The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Pitching, Bad Bubble Take, & Fantasy 5

Episode Date: August 7, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. I'm on my way. Is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-town. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Rossi, I just had to yell a little bit more today because the ninth inning sucked in the Astros game, sucked bad.

We might get more of that. Might get a season full of it. Yeah, you ripped one of those out like it was a Rockets win. And if they're at the end of a big, dramatic Rockets win at Toyota Center. Yeah. And I look forward to having those again in December of 2020. Well, well, hopefully. And hopefully you guys are in there.

Yelling. Look at those new headphones you got on today. Well, I finally told you I bought some and they were shipping that. You got a lime green wire too? You're trying to be a fashionista? Well, these were, this colorway was. cheaper than some of the others and also I went for the cheap one. Okay.

Sound is good? Yeah, this sound great. Makes you sound vibrant. Because I'm all about function over form, Matt, because, you know, well, it's in anything goes Friday, so here we go two minutes in. Yeah. I recently bought a, um, a duvet cover for one of my, for, for a comforter. Spell duvet.

Quickly. D-U-V-E-T. Nice. Um, there was a blue one that was $40, but the, the gold one that looks like I'm a pimp from the 1970s was $27. And I was like, you know what? It's got to go with the pimp gold because it's, it's, it's 13. cheaper, so I don't really care about how things look as long as they work.

Function over form, as my father told me. Well, when you go to the PI, you see those all the time, right? Yeah, so that's what it's basically like in my bedroom now. So, ladies and gentlemen, Ross Villarreal's bedroom is like a palace inn. Well, less cocaine residue and not as much gonorrhea. So other than that, yeah, we're great. We do have something. Well, I got an email a couple of years ago from a guy that owns a bunch of them that

listens to show. He may not be listening after that statement, but that's either here nor there. I'm sure he knows what goes on in there. He's got to. Yeah, the cleaning crew has come to him with various concerns before I'm sure. I have not done lately, and I'll do this on Sunday because I'm going into Toyota Center for the Rockets and Kings game. It's my next game to call. I usually keep track of how many

of those type motels you can find on 59 between downtown and my house. You can count that high? It's a lot. Well, I remember one time getting in the 20s comfortably. But I feel like there have been a bunch that have popped up like pass FM 1960. For those of you that know 59 a little bit, that's got to be, I bet that we're looking at 30. I can easy do 30. And I'm talking about just as I'm driving home and I'm looking to the left of my right, executive in, champion in, PI's. Not the four seasons. Yeah.

At the height regency. There's funny. There's no Hilton's all the way. Something must have happened. I'm getting texts like 50,000 texts here in a second. Maybe it's the PI guy. But anyways, the Euston Astros are great. Yeah, play those dumbass high-like. Terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible. Okay, you want more? Well, I can give you multiple, I guess.

Here you go. Pitch on the way. That's grounded sharply through the right side of base hit. Walker scores and we're tied at two. Down to second base goes Escobar. David Peralta comes through with the RBI single. Are we done? No.

No, we got to be done. That's as far as it got, right? No, well, let's set it up. Well, so the Astros got down late, and then this happened. Brighton set, the 2-2. And Bregman hits it in the air pretty deep to left field. It sends back Peralta. Still going back, looking up.

See you later. Go ahead, two-run, home run for Alex Breggman. And the Astros are back on top. So you're feeling good? Oh, top of the eighth. You're like, we are the champions, my friend. Ryan Presley's going to close it out. Everything's okay, right?

Well, you know, he hadn't pitched a whole lot, apparently. Wow. The 2-2 to Cal. home. And that is ripped hard down the right field line and that is a fair ball and the ball game is over. Tim Lucastro scores. Nick Ahmed scores the winning

run and the Arizona Diamondbacks come back to beat the Astros in the bottom of the ninth, 5 to 4. I don't even know of a song that fits. Now, Ryan's not been 100% healthy this year, right? Wasn't he a late starter? They've been saying he's been healthy the entire time. Didn't he have

like a little boo-boo on his thumb or something? He'll blistered. Oh, he his nail, he ripped into his thumb, one of his fingernails ripped into his skin and made him bleed. Okay, so. Which doesn't sound fun. He ain't a hunted. Correct.

So Dusty goes to him and says, all right, look, we've lost us sooner probably for the rest of his career as an astro for sure. He's not going to be tender next year. You ready to be the closer. Ryan's like, I got this.

Ryan's been nail. I mean, most of his career, he's been fantastic with the same. Yeah. But not yesterday. No. And we'll hear a little bit from Ryan Presley coming up in the next second of the show. He didn't know who to blame.

You know what the easy thing to do is to blame is yourself, especially when you give up a lead-off walk to an inning. You know what the kids say about Major League Baseball and Lead-off walks? Well, did the roof open up and close up in the ninth or anything? You know what? That I don't know. I'll be honest with it. I didn't watch a tremendous amount of that.

I was watching more of the Rockets and anything else. But I listened to Robert and Steve because I was out with my daughter playing with her volleyball lessons and what. whatnot. So they were doing a great job describing it. I just don't know about the roof situation. I know that when Alex Spragman hit the home run in the eighth inning, we were all fist bumping in the car. Now, we can do that because we're family. Family fist bumping is a lot. You didn't do a Nazi salute, did you? What a mess that was. If you have not heard, the bench coach for the Oakland Athletics, after a hard fought Oakland victory yesterday, decided to

put the Nazis sign up with his right arm. They were going what elbow bumps first, as the guys were walking off the field, and then he turns around and raises his hand up straight in the air. And somebody caught on a video, and the Oakland A's had to go to their Twitter account immediately and apologize. As they should. Just not bright. It's not, look.

I mean, I'm not going to kill the guy for it. Me either. But just under the terms of stupidity, that's about a 9.6. I mean, yes, yes. It just wasn't a good idea. I don't think he is a, a Adolf Hitler supporter. I believe that in 2020 there are very few of them

as any. I don't think he thought Anne Frank had it coming or anything like that. I mean, it's just stupid. It's not a good idea. So what's the penalty in life for being stupid on that? I mean, he's got to wear that for the rest of his life. Maybe a small fine and maybe a game, one game suspension or something? Forgetting about that. Okay.

Talking about just how long do we let that one go? If we hear that guy's name over again, And we hear Oakland A's bench coach. We're going to think about that. So that little small, stupid-ass gesture of his sticks with him for the rest of his life. Yes. We, if you've learned anything about life now in the last 25 years, Rossi, you do one stupid thing. You get kind of stuck with it.

And that's for, that's for you, that's for me, that's for anybody. Stigmatized. So just try to stay away from stupid stuff. I agree. Not a good idea. So they had apologized and they did. And I don't, again, I don't know the guy. I don't particularly care.

But under the terms of stupidity, it was probably about, I got a 9.5. I guess with no fans in the stand, you forget there's cameras everywhere. Because clearly he forgot there are cameras everywhere. Yeah, Brennan, you sent me a story about the Toronto Blue Jig guy that was in the mall, right? You remember sending that to me? I don't. I'm trying to remember what it was. He exercised his freedom to...

Oh, yeah. Self-pleasure himself. What? Yeah, this is back in February. Oh, okay. I don't remember that. Yeah. Well, that's good.

He's probably thanking you for that. There was a baseball player for the Blue Jays decided he wanted, he just couldn't wait to get home. That sounds vaguely familiar. And so he did what he had to do. What did he have to do? Self-gratification. Okay. In a mall parking lot.

With other people around. With other people around. Yeah, like people want of their cars and stuff like that. I mean, sometimes the mood strikes, but you just get. you've got to get home. The mood's right. You've got to run home is what you've got to do. Now, if you're in your car, is that your personal property?

Is that illegal? No, I just don't think you do it in public places. Yeah, it's not a good idea. I'm just asking the legalities of that. The legality is I don't think you can do it in a parking lot of them all. What do the Canadian royal courts have to say about this? I don't know. But that dude's going to live with it.

It's true. But did you see the fun part of that story? Please tell. The way he was trolled? No, I didn't hear. The Braves. trolled him walking up to that. Oh, no.

That's hilarious. I didn't know that. Oh, no. That was yesterday, right? Yeah, I thought that was the best part of that story. Whose other people got stigmatized for doing one thing? Hugh Grant. Didn't he have a transvestite prostitute or something he was picking up?

Absolutely. And people never forgot about that. Pee We Herman. Yeah, that's true. Peewee Herman. Self-gratified himself in a movie theater, and he got in that's been... I mean, look... It wasn't an adult theater?

Yeah. I mean, that's kind of what goes down in there, I would imagine. I never been to one. I'm going to say, I can't speak to this. I mean, thankfully, I'm in the age of internet porn. We were talking about things before the show that aren't around anymore that either should be or it wouldn't be surprised. Porn theater should not be around. I don't think porn listens in this.

There is a video that I put out, I retweeted off of Twitter. There are two black guys that are listening to a Phil Collins in the air tonight for the very first time. And they love the song. First of all, it's one of the greatest songs of all time. I absolutely believe that. Okay, I don't. Well, I didn't ask your opinion. I'm just telling you my opinion.

If I say, hey, Ross, you think it's one of the greatest of all time, then you can say no. Well, I said, well, I said, well, not my opinion. Okay, so right now we're split on the Matt Tom of the show. I wasn't going to say anything. 50% of us thinks is one of the greatest songs of all time. But the problem, have you seen the video of the kids? Yeah, that's it. It's amazing.

They love the drum here. It's, it makes, it, it warms the cockles of my heart. When there's so much anger and hurt on Twitter, Yes. Today, there were two guys that had not been exposed to Phil Collins in the ear tonight that are blown away by the song, and that makes me happy. By the way, today is a COVID-free Friday on the Matt Thomas show. At least it is for me.

Are you sure? Yeah. There's not any major COVID news, right? Well, you could always come up with it. But if we do, my boy, Brandon, is going to buzz me if he catches me. That's exactly right. If you catch me saying any of the magic words. Uh-oh. What are the magic words?

Virus, pandemic, COVID, coronavirus. SARS-CoV-2. Those are about it. Bat soup. Can I say uncertain times? Sure. The new norm? If you say invisible Chinese virus, we're going to be doing you, Matt.

Yeah, same thing. Yeah. Don't let me circumvent the issue today. It is a COVID-free Friday. It's 1213 on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to join us, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to reach out through Twitter, you may do that as well.

It's at SportsMT, at SportsRV. and at Brendan Raleigh underscore. As anything goes Friday, so we're going to be really loose today. I don't want to get into a whole lot of the Astro stuff. Well, actually, I do because they're a baseball team. We have live sports. Rockets got a win last night over a LeBronless Lakers. Rossi, I have a simple question for you.

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Five, four, three, at two. Hey, Gerald Green. The Matt Thomas show continues. Three corner, nothing but on Sports Talk 790. Nylon! Home of your Rockies. I loved risky business. This is on risky business? Yeah.

Oh, okay. This is the train scene. No, this is the... You know what, it's not the train scene. This is the Mike Tyson scene of the Hangover, Matt. That's what this is. I know, you know what? I got to go look.

Maybe I'm wrong about this. I thought it was Rebecca DeMorne. You know what, I'm thinking of another instrumental maybe. Yeah, this is great. This is a jam. I'm with you. Somebody help me out. I can picture me as a kid and my dad air drumming this.

Oh, this? You know what? Have we ever done a fantasy five best air drum songs? Ross and I are trying to think of a fantasy five for two-thirty. I'll take the entire Led Zeppelin catalog. All right, so I've got to think about this. Somebody that knows risky business really well. I thought they were having sex on the subway with this song, but I think I'm wrong.

This doesn't sound like a sub-reploid. boy's sex song. This is a sex song. We've thought this before. Oh yeah. I picked this in loss and I was fine with it. Wasn't about a guy drowning in the water? That's like turning it on.

No, this song reeks of sex. What? Yeah. I don't know. Not to me. Brandon, if you had sex, would you have sex in this song? This feels like a very desperate sex song. Well, I mean, I've been waiting all my life for this moment.

Don't look. I can feel. Don't read the word into the words. calming in the air tonight. I mean, look, you can have sex to German polka or if you like. It doesn't matter. That'd be interesting. Yeah.

It doesn't matter. Cottonide Joe? With the techno remix. Oh, you're looking for the remix version? Okay, fair enough. Yeah, anything, Matt. As long as you get you, folk, as long as you get locked in. We will rock you?

Yeah. you're going to make me say it. You did it. Yeah, you can go to the rhythm. That's ex- Oh, yeah, you used to say it. You said it. Guy, I take, no, I can do a great parody, too.

