The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Lose Game 1 vs Jays, 2 BIG NBA Trades, NBA Draft Tonight

Episode Date: June 23, 2026

Astros Lose Game 1 vs Jays, 2 BIG NBA Trades, NBA Draft Tonight

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. And welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. One two. Strike three, call, frozen with a fastball at 100, and that is the ball game. Toronto Blue Jays take the first game of this three-game series, beating the Astros 4 to 2. Some of you may be saying,

summer 69? Well, it's 26, Matt. It's Brian Adams. He's a Canadian. And I've decided that if the Astros lose tonight and or tomorrow, that we will just play Canadian music because there is some great music from our friends of the North. And Brian Adams will be coming here to Houston at the end of next month. My wife already has her ticket.

She's very pleased with that. And some are 69's a banger. It's fine. Turn it up. Oh. It's fine for what it is. It feels a summary song. I like summary songs.

Yeah. See, from Toronto? I don't know. What he's from? Drake's from Toronto. Yeah, but he has foul words in his music. We can play it. There's a million Drake songs in the system.

You know the beats in our family, right? Okay. So tomorrow. Jonathan, you and Ross. No, no, no, no, no. I don't care. Celine Dion. Oh, what do we do on that?

So we only have two more games. That's what I'm asking about Brian Adams. I mean, because if we're going just can't, we're going the whole country, we probably should work on it to Toronto. Is Quebec. Yeah. And then, yeah, so maybe if they play the Expos, then we'll play some Celine Dion.

Yeah. I love the Expos on as a kid. I love their uniforms. Me too. Oh, God. She's sharp. Vlad Guerrero, Jeff Blum. Before that, Andre Dawson, Gary Carter.

Oh, man. A young Randy Johnson, if you will. Tim Raines? When your nickname is Rock, you're really good. They just sounded fancy. The Montreal Expos. They played an Olympic stadium. Yes.

Well, they had a stadium with a big hole in it, and they covered the hole up. I'm going to have a smashing weekend playing the Montreal Expos. I don't know why we're doing that. Maybe we should be doing some French Canadian. Oh, oh, there it is. There's the impromptu impersonations. Is that in the jar? No, I think I want more of it.

You don't want to do it. But it's funny. You'll only know what I don't. It's called Ross's five second impressions. Because if it goes over five seconds, it falls apart. Yeah, did you do any Australian accents Friday? I think we did. Yeah, we did.

Some people came by and gave us some Australian actions for some gift cards. That's nice to hear. Shout out to all the people that came by. Yeah. I got to be brutally honest with you. I don't tend to lie to you, generally speaking. Okay. But I will.

Yeah, you do. I mean, I lie. You say you lie like nine times a day. I feel like it's more like nine an hour. I don't know if it's none of a day, but it would definitely be in the five to six range. Okay. Like,

you ever see somebody at the office you don't like me? Good morning. How are you? You don't really care. That's a lie. I don't know that I actively dislike anybody. I'm annoyed by a couple people, but I don't dislike them.

Okay. When you annoy that when you're annoyed by someone, do you walk up and say, how are you? I don't like the one that's going to stop and talk to you for 15 minutes. Oh, I got it. Oh, I'm sorry, man. I'm going to get that coffee. I'm going to get an appointment.

Yeah, I'm an appointment. Yeah. Sorry, I can't, I can't chit-chat about your grandma's foot condition, so I got to go. What if he came to you with some, I need some cathartic conversation? I cut it off, lop it off. That's fine. Oh, that's really not a great idea to talk about that today. I'm lost.

Yeah, don't, don't worry about it. Don't, don't. God, Ross. I know, I'm the worst. You think, folks, you all really think I'm the worst? You're low-key the worst. I'm just joking. I know.

Obviously, as they can keep the foot, keep it. I'm not a doctor. Okay, back to the Astros. Are we talking about Mixing? I'm so lost. Yeah. Oh, you know what? Yeah, why's the news on Joe Mixing, by the way?

That's funny. He may not have a job in the NFL because maybe he's down a foot. Where's my pistachio croissant? You're not getting until he signs. All right. Jonathan, that seems fair, correct? So what if he signs with the U.FL? What if he retires?

I think Masta wins that. No, how does he win that he literally got shot in the foot? I have every other outcome that exists in the universe. And he wins. Everybody's got, somebody's got to win the lottery. I'm winning the lottery. That's the worst analogy you could have made. That made's no sense.

Well, at least you're coming with me. No, it doesn't make sense. Oh, thank you. Thank you. No, no, I'm going to tell you know where to stop. We're stopping everything. I'm explaining how that makes no sense. And a lottery, you win the combination of numbers.

That is your ticket. You're holding the ticket that has those numbers. Those numbers come out. You win. There is no, not a single report that he shot himself in the foot. So that's why it's a horrible analogy, Jonathan, because you just want to believe he shot himself in the foot too. And there's been no reports.

It's been a year. The power ball hasn't been. We don't even know the numbers. Exactly. So how does he win? No, they don't hand you the money. They don't hand you the money. He's a contention.

Then how do they hand you the money, Jonathan? That makes no sense. You guys are idiots. I'm trying to save my voice. I've got to do it on deck and ten things. Good. You sound better today. Thank you. By the way, I'm looking to see where Brian is from.

Brian Adams is, let's see, born in Kingston, Ontario. So, yeah, it's not far from Toronto. Celine Dion was born in Shalaman Quebec. She's a Quebec wall. Okay, so we got Alanis Morse set at the Astrosse Luz. we have Drake. We have. Who else we got, potentially?

Tom and Downtown just give us a name here. Oh, Carly Ray Jepson. Call Me Maybe? Oh, okay. Oh, that's a good song. What's her second favorite song? Your second favorite song of hers? No, she's a one-hit one day.

Oh, okay. But that Call Me Maybe was such a viral hit. It took over the country. And all these kids, because my oldest was in playing Little League baseball at the time, and all these little league kids would get into people's cars and trucks and do the dancing of it. Yeah, it was all the sorority girls were doing it too. Oh yeah, everybody's doing it.

Even the moms and dads probably. All right. So last night I did the 10th inning show. I know you listened. Oh, man, it's so good. Thank you. I love the call from Robert. Brad called.

Oh, okay. And he wanted somebody traded last night. You want to guess who it was? You get one guess and one guess only. Jose Al-Tuvae. No. Yorda and Alvarez? No.

Who? Yeah, I said one. Hunter Brown. Okay. It's crazy, but I get it. No, I don't, not with two years. If he had a year, if, if he had a year. It's a year and a half. You're not contending this year as of right now. I'm not saying it's going to happen. I'm not saying it should happen. I'm saying you should lock him up long term. But Jimmy C doesn't like locking up people long term. James C. Okay. No.

Yordon's the nuts one. You sign him. He is like, I can't, no doubt. about a franchise player. But I'd like Hunter Brown here too. I would like Hunter Brown on a 10 year deal. Signed Jeremy Payne in a 10 year deal. Signed your honor on to a 10 year deal. By the way, he's got two more years. He's not, he's not afraid of 2029. Oh, Hunter Brown, you're right. You're right. Payne is a year and a half. You're right. Somebody did call about Peña and I said if Pena's contract negotiations do not go well this off season. Yeah. Then you do it. I don't think you trade to anybody as long as where you are in the standings, which again, you're saying it's a It's a faux race.

I understand that. But it's still a race. Right? Where are they now? Somebody has to win the American League West. Yeah, and it's probably not going to be the Astros. You also have to be realistic. Okay, now we're going to, now we'll learn more like in the next month.

Correct. Because you can get feelers out to people right now and then you say, hey, guys, if we don't turn this thing around. But you also have to be realistic with yourself. If you can capitalize on whether it be a Christian Walker or a smaller, and Esauk Paredes, you can get a couple of prospects to go with some of the guys you're hoping in the next couple of years can be part of a core of a strong team. Hunter Brown being part of it, Jeremy Payne being part of it, Yordon Alvarez being the centerpiece of it. Makes sense.

Yeah. What would we say about a team that is six games under 500 and if they have assets they can give, give away to help them the next time they're going to contend, which is not now. we'd be like they'd be fooling themselves trying to think their contenders. I think outside looking in, we could hear people saying the Astros are fooling themselves thinking their contenders. No, I do believe that if you were to take baseball

minds, meaning reporters, meaning of scouts, meaning general managers, meaning people to I mean, even logically, not since I lot, some baseball fans are like, this is ridiculous. But I'm on the other side of that fence. As long as the division

is sucky, which is true. Which is. Which is true. Until you are really out, meaning at least five out of the walled card, at least say six or seven out of the division race. And as much as I said, I didn't love this team in the first month of season. And I'm, I didn't anticipate this being this, this mediocrity surrounding this division for as long as it has. I didn't anticipate that. I would like at least one outfielder hitting his weight. It's awful. They pinch hit Jake Myers yesterday for Taylor Tremel.

Yeah. Took strike three to end the game. I mean, just right down Main Street. How many strikes threes did they take yesterday? By the way, they were not seeing Dylan C's at all. No. And he, I think he retired, what, 14 in a row at some point? He got eight strikeouts.

Okay. Hunter Brown didn't get out of the, well, didn't get past the 30. Three innings, 85 pitches. That's not a good ratio, my friends. It's just not. He was laboring. Okay. Tomorrow for Joe Espada, so not today.

So Joe Espada tomorrow, 12th. Wonderful. Just got word on that. that. We've got gut feelings at 1130. I'm going to hit a big gut feeling. I remember from last week. I'm very happy about that. I had a big, I had a bigger one. You had a bigger one. I think you went, you went the jumbo size on the, yeah. Yeah. Excel. Yeah, extra. All right, 7-1-3. So we have more time to talk with you folks today. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90 as the Astros drop the opener. We have two. Wow, one, super, one, super.

super big trade and one decent size trade. Yes. Also, Leon O'Messi scored two goals and Erling Holland scored two goals yesterday. How about the Mbapé guy? Yeah, Kiliun Mbapé. Nbapapé. Kiliangbapé scored? It's been a fun World Cup. I'll tell you what. I didn't watch any of it last night, but

I feel the fever, if you want. Jordan-Otrier game was good. That's not true. John is right. Jordan-Lahiri was insane. I didn't watch the first half of that game that was in Philadelphia before they got the torrential rainstorms in light. Oh, France and Iraq? Yeah. I had Team France all the way. Duh. Duh.

I'm duh. France. Iran. Iraq. France number one. Good job. That's an iron chic. You're welcome.

No, you defending by Joe Mixon's shotgun is the best part of the first segment of the show today. And his horrible announcement, Jonathan, you know deep down in your heart is a horrible analogy. That was not a bad analogy. How do you win the lottery? How do you win the lottery? the numbers haven't come out. That's not what he said. Go to break.

Yeah, he said go to break. Rossi, we got to tell the folks, we're going to be at Big City Wings on Friday. Okay, wonderful. Yeah, we're going to hang out from 10 o'clock until 2. I believe there'll be a game going on or at least there'll be one after our match, after our show. Okay. Those of me that listen to the show for any of the time know that I have bizarre dreams. And so I've been trying to take.

You know, you know, the normal medicines you're supposed to take for the variety of things as you get older and vitamins. I have been taking them usually when I go to bed or within the hour, a half hour before. And so I decided last night to take my medicines that I take after dinner, giving myself a few hours because I was working the 10th inning show. And so I know I won't be going to bed any sooner than by at the very early 7 o'clock. I thought maybe this will get rid of the dreams because my goal, again, is to not have any dreams. Have consecutive hours of sleep. No, you need to have dreams, Matt. I don't want them.

It's good for your brain health. This one is a dozy. You need dreams. It's at 10.50 today. If you're not dreaming, your body's not, I mean, your brain's not maintaining itself. Well, I'm telling you, the brain is telling me, Matt, you're not going to get a restful night's sleep because you're going to wake up in horror of these dreams. Okay, well, that's some other issue. You need to get addressed.

Well, we're going to do Matt's dream interpretation at 10.50. It involves Johnny Mansell. What the hell's going on with you? That's exactly what I'm saying when I wake up. What is going on with me? Okay. Okay. See?

Would you like to have a Johnny Mansell dream, Jonathan? Or would you like to sleep all for the night? I got to see what this dream entails. This is... It involves an interview. It involves me and him. It involves a comfortable spot in the interview. You're interviewing him, or he's...

interviewing you. I'm interviewing him. Okay. 10.50, 30 minutes from now, I'm going to tell you the Johnny Mansell dream that I had last thing. And it's unfortunately very vivid. Okay. Okay. And the Astros were just blah last night. I can't really any other way describe what that was

yesterday. Didn't get a lot of base hits. Had a lot of traffic on the base pass. And man, Yonair Diaz is... I'm not like a fan of his. I mean, I want all of them to succeed. But the quote-unquote, up-and-coming rising star going to turn it on. Yeah. It ain't happening. I mean, 0 for three yesterday, double play ball. His OPS is 606. I mean, you add him to the outfield, which isn't hitting. I mean, that's the reason why Yordon Alvarez is probably playing back. He played back-to-back games in left field last night. It's because, you know, you need a little, a little more punch and maybe you're hoping that your DH not named that outfielder

could provide that punch. And it didn't happen. I mean, Issoc Perides was your DH last night. Yeah. He got you hit an RBI and a walk and so, I mean, you're getting, I mean, he's still not been as good as last year. Parades, yeah, I agree.

So, I mean, yeah, 767 OPS, not terrible. He was over 800 of the last year, wouldn't he? Yeah. Oh, Paradis was a guy You were counting on full season Healthy Home Runs, 20 to 25. Numbers are comparable. Slugging is not there as much.

We also missed a lot of period of time with that hamstring. He's pretty close and he's pretty much spot on to his career numbers. Problem is after Yorda on Alvarez, I mean, Pena is good. And then it's been Christian Walker, but it's just a wasteland after that. Yeah, Walker's OPS now under 800. on the year.

Oh, God. Bryce Matthews did get a pinch hit yesterday, but he doesn't hit in Houston. He's got very, I should say very. He's got good numbers when he's wearing. No, extreme. Yeah. I mean, I think he's batting 100 at home.

Extreme home road splits, but I think that's just kind of statistical noise. I think that'll stabilize at some point. Well, I would like it to stabilize maybe perhaps one next few days. Not right now. Maybe Houston, Texas when they play Minnesota next week. It doesn't have to stabilize now. That's true.

