The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - 15 Year Anniversary! Notre Dame Beats Georgia, Jimmy Butler To Rockets? Texans At Titans

Episode Date: January 3, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" celebrate 15 years of the show and revisit some of the best moments on SportsTalk790. Matt and Ross also:react to Notre Dame defeating Georgia 23-10 to finish the quarterfinals of the College Football Playoffdiscuss Jimmy Butler requesting a trade from the Miami Heatpreview the Rockets hosting the Celticsbreak down the Texans facing the Titans in their final game of the regular seasongive the latest update on free agent Alex Bregmantell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10.1 at H-Town. Good morning, everybody. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. It will use your fingers like that. Thank you.

713-212-5-790. As Connor goes through the notepad. He's already five-se it. He's like four things already in the first segment of the show. Gargling. You know what I mean? You know? Why would you want those guys to have the last taste in their mouth of a complete beat down?

Put the right hand up next time. It's seeping in over there. You must use your left hand for everything. 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Like if it's been a long time since you've been with a nice lady in a biblical sense, you just, you know, and then all of a sudden you get a date with one, and it seems like she's pretty down.

Like, are you just going to go in there? No, man. You got to have a little. warm up. You got to find a slump buster first and maybe, you know, you know, get your tune in right. If you give me a room, I'll do it. I mean, did we all get athletic inclined after that? Sure.

Get the, uh, get the cardio? She was not part of a sports moment. I'm sorry. Your heart was pumping. That's cardio, right? A lot of things that was pumping, yeah. Oh, right. Jesus. You just cannot help yourself. Well, it's been a while. Several hours.

So you basically goad me into a lot of things that we clip. I think you're the guilty party. What? That's exactly what it is. Excuse me? Yeah. You throw questions at me.

You throw arguments at me that I have to respond with with strange things. And Connor grabs them and then you plays them once a week. That is just patently 100% false. All right. 99% false. Anything goes Friday. Texans, Titans, preview. Four hours.

It's Davis Mills. It's Mason Rudolph on the frozen tundra. Is it frozen there? No, I don't think so. By the way, are we getting snow here this week in a couple days? I don't think so, but maybe. I mean, you said, I don't think so, but maybe. So that's really...

Oh, have you met the weatherman? I don't think so, but maybe. That's every forecast. That was like... You're welcome. I just saved you four years of meteorology school. It's like saying, I don't know, but here's what I think. What?

Yeah, that's correct. Are the Longhorn's going to win this weekend? I don't know, but here's what the next week. I don't know, but here's what I think. No, you should just get rid of the I don't know. Say here's what I think. Go right to it. Yeah.

Well, I can't predict the future, Matt. Well, I'm here to predict the future for you. And your Longhorns are going to play for the national championship. Okay. Will not be against Georgia, however. Yeah, you've got a spotty record predicting in the future, though. I'm done okay for myself. Good morning, everyone.

11005 Sports Talk 790. It is a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show with Rawls. I made a mistake yesterday. I thought today was the anniversary of this program, but it was actually tomorrow. Oh, so you lied? Well, I didn't mean to lie at all. I just I went back and double-checking the calendar. Would you go to Facebook or what? No, I just went to my calendar and went

your literal calendar. Yeah. And looked to, okay. January 4th, 2010 was a Monday. And I remember starting on a Monday. Okay. So January 3rd would be a Sunday obviously and I still remember driving in from Kansas and thinking oh I've got a chance to kind of segue way myself in and get back acclimated to the Houston sports scene and no first thing I heard was you're going to be on the air Monday. Yeah get right to work and I think I went to the Texans game that

Sunday just to kind of get in I think I think they weren't a playoff team I don't think well they had to be if it was Ellie in January right no the final no we're playing a final regular season game this week so I don't know some some of the details are murky but yeah uh 15 15 years ago tomorrow will be the first edition of the show. I remember when I did this show, I wrote a bunch of stuff down. Like, for those of you that know me, here's who I am. Here's what I've done. And then for those of you that know me, here's what I've done since I've been gone.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I wrote this like 15. I was like basically Jim Rome where I'm writing a show. Yeah. Heavy take. Do not suck. Read it off. And then you became the Jim Rome killer.

Yeah. People don't know this. Jim Rome used to be on in the middays in this town. Yeah. The Matt Thomas show crushed it so hard. Yeah. they decided to go live and local. Yeah.

Yeah. And so, you know, you're welcome. You're the Rome killer, not Chandler. Jim. No, we love Chandler. We love Chandler so much. Big Chandler fan. Big Chandler fan.

That's like having that guy in for four straight hours. It was good. Okay, that's good. You can get snarky. How much LSU talk was there? None. Really? That's surprising.

We kept, it was crazy because, you know, look, Chandler is obviously, he and Brian McTaggart are the one-two when it comes to, or one-to-one, whatever you want to say. in terms of Astros information. They're the guys with him every single day. Yes. We kept trying to go to other things and move with other things,

but it was just coming back to, where's Breckman going to be? Where is he going to be? It's John Heyman, who I despise. And I don't want to despise people. You despise more people than anyone I know. No, Clanton despises more people than I know. Okay, I'm sorry, you're right.

Clanton's one, you're two. Because I've seen Hayman work directly with athletes, and you saw it you were right next to me. I know. We were in the clubhouse, and everything was like a normal clubhouse and then he went and tweeted that there's a lot of sad and somber faces in the clubhouse, which just wasn't true.

It was completely disingenuous. It was awful. And there was a reason why I despise the guy because I didn't respect him. I don't respect Pass. I don't respect him. But a long time do I do respect. You don't respect Jess Passon at all?

No, zero respect for him whatsoever. Zero. Okay. He was, what was he talking about the wall? His haircuts's not that bad. Well, his airdrums were terrible. That's true. He likes, he was, he, for whatever reason,

rage against the meat. machine gets him in the mood to write articles. Okay, back to my point. Okay. That's I've already forgotten. Heyman back. Oh, what Hayman was saying is that he had like a three minute little video. And on the four you tab again, my mistake for going to it.

It's muted. I got a muted. I'm not muting it. I got him muted. He was running through the various teams and he brought up Arizona. Still a possibility. The Cubs are a possibility. The Trites of possibility.

The Red Sox are a possibility. Some bra breaking news, John. So basically he spent three minutes just going through. Every potential team, yeah. I mean, he works for whoever. Does he work for the, no, he used to work for NFL network. I don't know who he works for it. No, MLB you mean.

Oh, what did I say? NFL. Yeah, he's crazy. He's a baseball reporter for the NFL network. I guess you could have that. It's a Kwan Barclay's questionable this weekend and arson judge has signed with the Giants. Yeah, yeah. The holding, it sounds like to me consistently on Breggman, it is he wants 200 million and is not getting it.

And he also wants potentially a seventh year and he's not getting it. that either. Okay. So again, it's going to beg a question. Did 6-156 want it being the best deal that he could have had from the jump? And we don't know that. But I just, it's interesting how you and I have, we haven't even have a bet on this. We don't have a bet on the dollar amount, do we? No.

We just have a bragging rights bet. Well, that was, no, it's a lot on the dollar amount? Yeah. What did you say? I got 175. I got 175 and less. Okay. You got 175.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. a one and more. Okay. And one cent. Okay. Which, you know, in theory, it's fine. It's good. It's not the worst line you've ever said.

Thank you very much. I feel like a compliment today. I get so very few of them from you. I'm here for you. Yeah. All right. The radio program today is where at some point Ross will play some drops over the years of the show.

Oh, is that what we want? Well, you don't have to. We've got a few things we can play over the show. We will get into the Texans and Titans. again, let me ask you this. The Titans are a point and a half favorite for the game. It was three. Yeah.

Sounds like the people are believing in Money Mills. If you are a degenerate, you're betting this game. If you're a normal person that occasionally bets on things, you would stay far away from this. Why? It's almost like betting on a preseason game. Our buddy David in Vegas loves betting on the preseason games. Yes. But it, to me, it feels very, very dangerous.

Yeah, Matt, that's like 75% of the things you can bet on. you can bet on like professional table tennis. But my point is is that I would be, if I was a handicapping service, I would want to not give this out as information because there are going to be somebody out there that's going to say, oh, Joey Bagadona and says take Tennessee minus a one and a half. I'll put $25,000. I would hate for me to be as a handicapping expert on a record line giving out of bad information. Because nobody has information on this game. well a betting expert on a recorded line doesn't mind giving out bad information he doesn't really care

he's he has no he's no scruple so it's correct yeah okay maybe I just if somebody called me and said hey man what do you like in the game I would say I have zero up I really have no opinion I got an opinion what do you got the Houston Texans wearing whatever uniforms are going to be wearing against the oilers uniforms will defeat the Tennessee Titans to finish 10 and 7 Okay. So you've done an analytical breakdown. Oh man, huge breakdown on the Titans too deep.

And here's the reality. Tennessee just sucks. Yeah. Did you hear of the Rotten 5? The Texans don't suck. I put it in the last place in the Rotten 5. Yeah. Let's go Texans.

So you would think even the, if the Texans play half their starters, or no, excuse me, if they play all their starters for half the game, that's better than whatever Tennessee can put out there. So in theory, then maybe they get up 21 to 7 at the half, and then they come. coast the rest of the way and win the game by a point-and-half. Or, you know, they're getting a point-and-half. They're winning by that. So, I don't know. I just, for me, it's a stay away.

Now that people come from me for my handicapping expertise. Well, it's usually hashtag FadeMT for me. I don't think it's a hashtag. There's no hashtag. It's no. And there's no growth. There's no hashtagging. There's just complete indifference to it. That's not true. All right. We got non-flora stories today at 1.30.

We'll wake the strippers up before that at noon with the news at noon. And we have I forgot to ask. Do we have any prizes today? I mean, we're still waiting for, believe it or not, best of for 2024. How's, how's the prize vault today? It's still looking like some 790 t-shirts. 790 t-shirts. Now, let me ask you this. Are these good quality t-shirts or are they just, are we just, like, do we go to a thrift shop and have them made? Have you met I-Hurt Media? They're so exclusive that I don't even have one. Is that a good thing? All right. Well, um, I think,

is a symbol of how important, believe it or not, is we don't play until we get some decent prizes. Okay. And best of believe it or not, it will be in the tank, it will be in the, in the, in the, in the, in the, in the queue, ready to go whenever we get a decent set of prizes. Okay, I'll work on it now.

You don't have to. It's fine. Might as well. Get it done. Get it over with. All right. So 15 years ago, Ross, when they said you're going to work with this very handsome, very, very, very successful guy that's coming back home.

What was your initial thought? Well, my initial thought was, I hope he lets me talk on air. And guess what, pal? Sadly. I've been your co-host for the last five years. I've let you talk too much. So suck it on that. I was, well, because at the time I was working for a certain host, 3 to 7, whose name rhymes with Marley Malillo.

He didn't let me say a peep on air. I know. So I just wanted to talk on air. That's why I got in this business. So all I wanted was for me to be able to talk. talk and for the person to be cool and Matt, you've been great and you've graciously allowed to me. I'm trying to give you compliments right now.

I don't want to hear anymore. It's not authentic. The reality is you've talked more than you ever thought you were going to talk. That is correct. When the show first started, I would say things into your ear like I would do to Charlie and then you were like, did you say that on air or did you not? I was like, no, I was just in your air and you like, say it on air. Say it like, yeah.

I remember telling you, and you don't know if you remember this, I said, do not be afraid to bust my balls. That's what sports radio is. The first thing you said to me was I have a terrible taste in music. No. No, no, no, no. You said that. I probably did. You did.

And I was trying to figure out what your taste were in bump music. And you coming here, Matt, has exceeded my wildest expectations. You've allowed me to blossom and grow, and I love you. And here's to another great 15 years. All right. And how about Connor bringing us a little bit bubbly to enjoy the celebration? How about that? Well, it's just your Christmas present.

He gave that to me for. Christmas too. Oh, so really I'm getting nothing special for the 15 years? Okay, I got you. You can buy it into both. Yeah, it's both. All right. I'm sorry. I'll have a sip. Oh, I'll drink some. We do it on, well, it's not the real anniversary. Do you drink it on room temperature or

I don't even know? Go put it in the fridge. You want to ice it down? Yeah, go put it in the fridge. Let's go ice it down, we'll have a toast. Okay. Go pick up some OJ. Yeah, there's some drunkers. Is there any salespeople here? Oh, my God. The salespeople are always drunk. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. No, they're not here. They're out on calls. Okay. 1016, Sports Talk, 790.

It's an anything goes Friday. 713, 212, 579. 719. 7.1 3212-570. Are you upset about Georgia? We'll discuss that next here on 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. It is and anything goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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What was the line on the Notre Dame game with Georgia? Notre Dame was a favorite. Oh, okay. I was going to say, we like an underdog, but we... All four favorites won... We are a Catholic household, so the Catholics reign supreme. By the way, Catholics over convicts. Georgia full of convicts?

A lot of speeding tickets and reckless endangerment stuff. I cannot speak as an expert on this, so I'm not, but I'm just going to give you a first blush. And I've watched probably two or three Georgia games this year. Okay. Kirby Smart comes across as a completely unlikable human being. I would agree with that. And it's not fair because he's one of the best college coaches. He's most highly competent.

He's won national championships. He always gets top five recruiting glasses. It was, you know, he lost his starting quarterback. But he bitches and complains about every call. Mm-hmm. He just looks like I would not, I always believe in college coaches. Do I want to send my boys to be with him? Now, if I'm sending them to go play in the NFL, probably the answer is yes.

Yes. Do I want? I'll check. Let's go. Do I, is Rick Raleigh offering a six-figure donation for a sandwich? Okay. But my point is, he just comes across as so unlikable. And I can't pinpoint it.

you don't need to pinpoint it, Matt. I probably don't. It's just a feeling that you get. And my feeling is... Sometimes you meet somebody's, I don't know, boyfriend or girlfriend or wife or husband, and you're just like, you know what, I don't like that person. Yeah. I don't think even if I was the voice of the Bulldogs,

I would just kind of have to just suck it up and go, all right, this guy wins games. Like, for instance, when I was at Utah that one year, and Urban Meyer was the coach. And I... You spit on your feet, correct? No. Okay. He did yell at me at the phone one time, and it was for somebody else.

It wasn't even meant for me. but my point was I didn't like him I respected him but I didn't like him and I've always been very happy with dealing with relationships with my coaches

that I've worked for games for that I want to have some sort of relationship and at least tolerate and he just was unlikable and he wound up going to Florida then going to Notre Dame no not Notre Dame Ohio State

and winning there were the flirtations with Notre Dame yeah the flirtation with Notre Dame but at the end of the day, we figured out Urban Meyer was a good football coach but a really unlikable human being. I think we encounter that a lot.

Yeah, we do. A lot of times, when you rise up through the ranks, a lot of times on the way up to the top, you got to step on a few people on the way up the ladder. Or just don't treat people. So that type of personality?

Treat people right. Yeah. And again, it happens in management. It happens in, I mean, everywhere. Yeah. And I'm saying, politics. I'm not even, we're not even close to situations.

We never talk about. about Georgia, but it's just, he just comes across to me as a, damn, you're good, but just not a good guy. And I saw there was no tears shed anywhere near my house when Notre Dame beat Georgia. Now, the Notre Dame coach, that guy, first of all he was 38 years old. Yeah. And he's a damn good football coach. Did you see that special team's move they made in the fourth quarter? Yeah, well, they got everybody off the field and nobody back.

And they wound up drawing a Georgia offside. I mean, that was just genius. Mm-hmm. And so let me ask, I don't know if we have any Notre Dame fans listening, but would you rather have Brian Kelly or that dude coaching your football team right now? I mean, that's an easy answer.

I mean, he never, Brian Kelly never should have loved Notre Dame. I mean, that's revisionist history. That is true. It's, no, you take the LSU job, I would say. We'll see what happens. I mean, Notre Dame is into the final four, but it's, in theory, to me,

much easier to win at LSU strictly on academics. And then you add into recruiting base and you add into all the other things. Yeah. I wonder what the NIL game isn't Notre Dame is like. It might be good. I don't know if their recruiting classes have been the last several years. So you know what the most incredible thing about Notre Dame is about this, when we're talking about money and this?

You know, when you go to this college football tournament, the money that you earn, you have to split among your conference people. Right. He's got to give Wake Forest money for when Clemson was in. And when SMU was in, you have to give some of the money to Syracuse. And you got it in Boston College. Notre Dame takes their money that they have won in this being in this playoff. And they get to keep it all to themselves.

