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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Ten oh one in Age Town.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Friday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross this.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Don't suck off his teeth. I'm not, I see, I
don't even want to be. I'm trying not to make
them on diage. See. People can't see me right now,
but I'm I'm doing like kind of like the grabbing. Okay,
the grabby, grasping and straws. That's what you have growing,
that's what you know. No, no, not doing that, Regina.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Yeah, you aren't going on Regina's Sports Leader today.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah. Watch, I hear it's rainy. It could be a
little sloppy in Regina today.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
You know what, I want you to put those metrics
and shove them up your ass.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh was he He's going to solo Poundtown only two hours.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Deep, remaining here on kill lap time or I'm going
to rest my ear. I remember talking to phones so
long in my life. I was probably dating a girl
in high school. All right, Yes, my friends, telecommunications is
a wonderful thing. And was we saying the business Rossfield Yale,

(01:15):
the show must go on even though you've got incompetent
engineers in Memphis, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good morning to you. Hi, Matt, how are you. I'm fine.
I'm gonna limit how much I talked today. Well, I'm
preserving my voice, trying to make it through the end
of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:32):
Really, because Connor said you were feeling better today?

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Did he?

Speaker 5 (01:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Was he lying?

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
He didn't know what the hell he's talking about. All right,
that's one lie. He's got three more before the end
of the show. I also meant the troll you at
the beginning of the.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
Show and talk like this and say how's it going, Matt?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
But I forgot You.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
Can do that if you want to, if it helps you.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I actually felt significantly better than I did two days
ago about those rockets last night. Yeah, he's a good game.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I mean, our audio quality back to Houston was ridiculous.
Oh yeah, what the heck happened?

Speaker 3 (02:04):
There were some engineering issues, and unfortunately the people that
are hired in Memphis to engineer aren't really radio engineers.
They're just guys that were hired by somebody else out
of town to do it when they have no radio background,
or technology background, or it background. The auto market team suffering.
I've been one of about five or six teams around

(02:25):
the NBA that's had problems going there.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
So in Memphis, really it's been a problem. Yeah, problems
in Memphis.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Yeah, I was not walking ten feet off a bial.
I could have called Reverend Green. He'd be glad to
see me, and he said, chance you're getting on the broadcast.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
I don't have a prayer, but I do have a
prayer sometimes in Memphis.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
And that's a problem, Matt. Any engineer can get you
on air. It's the good engineers that can troubleshoot when
they're are problems.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yea, there there was zero troubleshooting yesterday. And I was
actually trying to help them more than they could help themselves, and.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
They had no ideas.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
So I said, all right, well the show must go on.
Because I am the consummate professional sports Harv. The people
Houston need to hear Rockets Radio on the airwaves, no
matter how late at the time of the day it is.
And so I said, can you give me at least
a landline headset handset so I can at least hold
the phone.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
And it's compare holding my cell phone.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And you know, because cell phone coverage probably in arenas
can't be great sometimes, And so I did the first
first part of the first quarter on my cell phone,
and then they were so gracious enough to get me
a handset to do the rest of the two hour broadcast.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Wait a minute, you did the whole game on the phone.
Thanks for listening.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Matter of fact, hey, why don't you roll through some hotlights, Connor,
let's let let's let ross hear how dulcet.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Tones my word? Actually, I really would like to hear
these highlights. Normally I don't really care.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
You should care? You are amongst greatness?

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Was I? I wasn't the I was watching the TNT broadcast.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Well, I mean he was great too. I saw I
talked to Kevin Harlan briefly before the game yesterday.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh man, he's so great. Yeah all right, So why
don't you just what's a good telephone mister telephone man
by a new edition? Right? Oh okay? Or there's a
how about a hotline bling by Drake you used to
call me on the cell phone? Whatever you find the.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Song, and let's play some hot lights with it, just
to give a little sample for the audience.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
So how great it?

Speaker 7 (04:18):
What?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I think a new edition telephone man sounds good. If
you can find that, oh hotline bling works, that's fine
either way.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
Just find a song and let's give you what you
so richly deserve.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Houston, Texas me giving you some exciting rocket highlights off
of a phone line.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
So whenever you're ready to just fire that bad boy away.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Oh see, kind of a governor. Don't know about this,
Mattico love this song.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Landel has its a three point line left, both feet
on that three point line. Hands it over to Jayalen Green,
Ryan and Rim will drive in the paint, turns, web
spins right, goes against Dan scores.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
Jalen Green on the scorecard now makes it now fifteen
to thirteen in paper and men fish a green top
of the key, swings.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
It out right side Van Bleet six to shoot in
the quarter back to Jalen for a straight on twenty
six footer and he hits.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
It right in front of Jalen Wells a long three
with two seconds remaining.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
Hello, Leah, help you.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Hands it off to Jaalen Green. Green's got Jared Jackson
Junior in front of a cross over to the three
foot and turns.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
He walked with it.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Out straight away for a three point try.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Fred b Knicks on a triple.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
Rockets got away with an extra step from Jalen Grand
Freddy's got his first three porter and three tries.

Speaker 5 (05:42):
Rockets back up ten.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Alright, this song is better than the calls. I'll get
ahead of you, man, this is a jam.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
You can't if you can't, if you can't buy with
new addition, we can't be friends.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
We just can't do too bad. The Rockets didn't win,
You could have gotten a call from you. The eagle
has landed. That's one small step for the Rockets, one
giant leap for the Western Conference.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Yeah that you know that was a true nineteen sixty
nine call. That game on the radio.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
Gust was. I haven't done a.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Game over a phone line, probably either a college baseball
game with phone issues or when I was doing Tombole
high school football on seven hundred KCV in nineteen ninety one.
So about once every thirty three or your thirty four,
we did the entire broadcast on the phone, the entire broadcast.
That is insane in the membrane. You got that right now.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm angry for you now. Yeah, you couldn't get one
jack hole in that whole arena, right, fix your fix.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
The Meanwhile, meanwhile, Memphis Home Radio, who was their voice
of their team, Eric Hasseltime's a great friend of mine.
He had his connection. ESPN Radio was in for the game.
They had their connection a rocket Spanish. They could hear Adrian,
but he could not communicate back to them, so he
only talked with them through cell phone breaks.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
God, and then I was sol glad they moved everything
to the Internet these days, Matt ain't nobody got time.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
For that sports rv.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
H.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
We don't need to go to inside radio. But they
used to always use isd in lines. Matt, did an
isd line ever fail you?

Speaker 3 (07:25):
ISDN line never failed me. It never failed, a very
high end phone line. And they said, yeah, we're gonna
stop making it and we're gonna uninstall it in every
sports facility and government facility for that matter.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
It sounded pristine, it sounded perfect, and it never failed,
and they got rid of it just because it cost
a few extra bucks.

Speaker 3 (07:42):
Right, it's an installation where the Internet is not installing
anything except.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
You don't have to. But it's it's unreliable, like you
gotta be on the phone half not half the time.
But it happens, and then it just doesn't sound as good.
It just doesn't yep, yep. All right.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
So with that being said, my bitch session is over
with the I gues said, the game must go on.

Speaker 4 (07:59):
It wasn't really good basketball game.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
Rocket should have won it, frankly and honestly, Rossie, I
gotta be really honest. They should have blown him out.
They they allowed Luke Kanard and how about this guy
Jake Lravia to beat you. Jared Jackson's good, but you
had no John Moran last night.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Now, granted, the Rockets didn't have Alprin Shangoon.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
All Star Albrin Shingoon All.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Star out as we predicted. I tho we forecasted.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I was a little surprised, but they rewarded. I think
they were like, you know what, Rockets are really good.
We got to put somebody in there.

Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Yeah. So, And not that I'm not saying Alprin Shangoon
not deserving.

Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, Rockets just they just didn't.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
They didn't.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
They've had a difficult time in even during these winning
ways of closing out games, getting things a lot closier
than the closier than they should be.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
And it finally burned him beat him up a little
bit yesterday.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
So it is by the way, and anything goes Friday
here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Rossie, please
explain the essence.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
But anything goes for rd Ay. Yes, Matthew, you all
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day drunks on the show. We are ten to two,
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At seven one three two one two five seven ninety,
we mentioned the Rockets losing last night to Memphis. We

(09:18):
have full on O C search talk coming up here
on the show. And is the door cracking more and
more wide open for Alex Bregman to return. We can
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one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
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Speaker 1 (09:46):
This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on four
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Speaker 3 (09:58):
Ten eighteen of The Mat Thomas Show with Ross. It
is nice to have you with us on this Anything
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Alex Bragman. It could be about the Rockets. It could
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seven one, three, two, one two five At seven one,
we spent some time on the show ROSSI yesterday talking
about the national recognition. The Rockets are going to be getting,
I think with their winning ways. And last night's game
was a TNTI exclusive, which means Craig was watching the
game in his bed. Vanessa was with her family in Indiana,
and Ryan was I think back in Houston as well,

(10:40):
so they had the night off. Meanwhile, I did the
show over a mob ell but our friends at TNT
The Ends of the NBA Show is the most entertaining
pre half and postgame show in television history.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Not the most informative, no, not even close, and progressively
less informative the years have gone on.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Here is the Lettus example of how when you watch
inside the NBA pregame show, you're not going to get
the deeps.

Speaker 9 (11:09):
Great energy they play together. But I'm looking forward to
the jah Mourant Jalen Green matchup. Well, John Morant's out, okay,
so Java rants also forget that.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
So about that.

Speaker 9 (11:20):
They are playing well, they are playing.

Speaker 2 (11:22):
With great ross.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
I have news for you here, yes, and I'll peel
the current a little bit. He was questionable before the
game yesterday. He was doubtful about two hours prior to
the game, and about ninety minutes before tip time they
officially announced.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
He was out.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
Okay, Yes, the TNT broadcast starts thirty.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
Actually it was a doubleheader day, so I'm assuming.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
I don't know when that was recorded, what time of
the day that was, But there was a pretty good
chance that if Shaq would have done one ounce of research,
go on to the internet, called a segment producer, done
anything except literally leave his hotel room in Atlanta, drive
or get his car to pick him up, walk him
into the studio, put a microphone on and say you're

(12:13):
going on the air. If he would have done even
an ounce of preparation, he would have known that John
Morant was not playing last night for the Grizzlies.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, I do want to crush Shack for it, and
he is at fault for sure. Should there have been
some producer announcing at some point to everyone, hey guys,
John Morant's out or did they all assume that he
would know and he would be paying attention? B that's
just I mean, you have.

Speaker 3 (12:40):
To hold your host and your analyst to some sort
of research responsibility unless you don't, Unless you just say, Shaq,
go out there, say what you want, don't do any research,
don't prepare, just do it by the you know, just
just ramble on and whatever you say. Maybe we'll make
some funny social media on a post out of it.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
No, they're just gonna go up there and and Shaq
and Charles are gonna mispronounced names and get stuff wrong,
and they're gonna run to the what is it whatever
for whatever reason, Kenny runs to the video board and
they all run to the video board is and try
to raise Kenny. And then they're gonna make fun of
each other. At some point, Shaq and Chuck are gonna
threaten to fight each other, and then we're all gonna

(13:26):
have a good chuckle and move on with our lives. Yeah,
I mean there's some funny quips.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
Charles is funny on that show, Shaq, we actually make
fun of Shack because of the stupid stuff he says.
Kenny's like, I'm just here for the paycheck, and Ernie's like, man,
I am, I'm coasting. I got introduce the segment, turn
the segment. We'll go to commercial, throw a couple of
things and.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Get out of the way. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
So another case of not being overly prepared is you
mentioned Ross The Rockets have an All Star, right, Yes,
Let's find out how the folks at the national level
will pronounce.

Speaker 10 (14:00):
His name from the Houston Rockets Alpha ends sengoom.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Alpernon the first time All Star.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Well, I got the call out a Rocket nineteen and ten.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
He's number nine in rebound shooting forty nine percent.

Speaker 2 (14:19):
Let's spire off Kenny one more time.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
Here, see it how close he got.

Speaker 2 (14:24):
From the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 10 (14:26):
Alpha ends sengoom, a, sengoon and sengoon.

Speaker 2 (14:36):
Yeah. Yeah. At one point Shaq was talking about how
great a coach had, great a job coach Uduka was
doing this year.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Yeah, we're trying to find that by the way.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
We're looking for that too, don't so if everybody knows
what the clip is of im A Dooka's name being butchered,
let us know.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
It's whenever I texted it to our our our secret group. Okay,
I can find it.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Yeah, I mean we need to because man, here here's
the bet, ross These are ridiculously highly compensated players.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
I don't even know.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
They don't the audience doesn't even know what sets the
Rockets are running. They don't really have to even know
who Jay Sean Tator, Jack Landell is. I mean, it'd
be kind of nice that they did, but I'm not
asking for everything. But Alpria and Shoon has been a
league for four years. He was a borderline All Star player.
Last year he's an All Star now. Somebody gave him

(15:32):
the card that said it do you like rehearse it
in the segment before during the commercial break. I mean, Rossie,
I've been calling basketballs of my ninth year the Rockets.
There are names in the NBA I still have a
prouble with, but I at least practiced them, try to
get them right.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
I mean, my gosh.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, it's such a popular show, but it's it's become
a joke. It's a joke. The show a joke now
it is.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
You know, it's a variety show.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
You don't as long as you don't take, as long
as you don't go into it going I need to
learn something. I just want to I just want to
laugh and goof around. And you know, because most people
again typically tune out pregame, halftime, postgame, give you a
chance to go to the bathroom, get something to eat,
whatever the case would be. But those guys always seem
to have something funny come up. I mean, Charles Barkley
is one of the funniest human beings alive.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
He just is. Yeah, but the show is just a farce.
I mean, it's just don't try to pay attention, and
it's fine. It is what it is. I guess it's
not like there was ever great analysis on there, but
it's gotten progressively worse. They don't care, they don't pay attention,
and really they spend a lot of the time it
feels like tearing down players rather than building them up,

(16:45):
which that's a whole nother ball of Actually we're talking
about NBA discourse. NBA discourse, for whatever reason, is to
always tear everyone down and say this player is not
as good as player X, or never play you know whatever.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
It's funny because I don't know, you might have been
going on vacation. But who is Colin Coward's little buddy
on his TV show?

Speaker 2 (17:03):
That guy sucks. I don't even want to mention his name.
I know his name, but he's the one that brought
it up.

Speaker 3 (17:08):
He says, he said, why are we giving these guys
to shine when all they do is go on there
show and rip players? And I was like, man, I
don't agree with you very much. It's not Chris Haynes.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Who is Jason McIntyre.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Jason McIntyre. I'm not a huge fan of his.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
It is what it is. He's not good. But he
was right. He was right.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
They ripped they and and so all those guys on
T and T now rip him for saying what he said.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
And look, I am we all have.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
A little bit of back in the day when I watched,
or back in the day when I play kind of
thing in there in our back of our minds. But
you have to be progressive if you are running the
flagship show for the network and all, by the way,
you're about to all make them bus stinking a lot
of new money with whatever TV network I'll go to,
whether you stay on go to ESPN and do the
TNT presentation from there. You know you've got a lot

(17:56):
of eyes. I had the eyeballs on you, and they
just they when when everything sucks, and I think it
does cost some issues, I really do. And like I said,
I don't like to give McIntyre shine too much because
he has a very hot taking machine. But he wasn't wrong.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
He just wasn't.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Imagine every day Ross if you and I did, you
know we look, we are the home of the Astros
in a home of the Rockets. If every day we
came on the show and rip the crap out of
those two teams, why would anyone come to our station
to listen to that.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Well, people keep going to that show, I guess, and
it still carries a lot of weight.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
You know why, because ESPN can't put together any interesting show.
They don't they don't value stephen A's opinion. Kendrick Perkins
is I mean mid and I don't even know if
Michael Wilbon has.

Speaker 4 (18:56):
A pulse of the league anymore.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Frankly, the only reason why I'm watching ESPN is for
when Shams breaks stories. That's it, and when Wold's doing
it before that.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Yeah, ninety of my watching is game coverage. Yeah, or
if it's not, it's like ten minutes before game coverage
and I'm watching. Yeah, I mean we gotta.

Speaker 3 (19:13):
You know, you when you are doing a show, you
have to highlight the negatives because if you don't, then
you come across as a shell or fake media with
a YouTube show or or if.

Speaker 4 (19:22):
But if everything is negative all the time, then you're like,
then you have no joy.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I think it's just for whatever reason, that's just how
it is. In the NBA in general, all Lebron sucks.
He's not as good as Kobe. Oh, Jordan was better?
Who cares? Oh, you know anything that we can come
up with, as far as like James Harden, people tearing
him down and hate watching him, and a lot of
these stars and these fan bases and infighting, and I
mean you go into like Rockets fans, it rockets Twitter itself.

(19:49):
There's a bunch of infighting because there's Shingoon fans, there's
Jalen Green fans. Rocks Like Twitter is terrible. It's like Bro,
It's okay to enjoy everything. It's okay to watch, and
it happens in other sports as well.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
There they're crushing Van Vleet for the shot last night.

Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, look, it was a long three point shot and
you would never consider a friend to be a dead
eye shooter. But the play was to go to Thompson. Yes,
the double team came to him as you would expect.
The kickout was to VanVleet. It was about a twenty
eight footer giver take. But Fred's made deep threes before.
It's it's not like it one like he had two

(20:26):
hands in his face, he had an open look, didn't
make it. Sucked, But then it became an indictment. I
was looking at Twitter this morning. It was an indictment
against Why is Fred van vleetating the last shot on
the game was because the guy that the Rockets wanted
to shoot got double teamed and couldn't get to the
lane he was He was shy at the right elbow.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
He couldn't get there. I saw it myself. I saw it.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
The play was not drawn off for Fred van Vliet.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yeah, and Coachy Joka said as much in the post
game as well, and the simpletons just don't get that.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
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Ten thirty four.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues. We take the program
till two o'clock this afternoon, and as anything goes Friday,
we got to get to the latest free agent signing
in the Major League Baseball. We'll do that in a
couple of minutes because it does have an impact on
the local nine. Let's go to first mic in San
Antonio and anything goes Friday.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Mike, good morning to you.

Speaker 11 (22:46):
Good morning guys, Happy Friday. I do have a couple
of questions. A great gang last night, of course, disappointing loss.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
I heard some of your discussion.

Speaker 11 (22:55):
Wasn't the shot that the offense went cold before quarter?
As you know forgetting this that, but you know theyfore
making baskets still a great game. Uh, I'm so exciting
to watch this Steamion. I've been rooting for my whole life,
and I know it's exciting for you, Matt. And I'm
very pressed your your call from the phone. He didn't
know that I was listening to the broadcasts, but I

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was thinking about last.

Speaker 8 (23:17):
Season versus this season.

Speaker 11 (23:18):
You know, they were not competitive in these games, and man,
they are playing so I'm loving and I'm enjoying watching them,
but I was I was wanting to know that call
on the fourth cord and I called, but uh, they
called the time out and man, the Grizzlies coach went ballistic,
and I guess he didn't call it. That was one

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question I also want to ask, He's I got something
on one beat that I can wait on. I went
to I went to the game here the other.

Speaker 8 (23:45):
Night and get the Clippers just an observation.

Speaker 11 (23:48):
First time I seen him play in person, and he
was getting just knocked.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
Around by it with Zumac and he was complaining about.

Speaker 11 (23:59):
I mean, he got not to the ground and one
so he kind of went after him.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
But that guy needs to bulk up. I mean, he's good.
He had a double double, but you know, he couldn't
play inside. And I had not seen play in person,
but I was serious what happened. If you knew what
happened to coffee, actually did call timement or if they
just blew it?

Speaker 3 (24:17):
They blew by the way they heard it, they thought,
and the officials thought that Taylor Jenkins was calling a timeout.
Instead he was in a wind up as to rush
down the floor. I had thought originally that a player
on the court called.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
The timeout, but that was not the case.

Speaker 2 (24:33):
It was.

