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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Yeah, lunchtimers. This is the Matt Thomas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Show ten oh two n h Town.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Good morning everyone, ed Welcome two eight Tuesday edition of
The Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
Rebound has picked up luck with the free throw line
of Van Bleek cross court left side. The Jalen Green
lamp attemp is up and in and there's five thousand
NBA points and then some for Jalen Green. As a
Rockets have a four to nothing advantage. Jalen a couple
of steps beyond me and Cory met thereby Salon shot
clock gets seven screen set by Jay Sean. Jalen goes
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three point line right with three with two gotta put
something up.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Here comes the side pocket for Van Bleet.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Three pointer as a buzzer goes off and it makes
it sixty two to thirty one. My goodness, Hunter hand
flip over to Fred Van Bliet met there by Ball
lobs it to his left for Shingoon gathers it back
out to Fred.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Euro steps his way now hands it up up and
under layup of the left hand is sweet off the
glass for two more points for Fred Van Fleet had
to rebou.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Honest Steven Adams upsid here comes to that time.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
So Rompson down the harle lane, Eurosteps is weighing and
Champs it down. Good gracious, what a hammer that time
as he went over to kwon Jeffreys with the deuce's
ten seconds left to go in the contest, can win more?
Brings it across the timeline. Two pre Christmas road games
before a little break and Ladies and Gentlemen two straight.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Rocket road winds.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Final score Houston one fourteen and Charlotte one on one
in a game that frankly would never be as close
as a score indicate. I was having to go to
film material so much that I brought up Rossville Reale
my Rockets through your network broadcast.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Things were going quite slow, I imagine, or I can tell.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
Actually I could.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Hear the horne. It suck.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I mean, how the hell did the Rockets losing them
an opening night? That's all I could think about during
the game last night.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I mean, there is a lot of good about the NBA,
but that wasn't what I saw, and I didn't see
it the night before in Toronto. God bless it, Thank
god the Rockets won those games. That'd have been terrible,
terrible losses. Happy Christmas Eve sports, Harvey.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
How the hell are you?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I'm doing great, Matthew. How are things in wherever you.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Are in the world. I'm in the Kingwood Studios. Oh okay,
I'm damn ass tired.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
But other than that good. What time do you guys
get back from the Orleans?
Speaker 7 (02:36):
Like?
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Nothing?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Too bad?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Rand I'm gonna this is gonna shock you. Matt ran
into some traffic, got it ten on the way back?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Uh? Can I guess where? Yes?
Speaker 5 (02:46):
You can?
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Can I say in Lafayette with the.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Lafayette is exactly correct?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Actually, yeah, it's it's it's a bad spot, Lafiot.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I mean you can hit Ben Rouge Lafayette, There'll be
the random Lake Charles construction.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
It's just everywhere. It's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I think Lafayette is almost a guarantee that you're gonna
run in some issues.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
For some reason, literally had to go and take a
detour off roading. You know, how ways does matt They
see you like six miles off the main road, which
same thing for an eighteen wheeler in front of us.
It's a two lane road on a sharp curve. He
tries to take it, can't make it and stops everybody
behind us, and then he had to.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Back all the way up. He's honking at us to
back up.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Oh my god, Now who did you have in the car?
And who was the most calm of the situation and
who was the one that was like freaking dropping.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
I think everybody was pretty calm. It was my it
was a family, and then my lady, so we were
all together.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Okay, yeah, so uh yeah, I would not have been
in a good spot. First of all, I don't like
driving to the office, much less driving in through Lafayette.
But you know, at least you stopped off and got
to some cracklines and dropped Chris Gordy's name and got
you like a buy one freew.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
We didn't get no boot in and no cracklings.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yikes. All right, So New Orleans? Did you was the
is the World War Two Museum? Awesome?
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
It is incredible. It's extremely modern, it's very informative. There's
six have you been or heard of it? Have I
been to the museum about five or six years ago.
I'm not a big museum person, big history person, but.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
As you know, my middle son Peyton is Yes, and
we had a fantastic time.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Yeah, there's six buildings.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
I literally at least all three of them in five hours,
So I need to go back.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, it's good. It's a good thing. It's a it's
a hidden gem of the New Orleans area.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Oh well, I mean everybody that they have billboards all
over the place. I think it's getting it's getting pumped up.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
And then you went and took some sports bets of
ours and.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
We didn't last what twenty minutes with any of them,
I don't think.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes, now that we're on air, and then the parlay
lost anyways, I can make a confession. I accidentally clicked
the wrong button on one of our poor parloy bets,
but we would have lost anyways. Yeah, I meant to
take Penn State over SMU, but we would have lost
anyways by half point on on Clemson.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Well, the reality is this, and we've talked about this
before for those that like to bet, if you're betting parlays,
you're just asking you to get your ass kicked, right,
I mean that is correct, the big ones especially.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
It just but it seems kind of think about this
when you are sitting with.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Your buddies and you're talking about three or four games.
Don't you feel like you get them right when you're
just talking with your buddies. Oh yeah, I had the
Steelers beating the Ravens. Oh yeah, I had the Chiefs
beating the Texans. Well that's a parlay, right, yes, So
why do we talk about parlays and win them and
that we put some money on them when we wound
up losing them every single time when we go to
a variety of different casinos.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Well, because how come when you just caught the fish,
it's a ten pound red fish, but then five years
later it's fifteen and then against the twenty pounds.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
You always remember things better than they were.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
A mat like back in the day when we were
not when I was married, Oh yeah, I was hanging.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Out with an eight and a half nine.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, I look some photos and she was a two exactly.
That's not a grant anount, but it works for Christmas nostalgia.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm a little sleep deprived.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
So look, it's gonna be anything goes Tuesday on The
Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You're very happy to have you with us today.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
We're gonna check in in Baltimore coming up at the
bottom of the ear.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
We'll have it for you.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
We also have the news new we got Ross's NFL
rewind for me, Esterla. I miss nothing between the Saints
and the Packers last night the first shoutout of the season.
Good gracious, how bad we was that? How bad are
the Saints?
Speaker 5 (06:29):
They suck? They're very bad.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean god, how embarrassing are they? Geez?
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Thirty four to zero?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Do you want that team?
Speaker 8 (06:38):
What?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
What about that team inspires you like? Oh, this will
be fixed overnight. The division is winnable.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Everybody's hurt. You get everybody back. I mean no, Alvin Kamara, good,
Taysom Hill, No, David Carr, Derek. Which car do they have?
It's a Derek whatever, one of the cars. I believe
it's Groucho car, whoever it is.
Speaker 5 (06:57):
He's not good.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah, it's not good. All right. We are with you
today until two o'clock.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
We're working the A team is off after this what yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, what ye are you serious? I wouldn't lie to you.
I mean I would be not in this case. WHOA
what are those lazy bums doing?
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Yeah, that's that's basically been their life the last I
don't know, nine years on this radio station.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
Okay, they're also not working New Year's Eve either, What No,
I knew that one.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, that's because what do we have?
Speaker 1 (07:32):
We have an LSU Bowl game? Oh okay, the something
called the Texas Bowl.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Yeah, Chris Cordy will tell us all about it.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Is he here today? Is he in the office?
Speaker 5 (07:43):
To he is? Actually?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Oh, I've seen three people I think a salespeople. No, Matt,
they're home to their families.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Good. No, they're out on their own calls right now,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
They're out on calls for the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I got you all right?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Uh seven one three two one two five seveny real quick, Ross.
The Rockets wake up today with the second best record
in the Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
That sounds amazing, That sounds great. It keeps going and
going and going. I don't want to get my hopes
up and get too excited, but things still looking pretty good.
And now they used to be like three and a
half games out of the playoffs. Now they're comfortable five
and a half games into the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Cushion, I mean.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, I mean there are gonna be some tough games
coming up. Uh, it won't be one on Thursday because
they play at New Orleans and the one thing they'll
be hurting them with perhaps the New Orleans flew that
some teams get. But the Pelicans are god awful. It
have a tough back to beck. They'll play Minnesota the
next night. But they had two terrible teams in the road,
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and they beat two terrible teams. I mean, sixty two
to thirty one at halftime was pretty damn impressive.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Yeah, that's good. That's what good teams do.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Good teams don't squeak them out or loose to the
Hornets like they did an opening night. Good teams go
and they take the trash out and take care of business.
So that's great to see.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
All right. The Texans have a game tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I was mentioning this yesterday because we look, the
Texans played Saturday.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
We didn't do a show on Sunday. It is really odd.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Here we are on a Rando Tuesday, that's like the
dog day of an NFL talking week, and tomorrow three
thirty the Texans are playing a football game. M hm, yes,
that's it feels like they just got done playing and
they're ROSSI they're batter than bruised, Yes they are. And
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Baltimore wants to win the NFC North.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
Yes they do.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Excuse me, AFC North.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Oh yeah, so they they can't afford to just have
a layup drilling. I mean, they can't afford to say, oh,
what's going on? Compete battle red. This may be a
tough year for you, my man.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Yeah, you might be hitting looking good if they lose
this game and then they have nothing to play for
in the last game.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Mister Thomas is under nine and a half, might be
looking good.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I mean, I wasn't thinking it was gonna turn out
that way, but I did not anticipate them winning neither
one of these two games. So at least I got
that going for me. Ten thirteen. If you are out
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I think that's exactly the way it was.
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Cordial Woodland, one O five seven. The fan joins us
on the show. Today, we have the rewind, We've got
the news at noon, and we have a final pre
Christmas edition of Believe It or Not? And Rossie, I
want a Fantasy five against Dan yesterday.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
I want the lists. I don't want it without the
names on it.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Okay, I'll give it to we come back time is
ten fourteen seven one three two one two five seven
out if you want to come in and say Merry Christmas,
Happy Holidays, Happy honeka for those of you that celebrate that.
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety Matt Thomas,
Ross Virel. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross Sports
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Talk seven ninety. All right, so yesterday the Fantasy five
was this group A Ross was I'll be Home for Christmas,
Frosty the Snowman, the most Wonderful Time of the Year.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Run Run Rudolph.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
And this Christmas group be Little Drummer Boy, Winner Wonderland,
jingle Bell Rock, Silent Night, and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
No specific versions by Amy person or just in.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
General in general.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Oh hmm okay. Uh. My initial lean was be can
you say those one more time?
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yes? I can.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
A is I'll be Home for Christmas, Frosty the Snowman,
Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Run Run Rudolph. In
this Christmas b is Little Drummer Boy, Winter, Wonderland, jingle
Bell Rock, Silent Night, and Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
Neither of you had a Christmas song.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
They were all Christmas songs.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
A Christmas song is what it's called. Oh no, I
don't chestnuts roasting on an open fire, you know that one.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh y, that's right. I'll go be cross nick nipping
at your nose.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, of course, tiny tots. Anyways, I'll go with the
list B which I think is you.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
That is right.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, Little drummer Boy should have been the answer on
that one.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
I mean, I know you love Little drummer Boy, but
top to bottom your list is stronger.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Thank you very much, all right?
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Won three two two five seven ninety seven one three
two one two five seven nine zero. Uh. Yesterday c J.
Stroud spoke to the media. We carried the presser here
on Sports Talk seventy where he says, look, with Tank
Dell out, Stefan Diggs has been out, other receivers have
got to step up.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (13:18):
I think I'll seen it. You know, y'all seen it
on time and time again of Mets showing up, showing up.
You know, Jay Wayne, you know, going in there blocking
and doing his thing, and you know, I think those guys,
you know, have another opportunity to show who they are.
And you know, you know, I know that they can
do it. I've seen their practice do it every week.
So I'm excited for him and so got opportunity for
them to step up.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Yeah, the Texans aren't neil as excited.
Speaker 1 (13:40):
They went and got Deontay Johnson off of waivers yesterday,
who's a former Baltimore raven who basically has underperformed with
the Ravens after being traded from Carolina. He's got suspended
for a game and then I think another game where
personal reasons.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
I mean, it sounds like sounds like it's gonna work out.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I mean it's week sixteen of the NFL season. How
what the gon go? Right?
Speaker 4 (14:01):
You are bargain beIN hunting if you're Nick Cassario right now,
and you can take what you get, and you could
do worse than Deontae Johnson. I mean, the talent is there.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
He's a former pro bowler.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I mean he's had a thousand yard season, so it's
not like he's never had tasted any success in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
He's twenty eight years old. It's not like he's super
old either. So for what you can take in sweet sixteen, Like,
as you said, are week seventeen coming up. You take
what you can get and it's not the worst thing
in the world.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Do you think at the end of the day, now
again forgetting about the money, okay, don't think about the
money that Netflix is paying the NFL.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Do you think there's gonna.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Be a huge backlash against these Christmas Day games? Are
we going to sit back and go Man, we bitched
Moan about him and the enf the players complain about it,
but at the end of day, it was great.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It was having two football games on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Or is there a little part of me that says
these games are gonna suck? It's short week for you know,
three games and eleven days for all these teams that
are playing. This is just I mean, I know greed
is wonderful, but my goodness, I mean about giving these
guys an extra day off.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
It's a bridge too far. I don't think they should
do it. But also I'm gonna watch, so I'm a hypocrite.
So what can I tell you? We said the same
thing and when there was remember it used to be
like a special week of Thursday night football. Then it
was every week and we're like this is not right
the players, and then I'm sitting there watching Amazon Prime
hanging out with Al Michaels.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, eighty year old Al Michaels, by.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
The way, yes, who is normally falling asleep by the
third quarter.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Well, he's now in a year to year a contract
with Amazon's heavy back next season. Uh yeah, I uh, well,
of course we're gonna be watching what else we're gonna
be doing. I mean the NBA, frankly, you know, hasn't
had a lot of steam so far this year. The
television ratings have not been good, and we've talked about
that a lot last week when you were gone. But
the reality is, if the NFL is on, it could
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be honest. You know, if you Rossie, we had a
special one am edition of the NFL, we'd we'd figure
out a way to watch.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It was good teams, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I'll say this year the London games have been typically lousy,
So I haven't paid attention to that. But that's that's
Bechasologically they're involving the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Yeah, they got to stop with the Jaguars stuff, where
the Jaguars got to get better one or the.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Other Oh yeah, I don't know, it's just been that
happening at all. So all right, we're gonna check it
in Baltimore coming up in just a couple of minutes.
What else is going on?
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We have a lot of infighting between ESPN colleagues, first
and foremost, we had the Kirk hurbs Street rip on
the First Tank Gang a couple of days ago for
the fact that they thought that Ryan Day should be
fired if Ohio State was getting let go. And you
have other people at the other network, at the same
network complaining about the fact that Kirkhurbsey's complaining about how
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bad the games were in the first round.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
And now you got.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Everybody who has ever been a college football pundit complaining
about the fact that SMU was not competitive against Penn State.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
You've got people complaining that Indiana was a competitive with
Notre Dame. I don't know what you're taking about Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Is everybody complaining about Tennessee?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Oh yeah, they're doing the same thing on that to
the level because it's SEC.
Speaker 5 (17:01):
You never want to take a shot at SEC bias.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Oh yeah, for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The reality is, if any if everybody thought those four
first round games were gonna give us four one score games.
That's probably silly. Would it have been nice? ROSSI if
one of them would have been really great? Yeah, but we're.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Gonna long forget about this.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
This twelve team thing was asked and people were clamoring
for it for the longest time. It puts a lot
of extra money in the college football playoff pool for
every all the schools. I wish there were better games,
but this wasn't the time to go. Well SMU, if
Alabama was in there, it would have been a better
football game. There's no guarantee of that. If if South
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Carolina was in it or BYU, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
The reality is we're down to the best eight teams
in college football. I think we're gonna be okay. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I think a lot of the whining is about, you know,
putting the best teams, but at some point I understand that.
