The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Bad News Baseball, Justin Verlander Injury & Strip Club Chicken Wings

Episode Date: July 27, 2020

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Dusty, do you have an update on Justin Burlanders' health? Well, you know, we know it's the forearm strain. And, you know, he's being seen by the doctor. So it'll probably be shut down for a couple weeks. And then we'll see from there. Will he pitch for you this season? Well, like I said, I just said he shut down for a couple weeks. You know, and then we'll, you know, reevaluated from there.

We don't know. When did it happen? It happened yesterday, you know, early in the game, but he said he felt, you know, he felt fine. And you see, he was throwing us all great yesterday. And it was kind of a shock to all of us. Dusty is being reported that he's out for the year. Okay, who's reporting it? Chronicle.

Who? The Chronicle. No, I mean, like I told you, I just told you. I just told you it's a forearm strain. He said, now for a couple of weeks, we're going to reevaluate at that time. That's all I can tell you. How was your weekend, Ross?

Fantastic. Oh, by the way, the Orioles Marlins' games been postponed tonight. Oh, why? COVID. Oh, by the way, the Yankees, Phillies' games been postponed. Why? COVID.

Well, how's Regis Philbin doing? He's dead. How's, you know, I was thinking about going to the South Texas coast for a couple of days and hang out. Is everything okay down there? They're recuperating from a hurricane. Oh. How's the Astros bullpen looking yesterday? Joe Beijini pitched in the fourth inning.

Oh. Because Zach Rinkie couldn't get past four. How's, is Chris Tivinsky looking good? I was hoping he'd be a rock of the bullpen. He's on one with a blown save. Oh. Cool. The way, the Miami, the Rangers uniforms look really awesome.

Those powder blues they wore on Sunday. They're looking good. Okay. George Springer's betting 091 so far. Cool. Gas prices are going up. Oh, with all of this. I was thinking about going to Seattle.

I have things over there. There's an apartment complex that got destroyed, basically. 2020 sucks. It's the worst. I mean, what else do we need? I mean, you know what? There was a story about the meteor hitting the Statue of Liberty. Wait, for real?

Like months ago. I don't remember that. Yeah, you were probably in COVID. I was in a COVID hasty. Yeah, you were. It might as well just do it. Just finish us off. Just finish us off.

Well, well, well. What was your favorite part of the weekend? 713-21-2-5-7-90. Line one, what was your favorite part? Probably a little bit of technical snafu there. Line two, you're on a weekend update. Line three, Astros are going on the World Series? So who do you want to believe?

Justin Verlander or Chandler-Rome? Or some combination of both? My gut feeling is, and Chandler is a friend of the show. We love Chandler for some peculiar way. We just do. because he dunks on old ladies who tweet him stupid stuff on Twitter. Yeah. I don't know how Mama Nipha feels about this or Mama Astro Nipa or whatever the hell her name is,

but she can't be happy with Chandler-Rydell. Chandler-Rome's Twitter is just gold. By the way, my wife said we need to check Justin Verlander's tweets today because apparently his replies are quite interesting. Basically, you don't care about how you feel you're a cheater. Your team cheated. So we'll be looking at that coming up on. the show today. Okay.

Here's my gut feel on this. Now, let me just give you to you in the next 90 seconds, and we'll obviously have time to get over around the show today. If you'd like to join us, by the way, and just want to feel sorry for each other, we can do that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 on Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley underscore. Here's my thought, Ross. My gut tells me that he's not pitching the rest of this season. I think there's a little bit of semantics put into play on this,

whether it's forearm strain, whether it's elbow. We've seen usually if forearm strain usually lends to itself to Tommy John or elbow, i.e. Lance McCullors. Now, every individual, every athlete's different. But my guess is that how old is it for Lender, 37? I was going to say 36, somewhere in that neighborhood. Somewhere in the late 30s. My guess is he's just not going to recuperate like he was. Yeah, he's not going to recuperate like he did typically when he was 25 or 26.

Father time never loses, right? Correct. So I can't imagine this being a two-week and he's good as new. I would love for it to be that case. And selfishness, I'd love for him to be right and Chandler to be wrong. what probably Chandler could have done. And again, I don't know, I don't know their business. It was obviously a big, big story in baseball up until what happened with the Marlins

yesterday. But you probably could have gone to the, Justin Verlenter has a significant forearm strain. Some fear this. Hopefully, you know, or not say hopefully, but in a couple weeks we'll have a greater detail. He came out all guns ablaze in and said, J.B. is done for the season. So whether you argue about the semantics of journalism or whatever the case would be,

all Dusty Baker did was refuted, and Justin Verlander was obviously either wanting to control his own narrative or just flat out and said the story's wrong, but J.B. went to his Twitter account and said, you know, contrary to earlier reports, I'm taking some time off. And at this time, hopefully, Rass will be able to recoup. We'll be able to do this. This is Justin Verlander's tweet. The report that I'm currently missing the rest of the season is not accurate. There is a forearm strain. I'm hopeful that with rest it will heal and I'll be able to return soon.

Thank you all for the well wishes. Okay. So maybe he and or the Astros wanted to control the narrative. They didn't get to do that because a reporter that's a beat reporter for their team did so. And again, I don't know the big picture if it makes that big of a difference, except for the fact that if Justin Verlinder comes back in a couple weeks, the story's 100% erroneous. Yeah, I don't think that Chandler-Rome is making things up. I think this is one of those, we've seen this before.

Remember when Lance McCullors literally had his injury. Now it was a different regime in place for the Astros, but they slow played that time and time and time again to hold out hope and all that types. I think it's one of those scenarios. I think it's 99% going to be a disaster scenario for Justin Verlander in the sense that he's going to miss the season, but they want to, maybe they're getting a second opinion,

maybe they're going to reevaluate in a couple of weeks and all that type of stuff. And even in his tweet, he says, I'm hopeful. But I think if he would say, if I'm hopeful with some rest, it will heal. Him saying that, I think if it were just a forum strain, he would have said, I'll be back in a couple of weeks. And he didn't say that. He said, I'm hopeful. And I think, so they got bad news. I do believe he's hopeful, too.

They got bad news, but it's not definitive 100% bad news. Maybe it's like 99% bad news and they're going to slow play it. And like you said, control the narrative. think that's what's happening here. Yeah. And again, I don't think Chandler goes for the John Heyman. I want to put something out there. And if I'm wrong, I'm okay with it.

I don't think that's how he lives. We haven't seen that from him. In a couple of years, he's been the guy. So I would say, if anything, he probably, if he announces yesterday that Justin Verlender has a severe forearm strain, that gets the same punch of a breaking news story than he's done for the season. because, well, again, the risk of him saying he's done, and then J.B. comes back, and then the story's wrong, and then Chandler-Rome, unfortunately, loses a lot of credibility on that. Again, who's to say? I think Chandler's great. I don't know Justin Verlander at all. But a lot of times athletes and our teams like to control narratives, and at this point, they weren't able to do that because Chandler came out and said what he said.

Is Verlernan going to stop answering his questions and scrums now? Like he did with that Detroit guy? Well, you know, you get sideways. And look, and JV is awesome, but he's a massive diva. Yes. He is, he's every bit of a diva as the players you think are divas. Like when you think of, I mean, when you think of the Rock, I mean, James Hardin is a diva. Yes. And when you're one of the best at the game, it almost comes with the territory.

Like, I am a very average radio host, thus the reason why I will never be considered a diva under any circumstance. Matt, number one, you are a huge diva. That's not true. You're a very good radio host. Point being is this, when you are in the upper upper echelon, like there have been lots of people over the years that we used to be able to talk to on a regular basis, even just guessing the show,

that when they became super popular, like, I don't have time for you. Zach Lowe. Zach Lowe. Sam Amick? Sam will return a text once in a while. Well, once in a while. Once in a while. And we like Sam.

But that's, but JV has been so good at his craft for so long, he's in rarefied air. He's going to the Hall of Fame. He makes a boatload of money. And by the way, when we come back from the break, I got terrible, terrible news on what it could be for J.B. And it goes by initials, and it goes by a famous former pitcher's name. Raleigh Fingers?

And if that happens... He's got Raleigh Fingers? If that happens, SportsRVee, don't hate me for saying this. I will be tweeting out. What was your favorite... Stop. What was... was your...

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We take you to 3 o'clock today. Oh, my goodness. hot mess of sports. So we have this Justin Verlander thing that's just meaty, it's sad. Oh, by the way, let me just get this out of the way. Because the last time an Astro had a forearm, I'm sure he's name was Lance McCullors, right? Yeah, that's what I remember. The colors ultimately have done for him.

He had Tommy John surgery. Yeah, and how long did that take for him to come back? Well, a year and a half-ish. And we're in what month of 2020? We were towards the end of July. So we're about to hit August. Today is the 27th. Yeah, we're about to hit August. Pretty soon, yeah.

Okay. And they're going to let this thing rest for a couple of weeks. Yes. And if Chandler is right and it's an elbow, how do you usually repair an elbow in baseball when you typically have problems? That would be with rest, ice, compression, and elevation? In theory, that's true. Although I think you're talking more about an ankle than you are on elbow,

but that's fine. It's neither here nor there. It's a joint. That's true. So go ahead. going. I just want you to get to the inevitable. It's Tommy John's surgery, man. Is that what you want me to say? Okay. You want me to say Tommy John there? I said it just for you.

Brandon, say it. We don't want to say it. Say it, Brandon, right now. Tommy John. Okay. So, if he get, we'll just go, we'll call a TJ for the purposes of the show, right? If he gets a TJ, Mm-hmm. Recuperation time on that is usually. A year plus.

His contract ends with the Astros win. At the end of next year. So it would be year plus on that too? Yes. Did Justin Verlander? Oh, this is so hot takey and bombastic and over the top and young sportscasters who don't have any material besides being hot takey? Did I came, I don't even know if Florida Evans is going to let me say it. Did Will Justin Verlinder ever throw a pitch again for the Houston?

in Astros. It's crossed your mind the last 24 hours. It has to. It hasn't, but now you brought it up, and I'm thinking about it, and I'm upset with you. I will take the loss on this. But you know what? That's why people listen to the show, because we deal in the reality of what it is. And the reality is, if it's an elbow, and most times, and not every, but at most times when guys have significant elbow issues, the word T.J. comes right into play. Please, please, please. Please, eight pounds, six-ounce baseball baby Jesus. Let it be just a forearm stream. Has anybody else run with these out for the season besides Chandler?

No, he's the only one. Okay. He has two sources according to his story. Well. Now, here's my thought on this. If I'm going to break one muddha of a story, and that's huge, defending Syung champion, future Hall of Famer, Ace, superstar player with Hot Wife. I mean, all the things, right?

Yes. I mean, I guess Hot Wife doesn't have to be part. Well, it doesn't hurt. But really would you expect to be with someone to Agley? Probably not. I got to get it from him. I got to get it from the general manager. I got to get it from the manager.

I got to get it from the owner. Or I got to get it from the agent, right? That's the circle of trust on that, right? I'm not going to break a story if somebody says, well, I overheard that JV's done for the season. I agree with you on that. Yes. Again, Chandler, good guy, part of our 790 baseball. football coverage.

I don't think he'd make a mistake like that. It's just, if you're him, he's going to be sweating this out a little bit because if Verlander is right and he was given wrong information, it's going to make him not look particularly good. But I don't want to make this about Chandler. The fact is, I don't believe I'm saying this. Go ahead.

You won't get mad at me when I say this. I bet you JV's not pitching again this year. Yeah, I think maybe it's a 100 to 1. scenario. They're hoping against all hope that he's going to be okay. They're getting a second opinion somewhere and that doesn't normally work out. But he is superhuman. That's true. He's 37 and throws us 95 on the gun. So if there's any pitcher in baseball that I would trust to get over this thing and this literally be just a forearm strain, it's going to be Justin Verlander. But he's also been breaking down this year. He had the latch strain. He had the groin issue.

He had and now it's a forearm strain. And the World Series wasn't. great either. That's correct. I feel like the short rest start threw up his rhythm. Sure did. Sure did. All right. So let's move on to more baseball things that maybe doesn't do with the Astros. Okay. So yesterday, the Miami Marlins put the Philadelphia Phillies in Philadelphia. And they had a few positive tests. Yes. They learned Sunday morning that they're starting pitcher for the afternoon and two other players tested positive for COVID-19. So the right thing would have been due, it would have been maybe just to completely scrub out the clubhouse.