Speaker 8 (24:35):
They showed a replay, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (24:38):
And they said it was an inverting whistle and that
they were they were sorry, but uh, life happened with
an inverting whistle, so that's why they called the one.

Speaker 11 (24:47):
Unfortunately for the Rockets fans, I wanted to tell you
I heard a little bit of.

Speaker 8 (24:51):
Your discussion about TNT.

Speaker 11 (24:52):
I didn't hear all of it, but they were showing
some big time lust for the Rockets last night. What
I heard, I was mostly listening to your You're you
know seven ninety broadcast, but.

Speaker 8 (25:02):
Especially Kenny Smith.

Speaker 11 (25:04):
Kenny Smith said that he could see the team possibly
even get into the finals.

Speaker 8 (25:08):
I was like, whoa, he's.

Speaker 11 (25:09):
Really bragging on their lineup and the team and I don't,
you know, watch them much, but him and Ernan Johnson
were talking about how press they were and.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
So yeah, thank you Mi, the phone call, good conversation points,
Thanks very much. Let me go to the Wemby stuff first.
Ross and I are Wemby fans. I mean, I'm not
rooting for his team to be successful, let's not mistake that.
But as an individual player, I think he is going
to be fantastic. The one thing that will obviously haunt

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him will be is if he does get pushed around
and get beat up despite his tall stature.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's a lot.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Easier said than done to have a particular player of
his height to gain fifteen or twenty pounds because frankly,
it doesn't mean that much of a difference. But with
that being said, he probably needs to do that. He
still does get pushed around, but part of what makes
him so difficult to defend is that he is so
versatile and then he can hit the outside shot when

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when he can, and he can move around the floor
with great fluidity as compared to most guys of his
size that are clunky, that are low post threats that
don't move around very well. That's part of his charm.
So there's got to be a delicate balance between what
he weighs now and what he does on the court
offensively is compared to what he might do defensively because

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he is having to go against guys that are going
to be, at least from a bulk style wise much bigger.
So I'm a Wemby fan. I wish you was a
Houston Rocket. We didn't win that lottery. He's going to
be a thorn on the Rocket side for a long time,
no matter what team he plays for, whether he stays
in San Antonio a long term or not.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
There are some deficiencies in his game.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
But he can block shots, he can rebound, he can
in and outside shot, he can attack the offensive glass.
He's going to be a pain in the ass with
the Rockets for the foreseeable future.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
I know we in here in Houston don't want to
hear that, but yeah, he already is a special player
and he's not anywhere close to his ceiling. He's averaging
basically twenty five and ten and leading the league in blocks,
and he does need to bulk up. He can't get
pushed around by big bull gears. They're like a Vitzazu
bats as mentioned, and you know, outpr ching goons drop

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forty five on him. But he's got that length to
block a ton of shots. But if a big man
can get up into his chest, yeah, he can get
pushed around for sure. He also, I think needs to
get better at shot selection. Turns the ball over a
little bit too much. But he's already an All Star
and he's not, to me, not even close to scratching
the surface of his ceiling with the abilities that he

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does have. And then, of course, yes, the large thing
that's always going to loom over him is going to
be health. The second people getting hurt in basketball, no
matter what, no matter who you are. So the second
he even gets his first injury, we'll see how that goes,
but it's going to be something that's going to be
hanging over his career and the biggest question mark of
his long term viability is in the NBA is going

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to be health. Other than that, he's he's basically built
out of a lab, seven foot three with handles, with
a soft shooting stroke, blocks everything, and he has great
impact even not blocking shots like team's on a three
on two fast break, they just go out to the
perimeter and hang out because he's down there looming. He
affects shots, he affects offensive sets. He's a game changer.

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He just is.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
Yeah, So I would say if you are in the
ilk of well, he's just another lean seven to two,
seven to three guy that's gonna crater. I mean, there
have been plenty of players that have done that. I
understand the lean seven foot guy has a difficult time. Look,
Chet Holmgren's a special basketball player for Oklahoma City Ross,
but he's also had two significant long injuries in his

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short ENBA.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Career and miss his entire first and that that was
the thing with Chet too, same thing, special player, special traits.
Can he stay healthy with that body?

Speaker 3 (28:58):
So yeah, health is number one thing about development. He's
gonna have it. Can he stay healthy is another thing?
But yeah, did he make the All Star team yesterday?

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Yeah? He's an ally. He's an All Star. He's averaging
twenty five and ten, leading the league in blocks. He's good.

Speaker 3 (29:13):
I'm just curious if he made it because I've been
calling him an All Star and I hope the Rockets
beat has asked for the first for a long, long,
long time. But right now we got to deal in
realities and he's a pretty special player. He needs help though.
Will he be getting help from dearon Fox who you
never know? That's a that's a really piping hot rumor
out there sports.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Oh, I'd really that rather not happen.

Speaker 4 (29:33):
Okay, just throwing it out there.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
All right, let's oh back to we'll finish this NBAP
and then I do want to get to the uh
fraid and signing yesterday in baseball? Uh yeah, Kenny Smith
is always never been afraid to brag on the rockets
and looking. Kenny played for several NBA teams in his career,
but he obviously holds a special place in Houston for
the championships.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Uh And I'm kind.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Of I'm kind of excited to see where if if
the national pundits, and again we shouldn't live on national pundits,
but they are their national for reason. They have the
greatest reach. I hope they do embrace what's going on.
I hope that people get to know who Amn Thompson is.
I hope that Alpera and Shangoon continues to develop and
is a perennial All Star that they realized they figure

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out who the Terror Twins are and that kind of thing.
I mean, people already know who Dylan Brooks is.

Speaker 4 (30:22):
ROSSI.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
It took Dylan Brooks less than two years to get
blatantly booed in Memphis. He played there as a tyring
NBA career, right, yes, and he's hated there already.

Speaker 4 (30:32):
It took him less than two years.

Speaker 2 (30:33):
Dylan the villain, the villain six fouls yesterday, Hey, might
as well use them all not as well.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
You can't take him back with Phill Locker like Bill
O'Brien timeouts, right right, But yeah, I've always liked it. Hey, look,
I'm gonna tell you this. I do again enjoy the
TNT Show for entertainment value. But man, I just credibility
is everything to me. And I just think if you're
not paired with the simple but you got Houston memphisis

(31:03):
is your game. I'm asking you to make sure you
give me the injury updates for Charlotte versus Orlando, you
know what I mean. I mean, that's your game you're
about to work on. And you don't know that John
Moran's not playing.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
That's nuts. That's pretty bad, and nobody could pronounce any
of the players' names. It was embarrassing. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
The Astros were looking for an infielder not name Alex Bregman,
and that infielder decided to go somewhere else. We'll discuss
that next ten forty three on Anything Goes Friday seven
one three two one two five seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
Matton Ross return return on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
USSI you'll be happy to all on my second full
cup of coffee since the show started today.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
You're a slacker.

Speaker 5 (31:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:54):
I got to the house at.

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Three point fifteen this morning, almost ran into two deer
in my own neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
What yeah, I know you live up in the sick brother,
Get get me eye rise. Wow. Please, there's deer like
that in Kingwood.

Speaker 4 (32:10):
Yes, yes, in my neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
You saw a trail of bread crumbs. You had to
solve a riddle from a troll to cross a bridge
and you're out there.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
Yeah, I saw the I saw the wagons coming in
from the from Luffkin.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
I mean, it's just I will say that when we
get in the city map that that.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
That Hobby Airport to Kingwood commute at two thirty more
stills takes forty eight minutes.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
It's never gonna slow down. You went from hobby to
home at two thirty. Yeah, that's till. I don't like
driving around that time.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
First of all, it's dangerous, and.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Let me say, when they're drunks everywhere so crazy.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
I am constantly changing lanes just to not even.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Get close to a vic Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (32:57):
Then I get to Kingwood, I get off of king
North Park is.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
That's the second Kingwood exit off in Kingwood, and I'm
on this king I'm on North Park Drive for.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
A little while.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Do you ever get creeped out in if you're at
the middle of the night and you're in the left
lane or in the right lane and those person in
the lane right next to you, do you ever and
you like turn to see what's going on. I swear
the person that was next to me was staring at me,
and I was like, I am flipping the f out.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
Hmmm, No, I think you're paranoid.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
So I've decided that I'm not going to ever be
side by side with a car.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
Then okay, I never again, because I was I was
weirded out. Okay, you're keeping your peace on your mat.
No one catch you lacked was thinking about. Should I
make a water Burger run at two forty five? Depends
on the Usually that's when the line's really long. Depends
where I was going to go to.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
It is on telephone, and I don't know if I
want to be in that area that late at night
at the water burger.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Oh, telephone road. Huh from the telephone man. You ever
been on telephone road that latter night, Rossie, I don't
think I've really been on I'm not.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
I'm gonna suggest you don't.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
I don't normally. I'm not normally in that part of town.

Speaker 4 (34:11):
Well, my, the terminal we go to is right off
a telephone, okay, And needless to say, every massage parlor
is about noise in the background.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
It's Cameron's alarm going off.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
Oh okay, he's young uns. They set their alarms.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
I'm so jealous. It used to be you, Rossi, it
used to be us. Are you gonna twist the knife
on me? Matt?

Speaker 4 (34:39):
Oh, I'd be still a sleepy Are you kidding me?
All right, let's get to back to sports. That's it's
our own little personal bitch fest. That's what we're here for.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Uh seven, one, three, two, five, seven nineties. So Jorge
Polanco is going to stay with Seattle Mariner's ROSSI.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Uh oh, what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (34:56):
One year contract? Where seven point seven five million dollars.
He's thirty one years old. He was a he's a
switch hitter. OPS of eight forty one with twenty two
home runs.

Speaker 4 (35:06):
Oh my god, would that had been sweet of Houston, Texas.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
For eight MILLI he did every badly. That's value, baby. Yeah,
he had a bad year last year though, but his
OPS is normally above that, right, normally. Yes, you don't
have to really delve into the metrics. Man with the
hard hit rate and uh yeahed was twenty nineteen, so
it's been a while. What was his expected OPS though, Matt.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
I, you know I don't like XPA x SA.

Speaker 4 (35:35):
Actually x XSA is good.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
Adam Klan believes he has the best XSA on the
seven hundred air staff.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
I'm gonna that's probably accurate. Well sounds he back in
the day.

Speaker 4 (35:50):
Oh, let's break this down real quickly.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Okay, now it's Sean. It's Sean. Let's move on quarterback
in usc Okay, get out of here. No, there's no
holding on.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
Go ahead, let me let me get some arguments here.
Wex are no chance, me, no chance, me, no chance, you,
no chance? Lalima? Oh hold on, let me give you that.
Let me give you the argument. Good looking guy Broski
and coaches Literal League baseball to divource moms.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
M interesting. Now, so you think he's he's accepting favors
to get little Timmy more playing time.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
I don't know if if Brian wants to answer that
or not. That's really on him, but I would put
the I'd put Sean Salisbury twenty years old, the leader
in the clubhouse, San Diego kid who went to USC.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Quarterback a USC done. Yeah, he wins.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
He wins Clinton because he just has no kouth back
in the scruples, as they say, he as a kid,
say scruples. And then I put Lalima third, and then
everybody else is a distant fourth. Okay, I think I
think we size it up properly.

Speaker 4 (37:02):
If I'm not mistaken, I.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Guess so isn't anything goes.

Speaker 3 (37:08):
I'm sleep deprived, and second I'm on second cup of
a pipe place. I mean, I'm good baby. Let's go
all right? Okay, So Polanco stays in Seattle. The production
is significantly down, but he's there on a one year deal. Oh,
by the way, you brought something up on Twitter yesterday
that I agree with. There are people that are having

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Bregmant fatigue.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
Well, guess what we're not.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
We're bringing it up because it's still the most interesting
thing of the baseball off season here.

Speaker 2 (37:39):
I was kind of shocked. Yeah. I made a kind
of a joking tweet about you know that that Wolf
of Wall Street meme of the I'm not bleeping leaving
that people use when they come back, and somehow, I
don't know, get retweeted enough to where it got into
the You know, sometimes, Matt, you just try to tweet
for your peeps, right, people who've listened to the show,
who know you, who you know you interact with all
the time.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
Jab your friend yesterday?

Speaker 8 (38:00):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (38:01):
I guess I ended up in the four you tab.
When you remember that for you tab, you can be
exposed to the ocean of idiocy. Yeah, And it's like,
how how are we functioning as a society. These people
are out on our roads, they're raising our children, right,
and they're complete mouth breathing idiots. They're driving our cars

(38:22):
or ubering us nor Beregman had his chance. I don't
want Bregman back on this team. Are you stupid? What
are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (38:29):
If Alex Bregman signs in the next twenty minutes, this
town's going beyond nuts.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yes, they're going crazy. They don't care. They're not begrudging.
It's not about skyboards like, oh, you know, he's too
much of a drama queen. It's been too much drama.
Alex Bregman hadn't said one word. Alex Bregman went out there,
he hit the market and what is called a business
to try to do what's best for him and his
family and his future going forward. And if he ends
up back here in Houston, we would welcome with an

(38:56):
open arms, and we should. He lives and breathes this city.
He came up with this organization, He's been there through
the greatest renaissance in Astros history. He absolutely, one hundred
percent will be by the masses, accepted with open arms,
as he should be.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
This isn't Miles Straw, this is Alex freaking Bregman. Let's
go down. Come on, and it's not.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
That we talk about it four hour I mean good,
We don't talk about it for four hours a day,
but let me be talked about because it's still on.
It's still the most interesting thing about this Astros offseason because,
first of all, it's one of the greatest players ever
to put a uniform on. Second of all, it does
give you a little bit of background into how the
baseball free agency world works. And third, if he signs,

(39:39):
it does create a very interesting future for the greatest
Astro of all of them all and how he finishes
his career.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Yeah, and it became a story again because as you
started off mentioning Jorge Polonko signed with the Mariners, the
Astros were trying to get with or are trying to
sign Jorge Polonko, And now they're turning there. According to
Chandler Rome from his Athletic story. With Polanco off the board,
the Astro's attention will turn toward a reunion with Bregman,
which general manager Dana Brown has described as a long shot.

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Houston is also exploring trades for another outfielder, but still
has long standing six year, one fifty six million dollar
offer out to Bregman. Tiger's Red Sox, Blue Jays and
Cubs remain in play for Bregmant, according to two league sources,
again this from Channel Rome.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's I think there
are some people that would like some resolve to it
because again and mainly probably Alex Bregman's the top of
that list because spring training is coming up in a
couple weeks. But it's I mean, we're not broadbeating, you know,
We're just giving you what we know we have. We
wish every person listened to every minute of the show

(40:44):
for four hours a day.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
It's none happened.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
So are people bumping around town today they didn't get
to listen to the show for three days because of
the worker or something else going on in their life. Yeah,
I mean, so when there's something going on.

Speaker 2 (40:55):
And this is a.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Relevant news item in relation to with the Astros, because
the Astros one of Horiy Polonk they did, I don't
think you hit the fact they were actively looking for
Hareo Planco to join the Astros on perhaps a short
term deal in which he's staying in Seattle.

Speaker 4 (41:09):
So that's the news of that of the day.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
And it does have relation to the fact that the
Astros may be thinking about making a significant change in
their greatest players future in terms of what he does defensively.
Ten fifty seven And it's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross seven one three two one two five seven nine
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If you're gonna visit with us on Twitter, you may
do that as well at Sports MT, at Sports RV,
and at Connor d McGovern second hour Matt Thomas Show
with Ross. We've got the Texans. Another name on the
list for offensive coordinator. One guy that I've known since
he was in college is a candidate. Ten fifty seven

(41:54):
on Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
This is the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
It is eleven oh one on Sports Talk seven to ninety.
It is about Thomas Show with Ross. We take this
program in today until two o'clock today.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
It is and anything goes Friday. Anything you want to
get it too.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
When it comes to the super Bowl, which will be
one week from Sunday. Rockets losing last night to the
Memphis Grizzlies unfortunately and will not get the series sweep
against them, as the Grizzlies gain a game on the
Rockets of the final playoff of the second seed in
the Western Conference. We have Hore Palanco re signing with

(42:34):
the Sanel Mariners. Does that impact the Astros. By the way,
we've got an update from Jim Bowden on Alex pregnant
and you'll hear that coming up in about to twenty
minutes from now. Texans continue to search for an offensive coordinator.
First of all, and again I'm gonna bring the I
don't necessarily need to bring the names up because they
don't do much for anybody. It sounds like Chip Kelly

(42:55):
is a thanks, but no thanks. I've not heard any
buzz about that whatsoever, which is okay. I mean it
feels like, as you brought up yesterday and the show, Rossie,
maybe this is a let's throw the name out to
see if we can get some more money from Ohio
State and if that works, it's so be it. But
Brian Johnson has been brought up as a candidate. Did
show you how old I am?

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Ross? I called Brian Johnson's games at Utah when he
was a quarterback. Really, you guys are broskies or what?
I don't think we know. I would not consider his
friends at all. Oh that's unfortunate.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, I mean, maybe you know what I'd say, what
if he gets the job here? Wasn't he a coach
with a at the Texans at one point before?

Speaker 2 (43:33):
I want to say he was the OC for the
Houston Cougars. Oh is that what it was? Twenty seventeen?

Speaker 3 (43:40):
Okay, yeah, with Major Apple one. I think right was
when he was coaching.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
I'll take your word for it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
So yeah, Brian Johnson with I believe Philadelphia.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I want to say he was with Philadelphia the last
couple years. I have his resume, yep, and he's with
the cat He was the passing game coordinator with the
Commanders this year.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Okay, so he's he's moved around a little bit.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Mm hmm. Yeah, Utah, Mississippi State, Houston, Florida, Philadelphia, Washington.
That's a coach. That's coach's life.

Speaker 4 (44:12):
God, could you imagine moving around that much in your life?

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Baytown Lee Graduate, Yep.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
That's how we became pals because I was the year
that I called the game games that we were. You know,
we were both Houston guys living in Salt Lake City.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
And you were like, aren't you Grady got out of Baytown.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
I don't think I took any direct shots at Baytown.
I was subtle about it. Okay, we love Baketown. Baytown
takes care of us.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
I like the Rookies out there, and that's about it.
I believe we're the number one show in Baytown. We are. Yeah,
we've gotten we We've been on the way to to
Lake Charles and and gotten stopped by people in the
Baytown ruts. Rookies loves us in Baytown. We should have
like a remote. Yeah, you're like a star over there.
Like are you Matt Thomas? The Matt Thomas?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
You know, the first question I usually good is where's Ross.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
It's almost like we're hooked armed by arm at all times.
You know, I got a gut punch me on a
Friday like this.

Speaker 4 (45:09):
I got news for you. You're attached to me for.

Speaker 2 (45:12):
The I know, it's pretty disgusting. It's not that bad.
We're getting buried next to each other. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
I think Kim might be offended by that a little bit,
but that's to each his own. I mean, you can
bring that up with her.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Yeah, do you want to buy burial plots with each other?
Next week? Each other? Yea? Where are you being interred?
You have any uh?

Speaker 4 (45:30):
I know I haven't been thought about my interment.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Better, it's time to start thinking, Matt. It's not I
don't want to get you on a payment plan.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
By the way, did you see Gene Hackman to what
turned ninety five over Jean Haman's alive?

Speaker 2 (45:41):
There's no way. Yes, you would have got me on
that one. No, I swear I would have said, not
with full confidence.

Speaker 3 (45:48):
We need to do it dead or alive. We have
done those in a while. Maybe next week, we'll do
it one day, one day, we'll do it. But yeah,
Gene Hackman ninety and Dick Van Dyke's a hunsky. I
think we got some stuff are still around. No, I
thought he died. No, he's alive too.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
Oh oh, I'm thinking of uh not Dick Van Dyke.
But the.

Speaker 9 (46:10):
Uh who?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Who is Martin Sheen's dad? Wait, no, Martin she No,
not him, not him? Who's the who? Am I thinking of?
Kirk Douglas? Kirk Douglas, he died, he died, he's dead. Yeah,
I get Martin Sheen and you know, all right, so.

