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

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Oh Jude, ain't shout what's happening in lunch timer.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
He's good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Tuesday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is
Sports Talk seven ninety little block left Williams and straight
on three point try coming up back guard. That's a
mister mcconum, and the rebound comes down the Rockets. Jalen
Green comes across the timeline crossover down Malay with a
right hand hame on explosive right at the restricted area

(00:31):
to flush it down. Family goes right, bounce past the
Jalen kicks it out rights out of Jabbari setting firing
and missing bat on our rebound three points. Try pick
up my shen goon a no look past of the
week side and Jalen Green puts it in for two.
Good layup, but even a better pass from Alpie catching
a green side pocket three sish fourteen to three. The run,

(00:57):
first field goal of the fourth for Jalen Green in
twenty four and a half all together. Craig lost the basketball.
It's a steal for Jayler. He's gonna try to go
three quarter court, He'll duck it down, pour two points.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
He took them on the free throw line on one end,
race down the other, beat two Chicago bulls, including Alex Caruso,
and he jams it down for a time out to Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Bounce past to Alpie, He'll twist gets around, weben y,
I'm the pump fakes once twice, goes up and jimps
the devil the right hand.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Shoon in the Battle of the Big Man.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Leading wimby the big great song up here we go.
Oh yeah, dude, highlights next, excuse me? Great highlight? Fine sir,
mixing a governor over there taking Jaron Forrest, uh huh.

(01:54):
And you can never have enough ojs on the Matthew Ross.
This's the jam right here. Matt for sure gets the
people going, Yeah, there are people listening right now that
were conceived to this song. Us white guys can dance
in this song. Well try in your case. I do
I feel like McGovern I mean, he braggs so much

(02:14):
about his dancing. He's got to be good. We're he's
just completely a bit. We're gonna have a dance cam
when he's gonna ask for tickets for a Rockets game
some time for me. Yes, and I'm gonna make sure
it's a dance cam game. Okay, he's gonna cut his
rug in front of a large crowd at the Tota Center.
Now he's just gonna have garments thrown at him. Instead

(02:35):
of being one, two three, they'll be hm, hey, I
might want to get to start getting tested monthly after that. Wow.
So you're basically assuming that Connor's gonna get a sexually
transmitted disease. I'm just saying, you want to be careful
out there. Yeah, Okay, that's gonna play in the puddles.
You gotta wear you rub a boots. You just think

(02:57):
of that, not really the puddles. So you get the
what are you eighty? Well? If you're going to play
in them puddle now, man, you want to make sure
you're wearing your rubber boots. So the Houston Rockets extended
jail and green and out frenching, good your old meals
being warmed up?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yew?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Is that the tapioca you got for me? U? Disgusting pudding?
Tap yolk is not disgusting. It's not good. It's not good.
I'm gonna say slightly underrated how come only you have
to be over seventy to enjoy it? That should show
you and tell you everything about it. Okay, the youngins
are eating the rice a banana rice pudding. Okay, banana
pudding is delicious. Old people love banana pudding. I think

(03:40):
old people in general like pudding. Yeah, they like anything
that they can eat with their gums. That's right, And
at some point you and I will be in that situation.
Can't wait? All right, Good afternoon, everybody. It's twelve oh
seven on Sports Talk seven out. He's still kind of
fighting through this allergy season. Yeah. I don't know if
his allergies are cold or what. I'm feeling better today.
You you sound a little nasal ill. Yeah, I don't

(04:03):
feel feel bad, but I I just want to get
rid of it. You look like hell, but no, I don't.
Actually you look sharp. The fresh shave good on you.
It's a good shave. It's good. I'm a good lie.
I mean, I'm really perhaps one of the more handsome
media members in this community. Okay, I wasn't gonna say
that because it's not true, but okay, all right, I'm
no Connor dam govern though, so well, who is that's right,

(04:25):
all right, we have a like the Brad Pitt of
the sports media. Is that what he is? Okay? Well,
you know he covers his legit media, get rid of
the fake media there, the tensor media. So I give
him credit for that. Yeah. Well, rockets games fire, and
I can go to do a cover the games for
us and start retweeting himself like crazy, So that'll be good. Wow, wow, Connor,
are you gonna accept that? It's not true? You know

(04:49):
what that was? He is our Rockets insider. He is
our Rockets insider. We appreciated him for that. I'll be
there on Wednesday, all right, I'll be with the opening
that you're gonna be there too. Absolutely, What do you mean?
I ain't got anything else to do? As sure start
playing normally. There have been conflicts, no scheduling conflicts. This year.
The entire seven ninety mid day posse is gonna be

(05:09):
there hanging out, are they? Well it's the three of us. Oh okay,
all right, Hey, I'm thinking of standing, Gordy. I don't know, no,
no stands in my seat. Yeah he asked for your tickets,
I know. Yeah, So that's does it about once a week.
But I'm not gonna judge him for it. I'm judging
them a little bit. It's fine, all right, board we
have an interesting show today. We've got feelings comeing up

(05:31):
at one o'clock the sta Oh, yes, we gotta make
Rocket season gut feelings. Yeah. I mean I'm gonna say
eighty two and oh okay, Well, I think they're gonna
fall short of that. I mean, don't you. I mean, seriously,
when you're when you're the voice of a team, do
you want to predict losses? We can live in reality.
I mean, I know they're not going to go eighty
two and oh okay, so I'll say sixty five and seventeen. Yeah,

(05:52):
like I said, you'd like you to live in reality. Okay,
I'll say, you know, the wind total is in the
forty three and a half, forty three and a half,
that's gonna be on the edge of eight, nine, ten. Well,
raphel Stone and the organization bet the over yesterday. Yeah,
took care of them. Took care of some guys. The

(06:14):
NBA money is insane, Yes, it's it's it's everybit that's insane,
as what quarterbacks get paid in the NFL. Mm hmm. Yeah,
they get a lot of money because the owners get
a lot of money. Yeah, well, I'm saying everything is it?
I can't remember is their CBA it's close to fifty
to fifty. I don't remember who has this somewhere in
that percentage fifty one four and something like that. Point being,

(06:37):
is this everybody that wants to tell me how they
don't watch something or they don't go to something. There's
plenty of people that do. Because these salary caps in
the NFL and the NBA. NBA, because they have the
two sports of a salary cap, are dictators almost exclusively
based on revenues brought in by the league. Yes, and

(06:57):
the television revenues are about to go up, I mean
up up, up next year because they're gonna be doing
a new deal with NBC. TNT's going away, there's an
Amazon package coming in. I mean, NFL is always trying
to find another segment of peaks get in there. NBC's
on by Peacock. Yeah, so it will be some Peacock games.
But you don't want to call it its nickname. What's
the nickname the PC? I mean I haven't heard that one. Okay,

(07:22):
it's why does it need shortening. It's peacock, it's too
so I don't disagree. I would never say what the
nickname is, like going from Matthew to matt Like, what's
the point?

Speaker 5 (07:30):
I know?

Speaker 3 (07:30):
I know, all right, So here we go. We got
got feelings. At one o'clock this afternoon, we have the
NFL rewind at one thirty, okay, which you've known about
every Tuesday we've done since certificed. Yeah, and then we've
got to believe it or not. Today at two fifty
we have and I don't think necessarily it's going to
drive a lot of sports talk traffic, but we do

(07:51):
have two Rockets that have really new deals, and the
not consensus, but the majority have said these are deals.
These guys could have gotten more money. Okay, the Rockets
try to get in there and get these guys done,
but during the negotiating period, so they are going to
pay these guys a lot of money, but give them
the Rockets a little more flexibility and not having to

(08:11):
pay max dollars. And it feels like to me, the majority,
not everybody, but the majority says these are these are
savvy deals that take care of both the player and
the team, and that's how it usually likes to work
out both ways. Okay, well you're paying them both like stars.
They need to play like stars. I'm ready. I'm ready
for those guys to take the next step forward and
get to the playoffs and get me a ring. It's

(08:34):
all about always comes and circles back to you. Why
wouldn't it be Why getting the city a ring? Matt,
I'll be getting Toeman, Fertita and raphel Stone a ring
and email Adoka, they'll be getting rings. Okay, would you
get a Cubic Zirconia one or I'll rephrase, get me
and the team and the coaches and the general managers
are better? Is that better? I guess? Okay, yeah, they're

(08:55):
all just doing your bidding. Matt. I saw the two
Rocket Championship brings some nineties now they were Cubics to
hope that at this point in twenty twenty four, I
would be moving up in class. Oh, you're giving me
some bad news. All right, that's fine. Tell I'm gonna
spend that extra money. We'll say, yes, we're friends. Wasn't
for me. You wouldn't know the team was for sale?

(09:15):
You really? Yeah? You know that? You are? You broker
the deal. You know that story doing maybe sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah,
you and I were in the big twelve meny days. Yeah,
and Tad Brown, the president at the time of the team,
was going to have a press conference and you and
I were talking. I said, what the hell would you
have a press conference for in the middle of July.

Speaker 6 (09:33):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
And I put a couple of phone calls in found
out it was because Lesli Alexander was going to sell
the team. Okay, So I texted Tilman okay, and he's like,
what are you talking about. I said, he's going to
have Tad is having a press He would have found
out eventually, Yeah, but I mean there was somebody be
the first. That's true. Probably, mat great job. Think you
should have got a find your see on that. By
the way, what's two percent of two billion? Oh? Was

(09:56):
that what he sold for? Or ten percent of two billion?
Five percent? I don't know what's the what's the standard biography?
I'd have taken some gift cards from to Landers less,
should have should have chunked you off a fighters feet
m yeah. I I I basically broke it the deal.
I okay, Well that's great. Let's see how that's working out.
I think I think Timman's turning into a decent profit

(10:18):
so far. Yeah, he's doing well. But I mean I'm
talking about the winning. Oh well that's gonna happen this year?
Will it? Deep playoff run eighty two? And oh you said,
I guess, well, that's what you gotta do, all right,
twelve thirteen on Sports Talk seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven ninety seven one three two
one two five seven ninety's twelve thirteen, We come back
with did you read anything between the lines of Demko's

(10:39):
media get together yesterday about what kind of potential changes
he might make want make for the game Sunday against
the Colts. We'll get to that next on seven ninety
Lunchtimers Lunchtimes.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
This is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Nine on Sports Talk seven ninety. It is a Tuesday
edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Very nice
to have all of you with us. Well, I've got
feelings coming up in forty minutes from now. The rewind
at one thirty believe it or not? Today at two
point fifty hilarity, insights, analysis, and we'll probably go off
topic a handful of times as well. Never all right,

(11:20):
So we carried a part of the Demico Ryan's press
conference yesterday. Yes, oh did you notice on Sunday they
kept calling him Demiko Ryan. Yes, I did. He kept on.
Jim Nance did it? And who was the sideline reporter?
She did it too, Tracy Wolfson. Tracy Wolfson, Yeah, I
heard it at least two times. Me too. I thought

(11:41):
it was going crazy. I like, googled his name. I'm like,
have I had this wrong or something? You did not
google his name? You've known about him for a long
enough time. Yeah, Well, Kevin Walter was really confused. Oh
and Daniel hated it too. It's amazing you're at that
level of national broadcast and you can goof up a

(12:04):
couple of little things. Yeah, come on, Jim Nance, where'd
you go to school? You got to learn a little better.
Let me tell you something. He's a Hall of Fame broadcaster,
don't you forget? It will be nice if to get
the coach of the name of the game he's calling, right,
he still has got the to mis It feels that
he's the voice in the theatrics. It's Matt's the element

(12:25):
you're watching the game in the clouds. Like his voice
is so velvety. It's like it's comforting in a way.
I don't know how to explain it. No, it's fine,
it's like it's awesome. I think it's great. Like he
should he should have he should have like announced when
you go into the pearly Gates of Heaven. Hello, I'm
Jim Nance and welcome to heaven, and our first candidate

(12:46):
is Matt Thomas. Matt, you're gonna be stuck in purgatory
for a while. We've checked your IG history and you
are going down below. Hey wait a minute, don't help
me like that. Just kidding. Taylor says, Hello, Yeah, I
have not checked on her today. I'll give you anup
there in her life. I'm sure she's fine, Matt. You
don't need to check on her. Well, I mean she's

(13:07):
not in the ICU. Maybe she needs for recessitation. You
never know. Okay, all right, uh so, uh okay. Back
to Dimiko. I got the sense that he was being
obviously tight lived, because he's never gonna be very forthcoming
in these old media get togethers. But it feels like
to me that he hit today with the players off day,

(13:28):
that they're in that office and they are really trying.
They're scratching her heads at I know we didn't have
Nego Collins on Sunday, We're not gonna have him for
the next three games, but we've got to do something
to protect our quarterback because I thought C. J. Stroud,
for his young Texans career, was at his most uh

(13:49):
not belligerent would be too strong of a term. Animated,
he was, he was really I think he's worried about
a not moving the team down the football field and
be running for his life. Yeah, it's kind of hard
to move the chains when you're running for your life.
When when Titus Howard just comes straight up, falling down,
and then there's in the middle and the left side
and the right side, there's free runners the whole game

(14:11):
coming at you. Yeah, not good, all right? So what
did he have to say? Well, here's the first thing
about cleaning up the protection from Domenico.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
We have a lot of things to clean up when
it comes to our protection, and it's everyone involved, right
olon tight End's backs is everybody working together, being on
the same page and just getting it done. Like we've
had multiple weeks where the same things have hurt us
multiple times. So we have to get it fixed, starting
with the coaches and down to the players of finishing

(14:41):
and executing them.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
So the reality is it sounds like to me without
him going directly to a particular group, is that there
was running back protection issues and the Dalton Schultz and
who's the other guy that plays once in a while,
Haid Stove Oven Quintareano. Yeah, but I don't think you
can current can Toreano play this week? I think he
played a little bit okay, but Stover was definitely out
there that those guys who are not doing their job.

