The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Cam Smith With 3 HITS, Christian Walker Gets MRI, Texans Release Shaq Mason And Trade For WR

Episode Date: March 7, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the news that Astros first baseman Christian Walker was sent back to Houston to undergo an MRI and examine a left oblique injury. In other spring training news, Cam Smith smacked three hits in Thursday's 5-1 win over the New York Mets. Matt and Ross also:review the Texans releasing veteran offensive guard Shaq Mason and trading for receiver Christian Kirkrecap the Rockets defeating the Pelicanscomment on Charles Barkley calling out ESPNdiscuss LeBron James confronting Stephen A. Smithsay "I'm Sorry"tell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 10-02 in H-town. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. There's nothing that's going to ruin the thirsty girl's brand than that thirsty girl getting her thirst. Wynched. I was out of there less than $7.

I was happy until the damn sauce went. over my chest. I'm sorry, did you say I was happy until the sauce went all over my chest? So you're going deep into the box? Yes. That stuff rolls down your chin and on your shirt? You need a napkin. Ross a man can crave

fish once in a while, right? I got a terrible motor. I can't even turn my motor on. Do you want to get on the thing and go for a ride with that dude? We had a great time. Did you? Mm-hmm. I got flashed once. By a guy. Okay. I only had one because you force fed it down my throat. And it was delicious. Really? Yes.

Yeah, you always trying to put things in my mouth. Oh, my goodness. We're on quite a run here, ladies and gentlemen. Things are obviously taken out of context, which is really the essence of a daily edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross here on sports side. I'm sorry you keep in sauce all over your chest, Matt. I'm not going to have a filet of fish without the sauce.

Yeah, something's got to cover up that nasty fish taste. Oh, my God. Why are you hating on fish sticks? Come on, man. What did fish sticks ever do to you? Yeah, just go home, get some fish sticks, put four of them on a bun. It's the same thing with some tartar sauce. You can say that about anything.

Why would somebody go out and get a steak when they could just cook it at home? Sometimes it can be nice. I do that. But no, it's not about anything. The quality of a steak you're going to make at a steakhouse is different. We're get from a steakhouse. Filet of fish is always going to be fish sticks. Mm.

And delicious it is. As a matter of fact, the wife is out running some errands. She may bring me a filet of fish back to the Kingwood Studios. Isn't that good? I'll eat it on air. That's what I'll do. Wait, you're here and you're not here? Oh, my God.

I got home. Super late. Oh, my God. What time? 145. That's not super late. It is super late. You sleep till 9.

You get here by 10. That's 7 hours of sleep? Have you been on the Houston streets? I just can't get up at 9 and get there by, I mean, I get there by 10.30. Ross, it's an anything. Hey. Well, except you coming in town. I'm in Houston. I'm here. Almost anything goes.

Oh, by the way, just to let you know from yesterday, after the show, I went to the casino and put it at a 6 to 5 table and I didn't like it. But guess what? I won $125 and I didn't hit a single black check. Oh, why? So the 6 to 5 didn't hurt me. You're a liar. You didn't hit a 1,65. You didn't not hit a single blackjack, unless you only played for a little while. Yeah, 20 minutes. I wouldn't got a whole. I wouldn't got a sausage at that.

hot dog stand there and did the blackjack Okay, keep playing 6 to 5 over 3 to 2. Go ahead. I can't find 3-2. I'd have been $100 a hand if I want to pay 3-2. I'm not doing that. It's crazy.

All right. I mean, I got money, man. That's that kind of money. Well, you got money. You know what? We're not even going to, can we not start off with this? It's quadruples the house. I'm just going to say one thing.

Quadruples, the house advantage, and then we can move on. Okay, but walk me through this. If I win hand and I don't get blackjack, how does it help the house? How do you win in blackjack, Matt? Either you butt the dealer bust or you have a high enough hand that you beat the dealer. Right. Okay.

And so in theory, that would be a 50-50 proposition, correct? I don't know, but I continue. But you have, but you bust first, right? That's how the house wins, correct? Correct. Yes, that's right. So you bust first. That's how the house wins. So how do you win?

You win either A by splitting or doubling or B. by Blackjack. Those are your only two ways to win. So you're limiting one of your two ways to win severely. Otherwise, it's a 50-50 game. Or you're actually losing because you bust first. So the way you get back is splitting, doubling, and Blackjack.

Taking an advantage over the house. Right. Okay. I mean, and look, I'm very anti-6-5. I think it's cheap. I think it's terrible and it's not fun and it's hard enough it is to win the game. But I'm telling you, I sat down, I played probably

15 hands because I only had about 15, 20 minutes, and I won and didn't get a single black check. I left up $125. So in that particular situation, I beat the house. Okay, well, keep doing it. And look, I can play three, too, but I'm not going to spend $100 a hand. I'm not willing to take that kind of risk.

Okay. And I'm not going to not play blackjack because the hands are six. I'm not going to walk and go, oh, I'm going to go play slots now. I'm not going to do that. It's not what I enjoy. I enjoy playing blackjack. all right and that will conclude today's

edition of and you and I go to Lake Charles in May and all the tables are 6.5 you're going to just not play correct I will not sit down that feels short-sighted but you know it's short-sighted

no you're short-sighted you and all the people sitting at 6-5 is why 6-5 is everywhere people used to care about their odds and when everything was 3-2 then they wouldn't put out 6 to 5 here's what I'll do now nobody cares

Nobody matters. Take my money. I'll call Tillman during the break and insist on 3-2 when we go to May. That's good. I mean, we've talked before. I mean, I don't think he's going to fall on deaf ears, but I'll, you know, I'll do it for us. Because we are Mr. 3-2. It doesn't matter.

I mean, everywhere on the strip is 6 to 5. That's why I only go downtown now. It's terrible. I don't disagree with you. And I'm saying, when I go to June, I'm staying downtown. You're right. Six-5 sucks. It just does.

All right. Hey, everybody. It is the Matt Thomas show at Ross. So we had a polite debate there. It wasn't terrible. It was okay. There's no debate. I'm right. You tried to end it amicably, and I, you know what? I'm sorry. I want to apologize.

Oh, no, no. Say that for 1130. I'm sorry. Okay, I'm going to say, let me write this down. Yeah, write it down so you don't forget. You tried to move up peacefully and I threw a grenade. I threw a grenade. You know what? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I apologize. Let me write this down.

What time is it? 10, 10. 10. All right. Ten, ten. Ladies and gentlemen, every Friday in this radio program, 10 o'clock until 2. It's on anything. And I mean, anything goes Friday.

Ross, explain the essence at 713-212-5-7-90. What anything goes Friday is all about. Yes, Matthew, phone lines wide open and available for you at 7-13-212-5-7-90. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Anything you want to get to on the phone lines. For example, if you want to talk about the rockets snapping their losing streak to the New Orleans Pelicans, we can do that with the 109-97 victory, despite just 909. points from Jaylen Green. We can talk about that too.

You also have the rockets taking on the Pelicans again tomorrow. We have some Astros things to get to. Uh-huh. As well. Yep. And what's happening this weekend? You got Christian Kirk as a Texan

by the way? Yeah, we didn't, all this stuff happened after we got off air, but that's okay. We have a stuff to get to. We have a scheduled change to the University of Houston. Football? Oh, really? What happened? Our Lady of the Lake wasn't available We have a pair

You know we're such a big name We have a pair of Friday games in football this year Oh Friday really? Yeah How many games Alabama played on our Friday the last few years I don't think well their network that they attach them to Doesn't play Friday night games So the network that we're attached to

The great illustrious Fox plays Friday night football games And they make them big FIN never plays five Five o'clock games Friday games you mean? Yeah but they're like they're like Mac games and stuff like that Yeah, they put it like you. That's about right.

All right. 1012 on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Rockets are going to win. I could have been more proud of than Charles Barkley. And I haven't said that a lot in my life. I mean, one of the greatest power forwards ever to play in the game. Top 50 at 50, top 75 and 75. One of the five most entertaining sports personalities in the history of sports television,

would you want to argue with me on that or do you want to agree with me? No, I think I have to agree with you. Okay. he went after a network that he's going to be on next year and I applaud him for it. Then we have LeBron James going after screaming A last night in Los Angeles. That was interesting. But unfortunately, Ross, that all comes second and third fiddle to a certain Houston Astro jumping on a plane to get an MRI. It's going to be all right.

That means the swelling went down. Yeah, because you can't fly on a plane if you're swollen. Hmm. I guess not. I mean, you could. Yeah. But you don't want to be swole that often. You want to be swollen when the time is right, and that's it.

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Matt Thomas, Ross via real. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Anything goes Friday, Sports Talk 790, 10-20 is a time. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-90. All right, so Christian Walker is back here in town. Did somebody go pick him up at the airport? I mean, do we have to get a car service for him?

Did he Uber? Did he lift? What, what? I want to make sure he's as comfortable as possible, right? Yeah, I think they picked him up in a yellow taxi. Do people even go on taxes anymore? I don't think so. I don't think so either. Are you saying, are there taxis in Houston?

Yeah. You know, in Chicago, they started taking taxis and making them like Uber's, you know, like you could call a taxi ahead of time and negotiate a rate, and then what they would do is you get, just before they got to the hotel, they would cancel your ride and then they would show up and say hey you need a ride and that's what they would get you so they would charge you a higher rate yeah that um in was it korea i think it was in korea every uber was a taxi and every tachshund not not every uber was a taxi but yeah every taxi was an uber or something like that do i have that wrong i'm stupid uh my every uber was also a taxi so it was both because these taxi unions i mean they a lot of them have strong are

strong and have a lot of sway with politicians. And especially in Vegas, remember like Uber went away? It came and then it went away and then it came back. Yeah, it used to be you would want to take a taxi because they gave you better spots to pick them up as compared to like having to walk a mile to go pick up your ride. But I think Uber and Lyft have said, screw that. So it's a little easier to get those in Vegas and it would be in previous years. Okay, so let's get to, we'll go Astros here because, again,

Rockets to beat the Pelicans last thing. That was cool. We have some other NBA notes to get to. And, you know, I don't, I mean, as much as you and I love the Rockets and the NBA, I don't know if the audience necessarily resonates with it a whole lot, sadly, but, you know. We did more and more calls in the post games, though. It's taking,

did you get any last night? One. So, I guess one is greater than zero. I guess you're right about that. Yeah. Shout out my guy, Max, from Phoenix. So you didn't get a single of Houston? call her to the show? No. All right. So

Christian Walker is in Houston to get an MRI. By the way MRIs absolutely suck. I have not done one, but you just basically have to sit still for an hour. Well, if you're claustrophobic, it really flips you out. I've only

had one done in my life, and it was Ross and I, and I mean this, it was torture. How long do you be in there for about an hour, 45 minutes? I don't remember. It's probably been 10 years. Okay. And it was awful.

What you do is you have to, first of all, not only is it you're in a closed space, but it's super loud. Now, if you're giving an MRI in your leg, I guess you don't have to put your whole body in there. I don't know how these things go because I don't really want to know. And this open MRI thing is a scam. It's just open on the side. You're still, you're still touching basically if you put your nose to nose with the top of the, of the machine.

It sucks. You should close your eyes, Matt. Easier or something done. When you're claustrophobic, it doesn't help. Deep breaths. close your eyes, picture yourself on a peaceful meadow with rivers running through it. Yeah, when I got mine done in high school, I almost fell asleep during. Dang, Connor was chilling.

Damn, look at you, look at you, Humble Bruggan, your MRI. I hate you guys do that. All right, so MRI on his oblique to quote-unquote determine the extent of the injury he suffered on Wednesday. Quoting a spotter, this is an injury that happened to him in the past, and he walked in feeling pretty good about things. But we just want to make sure. Oh, my gosh. Christian's saying,

these next few days will tell us a little bit more on how it responds. So as far as I'm hopeful for sure. He's going to be right. He's going to be right. It's going to get worse, swelling-wise, before it starts to feel better. What? That's what he said. I'm not making it up.

How is it continuing to swell? What's he doing? You've got to let, you kind of got to let your body go through the process. So far today, it feels pretty good. You know what? if there's any injury that Christian Walker knows how to deal with, it's probably this one. He's had three of them.

Yeah. He probably already knows how long he's going to be out. Oh, and he doesn't want to say, does he? He's hiding from us. He just touches his oblique. He's like, yeah, it's a four to six weeks. He just knows now. Now, let me ask you this.

Does this somehow someway sneak Cam Smith on the Major League roster open the season of it? People have been talking about that. Yeah. I would say no in general because we talked about the first base problem. to where you can throw Karatini there. You can throw some Dubon there.

You can throw, I mean, John Singleton's on the roster. So I would say no. Yeah, I mean, John Singleton could absolutely. I guess the question would be, would be how long would he be out? And here is the thing that regardless of whether he misses the start of the season or not, he's now officially behind. Because I guarantee you, Ross, he's going to get this MRI. Let's say it's free and clear.

And you're like, oh, this is great. Well, he still missed a handful of days. He's here in town. It's obviously swelling up. He's obviously going to treat it with kid gloves. He's going to be behind where he needs to be. And look, baseball players are so much a part of their life as a routine. So he's going to be a little bit behind schedule here.

Now, can he make that up between now and the end of March? Of course he can. But what are we three weeks from yesterday to start of the season? Yes. That is correct. There is time to make it up for sure. But yeah, not the way you wanted to start an astro career, especially because the first base spot, let's be brutally honest, Ross.

It's been a very turbulent time since Yulee Gereil has left this organization. You know what? Good job, Jim Crane. This is why you don't want to sign 34-year-old players. Cam Smith yesterday, three for four were the run scored. His OPS is above 2000. So let's put this in perspective. We're putting him in the Spring Training Hall of Fame. I mean, if you could retire a jersey in the month of March, it would be the Astros third baseman.

Let's do it. So OPS last year regressed to an average of what about, really considered good about $750, right? Is it, give or take? Yeah, as far as somewhere around there. Okay. Average. You're good at $800. You're a lead at $900.

And if you're OPSing $1,000, it means you are one of the five or ten best sluggers in baseball. Just put things in perspective. And it's, again, it's on base plus slugging. His OPS is $2,090. The all-time leader, I want to say, is Babe Ruth at like 1.1 something. Right. I remember Yorna, one of the years, a handful of years back, was slugging like 1950 at some point. So, I mean, you know, you can get, obviously things that are going to regress a little bit, but he's three for four.