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Next week a dead or alive, believe or not coming
up on the show.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Okay, good, you can't do Gene Hackman. Now, well, I
probably forget Yewell.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Your rememory's not great, all right, seven one three five
seven ninety Rockets last night fall to the Grizzlies three
games to one. The season series goes to the Rockets,
so they are tied and they playoff position. The Rockets
would have the tiebreaker over that. Our friends of T
and T are mispronouncing their names. Alpraam Shingdon is an
All Star. Well that made me want to watch the

(46:54):
All Star Game anymore.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Gonna be Brutallyannis Ross Nope, hit Guen shing But apparently
that's their nickname for him. Somebody said, so that's it's
still it's still bad.

Speaker 4 (47:06):
Well how about this. I have never heard him pronounce
it properly.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
Yeah, it's really not that hard.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Well, it's funny because the ESPN radio crew is in
town for the game yesterday in Memphis, and the radio
guy asked me.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
He said, how do you pronounce it again? Because everybody
wants to make sure.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Shn s h e n dash g o o n
sheng goon doesn't look like it pronounced that way. I mean,
I get I'm the first one to tell you that
it doesn't look like the way it's pronounced.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Yeah, that's how it works, like omer ashik. I guess
that maybe the Turkish as is a.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Sh Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I don't know what they do over there. But yeah,
I don't know what they do over there. I mean,
I haven't been a bit Istanbul lately.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
You haven't.

Speaker 3 (47:53):
Can you name a second city in Turkey not named Nissenbul?
Is there a Turkey city?

Speaker 2 (47:59):
I was about to say Turkey city. Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to steal your bit. I know there
is there is one. I can't I can't think of
it off the top of my head. Okay, with the
aid of Google, Bursa sounds familiar.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
We could do a believe it or not? Is this
a city in Turkey?

Speaker 2 (48:17):
We could? Oh, you know what we're gonna do that.
I'll give you a nice and some fun ones to pronounce. No,
we still don't have prizes.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Wait, wait a minute, Connor, you were supposed to get
U some prizes.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Do you send the email? Connor?

Speaker 4 (48:29):
What was the response when you sent the email?

Speaker 2 (48:31):
I didn't get one. Oh he was told to shut
his butt mass up.

Speaker 12 (48:36):
Let me check though, see if there's anything left over.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Ross?

Speaker 3 (48:39):
What bothers you more a non return of a text
or a non return of an email or equally.

Speaker 2 (48:45):
Well, I do both, so I don't know. None of
it bothers me. Yeah, I texted you this morning. I'm
not heard you did? Yes, I know you didn't. I did.
Let me see, can't? Oh yeah? Yeah? I was like
half awake and coughing in a offing fit when you
sent that. Why don't you have this? You were?

Speaker 4 (49:04):
Was recorded on your phone? That's why I don't have it.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
Yeah, but I sent it, didn't I send it to you?
I'm not deleted it, hope not.

Speaker 12 (49:11):
We could play for a pair of muster damn tickets.
That's all we got is one pair and some seven
nine T shirts.

Speaker 4 (49:16):
Oh yeah, how about you know to pair Connor? Here's
what you can do. Why don't we do dancing lessons
with you? Like one hour of dancing life friend.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
There's some people that are you know, want to get
back in the clubs because they're single, or they want
to just hang out and be you know, not socially
awkward at weddings.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
We could do a cut of rug class with Connor
de McGovern.

Speaker 3 (49:38):
Sure isn't there like a dance studio, like our author
Arthur Marie or something like that.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
No, you have the do you have? See? This is okay?
Matt texted me asking me for a video that we
shot on my phone.

Speaker 3 (49:50):
You had the video is about something work related? Yes,
mine's other gutter here.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
My mind wasn't in the gutter. I don't even think
about it. But I guess you're right, because your mind
is always in the gutter. Uh. Yeah, it's it's for work.
It's a it's just for work stuff. You have it.
I sent it to you, all right, you delete it probably,
I don't know. Go look at your lord. That's why
that's why I was like, oh God, I don't have
to deal with this right now now. I went back

(50:16):
to sleep. That's why I didn't respond. So sleep was
more important than just a quick response of oh I'll
do it or hey, can you use I was gonna
have to look at my phone and it was already
something that you should already have because I sent it
to you. So this is not something I should be
having to deal with. And I went back to sleep. Yes, okay,

(50:37):
this is great radio. I love hashtag seven ninety team work,
hashtag asking for something you already have hashtag? Do you
delete it?

Speaker 4 (50:46):
Probably?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
Yes? Why I don't know.

Speaker 4 (50:49):
I mean, I got I'll go back and look got it.

Speaker 2 (50:51):
I'll go back for me. No, I air dropped it
to you.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
All right.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Remember this is great.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
If anything goes Friday, Ross is still sick. I'm working
on five hours of sleep. This is why the radio
show is where we are.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
The magic is. Yeah, I'm not taking blame for this. No,
you shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (51:15):
You could have covered my ass on this, but you didn't.
You fully exposed my ass instead of covering it. Seven
one three two one two five seven seven one three
two two five seven.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
By the way, next week, Ross, we are not going
to Radio Row.

Speaker 2 (51:31):
We're not. No, Oh, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
I'm gonna send out a tweet Sunday. And it was
a bit last year and it really worked out well.
We're going to send out a tweet of guests we're
not having on the show that we've been offered. And
I mean it is a who's whose list of amazing
guests that Gordy could have booked.

Speaker 2 (51:55):
I think there were some good ones.

Speaker 3 (51:56):
Actually, the list he's given me so far are not great. Now,
apparently Gordy is going to super Bowl for a while.
I don't know, well, you know, at least well never.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Mind is he going. I mean, I don't know. I've
not heard of I'm not sure the latest is. I
think yes, but I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
So if he gets to somebody good, we'll take him
or her, that's right. But if it's I mean, most
of the guests first one in the history of Matt
Thomas oil Ross at the super Bowl have been C
minus at best.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Yeah, I don't know what you're being so rude. We
get some good guests on over the years, go ahead
and name them. Uh, Maurice Jones, Drew, that was a
good get Sewn Salisbury, good get Ryan Leif, Okay, get
em and Smith's been on with some show before, not ours.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Oh the best guess I ever had was when I
was in Minneapolis and I got Barry Sanders on the show.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
See you got Barry Sanders? What are you wanting about?
But it wasn't with this station. It was another station.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
Oh remember that time we had Don't Schultz on the
show until another station Town stoles from it from us.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Yeah that was at was that radio Row? Yeah that's
up there though. All right, So get ready for the
Sunday tweet.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
It'll be guessed we will not be having on at
Radio Row during the Super Bowl. It is eleven eleven
on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven ninety Alex Bregman update from yet another
MLB pundit. You'll hear from him next eleven twelve, Sports
Talk seven NINETI.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
The Montana Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
It is Anything Goes Friday.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
The News at Noon is coming up in forty four
minutes to wake the strippers up as well. We'll take
your phone calls at seven one three two one two
five seven NINTI.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
We will get into Texans.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
OC search is huge. I mean it's not huge. It's
it's whatever Hannah wants.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
And you know Hannah's not making this call. Stop. Oh
please stop, she is not calling who the OC is.
By the way, man, I found a Radio Row list
of interviews from I think the last time we were
there was twenty twenty, but I found twenty nineteen. I
couldn't find twenty twenty yet. Okay, go ahead. See there
are all the people you're whining and crying about how
we have how about Dan Marino. Oh that was that interview.

(54:31):
I was really good. Hannah Storm and Andrey Kramer like that.
Charlotte Flair.

Speaker 4 (54:36):
Yeah, but it was kind of a weird interview.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
What was weird about it? You couldn't look up. You
couldn't look.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Up, I mean hardly sure how.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Many times you say eyes are up here?

Speaker 4 (54:46):
Pal she is Buckxing.

Speaker 2 (54:48):
I'll take you that. Kareem Jackson. That was a good one.
Mark Schlareth good, Charles Haley. See, look, we got good names,
you know what. Chuck obamass up. Leave me some room here.
I apologize, Miss Morning. You got some good gifts right there.
You can say, Chris Cordy, you can apologize to him.

(55:09):
Mark Summers, I forgot about that one. Oh yeah, we
were hating on Drew Carrey big time. We love that.
It was a good one. Longhorn, Legendar, Michael Finley.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
All right, you're not helping your cause here. Jeff Garcia,
Uh not bad. Carson Palmer, Jerry Rice. We had Jerry Rice,
and yes we did. I took a picture of him.
See you're just a whiner, dude.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
You know what.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
I again, Chris Cordy, I apologize.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
Okay, here's some different Jim Stucky Ooh, I no longer apologize.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
Chris Myers work good the Fox broadcaster of the center.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Uh, I believe it was the Fox broadcaster.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
We had Carl Mecklenburg on one year, worked on we
had him on like six years. But yeah, this is all.
This is all from nineteen. Apparently Gordy is going to
go down to Radio Row and uh, we have well
I don't know. Can I announce it on air? We
have a we have at least one good guest book
and two others offered.

Speaker 3 (56:11):
Okay, so here's what I want you to do. I
don't I don't want you to announce what it is.
I don't even know who it is.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Okay, can I be surplesantly?

Speaker 3 (56:18):
Well if I'm if I don't know who this is
until like two minutes prior to the interview, will I
be okay?

Speaker 4 (56:24):
But doing the interview still?

Speaker 11 (56:25):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Like, are you gonna be prepped? Right? Do I need
to do any deep research on this person? Or are
we gonna be okay? Hmmm? Uh, you'll be okay?

Speaker 4 (56:38):
Will I fanboy over this guy?

Speaker 2 (56:41):
You will probably fanboy over this girl? Oh it's a girl, Okay, Uh,
I will just say two words and we'll move on.
Sideline reporter.

Speaker 3 (56:51):
Oh, okay, there it is. Hey, I want to get
Greg Olsen on the show next week.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
I'm a big fan of hers. What's that she does?
Great work?

Speaker 4 (57:01):
Oh this silent reporter? Is she over the age of forty?

Speaker 2 (57:06):
I don't know. Probably around there.

Speaker 4 (57:09):
Okay, so that's the half plus seven rules in play?

Speaker 2 (57:12):
What you're Matt? Happily married? Matt, Yes, I am happily married.

Speaker 4 (57:16):
But I'm saying for those married, aren't you home?

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Yeah, she's out. Say you try to get whipped and
while you're at your.

Speaker 3 (57:23):
House, she knows the bed. What are you talking about?
For those men that are that are not married, you
have to get putent, go.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Ahead and talk good. Tell people what the half plus
seven is, which is just a rule made up by
older men.

Speaker 3 (57:34):
If you are a man and you are interested in
a particular woman, and people ask whether or not there
it's age appropriate for you to be interested in this woman,
take your age, cut it in half and add seven.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Okay, so the.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Rule would be for me thirty three years.

Speaker 2 (57:53):
Old, that's ridiculous. It's not ridiculous. Feel one hundred years
Get in with a fifty seven year old. No, it's
not appropriate.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Well, first of a one hundred year old, aren't getting fifty
seven year olds unless they're like clinically and medically enhanced.
But hey, Bill Belichick's hanging out with.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Somebody a third of his age, right, Yeah, that's not
the half plus seven. No, he's not. He's not going
by that rule. It's just a made up rule.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
Of course, it's made up.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
I mean, there's no.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
It's not in the it's not in the Constitution.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
It's not No, not the preamble. No, it's not the
Bill of Rights. It'd be pretty funny if it was. Yeah,
all right.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
Trust factor on Jim Bowden ross on his information.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
I thought he was great with Florida State for all
those years, but I didn't know he was breaking news. Now, ummmmm,
now that's Terry Bowden.

Speaker 4 (58:47):
You're missing.

Speaker 3 (58:48):
No, that's that's uh uh Bowden, Bobby Bowden.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
Oh, this is Jim Bowden. I'm so you know what,
I like to apologize Jim. He probably gets that all
the time. That was a low hanging fruit. And and
I bid it.

Speaker 3 (59:01):
Yeah, you know what they call you, mister low fruit.
Here's Jim Bowden, I believe on the MLB network. I
don't worry where he's from, but he has asked quite
frequently to size up various things he hears around baseball,
and here's what he has to hear right now about
Alex Bregman.

Speaker 13 (59:20):
I think the Tigers have the best offer on the table,
perhaps right I'm just not sure that's where he wants
to go. But the Tigers have been right there. I mean,
they're they're sitting there and he's been there priority the
whole offseason. Doesn't mean they're going to land them, because
they haven't so far. I think in terms of Houston,
you know, Bregman makes sense as long as you have

(59:40):
the Paradis trade in, you know, ready to go for
that left hand hitting outfielder that they're gonna need. I mean,
they need help in the outfield.

Speaker 9 (59:48):
Now.

Speaker 13 (59:48):
If you can take Paradis and you can spin them
for a left hand hitting outfielder and then sign Bregman back,
that makes sense. If you sign Bregman now, then you
know you're kind of complicated things a little bit, right,
because you know you want to put Paradis at second.
He's not a good second baseman, and you're gonna take
away one of the best defensive second basement in Altuve,

(01:00:09):
and you're gonna put him in left field where he
doesn't have an arm to throw baseball wise, that's not
a smart play. And what I'm being told from people
in Tampa, they don't think Paradis would be adequate enough
in left field to be the everyday left fielder there.
So to get Bregnan back to me, the only thing
you do is you now spin Paradis.

Speaker 2 (01:00:29):
They trade Paradis. But mm hmm, possibly is this a
concerted effort for the Astros to get out of holt
Elle's two B playing second base. Seems like this left
field stuff is growing steam and Jim Bowden is wrong.
He is not an elite defense defensive second basement.

Speaker 4 (01:00:51):
Okay, some have to dispense the report, then, basically, right,
I think.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
No, I mean, he could be getting good sources, but
I believe the Chandler Roam article also talked about the
Astros exploring additions via trade. M I have to pull
that back up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:09):
Well, yeah, maybe just because Pratis is wearing Astro gear
right now doesn't necessarily mean he's going to be doing
this for the long term.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Yeah. From the Chandler Roam article, on the Athletic. Houston
is also exploring trades for another outfielder, but still has
its long standing six ye one hundred and fifty six
million dollars offer out to Brigman.

Speaker 4 (01:01:25):
So six one fifty six is still there?

Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
Yes? Does Standard Brown know this? Eh?

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
I'm I'm just thinking of her friend. This feels like
again ROSSI to me like this is more Jim Crane driven.
At least he's saying, Hey, Alex, we've had this deal
on the table for you for quite a while. We're
not taking it off. It's yours. You mean everything this organization,
we just have a threshold we're going to go to. Meanwhile,

(01:01:58):
if you're the general manager, you have to opt like
he's not here. So I don't think Dana is airing
any of.

Speaker 4 (01:02:02):
This, don't you?

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
I mean, don't you agree? You don't think he's what.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Aired in this process?

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
I think he's No, No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:02:08):
I mean, the show has to go on. Dana's got
to fill out his twenty six man roster here. He's
got to have depth chart, he's got to have position players.
He can't be he's not Dana's operating like I can't
be sitting here waiting for Alex to decide in two
to three weeks what he wants to do in order
to facilitate.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
My roster for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:02:29):
Yeah, he needs some solid bets rather than a long
shot parlay.

Speaker 3 (01:02:34):
Did you go on a gambling card? I can appreciate that,
speaking of a gambler. David's with us in Las Vegas
on seven Iety.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
David, good morning to you.

Speaker 14 (01:02:42):
Good morning gentlemen.

Speaker 15 (01:02:43):
This is gonna put the test of anything goes Friday
because it's about the Turkish alphabets, but not actually, it's
really about the rockets and a relationship with my family.
Because of the Turkish alphabet. You're asking about the letter
S and Turkish, and they have two of them. One
is the regular s pronounced you know, and then one
has a little curly cue on the bottom called a

(01:03:05):
sadilla like you see in Spanish sometimes and that changes
it to a shit and Alpi Shangoon has a little cadila,
so he's a shingoon, not a singoon.

Speaker 14 (01:03:16):
Okay, now that's that.

Speaker 15 (01:03:19):
But what my family, they know that I'm a big
San Francisco Giants fan. They know I'm a big Houston
Texans fan, and they know I'm a big Vegas Golden knightstand,
but they never seem to have any appreciation for how
much I love the Rockets. I don't know why, just
that hasn't stuck with him somehow. My brother, I have
a brother who spent about half his career living in Turkey,

(01:03:40):
and he happened to be visiting me here in Vegas
and the Rockets happened to be on national TV. So
I got him to watch a game with me and
Alpi was Alpi's rookie season and he comes on the
floor and I say, hey, look, brother, dear, they have
a Turkish player And I said, what's his name? I said,
Shangoon and he's to have the Sabella on this uniform

(01:04:02):
on the bottom of the s there.

Speaker 14 (01:04:03):
I said, well, no.

Speaker 15 (01:04:04):
They skipped that part and my brother at that point
decided he didn't like the Houston Rockets.

Speaker 14 (01:04:09):
So that was just the end of that true story.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
Sounding like you lost family strife there, Oh, Dave.

Speaker 14 (01:04:21):
That's the story, and it's anything goes Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:04:23):
Us, anything goes. Thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
So mixing in family issues and the Turkish dialect ross
is what this show is about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Here just one have won this show. Thank you, David.

Speaker 3 (01:04:35):
Yeah, I don't know if any other show in the
marketplace is going to give you that right there. No,
I don't have any other show in the marketplace wants.

Speaker 4 (01:04:41):
To give it to you, but we'll give it to
you regardless.

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
We wake the strippers up in one half hour seven
one three two one two five seven. Honey, if that
right there? Isn't the essence of anything goes Friday? I
don't know what it is. What it is, so come
on in be with us. We'll talk to Alex about
Oh what j Michael Finley story, just what the.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
City of Houston. Oh yes, let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
So it'd be basically Texas admiration segment straight ahead. That
Matt Thomas Show Ross continues here on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Ninty Liam sit Down.

Speaker 3 (01:05:15):
It is eleven thirty one on Sports Talk SEVENINTI.

Speaker 2 (01:05:19):
It is a Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (01:05:20):
Ross Rossie A very happy birthday to Ben Verlander, who
wishes that the Tigers would sign Alex pregnant.

Speaker 2 (01:05:28):
Okay, happy birthday, Ben, I hope you have a great one.
Wishing you all the best.

Speaker 3 (01:05:33):
Yeah, continued success and just general excitement. Looks nothing but
the very best.

Speaker 2 (01:05:43):
I'm proud of you, Matt. Yeah, I'm changing. I'm changing
my ways. Really, Yeah, you've got to change your evil ways.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Yeah, I'm gonna imaginer your lover now.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Really, I'm just I'm not.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Going to take much warranted shots of people that deserve them,
but I'm going to just just bite my lipard.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Wow, it's a new U in twenty twenty five, Matt.
Everybody and Matt, it's almost February.

Speaker 4 (01:06:19):
I got to February fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
Based on what I had my own rules. Is this
like the fifty half plus seven rule? That's right, it's
the forty five day rule.

Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
Alex is with us on the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross our time. He was eleven thirty two. Hi Alex,
how are you good?

Speaker 6 (01:06:38):
Matt Ross Connor, Happy Friday, fella's how's it going?

Speaker 4 (01:06:41):
Thank you for you having a great day. Thank you
very much.

Speaker 6 (01:06:44):
All right, So Ross said to Michael Finley, ut legend, Well,
before he was a UT legend, he was a East
Texas high school football legend. He went to dieball. We
went up and played them my sophomore year in high school.
So we had a pretty solid team district camps. Well,
Tremichael Finley just went on to put over about two

(01:07:05):
hundred yards and three or four touchdowns on us as
a receiver tight end, And when he wasn't catching his
breath on the sideline from running seventy yards downfield to score,
he was busting through all the offensive lineman as a
defensive end, just Reckon havoc I made it look like
Calvin Johnson was playing against a Pop Warner team.

