The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Lose vs OKC... Kyle Tucker....

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets Lose vs OKC... Kyle Tucker....

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10 morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. What is that? You're missing nothing. Somebody didn't grow up Catholic. That's fine. Or spend time in a church.

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I spent all of Mass begging my mom if we could leave Mass. A homily. You know, we're like a four-hour homily here. You sit back, you reflect, you listen, you enjoy. You feel invigorated. Yeah. Shout out Sacred Heart, downtown Houston. Shout out to St. Anne's, where my wife and I got married 20 years ago.

I thought you all went to the La Colom de O or whatever. That was where the honeymoon was. Oh, okay. That's when we got locked out. It's going to happen. and then they caught you on camera. They very well could have. We went to Taco Bandit like at 1 o'clock in the morning when came back and there were no places for us to enter the hotel.

Okay. So you got to do what you got to do in hotels? You just got to sneak in. Taco C. Not what it once used to be. I had taco C this morning, a matter of fact. And they forgot my salsa ranch dressing. I want excellence in drive-through.

And nobody got time for that. Not a lot of rolled scholars, man. Rick Raleigh, you are batting 995. Everybody else, you're about 720. Well, yeah, you might actually need to be a Rhodes Scholar to get an application accepted at Rick Relay. Rick Relay can do it. It just is what it is. Ross, how the hell are you?

I'm doing great. I'm a little sleepy, but I'm okay. Okay. Actually, I don't mind 630 starts to be honest with you. Yeah? We got out a little bit earlier. Unfortunately, there was no single overtime or double overtime needed last night because that game. Well, you got a late start tonight.

It's not good for me, Matt. I got to get up at 630 for that Manchester Dobby. United versus City. What do you got in the game? I like City. Manchester City, of course. I like City. I'm good with that.

Yeah. English soccer is fun until you have to get up at 6.30. Why don't you just DVR and wake up when you watch? Because you want to catch it live. It's a big game. If it was like Manchester City versus Wolverhampton Wolves, I wouldn't get up. But this is like, Matt, this is like Yankees Red Sox. It's like, I don't even know.

It's bigger than that. But if you're sleeping, you won't know anybody. I mean, would you be active on Twitter during this time? I would get texts. Okay. Well, then you probably need the right. That's the right thing to do. All right, we are here today on Anything Goes Friday.

Anything Goes Friday. Matt Thomas's breakdown of the Manchester Dobby and a recap of the latest Rockets Loss. In that particular order. Yes. I reached out to a guy in Boston who has a really interesting stories where he's like a digital reporter for Doug. Tom Brady? No. Well, I mean, I would love to reach out to him, but he was busy.

He's not responded to either an email or a direct message on Twitter. and so I'm a little grumpy about that. How's Tommy Curran doing? Is he still big-timing us? Oh, yeah, I don't even bother with that. Okay. But this guy that I've been trying to get on the show, and he is a digital reporter for WEEI.

There's two main sports stations. One guy's name is Tom Carroll. What's the other one? It's the Sports Hub, 985. Okay. They have two. The trend now in sports is to go put your FM's, your sports talk stations on your FM's.

Like, if we went to FM, get the hell out everybody else. Yeah. They're negotiating putting us on 99.9.1. station is so unsuccessful. Sports talks 99.1. I don't know if I've heard that quite. Sports talk 99.1. What's up? What's up? What's up? Right on a sports talk with the booze. No, I didn't say 94.5. Oh, sorry. Sir. We're on 94.5 HD2. That is true. So if you want to hear our dulcet tones and stereo, you can do that on your HD2 channel. Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. So the reason why I found him intriguing, A, because he goes to Patriarch practice every day.

But B, he has a substack. And I don't have a substack. You're saying, well, Matt, what's so interesting about having a substack? The dude lost over a hundred. I want to, let me make sure I get this right, because I don't want to screw this up. He lost 135 pounds eating nothing but Chick-fil-A. Was he in the 400 range previously? Or at least high 300s. I would say, it looked like he, by his before and afters, he was in the 300s.

Okay, so, well, does salads count? I haven't read it. Is he trying to be the, new Jared. Just don't don't want to be the new Jared. You don't want to be the new Jared. You don't want to be the old Jared for that matter. Well, before Jared got caught, unfortunately being a pedophile,

he was a massive success story of a guy who just ate sandwiches and made millions. Yeah. Is that what this guy's trying to do? That's what I'm asking. No, he's like, I am in a tough spot. He said his blood pressure was high. His A1C was high. Everything's high. Everything was high. Hemoglobin. Everything when you are, you know, you're in a spot, you're, you know,

when you're 100 plus pounds of what you're going to have a syrup. That's true. So I thought I wanted to hear this dude's story. And unfortunately, he lost 132 pounds eating Chick-fil-A every single day for lunch, just for lunch, in the process saved my own life. He stepped away outside his comfort zone and wrote an essay about him his upcoming journey to get healthy. And he wrote a little substack about it. And I started reading it, but it's like, it's a, it's probably a 10 minute read. No.

10 minutes, Matt, you can't read for 10 minutes? Not really. That's not good. I'm concerned. Look at the... You have 13-year-old TikTok brain. Look. Look at all this.

I can't read all that. No. It's still going and going and going and going. Look, I mean, do you think I can't read all that? Yeah. If you said it's interesting and you think it's a great story, you can't read the article? It's easier to talk to him. But he's not called me back.

Oh, I'm concerned for you right now. You're going to get you reading. No. Look, I had a busy day yesterday. I had Space City. I'll tell you. Oh, go ahead. I had space city around me all day yesterday.

How did that go? It was really fun. Vanessa picked me up here at the station and we drove down to the TOTA Center. We did a little Q&A and talked about my life and broadcasting and rockets and all that. And then it called the game. And it was decent for three quarters and it got lousy in the fourth. Fourth quarter was, ooh. And then I'm back here with you quickly.

And then I got another game tonight. I've got a conference call with the coaches at Utah and Houston tomorrow today because I'm calling the women's game tomorrow. I got a quick turnaround for that at 1 o'clock game. So it's a very hectic time. but I promise I will read. If the guy comes on the show, I'll read the substack. If he doesn't come to the show, I'm never going to look at it. Well, you're a great play-by-play man.

I appreciate that. Reading will make you even better. You know what? For vocabulary purposes, you're absolutely cool. You're accurate on that. All right. So we have, anything goes Friday today in here on the show. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-7-19. Does that make sense, do you could eat chick-fil-a every day? Yeah, if they get salads? I mean, could you go easier and grilled? Well, also, he was. obese morbidly obese well caloric down

taking a downward trend on calories is probably going to help you in itself but my guess is you could probably mix the soup they have a good soup yeah uh the salads and the grill very high in sodium in the grilled nuggets so you could just mix those three and be fine right yeah like i said a lot of sodium so hopefully this dude will send me

mess mess because i want to hear about it sodium is the hardest to kick for me i don't disagree fat you can kick sugars i can kick sodium's hard because it's got have some flavor. I have like I have high blood pressure and I'm not happy about it. It is what it is, but I might my cholesterol is exceptional. I don't know why that is. Does reading lower? Reading low and cholesterol? Yes, reading can lower blood pressure. Oh, thank you. I'll do that.

I did read the Twitter verse yesterday, Ross, when I saw that Jeff passing among other Oh, you know what? Yeah, I haven't mentioned it. Oh, oh. What was that? Computers for us as far as I know about it. Oh, okay. Sorry. We have computer issues, but you guys have listened to show for any length of time. You know we're going to have computer issues. Yeah, it's taking you 11 minutes. What's going on here? Go ahead. Jeff Passing.

Well, he was reported the latest for agent signing. And of course, that's Kyle Tucker to the Los Angeles Dodgers. I deserve this every single segment. Every segment. What's your one, man? What's we're good? I don't know what you're talking about, boys. Because why would I be so cocky?

Every single day, multiple times per day, playing sound effects of things that, while achievable. I didn't do it most times a day. You did it once a day, probably. That's not true. Probably three times total. And you kept adding to the menu. He kept hitting home runs. And he heard his calf.

And then I forgot about the CBA, honestly, was my biggest mistake. And I gave you a chance to opt out yesterday. You literally did. I said we can go to Rillies and get the two for 20 and call it a day. Sources close to the show said I was still doing okay. Well, I called that source today, our text said, and I said, you're giving Ross very bad advice. Yeah, I know. He's giving you bad advice on two different players.

Oh, well. You lost in a Bregman deal and now you lost in the Tucker deal. Multiple sources close to the show said I was okay and I wasn't. But that's okay. You know what? Hey, you can't win them all. So I went six and O on Wildcard weekend. I'm not going to miss.

I'm going to miss some other predictions. So there is a chance. I'm going to give you an opportunity to get out of the dinner completely. No. No, we're going. No, I've been thinking about fried rice and habanagee for too long.

We've got to post it on our IGs. No, we're going. Okay, I was going to say. Now, I'm not cut. You offered a cover, Jonathan. I never did that. John, I'll not cover you. I'm sorry.

Jonathan, it's not your fault. I'm just broke, bro. You know, I love you, I love you, Jonathan. I'm about broke. I'm just broke. He's broke. I've been waiting on a certain something since quarter three. I'm broke.

So I can't pay for both of you. So you're saying that if I get, because I've got five things I want you to utter. We'll split, Jonathan. How about that? And if you utter the five things, you're off the hook completely. Oh, really? Yes. Okay. That's interesting. Probably not.

But when we come back? Or maybe we should wait a later into the show. A little later. We got some grapefruit juice and I right here. A little later. IMA Adoka's going to join us at 11 o'clock Oh no That should be peach

Actually I'm gonna duck out for that No you can't Who's doing the Rockets launch band the night? Me Well then you're done You gotta be on there Matter of fact since you're doing You should ask I don't know

All the questions I can do that I'll ask one If you want me to I was like coach how are you He'll be like What do you want? Not gonna be good

Texans Patriots By the way, I got to do a late Shut Your Bowmass up and it was after a couple of calls I heard during the morning kickoff with Dan and Cole this morning. We've got to stop doing this Texans fan base and we'll discuss what that is next. 1014. It's that anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Austin needs to mention that You texted me late last night And so we got about 50 or so People tweeting you or sending you messages About the habachi And for those that don't know And one person doesn't know about it It's a great friend of the show

And I've been great friends with him Our friend Ramon from the Michael Barry show Oh yes We should have explained in the first segment I meant to actually but I got distracted Ramon do you like fried rice Roboon Hmm

Do you like it when they Do you like they set the iron onion on fire at the table Chicken fried rice Or shrimp fried rice Ramon.com. That's R-A-M-O-N-R-A-M-O-N-R-O-N-R-O-N. Is it feminine to catch a shrimp in your mouth? All right. So those that don't know, and we, you know, different audience, we've had a long-standing bet about Kyle Tucker's contract. Seven and a half years. I, I foolishly early on since seven and a half years because I thought that, you know, eight-year deals are not a thing in the past, but they're not giving out nearly as freely as they were, maybe even three or four years ago. And Ross was like, oh, I'm on that. And we up the back. kept up in the bed. And the nicest meal you can get is probably a

Rortons or a, what would be a high-end steakhouse, the Rolm or... You don't have to... We just say high-end steakhouse. High-in stakehouse. You don't have to rhyme a bunch of random places. Okay. So we didn't want to go that high, which I probably should have. Because we have done it before. We've done that before. Yeah.

So we said, we'll go do habachi. Yes. And so Ross is feeling really confident. every day that he would look in like say November, December, he'd look at various articles by the Ken Rosenthal's and the Bob Nightingales and the Jeff Passon. Jeff Passon himself. They all owe me an apology. Yes, they do, man.

You owe me an apology for many things. Those guys owe you an apology for giving you wrong information. Every one of those articles said, Kyle Tucker, nine years, 270, 10 years, 350. Something like 12 years, 400? And I was like, I don't think so. I mean, first of all, I was nervous. When the experts were saying, and I was like, oh, I'm screwed.

But I didn't buy the play. Look, Kyle Tucker is an excellent ball player. I'm not putting 12 years in $350, $500,000 in Carl Tucker's piggy bank. I'm just not doing it. It's too much money. I think on that point, though, the reason, I said the biggest reason that I lost is because the CBA is coming up. And they don't know what the economics of baseball are going to look. like so nobody wants to do a 12-year deal when there's about to be a lockout.

Okay. And we knew this lockout was happening a year ago. Yeah. There's an oversight on my part. Yeah, that's fine. But yeah, I'm not, I don't think he wasn't signed to a long-term deal because nobody thinks he's going to be good long-term. I, I happen to, now saying nobody thinks he is in getting paid is different than what an opinion is. And my opinion is paying Kyle Tucker, $480 million for 12 years would be a mistake for a franchise, in my opinion. And I also think on Kyle Tucker's side, it, behooves him to have a short-term deal if something happens with the economics changing as well, and he can get an even bigger deal.

So to the much bigger point, we've made this bet, and we razz each other, mostly Ross Raz Me. And the announcement came yesterday. It's a four-year deal where $240, $60 million a year is insane. Insane money. So let's take you and I out of this for a second. And you were getting some of this from your, when you were responding to people on Twitter. and it's absolutely right. Just hand the Dodgers of World Series again.

They're just cash whipping everybody. They just are. And every money they've, dollar they've spent so far has worked for them, right? By and large, Muki Betts has worked out. They're back to back to World Series champions. It's worked. Shohey O'Donni has worked. Freddie Freeman has worked.

I mean, everything they've done, it works. They're not stupid with them. it. And they defer 80% of it. I know there's not a huge deferral on Tucker. There is some, but there is also a signing bonus that they're paying up front. So it's kind of evening out on that. The bottom line is they're cash blanking everybody. They're just saying, we have more money than you. Everybody else get out of the way. Because if you remember, we talked about this for the last handful of days, the two leaders in the clubhouse to retain or to get Kyle Tucker where the Toronto Blue Jays, and I want to say the New York Mets.

Both of them had Florida spring training homes. Toronto has spent money in the past. He loves being in the Tampa area. That's where he's from. Spring training for the Blue Jays is in Dunin, which is a suburb of Tampa, so he'd be home an extra month more so than anywhere else. And at the end of the day, he said,

yeah, I understand Arizona's lovely for spring training. He took the money like the athletes do. And it's his best opportunity to win a World Series championship. Another one. Another one, yes. Another one. Yeah. The vitriol is intense from the Astro fans.

I don't know how Cub fan feels today, but my guess is they're not pleased because they gave up a top-end pitcher, we hope a top-end right fielder. But the bigger issue to me is Ross, the Dodgers are just going to continue to spend. And if any of these players, which they've spent all this money on, that don't work out, which so far they answer to that, is no one, they're going to just keep spending and spending. Their television deal is extraordinarily lucrative. 90% of baseball teams in the next 30 days may have zero television deal. Van Duel Sports Network, for those of you that know it's a cable network that's been a variety of different things.

It was Ballets for a while. It was Fox for a while. What else has been over the, it's been a lot of different things over the years. They're about to go away. They're about to just look. literally close-up shop, or then the baseball teams are not going to go to Major League Baseball, and they're going to distribute their games and pay their production cost. They may have a sales staff.

They're going to, but they're not going to get the amount of money, anything close to what they got when they were a Fanduil network, and they're certainly not going to get anything close to the Dodgers. That money is going to go directly to the Dodgers where other teams cannot get that, and that's where they make the money. Do we have any clue how streaming revenues are relative to regular RSN revenues? I couldn't tell you. Now, this is going to affect the NBA.

but the NBA just signed a new 11-year broadcast deal with a bunch of networks. So no NBA team is crying as much as Major League Baseball is going to cry. Because Major League Baseball teams, that's 162 games. NBA's adding. I mean, all this Peacock and Prime Video and all that stuff too. Look, when the fan duel network goes away, NBA teams are going to be, eh, this isn't any good, but they're not really crying because they knew this was going to happen. That's why they signed these halacious deals with Peacock and Prime.

They knew that the future of regional sports television was going to be a thing of the past. The Dodgers regional TV network is strong and vibrant because the Dodgers are the number one team in that area. It's Dodgers and everybody else is a distant third. And they have a massive reach. Massive reach. So that's why they can do it. Plus they draw 50,000 a game. Plus they're advertisers.

When you draw 50,000, that means 100,000 eyes. Look at the billboards. And you're back-to-back World Series champions and the buildings are full. Yeah. You can spin. They're playing a different game than everyone else. So that's the thing. Go ahead, Jonathan.

