The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Blake Snell Wants His Money, Yo Mama Jokes, Non-Florida Stories

Episode Date: May 14, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas. 12-0-3 and H-Town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7-90. Alongside Joe George, Rossville, Real. I'm Matt Thomas.

Hello, everyone. You all doing great. Everybody feeling good? Ready for a wonderful Thursday show. And I continue. The street continues. wake up not knowing what day it is. I think if you got up at 8 o'clock in the morning,

you'd probably have a better idea what day it is. Because it gives you two hours to figure it out as compared to just the hour. What do you mean? Like if you're getting up at 10.30 and you don't know if you're going to be out. What's the difference? Well, somebody goes to work at 8. Well, they get up at 7. So, I mean, what's the difference?

I'm just saying getting up at 8 o'clock wouldn't be the worst thing in the world for you. What's going on at 8 o'clock that I need to be a part of? Maybe you want to peruse the wires, the reports, the internets, if you will. I do that at night. But then you know what day it is. you wake up. I wouldn't know what day it is. I don't know what day it is because of quarantine, not because of when I wake up. So you're telling me, when I tell you at 1203, it's Thursday, it's better that I've given you some information. Yeah. I think aren't most people losing track

of days during these last couple of months? I feel like I'm getting a little bit better. Yeah. No, I'm still pretty bad. Like a month ago, I was, I really didn't know what it was, but today, it just feels like a Thursday. It feels like we're down the home stretch. Okay. and we're ready to just fill the airwaves with three hours of biting sports commentary. This is what the show is all about. Three hours of Urban Meyer's son is going to play as a walk-on at the University of Cincinnati. You want to break that down? Well, apparently ESPN thinks it's important enough to make it their third biggest headline.

It is one of their big headlines. So congratulations to Nate Meyer. That's when you know we need a juicy. sports headline. And I happen to have one. Oh, good. This Twitch channel thing. Yes. You do it, right? It's blowing up, Matt. I want to say I've been doing this for over a year. Now everybody, every athlete is hopping on it. Joe, do you have a Twitch channel? No, but Joe's going to be, I think I'm going to get, you say, what FIFA? Oh, you don't have the new FIFA. Joe, if you get the new FIFA, it's like 20, 30 bucks. We'll play on there. We should play, I'm only with a show.

How much is that going to run? That's like 60. Anyways, Twitch.tv slash sports RV. Go ahead. All right. For biting commentary, a great video game analysis, and you're sipping on some beverage. Yeah, I usually just sip a beer and BS with Ramon. All right. So, Blake Snell, who's going to make $7 million in the 2020 season, apparently, or is he, has a Twitch channel. And he was not particularly happy yesterday with hearing about how baseball owners want a 50-50 revenue share for this season. So what I did, instead of us just crushing everything bad about Blake Snell, we should take

his statements one for one and say are they valid or invalid points. Now, I will say this, for any millionaire, soon to be gazillionaire to be complaining about money during a pandemic, you're going to lose the court of public opinion. You just are. Whether that's important to the guy or not, whether he's looking for people to be they feel sorry for him, that's probably not going to happen. But let's just run through some of things. If those of you don't know, Blake Snell, American League's Cy Young winner of a couple of years ago, says the following.

He says he will not play this season for a reduced salary, especially because the risk of contracting the coronavirus is, quote, just not worth it. Here come the quotes, and then we'll stop after each one of them and kind of say, is there any validity to it, or is this guy just talking out of his ass? Y'all got to understand, man, for me to go, for me to take a pay cut is not happening because the risk is through the roof. It's a shorter season, less pay. No, I got to get my money.

I'm not playing unless I get mine, okay? And that's just the way it is for me. Like, I'm sorry you guys think differently, but the risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money I'm making is way lower. Why wouldn't I think about that? Let's stop right there. There has been a little bit of a change in, I think, public's attitude about the owners in this 50-50 revenue split because people just generally speaking don't like rich owners, right?

They want labor to get as much money as they can. However, in this particular case, with so many people out of work, so many people taking pay cuts, so many people being furloughed in the month of May, in 2000, they are in a position to not be able to go to this. We're not making a muff money because of these rich owners card. And it's going to stick. So basically he is saying, and we'll read some more quotes of this, is if he's going to play because there is a coronavirus, he wants his full money. So at the end of the day, Ross, I don't believe he cares about the virus just as long as he gets the money.

That's what he's, in my opinion, he's trying to tell you is that, yes, the virus is very, very important. He's very concerned about his work environment and getting the disease or the virus. But he won't feel nearly as bad about it as long as he makes his full $7 million in 2020. I'm not playing unless I get mine, says Blake's now. I mean, I get where he's coming from and the point of the risk thing. And that's something we haven't really talked about as much. We've been talking about the money and how it's going to be split, which obviously he's not happy about that either. So, I mean, obviously he's not putting it very eloquently. Here's another one. Bro, I'm risking my life. What do you mean? It should be not be a thing.

It should be 100% be a thing. If I'm going to play, I should be getting the money I side of getting paid. I should not have to be getting half of what I'm getting paid because the season's cutting half. Oh, on top of a 33% cut on the half that's already there. So I'm really only getting like 25%. What? Does the math work out there? I don't think so, but that's what he was saying. These are quotes. On top of that, it's getting taxed. So imagine how much I'm actually making a play. You know what I'm saying?

I know what you're saying. Blake. No, I don't know what he's saying. He's confused the hell out of me. Now, is he the only one that believes this? I don't think so. Probably not. Is he the first one to say something about it publicly? Yes. It's come out this strongly negative in the negative. Yeah, I think so, for sure, that I've heard of anyways.

He goes to the Tampa Bay Times. Well, Trevor Bauer came out and said that it was the proposal. Yeah, but we don't pay any attention to him. Tyler Bowers just. I mean, honestly, this is more of a snow. I mean, honestly, it's just scared of risk my life to get COVID-19 as well as not knowing and spreading it to the others. I just want everyone to be healthy and get back to normal lives because I know I miss mine. Ross, answer my question.

You maybe don't have the answer to it. Would he be worried about the COVID if he's making his full $7 million in 2020? Because by him playing, making that full salary means that using the COVID as an excuse as to why not to play doesn't hold a whole lot of weight, in my opinion. I think he's using the COVID to say, do not cut my pay. if he got his full $7 million and it weren't cut in half and then it weren't all that type of stuff yeah he'd be playing so i guess it's a matter of everybody has a price he's saying that what i'm the little that i'm going to get is not worth the risk if you pay me full money maybe it is worse the risk i think it's exactly what he's saying just give me

the money and be damned if i get the virus or not because at least i'll have what i'm supposed to be making in 2020 so the question is this today and it's just one guy speaking. He doesn't speak for 20%, doesn't speak for 80%. He might, but we don't know that publicly. Where are sports fans on this? Because a lot of people in this country are taking cuts. What Major League Baseball is proposing is a much, much bigger cut than what the average person is taking. The average person is not taking a 50% pay cut. Some people I know are taking. Some people I know are 10% pay cuts, some are taking five, some have been furloughed. And that doesn't really even count because that's more of whether or not there's just a job

force reductions. I'm talking about those that are still employed that are not making the same amount of money they are today than they made it three months ago. I mean, first of all, if you even have a job, probably just about everybody who's affected by this is definitely losing money. So that's the group people I'm talking to. do you say, you know what, this is unfair, the owners are putting out some perhaps false information, or are you on the other side of it and say, yeah, I see where the owners are coming from on this.

Less games, no fans, less revenue, they just can't distribute the same amount of money they promise these players because the revenue streams just aren't there. where is the American, and for that matter, Houston Sports Public, on this? Because I think originally it was, oh, hell no, players, you don't play for any money, screw you. I think there has been a few people, especially those that are obviously pro-labor, that are kind of feeling the other direction on that. I'm just saying, I don't think what he said came across overly sympathetic. It almost seems like a situation, kind of like when players are speaking about the Astros, and they don't have all the facts.

Getting his full $7 million is not on the table anywhere. How could he even, I mean, why is he even talking that way? The owners are not going to pay them. They're going to do, they already agreed to a pro-rate salary. Like that is already, it's already done. That's a done deal. And the second biggest issue is this. If the player association and the owners come to some sort of agreement

and Mr. Snell and Mr. Bauer don't like it, are they going to skip out on the year? I don't think they can with it. as a union, how does that work? Then you're not a member of the union anymore, right? Yeah, does your contract become then null and void? Do you, are you absence without a certain, what would be, I guess, what's the almost like a holdout kind of?

Hold out, failing to adhere to a contract, breach of contract. Yeah, yeah. That's where it really can get slippery. Mm-hmm. Because if you said, because of Ross, if there were people in this country that said, I'm scared to death about being anywhere outside of my home, then I get that. but he's not telling us this. He's saying if you're going to make me play out, play,

and with a chance of getting the virus and being in this artificial situation, being perhaps being huddled up in an area for a certain period of time, at least pay me for it. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-5-790. Where do you stand on this? I don't think I'm using Blake Snell as an example,

but I'm using baseball in general. How much can you use a disease of the virus? in order to push your agenda, unless you're getting full wages, and then you're not pushing that agenda. 713-212-5-790. Back to Matt Thomas. Drives this deep to left-center,

failed. This is Sports Talk 790, home of Astros baseball. I asked Ross during the break. Check out what's happening on Twitter. See what's going on. What are the trending topics? Okay.

Some guy, Doc, testifying for a house panel, Dr. Bright, whoever that is. Yeah. Hashtag Obamagate Gate. Obama Gate, Gate. Obama Gate, RIP America is trending. Hashtag Obama Great is trending.

And hashtag, yo mama gate is trending. You know what I miss? Yo Mama jokes. Yeah. Are they politically correct in 2020? Like your mama's so skinny she could Hulu Hoop through a Cheerio? That's a good one, Ross. Your mama's so fat.

Her birthday is on May 6th, and 8th. Your mama's so fat when she sits around the house. She sits around the house. Can we do some of your mama jokes? Yeah, let's just keep going. That's all I can remember. I used to, no, and when you're a kid in my age, I feel like I came up. Like, I was like in middle school during the heart of the yo mama jokes era.

You had to have at least 20 in your arsenal. Well, remember the, and you would also hold the big guns. You would hold the big guns for later. You would open up with a couple of soft ones and then you would hit them. You would hit them with the hard stuff later in the contest. Wasn't there like a Yo Mama TV show? Yeah, there was. Yeah.

It was, I think it was on MTV. It was so funny. So, listen to this. I'll just do two or three youngas every few minutes. Let's do it. A couple more. Your mom is so dumb, she cooked her own complimentary breakfast. Your mom is so dumb it takes her an hour to make minute rice.

Yeah. Your mom is so dumb, she stepped on a crack and broke her own back. There's two of them I can't say on here. You can't say a lot of them. There's a lot of them are just. Yeah, really, really in poor taste. We need this just a good, you know what I'm going to do it. I love the Wikipedia on this.

It's called maternal insult. And it says, your mother can be combined with most types of insults, although suggestions of promiscuity are particularly common. Remind me in the next Monday night meeting we have, let's do your mama jokes. Yeah, we'll see who the best. Your mom's joke. All right, I want to get Charles thoughts on what Blake Snell had to say,

and instead of me reading any more quotes, let's just hear right from him. This is on the Twitch channel yesterday. Blake Snell on risking his life. Y'all got to understand too, because y'all going to be like, bro, Blake, play for the love of the game, man. What's wrong with you, bro? Money should not be a thing.

Bro, I'm risking my life. What do you mean? It should not be a thing. It 100% should be a thing. Brah. Brah. Deep bag. Seriously, he's a douche.

When are we going to get him playing with Cody Bellinger? Bellinger. Here's Blake on. the risk. If I get the Rona, on top of that, if I get the Rona, I guess what happens with that? What? Yeah, that's in my body forever. That damage is not going to be like, the damage that was done in my body, that's going to be there forever.

Brah. So now I got to play with that on top of that. Oh, bro. Y'all got, I mean, y'all got to understand, man, for me to go, for me to take a pay cut is not happening because the risk is through the roof. It's a shorter season, less pet, like, bro, this. Bro. Yeah, man, I got to. No, I've got to get my money.

