The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday, Ernie Johnson, Brian T Smith, Fantasy 5

Episode Date: May 15, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790 alongside Rossville, Real Joe George, the worst. Non-Florida Storyfinder in the history of the non-Flority Stories bit. I'm Matt Thomas. Great to have all of you with us.

Well, it's not a storied bit, but yes, he is. near the bottom of the barrel. I mean... I mean, how many people am I competing against, though? Really? There's just one other... Yeah, I was going to say,

I don't know if there's anybody that could possibly compete. Look, I'm still hitting 250. Okay? Yeah, next week we can rebound. Be good to go. I don't know. I'm already working on it.

One more weekend. I may have to bench you. No, that won't happen. I'll make sure that doesn't happen. All right. He had a good one two weeks ago. Yeah, he had a phenomenal one two weeks ago. I know.

And then he just says, There's this story of this. Just move on. He didn't set it up well. We've got other things to talk about. Do we really? Oh, you know what we got to talk about? What do we have to talk about, Matthew?

By the way, it's an anything goes Friday. That's true. Explain the essence of anything goes Friday to our audience, please. Well, Matthew, a Friday, I mean, Monday through Thursday is just a party here on the Matt Thomas show, and especially on a Friday. You get a longer leash on the phone lines. Generally, lately, we've been pumping out Fantasy Fies, which you will have another one today. Yep.

And you're about to bring up something that is very important and near and dear to many of our hearts It's anything that you want to talk about, you can get to at 713-21-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. The phone number, sports-related or non-sports-related, we're here for you on anything that goes Friday. All right, here's the bit. Occasionally, our bosses or a client will bring up lunch to the radio station. We're on two floors. We have the third floor and the fifth floor.

Yes. And granted, during the normal course of non-COVID days, we're at a lot of, about 130, 150 employees. No, I'm not that that many. Probably 100. Yeah, I don't know. Probably close to 100. Between sales or traffic billing.

Recounting all your personal assistance, that bumps up the number. Okay, so 101. Now, it's basically 25% of the on-air talent. Really, everybody here at 790 is doing the show from the studio, almost everybody. And then we have a few people from other stations, a few news workers over KTRH. So we're at the and they're downstairs third floor is like maybe five people.

We're bare bones. So we're talking maybe 15 people. Okay. So yesterday at about 12.30, 1 o'clock, we got an email and it said, hey, we've got Rudy's barbecue down on the third floor. Well, you know, Ross and I always eat before the show because you don't want to eat during the show. So after the show, I went down to the third floor to see if there was any food left and

there was lots of food left. It's plentiful. Normally there would be none. It's bare bones, if you will. So I'm like, well, I'm not hungry. 315 is an odd time to have dinner because I'm not 71. So I decided to make a plate of food, wrap it up in aluminum foil. I put my name on it. And I stuck it in the third floor refrigerator.

We have two refrigerators, one here on the fifth floor and one of the third. Get to the office today about 10.50 and talk to Joe George, kind of talk about the show a little bit. What's going on? I said, it's about a little after 11 o'clock. I'm going to go get my lunch heated up. go to the third floor, it's gone. I looked, drawer, top of the drawer, middle, bottom, side, looked in the freezer. My barbecue plate is gone.

What was going through your mind at this time, Matt? Take us through how you were feeling at this moment. To be brutally honest, I dropped 20 to 25 F bombs. I then slammed the refrigerator door. Oh, I could see that. I went to our market manager, Eddie Martini, who's in the office today. I said, Eddie, how many employees are right now in our company here at the offices? And he kind of laughed.

He said, maybe like 10. I said, somebody took my lunch. And he goes, that's blank. And he started dropping 20 to 25 back moms. So we have a facilities manager here at the station that happened to hear about this and said, I'll go look it up on a video. Oh, really? So we're getting to the bottom of this? We're going to find out who the hell took my barbecue?

Joe's sweating back there. At some time between 3.15 yesterday afternoon and 11 o'clock this morning. I don't know. I appreciate that accusation, Ross. Can I make a prediction? Can we start making odds? Here's what I'd like to do. I'm going to go with custodian staff.

I'm going to say, go ahead. As the leaders. Uh-huh. And I don't know who'd be second. I don't want to put odds. Security guard. Always blame overnight. I was thinking, I was thinking KTRH overnights.

Oh, I'm going to. I like Nico. Go to like, look, if you get like 2 o'clock in the morning. Nah, Nika wouldn't do that. It's 2 o'clock in the morning. You can't order food, everything's closed, you're hungry? Wait a minute, you can't Uber eat at 2 o'clock in the morning? I call BS.

Not right now, it's tough. It's not, it's tough. There's not a lot of drivers out there? I've never Uber eats after. Well, I think a lot of places are just closed right now. Unless you count the Uber driver driving me to the drive-thru. That's the only Uber eats I've done after two. So here's the problem.

They do not. Uber drivers do not like that, by the way. I feel like if I would have had a fork in one of the entree items and maybe even taking a bite out of a piece of sausage, then it would have been safe. But the plate was beautifully proportioned, plenty of things, and obviously nobody had even snacked on even one bite of it. You know what, Matt, during these trying times in the midst of a global pandemic. Uncertained times. Uncertain times. For somebody just rip your lunch like that, that's pretty messed up.

So you had a Post-it note with your name on it or what? Aluminum foil with my name on it. Would you do it with a Sharpie? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Man. I'm going overnight security guard.

So the possibility is our overnight security guard. Yeah. Over on an employee or custodian staff. Or somebody who got here this morning. Maybe it was Eddie. That would be awesome. You mean our market manager would take my food? Yeah.

And then he looks at the camera and gives you a number one. Did you upset anyone recently in the office? What it does prove to me is that, and this is the reason we bring up the story, there's always a camera everywhere. no matter where you think you could do something a little debauchery if you will yeah that's true there's always going to be a camera we used to have an employee here and i can i feel like i can say this this is this is what ross you were here joe you are not this is probably going back seven or eight or nine years a while ago that he was literally mentally ill i believe he would go in the elevator

and would try to, you know how you have like badges that would let you go up to certain floors? He would unscrew the security facet to these elevators. Basically just vandalizing these elevators. So one day I get called in and they said, Matt, we need to speak to you for a second. And I'm like, okay, what's up? And he goes, well, by record, you were on the elevator last before this. elevator vandalism took place.

I said, what vandalism? He goes, yeah, somebody has been knocking these security things off of the elevators. I'm like, are you effing kidding me? And I think I said it if. I was like, you're bringing me in for, I'm a grown ass

at that time, probably 35 year old man with a wife and family. I don't have time to be doing that. They said, well, we'll look at the security cameras. So go for it. look for it. I'm all glad for you. Do it. And they found out who it was, and they fired him immediately for doing it.

Yes. So, next second. He had a lot of accesses. A lot of passwords had to be changed during those days. He was deranged. Oh, my God. I never had any issue with it. He was the same guy like, you have to go to 1.30 on the KTRH Astros 10th inning show. It was to the next top of the hour. Top of the hour. I said, but there are no calls. And the Astros lost the Giants 11 to 2 and it's 1249 in the morning

and the Astros are 30 games under 500. You gotta go to 1.30. What would you talk about when you had to do those? Nothing! I would sit there with my blank in my hand. As a former sports broadcaster once told me.

That's a phrase you use when you're just talking to yourself and nobody's listening. You're playing with your blank in your hand. That's what I was doing. On the 10th inning show, Sports Talk, 7. No, that was KTRH back there. KTRH, yeah, that's what I meant.

All I had were people just calling and getting plenty. Can I please get my coast to coast? I don't want to hear about... People were pissed. I don't want to hear about Brian Mueller giving up seven runs in two-thirds an inning. Yeah, I used to have to do some overnights here and there. Bud Norris, he really sucks. It was usually David Delotti or Tom Franklin when I was doing it.

Oof. Roodle. Brutal. Brutal. So that's anything goes. Oh, by the way, somebody stole Matt's lunch. So be nice to Matt today. Someone stole his lunch.

Well, let's talk about the real goat of the day. Sports RV brought me a goat in a good way? Good way, yeah. Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, and on sesame seed bun. Most importantly, a large unsweet tea. Oh, that's in the, yeah. For someone that doesn't like sweet tea to get the unsweet, ooh, it's like my teeth just start to fall out. All right, on the show today, we will hear from Ernie Johnson.

People we miss hearing from. The Ernie Johnson. Probably one of the nicest people in the history of sports television. And by far the most entered, and I'll tell you, it's right to his face, the most entertaining studio show in the history of sports. You want to fight me on that? No. No, you don't want to fight me. I wouldn't dare.

Okay. We got him coming up. Brian T. Smith, Chronicle of columnist with us at 2 o'clock. the Fantasy 5 today honors something that may go away, SportsRV. Vegas. For good. That's why we have to honor it. The term is Vegas buffets, but anybody that goes to a buffet.

Now, we've done Chinese buffets before. That's a little different. Items. This is Vegas buffet items. And if any of you've been to Vegas before, whether it be once like Joe George or 35 times like me, you know what a Vegas buffet is going to have. There's going to be some really good stuff. I thought Joe'd never gone.

No, he says even once. He'll go with us in the fall. Okay. But yeah, we're going to do Vegas buffet Adams on the Fantasy 5 today. 1213, Sports Talk, 790. That's my anything goes. What do you got today?

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7-13-212-5-790. If you want to reach out again through Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. Ross, we also determine who the D of the week is every week on the show. Not every week, but we do it quite often when the time is right. Are we going to give it to Blake Snell? That's the first name that came to mind for me. Yeah, the more and more I think about this.

And again, I understand they don't want to take pay cuts. But America's taking pay cuts. America's losing jobs at record numbers. We have the largest unemployment rate. I don't know. When was last time we had the rate this high? Depression? The depression, yes. It's just going to be very hard for anybody to feel sorry for these athletes that are going to be playing a reduced schedule. Say what you all about. You signed up for this and owners are big and greedy and won everything.

If the baseball season doesn't play because you're mad about taking a cut, you're going to take the loss on this. From a public relations standpoint, but it's an apple and orange's comparison. I don't think if the players are going to versus the owners and they're saying this is going to be unfair we should be compensated more that doesn't have anything to do with the employment rate that doesn't have anything to do with the

you know Joe regular Joe's who are losing their jobs and all that type of stuff it's just they're insulated basically from the regular world and that's fine so I mean because if they're not getting their money and if they don't get what they want

that money's going to the owners so I don't understand why it becomes this public I mean, I do understand, but it shouldn't be like, well, people are unemployed, so you should take your money. Well, no, because if they don't take their money, it's going to the owners. Because I think in the past, there have been people that have, I should say people, a large group of people that have said, yeah, go get as much as you can. If not for you, there is no sport. Go, go. The reaction is more towards the labor than there would be towards ownership.

I think this would be the first time that America would sign on the other side of things. saying we know these owners. I mean, look at what potentially they're talking, major league baseball could lose $4 billion this year because of gate receipts. There's a story in the athletic today about a lot of teams are going to get crushed because their television deals are much more lucrative in, say, New York and St. Louis

than they are in, say, Seattle, for that matter, Houston. So I'm just saying for the first time in the war of who side are you on, the owners may get more support publicly than the players, especially when Blake's down goes out and says, well, you know, this COVID thing really scared. me. Unless you pay me the full sign. Well, Blake Snell is an idiot.

Let's just hope that he's not a player rep for the Tampa Bay race. Do you know who agrees with Blake Snell? Oh, boy. It's a guy that, you know, take a look at, look at Bryce Harper's salary numbers as I play this for you. Yeah, I love Snell. That's my guy, bro. Bro.

He said if, he said if someone gets it, they got to live with that for the rest of their lives. He's lying. He's like, I need my money. He's like, give you my money or I'm not saying. Hey, probably speaking the truth, bro. I ain't mad at him. Somebody's got to say it. They're playing Fortnite.

They're playing Fortnite. Good for him. I love Snow, man. He has a beast, too. Best luckies in the game, bro. Okay. Does every male between the age of 20 and 30 say bra and bro? I'd say it more than I'd care to admit, yes.

Joe, you're in that wheelhouse. How often are you saying bra and bra? Rarely ever. Okay, but apparently Bryce Harper and. And Blake Snell said quite often. Maybe elite baseball players say bra, bro, a lot. Well, I was explaining this to Joe. I kind of said it as a joke for a while.