Speaker 4 (01:07:22):
It was crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:07:23):
So he was a monster.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Yeah, he was great. People forget his name is kind
of forgotten in history because he had all those neck
and head injuries, so he kind of had to retire
early in his career. But I remember when he was
at Texas how special he was. I wish he would
have stayed another year for that twenty nineteen but they
lost it anyways, because colp McCoy got hurt in that game.
But yeah, he was a physical freak in his prime.

Speaker 14 (01:07:47):
He was huge.

Speaker 6 (01:07:48):
He he high pointed one ball on our free safety
who was the best athlete on our humble team, and
probably jumped up about four foot in the air, caught
it over him and just ran sixty yards downfield.

Speaker 8 (01:07:59):
Nobody could catch him.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Yep, he was just different Alex.

Speaker 6 (01:08:05):
Anyway, Dana, let's bring Breagman home running back, go rockets,
come out, you go.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
That's a call right there from a Jamichael Finley High
School Memories to bring Alex pregnant back to the the astros.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (01:08:22):
Again I find myself asking you, can you find another
radio program in the marketplace. It's going to go from
that that those segues, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Matt.

Speaker 4 (01:08:33):
By the way, I've got a new favorite Twitter account
of following.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Now we already know what your favorite Twitter account is.
How's she doing?

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
I don't know who you're speaking of.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
You know exactly one under bid im speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
It's called Houston air Watch and it's at Houston Air
w okay, and it's got various things about there. Most
of it is serious, but some of it is lighthearted,
talking about these people listen to air scanners. They listen,
they woke at helicopters, look at flight patterns. I just
found one yesterday from eleven hours ago when I got

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on the plane to go from Memphis back here. Thought
was funny. And they always put the hashtag h ou scanner.
If you were to re use hashtag you'll find it.
Houston Air Watch eleven hours ago. Carolina and Dallas at
the dirt Bar. She's refusing to pay her tab.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
I think it's funny. Been to the old dirt bar
a time or two.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Unt I might have gone once.

Speaker 2 (01:09:32):
It's the it's the pregame spot for You can pregame
there for the Rocket, you can pregame there for the
House of Blues.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
I just think it was funny that something as mundane
is somebody not paying the bill is verse worthy of
getting on the police scanner. H And then it gets
a little darker. Occasionally one has said it says here,
let's take a look. One says two thirty two to
one Louisiana, four males, all with hoodies and ski mask.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
That's not great. I can't. I'm turning up very well.
Why not?

Speaker 8 (01:10:03):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
I mean, when what are you using ski mask for?
When it's sixty degrees out?

Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
It's cold out, Matt, it's not I think the loads
are in the forties. Mm hmmm, I don't believe it.
Let me see what was the low low forty nine today?
A little chili out. What if they're just walking around
ski masks? What's the big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
If you don't have an issue with it, I'm okay
with it. I don't necessarily believe it, and I don't
think you believe it either.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
Not bothering anybody, just hanging out in the in the
chili air.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
Okay, Man, here Ross, that's Ross, Ross finds Innocence and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
Ski mask at ten thirty at night or whatever it was. Yeah,
it's eleven at night, man, it's chili out.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
So maybe the girl at the bar, at the bar
got bad service, that's why she's not paying.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
Maybe it's maybe it's a benefit of that in her end.
Maybe they served to the wrong drinks. She still drank
them even later wrong. Well, maybe she didn't. We don't know.
You don't know the both sides of the story, Matt.
You're just assuming. Yeah, that's right, we should have. All
it says is she's refusing to pay her tab.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
And probably has had fifteen or twenty cocktails.

Speaker 2 (01:11:14):
Maybe maybe she ordered a Cosmo and got a Tom Collins. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
Let's go to Patrick On seven ninety eleven thirty seven, Patrick,
good morning.

Speaker 16 (01:11:22):
To you, Hey morning guys. Started listening to y'all on
iHeart Radio as opposed to seven ninety Am and j'all
sound completely different.

Speaker 8 (01:11:32):
I have to double check on on.

Speaker 16 (01:11:33):
The right station the entire time. But my question was,
at what point is that's kind of two questions. At
what point does Dana Brown tell Bregmant he either meets
the poop or get off the pot with all this?
And then also, I haven't kept up with much of
the minor league in Winter league? How did does Zenzo
look in left field over it in the Domerican Republic

(01:11:57):
of Puerto Rico where he was playing? And how close
do we think Melton is to being ready? I know
he's not gonna be no call Tucker obviously, but he
was a top one hundred prospect last year. So hopefully
something a little bit better than our every day what
we're looking at now. But thanks, guys, Y'll have a
good weekend. I'll hang up and listen.

Speaker 2 (01:12:15):
Thank you very much. Now, he said, we sound different
on the iHeart app. Yeah, we sound better. Yeah, we
sound crystal clear stereo. Let's go baby, Yeah, Matt, And
I was curious, how how do you thought Zach Dezenzo
looked in left field in the Puerto Rican League? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
I didn't go h the seven on eighty travel budget
and not allow me to go normally.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
I do go every year. Puerto Rico is lovely. I'd
never been.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
I don't think Desenzo is considered a long term future
candidate for the Astros in terms of.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
Eight games and left ten at first and one at
third base in a winter ball in Puerto Rico for
Zach Dezenzo. Uh yeah, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
I think it's a two B determined on Descenzo, on
what he really brings. I think it's the name we're
gonna be thinking about during the off season for Did
you got talked to him during FanFest?

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
I think yes, he was on with Sean and Brian.
I didn't catch it. Yeah, I mean I think he's
I think they said he was really good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
I think it's an undefined role for him right now
at this point. I mean he's not pestlin as being
a starter. But I mean I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:13:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:13:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:13:21):
I don't know enough about him. I didn't see enough
of him to get have a all.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
This guy is a budding superstar or this guy is
a for a player. I'm gonna give you a didn't
complete it. But in terms of the recon on what
he did in Puerto Rico. That's something for Dana Brown.
When Ross and I are going to Florida a few
weeks for spring training, we'll be able to get some
more information on stuff like that. But that's just not
one of those situations that we don't have any I
don't think even Puerto Rico games are on television?

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Are they?

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
I've never seen one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
I don't know. Maybe closed circuit, No, maybe stream, maybe
you get stream. You haven't streaming Puerto Rican ball games.
I think some of the stream never a Puerto Rican
baseball game though. And then as far as Jacob Milton
MLB pipeline listed as e et A is this year
is twenty five, Yeah, I would say so probably later
into the year.

Speaker 4 (01:14:06):
Yeah, I don't think there's a zero percent chance.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
He makes a team coming out of spring training. You
think zero percent, zero percent? He's twenty four. What are
we waiting for?

Speaker 2 (01:14:19):
I mean again, I'm only going off of what I've
been somewhat told. Yeah, yeah, top h. No, I'm not
saying he is. Yeah, I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (01:14:31):
Probably Mountain first before Matthews is what I'm kind of
hearing on the streets.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
Does that make sense?

Speaker 2 (01:14:36):
To y'all, probably ETA, this is just from MLB pipeline
et A. For Bryce Matthews, they have his twenty six,
twenty twenty six. Same thing for Cam Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Yeah, of the names you just brought up, the Cam
Smith acquisition looks like to be the one that's going
to be the He's the highest ranked prospect right in
the organization.

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Yes, and he wasn't even thirty days.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
What was he like the sixth CUB prospector summer fifth,
I can't remember what it was, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
That's to drive Dana crazy that his that his prospect
list I think was the Athletic to do the latest list,
or it was ESPN one of the two groups. We're
just not making that much inroads into the mine, into
UH replenishing the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
Minor league system.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
It shows you that when you have spent years of
taking your draft picks and your prospects and using them
in trades, whether it be for Zach Grink, whether it
be for Justin Verlander, whether it be for he help
me out Carlos gobez Lander the first time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Lander the second times.

Speaker 3 (01:15:37):
The UH, the Kakuchi trade, you there is a long
term effect to that.

Speaker 17 (01:15:45):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Any and also getting punished by not having the draft
picks in their system.

Speaker 4 (01:15:49):
So because you know, Dana was brought here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
I mean, let's make no mistake, Danta is obviously involved
in the data day operations, but Dana, I mean what
Dana's selling point was. Look, I'm know how to build
minor league systems. I helped do it in Toronto, I
helped do it in Atlanta. I can do it here.
And I have seen nothing more than the Astros being
twenty eighth out of thirty. I don't think it's in
his fault. I just think that he has been very

(01:16:14):
hesitant to use those minor league players that he considers
as as prospects. But yet has been you know, the
team that needed a starting pitcher, You just weren't you needed.
Use Kakuchi was absolutely needed for the Astros to win
the division last year, or for the wild card they
won the division?

Speaker 4 (01:16:35):
They won, They won the division, right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Yes, yeah, If you don't have Usay Kakuchi, you're not
one of the American League West. And I know that
it's gonna bug some people way.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Well, you give up all those guys you needed, you say, to.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Win the division? You lost in a wild card round.
It sucked, I get it, but I will unless Jake
bloss becomes a twenty game winner for the Toronto Blue
Jays long term and Joey li Berfido is sling you know,
six forty.

Speaker 4 (01:17:02):
I think we're gonna be okay.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
I think he's opsing under six forty.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
Okay, Well, don't let that interfere with the good storyline.
How do you getting rid of Joey lopoveto? What's dandid
Brown doing is an idiot.

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
I don't know why we have all these New Yorker
fans that pretend they're astro fans, and why I went
to that accent, but it happens.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
I think it's because I'm saying that word. Joey Lopafido.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Joey Liperfdo sounds like a guy that would give you
football picks.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Hmmm, Joey Liperfino.

Speaker 3 (01:17:30):
Yeah, maybe this is Joey little Baffido. I'm on a
recording line. I it is a November to remember. I've
given you nine winners in a row.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
We're into Octoba. I'm gonna hit fourteen piles in a row.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
I got so much infantide information the inside has, don't
even had this inside information. That's how connected I am.
I'm Joey Lipafido eleven forty four. We're punched drunk here
on a Friday. I don't if y'all realize that or not.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
I'm making it. I think we sound great. It's just
what I heard on that I heard radio app.

Speaker 3 (01:18:03):
I think I think people. I think generally speaking, people
are entertained. I mean, we can get into some deep
seated tech. What's the textans to do in the offices?
And caught us a conversation if you want, And remember
the big tweet's coming out this Sunday of guess we're
not gonna have on from Radio row.

Speaker 4 (01:18:21):
Is there anywhereroad even a thing anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Yes, Gordy's going. Are we paying for that? I don't know.
That's above my head.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
I don't want Gordy pan out of his own money.
Should we set up a gofunding account for.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Gordon's family of New Orleans? He's fine, you should drive
on over there. It's like a five and a half
hour drive.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
It's still gonna cost some gas money. You gotta eat,
gotta park the car.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:51):
By the way, I got a ruling on a go
fund meet a situation coming back when we will come back.
It's anything goes Friday, right, absolutely. I think I know
how you're gonna rule on this. I think you and
I are gonna be in the same page. Okay, it
is eleven forty five. It's about Thomas Show, Ross seven
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Speaker 1 (01:19:24):
Ninety more Man Thomas Show with Ross now Sports Talk
seven ninety we.

Speaker 3 (01:19:33):
Have the news that nude coming up. We'll wake the
strippers up. We got nine four stories at one thirty
believe it or not? Today one fifty what is the
Oh the category is about googleble right, based off the
top we talked about earlier today?

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Is that correct? Is it? I think it is. We're
doing cities in Turkey said we're.

Speaker 3 (01:19:50):
Not gonna bring it up. People are gonna start googling
it now. That's fine, all right, here's my ruling. Got
a buddy of mine. I will not mention his name.
Don't even know who he is, don't even live here.
Let's getting married. That's great, right, that's great, and it'll
be his second marriage.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Mayor and a girl, it'll be her second marriage.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
I find.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
He sends me a note and says, hey, I'm going
to this small island to get married in about a month. Okay,
that's cool. Then he's going to have a bigger family
get together on another island in.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
A couple months after that. Okay, So it sounds good, right,
sounds like fun.

Speaker 4 (01:20:41):
I go to his Facebook page.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
He doesn't have a GoFundMe account, okay, but he's got
a gift card kind of website link that can help
them pay for things they would do on these getaways.
Snorkeling couple's massage, gift cards to two different airlines, hotel certificates.

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Like a wedding gift. Correct. I need a ruling, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:21:20):
I've always been told that if you're getting married for
the second time, you don't really ask for gifts.

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
That's on you, Jack.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
If people want to give you some money or give
you a gift, or say hey, what can we do
for you, then you can say that's awesome, thank you
very much.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Yeah, you head to the JP like an adult and
maybe have a party. Yeah, were you paid for it? Frankly, yes,
I didn't have the stones to tell this guy, my
buddy mine, we've been friends about you. You should I'll tell him,
let me know. I want to.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Say, bruh, it's not my fault that you're both of
your first marriages didn't work out, and if they didn't
work out because of the of the other spouse, I'm
sorry for that, and I'm happy you all getting married,
but I don't think anybody should be. And again, they're
going to two different islands, one to get married and
one for a family wedding reception. They opposedly can afford

(01:22:19):
these things without going to the gift card card on
their Facebook account.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
That's ridiculous. Why don't you you've been you're good friends
with this person?

Speaker 4 (01:22:27):
Uh one to ten like you and I are two
and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:22:30):
He's probably one. Oh, come on, I'm kidding.

Speaker 4 (01:22:33):
I'm kidding, no real life one to tend he's probably
a five.

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
How long have you known him? About ten years? Do
you want men to talk to them? No, I'm gonna start,
you know what, I'm gonna start a service where I
have tough talks that people don't want to have with
the with their with their family members, their friends.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
Me too, Like I want to create the website. You
know how you have marriage cam at a sporting events.
I want divorce cam.

Speaker 2 (01:22:58):
Hmm, what does that have anything to do with what
I said?

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
Because I want to I want to hire an attorney
to go to a game and hand the divorce papers
to the girl at the games compared to handling, putting
the putting the knee down and saying will you marry me?

Speaker 2 (01:23:11):
Okay, I'll help facilitate that. Yeah, I just you. You
didn't go from A to B. You went from A
to F. That's fine. We're all trying to think about
rich quick. You were trying to get rich quick thing. Yeah, Hi,
I'm ross from tough talks dot com. You have a
tough conversation that you don't want to have with a
family member. Let me do it for you. Fill me
into the details, you know what's.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
Sorry, hold on, stop right now, Let's do a little sample.
Let's see how this works. Okay, we've only got about
three minutes left in this segment. Sure can one person
call the show right now that has a similar situation
that they need a ross tough talk.

Speaker 2 (01:23:49):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:23:50):
My two other companies that I've created in my life
have been both successful.

Speaker 4 (01:23:54):
One is Promote for You dot Biz.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
That's that already floundered.

Speaker 4 (01:23:58):
And one hundred Go after Yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Which one is that one?

Speaker 4 (01:24:01):
That's a subsidiary of what you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:24:03):
Where you have a boss at work that you don't like,
I call them and say, hey, can I speak to
mister Miller?

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Please?

Speaker 3 (01:24:10):
Yes, man, I was just calling No, I need to
speak to mister Miller, And I said, mister Miller on
behalf of some of your employees.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
They would like you to go f yourself?

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Okay, And then what you do is they'll say, who
is this?

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Who paid for this?

Speaker 3 (01:24:24):
I'm not gonna tell you because I want you to
think about somebody in this company spent money for me
to call you and tell you to go f yourself?

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Okay, how's that business going?

Speaker 4 (01:24:36):
Both are thriving, So why I'm working.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
Two jobs now? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
I can tell all right, So if anybody wants it,
if anybody needs a tough talk, help about a minute left,
so call in right now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:49):
I don't want to get any like medical professional. I'll
do like a drug interringent or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:24:56):
Yeah, something more lighthearted, like like you don't like like
your buddy doesn' you love your buddy, but you don't
love your buddy's girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Hmm, it's time for a ross tough talk.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seventy.

Speaker 4 (01:25:10):
I don't think I need a tough talk. I just
think I just I'm going on.

Speaker 3 (01:25:13):
I think I'm gonna avoid it, okay, because I went
and looked at his Facebook page all day and no
one's buying anything for him.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
It'd be one thing roster.

Speaker 3 (01:25:23):
They said, Look, we're going to the JP and then
we're gonna go down to Galves and we might get
like a stop at the Chick fil A and Seawall Boulevard.

Speaker 4 (01:25:30):
I mean, then you feel like, okay, let's give him
a couple of bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
Wow, can at least go to shrimp and stuff rip
and rough?

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
But to go to one island and get married, come
back and then go to another island with family.

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
And now you're asking if you're going to two island
trips and you're asking for money, shut yobumass up asking
for your me for marryat points. I mean, come on now, broh.
I wouldn't even do that for a first wedding. You're
going on two trips and you want money gf GTFO.

Speaker 3 (01:26:00):
If it's a first marriage, I can kind of get
into it. But but I haven't been invited either one
of them.

Speaker 2 (01:26:03):
I mean again, you didn't get an invite either.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
No, the first one is intimate family and then it's
more of a family going on the second one. No,
but I don't think I want to buy them. A
couple's massage. Couples sages are ridiculous. A couple massages basically
I e.

Speaker 2 (01:26:18):
Sex.

Speaker 4 (01:26:18):
I'm not paying for your sex.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Is that what it is? What?

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
What percentage of people have couple massages? They don't want
up having sex within two hours of it?

Speaker 2 (01:26:27):
What?

Speaker 17 (01:26:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
I thought it was. You just get in a massage
and you're like on tables next to each other. That's
my point. You get finished with the massage, you go
back to the room and go, babe, that felt great.
They want up having sex? The hell are you talking about?

Speaker 4 (01:26:39):
Not saying you having sex with a massage there, but
I'm saying, like you're having sex with your partner after
the massage.

Speaker 2 (01:26:45):
Why not before so you get really relaxed. Yeah, but
but you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
You're gonna be all tense before the massage, then you
have the massage.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
No, you get untense before the massage, and then you
go to the massage.

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
All right, let's get one in before uh, Jason and King.
But Ross is here for you for a tough talk.
What can Ross help you with? I got two tough talks.

Speaker 18 (01:27:05):
One, Ross, I need you to have a conversation with
your city guys about y'all not winning the league this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:11):
Year, oh my god. And Arsenal is not winning either.

Speaker 18 (01:27:15):
And I need you to have a conversation with Astro's
fans about Alex bergman, because that's gonna be a very
tough talk.

Speaker 2 (01:27:23):
Okay, like when he doesn't sign or one or what. Yeah,
when he doesn't sign, Okay, I think most people are
I know that he's probably gone, although the people are
getting their hopes up. Yeah, that's kind of that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:33):
Man.

Speaker 17 (01:27:34):
I'm gonna hang up.

Speaker 18 (01:27:35):
But yeah, now that's gonna be an extremely tough talk
with a lot of these guys. Y'all have a good
when Ross City sucks by.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
All right, we'll see this weekend, baby, Arsenal versus City.
Matt's a big game, all right, here we go the
real Sanders, says f Y. And those wedding sites where
it can says you can purchase whatever activity for the
brider groom and it actually takes your cash and gives
it to them to spend on how they choose without you,
without telling what you picked. Wow, f Y second winning

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no gifts just might take think the real James, Real
j Sanders, by the way, at Something Got a Change
says it's probably the bride's idea. Probably. Yeah, if you're
getting married for the second time, I'm very happy that
you found somebody else again again.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
And remember it takes two tangles, so maybe you were
the good spouse and the other one was a douche.
I mean, I get that that can clearly happen, but
I don't think I'm want to contribute to your second honeymoon,
your second wedding, or your second family.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
Reunion wedding or whatever the hell you're having. I'll send
you a nice text that's your wedding gift.

Speaker 4 (01:28:41):
Yeah, graduates to do both. I'm very happy for you.
Boom done. I took the time to care.

