The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Celebrating Rockets And Astros, Mike D'Antoni & Fantasy 5

Episode Date: August 21, 2020

It's larger than life Yeah You said Lunch timers Is the Matt Thomas show 12 H-town Yeah Yeah

This song is old A.F But it still worked Especially sports RV When the local teams Keep winning And winning And winning And winning

And winning All blows by him Toward the line Toppea over That'll drop in for a hit Correa can walk home. Guriel will stop at second and RBI's single for Tucker. He keeps the line moving and it's 7 to 3 Astro.

Here's Hardin on top. He's hit a couple of baskets here down the stretch looking for more, steps back, long three on the way. There's this one deep to right center field. It sends back Hilliard still going back. Looking up, see you later. Bullpin. That's a three Raham Toro and the Astros have opened up a 10 to three league. There's no way that Brennan even knows this song, but it's okay.

gonna work out. He's bobbing his head back there, man. Are you bobbing your head back there? I see it. This might be my favorite celebration song there is. Well, name another one. I just mean a song you celebrate with. Oh, okay. I was like, yeah. Celebrate three dog night. This will, this song,

there are about 10 songs that I bet I could get the oldest of old school, the youngest of young school together and say, that's it. Like, did you see the video? Was it last week when somebody heard it was two black guys that were listening to a video of somebody and they had never heard that song before.

It was in the air tonight by Phil Collins. That's exactly right. I'm here for you, Matt. I've been your memory for 10 years. Oh, my God, yeah. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, much less what we talked about in the show last week. Yes.

And they were jamming to it. Now, I wouldn't put in the air tonight among those 10 songs. Wait a minute. You said it was one of the 10 best songs ever or something like that. No. You didn't even say, look, this, Brendan. You definitely said that. I was like, really?

Really? I was like, okay. Okay, you know what? I'll reverse. I'll stand by it. Okay. It's fine. It's a great song. But celebration definitely is among the, I'm saying in terms of like, oh my God, it's the greatest song. But I mean, it's a song. As it universally loved. Yeah. There's nobody that goes, that song blows.

No, nor should they. It's good. Name one more song that no one ever goes. That song sucks. I'll give you a couple. Billy Jean. We heard beat it in the car yesterday coming back from volleyball. And Cardi's like, is that Michael Jackson?

I'm like, yep. That's bad parenting. It's just the first time she's heard beat it. Well, she's TikToking 24 hours a day. So I've lost control of that situation. Oh, no. The Chinese propaganda machine has got a hold of her, Matt. Is there any Elton John song that you think is university below?

I mean, yeah. There's like five or six of them. Who can't go on and go? Oh, but close to tiny Toney Danza. Yeah, or hold me closer, Tony Danza, yes. I don't think anybody hates Rocket Man. Rocket Man's good. I don't think...

Now, crocodile rock, yeah, that sucks. Now, I can say you this. My wife does not like the Beatles anywhere close to what I like the Beatles. In fact, her and my oldest like to rag me and say they're the most over-red band of all time. And that gets lots of fights started on the house. That's why you get so triggered when I say it. Well, yeah, because... But I actually care about them.

I would put Hey Jude on the list of... no one hates. I would agree with that. Now, I believe every song the Beatles have had that were successful, you shouldn't hate. But I understand I'm in... They're in the Octopus's Garden or whatever. Oh, that song blows. Oh, that song.

I mean, that's a Beatles song that sucks. I don't know. Joe George took it in one. And won the Beatles, believe it or not. He had to pay off drug deals. So, yeah. All right. Not that we were going to that.

But that's celebration just never gets old. We will be, the three of us will be in a home. I'll be eating food out of a blender with a cane. You guys will be in, you know, assisted living. You'll have somebody coming like a night nurse. I'll come mix up your shakes, Matt. Okay. And I want you to come in the house playing celebration.

Yeah. Now, will I get out of my chair or be able to speak to you? Probably not. But I'll at least be appreciate the tune. Yeah, I could see you all wrinkled up and swaddled in a blanket, not moving out of your wheelchair. Just angry as hell. Watching, still watching the prices right and wishing you were hosting. Oh, that'll never change.

Like when you speak at my funeral Matt was a devoted husband Great father Was a You know Made his mark in broadcasting for 30 plus years But he's still pissed

He ain't host the price is right And he never will And I never will I feel very confident Tell me Wait a This is supposed to be a celebration issue I'm sorry

It's anything goes Friday here Yeah wait man We're supposed to be celebrating The Rockets we're talking about my career The things I will never do in my career The Rockets are up 2 and 0, baby. And the Astros? Well, we don't have to talk about what happened after that Toro 3 on home run.

But, hey, they won the game. That's all that matters. Honestly, I didn't pay very much sense in the Astros yesterday because I was focused exclusively on the Rockets. But the game kept getting it was a blowout and then it got close, blow out again. And then it didn't get. And then Josh James was awful. And then he had to leave the game because he was hurt. Josh James hurt himself.

Yeah. And then one of the Brooks or the Brannins are, it's very hard to keep track, Matt. It's basically guys we won't be caring about in another three weeks. Brooks Raley, the guy was literally traded for a player to be named later and was on the team within two days. Do I want to look at the, let me look at the bullpen box score. Well, after Josh James left, it was too. So Christian Javier gets roughed up for the second straight time. Yes.

Raleigh comes in and absolutely sucks. Josh James, not good. Brandon Taylor got a hold. Blake Taylor. Whatever. Blake. There's a lot of... I'm sorry.

Not Brandon. Yeah, I'm getting... There's a Blake's and there's a brain. We like Blake. I'm never going to make Blake's mistake again. Blake doesn't deserve to be misnamed by his name. Well, that was a guest of the Matt Thomas show, Blake Taylor. And then I don't want to call him Jimmy Parades because that's not accurate.

No, it's not. It's the other parades. Inoli. Anoli. Leave the gun. Take the inoli. And then Ryan Presley gives up a run, but still gets the save in a game that never should have been 10 to 8, but it turned out to be... It should have been a...

10 to 3. Yeah, well, we'll give them 10 to 5. 10 to 8 is a lot of control. So for all that a humidor talk about, you know, it's not, the ball's not jumping out there in Coorsfield anymore. The Astros score double digit runs in both games. 13 and then 6, yes. And then gave up, I mean, 13 and 10, and then gave up 6 and 8.

And then you had the obligatory injury with Josh James having to leave. I know. It's funny. No one was. Right in yesterday, James today. No one was sending out tweets like Save James or I didn't, I didn't ask you to put a water tower up with Josh James. Well, you know, the ERA is under 11 now.

It's a 10.97. Let's think about this. Yeah, because if you give up a run in an inning, your ERA would be nine for that particular game. So he did actually drop it a little bit. Man, that was a super positive taking a pitchers at a sucky season. Hey, man, 10.97, baby. You got crawl free and walk.

All right. So we got the Astros to get to. So here's the thing. And I hate to peel the curtain back on the show, but we do it occasionally. You do it daily. If the Astros and Rockets would have both lost yesterday, line one would have been filled,

line two would have been filled, line three would have been filled, line three would have been filled, line four would have been filled, probably four of the five to say, James Hardin sucks, fire Mike Dan Tony. That's the thing. James Hardin was not good yesterday.

And they still want, how about the back court? How about the, and we'll talk about this the next segment. You couldn't have had a worse shooting night from a back court of a starting NBA playoff backcourt and still win the game. Comfortably.

Two of 21 combined. Don't give away the stats until the next segment. That's what we call it forward to. A audience is turning over all the time. Well, if we don't want them to, we want them to stay right here. Let's stay right here on SportsC7. Now, if you're looking for Texans backup defensive line conversation, we're probably not going to be your place today.

No, I would have met. Now, we will get this in some Texans because you just finished, and Deshawn spoke earlier today, correct? Yeah, I haven't got a chance to cut it up yet, but I'll be doing that. But it's going to be juicy when you do. Oh, I hope so. We do have some Bill O'Brien. Is it any good?

I thought there was one that was okay We'll do a single what you're talking about Bill today One? It's a little long but Well it gives Ross some room to make mistakes That's all I need in life We will talk to a coach we actually like

Mike Dantone at 1230 today Yes Brian T. Smith The columnist we like at 2 o'clock today Wonderful And I'm trying to convince Brendan real quick I got 45 seconds in a segment Brendan I'm trying to convince Ross

To do a fantasy 5 on five things you want in your house during a hurricane when the power is off. I could use that. Because I got news for you, bro. I think we're headed. There are two storms headed this direction. It would be a complete miracle

of one of them didn't slam us. I've not been here for once. It's not fun. I need you guys to do this for my benefit. Yeah, okay. Now we're going to do food? We're going to do food? Yeah, I want to eat.

Like, if I take food, can you not take food? And you're just going to start to that? I think we should go food and drink only. Like food items? You can be specific if you wanted to. But here's the question. How about non-food and drink items? Well, books.

I mean, that would be boring. Flashlight. See, this is why. That's what I'm saying. I'm letting you figure out why this is not a good fantasy. I think you go food in this. Because here's the thing, you could say beer, but the problem is if you lose the electricity,

I don't like warm beer. Okay. Well, that's why you go straight liquor, Matt. Liquor does it quicker. Everybody knows that. All right. Fantasy 5 today. Oh, geez.

Don't be, you know, if you don't want to do it, I'll get, I'll get Waxor-Clantern to come in here. I don't need you being a negative Nelly on a celebration Friday. It's a great topic. It's fantastic. Let's go. So the fantasy 5 is today. Electricity is out of your house. Yes.

You need five items, food and or drink to survive the hurricane. And we're doing this really more for public service to those of you that are first-timers in hurricanes. I'll take barbecue beef ribs. again, I don't know if that's particularly tasty when the electricity's out. Or for that matter, there'll be bacteria buildup, right? I mean, I wouldn't want you to get sick, well, for any length of significant period of time. 713-212-5-790. It's an anything goes Friday.

The lines would be lit if the Rockets lost, Ross. Tell the audience right now if the Astros would have given up another Ryan Presley home run in the ninth inning and the Rockets would have lost the game. how are the lines have been in lit, you would have said, just like the Phoenix Sun's little friend. Yes, she said she had herself a lit evening. How are the phone lines right now at 13 past 12? They're completely barren. Okay.

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The Matt Thomas show continues. Three corner, nothing but. On Sports Talk 7-9. Melon. On your Rockies. That line went on, I think it was a general of football. Something like that. I can't happen.

Gotta be better. I got to be better. I think that's the tough part. You know how hard we fought. Guys work hard. I mean, we put ourselves in position to win that game. I got to be better for us. So does your microphone.

What, Chris? What's going on in the Thunder PR department? I can't even believe a network would send that audio out. Did he have his back to the wall? Yikes. What was Chris Paul saying he has to do better? He has to do more for his teammates. and he has to carry it.

And that's what I kind of feel like, Matt. If he's going to carry the day, I mean, look, you've got 30 from Shea Gilles-Shael, Alexander, so that's pretty good, but you can't have him good. Chris Paul, if scores 14 points, they're not going to win any games against Rockets. No, I thought Danila Garnari is a guy that was a Thorn on the Rocket signed in Game 1, and he was not nearly as effective in game 2. A lot of it was because, and look, I'm not going to tell Billy Donovan how to do his job. I'm just going to be brutally honest with you.

Look, everybody's working with shorter benches. I don't see the charm in Darius, Basley. I don't accept the headbang game. It was terrible. Now, Lugentz Dort, who by the way, for the sake of my broadcast tomorrow, will be just known as Lou Dort. Lute. He obviously caused some issues.