Yes. Postpone yesterday's game. Postponing the game, yes, would have been smart. Keeping it three. Well, they played anyway, because America needs to get their Phillies and Marlins on. Well, apparently, yeah. America was waiting with forbade breath for Phillies Marlins, a baseball.

So since then, since the group of, was the group of three or group of four? Three, I think. Four, I'm not sure. So now that group listing now, that number of people between players and coaches is 14. Basically 10 dudes caught it in 24 hours. And how about this? Did you see this? The Marlins, after they learned of the few tests, they were in a group text. And Miguel Rojas, who apparently is the leader of the Marlins. He is?

Everybody said, let's play. Oh. They're in a group text. Should we stop? Should we not play today? We had all these positive tests. The players decided to play. And then more people got infected.

I'd like to see that group text right now. You dumb MFers. Oops, sorry. Mistakes were made. I'm sorry. 14. And now the traveling party of baseball teams probably now, Ross, is 45.

It's not a lot of. Okay. Somewhere. Sure. So it's almost, but it feels like 40% of the Marlins traveling party has COVID. 40.4-0.

Needless to say, the Yankees are like, I'm not going in that clubhouse in Philadelphia. Oh, hell no. Visiting clubhouse, you can have it. Meanwhile, I still believe the Miami Marlins are still in Philadelphia. They were supposed to have their home opener tonight against Baltimore. That ain't happening. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Orioles are probably down in Miami going, this is great. We can go on South Beach.

We can hang out. Oh, we can't. because then let's go outside. So here you are in one of the most beautiful cities in America with great, flat-bellied, heavy-chested women, and you can't go outside and bruising a day off. Instead, you're stuck in your hotel and can't leave. It's not a good situation.

I've been asked a lot of it on this on Twitter today. Will we see a rest of the season? I believe there will still be a rest of the season. I will, however, say this. You get one more massive outbreak, and they're going to close us some bitch down. I think we are one. more massive

and I mean my massive meaning double digits I could Ross I could see two or three being testing positive here or there but when you knock out 14 of a traveling party of between 40 and 45

that's intense have we have we heard anything we had last week the Hunter Dozier from the Royals testing positive nothing there Juan Soto from the Nationals testing positive

he's 21 yes have we heard anything there Nope, everything's good on that. Miguel Rojas on not playing. He said that was never the mentality. We knew this would happen at some point. We came to the ballpark and we were ready to play.

That was never our thought that we weren't going to play. And my question is, how was this up to the players? The players are always going to want to play. Not necessarily. For the most part. 99% of them. I don't want that percentages. I think the COVID has changed the percentages.

Well, the Marlins had a group text and they said they wanted to play. And so they went on and played. And then 10 more people got infected. And they're stupid. That we know of so far. Name a great Marlin. I mean, I'm talking about current.

Current? We can't even name a Great Marlon. I don't know if I could name you three marlins. They're about the AAA guys that are just lucky to have major league contracts, right? Yes. I mean, if there is the ultimate AAA baseball team, it's the Miami Marlins. The last recognizable Marlon and Giancarlo Stanton is gone. The Derek Cheater traded.

Bill O'Brien helped Derek Cheater make that trade. 40 cents of the dollar. I'm even looking through their roster, and I'm not even recognizing any of these names. You can't. Because, no, I mean, they're the Charlotte Hornets of Major League Baseball. Jonathan VR's there. Oh, that's pushing her point along.

Former Astro Great. All right, so the Marlins, so what are you doing right now? You're in a hotel and Philadelphia. You don't know where to hell to go? I don't know. I don't know what they do. When do they resume play?

They're supposed to play tonight. What's going on with the taxi squad? You can't taxi squad a list of 10, right? I guess you could. Yeah. But they're already in Texas. The major league swaster is a taxi squad. There's a taxi squad to the taxi squad for the Miami Marlins.

At Heber-Lenaires, what gentlemen's club to the Marlins go to? No, that's a good question. And speaking of that, we got to get to sweet Lou. Oh, I love Lou Williams. Lou is the gift that keeps on giving. We'll discuss that what's going on. All right, so let me ask you all this. Are we going to have a full season of baseball?

And you can call and say, Matt, of course we are. I could say you could be wrong or right. Or you could say, Matt, what the hell are they doing? It took three days for an outbreak. This is, Rossi, this is an outbreak. We use that term so loosely. This is an outbreak. So I have to say no.

I have to say no. Three days in, there's an outbreak? So basically we have 66 days left in the season. No, that's not true. 63 days left in the season. It's the 66 games in 66 days. We're not going to have one more, at least one more of these. There's going to be more.

Because at worst case, Ross, you are backing up these games now. Because you're going to have multiple cancellations, and then you're going to have nowhere to put them. Then what's going to happen? Well, you're going to wind up. So they're going to play quadruple header on a Sunday Sunday. My guess is they're going to wind up with Baltimore playing. Miami, they're going to wind up having to play those

games at Baltimore. I mean, they're going to lose home games. Not that it makes that big of a difference, obviously. No, yeah. But they're going to, the only way they can make these up is when these two teams see each other again in their other venues, they'll just make them up there. Stack a bunch of double headers on. Which I'm sure they'll love. And oh, by the way, how are Astros right now?

They're good. We're okay, two and one. You would have said something a lot different if not for JV's injury. If I said, how are you, Astros? You just said, Matt, they're great. I would have said great, looking good. World Series contenders.

Bullpen issues, but that's okay. Yeah, everybody's got them. Good, hearty lineup. Stout. Now we're moving Josh James the number three spot in the rotation. Framber Valdez is number four. Don't say that. Don't say that.

You can't handle the truth, can you? This is what this show's about. It's about telling the truth. Jose Arkiti is going to come back. He's going to be throwing flames. Forest Whitley's going to come up. He's going to be fantastic. The time for youth is

Now it's 1228 on 790. This is P.J. Tucker. Shoots and hits the three. A monster two-hand jam. Sports Talk, 790 is your home for Rockets basketball. That's incredible. Oh, yeah. Rockets had their second scrimmage of the year.

One more coming up tomorrow night against the Boston Celtics. And then Friday we get after it for real against the Dallas Mavericks. Basketball's coming back. Oh, go ahead, Matt. You like this song? It's not bad. What's it called? I can't even remember.

It's broccoli. Broccoli? Yeah, I was going to say asparagus, but I knew that was wrong. You knew it was one of the greener vegetables. Yeah, exactly. Fair enough. Brussels sprouts, perhaps. Ooh, a little bacon, marinated?

Oh, very delicious. If you like. Yeah. 1234 on Sports Talk 790. Ben McLemore shot lights out yesterday. I mean, one barrage of three-pointers after the other yesterday. Jeff Green was good off the bench, too. Yes, he was.

The Rockets bench was fantastic. classic yesterday. Go ahead. Russ looked really good in the first scrimmage, and then yesterday. Yeah, I can't find box scores on these, or at least full box scores on these games. Really? They're not on any of, maybe NBA.com. I'm looking at the Rockets website.

They have that Russell Westbrook scored eight points. I can't find his shooting numbers. Oh, it was like. I know he started off like two of 13 or something like that. Yeah, it's something that wasn't pretty. But, yeah, the Rockets, they actually tried to win the game yesterday. They could have a year easily said, we're done, but everybody played more minutes. James wanted to play the game and win it.

And they knocked off Memphis to go to one-and-one. PJ Tucker fouled out. I think Robert Covington fouled out. Yeah, Robert Covington has played in two scrimmages and has fouled out of both of them. I have a feeling, Ross, that the NBA is going to be pretty tick-tacky on fouls. they don't want the referees, I'm saying they, do not want these guys jaw at them and telling them how bad they are at their job. So it's easier to say foul as compared to letting things go and let them contact. And I don't know if that'll change, but for now, it felt like to me, calling the game yesterday,

there was very little fluidity to it because they kept just calling foul after foul after foul. Yeah, I remember it was some point in the third quarter. I'd watch like 20 minutes of the game and the game clock had moved like two minutes. Yeah. I was like, what's going on out here? It felt very like a college basketball game. Yes, it was. All right, if you would like to join us today and we are open line all throughout the show

because Mondays are our day to kind of just recap the weekend that was 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show today. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Questions we're asking you guys today, first and foremost, can you pray that it's just a forearm strain? That's the first thing. Number two, can you pray that baseball doesn't have a massive outbreak? They've already, like they've already had in one city. Because if you get a second outbreak, I think we're toast, we being people that enjoy baseball. I wonder if that's true, though.

It should be true, I think. Well, I don't know. Should it be true? I don't even know. If there's a second outbreak. Of course, so Clay Travis and Darren Ravelle are going at it on Twitter right now. Or at least they were... Like fun-spirited?

Nobody's taking personal shots. They're just arguing about the coronavirus outbreak. And Clay Travis has been on top of this and saying it's harmless. It's just like the flu. The death rate is very low unless you're over 75. And this is all overblown and we're making a huge deal out of this when we shouldn't. So he is saying that these are all young, healthy major league baseball players who are athletes in the prime of their life. We shouldn't be worried about them.

And this should continue business. usual. So if there is a second outbreak, guys like Clay Travis, and Clay Travis isn't the only one who thinks like he does, and he makes some true factual points, he says, in his opinion, there should not be a stoppage of play. Just basically go to that

deep-ass taxi squad roster of yours and just put them in until people start recuperating. I'm assuming, I don't follow Craig Clay, I don't know what he's saying, but that would be the logical thought is that Major League Baseball made these really, really big rosters for a reason because they knew that they were going to be a

handful of people. The problem is I don't think MLB everyone anticipated 14 people. Now, granted, there were two coaches. So it was 12 players and two coaches? I think so. I don't know if anybody would have anticipated 12 players on one single 30-man roster. And that is where I think the rub is in. And I think that's where there's serious concern is that you are taking 12 of a 30 man and putting them out for some period of time. Whether there's asymptomatic or symptomatic or something not, they're still gone for two weeks. I don't know anybody that has ever tested for positive

for this virus in the last five to six months that said I'll see in three days. Isn't it usually a 10 to 14 day period? No matter what. And I'm also wondering how much would this change? What if it were, this is the Marlins. It couldn't have happened to a worst team that nobody cares about.

What was this was this were Yankees and we had names and it was Aaron Judge and Glaver Torres and Gary Sanchez, et cetera, those guys tested positive and they were going to miss 14 days. We would be sad. No, how? I'm not here in Houston. Disheartened. I'm just saying, it would be a

huge story and I think there, maybe that's what it's going to take for maybe some kind of. I think it's a big story. I think it's obviously a huge story. Absolutely a huge. I don't even think it matters to the team. I think you've got a Major League Baseball team that by its actions because of the virus has forced the cancellation of not one

but two games. And there's not even a guarantee they're going to play tomorrow. And put it this way, Ross, there's also every other major league baseball team. Text thread of the Los Angeles Dodgers, text thread, Houston Astros, text thread, Seattle Mariners. Oh, that could happen just as easy to us as it could happen to the guys that are in that Marlins and that Villas game yesterday. And that's what I think is the crux of this is this virus didn't go attack Miami. This attacked a major league baseball team playing in a city and we could be the next ones. And that's where I think that's where everybody's kind of concerned.

Yeah. In this particular case, I don't think it matters if it's the Marlins or the Yankees or the or the twins. It's a major league baseball team that, by the way, by all accounts, is not very good. By all accounts, doesn't have any stars is going to have to go get people to go play their games who, oh, by the way, probably should be nowhere close to being a Major League Baseball field. Because the Marlins are essentially a AAA team to begin with, right? Yes. So don't put, don't disrespect Jonathan V.R.'s name like that, Matt.

Okay. We're going to do, believe it or not, how old do you know the Marlins today? Believe it or not Marlins? No, no. Oh, they are just a Marlon? Marlon or not? No, sorry. We are going to celebrate today the life and time of one Regis Fieldbun, who passed away

with the weekend at age 88. He died of natural causes. That's what I want. 88 years old. I want a good old-fashioned natural cause death. Mm-hmm. which where do you put Regis Philbin in the in the pantheon of game show host who wants to be a millionaire was a huge hit for a while

huge huge hit I still think he's no more for being a talk show host than the other game show host um not my top 10 because I'm a game show snob yes you are so if I'm gonna put you guys that used to slobber all over women in the 70s me or that are the game show host

the game show also plus it doesn't He even, well, actually he does have a, he does have a game showy-y-ass type name, Regis. Like, name another Regis that you know. Oh, Regis Donnelly. Who? I don't know if she made that up. That was actually a good get. You could have sold me on, Matt, Regis Donnelly is one of the most famous record producers out there.

