The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Drop Series vs Brewers, Lots of NCAA Legal Stuff; Myles Garrett to the Rams?!

Episode Date: June 1, 2026

Astros Drop Series vs Brewers, Lots of NCAA Legal Stuff; Myles Garrett to the Rams?!

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk, Cepidite. Second Sinatra song they're ever used on the show ever, I think. Of course, New York, New York, the all-time great. Not applicable when you're playing the Brewers. But that was life last night. Look, the Astros are playing better.

They're just not as good as the players. the Milwaukee Brewers. Tell me, Frank. Tell me, Frank. Get back in your feet. Yeah, it's a little over much. Good morning, everybody. Our friend Gordy is in today. You're going to hang out with us until 1 o'clock this afternoon. Let me tell you about Chris Gordy for a second. And you know, I tease him when he comes in with his crazy college ass takes in his unrelented defense of Lane Kiffin, which I'm sure will happen a lot over this week. But the reality is this. The man is a jack of all trades here. He is our program director. He is our promotions director. He does our Facebook stuff. He fills

in occasionally. He's got his SEC responsibilities. And we are very blessed when he can come and hang out with us when some of our folks take time off. Gordy, how the hell are you? What's up, Matt? You did the Astros on deck in 10th inning yesterday. Yes. And

the reality is this. Tatsu Iemi was pretty good yesterday. Yeah. I mean, you lose the game, but you also can't lose sight of the positives that coming off the no-hitter, because I was talking to people at the ballpark, just kind of saying, what do you think he does?

And a lot of people were thinking, oh, he goes back to the terrible pitcher we saw. Now, who are you going to name names on this? Or are you going to keep this here putting a secret? Okay, I got you. But it was just kind of an informal, hey, what do you think he does today? Yeah.

And that's what people told me. And he was awesome. I mean, literally one pitch, missed on one pitch to run homer. But again, six things to run ball. That's awesome. That's outstanding. You should win that game. Unfortunately, Jacob Misarowski was on the other side.

Do you think he was born with that arm? I mean, did something happen where his, you know, like, I'm not going to say he's a bionic man, but when his off speeds are in the old 90s, that's very alarming. Can I give you a tidbit? Ooh. Now, is this conspiracy or is this factual stuff?

No, this is factual? What you got? Do you know where he was committed to go play college ball? He was coming to LSU. Matt, had he... Jonathan, we're getting four days of this this week. Three days. Had he come to LSU, he would have been with skeins.

The year we won the College World Series, we could have had Skeens and Mizorowski. Like, they still wouldn't want to want it all, but like, that's stupid. He ended up, he went in the second round, but they overpaid slot value, and we see this a lot in the MLB draft. If you want a guy and you don't want him to go to college.

The slot where he went, he was slotted to get paid $1 million, they paid him like 2.6 million. So they way overpaid for him. Because we had a caller in the post game show yesterday. He was like, how does this guy not go in the first round? Well, he got first round money. He just fell to the second round.

And he was an all-star last year. Matt, he's even better this year. The ERA is sub-2. That dude is awesome. Now, you're right. He's probably going to throw his elbow out at some point. His second pitch yesterday was 102 miles an hour. Usually you try to like warm up.

But I missed the first pitch of the game. I got to the second pitch and it said 102. Now, now every gun is a little. bit different and depending on what but every time he throws he throws normally over 100 miles an hour on the semi-rigar. And by the way, we get to Wednesday night, we're slated

to see Skeens. So you're going to see two of the best pitchers in baseball in a handful of days. Now the thing with Skeens is I think he's like six and five or five and six. He's got, he gets no run support. I was going to say, what's his ERA? It's like three. It's like a sub-3. Yeah. That's

the Nolan Ryan syndrome. For those who don't know, Nolan Ryan back of the day, would play for the Astros and for the Angels, it would have like an ERA 2.23, and his record would be like 12 and 15. Well, I used to say Roy Oswald. It felt like he would go like six innings of one run ball and lose one nothing. All right, we are here today. Ross is off this week.

May he get some rest and relaxation and time away from this crazy world that we live in. But Gordy's going to hang out with us for parts of each of the next three days. Looking forward to that. We'll have Ryan Holland's going to hang out with a couple hours on Thursday. And then I will do the solo experience on Friday. We have a good show in front. We had a lot of fun things to talk about. And thankfully, we've got some things to get to, including the Astros, including dropping two or three of the brewers.

And here's what I was afraid of, ladies and gentlemen, is that somebody was going to get hot in the American League West. Now, hot as a relative term, but six in a row is six in a row. The Seattle Mariners won six in a row. The Astros dropped two or three. So now they wake up today, four and a half out of first place. And the Mariners are home tonight for the Mets. And the Mets are playing a lot better baseball in the last month of the season than they were. in the first month and a half of the season,

but they're still under 500. So a chance for the M's that they win the day, you get the victory number seven in row and maybe gain another half game on the Astros in the American League West. But I can tell you, because I am a standings obsessed person, I did look at the Waldcard.

And yeah, there are teams in front of the Astros, several of them, but the Astros are only two and a half out of the third wallet card spot. So I remain optimistic. Yeah, you can't worry about what the Mariners are doing. Didn't we go through stretches last year? It was like the Astros got red hot, but then the Mariners wouldn't

lose either, and so it's like they couldn't catch them in the standing. It seems like every time they won, they won. September was a great month for the Mariners. I mean, that's the reality. That's how they were able to push away and win the division. All right, so we got a lot of different things to get to today. We mentioned Milwaukee, beating them to nothing. Not a lot to chew on when your team gets

three hits. Saturday's game was awesome. Spencer Arrogati was fantastic. Friday, that was frustrating. And we've got a major, major, major conundrum that Joe Espada is going to, he's got dead weight on his roster. When do you put Brian to bring you in? I mean, you tried to piggyback off of what he had done in the previous, what, three weeks, but that may have been foos gold a little bit because he walks two guys right away, gives up the run.

It was his first bat outing in a handful of outings. It doesn't matter. This is June, Gordy. He's not going to back. bounce back from this. Well, here's... And even if you look back at the great performances before,

it wasn't one, two, three, nine inning gone. It was laborsome. He hasn't really, honestly, and I brought this up with Ross the last few weeks. He hasn't been the same since September of last season. He just hasn't. Here's what makes the decision easy for you. Josh Hader is going to be reinstated tomorrow. Bless him.

Josh Hader is back. That's your closer. That's your ninth inning guy. Yeah. Watching the guy, who's the closer for the burgers. He was awesome. He saw him twice Oh, my God. Not Cargill. Who is it? I'm drawing a blank on it.

But he, they had their... McGill. McGill. I was going to say Cargo. McGill, he throws 98 and then that weirdo who likes to do the X, degeneration, X, got suspended for a game. Yeah. They're good. I mean, that's a better team.

Milwaukee's better than you are. They are. They are. But that said, Friday night's game, you should have won. Correct. You should have won that game. And even with a brie you blowing it, ninth inning, runners at the same. second and third. You did the bunt. You got the runners over the second third, one out.

Bryce Matthews up? Was it Bryce Matthews up? Come on, dude. We didn't play. Look, we're team Bryce. I want Altuvia back really quick. He was, I was at the ballpark yesterday. He was taking grounders pregame. He's, he's getting close. All right, good. They said, expected to take face live pitching this week. And they kind of sounded like, at least this vibe I got, he might not even need a rehab stint that they may just plug him right back into the lineup when he's good to go. So how do we like bubble wrap him in between games? Do we ice it down? I mean, my guess is if he hurt himself on a swing, there is a possible chance. It's not like it's not going to potentially happen again. I don't know. Again, the good news is you get hater back this week. But the other good news is Alimber Santa, through three appearances so far.

has a zero ERA. Nate Pearson through, I think, what, four appearances so far has an ERA of 0.0. Those are other options, in addition to Brian King, who you trust. Okay, so what are you doing to get you through seventh, eighth and night? I mean, honestly, you've got people coming back. Tell me.

And Delis Santos has been pretty solid for you. So I think, Brian, you're just, you're low leverage guy. Or no low leverage. He doesn't pitch anymore. I mean, can you go to him and say, now he'd have to accept it? Go to Sherland for a few weeks. Get your mojo back.

I meant to look that up. Does he have options? No, I don't believe he's a five-year veteran guy, so no. So you can do the whole he's got arm fatigue. Well, he can also accept it. He can also accept it too. Yeah. Now, well, here's a problem.

I don't think his ego will do it. And more importantly, he's a free agent at the end of the year. And that's not something you want to put on your resume. As you went down to AAA in the final year of your contract. But if it gets you right? I don't disagree with you. That's, I mean, he needs to talk to his agent. agent needs to go, dude, you're sucking.

Why don't you go down there, get yourself right? Come back, show you're awesome, and then when you get big payday. Do you think the agent's saying you're sucking? I think you got to be, if I'm an agent, I'm real with my guy. I wonder what the percentage of conversations are with athletes and agents about being real. Like, oh, the team is screwing you, or the general manager is screwing you, or the manager's putting you in a position to lose, or bra, you got to get your blank together here. The few times I've been around the biggest D-Bag of D-Begger Rosenhouse.

Yeah? He is full on. Hey, babe. Oh, how's mom? Mom, get everything. She good? You look great, bro. You look great.

That's what I was afraid of. Yeah, it's all kiss your ass. That's what I was afraid of. If I had an agent, that's what I wouldn't want. I don't even admit. Matt, your show sucked today. What are you doing? Matt, great a show you ever did, babe.

Greatest show you ever did. Yeah. Just because their phone system wasn't working in the technical. We had dead spots in the RCS is free. I can forget. All right. We got a lot of little things to get to. I'm glad you're here today because we've got some NCAA stuff to get to, including a almost Texas Tech quarterback, his attorneys in a law in a courtroom today in love him to try to get him back.

We'll tell you about who, obviously if you're talking about sources, but we know who that is. And then this bipartisan bill is getting, I think it's going to be resolved this week, right, that we may see massive changes to how college athletics is run in terms of transferring NIL, coaches moving. And as Rossi says, how is it going to hold up in court? Well, I think that the bipartisan group of politicians are like, you know what, come fight us at this. They want to attempt to fix college athletics if it can be even be fixed. 1014 on Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790 if you want to chime in. Obviously, Astros on the brain.

We have to tell the truth today at 1130, and I got to tell you something besides this to tell the truth. We got, I am not. not happy the San Antonio Spurs won the West. And I'm trying to be as polite as I can. Let me tell you what's happening at my house. My wife's from San Antonio, okay? Her father-in-law came over to watch the game. My father-in-law, I should say.

I have cousins-in-laws that live in San Antonio that are constantly texting me. It's almost like it's a family feud. And Kim's like, well, I'm from San Antonio. I know I'm Team Rocket number one because you're the voice of the Rockets. number two, they help pay the bills. And I'm like, yes, they do. And by the way, I'm a rocket guy through and through, whether they're paid the bills or not. But damn, woman, I cannot in this house allow San Antonio Spurs love.

Jonathan, I may be sitting in your apartment. I've got to be brutally honest with you on this. 713-212-5-790. If you would like to join this program, we are the most caller-friendly show in the marketplace. Now, we may argue with you, but that's okay. It's only in love. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 as the Astros dropped the finale to the Milwaukee Brewers, only get a few hits. Tatsui Emi giving you another quality performance, and he will be the subject today of To Tell the Truth. Jonathan, you know what you do when there ain't Jack for Sports on, you think of to tell the truth in bed.

I know other people think of other things in bed, but I think of to tell the truth. And that's what we have for 1130 today. I have three lies and one truth. Now, Ross is not here today, so you've got a chance to make up some serious ground here on the old to tell the truth. I know I'm preparing. I'm meditating. All right, good for you. I'll get to tell the truth at 1130.

We got missing you at 1.30 this afternoon. And we have, believe it or not, today at 150. Gordy's in with me today until 1 o'clock. And you may join us right now again at 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790. I'm going to throw a scenario at you, John, I think as Ross is not here today, so I can't do it to him, and Gordy's working on some computer issues we have here at the office. All right, there was a guy, and I got to find this tweet because I saved it from a few days ago.

He had a four-team parlay. You know what a parlay is when you attach four bets to one person, to one particular bet? Not four separate bets, one bet off of four different outlets. comes. Right. Okay. He made, he, whoever this person is, made this bet of $2,500. Okay. All right. The first three things hit on his bet, but for a parlay to win, you have to get all four of them. Matter of fact, I've got it here. Let me see if I can get it here. So the fourth and final piece to this bet, was the San Antonio Spurs to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday to win the Western Conference. If it hit, which it did, his $2,500 bet would have been a, wouldn't have been, it was, a cash of $1.7 million.

Isn't that sick? He's set for life. I mean, it depends if he balances his finances, yeah. That's assuming smart. But that's not a bad return off a $2,500 bet. Now, again, it's a huge bet. And I don't have that $2,500 just to throw around on single bets, especially with 14 parlayes.

So the casino that knew about this said, hey, bra, why don't we cut our losses on both sides here? You've hit three-fourths of this parlay. We'll give you $612,000, and we'll call it a day. They told him that? They did. Oh, I would have took it all day. The cash out offer for three of the four was $612,000.

So the homeboy said, nope. He said, you can keep your money. He went all in on San Antonio. They obviously won. And now he took his $25,000 bet, and he got to cash in in for $1.7 million. He banked it all on Wimby. He banked it all on Wemby. and Devin Vassell and Stefan Castle

and Deeran Fox and Luke Cornett of all people my question for you Houston Texas guys and gals and Jonathan you too and we argued about this at the Thomas household all weekend I asked all the kids I asked my wife who was there as well

I'll ask you and Gordy too what would you have done if the casino called you and said we're good here's $612,000 so let's not worry about the other Millie. There's no more conversation. There's no more conversation.

Oh, no. Yeah, okay, I got to. Disapporte it this way. So you would not. Oh, I'm not even messing with that. Now, remember, if Oklahoma City would have won, you're only out 2,500. No. Okay.

You go positive rather than negative. I would not even trust that. See, my wife and I, I would have taken the 612. Yeah. Why not? Because that is still, that is mind-changing. money. That alters your life in a very positive way. That clears that, let you buy your, buy a finish off your house, clears any of your debts. I mean, you are, you're not retiring,

but you're very comfortable. Now, the other part of it is if you are firmly believe that the San Antonio Spurs can go beat Oklahoma State like they've done all season. Remember San Antonio and them played a boatload of times, San Antonio's won the season series and obviously won the playoff series. But $612,000 still a lot of money. other legs on the parlay. What were the other three? You know what? I'll have to go look. Okay, okay, okay. But I can tell you that I was the only one in the house. Oh, here it was it was.

Michigan to win the college basketball championship. Wow, that is so rando. U.S. men's hockey team to win the gold medal. Okay, that's the, okay. The Knicks to win the Eastern Conference and the Spurs. Let's see. It says Spurs to win the Western Conference. They already won the Western Conference. They already won the Western Conference. Yeah, that was it.