And then it just became into my regular vocabulary accidentally. So I do say bro more than I care to admit. But usually it's around people that say it a lot. You just pick up on their tendencies. Yes. So who around you in your life says bra and bro a lot? It was one of my friends that I was hanging out with a few years ago. Yeah.

So it's been a while, though. Yeah, I still say it, though. Okay. Now I'm trying to transition, though, to Brutta. Because I think it's funny. I got you. Come on Brutta. Why don't you bring up some catchphrases in the show on a regular basis and see if I

wind up saying them? Well, perhaps the British brough is catching on right now, too. Come on, Bruv. Because there are people that will, I'll say things and you'll wind up saying them. Oh, my gosh. And we don't need, at the end of the, sometimes stuff that we don't even know who started it. Things that you say and things that I say. Yeah.

It's bad. It's real bad. What I've picked up on Raw. is I'll say Ross. What kind of steak do you want? He'll go, you know, the strips are really good, or the sirloin is good, or the flaminas, you know, whatever you want. Yeah.

I'm very noncommittal. Yes. So I always say, tell me what you want. So then Kim will say, what do you want for dinner? Well, we can do Chinese food or we can do Italian, or I can make some salads, or we can do cook burger, whatever you want. I'm like, Tam, and I'm Ross at home. Well, see, that's my name.

I'm very go with the flow. me too so that's why like I get along with a lot of people who are very like stubborn and towheaded I can get along with them because I mean on certain things I can be stubborn correct yeah I just mean like what's for dinner or what should we do or Matt's like you're like what do you want to talk about I don't know whatever you want like I asked him for what his fantasy five categories were today and he sent me like 10 of them he goes whatever you want yeah whatever you want just pick one yeah put your name on is what I'm trying to say yeah I mean I could rank them

All right, Christian, before we say how to Ernie Johnson. Hi, Christian. You know, Ronald. And Joe George. And Joe George. And Joe George. Hey, Christian. Look, I know today if anything goes Friday.

Right. And we're all supposed to be the hikes up mood. So I got one question, one question asked. I know that you all really don't follow combat sports much. But considering the fact that Mike Tyson, and the Van de Holyfield just announced that they were trying to get back at 53 and 57 years old into the world of boxing. What are the odds we're going to see a third fight between these two or one of them getting a more lucrative deal on a better fight? Thank you for the phone call.

They'll never fight each other again. Oh, your eyes are being raised. Go ahead. Mike Tyson's going to professional wrestling. The only way Yeah, he signed up He's doing something with the AEW The new wrestling

The reason he started training is Because he wants to do more charity He wants to do charity fights Yes If you're asking for a four-round charity Let's have some fun Yes If you're asking to

You're going to go to Atlantic City Or Las Vegas to watch this And pay-per-view it, no They'll never sanction it Texas would though Tennessee A lot of the southern states Athletic Commission is a little more lax

Orlando Hell all sports is happening in Orlando now Florida they don't even have have anybody in boxing background. They'll sanction that bad boy, no problem. They're actually, they did come out with odds on this as well. Mike Tyson is a minus 300 favorite, which is a little crazy, especially considering how badly he got beat by a Vendor Holyfield in the first two of fights, although the first fight was closer, but he was just getting trounce than that second fight. That's why he started

biting him because he was losing. Mallory Holmes fought into his 50s, Bernard Hopkins fought into his 50s, Mike Tyson trying to come back at 53, it wouldn't shock me. But I don't think he'll take on Holyfield. I think that was the question. Yeah, I could see it because Holyfield come out and said he was, he's training. He saw Mike Tyson hitting the mitts and getting all this attention. And then Evander Holyfield, who by, I mean, who can barely construct a sentence at this point,

which is, I mean, sad to say, but it's the truth because we've had him on in Super Bowls and stuff. The man needs to stay out of boxing. He's taking a lot of beatings over his years. He was, he was famous for his chin and how he could take a beating. and you could tell it's affected him later in his life. He needs to stay away from this, but it looks like he wants to do it. And he blew through,

both of them blew through all their money. Yeah. I think it's going to be purely charity with a donation to some made-up organizations that put some money in their piggyback. You're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars both of those guys blew through. Not surprised, right?

No. Crazy though. I'd like the opportunity. Ernie Johnson, the host of Inside the NBA, joins us next. The Matt Thomas Show, 1227, Sports Talk 790. Us as fans, we as fans want to see that. Houston Sports Talk 790.

From the owner to the coach to the players. Your home for your home teams. As I said 20 minutes ago, and I bear repeating it, the most entertaining studio show in the history of sports entertainment, sports business, regardless of sport, is inside the NBA. We miss it terribly, and that's why we began the people we miss hearing from segment, and we are very happy to be joined now by the man who hosts that show and has done so for decades. Ernie Johnson is with us here on the Matt Thomas show.

Ernie, it's Matt and Ross. Thank you so much for carving out a few minutes of your time. This has to be such an uber surreal time for you because you guys during this time of year are working five, six days a week, correct? That is correct. That's our busiest time of the year, Matt. And thank you for having me on, by the way. It's good to talk to you.

We would have been died. into March madness and then the NBA playoffs when everything, you know, got suspended on March 11th or March 12th in that neighborhood. And so, yeah, we would have been, we would have been actually starting, I think, I guess next week, Western Conference Final. We would have been somewhere to start the Western Conference Finals. And who knows where that would have been. but it has been a strange time for sure to have not really done a show per se since the 12th of March. And you have been doing a lot of Zooms with a lot of players, your federal analysts, that type of thing. Give me somebody that's been Uber-interesting to you.

I'm sure all of them have been, but some things you may have not learned about some athletes before you did these Zoom meetings. It's been a lot of fun. It's called hashtag NBA Together, and we've been doing them. to a week for six weeks now. I mean, had Steve Nash on this week, and these are long-form conversations that are going, you know, sometimes,

you know, 35 to 45 minutes, but, you know, having Steve Nash tell me about the night that he played Michael the first time and, or if the second time in his career, and had seen Chuckie Brown get on the bus in Chicago with Michael's shoes and was like, where'd you get those? he said, I asked Mike for him.

And so they go and play in Phoenix, and Nash asks Jordan for his shoes after Jordan had hit a turnaround jumper on him. And sure enough, he walks out of the arena with Michael's shoes that night. And he said he was getting all kind of grief from his, you know, guys like Rex Chapman when that happened. But it's been wonderful to talk to these guys and just get into, you know, stories. You know, that Eric Spolstra, when he was a college player at Portland, he was on the floor when Hank Gathers collapsed.

You know, we talked about that. We talked to Steve Kerr about losing his father in a terrorist assassination when he was a freshman at Arizona. I mean, we've gone down a lot of roads with a lot of guys and it's been really enlightening for me. Ross v. Real here, Ernie, and you mentioned Michael Jordan,

and obviously I imagine you've been watching the last dance, yes? Watching what? The last dance? Yeah. I was just messing with you. Oh, Kelsa. All right.

Good line. No problem. Is there any particular, I mean, I imagine. Last time you speak of. Right. Go ahead. You've been around the NBA for a long time and obviously around those times. Is there any particular memory or something that you saw that you didn't remember or something you would share that kind of triggered your memory from watching that?

I thought it was the way they started out one of the segments last week with Craig Sigr. questioning Jerry Krauss about the team's cohesiveness and, you know, and how, you know, how have you stayed together with all the backstabbing that's been going on? And Jerry Krause just, just, you know, staring at Sega and saying, well, you got this wrong and you got this wrong, and then he walks away from the podium and somebody says, way to go, Craig. Thanks, Craig. I mean, those kind of things that you don't really remember. But, I mean, I think it's shed just an incredibly bright light on one of the great careers of anybody in any sport in Michael Jordan. And you see what drives him.

And you see, you know, I think the brutal honesty of teammates who said, you know, hey, yeah, he was a jerk at times. Yeah, he was tough to get along with. but you also saw the drive and the determination that led to all those titles. And Michael unabashedly saying, look, if you want to come along on the ride, this is how we do it. And, you know, he was responsible for putting a lot of rings on a lot of fingers. The great Ernie Johnson with us here on the Matt Thomas show. Ernie, of course, host of the Inside the NBA. We're going to talk some golf here towards the end because there's a big event coming up next week that Ernie will be a part of.

What are the text threads like between you, Shaq, Kenny, and Charles these days? What are those like? Like, I mean, there's text and there's phone calls, and we're checking up on each other, you know? Shack's always one to throw out a few kind of bizarre videos and that kind of thing just to kind of get a rise out of us. But, you know, most of it's, you know, I talk with Charles every week. We have a podcast called The Steam Room that we do every Thursday. And so, you know, we have that time and, you know, when we're connecting and getting on Zoom and we catch up a little bit there. But our podcast is so just conversational that we kind of catch up with each other's lives just in the normal discourse of that podcast.

But it's the same way. We've had a couple of Zooms. We had one yesterday with a lot of the TNT announcers where, you know, shoot, everybody was on there. Mar was on there. C Webb, Dennis Scott, Chuck, you know, Kenny. It was, and it was, it's great. I mean, it's kind of tough because that's the way you're doing business now, but, you know, maybe you've seen the same thing.

There's just something that's kind of like comforting about that, where you can look everybody in the eye and say, hey, you know, you look good, you, you know, how you doing, how's the family? So, you know, we're just kind of trying to do things the way we're able to do things these days. Maybe not the greatest way to do it, but it's what we've got. How often, and obviously with TNT being a major television partner to the league, how often, Ernie, do you get updates from your bosses about potential logistics? I know that the players earlier this week had kind of a conference call or text,

and we're trying to push the envelope about trying to play. And I think Adam's been very respectful of trying to make sure the NBA doesn't get in the way with other people getting their proper testing. But how often do you get, do you feel like relevant, interesting updates from the league and from people that you know inside the offices, or is it still very much a guessing game right now? Yeah, I mean, I'm not getting anything that you're not getting from, you know, on, you know, semi-regular basis when, you know, reports come out that there was a meeting and that kind of thing. You know, I think there's probably, there are probably discussions higher up on the

food chain than I go, you know, in terms of Turner management, maybe when they're talking with the NBA. But, you know, this is, it's such a. because of the uncertainty of the virus and because you don't know where it's going and how it's contained and if there's a second wave, et cetera, et cetera. I mean, you just, you have, all you can do, I think, when you're in the league right now is, is come up with a variety of contingency plans and see if, okay, this one might work given these circumstances. But, you know, when they say, okay, you're allowed to open a gym or a training facility in this city,

maybe you're not able to do that in another city right now. I mean, until everybody's, you know, on the equal playing floor, then obviously you're not going to have any basketball played, but, you know, you try to remain optimistic, but at the same time realistic. And you have to realize what the players are thinking in terms of safety and what the league has to think about in terms of safety. and, man, I mean, I wish that we could, you know, I just wish that they said, okay, everybody hang in there on August 17th, it's all going to be over.

But we're not, you know, but you can't get that. You know, there's this cloud of uncertainty is just developing every sport right now. And what has been your feeling on that, I mean, like, how do you feel personally about balancing wanting basketball back, but also knowing people have to be safe? Are you feeling like you just need basketball back or something that you could just, hey, if we need to take a year off, we can take it? I mean, just how do you feel about it? And I've said since the beginning of this, I said, look, there could be worse things in the world than having a season in which there was not an NBA champion. Okay, we don't want that. But if that's the way it worked out, then that's the way it worked out.

if that was going to serve the greater good, then okay. But I realize, you know, the importance of business and the economic situation with these teams and these leagues and employees and that kind of thing. So obviously, you want everybody back to work and you want to see things come back. But at what, you know, what's the tradeoff? What's the cost? And so that's what makes it so difficult. We want it both ways. We want it three ways.

We want it to be safe. We want everybody back to work. We want live sports and live competition as the American sporting public. But we're just unable to do that. And that's the frustrating part. Sure, I want to see play. But, man, I don't want to, you know, every base better be covered before you before you crank things back up.

Before I let you go, the match Champions for Charity, May 24th, Tom Brady, Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning will be on TBS and TNT. Tell me about what your role will be and how you found out about it and how your network's going to cover

this event. Okay, well, let me, I'll talk about the event first, and then I'll talk about my role and how that has evolved. and obviously we're looking forward to it. I did the first one a couple of years ago with Peter Jacobson and Darren Clark. We had a bunch of folks out there, Adam Lefco and Charles, and it was a lot of fun when Phil and Tiger went head to head.