Oh, I'm sorry. I should have known that. Instead, you give up way too quick on it. I know I had you. We got to go for a break. All right. We come back. We're going to name two more famous Regisus.

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say, you know what the best part about watching the Astros of Mariners this weekend was? I'm not, I mean, Kyle Seeger's a good enough player for the Mariners, but they're in a lot of star power in that group. My new favorite pitcher, oh boy, you say Kukuchi. I say Kukachi. But it's Kikuchi. Yes. And Kukuchi pitch yesterday for the Mariners. And he went three and two thirds, five hits, five runs.

is 12.27. He did not outperform Zach Granky who went three and a third and gave up three runs on four hits. But I just like saying Kakuchi. Yeah, because eventually the Astros got to Kakuchi.

When you know, when people say you're a little ticklish, then I say yes and don't touch me in the Kakuchi. Right. It is kind of an infectious name, is it not? Well, you don't want an infectious Kakuchi, Matt.

Yeah. If you get an infectious Kikuchi, you can be out 10 to 14 days. I'm just telling you the Astros of Mariners still have to play each other seven more times. I hope Kakuchi gets at least one more start. It's a play-by-play's dream.

So you'd like to see more Kakucci? We all would. Some of us haven't seen some kikuchi in quite some time. Yeah, well, you could have seen it yesterday. Did you see the Kikuchi yesterday? I did see the Kikuchi yesterday. When are you planning and seeing it again? Him again.

I don't know. Does he got another game against the Astros? Well, maybe next. Seattle. Well, there's going to be no cacucci day. Maybe the rest of the season is cacucci free. That would be upsetting. Yeah. Everybody wants a little cacucci once in a while. 713, 212.5.7. We've got to get the loop. We get some phone callers to get to.

Lou Williams, just if you have not heard, standby, we're going to completely embellish the story, right? That's our goal. Yeah, I don't know. It isn't need much. We're going to bring the facts. The hard facts. We need good strips, strip tis, strip club song. I always think ACDC helps out. That was maybe in the 80s. Okay. The two of you decide what today's kids are listening to in the strip clubs.

And we'll have it when we talk about the Kukuchi. I mean, Lou Williams coming up in 10 minutes. Okay. I think maybe Lou Williams was looking for Kikuchi in Atlanta. No, he was, I don't think he was watching Kikuchi. He could have been, while eating his wings. I mean, I don't know if they have the MLB package. Good question. Jeff, Memorial on 790 at 1250. Hi, Jeff.

Hey, guys. You know, I learned in high school health class. You get an infection on your cacucci. That's not seven to ten days. That's a lifetime. Oh, is it one of those that creams and ointments can't take care of that cacucci? I think you need a good dose of penicillin after that. I got you. Fair enough. Hey, that's not what I called for. I was going to say, though, about the Marlins issue. Putting aside all the health stuff, I mean, how do you run competitive season if all the teams playing the Marlins in the next 14 days are playing, admittedly, even worse talent for the Marlins than usual. I mean, all these guys are going to go up against basically a double A, maybe a AAA team.

Yeah. And what do you do if you've got like, you get a starting pitcher for the other team, strikes out 22 guys, that's the all-time record, or, you know, throws a no hit or somebody hits five homers in a game because they're cycling in and out double-a pitchers. I mean, maybe for one team, you can, you know, kind of confine that. But if this happens all season long, and then you've got these playoffs where if you're not one of the top four seats in the league, you've got to go play, you know, three road games and the other teams park, well, if somebody else got the benefit of, you know, beating the crap out of a double A lineup, you know, double a pitching staff earlier in the season and you face them when the, you know, the whole team's back.

I don't know, it just creates a lot of problems besides the health issues as far as competitive. you know, I guess fairness is concerned. Yeah, that's why Jeff, unfortunately, I have said every bit of this baseball season is gimmicky. And that's the problem is that teams that are in Eastern divisions, whether they're playing in the National League East or American League East, get a chance to feast and famine over the Baltimore Orioles and the Miami Marlins, two of the absolute worst teams in Major League Baseball. So there isn't a fair and bound schedule. Again, nobody wanted this way to begin with, but that's why this baseball season,

or how it ends is going to be littered with asterix because of it. Yeah, that's right. It's a little, it's going to start to look like the NBA thing where the Eastern Conference champion always comes out after playing a lot less competition in the Western Conference. They should have at least maybe, you know, done the playoffs, you know, West and East and Central, you know, emerging with some other combination. But you're right.

It's a gimmick. I'm enjoying watching it. Yeah. It's not the same thing. any means. It's nowhere near even like what 1981 was, you know, when they had to kind of account to the strike. Right. Thank you for the phone call. Jeff. Good to hear your voice.

This is just, and I'm not even saying what happened with the Marlins as adds of the gimmick, but you had to have known this was going to happen. No one should have been completely shocked when we heard a outbreak, outbreak, was happening.

I don't want to say shocked, but I am surprised that it took just a couple of days and it was 14 cases. I was thinking maybe there would be an outbreak of three or four or five cases or something like. 14 cases three days into the season. It's troubling. Here's what I don't understand. Their clubhouses have to be pristine.

Their dugouts are pristine. I mean, we're watching games. They're social distancing. They're not spitting. They're not doing many high flags. They're wearing masks. If you really got to the. core of this, there's something going on between team bus and hotel that's probably causing more

of this than anything is happening inside the ballpark. I mean, we don't know. It's supposed to be very highly infectious. And that's why the bubble, well, the problem is they should have gone to the bubble. The reason this disease is such a huge deal is because it's very easily spread. So we don't know where it's happening. Look at your bubbles so far. NHL bubble, very few cases.

NBA, almost zero cases. You're right. So maybe it's a going to be. going home type of thing. Scott Miller, who covers MLB for Bleacher Report and Turner Sports, says, told that owners call today there was no talk of canceling the season. Marlins' news is sobering

for the game, but the plan remains to try and manage the pandemic. Grade major league baseball in the pandemic so far. See? I'm going D right now. But a chance to raise the grade up with some other quizzes coming up. Well, let's let's see. Let's see how many more. It took three days

for one outbreak. Let's see. I mean, Three freaking days. All right. Howard is what is here. He's a man who knows more about the COVID than anybody I know. Hi, Howard. I've done a little checking with some of my colleague. Number one.

Of course, yes. There's no reliable test. There's no quick reliable test. Methodist has a test with 30% false negative, and it comes back, I think, in 24 hours. How are you going to test basketball and football players, even if you test them the day before with a 30% negative. I don't think you can have a football, basketball, or even a baseball season

until you have a reliable, effective, safe vaccine. So you think they should cancel the season, Howard? Yes. I think if they don't cancel the season, I think that the liability lawyers are going to be salivating. Yeah, but it's working in the NBA right now. Excuse me? It's working in the NBA right now. And how long before they start to have cases coming?

How are they testing them? By sticking swabs up their noses? How often? Every other day. And what's the percentage of false negatives? How do I know that? In other words, how could I possibly know that? You can't.

Okay. But if method of this, I've been told, is 30% false negatives. Now, wait, minute, wait, minute. Wait, minute. First of all, it's 20%, not 30. I think the people that you're going to have breakfast with and having coffee with and talking are guys that haven't seen a patient in 20 years. Is that accurate?

Tell me the truth. You are being very discriminatory. Am I right or am I right? No, you're dead wrong. Oh, okay. All right. I'm just telling you. Even if it's 20% of false negative.

And someone comes down with a positive test. But you're assuming that those people, that the test that are getting those negative, 20% false negatives, are the ones in Major League Baseball Clubhouses on an NBA franchise. They're spending lots of money to get the ones of the most effective ones. They couldn't afford to have a 20% false negative. It would kill their sports. Well, I will be willing to send you, if we have reasonable seasons in those three sports, I'll send you some Jewish soul food. You know what, you owe me so much food. I don't even know. You owe me food for like 19 years. Howard, I got a roll. Thank you, friend. Man, owes me more food. I could feed my son's high school graduation party with the amount of food that Howard owes me.

He's been promising us Jewish soul food for a while. Yeah. Step up yoga. What is Jewish? soul food. I don't know. I mean, if it's, it can't be bad. I could even guess what it is. Unless it's just, everything is pickled. And kosher, of course. And kosher, of course. All right, Lou Williams, your phone calls and more sadness on Justin Verlander with a forearm strain. Hopefully it's just that. But I don't think I'm very encouraged about it. Crispy fish cakes. That's Jewish soul food? cheese and egg-filled pies.

That sounds all right with spinach in it too. Beef and eggplant meatballs. That's a hard pass. Why not? That's probably good. 713212-5-790. By the way, we come back with the definitive strip club song for today's kids. We do.

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This is the Matt Thomas show. Right, Ross. This has been the term as a definitive strip club song. You okay with this? Brendan, who is this? And what is the name of the song?

Taste by Tyga. T-I-G-E-R? T-Y-R. G-G-A. What is it? T-Y-G-A. T-Y-G-A. T-Y-G-G-A. T-Y-G-G-A. Yeah, I think this would be blasting in the, perhaps in Magic City at some point. By the way, did you get your drive-thru lap dance? No, I didn't. I didn't even go by there. I forgot. You should at least drive by the sea if they're busy. It's literally right by my apartment. So just saying.

All right. So tag is the name of the song is called what I know? Taste. Taste of all just, just period taste. Yeah, I think you should keep it up the whole. Because when we're talking strip clubs,

you got to have uncomfortably loud music where we just shout over each other like you're really at the strip club. Yeah, she's pretty hot. Yeah. And then she's trying to have a serious conversation with you and you have no interest in it. I'm trying to get through college. Yeah. Trying to pay my bills. Right.

Just got a new BMW 5 series. Do I smell good? I'm sorry for getting glitter on you. Yeah. And sweat. That combination of glitter sweat is just very difficult to get out. So Lou Williams says I got to get out of the bubble. I got something very important to do.

Yes. It's a family funeral. And that maybe it's true, right? I think he did attend the funeral. He did attend a funeral. And they said, look, as long as you'd get your test for your COVID while you're gone, your time back in the quarantine will be limited. Yes.

And it could be anywhere between two days and 10 to 14. I mean, it runs the gamut. Yes. Of how long you have to be in the protocol. So while he was in Atlanta, he decided he was hungry. And felt like he wanted to get some chicken wings. Yes. And look, we're going to have a big,

we're going to get together on Wednesday for National Chicken. wing day, so we can't hate the man for wanting his chicken wings. Yes, Big City Wings. We'll be there at the marquee location on Wednesday to watch Astros and Dodgers, provided there's an Astros and Dodgers game. Okay. Because of this whole stuff going on. So he goes to get his wings.

Where does he go? Does he go to Big City wings in Atlanta? I don't think they have one. No. Does he go to any other chains? No. Perhaps a BW3, the wing stop? Yeah, one of those.

Nope. He goes where instead? He went to Magic City, Matthew. Magic City. Is that the place where they serve you food, and then they also act for you like a chariot match or, you know, like a Magic Island kind of place? What was that?

There used to be one on 59, right? Maybe a magic show, if you will. What was that called? Magic Island or something like that? Yeah, they would do magic shows and you have a nice dinner. Yeah, well, nice is a relative term. Oh, it wasn't that nice? No, great. Oh, okay.

Well, I never got to go there, so I don't know. You didn't miss it in a man. Okay, well, no, it's not magic. It's an adult entertainment venue. Okay. And also, apparently, one hell of a chicken wing restaurant. Why do why are strip clubs so

braggadocious about their food? Like men's club back in the day. Buffets were huge. Fifty items. Go have it. I've might have partaking in a men's club lunch buffet before. Delicious? Pretty good. Fresh? It's well. Do you feel like it was clean? It's really dark in there so you can't really, if there's

something weird on your food, you can't really see. Was there a slam in the ice machine? Excuse me? You've heard that before. Okay. Yeah, I know. All right. So at first, he denied beef. being there. Yes. There was only one problem. He wore a mask in the club in Atlanta.

In an NBA official mask. That was given to him while he was in Orlando. So thus he lied about that. Then he said he wasn't there to do anything but eat dinner because the wings are just that spectacular. Yes, he tweeted out. Ask any of my teammates, what's my favorite restaurant in Atlanta is? Ain't nobody partying? Chill out.

Hashtag mask on. Hashtag in and out. Everybody's asking him to chill out these days? You notice that? A lot of people asking to chill out. chill out. Maybe we do need to chill out, Matt. I'm all for chilling out.