Correct. Isn't that crazy? That's the risk of reward you take of saying, yeah, I don't think I need a conference. Right. But I mean, they have to actually go out and do that to get those payouts. They have no conference You have to be one of them You get some bowl payout

Yeah you have to be one of the 12 best teams But every year when they go to a bowl game Before this, they got to keep all their money I mean there's no reason why they shouldn't be One of the 12 best teams annually Yeah the legacy, the history And now they're in the final four And guess who is carrying the flag

For the Southeastern Conference That would be the newcomer The Texas Longhorns although let's not forget that Georgia was missing their starting quarterback. But Texas is there. I mean, if you're Chris Del Cante, you are, I mean, you're smoking a really good cigar today, right? Today? Every day.

They're doing okay. You just went to a brand new conference where you were told, oh, the competition's going to be tenfold more difficult than it wasn't a big 12. I know. Yeah, guys like Chris Gordy saying the SEC is going to be really difficult in Texas. He raised his voice. during this too might not be SEC ready yeah well they're the last SEC team standing but we'll say they got a very

tough task with the Ohio State Buckeyes coming out and have you done any more inquiring on the tickets or looks like I'm striking out in the building oh the building said no huh the building never usually doesn't tell you no I get what are you talking about that must be

your experience that ain't my experience 1027 the sports talk 790s and anything goes Friday Jimmy Butler said some things. We've got to play that audio for you. Yes, he did. Rockets and Celtics tonight.

Charles Barkley absolutely annihilates JJ Reddick, the Lakers coach. We have the Texans. We have playoffs. And who will the Texans play in the wild card round, probably on Amazon Prime next week at 3.30? We will discuss. Yeah, go ahead and set your watch on that one.

I feel like if we say it's a guarantee, it's not going to have. But it's, they're going to be the least sexiest of the matchups, right? I'd have to go and look. What's, well, Buccaneers, Vikings, or Lions is going to be more sexy. Rams commanders? Is more sexy than Texans Steelers? Yes, smidge. Probably, smidge, smidge, smidge, smidge.

All right, we'll see you Saturday afternoon. Saturday. I will talk to Stephen Garden Oaks. The rest of you, come on and say hello to us. We'd love to have you on the program today. 7-13-212-7-90. 7-1-2-7-90. It is anything that goes Friday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are here at 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

7-1-3-21-5-79. So we are rooting for, well, you want Baltimore not here under all circumstances because that would be ugly. I don't care if they would have played two times in the last three weeks. Are you changing your tune on that? On what? I want Pittsburgh here. That's where the Texans have a chance.

Yeah, I'm over Baltimore, absolutely. Okay, just want to make sure. Man, Baltimore is looking rather unstoppable. So you're locked into the four seeds, which means you're going to be taking on... The best wild cup. In all likelihood, yeah. No, I mean, yeah.

I'm just talking about even after that, barring an upset, you will likely be headed If everything holds true, you'd be headed to Arrowhead again. If Bill's Ravens, Texans all win, you're going to Arrowhead, which we think is going to happen. Okay, so you're head to Arrowhead. Kansas City? Oh, here comes the Rust argument. They haven't played since Christmas.

They're rusty. Let me do this. Let me, let's go glass half full on this. Okay. They have been by no means the unstoppable. Now, how do I say this? They've lost one time. The Chiefs, and they've played a lot better the last four.

Maybe this is a faux argument here, but I don't want to say, well, they have been vulnerable. That's also the last time they played. If you want to buy into the, they'll be rusty argument. Because the home is not going to play. Carson Wentz is going to play this week, yeah. So that would give them, I don't know, the rusty stuff. You know what, college teams take four weeks off usually they used to before. The ball game.

They were fine, yeah. If Andy Reid thought that they were, he was worried about them really not being sharp, he wouldn't rest his starters. He just wouldn't. But I do believe there's a difference in the Texans. I think the Texans had such a bad taste in their mouth against the Ravens. You've got to get out there and at least have some semblance of, hey, we did okay. We're going to be ready for this playoff. I'm with you.

The Chiefs are 14 and 1 have earned a buy. Yeah. And the Texans also, not only are they wanting to keep a little bit of rhythm, get the bad taste out of their mouth, you also want to get a little on-field chemistry with C.J. Shroud and Deontay Johnson, perhaps for a couple of drives. Okay. So at their best, Kansas City, Baltimore, and Buffalo, we've seen all three of them. At their best, you're the fourth best. No, I'm talking about who the, and that three is the best.

Oh. It's still going to be Kansas City, right? I'll stick with the back-to-back Super Bowl champs and number one seed. And especially at home, they don't have to travel. and they play extraordinarily well at Arrowhead Stadium and they had been lucky this year where the doinks and blocks and last second plays and flags and whatnot

what I was trying to do what I was trying to do Ross is I was trying to build some sort of argument for this is the weakest of the three teams and it very well may be but how do you say someone's weak when they're 15 and 1? You just don't. No, you don't. You can't.

What Kansas City has, done this year is invented new ways to win. And that's what great teams do. You can't beat everybody by 20 points. You have to be lucky in some of the occasions. And you have to be good enough when Mahomes isn't at his best, when Travis Kelsey isn't catching everything.

You know what the thing about their Kansas Kansas defense is what's improved. There is, they're as ferocious as their offense is what was at the highest levels. Yeah, by the way, I misspoke. They didn't last play the Texans on Christmas It was the week before. They played the Steelers on Christmas.

You've been out of town. I'm sorry. You've been busy running around their world. Both of them played on Christmas. It was on my head. Yeah, yeah. So let's beat us, because I'm a backup linebacker. The Texans need to beat Pittsburgh for some mental health.

Yes. And then if they go to Kansas City and lose, it would be like anybody going to Kansas City probably is going to lose. Can Baltimore win in Kansas City? of course. Can Buffalo win in Kansas City? Hell, they've had some of the great matches of all time. Houston can win in Kansas City. They cannot win in Kansas City. No, they can. They can. I'm here for Texans realists. Put up $1,000 and I'll put up one. First of all, life is not always a bet. Yes, it is. Not really.

You've got to put your money where you're mouth is, Maddie. By the way, betting on sports in Texas is illegal. You can just say whatever you want. If you're not willing to back it up, fine. But why don't need to back it up a financial? Aren't my words good enough? No. Word is very flimsy. No, I, they, and, and, y'all know, and Texans fan knows this. No one would be running in Kansas City and going, oh, well, I think we got a real good shot at this. Unless you believe that a team is 15 and 1 are extremely vulnerable.

And they're going to be rusty, Matt. Now, you got into a sideways with somebody on Twitter about buys. I didn't get sideways. But it was a, here I am, I was watching NBA last night. There was no name calling. And it was a rando long tweet. It was eloquent. I mean, you said everything, and it was a good argument.

But you must have seen something. It wasn't rando. So what did you see on the Twitter streets that made you put that thing out? And by the way, explain what you said, and then explain why you said it. I will read the tweet at a sports RV. I mean, retweeting it or liking it or for that matter following you. You don't have to. That's fine.

The biweek, rest versus rust thing popping up again is funny. A gross overreaction to a small sample size. With a by week. And we're talking about the college. football playoff, by the way, not the NFL playoffs. With a buy week, you only need to win three games to win it all instead of four. One fewer game of

injury risk and more time to heal and prepare. Take the buy 100 out of 100 times. Because I saw several people on Twitter and prominent media members and we always do this. We're always prisoner of the moment. We're always overreacting to something that we see once. Oh my

God, all four teams who got a buy lost. The buy is a curse. We don't want the buy. Yeah, the Boise State Broncos who were favored, who were not favored in the game, who were underdogs. Same thing with the Arizona State

Sun Devils. Same thing with everybody who lost. Everybody who lost was an underdog in the playoff. And we still are stupid and look at this and like, yeah, man, the three weeks off is too much. As you pointed out, Matt, which is also what I was going to say. We went through 100 years

of bowl season where everybody got a month off. So, I mean, and me personally, as a long-worn fan, I wanted the long-worns to win the SEC championship to get that extra game off. I mean, in the game against Clemson, they had multiple offensive linemen get hurt, people going down.

Same thing in the Sun Devils game. You ask these coaches 100 times out of 100, they're not going to say, hey, hey, you can win a national championship game. A national championship. Do you want four games against top 15 to 12 competition?

or do you want three? They're going to say three every single time. And yet it becomes this argument because we can't do critical thinking. We look at it. Oh, they went 0 and 4. It must be bad. No, it's just sometimes things happen. And again, all four teams that lost were dogs in the games. Let's do some critical thinking, folks. That's all I'm asking for. Ross believes if you're a critical thinker, you would not make such illogical tweets and takes. We're looking, that's what we want in 2025. We Want more logical thoughts? No, it's getting worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. And it's going to continue to get worse and worse and that's fine.

It is what it is. As you've said many times in the last three years, the mute button is your friend. The mute button is so much your friend. But you ran to Twitter because you were like, I had enough. I've got to put it out there. Run to Twitter. I was on Twitter. I saw some bad takes and I put my take out there.

Would you like to tell us who the bad takes from? Yeah, Brian Davis, Austin American Statement. There was a guy, was it Ross Dellinger? Yeah, he's a college football writer, yeah. I don't want to out him if it wasn't him. I can't remember. There was a couple of people. Okay.

It was multiple people, like, people who cover college football for a living and have, and have, like, hundreds of thousands of followers. Like, people follow this person, and it's just, like I said, prisoner in the moment, overreaction. I mean, am I wrong?

You want to buy every single time. You absolutely want to buy. You want to rest. Now, I do believe there is a rust factor, but the rust factor to me, Ross, is minimal. I would agree. I mean, if we'll see what happens to talk, I want to say, like, talk to me in five years. If all the, if all the teams with buys would four and no, nobody would be talking about this. This is literally zero people.

It's an overreaction to a result where, by the way, as I said, all four teams were underdogs as it was. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Are we going to see, we've seen this 12-team playoff? The only change we're going to ultimately see is the non-guarantee of the conference champions, right? You're going to be... Maybe automatic bid, but not automatic top four seeding. And other than that, are we good?

Anything else who we need? I just don't want reseeding, but whatever. Because I don't think we need 16 teams. This thing's been going for a while. Does that make sense to you? I think 12 is just perfect. I like 12, forcing that you're, first of all, it already happened to Oregon. And they went a perfect 13-0 and they're out in the first week.

But I mean, there has to be some reward, some reward for finishing top four. And I think the buy is perfect. Yeah, all right. That makes sense to me as well. 713-212-5-790. Last night, the Minnesota Timberwolves and Boston Celtics played. The Celtics beat them in Minneapolis and it a fly here to play the Rockets tonight. So maybe the Rockets will see a grumpy and tired Celtics team.

So as I'm watching that game, word comes out about Jimmy Butler being unhappy in Miami. And as compared to paraphrasing, we're going to let you hear it directly from him about how unhappy he is. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. It's an anything goes Friday. Come in and join us. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

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Rockets and Celtics tonight. What? Oh, no, believe it or not, because we have no prizes. Sorry. This is a habit for me. Well, when we get some prizes, we'll swear we'll play. Well, you're doing great. You didn't say 250.

It's true. Proud of you. Like next week, I'm in the Eastern Time Zone. This is going to be a hot mess. It'd be a hot, hot mess. Well, like the January's could be a delight. You know what? You don't even like me.

You won't, you'll miss me. You won't have missing me. I'm going to miss you so much. You are going to miss me. 713, 212-5-7-9-0. All right. So, I've learned by being the voice of a team that you should never not count, never count anything out.

No discount. No, no discount. No, never not counting out. Like, if I went to Raffell Stone and said, Okay. Raffel, would you like to have Jimmy Butler? And my guess is his response to be, I think we're okay, but I need to listen. And that's been the one thing that Rofel and I have had this open conversation about is that he says, Matt, I'm never going to say never on anything.

Because if you're offering, if Jimmy Butler is being offered by the rockets and it's a very friendly rocket deal, which I don't think it can be because the dollars amounts that would be spent on Jimmy Butler would be astronomical, I don't know what his contract. Yeah, I think he's making close to 40 minutes. But my point is this. You can never say never. So do I think Jimmy Butler is an outstanding NBA player? Yes. Do I believe that Jimmy Butler gets cranky no matter where he goes after a certain length of time? The history says yes. Yes. Sorry, 48 million. And he has a player option for 52 million next year. For a guy who doesn't play any two games? Well, I guess not lately. He's 35 years old. Yeah. It's a lot of money. Wow, his injury history is worse than I even thought. He hasn't played over 60 games since 2008. No, I'm sorry.

He has the last couple. He played 60 last year, 64 the year before. He didn't played 70 games since 2017. Yeah. So last year, Pat Riley, who doesn't mince words as the general manager of the Miami Heat, no, he doesn't. Basically said, you know, Jimmy, I don't mind you speaking, but we need you to play. and if you don't play, don't speak.

And ever since then, I think it's rubbed Jimmy the wrong way. And I think Jimmy has been basically unhappy this entire season in Miami. Jimmy yesterday, Tom Balls's Jimmy Butler, not Houston's Jimmy Butler. Correct. Tom Bowles was asked about the situation currently in South Florida. What do I want to see happen? I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball. And wherever that may be, we'll, whoa, whoa.

find out here pretty soon, but I want to get my joy back. I'm happy here. You know, off the court. But I want to be back to somewhere dominant. I want to hope. I want to help this team win. Right now, I'm not doing it. Can you get your joy back here on the court?

Probably not. Later, Shams reports, Sham Sharoni, for those of you who don't know who he is, says that he will go play literally anywhere. There isn't a place that he would say, thanks, but no, thanks. I don't want to go. Now, the number of teams that would be interested in him

would be limited because, again, of the fact that the dollar amount you brought up. And also, he's lying. I got to go anywhere. Yeah, I mean, we'll see. Let me get my joy back. Like, anywhere about Miami? So let's do, let's think about this. Yeah.

You're making, you say, $49 million? $48.7 million. So essentially $49 million. No income tax. No state income tax in Florida, correct? Right. But you have, you've been hurt. Your production when you play is.

still good. No one's saying that he doesn't have any skills left. Yeah. I mean, he carried that team to the finals in 2020. But doesn't he have a history unhappy in Chicago, unhappy in Philadelphia? Minnesota. I mean, he's like punching out teammates

in Minnesota. Yeah. My question is, what general manager, and maybe there's one and it very well could be the one here in town, it's going to saying, we'll bring him here and will make him happy. I'll give you another outside source. In the poker community, he plays a lot of poker.

People think he's a douche. They don't like him at all in the poker community. He cheats? No, just the way he can do that. Okay, I got you. I don't know. I don't think he's got any leverage. If he was making $10 million a year, $15 million a year,

you'd have plenty of leverage. Because there's a lot of teams is like, you know, I can take him on. Relatively speaking, it's crazy to say this, but $50 million in B&B for a, guy that could score 20 points with his eyes closed, you would take. This year, 17 points per game. Which is shooting percentage?

5.52. It's pretty good. Doesn't shoot a whole lot of threes, right? No, 33% career, but the last three years or so, he's been very good. He's 37.5% this year. Last three years, 38%. I mean, he wants to get out, but who's going to take that on? unless you're shuffling $50 million back to Miami

expiring contracts. You'd have to be a team that feels like you're going all, you're pushing all your chips in for a championship, which I don't know that the Rockets, I don't know that the urgency, the urgency is there from the fan base, but I don't know that the urgency is there from Rafael Stone and I'mia doca.

Yeah, yeah, that's right. So, again, never say never. Lakers a bad idea. Maverick's bad idea. I'm trying to think of. teams like continue like who is underperforming that thinks they're one player away from getting back in the top six

Phoenix add Jimmy Butler to the Phoenix sons and see what happens I mean how many more aging 35 year old players going to possibly have on one team and what's one more among friends yeah so I just I would just what was your curious

what was your take on watching him basically say I cannot be happy in Miami my first thought was I like the refreshing honesty I like when any athletes. He wasn't rude. He wasn't attacking anybody or calling anybody out. He just said, I'm not

happy and I'm looking to get my joy back. I thought that was great. But it's hard for people to feel sorry for you when you have all this money and yet another year left in your contract. No, I don't even think he's asking for anybody to feel sorry for him. I think he was asked a question and he answered it.

He did answer it. He was forthcoming. I'll give him that. We always love honesty. But it's funny. show. If he was to come here, he made it's pretty damn honest too. Yeah. It would be one of the... Yes, sir, you

asked him about the comments about if he heard of Cam, went. He could have said, no, I didn't hear it. And thanks to everybody for screenshoting that. Yeah, by the way, internet. Let me tell you some Twitter gibronies. Just give us credit. A-holes. Sports Talk 790,

Matt Thomas Show of Raw, Sports RV asked the question. We all There are flowers on that. Screenshot, listen to every single one of you and you know who you are. Matter of fact, I'm sorry, I'm going, I sent you up for this. I'm sorry, you're absolutely right. Earlier in this hour when you said I set you up and I denied it, I'm sorry. Yeah, you do set me up all the time.