I mean, there's a reason why that defensively they had that James Harden had a difficult time getting some looks because Loddort's a good defensive player. I mean, a guy that has come on the scene. Abdel Nader, I don't see value in that. Now, Terrence Ferguson was so bad defensively in game one of the series that he got a DMPCD on that. I noticed that later. And Andre Robertson didn't even play, which means going back to our point from our buddy Barry Chammell from Oklahoma City, it was with us a couple days ago, can't move.

He's not the defender he was, yeah. Yeah, and he brings something to the scoring table. So we'll talk to Mike Dan Tony coming up in less than 10 minutes from now. A Gerald Green soundbite coming back from the show. I think this show leads the country in athletes introducing shows and aren't currently with that team anymore. Well, we got to be number one in something, Matt. Well, I think we confuse the audience. Through no fault of any.

Well, it's actually the fault of people here. What's wrong with Gerald Green representing the Matt Thomas show? He's Houston born and bred. Gulf Shores Academy. No longer around. Well. And I'm a big G. Green fan. But let me ask you this.

If you could only have one green on the Rockets. right now. Jeff. It's Uncle Jeff. Uncle Jeff or cousin Gerald. It's Uncle Jeff Green. It's not even close. The man has been amazing

for the Rockets the first couple of games. He follows up Game 1's amazing performance by just putting in 6 of 11, hitting half his threes. And by the way, is he the best oldest point forward in the NBA history? The guy can run the offense a little bit.

Probably LeBron James, but other than... Okay, second best point forward in the history. And, you know, that's a 1A1B there, Matt. It's LeBron James and it's Jeff Green right there. All right, so back to my point earlier. We'll get with Mike in just a minute here. If you're starting back court goes two for 21 from three.

And overall, they're 11 of 37. You're going to lose by, what, 8 to 10 points comfortably? Normally, especially on this rocket team, yes, where you're depending on those guys. PJ was hitting his shots, despite the fact I think he's losing most of his circulation and or body movement. and he was getting the rub down from the shoulder and like, I'm taking the shirt off.

I don't care anymore. I need to feel better. That guy was hacking at his back too. They were putting the hurt on him. I don't believe. I don't believe Stephen Adams' chops across the back are very appropriate for this time. Probably. That's true. Covington shot a little bit better, didn't shoot as much.

Tucker hit the big threes. Daniel House had a much better game two than he had a better game one. And Austin Rivers, we played the dunk a minute ago. Out of nowhere. Like, what? He just yams it on the entire roster. Have you noticed this about Austin? And it's not just in these playoffs.

When the ball gets in his hands, 80% of the time he finishes what he starts. Like if he's at the top of the three-point arc, how many assists does he have per game? And it's not because he's being selfish. I think he thinks he can get by his defender. And more times than that, there are very few times that I go, Austin, what are you doing?

I don't think he's, I think he's a very smart player. Sometimes a little bit he can get out of control with some of the layups, but most of the time you want him being aggressive. He's got a great dribble drive game, and he doesn't use it as much. He had three dimes yesterday, by the way, to not prove my point. So, I mean, it was like last year against the Warriors, he was torching Steph Curry on the perimeter. It's getting by him every time.

So, yeah, he can get to the basket when he wants to. So it's a good question for Austin next year. Do you go try to make bigger money and go somewhere where you think you can get more playing time, or do you know that who you are? Like, for instance, I always thought that Lou Williams knew who he was as a player. Jamal Crawford knew who he was

as a basketball player. Some guys just can be that six-man can give you anywhere between, say, 15 and 28 minutes per game, carve out a very nice NBA career, be a fourth or fifth cog, and sometimes be a third cog or in some rare cases, a second or first

cog on a really good basketball team. I think the Rockets are going to have a very tough decision about Austin Rivers because I think he is a very nice spark plug more times enough for this Houston Rocket team. Yeah, he has, it'll be a player option for him for $2.3 million for next year. But, I mean, he had a decent contract before, but I mean, he was traveling around and the rockets got him off the scrap heap at that point. And really, it wasn't getting a lot of interest in the offseason last year. He got blown out by Washington.

Right. He went to Washington, hated it, and then came here. But, yeah, Green McLemore Rivers, all playing decent minutes. In fact, Green played 37 minutes yesterday. So it wasn't like, you know, a lot of that was because PJ was having to get his shoulder massage done. And Covington, again, maybe in smaller doses, helps the cause a little bit. But you add Ross to the mix, and we'll get an update from Mike on Ross coming up in about five minutes from now. But it's a nice nine-man rotation.

No disrespect to Bruno, Damare, Tyson, Chris, or Michael, but probably you're not going to need to suit up for any further games. We probably could have told them that before the playoffs started. Well, we can get Bruno in when the Rockets are up like 25 in game four. All right. I had Rockets in Six. Yes. You joined me in that, correct?

Yes. Do you want to change your bet at all? I'm not going to change, no. You could change our Rockets in five, Rockets in four. It's probably going to be Rockets in five. But if they win in five and I would pick six, not like, you know. Some kind of crazy prediction. This very much feels like last year's Utah series.

So I will actually amend my prediction. I will go rockets in five. Gentleman sweep. I think the honor. I think the thunder get won somehow, some way. I'm not flip-flopping, man. I'm locked in, baby. A flip-flop would be taking the thunder in the series.

That's a flip flip. This is just a flip. Okay. I'm strong in my convictions. All right. Mike Dan Tony is coming up next. And then all of you that are standing by on the lines and discuss your Astros eight straight victory and the Rockets 2-0 start of the playoffs.

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Matt Thomas, my favorite voice in Houston. Now, that's a little exaggerating. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Well, obviously, Mike Dan Tony was forced to read that soundbite promoting the show because I know Mike's routine. He gets up in the morning, has coffee, works in a game plan, and listens to my show daily between noon and three. Even in the bubble in Orlando after a 2-0 series league.

Coach, good afternoon. Congratulations on the great start. What's up, Matt? How are you guys doing? Man, I will say this. I just mentioned the audience a minute ago. You're starting back court, couldn't find the three-point line to save their life, and you still got away with a nice, comfortable win because it was a collective team effort,

and James and Eric helped out different ways besides hitting that three ball for you. Yeah, I mean, there was obviously a lot of. the good things and we didn't play our best game and we're actually easily just wanted on the defensive end and getting out and getting some easier baskets. So there's a lot of good things to build on and we've got to keep getting better. So only two games, you know, no home court, so it's kind of weird, but it's

what it is and we're going to try to get game three. I felt and saw and the television did a really good job of this. Russ and James you guys were putting together that fourth quarter run, we're showing some real true emotion. And I'm never saying that that's lacking in a non-home court situation because it is basketball, it is competition. But that made me feel so good to see that you guys were really, even in a situation where it's not at the TOTA center or on the road,

that guys were rising the occasion and rooting each other on, and it had more of a playoff field than maybe even game one did. Yeah, I think we're in a good place, obviously. And, you know, they're taking it to the heart out. well, they always have. I'd hate to say this is great. I think I highlights it even more because the energy has to be, and what we've talked about,

it has to be generated by the bench and the players themselves. You don't have the other fans or that kind of energy. The music's piped in. And so at the bench is passive, then it's going to translate to the players. So they've gotten into it and it's led by Tyson Channel just does a great job the whole game, being up and yelling and calling out.

their plays and he's really on point for us. Back to the game in a minute, but I do want to give folks an update if you have one. How's Russ feeling? He obviously was a great vocal leader yesterday, but you obviously want him on the court. Where is he right now and what are you expecting perhaps for the next couple of games if you can get him on the floor? Well, we'll wait and see. Again, you know, he's, I think he's getting on the court today to shoot and move around

a little bit. So it's getting closer, but again, it's hard to say what that means. and those just keep working and strengthen his leg. And obviously, you know, winning to gives us a little chance to be a little bit more conservative than if it's turned around. So we want to make sure he comes back as 100, make sure we keep pushing forward and getting him in the best shape you can. Not shape, best possibility health-wise. Not that you're a doctor, but do you notice when you walk and when you see him do things, is he less than 100% right now? Well, right now I'm watching him in the buffet line.

It looks like 100% there. You know, I haven't. He has a run. He has a run. So he's 100% walking across campus or walking, you know, when he's walking, he's fine. I have not seen him chase anybody or anything. So I have no idea. How is the food getting better as you guys win, or is it like if you lose a game,

you have to get to, like, the scraps? No, it's getting better. It's getting better. They're trying. I mean, everything's great. It really is. And you can nitpick little things here and there, but how the NBA has treated us and treated the virus and the safety protocols.

I don't know if you can get any better. I think it's been great. All right. Let's get to it yesterday. Lou Geord obviously made a difference for them guarding James and whatnot. What did you notice about Oklahoma City in their attack on him in particular, that you guys now see that on a game film. You've seen it firsthand that you may make adjustments for in game three.

Well, you know, Dort does a good job. But I'd be very careful about, you know, saying, you know, James could have been off also. You know, he wasn't hitting his shots. I'd make him easier to guard him a little bit. So be a little careful about saying it was Dort. James didn't have a great game and so be able to, because I don't think Dort was going there at Gordon. He was over 10.

So that does happen. You know, it does happen to the players. And we're going to do what we do. And, you know, we try to play faster. And for the most part, we did. I think we have a few opportunities we passed up, but it's just going to become more critical to play faster as we get deep in this series. And, Coach, another element, speaking of the offense and James Harden, it seems like you're having Jeff Green as a ball handler and James Harden as a screener on some sets. Just can you talk about what that speaks to your trust in Jeff Green and the added element?

Is that also helping to free James Harden up some? Yeah, I think it takes some of the pressure off. It is also when Eric is running the team, Eric and Eric. Eric and Austin's running the team without James, another ball handler on the court. And we can run a lot of offense through Jeff. He's just a real smart player, the playmaker, and for us, a five's body or four, whatever you want to say.

So, yeah, he can take some pressure off, James. And he also has been hitting three. So they have a hard match up there with him, you know, whether to put a small on him, but at the same time, you know, how they're going to do that. So it's, he's been, obviously, he's been playing great. Mike Dan Tony with us here on the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Coach, I think you and I have talked about PJ Tucker gutting things out,

probably since the first time you wore a rocket uniform. The folks on television, we saw it yesterday here in town. He was getting worked on, and then he steps on the floor, hits a bunch of threes for you. Just how painful has his life been and how has he been able to steal, whether the three-point shots going, That's going to be one thing, but he's still on the floor, still going after loose basketball, still making steals.

And then to get the three-point shot, had to be an extra bonus for you guys yesterday. Well, yeah, I mean, anytime, PJ, you know, he's hard to soul when he has that energy on defense and what he does rebounding and all that. It's amazing how also shots finding. And then yesterday he was knock him down. So he's been playing great for two games we've had so far. He's been great. And just, you know, he anchors our defense.

made a big shot toward the end of the game. So there's a lot of ways he contributes and is a valuable piece that we have. And then Austin's throwdown yesterday was, I mean, I don't know if you heard the city of Houston go crazy, but we certainly did after that massive throwdown. Plus, he's hitting threes for you as well. Yeah, I mean, he had a really good first half

and had that little stretch, and he did have to dunk that stunned everybody. So it's, you know, so far, you know, somebody's really, in the first half, Jeff in the second half. The other game, Ben, had a really good game. So the bench is stepping up, and there might be different guys at different times, which probably how it should be.

