The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Browns Defeat Steelers In Snow Game, Texans' Hannah McNair Shades Titans, McTaggart Does All The Bits!

Episode Date: November 22, 2024

Matt Thomas of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" and Brian McTaggart, Astros beat reporter for MLB.com, recap the "Thursday Night Football" matchup that saw the Cleveland Browns defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-19 in the season's first snow game. Matt and Brian also:discuss the future of the Astrospreview the Texans and Titans game on Sundaygive their latest "Gut Feelings"tell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time"give their "Fantasy Five" tailgate food itemstell their "Non-Florida Storieshave Dr. Roto cure their fantasy football blues and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-02 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show and Ross. Our buddy Brian McTaggart is in. This is Sports Talk 790. I hope all those players break their elbows and...

Whoa. Okay, you hope 19-year-olds break their elbows? They're young. They're young. You should be embarrassed. You should be embarrassed of yourself. You know the reason why there's no buzz for this game? There is buzz.

There's zero buzz for this game. I'm buzzing hard right now. I know you're buzzing hard, but for different reasons. They're having a lot of success in the first half, and then they're coming out, not flat, but just not inspired in the second half. I'm wondering if maybe they should just try thinking about baseball for the first half and saving it, and then whenever the second half comes, just really, you know, getting at it. Because that seems to work for me.

I'm not going to let a man named Pookie ever influenced me on anything. Is Monday the suck off? That thing is going to be big and red. is what is it going to be. You're trying to pick up the 9.5, then she goes home with someone else. Guess what? You've got to scramble to something?

Sometimes that 7's more fun, Maddie. The 7 will do more things. Not as much work. I got to go. I got to go. Fewer drinks. Less cuddling. Are you using AI to make me say things I shouldn't be saying?

That's all you, Maddie. Oh, my God. You have to get Triple E, the producer, the show, Sellsbury. Those boys have got to be saying things like that in the morning, too. We've got to start catching other people because I feel like this is just an impersonal indictment against all the things I say between 10 and clock and tilt two. Hey, our buddy, Brian McTaggart

is here. You hear him Thursdays during the baseball season. I said, like, he's lazy ass in doing anything. The Astros postseason ended early. He's been on vacation. He hadn't got a haircut since the end of the season. I brought you in. All that is true. Good to be here. Seriously, your main is just, it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's, I never realized having

long hair was like hard to, it would be so hard to manage. In fact, now when I travel, I have a separate toiletry bag for my hair car. Oh my God. What is wrong with you? Hey. There's not much grain there, by the way. Is that kudos to you? Or are you coloring that bad boy up? No, no coloring. This is

all natural. So yeah, I mean, if you got it, you got a flon it, right? So I'm going to ride this out for a little while. Clip that for next week? That's perfect. We got a Brian McTagher clip. I love it. It took us three minutes. All right. Brian McTaggart is here.

And when I called Brian and I said last week, I said, hey, why don't you come in? Because first of all, Channel Rome came in the week before with the A team. He did. And he killed it. And I was like, well, I got to see if McTaggart wants to do this. And we'll see how this works. Because Brian's, you've been obviously associated with the Astros for a long period of time. But you are a Houston sports fan through and through.

We have a great love for the Cougars, a great disdain for anything in the University of Memphis and the city of Memphis and related. I see your tweets. How do you know that? I have your tweets. But you've covered everything. So we'll get into a variety of different things. but he said, yeah, I'll come in. We've got to do all your bits.

So for the first time in the history of this radio show, we're going to take every bit that we do, almost all of them, and we're going to do them on the show today. Oh, yeah, I love the bits, yeah. All right, so at the bottom of the hour, we're going to do gut feelings. Now, Connor and I have already had gut feelings about things.

We don't know your gut feelings. Does that have to be sports or... Anything, but gut feelings are predictions. Okay. So I don't know if you want to predict the next Oscar winning. movie or the next number one song but i think people that know you and love you want your predictions on i don't know a certain baseball team you cover so just be prepared for to come out with those predictions and they're saying it okay then at 1130 we have shut your bum ass up that's what i'm

really looking forward to that's what everybody looks forward to everybody i'm at restaurants or i'm at a bar and somebody say hey mad shut you a bum ass up and i didn't do anything i said no we just i just want to say that to you like okay so we'll do shut your bum ass up and that means because mctaggart's doing it you guys could do it too well also the gut feelings and then at 1230 we're going to do a fantasy five and mctaggart it's going to be at the baylor houston game tomorrow and you're going to be tailgating yep with your daughter who's a bailer alum right both of them are just one i have two but only ones in town okay okay uh so you'll be tailgating are you in charge of the menu or are you just jumping in on jonesing in on somebody else's menu no i'm sort of in charge but we don't

put a whole lot of thought into it. It's probably going to be like a last minute run to the grocery store. I see. Here's the food and the drink's the most important thing. Okay. So what we're going to do and I told them I said, we're going to do a fantasy five. We're going to create the ultimate tailgate. Five items and whoever's the better list will win. And you and I don't decide the winner. It's the judges that do. And Connor, you will be judge number four today. So if it comes down, it's a best of seven of the fantasy five and you'll be judge number four. So take good notes on that. We'll have that coming up. We got Dr. Rorto at 1 o'clock, and then we've got from non-Florida stories. We've got believe it or not. We've got the news at

noon, so we've got a very busy show today. We want you guys involved. By the way, I don't know if you know this or not, Brian, but it's an anything goes Friday here. Okay. And on anything goes Friday, we talk about anything. I mean, there are no limits under any circumstance anything goes Friday. I can tell you something you won't talk about. Go ahead.

Politics. That's, you're right. That's right. Anything goes Friday. That is smart. Except politics. I like every. everybody. I don't care what your political stance is. So I was thinking about this this morning. So I left town for five years. I went to Salt Lake City for two, Minneapolis for three. But did we go to school together? Did we have any classes together at U of H? Or we were just there at the same time? I don't remember like actually having a class with you. When did you graduate?

I graduated in 95. Okay, because I was going to school there from 91 to 98. Don't. Well, I did 89 to 95. I mean, because I was working in the business, and I think you were in the business, too. I was at the Houston Post, like getting real-world experience. Yeah, so I was in radio going to school part-time as compared to most kids go to school full-time and then work in radio part-time. Yeah, so we took our time. Plus, we enjoyed getting on campus as often as possible, so we did that. So I remember we were around the same time and gotten away through the business.

So you were post, then you went to Chronicle, and then you've been with MLB.com for how long? 15 years, yeah. Yeah, I graduated from UH in 95 and then the Houston Post closed like a month later. And then I got married a month after that. So this new wife is like, I just married a sports reporter who's out of work. Yeah, in fact, in our, we put in the local paper our wedding announcement like they used to do. I don't know if they still do that with the pitcher. And it said that I was a sports writer at the Brazzlesport Fax.

I was there for three months. But that's in the wedding announcement. You still have a picture of that? I think they all go. I don't think my wife and I did the wedding announcement. They used to engage it. I used to always look to see who was hot and who wasn't. And that's when I was single.

I was like, man, that girl's hotter. That guy was way overmatched. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, they used to be in the paper. You'd flip it open on Sundays and there they were. But I think it was in the Pasadena Citizen. Because if the girl was by herself, that meant the guy was ugly. Yeah, we were both in the picture, so there you go.

Well, I'm not going to judge. Good good. Good to me. I was going to say it. So apparently they thought you were at least a halfway decent guy. I also, I'll kick the coverage. So there you go. Good for you. All right. So you've been on this beat for a long pairing time. And when you are nominated for the Houston Media Wall of Honor, I will be voting you in. Oh, thank you. There are a lot of people on that list that haven't been to a baseball game in 30 years. And I mean, I guess there's some credit, but you need to go in there pretty soon. Yeah, I mean, I think it'll happen eventually. I mean, I kind of told the Astros, I kind of don't want it until you retire.

Yeah, I just don't want to walk in there and see my face on the wall every day. Plus, it's kind of like an end of the cruise. weird thing to me, you know, if it happens. So, so. So I should have that same attitude. I mean, I've done more Astro postgame shows than anybody in America, in the history of Houston Sports Radio. Really? I mean, I'm, I don't know the exact number, but I would think of all the years of Astros good times and bad. Frankly, a lot of bad. We took a lot of phone calls at 1 o'clock in the morning going, please put on coast to coast and stop talking about the Astros getting their ass kicked by the Giants 9 to 2. Yeah. You were definitely media wall of honor worthy. So I'm nominating you. Thank you. I love that. I love that. All right. So we've got a lot.

a lot to get to today. Look, and I don't know, you get on television a lot, which I don't frankly understand, but it is what it is. You must get people every time you go somewhere, what's going on with the team, what's happening with the team, and we will get to that. I don't want that to be the whole show, but we will

do a lot about that because that is your forte. You are a huge Texans fan. You cannot wait for I am. You cannot wait for Sunday's tilt with the Tennessee Titans. I'm a Texan observer. I watch it. say. And people get mad at me. I watch it and win or lose like, okay, I'm honest. Now,

because we grew up Oilers fans. This is not our team. We're blood brothers. We are. We're brothers with different mothers. Yeah. Now, when I was 22 if the Oilers lost, my week was ruined. Correct. And the Texans, if they lose, like, okay, whatever. Yeah. But I think it's good because there are so many, unfortunately, in this market, there are so many super fanboys, we have to kind of balance it out. Yeah. And that's what we do. When they win, it's good because it's good for my audience.

We got a lot of Texans fans that listen to the show and are excited about the team. And they should be. And they should be. And I want them to be excited. I mean, it's better to talk about winning than it is losing. Case in point, many, many years of Rockets Vutility the last few years. And obviously the Astros between, what, 07 and 14 or whatever number. So we want things to go win.

But we just, people always say, why don't you text me out? Because I've had enough turbulence in my life, sportswise. I just, I don't have any more room for it. Right. So I'm a good Texans observer. Observer. And I'm going to observe them, kick the crap out of the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. Is that a gut feeling?

It's not a gut feeling. It's a guarantee. Guarantee. There you go. All right. So if you got any questions from McTaggart on life, it's a Houston sports icon, medium icon. On the Astros, we'll get to some Texans. We got the Rockets playing in their in-season tournament game tonight against the Portland Trailblazers.

The Rockets, the number three seed, last time I checked in the Western Conference. Wow. Let's go. I've watched more Rockets basketball already this year than like the last three or four years combined. I'm so happy. I'm so happy. It's getting, it's a slow, it's a slow time. Yeah. It's like 2015 once for the Stros.

Right. People weren't buying it until all of a sudden Kiko went on this great run and they were in a bunch of home runs and crushed that he took place. And of course, I didn't copyright it and read Ryan called me and said, I'm going to put it on a bunch of shirts. And sorry, you're going to get nothing out of it. I'm saying, okay. But I'm not bitter. 713, 2, 21, 2, 2, 5, 790. 212-1-2-5-7-9-0 is how you reach us.

We have gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour. McTagrinson, I'm Matt, and this is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. He is in, I believe, Greenland today. 7-13-212-5-790. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. We've got a special Friday edition of gut feelings coming up at the bottom of the hour here, and this is honor of McTaggart, making some predictions.

things. Texans getting ready for the Tennessee Titans. Thomas Sports Enterprises is very bullish on Will Levis, although we had a reporter on yesterday from Nashville that said he sucks and that the Titans are going to go after another quarterback. Man, I heard that. You know what's crazy, though, Tags? And I don't remember this being this way 20, 30 years ago,

and I hate to be that 20 or 30 year ago guy, but you could get away with having an average quarterback and just having everything around you be just spectacular, or good running game, solid offensive line, solid defense, and you could figure out a way to kind of sneak a 10-win season in, maybe you want to playoff two-game or two-game. The money that is spent on quarterbacks is justifiable for the good and for the bad. If you get a good quarterback and you pay him,

you've got yourself locked in like Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen and CJ Strata ultimately. But if you have a lot of money locked in a quarterback and he sucks, Trevor Lawrence, Doc Prescott, it screws your franchise. Yeah, you're right. Back in the day, it was like the quarterbacks would be with their teams for five or six years, and they weren't that great. But I mean, I guess teams didn't pass as much back then, and there wasn't the shotgun and the RPO. It was hand the ball off to this running back who would carry the ball 30 times a game.

You don't see many of those running backs anymore either. I mean, Barclay and some of those guys. But those guys are going by the wayside, too. So, yeah, I mean, you got to have the top-nuts quarterback back in the day. That wasn't always the thing. Think about this. Sean Watson gets this huge deal to stay in Houston. Everyone's excited about that.

And then all of a sudden, the stuff off the field goes on, then he wants to leave. And then Cleveland has to give up all those first-round draft picks. They signed another halacious guaranteed contract. And I know the Browns won last night, but they're screwed. I mean, they're three and eight, I think. And there's no one thinking that they're going to turn that bad boy around. No.

And then you got Baker Mayfield going to Tampa and playing really well. You're like, you know, maybe you should have. giving him a longer leash, you know, a better chance. It just seems like everything in sports these days, like society, it's like, what have you done for me lately? And, okay, we're going to go on to the next guy, and you're out the door. Head coaches, the turnover, especially in the NBA. It's like, I could probably name two NBA head coaches.

The turnover is just crazy. Well, they all want to getting different jobs other places. Yeah, and they all go to different teams. It's like, yeah, like our musical chairs. Yeah, but if you screw the quarterback spot up, it ruins your franchise. It does, yeah. Speaking of the Pittsburgh Cleveland game, I would never not normally watch a Pittsburgh Cleveland game on a Thursday night.

I mean, you know, with my busy NBA schedule and traveling and whatnot, if I have downtime at the house, I'm going to be watching some other things, catching up on my shows. But when the snow started to fall yesterday, and I mean, tags, it wasn't like a dusting. It was a full on blizzard. For those that don't know, Cleveland Stadium is right next to the lake. I mean, literally steps. You have the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next to that. So it's really a fun, interesting little complex. I think Cleveland's kind of an underrated town.

I agree, yeah, totally. Good food, nice people, lots of stuff to do. But when that Lake of Fan No kicks in, it was awesome last night. And I couldn't turn it off. I wanted the game to go like to seven overtimes. It doesn't do that anymore. But that's what I wanted it to do. Yeah, funny you should say that because I was watching a show.

And like on the commercial, I checked my phone, and somebody screenshotsed the picture of Tomlin with Snow on his beard. I immediately went to Amazon Prime. This is the first time I've ever put a game on Amazon Prime. I wasn't even sure I could get it. And I put it on. Oh, your wife makes sure that that's a possibility. Don't worry.

Yes. Yeah, I'm the same. And I watched like the last five minutes. I couldn't get enough. It was great. Even Al Michael sounds like you gave a crap about it, which Al Michaels doesn't care about any of the games and does anymore. Would you sit through a game like that in that snow?

No. Really? I would like to do it just once. I'm not going to sit through any game unless I'm in club seats. Okay. I forgot. I'm talking a fancy mat here. I mean, that is true.

I need to on your roof and some nice dinner. Okay. Yeah, I'll get out there with the fans. But I know you will, and I appreciate that because I see you out there. But I will say this. Kudos to Cleveland fan. Their team sucks. It was snowing.

I'm assuming it was pretty windy. It was cold. And it looked like every seat in the stadium was completely jammed. Every seat. And nobody left at the end of the game. They are playing the Steelers, you know, they're big rivals. There's a lot of Steelers fans that were there. And a lot of Steelers fans.

But yeah, yeah, kudos to them. I think everybody that was going there knew what they were in for and they were in it for the long haul. And, hey, they were rewarded. End up being a pretty good game, a pretty good finish. Because it's a big equalizer. I mean, you had Pittsburgh, had two losses going against Cleveland that had two wins. And Chameas Winston, of all people, Florida State, warm weather. teams wearing

God knows what to keep himself layered up I mean he would scare me to Jesus to run a pass route to take a seven step drop to run the football I mean the safest people on the field the other night last night were the gliming because they didn't have to move anywhere yeah I think I read that was the first game

he had ever played in under 40 degrees and it was a 32 degrees blizzard and he got to done I mean that game winning touchdown pass was right on the money you know kudos to him but he's had an interesting career, James Winston, and I don't know, I kind of like him. I'm a fan of James Winston. I like hearing him talk.

I like hearing his interviews. He just seems like a guy that when his career's over is going to be behind one of these microphones. Yeah, didn't he come to the defense of Deshaun Watson. I think people were booed. Now, that was authentic booing or people piped in some booing to their video, but he was very upset to the reaction that people had when Deshaun Watson got carted off the field. Oh, was he? Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, he had a long, like, a diatribe in the interview. Right, right, right. So, you know, all I remember him is being is a great college quarterback and stealing the crab legs and the Wind Dixie. Mm-hmm. And I think one time, didn't he get caught, get in trouble for getting on top of a table at Florida State and swearing and saying a bunch of vulgar things? I think that's right.

