The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Cam Smith Hits 2 Homers, Framber Making Astros Spring Training Debut, Rockets Hold On Against Bucks

Episode Date: February 26, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" recap Cam Smith, the Astros' top-ranked prospect, hitting two home runs in the Astros' 8-5 win over the Mets at CACTI Park of the Palm Beaches. Framber Valdez will make his 2025 spring training debut against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday. Matt and Ross also:review the Rockets defeating the Bucks 100-97 and preview Wednesday's matchup against the Spursreact to Luka Doncic facing his former team for the first timetell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1002 in H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. With the orange batting gloves, ready and waiting. First pitch, and that's driven pretty deep to right center field.

It sends back for Mera. Stokelkeling back out the wall. See it later. On to the grassy berm, a two-run, hold run the other way for Cam Smith. Boy, was that impressive. And the Astros lead, 7 to 4. 1-1. And Smith hits it high in the air pretty deep to center.

De Los Santos going back toward right center field at the wall and make it two home runs. The other way for Cam Smith. The Astros' lead is 8 to 4. The Astros' number one prospect putting on a show this afternoon. Now he scores up to his outpies. Get a back end to the left side of the lane to the dotted circle, the restricted area, slides it over right side for Jabari to three-pointer.

On the way and in, there's now five different rockets and double figures. Smith of the Lemon, Houston's up 75, 7, and he scored seven straight. Jalen between the rings, gets a pair of screens from Alpheus, straight on three for Jalen, knocks it down. Big time, triple off the hands of number four. He's got 23, 95, 91 Rockets. It's a Tartari to stay with Damian Lillard as he has been for the last four minutes. Alpi and Yannis at the jump circle.

They're at mid-court. 3.7 seconds remaining. Milwaukee wins, they're going to have a chance of the look. Rockets can tap it in the back court. They're going to win this game. Ball is up. Tapped, Lillard, catch, dribble, shot, three-pointer, back iron. Front rim, no good.

And the Rockets win. It is a beautiful day. A little spring training baseball. Rockets win last night. Another Rockets game this evening. And of course, the midday festival that is the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on Sports Talk 7-90. Harvey? Gerard last night?

Yes. I put the clock at five minutes. It was obviously a little bit of embellishment on my part, but the man went strong. You know that we are in almost playoff mode when Gerard can give you four sports. strong minutes on the Rockets Rap postgame show on Sports Talk 790. Yes, he's heating up. We appreciate him calling in to last night's Rockets Rap program. And I mean, he gave you the complete rundown. It was like you had not watched the game.

He started with basketball history. It was going over the Minneapolis Lakers and George Miken. The formation of the ABA. A couple of times, yes. Yeah, the merger. Yeah, all that. It was great. Yeah, he brought up the fact that was NBA 50 at 50. and then ran through all 50 players,

and then he added the 25 for the NBA 75 at 75. Mm-hmm. We love him. I thought it was spectacular. Yeah. And really at that point, you could do nothing but just agree with everything he said, correct? That's pretty much it.

And then our guy, what, James and Garden Oaks says he needs to be an analyst. Yeah, he does. James and Garden Oaks is probably going to ask for him to be a full-time analyst on Rockets or on television, correct? I think he wants to bump a Ryan Hollins off the broadcast? Yeah. Whatever the case may be. Hey, good morning, everyone. It is 1006 on Sports Talk 790.

It is a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas Show as a promised, and we are with you today until 1150 when we send it back to Florida for another spring training affair with the, I believe, Washington Nationals are the opponent today. The Astros will be the road team, not that that matters to you, but they split the facility. For those of you've never been to West Palm Beach, the Astros on the left side of the Cacti Ballpark Facility,

and the nationals are on the right side. And I think they play each other what Ross 12 times during the spring training. Somewhere in that neighborhood. And we also took a brief tour of it our first day at spring training, the national side. We did?

Remember of my ways took me to the wrong side of the ballpark? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not, I'm having issues with ways. I really am. Because Ways on Monday told me to turn right my way into the work. You know, we always go to cross streets and Travick's terrible. I missed the turn and I kept going straight

and I saved three minutes by missing the turn. So Ways coming up at 1120, guess I'm going to take you do what to do. Hey, you don't have to use it, Matt, but it helps you more than it hurts you. It's not perfect, but it helps more than it hurts. It does help more, especially when you have like accidents ahead of you, you don't know they're coming your way in the structure one night, but you're absolutely right about that. All right.

So the Rockets won last night. That was good. Cam Smith, I mean, can we call him friend of the show, Ross? I mean, he did do an interview with us last week. I'd say let's retire his number, but I don't think he's going to keep number 90. No, I mean, if he's number 90, that means the Astros lost the Kyle Tucker trade? Is that fair to say? No, maybe he likes it.

Maybe he wants to keep it. Yeah, what was Jose Abraeu 79? Am I correct on that? Yes, I believe so. Yeah, he played like a 79 for the assholes. I think that's why he kept his number. I think he got it in spring training like early in his career, and then he just kept it, I think.

Do you think we'll ever get a three-digit number in sports with any team? No. Unless you're at the combine. That's true. Or you're a Boston Southern. They run on numbers, so they retire. Yeah, they might have to, actually. Yeah, that's true.

All right, we are with you today until 1140, as I mentioned, 1150. 1150. 713, 2, 1,000, 4,000. 5790 if you want to join us on the radio program that 8-1-3-212-5-790. On Twitter, you can follow us at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern.

We've got to shut your ball, my ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that today at 1120. Moving up just a segment earlier because we are out a little earlier today. Also, we've got a little sound coming in from Indianapolis yesterday where D'Amico Ryan's, a head coach of your beloved Houston, Texans,

spoke about getting ready for the combo which really gets underway tonight. It is now a nighttime affair. I'm telling you, Ross, the NFL, no matter what they do, I mean, literally no matter what they do, they draw ratings. The Pro Bowl is an utter joke with the tug-of-war and the flag football. People watch it. Exhibition games, pre-season games, you know what?

Don't care. Put them on the NFL network, they'll draw ratings. 8.30 in the morning NFL games. involving crappy teams overseas. We watch it. There's nothing the NFL couldn't do. Like if they put up nine offensive linemen and had a oatmeal eating contest

in the middle of the day, you don't watch it. Good to be king, isn't it? They are the king, and anything they touch goes to gold. I don't know exactly how. Yep. I think it's a very flawed product to me with all the flags and the way the game has played today.

Yeah. But it just continues to keep on churning like a machine. Yeah. And when you have players outraged over the thought of an 18-game schedule coming up, and you have players outraged about the thought of having to go overseas every year, and it feels like, don't care. Just take a look at your check paychecks. You guys are making more money than the other sports.

You have a greater piece of the revenue pie than any of the other two sports. Everything again, every 10. I mean, every time there's a new TV contract, you're going to get more money. We just sold two Christmas Day games for $150 million. Wednesday night football. Yeah. There'll be Tuesday morning football. They'll be Thursday, mid-15 football.