Now I'm pissed off. I lied. I'm going on Twitter right now. No, Matt, don't do it. Give me your phone. Give me your phone. No, no, I'm doing it. Give it to me.

No. All right. I've knocked your drink. Can I please do it? Let me do it. Let me be snarky on Twitter. Everybody else gets to get away with it. You're right.

I'm trying to be the angel on your shoulder. Too often I'm on the devil. But I like the devil. I know you do. He's more fun. 1057 on Sports Talk 7.80. Hour number two, although anything goes farty.

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Well, our pictures are on his screenshot, so we appreciate that. It's a screen recording of Emio Doka's answer to, on our show about Cam Whitmore. And, well, good for him. He got like 600,000 impressions out of it. Good for him. Not really. I hope he goes broke. 713-212-1-2-5-790

7-1-3-2-5-790 if you want to get in I've seen more people that did that than are like... Yeah, it's happened a lot. Should I keep doing what Gordy did? Yeah. Just keep linking back to the article. Petty and T says absolutely.

You know what? That's fine. Yeah, get us our credit. Go do it. I'll be busy this. Matt Thomas will give you a bonus. Yeah, yeah. No, I miss pennies against. Yeah.

That's why we love you, man. It's part of your charm. Yeah, yeah. I mean, Lanesa, I'm honest about it. Yeah, absolutely. Did you see the college, there's a story today out of the, from the Southeastern Conference? Uh-oh, what happening now in the SEC? The college football playoff will not flip the dates and times of the Goodyear Cotton.

Why I mention the sponsor of the Cotton Bowl and the Orange Bowl after SEC Commissioner Greg Sanky said yesterday that he made a request to change them. The concern was potential disadvantage for Notre Dame. the fighting Irish will have to play on a shorter turnaround than Penn State, which had not played since New Year's even, thus will get a longer rest. Oh, well, maybe they get a longer rest. Maybe Notre Dame can win and we can argue about how great it is to be on one fewer day rest, because you just keep the momentum going. I'll stop. I apologize. I was expecting that kind of passionate response to that.

Can I just tell you? And there's obviously you have to make adjustments in life for tragedies. That was never going to get flipped around. This was not going to be the time to go. I don't know why Greg Sanky even did that. I mean, people who are like, well, for example, me, you were looking for tickets in hotels. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think in that particular case, you were going to win that battle.

No. This is much ado about nothing to me. I don't know why Greg Sanky would even come out and say that. I mean, maybe he just, he's. he's good publicity to say he was an act of goodwill or something like that or I don't know why he would think there would be some sort of advantage to being on in Thursday

but yeah the Cotton Bowl is going to stay on Friday the Texas Longhorns versus the Ohio State Buckeyes so in the final four all major brands Penn State Notre Dame all the

what do you call it the not hierarchy would be the thoroughbreds it would be the thoroughbreds works yeah the thoroughbrids I guess it would work. Heritage. Heritage, the gold standard,

anything, any of the verbage you want to use. There's no Arkansas State in the group. No. Wishing you the best Arizona State. By the way, would you like to go... Would you like to go find people that thought Notre Dame was toast

after they lost that first game in Northern Illinois? I was one of them. I didn't think they would make it as far as they have. And there were people that said, you know what? They don't have to play a conference championship game.

Well, you know what? Notre Dame pays a price for that. They had to play a first-round game. They were never going to get a buy unless you're in a conference. And Notre Dame's like, yeah, we're good with that. We'll play. I mean, yeah. It was...

Who's the first team they beat in... They played Indiana first. Indiana, then you beat Georgia without their starting quarterback. But you beat Penn State. I mean, look, they're going to earn it. Whoever is going to win all this is going to earn. No, no, there is nothing flukeish about this tournament under any circumstance.

I agree. Injuries are part of it. Schedulings are part of it. Yeah, this is good. This thing is everything. Now, again, could we have had better on the edge of our seats finale? Well, of course. Sorry, I was laughing.

Craig Conner is out here going with credit. That person quote tweeted it. Are you going to quotes too? Oh, yeah, he is. What's going on? Connor, are you getting feisty with the folks too? I love you. I'm not getting feisty.

I'm just giving you guys the credit. Love it. Thank you, Connor. My name's on the blog post too. Oh, yeah. I'm not talking about it. I'm not talking myself, though. I'm tagging you guys.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not tagging myself. I'm tagging you guys. I like it. I like it. No, you're part of our group. You're part of the fan. I'm a D. McGovern.

Until you ask for more morning, we tell you know and you leave. I mean, we've been through that many times before, so. Send me anybody else you find. Yeah. I've done it twice. I love this. It's a new year. It's a petier.

Connor when Conard D first started with us he was just full of life, energy, good and I think our pettingness has hit his world and I kind of like the new Conner D. We're going to meet his girl on Sunday night. He's calling him Connor D. How do you like that? I don't like it.

I don't like it. I don't like it. But that's okay. We call him CDM. I like that. Central defensive midfielder. Okay. We're going to meet the girl on Sunday night. We're excited about that. Yes. I'm not. Why don't you come to the game?

I don't care. I mean, hold on. Wow. Wow. Goodness. Real friends. As long as you're happy, that's all like, I don't need to meet her. You have no interest in seeing who Connor's arm and on with these days? What for?

Because we're happy for the guy. This is business. Yeah, I'm happy for. I can be happy for him. I don't have to meet you. So you're just, what your world is, let's just meet. We don't care who the mystery woman is. Don't want to say hello.

She's not a mystery. It's his woman. He's happy. He likes her. And that's good. What do I need to meet her for? That's his later. Because you're just completely antisocial. Oh, that's actually the correct term is a social. Yes, I am.

Okay, you're a, you know what you're also an A something else too. Anti-social is a personality disorder. Okay, you're a-social. A-a-social means I don't like social settings. And I've been around you enough to know that, yes, that's also completely accurate. I am more social. That is correct. By the way, Connor, I just let you know that 50 people have asked me, hey, hey, let me,

can we peel a curve back? No, give me the actual number. Actual number. Actual retail prices. I've had... As close as you can estimate. Okay. For the Lakers game, at least 10 people.

And I've had three people in the last 24 hours asked for Celtics Rockets tickets for tonight. Wow. Hey, can I have some? No. Oh. And by way, don't be calling. Hey, I know I can't go tonight, but can you send me another? No, I don't get them all the time.

So it's not like they're just sitting there waiting for. me to distribute, okay? So please don't do that. I get tickets under special occasions. And Conner says, look, I got impressed the girl. And I want to, you know, I want to sit in a nice area. I want to get on Kiss Cam, by we'll be getting on Kiss Cam. I'll make sure that happens.

Actually? No, I don't know. I can't control that. You get excited. I do know people. No, that'd be funny. If we have Kiss Cam on Sunday night, you'll get on there. Don't worry. But my point is this. I'm just, but I don't ask for tickets. If I can give them out, I would, but I just don't have them a lot. But if you certainly cannot ask the night of the game.

Lakers and Celtics. If it was the Wizards, I might have a pair. Yeah. It's the freaking Lakers. It's the freaking Celtics. Wednesday night against the Pistons, maybe. Hawks, all you can go. I'll give you your own section if you want it.

Friday night against the Celtics, they're taken. Sunday night, early start time. Lakers. Nuggets? Maybe. Blazers, no question. Celtics Likers gotta know

So And by the way Your credit card does work There are always tickets available They're expensive I'm just saying I can I'll try what I can

My crowd's been good They have been good And it feels like to me They're getting there Closer to tip time Than in years past I would say I'm

You're a better judge than I am Small victories I wouldn't say Every seat is full But it feels better than it has You know what I will agree with you because when was I there last

earlier this week? You were there on... The Timberwolves game was the last one. You brought your mom's amazing pumpkin bread? That is correct. You made me bring... I've been bringing you that bread for years. It was the hit of the Rockets Broadcast Network.

Explain. I gave a piece to Kevin Ashtonfelder. And he's like, I like Ross's mom more than I like Ross. That makes two of us. She didn't have to bake me bread to, I was going to say that makes dozens of us, actually. I gave some to myself, to my sadistician, and the three of us finished it off, and we absolutely crushed it.

Yeah, that was wonderful. Yeah, okay, it was the Timberwolves game. And I remember thinking, during the National Anthem, quite frankly, the last couple of years, it's been a ghost town. And I, at the National Anthem, I was standing there like, hey, it wasn't as much as Warriors for the NBA Cup, but it was close. And I was impressed. Yeah.

And by way, a lot of Dallas fans in the building overnight, too. Yeah, what the heck? Yeah, it's the Luca stuff. I didn't see me like, who would be a rando, I didn't see Dwight Pau jerseys running around the arena. You didn't see any Jason Terry, J.J. Berrea?

No, you're going old school. I see. I can respect that. Let's talk to Jason on line one on sports talk 7.811.11. Jason, good morning, and happy new year. Happy new year to you guys. So, my lovely wife, was able to get me tickets to Las Vegas. And I was curious, when is the next time you guys have plans on making it out there? Because I would, so let me kind of, let me step back.

So I'm going for the weekend of the Super Bowl to Vegas. I want to go out there, throw some bets down and everything. So I'm like, what are the chances that we could get sports empty and sports RV out there to Vegas for the weekend? of the Super Bowl. Zero percent chance. At least for me, I have rockets. Unfortunately. I say cut the check and I'm there.

Yeah, Ross can come. Ross has very little things going on in his life. Jason, I'm going to tell you this. Jason, are you a gambler? A bit. Okay, I was going to say you better bring as much money as possible because all the tables are going to be insanely high that weekend. Or stay downtown.

Or go downtown. But secondly, if we go back to, there's a certain event we went to last summer. Yes. Circa, we can say. They spent money with us. If we go back for Vegas to Circa, we'll let you know well in advance and you will have to have maybe your wife can't go. Maybe it's just a boy's trip.

You can come hang out with us. Wife never comes. Oh. Then you're definitely invited then. Yeah, good looking out. Also, Ross, if you, hey, if you're okay with flying spirit of frontier, I got you, but. Oh, man. Do you work for those airlines?

No, no, he doesn't. I do not, but I can get him for cheap. Of course you can. The price is right. Thank you, Jason. Yeah. I have sworn off spirit. No, you, I don't.

But also that was when Southwest, now Southwest is getting rid of the, they're going to assign seats and charge upcharging and all that type of stuff because they sold to an equity firm. I don't like you very much, but I can't have you flying spirit. I don't do it. I don't care. You're going to get a ruptured back. It's fine. I'm going to be in a third. Three hours.

I'm not boozy, Matt. I'll fly basic economy. Let's go. I'm already looking at it. I'm hard. looking at its spirit to Atlanta in a couple of weeks. What are you going to Atlanta for? Anything that there?

We'll see. Oh, I know what. Oh. By the way, Merritt, tell us their airfares are really low. But man, if you want to go to the bathroom,

it costs you $15. That's not true. If you want oxygen, it's going to cost you $26. If you want a seatbelt, it costs you $11. That's not accurate. You do have to pay, I believe, for your water.

Do you really? I think. Oh, that's terrible. somebody can confirm you definitely have to pay for your sodas or juice if you want for sure for sure water i think you do it as well i would think the fun tends that's a lot of work for those people every single person you've got a char i mean they're like you just just take it just put it a tin can but merit is cheap i'll give them that well yeah on time rating not great or melta masick momonomy you can say basic connoe oh okay melt is not a bad airline actually well you obviously it flies direct to atlanta yeah well there's houston atlanta fortunately for you few are to go. Very competitive market. It's good. Dark breast flies there. Meltta flies there.

Shmided flies there. Mirate. Oh, wow. Connor is, he's on the warpath. He just, he's Philly Sports Now just got to mention. They only have 18 followers. They wrote an article and they said, oh, featured on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, and they linked it, but they linked back to that tweet. Oh, hell, hell no.

Get him, Connor. Get them, baby. You know what? Did they go to school? Like, what is? Oh! That's so terrible. Let's go, baby. Love that. So, yeah, I'm going to, they're going to... What's the journalism school called at Missouri School?

The Missouri School of Journalism. Oh, is that named after somebody. Well, you know, Walter Cronkies at Arizona State. Yeah, it's the Moody School at UT. Okay. I was going to say, blank school graduate. At University of Houston, it's the Valenti School. It's not the Thomas School?

It should be, but it's Valenti. Or at least the Nance. The man who... 7-13-212. No, at least the Thomas. 713, 212.5.790. 1115. This is Sports Talk 790.

More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. I'm looking at Jimmy Butler. Does he color his hair? What is that? Is that green in the middle of that? What is that around the head? He's got some neon green in there.

I don't know if that is dyed or woven in. How old is he? 35. Do 35-year-old men have green around their head? There he is right there. I guess the answer is yes. There's one person that does. Yeah, what's wrong with that?

It's odd. Okay. I didn't think anything of it. Look, there he is with blue hair. That's odd. He's been doing weird stuff with his hair for years. Yeah, but don't you think at some point you kind of, you know, I did odd stuff with my hair when I was 14. Yeah, well, you don't have much of an option.

I mean, I'm not trying to be, I'm not. You are? No, I'm not. Sears, I just, he's good, but a little different. Jeremy Sohan has green hair. Yeah, but Jeremy Sohan's, Jeremy Sohan, who cares? What does that mean? Oh, he's Jimmy, but look, there he is with pink in his hair.

He's been coloring his hair all year. Changing with his mood. Maybe he's trying to, maybe he's trying to uplift Pat Rowley with his colorful collection of things. He's making $49 million a year. He's got to spend it somehow. Now. Imagine you made $49 million a year. And your kid said, I want this. You really can't say no.

Yes, you can. You should say no. You can't give kids everything. They then have grown up spoiled. Hmm. I don't know. You got $49 million in just one year of a contract. You can say what you want.

I want a Mouserati. You're 11. You can't give you. You're not giving your kid a Bentley truck. That's funny. 713, 212, 5, 790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-70. The Rockets, oh, are playing the Celtics tonight.

Did you see how many three-pointers the Celtics shot last night against Minnesota? I saw you tweet it. Was it 57 or something? They made 22, which is 39%. That's pretty good. Which, frankly, you would take. Would you not? I'd rather them go under. But it was one of the things, and Charles Barkley was so funny yesterday, saying basically he had to be careful of what he said,

because people think his comments ruin the NBA. And he's like, I'm not enjoying this game. And I didn't even think twice about it until Kevin Harlan started counting the number of times. There's a three. There's a three. And you think about this, Rock, Ross, if they're playing on a back-to-back, I'm going to shoot more threes tonight or comparable to what they did last night? I would say so.

It's insane. I mean, they did it last year. I think, I mean, the last couple years, they've been doing it. They have really good shooters. They take a lot of threes and they make a lot of threes. Jason Tatum took 17 threes yesterday and made six. Well, that's over 33%. Derek White took 10 threes.

Sam Houser. Not to be confused with Doogie. Sam Houser. Five of 11 from three. On average, the Boston Celtics this year take 50.6 threes per game. Number one in the league. Now, to be brutally honest, here's how it works. You don't worry about rebounding. Because most three-point shots, not everyone, but most three-point shots come out with long rebounds, right? Yes. So you're not necessarily worried about the paint.

Last year, they took 42 and a half three-pointers per game, which was also number one in the league. So they're taking eight more a game. That's a huge leap. Bigger. leap than I thought. I didn't realize they were taking 50 a game this year. I don't even think you and I have had this conversation. Do you think the three point, too many threes hurts the game? Yes and no. I mean, you're, you're, that's okay to say both. It's okay. It really

is because the, the beautifully made three is, is, is, is, that's what I'm saying. It's such a nice thing, a part of it, but I understand the aesthetics are bad when, when, when, and a lot of times you're, you're going to see these two minute clips. When a team goes up and down the floor, and a team takes a three misses.

Another next team takes a three, it misses. Next team gets an offensive rebound, misses. And you see like four miss threes in the span of 90 seconds. That is instantly going to be posted on Twitter, and people are going to jump off of that and be like, this is the NBA that I hate. This is why no one watches the NBA. But if you put one of people swishing them and making great plays

and having the other team guard the three, and that opens up the paint, it's for spacing. So philosophically, I love the three-pointer. as you mentioned, like a beautiful step back. Like when Jalen Green mixes somebody up and then knocks in a step back jumper and it swishes through the net. It's such a momentum turn. It's gorgeous, man. It's beautiful.

