The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Pelicans Tonight, UH Cougar Basketball, Astros Spring Training

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

Anything Goes Friday! Rockets vs Pelicans Tonight, UH Cougar Basketball, Astros Spring Training 

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Not that we stereotype on this show. Say, there's WB USB or whatever that thing over with quick enough. Let's get back to spring training. I thought you were getting WBC fever.

It's fine for one day. It's fine. It was short-lived? Yeah. When you start going over time breakers, it loses some of its luster. It just does. Oh, okay. Big event, what's matter with you now?

Nothing. You're trying to get something to the computer. About 30 seconds ago, I hit it. Let's see if it'll overplay. Oh, there it is. Timing. My timing is a Mac toy. What's the key to comedy?

Timing. Well, being funny. That's true. That's true. Good morning, everybody. Tittle 4 on this Friday. Hey, Matt. Nice to see you.

How are you doing? A little fatigued. You are? Yeah. Why? You had the day off yesterday? We just, we, late game, early flight, time change, honey-doos, just not. Oh, you're fine.

You had the day off. And had lots of dreams last night. Again, I'm looking for consecutive hours of sleep without dreams. Nothing terrible, but nothing eventful and nothing fun or interesting, put it that way. you've got a lot floating in your subconscious match you must explore it find it and confront it is that with therapy or with like a medication I would say I would say go

the former okay the latter is going to treat the symptom not the disease you need to treat the disease you know I got why would I want therapy when I got you um well I I haven't been able to help you

oh that's true 17 years you're beyond my expertise I know I knew like I mean like uh well you need a team. I need a team. I need electro shock therapy. Yeah. Maybe a lobotomy. It would be the only

answer. Why are you trying to get a surgical situations and put in me there? All right. It is a Friday edition of the Matt Tabo show of Ross. It is that anything goes Friday. I got to tell you I feel like there's a void of Texans talk in the Houston marketplace.

Okay. And we're going to do it for four hours. Let's do it. There's nothing. I don't believe you. Nothing else going on except cursing and discursing Texans all fancy blind. Let's go. You know what? I'm going to make a jar.

And every time you do that, you have to put a dollar in the jar. And at the end of the month, we're going to lunch with Jonathan. But if I do it, 10 times, only $10. Okay, look. We'll get a jar. You know what? Actually, we need to do this. Every time you do that, every time I take an unfair shot at you.

Oh, that's what the kitty gets high. I'm going to lose some money. I'm more worried about you than me. Because I like the cousin's disgusting text. Every time you mention a YouTuber or people with. and their failed radio careers. You know what? Send us suggestions at Sports RV and at SportsMT

for why I would have to put dollars into the jar. Just because our media industry, especially in this market, is sucks because people just get YouTube shows and think their media just is beyond me. That's a dollar. You know, I don't mind paying that. At least I get to say what I want to say.

Anything goes Friday. Anything goes Friday. Okay, I'm going to start with anything that goes Friday. Go ahead. Brent, Your Mark, is the commission of the Big 12. He's always trying to reinvent the wheel. How about just, you know what, how about just have great competition? Let's not put up a plexiglass court.

Let's not try to get cutesy and play international games in Mexico. Let's just enjoy the athleticism that is the Big 12 tournament with four thoroughbreds playing in the semifinals of the tournament this weekend. Let's just do that. Let's not create a court and create this artificial buzz. You embarrass the conference this weekend, Brett, Your Mark. That's what he did. And I like Brett.

I don't think he's a bad dude. He's trying things. But you don't try things on a platform known as the Big 12 Conference Championship. You just don't. And if you watch any games yesterday, they were Paul Simon in it. They were slip sliding away. Oh, wow. How about that?

That's a good pull. I thought they were sleep sliding away. No, that's actually two weeks later. This is a massive gap. So the Big 12, yesterday after the game last night, said, yeah, we're going back to our hardware court. First of all, the gray court made it very hard to watch. It felt like I was watching a 1964 basketball game. It was an eyesore.

It was horrible. I mean, what did they do this? Just to sell more advertising? No, it would be cute. Acridge? To be cute. I imagine there were advertisers on it, right? I didn't really watch this.

I saw March Madness. I saw what they call when you put the graphics in and you know how screens can do it. Texas Tech's Christian Anderson, the number 16 on the NBA mock draft board. Heard is slipped and heard his groin in the, in the, the game? Yeah, it was yesterday. Oh my God. His growing is messed up. I've seen probably, and I didn't watch all the Big 12, I saw probably five different plays

yesterday. Of guys, it was like literally they were on an ice rink. Jesus. What were they thinking? That's huge. Brent, your mark was thinking. You got to have some kind of guardrails in place. How many people did this get the okay from? Just one. He's like, and I'd do it. Yeah.

And the LED people, not one person installing the LED floor. It's like, Man, this is slippery. This is a bad idea. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now.

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Spreaker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Not one person stopped anybody and said this? So let's get this straight. It's like when Cole Thompson leaves the house with a Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, I mean, what is Mrs. Thompson thinking for the love of God? Okay. She didn't notice he's on the couch. Yeah, that's true.

So, yeah, you are one of the, I mean, let's face it. It might be the best conference tournament. I mean, maybe ACC with Duke of North Carolina. They're not playing now on a semi-but. You've got four potential top three seeds in the semifinals. You've had a power conference from the jump. You don't need to get gimmicky. If you're the Sunbelt Conference, get gimmicky.

Right, like go Boise State on it. Yeah. You don't need to go Boise State when you're the Big 12th. Yeah, you have first round picks out of the wazoo there. The wazoo. I like that. Hey, I'm out of the wazoo. They've got the first round picks, you know?

Because I used to say that too. If I could swear I would have said something else, but I can't, so I can't. It's funny. That's good stuff. I want a wazoo. I love it. I'm going kazoo. I just, it was a, it was a bad look from the start.

They, the Big 12 try to promote it as a big deal. Yes. Weeks ago. Everybody's like, oh, they're doing something fun, interesting. Yeah. Making a court that was illegal and unsafe for players. Not fun. Not interesting.

So now they have to embarrass themselves and have to go put a new floor on the, you know, again, just what a ginormous, embarrassing mark for such a spectacular basketball conference. I don't know It's one of the biggest Major Gaffes I can remember Like by the end of the tournament They got rid of it And they were like this was a bad idea

Man the tournament We got two more days of this thing Yeah They cut their losses Right That's what I'm saying They cut their losses But before the end of the tournament

I should say Oh man Just Just let the kids play Worry about their NIL Worry about keeping the kids For a couple of years Get your new TV rights deal

And just stop stop mess up the game. So, thankful the Cougars did beat the other Cougars, Houston beating a BYU you yesterday. Let's go. For about 60% of the game. And Brian McTaggart stirring up things on Twitter again.

What do you do now? BYU's official Twitter account tweeted about like AJ DeBancis DeBanza, DeBanza's point total. And Brian responded, post the final score. You better get to know who AJ DeBanza is because he's going to be a top five pick in the NBA.

Some people are moving them up already to number one on their board. I mean, it's in flux because there's a lot of top talent. Yeah. Including our Kingson. Kingston Fleming. All right. You know what? I'm sorry.

I need a jar every time I do a stereotype. Jonathan, you always worried about money? Just go right to Ross. Every time I do a bad accent, it's a dollar. Just terrible. We have a busy show to it. He's the one named Kingston. It shouldn't be my fault.

Kingston. One more thing. Non-sports related, none of the show. I walked in this morning at 940. Got a little bit of a later start because I was tired and I wouldn't got me out. Rar Rucks. Oh, I got a Giovanni sent us some suggestions for dollar donations. Save it.

Save it the next. Okay. Save it next segment. So a station employee of ours, coworker, we don't directly work with this person. Okay. I walk in this morning at 940. He goes, hey, good morning, man. I said, good morning.

muted in person. He goes, you're here early today. I said, no, I'm here 20 minutes before my show starts. Oh, I guess I knew that. 10 to 2. Sports Talk 790. Let me just tell you all something. It's okay not to say anything more than just hello to a person. To your coworker.

If you don't know anything about the person. Yeah, like, hey, how's your dog doing? Yeah, we put her down two months ago. Oh. Yeah, all right. Just keep it the small talk small. Yeah. Yeah. Don't talk about weight, religion, your kids, your parents, your dogs, or your radio show if you don't know the time slot.

And don't, the biggest foe Paul of all, never, ever, ever, ever ask a woman if she's pregnant. That has happened to me. See? You learned a lesson, didn't you? That was 20 years ago, and I've never done it again. Once every 20 years. We're trying to teach you, Jonathan. Ever, ever, ever. Doesn't care if she looks 9.5 months pregnant. Don't even say it. Correct. That's right.

on the show today. We're going to say our sorry is at 1130. Ross, that's almost like the Ross segment. What did I do? No, remember you told you, you keep a list. I wrote it down, but I forgot. Okay. We got that. It's fine. Strippers at noon today.

We have 1230, Joseph Dorte from Kansas City is going to join us. Oh, let's go. One o'clock, Eme Adoka. So the Rockets get their ass kicked in Denver. Yes. On a back-to-back. Then Denver, after our game, is like, hey, we're doing the same thing to y'all are doing. We're flying at San Antonio.

They play the Spurs last night. in San Antonio back to back. Okay. Now granted, they didn't have Wimbanyama, but Denver won in San Antonio last night. Oh, why didn't Wimbi play? Mm-hmm.

Maybe he's tired. It's only playing like 27 minutes a game or something. Yeah, they're nursing him back. They want to make sure he's ready for a long, unfortunate post season run. Rockets are seven and a half point favorites versus the Pellies. Take tonight.

Hey, if you have a home, mortgage it. Let's go. Rockets over the Pals. I'm staying away. It feels like seven and a half is like a spooky number. Every time I feel like I see seven and a half, bad things happen. Well, the problem is you shouldn't be betting on basketball. Basketball is the worst sport to bet on.

That's fun. Mm-mm. Now, when you get like two meaningless free throws to get the cover at the end, it's nice. I've done a Duke versus Norfolk State game, one versus 16. Duke up giving up 29 and a half. They're up by 35 the whole game. They put the scrubs in and lose by 28. It's part of the fun.

No, the kids call that a bad beat, my friend. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9. We've got now Florida stories. We have hell-year-or-not to get to. We have a lot to get to, including a little bit of Astros conversation, certainly about the NCAA tournament if you want to do with the... Your Longhorns are getting in, right? Even though they've got their ass kick.

Probably, I don't know. They lost their last three games, so I'm not really... It doesn't matter. They'll be on the first or second round anyways. Who cares? All right. You want to experience that excitement that Ross is going through? Longhorn...

Why have I let this team... They have been ruining my spring for like 20 years. Why do I kill? Why? Yeah. Why do I let them do this? You said that about Texans fans since 2002. I'm turning my mic off.

713-212-5-790. It's an anything goes Friday here on 790. It is an anything goes Friday here on the program, which means you literally get to talk about anything you want to today. I would like to get into Texans' offensive line talk for through an hours and 48 minutes. Then that may be your cup of tea. We do have a variety of things to get into. We're going to do college basketball. Yes.

I was Brian McTaggart yesterday. Did you enjoy that visit? Private Tagger is spectacular. I mean, there's so many things to cover. We talked infield. We talked infield. We talked outfield. We talked rotation, bullpen. Like, yeah, a lot of stuff.

It's from training, baby. Let's go. We're going to talk about everything. We're not going to beat a topic down over your head for 20 hours a week. We're just not going to do it. That's why I love this show. I wonder if this veiled reference is worth a dollar. I don't know.

Go ahead. What do you got. Oh, I'm talking about what you just made. Oh, God. shipping a dollar. I don't care. We don't get into everything. Oh, this is a full dollar. Go ahead.

Full dollar. I was off yesterday. I can't you. Yeah, it's true. Let's see. Geo says, a dollar in the jar. Anytime you say that's neither here nor there. I haven't done that as much, but that's fair.

Anytime I do a Cajian accent. That's definitely in play. Or take shots at Matt. Anytime you say cuss and discuss or fake media. Anytime anyone says hog nuts. We're trying to build Jonathan. brand though that's a difference okay thank you deal it's not hog nuts l lcc okay actually a good idea hog nuts media LLC

oh anytime you check the standings he says oh i'm saying that should be allowed that's because that's actual that's actual sports sports content yes and then uh zach said anytime you get distracted by the four you page fair about anytime matt makes this noise oh i don't i don't think that's a lot anytime matt calls himself mr texas i like this That should be $2. Don't hate because the name sticks. All right, there we go. And Zach also says he loves the stereotype voices.

They make him laugh. So there we go. We don't want to get in trouble. That's the only thing. That's fine. Don't we get canceled? By the way, we have a, if anything goes Friday.

Yes? We'll have our first political D of the year candidate in December. First? I think so. It's been every year since about, I don't know, 1776. Okay, but I mean, for the purpose of the show. Really?

Lena Hadogo You're nuts Her? Yes She's Certifiably insane I'm gonna be honest

I don't know what the deal is I know there was something with the rodeo And I tune out so hard Out of political stuff I actually have the word Lena Hadogo muted on my I'm thinking about doing the same thing myself You should

Because it is all over my 4U tab In the great part about it is We very rarely ever come together as a community, those that are left and those that are right of center? I think collectively everybody in the entire city of Houston thinks she's a nut job. Isn't she out?

Yeah, she's not going to rear-up. Right. Yeah. Doesn't she have multiple corruption cases, like going to court? And she's been barred from going to like the rodeo. How do you get barred from the rodeo? I don't know, man, I'm not. Just go take a look at she's nuts, but I'm telling y'all I have my first candidate for D of the year

in there and she's in. Last year, our winner was Sharon Moore. Who, by what did you see? He got his case dismissed. He got his case dismissed. He played it down. Yeah.

And then the girl who he was hooking up with, she got fired from her job of Michigan, ironically. Yeah, that's funny. And Sharon Moore's wife was there. Where? At the hearing with Sharon Moore. And so she's supporting him. I love my man. Oh, that's good.

I guess. Maybe he can improve his life and become a better person. You know what? People make mistakes. Absolutely. All the time. I just don't want him trying to commit suicide or kill somebody else. That would be probably not a big.

That would be not great. All right. So let's get to some sports here. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now. I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

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He does. And I think the Astros aren't heightened the fact they don't like him to play the outfield. Yeah, Joe Spot has said publicly, like, Yordon sends him pictures of like, or videos of his highlights in left field. But he was like 12 years old. No. What didn't have creaky knees? No, stop that. He makes good catches.

He's got a big arm. Way bigger arm than Jose. Well, don't, don't. Don't cost yourself a dollar. Remember you're being nice this week. You were for a while. I'm not the one that clocked Jose Al Tuve's arm is the worst in the outfield last year. I didn't have the gun out.

I didn't have the radar gun. It wasn't me. I know. This might be an even more interesting storyline than the congested infield once it becomes congested again. It sounds like it's not going to be. I mean, I don't think anybody's, think Jeremy, I mean, the regular season starts a week from Thursday. You understand this?

Brian McTaggart said that Jeremy Payne is doing everything except for throwing the ball and hitting the ball. So that would be probably what, 67% of his job requirement? He's taking ground balls and doing shortstop drills, apparently. He picks them up and then he hands them up to somebody. I don't think you've got time in the world of baseball to do that, to actually toss the ball to third base that they've got to throw it for you. No, he's fat. He can run it to first base. He's fast. Oh, so you're saying every ground ball is short he's going to sprint to first?

