The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Lakers GAME 6!! Astros Still Trying to Turn It Around

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Lakers GAME 6!! Astros Still Trying to Turn It Around 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 at H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Don't cut off because you don't have the time to turn left when you were in the wrong lane. So I would say to Hondre and Lantra, Biach, shut your bum ass up. Shit your bum ass up. And when I'm a middle finger, you just take that middle finger.

You don't middle finger me back. I did nothing wrong. Sometimes when you get middle fingered, you got to adjust to it, accept it, and move along, and don't retaliate. No, oh, please. I bet I will bet one million billion dollar empty bucks that you have made a mistake on the road, somebody has middle fingered you,

and you have middle fingered them back. Accurate. What? What? The hypocrisy. Yeah, that's fine. Living, breathing, hypocrite. Weekdays 10 to 2. Oh, my God.

And Rockets games. And my life. My favorite part is how it didn't even take any pride or pulling. You just switched. You're like, yeah, you're right. I love you, Matthew. Yeah, I just want to let you know. That's the natural reaction.

Somebody middle fingers, you guys, you double rise right here, be itch. I'm a little charged. jump today. Game six must win game! Let's go! Let's go, let's go, baby. Game six, baby, let's go. Aye, aye, aye.

Everybody in their mother's like, what do you think is going to happen? I don't have a crystal ball in front of me. I'd like to know. But you usually have a gut feeling. Everyone forms a gut feeling. Here's what I don't like. Everybody in their mother on the national side is now flipping their the Rockets are the stupidest team ever.

They're brain dead. They don't know how to win games. Why? Well, because of the game three collapse. And the Rockets have had a tough time. And now it's, oh, LeBron is old. He's cooked. It's two games in 36 hours.

It's a travel day. I'm staying away from all that. The prisoner of the moment, yeah, sports takes seesaw. It always is going back and forth. We all do, but I feel like it's getting worse. or maybe I'm just getting older and onrear? Well, here's the reality. So last night the dogs did not like the weather.

Oh, your dogs? My dogs. And we have flooring in our... What's their take on the game? I didn't really bring it up to them. Yeah, Rockets and Seven? Sadie has... They're like, Dad, you're going to be home soon?

Yeah. You hardly have her home. That Sadie had Alpe going off for 30 tonight. Yeah, I think Coral thought it was going to be a triple double for Reed Shepard. It's like, okay, dogs, whatever. Point being is that they walk around. We have flooring in our bedroom. now that's not carpet so I hear them.

Oh, what do you have like tile or lamin it? Lamin it, whatever it is. And so... Wood? Not wood. No, no, no, no. So they are, they're antsy because they hate, you know, like dogs. Put some sawdust down. Sawdust? Yeah. What about crushed peanuts? You want that? Yeah, that's like Texas Roadhouse. No, they don't do that anymore. It's the allergy season. Can I get into my story? Sorry.

So, they're running around crazy and I get them on the bed, and so I'm awake. It's like 2.45, 3 o'clock, morning and it's lightning and crackling all that so i get on uh the twitter streets and i put the reels on and it you know it goes from one of the next and it's one rocket laker story after the other because it knows my algorithm it's you know it's it's it knows that i'm interested in it right so i'm getting like 40 different opinions about this rockets lakers series oh really yeah everything from it's from from like a laker dude 96 it's lake or dood 96 it's why you hate Duran. There's Nick right in there.

There's the Turkish Shingoon fans. Kendrick Perkins is in there. You got, uh, oh no. Who's the girl? Michelle Beatles got a podcast. What? Parsons. Good for her. It's everybody and their mother has an opinion about the series because, let's face it, it's the sexiest series out there.

I mean, I know Boston felt off he takes care of the northeast side of things, but I mean, if Durant was playing, I'd feel more sexy. Oh, for sure. But by the way, you didn't notice he went from. out to doubtful. Okay. Is that good? Are we going to get questionable today? Is that what you're saying? I don't think he plays.

Okay. I have no inside information. Is that little signal that maybe Sunday is not completely out? That's how I took it. Okay. So, raining thunder, and I'm just listening to opinion after opinion, and I woke up this morning at about 7.50, and I said, you know what, at the end of the day, I'm not going to listen to anybody.

I'm going to watch the game. I'm going to call the game. and what happens, what happens. I am not going to listen to the LeBron is too old. He's the second greatest player or in some cases the greatest player in the history of the NBA. I don't think he's going to have to play 38 minutes and score 31 points, but he can win games in other ways by distributing, ball handling, assist, getting to the free throw line, all the things he's kind of done when the Lakers have done well so far in this series.

He hasn't been great or he has been, it's funny to say 25 points from a 41-year-old is not great, but hasn't been great? He was flat out bad Sunday. So regardless of what we're doing with fatigue or whatever, it's been a couple of bad games in a row, and hopefully it continues. But if there's one person on the planet

who we shouldn't put stock into being like every other old NBA person, it's LeBron games. Do I think Luke Kouinard is going to play a factor in this game? I think so. He's had two terrible games in a row. Don't say that. Austin Reeves, I mean, does he feel better now? He's got one game under his

wings. Does he feel tired because it is one game? He gets the rest of the free throw line. He's going there 15 times. Yeah. By the way, Scott Foster is a lead official in tonight's game. Yes. Another narrative I'm not going to buy into. The extender. He's the extender. He's the extended. He's the extender. Yeah, he's the extender. If he's the extender and the Rockets are going to win, go bet on the game. You won't lose. Yeah. And by the way, he may inferred any NBA official. He'll call him all names if he has to. Now, Scott Foster, let me tell you about Scott Foster.

Not a very nice person. A good referee. And I hope that I think smart people can figure that out. Yeah, I mean, he got a bad beef with Chris Paul. Well, he's just a rude person. He doesn't treat Statt Cruz very nicely. Oh, is that true? Yeah, I saw it first team.

All right, I didn't know that. This is why we come to you. Peach Basket for the Basketball Inside Info. This is great. By the way, did people call me Peach Basket at the Rockets game last week? Yeah, one person we got a T-shirt, yeah. If you want a T-shirt, I will be out in the concourse two-night. Rockets, Lakers, and the Corona Lounge, it's at Section 113.

For pregame, I'll be there from like 730 to 830. If you say Matt Thomas's Peach Basket, I got a free Sports Talk 790 T-shirt for you. By the way, we are on KTRH at least the start. And I guess we're going to move it over to 790 when the 90s through. Well, news radio 740 KTRH, unless, I don't know, there's going to be some bad weather in Boston or something. That's true. What's the forecast? The entire country is under a deluge.

Yeah, I think we're, I mean, look, another thing, today was not fun to drive in. I just left early. You can get to work. Like, we got a nice email from our bosses here. Like, hey, everybody, take the day off if you need to, work from home, the weather's treacherous. That's good. It's because it's called rain. And you didn't rip your steering wheel in half.

So we're all good. I wanted to. Trust me. All right. Isn't anything goes Friday here on the program? That means you can call in about anything you want to. The leash is longer. certainly on our Friday more so than is Monday through Thursday.

So if you want to join us, 713212-570, 713-212-5-790. We've got a busy show for you. Our friend John Ireland, the voice of the Lakers, going to join us at the bottom of the hour. We'll get his part take on this on this game six coming up today. We have at 11 o'clock Brian McTagher, normally with us on Thursdays because of the short show yesterday. He'll be with us at 11.

We have, I'm sorry, he's at 1130. EMA Doca will join us at 1 o'clock. block today. We have not a Florida story. We got Hell yeah or not. And a couple other surprises along the way, but we want you guys involved because again, anything goes Friday, gives you a chance to come on in. Tell me how you're feeling, whether it be about the Astros

split performance yesterday against the Orioles, whether it be about the Rockets game six tonight, whether it be an intense breakdown of the Texans offensive line. We got it for you right here on Sports Talk 790. Beautifully laid out, Matthew. Thank you very much. Best coverage in the city.

We're trying. And again, KTR tonight for the game, at least to start because we don't know if the Red Sox Astros game, you know, that could be right too. Anybody, any special guests tonight on the broadcast? I think Ryan may come by, Craig may come by, who knows?

Kind of pulper, you want to come by, your welcome to? You know, you know what? I would love to do color. I want you to talk to having fun about that. I'm not going to do in the middle, yeah. Yeah, it's probably. I'm going to do the middle of playoff game. Okay.

And you know what, I'm going to come by one day. And we're going to shut off. shove off one of the Adams and you'll let me do a game. You'll have one, one will be easier than the other. Hmm. I'll let you figure that out. Hmm. Hmm.

713-212-5-790. 713-213-2-5-790. It's in anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk, 790. Nothing can stop me. I'm all the way up. All right, Jonathan, I don't want generic bumps today. I want bumps to get the city of Houston going. Yes.

All four hours. No slouching around the day from you. You Alper and Shingoon Hater. Hey, I told you can play. Look at him. Oh, so you're, yeah. You know what? Let's give you props.

You built him up. Yes. You tore him down and now you're trying to build him up. He only had 14 points in the last game. He did have 8 to 6. 8.6. That's right. I'm sorry.

Fall distributor. We saw that he can actually help this team out other than what he was doing the first two games. He wasn't scared. five-foot bunnies clanking off the rim. Exactly. That was very frustrating. I'm glad he's turning it around. He's got the capability.

She's got to be more consistent. I mean, that's been the Alper and Shingoon story for a couple years. You had the bad lull in the middle of this season. Right. Then he bounced back at the end of the season. And then he was bad to start the playoffs. And now he's bouncing back. And he's got to keep it up.

All right. So who's your really quick for a good of the phones? Who's your pick-to-click in this each side? You click. Ooh. Man, he's going to bring it. like he does every night. Dorian Finney Smith.

Okay, seriously. I want a serious answer. How about just the bench? Some bench production. A couple of, you know, a couple threes made by the bench. By everyone. How about at least five threes from the bench?

No, that's not possible. Why not? No, I think it's... Aaron Hollad didn't get me two. DFS can get me two and Okie can get me one. The start... The Rockets are going to this series in my mind. heavy lifting's got to be done with a six rotation guys but i want to see a little bit of a bench

production okay well i mean yeah a little bit you got it'd be nice five i told aaron yesterday we walked on the plane i said i need i need the same from you goes i got you oh he's got you got me that's wonderful yeah that's good and man thompson said my guy when i got on the plane yesterday did you guys hug uh we were eating food so it was kind of a not a spot to eat the food it'd been weird yeah i guess you could hug in a food line cocktail sauce on your shirt it'd be more like a chat and cut but yeah don't do that All right, so pick to click for me. Still waiting for, now granted,

Reed had a really good fourth quarter. I'm waiting for a... He had a really good sequence. Yeah, two shots. I mean, the steel was awesome. No, it was pivotal. Mid-range. I'm looking for a hot read from three.

That'd be nice. That would be beautiful. Would be my pick-click on that side. That would solve so many of your problems. Yeah. If he could just go like six of ten out of nowhere or seven of ten, if he could go Luke Conard, you're winning the game. And I will take

another Austin Reef stat line. What was it? Four of 16? Yeah. Gives a free throw line a lot. That's just what he does. Yeah. I don't want the Reeves that has been shooting well. I like this Knard kid the last couple of days not being a huge factor in the series.

I'll let Aitn's score. I love Bron do his thing. Oh my God. He's putting up like 12 foot hook shots. Now they're going in a lot. Yeah. And Aiden's good. And like, they have a good. Rue Huch and Murr can be dangerous. We've seen Luke Kinnard and Marcus Smart, they can be dangerous.

LeBron James don't need to say more on that. And Austin Reeves. So it's going to be tough. It's going to be tough. It's absolutely going to be tough. My crystal ball is cloudy at the moment. Yeah. I'm not seeing a clear picture of this game yet.

No, right. Yeah, there's no way I can give you a bet. No, I just can't. I guess, again, honestly, I was just feeling hopeful, but not overly optimistic. Is that a difference? Helpful and optimistic or two different things? I guess optimism is more about the outcome.

Yeah. Holfel is more about your mood. Yeah. I guess you're right. I'll just tell you, I think game seven, if it gets there on Sunday, will be a bloodbath. It will be, I mean, well, first of all, you'll have the rockets feeling nice and easy and feeling good. Like, oh, we're going to pull off history. All the pressure is on the Lakers.

And the Lakers like, wait a minute. We're not going to blow a 3-0-0 league for the first. first time in postseason history. Oh, by the way, we're at home. It would be awesome. That'd be awesome. Cannot wait. You know why it would really, really be awesome? Because?

Must win game discourse. You remain solid on that. Good times. So, we'll see. I mean, I think, hey, our friend of the show, Kendrick Perkins said must win for the Lakers and it wasn't. And then he flipped. He said game five was a must win. I know. So game six has got to be a must win as well, right?

Absolutely. It's got to be a must win for everybody. Yeah. It's a double. Must win game. Must win game. Must win game. Must win games. Maybe let's go. We're going to get you. We're going to get you. No, I don't care. No. I should probably not fixating it on as much as I have.

But people come up to me and say that. Like literally at the, at the arena on Sunday, people are coming up to me in the pregame. Hey, Ross, it's a must win game. Well, you got a bit now. It's a good bet. All right. I'm not logged in as. Let's go to line four and say how to Brent in. Where is Groves like East Texas? Where's Groves, Texas?

Where's Groves, Texas? That's where the Groves are. Groves, Texas is south of Beaumont, north of Port Aitia. It's usually called Portnacious Groves. I'm on the Groves. I got you. That's the shady part that Mufasa talks about when he's talking to his kid. He don't ever go over there.

Anyway, but I'm in the Northeast right now. I'm driving from Baltimore to Boston. I had the pleasure watching the double-header. Oh, nice. on 30th, my birthday, the double blowout that we had. This Lambert kid, you know, he gives me hope. From the bleachers, it looks like he had some good pitches. He's got a breaking, Paul.

They called it a curve. I don't know what it was. But, man, it had a lot of travel on it. But the problem with him and every other Astros pitcher in the pen is just look, that walks. They can't keep it inside the box. And I guess that's just how it is. For the second game, McCullors looked good.

I mean, he didn't have a diet quality start. He had a legit quality start. You call it a diet quality start? Quality start light. I like diet better. It sounds better. DQS for Mr. It works.

It works. And anyway, I'm driving up. The official weather report for tonight in Boston is clear skies, chilly. They will play a ball. I had tickets for tomorrow, but I'm going to have to go tonight because I'm not coming all the way back up here because of a rain out. And unfortunately, I'm going to have to figure out how to get. get KTRH on the radio.

I don't know how well that's going to work. But I hope that I can get some of Rockets. Yeah, you're not going to be able to. We're going to put on the political shows on the stream. So you're going to be S-A-L. Those people get very angry when they hear Rockets basketball. Oh, well, that's unfortunate. I get angry when I can't listen to Rockets.

I know, I know. I know. Tomorrow does look like a wash, though. It's looking like Baltimore did a couple days ago. So I don't know how they're going to do that. I'm not worried about that. I'm off. Anyway, y'all have a good one.

Don't drop off a cliff tonight. And we'll see y'all on Monday. Thank you very much. Hey, do me a favor, Matt. Yes, sir. Do me a favor. Wake up them strippers for me. And an hour and a half, my friend.

You get them ready. Thanks. Hey, Brent, same travels. Thanks for the phone call. Excellent call from Brent. Yeah. Yeah, we need, he called it a quality start diet. He's up in Baltimore and Boston.

Because quality start light, but it's catching on. It counts. How about quality start zero sugar? That's the more catchy phrase now. it's for cutting carbs. Keto quality start. Yeah. All right.

