Rockets Secure MASSIVE Trades in Dorian Finney Smith & Clint Capela, How Are We Feeling? Astros Start Their Series vs Rockies Tonight

Rockets Secure MASSIVE Trades in Dorian Finney Smith & Clint Capela, How Are We Feeling? Astros Start Their Series vs Rockies Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
And oh one in Age Town. Good morning, and welcome
to a Tuesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show. With Ross.
We are spinning. I mean, I'm trying to watch some
volleyball among fifteen thousand whistles in Dallas, Texas at the

(00:22):
K Billy Hutchison Convention Center, and my timeline is going
off with rockets, do this, Rockets, do this, Rockets do that, rockets, Ross,
we gotta plan out this championship parade. Let's go, or
are you that territory? Let's do it? You want your
fire engine? Right?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I'll be towards the back. I
get that, but I should get my own fire engine
with a Dalmatian. Yeah, with a dalmatian, for sure. And
you are welcome to come on there now again, I
will have to. I'd probably put you in the passenger seat.
I wouldn't watch out there in public. Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
What's the point of being on the fire engine. I'm
gonna go and throw beads at people.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Ooh, that maybe not be a bad out of situation
for all of us. Right, what do you mean? Well,
you know what happens when you throw the beads? Right?

Speaker 3 (01:16):
What happens when you throw the beads man, you know,
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh No, I'll tell you all later. It is a
very adventurous some day here the Matt Thomas Show with Rosses,
we take you till two o'clock today at seven one three, two,
one two five seven ninety seven one three two one
two five seven nine zero. There are, like, I don't know, ROSSI,
fifty free agent moves yesterday. Now, granted we are not
a huge non Rocket NBA town, so I will probably

(01:40):
not go through any of them except the ones that
involved the Rockets. But you and I have not discussed this,
at least on air. What an intriguing, interesting, and now
deep Rockets team that will be ready to go come
twenty twenty five dash twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, it's been a great off season for the Rockets.
I mean, you get the Kevin Durant move and then
you get these players around them, and it sounds like
I mean, there was some speculation that these moves were
leading to something else, something else, perhaps somebody from Greece,
but maybe that's not the case. Either way, the team's
really good right now, and maybe I need to backtrack

(02:18):
on my yesterday to tell the truth maybe the Western
Finals or it is the Western Finals or bust.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
You know, I think at some point it's got to
be right. I don't think you do all this to
maneuver all these signings and keeping yourself still evolved in
drafts and into the luxury tax. No luxury tax, the
apron if you will. Again, if anybody wants to know
what the apron is, go look at Google, because for
me to try to explain it would just be awful.

(02:47):
But basically, it's just a luxury tax. Andre's two levels
of it. And the rockets again Ross, I don't they
have not shown me their numbers yet, but I don't
think they're going to be in that tax at this point.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
I thought that, Okay, I'm confused too then because I
thought they were into a little bit of a tax.
But there's a little apron after the start of the tax.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Or am I wrong? You know we're gonna skip this
whole coverage, right, Yeah, that's it's just not what we
got into sports talk radio for.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
They should be short of the first apron.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
I do know that, yes, so that is a very
good sign. But nevertheless, and I talked about this, I
think I early got feeling it yesterday at like one
forty seven or something.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
I think, yeah, first tax level is one hundred and
eighty seven million payroll there at and first apron is
one ninety six, So I think they're up against So
they're into the tax but under the apron.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Does that make sense? I'm going to completely believe you. Okay?
Is that fair? Yes, you could tell me they're in
the nine to nine percent tax threshold, they're gonna be
penalized for life, and I go on that nothings about right.
I mean, you know it is what it is, uh,
but a lot of excitement. Dorian Finney Smith was a

(03:55):
rocket killer last year. I mean he just was part
time started for the Lakers. Has improved his three point
percentage every year he's been the league. Apparently he's a
really super good guy, good defender, he can play multiple positions.
He's a jump shooter. And then you get Clin Cappella.
And then as soon as Clin capalate, it's like you
get Clinkapella, Steven Adams, Alprin shing Gun and you you

(04:19):
did exactly what you just said what I did off air.
I'm like, are they doing what I think they might
be doing.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
As in could Alprin Shingoun be gone as part of
a Yannis deal?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
And then so that what did our group chat do yesterday?
We were throwing trades against the Texas.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Were That's what you do on a group chat Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
Yeah, it is a group chat Tuesday. This is exactly
what you do. Yeah. But and again, all I will
say is it feels like and again you have to
play the games. Injuries are a part of it performance obviously.
But if you spent any time looking on the world
wide streets of social media, if you watch an in
the morning talk shows this morning, universally people are like

(05:02):
the Rockets off season, absolutely crushed.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, everybody's given a bunch of a pluses.

Speaker 1 (05:09):
So and it beats the alternative of what are they doing?
Like for instance, Los Angeles Laker fans are flipping out.
No center yet, which had been looking for ever since
Luca Donta's trade. Lebron picks up his option over fifty
million dollars. They don't have Lucas signed to a long
term deal, and nobody really knows what the Lakers are

(05:30):
doing because they have not been I mean, they're they're
big acquisition, Ross stay with me on this they picked
up Jake Laravia. Hmm. Huge. The funniest part about this morning,
I was watching first take and this is Chris Scrimine
is off, so I can actually watch the show now.

(05:52):
The woman that was filling in for Molly Karum try
to pronounce La Ravia and she had no idea. And
I can tell you that that I have been in
that situation before where you see a name pop up
and you don't know what to do except try it,
and it would didn't go well.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I always read it as la Ravia. What did she
say Lavia?

Speaker 1 (06:11):
She said anything but close to La Rabia Laaravia. It wasn't.
I mean. And Windhorst and I think Tim bond Temple
was on there. It was kind of like, you know,
it happens, and she's like, if you breaking up one
more time than I mispronounced that, I'm gonna throttle you both. Well,
get it right, lady.

Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, So we would never make fun of mistakes we've
made on this show.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Oh my god, I mean I can't remember. I think
the last time I made a mistake on the show
was like twenty seventeen. It's been that long. Mm hmm.
Must be yeah, all right, so that is kind of
what part of the theme of the radio show is today.
Part of the radio show theme today is the Astro
is getting ready for a series with the Colorboader Rockies
and well Joe Spota joined us from Denver at to

(06:56):
twelve thirty. We've got the NFL rewind. We do have
one interesting, not surprising NBA free agent announcement today, not
for agency, but picking up of a brand new contract.
Shake Gildes Alexander, who is the MVP of the Western Finals,
the MVP of the league, the MVP of the NBA Finals,
signed a new contract that's going to pay him seventy

(07:17):
five million dollars per year. And as part of that
he has to promise secure cancer of all sorts, no
matter which kind it is. He's got to solve it.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Two eighty five million dollars for four years, fully guaranteed.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, you know what that's That's more than seventy five,
isn't it. It's a really quick math on that ROSSI seven.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
I know it's seventy one in a change, seventy one
point twenty five.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
God, that's good money he's doing, all right, I mean,
And here's the crazy part is you know the gas
is cheap in Oklahoma City. Not that he's worried about it,
but okay, how much gas is he buying a weekend anyways?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
Can show fours, I'm sure that much money and you
go straight to gas prices.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, I mean the guy's trying to be economically viable.
I mean if he makes maybe he's driving a Prius.
You know, you don't know, Yeah, it's true. Well he
now has a he now has a charger at his house. Now,
don't worry about going to the gas. Can afford his
own gas station. Yeah, I mean, if you make seventy
million dollars a year, you can't ever let somebody buy
you a meal. Correct, hmmm, unless it's the owner. That's true. Like,

(08:28):
for instance, if if I was to actually make decent money,
the three of us will go out to lunch, I
would make sure I'd pay every single time. Oh yeah, right,
I've seen you alligator arms, seen you all not even
that's terrible, that's a that's not true.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
I've seen you at the alligator obsigment in the wild.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
That's you're supposed to be nicer, you know what I
think I get?

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like, we've talked about this. I get fifteen percent mean
when you're on the road, and I'm sorry, I'm trying
to be Bennett.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
All right, Well, i'll see you next week. You better
be nice every day. I will, I will, all right.
So that has been very intriguing. Again, a lot of
little pieces are on the NBA puzzle that don't necessarily
think make a whole lot of sense for the Houston audience.
But I can just tell you that the Twitter streets

(09:17):
Ross and I you know, I'm going for you, probably
way too much for you, is very pro Houston Rockets
day yesterday. It's been fun. It's been nice to see
that the Rockets, by the way, are now the second
favorites to win the NBA Championship behind Oclumbacy.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
My for youtab randomly recently thinks I'm into anime and
there's all these references and tweets and I have I
have no idea what they're referencing.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I have no clue. My four US is do you
like these? And I'm like, oh, yeah, yes you do.
And then you hit the leg button and then you
get more of it. That's your four you tab is
better curated than mine. My wife is listening, so I
had to be polite during the show. Good she just

(10:00):
told Rossie, she just told me I was number one.
You are number one? You know, Kipp will do that Tommy. Yes,
all right. So if you are a Rockets fan, I
just want to just brag about how great your squad
turned out, at least in free agency. You may do
so at seven one three two, one two five is
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

(10:24):
nine is zero. If you want to follow us on Twitter,
it is at Sports empty and at Sports RV. We
have the news at noon. Coming up, we have a
game gut feelings at eleven thirty. Do I get a
gut feeling? Went on what I said late in the
show yesterday.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I think that's a question they sign at least one player?

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah you did, Yeah, that's a way.

Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, I mean yeah. I also predicted the sun was
gonna come up.

Speaker 1 (10:47):
A mess. Oh dang it, all right, I'll shut up. No, no, no, no, no, no
no no. He said it was fifteen percent meter around.
I know, but I'm trying to try to be nicer.
It feels like it's forty five percent meter on the road.
I don't think you're ever nice to be period, But
that's not true. I'm nice every day. I hold at
least one or two things that pop into my head

(11:07):
every day. I'm just gonna say that, and you probably
do this. You probably do the same. No, no, no,
I actually have a problem. I do tell you every
feel that's maybe a part of the problem. I should,
I should hold back. I rain back some just less
for whatever reason. My daughter's volleyball team when I was
three yesterday, so I had to definitely hold some things back.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
It's like it's like on the internet, you'll be meaner
than in person. Maybe that's it's kind of like that effect.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Oh yeah, yeah. Like on our Facebook page, our seven
ninety facebook page, our show page had a question about
you know, whether farmber Valdez is coming back, and some
loser is like, you suck mad, you don't know what's
talking about. We were talking about how I think Frober
is going to be gone and that's been a foregone
conclusion for a while. Yeah, and this dufe has called me.

(11:55):
He says, you're just like CNN, and I'm like, what
does that even mean? I don't even mean, but do
you means? You're an idiot? It's what you mean. So
I think, let me see what the guy's name is.
I'm gonna call him out right now. You should. I
don't think he's a listener this. But you know what,
if you're stupid, you're gonna get called out stupid. If
you're smart, we're gonna call you smart.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
It's Julio Franco.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, Julio Franco.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
That's the former Met and Brave.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Yeah, and well a lot of other things. Listen to
me very carefully. You're the dumbest person in Houston.

Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
I don't say that with I mean, I've met some
dumb people. Most people that we've listened to and talked
to and met are smart. You're Julio. You're really dumb.
I mean, oh, he's.

Speaker 3 (12:37):
Really he's dropping some gyms Facebook, Matt, you suck. Astros
are doing great and you're always negative. Matt is CNN,
Matt is CNN.

Speaker 1 (12:47):
It's crazy. They know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
And this is, of course the incorrect spelling of their
They should be the th h e y apostrophe.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
Ari. They know what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
If we listened, if we listening to you, Matt, we
would have traded Watson for nothing like you wanted what?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
Yeah, the dumbest part. We we have officially found the
dumbest person in Houston, Texas. His name is Julio Franco.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Most third graders could spell better than this.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
And by the way, I take offense of being seen it.
If I'm going to be a channel, I'm more like
Comedy Central or e ROSS. If you were a cable channel,
what channel would you be? What's the uh?

Speaker 3 (13:36):
What's the channel where they sell bootleg jewelry?

Speaker 1 (13:40):
Your home shopping network? Yes, you know what you are.
You're not even You're not even a cable channel. You're
a streaming service. You're a peacock.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
M because someone say so, Matt, I'm a peacock. You
just gotta let me fly.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Okay, I am definitely not seeing it. I am E
I am Comedy Central. I am not Lifetime, not Hallmark Channel.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
I mean, come on the ease, he answers ESPN, but
we're better than that.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
I don't know if I want to be an esp
If they're having a battle run of things, Oh, they
are buying every sec they're doing. Okay, yeah, I guess
they're fine. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one, three, two, one two five, seven ninety
Your rockets are making some serious, impactful ten deep moves

(14:32):
to really become a title contender. Why is it going
to work out? In my mind? Well, because I'm calling
the games a But I've got other reasons why. We'll
tell you about that next ten fifteen On Sports Talk
seven ninety twenty on the Mat Toomas Show with Ross,
I'm hearing Dallas doing the being a volleyball dad apparently. Ross.

(14:54):
Uh our friend Dan Matthews, who hosts the Morning Show
with One Sean Salisbury. Uh huh, wants me to go
find Jerry O'Connell today. He's here with his with his daughter.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Okay, that's the what role would you say he's most
known for?

