The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - BIG 12 Comments On Norte Dame, Astros Quiet At Winter Meetings, Texans Start Prep For Cardinals

Episode Date: December 10, 2025

BIG 12 Comments On Norte Dame, Astros Quiet At Winter Meetings, Texans Start Prep For Cardinals

This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 10-1-H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It is Hump Day. Did LeBron steal hump day or do you still Taco Tuesday? He tried to trademark Taco Tuesday. Yeah. Come on. It's a win.

Wednesday. Yeah, seriously. You like that? I got a new phrase I'm trying to trademark, happy hour, I invented it. Oh, really? It's mine, yeah. It's where drinks are cheaper and appetizers as well. I've actually trademarked, I'm even in case of the Mondays.

Okay, I like that. I figured you'd appreciate that. I think we might get denied. Yeah. Well, you know what? When you bring up trademarks. All right, stop. It hurts still. All right, let's move on. I know. We should move on. It was not.

10 years ago. It was 15. Yeah. Move on. Let it go, Matt. And when you watch an Astros game on Space City Home Network was the very first thing you see on there. We're going to have a funeral for a few things on this show. What would you like? A funeral for bringing up Crush City.

Here's what I will give up. I will give up traffic conversation. Oh, well, I mean, I get it. But we all feel it. At least that's a renewed frustration. The Crush City thing was 10 years ago. It's time to let it go. It's dead and gone.

John that was still scribbling with crayons And I'm not talking about at SFA Oh That is the All-timer That was a good one I can't even say anything to that That is the all-timer

You know what I'm sorry Jonathan catching strays two minutes in It's all right You know Setting everything up I mean catching strays Catching STDs All things at SFA

It's fine I don't know Does the SED count Furnly high at SFA Okay I'll consider that. I'll just imagine. I don't know.

A cross-pollination. It's the, it's the, it's the, it's not the love in my life. What's that? Crush City, but it was, but it was, I could have made some decent money on it. I was short-lived, the one that got away, but 10 years ago. I don't know. I still see Crush City shirts all the time. No, you don't.

When's the last time you saw one? I bet you I could go to any one of variety of T-shirt companies right here. I was going to say an unlicensed T-shirt company, maybe. Yes. Yes. I could sue them. and make some money and you know some of them are folding up so

the worst the worst part was that Reid Ryan called me okay okay I gotta move on I you're right I am putting an end any sort of that making any money off of Crush City okay good the curate last thing okay what would have cost me to trademark

I don't even know what do trademark cost I think it's pretty cheap actually okay I don't know though sports news of the day 10.03 at a Wednesday. I'm opening up the refrigerator and I see a sour cream and milk. I might have that.

Please tell me that you'd have that. Please tell me that you talk. You know, pimp your instant. Will you follow people follow Matt on Instagram? Yeah, I'm almost at 3100. Y'all need to follow me on Instagram. Let's go. Because I love, look, I am.

Matt's trying to be an influencer. Me too. We try to have a special in relationship with you 10 o'clockers because we just don't know how many of you are out there. Yeah. We know who's there between 12 and 2. It's just those 10 o'clockers we're a little concerned about.

So if you're a 10 o'clocker, and we love you, give us a follow on Instagram. There's no guarantee I'll follow you back. And my chance there probably I won't follow you back. But that's not the point. The point is following me for 10 o'clock. If you're a 10 o'clocker for life, follow me on Instagram.

That's 14. I can't find it. That's fine. You'll find it eventually. All right. What do you want to get to? So last night, it's kind of weird. This has been a weird week

because when you're in the NBA schedule, you're playing every other night or maybe you have three games. four days. Oh, here we go. Here's what we got going on the day on the show. It's my computer. We're going to start that over. Hold on. It's like when you put your speaker on and it misses the first couple seconds. Oh, yeah. You've got to hear the whole song.

All right. We open up the refrigerator door again, looking for a big tasty sports story and there's milk and sour cream. So, oh, G. That's about it. Man, there's nothing going on today. Just the way you want to put a radio show. If nothing else, we can entertain ourselves.

I love that. That's his process up. That's how you don't do it. You know, Jonathan was asking us about Charlie, he was like, who's this Charlie Polo guy, you guys are always referencing? And, well, that's him. That's him right there. That's him in that show.

That's Charlie. Shout out to you, Charlie, if you're listening. Mm-hmm. The founding father of Sports Talk 790. Yes, he was the first real hired. He was. What I understand, got a hilarious. outrageous contract

good for him I mean he negotiates I'm not nearly as a savage negotiators he was I got no comment yeah I remember him he would talk about it on air

he's like well I sent him back a few amendments to my contract oh yeah because when I was living that was what when the sports animal when they brought him over ESPN 790

it would have been probably what a 2005 or 6 somewhere there reach briefly ESPN 790 then the sports animal and then we blew it all up and became sports talk 790 when you came right yes i was a lineup refurbishment it was adam and matt jackson yeah so uh what i was living in minas utah or st pa i don't remember where i was

people were like texting me people in the market like you wouldn't believe what charlie's gonna get and i'm like what do you get and then like he's doing this he's doing this if they bump him for a game he gets this bonus i mean it was like this amazing contract you guys knew every clause i didn't know that i didn't know that either until we were like feeding me the information i didn't ask for it. I'm like, actually, I can try to do this in 2010 and I tried. And that was 16 years ago, 15 years ago. Now you're still here. We're about to 16 years, friend. Shout out to Anthony tweeting in, 10 o'clocker. Shout out to Kenneth. Kenneth. Shout out. 10 o'clockers. We love you. We really do. We really do. All right. On the show today, we're going to, we've got shut your

bum ass up at 1130. It feels like it's going to be a half an hour of that with Notre Dame football. What do we got? More of, is there more Notre Dame? There's really not more, but we have a big 12 response to. Oh yeah. I mean this guy is pissing and moaning way too much. Bavakwa. Yes. PDB. Let's go. PDB. Yeah. So we're going to hear the response

from the Big 12 about, which is surprising because look, I love me some Big 12. We could use a talent boost. I mean, the Power 4s were the fourth of the power 4. I mean, I don't know. Would you say? Ooh, ACC now. You think so? You think Big 12 is worse and better than Power 4? If you

I mean, ACC, if you are, I'll accept it. No, I don't know. In theory, but right, I mean, this year, the ACC was dog water. Texas Tech plays Miami who wins the game. Texas Tech would be favored, I would imagine. Okay, so then that's, we're better than that. All right. Okay, but then after that, BYU, his second best team would play.

I see five ranked teams in the Big 12. I see three in the ACC. Okay, BYU plays. It's a big club right now. BYU, Utah, Cougars, and Arizona Wildcats. Not Arizona Walcats. That says Arizona

Walcats number 7 Seen. Is that true? We'd be in Arizona though. Okay. You know what? I'm saying corrected. Shout out to you,

Big 12. Yeah. Suck it ACC. Yeah, suck at ACC. So you know what? And prove yourself. So we got, but I would take Notre Dame

in a heart. As much they've been bitching a moment, I would take him in a heartbeat. Except maybe the SEC. SEC. No, no. No, we'll see. They would all take them.

if they got rid of NBC. And, you know, which there and why would they do that? No, no, we're good. Shut you, bummed. Thank you very much. We're catching these checks. Yeah.

So we're going to hear from Brett Yormark, the Big 12 commissioner, who's not afraid to say a couple things. And so we're going to let him hear, let me see what he had to say coming up. We've got Dana Brown and the rest of the Astros foreign office and managerial staff down at the winter meetings in Orlando. We thought about having some guys on,

but there's nothing going on yet. Okay. I think Chandler Rome was on the A team. Yeah, so, I mean, I don't know. MacTaggart down there? I mean, I think McTaggart's there. McTaggart, probably. Yeah, but I don't want to interrupt him. He's probably having some emotions right now. He's probably having like deep thoughts at the dock.

That's usually what he's posting. Usually he's, you know, when he's not posting photos of, of U of H stuff or with stuff about baseball, or fighting with Memphis fans. Yeah, he does hate Memphis. He's always fighting with Memphis fans on Twitter. I love it. Yeah, he's not afraid to go right to them. And again, it's a fine group.

For those of the Memphis don't know, Memphis basically called the Big Toad, and said, we'll bring a half billion dollars to the table for Big 12 compensation and money. And the Big 12 is like, we're going to, okay, we'll listen to this and we'll find out what's going on. And they're like, no, that was not really accurate. So Memphis, thanks, but no, thanks. We don't need you. If the Big 12 is going to go get somebody, they're going to go get somebody that ups their level, not just to grab a team, just to grab a team.

Because I think what you've said, we've talked about before, we're going to eventually get to the 30 teams and just call it a day, right? you think we're going to do it like we do in high school football in Texas where you know you have six you know you have six a oh five a six a and then you have the division one six a and the division two six a you could do that ultimately if you wanted to that's not i wouldn't it wouldn't it wouldn't be it wouldn't be how much more they're going to try how much consolidation there's going to be because think about this if you're the if you're a six a school and you win the division two six a championship you're still pretty happy with yourself you were really blessed Yeah, but this college football is different. D-1 college football is different. I know, I know. I'm just throwing it out there. All right, so we'll get to some, what Dana had to say. And then they play each other, like conference champions?

I don't know, what do you would do? I don't know. Like AFC and NFC? Hmm. Well, the thing about... Did we just solve college football? No, the thing about it, the difference isn't... It's only based on attendance.

Yeah. So one year, if you are in a district that has two schools that are really good but small attendance, you're just going... You may be a division one, one year in division two, so it doesn't really matter. All right. So we got Dana Brown at the winter meetings. We'll hear a couple of comments from him. I was going to watch some NBA basketball.

You know, this NBA on Tuesday thing has been pretty big, and they've had some good games. And, you know, NBC's done a terrific job with production. The ratings for the NBA Tuesday night games are really good. And then I go to put on NBC to watch my Tuesday night, you know, coast to coast. And it was the knockout round games on Prime. And I thought, okay, I'll put the Prime on see what's going on. it was all at east yesterday and in rosson i love the NBA i just can't get into the east it was Miami Orlando and the Knicks and Toronto and i'm like eh i'm good now tonight's a little bit

better because it's the western teams uh yeah neither of those games are really that interesting so what i put on instead truth be told a motown christmas was on a motown christmas from like 1967 no this was this was filmed obviously at some time this year probably in the summertime Oh, really? Yeah. So it's like what's left of the Pips? But it had, Glass Night was on there. Oh, really?

There were some members. Stevie Wonder? Stevie Wonder, I don't think it was there. Diana Ross was not there, but they did have some. Marvin Gay? No, definitely not there. They had some current people singing Motown songs, and they had some Motown. Like, the temptations were there, but I don't think any of alive.

What about Smokey Robinson? He's been in hot water. Hosted the show. Oh, I guess that's too hot of water? Which I told my, I told him. for a Motown Christmas. I was like, are you sure he should be doing this? He hosted the show.

Wow. And for those that don't know, Smoky and his wife are in some legal hot water. Yeah, he was getting sued by his housekeepers or something, right? Correct. For sexual improprieties. For harassment and or abuse. Yes. And the wife is also involved in this as well.

Hmm. So I thought, man, are you sure you want to do this? You want to do a Motown Christmas? Now, again, if you want to have Gladys Night host the show, I get it. Who else has stole? It's a Motown arraignment with Smokey Robbins. Who else is alive from Motown?

Diane Ross would be alive, but she wasn't a part of the show. I don't think any of the original temptations. No, they were all younger. They were having their 40s, but they were not any of those guys. The four tops, I don't think you were any of them arrived. Point being is. As Martha and the Vandellas. I don't think Martha's still around.

She's not dancing in the street anymore. But the reality, is this, you probably could not get anybody alive except, oh, I don't know. Smokey. Stevie's alive. He probably, they didn't cut a big enough check, probably.

He was like, cut that check. And he wouldn't know what camera ain't going to look at. He's relatively young. All right. He's relatively young for somebody because he became a star so young. Yes, he did. He was a little Stevie. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So that's what I watched last night. Yeah, Stevie Wonder is only 75. And sounds fantastic. That's pretty young. That's pretty young for a... Now, Gladys Knight sounded good, too, but Gladys Knight's face doesn't move anymore, so I don't know how old she is. Oh, okay. It is what it is. Smokey Robinson 85.

And his face hardly moves. No. But definitely Gladys did not move. Remind me, Ross, when I get older, say Maddie, do... You always call me Maddie. Don't, don't get... I call you a match, yeah. Yeah.

Don't get any plastic surgery. It's just, it's not... It's gone one more for these older people. You get these little Botox. You know, in my, probably in my temple. as I could. You could? Yeah.

Okay. That's what the wife says. But I'm okay. I'm okay. You know, it's fine. Dang. I know. Tell her you're aging gracefully.

All right. And you're on radio. Let's, yeah, exactly. Texans getting ready for the Cardinals this Sunday. Huge game. You talk about a game. Is it a must win game? No, no, no, no.

Why not? I got terrible news for you. By the way, I heard there was like Texans players after the game. This is a must win game. You know what? Every week's a must win game. It is everyone's a must win game. I know.

Well, you know what you did. you basically told Kansas City you're going to go away. So you did. It was a must win for that kind of opportunity to do so. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We are with you today until 2 o'clock.

And if you're a 10 o'clocker, we love you especially. We love all of our 4 hours of the show, but we have a special affinity for you 10-clockers. Shut your bum on step at 1130. The news at noon is coming up as well. And believe it or not. So we've got a busy show today. We want you to be a part of it.

Up next, what is Dana Brown saying at the winter meetings? We'll tell you about that next year on 790. Let's shout out our 10 o'clockers, Rossi. What do you think? Kathy, good morning to you, young lady. Brian, what's up? Yon Easy. Girk boy.

Kenny, shout out to all you 10 o'clockers. We should, you know, you know what we need to do is we, We used to, you know, we would go, we'll go on occasions to a few locations. We should look at like a brunch one day. Like, serve some eggs, a bag, and Benedict, the fruit plate. Sure, why not. No melons will be part of that unless you want to go watermelon or grapes. Nobody likes cantaloupe or the honeydew.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What's up with the cantaloupe? Some good, this is a good fruit. Have you not looked at my Twitter account? I go places around this country and people don't eat the honeydew and the cantaloupe. I have seen one picture. One, I got like 40. I'll send them all to you.

You'll send them all? I keep on my photos. Yeah, they're the, they're like the cheap, cheap-o. Well, here's the problem with candelope. I don't think probably candelope is terrible. You know, it's one of those things I had as a kid that I had so much of it that I got sick one time. And now, like, there are three things in life that I don't eat anymore because I had so much to kid. One is orange soda.

I've not had an orange soda since 1979. I had an orange soda when we had a hot pot. I know you did. I was like, man, you're going for the Fanta. Uh, number two would be cantaloupe and, uh, number three, Wolfbrain chili. Oh. Hmm. Hey, Wolfbrain chili is not, don't knock Wolfbrain chili.

I am knocking it because every dad come home and put it on my, on my hot dogs, and then I get violently ill. Okay, well, that's fine. That's fine. If you get a bad one, it's horrible. If you get a good one, it's pretty good. People put salt on it, too, which is really like watermelon. You put salt in the watermelon, too? No, I don't do it.

That's gross. Okay. So, yeah. Pineapple. You can get bad pineapple. can get really good pineapple's the best oh i love pineapple that's good it helps all right ross let's get to it helps what uh it's a it's a delicious fruit oh yeah it's got high in potassium fresh yes i said that's helpful if you like it grilled all right i like it on my

pizza too all right that's enough i'm gonna you you go through these dana cuts i'm gonna send i'm sending jonathan he doesn't want nobody wants to see your melons i believe you i believe you no no you're getting text no one's pictures of your melons too bad all right all right All right, Dana Brown, MLB Network winner meetings, had a lot of interesting things to say, a number of things to get to. But let's go ahead and start with what has been a big off-season topic of discussion. What's going on with Al-Tuve, left field, second base. Yordon, left field, D.H.

You want a D.H. Al-Tuvae. Paratus, where is he playing? Here's what Dana Brown had to say about that. Yeah, I mean, it's going to be a combination of we've got to get a lot of guys at bats, right? So sometimes it's going to be Yorda. Sometimes Joron is going to DH. Sometimes they're going to be out too-ve. Maybe Paredes could play second.