I'm not playing unless I get mine, okay? And that's just the way it is for me. Like, I'm sorry if you guys think differently, but we do. The risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money I make is way lower. Why would I think about doing that? Boy, he's digging the grave. This dude's a fraud. He's from Seattle, Washington, talks like he's from the hood.

Here's two more. Shoreline, Washington. He would the Shorewood High School. I'm sure that's the rough streets of Shoreline, Washington. You know, he is concerned about his pay. If I'm going to play, I should be getting paid. I should not be getting half of what I'm getting paid because the season's cut in half. On top of a 33% cut of the half that's already there, so I'm really getting like 25%.

On top of that, it's getting taxed. So imagine how much is actually making the play. You know what I'm saying? No. I ain't making a shit. And on top of that, so all that money's gone. And now I play risking my life. the things I said trying to give him a little benefit of the doubt I forget what I

forget what I said earlier one more one more juicy here's more Blake one more I'm just saying man just doesn't make sense for me to lose all of that money and then go play and then be on lockdown not around my family not around the people I love and get paid way to hell less and then the risk of injury runs every time I step on the field So it's It's just it's not worth it It's not.

I love baseball to death It's just not worth it If it's a pay cut Yeah Whoa It's no pay cut I get mine We can talk

I want to play What a fraud What an absolute fraud Blake snail you are Everybody has a price Maddie Clearly You know

I actually I actually did them A better service guys By just reading the quotes As compared to actually Hear you say them out loud No I'm saying What a douche

So let me say it. So he's going to get half. And then he's taking the 33% on top of that. Again, this is Blake Snellmath. And then guys, he's going to get taxed for that. He lives in Florida. There's not state tax. So you're there.

You're okay there. But Ross, you mean to tell me that people get their wages taxed on? That is the, all the humanity of this. And of course, he's thinking about the future, too. So in my head, I'm preparing for next season. And I'm preparing, well, I'm actually preparing for right now. But as if I'm preparing for next season. Like, it's super weird, man.

It is super weird. The articulate and well-spoken, Blake's Nell. How awful is this for, if you're the Players Association, if you're thinking about, like, who are the most well-spoken current Major League players? Justin Verlander. Verlander's well-spoken. Mike Trott didn't say a whole lot, but when he says something, people tend to gravitate towards it. I wouldn't put Zach Granky in the list.

No, nor would anyone. Who are there major leaguers that would be that would command some respect? I'm trying to think. Nobody's really coming off the top of my head as far as like... I'm trying to think of, I mean, Albert Pujols, I guess, would carry some clock because it's been in the league forever. just not Blake Snell is the point. Of all the people that Major League Baseball said

who should be the first to come out and say something? It's not supposed to be Blake Snell. How embarrassing is this cat? In fact, he probably did more damage for his union in this situation than anything that the players would say in the union conference calls. Yeah, he's about the biggest story in sports right now.

Well, it's the second biggest story. I will. Anthony Weaver in the Texas defensive coordinator. Anthony Dreamweaver, Matt. We have to call him Anthony Dreamweaver. Yeah. I started that by the way. The Rams' terrible uniforms.

I think he's been called that since it's playing days, Matt. Really? Yes. He played actually a lot? Yeah. Was he good? He's all right. They've got a couple decent season with the Ravens.

Some of the best players in the NFL. Best coaches in NFL this year are not very good players. I think he had a year. Oh, I thought he had a year we had at least like eight, nine sacks. That is not true. What's his career number? for Anthony Drew. A 15 and a half sacks total

and 70 years. Sorry. What are he a pass rusher? Was he? Whatever. It doesn't matter because the stats aren't great, but doesn't matter.

He's our defense coordinator. He's going to build this defense into different levels of excellency. He got 21 interception return yards in 2006. Who could forget that? That's a Texan, right? Yes.

Okay. I bet you, Vanderman remembers it. Rock and roll. He's got him, he doesn't even use spot chart. It's incredible. What? Yeah, he doesn't write it stuff down.

Is all up in his brain? I think 90% of it's in his brain. And he's got a crispy jumper? Wow, Mark Vandemir's nice. A crispy jumper? Yeah. As compared to a baked jumper? I said wet jumper last time just to, and it really threw you off, so now I was throwing crispy in there now. I've never, and all my years of calling basketball ever said, that was a crispy jumper.

Well, you just don't play pickup basketball. I think that when basketball comes back, that should be game one. Let me tell you something right now. I will use it. You're like, that was crispy. Who are you going to give Krispy to? Who would you like it to be? And then you can morph it into Krispity, Crunchity. I kind of feels like Austin. Oh, Austin Rivers left corner with a Krispy jumper?

Yeah. I mean, I could. Chris Clemens would be good because you might feel like that. He's not playing the rest of the way. I know. He's done. No. Not that he can't, but he's just not going to.

1229. Who has the crispiest jumper in the NFL? As far as play-by-play guys, it's Vandermere. No, in the NBA. The crispiest jumper in the NBA. Steph Curry. Yeah, by the way, Clanton, love you. It was a very nice conversation with those folks in San Francisco yesterday.

They were very complimentary towards you. I didn't catch it. Yeah. It was very, very nice. 1229. Matt Thomas show continues at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Hey, it's James Arden.

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I've got a good one. I took the goat yesterday, but the mannequins at the Massachusetts eatery. I think I'm just upset about that. Yeah, that was just disturbing, though. I don't know if you would, uh... I don't think, I don't know if my story's good today or just weird. No, my guess is you could probably suck.

I won last week You did, that's right You're one for three You've started to rise the occasion, so to speak. Look, I'm a great baseball player I'm hitting 333 Would you take a pay cut? I can't afford a pay cut.

I think Blake Snell is going to take a massive L on this, especially with millions of people unemployed another set of millions of people taking pay cuts No one's, generally speaking, very few unless you're super super 100% on labor

are you going to win this you know what Blake you got a point I don't think so I don't I don't think there's going to be anybody it could possibly be on on Blake I mean I you get what he's coming from but the way that he makes his points and then is that long pause and says well if they pay me it'll be a little different yeah that's make you can't get on your soap box

and say I'm putting myself at risk and this is blah blah blah and for like two minutes and then say, they pay me. I'll think about it. Yeah. This virus is very scary. I'm really nervous about not being away from my family and my friends, and I don't know if it's testing. But I'll feel better if I make $7 million. Fraud. Jeff's in Tamp on 790. Hi, Jeff.

How are we doing today? Wonderful. Love your show, and your take on Blake's nail is spot on. But what's really weird and strange about what Blake said was back in March, great article in Tampa Bay Times by Mark Tompkins. Good writer. Very, very, he's not a homer. He's not pro Tampa. He is.

But he gives a straight scoop. Blake said that he really wasn't too worried about it. If I get it, I get it. If I don't, I don't. Either way it was meant. to be. And if he talks about his family, he said, hey, I'll bring you all to St. Pete. We can stay here. And they said, no, we're tight here, even though Washington was like under siege with the virus. So Blake and the local media is just crucifying it.

I was going to say, what are Tampa radio shows like today? The afternoon show was one guy at WDAA said, okay, he said something really bonehead, and remember when Mike Evans knelt and he couldn't answer why. And I even text in saying two different issues. Mike Evans still did a thousand yards, still was a great receiver. He just couldn't answer a social question. and Blake it just boggles my mind

and he says that on Twitch but again March 11th in Tampa Times he said whatever if I get it I get it it was meant to be yeah he wasn't worried about it

when there wasn't a thought of losing money but now that all of a sudden he's losing money he's the concern has ravaged his body and has hurt his soul what a fraud thank you

man go ahead okay thanks Jeff look at the show moving coast to coast. Yes. Coast to Coast A.m.

with Matt Thomas. We are the number one radio show in Tampa, ironically enough. Yes, that's good. Yeah, we're very, where your unofficial home of Buccaneer football and raised baseball. And Houston's not going so bad. Yeah, we're doing all right here. Yeah, I just want to play his sound by his going,

go ahead. Do the one where he pauses for like three seconds. I think it was the last one you played. He pauses for a little bit, and then he's like, yeah, well, but if they cut the check or if they pay me, I can't remember his exact words. I think this is it here. In my head, I'm preparing for next season.

Mm-hmm. And I'm prepared. Well, I'm actually preparing for right now. What? But as if I'm preparing for next season. What? Like, it's super weird, man. It is super weird, man.

If I'm going to play, I should be getting paid. Some. It's not being half of what I'm getting paid because the season is cut in half. On top of a 33% cut, the half that's already there, so I'm really getting like 25%. On top of that, it's getting taxed. So imagine how much I'm actually making the play. You know what I'm saying?

No. Like, I ain't making a shit. And on top of that, so all that money's gone. And now I play risking my life. Thanks, Blake. Tony Clark's like, shut your Twitch channel down right this second. What the hell are you doing? You make us look stupid.

Yeah. what happens in the I'm sorry to interrupt you go ahead Trevor don't call me Tyler Bauer yes oh god and Blake Snell are the two people who have been more unspoken than anybody else

you know Tyler Bauer is going to say something no matter what he makes himself the story and injects himself into every major league baseball story he is a basically a medium person's who like an aggregator he's their dream because anytime something happens anywhere in baseball

Tyler Bauer is going to have something to say about it all right let's go to Robert on the southwest side of 1239. Hi, Robert. Hey, how you doing? Wonderful. What's going on? Hey, I got a couple of your mama jokes for you. Oh, great. Yeah. Your mama's so big, she wheat six. She what? And wheat six instead of wheat thin. No. All right. How about your mama's so fat? takes two buses in a train to get to a good side.

Hmm. Thank you. Let me tell you something the Marconi folks have said, called. They said stop recording the show. I've never had the Marconi people call and actually say stop the show. Stop recording it. Don't send us your material today. I have heard that train and the bus one.

My two favorite mama jokes, I cannot say on the air because they're really, really insulting. Okay. I mean, if we had an internet-al-a-sham during the break. Oh, I'm telling you during the break. Why don't you take a video of them and then tweet them? No. Because I-could you put them on the blog? Why don't you put them on your Twitch channel?

No, I don't have a Twitch channel. You play with Blake Snell. You play... Sports790.com, what's on Matt's mind? What's on Matt's mind? I'm going to get suspended is what it's going to be. Oh, are they that bad? Um, they're very insensitive.

One is really awful and then one is somewhat awful. But they're ones that remember is a good. I'm intrigued. I'll do them for you. And you can say how bad they were, and you'll be able to prove, you know, you'll have to prove that exactly I should have sent him on the air. So, all right. Do you know that the SEC is meeting on conference calls? They want their guys back on campus.

And I bet they do. They absolutely want to have students on campus practicing and working out. Because, you know, Ross, what they're saying is, you know, it's a more important. to have the strength and conditioning coaches around them so they know how they're properly conditioning in the off season as compared to guys doing it on their own. They want them under the umbrella of the University of Florida or Alabama. It's important to them to have those kids around. Very important.

So if the season does come and start in September, they'll be ready. Right. They're going to take a vote in the next couple of days to determine whether or not they should actually set a date. So they're going to have a date set to have a vote. vote to set the date. This is very confusing. Yeah.

Yes, I get it, I think. Meanwhile, PAC 12's like, hey guys, can you wait for me? Pac 12. Pac-12 R-I-P. Pac-12 R-I-P. It feels like to me that Pac-12 may not have football this year, which at Cougars, my Houston Cougars are supposed to be Washington State this year. That's not happening.

It's a long-ass point. That happened there. Yeah, what's that running? About four, four and a half? So here's what I'm hearing. Conference only games. And in some cases, Ross, playing the same conference opponent twice in the same season.

I like that. I like that, actually. I think that's great. Make it more like the NFL where you play your division opponent twice. Also, we get a your mama joke via email. Your mama is so old. She knew Central Park when it was a plant. That's from a Celtics fan friend of ours.

and Patriots fan and our boss. Let me say something. I was like Bill Simmons. I'm trying to a major market radio show. My lines are lit with your mama jokes. We need sports for the love of God. I don't think we do. No, we just need more.