I mean, I think we're just going to have constant games. And I'll tell you what, if Roger Goodell could, he'd play a 24-game schedule if he could. Yeah, I mean, you figure the term market saturation or oversaturation. You come into play at some point, but it hasn't. Yeah. But here's a crazy part of it. We as Americans, and for that matter

a certain segment of the world population, we love the NFL. You know what we don't love? We don't care for the U.S.L. We don't care for the U.S.FL back in the day. We didn't care for the XFL

back. I mean, either you're going to give us the best or we're going to tune you out. Yeah. And those products are just, fear. I guess U.S.FL had some, you tell me, some run in the 80s when they were signing big name players. Yeah, they signed a lot. Mike Rozier, Steve Young,

Reggie White, Reggie White, Jim Kelly, Hershal Walker, Doug Flutie. I mean, they had some stars. What they tried is they tried to cash whip some people, and then they realized it couldn't pay the bills, and that's when the league went out of business. And then they sued the NFL and got a $1

settlement, which basically put the nail on the coffin for that organization. But we're just, you would think, and we've talked about this for a long time, Rossim before you and I started working together, about how Springley, I mean, we love football so much, we'll watch anything. Nah, we're not watching. I mean, no disrespect to the Roughnecks, but Roughnecks versus the St. Louis, I believe that the Battlehawks, I don't know that for sure, but we're not watching it, and we're not going.

I mean, the league's still around. Yeah. I mean, it's cash infused by the Rock and some, and a couple of, you know, and a couple of big name sponsors. I mean, TV networks are obviously putting a lot of games on, so there is something to it. But the interest levels and the ratings have not been good.

And it's one of those crazy things. If we love football so much, then why couldn't a second spring lead to kind of curb our appetite until the NFL comes into play? But then people said, look, I look at the product and, you know, the quarterbacks aren't good. The receivers don't run as fast. The running backs don't break tackles. They aren't great defensive

players. It is what it is. Rossi, you worked Rockets. I worked Rockets obviously last night. A thought or two about having terrible flashbacks of Damian Lillard doing things and how he didn't do it yesterday, thankfully. Thankfully, he did not. Damien Lillard for three in Rockets' history is just, it could be devastating. I don't know about you, but I was like, oh no, oh my God.

The good news is even if he made it, it would have just went to overtime. And it didn't need to. Alpi, what are you doing throwing a pass? I don't. With 12 seconds left to go in the game. he clutched up and made two big free throws and when I was just begging for at least a split and then immediately he tosses the ball away

and that inexplicable play at the end. He tried to go like Harlem Globetrotters pass with 12 seconds left to go. He was going Irvin Magic Johnson with 12 seconds left you need to run down the clock, you're up three. That was unbelievable. Oh, it was unbelievable. And I'm a man, I'm in Man Thompson.

What are you doing clubbing Yonis? The Goupo with Adam Silver in the building. I mean, that's not going to be great. He lost his mouth. mind. It is funny. He, you know, and somebody put this on Twitter, he said, and I know this for a fact,

is one of the most soft-spoken, sweet kids that you'll meet. I mean, he's going to be a star in this league. Those ones you've got to watch out for sometimes, man. I'm telling you, Ross, he hip-tosses Tyler Hero, and then he's clubbing one of the five most recognizable players in the NBA.

Kind of crazy. All right, if you want to talk to some Rockets, let's do that. You want to talk about Cam Smith hitting a couple of bombs, as the Astros beat the match yesterday. If you want to get into some Damico, Ryan, some of the commentary he had from Indianapolis yesterday. We get to all that as well. Busy show today. We are with you only until 1150, so please come on and say hello at 713-212-5-790.

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Damian Liller missing that three-point shot at the buzzer that would have sent the game to overtime. He's in our top five Rossi of Houston opponent assassins, right? Hmm. That's interesting. So let me give you right off the top. I know number one right off the top. Go ahead. Method Murray?

Oh. Methad Murray. We can actually say his name. He's not a sponsor. Stephen Curry won Honestly, Clay Thompson might be two. Clay Thompson. Let me give you

Maybe Greg Maddox. I mean, honestly, with all those years of Braves. Oh, okay. I thought we're doing Rockets only. No, I'm talking about in all sports. Pat Mahomes. Greg would have to be up there. Albert Poo-Holes is up there.

Oh, Poo-Holes, definitely in that group. Pool-holes, Maddox. We'd go Peyton Manning back in the day? Mahomes. The Colts just. own the Texans for like a decade. Reggie Wayne, Marvin Harrison. Oh, T.Y. Hilton.

T.Y. Any, any cult receiver, period. I don't care who the quarterback was. You know, we've had too many Houston opponent assassins. Now you're just making me upset. I didn't mean to do that. We got the up-and-comers. George Kirby seems to crush the Astros every time now. Mariners pitcher. Yeah, but we're not putting him in that category yet, are we?

I mean, I guess one more year. He's climbing the list. He's got time. He's young. He is Mr. 7-ting-3 hit guy. That's true. I'll give me that. I don't know. Dame scores, what, 60-something against the Rockets, a couple of years back when the Rockets were terrible.

He hits the shot against the Rockets in the playoffs. Those are two that come to mind. I'm sure there's a couple more that we're forgetting about. We've had caught. I mean, I guess every city, Rossi would have one of those lists of the greatest Houston opponent assassins. Absolutely. But, hell, you could, if you're,

going to go to the Braves, you could go Maddox, Smoltz, probably had his fair share of success. Chipper Jones, Glavin. Yeah. Trying to think of other opponents in baseball that have given the Astros troubles over the years. Yeah, the Texans are eating.

Kevin Brown. Oh, that's San Diego 1918. Oh, Sterling Hitchcock. Oh, stop. You know what? This is a terrible life. You brought it up. You got it. Shut your bum ass up. I deserve that. But it's funny because Dave Cohn, who's the announcer for the Bucks, is a friend of mine. And I came over and said, hey, safe travels back home.

And he's like, you know, Dame doesn't do this anymore. He says he doesn't make the big shots anymore. He'll score. But on the edge of your seat, catch and shoot, big make, not happening anymore. I guess I'd have to look through it. It feels like that's maybe a shot. short sample size. Maybe he sounds like he's being doom and gloom about the bucks.

There's maybe a part of that too. Maybe part of that too. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-2-7-90. 10-24 is our time. We're going to check in Indianapolis in a few minutes and let you hear what D'Amico had to say about his squad and what he wants to accomplish at

the Combine. Let's go to Andrew and Katie on 790. Andrew, good morning. I know we've had a lot of heartbreaking he's of sports moments, but I will randomly just go to a rage remembering that shot over Chandler Parsons and where I was in that exact moment. My wife has sleeping bed next to me and try not to

flip the whole bed and so she can get her rest. I just like even now my blood pressure is rising so I was feeling shade to that last night. Yeah, I did the post game show that night. I was not with the team at the time and I think I took calls for 1.30 in the morning. I mean it was like I had

to be like a get people off the ledge kind of thing and how bad that was because not only did he make the shot, but Ross, help me out, didn't Hardin and Parsons confused themselves defensively or Hartner shifted them over? And it was, they went from a bad defensive position to a worse one? Yeah, so there was a miscommunication. I think it was Parsons or Hardin.

It's just terrible. Yeah, that's what I was feeling last night when I saw them set up for that jump ball. His Tari set up on the inside shading dame to the sidelines. And obviously, I'm not an NBA player, but I didn't know why he got the exact look he wanted versus pushing him to the middle and just my heart was in my throat. But yeah, I agree.