He's batting, his batting average in spring training. Again, it's March. Things are relative. 636. Babe Ruth's OPS, which is highest all-time, 1.164. Cam Smith's like, like, hold my beer on that. Like, suck it, babe. Yeah.

Wait, that sounded, oh, no. You'll be clipping that for next week. Christ. George Herman? Too late. Oh, dang it. It's already been clip. It's already a bit clip.

Nice try, though. 1028 on Sports Talk 7 and 8. I could ask you all if you're worried, but we're not doctors. But we hear on the Matt Thomas show, we take things calmly, yeah, rationally. Mm-hmm. We don't. embellish.

The season is over. No, it's fine. The Astros haven't put anything out official, so we can, I'm trying to see if we can go and get some... No. Man, it's going to be all right. Calm down. Promise?

No. Calm down H-Town. Remember that when we used to do that? Oh, we used to do that a lot. That was a good. We've tried to calm down H-Town. It doesn't work. No, they don't calm down.

That's the reason why we have Astros overreaction. Here's what we got. We have Astros overreaction. We have Alperin-Changoon as being misused by the rockets. And the Texans can do no wrong, even though they've never appeared in the AMC championship game. That sounds about right. That's Houston Sports in a nutshell. We love it.

1028. We wouldn't change it for a bit. That's why we've been doing this for a long time. We enjoy it. 7-13-212-5-7-9-0. Anything goes Friday. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-9-0. If you're on Twitter, want to follow us,

at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee McGovern. Up next, it's been a tough 24 hours for ESPN. We'll explain part of that as the Matt Thomas show with Ross continues here on 790. 1033 on Sports Talk 790. It isn't anything that goes Friday edition of the radio program. We brought up Christian Walker, and I don't think we're going to hear anything from the Astros probably until sometime this weekend. So we'll move on from that for a little bit. I guess congratulations are in order.

The ESPN PR department sent out a tweet yesterday saying that Stephen A. Smith has been signed to a new long-term extension. Word is on the streets. It's five years at $100 million, $20 million per year. That would put him as the third highest, I believe, sports personality out there. Who are they bidding against? Themselves. I think that's the correct answer.

I'm just wondering out loud I mean there's no way Fs 1's paying that I mean they're they've already gone all in on Tom Fox has already gone all in on Tom Brady there's there's not crazy I guess they can't have him

leave I guess probably the biggest risk would be him maybe going independent la la daan lebitard what McAfee was before he came Dan Patrick yeah yeah I get it so you would think it would be a great day for Stephen A. Smith

well it got bad in the early evening and then it got worse for him after Now remember, it all depends on how you look at life. That if you, if you, if you, what else I was going to say? I want to think. If you call some. Or what are you doing?

No, no, no, I'm trying to think. If you give it, you must take it. Hmm. Okay. That's what I was thinking about. If you dish it out, you got to take it. Yes. So basically, ESPN, because they are the play the hits leader, we'll talk about five things.

Ross. Stay with me. Okay. Aaron Rogers. Mm-hmm. LeBron James. Yes. The Boston Celtics. The New York Yankees, rarely when they talk baseball.

And, oh, LeBron. Okay, LeBron versus Jordan conversation is never ending on that network. It just goes on and on and on and on. Mm-hmm. And they are an NBA television partner, and they honestly are looking for ratings because they do spend a lot of money on the NBA television package. We'll continue to do so.

Well, the two best teams in the NBA this year, really Rossi went from the jump of been Oklahoma City and Cleveland. It ain't even been close. I would agree with that. The Lakers have won 18 of 21. They're playing really well. Golden State is playing really well. Boston is

up there, but it's nowhere close to what Cleveland is. In fact, Boston was up 25 to 3 against the Cavaliers last week on their home floor and got beat by the Cavaliers in Boston. Once again, showing the supremacy of what the Cleveland Cavaliers are about. So on TNT last night, I know this is in between games or before the game, Charles

Brankley basically telling ESPN what they can do with their NBA coverage. I saw a fool idiot on TV talking about the Lakers save the NBA. Save the NBA. Yeah, yeah. He's an idiot and a fool, but he know who he is. What's his name, Jack? Which one you're talking about? That is Kendrick Perkins.

He's talking about. Kendrick Perkins said the Lakers, earlier this week, saved the NBA. Continue. But he know he is. What's his name, Jack? Which one you're talking about? Kendrick Perkins.

Oh. He said, the Lakers, first of all, the Lakers had a great two weeks. He said the Lakers saved the NBA season. That's because of them fools on the other network, which we're going to be worked for a next year. That's all they talk about. Let me tell you y'all something. Tell me something.

First of all the smoke. Tell me something. when I walk by the graveyard or anything like that. The Lakers are doing great. Got a long way to go. But the reason the season's been going great for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Oklahoma City

Thunder. Y'all just want to talk about the Warriors and the Lakers. They're both doing great. Don't get me wrong. If I turn out to be wrong, I got no problem with that. But y'all are idiots because y'all talk about the Lakers and the Warriors all the time. Y'all don't

the Cleveland Cavaliers won 12 straight. games. The Oklahoma City got the MVP and they are on fire. Y'all are talking about who's in second place. That's the reason I get pissed. Hey, the Lakers are doing great. I don't mind being wrong. The Warriors are doing great. But that's because you're fools on other networks, which we're going to become fools next year. We've been working on that network. But Oklahoma City and the calves been bawling for six months. All right. So, first of all, again, you and I have criticized the fact that the folks on the NBA TV show don't do a lot of homework.

Correct. I mean, that's really an understatement. But even if you are at the most elementary level of watching the NBA this season, which obviously, I believe Charles is in many nights, he even knows the two best stories in the NBA, not stories, but the two best teams have been Oklahoma City and Cleveland have been that all year long. All they do is win Ross all the time. Good teams, bad teams. They both have like 10 or 11 losses each, but they're winning percentages of both significantly over 800.

Okay? They're on pace to win maybe 65 games this year, and that's a rare feat. Yes. So how rich is this that a guy who clearly doesn't pay a whole lot of attention to the NBA? It's like, I even know the best storyline in basketball this year is what Oklahoma City and Cleveland are doing. And he goes right after the network

where inside the NBA will be on next season, ESPN. Charles is, yeah, he's Taflone. He can go after anybody. And the ESPN's going to welcome with open arms. You can say whatever he wants. And good for him, because he's absolutely right. He's absolutely right. So the quote he took a problem with,

Kendrick said the Lakers, Kendrick Perkins said the Lakers saved the NBA. Yes, that no one cares cares. about Oklahoma City in Cleveland and that the Lakers being good helps the NBA get a lot of publicity, conversation, television sets, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So here's the thing. He's right. Kendrick Perkins, God, who do we trust when it comes to the NBA anywhere?

Do we trust anybody talking NBA? I mean, I'm being honest with you here. It used to be Zach Lowe. He got laid off. I mean, Tim Legwood is really good on TV. I like legs. I like legs. D.C.

You know, once you get over the fact that he literally just got a like exfoliation peel on his face and he's like red and he looks like he's sucking on a limb in the whole time. But he's good. Okay, so you're going for physical appearance. No, I mean, it's fine. It is what it is. I think Doris Burke knows the NBA. I think Richard Jefferson knows Z&B. He just had a lot of work done.

He didn't used to look like that. I'm not a huge Reggie Miller guy. Stan Magnet is fine. I like Reggie. He's better. Stan Van Gundy's good. As far as studio shows, I mean, Zach Lowe was as smart and plugged in as they get,

but they laid him off. Yeah. Kendrick Perkins is not good. Stephen A is actually not horrible with the NBA. I mean, there's just... I don't know who that is. Yeah. It's just, there is a lack of studio, knowledgeable,

entertaining, authoritative... Well, it's about yelling of the loudest. Yeah. And that's where we are. But I do applaud Charles for saying what he said. And that he gives zero Fs because he's in that position. There's no way that a middle, let's say, look, Jamal Crawford, a long-time NBA player is doing television now.

There's no way that Jamal Crawford can go on a show and say what Charles Barkley said because Jamal Crawford going to a new network would probably be told, well, if you don't like what we do, then you shouldn't join us. but Charles gives zero Fs. And there are few athletes that are in sports television that can do that. There are very few people in sports media that can give zero Fs. Everybody is measured at some point, whether they're trying to protect the brand, their team, their league.

We're all measured. I'm measured. Rossure measure. Everybody's measured. Everybody has to be careful. We're to go in and dig when they need to dig in. But I thought it was great. I thought it was great.

that he said what he said. The only problem is this. Charles, again, comes from an area where the people on his stage with him, notably Shaq. I think Kenny's got a pretty good feel of the league. But Shaq doesn't know anything. And Shaq sits on the set, puts a microphone on, giggles and laughs at what Charles says, and they make a 30, 45-minute show on it, which is insanely popular. It's still very highly entertaining.

It's not very informative. But number two in the worst part of this, Ross, is that he's really not wrong. making you, Kendrick Perkins. Oklahoma City versus Cleveland is an NBA nightmare for the ratings for the TV networks. I wish it wasn't the case because I have called, I've seen Oklahoma City play four times during a regular season, once in the preseason. I know that team extraordinarily well. They're awesome.

They're fun. They're interesting. I've seen Cleveland twice in person this year and a handful of times on television. They're extremely talented. They're really good. And both those teams would not disappoint us for an NBA finals. But the narrative that will be out there is we'll be two small market teams, relatively speaking, with no major superstars on them,

people are going to be like, I'm going to find something else to watch. The Lakers Celtics in an NBA final would triple ratings over in Oklahoma City, Cleveland, and that, frankly, is undeniable. Yeah, I would agree with that. So, I mean, what Kendrick is talking about saving the, The NBA was probably a little bit strong, but the point he was trying to get at isn't wrong. And well, like, Charles does have some issues with him, I guess. Yeah, it makes me sad because I love this.

This is fun. I want to watch him, watch him fight. Oh, no, those guys fighting. I'm for that every day. I'm just saying that you and I will, if Oklahoma City plays Cleveland for the NBA finals, you and I will be like, dude, did you see that play last night or that was electrifying? Yes. I believe 98% of our audience will be like, why is Maricio Dubon not banning leadoff?

Well, that'll probably be either way. Yeah, that's probably true. So that's my little diatribe on that. Also, speaking to Stephen A, and we're going to get to a break here. He had a little visit with LeBron James yesterday. And I want to get y'all's take on if it was handled properly or not. 1044, Matt Tomasio Ross, anything goes Friday. 1130 today, we're going to ask you guys.

to call in in ladies too. If you want to apologize or something and just say you're sorry. We'll do that at 1130. We have the news at noon with the strippers. We have non-flora stories at 130 today

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Matt Thomas show with Ross 7133212-5-790. So one more thing on the NBA before we get back to the other stories. I'm going to give, I'm sorry, coming up at 1130, we guys can call in, and ladies who can apologize for things you've said and done this week. I've got to figure out if I'm going to apologize to that crappy blackjack player I had next to in New Orleans a couple days back. I don't know if I'm going to do that or not. Do you want my honest opinion, Matt? Or you'll be a lot of you.

I think you should apologize. Okay. I understand your frustration, but saying GF, GD. No, I did a GD and then an F right after that. I'm sorry, GDF, I had the order wrong. I just don't like a competent play, but it's happening every time. So maybe it's more of me saying than anything else, Rossi. So I'll apologize at 1130.

Okay, Matt. All right, 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. All right, so let me tell you about what happened. happened after the game between the Knicks and the Lakers last night in Los Angeles. What happened? He is leaving the court. He happens to see Stephen A. Smith. And when you have LeBron and Stephen A. Smith speaking to each other, mono, mono,

people are going to put their cameras on. Stephen A is one of the five most recognizable media personalities. And LeBron is obviously one of the five most recognizable sports personalities, sports athletes. Yes. It was a one-sided conversation, Ross. It was brief. The video out there is about maybe 20 seconds, I think. Maybe not even that long.

where LeBron is basically, and people are trying to read the words in his mouth and basically saying some swear words, some more swear words, and mentioning Brani's name, that's his son, and then he walks away, and Stephen A doesn't say anything back to him and just sits down in his chair as he's about to depart the arena. So Stephen A went on his show today and explained what had happened and that he understands why LeBron said what he said, that he wasn't speaking to him that in Stephen A's mind that LeBron was not speaking to him as an athlete to a member of the media

he was speaking to him as a father talking about his son to somebody that was ripping on his son so he kind of understood why he said what he said and the main point that Stephen A said this morning is I wanted to see what he was response was to this verbal shakedown is what it was basically was that you know you could have called me

you could have reached out to me your agent knows where to find me, you know where to find me. If you want to have a face-to-face conversation, I wouldn't be hard to find. So the question I would say is, did LeBron take this opportunity to know that the Lakers and Knicks were on television last night and that Stephen A would be in the crowd? Or did he happen to just see LeBron and happen to see Stephen out of the corner of his eye and said, you know what, I got a chance to go tell him how I feel about him ripping on my son.

I'm going to tell him before I walk off the floor. It's interesting because, as you, I don't think it would be an accent because as you know, Matt LeBron is aware of everything because he's lived in a fishbowl for over 20 years now at this point. He knows every little thing that he does is going to be recorded and has the potential to go viral. Right.

So I wonder if there was some element of him knowing this was going to be recorded but also maybe to help him drive home his point that, I don't know, we're assuming that it's brawny james discourse that he's upset about yes i believe that that is accurate in saying because steven i've confirmed that this morning and people that were reading lebron's lips did see hear brawny's name being mentioned or at least going to interpret that yeah without knowing what specific comments lebron took umbrage with i'd have to say as long as it was nothing personal. LeBron, you did this.

Nobody, why, there's one major reason why Brony James is on an NBA floor. And it's LeBron James. So you kind of, you got to roll with the punches on this, LeBron. Like I said, again, unless

somehow Stephen A was getting personal, which I don't know what he said and what the problem was. My guess is that he's saying that whatever, let's be, let's be really blunt about this. He is saying what every other normal sportscaster in his country, whether you're doing a radio show in Houston or in Miami

or in Cleveland or in Duluth, Minnesota is saying that the only reason why Barney James is in the Lakers organization is because dad's a member of the team and that it would help appease LeBron staying in Los Angeles if you got a chance to play with his son. No, I mean,

that is non-debatable. Because no one anticipated LeBron being or excuse me, Barney being drafted, maybe period. Yeah, he was just the 55th pick, but I get you. And he certainly wouldn't, he got a full, what is it, what do you call it, just a guaranteed contract? Which definitely doesn't happen to 55th picks.

