The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Getting Cam Smith Hype, Rockets Rest Starters In Loss To Thunder, Things Keep Getting Worse For Mavericks

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap the Oklahoma City Thunder defeating the Rockets 137-128 on Monday night. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 51 points against the Rockets, who were without Alperen Sengun, Amen Thompson, Dillon Brooks, Fred VanVleet and Tari Eason. The Rockets play the second of a back-to-back against the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday. Matt and Ross also;congratulate the Cougars for defeating Kansas on Senior Nightdiscuss the hype around Cam Smith in Astros spring training with Chris Gordyreact to Mavericks All-Star Kyrie Irving suffering a season-ending torn ACLreview headlines around the league in "Ross' NFL Rewind"give their latest "Gut Feelings"get into character for another edition of "MT Theater" and more.

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Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas. show 1002 in h town good morning everyone and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross from Indianapolis this is sports talk 790 rep side make it right side for Reid to his right Nate Williams left hand dribble drive goes the window and scores in Nate Williams on the scorecard Rockins lead at 35 31 Williams left hand dribble turns to a right with backup flips it over the backboard missed a shot put back there That's going to be Nafali Dante with his first NBA field goal.

97 to 89. 8 point deficit. Rocket's trying to hang around. Prior to Robert's right wing, sends it to Usanne left wing. Usand a step back, left corner three. Got it. Los, Usand drills it from the left corner. It's a seven-point lead, largest lead of the night.

Sheppard on the four to start the fourth. Gets a stream from Dante. Lobbs up to Nafali. He'll jam it down with a foul. combinations I did not have on my bingo card Reed Shepard and Defaulti Dante for the flush with a whistle Roberts to Cryer Cryer dribbles the baseline

Pryor into the front court there's the horn and the Cougars win Houston becomes the first team in Big 12 history to win 18 conference games 6559 the final well we didn't know who the Houston Cougars are. I don't think many of you that happen to listen or watch

the Rockets game knew who the Rockets were last night. But nevertheless, a competitive effort, except for the fact that Shegilders-Alexander scored 4, 51 points and 50 plus for the fourth time in like a month. Good morning. It is the Matt Thomas show here with Ross on Sports Talk 790. SportsChervey, how the hell are you? Doing great, Matt. It's having a fantastic day. It sounds good. Glad you're in a good mood. Yeah, that was weird last night. Really, really weird.

And I know that Rockets Twitter, again, that's a small minority of grouping that was quite upset with the lineup. But we're dealing in 2025 NBA reality. And you've got three games in four days. Oklahoma City, Ross, can I tell you that I've seen them in person now five times, including the preseason. and I love my rockets, Oklahoma City's going to crush the West. Yeah, I would agree with that. I mean, as long as you're barring health, of course.

Barring health. And, of course, the Rockets put together an amazing run or anybody else for that matter. I mean, the Lakers are playing better. Rockets ever. But, oh, my God. I mean, you got Jalen Williams, you got Chad Holmgren if he stays healthy.

You've got Isaiah Hartenstein, who double doubles every night, except for a lot of that not necessarily needed. SGA just as fluid as all get out. They've got a bench. I mean, oh, my God. They're good. They're so ridiculously good.

They are. But did you find it curious in the end of the game when it was getting within six that Emey stuck with the bench guys? A little curious, but that's the second time that's happened this year, where, and I go back to the Golden Star, state game where the rockets were getting blown out with the starters and EMA is like, I'm good. Yeah, see, but this is different. They weren't down 30.

They didn't get down more than 20 the whole game. Yeah. So I found that curious at the end of the game that there was no, Jalen Green didn't play a second in the fourth quarter and 25 minutes, you know. And got under, he played 25 minutes. And yeah, maybe there was some preservation.

But if you get within six in the fourth quarter, I thought that EMA and Doca might give it the old college try. Yeah. And that's something that I'm sure will be asked today. I don't know if it was asked last night after the game or not, but it was certainly an interesting lineup out there. It was a, would you say a coming out party for Reed Shepard?

I mean, not even close. I mean, he was. It wasn't even, the other game where he had, what, like 16 points, he knocked down a couple threes. He wasn't really scoring efficiently. I think he got up a number of shots, like a bunch of shots in that game and wasn't over 50% shooting. Last night, he looked confident.

He was dropping dimes. The term used by Craig Ackerman and Ryan Hollins was wiggle. Like he's got a little wiggle to him. He just like a little swagger, a little more confidence. He looked like he belonged. Yeah. And if you're in the cam Whitmore Stan Group, I mean, you loved last night too. I mean, that guy was balling two.

Emphatic throwdowns. I had a couple of misses, and he had some defensive lapses. But he can, he's just a score. It ain't the most efficient thing out there, but when he wants to take over a game, he can do that. Three block shots, too, for Game Whitmore. He was all over the place. So there were some positives in last night. And again, you had to realize, folks, and I know you don't want to hear this,

but this is what San Antonio did for so many years. This is what the Lakers have done on occasion as well. It's not great, but it is the NBA. And they're trying to preserve some folks, and they're thinking, my guess is Ross and you are Mr. Analytical of the two of us on the show. are they just putting the numbers together and saying, hey, three games in four days, this is a San Antonio, this is a Oklahoma City team that's got the rocket's number, except for that one time.

The numbers say, get the guys rest, so you have a better chance of winning here tonight, Indianapolis, and a better chance of winning with a day off in New Orleans on Thursday. Again, I'm not trying to justify it. I'm just telling you that this is the new trend of the NBA. I don't know it necessarily is a great trend for the NBA, but there were some banged up guys, and they said, you know what, let's give them an extra day off and hopefully they're better for tonight's game against the Pacers. Yeah, and obviously we can find out.

And that's the good news is this is a smart organization. We have a smart head coach. And if there is something that happened, generally, whether it works or not, there's a reason for it. And that's all you can ask. I'm just going to say this. And I don't know if this will even be much of a conversation piece on a show today. But EMA Dokit doesn't come across to me. And I've known him for a year and a half.

I mean, we're not like best friends. He hasn't bought me, Amelia, which you should probably show, but that's a different issue for different time. Rossi. He doesn't come across to me as a big fan of finesse basketball, meaning he's not thinking about this kind of stuff. But there's obviously either guys that were not 100% saying, I'm not going to put my stars out there at 60%.

And if they injure themselves or further have ailments, is it going to cost me more down the road than it would be on a situation against an Oklahoma City, team. Again, I don't know. EMA has always been very forthcoming with us, so I'm sure when he joins his letter this week, he'll address that. But the bottom line is, they were competitive last night. It did give an opportunity for a couple of guys, especially Reed Shepard.

And I got some news for you. Did you have Nepali Dante with a double-figured game in his first NBA game on your scorecard last night? I guess I did, actually. Did you really? Good for you. Yeah, actually, I nailed it on the head. I had 10 points, nine rebounds, and two blocks. I think what he did, and I guess it's just a one game step.

He might have supplanted Jack Landel as the backup center. I wouldn't say that. But he looked good. He looked really good. You look better. For me? You know what, Oregon guy? Yeah, you're right.

E. Mae Doeke is giving him a shot. He's putting him in the starting lineup next game. I forgot about the E.M.A. takes care of those Pacific Northwest guys. I forgot about that. All right, Ross, we have a busy show today. we have something that's going to happen in 40 minutes that has never happened in the history of the Matt Thomas show. It is a sports empty theater involving people that work at 790.

Oh my God. I knew you were going to do this. It's called entertainment, Rossi. I knew you're going to do this, number one. And number two, you roped me into this. Yes, I did. And it worked out to perfection. It's all for the sake of the show, Rossi.

I don't think it's enough. But, okay, whatever. Well, it just involves me jumping in, getting, out and then other people jumping in. So there will be a three-person sports MTF coming up on the show today. You, me, and Adam Clant will be on there. We've got gut feelings at 1130 today. We have the news at noon.

We have NFL rewind with Ross at 1230. Gordy's going to stop by at 1 o'clock. He will give us a little bit of his Astros takes on things. And then we got, believe it or not, today, at 150. What else? Anything else major headline? We're kind of a slow time in sports. Do you agree or disagree on these things?

Yeah, I would say, I mean, this is, but this is every year, Matt. It's after the Super Bowl and it's before baseball gets going. Yeah, and March Madness will carry some of that. But thank God for left field talk. Yeah. How do you do yesterday, by the way? I have no idea. Does that make me a bad, am I a bad Astros fan or Astros?

Well, how about this? During this quick timeout, you will give us a complete recap before his day yesterday. Wonderful. Like from, really? Like from when he woke up? I mean, if you, you want to test. If you want to text him, then find out exactly what he did.

That's fine. Okay. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. On Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee Montgomery. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. I'm here in Indianapolis, Indiana, for tonight's game with the Pacers, as we appreciate you listening to Sports Talk 790.

Matt Thomas, Ross Villariel. It's the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. on Sports Talk 790 1017 and this is Matt Thomas show with Ross Good morning Houston, Texas I'm here in Indianapolis Ross is back in Houston

tomorrow I'll be in New Orleans How about that? Is this in the history of the show? Well, I've been in three cities and three days on the show. Ooh. Feels like probably at some point. Yeah.

This is a... You're a man about the country like that, Matt. Is that what that is? Okay. also sleep deprived that's not here nor there 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump into the conversation

7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90 I got to tell you in all seriousness about spring training story line number one Ross is Jose Al-2 Van left field is storyline number two Cam Smith just crushing hearts and souls

in spring training baseball I think that would be it he's a beast He is a beast. So do we need a percent of over, under, when he shows up for the team? I guess we could. I was looking at our good friends' baseball perspective.

So I knew he was like top 50, top 60. MLB has him 59. Our good friends at baseball perspective has the number 20 prospect in baseball. Okay, so, and I've asked this to you, I've asked this to Chandler, I've asked this to anybody. I'll ask the audience, too.

Think about this. why would the Chicago Cubs give this dude and he's obviously a dude right I don't think he's running he's not going to make the Major League roster coming out of spring training okay that's not going to happen well if he's hitting two home runs and triples all the time

yeah still probably not I still probably would say I would put it at 1% chance I mean so yeah very low he's hitting 571 by the way that he is in spring trading the Chicago Cubs are the greatest example, Ross, I can think of in recent days of going literally all in.

You trade your first round pick. You trade a starting infielder for a bro in Kyle Tucker who might only play in Chicago one year. In all likelihood, we'll only play there for one year. Yeah, isn't that, that's ballsy, but it also can be really stupid at the end of the day, right? Yes. So I don't know what's going to happen on that, but man. I just don't get it. well there's let's face it ross in the world of sports we've had i just don't get it i mean

does nico harrison get the i just don't get it a hall of fame entry the first uh participant in that probably yeah nico harrison neco harrison neco harrison well i don't know what i said but uh but yeah uh by the way chrie irving's done for the year what i believe it's an ACL if i'm not mistaken oh geez yeah and then in today's edition of not reading the room the dallas mavericks raise their season ticket price 18% for next year. I saw that. Man, it's crazy.

Just more and more and more and more and more is asked of us. As consumers, it feels like. Yeah, I look, the NBA ticket is ridiculous expensive to begin with. It just is. I mean, you can get some value late last second. For instance, one of our listeners saw me in Oklahoma City yesterday

came and said hello and he got a baseline about 10 rows up for $71 at the Thunder game last night, which he thought was really good value. It seems like pretty good value. That's not bad. I mean, lower level for $71, especially as close as he was, but it's just not cheap. It's sports events, Rossi, as, I mean, this is zero breaking news on this for the audience as well. It is an serious 100% investment if you want to go.

Yeah. If you want to watch on TV, that's one thing. But gee, many, Christmas, you have to, you have to look. legitimately separate, well, do I want to pay my electric bill on time or do I want to go see an Astros game or a Texan's game or a Rockets game? It's crazy the money that's being spent on tickets these days. Yeah, and it's every sport. I mean, it's gone up and because Messi came to the MLS and then all the tickets went up there. I mean, this weekend, when Lionel Messi was supposed to play there, it was $250 get in price at a Houston Dynamo game.

That's a one-off thing. Is that face value? Is that what they were doing? No, no, I don't think, I don't, I think you had to buy season tickets. It's a whole ordeal. I don't know. Your son's probably better to ask than anybody else. Probably, yeah.

By the way, on that, we didn't even bring that up yesterday. Are you surprised, I mean, I don't know anything about it. So I'm speaking of ignorance here, which I do a lot of times send it to on here on this radio station. We didn't think he was really coming, didn't we? Do we really think he was coming? Who is that? Sorry. Messy.

He was supposed to, but I guess he had an injury or something. My feeling is he's just going to play really about every other home game for Miami and maybe a couple of one-offs, like in New York or something like that. It would be L.A. But he's thinking, look, I'm in the twilight of my years. I can pick and choose my schedule. I'm playing in a B-League.

Would you say MLS? Is it a B-leaguers? Maybe even see. Okay. He's going to pick and choose his schedule, right? He's not going to make a rand-o trip to Houston. I honestly don't know. I haven't been checking how many games.

He played in Kansas City in like three degrees. Well, that's, okay, I'll give them props for that. But bottom line is, I felt bad for the Donovan books because that's their only way to release Sony tickets. I mean, just the reality of it here. But, yeah, they didn't happen. All right, so back to we were talking about before. Oh, to Cam Smith.

What were the Cubs thinking? They were literally thinking, we've got to win the World Series. Or we're going to lose this. or they're thinking we're going to just cash whip Kyle Tucker so he wants to play in Chicago for the rest of his major league career. Yeah, the only thing, yeah, maybe it makes sense that they wanted to get him in the building and then that makes it easier to sign him long term? I don't know.

Yeah, it's to me, I mean, that's what gets general managers fired, would you say? I mean, if he leaves and all of a sudden, Cam Smith is the Cornerstone third baseman, or maybe he's the Cornerstone right filter for the Astros for the next five to six years? Yeah, I mean, he was their number six prospect was Cam Smith. And then he immediately became the number one. I believe it was six. That just shows you where the minor league system are the Astros is.

He went from being the six prospect on a mid-baseball team to a number one prospect on a team that has been as good as they've been for the last seven or eight years. Wow. Well, hopefully we can. well, Kyle Tucker enjoys himself in Chicago. I'm wishing him the best. Actually, I'm wishing him a 40-home, a 40-40 season. And they, oh, because you want to win the bed, don't you?

I was wondering. I heard those gears turning. There's always all turning. I heard those gears turning. Well, I'm not feeling confident after this spring, let's just say. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I mean, Cam could bat $9.50 during the spring. I don't think he's coming to start the team. I think they want to see if McCormick can

You know Remember I don't think Cam Smith This is playing anything higher than AA at this point Correct, yeah, he's not going to be Is Cam Smith doing this against major league players Are they doing against guys with uniform numbers of 75 and higher? Those are the guys he's going to be facing in double A Or if he goes to AAA, we'll see

He got 20 plate appearances in AA last year, that's it That's it? Wow And he slugged 4,000 he hit every ball to the ball yard Yeah so I mean that's probably one of the reasons For whatever reason the Cubs Felt he was expendable

Because they have a well-stocked farm system And they want to win at the major league level Now and Cam Smith Not necessarily going to do that for them All right speaking of Cam Smith Here's how it sounded yesterday On these airwaves that we call Sports Talk 790 So now Cam Smith with a basis full two outs

Actually a one-two count Smith. Pitch home. Swung on, hit high in the air, deep to center field. All the way back, Pinter, near the wall. That falls off the top of the wall. One run scores. Two run scores. Here comes a go-ahead run.