This is good. More your mama jokes. I'm good with this right now. I'm going to tweet this. Screw it. Next segment. More your mama jokes. I'm tweeting it out right now at Sports Harvey.

What is your best your mama joke? We see what we can. I have lost. All Control this show. Non-Florida stories at $150. Now, if you get a your mama joke and a non-Florida story, all in the same story, you may win on that one, Joge. I'm just telling you.

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The Matt Thomas Show. Back to do it on Sports Talk 790. Escalated. Home of the Stroes. Sports radio hosts. I've been doing this since on a regular race is full 1994-95. Trying to bring in sports, trying to bring you commentary, try to break down the Texans like nobody else can.

Uh-huh. And I got lines full of your mom. jokes. I'm getting a lot. By the way, I gave you my two- your mama joie. I couldn't have said either one of those on the air. Yeah, probably safe to say you shouldn't have said either of those.

So good judgment on your part, Matthew. Thank you. You've been in the business a minute, so you showed good judgment there. Thank you. When the post-show show returns, we'll do your mama jokes and weren't suitable for air. Your mom's so fat. She's on both sides of the family. I remember that one.

I'm getting a lot tweeted at Sports RV. This is a good one from CEO for show. Your mom's so old, she pre-ordered the Bible. Nice. All right, I'm going to let you all say these things, but if they're bad ones, we're going to crucify you. So please have the sound effects ready, George. This was one of my favorites, Jason Murphy.

Your mama's so dumb, she tripped over a cordless phone. I used to get people with that one. That was one of those ones you kept in the back pocket. Will the Texans re-sign to a long-term... Deshawn Watson to a long-term deal? 713-212-5-7-90. Your mom is so fat when she was told? the haul ass, it takes two trips.

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spoon to the Super Bowl. I remember that one, too. These are some, you guys are dropping some gems on me here. Oh, this is a great one. You remember this one? Your mom is so fat, she stepped on a dollar and made change. These are the classics. Joe, I'm trying to be a good influence on you for your future career as a host.

I feel like I've taken you down a bad road, my friend. Oh, we got a full phone line? Yeah. I'm laughing. Our boss even emailed us one. I know. Well, not me, apparently. Well, you were, you know, on your Chicago podcast, you should do your mama jokes.

That doesn't exist anymore. Sorry about that. Matt and Porter on 7.90. Hello, Matt. Hey, I'll just go on one quick one. Your mama's so fat when she saves their leg, gravy pours out. Oh, gross. Gross.

Gross. Just run through him real quick, Matt. Yeah, please. As I watched my career go down the tubes. Clarence on. 7 on a hello Clarence. Hey, how you doing, man? Check this out.

Your mama's so fat, her belt size is Equator. Oh, I remember that one. That's a classic, too. That's good. I like that one, man. All right, Clarence. Thank you. I'm glad you.

See you. I'm sorry. What pressing topic did you want to get to, Matt? Is Anthony Weaver going to be the big difference in the Texas defense in 2020? And where is Urban Meyer's son? going to play college football as a walk on. David and Lagrange at 1251 on 790. Hello, David.

What's up, Matt Thomas? I'm well. Your mama's so fat for a Tommy Hillfiger shirt with an 8-on-it, a helicopter line on top of her. Come on, give it to me. Philippe! Nothing would like it! That was awful.

Terrible. I never heard that one. I got another one. Oh, Lord. Go ahead. Your mama's so fat. She used a boomerang to put. on her belt. Oh, I heard that one before

too. It's decent. All right, guys. See you later. Yeah, going old school is okay with these. A couple of the old school ones. Two people sent me this one. Your mama's so fat, she jumped up and got stuck. Are you doing over there, Matt? Fine. Let's get into the text and secondary

in the next day. We know this one's in old school. Your mom's so fat, she uses a VCR as a pager. The kids aren't, Joe didn't grow up hearing that one. Joe has no idea what a pager is or a VCR. I know what a VCR is. God, I used to be the operations manager of an old radio station I worked at, and I used to get, do you ever carry a pager in your life?

No, that was before my time. My parents had pagers, and I would page them. I had a pager and a cell phone. And when there was problems with the radio station, like a show wouldn't air properly. Yeah, producers back there screwing up. Something behind the scenes, and the average person wouldn't worry about. They would text me, they would send a page to me. And so I'd have to call no matter where I was.

like, did you really have to call me for this? So then I put out an email or, no, maybe it was an email. I said, only if you really need something very badly, put your phone number in there and then put 911, you need a call. So then every call I got after that was 911. 911. I hated pagers. They sucked because you had to carry a cell phone to return the page and they should just probably

just call you and tell you this. One time I page my mom 911 and I must have hit like star 911 or something. I must have messed up because the cop showed up. What? Yeah. It was a female cop and a male cop. They showed up to my mom. I was out of my mom's apartment.

I bet it was an emergency. The only people I know that have pagers now are physicians and nurses. They still have pagers? Yeah, because they don't want to give out their home number or their cell phone number. Okay. Hmm. So if you have a pay. No, nobody has it.

Nobody has pages anymore, do they? Except the doctors and nurses. I mean, drug dealers used to have them, but do they do that? No, they just take it. They have the phones, the disposable phones. Let's ask Joe. Joe, when you last bought narcotics, did you have to text a person or could you have to go right to a page?

I just call them. Okay. You have the voice communication. I got you. But probably text first. Just say, hey, where are you at? All right. Hopefully this is just went to the next room.

Hopefully this is the last your mama joke of the show. Talk to Ross. Hello, Richard. Hey, Matt Thomas, your mama's so fat. Dracula sucked her blood and got diabetes. That's not bad. Yikes. I think that's my favorite one.

Y'all are some rude, some bitches out there. I'm just telling you all that right now. Oh, man. Joe, let's get to the offensive line on the Texans the next hour, please. I want more your more of your mama jokes. Oh, there's a classic one. Your mom is so dumb. She got fired from the M&M factory for throwing away all the Ws.

Joe likes that one. Joe's easily amused. You notice that? No, I'm not, actually. I don't want to laugh. But I cried on the show. show last week. I don't remember why. You guys made me cry. We have that effect on people. Yeah. Usually they usually had a sadness. Disappointment. Oh, no. These guys are doing this again.

Okay, yeah. We'll leave the your mama jokes in our number one. It was a good run, though. You want to just read them during the nightcap tonight. You know what? I'll just replay this segment. Yeah, that's true. That and Blake, playing Blake Snell sound bites over and over again. Blake's sound bites. Blake Snell soundbites will be broken down for a segment. That's already a lock. 713-212-5-790. I would like for y'all to get into whether or not the linebacking court for the Texans mentally tough enough to go against some of the wild receivers. Okay.

I would not want a tremendous amount of your mama jokes. Second hour of the show, what are we doing the second hour of the show? Talking sports, hanging with the boys, having laughs. Talking about life, talking about wearing a mask, talking about guilt. Blake Snell being Woe is Me, NBA. Oh, by the way, Joe Ingle's of the Jazz? I'll tell you about him.

Joe Ingalls and the Jazz wants no part of the jazz practice facilities. I'll tell you about that, starting the second hour next on 790. Yeah. Is the Matt Thomas Show. The Matt Thomas Show,

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Sports RV is with me here as well as he is every day. The Rockets are doing an auction thing. I want to pass this along really quickly. It's for COVID-19 relief. And one of the auction items, there's some autographed basketballs. Yes. There is some autographed jerseys. Sounds great.

There is also something that they just put out there. I personalized audio from me to you. That could be lineups. It could be play-by-play of your kids. It could be a variety of things. It's a personalized audio recording by me. It's part of the Rockets Daily Auction, and you can find out more information by going to Twitter or to Houston Rockets,

at Houston Rockets, or going to Rockets.com slash auction. It's for charity. Sounds wonderful. It's a $50 donation, and so all the money goes towards COVID-19 relief. Bob, I'd like to bid $1. It's not a bid. It's $50. I'm glad you're able to go deep in your piggy bank for it.

So I've been asked. I already do a lot of voicemails. Yes. So people call and say, Hey, I'm Matt Thomas. Sorry, but Ross can't answer the phone right now.

Leave your name and number. You sticker. I can do a guy. That's a nice little side rack. How's the cameo business? It's not going really well. I could lie and say there's a bunch. Camio.

Is there like camio.com slash Matt Thomas or what? Yeah, but I'm not ready to do this. that yet. I want to do the charity thing first. But once the charity thing's over with, then you can make a little sidehouse. Camio.com slash sportsm-t. Yeah. We'll see how, you know, again, it is what it is. But today is about the charity. So if you'd like to raise some much unit funds for the Rockets, COVID-19 relief fund,

go to Houston Rockets.coms and also check out their Twitter account at Houston Rockets. 713-1-2-5-790. And I want to go back to Blake's now just for a second before we get to the Joe Engel stuff in Utah. All right, bruh. You got to say, bruh, when you talk to. about Blake's nail, bro. If there are players that are genuinely upset about taking a second pay cut, I can live with that. I can say, they can say this just isn't right. You've already asked to take one pay cut, and now you're asking for another one. That doesn't seem fair.

I can, and that can be collectively bargained, okay? I'm okay with that. what I don't think is okay is if using the I can't believe you're asking us to take a second pay cut because look at the harm or putting ourselves in harm's way I would say using the coronavirus as a reason to bitch and moan about your salary is weak and that's where I have the problem with Blake's now because if the virus is still in play which it's going to be and he was to get his full money he'd be out there so either have a fundamental feeling about the virus or have a fundamental feeling about what you're willing,

what you're willing to be paid to do so. And that's where I think the problem is with Blake Snow. He's using the virus as another reason for, you know what, this isn't fair. You want to say the owners aren't being fair? I can respect that. You want to say, I'm not going to make, I'm only going to make half my salary or 40% of my salary because of the virus. But if you pay me all of it, I'll go out there and take my chances. That comes across as very disingenuous, at least in my own opinion. I think he's being, I don't even know that he even knows that he's being disingenuous. I think he's just that dumb. Just from listening to him talk, it doesn't seem like he's trying to use this as a prop to get his money.

It seems like he kind of believes what he's saying. He's just not, he's just so tone deaf, he doesn't know how stupid he sounds. You know what I mean? And ultimately, again, there are going to be people that are going to sign with labor. They're going to say, wait a minute, you sign up for a deal. You sign, you know, you signed up for this. You want to pay me this. You know, and I'm not taking any more cuts.

If you're in that camp, I can't change your opinion on that. But it's hard to get mass appeal of that. When you are making a lot of money, you're only being asked to do half the work. That thing is that people across his country are taking pay cuts and working the same. There's no way in the world Blake Snell is going to pitch as many games in 2020 that he pitched in 2019. There's no chance of that under zero circumstance. His innings will be half, if even less than that. Because you know, realize in the first month of the year,

they're going to treat these pitchers with kid gloves, right? Nobody's throwing eight innings in the first month of a season. Maybe over two starts, but not certainly in one. Less work. Less pay. There are people that are working as much and taking less. And that's where his argument is going to fall flat to those sort of people that are saying, wait a minute, bra, you're not, br-you're going to say bra.

Brat, come on. Bras, you're not going to work as hard in 2020. And that's the thing, though. The proration has already been to agree to, right? The Players Association and the owners... They already agree to a pay cut. The next thing they're asking for is the 50-50 share revenue. Right.

Because they're saying that this pay cut we've already asked you to take, we would not be able to make money, we'd not be able to cover our cost if we just left it at that. because when Major League Baseball owners asked for the players to take the salary cut, they didn't realize it was going to be under the pressure of games with no fans. They were assuming at the time when they asked for the pay cut that baseball would resume at some point this season

with the ability to have 35 or 40,000 people in their stadiums. And that's just not going to happen. Yeah. You don't think the Players Association is so tone-deaf that they would realize that they were going to make as much money whether they were fans in the stadium or not, right? I think they would, yeah, they have to realize that, but like they say there's a reason they don't have a salary cap because if revenues fluctuate

we make the same that's why they don't want a salary cap and so now revenues are down why are we taking a cut if we don't get extra if revenues are up we don't get a bonus because they're not their salaries are independent of revenues that's the way they've always wanted it and that's the way it's always been and they want to they want to don't want to set a precedent especially with the new CBA coming up in 2020 and there's probably a large group of baseball players are saying, sorry this has happened, but I'm still an employee of yours.