Correct. Let's see what Brunny James' stats are looking like. So I would say this. If I had a problem with something that somebody said about, me or my family and I waited until I saw that player in person when I know I can get a hold of Stephen A. Smith at a moment's, I mean, if you're LeBron James, you can get a hold of anybody you want to at any time 24-7. LeBron James wants to talk to you. You're going to take that phone call, correct? Right. He didn't have to do this in the public sphere. I think so that's why I'm

agreeing that you, I think he did it on purpose. I think he wanted to do it because he wanted people to C, that A, he was tired of it. Yes. And B, that he knew that when he walked over to Stephen A. Smith and allotted to be a short conversation because he can dictate because he's the player on the floor in uniform, hadn't gone back to the locker room yet, that he could say what he said, drop the hammer on him and then walk out. Whereas compared to, if LeBron had been watching ESPN and seeing the things that Stephen A

had said about Brony, he could have picked up a phone call and said, Stephen A, what's your point problem? I've had a couple of altercations, not altercations, disagreements between athletes and myself over the years. You got in that fist fight with Russell Westbrook, right? I did. I did. No, I'm just kidding. He kicked his ass.

But the two times, I've only had really two in my life. I've been very, very minor. No, he, yeah, he, Delbron did this on public. But they, but they were done, not on my radio show, not done on a court or a field. They were done privately behind the scenes and involving PR people and whatnot. and we moved on from it.

And that was it. I thought LeBron took an opportunity. While probably I understand why he said what he did, because obviously as Stephen A said, he was speaking as a father, not as a player, but he wanted to make sure that this video today, and the term viral is the word, has gone with him viral, and it certainly has.

Yeah, LeBron knew that. You wanted to punk him in the public sphere. Yeah. So while I don't disagree, with LeBron saying, be careful what you say about my kid, his kid is also a professional athlete. Right. Stephen A's job, and I don't like to defend Stephen A whole lot, but you are.

Is to talk about the athletes in which he covers, what are professional athletes. When you're a professional athlete, or for that matter, now in the world of college athletics, Ross, when you're making upteen millions of dollars with NIL, you're going to be held to a higher standard. That's true, but I guess the counter argument to that, and I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm I mean, I'm mostly on Stephen A's side, but I'm just trying to think of, you know, the other side of this would be that how much time

is Stephen A spending on any other bench player who's hardly getting in any games for four or five minutes at a time? He's saying, you know what, you know what, LeBron's probably thinking, Ross, we get to the top of the hour, is that he's like, you're taking this kid who is barely an NBA player and making a big story out of it. Yeah.

If his name was, I don't know, Daniel Jones and he played 18 games and four minutes a game, averaging 1.4 minutes a game, he probably wouldn't get mentioned. So maybe that's... But the reality is, if his name is Daniel Jones, Rossi, he's not drafted. The only reason why Brony James is on the team is because his name is Bronny James compared to Brony Schmerevitz. That's true.

But I don't know. I'm just asking, does that open him up to getting crushed? What did Stephen A. Smith say is I guess what I need to know? And again, without knowing exactly what is being said, I think he's basically saying the only reason why you're on an NBA roster is because your dad. And that's not inaccurate. No, that's not inaccurate. But we don't know what he said because I don't watch those shows.

Yeah. I don't know if Stephen A addressed that. I don't know if he says something like that as compared to you and I saying, it carries different because his platform is significantly larger than mine. No, what do you mean? We're on the same level, Matt. I appreciate you saying that. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 second hour of the Matt Thomas show with Ross coming up in a matter of moments plus coming up at 1130 it's time for us to say I'm sorry and we'll do that here on 790 Launch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas show. It isn't anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk. 7904 is our time. 713-212-5-790 is higher-reets program. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Now, we have non-flora stories every week at Fridays at 130. I got to tell you, we have to bring this up right here real quick

a female astronaut forces a southwest flight to return to gate after running naked up and down the aisle for 25 minutes the woman stripped naked during a southwest flight from Houston to Phoenix on Monday she paraded around the plane for 25 minutes before authorities intervened Houston police detained her for medical evaluations

it's unclear if charges will be filed Um, Ross, huh, 25 minutes? That seems 25 minutes. Quite lengthy, but I'm sorry to interrupt this, Matt. We can get back to it. We do have some breaking news. I'm going to go to. I don't even know what this is. Can I take, can we guess what sport? This is, it's two.

Go ahead, yes, guess what sport? Is it baseball? No. Basketball? No. Football? No. I'm just kidding. Soccer? Yeah, MLS. No, it's football. football.

Texans are releasing. Veteran offensive guard, Shaq Mason, he gone. That's one. He sucks. Hey, he's not that bad. He's fine. That opens up a hole in the offensive line, though.

32 years old, do a $10 million base salary, at least from what I'm seeing on my Twitter. Aaron Wilson first on the case here. His release creates $12 million. in dead money and $2 million in salary cap savings. Okay, so let's put things in perspective here

real quick. You go get Christian Kirk for a seventh round pick. Yes. Which we really haven't gotten into. We'll do it here. And you're releasing an offensive lineman. They're going on the line first round, yes? At least first two rounds,

for sure. Isn't it not makes aren't the puzzle pieces kind of being put together here? I would think so and I would think that your gut feeling that he's going to trade up that Nick Asario is going to trade up and gets in NAB one of the linemen

they really want. I feel like that's kind of the favorite at this point. All right, there you go. All right, so let's go back to Christian. So look, Shaq Mason, perfect veteran fit for a while, but he regressed.

I mean, he was part of the reason why the Texans' offensive line regressed, right? Fair to say? I would agree with that. Yeah. He regressed himself to where he would. When he first came here, the first year he was here, he was solid to maybe above average, and he was below average last year. He just was.

Yeah, I don't. He was slow. Problem is, is there anybody in camp right now that all, I mean, is Blake Fisher take that spot, ultimately? No, I would say. they were liking Titus Howard what were they doing? They were doing

from left to right Tunsel Howard Patterson, Scrugs, Fisher by the end of it. With Shaq Mason not even in there. Because he was hurt. Otherwise, I guess you would be the Shaq Mason. And the last game against the Chiefs, did Shaq Mason come back and play right card?

I can't remember. So, yeah, if that's your offensive line, which all those guys are still on the team, you've got issues. Unless Blake Fisher is going to make a leap in his second year. But yeah, you need to address the interior of the line

or even a tackle. If you're going to continue to put Titus Howard at left guard, maybe you move Blake Fisher around. I don't know if they're going to do that. Yeah. But Juice Grugs and Jared Patterson so far are kind of just guys. They're not bad.

And then is Kenyon Green even going to still be on this team? I don't know. No, they've got to release him, right? I don't even know what the capitalifications would be because he's only Was this last year his third year, Kenyon Green because he lost a year to IR.

Yeah, you got issues. I mean, bottom line. I mean, I know that receiver would sound sexy and it would be a first day picker, maybe crazy watching highlight film, but. Yeah, but now that Kirk's here. Maybe you signed back Diggs. Yeah.

I, there's, yeah, I think you could still sign Diggs if we wanted to. Yeah, you could. I mean, most NFL teams need to have three competent receivers. And there's, I mean, if I'm Hutchinson or any of those other guys, I mean, I guess they could be three. They'd be cheap. Christian Kirk is a WR. 3 right now. So you still need a two.

So let me ask you about this. And I understand that it's all about value, no matter where you get it from. And in theory, seventh round pick does not sound, I mean, that's a drop in the bat. I mean, that's nothing to go get a receiver, especially. he's going to play a lot for you. But if you're treating a pick within your own division and you're not sweating it so much, doesn't that a sign to say that maybe there's not a lot left in the tank

Christian Kirk? I mean, here's my point, is that will he catch passes? Yes. Will he be the player that he was five years ago? There's no chance. But there are too many Texans Twitter dorks out there that are like, oh my God, look at this one-two combination we have now. Okay, yeah.

Well, Matt, you know, that's how the Texan Twitter, is going to get excited about every single. Texans Twitter was convinced Davis Mills was the second coming. That's right. So we just have to remember that. The thing is, you gave up so little when Christian Kurt, the last time

he was healthy for a full season, he had 1100 yards and eight touchdowns. He's only 28 years old. The youth is on his side, but has the wear and tear of injuries over the last handful of years slowed him down. Here comes the old question. Is he injury prone or does he have an injury history?

I don't know enough about him to give you that answer. I just know that four years ago, as a cardinal, he was awesome. And frankly, his first year when he signed the big money with the Jaguars, people were like, you're paying Christian Kirk that kind of crazy money, but he was worth it one year. Yes. And then he just didn't play much after that. So when he's on the field, to me, he's at least a wide receiver three,

certainly better an upgrade over Xavier Hutchinson and John Metsche. Right, yeah. If I'm Metschie and I'm Hutchinson, I'm a little, nervous right now. The only reason why I would be nervous is because what does Kirk's money do this year? I mean, you are spending a lot of money.

No, they're going to restructure his contract. It's like $16 million, but I don't think he's going to end up. They're going to try to pair that down over maybe two years and keep someone of the guaranteed money. They're going to work their little cat magic. Yeah. Like they did with Joe Mixing when he came and they traded for him. Okay.

That's it. Injury, history for Christian Kirk. Go. Bless the internet. You can just pull this right up. It's crazy, isn't it? Last year, he missed nine games with a clavicle fracture. That, I mean, that's NFL stuff. That's... Yeah. Yeah. And he had a grade one let a calf injury in August. That would be in camp. In 23, he missed five games with a groin tear.

Oh, no. You're not helping... We're not helping. We're not helping. this Christian Kirk Stan group right now. Well, as long as his groin's okay. And his clavicle. Well, the clavicle is fluky. Groin's, that's soft tissue. He's had multiple groin injuries, yeah.

One in 2020, 2020 and 2023. Note what they say, Ross, once a groin, always a groin. Do they always say that? Okay, this is a... I'm going to temper this by saying this is a random website that I just pulled up. It's called Draft Sharks. I never heard of it. They have the chance.

of re-injury in 2025 at 86.1%. Wait a minute. Wait a way, whoa, whoa, whoa. This sounds like quackery. Yeah, I mean, how do you predict an injury? Don't even mention that website ever again. Don't, that's a shame on you. You're sorry to Houston right now for bringing that up.

Doesn't sound good. I would just say I'm a little more leery of anybody moving a player within the division. While the, while the compensation of return is minimal, it feels a little weird. That's what I'm saying. To me, it's a low risk. This is what Nick Asario likes. He likes low risk moves that can hit.

And then he swung for the fences when he had to last all season. So if they're, let me ask you this question. In all seriousness, if they're swinging for the fences last year, what are they doing this year? So far nothing. But we'll see. There's time. All right. 1113.

I'm sorry. They're coming up at the bottom of the hour. You want to apologize for something? And look, I know some of you out there. Some of you owe us an apology. And we owe you an apology for a variety of things. And Ross holds me about a 12-minute segment of apologies. I'm sorry.

That's save it for the next segment. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Rockets got a win last night in New Orleans. And I made an assessment on the show, did I do it with you yesterday or did I do it with Adam on the broadcast? This is a very crucial time for the Rockets in the next 12 days. I'll explain it after I explain to you about League One Volleyball.

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and then came back to win the game. I wouldn't, it was comfortable, but it could have been more comfortable if this team would start hitting free throws. Well, maybe we should just stop expecting things, Matt. I expect the Rockets, I expect every NBA team to hit 75% of their free throws. That puts you in the bottom five if you're a 75% for.

That's where they're around there, right? I know. But I would take 75 at this point. Hmm, Shingoon's really been on the downturn. Yeah, he was in 70s, and now he's, I bet he's at about since probably, I'm going to go find it. Give me, give me, you know what, I'll find a, like a stretch. Well, I mean, it would be easy, I guess the ECPW do January 1st, right? Yeah.

Since the calendar turn, I bet he's shooting at about 50% from the free time. You think he got a bad hangover on New Year's and it's been affecting him ever since? Well, I mean, how do you go from 75 in the first two months to a, about 50 in the second two months. I don't know. That's just been horrible. Okay, since the calendar has turned, free throw percentage. Woo!

27 games, 62%. God, it feels even worse than that. Okay. Before the calendar turned, 76%. You know, I'm not going to ask for miracles. Give me 70, because here's the problem. He's getting into the free three. throw line about eight times a game these days now.

Yeah, he's among the league leaders. I want to say he's top ten. I'll go back and look it up because we were talking about this with Jaylen Green about getting to the free throw line more. Right, right. He's one of the top 20 players getting to the free throw line. So he needs to make them. Okay,

so the Rockets optimist in me and the Rockets fan that I am and the broadcaster that I am, I said in the next seven games, and I caught it like included last night being one of the seven. You had one road game and now you've got six consecutive home

games coming out. Let's go. Nice and comfy. I think the Rockets to get their mojo back and to feel really good about being a top five team in the West have to go six and one during these seven games. I'm with it. Let's go. Okay, so you have and immediately my friend Todd Graffini

who's the voice of the Pelicans is like, you can't think of it that way. It's one game at a time. I'm like, I'm do it. You're not on the team. You can. Yeah, yeah. So the players can't think of it that way, but you can. I can't. I got 20 hours a kill a week.

So we're going to think about these things. So you beat New Orleans. That's 1 and 0. You've got six games left. All the next six are at home. New Orleans, home Saturday. Orlando Monday. Phoenix Wednesday.

Dallas Friday. Chicago Saturday. Philadelphia the following Monday. We're looking at that group of six. I think there's three of them are going to be. out of the playoffs completely, and three of them will be either a play-in or like an eight-seed. There's no reason why the Rockets can't get their mojo back, goes six and one during that stretch. Because after that, you have three really intriguing road trips to the west rest of the way.

You have a road trip to Orlando and Miami, and that's South Florida. Florida stories. Yeah, oh, yeah. That's South Florida flu, Ross. Real thing? Just telling you, being honest? Well, not on this team. Not without James Harden.

