The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday!! Astros Take the Series & Only 2.5 Games Back In AL west

Episode Date: May 29, 2026

Anything Goes Friday!! Astros Take the Series & Only 2.5 Games Back In AL west 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. H-town, good welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. My close friends say I look younger. I hope that's true. Did somebody ask CJ about getting his hair cut? I mean, clearly, clearly. I just don't get it. What nerdy water carrier asked CJ about his haircut?

C.J. Stroud's haircuts. Will it impact his 2020 season? We are your unofficial home for C.J. Hair Talk. It's Sports Talk 790. Good morning, everybody. It's Jonathan. It's me, Matt. Ross is on a plane to California, so we will not see him for a week, which means Jonathan, we must make fun of him for the next seven to eight days. I'm ready. Let's go.

Any opportunity for us to take a dig at Ross while he's gone for the next week, plus we will do here on this radio show. I hope you guys are in a good mood today. And ladies, I always say guys, ladies too. I always want to make sure we shout out the ladies that listen to this radio show. And for that, we thank you. It is me by myself today with Jonathan back in our studio. So the two of us are going to hopefully entertain a lot of you for the next four hours here on Sports Talk 790. It is an anything goes Friday, which means Jonathan.

Gary and Spring can call him with a horrible sports take. We can have gambler Jim calling with a gamblers preview. You don't mean that. I wouldn't allow that money through Thursday. But, you know, there might be a big game with the gamblers this weekend. You never know. Of course, most people in Houston don't know, but that's neither here nor there. Anything you want to get into, even Brad can call in.

That's the essence of anything goes Friday. Whether it's about the Astros performance yesterday, whether it's about the NBA playoffs, whether it's about the labor negotiations or lack there up between the owners and the players in baseball, whether it be about Cody Campbell trying to schedule Texas Tech football this upcoming season, we got a lot to get to today. We've got I'm sorry's coming up at 1130. We have the news at new. We'll wake the strippers up.

We've got non-40 stories at 130. And of course, we've got hell yeah or not at 150. We're giving away Godsmack tickets today. So for those of you, they're a big Godsmack fans. Your opportunity to win the Primo seats coming up today at 1.50. But today is a lot of it is you and me. I have attempted to get some nice guess on the show. I send very polite DMs in Twitter, and I get no response.

is back, which is fine. It is what it is. I usually try to respond when people ask me to come on their show. I just kind of think professional courtesy, but that's, you know. Don't sound too upset. I'm upset. People are busy. I'm going to, oh, I didn't see this until after your show. Okay, whatever. That's fine. All right. 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-790 is how you reach a show. If you want to follow me on Instagram, I would greatly appreciate that and or Twitter, and that can be found at SportsMT. All right. I brought this up on the show yesterday in the 1 o'clock hour, and for you 10 o'clockers, we love you. We really love you 10 o'clockers, especially with me all the way to too. I said, how are y'all feeling about this little three-game deficit the Astros have?

Yeah, I didn't stutter, ladies and gentlemen. I said three yesterday. So guess who played yesterday? your beloved Houston Astros, who took three out of four against the Texas Rangers and are five and two against them so far this year. They need, what, one more win to retain the silver boot? Not that that makes a huge difference, but it is what it is, small victories. But the Astros today, guys and gals, do not wake up three games out of first place in the American League West.

They're two and a half. So for those of you that are Astro fans, and I'm going to presume that 99% of you that listen to this show are, because we are your home of the Astros, we like to talk Astros. We think we talk about it halfway intelligently as well. I come to you at 10.07 on this Friday morning with news that your Astros are still six games under 500, still not in first place,

but yet just two and a half games. out in the category to me of hard to fathom this is probably the hardest to fathom of the entire season your team that has been beset by Correa Altuve Brown hater Payneur for a while Janair Diaz right now Javier among the plethora of injured players Loperfito down year for EMI, down year for Brian O'Reilly, and your squad is two and a half out of first.

I need you guys and gals to compartmentalize this, as I asked the one o'clock audience in the show to do that yesterday. Not only am I going to ask you to compartmentalize it, I'm going to tell you the Astros yesterday for the second straight day put out this highly peculiar lineup and won. Okay, Peña Alvarez Peretti's, one, two, three. All right, not bad. Most teams in Major League Baseball would love a one, two, three lineup of that.

Then let me give you four through nine, just for those of you playing at home that didn't know the box score yesterday. your cleanup hitter for the second state straight day was Taylor Tremel largely a 4A player largely a journeyman largely a extra outfielder in his major league career your fifth place hitter was cam smith who by the way had a couple of hits yesterday to raise his OPS to 638 again average is about 750 good is 800 elites 900

and you kick ass at 1,000. Thank you, Yorna Mavarez. Then your sixth place hitter is Brendan Shoemaker. Now, again, he's done nice for you, but you know who Brendan Shoemake was two weeks ago. Well, maybe not two, but a month ago. He's kind of regressed back to the norm. His OPS is under 700 and 693.

Then you have Zach Desenzo batting seventh. His OPS is 635. again average about 750 really good's 800 then your eighth place hitter is bryce matthews who struck out twice yesterday o for three and its ops is 594 and your ninth place hitter is christian vasquez filling in for yarnier diaz has shown some pop but christian vasquez again ops for him is 706 limited sample size hasn't played as much but has been playing a lot since the honor went on the injure list. All I ask of you that consider yourselves Astro fans is, how the hell are they doing this?

Think about that for a second. I think the answers, I've got three or four for you. How in the world are we in the situation that we are in, that the local team that we've loved and grown up and watched and rooted for and cheered for, maybe it'll last 10 years, or in my case, since 1979. You know you're old when you say, 1979. That's how long it's been. I was an astrobiting 80.

I used to flick jalapinos on the outfield at the Astrodome back in the day. I guess you could, in theory, flick jalapinos on the warning track at Dikin, but I've never done that. Because I've grown up and matured a little bit, I think. How in the world? Have they done this? We'll discuss that next. 713-212-570. It is in anything.

And I mean, anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Jonathan's going to hang out with well as well. He will chime in with sound effects. He will laugh at some things I say. Sometimes. You will sometimes say I'm boorish and wrong. I need to correct myself, and that's fine too. Please don't call me an animal twice in this week like Ross did earlier this week.

That's why I got the clip. So I got 10. Oh, I see what you do. You're going to let Ross do the heavy lifting. Exactly. I got you. I got you. How in the world have the Astros done what they've done?

We'll discuss that next. 10-13 plus other things to get to today. Sports Talk, 790. All right, so I asked the question. And your replies are certainly welcome at 713-212-5-790. You're sending me a note through Twitter at SportsMT. I'll give you my answers first, and then you tell me if I'm missing any pieces to this. How in the world are the Astros...

two and a half games out of first place. All right, the number one reason why we can sit here and talk about a relevant late May, early June pennant race is because the American League West sucks. No if ands or buts about it. In a normal season, whether it's the Astros, whether it's the Mariners, man, really those are the only two teams have been competitive, frankly, in the American League West for a long period of time. but the reality is it's been an Astros division. Even when they have been off to subpar starts, they usually rally go on a long winning streak and then pull away.

The first place team in this division is the Seattle Mariners, and they're at 28 wins and 29 losses. For those of you playing at home, that means are under 500. The number one reason why we can have a smiley face today about our local baseball team in large part is because the division sucks. You can't hide that. But with that being said,

Jordan Albaraz is playing to an MVP level. Christian Walker has bounced back to what the Astros thought they were going to get from him when they sign him away from Arizona. You are getting, for the most part, some really solid middle relief slash leverage bullpen work. It hadn't been perfect, i.e. the first month of the year. But people are starting to settle down a little bit. de la Santos, Abraeu's been better,

Stephen O'Kert, A.J. Blueball, to a smaller extent. You've also had Peter Lambert come on the scene and help you, and you've had Spent to Erigetti, act like he wants to go the All-Star game. And, boy, has he been needed,

especially because of all the injuries the Astros have gone through. So there are your answers, as far as I'm concerned. Division sucks. You've got four or five players playing way better than they did a year ago, and you found a couple of bright spots along the way. Now, Burroughs can be more consistent like he was a couple of days ago. You get Hunter

Brown back to something close to what he was as a team ace, and you get something close of Josh Hayter going into that role being the ninth inning guy, moving everybody up the pie chart on the bullpen and putting people back in their normal positions, then you can hang around. But as I said before, ladies and gentlemen, somebody in this division is going to take off. It might be Seattle. I don't want it to be

because I find them rather arrogant. Just like they don't like us. Count your blessings that even win the Astros, record-wise, injury plagued for a second consecutive season. Guys not performing up to expectations.

Even as bad as it has felt, for the first two months of the year, your squad's two and a half out. Two weeks ago, you wanted Dana gone, you wanted Joe gone, and you could not shout it from the rooftops enough. I go back to that seven-game homestand. The Astros had four with Seattle,

where they lost three or four, and everyone's like, uh-oh, circle in the waters, what's going on? Could this be the weekend? Could some difficult, tough conversations be had within the front offices and the ownership group of the Astros to, you beat the Rangers, you go out to Minnesota, lose two out of three, and then it's a different ball team since then. Crazy. It once again for the nine million time proves to everybody that baseball is a marathon. But if you want to put an asterisk out there, I will allow it, because I'm going to put it out there, too.

I was just going to say, Matt, you were just saying they were washed too. I know. That's what I'm saying. The asterisk is this. Largely, Jonathan, you tell me if I'm wrong. The number one reason why we can have such optimism is because what? The American League West sucks. Correct.

We are this late in the season and there is on a single team in the division at 500. So sometimes, Jonathan, I'm going to let you learn through me. You think about what you say. Again, I did believe they were washed. Because normally you would be washed. The pitching was... Jonathan, the pitching was atrocious in the first month of the season. It wasn't bad.

It was... I can't think of it. I mean, I could probably think of some other words, but we're on FCC Family Radio Station. Just hang around. The June schedule ain't too difficult. I shouldn't say ain't because it's not really a word. But you get why I'm going with this.

On the phones we go. Brian and Pearland first up at 1024 on 790. Brian, good morning to you. How are you on this Friday? Good. Hey, quick question for you before I get to the after point, do you have any special guest host, possibly next week, like Ryan Holland, if you will, or anybody like that?

I do. I'm still in flux. Gordie is going to fill in and hang out with me for a few days, and then Ryan Holland's going to join us next. next Thursday because we'll have a game one of the NBA finals to go over with him. So he's in next Thursday with me. Okay. Yeah.

I got you. I got you. You get hold Gordon's feet to the fire about if he's still pro-Jason Alexander or not after that. You know, I tease because of care. I'm way more bothered by his unloving die of fear with Lane Kiffin, how Lane Kiffin does nothing wrong, but that's not here nor there. Exactly. Hey, real quick, I think something else you can add to the mix, and I called you on it the other day, I think Christian Vasquez has been a huge part.

And like I said, I know he's not blazing a trail at the plate and he's serviceable. But I think he's giving these pitchers way more confident. He calls a better game. Like I heard Blummer talking the other day about, you know, he's calling batters backwards where, you know, he's keeping hitters off balance. I think for young guys like Eric Eddy and Lambert and that, having somebody who's caught the likes of Chris Sale and other big-name pitchers, I think that has a huge, you know, he's basically the 2026 version of Martin Maldonado,

but a better hitter, but he's just a much better catcher when it comes to calling a game. He's just, it's just a lot more knowledgeable than what you normally get out of yiners. So I think that's been huge. I think Highway Tang has actually been a very, very much a bright spot. And I always think that as guys come back, look, Look, I know Joey Lopropito doesn't blaze a trail, but I think he's better in the outfield than Bryce Matthews as a full-time, everyday left-fielder. So you get him back. Tramel is better than those guys, so you got rid of Garrett, or not Garrett Cole, but Zach Cole.

Defendzo goes down, you know, it just gives you more guys who are, at least have more confidence as big league players. No, Loperfeito is still young, but I think he's better than, you know, any other corner outfielder you have that's out there playing left. Frist and Walker's resurgence has helped. And eventually you get out too big back. You don't have to rely on Braden's shoemaker as much. So I think if these guys get healthier, and then you're going to throw Hunter Brown in the mix, hopefully Christian Javier when he comes back and be halfway decent for you, but also getting hater back will help because, like you said, it will be.

put these guys back in their normal roles, but also some of these starting pitchers just getting deeper into games and giving these relievers a break. That first month, I mean, you were asking bullpins to cover eight, nine, or eight, seven and a third,

six and a half innings. Like, that was a lot. Those guys were just throwing every day and just took its toll. So just guys getting fifth, six, even seventh innings has made a whale of a difference. And you can see it just in the way, These guys are resting.

You have so many more options now. But I have a good one, Matt. You know, while Ross isn't here, you know, maybe Ross is out in California looking for a barber who can deal with that meaning to get control of it. No, we're going to bag on him while he's gone. Good, absolutely. That's what we love about it. That's what we love him. Thank you, Brian.