I've signed a contract, and I'm going to play for that contract. But what happened to those contracts, Ross, then, if the season gets washed out? Because I think the owners, if they don't get any budging from the players, which I think they're going to get something, there's too much writing on this.

Something has to get done, right? Right. They're not going to scrap an entire season. I don't think baseball, the players, because think about how successful baseball has been since the last rank. Television ratings are up. Stadiums have grown. Everybody's got new facilities or amended facilities. Television contracts are huge.

You would really be screwing a positive momentum machine known as Major League Baseball if you scrapped the entire season because it became an issue of the money being paid to the athletes. What percentage of players do you think, not Blake Snell himself, but his mindset, what percentage of the players do you think he represents? Do you think it's 25, 50, 75? I mean, somewhere in between. How many people are, how many baseball players are there that are looking at what Blake Snell said, at least his message, maybe not the way he articulated it because it didn't really come off particularly well. But what he's saying, how many of the players are like, yeah, exactly. I agree with Blake. 75% Because they've already taken

They've already taken one cut Yeah And they're like We've done it once We're not doing it again But if they don't do it again Baseball's going to stop a season They're going to wash the season

They're burning daylight on this It's May 14th They need to be in camp Within a month They need to be on the field By June 5th My birthday Be a celebration

If they wait any longer, then you are pushing that calendar back to late October finishing the season in November, and then you're going to have weather issues, and you're going to probably have a neutral side of World Series, which I don't think anybody wants, right? Because you would hope by that point you'd be able to have some group of fans of the game and some revenue. You neutral side of World Series, I don't care where it is, Ross. If the Dodgers play the Red Sox in the World Series, would you go to Minutemey Park and watch it

and pay for it, World Series prices? I wouldn't, no. No chance. I don't think most people would. You need to be in these home parks, so when you do get the clearance that Major League Baseball can't accept fans in the facilities, you can accommodate them. You can't accommodate baseball

if you're playing in Cleveland on November the 24th playing for a World Series, provided that Indians would be there, or any playoffs for that matter. 111 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to reach out through Twitter,

it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. Joe Ingalls plays for the Utah Jazz. He does not want to go to the Utah Jazz practice facilities to work out. What do you think? Citing that he's got a young family, and that there's a bunch of unknowns on the NBA season and he's not completely sure that it's the best place to be. I think Joe Ingalls is using this as lip service.

I think Joe Ingalls, if he knew that July 15th, the NBA season was going to resume, he'd be in that practice facility. Now, you could say, well, is he just misinformed? Is he not informed at all? Is he just using this as a leverage? but Joe Ingalls has told the Utah Jazz, I will not practice in your facility because I'm uncertain of the unknowns.

Ross, I would think it's probably the safest place to shoot a game of pickup basketball, wouldn't you think? Wouldn't you think every NBA facility is overly cleansed? As long as you have the assurances, I guess, but I mean, aren't a lot of the new cases coming from people who are staying at home,

stuff like, it's, I don't know. I think this is a ploy, and I don't think it's intentional, but it's a ploy of, hey, let's get some dates on the calendar here. Because if you don't know when the season's going to resume and you don't know if you're going to have a season, it's easier to say,

ah, no, I'm good, I'm going to stay home. But if you've got an NBA season in 45 days and you need to be around your coaches and getting your game back in order to game to play because you want to help the Utah Jazz win a championship, I think you're playing. So this, I think, is a measure to once again get Commissioner Silver

to put down some dates on the calendar. Problem is he's still waiting. So I understand why Joe Ingalls of the Jazz is doing this. I'm just thinking that if I'm an NBA player and I get to go to my facility and it's been cleansed and cleaned and verified and checked,

that's where I'm going to get my best work in because I got to think there's got to be an NBA season. 113 on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790 if you want to get in. 7-13-212-5-7-90 through Twitter. at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. We've got non-Florida stories at 150.

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when your mama jokes dominate the conversation you know it's a slow sports day but we must move on we must soldier on we must continue marching tomorrow we'll have ernie johnson on from NBA's Tomorrow Friday? Tomorrow is Friday. And we had the resuming of the Fantasy 5. Wonderful. Which you won last week. Oh, what's the topic this Saturday?

I'm going to let you come up with a topic this week. Okay. Because every time I... Go ahead. Top five Matt Thomas drops in my personal folder. That's not a contest. Why not? Because you don't fight...

They're all... There's over 40 of them. There's like... I got like 40 of them. We can make a top five list. No, you can't. They're all good. They're all good.

I'm glad I'm here for your... entertainment values, what I'm saying. Trying to find a good non-Florida story. The ones I'm not going to go with, I usually involve like Missouri sues televangelist Jim Baker for selling fake coronavirus cure. He's doing that?

I didn't realize, people are doing fake coronavirus cure. Did you know that Jim Baker was alive? Jim Baker, no. Who's that? He was a televangelist back in the 80s, him and Tammy Fay. Oh, really? The one where they had the I only know Tammy Fay Baker via

parodies of Saturday Night Live. Yeah, be a K-K-E-R is her name. So, trying to find the definitive. Is he okay? Well, apparently he's fighting some legal battles. Oh, I got one for you. What do you think about if Vince McMahon's and Oliver Lux's lawsuit gets televised? How good would that be? Well, only if Vince is going to get on the stand.

Apparently Vince has lost a lot of his fastball, so to speak. I think he's in his late 70s. Oh, so he hadn't been on TV and stuff like that? very rarely. Is that why he didn't go out and scream this is the XFL this year? Well, I think he's trying to back away. I think, first of all, he's been taking a major bath financially with the WWE. Didn't he have some kind of health issues recently as well?

Well, I don't know if anything in particular, but I know he's, again, he was on the television quite a bit. I think he just doesn't have the, I think he's late 70s. I think he's not really going to adhere to the younger generation that follows the WWE. It's more about Stephanie and his daughter and her husband, Triple H. Okay. But the lawsuit, to what you said was sealed. Now Oliver Lux Group's saying, put it all out there. Really?

Yeah. They're saying that all the work was done on his cell phone was legit. They were having constant conversations. I mean, that's what I'm saying I'm kind of looking forward to seeing if this thing actually becomes something we can see on television. I mean, what's the last time you watched court TV? Is there even a core TV channel? Do they have court TV? I don't know.

man when I was the last time I was waiting for baited breath on a trial was the Michael Jackson trial really what was that like 2004 three or four I had mono in 1995 and I watched about 80% of the OJ trial that's how sad of my life was that I would spend hours watching it it was on it was on he 2005 was a Michael Jackson trial I remember following that I remember I was interning at a law firm and me and the secretary of one of the partners were like, we were just gossiping about what's going to happen in the Michael Jackson trial. What was the venture result on that? He was not guilty.

So. Which I believed was the correct verdict at the time, but after watching the HBO special. Which I, you know what? I'm not done. You tell me not to do it. Yeah. I had to turn it off. That's rare.

It's disgusting. No, absolutely for me. Yeah. It's disgusting. But yeah, I wouldn't quite, maybe then. It's very specific and vulgar and, quite frankly, all too real. Like what channel would ESPN2 put the trial on? Wouldn't that be?

I'd watch hours of that a day. Yeah, what else are they doing? What's literally on ESPN2 right now? Okay, ESPN right now has NFL Live on. Okay, with some guy with a green screen on. Cool. Yeah, ESPN2 has a replay of the jump? Yesterday's jump.

Wait, no, you hit the wrong button. Oh, sorry. better. But yeah, I mean, who's to say that Oliver's a guy we've known for a long time. I wouldn't imagine he would. I feel like, just look at, look on his face and look at the circumstances of what happened. Two days or one or two days or whatever it was before the league is literally going to fold. Right. He fires him, says it's with cause so that he doesn't have to name him in the bankruptcy filings. All signs point to Vince McMahon doing a dirty deed here to me. Doesn't that seem shady? If this pandemic did not happen and the league we're still running right now, would Oliver Luck be fired as CEO?

That's the question I brought to yesterday. And that's basically what the courts are going to have to decide. And so he must have done such a horrific, because you don't fire somebody automatically. You don't fire him for doing personal stuff on their company phone. Everybody does that. He must have done something so bad at the start of the season that you would give. For instance, if you were unsatisfied with someone's work performance and he was a manager of yours, right? you'd give him two or three or four weeks, right?

Yeah. So if you fired him after week five, that means he must have done months and months of serious damage because it is embarrassing in order for him to fire his CEO, the guy who has been the face of the XFL. Oliver Lucht has done, did more TV interviews, more radio interviews, defended everything about the league and the rules and how it was being played. What could he have possibly done that have been so egregious that he would have just all of a sudden just said, you're fired. Don't you build multiple cases against the guy?

You would think so. So we went through some of it yesterday. It was the gross neglect of the job once the coronavirus pandemic began. Apparently, McMahon is mad that he moved the business offices to his own home. But it wasn't there by March, this is by March 13th. Well, how big is the XFL offices? By March 13th, there was the outbreak and the NBA had shut down. So it doesn't, I mean, wouldn't it make sense?

sense for Oliver luck to be operating out of his home? And then the Antonio Calloway signing apparently is gross negligence or whatever. Antonio Calloway has never been convicted of anything. He got suspended multiple times in the NFL for smoking for getting substance abuse.

Smoking weed. Antonio Calloway loves weed. He hasn't been convicted of a crime that I know of. Yeah. And then personal use of an iPhone. That's the weakest one of the great. I mean, come on. Yeah.

That's the one that's the hardest one to accept. The case kind of seems paper thin. But here's how you do it. You have Judge Jerry preside over the case. That's Jerry Springer, who's got his own successful show. Or maybe you try to buy off the judge with, you know, because you make it a wrestling. You make it a show for the WW Network.

You know, Strow's relegation, Tom and Town Town says, you know, you have Vincent Mann try to hit Oliver Luck with a chair. Okay. Somebody gets double crossed? Yeah. Who's going to turn heel? Somebody's going to turn heel on the stand? It's Oliver Lux attorney.

Hey, Oliver, I got this, man. And so then Oliver Luxe walks, Oliver Luck's attorney walks off to the bathroom. And McMahon's in there like, okay, you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. And then you never see it, he never sees it coming. Oliver Luck actually has a bad attorney who's turned heel in order for him to lose. Don't talk about Paul Dobrowski like that. Paul de Braskey is the million-dollar lawyer.

He's got a price. Which Paul de Browski says, Oliver is thrilled that this all can be aired in the court of public opinion because his position is that he was wrongfully terminated. So you're right. Yesterday it said that the Lux attorneys were trying to seal it.

Now apparently they're thrilled that it's airing in the public opinion. Put it on a Twitch channel. Apparently everybody's got a Twitch channel on it. It's true. Blake Snell does. Twitch is blowing up, Matt. Why don't they do this?

Do you really want to be outside the box? Why don't we let Twitter decide if Vince McHan's guilty. Do a Twitter poll. Russian bots. Ooh, that would be a... And then wrestling fans. Like John Cena for life,

always going to root for Vince McMahon. Yeah, who's got more fans? Vince McMahon or Oliver Luck. Yeah, that's probably a bad idea. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Some props are out on the final last dance episodes. You don't want in doubt, Ross,

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Sports Talk 790, Matt Thomas, Ross, Villarreal. Joe George, with you. 713-2125790. The phone number, if you'd like to get in, 7-13-21-257. I'm talking in the last segment a little bit about the airing of grievances, basically what you have now, Vince McMahon and Oliver Luck at odds. It's interesting because yesterday

what I was reading was that Oliver Luck was and on his side, they didn't want the contract, the terms of Oliver Luck's contract they did not want publicly and also the termination letter. But now apparently a part of that is coming out and

Oliver Luck and his attorneys according to what they're saying today are thrilled that this can be aired out in the court of public opinion. I mean, just look on his face. I mean, how could Vince McMahon possibly try and sell this and not know that there was going to be a wrongful termination lawsuit? Vince McMan is a smart businessman.