But the resume has matter. And that's why Alabama, it's
very simple. Don't lose to Vanderbilt, who wouldn't have been
Bowl eligible if they didn't beat you. Don't and don't
lose to o You who would not have been Bowl
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eligible if they did not beat you. So I feel
like Kirk Curvetreek guard argument is we want the twelve
best teams, teams, teams teams. Well, yeah, at some point
that's just up in the air and that's just a hypothetical,
and that doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
We have to go with what we saw in the field.
And what we saw in the.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
Field is while Indiana may not have been deserving, they
only lost one game. So I see a team that
lost three games in Alabama, including against those two bad
teams like we mentioned, and then the same thing with
Ole Miss all this reason, don't lose to Florida.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
The craziest argument from kirkher and I talked about this
with Dan yesterday was Kirk is like.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
You've got to value the wins more.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Take the nine wins that Alabama got as compared to
the eleven wins that Indiana got, and who had the
better wins.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And it was almost like he wasn't like he was
saying totally to scount.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
The losses, but he was like, put more creden in
the victories and who you played as compared to just
having the sheer number of victories.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Yeah, but the losses matter too, though.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Well, I mean in his world, it didn't mean as much.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
But I'm telling you, with Alabama losing to a very
pedestrian Oklahoma team, not only losing the game but getting
blown out, the committee said, you know what, sorry, we're
not putting you in. I don't care what conference you're in.
You played a second tier SEC squad who was barely
above five hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And you got your ass kicked.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
It meant something, right, So you know again, it's a
very subjective situation.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
That's why in a lot.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Of regards, it's really nice that the NFL there's no subjectivity.
Either you win your division or you grab a wild
card spot. Same thing in basketball, same thing in baseball.
Anything that's involving a committee or or a group of
adults determining where people go and what they do and
who gets in and gets out is going to have
this argument every single year, no matter what teams should
put in. Let's go to Baltimore next ten twenty seven.
(19:56):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We check
in on the Ravens as they'll be in town tomorrow
to take on the Texans. We'll discuss that from a
Bothmarre perspective. Next here on Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 10 (20:09):
A little disappointing that she's been performing at a halftime
show that you can't watch.
Speaker 11 (20:13):
Knock.
Speaker 12 (20:14):
I'm gonna go out there and watch, Yeah, go out
there and watch man the first time Sim Beyonce performed,
and it's at our game.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
That's dope.
Speaker 12 (20:23):
I'm gonna go out and watch.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Sorry, Hello, sorry sor right Chellas.
Speaker 12 (20:27):
Did you guys have no man, I'm not even thinking
about the lead. I was just thinking about just sim
Beyonce for the first time, not saying like that. No disispiting.
I know how people can take these past come.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Pose them, Shami, honey zoos.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
At least Lamar Jackson is honest. He's like, you know what,
I don't need to hear about the halftime adjustments. I
got to see Beyonce.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Ten thirty four.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We say
hello to a second time visitor of the show. Cordill
Woodland covers the Ravens and Orioles for one oh five
point point seven the fan. Please tell me, Cordell, the
city of Baltimore is not losing their mind over the
fact that Lamar wants to see Beyonce at halftime.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Oh no, none. To my knowledge, they aren't, and you know,
I don't think that they should be. Look, Lamar is
just like all of us, you know, who can help themselves.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And Beyonce is in the build.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
And so the funny part is, though, about five minutes before,
Lamar said that John Harball had brought up I think
Evan McPherson in the Super Bowl going out to watch
the halftime show, and the Bengals had an issue with that,
and John was jokingly saying that if any of his
guys did it, they'd be in trouble. I don't think
he expected Lamar to be the guy to say it,
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so I think it was all in fun at the
end of the day. But it just shows Lamar as
one of us.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
The reality is, Cordell, this is the secret ingredient for
the Texans to win this game tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is the Beyonce factor is The.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Las Vegas line has already moved four points since finding
out that Lamar is not going to hang out at
halftime with his teammates.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Old.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Look, when you're Lamar Jackson, you're the rain and MVP,
and you just put up a nice game coming off
a big win against the Steelers over the weekend, and
you had the Jackson five five touchdowns the week before
against the Giants. You tend to be able to miss
a couple of things, but something tells me Lamar will
still be locked in for sure.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And I brought this up in and Cordos with one
on five seven the fan in Baltimore. I brought this
up to our audience multiple times. It feels like to
me this postseason, Lamar Jackson and Josh Allen have the
weight of the world on their shoulders because their teams
have gotten close, but they not have gotten to the
Super Bowl. Is that the feeling you get forgetting about
the fans, just about what the area is around this team.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If the Ravens come up short, is this.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Oh my gosh, we got close again, or is this
we got to shake something up to get us over
the hurdle to win an AFC.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
You know That's That's what I'm battling with, because I
think everybody knows when you talk about the Ravens, it's
all about January. It's Super Bowl of bus with them.
You have Lamar Jackson, you just added Derrick Henry this year.
This is probably the most lethal backfield we've seen in
the NFL, it should be. It's probably the toughest backfield
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to stop, and so I think, yes, that expectation is there.
And if they don't get over the hump a year
after losing the AFC Championship game at home, yeah, I mean,
I think it would say things need to change, and
I don't. I mean, Lamar's not going anywhere. I can
(23:37):
tell you that. So it would definitely be some conversations
I think to be had at the top about what
direction they want to go and how long do they
want to continue to see them be good but ultimately
not good enough.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Cordell Deontay Johnson is now a Texan after spending part
of the year with Baltimore. It seems like he's had
a murky time in your city. Tell us about what
you know of him and what he did or did
not do for the Ravens this year.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Oh well, I know that he pretty much quit on
his team on the sideline. I mean, when you refuse
to go in a game, and he's not the only
one to eve that. It's kind of almost the norm. Almost, man,
when you hear these types of things happening where about
ten years ago, you wouldn't have heard that, but I
(24:27):
think Beyontay obviously, his talent is there. You know, the
type of player that he can be when he asserts himself,
when he does commit to being a teammate, A good
teammate that is. And we know what just happened in Baltimore.
We know what's happened in Pittsburgh. Carolina pretty much gave
him to the Ravens for free. And you know, the
(24:48):
thought when he came to Baltimore was that he would
be a nice insurance piece if something happened to Zay
Flowers or Rashan Bateman, who's had an injury history of
his own, Beyontay would have been great. Ultimately, she is good.
He's good enough to at least be a top three
receiver on your team. I remember there was a Monday
that I asked John Harball, we can we start to
(25:11):
expect to see Deontay Johnson play the type of snaps
that we expected when he got here. And he said yes,
this was maybe going into the third game, and ultimately
that didn't happen. So obviously, like I said, the talent
is there, but you just don't know what type of
teammates you're.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
At Cordell Woodland covers the Ravens for one O five
seven the Fan in Baltimore with us here on Sports
Talk seven eighty.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I was reading some of your tweets today.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Is there any look you win both these games, you're
twelve the Ravens went both of them twelve and five.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
You're kind of I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
Think it's a foregone conclusion that Pittsburgh loses to Kansas City,
because Kansasity feels like they're maybe lose one more game
the rest of the way.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Who knows how much of this is.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
We gotta win this thing out and maybe sneak around
Pittsburgh and win that AFC North and have a home
PLAYFF game compared to getting back on a playing in
a couple weeks and perhaps coming back to Houston.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Yeah, I mean, I think that's definitely their number one
goal right now in terms of the short term, is
to try to win this division.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
And went out and they.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Feel like they're playing their best ball right now. They
had the week fourteen by and it's you know, kind
of a gift and occurse. So that means you're playing
thirteen straight weeks, but also, you know, maybe it gives
you a time to reset and heal up at the
right time of the year, and I think it was
the ladder for them. They blow out the Giants, they
went a huge game against Pittsburgh at home, and they're
(26:33):
now looking at a two week season right now to
try to win this division. So you know, they've been
asked a couple of times about the division and about
you know, what Pittsburgh has to do to help them out,
and they don't want to hear anything like that. They're
only focused on what they can control, and that's winning
these football games. So I think that, you know, they'll
(26:53):
be favorite in each of these games that they're playing
in and we'll see what happens. But I definitely think
that this is the team that's starting to hit their
stride right now.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
All Right, give me the one thing that you love
about what they did against Pittsburgh that maybe they didn't
do in weeks past, because obviously the Ravens have had
difficulties with meeting the Steelers, and then what's the one
thing of concern as the Ravens come to Houston in.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
A short week.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Well, yeah, I mean, I thought the thing that they
did in against Pittsburgh was they wanted the trenches, you know,
and that's a physical battle. Every time those two teams
get together, and this Ravens offensive line, you kind of
know what you're going to get out of them depending
on the type of matchup, and to this point in
the season, matchups like the one that they had on
(27:37):
Saturday against Pittsburgh, they normally don't win those, but they
did on Saturday and it led to them running for
over two hundred yards in the game. That's what you
love to see from the Ravens because that's who they are.
That's how they want to beat you. They want to
road rate you. Pittsburgh's is not normally that team that
they're able to do that against. So the fact that
they did and Derek Henry looked great out there, that's
(27:59):
something that's very encouraging. Was something that I would worry
about a little bit. They had a couple of fumbles
in that game and they were lucky to be able
to recover them, so that that's a little concerning. They
leave the league in penalties, that's huge. That's a big concern.
That's been one of their big time problems all year.
It wasn't on Saturday. They only had the two penalties
(28:21):
and also, like I said, the offensive line, they were
good Saturday, but Houston's got a nice funt themselves. I
think that'll be another test for them.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Is there any of the thought of, hey, it's the
Texans again. The Texans have not to perform well against
Baltimore the last handful of years. There's no look past
I don't. I don't think in the NFL of this
late in the season that could be an issue, right Yeah, I.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Agreed, agreed right there with you. I mean, just leading
up to that Giants game. But the Giant, lets be honest,
the Giants think and they're not having a good year
this year. But the Ravens didn't want to hear any
of that. Apparently they didn't even mention the Giants record
all week within their meetings or any of them. So
they're not looking past anybody right now. And I don't
(29:03):
think the Texans are the type of team that anybody
is going to look past anyway. The Ravens faced them
twice last year and neither of those games were necessarily easy.
So you know, I think that the Ravens definitely have
you know, I should say the Texans definitely have the
Ravens full attention right now.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Cardill. Happy holidays you and your family.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Thank you for joining me on my show today, and
we appreciate it, and we may bother you again, especially
if the teams play each other in a few weeks
on that Waldcard weekend for sure.
Speaker 6 (29:31):
Happy holidays for you and yours as well.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Thank you very much, We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Cordo Woodland joining us from one O five to seven
the Fan in Baltimore getting a little bit of the
Ravens perspective of the game coming up tomorrow at three
point thirty. Rossie, I gotta be honest, I'm not the
biggest Beyonce vocalist fan. I mean I could watch her, clearly,
But if I was the Ravens, I would go watch
them at halftime, right, I mean, you don't can see
(29:55):
one of the biggest stars in music history every single day.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
Yeah, she's nothing great his singer in music history, but
one of the greatest stars as you put it, I
would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Yeah, I mean it's a good show.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
Like if we you know, if we were doing a
show and we had a break, a ten minute break
in between our show and Kendrick Lamar was gonna sing
for us from like twelve and twelve ten, I would
definitely want to.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Well, he's doing that halftime at the super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Is he yes? Does he realize that half of America's
gonna hate him? Does he know this yet?
Speaker 5 (30:21):
Why is half America gonna hate him?
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Because half America hates every halftime act? Oh?
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Okay, that's true. Let's see. I feel like we came
together and like some of them recent ones, I don't
know I feel I mean, if you went back and
looked the last ten years, like who who was pregnant
up top on the state?
Speaker 2 (30:38):
Was it Beyonce? If you.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh yeah, Rihanna, Rihanna, she did a good job. We
hateds because he showed his package. We hate did justin Timberlake.
We've hate we hate them all. We took it out well,
I mean it was I don't know if he took
it out.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
Did you have issue with Usher?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Last year?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Usher was good?
Speaker 2 (30:59):
I think half of America? Oh it was good before that,
Uh doctor Dre Snoop dogg Eminem. Did you like that?
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Oh, Kendrick Lamar, of course I had an appearance there
as well. You know before that was the weekend. Oh,
shag Era. I think the world loved Shakira and Jennifer
Lopez in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Oh, we can't. We couldn't complain about that. I can
tell you that for sure.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Maroon five justin Timberlake. Oha, Hey, hey, now Coldplay sucked.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Coldplay was sucked.
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Lady Gaga was It was spectacular, I thought.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
In Houston, Texas, Bruno Mars and I know you loved
the Beyonce performance in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, there is some Twitter evidence that hopefully I've scrubbed
that since then. I'm not completely sure if I have,
but thanks for bringing that up.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
All right?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Seven one three two one two five seven Nutty seven
one three A two one two five seven NINTI.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Our time is ten forty five.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
We've got a little bit from the Astros Christian Walker
introduced by the Astros.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 1 (31:54):
Do you realize with a new first baseman what I know?
And by the way, I may be winning my lunch
bet on the Bregman deal. Well you winning, I might,
I'd say I'm winning.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
We'll tell you what the bet is on that.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
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It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 10 (33:35):
The word you hear a lot is is culture. You know,
for me, that that's that's knowing how to win, that's
being used to winning, that's expecting to win. But but
there's this other angle of playing with an edge. You know,
when you're out in the field and you're looking at
the energy and opposing dugout, you can tell when teams
have it or don't. And you know, I've been I've
been watching this this team for a while now, and
(33:57):
you know that edge, the energy, that the expectation. You
can tell that they're going out there, you know, with
a standard and I'm very excited to be a part
of it.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Most fire size Blazon, BRD brand new first base.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
But how about that so African when you work, Ross,
were you working when this happened or were you gone?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Was gone?
Speaker 5 (34:22):
With the Christian Walker thing? Yes, we've got.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Esak Perettis at third base.
Speaker 4 (34:28):
It's been Yeah, in intermittent fasting. I'm doing intermittent working.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
I don't even know. Yeah, have you gained Wayne, have
you lost weight? If you still have your flow?
Speaker 5 (34:37):
I mean I just spent five days drinking and eating
in New Orleans?
Speaker 2 (34:39):
What do you think? Okay? So what was the best
food item you had while you were a food item?
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
My god, we ate it GW Fins, which is a
high end play for the birth that had a nice
birthday dinner there. They had the lobster dumpling was incredible.
The redfish was really good.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
The shrimp and grits at this place called at Chafalayah. Oh, man,
that was incredible. Chargirled oysters at Felix's. I mean, I
don't even know, man, I can't even I can't pole boys,
uh oh Lusa. Luza's on the Track has a it's
called a barbecue shrip po boy, It's not really barbecue.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
But that was incredible. Oh, I had so much good food.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So you've you've gained the You've gained your Christmas.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
Five Oh my god, yeah, by my Christmas eight inflation.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know, speaking of food, I think Ross, we've found
maybe our one of our new favorite astros. Christian Walker
talking about what he looks forward to and seeing in
the vibe of Houston, Texas.
Speaker 10 (35:35):
I don't know much about the city. I'm most excited
for the food. I love to eat, I love to cook.
The barbecue scene has me has me very interested, but
very very much looking forward to to learning about the city.
And Houston's one of those cities, right, h town.
Speaker 14 (35:52):
It's it.