Have a good weekend. When someone is gone, what's the right thing to do? We bag on them. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5. seven and I don't know I don't think that joey low perfido is going to make a significant difference but I would be willing to watch and the reality is it might be a battle between bryce matthews and cam smith and zach de senzo and uh joy lo perfeito I mean none of that's

necessarily going to make you go ooh and ah but Taylor tremel I forgot about him too somebody's got to take those positions somebody's got to play that left field spot and if Cam continues to struggle, somebody's got to take that right field spot. Although, did you see the catch that Cam Smith made last night? Holy smokes took away a home run. I mean, legitimately went over the yellow line to snag a home run away. Cam's trying, Cam is trying every which way he can to justify his spot on the roster. And with defensive plays like that, who, unbelievable.

And that's what, you know what? You also need that too. One of the things that has happened for the Astros, as those of you that have watched the Astros since 2015 since this resurgence, is their defense has been really, really good. Texas defense sucks. The Astros defense, for a better part of a decade, while not perfect, has saved their bacon way more than cost them games.

1029, it's Matt, no Ross, which means we make fun of him today. 713-212, 5-790, 7-1-3, 7-3,000. 212-5-7-90 in one hour. We ask you to say your sorries for the week. And boy, Jonathan's got a lot to tell you. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Other things that get to on the radio show today will include

we got labor troubles in baseball. Who, yesterday was not a good day for the thought of playing in 2027. C.J. Stroud speaks about his contract extension. Cody Campbell The big money spender at Texas Tech. He's out there again. God love him.

And did you see what happened to Pleasure Pier yesterday with the roller coaster? Oh, hell no. 1030 on Sports Talk 7.30. That's driven right and deep. Going back on it is Smith at the wall, leaves at the wall, and he made the catch. Cam Smith rock. Brandon Nemo of a home run.

And the side is retired. Demo with a home one robbery in the series in Houston a week and a half ago. And Cam Smith says turnabout is fair play. Yeah, that was going to be over the wall. A Cam leaping very high and timed that leap perfectly. Incredible. Cam Smith was flying like an eagle. Good pull Jonathan.

My goodness. I can't take full credit. Who gave you credit? Who did it? Yes. Cole Thompson. He never leaves the office. I help me out. We don't care.

We're going to get Cole a cot. He was out there getting good audio of CJ's haircut conversation and everything. Good for him. The backbone of $7.90. Can we be boys here for just a second? Jonathan, do we really care about CJ's hair? I mean, if we do, then I need to start caring about it. but I don't care.

Who? He got the haircut like two months ago, right? You know, maybe I would care if he starts the season and he throws six picks. Okay, all right, maybe he should cut the hair. But, I mean, what does? He's more confident. That's what you need. You didn't answer my question.

No, I don't care. Do you care? Because here's the thing. He gets his hair cut a couple months ago, okay? You know what? Okay, so it gets rid of the dreads. Okay, style change is fine. Everybody goes through that.

People in, you know, I can buy that for a little bit, but then to ask him at the first day of OTAs, like from what I understand, and I was told this through our 790 sources, the hair questions were asked before the contract extension conversation came into play. What? Yeah. I don't get it. Is that like an icebreaker to ease into the hard question? You know what, John, that's good. Because here's the thing, if he would have shown up with the fresh hair, then it makes total sense.

Oh, wow. You know, like if I came in the office and I had a hair transplant, you'd ask me about it right away. I get it. And obviously, if he had a massive change in hair style, which he obviously did, you go, wow, CJ, I haven't seen you in a while. What happened? Well, this is not, I mean, hell, he got his haircut two months ago.

He's probably, help me on, John. He's probably had a haircut since then. Yeah, he's definitely got, you know, touch up, got another fan. Touch up. Incredible. What, what people care about? Again, I, Matt, if you try growing out your hair again, would I question that? Would I be like, would I be like, are you all right?

Is that better? You'd be like, Matt, stop, take the L. So maybe that's what they're doing with CJ. like, oh, okay, like, you know, just trying to figure out. No, no, no, no. Like in our system, in our audio system, there were two cuts about CJ. And I was like, oh, we're going to play some CJ audio. And it was both about the hair.

And I was like, I don't want to do that. So I asked Cole and Dan, who do a lot of our audio work in the morning. I said, can you guys put a CJ contract extension cut in there? And Cole did that. And I thank him for that. You know what? To each his own, you know what? I honestly, I'm going to speak on behalf of Texans fans.

I don't think you care if he's got a mullet. I don't think you care if he's clean-shaven. I don't care if he hasn't shaved in five months, hasn't gotten a haircut since 1999 when he was two years old or however old he was. You want him to stop throwing interceptions. You want him to win games. You want him to go and take the Texans

with this awesome defense they have to the AFC championship game at bare minimum. Or as some would say, the floor. that you know you go to the hair card when you win a Super Bowl. Hey, look in there. Ah, man, you look different. Wow, that's cool. I'd be like, CJ.

How the OTA's treating you? How do you like your new offensive line? By the way, well, Anderson got a new deal. You're usually quarterbacks get the new deal this time around. How are you feeling about your deal? That's what I would care about. And we're going to let you hear from that. But we're not going to play hair comments on the show.

I'm going to make the editorial decision, and it may be to my detriment that we are not going to play any sound from CJ talking about his hair. Because that's his own business. And as someone who's follically challenged, would I do, I get done for you, Jonathan. Would I do a better show if I had more hair on my head? No. I mean, if you feel confident, maybe.

No, no, I don't feel confident. Maybe the ball doesn't, you know. Jonathan bald is beautiful. I didn't say it wasn't. You'll learn eventually someday. No, please don't do that. Let that someday be like 70. You know, it's funny because I have a lot of friends that are bald,

and we kind of have the same philosophy about it, but we go to our friends who have good hair and you've got good hair. You're like, man, don't shut up. I like mine. I don't want to go down your road. Don't tell me that. My grandpa's bald, too. I know.

See, I've got my two boys. One's got really good hair and one is bald. And he's, you know, he's young. He's in his 20, so he's not thrilled about it. But he understands it. Back on the phones we go, let's talk to Roger on 790 at 1041. Roger, good morning to you. Hey, good morning on a Get Lost Ross weekend.

Get Lost, Ross weekend. I love it. I'm going to go with that. Okay, so, yeah, you would look good with the hair system. Derek worked for Deadpool. Ain't happening. Anyway, I'm sorry. Anyway, so I think the reason why you like a good goulash soup, Matt,

like with all the different types of flavors and stuff in there, that's what the Astros are doing. They're perfecting a goulash soup, if you will. Now, there was a lot of holes and a lot of rivets and weren't holding, but those wells are holding now, you know, pitching and sustaining, guys are finding their roles, and do not let Brandon make the shoe fit, leave this assholes team.

I think he's one of those cogs in there that just work for us. He's like a modern-day Billy Spires, if you will. He just works for this team. I don't know why. And just him and Tremail. I want them on this team because I, and I think you had it half right. I think we would have, because there's a hundred-something games left, you still would have made a playoff for a wild-coft birth,

even if you don't win the division. So I'm not really worried about this division. It is trash. And I don't think the Mariners can go as far because it's, without their dumpers. So I'm not seeing them, you know, going, you know, making too much hell in the future. But the Astros, you know, you have the MVP candidate, Lord Alvarez. You had what you didn't have last year in Christian Walker, which is a guy that can bang,

and he's going to give you at least 30 homeowner looks like this year. So you have these things working for you. And then you got paying your back. You're going to get your closure back. And Canaway Chan has found his way to the starting role. Oh, I forgot about him. Thank you for bringing him up. Yes.

And he's pitching tonight, by the way. And I think he's relatively a bullpen game for the brewers. So let's start off a good on a good foot tonight and see where it goes. But yeah, man, it's a goulash. That's a nice mix, if you will. So I think that's what's happening with us. And have a great weekend, Matt. Thanks, Roger, for the phone call.

goulash I don't and I don't know if Jonathan you know this or not I'm not a big fan of casseroles I like my food separated but maybe this is what this Astros team in maybe the Astros are a casserole You know

This isn't this isn't a good analogy man I'm sorry No I didn't bring it up That was that that was Rogers analogy But I'm saying, I don't think you should be agreeing with that. I don't explain this to me. What does that episode just mean? I don't like casseroles.

I don't like pot roasts and vegetables and carrots and all that mixed together. I don't know good. I don't like King Ranch Casserol. Ugh, gross. But how was the ashtals of casserole? He called him goulash. He's mixing a bunch of stuff together and making an item. I mean, I guess he'd eat it.

Okay, okay, okay. I can kind of see that. Okay, okay, okay. Maybe they are. Maybe they are. Yeah, I mean, I think the Astros could be a cassero. I mean, it wouldn't be your first preference. I do like a, I do like a ham and scala potatoes cassero.

I'll go with that. But I'm not just a general casserole roll guy. Wait, so you like ham and scallot potatoes and you don't like enchiladas? Nope. You don't like brisket? I like brisket. You don't like brisket. I like brisket.

I don't love brisket. I like brisket. I love ribs. I love sausage. I love turkey. You love sausage? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

It's and anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross is off today. What did Roger say? What's our catchphrase with Ross not being here? I just forgot it. I forgot to come back and tell me. Oh, by the way, I get it as a promo. on ESPN. The gamblers at Birmingham tomorrow, 2 o'clock.

Gambler Jim with a breakdown of that game next. 1045 on Sports Talk 790. 10.51 on Sports Talk 790. It is Matt. It's Jonathan, no Ross. You know what's the Matt Thomas show with Jonathan today? We're going to gloss the name of the show for the next week. I'll think about that. By the way, my buddy Jay sent me an email.

What's a ruling on chicken pot pie? Oh, hell no. no chicken pot pie you need a new producer man there's no way no beef pop pie no turkey pot pie gross that it's a crust with the food in it and it's got like juices and oh disgusted what come really you mean to tell me if i served you if we said let's go and have chicken pot pie for lunch you'd be like that sounds great no you have it's a struggle food no it's not if someone says they made a chicken pot pie 10 times good I'd go, you know what I would do?

I can't do this. I'd go, I'd go meet a rubway and get me a six inch. That sounded weird. You're going to get a rubway and a six inch? Yeah, forget. Don't clip that. That's too late. That's not.

I'm right now as we speak. Subway for a foot long. Oh, by the way. That's, sounds worse. Roger, the cat raised was Get Lost Ross Friday. That's what it was. Get lost. It's kind of good, right?

Let's get that hashtag growing on Twitter. All right, we got other things that get to today, beyond the Astros win over the Rangers last night. We have Major League Baseball Labor Troubles. We have the Texas. I want you hear what C.J. Stroud said about his contract and lack thereof of negotiations. And again, it's not critical, but I want you all to hear it.

What else we got? Cody Campbell at Texas Tech wants to buy out other teams so his squad can play Texas in week one of the college football season. That's interesting to me. Spurs, Christ. the thunder last night? I mean, can we get,

Jonathan, can we get a decent NBA finals game? I mean, this one, these last three or four have absolutely sucked. The finals, yes.

The Western finals, yeah, it's been terrible. You think game seven is going to be that good? Yesterday, it was kind of lackluster, you know? Lackluster,

it was a complete blowout. Spurs killed them. And by the way, did you see SGA wasn't getting a lot of calls yesterday? Oh, they're running through him now. Oh, yeah.

They're like officials. We did. Now, I wonder this. Now, will he get, I got to look at the box score real quick. Let me do this before I go any further here. How many, now, granted, yesterday was a blowout, so it's not indicative. And I'm going to assume that SGA did not play much of the fourth quarter yesterday

because the game was out of hand. But think about this for a second. Will he get free throws in Oklahoma City that he wouldn't have gotten in San Antonio? The answer to that is, of course he would have. I'm looking at the box score right now. Let me take a look here at 70 minutes that SGA played last night. By the flopper sound bites from the crowd in Santa was crazy. All right, so SGA yesterday played 28 minutes,

so that's not indicative of things because the game was blown out. He was 6 of 18 from the floor. He only shot three free throws in 28 minutes of play. Something tells me he may have three free throws in the first 90 seconds of game 7 on Saturday night. All right, 713, 21, 2, 5, 790. For a Gambler's Birmingham Stallions preview, Gambler Jim is with us on 790.

Gambler Jim, how the hell are you? Well, I'm in better. I mean, I was so disappointed at the last gambler loss. I mean, I was depressed for the whole freaking day. They should have won that game, and they just don't play up to their ability, and it's irritating. It's like all the Houston teams. They just don't play up to their ability.

The Astros I'm happy about. The Astros finally got on track, and hopefully during this homestand, they'll do the same thing, because they haven't been walking now. They played two teams that were kind of struggling, but now they can show what they're really made. against Milwaukee and make that Dyken Park their home

filled advantage and hopefully bring us a winner because this team's desperate for a winner. I wanted to ask you something about anything goes Friday. Can I mention something on anything goes Friday? It is an anything goes Friday. Yeah, have you ever considered doing that? I know who Michael Barry

is, but he does that. I truly believe segment, which is really good because it's like real fast things. Like I truly believe the a afters are going to be on track and that's the end. And then y'all can say, yes, I believe that or I don't believe that. Is that something you would consider doing? Because you can get callers, rapid callers. You know, I don't like to bit steal from people.

That's kind of his thing. So I'm going to respectfully let him have that for his own segment. We have our own segments on our show, and people steal that from us, and I'm used to that. But now I'm going to, Jim, I'm going to let Michael Berry have that for himself. Okay. Well, I really like that segment. He has on a show, and I think it would be great on your show. Just be fast, fast, quick answers.

and we have to dwell on on how stupid we are. You know, stupidity is part of the charm of life, my friend. We're all not brain surgeons. Thanks for the call. Thank you very much, Jim. There you go. I got James and Klein.