I won't do it. I won't do it. Yikes. You should talk Texans instead. Anything goes Friday on the show. Sorry, we're not talking Texans. Oh, well. By the way.

We'll go down the 3D next week. Yeah. We're going to go to the COVID taxi squad. Do the Texans of enough tied in. 713, 2, 1, 2, 2, 5. 790. 719. 719.

I'm thinking about Queen songs. Okay. A Bohemian Rhapsody? Yeah. That's the best one. That's one of the best songs of all time.

I don't think you'll disagree with me on that. One of the most interesting songs of all time. It's just great. It's perfect. Everything about it is perfect. It is good. It is good. As I said before,

I was never a huge queen fan until Bohemian Rhapsody. And then my son, especially, my middle son, I'm glad you educated yourself, Matt. I wasn't against him, but I was really for him now. And that was when Adam Levine came to town last summer. And you were worried about it.

I was worried about it. Is this going to be? Because I thought, with all due respect, the journey dude that fills in for Steve Perry is just not good. I thought he was dead ringers. Some of these people were saying. I mean, I don't know. The Filipino guy? Yeah.

Well, there's one. He tries. Okay. Not for a lack of effort. He knows the words. But, yeah, it's just not the same. But Levine crushed it. And they have different voices.

I mean, Ferdy Mercury's voice was distinctive. It's on one of the all-time greats. It's a shortlist. It's just hard to try to replicate him, but I thought it was great. All right. So we're going to play Ryan Press at the bottom of the hour. Let's do that. Great.

We don't have to. I'd rather hear from Lisa Marie. I don't know if you want to hear from her. She's got some issues, too. I think she's broke. Yeah. Well, could she get some outs in the ninth? Well, who in all seriousness?

Who's getting outs in the ninth inning? It's going to be rice. We got to ride with Ryan Presley for a while. He's the most capable guy. He's the one that has, I mean, it's him and a bunch of people that have never, that have thrown less than 15 innings. It's him or Blake Taylor or. Yeah, but Taylor got hit pretty hard yesterday.

Josh James. I'm glad you brought him up. He has closer stuff. He's got two pitches. But you cannot afford to have a closer in the ninth inning who has crappy control. Case in point. off walk in the ninth inning in last night's game. Yes, you can't be late inning relievers don't need to be putting extra guys on base,

especially certainly because a lot of times are coming on with guys already on base. And it's not like Josh is this guy that throws three innings and gets into trouble in the fourth. He'll walk a guy to leave the game off. You know what I'm saying? The first four. It's not like, well, maybe we've just put him in the wrong spot. No, Josh will go, Josh James' first inning will be K, K, walk, walk single K.

Not how you feel comfortable about what your bullpens like in the ninth inning. So you're saying there's not a spot for him. Belak was good yesterday, really good. Gave you five. But that's the problem in 2020, Ross, is that everybody, we are now, if we were talking baseball 2000, anything except 2020, we say five innings. You know what we say? That's not enough.

We need more. But Dusty Baker said, at the game last night, he said, Beelike was out of gas. And that's not a surprise because these gentlemen are being put in positions to go against major league hitters, the pressure, the pitches, the strike zone. I mean, the game of baseball is still the same at double a than it is in major leagues. But, I mean, you understand the magnitude of being on a major league mound, even with no fans and how different the game is.

That's why they put these guys in Monte Lings. They make them go through things. They make them get experience and gain confidence so they can go. come up here and do this. Brandon B. B. Liches' ass off yesterday. And Dussie's like, yeah, he was out of gas. Five innings, 82 pitches, and he wanted

the nap in the sixth inning of the game. Maybe not literally, but you know what I'm saying. That's not a great sign. So McCullors can't get you to the fifth. You have another starter. It's not Brandon B. Lex fault. It's just that's who he is. He could get you only five and that was no more. You're having a blow through four more relievers yesterday.

and the roster got cut to 26. Now they had to go, they got rid of... 28. 28, excuse me, they're going to be at 20 at the rest of the other. They were supposed to go to 26 a couple weeks. That's changed. What was your worry scale yesterday? Did you say 7?

My worry scale for McCullors only was 8. What's on the entire team? The entire team? We're out of seven. Yeah. I think they're going to go 500. And make the playoffs. This is a 500 ball team right now.

It is a 500 team. And maybe catch lightning and bottle to make the second round. They're not winning long series. against really good teams. They're not beating the Yankees in seven. And thank you, Joseo Tube for stepping. I've been playing really well yesterday. Oh, yes.

Three for four. Despite the internet telling me he's never going to hit again. You got three hits yesterday. The internet can be cranky. The internet, well, the internet, just say it, Matt. They're idiots. Well, it's a small percentage. Well.

But Astros' Twitter was ready to bury Ozell Tuvee too. Well, they're wrong. I'm sorry, Astro's Twitter. If you thought Joseo Tuvae wasn't going to hit, you're wrong. There's nobody that said that, right? Yeah, but AstroTrader can get kind of feisty Yeah, Astro Twitter has a lot of issues A lot of people that have been following baseball for three years

Well, the problem is you have The worst baseball writers Are the ones that are contributing to this as well Uh, you mean nationally? Yeah Okay I see a lot on Twitter Stroes fan for life account created

November of 2017 Well, Twitter's relatively new thing It's only been around 10 years Yeah, only since 2010 it's funny they weren't going they weren't taking pictures there wasn't a many stroze fan for life accounts in 2013 just let me say that people weren't taking pictures of brandon barnes them together hang out of games i see what you're going on any sport in any town 1227 on sports talk 70 we're going to hear from uh mr presley coming up the next segment plus we'll get to some rockets too Brian t's going to join us at two o'clock and rossie we got to get we got to get into or think whatever this room is and come up with a fantasy. five topic for the day. The people need a fantasy five this afternoon. Yeah.

It doesn't it feel like a fantasy five day? Yes. Because training camp news is really nothing. We don't know what they're doing except just working out in shorts. It's been very secretive in the NFL side. And that's okay because I don't think they know what to do at this point. I think the protocols are still very much in flux. Astros are playing about 500.

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Love on a Real Train by the Tangerine Dream was the song in risky business. I almost felt like as soon as I said it, I was wrong, and I was. What is that? Love on a real train. Brandon, see if you can find that.

Love on a real train, the name of the group is Tangerine Dream. And then the Phil Collins song that you would hear in a movie was against all odds when Jeff Bridges and Reach a War.

we're getting after it. What are your top five favorite Tangerine Dream songs, Matt? This is number one, not even a distant second anywhere. Now, just, you've seen a movie, right? Risky business? I don't really remember it. I was very young.

We wouldn't have like a movie time club when we go back and catch old movies. You know what? I might be thinking of cocktail. So maybe it was... Way different. Way, way different. I think I've seen...

Because that's Tom Cruise, too, right? He's a bartender? No. Or who's the bartender and cocktail? He's graduating from high school. school and is going to go to college and he winds up burning well i don't want to give away the story uh he winds up helping out some prostitutes one of them is rebecca de mornay okay i think i've seen cocktail but i don't think i've seen risky business oh risky the the most famous in risky

business is when he's in his underwear dancing to uh uh old time rock and roll by bob seeer do you know what he's holding in his hand is a microphone i do not a glass of milk it's a candle stick really a candle holder I know that goes a trivia question somewhere I had no clue And one of the things It was funny to me was He was going for a bunch of Ivy League schools

But he obviously just gave up on the thought of going to Ivy League So he I think he screamed And I don't know the exact phrase I think it's guess I'm going to Illinois Which made Illinois sound like a crappy school It's really a great school No it was He screamed show me the money

That's what it was You're thinking of that man You're mixing your movies up Oh you are All right We're gonna we're gonna do We'll do a Zoom one night We'll watch risky business

All of us together I'm good. You sure? Yeah. All right. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-790. Let's hear from Mr. Presley.

I mean, is he the closer? Yeah, he is. He hasn't lost a spot. So Ryan, the first outing didn't go so hot. So, Ryan, what happened? You can use that, I guess. I'm not going to use it as an excuse. You know, I have to take it upon myself to constantly do my stuff

and get off the mound. I think we're kind of in a tough situation. You know, Dusty kind of has his hands tied by his back with how he wants to use me right now. And, you know, I can kind of see where if he uses me in a certain situation, and they can kind of, you know, if you have a bunch of close games in the following days, we're going to be kind of stretching to find some arms that can fill some rolls. And I think that's what he was kind of worried about. So we're just trying to get in the groove and it's just kind of a tough spot right now. I felt like what's the term, gentlemen, when you're careful with your words, he was holding his tongue back a little bit.

Reticent? That's too big a word for me. Okay. Biting his tongue. I think he, I think he was kind of saying, hey, does, you should have used me before yesterday in perhaps another relatively high levered situation. Redison is not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily. That's accurate.

It's just too big of a word. Okay. When was the last time Ryan Presley pitched before? He did not. He pitched in the 12th game of the Astros and the eighth game. I definitely saw that earlier. So a few days ago. And then he had the, it's his thumb.

His thumbnail is digging into his skin and bleeding. That's where, that's his injury. And so you're supposed to put a majorly pitcher on the mound that's got that problem going? This was like five days ago. Is that on his left hand? at least. I don't think so. No.

Then you're blaming the glove? Is that what you're saying? He's just uncomfortable in the glove and it's affecting his mindset on the mound? No, that's not it. All right. We're trying to find some results. We're trying to find a bullpen arm that's going to get some outs the ninth inning. Okay.

These walk-offs suck. Either that are being doubled up 14 to 7, too. That's not fun either. Astros and A's tonight. I will have the on-deck show. 7 o'clock. All I'm doing is working, Ross, for people. All I'm doing is working for you.

great. That's wonderful, Matt. I want to be there for you. I did Rockets pre and post last night. I got the nightcap tonight. How were the calls last night in the Rockets? We got a lot, actually. Good. I'm going to four or five. People were happy with the way the Rockets play. That makes me happy. We'll talk more with the Rockets in the next segment.

Let's go to Aggie Doug on 790. What's going on 80? Hey, what's up, fellas? How are you all? Great. Hey, about the Josh James thing, we were talking about that last night. and I think you should totally put Josh James in the closer role because I think people are a lot more aggressive in the ninth inning than they are in the first and the second. Repeat that last sentence again? I just said, I think that the, you know, the hitters are way more aggressive in the ninth inning than they are in the first and the second inning. No, unfortunately though, A.D., I think the the, the, the, the recon on Josh James is let him throw strikes before you start getting aggressive with him. I mean, could you imagine the pressure of a ninth inning trying to hold on a one-run lead

when you have a pitcher that has control issues? My guess is it's take, take, take, take until at least strike one. No, I mean, absolutely. That should be what the other team is doing right now. But as Dusty Baker and as Brent Stromich should tell Josh James, you better get in there and throw a first strike, first pitch, or you're not going to be having a spot at all anymore. Because if you're not, you're useless here in the bullpen, if you can't, can't really step here.

Well, there's a spot for him. We really need some experience in the bullpen. Here's the problem, Doug, is that there is a spot for him that doesn't have to be the closer. If your average starting pitcher is going through four innings tops, you need an innings eater, and he would be the epitome of that, right? He could go give you two and two and a third. No, absolutely. So I hate to say it, I wish it was every starter goes seven or eight and you're looking to

just bridge between the starter and the closer, but that's the furthest thing the asteros are doing so far this year. Yeah, I mean, I was talking about it last night, and I just, unfortunately, you sit there and watch this team, and you just get a really bad pit in the feeling in the pit of your stomach, man. It's just really, I just don't know if they're going to be able to turn it around with the amount of use that they have going on. Now, we also talked about that this is a good thing for moving forward at this point, because if you only get 60 games, you know, in order to kind of do what you need to do, and maybe they can get into the second spot in the division. but, you know, if they end up having to show all these kids this year, it's going to be great for us moving down the line. Yeah. I think everything, and Doug, thank you for the phone call.

I think everything about this year is going to be quickly forgotten. For anybody that didn't win the World Series. Forgetting about, I just think if you have a really bad season, what can you do? Blame a 60 game season. So you just treat it like Back to the Future 3 or something and just pretend it didn't happen? Like a bad sequel. Yeah. Yeah, it's like a Rocky 5.

European vacation. Yes. The year that Patrick Duffy left Dallas and he was in the shower and Pam found him. Yeah. You just wipe it from your memory. They're like, oh, that was bad. Remember that? Oh, let's move on, though.

