Luka Makes Lakers Debut, Bregman Down To 3 Finalists, Future Of AFC After Chiefs Loss

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ten oh one at Age Town. Good morning, everyone, and
welcome two way Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show
with Ross here on Sports Talk seven. I need to
my ride. It's Rossfield Real. Our producer is Connor d McGovern.
I'm Matt and we are very happy to have you
with us today. Uh, y'all be careful out there. I
mean it's breezy. We got a good old fashioned cold

(00:28):
front coming in. Rain pretty much the entire trip in
from South nacadochus. Uh. You know, just won a great run.
You made it, I did. You don't have to change
ano your wagon wheels, did you?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
That's good. No, but we did open up a campfire
about halfway, uh huh. Or on a Laura copy in
fifty nine had some roasted Reddit that what they did. Yeah,
Felicia Moon was like, what's up?

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Guy?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Like, no, Felicia, that's been a long time ago. Percent
of the audience cut that one. I don't know, but
if you did, it was radio gold. Yeah, it was
radio Gold. Hope you guys are in a good mood
and ladies, despite the nasty weather, and look, we're your
best friends on days like this. Nothing severe, but just
gonna be steady all day long. So that's what we
are studying all day long. Nothing severe. Oh, I like that.

(01:13):
That sounds like your second album, real steady all day long,
the Matt Thomas and then I will run out of songs,
and so the third album Movie The Greatest Hits. M
Sometimes you gotta go with the greatest hits, get you
a little cash. Well, it's you just basically just like
I don't mean to bring up Barry my little here,
but Barry has like nine Greatest Hits albums and they're
all just the same songs in different order. That's marks

(01:36):
all right. Today on the radio program, we have an
eleven thirty edition of Gut Feelings. I thought of one
this morning involving next NFL season about the two teams
that we're going to see on Super Sunday. I don't
know if I did see did see on Super Sunday.
I don't know if I'm ready to announce who they are,
but I have, Oh, we're going to going to see
next year. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstand. It's okay,

(01:57):
it's a super super early. Please let it be just
a gut feeling kind of feeling Mmmm, the Houston Texans
in the Super Bowl. I love where you're going, Matt.
I love this energy for you. I have terrible news
for you from Liberty White.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Matt.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Let me know it could be because when I tell
you what I think, my prediction is going to be. Okay,
the Texans would be in this particular category. Just sawing
that out there. Okay, all right, that's at eleven thirty.
We had the news. At noon, we had twelve thirty.
Today we have Ross's NFL rewind Yes, and then we're
gonna take a week off of that because next Tuesday
we're gonna be down in Florida talking with the local

(02:34):
nine about the Local nine. Wonderful. So looking forward to
three days of spring trading coverage down in West Palm
Beach late middle of next week, matter of fact, till
one week from today. And I'm a good believer or
not today at one fifty, but remember this program. Unlike
other shows in town, like to hear their voices and
just think that all their hot takes are amazing. We
like to listen to you the people.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
M h.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
We don't normally agree with your takes. Some of them
are absurd. We make fun of them, but most of
the time we let you have a little bit of
a leash. It's all fun. We're just talking sports. Yeah,
I mean we're not We're not reinventing the wheel over here.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninty. Now,
if you want to use your hands free, it's not
the best audio, but I'd rather you have your hands
on the vehicle driving the car as compared to trying
to talk to us on the phone. So that said,

(03:14):
very charitable of you, I figured. But you know what,
hands free has gotten better. It sounds a lot better
than it has in say, fifteen or twenty years ago.
So if you want to use a hands free seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero seven
one three two one two five seven ninty. So Dana Brown,
I was gonna I didn't mean to rhyme on this,
but damn it, Dana Brown ain't messing around. Oh okay,

(03:38):
that's his sophomore album, Ain't messing around, Ain't messing around?
His first album was you really want me to sign
Josh Hayder six on that album? There is? Are we
really bringing back justin Verlander? Can we keep these prospects.
How about this one of the song one of the
songs is you Stay. Oh you know what I mean? Okay,

(04:00):
how about one of the this is one of the
songs back of the Baseball Card? Oh yeah, another one
of the songs on this new album. We've had some
internal discussions. Oh no, this is called discussion discussions. Okay,
And I think it's one of their songs reach out
in tech text Scott Boris eventually that's he's producing that album,

(04:24):
so scouts, I I think it is one of his
biggin things. What it is back of the Baseball Card?
That that would say, one of those one hit wonders
that got really popular for a while and then like
disco people wanted to trash. Yeah. So uh. They did
make a move today signing a player that I'm not
only not familiar with. And I'll be brutally honest with you,

(04:44):
I don't follow twenty the other twenty nine teams religiously
like I follow the Astros. But they have signed veteran
infielder Luis ye Oh boy g u I L L R.
I mean alone may or May seven years in the

(05:04):
big leagues, mostly with the Mets. He's a lefty bat.
He provides some infield depth lefty bat. I'm telling you everybody,
whether Bragman or not, is coming to Houston, which it
sounds like it's gonna be. Like there's a zero percent
chance they're moving in Altuve at the left field. May
not be for on a full time basis, but they
are bringing in infielders left and right to try to

(05:27):
take that second base spot. I agree Altove to left
is happening at some point for some amount of games. No,
I don't know. Know we can set it over under.
I will do it next week. Yeah, we'll do down there.
Like I don't know if if Jose is to join us,
if he goes Man, I'm so excited. I'm so fired up.
I've spent my entire life on the right side of

(05:48):
the infield, but now I'm gonna try this in left field.

Speaker 5 (05:50):
Bit.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I don't know how it feels. I don't know how
it feels about it. I have a question for you,
what's the easiest in the field position? Is it left field? Outfield?
Any in the in the field not sture the least
activity would be probably because we talk about the nuances

(06:12):
of first base and how difficult that can be Yeah,
for the easy answer, maybe five or ten years ago
would have been first base. So that's sory. You but
the fat guys with the beer bellies and they just
have to cover ground. But now it's there's so much
more to the sport that you want elite play at
first base, you're shifting. And also, ultimately the ASTs have
had I mean, when you had Jeff Backwall, you had
a fantastic defensive first baseman, you know not you know,

(06:35):
so this franchise knows how important the defense is on
that right side the infield. And you Egilier was very
good for a long period of time too. I mean,
don't forget about that. He really got he really inherited
the position, playing primarily third of most of his professional career,
came over to first base and really did a nice job.

(06:56):
I mean, you know, honestly, Ross, They're all important to me.
But if you're gonna really oh with the least important
probably left field, because again, you center field you have
to cover the most territory. Right field, you want your
strongest arm, especially because you got a lot of guys
don't know that want to run first the third. You
have a lot of left handed batteries in Major League Baseball. Now, okay,
left field's the answer. That's what I'm saying. How two

(07:18):
Bay is gonna be all right? And and it's left
field at minute, I'm sorry dyke in Park. First of all,
it's left field of dyke in Park. He'll be able
to work the wall and be able to figure it out.
He's a smart guy. And ultimately the territory that you're
worried about, that left center field, sneaky snake, Jake's gonna
be out there. Jake Myers got it. Now, let me
ask you this, If Jake Myers didn't have the type

(07:39):
of ground that he make that he can control, would
the Astros have been so quick to think about this?
My guess is probably still yes. I would say it's
just as a huge benefit that Jake Myers covers as
much center left center field that probably any other centerfielder
does in Major League Baseball. I would say yes. And
then also, you have other left field backup plans. I mean, look,

(08:00):
Jordon Alvarez is adequate, but by no means are you going, oh, now,
the Astros of a minus defensive category because Jordon Alvarez
is not in the left field He's got a good arm,
but he doesn't necessarily track a lot of balls. He
doesn't make the catch against the wall, he makes the
routine stuff. He doesn't embarrass himself out there. And I
think probably that's the exact same thing of the thing
about Josel tub and the in time he's running down

(08:21):
a ball, you're just going, please don't get hurt, Please
don't get hurt. Please don't get hurt. Please don't get hurt.
You know, I know that that Jordon likes to play
in the outfield. I don't like it. I don't like it.
I don't think the organization likes it. And I think
he needs to be out in the left field, probably
less than forty times in the twenty twenty five. To
put him out there for forty you'll see some Altuve,
You'll see some Dezenzo, Dubon bon a mixer. I mean,

(08:43):
maybe Jacob Meltain mixes in the second half. If you
make a trade at some point during the year for
a whitefielder, you can move Chess back over to left field.
Even who knows so point bing is this, It is
just going to absolutely happen. We're going to end And
I wonder how that conversation went. Do you go to somebody.

(09:06):
I mean, look, let's be real. It happens all the
time in all industries. I will use radio for example.
Let's say you've been working morning drive. And when you
work morning drive of a radio station, whether that be
an FM station, whether that be a sports station, whether
it be a rock whatever the case would be, you
got to come out out of the gates at five

(09:29):
point thirty six o'clock in a morning like you are
on fire. I mean, you have to build the energy
because your energy is translates to the radio. Well, if
you've been doing it for fifteen twenty years, getting up
at four o'clock in the morning and being here in
the office at six or five point thirty ready to
rev up, it's a difficult challenge. So you'll see on
sometimes a lot of morning shows guys will go to

(09:51):
the other day parts because again it just depends they
want to put somebody in that spot that has the
energy that can fire up everybody get going at six
o'clock in the morning. It happens all time. You may
have a manager who is your chief financial officer, who is,
you know, fifty nine years old, and he wants a
cup back in his life. Now he becomes just a
staff accountant. I mean it happens all the time. So

(10:11):
this is this is not a conversation that would be
foreign to a guy like Jose al Tube, but it
does take somebody to realize that you do need to
make an adjustment to maintain your importance. Doesn't mean Jose
is not important, doesn't mean he doesn't need to play
six days a week, doesn't mean that anybody's trying to
knock him out of this, out of the leadoff position.

(10:35):
He has his spot. Etchinstone is the greatest aster of
all time. But just because you say all those things
and say, Jose, you've got value, it takes some adjustment.
Case in point, just last year, Ryan Presley, we love you,
we think you're really really good. We think you're a
back end of the bullpen guy. We're gonna move you

(10:56):
from the ninth to d eighthn because we are able
to get this other guy in here who is a
premier closer. Some guys adjust to it just fine. Craig
Bigio certainly did, or at least tried. Ryan Presley did not.
What's gonna happen with Jose when he realizes, and I
think he has by now that his best worth on

(11:16):
this team is not playing in a position where you
need a great arm, you need to abible to cover
a lot of ground and you got you need to
have the better metrics at that very important right southing
enfield spot, be able to turn the double play, make grabs.
Do I mean there's just Farty thinks it's just it's
a more challenging position in playing left field. This just
arounds it. I think he knows it, and I think
he's going to be more of a team player than

(11:37):
Ryan Presley is. He has less of an ego than
Ryan Presley, knowing amazingly knowing Jose like I know him.
He's he's got this. He's not gonna come in better.
He's not gonna not want to speak to the media
for four or five days or bomonas or have to
have you know, have to think about what he has
to say to make it sound like it's he's all in.
I think Jose two, he's like, I'll do whatever I
takes now. I think ultimately he did this because he

(11:59):
wanted to keep out of Spregnant is an astro and
then once the idea was folded among the organization. They're like,
you know what, whether we get pregnant or not, you're
going out to the left field. Yes, ten thirteen, It
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(12:22):
d McGovern. I have today's quiz question up on the
pre show tweet. We'll get to that as well. Gut
Feelings News at noon, NFL rewind Believe it or not.
A lot to get to and Luka Tancic made his
debut as a Los Angeles Laker and a weird thing
that a TV network did to publicize and put the
game on. We'll discuss that next ten to fourteen. Sports

(12:42):
Talk seven.

Speaker 5 (12:43):
Ninety This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Kevin and Coaching Studio. We want to give you this
important navigation. If you want to catch the finish at
Baylor in Houston, we invite you to head to ESPN.
You here on ESPN Coach. It is the Laker debut
of Luka Doncic.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
What are you interested to.

Speaker 7 (13:10):
See two of the toughest matchups and all of college
basketball playing together, trying to coexist and find a way
to take the Lakers back to the level that they
expect to be at, competing for championships.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
That's what I.

Speaker 7 (13:22):
Expect to see, and that's the big question moving forward.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
Jazz and Lakers. Dave Pash Tim Legler on the call.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
James hasn't taken a shot yet.

Speaker 8 (13:30):
Don Chis has attempted one.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
On the switch. Lucas got the thig on try to
three the first up, Many too not for looka don
tech as a Laker fourteen for Loca last night. By
the way, I've always talked about how this song is overrated.

(13:56):
It was really good at the concert. I just gonna
tall you that right now. It's a really still a
really good song. Yeah, you're such a fraud. No, I'm
just saying that. I'm just trying to go off the
beaten track, and I get it. No, it's a cliche.
The cliche thing to do is to say, oh, it's
a great song. It's not the great I know. But
sometimes things are cliche because they're true, Matt, No, no, no, no,
not all. You're just trying to be contrarion. That's you know.

(14:17):
I respect why and I is the greatest Eagles song
of all time. Follow my new kid in town. Let's
move on terrible. Okay, So television programming, you have to
play the hits. You gotta play what people want, and
clearly Luca's debut was a huge, huge bit. I mean,
the entire arena had seventy seven jerseys. Lebron wore the

(14:39):
warm up seventy seven h Luca got an announced last,
but a PA announced. So that's usually when you have
your biggest starr, you announced him last. Wow. Uh he
got announced after Lebron, who was announced fourth out of
the five starting lineups. Yes, being carried it. At least
he was ahead of or behind Ruy Rury was the
very first guy named. I think sounds about right. It

(15:01):
was Jackson Hayes of University of Texas family third. And
who's the other player I forget? Oh Austin Reeves. Yeah,
so there is your starting five. How do I know
the Lakers? What do you mean you know ball?

Speaker 9 (15:12):
Matt?

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I know to call you peach basket, I'm gonna say
the Lakers two more times for the end of the year,
both in Los Angeles. You should come to one of
those trips. It's good times. I'll think about it, all right,
you got my flight. No, So here's the bit. When
the game goes long, they say, hey, we're going to
start the other game on the other channel and then
bring you the the game after this one back on

(15:35):
this channel. Yes, last night, I'm not saying it's never
happened before, but it's very rare. The Cougars game with
Baylor started at eight o'clock. The Utah Lakers game was starting.
Gonna start at nine thirty means nine forty. Anytime there's
a game that starts at seven, it's really seven to
ten starting forty. That's how they do the timing in

(15:56):
the NBA. ESPN knew that the Lakers do this. Baylor
and Houston dow this, so at about nine thirty two,
give her tickets. I was watching the game at home
last night. They said, Hey, if you want to want
to finish watching batter Houston, I ain't. Houston was up
anywhere between seven and eleven points. Really the entire game.

(16:17):
Go over to ESPN you and knock that bad boy out,
you can watch it. It Usually you let that game
finish out and then you put the other game on,
which is right after. Not in this case, And I
don't blame me ESPN for doing it. It was just
a weird television programming move to make that happen. And
the Duke was the North calendar versus Clemson before Baylor Houston,

(16:41):
so they couldn't push the game up earlier, so they
too get the whole baylter Houston on games. They're like,
you know what, batter Houston. I mean, y'all are great,
big twelve teams blah blah blah blah blah. But I
got a chance to put Luke on Lucas getting out
at nine thirty five, and so they did that. It
was just a weird situation. It's unfortunate. It was not
really unfortunate, but I was unfortunate for those people that
don't be ESPNU. If you're in a hotel. Let's say
you're in a hotel and you're a huge Houston fan and

(17:04):
you're living in Denver, or you're in a hotel in
Denver and your TV doesn't have esp and you in
your hotel, you're s O L unless you get on
your fight. Sorry, I've got to put the Dona John.
It's all about money. But again, I'm not the lowest
hanging fruit would be of Cougar fan. I don't even
know Cougar fans are mad, but I'm not mad at
the decision. You have to you got to play what's right.

(17:25):
And so it was just weird that they it was
the reverse. They said, go to the other channel, finish
the game, and so we did. The Cougars won. That's
what's the most important. That is the most important thing.
And look at play last night and the crowd loved
it and they won. And now that you've got Anthony
Davis hurt and the others, the real center for the Mavericks,

(17:45):
Daniel Gaffery got hurt yesterday in the game against the Kings.
Everybody in La is just flipping the f out. Not
La Dallas. They're flipping out like we've just we have.
We used to have a great scorer. Now we have
a good rebounder and a good defender who's hurt. And
we have a good center and a good rebound and
a good defender who's hurt or screwed. Check Dallas off
the collar poor Dallas fan. I know that's a shame

(18:08):
they were. They had a little you know what in
vinegar in him over the weekend. I was there to
see it firsthand, as they should have. Yeah, and now
Luca didn't play a full game because he's just coming
back from injury. Fourteen points. I don't know how many
minutes did he play. I think the goal was to
play about thirty. I don't know what the final number
was on that. Then I don't know he gassed. Yeah,
I mean it is what it is, and a lot
of shape is what you're saying. By the way, you

(18:29):
got her, Well, no, I didn't. I didn't think he
was particularly dowey. Okay, that was the dough level. It
wasn't Pillsbury level. By the way. If you're young, you're dowe.
If you're older, either A have a dad bought or
B you're fat one or the other. Right, you're more
blob like when you get older, rather than dowie. I

(18:49):
think I think it's dowey as a kid and a
young adult. It's flabby as an adult. Yeah, that's probably correct.
Look at Doncic. Yeah, fourteen point twenty four minutes at
point about right, But I mean they were destroying the Jazz. Yeah,
why would you want to invest anything more than what
you did in him against the sucky Utah Jazz Lebron
James twenty four points, eight assists, seven rebounds, seven turnovers.