He had to know firing somebody, firing the CEO, presumably the highest paid employee of this entire operation. Three days before the league folded, he had to know this was going to result in a lawsuit, right? You would think so. You had to know, like, I mean, Matt Thomas talked about Vince McMahon losing his fastball, and I guess he's 74 years old right now. now. How could he, is that basically what he's doing? Is this a smart business move in that

he was going to have to pay him in full? And now it'll probably be settled out of court for a number a little bit less than that. I guess that's what Vince McMahon is thinking with this whole thing. Yeah, I think he's the king of settling out of court. Is he? I think if there was a goat of settling out of court. He's a settler. Remember those direct TV commercials? We're settlers. We settle for cable. Those were great commercials, by the way. Those were great commercials. What's the best commercial going The Avisides the ones I read on the air here I'll tell you what's not the best commercials going

Flow and her little minion, whatever that guy's name is. The this year guy, this year. Oh, let me tell you, right now, and these guys are off the air, thank God, those Oh, you hate the Sonic guys.

The D-Bag Sonic guys. I got no issue with the Sonic guys. Why do you hate them? They're not funny. They're the Scalar brothers. I think they're kind of funny. Scler brothers are all right. No, the Scalar brothers are like,

sickos. I used to listen to them a little bit when they would... We used to watch cheap seats. And then I used to... They would fill in for Jim Rome every now and then back in the day. See how that went from. I don't know if they still do that. No. No, the Sonic dudes are the ones that needed to go.

And they are gone. They're gone, I think. I thought they were still in commercials. Well, I... I thought I saw them recently. Is this an anti-Sonic thing or an anti-them thing? Sonic is fantastic. Love Sonic.

I've said this for years. If you're choosing one... fast food restaurant to go to for the rest of your life. Just for the sheer fact of the variety, I'll go with Sonic. I think that's a good take, Ross. Thank you, Joe. You think over Jack and a Box for variety purposes? Yeah, Jacket in a Box variety is disgusting, though.

Now, if I'm picking one place for a variety while I'm 4 a.m. And I'm hammered. Well, let me build the case for Jacketabox. Go ahead. Not spectacular on anything they do. No. But a terrific variety. Chicken fajita pita,

Egg rolls, burgers, chicken strips, breakfast, onion rings, Sonic does all those things. Tacos. Except for that. They do have tacos. They do? Yeah. Sonic has tacos?

I don't know if they currently have. I've had tacos at Sonic before 1,000%. See, my thing is like the, it's the dessert that pushes Sonic over the edge. You get desserts. You get slushies. You get a cherry lime made. You get burgers. You get chicken.

You get hot dogs. You get popcorn chicken. You get boneless wings. I don't want to sit in my car. I think I'll go to Sonic dinner. You get mozzarella sticks, jalapeno poppers. You're building a wonderful cause.

And then we're going to Washington, D.C. to take back to the White House? But I don't want to sit in my car. What's the difference? Are you dining in and a jack-in-a-box quite often? No, just go through a drive-thru. Yeah. Wait, Matt, are you telling me?

I know you said yesterday you like to eat alone. I do too, but do you eat alone at jack-in-the-box? I have, yeah. Really? Look at the, look at the, on the Sonic menu as well. Soft pretzel twists. Every now and then they do 99 cent corn dogs.

Who didn't love that? You know, you might be right. Thank you, Matt. But do you see where I was... He's like the one thing I've changed your mind on in 10 years. Do you see... Do you see where I meant the jack-in-box? No, absolutely.

The menu is huge. The huge menu. Hey, I'm not knocking the variety of a jack-in-a-box menu. You didn't even mention terri-a-cchi bowls, I don't think. Oh, that's true. Terri-Iockey bowl's a good eat, too. All right. My problem with Jack-in-the-box is I feel

like it's very inconsistent. It's trashier. It's, yeah, exactly. You're, you're more likely to get a bad meal and stuff wrong and in some old crusted up taco. Wait, what?

What? At jack in a box and anywhere else. Is that your mom a joke? We're getting back to those. It's just a little sports day. Okay, so back to McMahon. He settles out of court. He's a settler. Yeah.

And he doesn't, he, is he chest moving? this? He's he two moves ahead. He thinks he knows it's going to get settled, but it's going to at least cost him less than it would have if he had to pay him the full amount in bankruptcy. Why didn't he fire to begin with? Just because he wanted to save face, I guess? Maybe he thought he'd get away with firing the

commissioner of the league. No, no, no, he fired him knowing that he was going to be a lawsuit and knowing that he was going to have to settle, but at least it would be less than paying him in full? I don't know. But, man, between that and the WWE, he's having a terrible financial year. All right. And most millionaires. and billionaires aren't doing so great,

except for apparently Jeff Bezos from Amazon. Oh. Did you read that he's going to be a trillionaire or something like that? So he can... Can you go an hour without seeing an Amazon truck somewhere? Nope. He'll be the first ever trillionaire. I was thinking of a trillionaire.

I was thinking of Kardashian would be a trillionaire first. Their business has to be doing great right now, just because everyone's staying at home, everything's getting delivered. People want to go shopping. They're just only online shopping right now. I guess the malls are reopening, but Amazon's got to be killing it right now.

Can we buy stock on Amazon? Yeah, it's going to be pricey. I'm just saying. Probably going to be worth it, though. I've lost some money on. Amazon is going to take over everything, basically. I need some good investments. All right.

It looks like one share of Amazon's going to run you $2,300 bucks. Oh, my gosh. Geez. Hey, if we get another out of stimulus checks, we can, you know, get one's share together. It's gone, it's skyrocketed since March. So my 401K has gone on the, you know, water. Yeah, and the stock is rising.

You should have put your entire 401k in Amazon, and you'd have been just fine. My goodness. Is Amazon, where do you put Amazon among the greatest, not an invention, I guess business idea in the history of the world? Yes, remember it started out as a bookstores? You just buy books on there. For real?

Yeah. It was Amazon.com was for books. It was basically an online bookstore. So he was Uber, I mean, help me out of this. He was Uber successful in the books. Yeah.

And then he goes to major manufacturers of everything, from clothes to dishwashing detergent to anything and said, hey, I can build, I'll build these warehouses and I'll help you send your product to your potential clients, potential customers. And now they have a video streaming service with Amazon Prime. Yep.

They've got their own smart streamer. They don't even use FedEx. They have their own airplanes. You know that? It doesn't surprise me. If you see, if you're, there's a flight radar app I use. Yeah. And I'll see see what kind of planes are in the area.

And I'll see Amazon Flight 1473 going from one city of the next. Yeah, I think they're partners with Whole Foods now. I mean. Or did they bought Whole Foods? Or they bought Whole Foods or something. They're buying everything. Yeah. Amazon is good.

It's going to be the United States of Amazon. Who's going to buy somebody first? Is Facebook going to buy Amazon or Amazon going to buy Facebook? And then we're done with buying things. I'm odd on Facebook. Why? The Rona made me hate it. The Rona made you hate it?

Wait a minute. You don't want to see... The Rona takes? You don't want to see pictures of kids and stuff? That's fine. But like, I got to see my family members post and stupid things. I'm just like, please... It took the Rona for you to hate Facebook?

It made it worse. Let me tell you. I love my father very much. but I've had to mute him because he is so political right now. It is driving me up the wall. That's why I don't go on Facebook, period, for the most part. Yeah, I mute a lot of my dad's post individually. That's the same boat, Matt.

That's the great part is that we don't have to tell them either. Yeah. I'll send this clip to both your father's. Because here's what he says. For Father's Day. Do you see what I wrote on Facebook the other day? I was like, Dad, I don't, I'm busy. I just scroll through it real quick.

I didn't see. No. What was your dad saying? He has a political slant. Uh-oh. And I'm not going to tell you which one it is. He's older. Well, clearly he's older than Mayhem, yes.

Yeah, I think I could figure it out. You would be 100% incorrect. You know, you don't. No, I don't. I think he's a communist. Oh, Matt's dad, Jerry, is a communist. Okay, fair enough. 143 is a time.

Non-Florida stories. Mine out of Brooklyn, Connecticut. I didn't know there was a Brooklyn, Connecticut. Well, now you know. Yours is in Illinois, is that correct, Joe? And where is your from this week? Mine would be from Anchorage, Alaska. The non-Florida story.

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but most of the time they do. My mannequin story was a tremendous edition of the non-floor story, but I felt like I couldn't hold on it for 24 hours without somebody poaching it or mentioning it beforehand. So my Plan B story is not nearly as good as yesterday's mannequin story, but I digress. Here we go with the non-flora stories, and I will start first.

Dateline, Brooklyn, Connecticut. Jason Dodano, guys, is 37 years of age. He wanted to go to a McDonald's in Brooklyn, Connecticut, last week. They would not allow him to order food or stay inside the restaurant because it is a statewide order that you must wear mask in businesses to curb the spread of the coronavirus. He was not happy. So apparently he took a rock.

and threw it through the window of the McDonald's because he was unhappy about not having a mask and not being served. Then he proceeded to go to a Walmart where he would steal where he would steal some underwear. What? McDonald's on Walmart. That's a one-two punch right there.

Doddo through the rock stole several pairs of Colt Ladies underwear from a nearby Walmart. He tried to flee, but thought better of it, when a police dog met him as he left the store. So my non-Florida story this week involves McDonald's,

throwing a rock through a window, going to an adjacent Walmart to buy to steal women's panties, and almost being destroyed by a police dog. That, my friends, is my non-Florida story. Sports RV, you are up next. Okay, let me tell you about a little state called Alaska. In a town there called Anchorage. In Alaska, they are attempting to pass House Bill 73 and Senate Bill 112.

This bill makes it illegal for police to have sexual contact with the person they are investigating, more specifically, prostitutes. Well, you win. You would figure that the community is happy about this bill. The Anchorage Police Department is not happy. They have said their top officials to Juneau with a request for. for lawmakers. They want them to kill this bill because they think it would hamper their police investigating duties. They have explained by saying a zero sexual contact rule would doom any investigation of prostitution. For example, if they're trying to solicit a prostitute as

part of a sting, all the prostitute has to say is touch my breast. And if the cop cannot do so, then they know the jig is up and then the prostitute runs away and they have no case. So the cops want to be able to touch breast. To touch the breasts of prostitutes and perhaps other things. So they want this bill killed. Apparently the lobby is working. It looks like the bill is caught up in committee. So the Anchorage and other Alaska Police Department believe that touching women's breast can help them solve crimes.

Correct. That's a reason for no need for safe space. Can you social distance in a prostitution sting? I don't think so. Can you can't social distance at a strip club, can you? No. They're doing drive-through ones now, right?

I mean, if they're just on the stage. That's true. And the seats are spread out. You can't get a leg. What's spread out? The chairs. Okay. I think you said legs spread out.

Hmm. And that's my story. I don't want to go to a strip club and have to social distance. I don't go to them, but if I was to go, why would I want a social distance? They're closed. If anywhere in America, then I want the social distance rule to not be applicable, it'd be in a strip club, correct? I would imagine so. It's fair.

All right. Let's go to Illinois for the final non-Flority story. Once upon time I heard death works in this segment. So I found a story that it's just, I found odd, okay? So, Ross, stop looking at me like that. I'm not looking. I'm staring off into the void. Okay.

A suburban Chicago woman was recently, recently adopted a French bulldog. That bulldog, French bulldog, the little ones. Remember, these guys are like tiny, teeny tiny, was apparently bred to fight and was, and this dog fatally killed this woman. A 50-pound dog. This is a terrible story. I know. Great story, Joe. I'm just saying it's a non-Florida story.

This doesn't have it in Florida. Now, wait a minute. You had an entire week. And every other stay in the union. So you said, hey, why don't I put on the Matt Thomas show at 153? A story about a 50-pound dog killing a woman. Matt Thomas's story. Man throws rocket McDonald's and goes to Walmart and steal stuff.

Ross is a story, prostitution in Anchorage. I heard death words. And then Joe, woman gruesomely mulled to death by dog. I didn't say gruesome. Yeah, but it probably was pretty gruesome, wasn't it? I don't know. That's not what the story says. I'm assuming there wasn't just one little tug on her neck and it was over with.