Speaker 10 (35:53):
It fires me up to be a part of it
and get to know it.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
He could have said, Ross, I'm gonna hit forty home
runs and one hundred and fifteen hours you guys, and
have gold glub first base, and all the astro fans
would have been like, yeah, that sounds good. Whatever he
drops a I can't wait to check out the barbecue scene.
They want to retire his jersey and me were already here.
And yes, he's heard great things and he's heard the
right things. Barbecue seen quite good by the way you
(36:16):
he's working number thirteen.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
Is that right that I say that?
Speaker 13 (36:19):
Right?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yes? Does Billy Wager know this yet?
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (36:23):
I don't know. Damn yeah, you know what you were.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
You probably can't do any more retired numbers anymore because
you just you're you're gonna run out of space.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
Yeah, the astros already did too many.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Yeah uh so, Christian Walker, whatever, whoever he prepped you
for your little press conference, you drop in the eight.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm surprised he didn't say I'm
thrown up. The H's here shortly is everybody's thrown up?
The H's.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Last asked few astros to wear thirteen. Cooper Hummel, goat
JJ metagemic Og, Jacob Wilson.
Speaker 5 (36:55):
I don't remember that guy that sounds made up. I
should have made one up for.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
You know what should do today? We should do it?
Believe it or not?
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Is was this person ever as we could actually we
could easily do that today, or we could do something
Christmas related or before that, Abraham Toro and then Dustin
Garno and then the Great White himself, Tyler White.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
So there was a lot of guys weren't thirteen.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
God, if I was Billy Wagon, I'd be severely disrespected
by the number of Jimokes that been wearing the thirteen
since I left.
Speaker 5 (37:23):
What do you mean you got it? What do you
got against Brandon Laird.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Geez thirteen maybe the worst number in Astro's history not
named Billy Wagner.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
On it was there anybody before Billy Wagner that was
really good?
Speaker 5 (37:36):
Bruce Bochie he only played for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I mean we've notable. My argument is good so far.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Tuck Ferrell, Yeah, Turk Ferrell. Excuse me, Turk Tuck is
his co same thing all right? By the way, real quick. Uh,
there's a few Twitter reports and those aren't accurate. So
but it is for the sake of the show that
perhaps the Red Sox are only willing to offer Alex
Bregman a five year deal. Ooh mm, so you could win, Maddie,
(38:02):
I could win. We have a bet for those who
don't know, it's well, it would be a late lunch bet.
It'd be like a two Toho five lunch bet. Yes,
I have him at five years or less. Six we
go Dutch and seven or more Ross wins.
Speaker 5 (38:15):
Correct.
Speaker 4 (38:17):
Chandler Room told me all off season I was gonna
be right, I'm gonna be upset with Chane.
Speaker 2 (38:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
As matter of fact, he he actually when he came
in and filled in for you last week, He's like,
I'm gonna start to hedge my bet like oo is
fully Ross now, but now you do so dangn it?
Speaker 2 (38:31):
No, First of all, that's that's just internet speculation. We
don't know.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
No, I mean, obviously the market is cooled, it has
I mean, the Astros just flat out moved on.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
Yes. Was this a misplay by Boris or was this
a everybody decided to move on?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
It feels like Oboris could be overplaying his hand once
he was trying to get and I think maybe in
his mind the one Soto deal reset the market and
then all the team's mind it did not.
Speaker 5 (38:57):
That's my guess. This speculation, all right?
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety ten fifty eight.
It is the Matt Thomas Show hour and number two
starts up next. Merry Christmas Eve from all of us.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Here at Sports Talk seven ninety lunchtimers, this is the
Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 1 (39:20):
Here we go eleven o'clock, eleven oh one, Sports Talk
seven ninety Ross Matt with you on the Matt Thomas Show.
With Ross, we have gut feelings coming up in a
half an hour. You ever gut feeling what you're gonna
get for Christmas from the people in your life?
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Sports Harvey.
Speaker 5 (39:39):
Uh, not really, that's what I wanted.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
I don't really.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
I mean, come, I'm an adult now, I'm over forty,
phil being do you be a part of the forty club.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
That's fine.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
I've been.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
I've been mentally, I've been so because my birthday is
December of eighty four. When the calendar turns, you know,
when it turned to twenty four, that's forty, right, So
in my mind I'm forty.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
It's fine.
Speaker 5 (40:02):
I've been forty for a year.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Forty to forty nine didn't bother me at all. Once
I've hit five zero, it's like this suck. Yeah, you
look like hell, I look great and came myself in
the mirror that I'm like, God, I'm pessoning Adonnas.
Speaker 2 (40:13):
For fifty two.
Speaker 5 (40:13):
I can't even see you, but I can just tell Okay.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
You want to guess what I'm wearing right now? No? Please, please,
I don't.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
I'm gonna tell you something. Matthew, don't ever in your
life ask me that question again. The answer will always
be no, all right, always. I don't care if it's Halloween, Christmas.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
I don't care. Just don't ask me that question.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
All right, Well, since you asked red collared shirt, shorts
and my dress socks from last night when I was
flying back from.
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Shark, Okay, thanks appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
I mean, I wouldn't go out in public warring what
I'm wearing.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
But I'm not like like I mean, it's cold, I'm
not I'm not gonna be like naked or anything. I mean,
I've done shows naked, but that's a different issue. That's fine,
I'm in sweatpants. Nobody's up here. Who cares, It's true. Yeah,
the office today, it is a ghost town. At least
Gordy was up here for a minute. But now he's gone.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Oh imagine that.
Speaker 1 (41:05):
Gordy gone, Huh, he's got He's getting ready for that
big Texas Bowl showdown with Baylor and LSU.
Speaker 5 (41:09):
And I'm glad we're doing a great lead into the
A team today.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Yeah, what are they doing? Seriously? They had to be embarrassed.
The lack of work they do m embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
All Right, if you're out about today, let us know
that you're here, because we don't know that if you're
here or not.
Speaker 2 (41:25):
I mean roscine. I can be just doing our show
for ourselves. We got some Twitter action.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
Our friend Jonah is listening, so Merry Christmas to Jonah
her great family. But if you're out there, want to
say hello, just want to wish, you want to you
want to do a Christmas shout out, we can. We'll
take those at seven one three two one two five
seven eighty seven one three two one two five seventy.
So if you're going to the Texans game tomorrow, which
is at three point thirty, I.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Want to ask you two questions.
Speaker 1 (41:53):
Is anybody going to the game because they get to
see Beyonce? No, obviously you're a Texans fan, but you
when you heard Beyonce was at halftime And she doesn't
do a lot of touring, does she or she has
them touring?
Speaker 2 (42:07):
I mean, I don't know what her concert schedule is
like per se.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
She just got off a huge world tour.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Did she come to Houston or no? So right, yes,
but it was it was like a year and a
half ago that she was touring for over a year.
Speaker 1 (42:22):
So basically you're buying a Texans ticket getting a halftime
performance for free.
Speaker 5 (42:26):
That's what I'm going to the game. Tomorrow, are you really?
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Yeah? And who you're going with? Your family? Family?
Speaker 15 (42:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Is the girl going to No? Oh? Have you had
that conversation about how you're spending Christmas together tomorrow or no?
Speaker 16 (42:41):
Me and the girlfriend? Yeah, no, we've been dating for
two months. We're not doing Christmas together.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
At any point. You're not gonna see her tomorrow at all?
Probably not?
Speaker 1 (42:50):
Okay, all right, maybe if we go out to the
bars late at night. Maybe, Oh, the Christmas bar seems
good on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Huh? Okay, I got you.
Speaker 5 (42:58):
Yeah, maybe, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I've never been well.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
I'll be at a casino at ten o'clock tomorrow night.
Are talking to you that for sure?
Speaker 5 (43:05):
Where are you going now?
Speaker 2 (43:06):
New Orleans?
Speaker 5 (43:07):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
By the way, I'm gonna pick up our parlays that you.
Speaker 5 (43:13):
Mistakes are made?
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Sorry, Uh, fifty dollars if you want to play three
to two fifty dollars minimums.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Oh yeah, yeah. I was at a high end rim
Tel high end in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Obviously with the rockets, I couldn't find a three two
table to save my life.
Speaker 2 (43:30):
I know, Matt.
Speaker 5 (43:31):
The world's going to hell.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
For those who don't know, three to two meaning if
you get blackjack, you're twenty five, Your fifty dollar bet
is a seventy five dollars win. If you get a
three too, if you play a six y five blackjack,
your fifty dollars blackjack is worth sixty dollars.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
So it's a significant drop.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Yes, yes it is, and nobody seems to care.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
The sixty five tables are all full, so why would
they ever give it three to two?
Speaker 7 (43:57):
No?
Speaker 1 (43:57):
I mean, I'm my guess. I wonder what the limits
are going to be when I get to Vegas. I mean,
what are you a degenerate? If you're gambling on Christmas
night or you're like, hey, you spend time with the
fan during the course to day, it's all good.
Speaker 5 (44:08):
Now you're probably degenerate, but.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
You can't spend the entire day of Christmas with your family.
Now I'm the exception because I'll be traveling.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
So but we're not leaving here tomorrow night until eight o'clock,
so we I mean, I'm gonna getting.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
The New Orleans late.
Speaker 5 (44:21):
You are traveling, degenerate, then.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I'm just thinking, what is a what do you think
it's going to be in a law in a New
Orleans casino at ten thirty tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (44:31):
Night, Christmas Day. They should close the casino. Quite frankly,
you shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
You can't close the casino. Its border to close it,
don't what did it keep it open? Is that true? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (44:42):
I mean they lose money, but that's again theory.
Speaker 4 (44:45):
Every business lose money when they could fill, loses money
when they close on Sundays.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
There's no way you're closing down every slot machine, every
table you're training.
Speaker 5 (44:55):
Shit's the switch.
Speaker 2 (44:56):
No chance.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'm saying they should. I'm not saying they will.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Now, what you probably could do, if you really wanted
to do is you probably could just close the building
down and leave everything open and you know, the lights
on everything.
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Now they probably do it when there's hurricanes and stuff, all.
Speaker 1 (45:11):
Right, seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five Oh my two questions?
Speaker 2 (45:17):
One are you going to the game primarily to see Beyonce.
Speaker 5 (45:23):
Like Connor?
Speaker 2 (45:24):
And number two, how are you?
Speaker 1 (45:26):
How is your Meal day being affected by this? Because
if you're if you're going to the Texans game, it's
three thirty. Don't you think Christmas Meal Day is in
the war is in the wheelhouse? Between like two and
five Yeah, well you just have.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
It at noon.
Speaker 2 (45:41):
You're good to go.
Speaker 5 (45:42):
Do you want to know what we're doing?
Speaker 2 (45:43):
Please?
Speaker 16 (45:44):
So we got family coming in uh right before so
like ten am, so we're gonna have a big brunch
mm hmm.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
We go to the Seconds game.
Speaker 16 (45:51):
I assuming we'll have a snack or two and then
we're gonna have a kind of a lighter dinner because
we're gonna be eating stuff at the game.
Speaker 5 (45:56):
We'll do we're pushing back like a big Christmas Day
dinner to to Toy.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
That's very smart, very very smart, because you look Ross.
You don't want to be eating at noon on Christmas Day.
You're barely waking up before noon, knowing you there's no
chance that's me, But that's not most people. It's different. Yeah,
but you don't have any kids that run around the house.
I mean if you were with your your niece's neck, yeah,
you'd be you'd be up at seven am.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
That's where I'm gonna be.
Speaker 8 (46:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Are they gonna wake up Uncle Ross at seven am
to open up presents? Probably you're gonna be throwing.
Speaker 1 (46:26):
You're gonna be dropping F bombs on them, and Santa
I don't drop f bombs on them.
Speaker 5 (46:30):
They're very sweet and.
Speaker 1 (46:31):
Bringing up mistruths about Santa Claus and how he's hating
fair with some Okay, I believe the their parents don't
tell them about Santa.
Speaker 5 (46:40):
They say, they say, we bought the presents Santa. That's
somebody else.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
Yikes.
Speaker 1 (46:45):
All right, let's go to James calling us somewhere in
New York at eleven o eight, James, where are you
calling us from?
Speaker 15 (46:52):
Holy Moly, what's up, fellas? Happy holidays, Very Christmas. I'm
calling from Manhattan, Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 2 (46:57):
Oh, same to you. What a great part of our
world is Lower Manhattan. How are you?
Speaker 15 (47:03):
I'm good, I'm good. I had a revelation yesterday. I
was I was hanging out with my wife and it
was her birthday, and I was very thankful for being
with her, and I realized that I'm going to take
you guys back twenty years all right, So twenty years ago,
before her and I met, I was dating another woman
who was an actress.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
Here in New York.
Speaker 15 (47:24):
And one day she says to me, Hey, a friend
of mine from the cruise ship that I used to
work on is doing a show at one of the
jazz clubs in the city. Would you like to come?
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, sure, let's go.
Speaker 15 (47:36):
And we go down there and who's up on stage
but very young Michael Bublie. I don't know if I'm
saying it right or not. Nobody does right, but so
we go. We see the show. It's really good, it's fantastic.
Say hey, you want to go backstage and meet him? Like, yeah, sure,
let's go. So again, me and this other girl, we've
been dating like a year, pretty straight through. I'm not
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really sure whether relationship is going. But we go into
the green room and there's Mike, there's three other girls,
and my wife or my sorry, my girlfriend and this
bouncer and I'm sitting there and anything Michael Boobie says.
All the girls are giggling. I'm looking at that bouncer
and he's looking at the ceiling. I'm looking at the ceiling.
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And I thought to myself in that moment, I said,
you know what, I'm gonna put this girl to the
test and I'm gonna walk out of his room and
let's see what happens, you know. So I get up
and I walk out very quietly. I go down to
the bar and I'm sitting at the bar and I
can see the door to the green room, you know.
So I sit there for a while, drink my first beer.
Then three young girls walk out. I was like, okay,
(48:41):
so now it's just her and the bouncer and him,
and then I sit down. I was like, let me
get one more beer and I'll wait. And then the
bouncer walks out. I'm like, come shoot, so now it's
just her and him. You know, I'm sitting there. I'm
drinking my beer, drinking my beer. Yeah, It's been like
fifteen minutes drinking my beer. And I was like, you
know what, I'm gonna just go outside. I'll have a
cigarette and I'll come back in.
Speaker 2 (49:02):
And I come back in and now the bouncer is.
Speaker 15 (49:04):
Standing out there and he's like kind of like, you know,
a little bit uncomfortable. I was like, I'm just gonna
take a walk around the block. I oh, take a
walk around the block. I come back and Michael Bubble
is standing out front and he's, oh, hey, how you doing. Yeah,
I'm getting out of here. You know, it's nice to
meet you. I was like, all right, great, good to
meet you. I go in and then she comes out
of the green room, and I thought to myself. You
know what, this is perfect, that's.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
Who this young lady is, you know. And we got
into a cab. She started crying immediately, she's, oh my god,
bla b bus. That's all right, baby, don't worrybout it.
Don't worry about it.
Speaker 15 (49:37):
And then two weeks later, I'm at a holiday party
and I meet the woman of my dreams. Beautiful, beautiful,
beautiful woman from Houston, Texas that was in town visiting friends,
and her and I have been inseparable ever since, twenty
years straight.
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Now, Merry Christmas, everybody.
Speaker 15 (49:54):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (49:54):
Michael Ross. Do you care to deduct the genesis of
that call? Chriss? Uh?
Speaker 5 (50:15):
Did Michael blue Blaze sleep with his wife in the
green room?
Speaker 2 (50:21):
No? I thought it was a just except it was
a girl that he was dating.
Speaker 1 (50:24):
He said he's been with her for twenty years now.