That was the fourth leg of it. That's great. It's it. Would you have done, Gordy? If I gave you 612, could you finish off three of the four legs? Would you have said no thanks to the casino or did you say, I'll take your money and goodbye? Yeah, I cash out. I'm also the guy.

If I go to the casino and I win a couple hundred bucks in the first 20 minutes in there, I'm cash it out. Yeah, that's not me. Okay, me and Gordon. What do you mean that's not? You're going to keep going? Yeah, because the casino, black check's one thing. This is a big bet. The old thing quit while you're ahead.

But it's funny because the story was published by Yahoo Sports and there was so much, stop me if you heard this before, there was so much vitriol on both sides of it. What are you doing, you morons? You absolutely take the 612. What are you doing, morons? You can't let the casino win. It wasn't an interesting conversation that had both sides going. I see how both ways.

It was, no, you moron, you have to go this way. No, you moron, you go this way. But I was the only one, and there was about six of us at the house between family and friends this weekend. I was the only one that said ticked the $612,000. They would have all banked on the spurs. They would have all said banked on the spurs. This is before the game even was played. I mean, I guess because you waited that long, you waited for Michigan to win, you waited for the U.S. hockey team.

So you've been waiting for a minute. Yeah, maybe that's part of it. Because, again, if you've spent $2,500 on something and you spent it months ago, you've long forgotten about it, right? Yeah, and you made a bad way. $2500 in car repairs. If your car is running, you don't particularly care about the cost anymore because it may have been a lot of money, but you at least get your driver car. This is money that this guy is either thrown away and doesn't care or, you know what? Because again, you wouldn't be, if you're betting $2,500 on four crazy ass bets, you ain't sweating $2,500.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah. You are not sweating that money. And that's maybe part of the reason why he wasn't worried about it is because maybe he isn't sweating, which again, would be a nice life to have, 612,000. thousand dollars. Do you care to guess how much it costs just to get into Madison Square Garden for game one? I've already seen it.

Jonathan made a guess what's going to cost you? This is what kind of seats of these by the way? Yeah, what are the seeds? Yeah, what are the seeds? Yeah, what are just to get in? So I would assume these are the worst seats in Madison Square Garden. Let's go. Oh gosh, no. Let's go. That ain't get you, to San Antonio. That's not even in those, please? No, what? Not in San Antonio,

not in New York. This article from Yahoo Sports says Spurs Nick's game one ticket start At 19th The game's in San Antonio Oh yeah, whatever

Oh I'm sorry Maybe yeah you're right You're right This is $900 In San Antonio To get in the door $1,900 to get into San Antonio I mean

HD TV is as good as it's ever been What's that place they have out there The Rock or something out there At San Antonio They've been having massive watch parties No they don't have it at the arena because there's nothing out there except the arena. No, it's the rock.

What is the, I don't know what the rock is. You don't know about this? No, what is it? It's like a big outdoor area where they're having watch parties. Not next to the arena, is it? The rocket La Cantera. Oh, it's at a resort. Okay.

Yeah, that makes better sense. Because if anybody's gone to a spurs game before, it's in East San Antonio where there's nothing but the arena and the old coliseum of the rodeo is. So, yeah, there's nothing to do out there. Yeah, they've had like massive watch parts. parties out there and dance parties and bands playing and all i mean it's it's a big party charles berkeley should do the inside of the NBA show from there why do we always i hate to poo-poo it but why do we have what the what's that thing avonita houston thing down yeah george rbronia it's fine it's not but like we

need like texas live in dallas or are like no we don't that's awesome it'll be a massive failure st louis live no outside the cardinals we're not our downtown blows but because we don't have Because guess what? Enough investors have said it ain't worth it. If you build it, they will come. No, that's not true at all. Jim Crane had that big plot of land across from Dinkin Park, and he's like, I'm not putting restaurants and bars over there.

I'm putting a parking garage. Because he's getting 60 bucks a spot for. But why would he, he could make more money if he was turning into restaurants and stuff, and he said, nah, I'm good. I just think you're, especially in the playoffs, like when home played bar and grow was there, that place was packed with people who didn't have tickets to the game.

Okay, so you're talking about six days a year. That's what you want to want to do? Well, but I mean like, okay, you might have people who don't want to go to the Astros game, but want to go watch it. They're not going downtown. It's so cute that some of you'd like to try to sell downtown. Downtown is what it is. It's got a beautiful downtown baseball stadium and a nice arena that's about to get worked on and get improved on. But no, we...

How about this? You know all the international people coming for the World Cup? Oh, by the way, our football stadium down in downtown. So they're not going downtown first. I'm going to say, the whole thing is, you go to European countries, everything's walkable. Like, you go to Paris, you can walk everywhere. You go London, you can walk everywhere. Are there people in for a rude awakening that it's not going to be an easy walk from downtown Houston over to NRG?

Well, you can take the metro rail. Walk past the abandoned buildings and the high grass fields, cross over the railroad track, past the homeless in camp. 35 minute bus train ride. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, the metro, I guess, is your best course of action. you do not want to walk over that NRG. Yeah. All right. 1032 is our time. Frank and Mike are going to join us next if you'd like to be a part of our conversation. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

You know, Ross is not here with us today. And Gordy's here. We get a little blessing here. We love having Gordy as our primary. You're like our utility plate. You're like, you know, you're our Maricio Dubon, although he's not here anymore. at least she didn't call me Brian to bury you Oof Yeah I could have I mean I could have called you Nick Allen Would you like to be called Nick Allen? Oh God, no

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Mike is calling us from San Antonio. We are the number one sports station in San Antonio. Mike, good morning to you. You are for me. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. May. I'm a native use. Yeah, you're welcome. and I enjoyed listening to you. I enjoyed you to Mr. Gordy and listened to you call the Rockets games. Thank you. Thank you.

So I heard you talking about the, I'm a bandwagon Spurs fan, I'll admit, and I've lived here almost 20 years. I have a love hate relationship with the Spurs. Make no mistake, I am a Rockets fan. I root for them. That's, you know, and I just loved, I haven't called that. I love seeing Katie

out there this year on that team, which they would have done better. But any case, very exciting to be in a city that's winning. I've been used to this routine since I've lived here where the Rockets will not make it and then I sometimes will jump over to the Spurs and you know they're they're doing well course but you were talking about the Rock I actually haven't been there but sounds to me like what the Texas are trying to do it's not a resort but it's the Spurs practice facility but it's got all this

other things that they do they're really nice the families you know they have watch parties they have like a Spurs team shop and yeah uh place things like that but but And it's in a great area of town. I know they're having watched parties at the arena, too, for the way gangs, I believe. But for the first time, I went out and I bought a spurs hat in the show. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I lived here almost 20 years.

I have that. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I told you, I told you a producer he might hang up on me. Yeah, I did. Jonathan. I was out of the country last week, and so I wore it. But this makes you feel better being a little bit petty. I flew into Seattle, and I put on my Astro hat, and I did get a reaction from someone there.

I had a World Series logo on it, and they're like, you're going to wear that. You're damn right. I am. And somebody who said, well, we don't have one of those yet. Yeah, I know. So anyway. Okay. Here's what we're going to have to do.

We're going to put this up with a great audience of 790. Mike, how long have you lived in San Antonio? Almost 20 years. Oh, damn. That's a long time. Yeah, that's a long time. But you grew up being a Rockets fan. I'm there.

I'm a native Estonian. I was there when they won the championship. I root for the Rockets. I talked to you before. And it was a question I had for you, too, if you get to it, is just what would you do if you were the Rockets about that team? No, I am a Rockets fan. But this has been going on since the midnight.

It's like the Cowboys. And they just don't get it. get over the hump. So it's always exciting to be in a city where they get in the playoffs. I don't hate the spurs. They're not my team, but, you know, yeah, I've jumped on their bandwagon without wearing the attire. But this year I went and got a shirt and a hat. You know, I paid 17 bucks for it at Academy.

Oh, look at you a little sponsor drop. I got you. All right. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do that. That's okay. That's all right. Mike, thank you for the phone call. Please don't. Do me a favor. Call me after game two to tell me what the buzz is there in San Antonio and just kind of what it's like being there because I'm frankly jealous. Mike, thank you

for the phone call. I appreciate it. All right, boys, I need a ruling. He's been there for 20 years. Still loves him some Rockets. He even listens to me on the Rockets game broadcast. That means you are a diehard, right? It's got to be. He went and bought Spurs gear.

I'm nauseous. I'm sorry. It's hard not to get rapid. up in it if you live there. I know, that's the thing. The only thing he's got going for him, boys, is he's got 20 years in that town. Yeah. Well, like he just went there last month. I'm an LSU guy throwing through. When Tom Herman had

U of H rolling, I was going to U of H games and buying U of H gear. But LSU and Houston are not direct, hated of, uh, yeah, you're right. Bragging. I mean, uh, yeah, different. Those are rivals. My wife though said she's like, she's, she's, she's, she's, diehard rockets

turning through. She's said go spurs. because of the state of Texas. And then local news, Channel 2, Kathy Hernandez, goes, oh, of course, we're rooting for the Texas teams. Go Spurs. What? Yeah.

It's a thing. I guess. No, it's not a thing. Texas are like, you root for the team from the state. I'm going to break it to you right now, ladies gentlemen. What I'm about to say, Jonathan, will no longer be in play in about two weeks.

Let's go Knicks. I ain't doing it. I'm not. doing it. Really? You're going to I. No chance.

No way. No how. And you claim and you claim Mr. Texas. I don't claim Mr. San Antonio. It's Mr. Manhattan.

Yeah, Maddie, I knew you were coming around. Jalen Brunston. 66 WFAA in your home for the best Knicks cover.

O. G. Nobie. He's the difference maker, Matt. How is Mitchell Robinson's pinky? Oh, seriously? No. All right.

I want to hear from you. Are you with me on this? Are you against me? You know what? We'll do the insipal when we come back. Let's go Knicks. Let's go Spurs. And you cannot go.

Let's go. I hate both of them and hang up. I want to hear from you right, right now. This is not going to have. We'll get to this coming back. Now I'm all fine. See, the thing is he's, the guy's been there for 20. The dude's been there for 20 years.

I kind of get it, but he listens to the rockets. He loves the rockets. He's worried about the rockets. You can't. You can't do it. None of this Texas BS. Mr. Texas sets the rules for this. You stay true.

Are you Texas fans going to rule for the Cowboys that goes to Super Bowl this year? Oh, hells, no, you're not. It happened. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 with a word for uptown appliance repair. 281-7589978. They are your local trusted source for reliable appliance repairs right here in the Houston area. They will give you 100% customer satisfaction.

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Jonathan, you do this as well. We'll let you guys. We're going to go first to nines. We're going to have a celebrity edition of the best of nine. So the first two, five people. Okay, okay. First to five. You cannot call and be cute and go, let's go Bobcats or let's go Duke or let's go Texas.

It's either one or the other. If you had the proverbial gun to your head, which obviously we don't want that to happen. And I said to you, you must say one of the two things. Let's go Nix. Let's go Spurs. What would you say? My vote does not count. And by the way, when you say what you say,

expires 7-1 July 1st. I say, let's go Nix. Might doesn't count. Gordy, you get the first vote. What are you saying? I think I'm with you. I think I'm, let's go Nix as well. Not about who's going to win,

but who you are rooting for. Yeah, I mean, Again, as a Rockets fan through and through here, we can't have the Spurs. We cannot have the Spurs. We're winning nice things. Correct. They had their run. Then Pop bottomed him out and hung on way too long.

The corpse was on the sidelines and he had to go. That got deep and dark real quick, didn't it? And then this dude, I don't even know his name. Was the Spurs coach? Mitch Johnson. See, it's such a common name. It's like Mike Smith. Mitch.

Good luck, Mitch. No. Jonathan, let's go Spurs. Let's go Knicks. I'm a Texan through and through. I'm going Spurs. Oh, hell no, you're fired. Cole take over the board.

Oh, my God, that's terrible. Zach on 790, Zach, let's go Spurs. Let's go Knicks. Let's go Spurs. I can't stand to watch New York team win. I like watching New York teams lose. It makes me happy. 2 to 1.

Spurs lead. Nick 7 won anything in forever. Who cares if they win one? Paul, 790, let's go Spurs, let's go Nix. Seems Mr. Texas turns into Benedict Arnold, go Spurs. Oh, that's gross. Gross. Three for the Spurs, one for the Knicks.

What is wrong with the state that I'm so appropriately named for? Garrett on 790, Garrett, let's go Spurs, let's go Knicks. Let's go Knicks. There is. late 80s in the 90s, and I dang sure it didn't root for the Spurs when Akema Langewan humbled David Robbins. Yeah, and I was there for that. Suck it, San Antonio.

All right, three for the Spurs, two for the Knicks, first to five. Roger, let's go Knicks, let's go Spurs. For our boy out of James and God, Knox, let's go Nickabackus. Nickabacus, 3-3. But he's a trick to be smart about it. and Fredito is barbicola and Big Red Eaton Sense of Bees. I don't like Big Red, I don't like Barmecoa. Don't get mad at me.

Can I present something to you, though? Oh, what are you going to do now? So the Knicks have two NBA titles. They do. If they win a third, they pass the Rockets. Don't care. For ninth on the all-time list. They don't care about that?

They haven't won them in 50 years. I know, 70 and 73. The only thing it bothers me with the Knicks is all the celebrity bros and be like, man, we've been such a fan for this is a long time. No, you haven't. You just been getting there to get yourself on television. There's two. Spike Lee and Ben Stiller.

They have them on camera from the 1999 finals. They're the only two celebrities that have been courtside every year since. All right, it's 3-3. This might be the tightest instapole ever. Trent, let's go Spurs. Let's go Nix. What are you going? Let's go Nix.

That's what I'm talking about. All right, 4-3. One more vote decides it all. Remember, the instapole doesn't lie. Cody, let's go Spurs, let's go Nix. Let's go Nix. There's not a chance in hell I would ever go for the Spurs, ever, ever, ever, ever. That's what I'm talking about.

Close the poll off. It's done. That's what I'm talking about. Now, I was little, Jonathan, I was scared. I was really scared. It was all Spurs early. Because I'm telling you, Mrs. Gordy is Team Texas on everything. Yeah. There are people like that.

I'm telling you, the local news. They're sickos. They're sickos. too. They were Sunday morning news. I don't let channel 2 decide. Sunday morning news. She's like, let's go Spurs. She's not a sports person. We want the teams from Texas to win. Get out. Get out.

What's her name? Kathy Hernandez. Kathy Hernandez. You listen to me? Out. She's a coog. I don't care. Go to Fox. Go to W.B. I don't care. Get out. It's ridiculous. They got five championships.

They don't need a six. They got plenty. It's 99, dude. Okay. See, what more compelling arguments that Gordy just not give you? They went through the suck mode and they're back. Yeah, they had their dynasty with pop. Let it die. They should go away. They're the third youngest starting lineup in NBA history for finals. Not in starting a lot, third youngest roster at 25 years of age. You take Harrison Barnes off that group and they're even super younger.

