The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Lose In OT vs Pelicans… Astros Add a New Arm?

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Lose In OT vs Pelicans… Astros Add a New Arm?

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. No one in H-town. Good morning, and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross, featuring Gordy today from Denver. This is Sports Talk 790. literally two wires holding out of the cat right now oh here he comes he's literally coming down like spider-man

now he's literally in my door There's a lot of work I want to knee it All day I don't want to play I just want a bang on the floor here Bolly bowls are Can you knee the ball?

Yeah, you can knee it You can kick it up really Yeah As long as it gets over the neck You can bump it up Booty bump it Yeah why not Oh, man, because I don't want to work.

I want to bang on your drum all day. Yes, I do. Oh, this guy. Brad, you suck the life out of Houston, Texas. You set the life out of me. I just dare you do this. You set the life out of you? Oh.

The energy. Oh. Don't, don't. Just told me I should stay at the school. She called me pounding on a desk with my head. All my lips were so high. I mean to teach you want to dance and it's my heart. They did get motivated.

They were throwing $100 bills on their bed. See? See? Never said never. You ever laid on hundreds of dollars of bills before in your life? I wish. My wife has. It was a good trip.

Hello, Matthewsma. I have a yacht feeling that yesterday you and I made a special connection and I will wash your windows anytime. Jose, listen to me very carefully. That was Seth Rollins washing my windows outside my hotel. My windows are clean here in Denver. I was just here a couple of days ago. Or was that in New Orleans? I lose track when my windows were being washed.

Oh, bad, bad. So, if you win a game, you don't care how long the truth. trip is you don't care how many hours it takes to get from one to the next you don't care that the equipment truck was late that you had to stay out in the front of the hotel for an extra 45 minutes waiting for the bags to get there last night or this morning you don't just don't care you tend to care when you give up a 25 point lead and that's what the rockets did last night in nalans gordy how the hell are you that was ugly i did not appreciate all the texts i got from my buddies in new orleans that were talking smack you know what i want to

talk to you about your buddies in New Orleans. They're a very opinionated bunch. What is, what, what do they need to do? Why do they need to talk to you about every single thing? Let you rest. Let you enjoy your life as a star in the Houston sports media and personality market. As a programmer, as a leader of young men here at the radio station, you tell your New Orleans folks to leave you a little.

As a matter of fact, I would, I would ask you to leave that group chat. Well, it was, uh, it was not pretty. I mean, look, if the rockets take care of their business last night, I'm not getting ugly, ugly text. Here was one of them said in overtime, just put on the game. Rockets playing with two hands around their neck. No, no,

no, not nice. Another one said, Reed Shepard, he looks good. Another one said, KD. Trade, demand incoming. Did you show your wife that text about Reed Shepard? She was very upset. As

was the voice of the Rockets. Two looks. Two open looks. Come on, bro. Yeah. So what he's supposed to do well? But it shouldn't even come to that, Matt. This game shouldn't have been overtime. I know. Well, can I peel?

I'm going to peel the curtain back like I do on almost a daily basis. So I have, of the 29 other NBA broadcasters, I'm friendly with about 27 of them. Two are complete A-holes, and that's fine. But most of them I'm friendly with, and then some I'm closer with others. Todd Graffini, he's the voice of the Pelicans. He's a great one.

He and I are very close. And he listens to me a lot of times, and he makes fun of my, it's another Rockets win. So every time I see him in person face-to-face, which at least four times a year, sometimes more, he walks it to me. And I can always hear him in the background going, rur. And so what I did is I'm like, you know what, I will record my Rockets win when I call it and send it to you. So you can always have a lot available. to you on your phone. And at halftime, he's like, are you ready?

Have you sent your text yet? I said, no, no, no, but y'all are terrible. Zion Williamson was horrendous yesterday in the first half. I really was the whole game didn't even play much in the second half. They've got a guy on the team named Herb Jones, who could have had the worst 24 minutes of his life in the first half, but had a really good second 24. So he was cocky, I was cocky, and then at the end,

he comes over and goes, it's up, pup, pop, pop, Pappellicans win. That's my life, ladies and gentlemen. Graf's a good guy. I've known him a long time. Yeah. Again, I'm calling the game. The numbers got up to 25. Then it got down to 21.

And then it got to 1860. And I'm like, I'm getting a little nervous. But I'm like, man, I got Kevin Durant on my side. I got Alperin-Shangoon on my side. of man, Thompson. I ain't scared. And then I got the single digits. And EMA just kept calling timeout after timeout, after time out, and nothing was working.

We were losing challenges. We were watching people named Sadiq Bay hitting big shots. We were watching this rookie Derek Queen. He's good. Blank talking the hell out of EMA Adoka on the sidelines in the middle of the game. Herb Jones, who was terrible in the first half,

knocking down big shots. Trey Murphy, knocking down big shots. shots. And then one of the all-time irritants for the Rockets, Jose Avarado, takes over as the point guard, plays 30 freaking minutes, and he's running the thing like it's a finely tuned machine of the New Orleans offense. He replaces a rookie first round picking Jeremiah fears, and he's playing well.

Oh, Gordy, Gordy, Gordy, Gordy. Oh, that was bad. Just bad. And it just, it stinks because it's on the heels of another overtime loss up in Denver. Again, that's not bad loss, but, you know, three games ago, you're losing Dallas, and suddenly you start looking at this team, lost three out of the last four, what are they, three and four in their last seven? It's, um, they've lost four consecutive road games. Oof, not going well. So, and now you're back in Denver. Yes. And another thing, it was alarming. We're about, and, you know, we're at 5280 here, a mile, literally mile high.

So, at about, on our screens on our plane, it tells you what our altitude is. We're at 22,000 feet, which is about, you know, that's about a half an hour before you land, right? The flight attendant comes on the speaker. Again, this is about 2 o'clock in a morning, 2.30 in the morning. We're all dead-ass tired. We don't even recognize where we are or who we are. He goes, excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, we've got some severe turbulence coming in. You need to buckle up and pull up your seats and all that and get ready for some, you know, moderate to severe turbulence.

We're like, oh, my God. Thankfully, the pilots were amazing. We felt we didn't feel a thing. But that's just not what you want to hear in the middle of the night landing after a 25 point loss, traveling from one end of the country or the other, that you're going to have severe turbulence for about 20 to 25 minutes. So what time did you land? I don't know. but I did timestamp my tweet for this morning show and I did that at arrival time at the hotel

and for those who have been in Denver before, the downtown hotels and the downtown in general is about a 40-minute drive from the airport. So the tweet I sent out for today's show was 343 central time. Wow. But you know what? Dems of breaks.

I would have taken today off, but our friend Ross, Villarreal, who basically, What is it? Gordy takes the entire month of December off. I needed a day off, so we, you know, came in and did his thing. Ross is the guy that if you, he lent you money for lunch, and the total was $30 and $55, and you paid him back $30, he would nitpick you about paying you back, that $0.55 still that you owe him.

That is absolutely 100% accurate. He is not round down guy or round up guy. Matter of fact, he'd even say, you know what, why don't just give me $31, we'll just call it even that way. he is using every one of those vacation days every one of those vacation days well you know what as we've said in the business before I get vacation days

I take vacation days once at a sports host in this community we'll build aboard yeah we got open up the refrigerator there's sour cream and there's milk and there's really nothing else thankfully

Gordy is going to hang out with me for a couple of hours now I'm trying to mull over whether I should order a pot of coffee to the room. You can order a pot? I can order a small pot or a full pot. The small pot's $9. The full pot's $12. But they get you with the service charge and the delivery fee.

You don't have like a curing or something in the room there? No, we have a cappuccino machine which I don't know how to operate. Google it. No, it's too much work. Plus, I got to do the show here. I mean, I can just call her during a break or him or him. bring up it so i'm thinking do i need two cups of coffee for twenty dollars or do i just suck it up and drink water between now and two o'clock these are the things you argue about with yourself

after about four hours of you need to do a series called the sweet life of matt thomas and have videos like that yeah i'll just you know what i'll take us uh i'll i will take a picture of it during the break and i'll say to any of you know how to use these use this seven one three two one two five seven ninety that's gordon you can hang out with us until noon we have the surfer wake up at noon today we have at 1 o'clock this afternoon our second to last edition of Dr. Roto as we were in playoff mode.

Gordy, how's your team coming up playoff-wise? In fantasy? Yes. I made it in one of my five leagues. I made it. And I was sweating out as Jackson, Smith, and Jigba had zero points at halftime last night.

I saw that, yeah. And he had a great second half. Yeah, that was a great football game, by the way. I don't know people watch it here in town, but that was a huge comeback for the Seahawks. They were down, what, 16 points, something like that. And they came back not only to send the game to overtime, the Rams scored the first touchdown in overtime,

kicked the extra point. The Seahawks came back and scored another touchdown. They were down one, could have kicked the extra point with about four minutes left in overtime. They went for two and got it, and the Seahawks beat the Los Angeles Rams in Seattle last night. Apparently they were wearing Gordy the Oregon uniform. for the game. I did not, yeah, the helmets were cool. I did not realize the Seahawks were having

that good of a season. Matt, for $10, can you name the Seahawks head football coach? I had to Google it. I did not. Hold on. Hold on. Is it somebody I should know? No. Okay, tell me who it is. It's Mike McDonald. No chance. I would have never known that. No chance. now there's a kubiak calling the place Clint's right i think it's clint i don't know they all they're all kubiaks are there like six there's two that are high level but uh but no this is the one that was in new orleans last year

when they got us to that good start with derrick car and then it fell apart but he's he's a miracle worker with sam donald and i mean they're 12 and three the seahawks the seahawks by the way i apologize houston for not knowing who mike mcdonnell was you could have said Ralph Jones and I've been oh man I should have gotten that and he looks generic like if you just look at him he just looks like a generic guy

does he look like Mike McDaniel the Miami Dolphins no no he is a very unique look all right here's the question would wex have known it was Mike McDonald absolutely Clinton no Clinton no shot no shot Dan Matthews I would say at 50 50 and I would say that Cole was more 7525 you would known. Yeah, Cole probably would know. And you didn't know, and I didn't know. I mean, I remember him when he was the DC in Baltimore. You remember? I didn't even know that.

Because the Texans played that playoff game there, and they were like, Mike McDonald's defense is shutting down, Z.J. Stroud. The only coordinator I ever knew in Baltimore was Wink Martindale, but I didn't think about him as a coach. I thought of him as the host of Tick-Tac-Dow. It was not Wink Martindale. It was Wink Martindale.

Wink Martindale used to be the defensive coordinator of the Baltimore Raven. Well, his name is Don Martindale. His nickname was wink well i know it was wink and that's all it's important all right uh 10 15 it isn't anything goes friday if you've not figured that already in the first segment of the show it is literally an anything goes friday i am sleep deprived but sometimes the crazy shows we have are when your old buddy matt thomas has a little lack of sleep 713 212 5 790 719 713 212 5 790 it's anything goes Friday. Join us here on Sports

Talk 790. Matt here in Denver, Gordy in our Houston Studios, 1022 is our time. So I took a picture, Gordy, of the espresso machine in my room, and I didn't even describe what it was to see what

people thought it would think. Once a person thought it was a machine gun, or a massage gun. So, I'm not going to try to use it. So then I said, okay, I can't use this coffee maker because I don't know how to use it. So I'm going to go to the room service menu, and the small pot of coffee is $9. The big pot is 12.

And I'm like, okay, so that's, you know, look, it is what it is. Then it said there is a 20% service charge. And I was like, okay, I can live with that because I would tip 20% anyway. So it's about now, about $11 for the two cups of coffee, which is not terrible or, you know, 15, whatever for the big pot. Then the very last sentence says, we charge a $9 delivery charge. That's a bit much. That's the show killer. That's, that might be cheaper to Uber eats a carafe of coffee to your room.

I know. There's a Starbucks, it's like two blocks away, which I'm going to go to at 2 o'clock today. There you go to a lot of time. Oh, Gordy that game last night. I don't know how many people. watched it or listened to it. Hopefully it is right here on Sports Talk 790. I don't want to bemoan it too much, but oh, God,

that was bad. I mean, I hate to say that, but if we were thinking about this African, that may be the worst loss that EMA's had as the Houston Rockets coach. It's all right. 25 of the Pelicans. You're entitled one or two throughout the year. Yes, you are. You are. And the crazy part

was that Durant was perfect in the first half. I think he went seven for seven. Missed his first two shots, I think of the third quarter, and then came back with a couple of buckets. A man Thompson was perfect for 90% of the time, too. Alper and Shingoon was scoring at will for most of the game. It was to me, and I think you may say this in the post game, get together.

He's like, our defense sucked. We were a terrible defensive team. We held them to, what, 45 points in the first half, and then they come back and they hit everything on the broadside all over the court for two hours, or an hour after that. Yeah, the score at halftime, was 77.45. That's not right.

6745. So the Rockets held the Pels to 45 first half points. They score 38 alone in the third quarter. Then in the fourth, they outscore the Rockets 36 to 20. Yeah, you can't have 20-point quarters in this league. No, and then they were hitting everything. The Rockets, I think, went two for six. from three in the second half,

including your wife's best friend Reed with two looks in overtime to potentially tie the game again? You know what? We're going to tailor us with this thing, Gordy. We're going to shake it off. We're going to beat the nuggets tomorrow here in Denver in the afternoon and go to Sacramento

and beat them in a back-to-back on Sunday and feel much better about 100 hours from now. That's a tough ask. That's a really good team. Can Yokic get food poisoning? You know what? I have been slowly and respectfully asking for severe injuries for the Oklahoma City Thunder. I could include the Denver Nuggets as part of that too, right?