Speaker 1 (15:14):
God, I don't even know. Uh, Joe's apartment, Joe's apartment
with the roaches.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
That's what I think of him in Oh, Tom Katz,
that was terrible Kangaroo Jack. Oh, he was in stand
by Me.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
Okay, he used to host a game shot off. It's
still around pictionary.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think he does stuff for barstool or he's barstool.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Yes, he's heavy barstool Okay, it says his tweet this
morning or yesterday was in Dallas for girls volleyball and
nationals and reflecting on our nation's history, also considering drafting
Pickens wide receiver from the Cowboys for pardon my take
league rip President Kennedy. What a respectful way to drive
a pardon my take in a President Kennedy in the

(16:02):
same tweet.

Speaker 3 (16:02):
Whoever thought you'd hear George Pickens and John F. Kennedy
in the same sentence.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Yeah, but you know what that means, Ross, We gotta
step up our twitter game. How can we cross over
trade historians? Uh? Huh, I'm gonna go with your thoughts
on Brook Lopez going to the Clippers along with Benjamin
Franklin as one of our greatest inventors in all time.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Go.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Uh, you know, I'm wondering how Dorian Finney Smith is
going to fit into the Rockets rotation? And uh was
Jonas Sauk conventing the polio vaccine the greatest moment of
the twentieth century?

Speaker 1 (16:36):
Yeah, that's interesting. How about if Cam wentmore, is he
going to get traded by the Rockets? And in return? Uh?
Do we have the uh? Who who? Who created the
polio vaccine? I just do John? Yeah, I don't think
that was too. I think it's somebody else it was.

Speaker 3 (16:56):
No, I think I'm wrong, You're right, okay, yeah, but
I just said it.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
I was listening to a different show.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Are you serious?

Speaker 1 (17:04):
No, no kidding, I was thinking it.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Was happening right now. Okay, I got one more? Uh yeah.
What are the benefits for the Rockets staying to the
luxury attacks to build their team but also avoiding the Aprons?
And what would have happened at Normandy if Hitler had
the installations more fortified rather than thinking there was going

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to really land at the Pad de Calais.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
M Should the Texans have got a fourth first round
Pickford Deshaun Watson? And what a like life been like
if Ross Pearol would have won the presidency?

Speaker 4 (17:39):
Hm?

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Would it be like?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Was he more for the people or for the billionaires?

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Oh wait, he's a politician. I'd probably guess.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah. But Carvey, the Danny Carvey Ross Parole was phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, I remember that. I used to have a shirt
that said Ross for Boss.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
Well that's because you were just you're an egomaniac. No,
my parent I was like twelve, my parents or not
even twelve. I was probably had like ten. When was that?
Which election was that that hadn't been? What was that
eighty eight or ninety two?

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I mean I think it was ninety two then, Yeah,
I was like seven years old. My parents bought it
for me because it was funny because my name.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Is Ross Matt. More important, let's go to the best
impersonations of Dana Carvey okay, Johnny Carson okay, George Bush.
The first HW regis Philpin. Did he do a good regis?
He did a great regions?

Speaker 3 (18:34):
The recent Biden was was decent. Yes, it was flear
than it was more good. It's more important to have
a funny impression than a good one. Like Will Ferrell's
George W. Bush wasn't really a good impression, but it
was funny.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
You know because he said straight teachery exactly, and we
used that word all the time. Now. Jimmy Stewart was underrated,
by the way, for those of you that are Danna.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Carcon Okay, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
That was a good one.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
Like Will Ferrell's Alex Trebek wasn't a dead on Extra BC,
but it was just funny.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Yeah. And the Sean Connery was by Darryl Hammond was
nothing like Roal Sean Connery, but it was just funny. Right,
I'll take swards for six hundred hmm. All right, back
to sports because that's where people are here for of course.
Uh okay, So the Rockets help me out with this ross.
I feel like they've got a balance of veterans, okay,

(19:22):
but yet the young core is still there. I was
talking about this with my wife this morning. You still
have Amn Thompson, you still have Jabari Smith, you still
have Tarry Easan. Who else one more young guy? Oh
Alprin Shingoon. I mean these are these are still relatively
babies in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Yeah, you've kept intact outside of Jalen Green, a lot
of your building blocks, of the players that you listed
that you can still say this is a young core
with room to grow. And even if Kevin Durant signs
a two year extension, I mean at the last year
of that, it'll be tradeable. And it's it's you kept

(20:02):
the present and the future open. Did Roethelstone? I think
it was. It was a great, great offseason and I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
And then when they went in, they went all in
for sure, and It's been absolutely fantastic, and I'm I mean,
I've never been honestly, and I was super I will
say this in all the years of me calling the games,
it's will been my tenth year coming up that when
Chris Paul got here, I was just beside myself. And
this is probably even more excitable at this point because

(20:31):
I just first of all, Durant is a one of
the greatest ever to play the sport. He's got a
great surrounding cast and ross and we'll go to the
calls here in a second. He doesn't have to do
all this by himself. It's not Kevin Durant and a bunch
of guys you never heard of before.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
Yeah, it's a team that you won fifty two games
last year, and I mean you gave away two pieces
of it, but you got back a lot.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Yeah. All right, let's take a short time out. We'll
come back and get to the phones. I got some
people that want to talk. If you want to get in,
you are more than welcome to do so. We'll talk
to you in the next seven exclusively seven one three
two one two five seven ninety. That's seven one three,
two one two five seven nine zero your Houston Rockets
are killing it in the off season, and we haven't

(21:18):
said that always about teams in our town when it
comes to free agent acquisitions, and that's exactly what the
Rockets are doing. Seven one three two one two five
seven ninety Hi Ross, I just invited Jerry O'Connell come
over and watch my daughter play volleyball tonight. That's weird?
Is that weird at all? You must be a connoisseur.
It's fine. And uh, I told we would talk about

(21:38):
pictionary as TV game show he's hosting that he gets
to host and I don't sorry, And apparently, uh Trevor
says on Twitter that Jerry O'Connell gets is uh junk
bitting off in Prana three D. I never saw the movie,
so m M piranha three D. I didn't catch that one.
Yeah my list. Yeah, Kenny says, well, the Rockets make
another move before the season and with Grover Cleveland when

(21:59):
the hot dog eating contest that coding island.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
All right, we have some breaking news in the NBA.
I don't know it's not I guess it's more relevant
in Indiana and Milwaukee. But a breaking news center, I
guess maybe two It's a pretty big deal, right.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I would say hit it too. Yeah? Yeah? Is it three? No? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I don't think not for us. If we were in Indiana,
it'd be like four or five.

Speaker 1 (22:31):
If we were doing Pacers radio, we'd be really losing
our mind. Well, if we were on Milwaukee, Milwaukee's a five. Yeah,
but everything in Milwaukee's a five.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Did you see that map of all the drunkest counties
in America and they're basically all in Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Let me tell you something, knowing you like I've known
you for the last fifteen years. Your liver could not
survive Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
But I'm still down in my old age. I only
drink like one one day per week, two max.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
I'm just telling you, between the two hundred pounds women
and the brats and the beer, I would never see you.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Okay, huh, Yeah, it seems like you're being negative, but
maybe not.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I mean, we in Texas have beautiful women.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
There's no there's no hot women in Milwaukee. Get out
of here.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Some people voted for Laverne and Shirley. All right, let's
move off with I'd put Wisconsin the bottom ten. I'll
just put that one. Miles Turner is a Milwaukee Buck,
and Damian Lillard is no longer a Milwaukee Buck. You're saying, well,
he's got a guaranteed contract for a couple more years.

(23:49):
He's been waived.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
And stretched, which that means you get a stretch provision,
which you can, uh kinda you can pay out the
years left guaranteed for an extra couple of years to
kind of save some cap space. So Lillard has been
waived and stretched, and Miles Turner is now a Milwaukee Buck.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
So let's put things in perspective, and that we do
a lot of pacer radio here on the Matt Thomas Show.
Ross they're within a half of winning an NBA championship.
Tyre's Halliburton, Raptures and Achilles. Yeah, and they trade Miles Turner.
And by the way, it was Miles Turner a free agent.
I guess I'm sorry, Yeah, he was a free agent. Yeah,

(24:39):
there's no true Okay, that's right, there's no trade. I
had it wrong.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I had it wrong, Okay, he said, I saw it originally.
You're right, my bad.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
The the the the original tweet I said, I read
to Acchoir Miles Turner, so I thought Acchoir in trade,
but that was the wrong I took it the wrong way.
It happens to mat Yeah, it's fun. We gonna make mistakes.
Uh So, how does Indianapolis Radio handle this today? I
mean they're not in a great mood, are they.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Honestly, I applaud the Bucks for Oh yeah, Indianapolis can't
be happy. I thought you said Milwaukee at first, Indianapolis
is not doing so hot. You get to Game seven
of the Finals and Turner's gone and yeah, as you mentioned,
Alan Burton's out for a year and who knows how
much he'll ever be the same after an Achilles' injury.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
Turner, by the way, a four year contract with one
hundred and seven million dollars, a player option in twenty
eight to twenty nine, and a full fifteen percent trade kicker,
meaning if he gets traded, he gets a fifteen percent bump. Hmmm,
one hundred. I mean he's good, but his best days
are behind him, honestly.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, I remember being all excited when he put on
a long horn bucket hat and committed to the Longhorns.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
I was, remember, the reason why they did this is
because Brook Lopez signed with the Clippers yesterday. Yes, so
I would say Miles Turner greater than brook Lopez at
this point in his career.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yeah, Miles Turner is only twenty nine, I think.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
Or a little more, I mean a lot more athletic
than brook Lopez.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
He just turned twenty nine in March.

Speaker 1 (26:11):
God, he's been a league a long. What do you
start playing when he was fourteen?

Speaker 3 (26:14):
Yeah, he only a Longhorn legend. He was only there
for one year. He's been in the league since twenty sixteen.
So yeah, he's got ten years in the league, but
he's only twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
Okay, then you know what, that's a that's a pretty
big win there. That's a that's an upgrade. Did you
think that affects how Giannis thinks about Milwaukee at this point?
I would say certain absolutely, wouldn't it.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yeah, thirty nine point six percent from three last year,
thirty six percent career.

Speaker 1 (26:38):
I mean, honestly, Ross, if you're an Eastern Conference team
that's at least decent, why are you making Why would
be honest want to go west if he could?

Speaker 3 (26:46):
The East is wide open. Tatum, Achilles, Halliburton, Achilles, Well,
lilierd Achilles was on their own team.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
New York doesn't have a coach yet. Yes, so yeah,
it's gonna be Michell doesn't win, Donovan Mitchell doesn't win
big playoff series.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I mean Cleveland and New York. Orlando probably thinks they're
up and coming, but who knows. We'll see they're same
thing for Detroit. Yeah, and then Milwaukee's right in that mix. Yeah,
if you're honest, you got to stay there, right. Plus,
even if you're miserable, you got two years left.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Then you can go be a freege and go wherever
you want, choose where you want to go, and you
still only be thirty two. Wouldn't be like you'd be like,
you know, you're ridiculously old. Yeah, So there you have it.
Miles Turner going from Indiana to Milwaukee, and Damian Lillard
is just gonna sit it out this year and collect
all that money. How much money they owe him on

(27:49):
that content, I think it's fifty million. Oh god, Ross, yes, kid,
get your kids to buy basketball. Yeah, it's so worth it.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Just be over six foot three and one of the
greatest shooters to ever walk the planet and you'll get fifty.

Speaker 1 (28:05):
Million dollars easy and dribble. Yeah, well, great handles. You're right,
you don't even you don't even have to go to college.
Just be really good in the AAU circuit and work
your game that way.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
Damian Lillard couldn't even he played defense or or a
handle of blitz pick and roll, but he still made
fifty million a year, So good for him.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Good for him. Let's talk to the people in Houston, Texas.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety. If
you want to chime in seven one three two one
two five seven, AINTI our first call. They is in
Las Vegas, Nevadas. We have nobody in Houston that's excited,
but Las Vegas apparently is thrilled. Davids with us on
the Matt Thomas Show, David, good morning, Hey there.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Well, like everybody, I'm just excited as can be by
the rockets h off season here. But last night when
I heard that they had acquired reacquired Clint Capella, I
just was puzzled.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I've got something about.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
There getting awfully stacked up deef at the center position,
and I thought I had to call you first thing.
They trying to figure out what was going on basically,
and early I just don't get it segmented for me,
if you will, but I also have a conspiracy theory
that goes with it. Now, the more I sleep on it,
you don't think this could be part of acquiring the
assets they need to make a go at Iannis the

(29:22):
Greek Creek to you, I mean, let's look at Milwaukee situation.
They just lost Brook Lopez a free agency. They basically
need two centers now.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
David, David, we just we just told you that Miles
Turner is going to the to the Milwaukee Bucks.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
So yeah, they're going to try to keep them.

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah, okay, all right, Well I've been you know, I've
been thinking that they're trying to accommodate a trade and
you know, we well, you know, we've talked about the
Ross in particular has been sort of keeping his radar
up on this. But I just thought, you know, this
gives us a second center. They're going to need to
Big Ben two centers, and we can now package you know,

(30:05):
Capella with uh with uh.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Of course, you know you can't. Capella hasn't signed a
contract yet. He's he's he's coming to play for the Rockets.
I mean, David, thanks for the phone call. I appreciate. No,
they're the the Yannest stuff is over with I think
here in Houston, I think so too. I think so
don't especially with Yeah, this Miles Turner thing. They're trying
to keep him there now. I think ultimately it's Giannis's
decision right there there. If he says I want out,

(30:31):
they're gonna, uh just submit to his demands. I think, right, yes,
But it doesn't necessarily mean that Houston would be a
spot for him.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
Yeah, I think, I don't know. Have to get into
the aprons and the caps and where they are now.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
No more apron talk. I don't want to bring. It's confusing.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
You can get to the tax but not to the
apron and that's where the rockets are, I believe. So
Tellman's shelling at the cash I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
Patrick, all the above? Can that be fair? Sure? I mean,
what kind of do you think that's done over zoom
where they're paying longestance mobile charges? I mean, if I'm
assuming the Tillman's there, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Yeah, can he use the the government issued laptop of
the embassy?