You tell me this. The next season was good. When you guys host a weekend Astro Fest next year, provided there is one, you mean to tell me that 80% of guys you have on the show are not going to say, last year was so strange. I couldn't get into a rhythm, couldn't get into form that I'm looking forward to a full 162. That's going to be the answer for everyone. one of those dudes. I agree with that. And I would say the same thing. Yes. I mean, imagine if you

and I did a radio show where one day we were on for three hours, one day we were on for 20 minutes, then we had three days off. I'm talking about Adam Wex or not in Atlanta. What am I kidding? No. Well, I did miss three and a half weeks of the show. You're getting my rhythm back. We're still struggling here. We're still trying to find that room. I'm working my way back, right? Getting that arm strength, building it up, Matt. No, it really is something that everyone's going to say. You don't think Jose Al-Tube is sitting there going, why do, every year I bat 3.30 with multiple base hits and I slug almost a thousand. And meanwhile, this year, I'm sitting here batting at 192 after a three-hit day. Well, he said after his game, the game,

his timing was off and Dusty Baker talked to him about it. And now he thinks he's getting back on track. Three hits last night, up to 192. So all it takes is a Dusty Baker talking to? Dusty Baker, yes. I like that. Matt. So if you have any problems, you hashtag Ask Dusty. Oh, no. We don't know. Go ahead. What do you got? What's bothering you, Matt? I'm having a hard time losing those 10 pounds.

Hashtag Ask Dusty. He would say, well, Matt, you should probably take that walk every day that you've been thinking about doing. You should probably cut back in your carbs. And, you know, don't have that after seven of course. clock snack. It's about discipline, Matt. Hashtag, Ask Dusty. Ross, my career really isn't going the way I wanted to go. What's wrong? What about your career? What? Yeah. Ask Dusty. We're making it. We're stalling. I mean, we're stalling out. You haven't reached a crescendo? So you don't need, you don't need advice from Dusty on 20. 2021 is my year. Okay. Hashtag

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Home of Astros baseball. 1250 on the Matt Thomas show. And then goes Friday on Sports Talk 790. We have the Fantasy 5 come up today. And the topic at 2.30 is, if there's anything about this quarantine that's worked out. Oh, is that a buzzer word? Well, I don't think I can say that, Karen. You say quarantine?

Well, this is a fictional scenario for Fantasy 5. So I think you're a safe space there. If you're explaining something we're doing in the show later, too, it feels almost necessary, right? Okay, yeah, it is. And you are the seventh judge on this. Have we had, we not had to go to you yet, have we for a seventh judge vote? I don't think so.

I've never been a deciding vote now. All right. I usually take you out in four or five, so. Yeah, whatever. Since he's been here. This quarantine has made us do a lot of strange things, and especially if you can't leave your house. So tonight, it's five TV shows. If you were quarantined and you were stuck with five TV shows, which five TV shows would they be,

past or present. Now, in order for either one of us to get Brendan 7th, but we've got to find something on Nickelodeon and he's been watching lately. Yeah, that's true. The sweet life of Zach and Cody might really help us out with I don't need to see your list to know. Ross's list is going to be closer to a lot. Like,

this is just a given. There's no way. I'm definitely going to go, like, my will house would be 80s and 90s, so it'll probably be a lot of that. So it'll be before. That's beforehand. You're probably going to hate both of our lists. You might get away with some 90 shows. Okay, so five TV shows. that you take into quarantine with you. Okay.

Past or present? Like what's the, you know what, forget, I was going to ask you, the one show you watch presently, but I don't want to give that away as one of the ones you have watched. All right. Rockets last night knock off the Los Angeles Lakers. Now, we've got to temper this significantly, right? When you have the greatest player in the game, not there, it hurts,

for obvious reasons. Will you like... You talk about Russ? of course and LeBron too one in one A were you like last night watching Anthony Davis does he really give a damn did anybody the Lakers give a damn last night I think so I felt like Anthony Davis was trying

he made like five of his eight field goals but don't you think that's but don't you think if Robert Covington is guarding you that in theory are similar type size that a guy like Anthony Davis could get 25 I mean I didn't Reggie Miller last night which again we're not huge Reggie Miller guys but he's like, he's got to get a 2020 night. That's what everybody thinks and that's what everybody says,

but it's not really happening on a regular basis against the Rockets. Yeah, so that, you know what, let's start giving more props to their interior defense. And hey, Dwight Howard had 15 rebounds, but whatever. He scored eight points. They were two of 19 last night from three. That was the- They haven't been three. They haven't been good from three in the bubble at all. That was the story.

The Rockets made 21-3s, the Lakers made two. That was the story of the game to me. but Anthony Davis didn't seem in a distritching to me. He's had 17 and 12. It's decent in 30 minutes. I don't think they give a damn about these games clearly and they have no reason to.

Certainly they didn't in the second half of the fourth quarter. But I'll tell you this. If you want to see a team go two for 19 from distance, that can be, the Portland Troublers ain't scared, Ross, and that's S-K-A-R-E-D. Scard.

Okay. When did you turn Irish? They're not scarred. Even from Portland. Oh, boy. And you're a Blazer. A use of Nurarkie. You ain't afraid of O'Anthony Green or Anthony Davis.

Ah. Okay. Blazers aren't scared of them, but the way they aren't as good as the Lakers. I will say this. I didn't, for a team that was missing in Superstar, that goes without saying. Mm-hmm. But I didn't, even that I was like. there's no doubt in my mind I'm more afraid of facing the Clippers than facing the Los Angeles Lakers.

That's why the Rockets, do they want to settle in that four or five spot? Yes. I am more than okay with that. So you're coming over the dark side now. No, I've always bought the Cleppers were a tougher challenge. You said last week with Jonathan Fagan, he was out the Lakers. No, he said that. I did not.

Okay. No, I've always. Here's the reason why I'm not. The Clippers just don't have the great, there's a bad aura around them. And I'm not the only one that believes that. okay well I don't base my basketball opinions on aura I do look at what's going to see on the court yeah I mean I think when multiple players miss time and you got guys that are injured I mean Pat Beverly's heard again or was um you know I might have leaned Lakers a little bit because

of the fact that LeBron and AD are such a dynamic one two combo but there's something going on with the Lakers and nobody can pinpoint it if you've read some tweets from NBA people the Lakers yeah well LeBron James said something last night about how there's been stuff happening off the court and he was very vague and didn't respond to follow. And that's very LeBron. Didn't I vote, yeah. Because the funny thing is, the whole story this entire season was how the Lakers are so tight-knit and how it was like Avery Bradley and Danny Green.

I was listening to a podcast Danny Green was on and he's talking about how they have a group text and they're all good and they're all close. They go to dinner. Everybody says, Danny Green talked about how everybody says they go to dinner together, but usually it's like two or three guys. Like they would go to the entire team would go to dinner and hang out and they were really tight-knit. So maybe something happened during the pandemic where they weren't able to have that type

of camaraderie and relationship and maybe they're repairing that. I don't know. That's not to me speculating. But that's been the story this season was how tight the Lakers were. And that was one of the reasons they were flourishing. The best player on the floor last night, maybe for the Lakers, was that Talen Horton-Tucker dude. Who?

That's what I kept thinking. Every time that Craig would say on the radio, why wouldn't you say Horton says a who-tucker who? but he wasn't bad. Or if Michael Frazier falls down on a three-point attempt, you would say. Sorry, that was a bad miss. Down goes Frasier. Yeah, boy, the Michael Frazier hate was intense in the fourth quarter.

People wanted Demari Carroll or Lupa Mute or, I don't know, Tyson Chandler. Yeah, there is this fact similar group out there that just dying for some Tyson Chandler. It's the same group that wanted some Isaiah Hartnstein and they just had to move on another post player. And Gary Clark and et cetera. Yeah. Chris Clemens. Texan Chandler is on the Rockets cheerleading squad right now. Just treat it that way. That's...

Got a new nose ring going and everything, too. Oh, does he? Yeah. Congratulations, Sam. Is that okay? Is that... Can you get that in the bubble? I guess. They got the barber. Do they have the tattoo artist in the bubble? I don't know. That'd be smart. Is that who does the earrings the nose? Is the tattoo artist?

Well, I mean, you go to the tattoo parlor to get a piercing, right? Tattoes and piercings? I haven't gotten one. I don't know. Why not? Why don't you get a nice little nose ring, ma'am? How about a stud, like a diamond stud in your left nostril? I don't think it would be a good look It would add a little something ornamental to your face Is Tyson Chandler the oldest man with a nose ring? Oh, there's got to be some rock and roll people that are older than he is

Yeah, that's true. Rick James had one, but he's dead. What about their red hat chili peppers? Only have a bunch of guys. How old's flea? Flea's pretty up there. Speaking of the Lakers, huge Lakers fan. Yeah, I bet you flea's got piercings and he's way older.

I just think of nose piercings. I definitely don't think of 40-year-olds. Yeah. I think you should get one, Matt. Tyson was a badass one. Remember when he used to play well and a lot? He was a former defensive player the year, a huge part of that 2011 Dallas Maverick's scene. You have to go back and look at YouTube highlights of him because, I mean, he doesn't do anything now, but I mean, he used to back in the day caused a serious problem.

He was what Clint Capella was, but much better. He was a rim-running defensive player of the year type perfect for the rocket season. Young Tyson Chandler would be perfect for the Rockets. It had much more offensive skill than Clinton does. All right, 1258. We are one hour in. How's the show been so far? It's been fantastic.

Great at 1 to 10, Brendan, really quickly. Gripping. 7 and a half. Tough back there. Somebody tweeted in Dennis Rodman. He's got to be in his 50s. Oh, yeah. Dennis has got five nose rings.

Yeah, yeah. Well, again, I'm going to put Tyson Channel not even the top 10% in America in terms of things in his nose. Okay. That's what I said. 713-212-5.7. 90. Second hour, Matt Thomas show begins next on 7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show.

Number two of the Matt Thomas show begins right now on Sports Talk 790 alongside Ross and Brendan Riley. I'm Matt Thomas. We thank you very much for listening. Astros lose yesterday five to four to the Diamondbacks. And the Oakland A's await your beloved Houston Astros. No mic fires in the weekend set. Zach Granky throws today for the. A's. Now, the best part about...

For the Astros. For the Astros. Well, the Astros are actually technically A's if you think about it. The Mariners of the M's. So, two things. First of all, the game starts at 8-10 as compared to 9-10 out on the left coast, which is good for me. Well, we'll see.

Although, I caught a break. 14-7, only with three hours and 14 minutes. I felt pretty blessed. I felt pretty blessed. Well, let's see what happens. At least Zach Rinkiesman. Now, let me ask you this. I have not watching A's game yet. They don't put the Vuvazela's out there, do they?

I don't think so. I've been following the A's, but I'm with you. I haven't been watching a bunch of their games, but they are on a six-game winning street. Ooh, do we want to look at the standings right now? They're nine and four. The Astros should need to sweep them, and then they will be ahead of them.

Oh, the Astros are a full two-and-a-half game out. Those pesky angels are only a game and a half behind the Stroes. Top two teams, by the way, each division automatically make the playoffs and then the next two best records after that. So of the 15 teams that are in the American League, eight of them will be going to the playoffs. Are they going to do that? I have not, are they going to do that? You can pick your seventh and eighth team.

I think so. I think they said they were going to do that with a TV show, right? Yeah, with like a state, like a awesome. No, it's not. It's going to suck. You're going to watch it. Yeah, you're right. There you go.

That's all they need. So right now, the one seeds that. the Yankees. No, excuse me. The one seed's Minnesota. The two seeds the Yankees. The three seed is Oakland. The four seed is Cleveland. The five seed would be Houston. The sixth seed would be the White Sox. Again, who these, this is like the NBA. It's like it's more teams to get in than not. Yes. All right. We already know the results of one game already today. And I can't mention the news item because it's that word related to it. So, well, You can try to.

You can just say the Cubs Cards game has been postponed. Why has the Cubs and Cardinals been postponed? Infectious diseases. Can you say infectious? Oh, geez. There's a ruling. I got buzz. Dang it.

Well, I'm sorry. It's not my fault that a Cardinals player tested positive for COVID-19, and they're postponing the game. You know how whack this? The Cardinals have not played since July 29th. The Cubs have played 13 games. the Cardinals have played five. gimmicky season is one Matt Thomas would say.

The Miami Marlins just started playing games again. They're three and two? They're six and one. Oh, six and one. Let's go, Cardinals. Shut it down. Yes, they should get more COVID cases. You're not going to beat an 857 winning percentage. So Atlanta's a half game back of them, despite playing 14 games.

This is very confusing. What a freaking. joke this season is. I mean, I'm glad we have it, right? We're happy. Sure. Hey, a Astros baseball. Make sure to tune into the 10th inning today.

You better be calling me tonight. Well, I'm going to call you. I'm going to prank call you again. So, so far I've had a glass of tequila after a game. Okay. I've done... A full glass of tequila? No, no.

