The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - 1-1 Houston Takes the Game, Astros Take The Series, Houston Is Alive!

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

1-1 Houston Takes the Game, Astros Take The Series, Houston Is Alive!

man, outstanding. Good morning, everyone. Jonathan gets an A-minus on the mix today. Woo! Yeah, he's getting better. He's strong every day. And one goofy highlight of George Springer in there, but other than that. Here's George Springer scoring. You did it. You did okay. That's all right.

You know what? Hey, in school, I was just looking to pass. My man, Jonathan's trying to get himself an A. We're getting there. We are on the way. We have a super busy show today. We are very happy to have you with us. Wonderful.

And the Rockets with the win last night. And I get, we get this far. I just don't get it. 10 years ago, I never had allergies. Why do you as an adult get allergies? I think they're getting, A, they're getting worse, it seems like. Because B, it's happening to me as well. I mean, yesterday, as soon as I got off the show, I went back, I got a hotel and to spend

the night because I didn't want to make the trip back into Kingwood and wanted to get a nap in. And I was like, man, I'm starting to feel it in my nose and my throat a little bit. And I'm fine. I had some tea this morning. And I'm probably at about an 8 out of a 10, but it's just kind of something. sucks. Is it pollen? Is it humidity?

Is it due to allergies can develop or worsen in older adults due to weakening immune system and changing body functions? I got a lot of changing body functions. Some were functioning better than others back in the day. Well, let's get you on some vitamin C. I'm trying to. I've been getting allergies too. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It's not good. So what are we going to move to? We got to go somewhere. There's no pollen in there. There's no allergens. I don't know. We can go to

Costa Rica. Yeah, it's Coast. In Arizona. That's where Doc Holliday went to relieve his tuberculosis. So we need to go somewhere really dry like Phoenix. Yeah. How about you and I... But that's when my nose starts bleeding.

How about you and I get an apartment like the Golden Girls? And we can call us the Golden Bros. Okay. And we can get like a big three-bedroom apartment. We'll find... We'll get a third roommate. We'll bring us... You paying rent?

Of course. All right. I'm in there. Here's what we'll do. Here's a novel idea. You get an apartment. Yeah. We'll get one big one.

We'll get one other person. and we'll have their mother come with us and stay with us. I don't know. Did that happen in Golden Gros? Or father. It would be the Golden Bros. Oh, okay. I thought you were trying to set up a three company situation.

By the way, happy birthday to Joyce DeWitt, who played Janet. She turned 78 today. A happy birthday to Suzanne Summers. No, she's dead. Oh. Well, she can still have a happy birthday. To whom? You still wish, you know, happy, oh, it's George Washington's birthday.

It's literally a holiday, Matt. Oh, okay. Shout out to anybody that died today. Nobody in President's Day says, well, he's dead. That's true. That is true. So George Washington, Suzanne Summers, the same thing. I mean, both iconic in different ways. Yes.

That was one of my early crushes in my life. Her and Tony Tenil. One had iconic teeth and one had iconic thighs. Suzanne had more than just iconic thighs. It's true of everything. There's a Facebook reel of her and Jack Tripper dancing in their apartment. She's wearing a blue, like a light blue top. Spectacular.

You know way too many details of that Facebook real. Back to the Rockets. I am 100% Facebook Real guy. I got a fully admit it. All right. Super busy show today. Rockets win. Astros get the brooms out against the Blue Jays.

Christian Walker. That day off certainly made a big difference for him. As he goes yard again for the local nine yesterday, Ryan Gusto's like, Lance McCullors, take your time. I want to say in the starting rotation. And he was able to do that for this local nine last night. Oh, okay.

You can argue with me about it? No, okay. So the Astros get a sweep. We have NFL draft tonight from Green Bay, Wisconsin. I'll say this. I'm all vested. I mean, I have an appointment right after the show today, but I'll be at home tonight in front of my television.

You're locked in. You're going to have your big board out? I don't believe in having a big board. Okay. I keep my board. You're a small board? I keep my board very close. Yeah, tight board?

I'm like Nick Casero. I'm not drafting. for need. It's trying for want. That's the opposite. Yeah, that's what he's doing. He doesn't care about need anything. Okay.

So on the show today, we will have Brian McTagger coming up at 11 o'clock today, looking forward to that. I just don't get it at 1130. We'll have the news at noon. We've got people calling in right now if you want to call in about the Rockets win last night or the Astros Victory.

713-212-5-7-90. Shane Hallam's going to join the show. Yes. Draft sharks. Draft sharks. And we thank him because, look, it's a super busy time for all these draft gurus, if you will, and he's going to take 10 minutes of his time to talk with us today.

Yeah, we appreciate him. And then we'll have E. May Adoka at 1 o'clock this afternoon. And believe it or not, at 150. All things about George Washington and Susan Summers. Yes, what a jam-pack show. I know. That's a good radio program. We're moving things around a little bit. So I'm going to open up the floor to the phones.

Okay. Because what more can I say? We gave you two and a half hours of entertainment last night. These Airwaves and also on KTRH is a Rockets Beat the Warriors, even the series at a game of peace. I do have a poll question up this morning. Uh-oh. It concerns what you folks did at Toyota Center last night

on a couple different occasions. You told Dremont to F himself. I'm trying to think, Ross, I can't remember the last time I was at a Houston spawning event when we told an opposing athlete to F themselves. Now, we've booed athletes before. Aaron Judge gets a lot of booze. anybody from the Yankees period

the Dodgers, the Kelly kid, the pitcher. Oh, Joe Kelly. Joe Kelly. But that was 18,000 people in unison singing F you Dremont. And Steve Kerr was crying about it. And we'll play the Steve Kerr comment coming out of it in just a second. Good. I want to hear this.

I haven't heard it. There is a poll question that says that I have on there today. Should Rocket fans apologize to Dremont for saying F you Dremont? I just voted. 127 votes are in the majority 93% say oh hell no

7% say very insensitive Oh my God I mean here's my quick take on it honestly I'm not a super big fan of using swear words in public like that in that unison kind of thing But first of all it's the NBA It's a league of swear words And secondly the dirtiest player in the game

deserves it Draymond Green is the dirtiest player I've ever called a professional sporting event in my entire life, or amateur for that matter. Yeah, I think he's earned that title. It's not even close. He's earned that title at this point. Remarkably consistent. You know, Draymond, your consistency throughout the years has really gotten you the award. Dirtiest player we've ever seen.

He gets tied up on things. He flops. He gets technical fouls. He kicks people in nets. Rakes him in the face. He's just the dirtiest. He's the Rick Flare of NBA basketball. He's the dirtiest player in the game.

He's got a screw loose. He's got a screw loose. Yeah. And then he was upset because it wasn't very original because apparently in Boston they started the FU Dremont. Okay. What are they supposed to say? I don't know. But you know what? Again, normally I'm not a huge fan of swear words out in front of 18,000 people, but if it fits the crime, it fits the crime. And the Rockets and Warriors are tied to the game of peace.

And we don't want Jimmy Butler to be hurt, but we'll see what happens on that front. I mean, we're not a fan of guys taking pelvic hits to the ground. That's going to be very painful. He's having an MRI today. They're not even leaving for another about another hour. So they're still in town. Dremont pushed Amin Thompson into Jimmy Butler.

I'm sorry. Watch the replay. You did. Yep. So blame Dremon, Warriors fans. Oh, Dremont gets no blame. And that's why I might need protection in San Francisco because... We're going to need it anyways. I'm going to be really pissed off being around 19,000, really uncouth warrior fans.

No, what are you talking about? I thought it was a rich wine and cheese crowd. Tech bros. Not in, well, the prices are so expensive. I can't, you have to buy a default. But it's just a, they do no wrong. It's not like they're just like a prison release program. They got a bunch of guys doing time in there. That is true.

It is a nice arena, by the way. It's just way different vibe than when they used to play in Oakland. Chase Center, yeah. Or the Race Center. I'm sorry, race. Maybe don't do that one. You know what? That's right.

It is nice, so I get to put money in there. I get free ATM withdrawals. I'm a race card member, so. Let's go with bass. Base, that sounds good. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. The local 9 got a win,

and Ross has a concert review of Kendrick Lamar to get to today. I do. But we got a full show today. not go anywhere. It's 1014 on Sports Talk 790. All right. 1020. Sports Talk 790. Ross, Matt, with you. Johntham's our producer. And lots to get to Jalen Green, an ultimate bounceback game for the five Rockets and start a double figures last night. A high double double for one Alperin Shangoon, although he was not overly fluid in terms of shot makes.

He got to the basket a bunch. A lot of second chance opportunities. A lot of offensive rebounds. Another dominant rebounding performance. But last night it was Jalen Green. Green's come-out party. He was knocking down some massive threes, huge stretches of games. I want to say two different times, Ross said in the game where he was just taken over the game by himself, scoring it well. And it

basically confirmed the fears of what Golden State fans thought was, we need a second score next to Stephen Curry. And when Jimmy Butler left the game, granted, the Rockets were up when it happened, there just wasn't a second guy to go to. Jonathan Camiga came in, tried to help out, not much.

Quentin Post was the guy knocking down three. of all people. Quentin Post is your second-ling go-to threat? You're in trouble. Yeah, you're in trouble. Brandon Pajemski not doing much of anything. He had a little food to Shuckus before the game yesterday. Yeah. Is everything okay? People are getting, people are going down with these stomach bugs. Lance McCullors Jr., Brandon

Pajmsky. Didn't Mookie Betts lose like 50 pounds in Japan or something like that? You know, I'll wash y'all's food. If you're going to serve it to us? Yeah, they just don't have the regulations. But Jalen Green, I mentioned this when we were talking about Draft Kings pick six yesterday. 18.5 was his point total. And that just seemed below.

You had to fire big on that, right? You needed to, correct? We did all right last night. Did you? Good for you. Good for you. Yeah, so that was great. I didn't know that he was going to explode to the extent of getting 38 points.

Now, he did get up 18 threes. I mean, he was getting him up there, but it's nice to see him get back in rhythm. You knew that he could. And especially, I mean, I guess I shouldn't care about this, Matt, but you know how Rockets Twitter, there's Jalen Green haters and Jalen Green lovers

and all that's like... Alpern Truthers out there too. Alperin Truthers. So I just want to Jalen Green to have a good game because I think he is a good player. And he had an abs, there's no getting around the dud that he had in game one. So for him to bounce back in a big way is huge. I did notice that Fred Van Vleet was much more gun-shy

during the course of the game shooting threes. He just looked like, you know what? Maybe that, that, that, I have to take somebody necessity. I'm not going to get up 13. But I'm not going to be nearly as liberal with my shot selections. And with them leading a lot of it. I think Fred is kind of one of those guys to me in general. He just goes, he knows when the offense kind of needs him. That's when he'll start shooting a little bit more. And I think they did in game one when nobody was hitting anything. So I think he will take a backseat. And then sometimes if he feels like the offense and needs a

little juice, he'll take more charge. And that just didn't happen at any point really last night. Tari had a couple threes last night. I mean Thompson. was in foul trouble, frankly, and the reason why he was not more effective offensively, but when he was out there and out of foul trouble, it was quite good. And then Draymond being Draymond, and we'll get to Steve Chris comments and just a second here,

but I do want to talk to some people first. 713-212-5-790. Let's talk to Anthony on 7-90 at 1023. Anthony, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Hey, Ross. I just saw your tweet. I'll take 57, though.

I think they scored 57 between the two of them. and I'll definitely take the win. Your math is a little off. What was it? Fifty-five, something like that? Yeah, 55. 55, okay. So for those who don't know, Anthony had a gut feeling that Alpern Shingoon and Jalen Green were combined for 60 and we're like, whoa, we hope that happened.

So you did get close, Anthony. I think it's a lot of fun that we're getting to literally watch this team and more specifically Jalen Green grow up right before our eyes. just a huge bounce-back game for him. And I think Fred Van Fleet means more to this team than a lot of people give him credit for. I think he's the calm when things get messy for the Rockets. But I wanted to ask y'all a question. Gordy made a comment this morning on Sean's show that he was worried if the Rockets say go out to Golden State

and win both games and to come back up three to one, that Draymond may sense that the season's over for them and make a dirty play on Alpi or something like that. And we have to move forward without Alpi. Is that something that Matt and Ross that you guys think that y'all could see Draymond doing is trying to intentionally hurt somebody? I don't think it hasn't matter whether they're eliminated

or going to be eliminated or not. He will try to hurt you in any possible. game. It could be walking to the grocery store. It could be a preseason game in late September he'll try to hurt you. Well, and it's frustrating because I think Draymond played an intricate part in Golden State's

golden years, if you will, but it's like the less productive he becomes on the floor, the dirtier he gets as a player. Yeah, I would agree with that, Anthony. Thank you. That's fair to say. I mean, his skills have diminished. He's not much of a shooter at all. It never was a great

shooter to begin with, but he's even less today than he was say four or five years ago. Still has an incredible ability to interpret passing lanes and still has to go, you know, he's a six-six center and doesn't not back away from anybody that's going to be three, four inches taller than he has, which is most occasions. There is still value in Draymont Green, but there's an ugliness to his basketball game that creates controversy. It creates harsh relationships.

It forces officials to have to make a bunch of calls. it has to make them referee a different type of game they want to. He's ultimately right now a danger to the game, and we see it every single time he plays a basketball game. Literally Ross, every single time there is usually a dust-up, and if it involves a dust-up, it's involving Draymond Green. Yeah, I mean, it is who he is. I mean, I think they're a legitimate case.

If you look at the breakdown video by video for him to literally be out of the league, and it is a concern. I guess was Gordy was on this morning, I guess he was saying, with the guys. I don't know if he popped in or whatever. But yeah, it would be a concern if they got up 3-1 and that Dremont would go ham

and hurt somebody. But let me tell you, if Dremont tried to do that, Stephen Adams would try to choke out Dremont Green. Yeah, he would. But then you don't want him suspended and you don't want anybody to hurt. If there's anybody, if there's any team in the NBA that's not going to put up with Dremont Green, it's the Houston Rockets.

And EMAOka is going to talk to us about that at 1 o'clock today. He's basically like, you know what, guys? This is fine. If that's how they want to play, we'll throw. The Rockets will throw hands with the Golden State Warriors and have very few issues doing so. Yeah, I'm not worried about necessarily the fights or anything. I just don't want anybody to get hurt because he's poked people in the eye and stuff like that. I mean, he's just the dirtiest player in the game.

Yeah. Period of the story. All right. So two different times that I remember Rossi last night, the F.U. Dremont was out there and only 18,000 plus in the arena. Well, probably about 17, 5, 500 fans of Golden State weren't doing it. And Steve Kerr was asked about, exactly what it was like hearing F.U. Dremont during the game last night.

It's not ideal when a crowd is, you know, chanting F.U. Dremont. It's just, I don't know. I mean, it did in Boston a few years ago in the finals. It is what it is. Dremont, he's been around forever. You know, he's an instigator. He's always going to be in the mix. And because of his, his career, he's been around forever. You know, he's an instigator. He's, he's always going to be in the mix. and because of his career, his, you know, his championships, his fire, he's going to be a lightning rod, and that's all part of it. I would prefer, you know, if fans could use a little more discretion and, you know, remember that, you know, the guy has kids and, you know, it's like there's kids. I don't know.

I just, maybe I'm old school, but I'm all for the fans cheering for their team. And if they want to yell at the opponent's great. But I don't know. I just think FU is a little much. Oh. Oh, somebody please think of the children.

You are such a boy, Steve Kerr. You are just a crying little baby biotch. Oh, the champion. They're doing it because he won championships. Nobody was saying that to state. Steph Curry or Steve Kerr? We don't even scream F you Clay. No, no Clay Thompson

whoever. It's Draymond Green. It's directed towards lightning. At least he said he's an instigator. At least he admitted that. Well, I mean, I would think so. He's been there for every one of the games that Draymond's ever played. Traymond Green is not the victim here. Dreamon Green, everyone else who he's kicked in the nads and raked in the face

and try to dislocate their shoulders and elbows as the victim. Yeah, by the way, again, Houston, he does have kids. So let's be a little more polite about the situation. I mean, it is unfortunate. And if bleep you is, it's curse words. It is salty. But I mean, it's not some high crime and misdemeanor.