(19:10):
So they were able to play with each other on
the same floor then basically, right, yeah, I think all
that is ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous. And with that, the Lakers
and the Rockets are tied for the fourth spot in
the Western Conference. Now, I think the Lakers. The Lakers
have played ten more advantage, but the Rockets are the
head to head, Yes, so once they even up on
a number of games, then it will figure out what's

(19:32):
going on. Well, we'll see, they have to beat them,
I mean, I mean eventually, right was it was? They
up tow to Ozho. Rockets are one nothing, one nothing.
I'm so yeah, but they're still gonna have to win
to secure the tech right, and the last two games
against the Lakers are in Los Angeles. I was so
confident they were going to finish top four, like two

(19:52):
weeks ago. Well, you've got Phoenix tomorrow, who's playing in
Memphis tonight on a tough back to back, and you've
got Golden State coming in, who frankly just beats the
crap out of us most times, except for that we're
playing for them yet. Yeah, he's already played all these
teams making these moves, and the Rockets don't have Fred

(20:12):
van Vliet and probably not gonna have Outprn shing Gun. Okay,
I'm recalibrating my expectations again. No, no, no, you can't recalibrate.
We don't recalibrate in the show. Top six. Let's just
get top six. I mean, I don't take it. I
don't want to play it. I really don't because I mean,
you go from two to the play in. I mean,
it's not unheard of about this. I'd rather finish sixth
than four. Are you presuming that Denver gets to the

(20:34):
two spot in the West, Yes, that they're gonna jump
over everybody or Memphis, I mean yeah, or Memphis, either
one of them. But Denver's won seven in a row. Denver. Okay,
here's how it's going to end up. Probably Oklahoma City
won Denver two. There'll be a massive scramble for three Rockets,
I hope. So just get me out of Oklahoma City

(20:56):
as far as possible, not that I don't appreciate the city,
but that team just beats it everybody to a pulp. Yeah,
I'd like to avoid the thunder until the finals Western Finals.
There you go, So you're saying there's a chance I
like it, Like it a lot. Ten twenty eight Sports
Talk seven Outie. This is Matt Thomas Shill with Ross
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(21:17):
want us to. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven unty.
My poll question today is Ross, after watching the Chiefs
on Sunday, are we more optimistic about the Texans next year?
Whin the AFC? Less or no? Opinion will give you
the early results on that plus coming up.

Speaker 5 (21:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
The Athletic said that a certain halftime act was the
fourth best halftime act since nineteen ninety one.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Uh, you know it already has more YouTube views than
ushers from last year. It's got thirty two million YouTube
views in one day. I believe Drake looked at that
eight million times by himself. Yeah, eight million of those
make me Drake, But yeah, it's true. I think two
of them are me. That's okay. I mean I had
to go back and watch it and you know, pick
up on all the nuances. Absolutely, they call you mister nuanced.

(22:14):
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(23:23):
Alex Bragman update coming up in fifteen minutes. You ready
for that? And I mean, I'm just grasping at straws
at this point, but there is something a little bit
more than just the he hasn't signed with the Asters. Okay,
don't tell them, man, You're supposed to sell it. Fifteen
minutes from now. You're to sell a big update, a
huge update. I stall like an authoritative news reporter. I

(23:44):
like that coming up at eleven, the Alex Pragmant update.
That really is not much of an update, but I'll
give it to you anyway. So you're not selling it.
Let's go, Alex Bregman still has not signed yet. That's
the update. Come it up in fifteen minutes. You just
gave away the whole update. It all right, No more.
I just want to sound like my news voice the
rest of the time. Okay, uh okay, So let me

(24:05):
get to the quiz question today, which by way, will
be daily on the sports empty Twitter handle if you
want to follow me there, and that's at sports Empty.
The question today is uh Texans winning AFC after watching
case more confident, less confident, no opinion. Now again, I'm
gonna skew heavily towards Houston Sports and the glass is

(24:28):
half full as compared to glasses half empty. So far,
fifty one percent of those that voted believe that there.
You are more confident in the Texans winning the AFC
after watching them play, seventeen percent or less confident and
thirty two percent of zero opinion, meaning they didn't didn't
change your opinion one way or the other. I got you.
I will put myself in that particular category. I did

(24:48):
not watch the Super Bowl. By the way, one hundred
and fifty six million people watch the game. Fox says
it was his most watched game ever. Yeah, I think
they're adding up everybody's getting most watched this and the yes,
because they're adding in streaming numbers now for sure, and
you're getting to be to be and Fox, I feel
like when you say, I feel like you're talking about

(25:09):
one of those teletubby kids. I don't remember their names.
I don't need better. I thought I would have if
you would have said who's Tooby? I would have the
first guest would have been. He was one of the teletuppies,
Teletubbies Dipsy sun Baby and Toby, Tinky Winky and La La. Yeah, yeah,
I remember Lalla stop and then Toby and then to

(25:29):
be the fifth one. Yes, okay. Uh So as I
watched the game, I didn't. Now I will say this,
I said. The only thing I did think about when
it came to putting the Texans into context on this
is if Philadelphia's defensive line plays the Texans offensive line,
C J. Stroud does not does not finish the game.

(25:51):
I mean, he's got his capability too, but Pat Mahomes
was is a magician when it comes to that. That's
the only thing I thought about. I did not think about. Oh,
Kansas City is now vulnerab. Kansas City is in a
position where, uh they're gonna need a new running back
and that they're gonna get the Actually they actually do
need a running back. They have, they got the and
Travis Kelsey probably should retire. I'm gonna assume he's making

(26:16):
an insane amount of cash. Yeah, I can look up
his deal for that. That that cap hit thing probably
would for a guy that is, I mean, he was
arguing with three or four times in a game on Sunday.
I don't know what it was, but somewhere around there
he that's what he's been based. I mean, he went
from the unstoppable force to just a pedestrian. He went

(26:36):
to he went from an all time great tight end
like Tony Gonzalez to Dalton Schultz overnight, just a guy.
He yeah, one more year on his deal. He signed
a two year, thirty four million dollar deal last year.
Now let me ask you this, if you're the Chiefs,
do you cut him after all the things he's done

(26:57):
for your franchise or you say this is the fan farewell?
Or do you do a little bit of both. You say, hey,
we want to bring you back, but let's renegotiate your
final year to cut your ass, you better retire. So
what's he on the books for for for his set?
What would be his salary if he played next? Uh? Okay, Well,
cap hit is what's actually most important. Because he got

(27:17):
all this guaranteed money up front, he would he his
cap hit is nineteen point eight million because he got
the two year, thirty four million dollars deal on most
of it up front. He is slightly better than Brevin
Jordan at this point. Oh no, I'm not gonna go there.
I'm not gonna go any better than Schelton Schultz right now? Yes, slyly, yes,

(27:40):
now worth twenty million bucks? Uh no, not worth a
twenty million dollar cap hit. But I don't even know
if you could save anything. Is this true? Is it
a seventeen million dollar cap savings if they cut him?
I think I've seen it somewhere on Twitter that that
there's a significant number in that range. But do you

(28:01):
do that with your one of your five greatest players
ever to play for your football team?

Speaker 10 (28:05):
Right?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
I mean I don't know the Chiefs history, but I
would presume that Travis is the is the the best
probably up there? Yeah, I mean I don't know if
where we put Lynn Dawson in the Boys, well, I mean,
he would be their best quarterback right now over Mahomes.
It won't take along for Patos Supersedior. Actually that's not true.

(28:26):
He's been to five Super Bowls. I can't. No, my
home is better than Dawson, But it was Dawson for
a long time. Yeah, but Dawson smoked SIGs on the sideline,
so that'd get some points, get serious points for that.
He was role if he had a bong, I hadn't
really get him to put him over the top, and
he had his hit, he had a heater. That was fine.
I don't know. Ross football is tough sports his business.

(28:48):
But to tell your greatest, one of your five greatest
players of all time, and certainly one of your two
or three greatest offensive weapons, is he even their greatest
tight end of all time? I would take care ever, Gonzales,
I mean, it's fifty one forty nine, it is. But
the problem is, didn'd Kelsey played his entire career with

(29:10):
the Chiefs? Right? Yes? Gonzales was Atlanta Falcon for a
long time too, Is it not true? So? I think that.
I think being the home the homegrown, never leaving guy
does get get some weight pulled to his fang. Are
you really it's close though, like you said, it's super close. Okay,

(29:31):
I don't know if you do that. I don't know
if you can pull that off without some sort of
understanding to say, hey, can we try to at least renegotiate?
Or maybe he didn't mean I just I can't imagine
any athlete that is one like if you were in
his position. You have one year left in your contract.
You are not playing for a new deal. You have

(29:52):
done everything humanly possible. You have been to five Super Bowls.
You are the greatest past catcher tight end in your
position right now in the league today, or at least
was until this past year. Why wouldn't you want to
play just one more year? Yeah, seventeen million if he
retires or they cut him. Unless he just said I'm pooped,

(30:17):
but ross, there's seventeen million reasons why he would try
to should do it? They should, but there are they should?
Are they going to? Yeah, I'm not this. I don't know.
You know how they do things with the NFL. They
gave all the bunch of bonus money up front, right, Oh,
he's not hurting, but money is still there. And look
at Justin Verliner. Probably should have retired last year. He

(30:39):
would and kick the tires and the San Francisco Giants
are going to pay him fifteen million dollars to probably
throw I don't know, one hundred innings. Maybe, well he's
so they paid him to go over that. I don't
know he's going to need. My point, they should cut Kelsey?
They should? Why don't you know what you go in

(31:01):
that Kansas City station all the time. Why don't you
give them a little out of a phone call? Gay,
go tell go tell chiefs Kingdom should be Chiefs Chiefdom.
By the way, I forgot to ask you about this.
You know they had was a John Hamm did the
announcements of the Chiefs. Yes, And then it was Bradley
Cooper that did the Eagles chant. And this is a

(31:22):
god's on a serious question. Is Beyonce doing the Texans one?
Did they ever get there? Yeah? Either that or the
squirrely guy from Big Bang Theory. You don't need the
biggest celebrity, but you need a big celebrity, and those
two guys are big celebrity. What's Dennis Quaid up to?

(31:44):
He's like seventy five. There's no chance he's doing that.
But they didn't even live here. You know what, I
know who can do it? Cal McNair. What, Yeah, you
have cal do it? That's his team. No, I bet
you'd be Callahanna, no chance. Do you doubt me. I'm

(32:05):
going I'm telling you it's Beyonce. She doesn't want to
do it. We gotta then we gotta think of a
playing bing. She's a bigger start in Bradley Cooper. Uh,
that's true. But Bradley Cooper's a big star. I know me.
I mean, I'm messing it to be the biggest star.
But you need a big star. Yeah, who's the biggest star?

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Speaker 3 (33:29):
Matton Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
I wanted to slightly peel the curtain back. We're doing
an audio reboot of our radio station here. We're not
loosening the air or just the firing officlo There will
not be a Bregman update sounder unless you want to
sing it Bregman update on the Matt Thomas Show. I mean,

(34:01):
I've heard worse Bregman update. Where is he now going
to go? Bregman update? Why is it taking you so
long to decide? That isn't Ryan does it? No? By
the way, Ben Verlander just can't stop tweeting today you
mute him, I need to you follow him. No, it's

(34:22):
on the for Utah. Oh see you love Ben Verlander.
They know watch this here it is they know you
love Benny. Benny v Ben Gravy trains off of his
brother Shoho Tani and now Alex Bregman. See I tweeted,
I put in this search Bregman, and I want to
get the lightest stuff. Okay, so the latest stuff is this,
according to MLB Network, that's down to three teams, which

(34:45):
is not a super big news item, but eliminates one
kay The three teams that Alex Bregmant supposedly is likely
to sign with are either the Tigers, the Red Sox,
or the Cubs. No Astro mentioned. So, I mean, here's

(35:10):
the reality. The Cubs, it's a very winnable division, Red Sox,
you have the Yankees, and who else anybody in that
division that scares you Overlan Tampa, No Toronto, No Baltimore, Baltimore, yes, Detroit,
winnable division went to the Division Series last year. Minnesota

(35:34):
they're shaving payroll. White Sox suck Guardians gonna be always
mid Kansas City. Maybe you know that's a team that
could be scary if all the three deals are the same.
I mean, you know, I don't know. If I don't
think location matters, I think it's about what team matters.

(35:58):
If I was bregnant, I would go with the Tiger
because of the fact that I know aj hinch I
got Tarak Schooble pitching for me every fifth day. I mean,
that had a young lineup that overachieved last year. Now,
the only negative about them is the cub spend money
in future free agency. The Red Sox are going to

(36:18):
spend money. The Tigers are one of us a tremendous history,
with exception of signing Miguil Carperra that outrageous contract of
many moons ago. They don't spend super big money. So
does that impact where he wants to go based off
of future spending, not the spending that they're going to
spend on him right now? It seems like that would
be a concern of his. I'm gonna sign he wants.

(36:39):
He wants to have his cake and eat it too.
He wants the deal that he wants, and he wants
to be somewhere where he's going to be a basically
a contender as well, and I think all three of
those would be contending teams in some sort, now, are they?
I mean like long term? Like when hear the contract
right in five years of the Tigers contending, Like you said,
they don't spend a lot of money. Of the three teams,

(37:00):
that's the one that has the longest truck record of
being a contender is the Red Sox. Yes, but also
the reports have all been that he doesn't they don't
want to sign him to more than four years, and
the Cubs were a deal that didn't want to give
a super long contract either. But it is interesting. The
only thing I saw out of that tidbit this morning

(37:20):
that I thought was not necessarily super interesting but just
super telling was the Astros were not in that mix
of this. Initially, I think Buster only was the one
that reported this. Okay, I mean you know Buster doesn't
like the Astros, so you know that goes in part
of it. He's astro hater. Ah, you're not a big fan.
What you're saying, all these big riders, they're just Astros haters.
All these national reporters, they just hate the Astros. Well,

(37:42):
I'll tell you this. He brings up twenty seventeen as
much as anybody. Passon's kind of got. I'll give Passing
credit for this. Passon doesn't bring it up very much.
Nightingale doesn't kirkshin rarely. Buster brings up twenty seventeen quite
a bit. I haven't heard him bringing up in a while.
That's because you're not chasing him after dinner with Buster
only never. Let's go, let's go have dinner with him

(38:03):
in West Palm if you're down there now he was.
I remember one of the World series he got uh,
he had like a deconstructed hot dog. He got like
a plate full of chili. Then he put a hot
dog on it, and then he got grabbed a bun.
And that's not weird to you. It all goes down

(38:26):
the same path. You're in it. You're ridiculous. I was
being nice. You think it's normal to get a plate
full of chili, put a dog on it, and grab
a bun on the side. That's weird. Plateful of chili.
Let's go, let's go, let's ridiculous chili. Yes, get the
hot dog, yeah, cut it up, put it in there. Yeah,

(38:47):
he's not six years old. Get a dog, put get
a bun, Put a dog on it, put some chili
on it. I have a plate full of chili like
a weirdo. You think that's I mean, I'm so, is
something you do? No, But I'm not. I'm not so.
If you saw me at the inline and I got

(39:07):
a plate and I put chili all over it, just
slap the dog on there and then got a bun
on the side, you wouldn't say anything. You one percent
would stop. Look at you in your face, look at
you and you are face. I would say that's peculiar,
but I don't want to say. I would say, what
are you sick? Now? I was much more. It's bothered

(39:30):
by Years ago, we were covering a playoff series and
the and the Astros were given us free hot dogs
as part of their media meal, and they were in
large amounts of people putting mayonnaise on the hot dog.
I was way more bothered by that than when you
just described. What I just described is way out of
one hundred people, there are more people putting mayonnaise on
their dog than making a plate full of chili with

(39:52):
a deconstructed dog. Come on, that's probably true. I know
it's true. You know what. I am triggered by a
lot of things at this is not one of them. Okay,
it was. Well, yeah, that's true. So you know what
you ought to be like, thankful, Thankful that I'm not
like going crazy over this because I feel like evering crazy.
It's weird. I mean, it's fine, it's not spectacular, but

(40:13):
I I've heard them way worse. I ever heard a
way worse. It was weird, all right. Well, now that
we got that all the way, so that's why we
don't trust Buster. Only ask me if I had dinner
with him, you actually remember you. You literally had dinner
with a dinner with them. We just were in the
same line getting And trust me, if if this ever
happens again, I want you to get a photograph of it,

(40:34):
and you will be I tried to get a photo
of it. You would have had six million Twitter followers.
It was like the twenty one or twenty two World Series. Yeah,
I mean I get it. So the issue to me,
I don't mean to put his business out there. You
absolutely put came up organically. You mean to tell me
there's not a food, a dinner item that you do

(40:58):
not weirdly eat. I'm just trying to think if there's
something that I do that would be out of the ordinary.
I don't know why you're fighting this so hard. It's
weird and I'm right. I don't say you're not wrong.
I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying I just
you know what, Life's too short to drink bad wine. Okay, well,
maybe you're just you're just defending someone because everyone makes

(41:20):
fun of your bad food habits. I have e colectic
food habits, but at least I'm consistent and change my
mind every other day. Are you consistently bad? I guess
by the way Kenny Bill just on Twitter says, I
do it. I don't eat bread. No, he had a bun.
He had a bun on he was sopping up the
chili eyes. I didn't. I didn't follow him to his

(41:41):
table and watch him eat. I don't say sop very often.
I just did. Yeah, sometimes you got to sop it up. Okay,
he had a bun, he had a dog, and he
had chili. It was just a plate full of chili. Okay.
I'm more mad at him for basically just I'm not man.
I'm getting I'm mad, and we're talking bad about twenty

(42:02):
seventeen over and over and over again. Get its fine,
I'm not I just weird. He's taken aback uh seven
seven ninety three. I want you to think about this
between now and two o'clock. Is there something you eat weird? HM? Like?
For instance, this is a my family teases me about this,

(42:24):
religiously grilled cheese. Love grilled cheese. Don't put a lot
of grilled cheese. I don't like a lot of cheese
on the grilled cheese. I mean I want a very
thin layer. You want one slice, I want one slice.
Or for grating, it's just just just a quick handful there.
The kids can't have enough cheese in their grilled cheese,

(42:44):
so they make fun of me when I say not,
don't put too much cheese in my girled cheese. It's
a grilled cheese, Matt. What do you expect? But I
get cheese. I love the cheese. I don't want need
nine different slices of the cheese and my grilled cheese.
It's wrong with you. That's fine, I mean, and that
doesn't really bother me. Okay, good, I'm sure I'll find
something that will bother you between now at two o'clock.