It wasn't the greatest golf that day, as I recall, but, you know, Tiger did ship in late, which was dramatic, and then they had to finish under the light. So it was a fun night overall. But I think when you add Tom Brady and Peyton Manning to the mix now, you're adding some entertainment value, not just because I think Manning is one of the funniest guys on the planet. And he showed that when we had our announcement of the match, the champions for charity. I mean, he stole the show, you know, his one-liners about Brady and everything else.

So if that can translate to the golf course, and I think these guys understand that, they understand they're the show. They're center stage on this day. They're going to be miced. And so it does nobody any good if you just clam up. So I think they'll be, I think they'll be ready to entertain and ready to hit some good golf shots. And when you've got a couple of eight handicappers out there like Brady and Peyton, they can play for the possibility that there might be a couple of skulls and some things that might make you chuckle.

So that's what you're going to see and you're going to see them play in a couple of different formats. best ball on the front and an alternate shot on the back. Now, as far as my role on that, I was prepared to be part of this, and I just had to back off. And I will have an essay in the course of that, but I'm not going to go down to a golf course. And it's because I have a 31-year-old son at home who's got muscular dystrophy and has been on a ventilator for nine years.

and so my wife and I have talked about it, prayed about it. Now, we've, you know, because look, I'd want to be part of this event. I really do. I'd love to be down there. It's going to be a lot of fun. But what I can't do is say is risk going down someplace and coming back from Florida and bringing something into the house that makes a 31-year-old guy who's on a ventilator who is susceptible to lung infection.

I can't bring something back in the house. I can't risk it. And so I had to, I had to, in our discussions with the folks at work, and they gave me the opportunity. They said, look, if you have any reservations, don't do it. You know, we'll be fine. And I said, I appreciate that. And I said, and after a lot of thought and discussions,

I said, I'm just not ready to make that step to do that. So I'm going to have an essay in the pre-match, show before they tee off and that'll be my involvement. But I just, you know, guys, it's hard. It was just one of those things where I said, I'm just not ready to commit to that, given what's going on in my house. Certainly. And I'll wrap it up by this. I introduced myself to you during the Western Conference finals a couple of years ago and I had told you that I had watched the real sports episode about you and your family. And I was blown away by it. And I'll say this again, like I told you that two years ago, you and the way your family is put together in the

responsibilities you and your wife have put on, especially with your son, make me want to be a father. So I know that that story hit me very hard, and I think about my children every day and the things that you have sacrificed for your love of your children. So know that I respect you as a man, as a father, and as a broadcaster, and we cannot wait for you guys one way or the other, whether it be at the end of this season or the start of next season to get you guys back on T&T. I thank you for coming on my show today. I wish you and your family the very best, and we look forward to watching that golf on T&T next weekend. Matt, I appreciate the kind words I really do.

And it's great catching up with you, man. I love what you're doing here too and kind of just reconnecting with folks that the viewers and listeners are used to hearing about and hearing from. So it's been my pleasure to spend a few minutes, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Stay safe. Thanks again. Thanks, Tony, very much for the time. We greatly appreciate it. That is the great Ernie Johnson, Jr.

and if you have not seen what he's talking about, his son with muscular dystrophy, excuse me, go, HBO has HBO go, go look up the story a couple of years ago that the real sports folks did on him and you will, it'll be tough not to shed a tear because not only is a great family man, but a great broadcaster and probably even a better person.

Thanks again to Ernie for joining us here at 1246. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-790 is how you reach our show. It's anything goes Friday. Top of the hour. Guys, we have a new bounty gate in the NFL. I'll tell you what that is in 12 minutes. It's the Matt Thomas show of the message here for Shaw's Jewry.

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probably one of the nicest people you would ever meet. And, you know, we've talked about this a lot of the last decade, you and I working together. There are a-holes that are coaches and managers and general managers and radio hosts. Well, yeah, there are radio host A-holes, too. But there are so few genuine, nice people. Art Hal is genuine. and nice and got horribly portrayed in Moneyball.

It wasn't even close to what Art Howe was all about. And that was the biggest foie pa of that movie was that Art Howe was just, it was pretty close to character assassination. I never saw it, actually. Yeah, just missed it completely. And again, it wasn't mono-a-mono, word-for-word, a historical perspective, but art is, and I was very honored, I went to school with his kids.

and so I got to know art a little bit. You know the How's? Yeah. I got to, a matter of fact, one of his daughters and I remained Facebook friends to this day. So best wishes to Art Hal. I just mean when you were growing up. In his recovery. Secondly, got to do a shout out.

Ross, we are the official. Did you know this, Ross? We are the official radio show of the McCullough Junior High Cross Country Team. We are? Yes. Okay. led by Aiden Kleinschmidt, Aiden and his dad listened to show all the time.

Wonderful. And I want to shout out to those guys. Hope they're having a great day. Sorry that school ended abruptly the way that it did. Although he's probably thinking, you know, this homeschool thing isn't the worst thing in the world. But congratulations for all of Aden's success, both on the cross-country team and in school.

You better keep it up, young fella. But DeMacalla Jr. High School cross-country team in the Woodlands is now officially a part of the Sports Talk 790 Matt Thomas Show family. Wonderful. We played them in football when I was in middle school. How'd I go? We lost 14 to 7. And then they said racist things to us as we got on the bus.

Well, that turned the conversation pretty quickly. I mean, you asked. How did it almost 14 to 7? What do you mean? Two touchdowns to one. You remember a high school score, a junior high school score from 20 years ago? I do. I'll tell you the one touchdown we got.

Well, thank God the clinchments weren't around at that point. We scored on a right screen left to Ronnie Ross. I made the key block and he got a touchdown. Did you get like a pancake block? No. I don't think I blocked anybody. Okay. I didn't, sorry.

Yeah. You asked how it would. Yeah. You were two ill-timed comments during the shoutouts. Extremely poor. Well, this was 20 years ago. I'm sure times have changed. Yeah, I'm sure it's wonderful.

Oh, by way, cross-country. I mean, of all the sports that I wouldn't do, you're just going to run and you're going to run through strange areas. It's tough, though. I'm saying I'm super respectful. Yeah, I respect the people that do that. But, yeah, I could never have been part of cross-country. I can't go cross-room.

I spent my life trying to avoid running. Why would I want to be on a team that just did nothing but run? And run. I'm tired after crossing the hallway. All right, let's get to Jim and Spring Branch for the top of the hour. Hi, Jim. Yeah, real quick on the cross-country thing. And I remember in junior high, I'm 63 years old.

I remember we'd be Pershing 6-0, and when there's 16-0-0 from junior high, Jane Long High School, junior high, terrible football team, but we won a couple of games. Anyway, oh, after the football practice, we were told we were now on the cross-country team. So I hate it running, so that was terrible. Anyway, Houston Oilers back in the day, not-so-n-n-n-n-a-old, Jerry Glanville. they must have put a hit out on Morton Anderson with the Saints kicker. Because on the opening kickoff, they just took him out.

I don't know if there was a bounty involved or what, but he was just taken out, laid out, and did not return. That's Glanville for you. That's all I got. Okay. Anything goes Friday. There you go. Jerry Glanville stories.

You were talking about how great art how it was. I was never in the business when Jerry was coaching the elders. But from what everyone wanted to tell me, he would be the anti-Ard-Hall. So he and Jimmy Williams apparently won, too, as far as hated coaches in the Houston Sports Arena? That's a great question. I don't know if Bill Fitch was hated. He certainly got side-we. He was just grumpy old coach, super old school.

I think Hal Lanier was a little bit of a grouch, too. But Halanier got the Astros of the National Championship Series. And Bill Fitch got the Rockets to the Western to the NBA finals. Glanville just The orders never even got to the AFC championship game Boy, I would have to say one two, boy, I wasn't here

when Cesar Cooper was a manager I was living in Minnesota at the time so I don't think he was particularly well received No, one two hated probably goes Glanville one Bill O'Brien two No more hated than Jimmy Williams

Oh yeah people hate Bill O'Brien more than Jimmy Williams. Absolutely. Really? Yeah. I mean, Jimmy was just old and just a... We got like a bunch of audio bites of him just coming after people. We play Bill O'Brien Bites dating on the show. He doesn't like call people

stupid and stuff like that. I don't care what you say about me and I'm just like you don't care about what I say about you. That's true. Oh, no. It's not. I feel like Jimmy was... Come on, Brian. Nine and sevens is out the bar, Brian. AFC champions in a row. We don't have Bill O'Brien ones that say not for air. We do with Jimmy Williams. They should have been for her.

All those were pleasant enough to put on the air. No, I would have to go, trust me on this, I'd have to go Glanville 1, Bill O'Brien 2, Jimmy 3, and then I don't have much, anybody after that would be significantly down to 4. James Dickey? No, James Dickey was a peach. All right, second hour of the Matt Thomas show. Is there such a thing as a bounty gate after the New Orleans Saints situation?

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ESPN, you can stop showing Korean baseball. My KT. Wiz, look at the standings, please. Last I checked they were at the bottom of the barrel at 1 and 7. Did they lose again? I feel like they never win. Well, they've only done it once. Oh, yeah, they're 2 and 7. They won today.

14 to 6 over the Lions. the Samsung Lions. Big win today, Maddie. So we're two and seven now. Because, of course, I play on the utility outfield. Wow, Sim Wu-Jun went three for four in the leadoff spot. Very big day from him. Three RBIs for Kang Bike Ho.

Their stadiums look great, by the way. I mean, they're empty. But they, I mean, they look like, I mean, they got plenty of corporate sponsorship. I mean, they look like legit stadiums. They're not messing around there. Why have we slept on the Korean Baseball League for the many years we have?

It looks like it was 95 meters out to right field, Matt. How many feet is that? You said right field? I'll guess 330. It was probably somewhere around there. It was just a pure guess. Pure gas survive. The alleys or they are to the foul pole?

Probably about 300 feet. They are logoed up with all sorts of corporate sponsors. I can tell you that. 311 feet. By the way, expect that in sports. We were talking about the other day about the NFL moving and putting logos and stuff. I bet you within 20 years sports, I mean, we're going to be, these uniforms and all these sports

are gonna be like NASCAR in their cars, you know what I mean? There was no reason not to if they can. I mean, that's what basically is on the backs of these. That's what runs these leagues is advertising dollars. Yeah. I have zero problem with it, by the way. They should be doing it now every league to make Blake Snell feel better. Wow, the dinoes are in first

place. It ain't one. So good. We're a monster team. We? We! Dang. Dusan Bears are tied for second at six and three. We're doing well. We're doing well. KT. Wizz and so much. I just picked the name because it just said it was the easiest for me to pronounce. What's so hard about the NC Dinos? I should have done some prep on this. This is a fail on my part to show.

To show, prep for your show, prep for your Korean baseball organization. All right, 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show. If you'd like to join us. We have coming up at 2 o'clock, Brian T. Smith and the Fantasy 5, which I got to start working on, Ross. Oh, I've got a list. Vegas. slash just general buffet items. Yes. So let's set up a couple of parameters here. Are we talking like really nice buffet? Are we talking like Golden Corral buffet?

Are they the same thing? Like a mediums, like a, like a Caesar's buffet or a win. Okay. We're going to presume that most people have been either to Lake Charles or to Las Vegas or some sort of all-inclusive buffet. Should we call it casino buffet items? And how about this? One starter and one dessert.

and then three whatever you want. Okay. One starter, one dessert, and then three, whatever you want. Yeah, it's an appetizer, salad, soup, whatever you want. Okay. And you're going to go first or you're giving me the first thing. I'm actually wrestling over that. I might seed control to you, but I'm not sure.

Okay. So, going deep podcast, it's Barstool. I'll take your word for it. Don't listen to it. Joe's a big bar stool guy, Joe. I don't listen to that one. Okay. Isn't Barstle doing more damage than they are good at the end of the day?

No. You love it. I think they're changing sports media forever. Yeah, Matt. Revolutionizing. There are what we view Sports Center as for the new generation. Sports. Dave Portnoy is Dan Patrick.

Doesn't he just eat pizza? I'm telling you. I don't know a lot about Barstool. I don't know. I just rip off their content for our website. I just know that they are beyond crude to a lot of people. They are. They are.

It's over the top, but their actual content can be really good. Some of those guys are losers, though. Like those Yankee and Red Sox fans, those guys are idiots and losers and just blind homers. It's not good content. Hubs and Caravis. My guess is that's who does this. Probably Dallas Brains part of it. All right.

So James Harrison, who's had a, would you say, a checkered NFL career? Good, but certainly has had some issues off the field over the years. was on the Going Deep podcast yesterday. Oh, excuse me, I made the 6th. So it's been about a week and change. Why is it just coming out now? Going deep. You always have a nice punny nickname for your podcast.

