The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Advance, Concerns Next Series & NFL Cancelled Game

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1 in H-town. It's a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. A great song for white people. Basketball, and on the hand, and it's poke the other way, and that's through.

Into left field. RBI single for Kyle Tucker. The Astros lead it one to nothing. First fastball that Tucker saw that entire bat. It jammed him and he poked it through the left side of the end field. Look at my moves, sports, R.B.

I'm glad we're not on stream right now. AT&T, you should have me on here. Ray, it chokes up just a little bit. Here's the pitch. It drives this one pretty well. Right center field. Looking up is Kepler. Still looking up and it's gone.

Straightaway center for Correa. The Astro's lead a two to one. Brandon as a fellow white person, what do you think? I love it. I love your moves the most. Mm-hmm. The one-two again. On the outside corner, strike three call.

That is the ball game, and that is the Wild Card Series. The Houston Astros advance, defeating the Twins 3 to 1, and sweeping this series, two games to none. So Carlos Correa, what did you say that ESPN crew calling your games the last couple of days? I feel like, you know, on the broadcast yesterday in the game, you guys were too focused on the Chinese scandal. And now that we win the series, I think we deserve a little credit. We have a solid team.

You know, we can play baseball. We can win games. We can win series against great teams. And that's what we did this series. We showed that we're still a solid team. And we showed that we deserve some respect. I'm kicking my legs up in the air sports RV. I'm not excited.

Yeah, you know what? It's a Wall Card Series. And we got a lot of meat left from this bone. And it's a completely gimmicky season. We can't change how we've been feeling since day one. A 29 and 31 team could win the championship in a gimmicky season, man. Oh, absolutely. Now, they're going to have to hit a lot better because, good Lord, the Yankees.

The Yankees are terrifying. Gracious. But the Astros don't play the Yankees. Yankees in the next round. No, they do not. Thankfully. And here's the thing. I can guarantee you next week's games aren't at one o'clock.

There's no way they're playing a West Coast game at a certain first pitch of 11. Oh, two o'clock. Yeah, three. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Listen to my comments, Ross. I'm sorry. Listen to what I said. One o'clock Pacific.

Yeah. Might be happening. I didn't say noon or one central. You see the A's. Who was it on the A's, is all upset that they're getting disrespect. They're like, we're the two seed. Why are you're the Oakland A's? That's why you're on it.

And you're the Chicago. even no one cares about. It's the White Sox and the A's. You want probably, hmm. Now, if it's Cubs Giants, oh, you're prime time. Yankees against the Little League team is going to take precedent over, over White Sox A's. Sorry, A's players. Yeah, you're, we, we are used to this here.

Yes. The, frankly, the NBA team and the major league league. Well, for that matter, the Texans, too. Who always plays 3.30 on Wild Card weekend on Saturday? The Texans. That's right. That's their permanent slot. Yeah. And in October, the Matt Thomas show becomes the Astros AODDS and or Wildcard game show. And hopefully you listened. I got to tell you. And first of all, it's nice to be back. We got full shows today and tomorrow. Next week, don't know. My guess is we're looking at a bunch of 2.30, 3 o'clock.

Matt Thomas with the Astros on deck show at 1 o'clock. Here we go. Yeah. So it's just, it's what October is. I'll show up for an hour and just hang out. Yeah, well, you can hang around too. You'll do it on deck with me if you want. Okay. Yeah, we do tag team. Sure. Gordian Connor had to do it a half hour yesterday and they had the tag team that. They can't do it by themselves for 30 minutes? I don't know. That's weird. The baseball boys.

Is that what you should call them or something? I don't have a nickname for them? No, I'm just kidding. What if they did? That would be funny. Self-glossing. We've just glossed them. The baseball boys.

The baseball boys handling the pregame there and 11 o'clock. And we're the grown-ass men. Okay. Well, I'm scraping it together. Okay. All right. So you have to listen to 790 because you just. Oh, my God.

It's so brutal. First of all. Okay. So you got to be careful how you do this. because they're network and I'm local. But even if the roles are reversed, people are allowed to have their opinions. Yes. It is extraordinarily difficult to be national guy.

Now, granted, you get big money and you get big fame. But you don't watch a team all the year long and you don't know the idiosyncrasies and the storylines and whatnot. You are bouncing from Astros twins to Redsbray. I mean, if you're a national guy, you are moving all around. You're not watching the same team over and over again. So if the roles were reversed and Carl Ravich was doing all Astro games, he would have a different perspective on it.

Now, granted, Todd and Jeff would certainly do that, but they're also employees of the team, but they also cover every single one of the games. So I'm not trying to make excuses here. Yeah, because I would counter that and say it's their job to know. It is. When you are at the national level and you are doing a high, a very, very high priority postseason.

You've got to be up to speed. I mean, damn fast. Yeah, because when you're here, you need to know Astros. You need to know Texans. You need to go what's going on in college sports. You need to know rockets. You need to know that. You keep it local, but that's that sphere.

Yeah. If you're, Carl Ravits's job, or I mean, Tim Kirchin's job is baseball. It is. And Eduardo Perez is baseball. And you get paid a crap ton of money to know. You can't say, well, he doesn't know about it. Well, he's supposed to. That's his job.

That's why you're on national television. You're supposed to know about these things. But you do. But you do hear it, though. No matter if it's Fox, if it's ESP, you hear this. I would just say ill-informed. Yes. Is what I would say.

Ignorant. Yeah. Did Ravich call the Correa home run? Did he call him Alex Correa? One of them, yes, yes. Alex Correa yesterday is what he called him. Let me tell you something. The play-by-play guy, that crap happens all the time.

You feel back because it's on the national stage, but it is what it is. They just, it was October. And the number one thing that bothered me about game, one. Now, game two, I was at, oh, we're big city wings in Kingwood, so I didn't really have the sound up very much for that. But for game, how's it, how's it a Nashville hot chicken? Well, you like it, you like it as spicy, right? I like Nashville hot chicken. It's good. Okay. They also had the chicken avocado, egg rolls, which were delicious, and you know how much I hate avocado, but I stomached it. It was good. Something's wrong with you. But anyways, it's

wrong. So the national guys. So the national guys just kept pushing, look at the numbers of 2017 compared to where they are now. I'm going to give you just an opportunity, ESPN, to probably go to find 10 or other 15 or 25 or Rossi, 50 other players in Major League Baseball that probably don't have the same stats that they did three or four years ago. Yeah. In a shortened season where everyone that they were,

just about everyone they put up there except for Correa. I mean, Bregman hit the I. We know how long it's hard for him to get out of rhythm. Altouet is a bust of a year. There's no, you can't argue that. I'm with you on that. Altuvei looks. like he's ruined or he's hurt or something.

I don't know what's going on with him or he just wants to quit baseball. No, he doesn't. He doesn't. But I mean, he just, he looks terrible. I mean, Correa started off to see. Why don't they put up the, in the first few weeks of the season, he was hitting like 378 or whatever it was. He can't hit.

He just get in a huge slump. He got into a huge slump. And the fact of the matter is, uh, on a couple of those, well, one in particular, Josh Reddick, Josh is in his mid-30s. Josh is not going to be the same player at 2017 as he was in 2020. And he hit way over his head. Why don't you look at the, You know that Matt, your favorite analytic, batting average with balls in play.

It was way out of control that year because that means, so when your BABIP is really high, that means you're probably just getting lucky. And then it fell down to earth. Yeah, you might want to get that checked out. So, I mean. That bothered me. You have to, when you just focus on a short sample size where there are multiple injuries on, and you've only focused on batting average, I mean. And you're talking about a, about a 45 to 50 game sample size. because all those guys with exception to Redick

spent time on the injured list at some point. So it wasn't even 60 games they were looking at. They were looking at 45 to 50. So, and look, they're not broadcasting a game to Houston, Texas. They're not. But let's be brutally honest. The Astros are playing the twins. What two major metropolitan cities would care more about that series and any other?

I don't think Carl Ravich and Eduardo Perez and Tim Kirchon worried about how the people in Reno, Nevada, felt about this game. There are people at lunchtime watching and or listening to the game that are obviously Astros and Twins fans fan. And especially yesterday when there were like 19 other postseason games going out at the same time. You really basically are broadcasting to a regional audience. Because I don't know if people in New York really gave two, you know what's about the twins and Astros. My guess is the answer is no on that. So I just thought it was homework wasn't done.

Correct. Storylines were, I think that's the huge one. We're overly obvious to go take. We're doing an Astros game. What can we do? Let's go look at numbers. Let's go look at trash cans. Let's go look at buzzers.

And so Carlos Gray said it. And I know that he's getting grief because they're like, we deserve some respect. The Astros are never going to get it. And it's not my job to get them the respect. It's their job to win the games. They'll get the respect that way. But there may be a large faction of people, Ross, that will never give them the respect because of what happened in 2017.

And if that's the case, you can't change people's minds. You just cannot. And that's okay. But I will say this. As someone that's now apparently rooting for the bad guy, every time I watch a national broadcast and I hear this lazy, ill-informed narrative, it fires me up for them to win even more.

Now, it's good for us for them to win because we love talking about baseball. We carry the games. We're very happy about that. But it was generally speaking, on Tuesday especially because I was home for that one. It was pissing me off. It really was.

And I had to put the radio on because not that I need to hear a Homer broadcast, but when John Smoltz calls a game on Fox, he's really good. And that's why people always rip on Joe Buck for, I don't know, but Joe Buck calls the game. Those other guys, yesterday, they mighted up Nelson Cruz. It's a freaking playoff game. Oh, the multiple time PED cheat? Yeah, I mean, come on.

Work the game. I mean, there's three of you in the booth for a reason. And again, I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this, but I just thought we need to get out of there. The bigger issue, and I told us to Rossman went on the air yesterday or today, the umpiring at home plate, I put this on Twitter yesterday, Rossi. I wouldn't let that guy call a home plate of a Skeeters game.

It was atrocious on both sides, and Major League Baseball should be embarrassed. Tim Timmons, the first base umpire yesterday, blows two calls back to back. Tim Timmins has been a major league umpire, I don't know, for 30 years. It's not some guy that's fresh off the minor league, you know, off the developmental squad.

He blows two calls in a row. Ross, he's got a better angle than anybody else does. The only view that has a person in the world that has it is no one. The only thing in the world that gives us a better angle is instant replay. and instant replay to Tim, Tim and Zero. I'd be embarrassed for that Major League Baseball. That that's right there on the scene blows two in a row. At least they got rectified.

At least we have instant replay now. Thank God. That's why you know me, and some people argue with me about it, give me as much instant replay as possible. I don't know why there should be a limit on challenges. You keep challenging because, again, screw ups or screw ups. Well, because then four and a half-game hour games are gone five-hour games. Well, look what we're getting anyway.

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1218 on the Matt Thomas show. And I want to know if you are like me on this. Like when a baseball team goes 29 and 31, you have very minimal expectations. But as we talked about before the series began, anybody can beat anybody in a three-game series. Even the worst 100-loss teams beat teams that are 100-win teams in baseball. Two out of three is a very, very small sample size. As Meatloaf would say.

Well, he also says two-to-three ain't bad. Meatloaf never said two-or-three get you to the next round. That's true. That's a good song you could put out there. But Rossi, my point is this. I was ambivalent towards the Astros in postseason. watching them win a game and then watching the national media

just be overly flustered by them winning I'm rooting harder for them than I ever thought I ever would yes this is why I've been rooting for them and of course my gut feeling that they would not win a game was completely off and incorrect and Brendan's was right but that's okay I'm just I'm with you I'm so happy to just watch the entire nation rooting against them and these Twitter troll Twitter accounts

and follow the Astros and everybody with their trash can gifts and all that type. And these people are still in my mentions. And they're so ill-informed talking about how there were people in my mention saying there's hard evidence to the Astros cheated in 2019. And I thought I was crazy. I'm like, did somebody come out and say that something

happened in 2019? No, these idiots on Twitter don't know what they're talking about. So all of these people get so upset and get their panties in a wad when the Astros win playoff games. I can't wait for it to keep happening. I hope it keeps happening. So if you're in that same position where you were like, you know what, I've just

checked out on the Astros. Because 29 and 31 would make you check that, especially when you're winning 100 games year after year after year. But if you've been reinvigorated by them winning, now winning cures everything. Everything. Everything. But you could even Rossi be like, okay, that was two against the Minnesota Twins team that

never wins any postseason games. Those poor folks. Let me tell you something. I was there for some of that. Yeah, you and Booth Bonzer. Yeah, me and Booth. So are you a little more jazz and you thought you would be after this wildcard series. The answer for me is I am 500 times more jazz than I thought I would be

because of this ill-informed national narrative and Jeff Passing in his little undersized suit in his wavy hair. I just hate all of them. So smart-my, isn't he? God, I've been rooting for that. 7-13-21-2-5-79 if you want to let us know how you feel. How do you feel differently today than you thought? you when the series

began. 713, 2, 1, 2, 5, 790. I was rooting for them. My rooting interest never changed. How hard I was rooting for them and wanting them to win.

