Rockets Win Their Second Preseason Game, How Is This Jumbo Sized Lineup?

Rockets Win Their Second Preseason Game, How Is This Jumbo Sized Lineup?

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Is The Matt Thomas Show with Ross ten o'clock at
Age Town.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good morning, and.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Welcome to a Wednesday edition the Matt Thomas Show Today,
coming to you from Atlanta, GA, where last night in
Birmingham the Rockets got to a three and zero start
in the preseason with their victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.
That will be I don't know topic A of the show,
but among the things we'll get to today over the

(00:34):
next four hours. We've got to shut your ball mass
up at eleven thirty, the News at noon, believe it
or not, and a lot of you and a lot
of Ross and hopefully some of me over the next
four hours here on Sports Talk seven sports Harvey, how
the hell are you?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm doing great, Matt. You mentioned the Rockets in the preseason.
That was fun with the what are they calling this lineup?
Have you come up with a nickname yet? Just the
jumbo package, I believe is what Craig Ackerman was calling
it last year.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, see, when I think of jumbo, I think of
like girth. Yeah, but that's see.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
You know, jumbo package, of course, means when you get
three tight ends in there in the in the goal
line in the NFL, So I mean, you get three
three four sinners on the floor. It kind of fits.
It's not the worst thing ever, and I like Jumbo package.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
It works well. It's funny because I was riding the
lineups off during the game last night. Six ten, six ten,
six eleven, six eleven yes, and then poultry six seven amount.
Oh poor little baby baby o men Thompson, You only
six seven men? Thompson wanted to throw some hands at
de Jose Alvaradol well bikes.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
People around Twitter were saying that he did. Did you
see that?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
So let me be brutally honest. I have spent a
lot of time looking at the replays. I didn't have
a replay monitor with me here in Birmingham last night
because we're not in an NBA arena, so that's you know,
they don't have all the technical stuff that normal NBA
places do. I was definitely afraid he did throw a punch,
or at least a tempt to, so I was kind

(02:02):
of mentally preparing myself to say he's ejected. And I
don't know if if those carry over into regular season
games or whatever. I don't know, and thankfully I don't
want to know. But when the announcement was made that
Alvarado got the technical foul and that a Men got
a flagrant one, I thought to myself, well, that's a
good sign, right that he did that. Neither one of

(02:23):
them got tossed in the game, because they definitely got
tangled up and a Men Thompson wanted no part of that.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yes, he's he's aggressive, as his twin Oscar Thompson said
he was an aggressive child. Well he's an aggressive adult
as well. Hip tossing people and getting and scrapping and
mixing it up, first team, all defense.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I love it. You need that. You know who loves
it the most, of course is coaching Doka. Well, I
was gonna say, I mean, I don't. I don't know necessarily,
you know, I don't think when a Men was talking
to em during the whole review, like, oh you should
be better than that young fuck. No, I don't think
that's the case.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
He's the devil on his shoulder right there.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
But I will say this, I mean my guesses as
the Men continues to grow as an NBA player and
becomes more popular, and look came and Tyler Hero exchanged
the pleasantries last year and look, Jose Alvarado gets involved
with scrapes with everybody. So for those of you who
don't know he's one of the backup guards for the Pelicans,
scrappy would be the word I would use.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Man Irritant.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Irritant is what I used during the broadcast last night.
Like that he was a better score than Pat Beverly
was because a way Alvarado can at least get to
the basket and hit some threes. I don't remember Pat
Beverley being a prolific score on Beth could do.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
That a little bit. In his prime, and his prime
of all primes, he was probably around ten points per.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Game, right he might have been.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
You'd be like, oh well, Pat BAV's got twenty three tonight. Okay,
let me pull this up. Yeah yeah, around ten twelve.
He peaked at twelve points per game with the Clippers
in twenty eighteen, so it wasn't you know, ten games
and ten points in a night. It's nothing to sneeze
at the NFL. I'll say this in defense of Alvarado.
He doesn't fall out as much as Pat BEV did.

(04:06):
I mean, Pat would get four thousand, nine minutes and
be like.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
Oh no, we're all bad calls, all bad calls. I
do love Pat Bev. He would openly hit up my
wife on a live broadcast on a summer regular basis.
But that's not here nor there. That was only like
two or three times, isn't it kind of a bit
If it's more than once, if he saw now, maybe,
oh my god, it'd be not good, not good Pat

(04:32):
living his best life trying. You know, it's funny. He
did try to do the TV bit a couple of.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Years ago, and I guess the ESPN's like, ah, we're
good while he's doing his podcast thing. I don't know
how successful that is, but I always see clips of
it on Twitter, so at least it's doing that.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah. I mean, you know, podcasts either are doing amazingly
well or you're wasting your time, so there's really no
in between.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
Well, you gotta build, Matt, you gotta try and build.
Come on, man, get those plankos and power bombs back up, baby.
You know what kind of build a brick by brick
cal We're not.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Doing a brick and mortar here. We're doing we do
twenty hours a week. We're fine. I think people want
to find us anywhere to find this here on Sports
Talk seven eighty All right, so that was going on
last night. I did not have and again I had
no monitors. I couldn't change the channel because, look, let's
be brutally honest, preseason basketball isn't going to be a
You're not trying to treat it like Game seven of

(05:22):
the NBA Finals, Although I was during commercial breaks cussing
both teams for letting this game get to within one basket.
It was a tie game late, and I'm like, I
am not gonna call an overtime game. I'm gonna put
the headft sets down and say, y'all can just guess
the final score. Thank you Aaron Holliday for briding the
game winner last night for the Rockets.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Yeah, they have to get rid of any kind of
rule that allows overtime in preseason basketball. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Number one.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
And then I don't know how much I guess we're
gonna get.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Can we can?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I just make one comment about the game, please do
is a men Thompson gonna shoot this year?

Speaker 1 (05:58):
You mean like shoot shoot two for three with three,
pull up three in rhythm. Yes, it's beginning, yes straightaway.
Three out was not above the break as the kids say,
yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and nine for.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Nine from the free throw line to me an indicator
of a shooter, like, for example, Jabari Smith Junior. His
three point percentages were bad his first year, but he
shot eighty percent as a free throw shooter. So you
say to yourself, Okay, there's some shooter in him, like
he can improve those percentages, and he did. I mean, Thompson,
I think the last two years. I'll go back and
look at it was like a men, it's like sixty

(06:34):
eight percent I think the last two years. So I'm saying, okay,
maybe he's not going to progress as a shooter. So
when I see the nine for nine free throws and
two for three from three and he what, he made
a corner three on the in their last game too,
it kind of I'm not saying.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
I'm just saying, is he gonna.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
Improve as a shooter, because then it's over for the league.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Quite frankly, I told you thirty six percent, thirty five percent? Yeah,
are you kidding me? We'll run, We'll have a parade
in down downtown Houston over that, and then then you
will be way more completely. I mean, you'll be completely
validated in the heat. We're not trading him and a
compo trade if he can, if he can. I'm not
doing that just to prove it to you. I'm just
saying that I love the guy.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
If he can become a complete player like that.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
By the way, our friend Jones says the Rockets could
call it the power package. Power package. Yeah, I like
Jumbo package, Jumbo power extra large. Oh you know, what
what do you do when you go to get the
fries a large extra not exercised? Uh?

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Oh what a sized superside?

Speaker 1 (07:34):
What you can? What a size it?

Speaker 4 (07:36):
So?

Speaker 1 (07:36):
What a size well supersized supercise package.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh, this is a good one, Darren. I like this, Matt.
The eighties we had the twin Towers. Let's call these
guys the Skyline.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
I like that. That's real nice.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Both of us are just to me. Sorry at Sports RV.
Wait a minute, Oh my god, see here we go,
only child syndrome.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Go ahead, you ain't only child. It's how about you
know what there's two of us on the show. Well,
I don't know. He said it to me.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Thank you, Darren, appreciate you. Darn people said just you
tweets all show long.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
It's fine. I don't say a word. You should, you know,
it's fine. Good god? Why retweet it and then we'll
see if we got it and if it works maybe,
you know what, I'll let the Rockets know and maybe
we'll get it. We'll take care of him as long
as he follows me on Twitter at sports mt Yeah. Okay,

(08:37):
what is it against? Say it one more time? Uh?

Speaker 3 (08:39):
The Skyline instead of the Twin Towers.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
I like it. I gotta be honest. I like it.
I like it a lot. You could put the book
that you can put the boys behind some buildings in downtown.
Like you remember there's a famous photo of Elijah On
and Samson yesterday the Skyline. Okay, that's why we have
the best audience in the.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yes, we can do good stuff, Darren, And thanks for
listening to ten o nine.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Yeah, thank you, Darren. Let me tell you something. We
love you ten o'clockers. We don't know, we don't know
how often you're there, but if you're there, we love
you for that skyline. Okay, Darren again, I actually pump
out your Twitter cam if you send it to me.
I don't know, Oh my gosh. H Underscore Truth eighty

(09:28):
five h underscore Truth eighty five. Let's see if he's
even following me here, because if he's.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Not, he's not the right at Hobo me saying yeah, okay, yeah,
it's all good. No, it's not Skyline Chili atx Hobo.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Girl. Just know that sucks. I just think of the
like the Houston Skyline. Yeah, you can get them all.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Against the Skyline. I remember I used to have a
poster on my on my wall of Steve, Steve McNair
and Aaron McNair and like a picture of him in
the skyline.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Yo. Yeah, the Skyline. Yeah. So yeah, literally I almost
chuckled as I was ringing the lineups because it's like,
because there have been teams that will go small because
they don't have a length. Yes, I mean because look,
Jabari is not gonna put his back to the basket
too much. Although that'll turn around. Jumper is working a
little bit for him, but he would never be considered
a low block threat. He's more of a perimeter guy.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Yeah, he's been working on his dribble drive game too.
We've seen a little bit of it, flashes of it
in the preseason.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
But if your smallest guy on the floor is running
point at six to seven, get at the way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now, the question to make sure you don't turn the
ball over too much.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
Now, the question is do you do it against little
teams to overwhelm them, or do you do it. It's
only when it's big teams that you feel like you've
got to go mono mono size one.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Yeah, it'd be matchup dependent. And then of course they're
they're gonna have to play zone and all that type
of stuff. They'll figure it out. It was working a
lot last year and we'll see it again this year,
as we saw in the Pelicans game in Bemingham. So
you're in Atlanta now, yes, okay.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Got here to the hotel. I think my head at
the pillow at one fifteen year time.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Okay, oh you're an Eastern time yea good, it's yeah,
it's eleven eleven here for Atlanta right now.

Speaker 1 (11:10):
It is. It doesn't make it. Your body just kind
of gets weirds out to the time zone you'r in.
Mm hmm, Like especially when you go like when you
go west, you feel like you're in a different world.
Do you not feel that way, like if you're two
hours behind, like the world is just moving ahead, like
the news is late the game, you know, Like I
I've always been team Pacific times on and I think
I'm the minority on that.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
I think the sweet spot is Mountain Mountain.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
I lived in a mountain for three years and it's
really really nice. But that's still Those are those ten
o'clock kickoffs for Sunday football.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Noe, Man, you're not a Premier League fan those some
of those games kick off at six thirty. That means
if you're in West Coast, that's four thirty, it's.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
Four thirty am. But Chelsea versus Manchester City. No, No,
I'm be sleeping in. Can you ever talk soccer in
your voice? Is that possible?

Speaker 5 (12:01):
No?

Speaker 1 (12:01):
I don't think. I don't think. I don't think it
is either. Because anytime we bring up an Irish person's name,
what do we immediately do?

Speaker 6 (12:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Right there in Texas Tech and Lubbock, Texas, Lubbock does
sound kind of like an Irish name in Lubbock.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Like if y'all know Brian McTaggart, like I've known Brian
for like twenty five years, you have, yo, Yeah, we
were in school I think at the same time. For
in a little while, I don't though we were any
class together.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
But that's beautiful. But I've known tags forever.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
But I am mctagger. It's a league city boy. There's
no doublin in.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
It, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Yeah, he's a clear Lake boy. Oh the things we
do to amuse ourselves at ten o'clock hour.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
It's an entertainment medium, Matt. We're here to entertain that.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
We are ourselves at least till noon, all right, seven
one three, two one two five, seven ninety. It's almost
like we need we need to take care of our
special ten o'clock or somewhere. We you know, we have
to save our prizes.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
We should do like a We should do like a
ten thirty believe it or not. One day, you know
what I can.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
You know what I will do that next week on
the show, because I will. I will those I'll have
some time and I'll write it up because I know
I'm busy between you're massive response.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I'm not that busy these lad That's till the Rocket
season fires up for real. Yeah yeah, maybe on the
like on the plane, Astros out of the playoffs has
been nice for my personal life.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Off to our sports life. It ain't good. Look at
our phones. You're not lit up with astros. Understand conversation.
I like talking sports.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
We are your radio home for your Houston Astros ratings boost.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
But you know it is what it is.

Speaker 3 (13:40):
I I didn't go out there and swing and miss
every time runs in score position.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Wasn't me mm hmmm. Yeah, we need we need them back.
By the way, are we mentally talking about we come back? Yeah?
I know, go ahead and tease it. I know what
you're gonna say, and no, it is what it is.
We'll talk about it. Do we have to? I guess

(14:07):
we do. Seven one three two one two five seven
ninety seven one three two one two five Sevenati, I'm
going to utter a statement. And I've never vomited live
on air. It might happen today here on I.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
Thought you did after the Rockets championship.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Oh no, that was before I got on the air.
Oh okay, and I did dry heath three times, so
but never in the studios. Drive heave in a studio, No, No, okay?
Seven one three two one two five that you know
of sewhere like that?

Speaker 3 (14:45):
It means I had something to say, but I stepped Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, Innocence is better when not spoken. Seven one three
two one two five seven Etti. It is Matt at Ross.
I'm here in Atlanta. Rockets will take on the Hawks tomorrow,
and since we're in the ten o'clock hour, I can
say a couple of things that are going to ultimately
cost me down the road.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
What do you mean, Matt, clips? Never lie, I don't
forget that.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Actually clip you a first world fancy met issue. Oh
that might be an alzheimer Okay, okay, your valet wasn't
wearing white gloves. No, we had the bus. It was fine, okay. Uh.
Here in Atlanta. About three months ago, they did a

(15:32):
massive shifting of affiliations with channels. You know how two's
been in NBC, eleven's been CBS, thirteen has been ABC
for as long as I've lived in Houston, right, Well,
in Atlanta, they moved all of them around for what,
don't know, Ahilly, you know, contracts and stations who want
to grab it, and you know what, you know, interesting

(15:53):
it happens. It doesn't happen a lot in the.

Speaker 3 (15:54):
Big twenty twenty five broadcast TV. I know, it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
What is this thing called EBS?

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Most young people people are saying yes, and now you're
just confusing your eighty year old viewers.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
Well I'm not eighty.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
What I mean, yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. Broadcasting.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
So I'm going to tell you right now that, uh,
the very nice TV that I have in my room
has most of the channels. Well they don't have the
channel that is the now the new CBS. So in
my room, I have NBC, ABC, Fox, I have the

(16:35):
Ion Channel, I have an independent channel, but I don't
have CBS.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Do you have the Magic City Live feed?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I do not. For that, I cannot watch my soaps
later today. Price is right, they don't have the channel
in my room. And how is this making you feel? Matt?
Not great?

Speaker 3 (17:02):
I brought it up, you poor baby. All you do
is do you hate watch prices?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Right?

Speaker 3 (17:10):
Be honest and just talk about how Drew Carrey screwing
everything up or not putting the right energy and inflections
on things.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
He's been doing this and aggravating me for eighteen years.
You know he has been doing this? Are you serious?
Has it been eighteen? It feels like ten, Max. It's
you know, there's things in your life, ladies and gentlemen
that's still gnaw at you. Whether it's the high school
girlfriend that you let get away, or the teacher that

(17:37):
failed you because they caught you cheating, but you really
were cheating and hoping to get away with it, like
Missus Franklin back in high school, or it was the
job that let you go, or you know, there's just
a few things in my life that I have a
difficult time sitting with and Drew Carrey hosting The Prices
right to me? Just it tug it does?

Speaker 3 (18:00):
You know, Matt They say pain is inevitable, but suffering
is a choice.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
But I'm guessed if Drew Carrey gets at me the
way that it does, that my life is pretty good. Right, No,
you can be better, clearly. Clearly he's not losing the job.
Like the first couple of years, you can be like,
all right, yeah this sucks, they're gonna fire him. He's
the worst. But eighteen years and it's time to hang

(18:26):
him out, Maddie. Okay. It's like people who've been hate
watching Lebron for twenty two years. I hate listeners sports
radio and I still do that. That's a problem I got.
I got to get rid of that. Yeah that's true.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Oh, come on, you know how you know have to
talk about the atoms like.

Speaker 1 (18:41):
That weekdays two to six on Sports Talk seven ninety Uh,
all right, we should do this more than ten o'clock hour,
take more shots at the atoms. Oh yeah. Ten o'clock
is just rip everybody humanly possible, and then we cleanse
ourselves and we're like we're super nicely limited to a
therapy session. Yeah yeah, Ten to eleven is just no

(19:03):
hold spart. It's like, just get all your aggressions out. Well,
Inst's put it this way. If you've had a bad
day at the house or you're at your job, I
mean tell me, if you're an eight to five person
or nine to six, whatever the hours may you may be,
doesn't it take you like an hour and a half
to kind of get going. You don't walk in the
office at eight o'clock turreing your computer on and go, Man,
I'm gonna go make a million dollars for my company today.
You have to kind of nurse. You have to kind

(19:23):
of work your way into the You gotta check your
Facebook page. You gotta see if you got any dms
on Instagram. You gotta go to the water cooler and a
cup of coffee, talk to the boss Kisses asked for
thirty seconds, and then you by ten o'clock you're you're
ready to do you admit?