See, I'm in fences quickly. I don't hold grudges. James is one of our worst callers, but sometimes he surprises us. He's obviously disappointed in his beloved gamblers, as are none of us. But you know, teach his own. All right, 713.

212-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 yesterday the owners of baseball gave the Players Association what they would like in the next labor negotiation

the players association told them to shut their bum-asses up I'll explain that next 1057 on Sports Talk 790 This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross NHTown Hi, gang, it is our number two.

The first hour flew by. Come on and hang out with me. I'm watching Pat McAfee on TV. He's got a cast of 30 people doing a show. Imagine that. All right, it's me and Jonathan. It's anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90. All right. Unfortunately, in my broadcast career, I've had to do a lot of these types of conversations. They're not my strength. They're something that I didn't draw up when I said, hey, I want to be a sports talk host, but it's a necessary evil.

You're saying, Matt, what are you talking about? I'm talking about the labor conversations between the owners and the players in Major League Baseball. And when I was younger, I felt like when the baseball players struck back in 1994 or the NFL struck or the NBA that I had to come down with a hardline stance of, oh, I'm team player or I'm team owner. But I will say this as social media now is way more important and way more present that all you got to do is go to the people that you follow or your for you tap for those of you

that are involved in the X platform. And you're going to find different opinions on this. And you're going to, it feels like to me that people side with owners and see people side with players. And it's like a 50-50 split. I don't have that for sure. But this is kind of how it feels. And it kind of how it's how I feel about politics. If you were to take one side of things and express your opinion about,

whether you are to the left or the right of center, that the other half that disagree with you would call you a terrible human being and you know what the hell you're talking about and you are scum. So a long time ago, as I got older into this, I thought to myself, self, you don't know anything about labor negotiations. You're not an attorney. You don't particularly care about the business of baseball

or the business of basketball, the business of football. you just care about the games. That's why you come to this show, is to have some conversation about what's going on in the field, maybe have some laughs, goof off a little bit, but we ain't going to do a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to the deep economics of any of the sports teams that we discuss.

College or professional. So that's my philosophy on this as well. I have done a lot of looking on social media. I've spent a lot of time looking at the websites. I've seen the Rosenthal's and the Jesse Rogers and the Bob Nightingales and the Chaff Passons report on what happened yesterday. And so what I will do is I will present to you

what the owners have said. I will give you the players' union response and then I'll let you decide where you are on this because it's too heavy for me. And if you're mad at me, me or disappointed that I don't have a side on this, I will respectfully say, I'm sorry, but I'm not going to do it because here's the thing. It's way above my pay grade, and frankly, it's probably way above your pay grade.

All we care about is that next March, late March, we've got baseball to talk about. And I'm scared to death, ladies and gentlemen, as we speak to you at 1105. We're not going to have that. the league has proposed, meaning the owners, a hard top and bottom when it comes to money that it's being spent, i.e. a salary cap. Players would be guaranteed a 50-50 split of baseball-related revenue. They would also take all the television money that L.A. gets,

that Miami gets, that Milwaukee gets, that Houston gets, that Rangers get, and they would put it in one big pool, and they would split it up among all 30 baseball teams. But the number one thing that is being discussed more than anything else is a salary cap and a salary four. That to me, we've talked about this for many months, was going to be the essence of this next round of labor negotiations. Baseball's never had a salary cap before. They tried in the mid-90s and it wound up being a lockout and a blown in a season and ended. the Players Association and their interim director Bruce Meyer

I don't know if it's interim I mean he has a job by now put out a statement yesterday and I'm going to read not some of it or not all of it but I'll read some of it to you to kind of give you an essence of where the baseball players side of things dealt with what they found out yesterday from the owners and it goes like this the owners responded today with a demand for a salary cap system something generations of players have fought against the last time the owners made such an explicit push

for a cap was 30 years ago and it led to the longest work stoppage in MLB history for generations our members have fought against cap systems because they harm players at all levels erode or eliminate contractual guarantees pit player versus player lead to more work stoppages, not less, and get worse for players over time. Caps don't lower ticket prices for fans, eliminate tanking, or ensure teams are run with equal competence. They suffocate competition by offering owners an all-purpose excuse for inaction and mediocrity. Again, that's a lot of lip service, ladies and gentlemen, and that to me, if you're on the

baseball side of things you're like hey our our sport is as healthy as it's ever been why you want to change it the other side of me says well the NFL's had a salary cap the NBA has had a salary cap

and everything is going smoothing very very well for those two groups again I don't have an MBA I've never been involved in labor negotiations I labor my own contract that's about it So I cannot come to you at 11.08 and say who's right or who's wrong, except for the following statement.

I thought that there was some encouragement when the two sides got after it today and yesterday to talk about it. But I'm down on the dumps. I am very, very, very concerned baseball fans that we're going to not have baseball in 2007, especially if the owners do not give up on a salary cap. Somebody's going to have to blink. In 1994, the owner said, we've got to get back on the baseball field. I don't know if they want to do it in 2007. So, again, if you or Jonathan, I'm sure you did the same thing.

If you went to your ex-platform, you could find how dare, these Uber rich people I'm reading the air Ask for a cap And then the baseball owners are going to say Look, we're looking out for each other We're looking out for the health of our business We're looking to maintain

Where we want to see teams that are not spending any money Start to spend money We also want to curb our own control We want to have a balanced act here We want to split them television dollars We want to again There's a lot of layers of this gang that I'm not

it's just too hard to explain on the radio side of things you guys can do your own reading on this but the takeaway I get from this is number one this is just me myself and I on this and I don't if you guys agree or disagree with me on this I'm not taking a side on this because I don't I don't have a strong enough opinion because we're talking about

billions of dollars being talked about and how does a radio host in Houston who likes to talk about the mineral relief and the outfield and who's hitting and the lineup placement and managerial decisions. I don't have that kind of knowledge to do that. So why talk out of my ass when I can't do it? And number two, I don't particularly care who wins this because I want baseball in 2007 and I'm scared to death we're not going to get it.

And oh, by the way, third, what if I took a side? What have you took aside? does it really matter if jonathan and i had a deep conversation where jonathan was pro player and i was pro team would it get us anywhere not really not really all i did yesterday after the show and i came home and i heard about these battle of statements is that i hated reading every part of it i hated reading the anguish that the place that the place was that the play players association had because they were upset the player the salary camp came into play and the stiff resistance to it and i had anguish that the player that the owners are insisting on a salary camp

and you know reading on this while you're talking about it and just like the responses and stuff like that yeah matt you make a really good point i'm trying to have a side and you know like oh how would how would i feel but it's it's really difficult i'm i don't know where to lean to because let's let's let's let's dumb this down real quick here if salary caps and again i don't know the baseball business side of things as compared to football and basketball but would you say jonathan that the salary cap has allowed super competitiveness at both the NBA and NFL levels very and spread it out of them very competitive green bay super small market has just as much chance of winning the Super Bowl, in theory, as L.A., San Francisco, New York, big markets.

In theory, Utah, Sacramento, Oklahoma City is a great example of that. Look at the two teams in the West. So, again, I'm not trying to play sides on this, but when I did read the players association of the salary cap is the worst thing that's ever happened in sports, you have two of the leagues that have a cap. Now, the NBA has aprons that you let you go over it, but you're going to pay penalties. The NFL, they stick you to a hard cap. You cannot go a dollar over that hard cap.

So all I'm saying is, players have enjoyed a great run of things. And if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And if they don't trust the owners, then I understand why they put that out there. All I would say is my only editorial comment on beyond the fact that I want them to play, sports. I don't want to talk legalese because it's not what I got into sports as a fan and as a host to do and nor did you.

But to blatantly say that salary caps destroyed sports when your other two leagues have it doesn't make a lot of sense. Now, is what the owners are offering the players? Not as good with the players getting the other two sports? That I can't answer. And if that's the case,

then you do have to have some serious negotiations. And maybe there will not be a quote-unquote hard cap ultimately in baseball. But all I'm going to tell you is this. We're not, I don't think the owners are budging this time around. I don't know that for sure because we're talking about 30 different individual minds on this. But this go-around, Miesgut tells me that if there's some, if there ain't a cap and a floor that are put into place for the future, that we ain't seeing baseball for a while.

And again, I don't care who wins. I don't. I don't care if the baseball players fleece the owners or the owners take of the players. Just get me back to baseball. So, unfortunately, relax and enjoy 2026 because it could be a problem in 2027

if indeed the players will not budge from a thought of a potential salary cap because I don't think the owners are going to budge. 1114 is our time. Jason and Willie, we'll get to you guys And next we have, I'm sorry, he's coming up at the bottom of the hour. Do you want to apologize for something? You probably should.

You've done some terrible things. 1114, Sports Talk, 790. We have a lot of other topics to get to today, but I wanted to get into the baseball stuff just because, again, I was so discouraged about what I was reading from both sides yesterday. 1119, Matt at Thomas with you. Ross with the week off and back with his week from Monday. Jonathan's hanging out with us as well. 713-212-2-5-790.

Astros take three out of four from the Rangers have a series with Milwaukee that starts tonight. Spurs crushed the thunder last night to send in a seventh game to Oklahoma City for the Western Conference Championship. And we've got to give to some Cody Campbell. The Texas Tech big-time alum wants to schedule Texas Tech football. We'll hear from CJ Astrona's contract as well. And among things in your life that you don't want to get involved with, I would put getting stuck on a roller coaster being maybe on the top 10 of my list. We'll talk about that as well.

Anything goes Friday, 713-212-5-790. Jason and Katie Wooders at 1120. Hi, Jason. Hey, I don't talk about the salary cap tank. My biggest problem with baseball is you don't have legacy teams. I grew up in Ohio in the 70s, and the big red machine was the thing. The big red machine doesn't happen in today's market because the smaller market teams can't afford to hang on to the players.

I mean, what was it? Miami. They won the World Series the next year. They filled with an entirely different team because they traded off all the good players. Right. You know, they need to add something like a legacy exemption to players who have been on the team for years. So, I mean, you connect as much to the players as you do to the team.

And when you have a favorite player, and the next year he's gone, you lose contact with that team in some ways. I mean, the race for the traded Johnny Bench, I've been heartbroken and probably wouldn't have watched them. You know, it's that type of thing. You need to keep the players that the fans can identify with and build a relationship with, especially in these smaller markets. Here's the thing, though, Jason. Mm-hmm.

And I don't know if it's going to change, but today's youth. And I've got two people in my family that are under 30 that are sports fans. And Jonathan is under 30 as our producer, and he could probably chime in on this as well. Because of what you just talked about, younger people are not identifying with teams anymore. They're identifying with individual players. Now in the head, yeah. And so if you're a Tarek Scuba fan, the pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, you don't particularly care that he's got Detroit on his chest. If you love Terrick

Scoople, you're going to watch Tarrag Scouple no matter where he goes. Yeah, I understand that. That's because of the way things have gone, especially in baseball. But I think if you have a favorite player that plays for the same team over

years, you're going to find other favorite players on that team that you identify with, especially in the local market. Yeah, I mean, if you're a Miami fan, If you're a Pittsburgh fan, if you're a Cincinnati fan, if you're a Kansas City fan,

you fall in love with a guy, you know two or three years down the road that that team is going to probably trade that guy for future prospects because you know he's, you don't want to spend the money on it. That is discouraging for sure. Will the next round of labor negotiations ensure that these teams that are not spending money,

will they be forced to spend? And that's where I think, you're going to get some of the smaller markets to go. You know what? I can kind of side with one side of the other because at least if I'm a Miami-Marlin's fan, I know my team is going to spend X amount of money. The discrepancy between the top five and Bayroll and baseball and the bottom five, they're worlds apart.

And you don't see that in any other sport except Major League Baseball right now. Yeah, I agree with you on that. They do, I mean, the thing that gave me hope was what you were talking about, with the television revenue. Yeah. I'm being split. I know that from what I understand, they split the ticket, the ticket at the stadium. What is it like 70, 30?

Well, they split the television dollars are the biggest thing. The television revenue, they split 48% of it. They're looking to put all of it into one piggy bank, what means the Dodgers get, you know, 25 times of TV money. And thank you for the phone call that, say, the, since any Reds get. They're willing to pull all that in and consider that revenue for the sport. And that revenue would ultimately determine what the floor would be and how much a team has to spend and a ceiling that you could spend on a cap.

You know, I kind of know what's going to happen on this, but I can't guarantee it. And this feels like you can say this with any sort of negotiation, especially when you're talking about millionaires versus billionaires. Somebody's going to have to budge. but the thing that bothers me so much is that they have been sitting on this for a couple of years now knowing what each side wanted. The player association was not stunned yesterday

when they found out that the owners wanted a salary cap. And the salary cap, in part, is to level things out, but it's also in part for the teams that do spend crazy money, like the Dodgers, like the Mets, like the... Who else would be... the Yankees, to say, hey, I've only got this much money. I can't give you everything you want because I got a cap. I can't spend more.