All right, now I'm one for four. Seriously, in the history of, turn your microphone off, you're loud, too loud. In the history of segments. And I've done segments on this show for almost. 11 years, okay? That's the worst thing I've ever heard. I've heard your non-flora stories.

There's way worse. I'm defending myself. We used to have one with like mummified bodies and submarines and so. Yeah, but at least there was a story to it. You just said, hey, everybody, there's a woman that got killed. No, Ross made me laugh and I wasn't able to tell the story right. I butcher the story.

Yeah, right. So it's all, that's part of the, give you a little tip here, Joe. Part of the non-Forto story, yes, it's delivery and setup. Yeah, I've been, I was good at that last week, the first two weeks. So tell me what part of the story we were missing here? Nothing. I just think I delivered it well. Part of the, yeah, part of being, it's about being a good storyteller with a non-Florida story. I don't think I am.

You don't just come out and say, hey, guys, check this out. Lady got mauled by your dog. Okay. Cool. That's how I thought it was done. That, no wonder I don't listen to Space City Saturday. We don't talk about this stuff. That's the low blow, Matt.

It's a fine program. No one I don't listen to Bears Weekly podcast. He's not doing that anymore. Or this week with the White Sox. That was the, I mean, Joe, I love you like a third cousin. Are we going to take a vote or what? No, we don't need to vote. I'm embarrassed for you.

Here's the vote I will put out there. People want to vote for Joe, maybe. How awful was Joe's story? Really quick. Oh, scale one to ten? One to ten. 713-212-5-790. How embarrassed you that Joe took a minute and a half of my radio show.

I didn't not take that long. Hey, everybody. Here's a story from a woman in Illinois who got killed by a 50-pound dog. It was a 20-pound dog. Like, I said, didn't deliver it right. This is supposed to be light-hearted. Like, I have a guy that threw a rock inside of a McDonald's and stole women's panties.

That's my jam. Lesson learned. I'll be better next week. Do I get invited until next week? God, I hope not. I'll be better next week. You got it, Joe. It's okay.

You can pick yourself up when you get knocked down. I'll put money that I win next week. All right. Now that any positive momentum of the show has been completely grinded to a halt, let's get some Blake Snell sound in the next hour. I can't wait. Let you all hear what Blake Snell had to say. He's trying to defend the fact that he does not want to play baseball this season.

And if you're quarantining at home and you're not driving or going outside, or need to work. Every time he says, bro, drink. Yeah. And I'll say this. He doesn't want to play baseball. He wants to protect his body, protect his family, unless you're paying the entire salary.

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Is the Matt Thomas show. Here we go. 201 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. We take you to 3 o'clock today. Ernie Johnson from TNT's inside the NBA. We'll join us tomorrow, so will Brian T. Smith of the Chronicle, and the return of the Fantasy 5, which Ross will come up with a topic. I'm putting it all on Ross, and not on you, Joe, because when I give you something to handle terms of responsibility-wise, you fail. I suggested your mama jokes. A fantasy 5 of your mama jokes. That's not bad.

I think it would work. But we might have burnt to the list. Yeah, but we might have burnt through all the good ones today. We did. The ones I want to use the ones you can't use on FCC-approved radio. Fair. You know what I'm saying? All right. 713-212-5-790. If you've not heard in a day where there is not a tremendous amount of, well, we still owe the audience, the prop bets on the last dance.

I've got to get that to that too. We'll get that in the next segment. Blake Snell of the Tampa Bay race, former Syong winner, Blake Snell, who lost to Justin Verlander in a pretty close vote a couple of years ago. Getting some negative headlines, probably deservingly so. You mean beat Verlander. What I say? Lost. Oh, yeah, he won.

He beat Verlander, and then Verlinder will beat Cole the following year. So Blake Snell went on his Twitch channel, Ross. Yes. Why don't you make some outstanding remarks like this on your Twitch channel? No, I don't do any of that. We just have good, clean fun. And apparently he is not up for pitching in the year 2020. By the way, he will pitch.

What's the over under number of appearances for Blake Snell this year? I'll put it at six over or under. Well, if there's a season, which is still hanging in the bow. I'll say over, I guess. Yeah. Okay. So basically what we're going to tell you is he's a fraud. Let's give you.

If his money is right. If his money is right. Blank Snell on the risk of playing in 2020. If I get the Rona on top of that, if I get the Rona, guess what happens with that? Oh, yeah, that's in my body forever. That damage is not going to be like the damage that was done in my body. That's going to be there forever. So now I got to play with that on top of that.

So y'all got, I mean, y'all got to understand, man, for me to go, for me to take a pay cut is not happening because the risk is through the roof. It's a shorter season. Less pet. Like, bro, it's, yeah, man, I got to, no, I got to get my money. I'm not playing unless I get mine, okay? And that's just the way it is for me. Like, I'm sorry if you guys think differently, but the risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money I'm making. way lower. Why would I think about doing that?

Why would you think about doing that, Matt? I don't know, because the rest of his baseball fraternity are going to do it. I like that he calls it the Rona. And by the way, once the Rona gets inside you, it never leaves you. It permanently damages you. So says Dr. Snell. Well, that's what some doctors are saying, yes.

It could be permanent lung damage. Well, is anybody disputing that? I don't know. I've been paying attention. Okay. apparently Dr. Snell is taking advantage of that, of that information. He just says,

look, this is not worth a pay cut. It just is not. I'm just saying, man, it just doesn't make sense for me to lose all of that money and then go play

and then be on lockdown, not around my family, not around the people I love, and get paid way to hell less, and then the risk of injury runs every time I step on the field. So it's, it's just it's not worth it

it's not I love baseball to death it's just not worth it pause if it's a pay cut if there's nothing you know if it's no pay cut I get mine we can talk I want to play I think there's like an argument

for what he's saying and then that pause happens and he just sounds like a total moron more on his pay concerns if I'm going to play I should be in the money I signed to be getting paid I should not begin

half of what I'm getting paid because the season's cut in half on top of a 33% cut of the half that's already there so I'm really getting like 25%. On top of that, it's getting taxed. So imagine how much I'm actually making the play. You know what I'm saying?

Like, I ain't making a shit. And on top of that, so all that money's gone and now I play risk in my life. He's big on this risk thing. If I get the Rona, on top of that, if I get the Rona, guess what happens with that? Oh yeah, that's in my body.

Oh, I already play that one. Sorry. So apparently there can be in some cases long-term, long damage, not in every case. This is according to the two minutes of reading of Healthline.com that I've found. So when in doubt, let's find out what Jeff Passett has to say about Dr. Snell. The big question is, are they willing most literally to put their money where their mouth is? because if Blake Snell is threatening to sit out, if he doesn't get his money and they don't get their money, is he actually going to sit out the season? Are the players actually going to miss a season?

I still have a really hard time believing that in the end of the 1,200 guys in the Major League Baseball Players Association, they are willing to throw away a season over a cut of money. Passa was asked what players are saying behind the scenes. Blake Snell is making public what a lot of players are saying. behind the scenes. Now, certainly part of this is players' efforts to try and cajole the owners

and make them know that, hey, money is important to us and we are willing to potentially miss a season because of it. You ever notice how Jeff Passon was his music behind him?

Yeah, there's always something going on behind Jeff Passon. You know, you listen to music before he writes. We found that out in spring training. He was, it was the weirdest thing, Joe.

Ross and I were trying to do our major market radio show and he's jamming out to some in 90s grunge band. It was a rage against the machine. He was listening to and he was finger tap on. He was playing. He was air piano. Yeah. Or drums. He was doing, I think he was drumming.

Air drumming, air guitaring, if you will. So let's do this in all, in all honesty. Can we separate the stupid stuff from the smart stuff that he said? Was there anything that you go, he's not speaking alone? They obviously do not want another pay cut. They obviously believe a revenue share would be a massive pay cut for them, and probably would be. Concerns about long-term health. Makes sense.

Got it. I mean, it's just, I wish I could eloquently explain it. He had all this that made a lot of sense. And then he said, well, I'll put a price on it. It's like a good movie with a bad indie. Well, it's just he put a price on all the things that I thought he thought was important. I'm worried about the virus. I'm worried about the long-term ramification.

I'm worried about being gone from my family. I'm worried about all these things that made a lot of sense. Just pay me what I'm going to normally pay, and this will be a moot conversation. That'd be a little easier. Put yourself at risk. Don't a lot of people do that? But don't a lot of people also work jobs and have to worry about taking pay cuts? I mean, he must think baseball players are doing something abnormal.

Well, they are not essential. So, I mean, he doesn't have to play baseball. Okay. We don't need him to play baseball for us. If he wants to, if he wants to say, you know what, I don't need to put myself at risk for something that is not, to go out and throw baseball. To some guy with a wooden bat. Yeah. You can, I mean, you can understand that that it's not necessarily.

It's not, we, the country doesn't need him to play baseball. As much as we want to say that he does, we don't. No, that's true. We've lived with two months without sports. We can probably do it in their six or seven. Wouldn't be fun for first. us, but the reality is there would be spots for people to actually do other things besides watching sports.

What I can't get past, and this is where a smarter person to jump in than me, partial season, special situation, getting a really nice wage for a shortened season with less work, less expectations, frankly, bigger rosters, less personal responsibility, is that is going to be better than getting nothing at all. It's going to come down to what we've been talking about this whole time, is testing and reassuring the players that they are going to be safe, and they have every little detail and any problem that could come up, they need to be prepared for.

And they have to have the tests, and they have to assure the players that they are safe. I think that's what we don't mean. We haven't really heard anything recently, but after the first day of negotiations, what, a couple of days ago, the thing was they didn't even talk money. we still haven't heard from anybody. Have we heard from any big baseball writer that they're talking money?

No, monies have been discussed. So maybe safety is really of the utmost concern right now, at least on the player's side to say, hey, if we're going to come out and play? Well, I think you actually were right yesterday by saying, let's get all the frivolous stuff out of the way of health. I think that's what the owners want, yeah, for sure. Well, and there was a report that baseball players were upset that the MLB has taken this long to give them a report because they knew that some of this stuff

was going to be have to be taking care of first. Like they knew the health part was going to have to be check one and then money

would be box two. Like, the bigger box. Yeah. The health thing is the appetizer. So if you're the owners, are you playing this

right by not talking about the revenue share? Because if you start getting into a long squabble about it now, you're going to be racing against the clock eventually.

Yeah, and I feel like they're putting, they're going to like box the players into the corner of, well,

hey guys, it's May 17th, May 18th. we want our first game to be on July 1st or on Father's Day this year and the end of June. So you guys need to get it together. Would it behoove either side to put a deadline on this? No. I mean, there's kind of a deadline.

There's not a hard deadline, but I mean, they need to get this ramped up sooner or not in the later if they're going to want to play this, especially this 82 game proposal. By the way, I put this on Twitter yesterday. That's one of the phrases I don't want to hear ever again after this is all sitting done. sooner rather than later. I hear from sports executives. I hear from myself. I hear it from you. You know, hey, can't wait for sports to come sooner rather than later.

I can't wait for this virus and the death toll to go smaller sooner rather than later. How do you feel about ASAP? I'm okay with that. It's quick. We know what it means. These are the phrases I wanted to get rid of. I put this on Twitter yesterday. Unprecedented?

Unprecedented times. Sooner rather than later. If I hear sooner rather than later one more time, Because you know what? You know it wins every time? Later it wins. So far. Sooner hasn't won't won't in a very long time.

Unless you fight the UFC. That's true. I would like to fight Ireland sooner rather than later. Uncertain times, unprecedented times, troubling times, sooner rather than later. Other people put up there the New Normal. They hate hearing that. Oh, yeah.

I hate that one. Social distancing. They hate that. Boy, new normal is really getting a long run. One says Houston, Texas coach Bill O'Brien. Brian. It's a phrase they don't want to hear anymore. We're all in this together. Oh, that's a good one.

We're all into this together, or this has even divided us even more than it was before. Here's one from Rob underscore Bargis, abundance of caution. Oh, this two shall pass. Oh, enough of that crap. I've heard that one. That's true, though. In this together? Might not pass with all of us, but it's going to pass. Discomfort. Sorry, discomfort's going to be a part of Major League Baseball.