I thought he met somebody else at another holiday party. Oh.
I wasn't listening. I zoned out quite frankly. Okay, and
help me if I got this call right. And connors
he goes with a girl and meets Boo Blaye. Blue
Blay kicks the guy, hit our friend James out. He
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hooks up with James's girl or date that night.
Speaker 2 (50:48):
Yeah, gets in the cab with her.
Speaker 1 (50:51):
She's crying because obvious she's she's emotionally spent and probably
physically exhausted.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
And then he meets another girl and he's been with
her for twenty years.
Speaker 5 (51:00):
Okay, is that what happened?
Speaker 2 (51:01):
I think?
Speaker 8 (51:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (51:02):
Am? I right about that?
Speaker 5 (51:03):
I zoned out. I'll have to go back and listen. Yeah,
I did not was not following.
Speaker 2 (51:08):
Did I get that right? Houston? James girl girl a yes,
got boo blade.
Speaker 1 (51:16):
Yeah, Well, he was outside smoking a cigarette, walking around,
grabbing a couple of beers, and then he meets another
girl and he's been with her for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (51:27):
That's what I think the call was. Okay, don't hold
me to that. That's fine. I'm not holding you to anything.
Speaker 5 (51:33):
We got four hours to kill kill.
Speaker 2 (51:36):
We're talking about compelling sports conversation.
Speaker 5 (51:38):
Sorry, boo blaye.
Speaker 1 (51:43):
I'm not bad a crooner, right, I'm not gonna I
don't hate the guy. I don't have any of his songs,
but I think he's got quite a good list.
Speaker 2 (51:50):
By the way, apparently James's Girl is won on that list.
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yeah, all right, h if you want to follow that
up seven one three two one two five seven ninety
seven one three two one two five seven ninety. By
the way, v Rocks as you let the cigarette and
the beer out, Yeah, I mentioned a cigarette and the beer.
You had a cigarette and a beer, had two beers
and a cigarette and went for a walk while Blue
(52:18):
Blay is plot James.
Speaker 2 (52:20):
The Girl.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Mary, Christmas Everybody eleven fourteen, Sports Talk seven ninety, Matt Thomas,
Ross Virel. It's a Matt Thomas show with Ross on
Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (52:35):
Is this Wham or is this George Michael by himself?
It's whim Christmas. This section on a bad jam here.
I'll be honest with you. I'm not even a big
Wham fan. I don't like Christmas Easy very much either.
Speaker 17 (52:57):
I'm with you, Matt.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
This is a jam.
Speaker 5 (52:59):
Stay with chess, Matt, It's jam.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
The one more thing on James's story, he was trying
to humble brag that he lost a girl to Michael
Bublake because if you think about it, I guess here's
the thing. He brought up, the story about booblay and
the cigarette and the beer, and the fact that he
left her for like a half an hour and then
he said, then two weeks later, he went to a
holiday party, he met a girl he's been for twenty years.
Speaker 2 (53:24):
The two stories don't coincide. There's no end statement.
Speaker 1 (53:28):
So he was basically humble bragging that he lost a
woman to Michael Bublay. Yeah, I guess he was trying
to I guess he was trying to be a sweet story.
If he wouldn't have lost the woman, then maybe he
wouldn't have met his I don't know, man, No, that
was a I think it was a Christmas Eve. Humble
brag about who he lost a girl might have been
part of it. Okay, I'm just throwing that in there.
All right, we have the NFL.
Speaker 2 (53:50):
H We've got feelings coming up in ten minutes from now.
Speaker 4 (53:52):
What Yeah, Okay, you're gonna have to help me through this, Matt.
I've been on vacation for so long.
Speaker 2 (53:59):
Oh, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (54:00):
I got home at two thirty this morning. I'm gonna
just be Oh, you're fine. I'm peppered up and excited too.
Speaker 2 (54:07):
Okay, So gud feelings coming up.
Speaker 4 (54:09):
But eleven thirty here on Sports Talk seven ions at
noon will be at noon.
Speaker 1 (54:13):
I'm here at in the Kingwood studios and the wife
is making a breakfast castro vote tomorrow, which is really
the bacon and sausage combination.
Speaker 2 (54:20):
Cooking smell is pretty damn good.
Speaker 4 (54:23):
She's making it right now for tomorrow morning. Yeah, just
gotta you throw on the op in the morning. I'm
twenty four hours. That's called meal prep. That's what the
kids call me. Yes, that's what the kids say. And
then she's got the damn Hallmark channel on. That might
be the worst channel.
Speaker 5 (54:35):
And you love the Hallmark.
Speaker 2 (54:38):
Channel.
Speaker 1 (54:38):
Now, I will watch a Lifetime movie because some of
those movies and poorly. What do you mean, like, you
know what my my jealous mother in law or my
mistress's best friend. I mean, every Hallmark movie is pleasant.
Oh okay, it's too much Christmas cheer. It's it's any
(54:59):
Christmas cheer. You never see on the Hallmark movie Christmas
Eve Gone Bad.
Speaker 2 (55:04):
No, you don't ever see that.
Speaker 1 (55:07):
It's two white people in a romantic comedy in a
small Midwestern town or small Vermont city when it snows,
and they're.
Speaker 2 (55:14):
The store lines are the same. She's a business worker.
She's a busy worker.
Speaker 1 (55:18):
He's a guy that's by himself and misses his family,
she doesn't have the romantic and they meet over Missletoe
and they have one simple kiss and then it becomes
complicated for like five minutes, and then the day they
wind up being happily ever after.
Speaker 5 (55:30):
And they met at the Christmas Tree Farm.
Speaker 2 (55:32):
Correct where the Christmas Tree Farm maybe running out of.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
The business is slow and may have to shut it down,
and it's going to take the poor people out of
that own this Christmas Tree Farm for the last forty years. See,
you've watched them too, you know exactly what I'm going
I have not watched a single movie you home on
channel you suck.
Speaker 2 (55:50):
I hate you.
Speaker 4 (55:50):
When somebody was talking about it on Twitter. How they
all had the same plot and they meet at the
Christmas Tree Farm.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
They literally have the same plot every single time. Like
you know what.
Speaker 1 (56:01):
They never meet at the casinos. They never meet at
the horse track, yeah, or the v clinic. They never
meet at the bus station.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
You know what I'm saying. They always meet up in
the middle of the town hall town square.
Speaker 5 (56:11):
If you will, Yeah, sorry, Matt, That's what we should do.
Speaker 1 (56:16):
If we have enough time, we should really we should
help the Hallmark Channel for next year.
Speaker 2 (56:20):
Write a bunch of different movies.
Speaker 5 (56:21):
Okay, we can create.
Speaker 2 (56:24):
We can create our own plot.
Speaker 1 (56:25):
Twist on there, toy, kind of spice that up a
little bit, because everything is so nice and and and
Christmas and jolly and everything we.
Speaker 5 (56:33):
Want no, okay, so you want, like the guy at
the end to like mask her.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Everyone likes.
Speaker 1 (56:40):
But let's just let's throw things up. Let's how about this,
let's go back. Here's the well. We'll call a Hallmark channel.
Add on all right? They meet at the tree farm.
Single girl finally fiends her dream meets the dream boat
and he's been so sad depressed because his his wife
left him, and he's getting ready to put a ring
on this girl. And and at the very end, the
(57:01):
ex wife comes in and says, I miss you. Let's
try to rebuild our marriage. And he turns on and says,
sounds like a good idea, and then leaves the girl
by herself at the Christmas tree Farm.
Speaker 2 (57:12):
That's how you end a Hallmark movie.
Speaker 5 (57:14):
And that's a great one, Matt. Why don't you will
you write that one down?
Speaker 2 (57:16):
What do you call it? I don't know. Rebound Christmas?
Speaker 4 (57:19):
Rebound Christmas. A special guest star Charles Barkley Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
All right, yeah, we could definitely have some fun with
rewriting some Hallmark movies seven one three two, one two
five seven ninety seven one three two, one two five seven.
I brought this up with Dan yesterday and we'll get
battle Red's response. And it's because battle Red you are
someone that has lived and die with the Texans this year.
Speaker 2 (57:46):
Are you feeling it? Feeling you know what it is?
The season slipping away? Yes, I wanted to make sure.
I didn't want to, you know, put words in your
mouth that was correct.
Speaker 4 (57:56):
I mean, they had, However, many offensive lineman get hurt.
Take Della's now out for the year. You've already missed
digs for the year. It's not looking good. It's not
looking good by the way.
Speaker 1 (58:08):
We played to tell the truth yesterday and my the
one thing they didn't believe me was the text and
should go after a wide receiver in the first run
of the draft last year?
Speaker 2 (58:14):
Next year?
Speaker 5 (58:15):
You don't think they should, or you do believe they should, or.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
No, they should go offensive line. They've they've got to
repair this thing.
Speaker 5 (58:20):
Wide receiver works.
Speaker 1 (58:21):
You can show up the offensive line if you want
to do it, especially interior guys you can find free
agent wise, but.
Speaker 5 (58:26):
They obviously needs to be addressed.
Speaker 1 (58:29):
Yeah, so you're ready to say it, you want to
see a wide receiver in the first round.
Speaker 5 (58:32):
No, I'm not gonna say that.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
I'm ready to see offensive line wide receiver running.
Speaker 1 (58:36):
Nicko Creo saw no offensive line issues before the trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (58:40):
We already saw that. Well, clearly they saw issues with
Kenyon Green.
Speaker 5 (58:43):
He didn't come in. They went to Kendrick Green.
Speaker 2 (58:50):
Yeah, that's got to be hard ross for.
Speaker 1 (58:52):
A general manager who picked He picked Kenyan Green, right,
that was that was like a serial selection. Yes, in
the first round. That and we talked about it when
it happened that a lot of draft capital on a guard. Yeah,
that has to hurt. It's almost like when you had
when you're a running of a business and you hire
like you tenants. You're now the general manager of a
restaurant or a business or a sales department and you're
(59:12):
in your underlings just don't come up. I mean you
finally have to cut the cord and say, yeah, I
made a mistake. But I think if you protect somebody
and leave somebody on a roster and give them too
many opportunities it makes you look worse. Sometimes you have
said a fishing like for instance, the Astros would have
continue to throw a jose of brie at us in
September last year.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
That would have been awful. Yes, well, some people think
they went way too long as it was.
Speaker 1 (59:35):
Yeah, because again, when assistant general manager Jeff Bagwell says, hey,
he's worth it of giving him a three year contract
that just two.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
You have to give him every opportunity.
Speaker 5 (59:45):
We had to keep looking at the back of the
baseball card.
Speaker 2 (59:48):
Uh uh, what's the rule? You knew that rule was coming?
You said it. I did.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
It's like Dan Matthews making a movie reference.
Speaker 2 (59:59):
I'm gon twined to do that.
Speaker 1 (01:00:00):
I was gone, Oh god, he brought up Willey Walking
the Chocolate factory. Yes, yes, well, he was bringing up
Christmas vacation. At least he was bringing up Christmas movies
with us.
Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
That's true. All right, e love it twenty seven.
Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Let's get a phone call in we'll get the gut
feelings here shortly after that seven one three, two one
two five seven ninety Tim and Galveston on seven Ony, Tim,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 11 (01:00:24):
Hey, it's Kim, But merry Christmas. You, guys, thanks for
having me on. I appreciate it. I'm sitting down here
on the seawall waiting to play pickleball.
Speaker 18 (01:00:33):
But I digress.
Speaker 11 (01:00:33):
So let's go back to the Hallmark Channel. Okay, it's
so Hallmark Channel is for girls, right.
Speaker 1 (01:00:40):
Yeah, well, I mean there are men that are obviously
involved in the movies, but yeah, I would not.
Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
I would say primarily it's for females.
Speaker 11 (01:00:45):
Yes, So this is the way we do it. We
make it Hallmark Channel for guys. And what we do
is we have those little bubbles in there and little
smart ass comments about what they're really thinking, you know,
And that's how you'd run the movie.
Speaker 19 (01:01:00):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Not a terrible idea, Thank you, Tim. Wasn't our show
that did bubbles.
Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
It was a VH one that would do videos, and
they would put up bubbles about anecdotal things.
Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
About the video, right, yes, pop up video, pop up Videoyeah?
What was it called?
Speaker 5 (01:01:15):
Pop up pop up video?
Speaker 2 (01:01:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
And then there was Mystery Science Theater three thousand that
would basically just comment on what they were watching, which
is what guys do ye know? H?
Speaker 2 (01:01:28):
No? Yeah, we could do a semon called a Hallmark
Channel movie's gone wrong?
Speaker 1 (01:01:32):
Like, how about this? We could take five or six
Hallmark Channel movies and add a prepositional phrase to them,
mul we could we could we damage the plot of
movies with just four or five additional words. I'd rather
just not watch the network as a whole. Well, you
know what, Thank Gouds, you're not victim to that.
Speaker 4 (01:01:49):
You're trying to fix something that I don't think needs
fixing because I don't care. It doesn't affect my day
to day life.
Speaker 1 (01:01:53):
Man, think you know what, You're consider yourself blessed. I'm lucky,
I guess because I'm.
Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Talking to you, which is entertaining enough as it is.
Speaker 1 (01:02:00):
But then I go in another room and I smell
the sausage cooking, I smell the bacon cooking, and then
I have the damn hell Mark Channel on.
Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
Do you not to watch it? I'm not trust me?
You want and you're talking to you? All right?
Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Eleven twenty nine, Sports Talk seven ninety It is the
Matt Thomas Show, timed out with Ross with timed out
for gut feelings. If you have any sports predictions, Ross,
you are ready to make a prediction on Baltimore Houston
tomorrow all the time. Really, you're gonna have to do
it next seven one three, two one two five seven
NINTI Gut Feelings is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
continues here on Sports Talk seven NINTI listen up.
Speaker 6 (01:02:33):
Segment so appealing that Thomas Yo, they got a gut dealer.
Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas Show.
Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
I'll go first because I don't want to be a
bare bad news sports are we? Because you are a
battle red Ross seven one three two one two five
seven ninety. If you've got a gut feeling anything in
the world of sports, let us know seven to one
three two one two five seven ninety. The Baltimore win
tomorrow's game by at least ten points.
Speaker 5 (01:03:02):
Whatever, fight me on it? Why, well, the line's five
and a half. They can keep it within ten.
Speaker 2 (01:03:12):
Okay, so you're gonna take the opposite.
Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
Then yeah, I'll take I'll take the I'll take Texas
plus nine and a half.
Speaker 2 (01:03:18):
All right, there it is. We're betting nothing on it,
which is so because I don't life doesn't need to
be a bet. I'm saving my money for my family.
I mean that.
Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
I mean you're gonna already owe me a lunch when
Bregman signed a five year contract.
Speaker 5 (01:03:28):
So yeah, we'll see.
Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
Okay, I don't think I lose.
Speaker 5 (01:03:32):
I think I think your best off shot is still
a push.
Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
I think we're I think we're pushing one hundred percent
on this one. I don't I don't think he's getting
seven and I won. Okay, Yeah, I think I think
we are pushing on this bad boy.
Speaker 4 (01:03:46):
We didn't even review last week's Matt, Come on, all right,
was here? No, just because you weren't here doesn't mean
we don't have predictions, Matt.
Speaker 2 (01:03:52):
We'll see, how do we show goes on? Let's goes on?
Let's go, mister.
Speaker 5 (01:03:56):
I've worked three days this month, this one was one
of them.
Speaker 4 (01:04:00):
Last week you aren't here, okay, Uh, let's see last week. Oh,
I predicted Pat Mahomes wouldn't play on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
Whoops.