And also the game started 845 last night. And don't you at some point, you got to look in the mirror and say, huh, why is everyone saying, believe me? In multiple cities. Maybe it has something to do with you, Dremont. No. I mean, Steve Kerr had to defend his guy. I get it, but he's got to.

When he went to the he's got kids card I mean That was that was one I You kind of lost me there The kids probably know he's an a hole too Oh yeah I mean yeah my guess is he said Dad's an Ahole

Hey dad was a corner Maybe we're screaming 18,000 people were screaming F you Draymond In multiple times Or maybe he's the most gentle loving father ever And just when he gets in between the lines Is when he goes crazy I don't know I mean that it's a possibility

Yeah We've seen a lot of players That have lost their cool when they step on a quarter or a field a place. Well, he's a psychopath on the floor. That's what we see. And so it's not an accident that he's getting bleep you, Draymond, chance in multiple towns.

1030, sports talk 790. If you want to join our conversation, you may do so. At 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to join us via Twitter, you may do that as well. It's at SportsMT and at SportsRV. We'll talk Astros Baseball in specifics with Brian McTaggart in 30 minutes here on 790. Lots of good. things happening in the Houston community. Astros win last night. Sweep the Toronto Blue Jays.

Looks like our first basement is back to feeling good again with another home run. Brian Gusto and the Relief Corpo, the Relief Corps has been fantastic this year. I mean, knock on cheap whatever this is, but gosh, it's been fun watching. And the Blue Jays came in, they're leaving town wounded a little bit. Astros, by the way, find themselves at a game above five. Two games above five. And they're only one game out of first place. They're tied for second with Seattle because the Texas Rangers yesterday lost to the athletics. It's something weird to say.

You can't call them Sacramento A's. Can't call them Oakland A's. This is the old Play-Oles. I'm going to call them a Sacramento A's. That's where they're playing. Why you've got to disrespect Sacramento like that? I don't think Sacramento wants them. They don't, but that's where they are.

I know. Why are we hiding from the truth? They should have gone to Salt Lake City. Much nicer stadium. A bigger metropolis that would have been probably enjoyed it more. I don't know. Are they really going to play? Is the thing in Los Vegas are really going to happen?

I think so. But the AOS standing is shaking out kind of how we thought preseason with Angels A's second to last and last. And I think it's going to be Rangers, Mariners, Astros kind of battling for the crown. And we say today, go Red Sox as they play the Seattle Mariners. Go Red Sox. I hope Alex Regman hits three home runs. Yeah.

And you're charging closer and closer. I think you're looking good with your OPS gut feeling. Yeah. Which was kind of crazy, right? I mean, there was no history of him having that kind of OPS in a month of April. I mean, he could have not had 800 OPS for the season. That's true. You got him, yeah.

Alex Bregman out here. He's still hitting 310? Oh, my God. I don't think he's hit 300 since like 2019. I mean, seriously. Wouldn't you want to play half your games at Fenway Park if you're a pole hitter on a Oh, he's got OPS at 9-0. 9-11 and yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry. He's never hit 300 in his career. He did hit 2, 296 and 19. He's hitting 310. He's going for his first 300 batting season in a Red Sox uniform. Yikes. And less than a month of performance. Let's go to. Oh, look here.

Look who's on line one. Hey. Our resident Oakland Warrior fan. Hello, Bleacher Dave. Hey, I'm sorry. Draymond just poked me in the eye. Go ahead, Bleacher Dave. By the way, Breacher Dave, F you, Draymond. F you, Draymond.

Hello? Tell you here, am I on? Yes, you are. Go ahead. Oh, my gosh. I can't believe you used two shorts' favorite word on the air. I'm just thankful that my grandparents left Houston in 1940. Oh, my God.

So awful. Because good grief, the vulgarity of the Texas. and crowd last night just proves that people in the South are not nice. They were when my grandparents left in. Let me tell you about the South. Let me tell you about the South. A, we can cook, B,

our women are better looking, and C, we smell better. Have you ever been to the Buffalo Bayou or down by them petroleum refineries down there in the gold? Y'all stank. We don't count. We don't count in the four-eyed fish. But let's talk

But let's talk basketball ball right next night. Because we all know that Dylan Brooks is the dirtiest history in the player to league. Oh, stop. That's terrible. Busting people's shoulders and legs and whatnot. This is just a dirty man. And to watch what Jaylon Green did with the elbow to Draymond Green.

And yet somehow Rockets fans are living in this disillusion bubble of unreality where their team has not been grabbing, holding, tripping, and being voluble. and I'm not going to call them dirty. This is a physical series. I like it. But come on, y'all. Don't act like y'all don't have a part of this.

Here's what I think. Can Jeremy Green go for 38 points again? I rather think not. And I like our chances. Whatever the heck happened with Jimmy Butler, and we know you guys have to figure, we know the Roberts have to injure somebody on the Warriors to try and have a chance.

And I'm going to certainly say, Hey, Draymond pushed Amin. Look at the tape. Draymond Thompson into Jimmy Butler. Watch the replay. I watched it and I saw Stephen Adams set up that whole thing. Oh, man, you are watching a completely different basketball game and the rest of America is.

I'm just going to tell you that right now. Whatever it is. It's a whole, the ministry is a lot of fun. And so I like all the tugging. Steph Curry only has shot in six free throws. So we know that it's not equitable. But you know, they're too old, too small, two light-skinned warriors are coming back home where we don't have an indoor rain shower on the head.

of them offensively challenged Houston Rockamoos. And I just want to tell y'all one thing. Bruggle up because your off season is coming soon. You'll have some tickets for Cancun Reserve? Y'all might want to be with them because, you know. That'd be pretty nice. I got a bad connection there. Sorry, I lost you.

Seriously. Delusional Warrior fan. Love it. Love Bleacher, Dave. That's fine. It's a good conversation. Maybe I should start going on radio shows in Oakland and just starts And San Jose is going to smack talking

Doesn't drive to the basket a bunch in this stage of his career That's why he's not getting free throws No, yeah I mean he's getting free throws on technical fouls that are called on the rockets Well, he does get those By the way, Tarre, you said, do not be throwing towels at people Come on now It looked like to me when that skirmish took place

That a lot of players left the bitch Nobody really made mention to that I don't know if I thought you weren't supposed to be able to do that I didn't think you were either The Phoenix Suns are like, what's the deal? Yeah, no kidding, the Knicks and the heater are like, come on now. Didn't we create this for y'all?

But yeah, good energy in the building last night. You couldn't really tell the team was down 01. And just getting off to a good start with Jalen and Man Thompson get going. The only thing it was kind of bugaboo was the fact that you had Brooks and Man Thompson getting into foul trouble very early in the contest and then Alpi got into some foul trouble late. But they also saw a small glimpse of Aaron Holiday. And that was a lot of it was because of the injuries, not the injured, but the, a foul trouble situation.

And then Golden State went like 11 deep. They brought a Jonathan Caminga out of mothballs to come play. He was like a mummified? Yeah. I was like, that's the guy that was a rock killer earlier this year? He didn't do much at all yesterday.

And the buddy heel wasn't doing much. Moses Moody was off to a very good start. He got scored seven points in the first quarter and they wasn't really found much after that. Mostly the same rotation for. or Emilio Doka, a few extra minutes of Aaron Holiday. Yeah. And again, two more off days.

Like it. I mean, come on, NBA, let's go. No, Stephen Adams needs the off days. Well, I'll tell you what, it does help now. After Saturday, it's every other day the rest of the way. That benefits the younger team, in my opinion. Which is the Rockets. Right?

Yes. Yeah. And the big question mark is going to be, how's an MRI going to turn out for Butler? I mean, can you shoot it up and just suck it up and go? I mean, my guess is a pelvic injury. That's just, the easiest thing to replace a pelvic bruise would be just to sit and relax.

For like two weeks. You've got the bruised pelvis. Some hot yoga? Stretch that thing out. Are guys supposed to do hot yoga? Yeah, why not? Aren't we supposed to just watch it? What do you mean?

Like watch other people do hot yoga. Why would you watch someone do yoga? I've enjoyed watching people do yoga before. Yoga pants, yoga? Let's go. Perfect. Hmm. Yeah, that's why you got to stay 300 yards away from that yoga studio.

I mean, that's not completely inaccurate. 1043 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-579. If you want to jump into the conversation, 713-1-2-5-790, we have Brian McTaggart coming up at the top of the hour. Astros, by the way, have an off day. I got a tweet from someone said, why is the rockets plane in Kansas City?

And I have a very simple answer for you. The Rockets, the Astros use the Rockets plane when we're not using it. Oh, that's right. I forgot about that. So there's your answer. If you ever see the Rockets plane in a strange American League baseball city or baseball town, it's because they share the plane when they can. Okay.

No, they better not give us a plane. We need confidence. We've got a long flight going to San Francisco, Rossi, tomorrow. You can be all right. I'm just saying. I need my stretch out. Yes, you're going to be fine. Get your little shrimp cocktail.

Go play some boo-ray. Ooh. Do you'll let me play back there? No. I don't think I want to play. I don't think you can buy into that game. I don't think you want to buy into that game. That's way too expensive of a game.

I never play boo-ray. Especially now that Jalen Green and everybody is getting paid. I know. Shangoon. Yeah, there used to be like two tables, one with the high minimums and one below. And there's just not just one table. Now, I'll throw dice in the back of the planet if they want to. You've got plenty of room back there to do that.

Good luck. Me and Jack Landell can throw some dice. Really? Yeah. All right. You can play in the same amount of minutes. That felt personal. 1044, sports talk, 790.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 with a reminder again that Brian McTagger talks all things afterwards with it's in just 15 short minutes here on 790. All right, we've got Brian McTanger coming up in about 10 minutes. I don't believe that Antonio Brown runs his Twitter account. Oh, no, he does not. Okay. I think he's got a social media guy.

Whomever didn't, does it? In the history of at AB 84, the all-time biggest, most savage... Savagery, is that a word? Yeah, I think so. Savage-like? Did you see it yesterday? No, I have him muted. I would not want him moot.

I would not want to get on his bad side. It is a photo. You know how they're doing these ESP, these. characters where they're creating these figurines of yourself. You describe who you are. Oh, yeah, kind of, yes. Like play figures. Uh-huh.

And you say that you're... It's AI. It's your sportscaster or you're a cook, you're a teacher, or you're a mom. I put this one up at 16 hours ago on Twitter. I'm going to show you this. I don't know if you've seen or not. This is the one. It's ESPN. Okay.

It's Shannon Sharp and one figurine. Uh-huh. It's a young girl in a... bathing suit with the word only fans across the front. Okay. In the upper right hand corner, it's a cassette tape with the word evidence. An all-timer. Okay.

It has received 11 million views, 122,000 likes, 9,600 retweets, and 2,500 comments. It is by far the biggest, most savage... Oh, that's messed out. thing that at AB 84 has ever done. And by the way, Shannon Sharps toast. Is he? I think so.

ESPN's been ridiculously quiet about this. I think he's in trouble. And Shannon... Well, he came out strong and said he was innocent. Well, of course he did. Have you ever heard anybody say, release the whole 10-minute sex tape.

That's what he said. It's like, what is going on out here? He's in his mid-50s. What does he do? with a 19 year old or whatever it was. I mean, my God. That's a rough conversations. Living what he perceives to be his best life.

Yeah, I can't converse with a 19 year old. No. Now. And apparently he offered her 10 millie to start. And that wasn't enough. Yeah. Okay. She wanted Fitty.

He said 10 and then she said no. And then everybody was starting going public. Yes. Hmm. And he's in a process of selling his podcast for $100 million. Which, I don't know if the deal signed. I don't, if I'm that company trying to by the podcast, I'd be like, it'd be a hard pass.

But I saw that from AB 84, and I'm like, this picture of Shannon figuring with the girl and the only fans across her chest is unbelievable. But truly it's believable. There is, there it is, and it's full glory. Just date people your own age. I mean, that's our advice for the day, right? Yeah. Date people at your own age. Yeah, Matt.

Use the tried and true form. formula. Half your age plus seven. That's made up by older men. It's made up by wise men. That's not in any sort of dating handbook. So Jonathan, how old are you again? 22. Half your age is 11 plus seven. So you can date up to the least. If you break it with the girl, it's 18 years old. That's creepy. Don't be doing that. No, that's. How old are your girl, by the way? 21. Okay. And she's a teacher? Yeah. Good for her. She got she finished school quickly? Yeah, she graduated the same time I did, and she's a, you're gonna me?

She's making more money than you are too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're not bringing that up, are you? No, it's a flex. Is she bringing up to you? Sometimes. That's what I figured. All right, let's go to Reggie and Katie at 1052 on 7-90. Reggie, good morning. Hey, what's up, man? Yeah, they people, y'all make, tell that to Bill Belichick.

Oh, Bill Belich. He is not following the rules. He's not following the half plus seven rule, that's for sure. Yeah. He's all divided by four rule. Yeah, I got a comment on the Tyree, I mean on the Man Thompson file. But I was at Discover Green last weekend, and I got a seven-year-old nephew. And he walked up to a little kid and took his ball from him. The kid took the ball back, and my seven-year-old nephew slapped him.

Okay. So I had to go break that up. And my point is just because that's my nephew, I'm not going to take his side just because my nephew. I saw what happened. Fast forward to last night. I saw what happened with Amanda Thompson and Jimmy Butler. That dude, listen, Matt, if somebody pushes you from the back and you're about to fall down, what's going to be your natural reaction?

You're going to put your arms down before you can. hit the floor to protect your face, right? You're going to try to brace for the fall. Sure. Is that safe to say? Yeah, why? Yeah. Okay. A man stuck both of his elbows out like a running back trying to stop the pass rush. He put both of his elbows out. I'm a rocket fan, man. I remember I'm a rockist fan for life. I'm just calling it like I said. I got a picture of Elijah one. He's punching

Dennis Johnson in the face. So I'm confused. I'm confused what you're point is, though? What is your point? My point is that he tried to, I don't say he was dirty, but when you falling down, you put your arms down and embrace for impact. You don't put your arms in a blocking position over your head to, like, block a pass rush, like running

back to him when somebody coming around the corner. He stuck, slow it down and look at it. He put both of his arms up, both of his elbows up above his head, and aimed him toward my man's legs. I mean, Thompson did that to Jimmy Butler? Yeah, I mean, Thompson did. Yeah,

I'm looking at it. I'm looking at it right now. He does not put both elbows up. Okay, I'm going to... Reggie, Reggie, Reggie. I'm serious. Reggie, I'm going to go look at this. But...

Did he be bracing for impact? Reggie, Reggie, Reggie, stay... Hang on him. I'm going to go... He wasn't even falling down when his legs went over there. If you were wrong about this, you are going to have to call and apologize to the city of Houston, because I'm going to look at this.

But I want you, because I got McTagger coming up in five minutes. I'm going to look at it during the break right now. And if you're wrong, you're calling me back and 25 minutes. I'm going to apologize. But Ron said, somebody said he wasn't falling down. How do you end up on?

No, he's falling down, but he's not. That's right. He's beginning his fall as he runs into Jimmy Butler. No, but his arms are up above his head. That's not how you, when you get ready to fall down. His arms don't go above his head. You're looking at a different play than I am.

A men Thompson. Are we talking about Amin Thompson and Jimmy Butler last night at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas? He put, April 23rd. Yeah, he put both. of his elbows out in front of his body. Show me where he puts both his elbows out, Matt.

Show me where he put his arms down. Hold, hold, hold. We're going to do live play-by-play of this again. Jimmy goes up. A man undercuts him. Where is his arms? His arms. I'm watching one arm is bracing for the fall.

And the other one, I don't know what you're looking at. Yeah, you were looking at the wrong play or something, Reggie. Jimmy, Reggie, that's ridiculous. What you just did was completely inaccurate. I just watched it. What are you talking about, Reggie? I don't know. Maybe you're looking.

What do you mean? I'm looking at it. He's bracing for a fall. Yeah. Okay. So what made contact with Jimmy Butler's legs? One of his arms. That's right.