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
And not so many Cash twelve o'clock, We wake the
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Speaker 1 (01:28:54):
Ninety lunchtimers, This is the Matt on his Shoe.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Twelve oh four in h Town.

Speaker 19 (01:29:07):
Good mon exter rippers, and welcome to the third hour
of the Motop his Shoe.

Speaker 4 (01:29:27):
This it's Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Don't suck off his teeth. I'm not see I don't
even want to be. I'm trying not to make the montage.
See people can't see me right now, but I'm I'm
doing like kind of like the grabbing. Okay, the grabby,
grasping and straws. That's what you have. Groping, that's what
you know. No, no, not doing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:47):
That, Regina. Yeah you are on going on Regina's works
later today. Yeah to watch it hurts rainy. It could
be a little sloppy in Regina today. You know what,
I want you to put those metrics and shove them
up your ass only two hours?

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Oh was he He's going to solo.

Speaker 3 (01:30:02):
Poundtown relating here on kill halftime.

Speaker 4 (01:30:06):
So I'm going to rest my ear.

Speaker 3 (01:30:08):
I remember talking to phone solong in my life since
I was probably dating.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
A girl in high school.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
All right, is very one of my favorite montages because
it features as much Ross as does me, which makes
me happy.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
And you've got the ability Ross to make Damn Matthews.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
Uncomfortable during these shows that when he comes in and
feels an occasional can happen.

Speaker 4 (01:30:32):
He's kind of squeamish, if you will.

Speaker 2 (01:30:36):
Hmmm. Interesting. I was thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (01:30:42):
I have not done a game over the telephone since
I think I was doing college baseball in the late
nineteen nineties. That's how long it was until last night.

Speaker 2 (01:30:53):
So you got it like a little thing that held
the phone to your head or what was the deal with?

Speaker 11 (01:30:57):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:30:57):
I know it was a literal HND, you know, like
a phone.

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
I know we don't have phones in our office anymore,
but people do have phones at their desk back in
the day, back in the day, and I helped they.
They they brought in one from I guess the front
office of one of the opposite of FedEx Form. They
still couldn't figure that out because it was connected to
a circuit as compared to just a phone line. So

(01:31:21):
I did the very first segment of the Rockets Grizzlies
game on my cellphone yesterday. We took a break came
back and I was on the landline the rest of
the way.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Okay, like holding the phone to your head.

Speaker 3 (01:31:29):
Holding I'll shoot a photo of it what I was doing.
And I didn't put this on Twitter yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
I don't know if I don't pay that much attention.
You muted me, right, No, you're not muted. All right,
I'm gonna add this. I'm gonna put this is me.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
I'm gonna put me call in the game yesterday, calling
the game from Memphis.

Speaker 2 (01:31:47):
By the way, you know it's time for ROSTI what
is it time for at noon? Oh? Yes, Matthew, it
is time for the news at noon Here on Sports
Talk seven ninety, where we bring you all the top
sports news of the day, including the fact that the
Houston Rockets lost last night to the Memphis Grizzlies, as

(01:32:12):
it was a thriller in Memphis, unfortunately, the Rockets falling
short one to one nineteen. There was some controversy at
the end of the game, but at the end of
the day, the Rockets were unable to get the victory,
and well before the game on TNT, you did have
some confusion from one of the panelists on TNT.

Speaker 9 (01:32:32):
Oh great energy they play together. But I'm looking forward
to the Ja Morant Jalen Green matchup. Well, Ja Morants out. Okay,
so Jama rants also forget that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
So about time they are playing, well, they are playing
with great God, Oh I get it. Look this actually works.
You're calling the game, Matt God.

Speaker 4 (01:33:00):
It's one of your worst lines ever and you've had
quite a bit of badminton.

Speaker 2 (01:33:03):
You put it out there. Yeah, but I didn't say.
I didn't say what you just said.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
So now you now there's no longer a feat of
the mine. That's exactly how I sat for two plus hours.
Like I said, I haven't been on a phone call
that long since I was Dayton Girls in high school,
everyone used to do that when you were younger.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
You had you talk and talk. No, you hang up, No,
you hang up? Oh God, I love you.

Speaker 3 (01:33:29):
I love you girl, for like eight hours. I'm like,
I hung up at like six fifteen in the morning
on the eight hours. Yeah, it was stupid. We did
stupid things. We were sixteen seventeen years old.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Hmmm. R back to the news at noon. Okay, we're
back to the news at noon. Yeah, Well, you can
comment on the Grizzlies or what I had to say
about Shaq not not even knowing that John Morant was playing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Uh and by the way, Oppri and Chinou did not play.
Did make the All Star game early in the day,
but he had a little bit of hips horn its.
So I think if last night was a playoff game,
you would have played. But you know what, you know,
you don't want to test things. We'll get a rigorous
schedule coming up Saturday, Brooklyn will be in the building
and then we'll go back on the road for another
four game trip next week.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
Hmm, yes, Matt, yeah, I think do you get tailored
headlines now on ESPN or something? Because I was looking
at looking up the top headlines and it's about arch
Manning and Manchester City's in there. Charithm Alcharithm's got me down.
They do. I think they do.

Speaker 4 (01:34:35):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
Let's actually get to something else Astros related. As you know, Matt,
Jorge Polanco signed by the Seattle Mariners. According to Chandler Rome,
that means the Astros will be turning their attention towards
Alex Bregman, still trying to improve the roster. I mean,
we've said we didn't expect this to happen at all.
How are we feeling right now, Matt? As far as

(01:34:57):
percentage chance, well, well.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
You have been more boastful about it than I am.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
In terms of it's not happening. I don't think he
gets even fair to put a percentage on it. Either
he wants to do it or he doesn't. Right if
he if the six one fifty six is still there
and he's taking and he still says no, is he
not waiting for every possibility of somebody stepping up and

(01:35:24):
giving him the six and maybe more than one fifty
six or offering us seven. I think the seven bit
is long gone. I think that is not even in play.
So I would say I'm gonna stay right where I am.
Is that I find it to be without putting a
percentage on it, highly doubtful.

Speaker 4 (01:35:39):
That he is coming back.

Speaker 2 (01:35:41):
Also in Chandler, Rome's report says that Tigers, Red Sox,
Blue Jays, and Cubs remaining in play for Bregmant. According
to two league sources, Astro is also exploring trades for
another outfielder. That feels like that's more accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:36:02):
I mean, the number one thing is, do I think
this even the thought of Bregnant returning is is this
owner driven or is this team driven?

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
Baseball operation driven?

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
And I feel like it's more owner driven than it
is in the else because I think the moves that
Dana has made is more indicative of we have to
move on. We got to fill out our roster, We
got to fill up the depth chart, we got to
fill our I infield. We needed improvement at first base,
but got that done with Christian Walker. We needed to
make a deal to solidify third base because we didn't
think Alex Bregman was coming back. We weren't satisfied with

(01:36:34):
what we had in the system. So any deal we
were moving Kyle Tucker for we had to get a
third basement.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
And return and that's what the Astros going, all right, Matt.
One final thing here, Arch Manning announces in ideal with
nil deal with Red Bull Energy Drink. No details immediately
available this according to the story from on three Sports,
but it's clear that Texas quarterback Arch Manning is quickly

(01:36:59):
because one of the faces of college football. According to
on three n I on three's nil valuation, Manning is
worth six point six million dollars, making him number one
in the country.

Speaker 3 (01:37:13):
He made up wind up making more money in college
than his than his uncle and his uncle's maid in
the pros.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
It's crazy how much money he's making for Harley ever playing.
It's crazy. Yeah, it is crazy. He's also, by the way,
the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy currently.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
All right, we will do the show live from New York.
If that happens, we will. No, I just want to
sell it. We were on a big ten.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Plus seven point fifty arch manning to win the Heisman Trophy.
I'm rooting for him. I wish him nothing but the
very best.

Speaker 3 (01:37:46):
As you would say, Look, if didn't you put your
name on it that he wasn't he was going to
throw a touchdown pass for a college not called Texas.
He has it, didn't throw a pick six. All right,
that's a win, and you're welcome. By the way, my
Cougars are gonna win the INSTABA National Championship. So the

(01:38:07):
least I can do is root for your long Horns
to do football wise, Look, our football program is on
the up and coming, but we're not we're not ready yet.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
We're you get the quarterback now, you're a quarterback away
last year. Now you got Connor uh Wegman Wegman. Yeah, yeah,
we're fine, but we're still we're going.

Speaker 3 (01:38:23):
From five and seven to probably I'm looking at somewhere
in the rings of like nine and three and maybe
ten and three. Whatever, It's fine, look at the dominator.

Speaker 4 (01:38:32):
Then we'll play for the championship in two years.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
Is it true they've been calling you guys as coaches
the Tapioca Twins. That might be the rudest thing you
ever said in the history of this show.

Speaker 3 (01:38:45):
No, it's not even fans. Come after him right now,
destroy him right now. I give you carte blanche tapioca twins.
I'll serve you some tapioca.

Speaker 2 (01:38:57):
All right? Who what.

Speaker 4 (01:39:03):
Justin Tucker's now forget it?

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Oh my god, what is happening. Let's go to break folks.

Speaker 3 (01:39:12):
Phone calls next. That's extraordinarily rude. I cannot believe you
went to the pudding card my favorite pudding. By the way,
unders uh, Rice and banana would have been my two favorites.

Speaker 2 (01:39:29):
All right, I'm done talking about pudding.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
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Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
All Right, this may be a biased conversation coming up,
but we brought it up very late in the show
yesterday about Justin Tucker and his allegations of multiple massages
parlor not miss what they call them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:26):
Six messuses at four A wellness centers I think.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
Are saying that that Justin Tucker harassed them and he's
no longer welcomed. Justin Tucker then goes on his Twitter
account yesterday deeply apologizes, blah blah blah blah blaah, denies
all the allegations.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
I've not done a deep dive on this, frankly.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
Because it's I mean, we've kind of been there, done
that with these athletes. But are we giving the benefit
of doubt? Is there is there more to this? Are
we sitting back and just letting the natural process come
into play? The nothing criminal had been put out? There's
not been little lawsuits at this point, right, not that
I know of.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
I don't think there's been any civil lawsuits or criminal charges.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Is it just a case of this is gonna go away?

Speaker 2 (01:42:14):
Or do you think we're waiting for.

Speaker 3 (01:42:17):
Ronny Esby to get on a plane to Baltimore to
go talk to these people?

Speaker 2 (01:42:23):
Can you why do you have to raim rhyme his name.
He's a lawyer.

Speaker 3 (01:42:26):
He doesn't spend money with us. Okay, we have lawyers
to spend money with us, for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
I guess.

Speaker 4 (01:42:34):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Are you?

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
Are you buying his argument? I mean all I was
told I was given a little tip yesterday about him
and that Justin is gregarious in nature.

Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
He is.

Speaker 3 (01:42:51):
This is coming from somebody that used to cover him
when he was in college. And again, people mature as
they get older. Obviously he's been in the NFL a
long time, but was uh, perhaps a bit full of himself,
but by no means a as a kicker.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
Yeah, I mean, dude, he was a great, one of
the greatest.

Speaker 4 (01:43:09):
He's one of the greatest.

Speaker 3 (01:43:10):
NFL kickers, the greatest NFL kicker, And clearly he was
obviously very good in college too, right, I mean you
didn't you were disappointed with his work?

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
Then he hit the game winner against the Yah. He's
in the what had previously been the last game, and
then they as Texas won and now while Texas now
has won the last game again.

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Yeah, so, uh just kind of not full of himself, but.

Speaker 3 (01:43:29):
A high value of himself. There's a difference, okay, and
that he was a he was a big.

Speaker 4 (01:43:34):
Singer in the locker room and was not just.

Speaker 2 (01:43:39):
There was just how do I put this cocky?

Speaker 4 (01:43:44):
The volume was always turned down in his life. Who
he was. You know, there was no low keyness to him.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Okay, he was high key. He was hikey.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
So with that being said, I you know, I you know,
that doesn't mean that all of a sudden he became
a prenitor in a wellness center. But the only thing
I go back to this on and we're not gonna
spend a whole lot to this, but it is worth
at least a small discussion point, is that, again, Baltimore
is a big metropolis. There's obviously four corners of town,
there's a downtown, there's a residential area. But I just

(01:44:16):
don't know, if you're him, do you need to go
to multiple wellness centers if you find one that you like,
or two at the very most, don't you kind of
stick it out with those two?

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
If you've been kicked out of two. You gotta find more.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
I think the sheer number of places he's gone to
doesn't make him look.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
Particularly good in this cita.

Speaker 2 (01:44:35):
I tend to believe these accusations. I mean a report
has I mean multiple reporters have been on this. Right,
there's six massuses. There seems to be like there. You know,
we talked about the deleted tweets about people saying he's
been canceled and stuff like that. Right, I don't know

(01:44:58):
anything about anything, but I'm just saying, in my opinion,
I believe these allegations. Like I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:45:03):
Ross, we should create an not a bill of rights,
but a code of conduct for athletes.

Speaker 4 (01:45:12):
And I'll start here and if you, if you want
to add some more, let me know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
I think if you're a professional athlete out past one am,
you're destined for trouble. Doesn't mean it's fair, doesn't mean
you're guilty by association, doesn't mean you're guilty by time.
But I think as long as you're a professional athlete,
knowing that you make a lot of money, your higher profile,

(01:45:38):
that people may be targeting you. Just you got to
get to where you need to get and be in
your place for the rest of night by one am.
And that's number one.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Number two.

Speaker 3 (01:45:52):
If you love massages, and look, a lot of professional
athletes love me. It's a huge part of the recovery process.
In fact, the Rockets travel to massage therapists with us
on the road every single time, and they're great ladies,
and they do a spectacular job. And with the riggers
of an NBA schedule, they absolutely get these guys back
and going as fast as humanly possible. But if you're

(01:46:15):
a professional athlete, the NFL, Major League Baseball, NBA teams
will set you up with proper massage therapists that will
do exactly what they're needed to do. I think going
on your own to these wellness centers and moving around
to different locations ross nothing good comes out of this.
Either go to the team, let them do it, let

(01:46:39):
them charge you, or they'll give it to you. They'll
find the massages for free for you. Going on your
own probably in a great thing.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Yeah, I mean, but I've also heard of former NFL
players who do get massages, and consensual things happen. Consensual
things can happen often. Yes, we're talking about famous, rich, rich,
famous men with I mean, some of the most finely

(01:47:08):
tuned athletic bodies on the planet. Things happen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:12):
Yes, yeah, we should, we should. We should fairly discuss
their side of it. There are places that these athletes
can go that if the messuse wants to take it
to the next level, they're more than happy with doing that.

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
Correct, And we are, certainly it's.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
We're right along that understand. I mean, look, if if
there's if the word no happens and and a therapist
does not want anything to happen, then yeah, justin Tucker
or Sean Watson or whoever else, anybody right, and he's
in there, And if he's been kicked out, if he's

(01:47:51):
been banned from multiple places, as this story alleges, that
sounds like, yeah, he's he's engaging in deviant behavior. Here's
another reality, Ross, If you're looking for someone who will
say yes, it won't take you very long to find one.

Speaker 4 (01:48:05):
Right, And I don't mean to be crashed, but that's.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Just that's just life.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
So yeah, I don't know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:48:15):
Just feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:48:17):
And this is unfortunately, this is what these this is
what police officers and security people tell these athletes all
the time. It's not fair that you don't get to
do everything that a normal person does, but you also
get to take it. You also get an opportunity to
do some things in life that the average person does.
You're gonna get security, you're gonna get preferential treatment at
a hotel or a restaurant or a place of business.

Speaker 4 (01:48:40):
But there are gonna be some downfalls to it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:43):
One of them is you're gonna have cameras looking at
you and people watching every movie you make.

Speaker 4 (01:48:47):
You're gonna have police officers.

Speaker 3 (01:48:48):
They're gonna they're gonna look at your expensive car and
see what's going on. You're gonna have people trying I mean,
look at the number of robberies we have seen with
professional athletes in just the last year, of people taking
out their houses.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
Yeah, and Joe Burrow had multiple breakings.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
Yeah, I mean there's been didn't Pat Mahomes and Travis
Kelsey had their house. So there are gonna be some
ups and downs. Way more pluses than minuses than there are.
And being a rich professional athlete, and one of the
negatives is yep, pretty you may be pretty darn careful
what you're doing with the massage therapist, and you have

(01:49:23):
Deshaun Watson as a prime example, Deshaun gave everybody a
see what happens to me, don't let this happen to you, or.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
Don't act like this.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
So yeah, I don't know. The multiple locations makes the
red flags are going up with Justin Tucker. Well, now
will it ultimately affect his future for the for the Ravens.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
I don't know, do you.

Speaker 3 (01:49:52):
I mean, there's no there's no way you can equate
his subpart season to what's going on with him off
the field. But you know that Baltimore Radio is probably
talking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:05):
It's just just bizarre. It's just bizarre. It's what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:50:12):
And for a twenty eight year old who's a stockbroker,
nobody cares. But when you're the greatest kicker of all time,
making multimillions of dollars playing for professional NFL team, the
microscope is going to be on you.

Speaker 4 (01:50:23):
It's twelve twenty is it twelve thirty one?

Speaker 2 (01:50:25):
My clock is off here, it's twelve thirty one. You're
doing great.

Speaker 4 (01:50:29):
I am How are you doing?

Speaker 2 (01:50:31):
I'm fine making it? You sound offkay? Thank you? I
mean your energy is made. But that's okay. We're working
on it. I get some more coffee.

Speaker 4 (01:50:39):
I'm going for my third cup here in the break Here, Pradia,
you want to have a.

Speaker 2 (01:50:42):
Coffee fest here? Who can drink the most coffee? No,
of course no, I'd like to keep No. There's a
history of heart disease in my family. I let's try
to keep away from that.

Speaker 4 (01:50:51):
I thought coffee was good for you on certain amounts.

Speaker 2 (01:50:54):
I think you're not supposed to. Oh God, I believe.
Please Google in fact check this. I believe it's if
you're under four hundred milligrams a day, you're fine have caffeine.

Speaker 4 (01:51:04):
So also far, I've had two cups of coffee and
that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
Mm hmm yeah, Google dot com four up to four
hundred milligrams of caffeine today. This appears to be safe
for most healthy adults. And how many milligrams are in
each kurg I don't know, Probably under one hundred, Probably
around one hundred. Okay, you know what, I'll take a break.

Speaker 3 (01:51:24):
Then you probably smart idea. I'm gonna go get me
a glass of water. Let's continue the conversation, and anything goes.

Speaker 4 (01:51:29):
Friday.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
It's seven one three two one two five seven ninety.
Everybody's off and opining on the Alex Bregman, future Tigers,
maybe Red Sox, maybe Astros maybe when is it maybe
going to be a definitive More of that coming up, Plus,
the Texans continue to look for offensive coordinator candidates. It's

(01:51:52):
an exhaustive search. Are you surprised at going to this level?

Speaker 4 (01:51:55):
I would say no on that twelve thirty, twelve thirty
two on Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 2 (01:51:59):
Ninety, lunchtimers.

Speaker 1 (01:52:01):
Lunch timers, It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:52:11):
Rockets fell last night to the Grizzlies in Memphis, late
night game eight thirty start time, eight thirty five start time. Man,
we Central time zones gets we we we take the
burn of this.

Speaker 2 (01:52:25):
Actually cils good.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
It's okay, mountains, perfect mountains, best for sure. Uh but
uh yeah. I mean, look, we're gonna begin to May
thirty games in Houston, Babe. I'm just telling you. With
the Rockets playoffs coming up, you know they're gonna be playing.

Speaker 2 (01:52:39):
Some the right bab You know what I man? You know, yeah,
maybe you went to New Orleans so the Super Bowl. Baby.