It's going to be part of the Astros organization. Yeah, social distancing. New Normal, by the way, he's leading the clubhouse. I didn't realize, I had forgotten how New Normal was so wildly hated. Wasn't that a sitcom, too? New Normal? Who did star? Save yourself on this one.

Say it, what do you mean? Justin Bartha and Andrew Reynolds? The New Normal. Is there really a show? I thought you made that up. First episode day. I said, save myself. Well, because I thought you were going with a line here on this.

I'm like, who's starring the New Normal? It was only last it for two seasons. Did you ever see an episode of it? No. No, it's 2012. Are you still watching the dumb-ass show with Courtney Cox? No, we finished it. I'm just pumping through Gray's Anatomy right now.

Just hammer him. Two or three episodes tonight right now. Wow. Every night. What season are you on? Seven. So you've been living Groundhog Day. It's the Matt Thomas show.

It's the A-Team. It's a nightcap. And then it's Gray's Anatomy. Every night. It kind of feels like it, dude. Aren't you a bit disturbed that every member of the cast dies in horrific fashion? Yeah, I'm starting to realize that. And you can, the problem with it is it's really obvious.

Anytime something good happens to a character, you're like, oh, they're dead nice. Sorry to spoil you here, but here's one. One dude dies, but he can't hit by a bus. Pass that. One girl gets killed when a plane lands on her. I already know about that. What else? Lends on her head?

Lans on her, period. Like a jump, like a commercial plane? I think a plane that had crashed and a piece of the plane just landed on her. That's very unlucky. That's why I stopped watching it. It jumped the shark. What other grossest ways to people to die on that show? Well, one girl died of cancer, right?

No, she just left. She just, oh, that the girl, her husband or whatever left the show because he died of cancer. And then there's McDreamy, McSteamy, and then there's McLeasbian. Yeah, it's just a terrible, stop. I will not make fun of your Florida store. stories, not florist or is anymore if you stop watching that show. He's going to keep going. Yeah, because I don't hate it. Yeah. What was

the one you tried to watch with your wife and she bailed on you? This is it the office? We're going to watch the office next. I thought you were already going to watch it, and she bailed on you. I've never watched one episode before my life. It was like we started watching the office, and then we were going to flip back and forth. Yeah. But then I kind of got into control. But like, I kind of got more into

that. Oh, so you're burying the lead. You're into it. Yeah, I am. Real fast before we get to break. We're running late. Brent, send me an email. Bigger D of the year.

Blake Snell or Mike Fires? Mike Fires is going to win D of the year? Well, wasn't he D of the year in 2019? He was a 2019 D. He's going to be too busy. Is he going to be back to back? Is Blake Snell in early 2020 D of the year? He's got to be the number one seed.

We should see this pretty much. I like this idea. 215. Matt Thomas Show, Sports Talk, 790. 713, 212. 570 is how you reach our show. 713-212-5-790. Props on the Last Dance next on 790.

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You're going to come back? Yeah. First person shown your odds. Phil Jackson, three to two, Jerry Krause, two to one, Scotty Pippin, three to one. Jerry, Rinesdor, four to one, Dennis Rodman, five to one. There is no... Is in the first, like not as in a highlight or something? Something, but it's just his first person shown.

First person interviewed. Where's it, where's Michael Jordan that mix? I guess he's off the board. Yeah, I maybe you'd have to lay out, but a lot of them have been opening with other people or other highlights or those are the five goings on. How many people will be shown with cigars in their mouth? Over under three. The entire episode? I'll take over three.

Over three different people. Okay, I was going to say if Michael gets shown twice. Well, they're going to win the championship, the last championship. So that's definitely a cigar and Phil, a cigar, probably in Jerry Cross because he wants to be like one of the boys. Pippin was smoking cigars a lot of the time. Robin will smoke a cigar. Yeah, Scott Borrell will have, like, it seems like everyone will have one. How many times will the F word be used?

Over under is two and a half. Over. Easy over on that one. And will Michael Jordan at any point be shown in a wizard's uniform? Yes is a plus 150. And no is a minus 200. I'm going to say no because this is the Michael Jordan story and he's going to try to pretend like that didn't happen

just like the Rockets. I got asked today on a Salt Lake Radio show where you upset the Rockets were not discussed in the championship. I said I was just a little surprised. I'm not mad. But it just once again shows you that is this a documentary if Michael Jordan looked at every part of it

with a fine tooth comb. Is that still a documentary? It still is. It's just a documentary. It's almost like a problem. I was calling it a, this is like a Michael Jordan infomercial. That's what we're watching.

Yeah. So you'd be watching Time Life Music of the 70s, followed by Michael Jordan's last days. I mean more as like a product that they're selling. Like the shark vacuum or what is that one? The flex seal? Or the guy repairs his boat and then goes out on the boat with a flex seal? It's like all the great things about flex seal.

Yeah. Also like, you know how they had those commercials about the knives? The Knives? The knives, too? Yeah, the knives or OxyClean and what's that guy, Billy Mays? May he rest in peace? But talking about how OxyClean can get every stain out in the entire world

and all the great things OxyClean does. So what are we missing from this? What have we not seen that we should have seen so far in the first eight episodes? I would have, well, I understand why this wasn't in there, but like I said, I did some reading last week in preparation of these episodes about his father's death. Yeah.

There were a lot of questions about that investigation. about one of the guys who got convicted is still trying to appeal to this day saying that he didn't do it. There are a lot of, they could have done basically probably a full episode on his father's death. And I don't want to say it was brushed over. But the details of the case and the convictions and the question marks that came up in that investigation, none of that was explored, which I felt like could have been. Can I go devil's advocate on you?

Can I say, well, in theory, the last dance is about the final season. And that, yeah, the flashbacks are important, but the flashbacks don't, take as their five, ten minute blips as compared to what we're really there for and that's the last season. Yeah, but we're going there. Yeah, but that's a huge part of his story. That's why he quit the first time. I don't disagree with you. I'm just saying, if Michael, if Michael Jordan's trying to defend the fact that his dad's death wasn't really brought up, he's saying, well, it was just a small caveat of my life, which is not the truth. We went through why he chose Nike over Adidas and Converse. We went through going to North Carolina.

We went through all this other, in every other little detail of his life. And then it's like, oh, my father died. Let's move on. That's what it kind of felt like to me. Yeah. And that's why you were made to feel shamed if you think there was something fishy about the death of his father.

Yes. But now that I'm, I've finished watching those last two episodes, I really don't have an opinion change. I don't, there was nothing that I was, that was shown to me, even if the old PR director of the league dropped a BS card on it and said,

David Stern, may he rest in peace of the same thing. I don't 100% believe that it was just a good old-fashioned. I'm tired of playing in the NBA. And, I mean, another thing on his father's death, the guys who had got convicted of the killing, they had called a known drug dealer with Michael Jordan's dad's car phone. And that known drug dealer was the son of a sheriff that was the department of the department that are doing the investigation. There's a lot of stuff they could have got into with that they didn't get into.

Yeah. So, yeah, if there was anything, it would probably. probably a lot of that. I want to know more about that retirement. Because if you're that alpha dog, Ross, you've just won a championship. You keep one and you are where you're supposed to be. You just don't all of a sudden get plum-tired of it.

I just don't believe it. I could see that. I could see that with the media tension in the father dying and the baseball thing and feeling like he did everything. I could see that. But also, I like how there is this line. of Michael Jordan and his winning mentality and everything he did and LeBron would never do this and these guys are soft and we were talking about it yesterday like oh you know he wouldn't load management guy quit basketball the ultimate load management he quit the game imagine if LeBron James had just won that championship with Cleveland and then he quit basketball what how he would get crushed in the media no Michael Jordan we always talk about how he would do in 2020 about who he would be yeah shooting more three-pointers than he ever would before yes he would He'd be good at it, too.

Who he would be defending, who would be defending him, how he would play, how his thoughts would be about the super teams? The one thing, would Michael Jordan take a night off? Would Michael Jordan be a load manager? Everybody that's an old school NBA fan says absolutely no chance. But Michael Jordan would probably want to play as long as he could. And if it meant Skip and I'd playing the sucky Cleveland Cavaliers, he might as well do it. And he did load manager. when he came back in 86.

They were limiting his minutes because of health. And that's why load management is in 2020. It's because of health. You brought that up yesterday. I don't believe it's, it was his long-term style of play. That was a one-season type of thing. He was never a load manager beyond that. The people that are load managing long-term are who right now?

Kauai Leonard's got a degenerative leg problem. So that, to me, is understandable. LeBron James is doing it. Guess who's played more minutes in their career? LeBron James or Michael Jordan. It's LeBron James. he's played more NBA minutes and Michael Jordan never did so I mean

I kind of get that too but he didn't take random games off in the 90s where I think he probably would have done it in 2020 maybe I don't know because I think there would have been probably optics that would have said hey this isn't your best interest take this night off one last one will Michael Jordan cry while being interviewed

yes plus 110 he's kind of misty he got 150 the last couple of episode he got a little misty and remember when he said break because he was talking about if you didn't want to to play the way I played, then that's up to you. I need to break.

I was wondering why he was tearing up right there. How about this? The day he said, I'm not playing for the Chicago Bulls anymore. When Phil gets let go and he goes and plays in Washington, is that the moment he goes all these championships,

we left on top, and I had to go somewhere else? Could that be the moment where you see the tear? I felt like I thought, he kind of got a little misty talking about his dad, and then the whole other thing. I think he won't.

I don't think he'll cry. All right. 230 on Sports Talk 790. If you'd like to join us, 713, 212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to reach out on Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. We're on until 3 o'clock.

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Okay. You've been given officially 23 hours head start. see what I can do. Okay, work it. Let's say how to our good friend, Ken Shearry, is the senior vice president of marketing for the Houston Rock. You're saying, why are you having a marketing genius on the show? Well, you have a genius idea to raise some money for COVID-19 victims in our area

and those helping out a variety of sources. Tell folks, Ken, what is happening on the Rockets.com website right now? Yeah, so we're doing a, we launched an online auction. It's actually on our app, and we have a daily auction. lots of different really cool items. We're going to be doing it for quite a while. As you can imagine, Matt, we've got a pretty hefty, robust list and stuff in our closet. So we're going pretty deep and get all sorts of great autograph stuff from Elijah Juan and Yao and James and T-Mack.

Really cool, collectible, limited edition stuff. And every day we're auctioning off one item. I think we post about four or five in advance. But each day, a bidding end. So today it's actually an autographed Elijah Juan jersey from my ability. maybe 97 or 98. And so, yeah, that's it. It's a great opportunity to participate in helping some COVID relief efforts.

The money goes through the Cushity Foundation and support of our COVID efforts. So it's a great cause, and it's a great opportunity to get some really cool stuff. In addition to maybe the best is the Matt Thomas audio file, if I've already purchased, by the way. You have. So I'm doing, I could do voicemail. I could do just general greetings. I mean, basically, I'm just at your beck and call for the $50 donation, correct? Yeah, I'm putting you through the ring on that one.

I haven't decided exactly what I'm going to have you say, but I'm excited about it. All right, so the Rockets app is the best place to do it, and you said 97-98 Rockets jersey. So I'm assuming you're going to have other players along the list of the way. I mean, current players, past players. So it's going to be, how long is this whole thing going to last for? So we plan on doing it for months. Again, we've got, we're going to do something new. You'll have a new item every day.

We've got right now, I think, so we've got the Elijah won jersey. We've got a Yao game-orne shorts that are autographed by Yao. We've got a pair of DeKembe sneakers autographed by Deek. And I think we have a James Hardin limited edition gold basketball from the 50th anniversary season. So those are the four items I think you'd see right now that you can bid on in addition to every day. you can always purchase for $50 the Matt Thomas Audio File, or if you just want to make a smaller donation, you can do that as well. And where does the proceeds go?

It goes to Clutch City Foundation. What are you going to do with that money? How is it dispersed? Clutch City Foundation, in support of our COVID relief efforts that we are going to be doing, you know, throughout the summer into the fall and probably beyond. Well, it's a great cause. And again, well worth everybody just taking a little bit of time going to Rockets.com or download of the Rockets app, which I did to see at the different auction.

