present your host, Matthew Lewis Thomas.
Thank you, Thank you very much, thank you. Oh, people
are applauding. Hell, I'm sorry. Yeah, they give me a
stendal elevation. Yeah, thank you, thank you. No, wait, you're
going those Texas Ball. You can't be well, you can't
be here the way to the Texas Ball now man,
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the seven Crown Fish eate two, section six hundred. Excuse me, zone,
Can you know what a crack is? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Raging Canson's winning this game now man. Baylor Bears are like,
is there any sprite? I bet I've bet Bana Bears
sprite zero?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
Please, I bet this. I bet the Banner Bears can
drink a few beverages too. Oh geez, someone's dancing. It's
making me uncomfortable. Uh, those girls have way too. Let's none.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I have clothing on. All right, can we get back
to d of the year. Let's get my focus here, folks.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I wanted to announce there it's Bible study in section
one twenty one at halftime. If you want to come?
Why do is Mac brown slock? He's being there?
Speaker 10 (26:35):
What?
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:36):
We're having an absolute great time at the Texas Bowl.
All right, here we go.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Nominee number one for wait. Last year's winner was Amy
crunk's drunk. Okay, she won't have my vote. She had
my vote. She had America's vot vote. Every year she does,
she's she's an og year as well. She's the Hall
of Fame. My our first emany is this year's non
sports D of the Year. Okay, and it's some douche
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name the block spot on Twitter. Okay, the funniest.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Rost crasses does that where crass is most crass, most crass,
most successful roast ever in the history.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Of roast took place this year in twenty twenty four.
It was at the Fabulous Form in Lost Englewood, California.
It was too long, It was on Netflix. It made
a lot of money for anybody and everybody involved. It
was Wally watching. I may have been too six and
a half hours long. I enjoyed every beneficauc you number.
I love roast, but this D of the Year candidate
the block Spot said on May sixth, twenty twenty four,
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every racist loved the Brady Roast. Every homophobe loved the
Brady Roast. True, every misogynist loved the Brady Roast. Every
anti semi loved the Brady Roast. And then he goes
into all caps. This is a problem. Stop giving hateful
content a platform. Exclamation port exclamation port and there's like
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four or five more exclamation points. You Sam block of
at the block spot are nominee number one for D
of the Year.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
D of the year. Please have a little sense of humor,
I mean just a smitch.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
We do you know what America does needs to do
more in twenty twenty five, ROSSI laugh, hmm, wow that
maybe you know what put us put that on a
few shirt Okay, we need more laughing in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
It's the best emotion out there. It's one of the
best verbs. H thank you, Matt all right. Number two,
this governing body introduced, well, it didn't introduce it just
sat and watched this happen. And it's called name, image
and likeness. And instead of rewarding kids for.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Hard work done and when schools trying to take advantage
of their abilities, this was a way to pay these
players money they should have been probably paid for for many,
many many years. Instead, it's become an open recruiting tool.
There is no legislation, there's no regulation. It's running rampant
throughout sports. You have schools that are promising money that
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they can't promise. You have donors who now are carrying
bigger sticks because they are the ones giving the money
to these kids. And there is absolutely zero oversight over
something that could have very easily helped the sport. So
to the NCUBLEA for literally turning a blind eye to
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the out of control nature that is right now, name
image and likeness the NCAA, you are a nominae for
D of the Year, D of the Year.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Disagree with this ONEA can't get involved. Why can't they
because the Supreme Court is gonna strike them down for amateurism.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
They're already pretty much striking them down. If they get
involved in their regulation, then they are four. They're basically
admitting that they're a for profit institution, which they can't do.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
They're not gonna do. But then then then we've then
we're gonna continue to have this the rest of our
life in college athletics.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
I don't think so. I don't think it's I don't
I think the end game on this is disastrous. It
hasn't come yet, but it's going to. You're gonna see
more lawsuits by kids suing schools. You're gonna have more
people promising things they can't deliver on and it's gonna
get uglier. And yes, so we blame the coach for
line to his players. Well, but that but that isn't
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the case every single time. We're just talking about one example.
There were apparently Leonard Hamilton at Florida State Live to
the kids and said they got the money. So let's
blame Leonard Hamilton. Yeah, you know, enough big enough for
D of the Year, number three D of the year.
Something is being watched more and more than ever in
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professional baseball.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
That's the strike zone. We have websites, we have Twitter.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Accounts, we have instant replay, we have television networks, we
have technology that continues to see the evaporation of excellent ball.
Strike calling by homeplant umpires. Mistakes are happening more and
more often. Umpires are getting testier and testier, and it
is ultimately really causing a lot of problems for us
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that love America's pastime. And I know that Major League
Baseball is going to experiment with the computer in next year,
which is a good sign.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Good, let's go, but full abs.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
But however, since we're talking about twenty twenty four, okay,
and how Major League Baseball continue to say everything is
going great major League Baseball and the disintegration of what
turned out to be a very worthwhile position, and it's
the homeplate empire because calls are being missing an all
time high. Generally, the numbers are getting better. I don't
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think so from when they started tracking. Plans are getting
a lot higher. Yeah, well, yeah, we like to complain.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
I watch your Twitter. Cant you can play every night?
That's not true. Do you know that's not true? You
can play six days a week. That's not true. Six
days a week, that's under I say, Baseball.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Your continued blind eye to the human air that is
becoming balls and strikes makes you a nominee to make
you the winner, but a nominee for D of the Year.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
I like that D of the Year. And last, but
certainly not least.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
We go to college station, we go to Austin and
we get the audio that we heard this summer from
Omaha and at that time A and M head coach Jim's.
Speaker 11 (32:51):
Los Nagel gouch with respect of the difficult outcome tonight,
But with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening,
what you have to say about your future and Aggie.
Speaker 12 (33:01):
Land, Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of
you to ask me that question, to be honest with you,
but my h I left my family to be the
coach at Texas A and M. I took the job
at Texas A and M to never take another job again,
and that hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to
talk about something like that. They'd be like you asking
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Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft. But
I understand you got to ask the question. But I
gave up a big part of my life to come
take this job, and I've poured every ounce of my
soul in this job.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
And I've given this job every single ounce I can
possibly give it. To write that, oh yeah, write that,
I present to you with complete prejudice.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Now you know that you're a Longhorn hater and a
closet Aggie. No, I'm a closet regular. I'm out front,
decent human being. No, you came out of the closet.
You're going to sign Jim Slasnagel as our fourth and
final candidate four D of the Year, G of the Year,
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A worthy candidate.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Based on that, I mean that just that just wasn't right.
It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
So if you'd like to vote, the Twitter polls will
be open here at the top of the hour if
you like to come in and any of them. If
there's somebody else that we have missed on our D
of the Year Canada, we've missed some people, well, that's
why the floor is open. Hit seven one three two
one two five seven ninety If we've missed somebody, let
us know. Seven one three two one two five seven
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eight could be you could vote for D of the
Year for Alabama fans that are just bent that their
team did not make the college football playoff G of
the Year and basically made fun of SMU getting their
ass kicked by Penn State, and made fun of Indiana
losing their ass to a Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
And then and maybe Kirk Herbstitt's getting some late run.
He's getting some late run.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
G of the Year seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 7 (35:02):
Ninety ten forty five. This is Sports Talk seven ninety
Matt Thomas, Ross VIIL. It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Ten fifty one Sports Talk seven ninety We have the
Rangers with a new addition. We'll be hearing from him
coming up at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
I mean, I know astro fans are't gonna be a
big fans of what the guy's gonna say, But my
question to you is what is he supposed to say?
We'll discuss that coming up at the top of the hour.
We've got feelings at eleven thirty. Yes, the poll is
open for d of the Year votes. If you'd like
to vote.
Speaker 13 (35:45):
Of the year.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
It closes at midnight tonight. So is your clanking champagne
glasses or whatever you're happen to be drinking of choice? Okay,
kissing your girl, kissing your guy?
Speaker 5 (35:57):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
U both and we can well. I mean, you do
what you want to do there, Ross you want to
celebrate New Year's and who you're doing, don't judge me
if you want a multiple kiss, that's fine. Seven one
three two one two five seven seven one three two
one two five seven nine zero. Let's go to Geo
in a task to see that. Ten fifty two one
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seven on Gio, Thanks for waiting, Good morning.
Speaker 14 (36:21):
Good morning, gentlemen. So I want to give a nomination
for D the Year.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Actually just the fairly there we go.
Speaker 14 (36:29):
H this is a fairly new acquisition for D of
the Year. And I want to nominate Tyler Heiro for
what happened.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's a good one, Okay, I got you it was.
Speaker 14 (36:41):
I don't care. You know, he he was he was given.
You know, I'm in the business hall game, yes, but
the reason I nominated him is because he act like
he didn't get thrown like a rag doll. And then
after the quote that he gave uh the press about.
Speaker 12 (36:56):
You know this, that and the other.
Speaker 14 (36:57):
Yeah, that's just really D baggage to me, man, So
he's a nomination.
Speaker 6 (37:00):
In my books.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
All right, thank you, GEO. Happy new year, my man.
Thank you for listening. We appreciate your support all the
year long. I get mad too. Yeah, late comer for
for D of the Year Tyler here.
Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, I mean, here's the thing, if you could, I
wish the heat that would have followed up games against
like Charlotte and New Orleans. Aman Thompson is going to
miss a couple of games I think on this and
it's Dallas and freaking Boston.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
I mean, you need you need to be a full
guns of blazing for those games, don't. Yeah, certainly, since
you already lost the first two games of this important homestand.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
There I even look where we are in the standings.
Yeah still third okay, game and a half in front.
I think of Dallas at four.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
By the way, Sacramento beat Dallas last night. Okay, that
was the first win for a Doug Christie replacing Mike
Bryan Sacramento. Yes, congratulations to King's legend Doug Christie. Yeah,
I am, and I am the only one do we miss?
But I am standing's watcher. Wait, I think I watched
standings in sports way earlyer than anybody else does.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Yeah, you are. I was watching the Astros American League
West standings like June ninth.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
You shouldn't have been. I'm just saying I just do
it early. By the way, if you look at the
Big twelve standings in basketball, the Cougars are right up
top where they should be. After pouncing and destroying Oklahoma
State last night. Oh that's great, congratulations to them killing
it wonderful. Oklahoma State's terrible?
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Oh are they? I don't know why they're terrible? I mean,
is it?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Ok I feel like Oklahoma State for the last thirty
years in sports has done a really good job of
winning it everything. Football wins about nine games a year,
Basketball goes to tournament. Baseball feels like there are with
the World's College World Series once every seven or eight years.
In my Gundy situation in Oklahoma State, he was fired
and then get rehired.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Okay, still has a malleled apparently. Okay, they got a
new coach with the basketball team.
Speaker 1 (38:54):
I didn't know who he was.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Didn't really matter, but yeah, the Cougars, they have a
lot of history and they got a good facilities. I mean,
didn't he boom Pickens very die give him every dollar
he had pretty much, and it still wasn't enough. Yeah,
it still wasn't exactly that's exactly right, Yeah, exactly right.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
So last night the.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Cougars, the Cougar's allowed forty seven points. Could you imagine
being a fan of a college and you drive up
to Stillwater or any of the college towns, and you
sit down and you spend your money, and you get
your popcorn and get your coke and or whatever you're
drinking and eating, and you watch your team.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
Score forty seven points in forty minutes of play.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
That's not the craziest thing in college Basketballyeah, But I
mean it goes to further show you that how bad
really college basketball can get. Oklahoma State ROSSI shot twenty
six percent from the floor two six. Now, I respect
my Cougar defense because it's ferocious, but it also means
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that's a team full of terrible shooters. Oh let's see.