(43:05):
You bother me daily. That's what I figured, all right,
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program today we have included Luka Doncic making his debut
for the Dallas Mavericks. The Houston Cougar is knocking off
better last night, one hundred weeks in the top twenty five,

(43:26):
another twenty one season for Kelvin Sampson. And my issue
is ross what Cougar basketball still doesn't resonate in the town.
I'm sorry, Matt, it's college basketball. It's you know what
it is. It's not an indictment against you of age.
It's an indictment against college basketball. We're making of age.
And he's a market better and you know, the market better.

(43:47):
The building's full, you said yourself. Sometimes it's not like no, no,
it's get it's getting better. Gandagan's liberty don't always have
a receipt full. I get that. I'm more locked in
on the Longhorns versus the Alabama Crimson Tide. Oh thought, dude,
can I can I please send you sorry for your
loss already? Why? Because you're gonna get crushed. Yeah, I
don't want to do it. Let me do it today.
Number two Alabama. What's the spread? Yes, this is it

(44:12):
at the Moody Center. Nine and a half. Four and
a half. Oh dang, So you're telling me there's a
chance should be should be nine and a half. Oh man,
I'm gonna it's an eight o'clock game. It's my sister's birthday.
Happy birthday, sists. I'm gonna got it be at a
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Speaker 10 (44:51):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
We got Phillies coming up in one half hour from now.
We have the news at noon and at twelfth NFL
rewind so that's coming up as well. Our audio systems down,
so you and I are talking here, okay. So We're
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keep talking, Baby, We're gonna keep talking. We got we
got all that information for the people. Let's talk about
some of your more more of your weird food leanings preferences. Yeah,

(45:18):
preference is good. See if I hadn't thought about this
ahead of time, like I think you asked me, I
can't think of anything that I do that's really really weird.
I mean, when I was a kid, I would put
chips on my sandwich, but didn't everybody do No, that's fine,
that's average. You use all meal water to use a
meal of milk. How about this. I always taste food

(45:41):
before altering it all. That's what chefs do. I'm okay
with that. Yeah, you're right.

Speaker 9 (45:46):
I never.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
I never when I used to watch when I watch
Hell's Kitchen, I never knew that people tasted their food
before they served it. And it makes perfect sense to
do that. But it seems a little weird that you
would take a little a sample of every play the
food that you're about to cook and send out. But
you gotta be full back there, okay, hmm. I like

(46:07):
things generally like extra crispy like that like, uh, like
when my mom's making CHORRIESO and eggs with potatoes. I
like to like the burt almost oh yeah, completely burn.
I like I like my wings almost burned, super crispy.
Of course that's not weird, the wings, the I like
the drums. All right, we're already go to the second
looks like we're good. All right, I'm getting so let's

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It is a second hour the Matt Thomas Show. Ross,
We've got gut feelings coming up in twenty five minutes
from now, and the news at noon a NFL rewind
in about an hour and a half. We're with you
till two o'clock today. Major headlines of the day. We
have a Kellen Moore going to officially be named the
coach of the New Orleans Saints. I'm sure Gordy is

(48:05):
beyond pleased with that. Kellen Moore. Wasn't he Kellen Moore?
Like public enaemy number one in Dallas a couple of
years back, and now he's a head coach after leaving
the offensive charge in Philadelphia this past year. Yeah, he was.
I mean, he was supposed to be this wonder kin
and he was great, and he was destined to be
a head coach. Ye. I mean he's still only thirty six. Yeah,
well he's got his end coaching opportunity coming up here.
So we'll get to that if you want to during

(48:27):
the rewind. Also, Luka Doncics last night fourteen points, five rebounds,
four assist. Lebron had twenty four eight and seven as
the Lakers defeated the Utah Jazz one thirty two to
one thirteen. Doncic in his first game as a Los
Angeles Laker. Meanwhile, in Dallas, two fans that held up
a sign that said fire Nico m and we're seeing

(48:52):
mouthing fire Nico on the arena video screen. Yeah. They
have some kind of karaoke, Yes, crowd karaoke that they do.
You find a song that people is a very popular
song and then you sing along with the way call
it in game entertainment or whatever is that what they
call it. Yeah, and the words are up there, so
even if you don't know the words, the words dumped
you sing along. Yes, and instead of singing Sweet Carolina

(49:15):
or whatever it was there he fired mouth Nico Nico. Yeah.
So there were apparently there were from fans ejected from
the arena on this for violenting NBA Code of conduct
meaning don't rap on one of our general managers. Thousand people,
they said, ultimately were the ones that were protesting before
Saturday's game with the Rockets. Wow, that's a lot. Nico

(49:36):
Harrison did not attend the Rockets game on Saturday, but
was in the arena Monday and did not sit in
the arena during the game, probably in his office with
the door locked. He's on the treadmill trying to get
away from it all. Yeah. Two men, including one who
wore Donchester Slovenian national team Jersey, were ejected late Monday

(49:56):
after a shouting match with Mark Cuban, who was in
his regular baseline ce by the Mavericks bench. I have
been told that Mark Cuban has no say so in
the Mavericks at all, that it's more figurehead than anything. Else. Yeah,
well he yeah, he sold off almost all his shares right, Yeah, divested,
as the kids say, to this family that runs casinos,

(50:18):
and they are going to buy a plot of land
ultimately in the Dallas Fort Worth area where they want
to build a brand new arena. Yes, they want to
build a entertainment center and they want to build a
big casino with blackjack and craps and roulette. That sounds amazing. Yeah,
my first Mavericks game. Then that's the way you got

(50:38):
to do it. I'm telling you, ROSSI the city downtown
sports facilities and these things could shift, right, but I
think we're going to see a down. We're going to
see a significant downturn in downtown sports facilities being built
in the next I will say twenty years. I think

(51:01):
we're I think sports teams are going to the burbs
where they want, where they want to go, where the
money is and when they want to go with the
land is cheap. Yeah, significantly. That's why we should be
glad we have the Toyota Center. A minute made Yeah,
I mean put it this way, Ross, If we didn't
have those two facilities, would we ever go downtown? That's

(51:22):
obviously thousands of people work downtown, so that's it's a
it's a place of that's busy seven eight to seven
p But like tonight, no Rockets game, no Astros game.
What's going on in downtown Houston after seven o'clock tonight?
Bubkiss uh? Homeless people? That, sadly you're accurate on there.

(51:42):
Maybe there's a bandit Market Square, maybe like a jazz tree.
You get a little bit of run over in Discovery
Green area on the weekends when the weather's good. Oh
my god, there's a billion people out there taking their kids. Yeah,
but that's not it's not cheap to park. And I
don't know if the if the concessionaires around there are
cheap or not. I've never taken my kids then, of
course my kids are older now. But I think this

(52:05):
all started with Atlanta taking the Braves out of downtown
Atlanta and put them up in the suburbs. They basically
took them to and I've never been to the Braves facility,
but I think they took them maybe eleven twelve miles
outside of downtown. It's not that bad, which would be
what for us? What's eleven twelve miles out? Would you say,
like town? Like a Beltway eight and ten, Memorial City,

(52:28):
something in that range. Yeah, where there's plenty of lant.
You build, you build which you want, You build your
little city. You build your own little your own metropolis,
and you control all of it. And I guarantee you
that the Texans will ultimately want to do that. How
Old's their stadium, Well, the first year of the Texas
was two thousand and two, so you're looking at twenty three,

(52:48):
twenty four years, right, how Old's dyk in Park. Dyk
in Park is two thousand, that's twenty five. Why does
it feel so much younger than NRG Because I think
probably the improvements of happening much more often than what
they've been an energy. I still love Dyke in Park. Man,

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this is it. It's a hard say. It's a hard say.
I'll get used to it, but I'll be honest with you.
If I was a sports owner in this town, I
would I would look for a plot of land and
build my own little metropolis. I just I would absolutely
knew that, because again, it's not like we're unlike others.
Chicago Downtown. There are hundreds of thousands of people that

(53:34):
live in Chicago Downtown. It's its own, it's its own community.
Twenty four to seven. Uh, there is not even not
even really down to LA is not even really a
great downtown for stuff. No, it's New York, it's Chicago,
it's Miami's got a vibrant downtown. But in terms of Indianapolis,

(53:55):
it's got stuff. You're right, but it's got more than
Houston does. Sadly it does, but it doesn't. I'm talking
about the people that live and work and hang on
in there. We don't have that. I if it was
if I were the Texans, or if I was the Rockets
or the Astros. And I don't think I think dyk
In Parks in a good spot. I think they've maintained
it and changed things up and whatnot. But if I
was a Texans looking for a new facility, I mean,

(54:17):
you guys, help me out. Those of you live in
the cater area, would you go? Is there somewhere around
the Belway? Probably its gotta bee Land. I mean you
can buy it out. Yeah, there's a TC over there
or p I not that bad boy next to Moteouse.
You gotta go. Mmm, that's a tough one. Why it's fine,
there's thousands of them, but the rolls are really good. Okay,

(54:39):
how good is your steakhouse? If you're known for your roles?
You never know? And that's it. Okay, that's what I
would do. I would I would build eight restaurants. I
don't know all eight of them. I'd build two. I mean,
it's it's like in Arlington. What the hell's Arlington got
nothing except the saw that during their parade, the World
Series parade, six people were there. But I mean, Jimmy

(55:01):
got a Jimmy Jerry Jones bought got a hotel built
over there. There's that Texas area they call that area
where it was the six Lags is over there. Yeah,
but I'm talking about just the game day experience. Oh yeah,
there's a nice Walmart across the street. But no, you've
got a set of restaurants and bars that are very
close to the baseball park and the football stadium they have. Yeah,

(55:21):
they call it Texas Live. That's what that's recently built. Yeah.
I think we're seeing We're gonna say more on that. Okay,
And people say, well, I live in Baytown. I don't
want to go to Katie to watch the Texans playing.
You're gonna go eight ten times a year, you'll figure
it out. I don't think there's an area, and again
I would go west. Frankly, i'd go west. I don't know.
Cypress feels like there's gotta be some land out there,

(55:43):
but that seems like maybe a little too far the people.
There's people farming goats and stuff out there. Yeah, but
there's money out there. You see those Cypress houses. Yeah,
we got nothing in k Wood, So we're good. What
nobody wants to be over there too far? I don't
disagree with you, I just don't all right love with
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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross On four
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Speaker 2 (57:42):
I saw a funny tweet about the Super Bowl halftime
said that a lot of people are in America couldn't
understand one word that Kendrick Lamar. I'm calling him Ken
Ken Lamar by the way, kung Fu Kenny one of
his nicknames. Okay, that kung Fu Ke. And he was
hard to understand. They said, this is the same thing
that white people say when we try to understand what

(58:04):
they're saying. What Pearl jam is trying to say, it's
fair mal Michael McDonald about nonver Dave Matthews not He's
gona understand. They had a lot of groups. Michael McDonald
one of my all time favorites. I can't figure out

(58:25):
eight words he said in all his songs, countless hack
stop it. I just thought it. I just thought it
was interesting that everybody's coming to everybody's defense of their
you know. Oh, I thought it was terrible. I thought
it was great. You don't know anything, f you bye,
that's rude. That's how it works. You can't have you
can't have a civil conversation. Thank god this show has
that civil conversation. It was the most watched Apple Music

(58:47):
halftime show ever, with one hundred and thirty three and
a half million viewers. So to Rock Nation, the Athletic
calls it the fourth best since nineteen ninety one? Why
is that? The cutoff is that when they get you
can all chuck them. But I get it. I don't

(59:07):
know why they did. Did they have a long, long
report about it? Let me give you their top ten? Okay?
And whether this means anything to you or not, who knows,
but this is since nineteen ninety one. Coming in at
number ten was Rihanna in twenty twenty three, two thousand
and number nine Madonna, l A Mfao, Nicki, minaj m

(59:31):
I A and Celo Green in No Man. That was incredible,
What a show. In twenty twelve, number tied for seventh
was Shakira Bad Bunny and Jennifer was actually an Ald
timer Jennifer Lopez. I couldn't name one song. Tied for
number seven Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
In twenty fourteen, number six, Michael Jackson, number five, Beyond Jackson, six,

(59:54):
Beyonce and Destiny's Child Wow, Number four, Kendrick Lamar, number three,
You two, number two, Doctor Dre Snoop Dogg, fifty cent,
Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and Eminem and the number
one since nineteen ninety one. Prince in two thousand and seven. Yeah,
that's another thing. Kendrick Lamar has done the halftime with

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Dre and Snoop and fifty, but he's done it twice now.
Basically Beyonce's popped out like five times. Prince number one
for sure. After that is the phallic sign was made.
It very memorable. I mean, when I think of halftime acts,
m hm, of most memorable, it's easy slippage. I'm not saying,

(01:00:40):
first of all, I didn't see it. I mean I
was working. I didn't know you were there. I was
working the game, but I didn't see the halftime. My
wife and my father in law were sitting in the stands.
They were so high I they didn't realize what had
happened until they got home and said, you do you
hear what happened? I remember doing a Super Bowl postgame show.
We carried the game on th KTRH, and eighty percent

(01:01:02):
of my calls were about how could this possibly happened?
It wasn't about the game itself. Remember that game came
down to the minitary kick to win it. Yeah, was
that the one with the Panthers too Pantas Panthers Patriots
at NRG. Yeah, were the Panthers in the very last
drive of the game kicked the ball out of bounds
where the kicker was Brady. Great finish, whack, magic, great game,

(01:01:24):
and everyone's talking about Janet m I remember that, and
having not seen it until I saw it after, I
didn't know how did I know if it was organized
or not organized, or planned or not playing. Yeah, we
were at a family friend's house watching with a but
it was a big party and I was I don't know,
like eighteen, eighteen years old or whatever. So when you

(01:01:45):
saw that happen, did you go, oh my god, I
can't believe that, or this is a really risky I
it was cool, but I was a teenager and there
was a bunch of adults everywhere, so I could have
been like, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen.
I had to be like, oh my god, I can't
believe that that just happened. That was awesome. Yeah, It's
like when I went back, like fifteen years ago when
Girls Gone Wild videos came out. Oh, this is abhorn.
I cannot believe they would do some things. Number It's

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like when you're at dinner with your girl and somebody
walks by and you're like, oh, can you believe she's
wearing that? You have to just pretend that you don't
like it. Like when Connor's out with this girl and
she's a hot girl walked by with fakis and he's like, oh,
that's atrocious. You said, Yeah, it's like mega tight yoga pants.
Oh yeah, the body of a goddess in your Oh
why would she go outside like this? This is unbelievable. Yeah.
So yeah, for the second straight day, the Kendrick Lamar stuff,

(01:02:32):
it's not gonna go It's not gonna go away for
a long time because again it it went to a
certain cry. It wasn't meant for everybody. That's why I
think they're gonna go rock and roll next year. Well,
jay Z is his He had a five year contract
with the NFL, he and rock Nation. This was the
sixth year, so I don't know if they did like
a one year dat it was? Is it? Because jay

(01:02:53):
Z knows all these people, This isn't ne can negotiation.
He was after what was the there was a show
that I guess they thought they needed to kind of
reinject some life. I'll go look it up. Oh, there
were some bands ten fifteen years ago that were just
polite and nice but didn't really necessarily rock the house.
I think they were looking. They were looking to make
it younger and hip, or as it were, and so

(01:03:15):
they they tabbed rock Nation and jay Z to produce it,
and they've been doing it for six years. But I
think this was his last year. Yeah, okay, So I
mean it wasn't just about just picking somebody. It was
actually choreographing and creating the whole thing. I mean they
spent obviously millions of dollars. Yeah, Maroon five was his
first back. Oh as after Timberlake. Huh did people not
like the Timberlake one? Yeah, Pepsi zero was doing it,

(01:03:40):
and then yeah it was he did Maroon five, Shakira,
The Weekend, the Doctor Dre Thing, Rihanna Usher, and then
Kendrick Lamar. Yeah. Well, as I said to you on
before the game, during the game, and the last couple
of days out of the game, to find somebody that
is universally beloved, it's impossible.

Speaker 10 (01:04:01):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I remember one of the reasons they had him do
it because everybody did nobody wanted to do it. They're
all backing out. There's a bunch of people saying, like,
I'm not gonna get paid for this, It's not worth it.
Has uh Has Tanlor done it before?

Speaker 9 (01:04:11):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I don't think so. I mean she she would probably
have the widest appeal, right, I mean she's the most
popular performer. She doesn't need she doesn't need it, and
they don't really they don't pay you, correct. I couldn't
tell you that. I believe you don't get paid, or
if you do, it's minimum. I mean she doesn't need
anything else to do. I mean she's got every stadium
full and all her records are sold. I mean, if

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anybody but I would just wouldn't want to put that
on your resume. I mean there's not been a lot
of people have done it. Yeah, I was surprised Kendall
Lamar agreed to do it. But then he dropped an
album in and announced the stadium tour, so that kind
of made sense. That is he coming to Houston? He
is you want to get your tickets for your birthday?
A good sick good seats? I would say I predec
no was he performing NRG He's gonna fill up energy.