Because I'm just confused on just one part of all of this. because the Dodgers are such a good brand, so to speak, this is causing all this money to come into them and basically topside the entire league, and now we're going to have a shutdown because of that? We're having a shutdown because the owners don't like the current situation where the salaries are going higher than their profits are going. They're going to want a salary cap.

The players are not going to want a salary cap. That's the big thing. The Major League Baseball Players Union, Jonathan, has been fighting a salary cap. You have one in basketball? you have one in football, you don't have one in baseball because, A, the union has fought it so much, and B,

it's a very strong union that has gone on strike, did go on strike in 1994, and dug their heels in. So they've been like the strongest most unified union, if that makes sense over the years. And so another big labor fight is coming because the

economics have gotten way out of whack. And the big problem with baseball is, which on the other leagues don't have is there is such a difference between how what L.A. wants to do with their future contracts to the baseball players association and what the Cincinnati Reds want to do.

So you don't have unified 30 owners. You've got the Dodgers, you have the Yankees, you've got the Mets, you've got the Cubs, and then you have the Marlins and the nationals and you have the Reds and the Guardians. So that's why

we're headed for a lockout because it's going to take a very long time for everybody to be kumbaya at the same time. The projected payroll for the Dodgers next year is $413 million. This is according to Fangrass roster resource. Number two is $295 million of the Mets. There are $100 million more than the most. Who's at $28, $29, and $30?

That'd be the Rays, Guardians, and Marlins at 80, 78, and 69. So you're talking about seven-fold, not a seven-fold, but seven times. Well, if Kyle Tucker's making $60 million next year. The Miami Marlins' whole roster is making $69. Now, those teams at the bottom can spend. Yeah.

They can't. But where it comes into the Mets and the Blue Jays and the Philly, like Astros and Lumpton there, dare I say even the Yankees? They can't get to $400 million. Like, it doesn't make sense for them. No, I think the Dodgers are one in everybody. I mean, look, the Mets are. aren't far behind. The Yankees are not far behind, but it's the Dodgers and on the top of the heap.

And they're not in it to run a bad business. They can do it because their finances allow it to happen. So, I mean, credit to them for being so good. And they've also had a top farm system for years that is allowed in the trade for guys like mookie bets and stuff like that. But it's the economics. And they're a well-run organization. I mean, that is what, you know, Dodgers fans are all in my mentions. well, you can do a two years you start a well-run team. Yes, they have a very good, their farm system is thought of as number one in baseball, depending on where you look.

They are a well-run organization, and they can spend. When it's both, you got no shot. And that's why the next three championships may be in Southern California. 1031, Sports Talk 7-90. But you know, as we say all that? Didn't Toronto and Dodgers go to a game seven?

They did. Baseball isn't anything can happen, sport. Mm-hmm. More than the other two, major sports. Well, football's pretty limited. Yeah. But go ahead. I was going to say,

we can pencil the Dodgers in for multiple postseason runs. Yeah. And if some team gets hot, well, that's a nice surprise, but the Dodgers will probably be there. I equated it to kind of NIL money. Like the Notre Dame can lose to Northern Illinois. But for the most part, the Dodgers are going to be, they can lose, right?

You can run into a buzz saw of a pitching staff on the other side and lose a seven-game series. But for the most part, they're going to have massive inherent advantages over everyone else. All right, time is 1032. It is a Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713, 212, 570. 713, 212, 579. Are you mad that Kyle's leaving? Well, he already laughed, but you get Mike a drift. Or are you especially mad because it's the Dodgers? We'll discuss that. Plus, Texans getting running for the Patriots. I medocan, one half hour here on 790. 1037 on Sports Talk 790. There is a clip going around this morning that Shade Gildas Alexander and Kevin Duran

had a little conversation during the game last night. And you couldn't hear what Kevin said, but SGA was barking back. Adam and said, I hope you enjoy that seventh seed. Hey, they're finishing top four. I hope you're right. I've been saying top three all season, and I guess I'm not going to back off of that. So we don't get to see the NFL smack talk that much because there's helmets on. Baseball doesn't lend itself to a lot of smack talking.

But basketball, boy, it doesn't take much to figure out what they're saying. and Kevin Durant's the leader in the pack on that kind of stuff Biggest bleep talker, he and Luca I would say Luca can talk Dylan Brooks, huge talker Aunt Edwards coming into town tonight Not playing though, so Oh, he's not?

Yeah, he's out That's a shame I sense the hesitates in your voice Thoughts and prayers to the Edwards family Yeah, you look concerned over the whole situation What's his element? I want to say, let me look at the latest injury report because it came out. It comes out multiple times.

They do every 15 minutes now. Yeah, because there's been some issues in the past. He's got out with right foot injury management. Oh, yeah. Hey, just manage that injury. This will be their 42nd game of the season tonight. They have played 41. He has missed eight of their 41.

So this will be the ninth one, yeah. Well, if he gets down to 17 missed, right, he can't be qualified for all- NBA or all-MBA, yeah. And I know there's some people in the... anybody that would like to see that changed. That's their own business. I like that rule. I don't really have an opinion.

Well, but that's what they're doing to encourage people from load managing. Right. That's what they, that was one of the measures they took. Well, the argument they're saying is, well, sometimes you do have legit injuries. Like, Nicole Yokich might not play until mid-February, and then he's going to be in a situation. Then make it 60. Whatever. Yeah.

I think the rule's good. It's good for the health of the league. You're pushing guys, and you don't want them to push injuries, but you don't want everyone missing games with load management and they have to do something. It's really skewed too because those don't know this, there are some guys that can get max deals and supermax deals based on whether or not they're named all first, second, or third team NBA.

The media should have nothing to do with how a contract should be put together. You pay what you pay based on what you want to pay and off the parameters of that. Whether you're named second team all being, like John Wall, remember that last year he made like $40 million for the rockets? It's because he made third team. Third team all NBA. That was crazy. Third team needs to come off the list. You know my point? That should never even be a possibility, especially with this rule

now. Let me look at third team all-NBA last year. I'm sure it's very good at people. I mean, you know, it's just, I would not let the media decide anything. And that's why a lot of newspapers and people that cover the teams on a regular basis do not vote for this because they're like,

they don't want to be held responsible for their vote in impacting a guy's salary. Let's see. Third team last year. Cade Cunningham, Carl Anthony Towns, Tyrese, Halibor Burton, Jalen Williams, James Harden. Yeah, take their team off. By the way, the Dodgers will be in town to take on the Astros.

Chad just sent us a nice tweet about that. So let's come back to that for a second. Okay, I'm going to make some people upset. Okay, so let me say my blanket thing. I understand why you hate the Dodgers. Even before the Caltecher situation, but the reality is this, Cal Tucker, like 98% of free agents, even though Dunedin is a suburb of Tampa and with Blue Jay's spring training,

They didn't offer as much money. 98% of the time, not 100, but 98. It's usually about who offers you the biggest contract. And so he took the biggest contract. Also, the Astros traded him away, Astros fans. You want to hate the man? I can't believe he went to the Dodgers. That's our big rival.

Are they a big rival? They played in the World Series like almost 10 years ago. They're in a whole other league. They're not in division. They're not playing them every year. I understand. You know what I'm saying. Every year in the playoffs.

Right. They're playing them, yes, three games in Los Angeles. They're not playing them in the playoffs every year, is what I'm saying. They're not in your league. And the Astros traded him away. Oh, he's dead to me. He's dead to me. Oh, get over yourself.

That's ridiculous. He is a human being who is traded away from the Houston Astros to the Cubs and then signed the biggest deal offered to him that he thought was best for him and his family and his financial security for long term. And that happens to be the Dodgers because they have all these built-in inherited advantages that they can pay all this money.

Who cares? I will say it again. Get over yourself. I can't believe he signed with the Dodgers. Wee. He signed a big money deal somewhere else. Okay, go about your business and root for Jose Altuve and Jordan Alvarez

and the Houston Astros. And yeah, you can boom when he comes in a time. town because he's the Dodger, but like Kyle Tucker is dead to me? That you're taking yourself and baseball way too seriously. And I got to just say, I got

dozens of that last night. I mean, I understand when people are upset, but you're going to be upset no matter where he was going to go. If he was going to go to the Yankees, he'd have been mad. You'd be making if he was a, if he was mad, if he would have stayed with the Cubs. I mean, it's just when your guy's gone, he's gone. He comes in town. You want to boo him, especially

because it's a blue script letter. on his jersey. I get it. But I mean, crushing the guy, calling it a slap in the face to the Astros, the Astros traded him away. The Astro, oh, I got another thing for you. Astros could have them same deal. They could have. Now they weren't going to ever,

but they could have. Jim Crane could cut that check. They could have gotten the sweepstakes. You know what? I don't mind the Jim Crane economic formula, but not every team adheres to that. You know who could use? a 30-30 gold glove right fielder? The Houston Astros. Yeah, especially if Dana Brown's not a big fan

of Cam Smith as we all thought he was going to be. Still weird to me. I just very odd. What's that? How Camp Smith is seen as like garbage now. He's not garbage. He just, he hit about 170 the whole last four months of the season.

He was great off defensively, but that's why, who's the trusted voice that always says, never believe numbers in September and never believe numbers March. That would be, I believe, was Don Drysdale. No, it was me.

Oh. Wrong. I'm just going to give you sage information, period, in the story. Thank you, Matt. All right. And sage predictions.

OPS Plus on the season, Jonathan, league average is 100. League average, he's 87. I get that. I'm just saying, I know this is an excuse.

I just feel like this season cannot be something you could put on Ken Smith. No, no, no, no, they're going to work it out. I'm not saying he's garbage in there. He's going to, He's going to probably be the opening day right fielder.

You would hope. His OPS Plus worse than Christian Walker. Okay. That's enough. Let's not. Let's not. I'm just, we come back as a fact.

I'm sorry. I need to correct the narrative that is unfortunately out there with some Texans. I like this. We're getting big teases all our, baby. Well, I just, it just needs to be set. You come after some people. I'm not coming after. I'm just saying that when you guys are mad about something,

I'm not talking about just the people, listen to the show or someone in general. And sometimes I back you up, like, I get it. I understand. But there's just a narrative out there that just doesn't make any sense. It concerns about the Texans' chances in New England on Sunday. We'll discuss that next. 1044, Sports Talk, 790. E. Mae Doca in 15 minutes.

Right now a word for the shell, federal credit union. Madden Ross and anything goes Friday. Today at 120, the return of the fantasy five. We don't do it every week. We just frankly run out of topics. What's a category? It is unfunniest comedians, comics. act comedic actors.

This could be a tough one. Hmm. Hmm. Who won the last fantasy five? I think you. I think I did. Jonathan only did one. Did Matt win?

What was the topic? I don't remember. I guess I'll write him down. I think you voted for me and I lost still. Yeah. So we got to start writing down. So the fantasy five today is anybody alive or dead? When you see that person considered a comedic actor or a stand-up comedian, you go,

eh, I don't think it's funny. Okay. So we'll do that at 120 today here on the show. We've got Eme Adoka in 10 minutes. We've got the... I've got some names that are popping my head. They're going to make some people angry. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Because if you disagree with them... You know, I'm going to stick. Stay true to your heart. You kind of have to. You have to. In this particular week, you have to. You can't play to the audience. I'm sorry to come up 1130,

and Ross will lead off with I'm sorry. He's at 1130. I will. Oh, yes, you will. Just because you're, you know, you may have been a weebin' error. about a certain bet we've made. When I mean, we bet I'm in extreme.

Sir? Do you have Chateau, do you have Chateaubriand in the Japanese steakhouse? You don't know that. I'll find out. Okay, so Larry and Stafford listens to our, doesn't call our show. He just calls a morning show. He calls... Oh, I love thinking Larry the cable guy.

Speaking of unfunny people. That could be on the list. Or is he? Or is he? We don't know. So Larry and Stafford calls it. And he's on Houston radio. I wouldn't say a legend, but just call her. And he was like, I'm so sick and tired, and I'm paraphrasing here.

Of the Texans not getting any of their run. And all this conversation is about Drake, May, and all this things about New England. And I don't want to speak just directly to Larry, but there's a few others that feel the same way. I don't even know if I'm speaking to majority or just a vocal minority. The Houston Texans are getting plenty of respect. Dan Arlofsky was on First and Ten with Dan and Cole yesterday, and he was talking about how great the defense is. If you watch any of the NFL live shows or NFL breakdowns or any podcastable thing or anything on the social media streets, people are talking about how ferocious Derek Stingley and Danil Hunter are and Jalen Petrie and DeLan.

Petrie and Domingo Ryan's and the entire defense. We have got to stop this narrative of no one thinks we're going to win this game. You are not favored in this game. That's because Las Vegas told you so. And the betting public would either go with you or go against you. It doesn't even matter what Las Vegas thinks. You have just as good a shot, you being Houston Texans, have just as a good a shot of winning the game as you're losing.

It's a 50-50 game in my mind. But when I go on the Today Show at 7 o'clock in the morning. And they have this non-sports person doing a story previewing the four divisional playoff games this weekend. And when the Texans come up and their turn to preview it, the first thing to talk about is

the ferocious defense, that means you're getting respect. So enough of this, we're not getting any respect. I'm tired of hearing about Drake May. There's a reason why you're hearing about Drake May. He said they're going to finish first or second in the MVP voting. Okay? And he's a quarterback. And it's New England.

A team that has got much more of a national following and success than the Texans would dream of having. It doesn't mean that he's going to have a good game on Sunday. It doesn't mean he's going to have the worst game of his life. He could be just pedestrian. Your Texans are getting lots and lots of run. So don't worry what the gatekeepers that are running media networks are doing. Because guess what?

They're loving your defense. It'd be different if they weren't talking about it. And they spent all their time talking about C.J. Stride. In fact, Ross, I'll say this, to close up my part of this, I think there's getting that CJ Stroud is getting more better for the doubt than he is nationally than he certainly is locally. I would agree with that.

I think he is getting crushed here in Houston and he is getting a lot of a more national run is C.J. Stroud. And this Texan's defense has the respect of, I mean, any, I follow a bunch of NFL pundits and fantasy writers and NFL riders and beat riders from different cities. Like this Texan,

Texans defense is legit. There's nobody sleeping on the Texans or disrespecting, as you said. I haven't heard anybody say that because I don't know. I don't look. I don't go to my, for my Texans news to Larry and Stafford. I'm sorry. I just don't. So it's getting a ton of run. It's exhausting to hear about how everything is anti-Huston every single time. It's just not possible. It's not you. This is the world. It's a three-point spread. It's not like, I mean, there's not a, Rudy Rudiger is not on the squad. Yeah. Your team is getting, your team is getting.

When you are being brought up in the same breath, not saying that you are as good as, but if you're in the same breath as the 2,000 Ravens and the 1985 bears, that's high, high territory. Didn't Bob Sochi invoke that holy name when we had him on early as week? Bob Sochi is the Patriots play-by-play guy. He's going to be a homer. And I mean that respectfully, like those are going to be his guys.

He's bringing up the 2000 Ravens defense when he brings up the Texans. People are bringing up the Legion of Boom, bringing up that crazy Von Miller-led, 2015 or 16 or whatever it was, Denver Broncos team. The decades-long history of greatest all-time defenses are being brought up with this Texans team. They're getting respect. So just enjoy it because you're getting it.

And I'm sorry, but there are two sides to a game. And Drake May is a huge component of what New England is. Drake May made the significant upgrade in his play from year one to year two that you've frankly been looking for your quarterback to do. He hasn't done it. Now, CJ's rookie year was significantly better than Drake May's. Yes, but since then? But since then, Drake May's play better. 31 touchdowns, eight picks.

Number one in the NFL and total QBR. Number one or two. I think Stafford's going to win it. Okay. But I think Dre is going to finish second. MVP. Yeah. in the MVP. He's, he's an MVP candidate.

CJ Stroud is not. So, relax. You're in the final four again. And I'm telling you this and I'm not telling you something you don't already know. This is the best chance in the history of the Texans franchise to go to the AFC championship. Let's not kid ourselves. They weren't going to beat Baltimore. They weren't going to be Kansas City.

And they weren't going to beat New England and previous trips. They just weren't. Sorry. This is the chance. It's going to happen. My confidence is a little shaken from, with Nico Collins being out and stuff like that. But I still think it's going to happen.