Speaker 1 (31:20):
Who can you can somebody like pick that up and
said we need to do a deep dive in that's
making make sure there's no intelligence on there and there's
like all these rocket proposals. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:29):
Wikipedia says he's been in San Marino since May at
the at the embassy.

Speaker 1 (31:36):
What do you mean do you live there? I mean,
do you live in an embassy or do you like?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
I think so. I think the ambassador lives in the embassy, right,
I don't know. It's like the King of the castle.
This is beyond me, man, I don't know. San Marino
is nice and in on the coast.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'd ever been.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Well, let's go, doll talk to your boy Tillman.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Hey maybe well maybe we're setting up a preseason game
in it or something pretty nice. I mean i'd go. Actually,
i'd probably get the word, Matt, we're gonna have you
broadcast from Houston. Oh.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Thanks, that's fine. That's what happened when the game was
in China, right.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
It was that my first ever Rockets play back play
game was done over a television set.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Yeah, Sam Marino is on the Adriatic Sea, mat.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
I have never been near. Okay, by the way the
Rockets preseason schedules out, I'm not going to Italy this summer.
This fall pretty close though, Birmingham, Alabama in Atlanta. Oh nice, Yeah,
you say you always say Birmingham is underrated.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
It's okay, it's okay. I'll say Birmingham is not pretty.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah it's it's actually, it's a pretty area. It's just
not a lot of stuff to do there. And I
do like Atlanta a lot because it's a good city.
It's like it's very close to Houston, actually big concrete jungle,
but it's got more hills than it Houston does. And
I do like the Southern accents. Yeah, they're very charming,

(33:03):
all right. Uh. Ten forty three on Sports Talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five, seven ninety
If you want to chime in seven to one three
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(33:24):
People ROSSI, I gotta be honest with you are winging
out over Jeremy Pania. We'll get to that in a minute.
Ten forty three on seven ninety Cross. You know who
Jerry O'Connell is married to?

Speaker 3 (33:35):
Oh, gosh, I do, I can't remember.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
She has a famous ex husband. Hmmm. I can't remember
Rebecca Romaine. Ah, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (33:55):
I knew it was one of those nineties stars, but
I couldn't remember her name. I was also thinking of, though,
was the girl that was married to Bobcat Goldthwaite.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I'm glad you said his name properly, because I've butchered
it many times. I gotten in trouble at you.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Was hot Nikky Cox, That's what I was thinking of.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
How she doing these days? Wow? Well this is like
late eighties, just TV nostalgia time, right now, that's right.
She was married to Jay Moore and then Jay Moore
is currently married to Jeanie Buss. Yes, and they don't
live together. Isn't that weird? That's smart. I'd like you

(34:34):
to explain, what do you mean? No, you said it's smart,
so I will reply back. What makes it so smart?
I got to have your space, Matt? Yeah, I know that,
but do you want to? Don't you think you should
live in at least the same apartment or house?

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Well maybe if it's like a mansion. You get your side,
she gets her side.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
Okay, Well apparently it's not working out that way.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
Gotta you gotta get your solitude every now and then, Matt,
do you think that she signed a prenupt for him?

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Probably? I mean, she's worth way more than Jame ORI's.
She's worth billions. Right. Remember we used to carry j
Moore on this radio station way back in the day.

Speaker 3 (35:10):
We did that was the genesis of good morning strippers.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
It was like we we started the station at zero
listeners and we moved it slowly, moved it up. It was.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
There were tough times.

Speaker 1 (35:25):
It was a trying time, if you will, the two
to four slot of the Matt Thomas Show. At that point.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Higher ups at corporate don't always make the right decision.

Speaker 1 (35:34):
No, they just know we love our corporate Oh they
were great, the amazing, infallible and wonderful. Please do a chance,
please don't. All right, so Astro Nation Ross is flipping
out over Jeremy Pane here, explain we do.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
We need aos out of this. We haven't had aos
all year, we haven't.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
You know what, if we're gonna do it, you gotta
you gotta show Jonathan where the AO music is. Okay,
maybe we can do it at the top of next hour.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
You will give it, You tell me, I mean, you
do a little research, you think there's enough substance for
a segment.

Speaker 1 (36:15):
We'll do it. Oh my god, you kidding me? If
I went to Astros Twitter right now, which is at
astros and let me see where they're uh they put
out they had to put their pr release on there. Oh.
Here it is twenty three hours ago update on Jeremy Pana.
Just to put things in perspective. Three hundred and sixty
four thousand views, mm hmmm, hundred likes, three hundred and

(36:40):
seventy two retweets, one hundred and eighty one comments. That's
a lot of comments, so I could probably find five
to ten and them will be completely irrational.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
All right, Well, I know when you want to do it.

Speaker 1 (36:55):
We'll do it at till eleven o'clock. Okay, Because my
point is I think we're Astro fan base and nothing
not that Astros Twitter is a huge segment of the population,
but it is an emotional, highly charged watch every move
part of the team. It's probably not overlying. I'm not
even gonna look at them until we read it a
lot aear. Oh, this one's funny. Okay, we'll have some

(37:17):
good ones. Okay, seven one, three, two, one two, five,
seven ninety let's go to uh Richmond next, and let's
go to Brian on seven ninety. Brian, good after, good
morning to you. Oh hey, how's it going, Matt.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
I just wanted to say congratulations on your correct prediction
yesterday before you all ended the show about the Rockets
signing someone else.

Speaker 1 (37:40):
Well, first of all, thank you very much. Secondly, I
knew there was something cooking. Uh. Dorian Finney Smith. I
don't know how big of an NBA fan you are, Brian,
but that guy has gotten better every single year. He's
a good jump shooter. He is going to be a
sing and I looked I like Dylan Brooks, but I
think Dorian Finney Smith is a better player than Dylan Brooks.

(38:06):
All right, all right, thank you very much, short and
simple baby, that's right, that's fine. Would you agree with me?
Do you know much about Dorian Phinney Smith.

Speaker 3 (38:14):
Ross, I mean, I know he's good. Yeah, I like
him too, good three point shooter last couple of years,
especially been in.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
A game guy. But I think he's a guy that
can play for sure.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
He's been floating around. Yeah, I honestly don't know much
about his perimeter defense as it relates to Dylan Brooks.
Dylan Brooks wasn't a lockdown guy, but he was good.
I would put him in kind of the no, I
would put him ahead of like the Pat Beverly category,
but where his reputation is a little bit better than
he actually is. But I don't think of Dylan as

(38:48):
like a you know, a racing guys off the floor,
like he's not say what what amn Thompson is?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
And look, I was a Dylan guy and will always
be a Dylan guy no matter what he does. Was
a son but and he got better last year, but
there were a lot of times in his first year
that you want your lockdown defender also not to get
into foul trouble. And I think at some point last year,
not in this press year that we have before, that
I think Dylan let the league in fill out. So
it's yeah, you know, look, Dylan Brooks brought tremendous value

(39:18):
and that I will never burst marriage. I don't care
if he gets in fights with every rocket for.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
The Yeah, if he arm bars Albron Shingun, you're gonna
be You're be mad at him.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Don't lie. Only if he closed lines him, yeah, which
he might. By the way, Dylan can can't fight with
a bar with a man, he might well, we'll hip
toss him.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Hmmm.

Speaker 1 (39:38):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Dylan's pretty strong, a man's wiry, but he does have
the the fast twitch muscle fibers. Because yeah, he tossed
Tyler Hero like he was nothing.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah. Yeah. Uh. And by the way, don't you don't
want to scrape with Tara Easton too. Terri will hit
you hard too.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
And well, as long as his leg's okay, uh oh,
and Dylan too soon what I said, as long as
it's mine, as long as it's like it's okay, I'm
gonna get Tarras's MoMA on you. Oh no, all right,
delete this from the podcast please. Dylan averaged sixteen points
per game last year. That ain't nothing. That's production.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
You need.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
You need to figure out somewhere. He was their best
three point shooter and sixteen points per game. That that's significant.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
And again he was the best three point shooter on
the team and Franklin Rossi wasn't even close. Yes, so
there is there's certainly some value in uh, Dylan Brooks.
And that was part of the reason why you could
make that move, because you had to give him. I mean, look,
if it works out for Phoenix and they bare minimum
do what they did as a rocket. Jalen Green and
Dylan Brooks's gonna score forty points a game for the

(40:47):
Phoenix Sun between the two of them. Mm hmm, that's
not terrible.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well against the bad teams, I mean.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
They're gonna they're gonna load up against the Wizards.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yeah, and Trey Johnson, Well, they'll be good, they'll be interesting.

Speaker 1 (41:05):
Their defense, their defense got better. Haynes Chris P. Haynes Ross,
what do you put them on the.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Believability beat here? But I would say pretty reliable. Breaking
Chris Haynes. We need we do we need sounders.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
It's opinion. So do we do we break news sounders
and opinions? No. Eighteen minutes ago breaking Milwaukee Buckstar Janis
and then the Goompo is not pleased with the team's
decision to waive Damian Lillard. Leak sources tell me breaking news.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Get over at Yanni's he's got a torn achilles. He's
like thirty five.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
What they want to keep around just for blanking giggles. Yeah,
he still gets his money. That feels very I need
some hit, some hits on my Twitter page. Don't you
think you said it? Not me?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
I got none to say.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Well, I mean it was Chris Bayne's gonna come after
me or something, or wild who's got six hundred thousand followers. Damn, dude,
it's pretty good. What hell now? I know he was
with Yahoo for a while. He's on his own.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Oh he's on Haynes Briefs. That's what he called a
YouTube channel. You got a YouTube channel, YouTube channel. There's
no bad names in a brain in a brainstorm. But
you gotta throw that one out. You gotta throw that
one out.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
He's Team Fresnoe. You ever been to Fresne, California? Oh
my god, No, it's the plumber's butt of America. Hmm okay,
all right.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
I'll think your word for it. I mean, no, I'm
not letting you go to Frede unless you want to
go to fly in there to go to Yosemite. Yeah, yeah,
I think it's like an hour away from Yosemity.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Right right, all right, let's come back with some aos
on Jeremy Paine's stint to the injured list. This may
not be pretty ten fifty eight on Sports Talk seven
n eighty ros Julio Franco on Facebook, responding when I
called him an idiot, he says, no, sir, you are.
He was listening. No, it is on Facebook. He's probably

(43:02):
just stiring your Facebook. You know.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Well, you called him a genius. I saw the comment.
Then you called him an idiot.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Yes, I said. I said, I'm sorry, Actually you're an idiot.
And then he says, no, sir, you are. And then
I respond, please don't get hit by a bus. Okay,
I said, please don't. I'm glad you're wishing him well, Matthew.
I am. Now, if he gets hit by a bus,
hopefully the injuries are minimal. Hm hmm. I don't know,

(43:33):
so like getting hit by a bus would be I
don't think it'd be great. No, it sounds like it
could be a quite injurious. I don't know what the
word is. Did you say injurious? Injurious? Oh, injurious? Okay, okay,
injuresome if as the kids would say, I think injurious
is a word. I don't think injurisom is okay, I

(43:53):
think I made it up. It's not mine. It sounds better. Well, okay,
we'll get there. We'll get my friend Miriam Webster on
that Miriam, she was like your first love back in
the day. Yes, all right, uh, let's are we ready
to do this? We get to music. Yes, it's been

(44:13):
a while, everybody, those of you new to the show,
we have something. We can turn it up a little bit.
Let's get it going a little astros overaction. We call
it a o's here on the show, and let's all
sing together. Here we go.

Speaker 9 (44:33):
Hey oh, let's go, hey oh, let's go astros over
reaction right here on seven ninety All right, here we go.

Speaker 1 (44:45):
So the Jeremy Painia release comes out that says he
is gone for a period of time because of the
ribs on the left side of his body are crumbling.
That's not crumbling, matty, not slide fracture. Slight. No, it's
not slight. It's small. Didn't they slight? Small? Okay, whatever,

(45:06):
Let's find out what the one comments are. Okay, all right,
call up Bryce. That's probably not gonna happen, but that's
not terrible. Let's see here. Bryce Matthews, as many twenty
seven says, worst medical team of all time? Lol, we

(45:26):
all saw this coming.

Speaker 3 (45:28):
Why worst medical team of all time? I know I'm
not giving them the l On this one, Amanda says,
we need better doctors. I understand that Houston is supposed
to have a great medical community, but there are entirely
too many injuries that are being missed by your doctors.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
Hashtag need better doctors, hashtag stop being cheap.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
All right, look, folks, I have to say on this one.
He got hit in the ribs. They did imaging. Yeah,
swelling went down for a couple of days, They did reimaging.
They did everything right, right, and it turns out there
was a little bit of a fracture.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
At Here's Boomer in the Hills says, see you with
September callups, Jeremy, it's been real. Oh that is that
is an AO.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
See you with September collumps.