Not a severe injury, just an illness that keeps him out of day. Oh, you're talking a lot like food poisoning where he can't leave his apartment for like several hours. I've got to feel no Yokic could play through just about anything. Well, here's what we'll do. Let's get him some very slight food. poisoning, send some paedia light to his apartment, plenty of water, and say, rest up

big fella, you've got another game coming up just a couple days from now. God, what a long stretch. You guys are in Sacramento, L.A. for two games? Yep. Good God. Home for two games, and then we leave Christmas Eve to go to New York to play the Nets

and then play the Dallas Mavericks after that. What are you going to do in L.A. for Christmas? Sit in my room and cry. okay you weren't expecting that answer were you you should go to what's hard and doing you should go hang out with him

you know what I wonder if but do you want to go to James's house this year I mean they're so miserable yeah what was that report yesterday that they said it said the clippers are determined not to blow this thing up that they're right they think they're going to get better okay they have a player named Derek Jones

who's hurt they believe that once Derek Jones comes back everything's going to be better. He's the missing piece? Gordy, and my thoughts about NBA basketball, I've never said to myself, man, if Derek Jones ever comes back to this team or comes back from this injury, everything's going to be better. That was like those

rocket steams a few years ago. I remember somebody going, if they could just get Austin Rivers back healthy. I'm like, yeah, Austin Rivers is the missing piece. That's funny. All right, we got Koso and Mike with us on the line. We'll get to you guys. It's an anything goes Friday. Gordy, I want to get your thoughts about the week CFP. We got

a game tonight, Oklahoma versus Alabama. We do. We also have a new hire in Austin. We do. So are you surprised by that? We'll get your thoughts on that. We'll get the calls in first. Remember, it's an anything goes Friday giving you the longest leash in Houston Sports Radio. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790. It's 10-28. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross. Gordy hanging out with us till noon here on 790. It is an anything goes Friday in the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-7-90. Ross is off today. Gordy in. We've got some phone calls to get to. We've got an email coming in that is an interesting question. I know the answer, but it's definitely worth at least a conversation. At 7-13-21-2-1-2-5-79. Let's start with the K-017. K-9. K-So what's your Chiliken question today?

Hey Matt more of kind of just like of me trying to vent about last night that that might have been the worst loss in the Eudoka era that was so bad I had turned the game off I think beginning the third quarter when they're up 20, 25 whatever it was to watch the Rams Seahawk game about almost in the fourth quarter of the Seahawks game, maybe before I look at my phone and the leads cut down to 11. And I'm like, all right, let me open up my Space City Home Network app

and let's watch this because they're going to win. They ultimately didn't win. And I want to see who this blame pie falls on, regardless if it's accurate or not. The majority of it has to fall into the players. You cannot be a team. You cannot be a serious contending team. who has Kevin Durant on your team and blows a 25-point lead to a team that has won five games, five games all year.

Terrible roster construction. The Pelicans are just a terrible team. Not only a team, they're just a terrible organization from top to bottom. And you guys, we lost to them last night. Some of the blame pie falls on Udo E-May for some of the lineups she was running. I'm not going to put it all on E-May because he's not, he's ultimately not out there. But you cannot have Amen, a cold Reed Shepherd, a cold Jabari, and a Kogi out there all at the same time, and not have any spacing. The spacing has become such a big issue that's almost as big as an issue is not having a point guard out there.

Now, before the rocket season started, I think EMA or Furtita, someone said that this is not putting all your chips in championship or bus season. especially after the Vandleet injury. But it has been prominent that this team needs a point guard. They're up against the first apron, or hard cap, whatever. They can't make any moves unless they trade a Dorian Finney Smith or a Tarisan, unfortunately, because they have been little to no value of the season for a team that averages the number one offense. Number one in offensive. They're a good team despite their flaws.

It's just so frustrating to sit there and think about how we have one of the greatest scores of all time sitting there and not getting the ball. And I understand there are double teams that come. And lately, I mean, he's just been fumbling the ball every time we've had any type of double team touch Durant. At the same time, that falls back on not having a problem. point guard to set the scheme, set the offense and get him open. It's just, it's just baffling and that loss really pissed me off. It's just you can't be doing that because we play the Nuggets on Saturday who have our number and then you have to go back to back to Sacramento, who's not a good team, but this is the NBA. You can't take nights off. The Rockets haven't won a back to back

yet. They played the fewest amount of games in the season. It's just a terrible loss. And I don't, I mean, I know you're sitting there calling the game. What did you see last night that you just would just, it just made you so mad towards the end of the game that the rockets failed to secure that win. And I'll hang up and listen, man. Thank you. Okay, so appreciate it. So what made me mad?

First of all, it made everybody mad, not just me. Turnovers are really bothering me. The double teams to Durant bother me. I don't, I'm not a basketball technician. I don't know how to draw up a play to alleviate the devil teams.

But Katie is getting them, would you say what, Gordy, 80, 90% of the time now these days? Yeah. He is, it's intense. And the scouting report about that is out there. I'm irritated by, I'm always irritated by miss free throws.

And the Pelicans made their free throws late in the contest, and the Rockets did not. there is some stagnation at times that I think bothers Eme. But then ultimately it comes down to this basketball team that has put a lot of money into a lot of different players and put a lot of faith into others. You got to execute.

It comes down to shot making. And I'm not going to point out read by himself because, look, Jabari was not good from the floor yesterday. But you had two clean looks in overtime that would have sent the game to the second overtime, and you weren't unable to knock those down. Sometimes it comes down to that. Now, the bigger picture is you don't want it to come down to that

when you're sitting there up by 25. You have to play professional defense. And Ime Adoka was burning timeouts and calling guys out and do whatever he can, but you have to sometimes scream and yell and change things to get the point across. But the Rockets' best players, and they were out there on the floor.

They were defense for offensive possessions put out there for that purpose. reason why maybe you would have seen some things on the offensive side that didn't make a whole lot of sense, probably more so on the defensive side than offense, but it comes down to the Rockets and the coaches will be in a room today, I guarantee you, continuing to figure out how to alleviate the double teams that Kevin Durant Gordy is facing every single night. Well, and you're still, you look at the numbers, I'm actually shocked. They're still third in the league in scoring and third in the league in defense. So you're top three in both categories.

But to me, you know, look, the offense let you down in the fourth quarter, but ultimately you shouldn't be given up 133 to a Pelicans team. That's a team that is inept offensively. You know, Derek Queen's been their one, like, bright spot and their one guiding light. By the way, the dumb assery in that front office gave up this year's, or next year's first to go get him. And while he's a great player, they are a terrible team that's not going to be. be rewarded for a bad season like it's you're really screwing yourself over there but uh regardless

that that to me has been that you know what was their hallmark since he's gotten here it's been the defense it's been getting stops and there's been too many games this year where and i get it the numbers say overall they've been strong on the season but i just feel like it's these games lately where you go 133 in utah 122 to dallas 128 to denver 133 in new Orleans those are just those numbers are too big. Mike in Jersey Village on 790. Mike, good morning to you. Hey, Matt. Ditto on what Ceso had to say and Gordi had to say, you know, that that was a ridiculous loss last night. I'm sure you did not enjoy it. But Matt, I'm really worried about you and your financial, you know, you're really being stretched. Is Tillman not, you don't have a per diem? I mean,

Tillman, you have to pay all these bills yourself? Because the Wicked start to go fucking. me and and maybe Jonathan needs to play that music you know the lady that really this mad music when they're showing starving dogs and you hear it in the background that's what they need to play every time you talk about how much you're

struggling on the road Matt I'm worried about you I know Mike I'm a fraud I'm 100% fraud I honestly could pay for the coffee but I mean Mike I don't know what you do for a little I don't know what your financial situation is but my guess is you could probably afford a $4.30 pot of coffee.

But there's just a fundamentalism to it that just says, I don't want the enemy to win, right? I don't blame you. Listen, I only drink coffee at home because most coffee you buy, whether it's $3 or $30 tastes like acid. So enjoy yourself up there.

I'm ashamed you're away for the holidays, so I'll be worried about you on Christmas Day. Thank you very much. I appreciate my family. Thank you, buddy. Nice to hear from you. My family is just fine. Gordy, when I said hey gang i'm going through christmas they're like did you buy our gifts already yes

did mom buy our gifts already yes dad will talk to you on christmas on zoom yeah we'll send you we'll send you a video of us opening the gifts yeah now the question here's here's the ruling we need for me really quick should somebody in my family open up my gifts

or should they wait till I get home the next day I think they got to wait for you or you they don't open your gifts you open them when you get back okay So like a second Christmas ceremony, basically. Yeah. Okay. You know what?

I thank you for that good say your advice there. And then they'll go, what did you bring us back from L.A.? Do you know I never bring anything back from anybody? What? You don't get like a key chain or something? How many key chains do three young adults need? Oh, no. Keep saving dad.

Let me ask you this. I've never brought you back anything. Either one of you, do you want something back from L.A.? According to what you want. Meat is legal there, right? Weed's legal basically everywhere. You just have to be, you have to know the right people. But I'm in Denver right now.

I can easily get you some weed here if you want. Yeah, I don't think you want some gummies. I don't think you can put it in your suitcase. But if what do you put in a pill bottle? They're not going to search it, are they? They got dogs. But do gummies have a scent to them? I think any THC stuff, right?

Okay. Well, I will buy each of you gummies. but I can't transport them and I can't send them to you so what are we going to do here? I'm good yes the dogs can't smell the gummies by the way.

They can or cannot? They can't. Can't. They can't. C-A-N. They can't. C-A-N. Okay. Huh. Wouldn't that be something? You're coming back home

to celebrate Christmas with your family. Rockets play-by-play broadcast are arrested in Denver airport trying to transport drugs. What do we talk about in the show? that we just like you don't even bring it up it never happened

what are you talking about we're like that's on vacation we're going to send ross with the access unit over to the jail do the show with you there to a remote from the from harris county or from the airport jail what does the airport jail look like

does anybody know it's probably nice I guarantee this airport jail I've seen people get arrested on flights all the time we've landed when people have been drunk and belligerent and rude to flight attendants I see guys people getting arrested all the time Hmm

Yeah You know what guys How about I send you all a postcard Greetings from L.A. It's a thought that counts Bring back some snow from Denver Yeah, it's not It's snowing

It's gonna be 56 degrees here today I think we're dodging bullets I will get more on the Rockets Coming up in a few minutes We have I'm sorry's at 1130 And Gordy Bougu Pony I apologize to half the SEC schools because even though you're locked in the SEC, you disparage half of them, especially Alabama.

So we'll look forward to that coming up at 1130 today. Well, the news at noon, like the strippers up, and then at 1 o'clock we got Dr. Ordo plus not in Florida stories. And believe it or not today, which is hellier or not, will be all things about Will Mustchamp, the new defensive coordinator at the University of Texas. When you saw that, were you surprised? I was pretty shocked, yeah. Because the thing with Texas has been, go-askin a Longhorn fan. And they're like, defense is fine.

Offense is the problem this year. So where was he last year and where is the old guy going? I guess are people shocked or it's like you got a chance to go get a guy that was recognizably known as a good football coach, maybe not a great head football coach, but certainly a good coordinator. Yeah, Pete Koyikowski was, I mean, like, he's been there five years. And the only thing I've seen from Longhorn fans that are supporting the move are saying he originally

was hired when they were in the Big 12 and defending air raid offenses, and he was good at that. He's good at front seven, but the DBs weren't very good down the field in one-on-one coverage and that they think Mustchamp is going to be better with that, but Mustchamp is more

about bringing blitzes and pressure and all that, so maybe they want their sack totals up or something like that, but apparently I found out years ago, when Sark got hired, he tried to bring must champ over and that was when must champ was like eh my kids are in school i kind of like it over here in georgia i'm not i'm not leaving but now that his kids are older apparently muschamp is

willing to come back to the 40 acres where was he last year he's been with georgia the last few years he was a special teams coach then a co-dc last year he was kind of like i think they called him a defensive assistant or an analyst like he was kind of uh he was a voice in the room but not really like the authoritative voice well he'll have a certainly a voice and you know the coordinators especially with SEC schools that have lots of money are going to be paying him well so he's going to do it quite well for himself

in Austin. All right, got an email in from Javier. He says, why would the NFL scheduled games tomorrow to conflict with the college football playoffs? I appreciate NFL on Saturdays but of all Saturdays you're doing it tomorrow. Make it make sense. Long time listener, P.S. Happy birthday, Ross. Ross is a birthday

today by the way. Oh, how old is 45. And he also says go coogs, which is nice. Thank you very much. hobby year. The answer is this. The NFL ratings are going to annihilate the college football playoff rankings or playoff ratings. Well, I think tonight

has potential to be huge with Alabama, Oklahoma, because it's two big brands. And even if you're not an SEC fan, I think you're going to be attracted to see what this game does. I think Miami A&M tomorrow morning, I think, is going to do really well. That's, you know, both those are

ABC slash USBM. Like, that's national audience with four monster brands. Now, afternoon, Tulane against Ole Miss, I think there's some attraction there from, oh, they don't have Lane Kiffin rally around Ole Miss, let's see what they do.

But frankly, if that thing is 20 to nothing at halftime, I think nobody's watching, and then Eagles Commanders kicks off, yeah, people are going to Fox. And by the way, that afternoon game is TNT, and then the night game is TNT. So it's, you know, it's not exactly like those are nationally televised games.

said that the two big ones are ABC and then the afternoon game and the night game tomorrow are TNT and it's James Madison Oregon tomorrow night going head to head with Packers Bears. Well that's the one reason for me is the NFL or college football knew

that no matter what games they put on they were going to lose the NFL. I mean if you put the Aggies, Hurricanes on tomorrow night, it's losing to Green Bay, Chicago. But I think it's much closer. Like I think you're pulling a big draw if you have that game at night on ABC versus the NFL on Fox.