It's just the fact that I didn't feel like it was going to happen because the lineup had been healthy for a week. They weren't hitting. And there were a lot of questions in the pitching staff. And what are you going to get out?

Is that Grinky? I was scared that Dusty Baker was going to be, I'm going to go with my guys and go with Lance McCullors in game two because I wanted her key in game two. He didn't do that. So that's another thing,

though Matt, just about every decision that Dusty Baker has made has worked out as well. It was interesting that he did not go to Ryan Presley in the ninth inning of the game on Tuesday. Even Steve Sproxel was listening in the car when he said that. He says, what kind of message does that send to your closer? The message it sends is, we like you, we don't love you. And the message is, get your bleak together. Yeah, the message is you want to go one, two, three, maybe I'll give you a chance tomorrow to do it. Yeah.

But when you have Fromper Valdez, and, by the way, that is by my biggest mist up with the Castro season. You know me. I was just, I was never sold on Framber. Nobody was though. So I'm not, I'm not by myself in this club. There was, I guarantee if we went back and listened to old shows of this show in March before the pandemic, no one's like, man, you got to give Framber Valdez a chance. Framber Valdez, Framber, whatever you want to call it, was a good, good stuff, complete out of control pitcher in terms of can't throw strikes, getting in walks, you know, or at least Josh James struck people out. Frommber would just get on the mound and he'd start sweating.

profusely. It was a 5-1 game. Nobody's on base. All those things have the base is loaded. They got to re-believe him after two-thirds of inning. He's been incredible. And I'm, and I'm happy for people that can do that. I'm happy for people that, you know, and again, apparently it was some psychiatric help is what it helped. And that, and whatever it takes. Well, they say he got much more mature after having a child as well. You know, again, whatever it takes. Get in that bedroom right now and have some more kids, do whatever. Oh, he's got a second on the way. Yes. He said in the postgame. So better sex and procreating is helping him become a major pitcher to the Astros advantage.

Just keep popping out babies, Frumber. All right, so you have that going. And again, it was good to see Ryan get things done in the ninth inning. But yeah, to the Minnesota point of view, if you think we've got it bad here, let me tell you about Minnesota sports. Now, granted, they have gone Rossi to four Super Bowls and lost them all. They do have two World Series. Thanks, Joe Cap.

They have two World Series championships. is Fran Tarkington. They do have two World Series championships. Joe Cap took them to the Super Bowl. Oh, the first one? One of them, I don't know. I believe you. Okay. 87 or 91, but 91 was

29 years ago. That's a long time. The Timberwolbs have not gone and won a playoff series, I think, since 2004 when that Kevin Garnett team played the Lakers in the Western Finals. And the hockey team, I think, has done one Western finals in their existence.

And they've been largely an average team. So every time you want to say we in Houston are the ones that get the worst treatment more than anybody else, just know that the Minnesota Twins are what now 0 and 18 in their last 18 postseason games. It is the longest drought in major sports history right now. Of all time, I believe, right? Yes. 18 straight games.

Yeah, they beat the longest street they were tied with the late 1970 Chicago Blackhawks. Right. Your thoughts on those teams, Matt? They underachieved. I agree. Okay, real fast. So the twins had the best home record in baseball and the Astros of the third worst record on the Rodin Major League Baseball,

and they went in their one two straight. That's why two out of three? Ain't bad. Ain't bad. And it can be fluky. That's okay. Just like the season. I'm glad it fluked this way.

If the Astrode had lost two tough games, maybe we'd be saying, you know what, hey, this doesn't mean anything. Yeah, gimmick a season. Two and three, it's it. I mean, now they won. They're the greatest team of all time. And we're now fired. up. We're now playing Go Go Astros.

We should play the Spanish version eventually. We have it. Joseph, Clear Lake on the Matt Thomas show. Hi, Joseph. Hey, Matt. Hi. I was exactly kind of where you were at with the Astros on Tuesday. I kind of woke up and was like, you know,

it's the, you know, I know it's to start the playoffs, but I just had a, I just, you know, I wasn't really that excited. As you said, you know, they're, you know, sub 500 team. I kind of had Russ's feeling that they were going to, you know, be get swept in two games. But after they won Tuesday, I got a little bit more excited, got real happy than yesterday. When I closed it out, they even got more excited. And so I'm kind of where you all are at right now, where I just kind of want to stick

it to the national guys and just hopefully get to the, win the division series and get back to the championship series. So I'm right there with you all, and I'm, you know, glad that they won, obviously. And I'm also with you there on Framber because, Last year, he was so bad. And I know it's a little bit of a different pronunciation, but if you remember the Exxon Valdez that ran aground there in Alaska, I know it's Valdez.

But I started calling him Exxon Valdez last year because every time he pitched it was a disaster. But this year he's really come around, and he's been absolutely fantastic. And Ghostroes, and that's all I got for you guys. Thanks for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, I feel like there's a lot of Josephs out there.

Probably not using, you know, oil tragedies as part of nicknames, but generally speaking in that club. By the way, we're going to segue from Astros to Texans using a bus driver. Oh, no. And we'll do it next at 1227 on Sports Talk 790.

It's Blummer. Former Astro, Jeff Blum. Holy Toledo. Sports Talk 790. What a play by Blum! Is your home of Astros baseball? 1231.790 is your station for Astros baseball. Rockets basketball.

and we are your very unofficial home of Texas football. Have been proud of that way for the last 18 years. The official home of Texas Longhorns football. Yeah, and Joel Clatt will be on the call of Texas TCU. So you've got to ask a question because that's your squad, right? It's America's team, Matt. America's a strong term. I would go more along the lines of Notre Dame, but that's neither here nor there.

He'll join us in a half an hour. He will call that game and we'll have it for you here on 790 this weekend as well. That's the 11 a.m. big noon Eastern time kickoff. For those of you scoring at home, the Reds and Braves are scoreless, said everyone five million times yesterday. Are they allowed to score runs in that series? Well, they're already going to the fifth and there's no score in this one here. By the way, ultimate sign of embarrassment is your game starts at 11 o'clock central time. I mean, you are like the Big 10 ESPN 2 of baseball when you are playing at 11 o'clock in the morning.

It's Beth Mowens on for Northwestern Minnesota. Oh. Poor Atlanta's empty stadium, which really is not out of the ordinary for them because they don't really draw for playoffs anyway. Yeah. Well, no runs in these games. They must have been cheating last year. Oh, yeah. The batting averages must have been awful. Oh, look at their demeanors. They're so sad. There's just joyless

out there, not having any fun. John Heyman noticed that. Okay. Oh, Mike Fires pitches today for the A's. Yes. In their game three against the Chicago White's like. By the way, the Cubs game has been postponed to rain in Chicago.

I know. I know that tomorrow night. They just went down with it a little bit ago. So who do you want? Sox or A's. For sexiness factor, for us, it's got to be the A's. We don't really know the White Sox, except Dallas Keikle. I think I'm more scared of the White Sox lineup than the A's. That's fair. So I'll go with the A's.

So the reason why I brought up Mike Fires name is because there's no way he can avoid the Astros in this round. Because the series doesn't start until Monday. Today is Thursday. So he can get his four to five days rest and he can pitch in the series. And he will. I would imagine so. a neutral site at Dodger Stadium, where by the way, Bob Nightingale again goofed up yesterday.

Yes, he did. He had said that the Astros are returning to Dodger Stadium for the first time since the 2017 World Series. I mean, did he do zero vetting on that? Did his dog barked that to him and he just ran with it? What is going on? At least the first part of that is accurate. If his dog is barking at him, he's got a real special dog. Because I was there for the two games they won in 2018.

I went to regular season games. But I mean, but if you're going to tweet something out. I'm sure, Matt, you do this or I do. I'm like, I think this is the first, if I just thought of my head, you know what, I think this is the first time they've been since 2017. Let me go check real quick before I tweet it out to my thousands of followers misinformation. Did he make it up in his head? Did he hear it from somebody, an unreliable source? And he just ran with it.

And then the best thing about this, or worst, and said he refuses to delete the tweets. Like when he tweeted that Alex Breggman got hit the head by Joe Kelly. It's like, are you... On a 98 mile power fastball and it was like an 84 mile an hour curve On the shoulder And you heard the ball hit the Hit the backstop

And then that's what you're running with And he got hit in the head? What is going on? What is going on with Bob Nightingale? Yeah. And Bob is, I swear to God, I've known Bob forever.

He's not a bad dude. Like, Heyman comes across as a douche, Passing comes across the douche, Nightingale's not a bad guy. He just makes way too many mistakes. I don't know what's going on with him. But 2018, and the worst part is they just played there last month. Yes.

And Ross, both games were on national television. They were on national television. One was the Fox game of the week. The other one was the ESPN. Yes. And one of those, there was like a massive comeback against Kenley Jansen in the 19th. Yeah, they scored five of the ninth. Yes.

I don't know how you possibly screw that out. But he did. One other thing I had to segue. Tom Palisaro. NFL reporter, I believe for USA today, says the following. I think he's NFL network now. Okay. He's mostly upgraded.

A bus driver who drove the Tennessee Titans last weekend in Minneapolis. Also drove MLB's Houston Astros in a trip for a playoff series this week against Twins. What the hell? After the Titans COVID-19 outbreak surface, the Astros removed the driver. Will you think? Let me ask you this. Do you think that, you know, because typically coaches and managers sit in the first row, either behind the bus driver or on the right side.

But I don't know any manager that doesn't sit in the first row of a bus. I always sit in the first row with a note on my, pinned on my chest. Oh, saying what, saying what? If lost. Oh, fine. Okay. So do you think the driver, because sometimes bus drivers can be chatty. Mm-hmm.

Do you think, I can see Dusty Baker having a bus driver talk with somebody. chatting up a, I mean, he'd chat up anybody. Yeah. I could, could dusty have said, what, what's you been doing? Oh, I took the Titans at the game the other day. And somebody must have heard like, you did what? Well, if they're sanitizing and masking up and the bus driver has a mask as well, you should be fine. Should be fine.

That's exactly right. But my guess is anybody that's anybody associated with the Titans, and again, it's a very small number. It's nine, well, it's actually getting larger the last couple days. But anybody associated with any bus, anything. Titan related needs to go hide for a couple days. He needs to be on quarantine, locked down. And not sending and not transporting players from a hotel to a stadium. That bus driver's got to make his money, though, Matt.

A bus driver probably cost themselves some G by even volunteering that. That's why sometimes you just got to keep silent. Statement from MLB, we are aware of the situation and are comfortable that all of our health and safety protocols have been followed. Feel better. But it's just crazy. It's just crazy that dusty or. Anybody else that sits in that front row could be a team operations guy could be Brent Strong comes across as a chatty fella.

Maybe Brent's on bus too. He's on the early bus. Who's the Astro most likely to engage a bus driver in conversation? Oh, it's Strom and or... I mean like a player. George Springer? No. Player, it's most likely to chat up a...

Is that Grinky? No. No, it's an easy one. Probably not. No. Josh Redick. I was thinking Josh Redick as well. For sure.

I think you're right Josh Reddick with the common man Just asking how we're doing keeping an eye on him He's been there, done that Yeah This might be his last go around He might not find anybody He wants to take him next year

Especially over $12 million You know what I'm saying? Yeah, for sure These younger players They can't run on the back of the bus fast enough You think he's asking about the twins roster or something Hey you think you'd use an outfielder next year No but Josh

Josh is a very pleasant person I agree. Hey, guys, what's going on, Bob? I'll start talking wrestling with him. Oh, you know I would. Let's go to George in Baytown at 1238 on the Matt Thomas show. George, what's going on? George is silent.

I went to him and he hung up immediately. George, I feel like you want to call back you may. He's got a little stage fright. This is a friendly show. I think so. Unless you have acinine takes. And then we try to be as politically nice as we can, but sometimes it's harsh. I've been told I mean to me to bad callers.