Then you have Debra. Who got punched at the booby trap? Was it Avery Bradley or Sterling Brown or somebody? Oh. Oh, was it Kevin Porter, Jr.? Kevin Porter, Jr. And he had a veteran with him. He got saved by Sterling Brown or something like that.

Sterling Brown. I haven't mentioned Sterling Brown's name in, I don't know, four years. And then you've got some bear road trips coming up. Okay, no. Sterling Brown was the one that got stomped, it says. Well, who was the one? Who was the rocket to protect the players? Was it was a KPJ or Aver Bradley or something?

then? Longhorn legend Avery Bradley. I'm trying to forget those years ever exist in sports Harvey. What are you doing to me? I'm sorry. I'm pull up the story, but go ahead. I'm going to read this story by Utah. All right. So then you got road trips with Phoenix, Utah, and the Lakers, and then you're

home for two more, and then you have a road trip to end the year between Golden State, the Clippers, and the Lakers, who are all fighting and scratching and clawing for home court advantage in the first round. So that's why to me, if you want to I'm not saying guarantee but you would be, if you could go

five and one in the next or six and five and one in the next six games, you're going to be able to give yourself an enough separation that you will avoid maybe that succeed or even thinking about playing in the playing game. Yeah, definitely that.

And I don't think they're going to get there anyways. But I also didn't think they were going to have some of these losses that they've had recently. When's Fred Van Vleek coming back? What's the deal? Well, he was there last night. Street clothes.

High and sweat. I mean on the floor, Matt. Oh. By the way, we've been doing some sweat talking on the show, not on the show on the trips. Okay. Like, the normal pair of sweats I wear and a sweatshirt, I don't know, maybe $50, tops. Okay. I got some for $11.

Okay. So you're helping my point here. The, there are sweatsuits out there that are $8. hundred dollars i must be really comfy what and i mean this in all sincerity what the hell would it would you have the material made of if you bought an eight hundred dollar sweatsuit i would have to be some sort of a magical supernatural material that lifts you to bed lifts you up the stairs into bed is there something made of camel that's made from four thousand miles away or something i mean i bet i bet i bet you when you put on an eight hundred dollar

But you're floating, right? I'm like, I'm like laying in a, like in a big bed. That's how comfortable these clothes are. It's like an exceptional type of cotton? It must be. Like Egyptian cotton? What's the best cotton? People must have flown to Egypt, pick up the cotton, brought it back and said, we're making this for a certain player.

And I'm not saying it's one player. I'm more a coach. I'm saying that the sweatsuit game in the NBA is very strong right now. Google says Pima and Sue Pima cotton, Matt. Oh, so there is actually up there. Are you a Supima Cotton guy? No, I'm more of a... I have no response.

I don't know what to say. My mother for Christmas got me some Supima Cotton Nordstrom white T-shirts once. They're delightful. Do you know how much they cost? I don't remember, but I would say, especially because they were a gift, they were worth it. That's nice you say that. They feel a lot better than those Fruit of the Loom. I'm sorry, mood of the Moom.

Moot of the Moom. Moon of the Moom T's versus the Nordstrom Supima Cotton T's Not even close Not even close When I go to Reiesta and get my sweatsuits You know They're not using that high-end cotton

Just put it that way Yeah I'm trying to look up how much they are It's 50 bucks for a three pack or four pack No Yeah you're not in that game I'm about to go get some more Actually

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At 712-2-2-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 To the guy playing next to me In Las Vegas In New Orleans two days ago I'm proud of you, Matt. Who had a 13, dealer had a $400 bet. I had two bets of $100 on the table myself.

And he hit on that 13, and he busted. And then he went on to watch the table. The dealer hit 21 when he would have busted on that face card that you took. I said to that person next to me, I'm sorry you're a dumbass. That doesn't count. You should be ejected from this segment. You can't pump fake like that. I'm going to say, I'm sorry to the people at the table

when I went with a GDF bomb. Maybe they had virgin ears and have not heard someone speak of that language. Well, at least you know everyone in there has got to be 21 and up, especially the Louisiana casinos. They scan your ID at the entrance. You must go in every time and you must give me your driver's license, no matter what your age is. There's some people getting very upset about that.

Last time I was there. Rossi. I cannot condone dumbass card playing. I just can't. You don't want to yell at the guy. He's just trying to play cards. He didn't know any better. He doesn't know any better.

The guy's got $1,000 in chips in front of him. He better know better, dumbass. I'm sorry you don't know squat about blackjack. I didn't mean that. Don't even play the drops, Connor. These are fake apologies. These are non-apologies. You can't go to your wife and say, I'm sorry, you're dumb.

I'm sorry, you're wrong. It's going to make it worse. I've got a thing to apologize for, but I just wanted to make sure we didn't bury the hatchet. I'm not burying the hatch with that douche. I was proud of you for a second. Now I'm disappointed in you again. I will be. I've got to apologize some other things.

All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ross, you've got a laundry list. Let's go. You know, Matt, Matt, in the first segment, we were arguing about black jazz. and then you tried to peacefully end the argument and move on. And I basically threw

gasoline all over the fire. And I want to apologize for that. I'm sorry. Thank you. You extended your hand in a peaceful handshake and I slapped it. I wanted to have a meaningful yet respectful debate and you just wouldn't have

any part of it. I'm also sorry you're not in studio. I'm sorry. I'll see you like Tuesday. Oh, you did a non-apology, so I wanted to get one in, too. You got it in. You did. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90.

Connor, what do you want to apologize for? I went to get my hair cut on Wednesday, and I was a little tired. And I was, I'm going to this lady who's been doing my hair for a couple of years now. And we just don't talk that much, but this time I was, like, closing my eyes during the haircut. I was almost falling asleep. So I apologize. That's kind of rude of me. to not engage or ask how you're doing.

I'm sorry for that. Oh, I'm sorry. You know what? I have a take. When I go get my head and face shaved, I don't like to talk either. And they're okay with that. We usually don't talk that much,

and she's okay with it, but at least we catch up and ask her how her family's doing. Yeah, you know, the key to that is, get it done in the first five minutes of you sitting in the chair. Then you've done your job. So I'm going to kind of have your back on that.

I don't think it's that big of a deal. that you didn't do much to chit-chat. You guys are really missing out. The key is to get somebody who doesn't speak English. Wow. And you're totally in the clear. That's what I do.

That's how they screw up your haircut, though. That's when the miscommunication happens. You know, it's like, this is good. Well, I just get a trim, so maybe it's different from me. I was the last time you got a haircut. I was going to say, you don't speak from experience our sports rave. I got my haircut for like 30 years. But you're 40 now.

Yeah. You've taken the last 10 years of your life and said, I'm good. I got a trim. I get trims. Okay. I just point. And, you know, one-night lady that don't speak English

gets the job done and I hand her eight bucks and we move on. That's close. What is wrong? Where are you going? Are you going to Tijuana? I want to get your haircut. Told you, man. From the GP. Why are you going to pay extra for a haircut? I'm not going to no fancy

salon. Good night. Nurse. 713-212. She messes it up. It'll grow back. Oh, did. This is a train wreck of a segment here so far. First of all, what kind of discussion do you need to have? Shave it all off.

No, I'm talking about, what's the nuance there? No, no, no, no, no. She asks about my kids. I ask about hers. I ask about her husband. She asks about my wife. We're done, five minutes. And then she knows when my eyes closed, the conversation ends.

I'm more than okay with that. Scott in Jersey Village. Who do you want to apologize to? Oh, yes, thank you for taking my comment. I'd like to apologize to my dear wife. They've got a juicy one for here, Matt. I'd like to apologize to my wife for cheating on our fast food diet. Yes.

So I have a void in my heart or hole or something that I can't fill. And we tried to jump on the, hey, you know, I think it would be a good idea to give a fast food for a month and a half. We're not religious or anything. But anyway, I broke that deal yesterday. I did come clean to her. Because when I got home with heartburn and didn't want to eat dinner, she kind of knew what was up. I didn't know you.

I love you, and I'm sorry. I'm a fatso. Scott, what was your cheat? I'm curious. You're going to love this, Maddie. I had two fish sandwiches from Arby's. Oh! So they're two for $6.99 or whatnot.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I respect that. And I don't get the one with the, with the cheese. And I also do the mattie cheese, the, I guess it's the tip. No lettuce in the car. There you go.

You learned. Thank you, Scott. Oh, yeah, baby. By the way, Ross, just thank you, Scott, for the phone call. Ross, it's the fish at Arby's, I believe, is a panko-crusted fish. Okay. If it helps you out at all. I won't be trying it.

I think the Arby's fish is legit, honestly. I think I'm going to tell you something about Arby's, and they don't spend a dollar with this. Way. underrated fast food restaurant. I love the curly fries. Curly fries. Beef and cheddar salad.

Chicken strips. Euro. Angusburger. The roast beef. I'm not a big fan of the cheddar sauce, but I would eat it if I had to. Yeah, they got it all. Prime rib, beef, Wellington.

They do not have beef, Walent. Stop. They have the meats, Ross. Let them have the meats. I don't even know where there's. There's only like two in the city. there's one in kingwood at uh at uh 13 14 and 45 you're probably putting them on you're probably keeping them in business um here's one um if i this is on twitter and let's see if it's a legit person at patty nick math okay hello patty nick math i'm star i'm still sorry ht x at 2019 he won't let me lick the honey butter off of his chicken biscuits hashtag sorry friday

what i'm so sorry She also says, I'm also so sorry. I went to Jersey Girl on the person behind me at the store who was in such a hurry. They started packing my groceries. You touch, you pay. Huh. Okay. I'm not familiar with that reference.

Nor am I. I don't know anything about Jersey at all. I didn't watch Jersey Girl. Wasn't that that horrible Ben Affleck movie? No, it wasn't Jersey Girl, was it? Was it, what was that Ben Affleck movie that was so bad? It spent so much money on. Oh, God.

It was something... Geely? Gile, that's what I was thinking of. Well, I... No, I was still right. Jersey Girl was a bit of Affleck movies, so... He's had a bunch of bad movies, then. Thanks for correct to me.

No, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry, Ross. You should be. Sorry. Felipe on 790. Felipe, what are you sorry for? Well, Sports and T. I mean, I am sorry, but not really, man.

But I'm going to say I'm sorry. My job needs me to come in tomorrow, but sorry. I'm about to leave right now to go fishing. Sorry, not sorry. I'm sorry. You know, we need a ban sorry-not-sourn't-s from this segment. You did it. You did it a blackjack guy.

First of all, you know what? I will take the loss, and I'm sorry for creating this part of the segment. Because the reason why we do this Friday's at 1130 is because you actually feel remorseful about something. That's true. I got a no. I got it. I'm sorry. Go.

I'm sorry at Jose Altuve and the Astros for completely laughing off Jose Altuve playing in left field when it was first floated. Because clearly it's real. I don't know if it's going to be spectacular. But I was dismissive and I shouldn't have been in it. I'm sorry. Sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you, Homer.

If you have something you want to apologize and as long as it's legit, you are more welcome to call us. Trending number one in the United States? Is this real? this is for me. No, this is Bronny James. Well, you imagine why. Poor kid.

All he wanted to do was make a couple million dollars via his dad's money. Apologize. That was, that was, that was a dig at him. Apologized to Brony for that. I would have done the exact same thing. You think if your dad was like,

hey, you want an NBA contract? They're going to pay you $2 million a year. You don't deserve it. I would do it. If you want to apologize to someone, And it's legit, unlike the first one I had today that was not legit. And for that, I'm sorry. 713-212-5-790.

1144. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues. This is Sports Talk 790. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross continues on Sports Talk 790. We need to say sorry. We give you a platform for 30 minutes every Friday here on Sports Talk 790. I'm sorry So sorry

I'm sorry to the High-end hotel I was in in New Orleans For shaking my head At the $63 I paid for Eggs Benedict the other day I should have known that room service And high-end restaurants charged lots of money

And it wasn't the server's fault That I rolled my eyes at them $63 for Reggerinerick I got one, Matt Yes sir You know, this weekend, there was a 47-year-old who wears jorts and dyes his hair, who apparently had one of the biggest, what the industry calls heel turns in the history.

Second biggest of all time, yeah. Okay, second biggest of all time. Yeah. And I think I was a little bit too rude to the people that enjoy watching the scripted, oiled up guys do their thing in their soap opera. Yeah. And I should have been nicer. Because apparently it was a big deal. And we've talked about this before.

When you like something and you think it's a big deal and somebody's like, oh, that sucks. You know, it just makes you angry. Yeah. And I don't want to do that to people. Right. So I'm sorry. Right. Oh, sorry.

Like, this show's been on 15 years. 14 years of those years, I've ripped on soccer for being boring and uninteresting and a waste of time. Right. In 2025, I have taken just about zero shots at the boring-ass sport. But that's not true. So you learn from your mistakes, and that's what we want you to do here on the show. Yeah, it's fine. So you don't make fun of wrestling anymore.

I will make fun of soccer. I didn't promise that. I just want to say I'm sorry. Just because I say I'm sorry. Like that guy said he's sorry, he broke his fast food diet. I mean, he ain't going to do it again. Yeah. By the way, I've been thinking about this woman being naked on the plane for 25 minutes.

Did anybody really complain? My God. Am I right? Help me around. If she was attractive running up and down the aisles for 25 minutes, I mean, are you that upset about the whole situation? Would you take a flight delay, Ross, if an attractive woman was running up and down the aisles for 20 minutes completely naked? Especially running non-stop. If you have a connection or something, it may hurt.

I want her to get close so we can get going. I'll tell her to shut her bum ass up. Shut her naked bum ass up. Close that naked bum ass up. Yeah. Martin and Angleton, you've got a lot to apologize for. You've been calling this show for years, and I know you want to say sorry. You got to apologize for all these bad jokes, Martin?

I have something to apologize for. I told me I was walking to people. I did. You're dust in the Kroger Isles, Martin? I didn't mean that. You're sick. So he set out to a particular area with people, and he wanted to make sure he broke wind in front of him.

them on purpose? That's, as the kids would say, diabolical. Yes. Brian and Pearland at 1154. What do you need to apologize for? Well, real quick, Matt, you ripped soccer the other day when Lionel Messie didn't show. So you've criticized soccer in the last week.