Speaker 1 (46:19):
Come on, man, uh astro say small fracture. This is
from shadow fan base is required to expect. Jeremy no
longer has ribs. You got them removed, Like Adam, can
you live without ribs? I think you can't live with
that ribs?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Right, you can get a couple removed, like two or three.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
At golf Coast clown says, So he's out until September
at the minimum. Got it? Thanks? Oh no, did you
read the one.

Speaker 3 (46:47):
From Phil losassl Losasso?

Speaker 1 (46:50):
What does he say?

Speaker 3 (46:52):
It's an acronym for astros okay, ailments, strains, tendinitis, ruptures, ostiasis,
and then the S word. I cannot say, but it's
four letters.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
For Leoko says Jeremy. Pen will be out of all
next year. To is new imaging show that he lost
his rib cage. Let's see here, Texas tweety says, glad
to see they're doing repeated imaging. Baby steps.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Yeah, say this is good. That's positive.

Speaker 1 (47:27):
At. DJ mccabee says, Cheese and rice. What does the
Mexican side that you just have to do with this?
Cheese and rice? Cheese and rice. Let's see here a
lot of Matthews. See you in September, Jeremy, that's from Kevin. Oh,

(47:49):
I just saw it. Phil said you can't read that
last one. Yes, it's not good. At Mister wee Bye says,
this reminds me of Korea two point zero. Oh, come on, uh,
let's see uh. Natjo Gee says, as soon as the
spot I mentioned that there was pain. When pain you
took deep breaths, I already knew a.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
That was kind of a red flag.

Speaker 1 (48:11):
Yeah, let's see and let me do a couple more here.
Let's see do something about this is from gamer Glory.
Do something about your medical team where you're going to
have an all minor league lineup and nobody wants to
watch that when it's an MLB team. Do something. You
have the money. Okay, the Astro was saving money by

(48:32):
these injuries. They're sending everybody to Walgreens. Jake Astro says,
in two weeks, are going to say his rib actually
vaporizings in knick surgery.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
No, no, what.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
Is wrong with you people? Astro Twitter, You've lost it terrible.
Uh at Pedro says, see you next year, buco Uh.
Andrew David Christian says, is this karma for Boris? Wow?

Speaker 3 (49:06):
Come on now, it's not like Scott Boars is a criminal.
He just gets people more money.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Yeah. I was gonna say, let's see the losing This
is from music guy says, the losing streak of this
medical staff needs to be examined. And let's do one
more here. Oh, great season. Seein twenty twenty six, Bud

(49:33):
that my friends is a little astros over reaction. Hmhmm,
right on cue right, I mean there's yeah, they just
they're they're a special breed. The team is fifty and
thirty four, folks, correct, six game lead?

Speaker 3 (49:53):
Come now, well it's down to six now, Well I'll
make because America's one last night I was. I wasn't
on Mariner's watch either. You're you're more standings obsessed at
this point than I am.

Speaker 1 (50:05):
That's all. Well, look when my daughter's volleyball team and
on and three was what else?

Speaker 8 (50:08):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (50:11):
Three three?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
What are the conversations like that after that?

Speaker 1 (50:16):
Well, you tell me when you've lost something three times
in a row, what we were lost, what your conversation
would be like? Blaming teammates? That's tough.

Speaker 7 (50:26):
You know.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
A month and a half ago, I had some friends
of friends in town for like a rec league a
beer league hockey thing, and they lost with literally one
second left in overtime.

Speaker 8 (50:37):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
They traveled from Nashville and the finals. Did you guys,
have you never see anything like that?

Speaker 1 (50:44):
Yeah? I was out at the game.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
What do you And after the game, it's just like,
oh man, uh, that was a rough one.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Yeah, we know it's a rough one. So wait a minute,
you buried the lead. You've seen more ice hockey in
the last county year than I have.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
That's true, I mean it was. It was a Beer
league travel ball.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Now are these guys out of shape or are they
in shape? They're fairly in shape. But they hit the
keg literally mid game. Do you mean drink beer while
on the ice?

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Yeah, well, okay, not while on the ice, but during
intermissions and while they're while they're on the sidelines before
a line change.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
Hmm. They bring the zamboni on in between periods. No,
where did you go watch the play? At the galleria?

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Who was in sugar Land?

Speaker 1 (51:33):
They don't call it the aerodrome. I don't remember what.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
It's called sugar Land Ice Center or something like that.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
I didn't realize you were such a hockey fishing Well,
I know, I told you.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Some friends of friends were in town and I went
to go support. And then it was literally the last
second of they were one second away from a shootout
and the other team, Yeah, they're from Nashville.

Speaker 4 (51:52):
The other team was from Lafayette. Actually you can't even
see that.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
Yeah, Well, here's the here's a reality. My daughter's team's
got two matches today.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Okay, it's bounce back.

Speaker 1 (52:04):
I will give up the two matches, if if if
Jerry O'Connell comes over and says, hello.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
Does that get you all out of their faster? If
they lose all the matches or they're like consolation matches. Oh,
we're here for four days, no matter what.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
By the way, I got some breaking news here, none
that sports breaking news. HiT's what? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (52:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Oh this is anything Middle East related?

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Is it? No? It is not? Oh? Thank god. Uh,
let's go ahead and hit it again. Whoa none sports related? Okay,
A celebrity has died, that is correct, Well not in
a celebrity a I would say a television figure has
died at the agent of ninety years.

Speaker 3 (52:44):
Old television Dick Van Dyke's older than that.

Speaker 1 (52:48):
Okay, what's let's see you can figure this out. And
this may be this guy may be too old for
Robert Loja controversial television personality, non entertainment, non political, non political. Yeah,
you just say it. I don't know that, Brenda rest okay, yeah,

(53:15):
if you did a you could do it. You don't
do it. Wasn't he the one they didn't wasn't he
on uh SNL And they did him like crying his
eyes out and stuff like that. Yes, I think he is. He. Uh,
Phil Hartman did a Jimmy Swags come on there, and
that's the only way I know Jimmy Swagger. That's funny,

(53:36):
that's funny. Yeah, I think he did something. I think
he him and Pat Robertson were in cahoots like if
you don't give money that God's gonna come down and
hit you and that kind of stuff. You know, you
know how that works. All right, We have gut feelings
coming up at the bottom of the hour, and I
have to brag on some of my gut feelings, including
the one I gave you yesterday. I told you the
Rockets would be going and doing some things yesterday, So

(53:57):
we'll get now. The other gut things I have are
not so high seven one three two one two five
seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven
nine zero Jerry O'Connell or Jimmy Swagger, believe it or not? Today, Ross,
what are you gonna do it?

Speaker 3 (54:10):
One fild Well, you have to get Jammie's I mean,
Jimmy Swagger. That'd be crazy. If you got Jimmy Swagger
on the show, You'd have to get Jerry O'Connell on
the show.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
I thought, Oh, I'm got me tell you something. If
I get him on, we will do he and I
will do a selfie video and it will go it
will go viral. Okay, you know I know the name
of his team, his daughter's teams. Dam I can figure it.
I can go. You know, I'll just go stalk him. Yeah,
that sounds normal. I think it'd be fine. Oh yeah,

(54:38):
go ahead. I think so too, mad, I think I
should do it. If daughters a year youngers, they couldn't
play each other, that that would have been an easy one. Yeah, okay, yeah,
he has twin daughters that are a year younger, so
that wouldn't we would not be playing them all right,
seven one three, two one two five seven ninety. We
got the gut fillings coming up at the bottom of
the hour. Rossi Giannis is tweeting like a mother today.

(55:05):
He wants brook Low pezzes Jersey retired in Milwaukee. Al Right, relax.
How long was he there? Well, you know, the Rockets
went after him a few years ago, so it had
to been within the last five years, I think. But
he was. He was with them and then re signed, right,

(55:26):
I think so yeah? I think, yeah, would you retire
Brook Lopez' I don't know. I mean, good player, solid
three point guy. But do you retire the jersey? Hmm?

Speaker 3 (55:39):
I don't know what jersey number doesn't even wear. Okay,
I have no idea. He was there Fox Talk seven years.

Speaker 1 (55:47):
Are you retiring a jersey for a guy that's been
there seven years?

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Seven years, thirteen points five rebounds? I mean, come on, see,
this is what makes me laugh. And this is everything
exactly apples and apples what he's saying. But some of
these other things and these players say and they go on.
It's like you have to have played the game to
talk about the game. Players say crazy stuff too, and

(56:11):
they vote crazy as well when you see some of
these votes for All Star and all this other stuff.

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Correct correct. And they also want to do they all
want to do podcasts, and they figure out how if
they do three or four and it's kind of cool,
but they they do like every other week to go
it's too much where I want to do it, Well,
then then stop, let us do it. Then we can
put the time and we can put the work in.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Yeah, you can't get all the athletic talent and the
podcast pick one, yeah one or the other number eleven
Brook Lopez for the said, there's.

Speaker 1 (56:42):
A lot of guys that are that do sports analysis.
Do you respect? I mean, there's some crazy things that
Kendrick Perkins has been saying for a better part of
five years. He's talking about how you'd lock up Jokic. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
I think in Mon Schumber does a good job.

Speaker 1 (56:59):
I have not seen much of him, and he did
do some stuff with Vanessa on the streams broadcast things.
And you watched all of that, Matt, I mean, don't
get in trouble some of it. Don't get trouble. Oh yeah,
I watched every single minute of it. She knows that
was in Vegas one. I couldn't watch every minute. Okay,
Well to what team Vanessa? What's good? We got him? Uh? Okay.

(57:23):
One other thing I want to get to do. You
know where who's getting a lot of hate right now
is the city of Cleveland. What they do. First thing,
I told you yesterday, They're going to build their facill
their new stadium outside of downtown. They're going fifteen miles
to the west suburb, which again I told you this
is becoming the new trend because they just the inner

(57:43):
city stuff just isn't Although Cleveland's in an old old town.
I can, and they do have a great downtown. I
don't understand that that that's confusing. There must be a
realisted issue there or we have different issues in Houston.
But now the Cleveland Brown fans ROSSI are mad because
they're building a dome stadium. They think part of the
charm of having teams come to Cleveland is having to

(58:05):
brave the elements.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
Oh, please get over yourself. Cleveland wasn't there There was
a game? Was it last year or the year before
when there was like forty mile an hour winds the
entire time? Nobody named, nobody got time for that. Sorry,
that's not real football.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
It isn't about the football. It isn't about the weather conditions.
It's about what you do with your building, what happens
raws in the National Football League, when you build a
new stadium, you get a super Bowl, You get a
super Bowl. Do you think that Roder Goodell would ever
in a million years put a Super Bowl in February

(58:43):
in Cleveland, Ohio without a roof on it.

Speaker 3 (58:45):
I wouldn't think.

Speaker 1 (58:46):
So.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
They did New York what ten years ago.

Speaker 1 (58:51):
I'm trying to think of the last cold weather.

Speaker 3 (58:53):
That's is Minneapolis, but there's a roof there.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
There's a roof. I think it is in Buffalo to
have a roof, I think too, I hope. So even
though you want them to play in blizzard conditions, well
that's what I think part of the I like watching Blizzard.
Do you know the NFL does two? Isn't it weird?

Speaker 8 (59:13):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (59:13):
They always put it on the if there's snow, like
if it's a playoff game and it's in Green Bay
or Buffalo, they make sure it's a three or seven
o'clock game. For sure.

Speaker 1 (59:21):
Seven o'clock games in New England are a thing of
the normal there. But the reality is, if you're asking
for taxpayer dollars and you're putting in your own money,
you want a super Bowl part of the mix. And
my guess is Cleveland. Well someday hosts the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Well yeah, it was in MetLife in fourteen, Okay, and
I don't have it. But year by year, the future
ones are Santa Clara, Inglewood, and Atlanta.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
But i'll tell you ross it. This year it's in
Santa Clara and San Francisco. There's a puncher's chance it
could be cold, miserable that day us San Francisco in
early in late January, early February, and they have the
prettiest place in the world.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
It's not great in the yeah, it's uh in the
summer even it's cold as you know. Oh yeah, you
like to complain about never going to a Giants game
again at night?

Speaker 1 (01:00:16):
That is actually accurate during the day. Can't wait night time,
you can have it, Okay, Ross, I just don't believe
in and in the tasting my own U. Al Right,
I know I knew you were gonna say that. Agree,
I knew how that sentus was going to finish, and
I just didn't want you to well I went there anyway.
Let's talk to Yankees Keith on Sports Talk seven Hondy.

(01:00:37):
Our time is eleven twenty five seven one three two
one two five seven. Auntie Keith, good morning to you.

Speaker 8 (01:00:43):
Good morning gentlemen, and congratulations pseudo Rockets. I'm really excited
about uh all the trades we got or acquisitions we got.
I'm a little concerned about uh this join and Finney Smith.
I looked at his stats and the guy beverage is
like eight points and uh what is his specially maybe

(01:01:05):
I'm missing something.

Speaker 1 (01:01:07):
Good three point shooter, can play multiple positions, been around,
done that, good defender, good guy, good locker room guy.
Uh you didn't break the bank with him either. Uh
you know again, he can. He's he's listed as a
power forward, but he's more of a swing than he
is anything else. I don't I would not can describe
him as a as a back to the basket kind

(01:01:29):
of guy. I'm a little most power forwards these days, aren't.
He's on he's six to seven, So yeah, he's to me,
he's more small forward than he's big forward. But in
the last two times the Rockets played, then he ate
the Rockets lunch, he could definitely knock down the three
point shot.