So, yeah, we're getting great production from them. And Coach, can you give us your perspective on the growth of Daniel House Jr.? I mean, he played the most minutes for you yesterday. He's keeping guys in front of him on the perimeter defense. He looks like he's comfortable in the offense as well. Just your thoughts on how he's grown as a player, and now he's a key part for you guys. Well, I mean, obviously, you know, when he came back, I think, in the highest, that he came back at a different level athletically, and he was ready to roll, and that just adds to his confidence. And now he's playing at a very high level.

And there's no reason why they won't stay there. He's been great. You know, but it was such a big boss last year. He really didn't have a very good playoff. And so this year, he's really stepped it up. and yeah, he should be a standard for us for a long time. Coach, sometimes in the last few years, the NBA's had this really bizarre schedule if you play an opening game on a Saturday and you don't play again to Wednesday

or sometimes it'll help, some guys have hurt, whatever. How have you guys adjusted to? Is it a big deal? Do you like the fact that every other day you are now playing? I think that the schedule, at least for the rest of the NBA playoffs, will be in this way where you're not going to worry about jumping on a plane, but you're playing, you know, every 48 hours or so. Yeah, I mean, guys will adjust to it,

and I'm sure there'll be some days that, you know, they'll have to fight through some fatigue. But that's the playoffs, no matter what, even if you have three or four days rest, you should be playing the game of such a high level and such a high intensity that, you know, it's like anything else you do. You run, you know, 400 meter, right.

You're going to be tired at the end if you put everything into it. So guys are going to get a little winning, and it's the guys that can play smart and execute, even when they're tired. And that's really important for us. Coach, enjoy your lunch, your buffet. I know you're meeting with a meeting in a few minutes. Thank you for the time.

Congratulations, and I'll talk to you tomorrow before game three. All right, Matt. Thank you. You got it. That's Mike Dan Tony with us here on the Matt Thomas show. Again, what I get from him is, I don't, he sound like to me that Russ is not going to play tomorrow. It sound like to me also that if the situation was dire,

they were down to 2. maybe he tries to gut it out a little bit. That's how I kind of sensed it. But he is playing, I mean, are you playing with house money when you're up to nothing and your star, one of your stars is out? Well, you should say you have, uh, not necessarily house money. What would you call it? Like you have a little bit to lose.

You can, I mean, I guess you could call it house money. It's the promo money you get when you sign up for a player's card. Okay, yeah. It's a little 50 extra, they got promo money. I don't know where that came from, but that's absolutely accurate. You can drop it on the, you can drop it on the roulette. Yeah, the Rockets can afford to lose a little bit now. They can afford to lose one or two games and still keep Ross at bay because they've looked great.

I mean, as we said, they went two of 21 from three Eric Gordon and James Hard and they won by double digits. The Rockets are better than the Thunder. They just are. I underestimated either Oklahoma City isn't playing as well as they were going to be. But we should have listened to Barry Tramm. I remember he just didn't sell his team very hard. He's like they overachieved. and maybe when it comes to playoff time, when everything is ramped up,

that overachieving, especially Rossi in a seven-game series, kind of gets exposed. Yeah, it can evaporate quickly. And you know what? Barry Tramble so far. It was right. All right. If you guys are pumped up and excited, I think he said. All right.

All right. If you guys are pumped up and excited, you'll call us right now. Let me give the numbers. I'll do it two times Rossi very slowly because I know everybody will be running them down and then running the phones because the Astros have won eight straight games. I don't know how that's happened, but it has. And the rockets are up to nothing in their series of Oklahoma City. 713-212-5-7-90.

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And it is gone And sports talk 790 Home of Astros baseball This is absolutely absurd I'm glad you're laughing about it Are we gonna play three hours of liners of people that aren't here anymore Tyler Wright wants to support the show Matt But he says this is Tyler White of the Houston Astros

Right he's on the Houston Astros He's two teams removed from the Astros I think he's tearing it up glad you think it's funny. Is he in the KBO? No, I think he's in the I don't play anymore league. No, I think he's in the KBO. Well, you think he has Spians regretting that deal?

How are the K.T.W is doing? I think no one cares anymore. I'm sure they didn't give them much money. Are they putting games on 30 in the morning still? I really couldn't tell you. I'm not sure. Yes, Tyler White is with the SK Yverns, Matt. And how's he doing batting-wise?

Can you even look that up? I can. Yes. hold on. You just snort? Yeah, the KB. I don't normally go to the KBO stats page that I'm going to go through there.

Tyler White? Oh, wait, Tyler Wilson, no. Oh, now you can't get the right Tyler. You know, no one cares about this. 7-1-3-212. People care about the Astros winning eight in a row and the rockets. Yeah, the phones are going nuts.

They are. Let's go to line two. No, the line of everybody's there. Let's go to line one. We have Phil in the Galleria once. Talk about the Rockets. Hi, Phil. Phil?

Hey, guys. What's up? What's up with you? Hey, yeah. Yeah, what's up, guys? What's the doing, girl? I'm calling about the Rock is, you know, that they're going to beat OKC. So I'm just wondering, who do you think is going to be a hard day out?

The Lakers are Portland. I know the Lakers have the best player in LeBron, but I just think Portland would be just a harder out. I prefer to face the Lakers, but I really don't care who we face it. What do you guys think? I'm going to let you run because you've got some bad static in your line. Thank you for the phone call. I'm not the Blazers won a game so they're better than the Lakers. Well, last night the Blazers got destroyed.

They didn't play their starters in the fourth quarter. It was, I was going to watch the second half of that game after getting home from my daughter's volleyball. And I just couldn't pull the trigger on it. Yeah, they were down. I mean, at halftime, they were down, what, 17? And it only got worse. And then we got a Dame Lillard injured finger bit. Portland's better than being an eight seed, Rossi.

But LeBron and Anthony Davis together are better than what they can throw out there. LeBron, Anthony Davis, and it's a sneezy and angry and doc or whatever. It really doesn't matter. If those two guys are on their game, they're going to just will them at least pass Portland. Now, I wouldn't be upset if Portland wanted to take them to six games. I wouldn't have you said that's what all I said is I'm hoping for a long seven game series

I don't care who it is the Portland Trailblazer is a tough matchup but you just can't go against playoff LeBron and Anthony Davis is a man possessed and he's a matchup problem for the Rockets as well I mean the Rockets can do okay against him

How did Danny Green do yesterday? Danny Green was scored three points in 22 minutes he was one of six from the field so who's there like their third go-to guy terrible something called J.R. Smith came up the bench is scored double digits. Well, they had, I mean, LeBronge only scored 10. That's the thing, too. They destroyed them and LeBron only scored 10. So who did all the damage for them yesterday? It was mostly Anthony Davis. And then you had Javele McGee. He had 10, 16 from KCP.

Who's the guy that the Rockets have always kind of courted for the year, for the last few years, or at least been talked about in trade rumors. 13 Lakers played yesterday, but a lot of that mop-up time. And Alex Caruso in his head game, the headband game? He scored three points. means to, let me tell you something that coming from an adult male that went with the side game for a while shave the bad boy off. He's got like a 7 inch headband on his head

covering up his entire head like when LeBron, remember when LeBron was hanging on to a thread with his head to his headband and it was like a triple thick headband? That's what Alex Caruso has. Like give it up dude, just go with the shave. I got to be honest. I do not believe any white person should wear a headband.

Give me a white person that Where's a headband? It goes, oh, that's a great look. Birdman. What's his name, Anderson? In my mind, that wasn't a good look. Did Marky Mark? You don't think Birdman had a good look with the neck tats and the...

Did Marky Mark have a headband on when he was doing the funky with the funky bunch? He just wore Calvin Klein underwear. Oh, okay. Did Jay Williams, white chocolate, Jason Williams? He wore a headband. Okay, and what year was that? I don't know, 2003-ish. Okay, so we're talking about one white human being in 17 years with a good headband.

Oh, okay. Yeah. I mean, I'm willing to accept other nominations. Let me just Google headband NBA players. No, I'm not going to general. Is there anybody that walks around that is a young 20 to 30-year-old white human being that walks, where's a headband and you go, that looks good? Oh, here we go.

Joe Ingalls apparently were a headband for a while. You mean these, okay, so he took the loss on that. I'm mad they banned the karate kid type of tie that Russell Westbrook used to wear. But that thing flying in the air? because Russell Westbrook already looks like a Ninja Turtle. Did he wear Iron Maiden or Def Leopard yesterday? It was Iron Maiden, I think. The shirt, the cutoff shirt?

He wore a, that's what he would wear to a concert, right? Mm-hmm. Remember back a couple of years ago, the NBA forced these players start wearing suits and whatnot when they don't play? I got another one. Who? Dirk. Remember Dirk used to wear a headband for a little bit?

But also, Dirk. But young Dirk grew up and became adult Dirk. I don't believe, did he wear a headband when they won the championship? No, I don't think so. Okay, well, then that's what he had to do. He said, I got to get rid of this headband to win the championship. Would Brian Scalibrini have even been an NBA player without a headband? Brian's Calabrini headband.

The white mamba, Matt. You can't hate on the white mamba? Can I give you 30 seconds about the white mamba? Yes. Is that your son loves him? This is disappointing. I'm going to really peel the curtain back for 30 seconds on this one. Peel that bad boy.

So a couple of years ago, we were in Boston to do a Rocket Celtics game, and Brian Scalabrini was working radio, and their radio spot is behind ours at Rocket in the TD Waterhouse Center. And I went up to Brian Scaliburini, and I said, Brian, my name is Matt Thomas. I'm one of the Rockets broadcasters. My son, who goes to Texas Tech, is just the biggest fan of yours. I said, would you please do a video for me to send back to him?

And he did this 45-second video, guys. And it was awesome. Hey, Kim, what's up, dude? Your dad's up here. The Rockets are kicking our ass. I mean, it was just a great 45 seconds. And I thought, Brian Scalibini, you are the nicest guy ever in the world. I reach out to him probably two months ago.

He does a show, I think, on NBA radio or does some kind of podcast or something like that. I said, hey, Brian, this is Matt Thomas. You said the great things about my son. Last year I'm Rockets Broadcaster. Would you mind coming on the show to be a guest on the show, talk some NBA basketball? And he uses the read receipt on his text. text. Yes. So he read it. He read it and didn't respond.

Maybe he forgot. That's what I thought. So I sent it a second time. And I said, resending, hope you can join us. Guys, he read it again and didn't even respond. I am fully accepting of Matt, I'm really busy, can't do it. That time doesn't work. for me. Sorry. I'm contract you. I'm good at other things.

I just want a response. I get it, Matt. I understand it. I'm sorry he hurt you in this way. He went 0 for two with me with two red receipts. Yeah. That means he's dead, right? To me, he is. That's what I'm saying. I told Cameron about it. Yeah.

The 20-year-old teared up. And that's rare for a 6'4-300-pound kid at 20 years old to be tearing up about anything. I can get him a detackle. That's what I'm trying. trying to do. Trying to get Matt Wells to get him a little scholarship late. A little walk on at least. Yeah, no kidding. So that's Brian Scalibini's story. I don't know if anybody even knows who Brian Scalabrini is, but he's affectionately known as the White Mamba. Everybody knows the White Mamba, Matt. And the White Mamba's dead to me. And there's another one.

Bill Walton back in the 70s used to wear her bag. Okay. So again, my point is absolutely made it perfectly clear. There's not many white guys in the NBA as it is, Matt. Okay, but that's actually true. So of the 10 that are around, like Matt Thomas and the Raptors, He doesn't wear a headband, does he? Because he's carrying our name. Do the Rockets have a white guy? No. They did.