(15:04):
It's a collecti effort, which means it sounds like to
me that this week, if they need to, they'll keep
guys in, which means will be less opportunities for those
tight ends to kind of spring out of this out
of the uh line of scrimmage or the on the
offensive line and become pass catchers that they're going to
be into block. Yeah, and what are they can consider
going to consider Demiko to get things fixed?

Speaker 7 (15:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (15:24):
For me, everything is on the table when it comes
to it has to get fixed.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
Mmm, everything on the table? What does that mean? Lineup changes,
rotation of guards, o line coach. Do you want to
think it's gonna work benching Laramie Tunsel, No, that's not
gonna happen. No, Laramie will not be benched. I mean
if you so, nor should he be. If you said
take a week off, he'd do it. He's like, I'm

(15:48):
still getting my game check. Yeah, I mean he all
he cares about is money. He doesn't really particularly care
about winning. That's not true, Matt Oh there every week
playing hurt. I think people have the same set eyes
that I do. He's there for the check. He's gone
down in games multiple times and come back. He's showing
the fight and the will to win. Are you like
his stepbrother or something. I'm just I'm just saying the

(16:09):
fact multiple times he's gone down with injury in the game,
and multiple times he's come back. He had missed a game, okay, yeah,
But I mean if he was just laying up, then
he could have just kicked his knee up, kicked his
foot up and said, hey man, I'm hurt. I'll see
you guys later, see you and put me on IR
one two three, I R in Cancun. Yes, all right?
And one more thing from Demiko talking about the protection.

(16:30):
He's saying, it's not just one thing, and I got
to get a lot of different things fixed.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Yeah, Like I said, when it comes to it, I
know how we're a coach, what we're asking asking to
be done, and it's just it's not showing up on
the tape. So it's and it's not just one person,
it's the entire thing. So it's just the entire offense
from the top to the bottom. We have to get
it cleaned up, not one person or one thing, but

(16:54):
multiple things, multiple issues that we have to get collectively.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
We have to get it fixed. Saying all the right things. Yeah,
and obviously I'm not throwing anyone under the bus, not
that I know the Indianapolis defense with great detail, but
I'm going to assume that the pressure that Green Bay
put on will be nearly as fierce because C's already
knows that Colts defense very very well. It's been a
terrible defense. But is uh did DeForrest Buckner come back?

(17:19):
I can't remember. I'd have to go look. We will
ask our friend Derek Schultz on FRONA. Yes. Nice. I
feel like Derek Shulz should getting to projected another Colts
win like he did week one. It wasn't a crazy thought, No,
it wasn't. I'm just asking question. Yeah, people heard the
cynicism in your voice. I was just asking. He actually said,

(17:41):
the Texts are gonna win the AMC South. What else
do you wanted to do? That's true, and that looks
like they are. But this is a big game. First
place on the line, kind of for a type for presuretive.
There's still a lot left to go. We got all
the division opponents and whatnot, but the head to head
would be won one if the Colts win the game
on but okay, but if Forrest Buckner hadn't been back
but apparently is expected to return this week. Okay, so
there you have it there, that would be huge for them.

(18:05):
But I still don't think the pressure that that Green
Bay put on the offensive line will be nearly as
fierce this week. And if it is, they're mass problems.
You can communicate a little better at home. And the
fact is, is this team just a spectacular team on
the road. I'm not at home and just pedestrian at
home on the road. Excuse me how I got that? No,
the offensive line, it's pretty bad on the road. But
why do you think that is it's not like the crowd.

(18:26):
I mean they've been in loud crowds before. Yeah, they're
just not they're not picking up things. It wasn't it
wasn't definite at Lambeoufield. I don't know. They need to
be better at communicating. They're using their inside voices. They
need to use their outside voices. It's like, it's not
like a therapist. And how did that make you feel? Matt?
What part of that doll that hurts you or something

(18:47):
like that?

Speaker 6 (18:47):
Right?

Speaker 3 (18:48):
M hm, Wow, that's a tough place to be in.
You're softening your voice. What if you're what if you're
a sterning therapist? Well it's not the nineteen twenties. Well,
but also you can say you can get back in line.
Oh no, no, no, I don't think every therapist sounds soothing.

(19:09):
You don't think so. I don't know, I don't think so. Hmmm.
I mean I've been I may have been to a
few therapy sessions. And what makes you think that?

Speaker 5 (19:17):
Man?

Speaker 3 (19:17):
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(19:38):
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I brought up a question before we went to our
last time out, watching Baltimore score at ease last night
against Tampa Bay, watching Kansas City with an impressive way
in at San Francisco, how far are the Texans from
reaching that group of Tier A significant subtle changes never

(21:07):
gonna happen, or they're right there? And two Texans are
five and two. It's funny to say because the Ravens
have lost twice, but the Chiefs and the Chiefs are undefeated. Yeah,
the Ravens. Lamar Jackson in the way that he's playing,
had five passing touchdowns last night. He is unstoppable. He's

(21:28):
the reigning MVP, and right now he's the favorite for
back to back. Yeah he is. He absolutely is the
leading candidate for the MVP. But the thing of it
is is that if you still talk about Lamar Jackson,
you still say where's his posts in success? I know
he was bad in that AFC Championship game last year.

(21:51):
Because he kept he kept on trying to drive the
ball down field a little bit too much rather than
taking things that were underneath. Right, I felt like he
was pressing. I felt like he pressed in that in
particular instance. But I think for the most part it's
it's a small sample sized thing and we kind of
overblow it. But I do believe playoff. We talked about

(22:12):
this playoff in baseball where Jeremy Pinney goes off and
he's the greatest postseason player ever, and Kyle Tucker has
a few bad games, he's the worst postseason player ever.
But can you say that he just ran into Kansas
City over and over and over again, like the Rockets
Filos Rocket Championship teams were really close to going to
the championship, but Golden State was always in the way.
Is that what Lamar Jackson's gonna happened to fight through?

Speaker 8 (22:34):
Right now?

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Right? Was James Harden a playoff choker? Well, there was
a couple of games where he choked, but they also
ran into the greatest, one of the greatest dynasties in
the history of the sport. Yeah, so yeah, But also
I do I will say I do think he played
bad in that particular game last year in the AFC
champion No, I would say if we went back and looked,
the Ravens didn't get much help from Jackson to win

(22:57):
those games. All that to all the playoff losses he's had.
So he's had big games in the playoffs, but he's
doing it. He's probably had as many good ones as
the bad ones. That would that be somewhat first to
have though, look it up, I guess. But yeah, all right,
let's go to Vincent Midtown at twelve thirty five, Hive Vince.

Speaker 5 (23:14):
Hey, Yeah, to answer your question, I think the Texans
are quite a ways off the Chiefs and the Ravens.
I don't think it will happen this year, but you know,
we're on the right track. But I wanted to kind
of touch upon that Godwin injury yesterday, Yeah, with Les
less a minute left and so looked on some article

(23:35):
and they, you know, according to some analytics, they had
a point one percent chance of winning. And I'm just wondering,
you know what, and you know this will lead to
something else as well. So why is he even in
the game. Why aren't they just taking knees? They're not
going to win the game. But on top of that,
I hear the NFL is thinking about adding an eighteenth game,
and then you have the college kids that they're playing

(23:56):
extra playoff games. Now, I mean, what the when does
it end? These injuries are just becoming more perfect and
more prevalent. I know it's part of the game, but
as you're adding games, are you not taking away from
the quality of the games by having top players go
down all the time?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
Thanks Vince for the phone call. It's a good conversation.
By the way. Chris Godwin is going to have surgery
this week and a dislocated ankle. Yeah, it was nasty. Yeah.
I did not see it because I knew it was
coming and they said turn away, so I did. They didn't.
ESPN didn't even replay it. Yeah, so you had to go.
Some people on Twitter had it and stuff. Yeah that's
a gruesome, as you think. Yeahical dislocation. Yeah, anything anything

(24:36):
with the word dislocated blank is bad. You would like
it to be located, and it was dislocated. Yeah. Todd
Bowles was after the game about having Chris Godwin in
and he's like, what are you talking about. We were
trying to win the game. We're trying to get a
touchdown on side kick and then honestly no issues with
him playing that. It was one minute to go and
they were under a minute to go and they were
down ten. Yeah, score a touchdown, get the on side kick.

(24:58):
You Yeah, I can't. I mean you get paid holly
compensation for it. You're going for it, and I think
somebody I don't reve remember who it was on Twitter.
It was like an NFL pundit or somebody brought up
a good point. Ask Chris Godwin if he wanted to
be out there. I'm sure the answer was yes. Now
that's just it is what it is. To the central point,
we are losing players left and right on a week
to week basis. Mike Evans went down in that game. Brandon,

(25:20):
I you tore his ACL this weekend. I mean, Pukinaku
has been out all year. Rushie Rice is out like
it's and that's just Royal wide receivers into a taco.
Bolowa gets too. Yeah, he gets slammed into the turf
every other play. Uh, last time I checked, Vince, television
ratings are not going down. Last time I checked, they're
adding trying to add more international games. Uh, you're gonna

(25:42):
see an eighteen game schedule. I think I haven't set
it on a gut feeling one time by twenty twenty eight,
and I'm ready to extend that to leave a little
bit further. Rossy, I think we're going to see I
don't know how they're going to do it, but I
feel like that seventeenth game is gonna be an international
game almost every year, Rossi. They had one in five

(26:06):
New England against one in five Jacksonville and they had
sixty seven thousand people in that game. Mm hmm. They
don't care if you send winless teams. They want NFL
football badly, and I don't think the NFL is prepared
to put a team there, but the next best thing
they can do is putting a game there every single week. Well,

(26:28):
they pretty much did well. How many games they had.
Jaguars had three games in a row there, right, It's
basically they're their second home. You had brazila the game.
First of all, an unsafe part of the world. It
was an unsafe field. That field was terrible. Both teams,
the Packers in green Bay were I mean Eagles in
Green Bay were slipping all over the place. You have
all of these and you would know this better than

(26:48):
I would. You have all these majestic soccer facilities, Yes,
you do, with huge fan bases that you get to
bring a game that really counts. I mean there's uh, France,
there's Spain, there's England. Yeah, I don't know. I mean
all Germany, Germany, you have all those teams that play
in front of seventy five thousand seed stadiums. Every time

(27:10):
you put on a soccer game on something fully expecting
you do today that's on, They're always every stadium seat
is full. You never see empties. The NFL wants that, Yes,
and the NFL is gonna give a stipe into these
because ultimately the money they make over there gets put
in the big kitty, which is distributed thirty two ways.

