The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Fall to The Royals In the First Game Of The Series, Will Dallas Grab Cooper Flagg After Securing the #1 Draft Pick?

Episode Date: May 13, 2025

Astros Fall to The Royals In the First Game Of The Series, Will Dallas Grab Cooper Flag After Securing the #1 Draft Pick? 

10-1 at H-town. Good morning, or is it? It is a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790, alongside Mr. Ross Villarreal, and our producer Jonathan Allen. I am Matt Thomas, and we are very happy to have you with us today. I don't know if we're in a great mood today, frankly. 7-0 after 3 was not fun last night. Taking a couple of dumb-ass calls on the 10th inning show wasn't fun last night. Hey, at least you got calls.

Yeah, that's true. I prefer dumbass calls to no calls on the post game. You know, it's funny. I'll say this, and I don't mean it personally, but we don't always have great takes. I suffer from that rarely. Just check out to tell the truth every Monday, folks, 1130. I have to work with someone for four hours a day that occasionally has an off take. Yes.

We all can't be, we all aren't perfect, maybe wex. But that's about as close it gets. Well, the Astros got down huge. Ryan Gusto gave up a bunch of runs after Lance McCullors. Junior did the same thing on Saturday. You're searching for pitching depth. It's going to be an unknown starting on Wednesday. And the other two teams in Texas are at the top of the NBA lottery.

Wonderful Monday here. I'm doing the Astros on deck from Minutemanage. Or, excuse me, Dikin part. Hit me. You know what I resisted until Friday. Perfect. Last time I did just great. I did the pregame from the part, and I think that made me, it was in my brain. I said it twice. And I had not said it all year.

But it's hard. It's difficult, Matt. I was at Deakin. Yeah, it sounds different. It's what it is. And I had to stop what I was doing because, look, no disrespect to Kansas City, Houston, but it's a Monday night. It's not necessarily top of mind. It's Michael Waka versus Ryan Gusto. Waka, Waka, Waka, you know, it is what it is.

And he was good, and Ryan Gusto was not. So the lottery was going on. I'm like, you know what? I'll get the play the lottery. And I was like, okay, at 14, 13, at 12. And then the rocket showed up at 10. I'm like, oh. It was deflating.

And then it went nine. They skipped 8, 765. When we come back, Charlotte, Philadelphia, San Antonio, Dallas. And I thought to myself, there's a 50-50 chance that Cooper Flagg is playing the Houston rockets four times a year for the foreseeable future for at least, what, five years. It was a long commercial break. It was a long one waiting for that.

So then I went back to our mound matchup. So I segue to that. When took a fine commercial break from our awesome 790 sponsors? Do you have to do a mound matchup if a guy's only going to be in there for two and a third's innings? Too soon. Sorry. So you're saying

that basically for three-fifths of the Astros rotation these, excuse me, three sick, one half of the answers. Do you think Ryan Gusos talking trash and Lancel colors. He's like one third of an inning. Look at me, bro. Two and a third. What's up?

I don't think he's calling him, bro. What's up? No. No, no, no, no. Maybe not. And then Charlotte. Is it Charlotte Philadelphia or Philadelphia is Charlotte? I think it's Charlotte's four, I believe.

Charlotte, Philadelphia. And I'm like, oh my God, Cooper Flag is going to stay in the Southwest Division. Are they going to put him, him, they, meaning the frozen lottery ping pong balls? Are they going to go with Victor Wimb and Yama? and Stefan Castle, the last two rookies the year, would you dare put Cooper flag with him? Oh, and Deeran Fox. Oh, no, no, no, no.

You give the Dallas Mavericks. Not you give, I got to stop doing that. The lottery said. The NBA gods. The NBA gods said the Dallas Mavericks, you deserve something nice because you're full of pain and grief and sorrow because your general manager is an idiot. Now, how big of an idiot he's going to be?

We don't know. because if Luca Dodgers continues to be doy and argue with officials and not play defense he may be looking okay at the end of the day didn't get enough in return

that's for absolute sure but again Luca Dodgis wakes up for 35 points This reminds me of Dennis we are happy to have we had him on a yearly basis the last couple of years The Niko Harris

Astros Roleaver The coach Prou McNeneyney Calbon don't get to get mad at you And Nico Harrison was who we thought

Brian King Is there any chance I go to Darrell's next week and we find a Brian King sandwich pole with your name all over it and your specialty

but now that they got the number one overall pick out of all this Yeah you're a star now you're like top five

in a picture so the reality is the social media streets which as we've said more times and not

and we are on those streets all right so Ross and I are going to like Charles next week for a couple days this little R&R by the way

we got a definitive what's the number one trouble spot Steve Graham not the after his assistant to public relations directors says, hey, we really want to get down and dirty out of the folks of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

The local spot. The local spot. No, Heaven Jad instead of shut your bum ass up. I mean, definitely, O.B. Cowboys. Oh, Heaven Jail. You know, I got to find out what he was talking about. I think he was talking about the Wednesday segment. Yeah, I think so.

I'm sure it looks a lot of this now. Is the opposite of shut your bum ass up? Heaven Jail? Not really. No. Okay, maybe I misunderstood the conversation. Okay. Let me move forward.

I just pulled a John I'm sorry about that I thought we got stuck Sorry Sorry You pulled a John And drop your name And see we get at least

One free beverage Yeah let's do it Okay Go back You've already Signature and it's not good Jonathan Congratulations on another

successful start For the season For yourself I'm asking a lot of the guys It's the last handful of days There's 17 games and 17 appearances I asked your manager about this when he was with us at last hour

It almost feels like Right now If you get the call to go warm up You're going to pitch because you just can't waste those nights. The Dallas Maverick. Is that fair to say? The all-time reprieve. Yes.

Repreve is perfect. Pardon, or whatever you want to say. It was, and Nico Higons. In Nico Harrison. Lucky, man. 1.8%. A tough situation being in the bullpen. Oh, was the back to them I was talking about the Twitter.

90% of the tweets were. And right now this bullpen has been used a lot. I put one out too, but not in a sitting. More than a job. Is you one of those guys that always wakes in the morning going, I need this day or do you feel like the NBA is rigged? Let me tell you something. You need advance notice as to when you're going to get out there.

I mean, do you have that kind of leverage. And call me a phony if you want to. No, I mean, whenever they call you, I do believe in the frozen envelope for Patrick Ewing in 1985. Ooh, okay. You know, everybody down there. Sure, why not. The next Patrick Green number one pick.

You got to be ready to go. I do believe we're now talking about 40 years after that. back in there. If you have a good one, you're about that. It seems like you've been established as the seventh inning role with a bray taking over eighth and a hater at ninth. Was that ever discussed formally? Or did Joe or anybody talk to you about that? Or is it something to happen? Stump for the logo. It's, um, it's impossible.

It just is. You have so many people overseeing it. The results are certified by Ernst & Young. That's a good company, by the way. They never got away. They always certify Oscar awards, Grammy. It means, what was that like for you to certify that?

You've been through so much in your career and multiple organizations. There are people who watch over this. It is certified. They're making nervous, happy. I understand why we have, I understand conspiracy theories in general and I understand why you would say,

oh, it's rigged, but we have to think logically this is a billion dollar industry. If it was rigged, they would lose so much of their credibility. And like I said, people are overwatching it. And then also at the end of the day, if the league could just rig the The lottery draft.

The draft lottery is here on a sports talk. They wouldn't do for the Alasas is a reliever. Can you explain the difference for us lay people? Who was the biggest market team? Was Philadelphia? Of course, for years it had been called a slider. Brooklyn was in the lottery, right? Do you call it a sweeper?

Am I right about that? And what exactly? I don't know the name. Because everybody's got conditional swaps. It's very confusing. Um, I mean, I know we feel sorry for ourselves because Cooper Fly is going to be playing for the Dallas mammocks. But could you imagine the Utah Jazz Jazz?

The Utah Jazz got fined during the course of the year, Ross, for sitting out too many players, for super tanking. I think we can go along the list and find a lot of reasons to say, oh, this was rig. Like Charlotte, we would say it's rig because he went to Duke. Dallas, we say it's rig because they lost Luca. San Antonio would say it's a rig because they're trying to build up whim. Sometimes it's a superstar. It's a little bizarre. I don't even know.

There are places we can go. Probably not Houston. I think it ever gets rigged for Houston, although Houston. did win. That's why they went to the lottery because of Houston winning back to back number one overall picks. You guys forming a gang? Like what are you all doing? You all like a... While it's fun to me against sororities or what? I was like, oh, maybe the NBA

is Rick. That was like a joke. And I think if you really, really, really think the NBA is right, you think you're wrong. So you got to roll with the punches. Let's do this today. Everybody's got to claim a corner at the table. Remind me to keep doing this a few times during the course. Sometimes I've come up with these great ideas in 10 and we forget about him at 130 because I do everything right-handed.

Oh, okay. What are the best sports conspiracies? You golf right-handed. Then you absolutely know you're deep down in your heart. What do you bat? When you bat, left or right-handed? My top two would be coming out of the NBA.

One, you don't be lotteries rigged for certain teams. I mean, can keep a list. No, it won't be a terrible idea. Okay. Number two, that the NBA puts officials. I'm 52 years old. You and I are like...

Scott Foster's known as a series extender. Tony brothers are the same way. Shut up. I throw everything. I throw a left-handed, but he was on... Everything else in my life was right-handed. So let's go to the last comparison between the two of us. I mean, Jason Tato...

What do you top out and maybe ripped his Achilles? But they were down nine points of three minutes left anyways. That guy was basically... So I will give you the conspiracy number two. That referees are put into place. How did that happen, Brian? To help extend or in... That's just how you always...

I've got a list of some big ones. And what you mentioned already is number two on this list. Which is? For whatever reason why I've started a envelope. Now, I can't put that on my list. Let me tell you something. I don't think you're going to be able to use left and right hand.

I'm just telling you right now. Sports conspiracies that you like to talk about. You're going to be diverse. What you know really aren't. Are you talking about it? I believe the frozen envelope is in the 685. Yeah. Okay.

And you might know what? I'm probably wrong about that. brought it up. All right. As a young man that watched, the New York Knicks and the early, you've got the Turned to Arlington,

you've been to have nothing else. You've been never before, right. 45, 50 lost seasons. With New York being a flagship franchise, the NBA. It's basically just your home bar park is looking for somebody else

to be besides the words on the group could be the NICS, the number one media market in the country. Yeah, I can see it. Plus the Georgetown kid, big time college. Yeah.

All the charm of a minute of Riking Park up in Arlington. They're doing a horrible job. I like it. I like it. I won a championship. It's nice and simple. Hey, Brian, great happy with.

Congratulations on the great star. Keep that an ERA under two. And they had a lot of success. I mean, they did win. And like I said, you do. When Ronnell and I go up, we're going to know information before that. I mean, that was like six months old. To me, we're going to take a picture of it and sending you.

Putting your hand in a, in a little, what I would call it, bowl. So what would be on the same? What would be on the same? What would be on the same? I mean, how long did he dig around? I'd have to watch the video. I need more information.

I want you. I want you a little 30, 30 on that. I'm going to have a Rossi for Rossi. Okay. I'll call it Matt's crackpot theories. Okay. Thank God you're an anti-Mayo. There's some punks around here that are anti-mail is ridiculous.

You know in your heart of hearts is not really a sports competition. Let us know. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. It's good. Gerrish in the casino's when you're underage or is that something we shouldn't even talk about. 1230, Joe, a spot of the joint. We'll get into the Astro.

Setback of the Royals last night. Yeah, I don't think that is. It's a return of Ross's. NFL rewind. My 21st birthday. I got one like 70 bucks. 130, reliever Brian King joins a radio show.

And believe it or not today, 150. That is a big major market radio program. Like you guys can't go anywhere near the casinos. Not appearing on the NFL international stage again. All right. Well,

and McNeese is really pissed off about that. You get college crap for other casinos in Michigan. Oh, my God. If she go to dealer school and then gets a college grad? Oh, she's going to London, Paris. She's probably upset she didn't go to London. A little real life experience. Hey, Brian, thank you for the time.

Best of luck to this weekend. We look forward to talk with you down here. Cal's like, let's go to Phoenix. Let's see later. Let's go to the desert. Left hand are extraordinary. There's no pride of McNeece University. There's no fashion runway in Tucson.

There's a fashion runway in Paris. We feel bad for her. Sports conspiracies that you know in your heart really don't exist. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. 14 on Sports Talk 790. Friend of the show, Jay just sent me an email.

Makes perfect sense. Sports conspiracies that we shouldn't believe. Kansas City Chiefs, Pat Mahomes getting breaks so the Chiefs can win the AFC and win the Super Bowl. I think it's a spot-on one. Talked about that most recently

during all the playoffs at Pat Mahomble was getting some benefit of the Dowell. Yeah, the NFL rigging it for Kansas City, Missouri. Yeah, that's fine. How about the one also with that? Travis, Kelsey, and Taylor Swift are only together so you get to cross-promotion and get more female fans than the NFL.

That's a conspiracy theory people believe in. That's not a good one. What else would there be? Oh, I got one for you. You heard of that? No, I think the NFL... No, I don't think the NFL is trying to keep them together. I think the NFL is just taking advantage of their relationship.

Because it works. The female audience has skyrocketed since their relationship. Yeah, and they're probably just going to go away once they break up. Or maybe they're going to get married and live happily ever after. I'm wishing them the best. Are you really? Yeah. What do you give a gift of someone that's worth multiple billions of dollars?

I wouldn't give them a dime. Well, if you got them by the wedding. I can give them a card and nothing. Yeah, I put a Marshall's gift card, $15. A Marshall's gift card? The sneaky thing about Marshalls is I wouldn't even go get clothes. I'd just stay in the snack area.

Oh, that's good too. The Marshalls snack area is phenomenal. Hey, do I need five pounds of Sour Patch kids? Probably not, but I'm buying it. I'm going to give you the sneaky Marshall's pick. We should have a fantasy five of Marshall Snacks. This is actually genius. There is a bag of waffle cone tails you can buy.

Huh. You know when you get the drumstick? Yeah. The bottom of it is, would you call it the tail? What would you call the end of the... The ass end, I believe, is what the call. The ass of the stick?

Don't quote me on that. Clip it. Shut up. It's full of chocolate. My favorite part is Jonathan shaking his head at disappointment in you. So there's... I got a bag at Marshall's one time full of the ass of the chocolate of the steak.

You guys know what I'm talking about, too. Don't play rude with me. You know exactly what I'm talking about. Okay. So, let me see if I ask. Ross is a list we're going to run through here, and he's going to see if I buy these things or not. Let's see here.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-7-9. Let's talk to Marty on line 2 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm a little over-clept. Marty, good morning to you. Good morning. You'll never convince me, no matter how much they scream from the mountaintops, that Tim Donahey was the only ref fixing games and the only ref betting on games. There's no way. I would not, Marty, add that to the list. So I'm going to agree with you. Do I believe in the NBA back in the day,

whether it had been when if Donahey was officiating or others officials were officiating 20, 30 years prior to that, I think there's such a foolproof system now of cross-checking balances Rossi that you can't do it now. So I will not add to the list. I will agree with Marty and say that there were probably more than one official, whether it be during Donnie's time or before that, that probably helped teams advance. The NBA investigated and said he didn't fix games. And you're smirking. At least you're smirking.

Yeah, I mean, did it happen at some point in the history? I imagine. probably in the when things are really running rampant with the mob 60s 70s let's go back to for donahee for a second okay would the NBA just ice now would the mob or whatever you want to call a gambling group would they isolate to one official and say you know what we can keep one guy quiet that it's harder to keep two and three guys quiet probably I don't know we'd have to go talk to our mob consultant about that do we have a mob consultant no I was going to say who is our mob consultant That guy that's all over

He's all over YouTube What's his name? Former mob boss Guido Sarducci? No, former mob boss breaks down iconic films or whatever Okay Michael Francazi That sounds mafioso

Hey, it's a Michael Francazi And I'm about to break down the top ten Most iconic mob scenes Here's Robert De Niro and analyze this I always see that on YouTube He's everywhere. Have I seen Analyze This? That's a comedy.