He's stabilized when he gets home. Yeah, keep being so crazy on the road. Joey Lough Profito, 0 for 4. Jake Myers. We're calling the hot streak later today. You've got feelings at 1130. It's coming. Are you sure you want to do this?

He can't, OPS a 583? He's got to be better than that. It would be the worst of his career by far. Okay, wait, he had 582 in 2022, but that was only in 50 games. That was when he heard his shoulder. And Dogato's just a guy. I mean, it is what it is. Raynell DeGado is just a guy.

Yeah, Rayneill deGado, we appreciate you, but. You came for cash. You're trying to get some service. Like I said, if I ever get traded, like, if 790 ever trades me to another station, I want to, I want to, don't you want to in life be like, man, that other team got great value. You'd figure. Cash considerations. Cash is king, Matt.

I don't think, not admit on baseball, Rossing. No, I don't think you want to be traded for cash. We don't know how much cash it was. It's not like it was a washing machine. Well, it could be 25,000. Yeah. But I really think those cash deals are less than $50,000. I really do.

Like a batting practice net? No, it's got to be more. Do you think that Raynell costs more than 50 Gs? Yes. I will say, yeah. I will go over on 50 Gs. Let's talk to our baseball people and see if you give us an answer. $50,000?

I would hope it'd be more. What is that? Who's going to write a check for $50,000? It's got to be more, I would hope. I mean, I'm not argue with you. But I'm just telling you, I think I've heard some deals where there are five figures. Okay, I will say I have no clue. First of all, I have a limited clue.

I have no clue. Zero clue. Okay. But 50G sounds low. Okay. I will text. Then that would be, yes, Raynell Degado would probably feel really bad. I will text a group of baseball people that I respect and see if I get an answer.

All right. Because I think you're going to be disappointed. Okay. It's not $4.3 million. I can tell you that for sure. Okay. All right. So, yeah.

And not a lot to chew on. the Astros game again double plays and Hunter Brown I mean and he was he you know we played the audio last night and we'll play it again for the Dick Show which I'll be hosting at 2 o'clock and the Clantons will not although it's in their time slot which is really curious to me why they don't but that's a different issue

for a different time the reality is he just didn't have it and as awesome as Hunter Brown is couldn't throw strikes couldn't throw strikes he wasn't walking a whole lot of folks a couple of walks but he was just laboring and ever yet back yeah it felt like there were lots of foul balls

Full counts. Full counts. Pitch count was, I think I saw a 20, it was like 55 in the second. I'm like, bro, this ain't all last. And it didn't. And it didn't. He went three. And all the bullpen guys give up runs. They weren't terrible, but they certainly, I mean, again, the Blue Jays yesterday just sacrificed flyed themselves to death.

And Jake Myers missed a 90% catch probability. Yeah, he did. Yeah. So the 90% was really 0%. It didn't catch it. Unfortunately. So the guy was our buddy Will that called. the show. You know, he's got great rate. I mean, and he does. That was a one-off. That was not the Jake

Myers that we normally see. Sometimes you get bad looks at things and that's going to happen. You've got to make those catches, Jake. I'm sorry. Yeah. So how is the fan club, by the way? It seems like everybody's on summer break, I think. A lot of summer vacations happening at the meetings. It's a little thin. So let me ask you this. But you know what? We're standing strong. I think you should offer like an Amazon Prime Day. Oh, okay. What do you offer as a discount to join the fan club. Nothing. Either you're with us or you're against us.

That's it. I'm not offering no sweetheart deals. Either you stand with 583. Jake the Rake Myers or you don't. We've been through some tough times. Yes, you have. I'm not scared. I ain't scared.

Jake's going to turn it around. You know what I've been through? All those shoulder injuries? It looked like he was scared to swing the bat and they rushed him up here. Yeah. There's been some dark times. Chad McCormick's over there eating, eating pudding and hitting 22 bombs.

Getting matzabal soup from Dustin. Everybody's yelling at us. Yeah. I ain't scared. We've been through a lot, Jake. This is what makes it the fan club. You stand in the difficult times. We are not running away.

We support Jake Myers through thick and a lot of thin. All right. So here's what I like to do. If you're an asterisk fan, I'm giving you an open invitation to join the fan. Club. Please call us right. Let's go, baby. Please call us right now at 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. And I want you to tell us if you're accepting a warm invitation from the president of the Jake Myers fan club. Thank you. 713-212-5-790. Hello, everyone. You're really going to do this, aren't you? RV.

You know in life, we have the good times. We have the bad times. Does everybody always say that, by the way, the good times? And then you pause and go, and the bad times. And you know what? It's easy to celebrate and love and have all the fun in the world during the good times. And the bad. But you know what?

when the days are darkest, when the OPS is the lowest, that's when Jake needs us the most. Sure, it's easy to be in the Jake Myers fan club. When he's blasting home runs in Yankee Stadium, when he's making five-star catches. Well, I got his, sometimes, what's his face, downgrades him to four and a half-star.

When he's got his curly locks flowing in the wind after his helmet flies off, every time he swings the bat. But when does Jake really need you? He needs you when he's striking out. He needs you when he's dropping 90% catch probability catches in center field and costing the team runs. Basically a three-star catch.

He need you when while his helmet's still flopping off and he just can't hit breaking stuff low and away. And he's rolling over everything to the short stop. And he's popping up everything. Or he's just watching Strike 3 go down the pipe. Yes, he's going through it right now, folks. But think about your low times. Think about how you needed someone there for you.

And that's what Jake Myers needs. We at the Jake Myers fan club have an open appeal for you to support us now. When Jake needs you the most. We stand tall. We've stood through all the lean times and the shoulder injuries and the lack of vocabulary in interviews. Because we love Jake Myers for who he is. A wonderful, nice human being with speed. Love him.

And occasional power. And this is a message from me. Ross Vio Reel, president of the Jake Myers fan club. Thank you. That was impassioned. And I will, because you're a friend of, Vine and because Jake's a friend. I mean, Jake's a good dude. I will buy into this.

Good. You've got me in. Good. Let's see if we got Tony in. Hi, Tony. You're on 790. Good morning. And we are offering you a platinum membership of the Jake Myers fan club. The floor is yours. Oh, that's a hard pass. Jake Myers sucks. He's always sucked. Oh, man.

He can't throw the ball in from the outfield. He strikes out a lot. He goes on a hot streak every now and then. I have this discussion with my dad every year. He loves Joe. Jake Myers, but Jake Myers sucks. You suck, Tony! Jake Myers is terrible. Hey, he got the lowest...

Go ahead. He's got the lowest batting average of everyday players just about. He used to. I didn't keep up with it anymore this year, but... Good. He's terrible. Guess who was third on the team in war last year? Jake.

Guess who's a gold glove finalist two years ago? Jake. Guess who hit double-digit home runs that one time? Jake? Double-digit? He hit 292 last year. Now he's hitting 205. Yeah, I know, it was one time.

Tony, describe Ross's efforts to get you into the, to the Jake Myers fan club? Oh, no, I just, he answered the phone, and I said, Jake Myers sucked, and he said, that's great. Hold on. Pretty much. I'm talking about Jonathan, yeah. Thank you, Tony. Okay, look, last year...

Hold on. That's Beaumont. That may not be the... That doesn't represent 7-1-3. That doesn't represent 2-8-1 or 8-3-2. Shout out Tony's dad. I like how they get into arguments about Jake Myers. Look, last year probably was a career...

It was a career year at the plate, which we figured it would be. His batting average balls in play is way higher than his career. 104 OPS Plus. I'm just asking for like 90-95. He's at 62. Meaning he's almost 40% worse than the next than an average player, folks. That's got his war at zero. Oh, my God.

He's a replacement level right now. We knew that. We didn't need the stats. Hot streak's coming. Hot streak's coming, baby. Taylor Tremel replaced him in the ninth inning and took a strike three calls. It was a righty-lefty. Okay, he can't hit righties, all right?

Hot streak for Jake Morris. It's coming, baby. Hot streak from me and tell the truth. We got this. Oh. Hold on. You just gave an analogy if you wanted to tell the truth

to Jake Myers. Ooh, that's an analogy loss. He was pretty good last year. See? He was better last year, but maybe he was just running a little hot. Wait, are we talking about Jake or Jonathan? Yes.

Both. All right, now we're going to go in the greater Houston area. Tomball is 281-832 country. Hi, Jimmy. Good morning. Good morning, guys. And by the way, that last caller, you all need to tell them, baseball's evolved now.

We got better stats. We don't care about bad average anymore. Yeah, thank you. Get them, Jimmy. There you go. Hey, so anyway, about the Jake Myers fan club, I want to know what it was. You know how like when you've been with Mirm Risen for 14 years,

and they're offering all this, but you're like, hey, what about the people that have been there a long time? What about the people like me that were already in the Jake Myers fan club? or shoot. I was in the whole ass shows fan club. You know, back in 2012, when you and two buddies held down all a section 406. You know. That's what I'm

saying, Jimmy, I said no specials. I said no. You're either with us, you're against us. No special memberships, no special treatment. How about can you offer like a free upgrade or something if you're already in the club? Let me ask you. You know what you can do. You're already going to get. Here's what you get. Here's

what you get. If you join the Jake Myers fan club, you get a bonus. Hold on. Hold on. Let me finish. Let me finish. You get a introductory membership to the Joey Loporffito fan club. All right. Okay. Hey, Matt, can you, can you pass on a message to Rod Manfred for me? Yeah, I mean, he's on my speed doll constantly. I figured he was. If you haven't at bat, say runners, bases loaded or runners on first and third, and you ground into a double play, if you make more outs than RBI's that you got to be at bat, I don't think that RBI should count.

I mean, unless it's a tying run in the eighth or ninth inning, that's not a productive at that. I don't know that you do. Do you get an RBI? Not on double play ball. No, no, no, no, no. No, you do not. No, no, you do not.

Now, if there's two separate outs, that's one thing. But if it's a 6-4-3, you do not get an RBI. That is not, you do not get RBI's on traditional double plays. Oh, my bad. I thought you did. No, no, no. Now, if somebody is like trying to take an extra base, thank you, Jimmy, for the phone call. if it's two separate,

outside ball and two different plays, but consecutive played, no, you do not get an arm. Yeah, I didn't think you did. No. Thank you, Matt. That's why we call you, Mr. Doubleday.

Double-day Thomas. Better than some of the things you've called me. All right, let's get Gil in here before I tell you this bizarre dream I had last night. We need some dream music, by the way. Something that you'll think about that during the break. Hello, Gil.

Would Jake be considered our token white guy on the team? Hmm. There are more than one white guy on the team. Yeah, there's only one. Christian Walker, Josh Hader. Yeah, that one. Peter Lambert is a white. He's white. Hunter Brown.

Hunter Brown's a white. Okay. Well, I'm just saying, I mean, he plays a lot more than all the other ones. So I'm just asking a question. You know, yesterday. Thank you, Gil. And we gave you a no. Is Stephen Okerton there about every day?

Brian King's like, hey, I'm white too. We got lots of whites. All right. Wrong with you people. What is wrong with you? I'm usually the one to bring you the show down. All right. Good God.

We're going to break away from this exciting Jake Myers fan club talk. Hey! The fan club needs you, folks. And we got gut feelings at 1130 today. Joseph Dorsey is going to join us in NBA draft at 1.30 today. Oh, wonderful. We've got to get to the huge NBA trade, which we'll do a little bit at 11 o'clock out. But I have to come back and I need some appropriate dream music.

Okay. And you are always like, Matt, it's important for you to do. dream. I don't think in this particular case it is. Yes, it is. Now, you need to get rid of your night terrors. That's between you and your therapist, but you need to dream. Literally, it's like how your brain heals itself. Okay, here's the reality. I've got some honest conversation with you about my dreaming, and I'm not pleased about it. Because again, I wish I could dream like I did when I was a kid wouldn't involve Suzanne Summers and girls that I went to high school with that would never touch me.

But that's not an issue anymore. So last night, I take my medication that I take, you know, the cholesterol, the high blood pressure, all that kind of, you know, the vitamins are the good stuff that you take. And I took it at 6 o'clock, hoping that I wouldn't dream as much when I go to bed after the game. It didn't work. Here's what Google says. A dreaming helps your brain organize, store, and fuse new memories from the day into long-term knowledge. It sparks abstract thinking, allowing your brain to blend unrelated concepts and find solutions to complex problems.

It also helps process complex or painful emotions and a safe space reducing your emotional response to stressful events. Dreaming is very important, Matt. I'm worried about you now, more than ever. That feels fair. Okay. But I don't want to dream about Johnny Mansell. Well, I can't help you with that. I just want to know what happened.

Okay, so the reality is... I am at an event. I don't remember what it is, but I see Johnny Mansell. And I don't know Johnny Manzo, but I go over to introduce myself to Johnny Manzo. Now, is he young Johnny Manzel or current Johnny Manzo? No, he's current Johnny Manzel. Like MMA fighting with the beer gut. Correct.

Okay. So I said, hey, Johnny, will you come on the show with me? And you were not a part of this. Okay. That makes sense. It probably helps because you hate the Aggie, so it helps. I don't hate the Aggie. So I had Johnny on the show, and I'm asking him about football.

I'm asking him about getting. I paid for, remember when we signed his signature to those little miniature football helmets, he got in trouble for that. Ask him about that, I asked him about the MMA, and it's a good interview, and we're doing great. And then I lose him for like 15 seconds in this

interview. Okay, and this is on the phone? This is on the phone, and I'm in the studio. I got you. And I asked him another question. I think it was regarding the MMA, and all of a sudden I hear a massive flush. What is wrong with this guy? Go ahead. And I said, Johnny.

Where are you? And he says, I'm in the bathroom. Okay. I had to take... You know. What's the problem with that? Wow. That seems like something Johnny Man's up might do, at least back in his heyday.

I was so stunned by his revelation that he was doing what he was doing in the bathroom while talking to me that it woke me up from my dream. And that's how the dream ended. By him flushing the toilet, saying what's the problem with that after doing what all of us have to do in our lives? Interesting. But he obviously could not hold it and had zero regrets about holding it. Now when you woke up, did you have to go? Yes. See, I think that's just that.

I think we're overthinking it. I think you just had to go and your body's like, you need to wake up and go. But why would my body and my mind bringing Johnny Mansell the conversation? I don't know. Why you're thinking of Johnny Mansell? Have you thought of him anytime recently? Did you watch a documentary on him?