You know, sometimes you give Walker a day off. Peretis will play first. Sometimes you'll give Correa a day off. You'll play third. So we got some guys that, you know, we feel like, you know, they're at the point in their career where they may be some days off. And we don't want to give up any of these guys. We need these bats to get through the lineup to get through the year of 162.

And, you know, at the end of the day, these guys, they got a chance of carrying us, you know, at each of their times during the year and if we pitch we're going to be good. So those guys, we're going to mix them up in the outfield, mixed Altovae up at second base, but we want to keep the core of bats together.

That's true. Okay, I got a variety of things to discuss. That's two references to parades at second. I got a variety of things. Okay. Number one, I don't know, am I that music in the background is like 1986 disco, correct? I mean,

maybe. German disco? Yeah. Um-tunce. Yeah. It's an EDM, right? This is my favorite song. Yeah. But that's not really that important.

Okay. Number two. It feels very convenient. I will give a day off here, a day off there. Have you met Major League Baseball players? You know how hard it is for a Jose Outtube and Carl's creating a day off? Now, and they're also getting longer in the tooth. Yes.

So maybe it's a little bit easier. It is easier. Ross, to me, as I'm listening to that. it certainly sounds like there's still won too many bodies. They played Altovae too many games last year. He played 155. I think that was not their plan, but there was so many injuries. I mean, remember down to the stretch, he was playing with a hurt foot.

So do you really believe when, and again, Dana's not a liar, but he probably has to say what he has to say because of the way the roster is currently constructed? Do you really believe that it's going to be a plug-in-play that on a month, Monday, this guy gets a day off of Tuesday. I mean, it sounds way too simplistic here. I think it's going to be a little bit that way with Coray and Altuve. Yordon's going to play 130 plus games.

Is the plan. That's true. Corre is to play 130, 140 plus games would be the plan. That's right. But he got hurt twice last year. And, I mean, is there going to be a move in the infield? So here's the reason why. you don't make the move

because you were strapped with all the injuries but do you really want to believe that the amount of injuries from a year ago are going to repeat themselves again in 2020 if it does Rossi then they probably need to go get a whole new set of doctors and a whole new set of bionic parts of these guys

right? I've got new trainers, everything's fixed but you know my point is that that was not necessarily a one-off because I could certainly happen again but it was certainly unprecedented the amount of how length of the injury list was. And I guess you could say that makes sense to keep depth because you're going to need guys.

And this team's not going to be completely healthy for a full 162. I could buy that. But you're going to move Jake Myers, which makes you even leaner in the outfield as it is before the season. I mean, you're relying on Jacob Melton and Zach Cole to be fighting for spots. Those are guys that weren't even on the radar six months ago.

And haven't done enough. frankly deserve six days a week to play. I mean, you're going to have too many spots in the infield and probably not enough in the outfield, which means that's why Jose Altube, well, again, you can't play Jose and Yoron in the left field at the same time. Well, our friend Chandler-Rome with the Athletic, the latest headline of his latest article with Yordon Alvarez entrenched at DH, Astros have little choice but to trade an infielder.

I don't disagree. trading an infielder for an outfielder would make sense because again or an arm or oh no no arm i think arm goes without saying you have to go because it sounds like me that we're not getting involved in any sort of major free agents signings except for maybe justin verliner and that's not really major at this point mm-hmm um paradis has drawn interest from the red sox okay are amenable to moving some of their young controllable starting pitchers in any trade I don't know Look, Zach Cole could be fantastic

Jake and Melk could be great Who am I forgetting about? Oh, Kim, I mean, tell me You feel good about The slug of the outfield next year Not that Jake Myers was a slugging guy But at least he made contact And he had around 300

And he was certainly worth his weight and gold With the glove I don't know, Ross That to me seems like as big of an obstacle Cole. I can live with the moving pieces around in the infield. I'm worried as hell about six days a week outfield. Altuve and center. Let's go. So who's a left fielder?

Your left fielder is a combination of Yordon, El Tuvei, and Zach Cole. Jacob Melton is going to be your center fielder if and when you trade Jake Myers, which just seems inevitable. Yep. And maybe some Bryce Matthews mixed in in both of those spots. Is there somebody we're forgetting? There has to be. I think that you guys are missing somebody. I'm thinking I'm not, I don't know.

You brought up Cam's Man, right? Hazer Sanchez. All right. You didn't jump out of your chair with excitement. I mean, I don't mean to be silent on the show because this audio does make the world go around, especially in radio. Oh, Zach DeZenzo? Hazer Sanchez. man we forgot dezenzo he was hurt

I mean dezenzo shows a little pot strikes out too much stop me if you've heard that before Cam Smith's like hauled my beer starting pitching one Outfield two Are the Astros contending next year? I can live with the outfield

I can live with the infield Does this sound like That's when I doing this. We're not doing this in late January. We're not doing this in December. We just went with Cam Smith, Jacob Melton, and Jesus Sanchez at the outfield. Jose Altuve around in there

somewhere. He's declined three straight years at the plate. He's been bad in the field for more years than that. Christian Walker is your first basin right now. Carlos Coray is getting older. Half your pitchers are on the IL. All right.

Let's take a break. I'm going to go take a lap. I'm taking a lap around here. Oh. Let's talk about something positive. Seriously. Is there any other, is there any sound bites from Dana that are positive that makes us feel wonderful? Well, we'll get some more. When we come back.

When we come back, 10.30 on Sports Talk 790. Shout out to my Cougar brethren. We bought up all the allotted tickets that were on the Cougar side of things for the Texas Bowl. So that's nice because they know that we're going to beat that LSU ass. That's good. What's the allotment? My guess is $8,000. Oh. Man, that's what you're required to. If not you take a loss on it.

So we bought all... I mean, again, I don't know the number, but... Good. I'm glad we did. And you know what? It's December 27th. It's a Saturday night. It's 18. I mean, nothing else to do. Rockets play that night. What day is it? It's on a Saturday. December 27th. Oh, 27th. Okay. Cavalers rockets that night, which is a good...

You know, I'll be there. one. That's a big one. Future MBA finals preview, maybe. Same. Could be. Sure could. If there's some kind of devastating bus accident for the Oklahoma City Thunder. I'm not going to let you do that. I'm not going to let you steal my choice. What? You're the one, hold on, you're the one that had been wishing for them to get injured. I am still wishing for injuries. And maybe there will be a torn ACL in the mix before that.

Oh, my God. It's like three of their players. Okay. I have, I have, I have, um, I'm petting and mean and, uh, hope bad things to people. Okay. For my own well, good. Well, NBA finals would be excellent. Can I, can I travel with you if, uh, if, if the Rockets make the NBA finals?

Yes. Unless it's Cleveland, actually. No, no, no, no. Let's see, Detroit. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop. New York, let's go. Stop. You are a, you have been a rocket fan your entire life.

Yes. You are definitely going to want to be at the finals. I've been doing the damn postcape shows for eight years. It's been rough Now I did travel to I did not go to the 94 NBA finals in New York Okay But I did go to the 95 NBA finals in Orlando

I was right there when Nick the brick To miss the free throws Okay You know what I'd rather go to New York or Boston I've heard Detroit's underrated these days It's bouncing back Is that true? First of all the arena is amazing

The food's good The media dining is the best in the league Second best league behind Utah Third there's a casino within walking distance of the hotel. Win, win, win. All right, let's go to Detroit. Yeah.

Detroit, Cleveland's got a casino literally in the building where we stay. Remember when the Rockets were supposed to get the number one pick when it was Cade Cunningham? Mm-hmm. He's good. Now, he's a quadruple machine.

He does score, rebound, assist. He also turns a ball over about nine times a game, too. Yeah. It is what it is. Well, okay. So he'd fit right in. All right.

Back to Dana Brown. Yes, back to Data Brown. Okay, so we've got to figure out what's going on with Altuve, Yordon, and Paredes. Also, though, of course, one of the major off-season storylines and changes has been the hitting coaches, and Dana Browns has a change had to be made. Yeah, sometimes you just need a new voice. Look, and, you know, the two guys that we had, Cintron, you know, he had been really good here for a long time, helped the organization do some good things, snicker the same way. We felt like we needed a new voice

And, you know, that's why we went out and did what we did And we went and got, you know, two guys that are veterans That they've done it for a while You know, Rodriguez and Iyiposi Both these guys we feel like going to really make an impact And so as I said before Sometimes you just got to get a new voice In the clubhouse and in the dugout

New voice in the clubhouse I hope Again, if this team struggles offensively, you can't blend the hitting coaches. Now, Paredes and you are not going to be healthy. The offense is going to be better. I'm like, see, Ross and Matt, you're wrong. These new, I don't know why I talk like Hank Hill, but these new hitting coaches are changing everything.

Okay. Yeah, when it's not, I can't even remember, Zach Short. What was that guy's name? Yeah, that's a. Taylor Tremel. Yeah. But, you know what? I'll shut up.

No, no. Maybe the new hitting coaches are, maybe I'm wrong. How about this? for a moratorium in 2026. You can't call about the hitting coaches

and we can't critique them or give them praise and or foe for their mistakes because nobody can work miracles.

Let me promise you something. These hitting coaches and I'm sure they're wonderful human beings that are well trained in their craft.

You have Carlos Cray has played thousands of major league games. Carlos Jose Tube thousands of

major league games. Yes. Yoron Alvarez parts of thousands of games. there ain't nothing they haven't seen now there may be a small little intricate part a shifting of the feet maybe an elbow placement maybe a pitch detector whatever but they are who they are they have been swinging at bat since they were six years old it's no don't say that man why because

the hidden coaches are going to change everything well if they do then they should get their love tomorrow on the show or the next year on the show That's all I'm saying. 713-212-5-7-90. One more Dana-Brown cut. Sure. How about Dana Brown on Jeremy Pena, showing his value last year? Jeremy Pena last year was definitely back to the Jeremy Pena of the postseason.

And I think that was 2022. I wasn't here at all at the time. But when he went down, that hurt a lot for us. He's our leader. He's our lead-off guy. He's an elite shortstop. But he's fully healthy now. We get him back, and he'll be locked in again.

We felt like he really turned the corner and became the player that we know he's capable of being. All right, and we're going to try to re-sign him in the off-season. Meaning now? Yes. Also, I don't know that we have this, but I saw the comments from Dana Brown dismissing any thought of a trade of Jeremy Panyan, which we've kind of floated as we're talking about trading an infielder. You got a glut. The guy who has the most value, but also least likely to be traded because he has the most value would be Jeremy Pena, but he is under control for two more years. and could get quite a haul for the Astros.

As you got with Kyle Tucker with one year left, that bore a lot of fruit. So let me ask you this. Do we have the conversation 12 months from now? I would say yes, absolutely. Especially if things don't go the Astros way this offseason. Especially if this selling off of the affiliates is a precursor to Jim Crane divesting as majority owner. And you don't want to pay a guy.

And I don't know. And I'm not saying that's happening. I'm not trying to be naive. No. I'm not saying that's happening. I'm just, we're talking. Okay. So since we're just talking, we're bros at the bar.

Mm-hmm. A beverage. Yes. To me, and again, I have not been given any information on this. Mm-hmm. To me, it's, I got a deal I couldn't refuse. I agree. That's what I think it is.

Because this private equity company obviously sees value in buying multiple minor league teams it's not like the Astros were a one-off they have to be overpaying that's what these private equity companies do they swoop in they overpay so they can gobble everything

up and monopolize whatever they're doing whether it be you know any sort of property owning or whatever they overpay they give you an offer you can't refuse and then they hold a monopoly that way they can profit more that's just their game and remember again it doesn't change Dana Brown's process of evaluating

players and it's a simply any profits and or and here's the thing, and or expenses go to this private equity group as compared to the Astros parent club. And like I said, you go get a Bubbs truck stop or, you know, or

rackerereral and they can put them in 25 different ballparks a logo and sell it that way. And you can also take five minor league teams and have one staff of marketing people and PR people and, you know, nutritionist. And I mean, it's what you do. You pair things down. Yeah, to me, this

I don't see this as a warning sign. Now, even if they didn't do this, part of me thinks that Jim's not going to own this for 10 more years unless the kids do want involvement, but they really haven't been involved yet. He loves baseball. It's not like he's near death. No, but I...

It's not Jerry Jones level. No. Well, Jerry Jones has been at death level for five years and still as a general manager, but that's a different issue for a different time. All right, 1043. That's a topic for the ticket. Yeah.

1310 the ticket 713-2-1-2 we haven't done you know what where's our man James and Garden Oaks we haven't played WFAN and for a long time

we haven't heard them from since the Yankees are we only gonna hear from him during the baseball season he hasn't called about the jets or giants he told us the Yankees are going to win it all

we hadn't heard from them did you see by the way who the big dog favorite is to be the new coach the New York Giants it rhymes the darkest meeman that makes sense

it does When the AD was loving on him yesterday. Oh, man, he's family. He would never leave us. I bought him five extra Christmas gifts. I told my kids not this year. It's got to go to Marcus instead. Smart.

713-212-5-790. 10-51, sports talk, 790. A couple things. Number one, 6,000 tickets were sold on the U of H.S.I. That's what the allotment was. So LSU, you're on the hook for 6,000 as well. And I'll take, I don't know how the- I think they'll be fine.

I don't know how the Texas Bowl does there, marketing but you know since the game is owned by the texans they should probably send an email blast out saying hey texans fans want to go check out lsie houston we'll give you your seats that you normally sit in for games and you know that that would be the easy way i think it was i know how they do some marketing via chris cordy yeah all right um got the 506 map for the NFL games the what now the 5606 is a website that tells you what cities are getting which games okay green bay Denver is expected as the main game i mean this in the nicest way possible. You're such a broadcasting

nerd. I am a nerd. This is exactly right. So, Indianapolis, Seattle is not the main game. Okay. It's being shown in Indianapolis. It's being shown in Louisville in Fort Wayne and South Bend. And it's being shown in Jacksonville. Okay. And it's being

shown on the West Coast because it is a game that features West Coast teams. NFC West, obviously. And the one city in Texas being shown in Houston. Channel 11, we love you. really the nation's not captivated by cardinals texans no no this is talking about indianapolis seattle oh indianapolis seattle sorry yeah i was gonna try to get mark schlareth on the show he's doing the color for the game on the texans game and i sent him a really nice text you did about three weeks ago and he never responded oh uh well should i do it again i don't know for tomorrow ask dan maybe he's buddies with him dan knows everybody in this industry he's mr rolodex but people don't even know to roll it jonathan Yeah. What's a Rolodex?

A Rolodex? Yeah. No idea. It's just a term. What do you think it is? Take a guess. Talking about people, he knows people. Like a roster?

Yeah, kind of. Like an address book. You get half credit. Okay, okay, okay. That's fine. Give me a C on that. I'll do some as a credit later. Yeah.

You got, we gave you with extra credit. We gave you a C. Strowd. Hey. I gave a B, so you gave a C. Honestly. Just about every degree you look at. I know, Matt, you're all into the extra,

you're into the EPA analytics and all that stuff. No, I'm not. I'm not. I need that. Yeah, he's basically, when Ray called him mid, who is he wrong, right than wrong? He's kind of right. Why didn't you say anything the other day?

Well, hold on. No, he was not, he was not acting mid. He was calling him hot garbage is what he was. he needs to improve he does you're seeing that you can win with cj stroud you can win with davis mills you just got to have like an all-time dominant defense behind him so i'm going to tell you something right now that you're going to be really mad at me okay i can't pay him 60 million dollars a year you're saying

that you're well we're going to see what what kind of money he is going to command i understand what you're saying i've never said you're insane and you're stupid for saying that cj stroud can't get paid i understand where you're coming from okay But I'm just saying that doesn't happen in the NFL. Because your alternative is to keep searching. You have somebody who is good enough that you can win with and you're hoping that can develop and improve. He's 24 years old.

Okay, that's, again, if he's going to play 50 more years, that's fine. But 24 is about to hit the prime of his career. Okay. We can go to example. There are examples in the NFL of guys who got let go and we're pretty good elsewhere. Sam Darnold, Baker, May. Mayfield, Daniel Jones to an extent before he ripped his Achilles. He could also be a Kirk Cousins guy, just get franchise tag and then bounce from team to team to team and make great money.