I mean, that aside, I think he's a good guy. Yeah, who doesn't do those types of things when you're in college? If you went to school with Brian McTaggart, University of Houston, what was the craziest thing he ever did? Let us know. 713-212-5-790 Let's go to And I'm having a tough time potting this caller up

Can you go to line one for me real quick Brian on 790 With Matt and Brian McTaggart Hello Brian Hey guys, how y'all doing? Good So, man, that game was a little nostalgia in there Remember the Brady fumble It was, I think it was Patriots and Raiders

And the fumble that was but wasn't This is the last time I've seen a game like that to where you hate. Not too interested in the teams, but you know what? The snow and the, man, it just was still cool. My wife even chimed that she hates football. So that's saying something. But hey, tags, what do you think about Bregman?

We get him back, man. How about that? Congratulations, Brian. We went 25 minutes without someone asking about Alex Bregman. How about that? That's longer than I thought. I was going to say, I checked the general way. I said, is how long as it going to go before a question comes in for tags about

Bregman? I'm like, I'm going to try to put it about 50. 15 minutes. You know what? It's number one question I'm asking, Brian, for sure. I understand. Yeah, and I wish I was able to give you an answer. The way I would say it is right now is that I don't think anything's going to happen to Juan Soto figures out what he's going to do and he's being courted by a lot of teams. But I think the Astros are going to make a strong effort to try to resign Bregman. But at the end of the day, I just don't think that they're going to be able to go to the years or the money that is going to require to some.

sign him to bring him back to Houston. It's just not the way they do business. You just have to look back at, you know, the Kraya and Springer's. You let them walk. And the fact that they've done that and they've continued to win, I think only, only confirms sort of Jim Crane's way of doing business is not handing out these deals. He's pretty adamant about that. If you give these guys these 10-year deals, 95% of the time, they end up being bad deals.

So it's going to depend how the market shakes out for Bregman. And, you know, maybe he comes back down. to a little bit of an area where the Astros can meet him in the middle and they get a deal done. I think he wants to be here, his wife's from here. And I think he's Jose Al Tuve coming out saying that he wants him to be back. I think carries some weight. And Jim Crane told us that on Monday that certainly when Altuve talks that he listens. But unless something changes, I just do not see the Astros being able to go in that deep end of the pool.

Thanks, Brian, for the phone call. We appreciate it. Well, there's your first gut feeling. So I guess the question is. And we'll preface this by saying, if he doesn't sign with the Astros, we'll have a gut feeling. Remember, this is not a super predictions. If you don't, if you don't get it right, it's no big what. But we'll want a gut feeling from your gut about where you think he'll end up. 713, 212, 5790.

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Listen up girls and boys They've been so appealing You're Russ and Matt Thomas Yo, they got a gut feeling This is their gut feeling On the Matt Thomas show All right I don't want this to be a quiz fest of McTaggart

but since he called for the bit, it's going to have to happen. I'm sorry. If any of you out there want to get a gut feeling in because you didn't do so on Tuesday, these are, again, these are just rando predictions. Connor, do you have anything that you forgot to do on Tuesday? I'll say Indiana's undefeated season will end tomorrow against Ohio State. All right, close game or blowout? That's actually going to be close, I think.

People don't give Indiana enough credit on that. Yeah, Indiana, I think, is a 13.5 point underdog for that game. I'm going to go Ohio State covers. So I'm going to say it's not as close as you're thinking it's going to be. You think it's a one-score game? Yeah, I think so. I would say for Indiana fans

and for college football fans of the underdog, it needs to be a one-score game because if not, people are going to say, you know, Indiana, you played one of the weakest schedules in America and you got your ass kicked. Bye. So if you love the underdog, you want this to be a really close game.

40 to 10, Ohio State. I've never been to the horseshoe. Me neither. I've never been to Columbus. There are three major metropolitan cities I've never been to. Okay. Columbus, Buffalo, and Jacksonville.

I've been to Buffalo. With Astros played the, you remember they played the Blue Jays there in 20? Was there anybody in the crowd or no? Yeah, it was in a minor league stadium. There were a few thousand. It was kind of fun. All right. What do you think of Buffalo is a city?

Do you like it? I was there in the summer, so yeah, I would not want to be there in the winter. I understand. Went to Niagara Falls. Did you really? Yeah. I mean, you're so adventurous. I don't leave the hotel a lot of times when I go on the road.

That's true, but my wife came with me. so we had to venture out. I got you. I got you. All right. Name one other city you've never been to that it would be a big city. Jacksonville is probably the biggest. Yeah. Been to Sacramento?

Driven through it. I'll go there next year. You'll be going next year next year. For baseball, yeah. By the way, what a joke baseball. I mean, they're going to play in this AAA stadium on artificial turf. And by the way, those that don't know, Sacramento in the summertime gets super, super, super hot. I didn't realize, but it gets like 110.

It is going to be grass, by the way. Oh, they are going to put grass in there. Yeah, it is going to be grass. So that'll help. And then you got. you're going to be watching games at the Yankee Spring Training Facility in Tampa to watch Tampa Bay Ray's regular games. Right. That's almost like a big league state. Have you ever been there?

I have. It's almost like a small big league stadium. I wonder if they stay there for more than one year. Will the Ray's asked for more seats be put in? I don't know if they can do. It's only a seat's about 11,000. It's the spring training. They're going to put some signage up there for the raise to try to make them feel at home.

But I don't think they stay there more than one year. I know that there's still this whole thing with going back to Tropical. of field in 26 now is kind of iffy. So they got some issues to work through there. Yeah. All right. So here we go. 713212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. If you got any gut feelings that you did not get in on Tuesday. So let's go. We'll build a crescendo to this. Gut feeling, not prediction, but just a kind of, which first off-the-cuff answer. You say Kikuchi is an Astro in 2025. Yes or no? Yes.

Oh, really? Okay. Remember, you do hold a little water. Do you need to explain this? You don't have to, but it would be nice. Maybe like one sentence. Yeah, I just think he fit in really well here. I think they could use a starting pitcher of his caliber,

a middle tier starting pitcher to put in the rotation. Okay. There's so many injuries at the end. So, yeah, I mean, I think there's going to be a match there. Okay. Justin Verlander is an Astro in 2025. No. Can he find a place to pitch in 2020?

Oh, I think you will. I mean, someone will give him a chance. You know, he's not going to be making $30 million a year anymore, but maybe he goes back to Detroit. Doesn't that feel like that makes the most sense? A.J. Hinch, back to where he started, the team's on the rise, put him in that young rotation. Makes a lot of sense.

I'm not going to talk out of school here, because I don't think AJ would mind, but of all the pictures that AJ has, I have talked about over the years, and it's been a couple years when we talked about this. The hardest pitcher he'd ever had to take off the mound was Justin Verlund. Maybe Justin's changed a little bit. Yeah, he can be. high maintenance if you're oh you think and i mean yeah he's gonna be 42 next year so

i think he i think he did change after he missed you know two years pretty much with the tj but yeah he's still justin verlander he still wants the ball and he's still don't want to be around him on game days when he walks in the clubhouse with those headphones on that's for sure yeah and again uh to imagine being a manager and not being able to go up there comfortably and say it's your time when when you know the jv is giving you that death stares you're walking towards the hill all right uh so we got the little hanging for it Okay, let's do a few more of these, because I want to, we'll say the last, best for last.

Luis Garcia, when do you anticipate, do you think? What's your gut feeling on when he pitches for the first time? My gut feeling is, it will be into the season a little bit. I'm going to say May, that's just, that's just a random. Gut, gut, it's gut. I just don't think he'll be ready for the start of the year. And that's, and that's a concern for them going into the off season, and the off season now is he was a guy that you penciled in,

start the year you thought, you know, maybe six months ago. But I just think he, the rehab hasn't gone as smoothly as they hope. So I'm going to say he's not going to be ready for the start of this season. Lance McCullors. Gutfeeling. I'm going to say no. Really? Yeah, I mean, I think he's throwing again.

I mean, until I see him back out there pitching, it's hard. There's no need to make a prediction. There's no need to make a prediction. Yeah, I got you. Christian Javier. He'll be back in July. July or August probably. Okay. Because I kind of felt like we said that last year with Louis Garcia and they just said, yeah, we're good.

We'll see you in 2025. Yeah, and he had that setback. I mean, he was pitching in minor league games and he had a setback and then he's not throwing and then he's not throwing and that he doesn't come back at all. So, I mean, you never know. But I'm going to say Javier I'll be back in July or August. Will the new third base coach have as fast of a windmill as Gary Pettis used to have? Probably not. But he comes well respected. I mean, he was with the debacks for a long time. I know Joe Espada loves him. I think he was the guy he wanted to obviously over pet us at this point.

So we'll see. I mean, he's going to be in charge of their base running, and their base running was not good last year. I mean, this is not just getting guys thrown out at the plate or whatever. I mean, that's all anyone cares about. If you watch this team on a daily basis, you know, they make a lot of outs on the basis. They got to clean that up a little bit,

and they felt they needed a new voice. The two signs that I thought this year's team, who was starting to backtrack a little bit. Defense was not nearly as stout as it had been in the previous few years. I don't know that the base running was another thing. Who gets the most starts at first base in 2025? Ooh, that's a tough one. How about somebody who's not on the 40-man roster right now?

Oh, really? Yeah. Carlos Santana, perhaps. Okay. I think if they go into with Singleton and DeSenzo or whoever else, nothing against Singleton. He did a nice job. job, but they have to upgrade.

They have to upgrade what they get at first base. I think they were 28th of 30 teams in OPS at first base. So they can do better, and I think they're trying to do better. Starting center fielder? I think it'll be Chas McCormick. Jake Myers on the team? Yeah, I think unless they get traded. But yeah, I think the outfield, now they might add another outfielders to put them in the, I mean, they traded for Taylor Tramble.

but I think the four main outfielders are going to be the same guys. Okay. Jason Hayward on this squad? No. Okay. Conters, are anything else I can ask before I get to the last question that I absolutely must have to ask our man bribe attacker? I think I've done everything humanly possible to delay it. Yeah, I think you just go ahead.

Uh-oh. Who plays the most games at third base for the asteris in 2025? Well Gut feeling we're not holding you to it We're not holding you to it Not Alex Bregman That's all I can say See I have it at zero percent

I don't think there's any chance And it pains me Yeah I love him But I just I think he's thinking about You know what This has been a great run I want to try something different Yeah I would put it a little higher than zero

Because like I said I think if the market comes down The Astros might be able to meet him and it'll take a deal bigger than Crane has ever gone before. Six years, obviously going to be more than $150 million. It's going to be $200 million. And maybe this is the guy that he decides, you know, things are going to be different. But, yeah, I agree.

I would be very surprised. All right. So Ross and I have a late lunch bet. Six years, we go Dutch. Bratman gets a seven years or higher. I have to buy him lunch. If he gets five years or less, he buys me lunch. How are we spending our lunch money?

Say that again. on the contract, whenever contract he signs. Six years, we go Dutch, five years or less he buys, seven years or more, I buy. I think you're buying. You think he's going to get a seven-year deal? I think so.

Really? I do. You and Grom are on the same page of that. I think I didn't hear him say that. Yeah. He's the one we were kind of joshed by it. I think Ross is going to buy us. Oh, damn.

I think there's a market for him. There are a handful of big market teams and the third basement that and he's the top third basement, excuse me, I mean, one of the top position players on the market. He picked a good time to be a free agent. All right. Super gut feeling.

Team. That he plays for. Yankees. I don't like to hear that, do you? I don't know if Houston is ready to hear that. Yeah, that would be a tough one. Because we mentioned this before. The teams we can't live with him playing for,

anybody in the American League West, especially Texas, and the Yankees. Yeah, I don't see him going to Seattle. I mean, that's just a tough place to play. I mean, he grew up a fan of Derek Jeter. One of the reasons he wears number two. He's from his family, you know, is from the D.C. area. He's got ties up in that area. They're going to throw him a ton of money, perhaps.

They could move Jazz Chisholm the second base. Now that Torres is out of the pitcher, it just makes a lot of sense. And, I mean, we've seen former Astros from this area go to New York, Cole, and even Marwin Gonzalez, but this one would be different. This is the epitome of the Houston Astros and the Golden Era, one of the few guys that have won two World Series championships and Pinstrives. That would be a tough one to watch. And the reality is, if he does go there,

I'll never want to hear from another Yankee fan again about anything about 2017. Yeah, that's fair. It should be off the table, but you know that won't happen. All right, 713, 21, 2, 5, 790. If you have a gut feeling you want to get in real quick, you may do so. We have a little bit of breaking news from the NFL. We'll do that when we come back. It's nothing going to robbing the Texans all as good there,

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That's 281-758-9978 or online at Uptownappliancerepair.com. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. Talking about the Giants. on 66 WFAN. McTagga, you hear the news? Daniel Jones got released by the Giants. Unbelievable.

Just unbelievable. Unbelievable. Let's get your calls in 2-1-2 WF-A-N sports. Let's go to Guido. Start out on you're on 66. That's terrible. It's just, I'm embarrassed for myself. It's fine.

It's not bad. It wasn't great. You're talking about quarterbacks that you spent a lot of money on and screw your franchise? guys, there you go. So Daniel Jones, earlier this week, gets the downgrade from first string to third string,

and then they show him at practice, I guess, either yesterday or the day before, like he wanted to be anywhere else but there, and then they release him. Now he can go anywhere else but there. And he can go anywhere else he wants to, and no one's going to want him. He's got the clear waivers.

The Giants are going to have to pay out that contract, whatever's left on that deal. And then he's going to probably, I mean, he'll sign a minimum deal somewhere. He's been somewhere, but God, of mighty. Yeah. That thing was mishandled from the get-go, I think, with him, right? Well, he had like a handful of decent games a couple of years ago, and in typical

NFL fashion, they just pay a lot of money, overpay the spot. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. You have like a five-week span, and all of a sudden you get a five-year extension, you know? They do that in the NBA, though, don't you? Oh, well, especially if you get named to an all-MBA team. Yeah. That's the thing is crazy. could you, and the NBA's got to fix this. If you make a first, second, or third team all-MBA, you get a supermax deal, which puts you in ungodly amounts of money.

The worst example, maybe that was John Wall a few years ago, gets this super mega deal after being like named third team all-MBA. Rockets acquire him and wind him having to eat $40 million a year because of it. Who was the Rockets big man like 20 years ago who had like a good preseason? Oh, Kelvin Cato. Kelvin Cato, yeah. Calvin freaking Cato. Yeah.

I was thinking Strow, Swift. No, no, no. It was Kelvin Kato. LSU guy, so yeah. Oh, yeah. He got like a big deal off preseason, right? Yeah, yeah.

I think Calvin went to Iowa State. Okay. He had a surly, he signed that contract and went from all smiles of being a surly sum bitch. It's too bad. It is what it is. Yeah. There's a big question on the morning on the FS one. Who's at fault for Daniel Jones failure?

I got an answer for you. Daniel Jones. Yeah. That's the thing. People don't want to blame the players in this society. even with like the Astros, and how many times did I hear or get emailed or social media, a coach has to go, they need to fire a hitting coach.

Once you blame the players, like they know what to do. They're not, they didn't get it done. It's on the play, and you can't fire the players, I get that. But still, when the team underperforms, the players deserve the majority of the blame. And people want to fire the hitting coach. They have no idea what the hitting coaches are doing. They don't even know their names.

We had one guy called during the season this year. We kind of make fun of them. They called in wanting the Alex Centron to be fired as a pitching coach. And it was like, if you're going to fire something, if you're going to come on a radio show and fire somebody, you probably need to know who the people are. Yeah, exactly. And those guys put in long hours.

I don't know if they're good hitting coaches or not. I mean, they put in long hours. They seem to know what they're talking about. At the end of the day, it comes down to the guys on the field, the guys that have the bat, the guys throwing the ball, whether they perform or not. That's just the way I think of. Daniel Jones 24, 44, and won as the quarterback of the New York Giants.

That's not good. Boy, New York Sports, jats are awful. Giants are terrible. Nicks aren't bad. To be determined on the Yankees. I mean, they didn't go the World Series. Mets are good. Mets are good.

How about the Islanders there? You're asking the wrong? I have no idea. You almost saw me for a second. I almost thought, I'm like, damn, McTagher knows it about the Islander hockey. I have no idea. You want to give me a breakdown of Seton Hall basketball this year? How's Rutgers football?

Rutgers basketball is pretty good. They got a couple big-time recruits, I think. Oh, yeah, one of their names? You don't even know. No, they're in the top 25, though. Okay, look at you, college basketball. I love college basketball. It is good.

Yeah. It is good. And we're lucky because Fritia Center is amazing to watch a game. Amazing. And it's an amazing team. And, yeah, they're fun to watch. I'm going to go watch U of H play next week in Vegas. They play Alabama.