Dame strong-armed it, so I don't know if you can make those shots anymore. Yeah, the worst part about last night was the double lane violation actually benefited the box because it went to a jump ball. And that's a lot easier to win the tap, get it to a player to shoot as compared to Dame missing the shot intentionally, rebounding it, kicking it out to somebody to shoot the three-point shot. So they actually caught two breaks. Alpi's turnover was, I mean, I love Alpi.

But my God, what are you doing? I mean, you have 12 seconds left. No the situation. Just drain the clock, run around, get foul, do something, but don't go Harlem Globetrotter on me. It was crazy. And then the double-lane violation, which resulted in the jump ball, gave them a chance to actually set something up as long as they won the tap.

Yeah, and with, what, three and a half seconds less is what he had. I mean, he had plenty of time cash turns. Plenty. Plenty of time. Plenty of time. Oh, man. We'll take the win. You got that right.

Thanks, Andrew, for the phone call. Appreciate it. Yeah, there was, I mean, if you're a Bucks fan, Ross, which we have, I believe, there were actually quite a few Milwaukee jerseys in the building last night. I don't know why that was. I mean, obviously, Janus is the guy. It's a fair amount of people cheering for Lillard, which kind of surprised me. The honest, I get.

There are some Lillard fans in the building. Yeah, by the way, can we go to E.J. Green? I love that guy. All he does is just make deep three-pointers. Yeah, he's sure. shoots like 40% from three the last three years. Yeah, and...

He's pretty good. And who's their two guard? I'm drawing a blank, long hair. Oh, I got to look at my box score from last night. Off the box. Help me out here. I'm going to have to look it up. I just called the game last night,

and I forgot the guy's name already. You're talking about Tor. Wait, Torrean Prince. Tori and Prince. He's not a two guard, so I was all confused. Well, he's a combo, but he shoots 40-something percent from three. He's like number one or number two in the league. Yeah.

In shooting. So, yeah. But Tori and Prince, I mean, Prince and Green, that's the thing the rockets are going to have to go find. And whether it's a guy like Green coming off the bench. What about Kyle Kuzma? Speaking of that, did you see that shot that, not Kuzma, but Lopez. Brooke Lopez taking that 30-footer with about 10 seconds left? Yeah.

You're welcome. Thank you very much. appreciate that. Man, it was kind of sad to see in a way. Being there at the game, you could see how slow he is. He is a shell of himself. He's 36 years old. But why in the world would he take a deep three like that with that little time left?

And you can find it, first of all, find a better shot. And secondly, find somebody else to shoot it besides you. I mean, you're a capable three-point shooter, but. He was open, Matt. He went hero ball. Of course he was open. It was the logo. I went to the logo, but you get my point.

He's a good three-point shooter. From 30? I mean, I'm just saying I was scared because he was wide open. Well, you know what? If he would have made that shot about like, you know what, things were meant to be. It just wasn't going to be the Rockets night.

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1033 on the first. Matt Tomlin's show with Ross. Good to have a little rocket chatter going last night. That's a big lineup. Kuzma, Dente Gumpo, and Lopez. That's what, 6-11, 7 feet, 7-1 in that mix? Gatorian Prince playing a two-guard at 6-6-2-20. He's kind of a power forward or like a small forwardly.

He's listed his power forward. Yeah, but he played two-guard yesterday. Okay. So the box score says Rossi. Okay. Pass it along. And how many rebounds for Power 4 did he have? He had two.

He had five assists. That's two guard. Okay. And he's not a two guard. That's fine. He's played two guard last night. 713, two, one, I've seen Gene Exitorian Prince. Just seeing that right there.

Just looking at it right now. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-7-98. All right, so what did we find interesting, Ross, for our friend, Domingo Ryan's in Indianapolis yesterday? Nothing? No, I guess. Well, why don't we listen? and Matt.

All right. First of all, well, of course, there are a number of deeds the team has to address, but I'd say the most important thing, Matt, is that you work well

with your general manager. Here's Domingo Ryans on how he works with Nick Casario. It's easy because we see football the same. We know the type of players that we want on our team. We know that mindset that we're looking for.

And players, it's guys who have that relentless mindset, guys who love football. Those guys jump out to us. All right, guys who are leaders. That jumps out. to us those characteristics that they don't they don't lose those when they come into the NFL. If guys were leaders at college, guys played with a certain play style and the demeanor in college,

that's going to carry over to the NFL. So those are the type of players we look for. And we want good people. And that's the thing that me and Nick agree on the most. You want to win, but you want to win with great people. And we both believe that you can't do that. And we've shown that by some of the guys we drafted in CJ, Will, Kamari. Henry

Toilto. It's just a lot of great people. And it's fun when you're working with great people who are talented and they're like-minded and we're all reaching that same goal. So Nick Casario and D'Amico Ryan's on the same page, Matthew. Whew. Man, Ross, I'm relieved. Oh, man, I was worried for a minute.

That's great. It's good to hear they're having the same football philosophies. You know what he also wants, Ross? He wants good people. Wouldn't it be fun if he said, you know what? Character? we want to win. We haven't been on an AMC championship

game yet. Let's go. Yeah, you need somebody who's ready to crack some skulls. Well, we want a few dogs on this team, if you know what I'm saying. No, he wants good character guys. Well, everybody wants dogs, too. You want good character guys who are dogs, Matt. Can you go up there and do you want good people? Of course.

But you know what? If we take three or four guys that have been suspended by the league, we're okay with that. You can find the happy medium. Men Thompson's a good character guy. He's a dog. Oh, my God. Do you think EMA would say that? I mean, I know he'd want to say it, but he's like, man, if our guys want to throw hands, I'm okay with that too.

Yeah, but don't get ejected with four and a half minutes to go in a close game. Yeah, that was tough. By the way, Adam Clinton disagreeing with you and I about the ejection. Is Tony Brothers and bad officiating? I'm just going to say this. Tony Brothers is not a good official, but he's a nice guy. But he made the right call yesterday. it was once I saw the contact of the head there was no doubt in my mind it was going to be a flagrant too and it was and I don't think a whole lot of people outside of the Rockets fan base are saying this was some bad call no and I love the Rockets.

Yeah, I love the Rockets more than life itself and I'm just telling you all I do is when I look at these types of situations, if I see one of my guys, if Jabari Smith would have been clubbed by I don't know Gary Trent Jr. in the same way. I'd have said that's a flagrant penalty to get him out of the game. I mean, that's just, we got to have some sort of objectivity, do we not? Yeah, he jumped, well, no, that's okay. That's part of Adam Clinton's charm. He's going to be a Homer, and, you know, his pen tweet says it. He's going to put on for Houston, and we appreciate him, but that was a flagrant, too. Yeah, and the thing I'm worried about, hopefully he will not get suspended because you can suspend,

and the problem was that, again, the commissioner was the building last night. I don't know if there's, if that's because you would suspend because it's a Janus, it's a star, or that he was in the building last night, that he can, actually called Joe Dumar, who's in charge of penalties for the NBA, and say, hey, I saw this firsthand, and that was terrible. Hopefully it's just a penalty, too, and it's done with, and no suspension. That's what I'm hoping for as well. All right, you want to hear one more from D'Amico for a back of phone? Yeah, let's hear some more from D'Amico. Let's see, offensive linemen. We know that is going to be something that the Texans are going to be

keying in on this offseason. Here's DeMico Ryan's on evaluating them. First and foremost, I'm looking at, you know, past protection. Like, how good is the guy in past protection? And then, I know for everyone, for me, speaking, offensive alignment, I want to see that grit. I want to see that toughness, right, that nastiness of how guys are finishing their blocks, right? What type of leaders these guys are, how passionate they are about football. That's very important to me when it comes to the offensive line.