Speaker 8 (01:01:44):
Okay, So he's what's considered a three and D guy.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Yes, yes, Okay, that's great.

Speaker 8 (01:01:52):
And now we got all the sides that we need
to match up with.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:01:55):
See, so I'm really excited. I can't wait the season starts.

Speaker 1 (01:02:02):
That makes two of us. Keith thanks for the phone call.
Last year for the Lakers, he played in let's see
sixty three games between Brooklyn and the Lakers played both places,
sixty three games, made forty starts and looks like to me,
Rossi shot about forty from three point range.

Speaker 3 (01:02:24):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:25):
I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:27):
That's well above his career average, but just pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Yeah, hopefully, thank Yeah, it's gotten better. His three point
numbers have gotten better over his career. But yeah, I
wouldn't ever say a pure shooter like the Luke Canard.
That would have been kind of serious for me if
you'd have gotten there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
Knockdown guy for sure, But yeah, I'm pulling up. Since
his first three years in the league, where he wasn't
a great shooter, DFS has been thirty seven point seven percent,
so that's pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:02:54):
Yeah, and again streak. Ye, I would say a guy
that could not you know, very very much like a
Dylan Brook. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Some nights he'd go, you know,
one for seven, and then some nights he'd knocked down
four or five three pointers. Let's go to all our
buddy Rossi Gerard eleven twenty seven on the Matt Thomas
jol Ross Gerod, good morning.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
No, good man, How you doing good? Their rosing all.

Speaker 3 (01:03:23):
I'm doing great, Rod. I appreciate you asking.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
That's good. That's good. Uh yeah, hockey hang small moves
here they are brought in Crick Copeller brought in Uh
going in Finnish group. They're going to the place book
like you just said, and bring in the truck in.
You know they got it and uh place you told
me interested to see how the hostakes of turns out

(01:03:47):
because you got how these sinners. You've got Compella that,
you got Adams, You've got the gool like I know
least Year's gool. Well also player for something. You know,
school will kind of come out kind of las kind
of struggle. So you know, I think, uh with dot
the case maybe you know, you know you put it,
you put in Adam her and may you put it
in the color man back, you know, go bring it

(01:04:08):
so uh play they roll and play. They roll at
a higher level. I think this is a good move.
Bottle hocket. Uh you know it's gonna be ever to
see what they do with a cam whitmore. You know,
I could he probably on the outside looking in. There's
probably the tenth or levels guy on this team. But
if you look at the start of five, I think
it's probably gonna beat the goals the rat you know,
ja marcelip keeping, I'm gonna face on what happened last year.

(01:04:31):
Plas with a good beeting hard. Then he got a
man talking in uh Dad Street in the back court,
and then the hootation is gonna be even Adam, marce
Lip or Tisi to whichever one don't start, And he
got a rig Shepard and then he got a Philly flip.
That's been your nine man rotations like this, Cam Whittemore.
On certain nights when you ain't made some offense off

(01:04:53):
the bench, maybe you bring aint Cam whitmore. So he's
definitely gonna have to win more, and he's gonna have
to improve on his defense and you know, improve on
playing more organized basketball, because it seems like to me
last year when he comes out there, he just when
you get the will, he gets up a lot of shots.
This game is more a US type of games. So
he's gonna have to learn how to play within the
scheme of the Rockets offense. He's able to do that.

(01:05:14):
He got to the skills had to be a twenty
point to the game score. But it's just all about defense.
Is all about learning how to play in the Rocket school.
But all in all, I like the Rockets move. I
think there's a number one threat to the Oklahoma City
Thunder in the NBA. And I think they got a
good pass man. They got a clothes and Kevin the Red.
I just like to move, man. It just it's just

(01:05:35):
gonna come down to, uh what the hotels is gonna be.
It's gonna be very very interesting. So he's gonna have
some guys like the Shawn Tate. We ain't come about
the guy that they said they signed earlier this week.
Later last week, uh Aaron Gordon and uh Eric Goard,
but Aaron and uh one other guy, Shawn Tank, and
they signed to Jeff Glee. Those guys there, you know,

(01:05:57):
talk about those guys. Those guys now even in the
top twelve, don't come what the what what happened.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
When they.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
They But I like, yeah, definitely championship.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Thank you Ross. I just ordered lunch from room service
here at the just ate lunch. I got a club sandwich,
extra mayo, side of fries and a iced tea with
a glass of water lemon. I ate a chicken salad
club with a pickle spear. Yeah, the pickle spear is underrated. Underrated.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
I think it's properly rated.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
No, no, no, you feel like if you don't have
a pickle, spirit or sandwich. You're getting something left out.

Speaker 3 (01:06:36):
Sometimes I don't get one. So we will agree to
disagree on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:06:40):
Thank you for the breakdown of the trade and the
breakdown of the roster and the breakdown of the Rockets,
and we look forward to hearing you much more this
year during the Rockets Rap show primarily hosted by Yes
and never I believe ever hosted by Adam Wexer or
Adam clayt.

Speaker 3 (01:06:57):
Uh No, I think they did one one of the
I was out of town and yeah, I think I
think they stepped up once or twice this past year.

Speaker 1 (01:07:04):
And then, uh, they never do the tenth inning shows
and lessen their time slot. They do it sometimes it's
in their time slot, and they never do on dex
on the weekends. Well, the tenth thning is the weekend.
I appreciate them.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
They always you're out a lot and they always step
up for me. So I got no issues with the Adams.

Speaker 1 (01:07:26):
All right, we love the claim. There we go. Uh,
time for some gut feelings. What do you got? Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero Time for
you to make some sports predictions. We'll see how we did,
and then we'll get yours in. You have sports predictions,
we want to hear from you. Seven one three, two

(01:07:48):
one two five seven honty one up.

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
To it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
You'll they got a gut peering. This is their gut
feeling on the Matt Thomas Show all right time now
for some gut feelings. This is an opportunity for you
to call in with sports predictions. If you get them right,
you call us in following weeks. It's up some weeks
and you brag about them. Speaking of Bragg and Ross,

(01:08:17):
let's get to the brag of how we did last week.
And just yesterday here on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
Yes, Matthew, I wrote down what you said yesterday, and
you were correct that the Rockets will have a new
player when free agency opened, and they have multiple new
players Clint Capella, Dorian Finney Smith, anyone else I'm missing.
So that was correct. So that was from yesterday though,

(01:08:45):
But from last week you said the Rockets will try
to get into the draft but will be unsuccessful. Correct,
I guess were there reports that they tried to trade up?
I think there were talking about if there a certain
number of players fell that they would try.

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
So I don't know. We'll give you a win on that,
why not. I'm just gonna tell you. I'm not a fanboy.
I know things. Okay, just trust me what I said. Okay, man,
I don't, I don't. I'm not talking about you. I'm
talking about everybody and their mother's Like I have this
inside source. You don't have sources. You have the Internet sports.
When it comes to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Rockets, it's like insider MT.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
You have the astros win in the aos that is
TBD but looking very good.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
You know what, Oh, I'll save it. I'll save it.
Continue on. You already put your name on it. Okay,
are you doing more? I got more? Ooh in a
dendum yep. Okay.

Speaker 7 (01:09:39):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Then you had Kyle Tucker with three or fewer hits
in the Chicago series. I want to say he had
four and one five.

Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
You definitely had four on one game. And then I
think you got a hit or two on Sunday. Hold on,
let me let me pull this up actually because I
just want to see actually how wrong you were. Thanks
for Okay, just one hit on Sunday, so it only
had five hits.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
You didn't have any hits on Friday. I was feeling
very good. You were feeling good, weren't you? I absolutely was,
And then Saturday happened. Yeah, that's fine, that's okay.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
That was all your predictions. I had the Houston Rockets
making the Western Finals this upcoming year. I'm feeling even
better about that, love after the free agency period.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:10:25):
And I had Kyle Tucker over three hits hashtag fade MT.
That's a win, folks. I also had the Astros, though
three and three over the six game stretch against the
difficult National League opponents. They went five and one. You

(01:10:46):
had four and two. But you're so you're a closer, Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:10:48):
But it's not a win. He's got feelings about it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
Years four, four, and two were better. Feels good.

Speaker 1 (01:10:53):
So I'm giving you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
I'm giving you at least three quarters credit on that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:56):
Thank you. I appreciate that. How did our friend Jonathan do?

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
Jonathan, Let's see, he said the Astros would win the
series versus the Cubs and Phillies. Whoa you used to
they won both the series?

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:11:08):
I thought I said winds though, okay, you didn't say sweep.
I don't think I didn't write sweep at least and
I'm still good.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Yeah, you're good. I was beat up to Oh you
already you were going ahead of the schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
Do you already have ones for this week? You said
they're gonna lose at least one game against Colorado and
then they will win the series versus the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
I've got to make another feeling that the opinion. So hmmm,
it's not looking too hot.

Speaker 1 (01:11:34):
And there you go. Matt Our music go away or
might just not hearing I hear it? Okay? Hashtag faint.
By the way, Baylor Doug just sending a Twitter tweet
toist for Ross's I mowed the lawn, cooked breakfast, and
did my taxi during Girods call. Hashtag goat. That's good.
I'm gonna take you always walk theme in this show.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Better late than never on your taxes.

Speaker 1 (01:11:53):
Oh you're paying a heavy penalty on that, are you not?
It depends not if you don't fall for extent. All right, Uh,
here we go. The Astros are not only going to
win the American League West, they will finish with at
least the second best record in the American League. There
I said it, wo, let's go lfg Stros.

Speaker 3 (01:12:18):
You know that Jeremy Penne is going to miss some time.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Right right? I got another one for you.

Speaker 3 (01:12:22):
You know that Jordon's out right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Another one? You know, MC colors is the rotation, right
the Astros. This is more of a bold, gut feeling.
The Astros do not get Cedric Mullens. It's not that bold.
I just I don't understand the love affair with I mean,
if he comes here and he's I mean I heard
he's a great guy obviously had a very successful Major

(01:12:47):
league career. But I want punch. I don't need seven
h seven ops. He's got a good ballplayer's name, Cedric Mullens.
That's an alias I used in some hotels. Really matter fact,
if you call the dallasa teleman right now, I use
the name such a malin.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
I thought you were going with IP Freely.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
What did you say? What IP Freely? Okay? Actually I
use the name P Bismol. Interesting, Yes, I figured as much. Ross.
What do you got in your gut feelings? This week.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Manchester City wins the Premier League.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
This next year, write it down. I don't know what
that means.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Let's go we're back, even though they lost to Al
Kalala yesterday and devastating fashion lost to what al jlal
and the FIFA Club World Cup.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Don't you get that this is not a take of
a chicken tuma kind of dish Al ha.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
Hallal is a weight, Yeah, but it's also the club
they were from. They lost to a Saudi Arabian club.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Oh Jesus.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Unfortunately in the Club World Cup. That's okay, is pretty devastating,
lost matt an extra time. All right, Anyways, Astros sweep
the Rockies.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
But however, oh, I know what you can say about
the Dodgers, this lose this series in La.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
It's a good feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:14:22):
Good feelings are wrong all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Such a hater, hater, See, it's ridiculous. You know when
I predicted, I don't predict the team to go one
hundred and sixty two, and oh and I'm a hater,
all right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:37):
I predict there'll be no injuries involving Astro fans at
Dodger Stadium because I think we've done an effective job
of telling everyone that should be no Astro fans at
Dodger Stating.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Yeah, but some Astros fans, like some people I should
say not just Astros fans are go out looking for confrontation.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Oh so you've been to a dyk in park this year?
I have? I mean, I mean yeah, they people can
Astro fans can scrape too. Let's not let's let's let's
talk about who we really are. There was that Remember
that Astros fan got knocked out by the Dodger fan?
Was it last year? The year before? It's embarrassing. Last
fans can throw hands? He got clocked though. Yeah, we

(01:15:17):
have some on violence, on violence too.

Speaker 3 (01:15:19):
There's as Astros violence for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:15:21):
Yeah, for sure. All right, Jonathan, what do you got?
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
Since Pinya signed with Scott Boris and got hurt, I
feel like this is gonna wake up Christian Walker.

Speaker 1 (01:15:31):
All right, he's gonna wake wake him up. That's gonnake
him up.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Two and two together, Okay, Christian Walker, he's on the team.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
Wakes up, he sees all this going on. Yes, we don't.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
I don't have my cushion anymore. Jake Myers is showing
me everybody's hurt. I gotta step up here if I
really want to stay it, I want to get in
trade talks. I think Christian Walker wakes up at least
in this next series.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Wow, five hits, five five hits against the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
That's actually terrible. Yeah, all the guys wake up now,
not pop off. He's they're going up against three guys
with the r round six. So I would I would
like for Christian Walker to get five hits. Okay, five
hits in Colorado series after us.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Go four and two on this trip put it down.
Mm okay, I'm mister fourign two guys, you're the only
one that has them losing. Russ.

Speaker 3 (01:16:25):
No, that's not true. I said, sweep. That's four and
two is what I have on the go three and three.
But I said lose the series in LA. I wasn't specific,
all right, I said, sweep the Rockies. We've got a
lot of folks that want to talk. We're gonna let
you guys go next. We're down with our predictions. Yours
are next. Everybody on line, do not go away. We're
gonna promise you. We're Brad is fifth on the less.