He's falling down. He's not bracing for a fall. You're sticking one out to like. No, he didn't stick him out. He doesn't even see Jimmy Butler flying in there. He's got his head. turned. He can't even see where Jimmy Butler's coming front. Okay. Hey, listen,

I'm a Rocker's fan, man. No, me too. Yeah. Look, if I'm in Thompson undercutter. Look, Dylan Brooks undercuts and hurts people, I would say it too. So, yeah. I'm going to my DMs, but I'm just tough. No. I'm just calling like I said. Well, you're seeing, yeah, I'm saying it's not

put both of his arms above his head. That just does not happen. Yeah, you're seeing something can I'm watching it on my own computer. And he runs into him, and then he falls, first of all, he gets pushed by he's getting pushed and tripped by Draymond Green so he falls down. No.

He does not put his arms out onto him. He must be a Jimmy Butler fan. No, I don't know. It's fine. I mean, I'm sitting here isolating it. This is not great radio. If you look at the under the basket angle,

yeah, he's just bracing himself for a fall. Yeah. Now, I guess maybe Reggie is looking at the side angle where it kind of looks like that, but it's, it's, it's, it's, it's too bang, bang of a play. If you go frame by frame, no. Just play it in real speed. There's nothing that did, I mean, Thompson could have done in my mind. I would call, I would say it if I thought he hurt somebody. Dylan Brooks does stuff like that sometimes. No. This is not, I think he's talking about the sideline view because it's a little bit closer to what, yeah, what Reggie is describing. Yeah. But if you look at the under the basket view,

no. Reggie, I'm sorry. You're just, you're not seeing what I think the rest of us are saying. Time for us to spend 10 quality minutes with the one and only Brian McTaggart on the MLB Astros beat here on Sports Talk 790. Tags, Local 9 playing their best baseball this season, a very successful homestam beating up on the Toronto Blue Jays in three consecutive games. I don't know what was more impressed than starting pitching on the relief pitching. Maybe the answer is C all the above. Yeah, they were both great. I mean, I think the relievers went, what, seven in the last. third scoreless innings.

And that was basically the three back-end guys, King of Brayu and Hayter. Forrest Whitley did have an outing in there. But it all starts with starting pitching. And all three of the guys that started in that series were great, beginning with, you know, Hunter Brown being, you know, the clear-cut ace of this team. Ronell Blanco with his best start of the season by far. And then Ryan Gusto comes out and shows you why they sort of decided to keep him on this team out of camp after he was set down initially and continues to be.

battle. And, you know, if they keep getting this kind of pitch, and I think they're going to be all right. I mean, I think I've said on here, and I mean, we all know that they're, the guys that are struggling going to come around eventually. It looks like Christian Walker's there. D.S. had a couple of hits yesterday. He's got a long way to go. You know, Alvarez is slowly, his numbers are slowly climbing up. So, hey, compared to last year when they were seven and 17 at this point, 13 and 11 looks really good. It does. And you know what? And I know that Joe Espada I mentioned to us a couple days ago, there is a thought of a six-man rotation coming up because of the lack of off days in the month of May. You're going to have a really good arm not available to you because you're going to have to reduce your bullpen by a spot.

And ultimately, you've got to make a decision about how you're going to treat that six-man rotation. These are good problems they have right now. Yeah, you can never have too much 15. So if you got a guy, you feel good about it. You got to send him to the AAA that doesn't deserve it. Then, yeah, that's a good problem to have if you're the Astros. I mean, you know, maybe a guy like Logan Van Wye or rookie who, you know, they're excited about and they feel as a future. I mean, he's a guy I think certainly could, you know, bounce between, you know, AAA and the big leagues this year.

So, you know, that's the guy to look at. But, yeah, Lance pitches, you know, this weekend in Corpus Christi, and maybe he comes back soon after that. But, you know, I think a six-man rotation makes sense. They've done that at different points the last couple of years. I know Dana Brown is a big fan of that. And, you know, it totally makes sense, especially during the time. a stretch where you don't have a day off. And they have one of those in May, I think May, like, 9th through the 25th,

pretty much the middle chunk of May there, which includes a road trip to Tampa Bay in Texas. So they can get Lance back by then and go to a six-man rotation. That would come right at the right time. Christian Walker got a day off earlier this week, and boy, that has paid dividends for him. And it's funny because sometimes veterans don't want to have to have that day off, saying they can work out their issues by playing every single day.

But whatever that was sitting there observing, just kind of, mentally watching the sport as compared to physically being out there, he has been a difference maker the last couple nights. Yeah, and, you know, this guy, I'm really impressed by his approach because when he was moved down in the lineup a few days ago, and he's like, totally get it. You know, I'm not getting it done in the four spot. You know, let someone else go in there and get those at bats.

And then when he got the day off, he's like, yeah, you know, understand. And, you know, what he said last night was he thought that the day off gave him a chance, you know, to get away from everything. I think his quote was he didn't have the pressure of figuring out to come to the ballpark and try to get a couple of hits that night. And he made a couple adjustments the following day just to try to go back to some basics, not tinker too much. The batter's box and comes out and gets three hits and two more right off the bat yesterday, including a homer. So, yeah, science, he's coming around for sure. And, I mean, you know, a breather when you just, you don't see your name in the lineup and say, you know what,

I'm just going to sit in the dugout and clear my head and watch. Things like this work. I mean, we've seen it work for a couple of players last year. You know, I think Bregman had a breather and came back and played pretty well. So managers give these guys the things for a reason, but nice to see him get going after. I know that had to be a tough start, especially with a new team where you come in, pressure's on. You sign all this money and you've got this contract and you're not living up to it. So he's probably putting a lot of pressure on himself as well.

Yeah, and somebody who benefited from a breather last year, was it Yiner? I think he got like a bat hit him on the hand or something, and he missed a couple of days, and he came back and his bat kind of woke up. Three-game hit streak for him, so he's showing some signs of life. But how do you think things are going to be handled going forward for Yiner? Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to keep running them out there to, you know, hopefully for their sake, this is the start of him, you know, coming around a little bit. I mean, he's, you know, he's going to be an aggressive hitter at the plate.

pitchers are going to try to exploit that. But, you know, we've saw in the last couple of years, he can do some real damage in the middle of that lineup. But, you know, Caratini's still a guy. They got to mix in from both sides of the plate. He's just one of the best pure hitters they have on the team as far as bat the ball skills. So I don't think we're going to see any changes in playing time

or approach or anything. They're going to keep finding way to get Yiner in there when he's not catching and hopefully they get him going. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. five hits in his last two starts for Zach DeSenzo. What kind of role do you think he can carve out for this team? Well, I think he might play more. They love him.

I mean, you know, they like Cam Smith and, you know, all, you know, what he brings and everything. And certainly Cam has had his moments this year. He mean, he hasn't been as electric as he was in the spring, which is to be expected because you're playing in the regular season. But they really like what Desenzo brings to the plate, how hard he hits the ball, his approach at the plate, excuse me, excuse me, it's pretty advanced and I think we'll see him play more.

I mean, we all know he played really sparingly there for a while, but I think it wouldn't surprise me if he starts to take a few of those of bats away from Cam Smith and right field a little bit. I think he's starting to force Joe a spot his hand. There's really not a spot to mix him in otherwise because, you know, you're not going to play him and left unless, you know, all two days at DH, but then, you know, you got Yordan, you got to get in there. you're not going to play him at third base with Paredes and you're not going to play him at first.

I mean, those are his position. So if you're going to get him in the lineup more, it's going to be probably the expense of Cam Smith. So I think we'll see Zach play a little bit more right field going forward here, you know, putting it maybe a little bit of pressure on Cam to start swinging the bat a little bit better as well. Isn't it crazy, Brian, that it was the Cam Smith for rookie of the year voting was already done by the end of spring training. and now you've got your Zach DeSenzo fan club growing saying we've got to find a spot for him. This is how

the wins of Major League baseball go during the course of the year. And I like Cam's looking more and more comfortable in Wrightfield. I don't think he's embarrassed himself so far. There have been some plays that, you know, it looks like he's a professional athlete. But if DeSenzo's bat continues to

be a nice lightning rod for this team, this is going to be some interesting times to try to balance who plays where and how to get guys playing time because you've got a lot of guys, your veterans that don't want to take days off. You know, you know that Christian Walker doesn't want to take any time off at first base. You know Jose Altovi wants to be in there at least six days a week. You know Yorna if he's not playing in left field wants a DH. So, and then you got a guy like Chas McCormick who just hasn't seen much playing time at all with the exception of yesterday.

There's a little bit of, I'm ready to go, but there's just not enough spots in the field right now for the guys that are looking to get that extra playing time. Yeah, totally. And again, if you're, you know, if you're Joe's fought, a great problem to have. I mean, you've got guys on the bench. You want to try to get the bats because they're being productive and you can't do it just because some guys are in trans. I mean, Cam Smith has not been bad. I mean, I think his OPS is over 700, but you're right. He's looked more and more comfortable in right field. The running catch on Sunday night was great. I mean, he's very athletic out there. You know, I think if he stayed out there,

if he does stay out there by the end of the year, I think he'll be a very capable right-fielder. Descenzel, too. I mean, he's, you know, he played shortstop in college. You know, he's a big guy who can move really well. And so I think he can be a solid right-fielder as well. So that's going to be a position to watch going forward when I think you got those two guys now clearly are going to battle for some playing time.

McCormick's going to continue to be that late game replacement, whether that's in the left field for Altuva or in right field for either one of those guys when they have the lead. So it's, you know, the roster right now is, you know, it isn't bad. I mean, Joe's going to have to try to piece it together with the hot hands and so forth. And, but, you know, having Zach Desenzo hit, you know, Joe's spotter will take that any day and find a way to get them in the light of. All right.

You've got a trip to Kansas City this weekend of the local nine. And then AJ in town and the rest of the Tigers come in there playing some excellent baseball right now. And I don't think we're sitting there going revenge series after last year's Wildcard. but this Detroit team just doesn't slow down. So things are about to get a little more stout. Kansas City can hit. They're not doing much pitching so far. It'll be just kind of nice facing some American League opponents.

It feels like this Astro schedule at least so far in the early portion of the year's been so National League dominant. Yeah, they came out of the gate with, what, six games against the NL. Then they faced the Cardinals and Padres back-to-back series. So, yeah, good run of AL teams coming up here. Yeah, I mean, Detroit, I mean, Mize and Torral. Markleson looked like number one picks finally. You know, they were the number one overall picks and they're playing like it now. Scoobel is scubel.

He's got a sub one whip and a 2.22 ERA. So I don't know if we're going to see him next week or not. But, you know, when any time the Tigers come down, AJ is going to push all the buttons. And, I mean, you know, Detroit's probably one of the top four or five teams in the American League at this point. But, hey, Astros are sitting at 1311. They're only game behind the Rangers for first place. All the all the talk, you know, a couple of weeks. some of the season about, you know, how terrible things were going, and they're right there

where they want to be. So they just have to find a way to keep it up. And they should be able to go to Kansas City and win a couple of those games. Hunter Brown's pitch in Sunday. If you remember last season, Hunter Brown had that disastrous start in Kansas City, you know, where he couldn't get out of the first inning. And so he's going to go back there now as an ace, a chance to exercise some demons. That'll be fun to watch as well. Did you ever think you were going to say Hunter Brown and ace in the same conversation? I mean, the answer could be yes. But in your mind, in your mind when you first saw Hunter, do you say this is the kind of guy that could be potentially

a number one guy in a rotation? Well, when you started hearing buzz about him in the minor leagues, I guess when he got to high A or AA, you know, people internally were talking like, you know, this guy could be a big part of the rotation. You're always skeptical when guys like that are moving through and it's never like he was before that, like a top top prospect. But certainly this time last year, I would not have said that. I mean, he was sort of clinging to just life as a big leaguer.

I mean, I think he was probably getting close to getting shipped out before he changed things up a little bit. But it turned on a dime. And I think since May 1st, he's got the second best ERA as far as starters in the big league. So it's not that he's going to be the ace or what have you. He is the ace. And that's no knock on Friamber Valdez because he's ace 1B. But right now, if you line up this rotation of the playoffs, Hunter Brown would start a game one. So if you say that, then, yeah, that guy's your ace.

and good for him for sticking with it and making the necessary changes. All right, Mr. McTaggart, thank you very much. We'll look forward to hearing you tomorrow during the On Deck Show and always reading your award winning material at MLB.com and Astros.com. Thank you for the visit as always.

All right, thanks, Matt. All right, we'll see you, Brian McTaggart with us here every Thursday on Sports Talk at 790. Ross, Matt, I just don't get things sometimes. I can see that. And we're going to come back and get a Kendrick Lamar concert review. Okay.

From you next. Wonderful. I just don't get it coming up at the bottom of the hour. The news at noon. At 1230, we talk to a member of the NFL draft community on all things about the NFL draft. And then at 1 o'clock, E.May Adoka joins us here on Sports Talk 790. All right. I just don't get it is coming up at the bottom of the hour. That's where you will call us with something that is something that you're perplexed by. And because I have sage advice, Ross occasionally had sage advice. Jonathan's too young to give you any sage advice.

So he'll just be an innocent bias. He'll be like a sponge. Just soak everything. Yeah. Yeah. Learn from us. Well, learn from our mistakes. Good examples and bad ones.

You can learn just as much from a bad example as a good one. Exactly. Twitter question up today. Should the Rockets fans apologize to Draymond for saying FU. Dremont? 178 votes are in 93% say, oh hell no, 7% say yes, very insensitive. I would probably think the 7% that are voting are saying,

hey, we're better than that. We shouldn't be sworeing in a public atmosphere like that. I get that sentiment. I do. I do. I mean, it's not the craziest thing. But it's also, it's Draymond. But it's, if it was literally, if you curry,

I'd probably feel a little worse about it. Because even though Curry's irritated the hell out of us, he's not a dirty player. They gave all those negative reviews to his wife's restaurant. Yeah. Did you ever eat there? No. International smoke? Is it still open? You're a big, no, it's long gone, I think.

Okay. I have no idea. Because you're the big, you're the barbecue connoisseur of the group. Okay. I wonder how their brisket was. Probably not good. You know what I feel like right now, let's go get us a biscuit. Let's chop it up super fine and put it on top of a baked potato. Does that sound good to you? Why do you have a slice of brisket?

We got to chop it up. Let's chop it up. Let's chop it up. Real fine. Real fine. We don't have to, we don't have to do this right now. Oh, so you're saying that a chopped baker is something that should be illegally served in Houston. No, I didn't say that. You certainly...

The brisket is good. That's like saying let's chop up a ribai and put it on a baked potato. It's gonna be good. It is going to be good. It is not how you're supposed to eat it. How about you chop that? How about that?

I mean, you can have anything. What? On a hoagie roll? Yeah. Ribby sandwich? Yeah. You want to get it. You can take a nice, delicious,

crusted prime ribai and put it on a sandwich. Yeah, what I? You're going to be chewing forever. Wait, how do you get your steak cooked? Medium. Rare. We don't talk about steak temperatures. I've been already at Mountainex once.

Yeah, medium's fine. No, I'm not talking about me. I'm talking about a friend of the show. Oh, okay. When I said that a certain friend of mine likes it well done, and she's like, don't be putting on my steak temperature business out there. Oh, really? Oh, yeah.

I'm like, girl, you do always try to put everybody's business out there. Well, because it needs to be corrected. You don't need to be eating shoe leather. I talked to you. When this show first started, you talked about, I think you said medium well with A1. Yeah, but that's because I stained you. Well, the family did.

When I first went, I'll tell you the very fast story I'm going to get to this Kendrick Lamar thing. I went out with my future in-laws to a high-end restaurant, Bortons. This has got to be late 1990s. And we're sitting there ordering our steak. And I said, well done. And he said, if I'm paying for that steak, you're not getting it well done. I like that. And I was okay with that.

Yeah, I did it well done when I was like 12, you know, you don't know any better. You don't. And A1 is delicious. You put A1 on it. The steak is like it's overcooked. You have to figure out some way to flavor it up. Mm-hmm. All right.