Let's go to our friend Terry in Ohio at 1026. Hello, Terry. Do you have your prune juice today, Matt? What did you say, President Biden? I didn't hear you. I said you have your prune juice today. I did not. I don't like prune juice.

Hey, how much are a quart-sized seat? court uh they they are dynamically priced i have no idea what a court side seat would cost you you're going to try to go yeah if the calves make it to the finals and the rockets make it to the finals okay you going court side in the finals terry of course i do and let me tell you something matt yes sir last week when i called you he said oh he's probably lying about court side seats I won $400 million in the lottery in California about 20 years ago Did you really?

Can you send us some money? The station needs it, you know? I have Venmo. No, forget about the station. Forget about it. Do you have Venmo? Terry? Can you Venmo Sports RV?

Where do you sit at, Ross? We sit at the top of the lower bowl for the media seats in the club. It's not bad. It's a good seat. You can see the whole game. I like it. maybe I'll buy Jonathan's seat,

course side. There you go. They're $3,800. So you are worth $400 million. Is this accurate? Yes. Congratulations. Hey, you guys, have a good day.

Thank you, Terry. Thanks. Do you think Terry's worth $400 million? I don't know. Maybe he is Joey B. He's got that Raytheon. There's really the only way to prove that would be to Vimelme some money. Raytheon and Boeing, Boeing donations.

Because let me tell you Jonathan, if I was worth $400 million and you said, Matt, prove it, I'd send you $100. I don't even know. I mean, I wouldn't, I know you. I agree. I would send $500 to at Sports RV on Venmo. At SportsMT, Venmo, Terry. I'll start it. You know, forget about $100.

We've given you too much airtime. $1,000. I don't know if it's going to cost you to call the show from here on now. Terry, whether he has money or not, American Treasure. He asks if you had to produce. John Ireland, the voice of the Lakers. joining us next here on 790. Then they know.

Is this the positive song you're going with here? Oh, I got a lot. Is this song on my phone yes or no? It should. It's not. You knew that. Stop. Give me multiple choices as to who's singing this song. Oh, Lord. Little Nazi?

Lil Nas X. Little Nas X. Little Nas X. Little Nas X. Little Nas X. Or? Kid Cuddy. Nope. Kanye West? Kanye West. Or Drake.

Oh, you're throwing Drake at the last second? It's Drake. Oh, damn it. 1031. 7.90. It is a Matt Thomas show. With Ross, we spend 10 quality minutes with our friend for the second time. Man, I hope he doesn't ask for a talent fee on this. John, I don't think we can afford them. John already does a three-hour show in Los Angeles as it is.

And he's a Lakers radio voice and he's with us for the second time in the last couple weeks. John, how do I like this chamber of commerce weather? we're giving the Los Angeles Laker fan base here today. Well, as you know, Matt, my second stop in TV news was in Beaumont, which is about 80 miles to the east. And I was there for four years, and this was what the weather was like every day. So I'm well prepared for that. But first of all, before I yell at you, how are you feeling? Last time I saw you, I thought I might have to send you to the infirmary.

Are you feeling better? Beverly Hills, I officially have pharmacy pills from the 90210, which makes me kind of special. I feel about 90% and I certainly felt a lot better as the game was moving along as the Rockets got the victory. So I appreciate you checking on me. John, Ross, I should tell you, John was offering me medication during the game. I don't know if you want me to fall asleep during the game or whatever the case may be. I don't think you should ride them out for a federal crime. What kind of medication are we talking about here?

No, full, no, he's off. No, it's all over-the-counter stuff. Okay, that's fine. Except for the sleep gummies. Yes. She's like, hey. California legal. He called me the mule for some reason.

I don't know why you did that. Yeah, that was so terrible. All right, Johnny, let's get right to it. How, just... Wait a minute. You want to get right to it? Let's get to this. Why don't you listen to me?

All right. I didn't want to listen to you because I think you were just, you were just giving me full optimism is what you were trying to do. What, no. I think we both. pivot to, as most team announcers do, hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

Yes. And so I knew what you were doing, but so the audience knows, I ran into Matt the other night, and I said, you know this series isn't over. And you looked at me like I had lost my mind. And you went, well, you know, nobody's ever come back from 03, blah, blah. Matt, you realize you guys should be ahead three, two. I know. If you don't gift wrap game three and hand it to us, tonight you would be preparing for a party.

But because the Rockets did that, we've got a shot. But I mean it when I say this. Like you put me on a lie detector. This series is not even close to being over. Wouldn't you say it has reached the stage now where it's probably, I know this isn't the accurate number, but in your own head. isn't it probably 50-50? Like who wins this now? It would not surprise me if the Lakers won tonight and ended your season.

It would not surprise me if the rockets blow us out, like the Knicks Hawks thing. And then it all comes down to a game seven. There is no scenario you could give me that I would be shocked. Do you feel the same way? A hundred percent. As a matter of fact, I spent the first half hour with the show with the audience saying, I don't have a feel for this. I don't because everybody and their mother has flipped the narrative on this.

LeBron is old. Canard can't shoot anymore. It's Marcus Smart's going to turn the ball over. It's the rockets are at the momentum. I got me, Kendrick Perkins, calling us a dumbest team in the NBA until the Lakers came and became the dumbest team in the NBA. I really don't have a feel for it whatsoever. Now, I did go to your Instagram account where you were not working yesterday.

Your guy, Max Kellerman, who people know on ESPN, is loving your squad. So tell me, is Max a good? prognosticator when he comes on your show? Max is terrible. Are you kidding? He is a great guy. He couldn't pick to save his life. For 10 years, Matt, I did the show before Max's.

Max was doing radio in L.A. For a long time with Marcellus Wiley, it was a really great show. Like most shows in our business, some suit screwed it up. Yep. But I heard Max when I was on the podcast. plane flying out here and I heard Max. I think that a lot of people watching this series, particularly national media, have pivoted to this,

well, LeBron will never let this happen. Like LeBron will never blow an 03 lead. His legacy is too important. I'm here to tell you, and I'm curious what you think about this, it is not LeBron that has allowed the rockets back in this series. I know he's made some turnovers, but everybody's, What killed the Lakers in game five was they got absolutely nothing out of Luke Kinnard and Marcus Smart. When I was on with you last, like before the series started, I said,

Karnar's the X factor because you can't leave him open. And if you do, he'll light you up. That's exactly what he did in game one. I think he had 27 points. So we went from 27 from Luke down to basically zero. And Marcus was actually a liability, and he's been one of our best players. So I think as you and I call this game tonight, what it may swing on is not LeBron. LeBron's been great.

Shengoon's been great. I know they've both made mistakes, but those two are going to show up. The question for the Lakers is, do Marcus Smart and Luke Kennard impact the game? If they don't, you're coming to L.A. for game seven. If they do, we could end it tonight. I think also John Austin Reeves, obviously a big factor. What did you think overall about the performance? I mean, the obvious box score watching thing was he started off hot and then he cooled off but was still getting to the free throw line.

But just in terms of flow, how he was moving around, how did you feel he played? And can he get in a better rhythm, at least shooting from the floor tonight? Good question. I actually thought he looked pretty good. He didn't show any signs of the injury. And what he's been great at all year, Matt, is you mentioned it, getting to the line. He got 13 free throws. As a matter of fact, for most of the season, the three guys that were leading the league in free throw attempts before Austin got hurt were SGA, Luca, and Austin.

You wouldn't normally think of Austin being in that club, you know, like you would say, well, what about Jason Tatum or Jalen Brown? What about Yolkich? You know, what about Devin Booker? Austin's just great at getting to the free throw line. And by the way, Matt, did you see who the lead official is tonight? Yes, the serious extender, yes, we already know this. The extender, Scott Foster, the bat phone has gone out. And what Scott's nickname, the extender is he tends to favor the team that could have their season ended.

In this case, the Rockets. You know what you are. I don't know. I think you're a fraud. I think you're going on your L.A. radio show today, and I think you're doing all the other stuff. You're just trying to placate to my audience. I see what you're doing. I see what you're doing.

how do you think I've survived 30 plus years in the business? Of course that's what I'm doing. I'm going to put on the ESPN LA app, but I'm going to listen to your show today. I don't know how long you're going to be on for, but I'm going to listen. I'm going to find out of exactly this is the true stuff. You're really telling your audience,

you're trying to suck up to the wonderful people of a human Houston, Texas. You're not too far from your former home of Beaumont. That's what I'm going to find out from you today. First of all, thank you for mentioning the ESPN LA app free in the app store, wherever you get your apps. By the way, also, John Ireland gets his face on the screen at the Rossi get the Crypto.com.

John Ireland's face is on there 10 times per game. I'm lucky to get a radio call on the big board at all a Toyota Center. They got you in the highlight package in the beginning. They have you in the beginning thing when they're introducing the team too. Such a whiner. John's getting more run. By the way, I love that DreamOn open. Oh, it's so great.

I hope they never, ever try. change that. I was afraid that they were going to change it for the postseason. Like if you come to a Laker game, you'll notice that they tailor the opens to whoever the opponent is, and so they do new ones all the time. That, you know, Matt, you and I

obviously get to go to every arena. Yep. That DreamOn video open for the Rockets where you kind of get to see the history of the team, and my guy Rudy T's in there, it is as good of an open as any team in the league. If I had to rank them, I'd rank it number one.

So, Matt, use your power as the voice of the rocket to make sure they never get rid of that thing. That thing's fantastic. Okay, so before I let you roll, if you guys win tonight, give me the scenario. How does it happen? Well, we kind of already talked about it. I think the other players, other than LeBron, impact the game. Like, DeAndre Aiton played great in game five. I think he finished with 18.17 rebounds.

I'll let you have that, by the way. I'll let you have twos over threes all day. long, all day long. Right. I think what EMA did was brilliant. You guys are the best offensive rebounding team I've ever seen. And he threw a curveball at us in game five. He basically told his guys, don't crash the glass like you normally do. Get back and we're going to make the Lakers beat us in the half court. And when that happened, your length and your athleticism made a big deal out of that game. And I think it's one of the main reasons why the Rockets won. JJ will adjust to that tonight.

I don't know how, but I'm not so sure E. May might adjust back. E. May might say, okay, that was a one-time thing to steal game five. Now we go back to crash on the glass. I'm actually more excited to call this game than I have for most games this season. I'm guessing you feel the same way. Absolutely. Because what you said in the beginning, I have no feel for this either, Matt. There is nothing that would surprise me.

The way, like, Rockets winning a blowout tonight, Lakers winning a blowout. I mean, either team wins at the buzzer. I just think the possibilities are endless, and it's like going to a movie where you know nothing about it. You walk in and then you walk out. Like, I would imagine anybody that invested time, anybody's a Rockets fan, that invested time in game five, even as late as that game was in Texas, stayed up to see the end because everybody thought the rockets were going to do what they do and screw it up in clutch time, they did the exact opposite. Reed Shepherd came up with that huge steal, which I thought sealed the game.

And by the way, it just flat took it away from LeBron. Nobody had that on their bingo card. And I've fallen in love. I got a man crush on Jabari Smith. I think that dude is super underrated. So, again, no feel at all for what happens over the next two games. None. And that's what makes this fun.

It is, makes it a lot of fun. You are a great sport. One of my good friends in the league. I really appreciate you and I and I know each other the last 10 years or so. Have a great lunch, get a good nap in, and we will see you at the arena tomorrow later tonight. Thank you for the time as always.

All right, man, thanks. And, yeah, I'll be in a few hours. That sounds great. John Ireland, the voice of the Los Angeles Lakers also does a show on ESPNLA, and I'm going to get the app and see how that thing is going. Yeah, also in L.A., known as Juan Ireland.

I'm much supposed to know that? I don't know, I'm just making a joke. Let's move on. Did it fall flat? Yeah, I think so. Okay. I didn't want it to be. I think other people are laughing, but it's not you.

Oh, let me tell you something. If I don't get it and the audience gets it, it's still a win for the audience. But I'm a McGregor to do you and 11 o'clock. We're going from Ireland to a Scotch-Irishman. Yeah. Yeah. And we're going to try to figure out what the hell's going on with Brian and Brer you. What do you mean?

Not a clean inning again yesterday. It's all right. Velo started low, got back up. Speaking of Velo, Lance McElder's Velo down a little bit. too? Yeah, but he got a quality start. Regular, not light. Velo Talk 790. Coming up in 50 minutes here on Sports Talk 790.

This is a jam. This gets me fired up. That's my guy right there, Jonathan. Are you serious right now? I know that I put some yacht lock in them for him, you know? Let me tell you something. We're not trying to pump up Matt Thomas. We're trying to pump up the city of Houston.

You think people are sitting in their car. cars right now. In the rain right now? Oh, hell yeah, they are. Rocket's game number six, baby. Oh, I'm all fired up for game six now because of this yacht rock. You think

Jabari's Mid Jr. is putting this on in the locker room. No, they're going to come out flat and lose by 50 if you put this on. Terrible. All right. Jonathan and Ross, trivia time. Okay. The media meets with the

head coach at 645. So I was in a locker room in L.A. He was just kind of sitting waiting for it. All right. There was a song. It was one particular performer that was played for 30 straight minutes before the press conference began. Not for the coach, but for the players they were working out and lifting waves. Where was this in L.A.?

It's in L.A. What performer that I hear for 30 straight minutes? I didn't know any of his songs. Didn't know any of the songs. Yes. Kendrick Lamar. No, but you're not far off. Okay.

School Boy, Q. Ab soul. More mainstream. Topok, Shakur. Keep going. Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog. He's alive. They're both alive.

Okay, I don't know who's alive, but who's dead. Is this someone dead or is it? Somebody's alive. Just saying. Drake. Oh, Drake. 30 minutes of Drake in a row. In L.A.

In L.A. Okay. It gets you high. Yeah, I guess. That's cool. They play a lot of Drake pregame at the arena. I did talk to a man, Thompson. I said, twin, as we were in line for food yesterday on the airplane.

And I said, hey, Michael McDonald would a fool believes to get you going. Shut up. He loved it. No, you're a liar. You don't know that? And a fraud.

You don't know that at all. Yes, I do. Well, I know those two things. Okay. Maybe so. He loved it. Yeah, yeah, they didn't put on 30 minutes of Michael McDonald-led Duby brothers.

I'm happier. I can't believe that. Doesn't the voice the team need to be as motivated as well? No. No, they cannot hear you. You're, you know, you're drowned out by crowd noise. Dang.

All right. It's not And the rockets are on an 8-0-0 run And then it's a break in the arena And then what a fool believes comes on Hell no Now you and I both agree that Mony-Money sucks No yeah it sucks

And it doesn't I haven't heard it in the arena No In a long time Maybe I have an influence in the market You never know You don't know Hold on you said you loved Mone-Money though We used to argue

We used to argue about it I don't like it I just know why it's played There's a difference Okay What's been phased out Good We were walking Gary Glitter still.

I was like, oh. Yeah. A little spicy here. Game four. 10. 10.54 on Sports Talk 790. Brian McTagger joining us in a handful of minutes. Right now, James on 7.

Honey. James, good morning. Yeah, it's gambling, Jim, by the way. It's football night in America, Matt, Texas, Matt. The Buckeyes aren't the only team in Columbus. The Houston Gamblers will play the aviators tonight at 7 o'clock. Nobody's going to watch, Jim. Your beer ready? Nobody cares.

Nobody cares. Nobody cares. No, they don't. No, they don't. Astros are on at 6, rockets are on 830, nobody's watching the gamblers. I mean, not a soul.

Oh, there'll be one sole watch. I think even Mama Tungavello is going to watch the Astros. Okay. All right, guys. I don't think the ratings are going to go off the charts. No, there'll be no ratings. It'll be 0.0.