Have you really? Who told you that? our boss. Oh, okay. Well, be nice than them, please. Well, the lady was calling him with some really crazy stuff.

Oh, I was on the Saturday. Shall I get it? Okay. So I want the A's because I think the storylines are better. Frankly. I agree.

Absolutely. And I actually know who the A's are. And, you know, the White Sox just don't resonate with anybody. They really don't. Unless Jim Tobain comes on. The Astros versus the White Sox. It would be called a Blumber series, basically, right?

Yeah, it's true. And I think Jeff's going to be on with the boys this afternoon at 3 o'clock. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, so they got that. That's always a great thing. They're doing a full show today, huh? Well, what would they do? Like an hour on Tuesday?

Yeah, because that game went forever. And then two hours on Wednesday. Oh, they went two hours yesterday. Wow, good for them. We're proud of them. Appreciate them putting those rigorous 10-hour week on air shifts. And they can say, well, Matt, you weren't, I work Saturday in Sundays, too, so brawl, take it back. That's all I'm saying.

Hi, boys. What else? Oh. So back to the Titans for a second. Their game with Pittsburgh has been postponed. Yes. They were going to try to play it Monday or Tuesday. But more cases showed up today positive or overnight.

When are they going to play this game? I hate to say, I don't know, that's one of your favorite phrases. They're going to have to shuffle around their by weeks. They're going to either they're going to do that or they're going to have to push everything back a week. Here's the danger of pushing back everything a week. What if the Titans play in it, as you brought up earlier, what if the Titans play somebody else and the second game's postponed?

You can't play two games in a week. You just can't. How about you play that or you just push everything back way back? All right, I've got it. You got it? You have the two teams. Who are they playing?

Pittsburgh Steelers? And let's say it happens to the Texans. You have them both show up that week. You play one half against the Steelers and then whatever the score is at the end of the half, that's the result. And then the second half they play gets the Texans. And whatever the result of that game is,

that's the result too. So basically you're playing a double-headers. Yes, you play a double-headed, but only four quarters. Four quarters. That's brilliant. I feel like somebody in junior high would say something like that. And then I realize how I'm working with. There's literally no way to fit out.

What's the other way? There's no way. Obviously, I'm joking. Not that you and I have time to do this. But maybe if we are bored tonight, we look at the schedules of the rest of the way and see if you can move some people around. Shift around their by weeks. Shift around the by weeks. I guess if you're going to have to.

to do. I don't know what else they do. What else they would do? You push it back. You push the playoffs back a week. Or you just chalk the game. Or you don't play the game. Yeah, you just have them have 15 games, hopefully. I don't see that going well. Got to go by win percentage in the tie breaks are going to get all messed up probably too.

Rossi, I would say that's a zero percent chance of happening. Hopefully they have some kind of plan in place because they'd be foolish if they didn't. My guess is they take it to an extra week. Because it feels like to me the NFL playoff schedule it could very easily be pushed back. Yeah, they talked about it being able to be it pushed back. So if this is the only incident all season, it'll be kind of weird to push it back just for one game.

Now, I don't think you play it if it doesn't mean anything. If it doesn't impact playoff standings. So you make the decision after the season. Yeah, but my guess is Pittsburgh, Tennessee is going to have a lot of impact on the division. It's going to certainly impact the AFC South because Tennessee's 3-0. You can't, if the Titans keep winning ball games, the other teams in the division are going to want them to play a game for the chance to lose. it. So yeah, I don't... Certainly against the Steelers. Yeah, there's

no way in the world they don't play the game unless again, both teams fall flat and they don't have the chance of making the playoffs. Yeah, we've got to figure out where their by-weeks are and get them shuffled around. You want to figure that out? I would love for you to have the defendant of answer to this because I would think by now somebody on Twitter would have already done that. And I've seen nothing in terms

of how what logistically can make sense. Get it together, Twitter. Come on now. 1242. The Matt Thomas show continues. Joe Clyde from Fox Sports in 18 short minutes. 713. 212-5-7-90. Right now, a message for TGS Insurance. We're all looking to save money. I mean, everybody is. Times are lean. You're trying to, you know, you're working from home. You're trying to spend less, you know, worrying about kids' educations and whatnot. Everything you can do to save a little bit of money here and there. And the easiest thing I can tell you to do right now to save money is to do it with your home policy with TGS insurance. Text the word money, M-O-N-E-1 at 23, 23-23. The folks of TGS insurance, will then text you back and say, please give us your address. You put the address into your phone, and then 15 seconds later, you're going to get a quote

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Only giving him two first names. Because who would listen to Billy Ray Thomas talk about Houston sports? The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. Joel Clat will be with us in about a little less than 20 minutes from now. Matt Thomas show continues at 1247. A couple of NBA notes. I tried staying up for all of the Miami-Laker game, but when Goran Dragich left, BAM out of bio left,

Jimmy Butler left for a short period of time. And oh, by the way, AD and LeBron were great, right? I mean, I'd be stunned at this thing when five. I could see the Lakers sweeping this bad boy. Yeah, depending on what happens with the injuries there, I actually thought that the heat were going to give them a pretty good contest or push them for the championship. And there are some people that are picking the upset and stuff like that,

and they're getting underrated. But now, I mean, if they don't have BAM and they don't have Goron. So Goron Dragich tore his planter fascia, but I think that's not as bad as it sounds. Callag Day? I think it's good if you have planter fasciitis if it finally tears, but I think you're still going to have to miss time or something like that. I'm not a doctor. I feel like WebMD could help us out on this. But look, nobody cares.

Torn, planter Fasher. Tatar Hero is a kid that's a white kid that shoots all the jump shots from Miami. Well, yeah, and Duncan Robinson. They were just jacking up shots all of them because they had to. If any team's going to have to play the three is greater than two game, it's the, but the hell the Lakers are hitting three-point shot. And they're just, they're just rolling, Ross. They just are.

They're just really good defensively as well. With Anthony Davis as the anchor, I mean, the guy with the wingspan and the length that they have, and you have LeBron James roaming around and blocking shots, and you just, they get so many deflections. They're number one in the NBA and deflections, and you saw that a ton with the Rocket series. They're just so good defensively, even if they're out of position with the length. length that they have. They can get in passing lanes. They're smart. You got guys veteran

championship guys like Danny Green. And Rajon Rondo is also a good defender. I mean, they just have a really good, solid team, and that's why they're the best in the NBA right now. And they flip their lineup around. They started Dwight Howard again yesterday. I mean, they can, they're interchangeable parts all over the place. Speaking of length, and a three-time defensive player of the year, obviously not what he once was, but he's focused and plays his role. One of the thing, Woge, were they, I wouldn't say a bomb, but a, it's on the launch pad? Grenade. Yeah, I'll call it a grenade.

It says that apparently the interview with Doc Rivers and the Philadelphia 76ers went so well that he is emerging as a strong candidate to become the new coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. What about Mike Dan Tony? He's still in there. That's what his tweet was said. That it's basically, I think it's going to, from what I'm reading between the tea leaves in this, it's going to be either Doc Rivers or Mike Dan Tony.

And I thought that Mike was going to get the job no matter what. Because he'd already been there before there was relationships. Right. That's right. We'll see. I looked at their team. They were talking about this on the ESPN. They have six players that are making at least $11 million. And I think four of them.

Do you know who the highest paid player is on the Philadelphia 76ers? Ben Simmons. Tobias Harris. That's not a good idea. Go look at the Philadelphia 76ers payroll. if you think the Rockets are in a little bit of a conundrum, that 76er team is heavy, heavy. I think they need to make a major trade.

Harris Simmons, M.B., and then there's a fourth player that makes just absurd money. I forgot who. Oh, Al Horford. Yes. I don't know why they signed him to a huge deal anyways when you have Joel Embed. That's so weird.

Like it's not 1994. They are, it looked like to me on paper, worse financial shape than any of the NBA. They're like, you know what? It's 2020 or 2019 or whatever, and we're going with the Twin Towers, Embedde and Horford. What? Yeah.

Okay. And the advice that has been given everybody has been saying is put M. Bede's rear end of the basket and just been made the most dominant post-up player in the game. Yeah, if you want to do that and surround him with four shooters, it'd be amazing, actually. So who would be the better coach for that? But Ben's on a shooter. That frankly, that probably does not align with what Mike Dantone would want. I think Mike Dan Tony can adapt.

I think Mike's one of the greatest offensive minds in the world. it's just been a while since he had that. You can play Inside Out. I mean, it worked for the 2009 Magic and, of course, the 94-95 Rockets. Right. Inside out with a bunch of shooters. Yeah.

They need more shooters. Let's go to Brian in downtown at 1252 on the Matt Thomas show. Brian, good afternoon. What's going on, Matt? Hi. How you doing, buddy? Good.

Hey, man, you know, I just wanted to kind of, I've been, you know, I'm kind of tired of beating up Bill O'Brien, so let me talk about something positive. I really like what the assholes have done. I mean, as an organization, and Dusty Baker, I think they've, you know, they've managed to see a bunch of new talent. They've given a lot of people a chance during this short season and considering the scrutiny and everything, the team has been under and the pandemic and everything else. I think they did a heck of a job to make the division series.

And I think Dusty Baker has been really, really good. And I just wanted to know what to thought about that, man. Thanks, Brian. honestly, it's an incomplete for me. But I will say this. I don't think Dusty went in there every day, Ross, shut the door and said, what's the matter with you, Jose?

What's the matter with you, Alex? What's the matter with you, George? His time as a major league manager is short. I think he's trying to soak up every moment he can. And I think he's probably a way different manager than he was at 52. He's at 72. You know what I'm saying?

He's probably just like, you know what? I was brought here to lend positive support, lend tough love when I need to, but be realistic. And again, I don't know what the relationships are between those players and the manager,

but there was tremendous joy in that clubhouse. If you could listen to the Zoom meetings after the games, Dusty Baker's trying to talk, and you can hear the music just blaring. They needed this in the worst way. There has been nothing fun and intriguing about this season. with the exception of Kyle Tucker growing up before our eyes. But short of that, it hasn't been fun.

It just hasn't. Yeah. You can maybe say Framber and Christian Javier have been cool. It's been cool to watch them and do their thing. But outside of that, I'm with you. And it's not Dusty's, dusty job, I mean, part of your job is to be a manager when you're in baseball. Jose Al-Tuvae is a three-time batting champion.

Jose Al-Tuva is 30 years old. Jose-L-Tuva is a multi-time All-Star. He should be able to figure out something on his own. I don't know if it's physical. I continue to think it's physical. I don't have anything to support that concrete or what it's just me in my mind and what I'm seeing. It doesn't seem like he's healthy either mentally or physically because this is not those healthy. Well, it's clearly something mentally.

Whether it's the first time in his life he's ever been in a slump, a lot of people tend to believe that it's the pressure of the buzzer and the cheating. I just don't buy that. It'd be foolish and to believe it has some role in it. But we're also talking about all that went down seven months ago. That's what I'm saying. You've played 60 games. He's not up at the plate and it's the counts 2-0 and he's thinking, oh, no, people are thinking about it.

No, he's trying to think he just can't hit pitches. I don't know what's going on. He's in his head some way, but I don't think he's thinking about the scandal when he's up at the point. No, I think he needs a decompress from the game when the season is over with and figure out what it is. Maybe look at film, maybe heal up, maybe never watch a newspaper or read a newspaper again or TV show.

And maybe these days off we're going to help him out. By the way, Brendan found a tweet from Adam Schaefter four minutes ago. Most likely scenario for the Steelers Tennessee game was move Steelers Ravens from week seven to week eight. Because the Steelers and the Ravens have a buy in week eight. Move Steelers Titans from week four to week seven. And the Titans buy week would be in week seven. So, yeah, Aulet would take with someone to do a little research. Yeah.

Thank you, Schifter. Thanks, Brendan for sending the tweet to him, Alway. Thanks, Brendan. Yeah, about that. All right. We get the second hour and start of the Matt Thomas show. We will run through again.