(01:04:55):
See I'm skeptical on that. Are you really yeah, Oh
he'll be fine. He fills up. People from out of
town will come to here. He's filled up Toyota Center
multiple times. He can fill up Toyota Center. But I
don't know about filling of an energy so it seemed
a little ambitious in my opinion. George Strait filled up
Kyle Field, no problem. Yeah, it was a one off.

(01:05:16):
He's doing a tour, all right. I'll go with you really,
no chance? Come on. I went to Paul Simon with
you have for free tickets? Oh? Everything we can get
some probably not. I talked about boy Kyati. Once you
go ask Katy, Yeah, Katy hardbody, hard body, Kyati. I've
never called another man a hardbody before. I will never

(01:05:37):
do it again. I'm not doing it again ever. Kyati
is Kyata is wonderful. He sure he doesn't have any
flab at all. I don't know. I haven't seen the
man's shirtless. You haven't seen his picks? Where's packs? All right?
I just think if you give yourself, you gloss yourself,
that that's a high ex pressure to stay in shape, right, yeah,

(01:06:00):
and take a week off, you can't like you know,
they bring free pizza or wings or something up here.
You can't be like, you gotta stay a while. Hard
bodies don't eat that, no, I know, or do you
just go throw it up? Well, that's that's terrible to say.
Don't say that. He said he's just motivating to work
out harder. That's good. But he's he's in the Rockets
games all the time. Yeah, I've never punched him in
the mid section. Well for himself, yeah, he's doing good.

(01:06:22):
But I just I wouldn't want to call myself hard body.
Ninety three seven the beat Rocket stuff. Yeah, got probably
have a TV show before you know it, probably hosting
a game show before I will. I would imagine I
would put him first. I think he does a great
job at the halftime entertainment. All right, let's do some
gut feelings you want to My first gut feeling is
about next year's Super Bowl. M not predicting the teams,

(01:06:44):
oh the halftime show. Not predicting them the halftime show,
but just a prediction about what ever think is going
to happen next year with the teams that are in
the Super Bowl seven one three, two, one two five
seven nine. If you want to chime in and give
us your gut feelings for those. Are you new to
the program? First of all, where have you been? Second ball?
Damn glad to have you gut feelings that where you
make your sports predictions. If you get them right, we
let you brag about it. If you get them wrong,

(01:07:05):
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A peeler. Wasn't that Thomas?

Speaker 1 (01:08:12):
You'll they got a gut peeling.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
This is their gut feeling on The Matt Thomas Show
eleven thirty three on Sports Talk seven one eight is
the Matt Thomas Show and Ross Time. Now for our
weekly get together where we make sports predictions. We call
them gut feelings. We are now held accountable to them
unless we put our name on them. Okay, how do

(01:08:38):
we do last week sports survey? Well, Matt two weeks ago,
I'll give you one from two weeks ago, because it's
a hit for you. You said top five super Bowl
watched ever, and you were correct. It was number one.
Now they do add in the streaming numbers. They call
it most watch That means most eyeballs, most viewers. So
if somebody clicks on it for one second count as

(01:09:00):
a viewer. So most watched ever though, was the super Bowl.
So that's a nice hit by you, mister Thomas. You
also said last week Rockets win. Tonight they didn't win.
I don't know whoever it was, so that's an l
You also had you said this one a game goes over.

(01:09:24):
Oh you were talking about the super Bowl. I think, yeah,
the point over. Yes, I got that, So it's a
win you did, yep, And you picked the Chiefs. That's
in most of America, right, I picked Get to me
in a second, here we go. I mean that's just

(01:09:44):
you know, sometimes I get something right, Maddie. He also
said by next Monday, Bregman has a home and he doesn't.
I can't believe either, can I mean, I I mean,
this is not like an all time, all time I
can't believe moment, but I really can't believe it that
he doesn't have a splay place this year. Yes, that's

(01:10:05):
a loss for me. I had the Rockets winning as well. Whoops.
I said the game would go under, which is looking
good until Pat Mahomes garbage time star came through. He
was a you know say, it's very often a Super
Bowl statfielder, super Bowl stat padding Pat Mahomes. I also
had the Eagles winning. I got feeling that two weeks

(01:10:25):
in a row that the Eagles will win. Good for
you that you stood your ground. So uh, those were
my gut feelings. And the only thing I wrote for
Connor mc govern was that he's had the Chiefs three peating. Ooh,
not his best work. That's unfortunate. But he still is
a great demeanor. He's doing wonderful. There's a lot of
we have some technical issues. He's doing great. He hasn't
thrown anything today. He hasn't yelled at anybody. Me, on

(01:10:48):
her hand, i'd be out there just crazy like a lunatic.
We have, Yeah, they have. Management hasn't given ordered him
to have anger management classes yet. Yeah. Those are fine.
Those are fine. There's just a one day thing. Yeah,
he's doing great all right. Time Now for this week's
gut feelings, I'm gonna start with one of the two teams. No,
let me rephrase. The winner of next year's Super Bowl

(01:11:14):
will be a first time super Bowl winner. Okay, hold on.
The super Bowl winners, yes, Sexans Bills would be the Ravens,
the Bingles win. Bengals have never won one. They've been,
but they've never won. Okay, I will give you the

(01:11:35):
next year's snoop. You may want to put this deep
in the archives, have to save it for like a year.
You can bring it up that the winner of next
year's super Bowl will be a first time super Bowl winner. Okay, Okay,
there you go it Centest could be Minnesota too. I
like that, Thank you man. Look at you, matt going
a little outside the box. I like it. By the way,
if you've got a gut feeling and a sports prediction

(01:11:57):
or anything for that matter. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven ninighty Dan Matthews has texted with a gut feeling. Really,
he says, next year's Super Bowl halftime act will either
be and we'll give him this because it's there's such
a wide range of people that could be. He says,
it's either gonna be either Post Malone or Jelly Roll.

(01:12:21):
Could they go country next year? They certainly could. They could,
and post Malone is a megastar. I mean that to
me makes more sense than a true rocker like I
like Clinton's been banging the drum for metallic I don't
think metallic. It would be the be the halftime act.
I don't think it's gonna happen. Sorry, Clinton, post Malone,

(01:12:41):
jelly roll makes a lot of sense. Maybe both. So
that's Dan's gut feeling. Okay, the Rocket's beating the Suns
tomorrow night, Rockets win both. I love it. I don't
know if I believe that. You mean it what your

(01:13:04):
name put your name on, put your name on, Rockets win.
You know what I do as a broadcaster, I take
it one step at a time. I got Rockets beating
the Suns tomorrow night, I'm doing I'm doing Suns and
Golden Stif you're one of the Rockets, Sun's game tomorrow
it's at seven thirty is compared to seven o'clock. It's
a rare seven thirty start. Not because the Rockets are

(01:13:25):
trying to start a new time. They're doing it because
you have to allow a certain number of hours in
between games, and Phoenix plays a late game in Memphis
tomorrow night. Okay, I'm back to back tonight. Actually, well
that's great. Sorry, I just wanted to make you give
you a head Tex launch pad. I feel like, yeah,
why not do an hour? Oh Jesus, will figure that out.
All right, what else you got? I got one that
you're not gonna like. But it's just a feeling I

(01:13:48):
have in my gut. Mat was involved. The Houston Texans
will be welcoming back Stefan Dicks. Huh. I'm not averse
to it. I'm not an anti Stefan Diggs. I just
have been saying that. I don't think it's think him.

(01:14:08):
You said he was gonna come here and be a
locker room cancer and he wouldn't finish the season. By
the way, I would take the demeanor of Stefan Diggs
ten times more than I would take the demeanor of
Laramie Tunsil easy, Okay, but that was a fraudulent captain
by Larimi Tunzel. That was by default. He's been around forever.
They can worry you wouldn't get voted, you know, leader,

(01:14:29):
It's a waste overrated. His peers voted him as captain
and he made the Pro Bowl means nothing. I mean,
you could play tucking. He selected to the Pro Bowl
is no, and it doesn't mean nothing. It means nothing.
It's only a handful of people get selected to the
Pro Bowl. Now, if you make it as eighth alternate
like Gardner minshooted last year. You know what, you make
it all Pro team and then we'll talk to me.

(01:14:49):
We need to make it a distinction. By the way,
this needs to start happening. Pro Bowl selection versus Pro
Bowl appearance. We got to do something because everybody's out
there going How abouay limited to pro bom four time
Pro Bowl or four time Pro Bowler or how about
the Yeah, eliminate it, but have it name like all Pro.
There's no All Pro game. You're just named to the
All Pro team. There's no All American game in college anymore.

(01:15:10):
You just get named to the All American team. You
just get named to the Pro Bowl. But they don't
have anything because now four time Pro bowl er Eli
he was only selected twice in sixteen years of his career.
Two other times he was an alternate, and then it confused,
confuses everything. Yeah, there is always a distinction between Pro
Bowl and All Pro. I can't make a prediction on

(01:15:31):
Stefan Dicks. I went back originally and said this was
a one and done situation. I thought the injury probably
helped my cause. But if he comes back on a
limited deal, no one year deal one year dealer doesn't
break the bank because he honestly, it's because probably there's
not a lot of options for him out there. I
know there's been some rumors about him going to Dallas. Maybe.
I don't know. He's just a good feeling. Okay, that's

(01:15:52):
all it is. We're not gonna judge you either on
that one. Thank you, Matt, I got one for you.
The Texas Longhorns do not make the ends a tournament. Well,
I'll talk to me after tonight. Oh do you want
my man ever really talk to you after tonight? The
Vandy loss was it was a tough loss to Vandy.
I mean, let's see, they gotta win over who the

(01:16:13):
best wins over the Aggies? Keep going Oh missoo was
right when they beat them? Okay, uh, and then they
could beat Alabama tonight only four and a half point dogs. Okay.
Texas makes the n I T. They're home for Kentucky

(01:16:34):
this weekend as well. Oh yeah, n I T bound. Baby,
let's Gordy's going up to Austin for that. Feels like
they would. Oh my god, they're gonna have bus people
going up there. Okay, just win these two games against
Alabama Kentucky and you're in all right, uh, Cougars for
the tournament, and tournament will be at the end of
the day a three seed. I'm sticking with one seed. Okay.

(01:17:03):
I think they're gonna lose in the conference. They've been
dealing with some injuries, right, Yeah, they're slowly but surely
getting back to health. I hope they are at least
a two. But I wouldn't be stunned because Leonardi has
been downplaying them all year for some reason. Leonardi is
a jerk. Yeah, I don't like the Nardi damnbom has
the number three in the country. You know what, let me,

(01:17:24):
let me, let me they're gonna be a two seed. Yeah,
let's go one seed. I want to be a one
seat one seed. Let's I like being on top of
the mountain. Interesting. Well, but yeah, no worse than a
two seed, that's all I'll go with. No worse than
a two seed. No worse than a two seed.

Speaker 9 (01:17:41):
Ye?

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
All right, counter your turn? What do you got for
your got feelings? Is your microphone are working? All right? Yeah?
I think so? Yeah? Y're sure we can't a good thing.
Ain't nobody to get time for that isn't today.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
That's true, but uh, I'll say Rockets in the next
two mm hmmm. And then Alex Bregman does not signed
by this time this week, our next week, Bregman.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Does not sign. You want to do one more gut
filling on Bregman sign. You know I'm gonna say he does.
I'm gonna just say he does every Tuesday until he does. Well,
how about this, I'm gonna name every team and then
eventually one of me signs. You know what, I'm gonna
go with it. This is my latest one erased the
previous ones. Okay, he signs with the Red Sox. Alex

(01:18:22):
Bregman signs with the Red Sox. Yeah, they're they're only
offering short term and it wouldn't be the money he
wants because he's gonna play second base. I'm just throwing
blacking against the I got you, I got one for you. Go.
Alex Bregman signs. He's got no choice short term deal
with go ahead, don't stut her. Hello, you gotta do it.

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Let's go before we gotta go to break you find advertise.
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Why why are you bothering on to Detroit for one
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saying where, because I've already predicted. I don't even know

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where I predicted. Put your name on a team. I
predicted Tigers, like a while ago. Oh you're staying with
the Tigers. I predicted the Yankees a while ago. Doesn't matter.
I predicted every American leagueest team December tenth, I said,
New York Yankee. Well that's not happening anymore. But nope,
all right, you haven't got feeling about it, and saying
a short term deal with opt outs. Okay, so no

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Matten Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
All right, Joan jumping in on a gut feeling Fragmant
signs the astra of six years, one sixty five. That'd
be a Bum'd be a nigh main dollar bump from
the one fifty six. But Buster only put out a
report earlier late last night of this morning that said
that it's down to three teams and the askers aren't
one of them. You trust a guy named Buster, though?
And what point do you think you need to get

(01:21:55):
rid of the nickname? Do you?

Speaker 1 (01:22:00):
Do?

Speaker 9 (01:22:00):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
Because it's so synonymous with you, you never get rid
of it, Like Scoot Henderson. Yeah, Like there's a the
ESPN broadcaster that called the Coup game yesterday. His name
is Boog Shamby b o Og. Boog Boog is not
his given name. No, John's a given name. Oh he

(01:22:20):
calls himself boog Shamby. What about Hollywood Brown? I think
you'd stick with Hollywood. That's a good name. Okay, So
let's put this way. People that have nicknames that should
stick with them for all their life. Proba, I mean
clearly Busters and his what late fifties or maybe sixties?
So he maybe it's a given name. There's no chance
that you'd call you. No, my name is like Pernell

(01:22:43):
or something like that. Robert sten Robert Stanbury the third Yeah,
I guess he was called Buster when he was a kid. Yeah,
so maybe Buster it was to separate himself from his dad. Yeah, okay,
so that's but he didn't he didn't separate himself from that. Yeah.
Who else is a great? Who else has a nickname
that we just that lived by it? Magic? That's true.

(01:23:04):
We don't call him. Name is Magic Johnson? Well in
the eighties it was Magic until and nobody ever says anything.
You should all let it slide. Eleven fifty two Magic Johnson,

(01:23:26):
Yeah we got it the first time. Who else Magic? Sorry?
Go ahead? Who else has nicknames that we just don't know?
The late Flip Saunders was Filip I don't think his
name was Philip Flip or Anderson. That's a good one. Um, well,
we'll think about this, but I just thought I was

(01:23:47):
curious that that buster would not his changed, which Drake
his first name is Aubrey. Yeah. Well, but isn't every
rap star having like like fifty cent was not named
fifty out of Mom's belly, curtis something?

Speaker 9 (01:24:01):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
This is today's you know what. Kendrick Lamar's name is
Kenny Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. Oh his middle name is Lamar.
Huh Okay. Now, you have a lot of wrestlers that
change their name for identity purposes, But that's just to
change their name, that's true. Like Paul hunter Hurst Helmsley
is really Paul Leveck. Really, yeah, he didn't his name

(01:24:23):
is in triple ah. No, oh, my whole life is
a lie. You rolled your eyes as you said that.
That's terrible guy injecting steroids and and oiling himself up
for thirty years. First of all, he was never convicted
of any sort of steroid use. That's not you think
he wasn't he If if I put a gun to
your head and said it goes off, if you tell
me Triple H didn't do steroids, what happens, Yeah, I wouldn't.

(01:24:47):
I wouldn't go there. Okay, and he does oil up right.
Kenneth on Twitter says, Bregman just looks greedy at this point.
Never thought i'd say that about Breggs. But I'm over
it now, move on, we'll be fine. I think Dan
Brown probably agrees with you on that. It's just dragging
on longer than it should have. I'm not gonna call
him greedy. He's trying to do what he's He was
under contract till he's thirty years old, so he's basically

(01:25:09):
got one left. So he's trying to get to maximize
his value. That's his that's his right. This is prerogative,
as Bobby Brown would say. V Rock says Kenny the
Jet Smith nickname, Well, I don't. First of all, nobody
called him the Jet until after he left the Rockets. Uh.
Chipper Jones says, oh, oh you we called him Chipper. Yeah,

(01:25:31):
it's for fun s, thank you. Yeah, Chipper, that's absolutely
one hundred percent. It's a good one. Who There's got
to be some other people too, I'm not sure there's others. Yeah,
thousands and said, you don't want my nickname is better
than my real name. Yeah, so we just call you
peach Basket. Nobody does that, peach Basket, Thomas. I go

(01:25:52):
to I go around the NBA. I'm in every Rockets game.
Nobody ever says, hey, peach Basket, what's going on? You're
a liar. It's happened before you're alive. Maybe you know
you're lying. Maybe once. It's happened at least once, just once,
you know. Do you see Matts anywhere? Just call him
peach basket because he is the he is the the
fountain of basketball knowledge. He's like doctor Nace with himself.