But I'm going to say this. As much as perhaps I defend the NBA, perhaps more than others, I don't necessarily kill those that say, Maddie. They don't come to me mad if he's going to be mad. They say, Matt, I don't like the number of threes. There is too much. I can't go to somebody and go, what are you talking to? about. Because there was a stretch watching the Wolves game against the Rockets, against the Celtics last night that it was back and forth missing threes. It was 90 seconds of uninteresting,

missed shots, long rebounds, nothing more than just a, it had an pickup game feel to it. And this is the great sport of the NBA that shouldn't have that ever feel. Yeah, but also pickup ball can be fun. Like just no rules, like just guys going back after. A lot of times, you know, I think it all comes down to makes and misses. Nobody complains about sequences of a lot of threes when people are making them and it's fun. Right. Right. When they all clank off, they're like, oh, this is ruining the game, this is terrible, I can't watch this.

But I'll say this, 39%. If the rocket shot 39% from three, on a regular basis, they would be even, they'd be a significant title team. They'd be their best team in basketball, maybe. I mean, right now they're 32. So let's say you split the difference.

Let's say you got the 36%. Imagine how good this team would be. I don't think it's happening. But my point is this, is that as many threes as were shot yesterday, 22 at 57 doesn't sound great, but it's what every team in Ambe would take, frankly, to be a 38, 39% three-point shooting. They take 50.6 per game, do the Celtics. They shoot them at 36.8% clip, which is 12.

I write this down so I can put this on my notes. They take how many per game? 50.6.50.6. And their success rate is? That's first in the league and then their success rate is 36.8%. That is 12th in the league. All right. Look at you help me out with my game prep for tonight.

Thank you very much. Yeah. Adam Wexler, are you doing that? Yeah, I don't know. Or whoever's on the network. I don't know who's working on me tonight. I can't know who's working on me tonight. It's Adam.

No, thank you for that. 1127 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Are we going to watch this weekend in the NFL in terms of who we're rooting for, who we're not rooting for? This is the whole 32 team. We'll discuss that next. 713-212-5-790. All right, NFL will have a pair of games tomorrow, all involving the NFC North teams.

Texans play Sunday at 12 noon in Nashville. Then you've still got teams determining playoff spots. The Buccaneers, if they beat the Saints, they're the NFC South champions, if the Bucks lose the Saints at home and the Falcons beat the Panthers. They're the NFC South champions. What else do we have to really keep an ear and eye on? We've got the dolphins, bingles, and Broncos fighting for one playoff spot in the AFC. It will be the final wild card.

If the Broncos win at home, beating the Chiefs, giving the Chiefs their second loss of season, and again, most starters for Kansas City not playing, that would put them at 10 and 7. They would have the Wal-Card. If the Broncos lose and Miami wins at the Jets, the Dolphins would take the spot. If the Dolphins lose and the Broncos lose and the Bengals who play on Saturday at Pittsburgh win,

they would take the final Wal-Card spot. Oh, goodness. If you're Kansas City and you get to control who gets to control who gets, gets to the last playoff spot. You on Denver over Cincinnati, do you not? I would say so.

That to me is the easy, that's the easy one. Let Denver win. Let them be the seven seed. They're not playing their starters. That's right. And that would make the Bingle Steelers game not mean anything. I mean, look, if the Bingles

lose to the Steelers tomorrow, then it would come down to Miami and the Denver Broncos. Yeah, if I'm Kansas City, I'm letting the Broncos win. I don't want any part of Cincinnati making the playoffs. And that's also presuming that Miami would lose at the Jets, which I can't imagine. If the Broncos were to lose that game,

you would know that Miami would play hard on that game against Jets. What do the Jets have to play for? Nothing. No, no, they don't have anything to play for. Vikings and Lions play for the Division Championship. One will be the number one. seed and one would be the five seed. So not only would you, you could be the number one seed in the overall NFC playoffs or you'd

have to go on the road for a wild card game. I mean, what a two different ends of those spectrum that is. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. Speaking of talking about altering playoffs and stuff like that, I mean, that's, there's been some discourse around that in NFL circles. I mean, you end up 14 and 3 and you're the 5 seed while the 9 and 7. Tampa Bay Buccaneers or 10 and 7 or in whatever. But this has been a conversation for a long time.

That's what I'm saying. Can we go with they get an automatic bid, but they don't get an automatic home game? Of course, going back to win the 7 and 9 Seahawks hosted the Saints and beat them. That's right. Well, the easy argument is, do you want to put value

in winning your division? Should there be an automatic benefit? The automatic benefit could be you're in the playoffs. Right. But some would say Not only should you get the automatic Playoff spot, but you should be automatically hosting a game. Do the Texans that deserve to automatically host a game?

They're about to go 9 and 8. Or 10 and 7. Either way. So put it this way. Let's say there was no automatic in the AFC hosting game. Where do the Texans be? Right now they're behind the Steelers and Chargers. They would be the 6 seed.

And then come down on a tiebreaker between whoever the 7 seat. Right. dolphins or bingles. I mean, I don't know. What does it hurt? Well, I mean, if it doesn't hurt now, then don't worry about it now. Well, I feel like the Lions or Vikings, whoever loses that game, think it hurts. Then I'll throw the other direction.

Just win your division. If it's that important, you win your division. Yeah, but it's not that easy when there's a team that's what... Not supposed to be easy. Just win your division, but if they were in the, if they were in the NFC South, they'd be running away with the division. It's just a matter of randomness. Complete randomness.

Yeah. Certainly, especially with the... the AFC South. It's Jacksonville, Nashville, and Indianapolis. That is not some regional rivalry. I believe all those teams are hated rivals of each other. It's just made up and they, yeah, you play them twice a year, so I get it. So that's why you get the auto bid into the playoffs. But getting an auto home game, no. Like I won 14 games and you could potentially have the Buccaneers winning their division winning nine. You win five more games than them and they they host a playoff game? but this is an argument we have every year.

Yeah, and I'm consistent. It needs to change. Well, I guess who's also consistent? The NFL. They're like, Ross, we appreciate your analysis, but we don't care. To me, this has been brought up about once a year for the last 20 years. The NFL has still said, we want to give value to our division champion, and the reward beyond making the playoffs is getting a home playoff game.

But you know, the NBA didn't do that anymore. You are... The NBA figured it out. You win your Southwest Division, that means absolutely nothing. It used to be ridiculous. Didn't they have one? It was like a bad team that was a three seed. You could see...

Teams got bumped up. They don't... The only reason why you have conferences now in divisions is strictly for scheduling purposes. There's no intent... There's no benefit of winning the Southwest Division. If the Southwest Division had four teams and they all had 46 losses,

then I would make the playoffs and say, nobody in the Southwest Division makes the playoffs. Yeah. You had it. Was it in the baseball playoffs? Wasn't there a team that had like a hundred wins and then had to be a wild card? It happens actually more than you would think, I think.

Yeah. I guess it wasn't last year. Oh, you know, it was. San Francisco and the L.A. Dodgers. Remember they were going backwards and forth who was going to win the division? And the loser had to be the wild card? Yeah. No, you know what, Ross?

There we go. I could fight you in a lot of these things, so I'm going to add one more to it. Okay. I like it as it is. You like it. You're so ridiculous. It's fine. You just want to disagree with what I say.

Okay. How about this? You know what? You have a lot of merit to your conversation. I like that. I can't. This is the thing. And this is the things have to progress forward.

If you ask yourself a question, say, why do we do it this way? And the only answer is because that's the way we've always done it. That's to me that's never a valid answer. But that's not my answer to you on that. What is it? I don't mind the way to do it. now. Okay, just because you don't mind it, but is it better? Is it better or worse, if you're sitting there and your team and you're on Minneapolis radio and you cover the, and follow the Vikings,

and they go 14 and 3, and then they have to go to a team that is 9 and 7, why can't they just flip those two? Well, then guess what? Go to that 9 and 7 team and prove while you're a 14 team winning, and you win the playoff game. It's a disadvantage that shouldn't be there. To me. You know what, I see your point. I just don't have enough passion to argue it. Okay. So guess what? That's my fault.

That's not your fault. It's not your fault, man. So let me ask you this. If your argument makes so much sense in the world, why haven't they changed it? I don't know. They did it in the NBA, as we said. They don't do it in baseball and they don't do it in football. Now, they recede in football, which is nice.

Which is good. I do like that. Yeah. But also the same thing. if you're the yeah even they should be a higher seat they should be the two seat they should the Vikings right now well I'm sure all of our friends

Minneapolis St. Paul listen to the show thank you for your well we'll see what happened it could be the Lions it could be on Detroit's sports leader it could be arguing that that's all in Detroit though Pistons talk they're actually okay

Jay and Ivy got really hurt though how's Kate Cunningham doing Mid. Okay. Tigers may be getting Alex Bregman. Oof, we got A.J. Hinch. Tigers beat the Astros. Maybe Detroit Radio's not that bad.

Yeah, but you've got to live in Detroit. And I'm from Detroit. Yeah, that's your people. No, I haven't lived there since 1979. Detroit Rock City? No. Great Motown music. True.

Bob Seeger. They have Spite Hot Dog stores. M&M. You know about the Spite Hot Dogg stores. The what now? The Spite hot dog restaurants. What does that mean? Spite?

Yeah, Spite. Well, he spide in it? No, spiteite-I-te, Spite. You know, you didn't watch Kerr, with the Spite store, right? With the coffee shops? I mean, yeah. It sounds vaguely familiar. So there is a hot dog restaurant in downtown Detroit.

Okay. Family owned and operated for generations. Okay. And the members of the family got into a fight about something. I don't know. It could have been the recipe, could have been the finances, whatever. So the family split up. and the other members of the family opened up another hot dog restaurant literally right next to it.

They share a wall. Wow. There are two hot dog. Which one's better? What are they called? I only went to one. You got to go to both. What's wrong with you?

I didn't know it was a spite until after I had the hot dog. Okay. So I get out and I had these two hot dogs, chili fries, the whole thing. And I'm like, damn, it was good. And then I go next door and there was another hot dog place that shared a wall. Wow. And I didn't know it. I did a video on it on Instagram.

We should have looked at it. It was very interesting. It was a couple of years back. Yeah, but there is a spite hot dog. What would you call a hot dog? Are you called a hot dog restaurant? Coney Island. Coney Island?

Yeah. Okay. You call it a Spike Coney Island. Are there any spite stores you go to now? Not that I know of? What do you mean? Well, you know, spite meaning they're right next to each other because they're just directly competing. Oh, okay.

No? If you go on Shepard and Gray, there's like four Starbucks over there. Like Payton's apartment in Cal Station, there is two coffee shops and then about 500 feet of each other. When I was at Missou, I was a manager at Andes, which is like a frozen custard thing. I think there's one in Dallas. And then a mile away, somebody else opened up at the same frozen custard shop called Randis. No way. Wow.

That is spite. Now, in Austin, there is Franz Hamburger's and Dan's hamburgers. And I don't know what the exact story is, but the old urban legend is that it was, Dan and Fran were married and then they got into a divorce And then the other one opened it up So I found the name of the place American Coney Island is in Detroit Okay Ross

It's at 114 West Lafayette Boulevard Okay Lafayette Coney Island is at 118 West Lafayette Boulevard So they are not like down the street Around the corner They are as I said they share a wall They're literally right next to each other

So next time I go to Detroit which will be next season. I think I'm going to get one dog from one place and another dog from another. Okay. And give you the live taste test. Yeah, I'm also finding the story. It was Dan and Fran owned Dan's.

Then they got divorced and then Fran opened up Franz's hamburgers. So who's better, Fran or Dan? I liked them both. I think they're probably the same recipe. Yeah, the Spite stores are real. And how far are they from each other? Frans and Dan's are all over the place in Austin.

Or back when I lived there, who knows? I haven't been there. I haven't lived there in 15 years. All right. So, yeah. Because I've been here working with you. It's been great for you. I've been here working with you.

Look how you turned out. You gray is not too bad, not growing. You got electricity. You pay your bills. I got food on the table and clothes on my back. You've been to some great places. That's true. Had to change planes and strange locales, but you were able to go to some great places.

No, I didn't. No, the time you went from Indianapolis to Houston through Orlando. Oh, that was bad. everybody of the screaming kids with Mickey Mouse ears on in the middle of the Super Bowl it was great times 1144 Sports Talk 790

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More Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Can we get some new bump music in 2025? I feel like I heard the same four songs over and over again. And you know what? Let's get Connor right on that. He didn't have anything to do all day. I mean, I only throw 40,000 things of Connor per day.

I'm perfectly fine, bumping back with, like, actual songs. It's just you get distracted. Yeah. That's true. That's true. That is a big part of it. You can't do it with Matt Thomas. No, no.

You're right, because I always find some storyline. And then we went up to lose an entire segment. I'm about, I'm about, I don't know, Linda Ronsett's outfits in the 80s. 70s. So 80s, she got a little. Forget it. See what I'm saying here? Yeah, you're right.

Connor, just keep playing what you're playing. Don't ever change. Okay. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. It does anything go Friday. We're waking the strippers up in nine minutes. I haven't looked at, did you guys play my audio last week?

I did in the car. It was kind of weird. I thought I would do it. Mm-hmm. It was fine. Maybe some echo. Yeah, it's fine. I was in the car.

It sounded great. Yeah. I don't like doing it, so I was happy that you do. Yeah, so I'll be waking them up. We'll play the intro, for the 10 o'clock hour like we normally do, which I believe has become now a cult favorite among those that listen to this radio show. By the way, happy anniversary

everybody. Thank you for spending part of your last 15 years with us. 15 years. 15 years ago, tomorrow will be the first day of the Matt Thomas show without Ross, and then it was with Ross, and now it's the Ross show featuring Matt at these days. That's not true. All right, let's go to Industry, Texas. Larry on 790. Larry,

good morning. Hey, how y'all doing today? Matt Ross. I hope you have a good new year and all that. Same to you. That was nice. He just called wishes a happy new year. Hey, we lost you for a second. Larry, start over.

Okay, happy new year. But, yeah, I was in Austin for 26 years, and I actually met friend one time from Dan and friends. Oh, really? They were married and divorced. Yeah, she was really nice, really nice. And I was going to ask you that you said that hot dog place was spite. Yep.

So did the other one, what the other one called in spite of. Let me tell you, Larry. You leave the comedy to me, my man. Let me, let me handle the jokes. Okay. No, I told you, one of them was called, what I tell you, one of them was called American, I think,

and one was called Lafayette. So, I mean, they're literally, they share a wall. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, well, that's cool. That's cool. Hey, what are the Texans doing playing players, starter in this game?

I, you know, D'Amico's kind of keeping it, tight-lipped, but he is going to plan on playing the starters at least for a certain length of time, which is a smart thing to do. Yeah, about a half, maybe. We don't, I don't necessarily think it means each individual player plays only a certain amount. I think it's one of those situations where, like, for instance, if CJ goes out there and has three drives and they're successful and they move down the field and he feels comfortable, he may be done early second quarter.

Where if Joe Mixon feels like I need five carries and I didn't get five carries until late, the second quarter. I think it's all up in the air. But what I do like is I do believe that D'Amico had a horrible taste in his mouth, as his players did, at the performance they had against Baltimore. And that's not the lasting impression you want to leave before you get ready for a playoff game. So I do applaud them for at least putting the starters out there for some length of time. Yeah, I agree with that.

I agree with that. I hope Mills gets some time to play. Do you think something happened to CJ, which I hope not. God help. You know, I hope he plays a little bit. I think he will. All right, we all have a great day. Thank you very much.

Maybe I'll go by Dan or France. There you go. Yeah, Dan, they've gotten a lot of free plugs on a show today. Dan's and France? Do they have the identical menus, too? I don't know if the menus are. I mean, they serve hamburgers. How many locations are there?

Matt, you're asking questions. I don't know, six? No, you just making things up. I come to you from information, thoughts, and analysis. I don't know the exact number of Franz hamburgers in Austin. You know where my go-to place to eat in Austin is? I like Dan's different. Just for just to do it.

And it's not something special. I love going to go to the gyms. Some of my best, my best three-clock meals have been in the morning and been in gyms. I was going to say, 3 a.m. Gems and gravy. It hits. It hits.

And gravy at 3 a.m. at gyms is nice. I don't like biscuits and gravy, but that's, you know. But you knew that. I'm sorry. You did know that. Could you say that out loud one more time? I don't like biscuits and gravy. I like gravy.

I like biscuits. I don't like biscuit gravy on my biscuits. 2025 resolution. It's coming back to play. What is it? What? I'm not arguing food with Matt Thomas. It's not an argument.

It's my own preference. It's my preference. It's not a debate point. I've never come to you and said, Ross. Biscuits and gravy are ridiculous. You have actually. That would be a debate that you would say that's ridiculous. I don't like it. I like cream gravy. I like it on my chicken fried steak.