He's going to have Carl Lewis-type speed over there. I asked us to Wexler, what's the baseball movie where the guy had to run to the bag to tag the guy out? I couldn't remember which baseball movie it was. It was like a big moment in the movie at the end or something like that, and the guy had to run to the bag and get there first. See, I get it major, no, I get them all mixed up. Me too. Little?

Little Big League? Chicken Little. And baseball? Chicken Little is a baseball movie. Like the wallet? Chicken Little is a baseball movie? You mean Little Big League? Not Chicken Little.

A chicken-lose-based-movie? The animated one? Yes. It is? I watched that movie years and years ago. I don't remember it. Oh, no, I'm not thinking of Chicken Little. I'm thinking of the...

No, there's a different one. No, I didn't catch Chicken Little, Jonathan. He was probably five years old watching that. Maybe 25. Isn't Chicken Little what you get the drive-thier, a Jacket Box, at 2 a.m. I'll have a chicken little? Yeah, give me four of those and... Cardo fries.

Two tacos. Smothered in Heart Attack sauce. Hey, don't you besmirch those tacos. They're terrible. Mr. Texas endorses those. You know what? I know Jonathan's going to roll his eyes. They've gotten worse.

How? They used to be better. How? They're the same thing. No, the taco bean paste is worse than it used to be. Somebody will back me up on that. You think the bean paste is worse today than it was 10 years ago? Well, 20 years ago.

Maybe our pallets have changed. Maybe. You're right. I'll tell you this. People say that collectively our palates could have all changed from COVID. I wouldn't say COVID. I think our just our pallets mature. Like there are something.

Like, I could eat. Mexican food at any Mexican restaurant in Houston. I can't do that anymore. I can't do that ever. Like there's a well-known chain in this market that doesn't make their own tortillas. You don't be ashamed of themselves. You don't make your own tortillas. Shame on you. Torchies? I'm not

saying what it is. Torchies. I love you because you're from Austin, but tortillas, you got to up your tortilla game. If you do not make your own tortillas, you are not a Mexican restaurant. Get a man. I'm sorry. Mr. Texas. Don't try to stay calm.

Matt's making a good point. I'm making a great point. Thank you, Jonathan. You don't eat enchiladas or tamale, so it's like it's hard to even get back with you. He doesn't have a lot of eyes. You're right.

Oh, Jonathan. You know, the young man is growing up so fast. You know what? I'm going to shut you both up. Let's go get enchiladas next week. Oh, man. We'll do it. I'm done paying for lunch for a little bit.

Yeah, that's right. You're off the hook for a little while. Okay, so we've Astros against the Cardinals today. It'll be a 505 first pitch. And we'll have it for you right here on 790. So another short day for the 18, which is fine. We've had a really good spring training break. We got Rockets and Pelicans tonight.

We have a double header of college basketball. First of all, we got amazing college basketball. We got KU versus Houston for the second time in the last three weeks in Kansas City. You got Iowa State playing Arizona. Big 12, so good. Look forward to talking about that. We got the brackets. Oh, by the way, have we decided, we made a ruling on Miami, Ohio, lost to UMass yesterday.

We did talk about that. Their schedule strength, I saw it this morning, was 296. They're like what, Ross, 350 Division 1 basketball teams, give or take? Yes. We looked at the Ken Palm of UMass and Miami yesterday. And this is with you by yourself, or you and Gordy? No, my, actually, it was me and Jonathan. Oh, nice.

We were talking about it. So would you all decide? They're out. UMass is 195 in Ken Palm and Miami of Ohio is 93rd. So put it this way. If you separated Ken Palm, which is the ratings and schedule strength

and you had no idea what the record was. Right. You would not put them in. They wouldn't be close. It wouldn't be close. I think they're getting in. I think they're getting in. I wouldn't put them in.

I would, you know, I guess we're... I'm sorry, schedule a better non-conference. Schedule some good teams. They're going to play first four. Don't schedule D3 teams in your entire non-conference. Sorry. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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Start your show today at spreeker.com. Sprinker, because if you're going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. I think they're getting in, and I think they're going to play in Dayton. against your longhorns. No, well, Longhorns might begin dating. Gosh. Shut your bomb that stuff. I'm sorry.

Gosh. That was not meant to be rude. It was just meant to be honest. Ken Palm's got him at 37th. Texas Longhorns. Let's go. Oh, put it this way. There's a ninth SEC team.

It's like you're going to kick us out to let schedule strength 296 in. I don't like college basketball. And then goes Friday. 713, 21, 2, 2, 5, 7. 7190.7-190. No's Friday. Ross now is a small on his face. I'm very happy to see that. Only took you 37 minutes of the show to be in a good mood. That's not true. I think I was laughing in the first segment. I'm almost always in a good mood, Matt.

You know what? Doing the show puts us in a good mood. That's, well, yes. Yeah. Let's roll with that. That sounds great. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212. I was just... Okay. Oh, by the way, it's Rookie of the Year. That's when Chet Stedman blows his arm out and he has to run to home plate to get the guy to tag the guy out. So you have Rookie of the Year. Yes.

You have Little Big League. Uh-huh. Which one was the guy that the kid that took over for his, was a manager of the team? Yeah, it was Little Big League. Little Big League. Because his grandfather owned the team. He was owner of the team, yeah. Then he went to manager, too.

I don't remember. There was one kid that broke his arm that had a buy on a car. Yeah, that was rookie of the year. Top five greatest baseball movie of all time. I don't care what you say, because I loved it when I was a kid. Course number one is the San Juan. You're killing me, Smalls. Don't care what you say.

Major League 2, Bull Durham 3. Ooh, Bullderm and Major League, that's a toss-up. Pick one. Major League 1, Bull Durham 2. Yeah, that's my 2-3. Yeah, I'm going with that. And it goes Friday. 7-1-3-2-1.

Clearly. Clearly. We're doing great. We got all these people tweeting about Rookie of the Year. I love it. And Chicken Little. Seriously, I'm looking at ESPN's headlines. Big 12 to swap LED glass court for hardwood.

You dumbasses. What are you doing, Big 12? Sir, I'm mad because I'm a big 12 guy. I saw a funny tweet in my For You tab. Oh, I told you to look at that. The Big 12 had them boys playing on an iPad. That's good. That's good.

Well, you know what they played like? They played a, well, you know, you had a brand new stove at your house. You know those solar flat stove things? That's what they played on. It wasn't a good idea. You can't play basketball in that. No, you can't. With, yeah, with sweat.

It's not a common tournament. No. Seriously. A freaking, a potential lottery pick got hurt. Man, it's horrible. Man, it's bad if anybody get hurt, obviously. No, you want nobody to get hurt. But just don't use that as your showcase.

7.13, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. Let me go over things that. I put on our stuff on the pre-show tweet to see what we're hitting on here. Mentioned cooks are playing Kansas. Rockets tonight against the Pelicans. Interest level? On my interest level?

Hi? I need a bounce back win. We need a good five-game homestand for my mental health. Four and one minimum? Four and one... Three and two would be... No, disappointing. Mid would be like the mediocre would be just...

Okay, you could just say disappointing. 4 and 1 would be nice 4 and 1 was what I'd be aiming for But as our resident wet blanket Adam Wixer was pointing out yesterday The Pelicans have been playing well Yes The Lakers are good

Luca got 50 last night Apparently the Hawks have been winning games And then the heat got a guy who dropped 83 And have you seen by the way Bam and Eric Spolcher going scorched earth on everybody Eric Spolster destroyed people Yes Well matter of you know we'll find some audio that

Okay because it's interesting. He ain't got time for you to be... He said, ain't nobody had time for you. Did y'all do? I just don't get it yesterday? Yes. Yes.

We did. What was you just don't get it? I don't remember. I didn't tell you my Matt. Go ahead. I was saying how there was a lot of cheeks up here in the rodeo. I didn't understand that. You know what?

A lot of cheeks at the rodeo. This is what you hear of people walking at the rodeo. Who did you go see? No, nothing. I was on TikTok. My girl wants to go. She's looking for a rodeo outfits. A lot of cheeks out at the rodeo.

That's a good thing, correct? To eat his own. Can I ask you a question with your family? Can I ask you a question with your family? Can I ask you a question with the rodeo? Okay. If there was no performers at rodeo, how popular would rodeo be? and they go to Facebook, hey, we're at the rodeo, we're doing this.

Oh, that was a great calf scramble. No, you never heard that. All you see was, Creed was awesome. When I was a kid, I would go for, we'd go to the rodeo and the petting zoo. I'm talking to Rossville or the adult. Yeah, but you would take your kids. So I would say it would be like a state fair. You got all the fried food.

Yeah. I mean, they have a regular concert series like they do at the state fair. They have, the cookoff is a big thing, of course. Of course. And then it's the Olympics. Have you ever met that special? I won at the rodeo. Whether that be for

a year, 14 years of amazing marriage, or the one-nighter. We've asked that before. Yes, we have. And we had a guy call and talk about how he and a lady got after in the porta potty at the rodeo. Jonathan, early in the Matt Thomas show with Ross history,

we had a guy called the show that said he hooked up in a porta-potty, and he also hooked up in the Ferris wheel. I thought, was that two different people or one guy? Two different people. I can't remember. You know, I saw a TikTok before this started, or like the start of it. That's still going on.

Port-a-potty guy. Those porta-potties, the rodeo are nasty. I cannot think of a worst place to express one's feelings towards each other in a port-a-potty. I'm getting sick. Thinking about it. I know. You're going to be okay. Oh, trading card.

Well, no, that was afterwards. But thank you, Trevor Mock. Yeah, I said I didn't get why somebody would spend $5 million on an Aaron Judge car. So that's when he strikes out so much. Oh, come on. Doing it for anti-America. Like if I had, Matt, if you made the magic wand and I was a billionaire, I would not spend $5 million on a trading card.

I just wouldn't. No. No, no, no. So I was like, I don't. By the way, shout out to a local convenience store that I go to in Kingwood. A guy won a million dollar scratch off yesterday there. Really? There were four of them in the state and one of them happen to me in Kingwood.

You're welcome. Wow. You didn't do it? No, I wish. I don't buy scratch-off. off. They pissed me off. I get like, you know, that Christmas get dollar ones. Yeah, yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Okay, I'm sorry. Back to the rodeo. Okay, so, yeah, that's got to be the least attractive place to express one's feelings, correct? I mean, if you get the job, yeah, but you're in the mood, you're in the mood, Matt. How are Uber rates, by the way, the old... Oh, horrible, I'm sure. Oh, my gas is now $3.40 by my house. It was like $2.25 a week ago. That's the worst thing. When you come home from a trip and your gas prices, the number

gas issue you go to is like 20% higher. I don't know. Don't know what to tell you. I don't want to tell you that. Just lower my prices, please. And get my 401k back going too. It's not good either. Oh, really? Is that been dipping? It's on a deep dive. I haven't been watching the markets. It's probably a good idea that you don't. Okay. All right. Back to sports.

Oh, we've got to take a break. Oh, Bitcoin's back up a little bit. That's nice. Okay, so we got Big 12. Eric Spols, we're going to play some audio of him. Luca got 51 last night. Let's see. Oh, we have a new. quarterback of the new home in 2020. Yes, we do. We'll discuss that we come back.

I love that people call email and help us out with stuff. You know, 20 years ago, if you didn't know everything, you were an idiot with sports radio, that's, well, that's not the case anymore. Google's your friend. Shout out to Chris.

He calls himself that Friday, Chris. He says, hey, that was the rookie of the year you guys were talking about. Thank you, Chris. We'll get to summer baseball movies. Don't worry. Astros get off to like a 30-and-30 start. We're doing that.

No, stop. I don't want them to be. Pitching's going to be fine. Hitting's going to be fine. Yordon's going to be healthy. 140 games? Yes. Promise?

I can't promise you that. Okay. He slips on banana peels and he's out for six weeks. That's why I didn't play at left field yesterday. They were about that weather, weren't they? Yeah, don't get him out there in the slick field. All right, real quick, before I go, the phones. Kyle Murray won your contract

to play for the Minnesota Vikings. Let me tell you about Kyler Murray. Tell me about Kyler Murray, Maddie. I think I could put together an amazing YouTube video of Kyleor Murray touchdown throws. Yes, you could. I think he's got the arm. Yes. I think he has the accuracy.

He just does not, he's, I think the work ethic has been met at best, and he's injury prone. It's what separates good from great, great from elite. How consistent can you be? Yeah. Show us the flashes. He can. He has. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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that was terrible money spent, and that's what I think to try to put a Houston spent on. I think people in Houston are could be legitimately concerned about. That's what makes this show great, Matt. Consistency. Monday through Friday, 10 to 2 great shows. Yes. And Kada Murray is not us.

No. We're more the Tom Brady of Houston Sports Radio. I look like a little big Philly. Oh, okay. Oh, Phillip Rivers? Yeah. Okay. Long, long career.

Yeah. Just when you count them out. You don't have enough kids. You don't have enough kids. You need like 12 more. That's right. I'm done birthing. But yeah, for a one-year deal, I think for minimum money, that's a great deal for

Minnesota. Because JJ, you don't remember this. I get things wrong. I just do. Okay. But remember that one year we had five quarterbacks that were drafted, I think, in that first round and JJ McCarthy was one of them? I remember specifically telling you.

You said he was the best? No, he was the worst. I was like, I invited. He said he's number one. No, I did not. Okay. I think I had the, I had the Washington. Washington quarterback, Daniels, was the one I thought was the best to the group.

I thought Caleb Williams. No, no, no. You said Washington. Yeah. Oh, Washington commanders. Yeah. I'm sorry. Well, he's from LSU.

So what is that? I thought he was going to be gone. I thought Caleb Williams, even though he's a little pouty at L at USC was going to be good too. Yeah. People were upset with him that he painted his nails. It's happening. Males paint their nails for some reason. Jalen Green painted his nails and he dropped like 36 last night.

Don't ever come back to the rockets of this. I need a four and one homestand. Okay. Sorry. I mean, I'm just saying. I know. He's been bad, though. Oh, yeah. No, not good for them.

Dylan Brooks has been fantastic. Yeah, we're those little sons fans that were coming after me early season. You're muted them. That's true, actually. They can't come after you if you meet them. Let's talk to Biscuit on 7-9 at 1055. Biscuit, good morning to you. Good morning, my brothers.

Hi. Hey, hey, man, let me, let me say this, Ross and Matt. You know, back in the day when Matt was probably in elementary school and Ross, you weren't even around to be found. They had a team in Indiana that went undefeated, but never played anybody, right? And they weren't ranked and this and that, and everybody was poop-pouring.

And they missed around, went to the championship game. And, of course, they had this guy called Larry Bird, don't they think? So my point is, Miami, Ohio, they kind of probably just a good chance of pulling off upset as the night. or 10th team than SEC. So, of course, they're going to be in the tournament. We didn't seen Butler and

a bunch of other, Loyola, Chicago, a whole bunch of other teams. But those were automatic bids, though. That's a difference. We're talking to this. If Miami of Ohio gets in, it's going to be as an at-large. They have earned nothing except just a record.

Right. But my point is, the reason they're going to get in is because the chances of them winning are just about the same as the eighth or ninth SEC team. So they're going to put them in. And then that's my opinion.

You know, I mean, and this person's going to be a good story, you know, especially if they win. You know, we're not going to put the 10th, 11th, 8, SEC, you have 500 in your conference, and you're going to cry about it because you didn't make the tournament? No, I don't think so. Well, it's going to be a good story. And thank you, Biscuit, if they win a game. If they lose a game, do you remember during the college football playoff, how much fun, the fun of James Madison and Tulane made,

made fun of and people's like you know y'all are frauds just stop stop pretending you think you're going to play with the big boys if miami gets in ross there will be no more team in the NCAA tournament that will have more pressure than the miami redhawks to win a basketball game they're going to have to or they're going to be

or they're going to take now going to take the loss for their own season yeah they're going to take the loss for every non-power four school it's going to be like uh two lane and who's the other team that got waxing the uh you're not even listening to me i just said that Sorry, I was looking up Indiana State.