Speaker 1 (01:16:43):
Everybody just go, y'all heads up. So y'all learned a
little bit from last week, got gut feelings. Yours are next.
Eleven forty six on Sports Talk seven ninety five, callers
go in all before Brad. Every single person that calls
in goes before Brad and looks like, my internet is down.
So okay, oh here it is, I got it, We

(01:17:05):
got it good. Yeah, I'm good. Let's go to uh
and quickly got five. You got to get in here,
Brian quickly on seven ninety what is in your gut?
My friend?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
First of all guys, happy Bobby Benia Day.

Speaker 10 (01:17:18):
I think the Astros Uh, I think you're on Alvarez
will come back for a few games before the All
Star break. I think she'll get in when they get
back home, and I think the Rockets will part with
Alfy Shingoon with the signing off Capella and some larger
deal in the next few weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Russ Ross write all that down. Yeah, I got it,
got it? Roger on seven NINTI Roger, what's in your gun?

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
Jim? Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
I think Rogers helting down. I don't know if maybe our.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Phones yees seven home runs now he'll be a double
digit runs?

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
How many? Yeah? Is he saying Cam Smith? Is that
what he's saying? Runs? Smith? Okay, there you go, thank
you for thanks.

Speaker 7 (01:18:17):
Ry.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
He's got six, right, Yeah, he's got six or seven. Yeah,
he has six and I think three in the last
fourteen games or something like that. So yeah, by the way,
Joe spotted whether it's at twelve thirty today, Really this show,
that's a good get in it, I think, so, Charles
and Tomball, Charles, what's in your gut?

Speaker 11 (01:18:37):
Yeah, I think it's time for the Astros to just
bite the bullet right, to check and dump Lance the
collars out in the window and get rid of me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
He's just not working effort anymore. I mean, why would
they do that. I mean, he had he was terrible
at night, but it wasn't like he was horrible before
the injury. He was getting better. It was pitching longer. Yeah,
I just I don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:19:01):
I just don't think he's got it anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
I think he's.

Speaker 11 (01:19:06):
Got, he's got. He shows a little bit and then
he regresses. He just doesn't stay steady. Just you know,
to me, he's just not He gets hurt too easy,
you know, he goes to the weight room and twists
his ankle, loses in another two weeks or three weeks.

(01:19:26):
I just don't think he's worth the effort.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
All right, Charles, thank you? I don't think it's a
gut feeling. That's just an I think that's a yas
he's saying they're gonna get they are going to get
rid of him. We can say there was more of
a just an opinion. Look, I'll be honest, Ross, there
is not a tremendous mental love for Lance. I mean,
and I get it. Often injured, this one drilled them
for a few more weeks and then the first appearance
that comes back it wasn't good. I mean, we're a

(01:19:51):
finicky bunch. That's his sports in general. I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:54):
Yeah, he's still getting a lot of strikeouts and ground balls,
which he can do, but control has been an issue.

Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Yeah, let's go to Brian on seven on Ey Brian,
what's in your gut? Hello? Fellas? All right, so hello, hello, hello, hello,
Hello There you hear me? Noah, I cannot hear you.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Here you go? Okay?

Speaker 12 (01:20:19):
Along with Chase Elliot last week and Atlanta and the
hell of a Race eleven leak changes the last handful
of laps, I'll go with Shane Van Gisberg and this
week at Chicago Street Race, and I want to know
y'all's over under on my lastros winning ninety seven or
ninety eight.

Speaker 1 (01:20:34):
This year, I would take the under. Yeah, I will
take on pace. Guy would say that would be right
on the number. But I'm gonna say that they're gonna they're.

Speaker 3 (01:20:44):
Gonna regress slightly and they're on pace. But I think
a couple of things. The injuries are piling up, Uh,
some of the one run game luck will turn. And
also I think down the stretch you were kind of
talking about Matt, They're not gonna need all these games,
so you're gonna get some guys rested.

Speaker 1 (01:21:02):
That's right. And here's the reality. We don't know how
long Jeremy pain is gonna be gone. I mean, I
know for a fact that Joe will have a positive
spinout it when he joins us in thirty five minutes
from now. But he doesn't know. He doesn't know any
more than when you and I do. He just doesn't
gut feeling back by August first. Yeah, I'll go with

(01:21:26):
that too, Okay, but that's just a pure gut feeling. Yeah,
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:21:31):
I haven't seen the charts.

Speaker 1 (01:21:32):
Yeah, they're not letting the silic of the charts. We've asked,
they said no, He said, shut your bomb ass up, Sean.
What's in your gut this week?

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
Guys?

Speaker 13 (01:21:41):
I got our gut feeling that the Astros, the Texans,
and the Rockets are going to win their division and
make it to their conference finals all three.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
Huh okay, So that means AFT Championship, NBA Western Finals,
and American League Championship Series. I could take that. It'd
be pretty good sports here for Houston, Texas, for sure.
I believe it. You should believe it. Thank you, But
thanks Sean, good positive attitude, James and client, what's in
your gut?

Speaker 14 (01:22:10):
We're gonna get another leadoff hitter because we need somebody
you can go from first to third on a base hit.
So Joe's gonna do Easac as long as you can.
But by the end of the world Ship, we'll have
a new lead off hitter.

Speaker 1 (01:22:21):
Joe's gonna do who again? Who's it gonna be?

Speaker 14 (01:22:24):
Get another leadoff hitter because we need someone to go
to first to third on a base hit.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
You want somebody not named esk Parade. It's to lead off?

Speaker 1 (01:22:30):
Oh I think, I said, like, who's east Pea? I
can't imagine Parade, Myers. They might go back. No, no, don't.
I'm sorry, Please don't.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Dubon's hitting two thirty nine. I'd rather somebody who gets
on base a little more.

Speaker 14 (01:22:48):
Someone with some speed though, someone with some speed.

Speaker 1 (01:22:52):
Okay, thank you, James, you know what. We can ask
him about that coming up. Yeah, I'm writing that down.
Last belief, Brad.

Speaker 15 (01:23:02):
Hey, I wanted to confirm a couple of wins. I
got two and a half. I think I predicted Tucker
who did.

Speaker 1 (01:23:11):
A home run. Yes, you did.

Speaker 15 (01:23:13):
I've been predicting for the last two years the Rockets
would get his center. They got one, two, what three?
Three centers, the one that's getting sent over to Phoenix.
But I said, they need to draft the center they
need to get.

Speaker 1 (01:23:29):
They didn't do that. They didn't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
They well, they have centers on the team, they've had
them all the time.

Speaker 15 (01:23:35):
But I said they need another one.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Because I got a prediction they're going to have a
point guard.

Speaker 15 (01:23:41):
Well, no, I needed I knew they needed a big man.
As soon as Oklahoma got to two real good big men.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
They were running double big with with Shingoon and Adams
this past season.

Speaker 15 (01:23:54):
Yeah, towards the end for the first time.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
All right, go ahead, what else please?

Speaker 15 (01:23:58):
Three years ago, I'm so and I predicted that Rockets
would get some stars but not the superstars.

Speaker 1 (01:24:06):
So I was half right on that. No, you're wrong.

Speaker 15 (01:24:11):
No, the two guys they just got are stars. They're
not superstars, but they're nice stars.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
There.

Speaker 15 (01:24:15):
They're Kevin Duran, that's a superstar. I was wrong on
that part, but I was right on the other.

Speaker 3 (01:24:32):
Or do you have anything for this this week that
I can write on? Sorry, Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
Would you rather hear Brad superstar definition or hear the
Carpenter's right?

Speaker 3 (01:24:43):
Probably the superstar song.

Speaker 1 (01:24:46):
Carpenters largely underrated. No no, no, no, no, no no hit.

Speaker 3 (01:24:52):
No, they had hits, but they're not underrated.

Speaker 1 (01:24:55):
Okay, properly rated, but they're not by no means overrated.
And then it just makes me think of Karen Carpenter's
falling body, falling apart.

Speaker 3 (01:25:01):
This is awkward.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Well, that's terrible. That's the sickness she had.

Speaker 3 (01:25:04):
I know, I know, but it just I mean, I
can't hear the songs that I'm thinking about it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
Young brilliant drummer and a great singer and then mental illness. Yeah,
it's unfortunately costing her life all right one o three
on Sports Jock seven ninety final hour of The Matt
Thomas Show with Ross We've got to the NFL rewind
coming up at about fifteen minutes from now. Believe it
or not, Today at won fifty for fantastic prizes and

(01:25:34):
chance to see a pair of nine year olds, Willie
Nelson and Bob Dylan. Bob Dylan's eighty four, so he's
a young he's young, young, whipper snapper, whipper snapper. Hey, look,
I've seen eighty year olds perform.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
It is Yeah, it's very that's your Jim.

Speaker 1 (01:25:48):
I'm such a hypocrite. Yeah, yeah, we know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:52):
How old is old mellow eighty two. Now they have
to turn down the stage light so his face doesn't melt.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
Yes, rude. I thought we lost connection in Dallas. Nope,
no we didn't. I just wanted to figure out how
I was going to plaitly tell you to shut your
bum mess up. That'll be throw Hey, all right, so
let's recap things, and I want to hear from you

(01:26:20):
and you and you and you all of you get
seven one three two one two five seven nine zero.
I am a first and foremost a Rockets fan. I
have been a Rockets fan since Moses Malone was leading
the Rockets in the nineteen eighty eighty one Western Conference
Championship and the NBA Finals they lost to the young
Larry Bird. So I've been a fan for what's eighty
forty five years? But Ross, I've been a Rockets fan

(01:26:42):
for forty five years. M that's a lot. That's a lot.
That's when they still had two pointers. I mean, no
to only two pointers. No, not true. Don't listen to him.
Everybody who wore granny shots. They invented the dove. Shaz
has invented the set shot, all right, for one million
empty bucks? Okay. Dolph Shase a son that played in

(01:27:05):
the NBA. What was his name, Rutherford? No, it's not
Rutherford b Shas, No, it was not. That was pretty good, though,
come on, it is fair. We're all right off the
back of on uh spontaneous answer. Not bad. Ronald Danny Shays, Oh,
I know, yeah, Danny Shays that was his dad. Yeah,

(01:27:27):
played for the Denver Nuggars. Yeah, primarily, yeah, I mean
I remember the name. I remember Danny Shase.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Okay, he had some elite goggles, right yo.

Speaker 1 (01:27:36):
Yeah, And and and uh, he and he and Paul
mckesky used to use the elbow pads, knee pad. They
were all whatever happened to the elite goggles a knee
pad game in the NBA? Matt know who's nobody wears
goggles in the NBA now at all? Right, not less
they break something? Okay, yeah, okay, So okay, before we

(01:27:57):
go to this, I was a fan of Rockets in
eighty one. They had a three point shot, they had
the shot clock. Now, the NBA did not have as
many teams. How many teams did they have back in
the day? It was six stop. That's what we call you,
peach basket. Okayonathan, turn his microphone off, let me have
let me have this time to myself. Don't go go
go go. No, No, I'm kidding. I'm looking up how

(01:28:20):
many teams there were. Okay, I'm going to tell you
who was not there in eighty eighty one. The Kings
were in Kansas City. There was no such thing as
the Memphis Grizzlies. I found the amount of teams do
I mean to tell you when you're doing your own thing. Okay,
there's thirty right now. So I'm gonna say they were
twenty four. Then ooh, twenty three. That's weird. Every division

(01:28:43):
had six except for the Atlantic only had five. There
were four divisions and used to play your team in
your own division six times.

Speaker 3 (01:28:53):
That's talking about getting rivalry going.

Speaker 1 (01:28:55):
Okay, so let me try to guess who the Rockets
divisions and five divisional opponents? Five? Here we go, Dallas, yes,
San Antonio, Yes, those are the easy picks. Utah correct,
Denver correct, that's four.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
The were Rockets were in a sixteen division or a
seven six. Everybody was in six except for the East. Translation,
Rockets make five.

Speaker 1 (01:29:23):
There's one more team in their division? Yes? Do you
want to hint? You want to try to think of it?
I want to think of I don't think it was
the Kings. Okay, who is in their division? I don't
think it was Phoenix. Who was the team? He gets

(01:29:49):
some thinking music? Here? How much time I left you?
Free zat me? Here is this painfully obvious? You're just
a good rip right here, doomed? It's east of Houston.
Do you want to hint? Yeah, we've mentioned it, this show,

(01:30:12):
this team, and they are not located where they were
located somewhere else. Then then where they are.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Now, that's time we give it the Yeah, you got
ten more seconds, and you mentioned them in this segment.

Speaker 1 (01:30:30):
Is there one of the Kings? Yes, oh, it is
the Kings. There we go. So that was the They
just called it the Midwest Division. Correct, right about that?
Correct though. Now I never remembered the Rockets being in
the Eastern Conference. I never watched the Rockets on their knees,
but they were in the East in the seventies, which
is really weird. Well. Yeah, and then they brought this

(01:30:56):
new franchise called a Minnesota Timberwolves, and they came out
and they played in the spring stadium called the Metrodome.
They played in the Metrodome. Absolutely, Minnesota was new. You
had Charlotte that was new. You had Vancouver that was new,
and Gallon of Gas, Coston Nickel. Oh, excuse me, the

(01:31:19):
Miami Heat and New Orlando Magic were new and new. Yeah,
they wanted to go with names that aren't They didn't
have plurals, which is always believe that the Miami Heat
was the first no because the Jazz beat him. It
was had to be the second team in sports. It
didn't have an s end of their name. Yeah, we're
just a jazz in general. Can you start calling me

(01:31:40):
the NBA curator?