Yeah, Hardstein. The Rockets are Sands white guy. Yeah, past tense. All right. So there's any white guys that wear headbands good? Like now. I'm not talking about back in 83. I'm talking about in 2020.

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A lot of energy, a lot of buzz in the air, sports RV for the Astros 8 game winning street. Yes, the Astros and the Rockets got the internet going nuts, Matt. They did while they were playing. That's the thing about our business I hate. It's so much easier to do shows and talk to you guys when they lose. It's okay.

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It feels like that's... I've never had a lack of a build-up to a season like we've had right now. because of, obviously, there's no preseason games. And that's when you start to feel like in the middle of August, that's when you're like, okay, we're getting ramped up here. Yeah, they played a quarter. And then, okay, Deshaun Watson did this. And hopefully everybody's healthy.

And then the fourth game, the preseason doesn't matter. But it's going around. And it hugely, it starts with the Hall of Fame game. And then you go on from there. And you're right. I can't even believe it's three weeks till the season. That doesn't sound right to me. It feels like it's months off.

And, you know, you do see some video, some practice, little bit here and there. I've never been a huge, well, these are the observations I take away from practice today. I'm more about what I want to see in the preseason. And then it kind of gives you up and going. But again, you can make some observations that will be make a big part of the season coming up about who's practicing, who's not, who's running with the first team, who's going to get that kind of thing. but because that audio and or video is so limited, and that's just not about the Texans, that's by everybody,

it's almost like it's a season premiere grand opening with no pre-show. Like, you know, sometimes Matt, a rapper will drop an album with, like, Beyonce will drop an album and there'll be no pre-show, no release date or anything, just one day at midnight, she'll drop an album. Like Star Wars 9 may come out tomorrow. Yeah, wow. And there's no preview.

Right. they wouldn't do that. You have a very good feeling of what they've done in the past. You know what Star Wars typically does and who the characters are, but you don't know what the twist and turns. And it feels like this go around. I would like to know what Brandon Cook looks like. And I'm not talking about running without pads.

I mean, I know what Brandon Cooks does, rins down the field. Deshawn Watson will throw a ball to him and he will catch it. And, I mean, I don't need the, I've got enough of an imagination to know what that looks like. And teams can't do joint practices either. Nothing. Zero. This is like college football. You will play against each other, but that's it.

I don't want to go all gamblers mind me now, but should we play a bunch of unders in the first week? Or would you go over saying the defenses can't stop these teams? I'm saying the offenses can we won't be able to execute. Hmm. Well, you know what we ought to do? we ought to get a sharp handicapper mind on the show, probably closer to kick time. Okay. Because if you're Vegas, how do you set the lines on these things?

Basically going off what you did last year. Has the Texans Kansas City line changed at all? I haven't checked it recently. I can check it. What was the line originally? 10 or something right? Yeah, I think it was right at 10. It's holding steady at 10.

The total is 55. So if Vegas is right Kansas City 34 Houston 21 Right Yes yeah 33 22 or 30 yeah pretty much I'm thinking about realistic scores That feels about right

But we don't know I mean anybody again if you get to go to the practice Which are very limited to me to get to go And that's fine I mean it is what it is Plus our schedules right now With me doing Astros and Rockets It's just really really hectic I'm going Texans in an under.

Why? Just to keep you think if the game's going to be closer. I think the Texans can cover 10. Now they didn't in the last playoff game. But I don't know. They beat them earlier in the season. There is a little bit of a hangover for Super Bowl champions in those first games. There will be minimal home, I mean, home field advantage.

What is they? They're doing 22% they said something like that. Yeah. Which is 22% of what? What is that seat? 75,000. So it's probably 15,000 tops. Yeah.

I think 15,000 can still make enough of a difference. They'll be fine. I think 15,000 people will make Arrowhead Stadium noisy. All right. Well, it's my lock of the year. Texans plus 10. Are you sure? Yes.

All right. Okay. We got you down. What the line gets shaved down the nine. Well, then I can change. I haven't gone up to the window yet. Well, no, you're locked in. You've gone to the window and you got your 10.

Okay, you're right, actually. I'm locked in with that. If it goes to nine, whatever. All right. So we'll hear from Deshawn Watson coming up in the next segment about what's going on with him. And then we have one, which is talking about Bill, to get to? Yes, only one.

It'll be the shortest what you're talking about Bill we've ever done. And he believes is worthy of, Brendan believes it's worthy of a conversation. So we'll get to that coming up. Astros with a chance now to go for nine consecutive games against the San Diego Andres. Do you know the five years of four consecutive days of grand slams? Now, one of them, according to old school unwritten rule guy, shouldn't have counted because that was a home run that Tatis Jr. hit when the game was 10 to 3 at the time, which was just patently absurd. Yeah, everybody got upset about that. Well, a lot of people got upset. Not everybody.

And then he apologized. Yeah. And then it was a, people got old school baseball fan hated it. Old school baseball fan probably accepted the apology. New school baseball fan, or in my case, logically thinking baseball. fan was more mad at him for apologizing than doing anything else. And there were a couple pictures we came out and said that. Call him a cue, Trevor, Trevor, Trevor, Tyler Brower, others. So we're going to agree with Trevor or Tyler Bauer on something? I mean, if long as he's not making stuff up.

What was he supposed to do? If you are, I don't believe you're old school. You're not unwritten rule guy. I am not. I have a couple, but that's about it. We were talking about that. So if we are unwritten rule guy, that was one of them. Is he supposed to stay in the box, take three strikes back?

he's supposed to he can crush 3-1 but he can't crush 3-0 who decided that you were just something erredd I know he's just on the written rule and then the next day they were up six and he stole third base oh my god so unwritten rule guy is not happy with him this week he might have to face a suspension not like a Tom Brennan's suspension but just a general

suspension he might have unwritten suspension for the unwritten rule book you know I'll be honest with you on this I think I have a much bigger problem with him stealing third up six than I do trying to hit the home run. Isn't it stupid, though, that the reaction was? Because didn't the next batter get thrown at their head or something like that? It was Manning Machado. Yeah, Mani Machado got thrown at his head.

And it's like, oh, well, I hurt my feeling. So I'm going to try to hit this guy in the skull with a projectile throwing 90 miles an hour. Get over yourself. If you really wanted to be mad about something, you know, when the catcher gets the new baseball from the umpire and for the ball leaves, try to throw it at Tatis as he ran on the bases. That's how you get back. And why does Mani Machado

have to be the fall guy? I don't understand. What if he had to hit Mani Machado on the head? He was out for a long time. I got concussed or something or worse. That's why the stupidity of... That's why it's dumb. It's stupid.

That's why suspension should be heavy on that because Mani Machado just happened to be the next guy in the lineup. It's ridiculous. And by the way, the Astros score double-digit runs against the Rockies both nights, you know, up in Denver. Yes. They may have to get double digits to beat the Padres.

When's the last time? I haven't heard about a lot of Rockets. I mean, Astro was getting hit by pitch recently. No. In fact, go look at the H-by-H-B-P, because there's a stat for everything, right? Yeah, I can find it somewhere. Who are the top five teams in being hit by pitch?

Not a number of them being thrown, but number of them being reaching base by that way. I don't think it's been a factor at all. Now, granted, again, I don't know if they're having 35,000 fans in opposing stadiums would get people, players all revved up to go throw at them. But I think Major League Baseball, in some respects, has done a decent job of saying, you go out for the Astros, Joe Kelly,

you're going to get a heavy suspension. The Cubs are being hit once per game. They lead everybody. The Astros 0.52 times per game. Where is that rank? Is it put it in a rank? 13th. Okay, so the very, very average category.

When every Yahoo.com, 22-year-old college graduate said, look out, the Astros are going to get beamed early and often. They're idiots. All right. 113 of the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. The Astros again going for nine in a row.

I don't know how they're doing it. Because I still don't know half their bullpen. I know their lineup without Bregman is doing some serious damage. Without Jordan Alvarez, too. George Springer's been tearing the cover off. And Abraham Toro's going deep. You know things are really going well. 713-212-5-790.

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Category today would be what? S.K. Yverns, all things about that? No, no, no, no. I would say all things Tom Burnham, but that's probably not going to be very good. No, no, thank you. Not, no. He's off of Fox, by the way. Well, that's a shame. What else?

Have we done a recent hurricane name list? Oh, believe it or not, Hurricane names? Yeah. Like Barbara in 1971. We did that once. We did it once years ago. Maybe nice and easy for him. It's nice and easy.

Could you do white guys? So have you looked out in the golf? White guys with headbands? I can't keep if they won a head. Oh, and by the way, we got a band for one game. The last guy we had a headband was Richard Simmons, and people who don't know where he is now. Oh, is Richard Simmons okay? No, we don't know.

When is the last time you saw Richard Simmons? Remember, he used to go on? I don't know. He used to go on Letterman all the time. Yeah. And then he would do his meal cards where you lose weight. And then he would do a bunch of game shows, too. But other than that, that's it.

I think he found a lover who hid him. I'm not, I'm serious. I'm not making this up. What? Okay. You guys are aware of there's a missing Richard Simmons podcast, right? Is there? They update every week?

What's the latest on Richard Simmons's disappearance? That's it. Richard Simmons, believe it or not. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Can we trace whoever's buying a sparkly tank tops? It's got to be wherever those are getting shipped. It's got to be where he is. And really short shorts.

Yes. Can we say blank huggers? Nut huggers? You just said it good. Yeah. What is it about? Just where he is or where he's not? I've never listened to it.

I just remember it got big for a moment. I don't think people care anymore. I think he lost... He's been gone long enough. Yeah. I mean, what did he ever... What was he really ever famous for besides being just crazy and weird? Well, he was really fat.

Young in his life. He lost a bunch of weight and then wound up... Do you have VHS tapes or do you have a show? He had a TV show. Okay. In the early 80s when I was a kid. I don't know if you know this. You know that David Leonard.

We can get this audio in for the... Because we'll get Texans people dying to hear this stuff. Let's talk about Richard Simmons. I'd rather talk about Richard Simmons. So David Lennerman had a daytime talk show on NBC. See, I did not. David Lederman did? David Lederman did.

Really? And it got, and it got canceled. And Richard Simmons took the spot over. And he did the show for a couple of years. It was lifestyle. It was eating. It was exercise. Really?

It was what you would think a Richard Simmons show would be. So that show got canceled. Then he started doing sweating of the oldies where he'd get a bunch of, stay with me on this. where he would do videos with a bunch of overweight women to lose weight. And then he did deal a meal, like a weight loss thing. And so, and then he did that plus being on all these television shows, he'd go on, let him him and get made fun of.

It was, needless to say, a cult-like figure. Yes. I don't know how popular he was, but he was, he's like the Andy Dick of today. You know what I'm saying? What is he at? What does Andy Dick do? But Andy goes on shows and gets made fun of, goes on roast. He would have been perfect to go on Comedy Central Roast

because you could just make fun of Richard Simmons ad nauseum. So then at some point, I think he starts dating or getting with another, he's homosexual, we can't say that. I think he finds a lover and then they're dating for a while, and then he just goes MIA. And I don't know if he's been found since. I mean, it's been probably, what, five, six, seven years, maybe even longer than that?

He said he's resurfaced on his YouTube channel. He has? Yeah. I didn't even realize he had a YouTube channel. That's what the Wiki says. Well, the Wiki won't lie to us. All right. There's no other sports show in the marketplace

has given you as much Richard Simmons. The storied history of Richard Simmons. Well, I mean, here's Rockets. Here's Astros. Here's Texans. So it's, it's our fault. He's doing 15-minute workouts. How does he look?