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Yeah, that's how this show is.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
The first hour of the show is like a warm up,
and then we really get after it. Saying eleven o'clock
or so, it makes sense. But as I say that,
I'm about to give you a statement that's going to hurt.
It's going to be painful, and there's absolutely nothing that
Ross nor myself can do to possibly you're this ill,

(20:01):
this pain that I'm about to say, we are going
to see the Dodgers and the Mariners in the World Series.
I still believe. I don't let's go Jays the Dodgers,
dude through a complete game. They don't. You don't even
go five innings in a playoff game, much less nine.

Speaker 3 (20:24):
See I said this, Apparently the A team got all
mad at me. I don't know if it was Clanton
or Wex or probably Clanton, but who who cares? When
I was talking about how the Dodgers just have all
these inherent advantages, they're not even playing the same game
like Yoshinobu Yamamoto is. Basically he's only gonna sign with
basically one team in baseball, and it's the Dodgers. They're

(20:45):
they're playing a different game, and then he comes into
the Alcs and he's throwing complete games. I mean it,
it's not fair what's going on. So it's it's hard
for me. Now, maybe that should make me hate them more,
but it's like I resigned myself to that. The Dodgers
in a way feel inevitable.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know, It's funny because the Astros have spent millions
of dollars with their Dominican Republic Academy and they have
they have been I don't want to say that one
of the first teams, but I want to say, going
back to thirty years ross, they have spent a lot
of money in the Latin American countries trying to develop players. Yeah,

(21:27):
but I mean everybody can do that, and how many
I mean how many of them? And I guess I
should know this and maybe it would MC tagger can
help me out with it. Has that academy really paid
off of the Astros? And I mean I mean seventeen
year old, he grows up, he finishes his school, he

(21:48):
plays baseball, he's an Astro guy, and then all of
a sudden, he's twenty two to twenty three years old,
he's been in the Astros academy for the longest time,
and man, he's now a star. I mean that was
that was good money spent on a young man who
was looking to prove his life and become a good
baseball player and get education. And the Dodgers don't have
to do that. The Dodgers can just go to Japan

(22:11):
or any of the overseas countries and say we can
cash whip you. And by the way, they the Japanese
the Chinese to gravitate towards the West Coast, and I
know it's it's because it's closer. There's the culture. I
don't I don't know. But they don't have to do that.
They don't have to create these foreign academies like the
Astros and some of other teams have to do.

Speaker 3 (22:32):
A Major League Baseball, Yeah, do Dodgers have a targeted campaign.
They call it paint Japan Dodger blue like that. That's
what they're going for. And they're trying at all costs
to sign as many Japanese players. And obviously they have
the inherent advantages of a large Asian population in California
and being close to San Francisco.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I mean there's there's all those West.

Speaker 3 (22:55):
Coast school close to home for the players because you're
on west on the West Coast. It's not fair Schooltani's
been terrible though, Uh.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
Yeah, he has been. I mean they're winning with the
fact that they he sucks.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
He's hitting one forty seven in eight games of the
playoffs and.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
They're two home wins away from going to the World Series. Yeah,
the next three.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, It's like in twenty twenty two and now two,
VA was horrible at the play but the Astros won
the World Series.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
It can happen. Takes a team, all right, ten to
twenty nine. So I'm gonna utter that statement again. When
I utter it to you, I would like you to
call in specially ten o'clockers. I'm gonna say the phrase again.
It will be the Dodgers and the Mariners in the
World Series. As Rossi would tell me, oftentimes I get
mad when he does it, but he does it so frequently,

(23:52):
just getting used to it. How does that make you feel?

Speaker 3 (23:57):
You get mad when I say that constantly? Usually I'm
just messing with you.

Speaker 1 (24:02):
Because you know the number one reason why I get
mad is because you don't really care how I feel.

Speaker 3 (24:06):
That's not true. It's it's just a little segue. No,
it's not true, Matt. I do care how you feel.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Do you really?

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Sometimes E don't believe who? No, it's it's honor. But
I do care how you feel, Matt.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Jonathan, do you believe him? No, but you used to
believe me. I care about you, Matt. I'll tell you.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'll give you a moment that it will explain to
you how I care how you feel.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
Are you concerned about the fact I can't watch my
CBS shows today?

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Not really, that's that's who cares. You'll be fine. I
watched that piece of the Channel two piece, and the
way that you it is the most I'm trying not
to curse. It's the cutest thing I've ever seen in
my life. It is and Carly and she's talking, and
the way that you like being with pride when you're

(24:53):
looking at her, it is so it's so cute. That
is amazing.

Speaker 1 (24:58):
By the way, Yeah, I need to do I need
to thank again. Uh. Randy mcilvoy at Channel two and
Jason Bristol at Channel eleven. They both did an amazing job.
And I want to thank them very much because it
was certainly a very nice surprise. And Ross again, as
God is my witness, going to stack of bibles. I
did not tell those guys to do the story. They

(25:19):
came to me separately. I swear to God. I swear
to God because I knew this was coming from you.
I didn't say I didn't say anything. You were taking
it though.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Oh I wasn't enough, Jonathan, he's lying, He's absolutely I
wasn't thinking anything. I think I saw him roll his
eyes on the camera right now.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't know. That's not true. No, I was looking.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
There was a light. One of the lights flickered.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
All right, let's go to the phones next seven one three, two,
one two five seven NINTI is eleven thirty one on
Sports Talk seven. Ninty matted Ross with you on Sports
Talk seven NINETI I'm here in Atlanta at ten to
thirty five. We've got to shut up on myself. At
eleven thirty. I can't tell anybody got time for a
very spectacular hotel here in midtown Atlanta to come get

(26:01):
me some CBS. I'd be rude, right, I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
You can't, so they just don't have it. It's just there.
It's on in Atlanta. Or is it like a like
a Tegna type of deal with here in Houston where
certain carriers have an issue?

Speaker 1 (26:13):
No, no, no, no, this is just the tea. They just
clearly no one hit this hotel care.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Oh, they just never not reprogrammed the team.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
They've never reprogrammed. I mean it's been. I went and
google it and it's been. They made it switch in August.
I mean, what if your Falcons then you want to
watch the Falcons on CBS.

Speaker 3 (26:30):
Here and they said the spectrovision works were good.

Speaker 1 (26:35):
You get your phone too. Seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven. I need is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.
Let's talk to our buddy Keso on the Matt Thomas
Show on seven ninety with Ross at ten thirty six. Case.
So what's going on, hey, mister Texas?

Speaker 7 (26:51):
What's up?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
I just wanted to.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
I just wanted to comment on the Dodgers Japan connection.
When I was there last year, you could not walk
a half mile without seeing any LA Dodgers like hats shirts,
like it's everywhere and show hay is on every billboard.
They have these billboards that are like they basically like

(27:16):
talk to you. I mean it's like in Osaka they
have this place called donta Borie and every like sign
has like show hey swinging a bat, talking or doing
some type of crazy advertisement. And everyone, I mean everyone
whereas a Dodger's hat. It's it's absolutely crazy. They are

(27:37):
obsessed with uh San Francisco in LA. I don't know
why they're so drawn to California, but when I was there,
I mentioned I was like, yeah, Texas, and they would
just like their eyes would just just just enlarge. And
they do ask me so many questions about Texas, about trucks,
about guns and stuff like that. But they grab would

(28:00):
say to California like no other country of the country
I've seen before. It's it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, and I'm afraid that it's going to be a
pipeline for the foreseeable future. Seriously, when you when you
have as many Japanese players that are becoming so popular,
you know they say, well, this kid wants to come
over and play in the United States once playing Major
League Baseball, you never hear, well, you know, the the
Guardians may be in an you know, the Oriols are
showing some interest. It's basically San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle,

(28:30):
and then there's usually one off team. But you don't
hear of the Southern teams. You don't hear the Eastern team. Now,
the Yankees obviously could do that. I mean, they could
because they've got a lot of money, but it's a stronghold,
and to Ross's point, you can't even get in that war.
I mean, I wonder if you could outbid these guys,
but you really can't, right, I mean, I guess you could, no,

(28:53):
but the astros an organization aren't gonna do that. If
you're gonna go spend crazy money you might have been
on guys that you know and believe even that have
been your homegrown guys, You're not gonna try to get
into a cash war trying to outspend some of those
West Coast teams that already have an inherent advantage to
begin with.

Speaker 7 (29:10):
I mean, I I mean, I'm mister Rockets. I grew
up watching the Rockets. I'm I'm a very casual Astros fan,
but I can't think of the last if Houston's ever
had like a great Japanese MLB player, prospect picture, whatever
it is, because as far as I know, they Japan

(29:30):
and California had like the secret handshake. It's it's like
the love like when I was coming back, I had
a layover in San Francisco. It's just it's just they
just love it so much that they that it's like
their dream to get to and Japan's an awesome, awesome place,
but there's this this pipeline is dream of being in California.

(29:51):
It's just it's for them, and that's just I don't see.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
You ever letting go.

Speaker 7 (29:55):
I just wanted to get that two piece in there
for you.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Thank you case. I appreciate the phone call. We're screwed
ross uh yeah, dish like maybe once or twice every
couple of years. The Dodgers are just gonna not inherent.
I mean, they're paying for these guys. Don't like they're
just being gifted them too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Yamamoto was signed to a twelve year, three hundred and
twenty five million dollar contract by the Dodgers. Astros aren't
getting in that game. They aren't.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
No, the guy's name was Greg Millerley. Wouldn't do that.
I mean much less. He's got the far East connection.

Speaker 3 (30:28):
Plus they had to play a fifty million dollar posting
fee to his to his Japanese team.

Speaker 1 (30:34):
I mean, the only thing that's ever helped out in
that part of the world for a Houston team obviously,
is when Yao Ming was the number one pick. But
that wasn't because the Rockets all of a sudden said Yeao,
we love you. Was that he was the number one
pick in the draft and he was gifted. I mean,
Yao Ming's person influence would have worked just as well
in Memphis as it would have been Houston.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Right, and don't forget forget Japanese legend and a Houston
Astros legend, Norri Aoki.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Where's kaz Matt Suey from?

Speaker 3 (31:07):
I believe he's Japanese as well. Yeah, okay, that's all
I got off the top of my head.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I mean, he was an anal Fishers guy.

Speaker 7 (31:16):
Right.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
See, come on, man, you don't have to remember him
just for that. Can you say that one more time?
I don't think I heard you correctly.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Go ahead, Matt Jonathan Uh former Astros player kas Matt
Suey had to go on the At that time, it
was called the disabled list because of anal fishers and
I will say not having them that I would be
disabled as well if I had them. What is what
is edu KM?

Speaker 3 (31:47):
I you know, did you get you the medical term?

Speaker 1 (31:53):
Okay? Yeah? He It is a small tear or crack
in the lining of the h oh h. Yeah he went.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
He had to have surgery prior to opening day two
thousand and seven. He missed two and a half weeks. Okay,
that's a quick recovery. I mean every day, every day
could be a setback. You know what you did this?

(32:30):
You did this? Don't you want to hear it?

Speaker 1 (32:32):
Can I just say one thing in the end of
the conversation, Please, when you go to the doctor and
you have been cleared, it's like when you know when
they say you know your acl terror is clear. Like
when John, then when you got hurt and the doctors
cleared you and you went back on the track for
the first time, you were a little nervous, right Yeah.

(32:55):
If your doctor says your anal fissures are no longer
an issue, and then it's do you normally do to
resolve your life your little nervous spent that first time? Right? Yeah?
It might be a little constipated the whole the whole week,
might have to hold it.

Speaker 7 (33:11):
Uh huh.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Yeah, but you don't never mind, I'm done. I'm turning
my mic off. I'm literally walking on the studio. Don't
talk to me.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Your actualations to a couple of Gold Glove finalists from
the Astros, Cam Smith and utility man Mauricio Dubon. Smith
will be up for the right field spot, Dubon for utility.
You got it last year, so usually these things running patterns. Cam,
how about.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
That wasn't even supposed to make the major league roster.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
Rossie wax Is just tweeted like a mother first in
zone rating, which you know, zone rating is very important
to me.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
You're a big zone rating guy.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Yeah, a nine hundred second in fielding percentage of nine
ninety two and third and assist was six. Good for him.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Do you want to know where he is in defense
of run saves among the right fielders. Who are the
other filming finals? Do you have the other finalists?

Speaker 1 (34:04):
Uh no, but I'm just I'm looking at Wex's tweets.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Okay, he didn't put he's not a DRS guy.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
H du bon. He's got third American Lincoln out above
average nineteen. Okay, that's it.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Uh yeah, du Bond was really high on the well seventeenth.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
The right fielder that's up for the job will near
a bray you from the Red Sox.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
Will you're a bray you?

Speaker 1 (34:31):
He went over to the Red Sox and the Christian
Vasquez deal. By the way, speak of the Red Sox.
You see who opted out yesterday? Oh I didn't, Alex Megmann. Yes, wow, now.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
What you said he won?

Speaker 1 (34:51):
Hold on?

Speaker 3 (34:51):
That's I think it's a gut feeling l.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Yeah, it is, but if I maham, I don't know
if I do it now. Again, he didn't ask my opinion.
I'm sure he's talked to Scotty Bee. Yeah, but Scotty
Bee ain't going to bet a thousand. Now he bats
nine hundred, but he ain't a bat a thousand.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Well, it's crazy when he swings and misses. He got
forty million dollars for one year. It's not best not
of the worst whiff I've ever heard.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
That what they call a feeler's choice contract.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
Us.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
I don't even know what that is.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
Uh okay, Briggs, God, it's I mean, forty million is
really good money. For the next two years. He must
be man, He must be thinking, I can't get forty
million a year, but I can get beyond the next two.

Speaker 3 (35:43):
Yeah, he's just looking for a longer total money, right,
He's looking for somebody to pay for a premium for
a couple more prime years and then overpay for his decline.
As shows don't want to overpay for prime, they want
to pay for them. Straight to the decline. Give me
straight to the decline. Give me Christian Walker, let's go.

Speaker 1 (36:02):
It feels that way kind of with their first base spot,
doesn't it osea braid? Straight to the decline, Let's go,
Raphael mount Tara hought. He explained that one. That's just
a straight up mix. Right. Well, that was that three
good months in his free agent year, and then he
got a big fat contract off of that.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
Hey, they don't win the twenty two World Series without him.
I don't think so that is accurate. I appreciate him,
but that was an overpay, and everybody said that at
the time. Christian Walker deal, we liked, Jose brew deal.
We liked even though there were some signs of some issues.

Speaker 1 (36:35):
The only thing we didn't we let me tell you,
we'd love the Christian Walker deal.

Speaker 4 (36:39):
Yeaes.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
The only we didn't like about the bray You deal.
We liked the Braill deal was that he got the
third year as compared to everybody else's offering just two years.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
They got the third year, and he had just gone
from like thirty home runs of fifteen.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
So it's like, what's going on here? Now He's in
Florida and I believe the Astros are off the hook
for his money.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Finally, thank goodness, it's off the books so they can
go spin spins in free agency.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
So let's do this. Let's take a look at the
future of Alex Brugnant for just a second here. If
he would have stayed with the Red Sox, and he
can go back to the Red Sox. By the way,
just because he opts out doesn't mean he's not gonna
go back to Boston. If he got two years, if
he kept at eighty million dollars, and let's say he
got another three year deal worth fifty, that would be

(37:23):
ultimately three years at one twenty two years, and then
three more years at fifty. So that'd be one hundred
and seventy million dollars over six seasons. My math on
that right, Sure, why not. I'm gonna trust you. Here's
shoes pretty good, I am. So what is so he's

(37:45):
gotta be thinking, now, if that's what I think my
value would be. If I went with this train of thought,
maybe I can get a little bit more guaranteed and
give the optics of I'm willing to take less per year,
but just make sure I get paid more of the
length of the contract.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Yeah, the Astros offer was six one fifty six.

Speaker 1 (38:07):
And see my my under my scenario three twenty, take
play all the three years out, then play three more
years at fifty, which would be probably would be in
his mid to late thirties. That's one hundred and seventy
over six, So he'd be and in my philosophy, he'd
be making fourteen million dollars more by doing it that way.
Now he's hoping he's going to get beyond the total

(38:28):
of one to seventy because right now he's forty in
so he needs to get one hundred and thirty million
dollars more in his next contract in order to to
se wel surpass with the Astros were willing to pay.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Him, and that's what the Tigers were offering basically sixty
one seventy.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
So he's banking on him. If he's got.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yeah, he then that's if he can improve upon five
to one thirty, which he should.

Speaker 1 (38:51):
Be able to do probably. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I'll be around there.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I don't know, Rossie, oh got it. And again, I'm
not an athlete. I don't play in this world. But
he just essentially turned it down eighty million dollars in
guaranteed money. You thought I happen to play another ending again,
he would have been eighty million dollars already in the books.

(39:19):
He must be hoping, he's he's got to be thinking
somebody's gonna give him five years out there. You think
the Tigers are ready? Uh? Yeah, they need offense for sure.
And now that Aja Hinch is locked up in there
to be the manager for Detroit, Yeah, don't you make
that a little more of attractive package? Yeah, I mean
there is there is something be said for betting on yourself.

(39:40):
I get it. I don't know. I just but man Bosson,
I mean, for his the monster is your best friend,
your right handed hitter with power. You can just close
your eyes and hit the one off the Monster and
and get your your slug is up super high. Yeah,
good baseball town. I mean they embraced him pretty quickly
after you know, being you know, hate it everywhere else

(40:01):
you get, you get to talk blank the Yankees fifteen times,
twelve times a year.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Yeah, ale Alexpregman is not a big exit velo guy,
which I don't really say that as a negative. That's
a testament how good of an actual hitter that he is. Yeah,
that he can be as effective as he is square
up the ball and he's not going to hit a
bunch of rockets like like a yord On Alvarez or
a Shohyo Tani or whoever. In his career, Alex Spregman

(40:27):
has never hit a ball one hundred and ten miles
an hour. So it's possible, not that that you could
be very successful and not be a guy that's just
gonna just pounds. Earlier this year or I think there
was one game or Jordon did that three or four
times in one game, right, So that, yeah, it's a
testament to how great of a hitter he is. But

(40:48):
like that's what I'm saying though, is if you go
to I mean, if you go to Detroit.