Speaker 3 (01:31:41):
You're they call you peach basket. Everybody calls him peach basket. Tweet.
There's not a single person around town I called him peach,
not a single person, not a single tweet. Matt at
Sports mt peach basket.

Speaker 1 (01:31:55):
Mm hmm, all right, uh oh, so we're going bake this.
I'm been a forty five year fan. I have never
been and this is excited about an off season. Damvin
Durant's traded. I'm segueing here, I can seguere. Jabari Smith resigns,
Van Vleet resigned, Steven Adams resigned, Clint Capella is back.
My boy, Clincipella is back. That's my Fret's my friend.

(01:32:17):
Dwight Howard. Times were pretty exciting. That was good too,
especially because we were on the chase for him and
then Sneaky Pinks and Finney Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:32:26):
Yeah, Chris Paul trade was kind of out of nowhere.
Dwight Howard, was you want a sweep Steaks? Remember we
had our boy Jordan Schultz on it. He said, there,
he's sticking with his sources. He's going to Dallas by
the way.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
So he blocked me many years ago, right, yes, and
he just got fire from Fox Sports. Uh said, not
sad you putts what he's got me. He's got me
blocked to. Blocking is so stupid? Now why did Elon
ruin this? Like you used to be able to block
and feel good about it. Yeah, now I can still

(01:33:03):
read people have blocked me and I still see their stuff. Yeah,
it's stupid. Like there's this dude that works in Victoria
that blocked me the other day. I have no idea
what the hell I did.

Speaker 3 (01:33:14):
You're probably talking trash about Victoria, Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:33:16):
I wouldn't. I have never been to Victoria. I can't
even speak to it real.

Speaker 4 (01:33:19):
Quick, Max, because I know you're very pain on happy
birthdays and stuff like this. Well other people like messages.
If you told someone happy birthday and they have him
responded to you in the week, how would you feel?

Speaker 3 (01:33:29):
How'd you do it via text?

Speaker 1 (01:33:32):
DM?

Speaker 8 (01:33:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:33:35):
No no no, no.

Speaker 11 (01:33:35):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Answer the question the girl. Just answer the question. Why
are you dming on this? Why can't you do it publicly?

Speaker 4 (01:33:46):
I mean I don't. I don't want to see the person.
I just I saw his birthday. I told him hy birthday.
And I ain't got a response.

Speaker 1 (01:33:53):
How good of a friend is he? One to ten?
M he's going sliding down the list now we slight
pre slide. I'll give it a one out of ten,
like a six. Mmm, now he's like a four. No,
if you really, let me tell you. Here's too. If

(01:34:14):
somebody is really, really, really a good friend, you call them,
so you must be just a bare minimum friend. If
you're texting the guy happy birthday, well every time, I
you know what, I'll put them by. Now here's the
thing in fairness, you can't literally text every one of
your friends call everyone of your friends happy birthday, but
you can do a lot of it.

Speaker 4 (01:34:34):
So all right, So if they say a happy birthday
like story and you're like, oh, okay, I'll just aren't.
I'm gonna send a high birthday and they don't respond
to you for a week, would you speel some time away?

Speaker 1 (01:34:43):
Mmm? No, because a bunch of I get a bunch
of on Facebook and say, h happy birthday man, and
people are just cutting and pasting that man.

Speaker 3 (01:34:50):
But if they're friends and you call them a six
out of ten friend? By the way, did I ever
text you Happy birthday?

Speaker 1 (01:34:57):
Let me do it? No, let me do that right now. No,
don't do it, don't do it, don't don't. I don't
want anybody text me a happy birthday. By birthday was
a month ago?

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
No, it's under a month. We're good. No, No, aren't
you the fifth?

Speaker 1 (01:35:10):
Yeah? Yeah, no, it's a it's a way. But you
know what you don't do. I'll send you a text
back you don't want to say back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:35:17):
Hut my bumb ass up?

Speaker 1 (01:35:18):
Happy New Year?

Speaker 3 (01:35:19):
Okay, that's mine.

Speaker 1 (01:35:27):
I don't know how we got to the birthdays in
the in the in the rocket stuff. I'm saying, I'm
super excited about that. I'll wrap it up by they
saying that, And I will also say that if you
have a good friend that is at least a six
or seven out of ten, you need to call them
and don't text on your birthday. M M. That's right.
You don't want to hear that answer, did you?

Speaker 8 (01:35:47):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:35:47):
No, I wanted to hear your answer. Now you feel
like as because this friend of yours at least a
sixth and you didn't even have the chance. You didn't
give in the stones to call the Friday. It's Tuesday.
It's over with you. Don't. Obviously you got a probably
with me. Like, for instance, when I wish how many
a happy birthday on Facebook, I will say happy birthday,
and I will put something anecdotal so they know that.
I just didn't cut and paste what Facebook told me

(01:36:08):
to say, Like I'm never gonna put happy birthday, Jonathan,
make it a great one. Well, of course, no, deall,
you're gonna make it a great one. Yeah, that's that's
for you. That's for you. For instance, I a friend
of mine last week turned forty six. I didn't know
his age, so I put happy birthday, Shane. I don't

(01:36:28):
know your age, but you look like you're around fifty.
And he goes forty six, and he sends me a
middle figure emoji. That's perfect.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
That's friendship.

Speaker 1 (01:36:36):
That's friendship. And we're probably about a five and a
half five point seventy five, but not a six, which
means I need to call him. I'm afraid to take
my text just one text, Oh happy birthday, that's fine.
Oh I was gonna, I was gonna, Oh, I was
gonna print this out or put this on our text

(01:36:56):
on our Twitter camp. There's too many things you can't
I can't put on there. Okay, so I'm gonna say that,
all right. Uh. It is one fourteen. The NFL Rewind
is up next here on the radio program if you
want to join us seven one three two one two
five seven ninety seven one three two one two five
seven hot. Oh, we're doing a Fantasy five all right.

(01:37:20):
It's a category of this week Ross.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
Uh, we were gonna do what did we come up
with recently?

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
Best ways to cook eggs?

Speaker 3 (01:37:33):
Best starting five of players who did not win a championship? Yeah, okay,
but we never did that. It never came to fruition.

Speaker 8 (01:37:40):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:37:40):
We'll do a week from Friday World.

Speaker 3 (01:37:41):
Okay, Ah, there we go.

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
These the tones that make you think of one thing
and one thing on yes in the nineteen seventies, is
that what makes you think of? You think there's a
lot of copulating happening around these things. There were twenty
two year olds that were doing some serious moving around
with this song was like on that in the Hustle Now,
definitely babies were making Made to the Hustle and anything

(01:38:12):
Marvin Anything Marvin Gaye was producing around the time of
that time. Have you ever listened to that whole I
Want You album? No?

Speaker 3 (01:38:19):
I took a pregnancy test after that?

Speaker 1 (01:38:21):
Did you got an STD after I had listened to
three of those songs? Okay, that always takes it too far.
I don't think it too far. Ross like a pregnancy
test and you got an STD. An he not pregnant,
that's what that's what pregnant? Many I'm gonna get that

(01:38:43):
guy pregnant.

Speaker 3 (01:38:44):
All right, Matt. We mentioned this brief yes, thank you.
We mentioned this briefly yesterday. But we can get more
into it. The Dolphins and Steelers with a couple of trades.
You have Jalen Ramsey and tight ended John U Smith
going to the Steamers. Now I had pulled up the
Pro Football Focus ratings Jalen Ramsey, they had at number thirteen,

(01:39:06):
but there are a lot of people who questioned their
coverage grades.

Speaker 1 (01:39:08):
But that's another story for another time.

Speaker 3 (01:39:10):
Anyways, thought of as one of the better cornerbacks still
in the NFL, John new Smith was very good for
the Dolphins last year, but he is going to the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Mink up fat Fitzpatrick and a pick swap,
Dolphins sending a seventh Steelers for sending a fifth, not
costing a whole lot to pick up Jalen Ramsey and

(01:39:31):
John ou Smith and you cut Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Matt. The Steelers have been playoff threats with guys like
Mitchell Trubisky and Kenny Pickett at the helm. I mean
they went ten and seven with Russ and Justin Fields
last year. I mean, are we talking about.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
A sleeper AFC North are more like nine to eight,
ten and seven again.

Speaker 1 (01:39:53):
I'm thinking nine and eight, ten and seven, a sleepy
wild card selection. I think Baltimore is still the kriminal
lakremel the division. I think since Andy's going to bounce back,
as long as they have somebody stopping anybody on defense,
I think Burrow stays upright for seventeen games, there are
gonna be a big trouble. I would say Pittsburgh, if
they're going to do anything, it would be as a

(01:40:14):
wild card team.

Speaker 3 (01:40:17):
Weird question do you have, Mike Tomlin. I mean, we'd
have to go through the list rights as a top
five current NFL head coach. They always make the playoffs
with like these crappy quarterbacks and offenses, or at least
a threat. Obviously, you start with Andy Reid.

Speaker 1 (01:40:39):
And Sean McVay McVeigh John har Peyton, Sean Payton, the Broncos,
the playoffs, He's a made man. Not a great dude,
but a really good football coach. Has a super Bowl.
Well he was it was the that was the bounty

(01:41:00):
gate scandal. M hm.

Speaker 3 (01:41:05):
He was suspended for a year.

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
Don't get Chris Gordy bursting in here talking about how
Sean Payton was here. Now he's not supermanning, passing, academing.
Isn't he doing some drills right now? Yeah? I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:41:14):
He's working on his five step drop. Okay, So read McVeigh, Peyton, Shanahan,
top five, Kyle, Yeah, ahead of Tomlin's Super Bowl winner.

Speaker 1 (01:41:28):
I'm so saying. I mean, if I'm throwing on us, Okay,
John Harball, I'll say safe ones, John Harbaugh, McVeigh, Peyton,
read are safe. Okay, So we got a fifth bottle.
But I would take Tomin over over Shanahan, Tomlin, jevity,
consistent playoff success. Okay, how about over Jim Harball? Yeah,
I would say so, right, Yeah, yeah, okay, John over Jim.

(01:41:50):
I think he's in.

Speaker 8 (01:41:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:41:52):
Can I tell you something. The a f C is
like the NBA Western Conference. I could pick I could
throw nine teams against a wall and go, you know what,
you got a shot. How many Chargers are gonna be better?
In a second year with Jim Harball running things, you
would figure Pittsburgh's getting better.

Speaker 3 (01:42:09):
They really started to let Justin Herbert turn it loose,
and well then he turned it loose to the tune
of four interceptions to get the Texans.

Speaker 1 (01:42:14):
But the only way that since Annie is not better
is if the whole Fitzpatrick things blows up in their face. Right, Yeah,
I think.

Speaker 3 (01:42:23):
Ravens bingals Texans chiefs charger. Yeah, as he's stacked stacked,
not Cleveland though, all right? Uh anyways, Matt moving along.
Darren Waller coming out of retirement to join the Miami Dolphins.

(01:42:43):
According to Adam Schefter, he was a twenty twenty six
I'm sorry the Dolphins trading a twenty twenty six six
round pick to the.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
Giants, where he had been playing. Where he's like, I'm
tired of Tommy DeVito and Daniel Jones. I'm retiring. But
now Darren Waller out of retirement. Fantasy sleeper Darren Waller,
Matt no, out of retirement guy doesn't typically do much
for me. Last played in twenty twenty three, Yeah, I'm good,

(01:43:13):
where he had five hundred yards and one touchdown. He
had his greatest season in twenty twenty with the Raiders,
when he had almost twelve hundred yards and nine touchdowns
in the Hammer, which Travis Kelsey was at about sixty percent.
Right now, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Gonna tell you, since you're not gonna be in the league,
I'm gonna tell you who. I always kind of target
a late round quarterback that I think is slipping and shouldn't.
I'm thinking back bounce back season for Ba Mahomes.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
I think his devise is being greatly over exactly absolutely.
Xavier Worthy really came on. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:43:47):
Kelsey's old, but they've got some options.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
What's his name? She Rice is gonna come back from injury.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
Yep, don't tell anybody, Matt, but I'm gonna be targeting
him in the later rounds because I never go early
quarterback ever.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
I have some breaking news for you, by the way,
what I might be in your fantasy draft. Yes, I
might play fancy. I might. I'm saying it to mic.
It went from zero percent chance to buy twenty five.
Let's go, Maddie. Do you know why I Honestly, that's
what I'm talking about. That's the best part of the NFL.
Rewind the NF Yeah, go ahead, because I it does
keep it. You do get to keep tabs on the

(01:44:20):
NFL team and then you do the trash talk Clanton
when he has a bad draft, it's great. Should I
bring back draft grades? I feel like I was number one.
I was hurting feelings and number two I was educating people.
Draft grades are just I cared more about the ladder.
I cared more about the lad ladder than the former.
By the way, No, no, you absolutely must grade draft

(01:44:40):
because if if we do well and you're you give
a bad draft grade, we have more ammunition. Ammunition.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Yeah, but I'm made man. Back to back to back champ.
I don't got to win this league ever again. I
mean that. That's that back to back to back.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
Let's go. We'll give me significant O. Okay, it's a
uh charitable donation.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
Yes, you know what I messed up. I should have
got Spencer Ragedy's number when he said he was interested,
even though he said he's really good.

Speaker 1 (01:45:12):
That's why I told him not thanks, we should get
Spencer in there was fine O'donnald today you get Spencer arraghedtty.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
He said he's really good, though I don't want him
in the league.