What's your feeling about the Astros? The thought I had when we opened the show less than an hour ago was this. If the Astros last Sunday, we knew who they were playing, and it was best of three. If they won the series, it'd be great. If they didn't win the series,

this will just be a way to wrap up what has turned out to be pretty much a miserable season. But watching game one, watching them come back, watching them in a low-scoring game, and then having those broadcasters butcher the Astro

storyline, it made me root harder for them. And I believe, and we've already had a couple of calls already to back this up with the first hour, I believe that should be the rallying crime. That if you're indifferent to the Astros, doesn't mean they're going to go play the A's and be a favorite. In fact, they're going to be an underdogs

whether they play the White Sox of the A's. They just are. As they should be. Yeah. But it doesn't mean that my energy level for them isn't 500 times more than it was than a week ago at this point. Because again, I'm just kind of getting sick and tired of ill-informed national cheating narrative. It's October. The season has been pure. It's been a fluky season.

It's been a gimmicky season. But it's been a pure season. And if you're never going to let that go, then you know what? I'm going to use that against you, national media, to root even harder for the local nine baseball team. 1257. Second hour, Matt Thomas Show next on 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show. It is 101 on Sports Talk 790. We'll visit with Joe Clatt from Fox Sports coming up in just a couple of minutes.

We'd like to visit with you all throughout the day until 3 o'clock. 130, Dr. Roto with us for his weekly visits. And we've got some serious fantasy football work to do if you've got Pittsburgh and our Tennessee players. I have no Travis Henry in one of my leagues this week. Travis Henry, huh? Yeah. He's probably not been very productive for you. Derek Henry.

Who's Travis Henry? Travis Henry used to be a Titans running back. So I was half right. Yes. Are they related to all? One of my early team names in our league was the Travis Henry Babymakers because he's got like 10 kids or something like that. Wow.

Does he have his own reality show? I don't think so. Yeah, he was with the Titans for 2005 and 2006. All right. So I do not have Travis Henry. I do have Derek Henry. Nevertheless, I'm still screwed. Sorry.

Well, you're going to get 16 games out of them still. It's just an early bite. It's like an early buy. Oh, that's true because they weren't going to push it. Now, if you get to the end of the year, then it would have been a bit of bad deal. If they end up with another issue against another team. Oh, don't bring that up. I don't know what you could have.

Man, the NFL had been doing so good. I was so optimistic. Adam Silver spoke yesterday about the future of the next season, the NBA. They don't want bubbles. No, I wouldn't imagine they would. $170 million, the final price tag will be to complete this NBA season. Well, at least Disney Corporation could use it. They're low on cash.

Well, did you see what they did yesterday? Oh, no, would they buy now? No. The U.S. government? They laid off 28,000 people. What? Yeah. Isn't their stock going sky high and they keep acquiring huge assets?

Between Walt Disney World and Disneyland, 28,000 jobs. Hmm. Now, my guess is a lot of that is probably, you know, ticket taker, right operators, people that work, you know, I don't know if it's necessarily any corporate offices of Disney, but yeah,

that was a big deal. So, wow. $170 million to keep a... $28,000. Oh, my gosh. To keep a season. You didn't believe me

when I said that? Well, I thought you said $2,800. Oh, $28,000 for sure. So there you have it. All right. What is going on in the world of sports? The Disney company holds assets worth $190.90 billion.

Yeah. And they made some money out of the NBA. And the NBA is like, we love you. Thank you very much. But we need to have it at least sports. They need four. What they need is a need half arenas, you know, or quarter arenas. Because the thing of is this, there's not going to be a vaccine by the time the NBA season starts, right?

So they're going to have to figure out what they can do in indoor arenas. Because look, this outdoor stadium bit is sort of working where they're putting in 10, 11, 12,000 people. Do you see that they're going to start selling tickets for the nationally championship series and the World Series at Global Life Field in Arlington? Limited tickets. Can you try to get your hands on some of those, Matt? Well, I'll say this. If the Astros go, I might be interested. Try to flip them.

No. Why not? Because I want to go see the new ballpark. I want to go see Minuteman Park north of the terrible roof. Mimic Made Park? Yeah, basically. They're mimicking what Minutemate Park was. I don't think it looks all that similar.

I think Astros fans are taking that a little too far. But it was fun for us to do that for a while. Yeah, I think so. Right. So, yeah, they're going to, so the question is going to be, can we get 4,000, 5,000 people in an arenas by January of next year? I would say yes. My guess the answer would be yes to that. Yeah, you can force it either way if you want. Social distancing. It's not like the roof is all of a sudden going to stop.

An open roof is all of a sudden going to stop the thought of it potentially spreading. Sanitizing masks. Yeah. Let's go. People wear masks in schools. They wear them in church. They wear in restaurants. You're supposed to? You want to watch an NBA game in person? Want to watch a hockey game in person? I want to go to a concert, you do it.

That's just the rules. You may not like it. Matter of fact, I hate it, but I got to do it. I'm used to mask life now. I feel weird without it sometimes. Oh, no. When I'm in public. I'll never get used to it.

I'm used to it. Doesn't mean I like it, but I'll never get used to it. It's like, hey, I don't like we're wearing, you know, khaki pants, but she gets used to it, Matt. Well, that's because you're working in Target when you get down here. Yes. All right. All right.

If you want to join us right now, you may do so. 713, 2-1-2-5-790. 713-212-5-790. Astros don't play again until Monday. They will take on either the White Sox or the A's, and that game starts in about 55 minutes. If anything happens during that 2 o'clock hour, we'll be passing along to you. We have the Rotten 5 with Ross coming up as well, and now in Florida Story. So a busy program between now and at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Right now, let's say how to our friend, Joel Clatt, from Fox Sports, who was there to call an amazing upset.

Hey, Big 12 football on the old Fox Network didn't disappoint last weekend, did it? I mean, both weeks we've actually gotten the game that haven't disappointed, have they? A couple of huge upsets. I was pretty shocked, to be honest with you. I just, I didn't expect that from OU. I thought that they were more talented. I think one of the oversights that I made, and maybe all of us, I don't know, but certainly that I made, was just discounting the fact that they didn't have a lot of veteran players in particular on their offense.

And, you know, when it came down to crunch time, I think that that, was the biggest factor. I never felt like they were able to stop the bleeding. And one thing that I guess I glossed over is all those quarterbacks that Lincoln Riley had at OU had maybe not significant, but certainly more significant than others, playing time before they ever got to OU at the college level, certainly in Hertz's case. And so all of a sudden we're seeing Riley have a break-in, quarterback, right? I mean, that's the first conference start for Rattler, and it showed.

Yep. And I just, I don't know why I like Kansas State, but I just love the fact that didn't quit. They had some great receiving. They took advantage of some silly penalties. It was great game. So that was your game was the good appetizer. My son was in Lubbock for the game last Saturday in the stands. And he is texting, Ross, because, you know, Ross is a big UT guy, and we're having a good time. And they get up 15, I think, is what it was, and he's getting ready to celebrate. He wants to jump on the field, and I'm like, Cameron, you do realize they never

play defense in Lubbock. Is there another school in this country, Joel? I don't know how much of a stirring you are for college football. You obviously played the game. Is there another school that can never proclaim anything good defensively like Texas Tech can't? Well, I mean, certainly a brief advantage.

Oh, you would say that, but they have great defenses in the past. Yeah, and, you know what that to me i'm like you know for that fan base how many times did they have to sit through mike leach throwing the ball late and and not running out the clock yes losing a game that they should have lost you know and and that certainly happened this was different though i do feel like it was different while yes there was a defensive collapse if you want to call it that you know Ellinger's one of the better players in the country and and i felt like texas just executed at such a high level, at least in the last three minutes.

And to that, you kind of tip your cap. You know, I didn't think that there was, there does that make sense? Like, there's nothing from a Texas tech standpoint that you're looking at that you're just like, man, that was an egregious decision. Well, you know what it was? They literally ran out of gas. If you DVR, which I'm sure you watch the game back because you're going to be

working the Texas game this week, there was zero pass rush the Red Riders put on in the fourth quarter. I mean, they looked completely guised. They weren't, they were barely upright, Joel. This looks gas, too. That was one of the reasons why they had to have the onside kick because they weren't generating any pass rush either. And I think when you look around the country and certainly in the games that I've done, I felt like that was the case, you know, with OU. And it calls at least into the conversation the fact that there was no summer conditioning.

Trust me when I tell you this is that winter conditioning, spring ball and then summer conditioning prepares your body and your cardiovascular. vascular ability for the season, and they didn't have that. Guys are running around in their streets, pushing cars around and they get back in June, that they're trying to be socially distanced, working out with masks on. The overall conditioning of the athletes right now in college football is below average. Not that it's their fault. It's just below average. So I think you're going to see more and more and more fourth quarter comebacks, crazy endings,

because guys are just gas. They're going to make mental errors. They're not going to get pass rush. You're going to see a lot of passing yards in the fourth. quarter, and I think that that's going to be ongoing. So as you call Texas this weekend, we've got a lot of Longhorns that are listening to show, what do you make of the first of all the comeback was impressive, but what do you make of all the points that was given up for the first three and a half quarters of that game?

Yeah, I mean, certainly it's disconcerting. And when I watch the film, I see a team that was in position to make a lot of plays. There wasn't a ton of plays that were just, you know, miscommunications, blown assignments, in particular, like not lining up on time. there wasn't that type of mistake as much as it was just mistackles. And I know that that's so frustrating, but I'm watching the film and I'm like, Texas Tech, I felt like gained 60% of their yards after they were supposed to be tackled. You know, the first guy almost never brought the ball carrier down.

And I know that that's incredibly frustrating. And again, that's another product of just not having screen ball, not having an offseason, not being able to practice the same way that they would normally practice with the new protocols and, you know, team by team. I think what's interesting for me, though, Matt, is that if I'm a UT fan, I'll talk specifically to that bunch, I'm going to take solace in two things. One is, this is a veteran defense. They got a lot of playing time, and so you would think that there would be more consistency

moving forward, and in particular, from an assignment standpoint, there was not, at least from my standpoint, a lot of missed assignments and blown coverages. So that's number one. Then number two, their new defensive coordinator, Chris Ash, while he hasn't been a coordinator in a while, he is one of the foremost in terms of the experts in teaching tackling in the modern day college football. He was one of the first to bring in what is now roundly thought of as the most formidable way to tackle, which is the rugby-style tackle. He brought it to Urban Meyer. They implemented it at Ohio State and then it kind of went through college football like wildfire.

he can teach it. There's no doubt about it. So now it's about just finding the time to get the reps and the bodies to get the reps in practice in order to master what I know that he's teaching, which is very fundamentally sound. So I expect it to get better, but they better get better quickly because TCU's offense is very good. They've got a lot of weapons. And with Duggan back at quarterback, you've got a threat with his legs as well. So they've got, I think, an equal challenge this week as they had last. Joe Clatt, Fox Sports with us here on the Matt Thomas Show for Little College Football Rewind.

What do you make of Mississippi State LSU? I think everybody not named Tiger, whatever, their nickname is on Twitter, was not surprised by how LSU could potentially struggle this year. I think they were probably perhaps more surprised that Mike Leach in his first game in the SEC sends a quarterback out there to put up record numbers. What do you make of what he did and how far have LSU dropped after that first week loss? Well, let's be really clear.

The only thing that's the same about LSU this year is their uniforms, right? And that's not a giant knock. I'm not trying to take a shot. That's just reality with the number of players that they lost, coordinators that they lost. They have the same head coach and they get the same helmets. Heck, their best player, but I would consider by far, outside of Jamar Chase, outside of opt-outs, was in the hospital. Thankfully, non-COVID-related. It was very stingly was in the hospital. But, you know, they're going to have to find their footing.

And the fact remains that Eddo struck lightning in a bottle last year. His resume would not suggest that he is that level of head coach. Again, not a knock. That is just a pure assessment of his body of work as a head coach in college football. He had a great coordinator in Joe Brady and an even better player in Joe Burrow and just the skill position players in NFL player after NFL player after NFL player. Their offensive line won the Joe Moore award. I mean, everything worked for LSU a year ago. This is not that same team. So there's that context. You also don't have 100,000 fans in Death Valley and it's not at night. So what does that mean? It's easier for the opposition. Now we focus on the opposition. Here's why I think it's easy

for Mike Leach to go and replicate success across quarterbacks and across programs is that his system, the air raid, he's the only one doing it in its purest form. Everybody else has added to it, changed it just a little bit, added their own flare. He's the old, he's the OG, right? Like, he's the only one doing it and it's an original form. And in its original form, Matt, it's incredibly simple, very few number of concepts that they're going to focus on reps and execution. And that's all they're going to do. And they focus on reading the progression to grass. And so a lot of quarterbacks can have success because it's easy to learn. So a transfer quarterback, in particular, a smart one who's got experience under his belt like KJ Costello, can learn the system easily.