I saw that they beat Purdue. Yeah. In that season. But, yeah, other than that, they didn't play. Yeah, they are, they have to. I'm aware of the Indiana State Sycamores. They were number one in the polls. They were number one and number two in the polls all year long.

So it's a different story. Yeah. Sorry. They're going, no, Miami's going to, if they get in, there will be no more pressure than them. And they will say all the right things, but they have to win. It's a must win game. No, I think it's a must.

It's a, I think it's funnier if they get blown out. Well, that's because you're mean and cruel. I'm not mean. Well, you know what it'll do. If they don't win a game, the next Miami of Ohio, whatever that may be, that has in the same situation, we'll knock on the tournament. Yeah, this is a rare situation, though.

It is rare. And they need to schedule better non-conference. This is a lesson for everyone. Don't play Old Dominion and whoever the hell else they were playing in their non-conference schedule. Well, they didn't play anybody all year long. There was no way in the world they knew that they thought they'd be this good in terms of records. Probably not. Yeah. Well, they also had a bunch of close calls. I mean, they've had overtime wins, two-point wins, like a bunch of close calls.

And the back has two teams. Like, Akron is legitimately, I think, a team that could win the whole thing. And they didn't even lose to Akron. You mean their whole conference tournament? Yeah, I think it's a two-term, it's a two-team, it's a two-team good league. Yeah, Akron is 27 and 5. They are, our friends at Kim Palm have them at 64th. 93rd for the Miami of Ohio Red Hawks.

It's still not a good sign. That just shows you how bad the league is. Now, how do you improve a league overall? I don't know if it's possible. Yeah, you can't. You can play a better non-conference. Very easy. That's what Gonzaga had to do for years,

and Butler, when Brad Stevens was there, and they were lighting it up. Schedule better. Very simple solution. All right. I'm sorry it's coming up in a half an hour from now. We'll wake the strippers up in an hour. Joseph Torto is going to join us from Kansas City.

1230. E-May don't get 1 o'clock. Now in 4th stories at 130. Hell, you're not at 150. That's a radio program right there. Oh, and Jonathan remembered what my, I just don't get it, was I want to ask you about it. When we come back. Plus, we're going to play some of that Eric's Polster audio, too.

You'd want to hear that as well. He said, shut your bum ass up when it came to Bam out of Bio's 83 points. 1059. The Matt Thomas Show at Ross. If you'd like to join us here on anything goes Friday, you may do so at 713-212-9. 713-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And then it goes Friday.

7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. 7-1-2-5-7-90. We've got a busy sports night. I love when Houston, not necessarily become the epicenter of sports, but we've got a lot of stuff going on. Of course, we've got the Rockets and the Pelicans tonight inside TOTA Center. We have the World Baseball Classic going on tonight.

USA versus Canada. Logan Webb versus Michael Soroka, if I'm pronouncing that properly. Diken Park, 7 o'clock. So if you're going downtown Houston tonight, get there early because you have two events going on at one time. You've got the NCAA South Regional coming to town in a couple weeks to be very exciting about that. Whether the Houston Cougars are going to find themselves there or not. Joe Lannardi, the brachatologist, says, yes, it's going to happen. It's a two-scene.

I'm very happy about that. And what else we got going on? NFL Fried. She has kind of cooled off a little bit. We mentioned Cotta Murray's now a member of the Minnesota Vikings. Yes. And what else we got? Astro Spring Training Action tonight, night game right here on 790?

Mm-hmm. Well, yes. And the Rockets will be on 740 KTRH with no pregame. Oh, no pregame? I got to get those Michael Berry minutes in, baby. You do the post game show? I am not. Dan Matthews is.

Okay. Thankfully. Thanks to Dan for stepping in. because I do a lot of Rockets games. Team 790. Yes. What else we got going on? I'm trying to think what else is happening.

Oh, I just don't get it. Yeah, please. By the way, Joe Lannardi has Texas Inn as an 11 seed with the playing against SMU. Fantastic, going to Dayton. All right, sorry. With this Bamata Bio 83 point thing, you have a lot of people in Kobe stands upset that he passed Kobe. And then further from that, I just don't get how people think Kobe Bryant is the greatest basketball player of all time. Michael Jordan, I get it.

Kareem, I get it. Bill Russell, I get it. LeBron James, I get it. Kobe Bryant? I just don't get people who think he is the, like, no doubt about it, absolute greatest basketball player of all time. And there's a lot of them. I don't know anybody who does. So, okay.

I have to step aside and say, I would say I just don't get it either. Yeah. Have you seen the Kobe stands on Twitter? Um, I don't know. They don't interest me. If you're telling me that Kobe's the greatest of him all time, that means your NBA acumen's not great. Thank you, Matt.

I appreciate you. Now, if you want to wedge him into the top 10, I don't agree with that, but I could see an argument for it. Absolutely. So I can respect that a lot more. Look, there are sports conversations that I can have with someone that I can go, okay, this guy knows what he's talking about. Like, let me tell you who I don't listen to. All basketball guys do are shoot threes and dunk.

When that guy talks to me about basketball, I tune him out immediately. You should. I like that. If you're going to tell me that Kobe Bryant's the greatest player in the history of the NBA, that means you've only watched the NBA for 20 years, so you don't get a vote. Okay. Oh, number three,

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You lose me on that. They could cut it by eight. Go back to 154. You could, but it's not going to happen. It's not going to. Seven innings guy, baseball game guy, you're losing me immediately. That's funny. What about Adam Silver has floated 40-minute games.

You're losing me, Commissioner. I used to like him as a commissioner. I don't like the... Well, how about Steve cursing? They need to cut 10 games. He's stupid. It's never going to happen. Why does a coach or anybody in the NBA ever think about reducing anything when the people that are getting paid want absolutely no part of reduction?

Just talking about the players and the injuries that have been gone up, the pace of play, which has gone up. Also the spacing. 82 games, 10 games less will be what? 10% 70% 80%? 10% 80%%%% loss. Let me ask you this. Okay. This is not apples to apples, but it is what it is.

If I said Ross, I will cut your work week down at 12.5%. For four-day weekdays? For a 12.5% reduction in pay, would you do it? I wouldn't because I have the best job in the world. Jonathan? Jonathan has a great job as well. Jonathan, if I cut your pay 12.5% for 12.5% last work, would you do it? No.

No, nobody's going to do it. So Steve Kerr, shut up. Stop doing it. Not only are you cutting your salary back, you are cutting back the salary of employees at Arenas. Yeah, Matt Thomas's salary? Matt Thomas's salary. I don't care about mine, because that's my second salary.

I don't really worry about that. Nobody's cutting anything 12%. Anything. Nobody's doing that. We are all trying to make as much money as we can while we can. You're not cutting. So anytime this is, and again, if they went to an NBA schedule of 70 games

Ross, guys would figure out way to play 52. They just would. Just take the cash. You just signed an $11 billion television deal. You're going to ask the NBA, you're going to ask those TV partners to give back 12%. No, none of that's happening. Stop. Oh, you're shaking your head at me.

What's the matter? No, that's why I'm thinking maybe the Dominican reduction makes more sense, but also that's less commercial time. Commercial inventory. You tell me every day on the show. It's all about money. It's all about money. None of this is going to stop. So please.

when that person says, let's cut this back, end the conversation. They've stretched this season about as far as it can. Well, here's what they're going to do. They're going to amend this in-season tournament thing. We had seven days off in between games in the middle of November. That's just bad. Yeah. The Rockets have had, and again, I'm not trying to make excuses.

I'm just telling the reality of it. And look, Denver won in San Antonio last night, so the Rockets can shut their bumasses up when it comes to this. Playing at Denver on a back-to-back is ridiculous. an hour time change, two and a half hour flight. It's just absurd. The number of back-to-backs is ridiculous. And Kevin Durant, to his credit, said, hey, we sucked.

It shouldn't have nothing to do with the back-to-backs, but it is a part of the game. The NBA has got to do a better job of eliminating back-to-back. At least no second half of the back-to-backs in altitude, please. Well, my rule is simple as this, and there's an algorithm you could put in there. I don't think you should play anybody that's with a, all your back-to-back should be within one hour of flight time of where you are. Okay. Okay.

You can do it. You think so? You got to figure out a way to do it. You just have to figure out a way to do it. So if you're in Philadelphia and you want to play a back-to-back in New York, okay, that makes sense. If you're in Boston, you want to play a game in Toronto? Okay, that makes sense. Okay.

What does that make for Houston? How long does it take to get to New Orleans, Dallas, San Antonio, Oklahoma City. How far is Atlanta? Close? Hour 45 flight. Okay. That's just my rule. Memphis?

Hour 10. Okay. Yeah. So you go to Memphis. But the problem is in-season tournament is a long, long break. You don't need that. And the All-Star breaks too long. Yeah, they're trying to drum up interest pre-Christmas.

That's what Adam Silver was trying to. And has it worked? Has anybody? Who won the in-season tournament this past year? The Thunder? I don't even know. I'm going with the Thunder. Look it up real quick.

Because I don't really don't know. The NBA Cup. I don't have a high level of confidence. I'm like 48% sure. Oh, it was the Knicks. Oh, no, yeah, it was the Knicks. See? It's the Knicks over the Spurs.

Aren't championship supposed to be memorable? I guess so. Viewership each year, 4.58 million in the first year when the Lakers won. 3 million and then when the Bucks won and then this past year, 3.07 million when the Knicks won. So, 3 million is about like a regular national TV game. And that was the streaming game. Like Amazon had the coverage of it. Where you going with this?

Okay, so point being, there are. a handful of conversations that I don't want to get into. Kobe being a top number one. You said number one of all time? Are you sure? People say that. Jason Tatum thinks that. No, there's people like, there's actual NBA players who say that. I just respectfully disagree. I've watched Kobe play. I've watched Kareem. I've watched Michael. I've watched

LeBron. I've watched Larry Bird. I mean, I never saw Bullet Bob Coozy play or Wilt or Bill Russell. But I got a pretty good feeling of who is the go-eigh. and the goat to me is down to two people. It's Michael and it's LeBron. That's as far as I see it. 713-212-5-7-90. Greg, we'll talk about

Kyler Murray, we come back if he wants to do that. You can join us as well. I'm sorry, he's coming up at the bottom of the hour. 7-13-21-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-7-90. Anything Goes Friday continues here on Sports Talk, 790. I want to read a few quotes from David Montgomery. He's meeting with the media right now on Zoom.

Do you tell me, is Zoom, is, let me ask you this, is Zoom the best thing that came out of COVID? Now, I would say work from home people love, loved COVID. Zoom and teams. Yeah. Some people coming back to the office. Not enough. But 10 years ago, we didn't have Zoom 10 years ago. Yeah, not as prevalent.

That's for sure. It's way more prevalent than it was. All right. Yes, it's good. Guess what he said, Ross? Okay, well, I saw some quotes. David Montgomery on C.J. Stroud. I saw this.

Say it. He's a dog. Now, you can... I'm not going to lie. He's cold, man. You could interpret that a few ways. Stop. Go ahead. It could be this way. He's a dog.

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Adam Wexler even tweeted it. I ain't going to lie, he's a dog. He's cold, man. He is cold. C.J. Stroud. What is he going to say? Here's what he should have said. I watched that playoff game.

My guy's going to get better. No, he's not going to say that. They would be delightfully refreshing. David Montgomery, what do you think about C.J. Stroud? I mean, if we're keeping a book right now, we ask. He's not going to say that. That's perfect. It just is.

Let me guess. David Montgomery is excited to be a Texan. Of course he is. He's happy to be RB1. David Montgomery says he's more of a show, not a tell type of the back, but he wants to show he's more than just a power back in Houston. David Montgomery also saying, I'm with the Houston Texans now. Everything that's in the past doesn't matter. I'm grateful for my time of Detroit.

They rigged that in my career. At the end of the day, it's about me being present where my feet are. That's symbolic. That's analytical a little bit. Yeah. Introspective? Yeah. Okay.

It's a delightful, refreshing change of pace quote. David Montgomery, I have, oh, here's one coming in. I have never shot myself on the foot. He didn't say that. Jonathan, you saw that quote, did you not? I've never shot myself on the foot. Yeah, that's a quote from Joe Mixing. I won't put out this misinformation.

Are you backing off now? No, no, no, no. So I backed off on it. I'm back on it now. You are? Yeah. You speak to some sources. I am the Texans insider.

You are, that's what I'm asking. Even though you didn't have the Montgomery trade. Because I was out of town or any of the free agent signings. I was with the Rockets. On the phones we go, let's talk to Greg on 790 at 1121. Hi, Greg. Hey, how are you doing? Good, how are you?

Good afternoon. Love and life. Yes, sir. Living the dream. Yes, sir. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. We've been saying yes, sir.

The floor is yours. Go ahead, Greg. All right. Hey, I was just wondering why more teams weren't interested in Kyler Murray. I mean, if it's only going to cost you a million bucks, I know our backup quarterback makes more than that. Why wouldn't more teams be interested in getting a proven quarterback who could maybe push CJ Stroud?

and what's holding other teams back? Because I know we'd like to be here in Houston. Why would he be here when he has more of a shot at a starting job in Minnesota? Yeah, you answered your own question. The reason why he's going to Minnesota is because he's got a chance to be a starting quarterback. Well, I mean, as bad as CJ did during the playoffs, don't you think that he could push CJ? No. No.

No. Kata Murray is not making CJ Stroud better. CJ Stroud's going to make CJ Stroud better. And C.J. Stroud's going to get all the playoffs. looks that he can because he is still on a rookie deal and they need to see if they're going to be able to if they're going to extend him and they want to give him a big time contract. So C.J. Stroud's going to start. If Kyla Murray came here, he had zero chance of starting. I don't think it's zero chance. I say zero chance. Just my vote. My vote. That's it. Zero chance.

I would say if you and I went to a bar, Greg, you may have already be at a bar already, that 100 people said who's got a chance to be Cotterbury or C.J. Stroud. A hundred people we're going to say C.J. Stroud. Well, I like C.J. Stroud, but I think Kyler would push him or something. And it's only costing you a million bucks. Why not? Why not?

Where does he have more, a better chance to start? Does he have a chance of beat out J.J. McCarthy or does it have a better chance of beating out C.J. Stroud? Answer that question for me, please. Obviously in Minnesota. Well, there's your answer. That's it. That's it. You did it. You knocked it out. Home run. It's a drive. Greg hit it deep. It's gone. He figured it out.

Well, I just think he would like to be back in Texas, and he would give CJ a hell of a run for his money. All right. We're losing you, Greg. Thank you for him. I have a great weekend. I appreciate it. We try. Anything goes Friday. It is an it. It goes Friday. Kyler Murray is an autonomous human being who is going to choose the best situation for him.

There would be 0.0% chance he would choose to come here to Houston over the Minnesota Vikings. Correct. Where J.J. McCarthy, it was probably the worst starting quarterback in football last year, and Kyla Murray is significantly better. Yeah. I'm telling you, there is

not a... Matter of fact, I even think, uh, Kala Murray said it yesterday when he was a kid. Seven years old. He loved the Vikings. Yes. He went up there because he thinks JJ, he thinks what about Cam Ward. I think about

Jay J.J. McCarthy. We're keeping a book right now we ass. Yeah. He thinks Jay J.J. McCarthy's ass. Yeah. And so does the rest the league. Kaila Murray said he's been a Vikings fan his whole life and cried real tears during the 2009 NFC championship when they lost. Yeah. No worries.