See? Get him, Brian. Get him. Other than that. And Matt, I still love you to death. I know that's just, you know, what you have in your heart. if getting dusted by 12-year-old girls. Oh, too soon.

But we won't go there. No, I want to apologize and say, I'm sorry to Nico Collins. When he was initially drafted, I thought he was going to be the next Jalen Strong. And he has proven me wrong and become wide receiver number one and one of the top five receivers I think in the league. So Nico Collins, I'm sorry for doubting what you would, what you would become as a wide receiver. I'm sorry.

Wow, that's going retro there on that one. H-Town H-365. I want to apologize to all of these Spanish speakers that when I come on property to do inspections and I scare them because it looks like ice or law enforcement. Oh, I'm sorry. at Kyle underscore the Welch, Do you think Barbies has a better burger than that play sports ravees said as the best burger?

Ross, the Austin burger with the ground brisket in it or a Barbies burger? What do you think? I'm going to go with the burger that I put out on Twitter, which, by the way, everybody was very nice. You said the people, the only person that said anything mean was you. That's not true. and it got 11 bookmarks. So people are taking my food advice, which I appreciate that.

Oh, trust me. When they go to eat there and they see how much it costs and how average it is, they're going to come back at you. Don't worry. You don't know what the hell you're talking about, but that's okay. Jason and Katie, who do you want to apologize to? I got to say I'm sorry to my sweet little bartender at the Ralph Couter Roulogne and Katie for putting a free BJ's bumper sticker on the back of her.

vehicle. And I guess I'll go ahead and apologize to the other one that I put a eye heart anal on her. So anyway, that's all I got. What is going on? What is going on? Ross, anything? I think I'm going to remain silent the rest of the show. We cannot end this segment with that. We just cannot. Joe, I would like to apologize for the previous caller. Joe, what do you want to apologize? for. Yes, hi, Matt. I'd like to apologize for pissing off EMA at Doka, and for everybody else who has, which I think is a lot of people, because that guy never looks like he's happy. He always looks like he's upset and about to kick somebody's, you know what. And, I mean, I don't think I've ever seen the dude smile.

but still love him. He's a great coach. Go Rockets. But I'm sorry for wherever the hell. Pissed off, D-Men. I'm so sorry. I think that's just Joe.

That's just Demand's a demeanor. I don't think he's a jovial person in general. I make him laugh more than any other person in Houston Media. I can tell you that for sure, Rossi. I'm trying. That's great. I guess. Well, we're just trying to build.

I'm just trying to build a relationship. Courtesy churtsy chuckles are flying. You know what? Actually, that's right. They're not a belly laugh. They're definitely chuckles. Last one. Scott and Clear Lake, what are you sorry for?

I want to apologize to the Houston Cougars. After they bombed out of that Vegas tournament back in November, I thought it was going to be terrible. They have exceeded all expectations and are crushing it. So I'm sorry. Thank you. We accept your apology. Thank you.

Don't ever give up on a college basketball team in late November, except if you're the University of Texas. Other than that, you should keep rooting. What are you talking about? Still alive, baby. Saturday, according to Joe Lannardi, a must-win game. Uh-uh. Oh, no.

There's no such thing as a must win. Nope, nope, nope, nope. That's not it. Joe Lulardi says it's a must-win game. Winner gets in the tournament. Loser is out. I think that qualifies. No, because.

guess what? It's must win if you want to get into the tournament. No, they're in the tournament regardless, correct? The NCAA tournament? Oh, no, no, no. You win the SEC tournament, Ross. You get an automatic bid to the tournament. It's not a must win.

Okay, you're right. So say you're sorry. It's a must win. According to Joe Lennardi. Not according to me. Nope. Then I'm asking, according to Ross, is it a must win tomorrow? It's an important game.

That's my boy. The news at noon. We've got to wake the strippers up. We'll do that next here on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1204 in H-town. Free of the Matt Thomas show at Ross.

This is Sports Talk 790. It was out of there less than $7. I was happy until the damn sauce went all over my chest. I'm sorry, did you say I was happy until the sauce went all over my chest? There's nothing that's going to ruin the thirsty girl's brand than that thirsty girl giving her thirst. So you're going deep into the box. Yes. That stuff rolls down your chin and on your shirt.

You need a napkin. Ross, a man can crave fish once in a while, right? I got a terrible motor. I can't even turn my motor on. Do you want to get on that thing and go for a ride with that dude? We had a great time. Did you? Mm-hmm.

I got flashed once. By a guy. Okay. I only had one because you force fed it down my throat. And it was delicious. Really? Yes. Yeah, you always trying to put things in my mouth.

Home stretch, an hour, 54 minutes of the radio greatness that we call the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. We want you guys involved in anything goes Friday. Rossi-Dette, I'm sorry segment, was a complete train wreck. People were really not sorry about things when they were supposed to be sorry. And I'm sorry because I did not set the proper precedence on that. You set the tone. Yeah, I'm a tone center. lead, Matt. Yeah. And for next week,

we'll try to do better. You're leading the people into waters to drown. Thanks. And with that, we present to you at 1207, the news at nude. Yes, Matt, a lot of news having to do with Christians here in Houston. Let's start with

Christian Walker. As now his status is uncertain. He is flying back to Houston to get an MRI. Apparently according to Brian McTaggart who tweeted last night

that the swelling they're waiting for it to go back up which is very confused or it's going back up and they're concerned about that. He's going to get in an MRI and hopefully he's going to be okay. Thoughts and prayers. We need a water tower of Save Christian.

Please. Since we are too cheap to pay for the Photoshop waiting for inflammation to subside. Yeah, we got that from yesterday. But Christian Walker did say the injury not as bad as it was last year. Yeah, my guess we will not hear anything until probably sometime this weekend because, again, the tests probably were done today.

They'll need some time to evaluate. Bada boom, bada bing. You know what? Let's just wait. All right, elsewhere with other Christians, we'll go to some Texans news. Of course, they have acquired Christian Kirk, the Aggie legend, now back in Texas for a seventh round pick. He is owed $16 million this year. Everyone expects that contract to be reworked.

And also in Texans news, Shaq Mason released a $10 million cap hit for the Texans. But there will be $2 million in the cap savings with the release. Yeah, it's the right move. The problem is now you are definitely in need. I did look at the old play by plan on why I did this because I'm just a journalist, Rossi. He did play in that Kansas City game. Okay, yeah, he did. I thought he came back.

Yep. Well, you won't be back to the Texas. So one bit of your starting five from last year's playoff game against Chiefs is not on this team anymore. Correct. They've got to improve on the offensive line. They know what everyone knows it. quite frankly, like 28 teams need to do it anyways as well. So everybody's looking for offensive linemen.

Everybody knows you need them. So the Texans put them on that list with the release of Shaq Mason and even before it. Also last night, Matt, the Houston Rockets, getting a win on the road against the New Orleans Pelicans. Hey, they all count the same in the win-loss column. Rockets with the 109 to 97 victory. Dylan, straight away to the top of the key to Shengoon.

At third by Misi, all over the top of his head, lobs it inside of Thompson against two defenders, and he do not care. He went against two position players in the low block, and Thompson drops it in for two more. 19 points. Can I give you 10 seconds of inside radio that nobody's going to care about, you and me, Matt?

Please. Bring back the ISDN lines. These internet connections sound so bad. By the way, shout out to me, Ross. Got in the car last night, put on ESPN radio, at about 1250. Okay. They do the top five plays of the night.

Uh-huh. The calls, and I was number three last on the evening. Oh, great. Well, great job. What was the call? It was in a man, Thompson. Oh, Eason fell down, grabbing the rebound,

and then threw it to a men who then was on the baseline, the dunker spot for a two-handed flush. Do you know, that was in, I can't find. I have a bunch of them in Thompson. I got beat by by Michigan State game and a Tampa Bay Lightning game. Now, did you get beat or they're just playing this because they're, you know, big games? No, no, they do a top five.

They do a top five every night. They go number five and they play. Number four. Is it this one? Right side to Trey Murphy. Murphy had a ball poked away. Shangoon with a steel out in front, left side to Tar Heeson, hands it off to Thompson, who jams it down with two hands. That's the second time to score the rocket to take him a three-on-one break. and turned it into a Houston basket. Dang. You keep playing if you want to.

I mean, it was Easton and a steel. Maybe it was Adams. Somebody fell down. And he kept the pad. No, it doesn't matter. We're not going to make this. This is news at noon. This is a news at noon.

No, we should do the mad at noon. No, we're fine. We do the mad for four hours. It feels personal. All right. Of course, Matt, we mentioned earlier in the show that Charles Barkley called out ESPN and specifically Kendrick Perkins

as Kendrick Perkins comments that the Lakers were saving the NBA Charles Barkley coming at ESPN and Kendrick Perkins for all the Lakers and Golden State Warriors coverage. Kendrick Perkins did respond on Twitter last night saying hey

NBA on TNT might want to tell that senior citizen Charles Barkley that I'll be around when he see an idiot or a fool in person, make sure he keeps that same energy. He can complain with me if he want to, and I'm going to dress his ass like the numbers on a house. Straight from the 409 homeboy, and we bar none and fade all. Hashtag Texas boy.

Do you think Charles Barkland is afraid of Kendrick Perkins? I mean, honestly. No. I would favor Kendrick Perkins in a fight, though. Oh, if we were doing a fight club, which we don't do. Charles did his 60s. Yeah. But they're from a professional standpoint.

standpoint, there is nothing that Kendrick Perkins could possibly say that would have Charles Barkley quaking in his boots. One of the replies to the tweet, is that a physical threat? Kendrick Perkins? Nah, it's a promise. Next reply, I'm honestly surprised you were still on TV. Kendrick's not good. I don't think so.

I mean, we appreciate the Beaumont 409 representative. But he's on, he and Dan are like. are like on like every show. Like Speed Week? It's Kendrick Perkins breaking a game down. I don't get it. College game day? And if college game day, it's Dan Arlofsky.

WMBA basketball, Kendrick Perkins. Nathan's hot dog eating contest. Dan Arlowski. It's kind of weird. It just is. He does it all. He's going for Joey Chestnut's crown. Yeah.

Anything else? There was also a tweet that I can't find right now. Maybe he deleted it. He talked about not being the executive producer, and they bring him the topics, and then he talks about whatever they are. Kendrick Perkins. He's like, I'm not executive producer, Perk.

I'm the host. They bring the topics. They ask me about the Lakers and the Warriors, so I answer the questions and then I go home. Basically was what he said. Kendrick Perkins. Yeah, I mean, here is some truth of that. There is some truth of that.

I just And maybe it worked guilty of this week Because we do consume a lot of sports television It's our life And I don't know if these shows do well in Houston or not They're obviously very popular across the country And they're out and they're a lightning rod For social media conversation

I mean with all due respect When something is said on MLB network No one cares When something is set on NBA TV, no one cares When Mila Kimes, whoever that is, something no one particularly cares. When these boys talk, it sparks this incredible debate. And the two biggest arguments I have against inside the NBA, one is I don't think

they're very prepared, and that would include Charles, although he's highly entertaining, and he's the most entertaining sports personality I've ever seen on television, period in this story as far as I'm concerned. And number two, they do dog cuss their league a lot. And I'm not asking them to be PR machines, but at the end of the day, they do really hate everybody in the NBA. I got a take for you. Go ahead.

One leads to the other. The lack of preparation just leads like, I'm just going to dismiss everything. When you're not prepared about something and you don't know about it, the easiest thing to do is just dismiss it. Is that what I do with soccer? I just don't like soccer.

I didn't say that. Okay, I'm just saying. You said it. If you want to call me out on it, call me out on it. I didn't say. You were thinking it. I wouldn't say. I wouldn't say.

And that's the news and noon. Ross, where's your non-flority story from today? Saskatchewan That's where it was last week too That's incredible You were from vagina Yeah It's just a fountain of good stories

Matt Unless I find something better And switch at the last minute By a non-flora story this week It comes to you from Canada I'm going to the 51st state To get my non-flora story

Matt you're going to get in trouble By whom? Connor's dad's gonna beat you up Oh that's right Donner's dad is not like We branch Canada as a 51st state Very sensitive 1216 it is the Matt Thomas show with Ross 713212 5 790

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We have a non-floor stories coming up in just about an hour from now. We have, believe it or not today, or hell you are not at 150. I'm sorry, what did you say, Matt? I was chatting with my producer. What are we going to talk about? It's the show. Go ahead and tell them, Ross. The show.

There's all fair stuff, Matt. Well, obviously, you want to bring it up because... No, I don't. Connor, go ahead and tell us, then. No, there's nothing. we were just discussing possible topics or believe it or not yeah that's what it was actually i was part of it what's pulling around today matt um believe it or not today is all things about a kingwood steven a smith we did kingwood in honor of you spending more time there than here this

year i will see you on tuesday and thursday and friday great no i'll see you tuesday i'll i will just i'll see you on tuesday My schedule's just crazy. That's it. You understand. Wait, what about Monday? We have a short show Monday. Okay.

The show is going on. It's going great. I mean, I maintain focus. I know. It's difficult for me. I mean, I'm not judging you. I mean, I am, but it feels like you're judging me. It's really done off air more than it's on air.

Feels like I'm being judged pretty harshly. Yeah, it feels pretty much accurate. Tom at downtown at 1225 on 790. Hello, Tom. Afternoon, gentlemen. I was not able to call in earlier this week as tied up, but I have one of the Shuttle Bum ass-ups. Okay.

Saturday, leaving the Rockets, you know, lost to the Kings, jump in the car, turn on 790 to hear the recap. Adam Platton transitions over to, pretty sure it was Mr. Dan Matthews. He grabs the mic, says, oh, by the way, John Cena turned heel. Just spoiled the whole thing.

Man, shut your bum ass up. Shut your bum ass up, man. So you had the pay-per-view on the DVR or recorded for some reason, and you were waiting to get home to watch that, and then Adam stole your joy, basically. No, it wasn't Adam, it was Matthew, Dan Matthews. Well, Dan's weird. I mean, there's really a way to say it.