And I thought that they had some wide receivers that fit the system very well, in particular on the outside. So moving forward, what does that mean? Will they continue to have success? Yes, they will continue to have success. Is there a ceiling on the offense? Yes, there's a ceiling. They're not going to win the division. He's never won a division as a head coach in college football. he came was 08 when he tied with Graham Harrell and Michael Crabtree with Texas and Oklahoma. So there is a ceiling. There's a ceiling because of the simplicity. There's not a lot of answers if it gets shut down. And two, because of his overarching philosophy. And I touched on it earlier. How many times this year are we going to see him with a 10 point, 14 point lead, continue to

to throw the football and allow a team to come back and beat them because he's too stubborn to run out the clock. Those two things afford a feeling on that offense and the overall accomplishments of the program moving forward. But rest assured, it's going to be better at Mississippi State than it has been in the past. No doubt about that. I got 30 seconds. Do you give A&M much of a chance in Alabama this week? Not based on what I saw last week. I think they would certainly have to improve, and I think Alabama is prime for a very quality run. The quick answer is that A&M is a better team this year, but they're not quite the Alabama standards. All right, we'll leave it with that. Joel, have a great trip to Austin. We look forward to watching

Big 12 football and Joe Clatt. Peas and a pod, my friend. Thanks for the thanks for the time. We'll talk again next week. Absolutely, guys. Hey, go Astros. You got that right. Thank you very much. Appreciate Joe Clatt, Fox College Football top analyst. He and Gus Johnson will be on the call, Texas and TCU this Saturday at 11 a.m. Quick time out. We'll come back and start welcoming you on the conversation if you so choose. 713-212-5-790. Did Joe Clyde just say go Astros? There's somebody nationally that likes the local nine.

You got to like that. 116. Sports Talk, 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Oh, my God, they scored a run in the Braves game. Top of the 7th Atlanta leads 1-0 over the Reds. Yeah, Matt, you didn't catch the hilarious tweet from John Heyman. breaking news.

There's somebody scored a run in. Reds. That guy will not be followed by me. Oh, should I unfollow him? I'm stunned

that you would follow him. I mean, he breaks, he breaks sports news. Yeah, but somebody will retweet it. That's, yeah,

that's true. That's what happened when I am followed. John McClain. Anyways, there's too much stuff about Baylor Bears and I was like,

and he retweets everybody from the station he works out. You can turn off people's retweet people's retweets. Oh, that's a no-brainer.

Yes. So. But I wouldn't suggest you do that when it's at SportsMT, at Sports RV and at Brendan Riley. If it's somebody like that, you can just mute them. Yeah, we got Dr. Roto coming up in the bottom of the hour. So this show keeps moving along. We're not going to sit around and just say, what y'all won't talk about? We're going to move the show a little bit today.

We're not messing around on the Matt Thomas show. Okay. Oh, I got one for you. So we'll get to the asteros here before we get to Roto in the next segment. So you know how this thing worked out well where you had Zach Granky go for, which you need him to go longer? There's just no argument to that and be more successful. And then you went with Frumber, right?

Frommberg, yes. Then you went to game two and you started Jose Arkiti and then Christian Javier came in to save the bacon eventually too, right? What did you think about when Jose Arkiti was pulled? Did it feel a little early to you? Was he 79, 76 pitches, somewhere like that? A tinge? But I wasn't outraged. I would have been outraged if they would have gone with Presley and then he had to given up like the first couple of hits in that first game.

you know, because that was a big conversation. Do you know this strategy probably isn't going to be available to the team in the next round? For two reasons. One, it's a best of five. Yes. Two, no days off in between games. They will play five games if it goes to a five game series in five days. You know how usually when you go two, two to one, you know, the day off in between kind of thing.

Well, they're in one site. They're not giving the guys any days off. It's five straight day. That's why there was a pretty decent break between this, this wild card round and the division round, is because they're going to go straight through. It's just one and three and you're fine. Well, so let me see if you're the baseball sabon. Because I don't know what the right answer is.

What do you do with the starting rotation for the start of the playoffs next week? I think first the easy decision is to start Zach in game one. I think veteran pitchers are, Creatures of Habit and their routine guys. Absolutely. Grinky Game 1. I'm with it. Let's get to game number two then. Lance McCullors has not thrown in a live game since the Saturday before the end of the season. It will have been a week in two days.

If he goes in game two, it'll be a week in three days, four days if he doesn't do it until game three. Who starts game two? Do you go to Orkidi again? Or do you give Lance a shot and give him Orkidi an extra day off? maybe trying to hopefully maybe extend him a little bit. I go with my best guy and I think that's Rokiti.

Well, then you're making this sound pretty simple then. So you're going to go Game 1, Zach, game 2, or Kiti, game 3, McCullors. This is where the angst comes in because at that point,

if you've used Valdez, if you've used Javier, you don't get to typically use them in games four and five unless you're using them in the same exact role. And these guys have been stretched out to be starters for the better part of the last month.

So do you hold them out in case you need it for four and five? Four in particular. And what do you do with that middle relief spot if Zach Granky only gets you to the fourth or inning of the fifth inning? Because do you trust anybody else in the bullpen with the exception of the names I just brought up? I mean, completely trust absolutely trust

Blake Taylor's going to get some I think Blake Taylor could We'll get a run I think Andre Scrub could get you A couple of innings here and there I Oh, Anoli Paredes Yeah, take the gun

Leave the Anoli You know what I'm saying though? I mean, this is where this bullpen Yeah, luckily it wasn't an issue Put it this way In a three game series You can cover up any warts you might have In a five game

And a seven game It's going to be tough Well, it makes it tough If you're starting pitchers don't go deep in games. And generally, you don't. I mean, Zach Rinky is not going to generally go deep into games. It's just the way it is. Zach hasn't been the same for a better part of about a month, give or take, right?

So does Dusty, and we're trying to get Dusty on for the morrow, I don't know if it's going to happen or not. But if it does, do you give him a little bit more of a leash knowing that the guys you absolutely can trust in the most important parts of a game may not be available to you? or you may mean because again if you believe that or if you believe that Javier and um and uh and uh, Fromber are two your key arms, you're probably going to need them for because the thought of the three guys I just mentioned the first three guys going deep in the games.

The chances of all three of them going deep are probably zero. And McCullors as you know doesn't pitch well typically outside of Houston, Texas. So somebody's going to have to eat up those innings. Who's going to do it? You just may be very scared about this series. Well, I mean, this is just the open and honest conversation. No, I want you to lie to me and tell me everything's going to be okay.

Because if you started Granky in game one, I don't think he goes like four. That's the disaster scenario. He's the first guy out of the pen. Well, then I don't think who you, then I don't think you throw him on short resting game and a potential game five, which would be Friday. Well, if he only threw like four innings, well, he's probably going to be around, like 75. If he's, if he's only throwing four innings and he's got a high pitch count, that means you probably guys you can't trust the rest of the way, which

is very difficult for a team that's paying him 30 plus million dollars. Well, not this year. Thanks to proration. That's true. Do you see the wheels on this are turning a little bit? I understand, Matthew. This is way more complicated than a three-game wildcard series. This is five games

in five days. Where you can't, unless again somebody goes short, let's say that you want to go get that Framber wants, you need to go get two inies out of them. I mean, you can certainly use him later in the series, but you just can't afford to start it. Well, unfortunately, Joe Biazini's not an option. No, he's not. He's been DFAed. Rayleigh is a very small. I mean, there's not a whole lot of options, gang. There just isn't.

Dr. Roto's here to help us with fantasy football. And boy, we need it with now Pittsburgh and Tennessee being postponed at least for a few weeks or maybe even longer. You never know. We'll talk with Roto next. We'll get your phone calls in as well at 713-212-5-790. All right, let's get after it. Dr. Roto with us every Thursday in this slot to get you ready for your week four of the fantasy football world. Good doctor, we need some help and we need a prescription for some players now that Pittsburgh and Tennessee has been postponed. How are we worried about tight ends. We are worried about clearly running backs when it comes to the Titans. I don't think we're worried about quarterbacks, but how are you solving these issues with some of these players unavailable to the teams this week?

you know, it's crazy because I think we got through three weeks and we thought we were going to get away Scott Free, but this is what we were projecting all season could happen. So, I mean, let's just hope it only stays to this one game and, you know, we'll pray for the best. But, you know, look, Rothesberger is going to be out. You're not going to use him or Juju or James Connor

or even D.A. Johnson, Derek Henry, John Hsu Smith. So you're going to have to adapt. This is why leagues can't just have one day of waivers. There has to be more. Now, look, the good news is I think they're going to try fit this game within the fantasy schedule. But if this continues to happen, I know the NFL has planned for like a week 18 where they're going to push all these games.

And that's going to hurt fantasy football managers because, you know, we're going to lose one game from our players. That's true. Let's get to the slate of games. We'll start this week with the Broncos and the Jets is a Thursday night game. And again, I don't know what the NFL pays itself to put these crappy games on, but there's just Thursday night football sucks. Broncos going with another quarterback.

Will that make any difference this week against a very porous Jets defense? I mean, I wish it was Mark Rippin instead of Brett Rippin. But I think what we're looking at is Belved Gordon is a must start at running back. I think no offense is a start at tight end. And if you want to risk it, how about Jerry Judy? I think the reason is the thing Rippin and Jack Triscoll is that Rippin gets rid of the ball more quickly. And look, Greg Williams, say what you will. The Jets defense has been better than you've looked.

It just have been so bad offensively. But William's a throw different looks. So it's close. James and Crowder is expected back. That should only help Sam Darnold, but this is an ugly game, and I'm sorry that we'd have to watch it. Tom Brady's best week, I think, as a Buccaneer took place when they went to Denver to play. Can they do that again this week against the Chargers at home? Yeah, no, I don't think so, and here's why.

So Chris God was out with a hamstring injury. Johnson Wall up injured. He's another receiver's injured. So I look at Chargers are pretty good run. He's a couple of years as well. So basically, Mike Evans is healthy, but Casey Hayward's going to cover him. I think you may see some Gromtowski. I think you may see some Jorge Howard, maybe some Ronald Jones this week

because Leonard Fornett is injured. Look, this is just not a great week to start your books. I think maybe if we get 240 in a touchdown, we'll be happy. Saints, I think, have been at the one-fifth poll this season. Very disappointing, to be honest with you. One and two, Breeze looks like he's not in the arm strength. And again, I don't know if that's just an easy. storyline or whatever the case may be.

And obviously, Thomas not playing hurts. But are we starting to fade some of these Saints' skill position players who think they get fat and happy against the Lions this week? Yeah, I think they get fat and happy. And I think Michael Thomas being out is the whole offense. I mean, Mark, terrific. But your offense goes with Michael Thomas.

So, these aren't one in the ones and two. They're three. So you need Thomas out there. So the last thing is very well as he gets the part of the last for a lightning strike, twice. I do like T.J. Hawkinson.

He's probably the best match with an cut end on the board. Like him, like he got him. All right. We're going to try to get Dr. Orobed up on us, establish on a better line. I've got to get him his own, like, landline or something. He's got so much good information, but unfortunately the cell service sometimes blotches it, so he will try to reestablish with the good doctor coming up in a couple of seconds.

Still coming up before the end of the show today. We have non-flora stories. I'm going to Brooklyn, New York for my non-flore story. Oh, really? Yeah. I'm undetermined. That means you've got so many good options that you just don't know what to go with. I'm glad you recognize that, Matthew. I got that going on.

We got also the Rotten 5 of 220. The kids are asking, will the Texans be in the Rotten 5 this week? I believe there are only six 0 and three teams in the NFL. The Texans are one of them. Will they be in the Rotten 5? You'll find out of 220 this afternoon. All right, good doctor is back. Let's get back to that Saints Lions.