Speaker 1 (40:54):
That Detroit's not nearly as hit her friendly as Boston is.
It's one of the more difficult ballparks for base I.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
Wonder how much how much that matters? I wonder if
you're bregnant, No, no, you're breakant. You don't care. They
cut the check, you don't take it. Yeah, I'm saying,
how much does that matter? If you're if you are Detroit?
What kind of life will you put on this earth
to do? When you are telling someone that you're gonna

(41:20):
give you that eighty million dollars?

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Is that's guaranteed? As I'm good, Ross, are you doing
all right? Fathom that life? You know? You can fathom
being an actor, You can fathom being a successful business person,
owning your own company. How do you what kind of
world does that? I mean, I live this world like
one percent of my life, Like when I'm in the rockets,

(41:44):
I'm in this dream world, Ross. I mean, I am
in this ridiculously super awesome hotel, traveling on a beautiful plane.
I mean, first class accommodat. This is not my life,
this is but this is their life. They live this life.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Yeah, they're living on a different planet than us.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
It's just so odd that someone who's offering me eighty
million dollars or offered me three and one twenty and
I'm only taking one third of it's to get a
better deal.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
Yeah, I mean I feel like that all the time.
You go to the club and some dude buys like
two bottles of vodka and he's spending like a g
and You're like, yeah, that's that's never gonna be me.
I don't know what like this guy's living. That's not me.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
It's almost like I when I see Durant in the
in the lobby or any of these players. I mean,
tell Jeff Green how much money Jeff Green's me in
his NBA life? Like me? Jeff Green's all right, you
know what, what do you think? He's made? Probably over
one hundred and fifty million, probably more two hundred. I mean,
been on Lee like seventeen or eighteen years. Let's look
it up. Now. You got me curious? You do that
while I talk about the great folks at Quality Home
Products at Texas, we get to the second hour, Oh

(42:50):
I want to see Yeah, sorry, I found it one
hundred and two Jeff Okay, Jeff Green, good dude. Never
an all in player? Correct, You're never an all star,
solid second or third guy off the bench. Correct. Yeah,

(43:10):
one hundred and two million dollars. Yeah, Uncle Sam took
a lot of that, though, he took thirty eight per minimum. Yeah,
you know what, I hope Jeff Green needs a generator.
If he does, I can tell you where I send him.
I can send him over to my friends over at
Quality Home Products of Texas. From He's The Matt Thomas

(43:34):
Show with Ross eleven O three On The Matt Thomas
Show with Ross, I'm here in Atlanta where the Rockets
are on the practice court right now, and it'll be
getting ready for their final preseason game tomorrow night against
the Hawks. And uh, you see, men Thompson is hitting

(43:54):
the heavy bag. I'm glad it's on my side.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
Honest, just say, he is a menace.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
He is a menace. See. This is why I wanted
to call him the Boogeyman, but nobody liked the nickname.
Do we have him on? No?

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Yeah we did, Yeah, we did have him. Oh I
forgot to ask him nobody like you can ask. We
got next year. I got a questioned in the instapole.

Speaker 1 (44:23):
So it's fine. You know what, We're always trying to
find things to do. You know, we had somebody call
us earlier with a new name for the big lineup.
The Rockets had so the Skyline the Skyline again. Look,
I know that the Nasty Chili is represented by Skyline,
but people, most people don't know what skyline chili.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
I didn't think of that at all. I just thought
of the Houston Skyline.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
And you can.

Speaker 3 (44:47):
It's very natural. You can get the Houston Skyline. You
can put the picture of them with it. It's perfect.

Speaker 1 (44:54):
Yeah. And you know and Steve, and by way, go
tell Steve Adams it sucks. He'll beat you up too.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
I don't know how he feels about that. Maybe he
doesn't like the nickname.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
I guess it'll be followed by a bunch of swear
words like that's either really great swear words swear words,
swear words, swear word, or it's really bad swear words,
swear words, swear word.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
So at the end of the day, if there was
like a a royal rumble with NBA teams, the Rockets
would have to be one of the favorites, right.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
Oh, you mean, like who would be the last to
survive in the ring? Oh? Absolutely, like the Rockets. I
mean the rockets are building his reputation. I mean, I'm
a little worried about Kevin Durant snapping in half? No, no, no,
did you see who came to push a man aside?
Kd was out there?

Speaker 3 (45:41):
He's ready to scrap. I don't I don't doubt the
fighting spirit from Kevin Durant.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
Are he still fighting on those Twitter streets? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:48):
I guess he could be. He gonna be a long
wingspan like a Tommy hearns.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
He got sideways with somebody, or somebody got sideways with
him like phoenix suns. Glad got rid of you and
he went right after them.

Speaker 3 (45:57):
Oh lord, okay, men, Thompson's ready to scrap for sure.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Fred van Zleet's got a bad leg, but vam.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
Bleets he's out. He'll say, I'll see you here. I'm
I'm in the I'm in the gym working out and
uh reed.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Shepherd will bring lemon squares and iced tea.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
Uh and a pillow pillow fight.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Yeah, Oh he'll he'll throw the pillow around. But that's
as far as it goes. Oh you know who you're
missing with the cam whitmore, you're missing a little bit
for the for the team.

Speaker 1 (46:28):
Scrap. I think he would be good. Let me give
you the front line. Okay, man's gonna go. Yes, Steven
Adams is gonna go.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
You have everybody, tire everybody out, and then Steven Adams
just comes up and clean up duty. He like literally
grabs somebody and then knocks him over like bowling pins.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
You know. The peacemaker is gonna be Clint Capella.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
I was gonna say, not a doka you get You
know what if we add coaches into the mix, you're
definitely winning.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Oh are you kidding me? I put the belt Ony
Mayadoka right now? Yeah. Clint Cappel is not bad. No, no, no,
Clint's peace peaceful Clint. Oh you think so? Yeah, he's not.
He's even meditating in the corner all right. Jeff Green
is gonna be the og in the back like I
got something I used to do it back in the day.

(47:16):
Gez Georgetown Easton long as his leg's okay, Tarr Easton,
Oh Tar easthanal scrap.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Oh yeah, rockets are winning. Rockets are not declaring them.
NBA Royal Rumble champs right now?

Speaker 1 (47:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If you've got a battle Royal, you
got a great chance of rockets coming out of that.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Let me think Wemby's getting folded in half. I'm trying
to think of other teams.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
Did you see Wemby is now there, just.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Wants to go brush his horses.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Yeah, they're legitimately saying that Wemby seven to seven. Now,
Boban said, he looks up at him, and Boban is
seven for four. Yeah. But you see Boby was on
ESPN yesterday, Yeah, doing the the NBA today. He bounces,
he bounces it, he bounces it. Yeah. By the way,
oh great, great guy, gentle giant. Yeah. But if you

(48:03):
but if you're Bobie and you look up at somebody,
that's a trouble spot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
They're listening with seven five and people are saying he
could be as tall as seven six seven seven. There
was another reporter, uh, Kevin O'Connor, I think of the ringer,
said he thinks he's seven to seven.

Speaker 1 (48:16):
You know the reason why I don't think they want
to name him at seven seven because his weight isn't
that much. And then thinking yeah, Pole, you know it's
gonna be he's gonna be thin, figured, he's gonna be
a guy that's gonna break easily because of the fact
he doesn't fill out his body. It's just hard to
go ask got me. I mean, y'all try to eat
everything on God's green Earth and he couldn't gave me weight.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Yeah, there are some guys who reached certain heights, who
like Kevin Durant was listed at six' nine and he
was really like six eleven and a half seven.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
Foot. Uh durant was listed at six' ten yesterday's his.
Height fluctuates he was six eleven and.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
A half i thought when they did, the remeasure they
did the accurate remeasure.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Of, EVERYONE yeah i.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
Don't Know bill walton never wanted to be seven foot
because he felt like seven foot you're. A freak so
he was always listened at six eleven even though he
was like seven.

Speaker 5 (48:58):
To.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
Two yeah Elijah w, on okay that's, the tall but
listed at seven. Feet, tall yeah there was this there
was this guy with this booming voice at THE on
pa that, would yeah, oh yeah. That's true. That's true by,
the way speaking OF, The, NBA uh i don't know
if our audience Knows Who john. HOLLINGER is, i DO

(49:18):
but i WOULD say nba stats he came up with player.
Efficiency rating he was In the memphis front office for a,
little bit AND now i think he's back WITH. The,
espn uh he's he wrote a article For. The, athletic
okay he's With the. Athletic. Now yep he predicted How
the west is going to play out this year and.
Not uh and he has his top. Eight, teams okay

(49:43):
he Has the rockets at forty five and thirty seven
is the. Eighth seed what's his? Reasoning, injuries well let,
ME uh i don't want to read all, of it you. Know, what,
hell yeah. Read it they they sent it, to Me
so i'll. Read it let me SEE if i can
give you. Fine, time yeah take your time at and

(50:03):
while we've got to take yourself a little promotion of.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Some, sort no just just listen to, the Show The
Matt tabas Show with ross tended to.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
All, right well while, i'm looking follow Me on instagram
at Sports, Mt, Okay well i'll give you some quick
breaking news while. You're looking how many how? Many times How?
Many sounders it's Probably one max, all right which You
got NINE Time Nba All Star, Russell, westbrook yes has

(50:31):
agreed to a deal to sign with couldn't tell you
this is A. Criminal Kings.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Jeff Schwartz Of Excel sports MANAGEMENT, tells espn this Is.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
From, shamsharanya yeah that's. A one, that's one. All right
so he Has the rockets at forty five.

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Now and also he takes he's Off the. Rockets list.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
That's true one of the biggest questions of the offseason
Of whether houston leaned too hard into the two center.
Front court you have to Trade For Kevin duranas.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
Come, On sorry, I'm sorry i'm sorry to cut. You,
off sorry, Go ahead i'll react in. A, minute.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Yes The Trader kevin durant is the headline movie of the,
off season but for. Obvious reasons but when the, Game
start i'm going to be wondering about the functionality of
their huge. Playing rotation and he talks about all the
big guys and He says thompson will be. The key
i'm just PARAPHRASING because i don't want to read the,
whole thing especially operating as a full time, point guard
regardless of who checks in on the. Other end, on

(51:27):
Paper the rockets also only have two Guards, besides thompson
and one of them will have to play heavy minutes
with a second group of the very least. Ken read
shepherd play Talks. About red shepherd talks about their ten
deep roster. Bigger Picture the rockets are still in the
midst of the quote hard decisions error in. Their development

(51:47):
easton is up for an Extension and thompson will be
due for a possible max extension deal a year. From
now houston already cashed in it's Cam wentmore stock because
it had nowhere to, play him and It Put jalen
green In the durant deal it made in another. Consolidation
move if it plans On Bringing kevin durant back after.
Next season the other hard decision will be whether or

(52:07):
not to go Another chips in move like the One.
For Durant because houston's asset pool is amazing lots of.
Draft picks even in the, Worst case houston will. Be
good things may be clunky at times as they work
out the, fit issues Especially Without, van vliet But the
rockets were made a must watch due to the Likes
of Thompson and shanngoon joining Forces. With durant i'm less
bullish on this team than some and they definitely overdid

(52:30):
it on the front court editions that left them high
and dry in the back Court When van vleet. Got,
hurt still if they can pull off one more, big trade.
Watch out they Have the spurs better Than the rockets.
This year ooh what, MM hmm i should say they. He.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
Does Yeah, john dolger he's he's been an athletics guy
on and pulled up. His wiki he was the former
vice president of basketball operations For, the grizzlies Columnist At.
The athletic he came up if you've heard of player,
efficiency rating that's basically he came up, WITH that.

Speaker 1 (53:09):
I believe let me tell you who's. In front According To,
john Hollinger the lakers are in front Of. The rockets
minnesota's in front Of, the rockets ront Of.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
The, rockets, okay well let's just talk about. His reasoning.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
On.

Speaker 3 (53:26):
Its face for you to say they don't have, any
guards that kind OF makes i. Get it but what you're,
looking at and it's certainly, not offensively you're more worried
about them guarding guards on the. Other side that's why people, are,
like oh they need a, two guards they need a,
Two guard like they have guys who can who can
guard basically one through four or one, through Five Which

(53:46):
amen thompson, can Do Which tarry easton, can Do Which
kevin durant, can do because of the link that. They
have and, then yes you can zone up being worried
about the. Big lineup they're not going to trot that
out forty minutes. A game it's gonna be, matchup dependent
and you're. Forgetting That coach udoka is a very very
smart coach who's gonna read what the and react to
what the other team is doing and adjust.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
In game and if they're, having issues he's.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Gonna drive if they're getting killed in, the zone he's
not gonna continue to trot it. Out there so that
that is a of concerns Of. The rockets it is
extremely low on my board that they're gonna run out
the double big lineup.

Speaker 1 (54:23):
Too, Much no i'm not worried about that. At all
And If john hollinder FOLLOWS, the nba like we've talked about,
at nauseum the NBA's positionless for the. Most, part yeah
a good, point guard distributor runner at, the offense but
everybody else. Can intertwine, They can they, Just can and, so.

Speaker 3 (54:41):
Yeah you're gonna start. Offensive possessions you're gonna run Them
through alprynshinggon who is a. Great passer you're gonna run them.
Through Them and thompson who's a very good, Passer Playmaker
kevin durant an underrated playmaker, as well and the all
three of those GUYS that, I, mentioned dude turn the
ball over, too much and so that that is certainly
can be. A concern but you have, ball handles and
you have guys who you can initiate. Offen WITH and

(55:01):
i Even Mentioned Jabaris. Smith junior now he's not gonna
lock down point guards in, shooting guards but he can
he can more than hold his own as a guy
who has the capability of guarding one. Through five so
it's not Ideal with fred van, Vliet OUT but i
think his concerns the two biggest points that, you are
the two first points that, HE made i think are
a bit overblown to the point to where you have

(55:23):
that forty, five wins forty.

Speaker 1 (55:24):
Five wins the number one team he's got In the west,
this year it would Be The Oklahoma. City thunder HERE'S
where i think he loses. The credibility he Has the
clippers number two oh the unction. He has it's the
oldest team IN. The nba it's a team That Has,
kawhi leonard who is mired in either taking legal bribes

(55:48):
from his owner Or Hurt, james harden who has not
had one good game seven in his entire life AS an.
Nba player, and.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Well he didn't say they're.

Speaker 1 (55:59):
Winning, championship no, BUT he i mean he has them
winning number two fifty. Four, GAMES hmmm i don't?

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Did he does he have them also in possession of a?
Time machine m oh by, the, Way Yeah.

Speaker 1 (56:19):
CHRIS paul i Forgot About chris paul at whatever he.
Has ages so, all right, let's UH that's i just
want to give that out there, to you so you
can take that for what. It's worth that's just one.
Man's opinion. THAT'S it i think.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
THIS played i forgot they Had brook. Lopez too what
is the average Of the clippers?

Speaker 1 (56:36):
SEVENTY six, I mean i think the two thousand And
nine clippers would have, Been awesome but they're playing in twenty.
Twenty six that's. The Problem chris, Paul Forty brook lopez,
Thirty Seven kahi leonard's, thirty four but his legs are about,
Forty Five james james is.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
Thirty six they got thirty six Year Old nicholas.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Batoom two and Don't Forget john collins been AROUND the
nba a long. Time too, all right, Go ahead john falling, That,
sword well you. Love it it's one. Man's.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Prediction jesse if he would have said fifty, five wins
we would be call him. A genius we.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Would have said he's our. Best friend he should get
him on. The, SHOW yes i wanted to Do. My
trump we love him so he's just the best basketball.
Writer ever loves our team like He. Loves america KIND
of i do A lovey. Trump that i'll do It.

Speaker 4 (57:23):
For.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Clanton yeah. Eleven Seventeen now The Battop is Show with
ross seven one three two one two five Seven ninety
Matt at ross with You On sports talk. Seven ninety
i'm Here. In atlanta ross back At our. Houston studio
they got shut Up on mass up coming up abouts

(57:44):
seven minutes. From now, all right there you go seven
one three two one two five seven ninety seven one
three two one two five seven. Nine zero we were
talking a little bit ABOUT. The nba we got baseball
and we are mentally preparing ourselves For the Mariners and
dodgers to play In The.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
WORLD series i Still believe Let's Go Jay's.

Speaker 1 (58:14):
George kirby throwing For. The Mariners Shane bieber's blue that's
been great in. The, Playoffs No shane's shane's e aery
in the playoffs has been six point. Seventy five he's
only pitched two and two. Thirds innings is? That bad,
five hits, Two, runs no, five hits. Two, strikeouts yeah

(58:34):
his whip is two point twenty five small. Sample size
george bounce. Him back maybe insp's not deep? At all
and there do to be a bad? At? Home right
is that we're gonna?

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Go, with yes they were supposed to be bad on
the road and they Swept.

Speaker 1 (58:52):
The.

Speaker 8 (58:52):
Astros bah we are so through the, paid baby we
are so incredibly spoiled.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
That we are we have we have basically begged for
a national Team of canada to help us out of this.
Adult conundrum Were in Let's Go, Blue jays, Come, on
baby Come.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
On springer.