Thank you for the phone call. I saw it's available in 4K, though. That's cool. great for the three people that care. I like watching stuff. It's actually a waste of time. I'll put something on. If it's like, oh, it's, I don't know,

some kind of random big 10 matchup I don't care about, but it's in 4K, I'll put it on. Really? Yeah. All right. Real quick. Minnesota, UCLA? I'll sign me up.

The Rutgers Maryland game, 4K, I can't wait. You know what? Speaking of watching television last night, I couldn't turn away from the Hawks and Nick's game. You were watching that? I watched it deep into the fourth quarter. I went to go check. it and it was like 60 something and 19

I was like okay I'm good yeah I when it gets that bad of a blood bath I want to watch more of it okay the Knicks got to there's never been a game there's never been a game in the history of the NBA and the postseason it's gone 50 at the half but the Knicks got it to it was 60 point lead in the second

half and they it's the point differential in a six game series was also a record it was like 103 or 101 that's crazy because the Hawks won two games by one point yes and then they got blown out like at every other game. Won't they have 2-1 in the series of the Hawks for?

I think so. And I was like, how do you call that game without just wanting to, I mean, would you allow me to have a cold margarita during the game? You'd do whatever you want. Nobody's listening.

No. You got a lot of JD Davis and layups. I say Crawford is not eligible for the playoffs. Suddenly got eligible for some reason. And even a Doca has checked in. Let's get in three minutes. Why is Royal Ivy playing?

I don't know. His eligibility was done. Let's... Longhorn legend, Royal Ivy. All right. Kyle and Pearland, good morning. Mr. Texas, how are you doing, my friend? We're amazing.

What a fool believes, my brother. I understand. Listen, I'm a little upset, though, at you. Not you, but why are the Rockets just on Prime? This is a big game. Why did National TV? It's called the 30 MBA owners said, Prime cut us a check, and they said, we'll do it.

There's a hundred and eighty, 2 million subscribers to prime video. I believe the latest numbers are that's more than people have cable. Yeah, I guess I'm old school. I'm a cable guy, but it's a little disappointing. I was, you know, and I got a fine place to watch you. Got any ideas? Big City Wings will have it.

Yeah, all these sports bars are waking up to this. They're going to start having primes and your peacocks and your Netflix on in these sports bars. They're just, they're having to adapt to it for sure. TNT is available in 71 million households. Prime Video has 182 subscribers. 182 million. Ross, I'm just old school. I know.

I know. I know. I know. Kyle, the only negative to me is two things. You've got to pay for it. And number two, it's not easily interchangeable. So if you wanted to watch a baseball game on ESPN or Space City for that matter, you have to jump off of your satellite or your cable to get on the streaming.

And there are streaming issues. And it just is. And they're not on TNT's not on Fubo. Really? Yeah. I'm canceling today. You know, Matt, there is one thing that's good about it. At least we don't have it tight delay like we did back in the lake.

Way back in the day. You got that right. Those games weren't even starting to 1030. Thanks for the phone call. Yeah, it's funny. The 86, thank you, Kyle. The 86 championship, you know where Samson's a shot? Yes.

They delayed until after the news started. So it was a full hour behind. It was different. You can be old school. Like, there's not video of Wiltz scoring 100. Like old school also means there was limited. It's more widely available now than it ever has. Yeah, the only, the number one negative to me is it's kind of sometimes that's outside of

mine, especially as sports bars, don't readily carry it. But I was at my Kingwood Sports Hub yesterday, 3Bs down there. Yeah, they're carrying it now. And they're carrying it now. So, yeah, people are catching up. On the curb. Five locations around Houston has it as well. Okay, good.

You have plenty of places to eat. Absolutely. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is a busy. Anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk 790, and we missed our friend Brian McTagger yesterday because of the double dip, so we get 10, quarter minutes with him here on a Friday here on Sports Talk 790.

Tags, let's be brutally honest, 333 baseball, probably not going to last too much longer and keep people excited about this town. But after the disappointment of the opening game of that double header yesterday, the Astrobatts woke up and at least were able to get a split out of those two games yesterday against the Orioles. Yeah, I mean, you still can't argue about the way they're swinging the bats. I mean, I think they out hit the Orioles, what, 2712 yesterday or something like that in the two games. So it's just coming down to their pitching just hasn't been good enough. I mean, it's been that way really since after the first homestand of the season.

So, hey, it's May. It's a new month. Maybe they can just put this behind them. But, you know, they're playing a Red Sox team that is equally in trouble right now. They're at the bottom of their division as well. So maybe they swept them already. so maybe this is a chance for them to get right and come home and face the Dodgers. Oh, God.

It makes me sick to saying that. Your thoughts generally speaking about the Phillies making a change, the Red Sox making a change, and naturally the riders are on baseball. We're like, who's next? And unfortunately, the Astros are on that mix, and that we're asking for endorsement because I think, you know, Joe has done everything he could,

especially with the fact that pitching staff has been such a mess with all the injuries. But are you noticing a trend in baseball in all the years you've cover that leashes are getting a lot shorter even for guys that have been very successful like the two managers just got let go this past week yeah i think so and i think this is a time of year where we start seeing you know stuff like you know managers getting fired like we have so far i mean it was i think early may last year when two or three two or three managers got fired but um i don't think it's an NBA levels yet where it seems like you know you have one bad year and you're out of there um it's complicated because they've had so many injuries

You know, I don't think there's anything Joe could have done differently. I mean, I think if he has a healthy team last year to make the playoffs, if they have a healthy team this year, they're certainly in better shape than they are now. So I'm not sure what a difference, you know, making a change would do at this point. Jim Crane has never done that kind of thing in the middle of the season anyway. So there's still a long way to go. And, you know, let's see if they can slowly start getting healthy. You know, Penae could be back next week.

maybe they can start digging their way out of this because the division again looks like it's pretty mediocre. So all's not lost. They still have, what, 130 games left, so a chance to, you know, it's barely May 1st. So in another month, this could look a little bit different.

So I don't think we're to that point with any, you know, making a change with the asteros. I don't think it would make much of a difference. I don't either. I don't either, not at all. But you mentioned the bats, Yardon Alvarez. I mean, if you were to take an MVP race, he tops in the list of the American League side of things so far?

Yeah, I think so. I mean, I think what's going to be difficult is if they do end up having poor season and they finish in last place and he puts up these kind of numbers and hits 40 plus homers, is he, you know, is he going to get votes on a bad team? You know, that's probably going to hurt his case a little bit. But he's already got 12 homers, which his career high is 37. So he's almost a third of the way to his career high through April. and he's mashed in Boston in his career.

A couple years ago, he had a four-hit game here. Next game had a three-hit game. He was injured last year when they came to Fenway, but this is a park where he seized the ball really well. So he's got a chance to fatten those numbers again. But, yeah, if he can keep this up, he's got a chance to put his name to the top of some Astros record books.

You know, I think Bagwell's single-season home-run records, if he can stay healthy, is something that I think could be in jeopardy because he's on a pace right now to hit 50 plus home runs. Brian McTaggart, MLB.com, Astros.com with us here on Sports Talk 790. As we do often, Brian, I'll ask you a state of the rotation yesterday. I mean, before the wheels fall off, I mean, Lambert took no hitter into the fourth inning and was looking pretty solid, and you got a quality start from Lance McCuller Jr.

But his Velo is down. It feels like even when guys are feeling like they're on the right track, something goes wrong. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it was a quality start for Lance that had the nine strikeouts, but yeah, the Velo down is not ideal. I know Lance said he would, you know, substitute the movement on his pitches for the Velo, and, you know, maybe he's still, you know, trying to figure out how to make things work with the stuff that he has nowadays. But, yeah, nothing really feels good about the rotation other than Nargetti,

who's won all three of his starts. Lambert was like, like you said, was good, but not great. They just need guys to get deeper. And I think the guy that really needs to step it up is Burroughs tonight. And it seems like he's really close to me to giving them the kind of start. They need to go in six or seven innings. He just, you know, a couple of starts to go. He sent down, I think, the first 14, and then things kind of fell apart on them with some walks and stuff.

So, yeah, they just got to start getting guys going deeper. And, you know, maybe EMI comes back after one more rehab start. certainly did not look good in double A the other night. I didn't see it just looking at the line. So lots of issues in the rotation, and those are really, really hard to fix. But that's kind of just where they're at at this point. And also becoming a weekly theme. What's going on with Brian of Brayu?

Velo was down. It did tick up, but of course, overall the outing not what you wanted to see. Yeah, still walking some guys, you know, giving up some hard contact. I know they're trying everything they can to try to get them ironed out. I mean, you're pretty much pitching a reliever short because you can't really, you know, trust him in any tight games and they play a lot of tight games. So I'm not sure where that's going to lead. I know it's very frustrating for Brian. And it's also, you know, a walk year for him.

So, you know, he could be a free agent at the end of the year. So, you know, that's got to be in his head as well. But certainly they, again, if they're going to get this thing turned around, you know, pitching is where it's got to happen. And getting Brian of Brayu back to the old Brian of Brayu, is as important as anything they have, including getting Hader back maybe later this month. So they'll just have to keep running them out there until he figures it out.

We talked about VILO a couple times in our conversation here. Brian, when you hear a guy goes from 93 to 91 or 96 to 94, is it just in our nature to get worried about whether or not there is arm issues or can just guys be trying something different and or maybe guys just off a tick on a particular start appearance.

Yeah, I mean, I think the number one thing is, is he healthy? And I mean, and those are questions. And I mean, Brian was asked that question directly, you know, after I think his last outing in Minutemay that didn't go well, are you healthy? And he said yes. And so I thought it was really interesting that he said that he doesn't have a lot of confidence in some of his pitches. You know, he's not throwing many strikes.

So I think that's playing into his VILO a little bit. You know, maybe there is some kind of physical thing there. that we just don't know about. I think from McCullors, it's just a matter of, you know, all the surgeries he's been through basically a couple of Tommy Johns and the wear and tear on his elbow. And he's just trying to figure out different ways to get guys out at this point. And he's never going to be throwing 96, 97 again.

But if he's 93, 94, that's plenty of good enough. But he wasn't there yesterday. So I think he's still trying to figure it out as well. But these are all issues that they hope they can fix on the fly here and they're going to have to be sooner or later. This thing's kind of going to get away from them. All right, let's get to Jeremy Pena update, which you know is at this point.

And also, what's the future for at least the next week or so for Tatsu Emi? Yeah, Pena is back with the team. I guess he'll be in, he was in Baltimore. So he'll be here in Boston this weekend. You know, he grew up in Providence, so he'll have some people at the ballpark probably. But it looks like he'll be on a rehab probably next week. So I think certainly maybe after the Dodgers,

series they get him back. I don't know how many games he's going to need probably no more than two or three. So he looks like he's pretty close. Emi, they're going to give him one more start. I haven't seen whether that's going to be at double A or AAA at this point. But he's just going to have to go out there and put up some results and get some guys out or they got a big issue on their hand with him as well because they invested a lot of money in him. And he was, I got it. They were plugging in the middle of the rotation. And so far it's been a disaster. So this will be a big start for him, I think, to see if he can get this. he can just get himself back on track and get back into big leagues and see if he can get big league hitters out.

And as far as the offense is concerned, and again, it's been a really good season for Yordon. The Cam Smith home run was a big part of it. What's going through Cam's mind right now? And I'll also throw Bryce Matthews in a mix. These are two guys that, frankly, Dana Brown has got a lot of value in hoping that they are successful. And if they've not been, and there's been ups and downs, more downs and ups, that doesn't necessarily make things overly great for this lineup with two guys that have so much invested in the future of this team. Yeah, you're right. I mean, those are two of the key acquisitions for Dana Brown so far.

He's his first draft pick, Bryce Matthews, in 23, and then Cam was sort of the centerpiece of this trade, the Kyle Tucker trade. And, you know, Cam's always working on things. I think he's working on some things with his hands. But if anyone needed a home run like that, it was Cam Smith, so maybe he can start building on this a little bit. and yeah they need to get him going goes without saying I mean the book's still out on Bryce again he's working on some things as well but as we saw the I think the first game in Baltimore when when he hits the ball

I mean the ball flies off the bat he hits the ball really really hard he just has so much swing and missed and he's got to cut down on that somewhat I'm interested to see if Zach DeSenzo he's been on rehab looks like he's starting to swing it a little better if he comes back and maybe they They send Bryce down and let him play every day and try to work things out there and then maybe take a look at him later. But, you know, I think certainly that, you know, he's got to hit better, I think, to keep his spot on this club once they get a couple more guys back from the engine list.

All right. I was going to ask this when I travel, so it's your turn. What is the one or two must-dos for you in Boston, Massachusetts? Well, I got to get some lobster rolls. Got to do that. and I always walk. I found a good walking trail. I walk across a bridge,

across the river, back through downtown. It's like a four-mile little loop. So, in fact, I'm going to do that once we hang up, Matt. I think I'm going to go on to get some lobster rolls and go on a nice little walk.

It's like 52 degrees outside. So, uh, 502. Oof. I know. All right. So the number one, the number one question is,

do you do a lobster roll with mayonnaise and cold or do you go butter and warm? Maine or Connecticut style is what they call it. Oh, I don't know which is which, but I like it. I like it to be warm. I don't like, I mean, I can eat it cold, but I like it warm. What do you guys think? That's Connecticut style.

The correct answer is both, Brian. I do the mayonnaise and cold. You would. What do I mean? I would. Is that terrible? Hot with delicious butter or cold with mayonnaise. They're both good.

It's a little thick. I like them both. I'll eat them both if you put them in front of me, but I would probably reach for the Connecticut one first, which is butter. Same. I'm the same. Yeah, I'll eat both. But yeah, the warm with the butter.

that that sounds really good. Now I'm really, really hungry. All right, Brian, get a good walk in. We want to see a YouTube or a Instagram live from you walking. Come on, let's get you more active on those social streets, my friend. Follow Brian McTaggart on Instagram. I'm posting videos on Instagram. I'm calling it Tags Plus, where you don't have to bundle me.

There's no subscription. It's free. But I'm trying to give more updates on video. So check out my Instagram for Tags Plus. Tags Plus. And he's going to get a haircut today, too, in Boston, too, which would be a great thing. He's going to get a video of that, too?

All right. Have a great weekend, my friend. I'll talk to you soon. All right, guys. All right, Brian McTaggart with us, MLB.com. Yeah, we're all trying to post more content on the IG. Yeah, IG's a friendlier spot. You follow me on Instagram. At Sports RV.

If you follow me on Instagram at SportsMpte, it's a rocket's win. Why do you just lie? No, I'm not lying. Can we make sure Juan holds? I wonder what he's got to ask a question about 4K. Okay, Juan, we're going to you right back when we come back. We have a, I'm sorry, he's coming up in 15 minutes. Oh.

Get your list out. I don't have a list. You should be writing a list. For what? You apologize for a lot of things you said and done. I didn't do, Jack. Mm-hmm. If you want to say you're sorry, that's in 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790.

7.1.3-212-5-7-90. It's slip. Yo. His palms are sweaty. Needs weak, arms are heavy. There's vomit on his sweater already. Mom spaghetti. He's nervous.

But on the service, he looks calm and ready to drop palms. Uh, yacht rock would do more. than this song would. You're wrong. Give us the, you gotta give us the PA intro for this, Matt. And now,

on the floor, your Houston! There it is. Jonathan, I'm coming out after you. You don't get it done. I'll come down there and yell the crowd and they're ready to go. I'm about the PA head on

if I need to. This is, now, did Justin Verlander use this or till I collapse? I can't remember. Maybe it was both. You got to lose yourself in the moment, Matt. I know.

Eight Mile. Give you a rating. Six. I can't talk to about time. I never saw it, actually. What? I know. I know.