I'm going to say yes. No. That's not a violent mob film. You're right. Do you want to go see it? If anything's violent or interesting or good, you haven't seen it. But, I mean, that's just like a regular fluffy comedy. Do you want to go see it?

It's not a must watch. Okay. If it's a Saturday afternoon and you're looking for something to watch on Max, put on Analyze This. It's funny. Okay. It's Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal. It's good. I do like Billy Crystal.

It's a mob boss getting therapy. So it's funny. Fish out of water. Kind of like the Sopranos, but with less violence. Very well said. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Tom on 790 at 1025. Hi, Tom.

Hey, guys. How's how good. Good. Oh, good. My theory that I just don't believe is Jimmy Butler is Michael Jordan's illegitimate son. Is that rampant or is that? just one tweet or something? No, like, there's like, I've seen YouTube videos

that they do a breakdown. Apparently Jimmy Butler doesn't know who his father is and his mother was apparently an exotic dancer. And they tracked it down to like, Michael Jordan was playing in Dallas around the time of the conception of Jimmy Butler. So the only way you can believe it's true is if she decided to drive from Houston to doubt.

Or fly. Yeah, I mean, South West goes every, dark breast goes every half hour used to. NBA player, I'm not saying Michael Jordan did this, but NBA players fly the girl in. I am not, I'm not saying you don't, yeah, I would probably lean towards that not being accurate. I'd have to do some more investigating that.

Okay. I don't know enough of information about any of that. Well, you know, you can ask NBC sports contributor Michael Jordan to now, who is on the NBA broadcast. Yeah, I think he's going to bring it up. And his first time when he's on. You know, we haven't heard from you in a while, MJ. How many illegitimate children do you have?

And there's one of them a guy makes a couple hundred million dollars playing for the Golden State Warriors. By the way, has Golden State got suddenly super old in the last 24-40 hours? Well, Steph Curry is also not playing. Yeah. It's kind of different. I mean, he's, you know, changes obviously everything offensively. The rockets were sending two, three guys out of every possession. You take him off the floor.

It's tough. Yeah. 713-212-5-790. 1028 is our time. is the Matt Thomas show. Your wife are working? No. Okay, mine's down too.

Sweet. Yeah, that's why I can't bring my callers. I'm sorry. Mine's not working either. Yeah, it's fine. Anyways, Astros chatter later on the program. Of course, we'll do it all throughout the show if you want to do, bring up

your local 9. 713, 2,1, 2, 1-2-5-7-90. We will have Joe a spot at 1230 and at 1.30, Brian King, Astros' reliever. Didn't pitch last night. Was one of the few who didn't, because unfortunately, Ryan Gusto does not want to go deep in the games. I mean, he's trying to, but

they royals scored what, three in the second, three, four in the third, and by the time you didn't settle down, like Saturday night settled down, but by the time you were comfy, ready to sit down and watch the heart of the order, you're down seven nothing. Not ideal, but they

battled back, Matt. Got it to within 7, 5. Had a couple of opportunities even closer than that, but yeah, the Royals take game one of the series. Astros, oh, the Yankees did beat the Mariners last night, so the Astros don't lose any ground, but they have dropped from second to third place because the aides were off yesterday.

The athletics are a game and a half out of first, which is, I mean, not completely stunning. The division's mediocre, so if you get off to an average start, you're going to have a shot at keeping things close. Astro is now 20 and 20 on the year and our two-back of the Mariners for first place in American League West. All right. We're fighting in that tough, rugged,

hyper-competitive American League West. I mean, it's the EFC South of baseball. Yeah, it's terrible. You're 20 and 20 and your two games back. Not a good division. Thankfully, you know what? I literally was talking up the Mariners last week and they lost four in a row.

Don't talk to Mariners. I don't know. They were playing well. They were winning a lot of games. They were building up a nice lead. They had like a four-game lead in the American League West. Yeah. And then they lost four in a row.

got swept by the Blue Jays, lost to the Yankees yesterday. And that's, oh, those games are in Seattle, by the way, too. All right, let's go back on the phones. Let's say how to our friend Johnny in Sandy Ego at 1034. It is a Matt Thomas old Ross. We're looking for those of you to join us with sports conspiracies. Now remember, not sports conspiracies. It's sports conspiracies that you know in your heart of hearts you don't really believe.

Johnny, good morning to you. Good morning. First off, I wanted to make sure that Jonathan passed my message on yesterday. about the dynamic pricing for the baseball food that I had already trademarked that two weeks ago, so you're out. No, we didn't hear that. But, Johnny, I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going to be honest with you.

A hundred people a day called Jonathan and be like, hey, tell the guys this. And we just don't have time for that. So it's not Jonathan's fault. No. There's a lot of things that Jonathan is wrong. You'll eventually hear them during the course of the show. But I'm not going to fault, Jonathan. We even told him we're like, yeah, we don't need to hear every little thing.

somebody wants to pass because I'm going to get 100 of those but we thank you send an email send a tweet I hear you yeah I got you I got you uh so my conspiracy theory is that the NBA covered up Michael Jordan and his dad's gambling issues

and prevented basketball fans from getting the Bulls Rockets finals matchup in 94 and 95 they just said hey buddy we need you to take a break from the NBA go play baseball and then come back once it's settled down.

Okay. Now, for the second caller, though, Johnny, or the third caller we've had on this, we're looking for conspiracy theories that you don't believe. I'm for the second straight caller, Johnny, I do believe that one. I do believe the NBA told Michael Jordan to go away for a while. I believe that conspiracy. I believe that, too, but I get told all the time.

I'm crazy. That didn't really happen. Nobody has agreed with me, I guess, until you know. So I was just the impression that that didn't really happen. Yeah, I believe it. Thank you, Johnny, for the phone call and enjoy your rest of your day in San Diego. Yeah, I do believe that Michael's father's passing had to do something with gambling in debts. I do believe that the NBA said, Michael, go away for a couple of years, get your act together, cleanse yourself of this, go try baseball, go do whatever you want to do because you're still a frequently good athlete in the primary career. Yeah.

So, yeah. By the way, I think I gave Marshall, excuse me, Darcials too much credit. Oh, you did? Yeah. The place that has the snacks. Mm-hmm. My buddy Wes has texted me. It's T.J. Snacks.

Do they have it, but Ross has it and Darshals does too. Do they really? I think they all do, yeah. Darchel on top. Darshals does have it? Yeah. Okay, because I only got them in T.J. snacks. Is that what you're calling them?

And Wes says those waffle cone tips are addictive. Yeah, that's what they're called. Waffle cone tips, T-I-P-S. Somebody sent us a picture. It says just the tip on there? Oh my God, it's in your show. Those are addictive. I don't have a show named Just the Tip, Matt.

Yeah, Trevor, you're right. They're Waffle Cone tips filled with Belgian white chocolate. I can eat a whole bag of those bad boys. I don't have a super sweet tooth either. Yeah. it's very very addictive by the way everybody's sending in videos about butler and jordan babe and being the father yeah i i don't know i don't believe that but one in doubt jimmy could go on uh mori yeah i mean you can make a dna test to be very simple well it takes two to tango on that right unless you're

being secretive yeah i guess just on that out there let's go to uh caden on 790 at 1037 i hate if you have to pull the calls oh there we go Thank you, Jonathan. Hi, Jane. Hi, Kane. How are you, sir? Hey, what's going on, man? Hi. Just one of the one that I don't believe, because I've been a New England Patriots fan for quite some time, is the NFL destroying SpyGate evidence. I would agree with you on that. I believe the NFL would not do that. They're not, they don't need to protect anybody because the shield is strong, but it's strong for 32 different NFL teams. Yeah, I agree with you on that. There's no, there would be, look at how the NFL. NFL's thrive with the Patriots sucking for the last five years. They're doing just fine.

That's what I'm saying. I mean, even though it's a dynasty team, you know, won all these Super Bowls, the greatest ball time. Tom Brady, no argument about that. I don't think that there's a reason that they would need to cover up. Yeah, I mean, they suspended Tom Brady for four games. Yeah, and if they were covering up or if they were hiding for somebody, then I don't see why they would suspend the number one quarterback, like, of all time.

Yeah. Yeah. That's good stuff. Thank you, Caden, for the phone call. That absolutely makes sense. Now, you have a list, Rossi, of some conspiracy theories out there. Yes. And you're going to ask me if I believe them or not.

It's going to believe it or not. Believe it. All right, here we go. Or not. Go ahead. Michael, this is number one on this list. This is from Business Insider. Michael Jordan's retirement was a secret suspension for gambling.

Believe it. Really? Okay. Number two is the 80s. You can't do these two. Don't be afraid of it. What do you think? I will say no.

I don't think it was a suspension. I believe that there was a gambling debt, go away conspiracy theory that says take a break. I'm more apt to believe his father was murdered over a gambling debt. I believe all of the above. All of the M.B. Okay. Continue on.

The NBA rigged the 85 draft. Believe it. Cowrick and Jr.'s record streak of games was saved by an intentional power outage. 1997. Believe it. Oh, wow. Look at you. Let's start calling you Conspiracy Matt. This is not working out well for the other part of the segments. The NBA rigged game six of the 2002 Western finals to save the Los Angeles Lakers. And Donahey was the official thing? Donahy was he? No, it wasn't Dick Pavetta the, the, um, yeah, Donnie did not work that game, it says.

But Dick Bavetta was there. I will go not. 27 free throws for the Lakers in the fourth quarter. 16 of their last 18 points at the free throw line to win by 4. But Shaq would have been on the floor at the time, right? And that was no guarantee he was going to make free throws. Yeah, I don't know how many of those he shot. I will go not on that. All right, we'll just breeze by this one.

But if we're in Northern California, I guarantee we're getting a different answer of that. The 1995 New Zealand national rugby team was poisoned prior to the World Cup final? Oh, it's soccer. It's definitely believe it. It's rugby bat. Whatever. Same difference. Don't hurt yourself.

The NFL destroyed evidence from Spygate. What we just talked about? Not. Okay. Number seven. Pete Rose had a secret agreement to re-instated to baseball after Lifetime ban. Not. I don't believe so either.

Oh, 1965, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sunny listening in a rigged fight with a phantom punch. Not. Rematch, I think. Not. Two thousand five. Hold on. Let's go back to stay with boxing. Wasn't there something involving George Foreman in some sort of,

drink. That was Aaron Pryor and Alexis Argueo and Panama Lewis was the trainer and he, that was real. Panama Lewis got banned from for a while from boxing. He was like

don't get the, he literally, there's audio of Panama Lewis going, give me the water bottle. The one that I mixed up. And what they did was they put antihistamines in there which apparently opens up your it allows you to take in more oxygen. So it helps you recover in in a long fight. But I thought there was something involving George

Foreman. No, am I making that up? You may be. And then also Panama Lewis took padding out of Louis Resto's gloves and he killed the guy. Okay, but those weren't even theories. That was real. That was real evidence. Okay. Are we getting more? I'm trying to think of anything you're talking about with George Foreman.

People think that Michael Moore, people think Michael Moore took a dive when he regained the heavyweight championship at the age of 45? I thought there was, help me out boxing historians. I thought there was something involving the trip wherever they were

in an international city and there was there was something about I don't want to say a fever or a contamination we'll check during the break is there any more on your list yes

05 NHL draft rigged so the Pittsburgh Penguins could take Sidney Crosby to save the troubled franchise I have no opinion and this is a good one the NBA rigged the lottery for the Cavs to get well this one is to get the number one overall pick

after LeBron signed away. Remember they signed away and they got the number one overall pick and took Kyrie. Overal pick and took Kyrie Irving. And that's happened before because didn't New Orleans move Chris Paul away and they got the number one pick after that? Didn't, uh, this happened. There's people on time. No, New Orleans moved. Yeah. Anthony Davis. And then they got Zion Williamson. Okay. And then I mean,

LeBron James, kid from Akron landed in Cleveland. I don't buy that one. Okay. Coincidence? George Foreman thing's going to bug me now. I don't, I'm not sure. Maybe somebody can... We'll figure it out. Okay. All right. 1043. It is the Matt Thomas show with Raw. 713, 212, 570. So the reason why I'm bringing this up again is because the fact that, yeah, I'm pissed off that the Mavericks got the first one.

But remember, would America, but this way, if the Rockets would have gotten the pick at 1.9%, they were at 3.9%. Correct? I think that's what the number was last night? 3.8, yeah. 23.9. How would America have treated today at the Rockets got number one? Would they have been saying the same thing? I can't think of a reason to rig anything for the Houston Rockets. But Dallas does make, the number one thing I've seen on social media was, okay, wink, wink, convince the Mavericks to ship the number one of the five most dominant players in the NBA to its number one or number two market.

And in return will give you the number one pick. I'm putting a Twitter poll right now. Do you think the NBA rigs the lottery? Matt? No. I'm with you. I think we're going to be in the mic. minority. Depends on you consider your people that follow you decent? No. Okay.

It's Twitter. 713212. I'll say they're smarter than most because they listen to this show. Yes. But also it's social media. And you'll wind up on a 4U tab. It's going to say you're going to be on there. Hey, I hope.

Follow me at Sports RV. It's not that great. And Instagram, trying to build it up. Let's go. You're putting too much out there. I'm trying to put more. No, I mean, you should, you should, You should back on.

Influencer initiatives, Matt. I don't even bro. I don't want to do it. I don't. I don't even bro's in my idea. I don't want to do it, Matt. You know I don't. Good.

Stop doing it then. Too late. Not helping. All right. Just our friend Jonah asked for a brief explanation of how the NBA lottery works. And it's unfortunately not brief. So I'm going to go quickly and I'm going to give you the Cliff Notes version of it. The drawing uses 14 ping pong balls.

You got me so far, Ross? Yes. Numbered one. through 14. There are 1001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14 without regard to their order of selection. Before the lottery, 1,000 of those 1001 combinations will be assigned to the 14 lottery teams. For the drawing, all 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine.

They are mixed for 20 seconds, then the first ball is drawn. The remaining balls are mixed in the lowering machine for another 10 seconds, and the second ball is drawn. There's another 10 second mix, and then the third ball is drawn. Wait, but there's not 14 balls in there. There's just 14 balls in there? That means everybody has an equal chance. That can't be right, right? No, you have 14 different, you have the combinations.

Oh, one of the balls has the combination? Let me read again. I'm sorry. Folk, don't know. No, I'm listening. I'm listening. All right, here we go. There are 14 ping pong. bowls numbered 1 through 14.

Okay. There are 1001 possible combinations when four balls are drawn out of 14. Mm-hmm. Okay. All 14 balls are placed in the lottery machine. They are mixed for 20 seconds. Then the first ball is drawn. Then would leave 13 balls left.

They get mixed for 10 seconds. The second ball is drawn. That would then leave 12. A 10-second mix. And then the third ball is drawn. Okay. Leaving 11. Final 10 second mix.

Then the fourth ball is drawn. That is now leaving 10. The team that has been assigned the combination of the four balls drawn for the machine. Oh, it's like they won the lottery. So the Mavericks are holding a ticket, and it says 12-9-7-6. Correct. So when 12-9-7-6 comes out, they won the lottery. Yes.

Okay, that is why the hell do they do it that way? The ping-pong balls are then placed back in the machine, and the same process is repeated for the second to the fourth picks. Okay. So it's basically a lottery. Yeah. It's like a lot.