And not at all like you. Just a shot thing. And I sipped it. Oh, really? Yeah. You drank some tequila neat? Yeah. I'm proud of you.

It's a little much. for me. Oh, you should drink, was it silver or gold? Silver's for shooting gold for slipping. It was gold. Yeah, there you go. And then I've done Coors Light and then the margarita machine is in the, is in the garage.

You have to break that bad boy out of the garage and dust it off. I haven't used the margarine. You should know this, Brian. We used to, after it sucked like 100 lost seasons, I would just drink nonstop. And I would just blend margaritas during the game. You haven't brought it out

since Ken Giles was a closer. That's true. So you brought it up before, and I was like 100% sure it was a joke, but now I'm not like, you actually have a margarita machine. Yeah. It's a Margaritaville. It's a Margaritaville machine. Or is it Cabo Wabo? No, I think it's Margarita.

Okay. Did you buy it because of the Astros? Well, no, but it certainly came in handy. Because I got it for Christmas and then he was like, you know what I need this for? Well, here's the thing about margaritas. I, I'm not a fan. I mean, I'll drink non-frozen ones, but I prefer frozen ones way more than I prefer the just. just the regular...

On the rocks. No. No salt. And not only do I want it frozen, I want it like out of a, you know, like an icy machine, basically. So you want it very, extremely frozen. Yeah, I don't want it blended. That's what the kid, you know, that's when you go to the bars and say, have a frozen. We can make you a blended one, which is kind of in between rocks and frozen.

Or a beerita. That's a lot of alcohol for one person. Yeah, I had one at Big City Wings. Did you drive home? No. Of course not. Good. point being is this, I like my margarita super, super frozen.

So this margarita machine that's from Margaritaville doesn't the way that I like them at restaurants. And thus, it got used a lot when, I'm trying to think who the closer was of the Astros when they really sucked. Probably Luke Gregerson or Chad Qualls or something. Yeah, Luke Gregerson. Although he was on that 15 team. Well, he didn't pitch a lot by the end of it. I remember they brought him out. I think in the Royal Series, everybody's like, Luke Gregerson?

Go look at 2013. Yes. And see who led the team in saves. Okay. It's going to take me a second. All right. Promote your Twitter account. 713-212-5-7190.

One bit of sad news. You got an answer already? I'm just looking at this whole roster. Let me go over the sad news first. Oh my God. I don't even remember this guy's name. Who is it? Jose Veras.

He was the closer He led the Astros and Saves with 19 Jose Verris Remember him being an astro? Before I go to the sad news If you remember anything about Jose Veris 713212-2-5-790 Just anything

18 saves? I don't even remember that I know the name I remember him being traded to the Tigers Now Josh Fields had five I remember Josh Fields Well Josh Fields was I can throw a fastball

And nothing else Wesley Wright I remember Wesley right Left-Hanner. Okay, so that's 2003. Who's 2014? Do you want to hear

this starting the starting pitching? Go ahead. Dallas Keikle. Good. Lucas Harrell. Eric Bedard. They actually got him

from Baltimore for a pretty good shot to change. Jordan Liles. And Scott Feldman. No, Bud Norris and Brad Peacock. Feldman was a couple years. I remember going to spring training

and Scott Feldman was the most it was the most highest paid Houston Astro player. Yes. It was a two-year $20 million deal or something like that. All right. So there is enough of,

that's the reason why the Margaritian machine came into play is because what he just described to you. That's not good baseball. What are your favorite thoughts about Mark Kraus, Matt? I thought you're going to go Matt Dominguez on me. Ronnie Sedanio. All right. Joe Smith had not decided not to choose to play this year for the Stros.

Allie LaForge, his wife, you guys know from TNT. She's been on the show a few times. His mother passed away yesterday. Parkinson's, I think. Is it Parkinson's or was something? I mean, let me make sure I get this right. A long disease.

And I think that was obviously the reason why, is he wanted to spend the last days with her as compared to this season. And he probably knew it would be hard if he'd left to go see her. It would take him a lot of time to get back. I mean, they just, family sometimes comes first, especially in a 60-game, highly gimmicky season. So Joe Smith's mother passed away. And in typical fashion, on Twitter,

I had a douchebag, and I used the term loosely, take a shot at my family a couple weeks ago. The guy goes on, I think it was Channel Room's Twitter account and says, you know, can he now pitch now since everything's taken care of? I mean, it was just the epitome of douchebagginess on Twitter. Why don't you have that guy muted or blocked? I'm going to. It's time. The mute button is your friend, Matt.

I'm telling you. I'm going to block. Sometimes you don't even get the right to mute. I don't like to block because then people screenshot it. And they're like, look at this guy. He blocked me. He's soft. I like this real geez move in silence like lasagna.

I like to block. You know what? You block it. I'm mute them. Then they don't even know. And every time they tweet you, they're screaming into the void. Ha, ha, ha. Well, they can scream in the void, too, when they're getting blocked.

And they can't even get that message to me. So that's even better. All right. So Joe Smith is, his mother passed away. And so that's the reason why. And we thought it was another thing. All right. Also on the Astros, before we get back to some other things.

Do you see, did you hear that Dusty said that Jose Orquite, had just started throwing off of a mound? No, but I did see that Brad Peacocks has been throwing a bullpen session, so that's good. Yeah. Well, I'm, Peacocks, one thing. Jose Arquitie is supposed to be the savior in the starting rotation.

Well. I'm telling you, Ross, you get anything from Jose or Katie this year? It's gravy. Just like with old creaky-nearne-Alvarez. He was taking BP the other day and Corpus as well. We set the over under 30 games. You get out to the Bregman and, well, you know, spring.

I took the under. Under on what? Number of games he was playing. What was the number? 30. Okay. And you guys took the over on that. We are at 12 games in?

Yep. Okay. I hope I'm wrong. I want to take the L on. He'll sit some days out. I don't DH every day. But we're also assuming he's going to be back in 18 days. Because there's hardly any days off.

So it would be basically... He's taking BP right now. He can hit. That's what he does. It's not like he's going on the field. Can he run? I don't know. Because you have to actually run to first base.

It's not like he was like a burner before. I was telling you, creaky knees can cost you days. Okay. He's D.H. He's maybe he would be fine. So basically it's either a home runner. He's Kurt Gibson up there. Either he hits a home run or he takes the all at first base.

He's going to fist pump. Yeah. And Robert Ford's going to say he can't believe what he just saw. 113. 790. 713-212-1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. And anything goes Friday.

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It's your home. A fastos baseball. Well, you know, that's another thing. When I crash you then to go deeper. You know, I don't need the number. Austin Rivers played 15 minutes the night. They go deeper in the bench means you'll play 30 tonight. That's deeper in the bench.

You know, they crack me out by numbers. It's like, well, you only play eight guys. Well, because I had three guys playing in the low 20s. I'll just help Jeff. green to 31, I'll be in to 30, and Austin to 30, then that's all I need to do. You know, that takes minutes off everybody else. So it's a matter of games right now

that average about 34 minutes a game. I'll do the first game. First game over time, okay, I get it. You know, kind of screwed us up statistically. But last two games, he had 34, 33 minutes. PJ last game at about 33 minutes. Russ was at 35, just a couple minutes too high. Everybody else is the end of 30s.

You know, 30. They need that, get insane, get in rhythm. They've got to get tired so they can get on the other side of it. You don't get insane by not pushing yourself. That's Mike Dantonia from our visit yesterday, getting ready for the game against the Lakers. I also got news for everybody, Ross, and you know this, is what we talked about this multiple times. He's got some alpha dogs that don't want to sit. That's true.

James Hardin, it's two and a half minutes left to go in the game, and the rockets are up comfortably, what, 15, 16 points? he's out there because he saw what happened last night in the fourth quarter when he went and took his little four minute rest, the rocket lead of 18 going to pair down to four or five somewhere in that range, you don't want to sit. He comes back out there, back up from 13. Games basically done. Yeah, they got it like 18 or something like that. I thought you could have been pulled a little bit earlier, but it's easier.

I'm sure he wanted to get to 40. If James says, I mean, this is the byproduct of having a Uber super mega star in the NBA. Do you think Frank Vogel can really control the amount of minutes ultimately that LeBron James plays? If Frank Vogel said, you're only going to play 31 minutes a game, LeBron's like, I'll have you fire tomorrow.

His minutes have been up this year. They want to play. They want to play because they can, they had their eye on the prize. The playoffs start in a couple weeks. They want to get ready. And certainly if LeBron, if certainly if James is in with 39 points, he wants to get to 40.

Yeah. So he's a number. He number watches too. I just said it is what it is. There's a stack component to it for sure. Like, who do you think in the NBA? I can only think of one coach that has been able to,

it's either my way or the highway in the last 25 years in the NBA. Well, you're going to say Greg Popovich. You're right. Tom Thibodeau probably was like that, but he got the highway a lot. And he's now on his third team

in the last six years. But the one guy who's done it and gotten away with it, yes, Greg Popovich. I don't think Steve Kirk gets away with it. Doesn't do it there? No, probably not. He's more collaborative. Do you think Eric Spolstra told LeBron James to do this, do that? No, Eric?

No. LeBron is going to listen to the advice of a coach, but LeBron's going to run what LeBron wants to run. And that's in a category. That's the same category of Kevin Durant. That's Kyrie Irving. That's Russell Westbrook. That's James Harden. That's LeBron.

you know, maybe Mike Booneholtzer in Milwaukee has a pretty good grasp of things, but he's a disciple of Greg Popovich. So maybe they, you know, whatever Popper gave Boonthor. Now Boontholder was also in Atlanta and not successful. Sometimes it takes a different place to go. And it also ultimately takes talent. I thought he got unfairly fired in Atlanta. He brought them to 60 wins.

And then he got 60 in Atlanta? Yeah. What? It was Coach of the Year over there, I'm pretty sure. Atlanta was a 60 win team One of those years Does America know this? I think so

Brandon, did you know the Atlanta Hawks won 60 games recently? I wouldn't say I knew but it didn't surprise me Yeah, 2015 they were 60 and 22 The Atlanta Hawks

And then they just got dusted by the They got dusted by the calves In the conference final But nobody ever thought They had a chance Like you knew those 60 wins Were 60 regular They started

They had trouble in the first round against Toronto or somebody. Well, Toronto's a big first round of trouble team. They had trouble in the first round of the playoffs against somebody. Oh, it was Brooklyn, I guess. Or New Jersey. And then they got swept by. Promptly swept by LeBron James Cavaliers. I just think, and I have been around the NBA now intimately for the last four years.

I mean, I'm not all my life, but in the last four years traveling. You've got to realize, gang, these players are going to control. 98% of the agenda. Yes, they are. And Pop's been lucky that he's been able to draft players and have players acquired that don't really challenge him.

I remember one time watching game. Kyle Leonard challenged him. And now he's on his third team. But that's a lot of his because of free agency. But yeah, he and Lamarcus Alders got sideways for a while, but I think Lamarcus and them came down understanding. I also think Pop's changed a little bit. Pop doesn't seem nearly as vested as he was 10 years ago.

He's more invested. It seems like he's invested. Is he going to go into politics or something? He's, well, he's also 71. I mean... Oh, that's true.

He could be mayor of San Antonio, though, right? I think he's invested in three things. Politics, wine, and then the spurs. I like one of those things. Yeah, we got, we got our wine trip planned out by the way? Oh, yeah.

Where are we going? I thought we're going to go to Napa. Oh, or Sonoma. I'm more familiar with Sonoma, Matt. Oh, you are? So you can kind of walk us through to her? You know what we can do? No, I can't.

I told you. I was hammered. by 930 a.m. there. So I don't really remember a whole lot of... I could have been in Topeka for all I know. I don't think of Sonoma, California, and Topeka, Kansas would have been one of the same. Yeah, that's true. The weather was beautiful. But, yeah. So James is not unlike many of the super megastars in the NBA.

He wants to get his points. He wants to get his stats. And he's going to do that, even if a game is out of control like it wasn't late in the fourth quarter. And he's a divan. That's fine. Let me tell you something. You need divas to win championships. That's true. Do you think I regret I watched the last dance over the summer? Do you think I regret watching

Justin Verlander get the Siong last year? I mean, he's right there at the very top, but he absolutely earns every bit of that divin. Yeah, I don't think 90s fans particularly care that Michael Jordan was a mega diva. Yeah, and I think Magic was probably a divan his time for the 80s before the term really came out there. Oh, yeah.

Of course. Karim Abdul-Jabbar demanded a trade for Milwaukee. he was a diva. Yeah. He's a diva to this day. He's really upset. Nobody really brings him up in the goat conversation. Corrine?