What did they give up? How did they get the Aaron Fox? How'd that happen? Trey was sack of tomato. I think it was a three. team or if I'm not mistaken. Who else was in the lottery running in 23? Was it Charlotte? How did Wemby not end up in Charlotte? Freakant San Antonio. The lottery balls

could have fallen differently. Let's fall Spurs. The Blazers had the third pick that draft. They could have had Wemby. Wemby, Castle, Vassell, Keldon Johnson went from just being a

dude to being the sixth man of the year. Like if Wemby was Dehran Fox If Wemby was in Charlotte right now They would be They would be terrible And we wouldn't even be talking about Yes

We wouldn't even care Like he might be decent But they would still be a bad team I'm looking at this I'm trying to get AI to do it here How did they How did they get Deer and Fox I'm trying to see here

Oh yeah it was a three team deal That sent Levine Zach Levine to the Sacramento And the who was from Chicago Yeah I don't I don't want to care. He's good. How'd that happen? He's a Houston kid too, right? Didn't the Aaron Fox go to school here in town? I want to say. Kentucky.

Well, but that doesn't really count. Think of all that had to go right. We were, and look, we love Amen Thompson here. We love him. He went forth, but Wemby went one. How'd that happen? And we prayed for Victor, too. Did. All right. More on, uh, while we hate San Antonio. more on the Astros setback.

And then we've got to get to this NCAA stuff going on. We got court cases in Lubbock. We got Washington trying to create bills. We got a lockdown SEC. Gordy with us for a couple more hours. 713212-5-7.9. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We got some phone calls to get to on the Astros.

We'll do that right now. Plus a little rock and chatter as well. And then I want to get with Gordy because he is Mr. College Sports. Sores, but is it brand? or Braden? It's Brandon? Brendan. Brendan. First of all, we got some problems

here. We got Brandon's, Braetons, and Brendan's going on. What happened here? I think by rule... There's a lot of Brailins, too. I think by rule we need to change it to... Everybody's got to go back to... Everybody's got to go to Brandon. Right? When did Braden become a name? Breeland? Brendan, Braylin, Brandon. It's just confused.

Mr. Sorbsby is not in the courtroom today, but his attorneys are trying to fight for his reinstatement back into playing college football at Texas Tech. Did you see the tweets over the weekend about how much money he really spent and how he had like his buddies making bets for him? Thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars on other bets at Indiana. And before he got to Texas Tech, he's never playing again. Got a problem. Got a serious problem. We do have rules, right? We do it. If there's a rule and you break a rule, there should be a punishment, correct? There will be. He ain't playing again.

On the phones we go, Mark and Beaumont on 79014. Mark, good morning to you. Good morning. Hey, just talk about the Astros one position in particular, not a position in outfield. Are we beholding to Jake Myers for any reason? I mean, what's the deal there, man? The number one thing that Jake brings the table

when you saw that yesterday was he covers as much ground of any centerfielder in baseball. And when you are constantly fluctuating between left and right field, not necessarily right but left, defense does play a premium. Now, the bat is okay, the arm is not okay.

The bat is, for a center field or the bat is it's sub-okay. It's okay at times, but man, he can't throw a baseball. I mean, and as far as covering ground in the MLB, a center field or which one doesn't? I don't know, but I can, but

But somebody's got to be the best at it, and he's one of the three or four best in covering. And so, you know, I'm not going to run through all 30, but I'm going to assume it's nice to have one of the guys I can do at the top three. Okay. Okay. All right. But look, it's, you know, you got to be able to throw a baseball a little bit. He can't. And it's none. It's zero. No. No. He can't. He might have the worst center field arm in baseball. And I don't have the metrics on that, but I'm going to say it wouldn't take me very long to find it. Right. And so that, I mean, that's a disfewal. qualification man i just get weak i don't know i just i get to thinking about it so we something he his family's a friend of the owner's family or something i don't know no no no i'll

say that's that's not true thanks i mean they could be friends but it used to be the old photos he's got photos yeah yeah no um i understand the friend look jakes first of all a good dude so that that goes for a little ways and he's carved out a nice MLB career, never going to be known for much power. But the last couple of years has been able to win playing, been able to have a respectable OPS. Again, but the biggest negative, and I don't know if you've watched Friday's game.

I can't remember the exact runner who was going from second to third, but there was a ball to center field. I'm not even like deep center field. And the guy ran on him, and Jake's arm shot. I mean, through injuries, it's clearly through injuries. I don't think he was ever born with a rocket arm out there, but obviously getting hit against the wall several times in the last handful of years has affected him.

And it's, it's poor. It's, and everybody knows that, and everybody's going to run on it, and that's a detriment. So you can't have it all. I don't need my centerfielder to be a 40 home run guy. It'd be nice, but that's not going to happen. You have to have guys 7, 8, 9-year line up for a reason, and I think the value in Jake is that he is going to be a plus-plus defensive centerfielder for him. And they value defense.

Joe Spotted the Astros. They have for 10 plus years. They will put a bad bat in the lineup if he is a plus defender. And that's, they do that. And I understand people get angry because they think everybody in the lineup should be able to hit. But they're fine with having two guys in the lineup who can't hit who are giving you great defense. And I got one for more for you here, Gordy. Who's pressing him for playing time?

Well, right. I mean, there's nobody, you know, that they... I mean, Zach Cole played some center, but Zach Cole's at the AAA level right now because he can't hit. Yeah. There's no, there's, to give you the even extended answer to the point we just gave you, there's nobody pressing him for playing time. That's my guy Ethan Frye doing. Is he doing anything?

I don't spend a lot of time looking at the minor leagues. I mean, he's the one LSU guy. Kevin Alvarez is one of their top prospects. He's an outfielder, but I don't know if he's center or what. Yeah. Giving you the answer, there's nobody pressing him at this point. Let's talk to Frank on 790. Frank at 1108. Frank, good morning to you.

Hey, how's it doing, Matt? Good, Frank. Man, I'm trying to watch these playoffs, but every time I see San Antonio win a game, I feel like just backing the truck up over at the Rockets and just loading up the whole coach's staff and dumping them in the river. You want to know why? I don't think murder is an appropriate answer to the Rockets troubles, but continue. but I want to know what they see in Reed Shepard

to make them think he was going to be a better NBA player than It hasn't turned out that way But again, I don't want to revisit Hishol. I mean, I guess we can revisit Hishra. That's what we are in the show. Let me ask you this. And Gordia, you've got a Kentucky fan in your family, clearly. Help me out with something here, boys.

And I don't know the answer to this, and maybe I should look this up. if I went to a bunch of pre-draft analysis from like respected people Frank people that really follow the college game how many people had Castle over Reed for the number three position I want to say now if I'm wrong Frank call me out on it

but I think Reed Shepard was considered by a lot of people at the time to be legitimately a top three he was the best college prospect in that draft yes so Frank it wasn't like the Rockets went off the board to pick Reacher just because he's got

photos. He's in a previous caller. And that's the reason why that's very, with that analysis right there and thought process, that's why we won't be in the playoffs for the next four years

to win anything. We might make the first round. That's about it. That's all they're building the team for the first round. They ain't building the team for anything. else. Wait a minute.

Frank, Frank, wait a minute. You're telling me the rocket sat down and said, hey everybody,

listen to me. We have no interest in winning the championship. All we want to do is hit the first

round and we'll be happy. Is that what you're going with? That's the way it looked like.

Well. That's the way it looked like to me. Because first of all, ain't going in the world

they thought reached a shepherd was Dugled in Castle. And that key just

come off a national championship win. Did you not hear what I did you Did you not hear what I just said? It wasn't Reed Shepard was considered the better prospect.

I don't think they were by themselves on this. No, you can't make me believe that, Matt. I mean, well, then go look it up. They had to go watch them play. Of course they did. They didn't pick him flying blind. The scouting team for the Rockets need to be replaced. Okay.

So you want to take the coaches? put them in a river and then everybody else replaced. Frank had a little Hennessy today, huh? That's Frank that used to call it and give ND a hard time for being an A&M homer. There's a warning sign with Frank's call on the screen. I think I need to be a little more selective. I feel like I need to keep reminding people, too. Did Reed Shepherd not take a big step forward this year?

Look, he's 21. He did take a significant leap forward. Right now, Castle's a better NBA player. and first of all it hurts that he's a better player, number one. And number two, his team's going to play for the NBA finals. And let's not confuse the issue. Stefan Castle is a really good NBA basketball player. Stefan Castle has a tremendous supporting cast.

Has a better surrounding cast than the Rockins do right now. And I think the Rockets will be the first admitted. That's a better basketball team. And by the way, you've got a generational player. We were praying for Victor. We must have prayed too far to the west because he went one town over. Castle, too, by the way. I remember this when he was coming out.

He was a 26% three-point shooter that season at Yukon. People were like, eh, I don't know if he could become a prolific score. That was the knock on him. Like, he was going to need a ton of development. It's so hard to get a read-on that guy was one year, but he shot 47% average 11 points, 26% three-point shooter at Yukon. Now, can the World Wide Web, can you go back and look at 2003 Prospect Board? Can you go find out?

Because that's what I need. I need somebody to tell me that it wasn't just the Rockets that loved Reed Shepard Moore. Well, you remember, I mean, it was the two Frenchmen, right? Or, yeah. It was Rich Chachet and Alexar. And they went one too. But remember the Rockets in that press conference they had, they said they had Reed far and away the best player in that draft and it wasn't even close. Like they had him and then it was everybody else way down the board.

they loved him and again he's 21 like it's who's to say he can't get better the next two years and be awesome you know what I'm that's honestly

if you're a rocket fan instead of spending all your life being miserable the Stefan Castle doing his thing how about just rooting for Reed Shepherd to get better the next

if he took one leap from year one to year two maybe he takes the same seismic leap from year two to year three and Castle's the same age I mean they're both 21 but again different people

mature at different levels and reach and again do we need to go back to all the track record of NBA players. Shea Gilgis Alexander's first two years in the league. Good player. Became super elite best player in the league.

Who's our guy in Indiana? Hubbard. Yeah, Halliburton. Fine players first couple years became an all-star. Like some guys who takes him a couple years to get going. He needs to get going. He does. Because here's a thing.

I mean, I'm not like he's under pressure going. He needs to get going because we're going to have the constant references between Stefan Castle and Reed Shepard. And frankly, the way you win this is if both guys are very successful and both guys help their teams get to high levels. Unfortunately, Stefan Castle is a little bit ahead of the curve on that. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join our show, 7-1-3-21-5-790. We have to tell the truth coming up in about 15 minutes.

We'll get to your phone calls before that as well. The news at noon plus missing you. Did you see a former Astro got beaned on in right field yesterday? by not a teammate or an opponent. I will explain coming up shortly. 713-212-5-790. All right. I have a few respected NBA minds that listen to this show,

and they all backed me up on what I thought, is that I don't think he was anybody that was picking Stefan Castle over Reed Sheppern in the draft. I know Frank doesn't want to hear that. Not that you should go to. what ESPN other people have to say, but they do follow it closer than we do. And the reality is this, and this is Cole Thompson in front of the show, part of the morning drive with Dan and Cole every morning between 6 and 10 here on Sports Talk 790. Here it is. ESPN, now revisionist

history, right? These things are just guesstimations. Had Reed Shepard going fourth, Stefan Castle going sixth. The ringer. Shepard 3rd, Castle 5th. The athletic had Shepard 4th, Castle 7th. Jonathan Giovanni had... That's it. What is that? Who does he do? He's ESPN now. He used to be NBA draft.net or one of those. Yeah, yeah.

He had Reed Shepherd 4th, Stefan Castle 6th. He had Donovan Klingin from Yukon 3rd. One board I just, the Col just sent me, had Reed 4th and Stifon Castle 19th. Yeah, like I said, Castle was, it was not a, he was part of a really good Yukon team, but like he was not like, oh my God, this guys can't miss. I'd say he was terrible. It's shooting threes. So, again, every team's going to present one team, player goes on one team, gets instruction, maybe one guy flourishes, grows up, or maybe sometimes people just fly out of the radar. But Castle has been good. I mean, again, being number one overall does not guarantee success,

nor does being the 24th pick all of a sudden mean you're not going to be a solid NBA player. And if you flip them, Reed would probably be nailing threes for the spurs. He'd be a key piece of their cogs. And we'd be sitting there going, man, I wish Castle would take that next step. I mean, that's the reality. Yeah. I want Stefan Castle to not make a single basket in this playoffs. I want Reed Shepard to take the next seismic, well, I wouldn't say seismic,

but a significant bump up in overall play. I think defensively he's going to have to get better, whatever that is. And if he physically can't, then he'll just be a score. That will just be picked on by opposing defenses. But I think Reed would be the first one to say, look, here's the thing about Reed. And I don't want to get into a deep dive on Reed because there's other issues on this team besides Reed. he does have the innate ability to pick up passing lanes. He's an above-average steel threat.

Yes. But the side-to-side movement, whether that is getting there late, maybe not being intuitive enough to make the first step, maybe athletically he can't do it, I don't know. But there is some parts of his defensive game that you go, okay, let's get him in the gym, let's get him a defensive strategist, Let's figure out if he's staring into film, if he should have gone left instead of going right. Again, those are things for the coaching set to figure out.

But he does have the ability to, A, steal the basketball, and he does, for a point guard, for a guy six, what is he? Six feet, six one, something like that? He does block a lot of shots, frankly. Are we not unfairly criticizing them, though, because of the Fred Van Vleet injury? If Fred doesn't get hurt, we're taking, reads probably not thrust into that larger role. But we're also at the same time not saying that. he took the leap in his progress because he probably wouldn't have been able to show as much progress. Look, he was put into position.

You know, I don't think Reid ultimately as a true point guard in this league. I think that the Rockets would be best served by having a man and Reed be the plan B and plan C. I think it would be very wise, honestly, Gordy, to maybe go check the market for a backup point guard when friend comes back. So those guys don't have to carry the weight of being that. There may be better off ball than they would be with a ball in their hands. as much. Just, just my guess. I completely agree. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We mentioned this very briefly. We'll get to more of it coming up at the, after to tell the truth. All right, so this Sorosby kid at Texas Tech, I can't run through everything, but he has a laundry list of betting that was beyond the, well, he was betting on Cricket and betting on shuffleboard and whatnot. he is in a courtroom, or actually his representation is in a courtroom, to try to get him back to being reinstated.

Texas Tech is not doing it for the love of the kid. They're doing it for the love of the fact that they want to pay him a million dollars to be their starting quarterback next year. And even Cody Campbell, the big-time alum, is like, you know, he deserves the punishment, but does he deserve to lose his potential college career? When it's his long, the laundry list came out this weekend of all the different things he's doing, he's toast. He's not playing. Oh, I meant to ask you if you saw

there was an article ESPN did a couple days ago and they listed a lot of like preseason things. And one of the things they listed was top 10 must see games for the upcoming season. And one of the games they had on there, I think it was like the eighth or ninth game was Texas Tech versus U.S. Tech versus

U of H. I'm like, why is that? And their whole write-up is if Sorsby plays, great, but if he doesn't, this is their first real big test. Yes, of course. With the other kid. Correct. Who I think what was hurt and is expected to be back somewhere

a couple weeks into the season. So, but it was just, I was like, how is U of H Texas Tech one of the top 10 must-see games this year? Because the University of Houston is must-see television period. Well, but again, they kind of broke it down as it's more of a Texas tech storyline.

