The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Astros Today! Rockets vs Golden State, What should we expect?

Episode Date: April 16, 2025

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of The Matt Thomas Show with Ross. It is a snack size edition as we take you until 11 o'clock. And then we've got Astros baseball from 11 o'clock until 1145 of the On Deck Show. First pitch from St. Louis is at 1215. It is yet another rubber game of a series involving your Houston Astros. It is nice to be back.

With you, I have had five days of utter hell, to be brutally honest with you. Ross, how are you? I never missed you so much until I know right. I'm doing all right. We might have to name this show to two sick guys because I'm a little bit under the weather myself. But we're powering through, Matt. We're here for the people of Houston. Yeah, we are.

Those of you that listened to the show on Friday and Ross, you were out with a family. Yeah, I didn't catch it. They said like, are you going to survive that? really didn't survive it. It was a struggle to do the four hours. You resurrected? You're a week early. What's that?

I said you resurrected? You're a week early? I don't know. It was bad. And then I just could, I started getting a fever and couldn't shake it and did some more, couldn't shake the fever, got back to Houston, took the test, got, I had COVID, blah, blah, blah, blah, it's not been great. I finally broke the fever yesterday. In the interest of you and I keeping safe, I'm going to be out one more day.

I'm going to work tomorrow from here and then back, hopefully, in the studio Friday with you guys. The COVID test came back negative today, which is good. That's great. What's that? I said, that's great. Sorry. Yeah, still finding a little bit of a cough. You sound like you're in less than 100%.

So that's the last thing I'm going to do is spreading anything to you. But, yeah, we're here today. We're less than 100%. And frankly, we don't have a lot of staff around. us and I want to think I don't even know who did what to help you out during the course of the last two days because I couldn't stay awake. I don't know if you know this or not and I think most people to do when you get a fever, especially a high one. I was in 102s for most of the last four to five days. I couldn't stay awake.

You had no energy whatsoever. All you want to do is sleep. So if the Adams helped you out. Yes, it was a lot of Chris Gordy. Chris Gordy did three hours a day, two days, which we appreciate him for stepping. up with that. You know what? He's just locked on team player, being a team player. That's why he's the program director of the year in the Houston area.

That's what I'm saying. Absolutely. Well deserved. And it was a little bit of Adam Clanton and a little bit of Adam Wexler yesterday as well. Yeah. And you had Hayden Wisniewski on the show yesterday? Yes. We're good friends now. I've interviewed him three times. And like, you know, Matt, we haven't gotten Jose Al-Tuvay in like five years. But we got Hayden West Neski three times in the last four months. I know. We're getting to be chobeschi on.

You guys are like IG pros now, right? Pretty much. You have a group text now. Yeah, we got him at spring training. We got him on the show yesterday, and we had him at Fan Fest. So we're getting to know him very well, and he's pitching very well. And you're over for a barbecue on Sunday, which is very nice. Yeah, it's weird, yeah.

He invited me to the family reunion. It's in Cyprus. He wants you to date his sister. It's really really nice. All right. As I said, we got a short show today to 11 o'clock, which kind of helps me get back in the mode of things a little bit here. I have been trying to watch as much sport as possible as in between sleeping.

But, yeah, the Astros continue to play. Is it a seesaw season so far, would you say? Yeah, you can call it back and forth, up and down, seesaw, whatever, pendulum swing. I don't know, for the last 12 games, they have been alternating win and loss. And they have not won two in a row all year long. Can I tell you something? And when I say this, I don't think I'm in a minority on this. And I've been watching a lot of baseball special since I got back to town this weekend.

And by way, shout out again to Adam Wexer, filling in for me in the last two Rocket games because I just couldn't get out of bed. So I'll be ready to go for the first playoff game with the Rockets on Sunday. We'll get to that a little bit. So I watch a lot of Astros baseball, Ross. this team's pretty boring right now. I mean, they're in a lot to... I mean, Hunter Brown throwing six innings of shutout is never a bad thing.

But these things, they're going less than two and a half hours most nights, but they're in a whole lot of action. They're in a whole lot of drama, these bad boys. There were some long ones. What was the Mariners one was long? The seven to six game and there was an extra one. What was it? Twelve innings or whatever they won. That was last week.

Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, um... I don't know, Matt. The Jake Myers fan club thought last night was a thriller. Oh, my God. You are on Cloud 9, are you not? Well, we'd like more than just singles. Maybe some doubles in home runs would help. What do you want? Slugging?

Beggars can't be choosers here, so we're taking what we can get. The Jake Myers fan club is in a good spot right now. I think that Christian Walker fan club is jealous of the Jake Myers fan club at this point. Christian Walker's fan club is struggling. Yeah, it is struggling. All right, so we will get into Sam Astros baseball here today. we will also get into the Rockets. The playoffs are set, Rossi.

As far as we're concerned, yes. Yes. We know the opponent. I was up until, I think some of you, not many of you, but I think some of you, including you, were up late last night watching the Memphis Golden State game. It looked like second quarter that Memphis had raised the flag and said, we'll go play the 19 game and be just fine.

And then they came back. and then John Moran got heard, and then all of a sudden Desmond Bain and Jaron Jackson are doing some things. And that was a back-and-four seesaw game until Steph Curry decided to make a couple of humongous threes late in the contest. Very entertaining on the edge of your seat. And it's going to be the Rockets and the Warriors for the, what, fifth time since 2015 in the playoffs? Yeah. And I don't think I need to tell any of you that are any sort of rocket fans of any history at all.

what the last four have turned out to be. We don't have to talk about it. We also don't have to talk about who's favorite in the series. Well, I think it's something to bring up because I was looking at the series prices that you put out earlier. And that's just, and when you hear the term series price, it means you just bet the series. You don't care how many games it goes. You don't care the margins of victory. You just pick a team to win a series, four games to three or four to one, whatever, four zero.

sometimes a five will be favored over a four, right? Yes. In fact, we've got one there with, I think the clippers are a favorite over the Denver Nuggets. In that matchup. Occasionally, you will see a six over a three. Ross, I don't know if you can, I don't think you can do it in a shorter period of time, but how often, I'm just metaphorically asking you, how often do you ever seen a seven seed? a two to one favorite over a two seed.

I would say probably not very often, but I will also say that the big Warriors season turnaround came with Jimmy Butler getting added to the team and playing his first game for them February 8th. And the fact is they're not the same Golden State Warrior team. That's a 7th seed in playoff team. They're 21. I think they're 21-7 since he's been playing for them.

Something like that's pretty good. 750 basketball. basketball. That's not that. And one of the seven losses, granted it's to the rocket. That is true. Let's give them credit what credits do. They are not playing like a seven seed.

They have some warts. And we'll get to some of that during the course of the hour today. We'll do a lot of that tomorrow and Friday. We'll also have you made a doka with this either tomorrow or Friday. We'll also check in and what's going on with Golden State and their thoughts on things. But they're still really good. good. And it's Gary Payton Jr. getting baskets. It's Moses Moody attacking hitting threes. It's Draymond doing what Draymond typically does. Jimmy Butler is just about automatic in the

mid-range. Three-point shot, not so much, but the mid-range has been really good. This is going to be a knockdown drag-out. I mean, if there's any time that you can't celebrate being a two-year-old, You see it, Ross, it might be 20, 25 for the Houston Rockets. Yeah, I was rooting for the Grizzlies. It would be the easier matchup. Certain people whose names rhyme with Schmett and want to take on the warriors and want to slay the dragon and all that type of stuff. I'm okay with that.

Yeah, I get it too. Yeah. And we don't have, no matter who we rooted for, right? We don't control what happens on the floor in San Francisco. So it is what it is. Right. It is the rockets taking on the Warriors. And you mentioned Jimmy Butler and Stefan Curry going,

off last night. The good news is there was only one other Warrior in double digits that night and it was Quentin Post off the bench. So if you can maybe try to limit those couple guys and you mentioned Brandon Projimski who's going to be tough, maybe you... I mean, look, you have a shot.