Oh they put up they put up eighty six on
Oral Roberts. They put up sixty six on Tarlton State.
Speaker 14 (40:09):
Mmmm.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Yeah, maybe they're not that good.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
Juwan Roberts twenty and eleven last night, thank you very much.
The double double machine that he haratulations to him.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Uh l J.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
Crier had sixteen points, six to fifteen, shot four of eight.
Cougar shot forty two percent from the floor.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
That's not great either. How about Rick Barnes and the boys.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
The number two in the country or number one, excuse me,
Tennessee is number one in basketball.
Speaker 1 (40:35):
Yeah, and I guess people care it.
Speaker 10 (40:38):
They have.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
It's like a twenty thousand seats arena, don't they that's huge. Yeah,
they're twelve and oh m all right, So the Cougars
are nine and three one to oh the big twelve.
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Speaker 1 (40:51):
I think I think the Oklahoma State's gonna need a
chiropractor after that beat down. Oh look at you.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Sixty to forty forty seven points and forty minutes of play.
Great job to the University of Houston Cougars. By the way,
my middle son Peyton is gonna go up to a
college station this weekend. Apparently the Agies and Longhorns are
gonna get.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
After it for the first time. Yes, in basketball at
the Read Arena historic Read Arena. What I mean it historical?
A lot of losing.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
Oh, I don't think that's the case. I'm sorry. The
program's never made an Elite eight. Sorry, okay, but that
doesn't mean there's a lot of losing. Well, somebody says
a lot of losing. You think eight and twenty year
after year. Now, okay, I mean they're a good squad,
wishing them the best.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
No, you're not.
Speaker 2 (41:30):
You want them to lose by fifteen this week? A
completely lie on your partent. Longhorn basketball not great. This
year it was your record.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Uh, I don't even know. It's like eight and eight
and three or something like that.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
The women's basketball team, we got to the arena that
ore night before the Rockets game. That was on the
big screen inside the media dining room. Apparently a lot
of people wanted to see UT women take on UTRGV.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
I was close.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Oh, so you're telling me your team is down in
eleven and two? Yeah, typical arrogant University of Texas. Does
that even mean when you say, oh, we're down and
your last four wins? No, I can't go ahead? Fire
them off?
Speaker 1 (42:04):
New Orleans, New Orleans, Arkansas Pine Bluff, Oh god, New
Mexico State, oh my, and Northwestern State. How embarrassing are you?
Right now?
Speaker 10 (42:14):
Hey?
Speaker 1 (42:14):
How come on?
Speaker 6 (42:14):
Now?
Speaker 1 (42:15):
They beat Syracuse that's good, lost Ohio State Ohio or
Iowa State Ohio, Ohio State Okay, and that's not bad,
beat in Cea State that's good, and lost to Yukon
and that the game wasn't even that close. So read off.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
The last four teams should play a game at New
Mexico State, Arkansas Pine Bluff. Now this is after playing
in Sea State and Yukon back to back. Matthew New
Mexico State, Arkansas, Pine Bluff, New Orleans, and Northwestern State,
all at the Moody Center.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
I believe all four of those schools are also open enrollment.
Speaker 2 (42:49):
Yeah, probably, But at Texas A and M home for
number two Auburn and home for number one Tennessee coming up,
and then at number twelve.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
If I got a ticket, if you sit next to Paint,
would you go to the game with him?
Speaker 15 (43:01):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:01):
All right, five straight.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
Games against ranked opponents coming up at A and M
home for Auburn, home for Tennessee at Oklahoma at number
six Florida, that all sounds good to me. I'm ready
for good college basketball. See a lot of l's coming out. No,
you'd be looking forward to You can catch long horn
basketball here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (43:19):
Now, when's Gordy calling in? I don't know. Gordy's checking
as busy. It's fine.
Speaker 2 (43:23):
No, he's got he's got to They got a tailgate games.
He's tailgating for real? Well, I would think so.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
The game's are two thirty, But.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Those functioning alcoholics from losey in I probably are tailgating.
You mean to tell me if Texas was playing in
the Texas Bowl.
Speaker 1 (43:35):
You wouldn't be out there taig gating. I didn't tailgate.
Speaker 16 (43:37):
Now.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
I was hammered at when they got crushed by Arkansas.
I was at the Texas Bowl, and I've been to
a lot of Texas Bulls too, Matthew, don't sleep on
the Texas Bowl.
Speaker 1 (43:44):
I saw them lose to Arkansas.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
If there was a Hall of Fame for fans, would
you go to the Texas Bowl or would you go
into the I think you're going to the Alamo.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Bowl Hall of Fame for more Alamo Bules. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I've been to when they lost to Arkansas, and then
I was there when they beat Drew Locke and missoo
uh oh. Then finally Tom Herman was mocking Drew Locke
on the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
All right.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
Hour two of the show begins with Jock Peterson, the
newest ranger.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
You're saying, well, why would you open up with him? Well,
HiT's you said a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
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Launchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 15 (45:37):
All right.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
It is a d of the Year edition of The
Matt Thomas Show. At Ross.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
We are with you today until one o'clock because we're
going to send it over to the LSU or radio
network for coverage of the Texas Bowl.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yes, and we'll be getting a game preview from Gordy
coming up. Wonderful.
Speaker 2 (45:55):
Is there any chance if Gordy calls in that he's
got bit or one of the game. I would say
zero point zero percent chance. I mean, like having on
like Billy Lucci telling me that the Aggies are going
to lose their bowl game, or like Havin what's his
face some Chip Brown having him on and saying, well,
the Longhorns they're.
Speaker 1 (46:11):
Not gonna win there college football playoff game. I'll take
your word for it. I'll consume his content.
Speaker 2 (46:20):
Yeah, so we will get a completely straight down the line,
non biased opinion of the game, hopefully when Gordy calls
and sound Tom the calls and he's not confirmed whether
he's gonna call Hi or not.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
So Baylor is favored by three and a half. Okay,
by the way, we got a college football playoff game tonight.
I'm telling you, are you Are you doing anything? Are
you doing anything for New Year's You do anything? Crazy?
You're just showing out the house. I'm going out. Are
you okay? Where you're headed? None of my business. That's fine.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
Your business, Okay, it's fine. I understand. I didn't get
the invite either, so that's fine. I get that too.
Oh please, you can come out with me if you want.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
Are you going? I say, that's fine. We're going to
Midtown area. Okay, whoa are you gonna uber everywhere you go? Hopefully?
Are you going? That's a very important question with the
lady or without with Oh yeah, at this point, they're together.
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (47:13):
I didn't deny that we are, although you guys aren't
spending time together on Christmas. Correct that she was at
the Texans games. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, as she met
your folks. Yet she met my mom at the Texans game.
Your dad's not feeling well, and then she's going to
meet everybody else tonight. And the additional response from mom
was thumbs up.
Speaker 1 (47:34):
That's good.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Mom's the hard one went over. Oh yeah, dad used
to push over take care of my baby boy. That's
what Connor's mom sounds like. I didn't like that, and
why was it too accurate?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Oh do that one more time? Oh why don't you
take care for my baby man? Connor McGovern's your mom
from Dublin. I didn't realize that by him a nice
pine of guinness.
Speaker 2 (48:03):
All right, So we got the Texas Bull at two
thirty tonight, Penn State Bois Day. That's the Fiesta Bowl
down in Tempe. Part of my guy.
Speaker 1 (48:11):
I got two cut feelings off of that game today,
coming up at the bottom of the arm.
Speaker 2 (48:14):
Okay, wait, there really is. There's playoff games today. We
just won six thirty.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
Which one is it? Penn Sate Boisees date.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Oh okay, they're like, yeah, let's just let's just throw
this one on New Year's Okay, there's a game that
already it's just about to start. It's Alabama Michigan. If
I would have told you Alabama Michigan was playing in
a bowl game today, or playing in a bowl game
this year, you'd have thought, Wow, this is New Year
six or this is a playoff game. They're playing in
something called the Reliquest Bowl. I couldn't even tie a
(48:45):
quest Rely on Quest, Yeah, relya Quest.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
That's today. It's in Tampa. Oh, good for them.
Speaker 2 (48:51):
I mean seventy six degrees down there. Oh, they play
it right now, just started. Don't watch it. I guess
you can watch men to listen to us. Oh okay,
I mean I have it on. I'm not gonna listen.
Speaker 1 (49:02):
The Tony the Tiger's Sun Bowl starts at one o'clock.
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
Yeah, that's brought you by the cereal. But it's not really,
it's a cereal mascot. Well you know it's it's Kellogg's
is the company that makes the frosted flake. Right, we've
done Fantasy five and Cereals before. I think I think
you want. Yeah, Frosted Flakes is a top three for me. Absolutely.
I mean it's holly holly, unhealthy for you, very unhealthy,
(49:29):
but damn it's delicious.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
It's most cereals. Yeah, it's true. I was a serial addict.
Oh that's right. He had a He had an addiction.
You mean, like you almost ate too much cereal, like
multiple bowls. He had to go to c a not cocaine.
Anonymous cereal aymous. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:47):
Hi, my name is Connor mc govern and I've had
six bowls of cinnamon toast crunch today.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
And then something in the back say, there, God, you
liked it. Not bad, It's not bad, but the the
fact that you loved it. You always crushed me for
laughing at my own jokes, so I'm gonna do the
same to you. South Caro.
Speaker 2 (50:07):
Okay, here's one for you. South Carolina plays Illinois at
the cheese at Citri Bowl. By the way, cheese it suck, terrible, gross,
it's a child snack.
Speaker 1 (50:16):
It's not good. And then you have Baylor l s
u at the Texas Bowl. Oh, connorm I gomming big cheese.
It's fan. What are you eleven? What do you like goldfish? No?
So you don't like any cheesy snack? No, okay, it's fine.
Speaker 2 (50:31):
No, And I like I like like Cheddar sour cream
chips because I'm an adult. Who you know what's really good?
Flaming hot Cheddar sour cream. You won't regret it, thank
me later, the greatest chips on the planet. We well,
I get some acids as part of this, isn't Yeah, yeah,
you don't like spicy, you're a spice, Walter, let me
tell you, I love spicy.
Speaker 1 (50:48):
You just can't.
Speaker 2 (50:49):
I can't right the body, the body, The body says Matt,
You're you're in an age where you shouldn't be eating it.
So flaming hot cheddar and sour cream. And then the
Penn State Boys State Game. Is that the VRBO Fiesta Bowl?
We calling it verbo or vrbu. I thought it was Verbo.
That's the fake airon BnB right right, different than Airbnb.
So it's like it's like Lyft and Uber basically.
Speaker 13 (51:09):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (51:09):
Yeah? Yeah, same deal? Sure, why not?
Speaker 2 (51:12):
Okay, So that's what we got going on, all right.
Jock Peterson of Los Angeles Dodger fame, yes, signed a
contract with the Texas Rangers. So they've been he's the
one that got slapped over fantasy football.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Right, Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
Yeah, he's had issue Tommy fam slapped him.
Speaker 1 (51:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (51:31):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (51:31):
He's played with the Dodgers, the Cubs, the Braves, the Giants,
and Dimac Jesus was a journeyman.
Speaker 1 (51:36):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
Last year he batted to forty one. Actually that's not true.
His current batting average is two forty one. He played
last year with the Diamondbacks. Most of his career with
the Dodgers, but has moved around a bunch of different
places since twenty twenty. Now he's a member of the
Texas Rangers.
Speaker 1 (51:54):
And he was asked about, you know, playing in this
division and whether or not the Rangers of a shot
winning the American League West again like they did a
couple of years back, played.
Speaker 5 (52:03):
The Astros a couple of times in the World Series,
and h they've they put together a nice little run
and it's coming to an end and it's time for
us to uh to take over the West.