In theory, you would think the New York Giants could spend significantly more money than the Carolina Panthers could. But guess what? The Giants have a cap number, and once they get to that cap number, they can't spend a dollar over it. We can't. So it's the rich teams, too. They're also trying to keep their expenses in check as well.

and that bothers the players because the players think about this Kyle Tucker went to free agency Alex Brickman went to free agency we've seen it here with our own local baseball team as long as those guys performed well they knew there would be it didn't take it doesn't take 30 offers for Kyle Tucker to decide where he wants to go it takes one offer

and he happened to take an offer from a team that has been able to essentially write blank checks for the longest time. And maybe the Dodgers don't want to do that anymore. Maybe Major League Baseball doesn't want the Dodgers to do that anymore. Now, they have little squirly numbers when it comes to deferred money, which, again, that's outside my comfort zone on this. But they're doing it. The Dodgers, every time there is a high-end free agent available, guess what they do?

They're always in the mix. Guess who is never in the mix for the high-end free agency? You heard about Breggman moving on, or you heard about Garrett Cole, or you heard about George Springer, or you heard about Kyle Tucker, or you heard about Mookie Betts, or you heard about Mike Trout, or anybody that would be testing the free agent waters, you hear about the same four or five teams. And I don't know if Major League Baseball wants that.

And also, again, I don't think Major League Baseball wants four or five teams sitting there penny pinching their way through. what is charming and what is good about the other two leagues is that in theory they're still going to be savvy you got to have a good run organization but you do have san antonio and oklahoma city and cleveland there were three or four final teams neither one of any of those three are not mega market teams we have seen the packers win super bowls we have seen Tampa bay win super bowls we have seen Tampa bay win Super Bowls we have seen who else is in the world of

well New England's big you get my drift on this when you get into an NFL season as long as you draft right and as long as you hire the right people to run the team and you spend the money the right way you can win and it does give hope

to say a smaller market like Carolina or a market like Green Bay or what is another small NFL market? to think what's Miami's not really small. You kind of get my drift. Minnesota, I'm not huge. Minnesota feels like they got just as much chance.

So I don't know how much the Players Association have looked on the baseball side of, on the basketball and football side of things, but they clearly have. They're not done over there. They believe their economic model has worked. Baseball is thriving.

And again, to put it in an overly simplistic term, my guess is major league baseball, the Players Association are saying, If it ain't broke, don't fix it. All right, we will get to a little bit of I'm sorry. He's in the next segment of the show. We've got a couple of folks that want to chime in on what I think was a discouraging opening start to the labor negotiations between the players and the owners. And my blanket statement is, I don't care who wins.

You're talking about billions and billions and billions of dollars. Just get it resolved. Speaking of baseball in 2027 gets a great sport. Sports in great shape, too. It really is. Let's go to Kevin in Pearland. Hi, Kevin. Hey, Matt.

I hope you agree with me by the end of this call. You know, forget about what Jason said with all the legacy stuff, all that cute stuff. No, I don't think so. Too much. I mean, we've got to have the hard cab. Don't you agree that there'd be more fan interest in baseball if we had something like the NFL? I think NFL, I think it was probably the most popular. And second, I don't know, if it's basketball or if it's baseball, probably basketball.

Because like you said, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, small market, you know, everybody has, every fan has a legitimate, pretty much, most things. Not everyone, but, you know, it's not always dominated by, you know, New York and L.A. I mean, don't you get tired of talking about bemoaning L.A. and New York, always getting the big, you know, free agents at Chicago. I mean, don't you think that it would just be better if we did just a straight up hard cat, man? I don't care if we don't have baseball for next year or the year after. If we can have something like the NFL, then I think, you know, there'd be more fans in the stands, more viewership. What do you think about that?

I don't think fans. I don't think Saturday Cap is going to affect people in the stands. I mean, winning and losing effects what's in the stands. now, you could be saying that for Miami and some of the smaller markets that don't spend money. I mean, Miami should be spending money. Miami's got a lot of money down there. I don't know why they don't, but that organization has made a concern. I mean, yeah.

It is more parity. They're the, and again, to dumb it down, Kevin, and I apologize for doing this, the Players Association believes that this will not increase spending, that their players will suffer because of this. And so I can't tell them whether they're not. right or wrong because they're ultimately looking for the bottom line of they want their union to make as much money as possible that's the job of the union is to make sure employee salaries are continuing to go up and up and up and so they must have evidence or they must in their own mind and the NPR union and the

NPR union oh let me finish they must believe in their own mind that salary caps do not do that that salary caps curb spending the salary caps do not so they failed NFL and NBA unions have failed their players then. Right? I guess. That's the thing. I'm curious if you got a member of the Labor Association from the player's side and said,

well, why did the other two sports have it and you don't? And they seem to be doing okay. I mean, I'm curious. I know they've been asked that. There's no way in the world they haven't been. So, yeah, that again is something I think will be brought up in the next year or so because it's not going to go away. Yeah.

And lastly, don't you think your job and what you do would improve if it was similar to the NFL and NBA? I mean, you know, I really don't like this, spending over the luxury, you're getting the luxury tax because, of course, you know, the Dodgers and Yankees, they don't care. Like you said, they got, you know, pockets full, you know, whatever, blank check. I mean, I don't think that's going to do anything similar to the NBA. But don't you think the sports casting and, you know, profession would be better? instead of talking constantly about the Dodgers and the Yankees being in the last final four almost every year. Well, it's funny, though. Yeah, thanks, Kevin, for the phone call.

It is funny, however, though, that we spend a lot of time talking about, do you have money to get a particular player or can a team do this? But it doesn't necessarily drive the sports industry. It's talked about. but to this day we'd still spend more time than not talking about

what's happening on the field now do finances come into play on this of course they do that's never going to change whether they have a salary cap or not like Tatsui Imi makes $18 million a year for the Astros

he is scheduled to make $18 million again next year if he picks up the Astros or if he picks up his own contract. He's got the player option. That's never going to change. So I would say to my side of the industry, which y'all shouldn't be worried about. I appreciate that you are, Kevin, but I would say no. Does fitting a salary cap make you watch how other teams spend their money? Yeah.

For instance, I'll give you an example of this. you know, Will Anderson is the highest paid non-quarterback in the NFL. And he's gotten paid and Daniel Hunter's gotten paid and Jalen Petrie's gotten paid and Derek Stingler's gotten paid. It does make it a little bit of a puzzle piece to figure out if you can afford all those people when you're thinking about trying to get a negotiated contract in for C.J. Stroud. So, yeah, there is a part of it for sure. but it doesn't drive us

what drives us as the wins and losses and ultimately when it comes to sports y'all don't care and I certainly wouldn't care that Tatsu Emi is making $18 million a year if he is 5 and 1 within a area of 2.66 that's the craziest part about sports we as sports fans and I will include myself as the number one on that list next to y'all

we don't particularly care what a guy makes as long as you win. Do you think the Dallas Cowboys would care? Dak Prescott's making all the money that he's making if the Cowboys were at the Super Bowl? No, they wouldn't care. But because he does make all that money and the team doesn't reach a success level, what's the number one thing? All the money you spend on Dak Prescott, all the money the NFL spends on

quarterbacks and you can't get to a championship. We only really worry about money when it comes to if a guy doesn't live up to the contract. Like, I very rarely while ever get a phone call saying, oh my gosh, thank God for XYZ, I mean,

Yon-A-Race makes decent money now. He out-plays his contract. But baseball is typically, sorry, Jonathan? But baseball's kind of different in that aspect these last couple years because of the Dodgers and because of the deferments and all that stuff. Yeah.

There is a, to your point, Jonathan, there is people that just don't trust the system. You know who doesn't mind the system? The baseball players. this is a tough conversation it is a tough conversation it is all right we're quick before we get to i'm sorry so let's talk to uh tim on seven 90 hi tim

uh i just wanted to say i think all this uh negotiations between the owners and the players it all boils down to the tails wagon the dog here the haves want to keep it the way it is the have nots want to change it to make it to where the have nots can have more yeah and also you remember i i you would also try to find some people in the Dodgers organization.

You'd also find people from the Yankees that would say, man, we'd love to have it. We've got a cap. We can't grab everybody. And so there's a certain facet of that. I think if the owners really wanted to solve the problem, they would say, okay, owners, here's what we're going to do. Everybody's got their revenue from their team. We're going to throw all that into a one big pot after your expenses.

We'll let you pay for your stadiums because that's going to bury across the markets. Yeah. That's going to cause people differently. But that net revenue, after your basic expenses, not including your salary, that net revenue all needs to go into one big pot and be divided by 30. If they did that, then everybody would have the same money to spend, and then leave it up to the owners. How much of that you've got to spend do you want to spend on your players

and how much do you want to keep in your pocket? And then everybody would be operating from an equal play field. But they won't do that because the richest teams are not going to allow that to happen. Well, yeah, you're right about that, Tim. What they are trying to do that, though, to your point is they are doing that with the TV money. They have decided that their proposals to pull all the television money, which is a huge thing. Well, they're doing that with a national TV money. They're not doing that with the market TV money.

No, no, no, no, no, no. That's different. No, they have said all local television dollars get put in that this is part of the yesterday's. That's the yesterday. They really wanted to be an equal play field. That would go to everybody equally. Yeah, they're putting, they're pooling all the television money because honestly, and thanks Tim for the phone call, LA is getting X

and Cincinnati's getting one-tenth of X or zero part of X because these TV networks are going away and now these teams are having to generate their own revenue through television. All right, we will get tomorrow that as a show progresses. This is the most cathartic part of your week. 713-212-5-790

with some magical words like this. I'm sorry. So sorry. That's why you call in right now. I'll apologize with the things you've said and done this week here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. I'll start.

Let's see. I'd like to say I'm sorry to Gary for having terrible phone calls. I want to apologize to the audience for, Gary calling him with all the terrible phone calls we lie on the show. Oh, I'm sorry. We don't hate Tatsui Emi. We've been disappointing with him. We don't hate him.

I'm sure he's a swell fella. But Gary's phone calls are terrible. Gambler Jim's pretty bad, too. Oh, sorry. So I want to apologize for all the bag phone calls we take on this show. We do take him because we do love you. And always great. I'd like to apologize to those kids that were on that roller coaster yesterday.

Oh my God. Let me tell you some. That freaks me out. What? What happened? There was a pleasure pier. A roller coaster got stuck on the way up, and they got stuck. Really?

Yes. I'm not here about this. Oh, go look at the old video feed on your favorite social media account. And I've been to pleasure here many of the time. My kids love it. We have a great time. We go there. But, damn.

Look, roller coasters unfortunately get stuck. Now, they weren't upside down, but their backs were to the ground. they were staring up for hours. Oh, no. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Oh, no. Let me peel the curtain back. I can't do roller coasters, no.

May I peel the curtain back? I used to do roller coasters up until the age of about 40. And I went to Cedar Point about, got to be five or six years ago. I think I had three changes of underwear in one day. It was awful. Now I went to Universal Studios in Hollywood during the Rockets Playoff Series of Legers, and that was a mistake. They were lame rides, but I still cried like a little baby.

Did you do the drop, the waterfall drop? I think the Jurassic Park or whatever that's. Yeah, that's not bad. That wasn't bad. See, I can't do the drop, but that drop in my feeling, that gut feeling, no, I'm not doing it. So I want to apologize to my daughters, my daughter, I should say, my sons, my wife. They all love roller coasters except me. I give them the fast pass and I move along.

So to the Thomas family, I say, I'm sorry. 713-212-5-790. You owe people an apology. We don't judge here on the show. That's actually not true. We do judge. 7-13-21-2. I think this is you.

I don't know. I'm judgment-free over here. Okay. Jonathan does not judge. I do. 7-13-21-2-5-790. 713-212-1-2-5-7-90. Jonathan, who you apologizing to this week?

I got to apologize to my recent door-dasher. Oh. And it's not something I did purposely, but, you know, I got my food. You know, it wasn't thinking anything of it. And they drop it off. I like when they leave it at the door and they just disappear. I don't like when they wait there. But I just took it and I ate and I didn't think anything of it.

Because, you know, usually they don't text you after the delivery. but this guy had asked for a five-star review and then asked for an extra tip. I gave him a good tip, I thought. Wait a minute. He's asking for these things? Yes. So, like, he, so, but I felt, and he made me feel bad because I thought I gave him a good tip. He was like, can I get an extra tip?

And then. Wait, wait, whoa, whoa. Okay, so should I not fall done? Because I felt bad yesterday. Okay. Walk me through this. So, all right. He literally spoke to you and said, I could use a bigger tip?

So, yeah. So, yeah. So he dropped it off. my food and then I checked the app and it was like oh this the food is delivered um if you could can you please give me a five-star review and also can you add extra tip all right I I'm gonna have I need I need you to be open and honest with the audience here what did you order I ordered uh rock arena rocca banana right rocca banana yeah yeah yeah I had like a little small case the case of yeah And?

That was it. Wait a minute. Why is your lazy ass going to DoorDash to get a... Go get the damn casadee yourself. I had a discount, so it was cheaper to just get it on the app than going over there. Okay, so the case of the small case of D I'm going to guess is about eight bucks. Is that about right? More like 10.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute. You know, let me pull up my... I can pull it right now. I can do this. I don't think you're telling the whole story on this. in the full, no, this is a... Okay, so let's assume it's $10.