Oh, that's wrong. But the Sorsby thing, yeah, I mean, look, the Lubbock judge recused himself because he had guns up with the Texas Tech mascot pictures. Why are they in Lubbock doing this? Why can't they go like to some neutral site? Like, why is it almost a spot? This is what all the coaches are getting fed up about is, and this is where the NCAA lacks a spine, you all agreed to be members of the NCAA. You all agreed to the rules that the NCAA enacted. Yet whenever they don't like a rule, they go,

oh, we're going to go to our local judge and overrule you. You know, why? Because Incidale has got a terrible winning percentage. But the NCAA is like, why you agree to these rules? Why are you coming back at us? We created this institution. You said you wanted to be a part of it. You wanted these rules. We created these rules.

And now you don't want these rules. It's the same thing happened with Trinidad Chambers. That's the biggest joke. The kid at Old Miss. where the local judge cried as he read the statement, I just can't believe to the dad. We're going to give you another gear, young man. It's like, good God.

And this one has to be you bet on sports as a college amateur. I'm sorry, you do not get to go back and play college. So the biggest argument that Soresby's attorneys are presenting today in Lubbock is that Soresby's gambling is part of a. mental health condition. Come on, man. Okay. Here it is.

Let me read you the quote, and you can play, believe it or not, let you guys aside. The high volume of Brendan's gambling was a direct result of his mental health disorder, an anxiety condition that manifested in compulsive gambling. That's fine. I mean, we'll get you all the help you need. Well, you can do all this stuff. But it doesn't give you the right to play college football. You don't get another year of college football because of it.

Like, it's ridiculous. So is he, he's got one year of eligibility left, correct? I'm assuming? Yes. Okay, so if he does, so the NCAAs, if he loses this ruling today in Lubbock, then he's done. Oh, they're already talking about the supplemental draft for him, the NFL, you know, that thing they do where you can become a... Yeah, where troubled people go to get drafted. Yeah.

If you're an NFL team, would you take a chance on this guy? Yeah, I mean, all the only thing is gambling. You just can't compete in NCAA. I mean, you might get one side. You're going to take a gambling person with a gambling problem and put more money in his pocket. You know what? I think he said it for the U.F. I'm friends.

Yeah, that gambler gym, he's going to be a gambler quarterback next year. Kevin Sommler would love to have him. He's used to having people with problems on his team. Troubled quarterbacks. I like the bet. Bob, did you see that Johnny Mansell two weeks ago was in a UFC quasi-fight or something? You saw who he fought, right? Bob Menary.

The guy that does those commercials? He does all those the fake cursing play by play. I didn't even, I thought Bob Minnery was like a fictitious dude. No, that's a real guy. And apparently, Johnny kicked his ass, right?

Yeah. Oh yeah, it was stupid. Did you watch it? I saw the YouTube club. I saw the YouTube press conference before where they were dropping all sorts of racial slurs and all sorts of where somebody's testicles are in somebody's area and, oh God.

Johnny was doughy though. I mean, I hate to say that about it. him, but he did. He was a far cry from Heisman Trovey winner Johnny Menzel. I didn't see it. Maybe his six-pack ab showed during the fight. He did not show. He was doughy. He was doing. All right.

Jonathan and Gordy get to play the Tell the Truth next. 1130 here on Sports Talk 790. We've got the news at noon coming up missing you at 130 how former Astros are doing and believe it or not today at 150. 713212-5-790 if you want to join us. We have an old smoky

charcoal grill giveaway today at 120. Just keep listening to show. Somebody that's been listening to show all day long is going to win that grill coming up at 120. 1130 here on 790. But the crazy thing is Houston, Texas. I do know how to tell the truth. And I'll do it here on Sports Talk 790.

All right. Gordy, you're in for Ross. Ross has a commanding lead on Jonathan. We're trying to get Jonathan back aboard 500, but it's just not working. It's a very, very slow process on that. I'm going to slow. It's all right. It's all right. All right.

Gentlemen, I have four takes. These are not fact or fiction. These are Matt Sports Opinions. I only believe one of them. Three of them, I'm not telling you the truth. One, I'm telling you the truth. Which one of these four? Am I telling you the truth on?

You ready? Here we go. Number one. I was highly impressed with that Tatsui Imi yesterday. The one bad pitch turned out to be a home run, apparently to be the difference maker. He throws the six no-no innings before that against the Rangers. And before that, it showed some encouraging signs.

I think our days of worrying about Tatsui Imi being a complete bust are over. Now, he may not be a guy that throws seven innings of two-run ball and BBs, but I think the worst, the darkest day, of Tatsua Imi as an astro are done. I am very encouraged. And I'm frankly happy that he has been able to put things together here in the last couple weeks. So my statement is I think our days of Tatsuai, Imi being a total bust are over.

Number two. If you watch ESPN this weekend, ESPNU, ESPN Plus SEC Network. There was a lot of college baseball on. I loved every minute of it. I think there's some sort of fun, interesting drama in college baseball that you don't get with Major League Baseball. You don't get with the tournament. You got the heat. You got the weather.

You've got pitchers being put into some very important situations. You've got schools playing different parts of the country. They'll normally normally play each other. College Baseball regionals this weekend were a fun watch. Tag number three. NBC just finished their coverage of the Western Conference finals. I think there's way too much slander on Reggie Miller. Is he my favorite analyst? No.

But I think everybody crushing Reggie Miller for being Captain Obvious, you're being way too hard on him. Reggie Miller, not that bad. I think there's way too much slander on Reggie Miller. And number four, I am rooting for the Knicks to beat the Spurs. That's a truth. There's no argument about that because I'm never rooting for San Antonio. That didn't happen.

But I really do believe at the end of the day. the Knicks are going to beat the Spurs to win the NBA title. The drought for New York of 50 years will be over. Knicks beat the Spurs in the NBA finals. Which one of the four is the truth? Three of them are not the truth. I'll recap. I think our days are worrying about Tatsui Imi being a total buster over.

College baseball regionals were a fun watch this weekend. There's way too much slainer on Reggie Miller. He's not that bad. Or D, Knicks beat the Spurs to win the NBA title. Which one of the football? four gentlemen, you may discuss it amongst yourselves. Am I telling you the truth? John, I think you want to dive in first?

I think he's lying about number two so bad. I'm not even... Loved every minute of college baseball? There's no way. I at least know that. I think it's one. I think he doesn't like Reggie. I think three doesn't like Reggie Miller.

I don't think he cares that he's getting slandered on. I think he does believe the Knicks will be dispersed. I think that. the Knicks will beat the Spurs. I think he enjoyed the college baseball. It was fun, you know, watching the Aggie struggle a little bit last night. I don't doubt that he was impressed by Tatsuya Mai, but his line where he said he's not going to be a bus.

I think he, I think very well a lot of people still believe Amai is going to be a bust. So I'm going to go one. Total bust, by the way. Just for the sake of argument, total bust. I'm going one. You're going two? Now, one is it, which one are you telling the truth? Which one might tell them the truth?

Oh, wait, that's right. I forgot. I'm going four. I only, one of those things I said is the truth. Which, this is not difficult. Which one of those four are the truth? Oh, I did it wrong again. I thought it was.

Yeah, I know. We know those every single time you come in. It's okay, Gordy. It gets confusing sometimes. One truth, three lies. Figure out which one of the four am I telling the truth. So it's not a buy. I don't think he cares about the Reggie Miller slander.

Not that much. Maybe you did enjoy college, the college baseball. I'll go two. I'll go with you. I'll go for it. All right. I don't like Reggie Miller. He is terrible. He's grading to me.

I think he's Captain obvious. I think he is, he just doesn't give me anything that I can't get from L. I mean, the best analyst in the sports give me the stuff that I'm looking for, and I just don't, I understand it. I've tried many a time to just tolerate Reggie Miller. It's not good. I'm not a Reggie Miller guy.

I like him too. That's crazy. As a player, it was great. As an analyst, meh. Gordy, college baseball sucks. It really does. Terrible, terrible pitching. You have umpires ejecting people.

You've got players who are taunting. You have routine ground balls by the shortstop that turn into these terrible errors that turn into nine run innings. College baseball. Look at the scores from this weekend. They're embarrassing. College baseball.

We saw the top seed UCLA go down. I'm saying, yeah. Not great. On a lockoff, right? We had the three and four seats playing for the regional final. 80% of the games ends 17 to 14. It's not great. College baseball pitching blows.

Get rid of the aluminum bats. Let's play some real baseball. And I do college baseball. But I like the Cougars. I'm very excited about the future of Cougar Baseball, the new coach. Yeah. But watching this weekend, yuck. That's out.

So Jonathan, you're still in the game, huh? You have me, Nick's beating the Spurs. I have almost pulled a 180 on Tatsu Aima. I think he is not going to be a total bus this year. I thought yesterday was a really important game for him. He starts, he's looking, he's not sweating on the mound as much, he's not overthinking things, he's throwing strikes, he's not getting into high pitch counts early on.

I don't think he's going to be a total buck. that's what I believe. And sadly, sadly, I believe the Spurs are going to beat the Knicks for the championship. You didn't say Go Spurs, though. I didn't say Go Spurs. I say go Knicks, but I'm afraid the Spurs are going to win. So neither one of you win.

You know what? That's the best way to lose. We both go down. But you had a chance of gain ground with Ross not even being here. It's okay. Just like baseball is. And by the way, I'm going to keep in the security during the break. He can't like college baseball.

Where's your school, by the way? How did you guys not even make the tournament? First time since 2011. How did that happen? They busted on the transfer portal signings. They all turned out to be duds. Now, the college is fun to watch, Matt. No, no, no, the World Series is fine.

Okay. This round. Let me give you, let me give you some. No, no, no, no, no, no. It is not fun. Strategically set up your pitching because you got to play Friday, Saturday. There's no pitching in college baseball. You had teams playing two games yesterday.

Let me give you Saturday's finals. 13 to 8, Pine Bluff over Bethune. Fairfield beat Ryder 12 to 7. Troy beat South Alabama, 11 to 10. Louisiana beat Texas State 12 to 6. Air Force over New Mexico. Those are all the elimination games, though.

Terrible, terrible, terrible. You're looking at the three versus four seed elimination games. Go to the regional games last night. Let's go to the games some last night. I'm glad you asked. Let's take a look here. Yesterday. Oklahoma staved off Georgia Tech.

West Virginia, 10, 5. Troy, 9, 6. East Carolina, 10, nothing. Oklahoma 15 to 6 over the Citadel Arkansas 10-9 Santa Barbara 9-5 St. John's being in Northern Illinois 21 to 8. So what you're telling me is you don't like

runs? You want to see a 2 to 1-1 college game? Who the hell wants to see a 1-0-0-hitter in college baseball? Give me a 1-0-0 game in college baseball once in a while. Well, Paul Skeens is in the pros now. He was doing that at LSU. College baseball pitching blows. It just does. What do you want? I want outs.

I watch a ground ball to shorts type in the Aggie game yesterday. Butchered it. Grandpa over here wants to see a low-scoring game. I want scores that aren't like... Whatever happened to a good old two-to-nothing ball game. I don't want home runs that don't leave the infield. Well, that must have a home run. No, it was a four-base area.

That happens very rarely. That happened in the pros. Congratulations to Troy. They beat Florida in a regional elimination game 16 to 11. And they will play a winner-take-all game today. There's a ton of. winner take all games today. And guess what I won't be doing, watching them?

Got softball on right now. That's a good look right there. That's my girl. Tennessee, Texas. Three of the final four from the SEC. There's nobody in the building. Well, it's a middle of the day. It's a Monday. Empty in Oklahoma City. Real impressive. Well, because Oklahoma's not there for the first time.

I don't want. So it's a bandwagon city then basically what you're saying. It's kind of packed in there. Kind of back. Go look in the second deck. Let's see how empty it is. It's a good crowd. Outfield's empty. Now, you're such a hater. I'm a realist.

That's why people listen to this show. Better crowd than a AAA game. I don't go. Well, Tennessee, you got some cuties. Got a break. Okay. 1144 is our time. 713, 2,1, 212.

5790. 713, 212-790. It's Matt. It is Gordy. Gordy with us until 1 o'clock. We got missing you at 130. And believe it or not, today at 150. 1144 on 790.

1151 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Tompest show. with Ross. Ross is in L.A. Gordie, is trying to come in here and talk. We're not allowing here to happen. Can't have Spurs conversation going on during the show. I was nervous that people were going to say,

let's go Spurs. I was really worried about that for a while. Thank God. Instapol doesn't lie. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Let's go to Easy at 1151.

Easy, what do you got today? What's going on, Mr. Matt? quick question on the on the on the on the on the little youngster from Texas check right yeah um he's a kid he's a kid I mean he made mistakes I mean should he be punished that bad for not getting another year I mean look at look at like with somebody like Robinson Cano did uh uh still made millions and millions of dollars and you know he was he was against the whole thing I mean

that he he violated the rules I mean how can how can you punish this kid for making those kind of things. He's 22 years old. He's not like he's 17. He's 22. Come on. He knew what he was doing. Robinson Canoe maybe. Well, Robin, what is Robinson Canoe have to do with anything? He got to spend it a whole whatever.

Yeah, what is Robinson? Why are you trying to put Robinson Canoe and Sorbsby in the same conversation? Well, as I'm saying, I mean, he made an admitted mistake and he got right back in the league and made, you know, another $100 million or whatever. He served an entire year. Hold on. Robinson, you know, first of all, it was for drugs. Second of all, he was suspended

for an entire season. College athletics and... Some people's license, sir. Say that again? Some people's vices or some people's vices, sir. Some people's vices or some people's vices, you know? Okay, and you gotta pay the price. So you gotta pay a price. Brook a rule. I mean, yeah, I mean,

we're not putting him on the death, we're not putting him a death sentence. He's just not, I mean, he broke the number one rule in college sports. Don't bet on college sports. Don't bet on anything. You can't bet anything. And he did, and again, again, his listing of what he's done in the avenues in which he did it, he got friends involved. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was trying to find one-offs to cover up his gambling debts and cover up his gambling bets.

He knew exactly what he was doing. This mental health thing is crazy. The 20-cent parlay? The 20-cent parley? No, no, no, no. There's more than that. There's betting on Cincinnati games. There's betting on Indiana games.

There is, I mean, there is a deep, deep run-through of the issues that he's, he's gone through. This is not just about betting on Turkey, Turkish croquet games. Number two, chicks dig the long ball, sir. So, college baseball needs to be that way.