He'll score. Cam Smith clears the bases with a triple off the top of the wall in center, and the Astros lead this game four to three. That is a strong man, Cam Smith. Does it ever sound like to you when you're listening to a spring training game, the games are being played in a comedy club? Uh, kind of always, it sounds like a lilly game to me. Or maybe college.

Because there's a little bit of echo there. Yeah. You can hear the cheers bouncing off the, the over, yeah, whatever you call it. Yeah, I'll overhang. I'll buy the next round of beers. Oh, there's a big hit. Let's go cheer for it. Like, I've roared the crowd in spring training are two sentences you, or phrases you won't

use in the same sentence. No. Got to beat those pesky marlins last night. That's what they did. Hott's team in spring training By the way, Marlins. Yeah.

The big deal yesterday was the Red Sox played the Orioles in Sarasota, which is about 75 miles from Fort Myers where the Red Sox train. And it was a big deal, you know, that Alex Breggman got on the bus with the bros and went to a Sarasota to play the game. Wow. What happened in the game? He was trying to integrate himself. Nothing. He just played.

No big deal. But it was like, man, veterans getting on a bus and going up an hour and a half to watch a baseball game. Man, that's leading. leadership. Good for him. He's a leader. You better go again on the bus and play. Yeah.

It was a six to six tie. Yes. And they had some woman on there, some old lady on there. It was awesome. She was like 85 years old. She's been to everything. She's been a season ticket holder for the world for like 50 years. In Buster Only was interviewing her yesterday.

And she's like, so what are your thoughts about American League East? She goes, I hate those crankies because they're going to cheat their way and they're going to spend their way to a towards a champion. So I got to worry about them. call them the crankies. Hmm. She said she was something like that. Was it crankies? Yeah.

Maybe crankies or cheater. It was something that was mixed her with the Yankees, but she's now trending on Twitter because, first of all, she was not enamored by Buster only. She's like, I'm trying to score the game, Buster. Get out of my way. Skankies, she said. Just a matter of fact. Skankies, yeah.

It's cool when an 85-year-old woman calls somebody a skank, right? Yeah, I guess so. Good for her. She called somebody a skank, wrong. Uh, skank? Uh, probably last Thursday at the barbecue cup. You also used ass meat in the same sentence as you know.

There was some ass meat there. I'm just letting you know, Matt. There was rib meat, there was brisket meat, and there was ass meat. When was the best meat there? Ah. Hello. Okay, don't clip that, Connor. I don't care what you're doing.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. You mentioned nicknames in your story earlier. His nickname is Sweet Pickle. His what? Sweet pickle. His cousin gave it to him. When he was struggling as a hitter, he said it just made him laugh one day,

and that's what he's been called ever since. Sweet pickle? Sweet pickle. Cam Smith. Might not translate at the big league level, but that's what it was in high school and all the way through FSU. Oh.

Yeah. I wouldn't mind that name. Right through the count to Cam. Let me tell you something. Cam Smith has zero body fat. I'm not calling him sweet pickle. Yeah, that's not going to happen, Ross. I'm sorry I got cold-brewed coffee in my throat

Are you okay? Yeah, I'm great What's happening with you? 2,024-5 is not treated you very well That sweet pickle I really got him Is that what you're knocking back Is the sweet pickle right now? You know, those pickles can be tart at times

Be careful out there, Ross. He's turning red. Seriously All right, let me take a phone call since Ross can't speak for the next thing too. I can't. You know, I'm just learning how to dream. liquids.

Okay. Seriously, turn the microphone off. We're worried about you. I'm fine. I'm just surprised that Steve Sparks could hold on as long as he did before making a comment. I don't know. He really tried to restrain himself, but he couldn't help himself. Yeah, that might be one of the five worst nickname someone would give you,

right? It's not that bad. You like sweet pickle? Yeah, you don't want to be a sweet pickle, Matt? Well, it depends if it's a big pickle or not. You know those little ones, you know, those the ones you get in the, they call them gherkins or something like that? Those aren't those. Yeah, you want to be called sour gurkin.

What's wrong with sweet pickle? Yeah, but are you like, are you like a big deal or are you like a little gurkin? I'm not participating in this. It's probably smart. Louise and Katie at 1036 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Luis, good morning and thank you for holding. Good morning, guys. Probably I'm asking something that it was already discussed, most likely.

But I just joined lately. but yesterday on the rocket skate and that third quarter they were really close and somehow the turnovers they went boom from very close to a wide open game then they came back but

I don't know what coach didn't change and I don't know what he sometimes I don't understand he's a strategy to put the guys because the thundered two big guys on the floor

and we had tight Again, it does great, but with Dante on the bench, which was amazingly surprised and a present surprise, why he just let the game go and go from very close to just completely 15 or 14 points apart? I want to just hang up on a little bit because I would like to understand more coach. He's a great coach, motivator. Love it that they came back, Lord Shepherd. but that was a really pleasant surprise

and I don't think he used it enough. Yes, I guess the two big guys of the father. All right guys, thank you very much ahead and I'll hang up on the list. Bye-bye. Thank you, Louise. With all due respect, Louise, I don't think we can really get into rotational substitution patterns with anything involving

yesterday's game. If you did not catch the game, no Alperin-Shingoon, no Menn-Thompson, no Dylan Brooks, no Fred Van Vleet, no Tari-Eason, no Stephen Adams. He was in uniform, but he wasn't going to play. He was like emergency. Yeah, he was really, yeah, just if we need him for like one minute. Yeah, I can't use that. No, I mean, you had guys on the floor that were making their NBA debuts or at least rocket debuts.

So I can't really tell you what the substitution pattern wasn't, whether it would have made sense or not. third quarter was Oklahoma City's big one. That was when Oklahoma City said, all right, we had our nap at a half time. We're going to go out and we're going to let SGA score a bullet of points. He's really good. My God, is he good?

And he is set to make he's got a four-year deal, Ross, Supermax coming up next year. He's going to be making, and we did this on the broadcast last night. If he signs it, which he's going to, because he's not stupid guy.

$74 million a year, each of the next four. Excuse me? Yeah, excuse me, he's right, yeah. American? Well, I mean, he is from Canada, so I guess it would, you could ask that question.

Is that Canadian dollars? It's not pesos? Yeah. It's not Turkish, Lira? Yeah, I have a stat service that sent me that note and said that he is due. Oh, well, there's sometime dodge you that stat service. Oh, you know what?

You're right about that. Rossi, maybe I gave out some erroneous information. Yeah, I'll pull it up in a just second, but I do want to let you know that he's, so he had zero 50 point games up until January of this year, and he's had four since then. Mm-hmm. He probably could have 60.

He didn't shoot well in the fourth quarter, but he'd be able to, but he finished with 51. He goes to the free throw line like 12 times a game. He makes 90% of his free throws. He doesn't take bad shots. And by the way, he dishes out like five or six assist a game. And he was traded to the Thunder. Four? Oh, I don't even know this.

It was the Paul George deal, right? Yes. Paul George, now of Philadelphia fame. Yeah, he said he's going to stop his podcast to focus on a championship and now he's hurt. How'd that go for him, by the way? Not great. Yeah, Philadelphia's a hot mess. Although they did beat Golden State Theater night.

Yeah, I mean, the Western Conference is really, really competitive. I think obviously Golden State's playing a lot better. the Lakers with Luca and LeBron are playing a lot better. It's going to be a mess. I'm not talking about just here, Rossi. I'm talking about it for the foreseeable future. That's why I think the Kevin Durant's sweepstakes are going to be very interesting. And whether or not we really should believe that the sons are going to build around Devin Booker.

Or maybe they decide, you know, on second thought, we'll try to trade him too because we need to do a complete overhaul. Yeah. It'll be interesting to see because, I mean, it was the Matt Ashiba, the owner, his spare no expense, no expense. And he's learning very quickly, kind of like Stephen Cohen, that you can't just spend your way to a championship. No. That's the best part about the NBA is that you just can't cash whip everybody, that you're ultimately going to have to pay a price if you, if those guys get old or the chemistry is bad, whatever the case may be. but that is a bad situation in Phoenix, and thankfully the Rockets have two more games with them.

All right, so let me give you the, let me see what my note says about Sheikilders Alexander. It says he's in line for a projected supermax extension this July. Four years, $293 million, Rossi. Good God. Four, $400 is 75 a year, so what are we talking about, $74 million a year? Mm-hmm. In Oklahoma, that's like making $100,000.

million dollars anywhere else so adam clinton last night made a jab at oklahoma because george kiddell was at the game yesterday uh-huh my statistician and my engineer were next to me were listening to that they wanted to throttle him because they're

oklahoma natives george kittles not from oklahoma is he no no it was such a rando why he was there yesterday you know how when you go to new york there's celebrities and you go to l a laker games or celebrities and in oakland city you got george kittle randomly.

Yeah. But yeah, four years. I mean, I think if you're going to pay somebody $74 million a year, shouldn't he have a cure for cancer or something? I mean, I love SGA. He's a great player, but can Oklahoma City afford that? Can anybody afford that? I mean, damn, NBA, that TV contract must be awesome.

It's absolutely incredible. Absolutely incredible. I'm trying to find out. The salary cap for next year is estimated. at $155 million. You're going to pay $75 to one dude. Well, I guess you can because everybody else is cheap. I mean, Hartnstein, it makes...

Isaiah Hartman. Remember Isaiah Hartensai? Signed him to a decent deal. Not like, yeah. He's not making pennies. That's not decent. That's good cash. Yeah, it's not pennies.

So our little friend, Isaiah Hartenstein, seven feet tall, 87 million over the next three years. Dort must not make much. Jalen Williams must make. There's nobody else in this roster that's making a lot of money. Feels like Lou Dort's going to be doing an extension if he hadn't already signed one. Oh, Chad Homer's on a rookie deal still. I mean...

Okay, yeah, Lou Dord did sign an extension. He's making 16 and a half this year, 17, 18 next year. But again, if I said... If we went to a sports bar, Ross, and said, what do you think St. Gilder's Alexander's worth? I think probably 70% of people are like, well, what does he do for a living? And then secondly, $74 million a year! Yeah, he's worth it because, I mean,

Again, just point to how much probably the owners are making. If they can dole this out. Well, you know what it is. The NBA, just like your quarterback's NFL, if you're really, really good and you're elite, your top five in your position, you're going to make upseen cash. We're going to see a $70 million quarterback soon, aren't we not? So the NBA Supermax has to be the highest AV in sports, though, right? Oh, for sure. For sure.

All right, let's come back. We have a sports empty theater coming up next. It's a three-man sports empty theater. Who am I playing? You're playing Ross. Okay. I'll play Matt, and Adam Clanton will play Adam Clinton. Oh, he's calling in?

He's calling in, yeah. This is great. 713. I hate you, actually. You don't hate me. You rope me into this. 713, 212.5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

10-49 on Sports Talk 790. Time now for another edition of SportsMtE Theta! The role of Matt Thomas will be Matt Thomas. Playing the role of Ross Vittereal. Sports RV. Ross Villarreal. Playing the role of Adam Clanton. Adam Clanton.

Now we'll present to you. Spalt's empty theater. Matt Thomas. John Cena's heel turn and elimination chamber has now garnered over 215 million views across WWE's social platform in just 36. hours. It has shattered multiple records for WWE social media. A history changing moment. That's what I tweeted yesterday during the Rockets game because I was bored. You retweeted it.

But I did put up at the top of the screen, I quote tweeted. I put, now I know Sports RV is looking forward to WrestleMania. Then I said, Mom says I can't come over for WrestleMania. I have too much homework. Next, at SportsMT. What if I serve delicious fried cheese? C-C at Adam Clanton. Really tempting to watch the hair-died 47-year-old and Jorts follow his script, but I'm going to pass.

Next. Is Adam there? I'm Clinton. I'm Clinton, you're up? Clanton, are you there? This bit is dying on the vine. Where's Adam? It's up.

hear me. You had us mute it, didn't you? You muted, didn't you? Probably. Your turn. You'll probably be too busy watching Euros flop around a pitch in their kits while never scoring anyway. Games will be over in Greenwich meantime.

Keep up. There was more contact in this post than 95% of those dorks encounter before writhing around on the ground in quote pain, while the official waves a color-coded three-by-five index card over his head and the clock just runs with no one able to hit a stop button. Yet it's still miles more popular than a scripted soap opera for adolescents. Well, most of the rest of the world still lives in the Stone Age, so that's not surprising. Playing the role of at copper corrosion, me. I can't believe a waste of time type ofness.

reading was bad enough. What does that even mean, by the way? He was not happy with the thread. And that, my friends, was... He wasted time typing what? This tweet. He tweeted you said. That, my friends, was...

This is making sense. It's a... So, Adam, we're going to try to have a WrestleMania party, because you're going to probably get denied credentials now that it's so popular. So... Where is it? It's in Las Vegas.

Ooh. Oh, now you want to go? I'll go to Vegas. I'm not going to go to WrestleMania. Hey, real quick, I have a surprise for you guys. Yes. Well, somebody wanted to weigh in on the whole fried cheese situation. Oh, my God. Get him! Get him right now. Oh, my God. Get him.

Could you come over here, a lovely young Italian lady? Oh, my, hell, yeah. I did not make those mozzarella sticks. Exactly. They were store box from Costco. Exactly. That's what I said. We're on the same page. But he still ripped up. Matt always gets upset.

Like I did some huge faux pa. First of all, I was asked about the food, and I gave my honest opinion, number one. Number two, if you're serving, they weren't that great, and it's not like you made them, so I was just trying to, you know, give a public service.

But it's just like you don't, you didn't have to say. You didn't have to say. Exactly. Feelings. He lied all night because of that. Yeah. I don't believe you.

That's a lie. That's a lie. Remember. But she, by the way, I want you guys to know she's doing the Italian hand gestures while she says this to you. So you're so screwed, Ross. You're going to get shived. Well, it won't be the first time.

All right. All right. Thank you, Clayton's. Goodbye. Bye. That was Adam Clinton. And it was a drop-in with, what do they call a surprise cameo by Teresa Clayton? Sure, why not?

All right. That's what separates our show. That was awesome sports empty theater right there. It was, and he had a live, like, you know, you had a, you had a, like on a Bravo you had a real housewife's here and then they had like the post show meeting where they all get together on a couch and yell at each other. That's what exactly we just did.

I'm glad we're all on the same page. She didn't make them. It's not a big deal. She shouldn't be offended. And she sounds like she's not. No, but you didn't have to say that, which is that was my key. You know, sometimes honesty is not the best policy, Ross. Again, it's not like she's in the back hand-breddenum. Would that have been credit credible if they would have been

ham breaded and they still would have tasted bad? Then they wouldn't have. I trust Teresa's cooking skills and her Italian heritage. Yeah. Do Italians even accept fried cheese as an Italian dish? I don't know. Like do true people from Mexico nachos is a Mexican dish? I mean, yeah, it's more of a Tex-Mex, you know, thing.

Yeah. But right. It's not the same thing for fajitas, Matt. I'm sorry to tell you. What? Fahitas are not Tex-Mex? Or they are Tex-Mex? Yeah, but they're not like real Mexican food.