(01:26:13):
So thus we call him peach Basket Thomas. If Julius
Irving walked into the room, I wouldn't call him Julius,
wouldn't call him, what's up? Doctor j What if he
did call him Julius? Do you think his mother called
him Julius? Probably? I'm sure they call me mister radio afrodisiac.
They call you that too, they do not. You said,

(01:26:36):
that's you your words, That was a I related that.
That was not me. That was Matt Thomas. I am
a radioid Effortsiak though you just whisper in the voice
and the to the to the guys and girls, Oh
sweet love is made to the play by play of
my broadcast. We're getting Babe Ruth, Sparky Anderson, George Hammond,
Sparky is George and him the babe swat. Yeah, it

(01:26:58):
happens more in baseball than it does anything a sport.
So too, especially when you go back to like the
nineteen nineteens Tungsten arm Old Doyle and whatnot and Sneaky
Snake Jake. Yes, he wouldn't call it Jake. He was
sneaky snake. That's true. All right, We're gonna do the
news at noon. Was it number one headline? If we
didn't have a piping hot sports? They did we yesterday?
You'll find out coming up in the news at noon,

(01:27:19):
all right, nfl rewinded, coming up at twelve thirty today.
And believe I think believe or not should be? What
are we gonna say? Uh, we just talked about it, well,
believe or not should be? Oh, rappers, real names, rappers,
real names. Maybe I'll think about honoring the Eagles, you
mean Glennon Fry maybe rest No, the Philadelphia any of

(01:27:39):
those guys, Don Henley Joe Walsh was sounded so bad
at the Matt Fear. He said, more drugs run through
his body than CBS. But it's like when he was singing,
I was like, please turn this off. It was terrible.
Even even Glenn Fry's son was better. Vince Gill singing

(01:28:00):
Glenn fry songs was significantly better. Joe Walsh, Oh God,
Don Helly sounded great. Good for him. I want to
go back to the sphere sphere, sphere, sphere sphere. I
don't know why you make it. You yet ish it
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I mean, damn. We're entertaining the people here seven one
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Un timers, this is the Matt Thomas Show twelve o three.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
On Sports Talk seven one eight. What's happening lunch timers.
This is the third of four hours of the Mount
Thomas Show. Would roster with you today until two p m.
One week from today, Ross and I will be down
with the full squad workout of Houston Astros spring training.
Baseball will have the show's Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from
West Palm Beach. The crack of the bat, the pop

(01:30:28):
of the glove. Spring training will be upon us in
one week, Matthew. The applying of the suntan lotion, Yeah,
it depends. It could get sunny out there and make
sure everybody's taken care of. Now. My legs are super
pasty white. Oh my gosh, translucent nearly I had that
problem all my life. I'm sorry, matt Eh, it's gonna happen.

(01:30:50):
I don't want to bust them out. I don't be teased,
but they're very well. I wouldn't say a word about it.
You'd be thinking bad things though, Yeah, I wouldn't think
be thinking. No, I'd move on. That's nice. Not something
I'm going to fixate on, I would hope not. Ladies, gentlemen,
every day at this time or about their time. Yesterday
we did at twelve twenty. Today we're going to move
it to the regular spot. We present to you the
news at noon to the new center Sparks Man. A

(01:31:13):
lot going on in the sports world right now all
over the place, with the super Bowl being we'll have
to mourn the NFL, with the super Bowl being over
coming up with the NFL rewind at twelve thirty, but
let's focus on Well, the big tray that happened at
the trade deadline was Luka Doncic becoming a Los Angeles Laker.

(01:31:33):
He made his debut on ESPN, and well, there was
a certain fan base here in Houston, maybe another one
in Waco that we're none too happy about getting bumped
off to ESPNU. Kevin and coachin studio.

Speaker 6 (01:31:43):
We want to give you this important navigation if you
want to catch the finish at Baylor in Houston, we
invite you to head to ESPNU. Here on ESPN coach,
it is the Laker debut of Luka Doncic.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
What are you interested to see?

Speaker 7 (01:31:57):
Two of the toughest matchups and all of basketball playing together,
trying to coexist and find a way to take the
Lakers back to the level that they expect to be.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
At competing for championships. That's what I expect to see,
and that's the big question moving forward. Jazz and Lakers.
Dave Pash Tim Legler on the cole. Lakers would go
on to win the game over the loli Utah Jazz
one thirty two to one thirteen. Luka donc is not
factoring in in a huge way. Just twenty four minutes.
He did have fourteen points, five rebounds, four assists as

(01:32:32):
the Lakers routed the Jazz and now by percentage points,
are the fourth seed in the West. Look, it's only
in one game. We need let this thing play out
for probably a couple of years, three years maybe, but
this early on, very early in the game. Too entirely early, frankly,
but it's what we're setting ourselves up for, this being

(01:32:53):
the worst trade sports history, most unbalanced. Anthony Davis has hurt.
He's a good player. Yeah, the Lakers are looking for
a center. They're not satisfying with Jackson.

Speaker 8 (01:33:06):
Hay.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
We didn't even mention that the Mark Williams trade got
rescinded by now the Harlot. The Hornets are trying to
fight the Lakers. Yes they are. So that's a that's
a bit trying to force the trade. What is going
on the folks on first take this morn yesterday morning
or this morning, we're talking about the Lakers eating the center,
and uh, Brian Windhorse was like, go get Dwight Howard.

(01:33:27):
He's been retired for a bunch of years. Oh, Dwight,
It's like, I'm not retired. And he also told Brian
win Horse stopped eating cheeseburgers. Oh that's hmm. That's not
very nice. It's not nice at all. Apparently DeMarcus Cousins available.
He's playing basketball in Mongolia right now, for real. That's

(01:33:48):
what Steve and I said when he was in Taiwan.
Is he in Mongolia? He's moving around. Maybe he's playing
the entire United Nations tour. I was in Taiwan. I
even try to go see the Taiwanese basketball. Did you
really no? I didn't you should you should have us?

Speaker 9 (01:33:59):
I got you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah, We're busy, I'm sure checking out things all right, man,
Let's keep it moving on the News at Noon as
we have other things to get to, including Joe Espada
on Chandler Rome's podcast. Now, what's the title that podcast?

Speaker 1 (01:34:14):
Again?

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Matt Trademark City Blowout, Crush City Territory, Rome, Chandler, listen
to me. I'm going to sue your podcast. Matt Thomas
filing a lawsuit also part of the News at Noon.
But Joe Aspata talking about a number of things on
Crush City Territory also including well he talked about jose

(01:34:36):
L Tva being an ultimate team guy possibly moving to
left field. We'll play that later on in the show.
But how about future plans for the Astros Prize prospect
that they got back in the Tucker deal, Camp Smith,
He's they can carry your team for years. He's got
that potential right. He could play third base.

Speaker 9 (01:34:55):
I think he's athletic enough to play at corner outfields,
but right now he's got to I'm in I'm going
to play him up third because Sessi's natural position. He
moves so well for a guy, he sighs that that's
why you know, you just don't. You just don't know
right way he's going to end up, because he's going
to tell you he's there's so much potential that I

(01:35:16):
think we just got to go slow and let him
tell us where he's going to end up.

Speaker 2 (01:35:20):
But the bat is special.

Speaker 9 (01:35:22):
It's right center field power.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
This guy knows his own. Cam Smith, the number one
prospect in the ASTROS rankings. mL WE pipeline has his
ETA as estimated time of arrival in the Major Leagues
as twenty twenty six. Joe Spottison's gonna put him at

(01:35:46):
third and he's the type of talent they can carry
a franchise four years. Matthew, So wait a minute. If
Cam Smith is projected as a third baseman and he's
one year away from being that guy, and the obviously
the organization thinks the world of him, then why make
the offer to Alex Burgman to begin with? Because this

(01:36:08):
is exactly the same thing they did with Jeremy Pania.
They were going to offer Carlos Korea a super competitive deal.
They knew with Korea he was going to move on
and go get the mega deal. They had Jeremy Pinia
locked and loaded, and he came in and made a
big impact immediately helping the Astros win the World Series.
You can move Alex Begman a second when he gets old.
You can move camp Smith around. He said he could

(01:36:28):
play corner outfield spots. You'd figure it out. Yeah, I'm
what I'm I guess this is the bigger point of
is the Astros went and got a better first baseman.
They went and make it, made a trade that got
them a third basement in return. They've already decided to move.
I'll two be at least to have a sample size
in the left field regardless of whether or not Bragman signs.

(01:36:50):
I just don't understand the whole signing. To most, it's
almost like there's two different factions within the Astros organization.
There's a group of people that said we want Bregman,
or maybe it's one person, maybe the owner, and you
have the baseball operations. I like, man, we're moving forward,
we're moving on. We don't have Alex Bergman in our
long term plants. Don't you see that that way? It
could happen that way. I mean it could be that way. Okay,

(01:37:11):
it's all my that's some of my commentary on that.
All right, Matt, let's go off the beaten track of
the news at noon, which I know you love. Apparently
the FBI has found secret JFK assassination records after a
Trump executive order to open up the documents. The secret
records contained fourteen thousand pages of documents the FBI found

(01:37:36):
in a review triggered by the executive order sixty one
years after Kennedy was in Dallas, assassinated in Dallas. These
documents will be released to the public. What do you
think we're going to find out, Matt? In these fourteen
thousand pages? Will you be scanning them with Adam Clinton?
What could be the possibility affair with Merril Monroe? Cia involvement, Okay,

(01:38:03):
Fidel Castro involvement, mafia involvement, Nothing about Marilyn Monroe, are you?
I mean, it's a great it's a great mister. But
the relationship what is that great? Am I? I'm not wrong? Yeah,
everybody knows they were non what together when somebody's assassination? Matt?

Speaker 10 (01:38:25):
Not?

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
Is it love of f The fourteen thousand pages announced,
they will announce that you got a gut feeling on this, Matt,
The gut feeling is that Learvey Hoswald did not act alone.
How do you feel about that? My gut feeling will
be that the mafia was involved. They were debts that
they maybe that he was. He promised them things about

(01:38:47):
dans Own. Actually, in my gut feelings, GfK documents. Okay,
so you're going JFK was mafia assassinated, Mafia heavily involved.
I will go on the opposite just to say it.
I will say a Fidel Castro was involved in the
assassin Okay, just to throw it up JFKU. And then
Connor's are gonna on the field. He's going with the field.
H He's gonna stay with Lee. Arvey Halswell was a

(01:39:11):
Nutso okay, all right, Okay, that's it, and that's your news.
And then you should have say that for the two
o'clock show, they love that JFK stuff. Well, Adam Clinton
loves it. Clan, could you would like to do a
four hour show about OJ and JFK and really forget
about everything else. If these documents reveal that OJ assassinated JFK,
his his brain's gonna say he would he didn't have

(01:39:32):
to take like a week's vacation. All right, That is
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Brian mctager's reporting the Astros have agreed to a minor
league contract with veteran infielder Luis Guillorme. I don't know.
I wish I knew how to pronounce a g U

(01:41:57):
I L l O. Luis thirty year old has played
seven years in the big leagues, mostly with the Mets.
He's a lefty bat, provides some infield depth, meaning they're
gonna open up for a bunch of different folks to
play some second bas this year, and meaning he's also
been a fringe major leaguer for the last couple of years.
I'm a fright Can I guess his current numbers?

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:42:17):
You tell when you pull him up. I have him
seven years in the majors, seven years of six of
them met Okay. Most number of games he's played in
a single season has been one hundred and two. Oh hmm. Again,

(01:42:39):
if he walked in and said I'm I'm Luis Jame,
I'd say, I mean, I know the name. I don't
know the name, tell me about it. Four and eleven games,
one thousand plate appearances. Okay, so literally a thousand are
at the nose of one thousand Okay, so basic one thousands,
I'll say he's a career two thirty hitter two fifty one.
Mm hmm, okay, any pop slugging three twenty two? Okay,

(01:43:04):
so the answer is no, the ops six fifty eight,
Oh god, yesh, career home runs and those ae thousand
plate appearances. Oh, let me give us a range. That's
a little under two seasons worth. Really a thousand plate appearances?
Ony ten, he has seventeen home runs five. I don't

(01:43:28):
know this guy at all? Do I huge signing by
the Houston Astros? Okay, go look at his defensive numbers.
Please tell me that he is. I'm not worried about
his nut misstats. I'm worried about the positions he's played,
is he okay? Or he's played over? He plays everywhere
second base, third, and short stop in the infield. Okay, Well,
then you know what you need one of those guys

(01:43:48):
and does du bond then shift over to be here's
the thing, it's a minor league. But first of all,
we don't even know if he's gonna make the team. Yeah,
as a minor league deal, I mean, how many how
many utility guys you're gonna keep when you're in field. Two.
Oh he pitched in any in twenty twenty? Okay, is
he ra looks like it's zero? Nice? So he's a
three up and three down kind of guy. Yeah, hmm hmm.

(01:44:15):
I mean the two, the two utility infielders. Oh lifetime.
The area is nine? Is it? Descenzo and saying is
that nine innings and six appearances? Oh geez, this is
not making me sound appearances he pitched?

Speaker 4 (01:44:34):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Yeah, you can throw him out there as a position
player who can have don't you be down by ten
runs of that to happen or something like that? Is nine? Now,
it's fine, it'd be all right. We get some things
to discuss and get down to Florida. Okay with Dana Brown. Yeah,
Descenjo uh McTaggart portrays him as an outfielder, Descenzo Dezenzo,

(01:45:01):
but he can also play. Obviously they playing the left
in the Puerto Rican League. I think I said seventy
eight games he's been out there. I think I think
Dezenzo is going to be a sneaky pick for for
a left field as a contributor. Okay, utility players, there's
two of them. Riso Dubon and John Singleton. Utility means
you can play multiple positions. That utility you're going to
be for him is first base and left handed. Me
you gotta galize them. I guess that's actually true. That's right,

(01:45:24):
starting five. According to McTaggart, Valdez, Brown, Blanco, Arraghetti, it's
necky was nesky was neskye because I always say it
was newsky. No, it's I always say it wrong. Well,
I say that that's didn't even is wrong. Yeah, the sphere. Yeah,
eight games in left for Zach Dezenzo in the in

(01:45:47):
the Puerto Rican Fall League. Okay, so they're they're made.
They're making a concerned effort for him to get comfortable.
Tenet first, one in at third, and eight in left.
If Christian Walker is healthy, he's playing on in fifty
games next year, correct, you would hope. So yeah, at
first base, locking it down, gold glove, big thirty home runs,
big powerheader. He's playing every home game humanly possible. Yeah,

(01:46:09):
I'm mad it May Park and playing all the games
in Boston too. M there's actually a lot of places
that have comfortable left field. So yeah, he'll be all right,
all right, So let me go to this mctagger group.
He because it's interesting. This is what he does, and
it's what we love having mtaggering. Hebby with us during
the big course of the baseball season. We'll get him
on probably towards the end of spring training. Wonderful. Uh.
He's got one first baseman Welker Jose, He's got it, second,

(01:46:35):
paying it short hoorata is it? Third outfielders McCormick, Myers, Gammel,
Descenzo's actually Jacob Meltin, true saves Jacob Meltain please, Jordan
Alvarez a d h.

Speaker 8 (01:46:56):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
And then let me see what else he's got going here.
I gotta pop up. Just showed up on this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:47:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
Utility Mauricio Dubon and John Singleton, starting pitchers Valdez, Hunter Brown,
Reneale Blanco, Spencer, Raghetty Hayden Wes Nesky. Relievers hater a
bray you, Scott King, Ort Dubin and the last two
are interesting. He's got Forret Woodley making the twenty six
man roster coming out of spring and Rafael Montero, who

(01:47:25):
has a non roster invitee at this point. Be nice
to have him back. His deal's done right though, No no, no,
he's got one more. This is third year, this is
the last year. Sorry, what a disaster. So I wanted
you to go back and apologize for what you just said.
You said, nice hav him back for what? Nice to
have who back? Montero? Yeah, if it'd be nice to

(01:47:46):
have him back, if he can pitch well, what do
you mean it would be nice to have all those
guys back if you don't if they pitch well, it
will be nice to have Ben or Brian King back
if he can't get people out. Yeah, Brian King lefty? Crafty?
Lefty's not that craft Isn't it funny how every left
hander is crafty. Yes, in every short guy is sneaky. Well,

(01:48:07):
Josh Hater's not crafty. No, kind of. Actually, every white
NFL players got a college players got a high motor.
You have Black guys have high motors. I think Hunter
has a high motor. They all have high Anderson I know,
I know what guys are terrible motors. I got a
terrible motor. I can't even turn motor on. No, he

(01:48:32):
can't even do not even count. That doesn't even count. Uh,
that to me is a roster. That's good. We got
holes outfield. Let me just read you this outfield wall again.
You don't have to. I want you to give me
the raw emotion. Jess McCormick, Jake Myers, Ben Gammel, Zach

(01:48:56):
Descenzo is he and now again you'd have Al two
Avarez as an outfitter obviously, and maybe even alto be
playing some Maybe the Ben Gammel renaissance will continue. He
was good into very small sample size twenty games, sixty
nine played appearances, one home run seven thirty nine oh ps.

(01:49:16):
So he gets on base and has a little pop,
but not a lot of home run pop. I mean,
like one, a lot of slug h That's basically been
his career. You know we're gonna have this year. He's
thirty two, so we're not building for the future for him.
You know you need a crafty veteran. Well he's okay.
He's left handed, so he fits the profile. It's funny

(01:49:38):
you cannot find a crafty right hand player under any circumstance.
All right, uh nfl Rewind's up next? What did we
miss from the Super Bowl?

Speaker 9 (01:49:46):
That?