11 o'clock hour coming up. Ime Adoka next here on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. On the on Sports Talk 790. Our weekly visit right now with a head basketball coach of your Houston Rockets who fell last night to the Oklahoma City Fund. and we'll talk about that. And tonight's matchup with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

It is a late start. If you were at the game last night, thank you for being there at 630. Tonight you get a chance to relax a little bit and get a little bit there a little bit later. Eme, don't go with us here on the show. And Ross, could you pot him up for me here? My phone system is down. So let's talk to coach right now. Ema, I'll tell you this.

The first three quarters weren't, I mean, the easiest thing to watch, but your guys kind of hung around. Was there a sense in your mind to say, look, let's put together one good scoring quarter. and we can win this bad boy and said unfortunately went the other direction. Yeah, it reminded me of Vegas a little bit last year against them. We defended a high level. Gildes Alexander was kind of held in check. Jayne Williams only had six points, but we couldn't make enough shots to really extend that lead and take advantage knowing that they'll get going eventually.

And to your point, it was like, okay, 77, 75 on the last quarter, that's put one together. And we went on a major drought and they up their physicality. Yeah, I know that your squad's not shooting well from three, obviously, and you're trying to find an answer for that. But I will give credit, and I hate giving credit, because it's just what I don't want to do. But they intercept passing lanes. They're ferocious.

Even though they've been a little more human the last couple months, Oklahoma City can make life miserable for teams defensively. Can they not? Yeah, they're one of the best in the league, and pretty unique at what they do as far as making plays, getting steals, turnovers, deflections, and all those things. And so he has to be disciplined and get off the ball and make the simple reads. But at the same time, you have to knock down those shots.

And we've been in a little bit of a tough stretch right now where these games look a lot different if we make some shots, obviously. But still guard at a high enough level, stay confident. You know, trust the work you put in all year and that worm will eventually turn. You know, and I think Kevin Durant shared your exact sentiment on that. So if someone says, coach, hey, good morning, how are you? Let me buy you a cup of coffee. and can you guys make some shots? How does it come right down to that?

I mean, no bat. The ball has to go through the hoop. But is it spacing? Is it shot selection? Is it timing? Tell me where a team that is collectively in a shooting slump, especially from three, try to shake itself when four or five guys are kind of struggling at the same time?

You have to do other things to interject yourself into the game. The shots that are there at high quality looks that we've gotten all year and been one of the most efficient shooting teams. You have to continue to take those. It always happens throughout a year. You'll get a slump or two, and it snowballs into the entire team. But at the same time, still take those same shots, but do other things to get yourself going. Get in the passing lane, guard some transition offense, offensive rebounds, things like that.

Just the ball go through and not just be relying on jump shots. Rocket Tech coach, IMA Adoka, was here on a Sports Talk 790. And what is it like for you as a coach when it's been of a bit of a bad run like this, as far as the self-evaluation process of you and your coaching staff balancing, saying, yeah, this is going to turn, it's okay, or we have to make some sort of changes or tinker with some things? No, it's a little bit of both. Understanding as long as we've been around and some players,

you see it happen once or twice a year. Like I said, it sucks when it's the whole team, and you just need one or two guys to kind of step out, step up and make those shots. But at the same time, you have to figure out other things and not just say, okay, the jump shots will fall eventually, go to different actions, get other guys involved, and then tweak the lineups if you have to to inject some energy. And I think JD did that in the Chicago game,

taking a look at some other guys and how we can help them as well. Yeah, that's who I was going to bring up next, talking about tinkering and some changing. What led to the decision with some more minutes for J.D. Davidson, and what have you seen from him that you like and that you would like to improve? The injuries, I mean, Dorian being in and out a little bit, sorry going down, it's an opportunity to get some other guys some looks. you know, he's one of our more natural point guards and guys that facilitate the offense

and get us into stuff. And so knowing what we have with him there, it's just a chance to get him a look with some guys being down right now. And that was really what led into that. But had a really good game against Chicago. I think OKC made it tough on everybody last night from a shooting standpoint. Nobody had an average or above average game. But just getting to look at him over these next few games and seeing what he brings the table,

he's done it all through preseason and very comfortable putting him in. You unfortunately got a T last night, the A.J. Mitchell's back court, did you get, obviously, did not get a satisfactory explanation? Did those referees even bother looking at the screen at all? Or they're like, I don't want to look at it. No, they never look up there. They don't want to see if they're right or wrong by looking up there, but it was just, you know, a culmination of some things.

So that one stood out that nobody's watching the ball. They all tell me it's not my call, not my look. And so, okay, that's fine. But I think more so a culmination of a few different things than frustration on my part. Well, I understand that for sure. That's the thing. If I was a referee and I goofed it up, I would let you have about a minute and a half and then we go on from there, but unfortunately, that was not the case. Tell me about Stephen Adams, a huge rebounding night for you. You've not stayed away from back to backs on him. We've got one here tonight. So are you ready

to announce whether he can go tonight? Is he going to take tonight off? I mean, you've got a bunch of games come up even after tonight's game. He'll be out tonight. Dorian will be available and hoping to have Tari back my son, how he feels. after going through a workout today. And so, you know, Minnesota is another team with some big bodies. And, you know, Stephen is great against everybody. And so we'll be cautious with him as we have been to get him right throughout the season and have other guys available with Randall and Nasreed.

And it's good to have some smaller bodies to put on those stretch fives. I know he wants to play. I know you want him to play. But it's, it's, you got to follow the rulebook, don't you, when it comes to Stephen to make sure he's ready for you come postseason time. Yeah, yeah, I think he's night and day from last year. I mean, last year he couldn't go more than five minutes to start the season. And now he can run longer stretches and play up to 2530.

And so we're just, like I said, being smart about the season, getting other guys look. That's why you got Clint Capella and all the guys that we brought in and get him to the end goal healthy and in a good rhythm. I mentioned Katie a little bit ago, and he gave a good retrospect. What does he see through this? And obviously we don't get to talk to him as much as we get to talk to you. But how is he pacing this? because, look, he has been through the highs and lows of an NBA season multiple times over, and this has not been a great January?

How does he see things? And have you asked him or is he just doing it on his own to kind of keep the guys saying, look, this is January, nobody wins championships then. But as you know, as things will be an uper competitive in the West like they were last year, that every game, especially it feels like after the turn of the calendar, seems to mean just a little bit more. Yeah, I've been playing as long as he has. He has a great perspective on that.

But at the same time, none of us are happier. satisfied and he's at the top of the list as far as that and so understanding where we want to get to it's going to take a little bit time with you know different personnel and him being inserted but at the same time the standard is the standard and we want to play up to that and not play down to level our competition or up to a level of competition we want to be consistent across the board and as we know it all helps to make shots no doubt about that but um we can get guys going himself he holds himself to a high standard and nobody's happening or losing regardless of the time of year. Another guy that holds himself to a high

standard is Jabari, a couple of nice back-to-back games from three from him. Is that a pull aside a conversation? Say hi, keep it going. Let's change a couple of things up because he was his harshest critic after those games earlier in the month. Yeah. When you're getting right open, look, there's nothing more you can ask than that.

But like I said, there's not just being relying on jump shots. You want to do the other things. You get to his mid-range game, which he had been missing some of those. I think him and Kevin missed a good amount of a good mid mid-range shots last night, but he's one of our best offensive rebounders, a versatile offensive player that can do multiple different things.

And so it's not just sitting on the perimeter. Sometimes that happens when Portland goes zone or something like that, but doing other things to get yourself in the game, get to the free to line and get some layups and just to see the ball go through. And so great that he had to stretch against Chicago, and he's had some carryover lately. Last thing you mentioned zone when teams struggle from three teams will do that. We saw quite a bit of that with OKC last night.

If the three ain't fallen, how is the most effective way is basketball 101 to break that zone? Is it finding those guys on the baseline for those mid-range? A little bit of both. I think we have two really good players that we can flash in the middle with Kevin and Alprin. Kevin's very much automatic that I lay up on the mid-range shot, but Alprin's such a good playmaker and finish her around the basket. If you get them in the middle. But at the same time, you don't want to just rely on those guys going one-on-one there.

You have to get some ball movement and penetration, not just pass the ball. around. A lot of teams get stagnant against the own. And as long as you penetrate and relocate, you usually get a really good wide-over shot. Thank you for the time. Coach, we'll talk to you tonight. Best of luck against the wolves. Thank you. You got it. You may end up with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross 11-11. Here's the time.

Minnesota, no, and Edwards. Cut out that timestamp. Boy, what I say? That says it a longer. Uh-oh. No, for when it runs on 7.30. I'm making a joke. Oh, I see what you're just saying. Okay. If you love that interview, you'll hear it later on the day.

Absolutely. On the rocket's launch bed. Great stuff from the coach, as always. Yeah. I mean, you want to hear me read game notes or you want to hear from the the coach of the team? Oh, yeah. You reading game notes in Arabic is really interesting.

Yeah, thank you. Yeah. I'm learning. I felt that you are. I'm doing Farsi as well. That's right. You know, there was some times... Is it a must win game tonight?

No, no, no, no, no, no. It's very much I would like them to win. How about it make me feel better win? Yeah. No one Edwards Four and a half point favorites The schedule is getting

More rigorous Not so much with the competition Although obviously last night Oklahoma City was great Minnesota's a playoff team Noane Edwards New Orleans You would think it would be a piece of cake

But you've also had a 25 point leave there And lost that Then you got San Antonio coming in on Tuesday By the way, do you see that What's the latest on him Debt not heard And again Injury reports won't come out

For later today But he banged knees with Janice Ooh I think Yes That's too lengthy limbs

banging knees together what you didn't like your description that's what happened but you were so measured they have lengthy limbs and they bang their knees

I'm sorry if you can't handle that that's on you wrong you don't play that sound by it all day long I just found it it's kind of funny okay that's funny all right We need a we.

It's on backup point. No, you're the play-by-play announcer. You can say we. We need a 45% 3.9. Be nice. Because these under 30s are. At least Jabari did his part, 3 for 6. Yeah.

Everybody else, collectively, was 3 for 18. Bench scoring has not been a big part of things as of late. Problem is, I just don't know if J.D. Davidson is going to be a lot. What J.D. is going to do is he can be able to move the ball around. I like it. He moves all right out there. He's doing okay. Yeah. Yeah. And Reed's got to get a shot back.

It's just a reality of it. It's not been going to last a few days. Yeah, because the other end of the floor. Okay. Am I wrong? We are not happy when you say these things. When I say the truth, you can't handle the truth. You know I'm right. And guess what? Opposing coaching staffs know I'm right too.

Reed Shepard highlighted. Yeah, I don't need A.J. Mitchell. being a star. People don't even know who, if you walked in a bar in Houston and guys says, my name's A.J. Mitchell, they'd say, AJ, what do you do for a living? It's a good name. But it's not A.J. It's A.J.A. Y. Oh. Okay. And there was Jalen Williams 6,

Jalen Williams 8, Kendritch Williams out there. Kenrich Williams? Mm-hmm. Yeah. At least there's no Jalen Green to confuse you, too. Oh, geez. That was a hot mess last year. All right. It is 1114 on Sports Talk. 7.90. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, Ross will lead things off with I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

It feels so good. Elegant, terrible takes. Trust the baseball contract insider. You're glossing yourself another term. Yes. Great. You know what? You deserve.

I deserve all the fly. And I'm going to take them. You know, I'm going to take those flowers to Big City Wings and have dinner tonight. Actually, I'm not going to have dinner night because I got to rock rockets. But if you want to watch the Rock Rockets and go to Big City Wings. It's a late-night game. Ooh, half-priced apps after 9 o'clock? I set you up.

You're welcome. Ooh, big baby. The chicken avocado egg rolls. And I don't like the avocado part, but I like eat everything else. Kicking you out of Texas. You're not Mr. Texas. We're kicking you out of Texas. What if you call me Mr. Texas for a week?

And I make you never pay for it. Okay. Oh, are you supposed to give me the list? I work on that Wax, our Texas reporter, is at the facility today. Final practice for the guys jump on the plane to go to Providence, take on the Patriots on Sunday.

Nico Collins's not out there, no surprise. Justin Watson, I don't even know what Justin Watson does. He's a receiver, but I don't even remember him. Backup return, man. But, I mean, he's been putting out the Justin Watson not out there. And what does he do again? He's on the roster. Yeah, but he's hanging out.

What was Justin Watson's most important moment as a Texan this year? That one catch for five yards he had. Okay. In the third preseason game. Let's see. How are we looking this year? Justin Watson, four targets, three receptions, 30 yards. So stop telling me that Justin Watson is out there.

Nobody cares. He played 13 snaps in week 18. Okay. Did not make a catch or a target. Oh, well. He got a tackle. Ooh, must be a special team's demon. Trent Brown, by the way, at practice today.

Trent Brown is, you never see him walk around. He looks like he's a 1984 offensive lineman. Just a massive human being. Behemoth. Yeah, behemoth is the word I would use, sure. A little bigger, yeah. Yeah, he's, I mean, he moves pretty well for how big he is. And you know what?

But okay. It's been a good signing from Nick Casario. So how would you like to describe the Texans' offensive line, right? as we speak at 1122. Mid. Yeah. But guess what? Mid to slightly below.

But they can run on that right side, Trent Brown and anything behind at Ingram. It's kept CJ up right, has it not? Yes. It gave Woody Marks 100 yards in rushing last week. Yes. They were, now, Woody Marks had some good runs. But also, I mean, he was like two, three yards down the field before he was getting touched.

They were mauling the Steelers up front, which is very impressive and very important. So yeah, it got from atrocious to slightly below average. Yes. And I'll tell you what, you can play slightly below average NFL football in the offensive line. And you're not going to throw the ball 35 times. You're not going to get five yards of carry, but you can move the field. Look, this comes down to, and look, we have spent, it feels like four days trying to break this thing. I need the game to be played.

I am over-previewed out. I'm ready. Battle Red Ross is ready. CJ's got to have a I don't want to oversimplify this. I mean, let me try to let me I don't even think it's a question of 200 yards.

I just think C.J. just needs to, you know what, I'll do it. I'm sorry, and I mentioned it early this way. Manage the game. That's fine. Yeah, manage the game. If you get the stat line you got in in the wild card round without the fumbles, that's fine.

That's good. You know what else? Yeah, if they get 251 and one, they're going to win. With no fumble. How about this one for you? If the Texans score 20 offensive points do they win the game? Is that enough against New England's offense?

Which has put up some huge numbers this year. That's the reason why Drake May is probably going to finish first or second in the MVP voting. I will say yes. It'll be close. Because, of course, Matt, as you know, the Vegas implied total for these Patriots. I love implied totals. I think it's 2175.

So about 22 points is what they're. Vegas is saying they're going to score. Okay, so there could be a 23-20 game. Now, by the way, we've not made our official predictions yet. We kind of hemmed and hawed about it for a little bit. We kind of... I did. I ain't on the fence, Maddie? Final score. 1917 is what I said Tuesday. I've got to make my own one. Now, I led with a

51-49 Texans. Now, my gut... My gut last week was correct, so I'm going to stick with my gut. 1917. Now, you know, I'm horrific at trying to figure this out. I know. That's why I need to. you to pick the patrons. But listen to your heart, Matt.

Drake May's good. On the road. Here's what I can't get past. Snow flurries, even colder. What's the latest? And the Patriots are better than the Chiefs. They're better than the Steelers.

So as I said, there's a fantasy website that I check with the meteorologist. Right. They have a system. It goes green to red. He has green slash yellow. So it's not expected to be bad. same that I read yesterday, snow flurry or snow shower wouldn't be shocking.

Winds under 10 miles an hour, which is what the most important thing is. Not perfect weather, but not good enough to cause any major issues. According to Kevin Roth. By the way, speaking of that, it is supposed to be, look at the Los Angeles Rams Chicago game.

Tell me how that, look, that little green or red thing looks. Because the Rams fans are flipping out. This will be the coldest game they've played a long time. Which one? Rams Chicago. Really, really cold. Temperatures in the teens.

He has 10 to 15 mile an hour winds, which is fine, but gusts to 20 to 25. So remember I told you this morning, the Texas defense. We're talking about how great they're on the Today Show and the reporter that had no idea what the NFL was. So they were saying, oh, it's going to be super cold in Chicago. Matthew Stafford living in L.A. doesn't, you know,

accustomed to that. The woman came, her name is Stephanie Goss. I think it's her reporter. She says, well, she tells the anchors on Today's show, Well, you know, he does have experience playing in cold weather in Detroit. Indoorse? Correct. Do they practice outdoors?