So if you and I went to Alcococo, we couldn't walk up and say, I'd like two fajita tacos, please. I mean, you're going to get some kind of chopped beef, but it's not going to be like inside skirt. I'll tell you the story that I always go to. Please. My dad, when he would tell my, he told my great-grandmother, may she rest. Grandma, how come we don't serve, how come you don't make, fajitas. And she said, because we're poor, but we're not that poor.

Hmm. That fits. That absolutely 100% fits. It's a marketing scheme. And now it's the most expensive thing on the menu. It's ridiculous. Yeah, by the way, when did fajitas and brisket all of a sudden become 200% more expensive? Mm-hmm. And chicken wings? And chicken wings, except for buy one, get one free, a big city. Well, of course. Good segue there. Let's get the second hour of the Matt Thomas. show with Ross started in a matter moment. 713-212-5-790, 7-13-212-2-7-9-0.

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the Matt Thomas Show with Rossum here from Indianapolis, Indiana. We're tonight the rocket are going to take on the Pacers. I don't have the injury report for tonight. They don't have to put anything out until, I think, 1 or 2 o'clock our time here, so I don't know exactly who's going to play and who's not. Hopefully, well, I would be safe to say, Rossi, probably a much fuller lineup tonight

for the Rockets as they were yesterday against Oklahoma City. But it was a good basketball night overall as the Houston Cougars picked up their 18th Big 12 win in 19 tries. Ross, all I need now is a Houston win at Baylor.

on Saturday, and one of my all-time gut feelings will hit. That's not an all-time. What makes it an all-time gut feeling? Well, first of all, that's a difficult gut feeling. I mean, to say the Cougars are only going to lose one time in conference play, that's pretty incredible. Yeah, conference is down. It's not as strong to say the SEC. Well, I mean, we kicked the gutter trash out.

I mean, we did that. And so, you know, we had to just pare things down a little bit. And then, of course, you went to the SEC. The gutter trash, yes. gutter trash goes from the Big 12 to the SEC Well I mean you're gonna be look You are the gutter trash they let in after everybody else left No you don't enjoy I hope

The NIT will be great for you Ross You're gonna have a top four seed Might have even in IT bound No yeah they're NIT bound Let's go CBI All right so you And not that we're going to spend a whole lot of time on this But it's worth obligatory mention

You Any rumors about who The University of Texas might go get if they decide to get away from a roddy car. No. I heard that guy from the young up-and-coming coach from Tennessee, and also there's a really good coach over at Marquette. I think they're keeping their eye on. That's past tense, my friend, past tense.

Both of those teams ranked, Texas not. But that's fine. All right. So we got the Cougars winning yesterday against Kansas. We have the Rockets losing. against Oklahoma City. We had the Astros playing the Marlins yesterday, Cam Smith, with a basis clearing triple that almost was a salami. And the Astros went against the Marlins. We had sports empty theater. We got gut feelings coming up in about 25 minutes. Anything else mainly headline wise we need to get to? I don't think there's, again, we're kind of in a calm before the storm.

Really, but opening day is not a storm. Yes, it is. Full coverage. All day long. Come at you. Sports Talk 790. Yeah. It's, what, four weeks from Thursday? Am I right?

Or give it or take? Three weeks, right? It's 27th? That would put it at the 20th. Yeah, it's crazy. That baseball starts in March now. I always felt like it was like April 5th, 6th, when they would start the opening day.

Things have moved a little bit. Well, it doesn't start there in Minneapolis, I guess. Oh, hell no. I mean, you get the, like, I think the Astros first, road is the first road game against Minnesota? Will they have to take a day off on Friday just in case they snow out or something on cold out? It happened last year.

Is that happening this year too? Yeah. I don't know where it was, but it's just, it's weird that they would do that. I mean, honestly, I'm surprised at anybody that's not in a dome stadium in the north doesn't take a 10-day road trip to open up the year. No, yeah, you're right. It is, it happens again this year. Didn't that happen last year or the year before maybe?

Yeah. Yeah, they play April 3rd against the Twins, and then the 4th is off and then 5th and 6th. against the twins in Minneapolis. Can you like cars? They built a stadium in Minneapolis and didn't put a roof on it. Oh, dude, I was there when they were building it.

And the number one thing that was said was, the Polad family, it was, you guys are cheap and they're like, we're giving you enough money. We're not giving you another dime. And they didn't build it. It was never on the table.

It's a really nice facility. Went there for the playoff a couple years ago. It was a beautiful ballpark. It is a beautiful par park. It's the smallest acreage of any ballpark in Major League Baseball. I mean, they took up every crack and crevy to build that place. And they were worried about it when it was first built that it was next to a... When you take trash and you burn it this incinerator?

Incinerator facility. And they were worried about the waft. Burnt trash smell? But it never became a problem. That's good, I guess. Because the twins have been burnt trash most of the time. Yeah, you've actually been there more than... Not more, but you've been there sooner than I have

because I went the first year. It was opened. Uh-huh. But it's a good. It really is. Great sports city. Yeah, it was beautiful. It doesn't surprise me for you to say that it's on low acreage because it did feel kind of small, but it felt like kind of homey in a way.

Not like, not like Mickey Mouse. It just felt homie. You know, one of the realities is with these sports ballparks is that they're just giving up parking space. Think about Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for a little bit of gone. There's nowhere to park it for Raider games. there's I mean I mean there's not a lot of spots to park at

at Diken Park when you think about it no there's there's the A B and C lot but A lot's tiny B is small and C's kind of big but other than that there's not Even then that's hardly any parking yeah yeah you go to these new facilities that's why if you build outside of like downtown areas

and you build in suburbs you're going to have more spots Ross wait for this some more parking spots yeah then you get more drunk drivers. So maybe you should want fewer parking spots. I just think today in ballparks now,

you're going to have to probably just really have an amazing Uber game or a lift game when you build these facilities and have it. Because a few years ago when I took my son and my wife and I went to go see the Dodgers and Astros play, Dodgers' game has been around since the 60s. So, I mean, it's beautiful, but it's still a ballpark in the area town that's been around for 60 years. their Uber situation was a hot mess.

I mean, just could not figure out where to pick it up, where to go. They were confusion. Yeah, they had the Dodger blue bus lines or something like that. That's what I took. I took a bus. Did you, were you able to avoid injury at any point? Yeah, what do you mean? Well, you know, there's a lot of crime at Dodger Stadium.

Yeah, well, did you get hurt in Dodger Stadium? I had a switchplay with me, so we were fine. Were you ever threatened? Yes. No, you weren't. you're right i didn't wear asterisk gear i was like i'm not being stupid about this i told cameron and kim i said well you guys are not we wore we wore we wore astro gear in san francisco we felt a little safer there i believe i went before the year bro i think i went in

16 or 15 so it was before the whole unpleasantness before people were getting bottles thrown over their head and concussing and well that's been happening at dodger stadium for decades that's probably so that's probably so all right 713212 5790 is how you reach our show 713 212-5-7-90. Other headlines to talk about really quick. Kyrie Irving is done for the year. I think it's an ACL, if I saw that correctly a little while ago. That can't be great for that fan base.

My God, I mean, Dallas Maverick fan. Yeesh. Yeah, a torn ACL for Kyrie Irving. Anthony Davis is still hurt. Good luck for that. Shocking. Shut him down. And, yeah, shut him down, get out of the play.

and meanwhile, watch Luca and the Lakers go from the six seed about two weeks ago to the number two C in the Western Conference. I want to ask a question to localize it a little bit. Okay. Has there been something, because I think the term I would use if I was a Maverick fan, and Dallas is not known for a big Dallas Maverick culture. Let's be really honest here. It's about 95% cowboys and 5% everything else.

But they have obviously a vocal minority that are just, I'll use the term seething. They just, they are beside themselves. Have we ever in Houston sports history been seething about something that one of our teams did? Seathing? I think everybody knows what the term seething means. I mean, just in thinking about you're shivering in your bed, you are angry at work. I mean, just butt Adam is moving the team.

that would be it. Yeah, because there was some sadness as part of it. When Akeem was traded, it was kind of time. Everybody knew he was done. Right. Nobody was like, no, you can't be a Raptor. You're going to go up there and score 25 points a game for five years. And then he didn't even lost.

With blood clots. Yeah. We were definitely seating when the owners left. But that was a slow... It was like a war of attrition. Yeah, that was a bloodletting a little bit. That was... Oh, Bob Lanier can't go.

it along with Bud Adams. Bud Adams threatening to go to Jacksonville. Then you tear up the scoreboard in the dome, and then you had more seats, and then the team wasn't doing well, and then you had the game in Buffalo, and then you had half the people going, you know what, if you can go find a better deal, go somewhere else. We're not going to sell our

souls to a team. It's never been to the Super Bowl. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it wasn't a direct hit. I'll give you one that I'm not sure if you think it qualifies. Sure, go ahead. It happened last year. The Houston Astros. The Kukuchi trade.

people were upset. Maybe it wasn't as large scale as somebody. It's a smaller scale. It's not as large scale as like the Luca thing. But people were pissed. Because the Joey Loporffito mess was just driving people. Joey Lopatito's going to the Isle of Fame. What are you doing?

Dana Brown, you're out of your mind. Yeah, F in mind Lopifido's a god. G-A-W-D. Yeah, I would say to a much smaller extent, but people did. lose their blank. Like, I can tell you this, we should have booked marked every one of the Astro's. Overreactions?

Well, it was, well, it might have been the all-time overreaction. Oh, here's a good one from H-town, Lilo, or L-E-L-O, whatever. Hopkins trade. Seathing. One hundred percent seething. We were in disbelief first.

Complete shock. Let me tell you, that's, Rossi, that's, that's, that's that, that's a plant's the Cacucci move. Yeah, for sure. That was bigger. Because we were seething on the air. We were in disbelief on the air. Like, you got a second round pick and a broken down running back?

Broken down. David Johnson, broken down. Texan eternalist. Well, maybe I change the scenery. Maybe the offensive line. No, he's beat up. He's three yards of carry, maybe. Good times.

Yeah. See, that's it. I asked somebody to trump the seating that we had when the Astro where the Texans moved DeAndre Hopkins. Did he retire after the game this year? I don't think so. Did I see that? I'm making that.

Oh, he did? I think he did retire. No, I'm seeing this. He's just a free agent still. Well, his best days are behind him. I will still say in the history of me watching receivers, he's not a Hall of Famer. He's a Hall of very good.

But he may be... What? I have to look up. How many Pro Bowls is it? Let me finish my... Go ahead. He is the best 50-50 guy I've ever seen play. Yeah.

Contested catch. Yeah. You go up and go, you want to sky for up. You want to throw a ball up. He saved many a quarterback in this town with his ability to just go up and out-jump any of the cornerbacks or safety that were on him. Yeah, all very good probably.

Five-time Pro Bowl. You're trying to sell me, you're just going to... No, I'm just laying it out. Three-time first-team all-pro. That's more impressive me than the five-time Pro Bowl. Ooh, that's pretty good. But no. Do you think all the teams that he went to

in his career hurt his cause a little bit? Yeah, but I mean, I feel like all receivers do that. I mean, any great players for the most part. 1114, sports talks, 790. We have callers on the line. Is there any other move in Houston sports history that has had you seething like we had DeAndre Hopkins seething? That is really good. 713-212-5-790.

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Oh my gosh. I'm just getting some funny texts. The world of which you live in. Okay. 713. I'm sorry. I don't mean to speak in that way. We had a call, but we dropped.

If you want to get in, 7-1-3-21-2-5. Do we have the audio? It's worthy of playing once or twice a year on the whole DeAndre Hopkins thing. Do we not? We have that song. Oh, gosh.

I don't know. Maybe. We lost. I'll go look for it. top in audio that is that we've had some interesting moments live on air with things

frankly 18 gets more benefit of that than we do when it comes to these massive trades and whatnot but that was pretty incredible for us. For those that don't know that haven't with us we were on the air when the DeAndre Hopkins trade got made between the Texans and the Cardinals part one of it was us just finding out that DeAndreondry

Hopkins got traded and I kept saying Ross well we better get a major hallback in return, much of draft picks, a bunch of players. And then part two of the hysteria was the fact that the Texans didn't get much in return. A pick swap, a second round pick, and David Johnson was part of it. So it was, that was the gift Rossi that kept on giving for us for months. Yeah, we got to talk about Bill O'Brien was. We got to talk about that for a while.

Do we need something like that? We're kind of the dog days of sports, and we're trying to move things around a little bit of a variety of things. We need some, we don't want earth-shattering moments around these. How do you have this, Connor? So resourceful. Texans are getting picks. They're buying draft picks.

This happens all the time with major league baseball players, except that you don't do draft picks. You pay for prospects. And that's what the Texans, they better be paying for draft picks. And this goes to the line of why DeAndre Hopkins' name has been brought up in trade conversations. They need draft picks badly.

Oh, oh, no. What are we got now? What? What? What? What? What? What?

Hit the breaking news center. What? This can't be true. Adam Schaefter. What? No! No! No!

The Texans are trading DeAndre Hopkins to the Arizona Cardinals. Okay, it better be a lot of draft capital. Holy smokes. It's got to be a lot of draft capital. It wasn't. Oh. What? That's all me.

What? Why? I didn't mean an interrupt you. There we go. We're going to hear Larry B. Tunsel and Deshawn Watson locked up long term pretty quickly here. DeAndre Hopkins is an Arizona Cardinal. What?

Lee smokes. Listen to our voices. I don't even know what to say. Folks. We have microphones in here. There is very bad in our business. I'm stunned. I'm shocked.

Bamboozled. You better begin the entire draft class. I mean, I'm telling you, it's got to be a lot. What? DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth round pick go to the cards for David Johnson and a second round pick. This is John McLean. DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth round pick. Go to the cards for.

David Johnson and a second round pick this year and a fourth round pick next year. That's it. That's it. That's it. Listen to me. You people that continue to be supporters in the Texas. What the hell is that? You just gave away the best receiver in football

for a broken down running back and a second round pick? Line. People! Listen to me. If you are something the Texan on Twitter or you You're a Texan fan for life. Or you're anything with the word texting in your avatar.

What the hell? Okay, I'm going to read this again. Make sure I'm not missing something on this. DeAndre Hopkins in a fourth round pick, go to the Cardinals for David Johnson in a second round pick this year and a fourth round picnic. What? That was our Luca moment, Ross.

That was what we looked before Dallas Luked. Well, yeah. But honestly, Dallas is worse. Dallas is worse. It's a bigger scale. It's going to be ultimately a much bigger scale. But that's as close as we got. By the way, a lot of people, our friend Christy, send us a tweet,

when Bud fired Bum Phillips. That's a pretty good one. That's a real good one. We were seething, Ross. Seathing. I'll take your word for it. I was teething. You weren't even teething.

You were, I don't want to say what you were. I'm telling you, we've had, look, we've had our ups and downs as a Houston sports community. But, and it is funny that it's happening to us in the world of sports for a team. It's four hours north of town that really has a good fan base, but not spectacular. But people are not on the edge of their seats for Dallas Maverick stuff. But they, and the reason we brought this up is because not only are the Lakers, playing better basketball, but the Mavericks announced yesterday that they're raising season ticket prices on average of 8%.