No. When's the last time you heard the name John Manzum? When we were talking about the fighting MMA, which was a couple weeks ago we talked about it. Okay, so it's a little on your mind, recent. Maybe you have fears of bad. I love this song, by the way. It is kind of a classic.

Imagine is Destiny's Child singing this song? How good that would be? That's good with whoever the hell these ladies are. This is OG. This is super ODemic, really OG. Makes you want an ice cream. Makes you want to have ice cream. You should want to have ice cream?

Yeah. Okay. Like good humor? I don't know. I think it was on a commercial or something. What do you want to be at the soda fountain when you get this? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay.

Soda fountain. Do you know what a soda fountain is, Jonathan? I have no idea. Okay. U.O.G.'s know what a soda fountain is. Okay. So let's go back to my issues. So you're saying it was just a precursor to me going to the bathroom night.

Yeah. You just had to go. Now, the Johnny Mansell thing interviewing, I mean, that feels like a normal dream. You interview people all the time. I've never interviewed Johnny Mansell. No, you haven't. But you've been dreaming about it. And he was on your mind a little bit because he was MMA fighting a couple of weeks ago.

But it seems very normal otherwise. Okay. All right. So you're saying that, all right, so you think this is nothing abnormal by me interviewing Johnny Manzell when he's having to go to the bathroom and explain what he has to. to do in there. Yeah, I think you just had to do what he had to do. Jonathan, you agree?

Or did you hear a flood? I mean, was your wife up? Did she flush? No. No. No, you definitely, this is definitely you're one of your more mild. Yeah, this is very mild.

Okay, well, that makes me feel better than I thought I was really in trouble. You've had some. Yeah. I'll give you one the other day. I was dreaming and a bunch of guns were going off. And then it was because of the sleep sounds I had was the rain against a tent. And I guess it kind of sounded like gun, gunfire in my mind.

I thought I was back home at Greenspoint. Yeah, you poor Greens. Green's, what's going to cause night terrors for you? When you put on Greens, when you put on Greens Point night sounds, it's gunfire, breaking glass. How does all the sound effects go? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Kind of similar to, right? That's what I'm saying.

Sirens. I put on the sleep sounds. It makes me feel at home. You're basically 45 in the tollway, right? Breaking and entering. West Road kind of thing. We put on eight hours of breaking and entering sleep sounds. Oh, that makes you feel better than you guys don't think something's really wrong with me.

Well, something's wrong with you for sure, but just not because of this. Yeah, you were dreaming about your own career. That's what you do. I interview people, but why couldn't I even be interviewing like Carmen Electra? That was the dream before. Yeah. You know, you dream about Carmen Lecter, you turn over to your wife and you're like, nope, she's asleep. Jonathan, you see the first comment of that song I sent you?

Oh, gosh. All right, let's move on. Time for a break. All right. A massive NBA trade. Is this on Twitter? It's on YouTube. Okay.

I can read it. Yeah, please. It says, man, if I wasn't black, I'd love to be living in the 50s. Oh, well. All right. So a massive NBA trade, we've got to get to. We've got gut feelings coming up at a half an hour, but I'll segue out of this.

It's really my fault. Hour number one of the Matt Thomas show. That was the hour number one in the books. Soft serve, Jake Myers fan club. Yeah, I don't think you got the enrollment. Brian Adams, Slead Beyond. You did not get the. Drake,

Drake, Alanis Morris set. Someone said Rush as well. Oh. Now remember, guys, tomorrow, if the Astros lose today, you get to choose the song we open with. Well, I went with Brian Adams today. You could choose. In the summer of 609.

All right, 1057 on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. All right, 11 o'clock on Sports Talk 790. Good morning, everybody. It's Matt. It's Ross, and we are with you today until 2 p.m. at 713-212-1-2-5-7-9. We've got gut feelings coming up in a half an hour from now

where I think it's going to be a good one for us, especially when it comes to what we're about to talk about. Janice is now a member of the Miami Heat. Apparently, it was a knockdown, drag-out last minute between two teams. Thankfully, both in the East. Yes, that's what I'm celebrating. That's why I'm clapping right now. Yep.

So it was Miami and it was Boston. Apparently, Boston was dangling Janeline Brown and some draft picks. And that was it. Meanwhile, the Miami, the Milwaukee Bucks wanted some more people. So they went to Miami and they got Tyler Hero, Kalil Ware, Jaime Hakez, and Casper's Jacalonis, and three first round picks. And pick swap and one second round pick. Wow. Now, we're not for the sake of this show going to break down.

who won the trade, except we'll just give an opening comment, and maybe that would be as far as it goes. I don't think either team wins a trade. Ooh, okay. Yeah, I don't know if either one of these teams, five years from now is going to look back and go, man, we finagled this one.

Yeah, I guess, I mean... By the way, Tinta Gupo and Bobby Portis go to Miami, by the way. There's two players that are going from Milwaukee to Miami. So I'm trying to figure out, I mean, who's left on the heat? Bam, out of bio. You did score 80 points. Andrew Wigan is still there. Norman Powell is still there?

Yeah, but Norman Powell's free agent. They're saying if he's going to stay, he's got to take a pay cut because Yonis brings up incredible dollars. Okay. Man, Jalen Brown and a couple of firsts is a lot to turn down. They have number... Carrow, where, heckas, yeah. Yeah, the first of the three first round picks the bucks get will be tonight, number 13. They also get first rounders in 2031 and 233.

a pick swap in 2030 and a second rounder in 2003. I mean, that's, again, a lot of moving pieces. If we were doing an NBA-centric show, we could actually break it down player for player. I'm just saying when I saw it, to me... That's a big hole. I don't think Jaime Hakez, Khalir-Well, title hero,

Casper's Huck, Unos, and draft picks are going to all of a sudden make a Milwaukee team 50 wins. No. Or 55 wins or whatever it takes. You've got to get value for your guy. And I think they got... They got value. There's no barring in that.

They did get ready-made players. They can step on a floor that have some sort of NBA success. Now, Hillary has been an All-Star. Where is really up and down. Sometimes he's awesome. Sometimes he's just a bump on a log. Overall, though, he shot 30. I'm just looking at up.

I remember because somebody was asking, I think, earlier in the off-season for the rockets to trade for him. Yeah. 39% from three on the season. So what I will do is we're going to take this a step further. One, I love trades. Yes. I love that there's action. It's going to actually, frankly, give us more of a little bit of an umph than watching the draft tonight because the Rockets don't have a first round pick.

So it kind of doesn't, there's not a whole lot of sexiness to have seen unless the Rockets sneak in, which I don't anticipate that being the case. You never know. But the number one thing I thought about was how does this impact the Celtics relationship with Jalen Brown? You don't dangle all pro players like Jalen Brown very often. And everybody in their mother knew that Jalen Brown was the lead dog of the Boston Center trade to Milwaukee. He was through much of the season, by the All-Star break, he was there talking about him being MVP. Yeah. 25, 26-point game score with his eyes closed.

Yeah. Not a perfect player. Finish six in the MVP. 29 points a game. 28.7. He's due a massive contract, I believe after next season. Yeah. Which I think is a little bit of people get scared as NBA players.

Teams do when they give out mega-meagoda contracts. Wow. What do you think? No, I'm just looking at his numbers. 29-7-5. Seven rebounds, five assists? He's a, he's not Jason Tatum, but he's not far off. All right.

So if Jalen Brown had a mixed relationship in Boston the last year or so, and now he's heard his name flow. And then you find out you're hearing your name out over and over and over again. Does Brad Stevens, who's the general manager of the Celtics, say, let's buy-gones-y-by-gones? Can two adult men have that? Can an agent have that? Can the Brown family have that? Or does Jalen Brown say, oh, you were going to throw me out there, huh?

Well, keep my name out there. If you really think I'm not worthy of being with Jason Tate in the rest of my career, and you don't think you want to pay me the big bucks. I see where you're going with this. Let's go see who else. what else is out there? Maybe land somewhere where I have a relationship with the coach. Is that what you're saying, Matthew? Are these the dots we are connecting? I don't know if it's connecting the dots, but it's definitely a maze.

There's an avenue. Yeah. It's a pathway. There's a pathway. And again, I'm not endorsing whether or not the rocket should go get him. I'm just saying that tell me, Ross, when you don't hear your name being brought up in trades, that you're all of a sudden going, oh, I'm very happy to be here in Boston after all. The only way that he's going to be ultimately happy is if he financially really strikes it rich. Yeah, I wonder, hmm. I don't know. It's up to the, I could see it going a couple of different ways. It's up to the individual.

And it looks like Jalen Brown did sign his big deal in 2023. I'm seeing him already locked up for 50 million, then 57, 61, and 64 million. Okay. Well, then, yeah, five-year deal. So three more years, yeah. Well, see, the last one I have is a 2017, so that can't be right. Yeah. Three more years.

57, 60, and 64 million. So he's locked up. Okay, so that's not even an issue anymore. Uh-huh. I think... So what's he complaining about it? If he's going to be practical about it, now it depends on, are the whispers that he wants to be the lead dog, like Kyrie Irving, wanted to get out into the shadow, LeBron James?

Does he want to get into the shadow of Jason Tatum? And are his feelings hurt enough to where this organization was willing to move him for Janus to where if he has enough of an ego, maybe he thinks he's on par with Janus at this point in both of their respective careers and say, hey, what are you moving me for?

Hey, I want to be the lead dog. Get me out of here. I could see that happening. It's up to him. It's up to Jalen Brown and what's in his heart and what's in his mind. I'm not a capologist, but it would feel like to me the only way that you could legitimately, if you really thought that Jalen Brown could be Houston, you'd have to send him in to run to Boston.

Mm-hmm. Because that would tie up a lot of the chunk of the money you'd have to send back. Yeah, I was trying to see if he was with Clutch Sports. He's apparently with Jason Gloucheon. I'm not familiar with him. Yeah, me either. Clutch sports would maybe be like, L.A. time. $57 million this year.

61 and 64. That man can cure a lot of diseases with that amount of money. Yeah, fun hospitals? I mean, good Lord. Mm-hmm. How does Jalen Brian, and Jalen's one of a hundred, but how does Jalen Brown just walk around going, man, I play 82 games a year and I make $64 million. I don't know. He's doing okay. The NBA's doing great.

Everybody wants to tell me how bad the NBA is doing. Man, the NBA is doing just fine. Let's get Tillman building the hospitals. To anybody. I got 30 people that could, you know. Tellman, please keep it three to two blackjack, by the way. He's going to order every game in the house. That was nice.

That was nice. Yeah, Jalen Brown's going to do okay for himself. He made $50 million the last couple of years, and yeah, he's getting up to 60 the next couple. So he's a free agent after the 28, 29 season. Rockets would have to be moving mountains. That's what I said. It would be Kevin Durant would be out.

It would be for sure part of that. Again, I don't know if that's going, I mean, look, I wish, it would be nice if Rafael called me and said, hey, I was talking with the, for Tita family, and they wanted to get your input on that. I'm like, man, that would be the nice thing I've ever heard in my life. So Jalen Brown hasn't been all defense before. He finished 10th in defensive player of the year's second year.

I thought he'd been an old defense guy multiple times, but I guess not. Still, he's very good defender. Okay, so let's throw this out to the audience. If you heard your company was using you as a trade chip, yes, but they're also paying you $60 million. And you're in a good spot. They were the second seed with Jason Tatum coming back. And they're healthy.

And they didn't get them in all the players that the, that the Milwaukee Bucks wanted in return like the paint and pitchers are kind of people like that Another year off the Achilles injury Yeah I'm I still get now I understand that the outlier of Kevin Durant is here in Houston

And he's been great I still am long term wary of Jason Tatum And Achilles injury But the surgeons are getting better Sports Sciences changed He came back in like 10 months He played 16 games 22 points a game

Your best shot is probably still in Boston You certainly is held. It sure is held on the west. I know the Knicks are reigning champs, but the East, I don't want to call it wide open. But are the Knicks overwhelming, no doubt about it, can't miss favorites next year? I would say the Piston Celtics, now the heat are in that mix,

depending on what happens with Cleveland. The heat better be in the mix. Are you kidding? Yeah, of course. You are not hoping to be 48-34, yeah. Sixers, of course, always contingent on Embed being healthy, which is just, I wouldn't do that. Darryl Morey's gone now over there.

So you're not going to get every single former rocket on the team. Hey. Hey, Daniel House. Come on down. That's not nice. They did get Daniel Howard. Eric Gordon, welcome back. PJ Tucker, what's up? Kelly Ubra never played for the Rockets.

That's true. I'm surprised Trevor Reza's not over there. He needs work, actually. He's actually broke. You see that? What? Yeah, he's not doing it. Trevor.

Yeah. What? No, I didn't see that. Yeah, it's apparently there's a, there's some, not spousal support, but child support issues. He had to have made like $100 million in his career, right? You would think he did okay, but yeah. I saw that on Twitter.

Not that I'm, you should believe Twitter, everything's like you are, $118 million in his career. Go look up Trevor, Riza. Financial issues. Come on, Trevor. That could be a problem. All right. So do you let bygones be bygones, or do you go,

why y'all throw my name out there? egos, no matter how much you make, Ross, no matter how good you are. You know, you've been around professional athletes. You know, you've been around these professional athletes. They're absolutely going to be pissed. And if you're not pissed off, guess who's pissed off? The agent. Yeah.

Who the agent is going to call them. Man, they're disrespecting you. They don't believe in you, Jalen. Yeah, maybe. I'm just saying, I wouldn't sleep on Jalen Brown being automatically back. kumbaya with the Boston Celtics. By the way, Julius Randall also got moved as part of a

three-way deal out of Minnesota. I didn't even see that. Yeah. Where's he going? I believe he's going to Brooklyn. They're looking to save money. So what they did is they got rid of him and they did sign Ae O. DeSumo to a new deal there. We talk about the kings and other

teams like the jazz. Like low-key kind of Brooklyn's like a wasteland, right? And it's funny, Ross, Because Brooklyn will never have the New York fan base. No. But it's got its niche. What's its niche? Nitch is, it's a more...

JZ fans? It's a more relaxed vibe. Yeah, it's more chill. It's a younger group because, frankly, the Nets are easier to get into their building than it is. It goes to the Nix's MSG. Who's less loved? The Clippers or the Nets?