Speaker 2 (01:49:47):
And maybe we got a new hire in New Orleans
with a coach. We'll discuss that and all things NFL.
We do have believe it or not today at one fifty,
we'd figure out the category. We'll figure it out. I
think I'm gonna do Eagles players. Okay, so Philadelphy Eagle players,
not Eagle, the Eagles, the band, or the Eagle itself.
Seven one three, two one two five seven nine. If

(01:50:08):
you want to chime in, we just gave you the
twenty six man projection. According to Brian mctarget, our friend
from MLB dot com, love it, like it, scare the
death of it seven one three two one two five
seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (01:50:21):
Lunchtimers, lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
There's a pullup question up on today's Twitter account if
you want to follow sports MT I greatly appreciate that.
Here is the question, Texans winning the AFC after watching
Casey's performance in the Super Bowl, has you either more confident,
less confident, or no opinion about what to see from
the Texans next year? Fifty one percent of you are
more confident, seventy percent of you are less confident, and

(01:50:56):
no opinion thirty two percent I'm a I'm of the
no opinion. I don't know. I'm watching two plays, two teams.
Play makes me think about the Texans being any closer,
any further away? Well you should. She's clearly beat the
Texans and then they got absolutely mauled and destroyed by
the Eagles. But everything could change for now further and
further away. Matt, by the way, is feeling good ESPN's

(01:51:19):
postseason rankings for next going in the next year had
the Texans finishing or have them as number eleven in
their power rankings? Why are you still in my material
for Sorry, I'm sorry, ladyship. My present to you mos Yeah,
and the NFL rewind Well, Matt, First we will talk
about the Super Bowl numbers coming out for the viewership. Now,
of course we do have to remember that this also

(01:51:41):
adds in streaming numbers, but it's still record average one
hundred and twenty six million US viewers. This is a
gut feeling hit for you. Met game televised by Fox, Fox, Deportis,
Telemundo and streamed on to b as well as the
NFL digital platforms. The record one and twenty six million viewers. Now,

(01:52:07):
there is a rating that is associated with it that
that streaming services do not gather, meaning a certain each number,
each group of thousands of people equals a rating point.
Do you know what the rating was on the Super Bowl?

Speaker 8 (01:52:22):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
I was as you were talking. I was trying to
pull it up on Wikipedia and it looks like those
numbers are not available as of yet. I want to
ask a question for go back three one okay, if
you did not watch the super Bowl at all? Okay, yeah,
just to anybody listen to their audience. You can give

(01:52:43):
us an answer on the phones at seven one three
two one two five seven ninety or on Twitter. If
you did not watch super Bowl at all? What did
you watch or did you go did you go out
and dow something else? What was your activity besides because
think about Sunday night is a night. I mean very

(01:53:05):
few people go out on a Sunday night. It's five thirty. Yeah,
just day drunks. You're which you're getting ready for the
next day of work. Did you read a book? Did
you get on the internet. Did you watch a movie? Probably?
Did you binge watch a series? If you did not
watch the super Bowl? And maybe this is not necessarily
for you, but maybe your maybe your spouse is not

(01:53:26):
a sports fan. What did your spouse watch if she
didn't watch the super Bowl with you? Seven one three,
two one two five seven on eight, Because again, the
super Bowl is one of those rare events that even
the novice, even the basic basic sports fan is going
to watch because of more of the company. Like my
daughter is seventeen years old. She does not like the NFL.

(01:53:48):
She doesn't care about it. She couldn't name five players
if you paid her to. Huh. She went to the
super Bowl party and she wore at Pat Mahomes, Jersey
because her friends were hanging out watching the game. Well,
she locked in. They only showed Taylor like once, I think, yeah,
much to her dismay. You think so Taylor was upset?
You think she recorded and was disappointed to here she
was only on once? Probably I don't think so. All right,
So again, if your spouse did not watch the game,
what did they watch? Seven one three two seven eighty

(01:54:10):
back to your rewind Well, Matt, Uh. The super Bowl
averaged one hundred and twenty six million viewers. The halftime
show broke the record with most viewers ever with one
hundred and thirty three and a half million years so
seven a half million viewers according to this research survey.
Uh huh, flip the game on, but weren't watching it beforehand? Well,

(01:54:32):
it's six with the average. Oh so probably the second
half everything went down because there were people, I think
they said one point three million people tuned out after
the halftime show, and then once the King was a
complete blowout, probably there was a lot lower viewership. So
they probably could have smashed the record even more if
it were a competitive game, which it was.

Speaker 9 (01:54:51):
Not.

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
All right, Matt, you brought up the ESPN Power rankings.
I was going to bring to the table the early
athletic power rankings. Of course they have the Eagles and
Chiefs number one and number two. Matt, who do you
think they have a number three Detroit Lions but full
of bills over the Lions? Number three? Then the Lions,
then the Ravens, Commanders, Rams, Vikings, Packers, Texans in your

(01:55:17):
top ten with the new offensive coordinators and one of
those goofballs that have failed radio careers on their YouTube
show is going to talk about if they're the eleventh
best team going in next year, the tenth, tenth? What
do you mean they're gonna talk about breaking down the
offense and defense and not taking their great sponsors, not
going to the super Bowl again. It could happen, court Ross,

(01:55:38):
I got terrible news. I made the prediction five years ago,
and I feel great about it. What the Texans aren't
going to the super Bowl ever, that's stop. They're gonna
go to the super Bowl at some point. That's what
Lions fans have been saying. Yeah, they got close, they
got all those injuries. Lions would have gone. Lions are
better at their best, better than the Eagles. But it

(01:55:59):
was I don't disagree, but they But injuries are part
of the biz. Absolutely, attendance is part of the grade.
I understand, Matt. All right, thank you, All right, let's
keep moving. Here's here's the thing. Here's why my statement
doesn't hold any weight anymore. You're reason God's on the screens. Why.
Because they have made the right decisions. When I said
McNair's were never going to leave the Texans super Bowl

(01:56:20):
was because they had horrific management and a horrific set
of coaches. Yeah, you were wrong to do so. No,
I was right to do so. I'm just telling you
now the right coaches in place, I'm not still No,
you got a mid general manager. You just do who
failed to address the offensive line even at the trade deadline.
When they make the Super Bowl, you got to get
a Texans tattoo. No, it's part of the Yeah. No,

(01:56:41):
I'll be I'll be a Texas you know what, I'll
change my Twiver account. You said you'll be a Texans fan. Yeah,
well when they might not. But I've had enough to
spare my life. I don't need it until they help
me make me happy, all right man. We mentioned yesterday
on the News at noon Aaron Rodgers not going to
be a New York Jet. The odds are out via
DraftKings sportsbook. Where is his next landing spot? Cared to

(01:57:04):
venture guests throw a dart at the board as some
of the possible landing spots can I Aaron Rodgers next season,
I'm gonna give you five teams and I'm going and
you I have to hit three of the top five.
Is that fair? Sure? Why not? Okay? Saints not in
the top five? Tadding us, so I'm for one. That's okay.

(01:57:26):
It's a good guest, though, Oh is this the backup
urs a starter? I would say judging by these landing spots,
it's starterer. Okay, short term Seahawks. Not there. No, damn,
they're sticking with Gino. All right, strike two, I get
one more strike because I was gonna get you three

(01:57:48):
of the five. I might go Miami. No, all right,
what I what I miss? Steelers first at plus two hundred, huh,
Okay if you don't have one, If you have one,
you have two quarterbacks with three, you've got none. I
think should be way ahead to me. This should be
the top landing spot. Las Vegas Raiders number two. Oh, okay,

(01:58:08):
with Pete, with Pete Carroll sure forty nine Ers number three.
He I mean he's from that area. Yeah, but bright
they have not locked up Brock pretty yet. Right, I
have none. I don't think. All right, I got you.
Then the Vikings, which would make sense if they get
moved on from Sam Darnold back somebody for JJ McCarthy
insurance policy with his Achilles issue. Okay, Colts, Rams, Titans, Giants, Browns,

(01:58:34):
the Browns. But you're gonna go what do you go
on the Browns for? You're gonna what? He had finished
his career four twelve from the Philip Rivers to Matt Ryan.
Wasn't there another veteran Carson wins in there somewhere, Joe Flacco,
Joe Flacco, Chris Ballard loves the one year deal old quarterbacks.
Maybe Bard better win or his asses out, that's true.

(01:58:55):
Uh yeah, Rams doesn't make sense. Titans Giants, I guess
I could see. Okay, but there you go at landing
spots possibly for one Aaron Rodgers. And another piece of
news in the NFL rumor mill coming out, Matt T.
Higgins oh oh Goya says he would love to stay

(01:59:17):
with the Bengals, but but it is not in his
hands right now. He told the Fox nineteen and Cincinnati,
I've got to do what I need to do. If
that's go to another team, then that's what happens. Are
the Texans going to spend big money on me? Higgins
only twenty six years old, he's can you get him?

(01:59:42):
Do the Texans have money for him? I don't think
they have a ton of cavspace now, but you can
do some. I think there's a lot of players that
can reachtructure their contracts to make some breathing room. Okay, then,
as you mentioned, Matt Kellen Moore going to be hired
as the head coach of the New Orleans Saints. How

(02:00:05):
are we feeling? Thirty six years old? If I would
have told you two years ago that Kella Moore was
a head coach of the New Orleans Saints, people would
be like, what he he reinvigorated his career by going
to Philadelphia? Yes, he did in Saquon Party. Certainly he's
a lot of offensive coordinator with the Cowboys, Chargers, then Eagles.
Now at just thirty six years old, the head coach

(02:00:27):
of the New Orleans Saints. That's fine, Kellen Moore. I mean,
what are the Saints expecting? They've got no quarterback? What
are they? What is the best thing the Saints arry caphell?
They had? They're they're like fifty million over the cap.
They have draft picks at least maybe I don't know.
These are looking pretty down over them. Get a Gordy
Saints update. And I didn't even realize this. One more thing,

(02:00:48):
Deebo samuel A requested a trade from the Niners. You
had another veteran receiver maybe out there for someoney team
to take the needs one. I like Deebo when he's healthy.
You know what the Texas needed receiver?

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
Can you go?

Speaker 2 (02:01:01):
You got feeling steph On digs. Can you go get
in the first round and be good, young, cheaper, not
injury issues. Matthew Golden has thought of as the wide
receiver one on most people's pick. Why he didn't like Houston?
What do you mean he didn't not necessarily like Houston.

(02:01:21):
He just got paid off. Why are you all bitter
about it? He went to go play in the playoff.
It's fine, up set? Uh, duke it in that with Rice?
Just stay Why stay true to your commitments? Well, it
sounds like he's probably not upset. He's projected to be
a first round pick number twenty seven on Dane Brugler's

(02:01:43):
big board. Okay, Matthew Golden, or do you take the
better alignment or better ques? Be around? One of the
Texans are picking? Just saying, oh, actually he has I'm sorry.
A Mecca Buka, Ohio state wide receiver is ahead of
Matthew Golden, at least on Dane Brugley's board. I like him.
It's usually one too. Yeah, I came too. Yeah, alide
receiver round one. Texans go for it. Need some speed,

(02:02:05):
need to strutch to feel a little bit nail and
Tom Ball on seven on a neil What was your
wife doing during the Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (02:02:13):
My wife my daughter had to go out to Brindham
for the day, so they weren't watching it, and I
honestly had no desire to watch Ksey, So me and
my son went over to the gym and went rock
climbing for a couple hours.

Speaker 2 (02:02:24):
You went rock climbing? Yeah, how interesting is that? Was
it busy?

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (02:02:30):
It actually was.

Speaker 8 (02:02:31):
Pretty busy because there's there's there's two of this this
location and the other one was having a big kind
of nationwide competition, so everybody over there was they all
come over to the the spring version.

Speaker 2 (02:02:43):
So, oh, you're right off I forty five, right near
the woodlands. Is that correct?

Speaker 8 (02:02:47):
That's that's where that one is. It's like right at
Lua and forty five.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Huh yep. So you went there. Did you think there
would be a crowd of people there or did you go, Hey,
let's go on this Sunday during the game and nobody
will be there. We'll have as much fun as we
warrant to.

Speaker 8 (02:03:00):
I thought it was gonna be a little a little
less busy than it was, and uh, yeah, it was
a pretty packed actually.

Speaker 2 (02:03:05):
So your wife and daughter went to Brenham and you
went rock climbing with your son, yes, and you had
did you keep tabs of the game at all on
your phone?

Speaker 8 (02:03:14):
About late in the game, I just kind of pulled
it up and checked in and just saw that it
was a blowout and then just forgot about it. So
that was pretty much it. Wow, Okay, and I watched, Yeah,
I watched every Texans game throughout the season and some
of the other games, but it just I just did
not care at all about either of these teams.

Speaker 2 (02:03:32):
So yeah, I mean that's that's part of it. Thank
you for the phone call.

Speaker 10 (02:03:35):
I am.

Speaker 2 (02:03:37):
First of all, I appreciate the honesty. As I told you, Ross,
even though I had a little bit of fatigue on
the Kansas City side, I was gonna watch the game. Yeah.
If it was some two random teams like I don't know,
the Cardinals and the Dolphins, I would have watched. It's
the one event that you think everybody watched it except
Neil was See. The question is I want to what

(02:03:58):
the share is meaning? The share isn't percentage of televisions
that were turned on. In some for instance, of a
share is percentages. So if a share of a particular
television show is fifty seven. That means fifty seven percent
of television's watching What were the other forty three percent
watching Puppy Bowl? Now A nil's wark channel. He's not

(02:04:20):
part of the share because he just admitted he was
not watching television at the time. You've love this Puppy Bowl,
but you brought this up multiple times today you pro
puppy Bowl. Sure, I haven't seen it years and not
me either. I should have got it going on the
second TV. What's the best halftime we've ever didn't Beavis
and butt Head to have a halftime one year? I
think so? Whether you were supposed to slip flip over

(02:04:42):
to MTV over the halftime, right, Nobody tells people to
do that anymore. They're like, you know what, the halftime
act is so popular now or was or still is?
Who knows? Stay for that. Yeah, I would not be
a channel flipper because, especially because the NFL has puts
so much money in time behind the halftime. Whatever it's
going to be the next year is going to probably
a huge theatrical production as the last handful of Ben

(02:05:05):
my personal preference, i'd bring back all the rockers of
the seventies. I think you should get but Brooks and
done no rockers and said they stopped the reason they
stopped doing that after Now after you may give me
Bob Seeker, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Uh, give me the
put five or six great bands in one seventy plus
love it. I'm sure I don't you know what? You're

(02:05:28):
also not the target demo? Yep. After the Who was
so old and terrible? So they switched to a lot
of the old rock acts, win the whole. Uh justin
Timberlake slash what's her name Janet Jackson thing? Hey, yeah, yeah,
Then they went to the rock acts and then Who
was so terrible? They kind of switched back to more contents.

(02:05:49):
You know what, I need to put a lake gut
feeling in real quick. You ready, Yes, I'm gonna write
this down in the gut feeling. I remember I brought
up and need to bring back country. That was an
opinion of rock and roll. I'm gonna make this now
gut feeling. I got Clay Walker. That's it's gonna be
a country western performer. Okay, maybe jelly maybe Jelly roll
takes care of country Western. He's a little bit of

(02:06:10):
both country rock. He's a little bit of a country
and he's a little bit of rock and roll. He's
also he's also a Mandrell sister. Once he once once
once he got a sex change. Now he's not a
longer Mandrew sister. That's over the head of ninety eight
for some of the population. All Right, we write this down.
You're saying country act. I'm saying it's gonna be a
country act next year. I'll take the field. That's wrong,

(02:06:32):
going on a limb there, twelve forty eight. Sports Talk
seven seven, one, three five seven.

Speaker 10 (02:06:37):
Untie's Fun, Sports Talk seven ninety your rockets, your astros,
your voice.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
I did something dirty to Connerdy and I apologize. I
just have to see in the four you, tab A
and m Basketball Radio was filming themselves calling them winning
basket against Missouri over the weekend, Wade tedlor Or the
fourth with a big game winner, and I sent it
to him. You did just to you know, say sorry
if you're loss, and he started recording. I guess you
that we're gonna play on the show. And see he's

(02:07:17):
out here being a good producer and you're just twisting knives. Matt.
If I wanted you to record, I want yeah, That's
why I was a little confused. So I like went
to Twitter, looked up to Texas A and M basketball
look at it to start recording. And I didn't even
look at it until after the end. I was like, oh,
that's a big buzzer beater. Yeah, so that was no. No,

(02:07:37):
it was effective. It worked. Yeah, I troll because I care.
That was good. I think busting of balls in college
athletics is what you're supposed to do. I really enjoyed that.
I don't believe it for a second. And I guarantee you,
when I ask you to play a song when the
Cougar's hit the Cougars lose at some point in the tournament,
you'll becked and loaded to play those highlights. Whether I
did what I just did or not. Can I kind

(02:07:59):
of hope for it and dream for it. I'd be
sad just because you'd be so happy. Actually, you're a
really good Cougars fan. But I just always get to
I always get to make my snide remarks about them
being a basketball school and never winning a championship, and
I'll just never be able to say that again. They
are a basketball school, though Calvin Sampsons running great program,

(02:08:22):
and to me, in my mind, they're a number one seed.
I hope you're right man RV's bracketology. I got him
as a one. Yeah. You know, I respect you way
more than I do Joel Narnie.

Speaker 10 (02:08:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (02:08:33):
Yeah. And it's funny because I've also got the longhornses
a three seed. I think I'm gonna try to get
coach on tomorrow. I think is a plant maybe, Oh
wonderful seeing do that. I gotta work on that now.
But but point being, is it we talked about this
very early in the show. It's College Franklin. College football
doesn't like I can't get an aggie to cross over

(02:08:55):
and get into a deep dive of a Texas football game.
Mm hmm. So if I can't get that done in football,
why would I expect anybody in basketball who wasn't a
fan of University Houston to come over to the dark side. Now,
the TV stations in town, they run all over, they
chase the team all across the country and we're live.