I didn't get to know Lou very well because he was only here for a short period of time. Yes. And he was good. I mean, he's still good. Yeah. Even though he said pretend that never happened, his time in Houston. He didn't seem particularly bright. Okay.

So that doesn't mean he wouldn't order some chicken wings from Magic City. He never should have gone. Go to the funeral, come right back, get into quarantine for one or two days. Man, got to eat. You know what? There are plenty of restaurants. Applebee's is playing welcome back Cotter music. Go there and enjoy that.

Go get you some free guac and chips at Chili. I'm getting text from them all the time. There's a lot of... In fact, he's making millions of dollars a year. Eat at the nicest restaurant in your hotel. Hell, have it brought up to your room. Why would he be that stupid? I mean, I hate calling another human being stupid, Ross.

But that's about as stupid as it gets. So not only does he... get caught. He not only lies, because I tell you, the average person lies once, three times a day on average, but the NBA is like, I know what you did. I know where you were, and guess what? We're going to make you sit out 10 days.

Because he was in a high risk area. So the question was, and is, do chicken wings in a strip club, is 10 days of quarantine worth it? And the question is, do you believe his story? No, I don't believe anything. You think he went there for a couple of lap dances in a good time? Absolutely.

I don't know, Matt. Let me tell you something. I'm looking at the evidence right now. Oh, do we have any legal music to play? Play some legal music. You try to defend this case here. A law and order theme, Brendan. Yeah, long order.

That's fine. I want to hear this. I want you to lay this out because I don't believe him. Fash. Seriously, Lou Williams. Go. So you're telling me, you're going to try that you are the public defender. Yes.

And you're going to have Louis Williams back. Tweet from somebody named Fashion Dree. If you were a fan or follower of Lou, you would know that he eats Magic City Ritually. He orders it as catering to be delivered to his home on the regular. Magic City to normal ATL citizens is a place to grab food during the day. End of story. Quote tweeted by Lou Williams.

Leave it alone. Just enjoy the memes. Yelp. Magic City Reviews. This one from Cecilia T. Made on 826, 2019. But y'all, the reason why I came here, the wings. Those mother-cluckin wings delivered you by gods on the other side of a tiny little window. Pro tip, bring cash only or else you're starving. Card will get you nowhere here. I entered Nirvana when I hit the first wing. I could hear the deafening crispy crunch over the loud music and conversation. It became me and the chicken wing. And no one has to be it.

else around. The perfect amount of sauce so you weren't begging for napkins. Oh, y'all. The right amount of salt so you weren't done after just two. Review from Foams. Oh. Wait a minute. You're telling me your Atlanta, Georgia. Your case to defend him is based off two Yelp reviews. 2015. I highly recommend the lemon pepper wings. That's what brings me back the most. Lauren W. I love this place. Great drinks, even better wings, the best adult entertainment in Atlanta. Are you done? I'm just looking at all these Yelp reviews talking about how great the wings are, man. You know, Yelp reviews doesn't take any sort of filter to provide a Yelp review.

Well, these are from 2016 and 2019 and 2015. Okay, so you're saying, how great the wings are. Your Yelp reviews and the fact there were no women taking pictures of Lou means he was there just for the wings. And I'll give you a personal anecdote. Go. There is a certain adult entertainment place frequented by. Well, it's the one where James Harden has his jersey retired. I've been there before.

I went there Sunday at a 3. It's about 3 a.m. one time. And by the way, strip clubs are not retired jerseys in theory, right? No, but I think James Hardin dropped the mill there. The legend is James Hardin dropped the mill and then they retired his jersey at this place. Continue. In the back of this place, there is a chicken wing and fried fish joint. And I was hungry at that time because I didn't.

might have been drinking this Sunday night at 3 a.m. And you know what? I ordered that. Food? It was amazing. I want to go back there just for the food. Okay. So if Lou William, if I love this strip joint, strictly because they had delicious chicken wings and fried fish, I can buy that Lou Williams just loves the chicken wings at Magic City. I'm prepared to buy his story.

We will further discuss and decide a verdict. Next. 112 on Sports Talk 790. Good news. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch. Let that boring brown bag lunch rot in the employee refrigerator. Oh, what's that smell? The Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. All right. You just heard lead defender sports RV.

He believes that Lou Williams went to that strip club because, the wings are just that damn good and nothing else. The truth shall shit. What? Selt let's set. Lou free, Matthew. This is a man that absolutely

admitted he was dating two women at the same time. The three of them lived together. This is a man who has the reputation of being a player's player. Yeah, he's got a couple of girlfriends at home. He didn't need more.

do you really, really, really, really, really, really believe that he went inside the club just to get the lemon pepper wings? At Taylor Rooks. As someone from Georgia, I guess this is not the time for a dialogue on how good the food is at Magic City. Okay. Let me say this. If the food is as good as advertised. Oh, Lou Williams' tweet from February 12th, 2019.

Somebody says, we're in Atlanta for the Wing Depot, blah, blah, blah. Lou Williams quote tweet, 2019, February 12th, key evidence entered by the defense. I respect that, but Magic City and Blue Flame get the best wings in the city. Stop hitting that. Rossi. Matthew. It's like saying, I go. to buy a Playboy for the

articles. But this is different, Matt. Ross, he could have had the wings delivered. Go, just Google. Listen to me. DoorDash. Maybe he was on the way. Uber eats. Any of them. He's had them catered to his house. Then why didn't he do it again?

Maybe he was on the way to the airport. Maybe he was on the way to a friend's house. Maybe he was on the way to the... Maybe he wanted massive breast in his face. I'm not talking chicken breast. Well, maybe he just wanted. want in a wing. Spicy, delicious, fantastic.

Time for you to decide. It's time for an instant poll. 713-212-5-790. You are the jury. You heard the defense with a very, very compelling argument. I'm still calling BS. The question is, audience, did Lou Williams go there just for the wings?

And more importantly, defense attorney Ross, was it really worth it? Because again, deliver them bitches over there, you'd be fine. What am I talking about the wings? You know, I wanted to go to Magic City when we were Atlanta for the Super Bowl. I just didn't have time. Did he go just for the wings? 713-212-5-790. Line two on the instepole.

Did Lou go just for the wings? All right, I'll take that as a year. I don't know what I'll take that as. That man must be, like he's running in the park. Like, take a breath before he call. Yeah. Line three, did he take, did he go just for the wings? He might have ate the wings, but he didn't go there for the wings.

All right, that's a no vote. He did not go there just for the wings. Line four in the instant pole, did he go there just for the wings? He went there for that instant pole. That's a second no vote. Line 5 on the Instapole. Did he go for the wings? Yes or no?

Only. He went for the wings and eat something else. Oh. That's three nos. Ross, what does the Interpol always say? Well, it lies sometimes. Not often. Line two.

Did Lou Williams go just for the wings? Oh, she's. And see. I close the pole off. Ashley says he went for the Kakuchi. I don't think he was there. Oh my goodness. I believe Lou Williams.

And Lou Williams who trust. You shouldn't. All right, Brendan, what do you think? Just for the wings or no? I don't know, man. It sounds pretty convincing to me. I think he went just for the wings. But if you have a special allowances, guys, in all seriousness, to leave the bubble,

there should be about three pledges as you go. Your parents' house, a funeral home for the funeral, as you said, and probably a church. Sure of that, stay away from anything. that might get you quarantine for 10 days. I just wanted to go to a magic city, Matt, where magical things happen and they have magical wings. And he got a nice magical 10-day quarantine out of it. All right, 7-13-212-5-790.

Let's go to Biscuit on 7-90. Biscuit, what do you got today? Cougar-Mad, Cougar-Mad. How are things? Two words for you. Curbside pickup. Yeah. He'd be fine.

That's all right. You're good. That's right. This is the question, Matt. This is the question I had. And I think the NBA didn't think this the TBT tournament, and it went through. But it was only, what, two weeks?

Three months? I don't know, Matt. I don't know. And if they don't make it, Lou had to stand quarantined for a long enough time to deter other guys, man, you're going to see a lot of people. believe in the bubble and that's going to be the downfall. We in America, Matt, we lack discipline.

So basically he was being made as an example, which I totally buy that. I understand. I mean, anybody that likes glitter and girls and perfume, now I understand, do not leave the bubble unless you absolutely have to. It's going to cost you 10 days. Ross, you know what quarantine is like in the bubble for 10 days? You do not leave your room. It ain't worth it. I don't know.

Is 10 days enough, though? I don't know. No, I think it is. I think it is. They'll be testing them as well. They probably wouldn't let them back on. I think if guys calculate, like, say you on the lake or you calculate, okay, well, 10 days, you know, that would be the first round of the player? I can do that.

All right. I think they need to make it longer. No, I think this is plenty. I mean, I don't want the guy in their room for a month. I mean, that's not fair. I mean, granted, there's a chance he didn't get a damn thing except maybe a STD. but that's not here nor there. I mean, that doesn't necessarily do with the bono virus.

Well, you would imagine he would protect himself, Matt. Yeah, let me tell you. Not knowing Lou, but my guess is Lou has protected himself very well over the years. But yeah, that would be testing. I mean, he'll be tested throughout the 10 days probably, right? Oh, yeah, for sure. Yeah. That's fine.

When he walks back on the court, do the guys say, how are those wings? Great to have you back. I'm sure he's getting trash talk to right now via some kind of group text. And what would they be saying? Wings were that good, huh? Well, you know what? Maybe some of them have his back because they know how good the wings are at Magic City. Or how's that girl?

I bet you James Hardin has his back. I bet you James Hardin can testify. James Hardin has been nothing but an angel. The defense calls James Hardin to the stand. He'd have to leave quarantine. He couldn't do it. He's in the bubble. James Hart is probably jealous. Exactly.

How delicious are the Magic City? Wings. Because everywhere I turn, they look like I'm pretty good. I'm going to tell you something right now, and this is as God

as my witness. If we start traveling next year, please, I swear on a stack of Bibles. Yes. The Matt Thomas show

the night before I do my radio show in Atlanta and we do it before a Rockets Hawks game, we will go to I will go to Magic City and give you a full report on these damn wings.

Yeah, I think we should. And that's all I'll do. I'll say, no, I do not want to entertain or near me. I just want the lemon pepper wings close to me. That's it. By the way, we're going to be Wednesday. We barely mentioned this. Sam over big city wings is like, hey, you know, it's National Wing Day on Wednesday. So Wednesday night, Astros play the Dodgers, Lord willing, at 610 p.m.

Yeah, we'll see. Yeah. Virus willing. Ross and I are going to go to the marquee location, which is what I tend sober, right? And we're going to go, every wing is 75 cents. So you can get 10 wings for $7.50. I mean, that's really, really, really cheap. And the wings are a really good size there. So it's like the little baby ones. So we're going to go there. We're going to drink some beers.

And we're going to have some wings. We're going to have a good time. So we want to invite you. We're not doing any sort of massive promotion or big pomp and circumstance largely because we can't. Hashtag social distancing. But we're going to hang out and watch the Astros on. We've got 80 big screen TV. So we're going to have the Astros game on.

So Wednesday night, Ross and I will be there. Come hang out with us Wednesday at a big. wings, Markey will be there at 6 o'clock. Wonderful. Something easy, right? No big whoop. And I might be... I might be bringing a few little presents. Oh, really? Yeah. Are they sanitized? For your convenience.

Okay, thank you. And for your safety. Google review. Oh, see, you won't take the out-on list, will you? Gary Paris. I took my cousin from England. He was very impressed and had a good time. He loved the wings and fries. Special thanks to Omni and Persia. I'm the Impersia. We're very accommodating at the Magic City,

according to Gary Paris. You just can't take the loss on this, can you? A must visit if you like music. Really good chicken wings, too. What about the man that's been the back cooking the burgers? Is he not getting any lemon during this whole thing? And by the way, is there only one flavor of a wing, the lemon pepper?

No, they have the lemon. I think they have lemon pepper, mild, medium hot. Let me check the menu. I'm thinking about Big City right now talking about these wing flavors. 128 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. We'll get some more phone calls. And Rossi, what do we believe about Justin Verlinder, seriously?

I think he's going to be out for the season. What about 2021? You want to hold on to that thought? Well, hold on to it. Because I don't think you want to announce what you... I don't think you want to put over the microphone what you were thinking. Which is an unfortunate part of my problem. I usually say what I'm thinking on the radio.

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More on J.B. More on the outbreak. More on Lou Williams. By the way, we've just found out through something on Twitter, right, that Lou Williams has his own flavor at, what's in the place? Well, I was pulling up the menu as this person tweeted in. Thanks to Will I am. So they have a flavor of wings named after Lou Will.