It's like a mega, it's like a power ball. Yes. But each team has, it's like they're doing the 50-50 drawing and every team has their own numbers. Yes. Okay.

Whatever, but people, but there are witnesses and this is verified by people. I know of at least. And I'm not trying to brag. I know of at least four people that have been in that room before. Hakeem Elijah one?

One. Jonathan Fagan? Two. Rafael Stone. No, I don't know if Rafael's ever been there. Okay, who the else? Legal counsel for the Rockets. Okay.

And I believe the PR director for the Rockets as well. They've all been in there before. Okay. I can guarantee you three of the four, maybe I'm pretty much sure to the fourth one. So I don't think you can rig it. No. But yet it's a conspiracy theory that people believe. People believe that I choose not to.

So there you have it. Matt. Let's go to, speaking of Matt, let's go to Matt and Spring Branch at 1054 on 790. Matt, good morning. Hey, good morning, Matt and Ross. On the note of sports conspiracy theories, I wanted to call in on one. I'd heard years ago, and I just refused to believe it. It was pretty absurd, but it's kind of akin to the Michael Jordan gambling to my retirement, so I wanted to bring it up. In 2006, when Roger Clemens came back mid-season with the Astros, I had heard a ruin. or a whispers rather that the reason he came back midseason and had that little mini retirement was because he was facing a PED suspension.

So he kind of disappeared for a while. It took a break so it's to let that suspension blow over and then came back when it would have been finished. So I don't necessarily believe it, but I want to get your thoughts on it. Do I believe Major League Baseball would have protected its marquee pitcher during that time to avoid the steroid? I would say yes, I could possibly believe that. So, Maddie, I would not put that in the category.

I would put under the... I believe leagues can protect its megastars, and I too firmly believe that Michael Jordan was protected by the NBA. I'll give you another one that I don't believe. Show me, O'Shea, O'Hawley and the gambling. Oh, 100%. Would Roger Clemens on the 2006 Astros be considered

a megastar at that point, though? A Hall of Fame pitcher, absolutely. All right. Matter of fact, didn't he not win a Cyong with the Astros, right? Yes. So, yeah, he was still at the top of his game. Yeah. I mean, they wasn't like he was in 1993 Boston Red Sox or 86 for that matter when he was younger.

But yeah, I think Roger carried tremendous cachet at the time. Yeah, for sure. Thanks, Matt. That's not a bad one there at all. And he used PEDs. He did. And he did use him. So it kind of worked out.

Okay, so Showhead gambling. You're saying conspiracy theory that you do not believe or conspiracy theory. I do not believe. Remember, I was more of the believer category than the two of us. You said it's a cover up story. I believe there's a small hint of truth on that. I think it's possible he He knew what the money.

He knew he gave him the money. I don't think he was gambling. The FBI got involved in all this. The FBI doesn't give a crap about Shohei So you think that you think that Shohei just gave this guy money not knowing where it was headed? They have literal. No, I think he knew it was for gambling debts.

And then he's like, yeah, well, now I got to mix up with this guy. You got to do time, brother. Sorry. I think that's possible. He said brother? Yeah. And perfect Japanese. What is Japanese for brother?

I don't know. Okay. Well, I can find it. That's fine. Yeah, I, when it first came out, I was cover-up, cover-up guy. But I obviously had to solve a pedal because, you know what, at the end of the day, I got to trust the FBI. It wasn't like it was, it wasn't like he was Rob Manfred. He said that.

Kiyo-di, Kiyo-di for bro. He's like, come on, Kiyo-di, let's go. So you're saying he mixed in Japanese and English in the same sentence. Yes. Come on, Kira-di. Oh, he's learning, yeah. Wasn't there a song like, Kama on Kira-di? now it's come on i lean oh sorry it's close that's today's obligatory dad joke of the show

there'll be more although we'll be stay tuned it will get uncomfortable at some point in the radio program oh wow this twitter this twitter poll i did at sports rv is more slanted than i thought go ahead when we come back oh i haven't voted you you can vote at sports rv i can't wait to vote because i don't even know what the results are don't tell me what they are 713 212 5790 713 212 to 5.7.90. Astros fall last night, 7 to 5 to the Kansas City Royals. We will talk more about that with Joe Espada coming up today at 1230. Brian King, Astro reliever extraordinaire with us at 130 today. We have gut feelings coming up in one half hour. And we have the fact that the Dallas Mavericks, listen to the warmth of my voice when I say this. Congratulations to the Dallas Mavericks for winning

the NBA draft lottery. Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs. Getting the number two pick in the draft lottery. Both teams in the Southwest Division, both teams the Rockets face four times per year in the regular season. Congratulations to you both. It's ridiculous that it's two teams in state and in division, but also even the bigger picture of Western Conference. The Western Conference is ridiculous. If Jason Tatum's Achilles is actually torn, it could be, first of all, it's career.

threatening and at the very least it's threatening next year and the Eastern Conference is already inferior to the Western Conference and now it's going to get even stronger with Cooper Flagg joining Kyrie Irving has a torn ACL I think if he opts in he'll be back by January

or if they do another deal with him or whatever if he stays on the roster you're going to have Anthony Davis Cooper Flagg Kyrie Irving on one team and that's already into a ridiculous Western Conference to where the seven seed has Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry, and Draymond Green and those guys.

Oh, by the way, the Memphis Grizzlies have John Moran still and Jerry and Jackson, Jr. Yeah, and they're going to get a new coach and be better. And the Phoenix Sun's a problem. They already renamed the new coach. Okay, who I can't remember. Yeah, I can't. Yeah, they got a new coach and they're going to be better. By the way, the morning TV shows.

Now, not that I think the audience has a firm grip of Kendrick Perkins, except just that really thick accent. Hey, hey, Beaumont's finest. Does he talk out of his ass or do you believe him, generally? He talks out of his ass generally. He was talking with, I don't want to say complete, what do you say? Recklessness? No, no, no, absolute.

Talking in absolutes, okay. Yeah, he was not talking absolutes, but he was certainly leaning that direction. Okay. And he believes that Janus, when the dust settles and when he says, I want to move, he wants to go to an Eastern Conference team. He should. That would probably include your New Yorks, both of them. Toronto, you mentioned, is part of the mix. I mean, this has been for 20 plus years

when it was like the Spurs and the Lakers and all the Sacramento Kings and all those teams in the Western Conference. Right, right. And then they would go play, they would go to the finals and play the New Jersey Nets, the New York Nets. Right. And play the Pacer to the crappy Pacers.

Yep. And beat up on those 76ers, led by Alan Iverson and Eric Snow? I mean... It's a good pull there. I mean, DeKimbe was good, but... Jack was eating his lunch. And again, I think everybody can have their opinions change.

NBA players change their opinions every single day, but it felt like Kendrick Perkins. Now, again, I think very few smart NBA people really trust what Kendrick Perkins has to say, but... Yeah, I don't know how much intel he's got. I mean... I'm not saying it's not none.

He's a former player. It very easily could have been a, you know what, I got a friend of a friend of a friend who absolutely said this. But it doesn't sound absurd for him to say, I'll stay in the east side of a quicker path because I do believe Janus. And I don't think Janus has hidden the fact that he wants to win another championship. I think the money is important, but I still think he is thirsting for one more championship. Because when you become an all-timer, winning one is very nice. Winning two puts you in a different category. It just does.

Or three, for that matter. So I'm not completely stunned by the notion that maybe he does want to play for an Eastern Conference team. Now, does Toronto seem like a little far-fetched? Yeah. Brooklyn does not. New York doesn't for the obviously of the thought of being in a big market after being in a small market team for all these years. I don't know if that helps his marketing or just being among a better basketball audience. I mean, Milwaukee's a great place.

But they need to move from him because they've got to start from scratch with that franchise, especially because Damien Alert is going to probably miss all of next season. Mention the Astros losing 7 to 5. We'll get to more on that as the program progresses. Also, the NFL announcing more international games. Do you remember a long time ago, I don't know if it was a gut feeling or to tell the truth? I think it was to tell the truth. I think I had Roger Goodell at some point having every NFL team play one international game per year.

Have you seen how many international games there are this year? No, I have not. How many are there? I'm glad you asked, and I'm glad I wasn't ill-prepared for it. NFL International. I'm going to let you look that up. Yes, you're going to mention the phone number. You asked me, you know what? Every time you do this now, I'm just going to say, follow my Instagram.

All right, I have to go. There are seven weeks of international play. I cannot. I don't want to get up at 8.30 for seven weeks of the year. Sunday's my time to sleep in. Roger Goodell. Shut your bum ass up. Let's go through this. Week 1 is Kansas City against the Chargers.

That's in San Paolo, Brazil. That's going to be a night game like it was last year. Week 4 is Minnesota versus Pittsburgh in Dublin. Are you going to... Okay, Lesz is... Hit in Dublin, Ireland. Are you... The lads and lasses.

I'm a regular football fan. They're going to play on a field of shamrocks. I'm not a 24-7 football guy. I like football. I enjoy it. I love the Padgettrip College. I love the pro. Come on, man. But I'm not getting it at 830.

anymore than to watch Minnesota, Pittsburgh. Not happening. That could be a good game. What do you mean? I didn't stutter. I'm not interested. Well, you're just not an NFL fan. Then, the next week, Minnesota plays Cleveland. Not getting up for that. What do you mean? Shador Sanders, the slinging the rock.

No, he's not. Could be. The following week, Denver versus the Jets. Not getting up for that. Both those games are at Tottenham Hopspur Stadium. Oh, it's a Tottenham Hotspur. the final week after that, Rams against the Jaguars. No interest, sorry.

Then in week 10, the Falcons against the Colts in Berlin. Okay, but the game on at 4 o'clock in the morning. I don't care, I'm not watching it. No, if it's on, it's on. But I'm saying none of these are appointments, games for me, Rossi. And then the final one is week 11, Washington versus Miami. Okay, that might be a little more intriguing. Daniels versus two attack of a low as long as not concussed.

Yeah. But, I mean, the NFL's smart. Just put any two randos out there. I'm going to go down, get on the couch, put the game on, and then put a pillow behind my head and get under a blankie and half watch. Do you notice one thing very important in this list? What? No cowboy games on there.

Because they're not putting the Cowboys 830 in the morning. That's because they're putting them on prime time in 325. That should further my point is that they're just putting Randos on there, which might think, Jesus, the Texas can't even. be a rando. That's okay. I don't want them to have an international game. I'm trying to get up for all that.

I don't. This is ridiculous, man. I'm upset with the NFL. You said seven weeks out of the year? Yeah. Seven going to be 17 pretty soon. I already have to get up for Premier League games, which I don't want to do.

I've got to do this. It's ridiculous. But you're getting ridiculous. I hate to tell you this. I think you're a minority in the late sleeping on on Saturdays during football season. I know. For Sundays. I don't know what the minority.

A lot of functioning alcoholics out there. They're with me. No, no, no. They're going to bed at 2 o'clock in the morning on Sunday morning, just like you are. Yeah. But they're getting up to either get to church because mom's begging them to go to church. Repet for their sins. Or B, they're going to brunch.

Or C, they're getting up early to go tailgate. That's true. The true functioning alcoholics are getting up to hit a mimosa and a bloody merry. Well, I mean, if you get home at 2 o'clock. I'm sorry. I'm a night out person. I like to sleep late. I like to not have to get up early in the morning.

And yeah, 8.30 in the morning is early to me. I'm sorry. The NFL's on the line and says, is this Ross? Yeah. Shut your bum ass up, man. I said, Roger Goodell in NFL, you greedy bastards. Shut your bum ass up. Nobody cares about you in Germany. What about America? Ross.

Why can't we have principles where we're about Americans and America first? These are randos. Ain't nothing. Ain't nothing about them. There's nothing about them. Yeah, but I got fantasy teams. I got gambling I like to do. I got news for you. There's a DVR that's your house. Yeah, I know. I got a DVR everything.

And then I'm getting my DFS line up so ready to go. Let me say something. I'm looking at inactive's coming in at 10.30. I got too much stuff to be doing. You're going to really be like, oh, I got to get up for Minnesota Pittsburgh. Yeah, absolutely. I like football. I like sports.

My career is sports. So yes, I watch Thursday. Our audience is not care about them. Do you care about Minnesota Pittsburgh? No, you don't care about it. about it. So I can know what I'm talking about. Nobody cares. You want to ignore. And then you have these half-ass

ignorant opinions, that's fine. I'm watching the games. I'm watching the games in my time slot with teams that I care about. And those games I don't care about. I'm going to be just fine. Just what's going to happen. You know, on Sunday morning when I get up? I go get donuts for the family or I'll cook of some bacon

and eggs. And 9 o'clock will, like, oh, there's a game on. That's cool. I'll put it on. It'll be in the background. Those games are background games. There ain't nothing with teeth on those bad boys. And the one time they send Kansas City to play international game, they're doing it at night in Brazil. So they go out and hang out at the clubs after.

They sent Red, they sent Jacksonville. I'm going to half watch it too. I said it's backer. I said I'm going to be on the couch with a blankie, with my throat blankie. Those are softened nice. I have the best blanket in North America at my home. Well, it's the U of H Snuggie.

I bought you. That's good, too. Be honest, you still wear the snuggie? Dang it. Well, after. After what? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

On Twitter, you want to follow us there. It's at SportsMT and at Sports RV. We've got gut feelings. Bottom of the hour. We'll talk to Christian and open things up the next segment of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. After this. 1117 on Sports Talk 790. It is a Matt Thomas show with Ross.

you today until 2 p.m. Astros drop a 7-5 game to the Royals. The NFL schedulers have said that the Texans are not international worthy. How many noon? We're not going to get it. Well, we're going to probably at the very most, at the very most, probably 12 noon games. There'll be probably at least one or two, three-clockers that are on the West Coast. Yes. You'll probably get- It might have been three, three-o-five. Not three-twenty-five. You don't know that. Arizona. Arizona, Oh, that's a 305 guarantee. That's true. You're going to get a couple of standalones.

Mm-hmm. Oh, we're going to make some scheduling gut feelings. We talked about it. I think you said three national games. I went over, but I mean, you could be right. Because they have some big opponents. We talked about it, I think, last week. Baltimore, San Francisco, Buffalo, Kansas City.

They got a first place schedule. So there'll be some, there are some. there are some potential games that could be marquee games. All right. 1118 on Sports Talk 790. Let's talk to Christian on 790 on a mobile line. Christian, good morning and thanks for holding. Hey, good morning, Matt.

I just want to let you know that I was able to shake off that famous Matt Thomas Voodoo, and I made it to the National Championship all right, because I don't know if you realized, but you wished me that I crashed. Yes, I do. I remember that. We all heard that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, I was able to make it.

But, you know, I had a whole agenda today, but now I'm thrown off because you were talking about the Notre Dame game. So it only sounds like you're anti-Catholic, anti-American, which we all know, you know, amongst many things, anti-U-H, you find. But the real reason I was calling is I want to talk about. Usan. I love Usand. Good guys, sure, sure thing, right? But him coming back, should we not develop our rookie point guards? I know that Samson hates putting rookies in the game. I understand that. But look, Duke does it and so many other Blue Ship teams do it.

they play these five-star talent. And why he's so hard-hitted. I love me some Samson, but I want to take your take on this. Thank for your taking my call. So he was ugly to me, and then he wanted me to answer a question about it. I think he's got a crush on you.