What are you thinking about this week with the New Orleans? players. Yeah, you're going to play Kamar, you're going to play Thomas, and you're going to feel good about it. I think you played Drew Brees this week. So, and as I said, you play Gallaudet and you play Hawkinson. All right. So what is Gallaudet? Is he 100% coming in this week? I don't know if he's 100%. He's probably about 85, but look, it's a big, strong, fast receiver, and he's a bad matchup for the Saints. Marshall, a lot of Moore is good. He's not great. And look, Stafford has to throw the ball to somebody. And when the Lions are winning, they're going to give the ball to Adrian Peterson all day. That's what they want to do. When they're losing, they have to throw the ball,

The holidays, they're number one target. Browns and Cowboys, this feels like anybody that plays is going to score because these two teams have been playing games in 30 so far this season. Yeah, so this game comes down to game flow, and I think that fantasy football managers have to understand what game flow means. So if the Browns are winning, they're going to hand the football off to Nick Chubb, they're going to hand it to Cream Hunt, and they're going to suffocate that clock as much as they can. If the Browns are losing, look for Beckham and Jarvis Landers to have big days.

So I do like all four of those guys They're in play. For Dallas, you're playing Dak. Zique never has two bad games in a row. You know he's going to want to play well. I like Amari Cooper this week. I like Dalton Schultz this week who's been very good at tight end. I think this could either be very high scoring

or if the Browns take a lead, they could shut this ball down a little bit. All right, we've got a quarterback change in Chicago. I was thinking about this yesterday. Not that anybody had Trubisky in their fantasy league, and if they did, they were just foolish. But how many teams with a 2-0 record, change their quarterback out in week three. It happened, and now they're going to probably do it again.

How does it impact Chicago look against the Colts this week? You know, in 10 quarters of play, Mitch Trubisky actually had one good quarter, the fourth quarter against the Lions, you know, and so that was it. So here's what was happening. Against the Falcons, Trubisky was missing his receivers by a lot. I mean, he wasn't getting anybody any looks. They had to bring fold in. So a lot of people are going to look at the Colts defense,

and they're going to say, wow, this defense is really good. They've played some bad teams. I mean, they played the Jets. They played the Vikings who don't throw the ball. When they play the Jacksonville Jaguars, Minchews threw for over 350 yards against them. I think Poles has a good week. I like Miller.

I like Allen Robinson. All right. Anything fluky about the three-and-old start for the bills? You can say no if you want to, but anything fluky at all? I don't think so. I think Josh Allen has been terrific. And I think that Stefan Diggs. I mean, now you ask yourself, why would the Vikings ever get

rid of him. I will say this. They play two very bad teams, right? In the Jets and the Dolphins, they played a good team with the Rams. They were winning. Then they almost lost this game. So, you know, the bills are good. I think they win this week as well. All right. We know when the chiefs take the field, they're going to score a boatload of points. What do you envision the Patriots doing? First of all, I was down 40 going into Monday night's game, and I won. Thank you, Pat Mahomes, for being who you are. So needless to say, I'm expecting a high-scoring contest. And more importantly, What will the Patriots do players do? Because we know the Chiefs are going to run around the field

and score a bunch of points for us. Yeah, I don't know if you saw Patrick O'Holmes' mother was on Twitter saying his name is Patrick. I was like, okay, you know, she's very adamant about that. What I'll tell you this is this game is going to go one of two ways. If the Chiefs are winning, watch Clyde Edward Taler, who I think has a big game this week because the Patriots don't stop running backs out of the backfield.

They will stop Travis Kelsey for sure. I think this is going to come down to whether Tyree killer, Sammy Watkins, can make plays. When Cam Newton is ahead, he's a different quarterback. He's way more confident. When he's behind, he becomes backfoot Cam. I think the only way the Patriots win this game is that they slow it down and they won the ball and Cam really uses the clock.

I don't see that happening here. I think the Chiefs went. All right, Sunday night, you get the Eagles against the Niners. What do we learn about the Niners after two straight weeks in New York, especially last week with all their injuries? Yeah, I think we learned that Kyle Shanahan may be one of the best play callers in this game. I mean, he is very talented. So he takes Nick Mullins and he takes, you know, Jeff Wilson,

and he takes Brandon Ayuk, and they beat the Giants by a ton on the road. So the Eagles have a lot of issues. Firstly, Carson Wentz doesn't look great. Secondly, every receiver seems to be heard. They're going to go with Greg Ward and John Hightower. And then lastly, they're a funnel defense. So I think George Kittles expected back. Watch a guy named Trent Taylor be a slot receiver who's going to do well for the Niners this week.

And I think the Eagles that comes down to, can they have stacked? the running game with Miles Sanders and wins has to play better. All right. We'll go to the Monday night game. We'll get to the Texans and the Vikings and we'll start taking your phone calls. You've got a question for Dr. Roto. Two ways to get it on this show in the next segment. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-790 or on Twitter at SportsMT. More with Roto next. This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Good doctors with us. We'll start taking phone calls in a matter of seconds here on a Thursday edition. the Matt Thomas Show. Thank you very much for listening. Rona, let's get to the Monday night game.

I don't know if there's going to be a coaching change of this one. It would seem like it would be the perfect sense. I mean, to go O and Ford open over a quarter. The Packers have been a huge surprise, I think, at 3-0. Again, records don't count when it comes to fantasy numbers. So can the Falcons do some things against that defense of Green Bay on Monday night? Look, the Falcons could be two-in-one right now.

I mean, they've lost the last two games, and they were winning going into the fourth quarter. So it's just defensive lapses there. But here's the good news. Julio Jones practice, Russell Gage practice. Ridley has been outstanding. So they're going to have all their weapons against the Packers. Devonte Adams is expected back this week.

So look, the Packers are terrific. And this kid, Alan Lazard, if people don't know who he is, and if he's available in your league, he is clearly the number two option there for Green Bay. And Aaron Rogers loves him. So I think this should be a wide open, high-scoring game. and one that should be very fun to watch. I picked up a Lazzard last week. Can I play him and Adams together and be okay

figuring out that if a ball is going to be thrown by Aaron Rogers, it's going to be to one of those two guys? I mean, you could. It's not preferable, but it's possible, especially with buy weeks coming up. Lizard is great. And you know what you probably would do if you'd have that trade for Aaron Rogers

and then go all into the Packers? So basically you get all the points. And then get some cheese as part of the deal, obviously, because it'll be lowered up with Green Bay players. All right, let's get to it. How often does a 170, year run on 175 yards and receiving equate to zero

wins. That's exactly what happened in Minnesota last week against Tennessee. Texans are staring at 0-N-3, non-existent running game. More importantly for those fans of the Vikings and Texans, who plays and who sits this week? I think I really love this game for fantasy purposes

this week. I know that sounds shocking, but I tell you, I like the Sean Watson this week. I like David Johnson this week. I love Fuller. I love Brandon Cook. I like Randall Cobb. I'm all in on the Texans this week. For the Vikings, I'm in surprisingly on Kirk Cousins, Cook for sure, Dillon and Justin Jefferson. I think these teams have weak secondaries. I think that both of them have had sketchy one defenses. I think this is a game that both teams need to win desperately,

desperately. So the one thing, I think that the Texans are in a great spot here. So if they just put a little pressure on Kirk Cousins, it should make a big difference. So I think this game could easily be like if you be over under this one in my best book should be over 55. Wow. All right. Let's get right to the phone calls. Get your question in for Roda Hill answer as fast as possible. Kvon in Montrose on 7-90.

Hello, Kvon. How's it going, man? Good. All right. I have a two-part question. For my flex, should I play Parker, Boyd, or Lazars? And I just picked up Rex Burkhead. Should I expect anything, I guess, this week or coming forward after this week?

you? Yeah, I'm not a big fan of Burkhead this week. Damien Harris is coming back off the IR. James White is due back after the horrible tragic thing with his family. So I think Burkhead was a one-week wonder. I like Tyler Boyd this week. I mean, Jacksonville can't cover slack guys. I'd like Parker as well. I think you can't go wrong with either of them, and they're both startable under any format. All right, let's go to Mission Ben and say hi to Brian. I'm 7-90. Hi, hi, Brian. Hey, guys, how's it going? Good. Cool. So I was wondering, should I start Marvin Jones, T.Y. Y. Hilton, or Justin Jefferson, and also should I be confident in playing Julian Edelman this week?

I'm not confident with Edelman. I think the chiefs have done a pretty good job of the slot receiver. That said, I'm not benching him, right? I mean, Julian Edelman is the best receiver. It could be a high-scoring game, so you have to kind of ride with him. I think I'm riding with T.Y. Hilton this week, I think they're going to be playing from behind a little bit, and he is clearly the number one receiver there. Pittman is hurt, Paris Campbell's hurt, Jack Doyle's not 100%. So I think they're going to be relying on Hilton more than ever. All right. We go next to line three. And Garrett and Cyprus for Roto.

Go ahead, Garrett. Hey, Dr. Roto. Matt, always good to see you. And thanks for your excellent advice. Just for her quick question on a running back, would you start or flex David Montgomery or Miles Gaskin? I like both of them this week. I do.

I think that the Colts, you know, Colts have a good run defense, but the bears with Tori Cohen out, they have to be all in on Montgomery. So he's not only going to get the rushes. He's going to get some catches out of the backfield. So this is the best spot he's ever been in. I like Miles Gaskin, but he's not going to score a ton of touchdowns. So I think I'm going to go Montgomery, but they're both pretty good players this week.

All right. We go next to Justin and Tomball for the good doctor. Hi, Justin. Hey, how's going? I have a question about quarterbacks. I need to use either Aaron Rogers or so I go with Josh Allen. Yeah, I'm using Aaron Rogers.

I mean, the Falcons are a terrible secondary right now. Terrible. So I think I'm using him. Josh Allen's good. He's great. He's been great thus far. I just think this week, the Raiders may be a bad matcher because they like to run the football and he may see fewer possessions.

So I think I will lean away from Allen there, but it's hard to do that because he's been great. All right, Justin, thank you. Let's stay in Tom Ball and go to Mark on 7-90. Go ahead, Mark. That's a flex question. Emmanuel Sanders or Devonte Parker this week? Yeah, I'm not playing Sanders.

I have not been impressed at all with Michael Thomas back. He's going to get a ton of the targets and then Kamara's there. I like Devonte Parker this week. I would use them. All right, I got an email in. Montgomery, the Miller, either Anthony or Scotty, Edmonds and Tate. Which one of those five would you start in a PPR Flex? Montgomery?

Yeah, David Montgomery. Yeah, David Montgomery, Anthony Miller, Scotty Miller, Chase Edmonds, Golden Tate. Yeah, I like Montgomery and I like Kate. The Rams have been very bad against slot receivers. So if there's any giant that should have a good game, it would be him. But I think I go with Montgomery because you're guaranteed the touches every, you know, all game long. Gio and Humble for Dr. Roto on 790.

Go ahead, Gio. Everyone. So I got a trade question. I got a 12 team meet. And I got a trade request. They want the Patriots, Marvin Gordon, and C.D. Lam. and he's willing to give me the St. DeFate, Julio Jones, and DeAndre Swift. Should I take it or not?

I heard the defense DeAndre Swift, and who's the third guy? The Saints, Julio Jones, and DeAndre Swift. Yeah, I'm not taking Julio Jones, dude. He's been injured this year, so I know he's great, but I'm not touching that one. Sorry. That's what we need. We need the harsh realities from our good doctor. Let's go to Colton in West Columbia.

Hi, Colton. Hey, how are you doing? Good. Dr. Rutter, I have a question. Desaum Watson is projected to have about 17 points, and Matt Ryan's projected to have about 21.6. They're both facing week differences in the second day. Who would you rather start?

Desaum Watson or Matt Ryan? Thank you. Yeah. Look, it's a fair question. Matt Ryan is very hard to bench Matt Ryan. It is. But I like Watson. I told you guys earlier on the segment.

I love Watson this week. But, I mean, I don't think I'm going to play Watson over Ryan. And here's the reason why. I think David Johnson could sneak in a touchdown. If that happens, then you're seeing less production from Watson, whereas I don't think Todd Gurley's running anything on the Packers' defense. So it's a close one, but I'll go with Ryan. Has Deshaun been a slight disappointment or as expected fantasy-wise?

I mean, come on. Look at what he's got here. He's got an offensive line that doesn't really stop anybody. They've played Baltimore in Pittsburgh and Kansas City the first three weeks. So, I mean, look, this has been expected thus far. Now, if he can't get it going in the next few games, then we need to worry. But the first three weeks, I mean, sad but true, this is what should have been happening. All right, ladies and gentlemen, this time we wrap up our visit with Dr. Roto with a recommendation from him on a guy or guys that's going to absolutely destroy it for you in your fantasy league.

It's Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Yeah, there was no more disappointing team than the Baltimore Ravens last week. but I don't think that's going to happen this week. I think Marquise Brown finally makes a big play, and I think Mark Andrews finds the end zone. So get your Ravens in the lineup and use them, you know, liberally. All right, those are Dr. Rotto. Lox of the week.