You have home court advantage. I think the serious price that you were talking about, Warriors at 2 to 1 is a little bit too long of odds to me. And the Rockets have been doubted all year long. They were doubted when they played two straight games against the Cleveland Cavaliers won both of those. They've won a lot of big games against a lot of good teams,

including these same Golden State Warriors, like you mentioned, with Jimmy Butler. Yep. And I think they're being disrespected, and I hope they take that and take it to heart, not that they need extra motivation with Coach Udoka and the boys. Correct. But I think they're going to be looking to make a statement in this series.

Yeah. Again, that is a two-to-one favorite. It shows to me this is Golden State's been there, done that. The Houston Rockets, excuse me. The Houston Rockets are a nice little team. with a lot of nice wins and a young scrappy team, but there's no superstar. Half their team is zero playoff experience,

and Jimmy Butler has made this award team. It's much better than a typical seventh-seated team. I add all that, and I see the reason why it's a two-to-one favorite for Golden State. But you know what? I don't let Vegas aside things. The guys on the floor should, and E. Medoca is going to probably just use that as bulletin-board material,

or he may just say F-Mall and just say, let's just go win and beat the team. They've beaten two times out of five so far this year. We are with you until 11 o'clock. If you want to chime in and come in and say hello, we've got an hour, we've got no guest book, we've got no scheduled segments. We're going to take it all the way to 11 o'clock,

and then get you into Astros, baseball, Ross will have that. And Brian Bogus is going to join Rossi in the second segment of Astros on deck. 713-212-5-790 if you want to jump in. 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90. The one thing I will say about the, before I get to break. Rossi, did you see the number of calls that Memphis got last night in Golden State?

Yes, I did. I was startled because, and I was going to put this out on Twitter, and then I don't need Golden State fan coming after me. I will just say this as a declarative statement, and please, Ross, trust me when I take you this. I have been to 29 other NBA arenas, okay, besides the Toyota Center, calling games. There is no better home court whistle than in San Francisco. go California.

LeBron will get his calls. You will get a Tri Young will get a call in Atlanta. You'll get calls. Well, actually, Tray Young's probably a bad example of that, but oh, they lost in Orlando. He got ejected and... Yeah. I'm trying to think of who else. It really gets calls.

Oh, Luca got calls in Dallas all the time until he started bitching about it. The superstarts get their calls. There is no other city, Ross, in the NBA. that you, and I hate to use the term eight versus five, but it's in Golden State more than any other 20-9 NBA arena. It just is.

Yeah. Except for last night. But also they're fans, and when you feel like you're not getting the calls and your fans, you're not asking for fans to have a bunch of perspective on things when we're at the game. They're probably half-lickered up, if not three-quarters or more. And just yelling at the refs. So I wasn't shocked at all, and nor should anybody be.

when you're talking about people who are in the building, they're homers and they don't think they're getting a good whistle, they're going to scream, hey, ref, you suck. Right. And I was legitimately getting mad at Dremont Green trying to tag eyes. When he fouled out. And when he fouled out, oh, I'm sorry, I thought you show him out last night. Yeah, when he fouled out, he was like screaming at the ref.

I can't remember who it was. And it's like he should have gotten a technical foul for his troubles. Absolutely. Absolutely. And oh, by the way, Zach Eadie sucks. He really sucks. I mean, the big knock on him, and one of the reasons why he was, like, national player of the year and then went back to college is because people weren't high on him because how slow foot it he is. And that's proven out to be true in the NBA.

He could rebound because he's seven feet tall. Yeah, he got like 16, 17 rebounds. Yeah, he grabs the ball off offensive rebounds, and like no one should ever tell him to do this. He puts the ball on the floor every single time. It's ridiculous. Go up with it, big man. Take your chances. should have been Memphis.

All right. 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-790 with Ross. I'm Matt. We are here at 11 o'clock right now. Great to have you with us at 1021 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-9-0 is how you reach the program. We have a midday game today here on the station. Renele Blocko's going to take the mound for the local 9-1.

against the St. Louis Cardinals. And Ross, we grew up watching the Astros and Cardinals play all the time. I mean, the Cardinals were a team when I was growing up. It was just you had Ozzie Smith and you had, you know, you had all the Jack Clark and you had all these big hitters and Kenny Lent. I mean, and they've won year after year after year, and they would always brag about the fresh beer there and drawn three million. They ain't drawn flies in St. Louis.