He could also be somebody who's just not the guy who gets paid and then you're asking, why did we pay this guy so much? I mean, Trevor Lawrence, we don't think he's very good, do we? Jaguars are 9 and 4 in first place in the AFC South. He's a guy you can win with. you're right but it's going to be uncomfortable after his rookie year we were talking about him literally in top five conversation you know what happened was there tape on him yes and how much lazy i don't think so i don't think so he did spend a lot of time he said he said that himself he did he did spend too much time on the press tour correct he did and doing worldwide

podcasts from like uh a bucoress in malaysia yeah he's a malays he's a malays with Michael Parsons or whatever. By way, I don't know if Cal is going to let, he's going to sign him because Cal, he put his hand out for a high five in Kansas City and he left him hanging. Is that real? I only saw that from one person. Now, I saw it from one person too, but, and then he isolated to Cal who had his hands still up in the air.

That's what I'm saying. You can't leave your owner hanging. Or I'm sorry, one Instagram account. I saw mine on Twitter. Could it be the same person? Sure. It was the same video. Yeah, it was the same Instagram video.

I'm not saying it's not real. I'm just saying in this day and age, you never know I like, I'd like multiple sources. I don't, I can't remember the last time I was left hanging like that. Now, am I guilty of I go for the high five and then a person goes for the fist bump? I'm more of a fist bump than a high five guy. But there have been times that the person on their other side of me have not, we've not connected because of that. You got to get the fist bump cocked and ready early so they see it. You got to put it to your side by your rib cage.

You got to get it. And then you got to raise it. Yes. You got to do early signals so we know what's going on. So next time you all see me in public, cock your fist to your rib cage and then jam it headed that direction.

Then we can boom, hit it together. I'm trying to be, I'm converted to team fist bump over it. But sometimes, you know, just. Because poor Calif, that's a real.

Nothing's worse than one guy's going for each and the other. That happens to me all the time. I know. But the problem is if that, if he was really, the left hanging. That's going to affect his contract status. You cannot leave your owner hanging. Second hour of the show. We'll feature some phone calls from you guys. I just shut your bum ass up. We've got to hear from Brett Yormark. We'll hear that coming

up as well. He was none too pleased with the way Notre Dame has handled this entire sliding of being in the college football playoff. 1057. It's the Matt Thomas show at Ross. If you would like to join us, we'd love to have you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 11-1 Sports Talk 790. What did Brett Yormark, the Big 12 Commissioner, have to say about Notre Dame's behavior? We'll hear that coming up in just a couple minutes.

Our behavior, we think, is usually exemplary. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-2-790. 7-1-2-2-790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We have, no rockets till tomorrow. Take on the clips. Yes. I wonder if James Hardin's been hanging out at the strip clubs in the last couple days. Yeah, is he going to like, he's going to be

rejuvenated, hitting his old hangs? They even play it's in Saturday. I mean, you come here, make a little meaty vacation. Yeah, when the unction comes into town, is Paul George is playing for them still? What's house, Kauai Leonard doing? I know Chris Paul's going. The last box score, Paul George is not honest. They signed like everybody over 38 in the NBA, so I can't keep track of all the clippers. They have a Bogdog Bogdanovich. Yeah, I think they got Nate Thurman on a 10-day.

It looks like George Mikan is here to a 10-day contract. Oh, I guess we should name Clippers. Pytowski came back for a 10-day. There's not a single person in this audience and knows what Eric Piedowski is. Yes, there is. Come on, baby. Clippers legend. Have you met our audience?

He used to crush the Rockets. He would make like five threes and I'd be like, well, come on, man. Eric Pytowski. You want to go with, you know, here's what we're going to do today. Clipper or not. Okay. And you have to get three in a row. Let's see.

Corey McGee. No, no, I'm not talking about your audience for, believe it or not today. There's your tease for today. Okay. Highly Googledable. Yes. We will have a list of 15. You've got to get three in a row right.

All right. If this person's ever been... Ever played a clipper or not. Clipper or not. That's actually pretty easy for us today. 713-212-5-790. Ryan's with us on the Matt Thomas show. Ross Ryan.

Thank you for holding a good morning. morning fellas uh so i've meant to call earlier when you all were talking about it but my boss walked into my office and was going over some stuff but if you were to google logjam the astros organization would pop up on your computer i have no idea what we're going to do we used to have a stacked outfield now our outfield is looking just more and more sad every day and we have too many infielders and we know what to do with and i just i have no idea how we're going to go anywhere with that But I have a bet. So, Ross, this is more for you, but I'll take both of y'all.

I believe, having listened to the show for a long time, Ross, I don't think you're ever going to get that Habachi dinner. But I'll do you one better. If Yoron Alvarez plays 130 games, I will take both y'all to Vic and Anthony's, my tree. Ever? Repeat this again? Repeat this again? And what if we lose?

Hold on, I want to hear it again. What is again? If Yoron Alvarez. plays 130 games this season, I will take both of y'all to Vic and Anthony's, my tree. All right, I'm getting the most expensive bottle of Cabernet. So let me get this straight. I don't think he's ever going to play 130. Ever.

Yeah, so you would take that. So I would value, I would value it. So you actually, you and I are on the same side. He's played 130 plus games three of the last five years. I think that was trending downward. This is great. He did it too. years ago. Okay. Whatever.

All right. He's got, hey, all I got to say is, that's fine to say it for one year. Cricking these, bad hands. He's like 27. But he plays 34. And I love him. But let's be honest. I'm sorry, he's 28.

When he gets hurt, it's not, it's not an owie. They're going to de-h him. Okay. Still got to swing hard. Let me know if you want to accept, let me know if you want to accept the bet. What's the reverse of the bet? guys later. All right. See you, Ryan. I don't think it was a reverse. I think he just wants to take us a free roll.

Yeah, I think he's just a let me take the guys out to dinner. Yeah, which we will take. We'll accept. Vic and Anthony's a more of a Mastro's guy. Either one is fine. We can use my discount card. That's true. Matt knows people. I do. All right. Okay. Look, you could be right. I'm just saying it's a ridiculous. Let me tell you.

Part of this is we say things on the show to create a conversation piece. Oh, no, I don't do that. I'm not saying. I'm not trying to say it's a hot take. I'm saying that that's not a hot take. It's a hot take. Never in his career. He's 28. All right.

I can't wait to be right. I've talked you about Zion. I'm right so far. So far. He's got his whole career ahead of him. Yeah. Yeah, you also... Never mind.

I'm going to be nice. Love you. Say what you want to say. Nope. No, we are brothers. Go ahead. Say it. It's all right.

Just do it. He also had to back off saying that the Texans are never going to win a Super Bowl with Cal McNair. his owner. Yes, but I'm not backing off of that it's going to be with the general manager, Nick Asario. Okay. Nick Asario cannot, will not be able to ever put together an offensive line

we're proud of. They could get to the Super Bowl this year. They could. Their offense will not allow them to do it. We'll see. No. I believe in CJ. I believe in Jake. Okay, I don't believe in Jake Andrews. To be brutally honest, I don't know who the hell's going to the EFG. I don't believe in Jake Andrews at all.

But Arionte Ursary. It's going to get it together. illegal i got two words for you illegal formation can we stop doing illegal formation can we i got two more words for you false start can we call a team meeting on the rules of football how many illegal shifts and illegal formations can be called we're into week 13 14 you're still formating illegally formating i made up a word okay let me say that's a fact it sounds good I will accept formate. Illegal formation.

Can you stop it? Can you read the rule book Nick Cayley and C.J. Stroud? And let me ask you another question, not revolving around penalties. They've been going with this six-man offensive line to protect us. When you report is eligible, you got to have somebody covered up or whatever, all that crap. Let me ask you this. Learn the rules. When are other teams defense is going to pick up on this if they're not already doing so now?

Everybody does that. Yeah. They do play action out of it. The jumbo lineup has been actually, it's been kind of. big this year in the NFL. It's got in vogue, as they say. Here is a grandiose statement that's not how to take, it's just how I feel. This defense is going to, when the season ends, going to put their helmets and take their pads off and go, damn it, we were good enough. We were

good enough. They're not going to the Super Bowl because they can't score enough points. Yeah, well, that's, I mean, that's the NFL. Nobody's everybody, it's hard for everybody. When you're dominant on both sides of the you're going to win the Super Bowl. Generally, Eagles last year, dominant. Both sides of the ball. Won the Super Bowl. So all I'm asking you to do, Ross, is to tell all your people in the Texanville.

Let's get the Texans offense to average. If it gets to average, you got a shot. I think it is about average. I mean, I haven't looked at the latest DVOAs and points and yards and all that stuff. Too many penalties. Third quarter was a disaster now. And CJ, to his credit, here's where the credit comes in. Okay.

he gives you three throws per game that you're like oh my god that ball is going to be picked off he can make plays under duress oh my god he's going to be sacked for a 16 yard loss okay they're number one in points and yards which is crazy that they're the same in both it's also crazy that the same in both offensively would you like to guess points and yards both the same rank out of 32 26th 20 okay that's not average is below average yeah needs to get better Oh, by the second, third. Go to go to our buddies at PFF, the Poonhounds. How's our offensive line looking this week? You want to do this right now? Just do it right now. Then we're going to bring your mark.

Brett your mark. Ahead of week 15. Week 15 is coming in. Denver Broncos number one. Funny how that works. Offensive line. Hold on, hold on. So it's a mid-level quarterback has a great offensive line.

Hmm. This surprises me. Go ahead. They moved up a spot. Okay, you know what That's why PFF gets If you watch that game That was not a good offensive line performance

Well, I'm sorry They passed the Chiefs One of the team The team that was ahead of them They passed with the Chiefs So they really just probably would have stayed the same Except the Chiefs got wrecked The Chiefs went from 12 to 20

And honestly Texan defense can wreck offensive lines Yeah, so it's a week-to-week ranking So it's not necessarily They were good the Chiefs were that bad. The Chiefs were ahead of them and went behind them. Let me say. Anybody that watched that game on Sunday could not have come away going,

that's about what we've seen week to week from the offense. The Texans offensive line has performed better than what they saw on Sunday. You didn't break down all 32 teams? They did. They also don't know any friends. Exactly. So they have time to break down all 32 teams. Maybe you're right.

The people without friends, I mean, you're helping their argument. Yeah, we got no friends. We're watching football. or the Poonhounds were out and didn't really and just meled it in. Houston dropped back 35 times and yielded 14 pressures with two sacks and three quarterbacks hits. Third to last, their pass blocking efficiency in week 14. Ed Ingram struggled mightily, seven pressures he conceded. So I'm going to ask you this question.

And I promise we'll get to Brett Newark in the next segment. if you are all in in the Texans defense and if you aren't you have absolutely zero football like you yes you have to respect and admire the defensive intensity this team has brought week after week after week are they perfect no but are they elite yes they're the best in the biz okay they're the best in team history but are some Texans fans and maybe you're in that group Now I'm talking about you. I'm talking about the audience. Are you trying to sell me?

Eh, Texan's offense ain't that bad. We'll be fine. You know, defense's so good. I think to win a conference championship, even though there are so many flawed teams in front of them, not flawed, but unproven, I think we're finding ourselves overselling what this Texan's offense can be because we're trying to justify to men.

the excellence of the defense. I don't think anybody's overselling. Who has said that this Texan's offense is good? Daniel Lovsky was foaming at the mouth two weeks ago about how Nick Cayley has grown as an offensive coordinator. They've gotten better. Yeah. But it's not.

Well, they went from Dogwater to Decent. See? Yeah, that's an improvement. That's what the offensive line did. They went from 32nd and they went from 32nd in the league to 17th. That's an improvement. Decent can't win the EFC. No, it can with this defense.

You have to be good enough. They're not good enough. But they still have to improve, and I imagine, actually, the Cardinals' defense is not that bad. But you are going to be home. The offensive line certainly struggles. They always struggle against Steve Spagnolo. He always does these mug fronts where you have seven, eight guys showing, and they can never figure out who's coming. They certainly have issues with that.

So I think at home, they're going to be a little bit better. C.J. Stroud, that was, he was, he was. Under duress the entire game, it was second game back from a concussion. He looked bad for sure. He has to be better. I still think I can see this offense improving. I'm not saying they're good enough to win the AFC right now, but are the bills good enough to win the AFC?

Yes, the Texans beat him with Davis Mills. Are the Colts before Daniel Jones went down good enough to win the AFC? Yes, the Texans beat them in their house. So they can get it done. it's just going to be one score madness every, every week. That's what we're seeing. That's Texan's football. We're going to be living on the Rangers edge,

and we're going to be like pounding our fist every time there's bad penalties, and then we're going to be saying, oh, my God, this defense is insane. Or red zone, lack of touch test. Red zone, yeah, lack of red zone efficiency, conservative play calling, keeping it close to the vests from D'Amico Ryans. It's going to be frustrating, and we're going to be like, oh, my God, this is horrible. I want to claw my eyes out watching this offense, and then they win 20 to 16.

That's Texan football. The Texans defense for your marriage, you want to take her on a second honeymoon. Okay. The Texans offense, you want to file for divorce. Hmm. Hmm. Think about it.

You love your spouse so much. You're like, I can't live another moment without her. Then you have an argument, a.k.a. illegal formation. I'll go the other way. Please. The Texans is the offense is like the day-to-day life. She's whining, complaining, nagging, bothering you.

Texan's defense, when you hit the bedroom, it's sex. And you're like, you know what? It's kind of worth it. So you're telling me, the Texans' defensive sex is better than the day-to-day having her whining bitch and moan all day long. wild girlfriend and she's crazy and wild when she's crazy and wild and swarming

that Texans swarm in the bedroom that's when you're like, it's all right. What if she swarms her bag? We can work this out. What if she overdraft? What if she overdraws your account all the time? Maybe it's not so bad. I.E. Holdings. Yeah? The comps we put on this show.

Pro football focus can't do that. He doesn't know what it's like. We don't know what's life in the bedroom. All right. Brett Yarmark goes off on Notre Dame. We'll hear from him next. He's the commissioner Big 12, you don't know. 713-212-5-7-90. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. All right, we got shut your bow,

and I ain't nobody got time for that coming up in about 10 minutes here on Sports Talk, 790. So Brett, Your Mark, was a part of a sports business journal, sports opportunity, I don't know what it was, some sort of focused talk with a bunch of people and tenants. And he was, you know, there was some chatter about whether or not Notre Dame being so mad and upset at the ACC yesterday during his press conference, whether that would affect their future for the ACC.

And the first thing I thought of is, well, I mean, does this is an opportunity for the Big 12 to come in and scoop it and say, hey, if you don't like what the ACC is treating, and you come to the Big 12, we'll love on you. And my guess is we'll let you keep your NBC deal. And you can schedule how you want to schedule your Big 12 opponents. Well, Brett, Your Mark, I would say of all the commissioners, Now, I know that the SEC Commissioner is the most important one because he's the most powerful leader in college athletics. He has the most powerful conference.

Brett Your Mark ain't afraid of a microphone. I mean, he says more things than any, Greg Sanky were talking about the SEC guy. He doesn't speak a lot, but when he does, he speaks with a heavy stick. Brett, it doesn't turn a microphone down. So he was asked yesterday in front of a crowd of people. What do you thought about how Notre Dame was handling this whole sliding of them not being in the CFP? I will say this, and I'm a little outspoken about it. I don't like how Notre Dame's reacted to it.

So, okay, I think Pete's, his behavior has been egregious. It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips when they saved Notre Dame during COVID. We all knew, and it was very transparent. Hunter was very transparent about it, the chair, that as Notre Dame and Miami got closer together, head to head would be a factor. Okay? BYU lost they became closer together

head to head and made a difference in that decision so I think he is totally out of bounds in his approach and if he was in the room I'd tell him the same thing he said exactly he's exactly right we talked about this

they said head to head it was a hint it was a hint to Notre Dame as as teams get closer together head to head to head's going to matter more. Whether you agree with that or not, that's beside the point. It should.

But there were so many, there were so many common factors. We've gone over this. So many things that, that were put Notre Dame and Miami in the same category, and the one determining factor at the end of the day was the head-to-head matchup. So the 4-U tab, it is what it is. I have been trying to stay out of there. It's good because Notre Dame fan has gone to videos of, you know, you don't know what you're talking about.