Wait a minute. They play Alabama, who's really. ranked in the top ten it's going to be a showdown wait a minute you're going to spend thanksgiving in los vegas well i'll be back wednesday so you're going for how many games just one you're going to go midweek to Vegas for one game oh there's other things to do in Vegas right are you taking the family or just you no my wife's going with me so you guys are going to go midweek Vegas we're going to go to two games we're going to go to duke kansas also oh do not tell my wife about that she's a big duke fan right oh huge Duke kansas and then houston alabama after that that that's

top 10 teams beat that damn yeah i know you're not paying for the room you're using points i know that yeah i'm using miles too i'm assuming yeah okay so it's it's working i'll be back for that i'll be home i'll be home for the holidays don't worry by the way have you ever do i've never cooked a turkey before in my life have you no never have i've always been to other people's places yeah and i probably always will i've never yeah we don't we don't even cook thanksgiving anymore no we just go out yeah always go to in-laws or somebody else's house but i mean have we failed ourselves as human beings and his grown-ass men, we're both around the same age that we've never cooked a turkey before? I don't think so, because when you gather at Thanksgiving, it's like, you know, four or five

families together and someone's probably always going to be the cook. There's no reason for you to But every single time in all of our years, we've always skipped out on cooking the turkey itself? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I probably never will cook a turkey. You're smoked a brisket? I tried it once, and it was okay, and I decided it was way too much work. I'll just buy brisket. Yeah, by the way, if you're a rookie brisket smoker, the other people that want to help you are going to be very know-at-a-a-a-lawish,

and I don't want to have to... When I'm cooking a piece of meat, I don't want it to be a lecture. Right. There's nothing worse when you're a backyard grilling and like someone's walking up behind you and starts, hey, what you got there? I'm like, just leave me alone.

Yeah, let me smoke my own briskets. Right. Well, you've put some more water in there. What kind of charcoal you got going? How are your bricks? Yeah, I'll just hand you the spatula and like... You know what? I'll just go and just go and just go.

get to a local barbecue place and call today. I'm with you. All right. That's one hour of the show, and we got McTaggers coming with us for a couple more hours, and then we got Dr. Roto joining us at 1 o'clock today. If you would like to join us, 713, 212, 5, 790. So gut feelings didn't hurt you.

We wrote them down. Now, again, if you're right about any of these things, we give you credit, and if you're wrong about all of them, we don't give you too much hassle. Can I throw out a gut feeling you never asked about it? I think Auburn's going to beat A&M. How about that? Aggie fans, Brian McTaggart, has this,

said the Auburn Tigers are going to beat the Aggies tomorrow. Is that going to make tomorrow's the following Saturdays game less sexy? What's the following Saturday? Oh, the UT? Yeah. Oh, it would, yeah. I was surprised to learn that UT and A&M are the only one lost teams in the SEC. That snuck up on me. I had no idea. So if you've done a deep dive on Auburn?

You're just hoping this happens. Not hoping. I just, what's the spreads? Like two and a half. It's going to be a tough place to play. Night games of Jordan Harrow are not easy. I just think it's going to be tough. By the way, have you been driven through Auburn, Alabama before?

I never have. It's between Birmingham and Atlanta. And seriously, if you blink your eyes, you missed the town. It's that small. I've driven through Tuscaloosa. I've been there and myself, yeah. Never been to the stadium. But no, I have not been to Auburn.

By the way, I just got an email. Brian McTaggart, MLB, just got sent me in my latest newsletter. You saw me. I know. A few minutes ago. I know. I was looking at the proof. It's special.

This is happening in real time. Yeah. Yeah. The newsletter's out. Check your inboxes. headline is this prospect could make an impact in 25. Uh-oh. Who are you talking about? Give it away. You're going to have to click to

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Pittsburgh's five-game winning streak is Gonzo, the snow game. And there's a part of me that thinks the NFL intentionally puts as many games on in cold weather venues at night as possible. Case in point, you know next Thursdays the Thanksgiving Day games, you know Detroit and Dallas always play, and then they always find a third game to play at night.

The Thursday night game, I think, well, I know it's in Green Bay. I got to look and see who they're playing, but it's a night game at Lambeau Field in late November. What are the chances that weather's going to be about, I don't know, 15 degrees with snow flurries. We as sports fans, it's the, oh, it's even better.

It's the dolphins going to Green Bay. That's like a four touchdown game. I think we as sports fans like weather issues. I think so. For football, yeah, I think so. As long as it's not, like, we would never mind watching a game in Miami in a deluge, a big rainstorm,

as long as it's not lightning that could potentially hurt people, but you want a good old-fashioned quagmire? I mean, or like last night, you got me for more of that game as soon as it started snowing that I ever would have ever watched if the game was like 43 degrees in clear skies. Oh, like I said, I wouldn't even put it on Amazon Prime. I had not seen that picture of the snow. But I saw a picture on X yesterday.

It was just a simple picture of Kenny Stabler and George Blanda walking on the field in the Oakland Coliseum, I think, but early 70s. Right. And they were walking through a mud pit just to get. get to the field. I miss that. I miss when the fields were muddy and it's like you said, a slog fest. You just don't see that and all the fields are so well manicured or it's turf. I miss those games where it's just the, you can't even see the numbers because the guys are covered in mud. That's the football that I like. That's Brian McTagher, by the way, MLB.com on the Astros beat with us today,

filling in for Ross, who I believe is in Portugal today. Hopefully things are going well for him. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. It's and anything goes Friday today, which means you get to call about anything you want to. Obviously, Brian's Forte is covering the Astros and MLB for Astros.com and MLB.com, but he is well versed in all the different sports. We have talked a little bit about the game loss of between the Browns and the Steelers. By the way, James Winston did not get caught with the snow crab legs at the Wind Dixie. It was a Publix.

I was being admonished by a member of our air staff that said I misnamed the grocery store. Well, you got to strive for accuracy, right? I mean, it'd be like saying that I got McDonald's and Burger King. I mean, the general just was that I got, you know, he was stealing some crap. Right, right. That wasn't the subject of the topic. You ever stole anything on a grocery store? No, but I can tell you when I was a kid and I guess the statute of limitations is probably over since it's been 45 years.

But we would go to 7-Eleven. We would get a big gulp cup. We'd fill it up with our whatever drink we want. We'd leave probably a third on the top. And we'd go down the candy aisle, get a couple of candy bars and slip those bad boys in there. Pay for the big gulp. Wait a minute. Wrapped or unwrapped on the candy bars?

Oh, still wrapped. So you'd go get big gulped. You'd fill up three quarters of the way. Right. Jam candy bars in there. A couple. So you'd have a sugary soda followed by sugary snobled. any ice cream, I mean,

candy bars. Yeah, like any 12-year-old. And maybe buy a pack of baseball cards. And you never got caught. No, I only did it like two or three times because I was really worried about if I did get caught, what would happen, which would not have been good. You know, I told a story about maybe 10 years ago.

And people that listened to the show know that me for this is that one time I was at a grocery store, rhymes with Bay TB, and I spent like two, three hundred dollars. I was in the grocery store for like an hour. And I was thirsty. so I went and got one of those drinks that are by the register. And I drank it all before I was done grocery shopping because we were there for a long period of time.

And I forgot to buy it. I forgot to pay for it. I mean, I'd make it like a 49. What an outlaw you are. And I had people to this day that give me crap about like, you thief, you should have been arrested. I was like, you guys are so holier than thou. And I've, unfortunately, to my maybe my detriment, I've tried the justify by saying, I spent $225 at Ray Tree Re, the least that could do is offer me a nice cold beverage as part of an appreciation.

Yeah. And I guarantee you nobody noticed it was gone. They don't care. Didn't it? It was a soda. It's almost like invite yourself to have a cold beverage. Yeah. You're paying $9 for a quarter of ice cream and have a cocktail.

How many times you've gone to the grocery store and you came home and something wasn't in the bag? So this is just like trying to even the plane field. Or like if you bought a gallon of milk and it was spoiled. Right. You don't go back. You don't go back. Yeah. Yeah, you take it as an L.

You're just getting what's yours. You know what, folks? It took Brian McTagger coming in here late 2024 to me feel justified about grabbing that one cold beverage. It was like a 49 cent generic soda from the grocery store. It wasn't like it was a Coke or a Sprite or a Mountain Dew or a Pepsi. It was generic. Thank you. You're welcome.

I know there's a good reason why I brought you in here today. It was for that. I do want to add about this big up story. 7-11 used to have these baseball coins at the bottom of cups. You buy a slurpy, and if you, the bottom on the outside, you peeled off the thing, and there was a coin in there, like a little hologram, Cal Ripkin, Dave Winfield, whatever. So I did try, I was getting braver.

So I did try one time. I put two of those cups together and sat it on the counter, hoping to get two coins, and the guy wasn't having it. He's like, one cup, one cup. So I had to only go. Now, were you by yourself, or did you have some other cronies with you? No, we had a crew. We had a crew that the big gulp crew that did that. So let me guess. Young 12-year-old Brian McTagger does this. He gets his two free candy bars out of it.

Actually, not free, you stole them. And you get out of there. Do you eat them as fast as possible hoping not to get caught? Or do you like, man, we got that sucker again? No, they're gone by the time I walk home. Yeah, I'm probably barefooted, just walking the streets of Pasadena eating this candy bar. Yeah, I forgot you're from Paso-get down, Dena. I would kind of mean, I'm surprised you even had a bike at that point. I'm just kidding, Pasadena. I love you all. Good people. Great people. So you had no shoes on going to 7-Eleven to steal a couple of five? Just a couple of times. Okay.

I'm going to put it at least, you have to use your second-handed for the number of times you did it. No, I think it would be less than five, yeah. Okay, well, good. I just, it didn't feel right, you know. I just had to do it for the thrill of it, and then after I'm like, it doesn't feel right. All right. All right. I never stole anything as a kid. I don't remember doing that, yeah.

And I did sell my mom's quarters when she used to sell big, big lighters, and she deposited the quarters into a brown paper bag, and I'd go play video game for them. And she caught me one time, and that was a terrible situation. But that's bringing up terrible childhood memories. Okay, so now, are our guilty conscious, are we okay now? It's not a sports show anymore. This is like a therapy show. It's an anything goes Friday. It's what it is.

Yeah, anything is going for sure. That's right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-5. 790. Texans getting on the practice field today, a light practice today. We take it on the Tennessee Titans on Sunday. Daniel Jones, the big NFL headline of the day, has been released by the New York Giants. Last night's game between the Steelers and the Browns, give me more of that.

And college football this weekend, we got Baylor Houston. You know the Cougars have not beaten Baylor since 1993 in Houston. Now, they won last year in Waco, but they didn't have not won since the two teams played in the Astrodome. Now, granted, they've been in different conferences for a long period of time. but it's 21 years. No, it's 31 years since they've beaten the Bears in Houston, Texas. Yeah, well, Baylor, I think, hasn't been here. It's just 95.

Yeah, so it's not a very many opportunities here. Yeah. But, yeah, U of H can still go to a bowl game. Beat Baylor, beat BYU, BYU, 6 and 6. I never would have seen that coming, right? Well, I don't think BYU is going to lose a game again. Now, granted, they didn't think they were going to lose a game, period,

but Kansas beat them last week in Provo. I'm going to Provo with the team next week, so I'll be looking forward to seeing that. But, I mean, it would be quite a victory. If you were to tell me before the year, U of H would beat Kansas State, Utah, and TCU, and almost beat Oklahoma. I thought I would not have believed that. Now, those teams didn't turn out as good as we thought. Right. And then you have two games they were shut out, two other games where they scored one time.

So it's just been a weird season. I have no idea what the expect of our against Baylor. So. Now, you've got a daughter that went to Baylor. I have two that went to Baylor, one that went to UT. Now, was your daughter, your daughters, are they going to be like, well, one of them is going. One of them is, are they over-the-top, balear fan, or just, hey, dad's going to the game. I'm going to spend time with my mom.

Probably somewhere in between. They follow. She went up there to a couple of games in Waco, so she's not like a over-the-top, but she's a fan, and she'll wear the gear and yell at me and that kind of stuff. So will you be amongst you-of-age people tomorrow or Baylor people or a mix? A mix. Yeah, it'll be a mix. Okay. By the way, we've got the Fantasy Five today coming up at 1230 where we're going to create the ultimate tailgate menu.

Do you need a pad of paper or something? Do you want something to write with? You didn't bring anything. I didn't bring anything. I got my phone. I've got some ideas on here, some killer ideas right here. It's not going to be that difficult. I'm psyched out of mind about me.

Now, here's the issue. We're going to get one little bit of advice real quick. Connor, do you want, because you're one of our judges on this Fantasy Five, do you want a traditional tailgate? you want like, oh my God, this is the greatest tailgate ever? Like, what will help you decide who wins the Fantasy 5 based off of tailgate items? I think it's got to be something like you can reasonably expect at a tailgate. I don't know if you can go like five-starred menu items. Because I'll tell you this.

The best tailgate ever been to my entire life was for a Miami versus Florida game at the Orange Bowl. It's going back probably 25 years. They were serving lobster tail. Wow. They don't do that in the third ward. No, I don't think they do it in anybody's ward. 1114, Sports Talk, 790, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

Shut your Bowmass up. Special Friday edition coming up at the bottom of the hour. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. It is really nice to have McTagger come in and hang out with us today. We got Dr. Roto at 1 o'clock for fantasy football. We got non-fluor stories at 130, believe it or not today at 150. The news at noon, Connor's going to handle that today with the headlines.

Quite a few headlines coming in. Mentioned Daniel Jones is out. By the way, the NFL, how about this? If there's any doubt in anyone's mind that the NFL is controlled by its television networks, they are flexing a Sunday game to Thursday. Wow. First time it has ever happened in NFL history. Now, granted, there hasn't been a lot of flexing.

to begin with, except for when NBC got its games years ago. They would flex some games from Sunday afternoon to Sunday night and vice versa. The Browns, excuse me, the Broncos Chargers game in Week 16 goes from a Sunday, December 22nd, to Thursday, December the 19th.

What about the sports riders who've already made their travel? Oh, my God. That's my first time. No one cares. Now they have to change. There's change fees involved. It gets a little dicey. Is that right, really? You think you think the NFL's like... We don't all. fly the charters, okay?

That's true. So maybe I should... I'm going to go ahead and say that since these fancy reporters are not paying for these flights, that you're not to worry about. Oh, okay. You're probably right. And, Frank, you're probably getting another day of higher rates because midweek hotel rates are more expensive. That's true.

You get more points. Remember when we were growing up, like Monday night football was the thing. It was the only game played outside Sunday, and it was like... Once in a while they have a 13-night game. Once and a boo. And that was a big deal. Right. But now there's football out every night of the week.

I'm not so sure I like that. Oh, I'm okay with it. Now, I won't watch the goofy-ass Mac games on Tuesday and Wednesday. Like Ball State plays Eastern Michigan, I don't care. Yeah. There were two Mac games on this week on. Yeah. Well, if you're the Mac, you have to do it because that's the only way you're going to get on television.

But I don't mind. The Thursday games, generally speaking, suck. But they've been better this year. I don't know if it's because the matchups are better or just the teams are more prepared for, but they've been better. You got a Black Friday game coming up next week with the Raiders and the Chiefs. We had a Friday game in Brazil this year. The international games, we do a segment, gut feelings.

One of my gut feelings many weeks ago was that at some point in the NFL's future, I don't know when that's going to be. Everybody's going to play overseas once a week. I think the NFL is running out of ways to make money here. And if they put 18 games a season overseas where everybody has to go over at least once, that's 18 more buildings that are full with stadiums that don't typically have NFL stadiums and more money and more national television dollars, I think you're going to do it.

Yeah, I could see it. I also think that within the next five years, I will go to spring training and I will watch the Super Bowl in West Palm Beach, Florida. I think the spring training and the Super Bowl are going to overlap at some point. They're really close now, but I think it's like a week away from each other.

I think it'll overlap at some point. Yeah, I think we're going to get an 18 weeks season. Everybody's going to get two by weeks, and they're going to stretch this bad ball as much as they can, and they're going to get, you know, you'll be able to get another TV contract out of it. You know, somebody else is going to either add some more games or schedule or going to get another TV provider.

The Netflix situation will be interesting because they are going to do those Christmas Day games, but at this point we don't know if they're going to be able to handle it because they couldn't handle the Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight this past weekend. Yeah, it has to be something I'm really interested in sports-wise if it's going to stream for me to go to the lengths to turn on, like the Amazon Prime last night because of the snow. but I don't anticipate me on Christmas Day turning on Netflix to watch whatever game is. Well, the NBA doesn't like that because they're going to have a bunch of games on Amazon Prime and Peacock next year.