Okay. The delivery costs cost you nothing because you got a discount. Is that correct? Yes, I got a discount, yeah. So now, normal DoorDash would be what? $3 or $4? Yeah, for the delivery fee, yeah. So that's $14, and then you would then tip off the $14.

Correct? Yeah, so it was $10. I didn't have to do any of that. And then I added, I added like a $4 tip. Okay, so $14, 20% would be $3. And the tip goes directly to the $10. dash her because I door dashed so that it goes back to the time okay if you're telling me you did you tip four dollars on a $14 order in theory you know he only paid 10 I find no issues with that yeah

I so that's what I thought I tip did so when I ate my foot and it was sitting there and he was like can I get a better tip I was like oh dang man uh times are tough by I didn't uh something's not right here that dude can't have that biggest stones to ask you for a large tip off of I I can find I can find just a case of it is Nothing else. Nothing? I didn't get a drink. You didn't get two pounds of fajitas.

You didn't get 14 colas or something. No, no. Where is this at? I'm going to be, I have this message too. Yeah, and I was just like, oh, I just felt bad, man. I was like, I'm sorry, dude. I don't know, you.

I think you did nothing wrong. You don't owe him anything. Really? You only, all right, all right. This is what I come to this. Now, again, I'm not the person to ask for this because I've only DoorDash one time in my entire life. You know, I've heard older people don't like the door. Y'all don't like...

It's not older. It's just... I feel like it's just not great value. I mean, I... Look, we... The Thomas family Doordash is like a mudder, probably too much. Right. I am more of the...

I just don't like the extra fees and the tip. And then I always feel like that they're going to eat some of my fries. But they close the bag, Matt. I don't know. I don't know. I've heard the horror stories. See, I... Don't eat my fries.

don't eat my fries or don't if i got a 20 piece right don't need to count those nuggets before i start eating them no that's why i don't like getting a drink because they could drink they could just you know take a sip with that one and two uh oh that's gross yeah yeah so i don't like to get the drink but nah okay you know what i take my sorry back then take it back just about that's up because i because i would yeah unless you're telling you're not telling the whole story unless you're i can send you a screenshot right now no no i i would tend to believe you. All right.

Last call. If you want to sorry for anything, 713, 2,1, 2,1, 2, 5, 7. If not, I understand. All of y'all in Houston, although you listen to the show,

behaved yourself, and said nothing that was embarrassing. I see all you all are perfect, and I'm not. See? To my detriment, sometimes, I leave myself open to you,

fine people. Yeah. Because I think I had to set an example. By the way, I'm not going to say sorry of that dumb bitch of the restaurant who took my credit card and shriveled it up.

No, that's... I told my girl about that. I couldn't believe how calm you were. There's no way. Well, sorry. My biggest detriment was I, you know, sometimes when someone pauses in front of you,

you want to go off on them? I paused. I'm guilty of pause. Because I could not believe that I had to give a further, deep explanation about what my credit card looked like, order. I gave my name, I gave the name of the bank that I go to.

It's a race. and then when I go back there we must have sure that you didn't you know what you did you threw it away as soon as I called you that's so that's this gummy world man I'm just mad

I'm just mad I'm not mad all over again don't do this don't we're supposed to let it out I got you know what that's what the show's for I'd let these things out all right it's time for us to wake the strippers and by the way today's edition of believe it or not is hellier or not

I'm going to give you the topic and that's all I'm going to do for you I'm going to give you names of roller coasters. Do they really exist? That's the topic. And we have two pair of godsmack tickets to give away for that. We're going to hear from CJ Stroud during the news at noon. We're also going to wake the strippers up,

and we're going to talk about the Astros big win, and what a lousy game six last night between San Antonio and Oklahoma City there was. And we're also going to get to Cody Campbell, the richest alum that Texas Tech's ever had, and boy, he is back in the headlines again. It's interesting. I'll say that for the very least. It is high noon.

The strippers are woken up next here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1204 in H-down. It's Howard 3 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You stare at me. Focus. People are underneath

need to know the news headlines today. It is like I'm at the zoo. And I'm watching a chimpanzee. I'm John, he just called me a chimp. He had even admitted and he said,

look, they weren't all eights and nines. There were some threes and fours in a group. Oh. Don't he set that to the grave? Why? Two fours is an eight. At the same time?

Got a break. Tim Bush, Jake and Grom for a couple runs. We're trying to do a four-hour radio show. We're going to get Mike Burroughs. Well, plus 119 for the Astros. Gilling Froggy. They did a jump. What?

Getting a beach pot football league podcast. Why don't we get you on those games? There's no games. And there's a timeout. He's got sand in his eye. First down in 10 for Marina del Rey at the 14th pier. Oh, wow. I just made that up.

And the Huntington Marauders are down two touchdowns. After their quarterback tripped over a conch shell. My close friends say I look younger. I hope that's true. Did somebody ask CJ about getting his hair cut? I mean, clearly. Clearly, I just don't get it. What?

Nerdy, Warner. Carrier asked CJ about his haircut. There is none another station in the marketplace that will break down C.J.'s hair like the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk. 790. Ross with the day off back all next week. We'll have Gordy come in for a little bit. Ryan Holland's going to come hang out with us. But today it's you and me and Jonathan at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

It is and anything goes far. The leash is longer today than it is any other day of the week. And if you want to chime in about anything, whether it be about Labor strife, whether it be about C.J. Stroud's hair, whether it be about the Astros, whether it be about the playoffs last night in the NBA. It's all fair game at 713-212-5-790 at 12.08. Time now for the news at noon. And the news at noon is a wonderful thing because the Houston Astros took care of business yesterday. and knocked off the hated Texas Rangers to take three out of four in that series. Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, even after the Astros won yesterday, Seattle with the day off, your beloved Astros.

I kid you not on this. Our two and a half games out of first place after being the Rangers by his final score of 5 to 1. Jeremy Payne and Essoc Perides with home runs in the first inning. Spencer Erigetti gets another win. He is now 7 and 1 on the year. six innings, three hits, one walk, three K's, Astros, despite being 26 and 32, two and a half out of first place in the American League West, and start a series tonight with Milwaukee.

On deck begins at six, first pitch at 710 right here on Sports Talk 790. From the NFL, Texans it have OTAs. And because we're a responsible radio show, we don't care about CJ's here. We care about what CJ thinks about contract talks. What you got there, CJ? I let my agent handle it, you know, and if it's time to do it, then it is. If it's not, my job is football. So that's what I focus on is just getting better.

And I think I've held my bargain up on that edge. So, you know, whatever happens, happens. You know, I'm excited to be a Texan this year and, you know, go from there. All right, Jonathan, did he answer that properly, or was there an undertone to that? That was undertone. He said he felt like he hauled this bargain, you know, do that in there a little bit. I'm not too sure about last season, but the other seasons he kind of did.

Maybe. Do we as sports hosts go to the undertone card too much? I'm going to say yes. Yeah, but I don't know. This one. All right. We're going to, here, I'm going to play the soundbite for you guys again.

And ladies. And then I want y'all if you would like to join in at 713-212-5-7-9. Tell me if you think it was good. bad or frankly indifferent on CJ answering the question about his contract. Played again. I let my agent handle it, you know, and if it's time to do it, then it is. If it's not, my job is football. So that's what I focus on is just getting better.

And I think I've held my bargain up on that edge. So, you know, whatever happens happens. You know, I'm excited to be a Texan this year and, you know, go from there. I don't know. I don't know That's undertone I can't Charlott I don't want to do it

I don't want to do it I don't want to say He should have That last That second last part He should know He shouldn't have I held up my foot

Part of the part I don't want to be that guy So I'm not going to be that guy I might think about it in the back of my mind But I don't want to be that guy He's got to have confidence And so right

I mean That's there right He has there right He has a lot up his end of the bargain. What was exactly I said he held up his end of the bargain? Yeah. You know, on that edge.

So, you know, I'm, you know, whatever happens happens. You know, I'm excited to be a Texan this year and, you know, go from there. We missed the first part, right? And I think I've held my bargain up. Oh, he held his bargain up. One more time. Last time. Last time. Last time.

I think I've held my bargain up on that age. So, you know, I'm, you know, whatever happens happens. You know, I'm excited to be a Texan. That's enough. I can't, I don't know. He's got to be confident, Matt. Okay.

Okay. Let's chalk it up to self-confidence. Let's not chalk it up to New England and Pittsburgh. San Antonio last night, knocked off Oklahoma City, 118 to 91. Game 7 of that series to determine the Western Conference champion will be Saturday night in Oklahoma City. We get to the news.

That was the news at noon. We have non-Florist stories at 1.30 today. We've got Helgaar-or-or-not, and I gave you the topic. I'm not telling you what it is again. because I want you, I'll be Googling it. Eric and Spring, I'll start our Astros conversation. We come back.

I brought this up very early in the show today, and it is worthy of a repeats. I ask you a question. The Astros are two and a half out of first place. Two and a half measly games out of first place in the America League West. There is one central reason why. Can you match that reason for me? We'll do that next here on Sports Talk 7.

The most encouraging thing about the Astros status in American League West is the fact that they're in the American League West. Two and a half games out, despite being under 500. Despite the fact that Seattle Mariners are in first place in the AOS and they are under 500. Matt, with you on Sports Talk 790 at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Eric and Spring is with us on 790. Eric, thanks for holding a good afternoon to you. Hey, good afternoon, guys.

Yeah, so I just wanted to chime in on the Astros talk. I think they decided to finally move in the right direction. We've got a couple players on the verge of finally coming back. And the Mariners are not the Mariners, in my opinion, as of the last few years of what they've been trying to do. I know Cal Raleigh's hurt right now. Yep. But last year was an absolute freak of a year for him. and that was basically doubled almost every career total he had.

This was, again, a weird fluke. But this year, he had like six home runs and 50 games. And again, I know he's hurt right now. He's not playing, but he's not going to be the guy that helped them get through the playoffs like he did last year and the year before. So I think the Mariners are going to trail off a little bit. The A's might accidentally stick around because they've got that young core of players over there.

but I think the Astros are starting to put some pieces together, and if the pitching can kind of hold up like they have been the last handful of days, we might be making a run that we were not expecting 20 days ago. From your mouth, the baseball gods ears. I don't know how much you paid attention to lineups, honestly, Eric, but, man, did you see who four through nine was yesterday? I mean, I'm stunned how they're doing it. Yeah, it's every game you, you can.

kind of see a player or two. Even if it's a reliever or somebody got it before. I watched about 150 games a year, and I'm still amazed that I don't know some of these players when I see them getting called up. I mean, do you know the Taylor-Tremel batted cleanup two straight days? Yes, and the fact that he ripped a double yesterday when we needed, I mean, it just goes to show that it's kind of that next man-up mentality that we had last year that, I guess, our offense was, they had a little downslip for a couple weeks,

but the beginning of the season and now it's starting to look like it's picking back up that we might be the Astros again. So I'm looking forward to a good tune and hopefully a fun summer of watching baseball. And you know what? And thank you for the phone call. I appreciate you, dialing in, Eric. 71321, 5, 790 if you want to chime in on a anything goes farty. Do you understand from my perspective, and I'm sure there are many of you that would share my sentiment,

that thank God the American League West sucks. Thank goodness no one has been able to put together a 500 record. Thank goodness Seattle has disappointed. Thank goodness the A's have come down to earth. Thank goodness the Rangers look like a bunch of lost puppies out there playing. Thank goodness the angels are still angling. I guess it's made up a verb. Yeah.

Because if we're in any other part of the country, in any other division, we're clinically depressed. We are like our squads under 500. We have injuries left and right. Our free agent acquisitions have not panned out. We had this incredible season for Yordon Alvarez doing what Yorna Mavarez is doing, and we can't take advantage of it. We don't have to worry about that.

Hell, what were they, Jonathan? About two weeks ago, weren't they about six and a half out? Have they made up four games in like two weeks? Yeah, they're like seven. Some games out. Something nuts. So you know what I want y'all to do, Astro fans? I want you to be mad that you didn't fire Dana Brown when it was time to fire Dana Brown.

I want you to be mad when it was time to fire Joe Espada when it was, you know, instead, just as my good friend Aaron Rogers would say, R-E-L-A-X, relax. Because if this division continues to suck the way that it sucks so far, they should. year, guess who gets to stay along for the ride, your beloved Houston Astros. Now, Milwaukee's in first place in the Central, so it'll be a tough challenge this weekend. But the next month, I brought this up on the show a couple of days ago. It's soft. Softer. Seven with Detroit, who have been in last place in the Central this year.

You've got, who else with them? Oh, three with Kansas City. Not good. Now, these games are on the road, but the Astros have won road games. We just saw that. By the way, Jonathan, not that I'm going to toot my own horn, but you know what, why not? It's a Friday. It's anything goes Friday.

I had the Astros going six and four on their 10-game road trip. You did. Did you hit that? No, I did not. They went 7 and 3. Didn't I tell you to Swiss that at 7-3? I feel like I told you. No, you know what you are?