He demanded that out of you like a dog. He did what? He demanded that out of you like a dog. Demand, yeah, tell him, Matt. Bark for him, doggy. why Kelvin Sampton doesn't play well you got he's got blue chip recruits coming in but he doesn't prefer playing freshman

I honestly no I mean I he just treats freshmen differently because he wants them to know their role like the old school you can't run in here on the team right yeah no well that's not that bad I don't know much about their names or who they are what they do I mean I look we got a lot of the things going on as much as I love U of H basketball I like to see them actually on the

corporate force or giving a rundown but they do have an amazing recruiting class I mean I want to say top five national I would think at this point if you're a top five and you're losing Milo's Uzanne to the draft, by the way he's projected to be early the mid-second

round selection. Okay. And you've already lost you're going to lose Cryer and you've already lost Shed the year before that. There's going to be some opportunities for some younger players to play right away. I mean, the number one thing that Calvin Samson has said

is that you have to be somewhat flexible because of the game. And again, if you're bringing in these all Americans, and let's face it, you don't give yourself an All-American tag. Someone named you McDonald's All-American or someone says you are a top-five player. The thought of those players staying more than, say, two years is a pipe dream. I mean, today, we are seeing more one-and-duns in the NBA than we are going to the NBA than we ever had before. So my guess is that these kids are as advertised that the new guys coming in will be guys that will be able to have a chance to play right away. but they're not going to be handed the basketball and say,

well, just because of your preseason status, you're a guy, if you don't practice hard and you don't buy into the culture that Kelvin Sampson has, you'll sit the bench. And those are the type of players that Kelvin goes for. I mean, Mercy Miller will have an opportunity to play a lot more this year than he played last year.

But he was in the same situation. Chris Seneck Jr., is that correct? I don't know. Six foot 10, big man, five star, Isaiah Harwell. This is just from via 24-7 sports. Four-star, Kingston, Fleming. four star, Bryce Jackson, three star. Two guards and a big man.

But like the shooting guard, Isaiah Harwell, 6,6. So, I mean, number one recruiting class in the country. Either our NIL is a lot better than I thought it was. You've been opening up that checkbook, Maddie. Maybe I did.

Maybe I did. Maybe I did. You don't know those things. I think it's probably a combination of maybe an influx of NIL money. Where are those kids from, by the way? New Orleans. I'm sorry.

Orleans. No, no, wait, do I have a different, this is Branson, Missouri. I thought I read

New Orleans. There is one kid from the middle of the country, any of that. Mount Pleasant, Utah, San Antonio,

Texas, and Parallan, Texas. Okay, so we're keeping kids close. We're 20 years you couldn't do that

because if you took him over to Hafeans Pavilion, like this is a dump. A couple of transfers came in two, one from Creighton

and one from Sam Houston. Yeah, the Creighton kid is right away. Pop Isaac. Matter of thing, I think he is supposed to be

probably the favorite to inherit the point guard spot, right? I think so. Yeah. I think he's got one year left. He's going to be a squad. You come out with me? Some games? You get my ticket?

Of course. Oh, yeah, I'll go. So you wouldn't actually pay for a ticket. You want to get a freebie. No, God, no. Start calling you America's guest at college sports. I mean, I respect Cougar basketball, but I don't, I'm not going to go pay for tickets. I'm going to get you some good seats for the game against Lehigh.

Oh, I'd like at least, can I get a conference game? Yeah, I'll throw a West Virginia at you. Okay, yeah, I'll do that. That's what I'm asking for, a low-level conference matchup. I get you a little Central Florida game. Let's go. I'm in. Suck it Golden Knights.

You're getting no Kansas. No, I'm not asking for that. You're not in Kansas State. No, I'm not a Cougars fan. Okay. But I would go to a game. Last time I was in there was when there's Texas and U of H at the CBI. And I want to bet from you on that.

I felt good about that. Kevin Eshenfelter was sitting next to me talking trash the whole time. Was he? Yeah. Yeah, we went together. Remember? I don't remember that. He was next to me. Yeah, he was next to me. He didn't want to hang out with you socially.

No, he was, yeah. He was talking trash. Okay. It was fun. All right. Well, now the show's gone to a grinding halt on U of H. off-season stuff. Thank you, Christian. Not really, thank you, Christian. I'm sorry. Did you unfriend him on Facebook?

Are you guys still broskeys? No, I blocked him. Oh, okay. because he was attacking me on let me tell you're an ultimate douchebag if you attack someone personally on their Facebook page unless you get into a political

around then it's your fault yeah it was an unprovoked attack it's not like you attacked him and he was defending himself I didn't even know we were friends but I've learned my lesson on that and I wish you were going to a car accident Matt this is I'm sorry Friday you write this down you can't go back

oh please you mean to tell me that you don't wish anybody getting a vehicular accident. That's a lie. I really don't. I can't think of a single person. You get sick to your stomach.

Mm-mm. I didn't say he wanted to die. I was just hoping for a lot of damage and hopefully it doesn't carry insurance. I'm wishing you peace and love, Christian. And also, I agree. Matt's a fake U of H fan. I got a damn COVID over U of H.

So suck it. Oh, yeah. By the way, that would be the last time I ever do that. Oh, spend all the money they get a championship. Spent all that money to bounce around the country and hang out in that filthy ass animal dome for 65,000 people.

What if it's a nicer stadium? That I'll change my mind. Lucas O'il next year, yeah. By the way... I really got feeling. Cougars could be there. By the way, shifted a little move by U of H. Guess who hosts the South Regional next year?

Is it Houston? It's Houston. At the Toyota Center. The host of said event is the University of Houston. Hmm. Guess what you can't do. You can't be in your own region to be the host. Okay. So I think there is word on the streets that what the kids are telling me is that the U of H is trying to distance themselves from hosting said event.

Because you cannot host a regional in your own city. Were they trying to get H-CU to host it? What are they going to do? Now, you can be the South region and go to, if you're qualified to do that. Oh, okay. So they're trying to gain the system. No. They're trying to cheat. They're trying to cheat and get a home court advantage. No, it's not true at all.

Yeah. No, you're making some up now. A bunch of grifters and cheaters. No, that's only in Austin. They're trying to skirt the system to get a home court advantage because they can't get one elsewhere. I'll be basically like hosting a super regional because your stadium is bigger and you pay off the NCAA. It's not like that at all. The Toyota Center is the venue no matter what.

I'm saying good for us. Good for us thinking ahead of half. Okay, good for trying to cheat and skirt the system. Right. Change or anything. If we're the number one South, he was. the number one South seed. Let's go. Well, enjoy Dayton or Toledo or wherever they're going to, I don't know where they're having

these. No. Enjoy Phoenix. We will be the number one seed in the South. Where are the other regionals? It'll be inside Toyota Center. Y'all can suck it. You're where they're the other regionals. Who else are they going to have to host it? Well, Rice could do it. H.C.U could do it. T.S.U. Well, you know what? The Big 12 conference could host it. Houston, San Jose, Chicago, Washington, D.C. Yeah. D.C. is lovely in March. No, no. Houston's fine. D.C. is lovely, Matt. Houston's late in Washington Monument.

Stop. I'm not doing, I'm not running around this country anymore. You go to Smithsonian? Now, maybe if the rockets have a four-day off-stretch during that time, I'd be okay with that, but I'm not not bouncing on the country anymore. Enjoy the Lincoln Memorial, man. Stop. I hear it's lovely. All right, let's get some gut feelings in. You ready? So let's gut feeling the NFL schedule is part of our stuff. You any asked for gut feelings you want to get to? If you have any gut feelings, you want to get to? If you have any gut feelings, out there. I've got feelings I don't want to say. You're going to have to. It's the one-half hour per week we have

to say them. I might have to die on McCullors Hill because I made gut feelings the start of the season. Let's just say it's getting real lonely on McCuller's Hill, folks. Real lonely. Real RBI yesterday. Jake Myers Hill's looking a little better. It's more of a

double. It's a double. It was a single-on-air. Okay. Hey, hey, I don't need to talk to the score on this. No, no, no. If you see the, if you saw the play. he missed the ball. Right through his arm. I saw it. I saw it. All right. If you have any sports predictions, 713, 212, 570. Because it's a scalding

exit velo. He should have got a double. No one's ever said Jake Myers and scalding in the same conversation. Hey, oh, his home run was like 106 off the bat. One of his two home runs, he's hit. 713, 212,790. We need some sports predictions. We'll get him from you next

next on Sports Talk, 790. Listen up, girls and boys. feeling. Goes Ross and Matt Thomas. Yo, they got a gut feeling. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. Time for you to make your sports

predictions. We ask you to do that right now. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Ross, how did we do last week? Oh, man. Looks like we were piling in the gut feelings. Let's see. Look at you, Matt, last week. You said Justin Tucker will not

be on an NN. NFL team week one. We'll see what happens there. By the way, did you see there's a video of him just in a Randall High School field just kicking footballs? Oh, okay. And when you said high school, I was like, I was like, oh, no. As soon as I said the first fours, I'm thinking to myself. Oh, my God.

Let me finish the statement, Ross. I was like, he is not going to be on a team week one if you finish that sentence the way I think you are. Yep. Go ahead. Because my gut feeling was that he will be on a risk. roster by week one, we shall see. You also said no, quote, wow, move made by the Rockets this offseason. Still staying with that. I think you're going to be right. I think they will kick the tires, by the way. You will hear rumors about everybody that we've heard rumors about so far.

They will absolutely due diligence, do their due diligence. They absolutely will put together some plans. Do I think put trades out there in either agents, or players, or media will find out about it and say that they're not interested, the players aren't interested, or the deal wasn't sweet now for the deal was too sweet. Just a random name. We were talking about Derek White and how the Boston will be in have cap issues. Like, trading

for a Derek White, I would say that's not a wow move, right? Solid but not wow. Wow to me is Booker, Janice, Durant. Does Jalen Brown become a wow? Do the Celtics really break things up? We'll see what happens with Jason Tatum too.

I agree with you there. You said Dana Brown makes a 26-man roster trade by July 1st. Pre-trade deadline. Absolutely. I mean, like significantly before the deadline. Okay. So pre-July 1st, absolutely. We'll see the time.

The clock is ticking on that. I didn't write anything down for Jonathan. Did you have anything? Did you tell us you didn't have anything maybe last week? Yeah, Jonathan was too busy. No, I mean, it's possible I missed. I think I was screening college. Yeah, I think maybe.

Okay. If you remember something like, me know, but I didn't write anything down. That could be my bad. I'm not sure. Okay, so I mentioned the Justin Tucker thing for me. I also said rockets add complimentary slash rotation piece, but do not rock the boat with Superstar. I think we're basically on the same page. I said, FVVV restructures longer term deal. Looks like that's going to be true. And I said, Jeremy Pena, breakout is real. It will sustain relative breakout, not to where he's going to be. And that for you right now, as we speak at 1136 on a Tuesday is a win. That is a gut feeling here.

Let's go. All right. And then I said the Astros win the Brewer Series. They didn't. All right. I will go first. I will tell you that your Eastern Conference final, and then this is no great shakes. But teams have come back from 3-1.

I will say it's going to be New York versus Indiana. And that is going to completely shock the NBA world because I think most people before the start of the playoffs, even in the middle of the season, thought it was going to be Cleveland versus Boston. That was the mega-shock. Yep. But first of all, the Knicks and Pacers are really good. And what's the delisance on Donovan Mitchell? I know he turned his ankle and left the last game they played.

Is Donovan Mitchell, and this is not a good feeling question. Is Donovan Mitchell just an awesome regular season player? Does he have the Moxy now getting in? Does he have the carry? Because the Utah teams never did anything. He's had big playoff games, though. He's dropped in this series. He's dropped 43 and 48.

Okay. so you're so you're not ready to say just a regular season bro. He's not a Jayling Green. Stop. You have to, you're rude. Continue on. You scored 12 or fewer points in six out of seven games. He was there, Ross.

I saw them. I saw them. I saw them. I want them to be good too. I do. Please trust me. You went to the big board of channel too to talk about him. Yeah, it's true.

You thought you were the weather. You thought you were Cambrell Marshall for a minute. That was fun. All right. Anyways, okay, you are saying Nick versus Pacers, he's from finals. So, yeah, I mean, you pick the two teams up three to one and have injured players on the other side. Good job.

You were way out on that limb, Matt. Proud of you. Yeah. All right. Next for me, Texans get one Sunday night game. That's it. Okay. I put it to a number.

One, not two, not three. All right. That's about my stand-in-law. I'm talking about one Sunday night, Mike Tariko, Chris Collinsworth, and whoever the blonde is it does the reporting. What is her name? Whatever. It doesn't matter. I can't remember either. One annoying Mike Florio pregame.

Who's on the sidelines for the Sunday night game? It's the blonde. It's something with a Jay? No, Melissa Stark. Melissa Stark, yes. Why couldn't I remember her name? Fan of Hers, yes. Okay, three and a half standalone games over under.

Under, three. Now, the problem is there's so many standalones now. But you know what? Most of those standalons have already been announced. I'll say under. I'm going under three and a half standalones. I'm going to be off. The Mystic over, but you could be right.

Okay, for sure. Okay. I'm going to put you on the spot too, Jonathan. Over under three and a half standalone games for the Houston Texans. Over. Okay. I can say that being sneaky, a sneaky Monday night game selection. Yeah, you're going to get a Thursday guaranteed. Thursday is guaranteed.

You're going to get a Monday. So you need one more. Christmas. You're not playing night Christmas. I think they're not putting the Texas event on Christmas. They're doing Ramadan and Kwanza special games now, too, I think standalones. The Texans were so bad on Christmas and not, putting them on a flag day. That's how bad it was.

They're doing, I think, Veterans Day. They're doing every holiday they can come up with. Turkey Day. I think they're bringing on a national smoked ribs day they're going to put them on. I think eight straight days of games for Hanukkah, I believe they're doing as well. Hernica?

Yeah. Are you coughing up something over there? Okay. What else you got? Anything else from you? Oh, you do? You got something. I'm just saying I'm going to stick with it

we are wavering big time. Oh, here we go. But we're staying on Lance McCuller's Jr. Island. I'm just saying. That's all I'm saying with my gut feeling. I'm standing firm. My original gut feeling was he would be a plus contributor to the season. It's not looking good right now.

I am. But I'm not bleep with leaving. We're on Lance McCullors Jr. Island, baby. I like Lance McCullors, Jr., the person. I think his wife and him have done a really good job of being charitable, being But being good citizens. Yes. They love bury me in the age, all that stuff.

All that stuff. I'm going to hold. You know why you're holding, though. You know why you're holding. Let it sing, Matt. Just say it. It's gut feelings. You always tell me, have an opinion.

To face it, Matt's eyes are closed. Oh, here we go. Bro froze. He hasn't moved for 40 minutes. He's out of the rotation by June 15th. I like you, Lance, a lot. Sweet Prince, number 43. I like Lance McCullors.

24 straight curve balls. Tommy John, flexor tendon strains, elbow discomfort. You're not crazy. It could be sooner. Well, that's why I really, I wanted to say June 1st, but that felt even too soon. I have no comment. Out of rotation by June 1st, 19. Okay, I'm going June 15th just to say, please.

Lance, turn the corner. Please, please, please turn the corner. I know. That's all right. The gut feelings aren't supposed to be so painful. This hurt. I know. All right.

Anything from you, Jonathan, I've got other phones? I believe after Jason Tatum's Achilles torn hill, like, Achilles guy torn. I believe they're going to, after this year, they're going to, we're going to see some big changes and big moves for them to get ready. I don't think they're going to stay trying to be in championship. Oh, okay. So Celtics breakup? So you're calling for a Celtic breakup? Yes, yeah.

Okay. By the way, Jonathan Allen weeks ago said, you had the Pacers in the finals, correct? And conference finals. It's looking pretty good. Do you have him in the NBA finals? Yes. Are you sure? He did.

Yeah, let me find it. It's 100% of conference files for sure. Hold on. It should be pretty easy. One went away from that at this point. Well, I have four years of gut feelings. And Pacers, there's only two entries. So it's easy to find.