So they're not really overly excited about hearing what you just had to say. Let's go to talk to some people. Let's say hello to Ryan and Montgomery at 1122 on Sports Talk 790. Brian McTaggart in for Ross today. Hi, Brian. Hey, how you doing? Good. Good.

Awesome. Hey, I just wanted to pick Tags brain on one thing. and then I'll tell you a story to make you feel better mad about the Coke. I, do you think Alex Breggman would be the type of player to take a more team-friendly deal to stay, possibly take less years or less money

to stay with the Astros or I think he's all in on a massive contract? And also, mad back in college, we used to go in two people into a gas station and one would distract the guy behind the counter trying to pick obscure cigarettes, and we'd take two 30 racks at Natty at a time. So don't worry.

a Coke is not a best. Thank you very much, Ryan. I appreciate it having my back. What I did sound like babies. I was going to say, Ryan, you should be in prison for what you just did. But thank you. Wait for the phone call. Let me step up my game.

No, I don't think he'll take a team-friendly deal. I mean, this is the only time he's probably going to be a free agent, and he's going to try to cash in, which he should. He's earned the right to be at this spot. He's going to be, what, 31, 32 next year on opening days. So he's going to try to get every penny of his market value and I think he should. I mean, Al-Tuvae was a different situation.

He, last year when he signed that extension, he probably could have got more on the open market. He was older, third extension with the Astros. He's more entrenched with the Astros than any other player. So that was kind of a different deal. He told Scott Boris he wants to remain in Houston. That's not the deal with Alex. He wants to get what the market value is, and he should.

When Bregman had those arbitration years bought up, were those at value for the Asteroz? or did he get B? Obviously, he would have got beyond what he was going to get paid arbitration-wise. But was that still a good deal for the Astros? It felt like it was, right? Yeah, what was it? Five-year, a hundred million extension, I think, in 19.

So, yeah, I mean, I think it turned out to be probably a good deal for both sides, yeah, I would say. So even though he is testing free agency for the very first time in his age, he could have done it a little bit sooner if he had not had those arbitration years bought out. Right, right. That's why he's a free agent at 31, 32, not 26 or 7 like Tucker. I think we have to do something as sports media. And we have to stop talking about this quote-unquote hometown discount. Because of every 100 athletes that are up for contracts, two of them take the hometown discount.

Yeah, Roger Clemens 20 years ago. He's, what, 38 years old, made gobs of money. Bizio took a hometown discount. Bizio, yeah, Al-Tube. There are rare situations, but it's not a guy in the prime of his career who's the first time, free agent typically who's one of the top free agents on the market. Right. And he's going to have four or five teams, big market teams coming after them.

Those guys aren't taking team-friendly deals, nor should they. But I mean, we just, when we, everyone, Springer wasn't taking a hometown discount. In fact, he wanted to do the opposite. He wanted to screw the hometown. He was like, you wait until 25 to become a major league baseball per her. You're not getting, you're getting zero discount and then some. Yeah, for sure. Even Garrett Cole, who wanted to be a Yankee in the worst way, didn't take a discount.

No. Nobody's taking discounts anymore. Yeah, his sign Yankee forever. It's not, doesn't mean he's going to work for free. It means you're going to pay him what he's worth and he'll be a Yankee forever. We've got a minute left in the segment. Your dealings with Scott Boris, much beyond press conference, a casual gathering here or there. I mean, what kind of dealings have you had with him and what are your initial impressions, not initial, but what are your impressions of him? Yeah, I mean, he's, yeah, you see him at the winter meetings, the GM meetings, he'll hold a scrum. It's impossible to get, you know, one-on-one face-time with him. Now, when the Astros went to Anaheim and San Diego this year, especially in Anaheim, he's always there.

It is sweet, which is right at the on-deck circle. You'll see players go over and talk to him all the time. If you go up to talk to him, he's very affable. He knows who you are. So he called you by name. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I've talked to him before one-on-one. Okay.

And he'll call you. I mean, I've had pleasant dealings with him. You know, is, yeah, I really can't say anything. Now, when it comes down to time when one of these players signed, is he going to help me with a story? I'm not so sure. I mean, I remember when Mark Appel signed, well, the rumors he was signing. I went to the airport, channeled my inner Berman, went to the airport.

Scott Boris came in, and I was like, hey, I want to talk to you about a Pell. He's like, well, maybe that's not why I'm here. And he started laughing. I was like, well, why else would you be in Houston at this point? And we went back and forth, and he ended up giving an interview about Appel. So he's pleasant to deal with him. and just one of the most powerful people in the history of sports. Yeah, unbelievable.

Just the amount of players he has and the level of the players and the money they command. It's just, it's really fascinating. It's crazy. When we found out last week that Hunter Brown signed with Boris, the first words on my mouth were, uh-oh. Yeah, I mean, you know, he's always going to try to get the most money out of his, of his clients, that's for sure, but I can see why players go to him because guess what? He gets the most money for his clients for the most part. I mean, and look at the Al-Tuvae situation.

He's a Boris guy. Al-Tuve wanted to stay in Houston. He was able to get that deal done. So it's not always like he goes to Boris and bad things are going to happen. And it's crazy because he's got so many clients you would think, well, he's not going to take care of me. He has so many lie lieutenants under him. Oh, yeah. That every one of those guys have never said, I, now some guys have.

fired him. Jordan Montgomery fired him this pass off here because Boris had a bad offseason last year. He waited, he had all of his guys wait at the very last second and it didn't work out for any of them. So I think probably Scott learned a little bit from that. That's why I think you were going to hear from Bregman here pretty soon and Juan Soto and the like

other of his other players. But most of them seem to just he's getting new clients every year. Because he walks in the room and says, I got this for this player. I got this. I'm going to take care of you. And he always figures out a way to do it.

Yeah, for the most part. Look at his track record. I'm sure when he walks in there, he sells these guys really hard. You're right. He has an amazing team of people. Everything's probably covered. There's nothing the players have to worry about. And it would be hard as a star player to hear that pitch from Scott Boris and that's a, okay, I'm going to sign.

All right. Another Brian McTaggart staple is coming up next. He wants to tell, he's giving me a list of stuff. This might be, I might say it were the next segment. You got some people who want to shut their bumasses up. Anybody got time for that. a special Friday edition because you're here. 713-212-5-790.

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So we did the gut feelings at 1130 or 1030. We have the Fantasy 5 at 1230 best tailgate. So I'll create a menu. You'll create a menu. And then the audience will decide. I love the bits. The bits are good. It's fine.

It helps past time. We're not a super juicy news marketing here. By the way, some more interesting NBA and sports news. Did you see that they're thinking about? using the challenge system for spring training games next year, Major League Baseball for Strength Calls. Oh, I did not say that. They're going to sample size that next year.

Oh, I like that. And when the NBA expands, they're going to probably expand to 32 teams, they're going to go maybe perhaps to a 1 to 16 format. You go and play the playoffs regardless of what conference. So if you're, if let's say the Western team, conference has 13 playoff teams and the East has three, so be it. You'll seed 1 through 16, 2 to play 15, regardless of where you are.

Interesting. So you could be playing like the Warriors in round one and you could play the Bucks in round two. I don't know. I'm a traditionalist. I like East versus West. Let's go. I want Seattle to get a franchise and want Las Vegas get a franchise. Are those like the two teams that would get a team?

Those would be the two leaders in the clubhouse. Kansas City would be possibility to maybe Mexico City, but I think it's going to be Seattle in Vegas. It's amazing when I go to Seattle and you walk around, you see supersonic stuff everywhere. You look in the stores and they sell supersonic stuff. People love Supersonic. Yeah. And they should be that. It should be the name of the team when they get.

No doubt. All right, ladies and gentlemen, if you're mad about somebody or something or something's got you irritated and you want to tell that person to do something, Connor, tell them what to do. Shit your bum ass up, man. 713-212-5-790. Also, let's say somebody's at the office and you guys are having a bad month of the office, right? Sales are down. And this one guy comes around and says, well, I sold a $40 ad.

anybody got time for that we're down we're down a million five and you're telling you're selling a $40 widget you may not got time for that so you think also shut your bum ass up on that too go out and sell some things stop bragging let me try shut your bum ass up is that right shut your bum ass up man Connor that was weak did you hear that he's laughing he liked it he's laughing because it was so bad got to get fiery well when I that was that was like my practice let me see if I can let me let me see if I can give him an example what has made me today. Oh, how about that traffic? That was back.

Well, that's old material for me. I'm trying to think whatever. I'll, all right. I got, I don't want it to be, I want to be organic. I want to be something that's really interested. So without any further ado, what's the matter with you, Brian? Okay. It is this, this time of year, it's almost Thanksgiving.

I said earlier, I'm a traditionalist, so you know where I'm going with this. Okay. No Christmas music until after the. Thanksgiving, no lights until after Thanksgiving, we need to enjoy Thanksgiving. Ain't nobody got time for Christmas music and Christmas lights. Whoa! You must not be listening to Sunny 99.1. I can't do it. If it comes on, I turn it. I can't do it.

Now, next Friday, I'm going to be sunny all the time. So you're telling me you will not listen to anything Christmas related until after Thanksgiving. That is true. I got a stronger take than that. I will not listen to Christmas music until the week of Christmas. Wow. Yeah, you heard me. Oh, I got one for you.

I like Christmas music. I don't. So, I am very heterosexual. Okay? Connor, you okay? I have to preface this sometimes. I'm just so, I don't know where this is going to go. Well, I am ridiculously heterosexual.

But there are some metrivolatile. sexual performers that I really like. I'm a huge share fan. So Cher was on Howard Stern yesterday, and I was listening to it last night while I was working on my U of H pregame stuff for this weekend. And my wife rolled her eyes and said, you like Cher?

So to my wife, shut your bum ass up, woman. Shit your bum ass up, man. There is nothing wrong with a ridiculously heterosexual man, like me, like his share. And if you don't think, if you think there's a problem with that, then shut your bum ass up, man. Shut your bum ass up, man. Share's fine.

Love share. Share back in the 70s, hot. Share now old. Still a megastar. Okay, we fly a lot, right? We do. You're on the fancy charter. That is true.

I'm in row 21F. Okay, first of all, I always look at you on the elite status line. You're doing okay. I know you text me. You might get upgraded this one. That's so weird. me to do that. This happens 99% of the time I'm waiting for a flight when they come on and they try to tell

you you have no chance for overhead if you get on late. And they say the flight is completely full as opposed to just full. You can be full or not full. There is no completely full. There's no difference. A flight is full means there's nowhere to go. There's no completely full. Really?

Yeah. Shut your bum ass up. Shit your bum ass up, man. Every airline. But in particular, it really shmited. Yes, it drives me nuts. So it's not just full. It's completely, so we get sitting on the wings?

No, it's just full. Full is fine. It doesn't need a qualifier. I'll give you an airplane story of mine. I flew Dark Breast Airlines this past weekend to Chicago because I was not feeling well. And so I didn't join the team until late, but I got there Saturday night. And I decided to buy the upgraded boarding A1 to 815 on Dark Breast.

So I'm thinking I'm going to be one of the first 15 people on the plane. I paid to get on the plane earlier. Didn't pay for a better seat, but just paid to get on earlier. No. Dark Breast Airlines says, first of all, people with kids that can bring somebody with them, people who need special assistance, then they were talking about first responders, which I'm okay with, military people I'm okay with. They went through like 40 different categories of people that could go on the plane before.

I could. People that enjoyed a good musical that got on the plane before I did. People who voted in the election got on before the plan that I did. People who like celery and ranches and appetizer got on the plane before I did. And then, oh, by the way, okay, A1 to A15, you now get to get in. So by the time I got to my A to 1, 15

seat, there were 50 to A.m. people on the plane. Ain't nobody got time. Dark Press airlines for charging me $40 to get in the A1 to 15 border group, and I got on like the 70th person on the plane. Ain't nobody got time for that? I like it.

You shouldn't like it. No, I agree. Okay, I was going to say. Another airline I fly is the same way. I do have one more. Take your time. This time of year, the weather changes. In the summer, you know what the weather is going to be like.

Hot and hot. So this time of year, it's up and down. So I watch the weather in the mornings to see what's going on. What's going to happen? Every time I watch the weather, they try to tell me how to dress. They're like, it's going to be 40 in the morning, 70 at night. So when you go out in the morning, take a sweater, and then you're going to have to peel it off, and then you'll be able to walk around in short sleeves.

Or they say it's raining. Take an umbrella. Make sure you have a raincoat. You go to the beach. Oh, make sure you take your sun's skirt. Just tell me the temperature, and I will decide how appropriately to react. I'll decide what to wear, when to wear it, and I will tell you if I want an umbrella or not. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Hey nobody got time for that. So you're saying you have no time for weather person small talk. Telling me what to wear. I'll decide. I got one more for you. If I want to go outside at 40 degrees and wear short sleeves, let me do that. Yeah, okay. Don't shame me.

Don't be judging make judge. I get you. I got one more before I go to the phones. What was I thinking? Oh no, I forgot what I was. Dang. Okay, I'll think about it. You want me to go?

Yeah, go. Yeah, what you got? What's wrong with you? a U of H event last night. What? Yeah, it was. It was an open bar at this rooftop spot. Yeah? I was getting a drink for me and my date. Uh, so like I said, it's open bar. It's busy. It's only two people working at the bar. I'm being patient, waiting my turn, moving up as space becomes available. I finally get to the front and begin talking to the bartender. But then I was really interrupted by two women behind me, tugging on my suit jacket and saying, why are you here? Who are you? I don't know

why I was so offended, but I'm getting agitated just thinking about it again. So women, who are you? Shut your bum ass up. Why do you think you're more important than me? Let me get my drink and wait your turn. Shut your bum ass up, man. So they were not small talking to you. They were like shaming you for being there. Yeah, they were like tugging on my suit jacket. Like,

why are you here? Like, move out the way. I'm like, I was just here waiting in line for 15 minutes. Why are you at an event with Valley Girls? Uh, uh, you of age sorority. So you're dating these young girls in, aren't you? I'm 23, Matt. That's true, I guess you're 23.

I was about to say, why didn't we get invited to this UH event? But that answers those questions. Because the rule is half plus seven. You know that rule? No. You cannot be talking to any girl half your age plus seven. Okay. So just think about that when you talk.

713-212-5-7-Dotti. You want to tell somebody shut their bum ass up? Let's go. 7-13-21-2. I'm about it. I guess I had something I was thinking about. I should have written it down. 713-212-1-2-5-790 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-790 11-44 on sports-talk 790

more Matt Thomas now on sports talk 790 1148 sports talk 790 bonus edition of shut your bomb ass out this is how much I like you how long we've been friends for this long a period of time that we don't normally do a second one in one week but because you're here it was kind of a special occasion It was strong. When are we going to see the ratings off this show? Oh, I don't think you want to see those.

It's going to be high. No, we're not. I guarantee you. This will be like MASH ratings. Nobody knows what that means. Connor, what does that mean when he says MASH ratings? Because it wasn't the series finale match is like the highest viewed. Oh, my God.

There you go. You know what, Matt? I'm telling myself, shut myself up. You knew that. I'm so happy that you knew that. I know about Mash. Shit your bum ass up, man. I'm a pipe or take.

I didn't find MASH funny at all. Yeah, it was fine. I mean, I've probably seen a handful of episodes. Most overrated comedy of all time. MASH, period. I said it. Don't at me. I can see it.

What's your most overrated comedy of all time? What show does everybody think is so hilarious and like, I don't get it? Boy, I have to think about that. Arrested Development for me. I watched one episode. I didn't get it. Never saw it. It seems like something I wouldn't get.

Greatest TV show of all time, Kirby enthusiasm. Period into story. Funny. Supranos. Oh. Comedy. Comedy? Oh, King of Queens.

What? So funny. Seriously? Yeah. That is the funniest sitcom ever. King of Queens. Have you watched it? No, Leah Remedy is hot.

I'll give you that, but it's so good. It was fine. Jerry Stiller. Come on. Kevin James. It's good. I put him in the Jack Black comedy category of funny. I laugh out loud more than that show.

A cane of Queens? Yeah. I'm laughing, just thinking about it. The things I learn about you after all these years. Roger on 790 and 1150. Roger, what's the matter with you? Rockos or Ro Ro Ro. I should give them the real name so I can provide it as a courtesy to the people who are listening

because, you know, it's messed up what they do. So I'm going over there. I'm ordering my tacos. and I put in my order and they want on the receipt to ask you for a tip and give all the percentage and what kind of tip you're going to give them

and I guess based on the strength of your tip with the size of how fast or how slow your food comes out and if whatever's in there is quality or not so they ask you for a tip

before they even provide you the service and to that I say ain't nobody got time for that what was the name of the place again Rockos or Taco's a go-go Oh, Rocco Oh, go-go over there.

Okay. Yeah. I got you. I don't have you know the bit, but we don't get a free sponsor for us. Oh, I know. I don't know what I was going to say. To the new baseball stadium down, the old baseball same of the new name. It's named after an air conditioning place.