Speaker 3 (01:52:47):
By the way, I think when Gordy joins us from
New Orleans next week he should only speak to us,
and with his New Orleans dialog absolutely full on, it'll
definitely not it won't be the same if he doesn't
give it, you know, perspective. Part of me is, look,
I do enjoy and we always tease about going to
the super Bowl. It's it is fun, it's interesting, it's

(01:53:09):
it's a different week of shows. It just feels like
the last four or five years, the A listers have
gone to the national shows and they just don't have
any regard for the local product.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Well, we haven't been out there a while, so we
don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:53:26):
Yeah, I mean we'll go when the Texans go.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
Could me a while about that would also be a
no stra wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:53:34):
As l Yeah, no strongest hell but Rossie, but you've
been better.

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
We have only been better read for a couple of years.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Yes, two years now, but there have been a lot
of battle reds. So what.

Speaker 3 (01:53:45):
Twenty two years and not even one championship game appearance?

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Bubbling at the surface, Matt, is that what it is? Yeah?
Heating up is a simmering right now. Gonna go to
a full boil next year.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
I feel like if you were we we could go
get an audio air check of you saying that exact
same thing twelve months ago.

Speaker 2 (01:54:07):
Well, we'll see how the off season goes.

Speaker 3 (01:54:09):
Remember it was I remember during training camp all those
YouTube geeks, like, man, they got daneil Hunter.

Speaker 2 (01:54:15):
Who was great pro bowler, Joe Mixing, fantastic, wonderful season,
Stefan Dick, he was pretty solid. And you're older and wiser.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
And Bobby Slovak's the greatest offensive mine in the NFL
right now, thank god he didn't go take an NFL job,
and with somewhere else.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
He's he's out with us.

Speaker 3 (01:54:36):
Callan Hannah are cool, they're Shay he's shaving their beard
hair on the field and servant Burgers.

Speaker 2 (01:54:42):
Everything's cool and great.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
And yet, well, right back where we were a year
ago at this point, right back where we.

Speaker 4 (01:54:48):
Were five years ago at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:54:50):
Yeah, ten and seven division champs and final four of
the AFC.

Speaker 4 (01:54:54):
It could be worse. It's fine, could be worse. You
could be Carolina.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
That's crazy how Texans expectations and a lot of the
fan BA has got spoiled two years ago, Like we
we forgot the Davis Mills David Kully era. Things are
pretty good, but two years ago we've forgotten.

Speaker 4 (01:55:13):
We forgot Brandon Cooks.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
He had like two thousand yard seasons. He didn't want
to play. He got traded. He's got traded like six times. Yeah,
it's fine. Who is it? Justin Reid, Charles and Nihew,
didn't he have Hey led the Longhorn legend Charles and
Minahew to you. Yeah, I know. And perhaps super Bowl champion.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
You know, we could get We probably get a one
on one with them many who at super Bowl? Right
if we went, Maybe maybe Gordy didn't get that done.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
Yeah, when he's not schmoozing at uh at the media party,
maybe we.

Speaker 3 (01:55:50):
Should send we should send the list of to do
list for Gordy while he's there.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
Okay, what do you want to put on that list?
Get us Mortin Anderson, Morton Anderson, Saints kicker goat okay,
Bobby Abert quarterback, goat yeah, Drew Breese. You know what,
why don't we go? We can get the band going
back in the background again. We can recreate one of
the greatest moments in the history of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:56:13):
It was one of the greatest moments in the show.
Not even an inside baseball part of the show. It
was a It was a full on. If you're if
you've listened to the show for any length of time,
you know exactly what happened, all right?

Speaker 9 (01:56:24):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:56:24):
Seven two one two five is seven ninety. Let's go
to Joe at twelve forty of the Matt Thomas Show.
Ross Joe, good afternoon to you, good.

Speaker 20 (01:56:34):
Afternoon, good after noon. Damn. I was just wondering why
why would they let the offensive coordinator go if they
didn't already have somebody in mind. He was he was Okay,
let's say he's not great, but he won the only

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two that he won. The first two seasons, he led
us to a championship and first playoffs, and okay, so
they didn't like him. Something must have happened, something they
must have handed out somehow, because okay, so they let

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him go. But if I'm want to let somebody go,
I've already got somebody in mind. And I guess they
didn't have anybody in mind unless they just lett him go.

Speaker 4 (01:57:27):
Se I just agree, Joe, thank you for the phone call.

Speaker 3 (01:57:29):
I disagree. I if you're going to rink, make this move.
This is the most I mean, you have three very
important coaches. In this case, you get two because Dimiico
calls a defense. If you're going to hand the keys
to the offense over to somebody, I do want them
to go through an exhaustive search. I have zero problem
with him going after talking to everybody and their mother.

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
Why not?

Speaker 2 (01:57:52):
And first of all, you.

Speaker 3 (01:57:53):
Can't have somebody pre writing and locked and loaded to
go because unless they're out of work. But my guess
is you're not looking to find somebody that's out of
work to replace Bobby Slowk who was working.

Speaker 4 (01:58:04):
So do I think something got sideways?

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
Probably?

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
I think production, namely is the number one reason why
he's out. Could there have been relationship issues, Sure, that's
certainly a possibility. Remember, you got to keep your quarterback happy,
and if the quarterback's not happy, you're done. You know,
quarterbacks can be coordinator killers ross just like players in
the NBA can be coach killers. And that's why I

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absolutely want to persent. Believe that you have to that CJ.
Stroud is going to have a significant this role in
this decision.

Speaker 4 (01:58:41):
Because he's your franchise quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Everything's going to go through him, and if you want
to keep him happy for an extension coming up in
a few years, you better make sure the coaches and
are in his place.

Speaker 4 (01:58:51):
Are happy too.

Speaker 2 (01:58:54):
Yeah. I kind of when it happened with Bobby Slowick,
I kind of was figuring that maybe there would be
some sort of because when did it happen? Was it
last Friday?

Speaker 4 (01:59:05):
It was on a Friday news dump for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
Yeah. Yeah, and kind of took them a few days
after they were eliminated to announce it, So that kind
of made me think maybe there was some sort of
play in place as far as who they would go with.
But yeah, search as many. Don't leave any stones unturned,
as they say, find the right guy, find somebody that

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CJ is gonna like working with because he is your
franchise quarterback, and let's go and improve the and by
the way, get better players. No matter who the offensive
coordinator is, they need to get better on the offensive line.

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Yeah, go draft two players in the line and hopefully
that one becomes a starter and.

Speaker 4 (01:59:42):
One eventually becomes a starter.

Speaker 3 (01:59:45):
Well, whoever the first lineman the Texans take is going
to have a lot of pressure on them right away.

Speaker 4 (01:59:51):
Not fair, but that's that's that's the break.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
Right, you get taken in the first round. You were
all every first round pick has pressure.

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You're gonna go with the Poughkeepsie Journal Review to get
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Speaker 2 (02:01:08):
Earl Gray m sounds like a bass player Mack in
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New Orleans and the late is tonight on the base,
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Yes he's he's born in Mobile, but calls New Orleans home.

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In my mind twelve forty nine of The Matt Thomas
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Jorge Placo one year deal with the Seattle Mariners going
to stay there, and that means the Astro is still
he was on the short list for them. I don't
think even the Astros were leaving Tony. They were interested.

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Any time you see a report out there, it's funny
that everybody has got an And I feel like I'm
doing this right now with not only Bregnant, but just
the astra was in general. I'm rotating between Hayman, what's
his name, Bob nightingale uh, Jeff Passing, who was the

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guy we was, the MLB guy we had on earlier
today that you made.

Speaker 4 (02:04:18):
Fun of his last name.

Speaker 2 (02:04:21):
It's Jim Bowden.

Speaker 3 (02:04:23):
Jim Bowden, Jim Badden everybody's trying to catch on what's
gonna happen with the team. You got our buddy Chandler
Rome working on it on the Houston perspective of things.
You got Ken Rosenthal involved this. It's almost like it's
all Bragman all the time. And even Peter A Lonzo's
not getting a whole lot of run because everbody's kind

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of presuming it's gonna go back to the Yankee into
the Mets in Franklin. This is about it when it
comes to off season moves in baseball, because after that,
by the time these do these two deals are done
where everybody's had a just spring training, and that's when
things really start to quiet down. That's when the the real,
real fringe major leaguers get that one year offer to

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either come back or try to make a roster with
another baseball team.

Speaker 2 (02:05:10):
Yeah, right now, it's like the Horia Planco deal that's
operating in the norm one year seve point seventy five million,
like some guy who kind of had a down year
and can bounce back. That's that's like regular baseball offseason news.
To have that kind of deal in mid January.

Speaker 3 (02:05:25):
Do you think now again, Wan Soto was the big
outlier this year, and you could never can you could
never ultimately prove that Major League Baseball owners are colluding
with each other, but maybe just the baseball universe has said,
you know, there's a certain team in Southeast Texas that
has won a boatload of games the last seven or

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eight years, and they take care of their own.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
But they don't over extend their own.

Speaker 3 (02:05:53):
And that I really do believe the norm of the
I'm not coming off of by max six year offer,
by what Jim Crane has done is gonna be probably
more widely regarded and more thought of than seeing what
San Diego has done in the past, the Angels have
done in the past, the Yankees and the Mets have
done in the past. I just I get a sense

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that these eight, nine, ten year deals are gonna be
the thing of a past. Maybe one or two athletes
per year might get it. And that makes me think
about what next year's free agent market will be. With
Kyle Tucker, will he get that kind of mega deal?
I think he's been searching for him. Maybe the large
part of the reason why he knew that he needed

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to move on from the Astros because the word seven
or eight. The number would never be put in front
of him when it comes to a potential contract negotiation.

Speaker 2 (02:06:48):
I think Kyle Tucker is gonna get a big deal.
We do have a bet on that well. I think
the seven and a half. I got the over, you
have the under. Yeah, Associe, it happens. I mean, he's
gonna have to have another good year. Staying healthy would
be nice as well.

Speaker 3 (02:07:03):
So let me ask you this. Let's say he misses
not the ship because that was flucish. Anybody again, anybody
holding him back because of that shin injury.

Speaker 4 (02:07:13):
That's just not smart baseball.

Speaker 3 (02:07:15):
I mean that was as fluky as it gets. Not
like he's had recurrent arm problems where he's pulling hamstrings
left and right. That was a ball, foul ball that
was off his shin. That put his shin into about
fourteen pieces. Although we up hearing it was a bruise
for like three months, but that's time they hear.

Speaker 2 (02:07:29):
No there, Yeah, it played the three years previous, played
one hundred and forty one hundred and fifty, one hundred
and fifty seven games. Okay, let's say he gets too.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
Let's say for some reason he's got one stint under
on the injury list this year and he gets to
one hundred and twenty five games, h will how much
will that impact him in terms of having I mean,
are we are we the belief now that every player
has asked to going the dl IL for at least
one stint per year. I mean, that's obvious. It not

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has to be the case, but do you have to
when you think about players, especially as they continue to
play and wear and tear on the body, that maybe
ie ls are just part of life. Like I think
in the NBA Ross, Yeah, I think guys, if you're
expecting to sign these guys to forty and fifty million
dollar deals and expect them to.

Speaker 2 (02:08:16):
Play eighty eight games a year, you're fooling yourself. Yeah,
I'm agreeing with you. That's why we've always to talk
about this injury, injury prone, injury history. It's like these
these are athletes that are pushing their bodies to the
absolute limit. So sometimes they're going to go over the
edge and sometimes other things are gonna happen. Things are
gonna happen. I would say, if Kyle Tucker misses like

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forty games next year, depending, well, it's not some sort
of degenerative back issue or something like that. I think
we'd had zero bearing on him getting a long term deal.

Speaker 4 (02:08:49):
Yeah, I don't know who else in that for agent
classes next year.

Speaker 3 (02:08:52):
Obviously we've been thinking about Kyle from oh from er
Valdez will be in that for aging class next year.

Speaker 2 (02:08:57):
The big names of Vladdie, June Okay, i'd have to uh,
it comes to mind, I can't really remember. It's supposed
to be a pretty good class, though, I think, And does.

Speaker 3 (02:09:08):
It hurt that you have so many guys If we're
talking if Vlad and Kyle are the two guys, that's
a pretty good little one two punch for this fragian
class of twenty twenty six. Where this year helped me out,
it was Soto was one and then they dropped to two.

Speaker 4 (02:09:28):
Bregman, Pete Alonzo.

Speaker 2 (02:09:30):
All right, here's the MLB list. Yeah, jt Real, Muto, Salvi,
Perez's catchers, Vladdie Junior, Josh Naylor, Yandy Diaz, Luis Arraez,
Ozzie Albi's Suadez is gonna be available against Bomba Schet,
So it looks pretty good. Kyle Tucker, Kyle Schwarber, Cody Bellinger,

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Luis Robert, Marcelo, Zuna, Dylan See, Zach Gallen from Bravaldez,
Seth Lugo O Seth Lugo has a club option that
I'll probably get picked up. So, man, that's like a
pretty good list. It's decent. Yeah, Guerrero and Tucker the
headliners with Boba Schett in the mix. Kyle Schwarber is

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gonna be old? Ho old is Kyle Schwarber these days?
And he's thirty one. I thought he was older.

Speaker 3 (02:10:22):
So the over under on our Kyle Tucker won dollar
bet is seven and a half years.

Speaker 2 (02:10:26):
No, it's lunch, brother, We're going full lunch. Well, I
can go check the I'll check the archives.

Speaker 4 (02:10:32):
Like a smash Burger type place or something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:10:35):
I don't know. If we've I'll go to go, I'll
go look.

Speaker 4 (02:10:39):
Oh wait, isn't everybody smashing their burgers these days?

Speaker 2 (02:10:42):
Absolutely smash burgers. It says fast, fast, casual lunch. We
actually specified. Oh okay, this bet was made on August
fourteenth of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (02:10:51):
And I'm still feeling good. It's going to be seven
or less. I feel really good. Matter of fact, I'm
ready to do it. Let's go a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:10:59):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:11:00):
So I don't want to go to like uber fine dining,
but I don't want to, but I want to be
more than.

Speaker 2 (02:11:05):
Fast casual barbecue. Barbeque would a little more expensive barbecue.
You gotta take out a loan these days.

Speaker 4 (02:11:11):
Okay, I forget about right, it's take How about.

Speaker 2 (02:11:14):
Barbecue costs as much as a steak dinner these days?

Speaker 4 (02:11:17):
How about Mexican restaurant.

Speaker 2 (02:11:19):
Let's see Kyle Tucker. Well, he'll be twenty nine. Yeah,
I thought he was gonna be like twenty seven or eight.
Let's go, what's up it a little bit? Uh, twenty nine,
eight year deal. I'll stick with fast casual lunch for
right now. All right, I think it's a good bet.
I still like my side, but I don't want to
up at that much.

Speaker 3 (02:11:38):
It's fair value, I think, Yeah, nobody needs odds. Put
it that way, all right. Final hour of The Matt
Thomas Show with Rosses coming up. We'll run through the
main headlines of the day, including the Rockets set back
to the Grizzlies if we want to get into that,
and if you watch the TNT broadcast, and I wish
you would have listened to the radio. But look, we
had some unfortunate technical problems. Yes, because of incompetence in Memphis,

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not my being, but.

Speaker 4 (02:12:03):
By the engineers.

Speaker 2 (02:12:04):
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Usually Reggie is enemy number one by the way you

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see ross at Reggie Miller is now going to be
going to NBC Sports after this season.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
Yeah, did see that He's gonna be their lead analysts.
He's fine. He used to be horrible to me, but
I think he's gotten better over the years. He doesn't
bother me.

Speaker 4 (02:12:39):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (02:12:40):
I don't go to go man. I can't wait to
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me as much as I think other people.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
Are bothered by him. I agree.

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Me on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross as we
run through the big sports headlines of the day which
doesn't feature the Rockets losing last night to the Grizzlies
and ROSSI rarely ever I come to you and say
the Rockets should have won that game, and frankly should
have won the game by a comfortable margin.

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
It felt like to me that was a game that.

Speaker 3 (02:14:19):
They're gonna look back and go, damn, we should have
won that game by at least inter nine points.

Speaker 4 (02:14:22):
I Jared Jackson Junior is a.

Speaker 3 (02:14:24):
Good basketball player, and you know, Santhi Aldama is a
nice role player, and Desmond Bane's good. But John Moran
is the star of that team, and he won on
the court, and the Rockets should have beaten them.

Speaker 2 (02:14:38):
They let Luke Canard beat them. Hey, Luke Canard is
any like one of the greatest three point shooters in
NBA history.

Speaker 3 (02:14:44):
He's always routineming like top of the Association, Top five.
I think he's been. He's been number one most of
this year. He's such a lefty, exclusive guy. Although he
had two little mid range with the right hand yesterday.
I was shell shocked by that. And Luke Carard's out
there balling Matt Well. He's second NBA history behind Steve
Kerr and also has got he should also go to

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the to uh be he's trying to do with the
comover for a guy his age is not the great look.

Speaker 2 (02:15:13):
Seth Seth Curry. Seventh, Where's Steph Curry?

Speaker 3 (02:15:17):
It's funny, Seth Curry is what you said? Seventh all time,
he's been probably with a like six teams, right somewhere
in that range. Just the stats don't always bear out
what a guy is ultimately worth to a basketball team.
Cannard's been with a few teams what Clippers now, Grizzlies
or was he summer before LA. Yeah, I mean he's
staying employed. That's good, making money, hmm, winning games, film,

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backing up. But John Moran, I mean he's doing fine.

Speaker 2 (02:15:44):
Er earnings fifty seven million, Oh for Luke Cannard.

Speaker 3 (02:15:49):
Somebody refer to him as a Low's Home Improvement assistant manager.

Speaker 4 (02:15:54):
Oh really, I think that's rude.

Speaker 2 (02:15:57):
It is rude. It's a terrible stereotype.

Speaker 4 (02:15:59):
That's one thing we don't do the show a stereotypes.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
Certainly wouldn't do that daily.

Speaker 4 (02:16:03):
That'd be terrible, That would be terrible. Lukenard's made fifty
seven and a half million dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:16:08):
Yes, that's not including this year's salary.

Speaker 4 (02:16:13):
God raise your children be basketball players.

Speaker 2 (02:16:16):
Serious that it's that easy get them in the association.

Speaker 3 (02:16:20):
Yeah, just make you know, make a side corner pocket three.
Once in a while you can carve on a ninth NBA,
ten year NBA career. Yeah, to me, last night was
a Rocket was a game. The Rockets should have won
that one. That one stings just a little bit, none, none,
sing a lot because they look they're they had a
great month of January. They've beaten the Celtics, the Nuggets,

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they've beaten Cleveland two times. I mean, there's no a
lot of none of all of boohooing on this, but
maybe it's part of this is for me and I
always feel the same way about this when it comes
to the Astros and the Texans with the national TV,
I want them to win every one of their national
TV games because if they're they're I had the best segment.

Speaker 4 (02:17:00):
Of the population last night.

Speaker 3 (02:17:01):
I don't know how big that group is, but they
had best segment of the populations.

Speaker 4 (02:17:04):
Like so, I hear a lot of good things about
this Rocket team. Let me see what they can do.

Speaker 2 (02:17:08):
Yeah, I would. I was sitting there on my couch rooting.
I was like, Okay, they did all this hyping up
of the Rockets like I wanted. Jalen Green went five
to ten from three. I was like, oh, thank god,
I didn't want one of those games where he goes
like four for eighteen and Missus Hall is threes. So
Charles and Shack start crushing the guys because this is like,
it's a very small sample size. It's the limited opportunity. Clearly,

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none of them can pronounce any of the team's players'
names or even know who the coach is and even
know who's playing. So this is a small window of
opportunity to get some national shine, and so I wanted
him to perform. Well, they didn't win, but I thought,
I mean, Thompson looked really good, Jalen Green for stretches
as well, and unfortunately Alprin Shangoon was hurt.

Speaker 3 (02:17:47):
Yeah, he didn't play last night obviously and after in
the All Star announcement. But it's almost like, you know,
we talked about this with the Texans. The Texans don't
make a lot of national TV appearances, and so when
they lose Kansas City during the regular season, Yeah, and
they embarrassed themselves on Christmas.