And what is it? Well, they have, of course, it even says on the menu, the reason you are here. Wings. That's a lie. Lemon pepper, honey garlic, garlic parmesan,

Thai chili, et cetera, et cetera. Now, these are the signature style wings. They're exclusive to the Magic City Kitchen in ATL. There is Lou Will Lemon Pepper Barbecue. Kendrick Perkins on Twitter. It's disturbing when a rookie in Zion Williamson

can act more mature than NBA vet Lou Williams. Lou responds 15 years in this business and the most dirt you can have on my name is stopping to get hot wings during a pandemic perk. Shut up and stop laughing and saying it's just TV when you can run into me too.

Feisty. Lou Wings. Feisty. And he also tweeted, but I digress. I went home to see a man off to his final resting place and that was a giant in my life. I don't want that to get lost and all this attention. So again, long-lived the great Paul William Sr. Back to my quarantine so I can enjoy join the guys soon. Peace. Oh, okay. He's still guilty. He's guilty at worst case of at the lowest, it's just being stupid.

You just can't go there. You can't go in. If you want the wings that damn bad, Rosson, you can't argue with me on this no matter what. If there was no girl and no glitter in there, you can't go in. Why, you just wanted some wings, Matt. Okay. Well, he did. Maybe he could have gone about it a better way. And he got his wings and he's gone for 10 days. Yeah, he'll be fine. Clippers will be fine. You know what? I hope every clipper goes to Big City. What's the name of the place?

Silver City? Magic City. Silver City? That sounds like about right. Yeah. I hope every Clipper wants to try out Lou Williams' big wings in Atlanta. They're all gone 10 days. They're all missed the season.

They're all first-run exits in the playoffs. They sound quite delicious. And now I'm really upset. I didn't go there. And now we're going to have to have some Lou William-flavored wings Wednesday at Big City Wings. I bet you Sam can get us a lemon. Could I interest you in some Uncle Jeff honey jerk? Excuse me?

No, you may not under a zero circumstance. Do you rude boy jerk? No, I don't. Did you do Smith-Schuster come up with those? No, I'm jerk-free. How about some Justice Magic? Justice Winslow, who came up with those? I was going to say, Justice Magic could be one of the answers.

Does that sound like that's a possibility? And of course they do offer naked wings. Duh. All right, 713-212-5-79. If you want to get in today, 713-212. We've had more Lou Williams calls today than we have about Justin Verlander. Or in wait-in-C mode, man.

Does that trouble you at all? No, that doesn't trouble me. Okay. We've had, we had it. I'm just really, really, really worried that Chandler's right. And I'm really, really, really not surprised an athlete would try to downplay his own season demise. Especially when if it's elbow sports RV, it means he's getting a T. I mean, forearm often turns into TJ.

We always hear forearm strain and then that's, alarm bells can go off when you hear that. And when you get a TJ, it's got a long lasting effect to it. Yes. Year and a half. But often guys come back stronger afterwards that are 39? Well, we'll see. How often does somebody get a TJ at 39? I don't know.

I'm sure we can find a list of people who have had Tommy John surgery somewhere. You know, we did it believe it or not. We did Tommy John or not once. And it really should be called a Brent Strom, a BS. Why? Because he was second? He was second. If Tommy John wouldn't have had the stones to have it done first, Brent Strom's like, I'll do it.

Name it. We call it be called a strami, right, basically? That's probably a stromy, yeah. Yeah. What kind of surgery you have? I had a strami. Brent Stromy. Tommy John does have a nice ring to it.

Brent Stromy sounds like a kind of an Italian sandwich you would get in a delicatessen. Like a Jimmy John's? No, well, you go to Jimmy John and say, what's your special? We're having a brunch drummy today. That's going to be capacola, pepperoni, salami, mozzarella, and oil and vinegar with banana peppers. Banana peppers. I'll have a strawberry, please.

That sounds delicious. We have got to stop talking about food so much on this radio show. That's what we do. God. We need to have somebody bring us food every single day to make us full. Because the thing is when you go to the grocery store and you're full, you don't buy as much. You go on the radio and you know what in your stomach is full.

you don't talk about food as much. We'll see at Big City Wings on Wednesday. All right. So Verlander, why did he go to Twitter? Do you think he was just like, this is making me mad? Or do you think he wanted to control the narrative?

Or option C, that it is just a forearm stream? We know that he can have a contentious relationship with the media. Yes. We know that he can get mad at guys. And I think there is some of that to where, I think it's not 100% that he's done for the season, but maybe it's 99.99%.

And so if Chandleroma is putting it out there and it's not completely correct, Justin Verlander's jumping at the chance to correct him and to say, I'm not for sure out for the season. And he says we're hopeful somewhere in that tweet. It's going to be re-evaluated in a couple of weeks. Because Verlinder strikes me as a guy that he wants to control his narrative. and he's probably, if he doesn't know already, he's probably thinking to himself, who said something.

Let I am who I am. I'm Justin freaking Verlander. If I'm out and I'm done for the year, let me say it. Do you think he's spending any time trying to figure out who whispered to Chandlerone? Probably. But as I said before, if you're Chandler, and we love Chandler, you have to get it from one of the core, like if Ross, if I can't, to you and said, I'm hearing whispers out of the Astros that some players hurt.

You wouldn't run with it. No. I would expect you not to run it. No. And Shailer wouldn't run it with either. I wouldn't imagine he would. You would have, because it is such a huge player. And at the time was a huge headline.

Now, all this stuff going out with the Marlins is something different. But you would have to have it, I mean, the person or persons absolutely 100% at the right or left hip of Justin Verlinder to tell you that. Like a general manager. Like an owner. Like a, Dusty, you got to play that soundbike. We've got time. Play the opening soundbite again.

And the funniest part was Dusty asked who spilled the beans. And I don't know if he didn't hear it properly or he really didn't know what the Chronicle was. Dusty, do you have an update on Justin Burlander's health? Well, you know, we notice the forearm strain. And, you know, he's being seen by the doctor. So it'll probably be shut down for a call. couple of weeks and then we'll see from there. Will he pitch for you this season? Well, like I said, I just said he sat down for a couple of weeks, you know, and then we'll, you know, re-evaluated from there.

We don't know. When did it happen? It happened yesterday, you know, early in the game, but he said he felt, you know, he felt fine. And you see he was throwing us all great yesterday. And it was kind of shock to all of us. Dusty is being reported that he's out for the year. Okay, who's reporting it? Chronicle. Who? The Chronicle. No, I mean, like I told you, I just told

you, it's a forearm strain. He shut down for a couple of weeks and then we'll reevaluate at that time. That's all I can tell you. Chronicle? Who? Huh? The Athletic? High Athletic is?

Well, I know. Jess is very athletic. I do like Dusty, though. Dusty's the best. He's just the best. I can't be a bigger enough fan of Dusty Baker. Been there and done that. There is nothing that he,

the only thing he's not tasted, it obviously is a World Series victory. He's been a part of World Series as a player, but doesn't know what it's like to win as a manager. I mean, everything else he's done. He's been through labor problems. He's been through strikes. He's been through multiple managerial situations.

with some of the greatest players ever to play. He's been part of the most controversial moments in the history of baseball. He's taking over a team, Ross, that is one of the most controversial teams in Major League history. And he's generally speaking, cool and calm as a cucumber, right? Very matter of fact, yeah, very low-key. I think he's exactly what this team needed with all this going on. I'm curious what option B would have been. Buck's showalter would have been just a cranky

SOB Again that's another guy that's been there and seen it all But man he just would have I think would have been in a much more of a I don't want to talk to you guys You're going to ask the same questions about the cheating scandal Then we're done here Probably Joe Espada Who I say I bet you

If Dusty's like I don't want to do this This is not worth it I bet you Joe Espada gets serious serious consideration Because Joe Espada knows those guys in the clubhouse as well as anybody. Yeah, I think he was one of the finalists than this go around, and I think he will be in the future for the Astros, as he should. All right, 143 is our time.

Have you lit in a candle, Ross, to hope that Justin Verlinder doesn't have to miss any more time? In fact, you know what we've got to do. No, no. You know what I ask you every time. Will you please do me a favor? What's that? Go fix our water tower.

Oh, okay. I can try that. Go do it, and then we'll put it on Twitter, and we'll send it out then we'll get you a lot of... And then I want all of you to follow Sports RV. Thanks. This will be a day where I have to give up the chance of promoting my own to promote Ross's. At SportsMT.

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148 Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas show with you today until 3 o'clock. The other super big baseball news of the day is a pair of baseball games. postponed. One of them is down in Miami tonight where the Marlins were supposed to take on the Baltimore Orioles. That has been postponed because 14 players slash coaches of the Marlins have tested positive for the Rona and the Yankees who were supposed to be in the visitors clubhouse in Philadelphia where the supposedly where the Marlins got their Rona, they're canceling that game too. And there's no word about tomorrow. And from what Rosh

you told us the last hour, majorly baseball owners got to. together on a call and said that it's not a concern to the owners of this. There was no discussion of canceling the season. And I would imagine, because that would be a disaster for the owner. For them to cancel the season four days in, it would be a PR disaster. It would be a financial disaster. It just, there was no way that, unless it gets worse very, very soon that they're going to jump ship this early. Okay.

So I said we were one more of these away. May I rethink this? I didn't agree with you and I didn't disagree with you. I don't know. What do you think? Well, these players are going two weeks, right? Yes. In theory?

Yes. I don't know anybody that has the Rona. The test absolutely positive for it that doesn't miss at least 10 days. Where they're quarantine, they're not, they're certainly not playing Major League Baseball. So all I'm saying is you're going to allow the team with the fewest Major League Baseball players, real ones, to bring up 10 baseball players to come fill out this. team. So basically it's a double and AAA team playing a major league schedule.

Okay. I guess that's the reason why they have taxi squads to begin with. I mean, that's the reason why. They're, I mean, they, they plan for this. But honestly, if the Astros got hit with 10, there wouldn't be a bunch of great Astros sitting at the triple league going, ooh, it's our chance. You know what I mean? You're, okay. I mean, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be like, it's not like the Astros

have Jose Altubei sitting down at second base with the taxi squad level going, I'm ready to play. It would devastate any baseball team, whether it's a good Major League team or a bad one. For a couple of weeks. Yeah. In a 60 game season. Which is huge.

That's like a month of play. Right? Mm-hmm. So here's the question. If it happens again, what does baseball do at that point? You can't shut this bad boy down for two weeks. You can't. There's no time.

There's no time. Well, let's just say it happened. Let's say in one week from now, another team gets hit, some random team, Colorado Rockies, whatever. Yeah. are they going to shut it down or are they going to just keep going? Well, how many? I'm allowing you to change my mind because an hour ago, I was like,

they're one more away from this. I'm saying, we can't do this. And it's not necessarily the owner saying it. The players might say, what is going on? And here we are presuming it's the clubhouse. It really could be the hotel.

Yeah, it could be convenient. But the Yankees are saying, you had 30 or so people in that dugout slash clubhouse, we're not stepping in there until you fumate the damn thing. Yeah, what is the proper protocol there? Is like a light burning to burn off all the virus? Like, literally, what are they doing to wash that down?

They just spray it all with Lysaw? And what do you do? I mean, you have a sanitizer on a... Well, I don't, I think we could all assume how that would be done. I mean, heavy scrubbing, disinfecting. I mean, you... That's happening in people's offices and whatnot, right? Can those, like a 409 going to knock out the virus?

What is it? What is it in the, in the, my big fat Greek wedding where Windex took care of it? Oh yeah, Windex. Does Windex knockout Corona? There's a heavy coating of Windex in the visiting clubhouse at Philadelphia, Phillies. So Plorox cleanup or something? Fabuloso.

That'll knock it right out. All right. Can I change my opinion in one hour? Yeah, absolutely. This is pandemic, Matt. We don't know what the hell's going on. Not only hour to hour, minute to minute. I think another outbreak they would still...

Here's what happened. I think there would be amazing unrest among the... the players. You've already got David Price, who by the way, is not pitching this year, already bitching about it. What did David Price say? Miguel Rojas, they asked him if they wanted to play, and they agreed that they wanted to play.

They didn't know this was going to happen. That's true. Can Major League Baseball go through one more of these? And the thing that is that you brought up is that this first go-round of this massive outbreak, Ross, took three days of a Major League season. You're telling me this is... Can we not get one weekend? This is not going to happen again in the next 57 days.