Good doctor working people find you between now and Sunday. Yeah, you can find me at s.i.com, and then please check out our Fantasy Plus product. It's terrific, and you can find me at Twitter at DRROTO. Good, Dr. Great stuff, as always. My friend, we'll do this again next week. You got it, my friend. You got it.

That's Dr. Roto here on Sports Talk 790s. We wrap up the 1 o'clock hour of the show. Powerpack 2 o'clock frame, which will include Ross's Rotten 5 at 220, 2.39 Florida stories. And believe it or not, what is the topic today? Is it what I think it is? We'll see. Right now it's on a rat. I mean a certain major league pitcher.

It could be changing the next hour. Stay with us. An hour left to go on a Thursday edition of the Matt. Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show? Yay! With desire. Correa chokes up just a little bit.

Here's the pitch. He drives this one pretty well. Right center field. Looking up is Kepler still looking up and it's gone. Straightaway center for Correa. The Astros lead it two to one. Rock us yesterday in the game. You guys were to focus on the chinist candle.

And now that women is serious, I think it's a little credit. We have a solid team. You know, we can play baseball. We can win games. We can win series against great teams. And that's what we do this series. We show that we're still a solid team. And we show that we deserve some respect.

I feel like Carl's Kraya is playing with confidence and he's playing sexy. But is he playing with joy, Matt? But that's kind of the motto of the 12 to 3 show. How's his body language? I don't know. Ask what's his face, John Heyman. He always feel like they're very sad. Well, ESPN on game one said they were playing joyless as well.

They didn't have any confidence and arrogance. Especially when their faces were covered up in face masks. It's ridiculous. That's fine. They won the series. I don't think I'll ever go national. I'd love to do national play-by-play. What are they offered you?

Two million a year. I'm gone. All right. But if I ever do go and I ever gloss and just stereotype and generalize and not do do any research on the team that I'm calling, would you please call me and call me out on it, just like we need to be doing with these national guys. I call you out with your takes daily, Matt.

Yeah, it's true. I'm talking about it at another level, because I'm making at that point $2 million a year. You're going to call into your show? Yeah, it's... No, no, no, no, I'm not doing national radio. That's boring. I'm talking about national play-by-play.

Like, if they said, Matt, you're doing Cincinnati, Atlanta, best of five wild-card series. Are you ready? I can do it. I can call you during the broadcast. Text me. Text me. Yeah.

Say, Matt, you suck. Or that's ill-informed. because that's what I feel like national broadcasters are. Yeah. That's why when you get good ones, you should appreciate them. I love John Smoltz. I think, even though I think Ken Rosenthal's got a good feel of the national scene. He's more of a sideline guy, though.

Yeah, but I mean, he's a reporter. Nice bow ties. Nice boaties. But not a play guy. I don't know. I just, I think, again, it's a byproduct of not being around the team and talking to them. But if you're going to accept the national assignment, then you've got to get caught speed really. really, really fast. How was Alex Rodriguez so fantastic in the studio and now he's terrible on the booth?

Because he's full of generalities. Yeah, he stopped trying. When you work a game, and I can tell you this from experience, you can speak in generalities about any team that you're covering, but if you're calling the game and you are responsible for everything that's on air during that two, two and a half hour, three hour product, you got to have more than just what you're reading on the front page of the USA today. I think some of these guys rest on their laurels, too. I thought Chris Weber when he first started with TNT, he was really good. Regressed. And then now he's just, it kind of doesn't care and he's a cliche machine.

Yeah. Van Gundy, Stan Van Gundy, has been fantastic. I think he's good. I hope he doesn't regress either. I think you put, I think it's just natural to put more into something when you start off with it. Well, let me put this. Do you think Jeff Van Gundy's lost any of the fire? I don't think he and Mark Jackson are as good as they used to be.

I don't. They've been together a long time. Yes, they have. Mike Breen's still good. By the way, Matt, he dropped in the third quarter, he dropped these sets, what is it with sets fires, hits.

Has Mike Breen been listening to tapes of Matt Thomas? I want to say that Breen and Harlan both have told me they listen to NBA radio and my games have been on NBA radio before. But I bit steal to. Mike Green ripping off Matt. You know what?

Next game you got to drop a bang! When someone makes a three. I guarantee you inadvertently I have bit stolen from play by play guys. Okay. But I don't know if it's a phrase you invented anyways. Sets, fires. It really is, but nobody else has said it.

I don't know, maybe. Do about the history of NBA broadcasting? Oh, there's plenty. Okay. But I think if you skip a generation, like if somebody was the Nix broadcaster, the 1968 Nix, then I probably can get away with it. Okay. I think you still need to use pop in the polypropylene.

No. I'm terrible of multi-syllabic. Okay. Yeah. That's what I'm talking about. Slabic. Okay. fine stick with nothing but nylon it's not even had been made out of nylon since the 70s

but it fits better I know uh it's alliterative and sets fires hits can backfire when it doesn't you almost sets fire you have to make sure it's wide open well here's what happens I only do it when the shot is wide open yeah and secondly when I may be a tick behind the play where I know the ball I can see the ball taking off and I have a pretty good feel if it's going to go in or not yeah so like a step back one-legged Corey Brewer three you might not want to set that one up like I don't ever do it with Ben McElmore because Ben is catch and shoot. You don't have a time. Yeah.

Where at least if I know where Hardin is or if Eric's in a particular spot that I knows his sweet spot on the floor, then it's a little easier to do. Okay. But yeah, Cory Burrow would not be a sets fire. Yeah, you probably don't want to call it for a Russell Westbrook three either. You're just wasting your breath. It would be extra sweet if it did if it did go in, right? That's true.

You're going to be right 22% of the time, according to the match. You're so harsh on him. What? He can't shoot. You just are. He's a professional basketball player who can't shoot. in his 11th season. Remember when Jason Kidd developed a three-point shot late in his career?

Can Russell Westbrook do that? But Russ is still one of the best zero-60 guys in the NBA. Of course. You know it would make it even better? If people had to guard him in the three-point line, that'd be fun. But they don't. This would be an unstoppable offense if Russell Westbrook had a jump shot. Completely unstoppable.

Like Chris Paul's mid-range, Add Dick Russ's game. Yeah. Or Chris Paul's three-point shot. Chris Paul's a good three-point shooter. Yeah, okay. I take 33%. I'm not ready to bury the Russell Westbrook is still in his prime guy. And maybe I'm being naive.

He's still in his prime, but it's what helped you. They changed the whole offense to the five out because of him, and his inability to shoot because everyone just sags off of him. You can play free safety off of Russell Westbrook on the three-point line. I'm just saying I can live with him taking two to three game. It's when he gets the seven and eight that makes you a little bit nervous. Yeah, that's when he went, oh, for eight on Christmas, and then he didn't take one for another month.

and subsequently he was at his best. And that's when he was at his best. So keep doing that. That's when I want him at his best. He was, you know, I'll tell you this, and I'm not trying to revisit history here. January and February was as good as Russell Westbrook was MVP. He was the best Rockets player in that stretch.

Yeah. So. Because as you remember, James was struggling. Struggling. And now, wow, it's going to happen now. We got NBA coaching cert. We got Doc Rivers on the guy that's being thought about as a finalist in Philadelphia. Philadelphia. It's supposed to be meeting here in Houston later this week. Is he? Yeah.

Oh, he's just going to get a nice Vic and Anthony's meal. Do you want to know, do you like the heads-up stuff or do you like, would you like to be surprised? Like the, like the Woj bombs. See, part of the interesting things about Woj bombs are, they're bombs. I like that stuff. Yeah, it's fun. Because Woge probably has an idea of who the top five candidates are for the Rocket's job. So when one of those five gets the job, it's not nearly as eventful. I'm a I am in life I love surprises yeah I was gonna say like if if like say your wife bought you

a I don't know another Gucci bag for herself but in a like a I don't know what a little knicknack would you like Matt like a wallet would you like to be surprised with that do you like a little surprises I love surprise I love to be surprised about the dinner we're having the night or a party like if you want to throw a birthday party for me surprise me well I won't tell you what I'm getting for your next birthday then okay good so put it that way I just like so also don't get your hopes up

Yeah, I know. All right. 713, 212.1, 790. 7.13, 212.5.790. Braves look like they're going to go on. They're down to two outs. They're at 5-0-0 on the Natty. Oh, no more Tyler Bauer.

That's unfortunate. But he threw it 7 and 2-thirds yesterday, I think is what it was. Don't care. 11 strikeouts. And by the way, ESPN, I don't want to see Tyler Bauer quotes on my screen. He means nothing to me. He means nothing to anybody. In fact, he's universally.

hated by baseball. Why would you put somebody out there that is a blank starter and a blank stirer on a broadcast? He doesn't lend credibility. He's just an a-hole. I will 1,000 million billion percent guarantee you that the Astros will struggle offensively

in some game in this next series and Tyler Barrow is going to be sitting at home and he's going to have something to say. He will tweet it. He will get quotes. He will go on a podcast. He loves to make himself the story no matter what's going on. And he will do it again. By the way, Carlos Korea will be on the A team this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

What? Yeah. The Carlos Correa? Feeling sexy. If you don't have the facts, shut the bleep up, Carlos Correa, he's going to be on the A team at 4 o'clock. Wonderful. I'm just surprised actually how to put the show together. That's nice.

They're organizing a show. That they're even on. Yeah, I like it. All right. 713-212-5-7-90. Let's squeeze a calling before we get to the Rotten 5, which is always a favorite part of the week here on the 7-90 show. Let's go to Nick and Cyprus on 7-90. Nick, good afternoon.

Hey, I've got a question about Bill O'Brien sucking. At what point do you just kind of, not cut bay, but just say, you know, all right, you're not going to make any more trades that are going to impact future draft. You've already, you know, bankrupted the team for the next, like, three years. So if you get a new coach, you know, next year, he's not going to have much to work with for a couple years. Is there some balance between kind of rating him in and not firing him or do you just fire him? Nick, it's a great. I'm going to let you go.

Rossi, I'm going to make a small, small, um, No Sir Thomas prediction. Oh, let me get my, no sure onongous file out. Hold on. Go ahead and do it. Brendan, write this down too. This is a very, on a scale of one to ten million stars, this is about a five star.

Very little faith in this one. I think if the. Astros, if the Texans go say like, you got the homie to a record on this. If they win six or fewer games, I think we see a GM hired by this team. Or a bump of Easterbee to official general manager. I don't think Cal,

from a public relations standpoint, can allow an under- 500 coach who traded away two first round picks in back-to-back years and now a second round pick and traded DeAndre Hopkins, he's going to be able to be able to walk into his River Oaks fancy country club and all the different events and say, why did you give Bill O'Brien all this power? Very, very, very small prediction on it. What do you think?

You think I'm nuts? I don't think you're nuts. I think the Texans will win more than six games, though. But we'll see. I would say, so my five star out of a potential 10 million stars is six wins or less that Bill O'Brien is asked to go find. The organization will go find a true general manager or bump Easterbee up to general manager. It's locked under the pending column in the Nostrad wrongest file. But a lot of things I've hit.

I did have the Lakers in five against the Nuggets. Okay. I had the Astros in two. You had the Rockets in five in the first round? I had the Astros in two. And we have rotten five. I think you had the Astros in three. No.

No, no, no, no. No, no, no, Astros and 2. Back me up on this, please. Somebody? I had Astros and 2. Can you get Astros in 2? Thank you. I don't know about this.

Because I said Astros winning was my gut feeling, and then Matt doubled down and went to, oh. Yeah. Thank you. You also had the NFL season, not starting on time. This is true, but I also had zero preseason games, and I was right about that. Let's see. George Springer will get an extension after the 2019 season.

213 is the time. The Rotten 5 is next. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790. All right, so the Atlanta Braves have moved on. That's their first postseason win since 2001. It can't be that long.

Has it been that long since they've won its postage and series? The White Sox and A's are playing the win. winner of that game will play the Astros at Dodger Stadium next Monday, starting off a best of five series. Mike Fires on the mound right now for the A's, which means he probably can't avoid the Astros unless the White Sox win it. White Sox have runners at second and third top of first one out, no score in an empty Oakland Coliseum. Mike fires sighing. Go ahead, do Matt call the game? You want to call the game? Deep sigh from Mike fires. H-size, going to go run to somebody with the athletic and tell a story in between pitches.