Speaker 1 (59:23):
Imagine if you got forty five thousand People At, rogers
CENTER and i mean there's can't there can't be more
than about Twenty five mare in, their fans an, entire
building and you go There in seattle kick your, butt
twice including scoring double digit Runs in game two Of
the series'd Be like ross being, up three down three,

(59:43):
to two up three, to two going on at home
for the chances of In the world's, ALL right i
don't say, that now you're really pissing. Me off sample
look at. That one who's Got? The, brewers oh who
are Going To los angeles to Play? At, oh hell.
That's why that's why we're in a Sports doldhom we

(01:00:04):
got nothing's going. Right now we Got the texans going
to Play The seattle Seahawks on. Monday night have we
talked enough about How Good jackson Smith and jigba has
been For The. SEATTLE seahawks i don't think. WE have
i gotta be honest. WITH you i. You, know now
Congratulations To derek stingley for getting. Engaged yesterday oh, He?
Did yes congratulations is? Am, cool Yes He's and jigma is.

(01:00:36):
Really good eight for one sixty Two against jacksonville the week,
before that eight for one thirty Two AGAINST Tampa, a
poultry four for seventy Nine, against arizona five for ninety
Six Against new orleans and In the week One, at

(01:00:57):
pittsburgh the last Game. Of pittsburgh, Excuse me i'm. GOING
on I think i'm going the. Wrong, order no, uh
no was the right order nine. To fourteen In the,
pittsburgh game he was eight for one to. Oh three,
this season he's got on, The year he's got twenty
six receptions for four hundred and thirty. One yards he's
averaging sixteen and a half yards of reception and, HE'S got,

(01:01:21):
i mean. He's filthy he he's the best guy they'll
face right receiving wise.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
This, YEAR hmmmm i guess. That's schedule, but yeah he's he's.
Been great this IS uh, i mean he basically broke
out last year and there were people in the fantasy
community down, on Him and, i'm like he's the only
target over there in For For, Sam donald like he's
gonna be, really good and he has. Been GOOD and

(01:01:45):
i Would Say sam donald so far has. Exceeded expectations
he's he's literally by a lot of. The metrics, YOU know,
i know you're A big, Epa guy matt and pff
grade all that. Type stuff he's been one of. The
Best sam donald's been one of the best quarterbacks in
football for. A, set, ACTUALLY yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
I, MEAN yeah i mean he was left for Dead In. New,
york yeah Those in minnesota resurrects his career and they're
four and Two, in seattle and they They're Like, gino
smith who Honestly, there.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Yeah a lot of people said getting Rid Of gino
smith was, a Mistake That sam donald is only good
Because of kevin O'Connell in minnesota and him being a good,
play caller and ye. And what kevin O'Connell was kind
of fed Up With sam donald by the end of,
that season if.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
YOU remember i think he's.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Might be missing a little. Bit more now there's Been
trotting carson wentz. Out there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:35):
What's McCarthy coming? To see how long is MacArthur go
to be?

Speaker 3 (01:02:37):
OUT for i think he's close to. COMING back i
don't know IF it's i think. He's close but he.

Speaker 1 (01:02:42):
Wasn't even that great when he. Came back when he was,
first starting he, WAS okay i mean he's a first.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Year, starter yeah, UH yeah I guess i'd have to
LOOK at jj, McCarthy's Status but i'm not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
EXACTLY sure, I Mean jack Smith And jake man not the.
Biggest guy he's only six foot one, ninety seven, but
boy he has been literally. Un stopped we're gonna have
To call we're Gonna call softy. Next week he's gonna have.
His team i'm gonna always go to the. Enemy camps
we always want to find out what's going on in that.
Other city we. Just do it's part of. Our bit and,

(01:03:17):
you know here's. THE question I think softy has me Muted? On?
Twitter WHY because i think a lot of people meet Me. On,
twitter OKAY because i do say a lot Of Go.
BLUE jays i do not take Shots, at SEATTLE but
i don't root. For them wouldn't you think one time
he'd see, and, go man what are? You doing so

(01:03:41):
WHAT if i if he comes on the Show next
MONDAY and, I say i'm wishing you guys at the.
Very best do you think he's gonna? Believe me Because
the twitter proof would, SAY otherwise.

Speaker 3 (01:03:54):
I don't think he's. Muted you he's gonna he follows eleven.
Hundred accounts it's a lot of people. To, follow Yeah
but i've mute a lot of. PEOPLE myself, i mean
you taught me how. To, mute now see you, love it.
Don't You Now I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
TEAM mute i used To Be. Team block Now Just. Team,
mute well especially now that they.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Changed it one hundred and thirty thousand Followers For, salty
man we'll getting big. Celebrity on well THAT'S how i.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
Feel, like yeah. That's sure, all right let's. Do this
let's Get to oh this is the most cathartic half
hour of the week. Right here. Mm hmmm would you
like to tell some people to shut their bomb? ASSES up?
I would you got some. People already what's going on?
Your world you got a. Nice life we'll break it
between the, Postgame shows hill and life. Is good life? Is, great,

(01:04:35):
ACTUALLY yeah i know why your life, is great bastard seven,
one three two one. Two fives it's course because you're
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(01:04:56):
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Speaker 3 (01:04:59):
An hour did? You know by, the way you Also
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free and you're just chilling on. The, couch, yes sir
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Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Good stuff let me, tell You if ross wanted to
get a part a little part, time job he could
just whisper sweet nothing spanglish into. Your, ear hmmm? How
much how much MUCH should i charge?

Speaker 7 (01:05:23):
FOR that i?

Speaker 5 (01:05:25):
Know it?

Speaker 1 (01:05:25):
PENS hm i, MEAN seriously. I could I mean I
whisper duke Stats into kim's ear and she.

Speaker 3 (01:05:31):
Goes crazy, OH really M Like louel dang's field goal
Percentage Girl elton brian back in. The day by, The
Way zion williamson looks. PRETTY GOOD i i saw him
working on the bike after the game. Last, night okay
what did he get hurt in?

Speaker 1 (01:05:46):
THE game i. Didn't know he just know he actually
was playing in the. Fourth quarter, ironically enough thanks For
watching ross. And listening don't want to.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Get damfidd you to get Me get let me get.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
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if you are out and about today and you have
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(01:06:25):
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(01:06:48):
got time? FOR that, I mean i don't think trying
to bring up what happened, last week but you, know
what sometimes you just got to. DO that i, apologized already.
You did, that's true, a heartfelt. Genuine apology okay't even
a heart but it. Was genuine it. Was fine it.
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(01:07:11):
that's true, all right seth, hold on let me check
out seven one three two one two five. Seven ninety
this is the most cathartic thirty minutes of the week
you'll Find The Houston Sports, radio jonathan what's the matter?

Speaker 9 (01:07:30):
With you, you know after you read a couple of.
Segments ago This is this has been on my mind for,
a While but i'm just gonna. Say it all these
sports media personnel that have these fears of certain teams
or this high and mighty about a certain player cough
Cards harsh manning before this season. Even, starts dude nobody

(01:07:53):
has time. For this if you're not gonna be at
practice and actually give actual analytics about what's going on
and writing about what's at, that program there's no point.
In that and it really is just a clickbait and
you're just trying to get money off your social. Media
accounts it's it's really it's it's. Very Old and i'm
really tired of hearing stuff like that because reasons having

(01:08:14):
started the we're, Talking, about oh rockets don't have it
doesn't matter talking the spur, are better just Because when
bey almost grown a couple of, high inches it doesn't
make sense.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
TO me i don't know why they do it and
jump the gun. So, fast hey nobody? Got tap anybody
got time?

Speaker 5 (01:08:28):
For that?

Speaker 1 (01:08:29):
ALL right i got. Something Here The big twelve clapped
Back At brent venables for saying That The big twelve
sucks While the oklahoma is. In, It yes big twelve,
clap back and now people are getting mad At the
big twelve, are saying you guys are a comfort you
should act. That Way bred twitter is about blank talking in,

(01:08:50):
some respects especially when your.

Speaker 3 (01:08:52):
Social, media Yeah And.

Speaker 1 (01:08:53):
Brent vitnables took a jab At the big. Twelve conference
Was the big twelve, still, say oh it gives. You
right we did suck when you were in. Our league
so to anybody Criticizing the big twelve for Talking About
brent venable's Record against big, twelve schools walk almost still
In the, BIG twelve, i, say shit your bum ass,
up mate shits obum ass.

Speaker 3 (01:09:12):
Up man IT'S mostly ou fans that are all salty
because they lost and their coaches.

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
Mid, mid yeah shito ass.

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
Up Man Blame, lincoln riley just. Blame, him yeah Somehow
It's lincoln. Riley's, Fault YEAH.

Speaker 1 (01:09:33):
I'm. I know lincoln's piggy bank is really big. Right
now but he thought he's not going to, the, old
Big old pac twelby being nice easy right over there
To The College football playoff Until the pac.

Speaker 3 (01:09:42):
Twelve disintegrated, m m well he's still getting like twelve.
Million years, so yeah but.

Speaker 1 (01:09:47):
He's you know and oh another one. FOR you i
hate these conferences that are complaining about the travel cal
having to Go to stanton to Uh, wake FOREST or
usc having to Play at Illinois Or penn state having
to play you KNOW.

Speaker 4 (01:10:06):
At.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
Usc bruh you signed, these deals you have these, mega
conference you welcomed in these. Cross countries shut your bumb
ass up if you're unhappy. About it shit so bum.

Speaker 9 (01:10:18):
Ass.

Speaker 1 (01:10:19):
Up man back in, my Day the big twelve was
all within five Or The, southwest conference all the plane
bus drives and short, plane rides the good. Old days
many things have changed and then everybody went and chasing the,
biggest DOLLARS biggest, tv deals. BIGGEST money i do not

(01:10:40):
feel sorry for the Fact that duke hast to Play
at california this week or whoever. IT is i don't,
you know you could have told Cal AND stanford i
we don't. Need you you could have, said, THAT Oh Smu,
boston college that's not The, acc well that's what you
created when YOU invited SMU. M h i just think
it's so so cute that everybody wants to come back

(01:11:01):
and retroactively discuss how things used to how great things used. To,
be well then you don't want to. STOP expanding.

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

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
DON'T know I just i find. THE hit i find
everything about college athletics right now to be completely one er,
percent hypocritical every single layer. Of it it's getting worse
and worse. And worse there's nothing authentic in college football
except when you PUT the Tv on saturday and watch.
The games then you think about then then then. You
think you don't think about it for a. Few, Hours
yeap and the ratings are great and they. Don't care

(01:11:31):
do you see the biggest rated game of the Weekend That?
Ohua texas, of course you see the second biggest game of,
the weekend, Go Ahead Oklahoma? State houston? Not Correct is?
Bama maszoo.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
He had.

Speaker 1 (01:11:46):
IT ready i did have, it ready thank you. VERY
much i knew you were going to. Say, THAT well
i mean it was perfectly timed on. My, part no
it wasn't because.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
You're wrong, let's see there, weren't third they, weren't fourth fifth. Or,
SIXTH well i, mean no it's because the wrong people
Had the it's just not big.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
Time football, that's okay, that's okay big. Time, football no
it's not, seven, one three, Two two, five's fine, It's
fine it.

Speaker 5 (01:12:20):
Is.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
FINE yeah, i, mean look we're gonna be on the
what are we playing? This week OR on fs one?
This week as GOOD f s ONE. FOUR k i
Love that fox does stuff IN.

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
Four k you, Know what let me do that. Real
quick all these Other networks fox has stuff dedicated to BEING.
FOUR k espn does, IT, Sometimes abc slash does, IT
sometimes cbs.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
VERY rarely nbc. As well y'all need to get on the.
Same page it's twenty. Twenty, FIVE yes i paid for
A FOUR, k TV so i WON four. K programming
ain't nobody got time for you all being lazy bringing
us up to date in the twenty twenty five WITH four.

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
K programming ain't nobody get time for? Day second you
have a.

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Total. Dollars, Man see jonathan didn't have to. Do that
that's only.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Two hours that's only two hours work.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
From you see how he's ramped this up since SINCE
the Sfa Lost matt you noticing that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
He said they lost, the Battle but i'm gonna win.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
THE war.

Speaker 1 (01:13:18):
I told him not to argue with me ABOUT. S
fa i told him his team had, no chance and
he certainly ramped up the shots AT the u Of
h cougar program and, Quite frankly i'm okay.

Speaker 7 (01:13:27):
With it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
I'm, BITTER sorry i.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Love, it right you're learning from, The, best jonathan. Stay
bitter you. Know what i'm the one that's, the wise
one of Those off are? You sure, hold on mister hold?
OF grudge i am holding, grudge guy. That's true call
you petty emt, all, right, listen everybody this is your.
LAST opportunity, i mean. Let's go you want to short

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us seven three two one two five Seven ninety you
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Speaker 3 (01:14:01):
Yesterday okay Oh the longhorn. Line moved it was ten
and a half to now twelve and a Half. For
kentucky you, Said, Fourteen MATTY so.

Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
I did, I.

Speaker 1 (01:14:09):
Didn't stuty we can call you the. Line mover you
KNOW what i Am because I'm mister TEXAS and i
got To support you're.

Speaker 3 (01:14:15):
Not mister texas.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
NUMBER one.

Speaker 3 (01:14:17):
I am by, The Way Pillow fighting championships are ON the.
Ocho again this. Is, FANTASTIC well i DON'T think i got.
That channel Remember When colin coward said he. Moved lines
what an ego that? GUY had, I mean i, like.

Speaker 1 (01:14:30):
Him but he Doesn't move anything's an. Accurate, Statement, yes
oh our buddy is. Up next we've missed him after
a week of His. Beloved, yankees yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
He didn't get in.

Speaker 1 (01:14:44):
With them When the yankees won, a game we heard.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
From him then they lose two Straight And matty yankees
are out of.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
The Playoffs New york James And, guarden oaks we were
expecting you to call. Last week where? Were you.

Speaker 6 (01:15:11):
Thanks to take care because, you, KNOW man i.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
Take care of.

Speaker 6 (01:15:18):
My WIFE but i did?

Speaker 9 (01:15:19):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
It's just some of the other shows.

Speaker 10 (01:15:23):
COME out i just.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
It's, THAT yeah i think it. WAS you i don't
speak with.

Speaker 6 (01:15:28):
Nobody else.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
James are gonna have be called back, because sorry hang up.
ON him i think it's. Our phones let me feel
the void, real, quick man this is still what you, Brought,
up yes. Not yesterday, last second you Mentioned The oklahoma
sooners and. People crying did you were you mentioning specifically?

Speaker 1 (01:15:52):
This guy have you seen? This GUY. John? E, Hoover
no i'm. Not okay he Covers the sooners FOR s
I but i don't even know what that even mean if,
he's affiliated, because no Never The rockets frests side that,
are well he.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
Is clutching his pearls Over This big. Twelve, thing, okay
folks it was one tweet From the big. Twelve account
it pointed out a Fact That brent venables lost eight
conference games in two years In The. Big twelve look at.
This guy but For The Big twelve conference to seemingly
try to Whitewash over OU's history Is a big twelve

(01:16:26):
member and Act like oklahoma isn't all? That great is
a gross recollection of history, at best in an immature
pot shot, at worst certainly unbefitting of a statement from
a powerful conference's official social.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Media feed sht your bumb ass.

Speaker 3 (01:16:42):
Up Listen, even More The big twelve's unprompted response, is, unprofessional,
unacademic unappreciative. And sophomoric frankly one of the many Reasons
that castiglione And the sooners have long wanted out of.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
The, league john, shut you?

Speaker 11 (01:17:00):
Obamass up are you seriously a grown man crying over
this social.

Speaker 1 (01:17:06):
Media tweet that pointed out? A fact, are we as
the kids, would say dead? Ass here are?

Speaker 11 (01:17:13):
You serious there's no way you wrote a thousand word
article about a simple Tweet from.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
Big twelve this is. The Tweet coach venable lost eight
conference games in his two seasons In the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:25):
Big twelve.

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
Factual, factual yeah there was none. Of it his terrible
offensive play, game decision none. Of that it was just
they didn't say it's eleven. FIFTY four, ohu sucks which they. Should, have,
yeah sorry. Hoo way why do y'all get to have that?
To yourself what do? You mean anytime there's a, time

(01:17:49):
reference it always the ou sucks comes out. Right me
WHY can't i say it's it's eleven. FIFTY four i
don't know where that atrition.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Came from it's just.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
From me they, Teach you they teach you when they it's.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
AN orientation i believe they Taught Us sat matt and
all the chance and all the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:05):
Other stuff, it's, Like uh seattle getting all grumpy by
having the Twelve man, aggie's like hold, MY beer i
got twelve man down.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
HERE too i, don't know does does anybody else do
the it's this time and? BLANK sucks i don't even
know if anyone else doing that? IN sports i don't
think you KNOW what. I, mean obviously it's not the
most inventive.

Speaker 1 (01:18:22):
Chant ever oh. You sucks oh. You sucks but you
know our buddy simple as that company that MAKES the ou.
SUCKS beer, i, mean yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
It's just what you SAY.

Speaker 1 (01:18:34):
To ou so what do you SAY to Aki fans
if you say it's at that time, and, aggies, poges
poleragies that's what, you do.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
NOT me i wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Do that, that's, classless YEAH because i mean when when
we think of the classy, gestures made. It's, sports however
he leads a chant. On that, all right, last call
and now we had to try To get james and,
guard oaks but the derread line too. Kicked in. We're
on we're working on it, right now getting this phone number.

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Scanned out oh you? Really? Could yea Tom was tom
was immediately on the way right now? For, REAL yeah,
i mean let me tell you all Something About. Tom,
flyine okay is he in the studio with? YOU around
i just. Left, it okay. He's back we're gonna Try it.
Jens again. All right We. Love tom tom's, an Engineer
and tom is pulled in a hundred, different directions and
we thank him for his. Great work our offices are,

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you know they're seven one three two one two five
seven eighty seven one three two one two. Five seventy,
all right we're gonna try this one, More time james And.
Garden oaks i'm sorry for. Your loss i'm Sorry the
yankees were out In the. Division series, That's.