Like it's just 15 minutes. Well, not that one. Yeah, that was like two episodes. Like the Crawford Talks. That's Jay Kaplan's. You ever listen? Yes. It's a lie.

The greatest thing Mike Tommel never did, he handed me an envelope after that hit on that hit being Brown's receiver, Muhammad Masacquai. I'm not going to say what, but he handed me an envelope after that. What would you presume? Because, you know, we in life cannot always assume things, but we certainly can presume things. When someone says giving you an envelope, I don't think it's gift cards to stake and shake. Although those will be worth much anymore. it wouldn't be a card

it wouldn't be an old Navy gift gift certificate correct maybe some Chuckie cheese coins coupons so right there when someone says A gave B an envelope

what's the envelope going to be in it either it can be two things drugs or money maybe Mike Tomlin's an extreme couponer and it was a lot of good coupons save him some cash So Harrison goes to Instagram today and says the following. Wow, y'all really compare what I said to Bountygate?

Harrison wrote, Mike T. It's Tomlin, has never paid me for hurting anyone or trying to hurt someone or put a bounty on anybody. These are all in caps, by the way. If you knew the full story of what happened back then, you know that BS fine for a legal play wasn't even penalized during the game. Harrison, by the way, did not clarify his Instagram post what he said on the podcast about being handed an envelope by Tomlin. Like, you guys got this all twisted. But yeah, he still handed me an envelope. Yeah, I would say it's not a bounty.

He was just helping him pay for it, right? Correct. Is that legal within the collective bargaining agreement? Absolutely not. What's a little 75Gs among a friend, Matt? What do you think again? 10, 15, 20, 5? And how much can you physically fit into an envelope?

What's the maximum amount of cash I can put in an envelope? Well, how big is the envelope? There's a regular. I can, um, well, the biggest bill is a $100 bill, right? Yeah. 25 of those. There are bigger bills, but they're not in circulation. Yeah.

Yeah, a couple grand. Two, yeah, two, two, two, two. Two Gs? Yeah, somewhere in that range. I think it's way more than that. I bet I could get like three G's in there. But it's not five. No.

There's not 50 of them in there. Okay. At my other job, we, like at the end of the night, we'd take, like, receipts and everything like that. Sure. And stuff in a envelope. Well, during a holiday, like, they all fit in there. And it could be 20, 30 to 70 receipts deep of, like, returns and stuff like that.

I think you'll get, like, $4,000 in there. I think you get, like, $4,000 in there. Okay, we can all assume it's not fine. A couple thousand, yeah. That's illegal. But you know what? That time has passed. But don't pretend that what the transaction between you and him was, was, was,

legal because it wasn't. In fact, he got fined 70, initially was fined $75,000 for that hit. It was later reduced to $50,000. Massacquire suffered a concussion as a result of the head-to-head hit, which was not flagged in the game. Steelers president, Art Rooney the second, Ross, he came to the defense and said, I am very certain nothing like that ever happened. That's not true. You can't say that. Very certain. I have no idea what James would make a comment like that, but there is simply no basis for believing anything like this. You know why? Because Art Rooney the 2nd called up Mike Tomlin and said, Coach, did you ever give Marvin Harrison, not Marvin Harrison, James. James Harrison an envelope? No coat. No Mr. Boss. I did not. Okay, bye, click. Be a lot more shady if you did give Marvin Harrison envelope because Marvin Harrison shoots people.

But there's no, well, allegedly. There's, yeah, there's no way Art Rooney knows for sure that that hasn't been done. Of course, Tomlowe deny it. I mean, but what would happen if they said it was true? Would anything happen? Could he get fined or anything? I think the commissioner would want to have a conversation about this. A good one.

Let me tell you some. In NFL circles, this is being laughed about right now. You know, who's not laughing? That's what I'm saying. I want Andy Kalu's perspective on this. He's off this week, though. I just think it's very rich. Again, there's nobody under oath.

There's no lie detector tests being put into play on this. this, but Mr. Harrison is doing a lousy job of trying to back up his coach. And Mike Tomlin's very lucky this happened several years ago. Because if this happened this past season, then guess what? Roger Godot be calling him. And maybe Roger still calls him, but Roger's just trying to get the league back on. Frankly, this is the time of year that this kind of news story probably goes under the radar, right? Because you're just trying to get the league back going.

You're not going to worry about this. And I think this is a very, this is not that big of a deal. I mean, it's interesting and it's funny. And it's cool. It makes me, all this has done is just made me think Mike Tomlin is that much cooler. Well, here's the rule. It happened in 2010. What's the statute?

It's a 10-year rule. Yeah, there you go. Statute of limitations. So anybody has any dirt on what happened in the NFL 2010 season? You're cool. 115. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

It's and anything goes Friday. This is the Matt Thomas show on. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. 120 sports talk 790 whether or not supposed to be great the rest of today and all weekend you'll be careful this weekend driving around be safe

always be safe social distance wear your mask behave they'll get in trouble and if you go to casinos on Monday let me know how it goes because I want to go back I'm still wrestling with the three people at the craps table

three at the blackjack table I don't really how's poker going to be by the way I have no idea I don't know. I'm going to go, though. I like only three people at the craps table or three people at the blackjack table. That's good. But do you have to clean every chip?

Do you have to clean the dice after every roll? That's part of the reason I want to go. I want to see what this entails. That's just me. Plus, I got a small problem. But other things good, you know? It's small. It's not a big problem.

Not a big problem. Yeah. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. go from Bountingate in the NFL to a couple of guys that are just really bored in the off season, right, Ross? Well, I don't know if they're really bored, but there has been a warrant issued. I'm not sure if they've been arrested yet, but cornerbacks, NFL cornerbacks, DeAndre Baker and Quentin Dunbar are wanted on armed robbery charges, Matthew. Arrest warrants issued in South Florida for Baker of the Giants and the Dunbar of the Seahawks.

According to Miramar, Florida Police, Baker's arrest warrant is for four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four counts of aggravated assault with a firearm. The incident took place late Wednesday night at a party that began Wednesday evening. According to the arrest warrant, Baker and Dunbar are accused of stealing money and watches with force while armed with semi-automatic firearms. Baker intentionally threatened victims with a firearm. Multiple witnesses said at one point during the incident, Baker ordered another suspect wearing a red mask to shoot an individual who was just entering the party. The warrant includes conflicting accounts as to whether Dunbar was armed. Some say they didn't see a gun in his possession.

Basically, what we got, we don't know. There was an argument at a cookout. Who these guys play for again? Baker, DeAndre Baker, cornerback for the Giants, Quentin Dunbar, a cornerback for the Seahawks. Okay. Apparently, there was some kind of incident at a cookout. on Wednesday night, they got into an argument and guns were pulled, and Baker and Dunbar made off with several expensive watches and cash.

So really them playing football is not even an important part of the story, right? Well, I looked at their contracts. Both of them are on like $10 million contracts. What? One of them's on a rookie deal worth $10 million. He's a first round pick. I think it's DeAndre Baker. And then Quentin Dunbar, I think, just signed an extension worth like $10 million.

Or something more. So they're really bored. And he just got a $3 million signing bonus. He was literally on a conference call with the Seahawks media yesterday morning. And then by the time the nightcap rolled around, the reports came out about the arrest warrant. Totally.

And then he was just traded for, I think he was acquired for a 5th round pick from the Redskins. Dunbar was? Is this hard to fathom for you? Yes. Because it is for me. I mean, you could just insert any player.

I don't know these players are if they walk in the room. But you have two professional players who are not living paycheck to paycheck, armed stealing things. Cop saying, so these are the details from TMZ. According to TMZ. Well, it's got to be gospel then. They were playing cards in video games and an argument broke out, and that's when Baker waked out a gun. Law enforcement says they made out with $7,000 in cash, along with several valuable watches, including an $18,000 Rolex. a $25,000 hublot. Yeah.

And a pricey Audmar's Pige timepiece. Don't own those things. Man. And in the one report I saw said there was also a knockoff watch, it was only worth like $600. I don't know who had the knockoff watch. Knockoffs important. But if they're making off with these items, either they're hanging out with other very rich people that they're playing video games and cards with, as in maybe other NFL players. Mm-hmm.

or somebody's rich. They make it off a thousand dollars or they got their stuff back. This is the O.J. Simpson situation. And they were just trying to get their own stuff back or something. So what are they both facing? Are they both in jail right now? I think they're both at large. What?

They're trying to, one of it said like the giant, they're trying to get, I think the giants are kind of trying to get DeAndre Baker to turn himself in. So DeAndre, we need you to stop by the Giants facility. Once you have a physical. And if you see four or five cop guards, don't worry about that. They're just here protecting us.

Four charges of armed robbery. Four charges of aggravated assault with a firearm. Man. Guys, that's ridiculous. Apparently, they also got away in a Lamborghini, a Mercedes, and a BMW. So I guess there were three perpetrators. Well, they went for the large hall then, right?

I mean, they didn't mess around. So is this a robbery? You're over there playing. It says over there playing video games during a cookout in cards. Maybe the game got kind of dicey. So the game is so dicey Oh, maybe they're playing cards For big money

And they thought somebody was cheating And they said, oh, you want to steal from me, huh? Who was the guy in the play? There's more of this story. Was it Gilbert Aranus of the Wizards? Yeah. They pulled the gun out on the plane. On Javaris Crittenden?

Well, you know, that's a good pull. I knew Gilbert Arenas, I couldn't take you the other person was involved with that. Maybe, Ross, there's six figures on that And somebody's not willing to pay? Maybe they thought, you know what? I'll just steal 100,000,

$100,000 worth of your jewelry. Thank God you and I. We play cards. We play very friendly. We never played cards again, haven't we? No, you've never held me up a gunpoint. No, that's true. Well, that's true.

But we only played once at the poker, little poker club over there. I'm afraid to play against you. I mean, there are some things, there are some things I know in life that I'm better at than you are. Playing cards is not one of them. Okay. That's the reason why.

If you get a little game going. I've invented, as a matter of fact, Joe, I'm so. I think Ross is so good. I used to invest in him. That's true. Didn't pay off for squat, but I invested. I think I lost you money.

I lost you decent money and made you a little bit of money. So I think you're a lifetime loser. I'm still down. I will concede that. Yeah, the Rossville Real poker stock is not done well for me. Oh, well, how does it go when I invest in your craps play? You roll the dice and you roll sevens immediately, so it's not very good. No, the one time I invested it like Charles, I wasn't even anywhere near the table.

That's true. All right. Seven on three. Probably pocketed it. Seven on three, two on two on two. 5-790. Let's go to Patrick on the Matt Thomas show. Patrick, what's going on? Oh, not a lot, sir. How are you today? Well. Good. Okay. My questions to you are this is number one since you're the announcer there.

There are any players that are ever really funny when they're about to check in, like this Keith Van Horn dropping a dynamite one-liners to you when he's about to go there? Keith Van Horn? I just, you know, this is the afternoon shell of pulling out random names. Yeah, I mean. But he hasn't played. played in like 10 years, right? Yeah, but I figured, hey, you know what? You're a Utah.

I'm just trying to tie it all in that. Oh, I see, I see. Okay. I'm trying to win us the Marconi Day. They've already called. They said they don't need today's tape either. And my other question to you is, I realize what profession you're in. Have you had the choice?

Would you rather be someone like who finished their career like Gene Peterson, Chick-Hern? Or would you rather, if you had the opportunity, be someone like Craig Way or Mick Ubert or one of those guys who called every sport for like you of a Yeah, that's great, great question. Thank you. I'll answer those questions coming back. So he wants to know funny people at the scorers table and how I want to finish my career.

You'll have a break to think about it, Matt. I got a lot of the think about here. 128 on the Matt Thomas show 713-212-5-790. The answer is very important life broadcasting questions. Next. The pros do it on the bench. Load management. You can do it at home.

Oh, I don't want to get up. Just ask your smart speaker. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHeart Radio. 132 on the Matt Thomas show, 7132-1-2-1-2-5-790 to answer the previous caller's questions. James and Russ are funny to me because they will sit right in front of me with their ass on the scorers table. They're posterior, Matt. Buttox, if you will. So if I was to stare straight ahead of me, I would not be able to see the action going on.

So they are roadblocks. They just kind of pretend you don't exist. Pretty much. Among non-rocket players, Dwight Howard's very interesting at the squarestable. He will talk to people. Like fans? Yeah. He'll talk to other teams.