Probably not? Probably not. Should be, he, this guy expects wins only to affect longer field goals, perhaps. All right now. Before we get to, I'm sorry, Jonathan and me, you, we are the only ones that have not gone on the record with this. Ross has it at 1917, you said? That's a cover and under, like last week. Whoever Hems and Hawes last has to go first

So Jonathan, here we go Get off the fence! Make a prediction! Just listen to your heart. I'm so proud of our defense, Texan's defense. Oh, hold on. Chargers fan dropping the R? Oh, man, what did you go in an R for?

The Chargers are playing this week? I think, you know, they're going to help my charges out. Give them some redemption. It's going to be 14 to 6. Oh, Chargers' revenge. 14 to 6? our defense is like that man I can see it happening

14 to 6 that's what the NFL wants By the way I was thinking about this in the hallway If we got like a Texan, Seahawks Super Bowl What would the total be in that game? 11 That's the two best defenses in the NFL And Sam Darnold and CJ Stroud

The NFL is that like the least What is the least possible remaining sexy matchup It involves the Texans AFC side Well from the least second is Texan Seahawks. Two teams that don't have any national cachet. Yeah.

Again, you went to a sports bar and said, named the Seahawks coach. It would take you all to find a correct answer. McDonald. McDonald. Yeah. Not Ronald. Here we go.

Final score. Here we go. 2117 Texans. Red Matt. It's coming. Liberty White, Matt. Let's go. I want to tell you also.

One step. You are two steps away For me being lost, Liberty White Man. Let's go. Okay, while we're here. They're on the all-whites this week again, which is their best uniform look. While we're here, Bill's Broncos?

Bill's 24-21. Texans hosting the ASC championship game. Yes. Wow. Don't ask me about that game. I won't. We'll cross those bridges when we come to them. Yep.

Okay. Seahawks Niners? By the way, I'm with you. I think Bill's win in a close. 2321-ish. San Francisco wins in Seattle a lot, do they not? Or does it Seattle beats them? They do.

Seattle minus 7. 44.5. San Francisco wins that one over Seattle. San Fran covers doesn't win. I think playoff Sam Darnel shows up again. One score game 23, 2318. I go 3121-9ers.

I think Seahawks are going to have a tough day defensively, but hell I could be wrong. Seattle weather. should be great, by the way. Upper 40s, calm winds, no precipitation. Yeah, that's perfect Sanford's cold weather. Higher scoring game than thought. I tip.

Seattle weather. And then the other one, I will go with, I really believe the cold weather is going to crush it. But I had the Rams going to Super Bowl, so I got to stay with the Rams, even though I don't feel great about it. Rams over the Bears 1710. Wow. But that's more based off my preseason prediction than what I really, I think the cold weather is going to really affect the Rams. 21, 16 Rams. Okay.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the half hour of the week where you, get to tell people that you're apologetic, that you've made mistakes, and you're sorry. And if you've never done this before on a major market radio show, my partner, Ross Field of Real is going to give you the good way, the proper way. He will lead by example. And it is next here on Sports Talk 7. If you want to apologize for anything, 713-212-5-790, I'm sorry. Is there next 1130 here on 790? I usually have a lot of things I need to say a few things too and four.

this week, but you know what, Ross, it's your turn to open up this edition of this. I'm sorry, so sorry. And you were a dumb-ass fool. Well, that wasn't a dumb-ass. Okay, you were just dumb-ass in general. Certainly, Matt, I didn't heed the lesson we all learned as youngsters. Pride goeth before the fall. Ooh, you are full of those little anecdotal lines.

I like it. Thank you. Also, is hubris? You know what hubris is, right? Sure, why not? It's a color. Oh, God. Okay.

Yeah, a hubris. Yes, my hubritic overtures, Matt. By the way, number to call in. I've met a lot of you. You owe some people's apologies. 713-212-5-790. And if you doubt of me, Colin apologize to me.

I'll accept it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. The floor back to you. Okay, thank you. Hubristic, the actually correct pun pronunciation. But anyways, yes, Kyle Tucker had an OPS plus of like $6 million,

and he was healthy, flying high, hitting home runs, stealing bags, thought he was going to get a big deal. Every free agent article that came out had him at like $400 or $500 million. and I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win easily. I didn't think there was any chance, at least middle of the season that I was going to lose.

Then is the offseason drug on. And I heard about the Mets and the Dodgers short-term deals, of course. My confidence was shaken. But, you know, I was rude. I really tried to twist the knife. Yeah. I really tried to put it in your face because I had lost a couple of bets recently. And I was happy to get back on the board.

I counted my chickens before. they hatched. That was a big mistake. My biggest mistake was not thinking about how the CBA and potential lockouts could impact the deal as well. And the freaking Dodgers wallet whipping was $60 million per

year. I was rude to you. I overplayed my hand, and I should pay the price. You will. Yes. And I'm sorry. Sorry. Please forgive me. All right. I've got five things here that I want to tell you that you can

do. To erase the financial portion of your vet. I'm going to predict. Now, my predictions are wrong a lot. I'm going to predict I'm not going to agree to any of these. That's fair to say. I would like for you to refer to me as the baseball contract insider. Say, hi, Matt.

You're a baseball contract insider. How many more long shots can you hit? This is pissing me off. Jonathan, that's 0 for one. He's not done that yet. No. The baseball contract insider. You didn't call them signing the Dodgers.

You didn't call them signing anywhere. You didn't call the deal. I didn't say signing. I said contract insider. Number two, I would like for you to acknowledge America sandwich in a positive light. No, I actually am joining your talk. What's America sandwich, Matt? The McRib.

No, I'm joining the class action lawsuit because there's no rib meat in that press grissel's sheet with nasty barbecue sauce. This is not going well. America's sandwich. America's sandwich is the cheeseburger. Or is a cheeseburger a sandwich or is a hot dog a sandwich? Number three. I would like for you to say that Drake is better than Kendrick Lamar. At what?

Everything. Music, lyrics, lyrics, politics, society. I'm just throwing things out. Just say, you know what? Forget scratch that. Say that Kendrick Lamar is not the Tchaikowsky of music. He's an R&B pop star. is Drake.

He's a better R&B pop star. He's not a better rapper. He's not going very well for three. No, I mean, yeah. If you want me to say he's better, yeah, he's a, I just said it. He's a better R&B slash pop rap. Rap-ish star. He's not a better rapper.

Two more. All right, you got one of three. I will play a three-two blackjack, a six-five blackjack with me eventually in the next calendar year. Why would I light my money on fire? Again, I will say, blackjack tables get you about 100 hands an hour. You get a blackjack one in 21 hands. So a roughly five-ish hands an hour.

If I'm playing $20 a hand, I get $30 for a blackjack on 3 to 2. I get $24 on a 6 to 5. That's $6.00 difference. Yes. Are we sticking with this? Yes, we're sticking with it. Okay, 6 times 5 is what? 30. Jonathan.

So how much money am I lighting on fire an hour? But you're still winning. $30. Still winning. If you walked up to the table and said, hey, you can get regular blackjack, but you have to pay us $30 an hour to play. Would you do it? Presuming you're going to get those five blacks in an hour.

It's on average. If you play for hours and hours and hours, which we do. Which I have, and I don't get black checks as much. All right. And lastly, I would like you to say that, yes indeed, that Stevie Wonder concert way back in the day was a large waste of time. I stayed. You left. I stayed.

I was high-fiving people rose behind me. They were jamming. That was a great. great concert. I will, that's like I'm going short list of greatest concerts

of all time. The only thing that Mardit was you and the other whiners screaming and screaming, play the hits,

Stevie Wonder. He played the hits. He played the greatest album of all time, arguably. Songs in the key of life. It's a great concert. It took him a while.

No, it was the whole concert. The whole album was the concert. And then he played a bunch of hits at the end too. Oh, what a convent. concert.

All-timer. You're paying for my meal then. I gave you, I gave you chances. I gave you chances. Yeah, but none of those things are agreeable. They're all ridiculous. That you must pay for my...

I will pay for my... Are we going to Dutch? Are we going Dutch on Jonathan? I'll pay for Jonathan. I'm sorry, John. He's so worried about your part of the bill. I do have the funds. That's terrible.

We'll get you next week. All right, 713, 21, 2, 2,000. 713, 1, 2,000, 5, 790. Hello, y'all out there. I thought you were going to ask me to call you Mr. Texas. That goes out saying. I should be called Mr. Texas.

You know what you should think about naming the show, The Mr. Texas Show featuring Ross? What kind of are you the fraudest Mr. Texas there ever was? All right. John, then, what are you going to apologize for? I don't know, guys. I'm pretty good. I'm thinking this whole time.

Oh, is that right? I don't know. What are you apologizing for, Matt? You got a good week, Matt? I had a really good week. I won this thing. I had a great week. I had space that you followed me around yesterday?

We're going to get We're going to JCI on Tuesday, yeah We'll get about you taking care of one day I need to bring some tons to work next week Well, I might worry about can I finish the broadcast? When can we go? We're going Tuesday at JCI, oh, Habachi I don't know We'll work on that

One thing at a time Get your planner out, Jesus I got a lot of games coming up 713-212-5-790 If you need to apologize for something I know you do because I've met you out there. Oh.

Say you're sorry. Hey. What? You're all right? Yeah, because no other show in the marketplace is going to give it to you. We've got people cuss and discussing linebackers, and we've done that as well as anybody. I'll give me a chance to say you're sorry. We're going to do some more linebacker talk.

All right. Henry Tooto Toa talk. Henry Toa and Al-Zis Al-Shire or Al-Zis-A-Shire. You're weird to any way. The Patriots have, what's his name? Robert Spillane. He's good. Yes.

Teddy Bruskey. Ted Johnson? Mike Frable's Not player coach Larry Isso? No Okay All right

We take a quick time out And then if anybody's out there We will go to their sorries If not we will discuss What are we gonna discuss? Rockets could apologize For all the missed threes Ooh that was

That's seven straight games Rossi I need some three I need to call That's a six three in a row Ooh That would be nice That's the 4-3 in the quarter. Instead, I'm getting backtap rebound Stephen Adams.

Another three, no. That's the thing that's more aggravating. You've got a rebound on Stephen Adams who's getting you plenty of second-chance opportunities. A ton of rebounds, but also that's because they miss shots. I know, I know. 713-212-5-790. It's a Matt Thomas Show at Ross,

and anything that goes Friday. 7-13-21-2-5-7-90. 1148 on Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. All right, Ross, let's take this show till noon. We'll wake the strippers up.

The news at noon. We have the fantasy five coming up today at 120. The problem is I think you and I are in a large agreement about who we think is not funny. We're doing not funny comedians. And or comedic actors live or dead. I'm struggling to come up with a list of 10. I think I have six. And then I got to do some more scraping of the internet.

Okay. Now, this is alive or dead. So if you watch somebody, yeah, we can open it up for a big character. Groucho Marx in the third round. Well, I mean, I don't know if that's going to hit. Okay. Groucho Marx, when I was a kid scared me because of his mustache. Scared you?

Yeah. Oh, absolutely. It was horrified of him. Okay. Now, when he got older, he was hosting a game. show. It was not as bad, but that young grot show marks can give kids nightmares.

I just saw the Dodgers projected lineup, by the way. Let me guess. Kyle Tucker's betting ninth. Fifth. Otani, Betts, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, Kyle Tucker, Te Oscar Hernandez, Max Monty, Andy Pahis, Tommy Edmund.

Season's over. Congratulations to the Dodgers, the 2026, World Series champions. There will be, by the way, not be a 20-27 season. So, you all ready for that, by the way? I mean, I know that's the easy, don't scare us, everybody. But that's being echoed by a handful of people out there.

It's not just somebody just saying it. It feels inevitable. I guess we would, I need somebody who is more in tune than me to give all the big sticking points. Well, there isn't anybody in tune because there's, you're going to get 30 different opinions and 30 different owners, plus you get the players association. So you can get 31 different voices. but everybody keeps saying the owners are going to draw a line and saying they want a salary cap.

That's what they're saying. All right. Well, how long of a stoppage is this going to be then? The one thing I need to figure out. How long was a 94 strike? Well, 94 strike ended middle of the season and then we never had a finishing of a season. Yeah. That would have been the year that Jeff Bagwell probably would have won an MVP award.

No, he did. Oh, he did win it. But he would not have because he broke his hand and he would only played like 100-something games. Yeah, was that the year you won the MVP? Mm-hmm. I thought. He won the 94 MVP, but he broke his hand so he would not have won. Oh, okay.

I knew there was some scenario, too, right? Because, you know, he's breaking his hand like every six weeks in those days. That's true. And he got that giant pad. He looked like he had, like, you had, like, UFC gloves on. Yeah, he was like using a four-round bout after hit that baseball game. So, yeah, that's a scenario that is certainly in play. So we might as well enjoy this season because we haven't had a work.

Should we? Oh, I do. How's a rotation looking? But here's the thing. If you go get the national writers on, which we will do. Okay. They're going to be only speaking to what is being told to them by the agents and the owners. They're not going to be digging in the books because the last time this sort of happened with baseball,

Major League Baseball said, open your books up and base owners are like, no, we're not. Yeah, the players union. That was in COVID, right? Yeah. They're like, oh, we're losing all this money and we lost all this money last year. We're going to go from a long. season to use your last chance you get 60 games or nothing at all. And we got

60. What a sucky season that was. Astros were under 500. Mickey Mouse rain. There was nobody in the stadiums. And then Dusty Baker took them to the American League Championship series. Got down 3-0. It almost came back. Was that series in San Diego? Am I making that up? Didn't they play somebody in San Diego?

They did. They beat the A's. I don't remember. I thought it was a twins. Was the world's... I thought that year they beat the A's in the playoffs. Was it the Twins too? Could have been because they didn't win the West that year. I don't know.

It's all mixed up. Ross, you're about to hit some new territory here in the old Houston sports resume of your life. You're going to have a work stoppage, a deep one, and you're going to have a stadium talk. We made it through COVID, though. Oh, I want to know how that was. That's so interesting. We, topics daily were struck. We would literally have like Monday recaps of the last dance episodes.

Our entire show was about the last dance. It was a three-hour show, thankfully. What we talked about the most, Jonathan, topic A every day was when our sports coming back. Because there was news every day. MLB's doing this and basketball's doing this and football's doing this. Did you come to the studio when it happened that February or like that March when spring break was all and then everything shut down? Y'all were still coming to the studio or no? Yeah, we were coming to the studio.

but we it was yeah no we didn't really work from home no we used to do we used to do uh zooms with all of our that was fun and there's one zoom that i threw a question out and i was right about and i think i was the only one that said this and i it remains truthful to this day i gave out the statement there will never be a female head coach in the nb a oh okay and i'm still right about that and that was six years ago Well, yeah, but you got 100 more years to go. That's actually accurate. But I knew when Becky Hammond wasn't getting a Spurs job or anything else, and she said, you know, I'm giving up on this going back to the WMBA.

And again, it would have to take a very progressive basketball team. The NBA has got to work for that. I just don't know if guys – I mean, guys have a hard enough time respecting coaches that are males, much less females. Yeah. Astros did beat the A's 3-1. Okay. in the DS and then they

lost 4 to 3 to the Tampa Bay Rays. Was that series in San Diego or am I making that up? I knew they played in San Diego for something. It had to have been. I got to get to the box. And then the World Series that year was in Arlington, correct?

Yes. Yeah, Petco Park. Yeah. I would say, you know, we would say good times. No, they were not good times. They were bad times. It's not great. All right.

Rossi. Rolled downhill since. Hell again are not today, Drake May? Or Patriot players? Kyle Tucker? I don't think people won't want that here. They're grumpy, remember? You tell me they're on their timeline.

They were grumpy. He's dead to me. Okay. Relax. What would he have gone where you and I've been dead to you? That's my question. Well, probably anywhere but there are the Yankees? He wasn't going to sign with the Cardinals.

He wasn't going to sign with the Rockies. By the way, Bobichette leaving Toronto to go to the Mets. Three-year deal there. just came down into the last hour. Yeah, do we have the years on that? I mean, sorry, A-AV. I can be happy to look it up.

Probably around 50-ish. You mentioned your Instagram account. Yeah, you know what? Follow me on Instagram at SportsRV. Okay, you know what? I haven't been putting enough content on there recently, but I'm going to do it in the next two days. Put some more on there.