Connery will be just fine. Reinvent himself. Get a brand new contract in Minnesota or somewhere else next year. He has a better chance to develop and continue his career there that he does here in Houston. Also, Matt, did you see this? Kyler Murray went to Allen High school in the DFW area. He was asked why he wasn't a Cowboys fan.

And the answer? They were always ass. I kind of like him. You know, his dad was one of my favorite quarterbacks as a kid. What's that? His dad, Calder's dad, was a quarterback at A&M. I didn't know that. Yeah, in the 80s. And he was my, he was the first when I started watching Aggie football, he was the first

quarterback I remember. What was his name? Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to put you on the spot. No, it's, um, don't, don't, don't say. Give me the first letter so I don't sound like I'm super. Okay. Okay. What was his name? Not Keegan. You're close. Kevin. Kevin.

Yeah. Kevin Murray is correct. And he decided to decided to put an R on the end of his, he accidentally, they were going to name his son, Kyler, and then they put an R on the end on accident. And said that sounds good. Kyler, okay. All right. Let's go to Rueh, Oaks. Scott is with his

on 790. Scott, Scott, good morning to you, my friend. Matt Ross, what's going on, fellas? Happy Friday. Same to you. So I wanted to give you guys a prediction I have on something when it comes to ABS and the MLB. It gives you my reason why. Tell me if you don't mind, tell me if you guys agree or what you guys have seen from this so far.

So I don't think we obviously, ABS isn't going anywhere from terms of using the technology. From what I've seen so far in spring training on the broadcast and even listening on the radio, So it seems clunky in the sense that like interrupting the game, like in the Astros game last night, I saw that there was three overturned calls in the first inning. And the process of getting the umpire on the microphone and to pause the game even for 10 seconds or so, I think we're going to find once the regular season starts,

it's really just not aesthetically pleasing. It's going to ruin the flow of games. there's going to be huge dramatic moments late in games where the drama is surrounded by an umpire's microphone and I'm not saying we need to get rid of the technology what I think's going to happen after this year is they're going to have to find a way for that to just be the call on the field to get the ABS call into the umpire's ear

and it just be live like that. Hitters are better than umpires at recognizing the strike zone. If you watch anastro's game, either team, when the umpire misses a call, the player knows it. It is usually, when he's displeased, unlike in the NBA when they won't fouls, the player is usually right, like 95% of the time if a ball's outside the zone and it gets called a strike. So I think it's, from what I've heard and seen so far, the pausing of a game to say the

player, the batter is challenging the ruling on the field of a strike. It's clunky. So they're going to have to find a way to make that the automatic call on the field. Have y'all agree? First of all, we're talking about a situation that just got underway, Scott. Secondly, we're also talking about spring training video systems. I think when you go to 30 big league ballparks, it's going to be a much more streamlined process. I agree with him, though, that it just seems like a more drawn-out process than it should be.

Like when the NBA, they say, hey, the coaches is challenging this and we got a video review it. That's because you got to sit there. you got a video review. Like this is an automatic thing. But I will also say this. They have to get their little T-Mobile thing on there because this is a sponsored element. So rather than just having him make the call, then you can't get in your sponsorship and you're losing revenue there. So I don't know what the happy medium would be or what the solution would be, except maybe to go to full ABS eventually,

which I think this could end up being a gateway drug too. But they got to get the sponsor in. I'm with you, Scott. It's like you're doing this. sometimes six, seven times in the first few winnings, it's just too much. And the players are right. I mean, what I'll add to it, everyone goes back to a few years ago when we, you know, put the pitch clock on and took away the shifts and how successful those things were.

If you were in attendance at a game or you're watching that game on TV, you don't notice the difference in terms of how you're viewing the game with those things in play. So it's keeping the pace going better, but there's not, wow, this is altering. my viewing experience, getting an umpire on a microphone that many times. Like I said, there's going to be a huge moment in a game where that's the drama. The umpire being, is he going to overturn this call? Yes or no? The loud sound over the microphone, I just think it's going to be, you know, remember when the NFL,

they were allowed to challenge defensive pass interference for that one season. Yeah, it's terrible. And then they got rid of it after one year. Like I said, I don't think they're going to get rid of the technology, but they, they have to find, I hear what you're saying about the ad revenue Ross, but they're going to have to find a way to redispers that ad money somewhere else. In my opinion, nope. I think this is

once you, the automatic call. Thank you, Scott, for the phone call. I think once you've gone into it, you're not taking it away. Yeah. What you're seeing now is going to be a little smoother because you're in Major League ballparks as compared to minor league. It ain't going away, and we ain't seeing it for every pitch. I'm putting my name on it. Okay.

I'm not saying it intermittently. I'm not saying it immediately. I'm not saying in a year or two, but this will be the gateway drug. because this will start and people will lose their challenges early and there's going to be in high leverage big time games. There's going to be missed calls. And people are going to be like, if we have this technology, the drum will get banged, I believe. But you can say the same thing about the NBA.

We have the technology and we had teams losing challenges in the first quarter. I lose them again. I mean, life goes on. It sucks. That's why I always him in all. If you listen to my broadcasts, I hate it when the rockets are, for that matter, any team challenging in the first half.

Save those puppies. same for the later of the portions of the game. Two points in the first quarter counts the same as two points in the fourth. Not in my mind they don't. I know. Not in my mind. I know. There are way worse calls. It should have been challenged in the second half. Oh, can't use it. You have to be absolutely sure if you're going to do one early. I'm just telling you, Rossi, I think you've got to do it. You don't even start challenges the fourth inning. Because, I mean, if you told five years ago, we'd say we'd be shocked that this challenge system was even in place.

So I think eventually, yes, there will be full-time ABS. I don't know when. It's going to be years. I don't know when the MLB umpires collective bargaining agreement is up with baseball. I don't know if it's going to take that or whatever because the umpires are going to fight this. I'm saying not now, not in a year, maybe in five years, maybe in 10 years. It will happen, I believe. Okay. But yeah, you throw, you, you just brought the sponsor plug in.

It's working. I know. They ain't changing it. Yeah, but it's so, Scott's right. It's clunky. But, guys, but come on. This is starting to, we've done us for a month. I mean, what is how it's going to be?

it's not going to change. It's not going to change. How is it not going to change? The umpire, he takes a few seconds. He gets on the mic. Okay, the calls being challenged. Then we zoom it in. They'll figure it out.

It does. It stops the rhythm of the game. NBA is not nearly as clunk as it was five years ago when they started the challenge system. It's not. I mean, it's not fluid. It stops the rhythm. It's still clunky. But balls and strikes are going to be balls and strikes.

They're still going to just call, they're going to stop the rhythm of the game. I think in two years from now, we're going to be saying this is a lot better off than it was today. The pitch clock is incredible. and it's really helped the rhythm of the games. This is going to slow it down. And it's only going to be an instance this way, but we've already seen it this spring where there's been like six, seven missed calls

that get overturned in like the first few innings. Spring training for everybody. Get the big ballpark. The umpires aren't going to get better. I would hope so. What's the big ballpark make the difference of the umpires missing calls? No, I think from the technology. You're asking technology at a ballpark in Port St. Lucie, Florida,

where you have a big downtown Houston Stadium that's going to have ability to get things done faster. It's going to be the same. They're going to click on the microphone and then they're going to look at the strike and then they're going to go back. I love it. I can't complain about it. I like it better. It's better.

You can't have it. You can't have your... I understand. I'm enjoying it. I want calls right. Absolutely. C.B. Buckner sucks. He just sucks less.

26,000 calls missed last year. Down to about 10,000 this year. No, it's going to be 26,000 and 25,500. All right. You want to apologize? This is the raw segment. Why? Why? Because you keep a list.

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Wow, thank you, Matt. You're welcome. I appreciate that. I have not posted in about a week and I feel bad about it. I've been trying to post more, but I've been sick and I've been dealing with, yeah. Others. This has been having sicknesses. Sorry.

I've been feeling dizzy. Yeah, the allergy season kicking your ass. I'm going daily, by the way. I used to never get allergies. Yeah, now I'm in, I'm 41 now, and I get allergies all the time and they just kick my ass. So we'll start with you. And I have the flu. What do you want to start with?

You know what I'm going to, Paul? to? Okay. Cole Thompson. Please. Earlier in the show, I made a joke about his Hawaiian. I actually love that he wears a Hawaiian shirt on Fridays. But I was, I don't know, for whatever reason, being too cool for school, was making a joke about his Hawaiian shirt. I said fully 100%, my true feelings that I support it. And I made a joke, and you know what? Maybe that's out of my own

insecurities. I don't know. But Cole, I would like to apologize. Your Hawaiian shirts are fantastic. Cole Thompson, on the Morning Drive, 6 to 10 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Cole Thompson, the morning drive with Dan Matthews, 6 to 10. Yes. Your shirt sucks. I'm so sorry. Who cares?

I think it's nice. It's, you know, the problem is, if you're going to be Hawaiian shirt guy, you have to wear multiple Hawaiian shirts. It's got to be a vibe. He does it on Fridays. It's Hawaiian shirt Friday. But he only has one. No, that's not true. He's got some.

No, you're wrong. You are wrong. He wears a bunch of different ones. And I support it. I'm not going to participate because I'm in whatever t-shirt smells the cleanest Friday. Jonathan, what are you apologizing for this week? You know, I've been a good laugh this week, guys. Hmm.

I'm a good laugh. You know what? Run back to me. I have to think of a little harder at this. All right. We'll let you think a little bit. What do I have to apologize for? Oh, I got another, I'm sorry.

Yeah. I'm sure I took too many shots at you. You're welcome. You're sorry. But now another one, really. What was, I was arguing with Gordy about Reed Shepherd. Remember he had Reed Shepherd as MVP? He also says Jason Alexander in the starting rotation for the Astros.

Yeah, and then he was all worried about the Astros' bats. You know what? I was a little rude coming after him for his opinions. I would like to apologize to Chris Gordy. Oh, Cole Thompson is here. I don't know if he's been listening. come on in. You know what? I want to apologize. It's a great Hawaiian shirt. Do a personal

face-to-face. I know. I know. I'm sorry. Yeah, Cole, in the first hour, I may, I don't remember. I was making an analogy to something. And the first thing that popped in my head was your shirt, but your shirts are great. Keep up Hawaiian shirt Friday and keep up the great work. I will. Thank you. You're welcome. I just my apology.

I hope it's, I hope you accept my apology. I don't care. Cole was on a conference call with David Montgomery, giving us great quotes. He was. He was. He was. Okay. But your shirts do suck.

I know. Thank you. You're welcome. I appreciate it. Weekday, 6 of 10. How does your wife like the shirts? She bought me half of them, so. How many do you have, by the way?

13, 14. Oh. Matt said you had one. I'm sorry. I thought you hadn't just one. No, it's a bit. Like, I've been doing it for six years. Come on, Matt.

It's a thing. I promise you. It's not like randomly I one day said, ooh, Hawaiian shirt looks good. Well, that's how it started, right? Like, would you like me, guys, and this is a, I get a ruling from the three of you, would you like me to start wearing loud suits to Rockets games? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, well, Calvin Murphy is going to get mad. You're going to get mad at you. 100% you need to. Yeah, wearing like, who is that guy in the sparkly suits on Price is right? Rod Roddy. Yeah, like, you can go like Rod Rod Roddy. Go Frank Sager.

We'll call you Matt Maddie. Go Sager. May he rest in peace? May both of them rest in peace? Calvin Murphy still kicking. And he's wearing his great suits every night. But I feel like if Calvin's doing it, I'd be a bit stealing. You're right.

You're going to kick your ass. That's an 18 thing, so don't worry about it. All right. All right. Let's go the phones. You don't want to apologize? I can't say it on the air. Hmm.

Okay. I had a little conversation with somebody at a restaurant yesterday that I was, I was really bothered by. And I'm trying to think if I should apologize or not. I don't think the answer is no. Hmm. Hmm. I'll get a ruling from you next. Sports RV court?

Yeah. Okay. Okay. So what are you apologizing for? Quickly, everybody hates Hawaii shirt, a Friday guy at work. Yes, that's actually the truth. When you see him coming in, you know he's about to start up a conversation. He wants nothing to do with.

I want to apologize to my neighbor. He is a nice, elderly, Hispanic lady. She's done nothing wrong, and then we've had a great relationship. One day I came home, and I was, look. listening to the Matt Thomas show podcast on Spotify. With Ross. And with Ross, my apologies, Ross, for America. I guess y'all were doing Shut Your Bumass Up segment.

And I had pulled up to my driveway. Disconnect, turned my car off, got out. And as soon as my phone cut plain, Jonathan hit the drop to shut your bum ass up. Super loud. She looked at me concerned as if I had told me. her that. All I could do was smile and

shake my head in disbelief. And I just wanted to apologize to her. Thank you guys for potentially ruining a beautiful relationship. You all have a great day. Yeah, that's what we're here for. So we're sorry now. Yeah, we are taking the all on that. All right, come back. I've got a scenario for you. And

I think I'm on the right on this, but remember, I could be wrong. I'm intrigued. And I need to apologize, I'll do so. Okay. 1144, Sports Talk, 7.9. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90.

We're going to wake up the strippers. All right, I need a ruling, boys. There is a new restaurant in the Kingwood area, and I will not discuss what it is. I don't spend money. Don't care, and they won't well. T.J. Friday's. But I wanted to give them a try. Okay.

And it was a pickup place, and I ordered a bunch of food. Okay. And the bill was really high. Okay. Way more than I thought it was going to be, and so I paid it. And then I got an itemizer receipt because I like, I need to look at this. And it turned out that I over-ordered one item. Maybe you ordered two of something when you wanted one of something?

Correct. Basically. I don't want to give about what it is. Okay. So I said, ma'am, I said, I need to take this off this one thing because I ordered too much of something. And I like the money back from that. She goes, hold on. She gets the manager in the back.

manager comes up to me and she goes everything okay I said everything's correct I said I ordered too much of something and I would like take it off and I'd like to get the money back and not get the extra whatever I'm going to order his response back to me was didn't she really order back to you

would you say oh no I said sir this happens it's not her fault it's just too much food and I don't want it and you're a new place, and you need as many positive reviews as possible. You said that to him?

Yes, I did. I'm going to say this point blank. Okay. The customer isn't always right, but he's mostly right. The customer made the mistake here. I made the mistake. I had acknowledged the mistake.

Mistakes do happen. Mistakes happen with restaurants to the customer. The customer can sometimes make a mistake. I caught it early. They didn't make the item that I wanted to. As soon as I saw it, I said, I don't need this much of this particular item. And he comes back with me as, well, she read it back to you. Okay.

It was your mistake. I fully acknowledged that. But you should have been accommodated. It is the customer is always right situation. I don't even necessarily always believe that. No. Because customers can be able. They need to take care of you there.

any good manager or restaurant tour knows you're going to end up comping things where maybe it wasn't their fault. And that's just how it is because you take care of the customer. Because are you ever going to go back there now? Never a chance. If they had taken care of you, would they have gone back? Would you have gone back? Absolutely. See?

You just lost a customer for life. He's in the wrong. It was your mistake, but he should have taken care of you. And it was a mistake, not an intentional error to try to circumvent the system. Yeah. You're not trying to game the system. You were going to give them the food back. Well, I didn't even make the food.

Oh, they didn't even make? Oh, that's what? No, they're way in the wrong now. They didn't even make it? She charged me the amount. It was way too much. Yeah. I said, I like an itemized receipt.