Eminent was, oh, y'all was so wrong. Look, people love it. I'm not like I'm intentionally avoiding it. Jonathan, never got around the scene. I am watching the Knicks

beat the Hawks by 60. I don't have time for a movie. You have plenty of time for a movie. You watch your soap operas. in all your lifetime movies. You got time for movies. I didn't watch anything except the basketball last night. How about Minnesota, Denver?

How about Denver, Gonzo? Your gut feeling's wrong. Gut feeling is wrong. L. And Nicolioch is like, if we were living in Serbia, we'd all be fired. Yeah.

Now he's going to, he just wants to go back and brush his horses. Yeah, he doesn't care about the basketball. I mean, he likes it. Yeah, I love it. I mean, he does a great job. He's like the guy that hates his job, but does an excellent job.

Hmm. Sounds familiar. on these parts. 713212. Talking about Wexor, of course. No, Wex loves his job. Lex loves his job. Are you kidding?

You see all the press conferences he goes to? Do you think he said the Al-Zir press conference today? What time is it? Noon. Yeah. You don't need to go. Why not? Guys can go up there and brag about how much money is making.

Yeah, it's a big signing. Yeah, that's a big. Why not? Everybody's going to brag about how what money they're making. Yeah, that's how press conferences go when somebody signs an extension. I'm not holding a press conference. No, because nobody can't. Nobody knows who you are in large scale. Who's more known around the city?

Aziz Al-Shayr? Or me? Or Mr. Kingwood. No, Mr. Texas. You're not Mr. Texas. By the way, my oldest is on a road trip to Abilene and New Mexico for a war trip. Oh, you're taking credit for that, I'm sure. Well, I mean, I got to make sure I to give them the place to go and eat and see.

Where'd you tell them to eat in Abilene? Cheesecake Factory? Yeah, exactly. the abelene the steak barn I don't know Mr. Texas he says All right Let's go to the phone so my toggle is not working here very well

So if you want to punch up a line through it Where is he going to New Mexico? I don't know he's getting some work trip I don't even know where it is Carl's bad I touched I don't know I googled for like best Mexican food And they're like it's not that good

That's not good one what is your question About 4K stuff go ahead Yeah, guys. I just had a question for Raw real quick because I'm rolling to all that 4K stuff, man, I bought me a nice TV or whatever, you know, and I can go to watch these games

and sometimes the quality is like, dude, really, like I thought I had 4K. Turns out some streaming services don't actually provide true 4K and so then I'm all there paying extra for Amazon Prime thinking I'm going to get 4K, but I mean, the game still doesn't let's call that

crazy to me, you know, right? It's like a brand new Samsung TV or whatever. Is it an OLED or what kind of, what do you got a QLED, OLED? No, I got an OLED. I got an OLED. Oh, word? What do you got an S-85, S-90, S-95?

S-F-85, I believe. 85F? Okay, that's good. Yeah, you should be better in the OLED. Now, it depends on what service you're using. 4K has some, Peacock has some stuff. What service do you have? I'm name them, man. Do you have the high speed?

Do you have the high speed HDMI cord? I guess it should be needed to the TV actually, too, if you're using the apps. Yeah, should look good. Make sure you're depending on go to, this is what you need to do. You need to go put Google custom the best settings for your TV, and there's a website called Ratings. It's RT and GS. They'll have the best settings.

Like mine, I think I have an S-95, and I need to put it in like filmmaker mode for the best settings. Make sure you're using the best settings. And then, yeah, you can also pull up a setting that you make sure it's in 4K. Okay. You said R-T-I-N-G-S? R-T-N-G-S. It's like ratings, but without the vowels. Okay.

But what about the Texans offensive line concerned you? No, no, no. So, yeah, best settings and then just put your TV. Just put S-85F or whatever you got. I guess. I got you. All right, good luck. We're here to inform, inform.

and entertain folks. Jonathan, anybody else out there? This end up goes Friday. Shut your bum ass up. He didn't want to talk to you for five seconds. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. Let's talk some TV, some 4K TV. You know what? Here's the thing. When I get a 4K TV, I'm going to come to you. I just am. You should. I ain't ready yet.

I got to pay for stuff. I understand. Still. Hit line four, if you don't mind. And Trey in Sugarland here on Sports Talk 790 at 1126. Trey, good morning to you. Well, good morning, guys. I was listening to Tags.

I was looking at this yesterday and notwithstanding all the injuries to our pitching staff, which we had last year also, the three starters. One of the big changes this year from last is our pitching coach, Bill Murphy, has went to Pittsburgh. and you look at what Pittsburgh's doing this year and with their young pitchers, they're having a lot of success. And I'm scratching my head wondering if he might have something to do with our guys this year and not being very effective, not able to throw strikes.

A huge falloff, obviously, from last year to this year with similar injury dynamics. Just an interesting, obviously. observation. I was wondering what you guys thought of that. You know, I'm going to be really honest with you, Trey. I don't get into the weeds of assistant coaches, frankly, in anything except maybe football when it comes to offensive and defensive coordinators. I think heading coaches get way too much credit and pitching coaches get way too much credit when things are going right and when things are going lousy. They're the low-hanging fruit to get fired. So I can't intelligently speak to you about what

The difference is, I just know that teams like to make changes occasionally. Guys get to get other jobs, get promotions. And, you know, it's funny. Who was the older guy that the Astros had for all those years? Brent Strom? Brent Strom. So Brent Strom, Trey, leaves to go to the Arizona Cardinal, Arizona Diamondbacks. Everyone's like, oh, the Astros pitching staff is going to suck.

Well, guess what they did? What year or two after he left? They won the World Series. So I don't put, frankly, a whole lot of influence on the position coaches. I'll let the players do a lot of the heavy lifting. The problem for me this year, Trey, and you can agree or disagree with me on this, is this is not a very, these, you got a bunch of arms, but you didn't get a lot of bunch of proven arms. Jason Alexander is a 4A player.

Weiss never played in the major leagues until this year. Colton Gordon, I mean, we're just talking about, I mean, they're all nice people, but they're just guys. You had 11 different guys made a start. When you lose Christian Javier, who was supposed to be your future number two, and you lose Hunter Brown for this length of time, And Tatsu Emi had this great track record overseas. Those are the times of losses that I don't care if a pitching coach comes in and tries and reinvent the wheel for the eighth or ninth guy in the group.

There ain't the ninth guys for a reason. So, again, I don't want to throw anybody under the bus except to say that just because you have depth doesn't mean it's great depth. You just have depth. Does that make sense to you? I mean, you tell me, if you want to argue, I'm all for it. Well, you know, we had triple A depth last year, too, that came in. And, you know, they were very effective when our front line starters went down.

We lost three starters last year. That's fair. Ergetti and Blanco and Wes Nesky. And then we all of a sudden had a bunch of gun guys come up and very effective in the lineup. Yeah. I mean, you know, again, I don't think there's much to it, but you never know. in the behind the scenes something they may say, hey, I don't like what the guy's saying. I don't like the, I miss, we miss having guys around that we used to be around.

I understand that. I just, at this point, I cannot necessarily blame anybody from the instructional side of things, especially because A, we're a month in the season, and B, how do you instruct so many guys that are being put into these huge important situations when they weren't supposed to be in these situations begin with because of all the injuries? Yeah, well, you know, I guess maybe the one guy in particular, that there's a head scratcher as a bray you you know he from one year to the next he's a completely different pitcher yeah it's a big head scratcher he's got to either be i don't know hurt or or something's

wrong and by the way pirates eighth and era this year last year they're 7th so they're about where they've been okay well there yeah there you go yeah thanks for the phone call thank you thank you appreciate the phone call of a great weekend you know again yeah yeah go ahead i'm sorry i just i'm not with the team every day there's no way i could intelligently to speak of, oh, what they're being told as bunk. Yeah,

and I don't ever want, when I, when I am, we talk about hitting coaches and pitching coaches, I don't ever want to try to communicate that I think they don't matter. That's not what I'm saying.

But I just think the players matter more than anything. Like that guy's not going over their Pittsburgh and teaching Paul Skeins how to pitch. Yeah. Either you have the talent or you don't. Yeah. I mean,

let's be, you wouldn't be really brutally honest. They thought Mike Burrough was a sneaky, awesome pickup from the Pittsburgh. Oh, okay. You know what I'm saying? He's rounding in a form, like Brian McTaggart said. Okay. He's close.

All right, let's say some. Big start tonight. A must win start. No, it's not. Oh. I'm even stopping you from saying it. Because I'm joking. People don't understand that sometimes.

You're actually right. Because Christian and Lamarck called me in the post game. It was like, Ross, you're the one always championing a must win again. Like, no, no. Exactly. I'm being sarcastic. Yeah. 713-212-5-7-90.

If you want to jump in, 7-13-21-5-7-90, it's time for you to say I'm sorry. And Lord knows, you've got to apologize, especially Jonathan. He'll be starting off our apologies next. 1131 on Sports Talk 790. Yep, this is the time. Jonathan and Ross come to you for the next 25 minutes and ask you to utter these very simple words. I'm sorry

So sorry We are fools 10 to 12 or 10 to 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday We take a half hour to apologize For said mistakes Friday's at 1130

On Sports Talk 790 719 if you want to chime in If you want to say sorry for something you've said or done this week 7132 5790 Um Ross Do I owe the audience an apology for anything I've done this week?

I'm sure you do. You lied in the first segment about something. Oh, you're lied about a Min Thompson loving what a fool believes. Yes, that's right. You right about others. You should actually have Jonathan played that song. Not a pump-up song. Look, folks.

You apologize for that. I lied to you. It's not because I'm trying to be mean. It's just easier. Okay. I'm so sorry. Like when Terry calls in. Great to have you on the show.

It's not really true. But it's easier to say that. I'm saying, what do you want? Okay. You know, Gambler Jim is terrible call, too. We have some others.

Oh, Gambler Jim needs to apologize. Yeah, just bad. I mean, I really, I've defended James a lot. You tried. You tried. It's not working. Even though he comes after me

for my Longhorn Phantom. That's how unbiased I try to be. I still defend him. I know. All right. He can be snarky and dushy. but this gambler bit's too far James It's just not good. It's bad for the show.

Yeah. So, Gambler, Jimmy, I apologize. By the way, Rolando says thanks for the 4KT tips. You're welcome, Rolando. Thank you for listening. People were listening. You know what? You got to apologize to that, Matt. Yeah, you apologize.

I'm sorry that we did not give the 4K run a greater run. Oh, I'm sorry. John, what are you apologizing for? You know, it's raining out here today. You got here to work on time, by the way. I'm very happy for you for that. Because the last couple times it's rain, I'm just cruising.

And next to you know, no one was at a drive and I'm stuck behind and getting late to work. But today I kind of had to maneuver myself in front of a couple cars. Oh. And I hope you got

fresh tires. I do have fresh tires. You know, I just, I'm embarrassed, but I want to apologize to the 18 wheeler because I don't plan to cut people off,

right? Well, you're going to cut somebody off to 18 wheelers to go to because they go so, slow. And all this, the water is splashing. I'm not trying to, you know, slip and I got you. So I just, I cut it all real bad. He had the hug his horn.

They're, uh, blocking your view. Yeah, and then he caught up to me and I kind of felt his stare going down to my car. You know, really? Yeah. And, uh, you know, man, I just, watch out. He's got the high ground. To that Walmart 18, well, I, I apologize. Oh, sorry. I'm just trying to get to work. It's raining. Did he middle finger you? You know, you can't really see, but you can see him. Well, if he did, would you have mental finger? him back.

No. Oh. Okay. Yeah, you need to apologize for that. Being a hypocrite. Oh, yeah. Yeah, last week you said, shut your bum ass up for middle figuring me back and you said you do the same

thing. Yes, right. Apologize. No. Oh, my God. Everything's an individual case. You're the worst. You know what? You're going to have your wife calling in this segment and say things you need to apologize for.

Oh, no, God. No. You know what? She's in Reno right now. It's not going to happen. I'm sorry to my daughter, by the way. She's very upset that I'm not with her. Oh, for her last weekend. Last club weekend.

Yeah, she's fine. Oh, sorry. She'll be fine. I thought the squad wasn't very good. Obviously, your daughter's amazing. Do not put that out there? I thought you said last time, you said it on air. I don't remember that.

No, I just wanted to be there and I can't because I got the rockets, but that's okay. She understands. And by the way, I'm booking these airfares to go to Rhode Island. So trust me, I'm going to see her play a bunch of volleyball before it's all saying. Yeah. So she tells me an apology for making me feel bad. Okay. Ross, what you got?

I had a small piece of furniture delivered. It's not heavy. And I was like, I didn't know if I should tip the guys or not. And then by the time I decided to, I tried to run them down, try to give them $10. And they had to pull off in light speed. They said it was their last delivery of the day. I swear to you, I tried to give them $10. And I did him in hall a little bit because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to.

I was like, what's the problem? I was literally Googling it. 10? I was Googling, do you, yeah. $10? It wasn't heavy. It wasn't like it was a big couch or something. When I moved my apartment, I gave those guys $20 a piece.

It sounds like he makes other people tip on the cards there. No, I felt so bad. Because like I said, I had to Google it. You know what you are? You're a tip shamer who doesn't tip. No, I'm not. I swear to you, I'm sorry. I didn't know the situation.

first of all as I said when I had my apartment moved I gave those guys 20 bucks a piece there was three of them okay I tipped them for moving stuff I didn't know if it was just delivering an item that it wasn't that heavy I could have done it myself mm-hmm mm-hmm and then by the time I was like all right fine and literally the Reddit post said do or don't it doesn't matter the Reddit post didn't even say to do it so I wasn't sure but then I literally walked as fast as I could they got out on light speed so I'm sorry to those guys people on Reddit are cheap bastards they just are and you're mr. tip I know. I know. Well, I didn't know what the etiquette was. But you're right. And I still went to go do it. I went to go do it. How do we know? Sorry. You're going to have to trust me? Why would I bring it up if I wasn't going to? No, you admit at least a minute. I'll give you credit to that. Yeah, I didn't have to bring this up. Yeah, you didn't. That's part of the reason why we, we open ourselves up probably too much for this show. Because y'all probably know too much about me because of I'm sorry. But it's a cleanser. All right, let's go to Roger on 7-9. Roger, what are you apologizing for?

Yeah, I kind of jumped a gun last time when the rocket was down 3-1, and I told them they were going to come back and get an injury to the interview. And I gladly, I apologize for that because, though, behold, we have a game six here, Houston. And I decided to roughly and the fellows of fellow followers. Thank God by the name of nothing huge or something like that. Yeah, God, I, um, I, um, I, um, I apologize to that.

Roger, Roger, Roger. Are you calling us from a cave? Seriously, if you don't get a better phone, you can't call the show anymore. You can prize for you all you want to because that's a believe it or not. You know, he sounds perfectly fun every time when I was screaming. Well, what's going on then?

I don't know. He's spulunking. I don't know what he's going on. Spolunking? Cave diving here. All right. Your phone sucks, Roger. I apologize for it.

I'm sorry. All right. Let's go. You got apologize? for something. Let me hear from you. 713 212.5.790. 713-212-790. 1144. We're going to wake the strippers up in 15 minutes.

Goodness. And we have E-Made Doke at 1 o'clock. We have a little MMA for you at 120. Wonderful. We've got nine Florida stories at 130. And a hell yeah or not? What? Austin Reeves? What? Muri Atramura. Like your players?

Nicole Eokic, he likes playing basketball. Not. He's gone fishing. 1144 on Sports Talk 7-90. Come on in. Join us 7-13-212-5-7-9. And please say, you're sorry. No surprise. The Rockets updating the injury report. Kevin Durant officially out for tonight's game number six. The youngins will go tonight. Second youngest lineup ever to play in a playoff game.