The only game this weekend that would have a huge national draw to go, not necessarily mono-a-mono with Green Bay, Chicago, would have been tonight's game, Oklahoma, and Alabama. Those two carry a much bigger brand nationally than A&M and Miami does. They just do. Yeah, I just think those are still two big brands, Miami, A&M. And if it's a close game, if it's a close game better. But of the four matchups,

That's the one that would have been able to. But, again, I don't think college football is worried about it. College football, frankly, isn't concerned about its ratings because college football has all the inherited money. Now, if nobody's watching, then they may have to pay back, these TV networks may have to pay back advertisers for extra commercial time and whatnot. But when you have James Madison and Tulane in this thing, regardless of whether or not you, how you feel about whether or not group of five schools should be in there,

You know that you're going to have games that are going to be less sexier than others. And when you had not only one group of five team in but two, it just didn't turn out well. What a smart move to by ESPN to sell half these first round games off to TNT. Because TNT paid a premium for them. And ESPN is like washing their hands on of it going, you get Tulane Ole Miss and James Madison, Oregon. Good luck. And they're also going to sell them a semifinal game next year, I think, is what I saw. well they'll give them the crappiest one i'm telling you all these networks are selling things off

like next year the big 10 championship game is supposed to be an mbc i think they're selling it off to either amazon or netflix so these tv networks are spending this crazy amount of money to buy these games and then they're like uh like it'd be like you and i getting an expensive apartment and sub-leasing it to somebody else that's what they're doing they're selling they're selling off their properties oh did you see the news on on the Oscars this week? Yeah, they're going to YouTube. Yep.

I got news for you, Oscars. I wasn't watching you on ABC. I'm damn well not watching you on YouTube. But it just shows you the evolution. I mean, sports and everything. I think within the next five years, you're going to have to have every damn account from Amazon Prime to Peacock to all of it

because that's where everything's moving. It's not going to be all network TV anymore. Well, guess what, Gordy? I have every one of them because of my kids and my wife, so you can always come over to the house and watch any sporting event because I got every channel. Oh, we got them all too because I got to we've got to have housewives and then

I got to watch every sporting event. Yeah, I have I have Hulu. I have Paramount Plus. I have Peacock, Amazon Prime, Netflix. HBO? No.

You have HBO? Oh, yeah, I've got HBO Max. I said it's just something else. I have Max. Yeah, I have all that. I don't know if I had Paramount Plus. I got to rethink that because I have the Vermont Network. But that's because Kim likes to watch the new show that's so hot on that channel. What's the new show that's out?

That's got Demi Moran and Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 1103, Sports Talk 790. Our number two is underway, and I'm not counting down the time until, I take a nap at 1 a.m. 1 p.m. Mountain time. I'm not doing that. Gordy, hanging out with us for another hour. We want you to hang out with us all the way until 2 o'clock this afternoon at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Rockets last night fall to the New Orleans Pelicans. Second straight overtime game on the trip.

Second straight loss in overtime and a game where the rockets at a 25-point lead and lost the game 133 to 1-3 to 1. 28. Rockets get 32 from Durant, 28 from Shingoon, 23 from Thompson, 11 from Shepard off the bench, 10 for Josh Akogi, and 12 from Jabari. But the rockets allowed the pelicans to shoot gonzo crazy, 51% for the game, and it's probably about 75% in the second half, and I'm not kidding on that. They also made 41% of the three-point shots. Rockets were over 50% from three in the first half, and end the game on threes, making 10 of 32. I think they were like 2 for 16 in the second half of last night's game.

So that plus a long trip. So it's been not the best morning for Rocket fans today, and I certainly get that. And again, the Denver Nuggets on the agenda tomorrow for a 3 o'clock, I believe it's 4 o'clock start time back in Houston, 3 o'clock here in Denver. And we'll have all the action for you here on Sports Talk 790. They're speaking of basketball, Gordy. rumors are out this morning

the WNBA may be coming to Houston in a couple of years I saw that we also have an Astros nugget we can get to here as well but yeah I mean it's no secret Tolman and his group have been

trying to bring the WNBA back to Houston for some time and Ramona Shelburne of all people breaking it this morning the rocket's ownership is quote in substantive talks with the Connecticut Sun over a purchase and relocation

them. Well, look, I don't think the Rockets have hidden the fact they want to bring WMBA basketball here. I'm just surprised at Connecticut, and again, I don't know the finances of the situation there, but Connecticut's always been one of the better teams, and that's a part of the country that loves college women's basketball. I know they've played at the Mohican Sun Casino for a long time. I don't know if nobody cares or it just hasn't drawn or they wanted to get to a bigger

marketplace because it's not in Boston. But, yeah, Connecticut's been up for sale for quite some. some time. I know there was some people wanted to keep it in that part of the country, but the rockets could get it. It sounds like to me it'd be ready in time for 2027. It wouldn't be for 2026. By the way, the WMBA may have a work stoppage this year coming up. Yeah, I heard about that. No, I talked to somebody who covers Yukon up there who I said, oh, that feels like an easy, you know, thing because they have a bunch of Yukon players that they've drafted, obviously intentionally. But he said, no, it's one of those things like, and when the team

is really good, yes, they come out and support. But when they're kind of average or not great, no, there's no support there. So it would make sense why that would be a team that would relocate. All right, so the Astros nugget, I just saw it from Chandler, Rome. Wanted you tell the audience what it is?

From Chandler Rome, the Astros Pirates and Rays are in serious discussions about a trade that would send infielder Brandon Lowe to Pittsburgh and right-handed pitcher Mike Burroughs to Houston. Not to be confused with Joe Burrow. This is Mike Burroughs, who is a 26-year-old right-hander who has

four years of team control remaining and had a two and four record last year, a 394 ERA, 97 strikeouts. So he's got some swing and miss stuff. And if you recall Matt, he pitched against the Astros back in early June last year, five and a third shutout innings, six strikeouts against the Astros. I remembered his name because the Astros beat Skeens because Skeens was the big one and then it was like, who the hell is Mike Burroughs? He's the one who shut down the

Astros. So an interesting name there. Yeah, 23 games for the Pirates last year. 19 starts. Honestly, again, you know more about it than I do. I guess the question when, you know, it's funny that this trade

does not mention anybody on the Astro side going somewhere or what teams and it also intimates that there may be some other teams could be involved in this. Yeah. Well, you've got to think the Jake Myers thing is very likely to happen. I've seen, it's so funny, just search Jake Myers' name on Twitter. Everybody wants them.

Dodger fans want him. I mean, you would think that this guy's like an All-Star. I mean, obviously his defense has been great, but, you know, it feels like he's going to be moved. But the Mike Burroughs, like, this is a name that I kept telling Astros fans. forget the high profile top five names out there. They don't have the money to spend like that or they're not willing to do that.

But is there a guy that they could trade for that would have team control for several years? And this is kind of a sneaky one. Like again, I think they like his stuff. He's young for four years of team control. He's not going to be a front-end rotation guy, but he could be a three or four or five. Well, the reality is this.

And we've been talking about this really since the end of the last season. I don't think any Astro fan had any thoughts of it. If you did, we're here to fix them for you, that this was going to be a, wow, what an incredible off season. It's going to be filler. Not necessarily like just guys, but

it will be a less than sexy, you're going to have to do a little bit of research, and that includes you and me. We're going to have to look at what Mike Burroughs has done, and we're going to look at any players that the Astros have to give back. And, you know, the most recognizable name that may pop up during this entire off season, maybe

a one-year signed deal for Justin Verlander. I mean, that'll be name recognition, but it's not necessarily going to be a headliner. So, yeah, you are filling on a rotation that at this point, for sure, has Hunter Brown. You would presume that Javier will be ready. You'd presume that Erigeti would be ready. And then everybody else, am I missing anybody else?

It would be an absolute knockdown 100%. I should be thinking about him in the guaranteed rotation for the Astros so far? I don't think so. Well, I mean, you're paying McCuller, 17 million. and you'd like him to be part of the five-man rotation. Did you just use a from a show you did a year ago or two years ago? I mean, this is the last year he'll make that kind of money,

so it's not like it's, you know, for years it was like, oh, you're paying this guy a ton. I mean, but look, you're paying him $17 million. Dude, we're paying you. We want you to contribute. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure he wants to contribute as well, but it could not, I mean, even last year could not have gone.

any worse. I mean, from a guy that spot started occasionally did not do very well. Then went to the bullpen because he was, you know, remember he gets cranky with you about asking about bullpen and he didn't get, he went in there and didn't really necessarily enjoy that experience either. I mean, he's, I don't want to say

he's a lost soul because he's collecting $17 million a year, so I'm sure his soul is just fine. But from a definition of a baseball player, you know, I don't know what he could do short of starting 20 times of the Astros this year that's going to make him a guy that people would consider or grabbing it for the foreseeable future.

Yeah, I think, you know, they'll have some options here. Again, if this trade does indeed go through and the Aster's land, Mike Burroughs, from the Pittsburgh Pirates, you basically have, like you said, Hunter Brown is your one. I think in all likelihood, Christian Javier's your two. You probably feel good about spaghetti as your three. And then, yeah, does Burroughs slide? in as the four, and then you've got your A.J. Bluebaws.

Burlander, if he comes. Jason Alexander, you know, all those guys. And then at some point, what, by mid-season, you're hoping you get back, Rono Blanco and Hayden Wisniewski? Yeah, those two names. Nobody else. Oh, and Ryan Weiss, I forgot. They signed him with the hope that they want to entertain him being a,

Ryan Weiss and Nate was Nate Pearson. Which one did they say they envision as a starter? I thought it was Weiss. Whatever. They're going to open this thing up in spring training. Hey, whoever wants to claim a job, it's up for the grabs. Yeah, you know, Ryan Weiss walks

in a bar and everybody says, hey, Ryan Wice is here. They go, hey, Ryan, how are you? Because I'm great, how you all? And he goes good. What do you do for a living, Ryan? I mean, I mean, I hope Ryan Weiss becomes the name that we know in Houston. But right now, collectively, no one knows who Ryan Weiss is. I'll say this. I mean, Dana's hit on some.

Like, how many guys the last two years have they just, like, signed off the scrap heap? And some have been duds, but that's fine. You know, like, you're taking a shot. But some have been hits. The Jason Alexander, he turned out, at one point last year, he was your most steady starter. So there's been nice. His lifestyle wasn't so sweet, but by and large, the body work was pretty good. Yeah, Della Santos, I thought, you know, pitching some big spots for you down the stretch.

I mean, he wasn't great, but he's got the job done in a couple spots. So, like, there's been little fines here and there, and so you hope that maybe there's a fine here in either Nate Pearson or Weiss. All right, on the phones next, Trey and Roger, we'll get to you, one, two. If you want to follow those gentlemen up, you may do so. It's 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90, with a reminder once again in about 15 minutes. If you won't apologize for something you've said or done, it's time for you to say, I'm sorry. We'll do it between 1130 until noon. We've got Dr. Rodot at 1 o'clock, on floor stories at 130 and believe it or not all things about will must champ at 150 as part of hell yeah or not it is the matt thomas show at ross ross is celebrating his

birthday today need a ruling from you gordy before we go back to phones how do you feel about the the following text okay number one happy birthday Okay. Just that's it. Just happy birthday. Do you respond thanks? Do you use a exclamation point or a heart or a thumbs up? When you get just a random happy birthday text, what is your typical response?

Now, if you just said happy birthday with no exclamation point on the end, no celebration emoji, nothing like that, I'm sending you back at THX. how about if the per if they put your name in there happy or hb chris how about that one then i'll then i will spell out thanks okay so it comes down to how how many letters you have put in the word thanks yeah okay or thank you i might even go with but if you just say happy birthday no no punctuation you're getting a t h x so you need punctuation in order to get the full word okay number two before the phones Merry Christmas

You can respond with I'm Jewish No but that's not you You can't do that Right I'm just saying I mean it's You have to be sensitive these days Happy holidays is what you say Okay on December the 25th And you are Protestant or Catholic

And you are know the other person on the other end is the same you say happy birthday or excuse me merry christmas i'm thinking of myself you know if you really really really wanted to wish me a happy birthday or merry christmas you got to send me a card yeah that would have taken an effort it takes no effort to go to your phone and put in 50 names and put on the text merry christmas i would uh if you send me merry christmas that's it i would respond with same to you you know what I'm going to do this year Gordy I'm going to

when somebody sends me a Merry Christmas text which always happens I'm going to do the opposite I'm going to send them a text that's at least 400 to 500 words that's a bit much

no listen to me hey Gordy thanks very much it's been a crazy year yeah we got the busy at the radio station we're busy with the Rockets games you know carly's going to play

Rhode Island next year in volleyball camera got a new job Peyton's graduated from AM and my folks are doing this and we're thinking about doing this for next year or what our plans are man we had a great Christmas dinner we had some prime rib and we had some mashed potatoes

and we had some great I think you do the opposite I think you make the other person feel like asked for taking such little time to send you a text that says Merry Christmas I think you can do this on AI you could have you could um you know you you like get awkward with it respond with well tom let us remember the

reason for the season when jesus was born in bethlehem you know and then like give the whole a i story of the nativity scene yeah you could also give another one merry christmas yeah it's been a great christmas i lost my job my wife left me my kids won't return my text and my doctor says I need double heart bypass surgery. See, I am full, I love awkward. I would go full on into awkward

mode. If you send me Merry Christmas, I'm going to send back, yeah, not much to look forward to in 2026 with Trump still leading us. You would make it political? They go, okay man, see you later. That conversation will end.