(27:32):
I think when they added that, there was some resistance
from the players. When they added the seventeenth game, I
think they're gonna, wasn't it. I think the vote was
very close and they had to revote or something like that,
And I think JJ Watt at the time was playing
and was like, this is a bad idea for us
long term. You're gonna have eighteen games and one of
them and everybody's gonna play overseas one time. Yeah, here

(27:53):
I found it. JJ Watt on the proposal hard no
on that proposed CBA, and he was among several high
pro file players who did not agree with the deal,
including Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. Yep. And then listen,
they don't give two craps what the players have to say,
because at the end of the day, the player paychecks
are gonna be larger. So I think we're gonna get

(28:14):
We're gonna get eighteen. We're gonna be down to maybe
one preseason game with a bunch of those joint practices,
and you're gonna have one. You're gonna have nine home
games one, you're gonna have eight, and that ninth home
and that that ninth that eighteenth game is gonna be
played overseas. Okay, it's Mason Rudolph versus Davis Mills. With

(28:34):
the AFC South on the line, you're gonna see rosters expanded. Okay,
you could, you would. I bet they would like to
take mandatory weeks off, but I don't think it's gonna
be able to pass. What did we already see this
past weekend? We saw Tyler Huntley, Mason, Rudolph Dorian Thompson, Robinson,
and Jameis Winston. Yeah, I mean, and whatever else was

(28:55):
going on with backup quarterbacks. But is you say these things?
Here's my quick answer back to that, Well, it's tough sport. Injurially,
I don't think they do everything humanly possible to try
to put the best equipment on these guys, to make
sure that teams are penalized for late hits and personal
fouls and trying to preclude people from suplexing people. Yeah,

(29:18):
it doesn't ever change. But the players are bigger, stronger, faster.
Sports science is better. The athletes are I mean exponentially
stronger than they were fifty years ago, sixty years ago,
and so that means they're crashing into each other. And
I don't have any data on this, but just on
its face, it seems like there's just more injuries week
to week than there ever have been. And the answer
to that is I don't have an answer. Yeah, I

(29:40):
don't think the NFL is an answer. The only way
you'd have less injuries if you play less games, well,
and that ain't gonna happen. Or for the flag football,
no hitting, they're trying to legislate so much hitting out
of the game. Anyways, anytime there's a big hit on
the field the last several years, you're looking for yellow,
you're looking for the four savery. Here's what happens. Your

(30:01):
quarterback gets hit really hard, yes, and takes a tumble.
Flag comes out. You cheer fifteen yards bonus. Yes, forget
about the health of the players. Shaking his cobwebs off.
You went from the thirty to fifteen puts us in
field goal range, and then you got like Pat Mahomes
this this weekend. He the players try to kind of
usher them out to the to the U out of bounds,

(30:24):
and then he cuts back inside and runs for forty
more yards. That's what Anthony Richardson's problem is with the Colts.
Well get the players are trying to let Pat Mahomes
go out of bounds and then he cuts back in. Yeah,
so that's that's tough for the defenders. Seven one three
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at one o'clock today. We also have the NBA season

(30:48):
starting tonight. Really rocket season starts tomorrow who's playing tonight?
It is uh Lakers, Minnesota Lakers in the New York,
New York, Boston. Okay, New York Boston.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
There you go?

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How much all I watch it? I'll watch them? What
else is on? Carlin's got a volleyball game? What time?
Six thirty? How long does that take? Well, it also
start till seven, so probably an hour, half second, half
second half. Yeah, and then Lakers Wolves isn't until nine.
What if I'm doing other things? You're not doing anything
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(33:21):
right now. Well, it's compared to the interurrect. Now we
didn't even there's no answers to it at this point.
I got no cop. We probably could do a two
hour show on it, but we're trying to keep it
to sports here. Oh my god, this is terrible. You're
a terrible human being. Yeah, I know, I fully admit that.
Got feelings coming up at one o'clock this afternoon, so
you got you know, honestly, this isn't God done. So

(33:44):
I don't watch a lot of local news me either.
The only time I watch it is when it's on
after Sunday night football or or like Monday night football
or national something. And then usually by the third murder,
I'm like, oh, min, what am I watching this for?
Like I can tell you. At Channel eleven female wise,
there's Mia Gradney. I don't know who that is. Channel

(34:06):
two has Danielle Guzman okay, not familiar with her word
Lisa Hernandez okay, wishing her the best. Channel two a
Channel thirteen. I couldn't tell you one person, and I
don't think I could tell you anybody at twenty six either. Okay,
but that's just how we've all consumed news differently. Now

(34:29):
when I was when I was younger, I watched all
three because I used to want to catch my sports highlights.
I used to Yeah, I used to wake up before
school and put on the news on me too, Me too,
And mostly I was trying to see if there was canceled. Oh, yes,
you were basically you were. You were client ID before
became ID, I will and usually you know, it was
first in the alphabet, So I was like getting excited.

(34:51):
But if it was eighty six degrees outside, you knew
you had to go to school. One can hope, Matt, Well,
maybe there was some violence, electrical fire, Maybe there was violence. No,
maybe there was somebody carrying. Well, there's a few knife incidents. Okay,
well I think maybe one guns incident. I got you
twelve fifty one on Sports Talk seven ninety. All right,
what I mentioned this again of the audience, What would

(35:11):
you like to talk about? Okay? I mean, we have
a we've got a kind of a list of what
we're working on so far. We've mentioned the contract for
the Rockets players. We have an NFL what to fix
in the Texans. How far the Texans are from one
to two in the AFC? Is this just an aberration
as far as the injuries in the NFL, or is
this going to be the new normal? Normal, new normal.

(35:34):
Everybody's injury prone, everybody's gonna have carry a injury history. Okay,
because to your point, to your point, injury probably means
frail bodies that can't handle it. For instance, Lance mccullors
is injury prone. We'll see is coming back strong this year? Baby?

(35:56):
Win this year? Well, this next year, twenty twenty five.
You promise in put your name on I'm good, Come on,
put your name on it. I'm fine. Okay, who's back first?
Luis Garcia or Lance mccolors, lancema Colors Junior? Without a doubt. No,
but both of them. They're both ready for spring. Let's

(36:17):
go in the astro starting rotation. Both of them ready
for spring. Let's go. Why your fingers crossed? They're not.
I got arthur ritis, I miss baseball. I gotta be
honest with you. It's still What do you mean it's
coming on this Friday? Oh I'm not watching. It's not
over no chance. The second the final out is recorded

(36:40):
for the World Series. Are we gonna go back on
Bregman Watch. We're gonna have to five days Bregman Watch
twenty twenty four. We could have started Bregman Watched in
late March. Yeah, but we had been wasting our breath, correct,
and I think we'd be We're gonna be wasting our
breath in this five day window. Yeah, I do. I
do admire the diehards on Astros. Twitter saying Jim, you've

(37:02):
got to bring him back. Jose L Tuovay says, you've
got to bring him back? How much? Wait does Joseel
two Vay's words carry? You're gonna find out? Okay, pay
the man? How many we we go to the yearly?
Pay the mands, don't we? I was biggest for Korea.
It started for George Springer. Yeah, then it moved on

(37:23):
to Cardil's Korea. Remember when we used to argue Korea
or Springer and now we're arguing Bregmant or Tucker. They
both went away. Yeah. I think it's gonna be a segment.
They might all be gone. Yeah, I would if I
Tucker fromber all gone all gone. I think you're right.

Speaker 6 (37:44):
Now.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
The question mark is are the Astros going to be
balls enough to trade the last two guys in their
final years for what for pieces to fill in the
puzzle when those guys eventually go. I mean, if you're
punting on twenty twenty five, yeah, you need them if
you want. If you think if the window is always open,
as Jim Crane said, you need those guys on your team.

(38:05):
That's your probably your best position player when you factor
in the fielding, it would as your best hitter. But
it would be it would be for You're right, it'd
be inconsistent if he said that. But we've had owners
that have said we believe, like Drayan McClain was a
king of that, we're gonna win, and then he would
start shaving payroll. That's different though Drayton has never shelled

(38:26):
out cast the way that Jim Crane has. I know,
and they already went over the threshold once, yes, and
it gets the penalties get worse when you're a repeater,
really steep. If you do it again, I think it's
twenty percent, and then it goes to thirty percent, and
then thirty year it goes to fifty percent. Here will
be the main argument. Here's what Jim I don't think
can do. I don't think he can low ball Briggs

(38:50):
and Tucker. He's not going with Valdez and then bring
back Justin. It's some dollar amount because this is golfing, buddy.
And by the way, and frankly, Justin's got I don't
think there's anything left in the tank. I think he's
going to try to get make one more run of
it somewhere as a fourth or fifth hour. I wouldn't
be totally sent if it was in Detroit. Clearly they

(39:11):
need starting pitching. They went with bullpen games and won them. Frankly,
but you know they're looking for starting pitching. Yeah, bring
them home, But what kind of I don't think Jim
could do this. So maybe I'm just putting a hypothetical
out there, But what kind of message would that be
if they brought JV back on a one year deal
and that could have been money that could have been
used towards somebody else, Well, you got to spend it somewhere.

(39:32):
But yeah, bringing JV back is I think a horrible idea.
Yeah I do too. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I
would like for you to come up with some gut
feelings some sports predictions. Do you have any seven to
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Listen up.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
So appeals that Thomas Yo, they got a good dealing.
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, one o two on Sports Talk seven ninety
time for you to jump in at seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety seven to one
three two, one two five seven nine zero. You are
ready to make sports predictions and if they come to pass,

(41:37):
we will brag about them. If they are wrong, we
just tend to forget about them, tend too okay, well less,
they're so obnoxious and so bad. We like to teach, Oh, whatever.

Speaker 10 (41:48):
You mean.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
If they're mine, we bring them back up. And if
they're yours, we gloss over them. Tomato, tomato, potato, potato. Okay,
you want last weeks. Yes, green Bay wins by six,
says Matthew Thomas, although you changed it to ten by
the end of the week. I did, and you were
wrong on both accounts. But green Bay did win. And honestly,

(42:09):
I wanted to crush you for saying the Texans we're
gonna win, lose by ten. But if they didn't win
that turnover battle three to nothing and get the gifts
seven off the muff punt, they should have lost that
game by double dish. But one. No, I'm still giving you.
I'm giving you a soft win, a soft win. Yeah,
it'd be like that's silly, it'd be like a soft sweep. No,
it's like a soft opening at a restaurant. Oh I see, yeah, Okay,

(42:30):
I'll graciously take that. Okay, good. It's one of the
nice thing you give me. Compliment you here, and you
won't even take it. I'm taking it. It happens once
a blue moon.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Here.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
I know, I'm saying, what am I doing? Why am
I stopping this right now? You had the Cougars be
in the Kansas Jayhawks. What was the final score on
that one. It was the Cougars put up fourteen. What
did the Jayhawks have? I forgot it might have been
forty two m And then you call the Yankees Dodgers

(43:01):
World Series. Yeah, the rest of the but I wanted
you to be so wrong, but you weren't. Let's see.
I had the Texans. I said, take take the money
line in Green Bays, my loc in a week and well,
with under two minutes to go, they were. They were
money line winning, but then they lost and they didn't

(43:21):
even deserve to be that close. I also had the
long Arm beating Georgia by six. You're supposed to twenty
nine to twenty three, I think was my final score call,
and it was thirty to fifteen. Yeah, not great. And
I had the under, but I didn't have the under
fifty six and a half. Let me ask you this.
If Texas and Georgia played ten times, I could see
it going five to five each other. Texas got punched

(43:43):
in the mouth and recovered, I would say they would
win four of them at this point. Okay, but I
will here's a god feeling those two teams will play
each other again this season. Okay, it could be either
in an SEC championship game, or it could be in
a playoff, but you will see Texas and Georgia. Okay,
and you got h oh my games of the Rockets

(44:05):
win eighty nom can I say forty eight? Whoa?

Speaker 6 (44:15):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
I don't think it's happening, but I like it forty
three and a half the total because if I think
they're better than what the Vegas book is saying, then
I've got to make it. I can't say, well, Vegas
is forty three and a half, so I think they're
gonna win forty five. I mean, it's that's what I'm
gonna say. I'm gonna go forty eight and thirty four
for the for the Rockets. They could go under Matt
forty eight wins for the Rockets.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Woo.

Speaker 3 (44:36):
Yeah. I think if you're a fifty win team, you're
rarefied air. And I just don't know if they're fifty wins.
But here's the thing. Last year was how many? How
about this? I'm gonna put this down is this will
be one you have to keep for several months. They're
going to make a significant trade at the deadline Rockets. Yeah,
and the positive or in the net like you're trading

(44:57):
in assets, are trading out assets. Since I think they're
gonna win forty eight games, I'm gonna say it's for
the positive. Wow, significant trade at the deadline. I mean,
you're wild for all this, but I like it. I
have to have glass half full on this way you
this is this is the glass is spilling over. It's
not that now glass, you're just spilling over. If I
said fifty top of optimism is running over, running thinking over.

(45:20):
I think they're going to finish comfortably in the play
in tournament. Please stay this organization. Just bet on Alpie
and Jalen Green to make those leaps. Yeah, and if
they make those leaps, this team will be in the
play in It will be over forty three and a half. Yeah,
So you know what I'm with you. I'm not going

(45:41):
forty eight. I'm not going crazy deadline deals. I'm just
gonna say over forty three. I'm saying forty five. Okay,
forty five and thirty seven probably get you nine or
ten in the West. Forty five plus playing team, Okay,
I'm gonna say forty eight. In your seven or six,
seven or eight, I'm going sixth somewhere in seven through ten. Okay,

(46:03):
are you ready to make projections for the NBA champions?
Are going to be not in this moment? Okay. I
said this a couple of weeks ago as a gut feeling.
I'm ready to convert it. Go ahead, and to put
my name on it. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whah.
You don't do that very often. I'm the one usually
puts my name on things. Jalen Green's having the best
offensive season of his career. I'm ready put it down.

(46:25):
Just paid him up, let's go. He had he had
a step back at the beginning of last year. He
was great the last several months. He just got paid.
He's ready to go. He's finishing in traffic better than
he ever has, at least in this preseason. Yeah, I'm
going with it. Jalen Green best offensive season. Italicize it, underlining,
do whatever you gotta do. Put it in quotations. I'll

(46:46):
put it on. I'll put it on the file. All right,
I got other stuff on this. You've been quiet? What
we got from you in the old Missouri prediction chart? Oh,
I'll say Miszoo upsets Alabam's homecoming. Whoa you are Hi, No,
it's happening. They just lost Tennessee. They're down, their season's over.
I got one for you. Alabama wins by at least thirteen.
Oh man, thirteen is not terrible.