Yeah. He's in the conversation. I think so. But I think he doesn't... Most people just say Michael Jordan. Oh, no. It's a two horse race. It's a two horse race for sure.

You'll see. You said that if Karin was right here, but he would make a face at you right now. Well, if Karim was right here, I'd have some other issues with him. It would nothing to do with his basketball playing ability. Oh, what would that be? He didn't like his acting in the Bruce Lee movie?

Game of Death? No, he was fantastic on an airplane. Oh, that's... Well, his acting wasn't fantastic, but... Oh, every part of that was great. You thought he did a great acting job? Oscar-worthy? Matter of fact, Brandon...

Oh, boy. Get the clip from Airplane where the kid is arguing about Kareem's basketball ability, and Kareem bounces back at him. Oh, Brendan's going to say, what's airplane? I know. I need to age him, like, 20 years in, like, five seconds. It's okay, Matt. So, let me...

Can I peel the curtain back on a story? Yes. About Kareem. Oh, wow. I think I know where you're going. Should I know? No, go ahead. Who cares?

Yeah, I was going to see who cares. It's a truth. Kareem had a new book come out a couple of years ago. And I was contacted by a PR agency. Really, it was just one woman who was bat-blank crazy. I mean, bat-blank. This is such a good story. I got to save it for the next break.

It's going to go a few minutes. Wonderful. Matt's Storytime. You know what? I used to play the Leave It to Beaver. I have great stories. I have lots of life lessons. Did you find the soundbite?

This is him talking about. We can come back with it. We'll come back. Okay, we'll come back with some of the best acting you ever hear. Yeah. Of one Korean Abduljabar plus my story time with Kareem's PR people. 127. Anything goes Friday.

Brian T. from the Chronicle in one half hour on Sports Talk 790. This is Eric Gordon. We've got to pullback. Three hit it. Eric Gordon on fire here. Sports Talk 790 is your home? Yes.

For Houston Rockets Basketball. You're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense. And he says that lots of times you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try, except during the playoffs. The hell I don't. Listen to you, I've been hearing that crap ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and near up and down the court for 48 minutes.

The funniest movie ever made. ever it's all right ever that's your opinion correct so on today's show we played I'm not allowed to give my opinion so

no here's what is Ross what is the funniest movie in your life I don't know I don't have opinion yeah you do the funniest movie ever made that's actually a great question isn't that great question

to me geez what is your Brendan your funniest movie in your entire life the first hangover Ooh, that's good. First hangover was a good one. Really, really, really good.

Like old school? I'll tell you what, I know you're going to make fun of me on this. Happy Gilmore? Bridesmaids was really fun. Oh, I have it. Funniest movie ever made? Friday. Never saw it.

Friday is my favorite. One of my favorite movies. If there's one movie I've seen more than any over and over again more than any of my life, it's Friday. Is that Andy's movie too Friday? I'm not sure. We quote it together sometimes when I host with them every now and then, intermittent. Yeah, the funny, yeah, to each is on. Everybody's in our opinion.

But, yeah, oh, Hangover, the first one. So good. First movie I watched in theater before being allowed to. Stepbrothers is up there. Great first half kind of trail towards the end. The whole thing's great. But airplane just never, ever let you down. I'll tell you what didn't really strike a chord with me when I watched it.

Animal House. I haven't seen it so long. It was funny, but it didn't, it didn't, like, change my life. Like, Corky's was the movie. When I was the key, you weren't supposed to watch because it was, there was nudity in it. So, of course, we wanted to try to go fine and watch it. Dr. Strangelove, you probably don't know that one. That's a Kruberk, fam. It's amazing. It's hilarious. All right, so our Fantasy 5 today at 2.30 is we're taking five box sets with us to our quarantine.

Yes. TV shows only. So we're just doing movies here. We did movies, and I crushed you on that. All right, so really quick on the Karema Diljabbar story. So this is about two years ago. Kareem writes this book. And it's not about his playing days.

It's about him growing up. And it's a very fascinating book about just his upbringing. Yeah, you read a little bit of it. I actually read quite a bit of it because they wanted me to be prepared for it. So this woman, I always want to say badass and just say the S part. But she was badass. I get this call from these people and say, hey, we would like you to emcee an event with you in Kree. Crino Dool-Jabar at Allie Theater.

And I'm like, I would be honored. And she's like, well, we want you to read the book and we want you to ask questions. We want you to have a conversation and kind of like, you know, what would you? Now it would be like a one-man show, but a, you're literally on a stage and you're just sitting here talking to one of the greatest players in the history of the NBA. And they started traveling, they were going to start traveling around the country with this until they realized that it's hard to get people in Houston, Texas to spend $100 on Crinodd-Dabar. If it was Akeem Elijah on, kind of one-story thing, it'd be no big. He went to Milwaukee and did it. It was very successful because he used to play there.

He did a show in Los Angeles. Well, not that people don't realize and appreciate who Krimadul Jabbar is, but it's not going to have the same luster in Dallas or in St. Louis, and it would be in, say, the places that he played, right? Correct. Well, then she then says, I'm going to pay you $5,000 for this. And I had that money spent in three cents. Yeah.

So you're telling me, all I got to do is read a book, talk to one of my all-time favorite basketball players, on a stage with him, and you're going to pay me $5,000. You get some ground effects for your Jetta or something. I'm like, oh, hell yeah. I said, just bring the contract, sign me up. So I don't hear from her for a while. and then she starts calling the Rockets. And she wants Kareem to be heavily involved in one of their games. And so the people of the Rockets said,

well, we'll have him do the first shot thing for charity and we'll promote his book a little bit. She damn lost her mind. She wanted me to openly promote this event in the middle of the Rockets game. I'm not kidding you. You could say, mention something while he's doing the first shot, right? That's right.

but she basically wanted me to go, basket by James Harton, please catch scream, March 11th, the Alley Theater. Like every other basket? And I told her, I can't do that. First of all, that's illegal because you're not paying the rockets for me to do it. And secondly, it makes no sense.

So then she wanted me to do it on my radio show. I said, that's Plugola and Paola. I can't do that. If you want to buy ad time, I'll be happy to. If you want me to have Cream up on the show once or twice, I'd be honored. I'd be great. Yeah, that's the way to do it.

Get him on the show. And then she said, well, ticket sales are so slow. We're going to have to postpone for a while. And he never did it. So not only did I lose the chances to be on the stage with Kareem, but it's him and I, more importantly, I lost the 5Gs. Well, Matt, if you'd have thrown away all your morals and ethics, you'd have the money. That's why, Brendan, you should be honored to work with me.

I am Mr. Morals, Mr. Standards. I am a man that of, I have, of ill refute? Well, repute. Well, ill repute is bad. Oh, okay. That's not what I am. I'm full of good repute. Reputation.

You got a good reputation. That's right. So that's Matt's story time for the day. Thank you, Matt. I almost got to hang out with Kareem and make $5,000 the same time. Instead, I got nothing I liked it. No, they cancel a whole thing because nobody was going to go. Well, would you, I mean, honestly.

that's a tough ticket. What if there's going to be like five people there? That's a tough ticket. I'm not going to spend 100 bucks to watch Kareem Talk with Matt Thomas. That's a lot. I mean, that's a lot of money. The tickets were 100 bucks. Yeah, that's too much.

Like, who would you pay $100 to sit in here? I mean, for me, it's a short list. It's probably Earl, Nolan, Dream. Earl can hardly speak. But I mean, I mean, the stories of the three guys could tell. I'm not spending a hundred bucks on any of them. I'd spend $100 bucks on all three, right? Yeah, all three together.

Maybe you got me. Maybe you got me. 139 on Sports Talk 790. Let's go to, I can't see the screen there. Marcus in downtown on 790. Marcus, good afternoon. Hey, during the next commercial break, I need you to do me a favor. You, Brandon, and Ross, settle around one of y'all's smartphones.

And let me know what you think about the new music video from Cardi B and Megan New Stallion titled, WAP. What is about it? What is it? I just a fun, friendly, family atmosphere for a Friday afternoon. I don't believe you're telling me the truth, my friend. Just talk with Ross and Brandon about it, and we'll come to a consensus. What's it called again?

WAP. All right. We'll do it during the next time out of the show. And thank you for calling, I think. You didn't see that blow up? It was last Matt's bedtime, though. It didn't they drop it like midnight or 11 o'clock? It was pretty big when I woke up this morning, too.

What's it about? I really don't know. WAP is an acronym. Four? I can't say on there. Can you say one of the words? I'm just going to leave it. Brenning, maybe you can't.

I'm going to pass. You tell me, none of you can say, either one of you can say not one of the three words? I'll put it this way. It's as not safe for work as I think you can get away with in, not the WAP, but. but the music video. Oh. You're not getting away watching that in most work environments.

You could probably get away with it here. So we need to put on our own. Here, here. It's highlighted in yellow, Matt. All right. Let's make a look. Can you read that? I know you're kind of going to go out.

Ooh. Huh. And there's a video about that? You did video. It's a music video. And the guy sings that song? Is there a radio edited version in the system maybe? By now, we do have the beat down the hallway.

Is the beat playing the song? it's already got 13 million views in 14 hours. So it's doing well. We do have it in the system. There you go. Let's come back with it. Yeah, if it's in the system, it's where we're playing, right? So we'll play, come back.

Let's double check it. Brenny, you've got a limited time here to double check, make sure it's safe for these FCC-friendly airwaves at his Sports Talk 790. So what is he going to do? He wants me to hear it and then comment on it. Yeah, here's thought. I think he wants you to see the video. So we'll do it.

It's provocative. It's 2020. Let's take a look at it. Next on 790. Craig Ackerman here. When I'm not calling Rockets basketball, I'm following at Sports RV on Twitter. You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

This is a song that dropped this morning? Yes, Matt. This is wet, whet, beat it up, baby, catch a charge. And it's your

put this ride in your face swipe your nose like a credit card. This is like a game that kept remember to hit this mute button

for language. Okay, and scene. Let's, let's, let's watch the music video. Do you know what exactly the face Matt looked

and sounded? It was like he was driving his kids in a minivan and said, what, excuse me, what is this? Oh, I guarantee my children to listen to songs like this all the time. That is the most uncomfortable I've ever seen anybody look at work. Oh, we've done and said much worse. But I know the name of the song now, so I'm just trying to match the words of the song to what the name's song title is.

WAP, WAP, Matt. Go look up, if you don't, if you want to know what it is, go look up an urban dictionary. We're not going to tell you. All right. So I have a problem in my house, Ross. Okay. My son's favorite sportscaster is not his dad. Why is that a problem?

Because I would like for him, for him to think that I'm the goat. Well, you top five at least? I think I am. Okay. So Daryl Morey tweets out something 17 minutes ago and he goes right at old takes exposed and at Colin Coward. So Colin Coward is my son's favorite show. Your son has poor taste on a number of things.

It wouldn't do well here. It just wouldn't because he's just, Colin's got this intense hatred for Houston sports. He just does. I don't know why, because one of his producers is a really great friend of the show. Is our buddy Greg Tooey. I tweeted him a lot of times.

Greg grew up in Texas. He's a big fan of all the Houston sports teams. And he knows that his boss just hates. Houston Sports. That's okay. I don't listen to the show. Why don't watch a show? It doesn't.

He doesn't get a lot of large markets. He's, you know, like nationally syndicated shows. He's probably doing very well in Madison, Wisconsin, but probably not great in New York,

Chicago, LA. Okay. Okay. So apparently today on Collins TV show, he had the 10 best duos in the NBA bubble. How many teams are in the NBA? 22.

So being in the top 10 is, you know, about a year. bottom of that list, you're average. At number 10 is Rudy Gober and Donovan Mitchell. That's a good duo. It's a good duo. A defense player of the year, Donovan, dynamic score.

Number nine is Jimmy Butler in Bam Out of Io. Okay. Bam's been very good this year. Would that combo come to mind? Probably not, but that's because we're not following the Miami Heat and 10. That's true. Eight, Dame Lillard and C.J. McCollum. And that maybe even be low because those guys have been balled in the last few weeks.

Seven, Jewell Embed and Ben, Simmons. They don't even like each other. Well, Don't know how much other. Well, they're getting along now, right? Trust me. One of them in Utah are in Utah. People in Utah say, well, that's my be the case regardless. Six, Luca Dachich and

Chris Hepps Porzenghis. Wonderful. Seems about fair. Five, Yonazza d'entagumpo and Chris Middleton. Four, this is where it gets a little dicey here. Four, Nikoliyokic and Jamal Murray. Jamal Murray, very good. Nicolok Yokic, he's okay.