Okay. I like it on my mashed potatoes. I don't like it on my biscuits. I don't like a soggy biscuit. Hmm. Okay. There are four Dan's hamburgers. All right. There you go. I don't know how many friends. Do we know the reason for their divorce? I, no, I didn't look at their divorce. Reconcilable differences. Oh, I think it was like somebody had a sidepiece or something. Who knows? Oh, Fran is dead now. Ooh. Fran died last year.

May she rest? Okay. We're going to go ahead and change the conversation then. Steve and Garden Oaks, 1156 on 7 out of. Hello, Steve. Hey, guys. I just wanted to say congratulations on the 15 years. I've been a fan since 2012 when I got an internship where I was locked in a cubicle for eight, nine hours a day.

And this show, I found the show, and it would literally give me through the day. So I've been a fan ever since And I just wanted to tell you guys Thank you and love the show Well thank you very much See very nice you to say that Happy a new year to you Thank you very much for saying

That was nice Thank you Steve He didn't say I like everything But he just said he likes the show Yeah thank you And it got it through him Through his hard days in the cubicle We appreciate that

Especially as a midday show We get through people through their work days Yes Delivery drivers Right You know officers people who are in the middle of day and at work or wherever and need a little something to listen to. Yeah, we provide that.

And we're not going to be super serious. The show will never be super serious. And so if you're looking for the hardcore stuff, we're not going to be your cup of tea. But if we're going to keep it light and airy and maybe fight about a variety of things, whether it be about biscuits and gravy. Or McGraths. Gavis. We'll fight about it all.

We know. You and I agree on the bye week. Oh, okay. Well, I mean, I'm sorry. Automatic divisional win. Bids. Let me ask you this for a quick. We got 20 seconds.

What is our greatest, deepest sports argument? That we disagreed on? Yeah. Because we goof about a lot of things. It was paying sports players for a while, automatic balls and strikes for a while. I mean,

non-sports is certainly the CD WonderConce. That's not even close. I don't even know of something that, to this day that we... Give me a break to think about it because, no, I think, you know. I think we've come each other size on a variety of things, you know. Yeah.

I'm trying to think of something sports related that you and I just never have seen eye to eye on. Now, you, I'll give you this. I think there's tremendous problems with the NIL. And I wouldn't think that you don't think there are problems. Yeah, there are problems. But I am significantly more concerned about them than you are. But I wouldn't necessarily necessarily consider that a huge disagreement. There's nothing fundamentally that you and I have argued about over the years that still is to this day.

It really gets us upset. Yeah. Just the McRib. And Stevie Wonder. We wake the strippers up next. Sports Talk 790. Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

1202. There's three of the Matt Thomas show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I'm glad you used it. It'll use your fingers like that. 713-212-5-790. as Connor goes to the notepad. He's already, he's probably got four things already in the first segment of the show.

Gargling, you know what I mean? You know, why would you want those guys to have the last taste in their mouth of a complete beat down? Put the right hand up next time. It's seeping in over there. You must use your left hand for everything. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Like, if it's been a long time since you've been with a nice lady in a biblical sense,

you just, you know, and then all of a sudden. you get a date with one and it seems like she's pretty down. Like, are you just going to go in there? No, man. You got to have a warm up. You've got to find a slump buster first and maybe, you know, you know, get your tune in right. If you give me a room, I'll do it. I mean, did we all get

athletic inclined after that? Sure. Get the cardio? She was not part of a sports moment. I'm sorry. If your heart was pumping, that's cardio, right? A lot of things that was pumping, yeah. Oh, right. Jesus. You just cannot help yourself. Well, it's been a while.

Several hours. Friday, it's anything goes Friday. 12.05 Sports Talks 7. Before we get to the news at noon, two things people have figured out that we argue about. One is Chris Gordy. Thank you, Chris, for being a religious listener. Must win games. Yes.

Week 11 against the Cowboys was a must win game. I didn't say that was. You did. Okay, maybe it was. 100% you did. And it worked out because they won the division. Yeah, you take it literally. I take it figuratively.

And I think most people will figure it out my way. Because your coaches use it all the time. Week 11 against the Cowboys was a must win game. We're not literally like you and everything. The season was over. People don't live their life literally by everything they say. That's true. So take the loss on that one.

A must win game. The season would have been over. They've fallen up shots. And we've been on doing this show for 15 years in soccer still sucks. It doesn't get any better. It's not got any worse. It just remains sucks. That's fine.

I like sports. I like high-level sports. I like lots of sports. You don't. You hate the Olympics. You hate soccer. I like synchronized swimming. No, you don't.

I like beach volleyball. Well, okay, that's different. I like real volleyball. Spanish team was strong this year. It was good. Very strong. All right. 713-212-5-790.

Let's get to what is happening in the world of sports headlines. We go to the sports 790 news desk. We have a news desk? News center? Absolutely that. We got a sports. Talk 790 news desk. I don't know where my bed is. I can't hear it.

Oh, there is. The news at to hear old sports talk 790. Are you having a happy new year so far, Matt? I know I am. You know who else wants to have a happy New Year? Let me C.J. Stroud of the Houston Texans as they take on the oiler-clad

Tennessee Titans. What are the Houston Texans looking to accomplish this weekend? We all are wondering how much they are going to play. Here's what C.J. Stroud had to say about their goal in the Titans game. You want to end the season the right way, you know, on a positive note. So, you know, got to be ready to play and go out to Tennessee. You know, that's a good defense up there.

You have a lot of good players. So, you know, we got to better A game and, you know, try to end the season right way. Bring the A game in the season the right way. Line continues to creep in the Texans favor as it opened up with the Houston Texans. as much as a three-point dog, now one and one and a half. Not a must-win game, by the way. That's an ugly total, 36.5. See, I'll keep it simple. It's a stay away. Stay away from this.

I take the subjectivity out of whether or not it's a must-win game. That's all. Yeah, it's my prerogative and yours is your prerogative. If you think Week 11 against Cowboys is a must-win game, it's a must-win game. I think when teams are down two-nothing in playoffs, you can definitely say in game-three is a must-win. Keeps a series alive, makes you feel better about yourself. 2-1 in a series when things are 2-1, it's a dramatically different feel than a 3-0.

3-0 thinks your season's over. So it was must-win. You had to win. It may feel better. Well, yeah. And I'm right. I know you think that. That's the beauty of it.

All right. Anyways, Matt, we're talking about the Titans and the Texans. What are you looking to see from C.J. Shroud of the Houston Texans this weekend? Two to three series. Better communication. How about three series, three touchdowns, get him out of there. And make sure he stays upright for basically any time he's in the field.

That's what I honestly... Because the pro bowler is going to be out there protecting him. That's right. You are a fraud. You are a fraud, Laramie Tunsell. You should say thanks but no thanks to that Pro Bowl nomination. He's... Shush your mouth. He's... I don't know if he has any incentives in his contract for making the pro ball. I'm sure he does. Because this playing hard isn't one of them. Hey, he, hey, he's only had like five penalties in the last like 10 weeks. Nice. It was 10 in the first five weeks, but

at least he's cleaned that up somewhat as Laramie Tonsol. Moving along, there has been a lot of talk, Matt, especially on the Rockets' Twitter streets about our interview yesterday with Coach Udoka. Are people giving credit, by the way, Connor? We got everybody giving their proper credits now? Connor's doing as much as he can't.

He's fighting the good fight. I gave you guys a credit for you. They didn't do it themselves. Thank you, Connor. Thank you, Connor. We do appreciate you for that. So the night before, Cam Whitmore, had a spectacular evening. He was 7 to 9 from the field, played 24 minutes, was really helpful off the bench for the Rockets. Then his postgame comments sounded like he had a horrible game

and just got sent to the G League. Everyone confused, Coach Udocha. Did you hear those comments from Cam Whitmore? Yeah, I heard about him, and I'm totally fine with people expressing whatever they need to express. We've had a ton of meetings in one-on-one, myself and him and other coaches. And so there's an understanding of what's expected and what's going to help you get on the floor as far as growth.

And so, you know, if you know me, you know I am not a sensitive person at all. Guys can express what they need to. We'll have those discussions. And so I'm totally fine with what he said, the part that I will reiterate to him. Like everything I say publicly, I've said times 10 behind the closed doors to our guys. And so getting across those points and he understands what he needs to do to be on the floor and improve as far as that. And I think he's taking those steps and done that. He's just a badass.

I mean, he may just like, yeah, bring it. I don't care. You got, you got something for me? Just talk to me about it.

We'll figure it out. Yeah, I agree. And good to hear the refreshing honesty, as always, from Coachudoka, full of interview available. SportsTalk 790.com

and the Matt Thomas show with Ross podcast page. Moving along, but keeping it in the NBA, a trade target, or at least has been rumored with the U.S. and Rockets,

has been Tom Ball's own Jimmy Butler. He also did not mince words in his press availability yesterday. What do I want to see happen? I want to see me get my joy back from playing basketball. And wherever that may be, we'll find out here pretty soon. But I want to get my joy back. I'm happy here, you know, off the court. But I want to be back to somewhere dominant. I want to hope. I want to help this team win right now. I'm not doing that. your joy back here on the court. Probably not. Probably not.

I love that. So if he said probably not, he's living in a small window for it to be open and happening. No, that's one of those polite, like... He didn't say definitely not. Hey, Matt, I got a party going on this weekend. Do you think you can make it? Very busy. You say probably not. Probably not. What does that mean?

It means, don't even bother. Exactly. I wouldn't stay up for me. Exactly. That problem, that's one of those probably nots that's a not. no from Jimmy Butler. Okay. And one last thing, Matt, will go off the beaten path. Love it. Here in the news at noon, as I know you like.

Unfortunately, automaker Kia is recalling 23,000 electric vehicles. Why, you say, they have fears that a single worker forgot to bolt the seats down. One human being.

Yes. The Korean automaker forced to recall 23,000 of its brand new EV-N electric SUVs in the U.S. market after discovering that the rear seats were improperly installed. Kia's report places the blame squarely on a single plant assembly worker who allegedly made an error and failed to properly secure all the seat bolts on an unspecified number of vehicles. I don't know if they're a sponsor of our station, but if they are, we hope that you get things fixed right away and get out some new vehicles for our great listeners of sports talks. I hope that person, well, I wonder if that person has been fired. When you feel it being loose in the car itself?

Can't you just take it to the dealership and have them bolt it down? Yeah. Bolt it down yourself. That's actually, you know what? Get your ratchet out. Honestly, that's a non-story. Shut your bum ass up. You have recall stories all the time.

Yeah. Stuff happens. Yeah, but it's from one person forgot to bolt down all the seats. That's pretty funny. Not really. Well, okay. I don't think it's funny at all. I think it's, you know, it's just how morbid you are.

I see you working. You hear that, folks? You're hilarious. Marlard RV. Oh, a funny story about a car seat's not being bolted down. That's great. Ha, ha, ha, ha, laughter. Oh, boy.

How many years of this show? That's the news at noon right there, hoping that you don't die when your seats come across in your vehicle. All right, I'll see you later. You can't go anywhere. Bye. You're with me until 2 o'clock. Bye, Felicia. You wanted your name on the show.

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overtime under time if they're even working 1214 sports talk 790 more Matt Thomas show with Ross now on sports talk 790 Happy New Year

It's a little late frankly for the happy new years you know Why just happened a couple of weeks ago, right? Yeah, that's too long. Statute of limitations. This kind of run out on the new year. Three days. Plenty. Three days. By the way, everything doesn't have to be happy. Why does everything have to be happy? All right. I've always said you can say happy New Year anytime just to be a contrarian on this.

What is, what is in your mind, because you are the know-it-all about a lot of things. That's not true. What is? You make to me laugh a lot today, I know, because I'm very funny. You're something, all right. What is the rule on Happy New Year? There's no rule. It's a feeling. Honestly, it already feels like 2025 has been two weeks.

And frankly, three days is a little much. We haven't had a Happy New Year. We're looking for a Happy New Year. That's true. I would say certainly from our good friend Larry David, the funniest show ever made.

In your opinion. That's right. Which I do count. I mean, Larry David's a genius. I'm not going to even try to try to dispute that. That's another thing we argue about, by the way. What was argument? I think the show's good and not great.

Okay. I'll crunch my teeth. I know. I know. It hurts. Especially when you really love something and somebody's like, yeah, it's not good. It makes you mad. So I'm not trying to make you mad. You know what that happens sometimes when you take people to restaurants? Oh my God, and you love the restaurant? And you're like, the restaurant is so good, and then they go, it's all right.

And you're like, you want to punch you right in the throat. Yeah. especially if you're paying. Like, I got a buddy of mine who's the voice of the Memphis Grizzlies, and we're going to go out to dinner when the Grizzlies come back to town in a couple weeks. And I'm like, I want to take him to this certain my favorite Mexican restaurant. And I'm like, if he doesn't like it, I'm going to have to hit him. Yeah, I get you.

So I want to apologize for giving you that feel because you look like you want to punch me square in the throat when I said that to me, to me it's good, not great. But anyways, what were we talking about? New Year rules. But I will say, of course, undoubtedly, Larry. David, at absolute one of the all-time comedic geniuses. Two weeks? What do you think?

Or the whole month of January? I think, I think, like, January 26? Nobody's saying happy New Year. I think, frankly, Monday is probably, Sunday's the last day. Because there's a lot of people you will not see, like, French seats.

Yeah, and nobody in the office, Matt. Yeah, I mean, three days ain't enough. I haven't seen salespeople since, like, mid-December, so I can wish to Merry Christmas and get away with it. Better to throw on a happy president's day. next time you see him as well. Good Friday to all of you. Yeah.

So you need it minimum a week. I'll say push it to two max. But either way. I have made it a point. I'm going to continue to do it until at least mid-February. Okay. I like it. Because I want to see.

Spreading joy. I want to see what the reaction is. Okay. You want to see. That's actually, that's a great experiment. Yeah. Start to see when you get, when you start getting sideways looks consistently, that's when you know it's long.

It's like the argument we have sometimes about your age, are you in your early, if you're 43 years old, are you in your early 40s? I would say, yeah, or mid, early to mid. What do you be 44? You're mid. Okay. So the rule would be 0123 would be early. Yes.

4, 5, 6 would be mid. Yes, 7, 8, 9 would be old. Late 40s. Yes. I would agree with that. Okay. Well, this would agree on that. Oh, look at this.

Our nature is healing. on the Matt Thomas show. With Ross. We could solve wars. I don't know about that. Yeah, that's right. We'd have to actually care about them. 713-212-5-7-90.

Christian and Lamarck at 1223 on 7-90. Christian, good afternoon. Good. And since it's the 15th anniversary of your show, Happy anniversary! Matt Thomas and Rossville Real. How are y'all? Good, Christian.

Thank you. I mean, to be honest, I wasn't going to miss this show for anything. I mean, I did not know that this week marked your 15th anniversary on these radio station airwaves, even though you've been at this for over 30 years, Matt, but still, though, congrats all around for basically doing all you can to keep making the best memories ever. But still, though, enough about all that. when it comes down to the rocket and in particular when it comes down to this whole jimmy butler thing do you think that after all of what happened over the last week especially with the whole tiler hero i'm in thompson situation

that the chances of jimmy butler returning home to the rocket are pretty much slim to none well as i brought up earlier and thank you christian for the nice words we appreciate you being a religious listener of ours it means a lot to us Never say never. Do the Rockets have trade chips that Miami would take? Absolutely. Do the Rockets want to inherit that contract? I don't think it's the top of the list. Especially for a guy that doesn't play a full 82.

Do I think that Jimmy Butler? I mean, let me just say right here. I get a prep sheet that helps out with my game, getting ready for the game tonight. Jason Tatum said about IMEAedoka, his most favorite coach he's ever had. Jalen Brown credited Udoca last year and said he was great for our development. Maybe I'm too close to it because EMA and I are close. Not as close as a head coach and a radio broadcaster can be.