All right. So I I swear to God, I'm going to this year for Merry Christmas. I'm going to create a post on my notes on my phone and I'm going to paste it. Every time just somebody on Christmas day sends me Merry Christmas, I'm going to send them a 500 word explanation.

You will never hear back from them. I mean, that's how that works. And maybe I get off the Merry Christmas list. Because if you gave a damn about me, you could send me a card or worst case, you could send me some money or a gift card of something. Hey, we do have more details on that

potential Astros trade. Run through it quickly. This is from Ken Rosenthal. If this trade is completed, the Astros would send, this says Anderson Brito, Brito, right-hander,

would head from the Astros to the raise, as well as Astros number two prospect, Matt, outfielder Jacob Melton. Whoa, whoa. Wait just a minute. I thought Jacob Melton was supposed to be a part of this outfield the 2026. Maybe they don't trade

Jake Myers. That's their number Melton's their number two and Brito is their number seven prospect currently. Hmm. Hmm. On the phones we go, let's talk to Trey on 790-11-25. Hi, Trey. Hey, guys. Happy Friday.

I, uh, finally some news on the Astros. I guess Chandler was talking about how bored he was lately. Maybe he'll have an exciting Friday also. But Pirates were one of the teams, among many, interested in Jake Myers. It'll be curious to see who they've included. I got a question, though, and I believe it was Chandler that wrote a piece on Sanchez after they tendered him, speculating that perhaps the reason they did that was to include him in a trade package. And it got me to wondering why they wouldn't try to sign Framber in the offseason and then turn around and trade him.

And I don't recall ever seeing sign and trade deals and MLB. Is that something that happens or has happened that you guys can recall? No, I don't believe that could be the kid. I don't think Major League Baseball rules allow that. because there's no advantage of doing it you're not trying to match sour for salary you've got you know you've got salary cabs in the NBA and in the NBA

you can sign a player for more money if you retain bird rights with that player because of veteran status that that guy loses his bird rights if he gets traded without signing first with the team he's currently on so there's no really advantage to it I don't think fair enough appreciate the show guys yeah thank you trey yeah i don't i don't know why you would want to why would you go through all the and look and the NBA does happen because but they're not doing it because

they're trying to uh tease the player oh we just signed you to a nice big contract now we're trading i mean that's not how it works they do the sign and trades because it financially helps the player for the new new destination he's going to yeah and the money that framber is is asking it's just there's no astros were out i mean that if they wanted to keep front of That deal would have been done last summer. When I went into the final year of his deal, it was understood. This will be from us last year in Houston. That's right.

All right. Let's go take a short time out. We will talk Roger and Keith and EZ want to talk about the rockets, the rockets and the Astros. And then after that, we'll go to I'm sorry because I know you've got to apologize for things. Clearly Jonathan does for his SFA lumberjacks getting beaten like a pulp by Montana State. So maybe I'll be sorry. you're not going to be you didn't even say you didn't even say to watch the game because your girl want to watch something on lifetime i mean you're you're just a fraud you just are seven one three happy mary mcrisis by the way all right

gaudy with us for a few more minutes we'll go the phones quickly and get these in before we get to our apologies for the week roger on seven on a hello roger hey what's going on guys uh i just got to commend you that for your professionalism for your patience for your endurance. Thank you. Because had it been me, I would have lost my dream job. I would have probably shoot the rocket for providing a hostile work environment

and I probably would have spent the night in the clink. All those three probably would have happened. I just don't know how you do it, and I commend you. Well, thank you. That being said, man, this is what I talked about last week, and people, you know, looked at me kind of crazy. and I'm like, hey, man, I love my rockets.

I'm born on my rockets. I see what I see. I see a void that needs to be done. Hopefully this loss maybe might provide a glimpse at the elephant in the room. We need a guy that can probe it inside of the aisle of defense. You're throwing too much on Reed Shepherd's plate. He's kind of like, you know, let him be a three, a pesky defender and a three-point specialist. Not so much a walk-it-up court, a prover.

You're asking him too much. Let him be what he's going to be If he's going to be anything at all You just ask him too much from the kid Somebody's got to sit down with With Jabari Smith And tell him, hey man You could be turnaround jumper guy

You could be rebounder guy You can be 3B guy Just don't be put the ball on the floor guy You're not there yet I know he worked out on the summer Developed you but you're just not there You need a couple more summers maybe I don't know but you're just not there yet

Mr. All-World Turkey International. Amen. You're not going to get the 50-50 whistles in this league until you've done something first. Stop, you know, pestering the rest all the way up down the court. Every time you can get a foul. You just got to play ball. Play ball. Things will take care of themselves.

I just defense. And Durant's one of our better defenders. So I don't want to hear about the Durant doesn't play, D. That guy's a great defender. We need somebody else. Now, when is the broken glass game? getting fixed. When are our two guys coming back?

The guys that are supposed to be where are better defenders and high-energy guys. When is the broken glass getting fixed? And that's it. Have a great weekend. All right, man, Roger. You said a lot there. Again, I understand the frustration. I have to always think about the fact it was just one game.

So I try to continue to think about it. It was just one game that tomorrow, when the Rockets play the nuggets, they can come back and bounce back from this. and the terrible taste in your mouth that the New Orleans game is gone. Now, you don't want this thing to linger because clearly this team has got a lot of its play in terms of what it wants to do,

but a Denver, Sacramento, back-to-back win situation can make this feel a lot better than what you went through last night. And as far as Dorian Finney Smith is concerned, I think sometime in January for him, and as far as Tar Easton is concerned, he's been working out with the team. He's trying, but soreness is soreness.

And if you can't go and you can't run up and down the floor to the level of NBA standards, you know, all you do is hurting your team. But at least I wouldn't be surprised if he played at some point during this still. We got four games left on this road trip. So I think there's a really good shot that Tari plays at least one of those games before we get back. He was shooting around before the game, right? And Doreenny Smith was too. So, I mean, they're moving around a little bit.

But moving around and competing at the highest level professional basketball is two different things. Well, I do agree with him on Alpi and the refs. Like, he's got to back off a little bit, man. Play your game. I don't know. That's Euro ball, though, dude. Yes. I mean, even Yolkich, I was watching him the other night and we were here in Denver the first time.

He's still, they're bitching and moan all the time. I mean, name a Euro that doesn't bitch and moan about officiating. Yeah. Manu Genoble is who I immediately think of. it's you know gordon it's just in their DNA it just is they must get every call in europe then or they must be able to bitch and moan about it and then they get they get the call back on the on the next trip down the floor well we need NBA officiating to be better anyway i think we need officiating period to be better in sports keith is with us at 1139 keith good

morning hey good morning how are you up good last night I've seen this happen repeatedly over and over again we missed layups. You got seven foot doos that can't make a layup or like Jabari Smith he gets like three feet from the basket

and can't make a shot or he'll pass it out to somebody. He's almost seven quick call. He can't just reach up and shoot. That happens a lot, man. Way up after layup. They have five or six shots and can't make none of them. Well, obviously you didn't

see Zion Williamson last night because he was embissing everything. They were Keith, they were, the Pelicans were nine for 29 in the paint in the first half of the game last night. So it ain't just the Rockets. It's a lot of teams. But now

to the Pelicans credit and to the Rocket's demise, the Pelicans shot way better in the second half inside of the paint. Okay, I was going to ask a question for you and one for Gordy. I just heard you something about Dorian, Phoenix, Smith, and Tarry.

Our defense works a lot better when Tarry Easton and A-Man are out at the same time. Do you have a prognostication about, I mean, we got a whole bunch of games to play. You think that Dorian Finney Smith is going to be ready by Christmas Day when they play the Lakers? Did you not just hear what I said two minutes ago, Keith? I said it'd be in January, I guess. Oh, he said January? I didn't hear that. Yeah.

Yeah, January, and I think the Tari's going to play sometime on this trip, hopefully, because he's close. I didn't hear. Yeah. Okay, I just want to ask, gorety, one question. What's the final score on the, what's this final score on Houston versus LSU? Oh, gosh. Kinderstexasbill.com for tickets. Pimp.

I mean, it's, I think, I think this game. is going to mean a whole lot more to U of H. And honestly, it should. If Willie Fritz can go out with another win, a win against an SEC program, LSU is going to be shorthanded. They just are. Half their players are either opted out or declaring for the draft. It's not an excuse.

I'm just letting you know the reality. And I think U of H is going to come out and be the hungrier team. The reality of this, Keith, is that the LSU players are leaving early because they're afraid to play the Cougars. And so that happens a lot when the Cougars playing a bull. game. Florida State and the Peach Bowl many years ago was afraid to play the Cougars and they got their ass kick. So it's

going to happen again. LSU's going to take the L, go back to Baton Rouge, go to Chimes, go to Cains, and have some chicken fingers and go, man, we got our ass kick by the Houston Cougars. He's speechless. He's speechless. Thank you for the phone call. Let's go to EZ on 790. Easy, what do you

got? Hey, first of all, when they've seen you the Merry Christmas thing, you remember you used to do The Witt, Maryfield, he was born in Bethlehem, and you got to just record something like that and just send that to the, whatever that was. You know what, E.C.? I could record a voice message.

I could send somebody a minute message that's much more personable than just somebody sending me a rando Merry Christmas. That's a great point. Thank you for helping me out with that. Number two, the question was, do I love Jeff Luno before that. Does Dana Brown think he's too smart for the way that they're doing things and keeping everything to the best? I understand it's a business, but the way I see it is like you're charging us for the ticket.

The ticket prices don't go down. you're not charged i mean you're not you're not bettering the team uh with making uh it's it's not about you know making splash moves but how can that change to where hey man we're expecting a certain product because because we're paying for it how can we change that and then the next question is for gordon answer that will be sir how can we change what you mean uh dana being aggressive or dana making any moves i mean dana's going to make some moves he has to the roster's not filled out he's I don't think they're hiding it

they're just doing on a timetable that astro fans are happy about but frankly if you think about this easy how much real movement has there been that you know the Mets have made you know the Padres the Dodgers made a move Pete Alonzo goes from the Mets to the Orioles but other than that there there's been nothing significantly

and Edwin Diaz leaving the Mets but Bragman's still out there Tucker is still out there from Ber Valdez doesn't have a deal yet this quote unquote Jake Myers trade has not happened I mean there's a lot of deals that haven't happened and I think it may not be until maybe even after the all the Christmas break before we start to see some real movement

in baseball is the winner the winner uh uh the winter uh the winter meetings over with her yes they are yeah they're over oh that's cool and uh gordy uh how is

LSU going to be better with a 15 million dollar coach versus what it was before uh because this guy won it he won 10 11 games a year at Ole Miss and now he's going to have even better resources at LHU with more money to spend. They called him

the portal king the last few years and now he's going to have even more money to spend and he's a good X as an O's coach. That's why they'll be better. Is he better than anybody other? Is he worth a 17 or whatever million you got? He's worth whatever. I mean the money is the money. That's what it cost

to get him. The question is will he win games? And I think most people believe if you just look at it from an X's and O's perspective, is Lane given a good coach? Yes. He won a lot of games at Ole Miss with one hand tied behind his back. Now he's got all the resources in the world at LSU. I understand. Go Coogs. See y'all later. Thanks easy. Really quick, Gordy, I had the Cougars winning

30 to 16 over LSU. How do you feel? You think we're going to score 16? I don't know if you've seen Michael Van Buren at quarterback. They are not very good. I'm trying to be polite. I'd be lucky if you scored six. They scored 13 against Western Kentucky, Jonathan's school. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, don't say I'm making an executive decision. They're a good football program. Don't, don't bring in him. Don't let our man Jonathan catch the strays on this.

It's bad. Hilltopper's got a good program, all right. AJ Halsey, who we stole from U of H, who was really good. He just announced he just announced he's going to the senior bowl, so I don't know if he's going to play. That's because he wanted to, he wanted to looser academic restrictions. That's the reason why he left. It's really good. All right.

I'm making the decision. We're going to move I'm sorry to 1230 because, look, this is our favorite half hour. Now, Gordy, you're going to be going on doing, God knows what, buying a bunch of Texas bowl gear, so we won't see you anymore. But Jonathan, you and I need to do some apologizing for some things. We're going to bump it to 1230, give it its full half hour. So we got more phone calls to get to. We've got to wake the strippers up. We'll have the news.

And then at 1230, we're going to do I'm sorry. He's 1146, Sports Talk 790. All right, this is our last opportunity to make a bet about the game. As the Cougars will destroy LSU in the Texas Bowl, which will be a week from tomorrow. Do you want to go food? Do you want to go fight song? How do you want to handle all this, Gordy? This is your decision.

Yeah, I think we'd do a lunch, but I'm fine buying your lunch. At lunch, when is my show on, Gordy? I don't know if you know the showtime? Yeah, like, I'll, we'll order something in. Okay. I'll pick you up a McRib or something. Well, the problem is McRibs are going to go away pretty soon. How do you feel about the McRib, by the way?

It's fine. So if I bought McRibs, you would eat one. Sure. I'd eat too. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. All right.

Okay, so what else? Okay, so we got, so you want to make it, let's make it a, we're going to make it a Cajun lunch bed. Does that seem fair? Okay, we could do that. like BBs or something? Well, we're going to, we'll find somebody that advertised with us and help us out. Maybe I'll, maybe I'll have big city wings, make some cagey wings of some sort. Okay.