And then, of course, he's putting stick them on his hands. And he'll also try to eavesdrop into other people's lineups. A lot of huddles. Another one would be Javale McGee. Speaking of Lakers, big men. Really? Yeah, Javelle McGee, I think he likes to do a panoramic shot of the arena before he steps on the court. What do you mean?

Just kind of looking around and see who's there. What's up? Group-based surveying groupies. That I can't confirm, but I think he's looking around to see what's out there tonight. I would probably have to say 80% the NBA does, but when you're 7-foot-1 doing that, it's kind of funny. So those are the people. Russ and James don't care that I can't see

while the rest of the players do. PGO will get down on a knee. Austin will get down on a knee. McLemore. They'll just squat in front of you. Yeah. James and Russ have no thought of doing that. And then McGee and Howard are funny because Howard's just trying to like have conversations and Javel's just kind of staring in space.

Those come to mind. Secondly, I always thought when I was younger in my broadcasting career, I wanted to be a play-by-play guy for a particular college and do all the sports. I love the NBA so much that I want to stay in the NBA for as long as I can. So if they said you're down to one sport full-time, it would be the NBA for me. Now, I still love doing football and love doing baseball, but basketball has been my thing for most of my life. So I would stick to the NBA. Okay.

Although, as I say, when I was younger, if they had said, hey, go be the voice of USC, football, basketball, baseball. That'd be kind of cool. Coaches shows. What if they can do you right now? You know, Blake Snell, I can't go to California. Get my little to tell you, cut the check.

Unless you want to write me a check. Everybody's got a price. It's a fact. Everybody. Like, what's your dream, your dream is to have your own radio show? Is it national? My dream is to be under the shadow of Matt Thomas for a decade.

You've done that. You've done a pretty good time of that so far. Yeah. You've reached it. Yeah, I just have my own show. Yeah, I don't want to do. You know, I thought about doing, I think I would maybe just do a couple basketball, play-by-play games, just to do it. See how I like it. Start from there. I know I'd be terrible at first, but I probably could get. I feel like I could be pretty proficient at a play-by-play basketball. Maybe not football or baseball. Certainly not baseball. Baseball is the hardest for me because I don't do it as much. I maybe do one or two games a year. football I love doing, but there's just not as many opportunities. Basketball games, you can just almost do, almost immediately. And people always say, you know, do you want to do national radio?

There's nothing to me about national radio that interests me. You have to, you have to be discriminated Smith about everything, and there's just no way that I'm going to be able to get on a radio or television show and have an hour and a half conversation about whether or not Tom Brady as a Buccaneers is going to be good. what if they paid you the six million dollars a year Colin Calhurt's making bye exactly

I would do a national show for the money uh well everything everybody's got a price right but the thing about Colin Coward show is that his guest you know when he was televiseding it he had him down like uh yeah it's like a power play on a couch like three feet below him that's not cool no I like that you and I are looking at each other eye I think so and I mean I mean Howard Stern would always be I'd eye with everybody

buddy for the most part, right? They'd have him on their little velvet couch. No, he's a little taller than the guest are. Well, at least when I used to watch back on, he. No, no, go watch something recently. Oh, now he's up on the high, is on his high horse? He's on a, he's got his own mixer board in front of him. And he's probably three to four feet above them, yeah.

Why is that? Is he hitting buttons? A little bit here. He plays a little fart drops. Yeah, that kind of stuff. Cool. So, but yeah, national radio would never be like, I, you know, like, I'll give you case and point.

You all know who Nick Wright is, right? Right? Never heard of. Okay. Well, he does a show on FS1. He used to be on here in Houston. Yes, I'm kidding. He didn't want to be a Houston sports host. No, he didn't. He didn't want to be a Kansas City host.

He had grand plans, because everybody has their own plans, of doing a national show. Because he wanted to speak about LeBron James four days a week, four hours a day. And inject political discussions into stuff, which is not my cup of tea. And that's why I love to needle him about. politics because I know that he irritates him so. But Nick and I are friends. I've known him for a long time. Still see him once in a while when he comes to Houston or when we go out to Los Angeles. But his goal was to, I want to host a national show. And some guys just built that way. Good for him. He's achieving his dreams.

But yeah, if ESPN called to do a show in the afternoon and go over, you know, whether Eli Manning should play in the NFL again, then do it for me. I like the passion of a Houston sports team. And you don't have to move? Okay, coming up next, do the Giants, should the Giants call Eli back for one more go around? No, I wouldn't do that. I love being able to be passionate about the local teams,

or I said to local teams. Because when I go to Minnesota, I got into Minnesota sports. Twins were easy to root for. Wolves, nobody cared about the wild, the hockey team had a small faction of fans, and the Vikings were, you know, they were kind of going to the same thing the Texans are going through.

Really good team. You didn't trust the coach. Brad Childers has gone and now is it who's the coach of the Vikings now? It's Oh, Mike Zimmer. Mike Zimmer, yeah.

And they're getting closer but spending a lot of money in a quarterback. I saw someone tweet that when the Vikings come to Houston this year, all the coaches in the history of the Texans franchise will be on the field at the same time.

I don't think in the field they'll be in the stadium at the same time, right? Well, I mean, I don't think, I don't think, is Dom up in the booth? Well, I don't think Gary's in the booth. downstairs, is he? No, they might both be upstairs. Yeah, I think you'll see them the same stadium.

And the storied history of the Houston, Texans. All right. Let's go to Cinco in Rosenberg. Hi, Cinco. Nostra Thomas and Rastradamus. How y'all doing? Well, thank you. What's going on with you?

Hey, man, I just had an idea. Sure. So, like, there's not going to be any fans for any professional sports for a long time. So I was thinking they're going to lose all that revenue. It's going to go pay-per-view, man. What do you think about that? No chance. No chance.

No chance. So how are they going to make up all that lost revenue, you think? Well, they're not, you're assuming that these TV contracts aren't going to pay out. The networks are paying these leagues and these teams to broadcast their sport. That's how. If they go to a pay-per-view, you're only looking at about 10% of the budget. potential audience. No, the money is there. It just has to be put on. They're going to have to do some marketing strategies or something, man. I don't know.

Well, if you heard a couple days ago, Cinco, the NFL is thinking about putting in some additional advertising in the games, like putting it some, you know, what do they call that when they superimpose logos on the field? You'll see guys maybe have stuff on the back of their helmets, that kind of thing. They'll figure out ways. They used to freak me out when the, when the soccer ball would roll through the signs. I was like, what to hell? So I heard that your mama has a wooden leg with a kickstand. And here goes an original for Ross. Ross's mama so fat that she got COVID-19 squared. Is that any good? There's a pregnant pause.

I heard a chuckle. At you or with you? Definitely at you. Definitely at you. You guys take care. Boom! See you're going to see you later. Are COVID jokes allowed in 2020?

I don't know. I'm not offended. Ross and I are brothers from another mother for one reason. It takes, in terms of jokes, you know, I forgot to ask Ernie about that. About him being roasted by Jeff Ross and all that. Because he actually got, he didn't get away with, he got away with very little.

They didn't attack him very badly. They did crush. Kenny Smith. They did crush Charles Barkland. They did crush Shaquille Neal. Oh, but back to what I was saying. You and I rarely get offended by jokes. I get offended by a lot of other things, but not by jokes. I made a very inappropriate one earlier before the show today. It was concerning. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot. Yeah, that's definitely not even for the internet-only show. 140.

Do we know who's all your food yet? When are we going to find out? Oh, oh. When we come back? Let me say we got any, no email from our facilities manager. If you didn't know, if you didn't hear earlier in the show, my lunch was stolen. Out of the refrigerator. I was a refrigerator with it.

It's aluminum foil wrapped and my name on it. That's amazing. And there's only like 12 people essentially in the building, probably less than that after 3 o'clock yesterday, when the food was put in there. 713-212-7.9.143 on the Matt Thomas show. 2 o'clock today with Brian T. Smith, 230, fantasy 5, brunt, not brunch, buffet items you would find at a casino buffet. Right now a message for TGS insurance.

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I've been running every day in the sun. I've been red. It's raining outside. There's been no sun. I didn't run today. Guilty. Did Gordy steal my food? 713, 2,1, 2.

Because you were there when I made it. I made a plate of food for myself. But as the video will clearly show, I walk out of the room with a plate of food without foil on it. Matt Thomas put foil on his. Uh-oh. Now, I did see there was foil in the garbage can here this morning. Oh, up here? Yeah, I just look.

Does it say, go, go see. Can we go see if it says Matt Thomas on it? Seriously, go get it. Oh, you wrote it on the foil? You've been digging the garbage for it? I'll do it. I don't care. You take this call.

I'll go do it. I'll go do it. No, no, I got to find it. I'll do it. I'll do it. You take the call. It's about Astros' revenues. suggestions. All right, Matt Thomas is going to check for evidence in the trash can for who stole

his food. In the meantime, Alex in the Woodlands here on the Matt Thomas show. Alex, how are you? If the foil don't fit, you must have quit. That's what I'm saying. This is getting let them off. Let them off. I mean, this is a huge piece of evidence that's about to be uncovered right now, Alex. This is a momentous occasion in the history of the show. What letter does guilty start with? G. Gee, what does Gordy start with? Oh, man.

Wait, what does it end with? What does it end with as well? Oh, Jesus. The parallels, the parallels. They're out of control, Alex. So just get into what I wanted to talk about. One thing I think that the Astros could do, I don't know what the hang-up is. I don't know why this hasn't happened already, but you can't stream the 790 app and get the game.

You get a replay of, you know, earlier broadcast or whatever. Why can I not get that? Why is that not an available option to me? And specifically, I know that season ticket holders have a voice to a certain degree. They call them at the end of the season or before the season or some point. And they say, you know, what improvements do you think we should make? What do you like? What did you not like?

Whatever. Why can't that, I mean, if you have season tickets and you have a voice, this is something that we should be putting into effect because nobody's walking around the neighborhood or riding their bike with their family carrying an AM radio. listening to the Astros game. It's just not happening. You have an iPhone. You have an Android.

I'm sorry. I mean, it's true. No, Alex. Well, they do have, you can stream the games. I think you need to have AT&T or something like that. You mean, the television and the radio? Oh, you want radio only? I want to hear Robert.

Oh, no, yeah, you can, you have to use. So look, we can't do it here because we're barred by MLB because they want you to pay for their own service, the MLB at bad app. So you can do it on the app. So they're Robin Peter to pay Paul kind of. But, like, I mean, really, $790 would benefit from it. You would get your free advertising just because people want to listen to your app because the Astros are there. The Astros could do their advertising for Oxy, for whoever they're, you know, promoting.

Shlomberger, Gellier, Gellier, whatever. And, I mean, everybody could profit from it, and it would directly benefit Houstonians, Astros fans. I want to listen to that. Yeah, I listen to more games than I watch more games. Like, straight up. It's not a, yeah, it's not up to us, Alex. Thanks for the call. Appreciate you getting in.

Major League Baseball? One more thing. Go ahead. One more thing? Yeah. Since we don't have an actual schedule yet, since everything is kind of up in the air, the Astros and the Rangers, the only two teams that are really going to be affected by playing in the AOL West. And since there's not going to be any fans, there should be no reason why they can't bump that game up at least an hour. At least an hour.

I think you're going to see lots of strange start times, honestly. I think you're going to see everything from 9 a.m. in Arizona. noon to six. I mean, again, if you're playing in Seattle, you may play the game at 5.5.30, which means 7 o'clock here. I don't know. And on the streaming thing, we want to stream them here on 790. We just can't. Major League Baseball does not allow us to. They're being greedy. We're hoping for noon to three games Monday through Friday. Rage would go up. Hit the breaking news sounder. Do we have the Matt Thomas foil? We do have it. There's my name right there. Matt Thomas.

Oh, you can hardly see anything on there, though. You're holding garbage. You're like, this is so gross. What's on top of that? Coffee grounds are falling all over the place. So it's got to be somebody in the morning that ate it. I will say, though, now we need to maybe take a picture of this and tweet it. I can't read Matt Thomas on that.

You can see it. You look close. You could see it. But let me ask you this. If there is foil covering food and someone made a plate, which clearly there is a rule. You know what? Okay, go ahead. The turkey was separated by the cream corn, by the potato salad, by the pickles and onions.