Speaker 4 (01:04:10):
He sounded all down, and then literally hours after we
did this segment, he was a full participant in practice.
Wait is this true? All I had the Texans beating
the Chiefs if Pat Mahomes in play, but well that
didn't happen.
Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
I said. No.
Speaker 5 (01:04:23):
Nolan Arnatto for the Ashtros.
Speaker 4 (01:04:25):
No Anthony Santandeer for the Astros as well, which had
been floated at that's too bad because I like saying
Anthony Honda is a fun names, just Santander.
Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
But in his case it's the san.
Speaker 4 (01:04:38):
Connor McGovern had the Rockets winning their next three bingo win.
Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
There you go, Connor mc govern, all right, that's what
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
He also said Pat Mahomes would not play, but he
also had the Texans losing to the Chiefs, and Carson wentz, hey, we.
Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
Got this one right.
Speaker 4 (01:04:53):
Unfortunately, Tangdell gets a touchdown, said Connor mcg.
Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Oh, you know that's your fault. That's the counter curse.
Speaker 17 (01:05:01):
Your fault got her.
Speaker 2 (01:05:02):
It's the Connor curse.
Speaker 5 (01:05:03):
He did get a touchdown, he held on that ball.
Speaker 2 (01:05:07):
Yeah he got a touchdown.
Speaker 5 (01:05:08):
But still you were right, but it was your fault.
Speaker 2 (01:05:10):
At what cost? Were you right? Mm?
Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
We had Brian Boga seken, he said, Alex Bregman will
be Hey, Detroit Tiger was his gut feeling.
Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
By the way, I changed my opinion the other day yesterday.
By the way, from what from the Red Sox of
the Yankees, You're back to the Yankees yeah, back to
the Yankees. I don't think I'm gonta stay with the Yankees.
Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Okay, do you want to hold on? Let me write
this down. You said Texans lose by double digits.
Speaker 2 (01:05:37):
Yep. Bregman's a Yankee is a Yankee.
Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
Okay, I'm sticking with the Yankee. I mean that was
my original prediction, so I'll stick with that.
Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
Okay.
Speaker 20 (01:05:49):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
Then we also did it.
Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
We did got we mailed it in Matt, We did
gut feelings twice because Adam Wexler came in h Alex Bregman.
He says Boston Red Sox, which I think they're probably
one of the leaders in the clubhouse, it feels like.
And then he also had Pat Mahomes playing versus the Texans.
Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Which he did.
Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
And that is your review from last week.
Speaker 2 (01:06:07):
All right, I got some more for you. Double digit
loss with the Texans.
Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Bring me to the Yankees. What else do I have
going for I had something else I've already forgotten.
Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Sorry, Okay, I will say that the Texans do keep
it within double digits.
Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Okay. It's good because your battle red.
Speaker 5 (01:06:26):
They're not gonna win.
Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
It's a home game.
Speaker 4 (01:06:30):
I think you're gonna need like, I don't know, two
pick sixes and a fumble six to have a shot.
Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Oh my gosh, Oh, I know what I was going
to say. Okay, put this way down on the calendar,
like September next year.
Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
Are you ready?
Speaker 4 (01:06:43):
Okay, Tank Dell will not start this season on the
active roster. Oh next season, yep, it's December. It's possible
you could be in the pup.
Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Just thrown it in there.
Speaker 5 (01:06:54):
I mean a knee cap and an acl Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
Apparently the kneecap, if you've seen the ill photo is
in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2 (01:07:02):
Is that bad? I don't think it's good.
Speaker 5 (01:07:04):
Perpendicular? How many degrees? Forty five degrees?
Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
Was?
Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Well, let's not get any more graphic. People are trying
to have a Christmas even me to listen to the show.
Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
Okay, somebody's having a Christmas ham right now. Sounds delicious.
Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
I will predict also, man, did I will go back
to back to back? Oh, here we go and win
the iHeart Fantasy League for the third straight year as
I am in the final versus Trey Campbell?
Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Are you really Trey Campbell of kiltny fame?
Speaker 5 (01:07:34):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
By the way, Rodo's with us on Thursday at one o'clock.
Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
Oh hell yeah, I need his help. You know what,
you can just host the show if you want to.
On that part, I'm okay with it, because.
Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
Basically you're gonna it's all about it's all self serving
for you.
Speaker 5 (01:07:46):
That's not true.
Speaker 2 (01:07:47):
I mean I would. I mean I'm not blaming you
for it. I would do that. If you have a
chance to win the pot again this year, why wouldn't
you take.
Speaker 1 (01:07:53):
Advantage of rodo He's up to you out before in
the absolutely job. And I got some injuries. I got
James Connor who got hurt. So I got some shoes
on my roster for the final okay. So yeah, Rod
was with this on Thursday at one o'clock for the
final time this season.
Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Uh okay. So who you're playing? You're playing Trey Campbell?
Speaker 5 (01:08:11):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
How much?
Speaker 6 (01:08:13):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
I hell? By the way, am I am my dad? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:08:15):
Let me see how many low points you had?
Speaker 1 (01:08:17):
Oh god, I'm so you don't realize what a huge
weight of the world is off my shoulders now that
I'm never playing fantasy football again.
Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Whatever, that's fine, all right?
Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Seven one three two one two five seven outie seven
one three two one two five SEVENINTI Clay is in Hockley.
Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Happy holidays, Clay, what is in your gut?
Speaker 19 (01:08:38):
Very Christmas?
Speaker 8 (01:08:38):
See you guys too. Yeah, this is a little bit
down in the future, so I had to wait a
little while to see if it comes to fruitional. But
I say the Astros finish a little bit below five
hundred next year, whoa maybe get in, maybe get in
with a wild call. And I also think that they're done,
pretty much signed. If I pick up do a small
splash and day at field. But I think that I
(01:08:59):
think the pretty much done. They're going to row with
who they have, the team that they already have in place.
Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
Wait a minute, let's let's backtrack here. You have them
finishing under five hundred but still making a wild card.
That's not gonna be possible.
Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
I don't think.
Speaker 8 (01:09:13):
Well, I say around five hundred and possibly sneaking in
as a wildcard, because I think that either A believe
they're not going to win the division or the Rangers
are going to turn it around. But yeah, I don't
see them. If they may get in the get in
the playoffs. Don't see him going very far.
Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Matthews calling the show seriously, is this really you, Dan,
Come on, are you hiding? No? This is good all right, Clay?
What else did you have besides that? I just I
just said that.
Speaker 8 (01:09:41):
I don't think they're going to do anything else. I
don't know how this thing works where you have to
give up draft picks to whenever you sign somebody. I
didn't know that was a thing, but I guess it is.
Speaker 1 (01:09:50):
Well, as long as you tend to them a contract,
if you offer them a qualifying offer, you can get
compensation back in return.
Speaker 8 (01:09:57):
Okay, I'm hoping next year that Jim Crane will open
up the pocket boak, so if they have other money
out the book and folks and maybe get a outfield
er to and uh and then then spo with it.
Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
All right, Thank you very much, Clay, appreciate you.
Speaker 13 (01:10:13):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
Happy holidays. Yeah, Dan thinks the Oakland A's may win
the American League West next year.
Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Ross what.
Speaker 1 (01:10:21):
Yeah, he was like going through examples of teams that
vastly improved and how the Astros may regress in that.
Maybe a case, but he's like, you know, the Oakland
A's weren't up and coming team last year. I said
up and coming did what was their record? He's like
sixty nine and ninety three or whatever. He goes, well,
that's better than they were the year before, and they
won fifty one games.
Speaker 5 (01:10:37):
They were better in the second half of the season.
Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
I'll get in that.
Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Yeah, I'm not buying into these Sacramento a's. By way,
you can't even call them Sacramento as. They're just regular a's,
They're just a's.
Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
Yeah, they're just calling themselves the a's of the athletic
I mean the athletics.
Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Hmm, okay, that's terrible. Well, well, how does the city
of Sacramento feel about this?
Speaker 2 (01:10:59):
They don't care.
Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
They're they're getting rent and getting a home and getting
the major League Baseball team.
Speaker 5 (01:11:03):
There, so they probably want some sort of shine.
Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Nope, they're getting done in their gigs. Zero shine, Ross,
That's a shame, all right. Seven one three two one
two five Seminati our Buddy James and Garden Oaks and
Gilbert and Austin wants to talking.
Speaker 2 (01:11:18):
If you've got a gut feeling, let us know.
Speaker 1 (01:11:19):
Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven
one three two one two five seven ninety It is
the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.
Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
This is Sports Talk SEVENINTI go back to.
Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Matt Thomas and Ross via Real one on Sports Talk
seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:11:37):
N't that Thomas, Yo? They got a gut dealing lunchtimers.
Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Gut feelings continue now on The Matt Thomas Show eleven.
Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
Forty nine on Sports Talk seven NINTI.
Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
If you have a gut feeling, let us know seven
one three two one two five Sevenati seven one three
two one two five Sevenatti.
Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
Look who's online? Two? Rosses our buddy James and Garden Oaks.
Speaker 16 (01:12:01):
New York.
Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Just let you know. Ross James yesterday called in as
a Fantasy five judge and he voted for Dan Matthews James.
Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
Good morning, what's wrong with that?
Speaker 1 (01:12:22):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 13 (01:12:24):
Governor and Merry Christmas, who hold to one and all,
including you, my friend mister r V and Connor. Listen,
I'm gonna get you straight to the point. I'm sorry
about yesterday, but he edged you out Man five of
the format.
Speaker 2 (01:12:38):
But you're still my boy. Okay.
Speaker 13 (01:12:40):
I'm gonna get to my picks real quick. First of all,
I disagree with you. Bregman is not coming to the Yankees.
I got an inside tracker. He's heading to Boston. The
person that made that prediction is.
Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
Right on target.
Speaker 13 (01:12:51):
And the bad thing about it is Tucker might soon
follow him next year. That would be tough for my
boys in New York to deal with, because the Red
Sox will be I'm mighty, and I'll make my older
brother happy like happy like like I don't know what,
but you'll get on my nerves.
Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Okay, you know what you yeah?
Speaker 13 (01:13:09):
Yeah? And also I got I got the Ravens just
plucking the you know, the daylights out.
Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Of your Texans.
Speaker 13 (01:13:16):
Sorry, Texas, the Texans are Friday. And also the chiefs
putting the fine on there in the coffin on the
way to a three peep And that's all I got
right now. Thank you once once it again, and thank
you are for taking my call. Governor Thomas, you're the man.
Speaker 18 (01:13:43):
Ross.
Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
Do you ever want to go to?
Speaker 21 (01:13:44):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Time Square? New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Uh?
Speaker 6 (01:13:47):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
When did you become governor?
Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
Somebody called me governor one time and he's and James
calls me that every time.
Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Okay, Governor Thomas.
Speaker 8 (01:13:56):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
It sounds like it's one of those things where would
be fun in theory, but then you miserable.
Speaker 1 (01:14:00):
Because here's the thing I'm picking up you get down there,
all those hours ahead of time, and you gotta go, Pete,
what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Where are you gonna go? Uh?
Speaker 4 (01:14:08):
I believe you got to bring you a pouch? Oh,
keep it on your leg like a night, like a
like a Cathar situation. Yeah, I'm sure there's some sort
of contraption you can rig up.
Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
I mean, you're the chance of you kissing a stranger,
complete stranger at you know, a midnight Eastern time is
probably pretty good because people have been out there for
hours and it's cold, and you don't want Oh man,
I don't know. I mean I wouldn't, but I'm just
throwing that out there.
Speaker 5 (01:14:37):
It's the first thing you brought up.
Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
The first thing I brought up was trying to go
to the bathroom and losing your place in line, in line.
Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
Where well you got a really good to see Dick Clark.
Speaker 5 (01:14:49):
No, he's dead, Oh, Ryan SeaQuest.
Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
Does he still do it? I think he's busy with
will of fortune. I think he still does it.
Speaker 1 (01:14:58):
Okay, But if you have a primo spot in the
apple or with the ball drops or whatever the thing is,
you don't want to give that up, right, I guess
can't you get it back? You fight your way back,
tell somebody to hold your place. Oh that's gonna work
with hundreds of thousands of people downtown. Oh that's what
I'm sure it's gonna work. It sounds like a gigantic
waste of time. I will just go watch from my couch,
(01:15:18):
like I would like to get a room at the
hotel next to the Time Square. I mean, I'm sure
the rates are astronomical, but that's what I how to
want to celebrating.
Speaker 4 (01:15:24):
Yes, and those of you who are gonna be popping
fireworks between now and New Year's and after New Year's
I hate you.
Speaker 5 (01:15:32):
I just want you to know.
Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
I hate you, and my dogs hate you too. By
the way, just give me a.
Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
Little New Year's Eve.
Speaker 6 (01:15:37):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
It's fine, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
You want to blow your hand off and go to
the hospital, have a great time. But outside of that,
I hate you.
Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
Well, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
But Gilbert and Austin was in your gut, Happy New Year,
happy holiday.
Speaker 19 (01:15:49):
Well actually I'm from San Antonio, but I was working
in Austin when I was calling you guys. Anyway, my
gut feeling is going to be I don't know what
that guy was talking about, he goes, remember when we
had that was here? Okay, we were doing now. I
think if we'd have been instead of Jose Brady, if
we had been used a singleton Jaron Kenny and and
and Diaz, I think we would.
Speaker 11 (01:16:09):
Have had a better record.
Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
For one.
Speaker 19 (01:16:12):
Also, all my gut feeding is that the ash Shows
did pretty good while Tucker was hurt, while Breaking One
was hurt, they stepped up and now we got a
first basement go glove, and then we also got Paradis
and now all we to do is get the pitching going.
I think we're gonna be better than last year. And
that's what I'm looking at. I'm pretty sure were gonna
put some more pieces together. But my gut feeding and
if the Ashows are gonna win the division again, and
(01:16:34):
also the Texans is gonna win by field goal?
Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
All right, look at that miss like that a lot
of positivity. Let's go Gilbert Astros won the division. Texans
win by a field goal.
Speaker 1 (01:16:46):
I mean, look, the Texans aren't good at home Ross
I mean not counting the Tennessee game obviously, and we
have to bring that up. But they've beaten Buffalo at home.
They beat Indianapolis at home?
Speaker 5 (01:16:58):
How are they gonna score points?
Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
Beat j Bill at home?
Speaker 5 (01:17:01):
You got to score to keep up with Lamar Jackson.
How's that happening?
Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Yeah? Who's gonna cover his eight flowers for three hours?
Speaker 7 (01:17:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
Derek Stingley all pro mm hmm having a better season
than Sauce Gardner TSC. TSC continues to believe and we'll
always believe that Sauce Gardner was the pick?
Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
Uh TSC. How are we feeling about Will Levis? And
he been benched twice this year?
Speaker 2 (01:17:26):
We're no, We're no.
Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
I don't I believe We're no longer BULLISHO on Will Levis.
You know Brock powers though everywhere he did pick Parck Powers.
Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
Yeah, TSC is done.
Speaker 5 (01:17:36):
Okay, you gonna do a third person on us when
you code frime?
Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
No, I'm I'm Ricky Henderson.
Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Rip you may he rest? Oh wait, did we do
him for Believe it or Not?
Speaker 2 (01:17:44):
Already? Yesterday? Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (01:17:46):
I wasn't listening.
Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Oh you know, let's let's say this real quick. We
could do this.
Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
We got said one, three, two, two, five seven, And
let's play Believe it or not real fast with just
you and me we'll see how well you would have done.
Speaker 5 (01:17:56):
What do you oh for the questions?
Speaker 13 (01:17:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:17:59):
Oka, you pull up the question.
Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
I'm gonna pull up the questions. Let me said, I
can find them. This is yesterday. I deleted your Merry
Christmas email. Let's say that. By the way, don't text
me Merry Christmas tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:18:09):
I'm gonna text you married Xmas.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
If you really wanted to wish me and merry Christmas,
you'd send me a carter call me? You would? You don't?
Why can't you text? Though? What if you have a
fairly informal relationship? What is wrong with you? No?
Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
Because the people that are texting me I have more
than just informal relationships with.
Speaker 5 (01:18:27):
So do you want a card or nothing?
Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
What's wrong with a Merry Christmas text? Because I gotta
respond to it. I don't want to look at it.
Speaker 5 (01:18:33):
Oh my god, you're you're a sick human being.
Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
No, people are trying to sit sick.
Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
It's so it's Oh, let's just a friend of mine
for nineteen years.
Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
We'll set up a Merry Christmas text. You know how
about some.
Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
People's lives are hard enough. You know what it is
to get you a car You're probably not even be
grateful for it in the first place, the way it
sounds right now, then I got to mail it and stamp.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
It and get it to you and sign. Yeah, it's
caught a little bit of effort.
Speaker 5 (01:18:59):
You a text.
Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Blocking you.
Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
I'm sitting you a text at midnight?
Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
All right, here we go? You ready, Yes, I am?
All right. Let's see if you would want a prize.
Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:19:10):
Ricky Henderson is baseball's all time steals leader. He's also
been caught stealing more than anybody else. To believe it
or not, I believe it.
Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
That is correct.
Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
Believe it.
Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
Ricky Henderson says his favorite manager of all time was
Billy Martin.
Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Uh you not believe it? I believe it? All right,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
Ricky was drafted by the Ages in nineteen seventy six,
but had at least twelve scholarship offers to play football.
Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
Uh not.
Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
That is also a believer. Twelve What.
Speaker 5 (01:19:44):
Where did you get that number? I need to see
verification on the same Why would I make that up?
Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Ar Tikipedia?
Speaker 5 (01:19:49):
Okay, counted twelve exactly. That's what it's NBS on that.
Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
That's not Ricky had several girlfriends over the years, but
never got married nor had any children.
Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Believe it or not.
Speaker 1 (01:19:59):
Uh not.
Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
Yeah, he married his high school sweetheart and has three kids.
Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Number two Rickey Henderson, who appeared in Toy Story four
as an Oakland A's bobblehead.
Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
Not that's a belief.
Speaker 5 (01:20:09):
I believe it. I didn't watch Toy Story four.
Speaker 2 (01:20:13):
I mean I didn't see Toy Story two, three or four?
Speaker 16 (01:20:16):
What?
Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Yeah? Ricky wore two numbers during his major league career,
thirty five and twenty four.
Speaker 9 (01:20:22):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:20:25):
Not, that's a belief.
Speaker 5 (01:20:26):
Believe it?
Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (01:20:27):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (01:20:30):
Ricky Henderson used to work as a game commentator for
NBC Sports after his retirement, but was fired for swearing
twice during the two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
All Star Game. Not yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:20:40):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (01:20:40):
In nineteen eighty four, Ricky scored a run for the
A's on a sack fly from third base, sprinting backwards to.
Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
Orange home plate. Not that's okay. I don't think you
got any prizes, but at least you try.
Speaker 5 (01:20:52):
I think I got the last three or two or three?
Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Okay, you got one prize. You can go see the Todys.
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
Alex and Caro on seven on eight, Alex witching your
gut all right, I got.
Speaker 6 (01:21:02):
A couple here.
Speaker 7 (01:21:04):
I have a gut feeling that single's gonna get an interception.
I have a gut feeling that Mark Andrews is going
to score a touchdown. I've got a gut feeling that
the Astros are still trying to keep Bregman and that
they're secretly trying to shot pad.
Speaker 17 (01:21:23):
It to move him.
Speaker 18 (01:21:26):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 14 (01:21:27):
I think it's possible.
Speaker 7 (01:21:29):
I'm hopeful we got a first baseman.
Speaker 11 (01:21:31):
Now, it'd be.
Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Great to retain our third basement.
Speaker 19 (01:21:34):
But those are just.
Speaker 11 (01:21:35):
My gut feelings.
Speaker 7 (01:21:36):
And I also have a gut feeling I'm gonna drink
a lot tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (01:21:40):
Yeah, you're probably already starting to drink already. Here's the
quote from Alec Dana Brown.
Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
The way I view it now is.
Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
That each Paradis is going to play third base. Christian
Walker will play first. Negotiations stalled. I thought we made
it a competitive offer and showing that we wanted Alex Bregman,
bag Rossie.
Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Alex has decrease. He didn't think it was very competitive,
but they have so much better. He would have been
signed by now, so six one fifty six was not
apparently competitive enough. We wish Alex are best.
Speaker 4 (01:22:09):
If six fifty one fifty six wasn't good enough, Mattie,
I don't I don't know if you're you're gonna win.
Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Your bet, Well, somebody's got to do it right. Yes,
I wonder if he's thinking, I want to get to
the two hundred threshold. That was the most important thing
for him.
Speaker 4 (01:22:23):
It seems like that's what's gonna happen. It seems like
that's the number in their mind. That's and then the
number not in the minds of the other team.
Speaker 2 (01:22:29):
So, all right, the News at noon is next eleven
fifty nine here on Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1 (01:22:33):
Ninety lunchtimers, this is the Matt Thomas Show, twelve o
four in h Town.
Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
What's happening at lunch timers.
Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
We are into our number three of the Matt Thomas
Show with Ross and as we do every time during
this portion of the program, it's time for us to give.
Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
You the News at noon, and with that we go
to the desk.
Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
All right, Matt's going to be back in the news
at noon here on the Matt Tubby Show. A lot
of stuff going on here, A little sports news into Houston.
Most importantly, the Rockets pick up a big win last night.
Holiday bright elbow goes off fours off high archy, seven
foot shot over the arms of ucity of batte for two,
(01:23:23):
and Aaron Halliday went back to back baskets and a
technical foul has just been called. I believe let's see
who's ann Charles Lee or a player was Aaron Holiday
and he's just been tossing the game.
Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (01:23:39):
I won fourteen to one on one win for the Rockets.
You're burying the lead on that what three minutes?
Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
Two baskets, yes, two technicals in an injection.
Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
It's gotta be some kind of a record for Aaron Holiday.
Speaker 1 (01:23:54):
I mean what, I don't know what he said, but
he's I saw him on the bus after the game
last night and he goes, I shouldn't have been thrown
out for the game.
Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
I deserve one technacle. He didn't. He thought he didn't
deserve a second one.
Speaker 4 (01:24:06):
M Well, Nonetheless, the Rockets get up big in the
first half and get the win and are now twenty
and nine on the AAR and the number two seed
in your Western Conference.
Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
Thoughts. I'm happy, Verris, I.
Speaker 4 (01:24:21):
Am happy the schedule. I mean, what am I supposed
to believe? Is the offens been good? I've been gone,
I've I've been paying attention. The first of all, the
competition has been wretched. So they're not losing to ten.
They shouldn't be losing two.
Speaker 5 (01:24:33):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (01:24:34):
Uh. Jalen has now gentlemen. Did not play well last night,
but he has had a better run of things. Rockets
played without Dylan Brooks yesterday. Van Bleet was terrible in
Toronto and was awesome last night. Jabbari has become a
I think he's got double figures in six consecutive games,
which is something I think a lot of Jabari Smith
fans have been waiting for.
Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
That's good.
Speaker 15 (01:24:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
I mean Thompson confused to be awesome no matter what
you put him in.
Speaker 1 (01:24:58):
In terms of me, He's sitting three point shots on
the net the semi regular, but more than just once
in a while. Put that way, and the blown out
teams they should be beating up on and they did, so,
congratulations to them.
Speaker 2 (01:25:10):
Twenty and nine.
Speaker 1 (01:25:11):
They've got to New Orleans on Thursday, which should be
another win, a tougher game against Minnesota on Friday, and
you know, La Ross, I've put it in there. I
said yesterday during the Tale of the Truth. I think
the Rockets are going to survive the top six. There
will be no need for worrying about a playing game.
They're not going to be in a plan. Nope, Matt
Thomas has locked it in. Oh yeah, and that's purely
(01:25:32):
biased because I hope you're right.
Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
I'm rooting for it seriously.
Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
I mean, we got to start believing in the hype
at some point.
Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
They can't. I mean we're this far into the season.
It's not like they just started. Yeah, that's good, all right, Matt.
Speaker 1 (01:25:44):
Moving along on the news at noon, of course, the
Astros with first Basement Christian Walker, and you had Dana
Brown saying, as of right now, in his mind, third
basement is going to be esach parritis, and then first
Basement Christian Walker. MLB True also talking about how all
while on Chandler Rome's podcast, he said he doesn't expect
(01:26:05):
any more significant big dollar additions to the Astros that
could leave a less expensive outfield option for the Astros
if they choose to pursue, such as Jesse Winker, Alex Verdugo,
David Peralta, or Jason Hayward.
Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
I'm not sure if any of those names do anything
for you. Uh, they're fine.
Speaker 1 (01:26:26):
What I was talking about Christian Walker shunning and our
friend the show, Dann Matthews, he was this outfield is terrible.
You can't possibly go into the season with this outfield, like, Brah,
have you watched the team last year?
Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
They were with this outfield for ninety percent of the season.
Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
Yeah, for Dugo had a down year last year.
Speaker 1 (01:26:42):
Jesse Winkers, Okay, Jason Hayward and you know, I mean
obviously they claimed him off of waivers from the Dodgers,
but he was good here in an Astros uniform down
the stretch.
Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
I will say this, I think we're gonna be underwhelmed
with the outfield performance, especially if if it's well, if
it's your not on who cares he's playing DH, but
it's it's gonna seven, eight and nine is gonna be.
Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
Full of out fielders in the batting land.
Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
I think, what about how do you feel about Zach
Dezenzo in left field? And then possibly down the road
a Jacob Melton.
Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
When you say down the road, I get the feeling
when Chandler was with us, it's gonna be late twenty
twenty four a twenty twenty five if it happens that.
Speaker 1 (01:27:20):
It feels like to me that Matthews and Melton, probably
Melton first over Matthews, but it could be a while
before either one of those two guys.
Speaker 2 (01:27:26):
Don's at astro uniform.
Speaker 5 (01:27:28):
M Okay, let's see other things going on.
Speaker 4 (01:27:33):
Of course, you're Houston Texans in action, going to be
against the Baltimore Ravens. I'm trying to actually find a
shorter clip because everything is a minute plus.
Speaker 5 (01:27:43):
But matt why don't you talk for five seconds?
Speaker 2 (01:27:45):
All right?
Speaker 1 (01:27:46):
I'll talk for five seconds about there's another story that
we have to get to concerning the college football playoff,
and for Texas fans, you're gonna be very upset when
you hear the news that was reported yesterday by the
folks in Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
So stay tuned for that as our next news story.
Here on the news.
Speaker 1 (01:28:02):
By the way, NFL rewind with Ross at the bottom
of the ard. Yes, that is coming up. I'm actually
prepared for that one.
Speaker 5 (01:28:07):
Here is CJ.
Speaker 4 (01:28:07):
Stroud talking about the injuries that have been piling up
for the Houston Texans.
Speaker 9 (01:28:12):
Yeah, you got a man of mentality you know, gotta
with your numbers call, you got to make the play.
So we're all prepared for these moments, you know, we do.
Demico does a great job of you know, competition periods
and you know, and practice during the season for practice
squad guys to get an opportunity to play against the starters.
And you know, I think that's good for them and
(01:28:32):
it's the opportunity for them to you know, step up
and rise to their tasment So yeah, I think you
know that this is something that you know, it is
happenings on everybody's team, like injuries happened to everybody. So
and it's not easy to say it's the worst part
of our sport, but it's a part of it and
you gotta be prepared for it. I think Nick has
done a good job of that, and you know, the
Miko done good job of preparing us that way to
(01:28:54):
you know, to have that next mentality up and you know,
to be able to execute a high level when your
numbers called.
Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
He knows it.
Speaker 5 (01:29:03):
What is that that he knows?
Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
He knows he knows it's John Matchie season, baby, oh
Yonde Johnson. Yes, but the ante John Well and is
even going to be active tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (01:29:16):
What would you think? Probably not right?
Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
Why not? What do they have to lose? They need depth,
they need a receiver.
Speaker 5 (01:29:22):
I'm not gonna know where he's going, what he's doing.
Speaker 1 (01:29:26):
So he's saying the the route tree of the Texas
is more convoluted than the average NFL round.
Speaker 8 (01:29:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
He's got to learn the play calls at least, and
then the Yeah, the nomenclature, if you will, m nice
nice pull.
Speaker 5 (01:29:38):
Uh, yeah, that's one of your favorite words.
Speaker 2 (01:29:40):
Of course, love it. It's been in a part of
our vernacular for the last fourteen years of the show.
Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
Elsewhere, Matt, if we're going to off the board for
the news at noon, let me take you to Chilton County, Alabama,
where in the Maplesville there were police called to a
bar and well, uh, they were found. They found a
man in a Grinch suit who was arrested after he
had drank too much eggnog. The man dressed in the
(01:30:06):
Grinch shuit was acting strangely in the boots at the venue. Later,
at a Christmas parade, police spotted the same man again
acting aggressively towards nearby parade goers. The suspect was arrested
and charged on charges of public intoxication, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest,
and theft of property property and while the Sheriff's office
(01:30:27):
also put in the release quote intense to steal Christmas cheer,
so it was a heavily spiked igna if returned to
tell us, yes, the Grinch shoot man actually waved his
hand at cameras while being taken away in the back
of a police car.
Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
Hmm, eggnog, yes or no? By the way, I don't
like it, but I mean I'll drink it. Not my
favorite once a year.
Speaker 2 (01:30:59):
Hot in July.
Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
You would know I'm not huge on brandy in general
or cognac if you will.
Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
Yeah, but the generic eggnog is non alcoholic.
Speaker 4 (01:31:09):
Well yeah, but I thought you were talking about alcoholic. No,
there's no alcohol in it. Why would I even bother?
Speaker 1 (01:31:15):
So you're saying a non alcoholic, non alcohol eggnog is
not on your evergule ac drink.
Speaker 5 (01:31:22):
Do you get a next? Give me a ginger ale
with no scotch.
Speaker 1 (01:31:24):
Come on, all right, mag give you some breaking were
not necessarily breaking news, but I added a little.
Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
News and noon and tidbit.
Speaker 1 (01:31:31):
Okay, the Peach Bowl, and it's got a corporate sponsor
to it, but they don't spend money with us. They're
not gonna plug set out a tweet twenty two hours
ago Ross and it goes, look this, we all love,
we love all of the great traditions of college football,
and no doubt Beivo is one.
Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Of the best.
Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
But the unfortunate reality is there's simply it's not enough
room on the sidelines of Raradi's Wren Stadium. With the
constraints of the stadium and prioritizing the safety of Bevo,
the players, the network, cameras, support staff, cheerleaders and photographers,
we unfortunately we'll not be able to have Bevo on
the field at the CFP quarterfinal at the Rick Worley
Peach Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (01:32:12):
Do you want my honest opinion?
Speaker 2 (01:32:14):
Was he at the SEC Championship game yesterday?
Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
He was not.
Speaker 1 (01:32:16):
He was also barred from that, all right, I don't
I don't care. Oh, I see you were gonna set
it up. You said, you want my real thoughts on
which man, I knew you were gonna go the other direction.
Speaker 4 (01:32:25):
Yeah, I don't care. It's a cow on the side
of the field. I'm sorry, it's cool.
Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
I would like it.
Speaker 4 (01:32:32):
I mean, if Bevo is there is that gonna help
gwinn yours not throw interceptions.