(02:09:16):
We'll get the fan on the street and we're outside
this bar. And I mean I saw that firsthand. That's great,
But they're doing it because they're looking to film material.
For their five, six, and ten. They're not doing it
because they've they've been following the Cougars all year long.
What do you mean people love the cooks. People love
the Cougar fans love the cooks. I don't know if
the average Joe loves the cooks. I probably not. I mean,

(02:09:43):
I unfortunately have said this a few times. I think
we're one of the five worst college basketball major cities
in the country and comes of interest, and a lot
of it was because the Cougars weren't any good. Now
the Cougars have. You're trying to carry your one school's
trying to carry an entire region of you know, six
million people. I got to a quit for you. If
the Cougars win it all. Yeah, does Calvin retire? I

(02:10:13):
would say no. I would say he'd go Dusty Baker
if I get one. I want to. I think he's
just so ingrained in his DNA to let me tell
you he was born to coach. He was born to coach.
He's I think he's sixty six. I think he lives
for it. I think that all of a sudden, when
coaches at that age feel good about it about their

(02:10:33):
lives and get up and exercise and eb somewhere to go.
I don't I don't send any fatigue in him. But
as I say that, though, Ross, he's got his son there,
his daughter works there. He's got a he has a
contract that he will start taking once he retires as

(02:10:56):
a consultant to the University of Houston basketball. It's the
last contract I saw it his. So it wouldn't like
he'd be going away and hiding. He's got plenty of money.
So the money that he would want to give to
his kids and his grandkids. Frankly, his son would inherit
because he's the he's the coach in waiting winning the
championship and then calling it a career. You know, honestly,

(02:11:21):
I would say no. Because the recruiting class, and again
this is all into one person or two people's opinions.
He's got a top ten recruiting class in the nation
coming back the number two. I mean, it's something ridiculously high.
So when you want to see that kind of play itself,
I finally catching and cutting the checks over there. Money
by way, I still hate an im. I'm not going

(02:11:41):
to change your mind about that. They got three five
star commits. What the heck, yeah, wow, straight cash homeie
mm hmm, you mean a great I mean we can
be naiven stupid and say it's because of the excellent
academics and the great facilities what they do have. I mean,
basketball has been well taken care of them. They travel

(02:12:02):
well and eat well. From Missouri, Utah and then two
from Texas. Yeah, we're paying them. We gotta be paying
I'm sure. I mean, seriously, if you're a top ross,
if you're a top one hundred athlete, if you're not
getting paid, you're not doing it right right basically at
this point, Yeah, let's go get your money and in
some cases get lots of money. Yeah, Like, isn't that

(02:12:22):
the number one recruit in the country going to b
YU next year or something like that. I think so
they say like ten million dollars something same amount of money.
I mean, you know, Duke's got four or five star
crew recruits. Cameron Boozer, that's uh, yeah, they got there.
He's got twins. Are they both going there or just
want Cameron and Kaden? Yeah, one is significantly better than

(02:12:43):
the other. One six foot nine and one six y four.
They're twins. Yeah. Man, you imagine being the six four
twin six ' four chop lever though, Yeah, but when
your twin brothers six foot nine. Oh he's been made
and a five star and what is what's the six
to four? The Cameron Boozer is the number one overall
I'm sorry, thirty and number three recruit and nationally Cayden

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is twenty fourth, So not that far off. But there's
probably some brotherly jealousy. Like a Sar and a Mend.
Do you think they fought a lot when they were kids?
Aren't they about the same height? About the same height.
A Sar is a little heavier, but Amend's a little
more versatile and was drafted one pick, one pick ahead

(02:13:25):
of him. Oh you take that, You take that to
the bank. Oh, you bring that up at his funeral
with the Graham you know, when the when the family
reunion in twenty forty six. Oh, you wouldn't believe this.
When we played in the league, who was drafted first, Grandpap, Granddad?
That was me? Yep, absolutely all right. Let's get to
the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
Believe it or not. Today Ross is all things about
the world champion Philadelphi Eagles, right, yes, okay seven one

(02:13:49):
three two one two five seven, Hontie, we have a
Bregmant update. Is it organic or are we completely making
it up? One o'clock on seven hunty.

Speaker 1 (02:14:01):
Lunchtimers, This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 2 (02:14:06):
What five on Sports Talk seven ninety It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We have one hour left
to go seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
If you want to chime in, we have believe it
or not today coming up in about forty five minutes. Today.

Speaker 4 (02:14:23):
We have.

Speaker 2 (02:14:25):
Nothing in terms of nightly sporting events that around here
that make any big difference. Right, Rockets don't play till tomorrow.
By the way, everybody practice today except Jabari Smith. And
this is according to uh uh Danielle Lerner, who covers
the Rockets for the Chronicles. She was wonderful. Does that
mean Freddy Vee was out there for a little bit?
Sounds so I like that a lot, although he's not

(02:14:45):
expected back till after the al There's two more games, yeah,
so give him two more games, get him out there practicing. Yes,
I don't expect Alpi to play both games. Maybe Uh,
depends on he was out there practicing, so it's just
how it feels when he gets up. I mean, what
was it? What do he have? Like A he had
a hip spasm, lumbar where's the lumbar? Hip back? Lower back?

(02:15:08):
Luwer back. That's got to be a painful, It's not fun.
He was holding his lower back, went to the locker room,
never came out. I mean he was struggling just to
run to half court after he suffered the injury. Yeah. So, uh,
they'll be back in action tomorrow against Phoenix again. If
you're going to the game, it's this half hour starting.
Letting you know, I'll say the same thing. Start seven o'clock.
Time for be a nice full crowd, hopefully before tip time. Yeah,

(02:15:30):
don't tell anybody, Matt. By the way, did you see
what Kevin Durant said about there was a report by
Ramona Shelburne of ESPN about how the locker room with
the Phoenix Suns was toxic. Yes, and I am going
to Uh, I'm gonna have to paraphrase. I don't know
the exact tweet. Oh did Kevin Kevin Durant, Well, he no,

(02:15:53):
he was he didn't do it. Burner accounted into his
own account. No, yeah, he doesn't. He doesn't do burners anymore.
He got caught. He's smart, he's learned his lesson. So
apparently he heard about Ramona Shelburn said and said, well,
that first of all is bogus, because Ramona Cholburn is
never around our team. Secondly, if she was there, she

(02:16:15):
came in during the media ability availability prior to the
start of the game. And now the NBA has this
really dumb rule where you can you open up your
locker room forty five to fifty minutes before the game
for like a half an hour. I have never in
my entire life gone in there ever. Before the game.
The guys are completely tuned in. They're getting their bodies ready,

(02:16:38):
they're getting their minds right, they're thinking about the opponent.
Maybe they're eating, maybe they're closing their eyes for a
few minutes. It's not a great opportunity to have a
thoughtful conversation with the NBA player. Players will talk to
you after practice. Players will talk to you after shoot arounds,
which is the game day practice, you know, several hours
before tiptime, and they will talk to you as to
a certain extent when the game is over. But that
pregame meeting availability, you're doing it just to make sure.

(02:17:02):
But I guess everybody shows up and is in there,
but there's never anything done. So apparently that's when Ramona
Schomburn walked in and saw that the Phoenix Suns weren't
singing Kumbaya together, so she pulled a John Hayman. She
pulled a one hre percent John Hayman, and Kevin Durant
called her on on it. Wow. And I don't always
agree with Kevin Durant on some of the things he
has said, because I do believe he has quite a

(02:17:24):
bit of a fragile ego. I love Kevin Durant. He
wears his heart on his sleeve. Ah, he's a little
thin skinned. Well yeah, it happens. Probably should be thicker
for a guy. It's all that he's accomplished, but that's
not the point in this particular case. I completely agree
with him. If if you, first of all, if you're
a reporter and you want to be a reporter slash

(02:17:46):
expert slash insider, you got to go to more than
just a RANDO forty five minute media availability before a game,
and consider yourself an expert. You have to go to
a practice, you have to at least try to at
some point build a relationship with those play And then
if you go multiple times during a short period of
time and everybody's cranking, everybody's not getting along, and people
aren't talking, then it feels like it's a better way

(02:18:07):
to assess the overall temperature of a particular locker room.
This could be in all the sports. But she apparently
went in once because he even said, I haven't seen
her once or four or four or five months. He
called her out. Yeah, is that what her report said?
What about being in the locker room or did her
maybe from sources? I don't know what A player could
have said that the locker room and talks score a
coach or a staffer or whatever. Right, that's true. I

(02:18:30):
didn't see the initial report. The interpretation I got was
she said, from what I've seen, and I'm not trying
to put words in her mouth, but she's I think
she's saying, from what I've seen and heard, there's a
lot of tension in that locker room, and it probably
has a lot of tension in that locker room. They're
under they're playing five hundred basketball. They have two of
the twenty five biggest stars in the NBA right now
with Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. They should be better,

(02:18:53):
no it fans or butts, but they're not. But they're not.
They're five hunder a basketball team, hopeull They're gonna be
under when the Rockets beat them tonight tomorrow night. Let's go.
I like that. But my point is I had I
have to rants back on this because unfortunately, in the
world of media, and we have got a lot of
that here, we have a lot of people in this
town that think they're insiders and they're not. And when

(02:19:14):
I hear that kind of stuff about whether it's the
Rockets or any of the teams that I happen to cover,
I go, I didn't see you here. I didn't see
you to hear. So that'side. The whole Hayman thing a
couple of years ago still irritates me because we saw
that first hand. Ross. Yeah, saw him dip in, dip out,
and he all of a sudden called everything. It was
a it was a very surly smiling nobody's smiling. Of course,
they're not smiling at seven fifteen in the morning, they're

(02:19:35):
putting their clothes on. They don't. Nobody wants to smile
at seven fifteen, so ridiculous, But nobody checks him on that.
And Kevin Durant checked Ramona Shelburn, good for him. Yeah,
there was some kind of checking at John Hayman a
little bit, but it was more people beating around the bush,
or maybe career or somebody said something though I can't remember. Yeah,

(02:19:58):
I remember Brian mctagger put pictures of players smiling and like, oh,
look I see some smiles. Yeah. I mean, the reality
is this, y'all are smart enough to realize who to
trust in this town. In the memory phrase, I want
I want you to be smarter. If you, if you,
if you're a Texans fan, John Alexander with the team

(02:20:18):
every single day, that's all I really know. There could
be others, but that's all I want to.

Speaker 9 (02:20:25):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:20:26):
Aaron Wilson, Aaron's around the team all the time. Those
two dudes. I don't really know him, but I don't really,
I don't question. It's about being there every day. I
think he's there. I don't know, Okay, so I don't
know that a practice. I never met the guy, so
I don't know what he looks like or talk. I
never heard him. Okay, baseball, it's McTaggart, it's Channel Rome
and the Chronicle guy who I don't really know at all,

(02:20:46):
uh Kawahara. Yeah, I like Matt. He's a nice guy. Yeah,
I don't really know. Quiet, yeah, real quiet. But he's there.
Good writer's daniell Lerner is there every single day for
the Rockets. You know, fake retired, so Janelle took over
the beat. She said, every single day. So I mean
that pretty much nails of who you need to follow.

(02:21:06):
These othern't wannabes. They're doing it because they're trying to
get their own fame and fortune covering the Texans. I guess, okay,
just be I would just say this, be selective of
who you trust. Thank you, Matt and Ramona Shelburne off
the trustless, is what you're saying. Yeah, I think so.

(02:21:30):
I think she's too busy being best friends with Jeanie Bus.
That's the word on the streets, okay, that she's never
going to take any sort of jabs of the Lakers
because she has a friendship with Jeanie Bus. And by
the way, I heard this other day you know, dani
or Lobsky may be leaving ESPN to go where either
another broadcasting job or to go coach. Okay, I think

(02:21:53):
he does a good job.

Speaker 8 (02:21:54):
I like him.

Speaker 2 (02:21:55):
Guest of the show, the end of the How was
he good with you? Guys? This is great promise. He's overworked.
He's on every show. Yeah, when he's on baseball time,
I'm like, give Dan a break. What is on NASCAR
this week? Give Dan a break? NHL the night. Seriously,
I don't if I Dan's he said the other day,
I'm taking a break for a long time. Good for you.

(02:22:16):
Go away. He needs some time away. His family probably
hadn't seen him in mine now. I mean, the whole
network is basically four people. Kendrick Perkins, Ryan Clark, dani
or Lovski and Steven A. Everybody else. I see like
once or twice. Those guys are on every good show everything.
Who Cam Newton, he's getting there up there. Mike Greenberg, Well,
Greenberg's the guy green seven one three two one two.

(02:22:43):
You should be. I've decided, with it being the new year,
I'm gonna keep a little more tight lipped. You believe me,
you should? You should seven one three two one, two,
five seven nine. If you want to chime me at
seven one three two, one two five seven on eighty
the Astros have been kicked off one list. I'll tell
you what list is next. It's one fourteen on Sports

(02:23:05):
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (02:23:07):
More Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now on Sports Talk
seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:23:15):
Real Quick. Buster Only has said that it's down of
three teams for the Alex Bregman sweepstakes? Or is it
really Alex Bregman signing. I wouldn't call a sweepstakes because
you're battling for that, right, Maybe it's three offers. A
sitting right in front of Bregman and Scott Boris and
are like, all right, which one do you want? Let's
just do it like a round, like a shell game round. Ron,
What are they waiting for? Yeah, it's uh, it's the

(02:23:36):
Red Sox, It's the Cubs and the Tigers. The Astros, apparently,
cording to Buster Only, had been kicked off of that list.
Really well. Jeff Pass in his free agent update today,
Oh I like this, Yes, still listed the Astros and
did you mention, okay, who are the three teams you had? Cubs,
Red Sox, Tigers? Okay, he also still mentioned the Blue Jays. Hmm,

(02:23:57):
so maybe it's just who dependent who's given you. I
don't think either one of them are guessing. I think
there's probably different camps giving up different parts of information.
I think goes on to mention good reasons why none
of these teams would do it. So what are we
waiting for? I'm sticking with my gut feeling recent most
recent gud fear saying one short term with an opt

(02:24:17):
out after one year, Yes, which is always the way
that it would go under a long term deal. Yeah.
And by the way, again, I know there is fatigue
on this. I guess it's we're gonna move on. But
it does not overshadow the awesomeness that that Alex Bringan
brought to the city for a long period of time.
So no matter how weird this has gotten, and how

(02:24:42):
much maybe somebody has overvalued his worth or maybe the
agents overvalued his client's worth, it doesn't It doesn't diminish
what he brought to this franchise as being the greatest
third baseman ever to play for this team. Will be
a surefire Astros Hall of Honor, Hall of Hall of Famer.
I'll give them the orange jacket. He'll get the orange jacket.
Classes have been getting a little lean. They better slow

(02:25:03):
down pretty soon. I'll be getting in there. I think
you and Junction Jack are gonna be in trying together.
I believe so. Yes, vern Rules is being brought up
as a possibility. No disrespect to Verne, but it seems
like a little disrespect all right. Speaking of fatigue, Uh,
hopefully and not tire of the show. We want you
here every day for four hours. I'm not. I'm feeling

(02:25:24):
great in feeling a line. Oh you look amazing, Thank
you very much. Seven one three two one two five,
seven ninety. There will be a on court EMC for
the All Star Game NBA All Star Game on court
EMC like during the whole game, yep, Like the and
one Mixtape tour. I don't know what that means, but

(02:25:45):
context tells me yes. Okay, So it was a guy.
So when the and one Mixtape was happening, there was
a guy on the floor going, oh a yo, the professor,
Oh my goodness, half man, half amazing. So every time
there was a playmate, they would screen we're gonna get
Connor involved in this. We're gonna do a back and
forth of you guys, and you're gonna have to figure

(02:26:05):
out who it is. Don't look at Twitter, by the way,
for the next week on court, Kendrick lamar. Okay, So
you get to ask me questions and after each question
I'll give you the answer. It was like twenty questions,
sort of like yes, sir, let's do this, and I
want to see if you guys can figure out ice cube. Uh,
don't know. Don't name the person, just get questions, and
then after you ask a question, you can then give
a name. So is this per okay? So Ross? Since

(02:26:27):
Connor is a hardworking of the three of us, Connor,
you can get the first question or you can give
it to Ross. What do you want to do? I'm
gonna take the first question. What is your question? Please?
Is this person a comedian? Yes? Oh, so give the answer.
Then your answer is Kevin Hart. You must have saw
it on Twitter. No, I swear I did it. Oh
my god, I got it right.

Speaker 4 (02:26:45):
Once you say comedian, my first thought was Kevin Hart.
For sure, it's too easy. He's a He's been in
all the celebrity All Star Games.

Speaker 2 (02:26:52):
He doesn't say no to anything. Yeah, you gotta have
a nice net Worth. He's been in like fifty seven
movies where he always the same character. I was hoping
this bit was going to go to the bottom of
the hour at least. Now I'll say this, Kevin Hart
was really funny at the Tom Brady Roast. Frankly, everybody
was funny except for who was The afflic was horrific.

(02:27:18):
But I've never seen a Kevin Hart movie. I don't
seen soul playing. No, I don't really I've never seen
one of his stand up acts. I've just seen him
as roast and and just basically never turning down. He
was in the four year old version. You saw that, right,
I did see that. What did he play? He was
the guy arguing with the uh, the other black guy
in the in the video store. Okay, that's He's nice

(02:27:41):
for a discount. It's been a long time point being
is this in the category? If I just don't get it.
I don't get Kevin Hart. You don't get it. He's funny.
Have you ever seen any of a stand up No,
it's solid. But I thought I thought it was really
funny at The Brady Roast. So I'm not saying that

(02:28:02):
I'm completely anti him, but it's just like that's what
they went for. The I hate to say this, the
low hanging fruit. Oh you're making short jokes as he
hasn't heard it. Yeah, is in the Jumanji movies. I
think I'll watched the first one. He's doing quite well
for himself. Celebrity net worth, Matt guess, Oh, it's what's

(02:28:24):
my range here? Zero to a billion? That's not a range.
Give me what's my plus money? I mean he's been
in a bunch of million. I'll give you within thirty
million dollars. Oh, my god. I means he's really rich.
Careers start to win. I don't know, last twelve years. Yeah,
Cavin Hart is worth one hundred and sixty four million
dollars four hundred and fifty million dollars. My god, says

(02:28:48):
celebrity networth. What's his height? I don't I know what
was he? How? Two? V sized five to four? This
says is uh, it's a cure subject of curiosity. Sources
listening anywhere between five two and five five. Okay, so
let's put him at five to four. He has said
that I'm five to five with a shoe on like that.