Speaker 6 (01:19:47):
Okay, MATT LOOK i i, YOU know i have my,
you know just like. ANYBODY else i pray, and everything
but reality is, set in so it's. All GOOD but
i do got some loose and everything to share with.
YOU guys i don't think it's gonna be, too Long
But kyle tuck will be another one of these guys
Joining the, yankees ranks so THAT that i hope both

(01:20:09):
both of the team to be a much, stronger team
especially from the. Left, side yeah, But, anyway matt you, Take,
care okay, thank.

Speaker 1 (01:20:18):
You sir you can we. Handle that we're gonna be
Okay With kyle Tucker Beating yankee if.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
That happens i'm really gonna have to choke down that he.

Speaker 1 (01:20:37):
Bought you you're gonna eat.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
It still i'll, be Fine but i'll. Have it we
don't do it with tears in. My, eyes well if
you don't want those tears hit the scallon pancake.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
Is delicious the tears grease fire and it. Hits you
pass me the. Soy sauce mat he had more garlic
to the tower onion volcano coming.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
At you.

Speaker 9 (01:21:11):
I'll think some, more socking you, know what real quick
before we can leave a segment and have got time
For mag having low fries at a burger joint and
the yelling at, THE.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
Stap i was right.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
On, That.

Speaker 1 (01:21:31):
Up, hold up this, is great, go ahead Laying.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Out matthew.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
All right so we went to a high end. Burger,
place YES and i bought the meal, for EVERYBODY and i.

Speaker 3 (01:21:51):
Appreciate you it wouldn't, Keep point it. Wouldn't cheap that's
kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
The, point no the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Point was the point is if if, you Pay and
i'm on your side on, this part if you hey what,
you paid you need to get what.

Speaker 1 (01:22:01):
You ordered the burger was the most. Expensive part the fries,
weren't cheap but they weren't. Like astro the. Problem WAS
so i got my curly fries from this place and
it was in a what do they call what they
call that, a boat, paper boat, paper boat and They

(01:22:22):
weren't the paper boat, wasn't FULL so i, yealthy guy
what you do with the had some?

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
More, fries no well you, BASICALLY said i gotta fill.

Speaker 1 (01:22:34):
These fries y'all gonna fill this. SOME more.

Speaker 3 (01:22:42):
I was a little, taken aback.

Speaker 1 (01:22:44):
QUITE frankly i should have done snitch it on you bring?
This UP what i should? HAVE done i should have.
GOTTEN up, i said is this the regular size order?
OF fries i would have BEEN if i was the
worker at, this Place which i'm not going back because,
OF that i Would have i'd have embarrassed to give
me some. More. Fries instead the guy just laughed. It off, Ha, ha.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Yeah to, be fair you have a very. Valid point
well then?

Speaker 1 (01:23:15):
Why EUSTON then i had to YELL them i paid
that that several dollars for sixty percent of a paper boat. Of,
fries well let me TELL you. I am i. Am
McDonald's go back and add more fries to.

Speaker 4 (01:23:31):
My.

Speaker 1 (01:23:32):
Fries thing if, you, don't yeah. You Buy if i'm
buying a, LARGE fry i want a large order. Of fries.
CHANGE change i, WAS like i get to move from.
This TABLE as i, GET older I get I got
i got less of. A filter i'm just gonna tell, you,
that right now, all, right uh Twelve O'clock sports. CHALK

(01:23:56):
seven i even got the news and y'all. Are terrible dan,
was right by, The way i'm gonna say. That again
you were. The right look. YOU were.

Speaker 3 (01:24:07):
I had to say the fries were a.

Speaker 1 (01:24:09):
Lot low you shorter him on THE fries a.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
Little bit Is The Matt thomas Show with ross.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
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Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
Wow, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
YOU matt.

Speaker 5 (01:25:03):
I.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
Appreciate you, All, Right, matt well, of course the reason
for you being on. The road You're in.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
Atlanta now last night you Were. In bemingham you said
it's a thirty minute flight thirty. Five, altogether yeah, oh
wow that, is quick one thirty to one. Twenty Eight
Your houston rockets Defeat The New. Orleans pelicans they go
with the jumbo. Package lineup are we Calling the skyline
instead Of The? Twin towers i'm, not sure but your

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starting lineup For The houston rockets, Last, Night, Alpringing Goon,
Steven Adams Jabari, Smith Junior, kevin Durant And amen thompson six.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
Foot Seven amen thompson the.

Speaker 3 (01:25:42):
Shortest right Of the rockets starters, Last Night, Matthew Yes
Sir john hollinger thinks it could be a hindrance for
the for the squad.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
Forty five and. Thirty, seven now could that be? A
possibility of course you COULD even, i mean if teams
are littered, with injuries you can go thirty and. Fifty
two if this team stays relatively healthy avoiding, catastrophic injuries
and now so far we've had won so far, this
year hopefully not. Another one but if you stay away

(01:26:10):
from any other serious long, term injuries this, team still
to me ross minimum is a fifty win.

Speaker 3 (01:26:16):
BASKETBALL team i, would. Say yeah the only thing Is
the west is. Extremely Tough the west IS just, i
mean it's it's. A gauntlet what's tougher than? A gatlet i,
don't know. IT'S ridiculous, i mean it's just one battle.
After Another.

Speaker 1 (01:26:36):
So i'm not gonna argue with you.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
On that worried About The? Western conference? All, right Anyways
elsewhere matthew in. The, news Yeah Two houston astros nominated
For The Golden. Glove Awards, maracio dubon who has Won
The Utility golden, glove before is nominated for the. Award
again and How About, cam smith fresh Out Of, florida

(01:26:58):
state shouldn't even have made the team if they were well,
better built but, he did and he, performed well especially
at the play at. The beginning but all year long
he was very good in. Right field teams learned not
to run. On him he was great in terms of,
fielding percentage defensive run saved out to, above average all
those type. Of Things cam Smith And mauricio dubon nain

(01:27:21):
finalists for the twenty Twenty Five Rawlings Gold. Glove awards congratulations,
To them.

Speaker 1 (01:27:28):
Congratulations, to them good luck in twenty. Twenty six, and
frankly one guy may, be here one may not four
Outfielders in astro's history have Won A. Golden GLOVE shall i?

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
Quiz you or you want me to just give him?

Speaker 1 (01:27:45):
To you Four, Outfielders, Springer no i'll give you one in,
the eighties one in the. Well seventies, Actually sorry, sadanie
yes there he, goes Say there's sadaniel very recent in,
THE Outfield A kyle, tucker yes and one who would

(01:28:09):
you even? Call that that was the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Middling malaise it was after the golden era Of The
world series and then before the, recent renaissance.

Speaker 1 (01:28:20):
Oh like two thousand and nine ish Not, hibdalgo no my.

Speaker 3 (01:28:29):
First guests would Have Been, willly tavaris but it.

Speaker 1 (01:28:31):
WASN'T him i Give it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Nimitz, Legend Oh Michael Porn. Michael, bourne wow good for Him.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
And Space city home. NETWORK analyst i, don't think oh
he's done in. THE work i. Don't, think, oh Well
Former Space city home. Network analysts there, you Go Former
space city. MUCH better, i, mean hey man, Be, There
Yeah michael bourne, could dude lives in king would? Have matter,
oh really we don't ride, pony, work guys breaking bright? Or,
what no we haven't gone to.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Dinner Yet, that's okay maybe he's eating At The matt
thomas booth and you don't even.

Speaker 1 (01:29:04):
Know It At Big, city wings i'd be a smarter
d in. His PART maybe i got a little bit of.
Breaking news it's probably a. One. Sounder Okay The Big
twelve conference has issued a public reprimand On my seria

(01:29:29):
tech And fined kansas following their Game. On saturday others
were going to.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
Say they reprimanded their ADMIN and i was gonna, Be, like.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Oh, thank god that guy's making eleven dollars. An hour
he can't be referenced more. THAN that I hope Texas
attacking kansas were both fined twenty five. THOUSAND dollars text
fine is for repeated instances of objects being thrown out
of the, playing service. I. E tortillas, Uh well kansas

(01:29:59):
has been fined for this di sparage in comments about
the conference and a member institution an in the accurate
statement regarding a pocket knife by Head Coach. Lance leopold?

Speaker 5 (01:30:09):
What?

Speaker 1 (01:30:09):
What yes.

Speaker 3 (01:30:16):
What did he say about a?

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
Pocket knife you, know what let's take. A break i
want to do a little more DIGGING because i know
the pocket knife story is. OUT there i just don't.
WANT to i don't want to erroneously put it. In
context so let's come back and figure out what's.

Speaker 3 (01:30:32):
Going on but apparently somebody Uh A texas tech fan
through a pocket knife Towards a.

Speaker 1 (01:30:39):
Jayhawks.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
Sideline yeesh kansas Coach Claims texas tech fans through pocket knife.
At staff you, Know what, I'm Sorry red. Raiders fan
this didn't. Surprise me we were deliterally. Talking, about okay.

Speaker 1 (01:30:54):
Go, ahead now the statement says that that's an erroneous
state that it. Did, happen yes but Why would leopold?
Throw that And Then, lance leopold the Coach, of kansas
randomly throw out the term?

Speaker 3 (01:31:06):
Pocket, knife well THIS headline i. Told him this headline
from nineteen hours Ago Says texas tech confirms pocket knife
found on Field during. Kansas game.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
But was?

Speaker 4 (01:31:15):
It?

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):
Thrown though that's the? Question mark, All Right texas, tech
fan what? Y'all doing can't y'all? Behave yourself your team's
top ten in. The country can't you just be happy?

Speaker 9 (01:31:26):
With?

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
That okay so it? Wasn't, Thrown, OKAY well i want
to jump to conclusions. Going on, I'M saying, I mean
i would assume that when, the leak and the conference
says it's an inaccurate statement regarding a, pocket Knife That
lance leopold was given some info that was. Bad INTELLIGENCE
and i think before you probably go into a front
of a microphone saying what, exactly happened you probably should

(01:31:47):
double chick to make sure the pocket knife was.

Speaker 3 (01:31:48):
Actually, thrown, okay yeah. Ok okay so he was fine
for that being an. Inaccurate, statement yes he, is fine
not for, saying it but for an. Inaccurate, statement well you,
Know what yeah he. Should apologize you should be fine
if that was. Incorrect information.

Speaker 1 (01:32:05):
And, THE tortillas, i mean it's kind of an old bit.
TO me, I know i guess the, question is is
it liketillas as long as they don't land on. The
field but the whole point is you don't throw them
in the stands to. Each other you throw them on,
the field the litter of.

Speaker 3 (01:32:18):
The, FIELD yeah i mean they got Bored and lubbock
and came up.

Speaker 1 (01:32:22):
With this it is that's retally. The case it's they're.

Speaker 3 (01:32:27):
Just, bored yeah, All right can we even think of
another school that throws anything on?

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
The. Field no the ONLY thing i the ONLY thing
i can ever think OF and i know we're. Late
here is uh when back in the day When The
red Wings in detroit would get when you had a
player score a? Hat tricks, oh yeah octopuses are well

(01:32:54):
Hats to you're supposed to throw, your, hat, Right YEAH
but i don't know how they smuggle smuggled octopuses inside
The Old Joe louis arena In The octopi is it octopi?
Multiple campuses depends on that if it Has a latin
route or not met. Or nuts, BUT.

Speaker 5 (01:33:10):
Me i.

Speaker 1 (01:33:10):
DON'T know i think it's.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11):
All Right, TEXT tech i think it's oct. The pie,
Come On red, RIDER fan i know you're. Out there
comes say? Something else Who Would?

Speaker 1 (01:33:18):
James? BOND oh i know what he? Would say time
out seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five Seven ninety if
you want to join our, program now we're getting reprimands
by the conference and we're getting twenty five thousand. Dollars,
FINES look i. Love you Text. To tech you know

(01:33:38):
HOW much i feel, ABOUT one i feel about your
campus and. Your city maybe it's time to get rid of.
The bit everything has a, shelf, Life, RIGHT.

Speaker 3 (01:33:51):
Yeah i guess that's That's For red vader fans. To
answer where would the school step in and say something
because they seem to be very proud, of, it right?
Isn't there the the ad was making their hashtag fifteen
to one and it was about getting voted against throwing
stuff on.

Speaker 1 (01:34:02):
The field the eighty has zero issues. With it the
eighty also wanted TO Call tdcu stadium ren re inter
nation or whatever, home game and it wasn't the case.
At all so you lose on. That ONE don't i?
Was there don't? YOU there i was not listening.

Speaker 3 (01:34:17):
About you you're you're, Miss again you're miss you're miss
uh miss interpreting. My mmm that was for you taking
Shots At, texas tech not for saying, you're lying not
just firstaying you'relying about the percentages your year. Off base.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
Add and ross with you Here On sports talk seven
ninety seven one three two one two five seven ninety
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(01:34:57):
jays i Mean, IF toronto I mean toronto's we got a.
Better offense we haven't seen it in this series. So
far seattle has been crushing. The ball they have a great.
Offense too, You're right WHAT am? I saying i'm trying
to talk myself into existence. On this i'm sounding good.
About it naylor's, been great life. Is Pain cal rawley's been, Just.
Okay Right julio rodriguez haz hit a big three run

(01:35:19):
Shot in. Game two your lineup is so freaking deep. It's,
ridiculous yeah. IT'S not, i mean this is just. Problem
is i'm worried about this being a long. TERM issue,
i MEAN can, i know we get we have Had

(01:35:40):
Different world series champions into the last handful. OF years,
I mean i'm a little Nervous at sam's.

Speaker 3 (01:35:45):
Pretty Good car rally's got an ops of a thousand in,
the playoffs so.

Speaker 1 (01:35:50):
He's not doing it necessarily with, home runs but he's
doing with a bunch. Of others two. Home, runs Yeah
m Let's. Go, DODGERS no i don't even, say it by.

Speaker 5 (01:36:06):
The.

Speaker 1 (01:36:06):
Way Uh the spanish voice Of the Rock.

Speaker 5 (01:36:08):
Is.

Speaker 1 (01:36:08):
Adriantobery, oh, no friends for a, LONG time i told
him Let's. Go dodgers you know what he said to,
me back we don't need you oh out, he said
we don't need your cheating fan base to. Support Us.

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
That's funny's not funny.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
AT all i was offended for like thirty seconds until
the plane took OFF and i. Fell, asleep OKAY am i?
RIGHT though, i, mean seriously that's what he said. To
me we don't need. You cheaters, now again he doesn't
represent All a dodger, fan BASE so i want to

(01:36:51):
Make sure i'm clear, on THIS but i thought it
was really rude to him to say. THOSE things, i
mean don't you want his many people on? Your side
or is it like it's you and me against. THE
world i.

Speaker 3 (01:37:03):
DON'T know, I don't. I don't i don't Know how dodger.

Speaker 1 (01:37:05):
FAN thinks i. Just, Don't, okay, well uh Weren't the
dodgers allegenedd?

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
Cheaters?

Speaker 1 (01:37:12):
Too, Oh Yeah? MOOKIE bets i mean On That red? Sox?
Team correct does he Root For? Mookie? Bets yeah oh.
It's hypocritical. Don't worry DON'T.

Speaker 3 (01:37:20):
Nobody i Thought the dodgers, were. Cheating, Didn't well joshua
had kind of hinted, at IT and i think It
Was eric kratz or somebody else who.

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
Said, It well i'll, say This Major league baseball players
have hinted at a lot, of things but nobody wants
to throw anybody under the. Bus directly it's it's the,
sub hinting basically is what. It, is right we do
that in life if WE all i, KNOW this, I
like i REMEMBER when I when i was, grown up
and This, is oh that school definitely cheats to get.

(01:37:48):
That athlete how's that kid? GOING there, I mean i'll
give you a, Great example. Baylor basketball remember How good
baylor basketball was for like. Ten years it's still, pretty.
GOOD right i, was, like no but none of these
kids are going to Go, To waco texas to this small,
Private school baptist school that, doesn't party, doesn't drink and
doesn't believe in. Extracurricular activity when the when the lights,

(01:38:08):
go down and how do they? Do it and then, everyone's,
Like Well scott drew's got to. Be, Cheating Well scott
drew has been checked and over checked, and checked and
you've never been caught. CHEATING ever, i mean they've been
behaving themselves as far as. We know That's what. I'm
saying you get a lot of that as FAR as,
i know but there's always that you can't prove, a
negative you can't prove that they're, not cheating or you
can't convince somebody of something when they've already entrenched and

(01:38:31):
already in. Believing, it yeah but. That's IT so I
just i JUST thought i wanted to bring up is
that you? KNOW there I Think Major league baseball has
said that for a. Long time is that The not
the thought Is the astros were just the ones that.
Got Caught the astros, had well they had The rat
if you could replay the two thousand and, seventeen investigation

(01:38:57):
if you have no, rat ross you still don't have, a, story,
correct right tell Me Where? Mike fires isn't the integral part?
Of this and then if You Eliminate mike fires from,
this conversation there's, no asterisk there's no loss of. DRAFT
Picks aj hinch is probably still. The Manager jeff lunou
for sure is still the. General manager that is a.

(01:39:21):
Great one If If jeff luna was STILL the gm Or,
the astros.

Speaker 3 (01:39:27):
Where would they be?

Speaker 1 (01:39:28):
Right now well probably. DOESN'T matter i well think, about
this they would BE in aj took over, in fifteen
so he would have. Been there he would have been
the manager For the astros for over. A decade he'd
been finishing it was. Twelfth season luna was. Before that

(01:39:51):
how often do you have general managers and managers in,
any sport Much less baseball stick AROUND for, I mean
larusa and who else has been, Long Around bruce bochi's,
been around but they have also had to, move teams
you KNOW what. I mean it wasn't just just TO
be i don't think we could be that naive to

(01:40:12):
think that these two gentlemen would have stayed right where
they would. Have been it'd been nice because they were
the ones that helped construct the heyday Of. The astros, but,
my my my past presser of knowledge of other teams
say that to keep the general manager and the coach
around the manager, that long doesn't it not gonna be?