He just posted one. He looks all right. I'm going to look at it during the timeout. Actually, we'll wait five for the show. There's some women behind. him. Some of which I fit. Yeah, you've lost me. Okay, yeah. Let's get back. Get back on the train.

Sorry, Richard Simmons. We're on the track. We'll put some Richard Simmons workout videos every day on the mat. What's on Matt's my show page. We derailed this show. We've got to get it back on there very, very quickly. All right. So Deshawn Watson speaks and does not speak of anything contract-wise. Have we gone on the record about whether we think he's going to wind up getting his deal done before the start of the season? I would say no. I would like him to. Because the NFL economic culture or do you think they're just going to be

too far apart. I think there's a lot of uncertainty. Okay. So let's get to DeShon on some of the things he said today. All right, here's what you had to say about the mental game and the physical game from Deshaun Watson. I'm always each and every week, each and every practice try to gain so much information where I can do different little techniques and details on reading defenses. You know, sometimes they win.

Sometimes I win. But I always try to, you know, make sure that's the majority of the game. And then after that, I just let my athletic ability and my IQ and just kind of reacting, my gut feeling just take over. and just play football. And that's a lot of the, you know, a lot of the time being. But I guess a lot of the mental part is pre-snap. And then right when I get the ball, then after that, I just react and play football. There you go, Matt.

He's reacting playing football, Deshawn Watson. I wonder what the question was that brought out that answer. My guess about mixing a mental game with a physical game. Okay. See, this is why, again, I don't, I'm not a super big soundbite guy. Well, how about Deshaun Watson on being more comfortable this year now that he's, what is his fourth year? Yeah. Well, geez, man.

Time for us. We're all getting old. Here's Deshaun Watson on being more comfortable. I made my confidence to continue to grow. The leadership, the knowledge of offense, what we want to do as a whole has been simplified for me, just because it's year four for me. So having that comfortability and having that confidence on exactly what we've been learning over the past three years. now getting into my year four, you know, and being with Tim, spending a whole year last year on his mindset and what he's thinking.

And now he's a play caller, you know, now having that, you know, we've been on the same page. And I already know before, you know, each situation what he's thinking. So we're on the same page. So I think that's the next step that I've been taking with him. And it's been good. In all seriousness, that's a good sign. I like that they're not having to argue about things and not having to debate.

if Tim Kelly has built this relationship with the Sean for a first time. I mean, that's got to be Tim's best thing is that the guy he's going to be going to plays to is in the same mindset as the quarterback as compared to well. Because I always felt like Aaron Rogers was going to be a guy that always was going to fight with you about the play calls. You know what I'm saying? I think Mike McCarthy would probably tell you that to this day. It makes me feel good that at least Sean publicly is saying Tim Kelly and I are driving together properly. That's important, absolutely.

All right, continue. And here's Deshawn Watson. What he needs to improve to win a Super Bowl for the Texans, as Matt says, will never happen. No. Just trim, be more detail and just trim down to MEs and the mental errors. And if we can do that and, of course, stay healthy. That's a big key.

I feel like we can have the opportunity. In that last game against the Chiefs, you know, we started off right and continuing, but once we hit that wall and they got the moment. we got to continue to flip that momentum and learn how to do that. It was a lot of games last year where we can do that, Baltimore, Denver, you know, Kansas City, three games right there where if we can stop that momentum and get back in the game, who knows how those games turned out and what we could have did in it.

So, you know, just the mental errors and a little details being very, and stopping the momentum of the other team. Just focus on the next play, it would be fine. Well, unfortunately for DeShan, he was being very polite. His defense was atrocious. his defense give up 51 points in a very short period of time. I don't know how much of that better than going to be this year either. By the way, do you call your mental mistakes, MEs, mental errors?

No, I call them bleep-ups. I think we're going to start calling anytime you hear, Brendan, anytime you hear an Emmy on the show, let us know. We want to keep our M-E's down to a minimum. I usually just call myself stupid. That works well. Would you like me to call you stupid for you, go ahead.

You know what? Just hit me with it, Brendan, it's fine. All right, we got one. What you're talking about Bill will have coming back. We've got some people on the line as well want to talk about the rockets. Two rockets calls today. That's two more than I thought would get about an hour and a half ago.

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Sports Talk 790, Jeff Blum. I believe he's usually on with the boys on Fridays. Yeah, yeah. It's been varied, but I'm not sure exactly what day he's on. But Friday recently, I think. So we've got a busy show coming up. 2 o'clock, Brian T, 2.30, Fantasy 5. Hell yeah, or not at 252.

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you're not giving me any help already. Why would I? I don't know. I just thought it'd be nice. 713-212-5-7-90. Your rockets are up to nothing. The Astros have won eight consecutive games. And the city...

During the game... It's a buzz. 12 hours or 18 hours after the game, maybe not so much. I wonder if Boston Radio's having fun with the Red Sox and the Celtics. Red Sox are terrible right now, right? Yeah, but the seas are up to nothing. in their series against the...

Oh, the Red Sox are 8 and 18. I didn't realize it was that bad. When you give a mooky bet, you're done. Yikes. Maybe I'll call Scalabrini and see how the Boston sports scene is. I don't think he's going to answer, Matt, or he's going to leave you on red. By the way, why would you ever want to be read on your... Oh, I turned that off, lickety-split.

But does anybody have it on theirs? Now, my kids have it because I told them to have it on them. Oh, they don't get to vote. That's funny. Dad case for to sell bill They're going to have the red receipt on there That's funny I like that

That's a good rule For your kids Yeah Adam Wexler does I would say 25% of my buddies do 25 It's probably It's probably the right move

I It's real more shady underhanded If you take it off probably Tom and downtown says That's what problem of single men go through Is they send these beautiful tweets Of hey baby what's up and it says red and they don't respond.

I would figure if you're married, maybe you and your wife would want to make sure you have that on to. I don't know. I wouldn't do it in any circumstance. Okay. Except if I was a kid and my mom and dad forced me to. Tim and Klein on 790. Hi, Tim. What's going on?

Hey, how you doing? Well. So, so far it feels like the rockets are half the series under control. Yeah. And assuming that they, you know, that's the time. Jason and I'm assuming that they go on to the next round. Who would you rather want to taste in the next round? That's funny.

You're the second caller today, Tim, and thank you for that. I'll let you run because you get a little bit of static there. That's a second call we've had on that. Has something happened to the Lakers? Or is it the Blazers just so much better than what they were when they didn't have Zach Collins and use of nerds? Now, Callins is out, I think. He's hurt again. If I'm not mistaken on that.

I believe you're correct. But Nurkich makes him better. Lillard's great. He says the separated finger of his is not going to cost him any playing time. I'm very interested to find out. Is it because they don't shoot the three very well? Ross, the Lakers did get to the number one seed for a reason. It's because they're Alpha Dog A and Alpha Dog B.

are two of the all-time greats, right? I'd rather play if, yeah, absolutely. They're two of the top five players in the NBA right now, probably. So that's why, I mean, it's that simple. The Blazers' defense is not good. Even Yusuf Nerkich is with there, it's a little bit better. The Rockets, I mean, it would be a lot of high. I'd say play the over in every single game that the Rockets and Blazers play.

But I think the Rockets would handle the Blazers a little bit easier than they would the Lakers. But I'll say this, and I don't want to be that guy. The Lakers don't scare me, though. No, I'm not scared of the Lakers. Like when Golden State was number one year and year, except for the one year the Rockets were, I was afraid of the Warriors. I told you all that.

I hated them so much. Well, I mean, they were, they had everything. Yeah. They had a little bit of size. Four Hall of Famers. They had a good coach. The great coach.

The greatest jump shooter maybe in the history of the NBA. And then probably the second greatest jump shooter in the history of the NBA. And then the third greatest jump shooter in the history of the NBA. the NBA. And one of the best six, five multi-de-positional players in the history of the NBA. Now, he's a jackass, but he's still one of the greatest of all time. And by the way, he is going to be a television superstar when Dremont Green calls it a career. Oh, Draymond Green.

Yeah, he was really good on TNT. The other, what was the last week? He was so good. He got fined $25,000 for giving up business about the Phoenix Suns. Well, he was saying you wanted Devin Booker to come or whatever it was, and that was tampering. Because Ernie tried to give him out. He's like, are you tampering? He goes, maybe.

Come on, Draymond. But Draymond's going to be great, right? Yeah, Draymond. Yeah, I think he was pretty good. Got a little, the analysis stuff. The thing is, though, some of those guys, they get off is from, they start and they're really good and they have all this analysis. And then they figure out that, hey, I can just go and pipe out a bunch of cliches and be okay.

Basically, Charles Barkland. That's what happened to Chris Weber. Chris Weber, when he first started, he was giving analysis and breaking down plays and doing a good job. Now all he does is gone and say, you young kids at home, look at this rebound. Okay, thanks, thanks C-Web. You know, because CWAB is, before the pandemic, was the number one broadcast crew with Mara Valbert. Yeah.

So Marv Albert said, well, I think T&T said, look, you're almost 80. You don't need to be going down to the bubble. It's not in your best interest. I would have thought Harlan would have been, Miller would have been joined by Chris to kind of be a new number one team. And Chris Weber didn't do any of the regular season games. They brought, I don't think it's because they wanted to do it this way, or he just said, I'm not going to spend that much time down there,

but he's just started doing playoff games for TNT this week. Stan Van Gundy was doing a lot of games. I think Stan does a good job. He's funny, he's witty, and he's smart, and obviously he knows basketball. Maybe the greatest Van Gundy broadcasting duos ever. I mean, brother duos. I honestly think Jeff Van Gundy, he's good.

The top three for me definitely in no particular order. The Van Gundy's in then Doris Burke right now. Van Gundy is number one. and ain't even close. Jeff? Jeff. Okay. I'll tell you who I do like that doesn't get a lot of run.

I do like Greg Anthony. He's okay. And I do like Dorisberg. Did you do what Dorisberg is she good at her job? Yes. I did a poll on my Twitter account. How did it come out? I think most people are there's like 75% yes or something like that.

I don't care for Mark Jackson. 69.1% yes. Okay. Yeah, yeah. She's the greatest female analyst in the history of sports. That's a great job. Now, there's not a lot, but if there have been quite a few more in the last 10 or 15 years, she's the greatest, and that's the reason why she went from doing women's college basketball

when no one watched to the end-begay where people do watch. Basketball is basketball in regardless of the sex, and she knows what you're talking about. And she has a respect to those players and obviously the audience. 143, Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 7-1-2-2-5-790 if you want to visit with us through Twitter at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley underscore. Brian T. Smith coming up in 15 minutes right now, I got to tell you about Big Rivers Waterpark. If you are looking to get your kids little extracurricular activity before they start going to school on a regular basis, why don't you send them up on 59 slash 69 up just past North in the King,

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It's Blummer. Former Astro, Jeff Blum. Holy Toledo. Sports Talk 790. What a play by Blum! Is your home of Astros baseball? 135. Sports Talk 790, Jeff Blum.

I believe he's usually on with the boys on Fridays. Yeah, yeah. It's been varied, but I'm not sure exactly what day he's on. But Friday recently, I think. So we've got a busy show coming up. 2 o'clock, Brian T. 230, Fantasy 5. Hell, yeah, or not at 252.

All Things, Richard Simmons. Great. It is what it is. I love it. I mean, we're not in our... We don't write down every segment of the show. I know that probably disappoints program directors across the country, but we just don't.