It was somebody thoughtfully put. put this together. It wasn't in a big pan of leftover food. Yeah, and I will also say in your defense even if they didn't, like if they didn't read it immediately, they took it from the third floor. They had to walk, go on the elevator, and come up here and take off the foil. So they probably

read it by that point. Oh, we got video. We have to have video. Oh, we're finding out who this is. It's on now. So let's use our, put our inspector hats. The coffee grinds were on top of it. So that means, maybe in the morning? This is after coffee. Okay. So this has to be

So now this has to be somebody in the KTRH newsroom. Yes. Probably. Because 94-5 is doing it from home. Dana's here, but Dana weighs 104 pounds. She's not doing it. She's not going to see your potato salad in here. She's not eating day-old Rudy's barbecue.

She's not getting your fatty brisket. So. Okay, Michael Connor? No. He wouldn't think so. Adam Sager? No, Sager brings like a future-grain bars. There are some shit.

80 characters in that newsroom. Oh, it's got to be news. Joe was trying to say overnight. I mean, there are people. He's overnights. Overnights, there's no one here. Don't know there's cameras. Nico's a good kid, though. I don't know if you'd do that.

You got to be really desperate to eat somebody else's leftovers. And again, if it was in a bowl, if it was in a big, you know how they serve brisk in a big aluminum, whatever played a tray? Trey, yeah. This was itemized. and it had my name. Should I put a name tag? Should I put a picture of myself?

I don't know. I guess I didn't do enough. I think you went to enough links as you could have. What do you want? If I had seen somebody's, if I had seen a plate period with no name on it, I wouldn't touch it. Fact.

Put your name and then put parentheses put, I licked everything on this plate. I COVID- Did it? Should I put something on the refrigerator on the fifth floor here and says, whoever ate my lunch, hope you enjoyed it. I spat on it.

Yes. how'd my saliva taste. We're all about passive-aggressive notes on the fridge. We've been doing that for years up here. America's done that. Give me my 85 cents back. Thanks for taking my change and not giving me my latest potato chips. Thanks for the lukewarm sodas that spill everywhere vending machine.

So, Gordy, you didn't do it. No, I did not. No, that's what I was, because I went down there before I left yesterday, saw there was food and said, let me make a plate for myself because there was so much food. That was my idea that you, I took from you. But you saw there was so much food left in there. It was worth me.

Like you could have made 18 plates of leftovers. I kind of wish it was me now. You're so upset. I feel bad for the person who's going to get exposed for this. Well, what's the punishment? We're not going to fire these people, are we? What's the punishment that you want, Matt Thomas? Yeah, what do you want from them?

What do you want? What's the retribution? They should have to buy you lunch. I'll let you decide. Does it buy a lunch? They should have to buy you lunch. So within a reasonable amount. Because if I would have known this at like 10 o'clock,

I would have gone and gotten some lunch. But I was having lunch at 1115 because I thought it was down there. It was gone. They should have to buy a plate of barbecue. Okay. Gordy. Rob Manford would ban him for the whole season, but, you know. Unless it was the Red Sox.

I think it was James Harrison did it? Unless Alex Corr was with Red Sox. Oh, yeah. Yeah. If Rob Manfred's run this investigation, oh, there'll be nothing found out. The Boston Red Sox did nothing wrong. They did not steal your barbecue. I wouldn't put it past Shera Friar.

Really? Early morning people. Man, look at a cold Sherer. Like, Cher is a Houston legend. All right. Do Walton and Johns do their show from here? Well, I've seen those guys in front. One of the characters.

Don't even say it. Don't. I didn't say anything. Don't. Matt on 790, good afternoon. Hey, how you doing? Good. What's going on?

A couple of things. First one is about the empty stadiums where, you know, like when the guys are practicing football, they pipe in the noise and the music and so forth for whatever reason they do it. I was thinking, why not do that same thing, but it would be everybody doing Zoom and all of this, so why not have some type of audio

that you can type in some sports bars, you know, get a home from your home. So whenever the guy is calling, the slaves and they make good shots. You know, you can hear the cheers the fans, but they're just not there. But you're getting that same effect

in audio. See, I'm not, and thank you. Thank you. You're breaking up a little bit. I'm not, I'm not worried about crowd noise. If I'm watching LeBron make shots, or I'm watching James Hardin do his thing, or I'm watching anybody hit a home run,

you know what, George Bringerhunts a home run. I'm going to be happy at home. I don't need to had the reassurance of a thousand people. Yeah, the UFC fights over the weekend. It was a little bit of an adjustment. There were a couple times we were like, oh, wow, there's no crowd. But it wasn't that big of a deal. And I think it'll just be one of your favorite phrases, Matt, the new normal.

It's just something we wanted to get used to for a little bit. Let me tell you some. You give me no crowd noise and games. I'll take it. I can live with it. It'll be weird. It'll be different. But that beats the alternative.

Yeah, my choices are no games or games without a cross. proud. I know what I'm choosing. It's not even close. Yeah. 713-212-5-7-90. Thank you, Matt, for the phone call. We start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show with a visit with Brian T. Smith. Then we have the Fantasy 5 today, which is best items you would find on a Vegas buffet or casino buffet for that manner, depending on where you go. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Let's tell you about Big City Wings. I don't buffet at Big City Wings, but it'd be good if they did because I'd be eating all different sorts of flavors from the Terriaki to the honey barbecue to the hot to the dry rubs.

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kind of yucky Friday. Rain in the forecast all weekend long. Please be especially careful if you're out and about, especially with my 15-year-old son who's student driving. He's getting his first experience of rain this weekend. Not looking forward to that. Thoughts and prayers to myself. Let's say how to our good friend Brian T. Smith, league columnist for the Houston Chronicle, a Friday contributor on the show. BTS, are we done with Diva baseball players going on their Twitch channel

telling us how unfair they're being treated. Are we going to see more of this in the next handful of days? I thought we'd be done, Matt, but then I saw that what does Bryce Harper make? It's not like $330 million. Isn't he the highest paid player in baseball, like not even close? Oh, not even close. Well, I believe Machado got $300 million,

and then Harper topped him with $330 million. Someone can send me a tweet if I'm wrong about that. I believe that's what it is. I woke up today to Bryce Harper saying, you know, Snell, you know, some of what he said was true and it was great for him to speak out, which I actually think is even worse because not only is Bryce Harper, you know, who can be very talented and also very disappointing, but not only is Bryce Harper on some level one of the most annoying players in baseball in the last 20 years at times, and at times I really like him. but for him to say that, when he makes $330, $300 million, $330 million, $330 million, in terms of that contract, which already, I mean, the second he signed it, you knew that contract was not going to work out for him to say that, and back up Blake Snell, I don't even know what to think anymore about some of these guys,

but, you know, then again, we've been dealing with it for the last 20 or 30 years in sports, so on some level it's not surprising. Well, the thing we spent a lot of the time on our show yesterday talking about was, you know what, if you're an athlete and you have legitimate concerns about the health and welfare of yourself, people around, I totally can empathize with that and say, all right, you know, show me Major League Baseball what you're going to do. Show me what you're going to do NBA. But when he's, when he pregnant pauses and says, well, if you pay me, then he's just got a price. And that's where I lost all respect for, especially with what Blake Snell said a couple of days ago. Yeah, the biggest thing, and I've been doing this. since 2005, so I'm 15 years now. I'm not I'm not the general. I'm not Dale Robertson. It's not like I was covering

sports in the early 70s or in the 60s. And obviously, things have changed, things have changed that keep changing. But I know just in my 15 years, Matt, so many players it just gets more and more distant. Part of that's the media, part of that's the access. A lot of that's the money. I'm not, I'll never say they don't be deserved to be paid with their paid. I think we all learn at some point they create the revenue. They, you know, whether it's the NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball, College, or whatever,

without the players, the leagues are nothing, right? You can't have a 70-year-old owner and put him out there and no one's going to pay for that. That being said, when you make that much money and normal people, their wages haven't really increased that much in the last 20 years, not to get political, but my point is when that happens and then you have coronavirus and you have 36 million people, 36 million people, that's about one-third, I mean, one-tenth of the country has filed for unemployment in the last two months. When you have that, not only do you sound clueless and out of touch, to me the biggest thing that, it just so much sounds, it sounds and looks like they are in an abys.

absolute bubble. And so many of these guys are, whether it's the NBA, the NFL, Major League Baseball, I'm not even sure it's their fault. I think if you put anyone in that position and you're Bryce Harper and you're basically catered to from the age of 15 and all you do on some level is play baseball for a living, you're at the park all the time, someone gives you $330 million to play Major League Baseball. You're going to live in a bubble. But at times like this, we're painfully reminded of how out of to touch so many of these guys are. So the biggest contention of this, and this is trying to

dumb it down as best we can, is that they don't want a salary cap, they believe a revenue share is, and they also believe that we already took the one pay cut. Why do we have to take another one? And the owners are saying, well, when we thought, when we actually take the pay cut

the first go-round, we thought we were going to come back and play with full fans, and we're going to have stadiums full, and we're going to make up the revenue. So if you're the player's side, and the owners come to you with that, why don't, and this is why think they're going to have to come to a negotiation. I think Rob Manfred said this yesterday on CNN, that he feels encouraged that they're going to. But that's

the thing from the player side is you'll win the public, you'll lose the court of public opinion if you believe the owners are just going to pick up where they left off if there are no ticket sales, no beer sales, no parking sales, no food. And that's where I want to know what the baseball union is going to do, BTS,

and saying, all right, we've thought about this. We know we don't want to take a second cut. We also have to realize that, yeah, the money that's going to be coming in is going to be nothing close. because these stadiums are going to be empty for the foreseeable future? Yeah, you and I are in 100% agreement about this. We were at the start. We continue to be, and that's exactly how I see it.

And now I have seen a report recently that Major League Baseball might be on some level, opening its books to the union that reportedly the union asked for that during negotiation. But that only makes sense. Look, ultimately, it's going to be a negotiation. It's going to be a bargaining. This happens every time when there's a new CD. up and the NBA, the NFL have covered a lot of this in the last decade

when you're trying to get back to the field and it's an absolutely unprecedented time with the history of Major League Baseball, this is going to happen. So the owner is going to have to be more transparent. Rob Manfred's going to have to be transparent. I thought it was encouraging when he said last night because it seems, he seems sincere and I ultimately believe, Matt,

that when, you know, it always comes down to a deadline. It always does in these situations. When they're facing a deadline, I believe for the greater good, as long as the health situation continues to at least be tolerable and you can have it make some type of sense and they feel somewhat safe, they'll find a way to get back on the field. But the owners are going to have to be more transparent, which means major league baseball will,

but the players are going to have to bargain. And I believe they will. And I think that the best point you made is it's so unprecedented. And it's not like they're going to be a D3 college team. It's not like they're going to be a jucoat, you know, and they're bleeding money and they don't have any resources. But, Matt, if you don't have fans, if you don't have fans, you're not selling beer in the stadium. You're not selling food. It's, you know, the only thing that's going to work is TV, but everything else is going to be so 100% different that if you're Jim Crane, if you're a small market team, more importantly, I mean, it's going to really, really affect your bottom line.

And so if the money's not there, the billionaires can't hand out. the same money to the millionaires they were going to hand out before. That's common sense. And I'll say really quickly, it's not that different than, and some people are going to hate hearing this, maybe Adam Clanton will like it. It's not that different than a governing body saying to a, you know, a female league or a lesser league, I'm not saying the female league is lesser. I'm just saying a league that doesn't make it much money. Hey, we can't pay you the same as we would normally pay you or pay somebody else because we don't have the revenue. If that is true, and basically baseball can't do it. Well, here's the thing. If they open the books,

I think the players association is really going to face some pressure. If the owners don't open the books, then there's this presumption they're hiding something. Hopefully it is in the case. I feel like last week I asked you about why the NBA is slow in the uptick, it feels like to me, because of the stars, and let's face it, BTS, they want their money. These older players that maybe have just two or three years left or four or five in terms of making super big money. Chris Paul is the postal child for this. He wants to go get that cash. And I think that's how this thing is being driven, just like Blake's now is like, you know, I don't want to go out there unless you pay me full. Money at the end of the day, regardless of

whether or not you worried about health and wellness and making sure that the facilities are clean, they want to get their money and they'll be able to get it because the NBA is going to push ultimately to get these games going because there are still a lot of money left on the table right now. Yeah, I wrote about in the Chronicle. this week. And I think, gosh, that the NBA stars finally spoke up. The NBA is a players league. It's run by superstars as much power and as modern and forward thinking of Adam Silver is. And he's by far, for my money, the best commissioner among the major three pro sports. The NBA is run by its stars. And it's going to take, and they did it. Credit to them. It's going to take Bron James and the Greek Freak and Kauai Leonard and Russell Westbrook. I'm sure James Hardin was busy. Paul, it's going to take those voices saying, hey, you know what? If there is a shot for us to play, we understand there's going to be risk. There's risk when you work at the grocery store.