So there was a lot going on in the city of Houston yesterday. He had the Astros beating the Toronto Blue Jays. Yes. You had the rockets knocking off the Golden State Warriors to even that series at a game of peace. And then you had the Kendall Lamar concert. You said there are 50,000 plus people there. It was, honestly, I looked at the, now they did significantly reduce the tickets. because floor seats when I was looking at first,

they were like 1,000, then they went to 700, and then they went to 300 in the last couple of days. But yeah, it was a completely packed stadium. I was shocked. I was floored, especially for someone like Kendrick Kumar, who came up as more of an underground type of conscious rap guy and then to reach the heights that he has.

Now, also, this is a co-headlining tour with Siza. There was a lot of Siza fans there. Like, she came out and you heard all these, a high-pitched screams. So I think there was a lot of stuff. Siza fans there. Which I'm not a huge Siza. So did you, what did you just sit there and listen to it?

Or did you, I sat down. Yeah. So it was basically, so a DJ mustard, Matt, you know, the rap producer, DJ Mustard. DJ Mustard? Okay. His first name is Dijon, so he goes by DJ Mustard. All right. Of course.

Yeah. Yeah, he did a set for like 30 minutes and then, you know, that was fun. And then Kendrick Lamar did a, and then it was, basically co-headlining. Kendrick Lamar did a handful of songs, then Siza did songs, and Kendrick, then Cizzo, then Kendrick. It was a co-mix-mash.

And you had a great time. It's like they got a little breather. Yeah, it was a great. It was a great time. My brother, the best brother in the world, he knows how much I like Kendrick Lamar. He gifted me front row seats on the floor. Those are the nicest seats you've ever been to a concert.

In my life, yeah. Not even close. I've been forced to grow somewhere, but that was as close like that. I could have spit on Kendrick Lamar. I didn't. Did he talk to the audience much? Yeah, a little bit.

Just more like, hey, stuff like that. Do you throw the Hs up? Not that I recall. He's from Compton, man. He's from L.A. But that's the Hs up when you're in Houston. I guess so.

Maybe he did, but I didn't notice it. Again, I'm anti-H throwing. Okay. You can't throw another set up. You can't do that. Yeah, all right. Well, you know, if you're in Houston and you just throw up an H, it's not that big of a deal. Well, not for Kintech.

And he didn't do it. Yeah, well, he didn't do it. Yeah. But yeah, it was a great show. Played all the new songs off of G&X, played a lot of the disc songs. He had a little skit where he was in a deposition because he's being sued by, well, UMG, the label is being sued by Drake for all the disc tracks and stuff. So no direct references to Drake. He played the song he does with Drake.

Poetic Justice. It was on his album, of course, A Good Kid Mad City, Matt. You know, Apple Music named it a top 10 album of all time. He's the Picasso of the entertainment industry right now. And we're so blessed he was able to be in our community yesterday. A prize winner, 22 Grammys. I think he's at 22 games. Grammys, Barry Manil is still sitting at one.

So I don't think Barry's going to catch him. Barry's university loved. Kendrick's got a mid-fan base. Well, it was a sold-out stadium, so. You don't think Barry Manolo could sell NRG? Back in the 70s and 80s, he sure as hell did, could have. Absolutely. Guys, 80 years old and he's selling out Radio City Music Hall.

Yeah, there's like... You know, Kendrick Lamar can do an 80 years old? It feels like 3,500 people. Kendrick Lamar will not be anywhere near this world of entertainment. He's going to be sitting on a pile of money with 20 more Grammys and Barry Manelow. What's up? And a Pulitzer Prize. Barry Manelow didn't have Pulitzer Prize.

He didn't even write the song. I write the songs. Shut your bum ass up, Barry Manelow? Wrong day of the week. Wrong day. I'm counting out. I got two months in my concert. Where is it?

Vegas. And the Westgate? Yeah. Of course. That's great. That's my home away from home. No, that's good. It was a good show.

It was packed. People were energetic. It was fun. I honestly couldn't. Like I said, it's mind-blowing to me that it's a stadium tour. It's crazy. And he'll be at a local casino within six months? Probably that.

Unlankly. Well, he's kind of a hermit person. So once this tour is over, we're probably not going to hear from him for like five years. Oh, that'll be a tragedy. We'll be able to hear from Kendrick again. I'm so upset. Yeah, he's already got, I mean, an all-time catalog, so we don't need any more from him. No, I think we've done enough.

He's done enough. Let's go put him in the rock and roll hall of him tomorrow. He'll probably eventually be in there. Oh, I think so. I mean, they put hip-hop in there. Yeah, I think Jay-Z make it. I can't keep track. All right, 1127.

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The things that may confuse our friends, it's time to say I just don't get it. All right. I have a sports related one, and it has to do with the Rockets opponent in the playoffs. And I feel like I could be saying this for the last 10 years of this man's NBA career. Okay. And I mean this with the most... honest approach I can bring to you. I don't get how Dremont gets away with it.

There is not a page on him. There isn't a chapter on him. There is an encyclopedia. I know that Jonathan, you don't know what encyclopedia is. But, I mean, there is a plethora of books about how dirty Dremon Green is. There's a whole YouTube mixtapes.

You know, I can go to like, you know, Jalen Green mixtape and it's 10 minutes. Yeah. You can go to Draymond Green injuring people mixtape. It's a whole compilation. I don't get how he gets away with it. Every single, I mean, when do you watch a Golden State game involving a high-end opponent? Now I'm not talking about Charlotte or Atlanta or something like that, but if you, you know,

because Golden State's on TV all the time, right? Yes. 99 times out of 100, and I'm not trying to embellish on this, 99 times out of 100. there is a serious altercation involving Draymond Green, and he comes across either getting just a slap on the wrist, a technical foul, or a double foul, or a double technical foul, you would get rid of this insanity that is when he's on the court by tossing his ass out of games about once every two to three weeks.

It just would work that way. You would get rid of the nastiness if you kicked him out on a regular basis. You just would. I mean, there was the whole thing when who did he spin around and hit? I can't even remember who it was, Jonas Valen Chinas or somebody. And he was suspended. And then Adam Silver was like, apparently like his personal counselor on the phone with him. And then he had to get counseling and he had to spend time away from the league and all that stuff.

He beat up his own teammate. Jordan Poole. January 10th of last year, Draymond Green is vowing a commitment to playing with out the antics that have plagued him on the court throughout his career. It's ridiculous. I'm with you. I mean, I get it to an extent. I guess it's because, you know, um, I mean, his baseline of, of violence is so high. Right. That people are kind of used to it, used to it. But it, I don't understand. I mean, like I said, he could legitimately be kicked out of the league with all the stuff he's done. I legitimately don't get how he gets away with it. Yeah, he got the indefinite suspension last year. And then,

he had like mandated NBA counseling and he hasn't changed he's still the instigator and poor Steve Kerr had to come to his defense and say please stop saying F you've got children well Toma stop raking people in a face and kicking him in the nads and pushing him into other people

and pulling players down in order to evolve of I mean I talked to Dylan Brooks about it I mean it was a silly offensive foul that got caught up in the last Talk to Draymond's children. Hey, Drey Jr. and whoever, whatever. Germania. Germania. Look, I'm sorry that people were cursing at your dad, but it's because consequences have actions in this world of ours,

and he's been kicking and scraping and elbowing and hurting people for 10 plus years. And your dad's an a-hole. He's an a-hole. Well, all right. You didn't have to do it. I'm saying it. Now you're making a little Dre-Drey cry, Matt. That's fine.

He needs to tough it up. Drenaria is crying. Now you're up. it's just not right. Dramania. Germania. Germania. So that is my,

I just don't get this week. Okay. What do you got? That's good. I got a couple. Now, I get why there are exorbitant fees when you buy tickets to concerts, like these big,

I'll call them out by name, Ticketmaster, with your grifting, stealing fees that you add. Now, I understand. It's because of greed. It's because of money. I don't understand how these haven't been made illegal.

Didn't the Department of Justice sue Live Nation and Ticketmaster? Where are we at on that? Can we get the Supreme Court on this? What's going on? I don't get how they continue to allow to steal money when you have, it was like $150 ticket had like $50 worth of fees on it. I don't get how this is continuing to be allowed. It's ridiculous, and I'm sick of it.

I'm going to piggyback off of years on to a much smaller extent. I sat at a hotel by the office this morning. I brought this up before. They charged me $29 to park. Ooh, that hurts. And resort fees, too, while we're on hotels. Resort fees are a biggest scam, too. I mean, I understand why some people can Uber from an airport or an office to a hotel,

so you don't have to take up the space. But most people that go to the hotel that are staying by the gallery where I was last night, drove there. It's a blatant rip-off. You're getting nothing but the ability to, park your car for $29. That's it. I just don't get it.

Greed. It's just greed. Charge my room $10 higher and let me have my free parking. Nope. We've got to charge for everything. We've got to charge more for everything. We've got to ask for more ticket prices going up a faster than inflation.

Grocery prices. Movie. Have you tried to go to a movie? How about you going out to dinner? Yeah. Ooh. All right. I got one more for you, Matt.

Please. And I've done this before, too, I think. And this is fresh in my mind because I was at the wonderful Kendrick Lamar and Sizza concert last night. I understand taking like a couple of photos and a video here or there, especially of your favorite song. But when you have your phone out, the entire, it is a two-hour concert. There are people who have their phone out the entire concert. I don't get it. You're going to, I'm going to unfortunately have to disagree and say, I totally get it.

Two hours of his phone? Because my daughter, who has been to two Taylor Swift concerts, has about 75 videos of every song that Taylor Swift sang, each one of those concerts. And she goes and watches every one of them? All the time? All the time. Well, your daughter's a psychopath.

All right, I'm glad you said that to me. Right to my face. That feels rather rude. No, it's the kids. No, it's the kids. It's the kids. She loves it because she likes to go back and listen to it. It gives her great memories of the money that I spent on her to go see Taylor Swift.

Well, I guess at least you're getting your money's worth. That is true. That is true. You got to enjoy the moment. You got to get off your phone. You tell little Carly to get off the phone for like two songs and just drink in the energy and the emotion. Okay. Why don't you give her a little live on the phone call? You know what she's going to tell you to do.

You send her that audio. All right. 713-212-5-79. Let's go to, and my screen's not working. Chris in Sugarland. Chris, I have a simple question for you, my friend. What don't you get? man

I don't get the way these referees allow Draymond to get away as much as he does but I think he's I'm going to tell you what happened he set the presidents of intimidate him so much they are intimidated they're scared of him of kicking him out of the game

because now this narrative is that when he gave LeBron the nutmeg that it costs Golden State of Championship which is false because they had two other games in their arena. They lost both those games, but there's a narrative out there for that.

And the fact that, you know, he's intimidate those riffs. You can tell they're scared of him. You know, the things that he get away with, no other player can get away with. And it disturbs the heck out of me. I can't stand, Draymond, as a basketball player. Now, I listen to him on his podcast. He's really good, is informative. But as a player, yeah, he's really good with that.

He's good. I agree with you. he's good with that but as far as a basketball player he is not worth the money he gets his whole antic is about being a dirty player but another thing really quick with you guys i think another thing that's tied into it is the fact that without draymond i don't think step will be stiff i think he still will be good now but he's i think draymond's such an important piece to their whole scheme in the way they play basketball they need him because they need stuff so they keep Draymond on the court because they really need

stuff to have the opportunity to keep the fans coming in and, you know, the fans coming in and, you know, the views on the TV. Really, one more thing, hey, man, Cam is coming. Cam Ward is coming. The Titans is a coming, baby. Titan, Chris.

This is who I am. He is. I can't wait. Yeah, Will Lovers was coming, and Zach Mettenberger was coming. Yeah. And who's other stiff quarterback? You got one from Liberty or where? He was terrible, too. Let me tell you, Chris, your team sucks, your future stadium's going to suck. Amy Kronk-Strake sucks, and you suck.

We love you, though. See you later. You dug that in there, didn't he? That's funny. You know who Steph Curry needs? He doesn't need Dr. Mount Green. He needs Jimmy Butler out there. That was a lost soul out there without Jimmy Butler.

And that was the reason why they made the trade. Yeah. And it worked out for him. Yeah, I disagree with the notion that Dremont unlock Steph, but he was absolutely integral part of this championship run that they've been on. For sure. Five by five player, great ball distributor, great defender. Yeah.

Defensive player of the year. But yeah. Cam Ward is coming. Will Levis is coming. Malik Willis is coming. Malik Willis, I don't know if I could, if there's a term for super suck, but he's super sucked. Marcus Marriota's coming. Zach Mettenberger's coming.

They're all the Titans QBs. May you live in fourth. place to the rest of your adult life. Granted, the Texans aren't that. Jake Locker back in the day? Oh, Jake Locker, too. Oh, God. Man. It's a pleasure you can get Blake Bortle somehow, some way in there for a few snaps.

Vince Young. Where do you go to school? University of Texas, Alston. Great college career. Yeah, he did. Is the Steakhouse still around, by the way? I think so. I ate there once years ago. You said it was very good.

I was honestly, at that, at that time, the best rib I'd ever had in my lunch. Now, my guess is that's just his name. He has no end of the name. He likesens the name. Like Biggio's not out there cracking eggs and running the kitchen. Bishio's not making the nachos for you downtown. No. All right.

We will get to Jonathan's just don't get it. I mean, he's a young man. He's going to have something in his life he doesn't get. Dan and Mike will get to you as well. 1143 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. All right, Jonathan, 22 years old. Very few things you in life you don't get.

What you got. Let's go. Hardly even know a word. You know what I just don't get? What? How today is my mom's birthday. How your birthday mom? Let's let it say out of there.

All right. Do you want us to explain it? It's your mom's birthday? Hold your mom. 23. Say it again? 23. You doesn't want to say, Matt.

Are you asking? No, she's 23. I'm just saying. Just asking. You know what I don't get? Back to back days. You're chewing on air mid segment. Back to back.

You already, how long have you been? in radio business, Matthew? This time slot sucks. How long have you been in the radio business? Let's come back to his mom. No, I don't get you. I want to meet his mom. You can hear the whole smack on your time. So what don't you get about your Miles' birthday? You didn't get her gifts? I just don't get, you know, it's kind of like, I guess y'all are older, but it's just I just don't get how, like, it's on her birthday again. I don't know. I'm getting a little mama's work. Well, I got terrible news from when a man was every 365 days, they add a number to the year. They just do. And then nine months later, baby coming.

out. And they call that your birthday. What's your mom's name? Naomi. Naomi, what's up, Naomi? What's up, girl? Why are you saying what's up girl? I'm just saying. Why are you, what's up girling his mother? I mean, she's got to be about my age, right? Yeah, no, she's not going to say, he said. Or are you? Gen X.

She's the next, yeah. Am I gen X? Yeah, I think you're a baby boomer. No, I'm definitely not baby boomer. You're a boomer. Stop. That's false. Okay, boomer. Okay, so I don't really get what you don't get. She turns every year, a new year. It's crazy.

Like how old she's getting. She's like an old woman out. You know what I mean? Like, I just don't get it. I just, he's trying to contribute my hand. Just let it slide. Okay.

We're going to have to give you some ideas for next week. Yeah, maybe, maybe, I would think in your life at 22, there's all the things you don't. Like, at 22, there's all things in my life,

but didn't get. Oh, you know what? Okay. You know what? I have one off the top of head. I don't get the phase and the lip filler on women now. It's every,

every woman I see going in public places. Serious trouble now. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong. It's every. Well, Siza was on stage with her fillers. I think, I think, can we trace it to the Kardashians? I think we can trace it to reality television.

Yeah, I think, yeah. Kardashians and then the real housewives with the lip filler thing. And then you had the young 20-year-olds that are in the house to get the summer house, stuff up in the east and the Hamptons and all. You know what? I got news for you. I get it. It's reality television has created a new phenomenon. Lip filters, real housewives, all that

and stuff. Hi, my name is Ross. Embrace yourselves, ladies. You're beautiful just the way you are. Don't get these giant lip fillers where it looks like they put helium in your lips and it looks like I can burst them with a pinprick. Like I think Denise Richards is still very sexy

to this day, but she hurt you know, from you have the I know who she is, but how are you, what is Denise Richards up to that you're seeing what she's doing? She's not, she's got her own reality TV show now. Okay. And she was on Bowling the Beautiful for a while, too. Okay.