It's kind of depressing, actually. Yeah, it looked kind of embarrassing. I was a little shocked to see that, especially early under the season. I mean, they're eight and nine. They've got one of the better offenses so far in baseball. Pitching doesn't seem terrible, and nobody's there. I mean, they have like one of the best hitting teams in baseball, and no one's there. What else you're going to do in St. Louis?

I don't know. Go up the shaky arch. There's gambling. There's a lot of crime. Yeah. Yeah, I guess, yeah, you can go rob a gambling house. Oh, by the way, may I have one more second here before? four of the phones yes so uh i get sick late last week have to miss the two rocket games i'm pissed off

about that but you know it is what it is my daughter and her girlfriends going into the city to take some pictures and go of a nice dinner the girl girlfriend senior get out night or whatever she's a junior but she's got her two best friends or seniors they go to eleanor tinsley park ross to take some pictures okay love eleanor tinsley park they're there 20 minutes okay they come back and uh somebody broke in my wife's car. Smash the back of the window, stole all three of their overnight bags. They were going down to Galveston after that.

And in one of the bags was one of my daughter's best friends, wallet, had money and gift cards and, you know, what do they go with little tag things? You can identify where your stuff. Air tags, yeah. Air tags.

So they spent three hours of their Saturday night with the police. They did find the bag tag, the air tag, in a neighborhood right adjacent to Eleanor Tinsley Park with about 10 other bags. Apparently, there were multiple cars that were shattered. Wow. And my wife yesterday went to go get our window fixing our cars. It was $600 of my life on my back on that. I'm sorry to hear that, Matt. Welcome to Houston, Texas.

It's just been a real peachy week around these parts here, if you know what I'm saying. Yeah. honestly when you have bags and just procedure to me and unfortunate that it has to be this way yeah when you have bags in your car

in Houston you gotta like yeah yeah I mean lesson absolutely learned yeah but they were gone literally 20 minutes but good things you learned it now

right before like later in life well I don't think she wanted to learn ever but yeah but you know you got to think of the bright side of things right now like you know

so it could be 35 the right side was they found the bags that was that's good Was everything was recovered? Everything was recovered. Oh, really?

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. But, because my daughter just had clothes and she sleeps with a little teddy bear at night. That's all was in her bag. Her friends had one. And the only bag that had any sort of things missing was the bag that had the wallet and the air tag in it. And that's been lost. But all the credit cards were canceled, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So, but it was just a real downer that my daughter and her friends went for a little overnight getaway down to Galveston. And as I'm getting home and I need to, TLC from my wife. She's having a sat our car just got damaged. So it'd take my car, go down to downtown. It was just a long night. I love our city, but man, and every city goes through this, but it just

sucked. It just really, really sucked. And apparently they go to this trash can. There's like seven or eight different bags of, and everybody in the neighborhood that live in the apartment complex scattered when the police lights went on. It was just wow. Not good. Not good. All right. So

Astros baseball at 11 A clock with you on deck show. Rockets will play game 1, 830, which Ross, let's be honest, tell the folks more closer like 845, 850 on Sunday nights. Yep, we've been through this before. You mentioned the playoff matchups before, even what happens on the floor. What happens is normally going to take place very deep and late into the night. Yeah. And we'll be there for you. We'll have a game. I believe Sunday night will be on KTRH. News Radio 740, KTRH. Yeah, I'll be on at like 1 a.m. people screaming at. me where is my coast to coast

if we win I'm calling you if we lose I'm going to turn the radio off have you seen the opening a spread for the game I have not do I encourage or discouraged you ask I mean tough to you can you want to guess the rocket's two point favorites one and a half okay I was not

terrible if there's anybody I trust and motivating it's him ad doca I mean he's probably going well he doesn't care about Vegas but point being as he's like, these guys are looking forward to playing us.