You're the king of making up stuff and changing things on the fly. There's some people know. Case and point. How many national TV? games of the Texas is going to have two. No, man, you got to bump that number up. I said four. I'm going to bring that clip back. We have it. We have audio of it as you saying two to begin with. We ain't lying. I can't believe you. I know. You shouldn't believe me. But to your Astro's point and everybody is like so upset, I don't understand because last

year was just as bad and they still pulled out to where they just needed one more series to go to the postseason. Well, one more game. Remember they tied with Detroit for the last wild card and lost in the tiebreaker. They just needed to win one out of that Mariners series to go and get the wild card. And I just feel like people don't understand. I know. That summer, last summer everybody else, oh, we're not going to

make it before all start breaking. If we airchecked this show two weeks ago, everybody's firing Joe, everybody's firing Dana. I can tell you, Astor's Twitter, I can go back 10 days and have those two cats fired. Oh, and by the way, isn't it funny how the Yordon

Alvarez trading him conversation is slow down too. I haven't heard of people that. You know, you know where I think this all started though? Where? Them getting swept by the Rockies. Hmm. I think this is where all this is like every, like that was everybody's doomsday. Like, yes. No way Astros got swept by the Rockies. Yes. Yeah, yeah. Because the Rockies have been for what,

10 years, been terrible. You can't be that bad. You can't be that bad to get swept by the New York, whether you, uh, Colorado Rockies. I, yeah, I get you. I will say this. Because I am human. I was really worried about that seven-game stretch with Seattle and Texas. The homestine, I was really starting to think maybe Jim Crane would get his lie to the office and shut the door and say, what should we do here? And by the way, by no means has Joe and Dana been able to carve out a new contract

based off what's going on in these last two weeks? Right. But I will say this. my guess is Jim has not I don't want to say soften his stance about making a midseason move because we don't even know

if he would have done that to begin with. Maybe in his mind all the way through he was going to say I'm going to let these guys finish out this year. We never know because Jim doesn't speak publicly about that kind of stuff and my guess is even if he did speak publicly he wouldn't want to give away such details.

It's not fair to those two guys. But it has quieted down quite a bit. it has quieted down quite a bit. Again, I want to repeat this just so those of you that understand the situation. Nobody in the American League West has a 500 record

and you're two and a half out. Take this opportunity and cheer for them because we need them. We have summer doldrums coming up. That's why I brought up the labor negotiations earlier on the show today

because, man, we are complaining about the Astros right now being under 500 and third place in the AOS and this team's not hitting. The team's not pitching and we have a bunch of injuries. We will die for this in a year from now, especially if we don't have baseball to play for. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. It's an anything goes Friday as we discuss the Astros. We can discuss the NBA playoffs from last night, although my guess is you didn't spend a whole lot of time watching that.

after the way that San Antonio absolutely pummeled Oklahoma City who we were rooting for in game seven let's go Thunder, let's go Spurs you know how I feel about that also we played the CJ Strouds Sombite letting his agent handle the situation

he he said what was the phrase we went with on this Jonathan he said I mean I think I've held my bargain up on that age so you know I'm you know um okay mad leave him alone i i need to because here's the thing he's got he got his fifth year option picked up so he's good on that mean poor but he's got to be like man congratulations well anderson congratulations nico collins congratulations daniel hunter congratulations jalen petrie

congratulations derrick stangling congratulations dolent shultz congratulations david mcgomery was he's got to be thinking, when's the congratulations of me? Up next. Y'all know who Cody Campbell is, right? The big money at Texas Tech. He ended an interesting day yesterday. We'll discuss that next. It is an anything goes Friday.

713-212-5-790. If you want to chime in and say hello, we'd like to get you guys involved in the program. Matt with you here. Ross is off today off all next week. We'll look forward to having him back after that. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Dave is with us on 7-90. Hello, Dave.

Good morning, Matt. Hey, I was listening to the show, and I heard Jonathan say that he thought that, you know, getting beat by the Rockies in that series was a turning point. I think it was, but I'll tell you another one, the one that jumped out for me, was when Spencer Erigetti came back, and I don't know what was his first or second game back, but he pitched a really good game. but afterwards what he did is I mean he gave a speech or talked in the locker room

or maybe just talked to the media but he was very powerful I think he talked about believing in this club knowing there's a lot of talent in this locker room no quitting here it was the most motivational speech that any of the players on this team has given this year and really a lot of leadership shown by uh Spencer ergetti there

and I think ever since that speech go look at their record since he gave that long. I think you're absolutely right. 100%. I would not argue with you on that. And it's funny because I saw a tweet about that within the last 48 hours that, I mean, for a guy that has such little involvement in Major League Baseball in his career, I mean, relatively speaking, he must have walked in there, shut the door and said some things that got people fired up. That's absolutely correct.

Yeah, yeah. Let me tell another topic if you have a minute. Sure. Yeah, I called, like, six months ago. I got on your show, and I was dogging Adam Clanton about a take that he had regarding Wembe and our guy, Thompson. Amen. And remember I told you? Yes, that Adam had said that he was fortunate. The Rockers were really lucky.

They didn't get the number one that year because they would have taken Wembe, and they would have missed out on getting the better player. Amen, Thompson. and I told him, I said, that's a crazy take. And you gave him the, he actually played that on the air, but I was going to call him back again and see, and maybe you know from talking to him, does he still believe that?

Because he defended it. He says, you know, he thinks Wemby is going to break down at some point. Well, he does believe that. He has not changed his stance on that. And here's the thing. Let me, and I don't want to speak for him. I know, I know. But let me give you a little bit of Adam,

what I think Adam thinks, and a little bit of what I think. A lot of what I think. And let me add one last thing before you put me up. Sure, go ahead. Well, I was going to ask Adam about this. If you put it this way, what if you were given this as an option, 12 years of healthy Amen Thompson or six years of healthy Wembenyama on the Rockets? Which would you take?

Which would lead to more possibilities of championships? Oh, I think the answer would be 12 years of Amman Thompson. I like Wendy, but that's half. You're talking about half a career. That's a long... If you would have said... Six years. If you would have said nine and 12, maybe I would have argued with you, but you're telling me half a career.

You're telling me six years of Wemby, that's it? That's not going to build a franchise. But look at Wemby. He's already got him in the Western Conference finals. He may have been in the finals after tomorrow night. He's gotten there, but he also has a great surrounding cast behind him. Stefan Castle is a star. Devin Vassell is really good.

We should have taken him. We had a chance to take him, too, instead of Reed Shepard. That's a big boo-boo by the Rockets. You know, we took Reed Shepard, and the next pick you had, you know, the, yeah. I know. I know. Anyway. Thanks, David.

What were you going to say? You were going to say. Let me give you my comment and you respond. All right. So the number one thing, and again, I don't want to speak for Adam, but he's not here, so I have to. he believes and evidence is on his side and I don't necessarily necessarily disagree with him

7 foot 4 guys break down they just do everybody not all of them Kareem didn't okay but Kareem 1 named 7 was how tall was Kareem 7-2 7-2 yeah 7-2

so give me another one give me another one that had a long 15-year NBA career that was like north of 7-2 yeah no I agree there's not many so evidence so evidence is on the side. And if you watch Wemby,

now, he doesn't fall very well. He's got to learn how to take the bumps, so to speak, if he's a wrestling terminal, I'm going to use one, but you get, I'm going with this on that.

When he plays, he's dynamic. Now, this is where Adam and I do argue because he doesn't, he doesn't want to get many credit. And that's just foolish, because Wimby is really, really, really skilled,

hits, threes, shot blocker defensive player of the year already. Defensive player in the MVP voting. Inside five feet. He's automatic. He's an MVP. So if you're just going to

if you're only going to say he's just going to break down, that's foolhardy on that. But it is a factor with tall, lean guys north of 7-2. And that is indisputable. And that's the only thing that Wemby,

has got to frankly kind of protect himself from is that you know can you build a franchise around him i think the answer to that is yes but there have been enough that have said you know what those guys when they get to that kind of height tend to break down and that's what i think that's the crux of what adam is trying to say yeah and i'm in thompson's a fabulous player i'm not trying to take a thing away from him i would hope not because i love him i love him but there are a lot of other players that are very similar to Amen in the league. Highly athletic guys, six, seven, you know, wing guys flying. Right.

There's only one Wenben Yama, and he is unique, and I think the Spurs that's already been demonstrated, they're going to be winning championships with this guy before we're ever going to be winning him with Wemby, and I think he makes his teammates better. You talk about the people around him, yeah, they're a good squad, but that's because Wemby's in the middle affecting everything, and it makes everyone better.

He scares the hell out of me. Thank you, Dave, for the phone call. good chatter. I don't want to say that because I don't like him. I don't like San Antonio. But that's a great team. Bacill, Castle,

Fox, Wemby, Bryant, who else am I forgetting? Harper, Rocket fans. They're going to be a pain in the ass for a long time. So, you know, I don't want to be rude.

I don't want anyone to ever call me rude, but it wouldn't It wouldn't be the worst thing if a couple of guys got hurt. Not like long-term injury can't move. But they're going to need to not be so healthy. Or the rockets are going to have to make some sort of really big wow move. And I'm up for that. I don't have the intelligence. Raffel Stone and E. Meadocke have not been texting me.

I like for them too, but they haven't done it yet. Maybe they will eventually. but I like hearing chatter. I like hearing that maybe not running it back isn't going to get them any closer. Now, if they want to tell me that Fred and a healthy Fred works with, with K.D., I can buy that too. Look, I'm going to, as you know, as a voice team, I'm going to be optimistic about things. I don't look at the roster that I call games for and I go,

we suck, we got no chance. Memphis guy does. Sacramento announcer does. I'm not doing that. But I obviously, as well as many of you do as well, have expectations significantly higher than what the rockets have done the last couple of years. They would like to be able to get out of the first round

and challenge a San Antonio Oklahoma City. And the question is, as you watch those teams play the last week or so, if you've done so, and everybody's going to have their own opinion about this, how close are they? The deep, deep conversation piece is when Rafael and Eme and Patrick Fortita sit down

and they look at the roster, are they a healthy team away from that that we've seen the last two weeks? If not, that's why you hear about Donovan Mitchell. That's why you hear about Jalen Brown. That's why you hear about Yonazanticoopo. But if they do believe they are that close, then you'll know that they feel that way by doing nothing over the next handful of weeks.

1243. Matt and Ross with you. Well, Ross not here. Ross is vacationing. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. I want to hear from Texas Tech Coach Joey McGuire. about trying to schedule Texas this year. It's amusing. It's not going to happen, but it's amusing.

More your phone calls as well. We have non-Florida stories at 130 and a highly Googledable, hell yeah or not, coming up here at 150. This is Sports Talk 790. Jonathan, how'd they catch me saying, what-up, what-up like that? I don't remember that at all.

Really? You don't remember that at all? I mean, obviously I said it. It wasn't AI generator, I don't think. On the spot, go ahead, do it. What up, what up? See? It's not me. Maybe that was AI.

You never know. 1250 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-1-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790. Coming up at 130, we've got non-flora stories. Hellier or not. It's highly Googled.

Did you see the roller coaster you yet from yesterday? I did. They were there for an hour. I couldn't believe that. What if you had to go to the bathroom? You know, Matt? Of course it's the first thing you asked. Sorry.

What would you do? These are... Odd P! What if it leaks back to the other... No, don't know. I don't know. I mean, how many hours were they up there? They were up there.

Let me look. Let me see if I could say how long they were up there for. I don't know they say how long they were. I'm trying to read the Several hours they say on NBC Oh several's more than two right The ride stopped at 521 Yeah and they got the last person off at 9

Oh God I'm paying my pants Oh my God I am That's why This is today's moment of Matt's a weirdo You ready for this Anytime I need to go into an elevator

I always make sure my bladder's empty any elevator or is it got to be like a tall building I don't know it doesn't matter I park in the fifth floor of our office building our our studios are in the seventh floor so I've only got a two floor rise to the get there but if it gets stuck at six it gets stuck at six right

it's stuck at five and a half get stuck at five and a half that's got to be a phobia it's yeah I have been stuck in elevators twice in the last 12 months. It's not fun. For how long? Wait, you didn't say none of this.

You got stuck an elevator. Yeah, in the road with the rockets one time, I want to say. Maybe it was both of the rockets. By yourself? No, it was the worst part was there were people in it. Now, both times were less than 10 minutes, but still, it felt like two hours. Oh, 10 minutes is kind of long. Yeah.

Just saying, but so am I weird for going bladder-free into an, to an elevator. I mean, like, you're, you know, I think they get a man. I think it's okay.

I think chalked into two. All right, let's go back. Let's talk to, uh, J. R at 1253 out 7. out of a.

Hi, J.R. What's going on? Matt, how you doing, brother? Fran, I'm great.

Thank you for calling. What's going on? All right. So are you in a giving move today? As giving as I've ever been giving before. It's anything goes Friday. I hear you. All right, so I got two things for you.

Number one, with the outstanding defense that the Texans have, we all know this. It's proven. It's written. It's in stone. With the team to the north, my team, the offense is outstanding. Can you give me that? Yes. It's a heavily invested offense, but it's a good one for sure.

I mean, Doc Prescott and the receivers, yeah, yeah, I'll give it to you. Yeah. Okay. Will you give me a better than 50% chance of an all Texas Super Bowl? No. Better than 50. No. Well, I knew it.

Okay. Now, wait a minute. No, wait a minute. Now, hold on. Before you hang up, you'll give me the argument for it. Maybe you'll convince me. Tell me why your team, who has had offensive line issues and a sieve of a doubt. defense is going to be in the Super Bowl.