Gordy touched on it. Chicks dig the long ball. Chicks don't dig. Hold on one more thing. Easy. Chicks don't dig four and a half hour games with terrible pitching either. That's true. Am I right? They're not going to sit through it. No, they're not. They're going to be bored.

A couple of young ladies sitting behind old plate during the A&M game last night. I'm like, they've got to be girlfriends. They're still sitting there through this crap. Hey, E.C., are you watching any of the Spurs games in San Antonio? Because I'm going to segue into something else. Have you listened to you watch any of that? No, I'm not, and I still hate the Spurs. And I hope the Knicks win.

Gentlemen, and I'm going to hang up and listen. Thank Easy. Okay, I'm going to bring this up to you. Have you been watching the Spurs games in San Antonio? A little bit. Have you seen the vote when they show a picture of video of Mitch Johnson, the Spurs coach? No. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?

When the cameras show photos of Mitch Johnson, have you all noticed something in the last couple of games? Like behind him? Correct. Is it his wife? No. Google it. Everybody Google it real quick. Mitch Johnson Photos, San Antonio.

Mm-hmm. Those two ladies are only fans models. And they're sitting courtside? No, they're sitting on the first row of the lower level. They're doing quite well for themselves. And it's abundant that they specifically chose the spots. Oh, I see it now. A TMZ exclusive.

What is TMZ saying? A mask. Two huge Spurs fans. Oh, they're huge, all right. went home happy and the folks at home were pretty satisfied too after going viral for their appearance

at games three and four in the playoffs series they've been there at least two times Only fans models Julius Swan and Blue just goes by Blue Just Blue? Hit up Frostbank Arena to catch the NBA action

and viewers certainly took notice as they sat feet away from the court they were wearing to quote Matt Thomas Busty fits to the venue. Jonathan, are you letting a look or your girl, get mad at you? I know what you're talking about.

Okay, so make sure. Let's make sure your blood was flowing. Because the first time I saw it, I'm like, maybe I'm just imagining something. And then they were there for one game, and then they were back for the exact same spot. Matt, I prefer the story of the Silesian sisters of St. John Bosco, the Spurs.

The nuns were. there to... I appreciate that story a little bit more. Okay, so let me ask you this. If you're a director or a producer of the ESPN ABC broadcast, are you going to see more of the nuns? Are you going to see more of the only fans of girls? I mean, you've got to show the... Coach. And if they happen to be behind them, I mean, I guess you could use a different angle. Smart marketing on those two. But the question would be, why would you?

Because you don't want to... Because you don't want to... Because you don't want to what? you don't want to be shoving that down the viewer's throat if they don't want it shouldn't there be a dress code at games what would that be like excuse me ma'am you need to cover up more

sure if they're wearing tank tops you're going to be sitting courtside hey last time I'm out of check people wear tank tops at games right I want you to mull that over for a little bit what do you want you want more nuns or do you want the girls behind uh Mitch johnson game one of the NBA finals will be coming up on Wednesday night.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Gordy's going to hang out with us for another hour. Old Smoky giveaway coming up at 120 today. We've got missing you at 130, and believe it or not today, at 150. 7-13-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

I've been a puppet, a poor for a pirate. I call them the Mad, or the Mid. What they call Ms. I'm Misaroski, right? That's how you should say it, long ways? Yes. That guy throws 100 miles an hour. Second pitch of the game was 102. Through him BBs, great Milwaukee bullpen

and one swing made the difference as the Brewers. One, two, or three. As we welcome you to the third hour, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Gordy's hanging out with us another 55 minutes. So if you want to talk some serious SEC linebacker talk, what's going on? South Carolina. Will the

safety's at Florida be good enough to lead them to a rebirth? And how many violations will Lane Kiffin have on his first year as a coach of LSU? 7-13-212. Well, Pete Golding will have more. I don't even know what Pete Golding is. That's the Ole Miss coach. Oh, okay. Cheat and ass.

You know, we've got to call it Locked on Everybody You Hate in the SEC. It should be called Locked on SECC. I love all my children, equally the same. You hate Alabama? I don't root for good things for Bama, I can talk about them. You know what? You're a journalistic fraud. No, I can talk about them. They'd be like Adam Schepter going,

I only going to write good stories on 27 teams. I despise the Panthers. Did you see the big story he had today? How big is it? Hold on. You know what? We're going to lead up with the news and noon. We'll let Gordy give us the news and noon the big story from Adam Schaefter. Go ahead. According to sources from Adam Schaefter.

Sosses. Ten time pro bowler. Quarterback Russell Wilson, Mr. Unlimited. finalizing a deal to become a CBS sports analyst. Wilson, who won a Super Bowl, the Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, now leaves the NFL to become an analyst in the network's pregame show

that will include James Brown, Nate Burleson, Bill Cower, and now Russell Wilson. Does anybody give a damn about Russell Wilson's opinion on sports? I hate to tell you this. Does anybody give a damn about the NFL today? I like the Fox pregame. I've never liked the CBS pregame.

Here's my philosophy on it, and maybe I'm just the only one. I watch football on Sundays, the noon, the three. I have dinner with my family at between 630 and 7.30. I watch the 7.30 game. I can't give, I don't watch NFL the morning show on ESPN. I don't watch the NFL show on the NFL network. I maybe will glance at an NFL today thing. or a Fox, but if you're going to get my eyes

Gordy for 11 hours, they're not going to be getting my eyes for the NFL pregame shows. Well, they've just added so many people to these desks. Like the Fox desk, you still have Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long hanging on. I mean, Terry Bradshaw couldn't name 10 NFL players. Yeah, it's getting kind of bad. He needs help doing the highlights too. But they added Strahan, they added Grankowski.

It's like a 10-man desk now. But I will say the one thing I'm looking for when I'm watching those shows, Matt, is when they bring... Let's go to the desk. Let's bring in Jay Glazer, who's got the latest. Yeah, here's who to start. Here's who to sit today. I'll hear, Justin Jefferson is a go. He was listed as questionable. He's going to go today. Put him in your roster. It's for setting your fans in the watching. You are watching it, though. Okay, I got you.

All right. Mention the Astros. We mentioned the Spurs beating the Thunder on Saturday night. That was a shocker. I thought... Really? I thought they're at homes. The way the Spurs have beaten the Thunder all year long? I just thought at home. in a game seven. Thunder, we get it done.

By the way, Chad Holngren, isn't it, this is how weird sports goes. Chad Hongren absolutely sucked in game seven, right? Four points, boys, right? Did you take four shots? I think four points, four shots? Three shots, whatever. And now everybody wants him to be traded.

Why would a team go, man, I can't wait to bring a guy in who in the most pressure pack situation absolutely was a no-show? Why would I, why would any team want to go, man, I want to risk my future. I think a change of venue is going to make Ted Holmgren gain 20 pounds? You think Chad Homer's not going to be completely

dominated by Victor Wenbanyam and anybody of a physical nature in the low block? People do that crap with the Astros all the time. Remember, it was always trade McCullors. Like, what value does Lance McCullors have? Well, it happens here. When the Rockets all series, oh, we got to get rid of Alperin Shangoon. Got to get rid of Kevin Durant.

I mean, okay. Now, Shingoon would have a lot of value. He would, but the warts are on Opron like anybody else. Everybody knows who Apren Shingoon is. We're like, oh, you got to trade James Harden. You can trade James Hardin. No matter what uniform is in,

he's going to fail, miss him in the playoffs. I got to trade Brian a Burr-you call yesterday. For what? Exactly. Everybody always wants to, what is it with stocks? You sell high, you buy low. It's not the opposite. And by the way...

So when a guy sucks, you don't trade him when he sucks. every time I did this yesterday and maybe this is because I'm becoming a smarter Twitter observer anytime I saw Joe Espada causes this game causes this team

he should be fired I mean to that person I'll never see those things again if you want to question and manage your own decision I get it but they've dropped two or three and now they want him fired again

I had a caller say because Santa looked so good yesterday that that's who should have come in on Friday night instead of Brian Abraeu like yes the rookie making his second appearance should have come in instead of Brian Abraeu the Savvy man.

Honestly, I probably wouldn't have minded that. Abraeu to me looks like he wants to be anywhere but a major league uniform on a major league mound. I'm not even counting what he did beforehand. He was still just okay. But then, man, Friday was likely. All right, one more thing I got to get to, and I got this sent to me from a listener. Do you know who this Chrissy fraud is? Yes, I'm actually a friend of hers

Oh How good of friends I'm not talking about intimately I'm just talking about Yeah, very like I see her once a year In an event And she will see you and go Hey Chris, how are you?

Yes And you will go Hey Chrissy, what's going on with you? Yes All right Turn the music down Because this is going to take A little bit of latering here

She interviews Okay, her Twitter account It's 21,000 people And she's cute Right? Cute, yes, no maybe a little bit. I mean, I don't look at her that way.

All right, that's fine. She's air raid certified. What does that exactly mean? She studied, she took the, how mummy we used to offer, like an online course to study the air raid offense. Okay. And then she,

she did some, she like, Mike Leach took her under his wing and, like, did a lot of film study on the offense and all that with him. So she covers football, for fan-sided Heavy On Sports, founder of On Paul and Ace 95.

I don't know. She's worked for all of them. She's done S-I. She's done all those different websites out there. There was a story from the Daily Mail, a British publication. Chrissy Fraud, Freud, whatever.

I was fired for exposing the NFL's dirtiest sex secret. Now I'm revealing everything and naming names. Was she the one that exposed the Rusini? No, but when it came out, she put out there, she's like, I've known about this for years. So, whether she had. Why didn't she do that? I don't know. She pulled the whole, this wasn't a secret.

Anybody who knows anything about anything knew this was going on for a long time. Okay, but she felt the need to put that out there. Again, I've never heard of this woman until today. She put a tweet out 14 hours ago that this was the tweet that was sent to me. and it says, wouldn't it be funny if Sean Payton and Nick Casario were involved? Now, the Sean Payton one, I've heard things. A couple of years ago, there was, just go back and look. There was a time during Saints training camp when one Diana Rossini was breaking all the Saints news.

Okay. Connected that. Now, Sean Payton was single at the time. But let me ask you this. Why would she, she quote tweeted the Daily Mail story about her exposing the dirtiest secret. And then she chooses two random NFL names? Yeah. That seems... I don't know about the mixed scenario thing.

Again, a lot of this is rumors and, you know, stuff you hear behind the scenes. But why would she put those names out? Because she's probably heard something about those guys. And again, she puts her credibility or reputation in the line. Does she have either one? Not well, do you know the fallout of what happened after the Diana Rossini thing? I do not. So she was dating the former Georgia quarterback and Rice quarterback, J.T. Daniels, and covering college football. And some people are saying, oh, you're getting on Rossini for putting her credibility out there.

And you were dating a player while covering the story. Oh, okay. So trying to do a comparison. Right. Oh, I'm looking at her timeline. She's like, I didn't, I didn't cheat, I didn't lie, have kids, have an affair, no professional gain. Oh, this is who, she's, is she unhinged? Yes, tell the truth.

Yes, that's a good way to put it. Being respectful. But your friend is unhinged. Didn't say it was a friend. Yeah, you did. Did she not say we were friends? You said, do you know her? I said I know her.

Jonathan? Okay, you did ask if he knew her. I wouldn't say he said friends. Okay, so you know each other, but you're not friends. What do you call that? An acquaintance. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sports media, people you know.

Okay. I can buy that. I just think it's really, really odd that she would just pick out two random NFL people's names and attach it to a tweet. Like I said. I mean, if I'm going to do something, that comes across to me is that Chrissy knows something about those two dudes, right? Like I said, I have heard the Sean Payton thing has been in internet circles for years. So that one, that one doesn't surprise me. The Nick Casario one would surprise me.

But think about it. But what if I'm Mrs. Kassarra and I'm looking at my Twitter for you? That's not great. She's got some questions, I would think. But think about this. I mean, if Rersini, okay, there are a lot of beatwriters, NFL beat writers that are females that get information. But Rucini has now opened herself up because we now know what's happened with her and Mike Vrable.

So now, of course, the question has to come in. Well, if she was willing to cross the line with Vrable, what she was willing to cross the line with other NFL personnel in order to get scoops? And yet just the question is, why would you just throw a name out there? That seems, I don't know, that seems really sketchy to pick of just. Now, again, if it's Seattle's general manager and it's the coach of the coach of the Buccaneers, maybe we don't care. But, man, Casero's name thing thrown out there?

I think we got to go back and look. Did she break some Texans news over the years? Mercini? Yeah. I don't know. If I'm Nick, I'm pissed. If I'm not involved and if I was involved with her, I'd be like, what are you doing, Chrissy putting that out there?

I don't need that heat from Mrs. Casario. And again, a lot of that is internet rumors. Like, okay, you may have heard that I heard there. And it might have been a simple... What if she put my name out there? How would I feel about it? No, I get. But what I'm saying is like,

People trying to connect the dots. This could have been five years ago at the senior bowl. Nick Casero's at a bar, Rossini rolls up and says, hey, hey, you're having a drink? Can I grab a drink with you? Sure. And somebody sees and goes, oh,

look at those two. And there's nothing innocuous going on. You know, it's just, they're just having a drink. I think that she should pull that tweet down and apologize for throwing names out there unless she's got evidence. If you got evidence,

then it's all fair. But yeah, you got to be careful these days. Come on now. You will get sued. All right. 1216 on Sports Talk 7. All right, Gordy, that's one. You want another one?

I think you go another. I think this is pretty big. John, then we've got to go a third? What do you think? I don't know what we're talking about. I think you'd go a third. All right, he said it. Hit a third.

Major news on the National Football League, Texas A&M alum, Miles Garrett, the defensive player of the year. I know Texas fans don't get mad as well. Anderson didn't get it. is being traded from Cleveland to Los Angeles Rams in exchange for

Star Edge Rusher Jared Verse, a first rounder and more. That is unbelievable. Wow. Gary got out of there. That is, I mean, there's been talk for a couple years of him being unhappy there and what now. Wouldn't you be unhappy there?

You can't figure out who your quarterback is? Terrible management? Coaching changes left and right? Two-time NFL defensive player of the year. and those came recently, 23 and 25. Yeah. Five-time first-team all-pro. Seven-time pro-bowler.

I mean, this guy is arguably, if not the best defensive player in the league. Right there, Will Anderson won two, right? Top five, yeah. On Google Hall of Fame in the future? Probably, yeah. An absolute stud that just averages, what, like 20 sacks a year. And he's going to go to the Rams. Like my buddy just texted me, he said,

going Dodgers style. I mean, what is it with L.A. and just going to, yeah, we're going to create these all-star teams out here. The Rams were supposed to, they were supposed to be on the downfall, and somehow they've rejuvenated themselves with a couple of good drafts. And they're awesome. Jared Verst, by the way, first round pick out of Florida State a couple years ago. Good, good sack artists, but again, Miles Garrett.