Speaker 1 (01:45:20):
Hey, that's gonna say athletes are basically no, he knew
his stuffer.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
We were We spent I'm sorry, we spent half this.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
My bad. We spent half the interview talking about fantasy football.
By the way, a former member of our fantasy league,
Brian Alima, just texted us and said, f that fantasy league.
By the way, you're getting roasted on Twitter for your
Jake Myers hate Lima, so you better just back off. Friend,
back off. I'm asking him if.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
He wants back in because we need spots. Yeah, Jonathan's
gonna take out a payday loan and get him in.

Speaker 1 (01:45:56):
Play before. Oh yeah, it's easy, very affordable. If we
like client and we should let you in easy. I
mean you would only pick players from say two thousand
and six and born who's the best who's the best
Western Kentucky players in the league. You hang out with him? No,

(01:46:18):
I thought to him that the trainers were back in
the day, but it was no party.

Speaker 4 (01:46:22):
No, they would I will say those football guys wouldn't.
They will show up at the parties and then leave,
probably like thirty minutes later, very like clickie type of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
You know what I mean. Probably were getting word that
Hayden west Neski is a fan. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
We talked to him about that too, and we told weet, yeah,
because you've got to have two different leagues in the
in the clubhouse, is what we've been told. There's like
the rookie guys on rookie deals league, and then there's
the guys on second contract league.

Speaker 1 (01:46:48):
A rookie like is Christian Walker want to be in
our league? We should get a league if just astros,
cool guys we like and then us No.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
We I don't think we can afford Christian Aaron Grady's
pre arbitration. I think that's easier.

Speaker 1 (01:47:03):
Oh we want the pre r players. Yes, a league
called the pre arm Football League exactly. And that's your
that's your NFL. NFL rewind who You didn't get that
from anybody else? He just didn't. All right, well, all right,
so I'm not one hundred percent in, but I am
slowly turning the corner on that. And you knew that
was gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
I really didn't. I thought, no, I believed you, but
I want you back.

Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
To I don't really want we need you again. It
helps me with other players are on the league watching
kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Yeah, and it's not that I want you, man said
we need you.

Speaker 8 (01:47:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
You want my money, I get it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
Or you take his money. I can't win four in
a row. There's no way I win this year.

Speaker 1 (01:47:42):
And the old and I finished second one year except
for when Jamar Chase put it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
That was brutal, terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:47:49):
Yeah, that was a low part of my professional You
would have beat him by like thirty if if Jamar
Chase didn't drop a fifty bomb fifty bomb in the
in the fighting game, all right, seven one three two
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Sports Talk seven Nini Ross, what is today's edition? I'm
believe it or not?

Speaker 3 (01:48:15):
Yes, Matthew, that'd be all things about Dorian Finney Smith
and Clint Capella. My guys, you might want to look
up his Swish national team records, just saying is he.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
The second best? Is he the best DFS? Or would
you go daily fantasy sports? I'm a daily fantasy sports
guy even though I lost my ass last year. The
girls ross are getting me some lunch because I'm busy
in trying to do a show with you entertaining Houston.
Best we can you getting rot?

Speaker 3 (01:48:42):
Really no, they're getting me a lobster roll. I know
there's your go to a lobster roll in Dallas, Texas.

Speaker 1 (01:48:49):
Well, they're one of those food hall you know, those
bougie food hole places, so you get to go like
ten different places. Those are really popular now, really popular.
So she said, how do you like your lobster? And
I saw I like a cold with mayo? And the
options are cold with mayo, warm with butter, or don't
like lobsterol at all, and you can go vote on

(01:49:09):
my Twitter account as I like them both. I do too,
But I'm just saying this is a preference preference, mean.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
One more than maybe the hot when it's more kind
of like a it's almost like it's garlic bread.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
Uh yeah, that's yeah, it's delicious. Yeah, I'm a preference
cold with mayo. But if you brought me a Warman butter,
I enjoy that as well. I mean, yeah, I just
get one of each. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (01:49:30):
Well, I just set you back, though, lobsterol ain't cheap.

Speaker 1 (01:49:34):
What do you think the girls are spending on lunch
right now as we speak, they're racking up them empty bucks,
spending my empty bucks. Oh look loose here an hour
late after doing gut feelings, Jell, this is your show,
just to gut feelings. Whatever you want, my friend, how
are you?

Speaker 16 (01:49:52):
I'm doing good, guys, and I just want to I
know guts feelings was an hour ago, but seeing is
that my gut feeling from about a couple of months ago.
Maybe even you're just hitting the last segment. I had
a good feeling that you wouldn't be done with the
fantasy football Matt, so thank you for that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:10):
Wait a minute now, Geo, I'm not officially you don't
know this. I could change my mind, Matt. Right, you
know what you're calling me out jooe. That's fine, Thank
you very much. Look at Giotto me when necessary. We
know what Geo listens like all day every day. We
appreciate you, love you, guys, and all of you, not

(01:50:31):
just Geo, but those of you who listen loyal. We
appreciate Joe. Yeah, I think my man Julio Franco and
I have made amend sort of.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
Okay, not the former NBA. I mean Major League Baseball journeyman.

Speaker 1 (01:50:42):
Right, long time MB player.

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
Yeah, how see, I said NBA and then you said it.

Speaker 1 (01:50:47):
H yeah he was.

Speaker 3 (01:50:48):
He was playing untill he was like fifty right.

Speaker 1 (01:50:51):
He was at least forty seven m that's a career.
That's not bad. So I said, I thought, I told you.
I didn't. I said, Julio, I don't want you to
die injured. Yes, but I know, he respondes, have a
good day, sir, trust the Astros.

Speaker 3 (01:51:11):
Papa, all right, Papa, No, that's that's I'm gonna tell you.

Speaker 1 (01:51:15):
That's that's a that's Mexican for like being dismissive.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
That's like calling you bosster chief, like all right.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Oh you know I hate that. So you're telling me
that Juley and I are not made up. Okay, I'm
not gonna buy you any lobsterole.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
It's a little it's a snark thrown in at the end,
at least in my experience.

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
Well, then I'm gonna get back at him. Then, by
the way, upwarded Texas says, if it ain't Connecticut style,
it ain't worth he what is Connecticut style? I don't
know lobsterole. Hmm, not sure. Julio Franco played until he
was forty eight, by the way, Okay, so I was, yeah,
I was pretty close. Now I'm looking up a Connecticut
style on the lobster role is hungry. Ummm, we go

(01:52:00):
Connecticut style obster roll.

Speaker 3 (01:52:02):
Is warm, and then main style is the cold. So
I think you got it right.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
So I thinks out traditionally amidst mayonnaise, giving the lobster
a richer, more decadent flavor profile. Mm hmm. It's all
good either way. I'm always happy either eat a direction.
I'm gonna I'll be in Rhode Island in about ten days.
I'll be having like five different Obsta roles from there.

(01:52:33):
By the way, were we gonna go to a bed
robster to go eat on that boil bag soon?

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
I guess is that safe? We got that doesn't have
chloral floral carbons in it?

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Does it don't? I mean they got the uh, they
got the hush puppies are back, we got the Cheddarbay biscuits.
We got our carb count taking care of for the day.
I'm just gonna have a basket of biscuits and head out.
You're gonna get water to drink too.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
Lemon gus, Yeah, with lemon and packets of sugar.

Speaker 1 (01:53:00):
Oh, my extra lemon. Hi? Could I get some extra
lemon and a couple of packets of sugar? Thank you
for my water?

Speaker 3 (01:53:11):
Also, could you get me, uh, some some hot water
with a couple of packets of ketchup that tomato soup
right there?

Speaker 1 (01:53:17):
I am Maddy. We went to uh the rite of the
rate of Nexus a month ago.

Speaker 3 (01:53:26):
That's some more empty bucks getting unloaded.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
The couple next to us. We're asking for to go boxes,
which is fine because you're gonna put your stake in there. No,
they were taking the rolls from there.

Speaker 3 (01:53:37):
I think that's fine.

Speaker 1 (01:53:40):
Of course that's not it's not classy now, okay, it's
laughing in class, that's to be sure. It's just you
can't take two bags. Now.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
Did they order some rolls?

Speaker 15 (01:53:54):
They?

Speaker 1 (01:53:55):
Oh, they ordered extra rolls then put them in baskets.
It wasn't ordered because you got if you've been to them,
you know I haven't. Rex's the uh they kicked me out? Well,
the salad bar is is worthy of the bread? Is uh? Something?

Speaker 3 (01:54:07):
Went to the salad bar and loaded up some bread.

Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
Yes, Yeah, that's yeah, that's not the classic. You have
like a steak into mushrooms and a baked potato that
you're taking home and you've got room for the role
or the bread. I'm all for that, I'm pro that,
but you can't go to ask for it to go
box just to load up with the various breads. That's
just too much. Let's go to uh John on seven nine.

(01:54:33):
Hi John, Hey, guys, what's going on? Listen?

Speaker 6 (01:54:36):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:54:37):
You tell us?

Speaker 5 (01:54:38):
Well, I'm gonna say that I think that the backup
is doing a great job today especially but uh we
can also see him and his host duties kind of
developed in front of our ears.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
But we need to let him know how good he's
doing once in a while.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Wow, thank you John, John. You sound like you're related
to him Dad. No, my my father's name is Ramon,
doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
He can change his name. That didn't sound like my dad.
That felt like somebody you were setting setting somebody. Would
you pay somebody to say that? No?

Speaker 3 (01:55:11):
I appreciate John though. That's my dog, that's my guy
for life, whoever he is.

Speaker 1 (01:55:18):
Thanks John, m hm boy swarm with butter crushing on
the lobsterole preference sixty five percent? How would be Connecticut style? Right?
And you ordered? You ordered main style? Yeah, twenty percent?
Is don't like the lobster role? Who that's a that's
a pretty decent amount. Who did like lobster? How could

(01:55:39):
you say?

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Okay, now, if you have a preference to one or
the other, for sure, if you eat, I can even
I like both, like you? Why I could even wrap
my head around just liking one and not the other,
but not liking a lobsterole at all unless you're allergic?

Speaker 1 (01:55:56):
Yeah, I should. I should eat the lobster role live
on like a Facebook post and see if you should
take a video.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
They're telling us to get our content out.

Speaker 1 (01:56:02):
Let's go. Nobody wants to eat. Watch somebody eat. That's ridiculous,
Are you kidding? There's Instagram followers with millions of followers.
They just eat at sports empty. I'll leave a sandwich
live on there. Follow me on Instagram?

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Now, follow me on Instagram. I'm still following back till
I get to five hundred followed. That means twenty one
more people at sports empty. I mean, excuse me, sports
RV here you.

Speaker 1 (01:56:22):
See sports empt is fine? Sports RV. I'll follow you
back on the photo of me from Clint Cappella in
twenty nineteen. You're gonna love us. We look warm and
cuddly and I will not slide into dms well. One
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Speaker 16 (01:56:54):
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(01:57:16):
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Speaker 13 (01:57:53):
It or not?

Speaker 1 (01:57:55):
Yes, Dorian Finney Smith was the SEC Player of the
Year in twenty sixteen. Believe it or not not? That
is correct? Statement number two for the way, and Dorian
Phinney Smith is fourth on the Florida Gators all time
winning scoring list, behind you Donnas Haslam and ahead of
Stacy Poole. Believe it or not? Believe it No, not

(01:58:19):
even in the top ten. I'm sorry, it's not unbelievable.
Let's go to Andrew on seven unt Andrew, what was
your favorite part of today's ten to two radio show? Hey?
Hearing about the Rockets and how we're gonna win the championship.
Love it. Dorian Phinney Smith was on the SEC Academic
Honor Roll, but also it was one of the players

(01:58:40):
mentioned in the NCAA academic fraud investigation. Believe It or Not?

Speaker 8 (01:58:46):
I don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:47):
No Ross made that up. He's like, fine, young man, Come.

Speaker 3 (01:58:50):
On, Ross works the.

Speaker 1 (01:58:53):
DFS for us, like that. It was it not that's
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or not? I believe it. In twenty twenty two, Dorian
Phinney Smith started a podcast with then Nets teammate TJ. Warren,
but new episodes have been have been have not been

(01:59:14):
uploaded since twenty twenty three. Believe It or Not? Believe it?
No Ross made at one two Very creative today, Sports Harvey,
you mentioned that earlier, Yeah, Adam on seven? Are you
ready to play? Believe it or not?

Speaker 2 (01:59:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
In July in two thousand, Thank you in July. In
twenty twenty four, Clint Capella was inducted into the Swiss
International Athletic Hall of Fame. Believe It or Not? Not?
That is correct? Statement number two for the wind Clint
Capella has twice garnered Defensive Player of the Year votes,
finishing fourteenth in twenty eighteen and finishing sixth in twenty

(01:59:55):
twenty one. Believe it or not?

Speaker 5 (02:00:00):
Not?

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
Many better believe it? Come on seven thousand time you're
gonna know who plays defense who doesn't in the NBA.
Let's go to John on seven ninety John, you're ready
to play. Believe it or not? Yes, there John. Clint
Capella's first love was soccer, but he got more involved
in basketball as a youth after meeting fellow countryman and

(02:00:22):
NBA player Tabo Savalosha. Believe it or not, believe it?
That's right? Statement number two for the Wind. Clint Capella's
favorite soccer player growing up was Swiss national Zaredin Shakiri.
Is that correct? ROSSI on that Thank you. I threw
your curveball and you knocked it out. Believe it or
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(02:00:47):
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