Okay. Number one, obviously, Caleb Downs. He's going to change the defense. That man, that young man is going to be a CEO after he leaves the NFL. He is that smart. His coaches, I mean, everybody has said that. He's going to change the defense. He's going to play deep safety. He's going to play nickel. He's going to blitz the quarterback. I mean, he's going to he's going to be all over the field. We keep him healthy. It's going to be a good thing. You're ready to say this after one,

you're ready to say this after one season. I mean, if you can, you can't. I mean, I'm not going to argue with you. But what I'm saying is the additions, now you can't say that we did not win the Micah Parsus trade. We did. We were able to,

we were able to bring in defensive linemen from the Jets, we were able to bring in linebackers. I mean, we've got a completely different layout than what we had last year. Okay? So if there is a possibility that the defense is 30% better, that's going to put us at 10-11 wins. All right. I want you to explain to the audience.

With our offense. I want you explain to the audience in Houston. how volatile your receivers are. Volatile is, I don't, I don't believe volatile is the word. Highly diva-esque, is that better? Would you like, would you say that? Highly diva-esque, I will take that. All right, good.

Because, because once, I mean, if the game's on the line, what two receivers would you want your quarterback for one to in the entire league? But the game is not played on paper. It's not played on the video game. It's about these human beings. And George Pickens is not necessarily having the greatest offseason. You know that. Well, I know he's not having a great offseason, but when he's on the field, he catches everything.

I mean, the Packers game was won. And when CD was out for two or three games last year, I mean, he won us those three games while CD was out. I mean, so it's, it's, okay, so, but before you, before you have to go, I want to get to my second, see if you're in a very giving mood. Go ahead, quick, back into the top of the hour. Yep, would you please put your devious mind together and put together a contest for one of your most loyal listeners, me, to wake up the strippers on Friday at some point?

Now, wait. You know, here's what we can do. Come on now. Here's what we can do. We ought to have like a stripper soundoff where people send me clips and we can judge the best stripper. And then if we think yours is the best, then we would let you do it. Has that seemed fair? That is fantastic.

I like that idea. All right. Thank you for the phone call, J.R. Have a great weekend. I appreciate you listening. Jonathan, we're going to do this. In the month of July, we will not do it in June. Right.

in July, someone, male or female, will win a chance to wake the strippers up at 12 noon on Friday. That's a good idea. The little contest is going, okay? So we will have an executive meeting when Ross gets back, and we need to create like an audio, people can send us audio clips. Don't do it now. We'll do you no good. But if you, yeah, we would live on the spot. So here's what I'm thinking, you would send us, you would send us.

the clips and then we would judge them and then the best we would do it live on a Friday. Does that seem like a fair as a fair prize? It's not like this. This is fair. This is like, you don't understand this. This is like someone telling Ed McMahon to say, here's Johnny.

I mean, it's a very important prize. No, you've been doing this longer than I've been alive. Too soon? Okay. No, I haven't been doing that long. By the way, next we were giving away some old smoky grills. How about that? I just got to tell you all that. Oh. What do here on the station? We're

givers. We're giving away Godsmack tickets in 50 minutes. All right. So have you heard about Texas Tech and Texas maybe playing each other? Well, the answer is not. They're not going to do it. But I want to explain more of that coming up in a minute. 1258, Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Well, not Ross. Johnson's here. All right. It's taking me too long to get to this. I love college smack talk. I mean, I love it.

I love to dish it out. And I'm not a huge fan of taking it, but if you dish it out, you must take it as well. And Lord knows my school has done its fair share of being the ridicule of things, whether it be the stadium not being full or the conference or the game. I mean, I get it. But I will have my revenge when my cougars hopefully make the college football playoff

for the next day or so. So basically Steve Sarkisian, the Texas coach, of course we carried the Texas games here on Sports Talk 7-90, was taking a shot at the Big 12 and how basically he called out a school in the state about their strength of schedule, and he didn't mention a school by name, but he was insinuating that he could take his twos and threes and beat anybody in,

I don't know if it was anybody in the entire Big 12 or maybe just one Big 12 school. Well, the school he was basically taking a shot at is Texas Tech. Now, Texas and Texas Tech have had some great rivalries over the years. In fact, Texas Tech has won their fair share of games. So basically, Cody Campbell, who is the big money behind Texas Tech, and Joe McGuire, the coach at Texas Tech, said, hey, if you really think you can beat us and we think you were taking a jab at us, let's get it on like Donkey Kong.

Here is Joe McGuire talking about how he would love to play the University of Texas. You know, Sark, we played him. We got our butts kick the last time we played him. We're one in one against Texas since I've been there. And I said, there's no way they're talking about us. Because Sarks are pretty tough guys. Teams are really tough, and I would think that if he was talking about us, that he would call us out. Like he wouldn't just say, you know, just kind of this comment of, well, there's another team in our state.

And so I guess he was talking about us. So I've actually talked to Keith Patterson and I've talked to J.K.K.N. And they're willing to take our games. And Abilene Christian will go to Texas State. We'll buy our contract out. of Abilene Christian. I'm sure, because Texas has got a lot of money, they can buy their contract out. But I do know there's a lot of Red Raiders that will help them buy that contract out if they don't want to.

And they can come to Lubbock, week one. And, you know, we can figure out if their twos and threes can win this conference. And, you know, I know a lot of people are going to say a lot of stuff about me are about us. We didn't score in the playoffs. That's obvious. You can take a shot at us for that. we didn't score in the playoffs. The last time we played Texas, we got beat 57 to 7,

and he played some of his twos and threes. They kicked the crap out of us. But, you know, I know he feels really good about his team, if he's making those comments. And, man, we would love to play the University of Texas week one in Lubbock. I do know that Cody Campbell reached out to Stephen Jones, so they don't want to come to Lubbock, then we're going to work on trying to get AT&T week one.

And so if they want to play week one, then we're ready. We would love to play the University of Texas. So to put it in a nutshell, week one, Texas plays a home game against Texas State. Week one, Texas Tech plays a home game against Abilene Christian. Cody Campbell, the money behind Texas Tech, said, we'll buy out the Texas State game. We'll buy the Abilene Christian game. put those two teams to play each other in week one, and then we can play either in Lubbock

or as Joey McGuire just said, play the game in Arlington at Jerry World. This is never going to happen. Okay. I love it because it's good smack talk, but Joey McGuire knows it, Steve Sarkeesian knows it, Jerry Jones knows it,

This is not a video game. This is real life. Would I love Texas and Texas Tech to play each other on a some on a regular basis? Hell yeah. I've got a Texas Tech alum in my house. In my life, my oldest. He would love it. Will it ever happen?

I highly doubt it. Because you can't play everybody every year. You just can't. But to me, this was amusing. And what it did is, I don't think, let me tell you something. I don't know Steve Sarkees here and all. He ain't sweating this. The only way that this could possibly happen is if Texas had a ridiculously simplistic non-conference schedule.

Now, Texas State has improved as a football program, but you signed this for a reason. You wanted to bring Texas State to Austin, fill your stadium up with 100, whatever 10,000 people is, kick the crap out of Texas State, give them a big paycheck, and call it a day. Now, if Texas was to play, I don't know, Murray State the next week, or then play, I don't know, Coastal Carolina, I mean, it's a bad joy. Louisiana Monroe, all right, I could kind of see it. but the reality is this the university of Texas the following week

has Ohio State if I was Sarkesian and I was uh uh uh... Dau Conto the AD at Texas I'd be like y'all are cute

but we got Ohio State the final week talk to me later so I think it's funny it's interesting it's great smack talk it's obviously got all the Texas tech fans riled up

good for Cody Campbell and good for Joe McGuire, good for anybody, you know, Kirby Hillcott, I think it's the idea at Texas Tech. Good for all of us. We're rallying the troops. But it's just smack talk. It's not going to happen. And what I hope comes out of this, frankly, is these two teams eventually do play each other at some point.

But I am not holding my breath on that. 713-212-5-7-90. Oh, perfect timing. Longhorn Scott, what's going on? Well, Matt, it's been far too long, Amigo. How are you? I'm outstanding. Thank you for calling what's on your mind today.

Well, you know, it's so funny. I love it. You know, I've always said we need schools like Texas Tech because, frankly, not everybody can get into a good school, so you need them out there. And they serve their purpose, but they also prove why what I just said is true. So for starters, obviously, they're not going to switch their schedule

within the same calendar year. And they know that. This is exactly what tech does. They suckle at the teat of the University of Texas for years and years. Complaint about being treated unfairly, blah, blah. Texas, I don't even know the record offhand because I don't care that much about tech, but I know it's lopsidedly in our favor. And the last time JV. Joey ran his mouth, well, hell, he even talked about it himself.

57 to 7. And at the end of the day, let's go back to what makes tech a school that you have to have because not everybody can get into a good one. If you listen to what Sark said, he said that he could go play their schedule and use his twos and threes and win the conference. He didn't say anything about beating tech, although I'm sure Texas would beat tech. That's not what even said. So just a little bit of basic listening comprehension, and yet the tech people,

Campbell, I mean, et cetera, et al, are incapable of it. You know, we said he could beat us. No, he said he could play your schedule with his twos and threes and win the conference. And I don't think that's, did anyone think that's a crazy statement? Absolutely not. Texas Tech is like that white trash family from Port Arthur who won the lottery. And now they bought a house. They bought a house in River Oaks.

They really want to try to be the president of the HOA. Listen, you stumbled into the money, and this is all working out for you. We left, so now you get to run the conference. But don't forget who you are, and don't think we're dumb enough to forget who you are. Just be the little king of the small castle and chirp over on the side like a little lap dog, because that's what it is. I mean, and I feel bad. There's actually some good people to go to tech, but this kind of nonsense, and it's all about stuff like this,

like what we're doing here talking about it. They're getting free publicity. off of the University of Texas. They are the takers of crumbs. We are the givers of crumbs. So with that set, get your guns up. And remember, you may take the white trash out of Port Arthur, but you can't, you're not going to take it out of them.

You can't take them out of Port Arthur. You can't take the white trash out of them. So proceed, JV. Joey. And maybe try to score some points the next time you make the playoffs. If you are a Texas Tech fan, it would like to respond to that, I will allow you to do so. You just cuss them out without cussing them out so eloquently. Eloquently.

I'm so sure. I can't even get the words right. If you, now remember, anybody that calls it, make sure if they are a Texas Tech ask, if you're a Texas, and look, I love Lubbock. Mr. Texas loves Lubbock. Mr. Texas loves Texas Tech. oldest boy went there and very happy to say he's a Texas tech guy.

Damn. Damn. I think we just got some smack talk going here, unfortunately. All right. We'll take a short time out. Come back and take some, if a Texas Tech fan wants to call in, you can do that. 713-212-5-790. Mike wants to talk some Rockets, too.

We'll get to all of you next. Matt Thomas Show and Ross continues here on Sports Talk, 7-9. All right, we have two Red Rider fans. Must be listening to the show that had to call in. Mike, you want to talk to some Rockets. We'll get to that, too. All three of you are going to get to you before we close the show, I promise. Do not go anywhere.

As someone that doesn't have a dog in the fight, I used to love, John, I used to love watching Texas and Texas Tech play even when they were in the same conference. I mean, I liked it. I was a good rivalry game. I always enjoyed that. And I would actually root for Texas Texans. I got a boy that graduated.

I would say you would root for Texas Tech. I would spend money in Texas Tech. So you should be you should be feeling some type of way that Longhorn Scott came from here. Longhorn. You know what, though, again. And I think I'm on the minority on this. Unless you just

try to call my son or my family members' names that are just uncouth. You know what I'm talking about? I like a good, heavy levitt layer of smack talk with colleges. I mean, I basically talk about the open enrollment at SFA, and your athletic program is a disaster,

but that's not here nor there. Y'all cheated. We should have, you know. Oh, you cheated. You didn't even cross the 50 until the fourth quarter. That's not. Yeah, maybe. I thought we were starting.

Just saying. Just saying. Whatever. Daniel and Lubbock at 121. Daniel, good afternoon, and thank you for listening. Yes, sir. How y'all doing? How y'all doing?

Daniel, we're doing great. What's on your mind today? Anything on your mind? I just want to talk a little about a little bit about this text. Texas Tech and Texas thing in the playoffs last year. Well, go ahead. All right. Well, first of all, I want to give Oregon credit, of course,

last year showing Texas Tech out into the playoffs. 230 is an absolute disaster for Joey McGuire and the Texas Tech staff. Oh, granted, the turnovers were just unacceptable out of our ass, just not okay. Our old line could not get any stops from the Oregon's defense. the our sacks just got to us. The bye week kicked our ass. But going to this tech and Texas game, I would absolutely, absolutely love to see an old-school baseball rival

and none better than Nigeria world. It would be awesome, but I think you have to understand that the start of the college football season starts in two months. You're not putting this together, this game together at the very last second. That's not going to happen. You know that. Yeah, right. No, there's, I do believe Cody Campbell could buy out the ACU team for the game. But, yeah, like you said, yeah, it's absolutely a bit too late to try to push that into the plans.