And I said, oh, I said, man, this is too much of this. Okay, no, they're way in the wrong now. That's what I'm saying. They were in the wrong now that if they didn't even make the food, they're way in the wrong. Okay. Did not even make it? Yeah. Yeah, I would have.

I said, I went like this. I said, and I was really calm. I said, sir, you're a new restaurant. I said, it was not her fault. I, as the customer, am allowed to back off an order if something is not right, and you didn't even make it. And he lost me.

Can you just tell me it was like an American fair type of place? Yeah, it was a burgers, fries and sandwiches. Yeah, it was a order combo kind of place. Okay. I hope you're not saying sorry to him. No, I just wanted to rule. No, you wanted the ruling. Yeah.

You're in the right A thousand percent right Especially if they didn't make it If they made it You're kind of in You're your mistake But they should still take care of you And I'm gonna say this honest

If they would have made it I would have said Matt mistake on you Buy it Take it Yeah have leftovers Yeah that's bad man Honestly that is like

Manager 101 Who is this guy And it's funny because You said they just opened He's probably some new hire Maybe unqualified And the worst part is my daughter said dad

Don't go there Because I had a bad experience And I said You're 17 See that Yeah And so I, as soon as I came home to Carly, you know what I did, Jonathan? I said, Carly, I'm sorry.

See, that happens, though, when places, when new restaurants open, they got to hire like three, four, five managers at once, and then they got to hire, you know, however many servers. So when you go there when a place first opens, they haven't had time to weed out the bad managers and employees. And that's the problem. Like, when I started working at Cheddar's because they just opened. And then they finally weeded me out.

You're a weater. Yeah, I got weeded out. it out. So you were the bad employee. Yeah, I was a bad server and they were like, do you want to be here? And I was like, no, I'm good. So they weeded me out. So they haven't weeded out the bad managers and like, a lot of times

when somebody's looking for a job, it might mean because they're not good at their job. I went against my daughter's recommendation and said, I want to go to this place. I understand swearing them off. Give them a shot, Nick. Give me a year to settle things down. Okay. One year. One year probation. Yeah. Let's go to

Brian on 7. Brian, what are you apologizing? for? To the just random worker who's working on the construction in South Pariland North Fresno, they've been working on Almeda slash FM521 for over two years, which is supposed to be about an 18 month project. There's no end in sight. I yelled at the random guy, and it's not his fault. I get it. It's probably supervisors or whoever else is probably more their fault. But to that guy, I'm sorry. And then to the fans of Tennessee, this is more an apology.

But you're stuck with the most petty-ass owner in professional sports with the New Jersey they just unveiled. I hope you guys go 0 and 17 and the franchise goes bankrupt within two years. I'm sorry. We didn't even talk about that.

Thank you, Brian, for that. Here's the real. Here's the reality. These uniforms are so much. better than what they used to wear. Because they're oilers. Because they're older uniforms.

They look. They're cleaner. The shade of blue is better. The Tennessee tried for like 15 years to mix a match up their uniforms. None of them worked. This works. They look great. I still hate them. I said this a year ago. Houston needs to let go with the oilers. I say this even more now. Let them go. Let them go. I'm good. I'm done.

They died when they left my town. I'm without a football team. There's a football team here. There's not very good, but neither were the Oilers. No, but that was the team I grew up with. I know. Yeah, they hurt you. You got a new team that'll hurt you.

No, I don't even even hurt. I'm done with being hurt. I know. I'm about to be done with Manchester City, too. Are you really? No. I'm just threatening. Before the top of the hour,

Roger, what are you apologizing for? Good afternoon, Matt. Ross, yeah, I'm apologizing in advance for Saturday. My wife is going to, she agreed to take me about time in a couple of bars to celebrate St. Patty's Day because can't do it on Tuesday, obviously for what related to reason. And for that, my love, I do apologize. This may be the first in advance apology.

Wow. So he's going to vomit in the car. Okay. He's going to make her drive. Yes. He's going to try to make out with her in the public. Of course. She wants none of all those three things.

Yeah. And he's going to be like, I love you, Kissy Kins. Every one of the little baby nicknames that you only say in private are going to be out in public. Oh, yeah. I love you, sugar britches. Sugar britches. Yeah, you don't go with that one? I don't.

Okay. I thought you said something else. I was just kidding. What were you thinking he said, Jonathan? By the way, Jonathan, we got one minute here before you. Nothing to apologize the whole week. He's a liar. So you've been so nice this week?

I don't believe that. I've been good, man. All right. If you're going to, for the first time in the history of this segment, you're going to fall and say you got nothing to be sorry for for the entire week? I think you said that before. Count me at 10. Hold on. One. Follow me on Instagram. Yeah, follow that. SportsMT on Instagram. A much friendlier place than these nasty Twitter streets. It is nicer. I don't got nothing. I don't got nothing. Okay. He said it, not us.

I'm sorry to the Rockets because I turned off the game early knowing y'all's... Oh, hey. Okay, all right. Hey, shut your bum ass up. Let's wake up the strippers next here on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12. It's Howard 3 of the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. Spring break. What? Did you have an orgy in any city? And the amount of orgies in this. town with 2.1 million spring breakers here. Absolutely incredible. I think

2.2 million according to KPRC local too. You know what? You need to apologize to Jonathan for that. For being wrong. Oh, you know what? You are right. I know. It's an anything goes Freddy. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-790.

We go to Kansas City in 20 minutes, talk to our friend Joseph Dwarte. Eme Doka 1 o'clock, but right now it's time for the news at noon. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now, I'm editing audio. If this sounds familiar, you're probably already a podcaster.

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Then we got a lot of national stuff to get to. Rockets taking on the Pelicans tonight. The line has moved from 7.5 to Houston minus 6.5. I don't know if that means there's a lot of late money coming on the New Orleans Pelicans. But the rockets are still favored. That game will be on News Radio 740 KTRH. So make sure you catch it over there. Here on Sports Talk 790, we will have your Houston Astros taking on the St.

Lewis Cardinals, Kai Wei Ting is getting the start for your stroves. So it's a bully game. Every game's a bully game. That's true. All right. Moving on to the national news, there's a number of things going on.

As you mentioned, you'll talk to Joseph Duarte, as the Cougars are in action at the Big 12 tournament, where the Big 12 will swap out their LED glass court for hardwood in the semifinals and finals. Sparassing Big 12. Brett Yormark quote, after consultation with the coaches of our four semifinal teams, I've decided that in order to provide our student athletes

with the greatest level of comfort on a huge stage, we will transition to a hardwood court for the remainder of the tournament. There were issues with players slipping, struggling for grip during the tournament's opening rounds. ACL tears. And apparently there was a Texas Tech Red Raiders player, Christian Anderson,

who projected as the number 16, pick right now in the latest NBA mock draft at ESPN, injured his groin slipping on the floor and a loss to Iowa State. This is just such a major gaffe. Like what a major screw up?

The tournament's not even over and you're going backtracking. The worst part of it is Rossi. It's the big 12th tournament. I understand if you want to have like a battle for Atlantis or some goofy crap like that or the Dickie's Arena invitation. Or the tournament where that's

like those amateur teams playing. Yeah, the one million dollar, one for all, whatever. Yeah. But this is the big 12th tournament, and it's not an exhibition playground. And you didn't even make it through the tournament. And everybody thought this was a bad idea from the first when it started. These questions were there when it was implemented or when it was announced. Crazy.

All right, elsewhere, Miami Heats head coach, Eric Spolstra on Bam, out of Bio's 83 point game. I apologize to absolutely know. no one. He said, period. Said, if you've got 70 with nine minutes left to go in the game, you think I'm not going to go for it? Who would be like, you know what, coach, just take me out? Yeah, right. Also, I'm sorry, that quote was from Bam out of bio. But both Eric Spolstra and Bamatabio, very strong, talking about how, in terms of the criticism they've been getting with the 83 point game with the Miami Heat, Eric Sproster also saying, have a go for it. if anybody else wants to go for 83 points. David Montgomery introduced today.

Yes. Also, we do have David Montgomery introduced today. He spoke to the media via Zoom. We'll get a full report from Adam Wexler from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. here on Sports Talk 790. Matt, I'm sorry, until 450. I've got a short show. We've had a lot of short shows, so I'm happy they're off. Not judging. I'm trying to be better about that.

You know what? That's great. Thank you. I'm proud of you, Matt. You're showing some growth. or at least you're trying to show some growth. That's the first step of improvement and change, planning. All right, David Montgomery on fitting in the new Texans offense. I've been in and out of different systems.

You know, last year I had a new OC in a year before that. I had another OC, so I kind of always been in a position to where I had to learn and kind of like be able to receive like different kind of ways of teaching. So I think for me it won't be that challenging But as you get older in the NFL All the terminology is kind of the same They may use different words But they all mean the same thing

And you also learn to be a pro too So if you get on the front end of it You haven't really got to worry too much about on the bad game All right there you go So David Montgomery not worried about fitting into the Houston Texans system Also a quick note from Jonathan Alexander Nick Cayley once told Jonathan he reports

that he likes to keep close tabs on players coming out of the Iowa State program since Kaley was a graduate assistant there. Great. So he's had his eye on David Montgomery and maybe push for it. So it should be some happy harmony. John Carroll for our coaches, Iowa State for our players. Let's go, baby. Dominance. AFC divisional playoff, new general manager next year.

On field dominance for the Texans. Who will be the quarterback for David Montgomery? No, it's not Kyler Murray, caller from earlier today. it is C.J. Stroud. David Montgomery louding the abilities of one C.J. Stroud. I think we're frozen. Yeah, I ain't go a lot. He's a dog. He cold. It's funny that you ask me that question because

CJ came out way later than I have. Then I sound like an old man, but came out a lot later than I did. But just kind of seeing him progress as like a rookie to who he is now and seeing like him having his highs and his lows of him still being able to come back as somebody who can be mentally relentless and still go to work every day seeing it from afar. It's like it's a thing to see.

You know, like, it's always good to see how people can handle like the bad things, but it's also super important to see how well people can handle the good things that happen as well. And I think he can handle it all. And that's somebody I want to play with and, you know, be able to go to war with to somebody who's battle tested, who's been through it all,

but who's able to handle the worst too. That's a great. The problem is we don't. The worst, the adversity is coming. How do you rebound from two subpars? Because people have bad games all the time. It's how do you bounce back from that?

That's what I'm curious about. You bounce back with the worst one? What do you him and haunt about over there? It's fine. You know what, CJ Stroud, put him in a great situation and he can be great. He's just not going to be one of the only a handful of quarterbacks who can rise above a bad situation.

You're going to put $55 million a year in his pocket once he signs that long-term deal. You ready? Let's go. That's per year. Yikes. Per year. All right. I got a couple more things. Please like. All right, let's go. Did you see, Matt, the Oklahoma City Thunder superstar Shay Gilgis Alexander surpassing a record held by Wilt Chamberlain for more than six decades. Most 20-point games in a row, right?

127 consecutive regular season games for Shea Gilgius Alexander surpassing the great Wilk Chamberlain. Of course, this isn't, you know, one of the hallowed numbers in basketball history or anything, but your thoughts on him passing Wilk Chamberlain, SGA, the favorite for MVP? Apples and oranges. It's a nice record, but again, if you would have told me... He makes eight free throws a game, by the way. Yeah, Falvator.

Even when Doris Burke calls you a foulbator, he's almost halfway there every game. Yeah. He said, I thought James Hardin's like, I thought I was a falbator. He is the apex falbator. Yeah. Dan and Denny out the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my gosh. He's great too.

James Hardin has still got it too. Oh, yeah. By the way. But there you go. And one last note, Matt. New Orleans Saints running back has now corrected everyone on the pronunciation of his team, of his, excuse me, last name. And now that he's back in New Orleans, Louisiana.

he wants to go back and get his pronunciation correct, and he said it's more like Etienne, Etienne, Travis Etienne Jr. So what was it before? Etienne. So E over E. Etienne. Echin. Like Devon Aitian.

But just a little more key. You've just confused. You've just confused the audience. Echin. Echin. Echin. The 10. See?

See? I don't. Don't. Don't. Free boot out and cracklings for everybody to stand in bed. Let's go over the mudders and get us some of that debris. Oh, that's good stuff. I like that debris.

That's like a stupid. I like it in there. They go to Colchon. All right. I'm sorry. Where's the jar? Thank God Louisiana's don't get mad at us. Here's a dollar in the jar.

You know why I like Louisiana because they know they're weird and they have strange accents, but they accept it. Like Gordy's ever gotten mad at us. Yeah. Yeah. There's beauty in that, Matt. Like the bignet. Who doesn't like a bignet? We need some bignets right now. I didn't have lunch today. I had grape nuts this morning.

Grape nuts. Yeah. Nuts. Crape nuts. You've had the cereal? High fiber? Lots of fiber. That's good.

You know. Just good. Double spun down that bad boy. I'm happy for you. Thank you. 1216, Jocerté, bottom of the hour, here on Sports Talk 7.90. Right now. We're talking about you can't have grape nuts for lunch.

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So we're going to move him up a little bit. Joseph Tortay, I want Joseph to tell the audience where he is and what he's doing before we start talking about this big 12th term. Joseph, tell people where you are right now. Well, you know, well, first of all, I feel privileged because I think I'm moving up a picking order of your guest because you did this for me. But I am literally at the door at Slaps Barbecue in Kansas City. you have to wait until there's room to get inside. I'm number two now in line. So I'm probably a few minutes

and getting to place my order. Great barbecue place. A little bit off the beating path, but I'm going to about to get some ribs and some sausage and all the good sixings. All right. So will they ask for your order while you're talking to us? Or are we in a free space?

They might. And you know what? That would be a great radio if I placed my order while we're doing this interview. Yeah, because Ross, my partner here, is the biggest barbecue snob in the world. So the ruling is this. Not only, do we, by way, Ross, do we...

I am not close to the biggest bar. Do we like where he went? We have good reviews on this? I've heard good things about slaps. I have not been there. Okay. So we're going to judge you on your order whenever it happens. So, or if it's time to order, you just interrupt what you're saying and start ordering, okay?

Well, well, I'm in the door now and I see the menu. We're going to throw some burnt ends. Oh, burnt hands. Delicious. Okay. And we're going to have some sausage. And maybe I'm deciding between the ribs and the chicken. My type of a little healthy option today.

but the sides look incredible. I came here last year. This place is legit. I'm a Texas barbecue guy that's never going to change, but this place is legit. All right. All right. So let's get to the first thing.

Why did Brent and Yormark think this floor thing was going to be cool to begin with? You have an amazing conference, Joseph. You've covered every team. It's a power league. It's not time to be gimmicky. This was a bad idea from the jump. And now it's the lead story on ESPN on a slow sports day that the floor was so bad last night.

it takes something extraordinary to take the focus off of big tour basketball as good as the league has been from top to bottom this year and they they managed to do it. Brett Bjormark managed to do it. I mean, terrible idea. Last week you heard from the women that it was slippery. It wasn't a good court situation. And then the pushback and the criticism publicly became too much. And it's not like the commissioner to. sort of backtrack and maybe even admit, hey, we got this wrong, but they corrected it.

You know, if I'm the other schools, probably not happy this morning that, hey, I'm slipping and sliding in my game. It kind of neutralizes some of the things that you've done throughout the year just because you go with the gimmicking court, but at least for the last three games of this thing, they're going to go back to tradition, you know, hardwood floor, and hopefully we won't have as much flipping around as we did the last few days. All right. Number two, Cougars beat the other Cougars, BYUu yesterday. Great second half.