We don't run through deep Pacer conversation on the show. Pacers make conference finals is what I wrote down. but I think he did say NBA finals as well. That was on, that was April 22nd, he said that. Your boyness ball. Yeah. Whatever. Whatever.

Get them. No, no, no. You would break your arm patting yourself on the back. I don't do nothing. I don't do it for a second. All right. Go Nix. 713, 21, 2.12.

570. 713, 2.12. 570. Brian Scott, J.L. We'll get to your gut feelings. This is their gut feeling on the Matt Thomas show. 1148 on Sports Talk 7-9. Let's go to the gut feelings.

And we start with, my phone says it's not working properly. Let's try. Brian and Per- I think the internet doesn't work. Brian and you put them up on the screen for me, please. Brian and Pearline on 7-90. Brian, good morning.

Thanks for holding. Good morning, Matt. Ross. Hey, real quick, I got a question for you guys, and y'all can kick it around on Friday or so. I was going to call it in for any of you. goes Friday, but it just came to my head and I was like, I know I'll forget it with work and everything else. Sure.

I'd be curious to know what are the top two or three sporting events that you guys have personally been at where it's like, I will remember this game or whether it was against you or against a team you're rooting for, like you were at Matt Cain's perfect game when he against the Astro, something like that. Right. You were at where you were like, damn, I will always remember that game and that I was there and what happened and all that. I'd be curious to know. I know I've got a couple in that still, and I can always call back in on Friday,

but it came top of mind. I was like, I'd be curious just to know what some of those are. We can do that. Yeah. Got feelings-wise, I think the Texans will have four primetime games. That will include Thursday nights. I think they may get two Thursday nights, a Sunday night. And I think maybe later on in the season, they might get flexed possibly to another Sunday night or something like that.

So I'm going to go with four primetime games. I think Lance McCullors will remain in the starting rotation the rest of the year. I know he struggled Saturday, but I don't think they're going to let him fight back this long just to kick him to the curb and throw him in the bullpen or long relief and whatever. I think they're committed to him and they'll find a way to get him in, especially after, you know, what you got out of Ryan Gusto, and depending on what you get. And I'm going to go out on a bold statement and say it before the trade deadline, the Houston Astros realize they are not going to re-sign them after the year. They will deal Frammer Valdez by the July 31st trade deadline to get something back, whether it's a bat or whatever. I think especially if Arredetti comes back healthy or go with Hunter Brown, they may even get, especially if they think they might get Javier back, even if you get something out of it. But they will get rid of Framber Valdez.

All right. We'll take it there. Thank you, Brian for the phone call. Thank you, Brian. That's not a crazy prediction. That's not. Because we've already seen that Dana, with the Kyle Tucker, want to get something back and return. That would be a gut feeling hit for you.

Well, no, you said by July 1st, but that would probably be later. Depending on how the season goes as well. Yeah, yeah. But you're in a mid-A-L-West, and you would need him if you want to try to make the playoffs and then maybe try to make some noise there. Speaking of Fromber, I did want to say real quick, I did think of this one. I think he's got a quality start in him tonight against the Royals.

I would hope so, but he does fluctuate between good and bad. I'm telling you, Matt. Today he's due for a bad. I'm telling you from a quality start. I will jump on your bandwagon on that one. Let's go, baby. That's what I'm talking about. And we'll answer your question about the greatest events we've been to in a little bit.

We'll do that after the news at noon. Let's go to Scott and River Oaks. Scott was in your gut this week. Matt Ross, what's up, guys? I have no. I have no inside information on this, but I wanted to get this out into the ether. Please. If it ends up being right tomorrow with this NFL schedule, let's think of me.

So I'll give you my evidence really quick. The Texans haven't been at home for the last two seasons in Leak 1. So I think they will have a home game in League 1. Okay. The NFL posted on their Instagram, like promoting the schedule release, highlights of the Texans' builds game, of sequence of posts with that game. So I would predict week one,

Texans Bills will be Monday night football. If that ends up being correct, think of me tomorrow. Not only that, Scott, if it hits, you have to call on Thursday and brag about it. We'll let you do it in advance brag. 100%. Looking forward to the call. All right, Bill, he's calling a shot. Bill's Texans Monday night.

That sounds very sexy. I would do that. 1152. I didn't do it, no. 1158. What do I say? I said nothing. God, you're just trying to catch me every time you can.

You can blame Ross for that one. Let me tell you, Jonathan. Friday's open. I said that's sexy. I'll be on it too. Fridays will be, it's going to be so long the introduction. We won't even have a show. That's fine. No, I'm going to put the top like six.

Okay, we'll save him for other weeks and we behave ourselves. You know, sometimes you've got to save some in reserve, man. I got a lot in reserve. It's pent up. J.L. on 790, 1153. J.L. Thanks for holding and good morning to you. What's in your gut? Good morning. So my gut is throws one in the next four games. We got Framer tonight. I don't know who the heck's fishing tomorrow, but we got Hunter Brown and Lance for Colors.

He'll bounce back and we'll get four in a row, guys. So that's my gut. All right. That means two against Kansas City and the first two games against the Rangers in Arlington. Colton Gordon apparently is going to start tomorrow. Is that official? No. That's basically the tea leaves. It would be regular rest for him. He's been pitching well in AAA. Right, right, right. Basically, Channel Rome tweeted, you connect the dots. He pitches regular rest on Wednesday.

Love Chandler. Yeah. He's a connected dot guy. By the way, Joe Espotic got the Chandler yesterday. They were talking, we were in the dugout before the game and talking about Yorna Alvarez, and he's like asking some questions. And then he said, well, Chandler, you didn't ask if Yorna Averaz is going to be back playing today. Because today he's due to come off the injured list.

And then he wouldn't answer. I said, and then I said, because he's waiting for 1230 tomorrow on Sports Talk 7-9. So I media boasted in front of some of our colleagues. Good job, Matt. Of which that group yesterday I respect. There wasn't anybody I didn't respect in that group. Well, I was wondering, thank you for busting out the Matt Thomas Respect Meter.

Well, I mean, I go to Rockets Media Avail, though, and I don't respect about 90% of those people. Oh, it's borrously bad. Just awful. But I digress. all right don't shake your head at me we're all waiting for bated breath for the mad thomas

respect meter you're gonna do something in your life it only took you seven years seven I thought we're still that we're still probationary yeah it comes and goes

oh like a karma chameleon why are you bringing a boy george you said it comes and goes all right oh real quick okay so we'll do we'll do the you know what

We don't. We've got to get the news at noon. So we have the news at noon. And then we have to answer the two or three greatest sporting events we've ever personally been to. I have already thought of a couple. I have one of them was in the summer of 2018. He said most memorable, right? Win or win or lose. Oh, is it win or lose?

Win or lose? All right, win or lose? I'll tell you. It ain't great. Some of it ain't great. One's great. One of those other kids skipped school and got in trouble for, but it was worth it. Hmm. Okay. We have Joe Espada coming up in 35 minutes. Brian King at 130. The NFL Rewind at 120 and Ross.

So, Ross, you got the news at noon, NFL rewind, and believe it or not today, all in the next two hours. Can you prepare that while trying to enjoy a nice lunch? We shall see. 1156. We start the news at noon next. We are halfway down. We're taking this program to 2 o'clock. We are halfway down. We're taking this program to 2 o'clock this afternoon. 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump in.

7-1-3-2-5-790. Our most memorable sporting events we've witnessed in person are coming up in a few minutes. We also have a story about television and streaming that I don't think is going to go well for the company in which they are announcing. We'll discuss that. But first, we present to you the news at noon. And we will do that with the Chris Berman of Houston Sportscasting. Ross, Philarea. Back, back, back, back, back, back, back.

Derade us, Matt, is what we lead off with. Okay, no, I'm not going to do any of that. I'm sorry. You know what? I'd like to apologize, just for doing that. All right, let's go ahead and start with the local nine Astros skipper. Joe Espada is coming up at 1230. We'll also have Brian King coming up at 130 here on your home for your Houston Astros.

Last night, Houston Astros, not looking so hot against the Kansas City Royals, but I'll tell you who was. Jake Myers. One out of Myers. Brown ball through the right side. That's a base hit. That'll score Diaz. Carrotini stops at third, and now the ball gets away from Waters.

And Caratini will come into score. Myers goes to second. Seven to four, Kansas City. All right, there you go. Jake Myers with a couple of hits. Funny thing, Matt, is on Saturday, you got sheled. Lance McCullors did at the beginning. You still scored nine runs.

Most of the season, nine runs enough to win. Most of the season, five runs enough to win. Unfortunately, you got bad start. in those games. Yeah, and it's going to tax what is a bullpen that has been used quite a bit. That's why tonight, you got to have good Framber. We both got feeling, quality start. You got to have Framber do what Rinal Blanca gave you on Sunday.

And that was, I'm not saying innings of 11 strikeouts, but something close. Wouldn't be the worst thing. Yes. Also, still at this moment listed as TBA for the Houston Astros as far as a starter. Leader in the clubhouse seems to be Colton Gordon. He's been pitching well in AAA and we'll be on regular rest tomorrow. pitching depth. We're getting to Barry to find out what it is.

You know what? I had a call yesterday. What are the Astros going to do about pitching depth? Well, I'm sorry, when you have two-fifths of your starting rotation on the injured list, and you've got another one of your guy who's just two starts removed from being on the injured list for two and a half years. Not every team is built with nine starters. You're just going to weather it right now. Yeah, I agree. Unfortunately, we'll see what happens with the Astros and this stretch, as you mentioned, 17 games.

in 17 days. Moving along to the NBA sphere, hard to imagine scenarios where the lottery goes much worse for the Houston Rockets. Not only do they get bumped because some team jumped them as they were in the nine spot.

So they have the number 10 pick do the Houston Rockets right now. But leaping up all the way to number one out of the top four, the Dallas Mavericks, who are in all likelihood going to draft Cooper flag,

number one overall, then right behind them in the number two, spot. The San Antonio Spurs. It's the Rutgers Guard whose name is escaping me right now, who is supposed to be the consensus number two overall pick. So kind of a good pair. Dylan Harper is his name. Point guard, shooting guard, wing, whatever you want to call him, six foot six paired with Deeran Fox, Stefan Castle, and Victor Wimbunyama. Spurs and Mavericks. May none of them break their legs. Could be looking formidable in the next season,

Matt. How about that lottery last night? It was not rigged. It'd be easier to say it was rigged. I was going to bring that up. We feel better about ourselves, but it wasn't rigged. No, it wasn't. Right now, picked, according to nbaidraft.net, in their mock draft, they have Thomas Sorber 610 Center out of Georgetown going to the Rockets. I've also seen via ESPN and Jonathan Gavoni Kasparis Jacassionis.

I don't want him. Why not? It's going to be hard for me to say. Oh. You can tell where he's from by that name. Say it again? Casparis Jacachianus. Oh, he's from Greece.

Lithuania. Same thing. Because Demadas Sabonis, it feels like first and last names are always with an S with Lithuanians for whatever reason. Demodas Sabonis. Arvitas Sabonis. You know, Yacusavikis. You know, all those such as Jacob Jacobus.

Donatus Montaunis. For whatever reason. You know what? I'm going to call you the King of Dialogue. I'm a Lithuanian native. People don't know that actually. But yes, Matt, you brought up the rigging of the NBA draft lottery. I mean, it was all over social media. I made a joking reference to it. I don't believe it's rig, but it does seem mighty convenient that the Dallas Mavericks

lose Luca Donchich. Nick Nico Harrison gets the get out of jail free card by winning the lottery with just a 1.8% chance. Twitter pull up at SportsRV. Do you think the NBA rigs the draft lottery right now? 87% saying yes, just 13% saying no. That troubles me the number is so high that you would think a sports organization would rig something like that. multi-billion dollar conglomerate. It's a funny bit for us because we were bitter about the situation. But in all seriousness, I'm sorry. I just, I mean, you're losing advertisers, you're losing dollars, you're losing interest. If you actually rig the league, there's Ernst & Young is watching over this.

There's representatives from every team watching the lottery as well. I understand you kind of connect the dots, but we're talking about a few instances over the last 30 years. You got to go back to 85, like you said. That was 40 years ago. Then we mentioned the LeBron draft. the Kyrie Irving one. Right. A couple of...

That's like five out of 40 years where it seems super convenient. Maybe there's some more that we can go to as well. But I'm with you, Matt. I think it's ridiculous to think that actually, actually, actually, the league is rigged.

Am I pissed off? Yes. Do I hate life? Absolutely. Can I not believe in top two picks in this draft or in Southwest Division teams with the Rockets will play four times each?

I'm actually frankly more scared of what San Antonio is going to do from a leap standpoint than I would even what was going on in Dallas, honestly. All right. If Wemby stays healthy. Moving along at the news at noon, we've been talking about the NFL schedule release, and it looks like the NFL is going on the offensive

against the college football playoff with the newly released late season schedule. College football playoff will hold three of its four opening round games on Saturday, December 20th, and another opening round game on Friday, December 19th. That will be my birthday. NFL is basically coming after them. They're going to have games on the 20th,

and they have the 21st as well, is what this article that I'm reading is saying. I might have misread this. But basically what's happening is the NF of the Fox double header, excuse me, yes, there'll be a Fox double header on December 20th, going head to head basically with college football playoffs. Who's going to win that between the NFL doubleheader and the college playoff? I think NFL, but, man, the NFL just gives zero Fs.

They're going to go Wednesday night. What was it, Christmas football? NFL does not care. But to their credit, I guess, they are putting good matchups there. Yes, apparently it's going to be marquee. But that tells you that they're going after them. They're not going to put Carolina versus Indianapolis on. there put it that way. Yeah, well,

it would be nice if they did. Speaking of that and speaking of scheduling, Matt, some people are upset that the Ohio State Texas college football playoff rematch, it will be a big noon game. It's supposed to be, of course, 12 o'clock Eastern, 11 o'clock here

Central in week number one, Texas taking on the Ohio State Buckeyes. A lot of people don't like big games at 11 o'clock. We were talking about this before the show. I'm in that category. I'm okay with it. Because I like big 230 games. I like big night games.

Why not a big 11 o'clock game too? And maybe I'm kind of conditioned for this because OU Texas for years and years and years is always at a lot. Not always, but most of the time had been at 11 o'clock. So typically 90% of the games in the past 10 years that are 11 o'clock are usually ones you would not want to watch or spend any time with. They're in the background. But Fox has made a concerted effort to make that their primary game of the week. And I like that idea from them because, I mean, look, it's not like it's too early in the day. NFL games started 12, but you're going to lose.

If you put those games at 2.30, guess what? Texas, Ohio State may be a sexy game, but you have LSU versus Alabama at 2.30. LSU Alabama's going to win that. Yeah, I think it's a way for them to dominate that space, especially early on. Generally, it's going to be one of the bigger matchups. So a lot of fans and college football fans upset. They think it should be later. A lot of people who attend the games, of course, think it should be later, Matt,

so they can get drunk and hammered at the tailgates. Yes. But, hey, I've been drunk for an 11 o'clock Oh, you Texas game. You want to try, you can do it. I got one for you. What is the go-to dish for an 11 o'clock tailgate? Anything from the normal.

You eat barbecue? Do you go breakfast tacos? Sometimes you get breakfast tacos. I've had Ripley's Rohnuts, Kalachis, and donuts. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Soaks up the alcohol perfectly.

Do you go with a breakfast casserole with the potatoes and the sausage and the eggs all mixed together? Yeah, about you 12 Dillardites, and then crush some calacches and donuts. You're feeling good. Let me tell you, if Big Noon ever comes to Houston, I'll bring a girdle and we'll do French toast at 11 o'clock outside of TVC. I don't believe you.

You're a liar and a fraud. That could be true. All right, Matt. One more quick note for the News at Noon. Jason Tatum carried off. He was seen crying in a wheelchair. In game number four, the Boston Celtics losing 121 to 113 to the New York Knicks now down 3-1 in the series.