Speaker 2 (01:32:38):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
It's there are some longhorned people who are upset about
this and up in arms, and this is it doesn't matter.
Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
Please, if there's.
Speaker 2 (01:32:47):
No room on the sidelines, form there's no room on
the sidelines.
Speaker 1 (01:32:49):
It's a giant cat, nine hundred pound cow or a
thousand whatever benny pounds cow.
Speaker 7 (01:32:53):
It is.
Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Who cares play football. Let's focus on the game.
Speaker 1 (01:32:59):
I'm gonna rank the best live mascots in the world.
You ready to go, it's bebo one. And if you
if you want to lie, you're If you want to
say something.
Speaker 5 (01:33:06):
You're lying.
Speaker 1 (01:33:08):
Here are my lest my list Beibo, thank you. This
is okay the Buffalo at Colorado it's just a dog
the Buffalo, Yeah, like yeah, Ralphie is cool. The Tiger
although stinks, Mike the Tiger right, Yes, I got a
sneaky first round live mascot.
Speaker 5 (01:33:31):
Pitch okay, Ugah, yeah, ug is fine.
Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
And do we count the horse at Texas Tech?
Speaker 8 (01:33:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:33:38):
Or no? I guess am I done?
Speaker 13 (01:33:43):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Everybody?
Speaker 1 (01:33:44):
I think it's Ralphie and Bebo. Ralphie and Bibo are
one two, whatever order you want to put him. Revere
is literally just a colleague. I'd go, I'd go, I'd
go Ugga then Ralphie, then Bevo and Uggy.
Speaker 2 (01:33:59):
UGGI doesn't that's informing, Smokey.
Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
It's just literally just a dog.
Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
Does a Baylor Bears. They have a live mascot. They
put a bear in a.
Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Cage and yah, here's a grizzly bear. You can wrestle
it for for seventy five bucks at a circus.
Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Correct, Yeah, yes, all right, there you go.
Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
That's the news at noon seven one three two one
two five seven ninety seven one three two one two
five seven. Annie Ross has the NFL rewind coming up
in about fifteen minutes from now. Seven one three two
one two five seven. Honey out if you notice this,
we're gonna talk about this coming back. A kirk Herbstreet
is being worn out by college football pundits. It's been
(01:34:34):
a rough week for the lead college analyst in Sports
twelve fifteen Sports Talk seven NINTI tex Is on three
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Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
What what.
Speaker 1 (01:34:59):
If I gave you the option ross of listening to
Christ's music when you wanted to, but it had people
singing songs pre nineteen ninety I would take that option, right.
Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I mean, I would say most of my favorites of
pre nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:35:13):
Yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1 (01:35:14):
I don't like yesterday Connor was playing all this hipster
like Justin Bieber, his Justin Bieber and whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
What was that boy band that you had yesterday for
a couple of songs.
Speaker 1 (01:35:26):
I mean it was just like the Jonas Brothers Jonas
Brothers exactly. That's not Chris's music, Bing Crosby's, Chris Harry
Combo's Christmas correct Burrel Eyes if you will, No, I
do like.
Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Andy Lennox singing Christmas songs. It's kind of a strange.
Speaker 4 (01:35:47):
And the Mariah Carey is is post well, that's around
nineteen ninety.
Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
It's the most popular Christmas song in the last twenty
five years, so says I think People Magazine or.
Speaker 1 (01:35:57):
Something like that, whatever list you were looking for to together,
I got one more question for its non Christmas related okay, uh?
I was looking at my Instagram, and I'm getting a
bunch of people that are liking my videos that I've
never heard of before, and they're probably either it's just either.
Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Bots or just people that just don't follow me.
Speaker 1 (01:36:12):
So I was looking at the number of people that
have looked at my various different reels and videos, Like
I had a video that showed up twelve interviews. One
it's got six interviews, one it's got five interviews. Nothing crazy.
My video of the me being in Las Vegas at
the sphere spear sphere spear.
Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
I can't say it properly.
Speaker 5 (01:36:33):
Fear spear, sphear spear.
Speaker 1 (01:36:35):
There's no v no spear, smotish smear or sphere spear,
sphere spear, sphere sphere.
Speaker 2 (01:36:48):
Thirty eight three hundred people have viewed my videos.
Speaker 5 (01:36:51):
Wow, would you hashtag?
Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
I didn't hashtag anything nothing.
Speaker 5 (01:36:55):
What's your name?
Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
You're on? This is the Instagram sports empt Instagram?
Speaker 5 (01:37:00):
Hmmm, oh, good for you.
Speaker 1 (01:37:01):
And apparently I found out that Don Henley gets all
pissed off if you shoot video of it.
Speaker 4 (01:37:05):
Ever, Oh he's coming after you, Matthew and appears the
one that watched in thirty eight thousand dimes.
Speaker 1 (01:37:09):
Quite a political activist from I understand too, which I
didn't realize either. I I, it's funny, I don't I
don't know political generally speak. I don't know the political
slants of the people that I like in life. Yeah,
but I was certainly told after how he feels about
certain things.
Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
Let me be honest with you, I have no idea
what Don Hanley's politics are. And then to tell you
something else.
Speaker 2 (01:37:26):
I don't care. Yeah, well others do. But yeah. If
if you have not gone to the Sphere Sphere Sphere
yet to see a concert, you have to go see it.
It's unbelievable. It was the greatest venue I've ever seen
a concert in my entire life. Wow. Period, I praise
Period Industory.
Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
And you did a good job filming their greatest song.
Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
All right, No, it was our first song. It's not bad.
I mean, I still like Hotel California, but it's not
my favorites.
Speaker 5 (01:37:55):
They played it first to get out of the way.
Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
I mean, how do you feel about generally speaking, don't you?
You don't play your number one hit to open up
a concert, do you. I they did that though, yeah,
very first.
Speaker 4 (01:38:05):
Yeah, I think a lot of a lot of people
do that now, trying to get it out of the
way and then they can go on to some other
stuff that they like, like get your.
Speaker 5 (01:38:13):
Videos, blah blah blah. I think that's the way that
a lot of people are.
Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
Going these days.
Speaker 1 (01:38:17):
Okay, so yeah, the quick summation of that greatest venue
I've ever seen. The sound worth spectacular. I thought Don
Hendley sounded awesome for being seventy seven, I mean, really
blown away how good he was. Vince Gill was very good,
singing like Glenn Frye songs. Glenn's son was in the band.
He was good with a couple of songs he sang.
(01:38:38):
Everything was great, except who's the other guy that sings
in that group?
Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
That was terrible. I'm trying to blank him a break.
He's probably in his eighties. He's about the same age.
Trying to think of who got it? Joe Wash.
Speaker 1 (01:38:51):
Joe was gonna say it was Joe Walsh there. Joe
Walsh was there, and he was he was back in
the band.
Speaker 5 (01:38:55):
Okay, he was. He lived a hard life.
Speaker 1 (01:38:57):
Matt, Oh my god, he sounds like he's an ninety
seven years old. You're trying to talking to us. I'm like, man,
do you even know where you are.
Speaker 5 (01:39:04):
A lot of drugs and alcohol for Joe Walsh.
Speaker 2 (01:39:06):
Ooh a lot. I think missing teeth too. I think
at some point too well, that happens to the best
of us.
Speaker 1 (01:39:12):
All right, let's go to uh Scott in River Oaks
at twelve twenty six on Sports Talk seventy Scott, thanks
for holding Good morning, good afternoon, morning.
Speaker 18 (01:39:20):
Good morning afternoon, Matt and Ross, Merry Christmas. Thanks for
what you guys do all year long. I know it's
not we're not celebrating New Year's but I really enjoyed
listening to y'all show. This might have been a better
topic last week when you know there's a lot of
stuff going on with the Astros. I'm sure you guys
have been talking about a lot of football today, but
I wanted to hear y'all's thought on I guess a
(01:39:41):
baseball conspiracy theory. I've come up with it. I'm really
not a conspiracy theorist, but I want to maybe you
guys can give me some better insight. So I've always
been frustrated that when you know, during the offseason, when
big name free agents come up for years, obviously now
especially of late. No matter who they are, the Yankees, Dodgers,
and Mets, they're always going to be in the running,
right because they kid they're willing to go over with
the luxury tax. Well, the other day I was watching
(01:40:04):
the Texans Chiefs games with my dad and he came
across an article saying since twenty twenty, there's been about
a billion dollars in luxury tax money alone collected by
the MLB. That is a lot of money. So we
started talking about it when it came across that article,
pack well, wait a minute, where does that billion dollars go?
(01:40:24):
And so we started looking into it and the only
things we could find is some of the money gets
put into the pension funds for retired MLB players and
stuff like that. But then a large portion of the
money from what we can understand, maybe I'm wrong. I
can't one hundred percent verify this, but it sounds like
from what we read since the other money gets redistributed
to the owners of teams that are like below the
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average revenue from local TV deals. If that's the case,
this is this is a scam in my opinion. I mean,
the Pirates and the Reds and the A's and whoever
essentially get the luxury tax money paid by the Yankee
and Dodgers, So essentially they're getting paid to allow them
to get the best players. Am I totally off on
what I'm hearing? Fause you guys know more about what
(01:41:08):
exactly happens with this money, and it's not Do you
agree that that's they should feel scammed, their fans should
feel scammed.
Speaker 1 (01:41:15):
If that is the case, it's not a scam by
the way, You've read it completely accurately. Uh, there is
a money that is put in for like a caller
for pensions and whatnot, and to fund insurance and that
kind of thing. And there is operating costs that go
into the into Major League Baseball. But you're absolutely right.
The Royals and the Guardians and the A's and the
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red Scott they need teams to go over the threshold
so they can try to say competitive, they're they're You're
never gonna hear them complain about it. You're never gonna
hear about the Royals having to hit a threshold or
they got it, or where the Yankees have got to
pay for it because they know they're getting money off
of it. Because the reality is the television debtht or
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deals where local TV rights. First of all, we're a
wide discrepancy to begin with, and now these regional TV
networks are larger going away. So instead of getting three
million dollars a year to broadcaster games, they're getting zero.
Or instead of getting the multimillion dollar deals to broadcast
and these regional TV networks are getting zero.
Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
They need additional revenue funds.
Speaker 1 (01:42:20):
And the easiest way they can do that because they
don't get the big national TV dollars like the NFL does,
is they're going to take money from the teams that
feel like they can go over the.
Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Cap or the or the luxury tax. And so yeah,
they have zero problem with this.
Speaker 18 (01:42:33):
So you're saying that, yes, they do get the money,
but it's not something that they're the owners are just
able to put into their pocket. They're actually needing that
money to fill out their payroll, even though it's way
less than the bigger market clubs.
Speaker 1 (01:42:47):
Ironically, actually, Bobby Wood Juniors, Bobby Wood Junior's long term
deal with the yank with the Royals to stay there
is paid in part because the Yankees, the Red Sox,
the Dodgers, the Cubs give the lower end teams.
Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
The Pittsburgh is the world extra operating money.
Speaker 18 (01:43:05):
See that part. I didn't real that they would actually
need that money to fund their payroll debts. Crazy, Yeah,
I guess, yeah, never complain about that.
Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
But I don't know.
Speaker 18 (01:43:17):
I mean, I say it's a broken system.
Speaker 8 (01:43:20):
I just don't like the system.
Speaker 18 (01:43:21):
I wish that there would be the we could find
a system where if the Reds need an outfielder, you know,
Taoscar Hernandez for whatever reason, could be tied to them
instead of him being rumored to go to one of five.
Speaker 1 (01:43:33):
Well, you know, the easiest thing you do on this
is you have a hard salary cap like the NFL does.
We're Green Bay and Pittsburgh can compete with the LAS
and the New York teams. You know, the NBA has
got it to a lesser extent. They've got some different
levels of aprons and whatnot. But you do allow San
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Antonio and Sacramento to compete with other teams Major League Baseball.
The upper rationalon teams want to stay up Errachalon and
if it comes at a cost of saying we have
to help Pittsburgh, Seattle, Cleveland, Cincinnati, I could go on
and on Miami, Stay alive, We'll do it.
Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 18 (01:44:16):
I mean, I've always thought that one way to fix baseball,
because I know they would never get the union to
agree on a salary cap, would be at least to
do a salary floor. But that would sound dangerous. The
teams would never, I guess, agree to a salary floor
because they wouldn't guarantee, but you ever be able to
be guaranteed that they'd have enough revenue to fill out
that salary for it and not be operating at a loss.
I guess that.
Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
I don't know. Thanks Scott for the phone call. Do
majorleangue teams have a salary floor? Ross? I don't know
if they do not.
Speaker 5 (01:44:42):
Oh, I don't think so, you know, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:44:47):
No, The Yankees television deal is so astronomical they don't
want to split that up with anybody. They don't want
to split up with the San Diego Padres, Ross, who
don't have a television deal at all. Major League Baseball
produces the San Diego potter is broadcast. They get zero
money from a regional TV network. The Yankees, because they
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create their own network, are thriving because they get all
the cable systems to subscribe, so they're playing by different rules.
Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
That's why Major League Baseball will never ever go to
a hard cap.
Speaker 5 (01:45:21):
The players would never agree to it.
Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
Yeah, because they want to continue to make sure the
Yankees and the Dodgers are overpaying these athletes, which they are.
So even if you're being overpaid, if some people overpaying,
then you're at least getting other teams to spend money too.
To think that, you're like Bragmant needs the Yankees to overspend,
the needs the Red Sox overspend. They need everybody needs
everybody to overspend because at the end of the day,
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everybody's contracts go up.
Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
All right.
Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
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Speaker 2 (01:46:55):
Time is twelve.
Speaker 1 (01:46:56):
Thirty eight, a weekly feature on the show, not done
by Ross much the last two months because he's been busy.
Speaker 2 (01:47:02):
Galvanner on this continent and World of Ours.
Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
Two months feels like a little strong Matt all right.
Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
Six weeks Aye, Hey, only only one of us is
in studio today.
Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
One of us arrived at two fifteen at home. So
that's why that's your second job that I'm gonna have
to do with me. Oh God, I knew you were
gonna say that. You know what, I need to go
check on Carling.
Speaker 1 (01:47:23):
So I present to you the NFL rewy okay, well, uh,
mattes Okay, Matt, We'll be back in two minutes.
Speaker 4 (01:47:30):
In the meantime, let's go ahead and start off with
some wild action in the NFC. Jayden Daniels against a
Jalen hurtzless Eagles team coming through in the clutch.
Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
Seconds ago, second goal to ten, snap to Dangles.
Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
Eagles break four, CLU.
Speaker 5 (01:48:05):
Washington Commanders ten and five.
Speaker 4 (01:48:08):
I mean, Jade Daniels has locked up the Rookie of
the year, at least on the offensive side, despite one
hundred and fifty yards and a couple of touchdowns from
Sequon Barkley. And we'll see what happens with Jalen Hurtz
says he had the concussion in his missing time, but
you would imagine going to be okay for the playoffs.
But at the end of the day, twelve and three
(01:48:30):
are the Philadelphia Eagles. The Lions right now still the
one seed at thirteen and two, tied with the Minnesota Vikings,
so crazy enough. Vikings might only lose three games and
the rest of the season, although they do have the
Packers this week and then the Lions after that, so
a tough schedule coming up for them, but shaping up
like it's going to be. The Lions is the one
(01:48:50):
seed NFC, while it has been the AFC with the
more strong contenders over the last several years.
Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
Very good.
Speaker 4 (01:48:57):
And now with the Commanders and Jayden Daniels winning three straight,
they got ten wins, they are an all likelihood going
to be in the playoffs as well.
Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Totally unrelated. Have you seen this?