One of the things you did before we stopped playing games is you built a bobblehead and uniform kind of walk of fame at the TOTA Center. I mean, how bad do you miss that right now? Being able to walk past those two different things. It's funny, yeah, because we did that, I think, the last game, was it the last game? We had the second of the last game prior to the shutdown. So we didn't get to appreciate it as long as we would have liked. But that was a fun project, and it's a great addition to the business. We got great response to it.

I think we're actually thinking about doing some sort of historical piece for our content of our jerseys of all time, and maybe we'll revisit that wall in the meantime. So just putting together all the uniforms is very cool. And then obviously collecting all of the bibles is really cool. And that's interesting because a few of the packages that we're putting out there. And that's, sorry, that's one that I forgot. We actually have a collection of legend bibles that you can bid on right now. So we're also offering up different bibles as part of that.

part of that auction as well. What's the most popular bobblehead in Rocket's history? Do you have such an idea? It's got to be the, well, the Travis Scott Bobble was incredibly popular. The James Harden Jedi, I would say it's probably the most popular. You know, back when we had Jeremy Lynn, he was a pretty popular bobblehead. But anything we've done with James is popular and the Travis. Yeah, those are definitely the most popular.

All right. And Al, you are the uniform guru. of the place, and I don't want to give away, you give away any details, but have you, have, is there any uniform talk going on for next year, despite the fact that everybody's kind of working on their own offices right now in their own homes? No, there's, there's still a plan. I mean, we've got, we've got a new, we're going to have a new city jersey, new city uniform next year, and it's going to be, I will promise you, it's going to be everybody away.

It'll be, it is, it is very well received. We are extremely excited about it. He is totally under lock and key right now. but it'll be, I think this year's was popular, the next year will be even more popular. And so we're looking forward to, hopefully, you know, we'll be able to get back and, you know, run with that one to the very beginning. You know, I think it's past season.

We launched around Thanksgiving because that was per the NBA program. Hopefully, I think there's a possibility we might be able to start it even earlier next year. All right, remind the folks again about this COVID-19 relief efforts, where they can find all the different auction items, including my introductions, and all the different jerseys and bobbleheads. Yeah, so just, you know, visit the, we're sending it out through all of our social media. So if you're following us, you'll see it. You'll see links to it.

But just download the Rockets app. And if you just, what I would advise is to visit the app, you know, once a week, once every five days, to see the new items that are being posted. We've got a lot of cool stuff. But for instance, Calvin Murphy, we just got confirmed he's going to donate one of his suits, which I think is pretty cool. we've got different experiences, unique things, like any coach is going to play. If people like to play Words with Friends, he's a big word geek, so, you know, a one-on-one virtual words with friends with Coach.

So we've got a lot of different things, experiences, items, unique items, automatic items. We're going to be updating that every, every, you know, four, five, six a day. So I would, if I'm a Rock fan, I would check it out every week. see what you're interested in. Let me tell you about this wars with friends thing. Coach Dan Tony takes this very seriously. So if you're going to bid for this, you better come ready because he will want to squash you in a moment's notice. You know this, right? That's right. That's my understanding for sure, yeah. He's a crossword guy like I am as well, and I know that he takes that very seriously. All right, Ken, thank you for coming on for a minute, and very best of luck

for all your efforts, and hopefully you guys will keep me busy the next couple weeks. All right, thanks, my happy. You got it. Ken Shear, senior vice president of marketing with the Rockets on the COVID-19 relief efforts. with the give-back auction outline and it is online at the Rockets.com and also the Rockets app that you can download, which I did just a couple of days ago. Ross has been very nice. He's going to donate. He wants me to do five different auction introductions for people in your family. It's very nice, you, Ross. No, that's not true. You're going to do. Joe, Ray Clay or me, what do you want to go with on your introductions? None.

You know what Ray Clay is? No. Ray Clay is the PA announcer for the Chicago Bulls during their championship runs. Didn't he just retire? No. There's been two guys. There was a guy before Ray Clay. There was Ray Clay.

And the guy after Ray Clay, that's the same person. He just retired. That dude just did. But the one that did, and now, starting out for Chicago Bulls, that's Ray Clay. Ray Clay was fired by the Chicago Bulls. Because when Michael Jordan came back to play for the, Washington Wizards. He wanted to introduce Michael Jordan like he used to with the Chicago Bulls. And the Bulls told him, don't do it. He did it. You know, that sucks because they do that now.

Whenever Derek comes home, they introduce them like it's Derek Rose. Now, every former rocket that has come back to play, since I've been back doing the P.A., this is four years, I've introduced them in a positive tone. I don't know it every time. Like, for instance, now, Pat Beverly to me is Pat Beverly. But when Pat Beverly came back for the first time as a clipper, you know, since the trade, we sold him a little bit because it was a great Houston rocket. It was.

I did the same thing for Trevor Reza. I did the same thing for Carmel Anthony. It didn't get much of a pop because it wasn't there very long. That's okay. Chris Paul. We actually did a video thing about Chris Paul. He got a whole ovation. Yeah.

I was there for that This is why teams And thank goodness the rockets aren't this way But some teams are just ridiculously Oversensitive by that kind of stuff And for Ray Clay who's got a great voice To be let go of the Bull's PA job Because he wanted to celebrate

The greatest bull coming back for the first time Since he left to go play for Washington Because he left because he got sideways of Krause And the fact that Phil Jackson's coach went on the Los Angeles was really, really petty. So I'm just saying, again, I wouldn't sell Chris Paul as hard as I, in all future games,

but for the first time the guy comes back, give him his props. Ross, Chris Paul was good for Houston, Texas. Yes, he was. And for all the people that crushed the trade and said they gave up too much, Chris Paul and the Rockets were a blown hamstring away from winning the Western conference.

He had blown Chris Paul hamstring, but, you know, he's got an IH. but it's the IP who's IP? See, that's what you've done to me. I can't ever call anybody IP because you've always dismiss it

every time I said this kid of this person's injury pro. It's not true. Name an injury prone athlete, right this second. Chris Paul. Name another one. J.J. Watt? Yes or no?

Carlos Correa, yes or no? No, no on Correa. I will say yes on Watt now. He's only played half of the games the last four years. Okay. I don't know. I feel like we've turned a car.

It's semantics. All right. 240. That's for the 3 to 6 show. Oh. Semantics on the 8 team? Not a chance. Do you, you know the term asterix?

Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Asterisk. Shack is all in on asterix or asterix. Okay. I'll explain next to wrap up the show. 244 on 790.

It's Matt. And he's back. The Matt Thomas show on 790. Houston's home for Houston teens. The Lakers spur business. But it's the last segment of the show. Uh-oh. So why?

Is Missy upset about something? Well, I don't know if she even knows about this, but when she finds out she's not going to be happy. Okay. Because Shaq went to high school in San Antonio. Correct. He never played for the Spurs, but he's, you know, grew up into San Antonio area.

Mm-hmm. He goes on something. called the big podcast, whatever that is. I'm assuming it says, everybody's got a podcast. Well, yeah, what happened to yours? It's just 15 minutes. Let's bring it back. I got 15 hours a week.

I don't need 15 extra minutes. Let's bring it back. We can do it after the show. It's at three. Very busy. I'm just sitting around waiting for the nightcap to start. So apparently, you know how this year, Shaq said the winner of the NBA championship that comes back is going to have an asterisk next to it, right?

Yes. Well, he's big on this asterix. Asterisk. I'll tell all of San Antonio to its face. You only have four. Four meaning titles. It's an asterix. That's what I think.

Furthermore, I would tell Mr. Duncan to his face you have four rings. It says you have five, but the asterisk don't count. If anything, I do, I'll never want asterisks about it. Man, why he's... Which one is he... No, the 50 games he...

Okay. I get it, I guess. See, my philosophy is if they had won just one, then it would seem a little fluky in that it would be one of those where you guys caught a break. Congratulations. But Rossi, they won five. And I despise the fact they won five. But you must give credit where credits do. Why is Shaq's, is it because he doesn't want to share the spotlight? If you were to say you get Shaq or you get Tim Duncan on your team. Aren't nine and ten people taking Shaq? Because he is the... I would say so.

He is the most dominant big man we have had in the NBA in the last 30 years. I think the is... Love dream, but in terms of just sheer brute force, get out of my way, it's Shaq. I'm pretty sure. Didn't the list that came out have the... Yeah, the latest ESPN list had Shaq 10th, Kobe 9th, Duncan 8th. Different position. different players, different skill sets.

But look, and Elijah is my hero. So I'll never say disparaging word. And he was the much more skilled player. But when Shaq was at his prime, I'm talking about from that 94 Eastern team that won Orlando to all those L.A. teams, guys, he was a monster. His nickname was MDE, most dumb and ever. He was just an unstoppable force.

So he doesn't have to worry about someone trying to steal his show. They were excellent players in different decades. They were not, you know how the Lakers and Celtics play each other basically every year for a decade for the championship, give or take? It wasn't Lakers and Spurs playing for a decade for the championship. The Spurs had their run. The Lakers had their run. Well, they met the playoffs, though, during those times. There was a Derek Fisher series.

But how many times? How many times do they do it over the years? The Lakers and the Spurs? Probably three-fourths. In Western Conference Finals? Maybe not in the finals, but they met in the, in the playoffs a few times during the last I want to say during the last 20 years.

I guess I can pull it up. I'm trying to think. Who were the common opponent? Look, there's seven other teams in Western Conference. You've got to play and beat. But I don't remember the knockdown, dragout, young Tim Duncan, veteran David Robinson

versus Shack Kobe series, unless I'm wrong. I mean, I could be. But they each had their big time moments of glory. I don't think Shack's should be worried about whether. I don't think Tim Duncan is sitting there going, well, you know. Yeah, they met in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

All the finals? In the semifinals. They met in the 2001 finals in the 2008 finals. So five times of that decade? Five times, yeah. Was Shaq and all five of them? No. Shaq was in four, three of them.

Okay. Four, four of them. That's a great number then. They met four straight times in the playoffs. All I'm saying is they both had their runs. They're both great basketball players. I don't know why Shaq would want to pick a fight in this particular case. And they got swept by the Spurs in 99.

Maybe that's the reason why he's so salty on that. Because let me ask you this, Ross. If the Lakers would have won the championship in 99, do you think Shaq would have put an asterisk next to his? I don't think so. They got swept out of that. Was that when Kurt Rambis was the coach? Or maybe Magic, I'm thinking maybe? In 99?

And then they brought Phil in and then they ripped off three straight, right? Or did they bring, what was the Kurt Rambis in 99? It wasn't our Mike Dunleavy in the mix somewhere, too, during that time? Probably. Maybe Adele Harris, if you will. God, I've got to go through every Laker coach the last 25 years. We're already coached for a year, too, but that was in the mid-2000s. Yeah, Kurt Rambis was their coach in 99.

Yep. And then Phil Jackson came to the next year, and they ripped off three straight. All I would say is, if I'm Tim, I'd say to Shaq, why are you messing with me? And that those championships... It was a weird time. And they went up against an eight-seed. Nick's team was like Larry Johnson and Alan Houston and Littrell Spreewell.

Yeah. Here's the thing. It was 50 games. Everybody played the same number of games. True. Somebody had to win. Somebody had to win. When was the lockout short and season that was recent?

That was, what was about 2011, 2012 somewhere in that range? Chandler was a rookie or second year player, I want to think. Yeah, it was 2011 until 2012. That was the year that the heat beat the thunder. Do we think negatively of the heat championship during that run? I don't think so. No. But I'll say this, it probably does help a little bit that those teams have won more than one championship.

It would be fluky if a team, let's say Memphis won that year. And then never were back on the NBA top of the hall. Yeah. All right. Tomorrow, inside the NBA's Kenny, Kenny Smith. No, he will not be on. Ernie Johnson will be on at 1230 tomorrow. look forward to visiting with him.

We have Brian T. Smith at 2, the Fantasy 5 at 2.30, and a lot of fun on anything goes Friday. As compared to Monday through Thursday, where we're just quite depressing. Yes, and we just talk about normal straight sports topics, like your mama jokes. Yeah, your mama jokes probably the highlight of the show today, which meant the show is not going to win to Marconi,

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