Less loved? The Nets. Oof, I think you're right. Because the Clippers have had James. and Kauai and Paul George. I mean, they were playing in downtown at the same building. Now they had their own arena and it's kind of cool and interesting. Steve Ballmer's...

Steve Ballmer's paying people. Paying Kauai millions of dollars to plant trees. Yes. All that sort of thing. All right. So that's a little bit of an NBA chatter, but was curious to see if anybody had any thoughts about whether or not the Celtics would start to dangle out Jalen Brown.

And again, because as you brought up a minute ago, Ross, there is a natural connection between Jalen Brown and a certain coach here in Houston, Texas. Ime Udoca or Udoca. Or if you're rhyming, it's B-May Ruroka. Why would I rhyme? I don't know. No, a sponsor. He could be a sponsor.

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Well, hey, that's the catchphrase. All right. You asked. 713, 212, 5, 790. Gut feelings, bottom of the hour here on 790. It's Madden Ross. Good morning to you, Houston, Texas. We really appreciate you spending some time with us today.

It is Sports Talk 790. I'll have the on-deck show at 2 o'clock. Yesterday was just not, it just wasn't fun. And I don't mean to be bored on the 10th inning show because it's an honor to talk to many of you. Yes. I thought I was bored. It's one out of 162. Yeah.

I mean, it was a frustrating game. They had a lot of opportunities. Couldn't come through. And Hunter Brown got chased in three innings. Three innings. Wasn't good. All right. More on that as our morning progresses.

Again, if you're looking for Joe Espotted today, he will join us tomorrow at 1230 because of the day game today. So he'll join us from Toronto. Again, and I don't give travel tips often, but I do it every time we bring up Toronto, whether I'm with the rockets or when the Astros are playing Toronto. You must go to Toronto. You will fall in love with that city. I want to go. It is unbelievably just fantastic.

People are nice. The currency exchange is good. It's clean. There's lots of stuff to do. It's got a little New York. It's got a little... I mean, it's got a lot of New York to it, but it's just cleaner and less rude. And you got Tim Horton's every five seconds.

Okay. I mean, you stand by Tim Hortons, I just never been. Well, it's their Starbucks. Okay. You know, that's what it is. Okay. Around every corner. Okay.

But they also have, their food is better than Starbucks. By far. Starbucks food is terrible. Can we talk about that, by the way? It's just all got, tastes like freezer burn, nasty. Well, it's because they don't cook any of it. It's like you went and got a hot pocket from the, from the freezer at the grocery store. Yeah.

Yeah. I would, I would, if Starbucks ever made a concerted effort, which we talk about this all the time. doing okay. If they ever made a concerted effort to go, you know what, we should maybe have a oven that really cooks the stuff? Yes. I don't know if that would be, eh, not worth it, or, man, we could add 20% to our profits. I mean, again, they're printing money left and right. Yeah, they're doing okay. But it is, their food is so bad. Everything is packaged. Literally, everything is packaged. Let's go to Fred and Cyprus at 1123 on 7. Honey. Fred, good morning to you. Morning. How are you doing? Good. How are you?

Good. So I want you to be in Brad Stevens' shoes right now. Please. You have Jaylen Brown and you're calling the Rockets. Who are you going to ask for from the Rockets lineup? And then I'll give you my opinion. Well, you first are you going to match some money here, not necessarily dollar for dollar, but pretty close. So I would have to say it begins with Kevin Durant because he is the highest paid player in the team. They don't want him.

Yeah, I would say Stevens probably wouldn't want him. So then you're going to... Okay. Alperin. Alpi. Jabari. He's going to want... You know who he's going to want.

A man? A man. He's going to want a man. Especially going to give him a man. It's crazy. Fred, some of a men's best games in his entire life have been against the Celtics. So my thing is, if I'm Brad Stephen, the first person asked for is Fred. I want Fred Van Fleet.

I don't care if you get me, Jabari or what's that? What about Derek White? Isn't Derek White still their point guard? Derek White can go to Minnesota, Minnesota wants him for Nazaree. I don't even know that they'd want Fred, honestly. Hmm. You're going to want young, if you're giving way a franchise player, you're going to want young pieces and picks.

Well, and that's what I'm saying. I would either ask for a man or Jabari, either one of them, but I want Fred also. But I keep hearing these rocket people saying, Well, we want Jalen Brown, but I want to give up either Shingoon or Klingkepella. Why would they want Klingkepella? He's older than Duran. Nobody said Kling Kepa.

Nobody with any reason thinks they want Klinkepella. No, Kling Kepela would be a salary filler. He would not be. He's a third center. Yeah. Well, I've heard people from the Rockets like fans. They would give up. Don't listen to them anymore, Fred.

Why? I know. And that's why I say, why would Brad's either do that as dumb? Yeah. I mean, that's why I'm asking you, in your opinion, who would you want from the Rockets? And don't say Durant or Shingoon or Capella. To me, they wouldn't want any of those. Mm-hmm. I think it starts with Shingun.

They're going to ask for a men. A bunch of pick, probably at least three first-rounders. And the reason why you'd ask for a men is because the men is due a bus salary bump that maybe the Rockets would. wouldn't have to take on because they'd be moving him to Boston. I mean, so he's, you know. And then, I mean, Ruffel could very well hang up on them. I mean, if you want them in, then all right, we're cool. You mean, they're going to be a discussion at some point, I imagine.

At least some sort of like cursory talk. You're okay with giving up to Barrett Smith. First of all, I'm not okay with anything unless, but you have to give up something to get something. Yeah, Darry's getting a bump up to 23 million. So that would be a big chunk. Jabari and Alperin gets you to Jalen Brown's salary right there. Okay. And Fred, what does Fred make it? Fred is due. He's got to opt in, though, right?

He's got to opt in and there could be some renegotiants to add some years to his contract. Okay. So then you agree with me. There's no way you would get it. If you're a brass Steven, you wouldn't take Capella or Sengoon. Shingun he might. Capela would be a throw-in. He's not a cornerstone piece. He would be doing it to match some salary. So if you said, I've got to inherit Clint Capella, the Celtics would do it. I mean, they don't need him. but again, dollars have to match here a little bit. Okay, I just wanted to see how you feel because I'm tired of hearing those two names

and I'm like, because Boston will not do either one of those names. That's why I wanted your opinion. Yeah, thank you for the phone call. Yeah, Clint Capella is... Oh, no, thank you, would just be a part-to-a-trade. Yeah. Yeah, he would be not the headliner. No, same thing with Dorian Finney-Smith.

You're doing a music festival and there's like those tiny, tiny band names at the bottom and it's like an eye test that's what Clint Capella is like if you're going to see a good comedian yeah it's the first guy out of the gate

yeah it does like 15 minutes yeah that's Clincapella who's the guy that the black comedian that's so popular Kevin Hart?

No, I said popular Dave Chappelle Dave Chappelle yeah Kevin Hart is extremely popular I'm sure he yeah but he's he Kevin Hart does arena tours with his

with his comedy. It'd be like Dave Chappelle and the opening act, and you're just going, okay, you're saying I've got to listen to this guy's material too? I don't like Clint, but Clay Campbell. Oh, what? I mean, yeah, Trey. Oh, Trey opening for Dave Chappelle? Is that bad?

I'm serious. He would die for that. He would take that. That's for sure. Seriously. He would definitely take that. Love Trey. Former producer of ours, Jonathan.

Sweet kids. Living in Austin, are you? I think he's still working in radio. Yeah. And still going on Kill Tony every once in a while. That's good for him. Hadn't really done much beyond that, but we're getting that. He's been in a lot of shows.

I follow his IG and he's making some threads. I believe he said the comfort sweets and Nacadoches coming up here this weekend. Yeah, I think so. He's doing a tight 15. Is that what they said? And then he's changing the sheets. And then he's asking if you like to get a continental breakfast as part of his

talent. Say I'm sorry Friday. Both you all. I'm sorry. Trey knows. He knows. It's comedy. He knows. He knows. He knows it's comedy. You know what I'm texting him right now.

You know what his worst take was of all time? We did gut feelings, Jonathan. He said there's going to be a NASCAR race on the moon at some point. Oh, that was him. All-timer, my friends. Hey, Trey. How's it going? A-Tray. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach a show.

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Time for gut feelings. Every Tuesday on this radio show, we give you an opportunity to call in and make sports predictions. And when you hit, you get to call and brag. If you miss, unless it's so preposterous, like Trey Campbell saying there was going to be a NASCAR race on the moon,

we don't make fun of it. Oh, Trey said he's doing good. good in Austin, by the way. Good for him. Good friend of the show. He's producing and radio over there. I believe he's working for KLBJ Radio. Oh, he says he's been checking into the show. He likes the new Missing You segment. Oh, God love Trey. What a great kid. He's the best. Great kid. A kid you can actually root for. And when he got into Kill Tony, it was like a prop-pop-a-moment for me. Because I love Kill Tony. That is, I can get in a rabbit hole in that bad and those comedies. I know you do. All right. So, 713, 21, 2, 2, 5, 790.

713-212-5-790 is how you can get in with your sports predictions. We call them gut feelings. And Ross, I think it's an opportunity for us to do some bragging about how we did last week. Well, last week, you said by the time of the NBA draft, Janus is traded to a team in the east. Yeah, that's good, but you topped it. That's fine. I can accept that.

I also said Janus will go to the Miami Heat. So I nailed that. I mean, that was the rumors. He was the favorite. It was the lead dog. So I'll take that. I said the Astros would go two and three in their next five games. I think that was wrong. Because they won back to next year. They won four and one. So there he go. Ross was way off on that, thankfully. Matt, you said Frommer would hit an Astro. That did not happen. He happened to pitch very well. Six innings, one run. And you had five and

under innings for Hunter Brown. I think he said, did five and two-thirds? Yes. In that start? Yeah, because we were in Lake Charles when they would do it. Yeah, that's a loss. Oh, yeah, and he had over

six and a half strikeouts. I'm just asking for a friend. It's funny how you remember that. I don't know how I remember that. Anyways, unfortunately. Okay. I really got hot at the end of the start. It's fine.

All right. I said Hunter Browne quality start. Oh, I was one out off. I said, Frumber five innings, three earned runs. I think, what did you do? Six innings of one-run ball or something like that? or seven yeah

yep damn it all right so I was off on that too Jonathan Allen had the United States with a one nothing win

over Australia it was a two nothing win good and one of them was an own goal really so if you do goals scored by United States I want you to get them half credit word again

that friend goal own goal own goal when you score a goal on your own goal yeah but it's funny people like to just say

it really really fast. And I was like, are they saying something else? On goal. Goal, goal, goal, goal. He had the Astros losing their next three games. L!

And that's all I have written down for him. So there you go. We took a lot of L's, but we did hit the big one. We had Janus in the east. They went. They went two and three. Okay. So you had to reverse it.

I kept saying that we're going to win and they lost. You know what I mean? Oh, so you're basically trying to reverse ginks. Yeah. I got you. I'm, you know, putting the jinks out there. Okay, that feels fair. All right. So now it's time for some gut feelings.

And this is where you guys can chime in. If you like it, 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. Okay, Astros have six games left on this road trip. Three and four. Three and four? Overall. Overall road trip. I'm not happy about telling you that.

I hope I'm wrong. What the hell, man? The bats have been very consistent, just not existent for the most part. Yeah, one run, two runs, and two runs in their last three games. Not great, Bob. And Shane Bieber, by the way, is making his debut today. Oh, that means that he's getting pulled early, baby. Oh, is that what you're going with?

Yes. Okay, I like your optimism. You know what? Astros win today. They're dogs, but I don't care. Peter Lambo, quality start, Astros win. What's up? Now that can happen for me too

But I'm just They're gonna have to face scuba in Detroit I think And I ain't scared Bats are I'm so So folks can I come to you with my

My open heart to say I'm really nervous Very nervous about these astrobats I just Mike Burroughs tomorrow too Remember I'm bullish on him Imai on Thursday Not very bullish

It's just regular bullish Oh I'm going forth Are you Are you joining me? I'll go four and three road trip. You don't sound super confident about that at all. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.

You heard it here first. At some point in the next 30 days, Jake Myers Hot Street. Now, you must define hot. Hot would be OOP of over a thousand. You can do that for a couple days. Well, then define it. I'm just saying, Jake Myers, Hott.

You cannot say, no. You either know or you don't. It's like I'm saying, hey, what exact temperature is this hot? I don't know. It's hot. Jonathan, under the category of what Ross is gave, I predict it's going to rain here in Houston sometime the next month or so. Either you're hot or not.

Either, I'm not, if he just goes two for three, that's not a hot streak. Multiple game hot streak. What does that imply, though? We need some, we need some defined. We're going to come back in a week and we're going to be able to decide if he has a hot streak. You'll put it at a two to three vote. How about that? Two to one vote.

Of us between us three. Okay. And we'll be honest and fair about it. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. If he goes like, if he goes two for five, one game and then he's like one for five, the next game, that's not a hot street. What if he's four for four and then one for four?

That would put him at seven for 12. That's not a hot street. Okay. Okay. We have to decide it as a collective group, whether it's hot or not. Yeah. We do that with women sometimes. We do, exactly.

It's all subjective. Yeah. Either you're hot or you're not. Like, of all the women I've talked about, do you don't know anybody that I've thought was really sexy that you just think, like, I don't get it? I don't want to. bring this up. Okay. Of current people.

With Tori Spelling's mangled face, you were all into. Oh, God. Oh, Tori Spelling. And I still think... Did you're truck? I see, I don't want to downgrade anybody. And 15 years ago, I'm not saying today. But 15 years ago, I...

There was something somewhat sexy about Sarah Jessica Parker, too. Yeah, she runs hot. Yeah. Yeah. But she also ran... ran cold, too. It depends on the angle. See, that's what I'm saying. I'm on the pass.

All right, anyways. Anywho. Good God. All right. Rockets do not train in the first round. I'm not going to count that as a gut feeling. I'm not, don't put that down. I'll put it in. I'm going to say... Did you say anything else? I only have three and four

road trip and rockets do not pick in the first round. You got Peter Lambo? Got a little something for Peter Lambo Lambo tonight? Quality Start Jr. Quality Start Light, okay. Is Quality Start Junior the same as Quality Start Light? That's up to you. I know what a Quality Start Light is.