You don't know how powerful we are and how we say the A, I mean, just this holier than thou Notre Dame. And then all these Notre Dame alumni that are like, yeah, preach from the top or say it louder for the people in the back, all that kind of goofy-ass Twitter crap. And the number one result

has been as follows. Join a conference. Shut up. Don't think you're better to everybody else because when you aren't independent, you do believe you're better than everybody else. Say what you will about the SEC supremacy. They're at least in a conference. they understand the value of a conference

Notre Dame if you really want this to end if you really want to end the notion and by the way if they're the top 12 next year they got a they got a little bonus they got even a special rule this won't happen to the game will happen to them again next year yeah they're having their cake

and they're eating it too but if you really want to end this up go to the ACC beat up on them because you beat up on all the second tier teams you did you played to begin with except Miami conference would have been a conference loss This is what it is. Go to a conference, win it, play in the championship game, and stop your bitching.

But, Brett, Your Mark, I really thought that we would have kicked the tires. We, because I'm a Big 12 member. Yes, you are. Now, maybe that's Your Mark just saying it because he wants to look good, or maybe that he's already called the big Notre Dame owner's on the microphone. Oh, yeah, he ain't afford to talk. We're going to try to get him on the show here down in the next few months, for sure. Because he'll say something, and not that we're trying to incite him,

but he'll say something that will resonate with people. He's not going to give you the politically correct answer. Now, this also could come off of the fact that Brett Yormark called Notre Dame, and Notre Dame's like, Mr. Yermark, we don't have time for your phone call. And if you don't have time to speak to Breit Yarmark, then maybe that was a little bit of retaliation to say, you don't want to come play with our conference? Well, I'm going to take us some shots at you.

It's like when you ask a girl out and she says no, and then you say, then you go disparity anyways. You ugly. Yes, what you do? You get bad breath. got to rationalize so maybe Notre Dame's got bad breath uh-huh

but yeah he he didn't mince words yesterday and he didn't in public and he got in it and people were filming it and so he knew exactly what he was doing well and now apparently the ACC Commissioner is commenting on Notre Dame as well

whoever that guy is okay I don't even know who that is I think I'm okay with not knowing who it is Jim Phillips oh yeah yeah I know Jim he's also the chairman of the conference commissioners, I believe, if I'm not mistaken. He kind of runs the commissioner's meetings when they meet. He's defending Notre Dame now.

Oh, now we're going to kiss and make up. This sucks. Go on. If you're leaving teams out of the playoff that could win a national championship, then you don't have the right number. So he wants 16. It's going to happen. And he's not, you know what, Ross, he's not doing to protect his ACC. He's not protecting Notre Dame.

He's protecting ECC. Because if he had 16. you would have Duke in they would make the conference champion on a minute qualify they would they would have the ACC damn Texas still might be left out was this way okay let's do this

let's do this let's so if you have 16 let's think about let's add those four real quick you're ready with the highest champions the way that they did I like that if you're going to 16 I think get rid of it if you're staying at 12 I like it if you're going to 16 it's fine you're going to guarantee the slots

That's terrible. You know I'm right. Duke shouldn't be in. So Duke would be in. They shouldn't be. That's team 13. Notre Dame would be team 14. BYU would be team 15.

And who would... Texas was next in the rankings. And then you'd have Texas as 16. Ooh, Texas on the road, Indiana. That'd be tough. No, because Indiana would have a double buy at that point, right? Oh, you want a double buys. Yeah, I'm presuming that would you have to do.

So there you go. teams that would be in if you had a 16 team league on the road at Bama oh I've never gone to a game in in and Tuscaloosa I that's on my bucket list uh I heard it's pretty good yeah I want to go to I want to go to Ole Miss and I want to go to Texas I mean to to to to Alabama I went to Tiger Stadium but the environment wasn't very good I've been to Tiger Stadium. I have been to Texas. Obviously, I've been to Texas.

I've been to Oklahoma. Is there anyone else in the SEC? I have to go. Do I want to go to Georgia game? Do you say Neeland? I've been to never in the Nealyn either. Apparently, that's like... That's a huge party. Yeah, that's 110,000 people to watch a six-win football team.

They're better. Well, were they, Tennessee, you know what? They've been, but they've been, I mean, when Tennessee had been super overly relevant. In 1998, Philip Fulmer says, I was good. Don't forget about me. T. Martin.

Yes. That's it for my tendency. Oh, Peyton Manning. Payton Manning, of course. Never beat Florida, though. Oh, do you want to go to Florida for a game? The Swamp? Does that interest you?

Yeah, the Swamp would be great. I'm just going to presume they have club sitting for all these sections, right? I mean, high-end donors, I kind of thing. Oh, my God. Sit with the people. You're so hoity-to-y. But can you get a little sweat on your brow? Let's go.

Can you get a fajita bar? Fahita bar? Yeah, like a, you know. You're talking about like a chicken, fajitas, peppers, onions, onions. Koso chips. I guess. Like catered? Yeah.

Like a club section. You know, I'll sit in the seats. I need the club section in halftime, though. You know what my first thought is when I went back to DKR? I'm like, this dude is old. They put some lipstick on that pig. How are you going to fix it? Yeah, I don't know.

I mean, the building, the structure, I mean, it was built a hundred years ago. Yeah. Speaking of that, the Moody Center, which is amazing. They had Southern coming in their day? Yes. Empty. Well, yeah. Oh, for Southern?

First of all, the team's not very good. You want to watch. Matas, Volcatitis, and the boys? I watched that game. And? Look good. What was the final? It beat up on Southern.

I can't remember what the final. I kind of checked out when they were up 30. Cougars have a big game tonight. But yeah, the Moody Center did look empty. We're taking on a big team from Mississippi. Southern? Nope. This is Southwest Mississippi Central State?

Nope. Who is it? Jackson State. Excuse me? Yeah. So we met and don't. Oh, 95 to 69. Wasn't that big of a blowout.

Longhorn basketball, not very good. We're playing Jackson State tonight. What is the line on the game? Let me see if I can guess. You try to guess. You're ready? No, guess where Texas play is next. Ooh, the Cougars are 40.5 favorites.

Almost 41 point favorites. Longhorns play at Yukon this weekend. Uh-oh, that's natural TV? Great. There's nothing wrong with that. I can get their ass swamped. It's not good. we are a 40 and a half point favorite

they already got thrashed by Duke they got destroyed by Virginia let's focus on the more important team Houston no we're talking about Texas basketball Houston America's team 8 in 1 Jackson State is 1 and 7 terrible you should be embarrassed Texas meanwhile is getting whipped by Duke and Yukon at least they're playing some teams

is that how you're approaching it yeah getting some seasoning I mean it can't hurt it'll help you if you get it's a Q1 win if they win, right? I don't even want to know what that line's going to be. I'll look it up. Glad you're asked. It probably won't be posted yet.

When is the game on Sunday or Saturday? Friday. Friday's on Fox. Ooh, that can be on Fox 4K. You know, I'm going to watch that bad boy. You have a 14.6% chance of winning. Is that good? It beats zero.

All right. All right. You ready to shut your bum ass up? I'm ready for you to shut your bar mess up. You ready to tell people, ain't nobody got time for that? Yes. 713, 212. 5-790, by the way, Yukon

9-1, Texas, 7-3. U-Cons beat BYU, Illinois, Kansas, Florida. I was thinking about going to the Houston game. I can't go to a game that are 40.5 favorites. Yukon's running the gauntlet. My God. Yeah, but nothing else to do up there. Except hibernate.

Oh, they're getting... This is bad. It's going to be bad. Yukons win this year have come against Florida. Good. East Texas A&M. And they won against Kansas in a neutral site game. And BYU was top 10 when they beat them. BYU with a buzzer-beater win yesterday.

There's your college basketball talk for the day. 713-212-5-7-90. Will the Cougars cover 40-and-a-half against Jackson State? Ain't nobody getting time? Ain't nobody getting time for day? Ain't nobody getting time for day? Ain't nobody getting time for me? Ain't nobody getting time?

Ain't nobody getting time for me. 1136, Sports Talk, 790. Matt and Ross with you. Joe bum ass up and anybody got time for that is up right now and if you're new to the program first of all where you the hell have you been second damn glad to have you and third here's how it works you will call at 713212 5790 and you will say it's something that's bothering you not necessarily sports related it can be sports related but if something is bothering you whether it's a person at work whether it's the traffic whether it's uh the cost of

living, whether it's your family can't decide on what they're doing for Christmas in terms of who's having Christmas Eve dinner and who's doing Christmas Day and anything of that sort. You call and you say, ain't nobody got time for that. Hey, nobody got time for that. Let's say somebody to your office is just blathering

endlessly and doesn't let you focus on your job. Why are you looking at me? And it's needless conversation. It doesn't have an beginning or an end, but it just ripples along and along and along. Just tell them to shut their bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Now, I can't say it to you because you and I are responsible for speaking for four hours per day.

To the Twitter person that has his name, Stephen, with a bunch of numbers, it called me a dumb, dumb. I already had that guy muted. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Dan and coach, is it responsible for tactical situations that it's not the veteran players, dumb. First of all, if you're a grown man calling another grown man dumb dumb, we'll step outside I'm gonna call you

some real names Matt's ready to throw some hands oh you know this is the perfect time to tell you Matt dumb dumb Debbie called again this morning saying that you need to apologize and that was extremely disrespectful

about Notre Dame Debbie she doubled out on it Debbie okay either you called the show she didn't want to talk to you Debbie shut your bum ass up

shit your bum ass up listen Deborah oh you hear that I'm not even calling you Debbie I'm calling you directly Deborah or Deborah, Debs, Debbie Do, Debbie Downer, if you can't have the Stones to call the show and tell me Notre Dame was being disrespectful to America.

Yes. Notre Dame, the boring-ass press conference needed to have some commentary. I don't normally do that, but sometimes you're going to make the editorial decision. So, Debra, shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. What you got this week? Well, Deborah leads me to what I was going to have. For our good friend, Pete Bavacqua, AD at Notre Dame.

Bevy. That's what we call them. BDB. Yeah. Dude, did you really call a press conference to whine even more about the A... You're going with the ACC Social Media team? They made a mean tweet about us. They said enough shit. Yeah, you lost head-to-head.

Listen to the committee. They literally said, as teams get closer, head-to-head will matter. That's how you got flipped. Why, you're either playing stupid or you're ignorant. Which one is it? Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. Nobody wants to listen to you whine and cry for 45 minutes about how you got left.

And then to say you went on the most dominant run and a 10 game run in college football history and you beat Syracuse and Stanford and other terrible team Boston College. Shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. We speak for America. Shut your bum ass up. What of the most dominant runs in college football history? Shut your bum ass up, man.

There's a top 25 team in that list. Used to be. This is 2003. Unless you were time traveled and played all the teams throughout history. I didn't realize you're playing Doug Flutie, John Elway. Who else? Pittsburgh. Jamarino and McNabb is secured Syracuse.

Your retro teams would be really good But the current one's on so much Boston College won like two games Jonathan what's the matter with you? He didn't run the gauntlet I keep seeing this while I'm driving and I was so glad I saw it today going into the show

I had my in the AC I had the circulation like in the fresh air you know how it has a little circle with the arrow on it you get the fresh air on the AC and this truck dude in front of me had is like through two cigarettes bus that he lit up against you smoking.

I was falling behind him. I kid you not, I had the smell of the cigarette burning in got into my engine. And now I'm sitting here like, nobody has time for that. If you're smoking your car already, you got them yellow walls that stench in there. You might as well have an ashtray and put it out there. Ain't nobody got time for you throwing. Ain't nobody got time for that. And I got to smell it.

I don't know. I'm sorry. Cigarette smokers in general. Ain't nobody got time for y'all. It's not even cool. In the 70s, it was cool to smoke cigarettes. We walk by you in the hallway. You stink.

We see your brown teeth. They stink. You're leaving cigarette butts all over the place. We can smell it in the elevator 10 minutes after you get out of it. It lingers everywhere. And oh, by the way, you're giving yourself lung cancer. Ain't nobody got time for that. There's one person too.

This is like three guys in this building that go on the fifth floor of the parking garage. Yes. And blaze it up. I'm walking out here. I got like three. You can smell it for 50 yards near them. Go to the first floor and take a walk. Why are we sitting here with all the cars here?

I don't get that. Territory. I want to ask, this is a stereotypical question. Name a cool person that you know that smokes. Nobody. It's generally a waffle house night shifters. Because, I mean, honestly, no, you and I were. You weren't alive, but we were, I was young kids.

It was cool to smoke in the 60s and 70s. It was. until they realize how damage in the heart of your body. Yes. And you smell and your teeth are gross and what else? I mean, yeah, nicotine is highly addictive. And your voice gets a whole of your. I mean, you can have your vices, man.

Have some proper etiquette. That's all I'm saying. Nat King Cole used to smoke like two packs a day because he thought it made his voice sound good. And he died of lung cancer. Yeah, I'm telling you, just vape. I don't vape, but I'm team vaid. Do it.

I think even that's not good for you. I think it's almost worse. You can get like nickel and aluminum and all that of that stuff. Don't do that either. Don't do that because it's pure nicotine. Yeah. It's like straight. That's nicotine. Yeah. It's all right. Maybe I stay incorrect to that of that. So I'll shut my own bum ass up on that one. It's fine. Shit your bum ass up, man. We're hearing from the health board, they're telling you to shut your bum ass up. All right. We got our. Shet your bum ass up, man. Exactly. There's a radio host in Houston that's saying, a piece pro. Hi, I heart media legal team here. The opinions of Matt Domics are his own. I'm not saying, go do what I'm saying in lieu of cigarettes. I know. I understand.

Lessor of the evils. It's right. this is an i just don't get time for this isn't i just don't get it and i'm not blaming wex for this uh it's more of i just don't get it but he was doing commercial for bud light proud sponsor and he says it's a clean crisp taste and i've done commercials for beers before that have said clean have you ever had a dirty beer when is a beer dirty i've had a lot of dirty beers when the restaurant's not cleaning the taps fry But, I mean, if you went to a, if you went to a van store, and you went down the list of all the different beers out there, and we want, obviously, Wex wants you to drink Bud Light. Okay.

And we want you to drink Bud Light, because Bud Light's a great sponsor of this show, the station. Are you looking, do you go to the person and say, excuse me, I'm really looking for more of a dirtier beer this week? Yeah, you get like a coffee stout? That's dirty? It's dirtier. But that was intentional. Yeah. I'm just not catching on.

like why would why would anyone choose a dirty beer if you well something can have a crisp clean look why would anybody choose a dirty look just things I think about I know don't say it don't say it I'm not saying a word

I just hear people say oh that clean crisp taste yeah nice cleaning crisp I'd run the dirty bad ass of taste it's not that difficult of concept I mean if I'm drinking Milwaukee's Beast maybe that's a dirty beer

maybe that's a dirty beer maybe what's the worst beer ever had in your life. Big flats from Walgreens. Really? Yeah. Big flats. You get a six-pack for like two bucks back of the day.

I'll say this and I thought bud dry was terrible. Trying to think of anything worse. Bud light lime was kind of bad, pretty bad. See, I like lime on my beer, so I didn't mind it. Bud light lime, they like brew it in there. Oh, so it's like, hmm, okay. Not good. My fourth.

bud dry Canadian black label is the one I used to drink when I was in high school sorry mom PBR's terrible Best bad beer Although I do drink PBRs when I'm in Milwaukee Just because you have to

Yeah Yeah I went in Rome Strow When I went to Seattle I was drinking rainier I do commercials for Stros When I was in Minneapolis And it was kind of a running joke about If you really

If you really just bored And have nothing else to do Go get you Stros Straight-up course is probably not great. Banquet? The banquet's not bad. Any other ones? I don't know.

Jonathan, you know how much of a beer drink, are you? I was going to say, I don't know how to say it. Bush? Bush? Bush-Ly. Hey, hey, hey, now. Hold on now, man. You got a couple bush lattes.

A tailgate's not that bad. What did you just call bush lattes? Yeah. I've got to make sure they're ice cold, first of all. I would think so. If it's not ice cold, then yeah, you're going to run into some problems. I couldn't do it. ice cold bush latte it's not that bad

I think when you're in San Antonio like an ice cold Keystone. Is Pearl still around and from San Antonio? I don't know. I got Pearl Snap that's an Austin beer works. That's good. All right. Steel reserve is pretty bad. You ever had that? Keystone is horrendous.