(01:40:34):
Very likely as long as you, keep winning you'll. Be,
there well so it wouldn't have been it wouldn't have been.
SO abrupt, i mean you just, fly out just fired,
the guys. You, Know, yeah well.

Speaker 3 (01:40:47):
What is luno still working on his? Soccer?

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
Teams, oh yeah good. For, him yep he still is
seven one three two one two five. Seven ninety this
is so we Went from seattle To the dodgers to

(01:41:12):
twenty seventeen and what could have been in. One conversation
we owe you, An, Apology. Houston texas we just we
just took you to lower the lowest depths of. Baseball Depression,
Go Brewers Go, Blue Jays. GO brewers i wonder if
we can say we could we send some like some

(01:41:34):
some messages to the People, of, toronto, like man we
we know you can.

Speaker 5 (01:41:38):
Do it.

Speaker 9 (01:41:40):
The.

Speaker 1 (01:41:40):
PEOPLE anybody i don't care anybody in. THESE clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
I don't think they need. Our motivation they need to
focus on. The game they need to focus.

Speaker 1 (01:41:51):
On Hitting. George kebby this Looks, like George which george
is going to be more of a factor in. Tonight's,
Game george well you went There. TO kirby i. Like
that what is believe oh believe? It not today is
all things? About, Di'angelo right sure you've been working. On,
THAT yes i don't believe that to be accurate? At
all okay seven one three two one two five seven

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ninety seven one three two one TWO. Five Seveninti The
Matt Thomas show ross continues worth you till two o'clock
this afternoon Here On sports talk, seven ninety you gotta
clean up a couple. Of, Things, here ross a friend of,
the show actually Our, coworker grant who is The ultimate texas,
tech fan says subject line. Pocket knife he sends me

(01:42:35):
an email Fake NEWS kansas hc. IS soft i.

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
DON'T know i mean if he had, fine verse uh saying. False,
STATEMENTS yeah i mean that's there's. A difference, i mean
soft kid's complaining about.

Speaker 1 (01:42:54):
The tritillas but if you're saying that you got a
pocket knife directed and it, wasn't true that that's where
you should Get find and if you're the Ad, at
kanas do? You pick do you make your coach pay
that or do you pay YOU say i got you.

Speaker 5 (01:43:07):
In this.

Speaker 1 (01:43:11):
It's twenty five. THOUSAND dollars i MEAN that's, I Mean
leopold i'm sure is making a few, million dollars so
he could definitely. Afford it but he can. Afford. It
yeah and Then our buddykraigavotti sent me a text, that says,
He says i'm about to SAY something i don't necessarily,
Agree with but you, know what each have their. Own
opinions the best we can hope for is a earthquake

(01:43:33):
On the west coast the Cancel The, World series so
we're looking for earthquakes are not, natural disasters they're just
what would you? Call them it's a. Natural, disaster oh
yess it is. Natural disaster now you. Know what earthquakes
cause a lot. OF pain, I mean i, can look

(01:43:53):
we're all gonna have a little bit of a Pain
with Seattle Or los. ANGELES celebrating i. GET it i don't.
WANT that i don't think we, want earthquakes but there's
other people that may be. THINKING it, i mean it's out, You,
there craig but you know it is what it Is,
out yeah you went.

Speaker 3 (01:44:12):
Not, by, Name, jeez okay it was his Name Was
Mark mark Ready and Will on twitter is. Very upset
he's Calling lanceleopol the clown also says it's been going
on for forty Years, since Spikedykes but tech has an
nil spinning spree and is seeing success, from it and
now tortillas are an. Issue coincidence no injuries have, ever

(01:44:33):
occurred no, tortillas salts but it's now detrimental to.

Speaker 1 (01:44:36):
The, GAME yeah i can't imagine if you've ever been
hurt by, a tortilla you would know somebody even.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
Get HURT but, i mean somebody's got to pick that.
STUFF up i guess somebody's picking up. Trash anyways, but, no, no,
sorry no you're the only ones that are throwing food
items on.

Speaker 1 (01:44:53):
The field.

Speaker 3 (01:44:53):
It's ridiculous it's. Been ridiculous this is not the first
time it's come up about. The tortillas nobody has ever
said they don't they make them sneak in. The tortillas
they've been trying to bang the tortillas. For, years well
at FIRST it's i think.

Speaker 1 (01:45:07):
You need to air quote the. Term sneak well why
because let me tell, you This if i'm a because
they're not really looking, that, hard right that's the. Reason. Why,
yeah well let me ask. You this if you don't
bring a bag to, the game and you're Just a,
joe fan where are you putting?

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Those tortillas you know where in, your, crotch? Well?

Speaker 1 (01:45:31):
Armpits what you cannot walk into a stadium with your
shoulders clinched to your side because you're trying to. Protect tortillas?
Why not because that will.

Speaker 3 (01:45:42):
Look awkward you don't have to, clench them you just
hold them there hold your arms to your to, your
side but your arms are at your at.

Speaker 1 (01:45:51):
Your chest that is not a that is not a
fluid motion that you would have you put them in your. Under,
BOOB well, I mean i guess. You could you could
you know what you could. Also do you could also
take a safety pin and pin them to your your
shirt underneath. Your shirt you walk in, unpin them and
then you got the tortillas. That way that feels like just.

(01:46:12):
Too much it feels like just too much effort for
something that's.

Speaker 5 (01:46:16):
Not the.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
Greatest bit in the eighties they were throwing, soda lids.

Speaker 1 (01:46:21):
So they've upgraded. THE tortillas.

Speaker 3 (01:46:23):
I guess, i mean it's been ridiculous since it's, Been,
HAPPENING so, i mean nobody's ever said unless you're Literally
Only red raider fans think. It's great everyone else, is
like what are these? Weirdos, DOING.

Speaker 1 (01:46:37):
Yeah i don't know if anybody finds it. Funny anymore
maybe been funny a couple of times of now it's
just It's just but, but again if you go to texa,
tech person you tell them that, you said that's just
part of what we do and as long as we can,
hurt nobody and we're winning. Football games leave us the.
Hell Alone, hell ross if you're going seven, AND five
i would be throwing. Tortillas, MYSELF yeah i guess. You
gotta you gotta fill the. Time.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Somehow true normally the, touched down the scoreboards going ringing
up like a. Pinball machine, another touchdown giving them By
That texas, TECH defense i thought coach got is a
defense nothing to do in the middle, Of nowhere lubbic.
Bad program you gotta throw. A tortillas my sense of,
BAD program. I DON'T i i still have in. Their, history,
well yeah it's not relative to. Other programs when's their

(01:47:22):
last conference championship?

Speaker 5 (01:47:24):
In?

Speaker 1 (01:47:24):
What well they went to the final four?

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
In basketball so they give him that, in football.

Speaker 1 (01:47:30):
Not that i've. Been, Alive right i'm going to look it.
Up now All The red raider fans are getting Salty.
On twitter, m.

Speaker 11 (01:47:42):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:47:43):
You're looking it's taking. A. While google, google's like we
weren't around last time The texta tech wonted football jump
stud on nineteen oh so it's been only it was
that was when like eight didn't everybody have those are
co championship last outright conference championship was nineteen fifty five.

Speaker 5 (01:48:07):
In The.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
Border conference now they're In The. Border conference whatever. That,
is well we've Won The morn conference in nineteen. Fifty
five and this is the Story At red raid, of history.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
Great friend of the show sending us some mean tweets
telling us what we can do To our That's what. I'm,
saying okay get Over At.

Speaker 3 (01:48:23):
Red raiders you're literally the only fan base that throws
a bunch of stuff. Every game you're smuggling in, these nasty,
funky tortillas poking holes in them and throwing them all over.

Speaker 1 (01:48:34):
The place nobody. Likes it i've never thought much, of
it except if it. Delays, game stunna what do you
got going? On today what's?

Speaker 11 (01:48:45):
Going?

Speaker 5 (01:48:45):
On?

Speaker 10 (01:48:45):
Man, ROLL hey i know you're talking about, them TORTIGAS
but i don't know how to get them in a game, you,
because hey you can barely get stuff in the game
At a.

Speaker 1 (01:48:55):
HUMBLE game i mean. You can't you can't get nothing
Into the. Humble game, but uh it was calling about.

Speaker 10 (01:49:03):
The twenty. Seventeen, team man would any of.

Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
Those Guys be.

Speaker 10 (01:49:12):
Would anybody complain about them if they playing on the
other teams?

Speaker 1 (01:49:15):
Right now even well they are playing. OTHER teams i
mean there are those team that team has players all over.

Speaker 10 (01:49:23):
The, PLACE yeah i mean like twov go Go, to
boston they bow him every time He's. In boston would
they be happy if he's on? That now would they,
be like oh we GOT al tv when he's not achieved.

Speaker 1 (01:49:35):
No more that you know They. Cheer, bregman yeah They
cheer Bregman. IN boston, i Mean if bregnant goes to
play third base With, the yankees they'll be. CHEERING him
i mean it's a there's apocrisy is all over. The
place that happens. IN everything i. Hate it you hate
that guy with any team, he's on as long as
if he's on, your, team like, For Instance, DYLAN brooks
i mean enemy number one IN the nba when he's

(01:49:57):
Playing for memphis or playing for basically Used. To rocket
just THAT is dB to B and dB.

Speaker 10 (01:50:04):
Right right, All right i'm just, YOU know i just like,
you SAID because i hear it all, the time even
to announced of.

Speaker 1 (01:50:12):
Our ability so.

Speaker 6 (01:50:15):
Just one of.

Speaker 1 (01:50:16):
Those days, All, right Well thanks senner for the. Phone, call,
yeah well who's on? That team who's still around from?
That team Springer Al Tuva Bregman. Korea korea minnesota fans
In book korea when he was. A twin i will
guarantee You that lance.

Speaker 3 (01:50:34):
Mccullors, junior no he's always been an. Astro ross i'm
just saying he's still in he's. Still, ACTIVE oh i
see what.

Speaker 1 (01:50:40):
You're, saying okay what? More year that by, the way one,
more year eighteen million dollars gonna be gonna be money
well spent when he wins. Seventeen, games uh Let's See
dallas kichel's knocking around in the. Minor, Leagues Oh, Charlie,
morton yeah Nobody Booed. Charlie Morton charlie's america's hero uncle.

Speaker 5 (01:51:00):
Is.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
Great Uh tony camp, recently retired but he was cheered
By the a's fans when he got his, you know
two home runs, a year and they were just he
was just happy, to say, as.

Speaker 1 (01:51:12):
Yeah it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
Really count you played one, Game THAT as, i said
he doesn't. Really count come, on, now no we uh
we in sports are hypocritical to. The player like, You
Know pat beverly hated everywhere, he went but when he
was on, your squad you. Loved, Him Yes danny ainge way.
Way before that was a guy that you hated.

Speaker 1 (01:51:36):
When it happens all. The Time, Dylan, Brooks dylan. I'M
right i Brought Up dylan brooks already, twenty seventeen estra. His,
roster sorry. THAT'S fine i was Looking At. LUKE gregerson
i don't Think oh luke? Was he The Said. MICHAEL
felice i Forgot About. Michael phali Stop What, Frankie Tuesday,
francis marts.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
The Legendary Tony sip, Oh. Man tony here's. A name
you remember?

Speaker 1 (01:52:03):
This Name. Jandel, gustave nope you Don't remember tyler clipperd.

Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
His.

Speaker 1 (01:52:10):
Rexpecs yes remember he was supposed to be this great
middle reliever and he wound up just being so. Mid,
here yeah. It happens.

Speaker 4 (01:52:20):
Bet.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
A thousand who was the other guy that Was the
astros picked up a couple of years ago that was
supposed to Be the uh he Was? IN seattle i, would,
say Uh Oh. Rafael montaro, no, no, no, no, no
no no, no no this was he Was. A yankee
he tried to come back and.

Speaker 3 (01:52:38):
Got hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:52:40):
Wasn't another reliever in the mix?

Speaker 5 (01:52:42):
That?

Speaker 1 (01:52:42):
Was oh uh the? Setup guy oh y'all are driving, around,
GOING man i know it's It's, DISPRIT oh i know
who you're. Talking, about yeah and he. Was, hurt, yeah
uh please come to our. Rescue this there is a
k in. There, Somewheres Oh. Kennel grayman that's, ye ken there.

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
WE go i.

Speaker 1 (01:53:04):
Got it thank you for the k we. Did.

Speaker 3 (01:53:06):
Together, yeah yeah you get half credit for that.

Speaker 1 (01:53:08):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (01:53:10):
How Little kindy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:11):
GRAYMAN doing i wonder if you know When the astros Had,
their astrofest if There's Any kennell graveman jersey as you can.
GO buy i bet you. WE could i bet you
could just see. You there may, bee BUSY but i
Mean if, I'm around i'll. Do it seven one three
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(01:53:33):
sports empty AT, sports rv and of course our station
account is At sports talksent And a ross is believe it,
or Not today DiAngelo all things, about Him and i'm
afraid To. CHECK twitter i hope we're not getting any
slander from any more text. TECH fans i mean they're
kind of the minority on THIS on i, MEAN again I,
LOVE texas I. Love lubbock But if i'm gonna follow,

(01:53:56):
my SWORD am i gonna follow my sword on? Tortilla
tossing That's all.

Speaker 3 (01:54:00):
I'M asking, i mean it's not that big of, a
deal CERTAINLY because I mean i don't have to deal.

Speaker 1 (01:54:04):
With it but no. Used. To though let me, tell
You old Texas Long, horn fang you had some tough
trips of love itck over. Those.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
Years uh they did quite Well in lubbock most of.

Speaker 1 (01:54:16):
THE time i remember one time a little, LATE now
i remember.

Speaker 3 (01:54:19):
He beat him like fifty two. To fourteen, and okay
we can bring up. The history there's gotta be Something
mac brown's LOST in.

Speaker 1 (01:54:25):
Lovebc before.

Speaker 3 (01:54:26):
Of, course Yeah, the Crabtree the. Crabtree catches basically two
thousand and eight is their their one shining moment when
they didn't even win the conference. That, Year Congratulations. Red
raiders your one shining moment was a game where you
went and got you got your uh you got your
goods thrown by oh you later that year and didn't
even go to the.

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
Conference.

Speaker 3 (01:54:45):
Championship congratulations. M oh by, the way we got a
rocket who we hate or people hated that's.

Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
Now loved you don't think You Hated kevin Duran's A Golden.
State warrior Oh he's.

Speaker 3 (01:54:59):
CHARTI'S chip i Personally Loved kevin durant. The wholeway what's?

Speaker 1 (01:55:04):
Up there, You go Matt at ross with you at twelve.
Fifty two we've got to believe or not coming up
in less than an hour, from now we have uh,
you know We. Need ross we need a. Football game
we Need a. Texans game, It's Coming.

Speaker 3 (01:55:23):
Maddie monday it feels.

Speaker 1 (01:55:27):
Like forever and here's. The reality are we going to
be in a spot where if we go to eighteen,
game schedule we're gonna have two bye weeks? Per year
you would kind of have are? This inevitability are they're
going to eighteen no matter what? YOU think i don't
think no, matter WHAT but, I WOULD but i definitely
think it's more likely, than not because it just feels Like,

(01:55:49):
a look. We live we are a sports talk world
that relies on what just happened, last night and When
the texans haven't played since that Game with Baltimore was october,
the fifth what do? We have we're like ten days
and we're still like five. Days left Till the texans. Play. Again,
YEAH yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:09):
I, just wonder at what point does the attrition from
the injuries does anybody? Take notice because now there's injuries
all over, the, place right and it seems like. Nobody.
CARES no, i mean they.

Speaker 1 (01:56:19):
Talk about player safety and they talk about those types
of things and taking care, of everybody but they just
keep piling, up games they KEEP making i mean they
Had what Christmas on, wednesday night and all these bad
quarterbacks keep going back out there and, backup QUARTERBACKS and
I Mean fred warner just dislocated.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
His Ankle What nick bosa got hurt On the niners
earlier this year. AS well I Mean malik neighbors torn
acl all these. Other Injuries tyreek hill had a, bad
injury and it, just piles piles up and, piles up,
and like, yeah whatever because we, Still watch we still
pick up our, fantasy teams we hit the, waiver wire
pick up whoever the, backup is and we're a big
comany Of a dolphans, or whatever and we just keep.

(01:56:56):
MOVING on i guess it's crazy that the unstoppable machine
that IS, the nfl.

Speaker 4 (01:57:03):
It is the.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
Unstoppable machine it's also a machine that doesn't you know
the backups IN. The nfl you know they're.

Speaker 3 (01:57:10):
Really Bad It's joe Flacko Versus aaron Rodgers On Thursday night.
Football Tomorrow but, I'll look i'm not even necessarily Worry About.
Aaron Rodgers aaron rodgers has been more than suitable as
a Quarterback.

Speaker 1 (01:57:21):
For pittsburgh was It? Justin wall what's? The Game? The jets?
Justin fields? Justin fields he's. Not great he has a
job IN. The nfl ross.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
He's terrible he got a big contract they sent him
to he, Got benched he got Benched, in pittsburgh and
then he got like a, two year forty million dollars
contract or something like that From.

Speaker 3 (01:57:43):
The, jets yeah, two years forty. Thirty, guaranteed yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:57:49):
He's not he's.

Speaker 1 (01:57:50):
Not good he'll never. Be good and yet they he
found a place to go because people are willing to
take Away for aaron's been set up. To fail this
is an. Inside job this. Ain't right so you're you're
calling your shot that he's gonna get a long term tenure.