And that's fine. Warm up the press box. I have to text you, Brian and Tackard. every single time to know how many layers of winter coats I have to bring with me on a July day to an Astros game because it's always 35 degrees. So Gene Dias, Steve Grand, Meshach Sullivan, anybody else over there, turn the damn air conditioner down so we can actually watch the game in peace. Ain't nobody got time to get icicles on my nose in the middle of summer.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Preach on, brother. It is so cold in that press box, especially in the middle. of the summer when they never open the roof. Yes. And then when it rains, because it cools off outside and the AC keeps pumping inside, you have to bring a coat to work. I want somebody in the Baseball Riders Association to step up and make that happen. You know anybody?

I've lodged all kinds of complaints. And it did get better last year at the end. So we'll see what happens next year. Raymond on 790. Raymond, what's the matter with you? Okay, I got one. I'm sure everybody's had this happen to him. You know what?

You got your vacation in for the holidays, ready to rock and roll, ready to leave early on Friday, saying, you know what? Gotta go. And the guy, one of the employees, quit the day before. And then you got to pick up all that extra slack. And the bus man comes out there and says, man, sorry, man, can't go on vacation, man. We need you. Uh-uh. You know what?

Ain't nobody got time for that. You need to shut his bum ass. That's exactly right. You got the airfare's book, the hotel. Shit your bum ass up, man. the tickets bought to go see some theatrical stuff or go to a ball game or a trip to the line country. Quick story. I had a job. I was in between jobs. I got a job at some golf magazine in Houston. I don't even know what it was, but I was miserable. I hated it.

This was 95. The Rockets were playing the Spurs. I was there. In the West Finals. Yes. And I decided I wanted to go to that game that night. So I pulled out a piece of paper, wrote on this piece of paper. I was quitting. Sat it on the guy's desk. Got on I-10, went to the Rockets game. Never looked back. How about that? Did you have a job waiting for you?

No, I was just done. You quit this magazine over a Rockets' playoff game? Well, no, I quit because I hated it and I was miserable. And then the playoff game, that was the game, Elagio on Destroyed Robinson. Oh, yeah. Robertson. We took like five bust loads of listeners to that game. Because in the Alamo Dom, you could put thousands of people in there.

It was well worth it. Yeah. Oh, look who's here. Our buddy James and Garden Oaks. Now, James has this terrible storage space. Is this going to be about your storage space again, James? No, Governor Thomas. And thank you for taking my call.

Sure. Governor Thomas. I got two things. I got two shows that's classics. Nobody can ever rip and everything. That's taxi and Seinfeld. Two of the best. Just very good.

And then one I think that's kind of overrated is that Beverly Hills 9-902. 210. That's kind of overrated. I was watching that. You know, all that. James, James, James, James, I love you, but I love Jenny Garthmore. Shut your bum ass up, man. Shit your bum ass up, man. All right, back to it. Go ahead. Okay. And what I wanted to talk about, look, I'm glad.

I'm glad that all of the, you know, the prizes were giving out all the awards and everything. And look, they've been ripping on my boy, Aaron Judge, forever. All those dumbasses from Fox Sports, that Jason Smith clown. and Ben Mowland, that doofus, that works on the night and radio, and anybody in between Steve DeSegro, all those West Coast apologists, look, we know Otani is good, but he's in the National League now, and you can put him up there on that pestle all you want, but please stop ripping on Aaron Judge.

He had one bad moment in the sun. The Yankees had to pay for it, along with Gary Kolde, everybody makes fun of Kerman. But, you know, let it rest. I mean, let it rest. I mean, that guys, pound for power. He's the best sitter in the game, regardless of how many times he strikes out. Okay, so I appreciate you taking my call governor the time you are the man.

All right, we'll see you later. Shit your bum ass up, man. Yeah, I don't know if you know this, but James likes to talk Yankees. And everything in his lives is about Aaron Judge and the Yankees. And the massive disrespect, the Yankees again nationally. Yeah, so much disrespect for the Yankees. Yeah, so much. All right, come over before we get to the news at noon.

Brian and Pearland on 790. Brian, what's the matter with you? Oh, not much. guys. Hey, Tags, I used to report in St. Thomas High School football scores to you years ago back when you worked still at the

Chronicle and we had to call in the weekly score reports. Oh yeah. I remember those days. Yeah, that was a good time. But no, we're coming up here on the holidays and holiday travel. This is to everybody who's going to be consuming the malls or public stores, public

spaces, airports. Don't walk around with your head up, your But have a plan, walk with a purpose, none of the shuffling your feet, lifting around like your loss and you don't know where you're going. If you're lost, pull over to the side, don't stop in the middle of the walkway, let the other people who know where they're going and know what they're doing pass. And you don't cause a damn traffic jam in the malls, the airports, whatever other public space is out there that's going to be crazy busy. That way, nobody got time for that. And nobody got time for that. And Buckees, too.

You walk in Buckees on the holiday. Know where you want to go, especially if you're going to the restroom. Don't shuffle in there when there's 20 people behind you waiting to get in. Go. Move your feet. By the way, do not spend a half hour at Buckees. The average person can get their stuff done in about 12 to 15 minutes. Two minutes in the bathroom, two minutes of the drink counter.

Five minutes in the food, two minutes in a line. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Let's get out of there. And if you've got to get gas, maybe a couple extra minutes. But the Thomas family likes to spend 30 to 45 minutes of Buckeys. I want to get back on the road. So the Thomas family, that's Kim, that's Carly, that's Peyton, that's Cameron, shut your bomb ass up. I ain't got time to spend 45 minutes of Buckees.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Or the money that's associated with spending 45 minutes there. Gio on 790. What's the matter with you? All right, man. Real quick, great show as usual, guys. But I'm going to have to agree with tags on this one, man. Kings and Queens is one of the greatest shows of all the time.

And one of the greatest theme is the greatest theme song of all time. So, Matt, I don't appreciate you throwing shade on Kim's Queen. Shut your bum-ass up, man. Oh, Joe. I don't know if it was such King of Queens hate the market. Geo for the win. Geo, my man. Geo.

He knows. I mean, it's, I wouldn't say I laugh at the show. It was amusing. And Learrahemi was hot. I mean, it still is. It's laugh out a lot funny. But she was a Scientologist back then she got straight and figured out all that crap. but it was not.

She hosts a game show now. You should know that. I know. People puzzler. People puzzler. It's ridiculous. Everybody in the world is hosting a game show but me. Rob Lowe's on one other floor.

Have you watched that? You know who's the new host of the Hollywood Squares? Who? Nate Burleson. What? That's what I'm saying. Utterly ridiculous. Your time's coming, Matt.

When? I'm 52 freaking years old. I can't wait till I'm 75. Bob Walker went until he was 90. So you get plenty. Okay, so can you knock off Drew Carrey so I can go to do the prices right and call it a day? I can do rockets and prices right. I probably can do the show every day, but I can do prices right in the rockets.

Yeah, they probably do like five and one day anyway, right? That's what I'm saying. I can work around my schedule. The news at noon is next. Sports Talk 790. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I'll tell you about the folks at Big City Wings.

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I hope all those players break their elbows and... Whoa! Okay, you hope 19-year-olds break their elbows? They're young. They're young. You should be embarrassed. You should be embarrassed of yourself. You know the reason why there's no buzz for this game? There is buzz.

There's zero buzz for this game. I'm buzzing hard right now. I know you're buzzing hard, but for different reasons. They're having a lot of success in the first half, and then they're coming out, not flat, but just not inspired in the second half. And I'm wondering if maybe they should just try thinking about baseball for the first half and saving it. And then whenever the second half comes, just really, you know, getting at it. Because that seems to work for me. I'm not going to let a man named Pookie ever influence me on anything.

Is Monday the suck off? That thing is going to be big and red is what is it going to be. You're trying to pick up the 9.5. Then she goes home with someone else. Guess what? You've got to scramble to something. I'm never that 7's more fun, Maddie. The 7 will do more things.

Not as much work. I got to go. I got to go. Fewer drinks. Less cuddling. Agree or disagree, Brian McTagger. You get things more accomplished with sevens than nine and a halfs. You don't want to comment.

That's fine. I understand that. Is this working? It is. It's not. Much to your detriment. All right. The strippers are awake.

Brian McTaggart's here another hour with us. All right. It's kind of flying by in it. It is, yeah. Yeah, it's not bad. Yeah. We've done a couple of bits. What a living you have?

You come in here, time flies by, and you get on your charter flights, and stay in your fancy Chicago hotels. Ooh, this hotel we said in Chicago is so good, too. How did you know where I was staying in Chicago? Do you just guess or do you have a good authority? I think we've talked about this before. It's a cross more pizza place, right? It is, yeah. I've heard it's like the nicest.

It's the nicest hotel maybe in the NBA. Yeah. I'll go and say it. It's the, it's the Dominic. No, no, it's the, not the Dominic. That's in New York. Peninsula. Peninsula.

These fancy names. Yeah. Astros stay there too and people rave about it. Peninsula's nice. First of all, great location. Second of all, they used to have printers in my room. And they got rid of the printers. There's not like nobody was using. Who print stuff typically?

Have you ever stayed at a moxie? Yes. That's a little different story. There's no desk. There's no closet. The ironing board is in the hall. It's like a community irony. Yeah, it's not.

No. Now, I will say this, and I forgot to mention this with anybody got time for this. So some of these hotels we stand are so fancy. They're trying to reinvent the engineering wheel in the bathroom. And I brought this up before. We can get the news in noon here just one second. My glass door, glass shower, doesn't have a, it's not completely closed. Yes, I've seen, yeah, the hotel estate and spring training, yeah, it's half a glass.

And the rest is a glass of, I'm sorry, but everything gets cold and shriveled up in there. It just does. See, you have to have it extra hot in the shower. shower or everything else is going to get cold. Yeah, I'm not a fan. Why would anybody want to get into a shower that you can't completely close up? It's a good question. You know why? Because they want your ass out of their fast.

They don't want you in there for 20 minutes heck in a long shower. That's a good point. Burning, you know, spending their money on water. And it works because I get in and I get out. Yeah. Normally I'm 35 minute shower guy. Yeah, it's miserable. I just don't get it.

I just don't get why you can't give us full glass closure on a shower. But they probably have a big fluffy robe right there waiting for you, right? That is that. With slippers. That's true. Okay. See. Bounces out.

And all the controls for the TV and for the temperature in the room were on an iPad. I don't like that. Oh, it was good. Oh, to room service off the iPad, too, it was really good. Quick hotel pet peeve. When I check in, the first thing I do is usually just flop on the bed because I traveled. And I want to, like, turn on the TV. And the remote is always by the TV.

Why is the remote body TV? If I could just change it by hand. It should be on the nightstand. Don't put the remote by the TV. Why don't you take the initiative and when you walk in the room before you go somewhere, search out the remote control and then go drop on yourself on the bed. I'm so tired. I don't think about it.

I'm so tired. What did you use? No, tough travel. You didn't fly the plane. Tough travel. Oh my God. Time now for the news at noon. We go to the 790 news desk where we find.

Connor, you've been all over the place this week. You've done the rotten five. And now you're going to do the news at noon. That's right. What do you got? The Houston Rockets host the Portland Trailblazers tonight for their second game towards the NBA Cup. Both teams are 1 and 0 in group play. And it's going to be a nice 24-point victory for the Rockets tonight.

And I've already booked my trip for Vegas. Because that's where we're going to go. We're going to win the knockout round game. And then we're going to go win the whole tournament where the Rockets are going to share $500,000 and give me zero of it. I'm invited this time. I mean, seriously, if you want to go to Vegas, more than, I will get two queen beds. Okay. And if we get

a lot of guys going, we'll just separate, we get pillows separate ourselves. Perfect. You get four guys in a room. You've done it before, tag, right? Lately? Lately? No. Okay. The last 10 years? No. 20? No. 25. No. Okay. Bad person to ask. What else is going on? The Texans host the Tennessee Titans on

Sunday for an AFC South matchup. Yep. Texans Foundation Vice President, Hannah McNair, had some fiery words while visiting a Houston fire station yesterday, no pun intended, regarding the rivalry and history between the two teams saying, quote, we've taken over Houston, we've taken our fans back, so they're just the Titans now. Okay. So was she assuming that the town was split between Titans and Texas fans until recently? Yeah, and the drama over the jerseys and the Oilers and stuff like that.

This is, when the Titans left or the Texans left, 90% of the fans left too. I mean, there was 10% of people around town that, but this was never a split town. When the Texans came into play in 2002, it was Texan City. That made me mad. When Houston football fans stayed with them when they were in Nashville. But that number was dwindling every year. It's gone. You know, when the Texans went there last year and beat the Titans while they were wearing the older uniforms with Keenham at the quarterback,

that was very cathartic for me. That like almost put the whole thing to bed for me. That is exactly. See, you and I seriously, we are too alike, which just troubles me a little bit. that's exactly for me because I had a hard time seeing anybody wear the Columbia blue and the old Eric until they did it and now it means zero to me and they blew a big lead it was just so it was so perfect like you want the Columbia blue and the well you got it you got the whole experience on that day so was it weird do you seeing Hannah and cow wearing firemen's outfits yeah it's kind of goofy and I mean I don't see Tillman and Jim Crane doing that no crane would never do that though it's yeah it's sort of goofy but man Hannah tells Cal what to do and he will do it and not even argue about it.

Will they at least raising money for something? Oh, I'm sure they were. They were honoring first responders, which is a great, because I've got a good friend of mine that's a firefighter. And I'm, so a little sign of solidarity and support is always good. But it's just, they just, it was just weird because they're putting on these heavy coats and stuff. And they weren't going to go fight a fire. But this is, oh.

It's like a school field trip or something, you know. Yeah, yeah. It's a little weird. A little bit, not super weird, but just a little bit weird. Yeah. All right, what else you got? Despite a cease and desist letter from the NFL last year, the Cougars will be wearing their Houston Blue uniforms.

Oh, hell, yeah. This time against the Baylor Bears tomorrow night. Oh, hell, yeah. The Cougars are two wins shy being bowl eligible, but Baylor's on a four-game winning streak. Thoughts on the matchup, Cougar alums. Baylor, by the way, is bowl guaranteed. They have won.

I listened to Dave Miranda yesterday for our pregame show. He seems like a guy would be hard to get anybody motivated. You've ever heard of talking? He's very emotional. Even on the sideline, he's very emotionless. I mean, he's like, we're winning and we're trying, we're playing hard, and it's tough to win. And I was like, I was falling asleep. Listen to this thing.

Because Willie Fritz, you know, there's a reason why his voice is so gravelly is because the guy's been yelling and trying to get people fired up for years. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think this is Baylor's first time ever to play on U of H campus in football. Is that right? Yeah. They're coming to the third ward, blue uniforms, night game, final home game of the season for the mighty coogs.

Yeah. Couges by 100. Baylor's got a very efficient quarterback and they've got a dangerous receiver slash kick returner. Watch out special teams. Mark my words on this one. Special teams will make the difference in this game. Period. End of story.

Okay. I think it's going to be a one-score game and whoever has a better special teams win the game tomorrow night, 6 o'clock. I think the Cougars win. and they go to BYU and pull off the upset 6 and 6. Let me tell you, I'm going to Provo next week for the game. It's going to like in the 30s. Have you been there for a game before? Yes.

It's wonderful, isn't it? Beautiful. It's fine. It's very nice. I mean, I used to live in Salt Lake City, so I didn't have been in any time, yeah. But it's, eh. Except the caffeine. You can't get caffeine.

You can get root beer and Sprite, but you cannot get Diet Coke or Coke Zero. It's got caffeine in it. They serve great media food, though. Oh, do they? And it's a picture of a place. Yeah, very nice. I have a huge fans. And I think Giff Nielsen's family still has a house right next door to the stadium.

Wow. Yeah. I think he works for the church now. David knows what Giff Nielsen is. All right. Anything offbeat or are we done? We'll do one more. All right.

If you're suffering from Kelsey Brothers fatigue, brace yourselves. Jason Kelsey is trying his hand at late night television early next year. The former NFL Center announced during appearance on ABC's Jimmy Kim alive last night that he will host, they call it late night with Jason Kelsey on ESPN. The one hour show will tape on five straight Friday nights beginning January 3, 3rd. that coincides with the last week of the NFL's regular season in the playoffs. The show will be filmed in front of a live audience from Union Transfer in Philadelphia. The first four episodes will air at 1 a.m. Eastern starting January 4th.

Yeah, it was going to be a hard pass. I had never heard of Jason Kelsey until that Super Bowl where they played, the brothers played, and that was the big storyline. I didn't even know Jason Kelsey existed. Now he's everywhere. Their 15 minutes needs to run out pretty quick. I'm getting Kelsey fatigue. They're on my cereal box.