You know, the point being is that has anybody said, God, I hate EMA? I don't, well, maybe I don't know if you can't. Maybe the Boston Celtics Express. Okay. But my, on the core, Ross, let's focus. Okay. Focus. Maybe Cam Whitmore is the biggest fan either. That's going to say, I was going to say. But generally speaking, the respect factor

is intent. When E. Meadeoca calls a timeout and goes after Alperin or goes after a man or Dylan, they don't shy away from it. They don't raise their hands. They go, I got it. I think the respect factor is immense. And that to me is so hard, Ross, to get into

days and be world these players to buy in it what the coach says yeah but that's also a lot of young players but i mean guys like dylan brett van vleet is also heaped praise on emma adoka but and and jimmy adoka both as they say got that dog in them it's it's just you would hope that it would be the same dog if he came here i could see them budding heads or i could see them being best i could and i don't know if he may wants that he's got a young basketball team he's shaping it the way that he wants it i i would put it at one percent Slim to none is an accurate way that Christian does. Yeah, I just, I think

if Pat Riley calls Rafael Stone and Raphael says, is this really Pat Riley? Remember that time you coached the Lakers during showtime? And Pat goes, yeah, and Raffel's not going to act like that. That was kind of cool. I'm sure he's had phone conversations with Pat Riley. If Pat Riley walked in the studio right now,

I would drop everything I would do. And just staring and go, man, you were the greatest ever. Okay. I'll keep the segment together. As per yush. Okay, I'm going to throw this back at you. is there an athlete that walked in here right now that you would fall apart like a jelly

Michael Jordan would be obviously one Mac Brown. Yeah, Michael Jordan. LeBron James. For that matter of LeBron James. I mean, for his craziest stuff, he says off the field court. He's still magnificent on the court and I'm still on all of his game.

Still to this day, I've only really gotten Starstruck once and that was yummy. Also, he was like eight foot tall. I shook his hand, and his hand was like three times bigger than mine. I mean, when we had no... Remember we used to have Nolan, on with us a week. That was cool.

We went to breakfast. Me, I want to say my program director or Eddie, I think it was Brian. Nolan and his son Reed went to breakfast. And I'm sitting here at the West and Across a Minute Maid Park, Diken Park. And I'm like, I'm sitting here having breakfast with one of my childhood idols. That's cool. I was in all that.

And then five years before that, I hosted an event with me and Earl Campbell one time where it was a Q&A. I was in all of that. So I would have to say, of current athletes, nothing awestructs me. Yeah, because I think it's more about... But the kid in me

couldn't believe I'm sitting here having scrambled eggs and biscuits without gravy with Nolan Ryan. Yeah, in this business, we get desensitized, or another word is spoiled. Spoil will be it. Yeah.

I mean, I am in... My life right now is insanely spoiled. I get to call the play-by-play for the team I grew up watching. It's great, Matt. And you do a great job. Thank you. I mean, that's not supposed to be that way.

It's not supposed to, you're not supposed to call the games that you were as a kid going in the, at the summit and screwing the light bulbs in the top of the arena. That kid's not supposed to be doing that. We're all proud of you, Matt. You're doing a great job. That was not great. I put a lot of extra work on those people upstairs in the summit. Yeah.

That's how bored I was. Oh, yeah. You were quite the rascal in your young days. And I was hoping the rocket to get to 125 because if you got that, you used to get a free rig rack from Rick Ronald. or the order of fries and a drink. And now you get it, Mudderberger. If they miss two free throws.

If they miss two free throws. And that's happening quite a bit these days. That's good. Is it also with purchase fries and a drink? No, you've got to use the app. But the rig rack used to be just the rig rack, and then they'd order the fries and drink on top of it. But you're doing that anyway.

So it's not that big of a deal. But yeah, I haven't screwed a lot of light bulbs in this summit in my day. And some $9 worker back in the day, had to go up there and re-put them back in. And so for me and my buddy, he had to take him back out. They hated you. They did. But I was also, I was lucky to be in the arena. Oh, Kim Elijah on to me. I'm still all struck by him.

Yes. He doesn't call me a man. He calls me voice. Which I'll fully accept. That's cool. As Adam Clinton would say, you were the voice of his childhood. 1230. Sports Talk, 790. 713, 21, 212, 5, 790. 713, 2, 1, 790. we're going to mix in some of Ross's clips of me over the years, which is highly,

is there going to be some stuff of you in there somewhere too, right? Let's embarrass yourself for the next hour and a half. I don't normally clip myself. And all the old ones, it was just, I mean, it was just you talking 90% of the time. Yeah, we're going to fix that. For the next five years, we're going to get more of you. 713-212-5-790. Lunch timers.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. on Sports Talk 790. Back to the Matt Thomas show. You know what? As somebody on this show often does, they like to peel the curtain back. Somebody brought some food up here. Actually, we can say it's a sponsor, Big City Wings.

Shout out to Sam and the folks over at Big City Wings. We've got some food up here. And we were sitting there, man, I was getting some wings, and I'm like, my Spidey senses started tingling. I think I need to get back in head because we were talking with the Big Boss. And when the Big Boss wants to talk,

you talk to the Big Boss and you laugh at all his jokes. and that's how you do. That's how you roll around here. Eddie Martini, shout out to him as well. But I was like, man, I think I'm going to start heading back to studio. And Matt's still out there chatting and grabbing wings. So he'll join us when he can, Connor. I figured that. And I was going to add to the break just a little bit.

It's okay. Somebody's got to be here, you know. People behind the curtain back to even a little bit more. I can't see you guys like I normally can. Oh, that's right. So I was like, do I play some audio or something? I appreciate it. And here comes Matt with wings sauce and ranch all over his face.

Okay. Don't touch the microphone. Thank you, Big City Wings. Love you. Yes. We did. I thanked them. Good.

Proud sponsors the show. 7.3. 2.12.5-790 is the phone number. Okay, Matt. I have four bits of audio. Just pick a number one through four. Now I'm going to hit. I'm going to play one.

Number three. Number three. Here we go. I'm just telling you they were the best team they ever had lost in the divisional playoffs to probably to Baltimore one year and New England to the next. Yeah. They just never could overcome that.

Thank you for the phone call. There's an alarm that should be going off in your home, and that's if you have dirty carpets. This is really, excuse my French, annoying AF. Seriously. Fire alarm testing is like five times, not 50. I'm trying to do a major market radio show here in downtown Beverly Hills, California, and this damn...

Oh, really? Oh, you got my attention. Yeah? Five to ten more minutes, Ross. Five to ten more minutes. Jesus. We're doing fine. There's no fire.

I'm trying to discuss the Texans game against Tennessee. Oh, now you're putting a sweet little ginger voice on there. Hi, honey. How are you? Back to the alarms. Good Lord. How am I supposed to create radio greatness under these conditions? And there is a classic moment from the Matt Thomas show as tomorrow will be the 15th anniversary of the program.

That was my first year doing the rockets, I think. And was it? Yeah. And then the worst part of the alarms are going off for hours. Yes. We've had a lot of alarms over the years. That was you hitting your limit. For those you know, like we were dealing with it.

But, well, of course, Matt on the air and then meeting back in the station. We're dealing with it. He just hit the limit because they just, it just kept going and going and going. It was really annoying. It was really annoying. Unnecessary. And, you know, we have NBA players trying to get their rest. We've got a broadcaster like me trying to do a radio program.

Mm-hmm. It's just so disrespectful. There was no fire. Yeah. I believe I also saw Justin Bieber in our hotel on that trip. Really? Yeah. The Bebes.

Yeah. Do you say hi to him? No, I really, I don't want to say I didn't know who he was, but I wasn't completely sure until somebody said you were. Within two feet of Justin Bieber, I was on I was. Hmm. Hmm. That's the greatest benefit among many things of the Rockets is we go in these really nice places and nice, nice hotels and we meet really famous people. Like, I'm sitting here, me, Mike Dan Tony, and, oh, Billy Madison.

Adam Sandler. Just sitting there just talking basketball. Talking some hoops. Yeah. That's cool. Man, that doesn't happen a lot. Congratulations on 15 years, man. I get to meet Bun B, hanging out with him.

That's true. I created a really long-lasting phrase about the Astros, which I didn't copyright and should have and would have made some money on that. They're still using... Stolen from the Orioles. I didn't steal anything. It was available. Can't steal something that's available. That's true.

I guess. Clearly Astro stole it for me. Got nothing for it. No ring, no adaboy. The Astro said about the Dodgers signs. That's tough. Dave in spring at 1239 on 790. Hello Dave.

Gentlemen, want to call and just say congratulations on 15 years. Thank you. You know, I'm a old retired guy, so, you know, I listen to the radio now in the middle of the day in the way I never used to, and so, you know, fiddling around the house and the garage and stuff. And I tell you, if I'm listening to the radio in the middle of the day, I'm going to listen to your show.

It's the best sports talk show. and I'm not loyal to a station either. I'll tell you what, in the morning, I'm not listening to this station. I listen to, you know, John and Lance over there on the other channel. But you guys are, you own midday. You're great. I'll tell you why, because you really have good chemistry. It's very authentic.

I can tell you guys like each other. You know, all the back and forth is, you know, it's good stuff. And I'll tell you, Matt, I've talked to you about this before. I remember you from KSEV-700 in Tomball when you were with Dan Patrick. I mean, it's been cool to watch, yeah, it's been cool to watch your career progress and to see, you know, the heights that you've reached, just really impressed. Well, thank you, Dave. Very impressed by what you've done. And the reason for it, thank you very much.

And the reason for it is because I have great people like yourself, listen to the show. And I'm not trying to brag just to Dave, but I'm just saying, we are in a business that relies on the audience. We're like a restaurant, right? Food's good, service good. show up we don't exist yeah we there's no we can our bosses could love us and think we are the greatest things in slice bread but if you guys don't like us we don't live we don't survive and our advertisers that if they don't like us don't and you guys don't support our advertisers we don't exist so thank you so thank you that's it all i say no more than that thank you thank you

you very much thank you thank you now we irritate some people not everybody likes everybody Not everybody likes anything. That's right. Don't like biscuits and gravy or some people don't like, you know, make ribs. Yeah. Some people don't like, you know, midtown host. Or soft-ass or a, what was I called, the soft bitch? Is that what I was called yesterday?

I don't remember on Twitter. I forgot. Did you block that guy? No. Okay. Because Vero's probably still listening. And then also, I would encourage you to listen to Sports Talk 790 throughout the day. I wouldn't listen all day.

But there's some shows I would listen to. You just skip two to six? They're never there. Oh, they're here today. I'm just teasing guys. I think they put in two days to this week, I think. That's funny. That is really funny.

No, we generally speaking get along, and it's kind of nice that, you know, you have actually work with people that you like. So not every radio station can say that. That's true. And it wasn't always like that up here. We haven't always said it here either. So, you know, it is what it is. 713212-1-790. 7-1-3-1-2-1-2-5-7-90.

One more clip before we get to the break. I gave you number three earlier. Rossi, I'm going to ask for clip number one to be played here on the radio program. Right now? Right this second. Okay, here we go. I'm not what it is. I was hoping you'd say the last time.

Oh, no. Texas fight, Texas fight, and it's goodbye to A&M. Texas fight, Texas fight. and we'll put over one more win. Texas fight, Texas fine. For it's Texas that we love best. Hail, hail, hail, the gang's all here, and it's goodbye to all the rest. Hey, orange.

Yay, white. Yay, longhorns. Fight, fight, fight, fight. Texas fight. I don't know this part. Yeah, Texas fight. Texas fight. Texas fight.

Yeah, this is right. The eyes of Texas are upon you all the live long day. The eyes of Texas are upon you. You cannot get away. Texas fight, Texas fight. For it's Texas that we love best. Hail, hail, hail, the gang's all here and it's goodbye to all the rest. Wow.

I mean, that's got to be, that's number. one moment. I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you right now, I have been lucky enough to be in this business for 33 years. That was the low point of my entire broadcast career. Now, which was that bet that you lost to me for that one? Was that the U of H and Longhorns baseball regional?

Yep. And if I lost, I was going to have to wear a Shasta suit for the entire day. And I had that mascot uniform locked and loaded to. I hope you had lice all down. Well, I would have gotten clean for you. I appreciate that. All right.

Now, Florida stories in 45 minutes. Ross, where is your story from? Well, it's from outside of the state of Florida, Matt. 713-212-5-790. Join us, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is Craig Ackerman. The rockets are certainly popping the polypropylene. I know Matt Thomas, all too well.

Hey, by the way, this is my new catchphrase. Nothing but nylon. Don't trust Jack. He's not a GM, but make some moves. said Can't go Cors What's

Have you ever heard a Gordy parody until just now? I think you played one for me before. I think the JJ Watt one on Halloween

maybe we played. Normally you never say anything about a man like this but those are breathtaking you know

Gordy's so busy now with well he doesn't do a show anymore locked on SEC though and now I think he's running

half the country he's got like 40 radio stations under his well under his wings now. Under his umbrella, if you will.

And I will just say, though, I miss the football Friday parodies. My God. Can we, I think he owes this one for next Friday. Mr. Humble says, can we get the Chris Gordy mixtape? That's what I'm saying. When's the mixtape dropping? The greatest shaggy karaoke. Karaoke.

Karaoke singer of all time. That goes without saying. Clearly. You know what? We've got it. What can we offer Gordy for him to do a Friday parody for the playoffs? I had to get it sponsored.

You think so? Straight up cash? For Gordy? Yeah, he needs straight cash. He's big time now. God bless it. So good. I mean, just so good.

So, like, you just go on, you want to go listen to them multiple times. Yeah. You just want to kick your feet up, put some headphones on, sit in your beanie chair, and just melt into the chair listening to Gordy That's exactly what it is

All right, so if you listen to Gordy I know you get busy with like 15 other things going on But for the love of God How about for the playoff game? Can you get a playoff game? Yeah, as long as the Texas are in the playoffs, he needs it a Friday parody. So start working on the Steelers one.

So you'd be good for one. Yeah, I mean, we're not going to ask you to do a whole lot. There's two max. I mean, yeah, there's no way you're going to be busy in late January. Please, come on. 713-212-5-790. Our good friend of the show, Biscuit with us here on 7-90.

Biscuit, good afternoon. Cougar Matt, Cougar Matt. Man. Where at the time went, Matt? Where at the time went? No, by the way, I'll be going to the Cougars BYU game tomorrow. It's Cougar versus Cougar tomorrow. And over at the Fertita Center.

Yeah, I would have been with my buddy. You know, he invited me out, but I'm a, unfortunately, I got hooked into going to see the Texan the Titans and the Titans. So I'm out of town this weekend. Oh, my God. Oh, okay. Gordy says he'll take trade. We have to buy him food in order for these songs that come into place.

So, Biscuit, I may be busy in the next few weeks. You're going to Nashville tomorrow? Yes, sir. In the process of going now. What are you driving? You driving or flying? You driving or flying? Oh, fine, man.

I'm too old, man. We're too old to drive now. I know. I don't like driving to work, much less driving anywhere else. I go with you on that. I think the farthest may be Dallas. That's the limit now. Mine's galarea.

You know, back in the day, you know, we, we get on the road, but not no more, Matt. I understand. But I would say, Matt, I remember when you was in the morning and you was with Lance, and I remember when CP was over there and there. But I think I told you back then, Matt, I said, man, I think you're better at noon, man. That's your niche. And since you got back at the 11 o'clock, you know, noon. We've been 10, 11, noon, 2.

We've been in an all-in-smile. There's a spot. We got it. You're better at the midday than the morning drive. To me, you kind of almost like the David Letterman of the sports. He's better in late night. Because you know, because you do the quirky stuff, you know. Yeah. Believe it or not.

I do stupid human tricks. Exactly. It's an equivalent to stupid human tricks. And, you know, I think it's been a good ride with you. It's been good. Thank you very much. doing the not on the radio

but the in-house thing with the rockets yeah two different times yeah yeah you had a you had a good run my brother I'm not quitting I don't want to make sure I know that thank you Biscuit I understand

I understand go Cougars tomorrow beat the BYU you Cougars and by way I'm not quitting I'm not going anywhere this wasn't a farewell no it might have been for some some maybe want me gone Is this going to keep going we're going to keep doing this we're going to keep doing this we're going to go at least 10 more years

how old are you 52 at least 10 more no 10's good 25 years with me sounds good pray for me people look you're already we're already halfway home and then some just pray you've only got 10 years live oh it's like you've been in prison for a long time you're used to the food you got you're saying i have stockholm syndrome from hanging out with you. And you're the bumming of the cigarette. Sure. That actually sounds accurate.

I got Matt Thomas Stockholm syndrome. Yeah. The worst is not yet to come. The worst is over with. It's great. It's gravy the rest of the way. All right. What are we going?

So it's final hour of the show. Okay. And we will get to, what do you want to get to? Oh, do we have a Bragman update? Have we played the Bragman update? Bregman update. Is there one?

Let's play one open up. When we come back? Yeah, the 1 o'clock hour. We'll open with a Bregman update. Sure, why not? You'll manufacture one if we have. I was going to say, we can play the John Haman, but it's just four minutes of mishmash about,

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Well, is the kid at Auburn, or Georgia who got the 15-year-old penalty. We'll discuss him after we give you an update on our favorite third baseman. The bit's never going away, much to the chagrin of some. Well, the update is we have no update. He's still a free agent. Really? Yeah. What are you hearing?