We used to do Edward 40 hands in college. You get a mix, you tape 240s to your hands so you got to drink them before they get cold. They still do that by the way. Okay, we'll see. You know what? That's actually a graduate level of class at SFA. I'm glad or not losing the

recipes. We're still doing Edward 40 hands at college. That makes me happy. All right, let's go to Lonnie on 790. Lonnie. What's the matter with you, Lonnie? Oh, nothing's the matter. I was just driving to work, and you guys said nobody's mom. I agree

that it's the worst habit. I've never smoked. There's one guy that smokes. People probably really looked up to you. I bet he's been a billion dollars worth of benefit for the tobacco industry, and it's Billy Bob Thornton on Landman. He's a cool smoker.

Okay, so he's still smoking on Landman? Yeah, oh, yeah. Every time he can. Every time. Every episode. I just like it when I was in Minnesota. Every episode. Thank you, by the way.

My wife would agree with you. I love when I was in Minnesota. Nobody ever called it smoking cigarettes. I said, let's go burn a heater. Oh, really? They call them heaters in Minneapolis all the time. Okay. They don't call them cancer sticks.

Plus, because it's 11 degrees below zero. You've got to go heat yourself up somehow. Yeah, I get it. By the way, I was just told that Bud light, or Bud dry is basically headache in a can. That feels about right. Yeah, what about Bud Ice?

Oh, I forgot. Have I ever had a butt ice? What's the difference of butt ice and a bud dry? It's like 6%. Oh, Lord. This is my pop favorite. Downed a couple butt icees. But, I mean, I did commercials first.

You ever had a stroves? No, I never heard of that. It sounds made up. Yeah. And I think, I think, oh, What was the one Schaefer beer when one beer simply isn't enough? You ever had a Schaefer beer? That's out there advertising.

We're simply for binge drinkers. It's true. Good God. All right, let's talk to Johnny and San Diego. Johnny, what's the matter with you? Oh, I'm still not in San Diego. I'm in southern Oklahoma now. What?

Just out of Dallas. Talk about a downgrade. Oh, my God. I don't know. That's right. You are, we're going to have to change your title, Southern Oklahoma. You are in the military, correct? I was, yeah, just retired in September.

So you said I'm going to leave beautiful San Diego, California to go to Dallas. I didn't go to Dallas. I'm like 40 minutes south of. I'm not quite there. Oh, you're like, are you like an Ennis? Close to it. I'm in Wausatatchee. Same county.

Oh, my gosh. I know where you are. There's a bookstore I go to occasionally there. Go on, sir. All right. So, I was calling to talk about the college. football playoff, then y'all started doing the shut your bum ass up. And I figured there's a way that we could preemptively tell all the teams that didn't make the college football playoff

to shut their bum ass up. We could do an NIT-style tournament for the teams that didn't quite make it in. And I looked at the final rankings for the college football playoffs. There's some pretty interesting matchups. I mean, Texas would be playing the University of Houston. That's probably the worst game there is, but the rest of them were actually pretty decent matchups. You don't sell tickets to the bowl games, you know, the Papa John's bowl or whatever, and, you know, people don't tune into them unless they're a fan of the team. Turn it into a secondary tournament. I'm not saying they get an automatic bid like the NIT would do, but if you look at the next 12 teams

that didn't make it into the college football playoff, you know, give them their own little playoff. and, you know, create some money for some different businesses. Keep these players from going into the, or not going in the portal, but declaring for the draft that they don't get into the playoffs, you keep your better teams on the field. I feel like it's a win-win. So they can shut their bum asses up. Is that what you're looking for?

Thank you, Ted. We're looking for a way to wrap that bad boy up, my friend. Thank you. pretty funny he's like uh shut the brumasses up yeah whatever you were happen to say like man i'm so sick and tired of broccoli casserole in my house shut the bum ass up mom that's how you'd have to do it anything it's anything you can bring up anything you wanted to as long as you say shut your bum ass up at the very end we can't allow that as a free form that's pretty funny all right let's uh talk to uh roger on seven honey roger what's the

matter with you? What's the matter with me, Matt, is some of the people that Bluebees that I'm getting bad luck at the serving line because some I get these servers that are caught in the head, deer caught in the headlights look and they don't actually know the portions correctly. So I'm not saying I'm just some big heavyset guy, which I'm not, but I just want my fair share of forces to be correctly. distributed on the play where I can't, I can count my corn, my corn kernels like five, six. Oh, wow. Now, wait a minute.

Are you getting the land platter? Are you getting the land or are you getting regular size portions? No, I'm getting the regular side. I do, but I do. I'm just like, I'm a creature of habits. Okay. Finish, corn. Got it.

Done. Got it. So I'm like, and they're like shaking their, shaking the spoon and doing all this other extra curricular. I'm like, can I get it? somebody with some knowledge of something doing here. I have a woman that to have the trainee. So, yeah, just I don't get it.

All right. Thank you very much, Roger. Roger, I'm on team on your side because let me give you two examples. I have gone to McDonald's before and gotten a large order of fries and didn't fill up large enough. So I totally add some more fries. And we went to a supposedly hoity-toity burger place about a month ago. The three of us did here on the old show. And I ordered a side of curly fries.

and I think I got six curly fries. And I yelled to them from across the room. Yeah, you did. And then I didn't do Jack Squad about it. And we were sitting there. So to burger, I'm not going to mention their name. They don't get advertising. Go ahead.

Burger blank. Anybody got time for six waffle fries. They were named a top 100 restaurant in Houston. Well, they can suck it because if you can, they were not a top 100 French fry distribution place. Didn't you order a kid's meal, though? Yeah, you got a kid's burger, so you got the kids fries. an adult ass fries with the kid's burger. Maybe they got confused.

They thought you wanted the kids fry, maybe. That's a good point, Jonathan. Shut your bum ass up, man. By the way, speaking of that, I was at Ruffalo, well, yeah, Ruffalo Riled Rings. It wasn't my choice. It wasn't my choice. Ooh, God. It wasn't my choice.

And I got, we got, we ordered some cheese curds, and there was like three cheese curds in the order. Yeah, zero surprise. You deserve that. I don't know. Mistakes were made. by the way I used to make fun of people for ordering Luan at Rubies

I'm team Luan now because I can't as much I used to I don't know what that means Me either Well Luan is you get the Half Sides of everything When you get size And I think you get a pack of marble reds

And by the way Luan You get the Louan at Ruby's And it's like $14 You get the regular size portion You're like $41 at Ruby's Oh wow No wonder Ruby's is in trouble

Because they're expensive Too expensive I'm not paying $39 for a filet fish patty and mac and cheese oh okay and it comes with a small dunking bath for your dentures a small dunking bath for your ditchers

a small dunking bath for your ditches a small dunking bath for your ditch you don't know how not true that is though that's a problem that's crying I'm so I'm so proud of myself I'm so proud of myself

Okay We'll have to carry this over one more second Brian and James have to get there is in Steve wants to talk about the aster I don't think Steve wants to shut the Astros' bum asses up We're way over We are, it's fine 12-01

We're going to go dunk our dentures, be back in a minute This is the Matt Thomas show With Ross All right indentures are back in. We are here with our number three of four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 12.5 is our time. Let's get to the

news at noon. And we will do that with the Danielle Guzman of Houston Sports. Oh, thank you. Ross Van Arreale. I don't think I'm that good looking, but I appreciate it mornings now, by the way. Uh-huh. Good morning, Danielle. Is it Danielle or Daniela?

DG. We call her. And Daniela Cuthman. Justin Stapleton's our morning weather guy It's Rosa Villarreal here on the news at noon No, I'm really worried My squad Villarreal is losing to Copenhagen right now in the Champions League So that's some breaking news for you

Justin Hamilton is the morning weather guy He listens to us Come on, yellow submarine All right Well, we got some breaking news here How big? Is Daniela, by the way? Daniela Cusman

She's 43 Hmm Is this just probably just one right? Yeah, one Pete Alonzo is now a Baltimore Oriole. It is a five-year, $155 million contract. Do you think he was like, give me a little more than Schwartz? Sources telling it Jeff Passon, Alonzo leaving the Mets to make a loaded ALEs even better, says Jeff Passon.

His deal with the Orioles gives him the highest AAV ever for a first baseman. What? He ends up with $185 with his salary last year. Okay, shut up. Jeff Passon. Sorry, that's his BS from the agent, I'm sure. $155 million five-year deal. He's trying to add last year to make it $6.185.

I don't know what that even means. So Edwin Diaz goes to the match of the Dodgers. Pete Alonzo met's the Orioles, which means the Mets need to make a splash. Hmm. Where will they? Maybe for an outfielder? Well, they already paid $500 million a soda to play right field.

Well, he's a butcher out there, though. You're moving to left. Could you de-h him every day? He's not every day. I don't know. I don't know who their D-H is now today. Pete Alonzo was doing some of that and playing first base. I don't know.

But Steve Cohen, got a lot of cash. I'm not going to as much cash. Really makes you think. So let me ask you this. When I pay off on this meal, do I go to the wife and tell her that I'm paying this extraordinarily amount of money for one year? already talked about it. Well, we sort of did.

She doesn't know how expensive it's going to get. I'll pay for the upgrade to fried rice. I'll pay them up. No, no, no. You get the base and I'll get the upgrades. Do I pay this out of my gambling stash or do I pay it out of the checking account? Why? You go for the checking account, right?

I don't think so. You ask for forgiveness later. That's true. Because, I mean, she spends money, too. I don't spend frivolously. Are you getting a couple of carafeas of sake? Hot sake? I know you like hot sake.

In Denver, we get it. I'm going to Denver next one. I'm going to get Habachi and Denver next one. I'm going to get Habachi in Denver. That's a done deal. Yeah. Continue on. We'll talk about squirting later.

Elsewhere, Jaden Daniels ruled out now. He will not play Sunday against the New York Giants, according to head coach Dan Quinn. He came back. Dr. Roto told me to play him in a must-win game, and I lost by two points. He came back in a 31-0 loss against the Vikings, but then, of course, left that game earlier.

as he re-injured his left elbow. He will not be playing this weekend against the New York Giants. In a game, I mean, does anybody in those two markets even care about those teams right now? Man, I mean, those are two. That is, I grew up.

I grew up. Well, all of us have for decades. When the Giants in the skins and or commanders played, I mean, it was knock down, drag out, NFC supremacy, and now it's a game that's being seen in like parts of Delaware, and that's it.

Yes. All right. Elsewhere, you have Big 12 Commissioner, Brett Yormark, calling Notre Dame Athletic Directors Pete Bavakwa's criticism of the ACC egregious. And he doesn't agree with the way Pete Bavacqua has been going about things, saying it's been egregious to go after Jim Phillips. They saved Notre Dame during COVID. The chair said that was Notre Dame and Miami got closer. The head to head would be a factor. He's right. he's right. Brett Yarmark, of course, the Big 12 commissioner. Elsewhere, you also have Dana Brown speaking on MLB Network talking about a number of different topics, but the big topic has been what is going on with potential trades in the infield. Of course, Jordan Alvarez, supposed to be regular D.H., where does Jose Altuvego?

Dana Brown shutting down a trade talk about Jeremy Pena, saying, his name has not come up and I think teams understand if you're a winning team and you're trying to go back to the postseason, there's no way you can trade your starting shortstop. So it's something we've been floating a couple of times, Matthew,

whether or not Jeremy Pena could be on the trading block for the Astros because they did trade Kyle Tucker early last year. But he had one year left, two years left for Jeremy Pena. Dana Brown says it ain't happening. Believe him or not. For the next 12 months, I want a percent believe him.

Yes. After 12 months? 13 months? We could have been having a different conversation. Yes, we could. Apparently, there also is not, this is going to shock you, not a whole lot of trade interest for Christian Walker right now for the Astros. But Chandler-Roman in his latest athletic article, the title, or I should say, what do you call it, the headline.

Yordaun Alvarez, entrenched at D.H. Astros have little choice but to trade an infielder, saying that the Red Sox, among others, are interested in Isak Paredes shouldn't be shocking. Not a whole lot of interest in Christian Walker, who would make the most sense to trade him away and keep Isok Paredes in the infield playing a lot of first base because there is a log jam there, especially if Yordon is going to be D-Hing a lot.

Man, I am so, this is, and look, when we go to spring training every year, it's kind of like, all right, here's one star, what's it like defending American League pennant? What's it like winning world series? This feels like this will be the juiciest spring training. we've been to in seven or eight years. It really does. It's just so many question marks. And I don't even know if they make, like the moment that Jake Myers gets traded will solve

some of this. The moment they sign, Justin Verlander will they will solve some of this, but I ain't going to solve the infield unless somebody gets moved. And it sounds like that's not on the top of the agenda. Feels like somebody's going to get moved, but the guys you would like to move the most have the least value. I mean, that's just kind of how it goes. Right. And there's your news and new, man. Thank you very much. Appreciate that very much.

Let's go to the phones next. We'll talk to Steve and the James. And also coming up at 150, we've got, believe it or not today, 713-212-5-790. And we have an NFL media type, respected, who I respect a lot. Yes. Really overselling the Texans offense because, he loves the defense so much believe me

or not he broke down the tape he's a tape breaker did you break the tape down duh you got the all 22 I'm the Texas Insider all right

1213 on sports talk 790 1219 Matt and Ross with you on this sports talk 790 if you listen to the show about an hour ago

you know what today's topic and believe it or not is we cannot tell it again but it's very easy I think it's easy right Yeah, you've got to get three in a row correct, though, to win these things. And it's simply there, yeah, that's all I can say.

It's NBA related. It's about a rocket's opponent, but that's it. 713-212-790, 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Steve wants to talk about the Astros here on 790. Steve, good afternoon. Do you thank you for holding? Good afternoon, guys. You know, you guys earlier were talking about bad-tasting beer.

Have you guys ever tried slits? Yes, it's a malt kick-up. I've never I've heard of them but I never had it yeah it's malt liquor it's not even really a beer it's terrible

oh my god it's horrible my grandfather used to drink it and that was my first experience with beer and I don't drink beer since so

yeah that's a wise decision of your part I want to ask you a question about the Astros uh Dana Brown he came from the Braves correct correct

and Blue Jay's background two pirates I want to say too right during all the time he's got multiple teams but most sure went on Why did it let – well, why did Atlanta get rid of him? Dan didn't get rid of him. He took the job here.

He got a promotion here. Well, I have to tell you some. I'm not very impressed with Dana Brown at all. I think if I gave him a grade, I'd give him about a C-minus. I'm just not impressed. Why do you get rid of Dubon? I understand he was owed some money, but you bring in a guy that's batting 212. and is, I just don't understand the logic there to bring this type of guy in when you had

Dubon, which probably would have given us a home-down discount because he seemed to be a great guy and wanted to be here. He was in arbitration. It wasn't a matter of hometown discount. Yeah. There was no, he was going to be under a salary arbitration situation. Let me give you the reasons, and you can either accept or deny them depending on your opinion. number one

they were looking to shave some payroll there's no if, answer buts about that number two Not Dana Brown's call by the way No number two They had a congested infield to begin with And so to this point Steve you would know

It's still congested Number three Dubon playing Five to six days a week Like a lot of people want Would give you negative offensive production Now do I appreciate his

versatility? Yes Do I appreciate his clubhouse demeanor and leader leadership, absolutely. But the reality is you can shave payroll, you got an already congested infield, and you're going to eventually lose him because he's not going to give you a hometown discount. Players don't give hometown discounts anymore. And there's only a certain perceived value for a utility guy. And it just kind of made sense. I'm not in love with the deal, but by no means am I going, what the hell are they doing? It doesn't make Dana Brown a bad general manager because

he moved a utility infielder. No, I understand that. But, I mean, would you rather have Dubon or Jose in left field? It'd be Dubon. Steve, again, this was for payroll shaving. Dana Brown is under instructions from Jim Crane to what the payroll is. If the payroll can only be a certain amount and he needs to shave money, he's got to do it some way. That's why he moved Dubon. Okay.

That's not Dana Brown saying, you know what? Yeah, it was a money share. That was a bad deal. Yes, it was. Yeah, it was a bad deal. Yeah. It was a bad deal. Yeah.