That's five innings and two or fewer runs. Yeah. If you keep you five and one, it feels like it's not a quality start, but it's like that's a QSL. Oh, now you're putting letters to it. God, you're like ESPN, you're creating your own metrics over there. Yeah, it's like QBR. Ross metrics. You don't know how to call it total quality start light.

Like they call it total QBR. Whatever the hell that means. I got another bad one for you. Please. Astros don't make the playoffs. You're making that definition today on June 23rd. At all. It's a gut feeling.

Gut can change. By the way, I'm loving my less than 85 wins, wins the American League West. Where are the merit? Are there one above mirrors? Yeah. Yeah. Eighty-one and 81. So you need four more wins than 500 ball.

it could happen but it also could not happen you might be right you may be right I may be crazy okay all right Jonathan what you got this week

I'm going to say Miami Heat is going to regret this Janus Triang really bad I think this is not this is gonna go it's funny I didn't

Jonathan when I heard it I didn't love either side of it and usually I'm always oh that one team got the big one you know I would say the biggest name is the winner So I would give the heat the small win. Not even that.

I mean, even Bucks got so much to work on now and have so they can build on. And now heat's going to be, what, just sitting there for the next four years, hoping they can battle Detroit, Knicks and Magic? I don't know. They're better now than they were, I think. I mean, I like Tyler Hero. But Janus is just, Janus is something different to me. I want to see. Yeah, I don't know.

I feel like Father Time is going to, is. starting to catch up a little bit with him. Not enough, but still a little bit, especially when you've given up as much as you have. All right, anything else from you? No, that's all I got. Oh, I got USA making the round of 16. That means they have to win their next match. They will win the knockout. They will win their first knockout match. No, Turkey, who cares? They're into 32 already. Okay, yeah. And when they do, will that be considered a success for 2026? It would probably be the baseline. You at least expect to get to the 16. Quarter final would be nice. Okay.

All right, there you go. 713-212-5-7-90. Matt and Ross with you. Until noon. We're going to play another Brian Adams song. Now remember, you guys are on the hook tomorrow if the Astros lose today. Until noon? No, we're on until 2 o'clock.

Oh, okay. We're going to play Brian Adams at noon. Oh, thank goodness. I mean, I guess we can go dead air. I mean, no, I'd rather not. I think we're doing okay We're doing good We're doing fantastic

I mean Spectacular Nobody hasn't any got feelings right now Yeah Portugal Uzbekistan coming up at noon Is that why everybody's kind of in a Sitting around listening mode Throughout the record books

Now there's a lot of pressure under Cristiano Ronaldo to score Because he goes Lionel Messi and early Holland And Killian Mbapé have all been scoring So Speaking of that He's got to get it going Freddie

Uh got another invite yesterday Another one Another one Another one Gordon Rams Gordon Ramsey He's going to England now? No

He says Let me give you the exact tweet Okay And this By the way I thought I was On an island on this About Freddie fatigue

No I've been with you But there is I've been telling you he's a plant There's serious Freddy fan number one Freddy for life That's not true You said you love Freddy

You can't get enough You're gonna buy his t-shirts I just said this guy He was a real dude He was the actual guy You don't really know was a real dude. We've never seen him. Industry plan.

I was seeing him in the forest of Georgia. So now, what is Gordon Ramsey doing now? 17 hours ago. So Freddie puts out a tweet, this is our plan for the coming days. It's next round we'll attend in Germany's round of 32 in Boston on the 29th. Since we have seven days to get there, we decided not to take the direct route, instead make a huge detour through Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and a few other states. Any recommendations for places or cities to visit along the way? Oh, you knew that was very welcome.

That was going to open up. Gordon Ramsey says in response, quote tweets it. If you're heading to Boston, then I have a treat for you. Hmm. Has Gordon Ramsey live in Boston or something? No, he's got restaurants there, I'm sure. He's got like a Gordon Ramsey fish and chips? Yeah.

It's not bad, actually, by the way. That's what I'm saying. The average meal at a Gordon Ramsey restaurant is probably $75 a person. He's gone from at least 400,000 followers or fewer to up to over 700,000 followers. Damn. He's gained almost 400,000 followers. Good for him. So today, Freddie, wait a minute.

This says weeks ago he had 11,000 followers. Good for him. So today, he was slumming it. 49 minutes ago. He took a picture of himself sitting in Grassfield. Breakfast in the Walmart parking lot. He was getting paid by Walmart now, probably. Make sure you sign up for Walmart Plus.

That is next tweet? I used to listen to people tell me about Walmart. Yeah, me too. Not anymore, though. Wishing them the best. Are you? Yeah. What have Target called tomorrow?

Well, I would listen to them as well. Yeah. Okay, so... I support Target. So Freddie is slumming it with fruit juices at the Walmart parking lot sitting in the grass. Freddy the German fan. Yeah, he's just following Germany all around the country. So may I ask one more question?

Oh, he went to Tim Hortons. He's got good... He knows what you eat and enjoy. Good coffee. Let me ask you this. Why hasn't somebody videotaped him? I don't know, because maybe he's a private person. Come on.

For running on Twitter every couple of hours, you ain't that private. Well, he's getting a lot of followers, and he's probably getting some sponsorship deals. He's at Niagara Falls. Which side? Canadian or U.S.? I don't know. Apparently, Canadians are nicer of the two sides.

That's what I've heard, too. I haven't been. No. So, okay. I hope Ferney's having a great time. yeah man relax freddie's chilling Gordon ramsie

what I love Gordon ramsies food okay I love Gordon ramsie TV I've watched way more Gordon ramsie TV than Freddy has you're like watching him call people idiot sandwich and whatnot yes I mean I've watched many years of hell's kitchen granted it's an old tried and true formula over and over and over yes but

still works he's got the kitchen nightmares and has the kid show that he does too and swears a lot so I like that okay screams of people Yes. Like the tension. Calls them mules.

Idiots get out of the kitchen. F off. Wow. So what we do at the Thomas House. Is that you when you're making burgers? You make all your kids say yes, chef? Yes. How many minutes?

Corner, corner! How many minutes? Eight minutes, chef. Eight minutes. What the bleep, blib, blib, blu. You do you doing? Yeah. You bleep and call this fry sauce?

Yeah. The risotto. You're not making risotto. I thought about it, though. You call this dinosaur nuggies? Here's a bird to a crisp. This mac and cheese tastes like crap. The pasta's overcooked.

It's raw. Your condog is raw. Yeah. That's my horrible. In personation of one to Gordon Rooms. That was great, Matt. We had Gordon. We got feelings people coming here. We would be doing these things.

But the show must go on, my friends. All right. we have the summer of 69 because we're going to honor Brian Adams because the Astros did not honor us in Canada yesterday. Is that seem about fair? I guess. The song is better than the highlights, honestly.

The highlights are terrible. Unfortunately, we have to give you the terrible highlights. Okay, thanks. With a great song. Well, they, bangor, if the kids would say. Okay. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

This is the Matt Thomas show. With Ross. The fastball at 100, and that is the ball game. Toronto Blue Jays take the first game of this three-game series, beating the Astros 4 to 2. The song is better than the highlights, frankly. So we'll get to more of this coming up at our next segment. These are not the best days of my life, Matt.

They're not. And they ain't the summer of 69. No. Astros and the 60s weren't great. It's a summer of 26. And just lost a half. game in the standings. So there's good news. Seattle was off yesterday.

The good news is... Could it gain a half game. Could have, but didn't. Sure, why not? Thus, still in the race. Let's go with that, I guess. For those who didn't catch during gut feelings, Ross says the season is not going to result

in an Astros playoff. It's just my gut feeling. It could change. I could be wrong. And by way, those are more than willing to be changed. My gut feelings are wrong all the time. Yeah, we know. We've been here for a long time. Long time. All right. It is the Matt Thomas Show Ross at 1206.

Let's get you what's happening in the news headlines, including we've got a, not that this is going to necessarily draw a conversation, but we do have another head coaching name in the NBA, part of, but not the main part of the news at noon. Yes, Matthew, the news at noon. We will talk about those Astros low lights you heard. Blue Jays up to 39 and 39 on the season. Astros down to 37 and 43, 6 games below 500.

Hunter Brown, labored Matthew, 85 pitches in just three innings. Not the way you'd want it to go. A.J. Blue Ball came in for a couple of innings. Angel de los Santos, Brian King, and Logan Van Wye, all coming in, giving up some runs as well. Not great, Bob, as it was four runs, scored for the Blue Jays. Astros did not perform as they left six guys on base. I felt like more than that. Two for eight with runners and scoring.

position. Not getting anything from the outfield. Low Profito, O for four. Jake Myers and Taylor Tremel combining O for four as well. At least Yordon got a couple of walks and a hit, but it just wasn't enough. Bats continue to be quiet. You go at it today again as you have Peter Lambert on the hill against Shane Bieber, who is, you said making his season debut, is that correct, Matt? Season debut for Shane Bieber. It'll be a 307 early starts for the Astros. As now it looks like Portugal has scored. It looks like Cristiano was scored.

Thank goodness. Christiana was under a lot of fire. Portugal has scored against Uzbekistan. It is a goal. I love goals being scored just because we can play this on this song. Show. Gold is gold. Gold is goals.

Gold is goals. And we just get to play that. All right. Christiana Ronald under a lot of fire, Matt. He had not scored in the World Cup. I mean, he's 41 years old. I say lay off the guy. He's one of the all-time greats, but Messi had scored five goals.

He had scored zero. So people were begging and screaming for him to score. Now he's especially at Erling Holland, a couple of, they call it a brace, Matt, when you score two goals with a brace, a couple of braces. Killing Boppe had a brace yesterday as well. Who doesn't? Hat trick from Messi. Is Jake Myers getting a brace today?

Yes, a brace of hits. Love it. Sure, why not? Hopefully not a knee brace. We'll see. All right, there you go. Portugal up 1-0 on Uzbekistan. Early in that game. Also, of course, we have to talk about the huge sports news.

The Bucks have traded two-time MVP Yanosatantacompo to the heat for a hall of players including Tyler Hero, Kelle Ware, Jaime Hakez Jr., and Kasparis, Jackusianus. That dude's got to be Lithuanian. That's a play-by-play nightmare, by the way. Three first... I think it's fun. Kasparas Jukishonish.

Now, I like Yonis Valenchunus. That's easy to say. It's fun. It's because you're used to it. That's true. Three first round picks as well, a pick swap, and a second round pick. The Heat sending Milwaukee

Unprotected, three first rounders in 231, 33, and the 13th pick this year. Bobby Portis also going to the Miami Heat. A blockbuster trade. And most importantly, Matthew, Yonis stays in the east. Yonis stays in the east. Yonis goes to Miami where expectations are significantly higher than they are before,

but they also gave quite a hall to Milwaukee, including a number 13 pick in tonight's NBA draft. The second intriguing part of this is also reported by Shams Sharania, is that the Celtics were pushing for a one-for-one swap between Janice and Jalen Brown. Of course, Jalen Brown coming off a career year, finishing six in the MVP voting. However, ESPN's Shams Sharania saying the Celtics caved as Brad Stevens and the Celtics bristled at the one-for-one. It also involved two first-round picks with Jalen Brown. But the Milwaukee Bucks electing to go with the Miami-Hourke.

Keith's Hall over the Boston Celtics, which means where do the Celtics go from here? And how is Jalen Brown feeling right now? I want you to make a prediction. How busy. Gut feeling? Let's put it down in a gut feeling, all three of us. I say, gut feeling. Go ahead.

Sorry, finish your sentence. Okay. I was going to say, how busy is Raffell Stone's phone today? I'm going to say it's generally speaking as busy because it's busy. It's a draft day. Is it busier now than Jailenstone? Brown is still in Boston? Maybe there's a phone call that

would have been made today that wasn't made yesterday. I still think Jalen Brown stays in Boston. Can I interest you in a center from Turkey, or a center from Turkey? Okay, so Jalen Brown stays. That's your gut feeling, that's mine too. Jonathan? Yeah, I don't think he's coming to Houston.

But does he stay in Boston? Yeah, they can't afford the... Let me tell you something. If your brand's Stevens, you can go say, look, we're giving you crazy money. Okay, it's honest. We spent you a lot of money. We didn't throw you out there for a trade to go

get Brooke Lopez. You know what I mean? We, we, you look who you're being discussed with. Yeah, but if you're Jalen Brown, you're saying, I was your MVP, Jason Tatum was out the whole season, I got us up to a two seat off the back of my great play and you reward me by trying to trade me away.

I could see some hurt feelings there. Oh, no, there's definitely hurt feelings. This is not let bygones, my guys. It's just How good of a soother. Souter? No, soother. Souter. Soother, yeah, that's what I was looking for. How good of a soother is Brad Stevens?

Is Brad Stevens soothing? Would he draw you a bubble bath? I love the good bubble bath. Lavender, chamomile? Should another man draw another man's bubble bath? Why not? Wait, what? I guess.

As long as you don't get in there with me, right? Brooklyn Nets are also acquiring three-time All-Star Forward, Julius Randall from the Timberwolves as part of three-team deal. Nick Claxson going to the Bulls, also according to Sham Sharania. Randall's, Randall and the Wolf's 28 pick will go to Brooklyn.

They send their 33 pick to Minnesota. So basically this sounds like a salary dump. Yes. And they did, I-O-Dosumo, who they got from Chicago during the trade deadline last year has got a brand-new fat contract. I-O-Dosumu

5-year $112 million contract with a player option for the fifth season. There you go. That's some other NBA news. Okay. Anything else? Yeah, just a quick World Cup thing. I was going to bring up that Portugal

and Uzbekistan are playing as it is 1-0. Portugal. Big game coming up at 3 o'clock. England versus Ghana. Over under, they're expecting a lot of goals in this one, man. That is it over under 3 and a half. You can also trade on that on Kalshi, by the way. Yeah, we're talking about Kalshi in just second here.

Panama and Kro. and then you got Columbia and the Democratic Republic of Congo going as well in World Cup action later today. And it's funny. Game is at noon over at Houston Stadium and everybody's in the stands. Huh. Doesn't happen in September, August, November, and December in Houston. But in June for some reason. It's not a bigger, no.

Hannah would disagree with you on that. Oh, really? Is that bigger Texans Jaguars is bigger than the World Cup? You mean to tell me a Texans Chargers game can't get everybody in their seats at 12 noon? Jonathan will be in his seat because he's a big Chargers fan. Woo! You got to get him tickets first. Yeah, how big is the Charger fan club in Houston?