Speaker 1 (01:49:07):
And again I don't trust Twitter because you get the
four you and it winds up giving you. Yes, have
you seen there is a maybe it's just fou that
there's been talk of moving the commander's name back of
the Redskins.
Speaker 2 (01:49:18):
No, is that real? You? Are you watching fake news?
Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
Well, I mean that there's Again I don't know if
it's right or not. And again this is my fault
for not doing more betting. Yeah, yeah, I'm betting it out,
but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
I don't think it changing presidency means you change a name.
I mean, who knows. It's just weird that if you're
the Commanders, you've got things going right.
Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
You got new ownership, you're about to get a new stadium,
you got a rookie quarterback who's a phenom.
Speaker 2 (01:49:50):
I wouldn't worry about stuff like that. Just win football games,
all right, Matt.
Speaker 4 (01:49:53):
Elsewhere in football with teams not involved in the playoffs,
de Las Vegas Raid getting their third win over the
weekend against the Terrible Jaguars. Antonio Peers asked about it,
and he did not seem to care much about losing
control over the first overall pick.
Speaker 1 (01:50:12):
Coach for the part of Reid Nation that is focused
on the first overall draft pick conversation, what is your
response to them?
Speaker 5 (01:50:20):
I don't even hear what he said to Tom Alesco?
Who's Tom Alesko?
Speaker 21 (01:50:25):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
Is he the guy that runs the Motel six?
Speaker 5 (01:50:28):
Is that the Tom Telesco?
Speaker 15 (01:50:32):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (01:50:32):
It's that's the former general manager of the Chargers.
Speaker 1 (01:50:36):
Okay, so there you go. I thought that was a
different one. I thought that was a different bite that
I was playing.
Speaker 2 (01:50:41):
That's fine. Uh, Okay, Well Tom, is he their current GM? Yeah?
I think he is.
Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
So he ain't worried about it, says Antonio Peers. They're
trying to win. They're not worried about the draft.
Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
They should be.
Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
They need a number one pick, although it's a terrible
quarterback draft. Right when I thought should I think it's
top heavy. I think it's is it Shador Sanders? And
there is one more I can't remember. I think there's
like two quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (01:51:06):
And then that's it.
Speaker 1 (01:51:07):
And you get Shador Sanders and you get his dad,
who will be the assistant general manager of the team.
Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
He goes to, Hey, Quin, yours might be available. Oh
did we sing enough by the way Arch over the
weekend or no? It's fine?
Speaker 4 (01:51:18):
Yeah, you got in there a few times. We're going
to drinking game. Every time Arch came in, we did
a drink. Okay, I got you, Yeah, Camp was it
cam Ward? That's what I'm thinking of. I think cam
Ward and Chador Sanders are the headliners. And then after
that it's a very weak quarterback draft. Is that's what
the Draftnicks are dependents?
Speaker 5 (01:51:37):
Say yes, yes, what else you got? Oh let's see
what else?
Speaker 4 (01:51:41):
Actually, let's go to the NFL in general, Matt As
you know, the games on Christmas going to be on Netflix,
and if you also recall the Jake Paul Mike Tyson
fight was a disaster on Netflix. Apparently, Mike Florio and
Pro Football Talk reaching out to the NFL asking if
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there are any contingency plans in place. The response from
the league spokesperson quote, we will be prepared and we
are looking forward to a great day.
Speaker 2 (01:52:11):
The new answer is no.
Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
The natural switch suggested by Pro Football Talk would be
CBS just making a switch there to going to the
major network CBS as they are producing the games. So
what do you think, gut feeling, We don't have to
write this down in the document. Everything's gonna go smoothly
within the games on Netflix tomorrow or no, Yeah, they'll
be fine.
Speaker 5 (01:52:33):
They're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:52:34):
Okay, Speaking of tomorrow and Christmas and the Texans taking
on Lamar Jackson, Jamik o' ryan saying, everybody has to
be dialed in.
Speaker 14 (01:52:43):
The main thing when you're playing against Lamar is everyone
has to be disciplined, right, Everyone understand and you know,
have the lead awareness. So what he's capable of, and
I think everybody knows that by nowadays, he can he
can run it, whatever he wants to do. He can
buy time and throw the ball downfield, throw the deep passes.
So everybody is a matter of just working together as
(01:53:06):
a defense, not only d line, but linebackers secondary. I
guess everybody's just working together being disciplined in our coverages,
being disciplined in our rushes. Everybody just being dialed in.
Speaker 1 (01:53:20):
By the way, back to your Netflix story for a second. Yes,
greatly misreported the amount of money.
Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
The NFL is getting for this game. These games go on.
I thought it was ten million dollars for the two games.
Speaker 1 (01:53:36):
Netflix is cutting a check to the NFL for one
hundred and fifty million dollars.
Speaker 5 (01:53:43):
Cut in the mind, how is that worth their while?
Speaker 2 (01:53:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (01:53:51):
How is that possibly worth while?
Speaker 1 (01:53:52):
See anything I see when it comes to any television
rights feest, like March Madness is a billion dollar deal
between CBS and Turner, ESPN rod to blank check the
SEC to say we'll carry every one of your.
Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Games one hundred and fifty. I mean, are people on
Christmas at one thirty in the afternoon going, God, I
don't have I don't have Netflix. How am I gonna
watch this game between?
Speaker 15 (01:54:19):
You know it?
Speaker 2 (01:54:19):
It was the first game kansasity Pittsburgh? Is that right? Yes?
How am I gonna know? If there's a Swifty you
think you think thirteen year old Swifties are gonna be like?
I guess the.
Speaker 5 (01:54:31):
Game's in Pittsburgh though, Yeah, Oh, she's not even gonna
be there.
Speaker 2 (01:54:34):
Huh, No, I would.
Speaker 1 (01:54:36):
I mean maybe she might mean you gotta spend Chrystmas
with your hut with your boyfriend, right, yeah, I think
so the question after the game, maybe that'll spike up
and that'll make it worth it.
Speaker 2 (01:54:45):
I guess. Yeah, all right, sorry, but I just had
to pass out a lot.
Speaker 5 (01:54:48):
All right, there you go, Matt, and there is your
NFL rewind.
Speaker 1 (01:54:53):
When I told you when I said ten milliones, I
thought that was outrageous to pay for two games, one
hundred and fifty.
Speaker 5 (01:54:58):
That's insane.
Speaker 1 (01:55:00):
And I believe it's Iron Eagle doing the first game
and then son Noah's doing the second one.
Speaker 5 (01:55:06):
Okay, how do you like no Eagles NFL prowess.
Speaker 3 (01:55:12):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:55:12):
He's doing very well for himself.
Speaker 1 (01:55:14):
He does the number one Big ten game of a
week on NBC, he's doing the Olympics, he's doing he
did the Texans Chiefs game.
Speaker 5 (01:55:21):
And he just turned sixteen.
Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
I believe Noah's a friend of mine, so I'm not
gonna drop an age thing on him. But yeah, he's young.
He's doing quite well, doing very well for himself. Gave
up the Clippers radio job to do national television imagine
that Ross. Yeah, I think it seems like it's been
a good move. I think. So what is believe it
(01:55:42):
or not? Today? What mm hmm you said it's gonna
be Christmas related. We'll figure it out all right.
Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
Up next, we've been to Kirk Kurby Street. He is
getting worn out by the college football pundits. Twelve forty seven,
Sports Talk seven ninety. Back there, back to the Man
Thomas Show on Sports Talk seven ninety, Home of your Astros,
All Blue Eyes Sports Harvey, you can never go wrong
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with the Chairman of the Board.
Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
Nope, he did it his way.
Speaker 5 (01:56:18):
I see you work, and he also flew you to
the moon.
Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
And he also had people buried in cement.
Speaker 5 (01:56:25):
Well allegedly.
Speaker 2 (01:56:28):
Didn't be the Chrismer.
Speaker 5 (01:56:29):
That's life.
Speaker 1 (01:56:32):
All right, real quick, Kriick Herbstreet got sideways with the
first take Gang and said, you know what, look everybody
ripping on Ryan Day blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (01:56:41):
You won the game.
Speaker 1 (01:56:42):
And you know what are they gonna say in first take?
And then Shannon Sharp says, get your name out of
my mouth or get your my name out your mouth,
and I'm gonna come after you, I don't care what
ESPN said.
Speaker 2 (01:56:51):
And then Shannon Sharp today and.
Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
It's on his podcast, had to kind of backtrack of
that said, may me and Kirk are cool because frankly,
ESPN will drop you like a bad habit. Shannon sharps,
so you got to know your role with the ESPN.
But Kirk is getting worn out by a lot of
national pundits. A former friend of the show, Joel Clyde,
who became too expensive for us, said, basically, you know,
why is everybody ripping? Why is Kirk ripping on the
(01:57:13):
schools like Indiana and SMU for not advance and there
are blowouts all the time in quarter final first round games.
This is not out of the ordinary and you just
can't expect four one score games in the first round matchups?
Speaker 2 (01:57:27):
Do you think is there? And I like Kirk a lot.
I think he's very good. I think he's a very
hard worker, he's very prepared. I never feel like he slips.
Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
Now the issue is is calling the same league week
after week after week, creating a bias for him because
you know, think about it. You know the ESPN spent
all this money on the SEC. So the best game
of the week. Typically in college football most time, more
time than not, is in the SEC. Is he showing
his extreme bias because he's been in that league all
(01:57:56):
season long? Is ESPN telling him you got to be
nice to one of our big partners who's paying us
a lot of cash or do you really think that
Kirk Hurbstreet's got a uh anti, he's got a bias
against teams that aren't in that league because maybe he
really truly believes that Indiana and SMU should not have
been invited to the tournament.
Speaker 4 (01:58:15):
I think there is a little bit of bias there, probably,
and I think it's not even necessarily Kirk Kurbstreet.
Speaker 5 (01:58:20):
I think it's a lot of the national pundits.
Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
I think if it were named any other team talking
about Alabama specifically, like they were Mississippi State and they
had the exact same resume and lost those games, I
don't think there would be nearly as many people clamoring
for them as they were to get into this playoff
and pointing to the example of a couple of blowouts
it I think as long as you're going to bring
(01:58:43):
up Tennessee and say they were undeserving as well, then
just don't bring any of them up.
Speaker 1 (01:58:47):
Yeah, the reality was we just we didn't get very
many good matchups. I mean, clubs in Texas hung around
for a while, right ross, but speaking, that game was
over with.
Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
By the start of the fourth.
Speaker 1 (01:58:57):
Yeah, Texas did cover the spread man as you know,
we know. Unfortunately it was close and that's the most
important thing. That was only one of the four that
did cover, is right? I think, oh that didn't that
they didn't cover.
Speaker 4 (01:59:09):
I don't know sure why not, but yeah, I mean, sme,
stop throwing pick six as SMU. But anyways, Uh, blow
ups are going to happen early on. We'll see if
they keep going on. I mean, to me, I think
it's much ado about nothing. We argued about the top
two teams, we argued about the top four teams. Now
we're arguing about the top twelve teams. If you lose
(01:59:31):
to Vanderbilt and you lose to OU, who's terrible, you
don't deserve to be in. Maybe something needs to be
changed with these automatic bids. I mean Penn State, I'm mean,
excuse me, Boise State in Arizona State having these automatic
top four is ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (01:59:44):
But that that I don't know if that's going to change.
Speaker 1 (01:59:47):
Well, the reality is if we went the sixteen teams,
we'd have argument about the seventeenth and eighteen teams to
there was no point would we ever go. We don't
need to argue about that the two teams or the
three teams that didn't get in right.
Speaker 2 (01:59:59):
Before the top. Michael in the Woodlands on seven onety Michael,
good afternoon. Do you thanks for calling?
Speaker 22 (02:00:05):
Hey, guys, just want to say Marry Christmas, and I
appreciate all the work you guys do on the Rockets games.
Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
Thank you very much. We have a great time doing it.
Thank you.
Speaker 8 (02:00:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 22 (02:00:13):
I'm a personal trainer in Houston, so I drive home
after my evening clients and I can always count.
Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
On you guys to have the game on. Man, awesome things.
That's always good stuff.
Speaker 22 (02:00:21):
But no, Man, I just wanted to call in because
I had a gut feeling that I called in at
day beginning of you know, preseason NFL and when you
guys are real hyped about you know, the Texans, Bobby Slow, CJ.
Speaker 2 (02:00:33):
Shroud, all these guys, and I said, I said that CJ.
Speaker 22 (02:00:37):
Stroud would throw one hundred percent more picks and he
threw five last year. And I've been waiting to call
in because he hit number eleven. So you know, he
threw that eleventh pick. And the reason I said it
was going to happen because there was a year of
film on all these guys that had great seasons last year.
I said, there was no existing film on Bobby Slowck's offense.
Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
You know, CJ. Shroud, you know, not in the offense
you had the Ohio.
Speaker 13 (02:00:59):
State Film Tank.
Speaker 22 (02:01:00):
Dell came out of nowhere. You know, Nico had a
great year. But yeah, man, I kind of called that
before the season started. And I also said Kakuchi was
gonna be good, and I said bregmanton I was gonna
come back.
Speaker 2 (02:01:12):
But I don't think that one's gonna hit. I think
he's gonna walk.
Speaker 1 (02:01:14):
But you know what, Michael, I'm glad you called because
one of the things about gut feelings is when you
hit them, you're supposed to call him brag. And then
it's not a humble brag, that regular brag. You get
it right, You are deserving of the opportunity to come in.
And if you said there, he's gonna throw double the interceptions.
Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
I respect that.
Speaker 22 (02:01:31):
Yeah, I work with a lot of Texans fans. I'm like,
I'm like, hey man, Pumpy breaks man. A lot of
these wins have been really you know, unimpressive, you know.
But yeah, but no, they beat my cowboys, so you
know that was.
Speaker 6 (02:01:42):
That was a good game.
Speaker 1 (02:01:43):
Sorry, your cowboys were eliminated from the playoffs by the
way over the weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
He it was tough, man, But.
Speaker 22 (02:01:48):
You know, I think mcarthy and zem I think they're
earning a little two year deal or something to come back. Man,
who's that defense was playing their butts off?
Speaker 1 (02:01:57):
All right, Michael, thanks for the phone call. Happy New Year,
Happy holiday. He's married Christmas on else hanekah for those
of you that celebrate anything you want from a season's
greetings from us here at Sports Talk seven ninety.
Speaker 2 (02:02:08):
I can't believe McCarthy's still the coach to Cowboys. I'm stunned.
Speaker 5 (02:02:12):
He's he's gonna get an extension.
Speaker 2 (02:02:14):
He's gonna get an extension. This is great. I think
it's great.
Speaker 1 (02:02:17):
You beat the you beat the Bucks on the night
you get eliminated from the playoffs. I mean, does that
mean he's a master motivator? Does it mean guys are
working for next year? Does it mean they want him there. Hell,
I don't know. Yeah, how do the Bucks lose at
the Cowboys? You're the You're in the middle of the
NFC South. This is your division to win. Carolina sucks,
(02:02:38):
New Orleans sucks. Atlanta just went to Michael Pennix. And
you can't win a game against a team that just
got knocked out of the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (02:02:47):
Bucks, you suck and they're just not very good.
Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
That's how FC South.
Speaker 1 (02:02:52):
What's worst? NFC South or AFC South go NFC by
this major quite a bit.
Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
Which either way, yes.
Speaker 4 (02:03:01):
Sir, that we dismissed that Texans win over the Cowboys.
They've won four out of five since.
Speaker 2 (02:03:12):
All right, final Hour the Matt Thomas Show with Ross
coming up in Mariell once. We've got.
Speaker 1 (02:03:18):
Believe it or not today in fifty minutes. And by
the way, we played the the Christmas Pe