Yeah, her lips look jacked. They're really big. We as men like regular size lips. Right, Jonathan? See. Dan on 790, Dan, what don't you get? Can I put two things out there? Of course.

all right uh well i i i think you're remembering the old denise richards but this isn't my uh my my thing you're you're remembering him from that great movie in the 90s with uh nev campbell but uh wild things not that person there we go wild things let me tell you something that scene between her and nev that's a top tenor right there that's one of the great all time got snub for oscar best picture if you ask me i mean it was well i would say basically it was a kenner clemarr of acting Wow. Well, I would say it could turn gay men straight and straight women lesbian. All right, I get that.

Continue on. All right. So here's my, I don't get why, two things. One, one why Steph Curry is considered a point guard when he's obviously a shooting guard. He never brings the ball up. He's a shooting guard. He's a shooting guard. He and Pachemski split time.

but it's fine. It's semantics a little bit, I think. I mean, yeah, he plays a lot off ball. Their point guard really has been Dream on Green over the years. But Clay Thompson was off the ball too. I mean, it's just semantics. It's scoring point guard. Whatever. Yeah, they both do their fair number of bouncing ball across. Again, it gets kind of mood.

That whole team, that whole team is atypical. I mean, you don't have six, six centers typical in the NBA, except if you're planning for Golden State. True. No, I agree. It's just, it's a different narrative with him being a shooting guard versus a point guard because they want to make him out to say he's, you know, the top two point guard of all time. And that's kind of my second thing is I'm kind of tired of the narrative of him possibly being the goat or up there. Look, he is good and he is great, but we even, the greats never. had really off nights, especially in the playoffs. I mean, he just completely dissolved and disappeared yesterday. Yeah, but he's also got like, I don't have the number in front of me, but he's 37. He's also got like 60, 30 point playoff games.

I mean, he's had quite a career. I mean, I'm not going to besmirge Steph Curry. He's not, we were talking about this yesterday, and thank you, Dan, for the phone call. He's not a top 10 player, but he's the greatest shooter of all time. I mean, that's- He's fringe. I got him in the top 15. I would say 15, sure.

but not top 10. If we're bumping Larry Bird for Niccolo Yokic, we're not putting Steph Curry in the list either. I'm not bumping Steph Curry for Larry Bird. It's really tough. Maybe I can. I don't know. We'll see. I'm trying to figure out. ESPN rank the NBA

75 team. I'm trying to find out where they put they put Steph Curry 16th behind Moses Malone and ahead of Dirk Novitsky. And where is Larry Bird in the mix? He's in the top 10 They have Larry Bird's 7th

Hmm All right Again, it's very subjective 8th Who? Tim Duncan 8 No 10 Shaq 11

Tim Duncan's not the eighth best player ever to play Kevin Durant 12 Hakeem Olajuwin 13 Julie serving 14 I love Dr. Jay He's not the 14th best player of all time Sorry

All right let's go to Mike Before we get to the news at noon. Mike, what don't you get, my man? Good times last night in Houston, Texas. Good concert at the HBO McNair music hall.

N-R-G Stadium. Chikowsky's 1849 requisite. That's not really a thing. Oh, you may talk about the, I'm talking about the Kendrick Lamar concert, obviously. Chikowsky, the new season of Houston Symphony will have Chikowski's piano concerto number one, which is one of my favorite

pieces. I'll be very busy for that. You should go see it. It's wonderful. I got Astros on deck. One of the best pianists in the world will be playing it as well. Okay, good. Can't wait. I'll be busy with Astros. All rockets for that matter. Yeah, I'm supposed to go see.

Okay. You're trying to organize your personal life on the air live? Yeah, I'm supposed to go to the symphony in May 23rd. The rocket's going to be in the playoffs. Of course they are, duh. By the way, another A-minous performance for Jonathan once again playing

a Vlad Guerrero highlight as part of the good times. Maybe in his mind, Vlad Guerrero is a Houston Astro because that's what he really wants. Maybe he's trying to be fair and balance. Yeah, I get you. You'd be trying to be the old Fox News of highlights. Maybe you thought we were on in Toronto, eh? Them Blue Jays, they got swept

by the Astros, Matt. I'd love to go back to Toronto. I can get my passport updated, by the way. Those pesky Astros why do you think everybody sounds like they're from Fargo? I love Toronto. Toronto's super cosmopolitan city. Okay. You would love

Toronto. All right. Get my ticket. I'll go. It's on the list. It's on the list. You're on the front road Kendra-Lamara. Get your ass on a plane in Toronto. I got a long list and limited funds, Matt. All right, ladies and gentlemen, 1210, time for us to give you the news at Nood. Right now. Right this second. The News at Noon. Here we go.

Yeah, some callers chatting them up. We go to the Frank Billingsley of Houston Sports News. Oh, yes, Matthew, you just heard the highlights last night. A lot of victories for the city of Houston. Didn't seem like there was a huge crowd at the Astros game. We'll get to that in a moment. But Rockets to defeat the Warriors 109 to 94. It was a beatdown.

We had the caller earlier talking about Steph Curry being a no-show. I mean, he had 20 points. and nine assists. I wouldn't call that a no-show in a playoff game. More so what Jalen Green probably did in game one was a no-show. But in game two, he showed up and showed out 35 minutes, 38 points, 8 of 18 from 3-point land. He also had four rebounds, six assists, three steals, turned the ball over twice. And part of a Houston Rockets victory over the Golden State Warriors, by the way,

where Jimmy Butler was injured. So far, all we know is that he is day to day with the pelvis contusion. And they're in flight right now as we speak, and I'm assuming as soon as they get there, they will get an MRI on that pelvis. So I thought it was a lot of times when guys get bruised, they don't want to fly because things can get inflamed. How is he going to come home by train?

Yeah, I don't know. At least you may wait a day for the swelling to go down? They don't play a little Saturday. I mean, I guess he probably could have stayed here. Yeah, I don't know if he traveled. That's what I'm saying. I wonder. I'm just curious.

Anyways, Jimmy Butler, questionable going forward for the Golden State Warriors. I think the Rockets can beat the Warriors with Jimmy Butler playing, but without them. That hugely tips the scales in the Rockets favor as game number three will be Saturday on News Radio 740 KTRH. It's 5.730 tip time. Yeah. By the way, Jay Billis is going to do the television broadcast of that. He is? Why?

He's been doing a lot of NBA this year. take your word for it. Okay. Elsewhere on the news. I like Jay Billis. You like Jay Billis? Yeah, I like him. I think he's like, man,

I kind of do some more than college basketball. I think he's good. He went on the warpath for athletes getting paid and being exploited by the NCAA. So that always endears Jay Billis to me. Yeah, but he probably can't be happy with the way it's out of control. Hey, sorry. It's been out of control because all the money that's been made for all these years. Oh, wait.

Sounds like we're going to get direct payments from schools to athletes now. didn't wear how I mean it's just how does that work is losing are they losing any sort of

legislative powers but it sounds like the commissioners of these conferences have asked for Congress for Congress have got involved

how does Congress what does Congress need to be involved in what way what do they need to do how much guys get paid how much schools

I don't know it's above my paper I just know there's no regulation whatsoever it's it's I'm just saying rambunctious

it's crazy it's wild they're looking for some some sort of oversight. Yeah, let's go to somebody who's really good at oversights and we'll run things efficiently. The U.S. government.

They're known for their efficiency, folks. As you do the highlights, I'm going to check my 401K. All right, Astros, sweep the Blue Jays, Ryan Gusto. I mean, he is going to be a part of this rotation. If Lance Cullors Jr. comes back

and they go to a six-man rotation, as Joe Espada alluded to us here on this show earlier this week. He is earning a spot. Five and two-thirds innings pitched three hits, just one earned run, just one walk, six strikeouts. He has been very good, a 2.78 ERA on this season. And again, he goes to his triumvirate Joe Spada that he's been trusting Brian King, Brian Abraeu, Josh Hater, locking things down. And by the way, Josh Hater, seven for seven in safe opportunities. Super low ERA, right? It's been very well. Yeah, earlier conversation with Brian McTegger.

Did you bring up Josh Hader? I didn't. I zoned out at the end there, so I'm sorry. Well, you saw it on a lot of things. I wanted to bring it up. But, yeah, I think Hunter Brown's probably answer number one for Astro's MVP early this season. I could make an argument for Josh Hater, number two, as an Astro's MVP this season. He's been great.

0.69 ERA. 0.69 whip. And nobody seems to worry about how much money is making this year when you're throwing those bebies. Funny how that works, Maddie. That's crazy, yes. And that's all we have time for you, news and noon. Okay, fine. Kendra Kumar was in town.

I thought it was a great show. A lot of season. of fans, a lot of Kendrick fans, full stadium at NRG and a great show. What did you eat and drink? I drank some beers. I did not eat there. I ate beforehand. Okay. It was a 7 o'clock show.

I ate a little bit before. So did it start right at 7? No, DJ Mustard came on probably around 7.30. Okay, so DJ Mustard comes on the stage. Uh-huh. And he mixes a bunch of songs. Yeah. Does he sing during the music? No, he doesn't sing. It's just getting the crowd high doing

DJ stuff. Hey, yeah, you know, playing the song, and the people sing the songs, mixing things up. What's up, Houston, y'all ready to party night? Could I have, it's hyping things up? Would I have been able to sing any of the songs that were, that DJ Mustard played?

No. No. You almost thought about one. There was a song he played at the end when I was going to the bathroom. I can't remember what it was, it was like a regular pop song, but you wouldn't have known it because it was after 1976. That feels personal. That's not personal.

I have songs on my phone post-1976. started his set with some of his stuff from the new album, G&X, then he mixed things up, and then it was Siza, then Kendra, they kind of alternated, and they have a lot of songs together as well. I have at least five Kumodee songs on my phone. Cool moat five? There's no way.

I have one. Wild Wild West? Nope. Which, basketball? There it is. 1216. It is the Matt Thomas show with Raw 7-1-3-212-5-790. It is NFL Draft Night.

Yes. And Shane Hallam is a gentleman's name, right? Shane Hallam draft sharks. Shane P. Hallam, by the way, on Twitter. Not to be confused with Shane F. Hallam. We'll talk to him at the bottom of the hour. If you miss what Steve Kerr had to say about Draymond Green. Oh, my God. Yeah, let's play this again.

We're going to play this again. Apparently you are being admonished by the head coach, you being the city of Houston about the way you treated one Dreamon Green. I think of the children. 1217 on Sports Talk 790. We have Shane Hallam joining us, our NFL Draft Insider. Insider, expert, guru, draft Nick, whatever we can possibly call them.

We'll call them. I like it. I was just looking at Twitter in the 4U tab. Okay, here we go. Lawrence Taylor was asked about his draft night. He says it doesn't remember because he drank 41 cores lights. 41? He's talking about tap the Rockies, drain the Rockies.

There were no more Rockies left. No water flowing down anywhere. Yeah, they were flat. It was flat. 41 Corse lights? What was the What was the Wade Boggs on one flight? Did he do like 50 or something like that?

If you're drinking 41 Korslites in one night, in one sitting, you're just literally pounding them like, you're just not sitting comfortably, you're just literally just drinking endlessly, right? How many times you're going to the bathroom? Yeah, Wade Boggs apparently tells a story that he drank 73 beers on one flight from Boston to Los Angeles. That's a five-hour flight.

73 beers? Mm-hmm. How do you not just combust? How many times are you going to the plane bathroom? How many beers can fit in your bladder? What if your turbulence are you getting into the fogg in and says you can't go? Oh. That can't be real.

I just can't be real. All the Andre the Giant ones, I believe. Andre the Giant was 7 foot, six or whatever was. 500 pounds. That makes a lot of sense to me. those. Yeah. All right.

There's a poll question I have available if you want to take a look at it on the Twitter account. Oh, wonderful. Where you'll find great commentary, hilarity. It's really pound for pound, maybe the best Twitter account out there. 197 votes are in. We need to get some more votes. Okay. Why the people voting?

This is an easy, peasy question here. The question is, should Rocket fans apologize to Draymond for saying FU Dremont? It happened, I want to say at least two times during the game last night. Okay. that I had the earphones on and I didn't even to really hear what he said the first time around. I was able to decipher it the second time, but the first time I was not.

I was like, I was telling Clint and I said, what are he saying is we can't say on the air? And the second time you pretty much could figure it out. Yeah. And Steve Kerr, Jonathan was asked about this after last night's game and he gives this responsible, fatherly response.

It's not not ideal. when a crowd is, you know, chanting F.U, Dremont. It's just, I don't know. I mean, it did in Boston a few years ago in the finals. This is what it is. Dremont, he's been around forever. You know, he's an instigator.

He's always going to be in the mix. And because of his career, his, you know, his championships, his fire, he's going to be a lightning rod and that's all part of it. I would prefer, you know, if fans could use a little more discretion and, you know, remember that, you know, the guy has kids and, you know, it's like there's kids, I don't know. I just, maybe I'm old school, but I'm all for the fans cheering for their team. And if they want to yell at the opponent's great, but I don't know, I just think FU is, It's a little much.

Oh, okay. So let's do this. Somebody digger the children. Let's be responsible as talk show hosts here on the show. Let's come up with a plan B. I'm going to open the phone lines. Well, we can't. We got our draft guy.

We'll wait for this a little bit. We don't like you. Let me see how this sense. We don't like you. We don't like you. You're a bad person. You injure people. You should be kicked out of the league.

None of these are ringing. Please be nice. Please be nice. Please be nice. You're a disgrace. Yeah, I'm thinking of all the possibilities. I think kind of FU Dremont fits. Yeah, if he didn't disgrace himself for a decade plus,

injuring everyone and scratching everyone's eyes out and kicking them in the nads and literally getting an indefinite suspension from the league for hitting people with spinning back fists, making UFC moves, and then commissioner himself has to be your own personal therapist. This is all on you, Draymond. Sorry. This is the only time, can you recall this happening to any other time in Houston?

Let me see if this one works. Bitch, please. No. Bitch, please. Huh, yeah, it could work. We don't like you. you're playing dirty he's playing like

UFC stuff like UFC one before they outlawed eye-gouging Make love Not war Make love Not war How about this one? Give peace

A chance A chance A chance A chance How about band Dremond Band Band Band

Dremond Band Band See, you know what? I kind of just... I'd love to take a break on this note. I think FU Dremont is much better. This is fizzled quickly.

Well, it just shows you there was nothing else that fit. This caller has one idea. All right, really quick. Hurry up. Hit line one for me because I can't hit it. Oh, my God. Don't blame me.

It's a technology. John, what is the great thing we could have said last night that had been much more polite than FU. Dremont? Let's go, Draymond. Like F.U. Biden. Oh, I got you. Let's go, Draymond thing.

Oh, let's go Dream on? Yeah, let's go Brandon. That would have really thrown him off. Let's go, Dream. I would have been really funny. All right, let's get some NFL draft talk. We got a segment of that to get to. I know nobody else in the marketplace to talk and draft.

We might as well do it, right? Uh-huh. It is 12 at 29. Shane Hallam from the website known as... Draft Sharks. Draftsharks.com. Next on 790. All right, is that time of year?

It is finally here, draft day. And we are here to talk about it with you, folks, on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, with Shane Hallam. We need to thank him. Draft Sharks, we do need to thank him. Before we get to the nuts and bolts of it, we have tried for many weeks to get people on the show, and you are available and nice enough to come on.

So thank you to Houston from us for coming on the show. I know you've been a busy time. How are you, sir? Thank you for being on our program. Oh, no, I appreciate you guys having me. It's like Christmas Eve here. You know, I'm just waiting to wake up and open the presents and then in a couple hours. So I'm pumped up.

All right. So before we get to the nuts and bolts of the Texans and what they should be doing, how do you set up your day? You're in front of a television. You are making some phone calls. First of all, just generally speaking, do you think there's going to be a massive amount of up and down with guys and teams shifting draft orders? Or do you think things will stay pretty much sedentary? I think we're going to see some movements just because this draft really falls off after the top three picks. I think maybe teams have kind of a second tier there in that four through 12 range.

I think it's where you'll see some teams that jump up from maybe the late teens, early 20s into that top 12. And then I think it will kind of settle down. Then we get late in the first. Teams are going to be hitting the end of who they grade as first round draft picks. and that's when you see those teams pop in. We saw last year the last two picks the first round. We're trade-ups from the second round. So I think that might happen again tonight.