And the youngest ever to win a game, I think, is what it is. Wow. Yeah. 23 years old, on average. No superstars. Alper and Shangoon is the oldest the group? I thought Tari was. No, Alpi's been the league a year longer. Maybe age-wise.

Okay, yeah, that's true. Yeah, maybe so. Yeah, that sounds right. All right. On deck, he's 23. He'll be 24 in July, and Tari will be 25 on May 10th. Okay. I broke bread with Tari's agent

at dinner in Los Angeles. It was on her night. Oh, really? Yeah, pregame media meal in the dining room. Yeah. I didn't know until somebody told me. How's his mom doing? She wasn't there.

I don't know. I didn't ask. We just said, hello. He said, can I sit there? I said, sure, sit down. Did he ask you to pay? It was media meal. It was free.

Oh, okay. You know, he missed down on some cash. Are you pocket watching me? No, I'm not pocket watching you. All right. Pocket watching the guy who had his client bet on himself and lose. Oh, sorry. You know what?

I'm sorry to the Eastern family for that. Yeah, he, I apologize. You know what? One more thing. Go ahead. Can he make some money back on this tournament? I mean, in this playoff run? I guess.

Probably not. Okay. Especially if the Rockets put it out that they're going to match whatever. Yep. They'll try to leverage that way. I'm sorry, Jonathan, for not having watched 8 Mile yet. He was very upset. Thank you.

I know. It's just a blind spot. When it came out and watched it, then I just didn't get around to it. It's Oscar winning, too. I'm surprised. I know. I said, I'm sorry. You are a movie snobbs.

What I'm sorry? Best song for Lose Yourself? I got to look at it. Oh, don't hold on. The movie is great, though. Acting's amazing. Okay. All right.

Yeah, best original song for Lose Yourself. Last calls for I'm sorry. 713212-5-790. David in Vegas on 7-90. David, good morning to you. Well, hi, good morning, guys. I was actually on hold with a different kind of a question in the spirit of anything goes Friday.

So can I say, I'm sorry for being in the wrong segment, and that's my question anyway. Go ahead, hurry up. Knock it out. Go for it. Listen, this is, I just weird. Yesterday I actually watched not one but two double headers, and I watched both halves

of both double headers. Astros and Giants. And I noticed that in between games, the teams completely changed uniforms and changed uniform styles between games one and two. I just wondered how long that's been going on, because I just,

I didn't think that growing up anytime I saw a double-headed that these guys came out completely redressed. Now remember, in the old days, you tended to only have one style of a home uniform or one style of a way uniform. And now these guys have six different styles. So I understand how they can do it. And notice that my giants came out wearing the same style, but they still may have been different clean uniforms for the second game. Do you have any historical perspective on when this might have changed, how long they've been doing this for double-headers? Great.

I tried asking Art of your- It's a great question. Yeah, they don't have an answer for you. They don't. The personal intelligence couldn't answer it, so I need humans. You know, if Chad GBT can't help you, sports empty, can. The reality is there is no answer to it. It's the reality is...

It was actually 1974. Willie Starr-Jol. He ripped his jersey and the game won, and then the whole team agreed to change. Is that true? No. Okay. You know what? I'm sorry.

People think you're telling the truth. Say you're sorry. I fully believe this is. I'm sorry. What is wrong with you? You just super lied. And he made it sound very viable. That's why I believe it or not is so successful.

I know. That's terrible. No, the reality is this. They have a lot of uniforms. They have to wear a minimum number of each, and they figure a clean pants and clean shirt will help. There's really no reason for it, except that, you know, majorly baseball teams can wear,

I think, as many as four different uniforms. Yeah, you get on a clean uni. Look good, feel good. But, yeah, back in the day, guys, you know, you'd see somebody sliding in a second in the first game, and then they lead off the next game with dirt all over them. The Astros changed their hats. They changed their uniforms.

Well, they lost by like 10. Now, I'm assuming they kept their pants on because it was gray pants unless they put on an accent on pants. Maybe they wanted to change up the juju. Because they got their ass kicked in game one. No, you have to tell them ahead of time. Why? Because if the other team wants to change their uniform,

you can't have two teams wearing the same color uniform on the field. Yeah, I guess you got to, you can do something to still road. I can go from gray to blue. Yeah, but typically you wear the gray pants on the road, you know, most times. It's not got a clash or the Orioles. that's true but if you wore the dark blue astros with the black oros it could be confusing to some

no that's blind people legally blind people second base umpire swipe tag you never know oh get out of here just stay with me on this no apologize the royals are wearing all blue oh one more apology i had the rockets losing game five by ten

yeah we didn't i didn't you know i put that in the bulletin border, you made doke's a locker room. Oh, you did. Yeah. Good. They're like, who they're like? Well, they never work, then rockets lose by 10 tonight. Is that what you're saying? No, I think they're going to win. That's my gut feeling at the moment. Am I going to L.A. tomorrow? Three trips to L.A. in one week? That's crazy. That is weird. Yeah. It's not like running around the corner either.

I mean, I guess in a road trip you fly a lot, too, but you're yo-yoing back and forth a lot. Yeah. The same exact spot. Yeah. All right. Well, that happened in the season. Then they come home and then go from Denver and then go back to Denver or something like that? Well, we had Denver twice in a week with New Orleans in between. That was a flaky playing game tournament thing. All right. Last thing before we wake the strippers up. Kevin and Pearline, Kevin, what are you apologizing for? Kevin.

Well, I'm apologizing to Ross for not calling in for such a long time. I'm the advocate and supporter of Ross getting his photo on the website. I appreciate you, Kevin. I believe it was all because of me. Yes. as to why it finally occurred. And I also want y'all to apologize for Ross not doing the, excuse me, we haven't had a double and conundrae for a while.

I know that it's usually organic, but if y'all could manufacture it but make it seem like it's organic, it just makes me feel good about the show a little bit better. That's all. You'll have a great weekend. See, the problem is when you say to somebody, tell me something funny, it doesn't work that way. Yeah. Tell me a devil on. Trident. Andre, it doesn't work. When it organically happens, it'll happen.

Right. Like when you call you forth full throat, Thomas. Something like that. See, that doesn't work. Oh, it works. Thank you. There we go. Hmm. Hmm. Okay.

First two hours flew by. Yes. You got a great guest the rest of the way. Where's your non-flora story from, by the way? By the way, somebody sent you a non-flora story that I was going to use. Have you used it? Oh, use it. Are you sure?

Yeah. If you want. It concerns mac and cheese. Are you okay with that? Oh, I did see that one. Go ahead. Take it. Are you sure?

Yes. This is a good story. Yes. All right. So my non-Floristory involves mac and cheese. Yes. 1158. Let's like the strippers up next on 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1203 in H-town. It's our. three of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Dipping his wick. Excuse me, what? And then

putting out stories about your injury. Dipping your wick? Is that a movie reference I don't know about? All right, let's move on. All right, good. You never heard that phrase? Dipping the wick? Yeah. No.

It sounds like it's something you would do with a candle. Have you ever, have you ever dip your pen in company ink? Yeah, it's similar to that. Is it really? Yes. I did it only in high school.

When's the last time you dipped a pen in ink? 1776? Yeah, I don't think so. Does anybody use that phrase dipping your pen and cup of ink anymore? I think so. I mean, I didn't know what it means. John, let's put this in a 2026.

Why is Jonathan if he's heard it? If you know what that phrase means? No, neither of them. Okay, let's see if we can figure it out. Okay, try to guess, yeah. Get an idea. Let's see how close you are, one to ten. Dipping your pen in Company, Inc.

What do you think it means? Take your time. We have the news and noon coming up here in a minute, but Ross has got to figure it out what he was going to talk about first. I'm thinking, dipping your ink in company. Dipping your pen in Company, Inc. Nobody says it much anymore,

but it's still a phrase I hear occasionally. Oh, this is good. Okay, so Company Inc. That's a good thing. You're getting, you know. I would not say it's a good thing, generally speaking. It's not bad. I mean, it depends.

It depends on how you feel and how, how, I can't get any more. Yeah, you're giving it away. I don't want to do that. Depends on the quality of the ink. What? What? Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. So it's not PG-13.

I thought it was PG-13. No, it's not. The act itself is not a PG-13. No, it's PG-13. What do you mean? Are you going R? Oh, yeah. I mean, but it's a reference.

Yes. All right. You get a guess. Let's do it so we can move on here. Dipping your pen and company ink. We're talking about women, right? Yes. That's your head. All right, right, all right. The answer is having relations or relationship with somebody that you work with in the office place. You know, there's another saying that. Oh, please, update it for us. Go ahead. No, I can't think on the spot right now. I got to Google it. Okay. Yeah. Seems like a good idea, but it's not.

Usually people that dip their pen and company are usually married, but not always. You get schnockered at the Christmas party and make a mistake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what? You learn something new every day. I kind of like this. I dipped my pink in an ink in a company freezer once. That's a lot.

That's an ice school. What? See, now I'm lost. Yeah. Don't worry about it. You sound like a depraved human being. That was when I was younger. You know, I was much more mischievous.

I was younger. Now I'm growing ass. was like out of the making like federal crime we're talking about. Jonathan Trin. Did it be very this what you're talking about? No, I just happened to. Aggravated assault. No, it was no, she was, it was, it was consensual

for sure. Oh, yes, it was. 12.09. Time of. Oh, never mind. Time for the news at noon. Rosson, what you got? Yes, Matthew. Yesterday, he got not one, but two Astros games. Astros in game one get crushed

10 to 3, body Baltimore Orioles. Peter Lambert was good. took a no hitter into the fourth inning, but then wheels came off a little bit, then two grain slams by the Baltimore Orioles, including one that just left the glove of Bryce Matthews. He was very, very stressed out

about that. But they bounced back in a big way with a victory in game. Number two, they won that one. 11 to, I'm sorry, I just closed the box score. 11 to 5, wanted to make sure I got that right. 11 to 5 victory for the Astros. Now they're 12 and 20

on the season. Your don't freaking Alvarez with a home run. Also had three hits in that game as he just continues to tear the cover off the ball, as the kids say. Also got a quality outing from Lance McCuller's Jr. His velocity had ticked down, but he only gave up three earned runs. Also got nine strikeouts. Season ERA, 6.32, not ideal, but he has had a couple of quality starts.

Hopefully he can continue to hold the glue as the asteros are now in Boston tonight. It feels like we say this every game, Matt. Whoever is on the hill starting? You want to see some improvement. It's a big start for Mike Burroughs as big as it can be for May 1st. Well, it's the first month of, hey, you've been a new Astro, new responsibilities. Now it's time to be the guy that I think the Astros tried to trade for to begin with. Yeah.

So we'll see what happens there. Also, your Houston Rockets with their backs against the wall. It is a must win game for the Rockets. their fourth or fifth in a row, depending on who you ask, must win game in this series. Game number six, as they are now holding as three and a half point favorites against the Los Angeles Lakers, as Kevin Durant has been upgraded to Doubtful.

Nope. I thought you said. No, he was doubtful. Now he's out. I thought he was the other way. No. I thought he went from out to doubtful. He went from out to doubtful back to out.

Oh, okay. So he went upgraded and then he got downgraded. Correct. I'm sorry. Okay, there you go. So Kevin Durant is out. Maybe that means there could be a glimmer of hope if the Rockets win in Game 7.

I'm just going to let you folks know now. They will not bench him if they make it to Game 7 and he is available. Yeah, seriously. You guys are a bunch of idiots. Are the Rockets better without Kevin Durant? Have an IQ of 6 for NBA. Please.

Jesus. God, there's so much stupid. First of all, we got water carriers for the Texans and we have dumbass rocket takes out there. This city needs some help. Thank God Ross and I are here. It was a smash draft for the Texans, 10 out of 10. Now, there's not a single person that gave a draft grade and follows a draft that did that.

But, hey, some people in this town are giving them a 10 out of 10. I'm going to go to Texan draft and coverage and give you that. Shut up. Texans, wake me up in August when the season starts. Are you okay? No. I'm in a rocking an hour mode. You're going to have an aneurism one of these days.

Maybe so, but you'll be there to rescue me. I'm a little concerned. That's fine. I'll call 911, I guess. You try to give me CPR? CPR training. I did it in the Boy Scouts. That was like 30 years ago.

Jonathan, you got CPR training? That was like, I think. Maybe in middle school PE is a lot. Oh, my God. We're in trouble. I think we've learned more heart science in 30 years. My methods might be outdated. Can see Day Stroud have an extra tight end on this team?

Let's go. 7-1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 5, 7-8. Yeah, they're good. They got Merlin Olson or whatever his name is. No, it's not Merlin. It's Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Berlin, Bailin, Berlin. They didn't draft Merlin Olson? No, they did not.

It was a bad choice. Next man up. Marlon Klein, excuse me. Tied in out of Michigan. He's been blocked by Colson Loveland and the boys. Out there in Michigan, he's got a lot of talent. Wasn't a reach. Just asked Nick Casario.

Nick, and Nick we trust. Is CJ Srydonal League quarterback? 713-1-2-1-2-5-7-9? This is interesting, I feel like. Sportico has come out of the list that has given out the values for WNB franchises. Oh, really? Does Timmy want to see this?

Well, he's paying, what, 300 million or whatever it is for? Yeah. Well, good news for him. The Golden State Valkyries are on top of the list, valued at $180,50 million after they put $850 mil for the Golden State Valkyries. I'm stunned by that number. Me too.

They posted a WNBA record $78 million in revenue in their inaugural season, thanks to a season ticket base that topped $10,000 and of course, plus sponsorships. All right, congratulations of Alcarus. And also, the comments are apparently locked up in some kind of trademark issue. Yeah, apparently Travis Scott has the name to Houston comments. Travis Scott? Yes.

He's got to let him have it back, right? I would think so. Well, he's going to say cut the check. Well, he probably is. Cut the check! You can have the name. All right. Time now for one non-news note.

Okay. that I'd like to get the both of you to rule on. Okay, wonderful. I would like to offer you a subscription service, boys. Would you like to hear about this? I'm sure you would. Unlimited medium French fries from McDonald's for $20 per month. Oh my God.

You people are sick. What do you think? I think you should not do that. You can get something with some nutritional value. Can you go to OnTheCurb.com, get some organic vegetables? Come on, man. Now, I would say this. McDonald's fries are the absolute best.

Everybody knows that. It's really not disputable. I just don't know if I would want to justify eating $20 a month in fries from one place. I made $20 a month in fries, but maybe not from one place. You're going to have to feel like you get your money's worth. You're going to have to go there at least 10 times. Well, imagine you got $20 left and you're using it for, you want it for gas or some diapers, and then you got it took from McDonald's at first.

Then you've got to trade some french fries for gas. Hmm, I never thought of it quite that way. I will trade you size 4D for. I can't pull up and order 10 large fries. What's the, what are the terms and conditions? It just says McDonald's is reportedly planning a subscription fry service offering unlimited medium fries for $20 per month. I bet you that's a lie.

That can't do unlimited. Because then I would go ask for 100 medium fries and then you could just go give them to all the homeless people in town. You feed everyone on 20 bucks a month. My guess is once you go into a McDonald's at a location once per day. See, that's not unlimited though. But if you go to five McDonald's, like there's, there's, There are three McDonald's in Kingwood.

You're a degenerate, man. I can knock out three orders. Well, we work with somebody. Well, sort of work with somebody. They would go to Chick-fil-A's and get free food from each of the Chick-fil-A's in the same day. You called them out and then they blocked you. And they also blocked you too. Yeah, thanks.