I've been posting some other stuff. I'm trying to build my Instagram, please. At SportsRV. It would help me out. And it hasn't helped out just yet. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm up to 1,300. Who's that like 200 in the middle of last year? You know what?

And also, I am following you back. If you follow until 1215. 1215, I will follow you back at Sports RV. Bobichette's a three-year deal, $126 million. Mm-hmm. 126 in three years? Yep. So 42?

Mm-hmm. Wow. By the way, if you follow me on Instagram. False promises, go ahead. I cannot guarantee I will follow you back. But I'll consider it. Yeah. See, fancy Matt won't follow you back.

I will. No, no, no, no. That's not true. At sports RV. I said I would consider it. Yeah. Matt thinks he's better than you. No, I didn't say that either.

I'm just not going to give, I'm not going to go for the cheap labor on this. I'm going to say, hey, I'll look at your account. If I find it intriguing, I'll follow you back. You mean if it's a woman in bikinis. I didn't say that either. You thought it. Put a lot of words in my mouth. It's fine.

You're not going to deny it. You can deny it. I'll deny it. Oh. That was the softest denial? Wait, you just sounded like you denied... You want a hard denial?

You sound like you denied eating all the leftover pizza in the fridge just now. How did I? Ask me again, then. I will consider following you back on Instagram at SportsMT. I will follow you back at SportsRV. Because Matt thinks he's better than you. I don't. He's going to unfollow you over the next week.

That's not true. You're wrong. The only people I've unfollowed or the people that followed me for the follow and then unfollowed me. Okay. At Sportsempty. Jerks. All right, you ready to wake the strippers up? No.

Let me tell you something. It's a playoff edition of the stripper wake up. We're going to really wake them up here. Okay. I'm going to try to go for 22 seconds. Is that good for radio? It made me too long. You're going to cough.

You're probably right. No, you can do it. I believe in you. What's the record? Uh, got to be 25 maybe? Hmm. Your personal record is 25 seconds. Well, in many things, unfortunately.

unfortunately. 1158. The news at noon and the stripper wake up is next here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1202 in H-town. Go is the Texan's Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Yeah, the biggest arbitration spread in history. And may not, we may never see it this big, big of discrepancy ever again. I mean, this, I've never seen it this wide.

Can you take, how many ask you this? Can you tinkle or are you a free floor? What? A little bit of all. We'll keep up to the next to the next time of the show. That was a pretty meaty news at noon right there. We give you a lot of stuff. Yeah, Matt.

We're bringing the meat. All right. That's the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We bring the meat. We're like the Arby's of Sports Talk Radio. Yes, I like that. I don't, I don't write that one down too. We have the meats.

We may bore you with it, but we're going to continue to give you it over and over and over and over again. You okay, Matt? I didn't go to my Catholicism move. Okay. Forever and ever. Am I missing something? What is that? They have hairy armpits, though.

do they yeah the one place we go I mean the one place I know of what's wrong with that once you let the woman flow free and be natural man you want to go to a strip club where the girl has hairy armpits I'm not looking at her armpits what other

pits other what did you say I forgot other pits you know what that that is grass and rude you are a rhymer you need to apologize for that no pits never mind you walked and said nice pits

you didn't no I'm sorry I apologize I just walk in and say can I help you pay for your college yeah how many more years of nursing school do you have left

always go to the we're paying for school that way god love them it is the Matt Thomas show at Ross at 1205 on sports talk 790 it isn't anything goes Friday Ross explain the essence of anything goes Friday please anything you want to talk about Matt

713 212 5790 is the phone number 713-21-2-5-790 What is this? Middle of January? I don't know what's going on in the calendar. Oh, if you want to talk college football Playoff National Championship.

Full coverage. I wouldn't be trying that. Full breakdown coming your way. You want to talk about how to stay warm in the cold? I can figure that out easily. You're talking about wrapping your pipes? Right. And you want to talk about the

divisional round? Texans taking on the New England page. Yes. Line stays heavy solid at three points, correct? It's holding steady at three. All right. That feels about right. Okay. But the Texans are going to get it done. You want to talk about the

Rockets? Can you shoot a three? Can you make a three-pointer? The Rockets could use you. We could talk about that as well. And of course, we know it's going to lead the news at noon in a minute. It's Kyle Tucker. We don't have to talk about that that much. We kind of need to, though. We can move on. And we can also barely mention rockets if you want to. And they got the Timberwolves tonight.

They're four and a half point favorites with Anthony Edwards out. 713. 212. 570. Anything goes. Phone lines are wide open, maybe.

You want to get in 713, 212, 5790, by the way, shout out to all of you who followed me on Instagram.

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I said decent chance. There's a part, unless you have bikini picks, Matt's probably not going to follow you back. Time now for the news is new to 1207. With that, we get to Mr. Instagram himself, the IG DM Master. Yes. You can follow me at SportsRV.

So big baseball news on the hot stove, Matthew. The Dodgers have a strong. again. Kyle Tucker agreeing to a four-year, $240 million deal. I'm expecting the habachi sounds any minute now. Why would he do that, Ross? Well, Matt and I, for those of you,

this is also news at noon, had a big bet for year. Well, it's been a year plus, I think, around there. I don't know when the bet was exactly made, but I think it was the last off season. So this has been percolating for like a year. Absolutely. I had over seven and a half years for Kyle Tucker.

Matt had under. Matt got the short-term opt-out deal, which is, of course, his best pathway to victory. And he wins as the Dodgers sign Kyle Tucker to a four-year, $240 million deal. It includes opt-outs after the second and third seasons. $30 million of it is deferred. Present-day average annual value of $57 million,

which is a record beating Juan Soto's 51 million AAV of those of course Juan Soto's deal was a long-term deal and also Kyle Tucker getting a $64 million signing bonus he is a Los Angeles Dodger. Kyle Tucker

is a Dodger. How are we feeling? We're feeling like we should just go and give them every World Series trophy for the next handful of years. You asked, I told you. Okay. Well, baseball, anything can happen but not looking good. All right.

Elsewhere now, the other dominoes falling. We mentioned the Alex Breggman deal yesterday. What was it, 5175 or whatever that was? Then you have the Bo Bichette deal with the Mets now as is a three-year $126 million contract with Bob Bichette. He is a New York Mets. Okay. Then you have also some signings by the Houston Astros.

A bunch of guys we don't know, but there are thoughts that a couple of these shortstops that the Houston Astros signed with their international pool money are highly thought of. So the Astros spending their $5 million plus of international pool alignment, and the Dodgers spent $60 million. So every loophole they can crawl through, they're getting through. Deferred payments, salary tax, opt-outs. They're just literally. taking whatever rules are in place

and circumventing them to their advantage and they're winning because every decent free agent is going there. It feels like. Well, big, I mean, this was the headliner. This was the number one, number one of the free agent class. Correct. Even over Breggman going to the Chicago Cubs. Yes. Another former astro.

And then one of the top free agents left, of course, is another former astro, Frumber Valdez. So we'll see what happens with Fromber Valdez. Okay, we did mention the Rockets Luz last night to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Matthew, only 91 points scored by the Rockets. Another poor three-point shooting night. People not named Jabari Smith Jr. went four for 18.

Jabari Smith Jr. going three for six from three, but it wasn't enough from anybody. Another bad shooting night. Now, the Thunder do have a really good defense, but 34% from the field were the Rockets. Yeah, it was there. but it's not 1997. 11-991. Rockets get handled by the thunder and no rest for the weary.

The Minnesota Timberwolves are in town tonight, although Anthony Edwards not available as he is getting injury management. But E. Mae Adoka said earlier may get Tarisan back tonight and you may be getting Dorian Finney Smith back tonight, so that's a good sign.

And by the way, Stephen Adams not playing this evening. Also, somebody tweeting in sports m t passed the 23 second mark waking up the strippers we have to get a stopwatch on that also calling you the throat goat throat goat sports mt passing the 23 second mark waking up the strippers i don't think i win a while

don't clip that also tray tweeting and he is going to be offended if you don't follow him back on ig which which tray is this i don't know it's just a guy named tray all right tray i'll give you a follow back oh no Nice. Shout out to Astro Picker and theater coat. Oh, is this Treel Lopez is mad.

Arjo, appreciate you. His account is private. Appreciate you. Why are you keeping your private? Insta D's horns. I'd like them back, Matt. Yeah, but I want to see what I'm following. What if it's something but a bunch of workout videos and stuff?

I don't want to see that. Why don't you want to see workout videos? Because I don't want to see dudes in the pumping iron. It's no fun. Y'all know y'all can follow them, mute the guys, right? I mean. Oh, I see how you are. I'm just saying it's.

Sneaky. You know, follow for follow, but I might not like, might listen to yourself. All right. Follow back, Trey. There you go. I requested him. You're so funny. Yeah, thanks to all of you for a follow me on a sports RV on Instagram. I'm still following everyone back for a few more minutes. You'll quickly delete you or mute you. See, that's not true. I haven't done that to one person.

The only people I've unfollowed are the ones the people that unfollowed me. What else you got today? Anything else? You want some more NBA news? No, nobody cares about the NBA, sadly. Oh, well, that's... We're getting there. 8.30 tonight, by the way, for the Rockets, Wolves. I want the building packed.

Well, okay, quick NBA news. Steve Balmer is trying to... He's trying to get the lawsuit dismissed. That alleges that he participated in fraud by funneling money to Kauai Leonard. All right, there's your news at noon. We have a... What, 120 today?

We have the Fantasy 5 coming up. And you said you had six people on your list? I have six on my list as well, and really you have to go in with 10. It's going to be some crossover. Generally, you don't need 8, 9, 10. Very rare, but just in case you want to be prepared. All right. So the Fantasy 5 is unfunniest comedians or comedic actors.

Oh, it was actors too? Absolutely. I thought it was like stand-up comedians. No, anybody that's in a comedy movie. I mentioned that multiple times. You just don't listen to know. Yeah, for sure. So anybody that's been in a comedy movie would be as applicable for it.

I mean, you go to Saturday Night Live cast and probably pick five or six people out of that group easy. Ken and Thompson. Wow. Oh, now that guy is funny. Overrated. Oh, he's so funny. How many big movies has he started in the last 10 years?

I don't care about movies. He has hosted Black Jeopardy. He's host of Family Feud. He's host of What Up with That? He's the Crash Davis of S&L. He's just not good enough for the big leagues. He's been on there for 20 years. He's really funny.

The Crash Davis. That's the number one community show in the history of comedy. The AAA of comedy. Will Farrell moves on. Eddie Murphy moves on. Tina Fey moves on. He's the Crash Davis of S&L. Crash Davis can hit you some home runs at AAA.

I mean, he's not completely unfunny. I. What? Very much disagree. He's the Tyler White of... How can you disagree? He's the... Because he's got staying power.

He's the John Singleton. Yeah, John Singleton. Wait a minute. Wait just a minute. He is way back. better than that. Stang power. You know what he is?

Stang power for what? You know what he is? He's the ultimate. He is the long-term sixth man of an NBA team. No, he's like the NBA. He's like the, uh, Jamal Crawford of the NBA.

Comedy movies are the NBA. He's in the, he's in the AAA farms. No, but a lot of people do those movies and most movies suck. S&L's the farm system. Come on. No, it's not. Jason Sudakis. It's a prime time.

I mean, it's a prime time. Saturday night at 10.30 in the, in the evening. It's only been around for 50 plus years. That is not prime time. Exactly. Yeah, it's good for what it is. Farm system. Stop.

That is not the farm system. Wrong. Look, it runs hot and cold. I get that. It ain't a farm system. He's going for a sixth, seventh year victory lap at college. Break the tie, Jonathan. Keenan Thompson.

Funny or not funny? I mean, he's fine. I think he's pretty funny. I'm going to be surprised when he said that. I was like, oh. Okay, but what about my analogy, though? They're the farm system. No.

I don't like it. Terrible analogy. I just don't know the young people, us Gen Z, we don't really watch Saturday Night Life like that. You know what you do? You watch the clips. That's what I do. I don't watch full episodes. Watch the clips.

All right. Let's talk to Jay about the Rockets when we come back. If you want to chime into it, have we had one Texans call today? You know why? If you know what it is, I think there is fatigue about preview fatigue. I really do. I'm not fatigued. Okay, bottom of the hour, we're going to do.

Okay. Full breakdown. Yeah, position by position. Sure, why not? We'll let you lead it. I thought we're going to do something different here. Everybody is preview in the game. We're going to post-preview the game, meaning this.

We're going to set up some air. We're going to record this, Jonathan. We're going to go over the five things that help the rockets. The Texans beat the Patriots. And then we're going to do the five things that cost the Texans the game against the Patriots. And we're going to see how close we are on Monday. Okay. What do you think?

All right. We'll play them back. They can't tie. Oh, okay. It's impossible to tie. So you understand what we're going to do here? Because my computer won't record nothing. Well, we can record it later.

I can record myself on this computer, but I don't think I can get you. No, just give me a countdown. I can get the timestamp. Okay. So there you go. That's what we're going to do. We're going to do the five things that help the Texans beat the Patriots on Sunday, and we'll do the five things.

And we'll re-plan on Monday. We'll see how close we got. Okay. All right. Let's go to some phones first. We have some nice people that want to say hello on anything goes Friday at 713-212-790. 7-19. 125.790, unfunniest,

comedic, male or female actresses, live or dead. Okay. It's part of the Fantasy 5 coming up in about less than an hour, as a matter of fact. And then believe it or not today, hell yeah or not, would we decide? You go on Patriot players?

I don't know. All right, sounds like you're really enthused. Kyle Tucker's so uninteresting. I would like to do Kyle Tucker. No, I don't want to do it. It hurt people's feelings. Jay, you're on 790, good afternoon. Good afternoon.

Sorry, the wind blowing them off. That's all right. But I just, I just got a quick question. So I wouldn't say I'm tuned without the Rockets. Like the first 20 games, I watched it regularly, like the last 10. I don't know how I've been eight to 10. I haven't really checked by it. But I'm looking at the shooting woes.

So is it more open shots, just not going down? Like, what's a fixable solution besides any unrealistic trades? So that's my question. Do you think it's just a man of head jumpers or is it the system? Is it the wrong players that actually sued them? Because they don't look contested shots. They don't look like a tested shot at this. But the most part, they're wide open.

So I'm just looking for a fiscal solution. Yeah, Jay, they are wide open shots. Very few of these shots are contested. The Rockets do a good job of them with the ball around. They have a tremendous opportunity of grabbing a lot of offensive rebounds. They're getting lots of good looks. I don't know if this makes any sense to you, but sometimes the ball does not look good coming out off the hand.

And some of the angles are a little peculiar. But to me, more of it is the ball does just not leave the hand particularly well. Look, Amin Thompson's never going to be a perimeter threat. Jabari has been up and down through his NBA career. Kevin Durant is a very good three-point shooter. But there's, again, he's facing double teams more than ever. Alpi's on a big perimeter threat. He can hit the mid-range and inside.

But, again, outside shots not his forte. Tar Easton's had a good season, but he's been hurt. Doreen Finney Smith is just coming back from ankle surgery, so he's not been considered. You're just kind of right now needing a hot hand, and EMA is trying to find it somewhere up and down his lineup, and he just can't find anybody that's doing it consistently over the last two or three weeks.

Yeah, that's what I figured. I just don't say, like, people talk about the system where in the NBA, there really is no system. So it's just about hitting open sides. So that was just my question. I appreciate it. I have a good weekend. Thank you, Jay.

appreciate the phone call. And don't give up on the Rockets. It's, I don't think, again, remember, I'm going to be totally biased. I don't think this is going to be a season long issue. How about, Jake Gilders-Alexander, mouthing off to Durant last night. Hope you enjoy that seven-spot. It's back talking the NBA is good. That's what I really miss being on the floor calling games. Yeah, I was arguing with people on Twitter more than I should have.

I mean, it's reactionary, and everybody wants to cross. over the spilled milk and this happens. I mean, like the Astros get swept by the A's and they're the worst team ever and this team is searching for answers and they need to blow it up and all that type of stuff. And I'm with you, Matt. We could end up being wrong, but I don't think so. The Emeudoka is too good of a head coach.

The whole staff together is too good. Kevin Durant, Alpern Shingun, I'm in Thompson and the pieces that are hurt that they're going to get back and the guys that they are, they're all too good. They are going to be fine. look at the team, the things that are happening, the number one reason they've been losing these games is because the three-point shots have not been going in.