Every, I mean, we like the deal at the time it was made. I mean, it was, the Kyle Tucker deal was good. Yeah. I mean, Paredes, I mean, it was very surprising this year until he got hurt. I was very impressed with him. And Cam Smith did okay in certain spots. Cam Smith was still a plus player at the end of the day because how good his defense was. And honestly, you.

If you say Kukuchi doesn't pitch for the Astros two years ago, they don't win the West. They needed him a starting rotation. So you give up literally nothing in return. Yeah. I mean, there's, look, nobody's going to bat a thousand, Steve. And I understand it. But I don't think C minus is a fair grade for him at all. Is it an A?

No, but it's not a C minus. Yeah. I mean, I think of finding a lot of the pitchers that they were able to find and contribute last year. Here's the one trouble spot I still have. Okay. Myeling system is still terrible. it's and unless unless you want to tell me and i'm sure i can get a general manager tell me it takes five to ten years but man it has been bad it continues to be a sore spot because you can't trade

prospects you don't have any all your top guy yeah you have to trade away prospects and all the top guys are dana brownie acquisitions they just aren't you know there you have guys who are like fringe top hundred guys you just don't have top 20 guys who are going to come up and be actual impact players but everybody up there is basically last i checked like all the top five guys or so are recent and the reality is of dana brown jake um jacob mountain is was considered a high-end prospect for the team he's here brice matthews considered a super high prospect he was here for a while cam smith was a first round pick of the chicago cubs and you and he's here uh yonick is a a catcher that's probably in waiting

to eventually replace Janir Diaz if Diaz stays with the team or he gets moved to a different position. Probably first base. Miguel Uyola has been in the system since before Dana Brown got here, but he's a top guy. But he's been a minor leagueer for a long time.

He's 23 years old. I think he's going to factor in next year. Yeah, I think so. I think so, too. No, if you need, and I'm not talking about just the one caller, every general manager can't bet a thousand

you think Jeff Linot bad at a thousand he didn't bat a thousand he traded for Mike Fires and Carlos Gomez that one the one Josh Hader was involved in that trade it hadn't been it was Milwaukee was involved in it somehow so no in every

free agent acquisition now have the team been hurt by some of their moves look the Jose Obrayue deal horrendous That wasn't Dana Brown though No, I'm talking about just in the organization in general That was El Hefe That was the second greatest astro of all time

The greatest astro of all time With of course Jose Altuve being the most beloved astro of all time Postseason part of the grade In attendance Actually Jeff played a lot So that's actually part of it too No, okay back to it Raphael Montero

that was pre-Dana but when you pay money to players it means other players are not getting money or you can't trade them because you have to send them salary back I mean it is what it is. And the fact the matter is I don't think Dana Brown would be probably leading the Justin Verlander

coming back to the Astros for a 19th time but Jim Cran likes him. Dana Brown has made three first round picks according to MLB Pipeline. Yes, sir. Those three are three of the top four prospects for the Astros. And you kind of have to, don't think? I mean, maybe.

It's like when Rick Smith was a general manager of the Texans. Oh, he handed the first round pink. Well, duh, you're supposed to. Yeah, you're supposed to, but first round picks miss every year. That they do. By the way, I didn't realize that having the Pope behind you gave you the first overall pick in the draft. Chicago White Sox won the draft lottery yesterday. Wow.

He's a White Sox fan, too. Of course Not of course He could be a Cubs fan If he wanted to be You could have chose sides So he went south side South side

South side South side South side Are you okay Yeah fine The MTBot is malfunctioning I hear that song At every Rockets game

Before the game starts It's a little Kiki classic Matt That's what I'm saying you hear Is that song on my phone Yes or no No Okay

Give me another time I want to hear you No no no no No no no A little Kiki The Don Mattie Come on now But he's a South Sider.

Yeah. And the White Sox got the number one pick. I think the Astros had a 0.3% chance. Didn't get it. Oh, well. That's a shame. All right. 1227 and is the Matt Thomas show.

Ross 713-212-579. And we return. We have found the person that I respect a lot on television that is trying to sell you the offense because the Texas defense is so good. Is that fair? Yes. I think it's an oversell.

No, you're oversell. I think you're overssell. I think you're overselling. I think you're a Texan's hater Matt and you can't handle some praise. Let me tell you. You say you respect to you. I am a Texan.

I am a respectful Dan Orlovsky. And I am a Texan's realist. If Dan Orlovsky would have said, I'm not a bootlicker that goes to Texans and ask dumb-ass questions, say, can you come on my YouTube page, please? Dan Orlowski's not a Texan's bootlicker? Yeah, no. He calls it how he sees it and you say you like his analysis.

I do like his analysis. If you had said the Texans offense sucks, you would have said it's brilliant analysis, but since he says they're good and your Texans hater Matt, Now you're upset. People respect me because I'm a realist. And I'm the insider. I told you about Joe Mixon many, many weeks ago.

By the way, when's he coming back? No, bootlicker, it's not. He tweeted that Ian Rapporte didn't know who he was talking about. How's that going? Suck it. That's what he's saying. Shut your bum ass up. Matt and Ross with you on Sports Talk 790.

How are you? I was flying by, by the way. We'd have a good time. I know. All right. You're doing great. I didn't ask how I was doing. I mean, I appreciate the faint praise.

That's what's faint. I just said you're doing great at least six times a week. Some people can't accept the copy. Jonathan, have you heard him say you're doing great at least three times a week? Yes. Maybe you could pay maybe six times a week. He's saying you look great. It's not genuine.

What are you talking about? You're doing what, but I mean, what's wrong with that? Just say, it's a spectacular. It's a pleasure working with you. You're doing a fantastic. I've learned so much of you. Much fantastico. I've learned some what to do and some what not to do.

Oh, my God. Terrible. All right. Dan Olofsky, respect it. I do like him because he's not a bunch of hot air. He is going to tell us right now about how much he respects the Texans' offense. And I think he's doing it just to overcompensate. Oh, please.

Here's the thing. What? Go ahead. That girl loves you. Okay. She cooks your meals She gets your dry cleaning for you Okay, Mr. Anology

Stay with me on this She's She understands you need your brozine out once a week She understands date night She watches sports with you Okay You mean you think she's fantastic She's the bee's knees

But she's missing four teeth And her nose is too big What if you're into that Who's in the missing teeth and big noses? I don't know teach his own That's not a genre A genre of what

Matt Of what you want from a woman It's just not And the You're sick So okay What does this have to do With what Dan Oolowski has to say

By the Texas Can you please tie this in Here it is This is an overselling Of the Texans offense Here comes Just listen to it Oh my God

So last week It was the pocket movement By CJ And this is not just last week but it's been their trend for a couple weeks now. It's their sixth offensive lineman offense. Okay, so it's not just their run game. But I do like the fact that it's allowing them to be somewhat efficient in their run game.

Six offensive linemen, Blake Fisher, the second year player from Notre Dame comes in for the titan position. I think it allows the double teams to be a little bit more sound, them to at least get the run started. That's been a huge deal. This past week, they implemented a little bit more of the play action stuff. Why does that matter? because then one, you can block a defensive end one-on-one with the tight end, that sixth tackle, and then that shores up the five offensive linemen

essentially blocking only three defensive linemen gives you the chance to push the ball downfield. And this is an offense that doesn't need to be explosive all the time. It doesn't need to create a ton of big plays. It just can't be negative play dominant. I think that kind of core part of who they are offensively at least gives plays the chance to get started and then some shots down the field

CJ's a good enough player to make up for the other parts. I think their offense is good enough to make a playoff run. Okay. That's and then ends it with a playoff run. Well, of course they're good enough to make a playoff run. They're going to be in the playoffs. He means a playoff run as in a run in the playoffs. I think that's what.

Okay. So is that one victory? Is that two? I don't think one's a victory. I don't think one's a run. Two is a run. So we need to pull Dan Orlovsky aside and say, are the Texans going to the AFC championship game?

I mean, there's a possibility. I need, they need to not be in the seven seed. They need to get out of the seven seat for me to predict that. If they get out of this. So let me ask you this. So is it because you're afraid of New England? Here's the reason why I think we're afraid of New England. We don't know enough about New England.

We don't watch Patriot games. Do you think we need to start? I know that Drake May is having a fantastic season. I know from a fantasy perspective he's killing it for me. He's not thrown for a lot of yards, but he also can make plays with his legs. Doesn't turn the ball over very much. And that has given the Texans fits. previously. I mean, he gives

every defensive coordinator against fits. Nobody likes a quarterback that can win with with his feet. Okay. So I think I've got to do my personal job. I got to watch a Patriots game. Okay. Because I don't...

Let's go. Break it out, Maddie. I know what Denver is. Okay. Middling offense. Outstanding defense. Jacksonville, fraudulent. Franklin, both ends in the field, but probably less fraudulent on the defensive side. Ooh, Stefan Diggs' revenge. game.

The Cardi B game. Cardi B is not going to be there. You don't know that. She probably gets 50 yard line seats. She could. And if it's 12 degrees with blowing snow, she'll be in the suite. Yeah.

Okay. 700 yards for Stefan Diggs. Three tuddies. I don't think he's thinking revenge. He didn't leave here because he didn't like it. He just got a deal he couldn't refuse, and it turned out of be really well for him. Okay

Okay, so you When you say they're going to make a run You think he's thinking two He's thinking an EFC championship game I think making a run would be winning two playoff games, right? Yes, compared to what it's been I mean, one and done, I mean, two and done, we were used to that Yes

Get the division around and then So you will decide What the Texans do based up with their seating And that's not out of the arm, right? I think it would be a lot more difficult to go on the road to New England and on the road of Denver to make an AFC championship game than to go on to Jacksonville. Let's say they sneak into the...

And then probably Pittsburgh. Let's say they sneak into the AFC play... They win the AFC South. Okay. And let's say that that would be the three-seed. Right now, Jaguars are a three-seed. Yeah, if they get a home game, who's a six right now in the AFC? Buffalo Bills.

I'm glad I'm glad a little bit paused They didn't beat the bills at home They literally did it with Davis Mills Buffalo v Houston in Houston You would take the Texans to win Houston Texans Okay let's go What's up?

Okay I'll let you boy Ain't scared Ain't scared of nobody in the USC You know who's scared of playing in Houston's Josh Allen He said terrible games here He has a history of him He's going to have another one coming

There you go You got to be fired up Robert, 790 and 1239. Robert, thank you for holding a good afternoon. Hey, this is Robert from Cyprus. I want to talk about the offensive line. I don't know what we got to do. I know it's too late to get him to pick anybody up,

but you think Jake Andrews, man, the center is good for the playoff and good for the end of the season, maybe even possible for the next season. Or we're going to have to draft the left tack. Definitely got to draft the left tack on a center, you know. And they need guard help, too. Yeah, I would say, Robert, they should go all in on nothing but offensive alignments for the first five rounds. Yeah, but Nick Casario has picked the lineman. He picked Ersery.

He picked Blake Fisher. He picked Juice Grugs. Blake Fisher thumbs down, man. Come on, man. Yeah, I'm saying, yeah. But Nick Casario picked all these guys in the draft. He tried to address offensive line. He just failed.

Ed Ingram has been very good. Ersery's been okay. Don't go by Serial. Go about what you think to improve this line. That's what I'm asking. Yeah, they need help at tackle garden center.

Well, I understand it, but who? Who should they get? We don't know that. I mean, when I'm going to break down? Yeah, we don't know. I don't know who's coming out. Trevor Goosby. I'm going to go with Haymore.

Haymore Miller. Okay, what about the left? What about the left guard for Penn State? Fantastic. Okay, we'll keep guessing the whole year then. No, it's not our job. We're not looking at offensive linemen for Penn State yet. That's our draft season.

We are draft NICs, but we're still in the middle of the season. Yeah, we're going to get the playoffs. The season's not over, Robert. And you want draft picks? You want draft analysis, Robert? Are you demanding draft analysis? Four weeks plus playoffs, and then the Super Bowl to watch, and then you want draft picks right now?

Right now? No, no. I'm not saying get a draft pick. I said, who's looking good so far to kind of get rid of. I will run through some names for you. Oh, my God. Let me give you some names. You want to bring you the top tackles?

What do you want? All right, let me give you some names. Oh, dear, here we go. What do you? What do you mean? Here we go. Go ahead. I think Bobby Womek out of Miami's looking pretty good.

All right. There's a guy named Richard Cunningham. He plays at Wisconsin. Uh-huh. Excellent. Number one. Uh-huh. Number two.

I'm going to go with Sam Malone, Boston College. I think Larry David's been looking pretty good. You saw a lot of his tape, right, man? A lot of his tape. I don't, I don't, I don't, I, I never want to curb his enthusiasm for the game in the game of sport. I'm going to go, oh, there's a guy that plays at Rutgers, a George Costanza. He is amazing. Uh-huh.

Sometimes he gets upset, and I heard he likes his chicken spicy. Yeah, and he was once a hand model. He's got a lot of tenacity. He's crafty as well. But don't catch him out of the pool. No. He can shrink in the cold. Yeah, we've had a lot of offensive linemen for the Texans shrink up here.

All right, that's enough. Take a break. Let me tell you something. We apologize for that. No, I'm not sorry. No, but, I mean, come on. We're not doing that. First of all, our audience couldn't name five linemen.

Second of all, we will have people on that we'll discuss it when the time is appropriate. Rossi, last time I was show, we got four games left in the season, correct? Yes. And at least one playoff game. Well, there's not a lot of linemen at the top of this board, the PFF board of them pulling up. I like the PFF board. They don't have any linemen like in the top 15, not offensive linemen. They have defensive, a lot of defensive linemen, a lot of edge rushers in the top 20.

Spencer Fanon, tackle, out of Utah. Oh, they think the Utah tackles are both supposed to be good. Are they declaring or, you know, they're on by private equity now. That life could change really quick. Oh, gosh. Private equity, getting into college football. What could go wrong? Nothing.

Utah's got zero issues with it. They have just, what they basically said is college athletics is a business now. That is. And you can, by the way, if you're a Utah alum or you just love Utah, you can invest in it. You can buy it in the private equity company. I'm sorry. I'm trying to look at specifically Penn State linemen now. Where's Todd McShed?

Wait, he got to let go, right? Yeah. Is there any NFL draft analysis? I mean, focused primarily on offensive linemen? Hmm. I can't think of anybody. Anybody come to mind for you?

Oh, I think NFL.com's Lance Earline. Hadn't heard of him. Oh, okay. Is he new? No, he's been there for some time. Okay. Does a good job. All right?

We should get him on the show then. Francis Maya Yoga. Miami. Tackle. Spencer Fano, Utah tackle Caleb Lomu, Utah tackle I'll put it this way, let's make a nice generic statement

Utah win more games I got two of the top tackles in the country If the Texans do not draft an offensive line in the first round All right Battle Red, you're done with him That's not true No, it absolutely is true

When I chose to be a Texans fan When I chose to be Battle Red Ross First of all is because you've got to let go with the Oilers I mean Frank Whitechack ain't in the league no more I let them go, but I let them go a long time ago. Second of all, that's, I choose allegiances for life. I'm no half-ass fan, okay?

I suffer, I was watching Longhorn Basketball versus Southern on Monday, okay? To my own detriment. Why the hell would I do that? That makes you borderline pitiful. Why am I watching Kindleweaver? I'm going to watch my Cougars play Jackson State tonight. Whatever. 41-point favorites.

I'm Battle Red Rock. I'm not hopping off the bandwagon for sweater v. Casario or anybody. Once they got rid of Jack Easterbeat, that's when I was like, you know what, let's do it. I never was there. I know. All right. And I will be there once we go to the Super Bowl for a week of shows. Actually, I won't be there,

but you'll be there. Can we afford to go? Could be going this year. Where is it? Santa Clara? Ooh. Early. There's no way you're doing the show. You can't get up that early. Where am I getting to San Jose? You can't get to. It's two hours early. You can't do a short of in the morning. You have a tough enough time at 10. That's fine.