And it's on Peacock, so I actually. could have grabbed it, you know, or Netflix or wherever they'd have it on now. Yeah. So you're mad that Dan spoiled Johnson. I actually tweeted it myself. Well, speaking, it's a little different, but, you know, you're not expecting to hear it on a Rockets recap, a wrestling spoiler, you know? The Rockets lost the Kings at Home.

I would rather have more wrestling talk than highlights of a Rocket at home loss of Sacramento. Just saying. Well, how can you watch the game if you're out of the game? There's no reason for that to come up. All right, you know what I do, Tom, to have your back on this, I'm going to admonish Dan when he comes in the studio today. You should. Yeah, we don't cross. We don't mix sports and sports entertainment in the same conversation.

So on behalf of all of us here at Sports Talks of any, Tom, I apologize to any of you that did not know about the scene of heel turn until you got home and then Dan ruined it. But thanks for listening, by the way. We do appreciate you, Tom. And please call Ross over the next six games. We have six home games. I think calls on home games are, frankly, better than they are on road games. I would agree. You got people leaving the game.

Yeah. And last night this game was on KTRH. We were 50,000 strong watts. Well, the post game was on 790. Oh, it was? Okay. Maybe you're mixing things up. Okay.

No, the game was on KTRH, but we flipped. Then we went to simulcast after the Astros were done and then went to postgame on 790. I think actually makes a lot of sense. I'm glad we did it. We got to get Ground Zero radio on Maddie. Come on now. I don't want to get yelled at by these KTRH people anymore. more. Oh, they don't like us.

Yeah, all upset. They're Mark Levin and whatnot. I think we run Michael Berry until like midnight, and then we take an hour off and then run Michael Barry again from one hour to five and a hour. One hour of coast to coast. That's right. You know, it's funny. I got in the car yesterday, and I was slipping around and I heard Ben Mallor for a while, and that was a little quick, I got that up that quickly. And then listen to the little ESPN radio. They were just breaking down one, in nauseam NFL topic after i was bored by that so i put on the um the canny loggins channel on my phone

oh i thought you're gonna say you put on coast to coast no no please i love coast to coast i don't even think it's really coast to coast to coast anymore not the coast the coast coast coast we used to it was art bell that was the goat of coast to what about george norrie you was pretty good too is that are they both alive or both dead i know art okay i'm 99% sure our bell is dead and george norrie just retired i think Yeah, I think so. He is George Noree apparently alive and 74

years old. Oh, so he's spry for that audience. Somewhere in time. They do the intro like we used to do back in the day. That was so good on the wall. Nobody's going to get that anymore, but I used to enjoy doing it. You and I liked it. Nobody probably got it even when we did. He was inside baseball

back then. It remains inside baseball. By the way, quick note, Jonathan Alexander's, I read that the Texans were saving 2 million in cap space cutting cutting Shaq Mason but now I'm seeing that they're making designating as post-June 1st which

will save them $9 million. That's huge. So that's big. Look, there are things that I do trust in Nick Casario. One of them is signing guys as short-term deals hoping they catch lightning in a bottle or do enough to

force the teams like the Texas or others to spend more money. King of the Proved Deal. The Joe Mix and trade was really, really good.

Yes. My guess is Christian Kirk's a low risk, low reward kind of deal. Again, you're training a seventh

round pick for him, but it does raise a little bit of a flag when a guy within your own division is being traded to a team in your own. And I do believe

he's a good salary cap guy. Although they used to a guy named Chris Olson that was here when Gary Kubiak and Rick Smith are running things.

And then when Bill O'Brien came in and Brian Gain and everybody else said like get the hell out and now Casario is running the ship by the way I'm sure that I'm sure there's a capologist on staff this is speaking of you talking about Joe Mixon I hadn't gotten a gut feeling that I'm into Matt apparently the the pundits are saying this a deep running back draft this year so I'm thinking Texans running back third fourth round what's up that would be it wouldn't be foolish I mean honestly Joe Mixon's getting older. Do you think Joe Mixon is a

1,200-yard rusher in two years? Probably not. No. So, I think you're absolutely right when you say this. Absolutely right. 1230, Sports Talk, 790. We are with you till 2 o'clock. So come on in and say hello. It's anything goes Friday. As clearly if you listen to the first two and a half hours of the show.

We've been on the year since 10 o'clock. Man, we are... It's blowing by. We are just outpacing the competition. There are people out there cussing, discussing what the Texans should do with that fifth round pick, we're just giving you naked women on Southwest Airlines flights for 25 minutes. 25 minutes, Rossi.

Mm-hmm. That's a lot. It is. It's about 20 minutes longer than you normally would, right? Hmm. Depends. I mean, what's the longest time you've been on a flight with a woman walking naked up and down the aisle? That would be zero.

That's me, too. I mean, if you have the over under at one minute, I would have taken the under. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1234, Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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And hell yeah, or not at 150. Christian Walker, going to have an MRI. By the way, got an email on from David Lerner, listening to the show. Dana Brown went on the podcast known as Fowell Territory TV, and he said Wednesday, and I'm reading, this is the email that I got from David. It says the Camp Smith is creating a lot of conversation in Astros Camp. That's no surprise.

Hours later, in an avenue open for Smith to make the team examining the possibility, of that because of the Christian Walker injury made things more intriguing by Smith's PPI and eligibility. PPI means that if he starts for the Astros on opening day or is on the roster

and wins an award, the Astros gained an extra draft pick in 2006. Then David says, why keep him in the miners for two to three months when the chances are he can win an award and create an extra pick? Honestly, Ross, I like baseball. I think I know a fair amount about baseball.

Well, I have never heard of the PPI. Now, granted, yeah, it's recent. Yeah. It's something that the players bargained for, because, you know, we talked about the Super 2 and all that type of stuff and keeping guys down,

and one of the solutions to that was giving the draft pick incentive to bring up prospects. PPI stands for prospect promotion incentive. And for me, that makes a lot of sense because there have been a lot of prospects, namely the one that comes to mind more than me else, George Springer. That was held back because they were worried about his service time.

I guess the question is, I don't know, the answer is this like, I just literally saw this email a few minutes ago. How high of a draft pick we're talking about here? Yeah, I don't know, though. All the details on this. I'm reading an article on it from Baseball America right now. Apparently, they have to appear on two out of three top 100 lists. I don't know which the three are.

But I know he's on, he's already on pipeline. and he's already on basically every top 100 list. Yeah, yeah. I don't think there's any argument about where he is, prospect-wise. Baseball America, ESPN, and MLB.com. I think he's on all three of those. Dang, no love for baseball prospectus, huh? Can I give you a ridiculous, and we'll go to phones here just a second,

a super ridiculous hot take? Yes. I mean, this is as molten lava, fireball hot take as possible. I want it. Let's go. Do you know the tweet we see yearly on the anniversary of the trade that continues to be shown among Astros fans? Yes, the Josh Fields for Yordon Alvarez trade. That's exactly what I was thinking about. Ooh, I see where you're going.

Do you see where I'm kind of going? I see where you're going, and I don't know if I agree with it, but I like it. I don't know if I agree with it either, but it keeps, I keep thinking, did the Astros fleece the Cubs for a one-year guy and Tucker to get this perhaps future long-term slugging huge potential megastar former first-round pick Cam Smith it won't be to that degree because Josh Fields is out of baseball within like a couple of years right right of being with the Dodgers but okay the parallels aren't they're not even close you're going to leave on Larry Anderson Jeff Bagwell Jordan Alvarez, Josh

Fields, and Cam Smith, Kyle Tucker is the three greatest trades in Astros history. No, because if I said that today, and Cam Smith, Bounds of being about a... Blazing hot! Put your name on it. No, I'm kidding. No, I'm just kidding. That's why I was actually apprehensive

at saying it to begin with. I'm glad you said it out loud, man. If you think it'd say it. If you see something, say something. Yeah. But I don't know... Yeah, let me see. He meets all the thresholds of like no eligibility... I mean, no, under 130 career at bats.

He's on the prospects list. Right. I don't know what kind of draft pick they would get. I would say this. At the end of the day, if I was a team, if I'm not completely sure that Cam Smith is ready for major league hitting, and I'm worried about arbitration and starting the clock, I wouldn't let a draft pick get in my way unless it was something of a

a sizzling high day two draft pick, right? I mean, if we're talking 10th round, so what? Okay, so I'm trying to, oh, no, now baseball America's trying to make me pay for their website. Why don't you do this? Let's take a break and see if you can read some more. We're going to talk to Shane Parallant about Nico Collins. Actually, I have it. I have it.

Okay, go ahead. There's been three in history. The Mariners got one for Julio Rodriguez. It was the 29th overall pick. Wow. That's high. Did somebody lose a draft pick that year? Deep must have.

Was it the Astros? No, I don't think. Not in 23, right? And then 24 and the 24 draft, the Orioles got one because of Gunner Henderson, and D-Back's got one for Corbyn Carrel. Then they picked 31st and 32nd. So you're talking about a very high pick.

That is, that's end of the first run. That's, well, now that changes my tone a little bit, because that's very, very good. If you were arguing fifth round pick, 10th round pick, 15th, you'd say, you know what, keeping arbitration nears down on my player is better. Bringing them up a little bit earlier to maybe get a first round, makes you go, hmm. 12-4. Are we later or earlier? What are we doing here?

We're okay. Let's go to Shea and Pearland here on the Matt Thomas show. I've lost track of time. It shows us moving so fast. Shea on 790. Good afternoon, Shea. Good afternoon, Matt. How are you?

How are you off? I'm doing great, Shea. Thanks for asking. Yeah, no problem. Well, hey, I just had a quick question about the Nick Nica Collins contract restructure. In terms of what happened there, I haven't seen the details. And have we opened up any kind of cap space, especially with the Shaq Mason release that I just got Wind of this morning.

I believe the door open for the Texans possibly to make another move or grab somebody else. I know we just got Christian Kirk, which I'm not disappointed with. It seems like we got a bag of chips. But, yeah, I want to kind of get you guys' opinion on what it is you think that Texans may make a move on if there even is any opportunity with what happened in the restructure. alongside the Shaq Mason release, as well as, let's get Cam Smith on that opening day roster, man. All right. Thank you, Shay.

The restructuring of the contract for Eagle Collins creates almost $10 million in salary cap space. So while he will not be hurting for anything, that's a significant opening to take your top receiver, renegotiate his contract, and open up some space for 2025. So, yeah, that is a significant difference for that. Yes, and it's apparently going to be with a post-June 1st designation a $9 million savings for Shaq Mason. So they're going to have a little wiggle room to sign a free agent or two. Now remember, you have to save a lot of money for your draft picks. That is true. And you also want to have a bank of dollars to use at your disposal if you want to go grab somebody mid-season.

That is correct. I would say, now, as soon as Christian Kirk signed, the first thing I'm thought was should I put up a what was your favorite Stefan Diggs as a Texan moment but honestly I couldn't do it because I I don't think this completely eliminates Stefan Diggs in a conversation no there's no reason it should now you could put out what was your favorite Shaq Mason as a Texan moment and you probably get a lot of negative tweets about it oh yeah wait so I think you should you want you want to do it right now be funny yeah Greg towey actually stole my bid on that he did yeah he's a bit stealer he should He should be embarrassed.

Well, he's got to worry about his own show, probably. I mean, there's a little bit of issues on that show. What do you mean? Facts. Oh, with Colin, didn't he think somebody was on the wrong team? Yeah, he had a guy on the show. Was it Taran Armstead? Yeah.

He thought he was on the Saints still, and he's been on the Dolphins since 2022? Yeah. Whoops. Yeah. That was okay. It's fine. I mean, what else does Colin Calhard do? I feel like when Stephen A. gets stuff wrong, he's on like nine different shows about six different sports,

so it's almost easy to give him a little leeway. And he has a huge staff. Greg Too, he's the bomb. And Greg Too does a great job. Great job. You know what? Maybe the staff isn't as huge as we think, though. Could you imagine we had a producer that just fed us stats and gave us information and said,

here, no matter what you bring up, I got something to back you up. You'll never get a mistake. Yeah, I got one of those. some mistakes. Google.com. Yeah. It's a lot cheaper that way. All right.

1244, Sports Talk, 790. 713-212-5-790. It's how you reach our show if you want to get in today. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Okay, so concern level for Christian Walker, we'll discuss that. And should the Astros, does this give Cam Smith the spot?

Or do you say at the end of the day, We can live with John Singleton playing first base that Ross or Spock could go to maybe somebody else. We'll discuss that next. 1245 on 790. Matt Thomas and Ross B. Riel. Two guys extremely passionate about Houston sports. You can tell them to go get a room. We've shared a hotel room.

But they already have. And then I've been used to be told. That's true. Thanks for the visual. A pillow in between. There's no pillow between you and more lunchtime, Houston. in sports talk on sports talk 790 you know it's interesting that we have spent a lot of time talking about the astros and it's

been cam smith because again when you have an ops of above 2000 you're and no matter who you are you're going to get a lot of conversation that you add on top of the fact that christian walker is heard does that leave a space open and then obviously uh this new rule this p p p p i rule that is in baseball may potentially help the Astros get into a spot where they may get an extra late first round selection so all it does is make a lot of sense um but you know is that draft pick worth it is Christian Walker's injury severe enough that you're going to be worried about him for the you know for two three four weeks I would just say again unless something dramatically changes that I can't imagine a guy who has never seen

Anything more than what Rossi, a handful of bats at AA, would all of a sudden be a major league ready to go. You do have to, again, have to temper things with spring training pitching with a grain of salt. So, again, I've never been oversold on March numbers. I've never been oversold on September numbers. But if Walker's gone for a while, that might speed up the process a little bit. To at least not be considered would be foolish. It would, but, I mean, what would be the configuration?

You play him at third and then you... Issa Cratus at first? Yeah. You could be afraid us at first. You could just bring him an extra body. I mean, there's a variety of different little thing. I mean, infielders are infielders. Yes.

I always thought that maybe if Cam Smith was brought up, as I kind of semi-gifully predicted May 15th or something, I thought it would have been for maybe because Chas McCormick was not performing offensively and that you would put him in right field. But, you know, needs or needs? By the way, you have tweeted out something that was a follow-up to what Brian Ryan McTaggart put out. Yes.

This is terrible, but I'm going to go and let you explain to the audience what you just tweeted out. Okay. Well, I did two tweets at Sports RV, Matt. It's fine. Let's see. We're on a slow, steady client. We've been trying to get to 12,000 for like... You're close.