How bullsy is that? Why do sports teams do such a miserable job in marketing? Because here's the thing. The number one thing you can do to market a sports team is just win. Look, the Rockets did a great job of having all the bells and whistles of, hey, Margarita Mondays and Two for Tuesdays and Hot Dogs. Wednesdays and buy one ticket to get another. But if you've got Christian Wood coming out and playing major minutes,

no one's going to go see that. And nobody did. You know what I mean? You have to ultimately win. But the Mavericks are triple downing. They first of all move a, quote-unquote, generational player. Secondly, those that wear Fire Nico shirts have Mark Cuban swearing at them and getting kicked out of the arena.

and then on top of that, hey, everybody, we're going to raise our prices 8% for next year. And Kyrie Irving just tore his ACL. Go buy your season tickets now. I mean, if we were teaching a sports marketing class, or for that matter, any marketing class, you couldn't butcher any worse than the Dallas Mavericks today. It's pretty, this is,

I would almost feel for Mous fans, but then I know for they're from Dallas and they're Cowboys fans, so I don't. Yeah, I don't feel, I mean, I don't feel sorry for me. I don't feel sorry for them at all. All right, let's do some gut feelings, Rossi. 713, 212, 579, 7190. 7132-1-2-5-7-9-0.

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Make yourself sound smart on a major market radio show. Lord it knows it doesn't take much to beat us when it comes to intellect. 713-212-2-5-790. Time now for gut feelings here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross, how do we do last week? Let's see, Matthew. You said Rockets win their next two, which I think they did. Well, that would have been Tuesday, Wednesday,

a Milwaukee, San Antonio. Yes, that's a win. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Good for you. We're proud of you. Thank you. You also said the Texans trade up in the first round.

to be determined, yeah. Although I don't feel nearly as strong about that as I did say last week when I said that. Hmm, okay. Well, you know, NFL.com's Mansmerline had the Texans trading up for Kelvin Banks to tackle. And he's usually plugged into the Texans. Do you think, you think Mans is bit stealing for me? No, zero percent chance. Sorry.

Yeah, I'm sorry. It's fine. I just, to me, I don't know Nick Nick is so close to the vest Not like the sweater vest he always wears But just the vest in general He likes trading up

He just like trading up But he you know Maybe yeah I'll stay with that I'll stay with it He's gonna try to trade up Texans are in win now mode That was the reasoning from Mance Merline I got you

Which they are So if they find somebody they really love And they want to do it now It would make sense to do it for somebody Like Kelvin Banks The tackle slash guard Depending on who you talk to out of the University of Texas.

All right. And then you have Lance McCullors, Jr. not throwing on a mound until, or I guess in a game. In a game until May 15th. Yeah, I feel good about that. And thank you, Dr. Thomas, for that one, that assessment. You know what?

I did go to WebMD for that. No, you did. I had the Rockets winning their next two as well. I had a defensive interior taken by the Texas in the draft at some point, maybe two. Okay. And I went with wide receiver in the first round. I like that a lot.

And I just said Lance McCullors Jr. contributes on the field for 25. That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with, but I'll still accept it because he hasn't pitched. Some people are saying he doesn't. You know what I wasn't realizing, though, when I made that and I did realize it the other day. Do you know how old Lance McCuller's Jr. is? 30. 31. Oh, my God.

Can you believe that? He's done quite well for himself. He's 31 and hadn't pitched in two years. When you say that out loud? Well, he's gotten $34 million to not pitch a single major league inning. Look, he's hurt. I mean, I get it. It's not his fault.

He wants to be out there. He wants to be out there, but the body is selling him two different things. Let's just say realizing he was that old made me a little more shaky in my gut feeling. But I'll stick with the one from last week. All right, good. Good for you. And this is all I have written down for Connor D. McGovern. Mazoo makes the sweet 16.

By the way, why didn't Connor D. McGovern bring up 90,000 people at Ohio Stadium over the weekend for that Columbus outdoor hockey game? The stadium series? Yeah. What about it? You should have been bragging about that. Like, your league is so progressive and going to college stadiums and putting huge crowds out there. I mean, that was a big deal. It's not the first time they've done that.

In Columbus, though? I don't know about in Columbus, but I mean, obviously they have the Winter Classic every year, which is an outdoor game, and then they've started doing the stadium series. I would love to see an outdoor hockey game. I would actually go out and sit in the weather, 15 degree weather for that to happen. I'm good. 15? You would not. You're a liar.

I want to go to a Winter Classic game, but I also, if you're sitting way back there at a football stadium, it's going to be kind of hard to see. So you're saying, if I got you tickets for an outdoor game in, say, at Lambo Field, you? you wouldn't go. No, I am going to go. I'm just saying. You can't even see the puck when you're in the first row. Okay, that's not true. Well, he's not far off. He's exaggerating a little. Little, not much. Not much for an embellisher, but a little bit of an embellishment.

Okay. All right, boys. This week, what do we got? Let's go. Oh, I thought you were starting us off, Matt. I'll start us. Rockets were the next two games. You're going to have Alex Breggman 45 home runs, I think, based on your takes from yesterday. Here we go. Two are at the top. Rockets win tonight. Rockets win Thursday in New Orleans. There you go.

Boom, Bada-bibing, butto-b-bubo. What about, why don't you go ahead and go for the sweep? The home and home sweep. Oh, and home in New Orleans. Oh, yeah, I go, I'll put my name. Now what about my name on? No. Trino.

Godfilling. Okay. So everybody would think about this Oklahoma City thing, eh, it was just a blemish, you know, this is weird. Rest was good. I'll go, ff. The New Orleans, the pelicans are terrible. They are terrible.

I'm going to go, I'm going to throw in Monday's game against Orlando. What? And I'm going to go three and one. Oh, okay. That seems fair. I got you. Alex Bregman. OPS above 850 the month of April. Oh, please. No?

I won't like it to see it, but it could happen. You could go, yeah, okay. No, no, excuse me. I'm sorry, not 850, 7.50. Oh, okay. It's 100 points. I know. Oh, come on. But 800 is considered good. No, I can't imagine him having that.

8.50, let's go. You said he hit the ground running. No, no, no. I'm, uh, I'm, uh, I'm, sleep deprived, 750. Bregg's for life. Sleep deprived. Okay, 750. He hits 768 last year.

All right. Well, let's put the difference. Are you? Final word. A hundred. One of my favorite things to do is goading you in a different different. Fluster me. And it works every time.

It doesn't work. A whole. Love you. you. Alex Reckman over 800. NAPS. I haven't missed you

this week so far. That's fine. First of all, you haven't even been to a casino while you go to Nola. Oh, by the way, do you just Vemone me

some money, by the way, if you want me to get to North. Well, see, I wanted to, when the Cougars were 12 to 1, I was all in. Now they're like eight or nine to one.

Tell me what the odds are when you get there. I will, but I want you to have been some money. Okay. By the way, Astros are the day off.

And then some futures on the Longhorn's basketball to win the NIT. Oh my God. You want no part of that. What do you mean? The people's champs. You can't NIT until the NIT gets announced, my man. You can't assume something.

You can't do. There's no futures on the NIT right now. There is none right now. Oh, dang it. And if you are, if you, you know your program sucks if you're an NIT future. It's the people's tournament, Matt. It's not for all this prestige and these corporate cronies. It's for pride.

It's for basketball. It's for heart. The people's champion. ship the NIT. You keep selling that. 2019 NIT champs. All right.

What else we got? I don't know. Connum or Governor, what'd you say? I'll say Rockets win next four. Whoa! You're usually a negative Nancy when it comes to winning streaks. No, yeah, I'm going to say next four. Alpi scores at least 25 in one of those contests.

If he plays. If he plays. How's his back? And then pickleball is an event for the 2028 L.A. Olympics. He's going out here to tell the truth yesterday. You are fading me, aren't you? I see what you're doing.

It could happen, I guess. We'll check with you in four years. Let me ask you this. And I'm not trying to be anti-pickleball. Because look, people in this traveling group play pickleball, so I want to be very careful how I walk on these days. So you're saying you want to be anti, but you just don't want to get beat up by Coach Udocha.

Bingo. Do you think it's athletically good enough to be an Olympic sport? It's for octogenarians. But I mean, table tennis is. I mean, badminton is. I mean, I guess it would be run along. I don't know. Those guys, I feel like you might move more in a table tennis game.

Certainly if you're playing, do they even have singles? Pickleball? I've only seen doubles. I've only seen doubles myself, too. By the way, can we play some badminton soon? Why? That feels like you can hit the shuttle cock really hard. And you can move around a little bit.

You get a little sweat going. You throw your bracket around. you hit that shuttlecock and try to get it over the net. It feels like that can be more athletic than, say, a pickleball. On a plate, Connor. On a plate. See that one on Friday. That's what it's called, right?

A shuttlecock, right? Mm-hmm. What other names of it is it called? I don't know. Okay. They have a certain amount. Isn't it a certain type of feather and a certain amount of number? It's like, is it like 13?

goose feathers or something? You're asking a wrong person. All right, here's what. Hmm. This says 16. 16 feathers on an official shuttle. Shuttle. I guess, I think we were younger. I think all of our coaches in elementary school just called it a shuttle.

Yeah. Because they didn't want the Right. You don't want the kid snickering. The bad version of coming into play. Hey, buddy, let's go hit that. Hey, do you want to touch my shuttle? All right. Danny, West Houston, 11, 42 on 7-90. Danny, what is in your gut this week?

Who's going to win it all? They go nine deep. They shoot 40% from three-point line, and the teams so experience, no moment's going to be too big for them. Perfect example last night. Dampson doesn't care if they go 0-4-7, do they play defense? They play defense as good as they did last year. They're more talented on offense, and they win it off.

Your mouth, the basketball God's ears. Wow. It would be exercising the demons of decades of failure. Decades. I mean, doesn't every school have decades of failure? Yeah. I mean, it would basically, and Calvin Samson, I can tell you this with absolute certainty, would never want to hear the term five cinnamon to jama ever mentioned in Houston ever again if they win a national championship. How many programs have won as went to as many final fours as the Cougars without a championship?

We've been to what? Six or seven more? Yeah, well, there's three in a row in the 80s. You know what? The one with Samson, it's four. How many before that? I don't even know. I guess I should know, but I don't.

Let's see, 67, 68? Yeah, six. Six. Two in the 60s, three in the 80s and one in 2021 or 22. That's got to be close to some kind of record. The program's been snag bit, Matt. Let's be honest. I like it.

Snake bit. That's a good way to put it. Snake bit. All right, let's take a time out. If you guys got any gut feelings, let us know right now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. And Ross, do I understand that the news and then we have a song we're going to play today? Is that right? Oh, we had somebody that wanted to sing. Oh, I thought it was a song. We were going to rush and flush, but he's not on hold anymore.

Oh, well, that person wants to call back. we can do a rush or flush at 1220, don't you think? All right, whoever that was it? Was it Granky guy's that what it was? Is that Errant Bay City. Oh, that guy's a terrible dork. I mean, he's a great kid and everything, but he's... Most final fours without an NCAA championship.

Oh, don't do it. Don't even say it. Don't even say it. Houston Cougars. By far? No, Illinois has five. We have six. Oklahoma has five. Kansas State and LSU with four.

Oh. Time to exercise those demons. 1144, Sports Talk 790. More gut feelings. Let us know what you got in your gut. 713-212-5-79. The Matt Thomas Show, With Ross, continues on Sports Talk 790. All right, we're going to interrupt gut feelings here because a friend of the show,

Eric in Bay City, who has terrific, I should say, takes on Zach Granky has created a song for us and we never want to quash creativity on the Matt Thomas show with Ross so Eric in Bay City is with us here Eric first of all thank you for joining us and good morning to you. What made you decide hey I'm going to sit down, put pen to paper

and write a song about a former astro pitcher? I came home sick today and so I'm sitting here eating some salt, eating some drinking some sprite trying to fill my time with a little something, and so this is what I did. The floor is yours, my friend. All right, here goes. The Astros rotation is looking kind of stinky.

We better go out and bring back Zach Granky. Zach is a legend, and that's no bib. He's not a piece of garbage like the McRibb. Zach's fastball might not break any glass, but he could teach a pitching psychology class. We got to bring back. Back, Zach. Bring back, Zach.

Lance Bertman, best Astros hitter ever. Alex Bregman, the Hall of Fame a never. Alex Bregman is a cheating piece of trash. Alex Bregman left us for just a little bit of cash. I got an idea that's kind of funny of what we can do with that leftover money. We can bring back, Zach. Bring back, Zach. You guys like it?

it's not a question whether we like it it's whether or not the city Houston likes it they love it in Bay City Bay City it's all Bay City can talk about you mean at the golden corral that's what they're talking about in Bay City is this song is this song they shut down the corral a long time ago

unfortunately well Eric I'm sorry not feeling better by the way the Saltines and Sprite works absolutely we're going to put you on hold because it is time for an insta poll it's been a while it has been a while it has been a while with them on that pole 713 212 5 790 713 212 5 790 719 Eric in Bay City's Zach Granky rap song I simply rush it or flood go ahead sorry it's a rushing or flush it the name of the song is Bring back Zach.

Bring back Zach. Here's how it works. If you're not familiar with the rush or flush, you simply call in. We don't even screen you. 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. First votes, either rush it or flush it. First to four wins on the Instapol.

As we've said, Ross, for many, many years, the Insipole never lies. No, it doesn't, Matt. It does not. Let's go to Craig on line one. Craig, rush it or flush it? Flush it. He trashed McRib. Ouch. You trash the McGraths are going to come at you. They did.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Mike and Beaumont. Mike, rush it or flush it? Flush it. O' and two. Eric and Basin, standby will be going back to you momentarily to see you get a reaction from the audience.

Andrea on 790. Andrea, rush it or flush it? Oh, rush it. Oh, the ladies like it. Bring back, Zach. I say, bring back, Zach. Two votes, no. One yes.

Joe and Deer Park, rush it or flush it? Flusch it. There's three. It takes one more. he's down 3-1 Mike 790 Mike rush it or flush it on bring back Zach can't say that I agree with Matt and Ross

but I'm going to say creativity there Rush it's a second vote Three to two three to two There have been deficits in sports been to overcome three one Troy on 790 Troy Rush it or flush it Definitely flush it without a doubt Oh six games

Let's go back to Eric. Eric, you may be doing very well in Bay City, but the rest of Houston thinks it sucks. Oh, well, I appreciate y'all for putting it out there. I'll work on it. Bring back, Zach. I say, bring back, Zach.

It's kind of catchy than I thought it would be, honestly. Let's see, Pedro tweets in a gif of someone flushing a toilet. ATX Hobo Girl has tweeted, holy bleep, flush that? All right, let's turn the poll off. Thank you, Eric. By the way, can I... I got to tell you something that just happened here in the hotel room.

I don't think we need to know this, Matt. Well, it brings... I'm talking about flushing it. I went to the bathroom during the break. See, like I said, we didn't need to know this. Go ahead. I think the people in the room next of me are having relations. What makes you think that, Matt?

Because I went in there and I heard a squeak. waking bed. First of all, mad props for a little 1250 Eastern time lovemaking session. It's a little afternoon delight. Because the squeak is gone.

So obviously they're not there for lengthy. It was a little wham-bam. Thank you, ma'am. It was a quick. Maybe they're in a convention here in town and they had to go up and change. You know how sometimes you change clothes to get into more formal outfit or you had a little lunch break?