Speaker 11 (47:07):
I took that.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
You just said they're going to beat the Alabama. They will,
but I mean I won't be if they get blown
out of the Look if you're gonna cry because then
movie blown up by the aggies. I mean, no, non
public you wanted to You're all the games are there.
You can't any more games this year. The last time
I really wanted to cry was when Damian Lil made
that shot against the Rockets in the playoffs. I almost cried. Hmmm.

(47:33):
I think I did a three hour post game show
that night. That sucked. I was on I was on
Astro's post game that night because nobody wanted to work.
All right, So, uh, I've got Missouri. I got Alabama
winning by thirteenth. Rude spread is thirteen and a half. Matt, Yeah,
always that you're calling him Mazoo cover, No, go above it.
I'll take I'll take. I'll take Alabama giving a thirteen

(47:56):
and a half. That is rude. Okay, all right, what
else do you get anything else from you. Connor Rockets
defeat the Hornets by at least fifteen whoa, And they'll
beat the Grizzlies on Friday and then split the two
games at San Antonio. So they'll start the season three
and one. I'll take three and one. Texans cover the eight,

(48:16):
I mean the six versus Colts. I'll back you up
on that. Look at you. Yeah, if you picked them
to cover all year, yeah, I got no. I had
him covering against New England too, Okay, uh personal one.
Carly Thomas needs twenty eight assists tonight to get to
one thousand. That feels like is that a lot? It's
it's alrest like a very high number, going Scottie Skyles

(48:39):
on us. It's more than she would normally would get
in a per game. Okay, but she's gonna lock in.
Problem is if we beat them in three sets, it's
gonna be super hard to get him in three sets.
We'd have to go to a fourth or fifth set.
Make it by nervous. Sorry, So I will say she'll
get her one thousand assists Friday when they take When
Kingwood Volleyball takes on Summer Creek, how is that c
a R L y C A R L. Why gets

(49:01):
a thousand thousands assists Friday night against Summer Creek? All right,
I will predict that Carly does not get her thousands assists. Really, really,
what you are a flat awful human being? You said
it was gonna be hard. No, I'm talking about she'll

(49:22):
get it by Friday. She's gonna try to get it tonight,
saying Oh, I'm saying she's not getting it tonight. Okay,
I want her to get it tonight. Oh you're saying. So,
you're saying she gets it by the end of the
next week. I'm saying she's gonna get by Friday. I
don't know if she's gonna get it tonight. I think
it's gonna go three sets and she's gonna be done. So, yeah,
I don't think she gets it. Just you know, the
way I've been breaking it down, just doesn't seem like
she's getting it tonight. You're awful. Another one.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (49:44):
Texas covers against Vanderbilt. By the way, they will be
making I'm staying away from any Texas prediction the rest
of the they will make amends for their embarrassing loss
to Georgia, where they embarrass themselves and the culture university,
and you are just gonna get pulled by the way
Quinn you to not speak to the media yesterday when
he normally does on Mondays. Did Arch hashtag cranky? Yeah? Well,

(50:07):
he spoke to the media after the game and he
was on I heard him on the postgame show with
Craig Way. Really yeah. Did Craig go through his entire junior,
high and elementary day? He talked about his javelin throw
in eighth grade. That's nice seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety Ray, What is in your gut
this afternoon? Thanks for calling.

Speaker 12 (50:26):
Well, this is kind of a sad uh gut feeling,
But I think this is what Kelvin Sampson's last year
with Oh but only but only because we're gonna win
the National champions.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Oh oh, And he rides off into the sunset.

Speaker 13 (50:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (50:42):
I think it's gonna be a special year for the Cougars.
I'm really fired up about it.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I advit.

Speaker 12 (50:46):
Did you go to Vegas? Vegas is still open Thanksgiving week?

Speaker 3 (50:50):
I got Rockets games. I would go, Are you kidding me?
Five days in Vegas?

Speaker 12 (50:54):
I go, Yeah, you can spend with my son you know,
the the butt, the butt or whatever y'all want to do.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
But the excuse me, I'm sure you don't go like
Key k Hernandez and go tip to tip. Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 12 (51:06):
And also, uh, the Eggies are gonna be liquored up
this uh Saturday, and they're gonna beat the l s
U by ten at least.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
Ooh l s U by ten. L s U by ten.
We'll have to get Chris. If Chris Gordy is here
usually takes off after putting in a hard three hour day. Uh,
he'll have Maybe he's got a prediction on the L
s U. Text a name game, I got an odd
ball question for Connor McGovern. Go ahead. When your team
is the Massoo Tigers, you play the Auburn Tigers and
the l s U Tigers, don't you kind of think, like,
you know what our mascot name is kind of lame?

Speaker 11 (51:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:36):
But Truman, Truman the Tiger is the best one. Okay,
Truman is the best playing the Eagles. Like there's like
seventeen teams. Who has the best dance team of the three?
Tell the truth. The Maszoo's Golden Girls are pretty are
pretty spectacular. The Golden girls. Yeah, was it to Betty
White and Roomy? They put on great It's called the

(51:58):
Golden Girls. But the Golden which those three schools have
the best female recruits that help out with the high
school recruits come to town, the welcomes, the Welcome to
Campus squad like at Universe Houston. They're called Cougar cruiters. No,
they're cruiting. They're cruiting hard, excuse me? And fast. You

(52:23):
don't even know. Those are lovely young ladies just bouncing
around town helping out. Oh they're bouncing. Okay, speaking of bounce,
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Speaker 1 (53:33):
Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk seven ninety.

Speaker 3 (53:45):
All right, real quick, here's Gordy. We were surprised he
was here. He had some appearance to do in Montgomery, Alabama.
That's on. Yeah, it's on. I'm here every day.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
I know.

Speaker 3 (53:55):
We just tease because we care.

Speaker 5 (53:57):
We have.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
I believe the consensus from our audience is A and
M by seven. Is that right? Is up? What you're
hearing on the streets. No sports spread has been two
and a half. I think it's A and M by fifteen,
I believe.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Now I'm seeing a late Vegas coming in seventeen point
from that's the line of goodness.

Speaker 11 (54:16):
All right, So what do you got? Give us your
break down there. I think I am going up there.
Tickets are harder to get to this. I don't know
what's hard to get tickets to Taylor Swift in New
Orleans this weekend. I have those lsu versus ann I
had those two, and any Aggie's out there.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
When I invite me to a tailgate, I'll come over
and you spend the night with my son. There a
beverage that sounds weird to say. I mean, he's got
an apartment is a weird A weird alright, offer was there?

Speaker 11 (54:42):
I think I'm passed. I passed this a couple of
years ago. I used to be the kind of guy
would I would sleep on somebody's couch. I think I'm
past that point in my life. I don't think I.

Speaker 3 (54:50):
Would think so. Once you get past thirty, you can't
do that anymore. You sleep on the couch here sometimes
I do. I do unless other people are in there,
like stand Norfley doing god knows what there. So you
want the real analytical answer, I want the forty five
second breakdown of LSUA and M like a meta.

Speaker 11 (55:05):
So this is two strengths, Matt. This is strength on strength.
This is A and M their number two in rushing
in the SEC. LSU is number two in passing in
the SEC. Two different different approaches to how they're going
to play. Garrettnusmer the least sacked quarterback in the country.
It was only sacked twice. It was in the South
Carolina game. Every other game this year, they have kept
him up right and he's been untouched Texas A and M.

(55:25):
Though the offense has gotten going under Connor Wigman. A
little bit concerned though, through a couple of interceptions last
week at Mississippi State, but the defense is playing very well,
very active upfront for A and M. LSU's defense has
come on in the last couple of weeks. They absolutely
stemied Bobby Patrino in that Arkansas offense last week in Faandeville.
So it's good on good. Doesn't surprise me that A

(55:46):
and M is about a two and a half point favorite.
That's just for being at home. If this we at LSU,
LSU would be slightly favored, So it's good on good
SEC supremacy. The winner of this game will be undefeated
in the conference moving forward, the loan undefeated in the SA,
and your final score will be I think I'm gonna
go LSU twenty seven to twenty four mmmmm.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
And then can you give me a make me feel
better about the Longhorns this weekend?

Speaker 11 (56:12):
He's not easy. Eighteen and a half, Diego Pavia is
playing very well. Clark Lee took over play calling duties
on defense, and he's had some great schemes here the
last couple of weeks. But Pave is a player man.
He's gonna score some points to that Longhorned defense question
is because they can they force him into a couple
of mistakes turnover too.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
I'm still calling you, Chris Fine bamb seriously, no better
than Bomb.

Speaker 11 (56:33):
Fine Bomb doesn't Fine Bomb can't even break down a game.
He couldn't even tell you who Vanderbilt's starting wide receivers are.
I can give you that.

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Who are they?

Speaker 11 (56:41):
You've got Eli Stowers came away from New Mexico State,
Jerry Kill and Tim Beck brought that offense over from
New Mexico.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Tim Beck's an offensive coordinator. There's a couple of times, God, seriously,
I've listened to Fine Bomb show for a couple of
minutes here and there. It's just people, really bizarre, people rambling,
calling and screaming talking about other colors. It's been for
twenty years. It's obviously doing.

Speaker 11 (57:06):
Okay, where's the long Longhorn Scott and Aggie Doug? Who
got to get them back on the way. Baggie Doug,
he's always want me to listen to his podcast. Yeah,
long horn Scott. I don't know what he's long horns Scott.
Who knows heard from a longhorned? Doug back in the
day used to call. Yeah, we used to have a
lot of long one.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
But you know what, they're always busy throwing water bottles,
getting fine, embarrassing in their camps. The student section.

Speaker 11 (57:25):
Matt Yeah, when Matthew McConaughey has to come out and
release a public statement.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Yeah, can we get Adam Clanton to read that statement?
Did he really? Oh yeah he did? What did he say?
He's like, wow, that's not class that's not Texas clouds
bogey move is what he Yeah, Yeah, he just came
out with a statement how it wasn't a class move.

Speaker 11 (57:41):
And he called himself the MOC though, Yeah, Minister of
Culture whatever.

Speaker 3 (57:45):
McConaughey. Yeah, he's got a title with the with the
Athletic Department. It's ridiculous. Thanks Cordy, that was good stuff
right there. All right, h hh over Utah, let's go
your mouth to God's ears. What's the line on that one?
I haven't even checked and I can't. Well, I got
to get off the top twenty five tab because they're
not twenty five. So hold on and give me a second.

Speaker 6 (58:04):
Here.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
They got me get the bottom twenty five tab here.
We're not bottom twenty five. I mean we're not certainly top.
I think we're twenty Utah minus three and a half. Yeah,
cam Rising's in the lab getting a second doctorates care good.
I think cam Rising's thirty six years old and getting
both arms amputuity to putting a new bionic elbows on.
I believe he committed to either Tom Herman or Charlie

(58:26):
Strong at U T I try. I believe he committed
to I believe Bear Bryant in his final year at Alabama.
I think no, let's see Texas twenty eighteen. I think
that was Tom Herman. Okay, Well, our Cougars will carry
the state banner this Saturday against Utah. Okay, I will

(58:49):
not be there. I'll be in San Atinario with the Rockets.
What I know maybe maybe that's what. Maybe they don't
need me at a game. I've been to every game
so far this year. A little little a little downtown,
little wave, you know, you know, just a little rest.
Tickets are cheap. Hey, we'll have specials out of this
week for you. I think we're giving them with some
a weight. During I heard on I heard fifteen bucks

(59:10):
in the spot we were running. I'll like get with
the cougar going hashtag great value. Yeah, fifteen bucks. Come
watch Cougars get beat. Let's go nice, all good not good?
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven nine zero. We've
got the NFL rewe coming up in just a couple
of minutes. Uh what is believe it or not? Today?

(59:33):
I don't know. By the way, I think Royal's what
was listening to our show? You think so? First of all,
he followed me on Twitter like twenty minutes ago. Okay,
is he in town? And then he puts out on
Twitter it's like fifteen minutes ago. Sign Bregman back. Bring
Bregman back in all Caps? When when a professional athlete
goes all caps? He did it at twelve fifty five

(59:55):
we were talking about it right around, Roy, if you're listening.
First of all, we loved having you on the show.
Phebe Ago, Yes, thank you. Second of all, you were
one of my favorite pictures because A you won a
lot and b you pitched in fast games. Third of all,
you you followed Matt, but you didn't follow me at
sports RV. Roy, you really did yourself a soldod by
not following sports RV. Matt is just gonna tweet about
his daughter playing volleyball and waste your time, no matter

(01:00:17):
how bad his fantasy team is, which nobody cares. They
do care. I got a lot of it. I got
a lot of empathy from people out there. And by
the way, I'm so done. I scored six. Come on,
sixty back hit the waivers, baby, let's go. I'm done.
I've I've totally checked out. Oh you got injuries. Everybody's
got injuries. Come on, Well, we need you. I know
you don't need me, Yes we do. We literally had

(01:00:38):
to get people who haven't been employed here in years
to fill the league this year. Okay, well, it's time
to lower the dollar value. Get some more people, get
the common get some listeners involved. We're gonna get some
people from from way back on here. We're gonna have
to invite Charlie Polillo and David Dukes to the league. Now,
Carl Dukes, Oh, Carl Dukes, I don't think we want
David Dukes there. I mean, I guess we could, but

(01:00:59):
that'd be really Yea, I invited Ted to Luca to
the league. This is how bad it's getting. Matt. You
gotta stay.