Runner at second and third. Count is one ball and two strikes. Fires at the letters. Lake kick and here's the pitch. Off-speed delivery. Fly ball right side of the infield. First basement over there for the A's to make the grab and there's two down. So looks like fire is avoiding trouble here in the first.

Still has one more out to get before the A's get their first turn at bat. How about that? Pretty good, Matt. Impressive. What's the last time you did baseball? Was it U of H Cougars? Or what was it? No, I did the Southland Conference Championship a couple of years ago.

Oh, who could forget that? I did for a second. Ladies and gentlemen, it takes absolutely no skill and ability to tell you who the best five teams are in the NFL. Matter of fact, I can tell you right now. Let me go. Green Bay, Kansas City, Baltimore, who else? Pittsburgh. undefeated teams.

That's four. It's funny. It takes serious ability to give you the absolute crap. We present to you this. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's Rotten 5. This don't smell quite right.

Ah, yes, following week number three, it's good to be back on the Rotten 5, and it's good to welcome back. The Denver Broncos. They started the season 0 and 3, and their starting quarterback Drew Locke, going to miss at least three more weeks. They're currently deciding between Brett Rippin and who's, I can't even remember the other guy, Jeff Triscoll, because it doesn't even matter. He's terrible. Yeah, they're going to Rippin. Yeah. Well, now you're spoiling the Rod in five. Forget it. The offense currently ranks 29th, and they have a terrible decision to make at quarterback. And well, Brett Rippin's biggest NFL

accomplishment to date, it's being the nephew of Mark, Mark, The good news is that they're facing off against the New York Jets and what should be a typical Thursday night Barn Burner. They should be able to get a win tonight, but as of now, the Denver Broncos, the fifth worst team in the NFL. Oh, the Denver Broncos. I know, Hummer. All right. At this point, you just have to be impressed at the incredible fourth quarter failures of the Atlanta Falcons. They're the first team in the history of the NFL to bow back-to-back fourth quarter 15 point leads,

and also the first team in the NFL history to not know the on-side kick rules. Dan Quinn's seat could not be hotter and they have a tough task in the Green Bay Packers this week. And don't forget, they still have two games each against Tom Brady and Drew Bree. So I would not expect Quinn to be the Falcons head coach much longer. The Atlanta Falcons, the fourth worst team in the NFL. Man, you are one pathetic loser. All right, the Philadelphia Eagles. They're supposed to have a get-right game against the Cincinnati Bengals this weekend and rookie quarterback Joe Burrow.

but much like they've done all season, they fumbled the opportunity. Philadelphia Eagles are dead last in the NFL and turnover margin at minus 7. Carson Wentz is tied for the NFL lead with six interceptions, and Doug Peterson inexplicably punted for a tie at the end of overtime on Sunday. What are you doing out there, Peterson? They had a fourth and seven, could have made that and kicked a field goal for the win, but they punted to tie. The Philadelphia Eagles, the third worst team in the NFL.

Oh, no! We suck again. And now it's time for a couple of teams from New York. The New York football giants are 0 and 3, and the city of New York is winless when it comes to NFL football. The Giants had a glimmer of hope for a win this week as they went against a 49ers team that was missing its starting quarterback. It's starting running back.

A number of starters on the defensive side of the ball. Well, they took that opportunity, and they turned it into a 36 to 9 loss, the first final score in the NFL in history of 36 to 9. Nick Mullins threw for 343 yards against them, and they were completely lost on offense the entire game. Well, at least they have the distinction of being the best team in New York City, but unfortunately that makes them the second worst team in the NFL. It's going down to tubers. I know, Donnie T.

All right, the New York Jets, they've been blown out now in three straight weeks, the latest being a 36 to 7 drubbing at the hands of the Indianapolis Colts. Sam Darnold looks lost. They've lost a bunch of injuries on the offensive side of the ball as well, and they are dead last in yards per game. Adam Gase continues to be the head coach most likely to be fired first as the Jets are losing games

by an average score of 31 to 12. The New York Jets, the absolute worst team in the NFL. Your thoughts, Mr. Namath. I want to kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. Well, I don't know if management feels the same. That is your rotten five.

They are struggling. This is one of my favorite drops of all time. I want to kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. Struggling. It's an alcohol due to you. Yeah. Has he had a taste of liquor since then?

I don't, I think he's been clean and sober. Hopefully. Yeah. Because that's hard to overcome. By the way, the White Sox did not score in their half of the first. Dang. Lead off base hit for the A's and the bottom of the first. Um, boy.

Astros against the White Sox. Eh, Astros A's, Mike fires. Got a little more sizzle to it. A lot of more sizzle. And it'll still be at noon local time, or probably two local time, because it'll be a lot of...

Yeah, it reeks of 230 games, somewhere in that range. Matt Thomas, the Astros on deck show, 1 o'clock. We can't go that long with an on deck? Then you can't leave. You go for an hour. All right, fine, 1.30. 1.25? 135? It's a long time.

You'll be fine. You stay. You can stay. I'll see what I can do. You can stick it around. We'll get you Brian McTagher or something. Yeah, but I don't want Brian McTagher for like 45 minutes. Jake Kaplan's not doing anything.

Yeah, that's true. I just call it a beat reporter for the next handful of days. Larry and Galveston 225 on 7-90. Hi, Larry. MP, how are you? Well. Well, we're having a great day down here in Galveston, and I just had a question for you.

I said, you know, since Jim Crane decided to, give Jeff Luno and AJ Hinch the hook. I said, how long is it going to take Jim Click to wake up and smell the coffee and extend the contracts of Springer and Brantley, which we really need to be able to keep our job. team together. Well, I got news for you, Larry. It's not up to James Click. It's up to his boss. James Click. If James Click gets the information from his boss, Jim Craning says, extend him to this level, to this amount of money, he'll do it. James Click is not trying to sign those two guys

even though his boss wants him to. I mean, it doesn't work that way. They have a budget. They have dollars figures. They do analytics. They know the age, the comps on what other players of his ilk and age and talent make. There's intangibles in play. But Larry, it's not, I mean, trust me, I don't know if James Click's going to make this happen. I don't know if Jeff Linot could do something that James Clicked up doesn't know. All I know is at the end of the day, it's about what the owners are willing to spend. The general manager, unless the general manager walks in and says, you and believe,

this AAA prospect we have, all he's doing is, he's just waiting his turn. That then helps the owner make that decision. But the Astros don't have that. The Astros have at this point one viable outfielder that would be ready to go to start the 2021 season. And his name is Kyle Tucker. Short of that, they would not be ready. So I don't think Reddick's coming back.

And if he is, he's coming back at a dramatically reduced dollar. Springer, I don't think it's coming back. I think George wants a clean slate. I think you put your attention towards maybe resumpt. signing Michael Brantley for a couple of more years would be my guess. I would like that. I would like to have all of them back, but it's just not going to be practical. And like you said, it's going to be up to Jim Crane. How much money

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Now, we would not normally play this song, but it's the subject of today's, believe it or not. I am a woman in numbers too big to ignore. And I know too much to go back and for today. Now, Ross, this is I Am Woman, the most famous song, perhaps, of the women's love movement in the 70s. sung by Helen Reddy, who passed away yesterday at the age of 78. Mack Davis, who's also, can you pull up a Mac Davis song really quick? I don't mean to throw it to you on a curveball there, Brennan. So we're doing, believe it or not today, Helen Reddy and Mac Davis.

They both died at the age of 78. They were born in the exact same day, and they died on the exact same day. Wow. Maybe that's not true. Wait. Or is it? What, you're saying Mac Davis and Helen Reddy were born on the same day? No, they're both 70.

They were both 78, so they both passed. Are you a big Matt Davis fan? Yeah, that's what I say. It's got some good pipes on them. Yeah, his 70s country guy. They were not born on the same day. Close, though, right? This is Mac Davis' number one song?

The first song that came up on YouTube. It's hard to be humble. You've heard this song? This does not ring about for me. He's got a nice country voice, though. I wanted to do Mike Fires, believe it or not, but he said, let's do dead people instead. Mike Fires has the most uninteresting line.

life you've ever read about. Unless you want to talk about, well, he got in some major car crash. You want to write a question about that? Dude. Well, his full, he's got a full beard going. He's got his name tattooed on his forearm. Believe it. One-nothing white socks runners at second and third.

Here's the pitch and it's outside. And the bases are loaded. See, I can put a basketball feeling to a baseball game. Yeah, I was going to say, you just ramped that up like it's baseball. Yeah, I can do that. I can wake you all up on the boring-ass-y-s-s-fan broadcast. You know what the Spanish baseball calls are always fantastic. Are they?

Yeah, they treat them like a, it's like their soccer games. Okay. All right. So I don't even know if any of you know who Helen Reddy and or Mac Davis are, but they are the subjects of today's. This is the most Matt Thomas, believe it or not, we've ever done. Your idea, because you didn't want to do Mike fires.

I didn't want to do Mike fires. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports game show. We simply call it believe it or not. And here's how it works. It is time for you to call in 713. 2125790.

713212-790. Today's edition, believe it or not, brought to you by Houston Woodhouse Day Spaws. Print out your gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston Whathouspaws.com. Category today, half on Helen Reddy, half on Mac Davis. Both are dead, both 78 years old, both 70s singers.

May they rest in peace? They will rest, hopefully. If I read your statement about one of the two and it's completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. If it's erroneous funnel bonnet up, you will say this. To believe it or not, in all things about either Mac Davis or Helen to win your prize.

The prize today, this is a great prize sports RV, a six pack of beer, 50 wings, and two sides from Big City Wings. What?

All loaded up. And are Dosekis cooler? Damn, that's a great prize. Good job promotions. Thank you, Big City of Wings. Thank you, Dosekis. But you first must believe it or not.

Matt on 790, Matt, you ready to play? believe it or not. Believe it. Helen Reddy was attending Kent State during the police shootings in 1970, but was not on campus during the incident. Believe it or not? Odd question.

Question number two for the win. Helen Reddy's, I Am Woman. Hear me roar. Hit number one in 1976, but was her only Billboard top 40 hit? Believe it or not? Believe it. No, that was in 1972, and she had many hits. She had three number ones.

Yeah. I didn't know that. We just played one of them earlier. Angel Baby. Man loves all these are mad tits right here. He's got a top down and the beetle. Is I a woman on my phone? Yes or no?

Yes. It is. John on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 1977, Helen Reddy won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her role as Lori Williams in Oklahoma. Believe it or not? Not.

That is correct. statement number two for the win. Helen Reddy was an environmental activist and even served on the Parks and Recreation Commission for the state of California. Believe it or not. Believe it. Hey, you're going to win. Big City and does seconds. Congratulations. Sean on 790. Ready to play believe it or not? Believe it. Matt Davis was born in Lubbock and graduated from Lubbock High School at the age of 16. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Mack Davis wrote a number of hits for other artists,

including Elvis Presley's in the ghetto and a little less conversation. Believe it or not. Believe it. There's another winner. Keep another Mac Davis. What about Mac Brown? James on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Matt Davis also was an accomplished actor and appeared in the Muppet Show, North Dallas 40, and The Sting 2. Believe it or not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win and the chance to win the big prize. As a youngster, Mack Davis had a penchant for getting into fistfights

and briefly tried his hand in amateur boxing. Believe it or not? Not. Oh, he did. It's a Wikipedia question. And that ends the show. Mike Fires is out after one and two-thirds innings. That's unfortunate.

How unfortunate one to ten? Zero. Tomorrow on the show. Gordy Parody. Aaron Reese and the Athletic on a Texans Vikings preview. Brian T. Smith will be on the show. We'll make you some money in handicapping, and we're hoping that Dusty Baker will stop by it for 10 minutes as well.

So a big Friday edition of the show coming up. Thanks to Joe Clack for joining us today. Thanks to Dr. Roto. Ross, your rotten five doesn't disappoint, although a lot of people are curious as to whether or not the Texans we're going to make it. Let's see if they go on. I'll guarantee you if they're own four. will be in there. So it won't be nearly as

adventurousome for you to go find those five worst teams. Jets, giants, Texans, Falcons, Broncos. What the Broncos loses is the jets. So basically it's already done. Yeah. All right, Carlos Correa is on the show. Jeff Blum is on the show. And my God,

Adam Clinton and Adam works are going to do a three-hour show today. They're combined and be known as the A team, and they're up next on 790.