You want to go upstairs, check your email and whatnot. Sometimes you've got to check something else. I love you, baby. There is no more squeak in my bathroom. So the room next to me at this very nice posh Indianapolis downtown hotel, I hope that it worked out as well for you. It worked out for most people that are having literally newers. This song is such a jam-laws.

If you had a love-making 70s song, Epic Run, of this is the top of the jam right rossie gets the people going let me take people in 1977 did crazy things of this song they just did i was five so that doesn't really make it applicable for me but you know 23 year olds 24 year old number one single july 10th 1976. Oh, 76. I was off here. Okay. This was the number one song in America.

God, I love the 70s. I'd never heard it until Anchorman. Great song. All right, it's time for the news at noon. Well, we have moved along. We had a rush it or flush. Yes. People having relations in the room next to me.

Yes. A little afternoon delight. A little afternoon delight. And then we have the rockets almost beautiful. beating. Would you say it when the G League Rockets, was it? It was pretty close, right? Basically. Pretty close. I don't want to say almost beating. It's not like they had a late lead. Yeah. The Cougars won again yesterday. Yes, they did. And we have some other headlines to get to. All part of the news at noon. Next here on Sports Talks, I want to tell you right now about Big City Wings.

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12, 3 at H-Town. What's happening at Lunch Timers? Welcome to the third of four hours. of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 790. Every day and around this time, we ask you to sit back, listen to the top headlines today, as Rossville Reale presents to you the news at noon. Well, yes, Matt, you got a whole lot of stuff going on to the world of sports here in Houston, Texas, including last night the first half of a back-to-back, the Houston Rock.

It's quite short-handed against the Oklahoma City Thunder. That means other guys had to step up. That's including Reed Shepherd. Shepherd right side. Screen set by Tate. Reed's going to try another three-pointer. It's deep and it's up and it's in. Back-to-back deep triples off the hands of the rookie from Kentucky.

Ten point game now, 112, 102. By the way, Ross, we probably need to not clip that for Friday. Part of that was Friday. Just saying. What do you mean? Play that a cut. Oh, I miss. I'm sorry I was checking my notes.

I must have missed, let's see, is this clippable? Connor? Shepherd right side. Screen set by tape. Reed's going to try another three-pointer. It's deep and it's up and it's in. Back-to-back deep triples off the hands of the rookie from Kentucky. Yeah.

Ten point game now. That works. 12102. It's deep and it's up and it's in. Says Matt Thomas. No comment. You don't have to comment, but how about let's get EMA Udoca's comment on the night from Reed Shepard, 25 points, 10 of 17 from the field, also had five

assists, couple of rebounds. Coach Udoka saying Reed looking more and more comfortable out there. It was great. I think you saw him right in front of your eyes kind of getting to a rhythm. Be become more aggressive, making the right play, getting downhill, getting the shots off. And so it was good to see that guy's got an opportunity and him and Cam and some other guys really took advantage of it. But it's good to see him be more aggressive.

and I'll compete on both ends. 51 points for Shea Gildjus Alexander on 18 of 30 shooting, a perfect 10 of 10 from the free throw line. A couple of those from technical fouls. But anyways, also had seven assists, five rebounds. He and Jalen Williams proved to be too much for the Rockets who got close late, but Coach Udoka electing to shy away from starters like Jalen Green and Japari Smith Jr. there in the fourth.

Young guys couldn't get it done. And we're on to Indianapolis. That's where I am now. How's the weather over there? It's, I want to say in the 50s, I'm not leaving the hotel, so I don't really know. Okay, yeah, that's per usual. Well, it's back to back plus a four-hour radio show. You know, Ross, I woke up.

I pulled a Ross today. I woke up at 915 local time, or 1015 local time. How was it before that? Yeah, but that's I'm saying. Usually you're 45 minutes before the show starts. That's not true. That's not true. That's not true.

You're grown up. They call me Mr. Show Prep. They do. They call you Mr. Advanced Notice. All right, Matt, well, let's keep it moving. Also, in the news at noon, the program with the most final four appearances. Oh, my God. You're terrible. Without a national championship.

They're on a mission this year, Matt. To erase decades of disappointment. The Cougars with them, is this correct? The most Big 12 wins in the league history. Yeah. Robert Stacriar. Pryor dribbles the baseline. Pryor into the front court.

There's the horn. And the Cougars win. Houston becomes the first team in Big 12 history to win 18 conference games. Yeah. 65-59 the final. Dynamite stuff there from Helvin Hayes, and there's your winning call. Yeah.

Elvin was Chuck. He's a big checkler. That's fine. one of my close friends. Give me a bullets autographed jersey with his name on it. Really? Amazing. Oh, yeah. Wonderful.

26 and 4, your Houston Cougars. 18 and 1 of the Big 12th. It's pretty darn good. Pretty pretty good. All right. Let's keep it moving on the Houston, dude. Are you eating? No, I'm taping stuff.

Oh, my God. But you know, Craig's bringing me lunch. Isn't that nice? That's very nice, Matt. You know, a lot of radio TV broadcasters for teams don't get along. Craig and I get along great. That's good. That's great. Or maybe you both secretly hate each other and neither one wants to admit it.

There has been some of that, but not with him. Okay, that's great. All right. Well, some other news in the world of basketball, Matt. Kyrie Irving has torn his ACL in his left knee. The 32-year-old sustained the injury late in the first quarter of the Mavericks loss to the Sacramento Kings on Monday night.

Of course, he will be out for the the remainder of the season. So he's out for the year. Anthony Davis had a started to have a breakout game against the Rockets, then had a non-contact ab injury. Luca Donge has just traded away. And the Dallas Mavericks are raising their season ticket

prices by 8%. How's that going to go, by the way? Any guesstimation? I'm going to guess that it's not going to go so hot. Yeah, they were getting beat up by the Kings last night and there was apparently a mass exit at end of the third quarter. and everybody was shooting the film of it. I did.

I did. I did. I did. I did. Put out your promotional video for buying season tickets for next year. That almost looked planned. It was so bad. But I don't,

I guess it wasn't. No, I don't think it was. I think it just, you plan on doing it when your team sucks after three quarters. Yeah. Yeah, they were terrible. All right,

Matt, let's keep things moving along. With some more news. You have nothing planned to you. The Jets are planning to cut ties. with Devante Adams in the coming days. Should the Houston Texans be interested? Oh, don't do this.

What? Don't, don't be a Texan fanboy on Twitter. Please, can we stop doing that? You know exactly what I mean. You don't want the Texans to be interested in Devante Adams. Is that what you're saying, Matt? Past his prime. Dun, said, Finito.

Well, he had a good game against the Texans. By the way, late breaking news on the Rockets. Jack McVeigh, and Nafali Dante been sent back to the G-Ling. Oh, dang. Can I give you and I just don't get it? Please. How does Jack McVeigh have an NBA contract?

He's very unathletic. He's on a two-way contract, but still. You know, he went two for two last time. He took two baseline threes and made both of them. So he's telling you to shut your bum ass up, man. All right, Matt, quick offbeat story for you. Love him, love him. Now, have you heard, of course, as the Gulf of Mexico has been rebranded

the Gulf of America? Well, according to some people, not everybody, right? Well, Matt, your good friend, Dan Patrick. My former boss. Has announced on social media, he intends to go to the Texas Senate and work with lawmakers to pass a resolution switching the New York strip to the Texas strip. Now, that's a great call, actually. Why? Because, first of all, I was team rich. rib-eye for the longest time.

But I've gone to the strip and had a great time with it. I have no problem boasting our state over New York State. So I will go with you, Stan Patrick. I stand with you. I look forward to tomorrow night in New Orleans, having a nice Texas strip at dinner somewhere.

Hmm. I thought you could also call it a St. Louis strip as well. No, that's only with the baby back ribs. I didn't say St. Louis ribs. They do say St. Louis Rips.

I know. Ross, how could you be against this? Why would you want to give New York any more props than they already have? Who cares? It's been named New York Strip for ages. Why would we change it? I don't care. Oh, I'm sorry.

We're changing baseball automatic ball strikes, and why can't we change Strip? That is one of the worst analogies you've made in the history of the show. In the history. I knew it was. You're going to get that reaction. You're terrible. Jeez.

I thought it was pretty good. I'm sorry. It's a Kansas City strip. That's what it was. not St. Louis. Isn't the New York strip also known as the Kansas City Strip? Okay, let's call it the Texas Strip. Who cares?

Love it. But yeah, I'm with you. New York Strip is a half. Look, Filet Mignon has no fat. Ribbi is like all fat. Like, I love a good ribby, but you got to fight the ribby. You got to pick and choose. You got to hack it up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The New York Strip, it's the happy medium to me. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Didn't you and I have dinner with strips one night? I'm normally a strip guy. Now it depends. I'll get a ribby here and there. But yeah, stripper ribby.

Yeah. Filet mignon, you're wasting your time. It doesn't have the same flavor. There's a reason why a lot of places wrap it in bacon. If your steak needs to get wrapped in bacon, it ain't got flavor. You're spitting facts. I know, Maddie. I'm with you.

But there you go. Your guy, Dan Patrick wants to rebrand it as the Texas strip. I mean, yeah, I know our school system needs improvements. I know our roads are better and whatnot. But I think right now the focus on the important stuff. The name of people's minds is renaming stakes. I'm off. I'm in. This is it. This is an easy one. I am team Texas strip. Massive economic issues. Issues with, as you said, roadways and education,

wars, bombing countries. But let's just go ahead and rebrand the, let's get sent the Texas Senate spending time on rebranding what a steak is called. Two greatest things that Dan Patrick's ever done. One, find me as a talent. And number two, renaming a steak. Wonderful. That's the news of it. Thank you, Matt. Back to you, and then back to you again at 1230 for NFL Rewind. We've got a few little nuggets to get to on the world of the National Football League.

Wonderful. Coming up in 15 minutes or so. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. By the way, Travis Scott Ross, legitimate hurt Cody Rhodes during the end of the Elimation Chamber pay-per-view over the weekend.

Oh, no. That's what I'm saying. If you're going to get into wrestling, you've got to play by the rules, meaning don't hurt somebody. Mm-hmm. And follow the script. Apparently, according to Dave Meltzer, who is a wrestling reporter, Cody Rhodes reportedly suffered a busted ear drum and black eye during the elimination chamber part where Travis Scott went in there and beat the crap, or allegedly beat the crap out of Cody Rhodes.

Travis Scott busted his eardrum? Yeah, and with a black guy too. Hmm. That's unfortunate. I'm sorry, we couldn't squeeze that into the news at noon. Well, you need to. Why was Travis? Is that how you sell records interfering in an amazing sports?

entertainment event known as the Elimination Chamber? Maybe he's just a big wrestling fan. He's been around wrestling for a while, right? A lot of celebrities are involved in wrestling. Carl Malone wrestled, Mike Tyson, Shaq. Okay. Oh, thank God. You got to one that wasn't a rapist. David Arquette.

Who else has been involved in... David Arquette? Yeah, he was a former WCW champion for a short time. The actor? Yes. Don't even ask. It was part of the reason why WCW isn't around because they had a horrific storywriting. That guy that married Courtney Cox? Yes, probably win for him.

Big time win for him. That's an all-timer. You go to a grave with a smile on your face with that one. Have we done a fantasy five of Biggest overmatch? No, you've talked about it, but it's like, how do you vote on it? It's weird. Oh, because you're being rude essentially five minutes. It's not rude.

It's just like, how do you discern one from the other? Like for me, the all-time, not over your skis, what would be, I'll kick your coverage. It would have to be. It would have to be Lyle Lovett marrying Julia Roberts, right? That's up there. That's the all-timer. Arquette and Courtney Cox absolutely has got to be in that short list. I thought it was going to be Anna Nicole Smith and that guy in a wheelchair.

Yeah, it's true. I never quite thought of it that way. How long were they married? Were they even married a year? I don't think he was that old. I think he died shortly thereafter. Do you know who will win this contest if they do get married? Shane Gillis and whatever hot PCs with?

Nope. Somebody that's in sports. Okay. Is it Bill Belichick? Bill Belichick and his girl, yeah. Yeah, I guess. What are there? Are they 50 years difference?

More. No, we're around there. Round there. Yeah, around 50. But it's at least she could be his grandfather. He could be her. grandfather. Easily.

He's 72. What is she? 25, 26? And that's young for a grandfather? No, it's not. 72 is not old, young for a grandfather. I'm talking about for having a 20, like,

most people do not have grandkids at 46, unless you got married at young age, and then your child got married at a young age. He could have a beer. Okay. Could very easily be. He could be a great grandfather who really want to

squeeze it. Ooh, that's creepy. Anything that Hugh Heffner was married to would be, would be an all-time. It's a 48-year-old age gap. She is 24. He is 72. Oh, yeah.

That definitely could be a, that's definitely grandfather-ish. Ooh, that's creepy. That is absolutely creepy. Well, oh, Billy Joel for, over Chris, with Christy Brinkley? Is that an all-timer?

I don't know. I mean, he was more handsome back in the day. Well, but she was like, young Billy Joel. She was a supermodel, like, Isn't she rather tall? Like, isn't she, like, significantly taller than Billy Joel is? Maybe, probably.

Well, if he's short. What does Billy Joel say? Before he started drinking pine sall, he was, you know, he's probably looking a little better. Billy Joel's 5'5. Okay. Christy Brinkley height is. She's 71, by the way. Oh, my gosh, she's 71.

Google says she's just 5'9. It's fine. But that's still, for a guy to a girl, four inches bigger? No. That's significant. That is significant. 1224. By Luis sent me a tweet.

Says Travis Scott was the theme song of Elimination Chamber. I did not know that. I didn't watch it, so I'm only going off of what I saw on video. But thank you for that. You were even watching when the heel turn happened? No, I was busy. Oh, some wrestling fan you are. You didn't even watch.

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Baylor University Mac Rhodes is now in charge of the college football playoff he is the chair yeah and he just keeps moving on up. He's made a lot of moves. He was, before he was the AD at Houston, he was at some small school. Akron. I just put, I didn't know that. I pulled it up.

Okay, I was going to say, he went from Akron. Yes. To Houston. Mm-hmm. To Missouri. And he's like, I got to get the hell out of Columbia. He's only there two years. He was hardly there. And then he goes to Baylor from Missouri. I would have thought

staying in Missouri would have been a better play because of the SEC money, but Baylor Cash is probably not bad. I was going to say, he's got a pipeline that Dr. McLean and build him a stadium, so good for him. Other people on this committee, Mark D'Antonio,

remember the former head coach at Michigan State and at Cincinnati? He is on there. Damon Evans, who's the athletic director at the University of Maryland. Ivan Maysel, who was their former sports writer for the Atlanta Constitution Sports Illustrated, the Dallas Morning News and ESPN. Chris Masario, he's the AD at Middle Tennessee State.

What's he doing there? I don't know. Middle Tennessee State's never going to be in the college football playoff. And some guy named Wesley Walls, a former All-American tied-in from Old Miss. I think he was a Dallas cowboy, if I'm not mistaken. Okay. It's not bad. So Mack Rhodes is she going to stump for the Big 12?

somebody has to or obviously disrespect it constantly in what way it's a meritocracy nobody wants to play us yeah that's because you're not any good no it's because we we steal your lunch money in your games

oh really who's the best big 12 program in football right now uh can't exactly your silence speaks volumes uh tc u sula used to be Baylor used to be

euse is going to be Hey. Stop. Respect my conference. Respect America's conference. Yeah, Arizona State gave Texas a run for their money with Cam Scadaboo. Yeah, by the way, Texans did talk to Cam Scadaboo while he was in Indianapolis and they said, Cam, I'm Nick Casario.