I mean, one of my best friends, Ed, is a diehard Charger fan. So there's two of you that I know. It's about it. Probably that's two, really. Was that a penalty or a free kick? Ooh, and the yellow card came out. Uh-oh. All right, there you go.

And that's the news at noon. That's the news at noon, Matthew. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. More on the Astros hitting lows when we return. Joe is spotted normally with us at 1230 on Tuesdays. We'll join us tomorrow at 1230.

Joseph Dwarte from the Houston Chronicle is in New York to cover the Cougars and the NBA draft, and he'll talk with us at 1.30. What is today's edition of Believer not at 150? Oh, hell, if I know. How about Christiana Ronaldo? Wheelhouse. Well, you know, I want to talk about his accusations. Maybe we'll talk about something else.

But you usually put the good and the bad in. I do. Even with Martin Luther King, you've done that before. That's true. If you're doing MLK, you might as well do Cristiano Ronaldo. Well, he plagiarized his thesis. I didn't do it. And had affairs, too, correct?

Well, yeah, I didn't do it. He did. That's true. It's all part of, believe it or not. We tell the truth. We do tell the truth. Go break. All right.

He's so mean to us. I wasn't plagiarized it. He did it. You know what? You want to trade on this Portugal game with Eubekistan, as I were pronouncing it? Yes, we do. You could. You could.

Portugal 9.3%. One thing we did not mention, and it's just weird in sports. So the Portland Trailblazers have a new owner. He's the same owner that owns. the Carolina Hurricanes who won the Stanley Cup. And they hire, so running an NHL franchise and running an NBA are two different animals. And the money that is dispersed and made in the NBA is way more than the ads in the NHL. Uh-huh.

And apparently the reputation about the Carolina Hurricanes is they spend a lot of money on players and facilities. but the general coaching staffs and the support staffs and just the little extra things that separate really, really fine, well-run organizations. The owners miserly. So Tiago Splitter took over for Chauncy Billups last year in Portland and did a really good job, got Portland to the playoffs, in matter of fact, played San Antonio in the first round, but lost.

But again, good work. for him. So he had to reapply for the head coaching position, which was kind of a slap in the face for a guy that did what he did. Yes. And Tiago Splitter, the former Rocket Assistant, is now the coach of the Chicago Bulls. It happened a couple days ago. So today, Micah Norrie, who was an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves, was named as the coach of the Portland Trailblazers. Did you see his contract?

I did not. I did not see the Micah Nori Contract. It's a one-year deal. What? With a pair of options. What? Team options? That, and so I'm trying to figure out.

I would presume it's a player. I would presume it's the team option, right? Dang. Team options, the following two years, yeah. I mean, that is, that's cold-blooded. No wonder, I mean, not that I don't know who Micanora can't be a great coach, but I have never heard of Micahora and talking about 25 minutes ago. Yeah, apparently he's kind of a somewhat highly-thought-old.

of assistant just based on the article I'm reading. Sure. But I hadn't heard the name either. Hmm. Also, he can't play poker. It's part of his clause. Apparently, it will not be joining me at the blackjack in suburban Washington. Uh-huh.

Man, that's weird. That is... I mean, you take the job, you take the job. He's been an assistant around the NBA since 2009. Can I give you an analogy that happened to my life? Oh, here we go. You ready, Jonathan? Jonathan?

I was offered an NBA play-by-play job about 20 years ago. Okay. The money was so bad I couldn't take the job. Okay. So the question I then have is, did Mike and Nora do this because it's all he could get? Or was it, could he have said, I don't want to be an NBA head coach this bad, I'll find a better job down the road. Again, terrible analogy of my part. This doesn't tie in at all.

It doesn't. Jonathan, he just, Matt just wanted to brag on himself. No, I just, I don't know what it was at. I guess my question, my thought is, I feel bad for Mike and Orr. This is his first opportunity. He's going to be a head coach. Yeah. And obviously he's betting on himself.

He's betting on himself. But man, that is, you talk about not much faith in the cat. One year contract? It's terrible. Yeah, he's got no leverage, obviously. It's an NBA job. And I imagine maybe he's not as highly sought off it after as we thought. That was my comp, is that I didn't have much leverage because I had never been an NBA

play announcer before, that I had no. leverage so i you turn the job down though it doesn't work john it doesn't work he's trying it's not it's not the worst thing it's a stretch i think you're i see what you're trying to go you just didn't get there he's a full christian walker stretch here it's not working this i mean christian walker does defend his position well yes

but you miss the ball though yeah i did you know what i swung and missed i it's fine you went to the plate though you went to the plate though you went to play did i yeah i didn't take strike three or the bat on my shoulder okay point but back to my godore i mean poor cat Thank you. Yeah. Let's talk about Mike Noree. One year deal.

That's, I mean, take it or leave it, I guess. Yeah, it's like, hey, you want to be an assistant in Minnesota or you want to be the head guy? And hopefully it works out and then we'll have team options to renegotiate. Because here's the thing. It'd be nice if he had an option. Yeah. Or how about this? He is, uh...

Oh, sorry. Uzbekistan's got one back. Now 2-1 Portugal in the 29th minute. The Uzbeks are going nuts Portugal's mad about something Portugal is very upset Gold desks This kid's happy

Are there non-style flights between Bekestan and Houston? I don't think so But look, there's some Uzbeks They seem nice There you go Oh, they want a foul Oh, there was a foul

They want a foul No, that looks like a clean tackle to me No, that's a foul That is a foul That is a foul That might be a foul That'll be under review. Dude, what a strike, though.

All right, there we go. Sorry, Mike Gnori. Coach of the Blazers. I have never seen Houston Stadium look so full. I like that we're calling it Houston Stadium. Even the Super Bowl doesn't fill it up that way. They're in an empty seat. Look, Rossi.

They're in the Portuguese. Ooh, they're reviewing it, Maddie. No, no, no, no. Video assistant review. No, no, no. No, no. You can't kick the ball. Ooh, the ball was already good.

gone. They're going to take that away. That's a foul. And they're going to take that away. Take it away. That's a great Paul McCartney song, by the way. No, that's the red hot chili peppers. Give it away, give it away, give it away now.

Okay. 1231 on Sports Talk 790. You ever notice when Jonathan says time to go to, do you say it on the air or do you say it just our earphones? That one was in your headphones. Oh, okay. He always says, go to break. You usually can see this terrible conversation.

to come to a screeching hall. Sometimes, sometimes. Which it does. Hey, Ross and I Friday are going to be a big city wings. That's one. I think we should go one more, right? Don't you think? You know what?

I'm with you, do it. Let's go three. Now, it doesn't revolver on the Astros or the Rockets, so don't worry about that. But it revolves around a Texas Tech, well, former tech, well, I never really played a Texas Tech. Did you even go to class? No. Brendan Sorsby. will not play in the NFL in

2006. You're saying, well, Matt, how do you know that? Because the NFL informed teams today, is according to Ian Rappaport, that it will not be holding a supplemental draft. Oh, wow. Yes. Apparently, the NFL can decide whether or not the CBA allows the league to decide

whether to hold one, and they have said this year they are not. That means, if you're trying to go, what do I mean, why would they decide not to? Because they're worried about this cat having gambling issues. Yes, there is a letter. Let me get some reading music. Oh, Breezen?

Yeah. A little George Benson, the great yacht rocker that he is. There is a letter from the NFL's management council to Brendan Sorsby. I'll try to parse through some of this as I go along. Please. Mr. Sorsby, we're in receipt. your petition for special eligibility. The league has elected

not to conduct a supplemental draft this year. The sole reason identified in your petition for seeking entry into the supplemental draft rights, you have been, quote, declared ineligible by the NCAA and, quote, have exhausted all of your avenues to continue in the NCAA and now want to play in the NFL.

The petition provides no information regarding the basis for or timing of the NCAA's decision. Public sources indicate that the NCAA issued determination declaring you permanently ineligible for participation in college athletics based on a sustained pattern of improper gambling

activity during your collegiate career at three different universities. Hmm. Available information indicates that over the course of your collegiate career, you knowingly engage in repeated and significant violations of NCAA rules designed to preserve the integrity of athletic

competition. Your petition does not address these matters. Nor does it demonstrate accountability for your conduct or indicate whether or how you would adhere to the league's rules and policies governing the integrity of the competition. There, you know what that means? Let's read through the mumbo-jumbo. They're scared that he's not going to solve his issues. He's going to be a gambler when he's playing in the NFL. Apparently he put nothing in the petition about his penance, about what he was even ineligible for or anything like that. Whoever filed his petition didn't do a good job. Hit the sounder. Four? No, this.

Cristiano scored again. It's about time, Cristiano. Let's go. 3-0 Portugal in the minute, 39th minute. Oh, that's a good finish. Oh, that's tough. Tucked it right there in a corner. Very nice. Two goals for Cristiano Ronaldo.

Uzbekistan getting routed, Matt. 21 and nothing. So let me ask you this. Portia to roll up on Uzbekistan. If you're paying crazy cash to be at this game. And you're at a game, it's 3-0, 40 minutes into the first ever. Are you going, did I pay for this blowout or am I still enjoying this experience? It's like Game 7 of the 23 ALCS when the Astros were down with Christian Javier gave up like nine runs in the first two innings or something like that.

Like, ah, do I stay here? Do I just go home? Because wasn't Saturday's game at Houston Stadium? Was it 5-1? 5-1 wasn't it 4-0-0 early. It was a blowout. I mean, this one you at least got 40 minutes of action before it was totally done. But I would imagine most people, look at all the red, Matt.

Most everybody's there for Portugal. Most Portugal World Cup goals. Cristiano Ronaldo 10, Tony Husepio with 9. I don't think it was Tony, but we'll go with that. Oh, come on. Let me have that, please. Participation in the NFL. This is a bring back the.

the reading music. Participation in the NFL is a privilege that carries with it with it significant responsibilities, including accountability. By all accounts, you are a talented player with the potential to future success. This is the letter to Brendan Soresby. We encourage you to focus on preparing for possible entry in the NFL through the 2027 NFL annual draft. Sincerely, Lawrence P. Farazani Jr., who is on apparently the NFL management council. This is 100% accurate. They feel like this cat is just going to plan B.

Instead of really going, you know what, what I did was wrong, and I've got to fix my ways. What he basically is like, you know, if Texas Tech won't pay me the NFL, well in Texas Tech like shut your bum ass up. Now, again, this could be, you know what, get your act together for a year. And Brandon Sorosby, you're going to be a fine quarterback in the NFL in 2027.

Yeah, Ian Rappaport continues. There is no other avenue for Sorosby to enter the NFL. So this is it. He's not going to the NFL. Not going the NFL. Can he come back to tech? Nope. He's done.

By the way, you would have no school in this country would touch him a 10-foot pole. I don't think they should. No, no, no, no. So I wonder what Soresby's bank account looks like right now. How much money did he receive through all his NILs over the last three schools? How much did TechSek already pay him? How much of the lawyer has been paid? He's got to pay the legal fees for sure.

and probably need to cut a check to Ken Paxson for having his back. Oh, yeah, maybe. I don't know. I think that check was cut by somebody else. Yeah, probably so. Roady Ramble. Roady Ramble? Roady Ramble. So the NFL said, you think you can use us as plan B, that ain't happening. That's exactly what they said today. Shut your bum ass up.

I mean, I get it, especially if his petition put nothing about how I have paid my time, I've learned my lesson. And why wouldn't the attorneys do that? Why wouldn't they, even if he, even if Sorosby wasn't telling the truth on that? Whoever, it sounds like this was bungled. Brendan Sorbsby needs to be pissed at whatever agent. Whoever submitted this and didn't put anything about why he's been ruled ineligible or anything like that? I don't know. Seems like they made it really easy for the NFL to turn this down.

Okay, so let's get way in advance. This is not a gut feeling to write down. But he will not be hit by a human being in two years. Well, actually, a year. A year. One year. Can you take a full year off, not playing live competition and come back and be bigger and stronger and better? I mean, injured players at all the time.

CLs and stuff like that. So this is just an interesting saga and now soap opera at this point. Yeah, what do you do on that? I don't know. So does that mean he gets to go back to the regular draft now? Or does he have to, he has to enter the regular draft next year? And they don't even have to. and they don't need him have to accept him to that.

Don't you apply for the draft? Then you know what? If you really don't mean it, then lie. Spend that act you're lying. No, maybe this is good. He's getting consequences for his actions. Yeah. I'm sorry.

What he does with those actions. I'm not shedding here for Brennan. I mean, I wish him the best. Maybe he's a good kid. He's an addict. Addiction we've all come across in our lives. I respect the NFL a lot more just for the same. Yeah, this is good for them.

Because honestly, here's the thing, John. Nothing, to your point. Oh, if he plays. Aaron just made a good point. What? Gambler quarterback, Brennan Sorsby? No. You can go to the U.S.L.

Does the Rock welcome him with open arms? No, no, no, because... It would be spring... If they were competing this time of year... Oh, I got one for you. Does the CFL? CFL. Ooh, Toronto Argonauts, Brendan Sorsby.

Edmonton Eskimo Football is on the air. Today, it's the Argonauts against the... Eskimos. Brendan Sourdesby makes his Edmonton debut. I could see that. Get ready to learn zero degrees Celsius, buddy. Yeah, he can't play in the U.S.L. because he's not going to...

Any NFL team's not going to want to draft him and then have him play a full season of U.S.L. and jump in there. Oh, back to... What was I saying your point? Jonathan, I was going to give you your flowers, but Ross interrupted me. Maybe you're talking about NCAA. I was saying I was saying I respect the NFL for

doing so. Yeah, I forgot. Oh, well, it was a good point. You're flowers in my mind. Thank you for listening to our radio program today. It's Matt and Ross on Sports Talk 790. Thank you again, everybody,

whether you listen to us for five minutes or four hours. Except the prize or is it always funny. It's 150. They just turn the radio on, Ross. Every day at 150, we get two to three people that just turn the radio on. Yeah, we got a lot of 150 o'clockers. Yeah, we appreciate you 10 o'clockers,

you 150s. We don't root for your success. Now, Ronaldo is today's edition of Believe or not. Cristiano Ronaldo. Are you going to bring up the... I'm sorry, Cristiano Holaldo. Honolando? How do you want me to pronounce it?