There will be another one. I think one more of these is ambitious. I think you're asking, can MLB survive seven, eight, nine more of these? Okay, so Brendan, here's the better question. When does baseball say we've got to stop this? What's the tipping point? Well, you brought up a really interesting point in the player saying what's going on. Because I think the taxi squads are there for this.

This is why you have a taxi squad. But at some point do players go, look, we're not going to just sign up to, like, agree we're getting sick. I don't think the MLB is going to shut it down. Not without players stepping up first. Yeah, I would, Rossi, I will say, I'll stand by this. I do believe it will be a player revolt before it'll be a, well, we're keeping out for the best interest. I agree with you. Yeah.

The players will want to stop before the owners, absolutely. So you mentioned the David Price tweet. Now we really get to see if MLB is going to put players health first. Remember when Manfred said players' health was paramount. Part of the reason I'm at home right now is because players' health wasn't being put first. I can see that hasn't changed. And see, guys like that are going to go scoreboard, told you all. But let's be honest, every one of these players that knew they were playing in these situations

had to have known that this was the chance this was going to happen. There was opt-outs. David Price opted out. He didn't feel safe. He didn't want to put his family at risk or anything like that. He opted out. Every player that is on a roster right now had the option to opt out and they didn't. By the way, the Marlins' Tuesday game has now just been called off.

Teams were supposed to play four games between cities this week between Baltimore and Miami. When are these games being made up? They can have a couple of double-headers when they go to Baltimore? So if you have the Marlins are right now still in Philadelphia. You could keep them there, the ones that are healthy, send them to Baltimore and play a pair of double-headers. and then you're bringing up, oh my God, 10 scrub, 10 taxi squad scrubs. No, scrubs, Matt.

Scrubs. By the way, Yankees, Phillies game might be also postponed. Then they're supposed to flip and go play in Philadelphia. Excuse me, in New York. You could see, could you see back-to-back double headers? four games in 48 hours? Four games in like, you know. Imagine the Astros bullpen with four games in 48 hours?

Did you imagine what it was yesterday? How many more major league debuts are going to be made? We're going to see a record for major league debuts, right? I feel like we've probably already seen it in the first three days. Oh, the Astros are littered with them, especially if Zach Granky is going to go less than four innings. 156 on the Matt Thomas show. We've got a final hour left to go. Believe it or not today is all things about Regis Field when he passed away over the weekend.

And Ross, we've decided a new trend here on the show. We're going to give you guys the first or one of the questions. It may not be the first one, but it'll be one of the questions that you will hear today during Believe it or not. We'll have it for you. Plus, more on the Astros and their loss yesterday to Tukuchi. Cacucci. Cacucci. Although Tacucci sounds just as good, right?

If you say, Kukuchi. Cacucci. And I can also say the Astros bullpen yesterday. Joe Biazini. Down that go. Bryce Taylor did all right. Is that a name Bryce or Brian? Blake?

Blake, yeah, that's his right. It's very hard. You know what, Matt? I would like to make fun of you, but it's very hard to keep track of the Blake Taylor's and the, what is it, the Brandon Bailey's of the world. It's tough to keep track of this Astros bullpen right now.

I can also tell you that Chris Devinsky. Three hits, three runs, the area of 13.50. By the way, there's a one major league, Major League Baseball player that has an infinity ERA. Right now, do you know what it is? I do know who it is. We'll tell you about who that is and more on the Astros

as we start the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 201 on Sports Talk 790. Final hour, Matt Thomas Show on the program. This hour, we're going to hear a little bit from DeShon Watson. Get a little Texans fix in. You know training camps are like sort of starting? I don't know how they are, but they are.

Do you really, what is your confidence level 1 to 10 on this being a fluid NFL training camp? One? Yeah. I mean, I don't mean to overplay this, but the answer is one. So with the Major League Baseball and the outbreak that the Marlins had, you can have these taxi squads because you have a whole minor league system, A, AA, AAA, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Right. If there's an outbreak, say in the middle of the season and the Houston Texans are. some other team, 15 players test positive.

What's the solution? What do you do? You're supposed to have 45 active, right? Mm-hmm. On a 53-man roster. Right. Ten of them are missing the game. Maybe it's important players.

Deshawn Watson, Laramie Tunsell. And by the way, they're not interchangeable parts. Yes, exactly. If your wide receiving core gets destroyed because you have an outbreak, you don't go grab a defensive line and say get a far left corner. Hey, Joey, but JJ Watt, tight in, Matt. It's been done before. We've seen him quarterback, unfortunately.

Yes. And he was hurt, but that was the genius that was Houston, Texas football. And think about this, you have a, like, in the quarterback room. What if one guy has it in the quarterback room and then every quarterback catches it? Yeah. Then who's going to be, who's the emergency quarterback for the Texans? How many quarterbacks do you quarantine? How many running, I mean, how many people do you put in their locking key and say, you know what, y'all do your own thing, work out an individual like you were, we'll come get you if we need you.

But, okay, let's go back to the bigger question. One to ten, how fluid will this training can't be, whatever this is? There's going to be outbreak somewhere. Somehow. Because I'm more, we've talked about the NHL, I think they just had zero positive tests. Bubble environment. NBA, they've had zero positive tests recently, bubbled environment. MLB, not bubbled environment, you've had outbreaks.

You've had multiple positive tests. It's going to be the exact same with the NFL. And not only that, you're talking about basically double the size of players, double the amount of players in Major League Baseball. Did you see today the Vikings trainer? Who, you know, that's his chip, so to speak. Oh, no. Tested positive for Roan.

No, no. That's all it takes. It takes one player, takes one guy. Even if you're following all the proper protocols, wearing your mask, hand sanitizing, keeping your social distance, it's just a very highly infectious disease. But I will say this, the NFL did the right thing by not allowing these pre-season games. So you're giving yourself basically a month and a half to get everything in order. You're trying to buy yourself time to hope the cases go down and this all goes away.

That's what the NFL's hope was in March. April when they held their draft and they're staying the course, staying the course, staying the course, but it just hasn't played out that way. And another thing the NFL has for them is the fact that if things just aren't going swimmingly well and there are a Miami Marlins outbreak on an NFL team and they're running troubles with tests and results and guys being nervous, you can just chop that first quarter and put it in the first month of January, back everything up. No one will be hurt for that. Right? I think we would love to have September football.

But the general sports fan of me is going to have baseball to watch. The NBA plows to be in play. It won't kill me if the Texans don't play the KC chiefs on September the 8th. This won't. This is the problem, though. If you're trying to, they've been doing this the entire time. We're buying ourselves a month. We're buying ourselves a week.

We're cutting off preseason, buying ourselves a month. If you cut off those four weeks, what's going to be? going to change in that month? Is everybody going to, are you everybody going to get in a bubble? Is this going to go away? No, I think it would just be worse. At some point, and here's me being positive, we're going to have to turn the corner on this at some point. We're going to see a flattening. We're going to see further vaccinations. At the very worst, Ross, we're going to have an even more fluid testing system. Or I think the NFL, remember, the NFL has more money than any of these other organizations. If there's any group of people that can

spend any amount of money it takes to get recent up-to-date and frequent testing results, it's the NFL. So I ain't worried about whether or not they're going to be able to get it down once they have the system right. I think the players probably feel a little apprehensive about it. But I think when the NFL ultimately says, here's what we're going to do every single day or every other day, as long as they want to do it that way, that money will never be an issue and they'll be able to have the most effective results.

And that's why there will be no slip-ups like unfortunately Major League Baseball has had. with late results and some guys getting their results and some not. The NFL can't afford that. The Major League Baseball built their own lab, and I think NFL's contracting with a lab, I think. Separate lab, right. Same thing, yeah, yeah. Here's the brilliant part of it all, the two most successful things.

Well, really three. I mean, not that anybody cares about the MLS, but the MLS has worked out well. Oh, good. Well, didn't know the FC Dallas, the whole team got. But that was very early in the game. Okay. Once everybody got in the bubble, as expected,

everybody's, for the most part, it's been behaving themselves. I'm sure you were devastated and see the dynamo eliminated over the weekend. Didn't even know it, but that's fine. The NHL folks bragging in the day, no positive tests inside their bubble. And the NBA and the Rockets, zero positive test. Now you got Lou Williams going to give them some 11 pepper wings. He's going to get quarantine. It's going to get a 10-day quarantine.

But, you know, they're great wings. They're great wings. If they got a flavored named after you, you got to go have them, Matt. What would my flavor be? Okay, don't answer that question. Uh, well, I'll let you. Mine would be a dry rub. Well, you have a sandwich named after you.

I got a burger named after me. You have a dry rub? I would be, it would be a dry rub. That sounds uncomfortable. I'm telling you the, the latest for me on wings is not to have a extra saucy, but the dry rubs. Oh, I like the wet. Oh, me, I like it wet, too. That's what I'm, I, but I've been, don't do anything for me.

Oh, I can get a 50 rub and a 50 wet and be very happy. Like 50% of it. I was going to say, you're knocking out a hundred piece, Matt? That'd be impressive. Okay, what kind of dry rub? Barbecue, lemon pepper? No, I'd be like Cajun. Cajun rub.

Like you would put on a pork tenderloin, the same corner of seasoning. Okay. Yeah. A little Tony Sachery's? Big City's got the cool ranch rub, which is delicious. Oh, I haven't tried that. And they have a sour cream and onion. I will be, sour cream and onion I've had.

It is delicious. Did we just start talking food again? Yeah, we're going to be Wednesday night at Big City. You're going to come out, Brandon, and say hi to the folks. You should come out. I don't know if I was invited. We're definitely invited. Wear a mask and we get a...

Where your Detroit Tigers mask with a big D on it. Oh, that's not nice. I'm a nice. I'm a natural fan now. Yeah, you didn't see his tweets over the weekend? He's all in now. It took him 12 hours to become an Astros fan. It's very easy when you're coming from Detroit right now. Yes, that's true.

Detroit is a great baseball town. Well, it used to be. Is it? Oh, I don't know. I would say it is. They are very hopeful is the wrong word. They just want to see some wins because they haven't gotten very many of those. How many games? year would you go to?

Oh, before I moved to Grand Rapids, 10 to 15? It's, the problem with Detroit, I'm from there so I can speak to this, is that it's not zoned at all. So they try to rebuild Detroit. They only built like 40, rebuilt 40% of it.

So you'll have awesome brownstone, awesome brownstone, bashed in building with windows cracked. Co-America, is it still Co-America? Is it still Co-America Park? Yeah. So like the Heights? Uh, yeah.

It's like half gentrified and half, Is that a fair to say that half of the downtown Detroit is amazing? Another half is you want to be as far away as possible. It's been moving closer and closer, I think, to nicer area over time. But no, but I think for the most part, that's accurate. I mean, at least our downtown. I don't think there's any huge scuzzy parts of it. Is there?

I mean, there's just homeless people everywhere. Well, but that's going to be in every downtown or every downtown. It's not too rundown. Edo's gotten better. It's getting gentrified, yes. I almost thought about buying a house and he don't, and then I realized that still there's tremendous amount of crime there and vandalism and whatnot, so I got a pass on that.

Is there? Yeah. What happened? What happened? I got a friend of mine and got... Okay. Yeah. It's unfortunate for her.

I have a friend who lives there. He's fine. Okay. But yeah. What do we get going on this? I don't know. I don't know. But our downtown's getting better.

Yeah. I mean, it compares to be a ghost town. Compared to 20 years ago, my gosh. It used to be a ghost town about starting about 430. You couldn't even really get something to eat down there. I didn't feel bad when I was at the Astros game last Sunday that, you know, all those restaurants that we go and hang out, we've done some shows. They're all bored up and closed.

Oof. Yeah, because Lucky's closed and a couple of other ones down. Yeah, but I bet Lucky's re-opens again under another name as soon as this thing opens up. Maybe they can get it back. They have other locations, right, that are doing okay? Yeah, Rod Ryan's got the one on the West part of town. Rod Ryan owns it? Yeah.

What? Yeah, that 94-5 money is good. Man, I want some Rod Ryan. money. I don't think I ever want to open up a restaurant. I thought about it when I was in college. But then most of them go out of business. So I'm like, yeah, it's good. Yeah, it's very dicey, but it seems like it would be fun. It'd be fun for a while to have your name attach to something. But I think ultimately, like outlawed David is a show on 950. His customers, his employees were robbing and blind. Is that what happened? Not like literally tanking money, but like, hey, Ross, come have some

drinks and I won't charge you for it. Yeah. Poor guy. And that happens all the time. I wouldn't want that. You got to keep a tight ship. Haven't you seen bar rescue? That guy like weighs the bottles and stuff like that.