It's nice to meet you. Would you like to be a backup fullback for us? Yeah, he refused to run the 40. Wonder what kind of time is. There's a reason. He's been eating all those cheeseburgers is the reason why he ain't running the 40. he's got great contact balance, as the kids say, Matt. Ross, I just don't think if you ever say no to something,

it means you're trying to hide something. Do you not agree with me? I mean, it depends. In the case of the quarterbacks, I get it, because you have way more to lose than gain. Right. Especially with receivers that you're not on the same page with, if you want to wait.

Yeah. But as far as running the 40, normally... That's a no-frey. I figure they would do it. Especially for... Okay, I'll put it this way. for a guy who's not thought of as a surefire first round pick or anything like that if you're like ashton gentee and you're already going to go on the top 10 and your tape

speaks for itself and you're like i don't need to run you guys need to take me then he has all the leverage cam scadaboo doesn't have that leverage he's trying to take what he should have done is piggybacked off that one game he had and turned it into an opportunity to move up the draft instead when you say no to the 40 time that means you're again i think you're hiding something uh all right let's get to the nfl rewind that'll be up next here on the program I'm about to tell you first about Scott Callahan and Associates. You know, sometimes things in life unexpectedly happen, and if they do, and they involve a car accident, an 18 winter wreck, a work injury, construction, or oilfield accident, or wrongful death through no fault of your own. That's why you have to call Scott Callahan and Associates at 7138889,000.

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We HelpTexis.com, principal office, Katie, Texas. More Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. right now is the time of the week where we do the NFL rewind. We take a look of things that are going around the NFL. Still a lot of news these days. It is a year-round news factory in the NFL.

And, well, we have a certain number of things to get to, starting with franchise tags. Some of them happening in some places. Some of them not happening in others. The Cincinnati Bengals. have placed the franchise tag on T. Higgins for the second straight year. T. Higgins announcing on X or Twitter or whatever you want to call it. Tag.

I guess he is it. Doesn't sound like he's very happy about it. Bingles later announcing the move, saying they did so with, quote, the intent of continuing to work toward a long-term deal in the Cincinnati with Higgins. franchise tender paying him $26.2 million for the 2025 season if he is unable to agree to a long-term deal with the Cincinnati Bengals. I wonder what the long-term implications that this are going to be as far as, well, the NFLPA, unfortunately, the three major sports is the weakest. But being able to franchise tag him for a second straight year, not allowing T. Higgins to reach free agency.

Now you do have to go up, I believe it's like 25% from one year to the next when it comes to franchise tagging somebody. So it's not like he's not getting anything. It's not the hugest slap in the face to be handed $26.2 million completely guaranteed. But not allowing them to test the free agent market two years in a row. One year of franchise tag, I guess makes sense. But it's not available in any other sport. Two years seems like a little much. Cincinnati expressing optimism.

They can get deals this done. I mean, they have to sign Higgins. They have to sign Jemar Chase. Defensive in T. Hendrickson had a big year for them. Joe Burroughs already making big money. It's interesting to see what's going down there on Cincinnati. Because we saw it last year. I mean, when T. Higgins was out or Jemar Chase,

when you didn't have both, Joe Burroughs production went down significantly. So T. Higgins, unfortunately, not hitting the free agent market. For teens that would be interested. What? Again. I'm sorry, Matt. How you doing, Matt?

I've been better. Okay. I'm trying to fast eat during a break of that was not smarter than to do that. We appreciate you. T. Higgins, Matt Thomas, you've been saying he's going to be a Houston Texan for like three years now. I know. But he will not be.

Nope. Elsewhere in the NFL, Sam Darnold, not franchise. tagged. We talked about this. I remember there was a certain host saying I was crazy to say that Sam Darnel was going to walk for the Minnesota Vikings. I thought it was going to get franchise tag, but they have said otherwise. They have said they will not franchise tag him.

They said they do hope to resign him actually. But I mean, it feels like other teams are going to be in the market. Whether it be the Jets, Giants, Raiders, Sam Darnel, 35 touchdown passes. if he does not end up back with the Minnesota Vikings, that would be the most touchdown passes by a quarterback in NFL history that was not retained the next year by their team.

Of course, J.J. McCarthy waiting in the wings for the Minnesota Vakins. How much is he going to get, you think? Is he going to get $30 million? I would have to, what was the Kirk Cousins deal? Who should bring up Kirk Cousins ever, right? Because all he doesn't get overpaid, where he goes. That's true, but

I mean, let's see. It was a four-year deal with the Falcons, but basically only two years of it. If four years, whoo! Oh, he ain't getting this. Four years 180 mil? No chance.

$50 million signing bonus, 100 mil guaranteed for Kirk Cousins. For mid. Do you understand, Ross? That's mid. That's good. He's mid. He's mid. He's not, he's never, how many playoff wins does he have? I don't know if he has any. I mean, God, he has made so much.

I mean, he may be the all-timer of compensation for doing nothing but stat patting largely. I disagree. I think Kerr Croson's a little better than just a stat patter. Although last year in Atlanta, he was a disaster and got replaced by Michael Pinnock's. I stammer my statement. Okay. That's fine. He went 13 and 4 with the Vikings in 2.

2022. Yeah, and how's that ring he's wearing? What size is it? Let's see. He has one postseason victory. Ooh. Okay, don't even do that. Don't go though.

He ain't got no rings. He's garbage. He sucks. He's horrible. Dan Marino got no rings. He's terrible. No rings, no good. Whatever.

All right. Continue on. Okay. I will continue on, Matt. Did you see the story? I actually saved this from last week. for the NFL rewind. The NFL is considering

a changes to regular season overtime rules. Please explain. League executive Troy Vincent saying that Wednesday at the scouting combine of last week. Teams who receive the ball first in overtime winning 56.8% of the games from 1724. That's up from what it was before.

rules change. They could go with everyone gets the same overtime rules as in the playoffs when both teams get the ball no matter what. They also have considered extending the overtime period to 15 minutes.

There you go. That's my boy. That's why I love the NFL. You do? Yeah, they take my sage advice. I don't, and this is quirky on my part. Ladies and gentlemen, I apologize for this. I think 10 minutes is too short. I think you play a 15 one.

There were zero ties this year. Okay. Let's see. Last year. Zero ties last year. Yep. So they're getting resolved, obviously. Let's go to 2020.

There had to be some ties. Looks like there was two ties in 2022. So last three years, two ties total. And it's, in Ross, honestly, it's just quirky for me. I just like, I think you, I think you're going to play 50-minute quarter. If you're going to play an extra quarter to decide one, Miles will be 15 as well. I think it's for player safety is why they do it.

And there haven't been many ties. Probably right. There you go, Matt. All right, nicely done. Do you think they should go to a system where, like, the playoffs where both teams get the ball, no matter what? That would probably lead to more ties. It would take more time off the clock. I think if you do that, you have to add the five extra minutes.

Because what if some team takes eight minutes and 40 seconds off a drive? You're going to then penalize their team for only having a minute to want to do something? I mean, like, yeah, who knows? How many games go to overtime per week anyway? Maybe one, maybe two, maybe a week? Tops. Oh, by the way, something we've been talking about for a while. This is also in that same article.

I forgot I wanted to mention this. NFL planning to use its virtual measuring system to determine first downs in 2025. I think 2012 said this was too long for this to happen. I mean, this should have been done 10 years ago, 15 years ago. The tracking system notifies officiating instantly if a first down was gained after the ball is spotted by hand. So it's still hand spotting,

but it wouldn't be hand measuring. Yeah, the whole 10-yard chain thing seems antiquated at very best. Kimberly... Carty is a kid who would say. Yeah, you get out there with chains and markers like it was 1910. Yeah.

It's ridiculous. There you go, Matt. They're using the same ones that Sid Luckman used when he was playing in the NFL. Yes, he was, and Otto Graham and the boys. And jumped up. Excellent NFL Rewin. Ross, it was missed.

Thank you, Matt. It's a Tuesday staple of the show. Absolutely. All right. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to jump in. We have an hour and 50 minutes. This show has moved along fast today. I've been fairly entertained with the program.

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Ross, I didn't catch part of your NFL rewanted. Do you officially have the DeVante Adams been cut by the Jets? I did not. Okay, that came down within the last half hour. Yeah. We talked about it earlier about him going to be cut. It's official now. Yeah, it's official now.

So I'm sure all the Texan fan bloggers are like, let's go get DeVontan. Cuss and it's cussing. if you won't too. I'm just, you know what? If you're going to go get somebody, just resign Stefan Diggs, one-year deal, heavy incentives,

as long as he's reasonable on his guarantee for the year. You know what you got. I mean, DeBonte's been bouncing around from team to team to the last three years. He's 50% of the player he was two or three years ago. 11 games with the Jets, 850 yards, seven touchdowns.

Devante, Adam. at $20 million a year or Stefan Diggs at $12 million a year? Yeah, I wouldn't get any Devante Adams of business. I don't think that's in the DNA of Casario. Because remember when the trade was made for Stefan Diggs, he was still at a very high elite level. I mean, he had a little regression in his last year in Buffalo, but it wasn't like he would fall on off the map.

Now, granted, this injury he has now made him. have obviously taken some wear and tear off of his, turned out the tires here a little bit, but I just, Devontes moved a bunch of the last handful of years, and he's just going to cost a lot of money. Do you think why the receivers, Ross, don't know their value,

like overestimate their value more than any other position in sports? Hmm. Uh, no, I wouldn't put it. I wouldn't say that way. Because quarterbacks, we already kind of know what quarterbacks are getting, because the,

even for mid, quarterbacks are getting crazy money. We know that they're getting it. Yeah, I would say, I mean, they're probably fourth, right? Highest paid would be quarterbacks, then probably tackles and edge rushers in whatever order. And then probably receivers. They're getting paid a lot.

But they have kind of like the same shelf life of running backs. Although the difference is at least why receivers get paid big time money as compared to the running backs who don't. And I think it's I think it's a more valuable position than than running back is these days.

Like a dynamic number one wide receiver is harder to find than a number one running back. That's why the Texans were wise to settle up with Nico Collins this past off season. That was huge. They bet on, he took the money and the Texans bet that he would outperform it and he did and has.

Yeah, yep. That was a good move by them, for sure. Great job, Nick Casario. Good job overall. That's great job. That's like one of the best wide receiver contracts in football. All right. And then I'll talk about his, talking about his negotiations with offensive alignment.

Tell me how that's gone. What do you mean? Overpaid guys up there. Who? Laramie Tunsell, the pro bowler? Overpaid. Okay. His insatiable thirst for mid-level first-round picks

and he moved up in the draft that played in college. The draft history has been spotty. Yeah. No, I think he's been a good general manager. I don't think he's been elite. But he's top half of the league. I don't think he's embarrassing himself. He didn't let a player go for,

he didn't pull a DeAndre Hopkins trade. I mean, I think he's got, he has a firm grasp of what the market is. I think the biggest issue for Casario as a general manager is maybe perhaps talent evaluation. And that's not necessarily him per se, although he's got, he's the one that has to make the pick. It might be the people underneath him.

But I think his, I wasn't. a huge fan of the Stefan Diggs renegotiation and chopping the last couple years off the contract, especially for what you gave up. But as you parted up many times, it was about a, let's go win the whole damn thing next year, or last year, which is now this year. Yeah, they tried. Didn't work.

Kamari last year was a good pick. Kabari was good. Derek Stingley's been a great pick. Had a better season than Sauce Gardner. I was still able to take in sauce, and I'm on the record for that. And I still think I'm winning on that. But it's not like Stingley's not. Stingley's performing.

Literally first team all pro. Yeah, it's fine. It's pretty good. Pretty good. But there was a better player two years ago, the year before that. And why I'm talking about MacBron. I don't know why you're doing that. I don't know why we do this every time, but it's fine.

Will Anderson, good pick, C.J. Shrad, good pick. Yep. Jalen Petrie, good, not great. I would say really good pick. Where was he taking? Second or third round? Can't tackle in space, but other than he's great. He can tackle.

What do you mean? That's what he's good at. he's not a coverage guy oh i was mixing him up it's okay other safeties yeah i he peters okay peters's really good he's a plus player they missed him big time alshaier's been okay as long as he behaves as he's yeah aziz al shayere when he's not getting suspended for for trucks sticking trevor lawrence yeah no i i think that that in terms of security i think The coach is very secure in his spot. The general manager is very secure in his spot.

And there's very few teams in the NFL that can have that. I mean, who has that right now? Kansas City with their situation. Philadelphia is probably doing pretty good right now. Although Philadelphia had to fire a pair of coordinators last year to make that. You're winning a Super Bowl buys you some time. It does buy you some time. Who else is really super secure?

I mean, who are the elite? I mean, giants, no. Bears, no. They just made a change. Cowboys just made a change. No, Jerry Jones is the most secure guy in football. I'm talking about the head coach GM combos. Well, he'll be there.

Jerry Jones will be there as long as he wants. Speaking of that, did you see that Jimmy Johnson retired yesterday from Foxx? Oh, you know what? I meant to mention that in the NFL Rewind. Yes, I did. You want to do it right now? Yeah, here's some audio. Do we not?

Yeah, here we go. I've made an extremely difficult decision. I've been thinking about it for the last four or five years. and I've decided to retire from Fox. And I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss all the guys. And I'll see them occasionally. But it has been a great run starting back 31 years ago.

31 years. When Fox got the NFL package from CBS, the NFC games, it was like somebody murdered the CBS children. We're so despondent and sorrow. Like, oh, Mike, we're losing. We've had the NFL on since the 30s on CBS. And this upstart channel that's got 21 Jumpstreet is going to carry NFL games. I can't do that.

But they did. Yeah, they did. And they have. The very first thing they did that changed the landscape of how we watched televised sports now. Can you think of what it would be? Was it the first downline? No, but it's not a bad guess. Dang.

They might be that too, but I'm thinking of something even more. crazier than that. Okay. There's the score on the screen. They were the first ones to do that? First one to do that, yeah. Why didn't anybody do that before? That's exactly.

When I watch old games on the NFL network from like 1989, I'm not talking about like back in the 60s and 70s when NFL TV was in on, you know, not the way it was. Like Monday Night Football didn't even do that. You would turn a game on and you'd have to guess what was going on in the game that you were watching. You had to actually pay attention to it. Yeah.

Well, you could just check your iPhone. No, you couldn't check your iPhone in 1989. Oh, okay. I remember when NBC Sports used to have a 10-minute ticker, Ross. They'd give you scores of other games every 10 minutes. Like on the zeros and you were on the fives or something? You'd have to make sure you were there? Yeah, they were like, we're going to give you scores every 10 minutes.

Like, oh, thanks. You're like, I got to go to the bathroom, but I can't wait for these scores. Yeah. Now you get it like every score every three minutes. was they rotate different games around the NFL. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, but Jerry, Jimmy Johnson, 30 years at Fox? Do you know who the first set was on that show?

First set? Yeah, people on the Fox NFL show. Oh, on the set. Mm-hmm. I believe it was O.J. Simpson. No. No, not O.J. Simpson. Who is it?

Terry? Bradshaw, who's still on there. Howie Long, Jimmy Johnson, And the host was James Brown, who's now at CBS. It was that long. I mean, I remember that crew. That was the first one? Yep.