(02:29:09):
When you say that, that means you're not really that
which you are probably five to four shoe adds about it.
So ross, if I gave you four hundred and fifty
million dollars and added to your net worth, you'd have
to drop an entire foot. Let's do it that to
me too? Short King's mount up. Let me my guess
he's not. He's not hurting for anything in his life,

(02:29:31):
despite doing all right, despite the small stature. So a
guy who doesn't turn down any television show or movie
or special or comedy act or anything he can get
you nearly five hundred million dollars. I mean, I think
he's pretty funny. I just don't think he's like all
time funny. He's a naturally funny guy. Yeah, I mean

(02:29:52):
I looked at him and thought he's got a good line.
But do I want to hear two hours of him?
Probably not. That feels like a little ex Do you
think that would turn the microphones should do?

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:30:01):
They should do like maybe two people or one guy,
maybe four people for a quarter each, or how about
let Kevin Harlan do it like he's supposed.

Speaker 4 (02:30:08):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (02:30:08):
We aren't they doing so? Aren't they doing? Splitting into
three or four teams and they're going to play each other.
How many three team? Why is there only three? They're
doing round robins, I guess. And like the team that
outbranching donas On has four centers on it and Nicolaoki
is one of them. They're going megal large Well, Charles
Barkley found that team. Okay, it's this Sunday. I'm in

(02:30:31):
the air. I'm in the air. No, I'm actually watching volleyball.
I'm not gonna watch it. Okay, are you Okay? If
it's on and I remember it's on, I'll check it out.
I don't care. Yeah, I think if I was the
national sports president, you know, of the sports, I would
get rid of all all star games. They just do it.
They they they're all They're all making money. They're all
tied into bonuses for these players. All television networks. I've

(02:30:55):
got sponsors. Hell, that damn Tug of War had forty
thousand people. I guess I don't for that. See people
love it. Maybe you know I don't. I think. No,
I'm in the minority. I get I get it. No,
you're in the majority. Most people did not watch the
Pro Bowl games. I didn't even watch it or I'm
meant too. Yeah, I forgot what I like. I said
when I was when I got to the hotel and

(02:31:16):
it said coming up next after this flag football game,
tugle war. I'm thinking you're playing sevent You're playing your
ass off for seventeen weeks for the chance to go
to Orlando. It'll be in a tug of war. The
accomplishment didn't fit the reward. They got to stop that
tugle war. Somebody's gonna get hurt. You ever done tugle war? Yeah?
In third grade. Yeah, I don't think I've tuged a

(02:31:37):
war domince in forty two years, forty three, forty four years.

Speaker 8 (02:31:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
It was a little red rover, a little four square.
And then let me ask you this on the tug
of war battle, Yes, you want to be on the
back end or the front end. I think you want
your strongest in the back. But who has to do
the less amount of work? That's where I want to go,
Probably the middle. You just fake it, Yeah, because if
you're in the front and you slide into the whatever
the slop is, you're gonna be embarrassed. Yeah, you're gonna
be the You don't wanna be the first one out.
You're gonna lose them. The tug of war?

Speaker 4 (02:32:06):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (02:32:06):
Get in the middle, feign interest the Matt Thomas Show
ten to two. I'm serious. When was the last time
you tugged of war? I don't know. I don't want
to hear about anything in tugging with you seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two, one
two five seventy those is a lost art. I mean,

(02:32:28):
you have grown ass men making thirty million dollars a
year in a tug of war in Orlando, in the
middle of a pack stadium. Yeah, they're all having a
good time. Why are you so angry about it? I'm
angry about it. Just seems like you are, I mean,
a little irritated. Seven one three two one two five
seven one twenty nine. We got believe it or not
coming up in twenty minutes here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (02:32:46):
Lunchtimers, Lunch Timers, It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:33:04):
Apparently my friends are quite amused by the green light
offer being available to you. We don't know that guy,
but he's a great advertiser of Sports Talk seven ninety
and We love him, are we not?

Speaker 8 (02:33:15):
Ross?

Speaker 2 (02:33:15):
We love the green Light Order, love it. Can't get
enough of him. We can one day, when it's all
said down on our careers are done, Ross, we can
do a commercial off. We can like do a bracket
for the best commercial ever or worse short list cars
for kids? Mm hmmm, mister Marril's doing getting quarter run lately.

(02:33:36):
I know my favorite of all time, which is Doug
Pike doing his Cajun accent. Oh I, we love Doug
Pike front of the show absolutely. Most of the station.
We used to get a Doug Piper Pipers. When this
show first began in twenty ten, we used to do
the Doug Pipe Report. Let's do Let's do it. We

(02:33:56):
got four hours of Phil. How's the surf look good
this weekend? You want to get a surf report? The
best thing about Doug is all of his advertisers don't
live in the city of Houston. You go to Naedville done,
You go to Brenham check. You need something done in
New Averley. These Doug Pikes got you covered. Love it

(02:34:17):
Beaumont done. Listen to the Doug Pike Show. Everybody you
don't want to start calling Doug mister Southeast Texas. That
man puts a lot of miles off. I mean he's
grinding out there, matt Yeah, imagine not having a weekend
for twenty years or however long he's been doing a
show like he gets like mondays off. That's terrible. I
feel free all that you have to work Saturdays and Sundays.
It happens. Yeah, it happened to me. For many years.

(02:34:40):
I listened to Dann Matthews Saturday and Sunday on the Rockets.
Pike had to give up the sports RV show, Get
my Weekends back. Nobody really misses it, and that's not true.
I mean I get people all the time talking about it,
and I appreciate you people. I was supposed to bring
misconnections to this show, but we never did. You want
to do it? He can only do it like once
every couple of months. Problem is we don't have enough stuff, right, Yeah,

(02:35:01):
it's not kind of got shut down there. There was like,
let me ask you this, if we get misconnected, we
gotta there's gotta be a somewhere else we can find
them that are more plentiful.

Speaker 10 (02:35:09):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:35:10):
It was like the Supreme Court ruled that Craigslist had
to get rid of uh uh pornography. Well, no, they
had to get rid of these the personals because too
many people were getting like they would meet up with
somebody and they would get robbed or kidnapped. That's terrible. Yeah,
but let me ask you this. Let's say that I
go to a call and not say me, Let's go
to one of our listeners. Let's go who's one of

(02:35:32):
our Let's say our friend David in Vegas? What about it?
And David in Vegas is a single guy? Is he
and he find yeah, okay, and he finds that special
someone at a casino, but he never sees her again.
How's he supposed to find her? You're supposed to go
to misconnections. They have it. It's back. It's just not

(02:35:53):
under personals, it's in community. Okay. For example, there's one
posted over the weekend. Uhado, I'm sorry, map a mo.
Hold on, hold on, We're gonna do this real quick again.
Don't you want some music behind? It said? You've seemed
interested in being next to your table. I was also
distracted by your beauty. If you read this, you know
who you are. I'd love to meet you. What's the

(02:36:13):
chance of that those few people reaching on to each other.
Why we broadcasted on the air. We need to put
this on seven forty greater reach fifty thousand watts. Yeah, well,
they're gonna be mad that Sean Hannity's off. Could you
imagine us interrupting the Michael Barry Show misconnections? How much
hate mail would we get? Oh my god, unbelievable. It's
like when the Rockets get played over there on Katiriy

(02:36:35):
sometimes at night ooh oh, rumpy. People very upset and
they want to talk about the planet Nabouru rather than
talking about the Rocket's latest lost loss, which hopefully is
a win coming up tomorrow night Bright here on seven ninety.
But we put we put ninety five percent of games
on seven ninety so just to keep everybody saying, oh, well,
the astros are coming up soon. If it's not one,
it'll be the other, and there will be playoff games. Ooh,

(02:36:58):
I'm liking it. I'm loving it. Hopefully not play in games.
I'll be much. There'll be a certain level of angst
ross for me. If they if they drop all the
way to seven eight nights, if they if they finished sixth,
will you call this the season of failure. No, it's
kind of a disappointment from when they were in second.

(02:37:23):
Not a failure, not a failure, a disappointment, No, because
if you take the original expectation, we had them seven,
eight ninety ten. If you get to six, it's exceeding expectation.
But everybody go, we got to keep that same energy
that everybody did for the Texans. Everybody was all upset
that the Texans went ten and seven and won in
the division, even though they hit their over by the front.

(02:37:46):
By the front of the show, Wade, there's an attorney
that used to be on the show as well, advertising Eric.
Oh is that guy? Okay, he's still doing his thing. Yeah,
that's Those are very certainly memorable. Oh yeah, quite memorable.
A lot of puns, yeah, so Ba to your point,

(02:38:12):
so you're saying that once the energy was there for
home court, anything less than a home court is a disappointment.
If you're if you're saying that, I had to respect that,
That's kind of what I'm feeling right now. Fifth wouldn't
be that bad, but six you can at least you
could just beat whoever. The third seed is grizzly. So
let me go through the schedule the rest of the way,
and this is a very brief rundown here. Okay, you

(02:38:33):
have two Laker games in LA, a Clipper game in LA. Still.
You have two with Golden State, one in Houston and
one in San Francisco. You have three with Phoenix still
to play. We someone put the Sunjet this year. One
more with Minnesota, I'm just one more Dallas. You're Eastern

(02:38:56):
games left on the road, or Orlando, Miami in Indian Nato. Wow,
you just know the whole schedule well, because my life
is based each basket. Uh, you have one more trip
to Oklahoma City. Yes, it's tough. They're gonna be fine.
Just get to the All Star berck. Get it ready,
rested and ready to go. Sounds like things are turning

(02:39:16):
in the right direction with everyone practice, that's sure, except
for Jabbari Smith Junior continues to have a broken hand.
Question is gonna be what the Rockets are going to
do with Jabari once he's able to return. I believe
that a Men Thompson is not leaving the starring lineup.
My gut tells me that Jabbari is a bench player
that he would not take over for Dylan Brooks. I

(02:39:40):
think I think Dylan's three point percentage of shut which
by the way, is tops, and the team it's about
thirty eight percent. I want to say, ROSSI give her
take a little bit on that. I get look that up.
I'm gonna guess you're right. If you're let me ask
you this, because you know the league a little bit
better in terms of percentages. If thirty eight your best,
does that mean that it's not good for your best?
Does your best? Happy? Best? As long as you got

(02:40:02):
a couple guys close, nobody else is close, it's not great. Yeah,
Fred's not close. Uh, Jalen's not close, although Jalen's got
a little bit better. He's back around thirty five, thirty
four percent. Uh, let's see three point percentage. See. The
thing of it is is that you don't Dylan doesn't

(02:40:23):
shoot the volume of threes like the other guys. I
just brought up Jack Landel shooting uh fifty percent for
the year. But yes, it's three eighty five for Dylan.
Next best is thirty five percent Belowly, you got one
guy above a league average, Well it's not good. Yeah,
starting five for me. When Jabbari comes back at the

(02:40:43):
starting five that's going now, provided when they're healthy. That's
Fred and Jalen in the back court. A minute at
the center spot a men and dealing with the forwards.
You mean ol Brett, it's the center Swah for instance.
Pot yeah, with Jabbari wit More, Easton coming off the
bench is gonna be gun, huh. And Steven Adams. Adams

(02:41:04):
is gonna not gonna play play a lot of back
to backs, which means Jacque Lindell will play in that spot.
I don't expect Terry Easton to be playing a lot
of back to backs the rest of the season, which
means I don't think one yeah, which means More can
went more. Probably Reid Shepherd. Reid Shepherd's gonna try to
get in the mix somehow. He's got he's gotta the
three point shot. I mean, that's not great and I

(02:41:29):
don't want to And honestly, people have said to me, hey,
Matt should should he go back to the league. There's
nothing else he can do down there. He's too good
for the Gan. He goes to G League and he
puts up forty six. I mean, it's like sending Cana
the G League. It just wann't gonna do it. He's
sending John Singleton in the triple A is gonna mash. Yeah. Now,
Shepherd's career has not been defined, that's true. Singleton's career

(02:41:50):
has been defined well yet well, I mean, good work
to get back to where he once was. But John
Singleton's not. There was a reason why they went and
got Christian Walker. They didn't. They said, we just cannot
live with about a two thirty batting average and a
slug of about or ops of about six seventy five
at first base. M hm. And Christian Walker isn't going
to do that. Plus his glove a spectacular is compared

(02:42:11):
to John's, who is respectable but nothing close to what
I mean. The reasony John Single to play last year
was because oose A Bree was an utter failure. If
a Bray who plays like an average first base but
with average power and average hitting and average fielding, John
Single doesn't, isn't on this baseball team. Mm hmm. So said,
It's strange that John Singleton's career was able to continue

(02:42:34):
based off of the futility of another player. It happened sometimes, Yeah,
it does happen a lot. He was better than the
guy in front of him. You certainly were here in
the time. All right, one forty three. It is the
Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We have believe it or not.
Today the category of all things about members of the
Philadelphia Eagles, your Super Bowl champions. If you'd like to
play seven one three, two, one, two, five, seven and eighty.
What are we playing for today? The prize vault got

(02:42:56):
to be. We had a couple winners yesterday, but the
prize vault's gonna have lots of good stuff in it
because we got a full staff here today.

Speaker 4 (02:43:01):
Yeah, we got tickets to Marty gra galveson and then
tickets to Brooks and Dune at the Houston Rodeo.

Speaker 2 (02:43:05):
Oh, we're secon away Brooks and Done tickets. Oh yeah,
you like my Maria Ross or do you like Boots
con one? Come back with my Maria so we can
like the Moon is the to me? Like it's how
all time? No, it's no cart you right now, Neil,
the moon is not a top five country song of
all time. That's ridicuous. Yes it is. My Maria will

(02:43:28):
come back with that one on seven ninety.

Speaker 10 (02:43:31):
It's Matt Man. He's back the Matt Thomas Show on
seven ninety Houston's Home for Houston Teams.

Speaker 2 (02:43:40):
We're playing this song because Ross is having a coughing fit,
and like, I'm not gonna make fun of you because
I've had coughing fits myself, so it's something new. Poor kid,
You've had those things attached to you forever.

Speaker 10 (02:43:57):
Me.

Speaker 2 (02:43:58):
I just got a text from a friend of the show.
Can't I'll protect his name. He's like, Neon Moon top
five country song, are you cut? It's a good song
with jam five. Look, I would fully admit I'm not
deep in the in the country game. Clearly by you
saying that, Wait, people understand that now I think it's
a jam. Here's people going let's say that'd be like

(02:44:19):
me saying that ball Headed ho was one of the
top five hip hop songs of all time. It could be.
It's your opinion, man, no objected, No, I don't think.
I think if I called Bumby and said, how do
you put ball headed hole in her? And he would
not say it's on top five. I don't think the
two match at all. What I talked about was a
major country hit. What you're talking about is, yeah, it's
way off bass it's another bad analogy from you, Neon Moon.

(02:44:40):
Let's how did it write? On the records? Rolling Stone
has it as the number forty one country song of
all time? Is ball headed ho the number forty one?
Oh no, so you're way off bass? Well this is
the remake with Morgan Wallin Waylan Wallan. I don't know. Yeah.
Oh look I had it in the top five. You
were thirty six off Rolling Stone put in forty one.

(02:45:03):
People don't respect Rolling Stone. I've already been told about this.
Crazy if they have a top forty one all time
and I put in the top five Stone a magazine
talking about rock and roll, Sorry, they're not They don't
get a vote. I don't go to Pizzahut and Aciden
with the greatest chicken sandwich is all. They have it
in the top forty one. So it wasn't that crazy.

(02:45:26):
Suck it. This is not the neo Moon we're talking about, though. No,
it's a good song. I'm not gonna argue with you.
Neon Moon's a good song. That's why the top forty
salt that rolling Stone on their head from their ass.
They don't what do you? You don't have it in
the in the best one hundred. This version suck. This
is a terrible version. I mean it's it's just too

(02:45:51):
big of a genre. It's there's no way you can
narrow it down. I couldn't narrow it on the best
song Stone did well. They're losers just because they disagree
with you, No, because have it in the top hundred.
You talk about how I was. I put a tweet
out that there was a video on Facebook top ten
worst songs of the eighties, and everybody's like, I don't

(02:46:11):
give Rolling Stone any creens. They don't what the hell
they're talking. Every single person said that, Yeah, go look
at my tweet. Every single person that saw the tweet. Yeah,
that's true. It's ridiculous. It's true. Five minutes left to
go on the show What Should We Do? Wait? Should Play?
Hmeric is fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply

(02:46:34):
called it be Believe It or Not? And here's how
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your favorite Brooks and Dunn song?

Speaker 1 (02:47:15):
Is I mean?

Speaker 8 (02:47:17):
Look, dude, I like Neon Moon.

Speaker 1 (02:47:19):
Not gonna lie.

Speaker 2 (02:47:20):
Let's go Matt over my Maria. Yeah, for sure, we're
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Believe it or not, not, now you lose? I wanted

(02:47:44):
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Was the Bergman? So we need him?

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Yeah, I believe it. State of number two for the
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(02:48:51):
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Speaker 7 (02:49:00):
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(02:49:24):
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(02:49:46):
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you to Connedy mcgovernor as well. We're gonna be with
you tomorrow and on the program we'll feature shut your
Ballass Up and a complete four hour breakdown of either A.

(02:51:15):
Bregman's new team. If it happens during the eight team
I want to be pissed b Texans new quarterback, new
offensive line coach and offensive coordinator strategy, or see how
bad will the Rockets beat the Suns Tomorrow night. That's
what we're gonna talk about tomorrow in the radio program.
Stand By for the boys that we call Adam Wesler
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entertain the hell out of you between now and six.
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