Chase McCarty's become a part of this team. What has happened to his game that allows him on the floor in key moments of the second half like it was last night? I mean, it's development. At this time, it's earning the minutes. You know, this is the guy that came in. The report with him was that he's a great shooter, but considering where he was behind last year in the rotation. He redshirted it's a whole national championship run and

towards the latter part of this season. He's just, he's proven that he can help them and he moved up that rotation. And you saw what he did against Oklahoma State to 20 points of 6.3. Last night it was really about his job defensively when he came in on the bancer and then when they needed that three for some separation there in the last three minutes, he hits another huge three and then Clemmings followed it up. So it's just a matter. He's grown into the role, and this is kind of what they expected from the guy when they sign him. It's just now he's getting a chance to show it. Startline for me about yesterday and why they fell behind, you had multiple players in foul trouble early on,

and then Emmanuel Sharp just could not get the jump shot going. Does this team go as far as Sharp goes? Because, look, we know Kingston's going to do his thing. We know Uzon's going to be up and down. We know that Jojo's going to grab rebounds if he stays out of foul trouble. but is Sharp the factor in this whole thing when it's all sent down or are am I missing another element here? No, no, I think Sharp is 1A and I throw Milo's in there as 1B. You've got to have both of those.

Those are your veteran guards. You get to the tournament. Those are the guys you lean on. You belong the ones that have been in there because you look at the rest of the roster. And as talent as Kingston has been and as Chris Anak has been, they have not been in this tournament. So I think those are two guys And people You know

Seater of Thalcon as much But Joe Thurruggler sprung together Four really nice games Offensively and he stayed on the court And when he's on the court This is a completely different team And it helps make those other guys job a little more manageable

And that's what you need So I think Tuggler As much as sharp is As the key out there and can get hot I think Tuggler is just as big of a X-factor you know come March here in the tournament. Joseph Dwarty, joining us from a barbecue stand in Kansas City here on the Matt Thomas show

with Ross. Joe Lanardi continues to put the Cougars as the two seed in the South region. A, do you agree with that? And B, is there going to be any hesitation from other teams around the country or barking about the Cougars potentially having a two being a two seed and maybe playing in Toyota Center? This episode is brought to you by Spreeker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain.

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going to talk to yourself for an hour, you might as well publish it. Well, you can bark as much as a member of the Hurley family could, and it's not going to make a difference. Whatever the selection committee decides, that's the decision. And after talking with people here in Kansas City, convinced now than ever that Houston will play in the South region. I think that the number two series is a lot for them, regardless, whatever reason, but I think they go to the South. I think Florida ends up being the number one, and that could get interesting because if you're playing an elite eight game in Houston

and a rematch of the Final Four, those opportunities are rare. And if I'm a one-seat and I'm playing Houston, and they're the two-seat in their own regional, their own hometown, that's as good as the number one. That's gold. And, yeah, there's probably going to be some people and teams and schools that complain. But at that point, there's not much about it that you can do. And, you know, you have an Indianapolis situation with Purdue last year. It happens.

But this is about as close to campus as perhaps anybody will ever play in the NCAA tournament if that happens. So we've got the Cougars in your mind locked as number two. Is there anything that can be accomplished by winning the Big 12 except just getting another trophy? No, I mean, yeah, I think the one is still in play, but a lot of things have to happen. And, you know, you look at Florida, you look at Utah, those to me are the two teams that you have to leap from. Because I see Houston's probably in that six, five, six, seven range and overall seating. So I think the main thing is you stay healthy. If you lose tonight, you go home, no damage done.

You're still a two. But for Kelvin, they want to win the Bachelo tournament. They want that momentum. They want things to carry over. So there's some value to that, but I don't think there's going to be much of a chance seating-wise to move up. You're probably about where the ceiling is right now, unless some other things shake out nationally. All right. I had a great friend of mine and I were texting about the Cougars yesterday about how ultimately this far this team will.

go and we mentioned 1A and 1B. Last year it felt like the team's defense could overcome a offensive stretch or five or six minutes. I don't think that's the case this year, but it doesn't necessarily mean the Cougars still can't make their run. So tell me, give me

an element that you can see beyond the fact that Fleming's is going to be the best player on the floor for either team when they're playing. That ultimately says, yeah, the Cougars can get back to Indianapolis and play for a final four. You know, yeah, I mean, they lean on the defense. And just for instance, you look at the second half yesterday, you know, the BANSA and Rob Wright, they go off in the first half for nearly all of BYU's points.

And then the two of them, I think, are maybe three or six games. So, Justin, that's what Houston does. You know, they're either going to grind you or they're going to have a situation where they make adjustments and it buys them time where, you know, I don't, the draw is going to be such a huge part of this map where, you know, there's some upsets and stuff that go along the way. I mean, it's just who you play and how it matches up, you know, some teams may match up better based on length or their style. But Houston, as you've seen during this run that they've had over the last eight years or so,

they adjust and they adapt really well. So I think, I think the defense is going to travel that is going to always be there. It may not be up to par like it has been. been statistically in the past, but if someone put it, it's pretty good. And on most nights, they're good is enough to beat most teams. All right. We're talking to you from Oklahoma City next week, correct? That's a foregone conclusion, when you assume?

Yeah, that's pretty much a done deal. They'll open, I believe, Thursday, Saturday, regional, and they'll, you're quite familiar with that arena. That's where the Thunder plays, and that's where they'll go for the first two rounds. All right, well, I owe you a large meal when this is all sudden done, friend. Enjoy your lunch, get us a dessert, and we'll talk with you next week.

Thank you for the time. Yeah, we're going to go with the ribs and sausage, so I'll let you know how it goes. What about no brisket for you, friend? Yeah, I got a buddy here with me. I might see if he used to brisket, I'd just kind of take a few pieces off his plate. Yeah, sharing a platter.

That's what I like to hear. Joseph, thank you, safe travels back. We'll talk to you next week. All right, that's Joseph Torte from the Houston Chronicle. ribs, chicken, the sides are good. God, I'm, Rossi, I'm hungry. Can we get some barbecue after the show? I don't want to wait, though.

I got a game tonight. Good things come to those who wait. Well, we go to Ricky's bar. You don't even have to wait. You don't even have to wait. We go at 2 o'clock. We haven't had to wait. All right.

You're such a whiner. But it is good. We have our barbecue club. I just ordered lunch. Did you? Okay, well, we'll do it next week. 1235. E. Mae Doke is going to join us in 25 minutes.

It is the Matt Thomas Show with Raw. This is Sports Talk 790. She's been telling me on gasoline. And this goes to the song. You don't know this song? Is this jelly bean or something? He knows this song. You gotta know this song.

Oh, this is Shabuzi. Okay, thank goodness. I was about to pass out, Jonathan. This was like been. the biggest hit of the last two years. It's your boozy playing tonight at the rodeo, man. Are you going? I got a rocket's game.

Oh. Never mind. Can I ask a serious question? Yes. I want to know what Uber rates are going for these days because people are going, now granted, it depends on where you live, but I'm assuming that if you're Ubering from the rodeo, you don't live in Bel Air. You are Cyprus, you are Jersey. Village, Kingwood, Clear Lake.

I will say I wasn't at the rodeo, but during cookoff, I made the mistake of going out and Ubering. Even though I wasn't going to the rodeo, rates were up all across the city. And on the way in, a normal ride that would have been 30 was about 50. And on the way out, a normal ride that would have been 30 was about 60. So what, can you go, you know the rodeo right now, right? So I just, I tip less. Is that wrong?

because the percentage of the ride's going to the going to the driver correct so driver's making his money all right so we are at just let you know we're at 1233 west loop south okay let's see by the way e-may is going to join us at one o'clock we're going back to sports i swear to god let's put let's put in an energy stadium right now and it would cost you it's not bad it's only

$19 in a standard that's on that's on lift it's like we could that's that's manageable on the way out I've previously seen like $100 rides I've waited it out there was some like really low down bar near there that I walked to

I can't remember what it was called You have one? Yeah I mean I wasn't driving That's right That's true I had one in a jello shot That's actually two then

One and a half All right It's a jello shot So are we ready for the madness You ready for the I guess Cougars locked in As a number two C

Let me ask you this. If you were, now, I know Kelvin wants to win, but can I be brutally honest with you? Yes. Oh, you want them to lose. Tell me. It's nice to have a Big 12 championship trophy. How nice?

One less game? One less 35 minute game? One less chance to get hurt? I bet you he's got a bonus in his contract for it. Oh, I didn't think of that. Just saying. It makes a lot of money. Yeah, more money's better than a lot of money. It'd be like a donation to the University of

Houston. Well, they're broke, according to him. So they could use it. He had to backtrug on that a little bit. A little bit. You don't want to say these heavy, all these heavy donors like Matt Thomas were like, hey, come on now. I'm doing what I can't. Well, that's the thing is that you can't go financing because if you give money and then you find out that you're not giving enough that that makes it come across is that you're not being very appreciative. I think Calvin, I think Calvin is certainly very appreciative. Calvin, look, Calvin's done quite well for himself. He's turned our program into a power program, period, into story. And he deserves all the flowers for it.

Yes, he has. Thank God. We got Willie, I mean, I am as happy as I have been with my athletic department in a long time. Yes. But I'm still nervous about the future. I will always be nervous about the University of Houston and his standings in the big picture of things. It's a good formula if you can find it if you want to have long-term stability. If you're U of H.

because I think Willie Fritz is the right man for the job. He and he's not a young up and comer. So no, young up and comers get hired away at U of H. We've seen that. Yeah. I mean, both of our coaches are 60 plus. That's smart. Now you've got to stock up on the insurer in the athletic offices,

but other than that, it's fine. Hit the I'm sorry song, Jonathan. What? You just told... I'm just trying to keep them healthy. You just told two people, two of the most successful in their business. They make millions more dollars than I ever will.

To get them additional vitamins. Yeah, I'm trying to help them out. What is the problem? Why am I sorry about that? Why did you bring that up? Why are you talking about their nutritional supplements? I'm trying to help them. It's good.

You got to take care of your body. I guarantee you Calvin Samson's never had an insurer. You can guarantee me that? Absolutely. Okay. I don't know is eating and drink your habits. Fine, I'm sorry. I'm sorry your coaches are old.

Okay. you know what, that was a bad apology. Hit the music again. It feels like this is Friday show. This is just you in a nutshell right here. All right. I'm sorry that I made an insured. Do you say that about Rick Petino at St. John's?

Sure. He's still doing the corpse of Rick Petino is still coaching out there. That white suit is still in play too, by the way. Really? Yeah. John Calapar in Arkansas. He looks like all the blood has left its body. He looks like a vampire.

Yeah. Oh, sorry. He does in a transfusion for sure. Yeah. He looks pale. He's paler than that white suit. I'm worried about him. And yeah, he needs some insure.

He needs to get his vitamins. You got Tom Izzo still at Michigan State. He's got to fight off osteoporosis. See, that's what I did. I pushed it away from University of Houston coaches and pushed to other elderly coaches. See, yeah. I would have said the same thing about all of them. Thank you.

You're trying to save me on Kug's fans. Trying to save you from... People are vicious. Yeah. They don't like me either, so that's fine. But guess what, bitches? I'll be in Indianapolis and you won't. you'll be on your keyboard

that's pretty funny good good job man everybody's asking are you used I don't actually here's the reality I have the flight is booked I don't have a hotel but I think I'm just gonna I'm just gonna do something that I didn't college yeah I'm just gonna get there

and just get a hotel when I get there because I'm assuming that if oh yeah you're right because they'll get cancellations you're gone yeah have cancellations that's smart yeah you're smart yeah it's kind of fun that way too too, right? Yeah. Well, I always book hotels last minute. That's when you get the best deals anyways.

Very fast door before I go to break. I was doing the Rockets PA. This is the 90s. We had a game in Austin. Yes. Against 76ers. I believe it was, who was the Sixers? Who was the Texas Guard? Is it T.J. Ford? That was a Sixter draft pick. Am I right about that? He went to the, um, this is the Milwaukee Bucks, I thought. We played Philadelphia. Why do we play Philadelphia on Austin? I don't remember. The point being is this. So I flew back from Austin Got to Hobby And my buddy's Ed

You know Ed Yes It's like hey let's go watch the Chargers in New Orleans The next day So I'm like screw it I'm just gonna I've got my bag I'm at the airport now

I just fly to New Orleans Okay So I flew to New Orleans Without a hotel The guys were with other buddies I was like it was like I'm not gonna do that I'm just gonna get my own place

I went up getting a hotel in Metri Okay Maybe you saw Chris Gaw A young Chris Gordy. A young Chris Gordy. He'd have been in 11 or 12. Maybe. No, he'd have been probably a 7 or 8. And I went to Ricky Jackson had a bar in a restaurant in a hotel that I was at. Okay.

And I got to my room, went to sleep, and was woken at about 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning by gunshots at the hotel. Yeah, welcome to Metri. So, just saying, you could just go to a city without a hotel. They realize there could be bullet wound somewhere. Yeah, there's a Louisiana hello. That's what it's called. There's Irish goodbyes in Louisiana? Hello. Yes. Gunshots.

It was called, I think it was called Ricky Jackson's Nice and Easy. Oh, really? That was the hotel was called? No, the bar was called. Oh, I was going to say. Ricky Jackson, one of the great linebackers of the same. Okay. All right. 1246. I don't know why I brought that up, but it's just... Thank you. It's storytelling. The best thing is sometimes spontaneous trips are the best. Yes. That's true.

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I think we have. But it's going to piss us off. No, people got pissed off at me. Why? When I put that video on Instagram, with the Oilers logo with the line drawn through it, people were very pissed with me. You're an agitator.

I'm not an agitator. Follow you on Instagram at Sports RV. Yeah, you could. I would appreciate it. Thank you. And SportsMT. Yeah, you can do that. if I got any new ones today.

But, I mean, the time is proving me right, as it normally does, Matt. Oh, I got a new voice. Yeah, I got one new follower, Sean William Parker. I think a finger muscle slip. Doesn't live here, but that's fine.

That's okay. It's fine. All right, 713, 212-790. I mean, Tennessee, I got news for you. Amy Kronkstrunk and her dad made a boatload of money up there. They got in this video.

They got Cam Ward with the number one Warren Moon, too. Oh, this is... Can I tell you? This is dirty business. The worst part is that the old owners love when the Tennessee Titans love on them. Absolutely, because they don't have a home.

The Texans don't do anything with them. Yeah. And they shouldn't. Not the franchise. Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm on the fence on that. Is Warren Moon come around for the Texans? It doesn't really make sense.

But they've had him at stuff before, right? Years past? I don't remember anything. No, nothing? Okay. Yeah, I don't remember that. at all. So they got the uniforms. They're going with the blue.

It makes sense. They'll sell a boatload of gear. New stadium. They're probably giving a Super Bowl, too. You know who's... This is all making, you know, who, very upset, too. Who?

Hannah. Yeah. Yeah, she's not happy. She's got beef with Amy. Oh, let me tell you something. Hannah would kick Amy's ass. Well, yeah. Amy's like 70 or something, right?

She's definitely older, for sure. Okay. And I think, I think, oh, how did I nail that? Oh, yeah, she's 70. What made you put your hand over your mouth? Nothing. Okay. Physically fit or no?

Nothing. She's doing great. I don't know, I don't know what her V-O-2 max is, Matt. All right? Does she do yoga? I don't know. I don't care if Amy Adamshrunk does yoga. Hannah does yoga.

She does Pilates. Hannah does it the Pilates. And is with her sisters doing the yoga. Okay. Thinking about Torotown. Yeah, Torotan. And the Toro Dome. Torotown's doing nice.

They're not getting a stadium, though. I think it's 50-50. They still owe a Billy to Harris County. How? The Texans owe the... That's what I read. I need you to do a deep dive on it. We've got to really find out who owes who...