All right, other games. Alabama, Oklahoma, who do you like? I look at it this way. These two teams played a couple weeks ago. Alabama moved the ball pretty well, but they turned it over several times. It was not them making mistakes. It was Oklahoma taking the ball away. Am I to believe now they're going to go into a hostile environment and a cold,

Friday night in Norman, rocking atmosphere packed stadium and play flawless football. I don't believe that. I think Oklahoma wins. All right. Let's go to the game Saturday, A&M, Miami. 12th man is the 12th man for a reason. Miami's a good team, but I just feel like A&M has been sitting around for three weeks to digest that loss against Texas, and they want to get back to show what they can do.

Lavian Moss could return to the backfield. I think Aggie's offense rolls, and I think they went by double digits over Miami. Wow, you're not even giving Miami a chance, huh? No, Miami's overrated. But what's the last big game Mario Cristobal won? Could be tomorrow about 2.30? I mean, if they win it, great, but I just, I don't believe in them. And Carson Beck, he had a six-game stretch last year where he threw 12 interceptions.

That guy's still in there somewhere. You know, he tie, I think he tied in the ACC for most interceptions. thrown, I think, is what I saw on the stat line. Now, I will say A&M only has three interceptions on the year. It's not something they do, but Carson Beck loves to put the ball to the hands of the defender, so wouldn't shock me

at all. How about this, how's this for a stat? What if A&M ties their season total interceptions tomorrow with three? Oh, then they're going to win by three touchdowns. Yeah. All right. Do you give JMU a chance at Oregon? No. Is that the worst game of

weekend. Yeah, absolutely. And Dan Lanning, by the way, he's another one who hasn't won big games. Like every year, Oregon seems to get them postseason and they're won and done. It's just quick, quick exit. So this is their chance to at least win a playoff game under him. If they lose tomorrow, do they fire him? No. No, they're too invested. I mean, he had opportunities. LSU was interested. I mean, there was a lot of schools interested. He turned them all down. He's very happy to Oregon. That's all night money is very good. all right and i was just in new orleans yesterday do you give the green wave a shot at old miss

i think they can keep it close closer than people think everybody's just assuming oh we saw this game earlier the season that was week three that was the third week of september since that point two lanes played much better they've gone eight and one down the stretch jake redsoffs played much better their defense has played well uh i'll give you this for a stat old miss has the number three offense in the country. Do you know who's number one, Matt? Number one offense in the entire country? It's North Texas. That's the team Tulane just beat in the AAC title game. Forced what? Like three or four turnovers on them?

Yeah. I think if Tulane, like Tulane's going to have to do that. They're going to have to force turnovers. But I think we're not giving enough credence to, like we're just assume it all. Ole Miss, just the same fine team. Pete Golden, Lake, it doesn't matter of their coaches. I think we're going to see some rust in the armor there. with no lane kiffin i think that's we're not making a big enough deal out of them losing their head coach and last question 30 seconds because greggick kragman went to starbucks got me some coffee gordy so i got a drink while it's hot will we hear a hot top recognizable name at the

florida at the at the michigan job or is it going to be something we've never heard of before i'll tell you this if alabama loses tonight i think kalan debor was still very much in play for Michigan. But I think the safe hire, if they can't get the bore out of Alabama, they're probably going to go with Jedfish. Okay. There you go. Gordy, thanks for hanging out with me for a couple hours. It's time

for us to wake the strippers up. We'll do that in just a couple of moments. 1157, it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gordy, thanks for being with me. We have you and me until 2 o'clock. One half hour, I'm sorry. It's time for you to apologize for the mean things you've said and done this past week.

Also, Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock, non-floor stories at 130, and all things will must champ on hell yeah or not at 150. 1157 here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 12-0-1 in H-H-town. Go! Good morning strippers. This is the third hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross right here on Sports Talk 790. Yeah, the window washer is not near me today.

I feel good about that. 123 on Sports Talks 780. Now, normally, Jonathan, I try to go 15 seconds with my waking of the strippers up, but I'm in a hotel. You don't know what people would be knock on. the door and stuff. Yeah, you've been tired. You're traveling.

I'll get you, I get you. I went 10 seconds today, which is not the first time ever gone 10 seconds before my life, but that's a different issue for a different time. Time, man. 12.4. Time now for the news at noon. All right. So there is some hot stove league news.

Speaking of hot stove, thank you to Craig Ackham, and the television voice of the rock. for bringing me a coffee this morning. I'm going to sip right now, live on the radio. Hang on. Simply refreshing. All right, so the trade framework, according to Ken Rosenthal of the Athletic

and Chandleroma is also on it as well. Pittsburgh Pirates would get Brandon Lowe, Mason Montgomery and Jank Magnum. The Tampa Bay Rays would get a pair of Astro prospects, Jacob Melton, who had a cup of coffee with the Astros last year, and Anderson Brito, or Brito, depending on how you pronounce it. He's a guy that is a young man 20 years of age that played in high A ball last year.

And you're saying, well, what would the Astros get in return? They would get in return, Mike Burroughs, who did pitch last year for the Pittsburgh Pirates and is considered probably a number three or number four in a rotation. As Gordy brought up earlier this year, Mike Burroughs had one of his best starts. against the Astros. The Astros were able to beat the ace of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Schemes, but Mike Burroughs held him in check. Mike Burroughs last year for the Pirates, two wins, four losses,

ERA of 3.94, he had a whip of 1.24, and had 97 strikeouts. And I'm going to look at his stats. He did the 97 strikeouts in 96 innings. So there you have it. That is the main go-to thing. Again, Mike Burles, my guess, is not going to be a number one topic tonight when you're hanging out with your buddies at a bar or at a sporting event or a nightclub. But Mike Burles very well could be headed to the Astros.

He has four years of arbitration, salary under control for the Astros, which would be a good thing. He is 6'1. He is 200 pounds. He's 26 years of age. And he has a nice frothy beard. Mike Burroughs could very well become. The Houston Astro. And Jacob Melton would be the name going back as part of the trade,

which I'm guessing would maybe slow down the Jake Myers leaving Houston train. You hear that, Houston? Maybe your hero, your favorite center fielder who covers more territory than anybody else have ever seen playing center field. No disrespect, obviously, to Cesar Cedainio. But Jake Myers may be salvaged as part of this. if indeed Jacob Meyer or Melton winds up going as part of this three-team grade. It's going to just proposed.

It's not a done deal, but it is something that is being talked about on the hot stove of baseball. Rockets last night. They lost. Had a 25-point lead, lost in overtime. Matter of fact, Jonathan, I did not ask this of you. You should go to Rockets audio right now in our system. Okay. And go see if there's any highlights of New Orleans scoring baskets late in the game

and see how I'd exasperated I sounded. Because I'm going to guess there's got to be a couple things in there. All right, go check it. Yeah, the Rockets were up 25 last night and lost to the sucky pelicans in overtime. The Rockets did a great job allowing just 45 first half points. Then they got outscored in the second half, 74 to 52 in line. Lost the game in overtime, 14 to 9 to fall 133 to 128. Among the good stuff, all five rocket starters and double figures.

Kevin Durant was 12 of 15 for 32.7 rebounds. He did have four block shots, but he also turned the ball up for six times. He is becoming a five turnover per game machine, unfortunately. And a lot of that is because he's trying to get out of double teams. That's not been great. The rocket's got to figure out a way to get him out of those a lot faster. shangoon last night 28 points 11 rebounds 8 assists 23 points 6 rebounds for a men Thompson he's 11 of 14 from the floor NFL from last night if he did not catch it

it was a hellaciously entertaining game in fact I watched a lot of it on my phone as soon as I got on the bus to head to the airport last night the Seattle Seahawks beat the Los Angeles Rams and they did it in overtime and the final score in that game was 38 to 37 a huge game for Jackson, Smith, and Jigma. Also a huge game for Puka Nakua, who has had clearly a lot of things on his mind and a lot of things that the NFL was not appreciative of, including that little live stream he was on.

He also basse the referees, but the Seahawks overcame a 16-point deficit to send the game to overtime 30-to-30. Nukuah finds the end zone to give the Rams a 37-30 lead. The Seahawks come back and get to within 37-36. They go for two. They get the two-point conversion and win the game in over.

overtime by a score of 38 to 37, which means right now in the NFL, the Wester NFC Western standings has Seattle at 12 and 3 over the Rams 11 and 4 because if the Rams and Seahawks would have tied the game, the Rams because they beat the Seahawks earlier this year, would have had the tiebreaker. As far as the Texans are concerned, final preparations are underway to take on the hated Las Vegas Raiders. And I say that loosely because the Raiders are 10. terrible. Right now the Texans find themselves

still 14-point favorites for the 325 kickoff at NRG Stadium. And that is the news at noon. All right, did you find anything from last night? Yeah, I got the final call here. Yeah, nothing else, no other baskets by New Orleans?

Let's see, I'm only the New Orleans will have no, just only rocket highlights. I don't know I got the final call. My man, Josh, you got to separate missing the two wide open two wide open threes. Yeah, go ahead and play it.

12.5 seconds remaining here in overtime. Pelicans up by three. Shangoon on the inbound. Looks, looks, lobs to Duran at midcourt, out right side. Shepard, takes the step back, right side three, short.

Rebound to Shangoon, back to Shepard, six seconds, baseline three, front iron miss, rebounds in Inc. Bay with 2.1 seconds left, and he's And he made the free throws, and the rocket's lost. Help me get past this, Houston. I don't like calling losses. It makes me cranky.

Sleep deprivation makes me cranky. Paying $22 for a small pot of coffee makes me cranky, which I didn't do. Thank you, Craig Ackerman for buying, get my coffee this morning. But how do you give up a 25-point lead to the sucky Pelicans? Eme Adoka says you don't play any defense. He was really upset with the lack of defense. He had to be upset with a number of miss free throws in the game.

And the turnover count, 20 more turnovers yesterday. Now, when you have Amin, Shangoon, Durant, into a lesser extent, Jabari Smith, bringing the ball up a lot, you're going to probably run in some more turnovers than you would on an average night if you had a traditional ball handle like Fred Van Vali. But these turnovers are coming at an absolutely terrible, terrible time, and then what they're doing is they're changing the vibe and the tone of basketball games.

Teams are thriving off of the rocket's lack of possessions and turning those turnovers into points. We saw that last night. That plus, again, the defense was just not very good. 12-11 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to chime in, here's how the plan's going to work for the rest of the day. First of all, I need you like this flower needs the rain.

know i need you that's a song i think uh i think is this jonathan the rose i don't know what no no no no no no um i need i think the song is called i need you because look i'm i got the coffee so i've got a little extra wind but i'm still working off of four hours of sleep so if there's anything you want to get to if you thought this is a great opportunity to take a pot shot at me or criticize me for something i've done as i'm stretching my legs out 713 212 5 790 coming up in about 15 minutes we're going to say i'm sorry to some people this is the weekly opportunity for you to apologize for nasty things you've said and done i'm going to apologize to jonathan for my uh shots at sFA they're unwarranted but i'll do that officially coming up at

1230 dr rhodos with us at 1 o'clock non floristoress at 1 30 and a hell yeah or not all things about will must champ at 150 so that's the agenda come on and be a part of it anything goes friday which means you can call in about literally anything you want to and i can promise you your leash is long 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Like the flower needs the rain, you know, I need you. That was the phrasing I was going with in the last second. Now, America has some bangers. This is like one of their early hits.

They're really known for Ventura Highway. uh now is it the term no it's uh one of those highways i would say a horse and no name is their most famous song look in america's songs you would know okay let me ask you this you're with your girl and you're watching sFA football lose to montana state yeah and she says i'm leaving you because i want to watch something else you put this song on does it make her change her mind Restore and told about me

Low key You know what Matt I had this realization In a different life You were a hippie And I mean that in the most complimentary way Like you put it in this feels man Like this is a good

I like this song though actually Yeah I like this song one I like it Sister Golden Hair is an American song American's got some hits As Rossian said Got some hits Maddie Daisy Jane's a good song

I'd go see America My buddy David's sent me a note from Vegas As he went and saw him Recently and it's not the original band So it's only like one lead singer And a bunch of backups This is my first time hearing of this band I know

That comes to zero surprise And I'm glad it's taking you Your entire adult life To not realize who they are but let me ask you this serious question and look it's anything goes Friday so I don't care I mean nobody cares about the Texans and Raiders game because the Texas are going to kill them

we've already talked about the Aggies at nauseam about the hurricanes we got the Astros on the precipice of a trade and when it happens we'll go bonkers on that Rockets lost by 20 lost the game by 25 so I don't want to get into a deep dive on that so I'm going to deep dive on this who do you go to Jonathan for the romantic songs today

who's your go-to romantic artist today? Today I'm talking in 2026, 2526? That's a good question. Wow. Okay. Because I could go to a bunch of different people. I could go to Billy Joel for she's always a woman to me. I could go to Elton John for a variety of things. I could go to America. I could go to the Eagles. I got so many options. Little Matt Thomas could. Grant, these are also probably past my age group, but that's a different

issue for a different time i'm telling you who who is who is jonathan young adult with his girl things are down and she you know who's your go-to artist i i guess i guess you would say the only one that's like really romantic is john legend like you would you would okay you would throw on some john legend i mean that was like no bruno mars right all bruner mars you can you can definitely I actually knew Burnmaris. Bermaris is a good pick. I like that too. Oh, I know he'd go to.

Who's the guy, he's the foreign guy that's like the big crooner, like a red head with a beard. Ed Shearin? Ed Shearin. Yeah, you could definitely do some Ed Shearin for some romantic. You could go Ed Shearin. You could do that. I don't know the names of his songs, but I've heard the guy. He's, he's crooning.

He's turning to men fences. He's turned to build relationships. If we're going to the countryside, Luke Holmes got some good, Morgan Wall and Luscombe does some good romantic vibes to it. You know, if you're feeling that type of vibe. But no one's like, you know, how the old school people had, like, you know, straight love, romance or even like America. I mean, there's nothing going on like that right now. You know why?