Speaker 6 (01:01:05):
You are so.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Inside baseball, can I tell you? Can you know I'm
screw it. I'm gonna pel the curtain back. This is
December of two thousand and nine. I'm trying to figure
out which I'm gonna come back to Houston. Either I'm
gonna go work for here or six ten. Okay. So
I would listen to their morning show. I think it

(01:01:27):
was to Luka in John Lopez, and they would do
it well, those monsters in the morning. That was after
we let go the men's room, which is which was
Craig robertson, Carl Duke's the worst name for a sports
show I've ever heard in my life. Hey, let's go
to the men's room. This smells like a horse's barn.
So DeLuca and Lopez would do a segment a show.

(01:01:49):
Then they would take a couple of hours of a
break and then they would come back. They would do
six to eight. This is when when the morning show
was fired. They used to do the Monsters. In the midday,
they did eleven to two, so they would do six
to eight. Dan Patrick would come on because I was
working the Yeah, eight to eleven, and then they would
come back on eleven to two. So one day would
do two to seven. So one day I was one day,

(01:02:12):
I was listening and they came back in the afternoon.
Are on this you know eleven o'clock whatever it was,
and they basically recorded what they said, yes, and they
replayed it for eleven o'clock. I did that. They would
have me record or whoever it was Al Farb wasn't
working too. They I would record the opening segment and
then replay at the third hour and they would just

(01:02:33):
go do whatever for twenty minutes. That is crazy, repeating
a second the exact same thing. We would get. People
would call in and complain. People would call I would
pick up the phone. Parshaw seven ninety Hey man, uh,
why are y'all replaying from the first part of the show.
It's like, what do I say? I was like, uh,
what did you say? I was like that that's just

(01:02:53):
what we do here in the third hour. I don't know.
M mmmm, that's crazy. So, like you know what, it's
starting at rock bottom. I can probably bring it up
a little bit. And that's the reason why I came
to seven ninety. Oh man, that is hysterical. That is
absolutely hysterical. All right. Seven one three two one two
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Speaker 1 (01:05:03):
Matt Thomas, This is what I Am Real Pale Texans
talk continues on the Matt Thomas Show.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
What all right, time now for Ross's NFL rewe If
you get bored by this, Taylor is making a sonoring serious,

(01:05:36):
what go ahead? What is this woman?

Speaker 11 (01:05:40):
What is this?

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
She's eating out, extremely talented woman doing knocking mack that
dog right there. Look at that, got a lot of
topics on there. Okay, she's got her hooters out. I
assume no, it's hot dogs, not wings. Okay, all right, now,
time for the rewind. Here's Ross. I don't even you
know what. Let's just get right to it. Last night

(01:06:04):
in Tampa Bay, my goodness, Lamar Jackson, three receivers left,
baited the low to the right. Lamar of this shotgun
on fourth and three, takes a step bucks bring Bliss,
pressure Lamar to the end zone.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
Touch down Mark Andrew's.

Speaker 7 (01:06:20):
Lamar and Jackson with his fourth passing.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
Touchdown of the night. Well, it ended up being five
seventeen completions, five of them for touchdowns, only five incompletions,
so just as many touchdowns as incompletions, which is insane.
Derek Hender in for one hundred and seventy yards. Lamar Jackson,
pretty darn good, right, John Harbaugh, You.

Speaker 14 (01:06:43):
Know I think we just keep it like, we're just
gonna keep approaching every week, one week at a time,
one game at a time, one play at a time,
because that's what he's doing, you know, and he's doing
it at a high, high, high level, you know, and
I'm I'm proud of him. I'm happy for him. He's
a great leader and he's great player, great player. But
we got a game next week against the Browns, and

(01:07:04):
we got to bring our best, and that's what he's
thinking about.

Speaker 3 (01:07:08):
Lamar Jackson favorite for MVP. Baltimore Ravens. I guess the
defense gives me pause. But right now, playing as good
as anybody in football. Baker Mayfield's having a good season
two so I mean, that's surprised Tampa. They put up
thirty was number one and two targets just went down too.
So yeah, but well we're still in very to go
on the road and put up forty one points. That's
very impressive. Yeah, Baltimore Ravens playing as good as anybody

(01:07:32):
in the football. Speaking of quarterbacks, let's keep it in Pittsburgh,
the Steelers fans very critical of Mike Tomlin for switching
horses mid stream to Russell Wilson. Well, Russell Wilson looking
pretty good. Wilson gets the snap looking looking firing as
Jefferson touchdown. Pittsburgh Steelers. All right, Matt, so kind of

(01:07:56):
a forgotten team. We've been talking about Baltimore, Kansas City,
putting the Texan in the mix other teams in the AFC.
Where do you feel like the Steelers are? That defense
is playing great and Russell Wilson showing on Sunday He's
still got a little gas left in the tank. Kansas
City one, Pittsburgh two, Houston three. Well, Baltimore, you forgot

(01:08:16):
Baltimo'm sorry. Kansas City won, Baltimore two, Houston three. Okay,
bills bills for pat Steelers five. I don't think if
Buffalo and Pittsburgh would have played at Buffalo wins seven
times out of ten. Really yeah, just from an high

(01:08:39):
octane offensive standpoint, hmm man, that's tough the Steelers Steelers
have have. I thought with Justin Fields, I thought it
was the right move. His stats were very good, but
he wasn't seeing throws down the field. Some of those
throws at Russell Wilson was making at George Pickens were
far better than what Justin Fields was doing this season.
So I think the right move of the right move.

(01:09:01):
But speaking of Buffalo, they themselves got a new weapon.

Speaker 13 (01:09:06):
Honestly, it's just trusting my feet and trusting my arm.
It's one of the I think the pros of having
a stronger armed, if you will, where you've got a
guy that's open and you know, on that little quick
fade route I threw to him. He did such a
good job of his release and he gained a lot
of separation. I just kind of just trusted my trust
my arm and just try to throw it in there
as really as firmly as I could, and he made
a heck of a place.

Speaker 3 (01:09:27):
Josh Allen on Amari Cooper the new weapon for Josh Allen,
making quite the statement. Okay, the Titans are terrible and
Mason Rudolph was starting, but thirty four to ten a
trouncing of the Tennessee Titans. Schedule not super difficult coming
up Seahawks, Dolphins, and Colts, but they do play the
Chiefs on November seventeenth and the Niners after that. Where

(01:09:49):
are we at in the Buffalo Bills, Matthew, Buffalo Bills
are the fourth best team in the AFC, and I
would have made them third. But you have to go
head to head. I think the Texans and Bills are
very comparable, but you have to get the tie record
to Houston because they won the game, had to head.
It wasn't home. But I thought the Texans way out
played the Bills in that game. Should not have come
down to the last second field goal, but it did.

(01:10:09):
It did. They won. Yeah, but if you hold Josh
Allen to a quarterback rating of fifteen or whatever it was,
he was nine of thirty in that game, one hundred
and thirty three yards. Jass the entire time Mario Edwards
will be back at some point. He was chasing him
down a lot. As a Houston Texans realist, I realized
they were very good that day. They were. They were
not so much on Sunday. I'll tell you it was

(01:10:30):
very good on Sunday against the number one defense in
the land. Well, Detroit Lions didn't seem to have too
much troubles scoring on him.

Speaker 7 (01:10:38):
Jake Bates with a forty four yard attempt hash Mark
right side to give.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
The Lions the lead.

Speaker 7 (01:10:44):
He's ready, there's the snap, there's the spot kick away,
it is up and it is good. Jack bit sets
it through. With fifteen seconds to go, the Lions have
taken the lead. It is Detroit thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
One and the fightings twenty nine ice Water in Veins.
Clash of Titans over the weekend. Now, we're still worn
wondering about that Lion's defense without Aiden Hutchinson because Sam
Darnold and the boys they scored twenty nine, they got
to pick six, so they still scored over twenty points,
but maybe not as complete team as they were with

(01:11:18):
Aiden Hutchinson. But Lion's still NFC favorites, yes, although I
was very impressed with how Philadelphia beat up on the
Giants this past week. Now the Giants aren't great, No
they're not, but Philadelphia went in there and never love
the Giants even play a game. Don't sleep on the Eagles.
NFC significantly more competitive than the AFC. Coin flip in

(01:11:40):
the NFC. Detroit. Here's my pecking order, Detroit, Minnesota, No,
I'm going Minnesota too, personally, Detroit, Philly. Where do you
put Washington in there? What's going on with Jeff Fane Cisco, Minnesota, Washington,

(01:12:05):
m Green Bay, speaking of San Francisco, maybe out with
Green Band top of Washington San Francisco three and four
on the young season. Matthew, it'll be five, first and
ten at the niner eighteen yard line. Here comes the
end of round on a Jeff sweep. It goes to Hardman,
cuts it back and goes under the end. Zione right
the left on the jet sweep, Maccole Hardman, Rushie Rice

(01:12:28):
goes down Juju Smith Schuster tried to start that game.
He got hurt as well. Sure, let's turn up Mikole Hardman.
Kansas City Chiefs getting it done with the twenty eight
to eighteen win in San Francisco, a perfect six and
oh shaky to start the season. Four straight one score wins,
two straight two score wins, and impressive wins on the road.

(01:12:51):
I put so much value in teams going on the road,
no matter how ugly it is, a winning games. Give
them credit. I think we have to Raiders, Buccaneers, Broncos.
Then at the bills coming up for the Kansas City
will not go seventeen or no. As I didn't put
wan Am I to tell the truth yesterday, but I
I could see them going fourteen and three, fourteen and
three and try to go beat Kansasity in January. I

(01:13:16):
dare you have you seen our good friend Patrick Mahomes'
stats from this year. They're pedestrian six touchdowns, eight innerceptions. Huh,
but great rushing yard for getting first downs, staying in
Boundsaby to his detriment cer level of him one out
of ten zero zero. Okay, weapons aren't great over there, no,

(01:13:41):
and they're getting worse. But he has Travis Kelsey's old Yeah, say,
if you're worthies, I mean, you can streak it down
the field to him. But he's not running the full
route tree. He reminds me right now what Tom Brady
had to do for most of his career in England.
Good receivers, not great ones, and a really good tight end,
but also a tight end that's not what he wants.
So he's thirty five years old and he's sleeping with
the richest woman on earth. Yeah, his hamstrings are getting

(01:14:03):
tired every week. Ti your hanmies from running up and
down the field. Mine are great. Okay, well a little sorry,
I'm getting old. I was just watching TV last night
and I stood up in my ankle locked. Yeah, you're
you're aging terrible, Like, why is my ankle locked up?
I didn't even do anything. Your hair is all gray,
your bears all gray. You see what working next to

(01:14:23):
you every day is done to me. That's why you
gotta shave it off. Yeah. I don't think a lot
of freedom all or anything else. I think got good.
That's your NFL rewind Man. Let me take something that
was a highly entertaining segment. I don't know. I people
are in the NFL and I'm on this station and
this watch refleshing. We got like seven brushes. Yeah, I
mean I'm saying we we do a good job. We
don't just berate you with crazy ass dash. We put

(01:14:45):
sound bites in. We play that play at the very
least with the big toe. Yeah, if you can't enjoy
life for the fifth of Beethoven, what can you enjoy exactly?
We had to find like great seventies disco songs every week,
but you want to mix it up like a fly
Robin Fly. We could also go instrumental. Do the Hustle,
do the hustles, Loves Theme, the Billy Preston out of

(01:15:09):
Space or whatever. The entertainer. Man, it's a little slow.
I think we're trying to keep it seventies funk disco insurmentals.
By the way, a new channel on Serious XM. Okay,
Yacht Soul just thrown it out there, hmm okay, No, no,

(01:15:29):
I didn't make the channel up all as well. Serious
XM can't hurt you. It's not real, my gosh. George
bents on there prominently Sports Talk seven.

Speaker 9 (01:15:46):
Welcome, good afternoon, the best sports lunch in h town.
Matt's really smart. He works hard, he has a good
grasp of players.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
He's been around the game. You love him. We love
him so excited for the opportunity that Matt has in
front of him. For sure, this is the Matt Thomas Show.
We will honor Alprea Hingoon and Jayleen Green at the
top of the hour. What about Unbelieve it or not?