He is supposed to have an MRI today. The fear is, by a lot of amateur doctors on Twitter, an Achilles tear. And that's 18-month recovery? Probably. And a lot of NBA players don't recover from it. I mean, Kevin Durand is kind of one of the unicorns that has done a good job. Maybe there's some others that we can point to. But especially guys who rely on explosion, which Jason Tatum does to an extent.

He is very skilled in the mid-range and three-point shooting, but that's going to be a hard road back. for him. All right. That's the news at noon. Our most memorable witnesses that we attended. Yeah, good or bad. Plus, ESPN is figuring out a way to take care of those of you that are cord cutting. We'll discuss that

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All right. Most memorable places I've ever watched a sporting event and what it was. Number one, well, most recently, I was there for U.H. Florida. That wasn't fun in the Alamo Dome. I think he said top two, Matt. Top two. I, unfortunately, the first thing that popped into my mind was at the Toyota Center, Juneish, late Mayish of 2018.

Oh, game seven. Game seven. Over 27. Oh, my God. Mim mom temps would not shut up. Oh my God. They're joking so hard. Shut up, Tim.

I'm watching my hopes and dreams crash in front of me. And in a press box, you can't react to one or the other. You've got to keep your cool. But he wasn't. No. My blood was boiling. My most memorable. My most memorable sporting event I've ever went to.

1986, Mike Scott's no-hitter, September against the Giants. You were there? I was there in the eighth grade. Okay. Skip school earlier, eventually got caught. me and my two bros, my buddies. Roger and Danny, I think is one I went with. And the three of us went and we sat down the first base line.

We had really good seats. It was an afternoon game. It was a 135 first pitch. The place wasn't even full. Could you imagine in 1986 you have one game to win to win the division at the Astrodome? And the Astrodome population for baseball was probably what? 45,000, 46,000, something like that. and they didn't fill the stadium out.

Wow. In 2025, if there's a 1-10 first pitch for the Astros won the West, it would have been full, correct? And today. Close. Yeah. Close. Now you're looking at 5 or 6,000.

Some of those day baseball games, even in the playoffs, they don't look. They say they're sold out, but they don't look 100% full. You got to realize that had been the first time they had made the playoffs in five years. They had gone to the 81 split seasons playoffs, but they had not, had not won the West since then. So 80s, yeah, I was in eighth grade. And I was there for the, not only for the, did they win the game, but Mike's got through the no-hitter.

That was awesome. That's one. My second most memorable sporting event, I witnessed, God, Ross, it would take me a while because... You've been to a lot? I've been to a lot. As a fan, as a member of the media, as a guy calling the game. I'll go with Oklahoma,

Texas, 2008, 45 to 35 victory. Colt McCoy v. Sam Bradford. Jordan Shipley ran back a touchdown. That was great. Texas, I think, at the time, was five, and Oklahoma was number one. And they beat them. It was a great game.

See, the problem is during all the Astros' championship runs, I was not there for all the games, because either I was not covering them, because you guys were, or you're doing rockets. I was doing rockets. Oh, 17 game five. I was there. Man. That game was electric. The three run out Tuve bomb, the three run Yule bomb.

Wasn't it the double digit scoring game? That it was, oh, God. So they're all 13 to 12. What was the final score? 13 to 12? Something crazy like that, yeah. I should know the final score. I'm actually disappointed in myself if I missed it.

I'm going to have to hold back, sorry. 13 to 12. Yeah. Sorry to our man in Pearland. But I don't know what number two is for me. because I Yordon's Homer in game 6 of 2022

Woo! See these are games that was on it all the way through. Yeah. But also I'm in a press box. So that's why to me the OU Texas game is a little bit more. The 49-0 OU Texas game I was at a couple years ago. Oh, that was amazing.

The OU side is completely empty. The Texas side is completely full. We're all screaming, Mar! and we're screaming like it's a tie game because we don't want OU to score. We want the shutout. Oh man, that was great. UH beating Florida State and the Peach Bowl was cool.

But it was Florida State didn't even have a full roster. So that was kind of an afterthought. I mean, winning a championship at TDCU and the American, it's okay. I mean, it was really good. I mean, I loved it. It was a BCS busting game. It was good, Matt. Trying to think of the most memorable cougar basketball game I've been to.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't mean to head here. I just, I don't have a defender of number two. But I remember eighth grade like it was yesterday. Was it the Randy Johnson first start, 98? Pops took me and my brother. That's nice.

And you know, and you know in that year that every time he pitched in the Astrodome, the game was sold out, he did not pitch to an empty stadium at any of his starts. It was crazy. I don't have great, I mean, it was 27 years ago.

Right. So it's not as memorable as some of the other things I mentioned, just because I was young. But that was a great memory. well. All right. We have the manager of the Astros is going to join us here in a matter of moments. What? I know. I'm not kidding you. He's really going to be with us.

Let's go. It's Joe Espada here on Sports Talk 790. If you want to jump the conversation, 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to follow us on Twitter, again, it's at SportsMT and at Sports RV. This is like one of my three favorite parts

of the week. 10-20 minutes. the manager of the Astros. Joe's spot every Tuesday, 1230. Matt Thomas Show with Ross. He can hear you on hold, Matt. Tell him he's number one. Come on, man. Well, I mean, he's going to... He knows.

He can read through media BS with the best of him. Let's... Why don't you pipe him up there on the screen for us? Skip, how are things? I'm doing well. I like the honesty. I want to know what's the other top two things that you like ahead of talking to me on Tuesday.

I like a good hot blackjack. table, if you know what I'm saying. There you go, okay. And some good margaritas. He's a favor of the week, though. Well, I mean, if I... You're in life. I mean, okay.

You're in the blackjack table every week? You've got a problem. Maybe, Skip, I've got a little bit of an issue here. But we'll move on. Can we move on to baseball, please? I'll say Brian Bogusevic and ain't nobody got time for that. All right. It's a favorite three.

So other members of media we're afraid to ask you. I ain't scared about you. I'm going to tell you right now. I'm going to ask you right now. You're on Alvarez. You're playing tonight? Odd. No, he's not playing tonight.

Oh, okay, give us an update then at least. No, but he's feeling better. The plan is for him to come in today and continue to, you know, progression, swinging the bat. You know, obviously after just one day of hitting in the team, we would like to see more progress, you know. But he's feeling a lot better. Well, that's good. Let me ask you this, and you're not a doctor clearly, but is there something he can do? because look, the hand's been an issue a couple of times.

And maybe as you've been dealing with so many athletes in your life, Skip, people have bad backs or necks or sore forearms, whatever the case may be. Is there anything he can do to adjust so this doesn't become a problem every couple of years? Or is this just a byproduct of playing an incredibly difficult sport? Yeah. You know, he plays every day. He, you know, gripping the bat, swinging the bat, the wear and tear with years of accumulation, how many games we've played.

play for so many seasons, you know, it happens. But one thing I do tell you, though, he is, you know, he works his butt off. He's always trying to, you know, stay strong and stay in the lineup. And, you know, sometimes just things that we can't control. And I think that, you know, once we get this right, he's hopefully not to have to deal with this anymore. And we don't have to, you know, take, take some off days to let, you know, this heal. and deal with it again. So much of the conversation in the last handful of days

has been about the 17 games in 17 days. And I thought what you said yesterday was interesting about this is not the worst thing in the world. Obviously, you want to stay with a five-man rotation, get an extra arm in the bullpen, get some guys off. And, look, days off are always supreme. But I want you to tell our audience what you said to the media yesterday, which I thought was intriguing about getting into a regular routine,

and this is the heart of the baseball season. And you know what? 17 games ain't the worst thing in the world. You know what? We take the off days, right? We welcome the off days. You know, we rather have the off days. You know, it's August and September, right? Where we really are, you know, in the dog days of August, right? We're grinding it. We're late in the season. We need some rest. We need, you know, be able to recover and regroup and stuff like that. But, you know, early in the season, you know, we go and we get in a group of things, right? And then five days later, there's an off day, right? You know, guys like routines. We're starting to figure some stuff out offensively that off day can interrupt that. And then you've got to get back in the flow of things.

You know, this baseball players are, they're, you know, they have routines, they have habits. They have ways when they feel good, they want to go back the next day and feel it again, right? So I welcome the straight games, right? Now I got to be smart in how I manage the whole entire workload for the guys and give them some off days here and there. But these guys want to get a flow of things. They're starting to feel good about things and they're looking forward to the next day to build on whatever they left the day before. So that's why I think us getting in these games in a row, I think it can help us. Astros manager Joe Espato with us here on Sports Talk 790.

How is Jose Altova feeling after being in the lineup yesterday? And is there any thought to managing the workload or is he basically a full go? No, he's good. He's good. I'm going to deach him today. But he came out feeling good after the game yesterday. So hopefully we put this, you know, the hamstring issue behind us. But something that we need to keep eye on in mind, especially going to Dallas here. And, you know, we start playing on that turf and then go on to Tampa, which we know we'll be dealing with some humidity and hot weather playing outdoors.

So we got to keep eye on and the guys here in the next week or two. You've put Jeremy Pena in the lead-off spot in the lineup. He has responded well. A couple of more hits yesterday. I'm just curious, you can kind of talk about his growth personally and the type of person he is and the challenges that he's taken on in his young career and the struggles he had and leading to how well he's hitting now. You know, for me, it's just a confidence.

You know, when you put someone in the laid off spot, it's something that he's done, he did in, you know, in college career, he's amateur career, and he loves it. You know, he feels like, you know, everything goes through me. I'm the one who's going to ignite the offense. He has taken it very seriously, and it has actually helped his approach and his mindset. And he's done a remarkable job. Just for me, it's just how he's driving the ball. you actually see him getting himself in good hitters counts actually doing some auto takes because he kind of understands what the pitch is trying to do.

He's getting himself in and at bat's where he's controlling the whole entire tempo. And I think it's just maturity. I think it's confident. I think it's, you know, trust that we have given him. And I, you know, I hope that this is something that he can grow from and we could keep. him there for years to come. And he mentioned Jeremy did about Al Tuve giving them some advice and saying, hey, you're

going to be in the leadoff spot, but just be yourself, don't change the approach because of where you are in the lineup. Is that basically the message not only to him, but everyone as you move them around? Yeah, of course. You know, they are who they are. You know, Jeremy, it's someone who likes to hunt

the fastball, right? He's a guy who is going to go up there looking to drive the ball early in account. But it's okay if they don't give you that pitch right away. You can wait for the next pitch. And if he's not there, you've got good enough back-to-ball skills where you could put the ball in play. Don't be afraid to hit with two strikes.

You know, know who's behind you, know the situation of the game. Those are things that Altuva has done a really good job walking him through. And our hitting coaches just know where you're at in the game. You know, long inning by one of our pitchers know that we don't need you to make a quick out give your pitcher a breather, right? All those things are things that we talk to. I've been talking to him through a, he's done a fabulous job. Joe, you've been balancing Zach Desenso and Cam on the outfield, moving them around a little bit, days off, playing consecutive games. Is it too much to ask at this point for those two guys

with such little majorly experience to take the bull by the horns and take the spot every day? Or would you ultimately like to see those, somebody battled that out and say, I'm penciling him in six days a week. you know we really want them to take over and and get more regular abats i think they're i think they're close um you know i'm i'm looking more of the quality of our bats i really want to make sure that i match them up against some certain pitchers that i know they can they can handle right now you just don't want to build them up and then go through a stretch where they they struggle offensively i think they're done a really nice

job in the corner outfields. It's just, you know, monitoring their, their bats, the quality of the upbats, their swing decisions, how hard they hitting the ball, you know, because early in your career in the Big Leas, getting that down is very important. And I don't want them to be overwhelmed by, you know, too many abats in a row. So, but I think both guys are capable of playing every day in the

big leagues. I really am confident about that. I know you're going to hold a roster spot probably. for tomorrow starter, which I think you'll announce later at the ballpark. But let me ask you about the six-man rotation and the fact that you are down a reliever, that's obvious. Does it caution you a little bit when you go to the phone and say go get somebody warmed up? But because you are so, I would have perceived to be concerned about too much wear and tear

that if you put a, bring a guy up and get him warmed up, that's going to be an indirect notion that he's going to be eventually on that mound. Yeah. And that's the thing, especially when you're in a 17-game stretch. You know, we have lost two starters and we have one less pitcher in the pen. You know, we're going to need some of our starters just to give us some length. If there will be some off days here and there, you could be a little bit more aggressive. But right now, where we are in the season and how we need to be very aware of the workload of some of these guys,

especially what happens last year. You know, I don't want to go through that again. We have to be really smart on how we use these guys. this early in the season. Last question. Framber has had a little bit of a yo-yo start of the season, and it's funny. It's characterized by good, Framber versus bad, and then maybe that's too strong of a term on his definition of who he is.

But when he is in that knockdown, drag-out, out by out, pitch-by-pitch, excellency, when do you see it? Do you see it as he gets through the first time to the lineup, the second time through? And conversely, when do you know that, man, this could be a struggle for him? What are some signs that tells you what Framberval does you're going to see on the mountain on that particular start? Efficiency from the very, from the first inning. You know, I like to look at the scoreboard and look at the shape of his sinker, right? The movement and the Velo, ground balls early, you know, strike one early, breaking ball under, all those signs, right?

Once you see him 20, 30 pitches in and he's in that second inning and he's cruised. cruising and he's coming in the dog out confidence, saying the things that you want to hear out of him. I ask Janir Diaz, where he's at right now. He's Joe, everything is moving well. You know, the stuff is late, moving late. We've got the action that we're looking for. All those signs, it's what I want to hear in the first 20, 530 pitches up the game.

And when he's on the role, it's Valdez's quick outs, dominant. And, you know, our bullpen kind of knows where everything's going to fall into. when everything is falling into place. So we need that today after, you know, going through our bullpen yesterday. So I know Framber understands this and expecting to be pretty good tonight. Great stuff, as always, Skip. Thank you very much. Good luck tonight against the Royals.

We really appreciate you joining us. All right, guys. We'll see. You got it. That's Joe Spotted joining us here on Sports Talk 790. 1243 is our time. So Yordon close, but not ready yet to come off the injured list. Okay.

That's fine. I mean, yeah, I mean, again, you've got tremendous wiggle room here. You just do. The bats have been hitting. The bats are going. The pitching, the starting has been a little erratic. And again, a lot of that is because you lost two-fifth year rotation. You got another guy coming in there that hasn't done a lot.

And the fact of the matter is, it's, if you're going to go through this, it might as well be in 2020. When the division isn't, there's nobody crushing in the division. And trying to push him back out there when he's not ready to go, I don't think is in his best. interest. Because again, it's, you know, I don't hate to be sports radio host cliche. It's a marathon, not a sprint. It's true. Baira said that again. It's early. It's early. I mean, it really still is a lot of baseball left. We're at the quarter pole. Right? 20 and 20, right? Yeah. They'll play 162 last time of a check. Look at this guy. Wow. Math wizard. Give you a little horse racing gancala too. How about that?

Separates me from the others. I can start calling you Pythagoras. It's aggris. Yeah. Was that Greek? Yeah, look at you. 1244, Sports Talk, 790. It is about top of the show, Ross.

If you want to comment anything that Joe had to say, you're welcome to do so. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. On a matter of moments, Paul hang tight. Ross was uncovering something today from ESPN. And I've always said this. And I've been called, it's been. BS by some people, but I believe it.