You're the one who always wanted to tell you a stadium talk. You do the deep dive. Yeah, but you keep sending that million dollars. You keep bringing it up. It's just a precursor. Okay. Take me to Torotown. Take me to the Dorotome.

Okay. We'll see. It'll be good for them. Who cares? You know, the audio's like, get out. Go. Are they? Yeah, they don't look to Texas.

They can't operate the stadium year round. Why not? 15 dates of 80,000 people in it or 70,000 people in it? I guess you'd get other concerts. Yeah. I mean, I saw Kendrick Lamar there. They'll bit steal from them. I saw the weekend there.

Yeah. Who else? The Osmans? The Osmans weren't there. Taylor Swift did a couple nights there, right? Oh, yeah. Beyonce did a couple nights there? Yeah.

The rodeo will fix it up. What you currently see is NRG will be improved. I have a stupid question. Please. Why can't we get floor seats at the rodeo? Just because they have rodeo stuff all year and it takes too much to get the dirt out and in? Yeah, Lena Doggo's asking the same exact question. You can't lay down some foam and put some seats down and then take it out for the horses?

The horse manure? It's going to work. Okay. was they're doing great where it was gonna be just fine they're selling a lot of tickets people love rascal flats and we had a guy

college yesterday because he thought it was a dude named rascal flats but no it's a that's the band and creed too correct yeah creed is there two nights gordony was there he said he loved it

you have to if you go to a creed concert with your wife and you don't say you love it she's gonna be mad at you he had to say he loved no he loves creed he does yeah grown men like creed millions thousands

millions or thousands yeah and then you gotta talk like they're Girls. We got E. Meade Doca. Yeah, do that. Coming up to Talk Rockets Basketball. We got Emead doca. And I've run out of things to say.

Okay, sorry. Emeadoka next. No creed. You're on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're number four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on a sports talk 790. We have the Rockets Insider reaching out to coaching. Meadoka scheduled to join us

any moment now. Hopefully. They are taking on... They're taking on the New Orleans Pelicans tonight at 7 o'clock. Could be napping. We got a busy sport. We got the rodeo tonight. Maybe he was out at Chris Stapleton, or I'm sorry, maybe he was out at, was it Chris Tableton last night?

Yeah, maybe he was out late and then he's just taking it up. You know what? After getting the loss of Denver, I would take a nap too. You got to sleep that one off. Well, especially what happened in San Antonio. Now it was a nice win on Tuesday. This episode is brought to you by Spreeker, the platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

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Against the Toronto Raptors. Yes. And are you still in the three spot right now? No, you're back at the four. The Lakers went from six. six to three in the last 48 hours. They won four in a row. Luca had 50 points last night.

That guy's pretty good. Everybody's saying, yeah, I want the Lakers. I want the Lakers first. And I'm like, do we want Luca Donchitz in the first round? I don't know. I don't think you want anybody in the first round. Yeah, I mean, these are all juggernauts. Yeah.

And we'll see what happens. Lakers 4, 41 and 25. They have won seven of their last eight. The only loss coming at the hands of the Denver Nuggets who have been playing well as well. That's what feels somewhat concerning is it feels like other teams are hitting their stride. Now, the Timberwolves are free falling. They've lost a lot of games in a row.

The Rockets are in a little bit of a swoon, but an opportunity for some victories coming up with this five-game homestand. Five coming up, you've got tonight, New Orleans, two with the Lakers, Monday and Wednesday, both late starts. You've got to get you a nap in between the games. Then they have, I believe, Milwaukee, Miami on a back-to-back. correct on that. Bam out of bio coming to town next week. As a matter of fact that... Uh-oh.

Yeah, the game on the 20th is a Friday night game against Atlanta, Saturday at home from Miami. We get Miami in a back-to-back. But it's at home. You have to go anywhere. Go home, get your rest. Get in the... That's like practice, yeah. Get your cold plunge going.

Yeah, how about this? Back-to-backs must be at home and... What about... Or travel within one hour flight time. I don't think that's going to happen. Yeah, like you're right. We've had some bizarre ones over there. We've had back-to-backs in Minnesota.

We've had back-to-backs in Miami. We've had back-to-back. The Denver one just kicks your ass. How do you feel about the back-to-backs in one city versus the same team? Indifference, Lakers. If it saves an airplane flight, I'm all for it. Didn't they do? Was it Kings-Kings they did earlier?

Kings-Kings. We've done a Portland, Portland already this year. That was a day off in between. That's only one flight, yeah. It makes sense. It was started because of COVID, of course. Yeah. Fewer travel.

It's just, you know what? The NBA road travel is just so intense because you can't put your clothes down and put them in the closet, you've got to just keep them in the bag the whole time. It's tough. You don't even unzip your bag? Sometimes?

I'll end up it. Okay. The bag. The bag. The bag. The suitcase. Of course. Okay.

713-212. 5.7. And I see what we talk about when E. Medoca doesn't join us on schedule? Well, we can talk some Rockas basketball. Or would you like talking about it? What kind of did?

We have Astros baseball time. Let's see. They're leading. score in the last game was a men thompson was 16 points yeah i'm looking at the box score uh the rockets maybe we shouldn't i'll just mention it without commentary they were four of 33 from three and five of 14 for the line four of 33 has got to be the seat look if we're looking for silver linings i like silver lining especially from you against the spurs they shot 29% from three and the spurs were like 52 and a half percent that's not going to happen every single game against the nuggets they were

12% from 3 and the Nuggets were 53%. That's not going to happen most games. Now the counter argument is you lost by 25 and you lost by 30, what, 6. So even shoring up for that, you

probably lose those games. So you can play better, get a little more three luck, knock down your threes because it was a lot of open shots for them against the Denver Nuggets and it's going to be okay. They had a three point shooting swoon win. It was like December, I think. When they really went back and they bounced back to an extent.

There's still top seven. Every season is up and down to an extent. Now, they have to close strong, though. They're 65. We're 65 games in the books. Problem is, we're just seeing this past week. The Lakers went a couple of games in a row, and they skyrocket from six to three. Rockets have lost two out of three.

Unfortunately, two of those losses have been bad have dropped from three to four to five. I mean, it's constantly moving. And I guess part of it is, do you really care at this point? I brought this up to you last week. Do you... Are you and I standings obsessed and maybe the front office

coaching staff isn't nearly a steady. I don't think they're nearly as, but I think you have your preferences. You'd rather them avoid the thunder. You would rather play the spurs. And look, it's a pick your poison situation. The spurs... The spurs are the second best team in basketball,

to me. The pistons have an argument, so they're either two or three. Either way, they're a tier above where you are right now. So you're going to be punching up in the second round. That's just a fact. You're going to be, you will look at any series price.

They have home court advantage. The Rockets are going to be underdogs in the series. That is legit. That is true. But this Rockets team also is built for playoff basketball. They're very physical and they play a slower pace of basketball. So if we can convince ourselves that, hey, just get in as the three seed. And then things are going to turn our way because we're already built for playoff basketball.

We have a closer finally and Kevin Durant. That's what this team was built for. this team wasn't necessarily built for the long 82 game season. It was, Kevin Durant is here to win in the playoffs. He's here to win in April, in May, and hopefully into June, rather than in March of what's happening right now. This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives,

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It's just, it's super competitive. First round's going to be tough. Second round is going to be tougher. West finals are going to be, I mean, like final boss. And even with Oklahoma State with all their injury issues, Jaylon Williams hardly played this year. Isaiah Hartonson's missed a bunch of games. Shake goes to Alexander just wakes up scoring 25 points a game.

He just passed Wilts record. Chad Holmgren's going to finish top five in the defensive player of the year voting. Now I'm going to go I'm going to pull Adam Clanton

take for you. Uh-oh. I can live with Oklahoma City bragging because that's who they are. Denver doesn't bother me because Denver fan doesn't really care about the nuggets. They just don't.

Laker fan is in and out quickly. Are we going to have to mentally prepare ourselves to hear from Spur fan for the next five years? Ten. Coming to our arena. all your buddies at the office

wearing gear like Missy the Ultimate Spurs fans smile and asking how I'm doing she doesn't really care how I'm doing but she's asking about it because the Spurs are 30 games above 500 No let's see Wimby's how old

He probably won't really start breaking down Until he's like 28 29 age 22 Is there a fan bait Like Ranger fan We knew they would go away quickly They were done Right

This is bad I'm bad Among the Texas teams That we compete week of the city of Houston. Cowboy fan, you have nothing to brag about anything of the last 30 years. So shut your bum ass up. Spur fan had that run of decades, then a few years of off time. And they're going to probably win 56, 57 games this year.

Well, Chris Saps broke down in his third year's career. Is that what you're going with? You're just looking up tall guys and seeing how long they lasted. Let me get old Ralph Samson But are we being hypocritical Because of the fact that we were praying for Victor Of course we were I still would

Okay Ralph Samson started breaking down around 26 Like let me tell you something Dallas Maverick fan They just suck this year Yeah But Cooper Flagg I mean if they ever get If they ever figure out their front office

They could be a good basketball team Cooper Flag is a real deal he doesn't enough around him but also i mean the spurs are are treating wimby with kid gloves they they're they're taking every caution for cost of possible it's not just wemby that's the problem it's if he was a one-man gang you'd say all right kick him out let's have

yeah started breaking around down around 25 26 okay so in two years so let me tell you rocket fans listen to me this is bad we're gonna bear this out for two more years and it once whenby turns 25 you know what i need the sorry music again hit it I'm sorry. This is bad. I want the rockets to win.

I want them to be better to spurs. And to try to tear him down and just root for his injuries. I'll do it. No, I'm sorry. Matt, you can do that. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be sitting here predicting when Wimby's going to break down just because my rockets aren't good enough right now. I'm sorry.

It's rude. You know what's crazy? Is this segment supposed to be 30 minutes a week? But you've done so much damage that we almost need like two full hours of. of this. You know, I got to clean out the closet, Maddie. Let's go. I'm sorry.

That was negative energy. I wasn't out and out wishing injuries, but I was pulling up tall guys and seeing when they broke down. And that's rude. It's not fair to the Wimb and Yama family. I hope Wembe does not have long, I hope Wembe does not have long-term arthritis. Or deep vein thrombosis. But if you want to miss 60 games a year, I'm okay with that as well.

The bottom line is, we don't know what's going to, happen in the future. He's on the floor and he's playing for them and they're better than the rockets. At this moment. At this moment. They'll get physical. This is what will happen, Matt. We can be positive. He'll get to the second round of the playoffs. They don't call fouls as much.

The Rockets are going to beat. They're going to beat up on him physically. Lower, slower tempo. Like he did in the first matchup when they were just pushing him around and he just looked like he couldn't handle it and the physicality. So he's going to get more physicality against the rockets. He's not going to get the foul calls and they're going to rattle him.

and they're going to win the series. Love it. Positivity right here. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. None of this San Antonio envy. None of this shame. They're going to peter out in the playoffs because Wembe's going to get hurt.

Wembe's going to go one for nine from three, even though he had eight three-pointers in the last time he played a game. It's fine. It's going to be fine. It's going to be great. 713-21-5-7-90. or E-May in the next 15 minutes.

You never know. 7-13-21-21-2-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90. It's an anything goes Friday. This is Sports Talk 790. All right, we're still chasing down E-May. We get him, we get him.

Not. You'll hear him tonight with me on the Rockets pregame show. Lovely. Send my regards. Real quick, we'll get a couple of one Astros note. Just a lineup for today's game against the Cardinals. Okay. We'll get a little David Montgomery because he spoke today to the media.

David Montgomery. Zach Cole's going to lead off and play a DH today for the local nine. Love it. Jose Altova at second. Okay. Isak Paredes at third base. Naturally. Christian Walker at first.

Okay. Joe Loporffito in right. Cam Smith in center. Taylor Tremel in left. Zach Allen short. Nick Allen. I like Zach better. Nick Allen is the shortstop.

Says Oz Alazar batting knife and catching. That's all major leaguers, right? Well, Trimel's. We'll see. Tramel, Operfito on the cusp, Cole on the cusp. But as far as, like, perspective, though, it's not a lot of Riley, unrose and whatnot.

No disrespect to the Unroo family. None. It makes me sad because we've got two days of no Riley Unroll in the lineup. I know. I'm Texas people here. I'm sorry. It's okay. All right.

So David Montgomery spoke. Yes, he did. David Montgomery spoke. He had a Zoom call. Yes, it was a Zoom call and a media availability. He talked about a none. of different things. But first up,

let's hear David Montgomery talking about why the Texans are a good fit for him. And I practice against Houston a couple of times and they've always been like the hardest team

to practice against. And you can kind of tell like the morale and kind of mentality that both sides of the ball and that Coach Ryan brings to the table to you also get to look at yourself

like, dang, if I ever had an opportunity, I would love to play for a guy like that. And look, I'm here and now I'm going to play under a guy like that and I want to kind of come in and show these guys that, you know, I can kind of hang with the big dog. Let me ask you this. And I believe he's being genuine,

but you said that with any new team you go to. If he would have been traded to, say, the Arizona Cardinals, he would have been like, I can't wait to play for this new coaching staff, can't wait for this new quarterback. It's the diplomatic thing to do. True, but it could be true here, though. But as he said, he practiced against him.

He sees a swarm mentality. I think D'Amico Rines does have a culture here that he's fostered in Houston, that every team wants to, be tough and physical and all that type of stuff but the swarm mentality, what we've seen from this defense, I absolutely think that this is a culture that can be admired by other teams and other

players. Now you and I don't have the answer this, but I'm just throw it out there. Could there be two different cultures? What do you mean? The defensive side of the room is this intense will knock you down. I don't have the answer to that like you said but I think the results bear that out. Why was Jeremy Tunzel let go then?

If the offensive culture wasn't important to Domeco Ryans. It's about a team culture. But he was trying to get rid of poison. But just because you get rid of something doesn't make things automatically better, I guess it doesn't in some sense. Performance-wise, it wasn't any better. Offensive line was not any better than a year ago than it was two years ago when Larry was here. Right. And Laramie Tunsell isn't gone because of his performance.

No. He wanted more money and they felt like it wasn't a culture fit. It all added up. If Laramie Tunsell were a great culture fit and one of the best tackles in football, he'd still be in Houston. Yeah. But he didn't fit the culture. And Domeico Rines didn't like it. So, yeah, it makes sense.

That makes sense. But he's because, Dave Montgomery just said all the right things. He just did. And the reality is, I hope that he does what he does in Detroit. And again, I don't expect him to be a 25 carry guy. Those days are long gone. No. He's going to be the RB1, though.

Because I think you can't pay everybody. It'll be a reasonable amount of money. 20 touches for him and 10 for Woody marks. Something like that. That's true. I think we're going to see a 30... I think two thirds. That's what Domingo wants.

Domingo is just conservative by nature. And when I say touches, I mean carries and catches. Yeah. All right, as promise, I'll say how to our friend Emaidoka, the Rockets coach tonight. Tonight will take on the New Orleans Pelicans here for a few minutes here on the show. Ema, it's Matt Ross. Thanks for spending some time with us. Do you just flush the game film out?