They're on my pregame shows. Every commercial. Every commercial. The mom's in Hallmark movies now. Don't ask me how I know that. I just do. Yeah, it's too much. I think we're getting Kelsey fatigue.

Yeah, I agree. All right, that's the news at noon. 1216 on Sports Talk 70. We are 15 minutes away from the Fantasy 5. Now, here's the bid on the Fantasy 5. We need judges. Don't call now because it won't do any good. We're going to need six judges for a best of seven, Fantasy 5,

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Astros.com with us on the show. How weird was it for you to be sitting there October 15th without something to write about or a flight to catch or something? It was bizarre. Yeah, it was weird. I mean, October 15th, I mean, you're talking October 3rd.

It was over. And I watched a lot of the playoffs. And then I watched all the LCS. And when they got to the World Series, I was thinking, I've been watching baseball on my couch for three weeks. Like, you lose sight of how long this is and how much of a grind this is if you're, you know, when I was covering that every year. I mean, you're just, you're so wrapped up in the moment and the travel and the work that you don't realize.

It's covering the baseball playoffs is just, it is, it can, assumes everything about your being. You don't get a day off. The travel's brutal. So, yeah, not doing that this year was, it was really refreshing. There was, I think it was an 05. I got up for like a 4 a.m. flight for the St. Louis for the NLCS. Super tired. I get to TSA and they bring out the tray and I put my, this is before pre-check.

I put my shoes on the tray and I had on two different shoes, which, and I didn't even phase me. I was like, whatever. It's just. Like, were they close? one was brown one was darker brown so it wasn't terrible so you didn't felt super embarrassed yeah but i wouldn't have cared any i was just so tired so it's just the travel's really tough so i'm sure people really feel sympathy for me but i was gonna say if jeff can't would have been there he'd have really been upset for him yeah only covered him one season yeah it was 04 so yeah and uh yeah he

scared the bejesus out of me he was not a very nice person and you could clearly tell that during the World Series when his son was playing for A&M and he was just like, whatever. Yeah, I've dealt with him a couple of times since then. He's come back and we interviewed him in the press box. He seemed a little more affable, but yeah, he's a hard-nosed guy, for sure. All right. Give the list of your, we were doing, we're going to do Fantasy Five lists. Give us your three or four favorite people to talk to in the history of you covering the team.

Well, number one's Lance Berkman by a wide margin, just because he was friendly. He was smart. He was a great player, approachable, would give you grief right back. Just, I'm sure you've dealt with me. Absolutely, 100%. Wonderful guy and great players. So he's number one. You know, Bigio's got to be up there for me.

Just a pro. You know, Bigeo and Bagewell sort of lumped together. Just pro. They were always at their locker. Bishio and Bago, both would come to you after a game and say, do you need me? And then when you say, no, they'd go about their business. players don't do that.

Alex Bregman does that from time to time, but for the most part, players don't do that. I remember Hunter Pence's rookie season, his locker was right next to Bizio, which was playing, and Pence had a really good game. So we're all standing around his locker, and Bizio's getting dressed, Bizio's final season,

and Bizio starts to leave, and he stops, he says, are you waiting for Hunter? I'm like, yeah, he said, one second, and he goes into the lunchroom. I can hear Bizio's voice. I can't hear what he's saying. Hunter comes walking out,

wiping food from his mouth immediately, stands there and does the interview, just because Bizio told him he needs to do his interview. The next day he has another big game. We go into the clubhouse. He is at his locker in full uniform, waiting for the media. He's been trained well.

He's been trained well. That's awesome. But Bregman's up there really good. Bartine Maldonado was great to talk to. Great insight. You know, really miss not having him. There's so many. But Maldonado is up.

but Bregman's in my top group. He's right up there with those guys for sure. All right. You can hold this private if you want to. Do you want to name two or three of your least favorites? No, I mean, I really don't. I mean, Kent was a guy who was tough to crack. Tim Redding wasn't always fun to talk to.

But guys who are like, you realize that they don't want any part of the media or they're not good to talk to. You just stay away. And you just learn, okay, just let him be his. thing. Justin Verlander loved dealing with Justin Verlainter. Like he is a diva and he is the guy when he walks on the room and you have to pick your spots. But always very fair to give me time. His quotes were great. Just yeah, he was good to cover, just a pro, a real pro.

So next year, if he comes back in science, you got to say, God, Justin, I was listening to Matt Thomas's show. And by the way, it's very entertaining. He was talking about you're the only Astro has never been on the show before. You should go on. It's really good. He talks so highly of you, thinks you're great, and you got to go on the show, it's really good. And then he replied back to you, what's his audience numbers? Are they big enough for me? He said, no, I'm not doing that. But I've told you, Ryan Presley loves your show.

I know, Ryan, I'm a big Ryan Presley guy. He's told me a couple of times he likes yourself. I wish, and I don't know if Ryan's listening now, what does he live in the offseason? He moved. He's in Houston now. Okay. Well, Ryan, if you're listening, we love you. But, yeah, I felt bad because Ryan really, generally speaking, in her, has had a really good Astros career.

Really good. Last year was just, it was tough because I don't think he'd like the change. I think it took him a long time to get over it. And father time always wins. I think the stuff isn't as good as it was a couple, two, three years ago. But it doesn't mean he didn't have tremendous value for this team. When I think of the 2020 post the World Series championship, I think of Ryan Presley being a nails lockdown ninth inning guy for this team.

And nobody can ever take that away from him. No, even the seasons leading up to 22. I mean, he had never blown a. save in the postseason until last season. So yeah, his, yeah, he's going to go down as one of the top three, four Astros closers of all time, at least right now. What do you put, right, we got, before we get to Fantasy Five real quick, where do you put Justin Verlander on the Mount Rushmore of Astro starting pitchers? Well, he's the only one to win two Cy Youngs with Astros, so he's got to be on the Mount Rushmore,

right? Let me give you my list. Nolan, Roy Oswald, I think I put JV. on there because of sustained success and I probably do I put I mean Larry Durker but I never saw Larry pitch but obviously longevity long run

sustained success especially for a lousy baseball team I have a hard time kicking putting Mike's got on there because of the fact it was such a short term run for him kind of like Keikle yeah so it might help me out is there somebody we're forgetting right up the top I was thinking I was thinking I was thinking Durker.

Yeah, I don't, you know, going way back, Don Wilson. Yeah, I'm not going to count that. So, yeah, I would say. But Verlanders on that list, correct? I'll definitely put Verlander on that list. Yeah. I mean, do you put Clemens up there? One of Sy Young, probably almost one another.

But again, he was only here three years. Yeah. I do believe part of the intendance is being in attendance. Yeah. So, all right, are you ready? Yeah, I'm ready. Ladies and gentlemen, we need six people to call. call in right now and be judges for the Fantasy

5. Brian McTagher and I are going to create our master tailgate food list. The question will simply be, whose tailgate would you rather be at? Mine or McTaggart's? Okay. 713-212-5-790.

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on 790. You know what? Maybe doing food at this time of day was a terrible idea for us because we both said we're starving. I'm really hungry. I got a breakfast this morning on the way. I'll be honest, I go to McDonald's for breakfast. I like it. I got the steak egg and cheese

bagel. That's the heaviest item they have and I thought that would carry me over, but I could go for a sandwich right now. That's a different issue of a different time. Time for the Fantasy 5. Here's how it works. We have a created list of five things that will be the best absolute things you will want to serve at a tailgate

party. Brian, you are the guest. So we do a snake system and we'll give our list of five things. And then after that, the judges will decide who has the best list. Now, would you like to go first or do you want to give me the first pick and you take selections two and three? You are up first with that option. I will take the ball. I will go first and I will score. Okay.

You are the very first thing that we're going to find that a Brian McTaggart tailgate will be what? Hamburgers. Easy to throw on the grill. Everybody loves them. Everybody loves hamburgers. You've got to have a hamburger to tell you. Who doesn't like hamburgers? Everybody loves hamburgers.

But unfortunately, you're going to lose this. Because when you, and I've been to tailgates in college stadiums across this country. This year, I went to a tailgate at Oklahoma. I went to a tailgate at Kansas, which was weird. It was at Arrowhead Stadium. I've been to U of H tailgates. I've been to tailgates in NFL places I've been. when you walk into an area and you can smell a Bratworth.

Being grilled outside a stadium. That's the definitive. No doubt about it. Gotta have it. Tailgate food item. So my first round pick is Broughtwurst. Okay. Okay.

Next. Finger foods are very important. And I'm going to go with Trident 2 Formula. we um you can get them with buffalo you can get them in um you know you could go with uh onion you can not onion you could go with um let's say uh spicy you could go with uh sweet and sour wings you could go with terriaki you could go bone in boneless i'm going i'm taking the whole damn wings category with me so i've given you brots and wings and you're going to have a great time at my tailgate party i can cook wings at a tailgate that you gotta bring them that's like you can grow them on the girl too

i don't know about that all right okay you get the next two picks we're tailgating and late in the season it's a little cold outside you need something to warm you up yeah gonna get some chili chili yeah so you're obviously pre-packeted than that by the way no you bring get the pot with the propane make your chili right there oh yeah but what if you got to go to the bathroom before the tailgate ends you got nowhere to go there's port of potty's You said you went to, have you not seen the porta potty? All right. Chilly.

Think cold game. There you go. Okay, very good. I get another one, right? Yep. Okay. It's an 11 a.m. kickoff. Yeah.

You're out there drinking beer at 8 a.m. Yeah. Got to have the breakfast taco. Now that's going to ring true. That's all right. 11 a.m. kick. You got to have the breakfast taco. So what is in your taco?

I make it with the water burger meat with the egg and then put some cheese on it and then some salsa. Okay. Mild salsa. I don't like the hot stuff now. All right, yeah, because you're getting older. Yeah. All right. So your pick so far are hamburgers,

chilling, and breakfasts. You get a lot of beef. It's a tailgate. Yeah, but I'm mixing mine up with Bratworths and Wings. Okay. Next, you got to have a dip. And if you're going to go dip, you're going to go, seven layer dip for a little Texas flare. I'm not a huge, I don't like guacamole at all,

but a very thin layer as the seventh layer to the dip is okay. The bean, the salsa, the cheddar cheese. If you like olives, I don't like them. But at the end of the day, you get your good seven layer dip with some chips, and people are going to love your tailgate party. Okay. Next, this is kind of a sneaky, you wouldn't think about it as a good selection. but you've had the heavy Broughtwurst, the wings,

you have the seven-layered dip. I need a little dessert. I need something to wrap it all up nicely. I'm going to get some brownies made. I'm going to put them in a plastic Tupperware container, and you're going to see people running to those brownies. Like, I'll just have one to wrap things up, but the one I'm taking four or five.

Get you a plate of brownies, and people are going to love you at the tailgate. I'm going brownies as my dessert item here at the old tailgate. Okay? Is that you're done? No, I got one more for that, but you got the next two and you're done. Okay. Okay, we're tailgating at a LSU game, maybe a Tulane game, maybe a Raging Caging game.

Oh, I know you're going. Okay. We're going to have some Boudan balls. Boot hand balls. Oh, yeah. So good. Okay, boot hand balls. All right.

So good. All right. And then, this is the last one. This is important for you. I don't know if this is, does this fall in your, dip category. If you have some chips out there, you got to have some guacamole.

Okay. Just standing, you're waiting. Just chips and guacamole. You're waiting on these cheeseburgers and the boudam balls to be done. You're eating some good chips and guacamole. Okay. I suggest mild from a grocery store that has three letters.

We don't need people to guess those letters. All right, so you're going chips and guacamole, huh? You know what? I was thinking about this tailgate you went to at L. you. And I was thinking about that tailgate you were talking about when you were in Baton Rouge. I'm thinking about the tailgates in those cities plus Shreveport, Rustin. Louisiana Tech.

I'm thinking about the tailgates, basically anywhere, maybe even as far east as say a mobile. I'm going to put a bod of gumbo out there. And we're going to have gumbo at the tailgate. Okay. All right. So with that, let's recap our tailgate menu. McTaggart says burgers, chili, a breakfast taco, boudan balls, and chips and guacamole.

Oh, I'm so hungry. I'm going brots, wings, a seven-layer dip, gumbo, and brownies for dessert. What are your people going to have for dessert? Beer. Nah, that goes without saying. That's in my tailgate, too. All right. By the way, neither one else went with Koso.

No, yeah. But that's almost like... Someone's going to bring it. It's going to bring it. It's just, you know what you did? You velveter is what you did. You didn't sit there and spend hours on it. Put it in the crock pot and velvet it.

Yeah, it's not a big deal. All right, so the question we have for you is, who has the best tailgate? 713, 212, 7.9. And again, you're going to say, well, you miss this. You miss it? Of course we missed. We're only 10 items in here. There's some I'm sure we missed.

Recap again. McTaggart's got burgers, chili, breakfast, breakfast, taco, boudan balls and chips and guacamole i have brotwurst wings seven-layered dip brownies and gumbull which one of this has the better tailgate menu corey i mean so like punches up here real quick stay with me on this and corey on 790 corey who had the best of fantasy five tailgate menu hey matt i've done a lot of tailgates with my traveling texans group buddy but you crushed it out of the part. I want your Brotwurst in my mouth. There you go.

Way to go. Your name, tags. I'm good not getting that one. Corey's a weirdo. He's clinically ill. But I still get the vote. It counts. It does. I don't know if I should, but it does. 713.

212. 5790. David Spring. Dave, who's got the Better Fantasy 5 Broughtworth menu? I mean, uh, uh, uh, tailgate menu. Well, I think Matt showed a little more creativity, but truthfully, I think I'd rather eat the food that Taggs came up with.

So I'm going to go, McTaggart. There you go, Dave. Dave, you suck. Hope you have a terrible weekend. Come get your chili. Hope you get some food poisoning. All right, that's one vote apiece. 713-212-5-790.

Johnny, who has the best tailgate menu? Mr. Matt. That's it? You do. Thank you very much. appreciate that's two to one but we need a couple more votes if you guys want to get into it 713 2. 2.579. How do you have to get four?

Okay. So I'm up two to one. Now it's time for judge number four. Conardee McGovern. 7132.1 212570. We need two more people to get in and vote on this. 7132-1-2-5-79. If you want to help us vote who has the best tell game menu. You have vote number four. Who are you going with? Brian started off strong with the hamburgers, lost me for a second with the chili, but I came back with the breakfast taco. Matt pretty strong with the Brought Worst and Chicken Wings. Lost me with the seven-layered dip.

I think I would have sold it with the Buffalo chicken dip or something like that. But, yeah, I need the dessert. I need the brownies. I'm going to go with Matt here. Yeah, see, it was a sneaky pickup. Boo. You know what it was? It was like getting that extra utility player on the 25-man, 26-man roster.

Okay. You and Star Power, and I need a Mauricio Dubon somewhere. And the brownies are my Maricio Dubon. I got people at the tailgate watching their way. You do not. I've seen your crew. Three to one, my lead. Stephen in Los Angeles, Stephen, who wins the Fantasy Five?

Tags are myself? I'm sorry to say it wasn't even close, but Matt, you crushed it. Oh, that's it. I think one key component to your list, Matt, is that you can do all of your foods with one hand and have a beer in the other. That's not really true about gumbo, but. Yeah, yeah, you got a hold in your, I guess that's true. Thank you, Stephen. I don't care about his logic.

I win. I don't like this. This game's dumb. It's funny. Ross says it all the time when he loses, too. I'm going to go and eat a bunch of this stuff right now while you're in here for another hour. All right, so Connor, who do we forget? What foods we forgot?

We forgot, Kso. Pigs in a blanket. Pigs in a blanket would have been a good one? Mm-hmm. What else? Do you go with ranch and dip in vegetables? I mean, do you do you even bother with that? No, that's lame.

Okay? Do you go chocolate chip cookies? To the whole house? I thought about cookies, but, you know, but... Buffalo chicken dip to me. I want to be mean, but it feels overrated. If I want buffalo chicken, I want buffalo chicken wings. I don't need to...

Why would I want the dip if I got the wings? It's so good, though, with a little tortilla... Some tortilla chips. I think more people need to eat Boudan balls. You just like saying Boudan balls, don't you? It's very good. All right. Final segment with our buddy McTaggart is up next.

We have Dr. Roto coming up at 15. team edits here on Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. Well, our final segment here with tags. We got Dr. Roto coming up to give us some fantasy football advice. Nobody plays fantasy baseball anymore. Too much work. Yeah, the day to day of it.

I can barely get my fantasy football lineup, you know, out every day before there's some, you know, making sure everyone's not on the bench. There was the, I've not played fantasy baseball in so long. the last time I did I'd have to go get my box scores not from a computer not have it automatic and tabular there was a national news publication called the national that was great in the early 90s that had every box score of every game from that previous week and that's how you caught up on your fantasy baseball stats because you go look and see how like one year I had Barry Bonds and I'd go see Barry Bonds would play five games in a week I have all the box scores in one paper yeah don't you miss

that getting the paper and reading the box scores and then on some Mondays, they had like all the leaders for every. Yeah. And you would go sit there while you're eating your cereal or your breakfast tacos. And you'd go over all the leaders. And then there was like a Boudan balls. And there was a page column by the baseball writer. It was just, oh, that was great.