Speaker 4 (01:58:08):
On, This.

Speaker 3 (01:58:10):
No i'm saying he's been set up. To fail it's
like When the Lakers Hired. Byron scott, they're, like yeah
we'll get this guy for A couple, he's, like Honestly
the Rockets And steven.

Speaker 1 (01:58:18):
Silas he Should, have well that's gonna happen something to.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
Hire this guy to get us to.

Speaker 1 (01:58:22):
THE guy, I mean i kind OF feel i kind
of feel Bad for AARON because, i, mean again so
welly respected as a as a, defensive coordinator and now
it's just like he can't he can't lead. A team
people worried about. HIS leadership, i mean it's just. A mess,
it is and it's an. Absolute mess not that we're

(01:58:43):
were About, the jets, But YEAH i'm i gotta be honest, and,
well look we're trying to we're trying to get through
these murky waters of playoff, less baseball And the rocket
season can't come. Fast enough but even though the excitement
Of next tuesday will be, in play we've got a
lot of work to do to get this in, this
city to BE in ba ready. To go we're a
regular mundane game Against The denver nuggets Or The utah

(01:59:05):
jazz Or The Oklahoma city thunder is going to really move.
The needle Winning the texans to win. Some games and you,
know what their rumors are. Out there they're looking for a.

Speaker 3 (01:59:16):
Running back we got pretty frequent game To game rockets
talk when when they were, Really, humming Yes and.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Kevin's going to, Do that i'm telling you Being, in birmingham,
you know yesterday was supposed To Be new orleans home
game because it's THAT'S Their g league City And zion willimson's. The,
star right people Know who's? Wimson Is kevin durant got
fifteen times the applause that any anybody else on. The
court it's For any rocket and any member Of The,
oklahoma City The New, Orleans pelicans scott.

Speaker 3 (01:59:43):
You have, you know we always talk about people being fans,
of teams are players rather. Than teams you have one of,
those guys one of those short. List GUYS and, i
mean when's the last TIME that I guess you're going
to Back To chris Paul and.

Speaker 1 (01:59:56):
James harden m.

Speaker 3 (02:00:00):
Where there are people across the country who are fans
of your player and come to see.

Speaker 1 (02:00:05):
Your Guy and I'll give katie credit AND like, I
don't i don't have any relationship. With HIM hopefully i can.
Create something we're all we're.

Speaker 3 (02:00:13):
All besties what do, you, mean hey, he said, HE
said archi mand he was gonna turn around an. Sec
play and he also said that he didn't wash your
hand his hand after seeing you back in. The day
it's true there was frankly a warm between the two
of YOU that i that was a little bit.

Speaker 1 (02:00:28):
Jealous, Of, sorry matt well get. Ut ties you both
had one year there and you were. Moved on if
you if you see my profile pick On my instagram AT,
sports rv you can you can see him smiling into
my eyes lovingly or and, JUST regular i mean. Bro
love somebody, asked me, they said have you had have

(02:00:50):
you showed him the video of you Announcing The golden.
STATE team i already told you. This before those guys
don't care about, the lineups that kind. OF thing i
mean that that was, low key perhaps my most iconic
moment as a. P announcer or people still send me
all these they send, Me, messages hey you're ON the
cbs head it's in.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
The rotation they put it like it's one Of the
that's honestly a great feather in, Your. Cap matt because
all these aggregators, and stuff they put things in, a
rotation and they put them up like every, three months
just because, they know they know for a fact it's
gonna get a bunch of likes and mentions and comments
and stuff. Like that they know it's gonna. Go viral
i'm sure there's some kind of social media manager term,
for it like it's gonna go ReViral or you can

(02:01:32):
rehash it. Or, whatever, Right right it's one of, those moments.

Speaker 1 (02:01:37):
And it's. So strange the strangest part of it all
Is that i've. DONE that i did it for years,
that way and the only REASON why i became such
a big deal WAS because tnt carried.

Speaker 7 (02:01:46):
The.

Speaker 1 (02:01:46):
Lineups hmm by, the way when you start seeing these GAMES,
on nbc they'll be carrying. The lineups they're GONNA their
nbc is not necessarily trying to reinvent, the wheel but
add a little to their television broadcast OF.

Speaker 3 (02:02:01):
The nba some people are already upset with the presentation
and the use of round ball rock what are what
are they?

Speaker 1 (02:02:07):
Mad about and they want to make it a little.

Speaker 3 (02:02:08):
Bit big remember the like the laser peacock would come
up and it would be like they would have this.
Little prelude they kind of just go straight, into, yeah
yeah they're kind of just going straight into.

Speaker 1 (02:02:18):
The song.

Speaker 3 (02:02:20):
But we'll see when the when the actual regular we'll
See on It, Was, Tuesday, tuesday YEAH and i was
trying to think of the. Exact, date yeah they roll.

Speaker 1 (02:02:29):
It out, let's. Go baby SO do I do i
have to Stand During oklahoma city's ring? Ring CEREMONY can
i sit in disc and be like the Conscience, You
yeah i'm? Gonna pout are you? KIDDING me i mean they.

Speaker 3 (02:02:41):
Earned it they were the best team. All season they're
one of the best teams in history terms of point
did they have the best point differential ever?

Speaker 1 (02:02:47):
All, time right but, You know i'll tell you this
about this real quick before we at. The top they
are if Shake kills alexander is going to the free
throw line fourteen times again, per game that's gonna get.
Really irritating you catch breast year. Mm.

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
Hm well the good thing Is the rockets are. Better
defensively they're gonna be physical. Without fouling or actually they're
so physical that the rest, are, like eh we can't. Call,
everything yeah, all right let's get the final hour started
Of The Matt thomas Show.

Speaker 1 (02:03:17):
With ross what are y'all thinking? About today are y'all
in the, SPORTS malaise i mean we we're not in
the malays. As well start to Talk. About matt, All
right we're gonna let you lead off the one o'clock
hour with, your topic the top topic of the one. O'clock,
hour okay? You, Ready Yeah DeAngelo believe it? Or not
one fifty today mm hmm seven one three two one

(02:03:38):
two five seven ninety seven one, three two one two
five seven ninety Is The Matt thomas Show. With ross
Matt at ross with You On sports talk seven ninety
one hour left. To go we've got to believe it.
Or not at one fifty all things About. The angelo

(02:04:00):
we have the game number three In The American League
championship series Tonight in seattle With the mariners up two games.
To none rockets on the practice court, to today just wrapping.
Things up they'll be back at action tomorrow Against The
atlanta hawks to close up. The Preseason next tuesday is
the start of the. Regular Season the texans are on
the practice field today getting Ready for monday night's game

(02:04:22):
Against The. Seattle seahawks, and again those of you that
were worried about BEING on espn plus Two things Number
one channel eleven is going to have the local broadcast,
of it so you're safe. On that at, NUMBER two
i thought it was you said thirteen or is? IT eleven.
I did i thought thirteen would by de facto. Get
it but IT'S it's i saw Somebody said channel eleven is,
Getting good so which is WEIRD because Abc owns. Channel thirteen.

(02:04:44):
Mm hmm maybe they still to bid, it out, Who
knows but it doesn't really matter at this point because
if you if you don't live In the houston area
and you were worried, about, buying uh it's on THE
mainstream espn, network now so they have bumped it OFF
The espn plus. ALL right i think a lot of
it is BECAUSE the espn pluses so many people will
have it now that it's just kind, of like what
Do we. We're not no one's, Gonna, GO oh i

(02:05:06):
gotta BUY That espn plus PACKAGE so i can Watch
the Texans and seahawks at Nine o'clock. CENTRAL time. I
am i know. You are i'll Be In oklahoma city
ready to watch that wonderful break? It down, All right
so what have we got for you to start the one?
O'clock hour Sports?

Speaker 3 (02:05:20):
Are, yeah matt we can talk About the rockets and
there win Over The New, orleans pelicans and a couple
of intriguing things to me about. This team they went
with the jumbo package Lineup With amen thompson as the.
SHORTEST player, i mean how much are we going to
see that in a? Starting lineup. I'm curious we can
talk about how much are we going to? See that
as far as uh minutes during a game there Already,
WAS oh i lost. The tweet there was a guy

(02:05:43):
UH an nba reporter talking about How the rockets won.
That lineup the jumbo lineup Outscored the pelicans like seventy
to thirty five or something like that during. The game like,
it was it was a beat down out with the
jumbo lineup For. The rockets and also a couple. Of
things i'm interested in the shooting prowess of one of Them.

(02:06:06):
In thompson, so far, so good even though it is
early in. The preseason And read shepherd in his role
he was three for six and three yesterday with thirteen points.
AS well i Thought for reid it was not not
a star setted, stat page but it was like give
me that for.

Speaker 1 (02:06:21):
Read every Night and i'll be more. Than happy does
that make sense? TO you i. Think.

Speaker 3 (02:06:25):
So yeah nineteen minutes, thirteen points did turn the ball
over FOUR turn i, would say if we're looking for an,
achilles heel would be. The turnovers six of Them For,
albrunching goon three for Them, in thompson Four For.

Speaker 1 (02:06:36):
Reed shepherd to your. Central point the, plus minuses now
that's a that's not a, real indicator but it's a it's.

Speaker 3 (02:06:44):
A metric it can be a flawed.

Speaker 1 (02:06:46):
For sure. For sure so when you when you're on
the floor and your, team scores you get. Plus points
if you give, up points you. Lose points so you
obviously want to be on the plus. Minus side, Last Night,
steven adams in twenty four minutes on, the floor had
a plus. Twenty six so the team was twenty six,
points better RIGHT am i reading? That right twenty six
points better than when he wasn't on. The Floor jabari

(02:07:10):
smith was a plus, twenty three a lot of that
because he was doing the. Scoring himself he had twenty
six points. Last Night kevin durant was a. Plus Thirteen
alprin chingu was a plus seventeen even though he turned
the ball over, six times And men thompson was a. Plus,
Eleven Conversely clint Capella And josha kogie were both minus.
Twenty Threes aaron holliday was a. MINUS. Thirteen jd davison

(02:07:33):
was trying to make, that backup backup guard spot was
on the floor twelve minutes and it was a. Minus
twelve so there you. Have it, COME. On jd yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:07:44):
It was It Was nate duncan who was putting up
the stats Of The houston rockets how effective. They were
he's calling it the Hashtag double big for life lineup
Just Outscoring. NEW orleans, I sorry i had the numbers kind,
of off, way off seventy three forty Seven with Adams
and changoon in Together With jabari smith it was fifty four.

Speaker 1 (02:08:06):
To thirty you can love, on that but it's not
gonna happen. A lot i don't think it's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (02:08:10):
A lot, it's nice it's gonna be. Matchup dependent they
can't play it.

Speaker 1 (02:08:14):
Against everybody if you wanted to do it and you
Didn't Have steven adams available, to You Could clint capella.

Speaker 4 (02:08:20):
DO it i.

Speaker 1 (02:08:20):
Don't Know. IT'S clinton i.

Speaker 3 (02:08:22):
THINK so i think that's one of the reasons he was.
Brought in absolutely for them to. Try it i'll give,
You this they're gonna at least try it and. Coach
you joke's gonna see if.

Speaker 1 (02:08:29):
IT works, i mean it's so funny that so many
people were off Like Like, john hollander if an athletic
was off put. By, that yeah, but, okay again you have.

Speaker 3 (02:08:41):
Versatile defender you guys got Like A men thompson can
guard and you're first, of all you're gonna. Play Zone
kevin durant can. Guard guards now how effective in this
stage of his career is up. For debate But A
men thompson can. Guard Anybody Jabari smith junior doesn't do
poorly Against guards Shingoon. And, adams okay but you're generally.
Zoning up you're not playing like switch everything man defense
and in those in Those lineups thompson and guard, Multip

(02:09:08):
Positions jabari smith gives you a professional. Defensive Effort tarre
easton is going to just make your life miserable as
as much as he can when. He Plays kevin durant
isn't a plus, defender anymore but he certainly lengthwise is
going to just still be, a presence right your. HARASSED
shooters i, mean everybody everybody basically has like a seven
foot plus wingspan on. That lineup as we talk about height,

(02:09:30):
as well and but one of the things we need
to talk, about too of course. Is wingspan i'm pretty
sure wingspan is overset a decent wingspan or Is read
shepard he intercepts passing lanes not, pretty well all.

Speaker 1 (02:09:42):
Things considered that was that was one of his calling
cards when he was playing college Basketball, at kentucky was
that he is not going to be the speedy enough
guy to go over there and get and collapse. On
people but if he knows what passes headed, that way
he's Ahead of he had what do you have? Last
night he had let's looking at his, Numbers here reed,

(02:10:02):
had one, you know one steal four turnover is, not
great but he can, he can he can stop the
ball away if he. Needs to had a block, shot
too as a matter, of fact on a.

Speaker 3 (02:10:10):
Perimeter, Three yeah so, wingspan wise you have A men thompson,
Seven Foot kevin durant seven, Foot Plus jabari smith, as
Well and Adams and SHINGOON have, i, mean yeah so
you can you can zone up, With That and.

Speaker 1 (02:10:24):
I'm gonna be honest. With you we're just naturally ROSS
and i are just naturally excited about the season. Coming up.

Speaker 3 (02:10:30):
It's intriguing how's the big lineup? Gonna, Workup Yeah Cane
inn thompson make that leap? Is reed shepperd gonna be able. To,
grow i'm, Of course i'm just A big rockets fan
and basketball fan. In general, but yes it's intriguing.

Speaker 1 (02:10:40):
To me let me tell. You something you know who's.
Not intrigued but there's about fifteen teams IN the nba
that are already thinking about. SIXTY losses i Guarantee You
Charlotte sports arado is not getting into, a deep bright
breakdown of what, the pelic What the hornets are gonna do?
This year we got something, special potentially is?

Speaker 4 (02:10:57):
It?

Speaker 1 (02:10:57):
Guaranteed no Is the? West? Ferocious ABSOLUTELY but i mean
coming off of just what the team did, last year
everybody should. Be excited seven one three two one two five.
Seven nine if you want to get in on, the
conversation we are more than welcome to have you on
this radio. Show today seven to one to three two
one two five seven. Nine ZERO as, I mentioned texans

(02:11:20):
are back on the. Practice field we got an interesting
sleight of college football weekend of college football. Coming up
and by, the way you were talking earlier about the,
television RATINGS the sec dominates viewership in. College football that's no.
Breaking news but you know it's always The, thought rosses
IT'S the sec and It's a big ten and. Everybody

(02:11:40):
ELSE the sec is pulling away From the big ten
when it comes. To viewership and you know who's, Noticing That. Greg.
Sankie Absolutely greg sankey, is like, oh yeah, it's, like
oh you want to be one in one.

Speaker 3 (02:12:01):
A Huh big ten's, like yeah. We're brothers we we
are in. This together we, uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:12:10):
You know greg, ZEKIS like i will dictate what we
do for the future of college Athletics and. Big ten
if you want to, come along. That's fine i'm not
sit you here Asking a big ten Network and i'll see.
You later. Mm hmm now you've got private equity companies
trying to buy. These leagues oh, MY god i didn't.
Know That hor you know what private equity they're just, Their,
businesses yes well that's what they, are ALREADY but i

(02:12:30):
mean justeting. And worse you know what private Equities. DO
ross i don't know if you know this. Or not
they buy companies and they trim the fat, mm hmm. Maximize,
profits so with no disrespect To what vanderbilt is doing
this year, in football if, as he if a private

(02:12:51):
equity Firm, buys vanderbilt they're Gonna tell Vanderbilt, in Kentucky
In south carolina to get the. Hell out if You're a,
big ten If the big ten is bought by, private
equity they're Gonna, tell, illinois shoot, Go, away northwestern we don't.
Need you go go run in a little.

Speaker 3 (02:13:08):
Private league it'll be interesting to see this this how
kind of a lot of this shakes out in five
and ten years and down.

Speaker 4 (02:13:14):
The ROAD.

Speaker 1 (02:13:16):
But i feel like YOU and i doing this show
five or ten, Years, ago, LIKE man i can't wait
for this thing to shake out five or. Ten years
and you know what. It's been it's watched the Games,
on saturday we've and. Everything else we.

Speaker 3 (02:13:25):
Still do but there have been. MASSIVE changes, i mean
this nil stuff and all this, conference REALIGNMENT and, i, mean, yeah,
what yeah what.

Speaker 1 (02:13:33):
Is the next shoot? To drop if you really wanted
to get the crystal, ball out the next shoe to
drop is the splitting up OF, the ncaa but taking
the twenty five or thirty teams that are the that
are the ones that draw the eight point eight, million
viewers the ones that fill up the, Television contracts and,
they're saying we're not gonna give it. To everybody you

(02:13:55):
don't get a piece.

Speaker 3 (02:13:55):
Of, this yeah they've already kind of effectively locked out
a lot of The school.

Speaker 5 (02:14:01):
But.

Speaker 1 (02:14:01):
You, can't.

Speaker 3 (02:14:04):
Man would you make a league of like the thirty
basically make it like a professional league the thirty to
thirty two best programs historically in some kind of mega
conference where it's almost like the where you have conferences.

Speaker 1 (02:14:17):
And, divisions yeah, Just insane just. Absolutely insane, all right?
What sixteen you want to? Chime in we want to hear.
From you ROSS and i have talked a lot to.
Each other we like each other's company, generally speaking but
we want to hear from you. As well seven one
three two one two five seven ninety seven one three two.
One TWO did i hear you're smirking? Back, THERE nope i.

(02:14:38):
DID it I think i Did a. HARRY smirker i. Was, gasping,
Okay yeah, I'm, great josh give HIM Some Cp wiffleball
championships ON the ocho. Right now i'm, Not.