Speaker 2 (02:18:04):
It hurts more.

Speaker 3 (02:18:05):
It it and there's really no reason for it because
we're not stockholders. No, we're just true fans and we
want we want America to see what we've been been enjoying.

Speaker 2 (02:18:16):
Yeah, there was like Jalen Green was a knocking down
step back threes and Kevin Harland's like, pretty shot from
Jalen Green. I'm like, yeah, you're right, Kevin Harland, that
was a pretty shot from Jalen Green. Like, I don't
know why. It's like a sense of pride even though
I'm just sitting there on the on the couch downing lozenges.

Speaker 3 (02:18:31):
Oh, you're gonna change it like downing something else, like
we're drinking whiskey sours or something.

Speaker 4 (02:18:35):
No, eleven o'clock at night. No, that's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:18:38):
Uh, but it's weird because I'll I'll even do it
on Sunday Night baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
Yes, it's one of one sixty two. The Astros won
one hundred games a year.

Speaker 3 (02:18:47):
But if they lose a seven to five game to
the Phillies on Sunday Night baseball, I'm like, I go
on to a fetal position.

Speaker 2 (02:18:52):
You're right, that's how I am. I'm like, come on,
Jake Myers. Show them what you've got, show them your power, Jake.
And then while he strikes out to a slider low
and away. Well not in the month of May. Yeah, ju.
Literally every other month there's a great month. There's a
great chance that happening in the final four months of
the year, the first two. We'll always have that month
of May.

Speaker 3 (02:19:13):
Seriously, I once you do me for you go look
up Jake Myer's May numbers from last year.

Speaker 2 (02:19:17):
You had a ops over nine hundred in that month.
Oh my gosh, I'll look it up if you that's
when of the fan club. That's that we were coming
on all cylinders.

Speaker 3 (02:19:26):
The fan club was like a stock. You couldn't you
couldn't buy enough of it. I saw your Roman numbers
they were going up pipe yes, or like I want
to buy a platinum membership, I want to do this,
I want to do that.

Speaker 2 (02:19:40):
And then June first rolled around and it's like, oh no.

Speaker 3 (02:19:45):
And then July for well, you know, maybe he needs
an All Star break to kind of to settle himself
down a little.

Speaker 4 (02:19:49):
Maybe a few days away from the ballpark will help.

Speaker 2 (02:19:52):
It didn't. It got work. He had he had that
month of May and he still ended up with the
worst OPS plus in the year before. Month of May
twenty five games three twenty nine, batting average ops of
nine to twenty four.

Speaker 3 (02:20:04):
You want a frame, you should do should take a
photo of that in framin you're and you're a fan
club like offices will always have me the fan club
offices you had like a you were searching real estate.
You know, you know what you were looking to. You
were looking to expand your family ross like we're gonna
have two three kids, pick a fence, everything, big backyard.

(02:20:27):
And then in June came around, your wife comes back to.

Speaker 2 (02:20:29):
You insists, you know, maybe we should downsize a little bit,
maybe get ourselves like a two. No, I didn't get
ahead of myself. If you think I was believing he
was gonna ops nine hundred for the rest of the year.
You got another thing coming.

Speaker 4 (02:20:40):
And then in September you got a one bedroom of.

Speaker 2 (02:20:42):
Face my first rodeo. I've seen the baseball up and down.

Speaker 3 (02:20:46):
It comes down from the top of the wall or
something like that. All right, that's enough, Hey, we like
Let me tell you we like Jake Myers.

Speaker 2 (02:20:52):
We love Jake Myers.

Speaker 4 (02:20:55):
And you stay true to the fan club.

Speaker 2 (02:20:57):
You do. I'm still a fan. He's your starting center
fielder right now. You better be a.

Speaker 3 (02:21:01):
Fan Chazzy Fizz, Well maybe maybe you know we had
to do it and if we had to invite the
Chazzy Fizz fan club to join the Jank Myers fan club.

Speaker 2 (02:21:12):
Yeah, it used to be at odds. Now they're on
the same squad.

Speaker 3 (02:21:15):
Yeah that's true. Now they have to fight for playing time.
They're on the same Yeah, exactly, all right, I like it.
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(02:21:36):
We take you today until two o'clock. Non Flora stories
coming up in a minute. We will also talk to
Roger about the Rockets if you want to talk about
the Rockets. Did you like the way the national folks
perceived with their perception of what they saw last night
between the Rockets and the Grizzlies.

Speaker 4 (02:21:51):
Seven one three two one two five seven NINETI.

Speaker 1 (02:21:54):
Matt Thomas, Ross Buriel. It's the Matt Thomas Show with
Ross Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:22:02):
Nothing could stop me.

Speaker 3 (02:22:04):
I'm all the way, all away ross. Normally I have
a difficult time finding good non Florida stories. I may
have two and one week for you, wonderful. I can't
decide which one I want to go with.

Speaker 2 (02:22:18):
You can get both and I'll just write believe it
or not.

Speaker 3 (02:22:21):
Yeah, but I think part of your charm is your
stories too. You don't disappoint. I mean, you just wanted
a lot of things of general sports analysis and will
desire for the show, but you're not.

Speaker 2 (02:22:29):
Florida stars are pretty My will is. I'm here every day, Matt.
I could have called in sick the last three days.
You know what, I don't. I want you.

Speaker 3 (02:22:35):
If you need to call a sick day next week,
You're more than welcome to do that. I'm here, pal,
except on Wednesday. Mm hmm, Wait, you're not gonna be
here next Wednesday.

Speaker 8 (02:22:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:22:45):
Another travel I wish I could have it that way.
I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:22:48):
I don't control the Rockets travel schedule.

Speaker 2 (02:22:50):
My god.

Speaker 3 (02:22:51):
Now, if I was doing the noon to three show,
I could fly in the morning to get to Minneapolis,
you know, private on a commercial plane.

Speaker 4 (02:22:58):
But we're we're out.

Speaker 2 (02:23:00):
I had the two weekdays that ship has sailed. Matt.
By the way, happy birthday to Adam Clanton. It's his
birthday tomorrow, Is it really? Yes? I just over see
the company email. How old is he? I don't know,
younger than you. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:23:15):
He always calls me the voice of his childhood, and
it maybe sends me.

Speaker 2 (02:23:19):
Well, that's just because Matt, you were ah, what you
would call a broadcasting prodigy. You were, you were in
reaching heights nobody had ever seen before at such a
young age. It's true.

Speaker 4 (02:23:31):
I was twenty two when I was in the PA
for the rockets in the first championship.

Speaker 2 (02:23:34):
Yeah, and he was.

Speaker 3 (02:23:37):
I think he's gotta be what how old is he?
He's probably forty three, forty four, somewhere in that range.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (02:23:42):
I mean he's aged in the last couple of years
the way gains will be more more apparent than in yours.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
That's not true. And the hair is gone. He's looking
sveelt is he? I guess what kind of he was doing? That?
Brouh kind of exercise?

Speaker 4 (02:23:58):
What do they call that?

Speaker 2 (02:23:59):
CrossFit? Cross fit? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:24:02):
If I said Adam Clinton and CrossFit, you'd be like yes.

Speaker 2 (02:24:05):
And and cross It was very profitable for him in
some ways.

Speaker 3 (02:24:10):
Oh you know what it was. And I don't think
we'll discuss any further in case Missus Clintons. So yeah,
he was he enjoyed.

Speaker 2 (02:24:17):
The CrossFit lifestyle and the workouts.

Speaker 3 (02:24:21):
Yeah, and then he went to exercise seven one three
two one two five seven ninety Rogers with us at
one nineteen at the Matt Thomas showed Ross Roger, good
afternoon to you.

Speaker 21 (02:24:33):
Good afternoon that Adam Clinton across fit like Adam Cratton
and miss fit. Just kidding anyway, So yesterday's game kind
of remind me of those nature shows where you know,
the the killer Wells playing with the seal and it's
just playing with and flipping it up in the air
and just flipping it up in the air and then
he finally loses it and comes off and goes and

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swims to freedom.

Speaker 17 (02:24:56):
That's what the Rockets did with the Grizzlies.

Speaker 21 (02:24:57):
They were just playing with their food the whole night
and then decided to just so you know, let the
little the little guy make it, you know, at the end.
That's what that's That's exactly what it looked like. And uh, yeah,
they did show well on the national on the National
stage and then that's always good. And I just feel
like Kenny and the TNT guys just mailed it in

(02:25:18):
here today you got Kenny smithhell and Plumber's ass, and
you got uh Barkley just roundling on like he usually does.
And then she checked during the headlights again with the
not putting in zero prep ward, which I know you
love to see that being the premier played by pay
played by a guy here. I just just don't understand

(02:25:39):
why these guys can't do any legwork. I just don't
get it. Guys get paid handsome salary and they just
mail it in anyway, That's all I got.

Speaker 17 (02:25:48):
Guys haven't given.

Speaker 4 (02:25:49):
Them thanks, Roger.

Speaker 3 (02:25:51):
Maybe maybe they intentionally, you know, And I wouldn't say
intention No, they don't.

Speaker 2 (02:25:54):
They don't.

Speaker 4 (02:25:55):
It's unintentional. They just don't ever think about coming in
and going.

Speaker 3 (02:25:58):
Maybe I should look at the two team we're about
to watch on television for two and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:26:02):
Hours, like when Larry King wouldn't do any research for
his interviews. Yeah, which is lazy, by the way, Larry King,
by the.

Speaker 4 (02:26:12):
Way, I got one for you too.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
So Howard Stern always has this reputation of being the
greatest interviewer of all time when it comes to celebrities.
I listened to his show quite a bit, especially late
night when I'm coming back for like I listened yesterday
and the way back home from the airport.

Speaker 2 (02:26:24):
Huh. He makes a lot of mistakes too. He lost
his fastball? Does he getting mix he'll mix up his stories.
He's getting older. Is he sixties now? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:26:34):
But he's also made hundreds of millions of dollars talking
about sex on television and radio.

Speaker 2 (02:26:44):
You're so far off course, I'm just we're talking. Oh
he's seventy one now. Yeah, he's great. He's he's the
king of radio or whatever. What did he call himself?
The media?

Speaker 4 (02:26:53):
Yeah, we're here at Rossfield, Reale Ross.

Speaker 3 (02:26:58):
One of the things I find so interesting about you
is that you just despise soccer. You hate it, you
don't want to watch it, you don't love it. You
make fun of people that do like him. I mean,
that'd be like, that's that's how's how he gets it
mixed up.

Speaker 2 (02:27:11):
Well, he's in his seventies, Matt, give him a break.
I'm a break.

Speaker 4 (02:27:15):
You know what if you're in your seventies and you
don't want to do anymore, just retire and hand it
off to somebody else.

Speaker 2 (02:27:19):
I mean, didn't I don't know if I don't really
have confirmation on this. Didn't he basically save serious XM radio? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:27:26):
I mean no, it's he's been worth every dollar and
they've paid him. I think he only works like thirty
weeks a year anyway. Oh really, every time it's on,
it's always a repeat of something else I've heard before.

Speaker 2 (02:27:38):
Now, he does get good celarty, he gets a good guest.

Speaker 3 (02:27:40):
He's had Nicki Glazer recently right after the roast.

Speaker 4 (02:27:46):
He'll have Share on. He's had all these musical groups.
He's had a.

Speaker 3 (02:27:49):
Lot of celebrity, I mean a lot, a lot of celebrities.
Said he had Kamala Harris on during the campaign. I mean, oh, really,
did he get Doney? He's had Donald Trump on before? Yeah,
I mean because you equal time? It is it equal
time doctrine?

Speaker 2 (02:28:03):
Right? Does he have to do both?

Speaker 4 (02:28:04):
I don't know if you have to do it with
the satellite radio.

Speaker 2 (02:28:06):
I don't think I have the.

Speaker 4 (02:28:07):
Same I don't care.

Speaker 2 (02:28:08):
Yeah, I don't know. Okay, all right, that's all I got. Uh,
do you want to I guess his net worth as
estimated by celebrity net worth.

Speaker 4 (02:28:16):
Give me a range on this case.

Speaker 2 (02:28:18):
That's a lot of million dollars. What range you want?
Is this?

Speaker 4 (02:28:23):
What his current value as current networth? Six hundred million dollars?

Speaker 2 (02:28:29):
Wow? You google it. I don't believe you.

Speaker 4 (02:28:32):
No, I wrote, what is it?

Speaker 2 (02:28:33):
Six fifty? Oh that's not bad.

Speaker 3 (02:28:36):
He's doing okay for guy works thirty weeks a year.
I mean, what do you think Robin his little sidekicks worth? Ooh,
she's been with him since the eighties. I mean she's
been on there almost as as long as he.

Speaker 2 (02:28:46):
Has what's your name, Robin Quivers? Oh Quivers?

Speaker 4 (02:28:52):
All she does is laugh at his jokes and says
that's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:28:55):
Good.

Speaker 4 (02:28:55):
I mean, people love her for just basically she didn't
even mess with him. It's like it's like if I
had you on the show and all you did was
just laugh at all my stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:29:04):
Google says seventy six million dollars. Good for her? Wow,
good for her.

Speaker 3 (02:29:10):
Let's go to Raymond on seven ninety at one twenty four, Raymond,
good afternoon, do.

Speaker 22 (02:29:14):
You hey, Matt Hey Ross a long time?

Speaker 2 (02:29:18):
How are you guys?

Speaker 4 (02:29:19):
Nice to hear from you, Raymond? What's up?

Speaker 22 (02:29:21):
Hey, first off, hearts turned fantastic. That interview's share was
was really good. I'm not a sure fan before my time,
but wow, that was awesome. Hey, I gotta I gotta
make a note on Adam Claying and his birthday. Ever
since he's gone on TV, I've realized, like I can't
tell if the guys twenty five or fifty five. It's like,

(02:29:44):
you know, he looks like.

Speaker 2 (02:29:45):
Young but old.

Speaker 22 (02:29:46):
It's it's kind of odd that you brought that up.
So it's interesting about his age.

Speaker 4 (02:29:49):
Yeah, he's closer to fifty five.

Speaker 22 (02:29:53):
Okay, Yeah, could go either way though, so you look
at him on TV. But hey, yeah, you've been calling
great games this year with the Rockets, mad at the
and you it's been all so far. And uh, I
know you've got a front seat for a men Thompson.
You know, I think he's like third on the on
the odds of being six Man of the Year. But
I can't imagine he doesn't get that what he's playing.

(02:30:14):
Just want to point that out real quick. The great job, Matt,
uh Tim to my astro's point, real quick, I have
a hypothetical and I haven't I had a good conversation
about this yesterday with somebody so a hypo here, you
know Bregman stays right Uh, Prede's is a third apparently
a third basement and a third basement only from from
what I'm reading, which I don't understand at all.

Speaker 5 (02:30:36):
Uh.

Speaker 22 (02:30:36):
And then when you have Chazz and right field, So
what my my question would be, Bregman has to stay
in the infield? The guy the guy has been snubbed
from a gold glove in twenty nineteen by Chapman that
the guy's he's a vacuum on the infield. So whether
it's shortstop or which which won't happen, or third base,
he's got to be there. So what what does that
do with fads? And then you know, how does how

(02:30:58):
the being shipped around? Wanting to hear your thoughts.

Speaker 4 (02:31:00):
Thank you for the photo, all the nice words.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
From what Dana Brown has said that it would be
Altuve playing second and left field as compared to exclusively
moving to the left field Ross, I think from what
I'm hearing, it'd be Pretti's to second base would be part.

Speaker 4 (02:31:15):
Of the time.

Speaker 2 (02:31:15):
Yes, yeah, I guess so, yes, So this.

Speaker 3 (02:31:20):
Part is being exclusively a third basement, I don't think
it's accurate. Let me if you Alex Pregnant is coming
if he comes back in science, he's coming back as
a third basement.

Speaker 4 (02:31:29):
Yes, you're not taking a gold glove guy out of
his third base position. You're just not.

Speaker 3 (02:31:33):
No, you know you're already below average at second base now,
so moving Prettie's over there necessarily wouldn't be the Uh,
You're not. You're not making yourself worse, at least from
a defensive perspective.

Speaker 2 (02:31:47):
So yeah, I don't.

Speaker 4 (02:31:47):
I don't think that's the case at all.

Speaker 3 (02:31:49):
All right, let's go one more before we get to
a non Florida stories.

Speaker 4 (02:31:53):
I actually got some nice folks on the line. I
want to talk.

Speaker 2 (02:31:55):
I love this. Let's go to Lewis and Sugarland at
one twenty seven on the Matt Thamas Show. Ross Lewis,
good afternoon, and thank you very much for holding Hey guys,
how you doing.

Speaker 4 (02:32:04):
Happy Friday to you?

Speaker 8 (02:32:07):
Hey.

Speaker 17 (02:32:08):
I have two questions.

Speaker 7 (02:32:09):
First, I actually like when we're on National That not
that we're on very much, but you know the way Barkley,
I think he went through one period last night where
he mispronounced I think almost everybody's name on our team,
you know, I thought that was pretty funny.

Speaker 17 (02:32:26):
You know, Amen Thompson and you know Alby's singuine and
all that kind of stuff. I think that's pretty funny.

Speaker 7 (02:32:35):
My question, Matt is you were doing the game on
the radio last night, right right when when they scored
and we called the time out.

Speaker 17 (02:32:45):
Just curious in your mind.

Speaker 7 (02:32:48):
Who did you have or want that you wanted to
take the last shot, because I don't think the play
was drawn up for van Fleet.

Speaker 4 (02:32:56):
It was wondering, Yeah, told me after the game.

Speaker 3 (02:32:59):
I think the media the same thing. The play was
to go for a men Thompson. The double team came
to the right side, right of the elbow, and limited
time he saw an open man. I don't blame Fred
for taking the shot. Fred has made deep threes before.
Fred did not have a hand on his face. It
just didn't go in. And but I think the play
one hundred percent was drawn up for a men Thompson
to penetrate the right side of the lane to get

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the layup.

Speaker 4 (02:33:22):
That's what it was in my mind.

Speaker 17 (02:33:24):
To kind of do what they did against Boston at
the end.

Speaker 3 (02:33:26):
Right correct. Yeah, the eurostep mid range shot and that
kind of thing. It's somewhere in that vicinity, not into
the heart of the lane because I think he was
too far out for that to happen. Not enough time
on the clock either, But no, the play was not
for a long deep three from Mambley.

Speaker 2 (02:33:40):
That was That was Plan B for sure.

Speaker 17 (02:33:42):
You know, a three and one road trip. I'm happy
as hell with that.

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
I'll think that all day.

Speaker 17 (02:33:47):
But I'm just curious.

Speaker 7 (02:33:49):
Do you think that this changes their mind or about
going out and getting a closer or do you think
they're gonna, you know, dance with those who brung you
and Matt In case you don't know, that's from Darryl
Royal at the University of Texas.

Speaker 4 (02:34:05):
The University of Texas, Thank you very much, Lewis Ross.

Speaker 3 (02:34:09):
They're gonna dance with the Brunham I think I if
they make a move and I will stand pat on this,
not that emails telling me this or Rafelstone, the general manager.

Speaker 4 (02:34:19):
It's a vibe.

Speaker 2 (02:34:20):
I get.

Speaker 4 (02:34:20):
The vibe is they want to see what this team
does right.

Speaker 3 (02:34:23):
Now and then if they're gonna go make a splashy
move more likely to be done in the off season.
It would be done at the trade un Langhich is
about a week away. That's just my gut feeling on that.

Speaker 2 (02:34:33):
That's my gut feeling as well, but also trying to
improve the team for the long term. If now they're
probably gonna stay the course, trust the process.

Speaker 3 (02:34:43):
All right, We'll talk to Johnny about jose L Tubay
and then non Florida stories. I've got two noozies of
non Florida stories. They're up next, one thirty on Sports
Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 1 (02:34:53):
Lunchtimers, Lunch timers, It's a Matt Thomas Show with Ross
on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 2 (02:35:06):
Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We'll
get to non Florida stories in just a moment, but
Johnny has been holding, so let's get Johnny real quick.
What's up, Johnny?