Speaker 5 (01:16:13):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
If we ever done an ALP being I believe it
or not? I think so. I'm sure they were drafted. Yeah,
you got to go to the best of collections, all right? Uh.
Nick Asia, obviously a big fan of us, has never
been on the show in all the years he's been here.
Was he talking about Matt Shop at that point? I
don't care. No, he was not listen to play. He
doesn't know you exist play the sound body again. Let's

(01:16:35):
see it's me or somebody else. He's looking for it. Uh,
coming up? No, Nick Asia wasn't here.

Speaker 9 (01:16:44):
Go ahead, welcome, good afternoon. Not best sports. Matt's really smart.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
He works hard. Yep, he has a good grass. Ye players,
he's been around the game. You love him. We love
him so.

Speaker 9 (01:16:57):
Excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
For sure. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Tell me
what's not true? Works hard? No, I have good grasp
of players. Yeah, all right. So Aaron Wilson was on
the Chris Cordy Show featuring Stan Norfleet. Okay, he thinks
that Nick's gonna seriously kick the tires on making a trade.

(01:17:22):
Do we have a quote on that. No? Oh, I
mean he doesn't think it's going to happen, but he's
going to he thinks. I Well, our website was. I
wouldn't rule he wouldn't rule it out. Yeah, but I
mean you could say that every year. Yes, I mean
any general manager that does not put the time in
to go try to find somebody, he's not doing his

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organization any service. It was one of my to tell
the truths yesterday. I just think it's super hard to
make a trade that's going to absolutely change the complexity.
Was what he said was true Dodgers and five Dodgers
in five I'm hoping because the Rockets vice president of
basketball operations is such a Yankees honk that I want.

(01:18:05):
I'm rooting for the Dodgers so hard, just like a
thumbt in his nose. That's good. At the end of
the day, one of the worst fan bases in the
league is going to be sad, So that's good. Who's
got a worst fan base? Man, it's it Simeana. Here's one.
One drops f bombs constantly. Yeah, one has an obnoxious accent. Wait,

(01:18:29):
they both have a not well one has huge cholesterol issues. Well,
that feels like both one has don't shave and don't
manicure and probably take showers in the daily Okay. And
then on the other side you have people that have
criminal records that go to games wearing wearing bracelets around

(01:18:49):
their ankles, necktats, necktats. Drive cars are at least fifteen
to twenty years old. What's wrong with that? Come on,
what you know? But should be driving a car that
is fifteen years old? Why not? Not safe? It's not safe.
Hey man, I'm gonna ride my job until the wheels
fall off. Matt. Not everybody's making that fancy, Matt mone No. No,

(01:19:11):
you see how much car Loans are these days. No, no, no,
well that's why you go to a SHEWFCU. But thanks
for the plug on that one. There's nobody that should
be driving a vehicle from two thousand and nine. I'm
sorry two thousand and nine. It's not that bad. I
see people in their nineties for selles. You do not,
you're making that up. Oh, you know, driving the city.
I know, driving a lot. I was gonna say driving
on the streets, I'd drive everywhere, all right, I might

(01:19:32):
asking right now, I'd like to have two people call
the show right this second that are driving a car
in two thousand, two thousand and nine or earlier. Two
thousand and nine or earlier. If you're driving a car
from then, tell us what it is, how many miles
you had on as it has on it? Yeah? Seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven. If you're driving a
vehicle two thousand and nine or earlier, we appreciate you

(01:19:54):
getting this on your Am radio and thank you for that.
And ultimately, why are you doing it? Hey, I'd still
get the there could be a certain segment population. That's
just I love this car so much that I'm gonna
keep putting money into it. What if it's a classic.
I don't think a Maza six two six would be
a classic. You don't think so. I don't think so.
That's your opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the

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car holder. Was wrong with you? What jim this, Jimmy
and Tombo, you do not drive a two thousand. No,
they're gonna make it. They're gonna make it up. These
are people that are making it up, not driving two
thousand and nine vehicle. Why not? Oh? Look, five lies
are lit up, let's go. People are making that high
Horse mad is out of touch. I'm not high horses.

(01:20:37):
High Horse, Matthew, Fancy Matt is out of touch. No Loo,
Every line is taken right now. The phone lines are
ringing off the hook. All right. I was gonna do
a couple here. Okay, Cliff, what are you driving.

Speaker 10 (01:20:51):
Two thousand and eight Tacoma and thirty five thousand?

Speaker 3 (01:20:55):
That's nice. These old Tacos are tough, and that's your
primary vehicle.

Speaker 10 (01:21:00):
Driving a NonStop every day. Just put gas in it.
I always say for every dollar or a maintenance I
put into it, I gotta get eight hundred miles per dollar.
So I've just spent five hundred last week all some
shops and stuff. So I've been giving another forty thousand
miles before doing.

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Two hundred and thirty five thousand miles. Those two Yota
tacomas will run till till they're a million miles.

Speaker 10 (01:21:21):
I wonder to hip before this. I have four hundred thousand,
and my brother's dropping it.

Speaker 8 (01:21:24):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
See what is wrong with you, Cliff? I worry about
your safety. You're a true American hero man. High horse
man is not high Horsing's not high horsing. High horsing
be if you said twenty twenty one, that'd be a
high horse I'm saying, olif can I get you, can
I help you out? Let me let me write you
cut your check if some sorry. I want you safe
out there. I want you to listen to the show

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for the rest of your life. I don't want you
in a two thousand. I do well for myself. I
just don't want you. I just don't want you in
two thousand and eight cars. This that may make me
feel safe about for you.

Speaker 10 (01:21:55):
This is that people I offered to buy it for
me every day on the job site.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
Thank you, Cliff. All right, we're doing great work out there.
Appreciate you. Toyota Tacomas built tough matting. Jimmy, what are
you driving?

Speaker 6 (01:22:08):
I am currently cruising down the road in my two
thousand s two fifty with a seven point three leter
diesel engine and it's got four hundred and forty three thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:22:20):
Are you for tough?

Speaker 6 (01:22:22):
I'll send you a picture if I do how to
absolutely it?

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
Get him, Tim, Get them Jimmy, how do you even live?

Speaker 6 (01:22:32):
Freezing cold ac? It pulls off my trailers?

Speaker 13 (01:22:35):
Uh?

Speaker 6 (01:22:36):
It does everything I need.

Speaker 5 (01:22:37):
I love it.

Speaker 6 (01:22:38):
If people stop you at the gas station want to
buy it from you. They love these old diesels with
the seventhary agent.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Damn man. All right, me, you know what we gotta
get you guys, some new vehicle. He's gonna take the
l on this, Mattie, I'm gone, I won't take the
still got everybody, let's go. We've got to get a quarter.
If I if I would have, if I would have
said no, one cross dresses and would have said, if
you're a cross dresser, called the show, I'd have six
people who drive old cars are like cross dressing now

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in your mind. I'm just saying that, Wow, if you'll
what's wrong with that? First of all, look, if you
want to put on these and some and some fish
nets in your own home, I don't care. So we
call it classic radio bit. You say something's not going
to happen, and you have six people calling and say that,
do we have more? More? They're pouring in, Matthew, we
gonna get you. Tell some new vehicles. Chris, what are
you driving?

Speaker 5 (01:23:25):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:23:26):
Six boards and thirty thousand yo? Y'are a humble bragging,
aren't you. These are all trucks still going all right? Thanks?
Good for you, Chris, Keith, what are you driving?

Speaker 7 (01:23:45):
I got a two.

Speaker 4 (01:23:46):
Thousand and seven three fifty two fellows not com mute
from south Side, East Brickshire.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
I can't wait. I think that's our fun that's our fault,
thank you, Keith. That's our phones. Yeah, look at a
two thousand and seven something. Look the phones are constantly.
We should be doing car talk. Forget sports radio. We'll
do It's like a car swap car parts. Hey, I
got a carburetor for a two thousand and four if
one fifty power stroke. What is your vehicle? My vehicle? Yeah?

(01:24:19):
Did I drive? Yeah, it's a twenty seventeen. That's not bad.
I'm riding until I'm telling I'm wrong. I want to
be with these people. I am definitely what do you
think I want a car payment in this economy for
the next ten years. I'm definitely afraid of our audience
getting hurt in these these old vehicles. They're fine, Matt,
if you maintain your cars. They run damn nine years old.
Oh no, and I say fifteen years old. Yeah, all right,

(01:24:42):
we got full boards. Why are these people calling about
the Texans? Why do they come about the rockets because
they're they're calling you out for kind of trash them,
for having a lot of trashing them. I just said
I don't think it was happening. You said you didn't
think it was happening, and you said that they need
to watch this. I don't think anybody. I don't think
our listening audience is a cross dresser high horse.

Speaker 5 (01:25:02):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:25:03):
Let me ask this person fleet pay. Do you do
you wear women's clothing? Fulle Pay.

Speaker 11 (01:25:09):
Definitely not.

Speaker 3 (01:25:10):
I'm not gonna dress like like what what do you say?
I'm not gonna dress like ross?

Speaker 10 (01:25:14):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:25:16):
What's wrong with that? What if I am across dresser Filipe?
These these fish nets are quite comfy. No, I uh
are and I drive a two thousand and two after
fifty uh diesel power stroke. I got five and I'm
with Jimmy right now. Five hundred nine thousand, five hundred
and nine thousand. Damn, y'all, let's go half a million.

(01:25:38):
You know, we had to do. We have like a
car club. We gotta have. We gotta see who has
more than five? We should do like a who can
set the record who's got more than five hundred thousand?

Speaker 6 (01:25:46):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Of course, so you have to be honest. Yeah, honest,
he's overrated. I've got two million. I'm a STUDI Baker
nineteen thirty seven. Yeah that classic cars are different when
you if you got like a seventy four Corobette or
something like that. I get that it. Man. You know
what I have noticed on these callers here we take
car calls, is that people are are just are proud

(01:26:08):
of their their of their mileage. They are these people
are beaming with pride of their cars, and you tried
to put them down there. I didn't put them down.
I just didn't think it was gonna be happening out there.
But like I said, I could say anything about and
six people would call and say something okay, Like I
could say, you know, I always talk about people hating
the McRib. I can get six people to call and say,
I love the McRib. Okay, I just gave you a

(01:26:30):
radio bit what I want for y'all. All right, you
were wrong, I'll take the l I'm okay with that.

Speaker 11 (01:26:37):
See.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
That's the thing difference between me and you is that
when I'm wrong, I will fully admit it. Yeah, Connor,
still waiting to be wrong. Connor, when when Ross is wrong,
what is he doing? He becomes defiant? That's not true, belligerent.
I was wrong about the Longhorns winning. I said that,
we said that and gut feelings. Mm hmm. No, I
think the evidence is there. I was wrong about the
Texts winning as well. When you're when you think you're
right about something, you don't listen to other members every

(01:26:59):
day and Pimo, Yeah, I would definitely agree with that,
all right. One fifty nine on the Matt Thomas Show
seven or Car Talk seven one three two one two
five talk. We're the car pros. Now what you going
in for? I got a seventy nine Chavett. I'll give
you seventeen to five. Eighty three Gremlin, I'll give you
eighty three. We moved to a hare and my dad

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Big City Wings lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas Show.
All right, here we go. We're gonna knock out these
quick car calls. How many Mat, what's your mileage? What's
your year? And you're making your model? Let's go all
right between Ross and Matt. Who can change a tire

(01:28:46):
the fastest? The answer is Ross Connor the dark Horse,
No chance, I don't know. Connor? Can you change a tire?
I can? I had two on Friday because I have
a little flat tire on the way here. Oh I'm
not that's not me. Yeah, Matt's calling somebody, Uh Nancy,
Matt will call someone wants to be fair. I did
call triple A, but they were going to be like

(01:29:07):
an hour. So Matt strikes me as a person doesn't
know how it needs oil. That's not true. I checked
the whole life on my car constantly. Good job, Matt.
Let's see here. I can't drive an on nine or earlier,
but this grown man can blast seventies on seven and
have the top dropped in a pink VW Beetle convertible.
First of all, the convertible is is yellow. Second of
all rosses in the car with me. Would you call

(01:29:28):
it canary? I don't what I'd call it? Called expensive,
but paid for. I got a good deal on it.
I did it a great deal. But driving that around, yeah,
that's good. Do you get do you get worried?

Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
I you know what I did. I did put a
a back I put a back camera in there, and
I got her a new system sort of navigation. So
she's in a good state grade everyone. You and I
used to drive that thing around. I mean, it happened once,
I think, but it was funny. We took pictures in it.
It was very good in the VW Beetle convertible. I
mean where she likes it. No, it's nice. I'm not

(01:29:59):
hayting me for for sec for sixteen year old to
get that. She's aid such a good spot. Yeah, okay,
I didn't have a car when I was sixteen, so
she's doing great. Yeah, and had my it's not you.
It's not a new car, but it was. You know,
it didn't have one hundred and forty eight thousand miles.

Speaker 5 (01:30:11):
I know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
Yeah, there's anything wrong with that's clearly. Clearly it's nothing
wrong with. Clearly we're doing Okay, Yeah, let's go to Ronnie. Ronnie, Ronnie,
what did you driving?