Speaker 2 (52:18):
Astro fans losing their mind over that they are. Yeah,
a couple of things here. Didn't the Rangers win the
West two years No?
Speaker 1 (52:24):
They didn't. I guess didn't the Rangers win the World
Series two years ago? Yeah? That was the Astros run
the Astros Rangers won more recently in the Astros havelf
how many times the Astros by the Dodgers in the
World Series Once he said a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (52:36):
Well he was on the braves when oh, that's true,
that's true. He personally, that's true, that's true. He comes
across the d But I I just was he supposed
to say, I mean, he's playing to the DFW media.
Was he supposed to come on the stage and go, yeah,
you know, the Astros have run this American League West
for the longest time. I'm kind of afraid of I'm
(52:56):
gonna try to do my best, but if we don't win,
it's because the Astros are better.
Speaker 1 (52:59):
I mean, what did you expect them to? S? Wow?
Speaker 2 (53:00):
He led the league and hit by pitches last year
with eighteen Imagine that. So you know, Craig Biger has
got mad respect for him. That was you know what
I'm gonna that's the little applause for you, met that's funny.
Uh nine oh eight ops ops plus a one to
fifty one. He was seriously good last year. Gee, get
on some good juice or something that's way.
Speaker 1 (53:19):
Better in his career.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
It so they've lost Jack Peterson. Arizona has named Christians walker.
Speaker 1 (53:24):
In the same year, and they weren't very good to
begin with. They won the National League two years ago. Yes,
how I mean, it's all Brnce Stroump, who's now out
there anymore. It's correct. Yeah, Remember everybody was like Brnce
Shrump's got the Diamondbacks in the world series. We need
Brince strom back, all right? Played that sound bite again
(53:47):
and Ross judge it for the audience please.
Speaker 5 (53:49):
Played the Astros a couple of times in the World Series,
and they've they put together a nice little run and
it's coming to an end, and it's time for us
to uh to take over the West.
Speaker 2 (54:03):
If the askers, I would feel a lot more confident.
I'd be on this in this microphone, going, you know.
Speaker 1 (54:07):
What, Jock Peterson, you got another thing.
Speaker 2 (54:09):
Coming here come the Astros. But Kyle Tucker is gone,
and Alex Bragman's probably gone, and I don't know who's
gonna chance McCormick and Jake Myers at Dubont of the outfield,
and I don't know what's happening with the pitching staff,
So I'm not gonna be that cocky about it. By way,
are we bothered by Jock being spelled joc? It's I
don't care for Brosky, right, it is very bro Hey,
is my bro Jock Peterson?
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (54:31):
Man?
Speaker 1 (54:31):
Is somebody's name Jackets jos k correct, Yeah, man, he's uh,
he's fied out pledge master this year.
Speaker 12 (54:38):
Bro.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
He choked a beer faster than anyone I'd seen check
it out, Like, idare you help me out, Connor, because
you're one of the Brosky's name. Some guys that shorten
their name up that shouldn't shorten their name by like
one letter. Hmm, like Jock is a is it great?
Jack's with joc K? Like the great Jock? You wing
(54:59):
me rest in peace?
Speaker 2 (55:01):
Jack Landell j O c K. Good dude, Yeah, that's
what the k. It's okay, But what is what did
jacqu Landell short for? Is his name just literally Jock?
I mean they hit the nail on the head. He's
a professional basketball player.
Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:17):
Give me some names that have been shortened by one
letter that comes across the douche it like, I don't know,
Like I know there's their names out there.
Speaker 1 (55:25):
Help me out on it.
Speaker 2 (55:26):
There's gotta be some people that have names that that
ad that shorten it by one letter because they want
to sound really cool, and Jock is is the class
example of that, right.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
I guess? So all right, I don't think about this
for Yeah, isn't there uh I don't remember? Oh, like, uh,
dak that's short for Dakota. Yeah, but I mean d
if your name if your own name is like d
A c K dak dak Miller what and they spell
a D A c because they want to be cooler
that Lily. Okay, that's a that's a poor example, but
(56:00):
that's my important example, Matt. I mean, this is not
let's take a quick time out, damn live radio. What
am I supposed to do? I know, I'm no one
coming up with a name.
Speaker 2 (56:09):
I trust me on this, Malcolm to like Mac that's
not one letter, but yeah, yeah, yeah, I get you,
all right. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven NINTI will.
Speaker 1 (56:22):
Come back give you the update on the d of
the Year voting, and that is with you.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
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Speaker 7 (57:59):
Matt Thomas Ross Viial It's the Mad Thomi Show with
Ross on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (58:10):
All right, bottom of the hour, We're gonna have gut
feelings where you're going to have a chance to make
some predictions. I'm going to predict the Texans game on Sunday.
I'm going to predict tonight's college football playoff game between
Boise State and Penn State. And I'm gonna give you
a statistic about that game as well.
Speaker 1 (58:30):
I'm gonna give you an out.
Speaker 12 (58:31):
Matt.
Speaker 1 (58:32):
I'm gonna let you do something here. Go ahead, because
a few weeks ago you put your name on it.
You said ash Gent was never gonna have any sort
of NFL career. That is correct, You're sticking with it.
What is measurables? Go and give me the measurables again.
Speaker 2 (58:48):
Hold on, now, we also need to define what a
what you think his career is going to be in
the NFL, and what mine are?
Speaker 1 (58:55):
Five nine, two, sixteen.
Speaker 2 (58:57):
Okay, all right, let's let's let's narrow it down a
little bit here. He will never rush for a thousand
yards in the NFL in a single season. A single season.
That's and that's a little watermark, frankly, for a seventeen
game season. You used to be it when you were
when you were coming out of college years ago, it
was sixteen. You wanted to rush for ae thousands a
beginning down. Just a guy in the NFL. Yeah, I
(59:21):
would say less than a thousand yards as a running
back in the NFL makes you just a guy?
Speaker 1 (59:27):
Would you agree with me on that? No, I think
he'll I think I'll have a thousand yard season at
some point. Okay, well then write that type that in there. Okay, okay,
all right.
Speaker 2 (59:39):
D of the Year voting is going right now. You
have until midnight, midnight tonight. In last places, he's enjoying
the sea. He's got a little smile on his face
every time he hits the D of the Year.
Speaker 1 (59:52):
Sounder.
Speaker 2 (59:53):
Now he's off probably texting as a girl G of
the Year block spot on Brady Roast is getting the
least votes seven percent.
Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
That my New Year's resolution is more time with you baby?
Is that what he's saying. He's not saying it that way.
I think he's normally speaking to her. He doesn't. Don't
think he's goes like digital just bibb, what's up girl.
He's not saying that. I don't think so speaking like
the bass singer and boised him in I get to
meet the girl on Sunday. Okay, Oh, I know why?
(01:00:23):
All right, don't mention why because I've already received thirty request.
You know what, I'm proud. I'm proud of Connor McGovern.
He's growing up before our eyes.
Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Yeah, he's he's he's gathering our bad habits and learning
from us every day seven percent, the block spot on
Brady Roast second place twenty four percent, on the MLB
Horrible Strike Zone D of the Year thirty three percent,
NCAA nil, non regulation, and the number one spot Jim
SLOWSNIGL thirty six percent. So voting is still wide open
(01:00:53):
at this point. I gotta go vote anybody, but Schloss
you really you can't, you know what, You're being such
a homer. You can't even defend it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
Wow, how much? If I'm not defending it, that's how's
that me being a home then you need to vote
for him his Day of the year because that was
the dsh move of that. But it was a big
thing ross.
Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
It's like saying, well, he only did one crime, he
only murdered one person. Yeah, exactly, let o J go,
Oh my god. Just terrible, just terrible. By the way,
just crushed one reporter and basically lied in front of
a national audience and then took a job with the
hated rival.
Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
I mean, Mike called.
Speaker 6 (01:01:39):
That was it.
Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
That was a tough day for for Aggie fan that
calls Texas little brother. That was a tough day. Yikes.
Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
By the way, I was watching the Today Show this
morning and I don't know if we want to do
this or not. This year is a tough year for
us in terms of losses in the world of sports.
My people passing, mm hmmm.
Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
We've lost.
Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
This year was a tough tough year for losing sports celebrities.
Just in the last week we lost Ricky Henderson, Greg Gumbele,
Greg Gumbel, O J.
Speaker 1 (01:02:13):
Simpson. Is that a rest in peace or arresting something else?
Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
I don't think he's enjoying much peace to be brutally
honest with you, or I believe his Eminem would say
rotten pieces.
Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
Yeah, okay, I just put Carl Weathers. I got a
list here a little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Please Gabriel your music for this to be I will
do you want to do that? Or no, it's now,
we're almost done. Chris Mortensen yep, one of the groat
goats of NFL reporting, Oh, I forgot about Yeah, I
cue the music, hit it. He's give him a second, man,
(01:02:51):
I forgot about this one. Jacoby Jones. This is this
is bring me down too much. Find the Sarah mcgl lachlan,
I will remember you. Oh this is really said. This
almost makes you cross bawling on air. I don't want
to do that. Nobody wants to hear that. This is
when they say Memoriam. You're trying to give them a
(01:03:12):
little bit of ron saying hey we we celebrate your life. Yeah,
and Sarah probably helps out a little bit better. This
one's oh this is better. It's not like great, but
it's Franz Beckenbauer.
Speaker 1 (01:03:24):
Never heard of him. Wasn't that a tests player or something?
Speaker 17 (01:03:30):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Germans that sorry, the soccer player. That's not safer.
Speaker 6 (01:03:33):
My bad.
Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
I should have known that. Uh. Carl Weathers, did I
say that one? Yep?
Speaker 2 (01:03:38):
Jim Otto, Bill Walton, Oh, Big Red, oh Man, tough,
tough loss on that one. Larry Allen, Love, Dallas Caboon Lineman, Yeah, okay,
Jerry West, the logo, Willie Mays say, hey kid wan
at Chi Chi Rodriguez.
Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
Dude, this list keeps going.
Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
I told you when I saw the list, I'm like, Na,
this is tough to Kimbe Matumbo, Pete Rose, Louis Tiant,
Louis Yeah, Fernando Valence, Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
My god, Oh this is terrible. I mean, we've been
serious and this is a tough year.
Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Lou Carnesseca, Joe Jellybean, Bryant, Monte, Kiffen, and you mentioned
Ricky Henderson.
Speaker 1 (01:04:35):
Great Gumbele. That's tough.
Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
We lost Big Red mm Bill Walton, a bright, shining
light of the world and the home of the ask
one question. You're done with the interview, Well, if he
comes on. He was here's a little sick. When he
was supposed to come on the mat Tomas, he had
just finished four previous interviews.
Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
He was sick. He was sick of doing interviews. Yeah,
he didn't know you.
Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
No, he didn't realize we were huge. He probably had
a lot of back pain, foot paint. I mean, but
he went through a lot. But he went on Albuquerque
radio just fine. No, he wasn't Albuquerque. He was on
Serious XM with somebody more famous. It might even been
Greg Gumble. It was not Greg Gumble. Gumble and Bill
Waltner not doing a segment. They were partners on NBA
games see Matter of Fact ninety eight. Kiss a Death
(01:05:21):
Shot was maryo Ellie with Greg Gumble and Bill walt
Who was the It was a Fox and Studio host,
guy Terror Brnshaw. No, and he had a Serious XM show.
He's way more famous than you. But I can't remember
his name right now. I'm sure he is that that famous,
all right? Eleven eight Sports Talk seven ninety Let's go
(01:05:43):
to uh Danny in Cyprus on the Matt Thomas showed
Ross Danny, how are you?
Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Kurt Minafee, Yeah, he's alive. No, I'm saying that's good.