In the 90s? Okay. Yeah. And then one of the broadcast teams was Kevin Harlan, who's now at CBS, a friend of the show. His partner on those games was Jerry Glanville. Hmm. How was that? Is there anybody else that give you more TV minutia than me?

Probably not, Matt. I don't know if it's charming or annoying. I think it's incredible. It's good to be like. I can hear the sarcasm from a thousand miles away from this. That's not true. Didn't they get Pat Summerall? Didn't it wasn't a major coup to get Pat Summerall and John Madden?

Summerall and John Madden left. Where were they before? CBS? Yeah. Yeah, but Jerry Langville is doing games with Kevin Harlan. This is Kevin Harlan. This is Kevin Harlan. He was in his late 20s.

And he's like, and Joe Buck was doing games too. That's when we got to know Joe Buck for the very first time. And people got upset with him. Nope, they didn't. They got upset with him when he forced Pat Summerall to the curb. I'm reading here on the Fox NFL and Fox WikiPH, they did a Cardinals Chargers game. They didn't experiment with Bradshaw, Jimmy Johnson giving analysis with no play-by-play. Ooh, that had to be wretched. Well, they didn't stick with it.

Nope, not at all. All right, let's get an update on what's going on with the local baseball team. We call them Astros. And when you're home for Astros baseball, Sports Talk 790, and we'll hear. is Gordier or Astro's Insider? I guess. We kind of need one, do we not? Just throwing it out there.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. We continue on the Matt Thomas show with Ross here. I'm in Indianapolis. Ross is back in Houston, and Ross has a friend of the show. Chris Gordian's studio with him. It's our Astro Insider. We'll figure it out.

We'll figure out how much he knows on the Astros. We'll kind of give him some Q&A here, and so test his insider knowledge on these things. How about this, Gordy? Can we please stop telling the world the camps that's going to make the Major League roster coming out of spring training? Well, we'll get to that in just a second, Matt,

but you know what today is, right? I mean, this is big that you got me on today. Of all days, on your show. Les in Le Bant-a-Rul-L-Lé. It is a Tuesday, or as we say around my parts, Marty Graal. And I'm fat Tuesday and out of Mattie.

Hey, I'm going to New Orleans tonight, baby. I'll be there at 2 a.m. Help us to be party when I get there. There will be so much vomit in the streets when you get there. Just watch where you step. Oh, not of my high-end hotel. How are you going to get to the hotel room? Oh, people in those hotels are vomiting.

Get you some king-cake, yeah. No, they're not, they're not vomiting at my hotel. They may be vomiting at the facility next to my hotel. I've been there. I was, commenting there. They actually had to cancel a lot of the parades today because it's pouring that rain in New Orleans.

But that won't stop the party. Isn't it like 50 mile an hour winds and rain? They're canceling stuff? It's all right. They have parties in hurricanes. They're fine. Why are you working today? It's like a federal day off?

I know. Especially in our office, man. There's like five different kinds of king cake out in the kitchen. Are there enough employees in the office to have five kingcakes? No. Oh, yeah. Tuesdays they come in. Oh, that's true.

Friday's not so much. Okay. out on call. It's very busy. You can move on from the music, Connor. I just want to celebrate a little Mardi Gras. And look, if you're a Kamsmith fan, it might be Mardi Gras to you. You might be throwing beads around. It is, and by the way, a little spring training update here

presented by our friends are Karbach brewing and the Crawford Bock. Guys, I'm going to give you some stats. We can overreact. It's an overreaction, right? The Astros, this is their first day off so far in spring training. They will not have another day off until March 17th. So we are 10 games into spring training. The Astros are 5 and 5.

Do you know who the Astros' hottest hitter is? Cam Smith. It is Cam Smith. Their top prospect, who is batting 571, 2 home runs, 6 ribbies, four walks, four runs scored. I will say this. He will not make the opening day roster. They're not going to burn his service time to make him start on opening day.

But if he keeps this up, we talked to Joe Spotted in West Palm a couple weeks ago, he told me, he goes, Chris. If he hits, we can't not bring him up. So at what point in the season will that be? We'll see. But I think this kid is just, I mean, he's crushing it. And look at everybody else in this roster. There's a whole lot of people doing nothing.

He's taking advantage of his opportunity. All right. All right. We're going to bet a king cake on this right now. Oh, gosh. Hashtag Stale Simmon Roll. Matt. This is from the guy who likes the McRib, though.

It's number one. Exactly. This is why we don't argue food with Matt. If you're getting a stale one, you're not buying from the right place. How about I'm not just buying it? We didn't we get you, we brought him some night. Didn't you bring him some nice King King from Louisiana? And he liked it. You're a fraud and a liar. He's talking about like those H-E-B ones.

Yeah, those are terrible. In fairness to Gordy, that's right. My wife brought a King Can't call me the other day and I had one by down. I'm like, this is stale. This is not any good. That's like going, oh, you've never had tacos before? I got some really good ones from Atlanta. Here, try these. Like, what?

Atlanta. From the grocery store in Atlanta. But Raytree is Texas. Okay, no, it's not good king cake. Stop. You never had tamales here? I got these from Boston.

They're really good. What? Tomallies suck. Oh, Matt hates tomorrow. See, we're arguing with a child. Let's move on. All right, here we go. For a New Orleans-style king-cake,

delivered in from the, what's the best bakery in New Orleans? You got a number of order. Randazzo's is the best. Randazzo's. Let's put a date on when Cam Smith is a Houston Astro this year. Gordy, you're our guest. You may go first.

The closest wins. I'm going to go August 1st. I'm going to say late season call up. I know that is contradictory to the whole point I was trying to make here. I just think that's the safe bet. I think Dana Brown, you know what I think? We're going to get tons of Dana Brown in June and July. Yeah, this kid's really knocking on the door.

I mean, he's just really doing some great things. I think they're going to delay this. I'm going to go opposite with you. I'm going to go May 20th. I think that there's going to be somebody that's going to struggle. mightily whether that's paredes or McCormick and they're going to say we have to the kids crushing

May 20th and I think I'm going to lose but I'm just thrown a date I'll just be different but I'm going to say that their offense there's going to be some pressure to get a boost in the offense and it may be bringing him up too early but if he continues now he's going to open up the year probably at Sugar Land right is my best guess I would think I can't imagine a world where they send him down to corpus it would be really a waste of time yeah So I'll go May 20th.

Would you say August 1st? Yeah. I'll go August 2nd. Oh, wow. Oh, look at you. $1 over guy. It's because if it's any time after, I win, right? Yeah.

There you go. August 2nd. That's my bid. Okay. But you remember the legend of Joey Lopropito last year. I mean, fans were getting. Yeah, that's true. It was April and they're like, bring this kid up.

What are we doing? Mm-hmm. Is that what our listeners sound like? Pretty, yeah, pretty much. He's 22 years old. He's, I mean, he's a top hunter guy, but I'll say later in the season. He will be a guest on Astrowide tomorrow. Yes, he will.

He's a guest on this show. Matt Thomas was supposed to arm wrestle him. Yeah, huge kid. He was afraid of wrestling me. He didn't want to hurt. That's true. He was quaking in his boots, I remember now. No, he was like, I don't want to hurt this Schfeldt good looking yet.

He didn't say he doesn't know what's, first of all, it's felt. I need a felt in my world. It is. Okay, he's in the sphere of Schveld. Do you guys want some of those other great research? Oh, absolutely. Matt, he's got like a stack of papers of research. Let's let him get to it.

I'm going to step out of the way. I'm going to ask you guys for feedback here. As for everyday players, do you know who is batting the best so far? There's two guys. Victor Caratini. No. Victor Caratini is batting 222. Oh, well.

Which I guess is good for Victor Caratine. I don't have the spring training stats in front of me. So new first base from Christian Walker is batting 500 so far. Oh, that's right. He's been a small sample size. four for eight, but he's got three doubles. That's good. Three doubles. In eight at bats.

Huge slugging. Two walks as well. Jeremy Pena, batting 375 so far. Now, just one run batted in, but he's three for eight at the plate. It's pretty good. All right. Now, go ahead and give us the opposite, because one of them is involving one of Ross's buddies. Well, you got one more guy in here.

I'm putting Isok Paredes in here. He's batting 250, but he's got a home run. He's got three walks. He's two for eight with an RBI. Huge. Or two RBI. So I like him. I think Parades is going to have a nice year.

This is massive stuff. Now on the opposite end of the spectrum. You're expected starting second basement. Is Ross? Marisu Dubon? Marisou Dubon. Is an 0 for 12 at the plate so far this spring. All right.

He's getting out of the way. This is good. This is good. We know who Marisuio Dubon is. That might be who he is. He's not 0 for 12 guy. Chaz McCormick, you're starting right fielder, correct? He is one for nine with two strikes.

Oh. He's working out. some kinks. It's fine. There's two-game sample size. Yonair Diaz is batting 188. Jake Myers, 182. Jose Altovae 125 and Yoran-Avarez 111. Yeah, see? Not worried.

Small sample size. It's extremely small sample sizes. Stop it. Don't make that face. I'm just telling you. Oh, Lord. People like to pull the old... You want an Astros' Twitter account, Gordy. Is that what you're doing? They like to pull the whole...

It's only spring training. It's only spring training. Can we play AOs for Chris Gordy right now? God Almighty. How about pitching-wise? Spencer O'O. Spencer Ergetty, four innings pitched. Five strike cuts, zero ERA. Very good, Spencer R.G.

Hunter Brown, two innings pitch so far, zero runs, a zero ERA. Two guys made appearances on the Matt Thomas Show Ross while we were down there. An M. M.T. Blessing. You got that right. Hayden Wisnowski, four innings pitch, one run allowed, 2.25 ERA. That's great. Love it. Also there. Another guest to the show.

God, we're just, all we're doing is bringing positive vibes. Now, perhaps you're number one and two in this rotation from Brevard. Valdez, three and two-thirds innings, 491 ERA. That's fine. Three walks, three strikeouts. Not worried about it. Ronelle Blanco, three in a third innings, five runs, three of them earned,

an 8-10 ERA. It's fine. Gotta do a little bit better there, Blanc going from. Can I give you a early March hot take? Uh-oh. Don't write this down in gut feelings? I don't want you to write it down. Okay, I won't.

Rinal's going to regress this year. Well, yeah, he's probably not going to a 280 ERA guy. He was top two or three in ERA. And hold on, we'll have whispered this to you significantly a regress. Let me give you the relievers real quick. Brian King, three and two-third innings, four-nine ERA. Taylor Scott, an ERA of three. Josh Hader, one inning pitched, two runs, two runs, one home run, a 16-18 ERA.

I'm sorry. And then you have three relievers that have been flawless in spring training guys. In 0.0 ERA they are named Brian Abraeu Raphael Montero and Forrest Whitley Force Whitley

Bounceback relief pitcher of the year Raphaia Montaro Book it. No, book that Can't get any worse. I like to fade. How do I fade this? Book it. Now remember Bounceback is relative to Ross because he was completely

atrocious. If he's mid this year, it's a bounce back. This isn't a roster. He makes a roster. It's a bounce back. That's like celebrating games when Jose O'Brien would get a hit. It would be like a miracle.

No, I would celebrate. I started celebrating when he would have a five pitch at bat because at least he was wearing the other pitcher down. It got that bad. And those stats brought to you by our friends at Carbock Brewing and the Crawford Bach. It's always in season. They bring us a couple of cases of the office here earlier.

You want me to get you something? Let's go. Yeah. We've got a WrestleMania party coming up. I've got to supply everybody for. It really does. I was at the ballpark over the weekend. Dykin Park, watching some college baseball, and had an ice cool Crawford Buck. And it just, it tastes better when you're watching baseball.

It just does. It's not even an endorsement. How many LSU fans were there this weekend? Zero, because they were up in Frisco. They went to Frisco over at Diken Park? Why? Because they have to alternate. They can't bring them every year.

It's every other year. Yeah, they'd have teams every other year. That's why Texas was in a Las Vegas tournament. Whose idea is that? Why would you have to have a rule like that? rule that is they can't have them every year. It was Tennessee, Mississippi State, and A&M was there.

Oh, A&M was there. My son told me A&M was there. Michael early, maybe a bit early to hire him. Maybe a bit early. Oh, man. How's Texas baseball this year? They won nine in a row. They're really good. Pretty good coach.

He did a losing streak? Longwood's on a nine-game winning streak. Can I tell you something? I don't use this term loosely. He's a hundred percent douchebag. D-bag, but he's a hell of a coach. Hell of a coach, but a hell of a D-bag. I was going to say, stop me if you heard that before.

College athletics. All right. So we got college baseball and pro baseball in one conversation here. And Mardi Gras. And Mardi Gras. So what are the Gordy's doing tonight to celebrate Mardi Gras? We usually pull up the YouTube and watch the parades and get some BBs or something. Beads?

Oh, B-Bs. Oh, oof. Come on, man. It's good food. If you're asking your wife to, she'll be. Do they spend money with us? No, they don't. Okay, yeah, that's terrible.

Don't go. Rearie's. It's not a lot of great Cajuns. Yeah, you can find better, though. They're mid and they're expensive. Campbell's chunky gumbo might be better. No. God.

From the top rope. The day I eat Blue Runner beans, just put a knife in my throat. I'm done. There's Gordy for a certain beer. He's going to tell you more about it right now, and then we're going to continue on the Matt Thomas show, Ross, after Gordy Toad. you about that Crawford Buck. Yeah, make sure you guys

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Grab you a Crawford-Bock. Grab you a case of Crawford-Bock and tune into all the Astro Spring Training games right here on your home for the Astro Sports Talk 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via Real. On Sports Talk 790. 122 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. You know, we're having some phone with Gordy those numbers, Rossi.

I learned a long time ago when I started first talking about baseball on the radio. You don't remember numbers. from the month of March, and you don't remember numbers in the March of September. Everything was the greenest sign. Wow. You're like a baseball Buddha, Matt.

Yes. Well, I just think that you just run in, you fall in love with players based off of going against guys that are either pitching to guys that are in the batters box with number 95 on them, or you're pitching to get from, you're taking pitches from guys with number 95 of their jerseys. Or 95 in no

last name. Ooh, that's really the disrespect, right? Feels like, yeah, you can't even get your name on the jersey, guys. Was that take five minutes? There is nothing worse that having a spring training television or radio broadcast with announcers that don't know who's in the game. And it's through no fault of their own because these broadcasters prepare for it. You know, like I used to do some Division I basketball against some teams

that didn't have sports media departments. And I've done a game or two where the players come on the court with no last name and just a number. And I'm like, this guy's not on my stat sheet. It's a lonely feeling, Rossi. Yeah, I'm sorry, Matt. Sorry you had to endure that. At least now you're doing NBA games,

and everybody's got a jersey with their name on it. Yeah. Just some of them are harder to read than others. Some of them are harder in the uniforms are some harder. By the way, I don't know much about this Indiana team. Remember Johnny Furphy? You didn't have a bunch of threes against the Cougars last year? No.

He plays for Kentucky. Johnny, what now? Furphy. Hmm. That sounds made up. F-U-R-P-H-Y, Furphy. Fufthir, John and Fufthi? And then there's

Andrew Nemhard. Okay, I've heard of him. Andrew Neesmith? I've heard of him. Jarris Walker, the former Houston Cougar. Yes, Cougar legend. You're always a Cougar? Sure, why not?