You know why? Because people make fun of people to sing like this. I don't know why, though. Like in the 80s and 90s, there was a guy named Michael Bolton that had a lot of hits. But they were all the same thing. It was, you know. Yeah, but John Legend's your hit is your winner there on that. You know what?

You goof up with your girl and the drinks and the dinner and the flowers aren't working and you need to really tug at her heartstrings. You put a John Legend song and you're going to be fine, right? Yeah, because I've never met anybody that, like, hates John Legend. If a John Lenton is on, they're going to play it through a song. You know what I mean? Do they play in the Grammys every year when somebody dies? I mean, you know, he's got that built in. Yeah, that was a good question.

I'm looking through my place and everything. I'm like, that's the only thing I can tell you. so basically now in 2025 soon to be 2026 if we goof up we can't use music to orchestrate how we feel towards our lady when we make a mistake we go up with the boys don't come home it's time we forget about an anniversary or a birthday or the day we met you know that kind of stuff you better have that memorized jonathan because you don't be able to use a song you won't have a music backup to help you out it's okay i know some i know some old uh old songs some old i'm gonna get you back yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna get you between 1972 and 82 and you'll be just fine. Put some Marvin Gay on

for you. You'll be just fine. I was just thinking Marvin Gay in my head. I know some Marvin Gay songs. Yeah, Marvin Gay will help you out.

Marvin Gay will set you free. All right. The show's been disoriented today because I've been disoriented but I appreciate all y'all with us. Was traffic bad going to work today? Jonathan was pretty easy. It was real smooth today.

No one went to work. Nobody's at work. Everybody's off. I told you the scam my daughter put off. She gets exempt two exams and today she chose these two. not a scam that that's they give you the option i think it's a scam you got to think about it too i mean imagine it's not your best subject and you might bomb the final you know what i mean right

i know i know i look let me tell you something i got uh my daughter got officially accepted in rhode island and she's getting an additional scholarship for her great academic so i got that text yesterday and so if she wants to take the two the two exams off today good for her she's put in the hard work you said there's some money too well Well, it's funny, because I don't want to humble brag, but I'm going to. It's for an additional $68,000. And you're thinking, well, that's a lot of money. Well, out-of-state tuition, you know, for those that need it, is about $56,000 and it's spread over four years.

So my guess is it's going to help her with additional books. Maybe it'll help her with her master's if she gets one up there, whatever. But, yeah. So volleyball's picking up a lot of the tab. Rhode Island's picking up some of the tab. Guess who ain't picking up some of the tab? Me. Make sure she's using that money,

wisely. I'm going to pick up a $21 carap of coffee right now to celebrate. Don't do that. Don't. You're going to regret it. You're going to regret it. You're going to regret it. All right.

If you would like to apologize to someone, I mean, I can't put it any more simply. If you need to apologize for something you've done and said this week, your actions, this is the only radio show in the marketplace that gives you that shot to do it. If you want to apologize and say sorry for any. Anything you've done or said. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90.

7-13-212-5-7-90. All right, come on, Houston. Y'all are dastardly people. The least you can do is call 7-1-3-212-5-79 and whisper this very short, appropriate phrase. I'm sorry. So sorry That I was such a food

I didn't know Love God All right, here we go. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. 1136 in the Mountain Time Zone, 1236 back where you guys are in Houston. this is how it works.

You simply call 713212-1-2-5-7-9 and apologize for what you said and done. Jonathan, I apologize to you. I get cranky when Ross rips my Houston Cougars. I'm doing the same to you to SFA. Jonathan, even though your entrance requirements are minimal, even though it's in the middle of nowhere, even though your athletic programs largely suck, I want to say I'm sorry for the bad things I've said about the lumberjacks the last couple weeks.

Sorry. You know, even if it's not genuine, I accept that apology. Thank you, Matt. Thank you very much. I actually, I really do tease because I have, first of all, I know it's a great school. Second, I know that athletic program, volleyball, basketball, and now football in the playoffs, it's getting better. And I know that a lot of my friends are SFA grads. And if they found out I was taking shots at SFA, they would probably disown me.

So I don't want, I don't need that in my life. I don't want you mad at me. They shit this on you. Don't forget that we helped you and get to this Texas Bowl, okay? Just remember that. Oh, that's right. by you not scoring a single point helped us of the Texas ball.

This is not what the score was. All right, we got you to do. I got you. Thank you, friend. All right. So I'm saying I'm sorry. I want to apologize to the housekeeping service

at the hotel in New Orleans, Jonathan. I put some cold coffee into the teapot heater. Oh, is that what it was on your Twitter? A teapot heater? Is that what it was? No, no, that's an espresso maker.

This is from New Orleans yesterday. So I took some cold coffee that I had, and I put it in the teapot thing to heat it up to get some hot coffee going again. And the coffee exploded in the teapot. No way. Created a large mess. I cleaned it, but I'll be brutally honest. I don't want to 10 clean. I give myself a five.

You could just get like three paper towels, and you called it a day, huh? It was more like the towels that you'd used in the bathroom. room so they're completely brown which made them think that maybe something else had happened that I don't want to talk about you used the face towels and stuff I use the face towels so

so for the house keeping staff at that certain hotel in New Orleans I did give you a $5 tip I say I'm sorry and then you drop $5 on them sorry how much should I've given I don't know okay you tell me how bad the mess was it was it worth a $5

mess or was it more of $15 range. It would probably at least a 10. I didn't mean that. But I didn't have that. I only had hundreds and fives and I thought, well.

Oh, big baller. That's okay. I didn't mean to drop the bill on you there, but so I'm sorry. See how much better I feel now? You probably do so a lot better. I do, because I could have kept that to myself. Nobody would have known except me by myself,

but I told me. you and I told the tens that are listening to the show right now. So that's why this weekly segment is so cathartic for all of us because we can really say things. And I'm going to assume that many of you are driving around right now judging me. I don't care. At least I said it publicly. And for that, I feel better. 713-212-5-7-0.

Jonathan, what are you going to be starting for? So, you know, around the uptown post-talk area, there's some homeless people around, you know. they usually like regulars that sit there and there's one guy that I usually see him and he comes and he has his hands out, you know, just asking for money, he doesn't have a sign or anything

and this time I saw him and was like, you know what? I know I have a $5 bill. I'm going to do it but I said all that and I got to the light and I was thinking about should I do it? Should I be a good person? And by the time I was done contemplating if I was going to do it or not I reached back and he's coming to my car

like knowing I'm giving him the money I waited too long and the light turned green and I kind of felt I didn't want to hold up traffic and I didn't want to get hit and I felt real bad because I should just gave it to me I shouldn't have to think twice about giving some money to somebody who needs him right and I just it's been eating me up and I really feel bad

so I wanted to tell him I'm sorry you probably need that while I'm giving him nothing I just got I just gave him some some gas exhaust and just you know get the pushing I was I was that I was going to the backseat to get the you know what I mean I was there I was gonna do it And it just you know it was just time wasn't there on my side I just I just I just it's been eating me up I was like I know I could have just done it I you know

All right um Okay now we got some astro news it looks like it's getting closer to being to it being official so we've talked about a little bit already We will try to see if it's been official I'll check in in just a couple minutes but right now Let's say some sorry to some people here. Let's go to Chris on 790. Chris, what are you sorry for? Yeah, so before I left for Christmas vacation, I borrowed a coworker's battery from his mouth because mine died.

And before I left, I forgot to replace his. So when he comes back, you can have a dead mouse. So it's a preemptive, sorry, you know. I'm sorry. They're sorry? that's rough he's a dead mouse I mean at least he apologized as half the battle

let's go to Mark on 790 Mark what's going on well I'm not sorry I actually called to ask you about well much champ but I am sorry that Ross is not there and Jonathan had to put up with you all week

but it's still a great show thank you Mark Anything else? I just, I wanted to know your thoughts on the Longhorn's hiring Muschamp, and the only other question, will he coach in the bowl game? I mean, how's that work? I mean, he fired those other two guys. Yeah, I don't know.

I think it's a good. Mark, I will not be offended by your insult of me, but I do believe Must champ is an excellent. acquisition, I don't think he'll coach in the bowl game. I mean, the bowl game is coming up in, what, less than 10 days? I can't imagine doing that. I think, for instance, like, Lane Kevin's not coaching LSU in the Texas Bowl. So that is very, very hot.

The guys they fired, are they still going to coach the bowl game? I mean, no, I would think that they're probably going to use position coaches on the interim basis, just for that for this one game. All right, man. Well, I'm sorry to, you offended me a couple weeks, so I had to get you back. How did I offend you? Mark, I'm the sweetest guy you know. How did I offend you?

Tell me what I did wrong and I'll say I'm sorry. No, you called me old. Oh. You mean, if the shoe fits. Thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I know. I know. All right, man.

Happy holidays, Mark. Appreciate it. Thank you, buddy. You need a good public. Sorry to Mark. I'm sorry. Mark said he put it. Yeah, it was good.

I mean, he got me. It's fair. All right. Is the Astros deal officially done? We'll get to that next, 1244 on Sports Talk 790. All right, thank you, Scrimony. All that is needed are eyes dotted and T's cross. The Astros are going to acquire Pirates pitcher Mike Burroughs in a three-team trade with Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh.

What are the Astros giving up as part of this three-team trade? Anderson Brito, who is a... a minor leaguer pitcher 20 years old single a i want to say maybe even high a last year a little bit but i know single a and jacob melton who was the number two prospect in the astros organization again literally a cup of coffee with a team last year before he got hurt didn't play a whole lot very highly well regarded and the reality is he was one of the pencil players we fought in the astros lineup Does that mean that Jake Myers is safe? It would seem on the surface to say yes,

but I'm not going to guarantee that. I'm going to tell you that there's just been too much smoke about trading Jake Myers and that maybe you would get an outfielder in return as part of another deal if you were to move Jake. But the reality is the asteris finally have done something that at least moves the needle a little bit. Starter Mike Burroughs from Pittsburgh coming to Houston via Tampa Bay in the three-team trade. Jacob Melton, Anderson Brito, both won a minor league prospect at the low level, one Jacob Melton at the higher levels. going to Tampa Bay. Also, by the way, Tampa Bay just traded Shane Baz as well.

So they're being very busy. The Baltimore Orioles picked up Bazas from the raise for a bunch of, again, monolingerers you've never heard out before. Huh. All right. So some baseball hot stove league finally coming into play here on Sports Talk 790. Let's go to Hans in Denver at 11, well, let's see, it's 1252 on Sports Talk 790. Hans, what do you got today?

What are you apologizing for? Well, I have a story similar to Jonathan's with the homeless here in Denver. On Wednesday, I was sitting in a light, like Jonathan was. And right when he came to my car, ain't nobody got time for that. Shut your bum-ass liner came on the radio. And the look that he gave me in my window was like, oh, my God. The dream light could not turn fast enough.

But to that guy, I really apologize. And thanks for another fun show, Matt, and miss ross but we'll see you guys next week and go rocket so thank you very much i'm sorry yeah thank you very much by the way ross be back on monday i'm taking monday off not because i don't miss y'all but because we have a halacious i mean today's travel was bad mondays is going to be worse because we're going to play the uh clippers uh are the kings on sunday night it would be nine o'clock then flying to l a rod after so daddy needs a sleep all right there you go so um we've got dr rhodo here coming up in just a few minutes and that's important

because we get fantasy football to get to we are in playoff weekend so we're going to talk to him about that the astros again getting mike burroughs and we're going to add mike burroughs to today's edition of a hellier or not it's a little bit of mike uh of a will must champ a little bit of mike burroughs and i may even throw a little jacobelton in as well as uh we've got a lot of different things going on in the hell you're not universe so the astros have made a trade We'll have a little bit on that. I'm sure during the 18th today, 2 o'clock until 6. Let me again give you the numbers.

I'm doing this literally on the fly here. Mike Burroughs, the Pittsburgh Pirates. He's 26 years of age. He made his major league debut in 2024. And his numbers last year were two wins, four losses, within a 3.94 ERA, 97 strikeouts, over 96 innings. and I'm trying to look to see if there's anything that we would be like injuries or anything like that.

It's hard to do an intelligence report and you're literally doing it on the fly here. So let me give you anything else that would be of relevance. He started 19 games last year, 23 starts, 2 and 4. So 23, that's a full season gang. Because I think there's only 26 weeks in baseball. So if he's pitching once a week or thereabouts, That's pretty good.

His ERA was 3.94. He pitched, I gave up 97 strikeouts and 96 innings. He gave up 88 hits, 42 earned runs. And again, just limited time out of the bullpen. Doesn't mention anything about home runs a lot. But like I said, if I had some more time, I could look it up. But the a Asteros have added a no doubt about part of their 2025 rotation. So, let's put this in perspective here.

This could very well be the case. And again, there could be some more working along. You have Hunter Brown 1, Christian Javier, 2, Mike Burroughs 3, Spencer Araggetti, 4. Does Verlander come to make it 5, or does this Burroughs trade, then forget about that? Does Lance McCullors get back in the mix to be the fifth starter? or do you bring in six guys fighting for five spots or do you have bring in seven guys you got jason alexander in the mix um you know you got other guys coming back later in a year after uh parker it's got his injury coming back midseason again it's not the atlina braves

the 1990s and there's still a lot of bit of concern about christian havier about you know coming back from his injury status and the way he performed back a month of the season but unless you know again there Mike Burroughs missed any length of time but again he started he played 24 games had 19 starts so that felt like to me a pretty healthy season for him the Astros finally have now added a not I would say a 100% a 90% member of their starting rotation for 2006 final hour of the Matt Thomas show we got Dr. Roto up next we need him

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Give me the news I really don't know what I should do my quarterback keeps getting sacked i've got a bad case of fantasy blues the second most important 30 minutes between now and the holidays it may not be it's not buying your gifts it's not organizing your christmas eve dinner or meal or your church service it's spending 30 minutes of the main is going to make you win your fantasy league the good doctor how the hell are you, Mr. Roto? M.T. Did you, are you still playing?