Are you sure? I could make it. You hear that, Gordy? I did the Super Bowl. Shut your bum ass up. When the Super Bowl was in Indianapolis, I was working 14 hour days. I was there at 6.8. That's Eastern Time Zone. I was still there, though. You're not doing a short night of o'clock in the morning. I guess it was 7 o'clock. I was there for the morning show, booking guests. So shut your bum ass up. I wasn't just doing the show. They had better guess than we did. I was carrying your show. I was booking guests in the morning. And then I was working

booking guests at night. So yeah, I can do it for a week. now you asked me to do it for a year that's a difference that's a different and it's amazing you did all this with a violin on your back it's really crazy set these fine jewelry and I'm gonna get you some fine jewelry for all your hard work during that Super Bowl week

you should do some pinky rings pip flap you know what that was rude that was yeah say you're sorry I'm sorry thank you thank you says if Jeremiah Love was available

would you take him as a first round pick? That's a running back that probably is the highest rated. Am I correct on that? I don't know. Some people have him top... I think he's like top five on some people's boards. Well, then that one, the Texas would not be in that spot. No. But, I mean, running back slip relative...

Everything's relative to position. Usually, like, a quarterback's five or ten, and they go one or two because... Right. Is what you need. Relative to position. So, I did say, You need to get rid of battle red if they don't take an offensive line.

What if Love was there? You needed running back. Yes. And you need it cheap. Yes. Because you're going to be spending money on some quarterback and defensive end before you know it. I mean, serious money. I am philosophically against taking.

It would be a sexier selection for the fans, but you shouldn't be doing it for the fans. ESPN's got him number one on the board. All right, he ain't going to be there. So this is the moot conversation. Yeah, don't think about it. Okay. Wow. That's pretty crazy.

PFF has him number six on the board. And we know that Casero doesn't have an attendance. Well, he did move up to get Will Anderson, so. Yeah. Although Hannah said you're getting a quarterback too, so you can go get Will Anderson. You're going to get me a quarterback, too. Can you trade up for Kenyon Green? Oh, God.

I'm saying, do we need him to be picking offensive linemen? Let somebody else pick the O lineman. How do you do that? How do you? Now, this is not Caldoug. It's kind of know where he is. Does Hannah say, let me see. Like, for instance, I'll let you do your job, but I need to look over it first.

No, Hannah's not breaking down offensive line tape. She doesn't know anything about that. What's you're going to say? No, no. Nick writes his board, gets his board. Oh, here we go. And then Hannah comes in and says, you need to take. that number one guy and move him down to the four move four up to one no no she's not she's

she's not breaking down Utah tackle tape then who do you trust you have to trust your guy guys miss on picks I mean if we could made way in one position every year though what if we wave the magic wand and Ken young green was a hit and Blake Fisher was a hit and Arionte Ursy was a hit this team would be winning a Super Bowl they're tried they just have failed okay well if we're gonna do that then let's make Joe Mixin healthy yeah Let's have Stefan Day. Oh, Tank Dell hasn't had back-to-back season into your injuries. Yeah, you get Joe Mixing and then three hits on the offensive line and the draft?

Yeah, we're winning the Super Bowl. That's funny. Let's go. And I think Kansas City would have three of their linemen not hurt. They would love to they'd be the Super Bowl. Well, you're just creating stuff. I'm just saying. If Nick Casary were good at picking offensive linemen, this team would be in a good spot.

We're going to, in the start of the final hour of the show, I have a quote that I just saw from, and I can't even say who it's from because it'll help you give away. it's a it's a quote discussing a man's future with a with his job okay that makes sense to you i will read you evocca and marcus freeman yeah i'll give him whatever he wants it could be i'm going to read you a quote okay from a man about his future okay and i want you to see if you can figure out who i'm speaking of don't look at twitter during the break i okay it's not breaking it's just something i just happened to see that i thought was very intriguing and the person that got this quote, you and I both follow.

So that's why I don't you're looking. Okay. Believe it or not today, believe it or not today, is highly Googledable. Oh, I got to do that. But yeah, that'd take you two minutes. I'll knock it out in five seconds. You can't. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90.

There is someone that would like to retire with the organization in which he's currently with right now. We'll take who that is next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Yes. 102 on Sports Talk 790. All right, Rossi, time to play. Guess who said it?

Okay. I cannot tell you who got the quote because it'll give it away. Here it is. Okay. Blank and I had the conversations that we would like to retire here. Oh, I know who said this.

I saw this earlier. Oh, damn it. Go ahead. That's our goal. The way we're going to be able to do that is to put a good team together, win, get deep in the postseason, and our contracts will take care of itself. So you really already saw that. Okay, that ruins it there. The answer is that's Dana Brown speaking to Channel Rome about Joe Espada and Dana Brown's contract status, which they are both in the final year of their contracts.

Yes. They're in lame duck deals. I'm going to go look at the responses that the channel received off of this tweet. Okay. Well, you're going to have to make the playoffs. Yes. That's kind of, it's a little bit of an obvious one. Is he aware that the last two guys did all those things and still got fired?

One guy won a World Series and got fired. Yeah, I mean. Poor James Click. And then you had, Rusty. Is he still with the Jays? He got interviews, right? Yes. Did he land anywhere?

I said, I don't know. Next. No, he's still with the Blue Jace. Get ready for those 100 lost seasons. Hey, come on now. And one, some guy, Dana has diarrhea of the mouth. Nobody should listen to anything he says to the media. That's tough, man.

What's wrong with that person? You know what? Come on mute that person. Is that on Twitter? He follows me. I'm going to find that person and mute them. All right. Nobody's got time for this negativity.

Here is who he is right. there. I mean, you can give your opinion, but calling somebody a diarrhea of the mouth that seemed hard. That's a little much. I, if I'm Dana, I mean,

if I'm Danes, if I'm an astrophanist thing, I believe that. I don't, I don't think he's trying, he's not trying to leverage himself against other cities. And what else is he's going to say? Yeah. Well, he could tell us to say I'm not, worried about it. But when somebody says I want to retire here, that means I'm pretty happy and that I like the situation. I mean, look, Dana was a lieutenant for a very long period of time. He has the control of the baseball office. Now, does he have 100% full control because the

owner likes to get involved? My answer would probably know to that. But I also think that most owners just don't ever say, hey, wait me up when you make a big trade. I think most owners, some more than others, but I think most of them generally speaking, like to check in with a general manager and a fairly regular basis to say, hey, what's going on in the world? What's a hot stove? How hot is it right now? Yeah, something like to metal. And it seems like Jim Crane likes to metal.

And Dana Brown gets the weekly email. How can we get Justin Verlander back? Then they try to figure out. Again, I'm just going to gloss a paint with a broad brush here. What has Jim absolutely wanted that he got, that maybe pushed through more so than another owner would do? his affinity for Justin Verlander But that has paid off

Yes Okay Justin Verlinder has been a winner For the Houston Astros Period Just Jim wanted Josh Hader

Jose Abraeu He wanted Jose Abraeu He wanted Montero deal He wanted to run the baseball ops With his lieutenants Not a leader He was in no hurry

To get a general manager And I think they paid the price for that. The Abrae U deal and the Montero deal. And he also hired a general manager and Dana that had never been in charge before. So it wasn't like you were hiring Theo Epstein to come in here that said, you stay out of this. I'm the general manager. I'll make your profits.

I'll build you a good baseball team, but I don't need you involved. I think that Jim was going to hire a general manager that was going to allow him to peek in the room once in a while. And I don't get the impression that Jim, like Jim is by no means of Jerry. Jones. He's been compared to Jerry Jones by some, but I would agree that that's an unfair comparison. Yeah. But he medals. Yeah, but Rossi, if I'm an owner of a team, I'm meddling to.

He doesn't meddle with the Rockets. He's involved. You don't think Patrick and who's not running things is not involved in the United. Cal is not meddling with anything. No, Cal's not meddling. He doesn't even know. That's an exception. You're right about that.

But most owners should, if I owned a sports franchise, I don't hire baseball people I try He didn't meddle He meddles more now With James Click and Dana Brown Than he did with Jeff Luno Well Part of that is because he also watched a

A cheating scandal I guess he didn't It was either turned blind eye Or didn't know about it at all And he's like I can't let that happen again Correct I'm sure he feels burned by that Yeah No I will not

Ever tell an owner to stay out of it I didn't say that Now you have to have smart Now I'm not saying as you did But you have to have you have to give the people, your lieutenant, you've got to give them a little bit of leeway in space. And you, I mean, you tell me,

I think the Kyle Tucker trade had to go through Jim, as it should. Yeah. But if going to get Hesu Sanchez, the trade deadline, I don't think Jim was like knocking down the door. No, I think so. He was involved in the Romo and Urius deal. But as you said, the Hater deal, I'm sure he had to approve that because it put you into the love.

luxury tax. The Kyle Tucker deal, I'm not saying it was his idea, but maybe like, hey, how can we get something back? Kyle's giving us no indication he wants to come back. We're not paying Kyle Tucker, so we've got to figure this out and got good return on that for the most part. I mean, we need Canada manager-leager for sure, but the parade's deal until he got hurt was that was a huge win for the team because Kyle's not by any means guaranteed

to save with Chicago Cubs. How do you feel if you're the Chicago Cubs right now? Are you wigging out that Kyle Tucker's not coming back to you? that one season and done for all that what you gave up that's tough what's the name of the the GM over there um all right well I'm thinking of Jed Hoyer it basically seemed like a desperation move to get into the playoffs and it worked yes but not all the way job yeah that's he made that deal to make the team more competitive to get them into the playoffs to save his job and they won 92 games so I don't know how much he's regretting it cam smith was good for the Astros but is he looking like future Hall of Famer right now nope Not after the start of the season. Esoc Paredes was good. You got the pitcher who got hurt. He was also hurt.

What was that? Not Arrogati. It was, um, Hayden Wiseneski. Wasnesey, great front of the show. Hayden Wazneski ripped his arm in half. Isaac Paredes missed a lot of games. And then Cam Smith petered out by the end of the season. So, I mean, it was a good trade for the Astros. The upside is, especially if Kyle does not save with Chicago, the upside's on the Astro side.

The Astros have a chance, we'll have a chance to win that trade. It will not take much. Because of the fact that if Kyle leaves, first of all, Kyle was brought there to take the Cubs of the World Series and didn't even get there. And if Kyle leaves, you're holding your hand with, I guess you offered a qualifying offer, right? You get a draft big, yeah. But that's. So I don't mind that my general manager, like, I like it here.

I want to stay here. I like my parameters. And again, it could be lip service because, you know, When you're down to zero years left in your contract, you're going to say things. But it could have been a lot different. He could have been, you know, I'm not worried about my future. He said the opposite. I'd love to stay.

I'd love for Joe and I to retire here. He's not going to say, yeah, it sucks here. I'm saving my money. He could have said is, I'm going to kick some butt this year. I'm going to win us 95 games and I'm going to go find me a better job. Don't say that. They're not winning 95 games. You don't know that.

Okay, let's bet. I'm not going to tell you we're no more. bets in 2026. No more vets? You're done. Come on. No, we're done. You're going to, well, you lost the seven and a half.

You owe me a deli lunch. That's fine. Yeah. You know what? You know what? I don't have to cash that in right now. You're a little hungry. Stomach's a growl.

I don't have any cash. That's fine. They close it too, so yeah, I get a quick. No, I can make it too. No, he can do it. I got some leftover spaghetti I made. Homemade sauce? Absolutely.

Made it from scratch. I didn't crush my own tomatoes, but then I made it from scratch. It's funny. I had a homemade, I had a chef come to the house yesterday. Oh, really? His name was Boyardee. Oh. Ah, I love him. Yeah. Filarious. That's another thing. One of the things we don't eat anymore

is a kid, I used to eat canned spaghetti all the time. I got sick like that. Make your own sauce, Matt. So I'll get you my recipe. I'll bring you some sauce? Please. I want to eat it all. That's fine. I might bring you a little bit. Thank you. I'll bring you a little taste of my sauce.

Others have tasted your sauce before. They love it. Some says a little bitter. No, I've always heard brave reviews. Very chunky at times, too. 1-11 is sometimes your sauce is too chunky. No, I think it's rather smooth. Flavorful.

Okay, we need you to call the show because he's going down a road I don't want to go to. Herbaceous. All right. 7. Full of nutrient. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5. It's your fault.

This is your fault. I didn't do anything except talking about your sauce. 713-212-5-7-90. Still to come, do we play the Dan Oloffsky? Did we play the audio? Yeah, he was loving on him. We got that, taking care of. We got Dana at the general manager meetings.

We have the Brett Yourmark, the 80 at, oh, let's play that again coming back, because that's worthy of playing. Notre Dame probably isn't going to be going to the Big 12 anytime soon. We'll explain that coming back in a minute. 112 on Sports Talk 790. It is 118 on Sports Talk 790. Here's Brett Yormark, basically telling Notre Dame Ethan director Pete Bevalakwa to shut his bum ass up.

And I'm a little outspoken about it. I don't like how Notre Dame's reacted to it. So, okay, I think Pete's, his behavior has been egregious. It's been egregious going after Jim Phillips when they saved Notre Dame during COVID. We all knew, and it was very transparent, Hunter was very transparent about it, the chair, that as Notre Dame and Miami got closer together, head-to-head would be a factor. Okay, BYU lost. They became closer together, head-to-head, and made a difference in that decision.

So I think he is totally out of bounds in his approach, and he was in the room, I'd tell him the same thing. shit your bum ass up man and if I call you again you tell me no to Notre Dame and the Big 12 I'm going to say more disparaging things about you I'm just guessing that was I don't know that for sure and it doesn't sound like

Notre Dame's coming to the Big 12 Matthew isn't that funny as floated out by certain locked on members yeah does Notre Dame wake up to this and say I got to join a conference or like we're freaking Notre Dame

it feels like their opinion of themselves is significantly higher than the rest of America. Well, yeah, but not necessarily higher than the CFP. They got their little sweetheart deal now. Yeah, for those who don't know, next year, if they're in the top 12, they automatically get an at-large spot. They could put, so if we apply that rule to this year, yes.

They would leapfrog Miami who beat them head-to-head. Yes. And that would cause another controversy. Yes, and then Miami would be all upset. And Miami has a great argument. Yeah, I mean, look, nobody's going to be happy. But at least we're talking about 11 and 12 rather than 5 or 3. We're going to 16.

It's going to happen. And 17 and 18 is going to be a very, very minimal conversation. 20 might happen. The 20 format would be, would it be double buys as well? I would presume so. If you're not going 1V16, you're going to have to have double buys. Yeah. I mean, did your marks just speak on that because he was just question asked and answered?

Or was he saying, I've got a little message I want to send out there? It was probably asked to him, I think. But I don't know about that for a fact. But he didn't call a special session like people of aqua did. No, he was definitely asked about it. I'm just curious if when you get asked a question, you can sometimes give out some extra meetings. He had to be prepared for that question. Of course he did, you know.

Hmm. Hmm. If you're in Notre Dame, did the ACC hurt your feeling so bad through their Twitter account run by a 23-year-old? Oh, my God. Seriously. And the ACC Network, which no one watches. I mean, fewer people watch ACC Network

than even the Longhorn Network. We know nobody watched that. Longhorn Network had some bangers. Really? Yeah. What was his best show? U.S.C. Texas replay. Yes, that was number one.

And bacon pie with Sally. Sometimes they would put on the 2008 Fiesta Bowl. Juan Cosby from Colt McCoy, late touchdown in that one. High Dramatics. They put that Texas Houston CBI game on? They would put the two, no, when Prince eBay missed like 50 free throws and then Texas lost. No, that was not awesome. Loved it.

And then Kevin Eshenfelter was talking trash to me about U of H basketball. I was like they had made the final four since I was born, but now they have. Yeah, we're regular participant. now. Yeah, well, regular. I'm getting so much grief from my U of H people like, hey, you're going to go to the championship. I'm like, I guess I could go, but it would be

Oh, you got to go. Are you sure? Yeah, they can't lose it again. They can't choke like that again. I mean, that was heartbreaking. I would have to be You can get a shot off. That's got to hurt.

I would be in San Francisco on Sunday. The Monday championship game would be in Indianapolis. I got to be Tuesday in Phoenix Yeah it's like a it's like a latent connection Alright I'm gonna tell you this right now I went from Chicago to Orlando to Houston on a connection I'll tell you right now I'm taking those days off if it happens

I guess I I burnt the candle on both ends too bad by doing the show and doing it I mean I'll call it in Yeah we'll be fine Okay you meet me there meet you in Indianapolis That's where it is that's a great I can I love Indianapolis Great city. I mean, I know Mark Sanchez doesn't like it, but I think it's great. He likes a little too much. Yeah. He's having a ball over there.