He's good. He's Mr. Triple Double. I mean, I think he's S-A-W-F-T. I think the four tammons behind them are better than them, at least, minimum. Three, Kawai, excuse me, Jason Tatum and Kimball Walker. Okay. Now we're just kidding. I mean, yeah, that's a good duo.

It's not top three in the NBA. Two, Kawhi Leonard and Paul George. Very good duo. And the number one duo, according to Conn Coward, is LeBron James and Anthony Davis. Okay. One's missing. Jeff Green and Ben McLemore? Well, I was thinking what of the Spurs is putting up there,

DeMar de Rosen and Petty Mills. Lamarck Saldridge, well, whatever. Obviously. That's Colin going, I'm not on in Houston. I can take a jab at a team that I'm not going to, that my listenership's not going to be affected by.

Right? No, it's Colin Cowherd saying, I'm going to say something disingenuous that's going to make a sensation. because I am a hot air full of hot air and I say stupid stuff nobody ever holds me accountable and people think I'm smart just because I say big words every now and then and here's the thing I try not to

take other talk shows people's comments comments and make them segments of the show same same I'm not I'm not a fan of doing that but I just thought it was funny that Darrell retweeted it because it is stupid well it's not only stupid but it does it goes directly to your, either you are so but-heard over something or some people, or it just shows you that you don't know sports. And that gets you, it should get you fired. They won't.

Case and point. Do we have that ready to the audio? You sent me a picture. Oh, I thought it was, I thought it was audio of, okay. Well, then, I guess, I was very confused. Describe the picture to us. The picture was of Colin Coward back in October running through the playoffs. We used to had the audio. That's why I was asking if we had it. Colin didn't think the Rockets were going to make the playoffs this year. He says this whole thing about James and Russ getting along was going to be a

farce. There was going to be lots of chemistry issues, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, and the Rockets were going to make the playoffs. So I just tweeted towey. I'm like, Tuwey, why does he do this? I mean, if you if you hate some team

or some individuals so badly, you probably should say this. hey, I'm Colin. I make several million dollars a year to be on FS1 and be in markets 25 to 100. And I hate Russell Westbrook and James Harden. So I'm not going to put them on the list because I hate them. Thus, here are the next 10.

I think if you preface something, you get more points, right, boys? No. No, you just make more of a sensation when you act like this is your actual opinion. you go on, it's a skip Bayless effect. It would be like me going on and saying the Houston Texans, year and year out, are one of the 10 worst football teams in the NFL. That's just not true. I don't like them per se.

I don't like the Texans the way they've constructed their organization. I don't like the coach and the general manager. But it would be stupid for me to say the Texans are going to go three and 13 every year. They're one of the worst run teams. They've won multiple division championships. They go to the playoffs just about every year. And despite the fact that Bill O'Brien, Ryan is just a couple of games over 500.

He gets his team to, you know, the postseason, which is part of the game, which is part of the requirement of the job. Now, you'd like to win in postseason. But I just, I saw that. I'm like, you've got to be kidding me. There isn't enough. If you took every NBA writer gentleman and you said, give me the top 10 duos in the bubble, if you took 49 other writers, 49 of the 50,

would put Dreams Harden and Russell Westbrook in that duo combination. Yeah, or how about this? If you have GMs and tell them you're starting a team with one of these duos, Russell Westbrook and James Hardin are going to be fairly high on the list. That means tops. No, that's fine. They're the highest scoring duo in the NBA right now. So if you're the highest scoring duo in the NBA,

you're going to tell me you're not at least in the top 10 of duos in the NBA. That's ridiculous. I just, I would not want to be made fun of by other. radio shows and TV shows. And Colin doesn't care. Because again, he's not in Houston. That should make any difference. I'm not going to say stupid things about other cities'

teams if they're just patently not true. And he did himself no favors. It's what happens in 2020. You say stupid or sensational things. Everybody talks about it. And then hopefully it translates to ratings. I don't know what the ratings are for the Colin Cowherd show, but you got to try something.

Nobody wants to listen to his boring opinion. anyways. Oh, except your son, I'm sorry. Cameron Thomas, SMH. I'm raising the boy

right, Rossi. Thank God. Are you? What's what he says? He's already a huge Cowherd fan, though. Yeah, but he says SMH.

Well, that doesn't mean he's not still his favorite. Has he knocked him off the pedestal? I don't know. I'm going to try to work on him tonight.

Okay. You know, he and I are driving to Lubbock next Friday. Oh, you got a lot of time to chat. I'll have a chance to become number one. What's the conversation

like nine hours in when you're son? Oh, We don't talk much. Oh, really? Because we've had this understanding that we talk to each other all the time. When you're driving, when you're driving hours and hours and hours, you don't have to have a long-form conversation. Isn't it easier that way?

I suppose. Put the music on, just relax, because you've got 500 miles ahead of you. Matt takes over and it's like if we're like six deep into the Barry Manilow playlist, and you're like, can we listen to something else? Not true. We'll listen to a lot of good rock and roll. 157 on Sports Talk 790. is the Matt Thomas show. And on the final hour of Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7-90.

We always look forward to our Friday 2 o'clock visits with the one and only. Brian T. Smith of the Houston Chronicle. BTS, I got to be honest with you. I don't know if you take blood pressure medicine. I know if sports makes you take it. But the Astero season is going to make you get that medicine because nights like last night, I don't think are going to go away for quite some period of time unless the Astros make a significant move to get a starter and or a reliever and or both.

Factually, Matt, I don't care what science says or stat says or some informal Internet poll says. I know this for a fact. Not speaking personally, just for the United States of America. Factually, during the coronavirus, America's obviously been drinking more. That was before the Astros' 2020 season started. thanks to the 2020 Astros, Americans are drinking even more than before.

I mean, chaos, right? I mean, who's in the bullpen? You know, who's on first? The lineup's not an issue so much, even though, you know, you've had Brantley in and out and, you know, some other guys. But, Matt, this bullpen, this rotation,

Lance McCuller's Jr., Jack Grinky, you know, I know some people on Twitter, kind of are okay with Grinky in terms of what he's done with the Astros. I've said this many times, I believe, overall he's disappointed. You know, Christian Javier, Christian Javier might be their best pitcher right now, and nobody was thinking that the entire season would, you know, come down to, could he save them every five days? So the fact that they're six and six is actually promising and encouraging because it really does feel like, Matt,

They could be three and nine right now. Here's the problem is that when you brag on a bullpen, it's great, but you also want to brag on a bullpen that's been there and done that. You've got about nine guys with about 20 innings of Major League Baseball experience. The pressures will increase the time they will see these teams. Remember, they're also seeing the same teams over and over and over again during the 60-game stretch. To think that Mr. Taylor was going to be able to go an entire season without giving up an run run is crazy, the fact that you would have thought Chub would have been an absolute late game closer.

That's just not true, not fair to him either. I was just a little blown away by how quickly Ryan Presley fell apart last night. And again, no matter if you're a rookie or you're a 15-year veteran, you walk the opening batter or the leadoff hitter in any inning, especially the one that you're trying to save, and that usually is doomsday for the particular team. Yeah, but I mean, not in his defense, but in his defense, Matt, that's not his role.

I mean, he's been a fantastic, you know, set up man for a couple years now. And obviously, you know, it's had some, you know, whatever, you know, injury issues or, you know, been a little in and out. But he's, that is not his role. That's not why he was brought to the Astros. I think it says a lot about the, you know, they have depth within the organization and they're able to keep moving names around. but in terms of, you know, oh my gosh, 2015, 17, 18, 19 talent, it's just not there anymore. And, you know, you began this by talking about trades. And I know, you know, with the trade deadline and this crazy 60 game season, it's not that far away.

But Matt, I mean, they still have names that could trade, but they don't have nearly what they used to, you know, two years ago, three years ago. And so if you're going to try to make one of those moves, Jeff Luno dealt with this every year. You're hurting yourself in the short term, I mean, in the long term, for the potential of short-term game. And they don't have those names anymore. It's unbelievable that the, you know, you take the science stealing scandal away, AJ Hens, Jeff Luno, all the changes. You take all that away, which is impossible to do. But let's just theoretically do that.

They still should never be in this position. If you have Altoouvae and Bregman and Springer and Correa and Brantley and Guriel, you have one of the best lineups in baseball. Their bullpin is, and they're kind of holding on. That's the crazy part. But yeah, it can't last. I mean, maybe on some level, the 60-game season helps them. I think it'd be even worse, Matt, in a hundred and sixty-two-game season.

I mean, the idea of these guys having to piece this together, Dusty Baker, having to piece it together, May, June, July, August, and September, they're probably not making the playoffs that way. And this year, all you have to do is finishing second place in your division. You're making the playoffs. So they still have the lineup to, you know, put up seven runs a night. You still have Grinky, and hopefully McCullors can figure it out. But there's, you know, once you lose Verlander and you lose Arsuna, this is not a World Series contender. and this right now feels like a team that's just going to be lucky to make the playoffs

unless something significantly changes. Yeah, and my guess is a team at 500 because eight teams making in each league is going to make the playoffs, and the Astros might be in that category barring a trade. Here's the facts, and we'll move on to one more Astro thing after this. They've lost two aces, one to injury, one to the New York Yankees. They lost a closer to the injury. They lost their next best reliever to free agency, and it didn't replenish. when you don't replenish, this is what you get stuck with.

So I can't, this is not a complete surprise. You just couldn't believe that the sheer number of injuries have forced a bunch of players you've never heard of. One of the thing I want to get to, go ahead. No, that's exactly it. Go ahead. So we have had this debate, and this is what talk radio does because we're talking to Astros about if only one sticks around, who's the guy? George Springer or Carlos Correa. and if you would have said this argument before the start of the season,

it is George has got to be here no matter what. Here's the problem. He's the much older of the two players. He's having a, well, he's hit well lately, but it's been not nearly what it was in previous years. Carlos is playing kind of the level we finally expected him to, and he does have age on his side. And oh, by the way, George Springer's probably going to be on the lineup tonight.

May miss a couple of games because, again, he's such a defensive dog that he just loves to. to go out and grab everything, he winds up hurting himself out there. So how often do you wrestle with thinking about the fact that the Astros are only going to keep one? Which one do you keep? Well, I mean, in terms of how often do I wrestle with it, I don't sit around and play that game, but we discuss this a lot. I write about it a lot in general. And it's a fun question. It's a great question.

And I'm going to be writing in Sunday's Chronicle, Matt, just about where this franchise is. I mean, again, you can't talk about the Astros without talking about the sign stealing and everything. But at some point, if you're in Houston, if you're an Astros fan across the country, you have to move on, right? Because there's a baseball team in the 2020 season. So one of the main stories of this entire season, yeah, it's Springer or it's Correa. And it's those futures. And it's not A.J. Hens and Jeff Roano deciding this. It's James Click.

You know, and maybe a little bit of Jim Crane, a little bit of Dusty Baker. but it's a first-year general manager who's going to have to figure all this out. The Correa thing, it just, it's fascinating. It's so Astros fans. Astros fans in 15,

and rightfully so, I'm not knocking up here, but in 15 and 16 and 17, for the most part, love Correa. And it really started the turn in 18, and really last year, with all the injuries and, you know, some of the mysterious stuff, potentially all, you know, all those things and some of the 790 hosts had a lot of fun with it.

But Astros fans really turned against Correa. And that changed only after the sign-stealing scandal when he was the one guy during spring training. And I didn't fully agree with it. I thought it was whiny and missed a lot of huge points. Like, oh, yeah, we cheated. But Correa went on national TV and dropped an F-bomb or, you know, whatever he said, with him. in Rosenthal and stood up for basically 20% of the Astros fan base. And ever since then, Astros fans are back in love with him, and he's playing really

well now. So it's completely changed. It was always mostly Springer, Springer, Springer, and as Correa fell off, especially within the minds of fans, there was no question. If you had to pick one of the two for a fun radio bait, it would be George Springer. Even, I think, going into the salt season, it's changed. And that's not a knock on Springer. But, yeah, Springer is also injury prone. And, you know, struggles to make it through 162 game season, mostly because he plays so damn hard. He's older.

You know, maybe he starts to decline at some point. Maybe George Springer hits 500, you know, 450 home runs, and he's doing this for 10 more years. If I had to pick, I would pick Springer. But I really do feel like the debate has changed so much. just in the last eight months within the fan base, that, especially because Karea is playing so well right now, in the field and at the plate,

and he's in some ways become this team's leader, post-sign sailing scandal, that the fan base would want Karea, which to me is very, very interesting, considering that this fan base had really soured on Korea just 12, 18 months. Yeah, I think it's going to be a fantastic debate until Frayden's year.