He was interviewing with I think, Hi Danny, Hey, how
y'all doing good?
Speaker 12 (01:05:57):
All right? Hey, I need I need to.
Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
Help on my prize picks for the weekend.
Speaker 15 (01:06:02):
Who's playing?
Speaker 6 (01:06:03):
What?
Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
I mean, who's gonna play all game long? I don't
have Cejay Stroud playing maybe till the halftime. But the Bills,
the Ravens, all of them, do they have anything on
the line where they would play their players, you know,
all four quarters? And I'll take y'all's answer off the air,
and y'all have a happy New year.
Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Guys, same to you. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:06:25):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:06:25):
I mean, let's face it, who's playing for things this weekend?
Speaker 2 (01:06:28):
The Ravens are playing for the division Green Bay and
excuse me, Minnesota and Detroit are playing for the division
and number one overall seed.
Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Mm hmm, well let's just wait. Who you say?
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
Minnesota and Detroit, minisot I said, Green Band, Minnesota, Detroit. Yeah,
games that make a hill of beans. I saw a
tweet on it. I'm trying to find it. It's very minimal.
Actually right, it's easy to tell you who's not playing
for anything. Texans, Titans nothing to play for. Uh, Falcons
have something to play for against the Panthers because the
(01:07:03):
Falcons have to win to keep it alive, and then
the Buccaneers have to lose.
Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
The Saints at home, which I don't think is going
to happen. But the Bucks have something to play for.
Speaker 2 (01:07:11):
Bills don't, Jaguars, Colts, no, Commanders, I don't think so,
Eagles don't have to Okay, I got a list. I
found the lido, all right. Teams that need to win.
Ravens need to win to win the division. Bengals need
to win to win the to get in the playoffs.
Steelers need to win to win their division. Broncos need
to win and they're in.
Speaker 1 (01:07:31):
Dolphins have something to play for, Lions and Vikings playing
each other as you mentioned, and then the Buccaneers and Falcons.
Those are the teams with something really on the line.
Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Okay, just seating only on the line would be Chargers, Packers, Commanders, Rams.
So it feels like half the league's got something to
go for. So just got to just look at to
who's playing for something meaningful. That's the way we can
answer that. J Stroud, Unders, Sorr are the on the board.
Speaker 1 (01:07:54):
Oh I would, yeah, and we'll come back with gout
feelings on the result of that game on Sunday. I
didn't know where you're going. Why was I have a
bet on the line on this one. Why would I?
Why would I say we're always clouded by your biases?
Why would I do that?
Speaker 2 (01:08:10):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven In the next
couple segments here on the show are Gut Feelings, where
you make predictions about what's gonna happen in sports. If
you can tell us what's gonna happen and you can
brag about it. Seven one three two one two five
seven eighty. It's eleven thirty here on seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Listen up a segment so appealing because wasn't that tommit Yo?
They got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling
on the Matt Thomas Show. All right, I was not
with you last week? Or was that? I don't think
I was.
Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
It was Christmas Eve. No, we worked together with Christmas Eve.
So let's go through how we did last week on
Gut Feelings. Gut Feelings is a weekly Tuesday segment at
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hounty if you'd like to three two one two five
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Speaker 1 (01:09:03):
Gonna happen in sports predictions. I have quite a few today.
Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Let's see how we did last week, and then we
invite you to join us again at seven one three, two,
one two five seven nine.
Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
I remember I was about to ask Connor if I
forgot to write his down, but then he was after
the segment, he was like, no, you guys didn't even
ask me, so I didn't give one. Oh, Connor, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
I think I was ignored. Yea, it's because matt was
on the road. He gets distracted. Ooh, fumble for Jaylen Milroll.
Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
By the way, Jalen Monroll not an NFL quarterback. Sorry,
I would agree with that. Yeah, athlete? Yeah, does he
stay at Alabama?
Speaker 5 (01:09:36):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
Does Quinn stay at Texas? Do stand by for that? Oho?
Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
You're reading my mind? Okay, Well, let's go to last week. Matthew,
you had the Texans losing by ten plus. It was close, ding,
it was close in the first quarter.
Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
It was close.
Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
That was ten to two, right, this one is also TBD.
You have Alex Bregman as a New York Yank. Yeah,
no change, And I feel like I continue to waff
on that, but I think I'm just going to stay
with that one, just to stay.
Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
It's fine.
Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
It's good feelings. Good feelings are fluid. Matt, Yeah, thank you.
I said the Texans will keep it within nine and
a half. I was being a pieed optimist.
Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
They did a kickoff, Yeah they did for a little while.
I didn't say when they would. And I also made
another prediction, Matt, I said that I would win and
be the back two back two back. I heard Houston
Fantasy football champion on behalf of all of us in Houston,
the six million that potential could listen to the show.
(01:10:33):
We don't care. That's fine. And by the way, you
and you and Adam Clanton are crying and taking your
ball home and quitting the league. Correct.
Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
I've been with the league for fourteen years. It's plenty
of time. It's time to retire, and I'm retired back
in No, come on, no, it's done finished. The injuries
won't be that bad this yest year.
Speaker 1 (01:10:51):
Whatever. The injuries this last year were unprecedented.
Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
We're moving on what else we got and that's all
I got, all right, Connor, we do not want to
neglect you Connor first, So Kyler, you're going first.
Speaker 11 (01:11:01):
Okay, Texan starters, they play at least till halftime, and
whether they win or lose, they're done after the half,
and the Texans will lose to the Titans.
Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
Hmm, okay, Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:11:13):
The first one's gonna be hard to quantify because you're
you're theoretically talking about twenty two people here.
Speaker 1 (01:11:17):
I'll talk about I'll say Stroud mixing Collins.
Speaker 2 (01:11:21):
The important shorter Stroud mixing Collins, all right, I will
I'll piggyback on the pack on that.
Speaker 6 (01:11:28):
Ce J.
Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
Stroud will not finish the first half, but he will
play will not finish the first half. Okay, So if
see if Money Mills takes a snap in the second quarter,
that means it's a cut feeling hit. I would I
think you're on the right track. Okay, I would agree
with that.
Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
C J.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Stroud, I will say, plays under five series or how
does that? That's about the same. Join me on this,
Join me in that that he doesn't finish the half,
I'll play four. I say four series are under Okay,
when you really are getting nitpicky on that, I respect that.
Why not, by the way, Tennessee does win the game.
I got another one with that yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:12:04):
Davis Mills throws a touchdown that sounds terrible. I'm not
ready to say that.
Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
I'm gonna go. Tennessee wins the game in a game
it means absolutely zero. It does mean I collect on
my under nine and a half victories. They are favored
in the game. Okay, I got some more if you
want to think about it. Okay, I'm trying to. I'm
trying to get too happy with my Damian Piers prediction.
Speaker 1 (01:12:32):
Seven one three, five seven eighty. Oh Jesus leads the
team in rushing?
Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
Is that too?
Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
Is that crazy to say no? But you may write
it down.
Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
I will seven one three two, one two five seven
ninety seven one three two five seven ninety Penn State
wins by double digits tonight. Ooh, Ashton genty does not
run for one hundred yards in the game.
Speaker 3 (01:12:56):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (01:13:01):
I love this.
Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
I just absolutely love this. I'm not anti him, I'm
just it seems like I'm very pro pen saintan this game. Okay, Okay,
I love it.
Speaker 2 (01:13:10):
Okay, let me give you some more here on the
Bowl games's Michigan's up thirteen to nothing on I'm I'm
staying away from that one let's see here, Well, thirteen
you want to make a Texas ball prediction. My Texas
bull prediction is Gordy gets drunk. No I say, I say, Gordy,
(01:13:32):
stay sober. Stay So it's New Year's Eve. He's from
Louisiana and l it's two thirty. He's got to pace himself.
Have you seen Louisiana folks? All right, they're plastered by
ten thirty am when the game is the night game.
I will say this, here's my gut feeling. A Baylor
fan cannot walk twenty five yards without vomit in the
way from an L.
Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
They'll be dodging lsu vomit. Okay? Is that okay? With
that one? Yes? All right? Let me give you some more.
I got. I got Georgia beating Notre Dame even with
the backup quarterback. Okay, what nothing? I got?
Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Texas cruising past Arizona State. They will cover the thirteen
twelve and a half. I got no comment. Wishing the best,
and I got it.
Speaker 1 (01:14:27):
I'll take. Tell you know what I'll take Texas. I'll
take We've hit I've hit fourteen plays in a row.
Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
I'm taking the long ones in a money line Ohio
State is two and a half point favorite against Oregon,
the number one seed, and Oregon already beat them in Vegas.
Does not feel very good about I got Oregon beating
Ohio State. So let me give you the winners. Make
it easier that way, Okay, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, hold on,
let me write this down. Texas, Oregon, Georgia will be
(01:14:53):
will be your three winners, Georgia and Penn State and
Penn State. That's your final that's my final four.
Speaker 14 (01:14:59):
I mean.
Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
I could see that. Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:15:06):
I mentioned the Texans. I got Ashton Genty, I've got
Penn State, I've got those other things. I got Davis
Mills playing in the second quarter. I think that's plenty
right there. That's a lot of gut feelings, okay. And
I still have Alex Bregman being in New York Yankee,
although the Detroit Tigers could be a sneaky and I
think I went Tiger's very early in the gut feeling wars,
(01:15:26):
but I've changed my mind twice since then, So I
can't go.
Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
I can't go retro back to the Tigers. Yeah, you
can't flip flop like that.
Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
Come on, No, No, no, no, but I know I'm
staying with the yankiest situation. But I still very very
confident that we're going to be a worst case Dutch.
In the launch at six years, Boise State covers the
eleven and a half. Okay, you got an Ashton genty prediction.
Now i'd have to go look what his player prop is. Okay,
(01:15:56):
anything else I'm good for right now? Count anything else
for you.
Speaker 11 (01:16:00):
The Saint Louis Blues beat the Chicago Blackhawks in the
Winter Classic Today.
Speaker 1 (01:16:04):
Where's that game that is in Chicago and Wriggley Field?
They put ice on Wrigley Field before.
Speaker 11 (01:16:10):
Yeah, it happens every year, not in Chicago, though they've
done before.
Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
Yes, you do'll be really cool if they went somewhere
warm and did it. They played it in Dallas before
they were able to keep it that the ice cold. Yeah,
at the Cotton Boy, I think they had to switch
to field hockey at the after the first intermission.
Speaker 1 (01:16:28):
There were blades of grass going through the ice.
Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
They'll bring a lawnmower out between intermissions, yes, uh, okay,
and anything else?
Speaker 1 (01:16:38):
Oh, I this one I don't want. I think a
man's gonna spend it for two games. I think that's right.
That's a nail on the head.
Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
I'll put him in Thompson a two game suspension, and
I'm gonna go fred Van Vleegez.
Speaker 1 (01:16:47):
Oh my god, hold on, man, what I got like
seventy predictions? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
I got uh Freddy getting to spend it a game?
Oh really yeah, I don't want him to. But I
hope I'm wrong on that. Really, I really up, I'm
wrong on that one. Okay, all right? Seven one three two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seventy. We'll get your gut feelings next. It's
eleven forty four here on Sports Talk seven nighty. We
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give the news at noon coming up in about fifteen
minutes right now a short time out, we'll talk to
James and Gary.
Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
Next, this is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
four Talk seven ninety N't that toomayo?