You're right. What's your number? I need 27 to get to 12,000. But I've been around 11,000, 60 to 970 for like a year. Me too. I have at the end of the day, because I, you know, I get rid of my bots. I am at about, I have not moved one inch away.

I'm still 35 away from 318, and I've been that way for a long time. That's okay. It's fine. I'm fine. At Sports Harvey. And I'm still blocking people like mothers, because I don't, these are fam accounts. You're so weird. I know.

At least you know. But anyways, yes, at Brian McTaggart, he put out that the Astros were the 29th rated farm system according to MLB pipeline's new farm system rankings that came out a couple of years a couple of hours ago and I just simply responded

is that bad? Okay so two things that come to mind one Blas is gone Loperfeito is gone you got rid of two prospects in the Verlander trade with New York

Clifford and Gilbert although Gilbert had a bad year I think he's out of the top hundred now okay but Clifford Ryan Clifford is in the top 100, I believe. So you've, in theory, got rid of four prospects. Was there a third player in that Kakucci deal?

I'm trying to think. Was there just two? Yeah, it was Bloss Wagner and... Oh, Will Wagner. Okay, Will Wagner probably what a top 50 Astros prospect? No, they made the top 100. I don't know. But you got...

You moved five prospects in two years. Yes. And by the way, the net gain on those is none. Because you've run-Lander's gone and so is Kikuchi. But that's how to hear you know there. Looks like Ryan Clifford is. out of their top 100 now too. Okay.

Yay? You don't want to root against a kid. I don't know. Why not? I want him to be terrible. Absolutely, I'm rooting against him. So, couple that with how long does it take to get out of the doldrums of being a bottom five minor league organization? I don't know.

Because right now we're stuck there. It's been a while. Let's see. Yeah. year they were 30th in the preseason no hold on last year midseason rank they were 30th the year before midseason ranked they were 30th but they were 27th before that so so here's the thing how does an organization who in the last five years has lost a pair of first second a year of second round picks too correct two yeah two years of first and second round picks and got rid of five

prospects in the last five calendar years how to have hell do you get out of the 29th or 30th spot you i don't think it's humanly possible uh international signings and trying to hit on those like you paid four million whatever it was for pager leone and unfortunately he's just turned out to be at this point a quadruple a player he's a space cowboy hall of famer yeah i don't know how you get i i don't know how you get out of it and honestly it hurts but the aster's struggle in the postseason every year so it's not like you've been sitting there going man we need to replenish well you've been replenishing through making that positions.

Paul and Meyerland at 1256 on 7-90. Paul, good afternoon. If he hadn't a bit untouchable, think the prospects we could have got for Forrest Whitley. That was a Jeff Leno decision, by the way. Yeah, but Bregman was made untouchable, and that was a good move. Tucker was made untouchable. That was a good move. Derek Fisher was untouchable. That was a bad move. It's give and take. So, Spain is to me. I'm really confused about this. Forrest-F Whitney has only been up one time in his career, right?

How can it be out of options? Minor league deal. I mean, you have a certain length of time as a minor leaguer. Your contract's running after a while, and if you protect them and whatnot. It's just a question of... It's about the years. Yeah, it's what the years as a professional. He's 27 years old.

Oh, what we could have got for him. Oh, well. You guys have a great weekend, okay? Thank you. Yeah, to make it Uber simplified, you can't stash a minor leaguer for years and years and years. He's going to be willing, either you put him up for Rule 5 or he ultimately, you know, has enough tenure as a professional player that he could need to be a free agent.

Now, again, if he makes the team, it's a different story. If he doesn't make the team, he is free to leave on his own, and he would obviously do that. Forrest Willis making the team, Rossi. Or he's off the team. Either way. Yeah. Isn't there a certain part of you that goes, let's give him one more shot at this? because look at all the time and money.

We've wasted not a lot of money, but he's wasted some money. I mean, first round pick. His numbers have been good in spring, right? Yeah. And he was good. He was shutting folks down with the space cowboys last year. Yeah. Yeah.

All right. One hour left to go on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. Please join us. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-2-2-7-90. You ready for one more anecdotal thing on the Luca Donchich-Lebron-Bron. Trade with the Dallas Mavericks and the Los Angeles Lakers. Yes.

We got that for you. We have a Rockets win to discuss. We have the University of Houston playing Baylor tomorrow. Rossi, if they win, they'll end the conference season with a 19 and one record. Insane. And a sportscaster in this town predicted it was going to happen. Well, and a good feeling. Got feeling.

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Here are the headlines at 103. The Astros are in action tonight. You'll hear it right here on Sports Talk 790. Spencer Arrogatti. A friend of the show is going to be on the radio program tonight. As you listen to Astros and the Cardinals, it'll be at first pitch at 505. The A team will go to 450.

Spencer Argetti, no record. Third start of the spring, so far, one hit and four scoreless innings with five strikeouts. There you go. Let's say, who's hot, by the way, in spring training for the local nine? Christian Walker before he heard him. I didn't bring that up, Matt. Come on.

Well, it's in the notes here. Four of eight with three doubles. Jeremy Paynees, five for ten, with a home run and two ribbies. Cam Smith is batting a poultry six-thirty six, seven for eleven with three, third, triple, two home-run seven RBI as an OPS of 2100. Not to overreact, but we've got them on the opening day roster. Yeah, we've also got him, I believe, getting the first. first number retired by the Astros since the announcement of Billy

Wagner's going to his jersey retired. Isak Perretti's batting 300, 3 for 10 with a home run. And Colin Price, batting three for nine with a home run to RBIs. Colin Price. Astro's legend. If Colin Price walked in today and said,

hi, I'm Colin Price, and say, hi, hi, Colin, I'm Matt, what do you do for a living? I'm sure he's a very nice fellow. I'm sure he's fantastic. And maybe a guy will be talking about him. He could be a guest of the show. oh, he's 26? Oh, 25? By the way, the player interviews this year are moving to the afternoon show.

Oh, is that official? I think it is. Dang. They'll get to meet every member of the Middle Relief Corps, the Astros. That's unfortunate. Well, sometimes you get good ones, and it's fun. I'm actually, I actually am sad, but at least we get Joe Espada. You get Joe Spada, and we got a couple other people.

We got our private taggers. We're going to have a new player, new member of the team, not necessarily new, but new to our show. will be joining us here too. I can't say it. I almost did. No, wait until Monday until I text and make sure we're confirmed on the time. Okay. Rockets last night beat the Pelicans.

Rossi, I mentioned earlier this week, earlier on the show that the Rockets needed to go six and one during the seven game stretch. They're so far 1 and 0 in the seven game stretch. With six home games, all six winnable games. Matter of fact, I would say this, Ross. In all six of the games coming up,

the Rockets should be favored in all six. They will be favored in all six. Yeah. But just because your favorite doesn't mean you win, Matt, as we know. That's what I'm saying. You're a lot of blemish along the way. That's what you got, underdog specials. Five and one, the next six.

You okay with that? I would love to see it. Five and one, I think. Is that your prediction or is that what you want? No, I want it. I really want it. What's your prediction? Six and O.

Yeah, I know. That's funny. Yeah, I think I'd go. five and one. Okay. I think they need to go five. And I'll tell you what, and I'm going to tell you this. If they go five and one,

I think there's no way, no how no chance they drop to seven. Like for the rest of the year? Yes. Okay. I'm with it, sure. We're what, 63 games into the season? Yeah.

Yeah, that would be... They go five and one. I would put them at 43 and 26. The wolves are at 7 at 35 and 29. The problem is the wolves are playing better. The clippers are playing better. Actually, they're not. The rest is good.

They're all the middle. They're all mids. Thunder, five-game winning streak. Lakers, eight-game winning streak. Nuggets won seven in the last ten. Okay, the grizzlies are free falling, thankfully. Yes, they are. Warriors have been crazy good.

Yeah. I want a top six. I just, that's all, I mean, I would like to be in the upper. I like a home court. Now, remember, even though the Rockets won, they're only two and a half from the three spot and they're a half game behind Memphis for the four. You give me Rockets, Memphis,

and the Rockets have home court advantage? That bad boy's over. And then you play Oklahoma City and then and then you pray. That's why we want to make three or two, if somehow possible. It's not looking super likely right now, but with this stretch, we're respecting Oklahoma City.

Apparently our friends at ESPN or not. Yeah, that's true. All right. Again, man, I'll bring the strength of schedule. Lakers third, Denver, 4th, Memphis 12th, Rockets, 22nd. Let's go. Let's go.

Let's go. Come on, baby. All right, real quick. So I do want to get back to the things we're talking about early in the show today. Apparently, Mark Cuban did a brief interview with WFAA, the ABC affiliate in Dallas. Dang, I thought you were going to say WFANN. Well, if that would have happened, you would have heard the magical sound. Hey, Mark Cuban, what's going on with Luca Donchich?

Hey, Staten Island, St. you're on the fan what you got staten islands dan i like that it's good matt i bet there's somebody there is a statin island probably okay he uh now remember he's not involved in the operation anymore he went from selling most of the team to hey i'll hang around and do things

and i think he's just he's a big time fan he says he owns 27.7% of the team but he says involvement with the mavericks is no longer a factor in any team decisions so he's just a fan been a part owner Okay. Before I get to the cold here, why would he give that up? Was the money just too good? Was it a hassle working in NBA team?

I thought you said he was divesting because he's going to get in the casino business or something? No, no. The people that are buying, about the majority of the team, are in the casino. Or is it because he's going to run for office? Yeah, the people he sold the two are casino operators. They're the casino operators. Yeah. And if anybody's going to make a push, isn't it funny?

of the two NBA teams, two of the three NBA teams in the state, have a huge interest in casinos. Okay, this is what Google AI says. It says Mark Cuban sees a future of NBA ownership with real estate and casino ventures key for revenue. He lacks expertise in that field. He also wanted to avoid placing pressure on his children to inherit the team ownership. What's the pressure? Give me the team. Give me the billions, daddy.

You know what? I'll handle that pressure, Mark. Yeah. You can be a bumbling fool and still run it. team, we see it everywhere. Yeah, all right. So here's what he said. This is what he said, the TV station.

If the Mabs are going to trade Luca, that's one thing. Just get a better deal. No disrespect to Anthony Davis. But I still firmly believe that if we had gotten four unprotected number ones in Anthony Davis and Max Christie, this would be a different conversation. Yes. He was asked whether or not if he was running things, would he have traded for traded Luca Dodgers? Quote, I'm not going there. It doesn't matter.

That means no. Hell no. That's one of those. you say I'm not, the non-answer is the answer. If it were like, yeah, I'd be open to the idea. He would say that. He would. Now, the Mavericks are owned by this woman in this casino family, right? Basically.

Yes. Do you think that it would be so brutally awful from a optic standpoint if they fire Nico Harrison today? I mean, the owner signed off of it. The owner 100% percent. signed off on this. You don't trade a top 10 NBA player. Well, hell, top five for that matter. Think about it.

A top five NBA player without everybody above you signing off on this bad boy. So even this fire Nico, Nico sucks, all these chants, if I'm Nico Harrison, I'm very comfortable on my skin. the only argument that he might lose well there's two things one he did trade him

I mean the owner didn't come up the owner did not come down from her ivory tower and said you know I like this Luca kid but let's trade him and see when get for him okay that didn't happen obviously the organization from the basketball operation side said

I don't think we want to super max him and if you go to your bosses and say I don't want a supermax him that's one conversation but to not get other teams involved to try to get the most haul you can, that's general manager malpractice. And that's what might get you fired. Yeah, but Mark Cuban wouldn't have made the move.

No chance, no way, no how. And I wonder, and we'll never know this, there are 29 other general managers not named Nico Harrison. Two questions. One, how many of them would have traded them, first and first. foremost. And if any would have said yes, and how many would have said yes, how many would have then said, well, let's just do it on the low key with the Los Angeles Lakers. And not negotiate with anyone else.

And not bring up anybody else. Ridiculous. By the way, Lakers have won 18 of 21 games. Jeez. If you miss what Charles Barkley said to his new television partners, you'll hear that coming up next. It's good stuff, by the way. 113 on the Matt Thomas show 713-212-5-790

Matt and Ross, the Matt Thomas show Ross here on 790. Back to Matt Thomas and Ross via real. On Sports Talk 790. Nothing can stop me. I'm all the way up. Real quick, Brian McTaggar reporting that Lance McCullors through today, 23 or 24 pitches in his second live batting practice, and quote, he said it went well.

Nice. What was my? my gut on that May 1st? Or May 15th? I think you said 20 never? No, I did not say that. Don't put words on my mouth. That's terrible.

I can't remember. I can find it. I'll look at it. I'll get feelings. Yeah, we'll look next week. No, I can live right now. Yeah, if he wants to be a starter and he's throwing 23 pitches in second week of March,

yeah, it's going to be May. Why, what's wrong with 20 pitches? That's good. the average starting pitcher would be around 85 to 90 he's not going to throw 85 pitches and nobody's going to throw 85 pitches in a bullpen Matt or in a spring training game

but he ain't going to be in April just trust me that's all I'm not trusting you okay all right so Charles Barkley you said May 15th oh yeah that feels just about right

just about right hey okay so Charles Barkley and the TNT inside the NBA crew are going to go to ESPN next year. They're going to do the show out of Atlanta and just for their purposes,

nothing will change for them. They're just going to take the show, record it, and send it up to ESPN. Okay. And God, I hope that Stephen A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins and all those guys don't even infiltrate that inside the NBA show under any circumstance.

I don't think it's going to be weekly. It might be just around the big Saturday games or the playoffs, but we're not going to see them as much as we have seen them in years past. I think their workload is going to drop a little bit. Well, Charles Barkley, very comfortable in his skin, being the great entertainer that he is, and he has been out there basically saying that ESPN,

the new network of the new inside the NBA, is doing a terrible job promoting only the Lakers, only the Celtics, only the NICs, only the Warriors, only the teams that are recognizable and have been for the last 10 years, and that there are better teams out there. here's the first half of his little monologue that he was spouting off about how ESPN covers the NBA I saw a fool idiot on TV talking about the Lakers save the NBA saved the NBA yeah yeah he's an idiot in the fool but he know he is what's his name Jack which one you're talking about our

Kendry Perkins oh he said the Lakers first of all the Lakers had a great two weeks he said the Lakers save the NBA season that's because them fools on the other network which we going to be worked for the next year. That's all they talk about. Let me tell you all something. And first of all, I want all to smoke. I don't listen when I walk by the graveyard or anything like that. The Lakers are doing great.