Yeah. I missed that. I mentioned this very briefly before during the news and noon or just before it. They're going to try some of this experimental challenge system. What's your gut? feeling on how deep are we going to get into the challenging of strikes and balls in baseball? Down the road, do you think? Oh, I think it's coming to the big leagues, yeah, for sure.

I mean, I think the ABS system, a challenge system, I mean, all that, something like that's going to come for sure. And maybe not next year, but the year after. I mean, if they're doing it in spring training, they're really serious about, you know, testing it out and seeing it. I think the players will be for it, too. So, I mean, they had it in the minor leagues. And I watched a couple of games last year.

Who'd you think? I thought it was good. Like the Verlanders rehab start at Sugarland, I think, had the challenge system. And if he didn't like a pitch, you would tap the top of his head. And they would show it on the scoreboard. And you'd see, you know, hey, the pitch caught the corner. It's a strike. And you move on.

So I like it. My partner, Ross, thinks that everything should be judged by this. And forgetting about challenge, if you can get it right and it's right there, just let's add one second to each thing. As soon as the ball is thrown, the computer or the robot, would say it's a striker, it's a ball, the umpire-home-playing par. Why even go to a challenge system? Well, I think 80% of the pitches are going to be clear-cut balls or strikes. So you're talking about a small percentage of the pitches. I mean, you're going to need umpires. The umpires

is going to have to be there at home-played. And, you know, there's a lot of calls he has to make outside of balls and strikes. So, but, uh, yeah, I mean, I think if you, you know, the challenge system, I think you only get a certain amount of challenges. I mean, you can't challenge every pitch. It's going to slow the game down. His argument is, if you get every call right, why even go to that? And my philosophy is, first of all, baby steps. Secondly, I do believe if you had to wait for every single pitch to be determined, then I think you could potentially find yourself any delay.

Plus, if the computer is not working, are we sure they can properly calibrate it? I mean, again, these are all things that have been working on for a long time. The challenge system to me seems like to be a nice, easy medium between the human interaction. keeping the umpires union happy which is part of it as well and ultimately having computer technology to help you get some of these calls right yeah i think it would drag down the game if every pitch is up on the screen and i think we would get too hung up on every single pitch i mean baseball's not a game like that you need to sit back and watch it and you know the balls and strikes go on and you know you talk to your friends during the game and um we just don't need to see every single pitch analyzed like that so but i do i do think we'll have some uh electronic balls and strikes coming up sooner than later. Yeah. Evandrelich, former Houston Chronicle reporter, reported this story yesterday and says that the system will not be implemented into every single spring training game,

but every team's going to see it at some point during spring training. Right. Like, I know at the Astro Spring Training Park, they do not have statcast. So if you want the X of Velocity and all that stuff, they don't have it at that park. But if you go to Jupiter, which is nearby or St. Lucie, which is the far they have that stuff.

So maybe it'll be a situation like that where a handful of parks have. have it and you get it when you go on the road in those parks. I definitely see something like that. All right. Got to get you out here with quick Breggman. So you kind of, your gut says Yankees. I think the Tigers could be in play just for the up-and-coming team. He knows AJ very well.

Could the nationals be in play on this? I know they're a team that wants to start spending some money again. I mean, I think the names that are being out there, the ones I've heard, all three of those have been brought up don't seem to be just pie in the sky choices. they sound like they'd be a legitimate option. Yeah, the Tiger connection is very real, I think, for sure. The Nationals, he's got some really deep ties to Washington baseball. His grandfather used to be, I think, the council for the old Washington team back in the day.

And his dad sat on Ted Williams' lap when he was managing that team. So the Bregman family has deep ties to Washington baseball. So, I mean, that's something maybe that could interest him as well. Spring training in West Palm Beach. That would be weird seeing him. on the other side. Oh my God, it would be, you'd see him like six times. Yeah. Do the Mets get involved if they don't get Soto? I mean, they got tons of money. The owner throws around money like crazy. So it's going to be interested. I would like to see him come back because he's a, like I said,

he's one of my top five Astros to deal with. He's just a pro and you'd like those guys to hang around. But hey, go get that bag. And wherever he winds up, he winds up. Thanks for coming in. And we may bother you again the next couple months. Have a great time at winter meetings. Yeah, this was fun. Yeah. Come back with a big story for us, would you? Well, hopefully it'll happen down there and we can get it done and move on. I'm going to chase you down there and I'll send you some Venmo for Starbucks while you're down there. Okay, sounds good. Brian McTaggart, MLB and Astros.com with us here today.

We appreciate him stepping in. We come back to talk to Dr. Roto and some fantasy football. 1257 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. Turn out to be a big roto. Give me the news. I really do.

sports talk 7-90. We move to Dr. Roto to today. Sometimes life throws curveballs at you. Hopefully everything is well with you and the family of Dr. Roto. How are you, my friend? We're hanging in there. M.T. Appreciate your changing the day for me. Anything for you? And we'll talk to you next Wednesday because we're going to be in Turkey next Thursday. So we'll be moving you all over the place next week. So hope things are well with you and the family in Fort Myers. Let's get to last night, not necessarily about the fantasy implications, but I feel like Dr. Roto, you're going to become meteorologist, Roto, because we could have a few more of those bad boys, especially not this week, but next week, when Miami goes to Green Bay for a Thursday night game,

it could be snow in 12 degrees. I mean, you're going to start watching these weather forecasts. We have any problems anticipated this weekend? Well, you know, it's funny. If you had asked people, do you think this game would be high scoring last night? People would have said no, but all of a sudden it was higher scoring than people expected. What I always say is this. The key is the wind.

Snow doesn't bother players as much as you think, right? Because the offense knows where they're going. It's a defense that doesn't know where the offense is going. And you can't even hold a player in the first five yards, so otherwise it's a penalty. So the key is the wind. If the wind is bad, then the quarterbacks aren't throwing nearly as much. But if the wind is not too bad, don't panic about whether I think people tend to do that, and that gets them into trouble.

All right. So are using James Winston as a late pickup? because we still got some folks, you know, battling biweeks these days here. Yeah, look, what's not to love about James Winston? The guys has the best, you know, interviews. He's just happy to be there. He's excited.

And he's got a team that throws the ball. So I'm looking at his matchups here moving forward. They're pretty solid. Let me see. So the Browns have Denver, which is tough in Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Miami. And week 16 against Cincinnati, that could be a really. high-scoring game. All right. Let's get to this week's action. Kansas City has been playing one tough opponent after the other, one close game after the other, maintaining this wind

streak. They get a lay-up drill. Now, it is back-to-back road games. But with that being said, is this a chance for them to kind of say, hey, we're Kansas City, we're going against a terrible Carolina team, we're going to score 35 points in the first three-quarters and let everybody relax in the fourth. Can we see it that way, or is this thing going to be close this week? No, we can see it that way for sure. I like DeAndre Hopkins a ton. Obviously, Travis Kelsey is always in play. Isaiah Pacheco might be making a return to the lineup.

It's not confirmed yet. If he doesn't play, then Kreme Hunt is a living lock. If Pacheco does play, then I expect them to split carries. Holmes, I think, should go for 250 yards and two touchdowns. And the other side, Adam Thiel and I expect to be back. This is the name we haven't heard in forever. and Jonathan Brooks should be making his NFL debut. Don't expect the world, but I'm thinking about six or seven carriers for 30 yards.

All right. Detroit wins in every facility, but especially they're really good in indoor facilities. How much fun they're going to have against the Colts this week? Oh, they're going to have fun. So, first of all, on the road, they always tend to get the ball to David Montgomery. It's like they want to take the time of possession away from the home team. They want to take the crowd out of it. Montgomery is always good for like those 70 or 80 yards and a touchdown.

There's nothing I don't like about Jemir Gibbs, and Amal Ronset Brown is playing against a cover three zone defense. He feasts on that defense, so I love him. On the other side, don't laugh. I think Andy Richardson's in play. I do. I think he's in play this week. You know, the lions don't put a lot of pressure. Now the Hutchinson is out.

Richardson should have time to throw, and more importantly, time to run. And the lions have struggled against running quarterbacks. so Richardson is absolutely in play and I like Josh Downs too. Let's get to Dallas and Washington. Look, the Cowboys are a hot mess, but Cooper Rush did throw for 354, so there are some skill position players

doing quite well getting the pass the balls from him. So tell me, does that do anything for you this week as they go on against the commanders? No, but I'm going to play a lot of commanders in this game. I'm certainly going to play Daniels, who I believe is finally healthy. Dan Quinn said he was healthy. Brian Robinson should be a living lock for a time.

touchdown. I love Terry McClure in this week. We haven't heard much last week. He basically did nothing, one catch for 10 yards. I think he has a big week this week. On the other side, it's C.D. Lamb, 1,000 percent. After that, maybe Rico Dowdell, look, this is a tough week. There's six teams on by. There's very few good running backs out there. You may be starting Rico Dowdell and having no choice. Brock Purdy, questionable leading into this game at Green Bay for the Niners. First of all, I'm benching him. I'm going to go with Herbert in L.A., but that's a different issue. But for the Niners, if he can't go,

how much does that impact their offense? Oh, dramatically. I mean, and look, if I were you, I'd be going Justin Herbert as well. I think that's the right play. I mean, Purdy's been good. It hasn't been great this year. And when you look at the 49ers, you know, Brandon Allen, Josh Dobbs,

all these guys will be fine because Shanahan is a great coach. But, I mean, they're going to feed McCaffrey. They'll feed Jordan Mason. They'll throw some quick passes to Debo. you know, they've got great skill players, but I mean, do we really trust them to throw for more than 200 yards in one touchdown? Probably not. All right. Arizona and Seattle playing for like supremacy in the NFC West. I don't think generally speaking anybody here in Houston cares who wins that bad boy, but from a fantasy perspective, who we playing and who we sit in this one.

Arizona, to me, always feels like teams and players that I forget about until I realize that Murray and those boys are putting up a lot of points. They are. Kyla Murray has had one of his best seasons of his career. James Connor has a sensational matchup. They run these zone schemes on offense, and their offensive line has been playing great for the Cardinals. And I think they have a real statistical advantage over the Seahawks defense. So you want to take advantage of that.

I really like Marvin Harrison Jr. this week. So those three guys etched in your lineups. On the other side, I think you've got to play Jackson-Smitha-Gigba. I mean, because the Cardinals are a pass funnel, especially plays guys underneath, which is where JSN plays. plays. And I think now that D.K. Metcalf is back. Now that he's healthy, now that we've seen him a second week, I think he has a big week this week against the card. Giants make a quarterback change. In fact, Daniel Jones earlier today was released by the Giants. And that means Tommy DeVito goes

back into play. What was he like last year? And what are you anticipating this week against the bucks? I thought he was respectable last year. Was he worse than Daniel Jones? I don't think so. I think that'll go down as one of the historically bad moods in Giants history to pay Daniel Jones and not Sequin Barkley. You know, look, DeVito, they threw the ball a ton last year with him. I think it was like the seventh most passes, you know, the pass rate over expectation. So they were letting him throw.

I love Malik neighbors. I like Tyrone Tracy. This kid Theo Johnson's another rookie out of Penn State, I think is a good match up there. So, yeah, I think the Giants aren't playing. On the other side, you play Bucky Irving, you play Rashad White, and you 1 million percent play Mike Evans,

who is due back. Interesting pair of Los Angeles games, both in prime time. Rams home Sunday for Philadelphia. Then Baltimore plays the Chargers on Monday. Two teams, East Coast, middle of the playoff chase, going cross-country. I feel like both these games could be fairly high-scoring. I know, although last week Baltimore played a low-scoring game with Pittsburgh.

The Ravens never played well in Pittsburgh. What are you anticipating between these four teams? Yeah, that was a divisional rivalry game. So, you know, that wasn't unexpected. I love this game this week. the Raven Chargers, I mean, you're glad that you have Herbert. They're in a great spot. Vlad McConkey's been sensational.

This is the J.K. Dobbins' revenge narrative game. I mean, this has it all. Greg Roman revenge narrative, the offensive coordinator. I think you play Zay Flowers, and I think Isaiah likely is back in play. He matches up very well against the Chargers zone. You're always playing Lamar. You're always playing Derek Henry. You're always playing Zay Flowers.

So, I mean, this is a game where you really want to get your play. On the other side, I think you're going to see players Devontas Smith, a name we haven't said a lot. The Rams play a lot of zone. I think we're going to see some of Smith this week. I think you're going to see more Dallas Goddard this week. I like A.J. Brown. I don't love A.J. Brown. Jalen Hertz is going to feel a lot of pressure, so he may run a little bit.

On the other side, obviously, Pooka Nakuwa, the Eagles played a lot of man. Man coverage is exactly with Pooka Kheaston. Kairn Williams, be careful because I think that the Eagles run. defense is decent, and of course, you're playing Cooper Cup. All right. Lastly, Tennessee, Houston, Will Levis getting yet another opportunity to try to do something offensively with that Titan team who just can't ever seem to get past 19, 20 points per game. Texans were having a relatively easy time against the Cowboys in Dallas. Tell me who sits and stays in this matchup this week.

Yeah, you're not playing many Titans. You're not playing Will Levis. Tejee Spears is out. I mean, I guess Tony Pollard is in play just based on the fact that six teams are on by, but it's a hard matchup for him. Texans are pretty good against the run, so I don't love Tony Pollard. Calvin Ridley may get there based on volume, not based on matchup. For the Texans, look, you're playing Stroud, you're definitely playing Joe Mixon. I really like Dalton Schultz this week. The Titans run a lot of zone coverage. Shultz does very well against zone coverage, so I think he's going to have a better week than we've seen. And look, Nico Collins is a top five receiver in the league, and I think he's going to score this

All right. Now, opportunity for you to get your questions in for Dr. Roto, and you may do that. It's 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-5-790. You got any questions for Dr. Roto? He'll be with this until the bottom of the hour. Now, the most important thing is you take the information you learn from guys like Dr. Roto and your own information about what's happening with your favorite teams and your favorite players, and you turn that information into some money. How about some fun money for the holidays? You can do that with underdog fans. fantasy. This season, Underdog is going to be giving you a special opportunity to get a profit boost, which means you can pump up your winnings when you tap to apply the boost to eligible entries.

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Roto will be with us next Wednesday in this time slot as we get ready for the holiday. of the season. Dr. Roto whether they're at 1 o'clock next Wednesday here on 790. Let's go to the phones and talk to some folks. We'll start in Brendan and Magnolia for Dr. Roto on 790. Hi, Brendan. Hey, guys. Basically just have two questions.

The first one I think you might have already answered. I'm trying to pick between Herbert or Mayfield. And I'm also trying to pick between Aten and Ertz. Thanks. Yeah, so first, I'm playing Herbert. I mean, Baltimore's been really

bad against opposing wide receivers. They've let up a ton of yardage, a lot of touchdown. So let's play Herbert. I think, look, the Giants have been tough against tight ends. However, they've let up a catch rate of like 88%. So that's saying when people are thrown to the tight ends, tight ends are catching it. I don't trust Ertz. Otten has been tremendous. So I know you might want the hookup with Baker and Otten, but I think the best statistical play is Herbert not. I don't mean to paint with a broad brush, but has a tight end position underperformed this year generally speaking? Yeah, you know, look, think about the guys.

Travis Kelsey, I'll take him early. Mark Andrews, I'll take him early. Kyle Pitts, I'll take him early. You could have waited until around 19 to get K'd on, and you probably would have been much better off. How about Brock Bowers who's going around 9 or 10? So, yeah, I think people always overvalue tight ends. Well, I was the king of Kyle Pitts taking early,

and I've been regretting it ever since. And they went and got the Green Bay tight end who didn't catch a damn thing last week. It didn't throw to him. Sorry. Just reason number 800 for the fantasy doldrums I'm in. Corey in Pearland for Dr. Roto 117. Honey. Hi, Corey.

Hi, buddy. Two quick questions. I had to sit Jared Allen this week or Alan this week. I had the poo-poop platter for a sub. Should I go with, I picked up Drake May, but hearing you talk about Anthony Richardson, should I play him instead? And also Rams or Dub Bears.

Bye, Maddie. Love you. All right. Why are you warm on Anthony Richardson? Yeah, because the Lions don't pressure the quarterback, and Anthony Richardson doesn't like pressure. So when he's sitting there, he's going to have a chance to throw deep,

which is the one thing he does well, and the other thing he does well is run. So the Lions have struggled against mobile quarterbacks. Look, I'm not saying Anthony Richardson's great, but last week, what did he do? Fantasy-wise, he scored two rushing touchdowns through for 270-something yards. When you put those numbers together, they become astronomical quickly.