Speaker 9 (02:14:46):
Qualified so you might have a broken rib TRYING. To
cpr you don't want to break. MY ribs i don't
mean to get.

Speaker 1 (02:14:53):
ALL serious i already got a sor oblique just from
literally laying the. Wrong way don't ALL? Learn, cpr yeah
what'd you think i'd? Learned it and like? HIGH school
I think i haven't HAD a cpr lesson since nineteen.
NINETY two i don't know what The hell. I'm, doing yeah, We,
should yah we should get somebody. IN here.

Speaker 3 (02:15:08):
I think you have to go out one sixty. Beats
perce you can do it, for, free right can't get some?
Ems people you can go HERE A cps. Cpr class
we should.

Speaker 5 (02:15:17):
Do SO.

Speaker 1 (02:15:17):
Celebrity cpr I'll Bring inho hotty IN. From mlb you
can bring. Somebody in you can cut to check.

Speaker 4 (02:15:21):
For that.

Speaker 1 (02:15:24):
What twenty Four On sports, TALK seven i let's go
to the phone to talking to great People, Of. Houston,
texas ryan you're, on, seven honey thank you. For winning
what's on your mind? This?

Speaker 4 (02:15:32):
Afternoon yes thanks for taking?

Speaker 1 (02:15:34):
My, CALL sure i can't have.

Speaker 4 (02:15:36):
Three questions the first Pertains. To texans the last two Pertains.
To rockets my first question With, the texans If The
miami duncans called right now to have a Trade for
tua straight up FOR C, j strout will you be?
Doing it and my second question is With, the rockets
where do you rank them Among THE texas nba teams?

(02:15:59):
This year and who would your top? Three Be and
i'll shut up, and listen.

Speaker 1 (02:16:03):
Thank, You, ryan okay number one TOUR. For cju i'm
Assuming you're i'm doing multiple lines of cocaine during this
Or what i'd be? Completely.

Speaker 3 (02:16:14):
Sober mushrooms.

Speaker 1 (02:16:20):
HERE'S what i. Would be i'd be. Sniffing glue there.
You go i'd be taking large amounts, of ROOFIES and
i would have the blood alcohol level of that guy
that was eating a SANDWICH at a AND m o with.
A weekend feel, About right it's? About. Right okay second

(02:16:43):
question was About the Texas teams, Rockets, one, Mavericks two. Spurs,
three now granted a lot Of that maverick would be
whether Or Not anthony david is healthier that you could
make the argument for any team being in, any POSITION

(02:17:05):
but i play With the. Rockets, one now you absolutely could.

Speaker 3 (02:17:08):
FOR sure, i Mean wimb wimby is he's, looking, Stronger
taller and of course the question is always going to
be is he going to be able to? Stay healthy
but as long as he's on, the floor.

Speaker 1 (02:17:22):
He's going to.

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
Be ridiculous he.

Speaker 1 (02:17:24):
Just, IS.

Speaker 3 (02:17:28):
Yeah, i mean he played forty six games. Last year
his three point percentage. Improved thirty if he can shoot
thirty five honestly thirty five percent, from three which he did,
last year and if that gets, EVEN better i don't
even want to think. About it he's basically twenty four
and eleven and a basically going to Be A defensive

(02:17:49):
player Of the year candidate every. Single year he's gonna
finish top three and The defensive player Of the year.
Every year he's healthy. Every, YEAR.

Speaker 1 (02:17:56):
Yeah, I look i think discounting him because of his body. Is,
foolish yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:18:05):
We, can't well we can't, Predict, INJURY matt, i know
but there have been. He doesn't there's there's, a long
storied history of precedent of guys his height who have.

Speaker 1 (02:18:16):
Broken, down yeah who is the healthiest guy seven four seven? Five, Plus,
okay well let's talk about let's think about the. Seven
footers we gave a damn about in. Our life samson numerous, Problems,
back yes his, career yao ming. Serious problems seven foot

(02:18:39):
you can kind of be okay if you have the
Body like jokic carries that baby fat is, All, right.

Speaker 3 (02:18:44):
Yeah but he's listening at. Seven five let's think of
guys LIKE seven, I mean i guess Was Was?

Speaker 1 (02:18:47):
Mark eaton? Pretty Durable mark et, was durable but he
also didn't have to command anything on the. Offensive side
he was just premier primarily a shop locker and. A,
rebounder um this is let me go look UP r.
VDA bonis, i mean we're. Having it we're having to
bonus his best days IN the nbas and he probably

(02:19:09):
was before he JOINED.

Speaker 3 (02:19:10):
The, nba yeah and then he still didn't play a Ton,
of yeah HE. Played atil he was thirty Eight. For
portland he was playing like sixty to sixty five to
seventy games. A.

Speaker 1 (02:19:23):
Year uh David robb how Tall Was. David robbins he's.

Speaker 3 (02:19:26):
Like seven seven.

Speaker 1 (02:19:27):
TO one i. Think, so no it seemed to be just.
Wasn't good no kind about guys that we actually. Cared
about robins had A great Nba Career sean bradley played.
A while was He? Always sean but he wasn't very,
Good rest but he was a terrible. Offensive player the
biggest problem for those guys when you get the seven
three Seven four rossie is carrying. The weight they just

(02:19:47):
can't they can't put enough. Weight On sean bradley was
playing a lot of games until he was, thirty two
but was never considered anybody that you could use offensively. For,
sure no he was. Playing eleven He, never yeah he's
playing like ten to fifteen minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:20:03):
Per game is the end of?

Speaker 5 (02:20:03):
His?

Speaker 1 (02:20:03):
Career, yeah right seven one three two one two five
Seven ninety if you want to chime in seven one
three two one two five seven nine zero seven one
three two one two five seven ninety one twenty eight is, Our,
time rossy our pick our Fuddy king tarot thirty four
gave us a. Good Example christaps forzincis Of The. Atlanta

(02:20:25):
Hawks so i'll see here. Tomorrow night he can't. Stay
healthy seventeen he's been, Breaking, down yeah was? He he?
He was he's seventy three seven two. Seven two they
listed at can Score can he's got nine hundred blocks
IN his nba career nine hundred. Three pointers that's. Pretty
good that's a, great combination but. Match play and by,

(02:20:45):
THE way i was not able to confirm what you
said about him when we talked about him, Last Week, Chris, Tops.
YEAH porzingis i didn't say anything about, that him about
why he was missing with? Mystery illness was this me
you were talking with? THIS about i thought it. WAS

(02:21:06):
you i thought we were talking about because, you know
he got he was gone for a lot of the
playoffs Of the celtics and, they're like where? Is he
and then not? Feeling good what's the matter? With me got, the, FLU? Cold? Covid, what, No,
no no. That's it THAT'S all i can SAY because i.
JUST couldn't. I couldn't there were there are some mean
rumors about there out there.

Speaker 3 (02:21:25):
ABOUT him i remember the, mean RUMOR but i actually
actually can't remember exactly what.

Speaker 1 (02:21:29):
It was i'm not gonna say it. On there let's
go to. The phones Talk to vince in midtown at one. Thirty, Six, Hi, vince,
hey guys how are? Y'all?

Speaker 5 (02:21:37):
DOING hey i want To ask matt what his Impression
Of jordan pool, was yesterday Because, BE frank i was watching,
THE game i didn't Even realize pool, was playing and and,
YOU know i heard The, name POOL but i wasn't
sure the. Same guy and then the, SECOND wife i realized,
it's him and, it's like he's not jacking up shots

(02:21:58):
and we shot. Ten shots he sees he's. Very subdued
so what was your take on, seeing him, you, know
uh playing playing For The New. Orleans, pelicans, NOW.

Speaker 1 (02:22:07):
Yeah i don't think he's. ANYTHING different i think he
is he is who. He is he's going to be
a guy that's gonna be easy to easy, to trade
doesn't make a lot. Of money he scores a lot,
of POINTS but i don't think he's gonna get you
with a hump. AND anything, i mean he's gonna run point,
for them uh and does a pretty. Decent job, BUT yeah,
I really i mean he Was in washington and just

(02:22:29):
scored a bunch of points and the team sucked the,
no end so there's. Nothing there and then obviously he
had that well documented altercation With The draymond green, AND
yeah i, AL says i haven't heard like this kid.
IS misunderstood, i mean, YOU know i hate him already
because he's the one that hit the shot Against the
cougars And against michigan way. Back Then the cougars are
going to. The tournament so if You think i'm gonna shot, a, teer,

(02:22:53):
YEAH no I just i think he's. Very talented it
just seems like his head is just. JUST totally i
did a little bit, of CHECKING and i would, say,
that uh he Is not rossie as we would like.
TO say a program builder put it, That, way yeah. Program, Builder,
right yeah thanks for the, Phone. CALL vince i it's
a good it's a good. Conversation, point yeah he, could score,

(02:23:15):
No question, but hell ross there's so many guys that
that in sports that are just the stat sheets. Look
great but He then i'm gonna do anything.

Speaker 5 (02:23:24):
For you.

Speaker 1 (02:23:26):
The intangibles are not going to be are not going to.
Be there, SO yeah I don't i don't ANTICIPATE the
i Think the pelicans are are going to be a
mid team. At best first, Of all zion's got to play.
Seventy games we know that he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:23:42):
Do, that hey he's done, it before allegedly took a.

Speaker 1 (02:23:50):
Bonus game but, you know if you want to continue
to follow your sword on, that one it's.

Speaker 3 (02:23:55):
Just funny TO say, i, KNOW man, i Mean the
pelicans aren't. Without Talent.

Speaker 1 (02:24:04):
Dejoontay murray's not gonna be back for. A while he's.
Still Hurt trey. Murphy's Good herb jones IS solid. NBA
player i would Have Taken trey murphy For the rockets and.
A Heartbeat herb jones is a fun name. To say
it sounds like you're talking about the, Nineteen seventies like
how many herbs are there right now in? This World,
Herbert's no i'm just talking plain. Old, herb yeah under

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the age of twenty five, OR no i guess he's twenty,
SEVEN now i just pulled. It, up okay under the age.
Of thirty can you name a Herb? Justin, herbert nope, Doesn't,
COUNT no. I can't, it's him. That's it you know
what herb used to be the bit back in. The
seventies Now. It's jalen's. That's true Forty nine jalens running

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around this world everywhere. You go i'll spelled forty nine.
Different ways you got? That right steven with us at
one thirty nine on seven out Of. Hearing Atlanta G, Hi, stephen,
hey guys how you?

Speaker 12 (02:25:03):
Doing today appreciate.

Speaker 5 (02:25:04):
It.

Speaker 12 (02:25:06):
Good YEAH so i haven't been able to watch or
listen to most of the, preseason GAMES and i just
wanted to kind of get your. Guys, takes, like obviously,
it's preseason so you don't want to put too much,
into it, but like what are some of the things
that you've seen that you? Really like OBVIOUSLY besides Kd And,

(02:25:27):
rockets jersey, but like what are some of the things
that you've seen that maybe could be issues with this.

Speaker 5 (02:25:32):
Team and the.

Speaker 13 (02:25:33):
Regular season do you think that they are going to
have trouble scoring on Nights where katie is like sitting
out for. LOAD management i just kind of wanted to
get your your takes on on what you've seen, so far,
And uh i'll listen and up appreciate.

Speaker 1 (02:25:49):
You guys. Thank, you uh what would be the storylines
for me would be how much Better read shepherd is
today than he was all last Year and i'm not
going to go that figured out during the regular, the
preseason How much emay goes to the double, big lineup
and what combinations happened to that is A men thompson's

(02:26:11):
perimeter game in The. Preseason rush you brought this up
early in the show it's been. Frankly spectacular, but again
three press in games is, not small very small. Sample
size shoe motions. Looking Good jabari smith has got a brand.
New contract is you want to live up? To that
and so far very small. Sample size he's. Done that, what,
Else Uh Dorian? Finney smith when he's healthy and ready,

(02:26:35):
to go what kind of impact does? He make does
he level things out in terms of adding another guy off,
the bench or do you can use spots start him
when you're going against some different types. Of lineups it's
it's been kind, of, Fun honestly i've, enjoyed it but still,
too many too many, question marks because not because Of,
the rockets it's because what is life going to Be

(02:26:56):
without Fred? VAN vliet i mean it? Isn't? It is he?
Ross week we got a fair Amount of Fred van
vliet hate. Last, year yeah he's shooting? So much why
is he? Doing this all the guy, did was first,
of all was your best offensive player In The golden state?

Speaker 3 (02:27:11):
Playoff, series yeah there are bad takes when they, were
happening and then yeah in the playoffs he shut the.
Haters up he.

Speaker 1 (02:27:17):
Certainly did and he's thirty five minutes even when he's
not scoring and he.

Speaker 3 (02:27:21):
Can't shoot he is important to, this team and unfortunately
he's gone for. The, year yeah so who inherits those?

Speaker 1 (02:27:30):
Backup minutes and how much do You want do you
want A mend thompson? Running point how Much Can read
shepherd to? Do that do you want? A hybrid do
you Want? REED shepherd, i mean Is reach shepherd in
the starting? Flowing up is he? A first is he
backing up? A men does a men start the game
at the two garden and flip over the point like
what they used to do when they used To Have
chris Paul and james hard on the floor at the. Same, time,

(02:27:51):
well yeah when.

Speaker 3 (02:27:52):
You say who's gonna, be pointing you're saying who's gonna initiate?
The offense and you can initiate Offense With, kevin durant
you can initiate Offense With alprin Shingun, Or men Thompson.

Speaker 1 (02:27:59):
Or, shepherd yeah you've all. GOT ball i Mean Men
apprin shinggoon a half dozen times brought the ball up
in front, court yesterday and he'll do. THAT again i
mean he turned, it over turned it over. Six times
let's not let's not bringing that in the case part
of the that's part of the equation because the assistant
turnover Ratio for fred, was. EXCELLENT excellent i mean there

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were nights where he'd have like nine assists in. ONE turnover,
i mean you're supposed to be three and a half.
To one two and a half is. Really good three
and a half to one puts, you in, not leap
but puts you in upper echelon. Point guard anything above
that and you are just you just take tremendous care of.
The basketball. Mm Hmm, so fred we. MISS you i

(02:28:44):
WANT to I miss fred. Being around fred was always
so nice on the. POSTGAME show i always told. You
this he didn't we didn't care where what city we.
Were in he wanted to. See me. THAT'S beautiful i
would like be like five hundred feet away from. The
basket where are, you at? Upper deck way up. High
nosebleed oh there, you are he. Sees me never offered
me a two. Shoe though James In league city at

(02:29:09):
one forty three on, Seven Hoey, Hello, James, hey.

Speaker 4 (02:29:12):
Matt how are you?

Speaker 1 (02:29:13):
Doing? Good sir how are?

Speaker 12 (02:29:14):
YOU good i just want to see what your thoughts
Arerow About.

Speaker 1 (02:29:17):
Darren womack Who Is. Darren walmack you Don't Know.

Speaker 10 (02:29:24):
Darren, Walmack matt oh Is This matt?

Speaker 4 (02:29:26):
Thomas?

Speaker 1 (02:29:27):
Show yes, Uh no i'll just give you a.

Speaker 12 (02:29:31):
HARD time i just wanted to call and uh just
now's your buttons a? Little, bit hey great?

Speaker 1 (02:29:36):
Show, Man? Okay wow Who Is. Darren, Walmack well i'm just.
Googled it, he well one of them died in twenty.
Twenty five, oh jeez, all right let's. Move on let's.
GO on I Know.

Speaker 3 (02:29:54):
Bobby Womack Who? Bobby, womack okay, Come, On Matt bobby
womack had?

Speaker 1 (02:30:01):
The Hits? Uh mac? The, knife no not.

Speaker 4 (02:30:05):
THAT guy.

Speaker 1 (02:30:08):
I guess they're supposed.

Speaker 3 (02:30:09):
To BE was i supposed to read between the lines
And the DARREN wall i don't Know Who darren. WOMACK
is i think he was just making up a name
and messing.

Speaker 1 (02:30:14):
With, you oh they. Didn't, work no let's play believe it.
Or not it's next seven one three two one two
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but We needed we've been doing Something every wednesday for
the first handful of weeks OF the. Nfl season, uh,
huh yeah what's going on With our texans offensive? Line grades, Pff,
Baby oh.

Speaker 3 (02:30:50):
I'M sorry i thought you wanted to do a quiet
storm with Some more bobby.

Speaker 1 (02:30:55):
For you we're gonna Do some, uh oh is that
what the guy was? ASKING about i, Don't, know no,
He Said.

Speaker 3 (02:31:01):
DARREN wimack a lot of babies Conceived To bobby womack in.

Speaker 1 (02:31:04):
The seventies? What song what group do you think you?
Were consuming still what you, heard me let's see nineteen,
eighty four.

Speaker 3 (02:31:16):
Probably The.

Speaker 1 (02:31:17):
Gap BAND so I am june, seventy two which means
what my mom and dad would Have been october. Seventy,
One Oh. Joni mitchell. MAYBE hm i DON'T think i want.
To ask as a matter, Of fact i'm not going. To,

(02:31:37):
ask well you brought, It up well you're talking about.
Baby MAKING.

Speaker 3 (02:31:44):
Yeah, I DID but i didn't say what song were you?
CONCEIVED to i.

Speaker 1 (02:31:48):
Don't know just let's taken it a. LITTLE further i
hope people. Don't know what were we talking about before?
All This, Bobby, womack yeah?

Speaker 3 (02:31:56):
Filfth, Grade, oh, OKAY yeah i know it was supposed
to be looking.

Speaker 1 (02:31:59):
Something up but you want this?

Speaker 3 (02:32:01):
Right, now no we'll save it. For, Tomorrow, OKAY well
i mean they didn't play, last week so.

Speaker 1 (02:32:07):
They had to. Move, up correct could have got?

Speaker 2 (02:32:09):
Any?

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