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
Man?

Speaker 11 (01:30:22):
I have a two thousand and four Mini Cooper S
that I bought in the October of two thousand and three,
and ROSSI had a good idea about most mileage? What
about the other side of it? What about the least
amount of mileage?

Speaker 3 (01:30:34):
I have one one hundred and five thousand miles on
this bad boy. Hm hm, those are nice. You got
the turbo. That's good. That's a good ratio.

Speaker 11 (01:30:44):
Yeah, that's a Mini Coopers supercharged.

Speaker 3 (01:30:47):
Yeah nice, that's your primary vehicle, Yes, sir.

Speaker 11 (01:30:51):
Drive it about you know, four hundred and three hundred
miles a month.

Speaker 3 (01:30:56):
God you I'm so jealous. Oh thank you for the call.
By the way, I I need something. I'm sorry to
get off on the road here. This is Sports Talk seven.
But nobody cares about the Texans right now. I mean
clearly you lost, so you'll be m me mad about
it on Monday and then you're done. Okay. I would
like for Uber to create a secondary service. What is that?

(01:31:19):
I hate driving? I absolutely despise driving. Okay. I drive
thirty seven miles every day from my house to this office.
That's seventy five miles a day. Okay, I would like
a car service. That'ld be reasonable. Oh yeah, you can
afford that? Not really? If I ubered every day to

(01:31:40):
and from my office, would it be one hundred and
fifty bucks a day?

Speaker 1 (01:31:43):
Or so?

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
It'll be one hundred bucks a day. That's not bad.
You can got you got that? That's that fall out
of your pockets. That's two thousand dollars a month. I
would drive. I will drive you to it from work
every day for two thousand, five hundred a month. Make
me a deal. Oh you know what, I'll do it
for two gee's lower. I'm standing firm. What do you wallow?

(01:32:04):
Twelve fifty, twelve fifty. I need eighteen fifty. Dem done,
but you never wake up in time. I will now
for eighteen fifty. You will drive all the way to
King would have picked me up. There's driving me home.
You have to move up there. My sister lives right there.
You can live with me. My sister lives off. King
would drive. I got spare bedroom, I got kids leaving
all the time. So you're good, Larry, Larry? What you're driving, Larry?

(01:32:30):
This show is one of the kind I swear. I
think Larry's gone last week two thousand and eight, Kia
Sedona minivan. Can I finish? Go ahead, Larry, take your time,
take as much sum as you want. Mother what audios?

(01:32:51):
Audio's mother? The Kia Sedona? Hey, Larry, you old fart.
You're old, really old and stupid. That's rude. I let
him finish, and you wouldn't finish. Well, Yeah, we tried to.
We couldn't hear him at first. That's why you thought
we were talking about. He's on his bag phone from
nineteen eighty six and its ki a Dona. Betty, what

(01:33:15):
are you driving? Two thousand and seven, f one fifty
Let's go almost three hundred thousand miles. I love the
mcgrib Yes, Lord, I know, two for two. I know,
Thank you, Betty. That's a bonus right there. That's a
bonus by mcgrib coming back soon. That what why are
they lying? Because people of times ago and they said

(01:33:37):
it was the last one know if they loved it,
they would keep it on the menu and they'd be
able to says like mahim mahi. People love mahimahi. They
just put what are you talking about? I have not
not You could not get further from McRib and Mahi
maai and never get mahi may in the regular you
have to get as a special. I don't know, matt,
I don't go to these fancy places that Europe. Well
that's something that's your problem. Then, okay. I don't see

(01:33:58):
mahi mahi at Chili's, so I thought, I don't know
what you're talking about. That's my Can you get to
mahima he killed case. I like some chips and salsa,
unlimited beverage and the mine baby baby might have my maya.
I don't know. I don't go there. I've never had

(01:34:20):
mihi maaya. It's always unspecial. Mister Chilean Sea bats I
thought was always unspecial. All right, Oh my god, do
you drive a car that's old? I don't think he does.
He's got no. I recently purchased a vehicle, so I
I I cannot be in this conversation. You cannot m

(01:34:42):
money bags, Matt, not money bags. It's work hard, Matt. Difference.
I wasn't in it. I didn't inherit any money from anybody.
That's the thing you continue to forget about. You don't
tell the audience. I work hard, been in this business
for a long time.

Speaker 11 (01:34:56):
Matt.

Speaker 3 (01:34:56):
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people in Houston are really rich right now. Well they

(01:35:17):
were rich to begin with. Yeah, they're richer now they're
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you have lunch with them? Never? Ever? Well, why not?
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Speaker 3 (01:37:12):
I'm gonna give you a clarative statement. You can agree
to disagree if the natural progression for Alpie and Jalen
Green take place, been the legal while made their mistakes,
know the ins and outs. This will be a very
very good contract for the Houston Rockets. Declarative statement. You

(01:37:34):
have to agree with that natural progression if they continue
to improve. Although Jalen Green improved in the second half
of last year, alpern ching Gun has been steadily improving.
He's been really great. I'm lader line all star, not
all star level, but borderline. I would also say to

(01:37:58):
me Shingoon has improved by more leaps and bounds, but
I think because of some of his physical limitations, his
ceiling might be lower than Greens. Jalen Green's ceiling is
like All Star thirty point per game shooting guard. But
can he get there? Can rebound good for two guard?

(01:38:20):
Can he be a great rebounder for two guards? I
think Shinhun is going to get closer to his ceiling
than maybe Jalen Green could or if I were betting.
But also the ceiling to me is higher with Jalen
Green because I think because Albert Shingun's always gonna have
defensive limitation. He just is. We've seen it for three
four years though, the way that he moves out there,
he's going to have issues, but he's going to be
able to pass even better, shoot better, make more free throws.

(01:38:43):
All things can be absolutely true. Yes, do I think
can you get him to at least an average defender?
You hope kind of slow footed on the lateral movement,
so it's it's going to be an issue. You're not
paying that money for five years for Alpera and Shangoun
to be a plus defender, but nor are they paying

(01:39:04):
Nikola Jokish to be a plus defender either and down.
But if he can be a twenty and ten guy
and get you five six assists a game, that's huge, Yeah,
and efficient. If he can start knocking down threes to
continue to stretch. If he can get If he can
get to three point percentage of about thirty four to
thirty five percent, ye serve a huge league average. Would
league average is around thirty five percent, you can be
a league average there. Samely for Jalen Green, by the way,

(01:39:25):
he can be a league average at three point that'll
be huge. I would like to get into more than
thirty seven to thirty eight because he's a volume. Shit,
he's volume. Well, we got We've got a lot of
years of sample size. So far, he ain't gotten there yet. Right,
So the Rockets have taken care of their two guys,
one to a three year level with Jalen Green, one
to a five year deal with Alpert to Schingun, and

(01:39:46):
again the Rockets could have given him more years and
more money. Well, in Jalen's case, definitely more years. Yes,
So then you have to ask yourself why did Jalen
Green and ouprinching Gun signed these deals for immediate immediate security,
mediate financial security. Alpi did really well for himself turning

(01:40:09):
down one hundred and eighty five million dollars not easy,
difficult to do. Yeah, I think Albie's was probably the
easier the two decisions. He got closer to the dollar
amount that he probably wanted. Uh huh. Jalen's got a
deal for three years. They can inclusive player. I think
the player options in the third year. And this is
also the Rocket saying, as they were both going to
be restricted free agents at the end of the year,

(01:40:30):
that we think they would have been bid up past
these levels. So we're locking them in now projecting the
growth that we're going to see from both of them.
When you become a restricted free agent, you can resign
your player, but you lose control of what the contract
lengthened dollar amount is. When you sign. Now you have
dictated how long and how much you want to pay.

(01:40:51):
So it's a bet. Jalen green outprnching Gun and the
Rockets all gambled here. Yeah, it's like a stock. It's
like a stock, right, you're buying at a certain level.
You could have gotten it cheaper, and you could have
got it could also be much more expensive. So I
think both guys will be significantly happier. I don't think
it's been an albatross around their neck. But I also

(01:41:13):
believe there are humans and they're you know, knowing that
their other counterparts around the NBA were getting deals and
they were the only they were two of the last
players of their draft class that were getting deals. They
were probably getting a little bit nervous. And nobody wants
to go into restriction because even if you, let's say
that you go into a restricted year and you're like,

(01:41:34):
I'm going to show these mforts that how good I am.
And let's say San Antonio, Orlando or Denver was to
offer some crazy money, the Rockets could match it, and
you know what, you kind of lose your control of
where you want to be.

Speaker 6 (01:41:48):
M hm.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
And yeah, they're going to be teams. I don't know.
I haven't looked at caps face of everybody, but one team,
one or two teams want to overpay for one of
your guys and you're not able to match. Do you
lose them for nothing?

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:42:00):
So that's the reason why I think the deals were done.
And again, to me, it was fifty fifty whether everything
get done or not. I didn't you know, not that
I'm sitting here spent spending a lot of time asking Yeah,
felt funny either, But I was a little surprised, not shocked,
a little surprised. Yeah, I'm happy. I mean, do you
see the numbers, you see the years. This is the

(01:42:22):
core if you are going to win, if you're going
to make that next leap. It's not going to be
we love Tarry Easton, whoever Jayshawn Tad and all they
will read. Shepherd will see he's a rookie. The core
is going to be Jalen Green and Alprin Shingoon carrying
a lot, and then Jabari Smith a year later being
well hopefully. Yeah, no disrespect to Fred van Vliet or
Dylan Brooks because I think they're a huge part of

(01:42:44):
what needs to be a better basketball team than they
were a year. I'm liking this. If this works out
to where Shingoon and Green make those leaps, that Rafael
Soon and the Rockets have played this perfectly, yeah, I
I hope I hope they have. I hope that. I
hope everything has worked out because again, both guys have
a lot of money in their piggybank. Now they have security,
theyn't have to worry about contracts, and Jalen basically by

(01:43:07):
not signing the five year deal is betting that maybe
in two years or three years he can go get
that mega deal, especially if he makes an All NBA team.
When you're starting into All NBA teams, you start making
super Max Yeah, I believe it's two hundred million a year.
I believe. Isn't it crazy? Which is? Which is? I
think in theory a flaw of the NBA system For
those of you who don't know, if you make an

(01:43:28):
All NBA team, first team, second game or third team thirteen,
john Wall made a third team and he was getting
forty whatever million a year from the Rockets. You're super Wizards.
You can become a super Max player, meaning you're going
to get more money than you would normally. But should
the media have anything to do with your future contract status?
I think in I think it's a good idea in theory.
In practice, probably not, because there are some biases like,

(01:43:51):
for example, wasn't there that one year James Harden averaged
like twenty eight seven and seven and he didn't make
any NBA All NBA team. Yeah, meanwhile, john Wall makes
one thirteen and the Rockets on the hook for forty
million dollar contract exactly. It's it's kind of bizarre. In
a perfect world where there's the voting, isn't flawed. Yeah,
it makes sense. How many vote is extremely flawed. The

(01:44:12):
year that John Wall did he ever play a game
for the Rockets that year? Uh? No, the Clippers. He
played for the Rockets, and then one year and then
he sat out. He was a coach on the court
that one year he sat out. M hm. He made
forty million dollars. It literally says on his basketball reference

(01:44:33):
page did not play sat out. The year before it
says did not play injury. Now, every owner did not
play sat out. Every owner has bad contracts. Yes, But
if you are somebody like Tillman who everything in theory
has touched, He's touched, not everything, but pretty close everything

(01:44:54):
has turned to gold. He's made money on so many
of his investments. That was a lost investment. That was
literally forty million dollars. She had to throw away. It
got you cap space. That's the thing about NBA. Even
the worst contracts will expire. Well, no, they traded it
for No, they traded it. No, they got Russell Westbrook.
It was for John All they traded and then his

(01:45:16):
contract expired here here right, Okay, So yeah, you get
that cap space. That's valuable in the NBA because you
have you have the combination of a capped league and
fully guaranteed contract. But think about this. You are giving
a contract and a paycheck every two weeks to somebody
who didn't step on the practice court. Nope, who didn't
step on the court, who traveled with us occasionally, but

(01:45:36):
very often. He's just hanging out in the sidelines in
a bucket hat and watching the games. He had one
outfit on. It looks like he was a candy cane.
I was like, how you pull that off? Working for
good humor? That's an ice cream bar? Yeah? Who makes
great candy canes? I don't know, Brocks Sure. I mean,

(01:45:58):
there's gotta be a candy cane company. It's the legend
you great?

Speaker 5 (01:46:03):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:46:03):
Is that the Walmart brand of candy canes? I didn't
realize candy Great Value had that got a run? Yeah?
Are they are the h TV branded candy cane. Reddit
says Spangler or Bronx. So you're in there, math. I
was d bros. That's why we call you the candy cane.
They call me mister Chocolate white Chocolate. No, I'm dark chocolate,

(01:46:27):
you know what. I'm a milk chocolate. I'm smooth and delicious. Hm,
You're not a bunch of crunch. You know what you are?
Your mounds? Thank you? I love mounds. You don't love mounds,
you know? No, forget that's gonna sound. I'm alm and joy,

(01:46:49):
but I didn't want to go there to twenty eight
on Sports Talk seven seven one three two one two
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and I think we had one or two on the text.
Your thoughts on the rockets, deals, good moves, bad moves?