What are your ears on the ground? What do you got? I got nothing. Here's the reality. I'm reading MLB trade rumors about Bregman and there's just, there is no real new information. To post from a couple of days ago. Well, I think the tigers are involved. The Red Sox are certainly interested.

The Yankees feel like they've cooled a little bit. Yankees, Red Sox, Tigers. It's got to be one of those three. God, AJ Hinch, Scrabbit, Alex Brangman. Now, the Tigers don't have a reputation, Rossi, for spending big money on players. So if you are getting outside of $160 million, that would be some serious cash

so the Tigers don't typically spend. Except I'm Miguel Cabrera, and they've been paying that off forever, never, never, never, never. So I don't know. I don't know what their spending habits are. I would think the Cubs would want to get involved. Some people were thinking the Mariners could certainly use the third baseman, but they don't spend money.

No, they don't. Arizona has spent a lot of money this offseason. You know, he lives in Phoenix in the offseason or in Arizona. It works out, so I mean. It seemed like a natural fit. Yeah. It was a gut feeling from years past. Yeah.

My original gut feeling was he was signed with the Tigers. Then I flipped to the Yankees, and I think I'm going to take the lot of the loss on that one. We'll see. But it is, do you think he's, this is cool by him? He's like, man, Scott told me to be patient on this and I'm going to be patient, or do you think that he's thinking, if he's frantically getting daily and hourly updates? I don't know if it's frantically getting updates, but is there any part of him that thought he would have been done by now? That once the Juan Soto deal was done, that was going to open up the flood gates. The dominoes to fall. Yeah.

Well, a lot of dominoes have fallen, just not the Bregman domino. So I do think, I mean, I'll go with my initial gut feeling from whenever when the Soto deals was signed. I do think Scott Borris said, hey, this is what Soto is worth relative to that price of Alex Breggman's going up. And everybody else is saying, well, we ain't the Mets. Yeah. Just because the Mets spend crazy money, doesn't mean we need to get all crazy. Right. So this feels Boris driven to me, but not knowing anything, that's just the way, they're, they're

trying to reset the Juan Soto resetting the market for everyone and I think teams are pushing back on Boris's idea that maybe this reset the market for Bregman and what would it turn out to do is do nothing for Breggman. Bregman's got a perceived dollar value and a link. Yeah. And nothing to do with what

Juan Soto was getting. I will guarantee you this. Okay, I can't guarantee this, but I'm going to get you this. No, go ahead and do it. It's all right. I will guarantee you this, man. On a recorded line. On a recorded line. He's going to get more than Matt Chappell who got 6-151. He's younger than Matt Chapman,

and at this stage in their careers, he's better than Matt Chapman. And it's not as close as it used to be. I'll put it that way. So 6-151 was the Matt Chapman number. He's going to get more than that. And he's deserved one. And depending on the one-soto market.

To be fair, he was offered $5 million more to stay here in Houston. 6-156. So less than even one more million dollars a year. That's why that was never going to get signed. I don't even know why the Astros would even bother offering that. I imagine that's a slap in a face to Alex Breggman. It's funny because Chandler and I just...

I think you and I disagree on that. I think it was what the Astros were willing to give. They saw what Chapman was. Maybe in the Astros' minds. And again, everybody's interpreting what a value of a player is. They said he's comparable to Chapman. And that at 35 or 36, if the offensive numbers have dropped like they have since he was finishing second

the MVP that this will be not nearly as a painful of a contract if we pay what we think is fair market value now. Well, he's younger and better than Matt Chapman, though. But that isn't necessarily guarantee that's going to happen for the next three to four years. No, it doesn't, but it does the same thing for Matt Chapman and was it,

Giants or wherever he is? Yeah. Save with the Giants, yeah. So, you know, look, I wanted to get every dollar he can. I would have loved to have been Houston, but that ship is, that is sailed. It's almost, it's, it's almost, anti-climatic. Remember we were setting ourselves

up for the goodbye and the how are we going to handle this? We effectively said goodbye. You know what we said goodbye was the final regular season game of the season, didn't we not? Yeah. Thank you, Houston was put on IG. That's when it was over. Or when Joe Espada pulled him in the middle

of the game. Yes. We were like, this doesn't look like, this is staying. He's like, are you going to leave pulling me? And Joe's like, yeah, I know why I'm pulling you, right? Because you need your fun farewell. goodbye. Yeah. So we'll see. I don't it's going to be

really surreal for him wearing different gear. I'll just tell you. It'll be way more. For instance, when George Springer left, that was not a matter of if he was leaving Houston. It was going to be how fast. Was the moving truck already going to be here before the end of the season? Coray and a twins uniform hurt.

It's still weird to me. You know, the pain was lessened because Pena was so awesome for this team during the World Series run the following year. Yeah, right. But, I mean, Correa was the crown jewel representative of the new Astros era as the number one, number one pick. He was basically like the fruit born from all the tanking.

He, to me, represented that new era of Astros more than anyone else. And maybe so. How about this? He was the guy that was supposed to be the lifelong Astro. Yeah, I mean, of course, now it's Al Tuve. And it was Altuvae. as part of as well as far as somebody who who came up

when the team was bad and was here. But you got him from the very young, he was super young, he learned English, he wanted to be an astro, he said all the right things, this was his town, he was doing commercials left and right. I mean, this I guess you're right. To me,

Springer didn't hurt. Charlie Morton was painful, but he got past that. Garrett Cole looked like that was going to be a rental anyway. He wasn't going to sign a long-term deal here, so I didn't have any thoughts of him sticking around. I really, though, in the big picture of this, I never thought Breggman was going to leave, and I

was pretty sure that Cray was going to leave, because, again, he was looking to get super big money. I never thought Kyle Tucker was going to stay. So I would say, of all the core players that have been part of this huge championship run, to me, the two guys that I thought were going to be here through thick and thin, were going to be Altuve and Breggman. And I was one out of two.

Astro for Life, Jose Altivet. Carlos Correa was the first draft pick of Jeff Luno and ushering in that new era. But didn't you think, though, wasn't there, didn't we have a conversation at least midway through the Korea heyday that he wanted to expand his brand? He wanted to get into acting.

He thought being in New York. He went to Minneapolis. Well, he was going to be a Matt. Remember that? He then went to San Francisco for, well, for like five seconds. He had like two cups of coffee. I don't think you have to finish. just coughing either one of those places.

Didn't they print out of Correa jersey? But my boy is they... I don't even think Korea thought he was going to Minnesota. That was the crazy part. No. Astros, like, we have a contingency plan. His name is Jeremy Pena. Now, he may not be nearly as offensively inclined,

or defensively he may make some mistakes. He doesn't make the great fluid plays. He's going to hold his own. And Jeremy Pena has held his own. Little regression in the last couple of years, right? Or significant regression? I would say peak, now peak Corre is significantly better than peak Pena. Yeah, but Peak Pena was a one-man monster when they win the World Series.

Yeah, for a very short sample size in the playoffs. Yeah. But also, you factor in health in that Carlos Coray has missed a lot of games in the last several years. So overall value, you're absolutely close if not exceeding with Jeremy Pena. But as players as individuals at their peaks, it's Carlos Cray. it's not even close to me. All right. 713-212-5-790.

Mike is with us in North Houston on 7-90. Mike, thanks for holding. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, guys. I saw somewhere on the internet this morning, one of the sports things, that there was a room about Berkling getting 176

from the Astros. And in my opinion, if he got 176 with the Astros, that's equal to 200 on the East Coast where you've got to pay taxes, state and local taxes up there. So that's just my opinion. Yeah, I haven't. The 176 number,

I don't know where you got that from, Mike. It's the only thing that's come out is it was a six-year $156 million. Yeah, the only thing we've ever seen publicly released has been six years 156. I have not seen 176 anywhere from the Astros. Well, it came up on my Google app. Oh, no. You got to be careful with the fake news.

I understand that, but I'm just saying if, Yeah. If it was 176 and he won't $200,000. By the time you take out taxes for state and local taxes and some of those places, city taxes and all that, that's going to be, he can't get much. That would be about equal would he be getting here and used to me? Well, you know what, though, Mike, and thank you for the phone call. And I need to make sure we tell this to the audience a lot. And I hear this from a lot of sports radio listeners at call shows.

You know, the state income tax in New York or in California is this, Massachusetts it's this or in Michigan it's this. There hasn't been a single player that has ever worried about it. Now, is it crossed their mind? Yes. But they, I've never heard a player go, you know, I was going to sign with the Braves, but the Georgia income tax was significantly more than it was in Texas. Corbyn said that this offseason. Apparently the Blue Jays offered him more. And then the, he signed with the Diamondbacks, I guess, because the taxes are better than

Canada, I think Canada is like insane. Canada's, I think it's a different. But I'm talking about state to state. I'm talking about... The only two things I can remember. I remember Corbyn Burns recently, and I'm sure maybe there's more. And I remember Dwight Howard said that when he signed with the Rockets. That the taxes were a factor.

Because if you remember, he was close to signing, I believe, with the Warriors. That I don't know. Yeah, I had to go look at that up. But it's rare. But I've been long after run. to see that it hasn't made as big of a difference as people would think it would be. I mean, did Garrett Cole really sweat the New York State income tax when signed with the Yankees? No.

Did George Springer fright about the Toronto money, the Canadian tax for him? No. No, they just don't. They just don't. Bob Nightingale said on December 20th, Corbyn Burns was offered more by the Giants and Blue Jays, but big tax difference in Arizona. So there's some precedent. So that's, and I'm not saying Corbyn Burns is by himself, but maybe on one hand. Did Alex Rodriguez go, man, she's, I would have loved to stay in Arlington with the Rangers, but man, the Yankees, oh, I can't, I can't go to the Yankees because I got to keep my money in Texas.

He went Seattle, Texas, New York, right? Is that where Iran went? Is that the rotation it went? Yes. Yeah. They typically leave. What was it? A $252 million contract or something like that? I remember when he signed that. It was the most insane thing we'd ever heard of.

It was like, are you kidding me? Yeah, I get to go from it. And now that's just like bargain basement dollars now. Yeah, it's peanuts. All right. Now I've Florida Stories in 15 minutes. This is the Matt Thomas show with Raw 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790.

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It is 122. We'll have the non-floorist series coming up in about 10 minutes from now. Excellent. Can't wait. I could not be more prepared. I believe I've told you 50 times. So you should not come as a surprise. Man, please can't break. I know.

Starting next week, you can crush, starting Monday, 9.59 a.m. Start crushing me. But this has been holidays. It's been vacations. It's been weird. I'm sorry. I have scarcely been ready for the news at noon. I'm like, I'm ready to lock in Monday. What if I bought you a daytimeer? I would lose it. Yeah.

I need to start. You know what? You know what you were asking for New Year's resolutions? I'm going to start using Google Calendar more. Because I said, because here's the thing. I send you text about the shows. I know. I know.

I'm sorry. I don't want to live like this. But you do anyway. It's like saying, I don't want to be fat, but go give me a triple cheeseburger. Yeah. Exactly. It's not my fault. That's funny.

I'm going to blame either my genetics or my parenting. Either way, it ain't my fault. That's what I always tell my parents when I'm messing with them. And what do they say? back to you. Well, it depends. Is it my mom or isn't my dad? Mom's an I know, honey,

and dad's like, all right, shut up. That's interesting. 7-13-212-5-7-9. You're not paying attention. What are you reading? No, I'm saying you were basically trying to equally blame your parents for the shortcomings in your life.

Yeah. Self-responsibility? Nah. I mean, you've lived 40 years. It's gone pretty well for you so far. over, baby. I'm feeling good. Every day you wake up is a gift, folks. Enjoy every single one as much as you can. Got that right. 713-212-5-7-90. All right, so you're Rockets and Celtics

tonight. No, this is not a must-win under any circumstance. Oh, it's not? But let me ask you this. Okay. You being, forget about being Rocket host, about being Rocket fan. What will this tonight do for you if they win? We'll do anything, especially because at this point, Jalen Brown is still questionable for the game tonight. They did play Minneapolis last night. Rockets were off. Did Brown play? Jalen Brown did not play. What about Porzingis?

Porzengis did not play. Al Horford is out with rest. Which will give me the sign that probably Brown and or Perzingis are going to play. If two out of three or all three are out, it's a bit less of a measuring stick. But we talked about this, or I did on the pre and post games, and here on this show, and we've gotten a lot more rocket talk than we've had lately. this is a big homestand. And I was looking to see how this rocket squad was going to look

and they failed their first two tests. The first one spectacularly with that big collapse against the Timberwolves. Second one, those games kind of happen. You're up four, well, five minutes to go and you lost, whatever. And then there was a big scuffle.

But yeah, I want to see the Rockets play well. They have no one in Thompson, but the Celtics are going to be shorthy as well. It's a nice, measuring stick game because I continue as we go along to kind of, I'm almost pinching myself, Matt. Aren't you? Like, we were talking about, hey, let's get into the play in. If we're lucky, Rockets are getting into the playoff. You asked me, you asked me for number of wins this year, and I said, what, did I say 48 or 40?

I thought you said 51 and I said 48. I don't think I would have said 51. Even as big a homer as I'm, I don't think I would have said 51. Or did you say, did I say 45 and you said 48? I think I said 48, but point being is this. What was the wind toll? I know I had them over the wind told. they are playing 667 ball if they win two out of every three games the rest the way

they're going to be what 50 and 32 somewhere in that range maybe I know you know I'll tell you what happened and oh in my mind you're three more than me I think I did 45 and you did 48 yeah that sounds but that sounds more I don't think I had him as a because 50 wins puts you in pretty rarefied area yeah I think that and they're on the pace for that which is great you are correct to correct me I was wrong but did I figured around a play-in spot. And they're exceeding our expectations. So when that happens, you have to ask yourself, is this for real?

This is incredible. They're a playing 6, 67% winning percentage, bottom 5 in shooting, bottom 2 and 3 point shooting, bottom 8 in free throw shooting. Yes. Things that I like to look at to say, is this real, include point differential, where the rockets are third in the west. So by their point differential, they're exactly where they should be. And then by net rating, which for those you don't know,

it's by 100 possessions, defense, offense, how many more you score than you give up in 100 possessions? They are sixth in net rating in basketball. So it's feeling real and more and more real as we go along. So these games, these measuring stick games, I want to see them perform well. I expect if I was picking right now, they lose tonight and they win on Sunday against the Lakers. Who I think are frauds, by the way. Yeah, they did beat Porton last night. Yeah, they can't say healthy either.

Anthony Davis is not out of the lineup for them all the time. Stop me if you heard that before. I know. Although he played like 80 games last year out of nowhere. It's crazy. All right. So I think we've got that to look forward to in 2025. Can they maintain this to stay at least in the top six?

Now, here's the thing. They're in three. It almost be like a downer if they dropped to six. Or drop of the playoff because they've been in this top four spot for so long. Yeah, for example, speaking of thinking the Lakers are flawed, I brought up their net rating, they're 20th in the NBA.

Fraudulent! Los Angeles Lakers. Houston Rockets are looking more and more real. The thing that's going to bother me tonight and Sunday is going to be, there's going to be a boatload of T-shirt Celtic fans and a boatload of Laker T-shirt fans on Sunday. Well, Telman doesn't care.

No, they don't. It can spin the same. No, the seats are filled. The seats are filled, right? Exactly. All right. Time now for some non-flora stories. I might go with one that I used last year, just kind of a best-of kind of thing. But I'm not going to. Thank you. You just guilting me into finding something fresh. I'll shame you out of

that. You did, you did. I'll try to find two in the break. I mean, not one for you. I already have had mine for hours. That's a complete lie. 713 212-570. 7-1-2-790. Now Florida Stories are up next. Matt Thomas,

Ross Villarreal. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston.

It's time for non- This is once a week. We get together on Fridays and we find interesting stories that are happening outside the Sunshine State because Ross, we've told people for the last 10 years or so, It's always crazy to ask stories in Florida. It takes somebody that really go outside the box and give you stuff that's non-Floristories.

I love Florida stories, though. I know. And remember, I'll be in Florida in a few weeks, which I can then use a Florida story. Oh, thank God. All right, my story comes from Blanford, Nova Scotia. Okay. I want to introduce you to a woman by the name of Amanda LeBlanc, okay? Amanda LeBlanc.

Amanda Blancke. Because she said Buddha and Claudeytonnecladres and Lafayette. Amanda LeBlancke. You show they. show on Tibado LSU Radio Pre-game shows. Sorry, well maybe she's actually You said where, Nova Scotia? B-L-A-N-D-F-R-D. Okay.

B-L-A-N-D-F-R-D. Okay. She found a dog sitter she liked, and she booked them several times over the summer. Apparently it's a two-person dog-sitting service. Okay. Well, late November, she discovered a video of the sitter advertising an account on OnlyFans.