Speaker 7 (01:17:29):
They got a gut dealing lunchtimers. Gut feelings continue now
on The Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
By the way, I forgot one more gut feeling. You'll
like this, Rossie. I won't have to worry about a
quarterback competition next year. Quinn yours will be playing somewhere
else next season. Oh, your gut feeling, gut feeling is
quin yours does not go to the NFL. Quin yours transfers. Wow,
takes a guarantee in the NAO from somebody that probably
will be able to pay him, unlike Leonard Hamilton and
(01:17:59):
Florida State. Uh, my gut feeling would be that he
does declare for the draft. Okay, but he's not gonna
be a day one pick. Why would you declare when
you're not a Day one pick. Let's go ahead and
get it over I mean, not get it over with,
but start your career. If if I mean, what is
what is he going to learn in one more year
playing for It's about taking them bigger money.
Speaker 1 (01:18:20):
Yeah, he'll get more money.
Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
He'll get more money in one year in the in
the colleges, and he will get in it for his
NFL contract.
Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
Okay, that's my thought that if.
Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
You if he's got if there's there's again it's Twitter reports,
So it's you're gonna take over the grain of salt.
Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Yeah, tw six million dollars. That's six million, okay, If
he's getting six million dollars ago somewhere then yeah, your
gut feeling is going to be right. Yeah, why is
anybody in a place? You know what, maybe I'm just
spoiled because quin Ewers is a bad quarterback, a good
quarterback actually, and just I guess I just keep waiting
for him because he was He was the number one
quarterback recruit coming out of high school. He was supposed
(01:18:55):
to be the All World everything, five star, one of
the greatest quarterback recruits of all time, and he just
has not lived up to that billing. He has one
year of eligibility left after this year, right, Yes, so
you're telling me nothing again that Twitter can be largely erroneous,
But if it's true, there's one school out there that's
gonna pay him six million dollars for one year of
(01:19:16):
college football. When's he gonna hit the portal because he missed?
It'll be next semester, you have to be Yeah, all right,
let's go to the phones.
Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven eight.
Speaker 1 (01:19:30):
Look who's are online to our buddy? It's been every buddy, James, Right,
look at me. A little added production value there, Hi, James, Hey, how's.
Speaker 10 (01:19:51):
It going Governor Thomas and listen, happy new Ye. It's
everybody out there, do you uh to Connor to RV
everybody over.
Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
There and all the fans listen. I got a couple
of quick picks. For sure.
Speaker 10 (01:20:05):
The Detroit Lions is gonna take down the Viking.
Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
That's gonna be a war.
Speaker 10 (01:20:10):
But the the Lions got him, they're gonna gobble them
up in the end. And I'm also predicting that the
Bengals are gonna make the playoffs. And despite what everybody
might think, it's not the popular one about Saint Kawak Barkley,
He's gonna get that record. I don't care about mister
Dickerson crying crying in his tea or whatever he likes
(01:20:30):
to drink, you know, uh, while he's smoking the blood
whatever the cases that records going down.
Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
And also I still disagree with you.
Speaker 15 (01:20:39):
I believe that.
Speaker 10 (01:20:41):
Guy Bregmant is gonna head to the rest Sours, but
I hope him, pray that Tucker doesn't follow him. Next year.
I still holding out hope that he could come become
a Yankee because he's an important fixture similar to the
one that played for the Yankees, Paul Neil he's got
the same kind of game and everything and and he's
a great player. Anyway, thank you for taking my car.
(01:21:03):
I'm heading with my wife to Miller's Cafe to enjoy
a good lunch. Take care of fellas, and I'll talk
to you in the upcoming year.
Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
Thank you, James, New York.
Speaker 6 (01:21:17):
Six six.
Speaker 1 (01:21:21):
Wuf pay.
Speaker 2 (01:21:22):
And by the way, you know we've not mentioned with
Michigan being up sixteen to nothing on Alabama. Wasn't this
Alabama team is supposed to be the one that was
supposed to play in the colleg football playoff because he
got they got robbed because of SMU And it's early.
It's early, Matt let's not done. That's one thing we
do on not we but a lot of people do
on Twitter. I'm not saying you're doing this, but yeah, fellas,
this day is the way it's going. Obviously, Alabama's gonna
(01:21:43):
get waxed and get made fun of except by Paul
Fine bomb as is Kirk curve Street gonna come out
and talk about how strong Alama Obama was and they
still all that hurts, just wondering why has Herbie taking it? Which,
by the way, back on the Quinn, you weres thing.
If Texas wins the national championship, he's going to transfer out.
Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
You're trying to add logic to this.
Speaker 2 (01:22:04):
Okay, again, if it's saying you're right, if it's true,
if it's six million dollars, how do you not I'm
not personally attact. I'm talking about in general. Ya, I'm
trying to think about this like that would be insane.
There is no way in the world he's a first
round pick.
Speaker 1 (01:22:19):
No way.
Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
So if that's the case, he's going to lose the
extra year that you would get as a quarterback.
Speaker 1 (01:22:23):
Can he Yeah? Can he be a fourth round pick?
Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
Even if ROSSI If he's a fourth round pick and
someone offers him three million to play next year, you
take that and give yourself. You take the cash, and
you hope you improve your draft stat last year's. I
don't know where his draft sat is going to improve.
I wonder if he's just gonna want to get the
ball roll.
Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen. He
could very I just think it would be insane.
Speaker 2 (01:22:46):
Now, if they lose like this week in Arizona State
and he transfers out, that makes a lot more sense
to me. But it's just funny to me to wrap
my head around a quarterback winning a national championship and
then transferring out. What if it's archman leading the way
to the national championship, if the get or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
I mean yeah, that would obviously trend more towards him transfer.
(01:23:08):
I'm just telling you, I have given up on trying
to make sense. I can't make sense something of a
championship like wow, gosh, we've seen we've seen this.
Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
We've seen guys win championships and leave right after coaches
have done it. A third round contracts the last year's
draft around between five and a half six million total
total over four years.
Speaker 1 (01:23:38):
Also that's a third round.
Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
If he goes in the fourth round, it's between four
point eight and four and a half million for four years.
Speaker 1 (01:23:46):
I'm I'm going.
Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
To the portal one more time, transfer, one more time,
collecting the check. I'm gonna say, gut feeling, he's gonna
he's gonna declare, Yeah, gut filling is he's going somewhere
else for a paycheck. Gary at college paycheck, Gary in
Spring on seven and high.
Speaker 1 (01:23:59):
Gary, Hey, you guys, happy New York.
Speaker 9 (01:24:02):
My my gut's telling me that the Texans are gonna
fix him to go on a two game winning streak.
They're gonna win in uh Tennessee. Then they're gonna come
home and win the opening game of the playoffs at
n r G. And their new receiver is it Johnson?
Speaker 12 (01:24:19):
Is that his last name?
Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Johnson?
Speaker 9 (01:24:21):
Yeah, he's gonna he's gonna be a positive influence in
both those games. And what jersey number does he wear?
Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
Eighty free?
Speaker 9 (01:24:30):
It's eighty something, eighty something, Okay, as long as it's
not eighty we're in good shock.
Speaker 1 (01:24:36):
Thanks, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:24:37):
Yeah, we're done with it. Nobody, nobody better than not
wear eighty again. I don't care what it is. Our
friend Adam Walkser put it out. Let me go find it,
Adam J. Wexler, make sure you follow him. Are lots
of information. Yeah, absolutely eighty two okay, all right, two
(01:25:01):
game winning. That's someone in rama possible that that very
well may hit ROSSI does. They're gonna beat Pittsburgh, they
can beat Denver.
Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
They're not looking like they beat them. They're not gonna
beat that.
Speaker 7 (01:25:14):
They're not.
Speaker 1 (01:25:14):
You have to you have to pray for the Steelers.
That come here.
Speaker 2 (01:25:19):
I'm not saying they're going to well, I actually gonna
say they're going to they're going to beat the Pittsburgh Steelers.
They would not beat the Chargers, they would not beat
the Ravens, and they could beat Denver too. We'll see
any given Sunday. Baby, let's go any given Sunday except
against the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
And the Ravens. We'll see all right.
Speaker 2 (01:25:41):
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Speaker 1 (01:27:25):
Show on I'm keeping it a normal All right, we're
gonna start with an unprecedented special field report.
Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
This Texas Bull Report brought to you by Dewey Blanchett's
Raccoon Bites. Here is Chris Gordy with the latest that's
not on the Texas Bowl. Gordy, don't listen to him.
Speaker 6 (01:27:43):
What's up, Jens, Welcome from the Kinders Texas Bull. Down
here on the field. Get you set for a huge
matchup between LSU and Baylor.
Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
And how many How is the Baylor tailgate?
Speaker 6 (01:27:56):
Did not see one? Got you so early? There were
not many to gates going on.
Speaker 1 (01:28:01):
Wait a minute, you're telling me there were no LSU tailgames.
There were people didn't tailgain at four o'clock this morning,
I guarantee you.
Speaker 6 (01:28:08):
I mean there's some, but I like, I got here
before the creditial window even open, so not not much happening.
Speaker 7 (01:28:14):
Just why.
Speaker 6 (01:28:16):
Oh, you know, he had to come and get some
great pictures down on the fields and the Kinders Texas Bull.
Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
You're such a whore. It's a bit. It's awesome. I
respect his horror game. It's really good.
Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
He learned from the best he did learn from Okay,
fair enough, that's that feels appropriate. All right, Gordy, what
are your keys to victory for both sides?
Speaker 1 (01:28:34):
Please?
Speaker 6 (01:28:36):
Key's to victory on both sides? Well, obviously there's some
guys out on both sides. Got to the Clark the
draft got you at the transfer portal LSU. A little
sit at safety Baylor pretty decent offense or quarterback Tory
Robertson been pretty good all year. So I think an
offense the shootout, I think first one to forty is
(01:28:56):
going to get the win today.
Speaker 1 (01:28:57):
Wow, first of forty. That means if you're going Vegas,
are like Charles should take the over sixty two and
a half.
Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
You heard what he said, first of forty. Okay, you
don't think it's gonna be thirty nine to seven, do you.
I'm just saying, all right, and because you're objective, who
do you have in the game that I LSU or
batter one of the game.
Speaker 6 (01:29:18):
Well, I mean just removing all objectivity and forgetting that.
I went to LSU, and forgetting that, our big bosses
all went to LSU, and basically half the people on
our sales floor went to LSU. I'm taking my I'm
taking my bias cap off, and I'm gonna say lsu
wins by.
Speaker 1 (01:29:35):
Thirty doll there we go. You know that's what about
Gordy calls it straight. Yeah, so you went to the
Sugar Bowl media Francis yesterday.
Speaker 14 (01:29:47):
Is that fair?
Speaker 1 (01:29:47):
Is that accurate? Oh?
Speaker 6 (01:29:50):
Yeah, we were at the Sugar Bowl Media day is
the most accommodating. They give you a full hour in
a room with any player you want, one on one.
I mean it's the best, most accommodating. And Georgia, by
the way, I think they're gonna win it all.
Speaker 1 (01:30:04):
Oh you hear that ross sec is gonna win it all. Okay,
that's fine.
Speaker 6 (01:30:10):
There are a few people who predicted they think it's
gonna be a rematch between Texas and Georgia.
Speaker 1 (01:30:16):
Georgia are times and charm.
Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
Maybe that was me and I said, you're gonna play
the other three times a year. That was a gut
feeling you had, like in August.
Speaker 1 (01:30:24):
Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
By the way, what would what would the media treats
that were offered to you as you had the media
availability of an hour yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:30:31):
Did you offer you offered Begnet's coffee, water and cokes
or nothing? None of the above.
Speaker 6 (01:30:36):
There was uh, doctor Pepper, I think the official sponsor
of the Sugar Bowl as well as all States, So
they didn't hand out any free insurance. But I will
say the media gifts from the Sugar Bowl. They get
really nice sweatshirts out.
Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
Mmm.
Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (01:30:50):
And my buddy, my buddy who just covered the textive
New Orleans bul a week ago, said they gave you
a water bottle.
Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:30:56):
Now, by the way, what are you wearing right this second?