The whole cord cutting thing wasn't going to make a lot of sense in the long term. And I feel like I'm a little bit vindicated by it. Now, there are exceptions of that. I will say, yeah, go ahead. I'll let you finish. But my point is, is that when 10 years ago, or even less than that, people running me going,

man, the kids are doing it. They're saving money. You're really, if you cord cut, you really aren't saving money. It's to watch television is expensive. especially you've got various shows on various networks. And so I just think you have to grin and bear the exceptional cost of television viewing, whether it's streaming or networks. But this whole thing of cost cutting was going to ruin the world,

was largely exaggerated because a lot of these people are cost cutting and they wind up buying. Cord cutting it. Cord cutting. Then they wind up buying their Amazon, cost cutting, whatever you want to call it. At the end of the day, you were paying as much, if not more. And it's more complicated because you're not having an online on the internet. and if your internet goes down, you're screwed. So I just want to say, I get very few wins in my life.

I'm taking a small victory lap on this one. I will agree with you just with one small caveat. Oh, I know you are. You're Mr. Caviott. If you're a sports fan, if you're a sports fan, yeah, you're right. I mean, you can't, you got to have Space City Home Network. But if you don't like sports, then you can cost cut. Yeah, if you're not going to just turn everything off, read a book and put on some soft jazz. You're good.

Well, my guess is if you're a cord cutter, you could probably live. on a antenna and Netflix and be just fine. Yeah, Nintendo and Netflix, you probably already have Amazon Prime. Maybe you get a, I get Max because of my cell provider. But you may be, maybe you want Disney. Yeah. And that's another set of channels. Can you share a bundle with your friends?

That's again, Rossville or Al endorsing illegal activity. Then you threaten to cancel and they lower your rate for three months. All right. So go to our ESPN. Trying to help the folks out. I'm about to threaten to cancel mixed. tonight. Are you? Like, no, I can't. Can I record that phone call?

You want me to? See how that goes? Yeah. Like, I'm sick of you people. I'm quitting. And then they'll give you a good offer. Anyways. So we have ESPN. What are we talking about? ESPN. Oh, ESPN. Yes, Matt. They are launching their own streaming service with their family of networks. Which you say, okay, that makes sense. It's going to be ESPN,

ABC, ESPN 1-2, the article, yeah, the article, the article, the I have doesn't list all of it, but Chris Cordy did earlier. So I'm going to go to Chris Cordy's Twitter. Give the man a follow. Yeah. ESPN 2U News, SEC Network, ACC Network, ESPN, AB, ESPN Plus, and SEC Network Plus, etc.

$30 per month or $299 a year, which is a slight discount. If you do that and tack on 15, you get the bundle with. Disney and Hulu. That's not a deal. That's not innovative. That's just selling I mean, that's just repackaging. 15 to 20 would be a deal.

30, it's like, oh, because you're playing 30 for that. You know, and you add 15 for Disney and whatever. That's 45. Right. Then Netflix is costing you 15 to 20. If you've got a 4K package, it's going to be even more. If you got a share package, it's going to be even more.

And then I mentioned Max and Amazon Prime, and you add it all up. It's basically the same exact thing as paying for cable. Why? Man. And by the way, when you subscribe to satellite like I do, I take my ESPNs with me on my phone. Yeah, exactly. I log in and I'm fine.

I can travel with it. It's the same exact thing. Yeah, I can travel with it. If you're an all-around sports fan, realistically, okay. I just don't want the cable companies to win, but they're winning. They get my money every month. I know. You're right.

You're right. But realistically, if you are a sports fan, and I would presume that 98% of the people that are listening to show are sports fans, fans. You have either Rereq Rie Rennity Boo. Just say it. Boob. When are we going to get over this? Mubo. Mubo. Boob tube.

You can't even have no. You have to have Mubo direct Marek. You have to have direct TV, Xfinity or Fubo if you want Space City Home Network. I'm talking about just ESPN. Yeah. Okay. You can get those. I have friends of mine that don't even, that are YouTube TV people that just don't have space city. So they've just checked out.

Which it's hard for me to understand and comprehend, but that's to each his own. But if you don't have, I can't imagine a sports fan that is not a subscriber to one of the five things that we just mentioned. What segment of the American population that is a sports fan

doesn't have ESPN on the ready right now that thinks this is a better deal? It's not. Yeah. And the illegal stream life is a real thing. But, I mean, you're getting pop-ups. Streams go down all the time. Sometimes you have, I mean, you're in the middle of it, and it starts buffering.

Right. It's generally 90 seconds to a minute, if not more, behind live. So I've lived the illegal stream life. It ain't fun. Yeah, I mean, I've lived the illegal stream life and people, and the bunch of girls pop up there and say, how are you doing? Yeah. Can we be your friend? And then you give them gold coins.

Actually, I talk derogatory to them and see if they were really. live or not or real people or not like i got like i'm facebook messenger i got one oh i got a thousand people hold up standby let me just read this one too we'll go the phones up because i swear where is this this is from and this is a friend this is somebody a bot that is a we share a common friend that i want to i want to reach out of this friend like bro do you not know this is not a real person this person her name is monica reader i not a real person hello what do you think of the new pope What'd you say? I didn't respond.

Next, she says, good morning. Life is like a book with each day being a new page. May you write a wonderful chapter today with positive strokes. Hmm. I got one. Her name is Camilla. She's texting me right now, too. Nice to meet you.

Good morning. Was just you with the other champions at Minutemate Park? Because it was my profile pick was me at Minutemade. Hello there. Have a nice weekend. See, and Ross knows this, and I'll tell you the audience, I, I, I, I, I, I, I destroy them back. I call them dirty whores. I say, you know, pay me, I say, I want your, give me your credit card number so I can spend money. It's going to cost me, cost you $10,000 to me, my friend, and they, they usually just go away at that point.

I'm going to ask her if she thinks the rockets are going to make a big trade. Paul's with his son, 7908, 1257. Hello, Paul. Paul Yeah Nice to hear from you Hey Just calling about this

Rocket coach I know he's a good coach There's no problem there But I got a big problem With the way he used this This bench Kim Whitmore Tate

Holiday Barely even played He played eight players Got Dylan Brooks Filed out every game Instead of putting Kim Whitmore is a dog.

He would have busted up Draymond Green as well as anybody else. And he never got off the bench. The big strength of this team was they could play 10 players with anybody. And he never got let him get off the bench.

Never. And I would like to see him. And as far as Jalen Green goes, I mean, he should have been gone yesterday. You can trade him up and maybe move up. total, total, total mess up with this draft. I mean, not only did we not move up, we moved back.

You know, and so I would use Jalen Green, and I would use, if you're not going to play Cam Whitmore, you might as well trade him, because I guarantee you you'll get something for him. He was a steal to begin with. I mean, I just don't get it why they never got off the bench in seven games. when you know I noticed during the season we never had a full team out there hardly at all

everybody somebody was on the IR or sitting out a few games every now and then never and Reed Shepard never even got off the bench I mean I know he I know he's not ready yet but you could have used him a few minutes to loosen up that shooting which we have none of

and you know Matt Thomas, you know, you are the clown that said Arch Manning was going to be leaving after year one. He was going to transfer. Shut your bum ass up! You are the dumbest rocket fan I've never heard in my life. You ought to be embarrassed. Never call my radio show. You are embarrassing Houston sports.

You know nothing about sports. Period in the story, you ought to be embarrassed. Matter of fact, why don't you go to Bravo and start watching a real housewife series? Because you don't know a squad about sports. I know more than you. No, the hell you do. You know what? You are old.

You are sen-out. You don't know who's squat about sports. You don't know what the hell you're talking about. You're one of the five dumbest callers I've ever had in my 30-year broadcast career. So you could suck it. How much did Cam win more play? Yeah. You're the clown.

You're the clown that said Archmanning was going to be leaving Texas. Get them, Paul. That's what I'm talking about. Paul, you are stupid. Reed Shepard and Kim W-O-O-O-P-I-D. We're taking over the series. Paul's making a lot of good points, actually.

He really said Arts Manning was going to leave? Well, I mean, at the time, there was a big consensus that he wasn't going to stay because Quinn Ewers had a couple of more years of eligibility left. Let me answer this question. If Quinn Ewers would have stayed, would have, would Arches have stayed? Another year? Yeah.

That was never going to happen. But I don't know. I imagine that Quinn was going to be ready. Quinn didn't need to stay for any reason. Can I tell you how incredibly... I think Quinn probably left because they were like, you've got to go, bro. Yeah, man, man. We're giving you, giving you plenty of leash.

Go to the NFL or go somewhere else. We don't care. You're not starting another year. Man, Paul, Paul's so... I mean, damn, there's somebody that stupid walking around these streets. I love Paul. I figured you would. Paul, let's go out you and me go to Big City Wings.

Hmm. Where if you go to Big City Wings, they're going to charge you double wings. They're going to charge double prices. Great for birthdays. It is. Ross has taken his dad to Big City Wings for the birthday. He says, buy one, get one free today. Hear me, Paul.

Buy one, get one free. That means if you buy one, you get another one for free, Paul. 13 Big City Wing locations. All right, 106 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas. show with Ross. We have got NFL Rewan coming up in about 10 minutes, 15 minutes from now. We've got to Brian King, Astro Reliever to join us at 130. Believe or not, today at 150, Ross, what is today's edition of Believe it or not? I don't know. Famous Kings?

Famous streaming services? You know what they're calling the streaming service? ESPN. What else in the box thinking there? They paid a consulting firm $5 million to figure that out probably. Let's go to Dave in Spring at 107. Dave, thank you for holding in. Good afternoon. Hey, good afternoon, guys. I didn't have to hold that long. It was just a couple of minutes. Well, I think you waited. If anybody that takes time to wait for the show, I appreciate. All right. Well, listen, here's my thought. I want to get your thought on this.

Watching the draft last night and seeing the spurs end up with the second pick, it just occurred to me that they're now in a pretty good position. If they wanted to go after Giannis, you know, you take it. the number two pick and maybe another future first rounder and Castle or whatever and offer him to the to the bucks you know I think that they traded for DeAndre Fox and the second best player in this draft everything I'm reading is Harper who I think plays the same position as Fox and so I don't know I just kind of lining up like it could be the Spurs maybe would at least inquire about you know picking up Giannis and then you think about Wemby and Giannis and Fox

and then plug in some guys around and that'd be really, really good, really fast. So I just want to see what you thought. I hope they trade all the players for second round picks and lose 60 games next year. Probably not going to happen. But as far as Dylan Harper and being on the, it's 20-25 basketball.

You don't say, I'm checking a box. This is my point guard. This is my shooting guard. This is my small forward. This is my power forward. This is my center. That's just, you can play three guards. Yeah. Look at Golden State. They played four guards and a

borderline power forward. Played center. Yeah. Yeah, I don't... That doesn't mean they wouldn't trade. Does the number two pick appeal to Milwaukee? Absolutely it does. What I would think you'd have to give up,

Stephine Castle for it? Absolutely, you'd have to. Because honestly, Devin Vassell doesn't move the needle. Jeremy Sohan doesn't move the needle. I mean, these are all players that would be thrown in the mix, but the prize selection would be the number two pick in Stefan Castle. Then you can go Janus, Deeran Fox, Wemby.

You'd have a hellaciously big front line. Mm-hmm. But yeah, I hope they make terrible mistakes. I hope Mitch Johnson is a terrible coach. I'm sure he's a swell human being, but I'm never going to wish the Spurs any luck. I hope they lose 60 games next year. But they're in a much better position to make a success. significant move to go chase after

Janus than at this point the Rockets are. Because you would dangle out the rookie of the year and you would dangle the number two pick. You would have to take probably both of those and then maybe some on top of that in order to bring Janus to San Antonio. But as Kendrick Perkins said earlier today on ESPN,

he believes that Janus wants to stay in the Eastern Conference. I would hope. Now Milwaukee can say, I don't care what you want, but my guess is the relationship between Janus and the Milwaukee Bucks is still very strong that if Yanis says yes if it's best for your organization to do a reboot

then and then Yanis can go back and say that's fine I'll be happy to do that but just find me somewhere in the east frankly I don't want to see Janus more than twice a year it's already been tough enough as it is I don't think I don't think I have called

a Rockets win in Milwaukee since they were in the Bradley Center is that right I don't think I've ever called a win in Pfizer Forum and it's been there four or five years like maybe even longer than that. By the way, how was Rutgers basketball so bad and they have two top five picks?

Was there, they hurt? Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey. I can't handle Rutgers basketball talk on the show. I don't know what happened to them. Can you believe that Rutgers is in the Big Ten, seriously? I mean, there's some goofy-ass geographic things with the Big Ten with UCLA and USC, and I'm kind of used to that, but do you know Rutgers?

When Rutgers plays Maryland, it's a Big Ten game? Mm-hmm. That's not good. When they play USC. When SMU plays Stanford, it's an ACC game. College of sports, baby. Hmm. That's all about the cash.

By the way, SMU, football signed a deal to play Notre Dame in the next handful of years. Oh, wow, what a huge historic rivalry that is. Well, it might be. Yeah, Methodist versus Catholics. What do you mean? Yeah. Biscuit on 790. Biscuit.

got. Cougar mad, Cougar mad. Man, I was calling Dr. Brother Ross there, man. He seemed to be the cable guru. Hey, okay, like you say, it's hard when you're a sportsman at it like myself. You can miss me with the Netflix and all that, you know, whatever. What, Texans, Ravens was on Netflix last year. You're right. They got more football games coming, too.

You know, well, let me take that back. But I got the streaming deal, right, the direct stream. And the only, to me, the only benefit of it is for me, as, I don't know how to get out of the form of it. My wife has to explain. But, you know, you got the home base right, and you can get an unlimited amount of the home. But that allows you outside the home base that at the same time, too. And so, you know, I gave it to my, you know, my, my step. I gave her and then I gave my

nephew. So we sued through the house and loans. I think ESPN is the only one or is it Fox. I think Fox is the only one that it comes to conflict if we all try to watch Fox. Because we had a couple times last year when we was trying to watch Colorado. Somebody got bumped out or whatever.

The FBI's coming after you for password sharing Biscuit. Man, my God, Biscuit, I don't want to give you your legal name. Let me tell you. They allow you to do it, Ross. They allow you to do it. You got two outside. Oh, that's cool. But I'm paying like $1.20 a month. So Ross Guru, can you find a better deal for me or whatever?

I'm here to find you deals for you called into this sports radio show. Iheart media, this big media conglomerate for me to help you with your, to lower your cable bills. You know, it's funny, Biscuit. You don't know this Biscuit. You don't know the Damos. You don't know the Dama's a cable. Hold up, hold up. You know what?

I'll see what I can do. Send me an email, ross at Sports790.com. Here's a problem. Ross and Jonathan are trying to share an only fan's account right now. That's what their issues are. That's really what you busted in with. That's what you. That was a great material. You fought for that joke so hard and then it just, geez.

Less time of, no, I just, the bundling conversation board me. So I'd throw something else in there. And it's time for a break. What's believed it or not today? I don't know, but we're going to talk to Vince, and then we're going to have NFL rewind, very briefly. Oh, okay. I mean, I know there's actually stuff to get to. Is there really? Schedule stuff. We have a big retirement to get to.

We haven't really mentioned. Yeah, Brian King's going to join us at the bottom of the hour. Yeah, we're going to talk NFL with him. No, we're not. Oh, man, I guess we could. Like, who's your favorite team? Well, I don't know. We can talk, we can talk McNeese football.

McNeese? Why McNeese? Brian King went to McNeese. Oh, okay. Do you think he can name one McNeese football player? Who's the greatest McNeese football player of all time? That would be Jonathan Johnson. Jonathan Johnson Yeah, punt-win-turner, wide receiver, and cornerman.

Now, if you don't know who the greatest basketball player isn't, we're going to have a problem. Oh, I don't remember. You're going to say it, and I'm going to know. Joe Dumars. Okay. 132, Matt Thomas Show with Ross. We are happy to have, and we've had them on a yearly basis the last couple of years. Astros Reliever.