We're going to be playing for Big Rivers Waterpark passes. Oh, really? Those are nice probably about 25 bucks a pop. So, I think, somewhere in the $20-hour range. Wonderful. You would take your kids out somewhere. I don't have any kids. Well, that you know of.

All right. 713, 21, 2, 1, 2, 5. 7.00. Category, by the way, in the Fantasy 5 is five things you would want in your house, food or drink, that you would want to survive a hurricane and you have no electricity in your house. I'm having difficulty with the drink. The food I got knocked down. I could go with good old-fashioned bottled room-temp water.

There's got to be something else out there that I want. That would be delicious, refreshing, and would taste. good if I lost the refrigerator. You're not giving me any help, are you? Why would I? I don't know. So it'd be nice.

713-212-5-7-90. Your rockets are up to nothing. The Astros have won eight consecutive games. And the city... During the game... During the game, buzz? 12 hours or 18 hours after the game, maybe not so much.

I wonder if Boston Radio is having fun with the Red Sox and the Celtics. Red Sox are terrible right now, right? Yeah, but the seas are up to nothing in their series against the... Oh, the Red Sox are 8 and 18. I didn't realize it was that bad. When you give a mooky bet, you're done. Yikes.

Maybe I'll call Scalabrini and see how the Boston sports scene is. I don't think he's going to answer, Matt, or he's going to leave you on red. By the way, why would you ever want to be read on your... Oh, I turn that off. Lickety split. Does anybody have it on theirs? Now, my kids have it because I told them to have it on them. Oh, okay.

Oh, they don't get to vote. That's funny. Dad pays for the sale bill. They're going to have the right of receipt on there. That's funny. I like that. That's a good rule for your kids. Adam Wexler does.

I would say 25% of my buddies do. 25. It's probably the right move. It's real more shady underhanded if you take it off probably. Tom and downtown says that's what problem of single men go through is they send these beautiful tweets of, hey, baby, what's up? And it says red and they don't respond. I would figure if you're married, maybe you and your wife would want to make sure you have that on, too.

I don't know. I wouldn't do it in any circumstance. Okay. Except if I was a kid and my mom and dad forced me to. Tim and Klein on 790. Hi, Tim. What's going on? Hey, how you doing?

Well. So, so far it feels like the rockets are, have this series under control. Yeah. And assuming that they, you know, without chasing them, assuming that they go on to the next round, who would you rather want to taste in the next round? That's funny. You're the second caller today, Tim, and thank you for that. I'll let you run because you get a little bit of static there.

That's the second call we've had on that. Has something happened to the Lakers that, or is it the Blazers just so much better than what they were? when they didn't have Zach Collins and Yusuf Nerkich. Now, Collins is out, I think. He's hurt again. If I'm not mistaken on that. I believe you're correct.

But Nerkich makes him better. Lillard's great. He says the separated finger of his is not going to cost him any playing time. I'm very interested to find out. Is it because they don't shoot the three very well? Ross, the Lakers did get to the number one seed for a reason.

It's because their alpha dog A and alpha dog B are two of the all-time greats, right? I'd rather play if, yeah, absolutely. They're two of the top five players in the NBA right now, probably. So that's why, I mean, it's that simple. The Blazers' defense is not good. Even Yusuf Nurkich is with there, it's a little bit better. The Rockets, I mean, it would be a lot. I'd say play the over in every single game that the Rockets and Blazers play,

but I think the Rockets would handle the Blazers a little bit easier than they would the Lakers. But I'll say this, and I don't want to be. that guy. The Lakers don't scare me, though. No, I'm not scared of the Lakers. When Golden State was number one year and year, except for the one year the Rockets were, I was afraid of the Warriors.

I told you all that. I hated them so much. Well, I mean, they were, they had everything. They had a little bit of size. Four Hall of Famers. They had a good coach. The great coach.

The greatest jump shooter may be in the history of the NBA. And then probably the second great greatest jump shooter. in the history of the NBA. And then the third greatest jump shooter in the history of the NBA. And one of the best six, five multi-positional players in the history of the NBA. Now, he's a jackass, but he's still one of the greatest of all time. And by the way, he is going to be a television superstar when Dremont Green calls it a career. Oh, Draymond Green.

Yeah, he was really good on TNT the other, what was the last week? He was so good. He got fined $25,000 for giving up business about the Phoenix Suns. Well, he was saying you wanted Devin Booker to come or whatever it was, and that was tampering. Because Ernie tried to give him out. are you tampering? He goes, maybe. Come on, Draymond. But Draymond's going to be great, right?

Yeah, Draymond, yeah, I think he was pretty good. Got a little, the analysis stuff. The thing is, though, some of those guys, they get off is from, they start, and they're really good, and they have all this analysis. And then they figure out that, hey, I can just go and pipe out a bunch of cliches and be okay. Basically, Charles Barkland. That's what happened to Chris Weber. Chris Weber, when he first started, he was giving analysis and breaking down plays and doing a

good job. Now all he does is gone and say, you young kids at home, look at this, Rebound. Okay, thanks. Thanks, C Webb. You know, because CWab is, before the pandemic was the number one broadcast crew with Marv Albert. Yeah. So Marv Albert said, well, I think T&T said, look, you're almost 80. You don't need to be going down to the bubble. It's not in your best interest. I would have thought Harlan would have been, Miller would have been joined by Chris to kind of be a new number one team. And Chris Weber didn't do any of the regular season games.

They brought, I don't think it's because they wanted to do it this way, or he just said, I'm not going to spend that much time down there, but he's just started doing playoff games for TNT this week. Stan Van Gundy was doing a lot of games. I think Stan does a good job. He's funny, he's witty, and he's smart. And obviously, he knows basketball. Maybe the greatest Van Gundy broadcasting duos ever.

I mean, brother duos. I honestly think Jeff Van Gundy, he's good. The top three for me definitely in no particular order. The Van Gundy's in Doris Burke right now. Van Gundy is number one and ain't even close. Jeff? Jeff. Okay.

I'll tell you who I do like that doesn't get a lot of run. I do like Greg Anthony. He's okay. And I do like Dorisberg. Did you do what Dorisberg is she good at her job? Yes. I did a poll on my Twitter account. How did it come out?

I think most people. I think it was like 75% yes or something like that. I don't care for Mark Jackson. 69.1% yes. Okay, yeah. She's the greatest female analyst in the history of sports. And that's a great job. Now, there's not a lot, but if there have been quite a few more in the last 10 or 15 years,

she's the greatest, and that's the reason why she went from doing women's college basketball when no one watched to the end-bigay where people do watch. Basketball is basketball in regardless of the sex, and she knows what you're talking about. And she has a respect to those players and obviously the audience. 143, Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790. If you want to visit with us through Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley underscore.

Brian T. Smith coming up in 15 minutes right now, I got to tell you about Big Rivers Waterpark. If you are looking to get your kids little extracurricular activity before they start going to school on a regular basis, why don't you send them up on 59 slash 6.5. 69 up just past north into Kingwood and into New Caney and go see what's going on at Big Rivers Water Park. They're open weekends in August from 1030 to 6.

September, they're going 11 to 5. Day passes start as low as 2499. That's a great value to get your kids to a great water park. We're talking about water slides, the largest lazy river in the Houston area. They have some of the new zip lines that you'll see in very few places. And guess what? The folks at Big Rivers Water Park have it. Yeah, it's more than just a great place to swim and have great activities with slides.

They're also going to have a 70-foot-high free fall tower. They've got a petting zoo. They've got a giant maze. They've got a lot of stuff to do to keep you and your kids entertained on a weekend. Do yourself a favor. Enjoy all the great adventures you can get today at Big Rivers Waterpark. For more details, check out their website, big riverswaterpark.com. Big Riverswaterpark.com and today's edition of

Hell yeah or not. We're giving away those passes to Big Rivers Waterpark. This is the Matt Thomas show. 202 Sports Talk 790. We've got to Brian T. Smith joining here a cinema. A matter of seconds. How about this? The Rock. Tweeting out a couple of hours ago, the deal is officially closed. He has the keys of the XFL.

Huh. I wish him luck. I don't know unless he gets the NFL involved how they're going to survive. But that's for another day and another time. Right now we've got bigger fish to fry. And we'll do that with our buddy. Our lead columnist in the Houston Chronicle is Brian T. Smith. And Brian, I don't want to say what was more amazing,

but I would be foolish to say that I would have thought you and I were going to talk today with an Astros team that's won eight straight games. And the Rockets using two great second. and halves to have a comfortable 2-0-0 lead in the series. So what do you put on the surprise scale how these teams are performing right now? By far, the Astros. Look, they could lose five straight, you know, starting their next game, because that's how beat up this team is.

And it's a just, it's an absurd baseball season. You can't really put weight into, you know, whether it's stats or hot streaks or, you know, teams failing for a week. It's just, it's going to be crazy. There's never anything like it. There's never probably anything like it. Hopefully, again, Matt, that being said, you cannot undersell winning eight straight games when you, you know, you're without Justin Berlander and Osuna and Bretman and Brantley and Springer missed some time. And at one point, Al-Tube had a negative batting average.

You know, it's hard to do that, but at one point, Jose Al-Tubei was hitting below zero-zero, zero. He's starting to hit again. And it's hard because you don't. want to go too far to the left, too far to the right. And it feels like with this team, over the last two weeks, we're just swinging wildly. But Dusty Baker has done a pretty nice job through 28 games to go from 7 and 10 to win eight straight games with all of the injuries that they've had. You know, we'd be praising AJ Hintz right now. So we might as well be praising Dusty Baker in the 60 games season. Well, you're the only one is doing it because

Dusty haters came out all the time when I was doing post-game. shows. I was joking about the Dusty thing a little. He needs a little larger sample size before I really start praising. Well, I just wait. No one's saying, man, thanks, Dusty, for managing your ass off during this time. That's why I don't put a lot of stock into why things go right or well or wrong based on what the manager is doing, especially with a small sample size.

So let me ask you this. We get the trade deadline in 10 days. And I think I've already asked you this once, but let's go it again. Astros keep winning, getting closer, want to overtake the A's, want to be deep, you know, comfortably in the playoffs. American League. If you weren't able to go grab James click and take him out for a beer or a margarito or whatever the case may be, social distancing, obviously.

Do you want him making a significant move not knowing that the Astros by Baseball America standards has the second worst minor league operation in terms of player talent available to him right now? I think you have to make a smart move. You make a semi-major move at most. I said this before. I'll continue to say they don't have a ton of. to trade and if you start swapping major league players and your side of the deal doesn't work out,

I mean, you'll find yourself in, you know, Astros' Twitterland really, really quickly, Matt. This whole season is an aberration. It's an asterisk. I'm not saying that whoever wins the World Series won't take pride in it and the fan base won't love it. And the playoffs are going to be interesting and fun. They still don't have fans in the stand. So it's, you know, it's not going to really be the same. So you put that together and you look at how big. beat up the team is already in the state of the farm system and the fact that they've had to make major trades and major trades to get, you know, coal and Verlander and Green Key on and on and on. Yeah.