Speaker 2 (01:30:58):
Because you're objectively an ell locked an SEC reporter, what
do you what is your current garb?
Speaker 6 (01:31:04):
I'm wearing my long sleeved black sports talks of a
ninety sweatshirt.
Speaker 1 (01:31:07):
There you go, There you go representing, thank you very much.
No LSU beanie or anything on your head or anything
like that. Nothing.
Speaker 6 (01:31:15):
Uh, maybe later when I go into the Stanzas.
Speaker 2 (01:31:17):
Oh so he's temporary. Guy, Okay, I got you? And
how was the World War Two Museum in New Orleans.
Speaker 6 (01:31:24):
Very educational? Did you guys know that the World War
Two took place both in Europe and in the Pacific?
Didn't know that? Wait?
Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
Are you serious? You you was a museum too? Did
you not?
Speaker 7 (01:31:36):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (01:31:37):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
Any Why didn't you give us that anecdotal thing Gordy did.
I thought everyone like, is Gordy paid attention? I knew
that you had your earphones on heading Kendrick Lamar music
out in the background, You're walking.
Speaker 1 (01:31:48):
Around the grade. Just did not fraud? What Pacific Theater
of the European Theater you had Kendrick lamartin, guys, as
you're watching walking around the theater? Walking around like? Okay,
did fifteen time Grammy winner super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
What's wrong with that? Pulitzer Prize winner? All right, more
relevant American history than Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1 (01:32:06):
I get it, I get it. Jimmy.
Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Nobody said that you're so weird. All right, Gordy, thank
you very much. And anything else you want to add. Rossell,
We're gonna let him go.
Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
I'm good.
Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
All right, Well, you guys shall talk too long here.
I mean you got to be off by one. Chris
Chris Blair and the LSHU Sports Radio Network are taking
over our airwaves.
Speaker 1 (01:32:27):
Yeah, we brought to you by friends Boodan and Crackling.
We already did a simulcast with them earlier today. I
don't have you heard that or not. We did it.
We were good see you, Gordon? Yeah, all right, good luck.
He's like, yeah, okay, n I shoot football.
Speaker 5 (01:32:42):
Now there.
Speaker 1 (01:32:45):
You go the bay little Bell now, man, this is
Harrold mood alongside Clifting. Awesome knowing Clifted. They have a
roof on this thing. I never seen nothing. Imagine imagine
putting a big old roof on old Tiger stadium. That
wouldn't be very nice. Said, you can't. You gotta let
the tiger loose. You can't put it under the roof. Now, baby,
(01:33:08):
unbelievable that Baylor bell all right now, we were thinking
for winning a real fight, a tiger will a bail.
So we got the LSU report. Yes, wait, did a
Baylor report?
Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Okay, if there's any Baylor bear head of the game
right now, we need a Baylor smack talk back to
LSU guy, he's got LSU by thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:33:29):
Did they even Baylor smack talk at all? No?
Speaker 2 (01:33:32):
The only time they smack talk was and they were
defending our brills. What else happened that didn't happen? What
else is happening to the news?
Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
Swear are the news at noon? Mad?
Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Of course, the Texans are getting ramped up for their
weekend matchup against the Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 1 (01:33:47):
We had Demiko Ryans, was this yesterday. I'm losing track
of all days and what is happening. I don't even
know what today is.
Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
Talking about the starters playing yesterday and the game against
the Baltimore Ravens not being representative of what they are.
Speaker 13 (01:34:05):
Heah going into this game is I mentioned to all
our guys that everybody has to be ready to go,
and that's where we are. Everybody will be out there
playing and we'll, you know, we'll see how the game goes.
But for us right now, we gotta go play better.
And our last outing on the field was not good enough,
not representative of who we were are defensively, offensively, just
(01:34:28):
it's not a good representation of our team entirely.
Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
So we gotta go out.
Speaker 13 (01:34:32):
We gotta play better football, Gonna.
Speaker 1 (01:34:35):
Wipe that taste out of the mouse. The starter's gonna
get a look how much we shall see and they're
going to play, which is the best thing we got
came out of yesterday's pressville a belt. Yes well, also
yesterday talking about CJ Stroud and not being one percent.
Speaker 13 (01:34:49):
The piece about CJ being banked up is, you know,
I think that's real, and that's real for everyone in
the league at this time of the year. Everybody is
banged up. The amount of games guys have played, the
snaps that they play like, everyone is banged up. That's
that's what it is. That's the NFL football this time.
Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
There you go, that's NFL. That's what it is, says
to me. So, yeah, I don't think. I don't think
he's going again. I don't know his body. But my
point is I don't think he's suffering through anything else
that any other quarterback who's played sixteen games is going through.
Speaker 1 (01:35:16):
We don't know that, but I'm not gonna say it. Okay,
I don't.
Speaker 2 (01:35:19):
I don't think he's running around with a separated shoulder. Okay,
does he make some pains, yes, But I look at
when I look at CJ. Strow, I don't go, my guy,
he can barely walk. It doesn't know he's moving as
well as he was earlier in the season. To me,
that's because his offensive line sucked, and Nico Serro said
it was fine. Well, he's been getting beat up, and yes,
they were fine. At the trade deadline or he didn't
(01:35:41):
want to give up any draft capital and he's like,
we're not getting anything anyway. We're probably not gonna be
Kansas City, Baltimore, or Buffalo anyway.
Speaker 1 (01:35:48):
Do you think he did beat Buffalo?
Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Do you think it's part of his what he was
thinking is that No, even no matter what I make
do with the trade deadline or or nothing, but the
fourth best team?
Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
No, what was he think of the trade dead at
the trade deadline where they had a pretty good record?
By them, didn't they? What was their record?
Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
They were scuffling on offense, They had lost Digs for
the season. Offensive line was a hot matter of the season. Well,
now Dell's long gone for the season. You're missing two
your top three receivers. That's why they had a lot
of offensive line issues. By the way, I had a
previous gut feeling that I think I want to put
back in the mix. Okay, did they go get t
Higgins after all?
Speaker 1 (01:36:24):
Oh? Remember that one from last year? I do remember
that one. I don't know if I'm ready to say
that just yet. Okay, let it marinate. But I'd love tea.
I don't know, Higgins, Why are you such a big
I don't know, but I think you'd be great?
Speaker 10 (01:36:37):
Is good?
Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
I think he'd be great as a Texan. It would
be great as the number two wide receiver. All right,
twelve thirteen, Sports Talk seven ninety. That was the news
at noon. We were looking for a Baylor smack talker
to call the show. Maybe when I break maybe our
demographic is not great Baylor fans. If you're a singular
Baylor fan or you know somebody that's a Baylor fan,
calling right now in smack talk, how you're gonna beat
(01:36:58):
LSU hit a couple of hours at the Texas Bowl
seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven.
Speaker 7 (01:37:04):
Ninety show with Ross continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:37:15):
Alongside here, and I said, oh, this is Henry J. Tippadeau.
This is your L s U pre game to the
pregame man crackling pre pre game. In the pre pregame
cracklings and section two ninety four. Oh, here are the
Calvin Hannah charging nineteen dollars for a set of cracklings.
The cracklings and crackling, hand me some of them boil peanuts. Yeah, man,
(01:37:40):
we're gonna be great. We gotta get the eminem imminent perspective. Okay, Emine,
I mean you know, I mean anime. It's a hot
hell t ausink. We go to we go to the
Baylor network. We gonna line two, We're gonna line one.
And what kind of hogwash song is this? Mike Attacker
(01:38:05):
can't dance this. This is not bad. It isn't bad.
Ecce us Terry College football. Well what you expect? Who
do you want to fit the Beethoven? Or is that
what you wander?
Speaker 10 (01:38:23):
It was?
Speaker 1 (01:38:24):
I know that's what you want. You know, that's what
a tech I want.
Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
David allright, calling us live from the Texas Bowl with
Baylor smack talk.
Speaker 1 (01:38:32):
David, you're on smack talk, You're on bare down. How
are you friend?
Speaker 13 (01:38:36):
Get it?
Speaker 17 (01:38:36):
How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (01:38:37):
All right? So give it to us right now. How
is Baylor gonna do against LSU today?
Speaker 17 (01:38:42):
Well, listen, man, it's gonna be uh it's gonna be
a close game. Bayl It's gonna pull it out because
you gotta remember the intangible tier. You got coach Randa
with his LSU background, but going to Baylor, you know
there's a special uh win waiting to happen for him,
and Baylor's on that role. I mean, look at the
winning streak. How is that gonna stop today.
Speaker 11 (01:38:59):
It's not.
Speaker 2 (01:39:00):
You guys are playing the best football in the Big
twelve back half of the year, honestly better than Colorado.
Speaker 17 (01:39:04):
Yeah, it's well, I mean, you know Prime has got
the flash, but they definitely didn't have a good showing
in the San Antonio right Nope, nope, Yeah, I think
Randaz he got them, especially know they were. He was
on the hot seat early in the seasons, we all know,
but he's really turned it around.
Speaker 1 (01:39:20):
And when you look at this a.
Speaker 17 (01:39:22):
Win in this current current role, I mean it is good.
You know, Baylor wants that SEC matchup, so we're gonna
find out if it matters more in the SEC or
not today won't.
Speaker 1 (01:39:30):
Yes, we will.
Speaker 3 (01:39:30):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
Are you in the stadium right now? Are you outside
the stadium? I'm outside right now.
Speaker 17 (01:39:35):
We got a good crowd here, Lots of people, a
lot of activity, a lot of food, lots of stand
in line for forty five minutes to spend a wheel.
But you know it's all good people having a good time.
Speaker 1 (01:39:44):
All right. What is the current Baylor tailgate spread right now?
Speaker 17 (01:39:48):
Well, I'm gonna go with Baylor twenty one LSU seventeen.
Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
That's an under. That's a heavy under. Now, what's happened
to heavy under? What time did you get to the state?
Speaker 17 (01:40:00):
You know, we got here early. We got here about uh,
i'd say about eleven thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:40:07):
Okay, So what do y'all been eating? Do y'all drink?
Or y'all been just eating? Right now?
Speaker 6 (01:40:11):
You just eating so far?
Speaker 17 (01:40:12):
Otherwise I wouldn't call into this program, which might respect
we we want to have for it, thank you very much.
But I'll tell you there's lots of good food, lots
of lots of different you know vendor of course kenders
got there. You spend their wheel. You can get a
shot of barbecue sauce, so that's not necessarily the shot
you might be thinking of.
Speaker 6 (01:40:29):
But no, No, a lot of good food out here.
Speaker 17 (01:40:31):
A lot of Texans have a good setup with some
great kids' activities. You can bring the whole family out there.
Nice weather's perfect, perfect Houston day for the weather, for
the crowd, and crowd's getting bigger. It's looking good there.
Speaker 8 (01:40:43):
I'd say.
Speaker 17 (01:40:43):
The fan mix though, is surprisingly about half and half.
I know Houston's a good LSU town as well, Yeah,
for sure, lots and lots of green and gold and
lots of purple and gold. I guess it is.
Speaker 5 (01:40:56):
Well.
Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
Thank you very much, David. I appreciate the report. That's
a lot of report from the Baylor smack Togler is
very polite. Yeah, car you expect from Bail. I'm a
big fan of Mac bros. I thought a director at Baylor.
He used to be at University of Houston, and so
I wish him the very best. You know, outlook, we
work with a lot of LG people. I know Gordy
wants his Tigers to win. He doesn't hate on the
Cougars like you do, so I'm kind of running for
(01:41:17):
his squad. I don't hate on the Cougar you do.
Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
What did I say? You hate the Cougars daily? No,
I don't wishing them the best? Okay, So I'm gonna
buy you a shirt this week of aged Cougars quarters.