I think you could flip a coin and have a great debate either side. before I let you run, a thought or two about the Rockets. And I brought this up to Ross earlier in the show. We were kind of having some fun with it too. Look, when you take LeBron off the Lakers, it's not the same Laker team under any circumstance. But I saw a vulnerability with them that makes me really want, and I shouldn't say openly rooting to play the Lakers in round one, too,

because that'd be stupid to say that. But I'm still more on that clipper side than I am on Laker side, and I feel like I'm flip-flopping on that too. but it feels like to me that LeBron has said there's some issues in the bubble that he doesn't want to get into. They're not shooting threes particularly well. And 80 could have had 25 and 20 yesterday, and he was good. But that rest of that team was very, very average. And I will take two megastars and a bunch of average players over a team of the clippers that can legitimately go seven or eight players deep.

Look, number one, you know, the pre-bubble departure of Avery Bradley is not being talked about enough. Number two, I'm very hesitant to overreact the four games, you know, for the Western Conference number one seed. That being said, this is all unprecedented. You know, there's that word again. There's no home court advantage, right? So you're going to have to make it through four rounds and you're not playing all your games as staples. Center and you have those LA fans behind you and it's the Kobe season and everything means so much locally and oh, it's so tough to go there.

You know, Matt, that's all out the window. Number two, the Lakers were horrible last night. And yeah, you know, they were missing LeBron James. The Rockets were missing Russell Westbrook and Eric Gordon. I'm sorry, Alex Crusoe. Alex Brousseau is not Eric Gordon. I'm not saying the Lakers don't scare me. They obviously are a completely different team with LeBron James.

But I fully agree with you. Now, the Rockets doesn't keep playing defense. They have to stay healthy. It's not about winning the first or second round for this team or the Lakers. It's about being in the NBA finals, winning the finals. But I continue to like the potential of this Rockets team, the way that they're playing right now. They're going to get Eric Gordon back. The Lakers don't have the depth, Matt.

They don't have the depth. They don't have the chemistry. So if they have LeBron, I still believe they should come out of the West. But I don't think they're winning the finals. I would still pick the Bucks. and they've had some issues. But the Rockets in the West, Utah's falling off. You know, Dallas is sort of falling off.

Denver stepped up a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I feel like all the Rockets have to do, stay healthy and keep playing defense. And if they do that, they should be in the Western Conference finals. And maybe they, if they're playing the Lakers in the second round, they're a deeper, you know, more driven, you know, more polished team than the Lakers are really with two superstars and not much else. Yeah, the fear factor I had with the Golden State the last four or five years is not found

without either the clippers or the Lakers at this point. No, nobody, nobody scared me in the West. That's great. Especially, Matt, with no home court advantage. You're playing in a bubble basically on television and a high school holiday tournament. The best team, the healthiest team, is going to win. We'll leave it that. Have a great weekend.

and talk to you next week. Thank you for the time. Take care. Thanks a lot, Matt. You got it, Brian T. Smith, Chronicle Sports. You can find him on Twitter at Cron Brian Smith. More of your phone calls coming up in the next segment of the show. And in 15 minutes, we will have a... We're doing production value on the show today. We have all of the theme songs from all the TV shows that Ross and I will take with us down to our bubble.

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Ross and I have the Fantasy 5 in 10 minutes. We do go differently. Although, I have a mixture of relatively new show. I got some, I have one active show. I think, Matt, if I lose this one, I deserve it. Your draft is solid to this time, for once. It's very rare. It was very rare that I concede that.

you're setting me up. Normally you make huge, gigantic blunders. You're setting me up for failure. Coming up in 10 minutes on the Matt Thomas show. See, that's why you've got to listen. Is Ross being sincere or is he setting me up for Uber failure? That sincerity is my calling card. I'll say this.

Of your five shows, I have not watched any of them on a regular basis. Any of them? Zero. Okay. Little bits of each of them. Well, that makes me feel better about my list then. Astros on deck. 7 o'clock tonight, I'll have it for you.

I think the show is so good, it's going to be on both stations. You will have a dynamite lead in, at least on this end. Well, the 18-going to 6? And now that'll be... The nightcap. Sports Talk 790 starting in 6 o'clock. And, of course, we will follow it up with all the reaction from tonight's Astros game tomorrow at 10 a.m. on the SportsRV show here on Sports Talk 790.

I'd wait till noon. Yeah, Space City Saturday is pretty great. Very, very heavy, heavy sports. Yeah, and then it's like Rob Parker and somebody or anything. No, well, yeah, because he used to be Broussard, and now he has a show during the week. I don't know. It doesn't matter. We have a great company.

But our Fox Sports Radio sometimes is just a little be desired. Doug Gottlieb's got a show on our station. Colin Cowherd. And Colin Cowherd. I mean, again, Colin just has this bad, bad, hot takey streak in him. It's hurt him. and how he doesn't put the Astros guys in the top ten is the Rockets.

Rockets. Patly ridiculous. Yeah, he's making like five, six minutes a year off of them. So I think whatever he's doing, it's working. I want to go to lunch with him.

You did? Why couldn't he? Well, he, apparently, as soon as he's done with the show, he takes off. He jettisons. He ain't got time for lunch. Yeah, like you. Oh, it's three o'clock.

What are you going to go? What are we going to go on a three o'clock in a Friday? Happy hour. Ooh, not a bad idea. Let's go to, Is this Big Mac? Yeah. Wait a minute.

Okay, before you go any further. Two all beef patties? Why do you give yourself the name Big Mac? Well, I'm 6'3 and about 280, and I didn't, people gave it to me. I didn't give it to myself. All right, fair enough. My good friends call me large Macs, but that's a long story. Yeah, it is a long story.

What do you got today? I want that one. Colin Coward, he used to be on ESPN before he joyously got fired. And what I remember about him is that he had pretty good, unemotional takes on football picks. But other than that, he was completely useless. He hated baseball and all the time preached about how it was going away. He didn't like to go to Big Ten schools, which I graduated from Michigan. and stayed. So this was kind of personal because none of those little towns had four-star hotels.

And then there was a period a few years ago when the Rockets had Yao Ming and they had a pretty long winning street going. And he couldn't wait to criticize how we were beating bad teams and this and that and the other. Whereas if you were a Rockets fan, you had to be pleased because they were finding ways to win games that the years previous that they found ways to lose. Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, look, everybody, he's obviously doing enough things right in his life to be paying multiple of millions of dollars to host a national radio show and TV shows.

So I give him plenty of respect for that. And I generally speaking, I'm not a big fan of national radio guys, but I like his show the best. He's the only one I can actually listen to. I just, I have a friend of mine that works on his show. And when I see irresponsible takes, I kind of go, why? Why do you do that? You don't have to be fans of particular players, but to not put Russell Westbrook and James Hart as one of the top 10 bubble duos,

it's just 100% wrong. And there's nothing in the world that could possibly justify it except you're just bitter about the guys. That's it. Yep. nothing more. I heard him describe himself one day, and I quote, I'm a tree topper. I'm a dilettante.

I'm not a real serious sports fan. Well, clearly, in that case, it is. Big Mac, have a great weekend. I appreciate you listening. Right? I mean, I'm trying to think of ways to defend. I mean, I would say maybe it's because it's a guard tandem, but he's got Damian and Lillard and C.J. McCollum in them.

That's a guard tandem. The two of those guys combined for 70 points a game. Now, he could say, Matt, this is not who the top 10 scoring duos are. It's who I like the best. Yeah, because Damien Lillers is known for his great defense and team play. There's no way you like... There's no way you like Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert more than you, Russell, and James.

There's no possible way. I've watched a lot of basketball life, and even if I wasn't calling their games, I could tell you that I would take much more pleasure watching Russ and James than Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell. It just flat out, that's it. Yeah, I agree. You know what? I also forgot about it. I just remembered he's a delusions of grandeur guy. He said years ago that when he makes an NFL pick on his show, it moves the line. No, he didn't.

Yes, he did. He thinks that he's moving NFL lines when he makes a pick on his show. All right, so let's do this. In the minute, we have left and segment. What's the one thing I could do for this show that could change the world of sports? Here we go. I'm on this. This is when he was on ESPN. I'm the one guy on this network that talks gambling, and I have a huge odd. audience. We have huge numbers in Vegas. Nobody wants to admit this because it sounds like I have a huge ego. But when I go on the air and say, bet something, it does move the line. You know this better than anybody. What does it take to move a line? Millions of dollars.

Millions of dollars. Or an injury. And we're talking about moving a line. We're talking about a half point probably. Even then that's going to take, yeah. It takes a lot to move a spread a half a point. Yes, certainly in the NFL. And unless every one of his listeners lives in Las Vegas, then he can't do it. It would be impossible. Because even if you have a bookie that you go to, bookie's only going on the line of what Vegas is doing.

Bookmaker Jimmy Vicaro in this report I'm reading from Covers.com. I don't think Colin could move the lines in Bristol, let alone the rest of the country. It's a truth. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we need. Good TV watchers to join us here. Of all genres, right? Sure. All ages.

If you are 23, we'd love to have you. If you're 73, even better. I mean not, because my shows aren't 73 for, maybe one or two. That's fine. Did you go with the Ed Sullivan show? No, if you are, if you are at least 21 and maybe it's up to say 80? Male or female? Yeah, male or female.

That's fine. We need five judges for the fantasy. 713-212-5-790. Category is we're taking box sets into a quarantine. Which box-set shows would you take, past or present, drama, or comedy? The only thing we can't put in there are shows that are on a daily basis. So weekly episodic shows, pastor-present, comedy, or drama. If you would like to be a judge, 713-212-5-790, the Fantasy 5-790. The Fantasy 5 is next.

228. Sports Talk 790. The Rockets are raining threes. Hey, it's Coach Dan, Tony. This is Sports Talk 790. You're home for Houston Rockets basketball. Time now for the Fantasy 5. Here we go.

Fantasy 5. Here we go. Here we go. Five shows. We're taking our box sets into our quarantine world. Television shows. Television shows. Television shows.

Not daily shows. like The Daily Show. Like I would have taken the price. I'd have taken prices right with me. Oh. That's what I was going to go with. Game show. I was thinking late night.

Yeah, game show's out too, I think. The daily game show. Oh, yeah. It's not in the list. We've already done a game show. The reason why I take that is because there's a little bit of uncertainty. I mean, the shows we've all taken with us, we have a pretty good feel of how all they've ended. Yeah.

You're not getting 50 years of the prices, right? It's a big box set. It's a big-ass box set. Ross, you have the first pick, and you get it. David? Yes. To me. And it might have been a mistake.

I don't think so. This series, I would not say I'm the biggest fan of this series, but if it pops up on TV and you need a laugh and you don't have a graded memory as like you don't memorize episodes like some people like to do, it doesn't disappoint you. You get on the show. You get on there. And very rarely is Seinfeld not going to make you laugh your ass on? Jerry, George, Elaine, Kramer. The mom and dad. Uncles.

Yeah. George's parents. Yes. Jerry Stiller, may he rest in peace? You know, you just sit down and go, I would like to have this show to catch up on an episode or watch one that I remember from 10 years ago. I mean, the Chinese... The first couple seasons actually are kind of rough.

They are, but it got better. But I mean, the Peterman, the Chinese restaurant. We don't need name every character. Okay, I'm just saying. It's just really a funny, funny, funny show. I agree with you, Matt. And so if I'm going to have a box set of something, I want something that's going to keep me going laughing all the time,

and I'm going to go with Seinfeld. It was very high on the top of my board. So I took the next two, and I had some difficult choices to make, but I went on the comedy side. And it's something that is rewatchable and easy, and I see it on Netflix all the time. I'll go to sleep to it. I think it's perfect for that.

I went with The Office. Michael Scott, Dwight, Jim, Pam, the whole crew. I have never watched one episode. One episode? And people have said to be, because they've heard me say it before, they go, it's okay. Like, there are some people that are like, when I didn't see the godfather. George says it's the greatest show of all time.

Yeah, but he also thinks that the Dan Patrick radio shows the greatest of all time, too. Oh, yeah. Well, that's a mistake. I think Dan Patrick's a nice guy. Nice, but it's nothing spectacular. And he loves those Danettes, which those guys just irritate the big. I love watching a thing where they, you know, there's so many people on that show. They have to raise their hand if they want to talk physically.

That's not a show. Should I do that if I want to interrupt you? Not the way you just did your hand up there that way. That was not a Nazi salute. I am not a bitch coach for the A's. That was not me, Matt. But the office, I mean, one of the all-time great shows. What I'm looking for is rewatchability, which it has.