You say Ronaldo, it's fine. And we're going to bring up his... Transgressions. Sketchy off-the-field behavior? Let's see. 2005. Rape allegation. 2007 Las Vegas

Rape allegation Yikes 2019 allegation Oh Hmm Not good Hmm No

Not good 975 goals Good Uh Four rape allegations Not so hot Yeah Yeah

We'll move on from that Yeah we will Let's go the phone Talk to some great The lawsuit was dismissed With prejudice So All right

Let's talk to some great people We'll start with Caseo on 790 It's 1252. Koso, good afternoon to you. What's on your mind? Good afternoon, guys.

Quickly. So the honest trade, I don't really, I feel like the bucks got a lot back, but at the same time, I don't really know what they got back. It's such a weird trade to me that in the meantime, they don't own their own draft, correct?

Portland has it. So they don't like get, yeah, the bucks. The Bucks had the 13th pick tonight. I know for sure. What else they have? I don't know. And that's going to the heat.

They get this pick. Okay. And they got Tyler Hero, I mean, All-Star, 20 point per game score. Kyle, where was like 11 points, 39% three-point shooter. Jaime Hawkes is kind of a role player. And then one other player I'm missing. And three first-round picks, and a swap. So I think it was a pretty good haul.

Yeah, that doesn't start to, what, 2030, correct? They get tonight's picked, and then they get the 31 and 33, I think. Okay, so they get this year's pick, and then they have to weigh actually four years for those picks to kick in. Correct. There's a draft swap two and pick swap if necessary. So this was, when people were ripping on the rockets for trading James Hardin for draft picks, it was mostly the media that was doing it. We'll name any names, Kendrick Perkins, clown.

but other than that, the rich had to recoup their draft picks so they could draft. How are the bucks going to, they're going to just wait four years to rebuild? It doesn't really make sense. They have to move off on Tyler Hero or other players to get draft capital

to start rebuilding from another team. It just doesn't make sense. I was thinking if it was, ain't nobody got time for that, but, or I just don't understand that. Actually, I do because, okay, so you're getting, getting more live human beings from Miami than the Boston Southics were willing to give up.

I think Jalen Brown and draft picks was the key. The Milwaukee Bucks are getting three players, right? At least. Hero, Hakez, Jakabeta, whatever, and where? They're getting four players. Yeah, four. That's what I forgot. Kasparis Yakeshionish.

Yeah, they're getting four human beings. They wanted to replenish right away. And I don't think the Boston Celtics were willing to move off of anybody and except name Jalen Brown. Right, correct. And that brings the next disgruntled superstar, which is the ultimate diva that is Jalen Brown. I hope to God he doesn't come to Houston.

I don't think the Rockas can pull off a trade, but he's such a nutcase, man. He's such a weird guy, great player. But I just wanted to get y'all thoughts on that. Y'all have a great rest of your day. Thank you. I don't know. Help me out.

What makes him weird? He's got a massive ego, I guess. I mean, hello to the NBA. I got no problem with Jalen Brown 29 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists that sounds weird to me good defense no I mean I

just Jalen Brown is he everybody's cup of tea especially the amount of money the number one thing about Jalen Brown is he just makes crazy crazy money I mean he is he is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars the next three seasons

the positive on the rocket side is you can trade that back with players and Jalen Brown used to have a guy that was his coach. Yeah. I mean, he's making $50 million a year, but so is Trey Young. I mean, he's way better than Trey Young. And by the way, what the hell of the Hawks doing

resigning him for Crazy Bird? Oh, I thought it was the Wizards? Wizards, I'm not Hawks. Wizards, you're right. You're right. It's four years, 212 for Trey Young. Would you rather have Trey Young or Jalen Brown at $50 million? Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't even close. I don't think he's weird.

I understand. We're like $50 million, 50 million. But that's, that's, I mean, it's kind of the going rate. That's what Alfa dogs get. For a superstar player. Yeah. All right, Brian, wants to talk about the World Cup, the Astros and Amit, A-M-T-T-T. Maybe Matt. M-A-T-T-T.

Oh, maybe just me. World Cup Astros and me. Well, I don't know. It says Amit. Maybe there was a vernacular for something else. I don't know these things. Go blink yourself, Ross. Well, that was on the script, too.

1257, final hour of the Matt Thomas Show with Ross is next. is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We'll check in at the NBA draft in 30 minutes with our friend Joseph Dwarte from the Houston Chronicle. We welcome you to the final hour of the show. If you've been with this since 10, we thank you so much. We are always here, four hours, unlike the afternoon drive show, who, short show yesterday, don't even do the on-deck show in their time slot today. I'm doing it.

And then the 10th inning show, in their time slot, I'm doing it. that. Thank you, Matt. You're doing great. I never will ever stop talking about the lack of work they do. Okay, good. Well, Adam Wexford picked up Friday's game for me because I was at the USA Australia Watch Party. And shout out to everyone that came out for that. Nice. I appreciate Wex. Yes. He picked up the game for me. And how did Clinton help you out? I didn't see him that day, so I don't know. Wex came by the party and picked up preimposed. Look, Adam Clinton, I love, but he's the laziest employee we have. It's just really it is what it is what it is. We still love him, no, for it, though.

713-213-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5. I love Adam Clanton, and I'm stopping there. I love Adam Klanternan. Hi, Adam, that was Matt Thomas who said all those things. He's like a younger brother to me. But he's just the least hours put in. That's fine.

7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Again, I love him like a brother. Brothers can say these things. You have a brother. You have a brother. I don't have a brother. I'll be filling in with Adam Clinton. Come Thursday.

Oh, no. He needs to do it by himself. I'm feeling it. I'll be with Gordy tomorrow as well. And I got postgame Wednesday and Thursday. Wait a minute. Those guys aren't working tomorrow either? Correct.

Jesus. You know what? I make a good salary because I work for it. Brian and Pearland on 790 Brian. Good afternoon to you. You know, M.T., when you're married to Mrs. Rockface, who's, you know, at High Heart Radio, Stable, you don't have to work. apparently.

Clearly. Dear God. I mean, better words never spoken from you. Yes, excellent. Real quick,

Ross, good to see it poor behavior the other day. It was a great match. Good atmosphere. I like that place. So I hope you all

go back there again for some other, some other events. That was a good atmosphere. It was a start to fill in. But real quick, Ross,

I don't know, have you seen some of the memes out there about people talking about if you really want to give some of the Europeans, a true soccer, field put some of these knockout round games at SEC stadiums like you imagine bryant denny or dkr with

110,000 people just on top of the action or boon pickings where they're four feet from the action that would blow some of their minds there with of some of these knockout round games but uh and matt I had a question for you at the end when I finish that's that's kind of what the AMMC or AMTC was I was able to figure that out sadly yeah But real quick, when it comes to the Astros, I think you're starting to see the repercussions of not having draft picks in 2020,

what, 21 and 22 or 20 and 21? You're, you know, when Correa left, you had paying you to fill in, but you're starting to see through trades and those drafts. So when people say the Astros didn't suffer, that there were no repercussions, no, you're starting to see it now because you're so thin in your minor league system and you have nobody to pull from. You're pulling 4A players at best,

and it's starting to show when guys get hurt. You don't have a reason. Not that people are normally going to routinely go to their AAA guys to save their season, but you don't have that quality of talent ready to go that you would normally have in those years. So, you know, I just, that's kind of how I push back against those claims about,

oh, the Astros weren't punished for, 2017. No, they were. No, no. But I'm going to disagree with you, Brian. You cannot say that two drafts destroy the franchise 10 years later. I mean, the Astros have had first round picks the last handful of years. I mean, look at, you have a draft pick from 2024 that is nowhere close to being a major leaguer. I mean, that Walter Yannick has so far been a bust. And you have to, again, first of all, you shouldn't, hold on, you shouldn't rely on first round picks. Baseball teams are stock full of players in round 7, 8, 11, 13, 19.

If you solely rely on first round picks, no major league team would be very good at him. But even if you went back to it, there are guys in that 24 draft that are stars. The kid from Cleveland that just pitched against us the other day. Grant Eves is the number one overall pick, but he was there. Condon's played. Nick Kurtz. Connor Griffin. I'm looking at this 24 draft.

There are Britain Montgomery. Yeah. Cam Smith, I mean, say what you will about Cam Smith, but he's in the big leagues in his plate. This is this, you have to hit on your number one draft pitch. Trey Yusavich. Yeah, you're Yusovich or whatever you want to call him. We'll figure it out. Point being is, I'm not going to allow two years of first and second round picks gone as the reason why the Astros minor league system is.

Well, it's part of it. But it's a very small part of it. No, it's part of it. It's definitely part of it. I'm not saying that's it, but you would normally have some of those guys that you could. second round picks too, though, right? It wasn't at first and second round picks? Yeah, for two years of first and second round picks.

I mean, that's four players. You're hoping at least one of those would have been a hit. I think the number one thing that has hurt this organization in terms of its minor link system is you've had a collection of misses. Yes. And you've also traded players away that you would have stockpiled, but the Astros have been fairly aggressive in the deadlines the last couple of years. Yeah. But I don't even know who exactly out of those is doing so well. Probably Williour Abrae you from the original Christian Vasquez deal

is certainly one that comes to mind. But you had two years of no first round picks, no second round picks. So I think of those four players, you're hoping at least one or two of them would hit. But you haven't hit on first round picks, as Matt has said. Since then it's been Drew Gilbert, Bryce Matthews, Walker, Yonik, and Xavier Nions is thought of very highly. But he's, I mean, he's like 19 years old or 18 years old. Very young. Yeah.

Yeah. No, I agree with you guys. It's not the whole reason, but I think that then put you in some type of predicament of, okay, well, you know, now you don't have that heir apparent to Jeremy Payne who you can afford to let walk if you had to. So, I mean, it's a whole combination of things. But for the people who say we didn't suffer, we did. Yeah, we don't. Yeah, there's no reason for it.

But we didn't suffer. We were punished. And you're seeing part of that rear's head now. Not the sole reason. But Matt, real quick, the question I wanted to ask you is when it comes to kind of, your broadcast and preparation. Like I know the NFL guys, you get generally a full week to prepare, you know, matchups,

stories, all of that. They've got their spreadsheets and that. How do you go about when you got, say, maybe seven games in 12 days or 11 days or 13 days and it's crammed in? And I know some of this guy, you know, hey, they've already played these guys once or twice before,

but we're just keeping it fresh on these back-to-backs where you play San Antonio here one night and they're the next night of like, okay I can't tell the same story about so-and-so's upbringing or this this little story and like because there's so much information you have in such a short time that you know baseball has the same thing and I know hockey hits whereas you know football gets a whole week to kind of prepare how do you kind of go about just kind of trying to keep it fresh I was just I was curious on that so I'd like to hear that sometime or you got a whole time now so I do thank you very much we're not

we're not piping hot on the asteros losing to the blue jays so I have time The reality is this, and I've done all three sports, baseball is a storytelling sport. So baseball, you're going to have to have the background stories. They have the toughest schedule because they're playing six days a week or sometimes seven days in a row. And you are filling time because the action, for three-hour broadcast,

how many minutes of action are there in a baseball game over a three-hour broadcast? I believe it's like 13, 14 minutes. So that's the hardest. prepare for. In fact, I will just say this, and I think I've said this before, I cannot, I would not be able to do a talk show and be a major league baseball play by play announcer at the same time. It's just too much work. Now, the only person that does it in our industry is Michael Kay is the Yankees announcer. I give him credit, but there's nobody else that does that. Baseball is so much preparation, so much storytelling, it's stat-driven, it's storytelling, it's foundation. Even in even for that matter television because television they don't speed the game up for television you can play an insert you can play a replay of certain things but ball two is not being replayed unless it's a close call football you have a week so you got time you're not staring at your stat boards you're not staring at your preparation sheets in basketball especially on the radio

side I'm not a storyteller very rarely do I get to get into stories about exposition of what the action is explaining what's going on Where's the ball? Who's got the ball in his hands? How much is in the shot clock? What's the score and what's the time? I'm not a storyteller. And in basketball, you get a little bit more time,

but it's also a very heavy replay sport, much like football is. You want to see where the ball was thrown, or you want to see that great crisp pass, that ball go out of bounds. And if you have a great analyst, like Ryan, you know, Ryan and Craig get along really well in the broadcast. They are going back and forth with stories about, what they did. But again, radio,

I don't have time for that. So, the only negative about basketball is you are doing maybe five games in 12 days. You don't have a chance to sit back and take a breather. You are constantly trying to get one and two games ahead, but you can't get that much ahead because if I'm seeing

the Nets on Saturday and it's Monday, I'm not using the stats from Monday's game for my Saturday broadcast. I have to wait for those stats to be updated and tell you how someone had did the night before. So, they're all different, they're all fun, but in terms of having the

ability to kill time, it's baseball by far. And the best broadcasters are the ones that are the storytellers. That's why Vince Scully Ross will go down as one of the greatest ever, because not only did he call a beautiful game, but he was able to intertwine stories

in between pitches where neither the story nor the game action suffered. The artist. Yeah. Talking about Madison Bumgarner, killing snakes. and whatnot. Yeah. And all ball, too.

Yeah. You know what I mean? I can't, you know, very rarely I can tell stories on my game broadcast, unless it's blah. Yeah, it's like they're up 30. I mean, Aaron Holiday 3.10 from 31 feet. Okay. And here's my story.

Here's J.D. Davidson. Hey. At the line for two. Jay Sean Tate. Congratulations to Jay Sean and his family. You know what it. But yeah, that's the kind of the story is that in basketball, you don't have to do it. TV a little bit if you have a good analyst, but that's, again, very little time.

of action. It's good. All right. Joseph Dorote is going to join us at the bottom of the hour. Wonderful. We want you to join us right now. And we have some potential breaking news when we come back. I won't even look.

Okay. And you're going to determine how many potential or is it? It's potential. I think it probably will. We know what? I'm supposed to sell it, man. Okay. Will we hear the sounders?