And just one first round pick, apparently. There sounds like it could be some other draft picks as part of it, too. So that's probably a shedding salary. type thing for Cleveland. All right. So there you go. Let me repeat it again. Miles Garrett, defensive player of the year, going from Cleveland to the Rams for a first round round pick and Moore and Jared Verse. And they just re-up Stafford, but they took Ty Simpson the first round as the quarterback

in the future. They gave Stafford like a new two-year deal, right? Right. So they're looking at it as like, we're going all in with Devante Adams, Pooka, Nakuwa, who's the runnerback? Kyrod Williams, Braden Fiske on the defense. I mean, they've got, that's a really good team, but that's... Are they now the Super Bowl favorites?

I mean, they're up there. High power offense, good running game, set a great quarterback, and now you've got one of the best defensive players in the league on your side of the ball? Seahawks are the reigning champs, but, I mean... They don't have Walker no more, do they? Right, Kenneth Walker went to Kansas City with Mahomes. So...

Ooh, yeah. Hey, let's go put some money on the Rams. I'm sorry, Charger fan, but you're... Those odds may be shot now. Well, you can get two to one? I'm at a beginning value now. What $100? You win $200 if they win at all.

Hey, I went to my Cali. Take a look. Use the code 790. Kalshi, 790. All right. Do you see who's online one there, Jonathan? Or Jonathan, well, Jonathan, too, for that matter. Gordy, Susie says,

Diana Rossini talk, this is why I'm not friends with females. Did she give you all that information right there? I'm very... She's very passionate about what she's... This is why you screen calls because sometimes calls will be very interesting and some will be boring. I very much look forward to talking to Susie here on 7-Hunting. Susie, good afternoon to you. Hi, how are you guys today?

Good. You have zero female friends is what you're telling. Or you have very few. No, no. No, no. I have very few female friends. Two of them talk sports. I've always had more male friends because I learned very early on.

and it's a shame that it's the way it is. But I found that I could confide better in my male friends because I have an older brother, so, you know, his friends were always mine and my sister's friends. We were, I was much more comfortable having guy friends, and then as I got older, and my teens started getting an interest in football.

And, I mean, I'm a few decades old, so when I started getting an interest in football when I was 15, there were not very many females. So as I was saying to the guy who entered the phone, when if I'm going to get together and sports comes up, football, baseball, golf, hockey, don't follow the NBA too much anymore.

But if there's a sports conversation going on, I float towards that because women tend to, not all women, because I don't want to say all women. I understand. But women tend to want to talk about their neighborhood and I love mine. I love my grandkids, but I don't want to hear people picking apart somebody else or, you know, I'm not into gossip. So it bothers me that this female is talking about Rossini and she may or may not have facts about it. If you have facts, then say it. If you don't,

then please, like you said, take the tweet down because what are you doing? Yeah, again, what I'm troubled by is the randomness of two particular names. I mean, what if I, uh, both, how do I do this without, uh, what if she had said Steph Curry? What if she had said, what if I, what if I would have said, hey, in the, in the, in the ditty sex tape, that girl might have been in there. I mean, I'm just, you, I just think reckless name throwing on a something that is published is, is very dangerous. Now, if she's got evidence, then those two gentlemen have to answer to those to people in their lives. But just to randomly pick two names, that sucks.

Okay, but the other side to that is, why do they have to answer for it? Because she's the one who brought it up. I mean, Rossini and Vrabel, and I've always liked Brable, and I've always found Rathini's, you know, work to be good. it's a shame that that that relationship was what it was and it's now affected all of their families and their children and friends and you know i mean that's a wide birth when you know something like that happens but why is she even throwing the names out there that's what is her point

what was the benefit oh you know what you know what the benefit was susie and thank you for the phone call was i know things and i want to tell you some things cordie if i saw my name like that just randomly thrown out as, well, what if, like if, if there was a booze cruise and there were a bunch of people on there? What, what if Matt and Gordy were on that boat? You know, I mean, I'm not, again, I'm trying to give you a terrible examples. I mean, it's, what do you call it? You have to, in a courtroom, you have to prove yourself, you know, I mean, it's like that in social media. Anybody can throw anything against the wall, and then it's on you to prove not, and it sucks because,

there's nothing you can do about it. All right, I'm going to throw a question to the two of you, and you're going to answer this. Don't do it now. Who keeps better secrets, men or women? Think about that. We'll come back and talk to the rest of you about sports, but Susie made me think about that.

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Let's talk to Keith on 7-90. Keith, what do you got today? How are you? Good. How are you? I got to predict for you for the championship series. Let me guess. You got the Spurs beating the Thunder in the West.

No. I think they scored 25 runs in that one inning. Am I correct about that? Or something close? And I believe they scored, for those who don't know, 13 runs for the Yankees in one inning against the A's. I think they scored 10 runs without a recording even a single out. That is correct.

I think they score on. All right, whatever. Go on. What do you want? Anyway, here's what I hear is my prediction. I think that the Knicks are going to get humiliated. I'm calling a sweep or maybe they might win one game.

They're going to be all over a little Jayland Brunson's behind. I know when the Rockets played them, I think Tarry and Amy and Block his shot at least five times. He's going to have a shot blocked so many times in the series. You won't believe it. Four to nothing or four to one. That's my prediction. Okay.

So you basically, you wanted your own. shoutout, you wanted the city, Houston, and O'Keeth that you've got the Knicks being shut out in the NBA finals. That's correct. I think if the OKC played them, it would be the same thing. The Knicks are highly overrated. So I still, I still want you to say, let's go Knicks. Hell no.

Wait a minute. Let's go to Yankees. How can you be a New York Yankees fan and not a New York Knicks fan? because I'm a citizen of the United States and I can... That's fair. I give you that. Okay. I mean, it's fine.

I mean, everybody doesn't tell their predictions. You should have saved this for gut feelings tomorrow's, but you should have. Yeah, I should have. Keith, always good to hear your voice. Be careful out there. Thanks. No, we'll see it later.

What do you got in this series, by the way? I think it's going to be Spurs and probably five. I think the Knicks have a great shot, man. They're playing well. They've won 11 straight games. Jalen Brunson is an absolute stud. Carlinth E. Towns has had some nice games. I like their bench.

I think the Knicks have a chance. And when they get to the garden and that place is rocking, and those fans are talking their trash, get out of my face, Wemby, go back to France. I mean, that's, that's going to be the New York Now do San Antonio. Hey, we're from San Antonio. I don't know.

It's the voice. You got San Antonio accent? That was funny. I mean, I could give you the real accent, but you're, you know, I think you're crossing a lot. Let's not do that. You don't know. I mean. Yeah. It's interesting. It's a sociological evaluation. You can certainly make fun of New York and Boston exit. You try to do other exits to other cities and you be a little careful there.

It was funny. I was just in New York for a week and it never ceases to amaze me. All the business people that work there, Wall Street and all that, they're all imports. They're all from other cities and, you know, or maybe you grew up in Jersey and all. this. It's all the blue collar people. The cops, the traffic workers, the firefighters. The rude ushers at Madison Square Garden. They're all, hey, how you doing? How's Tony? I mean, they're all New York. It's weird. Tony.

God, you are the stereotype machine. That's what New York is, though. You should have said, Anthony. I walked by like five construction workers. They're catcalling a woman. Hey, look at her. I'm like, is this from a movie? Are you filming something? No, this is real life. Oh, that's funny.

Gordy is doing New York is good. Like, we do Louisiana on the show sometimes. You know, Ross gets into his little Lafayette's sound effects there. Louisiana's very different. I mean, you got the Cajun people are all Lafayette towards Lake Charles. New Orleans is not Cajun. What is New Orleans in? New Orleans is New Orleans.

No one is the yet. It's the, it's like Brooklyn with a southern twist. Does your wife ever notice when you got, now when's last time the two of you've been, the New Orleans together? Not too long ago. Does she notice you turn your New Orleans voice on and does she notice it too? I don't turn, it only comes out when I'm talking to other people from New Orleans.

And then your voice kind of falls back into the laziness. Really quickly, Jonathan Matasas, one time, this is when the Super Bowl was in New Orleans many years ago and we as the station went. And I'm in the back of the car and it's early in the morning. And I think the show was at noon at the time. And I'm just kind of just waking up. So Gordy's trying to find us a spot. We park at Harrah's garage next to the casino.

And here we're trying to find these spots. And I'm just barely waking up, trying to get going. Gordy turns on his New Orleans language, his little verbiage and his sound and his accent. Yeah. It was like I was with a different human being. So that New Orleans sound of y'all played during the NFL season, that's Gordy speaking that? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I would say I wouldn't believe it.

But when Gordy goes New Orleans, he goes New Orleans. First of all, he sings shaggy in the quarter. and it's amazing. It brings the house down. Then he puts the New Orleans accent on when he's in there trying to find a parking spot. It's like I'm trying to find spot 53. And they start talking in Louisiana.

It was gibberish to me. Do you remember where we were parking? We were going to Harris to go eat at the breakfast. Yes, I said we parked at Harris. And we saw Adrian Peterson that morning. And Adrian Peterson shook my hand and crushed the bones in my hand for a second time in his life. Both of our hands. And then I saw he was out yesterday in Austin, Texas.

with his son. Who's a highly recruited football player? He's like in eighth grade though. That's still saying he's highly recruited. His son was wearing longhorn gear and everybody was losing their crap, Oklahoma fans, because they're like, how dare you, Adrian Peterson? How dare you take your son to a Texas football game? You know what's crazy to me is I think we see more families, especially in athletics.

They don't stay close to dad's ties. Yeah, because everybody wants to kind of create their own thing. world of NIL, it's becoming less and less popular to follow in your dad's footstuffs. No question. Like, for instance, I mean, look, Archie Manning played college football at Old Miss. Payton went to Tennessee. I mean, in the same conference.

And Arch goes to Texas. Arch goes the same thing. Arch goes to Texas. The easy thing would have been Arch goes to Ole Miss. Correct. Just like his Uncle Peyton, Eli went to. By the way, Texas this year plays at Tennessee. see, that's going to be a fun one because Peyton rooting against

his nephew. And then they play at LSU, where the mannings all grew up in Louisiana and all Louisiana is going to be rooting against him. So it's going to be fun. All right, when we come back, I want to talk about this bipartisan bill. Have you been studying this thing? I know you have. Yeah, good bit. I want, can you dumb it down for our audience?

Sure. All right. I fully dumbed down what the hell's going on with this NCAA new legislation in play that both Democrats and Republicans are on the same side of. Who would have known? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-790. We'll get to some more Astros coming up the top of the hour as well.

Plus, missing you and your chance when the old smoky charcoal grill. 1245 here on 790. All right. So the easy argument is the NCAA wants to limit things, and all it's going to take is one of its athletes to sue the NCAA, and the NCAA will lose such ruling saying it's unconstitutional. Well, they've been doing that anyway. They have. Everybody goes to their local judge to overrule the NCAA.

All right. So let's get this dummy down. What you are hearing is going to be ultimately this bill, which is led by Ted Cruz, correct, on the Republican side? And Maria Cantwell. On the D side. On the D side. If you like the D side. All right, give me the dumbed down version of what they're asking for.

And let's talk about it. Once you get through all of them, the reality of these things sticking. Yeah. So people I've talked to have said this was the starting. point. So in other words, they put stuff in there that they know will not get past, but it was a starting point for, hey, this is all kind of stuff that both sides want to happen. But the gist of it is the Protect College Sports Act. Number one, they will go back to, you get a one-time transfer rule. That used to be, what if you transferred, you had to sit out a year if you transferred. This will

be, you can transfer anywhere you want, not have to sit out, but you only get one. going year to year to year bouncing around from school to school. Okay, so one time. So a college athlete, if this indeed passes and it gets through the legal system eventually when someone sues it, is a one time and out. One switch, that's it. Now the caveat here is you, uh, grad transfer will still be a thing. So if you, once you graduate, you can go wherever you want. So you technically will get a second transfer once you get a, so once as an undergraduate, once is a graduate, as long as you wanted to go to graduate school. Yeah. Yeah, you can't limit that. That's always been one you can't limit. If a graduate transfer wants to go somewhere, they can go wherever they want. Okay. So, so, and most

people are on board with this. Ross is not, but most people, common sense, because again, think about recruiting. You put all this time and hard work into recruiting kid for three years, four years of high school. You get him on campus. You give him an NIL deal. And then he leaves. And you never even get to the wealth of all the work you put in. He goes in place for somebody else. Again, you still have that option, but you're going to think very, you're going to think deeper about transferring after your freshman year, I think. Okay. I'm mixed about this, but continue on.

I think you got to get back to the whole idea of want to go to a school because you like the school. Oh, bologna. Yes. Bullone. And look, I'm not talking about the star players. The star players are going to go follow their coaches. Just don't be naive.

I mean, they're in it for the cash. And so are the schools and so are the coaches. You've got 80-something percent of college football is not stars. It's guys go, you know, my dad played at LSU, I want to go play at LSU. But, you know, I'm a Houston kid. I want to stay close to home. I'm going to go to you of age. But kids don't think that way, John.

Gordon, you know that. When kids get recruited to go play somewhere, they're thinking this is the next part of my life to become a professional player. Whether it's a truth or not, is different. But also stop thinking in terms of not every kid's getting a million dollars to go play. Some kids are getting a $20,000 payment. And the hometowns are getting zero. Some are just getting college tuition is paying for, yeah.

And the hometown school may be willing to give them the $10,000 or $20,000. So anyway, so that's the first part. All right. Second part is they're going to cap off eligibility at five years. You get five years to play four seasons, and that's it. There's no red shirt goes away. There's no such thing as a medical red shirt. There's no such thing as a freshman red shirt.

You get five years, period, to play four seasons. So if you get hurt once, that's your red shirt year. You get hurt twice. Sorry. Yeah. And that's to simply cap it of, we got too many 25 and 26-year-olds still playing college football. COVID messed up everything.

You got these seventh and eighth year seniors and it's like, bro, Van Wilder, move on with your life. College is a four-year institution. It ain't eight years. So that's part of this. Another one is they are going to ban pro players and international pros. So if you played overseas internationally, you can come over here, you can attend the university.

Houston all you want, you just can't join the University of Houston basketball team and play collegially. So go back. So if you played in Lithuania first. If you play professional ball. Professional. Okay. I got you. Or here in the States. Again, these G-leaguers and all this, you don't get to go to the G-League and then come back to college. Okay. So G-League is out, international is out, all right? And by the way, that's currently not a rule. So we've got all these college teams right now are signing former G-League players to their rosters. Yep. One thing they want to do is they want to limit agents

earning 5%. There's too many agents taking advantage of these kids right now that are getting them. Hey, I'm going to get you a million dollars. By the way, I get 22%. Like, no, that's got to end. And that's where the Rosenhauses and a lot of these guys, pro agents got involved with collegiate agents

on the NIL front because they're like, we can take advantage of these kids. They have no idea what they're signing. They're 18, 19 years old. Most pro players only give three and a half, four percent. They're looking to, they were looking to, get much more from the college players. Yeah, and 5% still good, but they're going to cap it at that.