Proud McNeese Cowboy. Don't you can't say McNeese Day or they get mad at you. And apparently, Brian King, is there any chance I go to Daryl's next week and we find a Brian King sandwich pole boy with your name all over and your specialty?

Look into it. Wait, me, you look in. Yeah, I can hear you're a star now in the major leagues. You're one of the best, you're like top five in appearances. You should have your own sandwich name after yourself by now. I'll have to go visit and see if I can get on the menu. All right, so Ross and I are going to Lake Charles next week for a couple days. This little R&R.

What's the number one trouble spot? not illegally but legally besides the casinos we could do in Lake Charles if we really want to get down

and dirty with the folks of Lake Charles Louisiana. The local spot. The local spot. I mean, definitely

OBs, Cowboys, coolers, there's a couple little bars down there. They got hit with a hurricane, a couple hurricanes

in 2020, so I'm sure it looked a lot different now, but, you know, those are the spots we used to go

to back in college. Oh, old bastards? Yes. That's okay. We have to check that out. Ross, we're going to old bastards. Hi, old bastards.

We're going to drop your name and see if we get at least one free beverage on it. Yeah, let's do it. You said Brian King sent us. Hey, congratulations on another successful start of the season for yourself. Let me ask you, I've been asking a lot of the guys this the last handful of days. There's 17 games and 17 appearances, and I asked your manager about this when he was with us at last hour. It almost feels like right now if you get the call to go warm, up, you're going to pitch because you just can't

waste those nights getting hot in the bullpen. Is that fair to say? Yeah, I mean, it just depends on the situation, right? You know, we've had a couple times warming up this week that we haven't gone in and you just never know. It's a

tough situation being in the bullpen and it all kind of depends on what the team needs that day. And right now this bullpen has been used a lot. How are you kind of navigating through the waters? Is it, are you one of those guys? that always wakes up in morning going, I need this day? Or do you feel like you need advanced notice as to when you're going to get out there?

I mean, do you have that kind of leverage at this point in your young Major League career? No, I mean, whenever they call you, you've got to be ready to go. That's how the business works. That's how the game goes. And, you know, everybody down there, whether we've pitched a day or two, I mean, you've got to be ready to go. And that's kind of the beauty of it is, you know, if you have a bad one, you're back in there. If you have a good one, you're back in there. It seems like you've been established as the seventh inning role with a bray taking over eighth and hater at ninth.

Was that ever discussed formally? Did Joe or anybody talk to you about that, or is it something that just kind of happened? No, I mean, at the beginning of the year, they told me, like, hey, you've got an opportunity to pitch and leverage situations. You know, I'm grateful to get to do that. But like I said, it doesn't matter when the name gets called, I'll be ready to go. What was that like for you to kind of hear that? You've been through so much in your career and multiple organizations, Tommy John's surgery.

Was it like, did it make you nervous, happy, all of the above? What was that like? What were those conversations like for you? No, I love it. I love pitching when the game's on the line and in those high-pressure moments. I think that's when everything is elevated a little bit. And, you know, obviously, everybody wants to pitch when you're winning. So I'm just glad I get to do it.

Brian King with us here on Sports Talk, 790 Astros reliever. Can you explain the difference for us lay people? You throw a sweeper. Of course, for years it had been called a slider. To you, do you call it a sweeper? And what exactly is the difference? I kind of go back and forth. I always call it a slider, just because that's how I think of it.

I mean, technically it is a sweeper. I think typically most people think of a slider is a little more depth and a sweeper is more lateral movement. But, you know, they're kind of the same thing to me. As long as you get a whiff, you don't care what it's called, right? Exactly, exactly. Hey, let me ask you this, Brian. You got four lefties in a bullpen. There are some major league teams, and the Astros are being one of them if you were a history fan of all of this organization that sometimes didn't carry any.

It's a little bizarre seeing so many Southpaws in one group like that? that? Oh yeah, we always kind of joke about it. I think somebody looked it up and we've got 10% of the lefties in the league in our bullpen. You guys forming a gang? Like, what are you all doing? Are you all like trying to group up against the righties or what? No, not necessarily. We definitely joke around a little bit more. I think that's just kind of how lefties are. You got to roll with the punches and have fun with it. Everybody's got to claim a corner at the table, though, right? So you don't

bump elbows. Yeah, I mean, that's the weird part for me is I do everything right-handed. Oh, okay. So you write right-handed? Yeah. You golf right-handed. Yes. You throw, what do you bat when you bat, left or right-handed?

I mean, I was bad at batting my whole life, but I would always bat righty. I tried batting lefty a couple times, and it wasn't bad. It was tougher for me to recognize pitches as a lefty, but, I mean, I only got a couple of back lefty. Okay. So I'm going to tell you that. right now, Brian, and I'm 52 years old. So you and I are like blood brothers. I'm your older brother because I'm the exact same way. Dad. Shut up. I throw everything, I throw left-handed. Everything else in my life is right-handed. So let's go to the last comparison between the two of us. What do you top out on your fastball?

Probably 94, maybe 95 on a good day. Yeah, mine's 37. So other than that, we're pretty much the same person. We're pretty much the same person. So how did that happen, Brian? That's just how you've always been? I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know. My parents never really thought much of it. And for whatever reason, I started throwing lefty and it's probably one of the best things that's ever happening. Let me tell you something.

I don't know if you got a girl right now, but the girls love that you are able to use left and right hand. I'm just telling you right now. Oh, geez. You're going to be diverse. Were you talking about for square dancing or what? No, I'm talking about for baseball and athleticism. Oh, okay. Yeah.

God, get your mind out of the gutter. You brought it up. All right. What else we got going on? Let's see. You got the Astros, got the trip to Arlington. Have you been up to Arlington before? You've been there before, right?

At the new ballpark? Yeah, I went last year for a series. Yeah, and it's basically just your home bar park is a rip-off, right? I mean, let's go ahead and put some words on the Bolton board. Yeah, I mean, it's just newer. That's it. All the charm of Mining Park up in Arlington. I like it.

I like you kept it nice and simple. Hey, Brian, it's great to have you with us. Congratulations on the great star. Keep that at E.R. And, like I said, if you do, when Ross and I go up, we're going to Lake Charles a little bit seriously next week, we're going to get a Daryl's O sandwich named after you. We're going to take a picture of it and send it to you. God, I would love that. Let me know how that works out. So what would be on the sandwich?

I might kick us out. What would be on the sandwich? Let's just run through the list. Well, the Daryl's special for me was always what I'd get, but I'd probably do something similar like that. I know they have like a spicy mayo they add on. I definitely have that as well. Yeah. Thank God you're not anti-Mayo. There's some punks around here that are anti-Mayo. It's ridiculous.

Do you go Tabasco or the Louisiana-style hot sauce? I mean, usually I use Tabasco. It's a classic. It's good. Do you ever sneak in the casinos when you're underage or is that something we shouldn't even talk about? It's hard. They scan your ID. Yeah, I don't think I did. I definitely went for my 21st birthday. I got won like 70 bucks.

I was pretty happy about that. But, you know, I'm not a big gambler, to be honest. Is there like an athletic department rule? Like, you guys can't go anywhere near the casinos? No, not at all. Oh, all right. Well, and McNeese, I encourage you. That's a good recruiting tool.

You get college credit for going to the casinos in the news, don't you? I think I guess what I guess. Can you go to dealer school and then get some college credit? A little real life experience. Hey, Brian, thank you for the time. Best of luck to this weekend. We look forward to talking with you down the road. Thanks again.

I appreciate you guys. Thank you very much. We'll see you later. That's Brian King joining us here. Left-hand are extraordinary. Pride of McNeese University. Yeah, it's McNeese University, right? They changed, they took the state out.

Yeah, the ST is out. There's no McNece State. Let's just go ahead and figure this out. There's no Memphis State. There's no Kenesaw State. There's no Boise State. Wichita State. All that's gone.

Vince in Midtown before we play, believe it or not. Hi, Vince. Hey, how you guys doing? Listen, real quick, I just wanted, I was at that Mike Scott no hitter game, too, and that's kind of a last minute decision. Where were you? We could have said a lot of each other. Actually, I was on the first baseline, too, pretty low, so we probably pretty close to each other. But anyway. Nice.

But, no, I want to touch on the draft lottery. So how come they don't show the actual deal with the ping pong balls anymore? I mean, doesn't that kind of add transparency to the whole thing where people like me don't think, you know, it's kind of rigged? Because I think the entire procedure, if you're using the lottery system, it takes more than, say, two or three minutes. I mean, you have to scramble the balls. You have to put the combinations together. I don't think it's one of those things that, in their mind, thinks it's very TV appetizing, I guess. I think because they draw the, if they did it live, the first pick would come out first, right?

That's correct. So that takes the drama out. So they have the order, and then they build the drama. Like, you know how they did with the Rock. It's like, oh, they're going to be 10th. Oh, they're 10th. And then they're 9th. And then you find out who's top 4.

Then they take a commercial break. It lets the drama build. You know who the final 4 teams are. Then they order those. It's so that they can add drama to it. And it is transparent in the way that Ernst & Young looks at it. And then they have representatives from every team watches the lottery live. So they all watch it.

And I imagine there's film of it somewhere. And then it's audited and all that type of stuff. And then they put it on TV to help build the drama. Hmm, okay. Well, I'm still skeptical, so anyway. Well, I'm going to tell you something right now. Thanks, Vince, for the phone call.

I know everybody's skeptical. They're not cheating the system. The NBA is not rigging the system. They're just not. That's fun for us has said the NBA employee. No, no, no, no, no, no. I mean, look, there are things about the NBA. You're working for the man, man.

By the way, real quick, Adam Silver is going to call all the owners together in July. To talk expansion. Oh, geez. 32 teams. They're right now at 30. The two significant favorites.

Which I think we've talked about, I don't know, for five years. Seattle, Supersonics. And Las Vegas. Not the 21s. The 21s. The Las Vegas 21s are on the air. Nope. You're probably right.

They're both west. Would you be some shifting? Oh, absolutely. Rockets go back to the Eastern Conference? No. Hey, no. Put the rockets back in the east. I know.

If you're doing that, you only need to take one team in the East. It's either going to be Minnesota or Memphis. It would be the two teams that would be most likely. And maybe New Orleans would be in the mix. But I think it's probably going to be Minnesota. Houston, Eastern Conference, please. Not going to happen. 143 on Sports Talk 790.

Believe it or not, okay, to tell you the truth, we have such a busy show today that we're going with an old standby from Friday. We had the press conference for the Rockets on Friday. So what we did today is Bob Seeger turned 80 late last week. and we're going to go all things Bob Seeger. So if you know about what, would you say one of the great American rockers of all time? Would it be fair to say?

Tier two. What are you? Why are you tearing the man up? Stop tearing people. You asked my opinion. I gave it. Tier two. The last concert I've ever been to in my entire life was a Bob Seeger concert at the old summit,

but way back in the day. All right. So all things Bob Seeger on today's edition of believe it or not, 713, 212, 5-790, 7-7-190-3-212-5. 790. All right, tomorrow on the radio program, we're back for four more hours.

You thought today was four hours are great. How about the next four hours? Ooh, Lord. Tomorrow we have Brian Bogusevic. We have the opposite of shut your bum ass up,

which is, what are we calling it tomorrow? We still haven't thought of it. You said heavens, yes. We were supposed to workshop. We got a show meeting after the show. We'll talk about them. We will come up with a definitive name for the opposite.

So tomorrow you can't tell me to shut their brown ass up. You want, how about, we can call it Keep on Talking. Keep on talking. That sounds like a country show. Yeah, kind of. But it also sounds like something you say to somebody you want to punch in the mouth. Sounds aggressive.

Yeah, keep on talking. Oh, yeah. Talks smack. Yeah, I'm like, we need a thing. You got a throat chop coming your way. You know what? I'll put it up on Twitter. We'll get somebody will give us a good idea.

Okay. We'll see. Yeah, you know what? We're idiots. Tweet us at Sports RV at SportsMT. Much easier to see you. What should we call it? And we'll steal your idea and give you no credit.

Oh, I'll give you credit. We're not giving you anything. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? Should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show. Monday through Thursday, we call it. We call it Monday is Tuesday, right? We call it be, believe it or not.

It is Monday through Thursday. It is true. We call it be leaving or not. And here's how it works. We call 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-9. Today's edition of Believe it or Not is brought to you by Well, you know, we'll give it to our good friends at

T-A-L-Y-A-R-D-Brewing. T-A-L-Y-A-R-D-Brewing. Wonderful. Category Today is all things about Bob Seeger. I read your statement of Bob. If the statement's completely utterly accurate about Bob, you'll say this. Believe it. If the statement is Hierony's full of Bonkin made up, you'll say this.

Not. To Bob Seeger or not. Win your prize. What are you playing for today, Jonathan? A pair of tickets to see Chris Isaac live on July 29th at the House of Blues. Chris Isaac, we can do an impersonation of Chris Isaac, right? I want to fall in love. Is that who that is?

Sure. Well, I tried. Let's talk to line number two. Paul, on 790. Paul, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. Bob Seeger began his career recording and covering blues music and has cited Muddy Waters and Howling Wolf as his biggest influences. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, he was actually a little... Richard and Elvis fan. Didn't like the blues. Somewhat bluesy. Yeah. Brent on 790, Brent, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it.

In 1978 and 79, Bob Seeger won back-to-back Grammutes for Best Rock and Roll Albums for Night Moves and Against the Wind, a feat matched only by the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, sounds very believable.

Ross, you made that up, didn't you? I guess. I don't remember. Let's go to Michael on 790. Michael, you're ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Bob Seeger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, where he was presented by federal Detroit product Kid Rock.

Kid Rock presented it to him. Believe it or not. Believe it. That is correct. Believe it. Statement number two for the way to 1979. Bob Seeger and his Silver Bullet Bain were kicked off tour as the opening act for the Eagles after a drug-fueled altercation with Don Henley.

Believe it or not. Believe it. No. Frost, these are great. You have really, this is some of your best work lately. Usually mail this stuff in. Yeah, I'm sorry. Dave on 790, Dave, you ready to play Believe it or not?

Believe it. Bob Seeger had only one number one hit on the Billboard chart. It was Shakedown in 1987. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. You name the movie that was associated with Shakedown? I think it's Shindler's list, I believe.

It was not. You know what it was? Beverly Hills cop. That's my man. That's why I'm a big fan of yours, Dave. Here we go. Statement number two for the win. Bob Seeger wrote the lyrics to old-time rock and roll,

but he thought the song would not be hit and didn't bother taking songwriting credit, which cost him millions of dollars. Believe it or not. Totally believe it. That is a totally believe it. Congratulations, man. And he knew Beverly Hills' guy. And the movie associated with that song.

Old-time rock and roll would be a risky business, right? That's correct. Thank you very much. Mark on 790, Mark, you ready to play, believe it or not? When Bob Seger goes on tour, he essentially takes a vow of silence to preserve his voice. He keeps a writing pad and speaks through that. Believe it or not? Believe it.

No, come on. That was a dumb one. Excuse me? That was so good. It fooled him. Suck it. Vince on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir.

In 1988, Bob Seeger played at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, but has since said he regrets the decision and wants to stay out of politics. Believe it or not? Not. That is also correct. He loves politics. Speaking of a man who loves politics, Adam Clinton is in studio to handle his show between 2 o'clock until 6. He's wearing all black today in his salute to Johnny Cash.

We'll look forward to hearing what he and Mr. Wexler have to say between black. You're blind. What is it? It's black. So what are those? It's not all black, though. What are those, Johnny Casher, we're all black. He's got white on it, too.

What? All right, move on. Thank you, Mr. Symantics. The A team is up next on Sports Talks, everybody.