Yeah, and Shane, I also going to ask you, just in general this draft, how do you see it in terms of it being top-heavy, players that you have with the first round grade, and some positions of strength and weakness in this draft? I think it's top-heavy. I think there's kind of a big three in this draft. We have Cam Ward, who's obviously going to go number one. You know, Travis Hunter, the receiver corner from Colorado, who's probably going to go number two.

And then Abdul Carter at the edge from Penn State, it's probably going to go number three. I think those guys are the elite prospects in this draft. And then honestly, from there, it really falls off. You know, Ashton Janty, the running back from Boise State, if he wasn't a running back, I think would be in that conversation. But positional value, you know, we're hearing he's probably going to go in the top five because after those big three, it kind of falls off. I mean, I think it's a strong draft in certain areas running.

back, offensive line, corner are all pretty strong, but not necessarily players that you look at and you say, wow, this is a blue chip can't miss prospect. Everyone kind of has flaws after those top three, and that's what makes this draft difficult. Shane, at the Texan Day at 25, would you be satisfied with a potential tackle guard available to them, or do you think if they really want to make a difference maker, get a guy that could start potentially week one, they've got to move up in the draft? I think if you want that difference makers, you have to move up probably for Kelvin Banks out of Texas or Armand Membo out of Missouri.

Those two are projected to go in the top 12. So I think if Houston's probably making those calls, gauging how much it would take. And we know that the next area has been aggressive in the past, so it certainly could happen. But I'm kind of comfortable with the choices they may have. Josh Connerly, the tackle from Oregon, maybe doesn't have this kind of upside that those top guys have, but it really rocks solid in a major program going up against pass rushers that are going to get drafted today and tomorrow. I'd be comfortable with taking him. I think Josh Simmons, the office tackle at Ohio State, it really depends on the medical, on his knee that he injured this year.

It's a pretty devastating injury. So you could have those options sitting there. The question is, do you want to wait and maybe just see those office tackles fly off the board and get stuff? And another position of need that the Texans, a lot of people have them getting mocked, is wide receiver. How do you have the top of your wide receiver board ordered, and who do you think the Texans could get around 25? I have Ted McMillan, the receiver from Arizona, just after Travis Hunter from Colorado. I think Ted McMillan's going to go in the top 12. I'd be surprised if he falls past the Dallas Cowboys.

I think for the Texans of 25, you're looking at Amika Agbuka, the wide receiver from Ohio State. It's probably the safest option. He's going to be a solid pro, slot receiver. He's not going to be a number one. Texans don't need number one. They have Nico Collins. So I think a book would be a really good choice if he's there. Or do you swing for the upside? Matthew Golden out of Texas. I have rated as the second round pick. I'm not a big fan, but he did run a 4-2-9, did play with some inconsistency, a quarterback with Quinn U.S. Texas had a great college football playoff. I think those are the first round possibilities at receiver. If I was the Texans, I would wait. I like day two

and that wide receiver mix just as much as some of those late first guys. I'm curious, yeah, you and a lot of people are down on Matthew Golden, I guess, is it just the lack of consistent production that bothers you, or what else would it be? I think the lack of consistent productions

there, he's never led his team in receptions in college and, you know, played at Houston. So I think you wanted to see a little bit more of that earlier in his career. The other thing is he doesn't separate really well for his athleticism. I want to see

in Mayan coverage if you have that kind of speed athleticism that you're getting away from these corners on slants on outs, on ins. And he's not doing that. Too many contested catches for his speed. My other question with him is, I don't think he plays in 4-29. I mean, he got caught multiple times this season. I think he's more of a 4-4-speed player.

So all these things mixed, I would rather be more comfortable with him in round two. Shane Hallam joining us, Shane P. Hallam, on Twitter. Draftsharks.com is the web. side. Shane, Shador Sanders, everybody's got an opinion. What's yours? I'm not there with Shador. I have him. He's 39th on my big board. I haven't read this the second round pick. I think he's good, but it feels to me like this quarterback class outside of Cam Ward is a lot of reaching for what you hope can become a franchise quarterback

instead of a player with the trace of a franchise quarterback. I think Sanders is really smart between the ears. He knows how to manipulate safety. He does a lot of advanced things well. But his arm is average. And in today's NFL where these defenses like the two deep safeties, you have to have a cover two-beater on the sideline. You have to have a cover three-beater. And I

don't think he has the arms to do that at the NFL level. And a lot of just tendencies in the pocket, bad habits of drifting backwards when there's no one wide open. I think there's a lot of development that he needs. So if he goes in the top 10, I think it's a mistake. we go late first or we've seen

the mocks who's falling in the second round. Then I'm all for it. Draft them, develop them, sit them behind someone. But I don't think he's ready to be an NFL quarterback yet. So as you know, teams can find some good value in the third and fourth rounds. I see you have Jalen Royals of Utah State mock to the Texans in the third round.

Who are some guys? Can you just tell us some more about him and then some other guys you think they could provide some value in those middle rounds? I'm a really big fan of, Jayland Royals out of Utah State, I think it'll be a solid third-round pick, turns into a running back with a ball in his hands. Their whole offense was get the ball to him and let him do great things. I question his route running and then as a senior bowl, he tore it up. He beat first round corners in one-on-one route.

So I think Royals could be a Rishie Wright type of player that you're using in different ways and can have a lot of production. I really like some of the tight ends too on day two, which the Texas could potentially look at. that. Terrence Ferguson, the tight end of Oregon is really interesting. He's explosive. Oregon's offense doesn't really utilize the tight end. He was so good in that old stick, Jason Witten route, but they had to use him and force some passes that way. So I like him, and I'll drop one more name.

Charles Grant, the opposite tackle out of William and Mary, is getting a lot of push up the board. I played almost purely his own blocking scheme of William and Mary, added some weight, looks really good in this offseason. So for a small school player, I think he's going to go in the top 100 and be a distance maker on the office line from day one. Shane, tonight will be the biggest night for at least the casual fan to watch the draft, not so much the Friday and Saturday.

So tonight, as we're sitting back, having a couple of cold pops and joining this thing, give me one or two names that you're going to hear in the first round tonight, but you're thinking this is a mistake. Now, maybe not, well, maybe you'll be in the NFL, but way overrated, way shouldn't be a day one pick and ultimately remember if you goof up on first round picks it does cost you are there one or two names on that list

or maybe you don't have one that you go tonight better not hear those names those teams are going to be in trouble I always have a couple of those things so don't worry Mikel Williams the edge rusher out of Georgia it looks like he's probably going to go in the top 12

I think it's a big mistake never had the production there was a five-star recruit long big rangy explosive but he gets pushed out of so many plays which is bad technique. Off the time to get their hands on him. He's down for the count. I think he's a rotational pass rusher at best.

You're taking him that high. I think it is a big mistake. And I'll mention another name that may pop into the first round. We'll see Trey Amos, who's a corner at a Mississippi. I have rated more as a third round pick. He's big. He's physical. He can jam up the line, but he's so stiff, turning and running.

I think it's days than a fellow of some of these smaller receivers. He's going to really struggle if he doesn't get them at the line. I think that would end up being a mistake if he's drafted in the first round. Shane Hallamdraftsharks.com. Thanks for the time, Shane. I just let the folks know where they can find your stuff. And go to draft sharks.com. You can see my seven-round mock draft pick for every single pick in the NFL draft. So check that out before it launches tonight. Shane, thank you for the time and enjoy this evening. All this hard work should pay off for you this evening. Thanks for the visit.

No, thanks, guys. Thanks for having me. You got it's Shane Hallam. Shane P. Hallam on Twitter. Follow him tonight. It's a good follow. Sounds stately. Well, you know what he doesn't? Shane P. Hallam Esquah. He says like he has sex. Well, I don't know if he does. What? How does that comment come out of your mouth? He's just like one of those dorks that just sits in his room and sleeps in his parents'exper bedroom

and just looks at tape all day long. I mean, it looks like he's got a life. Well, yeah, a quick break here. It's plain spoken. I appreciate that. things that come out of your mouth You know, you guys know exactly what I meant. He's a regular dude. Okay. I'm leaving. I'll see you.

Let's go on our YouTube page and talk to each other for hours. I'm getting some water, bye. Let's go on our YouTube page. Talk about our film media, media careers. Thanks again to Shane Hallam. Draftsharks.com. Scariest movies ever saw as a kid, Jaws 1, 2, and 3D.

Ooh, Lord. They're so scary. Why'd you watch 2 and 3? Because I was guilty into going. Which one's the one where they shoot the oxygen tank and it blows up the shark's head? It doesn't really matter. Is that one? Yeah, spoilers, exactly.

I was in 1979. I was in 1972. What is the oldest movie you've ever seen in your entire life? Oldest. Have you seen It's a Wonderful Life? No. Harlem Knights by Ed and Murphy. Is that pretty old?

That's like in the 80s. That's 40 years old. Yeah. What about life? That's 30 years. Stop. Shut your bum ass. What kind of movies are you going to see?

Trash-ass-ass movies. Whoa, life is good movie. Life is not good. Harlem Lights is good. Stop. Delorese and Red Fox fight with each other. You need to watch Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy in life. It's good.

That's good, Matt. Yes. All right, let me give you. Jonathan, I'm with you. He's wrong. Let me give you five quick ones. Legendary movies. Have you seen The Godfather?

Recently, yes. Okay. That's good. That's 72. 70 and 71. 72. Have you seen, what would be an all-time legendary? Well, it's different genres here. Oh, have you seen any of the Rocky movies? Oh, okay.

Rocky one was like 79. 75? 75 is it 75? I'm not going to count Star Wars. Oh, Star Wars? Star Wars? Yeah. Did you see close encounters of the third kind?

No, he's not seen that. E.T. No. Airplane. No. Ten Commandments. Ten Commandments. I just don't know.

That was the jam back in the day. Oh, oh, oh, oh, I know it. I know it. I know it. Outsiders. Outsiders is like, what, 80, early 80s? Let's go to sports movies. The 60s? Let's go to sports movies. Bull Durham, yes or no?

No. No, natural. No. Major League. Eight men out. A little bit of eight men out. Okay. North Dallas.

40. I've never seen that. I don't know what that is. It's a football movie. I never saw that one. We watched the outsiders in school back of the day. We are Marshall. No? The most recent sports movie I watched is the U-Tip basketball team on Disney Plus.

Oh, I know you're talking about. Yeah, the U-Tip the Don Haskins movie. They were Texas Western at the time. Oh, that Miracle, the movie about the hockey team. No. Okay. Glory Road? That's not bad. Is that the one?

You see Hoosiers? Have you seen Hoosiers? Hoosiers? It sounds familiar. No, okay. I mean, you haven't seen it. And I'm a movie guy. This is actually like,

oh, I'm like, yeah, it's funny because I, this is a category that I shouldn't be really getting involved with because I, not that I'm anti-movie,

I just don't see a lot of them. If there is, yeah, any violence, you're out. That's okay. Yeah, I, what's your prerogative, Bobby Brown? Thank you very much.

I saw the Whitney Houston movie. Oh, you did? Yeah. They didn't show her all. They didn't show her all drugged up dead in the bathroom, didn't they? That's good. They skipped that part. They should have.

They should have. What are you gross? You're sick. They killed her. Oh, she got killed too? Yeah. She was murdered too? Spoiler.

Dude, she was doing cracking cocaine like crazy. She was, she was. She could blame him Bobby Brown, aren't you? No, I think, no, he's going conspiracy on us too. Yes, yes, yes. Why would, okay, hold on. Why was she killed? Was she trying to get her masters, too?

No, because she wanted to get out of the, contract with that head Clyde. Clive Davis. Have you seen the bodyguard by the way? Clive. I cried. Oh, really? Oh, really? So Clive Davis had Whitney Houston killed? I hadn't heard that one. I don't believe that to be

true. Okay, look at the autopsy. She has bruised marks in the bathtub and that bathwater were still warm. See, look. Oh, did she JFK? JFK. Our former president? The movie, yeah. With Kevin Koster. No, okay.

Greatest actor of all time in your mind Is it okay to say Denzel Washington? I thought you were going to say Martin Lawrence It's Daniel Day Lewis for me, number one And then I'll put Denzel too What's up? I like Denzel. I love Kevin Koster Dustin Hoffman for me is very high on my list

Harrison Ford The correct answer is Daniel Day Lewis Really? What's his most famous movie? He's got three best actor awards What about Robert Dine Jr.? There Will Be Blood? No, sorry There Will Be Blood? He won't for Lincoln and he won for my left foot. How many those have I've seen?

I'm going to say you've seen Lincoln. No. He's got like six movies. I don't know. I don't know that either. Who, Daniel Day Lewis? Neither. He only has this. Yeah, he's like, he's got the most best actor Oscar awards.

That's all you need to know. Can you name one Chevy Chase movie? Nope. Phantom thread was great. There Will Be Blood was great. Lincoln was great. I never saw the ballot of Jackson Rose. He was great as Bill the Butcher and Gang.

in New York, the Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio vehicle. All right now. Can he think John can name one Eddie Murphy movie, not named, what was it? He said Harlem Knights and Life. That's two. That's two. Can you name one more? I think he knows that. Is he seen any of the Beverly Hills Cops movies? I don't know. He's on the phone. Last of the Mohicans, Daniel Day Lewis was in? You never saw Last of the Mohicans? It's a great movie. What was the question?

Can you name Eddie Murphy movie? not named Harlem Knights and Life. I see Alex Bregman trotting, by the way. Is he not? Is he not? Is he, Eddie Murphy and Shrek? Or that's... That is he is in Shrek. He is donkey. That's a good pull on your part.

They're putting on the mascot head to celebrate home runs in Boston now. Was that Bregman hit the home run? Yeah, he just hit a home run. Oh my God. He's on a five-game hitting streak. Alex Bregman, 438 during this five-game hitting streak. It's ridiculous. With the home run. And the red sucks.

Absolutely ridiculous. He just crushed one. Over the monster. Over the monster. He's like, man, this is the best thing I ever did in my entire life. He's making 40 million dollars. He literally resurrected his career in one month. That's crazy.

He's playing for the Boston Red Sox making $40 million in crushing homers. And apparently with child number two. Congratulations to him and Reagan on that. See, it's that Dad Strength Part 2 came back. the first time he knocked up his lady he was starting to knock home runs yeah it was way over the green monster speaking of baseball and oh before you get D-Man

that you guys forgot Sandlot never saw a baseball yeah you never saw baseball yeah you never saw sandlot is the greatest baseball movie of all time that's not true Bull Durham is D-Man you've never saw it so how can you say because I saw I saw no Jack that's the best

D-Man before we get to EMA ad doka hello D-Man guys I love you guys I mean I listen to every basketball game everybody Well, thank you. All right, get to the point. We've got to go. Ten, your movie selections are sucked.

One, Scarface, should be number two, Josie Wells, Big Lobbsky. That's a great movie. Reservoir dogs. I love you guys. We're not naming the greatest movies of all time list right now. We're naming old movies. We're just throwing randos out.

Hang up on D-Man. We got to go. D-Man, I got to roll, my man. Thank you so much. D-Man. We do love D-Man. We love you. We're just short a time.

We got to go. Coach. We've got to get coach. EMAID DOCO is up next. Thomas Show with Ross. Rockets Warriors, tied to the game of peace to discuss last night's impressive victory over Golden State. Let's say hi to the head coach of your Houston Rockets, 10994 over the Golden State Warriors. EMAIDOCA with Matt and Ross. Coach, thanks for joining us. Congratulations on the game. Can I ask you? Because look, our audience and basketball fans, fans we despise dream on green with all of our heart and soul e-may and it feels like you guys

will do some john occasional on the court what are those conversations like can you say or are they you having to be kind of like a pg related and can't really bring them up on the air no it's nothing crazy uh we have a history of obviously playing their coaching against him and we work together with u.s.a basketball so i know him very well and um more just john back and forth nothing crazy. We have respect for each other. Like I said, the relationship. And so I know who he is. He knows who I am. Obviously, he played in the finals before.