I mean, he's going to have it ready. Yeah, they'll be ready. And the motivation doesn't even matter as much as preparation. I really trust you, Madoca, have them prepared as best as as you can prepare against a team with the greatest shooter on the planet and Jimmy Butler, one of the great

physical playoff players who steps up in big moments. And the reality is this. Yeah, and the reality is this. If the Rockets lose this series, he will not be, because the officiating. It'll be because Colton State won four times out of a possible seven. Now, will they get

some calls, especially in San Francisco? Yes. But last night was a great example of that good officiating crews will help. Now, it wasn't good for Memphis. They were bad calls. They just went against Golden State.

So, yeah, I, yeah, it was not as completely one-sided as I thought it was going to be last night. Chris in Jersey Village at 1026 on 790. Hi, Chris. Yeah, hey, Matt. First of all, my rule when going inside the loop is always take my wife's car because it's half as expensive as mine.

So if it does get broken into, you know, it's a little cheaper. Second of all, welcome back. Glad you're feeling better. Sound great. We're getting there. We're by 80%, but thank you very much. Yeah, I guess you don't have a cough button, huh? Hey, listen, that was a joke, man.

Just joking. Hey, you know, I totally agree with you, Matt. I was having these thoughts the last couple of days. This Astros team is the most boring baseball team. I mean, what? Our biggest personality is, I think, Dubon, honestly. I think he's, like, the biggest character or the most fun to watch. I don't know.

It's just very boring. And on the Rockets, we were talking earlier this year about, picking somebody up before the trade deadline. I just want to say I'm glad we have the team we have and I'm looking forward to this playoff series. I'm glad they didn't pick up Jimmy. It's all about me buckets. I'm glad that we kept the nucleus together.

Let's just see how far they can go with the team we have. I'm glad they didn't make any changes. So thanks. Thanks, Chris. And by the way, when I say the team is kind of boring, I don't care if they're boring. I just want them to win. I want them to build a streak of some sort.

and that's my point is that there have not been the dramatic grand slam there was a grand slam so there was that but I mean there has been very few five run innings there's been very few amazing five four three double plays

there has been three or four wow moments you know what if this is what you have to kind of go through is his team is kind of re-creating itself Ross I can live with boring for a while yeah I mean they'll be a lot more exciting once they start hitting better So right now, they're one of the worst offenses in baseball.

And they're hanging in. It's in a very winnable, as we thought it would be, a very winnable division all season long. All right, 1028, Sports Talk, 790. We take this program until 11 o'clock. Astros on deck in one half hour. Ross, if people are not feeling their very best, what can you do to help them?

1035. Matt and Ross with you, Sports Talk, 7 out of. We're with you until 11 o'clock. If you want to come in and say hello, we missed you. At least I did. When you have a fever, Ross, I mean, you don't get fever very often, but I've been sweating them out every single day. I'm not the prettiest thing in the morning when I wake up.

How many cowbell jokes have you heard? Too many. Too, too many. I was just curious because we were talking about yesterday with Chris Gawady. So I was up until yesterday, I couldn't get under 101. I was in 102 for most of the last three or four days. And so I was mixing, like it's ibuprofen and Tylenol, taking five at a time.

Three of one and two in the other. This is what the doctors told me to take. So I took that. And I would go to sleep and I'd wake up. And I was like, somebody's like throwing water on me. It was crazy. Huh. I'm like, all right, I'm over this.

And then two hours later, three hours later, boom, I go take my thermometer back up to 100 to it. Ah! I'm a wuss when it comes to being a sick kid, by the way. Just a complete wuss. Yeah, I think that's true for most of us males. I mean, there are memes. It's like, woman with a cold, and she's like, sees that work and drinking some tea,

and it's like, man with a cold, and it's like he's on his deathbed. Yeah, I mean, and I look, I try to work through a lot of it because, look, I've got two very very stressful jobs, fun jobs, but they're stressful. And I want to make sure I'm there for both when I can. That's why Friday I was going to, I did the show. You were gone and I had to do it, and there was no one else to kind of help me out. But, yeah, but man, it's just the fever is the crippler. I mean, I can deal with neck pain or shoulder pain or whatever, but, man, that fever hits you.