Too much. A ball of knives. Caust him a job. Drew Brees didn't seem to mind. No, Drew's like, thanks for the opportunity, bro. By the way, I sent a text to a national sports broadcaster, hoping to get him on the show. Yes? I sent one to him several weeks ago,

didn't get it returned. Okay. I have sent another one to the same exact person at 1217. That was an hour and six minutes ago and no return there.

How does this make you feel, Matt? Not TikTok, I don't know. I'm sorry. And this person is a fellow radio host, too. Usually radio guys take care of radio guys. Let me tell you something.

I have never flat out out. Go ahead. White lives. Save lives. You know what? We need to find like a lie. Matt is lying sounder.

I didn't finish my stay. Yeah, that's good. You didn't lie. I was like, I was close to lying to y'all. I will say this. This is the honest truth. 97% of the interviews that I've asked for, I do. Same.

If I can make it. Yeah. And if in it in, yeah. Usually when I say no, it's, I always like to reschedule or I'm in. flight or something like that but yeah you're very busy man i get it i almost said 100% of the time but that's not true yeah i know that's okay 97% is pretty good that's really good compared amazing but i mean at least send me a return text like no go to hell but i mean i feel stupid that's how i felt about steve tasker who thought he people thought he was dead until he went on twitter and said

no i'm here well that's a shame all right uh 713 212 5 790 what do you want to get to the next half hour we got we got one more incredible segment of content content content than we have, I believe it or not, after that. We have the rotten five tomorrow. It's your second and the last rotten five of the year. I'll give you a hint who's going to be the last. Wait, no idea. No, you can't be.

No. Oh, I know who the new Rotten Five is. Think so? It's the team that they beat. Could be. They were four. Does losing to the Titans bump you all the way down to one? We'll find out tomorrow.

And by the way, did you read so much this past weekend? Yeah. Was it not awesome watching Cincinnati Buffalo in that snowstorm? Was it not fun watching Tennessee, Cleveland in that snowstorm? It wasn't a snowstorm. It was a dusting. It was like a couple inches. So, yeah.

It was raining in Jacksonville, although they were worried about it, lightning and wind delays. They didn't have any of that. They played the full game. Yeah, they can handle a couple inches in Buffalo. That's why you have to avoid Texans and Patriots. England because they're putting that bad boy on at night. The NFL loves it cold, and they want the weather to absolutely play a factor. Yeah.

And you'd win a bet. I don't remember what we bet, though. We looked it up yesterday. It was just, I think, just a gentleman's. Just gentlemen's Brockadocious bet. That's good. I'd rather lose those. You have 3.30 and I have the field.

Yes. If it's the Texan Jaguars, you win. I have 3.30 and no playoffs. That's fine. Yeah. Yeah, if it's Texan Jaguars, you're winning. That thing won't even be on Netflix. I need Texans Jags.

It'll be on the Hallmark channel. I need me some Texans Jags. Texans Pats are going to be playing at night. Either Monday night or Sunday night. Or Saturday. It's Saturday.

Texan Steelers? 3.30. Texans Ravens. 330. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens if they sneak into the playoffs somehow. Any game in Houston is 3.30.

Oh, yeah. Because the weather is going to be. No one will make a difference. That's some, okay. Yeah, they could win the division and cow will be calling the league because you know cal's bedtimes on saturday this is one of our better bets 50 50 it is it's true all right uh we have one more segment if you'd like to join in join us on anything that it's uh we've actually gone to the pulpery of topics today we've given you

some dana brown yes we gave you some uh dan oolovsky we've given you uh some college football is the thing else we're missing so far texans are back on the practice field right now yes and uh what's uh what's our texans insider adam wexer have to say about uh he's our reporter He is there shooting videos of running backs I've never heard of before my life. Oh, I got one for you. This is an NFL. Is there a slight going on in Indianapolis? A slight.

Explain. When we come back. 128 on Sports Talk 790. 132 Sports Talk 790. This is a Matt Thomas show with Ross. Full breakdown on what happened at Texans practice today with our Texans reporter. Adam Wexler coming up at 2 o'clock today. So the Colts are back in the practice.

Phil Ross getting ready for their game against Seattle and a game you will see on locally on Channel 11 on Sunday. Thank you very much to the great executive to Channel 11 for making the right decision on that. Yes. And you know there's a quarterback that's on the practice squad and my guess will probably be activated

before long, if not this Sunday, certainly before the end of the season. His name is Philip Rivers. Okay. A borderline Hall of Famer. Probably going to get in. We'll take him a water line. I'd have to go through the resume Eight-time pro-bowler

Zero-time MVP Ooh Mmm I don't Did he make an all-pro team? I don't think he did Ooh But I mean he also played in the

Manning Brady era What do you think? Eight-time Pro Bowl or comeback player of the year in 2013. Getting in, it's going to take a while. Yep. Damn. All right, so here's the reason why I brought him up. Okay.

What number does he wear, or did he wear when he was a player? 17? Yep. Okay. What number did Daniel Jones wear? I don't even know. Was it 17? 17.

Okay, who cares? Daniel Jones was a huge. part of the reason why the Colts are having the winning season they have. Okay. Daniel Jones was on the football field when he tore his Achilles. Yes? Wearing number 17. Uh-huh.

Philip Rivers today practice wearing number 17. So what? That's disrespectful. No, no. Why? Probably Philip Brewer's got his blessing. Daniel Jones probably signed off on this. I got to wait to find out. Okay.

Not that Daniel Jones is going to make himself available because he's got an Achilles tail he's not walking around and he's hobbling well I don't that doesn't matter to me at all that's Philip Rivers number if anything

Daniel Jones probably gave his blessing and who cares you're off the team bro Philip Philly River's number 17 your number is zero I'm disagreeing okay I don't think that's no

now again maybe uniform numbers don't make a difference to a lot of players some they do some He does and others. Yeah. And maybe Daniel Jones, like, I don't care. I'm not playing anymore this year.

I mean, it's just a number. I don't know why. And maybe he's like, you know, Big Philly, you are a guy that's been around a long time. You've thrown a lot of yards. It just, I don't know. Good, I'm not going to fall my sword saying this is an outrage. But it just kind of. I didn't know that Daniel Jones was even 17.

I didn't remember that. Yeah. Philly Rivers is number 17. And also, if he had changed in 19, who cares? Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You cannot be 19. That is a way bigger indictment. Okay, whatever.

You know, I'm just throwing out a number. That's funny you brought on 19. Oh, no, no, no. I'm just kidding. Maybe they're running on numbers. Yeah, exactly. Bear Brockmeier. Maybe you can wear 47.

Yeah, you can wear 47. Yeah, I just, I'm trying to think, I don't even know other great, Andrew Luck was 12. he's getting his jersey retired by the Colts right right I guess yeah well he retired early yeah because it's like I want to be able to be able to be able to know my name on one day or the next I just I don't know it's just wants to grow his neck beard and peace you know what he's doing he's trying to raise money at Stanford how's that going very well we talked about

that people that remember gave him of four hundred million dollars last week did you see Troy Eickman said he's done donating for NIO yes for those who did not see this Troy Aigman was asked by his alma mater, UCLA, to cut a check. So he did. Because he's able to do so. And he says, I'll never do it again. That's a write-off, too. Is it a write-off?

But, I mean... Donating to the school? It's a donation. It's like a charitable donation. I guess it's to the... He had to write it to the collective. Are a collective's 501-3Cs? I don't know. I think so.

That I can't do it. Yeah, don't quote me on that. The point is, he wrote the check, and he's like, That was a waste of time. Not only did, the guy left, whoever it was, but he didn't say thank you. Donor fatigue. I guess the question would be, did the player even know it was from Troy? Yeah, it's like sponsoring the kid? Now, if you get a scholarship.

Is it like when you sponsor a starving kid in Malaysia? Like, if you get a scholarship from the school, you can say you're getting the Ross Villarreal scholarship or the Matt Thomas scholarship. Is it like the UCLA buddy system? he's got to like uh go on to have lunch with him and be come 10 now like if you donate a certain amount you get this so you're sponsoring a kid yeah i mean i would think maybe a nice text i mean nobody's writing handwritten letters anymore forget that you can't send postcards but all troy wanted was a thank you and maybe to stick around at ucla well he got neither he's like i'm done with that you know what i'll tell you what

if I'm UCLA, I would never would have let that go that far because not only is that going to affect UCLA, but it's also going to affect other people of significant financial means to say, well, if Traitman's getting treated this way, how am I going to be treated? Got to take care of your dollars, folks.

Or on the opposite, if you're another school, do you go, oh, we better make sure we take care of it? We said plenty of nice thank you notes and hugs and autographed pictures and whatnot. That to me, sounds like significant damage by UCLA for letting that happen

the way that Detroit Amy would even publicly say that. Yeah, he's clearly piss. Donor, when you said donor fatigue? When are we going to get it? We're never going to get it, Ross. He promised me to be donor fatigue. I'm not promising you. I mean, what happened with Troy Aikman?

Cody Campbell said donor fatigue, we're all good. No, don't he's, he does, what is the anti-fatigue? He's got, he's got donor energy. Well, those, those Aggie recruiting classes went down for a couple years when they got like eight a one star, I mean five stars and then they all went away

but then they bounced back. There goes in waves. Cody's doing quail. He was on a video not too long I saw over the weekend. He's like, how did y'all do this? And he's like, well, we knew the portal was going to open up much bigger and we jumped in quick. Yeah, they wanted to jump in because

now they wanted to get in before the cap. Right? Right. Before the clearinghouse. Or whatever. Before the clearinghouse, yeah. But basically saying we want to pay this guy $2 million to discuss how great his slushy was.

was ironic and you can't do that. It's not worth it. But no, you can't. Clearing House, shut your bum ass up. Whatever the kid is paid is what he's worth. So now you've got two different things. You have the clearing house that determines what an NIA is. Stupid. And then you have, and then you have the budget of the school that can spend right now $20.5 million. Although, as you heard Notre Dame's, I thought a director yesterday say he'd like to see that bumped up. Yes, he would. Because my guess is the NIA money isn't coming in as nearly as much as other schools. You got a tied to the Pope and then the Catholic Church. and the bishops, and then you've got to tied to Notre Dame.

It's a lot. Can the Pope write the check? I don't think you can get a check from Vatican City for Notre Dame football, but I don't know. If any place could get money, it would be Notre Dame, right? I guess. I mean, I guess the LDS Church is not write checks to BYU. BYU's been writing checks, haven't they? Yeah.

They're number one, the highest paid college basketball player plays for BYU. Yeah. And they're top 10, or they won a game last night against Clemson. I want to say in Madison Square Garden and a buzzerbie. I don't know why I know that but I just do because you love BYU basketball I love college basketball they're 8 and 1 their only losses to

Connecticut by two points so basically if you don't beat Yukon we wouldn't let you in the Big 12 then what do you mean your Texas Longhorns was you what? Yeah you got to why because if you ever want to come back to our conference

you gotta start carrying your way with basketball to a better football and basketball conference We'll see come tournament time It was last year I don't know about this year Yeah Cougars played Jackson State tonight I was thinking about thinking about going

And then I just like no I'm all right Oh actually there's not an SEC team in the top 10 Mm-hmm Second tier Last year there first tier It goes in waves Got the officials to help them win a national championship But I can tell you that for sure

Alabama is 12th Oh Vandy's 15th Who's dropping all this cash for Vandy Vanderbilt's always had a good program. Arkansas 17th, Florida and Tennessee. Oh, you know John Kalaparri's got money somewhere coming. He knows people. Okay, SEC's looking a little decent.

Texas will crack the top 25. I hope so. Give us a good smack in their show. Cougars play Jackson State. They're 40.5 favorites. 40 and a half point favorites. Well, Texas is going to get a beat down from Yukon on Friday. So, looking forward to that.

We'll get a lot of calls on that on the following Monday when you're not here. I'll be watching on Fox. I'll be watching their ass beating Fox 4K. I can't wait. Is 4K that much better? I love it. Yeah, it's way better. You got a nice TV. You got a nice O-led TV?

I don't know what I have. You're in the Q-led, mini-led? I don't know what I have. You're probably not on O-Led. Yeah, I got other expenses. That's what I'm saying. I don't, so I can splurge. Good for you.

You and I had this brief argument. I thought the peacock feed, we had. have one main television is our main peacock and we have other peacock televisions what our main it looked a little grainy well you can argue if it looked grainy in your house that's cool it doesn't look peacock looks excellent in my house now amazon prime looks spectacular amazon prime looks very good too yeah i i i will say amazon prime looks better than peacock and i mean maybe i'm going off of uh sunday nut football always looks spectacular but you don't watch it on peacock though i've watched i've i do i watch sundayette football on peacock because it looks better than my cable really huh the things you

you learn that's a little pro tip for you folks is go to peacock yeah it looks better the picture's better to me okay thank you very much for that let's play believe i'm not the topic today is highly googlable it is about you you can do this in four minutes seven uh i'll highly google about the uh team the rockets are playing tomorrow we'll leave it at that 142 on sports talk 790 if you would like to play of course you would 713 212 790 remember you can only win once every 30 days. So if you're a price whore, you and you won't mention names. You can only win once every 30 days.

713-212-5-790. That's 7-1-2-1-2-5-7-90 to play. Believe it or not. Is this the wussification of the NBA, Ross? You ready for this? So I am looking at my Clippers notes for tomorrow's game of the Rockets. And Tyron Lou is the head basketball coach. he has 11 assistant coaches

I'm not kidding I'm going to count this again one two Jeff Van Gundy's lead assistant Brian Shaw former NBA head coach Jay Laranaga former college coach Larry Drew former short-term head coach and then a bunch of guys I never heard of Dante Jones former NBA player played at Duke he's got five

10 assistants and then he has a vice president of player performance slash assistant coach 11. Do you know when the Rockets won the championships in the 1990s? Carol Dawson had two assistant coaches. That's it. And one year I think he got three and he was like, why do you need a third?

An NBA team has a head coach and 11 assistant coaches. I mean, come on. These leagues folks never feel sorry for them. They have plenty of money. The NBA TV deals are allowing the Los Angeles Clippers of all things

to have 11 assistant coaches. Absolutely crazy. All right. Tomorrow on the show we have I just don't get it coming up at 1130 which will feature Disney World stuff. I'm just going to tell you that right now.

And it's a second time appearance for this category and I just don't get it. Okay. And I don't know if you agree with me or disagree with me about this. We'll see. That's tomorrow. The news at noon, Friday will have me Madoka on, Dr. Roto will be on, and we will make a prediction. I've already got the Texans covering the 10 points against Arizona, right?

Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Does Arizona even show up? My gut feeling is that it's a one-score game because that's what the Texans are always in. Well, that set off panic in this town? Except for, I guess, well, it was a two-score game against Kansas City, but that game was close. all game. The Niners

game was a two-score game. The Ravens game was a two-score game, but it's feeling... I don't know. I'm just not feeling like this offense might not be good enough to blow anybody out. But we'll see... And if Jacoby Percett beats the Texans. All right. Oh, is he going to put him in the ring of honor? And you were going to say, I'm sorry. You took the words right out of my mouth. I'm sorry.

You know what? I mean, let's think about who's already up there. T. T. Y. Hilton. Marvin Harrison. Peyton. Peyton Manning is up there Derek Henry is up there Andrew Lux's probably up there too Andrew probably pretty close

Jacoby Brissette if he wins the game he is going into the Texans Hall of Honor ring of honor right next to Janice Wow that's what's to play for on Sunday

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I didn't remember that. I forget everybody. Brian on 790, ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Glenn Rice was a clipper. Believe it or not? Not. He was.

How do you not have clippers on the brain here, folks? Daniel on 790. Daniel, your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show? All of it. Catino Mobley was a clipper. Believe it or not? Believe it. Believe it. Name number two for the win. Corey Brewer was a clipper. Believe it or not.

There you go. Another one. Good job. Last one. Eric on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Sam Cassell was a clipper. Believe it or not? Not. He was.

Believe it. I know. That was a dull. He was definitely a clipper. All right, Rossi. A little disappointed. I thought we'd have more winners than we had that. We had two today, so that's not terrible.

Two winners is good. Two winners is good. We need to give away more prizes. No, we're good. All right. Hey, everybody stand by. Complete Texans who practiced today and who did not? And who's wearing what uniform numbers up next with

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