Well, he's right out of Coach Speak 101, right? Well, yeah, every day. I mean, I respect the consistency. Yeah, you're not, I mean, look, yeah. You want guys that love football and they're good pass protectors? Let's go. That sounds about right. He's not saying anything wrong.

Yeah, I mean, look, you know, I'm looking to get a guy who doesn't show for OTAs, doesn't show for mini-camp, commits a lot of penalties. I've already got one of those guys. We're looking for something a little bit different. Oh, come on now. You're talking about the veteran pro bowler? Team captain. Ho-ho-ho.

Yeah, team captain and pro bowl. What are you talking about, Matt? We're getting word from Laramie Metsal's camp. He said he's like there going to be calling in about 1120. Can't wait. I'd love to get that guest on. Now, who just go run to Twitter and complain about something? Let's do one more, Matt, because this has been kind of a hot topic.

We haven't talked much about it on this show, but there's been a hot debate in the offseason in the NFL. That would be, is or should the Tush push remain illegal play. When it comes to that, you know, KB sneak play, I think each team is different. When they had Jason Kelsey, a whole teammate of mine, he was really good at executing that play. And it's just other teams have tried it. Some teams have stopped it.

So, you know, we'll see how those discussions go over the next couple months. But for me, either way, like, you execute in a play, it's just difficult to stop. You keep running that play, and the Eagles benefited from it, and they've done an outstanding job. Sounds like he doesn't want an outlaw. You know what? I think you asked me yesterday how I feel about it. I don't have that strong of opinion one way or the other. Is it cheating?

is it circumvent in the system? Is it giving more assist? Of course, the answer to all that is yes, but you start up. If it's a legal play now, and it helps team score, and it adds a points because that's what we want. We want scoring in our sports, right? Yeah.

It is funny of the team that, I believe, was it the Green Bay Packers had asked for it to get a band? They always have an anonymous team. Yeah, I can't remember, but yeah, it's been discussed the last couple years now. All right, 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Vince in Midtown at 1041 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Vince, good morning.

Good morning, guys. Hey, I would love to hear your call that Matt when San Goon made that bone-headed play toward the end of the game. I have to be one of the worst. We have that ever seen. Do we really? Do we have to play this? I mean, I love Alpy. All right, go ahead and do it.

Brooks to Alpi across mid-court. Middle of the lane he goes, kicks in weakside, and he throws it off the hands of Jabari. Smith, he wasn't ready for it. Absolutely no recognition of what's going on in this game from Alper and Shengoon. Why would you do that? Shock clock is off. Bucks are looking to foul. He needs to get rid of the basketball with a three-point lead.

He throws it out of bounds. There you go. Did you hear the despair in my voice? I hear the despairing Wexler's voice. Did Wexler flip the table? But it doesn't bode well if we get in the playoffs that he's doing stuff like that still. It's just mind-boggling. And I don't know.

I know that that's not what he's been taught to do. So it's just kind of worries me if we, once we get in the playoffs. And we'll see. But anyways, I thought that was kind of funny and stupid, of course. but I wanted to hear what you guys had to say. Yeah, thank you. By the way, I think Ema Odoco Ross was asked about it last night. He says, yeah, some of the guys are laughing about it,

and other guys said, don't laugh at that or something like that. Like it wasn't very funny. Yeah. I didn't find it funny at all. You can laugh when they win. Oh, my God, yes. And the thing of it is that Alpe is a really good pat. For a big man, it's a really nice pastor.

He can do the no looks. He can throw the behind the backs. He can bounce the ball between people's legs and whatnot and do all that kind of stuff. But then there are some that you just shake your head. at and I went and looked at the replay this morning. And the pass was too far. I mean, Jabbar, I don't know if even Jabari was ready for it, to be brutally honest with you. But man, that was a tough watch.

That was bad. It was inexplicable. Yeah, it did not crush him. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-7-190. It is the Matt Thomas-o-Ross. We take this program today up until 11-15. 50 today. We got shut your bum ass up at 1120. I'm going to have one. Ross, for a certain

fast food restaurant yesterday. Hmm, okay. Yeah, I'm sorry. I just did. I just, I'd be honest with you. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Dana Brown was a guest on the Astros Radio Network yesterday, and we'll get a little update on what he's having to say, what's going on in spring training after I tell you about League One volleyball. L-O-V-B.com is the website for League One volleyball, the new professional league. They've got a big match coming up on Thursday night. That's tomorrow at the Forpin Episcenter. And if you want to go, tickets are starting as low as $10, and you can go check them out for the brand-new volleyball.

If your daughter plays, if your son plays, if you play, if you play in the past and you love volleyball, might as well watch the best players in the world do it and representing the city of Houston. League One volleyball is a brand-new league in its first year. and if you want to check out some of the best players in the country, go to the Fort Bend County Episcenter and check out the action tomorrow night. For more details about the entire league and how you can see games for future matches in Houston, go to LovB.com, L-O-VB, love volleyball, league one volleyball, L-O-VB.com. Matt and Ross returned on Sports Talk 790.

We failed to mention that, Jose Altovae is going to make his left field debut Friday. In spring training. Yeah, we're flying you down there, right, Matt? Um, moment by moment coverage from Matt Thomas. I mean, I could go. I mean, the Rockets don't play until Saturday. I guess I could go down there if you wanted to.

Yeah, let's get you down there. You'd want to go? No, I know you don't like leaving the house. A special place in hell for you. There really is. and don't say you're right there with me because I already know that. You don't have to say those things. See you there.

Okay, whatever. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-990. Dana Brown on the Astros radio broadcast yesterday was asked about the players acquired in the Chicago Cubs trade. One of them, Cam Smith, their first-round pick, hit not one but two home runs yesterday in the game against the New York. Metropolitan and here's Dana on those players.

Well, Cam Smith looks like an NFL quarterback. I mean, he's put together pretty good. We can't wait to see him get into that lineup. And West Nesky, look, I saw him throw on the backfield the other day. He was throwing a sweeper that was about 85, that was at 22 inches of movement on it. It was pretty nasty. He was up to 96. And then this guy, you know, you saw the first depend.

that grinding, you know, make the pitcher, get the pitch count up. You guys didn't do that enough last year. I would imagine you and Joe Swatter, those guys had to be thinking about getting somebody who can see some pitches. Yes, and that's the deal with these two guys. I mean, you saw the first bat, see 13 pitches. And, you know, just grind those pitchers down, man. You grind them early before you know if their pitch count is up about 100 after four innings or five innings. And, you know, you got them right there on the ropes.

There's a lot of excitement in that voice today, huh? Yeah. Look, is Camar star? Are we going to be like Kyle? We miss you, but not really? Hmm. Put a lot on them, aren't we? It's one spring training game.