Are we in the science? I am still playing. I am in the semifinals. I had a certain kicker for the Los Angeles Rams last night who got me off to a fantastic start. Just didn't have Pooka and Akua. Who put you in a generational start? No, well, I didn't have that. I'm telling you, Roto, if there's anything I can give to you besides the gift of warm beings for you and your family is,

let's keep kickers alive and family. fantasy football. It's all I'm saying. I said no one except you. But look, I'm happy for you. What a game last night. I mean, think of this way. At halftime, JSN has nothing. It finishes a game with like 24 points, fantasy points. Puka was fine in the first half and then goes ballistic. So, you know, it's just one of those things where, you know, the game's never over until it's over. It really isn't, you know, in today's NFL with the scores the way they are, you know, but don't think you're out of it. I had a friend who was playing against Kyle Pitts last week.

He won, shockingly. So if you're going up against Puka or you're going up against JSN, don't get discouraged, just keep putting the best guys out there. You never know what the other team's going to do. All right. I brought this up to you last week, but my, oh, how do I put this? I'm triple scared than I was last week. I asked you, I said, are we going to worry about teams that are out of the playoffs?

I've got Devon H.N. going for the Miami. That's Cincinnati, Miami. You've got Jets playing New Orleans. You've got a boat. You've got Kansas City, Tennessee. We have a plethora of teams playing other teams that aren't going to make the playoffs. I'm scared of the death that Devon A. Chan is going to take some time off, not give it 100%. I need him for two more weeks.

Can you guarantee me success, Dr. Roto? I think this week we can. And so immediately what I always like to do is I look to see what Vegas is thinking. Vegas has A-chan at like 19.5 points predicted. It's pretty good. So they don't think he's being shut down yet. Now, week 18, this is why you never want your fantasy league to end in week 18. For sure, those guys are going to get shut down.

Week 17, I think we're hanging on by a thread, but you should get through this week. I would think most guys get through this week. I think it starts turning a little ugly next week. and then for sure in week 18. So A-chan I'm fine with, Travis Kelsey I'm fine with this week. So, I mean, there's certain guys like that that I think are still going to give it a go. Look, they're players. They want stats.

Stats equals money, right? Bigger contract. So you're not going to see these guys lay up. Now, I'm more concerned about a guy who's on a rookie contract where a team basically says, we don't need this guy to get killed. That's different. Or like Tua, who's, you know, one concussion away from a retirement. chairman home and boca no reason to throw him out there queen ewers i want to see what he can do right

let's see what queen ewers can do all right rhodo we've got the steelers and lions both are eight and six one is feeling pretty good about themselves with a lousy offense one has an amazing offense and is not in the playoffs how is this going to shake out for us fantasy players with steelers and lions on it yeah you want your lions this week you want your gibs you want amal ross st brown i mean you want them the steelers don't let up big plays so i don't know whether this is a jameson williams week they tend to let up they they give up plays but not the big ones the explosive ones so i'm worried about him david montgomery i mean when dan campbell's giving you the old david's a pro speech you know that's not a good sign they got

to get your jemis more involved so i love goff i love gips i love st brown on the other side here's a shocker and i as i was doing my research this week you know the lines play a lot of man coverage. But D.K. Metcalf has not been great against man coverage. It's been kind of surprising to me. So I still think he could have an okay week and I still think Aaron Rogers is in play. But the Lions are winning this game. I think the Steelers played very well last week. But have they played a team like the Lions who are just going to lay it on them? I don't think so. I think Detroit really wins by a lot. A lot of intriguing teams meeting their playoffs on the line. Jacksonville, Denver. Super sexy game. Broncos

great defense, weren't a knock-down, drag-out, offensive back-and-forth with Green Bay Sunday. Jaguars, who we like to always make fun of, beat up badly the Jets. Now, that's the difference in challenge, obviously, this week. But the Jaguars are playing some of their best football in the last couple of years.

How do you see this matchup showing up? They are. They're very well coach. Leon Cohen, I mean, he probably won't win coach of the year, but he's certainly a candidate. He's done a fantastic job. And Trevor Lawrence has looked a lot better. Remember those first few weeks of the season

where every ball was sailing like Cam Newton's. Now he's actually throwing in completing passes. Jacoby Myers has been great. Be careful with Jacobi Myers this week. Be careful with Brian Thomas Jr. I think Brian Thomas Jr. sees Sertan. I think Brenton Strange is sneaky. Travis E.T.N. is a great start.

Bachel Tootin is out. He won't be back for the regular season. So this is going to be as many carriers as E.T.N. can handle. So I think in particular, I like Strange and I like E.T.N. On the other side, R.J. Harvey's been tremendous. I think Bo Nix is in play. I like Cortland Sutton a lot this week. I know you have an Ingram revenge game.

I'm not buying into it. I don't really love Troy Franklin. But I think if you keep it to the running backs and you keep it to Cortland Sutton and the quarterbacks, I think you'll be all right. I don't care who wins it to the Buccaneers and the Panthers. It's the weakest division in the NFC in the South. But for us, fancy folks,

it wouldn't mind 38, 35 game in Carolina one way or the other, right? And Tampa wouldn't mind that either. But I think Dave Canales would mind it, right? So he's going to try to control that game by running the football. But if they go down, this game could shoot out because what happens is that these two teams play a kind of game that they both want to play. So what does that mean? It means that Carolina runs a defense that Abuka and Mike Evans thrive with, thrive.

Baker did not play well last week. I expect him to play much better. I expect Bucky Irving to give me a great game as well. So right there, I think you're looking at Evans and Bucky. as sensational starts, and Baker and Abuca are decent starts. On the other side, Tertori McMillan is dealing with some injuries, but I like him. I like Jalen Coker. He surprised people last week and had a very good game, caught a big touchdown.

I think that could happen again this week. Bryce Young, look, he does nothing, and then out of nowhere, he puts up a really great fantasy game. How do you beat Tampa by throwing the football? Wouldn't shock me to see Young surprise this week. Anything you deciphered out of the Colts offense with Philly Rivers playing last week And what do you think about this week's game With their hosting Monday night against the Niners

Look, the Colts almost won that game I mean they just scored too early They left enough time on the clock right So that's what happened But I mean good on Philip Rivers I couldn't believe it myself But I think he's going to keep them in this game This game is really about Jonathan Taylor

We have not seen Jonathan Taylor do Jonathan Taylor things where we were getting like six touchdowns over a two week period the Colts need that they need it right now but what Rivers was able to do he got Pittman involved he got Downs involved he'll get Tyler Warren involved

the key is the Colts defense because San Francisco is really playing at a high level on offense right now Brock Purdy came back George Kiddle Indianapolis has not stopped the tight end all season so Kiddle should have a good week Christian McCaffrey hasn't had a bad week all season

Ricky Pearsall came back and now gives you that deep threat. So Vegas has the 49ers scoring about 26 and a half points. I think we're going to see four touchdowns. If the Colts want to win, they're going to have to control that clock with their running game. All right. Texans have a second consecutive horrific opponent. This time around, it's going to be the Las Vegas Raiders.

Hey, the Texans put up 40, which is way out of the ordinary for them. Do you envision them putting up 40 this week, which means it could be another big week for C.J. Strailer and his receipts. Yeah, we talked about that last week, I think, that it was a really great matchup for Stroud. This week, same thing. Raiders play a lot of cover three, not going to be good, good for Nico, good for Jaden Higgins, good for C.J. Stroud. Do you know that Vegas has a Raiders scoring 12 points this week? That's crazy. That's a really low number. You don't, 14 is a shockingly low number. Twelve, even worse. I mean, you start Brock Bowers because you probably don't have a guy better than him. You start Ashton Gentie because, you know, if he can get he can find the end zone once but i mean this is a game that the texans should win texans should dominate they're playing a really good football right now i think the biggest question is this how healthy is what he marks and how long will they keep him out there if they're winning

this game by 15 you know 14 17 do you pull them out and let jordan play i might all right ladies gentlemen we give you a weekly opportunity to talk to roto get his questions in i'm going to take the last two questions for my team roto because i'm in the playoffs i want to win the championship. So this is purely self-serving and I apologize, folks, but I really don't apologize. Here we go. I've got an option here. Let me pull up my roster. Matchup stats. I don't want that. I want the roster of the matchup. Here we go. Rico Dottle, I've got to use him or I can use R.J. Harvey. What do you think? Who's your other running back choice? Here are my running backs. Jamir Gibbs and Devon agents. I'm not moving those guys off.

Look at that team. So it's Dowdell or it's RJ. You know what? Give me RJ only for this reason. I think Dowdell's good, but he may split time with some Chuba Hubbard, especially if they're behind. Hubbard's out there more. But RJ Harvey's been really good recently, so I like him a lot.

My wide receivers are mid, Zay Flowers, Keenan Allen, but I got T. Higgins questionable for the game on Sunday, so I don't feel great about that. who is who's your other option that's it that's all i got oh oh okay so look don't laugh keenan allen's palp is a good start Dallas plays a lot of zone and uh keenan allen should have a good week i'm fine with him uh t higgins look we want to play t higgins we it's hard to say yeah but i'm not going to tell you to bench zay flowers zay flower's going to put up you know 12 to 16 points i think i'm going to go zay and and how man, am I benching T. Higgins? I'm not. I'm going to go Zay and T.

If T's starting, I'll play him. Okay, so I've got to watch that literally up until noon time. Yes, don't stop paying attention. So you're telling me R.J. Harvey over R.R.A. O'R. O'R. O'Reco Donald. Okay, that's fair. If I change my mind, you know, I'll find you. You know. And then I'm going to go Dallas Goddard over Travis Kelsey, because Goddard was fantastic last week.

I have no problem with that. I mean, the eagle's going to pour on the points. That's for sure. Do I think Kelsey will have a good week? I do. Do I trust Gardner, Minchu, no. So I'm fine with Goddard. All right. Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Roto is here to help you in your league. We'll take your calls next.

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We need Dr. Rowe's advice to win a championship. 713-212-5-7-90. John, first for Roto on 7-Ni. Go ahead, John. Hey, Dr. Roto. Hey, Matt. So I'm in a standard league. I currently have T. Higgins in my flex spot.

But if he's a no-go, so we're replacing with George Pickens, Jaden Reed, or Kyle Pitts. Thank you. All right, John. All right, so listen, I don't like Pitts as much this week as I did last week. I like Pickens' spot. problem is Pickens. Is he into it? Does he want to play? The coverage

couldn't be any better for Pickens. The question is, will Doc throw to him, and will Pickens be there? I would take the shot. He wants that big contract. He's going to need a big week to get it. I'd play Pickens. All right. Let's go on to say hi to Matt for Dr. Rodo 117. Go ahead, Matt. Hi, Doc. Question over multiple leagues. Could you rank these quarterbacks in order for this week? Brock Purdy, Joe Burrow, and Drake May. And then second question is, I need one running back, Ashton Genti, Michael Carter, or Breece Hall. All right.

So the problem is with your running backs, it's rough. It is. It's rough. You may laugh at me. I kind of like, I don't like Genti at all. I mean, that could be a real mess there. You could be looking at like 15 carries, 35 yards. You're going to need that touchdown.

The Falcons Cardinal game could shoot out, right? And if it shoots out, so there's no BAM. night. There's no Trey Benson. It's DeMarcato and Michael Carter. So Michael Carter could be that sneaky start that you never knew you needed. Breece Hall, I don't trust at all. It's not that I don't like him. The Jets are not very good. I think they're going to start phasing him down a little bit, play a little Isaiah Davis a little bit more. They were doing that last week. Don't laugh. I might actually click the button on Carter. I know I don't want to tell you not to play Jentee. The matchup is bad. You know that.

Well, I haven't told me the audience all season long wrote all about Jentee. So they should be, they should take my advice. many, many moons ago. MT, you put Genty on a good, a team with a good offensive line, the guy would be a star. He's doing really well now, considering he's with, honestly, the worst team in football.

Think about it. Let's you and I have a movie on this next year. That's all I want to say. All right. I think he's going to be just a guy. But I can be there. Really? Greg for Dr. Rodo.

Hi, Greg. Hold on, hold up. Barrow, Purdy, then May. Go ahead. Okay, there he goes. Okay. Oh, May? You're going last? on me? I like me, but I mean, Burr, I'm pretty

a good spot. I know. Hi, Greg. Hello. Just two questions real quick. Vidal or Swift or DJ Moore or Pickens. That's all I got. You got it. I'm going to actually go with Swift and DJ Moore. The big thing is

you have no Romodonzie or you have no Luther Burtain. So DJ Moore is the number one guy. And so I've got to think that he's going to see the football. But Ben Johnson wants to run that football. And I think Swift is a guy that he's going to do it with him and Monong guy. The problem with Vidal is Omerian Hampton, since he's been back, he's seeing his snap count and his touches go up and up each week.

Against Dallas, I think it's going to go up even more. So I'm going to go with the Bears there. All right. Let's go to Brian for Dr. Roto. Hi, Brian. Yo, NT, what's going on? So Lamar Jackson has not been the fantasy machine he's been in years past. in previous seasons, this would be a ridiculous question.