I'd be doing the same thing. First of all, to hire a manager, pay him an amazing amount of money and just say, you are the biggest a-hole in America. You watch every move of these little 19-year-old whippersnappers. And you want to be part of the hiring process. Well, they are going to be, you know, I got to take care of the image of the show in the bar in the restaurant. That's true. We have a really nice radio studio we can set up in there and do the show that way.

I have an idea for a restaurant that needs to open in Houston, but I'm not going to say it on air because somebody's going to steal my idea. You tell me all fair? I used to have Korean. I wanted that California, L.A. style Korean, and all you can eat barbecue, and now they have them here. And I'm mad. Somebody stole my idea. Are they all you can eat around still around? Korean barbecue? Yeah, they have in Midtown. I'm dying for a Chinese

buffet. Well, they have those everywhere. But are they really open? I don't think so. That's what I'm saying. I miss the I miss the Chinese buffet. If you want to catch the virus and several other viruses just go to the buffet. No, most buffets are... Everybody's touching the same handles and everybody's touching the same plates

and digging their hands into the night. We went to a... To a yoga place a few weeks ago. They make you put gloves on. You just serve it yourself that way. You can get virus on the gloves. The gloves aren't antiviral. That's why I see how these people putting gloves on

and stuff's like, you know, the virus, some people will tell you that the virus sticks on the gloves longer than your hands. What? Yeah. How are you just making things up? I'm not making it... Well, I think also people are more aware when they're not wearing gloves.

They think to wash their hands. But they think... The gloves are a false sense of security. Oh, this segment sucks. 213 of the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. Ross. It's time for us to figure out the Astros rotation.

Okay. And are we dropping a Regis question or next segment? Give it a Regis right now. Right now, Regis Philbin. It's going to be on the, believe it or not, segment, coming up later in the show. I'll give you one question, and it will be, let's go with this one. In 2004, Regis Philbin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom

by President George W. Bush. Believe it or not, Matt. I'm going to say that's a knot. It's not. I made it up. All right. That'll be one of the questions later on. There's your hint. 214 on Sports Talk 790 with a message for Hoops, basketball goals, and sporting equipment. The folks at Hoops would love for you to give them a call to 281-35-198-22. When you call them, asked for Keith Tate and say, hey, Matt Thomas was talking about y'all.

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Astros and Mariners wrap up their series tonight at 610. We got some strange start times this year in the week. 6-10 and then tomorrow night when the Dodgers are here, it's 8-10. This is very confusing. Oh, for sure, because I keep getting all these things about the lineups and stuff. I'm like, man, this is kind of early to do that. And Dusty's already spoken to the media. By the way, he's not ready to announce a starter for Wednesday because you know what he's doing?

He's like, who do we have left? Maybe he's got to learn who's on the roster. I hope that's not the case, but it could be. So, yeah, tonight if you're going to the game, you're not. It's sad to say that. What if your cutout is going to the game? Okay, I want to talk to you about that. Yeah, go ahead.

We have not even discussed that yet in the first two hours and 20 minutes of the show. Okay, 6109. Well, really like 609. Sports Talk 790. It's 6.09. It's on Sports Talk 790. At 6.09 p.m. And we have...

Maybe 611. 611. We have a post game show right after. It's really a show where actually people call in and talk to people. So that's... The 10th inning show. The official. Very, very official.

Post game show here on Sports Talk 790. Mr. Mr. Mr. Kelly. Did she? She okay? I guess so. I had not heard her first. for a while.

So it's good to hear from her. I'm glad she's doing well, hopefully. And then tomorrow, the Dodgers are here. We're going to visit with Tim Never, a good friend of mine, who's one of the Dodger broadcasters. He'll join us early in the show. And then we have an Astro player to join us towards the very end. So we're going to be heavy Astros tomorrow for the Astros and Dodgers series.

Wonderful. And that's an 8-10 first pitch on Tuesday night. And then Wednesday, I'm not, I think Wednesday goes back to 610 because I think ESPN's doing the game or something like that. So it's just highly confusing. It's an up and down week. It's an ESPN game on Wednesday. Is it?

Okay. All right. Dustin May is going to be starting that. The big redhead. How do you feel about his hair? I love it. You don't like the big curly hair locks coming out of his hat? And of all people to ask, you think I wouldn't be down with that?

Brendan, do you like Dustin May's hair? I'm a fan. I think it's beautiful. You really, y'all like that floppy-ass red-ass hair? You don't? No, I don't like ginger's to begin with. Well, Michael Conner says hello. He's fine.

He's harmless. Why don't you like gingers? Have you met most of them? What about... Let me ask you this. What about Julian Anderson? How many... Now, here's the difference.

My daughter is a redhead. Okay. But she's strawberry blonde. I'm talking about dudes. Like, how many really great redheads have you hung out within your life? Two straight sentences from Matt Thomas. I hate... gingers. My daughter is a redhead.

But girls don't count. I'm talking about dudes. Okay. Name your best friend who's a redhead. Michael Connor. Okay. Another one. We as a human beings try to avoid them. Male redhead? I don't really know a lot of them. I had a redhead roommate and it was the worst

living experience of life. He's right. He was just an a-hole or what? The dude. Left out his dishes. Oh, left out of dishes. I one time counted 18 pizza boxes he had stacked up in our apartment. Not an exaggeration.

Well, you need to have a, you need to call a roomy meeting about that. Lay down the law. You know what? This may be a good segment because my son is about to move the lobby in a couple weeks and he's got two new roommates. Oh, really? They're getting an apartment. Do they know? Oh, they're friends.

Oh, yeah. They're all friends. Okay. And I think, and we're actually going to have like a little parent dinner to kind of say, all right, who's bringing what, who's responsible for what? And what are the rules, what are going to do about eating stuff? And what about girls in the room and that kind of thing. That's good. You got to have a, you got to lay down the wall.

Lay some laws. It's part of growing up. Living with roommates is part of growing up. Now, again, here's more hypocrisy from me. Uh-oh. I told you one time I had like six or eight hours to kill in Vegas. I was taking a red-eye flight home. You went to the chicken ranch.

And I went by myself to go see Caratop. That's right. He's a ginger. He is a ginger. And he's got, he's hilarious. He's got that flopping hair like that Dodger picture does. He's hysterical. But what, I want to be friends with him.

You drafted him on, on best comedians ever. And I got destroyed. You had her, him and Lisa Lampinelli on the best comedians ever. Yeah. Yeah. Because they're both funny. Best comedians ever, though.

Well, I mean, we need to redraft probably. A couple of have died since. That's true. Makes me feel bad, but that's not either here nor there. Richard Pryor's been dead a while. Okay, so again, let's get to another cool redhead. Besides Michael Connor. Julianne Moore?

You have to go to Google. I'm not talking about girls. so on dudes. Oh. Who's, like, Ron Howard is a cool guy. Yeah, how about Ron Howard? But his hair has got to be white by now because he's got to be what in his mid-60s. Uh, I don't know. See?

It's hard to be a cool. Who is it? I can't think of Redheads, period. We'll think about this, sir. We were supposed to talk about the cutouts. We were. Did you, you had an opinion on the cutouts. Oh, um, they, they're okay.

They're, they're for charity purposes, so I'm never going to cross. a charitable purpose. You know we did a Fantasy 5 hottest redheads once. Who won? I don't remember. Who was in the list? Probably me. Yeah, Amy, what's her name?

Amy Adams, I think. Was Rachel Nichols on the list? Gillian Anderson, maybe Rachel Nichols was on somebody's list. Ed Shearin's a cool redhead. We definitely did hottest. We definitely did hot as-isharon. There we go. That's more than acceptable.

Good song. No issues with Ed Shearing. He was in the... I'm pretty sure I had a... He was in yesterday, the Beatles movie. He was actually very good in it. I like Amy Adams. Oh, then what's the heavy chrusted girl from Madman?

What's her name? She was on the list. I think I drafted her in one. Yeah, I was going to say. Oh, here we go. I'm getting a lot of hate. Uh-oh. Redheads uniting against Matt.

Yon easy. My bad. I stay corrected. That's funny. All right. We'll get to the baseball stuff in just a second. We've got to take care of this. Brian and Edo.

How are you, friend? MT, come on. Oh, I knew this is coming. Leave my people alone. All right, I'm so... We're already only 2% of the population. And I think Julia Morales is a redheader, at least Auburn. She's got...

This is about dudes only. There's plenty of redhead women we adore, and Julia's on the top of our list. I'm a proud F.P.H.L.m. like your son's... Oh, there you go. That's your 25K Twitter party? Oh, yeah. You guys are shots together?

Oh, my God. I'm being felt like a fool. All right. Let me tell you something right now. I'm going to take the loss right this second. Brian, I apologize to all of you, Ginger's out there. I made a massive, massive mistake. And I apologize.

Oh, also, I did want to bring up. I've been tweeting you about it. Thomas Sports Interprises. he's a fire their director of scouting because I think Blake Taylor is doing all right as a projection. And I remember somebody saying that he wouldn't amount so much or pitch more. No, I didn't. No, no, no, no, I just said we had an over-ending, over-under-onnings limit is what we had. We didn't say he's going to amount too much.

But let me be honest with you. First of all, you're right about that. But second, also, Brian, he's having to outperform Joe B. Eugenie. I mean, how much is that going to really play into us? Hey, he's been solid in the innings he's been. I don't care about Joe Bia. I don't think you should build the squad, but I think Blake Taylor has actually been a solid. He has.

He has. Good left feet that you can rely on in the bullpen. And I'm glad the a a asteros actually have a left in the bullpen because the last four or five years I've even had one guy in the bullpen except for Tony Sipp and we know all that turned out. Yikes. All right. I just had a call and give you great. You did and I'm willing to accept the loss. Thank you.

There it is. Right now, ladies gentlemen, 227. I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever. make a mistake and discuss. No, Matt, you let out your true feelings, Matt. No, no, no. You know what? I'm growing up to say I can apologize.

When people make mistakes, sometimes Ross, they have to apologize. At SportsMT. And Dustin May's. Wonderful, flowing. Whatever that thing is. It is like a lion's mane. Like an older Simba. Have you noticed that Major League Baseball players aren't really cutting their hair at all?

Did you see? No, you have Lions, McCullors, Kritsivinsky. You Darvish. His hair is out of control. And Brian McTaggart's hair is out of control. Yes. I heard he's got 80s band hair. It is brutal.

I mean, we love Brian. Love it. Love him. I haven't seen it. He and I've been together since college. I mean, not together, but, you know, friends. Is there photo evidence of Brian McTaggart's hair? I'll have him text a picture right now and then I'll put it on Twitter.

All right. Back to tell you about whether or not we like if you guys like the cutouts, the crowd noise, the music. And did you see Fox this weekend? They did virtual fans. Yes, they did. We'll discuss that next. 228 here on Sports Talk 790 with a message here for Shaw's jewelry. At the corner of West Graham Montrose, they have been in that exact same location,

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We go, rock, and go. Just tell your smart device. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHart Radio. Playing Sports Talk 790 on IHard Radio. 23, Sports Talk 790 on the radio program tomorrow. We will spend 10 minutes with our friend Tim Nevert, one of the voices of the Dodgers. and he'll join us from Los Angeles.

All their Dodger broadcasts are being done from L.A., like the Astro broadcasts we'll do here from Houston, like I did yesterday with the Rockets and the Memphis Grizzlies from the bubble. How was that? Different. Nice comeback win for the Rockets? I took a half to kind of get used to it and identify players a little bit trickier when you don't see them in person

as compared to television, but second half I got my group going. And you were wondering about the angles. Did you have to have the straight TV feed or did you have TV feed? Nothing crazy. Okay. You didn't have control over. No. Because I know you wanted the regular angle the whole time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They didn't give me anything funky. That's good. Yeah. And we'll be, we've got one more scrimmage tomorrow night against Boston, which we'll have for you here in 790. And then Wednesday,

and then Friday they open up for good against the Mavericks. And I believe that game is going to be over on KTRH. That is correct. Remember, 790 or 740 for Rockets and Ashton. Astros hopefully for the next three months. And whoever's doing Launchpad is going to do a fantastic job, I'm sure. I've heard them. They're not great.

Okay. Effort's certainly there, but execution, you know, some people are meant to be hosting shows. Yeah. And some are to be there just to be sitting there watching other people host the shows. Sit there watching. Okay. Seven o'clock, KTRH on Friday. Will Rodi Maya be your first caller on the post-Kad show?