You just don't want to do anything but talk. And it's funny because we had E. Mae Adoke on the show, Frotty Ross, and EMA told a member of the Rockets PR staff, she goes, he said, who did I do the interview with on Friday on Matt show? And she said, well, it was Matt. And he goes, didn't sound like him. I'm like, yeah, I know. Yeah, you went to Kansas City. How was, I know you went for some family things. Yeah, it was a good city, isn't it?

Yeah, it's a great city. I'd never, okay, I went there when I was like 12 years old, so I didn't really get to see the sights and sounds as much. But yeah, it was the celebration of life for my wonderful Aunt Alma. May she rest. But it was a good time. I mean, I had Gates Barbecue. Have you had Gates? Yes, excellent.

Oh, Gates Barbecue was very good. I didn't realize, and I guess I should have, how deeply rooted a lot of the jazz scene and black culture and the history there. They have the Negro League's baseball museum as well. I thought it was wonderful. And the weather was perfect. It was like 70 degrees and sunny every day I was there. Yeah, people are nice there. There is, first of all, amazing food.

The nicest drivers I've ever seen in my life. Really nice people. Easy to get around. Good downtown scene. A casino, which is never a bad thing. Yes. I wasn't able to make it over there, unfortunately. It's certainly an event to go to.

Great sports town. And I always thought that they were kind of low-key in for an NBA team. I don't think they're going to get it. but huge chiefs. When the Royals are good, big royals of town. So, yeah, it's a really nice place to go. And I've been there multiple times for volleyball. And I knew you had time when you got up there.

Yeah, I think there was a volleyball thing going on when I was there. There was a lot of volleyball people and a lot of tall girls hanging out. Okay. Now, I don't want to give away too many companies. But when you told me about the volleyball convention being there, or whatever in tournament, I did ask you if you sent reconnaissance down there to see what the scene was like.

Uh-huh. I mean, I popped into the hotel bar for a moment, and there were a lot of volleyball moms there, if that's what you're getting at. I know, but I wasn't worried about you. I was worried about the member of your family. Oh, no, nothing happened, Matt. Why are you asking this?

You're so weird. I want to see how he did. I mean... Good to see your back feeling good, Matt. It's a catch and release pond up there in the Kansas City volleyball moms. You don't know nothing about that, Matt. I know you don't.

I'm asking about your... You're a friend of the friend. Oh, my gosh. Kansas City was a lovely town. Multiple good breweries. I didn't get to make it to the Jazz Museum, but I want to go there. They have a money,

like a U.S. Mint or Money Museum as well. Yeah. I need to go back to Kansas City. It was great. And some of the bars stay open to three or four. They have like grandfathered in a liquor license from God knows when the early 1900s or something. Some of them can still serve liquor

until very late into the evening. Oh, my goodness. That's where it passed on. Early end of the morning, I should say. All right, so I watched, as you did, a lot of that Memphis Golden State game, there was a five count that was called late in the game. And I had the initial same reaction that you did of, what are we doing here? Why are we calling a five count in 2025 in a playing game this late?

It's called the Rodney Terry special, by the way. Sorry about that. But you've got, you got Sean Miller, you're happy now. I got a stupid question. Why does the five count exist? Or why is it, does it feel like it's kind of short? Like when they wrote this rule, were people just taking forever to end up the ball?

No, I think you just can't be there forever. You can't let there. I mean, there has to be some sort of limit. Sometimes I guess five does feel a little short. So I went back just to see, I watched it probably five times this morning. Just to see if it was a quick one. It was five. Clearly five seconds.

Some people I saw timed it on Twitter And it was closer to six Yeah, I mean it was There was even a little bit of a You know Get rid of it, get rid of it I gotta call it Yeah, it was a legit accurate call

And the two minute report is going to come out tonight And it's going to verify that Other things I may not able to verify But the five second count was the correct call Yes it was And I couldn't believe it happened In the NBA You can't do it

that in high school. You can't at this level drop something to get somebody open for at some point. Crazy that or Golden State's defense this remains ridiculously good. Well, the interim coach didn't have time to install the inbound plays, I guess. Did you see his hair, by the way?