I know people don't want to hear, oh, the schedule, but the schedule has, it's a fact. It's a fact. 23 games on the road are the first 36, tied for an NBA record. And then they come home and they're not getting days off. So I don't know when exactly it will turn, but the other teams in the West are not infallible either. Spurs have been losing some games.

Thunder were losing some games. and you want to keep pace for them. It's not ideal. It's not what you want to see, but it's going to be fine. They're in a storm right now, but there will be a calm at some point. And they're going to be ripping off wins, five out of six, whatever, and this is going to be a distant memory in a couple of months. That's what I believe is going to happen.

Look at this roster. Look at the players. Look at the coaching staff. And the track record they all have, they're going to be better. this is not who the Houston Rockets are. They're not going to be in the seven seed. They're not going to be in the plan. I don't believe.

I do not believe they're going to be a seven seed. They're going to have to fix their three-point issues if they're going to get into the top four. I don't think it goes without much needing to verify that conversation. And I don't know if Tari is the three-point solution. Frankly, to me, it's got to be, Reid's got to get that three-point shot to be a consistent guy off the bench. you need Dorian Finney

Smith to do some of the things that made him afraid and made him worthy of coming here to begin with I'm not saying there's a lot of pressure on him Akogi I wouldn't count on much offensively His numbers are probably going to fall Javari's going to have to knock down some more threes I don't think that goes out saying here I mean start of the season Jabari was over his career

numbers same thing for I'm in I'm sorry Alpern Shingoon and Josh Akogi some of those waters they're finding their levels and the three point regression is hit hard Yeah. You would hope it'd be a little bit slower, but this regression, boom, it's hitting real hard. K-So on 790K, so what do you got today?

All right, guys. I am a, you know, probably most die-hard Rockets fan listener y'all have, and it's getting pretty hard watching this team as of late. I mean, yesterday I didn't even bother to check in on the game. I haven't felt like this in a while, but watching that offense kind of gives me that feeling of watching that Mike Dan Tony offense without having that offensive engine and James Harden. There is too much standing around and watching KD or Al P cook something up. I think he may is a good coach. I like the coaching staff, but this is what year three or something like that? that where we just haven't seen any, if anything at all, as an offensive punch from the

rockets. It's really hard to watch. What do you guys think? I mean, I understand Fred being out is probably the biggest catalyst, but this team just does too much looking and watching as a 37-year-old to go and cook. It's just not sustainable, and I'm a little worried about this team. Just wanted to chime in and let you guys know. I hope you'll have a great weekend. Thanks, Koso. I don't think standing around is a issue.

They are passing a ball around a lot. Look, Durant's finding a lot of double teams. That goes without saying, but that's, again, because no one at this point is respecting the Rockets' outside game. And once some of those shots get knocked down, that won't be nearly as a big of a factor. But right now it is a factor. And that's why you're going to see more zone. I would not be surprised if Chris Finch, the coach of the Minnesota-Temberwell of Zones,

their hell on the Rockets tonight until they beat him from the outside. Yeah, they were even... This is sad to say, it was sad to see, but eventually Jabari made the pay, but they were doubling off Jabari last night. Like, normally he's a three-point threat, you don't see that. But as I said, he punished him. He made three out of his six shots, so that was good to see. But you are going to see some zone until they can knock down three-point shots.

That is going to make it difficult. I don't think there's a much ISO ball like it was Mike Danton. And it's some... where they're trying to get Kevin Durant in his pet spot, which of course is the elbows, as you know, Matt. And working a two-man game at the top of the key with some pick and rolls with Alperin Shingoon and Kevin Durant. That is one of their go-to sets as well.

Because you've got to do those types of things because, A, you don't have a primary ball handler. And B, if it's a M. Thompson running point, guys are just going to back off them and sag off in the paint. And that clogs things up for where Durant like to be in the elbows. where Alper and Shingoon likes to be at the elbows. So you don't have a whole lot of super dangerous three-point shooters and you have guys in a men and Alper and Shingoon. You normally don't want to have a, in this day and age in the NBA,

one bad shooter on the floor, but you have two bad three-point shooters. And depending on if Stephen Adams is in the lineup as well, then you're adding another, yeah, it's going to be tough to figure things out. Thank goodness, Kevin Durant is about automatic from those elbows when he can get a little wiggle room. Yeah. And if you have a man and a co-game on the floor,

your back court is not considered a perimeter threat. Now, a man can do a lot of other things to damage you, but it's going to be outside of 15 feet. And teams know that. Yeah. And that's why if you get one or two a game from a man, to soften things up a little bit, to give him a little more respect from the outside,

it would be a wonderful thing. I know maybe the name Jalen Green doesn't want to be heard here in this, but you're missing an element of what he brought. He was somebody who could blow by the defender that he's going against on the perimeter and either get to the basket or cause the defense to collapse on him and drive and kick.

You have no drive and kick element in this defense. I wouldn't say no because I'm in Thompson does it some, but players know and teams know that they can sag off of him as much as possible. And he does it with little Euro stepping, with fakes. He can craft his way to open shots with that. But he's not normally, unless it's in transition, blowing by everybody all the time.

You're missing a little bit of that driving kick element with your ball handlers. Because Alperin Shingoon's not doing that. Kevin Duran, unfortunately, this stage in his career isn't doing that. He's working at the elbows, backing down a couple dribbles and putting fadeaways up. And stop and pop 15, 20 footers, which are money, which has been incredibly efficient for him, but it's not collapsing. You don't have the shooters as consistently. and you're not collapsing defenses with a dynamic dribble drive element of the offense.

More on this coming up. We've got, oh, are Texans why'd they win and why'd they lose? And Jonathan's going to record it. We're going to see how close we were in for Monday. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Matt Thomas Show and Ross continues 1238.

Sports Talk 790 and anything goes Friday. All right, here we go. Which one would you like? Because I don't like if we repeat ourselves. It won't be nearly as entertaining. Would you like the five reasons why the Texans win and we play them back? Or the five reasons why the Texans lose and play them back on. Because we're going to play one of them on Monday.

What do you mean, which one would I like? I'll give you. Would you like to do the five? Oh, we can just ping pong them. One, two, three, four, five. Let's do that. Let's ping pong. We can both get our voices on the ear.

Sure, why not? So let's get, John, let's get cool in the gang ready here. Okay. We'll put this in the back. ground. Now seriously, I'm not kidding about this. We're going to see how close we got to this off a Monday show. So let's set the mood.

By the way, no other station in town is doing this. Celebration, what we're doing? Celebration cool in the game. We're going to pretend the Texans won this game. Okay. And it's not necessarily. Pretend it very well could happen. This is the best opportunity ever for the Texans to go. Here we go. I'm going to put this in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 record.

Ross, it is a Monday on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. What a win for the first time ever. A, F, C, championship against the. And man, that game against the should be great. It should, but it could be ugly like this win this past weekend. Well, it could be great like this game. Man, let's go over things we loved in the game. I'll start.

Okay. Texans defense, you were as advertised. You were ferocious. Yes. You made Drake May make mistakes. You made him force a bunch of bad throws. You got some turnovers. You didn't let the weather affect you.

You were swarming in New England. Thank you, Houston, Texans. Yeah, definitely the headliner there, Matt, with the high pressure rate and able to get to Drake May and make him uncomfortable, get him a little bit rattled. But also, I think the steadying force of the running. running game was important. Woody Marks, as we know, normally, yeah, we hit that one long one, but normally doesn't bust a bunch of long runs.

It was a steady dose of Woody Marks and a couple of the other guys. I thought the running name, especially on the right side, did a great job of controlling the game. Savior Hutchison, that was a key grab you made in the play in the game. I was very impressed. That was a really, yeah. I was

shocked as well. Huge part of the game. Wow, shocking. Huh. Okay. And also, back to the defense a little bit. Not only was the pressure rate good is they just didn't let Drake May get loose because the Texans, as we know, all season long had been susceptible to the running games. Now, he had a couple of runs,

but for the most part, he wasn't gashing them over and over. So he got loose somewhat, but able to keep him pinned in for the majority of the game I thought the Texans defense did a great job. And the few times the Texans had to punt, Tommy Townsend, you pinned them back deep. Thank you, we love you.

And I thought Dalton Schultz definitely with Nico Collins being out, as we all knew he was going to be. Especially in that play action game, it really works second and a half this season, and that was the case in this game as well. And that bone-jarring hit, that Jalen Petrie hit applied to, was

a huge factor in the game. Yeah, his guardian cat flew off. I love that guardian cat. I'm such a big fan of that. I got a snap back on, though, he's good. And back to special teams, Kami, you just are missed or clutch, no matter of it's indoors or outdoors. You did just enough, yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah, wind wasn't that bad. A little bit of snow

flurries, but weather was over. overall not as much of a factor as we thought it could be. And I loved how the Texans took the crowd out of the game. Yeah. And CJ, you game managed brilliantly. Made the throws when you had to.

Didn't have any of those fumble issues like we had last week. A couple of those big third down throws were nice. They were. As the Texans beat the Patriots, and now we await the in the AFC championship. Nice. And fade?

Oh, no. I don't want to do this. this. All right, when we come back. Okay, thank you, because I'm not ready for this mentally. After, I just, I'm feeling so good. But we have to be fair and balanced. We just do. When the Matt Thomas show with Ross returns,

we will prepare for the opposite. Ross, you and Jonathan come up with the most depressing song humanly possible to play with this as we continue the show here. How the Texans fell to the Patriots on Sunday. The pre, the prequel, to the aftermath is next. 790, 1244.

All right, we gave you the jubilation. And it's only fair that we do the harder part. And this is the one that's going to hit a little bit because Battle Red has been Battle Redding all year long and want to me to become pasty white. I mean, I'm always Pasty White. Liberty White. Liberty White. Liberty White, Matt. Let's go, baby.

So here we go. Count down, Jonathan, you're ready. Remember, we're going to play one of these on Monday for sure. in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talks, 790, where we are here to take your calls at 713-212-5-790. Unfortunately, the Texans lost yesterday in New England to the Patriots final final score of 2.

Let's get to it. What were the reasons? God, CJ, that terrible, terrible, picky through into double coverage. I know the pass rush was coming from the edges, but he just threw it into a crowded area with so many patriots. You knew that when receiver bounce off his hands and landed into hands, that was not a good sign for the rest of the day.

Yeah, as you meant to know, he wasn't getting a whole lot of help. And we've talked about this all season. We like Woody Marks. He had a good game in the wild card, but the consistency is not there. The yards per carry aren't there. I know the game just happens, so we don't necessarily need to get into offseason draft mode right now. But running back has to be addressed. I like Woody.

Good third down, pass blocker, pass catcher, all that stuff. But he's not an RB1. He's just not. Yeah. Ross, I was highly concerned about Damico's play calling. and use of the two minute clock. After the warning in the first half, I thought the Texans had a chance

to at least get three on that last series. Yeah, playing not to win on the road against the Steelers made sense because you're also going up against a conservative head coach. You can't do that on the road against Mike Vrabel who's willing to roll the dice and has a better offense than you. I thought that was frustrating as well, Matt. And those Drake May scrambles

key on, I mean, how many times could they not get out the field on third down. Right. And another thing that killed you, two more illegal formation penalties. This has been a problem all season long.

You couple that with the one fall start by, and then that terrible holding call against, and it backed the Texans up. It wasn't the way you wanted it to go. And with Nico Collins out,

I mean, Christian Gonzalez basically taking Jaden Higgins out of the game. Yeah. And you're searching. And Dalton Schultz is nice, and he had a few catches and some good targets, but he's not a downfield threat.

And how in the world could you ever anticipate Kami Faber missing that yard field goal when he used so money all throughout the course of the year? And Derek Stingley can't get ejected like that, punching Stefan Diggs in the face. What? That was such a tough call. I mean, right in the noggin.

That was so hard to watch. Yeah. How do you can't lose your cool You know you can't have game Stefan Diggs is going to talk some trash You've got to know that coming in Yeah The one thing that got me was

Why are you trying a fake punt At your own 11 yard line All right Wait a minute You've got Stingley being thrown out of the game With a punch That's the least I can do to combat that It was what we thought

I mean it's what we talked about all CJ had to be better And everybody around him had to be better And it was none of it unfortunate and scene okay we had it going into you said that

stingling was going to get thrown out for a punch that was terrible you don't think he could mix it up with step on diggs no chance no there's zero chance okay I'm sorry just like I said there's zero chance of a fake pun and then mixing it up with step on diggs

nobody's mixing anything up you could have set a 15 yard penalty that had made more sense but you had to be able to can we edit that out no you gotta dare to be great Matt. No, if I'd be fine nail that.

You'd be daring to be stupid. That's what you are. Just like your Kyle Tucker bet. If they win, we don't got to edit it on that one. It wasn't stupid. Oh, that's true. John, you're right. If the Texans win, that's not aired at all.

Yeah, exactly. I didn't even worried about it. Texans 19. Patriots 17. What did I say it was, by the way? I don't remember. I think you said 43 to 6. I did not.

24 to 21? That sounds good. You get the over? This feels like an easy under. I don't know why. Just because every Texans game feels like an easy under. Yeah, I think the weather's going to,

I think the weather's going to be a bigger factor than people are letting it on to be. I know your weather board is like, oh, my God, all right. Oh, here we go. Mr. Meteorologist, too. You know what they call me? What? Mr. Meteorologist. No, they don't.

Yeah, they do. Nobody's ever called you that, ever. Yeah, they call me the Neil Frank of Houston Sports. If you say so. All right. I'm trying to check the updated, the updated forecast. So, Jonathan, please don't lose either one of those. No, I got it.

You got them clipped, ready to go? Okay. And then just get rid of that last part about the ejection. Because that's 35 degrees, 48% precipitation right now. But wind's very low. Five to four to five miles an hour sustained. That's fine. But a wet ball and C.J. Stroud?

No, no, no, no, no. You've got the Texas winning. You're going to be, he's not going to turn the ball over three times and the Texas's still going to win. It's supposed to be 59% up to 72% 4 and 5 o'clock right now. That's Eastern Time. That's a 3 o'clock kick time, by the way. Yeah, what I'm saying?

This is during the game. Okay, I am worried about fumbles for CJ now. You can speak a little louder. I'm worried about fumbles for CJ now. Why him? It could be a variety of... Wait, me, it could be Drake May, too. That's true.

It's like going to rain for the same amount of time on the field. All right, let's get to practicing with a wet ball. Let's go. You know what? You know what I have not done? I have not checked my... I put a poll question up for like three days ago. I think I probably buried into my tweet feed

about how people are going to think the game's going to go. I'm going to go through a bunch of my Twitter. Ben, well, thanks everybody for following me on Instagram. I really appreciate that. If you don't follow me on Twitter, too, I'd love that. Oh, wow. Thanks to those you have followed who I followed back. I appreciate it.

I think I give everybody shoutouts except for Hellbound, slowly stung, Ataboy, Trey and Adam and Super Sam. Appreciate you all. Thank you. I got a brand new one. Hadda baby eats a boy. Congratulations to that Twitter follower,

or that Instagram followers. How many people are getting that reference. I don't care if only one does. I'm the one. I feel like it's accomplished. 86% Texans, 14% Patriots on the vote. I got one day left. What do you say? 86%

Texans 14%. How long did you did the poll for three days? I did. Well, see, I did Texans plus three, and mine ended at 87.5%. I'm pinning them into the profile. I pinned it. So if you've not voted on my Twitter account, who you got in the game, Texans or Patriots, get your votes in. Okay. All right. We are 25 minutes away from

the fantasy 5 this week, which is worst comedic actors, actresses, stand-up, and or movies. Anything that, anybody that portrays that believe they're funny and you think they're awful. That's the contest. Now, if you use me, you're going to lose. Because I'm not a comedic actor.

I may be funny, but I'm not a comedic actor. Funny how? When's your All-Exus spot going to run? Either next week or the week after. All right. Let me know. I'm just going to look for myself and then turn it off. You're watching the whole thing.

You think so? At 100%. You are 100% watching the whole thing. You better watch it. I'll be upset. I'm going to quiz you on it. Oh, yeah, I watched it, man. It was great.

I thought you looked amazing. Wow, when they had you calling the game, that was good. Okay, go ahead and record my reaction to the Rockets All Access. That was great. That's cool. It was a fair part. That's when they had you sleep and that was hilarious. That was so good.