Or Gerard. Gerard. Gerard called the sports RV show this weekend. What has Gerard? He said he started up his own, uh, sports YouTube channel. I'm going to have to watch that. Does he take a breath?

I would hope so. Okay, so to baseball. How do we feel about the cutouts? It's for charity, so I can't really criticize it. Right? That's not right. Correct. What if it weren't for charity?

If it wasn't for charity, no such thing. They're not going to put people out there and not try to make a couple box off of it for charitable purposes. So it's not even non-stop. What if they just did it as a courtesy to? season ticket holders. If somebody got their head knocked off over the weekend, right? Yeah, it's okay. It's not great.

It doesn't bother me. It's... All right. Next. Virtual fans. The virtual fans that the Fox did. And they were sneaky. Sometimes the fans would be there.

Sometimes they'd go away. It's very weird. They were showing us so they could change all their color. Was it irritating? Now, again, I did a Twitter poll question over the weekend. people thought all the extra stuff was just indifferent to them. And so I would say I'm largely indifferent to all of it. There isn't anything that I go, this is cool.

Like, did you like hearing the, dun, dun, dun, or the organ going? The clapping or the da-da-da-da. I mean, that stuff was okay. Again, nothing that made me go, this is stupid. Yeah, I like the organ. I think it brings you some sense of semblance of normalcy. I will say this. I think the crowd noise is different on an AT&T broadcast

than it is on an ESPN broadcast. It is different of Fox. That, to me, needs to be kind of regulated. The AT&T crowd noise just sounds like a white noise machine. I think most of them do, right? How about was it Fox? I don't know who it was, but somebody, when something great happened for the home team,

the crowd would roar and then it would go back down to where it was. So somebody is on the switch. To change it, how ups and downs depending on how the game is going. I think it got tuned up this weekend in one of the, like at the end of the game, was it yesterday when the Astros were trying to make a comeback there on the ninth? I think it sounded like they tuned it up then. See, I was listening on the radio going to the Rockets, so I don't have any answer on that. All that to me, if you said let's get rid of every single bit of it, I wouldn't be bothered by it. If it's going to stay this way the rest of the year, which I don't believe it's going to.

I think it's going to be tempered a little bit. I'd be okay too. I like it overall. I think it's better than the alternative. The alternative is absolutely nothing. No organ, no noise, no anything. We have these distractions to kind of keep our mind off the fact that this is happening with nobody in the stands. I think even if it distracts you for a couple of minutes from that, even though it's weird, even though it's going to take an adjustment period, I'm in favor of it overall.

I thought I was going to be the other way. When I first heard about it, I said, that's stupid, who cares? but I think it does give you a little bit just a pinch of feeling like it's a normal broadcast every now and then. So I like it overall. See, I don't think there's anything they can do that gives me anything,

any sort of normalcy to it. Because as much of the sound effects as you're talking about, as much of the chance and the virtual fans, then I see an angle where there's sections and sections and sections of empty seats. And remember, it's not a typical game. I would think for a broadcaster,

it's going to take a while. And it may never be easy for them to do it. Because you do get, I mean, here I was calling the fourth quarter of this game today on television in the Rocket Studio at the arena. And there were some big shots being made. There was some, again, Grams was just a scrimmage. You didn't want to sell it too hard. But I heard no crowd in the background after a, you know, when Ben McClmore is

hitting one three point after the other, you would think if the game was being played in Houston, people would be going crazy after that. They'll be, there'll be LeBron jams. They'll be James Hardin, step back. There'll be all that. And generally speaking, you'll hear nothing but a few claps from the guys on the bench. I think that one's actually, in my mind, a little bit easier to stomach because basketball is such a back and forth. Something's happening at all times.

Yeah. It's easy. There's not a lot of downtime. Baseball has all that downtime. They're pitching. They're checking the signals. They're going. There's mound visits.

There's all that type. There's so much more downtime in baseball that I think it does need the crowd a little bit more than, say, a basketball would. Yeah. They're all trying because they know that people's attention. spans if it gets like for instance if you have a if you have broadcasters that aren't very energetic and you don't have a lot of ambiance behind him it could really drag become a drab situation right yeah that's why joe buck wants all the crowd noise you know he was in denver i don't know he lives there or not but he was at five he was in fox denver doing the game his partner uh john smoltz

was in the mlb studios and they the two of those guys were broadcasting game they're about 2,000 miles away from each other. And the game they were doing was between the Yankees and the nationals. The national folks are not even sending broadcasters to these games. Yeah, ESPN had, what is it, Matt Vescursion or whatever his day, and Alex Rodriguez, they're all... In the studio. Well, they were in the studio, but then they were doing one where I think it was him and Eduardo Perez and somebody else, they were all, they're all like in three different places.

Yeah, I think Eduardo Perez is doing it from his house. Yeah. Charlie Stana, the Dodgers announcer, the main Dodgers announcer, he is over the age of 70, and he's not even going to the Dodger Network Studios to do it. They've set up in a little studio for him in his house to broadcast the game. So he could be in his underwear wearing high black socks calling Dodger baseball games. So like the Matt Thomas show.

I mean, it's happened. I'm not proud of it. You're not ashamed either. But I've done shows of my underwear before. It happens. That's a pandemic. sacrifices have to be made. I'll be honest with you.

The number of shows done on my underwear in 2020 probably approaches 25 to 30. 25 to 30. Yeah. Jeez. Hoping to do maybe between 5 and 10 more. I can't judge you, Matt. When I was quarantining in my house, I didn't put pants on for two weeks. So you were just buck naked the whole time?

No, I had underwear on most of the time. I don't remember the last time I wore our jeans. I'm wearing jeans right now. It's a special occasion. It's a big Monday. I'm trying to get these milky-ass white legs of mine to get a little bit of Doesn't work ever. Go lay out in your porch.

On my porch? Yeah, don't you have a porch? I do, but it's not a great one. It's got a big tree covers it up. Okay. All right. We have one more segment left to go on the radio show today, which will feature, believe it or not, which is all things about Regis Fieldbin. The worst part about Regis Philbin passing away is when I got in studio today, Ross is like, who's next?

And you and I came up with the same person. One of your faves. You said you're going to have to take it. You said you're going to have to take some days off. which I think is a little soft, but that's okay. You're telling me I cannot grieve when when Bob Barker passes? I mean, when's the last time you saw him in the public? He's basically dead now.

Well, you haven't seen Betty White in a while either, but nobody thinks she's dead. I'm not going to, well, see, I'm the wrong person to ask about any of this. I'll be fine, too. There was somebody else. I thought of you because we always talk about how they're, I don't know who's dead and who's alive. I wasn't totally sure that Regis Phil, but I think it was Reed. I wasn't totally sure that he wasn't dead. So that's why you don't grieve is because you don't even know if they're alive or dead.

So it's hard for you to be emotional about Regis Philbin. Were you crying your eyes out over this weekend? Not particularly. Okay. All right. So believe it or not, all things, Regis Philbin is next. 243 on Sports Talk 790 with a message for Big City Wings. Guess what, Rossi?

Wednesday is National Chicken Wing Day. And Ross and I are going to be out at Big City Wings at the Marquis Center. My buddies at Ram Shirts have promised to bring some treats out. So if you know what Ram Shirts do and does and what they've done recently, hint, hint, you should come out and say hi to us. We're going to be there for 75-cent chicken wings. Ross and are going to partake in a couple of beers as well. I'm bringing a sleeping bag just in case I need to spend the night at Sports RV's house

in case I drink too much. We're going to eat wings. We're going to watch the Astros play the Dodgers. And it's this Wednesday at Big City Wings in the Markey Center, very, very low-key, not any pop and soft. circumstance. Well, social distance, we're going to wear a mask if we need to and during the appropriate times. But if you're looking to come watch the Astros with us on National Chicken Wing Day, come out and visit with us Wednesday at Big City Wings, Markey Center, I-10, and

Silver, will be there this Wednesday at 6 o'clock for the Astros and the Dodgers. National Chicken Wing Day, 75 cents. To find the location near you, you can't make it up this Wednesday, go to bigcitywings.com. BigCitywings.com. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel worker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. This is what I don't like. I turn on ESPN for just a second and look what they've got up there. NBA plans for next season in Jeopardy.

That's not what I want to hear, sports RV. I need everything is full throttle going on, ready to go, locked and loaded. Well, Matt, you say we've got a deal in reality sometimes on this show. I don't deal around. It comes the NBA. It is what it is. Do you remember the first month this happened? I said we weren't going to have fans and stuff.

until 2022. Yes. And I was hoping you're wrong, but it's not looking like you're going to be wrong. Tell me when I'm going to be wrong about that. I don't know, Matt. That's why almost like COVID-free Fridays is I don't even have to get asked about this. I don't know if we can have much of a show these days.

It's about 70% of today's show. Yeah, unfortunately. Okay, so tomorrow on the show, we got Tim Nevert, one of the Dodger broadcasters is going to join us. And also Lance McCuller's Jr. will be with us at 2.30. Yes. The Lance McCullors Jr. The Lance McCullors, Jr.

Got into a little trouble there early in his outing, but overall came out relatively unscathed. Gave you six. So did Erlander? Unfortunately, that may be all that J.B. will be giving. It was a little surprising that he went out for that six inning on Saturday. He had 77 pitches or something like that at that point.

It was really good. You know, Deson's going to give a little bit of a longer leash. And you know Lance, that's true. And you know Lance wanted it. go out there, I'm sure. Boy, he's going to be carrying the way of the world. I mean, this is still, I mean, and we've not, have not really got into a whole lot of to it.

By the way, Corey Klobber out four weeks for the Rangers. Yeah, he was left after the first inning with some shoulder stiffness. Do you see those uniforms, by the way? The Rangers, no. Go look up the Rangers powder blue uniforms yesterday. They are powder blue with a dark blue rim. Like, they look like old school, like, yes. Royals kind of.

Yes, but way worse. You might not like my opinion on this, man. I kind of like them. I like those old school royals. I like the Chargers powder blues. I like the Oilers Columbia Blues. That color just, it sticks out to me. I like it.

But the pants, too? I like it. It's different. I know we're supposed to hate everything, Texas Rangers, and I'm supposed to be just a Ranger hater, but I'm a big fan. They're not bad. Thank you, Brennan. Both of you suck.

You really do. they're awful. No one likes them except you two gibronies. No one? I got to feel like some Rangers fans and people in Arlington like him

Does it matter? Do those votes even count? I think so. I'm talking about the rest of America that are decent people. No chance. Not interested. Now, if you want to go

powder blue with the gray pants, I can kind of live with that or white, but I think powder blue on the bottom two, yeah, gross. All right, so he's out four weeks. The Astros, by the way, have not decided on a starter for Wednesday's game. It was supposed to be a JV. Spot, correct? And they might have to go to a bullpen game.

Last thing before we get to believe it or not, give me Josh Flames James line tonight. Does he get past five innings? I was going to say, well, my initial reaction was four and two-thirds. Okay, so four-and-two-thirds is the over-under. Okay. If that's the line, it is Seattle boys

I'm under why pitch counts are so low right now too you're not getting many pitches I don't want to be under but he is a walk machine unfortunately look if I'm having to lay if we're pretending

I got a hundred dollars in my hand and I'm at the window I'm putting it on the under I'm just am I would I would love for him to go further than that you're right retool delivery Matt

we always hear this every year for all right every spring training three and two thirds over over on that as well four and a third oh geez over five minutes let the go on the show what should we do we should play

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You gassed, I think, quite well. John on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Oh, believe it. Regis Philbin was named after vaudevillian singer and actor Bert Regis. Believe it or not. Not? No, he's named after Regis High School in Manhattan. Statement number two,

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Believe it. All right, couple things. One, that's a mini reverse scum. And Ron is rolling at Ronnie. He changes the name all the time. I would be very curious to go see what name he legally goes with to win his hooters gift cards. If there's a skunk, I'm going to cry. Billy on 790.

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That was a tough one. Rick on 790. Rick, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In 2004, Regis Philbin was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush. Believe it or not. He heard this on your show earlier. There you go. That's my boy.

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I'm so sorry. What a reward for listening. Dang, and you listen to you got that first question right. Tomorrow on the radio program, Tim Nevert, one of the voices of Dodgers baseball and Lance McCuller's Jr. So a busy Tuesday, we thank you for listening. Remember, Astros baseball tonight,

first pitches at 6.11 p.m. Clanton, Wexler, the A team. They don't have to go two hours today? Must be tough. They're going to make it? I hope they're going to be okay. They're next on 790.