Yeah, what's wrong with it? It's perfectly like, it's layered, it's got a part to it, I mean... Yeah, he's Finnish. Is that what the Finnish hair has? Yeah, that's how the Finns roll, Matt. Man, if I had some Finnish heritage in me, Oh my God.

Google said, when I put it in Memphis Grizzlies head coach, it's still says Taylor Jenkins. Uh-uh. Come on, Google. How about Denver's going to have a new coach, too, in the playoffs? Crazy. How about Phoenix firing their coach?

One year. That's a third straight one year and out? No, I think Monty Williams is there for a few years. That's true. I know it's there, but I mean... But then it was, yeah, but then it was Vogel for one year. Yeah, three coaches in three years, is correct, yes. Yep.

such as their problems. Eme Adoka's like, see where I'm doing here, we're doing just fine. The Rockets, the timing was just right to get E. Mayo doka because he was going to be very heavily sought after. I'm glad he landed here. Absolutely. 713-212-5-7-9.

If you want to jump in, 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. We have one segment left to go here before we get to Astros Baseball. tomorrow on the show, Brian McTagra be with us. I don't know if we're going to have EMAE tomorrow or Friday. I'll check with him later today. We will have shut you a ball mass up and ain't nobody got time for that tomorrow on the show. Did y'all do gut feelings yesterday?

Yes, we did. Did. Uh-oh. Jonathan chiming in. What did you, John, what was your greatest gut feeling? My greatest gut feeling was that the Rockets were going to finish number two. That's what happened. That's everything else.

You couldn't have said that yesterday No, I said about the judge You mean I told your greatest one with yesterday Oh, oh oh oh oh it was about Ashton Genty getting picked over Richard door In the top 12 pick We are your official Ashton Jentee station, you know that

Yes, we are Oh, okay No, no no Matt has been trashed was trashing Ash and Genty all throughout the last season Trashing is a strong You said he was just a guy And said he's not going to rush for a thousand yards

Ever in his NFL career You put your name on it Can't wait for that one. O-Lion has a big thing for running back. People don't forget that. They like to forget that. All right. He's going to run for a thousand yards.

By the way, how about Colorado retiring two jerseys for the guy? What is this with schools retiring people's jersey when they haven't even even left school yet? Yeah, we talked about this. Travis Hunter won a Heisman. I get that. Shador Sanders, 13 and 12 as a starter. I get that to a lesser extent. Eric, the enemy is like, what do I have to do?

Cordell Stewart. Cordell Stewart, what do I have to do? I'm done with Colorado great football players. I'm sure there's other. Rishan Salam. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's a lot of beef right now in Buffalo. With the Buffaloes, I should say.

713-212-5-7-90. Come in and join us, the final segment here. This is Matt Thomas show with Ross. Rossi, we're going to give away a pair of tickets to see Nelly Jarl. Is that right? In Eve? Is that about right to you? Live at the...

Yes, J-Rul. rule, Matt. Come on. You know, Jaru? Jaru? What, I'll be what I'm a baby. And Eve? Yes. Eve hot? I don't know what the state of Eve is right now, but she was always quite attractive. She had like, it was like tiger paws or something tattoos in her chestal area.

Chastal area. I've never heard of it quite that way. You mean breasticles? You could say that if you'd like. Pair of tickets to see Nellie, Jarlule, and Eve, live at the We're the party at Tour, September the 4th at the Woodlands Pavilion. We want to give away a pair of tickets. They're on sale now at Ticketmaster.com, but we want to give away a pair to you. All you got to do is go to the I-Heart Radio app. This is ridiculously easy.

Go to the I-Heart Radio app and make Sports Talk 7 out of your number one preset. That's it. Nothing more. and then we need you to screenshot it, right? Is that one of us? Screenshot it to one of us? Maybe at SportsMT, at SportsRV, somebody? Yes. SportsMT at SportsMT at SportsC790.com works.