They had me sleep. You had that funny pillowcase. It made it. I thought all the little attention to detail of all that. That was great. 713. Can I talk to somebody else? I've been talking to you for three and a half hours.

We got a couple of cases. Okay, so came in, talk some Rockets Ball. I would like anybody to call in besides talking to Ross. And Jonathan doesn't talk to me very much. So we'll move on from him too. Wow. He didn't want to talk to us. He's busy.

I'm making sure these poster up and everything. Yeah, he's busy. Thank you, Jonathan. I'm not blaming him. You have five jobs. And when the, when the, the show goes like this, he gets upset at everybody. I know.

I know. Come in to 7-13, 2-1-2-5-7-9. I'm sick of talking to negative Nelly over here. Anything goes Friday. Anything goes Friday. I just said your segment was great. You didn't. You just said you weren't going to watch it.

I said, no, it's great and I can't wait to watch it. Now, you misheard. I think I heard that too, Ross. You're right. You're right. All right. All right. The Fantasy 5 in 20 minutes here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 30 on Sports Talk 790.

the Matt Thomas show with Ross continues. We've got the Rotten 5 coming up in about 15 minutes from now. We have really one of our segments for our show already locked and loaded for Monday. That's one less thing we're going to worry about. It's true. Four hour show, baby. Let's go. They can't lose because that last run, that last minute of it,

we give up two of the most preposterous things that could potentially happen in the game. A fake punt, the 11-yard line, and a Derek Stingley ejection on a punch. That's... He was swinging on Stefan Diggs. That was crazy. Everything else made sense. Okay. No, we can cut that part off.

We probably can put that part off. We probably can play it. But they're not going to lose. They're going to win. That's my gut feeling. All right. Twitter account, I want to know. This is not worrying about a sprags.

We don't care about spreads. Can't bet legally in Texas. Okay. And let's take a look here. The poll question has an 86% Texans, 14% Patriots. Okay. Mine has the spread and it's 87 and a half. I wonder if...

About the same. did the show in if we were Boston hopes on W.E.E.I. Yeah. Boston. What did Boston accent? I guess. Yeah, it's like that. Pact the car. Pacta car. The Wicked Oz.

Damico Ryan's has no chance. Do you think they make fun of us like the way we make fun of them? Oh, yeah. We're on Houston Radio. Yeah. Yeah. Let's get our horses out there. I don't know if that noise was. I'm sorry. Two things I hate in life. What? Stereotypes and Longhorn fans.

713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 We're at the Rotten 5 coming up, not Rotten 5, Fantasy 5 in about 15 minutes. I'm very excited because I think you and I are going to have a pretty similar list. Maybe. Alive or dead, unfunniest people, male or female. There's your category.

Let's talk to the great people of Houston and say hello to, in terms of no longest wait. go to Paul and my damn screen my computer is acting up Paul and Meyerland on 7908 105 Paul thank you for holding a good afternoon everything everything

I'm gonna tell you a little story about how Darrell K. Royal changed the history of country music all right hold on hold on hold on if you're going to go country music we're going to have some country music in the background don't you think sure why not we'll put on some Willie Nelson this is about Willie

oh Willie Nelson huh okay Um, yeah, he bought Willie Nelson played, uh, he played, uh, yeah, he played DB for Darryl K. Royal, right? All right, we're gonna, we're gonna get it set up. Hold on, we're not ready yet, Paul. You should tell our producer what you're doing here,

so we can know what's going on here. There we go. Go ahead, Paul. Okay, so back in the early 70s, William Nelson's drummer, Paul English, shop the steel guitar player in the band. So, steel guitar player was out of the band.

just so happens that after a UT game Darrell Kay invited Willie he was there but he introduced him to a young

harmonica player named Mickey Raphael now we switched from a studio guitar player to a harmonica player completely changed the sound of his band

and that was the start of the Outlawed music revolution that made Willie Nelson's sound what it is to So thanks to Daryl for hooking him up with this harmonica player, changing the complete sound, and Meg Willie the star that he is, and he's 93 years old now and still going. That's my story. Now, you may ask me why did the drummer shoot the steel guitar player? Go ahead if you like it.

We did. Go ahead. Tell us. Well, Hapton's kind of a sad story. The drummer's wife committed suicide. And the steel guitar player told him, if I lived with you, I'd kill myself too. So that's what's her at all.

He shot the steel guitar player. It's kind of rude. Any of the words kind of. But Darryl Kay Royal changed the history of country Western music through. I'd say the better. Thank you, Paul. Y'all have a great weekend. You as well.

Thank you, right? Hey, right after the game, we've got the Cooney basketball, right? Yes, we do, Arizona State. Glad you brought that out. All right. Turn out. Yep. Go Coogs. Go Coogs.

Have a great weekend. You too. You want to say it, don't you? I got nothing. John, write this? I'm assuming you've never heard this song before in your life. I was in Kentucky for two years now. Come on now. I'm not a huge Willie Nelson fan.

I do like Whiskey River and I do like beer from a horses. What do you hit a duet with? Toby Keith. That song is? No, okay. I think actually Toby Keith is more credited of the song than Willie is. I don't want to admit. We're going to, you know what? Let's get crushed together.

I don't get it. I don't get it. Hold on. But Willie Nelson, Mr. Texas should adore him. He is Mr. Nelson. No, Willie Nelson is Mr. Texas more than you. He's Mr. Potsmoker. Okay, and he's Mr. Texas. He's way more Mr. Texas than you are and should be.

He's like the candidate. He's like a front line candidate. You're a back line. Like worst candidate. But maybe I need to listen to more of it. Let me tell you. Let me tell you. If we're in Lookinback, Texas.

Like George Strait, I get it. I love George Strait. I love it. I like George Strait a lot. Like, I get it. Like, I want to go see George Strait in Lubbock. Lillian just kind of talks. On the road again.

Like, is it hard to carry? There are people like scared to karaoke Willie Nelson because he's such a powerhouse singer? Well, you shouldn't judge somebody based on their karaoke value. No, you should. Well, they're singing prowess, yes. I don't know what's other things. It's the music, maybe the lyrics, or whatever.

I mean, on the road again is his most famous song, and we just heard it, and it's like, okay. It is his most famous song. You can't wait to get on the road again. That's cool. I do like Whiskey River a lot. That's one of my old-time favorites. You know what?

You know what? I need to give myself an assignment, because I haven't dove it. dove into Willie Nelson. How about we do this? Next time you and I go to Lake Charles, let's listen to Willie Nelson on the road for two hours. We're not doing two hours.

We're not doing two hours. in 30 minutes, a song will be 50 minutes. In those days, the songs are about 2.15. We're down to fit them on the 45s. Yeah, I just feel like we're going to get crushed. I'm going to listen to the... You know what? But I got to sing my heart true. I just don't get it.

I'm literally saving the playlist right now. Where's my... This is Willie Nelson. Oh, Mamas don't let your babies. That's classic. That is a good song, too. Maybe, you know what? That's why we didn't...

Everything on here is duets. We did not discuss rated over or under. We just didn't say anything. You know what? Always on my mind is a jam. Oh, that's a good song, too. Whiskey River is a jam. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain?

A good song, too. I don't know that one. That's a blue eyes crying in the rain. Oh, yeah, it's not bad either. Here, John, then give us this. Yeah. See, this is why I... No, this is good.

This is soulful. Yeah, this is... All right. You know what? We didn't say anything. We were right. I just said I don't get it because I haven't gotten into it.

You know? You know what I'm going to do? In fairness, I'm going to download some more songs. Making model airplanes can be great. I just haven't gotten into it, so I don't know. I don't judge. All right. You know what?

Yeah, I'm Willie Nelson. It's a Willie Nelson Friday. This is good. The rest of the show are going to be Willie Nelson's songs? No. Next Friday. Next Friday. Well, we've got three songs left.

We've got to do Fantasy 5 next. Okay. All right. For those that don't know about Fantasy 5, we need five of you to be our judges. Jonathan, you are judge number six. All right. Judge number six? Yeah.

Okay. I don't want, I don't want Johnson to make the deciding vote, although he probably would lean my direction. We're going to name a bunch of people he'd never heard of. You know what? I'm going to be looking it up every time. You know what?

You might take the week off. We're not going to name anybody in the 20s. If I don't know enough, I'm going to give my vote somebody else. You are out this week. Okay. So here's what we're going to do. We need seven judges. Can we get seven phone lines or is that most?

Are we maxed at six? We can get six. Okay. We need six judges at 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. 713212.5.790. We're going to go through a fantasy 5 of list of people we don't believe are very funny

in either movies or television or stand-up. And you've got to give us the list that you most agree with. Now, since I won the last fantasy 5, it'll be up to me to take you the first pick or we go on a snake system where I get picks number two and three. So if you'd like to be a judge, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-2-1-2-2-1-2,

5.790 unfunny people that are considered comedic actors and actresses. That's the Fantasy 5 next at 113 on Sports Talk 790. Fantasy 5 time. By the way, great friend

of the show, Kent, listener, my neighbor of mine just sent me a message. It says $20 says you can't do 30 minutes straight of Willie without wanting to drive head first through into an 18 wheeler. Wow. So not an unpopular topic because I also got Colton said Willie Nelson

as overrated as it gets. He's got some hits. I just doesn't come top of mind. If I'm going to listen to some old school country, it's Johnny, it's Wayland. Is it more just the like, George Jones? The legendary like the aura.

Stuff like that, because of the outlaw country music, shooting guns like Paul was talking about. Because you know what? I'll give you a rap parallel. Snoop Dogg. Like Doggy style was an all-time great album. But like outside of that, in the early stuff

with Dr. Dre, and maybe B, please. Let me know when I can jump into this conversation. I feel like Snoop Dog doesn't. He has a couple of hits, but he's not, he's more the aura of who Snoop Dog

is and being a famous rapper than actually being a good all-time rapper. Isn't he just a mascot now? Hey, put me on the Olympics. He's America's sweetheart. Put me on NBA. basketball. Yeah, he's out there with Martha Stewart doing all kinds of crazy stuff. He's America's sweetheart. Snoop Dog.

And I completely choked when I had chance to say hello to him. That's okay. I didn't introduce myself. You'll get him next time. All right, here we go. Fantasy 5, it's a snake system. Worst comedians, male or female, dead or alive. Anything comedic. Actor, TV, series, movie, stand-up, whatever you want to choose. If it ain't funny, put in the list. We need one more

judge for the Fantasy 5. It's 7-13-21, 2,000, of an inning. I won last time. I will go first. Oh! I wasn't expecting this. Go ahead. There are a lot of good candidates. To me, this guy has been around for 2010,

2030, about 50 years in the comedic industry with movies, television, and now a game show. He wasn't funny in his little characters. He isn't funny in commercials. He's not funny hosting a game show.

Pound for pound, the most unfunny, overrated comedic actor slash comedian of all time for me is Martin Short. Now, Martin Short was on my list, and I knew you hated him. I knew he was on your list. Yes. Okay. Yeah, I'm with you. That's an I just don't get it.

Martin Short. Martin Short. Completely unfunny. All right. I'm going to go with an actual stand of a comedian. comedian. And it also kind of became like in vogue to hate on this person, kind of like Nickelback.

But there's a reason people hate on Nickelback. They're not good. There's a reason people hate on this comedian. He's not good. Yet he sells out arenas and he's massively famous. Dane Cook is a punchline for everyone. And I just don't get it.

I've never watched him, but I know that there's a lot of hate out there. Yeah, I just aren't familiar with his work. But he sells out arenas, though, Rossi. Yeah, he's not good. And then I think he had some grooming accusations or something too. What is a grooming accusation? Like he was grooming a teenager to be his girlfriend once she turned 18. Terrible.

I'm not familiar with his work, but I know that every time we go to an NBA arena, he's always got a spot open. Painfully, unfunny. Okay. Have you heard of either of these people yet, Jonathan? No. You're definitely out. The number one head two picks. All right, keeping it going.

This guy completely continued to fall upwards in comedy. He started in the minors in SNL, where his best attribute was breaking character and laughing the whole time. Damn it. Now he does a late night show, and he's not good. He doesn't do good interviews. He doesn't do good monologues. Yet he falls upwards.

I don't get it. Jimmy Fallon. Okay, okay. Like painfully unfunny. Painfully unfuny. He doesn't do anything but giggle. He's a giggler. And now he does.

If you put his show on, he sings half the time. He's not a good singer. And the only funny thing he does, as you said, is break character. Now, the scene where he's breaking character with everybody else breaking character in that Debbie Downer is one of the funniest sketches of all the time.

But it's because Debbie Downer was funny. Not because Jimmy Fallon was funny. He can't even stay in character for five seconds. Terrible. Next. I get the next two. Go ahead. S&L character, actress.

Ooh. She's done a couple of movies here and there. She's done parks and recreation, I think, which I don't even really watch. She hosts a bunch of shows. She was prominent on the SNL anniversaries. Amy Poehler, you're not funny. I'm sorry. You're just not funny.

I think she was funny in Parks and Rec. Didn't watch it for a reason because she was on it. There's another, I'm trying to think of the, there was like another movie. Oh, she was kind of funny induced Bigelow, Mel Gigolo. Okay, that should further prove why my list is good. She was the woman with Tourette's. I mean, that movie sucked for sure. Sucked.

Speaking of sucked. Okay, go ahead. This next one is again, not a funny guy. And in a matter of fact, he's been out of comedy for 20 years because people said, you know what, you're not funny. He's back doing some comedy movies now. It was on SNL a few weeks ago as a host. I went and saw his movie back in 2006 because it was a wrestling movie and I like wrestling.

Painfully unfunny. I'm speaking of a guy. His name is Jack Black. Oh, Jack Black? Not funny. Not funny at all. School of Rock is funny. He was good in.

Cable guy. The Marga movie He's a decent end. No, you're wrong. Oh my God. It was terrible. So dark. Not Cholibri sucked.

Kung Fu Panda is a classic. Oh, shallow how is good. Kung Fu Panda is a classic. Stop yourself. Oh, yeah. Matt. Get him.

Ah, you're not alive. Year one was funny. I'll wait. I'll wait. You're not a voter. You're not voting anyway. So go ahead. I'm just saying.

Year one with Michael Sarah was funny. I disagree. I disagree. No, I'm not. I disagree, but I'm going to say I get it. Thank you. He's definitely a one note. One unfunding note.

One note that's off tune. All right, I'm going to keep it going. Oh, my gosh. Actually, I'm ending up with a lot of candidates now at this point. But I'm going to go with... You know what? A woman who was a comedian and also became a movie star. And that was an I just don't get it.

She had a bunch of specials on comments. Comedy Central. And then for whatever reason, she was the hot it girl. And then she got called out for stealing all her jokes. Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer, not funny. Didn't love the movie, but she's good on the Comedy Central roast. Or was?

She doesn't do it anymore. She was good on the roasts. And see, if you're a good roaster, you're going to get better down. Her stand-up's not good, and the movies were terrible. Amy Schumer, next on my list. All right. All right, keeping it going. this guy that I actually saw as one of the

openers for Dave Chappelle who was ridiculously funny and he keeps falling upwards and he was on commercials now too and he was on SNL and when I saw his comedy set I was like this guy's going to kill himself it was depressing and it wasn't funny

and the only laughter was awkward laughter like hoping the guy wasn't going to pull out a gun and end at all Pete Davidson I don't get it. What's the funniest thing Pete Davidson has ever done in your eyes? You know why this may not resonate? Because he's not been given a lot of great roles.

He was given an opportunity. He's not funny. He's not funny yet. He's on every commercial and he was on SNL for everywhere. The one thing he's got going for him apparently is, I know what you're going to say. And you're right. And it's hurtful. And apparently it apparently is hurtful.

But it works for him. I'm going to jump your hand again and we're going to jump off the ledge together. You're right. His father unfortunately died. Oh, no, no, no, no. That's the true one with that. Apparently he's got a long package. Oh, that too?

Yeah. See, we're on it. But I think, for whatever reason that comes, his father unfortunately died in the 9-11. Yes, he did. And he used it in his bit. Everybody just feels sorry for him about it because he's not funny. I'm sorry.