I know. He was great. And we interviewed him and he was nice and he was great and he's huge. He looks the part for sure. Yeah, he does look the part. as far as the asteros are concerned I'm going to think there's anything else Dana we want to talk about

you know obviously part of the deals they have made the the Chicago Club in particular deal was talking about the future and the president trying to balance both the same time you have to continue to look toward the future because the future gets up on you quick

and if you're not prepared you know you could see your team fall off a cliff and we didn't want to do that and so you know if you don't sign Tucker and he walks out after a year and now you get just a draft pick that you've got to

wait for and so that would have been even more difficult so that's why we're competing in the present and we're building for the future at the same time do you think Ross and this is just a pure guess on our part that maybe that Dana is a little more

forward thinking about the future knowing the parameters that have been given to him by his owner what do you mean how do you mean or Jeff didn't have to worry about five years down the road when he was a general manager, that maybe Dana has to because this organization is now going to have to have to,

has lost many players and the binary league system has been so depleted that he has to start thinking more ahead than maybe the previous general managers that were here. And again, I don't know, I'm just maybe talking out of mind, you know what, but I just get the sense that maybe Dana was able to whisper something in the gym's ear about moving away from some guys, because he's thinking, man, if you want us to stay competitive in 2028, 20, 30, I've got to make some deals here and not try to hold on to hope that maybe Kyle Tucker's going to change his mind and become a Houston Astro for the long term.

I mean, I think that was just the job that he was hired to do, and I think it's a difficult job, is to restock. I think restocking the farm system was his job number one. Right, right. And then job number two was winning at the major league level. And unfortunately, some of the restocking that was done, you had to make trades for Kikuchi, make trades for Verland. especially the Verlander trade. I think when I say both of those guys are in the top 100,

Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford. So, yeah, it's tough. And I think there is, I think for Dana, task one in his most important task, and the one he loves the most is building the farm system. But then Jim Crane comes to him and says, hey, you need to make a move to make this major league team better. And he's like, all right, I don't think he wanted to make the Verlander trade.

I don't think he wanted to. to give up all that he did for the Kikuchi trade either. How about this? Do you think he wanted $5 years, $85 million for Josh Hater? I would say probably because that's not his money. He's not, he's not his money. And at that we remember that we had a lot of questions at the back end of the bullpen, Ryan Presley had slipped and then Kendall Graveman got hurt. They needed to do something.

And that was it. Yep. Yep. I'll say this, you know, even though I don't know how he would have felt about Hater, When the boss says go spend it, you're going to go spend it, right? That's the reality of it. And so maybe he may have been, he may have thought he was overpaying him, but if, I guess look, Josh, Jim Crane had him in the fact that the trade deadline the year before he wanted to go get Josh Hater when he was supposedly available.

So sometimes the owner gets a guy that he just loves so much and that the owner says go get it, you go get it. All right. Second hour of the show is going to start. We're going to open up with something we didn't talk about in the first hour. and that is Luca Dantzich's return to the court against his old team for the very first time. Dallas played the Lakers last night in Los Angeles. Lakers won the game. Are you seeing some of the stories that are coming out in the last 24 hours from the athletic

about how the Mavericks felt about Luca Dantzich? I have that. I'm going to read you a series of quotes. Okay. That is mind-blowing. From anonymous sources, I imagine. I would think so. I wouldn't want to put my name on these bad boys.

Although they were screaming, thank you, Nico, last night at the game in Los Angeles. That's pretty good. It's really good. Nico, of course, Nico Harrison, the general manager of the Dallas Mavericks. 1057. We start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross with shut your bum ass up in 25 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show.

I can't wait to see the show. The facial reactions, the trash talking, the histriotics, the body language. Things could get real spicy here throughout this game as Dantz. It's Ritz and Matherland and immediately turns to the Maverick's bench. Luca Dodgers, you know he wants to make a statement and boy has he here. Ross am I correct, triple double last night for Luca and the Laker win? Yes. All right.

This is the really funny part of this. By the way, this is the second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're with you for 50 minutes this hour. So if you want to get in, say hello. 7-13-212-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. Shut your bum ass up coming up in a few minutes. Astros win yesterday.

Two camps with home runs. Rockets beat the Bucs. And Jose Al-Tube will be leading off playing left field Friday in the Astros' spring training game. It'll be his spring training debut. And, of course, we'll have all the action right here on Sports Talk. So the Athletic did a story today about Luca Dodgich. And Ross, we need to peel the curtain back for our great audience that listens to us. The media can be used to persuade an argument.

I know this is going to come as breaking news. Of course. Manipulation of the media? I know. It's a stunner. It's a stunner. It's only been happening since media's been around. All right.

So what you have is you have a story involving the athletic and the behind the scenes. from the athletic about the behind the scenes of the Luca Donchich trade between Dallas and Los Angeles, one of the most controversial trades maybe in the history of sports. So somebody from the Mavericks obviously whispering some things to the athletic, and here's a couple of quotes from it. Make no mistake, the people who witnessed Donchich's last days in Dallas do not paint a flattering portrait of the 25-year-old's professionalism. they call him lazy

they talk about the weight issues that were such a frequent frustration within their walls they mention the social habits that the athletic has reported on such as his taste for beer and hookah which has been a point of concern for NBA type since he was 19 year old Real Madrid star who was entering the NBA draft

they predict his basketball demise highlighting a health history that quote as some see it will likely lead to catastrophe in the next five years or so. Catastrophe. Catastrophe. I've never had hookah before, Ross. I don't know if you have.

Don't even want to judge you if you have. Want to ask? Yeah, what do you mean? It's just tobacco. Okay. Does hookah and catastrophe usually come in the same sentence? I don't think so. Hook has become very popular over the years.

People have it in the clubs. in the club scene when they're down in the Galveston Clubs along the Strand That's where I saw Hooker last It's not here nor there All right So the one image I remember from last year

Was it when they beat the wolves To win the West Luca had a beer in his hand And I believe Michael Finley He was an assistant GM for the Mavericks Took the beer out of his hand Yes Maybe he likes the cold crisp taste

of an ice cold beer. Maybe a little bit too much. I think that was, I don't know what you'd call it. Not an alarm bell, but kind of the issue like, oh, okay, it seems like he might have, the organization might have issues with his drinking for them to do that. I don't want to name names, but there are sports teams that are concerned about alcohol consumption. Yeah, but they were celebrating.

And, I mean, we've been around a lot of these clubs. club i've been in i don't know the clubhouse for astro celebrations like five six times if not more i never seen anybody rip a beer out of anybody's hand you're it's you're there to celebrate you're there to have a good time maybe it's different for the NBA yeah now the used to be beer used to be readily available in clubhouses after games they got rid of that about 15 years ago when that angel's pitcher uh drank and then got in a car crash and died Now, does that mean that alcohol can't be found in a clubhouse? I wouldn't believe that under any circumstance.

You can sometimes see bottles of liquor in guys' lockers. Yeah. But I think that's more they bring in themselves as compared to the team saying, here, there's a couple of coal ones after the game. There can be alcohol consumption on planes. I can tell you for a fact that sports teams typically do not give it to the players when they're going home, but they're going from, say, city B to City C on a road trip.