There's risk when you pick up takeout food. This is the time of the coronavirus. Everyone's dealing with risk. But if there's a shot for us to play, we want to play. And just compare, and I still think it's going to work out with baseball, Matt, but compare the NBA stars to some of the baseball stars. And no wonder that it's the NFL, it's the NBA, it's college football. And for my money anymore, in a lot of ways, and I love baseball.

But baseball's had so many issues. It continues to have so many issues. Compare the NBA stars to the MLB stars. And no wonder that so many fans since 94 have, you know, if they still follow baseball, they don't love it the same way. And I think we're seeing proof of that in some of these stars reactions from the baseball players. Are you watching any NASCAR or golf this weekend? I am.

I actually am, especially NASCAR. I grew up watching NASCAR. I have a love-hate relationship with it. I think they've ruined it a lot of ways, but I was at a race early this year when they actually were getting the season in. There's a guy from the woodlands I'll be writing about on Sunday's paper. He'll be running in it. I 100,000 percent applaud NASCAR for.

doing this and just think of what they're going to be able to do in terms of sponsorships, advertising, reaching eyeballs they otherwise might not. Now, we don't know, Matt. It's all preface it has to be safe. But NASCAR has an accelerated schedule. I think they have 20 races that they just officially announced. It's mostly in the South. Obviously, they're based out of Charlotte. But I am. Well, I watched the whole race. I don't know. But I think it's going to be a fascinating experiment, and I applaud anybody right now, whether you're a small business, whether you're a big box store, whether you're delivering the mail, whatever it is. I applaud anybody who's trying to find a way to make it work and be smart about it. And NASCAR is doing that. Ironically, NASCAR and the

PGA are at the lead right now and pro sports. It's obviously easier for them in some ways, but when you start looking at what NASCAR is doing, it's not easy. I mean, they're really trying to find a way to make this work. Well, leave it at that. Have a great weekend. Talk to you next week, friend. Thank you for the time as always. Take care, Matt. Thank you. You got it. Brian T. Smith from The Chronicle here on Sports Talk 790. How much NASCAR and how much golf will you watch?

I'll give you my thoughts on both of those. You can tell me too what you're doing. 713-212-5-790. I'm suddenly very hungry because Ross and I are going to have our buffet, Fantasy 5 coming up at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. More Matt. Thomas now on Sports Talk 790. Chris Paul just made an appearance on the jump.

That's the Rachel Nichols NBA show, which I think is a really good show. Sorry, Matt, I'll be with you in a second. Huge at bat here for the Dousan Bears. They're playing something called Kia. Ooh. The nastiest slur. And a run walks in, baby. Dusan Bears take the two-to-one lead, even though this happened 12 hours ago.

Don't you think the video of is really crystal clear? looks good. You couldn't tell that it was 5,000 miles away. Yeah, you've lost me. I'm watching this big, huge, huge half-ending up coming out for the Dusan Bears. Joe, you've got to pay attention to me then since Ross won't. Rachel Nichols interviews Chris Paul on the jump and says, quote, a lot of hard conferences, Chris Paul speaking. A lot of hard conversations that have to be made, a lot of hard decisions.

But with the team around us, I think ultimately we'll get to what we want to. obviously we want to play. Oh man, we want to play. We want to play bad. And I think that's a consensus for the guys around the league. We want it to be obviously as safe as possible. The biggest thing is we miss the game. When asked about safety, I don't have the answers. I don't have the answers, but I trust that people are working tirelessly in the office trying to figure it out. Asked if he was concerned about the fairness of a potential playoff structure upon returning. Paul said it went beyond that. I think it's a combination of a lot of things. But in the end of the day, at the end of the day, right now, no one expected this and knew this was coming. So what is normal now? So I think that's what we're trying to figure out what is normal, what it looks like until we find those answers and we can come up with an actual plan. It's basically sit and wait so that the virus is in control. I mean, what do you think the office is like, and this is for all the sports? What's it like in Adam Silver's office every day?

Do they like get to a big marker board, Ross, and they write down, if this, happens, what do we do? That's how you kind of have to play it, don't you? They have to have these kind of things. They have to have basically every disaster scenario, everything that can go wrong, they need to have plans for. And then- Chief among them, of course, somebody else testing positive.

Because I think there are, if somebody tests positive, does that, you just pull the person out? That's what the UFC did, because if we test 10 people and one test positive, we take them out, right? Right. But how long does it take from infection to showing up positive? on whatever it is these tests are testing for. Is it an hour?

Can you? Is it five hours? Is it six hours? Is it 24? Because that would then alter schedules. And how many players are affected by this? Do you pull entire teams? Because when you pull a UFC fighter,

you just pull the fight and the rest of the bouts go on, right? Yes. In the end, if a player tests positive, does that mean that game gets canceled the day? So you have to go test the other players that are in uniform? Test the coaches. Yeah, do you cancel that day? day's game. That's a great question.

I would imagine you would. The UFC they had the way in the day before, right? Did they test the fighters the next day? No, there were some that were canceled the night of. So when did they take that test? I don't know. I think the results were at least in by Friday and then they fought on Saturday.

The UFC fighters took tests on on Tuesday and Friday, or Wednesday and Friday. And then the fight was on, the fights were on Saturday. So Susa tested positive on Wednesday? No, he tested positive on Wednesday. No, he tested. negative on Wednesday, positive on Friday. Oh, that's okay.

His first test did come back negative. Okay, so let's just throw this out there. Don't you need to test them all on Saturday then, too? We're not logistical geniuses here, but let's say that we're on the Rockets team, the three of us. What's your role? Shooting Guard. I'm point guard. Okay, well, of course.

I'm the do everything power forward. Ross test positive. We've been practicing. Yeah. Do you cancel the next game? or will we be at a point where we then, okay, Ross gets positive test. That means everybody that's in a uniform, anybody's associated with the team, gets tested right that second.

But aren't they doing tests anyway? You would think on a fairly regular basis? They're not sending it daily. Yeah, they're not sending everybody to Vegas and or Orlando and just testing them once or twice a week. I would think they'll be getting it every single day. Do you get? And then you get away for the results. How long the result's going to last and take?

I don't know. I'm trying to Google this on the fly. figure out how long it takes for you. That's okay. That's all right. No, I don't want to be on the Harvard Health Alerts. Because here's the thing, guys, you cannot separate games by three and four days. You're running against the clock here. And if let's, let's say that you're in the middle of a playoff series and a couple of guys get tested and you're like, well, let's wait, we got to wait two or three days in order for the find out the rest of the 14 players are okay. That's going to backhaul a playoff schedule. They're going to need immediate response testing

for this to work. That isn't the question. The testing is when you get the yes, what do you do after that? I think you keep playing. Just like the UFC fighters did. I mean, look at the two examples we have in the NBA are the jazz. They had three positive tests. And then the Nets had like seven within the organization, not players.

So like of the teams that we know the test positive, we have one got one set was three and one was like five or six. So I think you just got to keep playing. They just have to be okay with that. Okay, so we find out, Rockets play the Denver Nuggets at 7 o'clock on a Monday night, okay? And we find out that two nuggets have tested positive. You just pick those two gentlemen up, metaphorically speaking,

put them in quarantine, make sure they get proper medication or whatever they need to get to cope with this. And then we just continue to play on? Is that what's going to happen? Are we? And it's just like they're, call on the 14-day COVID list? Who knows what it's called?

And they're just out? Out, flu-like symptoms. How would those other players feel about getting back on the court knowing that two of their teammates were testing positive? And then how do the Rockets, who maybe didn't have anybody test positive now feeling that they're on the court with potential people that could be testing positive in the next time the round the test go? I guess to give myself an own answer to this question is, how fast will do the

results of a test come in. Fever is one thing. You can test that by putting something on a forehead and dig the temperature. You can get the rapid test of 15 to 15 minutes. Okay. Well, then maybe that's the answer then. You just test everybody the day of a game. Say, maybe, you know what? Maybe you test eight hours before game time. Sound reasonable? If that person doesn't, if that person tests positive, then that person goes into quarantine immediately. My guess is you're probably already separating the players by, if you send them to Vegas, you're probably separating them by four or five rooms as it is, right? You're probably not put an eight guy the entire team on the same floor.

It's not like Vegas hotel. I mean, the Vegas hotels will have plenty of space. Plenty of space. You know what I mean? I'm just trying to think out loud here. I don't know. But there's tough. It is very tough.

And these are the questions that they all, they need the answer to every question you asked. And that's why I said, does Commissioner Manfred, does Commissioner Silver go to a white marker board? This happens. How do we solve it? Yeah. It's not even, yeah, it's not even the commissioner. It's a guy, yeah, there's got to be some kind of think tank of smart people and, and healthcare professionals. And I don't know what kind of experts they need, but they need them all. And quickly. Epidemiologists like Joe is. Joe is the official epidemiologist of the Matt Thomas. I'm just happy I was able to say epidemiologists. It's a fun word to say. It is. Got multiple syllables. Yes. It rolls. out the tongue rather easily. I don't think I could spell it, but that's neither here nor there.

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positive player gets quarantined. Everyone keeps going. And I would think that's in basketball for sure, and probably the same would be for baseball. And look, I may be in a minority on this, but I have no apprehension about going to Las Vegas or Orlando if they need broadcasters. I just, I don't.

I would trust the leagues. They're going to take care of their players. They're going to take care of their staff. I'd be all for going. Because let me tell you something. It's going to be once, and this is not in a good way, it's just a reality. It's going to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Hopefully it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Hopefully we're back in arenas playing games again, but I'd have zero apprehension of my going. But Kim and I have talked about this. She goes, yeah, you know, you're going to be in safe areas. Yeah. They're going to treat you right. Again, I don't even know they need broadcasters,

but that's my point is that they just, I don't have any apprehension. Like, I'm going to go to Lake Charles soon. I want to see what it's all about. I'll wear a mask, I'll carry the gloves, I'll do whatever. Because I just feel like that, you know, I'm not walking to a war zone of that. If I'm going with the NBA somewhere, it's going to be cleaning in my house. You know what I'm saying?

Mm-hmm. Yeah, I told you. I'll check on the family a couple times a week, man. It's no problem. You stay far away from my family. I know people. I got King Will take care of him. Not you.

Fantasy five time. Here's how it works. You will call 713. We need one more judge. 713-212-5-790. We're doing Vegas Casino or Lake Charles. No matter, casino. It's a casino buffet.

We've all been to a casino before. We've all had a gluttony of food. Should we get a special bed? Should we get like Elvis's Viva Las Vegas? What's a good Vegas bed? Viva Las Vegas. Yeah, but it's got words. I don't want the words ever.

The gambler? We need something with just music. Well, if it's real Vegas music in 2020, it's loud club music. I told you, we were there for what, what's that festival they call? Electric Daisy Land Carnival. Oh, my God. Were you with me? Were you with me when they were there?

I think I've been to Vegas when the EDC is going along. The EDC, as the kids call it. It's these young people from California that are very free and... And don't have any money, but walk through the casinos wearing basically dental floss as bikinis. And pasties. And stuff like that. And they go to the carnival and get all hopped up on pills and stuff. And then they go to the various hotel bar, restaurants, not right.

restaurants, the pool areas and drink and wear a scandly cloud, you know, uh, you know, if you're in that sort of thing. Yeah, if you just, but that's only if you're into that sort of thing. We Google like EDC girls. It's not bad. All right. Ross, you on the Fantasy Five last week, you have the option of going first or going, uh, in a snake system, second and third.

Well, you know, man, I wrestled with this decision for quite some time. I'm a little weary of seeding you picks two and three, but I think I have to take pick number one. By the way, we have to have at least one appetizer and one dessert amongst our mess. Or starter. If you, like a soup isn't necessarily a starter, but I would call it, I mean, appetizer, I would call it a start. I think you would not consider a main course.

Yes. Okay, I got you. And I think there's just nothing I can go away from. It's your first plate. You're at a nice buffet. I think I had to take it. You see the nice man with his fork and his knife at the carving station, and you pick yourself up some prime rib. You go to the carving station for some prime rib. To me, that's number one at a nice buffet.

Okay. Definitely on the big board. I'm going to knock out dessert and starter with my first two things. Intriguing. By the way, is it pitch black outside? I just looked at it. My gosh. Yeah, it's a little ominous.