You get the sub-block. Y'all are rights to call them out. No, that's outrageous. I mean, I won't mention who it is, but I have in the past. Worst. Got to be blocked on all platforms just for sitting here. I'm like, I think. we were friends. No.

And I saw him at the Barry Manolo concert. He never mentioned he blocked me. Yeah. They were friends when he was trying to chat and cut you. So he was a chatting and cut Barry Manilow fraud fan. And then when I bring up the fact that he's going to Chick-fil-A's four different places

in one day and chatting and cutting at Mothers and Mothers in New Orleans, which is not the place to chat and cut. I've got to be honest with you. They'll toss you out of there. That they will. All right. 713-212-5-7.0. E. Medeoka joins us at 1 o'clock. 139. Florida stories,

Hell yeah or not at 150. What is our category for Hell yeah or not. What? You figured it out. Oh, there's a Golden State Valkyries. It's not. It's going to go Either Laker Players or Michael Jackson, the movie is out. It's been out for a week now. It's doing quite well. 97% audience score.

It's all you can ask for. 1217. It's Madden Raw. 713. 212-5-790. If you want to chime in, 7-13-212-5-790. This is is a jam. Is this song on my phone?

Jonathan. No. Absolutely it is. Wow. Yes. All right. What white stripes coming at you? Ironically enough, this is the song we used to use the introduction of the Rockets when I came back through the PA about 10 years ago.

It was more of like a kind of a remix. Techno, not techno, not a house, but like, yeah. It's a good one. Electronic remix, I'll say. All right. So we have Rockets and Lakers tonight. By the way, I got a poll question up. You do?

It's a biased poll question for sure. I'm going to presume that most people better listen to the show. I've been getting no votes on my polls recently. Really? Let me see. I think Twitter's like they're throttling me or something. Yeah, I've only got 75 votes. You would think it would be way more than that.

69% of people believe the Rockets are going to win tonight's game. 31% have the Lakers. It's only 75 votes. That's nothing. Come on. get that to like 750. No, like I said, I think if you don't pay for the website now, they're really throttling our impressions.

So what are they going to cost? It was it going to cost me to? I think it's like seven bucks a month or something, maybe more 10. Why do I want to give a toxic website my money? Exactly. I know. Because you want to reach your audience. I mean, so it's a give and take.

Because we're in the media business. If you're like a regular Joe or you don't have a, if you have a business or you're in the media business, it makes sense. Probably write that off. Okay, I'm going to do it. I'm going to verify myself and pay for it. I just talked to you I do it in five seconds

Didn't take long Because I do want to get a better A better feel of it So if you want to funnel my account At SportsMT Who do you got A gut feel about Rockets Lakers By the way Scott Foster's officianting is elite official

He is the extender That should not matter He's the extender He is the extender If he is the extender Go bet the Rockets and you won't lose Regardless of the point total Money line it

Yeah It's people when they say, I guarantee something's going to happen, you say, well, if it guarantee it, then go put it on the big board. Which is going to head up to the bedding window, baby. That's all you got to do. That's right. I do it, and I lose a lot, but I win a lot too.

Yeah, by the way, the Vegas folks have not gotten this series right yet. It feels like. Except for game five. I think the game four was the only time the Rockets were favored in game four by two and a half. They won. The only time the favorite is won is once. Also, though, Matt, all five games, the team with the best three point percentage has won the game.

I know. That was an adorable thing I listened to during the Rockets trip yesterday. Wow, thank you. Rockets are three and a half point favorites.

Not that that means anything. It means a little. It means they should be better. Yeah. Let's go, baby. You got a game six tonight in Orlando

between the Pistons and the Magic. If the Magic beat the Pistons is an eight beating a one, J.Bickersat loses a job? Hmm. Probably.

Has no track record of any sort of deep postseason success. Man, they won 60s. games. Do you have some kind of injuries that I'm not aware of? I don't think so. The Magic are 45 and 37.

Dern has been playing bad. I need to pull up to like the series. Ben Carroll, Carter, who am I missing on that group? I don't know. Raptors and Cavaliers play games. The flip side is their, what's their name of their coach? The Magic Coach, he's been much maligned. They're talking about how toxic it was.

Mosley? I can't remember. I know it, but I can't remember. I mean, you let him go if you beat the Pistons? and going to the eastern semis? I don't know. God, if the pissons get bounced tonight, Jamal Mosley. Jamal Mosley. Yikes.

Cavaliers and Raptors playing game six, Cleveland up three to two, can James Hardwin a playoff series? Can I say something? We'll see what happens with the Rockets and the Lakers. But if it's the Lakers, which the odds say it is, they have two shots,

two chances to win one, I was all psyched for round two of West, especially. Everything is getting ruined. I wanted to see Spurs Nuggets Now you're going to get to Timberwolves Without Anthony Edwards

He's got a bone bruise So he could miss another week or whatever DeVinchenzo's already had his surgery DeVinjo literally had his Achilles ripped Ae O'Dosuma who's been really good for them Didn't play last night And yet they still won And if the Rockets win

There's no guarantee of Kevin Durant And if the Lakers won It's already been reported Luke is not going to be ready for the start of that series So I think the chalk pick would be Oklahoma City versus San Antonio Yeah but I thought the round two

was going to be like two couple knockdown drag him out series. Yeah, but I don't think a lot of people had Denver losing to Minnesota. I know, but now everybody's hurt. They got a three one. That would have been fun. Fully healthy Minnesota, I'd be more on board with. Yeah, that's fair. That's fair.

Terrible. You know, I ain't worried about anybody else. I'm worried about the Rockets. Okay. Also, go Sixers. Ooh, to knock off the Celtics? Yes. Because that was my, I think my gut feeling was something about the Celtics aren't going to be as

strongest. And the Knicks do enough to become the Eastern favorites because of the way they disemble, annihilated the Atlanta Hawks? Maybe. The pistons are out of the picture? That's going to be huge. You know, look, I don't, I think largely Houston has checked out on other teams not named Houston, which is fine. I get that. But we like

it. Well, yeah, and that's what I said. You're supposed to have these sexy knockdown, drag out series, and then they've just been ruined by injuries. No, it'll be a huge turnout factor. Is it, we going baseball on this? Like, how are we feeling about, like, do we need more sample size on NBA injuries? Everybody's getting hurt. All the top players, got hurt and miss significant time this year?

Are we going this as pace and space? And people are pushing their bodies too far, or are we calling this a one or two off? Well, all right, let's localize it for a second. If Durant plays 60 games this year and takes an occasional night off, does he bone bruise himself? Does he turn an ankle? We don't know. That's the problem.

To answer all these arguments, we've got to go into multiverses. Was his ankle stronger at 18 less games? I can't predict that. We don't know. because it could happen in a practice which the bone bruise took place at practice

the ankle happened during a game I mean I mean I mean he's just stepped on somebody I mean if you really want to hold somebody back you don't you take your chances by playing him only in games you don't practice well that's just not realistic I don't operate a basketball team

go Rockets yes I I will tell you if this game goes to seven it will be an uncomfortable environment in Los Angeles maybe that it'll be good I think it'd be great.

Matt, was the crowd that quiet over there? You know, it's funny people ask me about that. It's never allowed crowd to begin with. I think the crowd, just from a broadcasting standpoint, from my ears, I think T&T did a better job of integrating the crowd noise and ESPN. Although the game was on ESPN, but it sounded lower. I don't know if they did something different. Yeah, I don't know.

It sounded like they didn't want to rule for nobody. It sounded dead in there. Well, the Rockets had a really great game. Yeah, that helped. Exactly. they did they were beating them down but just like from watching some of these games it feels like you can never

tell what's going on with the crowd mic but it could just be the environments I don't know I wonder if that's somebody at the league office saying hey turn down turn up you need up you gotta feel the energy yeah you didn't feel tonight but it's hard to feel games when you're in bed at 11 o'clock at night aren't you in it yeah you may be feeling something else

you don't know like what the warm touch of your girl heartburn that's true. Could be all the above. Acid reflux. Yeah. Indigestion. You give me indigestion, baby. Man, why are you serving me those burritos with that hot green sauce? I don't feel so good, girl. Go to break.

1232. I think we hit a nerve with Jonathan. Thank you, Jonathan. Yes, sir. Jabari Smith to come out and hear this song. Mm. Better knock down those middies. Occasional three. Rebound. Hand in the face of LeBron James.

the key to a rocket six game six win is simply a genre a lifestyle a thought

it's time yeah toto's got me fired up should I don't get fired up I flip on some toto yeah

I mean it's a good song good I'm glad you like it it's America's songs it's not like a pregame jam you don't know unless you're pre-gaming for your bruise cruise well when you're doing the pregame show tonight come in the arena and we'll see how much total you'll hear zero yeah i know the dj will take care of me the dj will not put to him yeah paul is not going and playing totoe but he doing halftime again i don't know who's doing half time y'all get to the arena by the way at 830 none of this none of this 915 crap

i mean the problem is both game six both teams don't do a good job of getting the arena in time i believe I will believe that for this game that the crowd will be on time. It's Friday. It's a late start. It's game six. Chance to see history. Chance to extend a series when no one thought it was being extended. Yeah, you'd like to be the fifth team ever to force game seven.

Now, all four have lost, which is a bad argument for Mr. Momentum guy. If you win three in a row, you got all the momentum. Well, they're 0 and 4. It's a funny thing, you know, that up until what about 10 or 15 years ago, it was best of five in the first round. It'd have been over by now. They would have gotten swept.

I like the best of seven. I mean, it's more games. Obviously, it's more money for the league, but also you find out who the best teams are. And it feels like the series is going on forever. This is two weeks of a first round series. You get the best team wins the championship, barring injury, of course, more in the NBA than anywhere else.

Yeah. And that's what I like. There's a rooting out process. I like when the best team wins. But sometimes sudden death is not bad. either. But it's part of the charm of the NCAA tournament. Yeah, it's part of the charm of the NFL playoffs. But then you got CJ Stroud, those four picks and you're done.

And it hurts. Always bringing it back to the Texans, aren't you? No, not always, but... It feels that way. I mean, I should do seven-game series in the NFL. It'd be fun. It'd be like six months of playoffs. Everybody's hurt by the end of it? Well, I mean, you really, you could do a double elimination. You could have the post-season as... Every year's scoring like in the Champions League of soccer?

You can have the postseason as long as a regular season. Oh, it's funny, though, you said that, you know, the playoffs, this is the second week of the series. We're not crowning a champion until, what, second week in June? Yeah, it's crazy. And then before you know, you have the draft, and you've got Summer League, and then you're back to training camp and yada, yada, yada. So that much more impressive to me that LeBron James made like nine straight NBA finals or whatever was. Very little time off.

Crazy. Very little time off. Astro started a series of the Red Sox tonight, and Mike Burroughs, you were kind of talking about it. I don't know if you were being facetious or semi-serious. This isn't a make or break, but it's, you know, it's kind of time for you to show why the Astros went and got you to begin with, right? To be established, especially because this team does need some length and it does need some success. I have a starting pitcher. Yeah, we've given you some grace.

We've given you some time to kind of work through things. He's shown some flashes and a couple of starts. Now it's time you're a month in. It's time to start pitching well. It's time to start proving Dana Brown right. because right now Dana Brown's not looking so great. If you're Dana, and look, let's face it,

I don't think he nor Joe Espotter are particularly uncomfortable in their skin right now. And their seat? Your seats are warm. The seats are warm. I don't know if it's a, again, I don't know what you would do. I don't know if Philadelphia's going to be a different baseball team

with a new manager there with Don Madeline taking over. Probably not. It feels like the replacement crew in Boston's not going to change things up there. You got to be. very careful when you're an owner or a general manager to make a move because are you doing it because you really think the guy is that your leader has lost the room, that he's lost the message, or are you doing it because you're trying to place the blame on somebody else when it really is your fault? If I'm Dana, I am not asking for Joe Espada to get the hook on this to any point this year because

only Joe can do what Joe can do and that's been handled the players, handed the players that he's been given for his roster. And so far, EMI has been terrible. Burroughs has been disappointing. Who else? Bryce Matthews, who they had a lot of faith and hasn't done the job. Cam Smith has struggled. Where would this team be, frankly, without Christian Walker and Yordan Alvarez, which are things we never thought we would bring up to conversation?

Christian Walker signings look a lot better this year. Yeah. That's for sure. Cam Smith trades looking pretty good. Of course, it's the Kyle Tucker trade. But we had a game winner to Kyle Tucker a couple days ago for the for the Dodgers. He had a walkoff, but he's still not hitting well. No. Cana Smith had a

bomb. Eastside Paradis is hitting, he had like three or four, I think four or five hits yesterday. Mm-hmm. Oh, it's not about the offense. This team, if this team's going to get back in the race, it's going to be because of some semblance of health, which would be obviously Hunter

Brown getting back soon. Christian Javier coming back at some point in pitching well. The problem is Brian O'Brien, there's nothing to blame except just flat out performance right now. It's terrible. And even if you did, let's say you wave a magic wand or you have a healthy hunter brown. Ergeti's been good, but it's still a bunch of question marks

after that. And we thought it was all a great great depth. It's been depth. It's not great depth. That's unfair to those guys. But the reality is you're being clumped in together as one group. Eamai's been bad and hurt. Burroughs has been he's been bad. He has. I mean, your ERA is over six, you're bad. And Stephen

Oakry, you can't really rely on him much anymore. You got hit hard yesterday. Alexander got bombed yesterday. He's been running into the ground. Yeah. that's why baseball bullpins are so hard to really say oh we got this taken care of because one year the a bullpen can be fantastic for you the next year can be a hot mess and right now the asteros I think a lot of the problem the reason why the bullpen is not very good is because you're asking guys be in a levered situation they're not supposed to you still haven't seen uh josh hater throw a pitch yet your eighth inning guy is not even really playing at all yeah that it's like with the

rockets what we're talking about they're missing three rotation players that means that means your your 9, 10, 11 guys have to move up to 6, 7, 8. So when haters out and a brayu's out, that means your, yeah, your 8, your 7th inning guy is your closer, or they're just doing it by committee. Angel de los Santos. Way too many high leverage situations. I believe his nickname is claimed off waivers. Like, he's been the guy, he's been your best leverage guy, and he's been giving up runs.

It's not arguable. You are asking for too many guys that have not either, never done. it before or have no success in doing it and that's going to get important outs. Two grand slams in the first game. Geez. Yeah. To what you're talking about before, that's why to me, I think Joe Espada should be safe. And it's not because we have them on this show on Tuesdays. Because

No, it's because we're looking at a team. We're decent people. We realize it's not his fault. We're paying attention. People who aren't watching the games and they're just looking at the standing. So like, oh, you got fired Joe's Potter, man. Joe Spotted. Terrible. Watch the games. Look what's happening. Look who's out there. You can't be a

Dumber Astro fan on Twitter when you say fire Joe Espada. You just can't be. Well, he didn't have Jason Alexander get more outs. The only thing you can think of are sometimes managerial changes flip switches. It doesn't happen a lot, but it happens some. And it takes an astute general manager or ownership group to say, I think us flipping a switch can fire these guys up. I think that has more to do, though, also with like position players and the team as a whole. When it's only the pitching that's not doing their job, if you really want to upset the Apple Card,

maybe it's go to, we had a call earlier asking about the pitching coaches, and I think they're still doing a good job. They just, yeah, they haven't turned Peter Lambert to cast off from the Rockies and then into Japan. They haven't turned them into an ace. Yeah, I mean, if anybody's hoping that Peter Lambert is going to be a hero for this astro rotation until the main guys get in, That's asking way too much of Peter Lambert. You're getting a bunch of guys from Japan and Korea. Some that were born there and some that weren't.