And so just a little back and forth, friendly banter, nothing crazy. That's too bad. I'd like you to punch him. But that's a different issue for different time, Coach. It may look like it because of how he or I are talking to each other, but it's nothing crazy. All right. Well, you have more restraint than I do, honestly. Congratulations to the win last night. Jaylen Green's coming out party. He mentioned postgame that game one felt really big.

The arena looked bigger. The court looked bigger. The rim. That's not uncommon for guys. You've coached a lot of guys that have made this subtle adjustment between game one and two. So for those things to come out of his mouth and the way he played, couldn't have been a huge surprise to you. No, I think, you know, it's different for everybody.

And we can talk about it, prepare for it, and, you know, have all that time during the week. for guys to share their experiences, but you have to go through it for the first time. And, you know, it's basketball at the end of the day, but everything is amplified and magnified, and the physicality goes up, and everything becomes more important to every possession. And so it takes guys some time, you know,

whether it's a quarter of a game and whatever it is. And once we saw some things on film and saw the looks we had and understood how they were guarding us, we had a good feeling that he'd have a bounce back in our team with as well. Was there anything, to your eye, now that you've had a chance to look at the game film, that they did, was it more on the adjustments on your end, do you think,

or on their end? And obviously when you lose Butler, like they did in the course of the contest, it moved their rotation around. Was there any other massive changes that you could tell our audience that you saw between the two games? Well, first of all, you know, when you make shots, that helps. And so we defended at the same level. You know, scored 95 in the first game, 94 in this game,

and early in the 80s, and before they had some late buckets. But so we defended at the same level. And we knew if our offense woke up and came to life a little bit, we'd be in good shape. And so for us, it was about being more particular with our spacing, not getting this stagnant, trying to hunt matchups and just get back to normally what we do, which is taking advantage of Alpian side or Alpy in different spots. Jalen and our whole team, you know, doing it as a unit. And I think we got bogged down trying to pick on matchups and got a little stagnant, which it benefits them. They're geared toward hiding guys on defense and loading up and all those things.

And we're looking at a bunch of bodies and the way they create turnovers, I think that benefited them. So we got back to more of our norm. Try to get stops and get out and run, execute and transition, and then take care of the ball. And that was the formula. Took care of the basketball, IMA, your squad hit free throws. I thought of men, Thompson was really on the cusp of having a big night offensively until the foul trouble came into play. Did you feel the game was officiated a little differently? from games one to two or is it pretty close

in your mind? No, it's pretty close. I think they've let us both be physical. You know, it happens in the playoffs anyway, and we are two of the better defensive teams that play with physicality, and so nothing different there. You just have to adjust at times if you have the foul trouble, and

you know, we went with our men with two browning back first quarter, Dylan as well, and they, you know, picked up their third, and so we can go to some other lineups or bring Aaron Holiday and some guys that we did or go to some zone to protect guys, and so I think it was officiated pretty similarly, both games. Like I said, just have to adjust when you have the foul trouble and not get the stupid fouls off ball.

How would you assess two games into what you've seen from Amen Thompson? And you talked about maybe, you know, playoff experience and lacking. It seems almost like in a reverse way, you'd have to prevent Amin Thompson for getting too excited for playoff basketball. Yeah, he's been good. I mean, he obviously can be much better. And the fouls are a big part of it. he's going to impact the game as long as he's out there on the court on defense at offense. And just like I said, have to be smart with the reaching foul when you have one already in the first quarter,

the one he got on the rebound. And then he'll get going offensively. He's missed some easy shots around the basket, obviously in game one, missed a few dunk putbacks. But the way he impacts the game is not just by scoring. Obviously, he's doing a great job on Curry initially hounding him and all the other intangibles that he brings the table. So that'll all come in time. you know, the ups and downs of a young guy being in the playoffs for the first time, show at times. But he's not relying on scoring only to impact the game.

Rocket said to coach, Ema Adoka, with us here on Sports Talk 790. And back to Jalen Green quickly. What were your conversations like with him in between game one and the performance in game two? Well, the message was simple. Like, what's going into the series is be aggressive, stay confident, and don't second guess. take the shots that are there. They're guarding a certain way. And he kind of saw that. We all saw it on our film, obviously,

and went over as a team. I think being patient is a big thing. You know, you get the matchup that you like, whether it's a big or small, and you kind of rush into the crowd and narrow loaded up. You've got to step back, survey a little bit, let everybody get to their spacing and then attack from there. And he did a great job of that right from the start. And so that, the spacing, everybody being deliberate about, you know, giving him the room to work, but also.

him taking the threes. She took 18. When they go under her, they're trying to protect him from driving. You have to take those shots to loosen them up. And he did that, obviously, make an 8 of 18. How bad did you need those Tarii's in three-pointers of fall? I know he had struggled in game one from Primitur and gave you a couple of early ones in the game two,

which obviously made a big difference. And how about this, Coach, as you know, wire-to-wire wins don't happen very often in the NBA. You got one last night in a playoff game. Yeah, it was big for Tari. I think for us in general. He hadn't been shooting it well lately, but he had wide open looks in game one going 0 for four. And so when you only make six for 29 as a team or whatever it is, you need anybody to knock him down.

And he took the onus on and did that. He had two really good days of work, just watching him shoot and watching his preparation. He was basically on fire in the shoot-rounds and practices. And so I told him that. I said how good a shot looks and stay confident and be aggressive and came out and made those. So great carryover from what he did in practice. No lack of confidence there, understanding the shots he's going to get as long as we get to our spacing,

and they make the right reads. And so that's a big thing there. Obviously, with the wire-to-wire, yeah, we came out and did the same thing we did in game one, which was jumped out to early lead. Different of those, we maintained it and extended it at times. And so, you know, we take care of the ball, get shots, although we only had 11 offensive rebounds, as opposed to 22 in the first game.

Give yourself those second chance of opportunities. you can maintain those leads. And so I'm doing a great job overall on both sides of the ball. You've been able to win a couple of challenges late, including one yesterday in the playoff game. Have you and your staff, the guys that you trust with the video replay, even taken in a step further to say, hey, it's a playoff game.

If we're going to challenge something early, we better damn be ready to win this one because these things are so valuable and you want to certainly have one in your back pocket, maybe in the third or fourth quarter of a game. Yeah, it is crucial to get those. early ones if you're going to challenge. Knowing you may need it down the line,

you know, maybe in the regular season you wouldn't challenge something that, you know, that might be marginal, but I think we got a good grasp of what they call and obviously looking at the play before the play to determine if it was a foul or something that initiated that contact. But at the same time,

a few games ago, I would have thought the charge was a charge. And I saw that one myself. And so, you know, it's always a little bit of judgment. And based on camera angles, is a big part of it. So our guys got 12 different angles behind the bench. They have to look quick and see everything and try to judge if it's something precluding the play. But I think we do a great job overall. And like I said, every possession is important. So we'll be more reticent to take the challenge early. Last question, you've got a lot of young men that now have two playoff games

under their belt, but they're about to hit the road for the very first time in a playoff game. how much of the message changes from when you maybe talked to them earlier this week when they were about to play their first postseason game. Yeah, I mean, the home court advantage is great, but we have to go on the road to win games regardless in the series. And so for us, it's more of the same that we did to start this season. Struggled last year on the road, and our message to our guys this year was come out and be a different team on the road,

and we've done that right from the gate go. So at the end of the day, like I always say, it's just basketball and you keep it simple. And then, you know, once the ball is tossed, up, it's whatever. Take the crowd out of it, take a motion out of it, and just play your game. And so that'll be no different going to San Francisco.

Thank you for the visit, my friend. Congratulations. I'll see you tomorrow to get up to San Francisco and best luck this weekend in Golden State. Thank you. Thank you. You may haveoken with us here on Sports Talk 790. Game 3 will be Saturday night at 730 and that is a national TV game. So there'll be no Space City broadcast, which means if you want a

purely subjective broadcast, you listen to me over on KTRH. Wonderful. And then Monday's game will be at 9 o'clock, and that will be part KTRH and part KBME, and that will have that Space City broadcast too. Okay. I didn't watch him into Stan Van Gundy. It felt like to me he's pretty good. I like him, right?

I like Stan Van Gundy. Yeah. I think he does a good job. Smart, funny. I like him better. I like him better than Reggie Miller, honestly. Me too. Reggie's improved a lot.

Reggie went from one of the worst to like, at least he's decent to me. Yeah. And he did Kevin Harlan. That's the cherry on top. Jay Billis going to call the game on ABC on Saturday night. So I don't know. I think he's working maybe with Mark Jones.

I don't know he's working with, but it's a Jay Billis game on Saturday. Get your thesaurus out. Yeah, he's a big time cliche machine. I'll leave it at that. Okay. 114 is the time. It is the Matt Thomas Show at Ross.

Rodis. What is today's edition of Believe in? not coming up in just 35 minutes now. Oh, my crud. Is that happening today? It is. What time is it? It's not, it's at 150 like it is. I thought we're doing Longhorn legend Steve McMichael. By the way, yeah, people were getting mad at you for not knowing he went to University of University of Texas. He went there from 75 to 80 or something like that. I wasn't born. I'm, but you got a rich, vivid history of University Texas and you're not going to do that. I mean, I guess. Not really. I don't know who's on the team in 70 or 63 when they were winning

Who was his coach? Oh, Darrow. Oh, no, no. Well, around 80? could have been acres by then. I bet it started with Darryokee. Derrick Bay Royal probably started and then maybe it was Acres after that. Freddie Acres. They could have won it all in 85. What did they play? Was it Georgia in the Commonwealth?

And they didn't. Was Hershal Walker on the 85 Georgia team? That may have been a little bit past that. I think Hershal was up to 82. I'm not sure, honestly. All right. 115 is our time. It is the Matt Thomas showed. Ross. We've got the replay of Brian.

McTaggart. If you missed that earlier today, shame, shame, shame on you. Brian McTaggart. How do you miss a Brian and McTaggart on the show? Fred Acres started at 7 in 77 to 86. Then it was David McGoillian's. Ooh. There was John McEvick. McEvick was fine. And MacBron.

And then you get back to prominence back at the University of Texas and Sally and make the baked cobbler with a banal-a-ne-eastern. Charlie Strong did a wonderful job. He's building young men in this program. And we are back at Texas. Well, they had a bunch of criminals on the program from Mac Brown's era when he stopped caring and then so Charlie Strong had to kick everybody

off the team. We just still computers. Boats. We're intimidating witnesses. Why do we have guys calling in the jail and they're intimidating witnesses? All right. I think we're done. Getting the damn rabbit hole again. Alex Breggen doing his part. Yeah, he had a ball over the left

of the monster. Other than that, they ain't on squat. Garrett Crochet's getting touched up. Come on, man. Come on now. Crafty left-handed. He got a balk in the game, as a matter of fact, too. Oh, really?

Yeah, he fell off the mound. Oh, Alex Bregman's getting put-outs. Yeah, that's good. And that had a great month defensively, but offensively. Oh, he hasn't? No. I think he's had five errors so far. Really?

Yeah. I saw him falling on his face that one time. Matter of fact, I don't think, I can do this for quick. Who has a better fielding percentage right now? I can't do anything. Oh, your internet's not working? I've restarted my computer. I don't know.

I've been blocked. I think maybe I've been fired. Maybe you got a firewall on you. No, I didn't touch anything. It's not working now. Maybe we're outsourcing your job. That could be very well done. AI Ross?

I've heard worse. Hey. You know the new AI that I find is so funny? And actually, E. Mae Adoka was part of it. Jennifer Lawrence, you know that, you know, she has a television show. Jennifer Lawrence? How do you feel by Jennifer Lawrence? The actress?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. See your line. Jennifer Hudson. Oh. Jennifer Hudson has a show. She's nice too. She is nice. And her producers and her support staff,

when they bring a guest out, they walk down a hall. Yeah, they do the... And then they give them like a little song or something. It's Ross, Vittal. He's here with Jennifer, talking sports, talking live, talking about his main.

Let's go. Somebody had a very funny tweet. It's like, this is the only clips I've ever seen of this show. When do they interview... I've never seen the show. Exactly. I've never seen a second of the show.

Except for the hallway thing. But the funny part was the hallway thing, there is an E. May Adoka AI one. Oh, okay. And I saw it, and I didn't want to tell EMA about it, but apparently EMA found out about it. He's like, what is this? You know, today's kids don't appreciate the A like us youngsters do now.

What? I'm all, I'm done team AI. You are? You have to be very curious. You could be replaced by AI, Matt. Literally you could. They can say your voice. Well, he has had his voice stolen.

What? Yeah. See what I'm talking about? Because I don't want to want to make it public. That's nothing bad, but it's definitely, I've had my voice AIed, which I didn't think what's possible. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Because I don't think I've got an impressionable voice. Do you think I do? What do you mean? Like, yeah, AI does it. It's, it's, it's, but I mean. The computer does it. What do you mean? We do Mac Brown.

That's easy. Yeah, that's different. It's a computer, Matt. It just takes the frequencies. It's not like it's doing an impression machine. I know, but it's still. feels like my voice would be hard to impersonate. But the computer says

no, it's fine. So yeah, I've heard myself an AI and it sounds like I have a cold, but it definitely sounds more me than not me. I'm going to make an AI mat when you leave. We used to have Sabrina call to share. Remember when Sabrina was on?

I love Sabrina. I can't do anything right now. I think it's your computer. I restarted it just now. Yeah. I can't connect to any of our Wi-Fi's. Well, so no, believe it or not today, unless you want to write one. Send a trouble ticket in. Oh, I can't even send in a trouble ticket.

That's terrible. All right. So let's do this real quick before we get to Brian McTaggart. Without naming names, Texans go O-line first round? I will say yes. If Matthew Golden's there at 25, do you take him? Because here's the thing. Even with all the barrioses and the Christian curries,

and everybody else that's come through here. I don't think the Texans are particularly enthralled with the wide receiver room. I don't think they should go wide receiver, but I'm just saying that if you think this is a guy that can really be a true number two receiver opposite Nico Collins, do you go, you know what, I go grab that lineman early second round, and that I love this kid. This is a guy that's got great speed. He obviously became a huge part of the Texas offense last year.

Yeah, down the stretch, but the production all season long wasn't great. We talked about that with Shane Hallam as well. And perhaps the 40 time, which is 4.29, which is amazing, not as fast as the tape, right? They talk about guys who don't run four, you can run a four-four, but look faster on tape. Maybe he looks slower on tape is the concern. So it would be to depend. A lot of people like a Mecca, the Ohio statewide receiver as well. I think I would still like to them to go offensive line.

And I am curious, the Ohio State tackle Josh Simmons to where if his medicals are clear, I mean, if he didn't get hurt last year, people think he could have been a top 10. Yeah, top five, top 10. So that would be interesting. I like, I think you can get value of guys that are injured that fall down draft boards that will still be fine in their NFL careers. And the thing about injuries is there's a difference in having an. injury and having serious injuries that plague a guy's career. Like if his legs are 10 years older than he really is because of all the ailments,

that's one thing. Like if you're taking a basketball player who's always got knee issues and leg issues, there's going to be a wear and tear on that body. What's the kids name of an Ohio state? Josh Simmons. Does he have an issue? Is he an eye age or is this a one-time thing that was a pretty severe injury? Well, it was a portella, yeah, torn patellar tendon.

So that's a pretty severe injury. Let me ask you this. What's the recovery rate of that in 2000? Yeah, probably pretty high, but then I don't know how it affects necessarily tackles. These are obviously very important to tackles. Quickness. Yeah, but you're also, it's not like he's a wide, I mean, maybe more concerned about a wide receiver or somebody in the secondary with the Patelor injury. It just feels like to me the number one thing that Nick's got to get right is he's got to get an offensive lineman in this draft, whether it be today or tomorrow,

that you can plug and play right out of the jump. Yep. That'd be nice. Regardless of what the kid did in college, regardless of where you place him in the draft, if this is another team, another Texan's team that fails to address the offensive line after all the picks of the last few years,

people are going to question who's doing the scouting, who's doing the evaluating in the Texans office? Yeah, so far, the record at offensive line is in spotty. Titus Howard's been just okay. Yeah, he wasn't drafted by this regime, but they, I mean... I'm just talking about in the last seven or eight years, all the top picks, the scrugs of the world and whatnot. I mean, this is a team that is not avoided going after offensive line.