Okay, email, tweet. I don't care how you do it. But let me give it to you again. This is a very simple rule. If you want to see Nelly, Jarl Rule and Eve at the Where the Party At the 4th, Willlands Pavilion, go to Sports Talk, go to the IHeart Radio app, which all of you have, because you're smart people,

and make Sports Talk 7-90, your number one preset, screenshot it for me, email it to me, or send it up on Twitter, and we'll register, and we're getting away a pair of tickets for that event coming up. Huge. And I might join you. You never know. You're going to go to Where the Party Add tour?

I mean, I'm trying to diversify. Love it. Now we've got the hits, Matt. What day of the week is that on? Yeah. I don't know. It's college football. I probably can't go. But other than that, I'll be willing to go.

September 4th is a Thursday. So you're good. Well, they usually try to stick the cougars on Thursday at like ESPNU, so you might have to... You could be working. Who knows? I think we do start us on a weekend, I think, this year. SFA, I think, is the first game? Huge.

We don't mess around. Oh, are you and J.K. going to be beefing? SFA versus the coogs? No, we're going to have a serious bet. What is this? Football, cross-country. What do you think I'm talking about?

Football. Oh, guys, look, all right. Talk about football. Why do you sound like that? I'm a lumberjack. Because I'm a football coach. Why are you talking like, Hey, don't you're wrong.

They're going to beat that lumberjack now. That game is on August 28th. The Bloodfewed at TDECU Stadium. They're calling it the blood feud? No, I'm just kidding. What are you looking for transfusions when they get to the game? August 25th, yeah.

Our crime is down by that. not likely Not likely That's fine I mean you can You make fun of it until we fix it What else you're going to? That is a 28th and that is a Thursday by the way

I wish you weren't right sometimes But unfortunately you are By the way And we talked about this very briefly on Friday when you were gone The kid that's the Tennessee quarterbacks Now looking for a place to play now Nico Yama la Viya Lava. Lila.

Nico not going to play here anymore. So he was getting 2.4 to play at Tennessee. He wanted four. Woo! Tennessee told him to shut this ball ass up. And now they're saying he might get a millie

after all. Yeah, isn't it hilarious? Like, this is just wild of where we are. He's asking for a salary raise. He quits. Well, Tennessee tells him to shut their bum mess up. And now the reports are like everyone's waiting for the sale price. Yeah. Everyone's waiting for him on discount.

They're like, well, as soon as he will lower his terms to $1 million, he may end up at another college. This is great. This is hilarious. It is, and everybody's trying to play the blame game on this. Blaming the dad, blaming the kid, blaming the school, blaming the NCAA. Well,

let's regulate it. Let's figure out a way to just say you can't do this in binding. contract, I don't know, forget about the amateur aspect of it. But if you, if I want to put their hands up in the air, we're going to see more of this. And it's going to be a risk that these athletes are going to take just like professional athletes take as a risk. Sometimes you take a chance in yourself and you win or you lose. And it sounds like, humah, hama, hama, hama is going to lose.

Nico Yama Lama Lai Aava. See, I applaud you for trying to. Imagine if I was trying to call the play-by-play for that. You get it down. You're a true professional, man. That is true. That's true. All right, Ross.

I'm going to let you take it to the top of the hour where we have Astros on deck with Brian Bocosevic. Oh, man. You're putting in a hard week, Matt. We've worked one hour this week. And I will talk to you for a full four hours tomorrow. And then Friday will reunite and it will feel so good in studio on Friday. Okay. You can, don't cough or sneeze on me and I'll try not to cough or sneeze on you.

Well, I'm not coming back until unless you're, feeling 100 and me 100. Can I tell you something? Can I tell you a secret and I'm really kind of embarrassed? Please. I was working on my pregame script before the show and I was in one of these little side studios. I sneezed accidentally all over the keyboard.

I had to go get a Clorox swipe. I know. Jonathan, I know you're making a face. I'm embarrassed. I'm not happy about it. It doesn't feel good. I had to like, oh God, I'm very good. Luckily we have Clorox wipes up here because we wipe up.

We have a lot of shared space. Right. I was wiping that bad boy down, man. It was so bad. All right. We got a full show tomorrow. We're going to be a good time tomorrow. Thanks for listening, everybody.

Astros baseball next.