I like Drake May. I do. I just don't love the matchup this week. All right. Let's continue on and talk to Koso for 790s. Dr. Roto. Hi, Koso. Hey, guys.

Two quick questions. Josh Jacobs or Javonpe Williams. And I have Dallas Goddard, but I'm looking at picking up Disley. I do have McConkey on my team, though. Thanks. Yeah, so a couple things. First of all, I want to go back to the other question. I would play the Bears over the Rams defense.

I'm playing Josh Jacobs over Giovante. So listen, nobody ever understands what Sean Payton's doing. Everybody picked up Estime and all of a sudden, Giovante's playing. Let me tell you something. Would it shock me if Estimate played this week? It wouldn't. I don't trust Sean Payton as far as I can throw him. So Disley has been really good.

He's been involved in this offense. I think that also Baltimore has been wretched against opposing tight ends. I think Dissley is a solid play. I don't hate Dallas Goddard, but I mean, it's hard to argue against Dissley right now. I meant to ask you about the Niners. Christian McCaffrey, what's his results been coming back from injury? I mean, the first game was pretty good. Last game wasn't.

You know, I think our expectation is, hey, this guy is the best player in fantasy football. The 49ers aren't playing like the best team in football right now. So it's hard to imagine that McCaffrey is going to play at that same level that we're used to. But still, he's still a good star. He's still Christian McCaffrey, still worth, you know, 16 to 22 points per week. But if he's not finding the end zone, he's not creating that difference between him and the rest of his competitors. Greg and Levingston for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Greg. Yes, sir. Just really one question.

Oh, because of Roto. We got neighbors, but I'm 11 in Madison, and that's all I have. I didn't hear all it was all broken up. Try it one more time. Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Malik Neighbors or Addison? All right, Neighbors or Addison? Yeah, I'm going to play Malik Neighbors. I don't care about Tommy DeVito.

I don't think he's bad. I think he can't be any worse than Daniel Jones. Neighbors is their number one target. Look, Addison is fine, but the Bears play a lot of zone coverage. Addison is not great against this coverage at all. So I think that this is going to be an ugly game. I think the Vikings are going to win, but it's going to be one of those 20 to 19 games. give me neighbors against a Tampa Bay team that lets up a lot of yards to opposing wide receivers.

Chad for Dr. Roto-1-7-90. Hi, Chad. Hey, what's going on, guys? Thanks for taking my call. Just got a notification. Pacheco is out Sunday, so there's that. But my question is, I've got my quarterbacks on by, so I've got to choose between Tommy Cutlets, Drake May or Caleb Williams. Thanks. Yeah, so, I mean, look, this is a tough one. Caleb Williams played well last week, but he's going to see a blitz. He's going to see blitz on every five seconds right by the Vikings.

Brian Brigh Forer is going to do that, so I don't want any part of Caleb this week. I don't hate Drake May. I like when teams pressure Drake May because then he runs more, and I love the mobility. Look, Tommy Cutlass is, I like the matchup. I don't like the player. So I guess I'm going to go, if I'm clicking it, I'm probably clicking May over DeVito, but it's close. I'm not playing Caleb. I think he's going to take help this week.

On Twitter, Stroud or Kyler, DJ Moore, Worthy, Leggett, or Undunze? You've got to pick two of those for. All right, I'm going to go Kyler over Stroud. Okay. What's my other choice? More Worthy Leggett or Adunzee? I mean, do you want to play two bears? I don't even want to play one bear.

Could worthy squad, you know what, let's go with Xavier Leggett and some garbage time there. So give me Romodunzee and give me Leggett. Now, I know this sounds crazy that I'm not. playing DJ more. When teams blitz Caleb, he throws to Adunzei all the time. Just one of those things. You know, quarterbacks have their preferences. That's his preference. Let's go to Brian and Alvin on 790 for Dr. Roto. Hi, John, or hi, Brian. Hey, guys. So do I go with Love, Artua, or what do I do I do with Chubba Herbert? Do I go get someone? I know that KC. defense has stacked. Yeah, so Chuba Hubbard is in a rough, rough spot.

So first of all, Jonathan Brooks is back. And then secondly, the scheme that Chuba does best at, he's not seeing that this week, right? So he's going to see a Kansas City run defense that's going to stop him. He's not a great start. I like Tua a ton. I do. And I really like my play of the week that's coming up in that same game. But, yes, I would start Tua.

Thanks very much for that. Let's get one more in before we close. it out. Go back to John and Conroe at 127. Go ahead, John. Hey, how's it going, guys? I've got two questions. Brandon Aubrey or Jake Moody and DeHop or Jacoby Myers in the Flex.

I'll holl at you. Thanks, John. All right, you got it. So look, I actually like both those guys, but I really like Hopkins. The Panthers run a lot of cover three defense, and Hopkins just plays so well against that. And I think he's going to get peppered with targets, probably will score. I don't hate Myers, but it's just like Hopkins more. When it comes to kickers, look, I don't trust Jake Moody. He misses a lot. Aubrey could always kick a 60-yarder. Maybe he kicks two of them. I don't know. I give me the best player at the position.

I think Aubrey's the best kicker in football. All right, ladies gentlemen, we asked Dr. Roto once week to give us a number one can't miss prospect for our fantasy football leagues. We present to you. Dr. Roto's lock of the week. Yeah, M-T, I told you before, I like Amal Ross St. Brown. However, I like Tyree Kill even more. He's starting to find his rhythm with Tua. And now, for the first time and a long time, he's playing a team that plays man coverage. There's no better receiver against man coverage in the league than Tyree Kill.

Christian Gonzalez may be 6'3. He may be fast. He's not Tita fast. Tyree Kill goes for 100 yards in a touchdown. And ladies gentlemen, that, my friends, is Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. And I love you when you pick a player on my team that has a lock of the week. So you're telling me Tyreeks is going to have 10 for 175 and two scores.

If he does, then you're a winner, M-T, and I hope he does for you. All right. So we're going to talk to you next Wednesday. But if we need to get a hold of you between now and then, obviously, the this week's games, where we're going to find you. Right. You can always find me at Twitter at DRROTO. You can find me on my website at Dr.rodo.com.

We do a great Sunday morning Discord show for an hour and a half. where you answer almost every single question we possibly can for people. And of course, on Sirius XM, Fantasy Sports Radio, Saturday mornings from 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern. All right. One last Twitter question came in. Janu Smith or Sam LaPorteur this week? I don't know if LaPorte plays.

So let's just say Johnu for now until we know more about that one. All right. Good stuff as always, my friend. Enjoy the weekend. Hope your family is feeling better. And we'll talk again next week. All right. Talk to on Wednesday.

Thank you. Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. Connor and I have non-Florida stories up next. Where is your non-flora story from, my man? The great state of Georgia. Mine is from a manufacturing district and a misprint. We'll put it that way. 130 on Sports Talk 790.

We find interesting stories that occur outside the state of Florida and share them with the people. of Houston It's time for none. I'm on Sports Talk 790. Conn and I figured out yesterday, we have an appreciation for a certain actress slash singer, Ariana Grande.

Find her very, very attractive, very talented. And perhaps, I'm not a big fan. I mean, I know her music a little bit, but I'm more of a fan of her impersonations. She does spot-on impressions of a lot of other singers. Yeah. There was a skit she did when she was on SNL a few years ago where the power went out and she had to like basically had to recreate a bunch of different songs

with different artists and she hit them all spot on. But she's really adorable and I think she's great and she's in a brandy movie that came out today. Correct. It's called Wicked. Well, Wicked decided to put together some dolls. Have you heard about this? Yeah, I think I know where you're going.

Good. Well, Mattel is the ones that created these Wicked D. Dolls. And there's not an issue with that, but the problem is there was a printing on the packages for the Wicked Dolls that caused the issues. Well, if you wanted to go to the

official website of the movie adaptation of this Tony Award winning musical, you would go to Wickedmovie.com. Seems right, right? Yeah. Well, if you were just to guess, Connor, what website the name

of the movie would be the website associated with the movie, what would you go with? I just think it would be like... You do Google search, right? Yeah, you'd be safe. Google Wicked. Yeah.

See what popped up. Well, they wanted to save you a step, so they said, you know what? Go to the website, Wicked.com. That's the only one problem. That's not the website for the movie. If you go to Wicked.com, it's a porn account.

and I, because I'm a really good researcher, Connor, did go to Wicked.com. I'm looking at it right now. No, you're not. Yeah, I am. Adam? On your work computer? It's fine. There's nothing wrong with it.

You're crazy. They're having a Black Friday sale, $5 a month to join the Wicked.com. It is the ultimate destination for award-winning adult content. It is not the site you go to to go information about the movie. That would be, of course, Wickedmovie.com. Hi, Adam. I've been in here for 30 seconds. Yes.

I mean, is this what happens when Ross is out to keep you in line? You're just watching porn on company time? No, I didn't click it. That's the other thing. Are you on the company? Wi-Fi? Yeah, but I didn't click anything. I just went to the star.

Mattel was made aware of a misprint on a packaging of the Mattel, Wicked Collectors. dolls primarily sold in the U.S., which intended to direct to consumers to the official website, Wickedmovie.com. What kind of dolls? We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this. Here's the best part. Parents are advised that the misprint incorrect website is not appropriate for children. Duh.

Mattel also says people who have already purchased the dolls are advised to discard the packaging or obscure the link. Well, guess what? 70% of the dads that bought this kept the packaging ironically enough. I don't know why. Part 1 of Wicked debuts today. The second film is expected some time in November of next year. So for those of you that have kids that are going to go see Wicked tonight,

it's Wickedmovie.com. And for those of you that don't have kids that want to watch other action films, it's Wicked.com. And that, my friends, is my non-Florida story. That was great. Thank you. What is yours, my man? So there's a city in Georgia that is bringing in the new year

and not really a special way, but kind of a unique way. We learned a couple months ago that you and Ross don't like fireworks, right? No, despise them. Okay, well, how about this? The Macon Bibb County Commission on Tuesday approved a plan to implode a vacant 16th-story hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve. Macon Bibb County spent $4.5 million dollars last year to buy the hotel and federal bankruptcy proceeding.

The city county agreed on Tuesday to hire a demolition firm to blow up the building at a cost of $2.6 million and they're going to do it as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. As simply put by the Macon Mayor, quote, we acquired this property to blow it up. The hotel was opened in 1970 and its guests included Elvis Presley, but it was never a financial success. The hotel has actually some more history, like most notably the New York Banking Department seized the hotel in 1991 saying it was one asset that was part of a fraud and money laundering scheme linked to the bank of credit and commerce or national. It was also accused of helping Saddam Hussein hide Iraqi oil profits and backing arms deals in Iran.

It last operated it as the Ramada Plaza, but has stood vacant since it closed in 2017. And yeah, so if you're in Macon, Georgia and you're tired of watching the ball drop in New York City on TV every year, you can just go watch the implosion of a vacant hotel. to celebrate 2025. Do they have proper security around so nobody sneaks in the hotel hopefully? So, yeah, that's one concern. Local business owners around the area are also concerned about potential damage as a result of the demolition of any debris hitting their buildings. So I don't know how this got approved, but.

You shouldn't, no, you shouldn't make this a, no, this is nothing to celebrate. Take it down piece by piece and don't use fireworks, especially the ones that are homemade that one you buy down the street. I got time for a Houston story. Fee D. Wynn, 46 years old, was arrested recently after a violent attack on his Katie neighbor.

Channel 11 reports this. Jackie Gray says her surveillance camera picked up Wynn pouring gasoline on the outside of her house and setting it on fire. Quote, I came out, I confront him about it. He admitted it. and then he thinks my home was going to burn down.

He tried to come back, you know, with a sword to attack me. Wynn also allegedly threatened a Harris County deputy with this sword before he was tased. Other neighbors said they've had run-ins with Wynn too. He was charged with arson and aggravated assault and held on $200,000 bond. So somebody was trying to get somebody with a sword. Yeah, how many people are running around Houston, Texas with a sword? Have you ever been in an area where you felt like a neighbor was going to attack you with a sword? No, I didn't think I was walking out of the bar.

I got to be scared of somebody trying to mug me with a sword. Yeah, that's not good. You just went to U of H mixers and got a rude experience, right? I feel terrible for you on that. Just wait your line. Where are you turn to get to the bar? Let me go first. All right, do I want to read one more here?

These are really gross. I think a couple of weeks ago, Ross told us a story about monkeys and medical research got released. Yeah. So obviously they were on the... loose and it was a couple dozen. Yes. Are they still around? Are they still on the loose? Apparently, according to the South Carolina

medical research facility, there's six monkeys still on the loose. So those local neighborhoods need to be on watch for those six monkeys running around their streets. Imagine what that happened in Kingwood. You hate it when monkeys are running on your neighborhood. All right, one more.

November 4th, a British tourist made an alarming entrance at an internet cafe nearing his hotel in Thailand. staff at the freelancer hotel heard groans and banging coming from his room, which wasn't necessarily unusual in the red light district. This is the story, not me. The 51-year-old man fell from a balcony and through the ceiling of the adjacent cafe

with just his naked legs showing to about 20 patrons below. as onlookers called for help, they realized the nude man was covered an excrement. Oh. He was taken to a hospital to sober up and address his minor injuries. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! So he fell. It was soiling himself. Oh, my gosh. As onlookers called for help, they realized a nude man was covered in a night.

excrement. He was taken to a hospital to sober up and his addresses injuries. Police checking out his hotel room found feces smeared on the floor. We have some idea about what he was doing in the room to make it so dirty, but there was nothing illegal. You'll have to speak with a hotel and negotiate the bill.

So he just went to the... So he messes up the room literally, then falls out of this hotel down to a cafe where his legs are showing with smearings. He wasn't like intoxicated or anything?

He hadn't have been, yeah. There's no way that, yeah. I don't think you'd be sober and just like go to the bathroom in different parts of a hotel room that didn't involve a toilet, right? Did the story not say? No, it is not. Can you imagine being in a cafe

having a nice coffee, maybe a croissant, a bignet, and a man's legs covered in just shows up? I would never go back. No, that's true. You get like a free bit Danish with that? Man drops a try on a cafe and you get a free cafe, you get a free coffee and donut.

And those are our non-flora stories. Not my best work, but you know what? It's a Friday we're going to do. Hell yeah or not. All things about Daniel Jones up next, our time is 145. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross today is in Mexico City, and we'll look forward to having him back in another week and a half or so. 713-213-2-790.

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2-1-2-2-5-7-90. Today's edition of Hellyer-Ear-Nautis brought to you by underdog fantasy.com. Use the promo code SportsMT for a deposit match and take your knowledge of fantasy sports and win some cash. Underdog Fantasy. Promocode sports empty. Category today is all things about Daniel Jones.

I'll read your statement about Daniel. Statements completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. Hell yeah! Statements erroneous full of bunk and made up, you'll say this. Not. Two, Hellie Aaron, Aynast and Roan. prize. What are we playing for today? Mr. Connor.

We've got our final pair of tickets to see U of H. Cougars take on the Baylor Bears tomorrow this Saturday, November 23rd at TD ECU Stadium. A pair of tickets to see comedian Lewis Black tonight Friday, November 22nd at 7-1-3 music call and some 790 t-shirts. Let's play. Let's go to line number four. Eric on 7.9. Eric, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Daniel Jones's nicknames. At least one of them is Danny Dimes. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. There you go. Statement number two for the win. Daniel Jones was the ninth pick of the Giants in the 2019 draft where he played his college football at North Carolina. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, he was a six pick and he went at Duke.

Come on now. Get your Wikipedia ready to go here. John Paul on 7 on a JP. What was your favorite part of today's radio show? when you woke up all the hardworking girls Thank you very much. Daniel Jones wasn't recruited much in its high school and had planned to go to Princeton

before signing with Duke. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. There you go. Statement number two for the win. Daniel Jones had an 88 rating on Madden 24. Hell yeah or not. Not.

Hell yeah. Now, I don't play Madden. Connor, is that a good rating or a bad rating? 88. It's pretty average. I mean, as a quarterback. most of them are higher rated than other positions. I got you.

Let's go to Roger on 790. Roger, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Daniel Jones is on Instagram and has 263,000 followers, but only 12 posts. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. That's right.

Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. Daniel Jones chose jersey number eight because his favorite football player growing up was Trey Akeman. Hell yeah or not. not that is also correct nicely done Sam on Magnolia on 790 Sam you're ready to play hell yeah or not hell yeah

Daniel met his longtime girlfriend christie when he was on a flight to the NFL combine and she was one of the flight attendants hell yeah or not yeah I made that up statement number two for the win at the end of this season Jones's career earnings will be more than $108 million Hell yeah or not. Not. It will be. How do you not know the guy's salaries?

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