Yeah, if we had to go for a great fine in the draft, we have to go back to Dwayne Brown, maybe? He was like 26th, I think the Texans took him years ago. Chris Myers, but that was... Yeah, I think so I'm sitting there. If you're talking about impactful linemen, it's got to be Dwayne Brown. That's right. All right.

Brian McTagger was a guest of the show, and you'll hear from him next. 128, Sports Talk, 790. We have an opportunity on most Thursdays to get a chance for you guys in a 1 o'clock audience to hear some of that conversation. We talked to the Astro Beat Rider about what has been so good as of late as the Astros finished off the sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays winning yesterday. And it was really about how good not only the starting pitching has been, but the Relief Corps as well. Yeah, they were both great. I mean, I think the relievers went, what, seven in the first. the third scoreless innings.

And that was basically the three back-end guys, King of Brayu and Hader. Forrest Whitley did have an outing in there. But it all starts with starting pitching. And all three of the guys that started in that series were great, beginning with, you know, Hunter Brown being, you know, the clear-cut ace of this team. Ronell Blanco with his best start of the season by far. And then Ryan Gusto comes out and shows you why they sort of decided to keep him on this team out of camp after he was set down initially and continues to be.

battle. And, you know, if they keep getting this kind of pitch and I think they're going to be all right. I mean, I think I've said on here, and I mean, we all know that they're, the guys that are struggling are going to come around eventually. It looks like Christian Walker's there. D.S. had a couple of hits yesterday. He's got a long way to go. You know, Alvarez is slowly, his numbers are slowly climbing up. So, hey, compared to last year when they were seven and 17 at this point, 13 and 11 looks really good. It does. And you know what? And I know that Joe Espada I mentioned to us a couple days ago. There is a thought of a six-man rotation coming up because of the lack of off days in the month of May.

You're going to have a really good arm not available to you because you're going to have to reduce your bullpen by a spot. And ultimately, you've got to make a decision about how you're going to treat that six-man rotation. These are good problems they have right now. Yeah, you can never have too much 50s. So if you've got a guy, you feel good about it. You got to send him to the AAA that doesn't deserve it. Then, yeah, that's a good problem to have if you're the Astros. I mean, you know, maybe a guy like Logan Van Wye or rookie who, you know, they're excited about and they feel as a future.

I mean, he's a guy I think certainly could, you know, bounce between, you know, AAA and the big leagues this year. So, you know, that's the guy to look at. But, yeah, Lance pitches, you know, this weekend in Corporate's Christie and then, you know, maybe he comes back soon after that. But, you know, I think a six-man rotation makes sense. They've done that at different points the last couple of years. I don't Dana Brown is a big fan of that. And, you know, it totally makes sense, especially during a lot. a stretch where you don't have a day off. And they have one of those in May, I think May

like 9th through the 25th, pretty much the middle chunk of May there, which includes a road trip to Tampa Bay and Texas. So if they can get Lance back by then and go to a six-man rotation, that would come right at the right time. Christian Walker got a day off earlier this week, and boy, that has paid dividends for him. And it's funny because sometimes veterans don't want to have to have that day off, saying they can work out their issues by playing every single day. But whatever that was, sitting there observing just kind of mentally watching the sport as compared to physically being out there he has been a difference maker the last couple nights yeah you know this guy i'm really

impressed by his approach because when he was moved down to the lineup a few days ago and he's like totally get it you know i'm not getting it done in the four spot you know let someone else go in there and get those at bats and then when he got the day off he's like yeah you know understand um and you know what he said last night was he thought that the day off gave him a chance you know to get away from everything. I think his quote was he didn't have the pressure of figuring out to come to the ballpark and try to get a couple of hits that night. And he made a couple adjustments the following day just to try to go back to some basics,

not tinker too much. The batter's box and comes out and gets three hits and two more right off the bat yesterday, including a homer. So, yeah, science, he's coming around for sure. And, I mean, you know, a breather when you just, you don't see your name in the lineup and say, you know what, I'm just going to sit in the dugout and clear my head and watch. Things like this work. I mean, we've seen it work for a couple of players last year.

You know, I think Bragman had a breather and came back and played pretty well. So managers give these guys the things for a reason, but nice to see him get going after. I know that had to be a tough start, especially with a new team where you come in, pressure's on. You sign all this money and you got this contract and you're not living up to it. So he's probably putting a lot of pressure on himself as well. Yeah, and somebody who benefited from a breather last year, was it Yiner? I think he got like a bat hit him on the hand or something and he missed a couple of days and he came back and his bat kind of woke up. Three-game hit street for him.

So he's showing some signs of life. But how do you think things are going to be handled going forward for Yiner? Yeah, I mean, I think they're going to keep running them out there to, you know, hopefully for their sake, this is the start of him, you know, coming around a little bit. I mean, he's, you know, he's going to be an aggressive hitter at the plate. pitchers are going to try to exploit that. But, you know, we've saw in the last couple of years, he can do some real damage in the middle of that lineup. But, you know, Caratini's still a guy.

They got to mix in from both sides of the plate. He's just one of the best pure hitters they have on the team as far as bathe the ball skills. So I don't think we're going to see any changes in playing time or approach or anything. They're going to keep finding a way to get Yiner in there when he's not catching, and hopefully they get him going. Brian McTaggart with us here on Sports Talk 790. five hits in his last two starts for Zach DeSenzo. What kind of role do you think he can carve out for this team?

Well, I think you might play more. They love him. I mean, you know, they like Cam Smith and, you know, all, you know, what he brings and everything. And certainly Cam has had his moments this year. He mean, he hasn't been as electric as he was in the spring, which is to be expected because you're playing in the regular season. But they really like what Desenzo brings to the plate, how hard he hits the ball, his approach at the plate, excuse me, excuse me,

it's pretty advanced and I think we'll see him play more. I mean, we all know he played really sparingly there for a while, but I think it wouldn't surprise me if he starts to take a few of those bats away from Cam Smith and right field a little bit. I think he's starting to force Joe a spot his hand. There's really not a spot to mix him in otherwise because, you know, you're not going to play him on left unless, you know, all two days at DH, but then, you know, you got Yordan, you got to get in there.

you're not going to play him at third base with Paredes and you're not going to play him at first. I mean, those are his position. So if you're going to get him in the lineup more, it's going to be probably the expense of Cam Smith. So I think we'll see Zach play a little bit more right field going forward here, you know, putting it maybe a little bit of pressure on Cam to start swinging the bat a little bit better as well. Isn't it crazy, Brian, that it was the Cam Smith for rookie of the year voting. It was already done by the end of spring training. and now you've got your Zach DeSenzo fan club growing

saying we've got to find a spot for him. This is how the wins of Major League baseball go during the course of the year. And I like Cam's looking more and more comfortable in right field. I don't think he's embarrassed himself so far. There have been some plays that, you know, it looks like he's a

professional athlete. But if DeSenzos bat continues to be a nice lightning rod for this team, this is going to be some interesting times to try to balance who plays where and how to get guys playing time because you've got a lot of guys, your veterans that don't want to take days off.

You know that Christian Walker doesn't want to take any time off at first base. You know Jose Ltuvi wants to be in there at least six days a week. You know Yordon if he's not playing in left field wants a DH. And then you've got a guy like a Chas McCormick who just hasn't seen much playing time at all with the exception of yesterday. There's a little bit of I'm ready to go, but there's just not enough spots in the field right now for the guys that are looking to get that extra playing time.

Yeah, totally. And again, if you're, you know, if you're Joe's fought, a great problem to have. I mean, you've got guys on the bench. You want to try to get the bats because they're being productive and you can't do it just because some guys are in trans. I mean, Cam Smith has not been bad. I mean, I think his OPS is over 700, but you're right. He's looked more and more comfortable in right field. The running catch on Sunday night was great. I mean, he's very athletic out there. You know, I think if he stayed out there, if he does stay out there by the end of the year, you know, I think he'll be a very capable. right fielder. Descendal, too. I mean, he's, you know, he played shortstop in college. You know, he's a big guy who can move really well. And so I think he can be a solid right fielder as well.

So that's going to be a position to watch going forward when I think you got those two guys now clearly are going to battle for some playing time. McCormick's can continue to be that late game replacement, whether that's in the left field for Altuvae or in right field for either one of those guys when they have the lead. So it's, you know, the roster right now is, you know, isn't bad. I mean, Joe's going to have. to try to piece it together with the hot hands and so forth. And, but, you know, having Zach Desenzo hit, you know, jealous spot, we'll take that any day and find a way to get them in the lighter. All right. You've got a trip to Kansas City this weekend of the local nine. And then AJ in town and the rest of the Tigers come in there playing some excellent baseball right now.

And I don't think we're sitting there going revenge series after last year's Wildcard. But this Detroit team just doesn't slowing down. So things are about to get a little more stout. Kansas City can hit. They're not doing much pitching so far. it'll be just kind of nice facing some American League opponents. It feels like this Astro schedule at least so far in the early portion of the year's been so nationally dominant. Yeah, they came out of the gate with, what, six games against the NL.

Then they faced the Cardinals and Padres back-to-back series. So, yeah, good run of AL teams coming up here. Yeah, I mean, Detroit, I mean, Mize and Torkelson looked like number one picks finally. You know, they were the number one overall picks and they're playing like it now. Scuba is Scubble. He's got a sub one whip and a 2.22 ERA. So I don't know if we're going to see him next week or not. But, you know, anytime the Tigers come down,

AJ's going to push all the buttons. And, I mean, you know, Detroit's probably one of the top four or five teams in the American League at this point. But, hey, Astros are sitting at 1311. They're only game behind the Rangers for first place. All the talk, you know, a couple of weeks in the season about, you know, how terrible things were going. And they're right there where they want to be. So they just have to find a way to keep it up.

And they should be able to go to Kansas City and win a couple of those games. Hunter Brown's pitches Sunday. If you remember last season, Hunter Brown had that disastrous start in Kansas City, where he couldn't get out of the first inning. And so he's going to go back there now as an ace, a chance to exercise some demons. That'll be fun to watch as well. Did you ever think you were going to say Hunter Brown and ace in the same conversation? I mean, the answer could be yes.

But in your mind, when you first saw Hunter, did you say this is the kind of guy that could be potentially a number one guy in a road? rotation. Well, when you started hearing buzz about him in the minor leagues, I guess when he got to high A or AA, you know, people internally were talking like, you know, this guy could be a big part of the rotation. You're always skeptical.

Skeptical when guys like that are moving through and it's never like he was before that, like a top top prospect. But certainly this time last year, I would not have said that. I mean, he was sort of clinging to just life as a big leaguer. I mean, I think he was probably getting close to getting shipped out before, you know, he changed things up a little bit.

but it turned on a dime and I think over the since May 1st he's got the second best ERA as far as starters in the big league. So it's not that he's going to be the ace or what have you. He is the ace. And that's no knock on Framber Valdez because he's ace 1B. But right now if you line up this rotation of the playoffs, Hunter Brown would start a game one. So if you say that, then yeah, that guy's your ace. And good for him for sticking with it and making the necessary changes. All right.

That again is Brian McTagger with his everything. Thursday at 11 o'clock. We play some of the highlights of that later in the 1 o'clock hour. All right, our internet is down, which means we cannot play, believe it or not. Not what we want to do, but things are out our control. Back to wrap things up, it'll be in the most amazing final segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross next, 145 on 790. That had to be AI generated, right? I never would have said, what up, what up, right? I don't think I would have done that.

Still have opportunity for you to have vote on our poll question today, which is, should the rocket fans apologize to Draymond for saying F you Draymond. 95% say oh hell no. 5% said yes. That's fine. There's no place for this coarse language in our beautiful sport of basketball. Dr. James Naismith is rolling over in his grave.

Won't somebody please think of Dr. Draymond's children? You know, honestly, though, he's not thinking of his children. We're kicking people in the nuts. You know what? It's not a kid's game anymore. Going to a sporting event is not,

and baseball to a certain extent is because there's 81 games and you can get in reasonably. But in an NBA game and any kids crowd. There are some youngans there. But generally speaking, it's a 2435 age group for the most part. We can argue whether or not it should be, but if you're taking a child, Matt, to a sporting event, it is baked in.

They're likely going to hear. curse words. Yeah. At some point. The athletes themselves, the coaches. I mean, I love E-May, but he's got a potty mouth. I'll be at games sitting with, you know, friends and family or whatever and not, I curse. You curse when we talk. I do. I do not curse.

And then you realize, oh, no, there's like three kids behind me. And you kind of forget and you try to keep track of it, but, you know, you're crushing Crawford box and something exciting happens, you'll let one slip. I mean, if you're going to be out in a public space in a sporting event where there is passion and energy like there is for our team,

in this town, it's going to happen. And there's two things why I don't begrudge what happened yesterday. One, it doesn't happen on the regular basis. No. And two, look who they were doing it for. It's hard it was. Right. If they were saying, bleep you, Jonathan Kamima, comminga, I would have been a little shocked.

F you, Moody. I'm like, what? Why are you going up to Moses is moody? That's odd. That doesn't seem very nice. It would have been weird. But it's Draymond Green. Yeah.

And he deserves all those accolades. All the smoke. All the smoke, as the kids would say. All right. So tomorrow, we'll have a full... We're going to wake the strippers up tomorrow. Yes. We have a three hour.

I have a three hour show. I'll be off at one tomorrow once we go off for the team. Am I getting that guest for you or no? Did you want me to get that guest? What guest? I told you who the guest was. For Rocket Chatter.

John McLean? No, not John. Yeah, I can get you John McLean. He ain't working for anybody. I'm sorry. That's the dumbest running joke in this show. It's not even a joke. It's just dumb.

Exactly. that's why it makes me laugh because it irritates you. It does. I'm sorry. And John's nice. It just doesn't make any sense. But literally 90% of the things you say on the show don't make any sense.

That's true. No, I don't think I need a guess. Okay, so you're going to get Wexler and Clinton to come in an hour early? Yeah. We're Gordy. We got peeps. Oh, great. I can do an hour by myself.

Gordy's unavailable. Trust me. Now, he's coming by tomorrow at 10.50 to say hi to us like he does on Fridays. Okay. We have I'm sorry to get to tomorrow. I am very sorry. You know what? Maybe Rocket fan should apologize to Draymond Green. Maybe we'll open it up for people to apologize. I'm not apologizing to Draymond. I didn't do anything. First of all, I wouldn't me screaming, bleep you, Traymond.

Would you have enjoined if you were there? No, no cheering in the press box. You are a distinguished member of the media. There was somebody that was, they were drinking a Dacharian kind of cheering in the press box. I don't want to snitch on anybody. Do I know this person? I didn't know who it was. They had a credential that they didn't have a seat and they We were kind of just standing in the press area and like crushing a truly or something and then like doing a little bit of cheer. As an adult, I've never had a DACA before. Really? Matt, Matt, Matt, no way. No way.

Get them, Jonathan. No way. I'm not trying to avoid them. I just never had one. You're not going to New Orleans? Drive through DACRI on the way in. I've had margaritas. A little 190-od cane for the road.

I mean, as I'm not driving, by the way. Thank you. Thank you for pushing that agenda along. I'm going to designated driver. Yeah. I don't think I've ever had one. I wouldn't be adverse to it. I'm just saying,

very sweet depending on. I'm not a huge, the only sugary drinks I like, frankly, I'm a margaritas, and that's just, that's the devil's poison for me. I got a pop quiz question for you.

Did I have some daquery last night while I was waiting for ubers to go down outside of NRG Stadium? And where did you pick up the Uber eventually? Uh, somewhere on Main Street. Main Street and Murworth? Did you take the,

uh, they were $80. No, I should have done that. I didn't. do that. I've done that for the rodeo multiple times and that's the pro move. I did the dumb move, which was

go to the yellow Uber lot and then kind of wait out the... What time do you get home? One o'clock? No one to look like a hell. I'm here, energetic, doing a four-hour show, and I'm taking a big nap after this show in two minutes.

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Clinton, Waxler, the 18. We'll talk to you tomorrow. We'll wake you up for anything goes Friday at 10 on 7 o'ning.