If there's something out there that you think can add, you know, a couple wins and, you know, I guess makes you the AOS champion theoretically and it continues to be tight. And that's the other thing. You have to watch the standings for the next 10 days. The A's are the best team in the A.O. right now and they've obviously been very, very hot. then you make that move. But winning one more game in a 60-game season, when 16 of the 30 teams are already going guaranteed to make the playoffs,

I think you try to survive this season. Obviously, you know, every player on that field, the coaching staff, Dusty Baker, James Click, Jim Crane, they would love to win the World Series and in their own way be able to prove everybody wrong this year. But I don't think you go crazy trying to add a number three starter. this is not a normal season. Brian T. Smith,

league columnist from The Chronicle with us here on the Matt Thomas show. One more baseball, move on to the hoops. When Yordano was having his issues last week after the initial debut, Ross and I kind of joked. I said, what was your worry factor? I had it at a nine. Ross had at about four and a half, bumped to six,

and now obviously it's off the charts because of he's gone. Get your crystal ball out. I don't like that 23, 24-year-old players are having knee issues. It doesn't mean the surgeon can't fix it, doesn't mean that he can't rehab it and come back good as new. But this is an awful sign, I think, for a kid that has got a lot of pressure on him because of being the rookie of the year. And just the energy that him being in line up just for that one or two games last weekend brought to the team. I never said.

I mean, look, he's young enough to overcome this. He can be their DH, so it's not like he's going to have to move around that much. I wish you could just hit a home run, you know, kind of like the intentional walk now. I wish you could just hit a home run and not have to leave home play. I mean, it's really a shame in 2020. You're going to put a man on second to start extra innings. There's no longer a real intentional walk. Why do they not have to go around the bases anymore?

You know, if you're going to hit a home run, just stay at home. Just touch home. No social distancing and issues. You don't have to worry about passing corona. Obviously, I'm joking there, but that's what it's come through for Yard on this early in his career. You hope that age helps him. You hope that serious time off. But here's the thing, Matt.

It's the middle of August. He's not going to take another at bat for the Astros until late March at the earliest next year that's official. And that means he's going to really go from, and let me get the math straight in my head. The end of October of 2019, right, Game 7 of the World Series against the Nationals of Minuteman Part, should have loved Grinky in a little long. longer until probably the end of March if the season starts normally in 2021. And in between that span, he's going to have eight at bats and play two games. I mean, that's crazy.

That sounds like Tommy John surgery for a designated hitter. So that first at bat, that home run, that's the high point of the Astro season thus far. Everything else about his season has captured the 2020 Astros. I wrote a column out in The Chronicle. I mean, it's just one injury, but I was so excited to watch him play this year. I know every Astros fan was, he comes back and he hits the Homer, and then it's like, poof, he's gone again. So I don't know what they're going to get out of him moving forward because nobody does. Ryan, let's get to the Rockets.

I had them originally winning the series in six. I have altered it a little bit to five. Chris Paul hasn't played really, really well. You've seen a little bit of Danilo Garnari make a big. difference one game he doesn't. The Rockets get great shooting in one game and get just enough in the second. The defensive storyline and it's a caller brought up a half an hour ago and probably does make some sense. They found a different way to win when that three-point shot wasn't their biggest asset. Yeah, there was a very impressive win and look, we came into the playoffs and I was talking

about Dietrichs. And we all know it can just be James Harden. But Matt, the fact that they are up 2-0 in the bubble. Russell Westbrook is wearing an Iron Maiden shirt, and he's a cheerleader. James Hardy did not shoot well in game two. You have 75 points from Covington and House and Mecklamore.

Jeff Green. I mean, Jeff Green is going to end up with a like Brandon Whedon. Brandon Whedon has the old statue on Kirby Drive. They're going to have to put a statue of Jeff Green in front of the Toyota Center. If this keeps up, they've won, they've blown them out. They've won ugly. They are

2-0 and I like this 2-0, I think the flip side is I've been really disappointed in the Thunder. And here's the thing, if I'm a Thunder fan, not only did you lose Kevin Durant, oops, Russell Westbrook, oops, James Harden, oops, Billy Donovan is your coach. And if this series continues to play out like this, and I remember a 2017 first round series against the Thunder and Billy Donovan got scolded, how in the world does Billy Donovan come back as Oklahoma City's coach when you don't have anything really, you don't have a star to build around.

Chris Paul has been very disappointing. We've seen through two games. We've seen why the Rockets, you know, one of the reasons the Rockets moved on because they just didn't feel like they could trust him, not in small spurts, but over the entire arc of a regular season and trying to win the NBA finals. The Rockets have been a better team. They've been a better defensive team, which they weren't supposed to be.

And you had the other step up in game, too. So I don't see, it can go in five. I thought initially it goes six. just like you, I don't see any way in the world the Thunder win this series. I mean, they've got a 0.001 shot to win the series almost hard and goes out too, and that ain't happening. I got 30 seconds here. I've had two calls today asked about this.

Who do the Rockets want to see in round two? You don't ever usually bring that up in an 8-1 conversation. I still believe when the Lakers want to be the best like they were yesterday, they're the more difficult of the team. But I would love for the Blazers to make things at least more interesting than most 1-1-V-8 series. Yeah, no, it's a great point. Who do they want to see? They want to see the Blazers because they would beat the Blazers in the seven-game series.

Damian Lillard had been incredible prior to last night, but at some point, the Blazers are going to hit a wall again, and maybe they did last night. I need to watch this series with the Thunder play out, and you have to have Westbrook come back, and the rocket says to be clicking going into the second round. But I continue to say, the Lakers do not scare me. And if you take Anthony Davis and LeBron James versus Russell Westbrook and James Harden and in a really advanced stats way that can't flee each other out, who am I taken? I'm taking Mike Dantone over Frank Vogel and I'm taking the Rockets Bench and Eric Gordon and all their others versus Alex Caruso and J.R. Smith for crying out loud. And there's no home court advantage, Matt.

You don't have to go to L.A. You're not playing the first two games on the road. Game 7 is not at the Staples Center. Rockets have to keep it going, but they're in a good spot, a really good spot after two games in the bubble. Have a great weekend, friend. Thanks to the commentary as always. Take care, Matt. You got it. Brian T. Smith, Houston Chronicle. You can find him at Cron Brian Smith on Twitter. 213 is our time. Bottom of the hour. Fantasy 5. Food and drink you want during a hurricane with no electricity.

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So I like that we're opening up. I want to know next year. And this year Yeah Going 12 and 0 this year Matt No there won't be 12 games Oh we got 10 and no Very easily Who's the non-con

Or is there a non-con? What is the schedule like I haven't been keeping track of the American Conference games And I think North Texas Ooh that's a tough one Uh

BYU You What you're still playing BYU I guess BYU is BYU Is BYU going to have a schedule? Yeah they're scheduling a bunch of people How is their schedule looking for? They signed up Texas State, I think, and they're going to play, I think.

They might be playing UT San Antonio, too. So it looks like it's a round robin of independence. Army and Navy? Yeah. Troy, Houston. Oh, wait, some of these are postponed. Yeah, U of H's game with Rice has been postponed. Whether they replay it later this year, we don't know.

The Washington State game has been flat out canceled. They've got a big one with North Alabama. BYU does? Yeah. Okay. Got you. I see five games on the schedule. Well, they got work to do.

Honestly, Houston is like the most prestigious of them, and that's a pretty low bar. And that's how basically every school is. When you have Houston on the schedule, that's the word prestigious follows it. Army used to be good in the 40s or the 30s or something. You know, actually Army's better in the last couple of years. That's true. That's right. Actually, Army was the game that I think ultimately cost major Applewit's job.

Yeah. What bowl game did you have H-Go to last year? There were no bowl games. Sorry, they wouldn't. There were no bowl games last year? Not that I remember. They didn't stage any? No, the pandemic got him.

Are you sure about that? Back me at Brendan on this. There were no bowl games last year, right? The pandemic started in March in America? Are you sure LSU weren't the national champions, Matt? But the college football folks, as a preemptive measure, canceled all bowl games. I think I'd remember that. Yeah, man.

I think you're making that up. I won't. Because Texas took care of somebody in the Alamo Bowl. Was it USA? Well, that's, that's, you say that because you've used that line each of the last 15 years of your life. So it happens. The Alamo Bowl is a stalwart for the University of Texas. Well, at least travel isn't big. Not USC, Utah.

That's what I meant. Yeah, it looks like, looks like U of H football went four and eight last year. Well, a lot of that was because our quarterback decided he wanted to go to Miami. And definitely poor. officiating. And by the way, Damien Lillard has been clear to play game three

against the Lakers tomorrow night. Okay. St. Yeah, they got crushed by Navy in their last game. Have we heard anything official from the Rocks now? We had Mike Dantonion

and he didn't sound very middle at all. Actually, frankly, sounded more like, just relax. He ain't going to play. I wouldn't imagine he would play in the next two games

at all. It'd be a low percent chance, I would say. But didn't we basically play, we said we were playing with house money when you're up two nothing in a series.

We're going to stick with that phrase? Yes. Okay. Let's go to Christian Lamarck at 223 on 7. Any Christian, good afternoon. Yves. Ross Ville. And Brendan Riley. Hi, Christian.

Hey, Christian. Look, I'm happy that the Astros one. I'm happy that the Rockets one. I'm happier that CP3 is finally eating humble pie after realizing he's in an oh-two hole that he probably might not get out of her. But I just have to ask and seeing the fact that this

is anything goes Friday, I just have to ask it. With the virtual experience fans, you know, being gathered around their computer screen, seeing action from all over the well, actually from certain

bubbles and stuff, now the WWE has their own little bubble called the Thunderdome that's going to date you tonight on your local Fox station, Fox 26 in Houston, of course. But with the whole fan experience playing out

in multiple bubbles, the NBA is doing it, MLS is doing it, MLS's done it, the NFL is going to probably do it, so on and so forth. Do you think that the whole bubble experience is making us miss being in front of fans

or is it getting us more involved? Thank you, Christian. I would say that people are definitely going to miss being in front of fans. I think they'll come back as soon as possible. And I think people are honestly less involved with all this bubble stuff. Don't you think, Matt? Like it feels like way less invested. I mean, I hate being brutally honest, but I'm profoundly disappointed that there's

no buzz on the Rockets winning two playoff games. Yeah, I think if there were Rockets fans at those couple of games, because we always would get people calling, hey, I was at the game, this is what happened. Certainly it would happen. In the postgame settings, you'd get guys driving home from Minutemade, people driving home from Toyota's. flipping on the radio, getting out of the, you know, getting to their cars and in traffic and all that type of stuff. We just don't have that element as much. Yeah.

But that's just us. And we're not the end all be all. We are P1 sports fans. We are, I don't know. I just, I ain't feeling it. And I know we have an audience. I guess, I mean, I know I'd say, if we didn't have an audience, I'd really feel scared.

But I know we have an audience. We know that people listen and do interact and whatnot. But man, it's just. I don't know what it is. Why haven't the rockets? And I don't know. Are there other NBA cities going through the same thing? If we turned on Boston Radio right now,

are they getting into a deep dive on that 2-0 start so far for them for the Celtics? How does Los Angeles fill their one-one with, I mean, is Laker Radio going going and doing its thing? I think so. I would think so. I hope so. You know what? talk about the loss of Gordon Haywood?

The single sports towns, if I went on jazz, if we went to jazz radio, they'd be all over their series, right? Yeah, they just bounce back big time. Oklahoma City's probably talking a lot about an O2 debt. And again, when you lose, it's so much easier to discuss than an individual win.