But Lamar Jackson or Bryce Young against the Tampa defense? Yeah, you know what? It's not a ridiculous question at all. Honestly, the Ravens are favored. The Ravens are supposed to put up 26 points. I get that. But if you're asking me which game could shoot out, the Panthers, Buccaneers could shoot out.

It really could. I think I'm going to go with Lamar because here's the reason why. When Bryce Young is good, he's putting up 23, 24 points. But when he's bad, it's like eight, not winning anything with eight. Where Lamar, even a bad week for Lamar, is still him throwing for like 180 yards, a touchdown, maybe running for 30 or 40. So he's going to find his way to 15 or 16. And look, it's your fantasy semifinals. I can't have you get an eight.

Front of the show, me, Drake May or Bryce Young? Drake May. Same thing I just said. It's not that Bryce Young isn't in a good spot. It's a good spot. But when he's bad, it's 145 yards and no touchdowns. That's why I had to ask, because the antenna went up on my head. Let's go to Juan on 790 for Dr. Roto.

Hi, Juan. Hey, so I could have a question. Or Bonix this week. Who was the first one? Who was the first one, MT? Brock Purdy. Boenix or Brock Purdy. Yeah, I think they're both really good.

Yeah, they're both pretty good starts, honestly. Bo Nix has that rushing ability that we love, right, because he can. can get that rushing touchdown. Bronco is supposed to score a bunch of points. I'll go Bo Nix, but really, you can't go wrong. Similar players, similar guys, similar teams, similar spots. So both

teams should put up three touchdowns. I just like the running equity for Nix Moore. Gio on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Gio. I'll make you real quick, Dr. Roto. For tight-in, should I play Darren Gadsden for Henry

and at QB, should I play Jackson? Dart or Bo Nix? And how do you feel about Woody Marks? All right, I'm playing Knicks over Dart. I think the Vikings blitz a ton and, you know, it's not a great matchup for Dart. Woody Marks is a great

spot. My only question is if they're winning by, let's say it's 20 to 10 going into the fourth quarter. Are they playing him as much? Or are we seeing Jordan? I don't know that answer. Waller is in a prime spot. He really is because you know Cincinnati is the worst team against opposing tight ends.

So I like Waller one, Gadsden, two. But if Waller's out for any reason, Gadsden's a terrific start. All right, to Carlos for Dr. Rota-1-7-90. Go ahead, Carlos. Dr. Rota, quarterback question. Prescott, or McCarthy, and then on the defensive side, bills against Cleveland or Vikings versus the Giants. Yeah, look, I have no problem with the bills,

except Cleveland could run the ball a little bit, but Chador can make a mistake or two. and you know that Buffalo wants to win. I have no problem going with the bills. Dak and Brissette, this one is really tight. The Cardinals, that game could blow up. That could be the game that, that's kind of like the one we just saw last night,

where, wow, Atlanta and Arizona brought it. So Brissette is one of those guys who's firmly in play. They have nobody running the ball. DeMarcato, Michael Carter are both suspect. I think, look, DAC is your consistent floor. Brissette is your ceiling guy. So if you're losing, your opponent had JSN, your opponent had Puka, then you play Berset. David in Vegas for Dr. Roto, our last call.

Go ahead, David. I'm sorry I've already covered this, but anybody special we should look for on either side in Green Bay and Chicago. Yeah, I mean, I think, first of all, when you're looking in Chicago, Colston Loveland is certainly in play. I think Cole Komet is in play. I mean, because you don't have burden and you don't have a zonzei. So I like hi, I'm a non-guy, really. I mean, you have no Micah Parsons.

So the pass rush is not going to be there as much for Green Bay. Maybe Caleb Williams has a little bit more time. On the other side of the football, here's the guy I really like, but it all depends on Christian Watson. If Watson is out, Dantavion Wix is really interesting. Chicago plays a bunch of man coverage,

and they let up big plays deep, and that's what Wix can do. So if Watson is out, Wicks is sneaky. All right. From listener Greg, Aaron Rogers or Bryce Young? Give you Bryce Young on that one. Okay. And a couple of quick emails to get to Stroud or Jackson this week.

Stroud. All right. And Woody Marks, Brian Thomas Jr. or Quentin Johnson. Which one of the three play? Woody Marks. I'm assuming Woody's a go. Man, by the way, did you get screwed with the Woody Mark's fumble recovery and not rushing touchdown last week? Did you catch any of that?

I did not. But they change the stat on it? Well, it was in the final book as a fumble recovery, which, again, does not allow you to get a rushing touchdown. You don't get fumble recovery touchdowns. You don't get fumble recovery touchdowns. Correct. It's like a team touchdown, which helps nobody. Yep. PPR, Brees Hall, Henderson, Javante Williams.

Give me Javante 1, Henderson, 2. Anderson had a great matchup last week against Buffalo. Ladies and gentlemen, we asked Dr. Roto to help out me personally and then help out you with this week's lock of the week. You can't miss Roder on this, you just can't. I know, I know. We were pretty good last week. It's Mike Evans. Tampa and win and you're in, losing Carolina's in.

You think they want that to happen? Why do you think they brought Mike Evans back for games like this? They need them. They're going to him. Six for one, 10 in a touchdown, lock Mike Evans in. That's Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Roto, you're going to be busy this weekend. You cannot leave the ER.

You must help people lot fantasy-wise. Where can they find you? That's what I do, M.T. you can find me over at dr rhodo.com you can find me on serious xm fantasy sports radio feel free to call in from six to nine a m central on saturday morning and of course over at x a d r o'to ladies and gentlemen dr rotto's going to be with us next wednesday it's christmas eve he's going to help us win a championship dr roto thank you for the time we'll talk to you again on wednesday good luck this week my friend take care all right thank you dr roto with us here on sports talk 790 if you You've not heard the details of the Astros. Trey, we'll give you that to you. Plus, our non-Florida story. It is up next, 132 on Sports Talk 790.

We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non-flora. Oh, it's time for non-Florida Storm coast to coast We'll bring the strange and wild No alligator tales But something that will make you smile

It's time for laughs from far and wide In this crazy world, there's nowhere to hide. All right, John and I are going to give you just one story each, because I do want to give you a couple of details again. If you've not heard, the Astros have made a trade. It's not a earth-shaking trade,

but it's definitely going to add a, what I believe to be, a guaranteed spot in the Astros rotation. I'll give it to you in just a second. But first, quickly, this week's non-flora story for me, Jonathan and Houston, I want to tell you about Martin Stroby. He's 42 years old. He's from Heisenborg, Sweden. He has earned a Guinness World Record.

What do you do? He stuffed matches in his nostrils. The previous record was 68. wouldn't matches, stroby was able to shove 81 into his nose. Quote, I discovered I could both stretch my nostrils

a lot and ignore the pain from putting all those matches in there, so I would say I'm a natural. As a father, I want my children to look up to me in the same way I look up to my father. 81 nastral, 81 matches in his nostrils.

The question I have, for all of you, Houston, is how many nostril, how many matches you put up your nostril? I'm going to put about one each without me screaming in complete terror and pain. Just one? I don't care. I don't want to know. Think about that.

81 matches in your nose. 81. And that's my non-floor story. Okay, okay. Well, Matt, mine comes from the Washington Post. Okay. Starts off with the drone that flew over the Lee Correctional Institution in Bishopville, South Carolina. The drone dropped ingredients of a swishy holiday dinner, steak, crab legs, along with a small container of old bay seasoning,

two bags of marijuana, and a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. The contraband was picked up by law enforcement Before reaching its attendant recipients The South Carolina Department of Corrections said Spokeperson Christy Shane To the prison receives nightly attacks of drones Trying to drop drugs off Into the prison yard

But this was the most unusual thing she has ever seen So the drone is like a delivery service basically Yeah They get somebody with drones that deliver them some good stuff Okay so let's go We got steak Yeah Crab legs

Don't forget the old base seasoning And then the marijuana And the Marlboro's Were those the red cartons Or were the ultralight 100s? It just says A pack of Marlboros

I think this is original right That's the red pack Yeah the original of the reds You know Those are the one with the heavy menthol I mean you're in prison You gotta need it Okay

Drones scare me Do they not scare you a little bit I think how they're developing and like they yeah they're getting they're getting a little scary I'll admit that

all right thank you very much for your non-flora story and remember what I'd like for all of you to do actually I want none of you to do any of it

I want none of you to go get a box of matches from your home that you would light candles or maybe some of you smoke and try to shove them up your nose oh that could be a fantasy

that could be someone's last place in their fantasy that could be a good punishment huh no no no no no no no we don't want nostril damage, Jonathan. Don't give any bad ideas out there. Yeah. I guess. I mean, you didn't hear from you guys. I'm just saying.

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Not doing it. All right, that is non-flora stories for today. Real quick again, the Astros, Pirates, and Rays are in the final stages of a trade that would send Pirates pitcher Mike Burroughs to Houston. Mike Burroughs has around 99

innings of Major League experience not considered a super big time arm but solid mid level starter which we thought the Astros would go after so

you know what? Finally got something going and by the way how much do you know about the new Astros pitchers? That's going to be half of today's edition of a hell yeah or not. Adam Spolane, who used to be on the radio here, says that he had a four-month stretch last year

where he was really good, and one of those starts was against the Astros. He's 26 years old, has 99 in a third inning of Major League Baseball, slightly above average strikeout rate. He's a hard thrower, but his best pitch in the big leagues is his

change-up. There you go. So that's a little rundown of Mike Burroughs, a former Pittsburgh Pirates starter and part-time reliever, now coming to the Astros. I would think to be competing for a third, fourth, or fifth spot in the Astros rotation. All right, time for us to play, hell, yeah, or not. The Nate Bargazi tickets are gone, but we still have the Monster Jam pit-pass tickets, and we have tickets to see the toadie.

So if you would like to play, hellier or not, it's half about Will Mustchamp and half about the newest astro pitchers. If you want to get in and play, you may do so right now. 112-5-790 7-13-212-5-7-90 hell-gar or not is next 144 on sports talk 790 hey a big thank you to everybody that helped fill in this week for uh ross to be back on monday that includes uh channel of rome for a couple of hours each day on wednesday and thursday thanks to gorty i think he popped in after his big white elephant christmas lunch for like 20 minutes and then he was with us for two hours today. It was good stuff. So we appreciate Gordy's stepping in.

Thanks, Jonathan, for his hard work as a producer. And more importantly, thanks for all of you for making this week go by pretty quick, actually. Hey, I sound pretty spry, don't I, Jonathan, right now for about 150 central time? That's because you know you're going to get some rest. He finally made it through. I'm going to go get a sandwich at this place called Ike sandwich. Apparently it's one of the best sub places in the country. All right, all right.

Then I'm going to snore. Go back to the room, snore, and sleep until like 640. 45 before dinner time. And let's get some hydration in there. I don't want you. No sick. No, we're going to need these sick. No, that's fine.

No sickness. I'm taking my vitamin D. Because, you know, vitamin D is helpful. And then we need the rocket to be the nuggets tomorrow night, right? I mean, come on. That would be the only way to make up for this. Oh. Yeah.

I don't want to bring it by help. We got to make it up. We got to make it up. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should. Good play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show. We simply call it Monday through Thursday, B, leaving or not, but on Farnies, we call it a hell

yeah or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Half of today's edition of Hellier-N-on is about Will Mustchamp, the Texan's new defensive coordinator. The other half is about the newest member of the Astros pitching rotation, Mike Burroughs. I'll read your statement about one of those two gentlemen.

statement completely utterly accurate you'll say this hell yeah the statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up you will say this two hell yeah and outs in a row will win you these prizes either a pair of tickets to see actually four tickets to see the monster jam with pit party

passes February the 15th the NRG stadium tickets are on sale at ticketmaster com that is for February 7th 14th and 15th the tickets we're giving four are the 15th or you can see a pair of tickets to see the toadies live

December the 29th at the House of Blues. Tickets on sale for that as well at Ticketmaster.com. Let's play. Jarrett on 790. Jarrett, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Will Must Champ has been a head coach at two different schools, Florida and

South Carolina. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. Will Must Champ attended the University of Georgia in Athens where he walked on to the Bulldogs and played safety from 1991 to 1994. Hell yeah, or not? Not.

Oh, come on. He was excellent. That one time he played. Let's go to Matt on 790. Matt, what was your fair part of today's 10-2 radio show? The whole show, Matt. It was all good all the way around. Thank you, Matt, very much.

Will Must champ's only NFL experience was as an assistant coach with Nick Sabin in the Miami Dolphins back in 2005. hell yeah or not hell yeah statement number two for the win according to george's website will must champ's main hobby is playing pickleball and listening to country music

hell yeah or not not great i made that up congratulations to listen to the show for all four hours you should deserve a prize let's talk to uh david 790 david you're ready to play hell yeah or not hell yeah

mike burrow has only been a member of the pitts Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Just the Pirates. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. Like a lot of pitchers, Mike Burroughs has had Tommy John surgery.

Hell yeah or not. Not. Hell yeah. He did in 2023. I'm so, so sorry. Let's talk to Brian on 790. Brian, your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show. y'all are recognizing ross's birthday

yeah that's fine while on high school in waterford connecticut mike burroughs threw back-to-back no hitters for his high school team hell yeah or not hell yeah no i made that up serves your right for honoring ross

his birthday man again happy birthday to him Brian on 7 on a brian you're ready to play hell yeah or not hell yeah Mike Burroughs, girlfriend, is Yukon volleyball assistant coach Julia Durant. Hell yeah, or not? Not. That is correct.

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Monday I'm taking off. Ross will be back. he and i'll be with you tuesday well actually ross is taking tuesday and wednesday or i don't know he's with me tuesday and wednesday i get these days confused up next it's the a team talk to you tomorrow here from denver on seven night