Speaker 6 (01:47:12):
Three?

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How many miles are on your Kia Sedona seven one
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Show with Ross seven one three two one two five
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McGovern uh Real Quick Baseball. Uh the Tropicana Field. Did
you see the roof after the hurricane Milton? Huh, Yeah,

(01:49:06):
it looks horrible. Major League Baseball hopes to find the
Rays a temporary home near their fan base for at
least the start of the twenty twenty five season. If
the Tropicana Field roof is in operable and can't be
repaired in time, well, the good news is there are
plenty of options. The bad news is there's no crowds. Yeah,

(01:49:29):
nobody's gonna come anyways.

Speaker 11 (01:49:31):
Just play in there.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
You could play at the Yankee spring training facility in Tampa,
where you could draw eight thousand a game. That's about
what they're doing anyway. Its probably you could have. You
could play where clear Water where the Phillies play, and
draw about eight thousand. I mean you'd be running into
probably a lot of rain delays, excessive heat, yes, humidity, mosquitoes.

(01:49:55):
What are they gonna do? I don't know, but there
was an initial talk that maybe they would try to
convince the city of Oakland take the team on for
a year and playing that dumpster fire. It's hilarious, isn't
that funny?

Speaker 8 (01:50:07):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
I thought the route the new place wasn't supposed to
be ready for a couple of years. Twenty twenty seven. Okay, yeah,
twenty twenty seven, then yeah yeah. Suggestions for alternative raised
locations have included the spring training sites with the Phillies,
Blue Jays, Yankees, Pirates, and Yankees Wow Tiger excuse me,
but all those again are less than ten thousand seats.

(01:50:29):
There's also been talk of the Rays playing in the
Miami Marlin Stadium that's four hours from Saint Petersburg, where
they put within primary team plays. Man, we have run
into some weird things in our life in sports, have
we not? Tropicana Field? How do you make a stadium

(01:50:50):
in Tampa Bay and you're not ready for Hurricane I
guess it's like the worst hurricane ever. Well, I was
gonna say, I mean, it's gone through other hurricanes, although
Tampa Saint Petere's I had a dreg hit in one
hundred years. So it's tough. You can't use the Ranger Stadium.
They'll be busy because they're busy selling tickets for everything.
They can't they can't afford to move their schedule now,
and they can't. They Rangers are gonna say nothing. You can't.

(01:51:11):
You can't make them carpetbaggers for an entire season where
you can't play game in the road. What kind of
life would that be? All Right, So that's just the
latest there. They don't know what they're gonna do. My
guest is Rossie, they'll probably play some spring training games
or regular season games or spring training sites. I don't
know what you're which, Like you said, what are you
gonna do when it gets hot in the middle of

(01:51:31):
the summer? And then MLB probably is gonna subsidize them
because I mean, I don't know what what do they draw?
Fifteen thousand a game, go, Look, can't be much. So
we got that going for him. I mean as far
as legitimate people in the building, it's probably around there. Yeah,
are actually people that paid about nine thousand probably, let's see.
So here you got the You have the A's next

(01:51:52):
year playing in a Triple A stadium in Sacramento that
I think seats fifteen thousand, Oakland twenty eighth, ten Bay
twenty ninth or twenty eighth I'm sorry, Oakland thirtieth, Tampa
Bay twenty eighth, sixteen thousand, five hundred, So they'd still
be taking a loss. Who's twenty ninth If Oakland is
twenty third, thirty, Tampa Bay's twenty eight, who'll be twenty

(01:52:18):
ninths in attendance? It's obvious, isn't it. It's not the
White Sox. They're twenty seventh. Hold on, who doesn't draw flies?
It's hard to think of because they're so nondescript, But
that's how they have so few people going. The Miami Marlins.
Miami Marlins thirteen thousand a game, and they have a

(01:52:38):
nice stadium too, sixteen thousand a game for Tampa and
the Astros last year where they finish, they were eighth
at thirty five thousand and two. Actually down from the
previous year because the Astros have drawn three million a
couple times. Happened the year before was thirty seven six
eighty three, so they were almost at three million in

(01:53:02):
the previous year. Yeah, I mean, Dodgers are one, and
you they they draw more than you could even fit
in a minute, made forty eight that place. He's fifty thousand.
So Dodgers, Yankees, Philly Padres, Braves, Cubs, Cardinals, Astros bad
good category. You know what it does, It makes it
keeps Jim crane in the money making business, and it

(01:53:25):
keeps him in this spending money to make money business.
Mm hmm. And the number one question will be is
where's it gonna spend the money in third base next year?

Speaker 5 (01:53:33):
Is it?

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
Zach, Decenzo, Yo and Mancatta come on down. We'll see,
we will see. Yeah. I don't I don't anticipate the
Astros being super big spenders in the in the free age.
I don't think they can be. I think once they
get to arbitration, people were saying they're gonna be like
a couple million dollars under the tax thustier. Yeah, and

(01:53:54):
you got you gotta say it. A little bit money
in case you want to go grab somebody. And again,
if you do it two years in a row, it
costs you that much more. The twenty percent tax goes
up to thirty percent. I don't even want to think
about what could be in three years, because here's the reality.
You can be super super good for a long period
of time, and if you're running good organization, you may

(01:54:17):
be down for a few years and get right back up.
The case example right now is the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta
Braves in the nineteen nineties, winning divisions, winning pennants, won
one World Series. We're always there. Took a little bit
of a downtrot and turn, and the last five or
six years have been a perennial playoff team. I would
have loed to have seen if Jeff Luno could have

(01:54:37):
kept the window open, if you didn't have to fire
him and lose all those draft picks. What do you
think he would have done differently? We just draft players
better and better international signings and keep the system stocked.
But he was also willing to give up players in
the minor league systems to go get Zach Genks because
the Garret Pall. Yeah, if you got That's what the

(01:54:59):
Dodgers been doing too. You can trade for Jack Flaherty
when you have a bunch of prospects. You can trade
for Mookie Betts. The thing that's gonna ultimately has hurt
the team is the money that was spent on two
players that are nowhere near the Astros organization while ones
in the minor leagues in Montero, and you're on the

(01:55:20):
hook again for another year of Jose A. Brady. God,
what's the brain? What's jose Brad You're doing right now? Oh,
napping man. Good for him, that's great. I'm happy for him.
Why would you be happy for him? Why not got paid?
I'm not happy for a guy out there, So I'm
not happy for a guy that was so bad he
had to get released.

Speaker 2 (01:55:39):
He's not.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
It's not like he's a bad dude. No, not a
bad dude. But I'm not gonna sit there and go,
I'm hoping you're enjoying your off season for season thirty five. No,
hell no, good for him, how bad his bag. I'm
gonna get your bat speed up. Good for Rafael Montaro too.
He didn't put that contract in front of him, he
just signed it, so really we should be not mad
at them. We're just really had Jeff bag Roy for

(01:56:02):
listening go tell your TV in front of Jose Bray
when he signed it. They can't be mad at.

Speaker 5 (01:56:06):
Him for that.

Speaker 3 (01:56:06):
That's true. But it is interesting how one or two
bad freegency conversations and signings can ultimately not only impact
your current record, but it also impairs your budget for
future years. Moral of the story, don't pay people in
their mid thirties. Oh, I guarantee you it'll be a
lot more careful consideration for going to get guys that

(01:56:29):
head numbers on the back of the baseball card. Matt,
Oh yeah, Oh no, I said it didn't get him Connor. Oh,
I said it didn't. I. Oh, what's gonna happen to me? Now?
Oh my god? I get everything that you deserve eventually,
because we're trying to kill time before he plays. Oh yeah, five,

(01:56:56):
maybe saddled with a two thousand and five total Tursell.
What's wrong with that? Matt about to call in, Well,
I think they stopped making their cell in the ninety
three thousand miles Corolla is still running. I've had I've
had some interesting cars on my day. You have Cutlass,
Capri word old. I didn't know you were rolling in
the cutting Matt, Yeah, and uh the roof fell on me.

(01:57:19):
So that wasn't good. That's not good. And then at
a Bronco too, and they said stop driving those things
because they roll over every five hours. He was in
a real Bronco. I was in it. I was in
the Mini Bronco. You make a left turn, you feel
like you're going to turn over it literally.

Speaker 5 (01:57:32):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:32):
They were not safe cars at all. Rossie. What is
believe it or not? Today? I gotta work on it.
I didn't believe it's opera Chin Good and Jail and Green. Correct,
we'll see well and Connor, we are. We still playing
for Judis Prix tickets, and we got tickets to go
see the Tody's and we also got tickets for the
Cougars game against the Utah. It is. I believe Game
Day is coming to Houston this weekend for the Utah

(01:57:53):
Houston game. Really they're not. The Ward has it. They're
going to be in Indiana this week and that Lee
Corso will announce the retirement there because that's where he
coaches college football. It'd be kind of appropos, would it not?
All right? Believe it or not? Tody's and you taht
Houston tickets. If you want to play believe it or not,
we'll do that next year. On Sports Talk seven ninety
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(01:58:42):
Fullipe says regarding the bray You Montero contracts can't the
Astros just pay off the remainder of their contracts and
get them off the books. Nope, doesn't work that way.
Once you sign a player under contract for a certain year,
it goes against a salary cap figure, and if you
go over that salary amount, regardless of the player plays
or not, that is considered taxable after a certain level.

(01:59:03):
So that's the reason why they've gone over the threshold
last year and will pay a fine for that, and
they will have to pay double that fine if they
do it again this year. So yeah, they probably wrote
the checks or they can figure out a way to
finance and however they want to. But it goes against
the dollar amount that the Astros are using for their
payroll for particular year. So in theory, Jim will pay
those off. But in reality, when it comes to the

(01:59:25):
baseball economics of it, they go against a yearly salary cap.
They can go over that cap. Like I said, you
go over it our second year, it's gonna cost you
more money. On the radio show tomorrow, we will have Rophaelstone,
Rockets general manager joins us a twelve thirty tomorrow, we
will have shut your ball mass up. And you never

(01:59:47):
know what else will do? We'll we'll have have you ever?
We'll do so today we did how hold your car?
We'll get tomorrow? What's what's the topic tomorrow? It would
be something way off the beaten path. I don't know.
How much do you love the mcreb gardening tips? I
think it should be how many mcgrims if you had
in the last calendar year? When should I prune my

(02:00:09):
pine trees? Mmm? Oh well do I trim it? When
do I trim the crape myrtles? Yeah? Home improvement, Uh,
I've got a leaky faucet. How do I get to
fix that up? Okay? Sighting? Yeah? Yeah, sighting talk tomorrow?
Should I patch my own roof? Or should I pay
somebody to do it? Yeah? When's it time to get
a new water heater? Hm?

Speaker 5 (02:00:28):
Hm?

Speaker 3 (02:00:29):
Relevant questions tomorrow and Texans breakdown like a mother Wow?
All that tomorrow here on the show. Five minutes left
to go on their show, What Should We Do? Week?
Should Play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. We
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(02:01:35):
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Speaker 12 (02:01:36):
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basketball in twenty twenty one. Believe it or not? Believe
it no chance. I'm sorry. I'm sure there's some other
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I'm trying to go to the US. Baby. Jalen Green
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(02:01:59):
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(02:02:53):
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was your favorite part of today's radio show? Believe It
or Not? Although he is often compared to Nicola Jokic,
Alprin Shangoon has stated his favorite player of all time
is fellow Turkish national Hito turk Lou Believe.

Speaker 13 (02:03:12):
It or not?

Speaker 3 (02:03:14):
Believe it? No, we talked about it all day long.
If you listen to show you known Kevin Durant's favorite player,
Okay Craig on sevenint You ready to play Believe it
or not? Believe it? As Turkish League MVP, Alprin Shangoon
average twenty two points, eleven rebounds and six assists during
the twenty twenty one season. Believe it or not? Believe it? No,

(02:03:37):
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SEVENINTI Leon, what was your favorite part of today's radio show?

Speaker 5 (02:03:46):
You?

Speaker 3 (02:03:47):
Alprinch, Thank you Alprin Shingoon. It was laware of It's fine.
Alprin Shangoon learned to speak English partly by playing video
games including Call of Duty. Believe It or not? Believe
that's correct? Win three winters today, Sorry, but it's fine
I'm sorry. Look at like at the disappointment on Connor's face. Well, Connor,

(02:04:08):
tell them to get to do believe or not a
little center in the show. You always waiting in the
last second. We really should do that. We could do
a one thirty believer on we got it, we have
We're not done enough of that. Tell me when and
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(02:05:34):
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want more wex on the show anyway. We don't need
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Up next, it's the real star of the show, Adam
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