I will you wear it? If I go to a
game or something, I'll get you some tickets. I'm not
gonna that'd be like I'm gonna buy you a Longhorn
quarters that Are you gonna wear it? Of course I would?
Why would you?
Speaker 2 (01:41:39):
I'm not anti Texas, yeah, but that's why would you
represent a team that you don't have any feels I like.
Speaker 1 (01:41:44):
I like the nice quarter zips quarters.
Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Get you one, then I will absolutely one percent work
one wear Okay, now it'll make my my son's up mad.
Speaker 1 (01:41:54):
We're taking pictures. Mm hmm, Ross, do you want a
missou one? Okay, I don't need you of H one.
I don't need a Missoo one. I don't root for them.
I don't hate Missoo. I don't hate you of H.
Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Y'all believe that I got a problem with some of
their fans. Well, I got a lot of problem with
your fans. Why delusional, arrogant, obnoxious? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:42:26):
Yeah. Now they did throw bottle water bottles. That was
the kids. And then the exhaustive report from christal Conte,
we found we couldn't couldn't attach anybody's game Sea. Those
are the kids. I can't I can't be blamed for
the kids' actions. What are those nineteen twenty year olds
in the student section throwing water bottles? They're are you know?
Speaker 2 (01:42:43):
The kids are out of control. As I've told you though,
and it happens everywhere. As I've told you, I want
Texas to play for the national championship. Okay, why because
it's first of all, it's good for the show.
Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
Secondly, when when one of our teams that we love
is doing really well, there's just a better energy. Like
when my my Cougar's went to the Final four. You
know how big deal that was for me, even though
it was the COVID year.
Speaker 2 (01:43:04):
Great, even though we went to Indianapolis and got our
ass kicked by Baylor, it was fantastic. It was not
fantastic being wonderful. It was going there was fun. Yeah,
So I want you to have that same experience.
Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
They were in the final four last year and you went,
I went to the game and they got their ass kicked. Well,
they get their ask? Was that badly?
Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Make one freaking throw to Admage? One throw Quinn or
they were semi finals. This year, the Texas would be
playing in the Cotton Bowl. You know, to go, I
might probably not one hundred and ten thousands.
Speaker 1 (01:43:37):
Now they don't see one hundred and ten at eighteen too,
they hundred and five ish, okay, and then worre's the
national championship.
Speaker 2 (01:43:43):
If you get to Atlanta, right and then yeah, I'd
be back in Atlanta. What day is that a game
on the National Championship.
Speaker 1 (01:43:48):
I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
I'm gonna look it up real quick because I might
be in Atlanta that weekend. Okay, you say with me,
if you give me a room, I'll do it. Let's
all think about it.
Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
How long? How long is the drive Atlanta?
Speaker 10 (01:44:00):
No?
Speaker 11 (01:44:01):
No, no, no?
Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
The National Championship is just January twenty first, God, January twentieth.
Speaker 1 (01:44:07):
They're playing deep into the year? Or am I on
January twentieth? Well?
Speaker 2 (01:44:11):
No, it's MLK Day. We got to we have a
Rockets game that day. Hmm, okay where and he's just yeah,
they're playing Detroit. Yeah, let's see. The semi finals are
at the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl. Longhorns. If
they beat Arizona State would be taking on Ohio State
or Oregon. And you're what, You're a twelve and a
half point favorite of this, yes, so on the devastation ladder,
(01:44:35):
would you be like, damn, we lost a college football
playoff game. I'm upset, but Arizona State props to them?
Or do you go damn Arizona State with twelve and
a half point favorite, we lost to them. That's a
I feel like. So when I if you ask me
right now, I would say I wouldn't care that much.
But if you ask me in the fourth quarter of
the game and it's close, I would be going nuts.
So I my investment level is high.
Speaker 1 (01:44:58):
Obviously I would be tied to yeah, for sure, But
I would say I'm really really at this moment, I
don't think Texas is going to win it all, but
I don't think you're gonna get into a shootout. I
think the Texas defense is going to make life miserable.
Ferres on a State and scat Camp scataboo him too.
I'm gonna get super invested come semi final time. That's
(01:45:20):
when I'm really gonna start. Oh, by the way, we
have some good news.
Speaker 2 (01:45:22):
I think you're gonna get a reformed CFP next year,
same requirements, same elements to get in, but you're not
gonna be locked into a top four if you're a
conference champ.
Speaker 1 (01:45:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
I mean having Boise State in Arizona State locked into
three and four is just absurd. I think this is
going to be You're gonna get in the same way, yeah,
but you're gonna be ranked based on what the community
thinks you are. I would also say, if we do
this ten years in a row. This would be this
is more of an outlier type of year. Yeah, because
who was the who was the conference that got knocked out?
Was the ACC that didn't have the highest No, it
was A it was ACC? Yes, and Big twelve Yeah,
(01:46:00):
I mean a Big twelve knocked out A Yeah. So yeah,
I think I think you're gonna get We're gonna make
one subtle change. And honestly, who is this supposed to
irritate nobody unless you unless you believe the committee as
a bias towards your school. And I will say again,
I think they should recede. I'm indifferent on that. I
(01:46:22):
like brackets, but I could also see a receding. We'reward
the best teams, especially in a format like this where
you're talking about teams from across the country.
Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
I would like receding. Yeah, I I could see either way.
I really could.
Speaker 2 (01:46:36):
All Right, let's update you on the D of the
Year votes. They're coming in fast and furious, ROSSI are
they seven? Well, furious but not fast. If you've not
voted for D of the Year, will take of the
candidates are next twelve to twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 7 (01:46:51):
Matt Thomas and rossby a real two guys extremely passionate
about Houston sports.
Speaker 16 (01:46:57):
You can tell them to go get a room, shared
a hotel room, but they already have and then shared
a bad truth be told true. Thanks for the visual
pillow in between. There's no pillow between you and more.
Speaker 7 (01:47:10):
Lunchtime Houston Sports Talk on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (01:47:15):
Wow, thirty seven seconds remaining in the first half, Michigan
leading Alabama sixteen to seven. Come on, Jel Milroe, Oh
(01:47:35):
my god, down to the right side, down to the
fifty forty and thirty five or something like that? Can
you do an Alabama accent? I don't think so. You
should do Keith Jackson, don't you? You do a good
Keith Jackson Militaria melro on outside of the twenty five,
thirty five, forty and down the sideline of goes in
Michigan breaking him down after a huge man of milro game,
(01:48:01):
you throw it another. You gotta start with the world
Nelly Holy.
Speaker 15 (01:48:06):
Bert.
Speaker 1 (01:48:06):
That okay, I'll try to do it here. This is
not great radio. This is fantastically dead. Umm. May he
rest you're honoring the dead. Matt. Yeah, that's true. If
you wouldn't any good. Well, actually you probably still would
probably still be impersonating him. But this is an homage,
all right.
Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
At the Alabama at the Michigan got it a big
fellow from Bemingham to the sideline.
Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
He's supposed to be about greasy here or somebody h hey,
Matt uh.
Speaker 2 (01:48:35):
Now, what you want to do here is you want
to make sure you're keeping an eye on the timeouts
and the clock situation. It's imperative that Alabama get out
of bounds in these next couple of plays to try
to get a field goal and build some of minium
coming into the second half.
Speaker 1 (01:48:48):
And a field goal kicker for Alabama. His name is
Matt Smith. It's not Matt something. Nicholson.
Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Nicholson from the forty six yard line, first down in ten,
Alabama inside Mechigan territory. Milroe from the shotgun, steps in
the pocket, throws a deep down the.
Speaker 1 (01:49:04):
Right sideliners cut by number five, but the ten slides
one of the six yard line, and the narrative Alabama
should be in a color football playoff is back and
play absolutely horrible defense by Michigan. You want to play
the boundaries in a situation like this where they're in
the two minute drill. Completely asleep at the wheel, Michigan.
They're allowing the huge gain now second in goal after
(01:49:26):
the clock.
Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
This is terrible. By the way, what Alabama coming back?
I told you we dunk on him too fast. We
did dunk on him too fast. America dunk on Twitter's
duncan I know? By the way, Uh did you see?
People are mixed about Stuart Mandel being business guy Stuart Mandel.
Some people like don't respect him and that whatnot? The writer, Yeah,
(01:49:48):
I think he's good. I don't have a problem with it.
Oh you know who's the other guy? Who's the who's
the Darren Rovel is the one that people Darren Rovel
is the one that's uh a nerd. I mean he's
You can get into bowl game, a championship quarterfinal game
for under forty bucks a couple places.
Speaker 1 (01:50:04):
Yeah, I think the I think the Peach Bowl is
really cheap. Oh did you catch it?
Speaker 17 (01:50:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
You did not? Yeah, why is it? Why is it
Peach Bowl so cheap?
Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
I mean Texas fans were just in Atlanta, and then
if they go to Atlanta, and then you'd have to
go back to Atlanta in two weeks. If they make
the final. I think there's a little bit of people
waiting to see if they there's you you have to budget.
I mean, my god, you're going to the SECHC championship game.
There are some uh Texas fans who went to College Station.
Those tickets were pretty penny. And then you're going to
(01:50:34):
the SEC championship game. Then you got the first game
in Austin, then you got another game in Georgia. Then
you might come back to Dallas.
Speaker 1 (01:50:39):
People are probably saving their money for that because then
you might have to go back out to Georgia again.
Speaker 2 (01:50:43):
There's too many games. It is a lot of games.
And oh, we're gonna focus on our show. Sorry, we're
watching the Michigan games. Bad Radio going to be sixteen
to ten. That's that's punching. That's a it's a punch
of chance right there, all right. Earlier in the show today,
we announced the candidates for the Day of the Year,
and here are the four nominees, and your votes do matter.
Speaker 1 (01:51:06):
You have until midnight tonight to put those votes in.
Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
This guy named Block on Twitter that ripped the Brady
Rose saying that if you watch the roast and you
liked that, you were a racist, homophobic and what else
were you missaginaginis?
Speaker 1 (01:51:20):
Yeah, he's got five percent of the vote. Okay, next,
basically the NCAA turning a blind eye literally to the
nil in the non regulation. OU's out of control this year.
That's thirty five percent of the vote. That's a lot.
It was way more than I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 2 (01:51:40):
MLB for a horrible strike zone this year by its
umpires at twenty two percent. And Jim Slosningle the new
coach at Fighting Texas University at thirty eight percent, the
baseball coach for his destroying the young reporter at the
College World Series saying that he is an Aggie for life,
and then he leaves the next day to go take
the job at Texas. Right in entries for Jeff Passing
(01:52:04):
for carrying the water. The Dodgers got that right, right
in entries for who else? Mark Davis, the official that
threw out Fred Varinvlie and Angel Hernandez always on the list. Yeah,
real quick on the Rockets, And I believe I'm in
the minority on this. I am suber fascinated with all
(01:52:25):
the rumors that are out there, this NBA raft, this
trade deadline, it's been Deer and Fox and then what else.
Speaker 1 (01:52:33):
But it's everybody.
Speaker 2 (01:52:35):
Sacramento looking to move players, Utah is looking to move players,
the Lakers looking to acquire players, Brooklyn looking to move players.
It feels like every other minute there is somebody that's
got a rumor mill out there that says that they're
going to be looking that teams are looking to trade.
Speaker 1 (01:52:52):
And everybody keeps putting the Houston Rockets on the top
of the trade list.
Speaker 2 (01:52:57):
Well, they have some trade chips, they do it. They've
got lots of round picks. Still is that trade? Is
that the trade from James Harden? That it just keeps going,
keeps on giving over and over again. I mean, what
a fleece they got from Brooklyn on that bad boy.