You can probably have some beverages if you so choose because you're not driving. But look, there's alcoholism in general life. There's going to be alcoholism among professional athletes, especially those that live that lifestyle where you're working hard, you're playing hard, you're playing to all hours of the night, you're traveling late and you want to take the edge off, whatever the case may be, or you just have a problem, whatever the case. But it feels like to me, Ross,

that the Dallas Mavericks are 100% banking on Luca, Donchich being a human being with out of control tendencies. From hookah to beer to his weight, they're hoping, and frankly in their mind, they are praying that Luca Donchich can't maintain an NBA lifestyle and effectively play. Here's the thing, though, Matt. All of that could be well and true, and maybe they were right,

at least on the path that he was down as a Maverick, he never would have turned it around. But you still got to get back. better than an Anthony Davis and a first round pick. You've got to get a better return. And outside of him committing murder, you could have gotten more

from any number of organizations. So my point of contention on this is, were they afraid that if they spread the rumors out, spread the word around the league that Luca was up for trade, that the blowback from Dallas fans would have been so much they would have been forced to

keep him? That has to be it. you can keep one team quiet about a trade. You can't keep 29 other teams because even if you say, if you called the Phoenix Sons and said, hey, Phoenix, we want to offer you Lucidantia, but don't tell anybody. Guess what? Somebody's going to say something.

It's going to be only a matter of time. And guess what? Grow up. If you want to make the big boy decision to trade away your franchise player and it leaks out, so what? Yeah. That means you, if you're so scared it's going to get out that you're going to be, like, destroyed around the league or something,

that means you should know it's a bad decision. And did the Mavericks, and we'll never know the answer to this, did the Mavericks do everything on their power to continue to put him in a position to say, hey, watch your weight, watch your intake of alcohol and tobacco. Did he basically say, screw you, I wake up every morning with a triple double for your team? I got you the NBA finals last year. Let me live my life? I don't know.

clearly they felt like they're at the end of the rope and we may know he may very well this could be the shock to his system that he needed to turn things around right so it could be a universe where even if he does turn it around get in shape it has a great career and Nico Harrison and the mavericks very well could have been right that the heat never would have happened as a maverick

barring some sort of you know sometimes in life when you're going along some way you need a wake-up call whether you're an alcoholic who gets a DUI or you're a gambler who goes busts something like that. And maybe this is a wake-up call for Luca Dundjit. We don't know. What about this?

I got a terrible analogy for you. Ready for this? Yes, I'm ready for your telebronalities. What if you have this great wife? What if you have to stop drinking, stop smoking? Uh-huh. Or I'm going to leave you and she leaves you. And then the second wife's like, you know what?

I'll take you, but you've got to change your waist and you change your way. And you do. I'll give you another one. Oh, this is better than mine? How about sometimes? I'm going to say yes. People are at yet. a job that you work at. They'll ask for more money.

They'll ask for a raise. They get more responsibilities. And they're like, you know what? I quit. Then they hire the new guy. New guy gets more money and has less work than the other guy. That's just unfair. That's right. But are we going to have this for the rest of Lucas career? Are we going to, is Dallas trying to do everything in their power? Because let's, let's think of it from their perspective.

If you have spent the last six years, Rossi, telling him, look, you're a an awesome player. You're a generational type basketball. You are a guy that leads a franchise. But we're worried about your eating habits, your lack of workouts, your consumption of alcohol

and tobacco. Please, we're about to put a Supermax in front of you. That's the least you can do for us. And if Lucas says, I'm good, look what I've done for you.

Again, I'm not trying to justify the deal, but what are you supposed to do, Rossi, if we're in Nico Harrison or the Dallas Mavericks ownership hands? What are we supposed to do if we go to the guy and say, we've been talking about this for six years, and you haven't changed your ways? You get more in return. That's what you do. You can justify. I can hear the decision. I can understand the decision. That's not, and I just don't get it.

Getting Anthony Davis in a first-round pick, I just don't get that. and of all play Ross. Rudy Gober got four. Rudy Gobert got four first round picks. Yeah. Four. And where did you send him to of all places? Los Angeles.

Who's, you know, who's on national television 25 times a year. In the, in the, I mean, it's the Lakers, it's the Celtics and the Knicks. It's those are the, those are the creme de la creme historical franchises in the NBA. And you send him somewhere in the most flashy city. who, by the way, his teammate now is either the greatest or the second greatest player in the history of the NBA. I don't know. It's just, I don't know how much you can do

in terms of damaging his credibility, except all it's going to maybe do if I'm Luca, I say to myself, these stories are coming out about me, I'm going to prove them wrong. And I'm going to do everything in my power to ruin the Dallas Mavericks as a franchise, including getting a triple double last night. All right, 713, 2,1,2.

5-790, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Get more for him. If you really don't want him, you just had to get more. And you had to get other teams involved. You had to just take the bite-the-bullet and say, hey, we're thinking about making a move from Luca. We don't want to give him the Supermax. What's your best offer? 7-13-212-5-7-90. Rockets and Spurs play tonight. We'll have it for you here on 790 beginning at 730 with the Supermax. the launch pad, 8 o'clock network pregame, and then we'll tip it off, I think, about 843 tonight. So try to get a nap in between this show and the game tonight. Astros in action.

Friper Veldness is going to make his spring training debut for the local nine as to take on the nationals. We'll have that for you coming up in less than an hour from now. Nick Casario is going to visit with the media today in Indianapolis at the Combine. I don't think that – I looked at the transcript yesterday, Ross. I didn't see anything about Stefan Diggs. I think that would be perhaps be a better question for Nick Casar. I would think it would be one of the first things that would be...

I thought I did see a quote that they're in contact with Diggs. They like Diggs and they're in contact with Diggs or something like that. Okay, because I did look at the transcript, and maybe it was just kind of a passing comment. Maybe I saw that. I thought I saw that on the Twitters. I mean, I can't imagine that D'Amico wouldn't want him. Now, I know he was asked about Tank Dell yesterday for sure.

Yeah, we loved having Steph on our team. We'll see how things work out there. Blah, blah, blah, blah. He said blah, blah, blah. Yeah, mm. Okay. Basically. You know, I think it's actually, and I quote, yada, yada, yada, yada.

I think he said bada, bada, boom, right? Did he not? Yeah. Bing bap, boom, bing bam. Oh, I did see it. It says, mbop. Mm-bop. Yeah, yeah, mbap.

No, that's a, maybe that's not accurate. Can you believe Hanson was only a one-hant wonder? Yes, I very much so. How old is those dudes now? They were like 12 or 13 back. What do they have been in their 40s now? I guess. Do you think they've got enough to be on...

Can you go see Hanson somewhere right now if you wanted to? No. Because you can't do the casino circuit on one hit. Hmm. No. Unless you play it three times. It may be in different languages? Yeah.

Well, what's the Portuguese version of Mbubb? What's the Portuguese version of Mbubb? I don't know. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it's our favorite part of the week. It's a Wednesday, which means we're going to tell some people to shut their bum asses up. If somebody at the office is making you mad, if somebody is irritating you, whether it's your wife, it's your kids, it's your boss, it's the guy down the street, it's the drive-thru employee at a certain fast food restaurant, 713-212-5-790.

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Ain't nobody getting time for that? Ain't nobody getting time for that? Hey nobody getting time for that? 713-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Time for you to call this radio show and tell somebody ain't nobody got time for something, which I have to open up this. That's exactly right.

7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum-ass up because you're mad at them, you know what to find us. 713-212-5-7-90 Shit your bum-ass up, man Ross, I'm going to start Yesterday I did not eat a lot of the media meal yesterday at the arena

So I was hungry after the game Okay So I decided to go to McMonnells Uh-huh And get a fish filet Oh, you are so wild to me Why do you get this conglomerated fish sandwich? Whatever

What kind of fish? I'm sorry, go ahead. It's white fish. Oh, it's a full filet. Come on now. The fish come out square. It's like the chicken nugget of the sea. So it's... I can't.