It's going to be a mixed bag. Oh, we got to talk about something when we get back from the break. Uh-oh. Jabari hasn't got a clip out there. Uh-oh. Jabari's got a clip. 1245, Sports Talk 790. I don't plan on stopping at all.

I won't it forever. I shouldn't die in the mall. All right. So you got a hell of a lot. up us out here. We're doing live radio. Jonathan, you found some audios this from today's shoot around, I'm assuming? Like after it's a little presser before the game.

This has happened today. You know this for sure. For a fact, this happened at 1228 p.m. Just want to make sure that you don't play something from like six years ago. No, this is recent. All right. Give us the context. And Ross and I will be listening to this organically for the very first time. Context is basically them asking about what's going to go. And if you think, asking Jabari, do you think,

you guys don't have game seven and this is his response to that question i apologize yeah we don't think about think about game seven right now we just think about game six we think about tonight it depends about doing the things that we got to do to win um uh put on a show for our fans uh represent the city well we not think about game seven we'll think about it uh tonight we got to pack our bags but we not we not think about it right now we're worried about game six worried about the task at hand and um and uh yeah we're worried about tonight we not think about game seven good When we pack our bags We'll be worried about game set

Now wait a man You're really going to take the pack our bag stuff Going seriously I like that You got to look at the NBA Central They're What is it? I have them blocked

Yeah they're terrible What are they saying cocky, arrogant Yes Did he not back it up Is he always going to back it up Or at least try to That was

We got to You know And we are guilty of this in sports media We want the generic answers. We complain about the generic answers. We have somebody that says something spicy, then we complain about that. We collectively, as a sports media universe,

I don't think the fans particularly care, but we as sports fans, we get really grumpy or media with every response we get. But wouldn't you, if Houston, would you not want this? It's fun. Would you not want this right now?

I'm like, okay, let's go. Yeah. Yeah, what if Austin Reeve said this? Who cares? You know, I'm going to believe. going to give you some behind the scenes bulletin more material right now. Uh-oh. Go ahead.

I have booked a flight. Oh, oh. From Los Angeles to Oklahoma City on Monday. Yeah, but you can cancel it. I don't ruin the bit. Oh. If he got non-refundable, then I'd be impressed. Dammy, Ross, ruin it.

Reason for that is because the Rockets would, the presumption is we would go from Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, but it would be in the middle of my show, and I want to work to four full hours with you tomorrow. So on Monday. so that's why I booked a flight. Yeah, plus, to get Oklahoma City earlier is not that big of a deal. Yeah, come on. Read the comments, so I can at least put this in context here.

What are they saying? It's NBA Central, right? It's the legit. Not Centel. Centel, though, is the goof one. I mean, the quotes are real. Jabari said, Jabari saw who was ref in tonight. He already knows it's going to be extended.

Some people are saying that. This might be one of the worst interviews in the league. LeBron, please shut them up. I love the confidence of Jabari here. That's good. Yeah, nothing wrong here. Bro, still about to drop 6 or 17 and end up in the KD files again. Oh, geez.

I need 30 plus from you tonight, gang. I see them guys putting Scott Foster on there. Don't do, folks, don't buy into Scott Foster. Don't do it. Because if he winds up, if the Lakers wind up winning, or we're going to all of a sudden change that narrative? Jibari's going for a legacy game. You aren't Jaden McDaniels, buddy.

This ain't going to work? Man. No, it's not your fault, but I'm mad we played it. Bags for Cancun, that's one guy? By the way, did you? How about Atlanta doing one, two, three, Cancun in the first quarter of their game last night? They got their ass womped. They fought back.

They only lost by under 50, right? They were talking about the fact that maybe the boys went to Magic City and had some pepper. Lemon Pepper Wings are for the game. Afterwards? Yeah. Or before? I don't know, but... Oh, actually, I'm sorry.

They lost by 51. It was in the 60s in the second half. I watched. You're walking me, SPN. You were the one. You were the one outside of New York. Yeah, I think you think Atlanta turned it off, right? For sure.

Of course. Would you watch if your team's up 50? I'm going to leave the arena. Let's put things in perspective here. The Hawks, trade of Luke Canary, which wasn't smart. the Hawks lost a game by 50 or so, whatever, last night.

The Hawks have been largely irrelevant ever since they've ever been to Atlanta. I mean, except for the Dominique Wilkins years, a little bit of Spud Webb, but that was 35 years ago. Yeah. And then their chief executive, chief financial officer, was taking money from the company account.

You didn't hear about this? No, it sounds vaguely familiar. What? Yeah, I'm going to read it to you real quick. Let me look it up because I don't want to get it wrong here. So the hoaxed CFO. I mean, dumbass. Embezzled, you ready for this?

Here we go. $3.7 million from the team through fraudulent expense reimbursement requests and misuse of corporate cards. He worked for the accounting and finance department from March 2016 through June of 2020. He became senior role of finance vice president for finance in 2021.

Among things he did, $80,000 in overseas travels to the Bahamas in Thailand. Nice. $99,800 in apparel to Saks Fifth Avenue. $150,000 diamond ring, $21,000 in Omega watches. $15,000 diamond ring. Yes. $21,000 in Omega watches and won over $160,000 in tickets to concert in other events.

Get some lab-done grimeon. Lab-grown diamonds, brother. Come on now. You're going to spend all that kind of money. All right. Koso very quickly, because we got E-Madocca standing by. What do you got, Koso? I just wanted to do this last hype for tonight, man.

I don't know if I got enough time, but I just want to get the city ready, dude. Tonight, the rockets are going to take it to these fakers, boys. I can feel it, brother. The weather's It's raining threes, brother I can feel A Rocket Game 6 victory night Can I get a hell yeah?

Hell yeah! And then out of tonight The Rockets are going to go back To Los Angeles And they're going to end this game And they're going to end this series And we're going to send LeBron packing Because he ain't ever going to be Michael Jordan

I'll tell you that right now Because Jabari Smith He ain't going to stop He's going to pour in 19, 8, and 7, we ain't going to stop there because we're going to have Amin Thompson locking up the big boy, the big fraud that is LeBron James. It ain't nothing going to stop us because Al-Phee Shingoon, the gooner himself is going to step up and he's going to lace some shoes up and he's going to have a triple dieball.

Can I get a hell yeah? Hell yeah. Hell yeah. And then the rockets are going to go and probably lose the thunder. But doesn't matter because tonight's about 8thown. Ace down till I ground.

When I bought the Rose Royce, they thought it was leaf. Then I bought that new Ferrari. Hey, the rest in peace. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. So I asked I made doke. I said, Amy, you would come on the show on, like Wednesday? He's like, no, it's too soon.

He said Friday. I said, okay. 1 o'clock Friday, here we go. And EMA and the Rockets have proven that this series will go on to a game number six tonight. And coach joins us here on the show. Ema, good afternoon to you. What a nice bounce by for your squad, the last couple of games. Tell me about it, and I don't know if you read much into this,

but what's the demeanor like in games four and five talking to those guys pregame as compared to maybe the first three games of the series if there is such a thing? confidence obviously building but you know we had a let down at the end of game three and looked at a lot of positives and you know really had a dominant three quarters outside of the finish and so there was a lot of good to look at a lot of things that we knew we did well enough to win and carried that over to game four and five and so now the shooting numbers have come back around we're still defending at a high level and so confidence is high confidence is high.

Also, another nice thing has happened in the last couple of games is you've not allowed one of their scores to have great first period of play. Was that a focus? You know, look, it's 48 minutes, but man, to see guys like Kennard or Marcus Smart have those great first quarters were certainly alarming in the early parts of the series. Yeah, we looked at the first three games

and giving up 33, 33, and 39 in the first quarter. And being at a small deficit, most of those, we wanted to get out to a great start. started with game four, you know, being up 26, 22, and then last game we didn't score a ton, but we held them in the 20s. So we wanted to get off the better starts than we've done that lately.

Smart came out and hit a few threes and freethos, but outside of that, first eight points in the first quarter, he ended up with 11, so did a much better job with him. Kinar had only have one part, one point, and so much better focus on those two guys. Is it okay to say you let Deioner 8 and do what he needs to do and getting those two-point shots if it comes with the fact that your perimeter defense is better?

I mean, obviously, you want everybody to be stopped, but can you live with DeAndre doing what he did and not allowing guys like Canard and Marcus Mard and LeBron to a smaller extent to hit a bunch of threes? Yeah, I mean, every time you go into a game plan, you want the ball to find certain guys more than others. And even if he's making some of those shots, we don't feel that can beat us at a higher level.

And keeping everybody else contained is pretty much. part of the game plan. And so we're going to live with some of those, especially with the opera and helping on some of the drives. And we feel we can contain the others. We'll be in good shape. Austin Reeves got in there, and as you and I were kind of joking about a little bit, Austin's going to get to the free throw

line. He certainly did a bunch 13 times. That's kind of his modus operandi. But what did you notice from the game plan of the Lakers with Austin out there as compared to some of the minutes that Luke Canard was taken from him before he came back and being healthy for them? Well, they run a lot of the same place.

for those two. So the actions weren't much different, but he's a better one-on-one player, and to your point, getting to the free-tho line is a big thing. So they try to bring read-up into some actions with him. I think outside of the fouls and us going under two pick and rolls where he got three-point shots, we did a good job funneling him inside. I think it looked like he got worn down as the game went on, and then we made him work on the other end.

And so obviously one of the best scores all year, what he's done is taking a big jump this year, and that's why they've improved. then they're going to try to get them his actions, get them to a free-to-line, and we've got to do a better job of not fouling. And one of the things, of course, you kind of mention what the turnaround is the defense, especially with Reed Shepard and Alperin-Shingon. What have you been seeing from those two guys, especially just from a competitive standpoint

and being up to the challenge to improve their defense? Yeah, taking on the challenge is the first part and just being more physical in general. You know, we were putting them on certain matchups, and they're doing a good job, Alpern, specifically putting out. some fires guarding his man and like I said we're living with some of the eight and things that are going to be residual effects of that but for the most part they're doing a really good job obviously if you hold a team to under a hundred as many times as we have especially 93 and 99 in the last two games you know you're doing some good things and so still areas we can clean up we took a look at that

today where you can even improve more but defense is feeling our offense the turnovers are great the activity is great and they're a big part of that rocket tech coach emmaidoga here on Sports Talk 790. What's the latest you can give us on Kevin Durant and trying to work his way back? Of course, not going to be available tonight, but potentially for Game 7. Yeah, he's still going through the process

and getting some work in and seeing how it feels. You know, the mobility and the pain are two different things. And you can probably push through some pain at times, but if you're limited with your movement and some of the things you can do as far as him being the score that is, it's going to be tough. And so as much as it sucks for him and us, you know, other guys have stepped up and we have to go with who we got. And so looking at him, obviously out tonight, we'll see what happens in the next few days.

But, you know, those bone bruises are tricky. You know, it takes some time. And you look at Marcus Smart earlier this season, missed nine games due to bone bruise and the healing process of one thing. But like I said, the mobility being limited is much more impactful. Your guys have rallied around the fact that Katie's not gone. That's what two straight games of all five of your starters in double-frews? figures. That's not a typical for a regular season game, but to see

good balance scoring like that in the playoffs has to be a positive sign for you. Yeah, everybody's aggressive. The ball is moving, you know, turnovers down, assist numbers up, and guys are shooting well, like I said, even in the first two games, we had really good looks that we didn't make, and

we know if we continue to get paint touches, those are great for us. And then Reed and Alpi, getting into the paint is open up shots for everybody else, and that balance is hard to guard. We're not relying on one or two guys, everybody else contributing. And like I said, the turnover is really fueled our offense as well. Reed has the mid-range shot in the fourth quarter.

He comes back and steals LeBron's attempted pass, winds up going for a dunk in the middle of lane. For a confidence standpoint for him, and look, every moment is an experience for him. But as you saw it through your eyes, how much in Reed and grow up in that, just that stretch where those two big plays were such a big part of that fourth quarter? Yeah, huge, obviously. They cut into the lead. We had missed some good shots as well, but we knew the coverage they would have with reading the pick and roll

as opposed to our men or somebody else. And so he got the space to operate. He had a good screen, had a good setup, and got to a spot. And so we trust him with that shot all day. Obviously, one of the best shooters we have, but the instinct to go make a play as well on James driving, he's really good at that.

He got great hands and anticipation and to push us back up to seven at that point was obviously needed, but huge for him, just growing experiences, like you said, first time really playing in a heated, heated playoff series. And so great to see him come through at that point. And before I let you go, the turnovers are going to continue to haunt them a little bit. You guys are taking advantage of that. Is that making you, from a defensive standpoint,

want some guys to try some things or just let the Lakers kind of do what they've been doing a lot? And this is hand on the ball over me. you've had 27 steals in the last couple of games. Yes, both. I think we have the freedom to make plays. We have guys with great instinct. I'm in, Reed, Tari, obviously. And so their freedom to make plays, especially when you're guarding certain guys.

And like I said, we want the ball to find other guys. And so it's just a really good mix. But when they're trying to take advantage some mismatches with Aiden in the post or Hachamura, I think our rotations have been good. We've been doing our work early, fighting those guys off the post. And you've seen a lot of steals on those high, low passes.

And so activity is great. Like I said, we know how much that fuels us offensively. If we can get out and run and play against a non-set defense, it's been great for us all year. I hear L.A. is lovely in early May. Let's go back one more time. Thank you, coach, for the visit. And good luck tonight against the Lakers.

Thank you. I will see you later. That's Emeadoka joining us here getting ready for game number six between the Rockets and the Lakers. It's a late start. It's 830, which means 842, which probably means 847, because that's the slide. But Ross, you'll have the cover.

coverage on KTRH and then we will have the game on KTRH and then when the Astros Red Sox it's over with, we'll put it on 790 as well. So 790 and 740. I'm hearing that if there is a game number 7, it'll either be at 530. I think the time is 530 or 630 on Sunday night from Los Angeles. Oh, which means-430 or 630. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's two hours in front. So 630, 8.30. So afternoon. No, no, early evening. Yeah, I mean, not orderly. Yeah, late afternoon. No, yeah. 4.36, 30, whatever. Just not late night is what I'm saying.

No, no. Thankfully not. No, I think the earliest the game would be on at 630 central time would be the earliest. Oh, 430 or 430 local. 430 local. 430 local. Yeah, yeah. Never mind.

Yeah. Please don't be late. I want game seven. Can I tell you like the Pacific time zone? Yeah, it's fine. I'm more of a mountain guy. Pacific's fine. Mountain's good, too, but not.

But who lives in a mountain except so. No, Pacific is good. because you're working Rockets games, of course. Because they're all in the morning. Yeah. I mean, not in the morning, but our show is done at noon, and I can take a full nap. Yeah.

Good full little walk, you know, walked streets of Beverly Hills, 902.0. Yes. But yeah, the double header game starting at, like the second half of double header game, starting at 6.30 night is not a terrible thing. Or 7.30, depending on the time.

So, all right. We've going to have a little MMA conversation coming back, a little UFC. We got a Houston fighter action coming up in the week. we're going to talk to him. Non-flora stories at 1.30. Jonathan, your non-floor story last week was not a good lot. We need you to bounce back this week.

So what do you got? You got something good insolacious for us this week? I got something that's a little cheesy. Okay. Mine's cheesy as well, ironically enough. Hmm. Mac and cheesy. Yeah.

You said it earlier, so I wasn't. I know, I know. But somebody sent it to you and I'm like, I'm the one that needs to help. Yes. It's all about you, Matt. It kind of is. 1 at 12 on Sports Talk 790. We talk a little UFC next here on 790.

Thank you again. Doeke for joining us for a few minutes on the show. It's cool we get a coach on on a game day. It's funny. I did say, hey, let's do it Wednesday. I don't think so. We're going to do game six, huh? He's feeling good.