Speaker 18 (02:35:18):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (02:35:19):
Fellows?

Speaker 8 (02:35:19):
Now?

Speaker 23 (02:35:20):
I just want to check back in with you guys.
So we are thinking about it being an option that
I'll two they not play a second because a month
or so ago, y'all were crounding on me because I
mentioned that as an option put dubon, which I still
stand by at second. But if Bregman comes back, then
for sure, AL two they would have to find some

(02:35:40):
other place to play. Be it's left. And if that's
the case, then Dubon at second, and then I'll two
the left is a better team I think.

Speaker 2 (02:35:49):
I don't know if they would be putting Dubon in
there every day, but yeah, I mean, look, initially it
sounded wacky that they would put him in left field,
but apparently it's something that the Astros are considering and
probably going to do at some point, depending on how
the roster shakes up.

Speaker 3 (02:36:02):
The only strange part for me was hearing that they
were gonna split time. I don't know how you can
split time between second and left field. I think if
you're gonna make Jose al tb your left fielder, you're
gonna make a concerned effort to get let him get
out there and get acclimated to it.

Speaker 2 (02:36:15):
Yeah, I'd be more likely if if Bregman were back,
or if they were going to sign Jorge Polanco, who's
only been an infielder. But Polanco now of course the
Seattle Mariner.

Speaker 3 (02:36:25):
How much of this do you think is that maybe
they're just trying to get Altob out out of the
second base spot period.

Speaker 2 (02:36:30):
It could be part of it. I'm just saying, Matt,
I can't find a website that has him as a
good second baseman. This Jim Bowden, What what Matt? You're right?
I mean I can't argue. I just mean, I'll be honest.
Seeing eye test to me, and look, I don't we
don't deal in baseball, doesn't deal in seeing eye anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:36:50):
It is what it is. I don't think of him
going oh this is he's a liability. I don't think
he's great. I don't think the range is what it
used to be. But I don't go out there and go, oh,
oh god, he's at second base.

Speaker 2 (02:37:01):
We're screwed.

Speaker 4 (02:37:04):
I just haven't thought that way about him, have you.

Speaker 2 (02:37:06):
I mean, you tell me if you had, he's.

Speaker 4 (02:37:08):
Okay, numbers back your side of the argument, not mine, right.

Speaker 2 (02:37:13):
I would say he has over the years missed more
throws than he used to, doesn't make an as many plays.
The range is limited, of course, because of his height
and his you know, he's not as fast and quick
as he used to be. You know, he's into his
mid thirties now at this point.

Speaker 3 (02:37:30):
Okay, I mean, look, it's not just us, it's that's
obviously the Astros. When you go after Jorge Polanco, when
you are trying to make a move to go get
another infielder when you're trying to re sign Bregman, or
at least Jim Crane is with you've already made the
two many moves you've already made this offseason filling out
off positions in your infield.

Speaker 4 (02:37:51):
There's clearly a.

Speaker 3 (02:37:54):
Line of thinking that the best days of jose L Tuvay,
the rest of his major league career as an astro,
should not be being played at second base.

Speaker 2 (02:38:01):
If you want to go just on fielding percentage, you
had a really good fielding percentage, great fielding percentage nine
eighty nine last year. But that's also it can be
misleading because if another second basement is getting to more
balls and has a lower fielding percentage, you still want
the guy that's making more plays totals.

Speaker 4 (02:38:19):
It's all fair point.

Speaker 3 (02:38:20):
All right, Let's get to some non Florida stories, and
I will give you two this week. But I'm not
going to read him back to back because that seemed
fair to you.

Speaker 2 (02:38:31):
Sure that sounds great?

Speaker 6 (02:38:33):
All right?

Speaker 3 (02:38:34):
Seven, By the way, we're going up to Helly, you're
not coming up in just a few minutes here on
the radio show Ross, I'm gonna take you to Mobile, Alabama.
Ever been a Mobile? No, sneaky little fun town. They
have ra Rucks there, Okay. And on January the tenth,

(02:38:56):
a RA Rucks customer went through the drive through to
order a drink. Obviously, and apparently in this vehicle there
was a pet Aotis monkey.

Speaker 2 (02:39:12):
A what now a pet Aotas monkey? Yeah, Aotis monkey.

Speaker 3 (02:39:18):
This Aotas monkey jumped out of the car at the
drive through window and into the restaurant. The monkey ran
up the employee's arm to her head and started biting
her until a coworker grabbed it and threw it back
out the window. What mobile, police said The monkey's owner,
Tammy Elaine Gardner.

Speaker 4 (02:39:39):
You know you're in trouble when they bring your mental
name in the mix.

Speaker 3 (02:39:44):
Drove away from the restaurant before police arrived. The wounded employee,
said Gardner, who had another monkey in the car, later
return to the restaurant to check on her, but wouldn't
give her name. The owner of the animal could face charges.
The Raw Rocks location has been guarded her and her
monkeys from.

Speaker 2 (02:40:01):
The drive through.

Speaker 3 (02:40:02):
Quote from the employee at RA Rucks, She's welcome to
come inside.

Speaker 2 (02:40:07):
If she leaves them in the car. And that is
what non Flora story was.

Speaker 3 (02:40:13):
So note to self, any of you driving around with
monkeys in your car, just be careful what location.

Speaker 4 (02:40:19):
You go to because they're not welcome in Mobile, Alabama.

Speaker 2 (02:40:22):
Hmm. I can follow that. You ever had a monkey
throwing a jump back to you? No?

Speaker 4 (02:40:31):
No, Nor?

Speaker 2 (02:40:32):
I does that mean you're going next? Connor? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:40:36):
Probably Are monkeys nicer or chimpanzees?

Speaker 2 (02:40:38):
Or are they by equal?

Speaker 8 (02:40:39):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (02:40:40):
What emotional value? What'd you say monkeys are chimpanzees?

Speaker 2 (02:40:47):
What about them?

Speaker 4 (02:40:48):
Which ones are friendly of the group? I think there?

Speaker 2 (02:40:51):
I think chimpanzee is one species, right, and there's like
a thousand species of monkeys. Okay, as you were, god
Heed Connor.

Speaker 12 (02:41:05):
Okay, So a couple of months ago I told you
about that about nearly fifty monkeys escaped from a research
facility in South Carolina.

Speaker 2 (02:41:14):
Yes, you did so.

Speaker 12 (02:41:15):
Apparently, according to local authorities, the last four of the
escaped monkeys have been recaptured after almost two months of
living in the woods. The monkeys first escaped after employee
did not fully lock their enclosure at a facility that
breeds them for medical research. The monkeys even survived the
area's first snowstorm in seven years. They were lured back

(02:41:36):
to the facility with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and
high protein biscuits. So almost fifty monkeys that escaped to
facility and were wandering the woods near local suburbs for
almost two months have all been recaptured.

Speaker 3 (02:41:49):
What greats ending that story? We were worried about those monkeys.
Wasn't our George Michael song about a monkey?

Speaker 8 (02:41:57):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:41:59):
No, that you're thinking of a monkey? No? No, no,
George Michael did a song about monkeys. No, that was
about father figures. No touching your monkey or something. I
don't know. Am I making this up? Excuse me?

Speaker 12 (02:42:11):
There's a monkey on your back? George Michael.

Speaker 2 (02:42:14):
Yeah, he knows. Yeah, Connor knows.

Speaker 4 (02:42:16):
It's a song.

Speaker 2 (02:42:17):
He went to the clubs with this song back in
the day.

Speaker 3 (02:42:19):
He went to the clubs, the preteen clubs.

Speaker 2 (02:42:24):
Huh okay, man, I don't have my Jerry Jones monkey
drops anymore. What happened? It's nothing sacred.

Speaker 3 (02:42:36):
Technology to our company. That's fine, that's ross. What is
your known for the story?

Speaker 2 (02:42:41):
Uh? Yeah, Matt, Let me take you to a place
called Houston Texas. Oh no, oh no, Matt, did you
know during the snowstorm did you see the viral video
posted by a man of Houston police officer doing donuts
in the snow? Yeah? I saw him. Houston police officers

(02:43:03):
caught doing donuts in a recent snowstorm, now facing discipline
for their actions.

Speaker 3 (02:43:07):
Oh no, can't these police officers have a little fun
once in a while.

Speaker 2 (02:43:11):
Hammon Brown is the name of the man who posted
and recorded the video, and he says the police officers
union is now out to get him. Apparently, the Uston
Police Officers Union went on Facebook to call him quote
a snitch and share videos and photos of him. Brown said, quote,
I ain't really think it was gonna go viral like

(02:43:33):
it did. Just leave me alone. I don't want no problems.
Brown said the officers were having reckless fun and doing
exactly what they told the citizens not to do. Oh
that's what it is. Lead by example. Police Union president
Doug Griffith said, we are human. We like to have
good time, just like they do. He took it a
little serious and things went off the rails a little bit.

Speaker 4 (02:43:54):
You know what, Just pay the gas bill and let's
call it a day. Let the can't let him get
away with it. Let him just say, just don't know,
do it again? We don't. I mean, we get snow
over once every twenty five years.

Speaker 2 (02:44:02):
Come on now. Brown also said the police were setting
a bad precedent. Say, it's really messing with me because
y'all posted my business on social media. Y'all are doing
a lot to me and getting me real scared. I
ain't did nothing wrong. Y'all were in the wrong. Apparently
there's beef between this guy, Haymon Brown and the Houston

(02:44:23):
Police Officers Union.

Speaker 3 (02:44:26):
Keep us up there at Ross from the news bureau.
All right, my second non flora story. We're gonna go
to Taipei City, Taiwan. Ross here, bro, I have been there.
It's lovely. Well, there's a plastic surgeon there in Taiwan
City who is being called the bravest man in Taiwan.
You're saying, what makes him so right when you ask? Yes,

(02:44:50):
he's shared on social media that he performed his own vasectomy.
Cheez Chen Wing Nong recorded the surgery for educational purposes
and presented the eleven steps.

Speaker 4 (02:45:06):
Necessary to complete the procedure.

Speaker 3 (02:45:09):
Quote, it was a strange feeling to touch and suture.

Speaker 2 (02:45:13):
My own urethra. We've all said that once or twice.

Speaker 3 (02:45:18):
What he reassured followers that the surgery was performed outside
of work hours and under the supervision of a urologist,
and while they experienced some discomfort following the viseectomy, he
felt fine the next day, which begs the question, do
any of you want to perform your own visectomy?

Speaker 2 (02:45:42):
No?

Speaker 3 (02:45:43):
A certain member of my family is sitting next to me,
and she's chuckling at this story because if you know
me and you've known my past, I've had a painful
procedure with such events.

Speaker 4 (02:45:55):
So just thrown it out there.

Speaker 2 (02:45:57):
Thanks, Matt. Sorry, Have any of you ever performed your
own vasectomy?

Speaker 3 (02:46:06):
Seven one three, two one two five seven ninety Let
us know how to go You can you price on
a vasectomy? He did it after hours, Ross. That was
a key part of this is he did it after
his work hours.

Speaker 2 (02:46:25):
Sometimes some people do different things in their free time.
Some people put together a ship in a bottle, and
some people suit your their urethras.

Speaker 4 (02:46:33):
Have any of you ever suits you your own urethra?
Do you even know who youurethra is? Seven one three?
You should, Matt, Well, some people got gross fat issues.
They can't see they're urethras.

Speaker 3 (02:46:45):
Jesus seven one three two one two five seven ninety
Hell Yeah or not, he's up next. It is a
Matt Thomas show with Ross says, you listen, we thank
you for doing so. To Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 1 (02:46:57):
Ninety the Rockets have red Nation, Matt tas Maddie Nation.

Speaker 17 (02:47:05):
Things are going to start happening to me.

Speaker 2 (02:47:08):
Now you made it. I'm not buddy now more Matt Thomas.

Speaker 3 (02:47:13):
Now ROSSI your buddy. Tom Downtown says, is the drug reference?

Speaker 5 (02:47:26):
Something about Anyoddy's Monkey?

Speaker 2 (02:47:29):
Really a song in the eighties is about drugs? Yeah,
I know it's stunner. Turn up color me shocked.

Speaker 3 (02:47:46):
Connor d mcgoverery on the clubs in twenty twenty five
and ripped it to this song.

Speaker 4 (02:47:50):
He's going to do just fine with this song.

Speaker 2 (02:47:55):
All right, there you go.

Speaker 4 (02:47:58):
Let's go to a phone called before you play Hell
Yeah or Not, Let's talk.

Speaker 3 (02:48:03):
To Nathan ad Mid It made Park on Saturday. Nathan,
good afternoon to you.

Speaker 17 (02:48:08):
How you guys doing this afternoon?

Speaker 2 (02:48:12):
So I'm calling.

Speaker 24 (02:48:12):
I was listening to your story the Hamm and Brown
deal with the Houston Police Officers Union if you go
on to their page on Facebook, you'll see a good.

Speaker 8 (02:48:20):
Back and forth between the two.

Speaker 24 (02:48:22):
But Haim and Brown out of Houston has some pretty
serious charges that caught the attention of not only Houston police,
but Aris County constables and a bondsman or two.

Speaker 2 (02:48:33):
Because he's got.

Speaker 17 (02:48:34):
Some uh.

Speaker 24 (02:48:36):
Uh, I'll just put it out there, some some family
domestic violence charges.

Speaker 2 (02:48:41):
Yikes.

Speaker 24 (02:48:44):
So he's snitched on Houston, had his Facebook page wide open,
and Houston police officers found all that and posted it
for everybody to see.

Speaker 1 (02:48:54):
Mm.

Speaker 3 (02:48:55):
But a lot of Ross the attle, thank you for
the phone call, Nathan, A lot of layers of the
story of Ross.

Speaker 2 (02:48:59):
Did you even realiz I thought was going on? I didn't.
I just read the news story that I found.

Speaker 3 (02:49:04):
Run to Facebook, So I gotta do for for more
of this story. This is maybe this is how one
we need like a part.

Speaker 4 (02:49:12):
Two next week on the show. Hey, we got five
minutes up to go on the show.

Speaker 2 (02:49:15):
What should we do? Should play.

Speaker 3 (02:49:22):
Marathus fastest growing sports radio game show. We simply called
it Beat you believe it or not, And here's how
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A hell y are not?

Speaker 3 (02:49:34):
It's all things about Alper and shining the All Star.
I'll read your statement about Alpi's statements completely utterly angry.

Speaker 4 (02:49:40):
You'll say this he at the same as running is full.
The ball Committe, You'll say this, not tube, helly are
not to a row? Win your prize, Conner, what are
we playing for?

Speaker 12 (02:49:49):
We got a four pack of tickets with pitt passes
to Monster Jam on Sunday, February second at Energy Stadium.

Speaker 2 (02:49:54):
That's this Sunday and some seven ninety t shirts this Sunday.
Nick on seven anti ready to play? Helly air or not?

Speaker 5 (02:50:01):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:50:02):
Alprin Shangun's father, Denise, was also a professional basketball player
in Turkey.

Speaker 4 (02:50:07):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 2 (02:50:11):
Oh, helly no?

Speaker 4 (02:50:13):
He likes basketball? No sorry, Roger on seven nine he
ready to play?

Speaker 2 (02:50:17):
Helly are n?

Speaker 21 (02:50:19):
Hell yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:50:20):
When he was drafted about the Houston Rockets, Alprin Shanghun
listed Jeremy Lynn and Turkish countryman Omayer Ashik as his
favorite former Rockets hell yeah or not?

Speaker 21 (02:50:34):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:50:35):
No, he likes him, but I love him.

Speaker 3 (02:50:37):
I should be a town he's up early on here
Kevin on seven ninety Kevin, you're ready to play?

Speaker 2 (02:50:42):
Helly airnon?

Speaker 8 (02:50:44):
No.

Speaker 3 (02:50:45):
As the youth, Alprin Shangun was a competitive swimmer, and
his parents encouraged him to choose swimming over basketball.

Speaker 4 (02:50:51):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 7 (02:50:53):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:50:54):
He statement number two for the way.

Speaker 3 (02:50:56):
Alprin Shingoon is the second Turkish All Star in NBA history,
with the first being Hito Turkulu.

Speaker 2 (02:51:02):
Hell yeah or not. I'm gonna go hell y out
on that too. No, you shouldn't. It's a meno curse.

Speaker 4 (02:51:07):
Sorry that.

Speaker 3 (02:51:11):
Edgar on seven Nintie Edgar, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?

Speaker 8 (02:51:16):
You Waking up the script? First?

Speaker 3 (02:51:18):
A Kim Elaijahwan stated that while working with Alprince Shangoon,
the trait that impressed him most was Shengoon's creativity.

Speaker 2 (02:51:25):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 1 (02:51:28):
Not?

Speaker 4 (02:51:29):
Oh, he loves his creativity.

Speaker 2 (02:51:31):
Don't you ross you the creativity?

Speaker 3 (02:51:36):
Mike on seven Nainti Mike, what was your favorite part
of today's radio show?

Speaker 17 (02:51:41):
All of It?

Speaker 3 (02:51:42):
Alprin Shangoon's career high for rebounds is twenty five, which
he notched in February of last season.

Speaker 4 (02:51:48):
Versus the Brooklyn Nets. Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 17 (02:51:51):
Hell yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:51:52):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:51:53):
Just twenty one against the Hornets.

Speaker 8 (02:51:55):
Why did you?

Speaker 2 (02:51:55):
Was working media page out.

Speaker 4 (02:51:59):
Grant on seven You ready to play?

Speaker 2 (02:52:00):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 20 (02:52:03):
Hey yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:52:04):
Alprinshangoon's hobbies include playing chess and playing the saxophone.

Speaker 4 (02:52:08):
Hell yeah or not?

Speaker 5 (02:52:11):
Nah, that's right?

Speaker 3 (02:52:12):
State and number two for the wain. Alprin Shangoon learned
to speak English partly by playing video games, including Call
of Duty, Hell Yeah or not?

Speaker 20 (02:52:22):
The Hell Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 4 (02:52:23):
You're going to see the Big Monster Jam this weekend.
Shoot ross. We had one prize of the gave it
away real crisis averted.

Speaker 2 (02:52:33):
Thank god? All right, HEYLO.

Speaker 3 (02:52:36):
Want to remind you about Love Volleyball. L OVB dot
com is the website. They've got more matches coming to
the Houston area in the next couple of months, but
they've also got a huge watch party coming up too.

Speaker 4 (02:52:46):
I want you to go to the website.

Speaker 3 (02:52:48):
L ovb dot com l o VB dot com and
find out about the greatness that is League one Volleyball.
It is a brand new volleyball league and I want
you to go on on February at seven o'clock at
the Decoy you can watch the Love Volleyball Team take
on the.

Speaker 2 (02:53:04):
Love Team in Austin.

Speaker 3 (02:53:06):
It's gonna be a big watch party with lots of
other volleyball fans, great food, great drinks. You can show
your support for the team, and you can get a
chance to win tickets to upcoming match. For all of
the tips, l ovb dot com and look up the
Houston volleyball team.

Speaker 2 (02:53:21):
Known as League one Volleyball.

Speaker 3 (02:53:22):
The next professional major league is Professional.

Speaker 2 (02:53:26):
Volleyball League one Volleyball.

Speaker 3 (02:53:28):
L ovb dot com, loovb dot com and look forward
to seeing many of you February the fifth at seven
o'clock at the Decoy just off of Westfewd Drive for
a Love Houston Volleyball watch party. Up next, it's our
good friend Adam Wexer. It's our good friend Adam Clayton.

Speaker 4 (02:53:45):
He is celebrating his fifty fourth birthday. Please call him
today and wish him a very happy birthday. As part
of We'll talk to You for Rockets and Nets tomorrow
and ninety

Speaker 3 (02:54:00):
Seven, right here on these airwaves we call Sports Talk
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