Let me finish, please. So I get my fish filet. I get my bottle of water. And I start to eat it in the car because I want to get home and eat it before I get home. I don't want it to be cold or whatever. And I'm starting to eat it. And the tartar sauce are. to fall out of my bun.

And so what do I do? I go inside my bag to get my napkin. Guess what, Ross? No napkin in my bag. You don't got a stash in the glove box? Well, I did, but it took me about five minutes to find it. It was deep down on the glove box. Oh, so you're...

So you're... Rick Ronald's... So you're going deep into the box? Yes. I'm sorry. You're going to give somebody filet of fish with tartar sauce, and that stuff rolls down your chin and on your shirt, you need a napkin.

Anybody got time for that? So you went deep and then something was rolling down your chin? Yes. Tire sauce. You're talking too fast. I can't mark it fast enough. Slow down so I can mark the time. Anybody that's had a fillet of fish from Rick Ronald's knows

that there's a lot of sauce that comes out of the bun. And it dribbles down your chin. And onto your shirt. You know you know. You're a sick human being. It's too easy. What did it be? I've explained to you what happened to me yesterday.

People empathize with me, and people that are run around town that have had a filet of fish and McRonnells know exactly what I'm talking about. Now, maybe I'm just the weird one, I guess. Connor, do you eat filet of fish? From Rick Rondles? From anywhere. Any fast food fish sandwich?

No, it does not. Okay. I'm just curious. That just sounds completely unappetizing. I don't think I've ever. craved a Mish Malay. At Ruger Ring, they call it a whaler or a BK Bigfish. And then at Butterburger, they call it a what a catch, but they only do it during Lent.

These things I found out. Oh, the Malayo Mish is year-round? Yeah. I thought that was around Lent too. No, no, no. Well, the Malia Mish has been around forever. I don't know because I don't eat the chicken nugget equivalent of fish. Okay, well, I like it.

So, that's what it is. We know you do. All right, that's my complaint. You also like the chicken nugget of pork. All right. I guess technically a beef patty is the chicken nugget of beef. You're just a chicken nugget of everything, aren't you? I guess.

All right. What's the matter with you this week, Rossi? I don't know, go to Connor. All right. Connor, what's about? I'm going to go with this cough that I can't get rid of. I called my doctor yesterday. And then there's the nice assistant was like, oh, he's busy right now.

We'll have him call you back. They never called me back. I called him again this morning. Still haven't gotten a call back. I'm a deal with this dang cough for like four and a half weeks. Ain't nobody got time. I'm trying to give you my money, doctor, and for you not to call me back.

But I love you. You don't love him. Please just heal me. He just out of him. Let's get the doctor's hand. Let's go. No, I'm not going to do that. I do love him.

We're bros. We talk UT Sports and Astros and Ronnie Terra extensions. No, we do not talk about those. Nobody's talking about those. Ain't nobody got time for those either. All right. Ain't nobody got time for that. All right, Connor, you're next.

So this morning, I carpooled with my father. Oh, dropped him off at his office. You guys talked a lot of hockey, I imagine. Not really, no. I hope you badmouthed the rostering the whole time. We talked to a little shop. Anyway, we took the HOV lane down 59 South since we were riding together. First time I've done that in years, he used to take it with my brother on the way to high school all the time.

So we're about to reach that downtown exit going 59 south. And all of a sudden, all these cars in front of me, Three cars in front of me slam on the brakes. That's because there was cops in the HOV lane stopping all the single riders and ticketing them, which I know is a good thing and keeps the HOV lane what it's supposed to be. But anybody got time for my first time in years

for the cops to be slowing down traffic and looking at everybody's cars. Now, to be fair, you can pay a toll to ride by yourself, but only during certain hours. So that's the reason. You must have been going in morning drive. Yeah. It was after, I believe it's after, at least in my,

where I get it on my entrance, it's after 630 or something like that. After 7, you can't do it. I got you. All right. Yeah, so, anybody got time for you jumping in the lane and getting yourself a ticket when you know you can't go by yourself.

Well, that's true. There you are. That's better. Hey, nobody got time for that. 713-1-2-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. This is from my wife, Ross. This goes to Shmited Airlines. last week

they wanted to go standby on an earlier flight from Washington, D.C. to Houston. And when you go standby, you tell them you go standby. And if you bring your bags, the bags that you are taking with you to go on to the

baggage claim, go on the flight you want to go on, whether you get on it or not. Because it wouldn't make much sense for you to put your bags on the originally scheduled flight if you're on the earlier flight. Does that make sense to you? Okay. So she gets to Reagan National Airport and the women at Schmeidered Airlines say, no, we're not going to let you check your bags.

We're going to put them on the original flight. So they tagged the bags. My wife does not go on the standby flight because she was told the bags weren't going to be there. She lands it Intercontinental and she finds out the bags, which we were told were not going to be on the earlier flight, have been sitting in Houston for three hours because they went on the earlier flight. Ain't anybody got time, Schmighton Airlines? We're messing with my daughter and my wife's bags.

Hmm. Hey nobody got time for that? And we were delayed to West Palm and coming back, or Florida Lauderdale. Anybody got time for that either? No. Hey nobody got time for that. It's terrible.

The rule should be if you're delayed, service something. Give us one of those snack boxes. A three hour delay, and we don't get anything. You get a, you get a, You get a bleep of you. We're going to spit at your feet and we're going to tell you,

take your money and you can't do anything about it. And by the way, even though you're not as opposed, Smited Airlines always sends you emails when your flight is on time. They want you to tell you how great there. But if your flight's an hour and a half, two hours late, that email never seems to hit the inbox. Nope.

Notice that? This guy does. I like how they lie to you about the delays, too. I had a three-hour delay. First, they try to soft-sell it. Oh, so 30-minute delay guys are going to be as soon as we can. We're going to be out of here, guys. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Then it goes to an hour. And it goes to like two hours. Yeah. They always soft sell it. Yeah. And it balloons up to three hours so you don't get all mad to try to pacify you. Anybody got time for a soft sell delay? Ain't nobody got time for that?

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takes and you get all upset. This is great. Seriously, let me tell you, I don't know who sports hutch is, but my guess is about 4-9 and 275, who probably does not worry about his palate or his diet. Sports hutch listens all the time. Don't disagree with, I don't agree with

everything he says, but appreciate you. Sports hutch, I don't want you listening anymore. My name is Ross. I appreciate you listening. All you do is create grief for me. I'm going to, I'm long meeting you. You're done. I'm finished. Have a great day, Hudson. No.

Hutch, don't get in a car accident. And if you do, call Scott Callan Associates. That's probably going to be your fault, so don't call Scott. 713-212-5-7-0. If a man wants Fish Ross, at 11 o'clock at night, you've got very limited options. Okay, yeah. I'm trying so hard to be nice and I'm just going to not say anything. Just say what you, look, we've been together for 15 years.

Say what you need to say and get it off your chest. Let's go. I already did. A man wants fish. I mean, I'm not going to Ruger Ring. The filet of fish is $4.20. The water was two bucks. I was out of there less than $7.