Do you get rid of the stat sheet as fast as possible after looking at that game against Denver a couple nights ago? how do you take away from that contest against the Nuggets? No, you look at the third quarter and see what happened for us to go down by that large of a deficit. After, you know, 53 to 47 first half where we missed a lot of wide open shots, made some mistakes and turnovers and, you know, still holding the 53 and would be within striking range. Obviously, with the late 3 by Brown to put them up to put them up six, what happened in the third quarter, and that's what we really focused on today. Is it, and it's tough because you run.

through superstars every time you played. You say, all right, we held Yokic's 16 points. We should be in a much more competitive situation. Does the aggravation come in to say, well, if a team's got two stars, you've got to do the best you can to stop him, and you were able to stop Yokic. Murray, unfortunately, had a big game offensively. Well, yeah, I mean, that's a tandem that you always have to worry about with them. But, you know, he got a lot late as well. And the game was kind of out of hand. So we did a decent job overall, but you can't let, you know, Cameron Johnson have 17 and Brown have 19 and hard way 14 off the bench as well as Valanchunis with 12. So just too much scoring overall.

You've got to kind of pick your poison, how you're going to go after the old kids, which is to go after him and let him facilitate for everybody else or, you know, guard him 101 and he'll be more of a scoring mentality. And so too much of both. He scored and got his triple double, but the other guy scored at a too high over range for sure. Any logical thinking basketball fan knows the stats from the three-point range were a one-off, free throws, especially the three-point numbers. what do you take it as a coach to go, well, it's hard to make only four of 33.

Was there a hesitation? Was there just trying to get shots up just because the deficit was starting to grow in the second half a little bit? No, I mean, the first half, we didn't make it that many either. So it wasn't like we started launching because of the deficit. You know, they went 17 for 32. We go 4 for 34. They go 16 for 22 from the free throw line. We go 5 for 14.

And so unless you're perfect on defense, those numbers are going to be hard to overcome. them. But it was the carbon copy of what they did, which is go after Kevin, you know, guard Alpi one-on-one with Yokic go after them with other guys. And if we watched the pregame film, what we showed was getting rid of the ball, taking care of it, and getting wide-open shots. And that's the last game where we had the blowout at their place. We made those same exact looks. And so sometimes it's as simple as making them. But there are other things you can control. Obviously, the turnovers are too high, them getting out in transition. And then, you know, defending personnel and losing some of their shooters.

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the good win, of course, against the Raptors, but the bad losses in San Antonio and Denver. Yeah, I mean, our group, you know, we can see that the frustration creep in. I think we all have a higher expectation than the way we're playing right now. We're still, everything's still in front of us and we kind of control our own destiny

as far as how we want to finish the season and the standings and all those things. But definitely frustration in those games specifically, especially when you you know have a close game where you don't play that well honestly and then we kind of lose hold of the rope in the second half and so yeah we're always disappointed when we play whether it's a bad quarter or a bad half and you know to get our heads down only down five or seven you know in the third quarter it's not a great sign but what our group does a good job of doing is bouncing

back and the night after san Antonio obviously we played a good Toronto team and that plays physical with energy and our energy was totally different and so same thing as the start of the denver game you know, we were, we had the right intentions, didn't make the shots, but I think we were very competitive there. So we can put games behind us pretty quickly and bounce back to the next, and we're going to do the same thing tonight. Rockets head coach, Emae, Adoka, with us here on a sports talk 790, a bit of a swoon shooting the three, four, Reed Shepard.

Have you been happy with his looks? Yeah, I mean, he's going to, you know, you're not always going to make shots, but the quality of the look is the thing that counts. And we know he's going to knock down a high percentage when he gets those looks. And so that was that. you know, Atari's had a little tough shooting stretch. Jabari had one early in the season.

Alpi's gone through his things. And so making shots is an art for sure. And then the more consistent you can be, the better will be. But guys are going to have many slumps here and there. And you've got to impact the game other ways. You know, still play defense, still move the ball and do the things to get yourself going, which is, you know, in the case of some of our bigger wings, crash the glass, get on transition, turn defense to offense.

And you see a guy like Jabari bounced back because of those things. You have two players. playing the most minutes in his life, probably in this one season. Tari has been on a long stretch of being able to count on for him. As a matter of fact, he's played 15 straight games. What is the advice to each one of those two guys individually, the rest

the way, knowing that, hey, we need you. Our depth is not as good as it is. You've got to come through force here. I know you're going through a lot of minutes. Most of you've played in a while, but man, every single night, it feels like there's a flip in the standings card depending on one individual matchup. Yeah, the first thing

is everybody's going through that at this time. It goes quickly after all-star break. And right before all-star break, you know, the dog days of the season, you have to push through. And so for young guys, you know, Reed not playing a lot of minutes last year. It's the first time for him. But, you know, be aggressive, be confident, but also pay attention to detail and all the little things that you can do to impact the game. And so with Tari, you know, his health is much better. He's playing in the back-to-backs, like you said.

And although you're having your ups and down shooting, we know Tari isn't relying on that only to affect the game. for them it's just continue to take advantage of your matchups. Like I always say, I'm in. Alper and Kevin are going to draw the main defenders per night, and we want the other guys to dominate the matchups, and for the most part, they do that. All right, New Orleans in the night, that 25 point loss still kind of unsettling

the way they got to us in New Orleans earlier this year. Does that game was so long ago, does that have thought about much, or do you go, you know what? We have so many games coming up, and so many games we've just played that we don't think about a game, a rando game earlier in the season. I mean, it's a very different team now, what they're doing and who they're playing.

But, you know, we look back on a lot of those games. There's missed opportunities for us, obviously, having that big lead and losing it over time against them. And so for us, it's continued to play the right way heading down the stretch regardless of the opponent. And they're playing really good basketball right now. They're 7 and 3 in their last 10. They've got Fears and Queen coming off the bench now,

so they're playing more veteran lineups out there with Dejante Murray coming back. And Williamson, outside of missing one game, has played, you know, the most games in a row of this career. And so he's playing at a high level at the five now. And so still a talent, still talented guys out there, and we have to come ready to play. Thank you for the visit. We'll see you later tonight.

We appreciate it. Thank you. You got an M.A. Doca with us here on the program. Come back and we'll get to our non-Florida stories. Also, Vincent Midtown wants to talk about the big 12th tournament. If you want to get in, you may do so. 7-13-212-790. 7-1-3-2-5-7-90.

It is Matt and Ross with you here till the top of the hour. What is today's edition of Hellier or not, by the way? Canadian baseball players. Hmm. That's a good topic. USA versus Canada tonight. I don't remember if everybody I have is on the roster. It will be either Canadian-born or Canadian baseball player. And a question about the player. Nice.

All right. Up next now, Florida plus phone call, 713-212-5-790. We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for none. I was just telling Jonathan this this week. We need some juicier news. I comb these streets, Rossi. Everything in Florida is just what we thought would be.

Outside of the Florida, lean. So here I go. Uh-oh. Okay. Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is a, a school in downtown Pittsburgh. The head priest and the dean of said school

is facing charges, Ross. After being accused of stealing more than $1,000 in baseball cards, the very Reverend Aden Smith was arrested on February the 27th by police after leaving the Walmart in Economy Borough, which is just outside of Pittsburgh, with

27 packs of baseball cards concealed under his clothing and in a cardboard box. He was charged with receiving stolen property and retail theft. He's 42 years of age. Now, I know the priesthood has got its issues. Yes.

Storyed. And frankly, this is minor as compared to other problems of the last 25 or 35 years. But first of all, I understand baseball cars are still a thing, but by 42-year-olds, I think he's stealing him trying to find some good fines.

and then selling and then flipping them. The priest has enough time to do that after being a dean of a school. He's got a lot of free time. That's one whopper of a confession. What is, yeah, what does J.C. say about that? Five hellmeries and get those cards back? Yeah. And don't get you a frozen Coke at the, the, you ask for forgiveness.

You're good. It's all good, baby. All right. So there you go. That's my non-floor story. Sorry, couldn't give you more. That's okay, Matt. Well, let me tell you, Matthew, about,

a woman living in Tennessee Angela Lips 50 years old LIPPS LIPPS is correct Thank you Well she was jailed for six months in Fargo

North Dakota After police identified her as a suspect in an organized bank fraud case and arrested her and jailed her There's only one problem Angela Lips has never been to

North Dakota The North Dakota police, the Fargo police, used an artificial intelligence, facial recognition software to identify her. And well, as I said, she's been jailed for six months. Now she is trying to rebuild her life in the case of mistaken identity. She has left most of her life in Tennessee. She had never been on an airplane until authorities flew her to New York. North Dakota last year to face charges. U.S. Marshals.

Coach of first class. Probably coach. U.S. Marshals arrested her at her Tennessee home while she was... This episode is brought to you by Spreaker. The platform responsible for a rapidly spreading condition known as podcast brain. Symptoms include buying microphones you don't need, explaining RSS feeds to confused relatives, and saying things like, sorry, I can't talk right now.

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babysitting four children, flew her to North Dakota, and she was taken away at gunpoint, booked into county jail as a fugitive from justice in North Dakota where she has never been. I'm sorry? No, this is millions of dollars lawsuit. Get them. This is not the first time this has happened with facial recognition. In October, an AI system mistook a Baltimore high school student's bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police as well. I think we did that story on this.

Yep. I think we did. Yep. So our apologies to Angela Lips never been on a plane flown on a plane to be arrested and jailed for six months in North Dakota. Thank you for that. And on Florida story. Sorry for Mrs. Lips.

Jonathan, what do you got? All right, mine's coming from North Carolina. On February 20th, the Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Michelle Hundley Smith, 62, was reported missed. on December 31st of 2001, but had been found recently after the detectives received new information.

Authorities made contact with her on an undisclosed location of Carolina, and she was alive and well. Smith was 38 years old at the time of appearance. Her husband was the first person to report her missing in 2001. She had let her home to go Christmas shopping at Kmart in Martinsville, Virginia, on December 9th, about 17 miles from her home and never returned. In 2020, her daughter Amanda Smith told NBC News that on the evening of 2001, she remember her mother kissing them good night and leaving her house around 8.30 p.m.

Amanda was 14 when her mother disappeared. Her younger brother was 8. The older sister was 19 already out of the house. And apparently the mom just left their entire family and was seen they couldn't find her. And they found her 30 years later. At the Kmart. Yeah. She let her know.

They stopped at Kmart's? No, she shopped at Kmart and left their family of December 9th and never came back. Wow. I miss Kmart. Do you? Good clothes, excellent icies, and a snack bar that was pretty good. Targey has all that. Fun fact, I have never actually seen a living Kmart.

Well, that's because they're all gone. What about a circuit city? Nope. You've been to a Girling's food fair? Nope. Wine garden? Weeners? No.

Mervins. I've been to a pigooly, California. Reims, Rains Roney Island. You've been in Rames There's a couple left You have been back Since have you So to wrap the story

Is this woman with the family now again Or what's going on with that? She has not made content with the family at all This has been found by the police She just took off Yeah That's actually honestly Jonathan that's not an uncommon story

A lot of people A lot of men frankly do that right Really? I mean I guess But like To be Do you're like missing or something? You know?

Well, good job. I mean, I guess good job by her for being hidden for 25 years before being caught. I guess. I can't believe there's no trouble for that. There's nothing, nothing goes wrong with that. She didn't fake a death, did she? She just took off, correct? Yeah, and just was reported missing. Thank you for that very sobering non-flora story. Up next, Ivana, and we go try to squeeze in Vince in the Big 12th term until we can have hell yeah or not next. Wait a second. What? Jonathan, what's your girl's name? Ivana. We're definitely talking to Novana then.

Does she want to play Hellyer and Out or she wants to talk to us? Or she wants to talk to you to Minutes you. I think she wants to play. I haven't checked you. I haven't seen what she wants to do. 145 on 790. All right, really fast for we get to believe it or not. Let's talk to Vince in Midtown.

Vince, what's going on? Hey, guys, I kind of started listening right around the time you guys were interviewing Dwarte. Have you guys touched upon that weird floor that the Big 12 is using at the tournament? Multiple times. It's gone now. They're putting a real hardwood floor in the day. Yeah, so I guess so, that being the case, who do you think, I mean, do you think there was some like peola or something? Because who in the right mind would think that would be a good idea to try out some new technology?

Because the commissioner is trying to be a hipster. The reality is it's trying to be a hipster, and it just doesn't work. You know what? You have a great product. If you're the Sunbelt Conference, if you're the American, if you're the Mac, do it. You're the freaking Big 12. Act like you're a Big 12 conference. It's terrible.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. Oh, good deal. Yeah, I thought it was terrible, too. So sorry I didn't catch it earlier. So thank you off taking my call. Thanks. Have a great weekend. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game.

Shall 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 Believe it or Not is all things about Canadian baseball players. I'll read your statement about the particular player. The statement is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this.

Hell yeah. If the statement's erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Not. Two, believe it or not to win your prize. A bonus prize. If you get two in a row early on, you get a date with Jonathan. How about that? Dinner, drinks, flowers?

No. All right. How about tickets to see an evening with Jeff Foxworthy, May 17th at Smart Financial Center at Sugarland? Are we doing the psychedelic fur tickets yesterday? know. I don't even know. No, is that all we got. Okay, so we got a pair of tickets for an evening with Jeff Foxworthy, May 17th at Smart Financial Center. Tickets are on sale now at Smart Financial Center.com. Let's talk to Ivana. Ivana, you're on 7. Honey, ready to play, believe it or not?

Yes, I am. Manager Ernie Witt is currently the bench coach for the Washington Nationals. Believe it or not? Believe it? No, no, no. How do you not know that, Ivana? also he was born in Detroit Ivana you don't get the date with Jonathan Let's go to Phillip on 790 Phillip you're ready to play believe it or not

Oh it's I'm sorry it's hell yeah or not Excuse me hell yeah or not Josh Naylor's brother Boe plays for the Cleveland Guardians and they have another brother Miles Who is in the Sacramento A's farm system Hell yeah or not Hell yeah That's great

statement number two for the band in 2004 James Big Maple Paxton was inducted in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame Hell yeah or not That's right, you win Nicely done Going to see Jeff Foxworthy You might be a redneck

Is that what that is? I always lose that guy Chris on 790 Chris what was your favorite part of today's 10 to 2 radio show I have no idea, just down the road Nick Povetta was also a standout hockey player growing up in British Columbia, but decided to focus on baseball his senior year of high school. Hell yeah or not? Not. As made up.

Save the number two for the win. Joey Votto is an avid chess player and has even entered tournaments in his hometown of Toronto. Hell yeah or not? Not. That's a hell yeah. We talked about it all day long. Between 10 and 153. You should listen.

Josh on 790, Josh, you're ready to play hell yeah or not. No. All right. You got to turn your voice, turn your radio down there. Let's go to Jason and Katie on 790. Jason, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Abraham Toro is currently a free agent. Hell yeah or not. Hmm. Hell yeah. No, he's for the Kansas City Royals. Go set it once in a thousand times. You got to have the Royals roster in front of you at all times. Ike on 790.

Ike, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show. Oh, at the beginning. When he was a freshman in Auburn... How did I pronounce this? Eduardo. Eduardo, Julien. Eduardo, Julien, was arrested for public intoxication and criminal littering. Hell yeah, or not?

Hell yeah. Yeah, that's right. Hey, yeah. Statement number two for the way of Michael Soroka was known as Mike for years, but in 2023, he announced he would only like to be called Michael. Hell yeah, or not? Not. No, he was...

Hell yeah. He insists on being called Michael. Well, thank you for playing. That was for you, because you always get hung up on Matthew and Matt. I know, it's a thing. Hey, thanks for everybody to listen for the show. We're going to be back Monday for a full hour. Full four hours.

We'll have our brackets. Remember, when you get your bracket, when someone offers you a second one, you say, no thanks. I'm a one bracket man. Go Coogs. Aggies are out. Longhorns are out. That's fine. We'll carry the state like we normally do.

Up next, Wexler, by himself. for the A team. I'll talk to you for Rockets and Pels at 7 here on 790. We're,