Thank you for your service, Brooklyn. But isn't it crazy
how every team is attached and every time I try
to kick the tires, and I'm doing a lot of
(01:53:17):
it because it's that's that's their business.
Speaker 1 (01:53:19):
While you're you're vetting your sources, I'm just saying, hey.
Speaker 2 (01:53:23):
Is there anything to it? Everything I keep hearing is
they love the young core. Now if there's a trade
that makes them go ooh ah, they'll trade a young
core piece. I would do it for Dearon Fox. Would
you is the Aaron Fox? I mean he got a
coach fired.
Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
If you could just do one for one swap of
Dearon Fox and in Jalen Green, this team gets better.
But you can't trade Jalen Green. Can you know?
Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
I don't think you can trade Jalen or Alpied's this point. No,
So how do you involve a How do you get
a significant unless you're giving up all those first U picks.
But even so, if you're if you're getting the Rocket's
first round picks, you're looking at what twenty two, twenty three,
twenty four?
Speaker 10 (01:54:06):
Right?
Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
They just need their own players to shoot better. If
somehow Jalen Green shot thirty eight percent from three, this
team would be so dangerous. I would pick them to
go way more deep deep in the playoffs. And I
mean and Fred van Vliet' three shooting point shooting coming
back to where he is for a Benever his career,
he was over thirty eight percent last year. Is he
still around thirty percent this year? He's had a couple
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of really good games, but his career, his number is
thirty seven. So I keep waiting and waiting for his
numbers to go back up. I hadn't necessarily happened yet.
Speaker 1 (01:54:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:54:38):
I there's a huge part of me that says, this
team is super close, ROSSI, and I want to go
see what they can do. And there's also a part
of me that says, well, are they close because of
what the corps is already here and doing. Last year
Fred van Vliet thirty eight point seven percent, this year
thirty two point five, career thirty seven point two, so
he's well off his career right now.
Speaker 1 (01:54:58):
So you know it's gonna come back, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
Seven seven nine three two one two five seven nine
zero Rogers with us on the Matt Thomas Show of
Ross Roger, good.
Speaker 4 (01:55:10):
Afternoon, Good afternoon, fellas, and a great new year or
start of the new year to year, uh, you know,
have to that's a new year begins.
Speaker 18 (01:55:19):
Of course, it's it's about the trade talk. Well, the
reason why Rockets are on the trade talk because they
eat a closer, They eat a guy who scoreboards. They're
great defensively, they are great offensively until five minutes of
the third quarter, in the fourth quarter and it's it's
and it's go time and they get stagnant. You've seen
the last two games a year on the call for
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the last year games and uh, you know, one day,
what's that that better talent gets on the court with them,
they get a little stagnant, and they don't have a
go to guy.
Speaker 4 (01:55:50):
But they do have a lot of trade ships. Who
would be your number one target, you know? Maybe a
three and D guy, maybe uh, a guy who could
play both into the court. Maybe bieron Fox, Butler is
an older cat. I don't know, but we do need something,
and I'm not sure if we have to drink up
a corn guy to get to get that, or do
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we have enough trade ships as far as draft draft
uh uh draft stop to uh to pull something like
that off. No, GM doesn't really like to be a
I go of his his court guy. You're gonna have
to do something here.
Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
I appreciate it, Thank you very much, Roger, appreciate it.
Thanks sname to you. Was he swimming uh in the
shower like they might be in a rainstorm? Is it
raining here? I don't think so, okay, or dust bowled
or something. Cam Thomas not my son, Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
Thirty three minutes a game from Brooklyn, they are twelve
and twenty averages twenty five points a game. I don't
know if he's in a mood to be moved. Thirty
nine three point shooter this year, it'd be the best
on the team. Let me, without giving a particular name,
I would like how many forty percent shooters in the
NBA are available right now? I'm just saying, Metaphol, I
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don't have to, you don't have to put that out there,
but just can am I can you go get me?
Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
For you the GM, the fact, the GM of the Rockets.
Can you go get me?
Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
Can you see a player out there that would be
traded by the deadline? The Rockets could give up first
round picks and maybe one or two of their pieces,
maybe one piece that can get me a forty percent
three point shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:57:31):
And play and play where for whom? I mean, I
would say top eight rotate. I mean it could be
a guy off the bench. I don't know. I mean
maybe maybe maybe they like Friendan Dylan being the veteran
starters in that group.
Speaker 2 (01:57:47):
I mean, can Cam Whitmore be that guy? I don't know,
is Cam can can be a forty three point shooter?
These are the guys that came off the bench for
the for the Astros, for the Rockets. Yes, men, Thompson,
you don't want you want him in there, Cam Whitmore,
Steven Adams, Aaron Holiday, Aaron Holliday obviously replaceable, but I
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mean he's pretty good three point shooter. And also he's
been getting Read Shepherd's minutes. Yeah, we're gonna have to well,
we'll see what happens tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
But we'll have to ask coach about Read Shepherd on
Thursday when he joins us. Yeah, what's going on if
if it's a G League time or what.
Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
So to answer Rogers question, I want a forty shooter
to join this team. You're not taking out Forrin Shangunau
to the starting lineup. He's not a good three point shooter.
Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
Unfortunately, Fred van Vliet's been bad, Jabartanus Junior has been
coming on. Are there?
Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
How are their numbers so bad when it doesn't seem
like anyone they're that terrible? Because here's the thing is
when Fred is on, he's five of nine and it
looks awesome, and then there will be two or three
games where he may go two of nine or Jane
will go one of eight and that's when the numbers
come in.
Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Jabari is thirty five percent on the year.
Speaker 5 (01:59:05):
Good.
Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
There's another part of me Ross honestly, as I'm talking
out loud here, thinking out loud, this team's still ten games,
about five hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
Yeah, but they can still get better. They still can
get better. The question is how much can they narrow
the gap with one player? Because right now Oklahoma City
is the krem Dela criminal the Western Conference. I don't
know how the NBA feels about this, but the two
best teams in the NBA frankly not even close a
Cleveland and Oklahoma City record wise, record wise, just say,
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Celtics are still but the Celtics, that's those are your
top three, and I think everybody else is down a level.
If I had to pick up finals right now, I
would say thunder Celtics.
Speaker 1 (01:59:45):
That'd be good.
Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
I mean, I don't want it, but it'd be good
for the league. Does the NBA try to push Oklahoma
City on the national national, on the marquee.
Speaker 1 (01:59:55):
If you so to speak, they need to. Absolutely, they've
got stars. They did it when it was Russell Westbrook
and Kevin Durant leading the way they were they were,
they were huge stars. They were on commercials and on
I mean all over the place. Does Jalen Williams get
some notoriety? Does Shake Gilgess Alexander does Isaiah Hartenstein? When
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Cheded Holmgren comes back, Isaiah Joe. I mean they're not
They're not recognizable names, that's for sure, but damn they're good.
They may lap the entire Western Conference before long with
what their record? The Rockets no.
Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Oklahomas h Okay. I was like, well, I got confused.
So the question is whatever, that's what I think that
the Rockets are gonna be thinking. I'm in the war
room of the Rockets. I close the door. Are we
one player away from getting Oklahoma City? That's the question
I got to answer. Twelve forty six back to wrap
things up in a moment, do not go anywhere?
Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
Join us here.
Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
The final segment of the show for the year at
seven one three, two one two five, seven ninety. This
is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four o'clock seven.
So December thirty, first, many moons ago. I was in
Atlanta at the Peach Bowl where my Cougar's destroyed Florida
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State and their third stream quarterback let's get the first
two were afraid to play us bet Jimbo Fisher, which
everybody apparently beat Jimbo Fisher.
Speaker 1 (02:01:27):
It's gonna happen. I saw a meme somewhere. It was
just Jimbo waving saying, make sure you send that check.
I saw the exact same one too, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:01:35):
So David Bassadi was the sports information director at the
University Houston at the time.
Speaker 1 (02:01:42):
Now I works for the Atlanta Falcons. Chris, good friend
of mine. He knows how much you love soccer. I'm
glad you brought this up. So he sent me a
photo of the game program from the U of H
Florida State Peach Bowl game where it buy out all
the broadcasters. Yes, and it says, I host the show
eleven to two on the pre and post the two
days love of the two days pre impost for the
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Rockets and the Astros.
Speaker 2 (02:02:04):
Now just the Astros because I'm doing the Rockets games.
I was a former pay announcer for the Rockets. Blah
blah blah blah. Work in Minneapolis, in Utah. And then
and the last paragraph goes, is this nickname Matt soccer Thomas.
He can be found in his off time watching the
World's Beautiful Game, often wearing a Chelsea scarf and rooting
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for the Blues. His passion for the game is evident
on air, as well as dedicating time to talking about
the world about the sport, especially leading up to and
during the World Cup.
Speaker 1 (02:02:36):
That's wonderful, Matt. We do call you Matt Soccer Thomas. No,
you don't.
Speaker 2 (02:02:41):
Nobody calls me that. Okay, maybe you're right, or peach
basket or any of those things. Peach basket people do
call you. Dozens of people have called you peach basket.
That's because you've proud of them too. I'm more of
a My favorite one is probably high Horse Matten. Hi,
what am I on the High Horse for?
Speaker 1 (02:02:56):
Please?
Speaker 2 (02:02:58):
By the way, Ira Winderman, who is the beat writer
for the Army heat this Iroh Wnderman.
Speaker 1 (02:03:06):
One last one for the year. You know what, I'm
gonna stay away from this one.
Speaker 2 (02:03:11):
Who wants to be polically correct, I'm gonna let you
handle it. Why, Ira Winderman might as well go ahead
knock it out. You get the last one gets You're
better than I am what?
Speaker 1 (02:03:23):
Ira? I got nothing you can't do an Ira Winnderman share.
I'll try Pa Winderman was a humble man.
Speaker 15 (02:03:37):
From pot Oklahoma, and he was selected into the army
during World War II, where he was sent off to
the European Theater and was amongst the men who landed
at Omaha Beach on that faithful day on June sixth,
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nineteen forty four, he and his brigade broke through the
German lines, where he was then someone who took over
a German tank and slaughtered forty seven Germans mercilessly. After that,
they settled in a French village where he betted three
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French women in one night, which they say is a
record that steel stands today. He fathered many children with
these French women. We all took took all of them
as wives.
Speaker 1 (02:04:34):
This is not going well. Now he's going in it.
This is pretty good, and we're gonna get jet for
this one.
Speaker 2 (02:04:39):
Thank you, Ira Wonderman says, Tyler Herowinderman he tried the
French Fondler. Ira Wonderman says that Tyler Hero says he's
got a small bruise on his right hip from being
flipped in Houston.
Speaker 1 (02:04:53):
What yeah, Oh, come on.
Speaker 2 (02:04:56):
He says he's got no hostility towards the rockets, but
enjoys getting under people skin. He also says that Jimmy
Butler says it doesn't matter if he prefers a trade.
Iron Wnderman is on. Ira Windermann says Brian Windhorst's cousin
asked if he wants to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:05:12):
Butler says that's a good question.
Speaker 2 (02:05:16):
Butler also says he'll play on tomorrow, and then he
says he tweaked his ankle against the thunder.
Speaker 1 (02:05:22):
Then he also says he wished that. Jimmy Butler says
he wish he could have gotten involved in the melee mixing.
Houston asked if there was any talks between the agent
and pat Riley. Butler said, next question, Jimmy Butler had
a lot to say. I like Ira Wnderman's Twitter handle,
Ira heat Beat. It's pretty good. It's gotta make sure
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you're say it nice and slowly. Happy New Year. Everybody
go vote for the of the year. Hmm of the year. Fross,
that was perfect. Talk to y'all. On January second, Sports
Talk said, and as you football, who dat up? Next?
Speaker 6 (02:06:00):
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