And I think Seinfeld, that's where I went away. All right. Next, you're going to have some comedies in the bubble and in quarantine. You're also going to need a little drama, maybe a little sex. And I love, love, love mob stories. So when it comes to mob stories and television shows, it does not get any better. This theme is great. This is a great thing.

The Sopranos. For a show, I didn't watch a whole lot of. This theme song is spectacular. Brennan, have you watched The Sopranos or you? I have not. Jesus. This kid. What about Seinfeld?

I mean, I've watched episodes of it. All right. Well, those are my two picks. The Office and The Sopranos. Okay, solid. I'm going to go old school on this because when I was a latchkey kid in the 70s, I would watch a series of television shows every day. Well, I'm waiting for my mom to get home from work, and I would eat hot dogs and Wolfbrand chili.

Hey, Wolf Band Chili on Hot Dogs is very underrated, Matthew. I'm with you on that. And even to this day, in 2020, I'll put on, I think it's called TV One or BETT One the channels has it on. In fact, a lot of commercials for life alert on that network. Yeah.

In fact, Jimmy Kimmel did a remake of this show about six months ago. They did a, I know they did it all in the family one. They did all the family Jeffersons one and then it did

all in the family good times. This show for me is, again, I can recite 80% of the episodes. I still. Still have a massive crush on Thelma. It's a great theme song and never watch it. I thought you're going to take a little house on the prairie.

I love when James is on there. I hated when James died, but we've got Florida saying damn, damn, damn, so we appreciate James passing for that. You get me in Good Times tribute. I can probably get a 90. You know how you have like an ACT score? I give a 26 on an ACT score of good times.

Out of 30? Yep. Next. This is a show that I binge watch for years. The first four seasons, probably the first three, were some of the best television I have ever seen in my entire life. Season four started to derail a little bit. Season five, flat out sucked.

Season six, you couldn't get fast, can be done with fast enough. Okay. But. So three of the six seasons you hate. But the first three seasons. And you're taking this into the bottom. No, four. I'll take the first four.

Okay. The first four seasons. First of all, I've had an all-time crush on Robin Wright Pinned forever and ever. Really? Wait, is that the one that was Jenny? Yes.

Gen. And then watching the press. Well, he won the president originally and then changed. Yeah. House of Cards, seasons one, two, three, and some of four were some of the best television shows I have ever watched. It's a bad pick. And thus, I'm taking it with me because I have said such faith in the first three seasons, even though four, five, and six are probably will not unwrap them.

You're not even taking half the series. And you have to watch Kevin Spacey and think about all the weird things that he did. I can get past that. Bad pick. All right. Next, for me, I'm continuing with the trend of going with a little drama, a little comedy. Let's start with a comedy. 22 seasons, which I think makes us a great pick to take into the bubble because you got a lot of it.

It's spanning a lot of years. One of the smartest, most funny shows. It's animated. I loved it from seventh grade until now, and it comes on TV, and I'll still sit down and watch a couple of episodes when it's on Comedy Central. I speak of. South Park. Trey Parker's a freaking genius. Matt, your thoughts on South Park?

I don't watch cartoon shows. Oh. Okay. Well, it's for adults. It's rated TV, M.A. It's okay. I mean, I don't watch it, but I understand the value of it. It's so, there's always smart.

There's always a message. It's funny. It's relevant. And Sampart. And Sampart. And sound effects. And, well, there is fart humor and childless humor as well. That's part of the charm of Soppa.

And there's 22 seasons. So you're going to be okay taking this into the bubble for a lot. Nune to 3.7.90. Next, I went with one of the best dramas of all time. And I went with a show that. was on AMC for a while. It's about a chemistry teacher who starts making meth,

Breaking Bad. Brian Cranston is fantastic in this show. But you know how it starts and ends, right? Yeah. You're rewatch them over and over and over again. You know how every episode of Good Time starts and ends. No, I don't know. Not every one of them.

Yes, you do. You just said, you literally said you could... I said I got a 90. I wouldn't get 100. Okay. There's difference than a 9 and 100, Ross. Okay, Matt. Difference in a perfect score and a good score.

There's difference of you getting called out for your hypocrisy. Next. Breaking Bad. Fantastic show. Highly recommend. Love Seinfeld. I actually love a series more written by it. And I just felt like I could get this as a late round grade.

And I was right. It has been on for 10-plus seasons. It's covered over two decades, but they take some time off in between. It is even funnier than Seinfeld. It's on HBO. They swear it's a little bit of improvisation. The characters are as funny, not funnier than Seinfeld. Larry David, the genius.

The show is strong today as it was when it first started. Susie is one of the most amazing television characters of all time. Who's that? That's Jeff's wife, who just despises Larry. And I feel like Larry, I have 25% of Larry in me that some of the things he gets himself into, I can easily find myself doing you. There's a little bit of Larry and everybody in that show. I've talked about this before.

The improvisation is kind of sloppy. Oh, and that's storytelling is weak. Love it. I love it. Love it. I disagree with all three. Larry's wife is a horrible actor, that whole show. That's why I didn't like Dexter because the Dexter's sister is terrible.

But they opened up a coffee shop and it's next to a coffee shop. And as soon as the coffee shop, oh, it's just such a good show. Those are my two, right? All right. Yeah, one more. Oh, one more. Oh, one more. I'm going to go old school.

This is late 80s, early 90s. It's just, you need a cheesy show that's just, you don't have to think about it all. Like when it was on, I'm talking about Dylan and Brenda and Kelly and the rest of the cast. Sometimes you just need something just to kind of look back in the battles between Brendan,

Brendan Kelly and the rest of that amazing cast. Even though I lost a Tori spelling and sneaky hot. Jenny Garth is not sneaky hot. She's flat out hot to this day. If you did a little fix of your late 80s, early mid-90s, because you were a kid, you want to go back to what you got? I'm going with Beverly Hills.

9-0-2-1-0. I've never watched an episode, so what am I to say about the show? Can I tell you two shows I did not choose? Do you want to wait for the end on that? We'll wait for the end. I'm still picking, man. Jeez. Can I finish my list? Yeah, goodness gracious. All right, well, I went, once again with a show with a number of seasons.

This is one of my favorite shows to watch after school. Rewatchability is great. I love me a little detective Lidney Briscoe. Some, yes, district attorney, Jack McCoy. There's 22 seasons, or 20 seasons of it. One of the greatest courtroom dramas of all time. I'm talking about a little law and order. Yon.

Love that show. You mean to tell me I've got to take one show. I'm taking Law and Order. Well, it's my fifth show. but yes. You could take that one show put it on and take a nap to it. It's no Beverly Hills

90210. But I kind of like it. Two shows I didn't put on my list. Ozark. Okay. Which is great. And Samford and Son, I would have put on it.

You know, I thought for sure you were going to take Saturday Night Live. I thought about that because it's a lot of shows in seasons. And then I thought about Shepel's show, but it was kind of short. It was only really two and a half seconds. Last 10 years of S&L's been rather rough.

Well, you get 50 years of it. That's true. All right, time now for you to decide who wins a fantasy five. We've got to run through the list. Matt has Seinfeld Good Times, House of Cards, Curbier Enthusiasm, Beverly Hills 902-1-0. Ross has the Office, The Sopranos, South Park, Breaking Bad, and Law & Order. All right, if you want to vote, let's go. 7-13-212-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790.

Kyle on 790, who wins the Fantasy 5? Well, Matt, let me tell you, I'm not real fond of any of both of you. picks. I do like Beverly Hills, not O210, but the one that put me over the top was dynamite. So that'd be you. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. David on 7-90, who wins a

fantasy five? Me or Ross? Well, neither of you picked the X-Files Northside, and I encourage you to watch all of those. But I've got to go to Ross, 3-2. Okay, thank you. One-to-one in the score on that. Line 3. Mark on 7-90. Mark, who wins a fantasy 5? Oh, you missed the best show,

24. Never watched that. I heard of it, though. I mean, I heard it's good. I think you got it with signed-filled and I go with you, Matt. All right, thank you. It's two votes to one. Hope you have a pleasant weekend.

Stay safe. Line four, Jimmy on 790. I know this is going. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, Matt. Love your show and everything. But Law and Order, Office, and Breaking Bad. I don't make I've ever seen any of your shows.

So I've got to go with Ross. By the way, I made an executive decision as a host of this show. You don't get the seventh vote because you've never seen any one of these shows. You really haven't. I've seen almost all of them. Well, all of Rosses. No, I think he gets the seven vote. That's the rule.

The producer gets the seventh vote. What's the score now? Two to two. Chris, who wins a fantasy five, Ross or me? Matt, it's Ross and it's not close. I don't care what you have to say. That's three. Line number two, Joe on seven.

Joe, who wins a fantasy five? Yeah, Matt, it's not a good time for you. Ross wins this hands down. All right, you win. That's fine. Who'd you've gone for? Ross by far. Yeah, go to him.

All right, 247. Back to wrap it up at a minute. It's good to be back. Whatever. Sports Talk, 7-Duty. When I listen to the Matt Thomas show, I don't even understand the eclectic nature of the show, the dichotomy, the ostentatiousness, the perfunctory that sounds about as smart as LeVar ball. Back to the Matt Thomas show.

shout whoever he is. Thankfully, Twitter is defending my law saying I got robbed. Thank you. Well, not everybody. No, it's about 80%. That's not what I'm getting. Maybe closer to 85. Matt, this is your worst list ever.

Oh, stop. Matt, you should have won. You were Rob. Why did Ross's five friends call every week? Matt is, Sports RV is killing this fantasy five. Sorry, MT. Matt, thanks for giving sports RV his alone victory in life. No, that's your, oh, who tweeted that one?

At cool person. At cool person. That's what you, that's what you came up with? Wow. Well, you didn't give you much time. Colton on 790 and 252. Hi, Colton. Hey, I have a question regarding calling Coward's list with the top duos and an NBA.

Sure. Let's say Russell Westbroke was still on the thunder. with Paul George and possibly Hardin was on a different team other than the Rockets with another good player that would be considered a good duo. Do you all think they would have made the list then? And it's just against the Rocket. I'm going to hang up and I'm going to listen to you.

No, I think it's actually more towards the guys. Thank you. Yeah, I don't think he's a big Russell Westbrook or James Harden believer. No. Are you pair him together? He picked them not to make. They're so stupid to pick them not to make the playoffs. No, this is an indictment against those guys, not against the city of Houston.

He had like the nuggets as a one seed. But he's been hot taking on the Astros too. But he, in his defense on that one, he ain't the only one. Everybody, there's not a single national person that's going, well, you know, let's be honest, the Astros got caught because Mike fires snitched on him. And, oh, by the way, the Astros should be left alone because they, Major League Baseball told him if you come correct with us and tell us what you did. we will not punish you, but nobody ever brings that up. Ross, do you know no one ever brings that up? Not even the Buster only.

No, I'm talking about how the, how you are, here's how you argue, the answer should be punished. Not up for conversation. Rob Manfred said, you come spill the beans, we'll protect you. If you want to crush Rob Manfred for offering that olive branch, then that's one thing.

But this talk of, well, the Astros should have been punished more is not a conversation point. They would have not have had anything concrete on the Astros. And, oh, by the way, as detailed in the report by Rob Manfred himself, the rules were not properly communicated to the players. And so you can't suspend players who are unionized players for something that wasn't properly communicated as the rules. They're lucky they got the information because the Astros could have just shut up and said nothing. Then Manfred would have suspended him. and then they would have all appealed and saying you don't have any evidence on us.

You're going to take my word over somebody else's word. Because if 15 guys would have said, we didn't do it, one said you did. That's not been it for the doubt. Yeah. And you have, it was last week, now you can get punished for electronically stealing signs. The union and the owners agreed to something, I think like a week or two ago, or whenever it was. So now there are rules in place. There used to not be rules in place.

You can't punish people for rules that are not in place. It's not how it works. Certainly not with a union. But yeah, he's not the only one on the Astros. He will not be the only one on the Astros. But this is a, him not picking those guys are anti-Russ. Because Russ is crazy Russ sometimes. A little bit.

And James just never has been good Russ for the last few months. But James has never neared himself nationally. That's fine. So I texted him to, too, he had not responded back here. We'll see what Tui says. Probably nothing. That's okay. He's embarrassed.

He's embarrassed. I'll talk to you guys Sunday for, Rockets Kings. Ross, you'll have the, oh, I'll talk to you at 7 o'clock. I'll have the nightcap at 6 and sports RV show tomorrow at 10 a.m. on Sports Talk 790. Nightcap at 6, me with Rockets at Astros at 7 and Ross at 10 o'clock. A lot of Ross and Matt the next 12 hours here on Sports Talk 790.

Not much of the A team. You mean the A team. And they're up next on 790.