All right. There's something in the Gulf, too, right? Yeah. What I'm going to do when I go to a buffet is I'm going to take my time. I'm going to go get a good appetizer. I'm going to get a little bit of horser. I'm going to get a little bit of cocktail sauce. Yes.

And I'm going to get that cold chival. shrimp on ice. Ooh, that's a good pick. That wasn't even on my board, but that's a good pick. So shrimp cocktail is my first. Yes. Horse radish on the prime rib also optional. Yeah, yeah.

Then I'm going to go to desserts. And yeah, there's pies and there's cakes. But every buffet that I've been to in Las Vegas has the ice cream machine. Okay. That has the chocolate topping, the strawberry, the caramel, the sprinkles, the orio pieces. M&Ms. So I'm going to take the ice cream station from you as my dessert. So I've got my starter and my dessert knocked out.

All right. So you bookended with your first. Yes, I did. Okay, nice picks. Next, this is also going to be found at many high-end buffets. And I don't know why they even put it on there because you can, I feel like this is where you do some damage. You go ahead and you get yourself a bucket and you get yourself one of them zip tools and you get a big, a big, a big. and you go at it with some clarified butter and some snow crab legs.

On the board? I'm not a big crab leg eater in general, but I will lead it to a buffet. It's just for whatever reason, it's like it's a requirement. You have to crush some crab legs. Okay. Next, I will go with a side item, especially since your desserts and your appetizer off the board. I'm going to go with, I mean, there's a number of great sides at any buffet.

I'm just going to keep it simple. I'm going to go with macaroni and cheese. You get you a nice little scoop of cheesy mac and cheese to complement the meal. Of all the people you meet in your life,

the person that enjoys mac and cheese the most is me. Oh, really? So therefore, that wasn't even on the board. Not that it maybe should have been. Oh, you don't like mac and cheese? It's okay. Okay.

If I never have mac and cheese again, it'll be okay. Oh, it's buffet mac and cheese because it's crusty on the top. It's got the cheese crust. I'm going to go, I see this in a lot. Not every casino buffet, but I've been in a lot. You're going to go get a dish, and you're going to jam in some cold meat, some vegetables, some rice. I'm going to go to the walk station at the casino buffet. Okay. Okay? Sure. Kind of like Gingas Grill, but they have their own

little side section. No, yeah, I've seen it in a Chinese buffets as well. Yeah, the walks. Is that okay, the walk section? Sure, stir fry. Stir fry. That's good. Stir fry station. I'm going to the stir fry station next. Okay. I'm just hungry now. Me too. I'm starving. There's no buffets open right now either. No. Um, I don't think. Okay. I need, I need a protein. Yeah. Um, and you've taken my carving station away from me. For some reason, I'd like me some chicken fried steak in the buffets. They have the either, they either cube them into steak fingers or they just have them just

sitting there with the cream gravy and the mashed potatoes next to it. Okay. I'm just going to go flat out, just chicken fried steak. Chicken fried steak, okay. And you can also get to eat that in the morning with your eggs if you so choose, but chicken fried steak is available probably at 8 a.m. or 8 p.m. Makes it perfect. Chicken fried steak and a vacuum is a great meal, but the ones of the buffet are usually not great.

You know what? Yeah, you're not going to get the same as you get at Woodson's, but it's a good standby staple. Right. Okay, well, uh, I've taken my three regular items, so I've got to go with a dessert and a starter. I'm going to start with a dessert. This is available at almost,

every buffet. And they also have different varieties. I like a plain cheesecake. Perhaps you could go with a fruit drizzle, or an Oreo cheesecake, or a chocolate cheesecake. I'm just going with a plain cheesecake with a little bit of strawberry drizzle.

For my dessert. Yeah, but man, they have box cheesecake. It's not delicious. They don't make it there. I can only pick one item, man. I would be, I also have a slice of that, the tiramisu, the creme brule. I'm going to have one of each if I'm at the buffet.

Okay. But I can only pick one. Fair enough. Next. I have to go with a starter. And you know, I've struggled with this one for a long time, but I think I'm going to keep it simple. There are a lot of different great options. You choose a great one.

What was your starter? It was a good one. Shrimp cocktail is a good one. I'm going to go with a simple little Caesar salad to start. Caesar dressing, Parmesan, croutons to start you off for the prime rib and the and the snow crab legs. Yours isn't way more elegant of a dinner than mine is. I think it is. Although your mac and cheese kind of downgrades a little bit.

You can get some classy mac and cheese. I'm going to go get another dessert. You can't get two. Well, I can't go ahead. No, go ahead. Yeah. I'm going to get some sponge cake. I'm going to get some apples.

I'm going to get, let's see what else, banana. And I'm going to take all that with the chocolate dipping station. Okay. You're on the chocolate fountain. The chocolate fountain. Can they have those in 20 minutes of a pandemic? All these things I'm getting are not available. I was weary of a chocolate fountain before.

All of this was going down. Now you're going to watch who's around you for obvious reasons. Oh, there you go. So I went heavy dessert, and you went way more classier than I did. Well, this is what I think of when I think of Vegas buffets. Oh, I think of just gluttony. And so just think of, go ahead, call out the meals of what we chose. All, here we go.

Ross has the carving station, crab legs, mac and cheese, cheesecake, and Caesar salad. I have shrimp cocktail, the ice cream station, the chicken fried steak. What else did I put? I can't read my own handwriting. What is this? This is the best part of Fantasy Five. I write this so fast.

You took the chocolate fountain? Chocolate fountain. And then what was the third thing I took? Let me see. I really can't read that. Hold on. Give me the paper. Okay. This is a

so-to-start. Oh, the, the stir-front. Stir fry. That's right. This doesn't even say this does not say stir fry at all. No, it doesn't at all. No, it doesn't. I was thinking Walk. Let me write this. I'm going to write this. It doesn't say walk either.

Shrimp cocktail, ice cream station, stir fry, chicken fried steak, and the chocolate fountain. You have Caesar salad, cheesecake, the mac and cheese, the crab legs, and the car. Yes, we can take one more judge. It's 7-13-21-2-5-7-H0. All right, let's find out who wins the Fantasy 5. We'll start with Sam on 7-90. Sam, who wins

the Fantasy 5, Ross, Ross, Big. God, I try to do it. every week for you, Matt. But Ross, you got my vote. Thank you, Sam. Have a great weekend, Sam. He's trying to vote for you, Matt. There's nothing wrong in my list.

Good. I would eat all of that. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. Just to each his own. Mike on 790. Mike, you're ready to play the Fantasy 5? Who wins? Thank you.

Hope your phone isn't cut out. Especially if you have a flat tire and you can't get anywhere in this rain. Hands on 790, or is it Hans? Hans. Hans, who wins a Fantasy 5, Ross or me? I got to go with Matt this time with the shrimp and chicken fried steak. Thank you very much. Two votes for Ross. Two to one. That's all right. We're doing all right. Let's go to Jimmy on 790. Jimmy who wins a fantasy five, Ross or me?

So the chocolate fountain was a really weak pick, but your other four were so solid that I got to go with Peach Basket today. Peach Basket, knot it up at 2-2. He always trying to stink that one in, a little peach basket thing, too, too. Yeah, because you are. Let's go to Tom. Tom on 790. Who wins the Fantasy 5, Rosser me?

I'll tell you, you both try to lose it. But you got to go with the frying rib and the mac and cheese. Thank you. You must be seven years old, all right? Three to two, the roster. We need one more caller because we're trying to hold on to Joe for the seventh vote.

Oh, here it is. Somebody just came in. Line one, who wins? of Fantasy 5, Ross or me. There you go. All right, Joe George. The moment of truth, Joe George.

Man, I'm so sorry, Matt. I love cheesecake. Yeah. I like the crab legs. Yes. I like the mac and cheese. Ross. But Matt, your list is great. Great job, Matt. This is not as great as Ross's. We're all proud of you, Matt.

This is like, Look at the death stare you're getting right now. I mean, it's okay, no. Go with your heart, Joe. Don't be afraid of Matt. Matt tries to intimidate these collars by telling them to go to hell and giving you death stares. If you have a pick in your heart, you go ahead and pick it. I still haven't eaten yet, so I simply went on how hungry your list made me.

Oh, man, it's so hungry. I'm so hungry now. Let's go to. We have no buffets to go to. That's true. And I don't know if we can get pizza delivered right now. I'm not leaving that. Are we going to try to driving this?

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I've had some sketchy picks. but old twirp in there I mean I'm just just the worst just so mad at you right now that's uncalled for it's just it's just

he's all upset because someone ate his food it's okay you know what that's it he's angry you're yeah you know what Snickers that's true it's like much of a salt in the wound

that we go to a food draft literally the day that your food got stolen about it you went from Rudy's barbecue to Macdon to Mickey D's. I did it with the Big Mac. It's good. Big Mac is good.

But it's just not Rudy. It's not Rudy. It's not Rudy, so I get it. It's a step down, and you set aside your plate, you were ready to go. He also built the plate exactly the way he wanted it. A man's barbecue plate is very sacred. It is. You build it however you want it with your sides, pickles, onions, perhaps jalapinos, how much sauce do you want?

It's very personalized a man's barbecue plate. Joe, you should have then gone to the pity vote and taken me to win. No, he gave you a pity vote a couple weeks ago. I don't do pity votes. I voted for your story yesterday as being the best of the non-flora story. No, we didn't vote because it was so bad. You crushed him. Maybe that's why I didn't vote for you because you crushed me so bad yesterday.

And I should have won because the Anchorage Police still wants to sexually contact prostitutes. I'm just saying, Matt, sometimes if you're mean to your producer and then he's got to vote for you, you might lose your vote. This is when you tell me how great my story was. Do you remember that one time we did what you lost so bad? we got swept and then we just kept taking college till someone voted through you and we got to like 11 votes but it became a bet because even though I should have won that

weekend and had at least seven or eight votes people just cop calling said we're going to keep voting for Ross until somebody says yes at least they get the show I know you know they get it I mean we don't let me appreciate all you for votes we don't change the show do we Adam Wexer

we are through it through who we are and we're passionate all right I just heard we just heard we're murmuring The Wex murmurs are as good as a... Wex could do an hour like a Sunday morning show of just murmurs.

Yeah. It would rate as highly as said the Doug Pike fishing show. I gotta see, what do you think those sound like on the air to our listeners? The Wex murmurs. I think they sound like disgust.

But is it... Y'all can hear it. You're in the room. Yeah. Can they hear it? This is what they hear. We don't hear rolling of eyes. We just hear the murmur.

Yeah, we can almost hear the eyes. I say that for Adam. I give you the good stuff. 3 to 6, the A team coming up here on sports. I know you guys got a topic at 3 o'clock. Are you going to go to it first? You're going to wait a little while. Jeff Blum's going to be on for the first hour.

Oh, then. Okay. Then you're going to wait. There's plenty of topics for a day. That happens to be one of them. Obviously, there's a firestorm in the sport of baseball with all their athletes on Twitch talking. And we'll address all of the Twitching. What is your Twitch channel?

A Wexler, 36977246. Do you really have it? No. You had me for a second. I was going to go follow you. Do you watch remote? Do you ever watch Ramon and Ross Twitch? Yes, because he puts it out there on social media in a very pleasant.

I'm going to throw a couple back. Join me and Ramon on Twitch if you so feel like it. Twitch.tv. It's a friendly. Sports RV. He's not begging you. He's not demanding. He's not saying,

you're going to miss something. He just says, hey, here's what we're doing. Just sipping a beer. Talking about my great cheesecake and mac and cheese in the Begish buffet. You know what? On a Friday streams, we always break down the Fantasy 5, so we'll do that tonight. I cannot wait.

All right. Thank you to Ernie Johnson for joining us. If you miss the conversation, you're playing it during your nightcap tonight. Yes, probably 6.30 tonight on the nightcap? Okay. Good stuff. I'm just a fan of his, period. Not only for being a great broadcaster, but I think maybe being a better human being, which we can't save everybody that's in sports.

Adam Wexler, Adam Clanton, are going to entertain the bejesies out of you for the next three hours. Jeff Blum, first hour. You know, that's always great. It's always nice to have a good, well-spoken guest in for an hour a week. Yeah. And Matt Boller, too. and Chandler Rome. Huh.

Great guest. Every week. Great producer. Yeah. Those are in place long before you get here. Yeah. Those gentlemen comprise the A team, and they're up next on Sports Talk, Severnoughty.