I like, you know what? I'd rather him be this way like, I guess we could just in case we lose. I don't want that. Or like Jabari, how we're going to try our best and we're going to see what we can do and maybe we'll win? I don't know. I think we'd rather have it plan B where you're just overly boastful because you know what? It's a good smack talk if you win and you get kind of embarrassed if you lose. But at least it's better than we're going to give it 100 percent.

We're going to play one play at a time. We're going to just go out there and grind it out and that's the best team win. I don't think if you're an athlete, you have to live your life that way. You can't live that life. That's just that's PR people telling you what to say and not say. But if you are a professional athlete or even a high-end college athlete, you have to go out there and say, I'm going to do my best and we're going to do our best

and we're going to win every game humanly possible. I like guys have a little personality. Because what happens when they go, when they go Casario bot, we all complain. Yeah. And they go, Nikki C. We're going to take the best player to board. We're going to do the better.

Shut up. I'm careful hitherto. We're going to stick to the board. And we're always looking for the best player available. we're always looking for ways to improve the team, you know, whether it's trade up or trade out or whatever. And then you just, you're bored. You wasted six minutes of your life on one answer that didn't give you anything. Right.

So when you get something interesting and you get somebody who's wanted to talk a little bit, I embrace it. The problem is that people are afraid, and this will be you and I in particular. If you say things that are too outlandish, then somebody would come back at you and say, what the hell are you talking about? Yeah, he didn't say anything crazy. No, that's also true. That's anything in life is a balance. You got to find the right balance. Yes.

It's anything. You pick your poison. Like, I'm not. going to go on and have a fiery hot take about tonight's Raptors playoff game where I may have a little something to say about the Rockets game. Yeah, like I go my go to. They're not cutting promos. He's just

saying they're going. We got something for you, Los Angeles. That's the one thing that I do appreciate you like about wrestling with the promos. Because the promos are 90% of fun. You're just going and talking trash. Yeah. Yeah, the matches are boring and the guys are all oiled up and then their hearts explode. A, that's not true,

but B, that felt a little graphic. Anyways. I mean, Hulk oiled up. I mean, he would be the first. Most of those guys do not oil up. Yeah. I think he was under one of those lamps they used to keep Big Macs warm. He was flat orange. There is a four-piece

Netflix documentary about Hulk that is out. Oh, really? Yes. That I'll be watching. Okay. Because you know, I'm a dot guy. Hmm. Yeah. So you drop it, do they do they, they got to bleep the end bombs there, right? I would assume that's part of the storyline. Yeah, is this the

authorized story or unauthorized story? I don't know. It's funny because Rick Flair's got a bunch documented, but some are authorized by him and some are not. But his blatant repeated racism. Yeah. But the, and I don't want to get into, I don't want to get into until I see it. But the argument has been, was that Hulk Hogan speaking or was that Terry Bolleia speaking? So can you separate the character or the wrestler from the human being? Well, my favorite was when we did Hulk Hogan story, believe it or not, and it was a bunch of stories he made up. He did. He was a big believer. It's like about. being like Elvis coming to his shows and stuff like that?

Well, the number one thing is he wrestled 400 times in a year, and he kept saying he got to wrestle twice in a year because he'd fly back from international dateline him back. He had more days to do it than other people did. I mean, somebody believed this. He's a liar. I mean, and racist. All right, let's focus on something way more positive.

Yes, get much better. The second youngest champion in UFC history is just 24 years of old. He is the UFC Flyway Champion. He's going to defend his title at UFC 328, May 9th in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center. And he is a Houston kid. We say hello to Joshua Van here on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Joshua, it's Matt and Ross. First of all, congratulations.

Be damn glad to have you. And I want to talk about what you have for breakfast every morning. Please explain the audience what that is. Thank you. Thank you for having me, man. The breakfast I have is McDonald, two burritos and a hash brown. It's the perfect fuel. So you're telling me, you are a finely tuned UFC athlete.

You are in the octagon. You are battling. You are scratching. You are a claw. And you're like, man, thank God for that breakfast burrito I had at 7.30 in the morning. Yes. That's the best breakfast I have, man. You know what I mean?

They don't know. Enjoy your youth, Joshua. I don't know this is going to work when you get a little bit older in the game. When you're 37 years old, it's going to go right to your gut. I'm just going to tell you that right to you. from personal experience. Hey, let's talk about being in New York City. I mean, it's New Jersey,

but to be in the bright lights of the Big Apple to have this event for you, obviously you're very excited to take us through what it has been like holding the belt and now having to defend it coming up here in May in New Jersey. I'm very, very excited. You know what I mean?

I'm very excited to defend my belt. And, you know, we almost there. You know, so, one more week and then we get to defend my belt so I'm very excited for this fight and I fought in New Jersey before so you know it's a familiar feeling so I'm very very excited to be back in New Jersey how many fights do you go through a year and what is a perfect schedule for you in terms of you do you lay your schedule odd 12 months in advance uh no I'm the type of guy that I wake up and then whatever I feel I do you know what I mean so uh but I think

last year I fought I think I fought six times in a year or something in the record or something yeah yeah so about once every couple months then sounds about right I got you yeah 2022 yeah six fights so will you take time off get away from the gym decompress or are you always in that semi workout mode and then really ramp it up as you get closer to your upcoming events yeah I'm always in I'm always in the gym man uh like I can't stay at home for too long. You know, I get bored or things like that, so I always stay in the gym. Well, your last fight was only 26 seconds.

So did you, like, go back to the gym later that night? No, I was too busy in, you know, celebrating the wins and shit like that. 26 seconds. Did you introduce yourself before the fight or what? I went back later in the future. But as it right now, you know, I got to throw it on my mind. Yeah. I got you.

Hey, you train out of the four-ounce fight club. Where is that? And what's that like? Could a regular average out of shape, middle-aged white man go in there and hang out with you guys for a couple of hours? You won't make it out of life, man. I didn't think so. I didn't think so. It's a fight camp every day over there, you know what I mean?

So maybe you can join the beginner, the beginner class and stuff like that. But, yeah, we have a fighter class five to six. that is, you know, that's a push, man. So every day, like we have fighters left and right. So, you know what I mean? Every day is a fight camp. So if I'm not fighting, some of our teammates are fighting. So it's always a fight camp.

Did you, how did you learn about this club in particular? And what made you this be the good fit, not only because it's Houston or just that you liked the guys when you first walked in? I used to, I used to train out of a girl. garage and you know my coach would take me to four hours to go to spa and things like that and when my old coach decided

to close his gym, you know I need to find new gym and you know, Danipaneda welcome me with an open arm so that's why I stay with them. All right, I understand also you said you were at the World Baseball Classic in the month of March. Was that

fun for you experiencing? Oh, it was great, man. It was great. I don't really watch sports. but that was amazing, man. So you don't watch any sports at all? No, I used to watch soccer a lot, but now, yeah, I don't watch no sport at all. So do you have any idea

the rockets are playing tonight? No. He's locked in, baby. You are, you're locked in on Tatara. What is Tyra like? Give me a thought or two about what you think are his strengths and weaknesses. Tyra is a world-rounded guy, man.

He's good on the striking, and he's better on the ground for sure. So he's a world-rounded guy, and he's someone that I want to test myself against, you know. So I'm very excited for this matchup. Visiting with Joshua, Van, a couple of minutes here on the show. Joshua, all right, so you're going to get up to New Jersey. How early will you get there, and what is your life like for, like, say, 48, 72 hours before you get into the? octagon? Well, I'm going to get there in New Jersey on Tuesday next week, and then, what, 42 hours

before the fight is, well, I have to cut weight, you know what I mean? So, and then I'll say I make weight. I spend my, what, Friday? I spend my day eating all day, man, and then Saturday we get to fight. and is it are you a late to bed early i mean what's your sleeping habit you try to get 12 to 10 12 hours a day is it a little sporadic naps i mean because i'm curious because you got the energy of being in this big event big arena a pay-per-view television but you're also you know you're still who you are i mean i'm just curious if if your lifestyle changes as you lead up to the event itself

man my lifestyle always being the same ever since i i start fighting you know i go to the gym i come home i take a nap and then around the latest i stay up late is probably like 11 11 30 all right you know wake up 5 in the mornings and start my day and you and that's a pretty disciplined life you have to live like basically 12 months a year don't you yeah pretty much all right last question do you bring the belt with you on the plane or do you pack it? What do you do with the belt during the whole event here? Well, I don't even know. Hopefully they got me another belt over there.

I don't want to bring my belt everywhere, you know, because I put it on like, I put it in the little cabinet. So, you know, I don't want to take it out of that shit. So hopefully they got me a new belt over there. Get your name on and everything. Hey, Joshua, thank you for representing our city. Have a great trip up there. Go win.

I don't know if 26 seconds. Do you want to beat that record? but you'll do whatever time, right? Yes, sir, for sure. I will finish him inside three, so it can be done in the first, second, or even in the third. All right, we got you down for Inside Three.

That's what the Vegas Oddmakers are saying. Joshua, thanks for the time, and Safe Travels up there and go win that belt. We really appreciate you joining us here on the show today. Thank you for having me. All right, you got it. Joshua Van joining us here on the program. How about that?

He wants to keep that belt back here. He wants a fresh belt. UFC flyweight champion Yeah he said you're not going to get out of the gym alive Maybe don't go over there I believe that to be accurate Do you think if I was to walk in there You'd be like oh you'd be alive

You'd not be in great shape But I mean made fun of them People would be back talking to me and say I don't need that We'd have to check your your benefits For dismemberment Yes You know like get an EKG before So I could take one heart punch and be all right

No don't we don't want you punched in the heart I'm just saying to keep it Now I'm not going to go. Keep your guard. I'll just watch on TV. Protect yourself at all times, man. By the way, let me tell you about the television side of this. Okay.

It is going to be on Paramount Plus. Yes. They had that big multi-billion dollar deal with Paramount Plus. Yep. So it is again May 9th at the Prudential Center against Tatsura at Tyara. The event will be exclusively available on Paramount Plus. Watch it, learn it, live it. And think about his man, the burritos and the barritos.

I got a little key, I started to told them this. Stick the hash brown in the burrito. mush it up in there, tastier. You unroll it? Put the hash brown in there and re-roll it? Yeah, yeah.

There's room? Yeah, but you're taking one hash brown and splitting it over two burritos, so you can do it for sure. Okay. All right, now and Florida stories are up next. Mine's about food. It's Mac and Cheese.

Jonathan will have one that will obviously supplant what he did last week, and Ross, you'll have yours as well. Plus, today's edition of Hellier or Not. Is on? Joshua Vand. Is there?

Okay, nice. 131 on Sports Talk 790. Terrible. Terrible, terrible, terrible. All right, thank you very much for that. Frankly, it's a heartening story about our legal enforcement. It's the people who are committing the fraud. Yeah, but somebody didn't figure this out within one second.

All right, Jonathan, time to bounce back with you now in Florida story. All right, have you guys heard the lawsuit that hit J.P. Morgan? Yes, I have. So, okay, yeah, so alleged J.P. Morgan executive, Lauren Hidini, yes. Turn her staffer into a sex slave. Yeah, allegedly. Allegedly.

I think this has already been debunked, unfortunately. Yeah, it has been. Oh, well, we're on my whole Florida story. Well, I'm sorry. Well, no, it's good. The story, apparently the guy made it up. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah, so basically what happened in Lost Tuesday was saying that she had sex slaves saying,

if you don't blank me soon, I'm going to ruin you. Yeah, the blank me part. Never forget, I blanking on you. Yes. Called a bunch of racial names, by the way. Like a day, BJ for the brown boy? Yeah, BJ for the brown boys. Not one of those things you're going to put on a t-shirt.

I bet your little Asian fish head. All right. Don't say that. I don't say that. I'm just, I'm just quoting. I was reading, guys. SportsCoc 790 and I heart media. We do not condone the words used by Jonathan Allen, which are not his own as well.

And these are all fabricated. Yes. And so apparently, her employer, our employee. It was his boss. Yeah. They were on the same team, apparently. Oh, I thought it was his boss. No.

She said, I own you. New York Post even said they weren't even, they were just like, workers. No one reports each other. Okay. And basically ruined her entire life now, apparently. So I can't believe that. I don't know. What would

be happening back doors for me? Oh, okay. All right. So he was trying to see Jonathan, he was trying to dip his pen in company, Inc. Yes. And then did a lawsuit for him to both be publicly out there? Apparently he got fired and there was nothing to

corroborate basically everything he was talking about. had a bunch of lies and they poked holes in everything. Meanwhile, drug this woman out, unfortunately, because she looked terrible for doing the reverse sexual harassment. It's not reverse. It's still sexual harassment. Yeah, I get, well, but it's usually the man to the woman that's career with a woman. That's true.

So in some respects, it's reverse. It's still sexual harassment. Okay, fair enough. All right. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play. America's fastest-growing sports radio game show.

We simply call it B. Believe it or not. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Today's edition of Believer-Nine is all things about our guest from earlier today, Joshua van, the UFC Flyweight Champion. I'll read your statement about Joshua. Stavis is completely utterly accurate.

You'll say this. Believe it. If the statement's erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you will say this. Two believer knots in a row. How are we doing on tickets, by the way, for Dave Matthews? What we got left? Jonathan, just check it real quick.

I think we got three. Oh, let's do one correct answer then. One correct answer will get you a pair of tickets to the Dave Matthews band live, May the 8th, which is a week from tonight at the Woodlands Pavilion. Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster.com. One correct answer, and you're going to see the Dave Matthews band. Joining us now is probably the biggest Dave Matthews fan I know, Bill and Katie on 7-9. Billy, you ready to play Hell, yeah or not? Yes, sir.

I won 400 million on the scratch off. Yes, you did. Joshua Vann's big breakfast regimen consists of two McDonald's breakfast burritos and a hash brown. Hell yeah, or not? That's all like minutia. Believe it.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah, and you win. Congratulations. You're going to see Dave Matthews. There's no chance Bill is going to see Dave Matthews. Why not? I don't think he likes that music. Why not?

I just don't think it's this genre. Why not? I just said I don't think it is. I don't have a reason for it. Bill? Let me go, hold on. Bill, are you really going to go see the Dave Matthews ban? Yes or no?

Hell no. That's what I thought. See, I told you, Ross. Thank you. Let's go to Felipe on 7.9 Felipe. You're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Before getting into MMA, Joshua Van dreamed of becoming a preacher.

Hell yeah or not. Not. That's a hell yeah. Now, the language is going to be a little bit of an issue there. Brian on 7-90, Brian, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? That you finally had an MMA fighter on the show, sir. The UFC currently has flyway champion Joshua Van as the fifth best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport. Hell yeah or not?

Not. He's the 10th. Duh, correct. Mike on 790, Mike, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Mike, Joshua Van has stated that his all-time favorite fighter is a boxer, Manny Pacquiel. Hell yeah or not? That's also correct.

He made that up, Rossi. Tony on 790. Tony, ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Joshua Van trains out of the in-elite combat gym here in Houston. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. No, it's a four-ounce five club.

We talked about it 20 minutes ago. Roger, how's your phone? I hope it's good. The official website lists, Joshua Vans fight style is, quote, methodical jiu-jitsu expert. Hell yeah, or not? Not. That's right. He's also a striker and a kickbox.

We have three winners, right? We're done. Correct. Jonathan, is that right? Yeah, we have four, but yeah. Oh. Oh, you all figured out. Give me a t-shirt or something. Ross, have a great weekend. I'll see you at the arena tonight. Rockets 106 Lakers 99.

Love it. Talk to y'all at 830 for Rock. It's basketball. See you.