All right. You know, you don't get more than that. Another part of this, and I think this is one that will get thrown out, is the Lane Kiffin' rule, where they want to prevent coaches from leaving their team in season before the season ends. Here's the big problem with the calendar. National signing day is the first week at December. You're not going to have a coach say, I can't do anything with my signing class at my next job

because I need to finish this job. Even though I know in the back of my head, I'm leaving when this, when this season ends. That's just, and Ted Cruz keeps comparing it to the pros. It's not the pros. NFL is different. The NFL is different in that you can't go sign a free agent player before the season ends. In high school or in college, you can talk to a high school recruit and say, hey, you're coming with me to this next stop. That's a thing.

So I think that, the idea of it sounds great. But at the end of the day, Ole Miss didn't let, Lane Kiffin wanted to finish. coaching in Ole Miss. Ole Miss didn't let him because they said, no, you're going to our competitor. You can't finish here. So I don't think that rule would pass. It sounds great, but the calendar won't allow you to finish out coaching through January. Maybe move a recruiting date then.

That's been a discussion. I'm fine with that. We want to move signing day back to February? That's great. But guess what kids are doing now more and more than now Matt than ever, early enrollees. Kids that finish their high school in December and get on campus January because they want to get a head start. on fall ball. If I'm a five-star freshman quarterback and I'm competing for the starting job, get my ass on campus in January. I want to the playbook and I want to be at every practice of spring

ball to get one up. Where's, this is the, where is the, where is the, uh, Juco transfers coming to play here? Because now this is a loophole that every high school kid is just going to do. What do you mean? If I am with 18 year old and, okay, I don't, I can't transfer, all right, let me just go to Duke Co, get two more years on a belt, get better recruits, go to a better school, and I have those five years I can take it in. Well, that's... That's the big part of that. I think they need to get clarity on that, too, is for years, Juko years counted against your NCAA eligibility.

The Diego Pavia ruling, they ruled against that his Juko year didn't count for his NCAA eligibility. I think, at least the way these are going, I think they're going to rule that those years count. That you go to Juko, but that's counting against your NCAA eligibility. Okay, so we got a minute left for you roll. What's going to be struck now? What's going to be the first level of this that's going to someone's going to sue for and win? Well, you're not going to be able to sue because if this is, if this is passed through Congress, then it's a Senate bill. Like if this is passed, it's law.

But they'll be fighting. People will fight over Senate laws all the time. But you won't have a leg to stand on a courtroom because if this is enacted, in other words, right now, they're going against the NCAA with their local judges are returning everything. If this is passed, it's going to be hard to fight that in court because it's going to be, hey, we all agreed to this. So you really think that a guy that suffers an ACL tear in one year and a separate shoulder the next year cost him is not going to get an opportunity to go get a sixth year. That's what they're doing right now. And I think everybody's trying to push back against that. They're sort of saying double injury, sorry. The biggest problem here is we're talking about you have a college coach that you're admitting that's going to be recruiting this kid for how many years and is going to up.

up and lead that season and next you know a new coach comes in oh hey buddy you're not playing oh wait i can't take a red shirt i can't get out i can't transfer i'm going to use my one year transfer for what these coaches don't have any they can just manipulate these kids there's talk of there's talk right now when um what's the rule if a coach uh before they made it where you can transfer anytime and anywhere there was the rule that if your coach was fired or leaves you could you know transfer i see that to me is i think that that's that's a reasonable thing. If my coach leaves or gets fired, I should be able to leave and transfer the exact moment. Maybe give them that zone to say you have until a certain day to find your own school.

And remember, the athletic director has to sign off on these transfer portals. That athletic director can literally tell that kid, I'm not signing this. That's why I just, again, my message, whenever I talk to young high school recruits and all this, is I say, pick the school you want to be in. Forget trying to win a national championship. Forget I love this coach's scheme and all the... At the end of the day, if your heart has always been in tech, I want to go to U of H and I don't give a damn who the coach is, then go to U of H.

No, the number one thing is what school is going to give me a chance to put more money in my piggy bank right away immediately. Not everybody's getting paid, though. But they're thinking they're going to get paid. And go find a division one athlete that doesn't think they're going to have a chance to make some money while in college. You're going to be very hard pressed to do that.

You're going to be very hard pressed to find a division one athlete going, I'm going for the experience. No way. Today's kids are changing. There's way more kids, though, Matt, getting a couple thousand dollars than there is the $6 million kids. I understand. They're going to take $5,000 to go play at Lamar as compared to taking zero at, what's a middle level school, middle Tennessee state. Kids want cash. Okay.

That's not the smart. It may not be the smart decision, but what's right in front of them is, if I got a chance to make some money, I'm going to go take the money. Well, then, but again, do that knowing you only get one-time transfer. You better love the hell out of Lamar. That money better get you a car and a nice apartment and everything else in Lamar. In Beaumont, you may be able to get that. You never know. 101.

Thank you, Gordy, for coming in. He's going to hang out with us tomorrow between 10 and 1230. We've got an hour left to go. We've got 20 minutes. And the questions will recap. We'll include the Astros performance yesterday. The series against Milwaukee. And I want someone that is a.

Rockets fan to legitimately call this show and tell me Go Spurs go. Because I'm going to have to pull your Rocket fan card if you do that. What a one on Sports Talk 7-9. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. The Astros are only four and a half out. Final hour, Matt and Ross with you here. Ross is off this week. Thanks to Gordy for filling in.

They'll be with me for a couple of hours tomorrow. We'll also Joe is spotted tomorrow at 12. 30 as the Astros, hopefully we'll have Josh Hader back on the mound, hopefully in the ninth inning of a game. Astros and Pirates are a three-game series tomorrow, and we'll talk to Joe about that. And some more roster moves coming up here in the next 48 hours here on Sports Talk 790. Also, we have the Knicks and Spurs game one of the NBA Finals on Wednesday. I'm going to just call this out and see if anybody's out there because we had some people that were calling in. And a matter of fact, we had a listener call us in the first hour of the show.

I was talking about how he's lived in San Antonio for 20 years, and he's a diehard Rockets fan, but he did do something for the very first time in his life earlier today. Or actually this was a couple days ago. We'll talk about that. Are you as Rocket fans rooting for the Spurs because they're Texas's team? That's something I... See, Jonathan, to me, it's almost the opposite. it. I have a really deep hatred for all Texas teams. I really root against the Mavericks and the Spurs and the Rangers and the Cowboys.

So you're telling me. I'm telling you that if there's any Texas team involved that I don't like, I really don't like, I'm not going to just turn the other side, turn the cheek on this for like a week just to root for them. But you root for a New York team instead. In this particular case, yes. Okay. So you probably felt the same way when the Rangers won the World Series. Yes, absolutely. I think if you are Team Houston in your life and you rep the Houston sports teams, it can't be in your DNA to support or even.

I mean, if you want to say I'm indifferent, don't want to watch, don't care, I can even accept that. And look, I'm not looking forward to rowdy, obnoxious Nick fan, because they're just as gross as anybody else around the league, except they got celebrities. But I'll be damned if I'm going to be rooting for a hated, I mean, the Rockets and Spurs, first of all, we're three hours apart from each other. Second of all, we've had this, I mean, we've been in the same division forever. This is a 50 years of these two teams. The Mavericks 40 plus years. No, no, no, no, no.

But you got to give credit when credit is due. No, I do not. I can be completely jealous if I want to be. I'll give jealousy when jealousies do and jealousies do. The better your rival, the better Rockets are going to have to compete. And then when rockets eventually beat the Spurs, it's going to feel that much better. Do Aggie fans cheer for Texas in various sporting events when they're not there? No.

I feel like that's a different type of rivalry. What? Wait a minute. Why? I feel like college rivalries and professionals a little bit like Rockets, you know, but I'm young, so I don't know too much about the Spurs and Rockets Beef. You know what I mean? I'll give you a little example. Excuse me, I'm a university of Houston alum. I graduated if they're having my degree there. I have my sons. My oldest son's degree is from Texas Tech. My middle son's degree is from Texas. I have some relationships there. Now, I don't hate Texas. either one of my boys or my daughter would have wanted to go to the universe Texas that have been more than pleased with it. So I can kind of get behind Texas their stuff, but they're not a direct related rival to anything that I really am passionate about.

I would love for Houston and Texas to be rivals, but they're not. They don't play each other. And when they do, Texas, the Big 12, pays off the officials to help the Longhorns win in Houston. That's on a different issue for a different time. I'm just telling you, I have to stare at San Antonio a lot. in the standings. I see them four times a year. I see their games on television.

I see the dream draft pick go there. And they've already gone through their rebuild and they're back on top of the Western Conference world. I ain't rooting for that. It's Texas versus the world, though, man. No, it's Texas. No. We couldn't be the Texas team.

All right, at least a Texas team beat everybody else. Show that we're the dog. You're not going to, let me tell you some. I love you like a step-cousin. You're not going to build or convince me otherwise. I'm just giving you the other So you are really rooting for the Spurs? Say it.

Say it and not vomit the same sentence. I'm not vomiting. Look, did I hate that we couldn't even, Rockers couldn't even get there? Yes. But I'm not going to root against the Spurs with the Knicks. No, no, no, no. What's the Knicks ever do to you? I'm not rooting for a new, come on now.

I've always raised in the South, even though I was born in San Diego, like I've always raised in the South. I'm not going to root for a Yankee. You get what I mean. We're going to have a talk. You know, and it seems I'm not even, I'm not even really rooting for Spurs. I'm rooting just for a good series. You know, it's one of those things we're just in there and we're going to enjoy this.

But I think the Spurs are going to win. I'm just, you know what I'm saying? I think the younger generation. And if you think I'm mad now, you think I'm pissed now. You think I'm jealous and envious now. Two weeks from now when the Spurs have a championship parade in San Antonio, the Roak? Oh, hell. I'm not feeling about sick day.

You know what? You know what? You know what? I get that point. Because if Spurs, all right, maybe I'm not like, yeah,

so you can't even defend your own point. If they win, okay, then next season I'm like, okay, you know,

because I haven't lived the Spurs, Rockets like beef, so I can kind of see your point. Thank you. That's all I'm saying. I can't, I can't,

I'm having a difficult, you should see me. I was like, Carly's like, what, dad, why do you care? I'm like,

because it's San Antonio. To be fair, Matt, you are a part of the team, so this does, is a little different for you. But even it wasn't. I've been a rocking fan for 50 years, 45 years.

Yeah, but... I don't know. You don't even like Waterburger either, so it's like... I like Waterburger. Matter of fact, I asked Missy to give me some Waterburger day. She didn't get me anything. In and Out or Rotterberger? In and out.

See? This is what I'm saying. You're not a full Texan. Oh, in and out's going to take over Texas. Y'all heard this? You know why? Guess what Waterberg is doing? Waterberg is going to Kansas.

Waterberg goes in Illinois. Waterberg don't want to keep its Texas routes. They don't want to keep their roots. That's like saying in and out expanded. They don't want to get the California roots. No. I don't care about California roots. I care about what's going to be in my belly. And that's a double double animal style.

113, Madden, and Jonathan. You're such a fate, Mr. Texas. I am Mr. Texas. I am not Mr. San Antonio. And I will not. I'll be damned if I'm going to go. Let's go. Go Spurs go.

Astros. Day off. Pirates tomorrow. Miles Garrett moving today, trade from the Cleveland Browns of the Los Angeles Rams. We got missing you coming up at the bottom of the hour. I got an old smoky giveaway. Next, we'll do that here on 790.114. I'll want to thank the team over at Old Smokey right here in Houston, Texas, making grills since 1950.

Affordable, portable, and reliable grills. And we're going to give away an old smoky grill, charcoal grill every day this week. We'll do it today here. as promised at 120. And today on the radio show, we talked about why we think Mitch Johnson, the coach of San Antonio Spurs, has been photographed, has been caught on video so many times during the NBA playoffs. What has been so noticeable about Mitch Johnson's camera shots during the Western Conference finals? We discussed it on the radio show today.

If you know the reason why Mitch Johnson's video shots have been so noticeable during the Western Conference Finals, give us the correct answer right now at 713-212-5-790, and the first person with the correct answer is going to win that old smoky grill. All right, that's the question. Why has Mitch Johnson's videos shots during the Western Conference Finals been so noticeable? 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-2-5-7-19. and any, Vince is with us at 121. Vince, good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon. Hey, I'm the San Antonio, New York thing. Yes. So I'm a diehard rocket fan. I've been a diehard rocket fan since 1980.

And just to let you know, the San Antonio spurs of old, I would never, ever, ever pull for them. In this instance, I am definitely pulling for San Antonio spurs over the Knicks. And the main reason is what we're seeing right now, I think, is the start of something extremely special. And regardless, if you're a sports fan, I'm a sports fan number one, I'm a Rockets fan number two. So, just from

that standpoint, I'm definitely pulling for the Spurs. And I really think this is really something special that we're getting ready to see. Okay, Vince. I mean, you got to admit that. Come on. No, I don't.

No, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. What is so special about grabbing three top five picks and go on the NBA finals. What's so special about that? Hey, we grabbed two top one number ones, didn't we? No, not number ones. No, zero number ones. Well, yeah, but that's right. But I mean, in the 80s we did, but that was 40 years ago. But that's my point. And we rode that, we rode that horse for a little while, but I mean, it's just you got to, you got to give them their due. It's like, you know, they, they,

they kind of, I don't know if they were really tanking, but I'm thinking they were. they certainly weren't winning the best with that hey let me ask you this so I mean honestly right now between Oklahoma and San Antonio I don't see I don't see where the rockets get in I strike about how

that's why I'm not rude for them I need the rockets to maybe make some radical changes so we can get in this conversation yeah I mean we're not that far off honestly I hope not we're not that far off because it's hard to make trains in the NBA it just is yep thank you Vince for the phone call I remember what

you're a sports fan number one right no i'm a rockets guy number one i'm a rockets and astros guy number one period and cougars rockets astros cougars there you go boom boom boom sports everything else is just in second we'll see you later no no no no i'm not a sports fan first i like sports storylines but i'm not a no sports fan first would be rooting for every we're re rooting for better the best matchups possibly is you know I don't want that. I don't want my teams. I don't care if the matchups are any better than anybody else's. No, I would never consider myself a sports fan first than a local team first fan. No chance.

Jonathan, do we have a winner, by the way? Did you grab one? Oh, no, I was waiting for you to pick. Oh, you want me to do it. I was waiting for you to pick. All right. Well, who came in first? You got to tell me there's six people on the line. Did Johnny come in first? No, no, no. Johnny did not come in first. Johnny did not come in first. Who came in first? I think it was Brian. All right. Let's see what Brian knows.

Hey Brian, why are they showing photos of Mitch Johnson videos camera shots during the NBA finals or the Western finals? Why are they doing that, Brian? We talked about that earlier. Because of Julie J. Swan and Blue, the two girls sitting behind the Spurs bench. You're an old smoky winner. Congratulations. Nicely done. Hey, Jonathan, he even knew their girls' names. That's what I was laughing about it.