I was happy until the damn sauce went all over my chest. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I'm sorry, did you say I was happy until the sauce went all over my chest? The tire sauce. Jimmy on 790. I'll see all of that on Friday. Jimmy, thanks for winning. I was going to come to Matt's defense until he dropped a piece meant $2 on a water bottle.

When you get a couple, you can get a large cup of water for 25 cents or a small cup for free. So fancy mat, I'm not defending your fish till they take today. No, wait a minute. I wanted, I want to, I'm running water. What's the problem with that? Two bucks. Not big deal. Fancy Matt.

I mean, when they're paying you the fancy Matt bucks, I guess that's your prerogative. Fair enough. So the other day... You can't be fancy eating a filet of fish. This is not possible. Okay, fair point. Fair point. So if you're not being fancy anyway,

then you're just wasting two bucks on water. All right. So I met Moe-Mrily's. Actually, I think maybe O'Reilly spends money with y'all, so I'll shout them out. So I met O'Reilly's. I do a return. It's one of those returns where they have to do it in cash for some reason.

So it's a $10 bill and a stack of change. Anyway, nothing wrong with O'Reilly's love those people. head on down the road to Rome repo and buy something, and it's $0.02, and I think to myself, self, I got change in my pocket that I'm just going to lose this cash. I pull out the $10 bill and set $2 on top of the $10 bill. Totals $8.02, I hand her $102. She looked at me and says the $10 was already too much

and pushes the $0.00 back to me, and then proceeds to give me one pay for dollar and 98 cents of change ain't nobody got time for that and just I mean it's just disturbing to think that girl probably drove herself to work today ain't nobody got time for that

Change is an issue Ross I'm not anti-change but when I asked for a penny at the RarRox at one time and she said I can't give it to you that pissed me off yeah it's true you you used that for fuel of this segment I believe yes my coffee was $3.3

in one cent. I said, here's three. I don't have an extra penny. Can you spare me the penny? No, I can't. What do you mean you can't? You're a $12 billion company serving mid-coffee. You can give me the damn penny. They got a fun Jordan Schultz's career. He's blocking, by the way. He's fine.

And he blocked me, too. I never tweeted at him. You must have been listening to the show or somebody. John on 7. Johnny. John, what's the matter with you? Hey, Matt. I'm driving home from the airport in a bad mood right now. because I had a 5.30 a.m. flight from Sacramento, and the captain and flight attendants were way too chatty over the PA system, and nobody could sleep. They kept turning on and off the fastened seatbelt sign, and then telling everybody they turned on and off the fasten seatbelt sign. So please, if you have access to the plain PA system outside of normal. business hours, shut your bum ass up.

Could not. Shut your bum ass up, man. Now, by rule, John, and thank you for the phone call. By rule, when you put the fast and seatbelt sign on, the good pilots, Ross, say fasten seatbelts, please, and that's it. Flamm residents can say, you heard what the captain said,

please, but I mean, it could be done in 10 words or less. You don't need a full explanation as to why you need to put your seatbelt on. turbulence usually is a great indicator, Ross, that you have to put your seatbelt on. I am with this guy 100%. 5.30 flight, you're tired a.F. You got up at 4 o'clock to catch at 5.30 a.m. flight. You don't need a long dialogue between the flight attendants and the captain.

That's all you need. boom. That's international sound for put the damn belt on and sit down for a couple minutes. And if you can't figure it out, the fact that the plane is turning left and right at very large increments with a lot of unsettling air, then you're really a dumbass. Last call for shut your bum ass up and anybody got time for that. If you want to get in, you've got about a minute and a half. Come on in right now at 713-212-5-790. 1312-2-790. Do you think we should have a currency system we round down and up on the change bit?

Like if you're going to charge me $3.16 that it should be rounded down to three. And if it's like over $3.1, you go up to $4. We can just eliminate change period. I like when they do the round-up to donate to charity. Oh, that's easy. That's an easy, absolute. You know what, Ross? I forgot to say this. When I was getting my Malayo Mish yesterday, I rounded up. We're proud of you, man. That's good.

Yeah. See? And then, you know why my reward was? What was your reward, man? No napkin. I'm sorry to hear that, man. How do you think it was when I walked in the house? My wife's like, what is that stuff on your shirt?

Mm-hmm. You're covered in sauce. Dribbling down your chin and chest. It is a good sandwich, though. And I thought about getting no tartar sauce on it, but tartar sauce is part of the charm of the filet of fish. It just is. I'll take care of it.

for it. How about you and me go get some filet of fish one day? I mean, I'll eat one, but I haven't had one. I don't think since I was in my teens. They're not terrible. It's just a fried piece of cod. I mean, you've had fish and chips before? I don't think it's cod.

There's no way. There ain't no way. It ain't sea bass, put that way. Yeah, I know. Not Chilean sea bass. It's not Mahi-Mahy is a kid's would say. Google says it's Alaskan Pollock. Well, there you go.

who does a good little piece of Alaska and Pollock once in a while. Felipe on 790, 1142. Hi, Felipe. Hello, Cougar Matt. Cougar Hater Ross. I got two for today, and I'm going to save the best one for last. Well, my boss will be some guy at my job, and he really doesn't know what he's doing,

and so it's like I'm babysitting the guy. So I ain't nobody got time for that. And I got another one. Thanks to you, Matt. I tried to talk to a friend of mine. he's telling me about the McRib. He loves the McRib. I'm going to tell myself to shut my bone-ass up

because I think I might try it next time it comes down. That's what I'm talking about. That's what, Felipe, you are more than welcome to join McRib Nation. I think I might try it. He makes it sound really good. So I think next time it comes back, I'm getting one. At least one. At least one, you're going to be so hungry and enjoying the first one.

You're going to want to get a second one. You may get a double-maker. I'm going to try one. And if it hits, it hits, I'm going to give me another one. But yeah, he convinced me. He said all the perks why he likes it. So I was like, you know what? I got to try it.

I can't doubt it. Bless you. Thank you for a little. Thanks, fellas. All right, see you later. All right, that does shut your bum ass up. And nobody got time of that. Rockets being the Spurs.

We're not very good on back-to-backs, Roxy. Can you give us some positive mojo here in the last minute and 40 of the seconds of this show? No, I don't think so. All right. Who's at the launch pad tonight? That'd be me. Oh, are you again? Yeah.

You don't sound too excited about it. I can't wait. should be great wonderful addition and that means the rocket's wrap will be at around 1130ish yeah I will not be at the arena tonight should I call the show tonight for sure I almost called last night

I got one call until Gerard called and then it was like four minutes of just complete real he was like he was recapping parts of the game I had forgotten about already is there some issue with Ramazon anybody got time for them having checkout issues what are you trying to buy uh...

do you want to really tell you please. It's batteries for my remote for my car. My, you know, clicker. That's nothing bad. I don't have a resentment towards that. No, it's no resentment. It's just so random.

I mean, but you wanted to know. By the way, I did a poll on the Malayomish. Oh, it's not going well for you. Three comments. What kind of psycho eats fish from fast food? Fast food fish should be illegal. And somebody else also said, also a big fan of gas station sushi.

I believe that's sarcasm. All right. You know what? I'm going to get me a flay of fish right now. Yeah, dribble it on your chin. Enjoy the rest of your day. Astros baseball. Next, I'll talk to you tonight for Rockets and the Spurs here on Sports Talk.

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