Oh, unbelievable. Breaking news. Okay, that's oversold. Please. One 13 on Sports Talk 790. All right. Rossi, I did not look at Twitter during the break. Are we playing a breaking news

sounder or no? I would say worthy of one, yes. This from Elliot Friedman? Eleoette Friedman? Elioet Friedman. All right. He is

with a Sportsnet Canada. So that could tell you what kind of hockey, what kind of news would bring out of us in it. The worst. At NHO. Port-Gia, I know. She's so bad. A terrible teaser. At NHL Board of Governors, Commissioner Gary Bettman

informed the board they will be opening a process to investigate Houston or Austin for an expansion franchise. I mean, that's good. We like sports. This guy's got 930,000 followers. Okay, I think he's legit. He's legit, for sure. I'm not big on hockey reporters. I don't know where this guy stands and how real.

Is he the Bob Nightingale of hockey reporters? Or is he the Jeff Passing? I have a friend of mine who is the best hockey reporter in the country. His name is Michael Russo. He writes for the athletic. Okay. He is like the shams of hockey. Really?

Yeah. Okay. Well, he's only got 204,000 followers. Good dude. Okay. Yeah. So there you go. He also drinks more Starbucks than anybody I've ever seen in my entire life.

It's not good, folks. Keep your caffeine content low. Yeah, I know. Don't look at me that way. I wasn't looking at you in anyway. I had on 10th inning last night. I got on deck of contenting today. All right.

Just cut me some slack, Jay. I'm just trying to help you. You are helping me. I'm trying to be helpful. Yeah. I cut your heart long. What's her name? She can help me.

She's a Portuguese fan and she cannot help you. She could try. Okay. So when I hear that, I go, that's great. I mean, look, I don't like hockey, but it doesn't mean there are thousands of people in this community that don't appreciate hockey. I think there are two groups of people that can afford hockey in this town that we know of. So apparently it'll be one ownership group and they'll be looking at both cities. whichever the ownership group is,

whoever wants to buy into expansion. Now, the Moody Center will be, I don't, would that be ready for hockey? Is that big enough for hockey? It's big enough. I think so. Or would they want to build their own arena? You ever know that Ross?

Everybody wants their own arena. Of course. You control it. You don't have to pay rent to anybody. Then you can get concerts and make money off of that. I'm going to make a prediction right now. Oh, oh. If it goes, if it goes to Austin,

it's not being played in the Moody Center long term. Whatever ownership group is coming to Austin, it's going to want their own arena. Everybody wants their own arena. Dallas are like we're not partnering with the Mavericks anymore. We're done. It feels like Austin can handle it. Oh, I think you could get Austin San Antonio.

They've got no major four sports. Yeah, Austin would be, I mean, honestly, would probably be the better choice. The biggest market, one of the biggest markets without any major four. Yeah, I mean, it works in small markets like Columbus. It's worked well. It works well. It's worked well beautifully in Utah.

I mean, there's a certain number of people, including Cole Thompson, who is just, I believe he is. He's hockey fan number one. He is. Mm-hmm. So I will look forward to seeing him with a massive deposit towards season tickets. I'm good. I can't. It's partly about filling the building up.

But it's also partly about does the corporate community want to invest? in this. There's a lot of corporate interests in Austin. Like I'm saying, I think it's probably a better fit in Austin than is in Houston. To be brutally honest with you. I don't know. I don't know what I have to say that. You're also drawing from a smaller fan base. We got seven million people here metropolitan-wise.

What is Austin San Antonio? Probably four together if you'd combine it. Combining San Antonio, it would be more than that. Okay, but even if you weren't combining San Antonio, you're looking at probably three in Austin. Austin metro population 2 and a half And I don't know if San Antonio is a robust hockey city I don't know for that matter of Austin Probably not

San Antonio Metro 2.8 Okay so you're looking at just shy of five We got seven here And you've got everybody within 75 miles Where people in Austin have to go You know if you live in San Antonio you're looking at 7580 miles Another one

Who is it? Another one Another one Portugal 4-0 over Uzbekistan in Houston Stadium Oh, the keeper knocked it in with his own arm. Oh, my gosh, look.

The keeper backhanded it into the net. Oh, this brutal. I don't know if they're going to let him back into Uzbekistan. That's not good. All right. Am I supposed to know where Uzbekistan is? Is that the eastern block? Well, that's kind of a randall.

I mean, that's generic answer. Yeah, exactly. I don't know exactly where it is. No, I don't think you're supposed to. So then I have no emotional title. He's Beckistand. I'm not asking you to have emotional tidies. Like what's the greatest food you can get

into your Bekestan? Uzbek Putin. What is it again? Uzbek Putin. Putin? Yes. Not what you said yesterday. Oh yeah, look. It's bordered with Turkmenistan and Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Tom and downtown. The problem with Austin is a major league city

as the University of Texas fights it every time because they enjoy being the only team in town. I don't think they would object to a hockey franchise like they would, NBA or NFL. I don't think it's University of Texas job to be stepping out. I don't know. I mean, I feel like Jerry Jones has been fighting NFL. Yeah. Well, Jerry Jones wants nothing else in Texas.

Yeah. He's probably already pissed off of this. He usually has been around for 25 years. Yeah. There are two groups. There's the Gulf States Toyota group and obviously the Fortita group would be the two. Okay, that's not Eastern Block at all. That's way off.

Was it Western Germany? Western, yeah, I don't know. Kazakhstan is huge. huge. Uzbekistan, not so much. The more you know. See, the World Cup is teaching us about geography. Is that what our audience wants?

Yes. When y'all coming from the Matt Thomas O'Ross, do you come for geography? Yeah, you know what's the capital of Uzbekistan is? Of course, you, Uzbekistan City. I knew you were going to say that. Terrible. What is the answer? Tash Kent.

See, this is what you could do for the next two weeks. You've got all your believe it, you could get well ahead of things. We could do, believe it or not, capital, a World Cup capitals. but that's highly googable. Houston Cougars, and for that we love him. Joseph, you've been in New York for how many days? I've been here since Friday. I'll tell you what, that's a good intro, man.

I appreciate that. A wise man told me to play that. I don't know if you know who that person is. Well, you could, you know, we could have gone Sinatra. But, you know, one day I'll have to tell you about all those World Series I covered at a Yankee Stadium where they played that song like 30 times on a loop after a win. So I'm kind of probably Sinatra played out. Yeah, you know, it depends on the mood you're in, but we're glad to have you with us for a few minutes.

Are you enjoying the experience? I'm going to presume this is your first NBA draft coverage, correct? It is. My first one. And you've been chasing around the Sanak and you've been also changing around Fleming's. Now, obviously, they're going to be drafted at different ends of the first round. Are they being treated differently? I'm curious about that.

No, I mean, 24 players got invited to sit in the green room. for the first round and both over there. So, I mean, once you're in the club, you're in the club. And, you know, there is going to be a little bit of a gap, I believe, between, you know, Fleming's we're hearing is in that

7-8-9 range, probably 7-8. And then Sanak, he's a little harder to figure out. Right now, I've seen him anywhere from 17 to 25-ish. Spurs have been talked about. The Lakers have been talked about. But for Fleming's,

Right now, if I had to guess, Matt, it looks like Kings at seven, Hawks at eight, and I don't think he gets beyond that. I'm curious, and you have other media reporters with you, how the vibe of the draft has changed. I've been to one draft myself. It was in 2005 when Andrew Bogart, what number one from Utah was covering him for the station in Salt Lake City. But I'm curious how the NIL movement has changed the overall tenor of guys trying to stay in. in for a year out, stick around college, or, you know, as great as NIL is, Joseph, and you've been covering that a lot, the NBA just puts a lot of these first-round kids in some serious, serious cash that even colleges can't pay for.

Yeah, I mean, there's two sides of it. You know, you got the guys that maybe are on the older end where NIL came midway through their careers, so they're seniors, and maybe they needed the development time, and you got the four-year guys and seniors. That's a real rare. So you look at it. I'll tell you one thing that's different. These guys look like they already have money and they do before they even signed that that big first NBA paycheck. But, you know, the first 10 picks tonight could be all freshmen. That should kind of tell you everything, you know, from a, from a quality talent standpoint. Plus, you know, they're going, you know, players are going in and most of them are getting out fairly quick nowadays.

even with the money. But, you know, I can think of a couple of guys that, you know, if you don't think you're going to have a pro career, at least in the NBA, you can make just as good of money staying in longer versus going and playing overseas and stuff. This has got to be a bittersweet time for Calvin Sampson. And we had him on the show yesterday, Joseph. You know, there was a reputation that Kelvin had prior to the University of Houston

that if you wanted to get coached hard, Kelvin Sampson was your guy. If you wanted to win at the collegiate level, he was your guy. But if you wanted to get into the NBA, you may want to go with someone else. Well, he has had a run for about seven or eight years now. The NBA, as you know now, Joseph, is littered with NBA players. How good of a moment is this that even though one and done is not sexy, but it does

mean the University of Houston gets on a little bit of a stage with these guys being selected in the first round? Yeah, I mean, when you think a one and done, do you think of Kentucky and Duke and North Carolina and places like that? yeah it's it's got its bad part because you'd like to keep some of these guys around for a little longer run it back and see what happens but you know Kelvin talked about the time away from the college game and he was deeply involved in the NBA with Popovich's put the spurs and Milwaukee and you know the rockets and he picked up some things and you know it was all college basketball for that but he saw the different sides of it he saw the the development part in the NBA, the scouting part, sort of what teams look for, what they need. And he's incorporated that since he got to Houston. Now, obviously, the first few years in Houston were lean and you had to build that up.

But now that he's able to sell, you know, they mentioned Damien Dotson. He was the one that showed that they could bring a guy in and get him to the NBA. And since then, you've had Jarrett Walker and Jamal Shed and Quentin Grimes. and Marcus Sasser, all those guys. So that basically it's a billboard for what you have accomplished. And that's part of their recruiting pitch. We can get you in here. You're talented already, but we can get you across the finish line.

And that's what they've done really since 21 with all the first round picks. And they get two tonight. And then you get possibly two more in the second round. Four guys, that's never happened for this program. And it says a lot about where the Houston basketball, program used to be and where it is now. Our friend Joseph Torto, Houston Chronicle on the beat from

New York covering the NBA draft. You mentioned Sharp and Uzanne. What's your gut to tell you about where those guys could be selected tonight, or tomorrow, I should say. Well, Emmanuel, I think he gets off the board in the first 10 picks or so of the second round. I think

for Milo's, it won't be that much longer. I do believe both taken, and they both go, you know, Emmanuel could go in that late 30s early 40 range i think milos has been projected in the 50s and the low ends of that but uh you know both of them uh well deserving both of them had different paths that they took to get here uh especially manual just an incredible story of overcoming a horrific leg injury but yeah the last time well it's never happened for four but it's kind of weird the last time

of houston even had three it was a la juan and michael young and 84 and then uh a guy named Carl Lewis, who got a ceremonial pick by the Bulls when it was 10 rounds. So never really happened to even have three, but it's going to happen this year. That's great. And it's going to be fun to get the University of Houston on that map even more than they are. You have been trailing these guys going to various events. Anything observational from going to getting Texas and fitted to shooting to doing these video shoots? what are you noticing about how the two first rounders are kind of handling themselves right now?

Fleming's has some weird food taste. He doesn't really like sauces, but pizza, he was okay to do it. Pizza is bacon and cheese, so it's kind of a little odd. I like a little bit more toppings on my pizza. And, you know, they invited me to a private workout in the NBA office, the Players Association. So I thought that was kind of interesting to have a really. nice court set up there in in manhattan so uh that was that was one thing just to see them interact you know it's been a the whole family is here for the fleming's same thing with with senac and

you know they haven't spent a lot of time together i mean yesterday was media day they crossed past real briefly but really it's just been a matter of both of them doing their own thing uh fleming's went to watch uh the premiere of a supergirl with his girlfriend last night uh they had a nice family dinner. So, you know, they're taking in the New York experience and, you know, trying to decompress a little bit before things get really wild here. But it should be fun. Kelvin Samson will be in the green room tonight as Chris Anak's guest. Kellan will be in the building as well. So a lot of things coming up. I'll be interested in what they're wearing. Both of them wouldn't give us much of a preview. But they said they got something

special in store. So those are always fun to see them walk the red carpet. and kind of let the glam out for the evening. For a let you run, Joseph, AJ DeBanza from BYU, Darren Peterson from Kansas, are two guys expected to go in the top five. You have seen them firsthand with the Cougars playing them. What are your thoughts on both of those guys? And to Peterson's point, there is some question about his love for the sport. He's missed a lot of time when he plays not a heavy minutes guy.

When you look at him now, and again, it's hard because it's a workout. and whatnot. It's compared to when you saw him in game action. What do you think, getting your crystal ball out, what do you think about Darren Peterson as an NBA player? Well, you know, the time that he played Houston, he was actually on the floor. You know, he missed 11 games and then had some other ones shortened by first with the cramping issues and then some other illness and injuries. But, you know, that's the deal.

If you get a Darren Peterson on the floor for 30-plus minutes, he's probably the best player in the draft. you take number one but they're they're just he said it yesterday in the media scrum that hey there's no issues every team i'd talk well i take that but he didn't talk to very many teams he only reportedly uh well talked to uh i think it was the uh the wizards but uh you you look at the uh the situation he doesn't think there's any concern uh everybody has his medicals he's on the court and it's the full the full game he's your guy but i think those question marks came up including like you said the you know what is the the desire uh and i think if in that case a j debanta

is a guy houston also played him this year saw him a couple of times great prospect i don't think you go wrong with either one uh you got carlos boozer at three who could easily have been a number one so the top half of this draft is crazy good and then below it that's where you're going to get the run of point guards but uh you know Washington looks like they're going to go with debanza he's going to be their guy and then after that uh We'll have to see things up. You know, Peterson goes two. If it depends it goes one.

Real quick, Mike, because I forgot to ask you, did the Rockets work out Uzanne or, oh, who am I forgetting? Sharp. Sharp, yeah, Manuel Sharp. Did they work on either one of those guys? You know what, Matt, I don't know that for sure. I did not find out their complete list of guys. I can tell you, like, Senac, in the last week,

he worked out with the Lakers and he worked out with the Warriors. said he had a conversation with the Knicks and also talked to Nets and Fleming's Fleming's had an individual workout with the Kings among others. I think he had three visits, three workouts and two visits or it might be flip, but yeah, there were no, you know, you're only allowed so many and with the second round guys, I'm just not quite sure where they who they talked to. Looking forward to us seeing your tweets all day long and your story in the Chronicle tomorrow and most importantly safe travels back to our city. Thank you for the time. as always. Thanks, buddy.

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