And that's really about it. Longhorn legend, Miles Turner, come on. He's been around a long time. Tyrese Halliburton? They're good. They can score a bunch of points. Iowa State legend. Yeah. All tonight, 6 o'clock, with the

Rockets launch pad at 5 o'clock, right? 5.30. Yeah, it's going to be one of the Adams, whoever's not working with you, I don't know. And they'll be grumpy about doing it? That's fine. I don't keep track of it. And who's doing the Rockets Call-in show tonight?

I think it's Dan Matthews. Or either that hurts me. Let me look. Yeah, it's Dan. Okay. I will be on Thursday. and then next week. Oh, by the way, Dylan Brooks, not on the injury report.

Amanda Thompson, none of the injury report. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Tari Isan, none of the injury report. Only person out tonight for sure is Fred Van Vleet.

Frederick Van Vleet. Man, he said it's a different angle. It's the same ankle, but it's a different ankle injury. Yeah, I didn't even see that. Yeah, apparently he hit a referee on the foot early in the game on Saturday. Whose fault do you think that it was? It could be anybody's. Who knows?

I don't think he was tripped by whoever the ref was. Although he's had some beef before. Yeah, but if anybody's going to be hurt by a referee, probably be Dylan Brooks. I wouldn't put Fred and among the tops on that list. Yeah, but didn't, wasn't there a referee that Fred Van Vleek called out by by name and had beef with or something? Yeah, I mean, all the Rockets apparently have beef with some of the officials.

That's true. Emay got a teed up again last night. I was surprised he stuck around. I thought he was going to get the heave. Yeah. Again, Jalen Green got again got beat up last night. I'm telling you, he's not been getting a good whistle. He didn't get a good whistle.

Zilch. He's like bleeding out in different parts of his body after every game. Yeah. But hopefully he's fresh. He only played 25 minutes last night against... Oh, no, he didn't hit 20 points last night. No, he had 18. Didn't play a second in the fourth quarter

Despite the game getting close multiple times He was 6 of 14 He continues to not be overly efficient Sadly Before that Before a few days he's been efficient I think his three point percentage Is flirting with 36 recently

It's at 36 right now, 35.8, yeah Oh, let's go Remember last year in March how good he was? Yes 28 points per game 49% from the floor 41% from 3 Is that out the top of my head

or do you think it's in front of me with the staff? I think it's in front of you. Do you remember a pre-season, I said, did I gut feeling or did I put my name on this, that he's going to have his best offensive year of his career? Either case, you're right. I think Jaylen has taken a step up offensively, for sure. Yes.

I mean, there have been very many of any one of those two-for-14 duds. No, he's been much better. Yeah. I don't know if it's a new contract or just maturity. I mean, as crazy as this sounds, and now people don't want to hear this. He's still just 23 years old. He's a baby. He really is a baby.

I'll be 22 years old. I mean, these are, this is still, think about this lineup. Shangoon's 22, Jalen's 23, Thompson is 22, Jabari is 21, Tari's 23. I mean, they're all, that's why if you add just a little piece, Ross, whatever that is, to a team that is ascending. I mean, they have ascended. They went 41 and 41 this last year.

They're on pace to win about 48 this year. Do you go all in on this group and say one more year to get to 50 and maybe legitimately go? Or do you say, you know what? I like what we got. But because Oklahoma City is so good and because Luca is now with the Lakers, you got to do that. And maybe Denver's not going away

that you have to go make that mega deal to really get yourself over the top. This West is so filthy close. You have the flexibility to go for something like that and if it doesn't work out you can just continue to hope

for internal growth what you've been getting. Yeah. Kevin Durant, is what you're going with? I don't know if I'm going with it. I think Durant and the Rockets are going to be associated with a lot of rumors.

do. I don't, I do believe there is not a flame, but there's definitely smoke. Hmm. Okay. Not because somebody said, hey, Matt, we'll put that in people's ears. I just, I, I just get the, there's too many respected journalists

that general managers and coaches and agents use that are saying, Durant to the Rockets, not a probability, but a possibility. Hmm. It's, there's, yeah, there has been a lot of smoke. The only question I have about it is,

what do you have to give up for a guy who will be, what, 37 next year? It's been doing this for a very long period of time. But as I saw him last month when he was in town, and I watch him a lot of times on television, the only thing he doesn't do particularly well anymore is he does turn the ball over a lot. But if that's the biggest blemish in his game, he's still shooting at a high level,

he wakes up with 30 points, he grabs 9 or 10 rebounds, Dish is 4 or 5 assist. I don't know. Would you consider him a plus defender at this point? I don't know. Probably not. But certainly not where he was in his prime.

But for him being 611 and guarding... He's still got length, yeah. Yeah, he's still going to be able to get in there and at least be competitive on the defensive side. Just things to think about. 1.30 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to join our conversation. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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By the way, the kids can call it Bertie. I don't know if you knew that or not. Okay. So I just want to give you a little heads up on that. Oh, the prize we're playing for today? somebody's going to go see the Nuggets against the Rockets in a regular season matchup. That's got to be coming up for the next couple weeks.

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Time is 136 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-579 if you want to jump in. We've got those great prizes coming up for, believe it or not, in about 15 minutes from now. Stephen A. Smith, we're off one on the view today to tell us for the five million times he's not running for president. So he's not going to run? This is absolutely preposterous. I cannot be the president of the United States. I am not going to run.

I just feel like when you keep telling us you're not going to do something, that means you're going to do something. I don't even want to talk about this. All right, move on. What do you got? I'm just saying, I mean, you know, I mean, in general, like this is what our country is coming to? We're talking about a sports pundit running for president. Yeah. What qualifications does he have in any sort of government or anything?

And that's what he's saying. He's saying, I have no qualifications. But yet, he's going on Fox. He's going on The View. He's telling the whole world, how about just not going on any of these and say, you know what, I'm not interested? Because all you're going to do is you're going on these political shows and telling us how I'm not interested you are.

You're trying to gain interest. You're trying to see, you're trying to see if there's a vibe out there for you doing it. I don't know. Maybe he'd be good at the debates. He's been doing that for a while. Yeah, and he wouldn't have facts in front of him because he doesn't get that during his show. Oh, God.

There's no facts in the debates either. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Think how we talk about sports. Ooh, so much easier. Yeah, but whatever. All right. Anything else going on in the world of sports

we've not discussed so far today? We mentioned the rockets with injuries. Yes, there were some recent. recent breaking news. Please. Well, yeah, I don't think we need a sounder. You can go for it if you want. Sure, why not?

Connor got over there and make him work. The Eagles are rewarding Sequin Barclay with a two-year 41.2 million dollar contract extension, making him the highest paid running back in the history of the NFL,

according to Adam Schifter. The first 20 million plus per year running back in NFL history. All I can say is the Giants, they'd pull a look off in the NFL there by trading him. He was a free agent, wasn't he?

Yeah. They could have signed him. By the way, it looks like a good 15 or so, wide receivers make more than 20 million a year. I mean, I don't necessarily disagree with

doing that. I just, I think the NFL's got it right. I know it's collusion, but running backs can be replaced. They can be great. I mean, think about this. Ross, two years ago, Damien Pierce was, oh, this guy's going to be a star for the Texans.

Yeah, but they also changed schemes, and it wasn't a good fit for him with Bobby Sloak over here. But the Giants thought they could part ways with Syquan Barclay and be fine. The dude won a Super Bowl. Titans? Oh, that's fine. We got

Tony Pollard. Instead of Derek Henry. Derek Henry, in some respects, had a better season than Sequin Barclay. Yeah, Henry's demise was largely over-exaggerated by not only the Tennessee Titans, but everybody around the NFL. Yeah. And by most people in our fantasy drafts. Ooh. I used to have them for many, many years.

And now you're retired. Yep. Feeling good about it, too. I'm Jimmy Johns. I had a great 30-year run as a fantasy football owner. and it's time to just call it a career. Yeah. Did you have a great run?

He won championships. I won championships in my mind, for sure. In your mind? I think you're a runner up, and then that's when Clinton dropped a 50 bomb on you with Jamar Chase. Oh, I think I lost about like two points in an event, too. Isn't that terrible?

Yeah, I can pull up the box score if you want. I mean, if you insist. No, that'd be rude. Is that rude? Yeah, I don't think it's polite. Hold on. I just have to cycle through all these box scores that have me as back to back.

to back champion just a second here you know what you remind me of what you're like a YMCA flag football champion or something like that you know you're just bragging about something nobody would you bragging about I wasn't bragging I was talking about cycling through the years I'm sorry I'm trying to find the league year where you where you got second what was that 21 22 I was robbed

I know Matt it was a tough season yeah yeah you got second place in the in the 21 season. We're all proud of you, Matt. I mean, I have won more money than I've lost, I think. There's no way. Zero championships? I don't even get tight.

I don't even get like top point totals per week. You lost by nine. How you would have history of our fantasy football league and your computer is astonishing to me. What do you mean? It's because ESPN. Jamar Chase dropped 50 bomb. You lost by nine.

You had Matthew Stafford, get 18. You had a good squat. Austin Scott got you 22. Mason Crosby got you 13? Oh, this is when you had these wonky kicking rules where everybody was getting like 15 points from their kicker. I had to change that. All right.

You lost 151 to 142 to Adam Clinton. Why don't you just bring up all the blemishes of my life? I mean, we've got a minute left in the second. Remember when you asked that girl out in eighth grade? Oh, April Christenberg in the fourth grade, so makes me cry to this day. I think she's a lesbian now. you turned her so i never really had a chance begin with

all right well i'm sorry oh okay let's do this let's let's let's let's end the show on a on a positive note after clinically depressing me here with all my fantasy football deficits 266 yards and three touchdowns with 11 catches for jemar chase and who's the worst part about that league what's the worst part about that league that was adam clinton one that that's the worst part right there i know if i lose to whack i kind of get it but Clinton?

Yeah, he's quitting the league two now. Well, you're two open spots. Well, we might have more. Yeah. Hey, let's give you the phone number to play, believe it or not. 7-1-3-21-2-5, 7-1-3-2-5-7-9. We have rockets, nuggets, tickets, and I think something else we want to give away, too.

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which will be cut short because we'll go into rockets coverage. At 5 o'clock with the rockets taking on the Indiana Pacers on the second half of a back-to-back. The clock. I'm back. Tip off with the one and the only, Matt Thomas, on the call. They're not doing a full show today? No, they're doing almost a full show.

It's three hours. Yeah, well, that's what they've signed up for. It was a full show at one point, but no, it's okay. Four hours of greatness. Yeah, it's more Adam and Adam to love. Mm-hmm. Can't get enough. You can't, honestly.

All right, tomorrow I'll be in New Orleans. So if you thought the energy was high, today. Imagine me being down in New Orleans for sure. Or are we going to do New Orleans stories? Hmm. That couldn't. We could do a whole segment of New Orleans. We feel like we could find some kind of post-Marty-Graw stories in the news. Got that right. Plus, Gordon, give us a live report from down there.

Yeah, he could. But he's busy on the afternoon. Go that down here on, bubub, boom, baby. And I'm not going to mothers tomorrow for breakfast. They're a vomit in the trash juice everywhere, baby. You know, they are nice people. I love New Orleans. I went there for my 30th and my 40th.

See, I think you're a hypocrite. Why? Because you hate Gobbleston and don't love New Orleans. They're essentially the same thing. Oh my God. You okay. What? In fact, but it's probably less crime in Gobbleston there is in New Orleans.

There's what? Less crime. Well, the murder rates might be pretty similar. who knows. New Orleans and Galveston are essentially the same thing. That sentence just came out of your mouth. I'm sending this to all of our bosses, including Chris Gordy. I'm pro-Galveston.

Oh, my God. You do it. Shall we compare the amount of visitors per year? Not even close. It's one's a major metropolitan city and the other one's a town. I get it. Okay. But I think the slander on Galveston is unacceptable if you're loving on New Orleans.

What do you mean? The Galveston's great. doesn't have the let's see Galveston seafood's good but there's not as many options as New Orleans it's not even close

No one has a World Class food check One has a casino Come on now That's a big bonus They both do have The old world charm and a feel But it's a little bit more pronounced

I feel like with New Orleans There's more things to do There's no beach But it's also a dirty beach So that's really not a big advantage Let's debate this on our under show tomorrow Oh yeah Four minutes left to go on the show

What should we do? Leave it on night We should play a very fast edition of Believe it or not. And here's how it works. We call 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. Today it's all things about Jimmy Johnson. I'll read your statement about Jimmy.

Statements is completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. If a statement, it's erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Nah. Two, believe it or not, in a row. Win you some great prizes. Connor, what are we playing for today?

A four pack of tickets to see the Rockets to take on the Nuggets on March 23 at the Toyota Center. A pair of tickets to see the offspring on their supercharged, Supercharged worldwide and 25 tour with Jimmy. World and Newfound Glory and some 790 t-shirts. Scott on 7-90. Ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Terry Bradshaw presented Jimmy Johnson to the Hall of Fame

when he was inducted back in 2020. Believe it or not? Not. No, it's Troy Aitman. Statement number two for the way, and Jimmy Johnson was classmates with Janice Joplin at Port Arthur Memorial High School. Believe it or not?

Believe it. That's correct. You're going to the game. Ralph on 790. Ralph, you ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it. While Jimmy Johnson's not top three in Miami Hurricanes head coaching history, he is number one in winning percentage for non-in-term coaches.

Believe it or not? Not. Not. Dennis Erickson. Statement number two for the win. Jimmy Johnson appeared in an ad campaign for the mail enhancement supplement extends in 2010. Believe it or not. Believe it.

That is also correct. We have left for tickets, Connor. We still got tickets left. Are we done with those? No, we still got tickets. I guess, I think. All right, let's go. Let's talk to Ray in Pearland on 7-90. Ray, you ready to play Believe it or not? Yes, sir.

Jimmy Johnson has owned a restaurant called Three Rings that is also the name of his fishing boat. Believe it or not? Not. It is. I bet on the boat several times. It's very, very nice. Let's go to J.P. on 7-0.J.J.P., you ready to play, Believe it or not? Let's go, Matt.

While acting in the 2005 film, film, it's a lot. Two for the Money, Jimmy Johnson said he was spooked by Al Pacino, never breaking character, and he almost quit the film. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Rossman did it. That's actually a very good one there. Joe in Deer Park on 790. Joe, you're ready to play Believe it or not? Believe it, and Galveston's nice. Thank you. Well, he was an assistant at Louisiana Tech.

Jimmy Johnson's quarterback was Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. Thank you for nice comments about guys. Keith on 790, Keith, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Boy, my what? Favorite part of the radio show today?

What we're doing right now? In 2010, Jimmy Johnson appeared on Survivor at Nicaragua and was voted out on day eight. Believe it or not? I believe it. Believe it. Congratulations. Thanks for listening to Believe it or not and nothing else. All right, Ross.

good job by you. That was done very quickly. Thank you, Matt. Nicely, nicely done. All right, tomorrow, I'm going to be hungover and joining you from New Orleans. You're not going to be hungover. Sleep deprived? I'm going to go get some flesh-hating,

eating bacteria and fecal matter. I'll be down to Galveston later. Up next, Wexler, Clinton, they are the team. Talk to you tonight for Rockets at 6 and tomorrow for the Matt Thomas show, Ross from Nalman.

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