Obviously, an unspeakable tragedy, but he's an unfunny comedian and actor. Pete Davidson, unfunny. Even these Amazon commercials he's on, is Alexa he's on? Those aren't funny. He's, he's, I got the last two and then you got the last one. Television star, I tried to watch his TV show for a long time

because the female lead on the show, I think, is kind of hot. Okay. He is not hot. The show wasn't funny. Then he makes a bunch of movies that aren't funny, including being about a mall cop. Oh, okay. The King of Queens, never laughed once. Really?

Paul Blart Mallcop. It was okay. It was a pronounce you, Chuck and Larry or whatever. Jerry Stiller was good on that. that show. Trebin James, you're not funny. King of Queens was okay. It was not okay. It was not. It ran for like a long time. Because of Leia Remedy. She was hot. I love Leanne Remedy. Very nice. I'm with you on that. Let's see. It ran for nine seasons. Couldn't have been that bad. I'm with you like, okay, he's not one of the all-time greats, but I thought he was kind of funny.

My last one didn't catch Paul Blart Maltcott personally. Well, that's you interested in North America. Oh, have you seen? He does YouTube as the sound guy on TV, movie sets. Those are kind of funny. Sorry. Next. This guy gets made fun of in Roast because he hosts a bunch of shows. Apparently he has a comedy tour. And apparently he'll never turn down a movie in which I've seen none of them.

He was decent as the emcee on the Tom Brady Roast because he was decent as the emcee. because people were making fun of how unfunny he is. Kevin Hart, you're not funny. You're not funny, Kevin Hart. Now, actually, I'm going to disagree with that one. His stand-up's actually pretty good. It's decent. I don't know, his 73 movies he's made is not funny.

It's not 10 out of 10, but it's like 7 out of 10. And he is America's comedy whore. And he's in like 16 movie comedies every minute. Yes. I mean, some people are going to agree with you. But I disagree. I think I might be in the minority. You got one left.

Um, this is tough, actually. I got a lot of people on my list. I'm going to go with... Oh, Harry. Tyler Perry. The movies, the Medea,

I don't get it. He's a billionaire. So clearly some people think it's funny. But I haven't laughed once in any of the previews. I watched like half of one of the movies and I was like, I can't even finish this. I don't get it. Not funny at all.

to me. I'm going with Tyler Perry. All right. So we're going to take a quick break. Yes. Oh, okay. Building the drama. Well, we didn't we got to do it. Yeah. Okay. Sure, why not? My list. These are unfunny actresses, alive or dead. I think everybody in our group's alive, right? Yeah. I think so.

Martin Short, Amy Poehler, Jack Black, Kevin James, Kevin Hart. That's my list. Okay. You okay back there? I'm giving sound effects. Go Ross. Ross. Dane Cook, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Schumer, Pete Davidson, Tyler Perry. I almost went with Andy Dick.

We left off. Oh, Andy Dick was on my list. Luke Wilson was on my list. Carrotop was on my list. Martin Lawrence also on my list. Okay. It's basically a... Martin Lawrence.

All right. Get out of here. I got out of my list. Okay. And he went on my list. Okay. So I'm the list again. Short polar.

Martin is a classic. Short polar, black, James Hart, yours is Cook, Fallon, Schumer, Davidson, and Perry. The Fantasy five judges will speak next. 131 on Sports Talk 790. All right. To be really fair on this, these are two amazingly great list of unfunny people. Is this going to be how the draw goes here?

713212-579. Again, my list is short, polar, black, James, and Hart. Martin Short. Martin Short. Ross is Cook, Fallon, Schumer, Davidson, and Perry. Who has the worst comedians list? Yes, who is the worst? Who's the worst?

like you who you had a hundred dollars to spend the least funny list let's go to uh brent on the fantasy five brent who wins ross or me man i'm gonna have to say that uh the people that can be funny when they're not funny like jack black and bernie that's funny to me and then also uh yeah jimmy tallin's not funny i'm i have to go with rossie man all right thank you brent you know what i can't crush because this is a great list can't say go to hell. I can't say, you know, go get in a car accident. Can't do those things today. Turn me a better person.

Matt on 790. Matt, who wins the Fantasy 5? Who is the worst list? All right. Well, Matt, you had more unfunny people. Jack Black and Kevin James are absolute jackasses. But Ross had the goat of unfunny comedians. Amy Schumer.

Her stick is stupid and old. Ross wins. Okay. That's two. Two nothing. It's early. It's fine. You're going to win. Come back. It's early. teams come running back. You can get four in a row. Hey, the Texans went 0 and 3. See?

See, I can do intertwine sports on this. Mike on 790. Mike, who wins the Fantasy 5? Ross for me. Man, I can't stand Jack Black and Perry's horrible, but I would say Jack Black. But, man, you got it so Andrew Dice Clay in there. He is very unfunny. Very unfunny.

But he's out in our list, so who wins? You do. Okay, thank you. Thank you very much. I for a one trick pony Andrew Dice is pretty funny I don't know I listen for 20 That was before my time I didn't really

Hickory dickory doc And I can't read any more after that Okay There was a once an old woman who lived in a shoe She had so many kids her blank fell out Oh for that Corey on 790 Corey Who wins the Fantasy 5

First of all you both missed out On that ginger-haired hat Kathy Griffin The most unfun- Oh, that's a good one. That's a good call on your part. That's a good one. Good one in your part. She was even cast it as a hack in Seinfeld.

Yeah. Matt, how dare you? Martin Short is an American legend. No, he's not as from Canada. I would rather listen to my grandparents have sex than listen to Dane Cook. So, why win? And Martin Short is a Canadian legend, an American legend. That's fine.

All right, three to one. I win. We got one more. I mean, I won. I'm sorry. You have a book. No, the vote I win. I'm sorry. That's what I was trying to say. Well, on

790, who wins a fantasy 5? Oh, it's David, actually, and it's Ross. I mean, Amy Schumer's the worst, so there you go. Gotcha. Thank you. I think she's so funny on Rose that I couldn't pull the trigger on that, but I get it. All right, and then, last

one here. Roger on 790. Roger, who wins you, who's your vote for for the fantasy five? Yeah, Matt. It's Ross, but, you know, Kevin James at least had some good riding. I had good cast and he had funny moments whereas Pete Davidson and somebody lost a bet

somewhere with the producer and they had to force that guy into where he's at now. All right. That's all I got. Gotcha. All right. That's way more dominating win

than I thought you were going to get. I like, again, I don't have a problem with you losing it. You said Jack Black, Matt. I did crush you a couple people. People, no, no.

People, do we have two people crush him? People don't like Jack Black, Jonathan. Sorry they don't. He sucks. I don't know, man. I don't know. Oh, here we go. Look at you.

You know, I took a lot of hits today. Kyle Tucker! I lost. Serve me my habachi and suck it. Kyle Tucker, I told you over and over and over again. The crown is on my head. And I'm back right, right, right. And I'm back in my throne.

You fall down and you get back up. Soup. We are the champions, baby. Onions. Succulpt. Give her the crown. The all-time champ is back.

Oh my God. The wins keep coming. I'm the Los Angeles Dodgers of the Fantasy 5, and the crown is mine. No. Cal she says pay up, B, when it comes to getting some dinner. By the way,

I'm going to give you some of that we know who sent the following. You have to guess who it is, and I don't mind telling him this person, because you're not trying to be hiding. It's all right. King of Queens is the funniest sitcom ever. Wow. That feels like Craig Ackerman.

I watch it every night on TV land, and I said, Rahimi, is that her name, Rahmini? Lela Rehemi. No, no, no. Leo Remini. Leo Remini, see? Not Lili Rahmi. Leo Remini. Is the only region why I watch, and he said, yes, I agree with that, but the show is hilarious. All right, so we're going to spend one minute here. What? trying to figure out who said it.

It's somebody you and I both know. John McLean. It is in the sports media industry and you get... I'll give you 10 guesses. Ten, that means it's way off the board. Brian McTaggart. That's it. Yes.

Tags. King of Queens. I tried. It's not bad. No, it's not. It's not good. I will say it was in my after-school rotation with the Simpson-Signfeld.

You know, you get home from school, you watch whatever. whatever's on at 3.30 on Fox or whatever. It was in my rotation. Y'all didn't have cartoons then? You didn't have cartoons? I'm talking about like when I was a teenager. I wasn't watching cartoons. Didn't you question?

I was a. I was X-Men. Okay, rotation then would be X-Men, Ninja Turtles, Power Rangers. Here's the difference. And Jonathan, turn your earphones off. My rotation when I was in school, and this is going to age me, but it's just, I'm just being honest. Okay.

What's happening? Sanford and Son, good times. Yes. The Jeffersons. Okay. believe it was a bonanza. No bonanza. Oh.

It was the Colgate Hour? No Colgate Hour. I've heard all those are good, though. So I'm not going to burn you too much. Hey, hey, hey, classics. You can go on me TV and watch us. Seinfeld Simpson, Friends, King Queens. Yeah.

That's why I was watching a lot. Anyways, I won. Your best of your group is Jimmy Fallon. Pete Davidson. It's so bad. And Pete Davidson is horrible. Any shoe, I had a great list. Tyler Perry, I'm not familiar with his work.

But I know. One more time, I want to hear where you went wrong. Martin Short. Completely unfunny. Amy Polar. Don't get her at all. She's not funny, yeah. Jack Black.

You heard people disdain for him. Kevin James, King of Queens, King of Bad, King of Boring. That was a good one. McHaggs disagrees. And Kevin Hart, again, did a nice job on the Brady Roast, but everything else he's done. I mean, you watch those commercials with him and LeBron? There's no chuckling. Any movie with him in The Rock, not funny.

Any movie with him in a period, not funny. No, people are chiming in. Adam Clinton said, Chelsea Handler was on my list, but I did not pick her. Yeah, I didn't, I don't know enough of her work yet. Chelsea Handler was on my list. James Corden, Carlos Mencia, Andy Dick. Those were all the people. I ended up with a list.

Oh, Gordy. Let me just tell you why. Get him, Gordy. Chris Gordy. School of Rock is a Jack Black classic. He's right. If Gordy likes something that means I should have easily won. Year one with him.

Michael Sarah's funny too. And the Mario movie. He's Bowser. I'm saying. Jack Black is so versatile. I can't believe you. Get a versatile. He's kind of one-n-no. He's so versatile. He hasn't worked in 20 years. He's the same guy. He's even

talked about the fact he didn't work it for 20 years because nobody thought it was funny. You have to be funny and work. Maybe the new generation is helping out a little bit. New generation. You mean the ignorant generation? I don't know. Uh-oh. Dude gets me a laugh every time. I don't know. By the way, I won the Kyle Tucker bed. Yes, you did. Congratulations. You did.

But you know what? You lost the fantasy 5. We're not talking about that. We talk about the first four hours. You just lost. What you bring up old stuff? You're living in the past. Nobody's talking about that. Well, I'll be talking about this for the future too. You're living in the past. You ready for next contract?

I'm ready. Give me the crown. Then he'll finally get his 12-year deal. Hell yeah. Kyle Tucker is up next at 144 here on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross after I tell you about. If you want to play for that, come on in and do so. 713-212-2-5-790. 713-212-5-7-9-0.

All right, we got Rockets basketball tonight here on 790. We'll start the bad boy off at 7.30 with a launch pad. Ross Villarreal will be your host for that. And if you missed the conversation we had with EMA at Don't-go, you'll be hearing just about all that. It's not true. Five to six minutes. Oh, I need to.

What? Leave yourself a note. You're going to go and take a nap? All right. I'm going to do that. but I need to alert Rockets PR. I'm coming to the game. Oh, good.

We'll see it at the game then. Yeah. You should do an autograph signing out. It's on the concourse somewhere. People don't normally show up. They just ask me, where's Section 118. That's actually where my broadcast spot is. I don't know.

So I'm ushering. You are ushering. I ushered a Totis Center. I think, I'm joking, but a lot of times we're in press boxes. It's crazy how often you get asked, hey, where's this? I don't know. That happened to me when I was at the Rangers.

I remember doing playoffs, and it happened to me in the Astros. So are you at Roefast, when you are sitting at the game in the press area, do you like to be left alone or do you want to talk with fellow community of people? I like to watch the game. I don't like Chattie Cattie's or people who are being too loud or making too much noise or talking. No, I like to watch the game because especially when you're at the game, I can't, when I'm at home and I'm going to do post game, I can pause and rewind. What happened there?

Or what, who let the basket cut go through? And I'll see, oh, it's Alper and Shingoon, those guy have cut to the basket. I can't do those things at the game, so I try to pay more close attention and take notes and all that. So please, if you remember the media, well, legit media, and you're real media,

and you see Ross to say hi, how are you doing? And make sure that all that's done before the game. Once the game starts, you can talk to you at halftime too. Yeah, or just as long as, or dead balls, it's fine. But some people just like trying to talk the whole game and, like Band Boerfleet. I'm trying to watch the game. You get a halftime snack too.

Five minutes left to go in the show. Leave it or not. We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We call it B, leaving or not. But on Fridays, we call it a hell, yeah, or not. And here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Today's edition of Hell, yeah, or not, is all things about Kyle Tucker the Dodger. O'SH! I'll read your statement about Kyle. The statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! It's the same as erroneous. Full of Bunk.

comment up you will say this. Not to two, Hell, yeah, or not's in a row. When you a pair of tickets to see Motley Crew on their return of the Carnival of Sins Tour with Tesla in Extreme on September the 11th at the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets are on sale right now at Ticketmaster.

My buddy Ed went to college with me, grew up in high school, loved him some Tesla. We listened to Tesla from Houston and Denton one time. As far as my life, I'll never get back. I'm sure it's great group. 713-212-5-7-90. Jim on 790. Jim, you ready to play hell yeah or not. Hell yeah, if I can win about five pair of those tickets to see Extreme, they bit

slapped me with them the phenomenal album. My senior year at A&M, I've been hooked ever since. Let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go. Before being selected by the Astros in the 2015 MLB draft, Kyle Tucker was committed to play baseball for the University of Florida. Believe it or not. Hold on. Hold on, excuse me.

That's not right. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's right wrong. For Florida State, Florida State is where he committed. say believe it or hell yeah or not not that's right it was florida yeah my new show i try to trick you try to trick me statement number two for the win in 2015 baseball american named kyle tucker the best high school baseball player in the country 2015 hell yeah or not hell yeah you're going to the concert how about that kim i think five oh yeah awesome you know whatever just take as one as you want

let's go to uh stephen on seven ony stepheny stephen you're ready to play hell yeah or not Hell yeah. Kyle Tucker is naturally right-handed, but bats left-handed because as a youth, he was mimicking his older brother, Preston. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. That's right. Statement number two for the win. Kyle Tucker's 153 home runs of the 11th on the Astros' all-time list ahead of Glenn Davis and just behind George Springer. Hell yeah or not.

Not. That is right. He is not even in the top 10. He's got 125. Rossi. four statements, four correct answers. We got ourselves a mini skunk going right now. Chris on 790, Chris, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show?

The part where you got destroyed in the comedian battle. Chris, I hope you lose. While Kyle Tucker caught the final out of the 2002 World Series, he threw the ball in the air and was eventually retrieved and given to Jim Crane. Hell yeah, or not? Not. Yeah, he kept it. I'm really hoping you lose now.

Statement number two for the win. While with the Astros, Kyle Tucker stated that Chas McCormick was the teammate he'd least like to be stranded with on a desert island. Hell yeah or not, the least one. Hell yeah. What did he say? I said his fair moment on the show was when I got destroyed in the Fantasy Five. Oh, that's rude. Chris, I hope we give you terrible tickets.

Let's go to... These questions suck. Six. Then we got a skunk here going. Six correct answers. Brian on 7.90, you ready to play? Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Early in his career, Kyle Tucker did not use batting gloves,

which was a habit which he picked up from his brother Preston. Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. That is correct. Hell yeah. Here we go. One more. No, no, no, no, no.

We're going to be one more. I'm sorry, John. For a full win. Kyle Tucker's favorite video game growing up. was NBA 2K. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. That's it!

It's a perfect day! How do you guess that? Say sorry to Mars. How would anybody guess it's NBA 2K? This is making me upset. That's it. We gave away everything. We had no winners for like two days.

Now it's everyone. Yeah. Say sorry to Martin. I'm sorry, Jonathan. No, it's not to me. No. That's it. Up next, two gentlemen who love Tesla.

You know what I retire. You have the right to question. from now on. Now Monday, our show's already done. Texans, Patriots. You thought the four hours of preview was good with us. It'll be half as good with Wexler and Clinton. The team. Talk to you for Rockets at 8.30 on 790.