Got a long way to go. But the reason the season's been going great for the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Oklahoma City Thunder. Y'all just want to talk about the Warriors and the Lakers. They're both doing great. Don't get me wrong. If I turn out to be wrong,

I got no problem with that. But Y'all are idiots because y'all talk about the Lakers and the wars all the time. The Cleveland Cavalism won 12 straight games. The Oklahoma City got the MVP and they are on fire. Y'all are talking about who's in second place. That's the reason I get pissed. Hey, the Lakers are doing great. I don't mind being wrong.

The Warriors are doing great. But that's because you're fools on other networks, which we're going to become fools next year. We've been working on that network. But Oklahoma City and the calves been bowling for six months. You know, he's a lot of shtick, and that's what makes him so entertaining. I really don't think he likes Kendrick Perkins. I think he absolutely has a lot of disrespect for those guys.

Yeah, I think so. I think it's very genuine. And personal, sounds like. You all, Kendrick Perkins, you read the tweet earlier. He's ready to, what do they say about the address and numbers and all? 409, Maddie. 409 area code representing. Yeah, but 419's a big area code.

It's Galveston 2. Don't forget that. I know. He's from Beaumont. So it is clear that there is no respect coming from Charles. But could you even tell, did you notice that Shaq wasn't even paying attention when Charles was talking? Yeah, I did notice that.

And also, doesn't T&T have a bunch of Lakers and Warriors games every week? Oh, yeah. what they have on last night Nick's Lakers Yeah The NBA slate last night Was not great So they only had

Next Thursday Lakers bucks Next Tuesday Warriors Heat Mm-hmm Thursday after that Rockets Lakers T&T

March 31st Warriors Lakers Thursday April 3rd So he's gonna It's gonna come back And bite him in the ass That's for sure

Yeah the Warriors the Lakers always get the maximum number of television appearances because they are recognizable people. All right, here's the second half of what Charles said last night on the ins of the NBA show. Y'all was talking about teens that had two great weeks. I get what you said. You're going to have the whole network. They talk about the same stuff. All the industry.

They talk about the same stuff every single day. I would have to be. But, you know, is there some credit? Is there some credit to be handed out? Yes, yes. But don't say basketball is only watching now. First of all, between that and it's lame as

LeBron Michael Jordan debate, which is lame. I've said it for years, the only people talk about LeBron and Michael is people on television who got no talent to talk about anything else. I've been saying it for years, I ain't hanging on to the 90s. I've always

said, LeBron's great, Michael's great. But y'all talk about it all the time. And then got LeBron out there posing, and talking about he's all mad about being the face of the league. But it makes me mad. The Oklahoma City and the Cleveland Cavaliers are the two best stories in the NBA this year. Congratulations to the Lakers and the Warriors.

They've had two good weeks. The Cavs and OKC have six great months. Well, in fairness of the Lakers, they have been better than two weeks. They're 18 and 3 in their last 21 games. And they did make a significant move to get one of the five best players in the NBA. And by the way, they're getting along great and they play really well together. I like to rip on ESPN when necessary, when it needs to happen.

And as much as I love Oklahoma City and as much as I love Cleveland, I think it would be an awesome final Rossi. You're playing the hits. That's exactly where I was going to go. The Dodgers, Yankees, and Red Sox are on national TV every week in baseball. The Chiefs and the Cowboys and the Patriots when they were in the heyday or the Packers, you get a lot of the same teams. Now it's the Baltimore Ravens.

The Cowboys are the greatest example of a purely mid-organization. And I've been that way for a long period of time, but they gain the eyeballs. People, and as Chris Collins said it was a year ago or two years ago, if we could put the Cowboys on Sunday night football every Sunday we would do it. Yeah. People love the stars. They just do. The Lakers and the Warriors are two of the five most expensive NBA teams in the NBA in terms of value.

They're big markets. They have star power. They've won championships. And as great as Oklahoma City and Cleveland be, for us NBA geeks, Ross, collectively America would yawn if those two teams men into the NBA finals. I would watch, though. I would too. But that's also a way to build it. know how you make Cleveland and Oklahoma City big in household names is for them to play those games.

Well, here's the over and over and try to get the, you know, if they win, if, if Shea Gilgis Alexander wins three championships, he's going to be a star. That's exactly right. Now, I'll say one quick thing on this. With all of this conversation about the Lakers and the Celtics and the Warriors, the recognizable teams, this to me indirectly puts a lot of pressure on Oklahoma City and Cleveland. Do you know why? Right. They have to, because if they lose, that people are going to say,

they didn't deserve it. I don't think of Oklahoma City. I don't think either. I think both of the minimum are making the conference finals. Minimum. But that's, but there's a difference in that in actually going to the finals and actually winning it.

So if I'm Oklahoma City in Cleveland, while I love this attention, I think there is 10 full more pressure on them than there was, say, even just a month ago. Because of the fact the Lakers are playing better, because the Warriors are playing better, because the Celtics have so many, so many star power,

so much star power. And frankly, for that matter, the Bucks are playing better basketball, too. Yeah. You got Dame and you got Janice. I mean, and I think Kuzma's decent. Yeah, yeah.

15 points a game, that's it, you know? Yeah, when he doesn't, with Kuzma has a number one option, your team is very bad. As a number three option, you're really good. There's 6-11, 7 feet,

and 610 up front. if you throw in Brooke Lopez. That's going to be hard to stop and come playoff time. And don't forget Matt, the wild card, Kevin Porter, Jr. And the wild team, your Houston Rockets. Let's go. Top four, please. Non-Florida for me coming from Canada.

Where is yours from, ladies and gentlemen? And Ross, I owe you a believe it or not topic today. I got it. Oh, thank God. I wasn't right. You're welcome. 713-212-5-7-90. Non-Florah.

stories up next 129 on sports talk 790 lunch timers it's the matt thomas show with ross on sports talk 790 we find interesting stories that occur outside the state of florida and share them with the people

of huge it's time for non interesting non florist story for the audience it is the matt thomas show Ross on sports talks about it. Connor will have his story as well. You do? I mean, it's not gross. It's just kind of, I think it's funny. It's involving travel.

You know, I love travel stories. Okay. There was a couple. Ala Tanus and his wife, Nancy, flew with Air Manita in 2022. Okay. The airline lost their checked luggage. All right.

Okay. They got their luggage back within 24 hours. That's good. That's not bad, right? Now, if you ever lost, is an airline ever lost your luggage before? Not lost, but it was delay. That happened to me last year when we went to spring training, and I had to go to Walmart and buy some Ben Hogan collection of those.

Okay, well, that's perfect. Because they told them to the exact same thing, go buy some clothes. I did. Well, Mayor Manita did the exact same thing. So they sent the receipts in, and Mayor Manita said, no you're saying well why not

apparently the couple spent 2,079 Canadian dollars on clothes for the for the packages to be gone for 24 hours $2,079 meanwhile

Air Canada when they got those receipts originally said we ain't paying this the Canadian Transportation Agency said Yeah, you are. And now Air Canada is suing this family, taken into federal court and attempt to overturn the Canadian Transportation Agency's decision.

The Mr. Tannos telling the CBC TV network, quote, it was shocking. He felt that his ask was fair. It's disappointing to see the airline after all the money I spent with him over the years is appealing a $2,000 claim. Initially, Mr. Tannis asked for $3,400,000.

$135 from the airline. Wow. Which it rejected instead offered a meager $2.50 in compensation to cover necessary cost, a solution that did not satisfy Tannis and his wife. In this court document, Tana submitted expenses that the airline considered unreasonable for lacking luggage for less than a day. So they got their luggage less than 24 hours, and before that, before the luggage arrived, they did this. They spent $570 on toiletries, skincare, and makeup.

$1,1,212 for two pairs of pants, three shirts and three dress, and a single dress that by itself cost $349. Four sets of lingerie and sleepwear, and $525 for underwear, jeans, and two t-shirts. After the bags were delivered, Mayor Manita claimed Tanna spent an attempted expense $433 on women's sneakers.

And $1,300 for a custom monogram to me suitcase. I got to be honest with you. This couple is scamming the airline. That's what it sounds like. It's ridiculous. I hope the Canadian transportation agency loses. I understand. I lost my bags one time I was covering a Texans Chargers game in San Diego.

It's going back to 2002. And I went to Rargett and I went and spent probably $150 for three days. in Kent's California. Two pairs of jeans, two collared shirts, a pair of sneakers, boom. That was it. And they had no problem paying it. But if you're asking for $2,000 worth of expenses, Tana's family, shut your bumasses up.

And that is my non-floor story. Thank you, Matt. I wouldn't have charged that much. I think I spent like five. I think I did expense our company. I mean, there's a reasonable amount of money that the airline should give. It was within the budget. I went to Walmart.

I got the discounted. That Ben Hogan collection shirt, by the way. I get more compliments on that shirt than the other shirt I own. I've seen you wear it a lot. I mean, I don't know if you wear anything else but that these days. Hey, the price was right, Maddie. That's funny. All right, man, I'm going to go and then I'm going to write some, believe it or not, so I'm going to go next.

Matt, let me take you to Montgomery County. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Shout out to Tom in downtown. for sending this one. Let me tell you about a couple who unfortunately broke up. Michael Bassett and Taylor Richard apparently took video of themselves having sex in Bassett's truck on Valentine's Day at Richard's urging Taylor Richard, the female. She is 18 years old, by the way.

Michael Bassett says she had me record it on her phone and he didn't really want to do that. But once they broke up, Michael asked her to delete the videos and he believed that she had. Unfortunately on Monday, Michael Bassett was aghast to learn that people were seeing the videos

of them two having sex in his truck. Through Snapchat, he saw screaming, laughing, quote, man, I did not need to see that. Yada, yada, yada. Michael Bassett recounted. Then they started making jokes saying mickle pickle, this, that, and the other.

It is really extremely embarrassing. I only took those out of confidence thinking they would not get, I guess, shown. Right. So apparently Taylor Richard has been arrested and charged with unlawful disclosure of intimate video, material. It is a felony that carries up to two years in jail. This is after showing these videos to patrons at a bar called District 249. I've been to District 249 before. Were you looking at videos? No, but I'm asking you a question. Was he disappointed with his performance? Is that the reason why he's so upset about this? I'm not sure.

I can't handle with my friends messing with me and whatnot. I can't handle when I start losing money. as apparently he said some of his customers were so disturbed by what they've seen, they decided to part ways with him. I have one more question and we'll move on. I mean, what kind of camera angles are we getting with this phone? I mean, and in the truck, I don't know. In the truck, I mean, there can't be a Hwadus. I mean, you're not in a studio.

I mean, you're not in a hotel room with multi-camera shots. This isn't porn. Mr. Bassett said he was called from jail by the woman. She was just like, are you going to drop the charges and this and that? And the other, and I'm like, no, you have a lesson to learn. And how old is he? I didn't say. It only says she's 18.

But he's a bartender. And she's at a bar? Uh-huh. There's more tutors than that. I can't believe there's an 18-year-old at a bar in Montgomery County. Montgomery County. You mean in America's County? Remote.

You want to buy some real estate out here, remote. What's your favorite county? Remote, do you think Montgomery County is conservative enough for us? I think so. All right. you that was an outstanding and it assist to Tom and downtown for that. Shout out Tom downtown. I was going to go with another one

that wasn't going to be as funny. No, no, that's an excellent. From Saskatchewan. All right, so Connor, when you're out there on these Dayton streets, be careful when you take it in videos and whatnot because you may have a girlfriend break up with you and put it out there to her friends. Just saying. Noted, I guess, but I don't

think I'll be taking videos. Anyway, we're going to go to Paris where a man named David had his backpack stolen from his car. In his backpack, he had bank cards and other documents. As one does in this scenario, David called the bank to block his cards, but learned one of them had already been used at a local shop. Apparently, the thieves used the stolen card to buy a winning lottery ticket worth over half a million dollars. David filed a police complaint about the theft, but said he is ready to withdraw it if the thieves come forward and split the money with him.

The winning ticket has yet to be submitted, but it does have an expiration date. so a man's stolen a card was used to buy a winning lottery ticket, but the man is willing to ignore the crime if he splits the winnings with the thieves. That is, that's interesting. You spend money on a stolen credit card on tickets. You said a credit card, right? Yeah, it was a credit card, yeah.

Now, here's the problem, but you have to, here's what I don't understand, Connor. I buy a lottery tickets all the time with my debit card. you can't credit card lottery tickets. So if you stole the debit, you'd have to know the password for it. This is in Paris, so I'm not sure. Oh, maybe things are different there. Things are different in France.

Okay. It's easy to have it. It didn't specify credit or debit. It just said bank card. Yeah. Guys, we need a ruling on this. What? Do you drop the charges for half the money, or do you say, give me the entire ticket, and I'll let you free?

I don't know. What will be the proper ruling? I might do what he's doing because you're incentivizing them to come forward because otherwise they might stay in hiding and then they can't cash the ticket because once they cash the ticket, they'll be caught. You know what you're doing?

You're setting them up what you're doing. Come on out. We won't say anything. And then you get him and you navigate me. And you take the ticket and you cash the whole thing. That's what I would do. I'd say, man, like if someone like a woman is held against her will, oh, just let me go.

I won't tell anybody. You'll run to the police right away and tell you somebody who kidnapped you. I guess the whole point could be mute, though, because the winnings could be seized because they were illegally obtained. Oh. Where to Buzzkill your own story? This is just a possibility. It's probably a probability.

Thank you, Connor. That is your non-forth story. All right. Hell yeah or not is up next. I have no idea what the category is. I'm sure it's amazing. Unbelievable stuff. All right.

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Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Nope, not the top 100. Sorry. Bill! You were looking for rockets tickets. You were looking for rocket tickets. You'll get nothing and like it. I was. Oh, well, you got a nice consolation prize. Michael Brantley, 2005, the number 17 prospect by MLB.com.

Hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. Nah, no, not the top owner. By. Alex Bregman in 2016 was the number five prospect on MLB.com. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, he was 22nd.

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