I didn't, I mean, honestly, I didn't know their names. That's, hmm. It must be working. Brian, congratulations. Maybe Brian, you can, why don't you cook on those old smoky charcoal grill and bring them girls over there? That's funny.

That's really funny. All right, tomorrow we'll do this again. I don't know what time we're going to do it, but we're going to do it again tomorrow. So I'll be listening all week long. We're giving away four more old smoky grills before the end of the week right here on Sports Talk 7.9. No, I'm going to tell you this right now.

As God is my witness, I will be damned to be rooting for the Dallas Cowboys. I'll be damned by I'm rooting for the San Antonio Spurs. I'll be damn by the Texas Rangers. I'll be damn of him over with the Dallas Marrick. Hell, I don't even, what's the WMBA Dallas team? I won't be rooting for them. Oh, I forgot the name too.

Wings, the Dallas Wings. Wings, Wings, Dallas Wings. The Comets play the wings. It's all comets all the time. And honestly, see, I do think there's a difference in the college and pros. Because, again, I've got new relationships with those colleges. but Texas never done anything to me. Now, if I went to A&M, I would never root for it.

Again, go find an Aggie that says, you know what, go Texas, hope you win the College World Series? No, how it's happening? Cool. Do you think Texas Tech were rooting for Texas for anything the way all that crap went down this past week with them trying to reschedule that game? And how Sarkesian took a shot at Texas Tech football? No chance.

And if Houston had a rival, I'd be the same way, but we don't have a rival. how does that's going on I have a rival well you guys just start getting big time we are big time you know what people are afraid to play it's that's the reason when you're not arrival I thought the Texas Tech and U of H Gory was just talking about that's the big matchup now

it is a big matchup now I'll be in Lubbock for that game too I'm going I'm going to go oh okay I'm gonna be there it's a Friday night guy I gotta be there when it's Friday I'm gonna be there for the big games I think I'm going I'm pretty sure I'm going all right you're going to fly oh we know we don't drive I've got your five diamond

my bad, my bad. Well, there's no five diamonds in Lubbock. It'd be like you get a three-star. Maybe. I went to three grad parties yesterday. I didn't drive any of it. My wife, God love her. She drove the whole damn trip.

Let your wife drive you the whole time? Oh, yeah. When Kim and I go somewhere, she drives 99% of the time. There is one time out of a $100 drive. As soon as I hit the lottery. By the one, by the way, I won $46 hours over the day other day. I was very happy about that. You won $46?

$46. What did you put down? 15? Well, that's not bad. Did I get, did I get, I must have gotten four numbers in, right? Does four numbers get you $46? Or does three numbers get you $46? Was it the scratch off?

I'm not. No, it was the Lotto thing where you, the Texas, the Lotto, Texas. I would know. Yeah. Do it. All right, yeah, the wife drives. And we had three Irish goodbyes. Three, three, I grad parties, three Irish goodbyes.

Those are always nice. Oh, I'm a lead at that. I told that on Twitter yesterday. All right, 127. Hey, how are former Astros doing? Jonathan, I'm going to ask you a question. Are you going to be missing any of them? We'll discuss that next.

127, it's Matt, and no Ross this week. He's on vacation back with his next week. 713-213-2-5-790. All right, for those of you to listen to this show for anything like the time, one of our great sales reps, Missy, is a diehard Spurs fan. She's from San Antonio.

And she sent me an email, which I have forwarded to Jonathan. and she says, do not listen to this email, listen to it on your show so people get the organic feel of listening to it for the first time as you listen to it for the first time. So without any further ado, Missy the Ultimate Spurs fan, sending me a piece of audio, play it, Jonathan. She's so wrong for that. You know what? Oh, it's the first when the championship, it's going to be so bad over her. I'm surprised it's not her ringtone.

It probably is now? Oh, it probably is. I don't even want to call her. That's a thing? Play it again, five seconds. Just like I can get it in my mind and just piss off the rest of Houston like I'm mad. Oh, man. Let's do missing you.

Change a topic, the vibe of the show. Oh, it's our long distance line tonight. Oh, it's our week. Weekly Monday feature at 130. Those of you on hold will get to you in a matter of moments, but let me knock this out. Missing you is we do a weekly segment of five Houston athletes. And during the baseball season,

obviously be baseball players that used to wear Houston Astro Gear that are now wearing other people's gear. Normally I ask Ross, are we missing these guys? Jonathan, you get the opportunity this week to answer the question. Are you missing them? We start with Kyle Tucker for the Chicago, for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Six for 27 this past week.

No home runs, three RBIs. His season numbers for Kyle Tucker, batting average of 242. His OPS is 729. He has only four home runs and 27 RBIs. I say, are you missing Kyle Tucker? He could stay over there, that Dodger blue. That's a lot of money for mid-numbers.

Come on now. Only four home runs and 27 RBIs? Yikes. We're two months into the season now, bro. Next, Hesu Sanchez, who had to lead the game yesterday because he was playing catch, allegedly with a kid in the outfield. The kid thought he was playing catch with him. And Haysa's like, no, I'm not playing catch with you. The guy, the kid threw a ball at him, hit him.

I think it hit him somewhere and it forced him to lead the game because he wasn't ready for the baseball coming his way. The kid thought that hard? And the 13-year-old got ejected from the game. They kicked him out of the stadium. Yeah, I know. Six for 19 last week, Jonathan. One home run, five RBIs, and for the year he's got six home runs, 288 ribbyes, batting average of 287, OPS of 75.

His numbers are significantly better than Kyle Tucker's. I ask you, are you missing, Hesu Sanchez? We could use it. You'd be better than Cam Smith, but offensively, defensively, no, but offensively, yes. I love Cam Smith, but we could definitely use that right now. All right. America's favorite utility player. Mauricio Dubon.

Well, Maricio's starting to cool off, ladies and gentlemen, as expected. Three for 26 last week. No home runs, no RBIs. On the year, three home runs, 29 ribbies, batting average of 250 OPS 67. Yeesh. Easy answer. This is the easy answer?

We're not missing Maricio Dubei. I mean, Nick Allen's done okay. Right, he's not done. But he's regressing back to the norm. The norm is 250 with an OPS of 677. Alex Bregman. 10 for 31 for the week. One home run.

Two RBIs. On the year. Five homers, 18 ribbyes for the Cubs. 259 the batting average. OPS of 705. Are we missing them? Hmm. Can you believe that Tucker's got four home runs,

Bregman's got five, and we're sitting here on June the 1st? I mean, what happened to the power numbers? They're done. They're at the end of their career? The slopes over? They're not in their prime. Put it that way.

I miss Bragman because it's my guy, but from an offensive standpoint, point you guys will be crushing if he's making crazy money like that to play for the Cubs. How many does Gordon have? Gordon's a 20. All right. Last one. This is the one that has been not necessarily talked about a lot, but this is the one that

kind of rearing his ugly head. Framber Valdez is 0 and 3 with an ERA of 5.93 in the month of May. Give up four runs over six and two-thirds his last time out. he has not won a game. Framber Valdez of the Detroit Tigers who have been by far the biggest disappointment in baseball this season. He has not won a game

since April the 19th. His record two wins, four losses, an ERA of 4.39. Even with all the astro problems and starting pitching. No. We ain't missing you. Absolutely not. No. He can't come as he can't close his head.

No, he cracks like an egg sometimes. And there's, it is. That's this week's edition of missing you. The best of the five I just brought up from an offensive standpoint. Hsu Sanchez, six home runs, 28 RBIs, has the highest OPS of the four position players we talked about, betting OPS of

785. Who would have thought? Who? No one would have thought it. No one. Zero. Zilch. No one would have thought that at all. Oh, Missy sent another ringtone. Oh my God. What is she doing to us? I'm going to you, Jonathan.

let's play it this is again this this is a double ringtone from missy i'm going to take a phone call first and we're going to get that second ringtone in jacob in dallas at 141 hi jacob hey matt thanks for taking my call sure so first thing i got to say is i am totally with you on rooting for my teams and nobody else i just don't understand how some people can just sidestep your loyalty and then, you know, just all of a sudden just root for another team just for the sake of proximity or whatever, you know. Although I will say I'm starting to come around. Sometimes, you know, there might be like situational rooting, you know, for if you're, if you, I don't know, let's say like Mike Trout makes it to the World Series.

And he's such a good guy. And they're going up against, I don't know, the Brewers. You know what? Jacob, situational is fine. That's the Los Angeles Angels. We have no affiliation with them. We have not in our relationship. We don't hate them. They're just an afterthought.

If they want to go to the World Series and they want to compete and Mike Trout gets a chance and you're a pro-M-Trot guy, would you be hard not to be? All right. I'll buy that. Everything is situational. But we're talking about a team that is 175 miles from here. Ain't happening. No way.

No chance. No how. So what's your take on fans who root for teams that are in different parts of the state? No chance. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. Pro, pro. Pro.

Do you really live in Dallas or just a DFW on the screen here? I live in DFW, the Metroplex. I live in a suburb. All right? I wasn't born and raised here. I was born and raised in Corpus Christi. Okay. So who's your pro baseball team? Who is your pro baseball team?

So my pro baseball team, I've always been a Houston Astros fans because Nolan Ryan was born in Perfukio, Texas, and the AA affiliate, the hooks are in Corpus. And we've always just been at Corpus for the most part is an Astros town. Growing up, I grew up in the 90s, born in 85. when I was growing up, the oilers had departed. And so pretty much all of Corpus, until the Texas came into town, Corpus was Cowboys country. Right. For the better part of my life. Okay.

So what do you need me to do for you to make your life feel better? You're going to tell me something I'm not going to like. Is this correct? Or are you just trying to ask questions? No, no. No, I just want to see what your opinion is. My ruling is this. down with the Cowboys,

down with the Rangers, down with the Spurs, and who else? Am I forgetting anybody? Down with the Dallas stars, down with the Dallas, wings, down with any, down with Dallas,

down with San Antonio and pros, especially. That's all I say. All right, all right, go Spurs, go. You have a good one. See you, buddy. It's gross.

All right, what did Missy send us, Jonathan, play it. I can't. I can't do it. You can't do it. You can't. You can't even do it.

And you're even even rooting for them. You feel like a dirty whore, don't you? You're a dirty whore. You're a dirty slut and whore. This does make me feel real nasty. Good. Good. Good.

Good. Glad it does. Oh, it's going to be so bad if they win. Let's go Nix. Expire 7-1. You will never, you will not hear me utter ghost. Go Nix, go, or what do the, what do the Nix say? Let's go Nix.

I don't care. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I am pro Josh Hart I am pro Jalen Brunson I am pro

Carl Anthony Towns I am pro O.G. Ananoby I am pro Mitchell Robinson I am pro who else is there Jose Alvarado

I'll be damned if I'm pro Devon Vassell Oh hell's no to Victor Wembeyanama Oh no way to Kelden Johnson No chance

no how De Aaron Fox Houston kid He's a Houston kid though He's a Houston kid doesn't matter you are the San Antonio Either you're with me or against me

you rest you can suck it Believe it or not it's up next All things about Miles Garrett 713-212-5790 Thanks very much Nick Appreciate the kind words Tomorrow on the show Gordy's going to hang out with us

A couple more hours between 10 and 1230 And then we'll kick Gord to the curb And bring in Joe Espada We have gut feelings tomorrow 1130 We have no game to get to tomorrow. Although if you love my family, and I hope that you do, root for the Aggie baseball team because the boy, middle son went to the game last night. And before he got settled into his chair, they were already down like seven to one. Aggie baseball got their ass cake yesterday.

Oh, bad, bad, bad, bad. Bad, bad. So say a small prayer for fighting Texas Aggie baseball so my son can be in a better mood this week. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest-growing sports radio game show we simply call it B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works.

You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things about Miles Garrett, who just got traded from the Cleveland Browns to the Los Angeles Rams. I read your statement about, Miles Garrett, statement completely utterly

accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. There you go. Statements here onies, full of bunk and men up, you'll say this. Two believer knots and rolls. Going to win you a pair of tickets to see the Black Crows and Whiskey Myers on their Southern hospitality tour. It'll be August the 8th at the Woodlands Pavilion.

Tickets are now on sale at Ticketmaster.com. Again, Black Crows and the Whiskey Myers, if you believe it or not. 713-212-5-790. Cori. on 790. Corey, you ready to play, believe it or not? Run it. Corey, good luck to you, my friend.

Here is your question. Miles Garrett was the first overall pick in the 2017 NFL draft. Believe it or not. Believe it. There you go. Statement number two for the win. Lawlett, Texas A&M. Miles works Summers as a barback at the Dixie

Chicken. Believe it or not. Oh, man. I think that's probably, you made that up. Matt. Not. Not. Damn you. Congratulations. Mike on 790.

Mike, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Miles Garrett set the record for sacks last season in the NFL. That sack total was 23. Believe it or not? God. That's a believe it. Thank you for playing.

Believe it. I do not know that. Gil on 790. Gil, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? arguing about whether we should cheer for San Antonio. Yes, sir. I'm talking about, Gil. I want you to win now.

Miles Garrett has a small ownership stake in the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. Believe it or not? Not. She does. He does. Sorry, thanks for playing now. That makes me sad. James on 790 James, you're ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Miles Garrett's girlfriend is Chicago Sky Guard. Scholar Diggins, believe it or not? Believe it? Nope, snowboarder Chloe Kim. Not. Duh. Thomas and Katie on 790, Thomas, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show.

The older fans models. Come on, man. Miles has had just one touchdown during his career. Believe it or not? Not. Yeah, that's it. Just one. Not.

No, that's wrong. Give him a buzz. Still got time for one more call. We want to get in 713, 212, 5, 790. Oh, Mike dropped out. We got nobody here. Nobody wants to go see the black crows. I got two more questions here.

713, 212, 5790. 713, 212, 5790. It's always funny. The prizes are good that people can't come in fast enough. But you prize hoarders are not being to, you're being a little picky now, aren't you? We've got a single prize order today. Come on now. All right.

I got a minute left from the show. We'll see if somebody calls it. If not, we're going to... Wax is all dressed up, two nice collared, long-sleeved shirt. Good. Oh, there we go.

There was people coming in. Let's go. Andy on 790, Andy, you ready to play, believe it or not? Miles plays Dungeons and Dragons with his crew, the heathens, and once was a part of a charity campaign.

He called himself the black dragon-born samurai. Believe it or not. That was too long. That's too long as believe it. Everybody knows he plays Dungeons and Dragons. Duh. James on 790.

You're going to play Believe it or not? I know he's listening to the show. Come on now. Get out of here. Turn the radio down. Uh-oh. Bill, what's your favorite Black Crow song? Believe it or not?

Miles has had the same post-game meal since his high school days in Arlington. Chicken fried steak. steak and mashed potatoes. Believe it or not. Hey, he a brother. Believe that. Nope, made it up. That was a good one. That was a good one. Oh, I'm Millified. Have a great day.

Joe Espada coming up tomorrow at 1230. It's part of a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Would Ross 10 to 2 up next. Wexler, Clanton. The team, talk to you. Tuesday at 10 on 790.