Excuse me? Yes. This is the most Matt Thomas story I've ever heard. LeBlanc immediately recognized her own home in the background. Her bathroom and her outdoor pool. Wow. She bought a subscription to the service and discovered more explicit content with film than her house. Did she enjoy it?

Quote, I am still shocked by it, to be honest with you. Everyone can do whatever they want. I don't care. I just don't want it done in my house. And if you're curious, the dogs were not featured in the said videos. So just know that if you're renting. I wasn't curious. If you're renting out your, if you are hiring people to watch your house,

and it may be an only fan studio eventually. I mean, that's what, yeah, people with Airbnb's, hotel rooms. Do you video in your hotel rooms when you go? Video what? Anything? No. No, I don't video activity in hotel rooms. rooms. Good. Well, then you wouldn't go to this

person's house and do it either. No, I wouldn't, Matt. All right. So basically these people went to the house, watched the dogs and then had sex on their couch and stuff, in the bathroom. I mean, that doesn't seem very appropriate. You're not there to express yourself.

You're there to watch the dogs. Maybe the dogs did watch. And that is my non-floor story. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Appreciate it. You've been on OnlyFans? Not biting my tongue. And that's a no.

For me, dog. Yeah, right. Why are you winking at me? I got something in my eye. Why are you winking and giving me a thumbs up? Not giving you a thumbs up. I'm giving you a middle finger. No, it's two thumbs up now.

It's weird. It's getting weird. I don't want your password, Matt. I know somebody that was on OnlyFans. Like personally? Yes. And I was... As a model or like they subscribed?

No, they told me they were on Onlyfans. And I was just subscribed. And they asked me to subscribe and I'm like, I don't think I can do that. No. Interesting. The person said to me, would you subscribe to my only fan's channel? I said, no, I would not. They're just trying to market themselves.

Yeah, what is it initials? It's a girl. Oh, I'm just kidding. And I've not, it was such a bizarre conversation. I don't think I ever spoke to her again. Interesting. That's my non-floor story. That wasn't a non-flora story.

That was a very Texas story, actually. I guess it happened in Houston. You know what? going to go next as we move on. Matt, let me take you to a place called Zambia. Is that a country or city? Yes, it's country. Detective Inspector Titus Fiery

was working for the Zambia Police Service on New Year's Eve, where unfortunately, apparently he had been inebriated during New Year's Eve and for whatever reason, decided to quote, forcibly seize cell keys in a state of intoxication

and then he subsequently unlocked both the male and female cells and instructed the suspects to leave stating they were free to cross over into the new year. A manhunt has now been launched. He released 13 detainees who remain at large according to the Zambia Police Service statement made on Wednesday.

Quote, The Gambia Police Service reiterates its commitment to upholding law and order and assures the public the decisive action will be taken against any officer found to be abusing their authority or acting contrary. So we have no reason why he just said y'all take off. He was drunk. He's having a good time. He's feeling. He's like new year, new me. I'm letting these people free. And apparently they are still at large. And I believe this police officer has been relieved of his duties. I like this guy's spirit, though. Let them free. Let the people free.

Or the crimes they committed. Yeah, it depends on what the crimes were, right? I was going to say. Petty theft. There's something serious. It's a little different. Yeah, I mean, we're going to be careful enough to let these people go if they've done something terrible. Zambia is a country in southern Africa,

landlocked with rugged terrain and diverse wildlife. Sounds like you want to go there for a little trip. A little hiking? Sure. I think I'm the only person that doesn't hike now. I know Craig Ackerman does My buddy Craig does My buddy Ed does

You've hiked before? I like to hike I love hike Connor, are you a hiker? I can't say I've done much of it But I want to I want to travel See I want to travel too

But in just stay nice hotels I don't need to necessarily hike anymore I mean a hike to like to be the concierge lounge That's not a hike man Hike to the spa You've got to hike up a hill I can walk up Houston I can walk upstairs

I think you should go on a hinder's with Craig Ackerman next time you guys go to like Colorado or so. Well you know Craig, we have two extra days off in Phoenix. He's like, you gotta go with me on a hike? I said, I might. Phoenix's pretty flat. Or I guess there's, is there's mountains out there? Oh, yeah, for sure there is.

I'll take your word for it. Yeah, yeah, lots of mountains. Okay. It's hot though. Not in March. We'll be terrible. Well, then go hiking. You think I should?

Yeah, absolutely. Take a bunch of bro photos. No, you don't have to take bro photos. All right. Craig, if you're listening, you and I are going hiking in Phoenix. You can go on hikes? Then I'll go to the casino after that. If there was a casino up the hill, you'd go.

Duh. Hikes can be very rewarding and relaxing, and they're good for you. As long as you bring water. Absolutely. Make sure you bring water. And you know what else? So here's a little tip for you. If you bring a little sandwich or a, it's like a reward you give yourself.

You get to the top of the hike, have a sandwich or a beer or whatever. How about granola? Absolutely. I think I'm going to do it. Craig, if you're listening, I'm going hiking with you. So that way you can sit up, enjoy the view, have a snobie. snack. It's always very relaxed. So you get up there and you look around and you go, wow, this is beautiful and then you head back down. Yeah. Okay. Well, you want to stay buried on your phone

on the couch for two hours? You can do that or you can't go up a hike and see beautiful sites. You know what? I just forget, realize I'll be doing the show with you. I can't go not a 24-hour show. Well, it's during the daytime, right? You have plenty of time. Okay, I'll go. And that was your non-flot of story. Thank you, Matt. Thank you. Connor, what do you got? Gopher Scotty Sheffler has had quite the year. In 2024, he won an Olympic gold medal, the Masters, seven PGA titles, who was named PGA Tour's Player of the Year for the third season in a row. In May, we also talked about when he got arrested by police during the PGA championship and later got his charges dropped.

But now he has suffered an injury that will keep him from golf for four weeks. Did he sustain the injury while practicing on the course? Nope. Sheffler sustained a puncture wound after cutting the palm of his right hand on broken glass while cooking Christmas dinner. The world number one golf for now requires surgery after a small fruit. glass fragments remained in his hands after the accident. He is forced out of the first termina of the season, which is the

century in Hawaii, for those that are curious. Sheffler hopes to return in time for the American Express tournament in California later this month. So I guess the lesson here, professional athletes should just hire personal chefs. If you're worth, how much is he worth would you say, guys?

$150 million. I don't know. He's in the multi-hundreds of millions of dollars, right? At the end of the day? between earnings and endorsements and... Oh. Google says... $61 million. Yeah.

Celebrity net worth says $90 million. Okay, so if he's worth $70,000, put the difference on it. You're not cooking Christmas. Your hands are meant to make puts and hit long drives. What if he likes to cook? Well, then, you know what? Use plastic. One little freakish kitchen.

Mishap can end your career. Ain't worth it. It's like I really shouldn't talk unless I'm working on the air or during a game broadcast. It should preserve your voice. Yeah. I think about that all the time. It's a gift from God. I should take care of it. Yeah.

Take care of your gifts, Matt. So it's like when I'm screaming of what I've been drinking and I'm screaming music at the top of my lungs in the middle of the night, I'm like, I shouldn't be doing this. When I'm screaming, when I'm singing Mandy on the way home from a Rockets game, I probably shouldn't be doing that. Yeah. I thought you were listening to the Rockets Wrap.

I do that too. But then it boars me and then I turned something else on. I don't hear enough of my own highlights. Thanks for listening. I need more of my own highlights. We play one every break. You should play like five. You want more than that?

I want four to five highlights. Hey, okay, just in between calls. All right, we're going to go to the next call here on the Rockets Wrap. But first, let's make Matt happy by letting him hear his own voice. Couldn't have said it better myself. Okay. 143. Those are not four of stories.

We would play, believe or not, but we've got no prizes because our promotion. staff is not working today. They'll be back next week. But they're back next week. Presumably. Well, hopefully. Well, we give me nice to get some foot traffic in here. You never know these I heart radio streets.

These, this real estate here is largely unused. 144 Sports Talk 790. Hey, it's Jeff Blum. Blum fact number 14. I was on the White Sox in 2005. Yeah, sorry about that sweep, H-Town. We're all good right now, right? World Series champion.

Back to your lunchtime champion, Matt Thomas. 148 Sports Talk 790. A team coming up in a few minutes. We appreciate the support, the undying support for the A team, at least when the... We'll turn it on. Is this thing working? It's on. It's on.

It's on. Hey, happy anniversary. Thank you. Tomorrow. 15 years. I can't believe that you've done this. for 15 years and people are still listening to you. I can.

I mean, Ross has made it better. Thank you. But you. Yes. I've had enough of you. You know what? I'm 32 years. I'm not doing the...

Well, that's up for discussion. I'm not going to do the Rockets game because I've had enough for you tonight. Are you working with me tonight? No. Oh. It's Wex. That's why I can say that.

Okay. No, but seriously, that's impressive. Yeah. Do you remember when I introduce me to you at the old... Yeah. Press box at Minutamed? Yeah, I do. I heard you say this story

earlier today. Was it still Enron then? No, it was Minutemate. Okay. All those innocent people had lost their livelihoods already. Yeah, it was Enron for a while, then it was Astros Field for a short time,

and then it was Minutemade, and then I left for five years and came back. It was still Minutemade. We used to have good press box, too. Now they sell to... I suppose my next question. Did Drayton decide that he could make money there, or was that a Jim Crane decision?

No, I was totally Drayton. Okay. So that was before Crane guy here. Yeah. He's done plenty of bells and, whistles. I mean, yeah, I want to say we were in that really good press box for like a year maybe. I mean, I don't think

the fans care about this kind of stuff. No, but the reason I bring it up is because I walk up to you and tell me if you guys have heard this before, I know Ross will appreciate this. Once I told you I was a huge fan of yours, your eyes lit up and we were besties from that moment forward because you like people telling you how great you are. Yeah, because I have social

media. That's what today's all about. I have a congratulatory situation. I have social media telling me how bad I am, so I have to even it out. Who tells you that? Oh, people. Oh, nice. I need to get, do I need to come out of retirement? I'll kill somebody on Twitter. Cracks with skulls. No, are you going to be more aggressive in Twitter in 2025?

No, I started losing money. Listen, I would be the same person on Twitter if it weren't for all the money that stupid people in this town took out of my pocket. You know who they are. I do. I can't stand her. All right. So, congratulations on the anniversary. Thank you very much.

I hope someday to do fit. You look a little tired today. I'm, that's why I'm going to go. I have a business meeting after the show, and I'm going to take a nap. You didn't have an hour-long flight back from New Orleans that you had to miss a show for today, so were you so tired for? A long hour-long flight? It's a busy night. What's a longer flight on your charter?

San Antonio or New Orleans? I would say New Orleans. Yeah. By a few minutes. New Orleans, we came back after Christmas. There was a massive thunderstorm over like Baton Rouge and Lafayette. We went out in the Gulf and came back around. So that time they didn't fly through it, unlike the Dallas playoff series.

Oh, or the Memphis game. Where Craig Ackerman still talks about, he thought he was going to die. Like Charlie Polillo. Yeah. And meanwhile, Adam and I... We're in Fort Worth. We're in the same room, which is really weird. No, it was Dallas.

Dallas proper. And we were covering a playoff game for the station, and we're watching the local TV news saying, this is the most dangerous situation down... I watch the lightning show out the window of our hotel. And I'm like, the rockets are flying in this. Yeah. Yeah. So we call Craig and he's like, I thought we were going to die.

But they were up 3-1 at that point. Yeah, that's when Rajan and Ronald just basically quit on the Mavericks. And Jim Carrey was coaching them then, wasn't he? Not Jim Carrey. Yeah, he looks like Jim Carrey. You're talking about Carlyle? I guess a little bit. Jim Carly.

Yeah. Rick Carlisle on front of the show. Is he? We went to, we went to Rot Rellies and he was there twice. You ran into him. Two times. Does he know your name? No, shit.

Okay. If Matt runs into somebody twice, they're besties. They're best friends. Besties, as he would say. Oh, we are. How much do you think he looks forward to that interview every game? Oh, my God. You know what?

I have a consecutive street going of making him chuckle and pre-game interviews. Was it two? You know, he's very stern. Is it two? No, it's like, he's like, this guy won't shut up. I got to start giving courtesy laughs. No, no, he generally laughs. My favorite part of your interview with him yesterday was when he said,

you guys know I'm not sensitive. You know what that's code for? St.FU, Cam Whitmore. I don't give a bleep about your feelings or anyone. else's. That's why I like him. He does not. He's direct. And there are so few guys, you're at him, you say it all the time. There are very few direct coaches in sports. Oh, no. Much less the NBA. The NBA is a player's league. If a player wants you fired, he'll get you fired. Part of me wants him to take D'Amico to lunch this offseason.

No, I think D'Amico's that way, too. I think D'Amico is just different. D'Amico handles the time in the microphone significantly different than he may does. Yeah. Yeah. But I wish he would handle some other things a different way. I mean, yeah, no, EMA is the most direct. I would then put probably Joe Espada in, DiMico, in the same category, right?

Let me give you an example. Wouldn't you like to see EMA deal with Laramie Tonsul's crap in the locker room? You mean pro-Bowler? Yeah, it's pro-bler. I got to use for you. Pro-Buller means even less now that it's a stupid all-star competition.

I was like, you know, they're going to play flag football again this year, which I didn't see last year. Did you see any of it? Was it good? It's so fine. It's okay. I think I put it on for five minutes. Played out.

And by the way, NBA needs to bring the All-Star game back. Right? What do you mean? They're not playing a game. NBA's not playing a game? No, they're splitting up to four different teams. What? You haven't heard this yet?

No. Yeah, the TNT guys were... This happened while I was out of the country? The T&T guys were picking teams. And then they're all four playing against each other. It's like a tournament? Like a round Robin thing. Oh, round Robin?

Was it like five on five? Three on three? I don't know. You know me? I just say no to everything All-Star. Okay. But you have to go look it up. Yeah, they keep trying to invent ways.

I mean, because the players make so much money, there's no reason to try. Well, the reality was when you score 200 points in the game, you basically killed the All-Star game last year, is what you did. Yeah, baseball, basketball, football, all have been looking for solutions to make their All-Star games matter more. And the answer is none of the above. They just don't matter anymore. Like, why would I go out there and tear my UCL or ACL or PCL or whatever in a game? Or maybe, I don't know, exert any. energy like the guys in 80s and the 70s did? I'm sorry, 200 points does exert

injury, Matt. That's true. It's 200 to the feds 100 layups. Hey, one last question. Sure. Did you guys do your due diligence previewing this stellar Texans Titans matchup? No, we're saving it for the two to six show. Yeah, we didn't want to spoil it for you guys. We were going to allow you to all angles on Texans Titans coming up two to six here on sports talk seven. We intentionally did not discuss the game because we felt it was important for you guys to get into it. We didn't want to steal your thunder as it were. That sounds awful. Well, I mean, you know, it's going to be a great show. I'm going to listen.

Oh, the show will be, but I don't want to do that. Oh, hey, Wex. Yeah. What else are you going to talk about? All three, you are wearing rockets gear today. I always go to the game days. I know. Well, I'm going to go to the game now.

You're going to go on the game? Family's coming. Oh, nice. We're going to be very segregated from you. That feels like it's your loss. Oh, they're getting a little bit stingier with the seating arrangement. Oh, you're in the upper deck tonight, is what you said. Not an upper deck.

I won't go to an event at twice. the center in the upper deck. I won't. Have you told him... High horse client and too? Have you already told him about me? What about you? Never set an upper deck at Minutemade?

Yeah, I know that. Okay. That's why you're high horse mat. Well, I... I mean... I am enjoyable seat guy. Am I enjoyed my seats? It's too steep up there.

I don't disagree. Too much walking. It's not that bad, you whiners. Now, if you're in like the back row of the top, it's not great. It's not that bad. You're going to hit the floor. You're not going into a dome. That is as steep as I've ever seen an arena before in my life.

The wall? Yeah. That's an miniature stadium. Kind of overrated. The wall. By the way, it's in a dumpy part of town. It's a nice arena, but it's the best part is the scoreboard. Okay.

All right, that's it. Up next, Wax, who will carry the show, Clanton will mail it in, and we'll look forward to hearing all of that between 2 o'clock until 6. I'll talk to you for Rockets Basketball tonight. What is this? This is the anniversary jam, Matt. Crank this up, Connor. On the quiet.

Storm. Yeah. Get you some cognac, yikabasier, and enjoy the anniversary of you, you and lady on this, The Quiet Stone. Rocket Celtics tonight, baby. Oh yeah.