But shoot, maybe there's always next year that we can see a Joey McGuire next Arcesian battle. Yeah, well, the problem is these college football schedules are done years in advance. Now, if somebody wants to step in and financially make it worth their while, I'm sure. I will say this, Daniel, I hope at some point Texas Tech and Texas play each other, I do believe, however, if it ever happens, that it would not be a home-in-home. My guess is that Jerry Whirl would cut the two schools a hellacious check to get the game there. Absolutely, yeah. I would love to see it happen. And, yeah, it's been, it's going to be a good season for Tech and ready to see us go back to the playoffs and hopefully not get shut out this year.

You got that right They got to go Because I'm telling you Cody Campbell He ain't paying all this money Daniel Thanks for the phone call To be one and done

That's for sure That's the one thing about These benefactors Jumping in and paying These salaries of these schools And Ross and I have debated this Many a time here Only one team gets to win the championship

Only four teams get to play in the college semifinal Only two teams get to play for the championship championship, obviously. You are going to have a lot of unhappy people spending millions and millions and millions of dollars. It's almost like a professional sports team. Think about this. Think about all the money that NFL, that, that, that Cal McNair has spent on all of his players, only to come up short yet again. Think about all the money that professional basketball and baseball team spend, only to come up short. we're now going to see that on the college ranks. Now, the really smart big money people have to understand that you don't win it every year,

that you don't even win it two times in five years. But is Cody Campbell doing, and I'm not trying to point out him as just one alum, but he is the one that's the most out there. How uncomfortable of a conversation is it going to be with Joey McGuire, if Cody Campbell is giving him any amount of money he wants to pay for his athletes, you know, the NIL, and they get bouncing in the first round. That's the unintended consequence of these college coaches getting all this money from these rich alums. If you didn't think alums carried weight before NIL, they do now.

Cody Campbell is more powerful than Kirby Holcutt, AD. he's as powerful as the president. He's way more powerful than Joy McGuire is. Because, and again, I don't know where Texas Tech gets his money besides from Cody. I'm sure there's others. But Cody has not hidden the fact that he's the one that will write the blank check. Phil Knight, same thing in Oregon. Phil's about to die, he says.

Phil's still waiting. That's the most incredible thing about college athletics, especially in this new world of NIL, especially in this new world of people writing these huge checks to bankroll payrolls of college football teams. They're going to ask for and demand and get more of a say-so.

If they get bounced in the first round next year and Joey McGuire, and Cody Campbell wants Joey McGuire fired, Joey McGuire is out. Sometimes you can shield alumni administrators that can say, look, he's my guy. He's the guy that could take us to the next level.

He's our right football coach. 80s and presidents can say that. I don't like anymore. These alums, and I'm sure A&M and Texas have their group two. I just don't know their names. Maybe U of H has some people. I don't know. Who knows?

But it's, this whole thing is funny to me. And I love it because it's, what it hopefully will do is it will give us a Texas Tech and Texas game sometime in the next five years. no it takes two to tango but i'll say you this if you if you if if texas tech and tex want to play each other they'll fill up at t and t stadium that will take two seconds to make that happen hell i'll even go to that game maybe not let's find a sweet or something all right 128 on sports talk 790 we got non florida stories coming up next 713 212

5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We had one love it guy. We had one guy jump and one guy come in. Longhorn, Scott, I think you're an okay spot. I think your smack talk resonated with some, but not all. But most importantly, the bottom line is this. Let's get these two teams to play.

But hell, I was praying for 20 years to get the Aggies and Longhorns to finally play. And they are playing. Not because they wanted to, but because of their conference affiliation. 713, 213, 212, 579, 128. It's a Matt Thomas show. Ross, this is 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... 134. It is time for some non-Florida stories. Every radio show, Corny or Not, does stories from Tallahassee, Ocala, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Fort Otterdale. Our rule here on the Matt Thomas Show to Ross is that you may not, under any circumstance, use a story from the state of Florida. And with that, Jonathan, I'm going to put some production value on this week's edition of the

non-Florida stories. What do you think. Let's do it. Let's do it. Oh, what a great theme song here. Sing it, Jack Jones. Sing it loud, sing it proud. All right, Jonathan, in March, there was a great. cruise that went from Mobile, Alabama to the Bahamas, and they were headed back to Mobile.

And there were two couples that were trying to settle up their charges on the cruise ship. All right. There was the Nelson family and the Horace family. And when you settle up your bill, you know, if you're like a VIP, you can go in a shorter line. Well, one of the couples did not have VIP staff. status, and one did. Mrs. Nelson tried to tell Mrs. Horace that she was in a line specifically meant for those who have achieved the highest level in the carnival's very important fun person program.

Well, things escalated with eyewitness reports saying that apparently Mrs. Nelson put her shoulders, her hands on her other woman's shoulders, husband's shoulders. husband's shoulders, and they started slapping each other over it. What? It became a slap fest fight over the elite status line in the Carnival Cruise. According to Mobile Television news outlets, both women apologize for being in court, both apologized for causing a scene, both apologized for being in a bitchfass, bitch slap fest, and the judge ultimately this past week said that the two could avoid being arrested or coming into contact with one another for three weeks.

The pending charges would be dismissed. The worst part of it all is the two women who had the elite status with the Carnival Cruise Line are banned from Cruise Line from Carnival for Life and they lost their respective loyalty status. They're banned for life. Band for life. Lesson learned. Get in the right line and don't have a slap fest over said line.

Could you imagine, Jonathan, two women fighting over, settling over charges in a line? One woman puts her hand on the other woman's husband's shoulder, and it starts a slap fest? You know what? I would have loved to see that, just to be a bystander. But they're from Mo. I mean, that's kind of expected from Alabama's, right? They weren't intoxicated and saying they were just...

Oh, I don't know if they were intoxicated, but they were dumb as, you know what? Now they can't ever go back to a cruise? Now they're begging, apparently, I just read the last story this morning. They're trying to begging the cruise line to let them back on. They're not going to get it. And that's my first non-Florida story. Okay. Now, let me tell you something.

That could happen in a casino. You know, there's a lines for, like, you know, elite players and non-alip players. That could happen. It could happen at airlines. and airports all the time. You know, there's lines, you know, for, like, the elite flyers and non-elite flyers? Yeah. I have never seen a slap fest involving two women at Schmited at Intercontinental Airport.

And hopefully I never will. And that's my non-flora story. Number one. Okay. Jonathan, what you got? Luckily, I found another story, but because mine sneak, I didn't know it was in Florida. I was about the rebrand. Oh, I hate when that happens.

All right, well, this one is in New York. Casey Classen, she's 28. Okay. She got arrested for endangering the welfare of a child in trespassing. That's terrible impersonation. You ask me what happened? Well, Audit Central reported on May 8th. She was impersonating a 16-year-old and enrolling in Westchester Square Academy in the Bronx.

Classin who went by the name of Shamara Rashad attended classes for two weeks before she was caught, recently moving from New York from Ohio. Acting on a friend's suggestion, she said. She donned a teenage persona. You might ask why? For qualifying for more social assistance. What? Wait a minute. She dropped her age intentionally to get more social assistance?

and enrolled in this academy in the Bronx. Her disguise was uncovered when school officials found her social media profiles, which she had herself holding a baby that she referred to as her daughter. Oh. Class's birthday is 1997. She was arrested and now she's pleading not guilty to all charges. Let me ask you this. I can't.

If I gave you a chance to go back to be 18 years old and just give you a chance to give you a fresh 10 years, would you do it? Never. I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. It might be weird, but I love aging. I think it's a blessing. I'm going to tell you, this is my answer to the question I just gave you.

I would not go back to 18 under any circumstance. Okay, I'm glad. The only reason why I would, honestly, is I would probably have taken a year off from school to try to become a major league umpire. Oh, that's right. You did say that. I did say that.

That would be the only reason why that I would skip going to school and try to be an umpire before becoming a broadcaster. But if I was to take anything back in my life, I'm going to be 54 next Friday. I would like to go back to 40. Why is that? Health? No, because 50 has wigged me out. Okay. Okay.

You know what? I want to make fun of you, but I can't. I get that. I understand that. Okay. 30 didn't bother me. 40 didn't bother me. 45 didn't bother me.

50 is bothered me, and it's bothered me for a year. Just be blessed, though. Not a lot of people can make it to the 50. I'd be happy. I mean, I want to go deeper than that. I'm looking to get to at least 83. Exactly. So you can get to take, you know, when you're 80, you're going to be like, I miss my 50, you know?

50 sucks. Tell you from experience, my friend. 40 is prime. Good money. you still can move around still hang out with your younger bros you move great Matt

I think I know I'm trying all right my second non-flora story him in anton gilona is 25 years old he is from New York

he was arrested for driving while intoxicated that's not a good story is it Ross or Jonathan oh sorry that's first of it he drove

to a local police station to pick up a friend who had been arrested for driving while intoxicated. Channel 8 in Cleveland reports on May 20th that when Jolona arrived at the police station, he drove into a restricted area. An officer came to check on him and quickly issued a field

sobriety test before placing him under arrest. Jelona's license was revoked and he's expected to appear in court at later date. If you are driving to the police department, you need to be super sober. Wait. Am I right? There's some stupid people in this world. Stupid people.

I'm not going to lie. May I give you one more stupid person? Vernis Mayhew, 45 years of age. Dixon, Mane, D-I-X-T-O-N. Get your dirty minds out of this story. He was arrested after calling 911 four times to request something, Jonathan. request? Four times. Okay. A beer delivery. Quote, I was drunk and I was trying to be funny. The sheriff says this was a serious matter that negatively impacted public safety resources,

including the regional communication center and deputies. Mayhew, by the way, is also a charge with assault that says that part didn't happen. Video recorded by Mayhew's daughter shows a physical altercation with police. Uh-oh. But a few seconds are out of frame with differing accounts of what transpired. Police say Mayhew, again, who called 911 to order beer, attempted to put one of them in a headlock. Mayhew was released from the county jail after paying a $750 bail.

Well, that's a story you can tell your kids. So let's recap. Calling 911 for a beer delivery, driving to pick up a friend who's intoxicated, and at the police department and you're intoxicated. We have a 20-something-year-old pretending to be a teenager for public assistance. And we got two women be slapping each other on a cruise ship to pay over expenditures. And now begging to try to get back on. And now begging to try to get back their status with said Carnival Line.

That, my friends, are this week's non-Florida stories. Let's play Hell Yeah or Not next. It is highly Googledable. It's about sort of what happened yesterday in Gobleston. We've got two pair of Godsmack tickets for a roller coaster, hell yeah, or not. 713212-579 if you want to play. 713-212-5-790. That had to be AI too, right?

that's something the thousand percent you said that's fair hey five minutes left to go on the show what should we do we should play america's fast-scranging sports radio game show monday through thursday we called it be leaving or not but on fronters we call to hell you're not and here's how it works you'll call seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven one three 212-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not is

Is this a current active roller coaster? If it is, you'll say this. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. If this roller coaster I made up, you'll say this. Not. Two hell yeah, notts in a row. We've got two pair of Godsmack tickets.

Is that correct, Jonathan? Yes, sir. What's the date on that concert? The 30th of so tomorrow. Oh, tomorrow night. You want to go see Godsmack? you better play hell yeah or not 713 212 5790

Robert on 790 ready to play hell yeah or not hell yeah look at y'all dropping off the counter tomorrow I can't go all right robert let's go American eagle is a roller coaster hell yeah or not not

it is you can find it's six flags great America thanks for playing Greg on 790, Greg, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Thunder Dolphin is a helic is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Yeah, Tokyo's Dome City has it.

Name number two for the win. Candemonium. Candemonium is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. It is. It's at Hershey Park. Troy on 790. Troy, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. I like to talk about the hope with MLB not going on a strike, but I like that conversation.

Bless you, Troy. Casino Crazy is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. Not. Not. That is correct. Roller coaster number two for the win. Runway, run down.

Hell yeah or not. roller coaster? Not. Not. You're a winner. You're going to see Godsmack. You want to. That's up to you.

Let's go to J.B. on 790. J.B. You're ready to play? Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Steel eel is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Yeah, it's San Antonio at SeaWorld.

Statement number two for the win. Bango wango is a helic, is a helicopter, is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. Bango Wengo. Not. Damn, I thought I was pretty proud of my effort. Bango Wengo, you don't like Bango Wengo?

I kind of like that. Come on, thank you. All right. We're now playing for T-shirts or shout-outs because we only had two pair of the tickets, correct? Am I right about that? Yeah, they got the tickets. All right.

Christian on 790. Christian, was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. The Astros talk. This chainsaw massacre is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not? Not. That is right. Not.

Name number two for the win. Bad Moon Horizon is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, it's not. I made that one. We're a little CCR into there. All right.

Last one. Of course, Roger, we only have t-shirts or shout-outs. Are you okay with this, Roger? I want entry to wake up the strippers on a GILA's Roth Friday. We'll let you work out. The boss is a roller coaster. Hell yeah or not. The boss.

Hell yeah. All right. You can hear the end of peace that listens to us all the time. Hey, we had a great time today. Thank you to Jonathan for not only chipping in with his contributions for the microphone, but work on the boards as well. Thanks to all of you for joining. Really, honestly, the show went pretty damn fast.

thing they went really fast it'll go even faster with the next two gentlemen that are entertaining the hell out of you between now and six o'clock their names are adam clinton and adam wexler they are the eight team i'm on astros duty tomorrow

yeah i'm walking a saturday clinton and wexler do that oh hell no they're up next on seven o'clock