True. So we need the Rockets to lose a game, is what you're saying. No. I need... I like a little 4-0 sweep. I want the blood flowing. And Blazers, Lakers, go to a full 7th. triple over time. But I do believe

that them not being in the respective towns is playing a factor in it, for sure. Because you don't have the experience of, man, the game last night was fun, good vibe, I got crazy. Watching Russ do be Iron Maiden on the bench is one

thing in Orlando, but if he's doing it in your home building where he's high-fiving you or you see him out there and he throws a towel at you or something, that does play a little bit of a factor for sure. I agree. All right, we are looking See, here's a problem I don't trust Brendan

I don't want to go to a seventh vote Why not? Why don't you trust Brendan? I just, the vibe I actually think I've I've picked you more times than not bad. Are you sure? Yeah. Okay, you're welcome.

What do you whining about? I think it's close, but I think I have picked you more. Then you're a valued member of our team. If it's music. He's not going to tell you, go to hell. We are looking for five judges 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 to call 713, 212.5.790. This is something that's going to resonate with all of us, right?

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My station, your station, America Station. And the Rockets. Sports Talk 790. Your home for your home teams. So Joe George, are you here on the A-Team? Who? And a guy that beat me a couple of times on Fantasy 5 until I put the spank down on him and got my belt back.

Oh, you did? Oh, yeah. What happened? I was gone for a while. We did candy. No, we did snacks to take on a flight and someone said that I like child's food. Yeah. You went with gummy bears or something stupid. You went with what? Sour Patch Kids. Hold on. Sour Patch Kids are... That's what I said. A1 candy. And some old dude called it and said that's children's food. Well, yeah. I'm sorry we didn't have Wither's originals for him. You're the sixth vote, by the way, because you came in just in the nick of

time. This is a category this week is this will be good for you Joe because this will be your first hurricane. You've been through a couple before? I've been here for five years. Oh, okay. Well, we didn't really reckon. There's been a lot of floods in the last five years. It's like my first month here was the Memorial Day Flood. We didn't really recognize you until you came working for us.

It's fair. All right. I had no clue who you were honestly. Joe George, what does he do? Is the vacuum salesman? That's not true. When I started producing for Charlie, you followed me back on Instagram. I did? Yep. Not on Twitter. You thought you were a fan probably. Probably. Charlie got an Instagram account?

No. Yeah, what's Charlie got the hose on IG or what? How many DMs is Charlie getting per week? Millions. Okay. That's his game. Good for him. All right.

Fantasy 5, we have five items in our house that we're going to have to eat and drink. Wonderful. During a hurricane with no electricity. Okay. Ross. I have the choice. First vote or votes two and three. Well, man, I got to go number one, because I got to go with the most important thing during a hurricane to get you through the sad times and to get you through the happy times talking about liquor.

You're taking the whole category of liquor. Yeah, it can't take liquor? Well, I've got two of one particular category. That's fine. You want all liquors. Well, I don't know. These are your rules. I would say, I would say narrow it down.

Narrow it down? Yeah. When do you think, Joe, that's narrow? Licker's too broad. Yeah, pick like a category. I mean, you've got a lot of great options. Yeah, I'll go with, you know what mixes with everything? It's pliable.

If you only have grape food juice. Tonic water? If you only have tomato juice, vodka goes with everything. I'll go with vodka. I will go with tequila. Okay. I got to sip it because straight, plus during a hurricane, it was floods, you're really hammered you.

That's a bad mix. next I'm going to go with a true American great snack food at the airport in the car need a little protein it's salty it's delicious beef jerky okay next

I will go with something that's also an essential certainly if you have too much vodka you're going to eat some bottled water so I'm going to go with bottled water and you know what goes good with well just about anything and I thought you were going to take this

it is sweet it is salty it is varied and it lasts forever Trail Mix Not even on my board Not a bad call But just not on the board Okay I need a sandwich

Yeah And you know what I've been eating on the road in the NBA Like all the other NBA players do If you need a fix for a sandwich And obviously you can't have cold roast beef or ham or turkey I'm going with PB&J sandwiches Oh PB&J sandwiches Oh PBMJ

Okay interesting Next, I'm going to go with a cereal to just kind of snack on. All right. I'm going to go fruit loops. Don't need the milk because the milk's spoiled, but I'm just going to have fruit loops. But I'm just going to have fruit loops. Well, just a pro tip, soy and almond milk lasts longer. That's gross.

Have you not had soy almond milk? I don't like either one of them. They're fine. I'm sure they're fine. That's just, you know what? I'm just letting you know. I'm going dry. Not by cereal.

You don't want to go dry, Matt. That's a bad idea. That's true. All right, you get the next two You know what? I'm going to go with also a sandwich option It is canned It is delicious

And it lasts forever I'm going with a tuna fish sandwich Hmm Not on the board out But again not a terrible pick Next You don't put mayonnaise in there though You don't put mayonnaise in your tuna fish

I mean you're well When you're in a hurricane You might not have the option Depends how long the mayonnaise lasts Maybe with a sandwich spread perhaps Okay Next Now I got gross

I guess it's your fault You know what Sometimes you need something hearty You need something with a little more substance You need something that's going to stick in your gut I'm going with Chef Boyardee ravioli Oh

Yes Rose Non-heated Ravioli from chef boy RD Yeah Ah Yack Oh I'm sorry

Dry Fruit Loops guy I'm not going to get viciously sick on dried fruit loops Eating chef birdie Dryed fruit loops for a meal I'm not at these aren't meals This is something to hang out with Okay whatever gross What to hang out with I thought we were eating meals

I thought we were surviving on this stuff You we are I can survive on PB and J beef jerky Well I'm going to survive better than tea Well this is a cool This is the worst category since soups This is a great category I like this category Thank you very much

Jay who does come work with the show on a regular basis It's terrible. And then I'm going to go with staying in the... I'm such a big breakfast guy. Okay. I'm going to go with something again that is available. It comes in a box. Wonderful.

Frosted strawberry is my personal favorite. I'm going to pop tarts. Okay. So, Ross, you have vodka, bottled water, trail mix, tuna fish sandwiches, and ravioli. Your digestive system is going to be in for a... terrible, terrible weekend. The trail mix is going to smooth that right out. It's got your protein and your fiber. I'm going with tequila, beef jerky, PB&J, fruit loops, and pop tarts.

Time for the judges to put their votes in on the Fantasy Five. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-5-790. Joe George, you are the sixth vote. Brendan Riley, you are the seventh vote. We need two more on the regular line. 7-1-3-2-5-790. again, Ross, vodka, bottled water, trail mix, tuna fish sandwiches, and ravioli. I'm going tequila, beef jerky, P.B, and J,

fruit loops, and pop tarts. So the only thing you're drinking the entire time is tequila. I'll drink tap water. No, it's on your list. Well, it's available to me, right? No. It's not on your list. So you're on a tequila diet.

Talking about my digestive system. I could sip. I'll have to sip. You're going to sip some crushed up fruit loops with tequila? Hey, it's a hurricane. It's only three or four days. Kyle on 790 who wins a fantasy five, me or Ross. We've got to be honest, both these lists suck,

but I'll give it to you, Matt, for Pop-Tarts. Thank you very much. Both these lists suck because this category sucks. Brandon, does this list suck? This category suck? I don't hate it. Thank you. Not as much as Ross does.

You're just a hater. Period. You just wreak of hate. James on 790, who wins a fantasy five? Oh, Robert, if you, can I say something? That was terrible, Ross. This is amateur hour, and I've got a pro tip on the apple jacks or fruit loops. It's U.H.T. milk, it's that milk that you can put on the shelf.

What is it? That doesn't need refrigeration. It's milk that comes in a carton. You mean like homogenized? Is that what that is, or what? Like carnation? Ultra high temperature. Now it's just ultra high temperature.

Huh. You know, like Horizon makes it. They blow fat, chocolate. All right, I got us. So you're voting for me, right? Oh, yeah. There's no doubt. Okay.

Thank you. Good job, Matt. All right. Line three, Sam, who wins a fantasy five? Ross or me? Man, I'm eating a bag of trail weeks right now. This was gross. Matt Thomas, you are, my stepdad.

You win. Thank you. There's your stepson. That's three. I need one more. Am I going to even get one vote? The ravioli is one of your all-time worst bits. Why don't know what's wrong with the ravioli?

Jerry on seven. You're going to have fruit roots with tequila. Jerry on 790, who wins a fantasy five? Ross. You got a vote. Congratulations. Three one. Let's go to Allen on 790.

Alan, who wins a fantasy five? A bunch of haters. It is absolutely disgusting. No, it's not. You get the job done? I would never eat it if we had electricity. I got emergency ravioli in my pantry right now. You do?

Yeah. I think of a grocery shop. I was supposed to do that today. All right, Joe. Your vote doesn't count, but who's going? I mean, here's the thing, like, I would have taken Gatorade if I were you with the last P. Probably, probably.

I missed it. See, here's the thing. Okay. I like beef jerky more than I like Tremax. But I love vodka. I hate tequila. Okay. I like water, and I'm tuna over P.B.N.J.

So, based on majority rules, I probably would have gone wrong. Well, you can go to hell then. All right, Brandon, Ronnie. What do you got? I actually would have gone Matt pretty easy. Okay. The only major miss I had was, was any sort of cereal.

Oh, I love eating dry cereal. That's a snack. Go get me frosted flakes. What are you, two? Oh, yeah. By the way, other things on my list, I would have gone Hawaiian Punch, apple juice,

honey roasted peanuts, frosted flakes. Well, enjoy your tequila diet. What's your substance, during? That's what I'm saying. There's no substance. Jerky.

Jerky is not substance. If you need enough of it, it is. You jerk enough, you get enough substance. What? Beef jerky enough. Yeah, if you get enough,

be furkey. That's not your fault. One of the great categories of all time. Yeah, it's funny. Anytime a category sucks is when you lose. I said before, I said segment one. Check the take. Segment one.

Next Friday, I don't get a vote on the category. Okay. Because I say every week, what do you got for category? We're doing best JZ songs next week. I'd be happy to do that. It's for you. I've got six days to figure that out. 1245 on Sports Talk 790.

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and nearly became a priest as he spent two years at a seminary in Iowa. Hell yeah, hell yeah! Statement number two for the win. During the 1960s, Richard Simmons traveled to Italy, where he appeared in an Italian film and worked as a, quote, fat model. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, that's right.

You're going to Big Rivers. All right. Line number three. Rob on 790, Rob. You ready to play hell yeah or not? Let's proceed with it now. Before starting his prolific weight loss, Richard Simmons reached a peak weight of 344 pounds. Hell yeah or not?

Oh, not is correct. He got to 268. statement number two for the win. During the 1990s, Richard Simmons has a regular work as a voice actor. He voiced characters in the films James and the Giant Peach, a bug's life, and the Iron Giant.

Hell yeah, or not? I'll say not. Not is correct. You're going to Big Rivers. Congratulations. Garrett on 790. Garrett, you're ready to play Hell yeah or not? Yeah, I'm ready.

Richard Sim. Thank you, sir. Richard Simmons was sued by Warner Brothers records in 1986 after using Frankie Valley in the four seasons, oh, what a night, without permission, Simmons settled for an undisclosed amount. Hell yeah or not? That's, I'll say, hell not. Not is correct. Statement number two for the win. In the 1980s, Richard Simmons released a workout video for senior citizens that featured the fathers of Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman and the mother of Farah Fawcett. Hell yeah.

or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah. That's right. There's our third winner. You did not stump them on Richard Simmons today. That's shame. So he's really alive?

I think. Do we know where that video that you saw earlier? He put a YouTube video up four days ago. But he could have been his friend who has him still in hiding. I mean, maybe. I don't know. All right. Let me remind you about Big City Wings.

I'll tell you what. Richard Simmons, if you are alive and well, you want to get some great wings tonight, go to Big City Wings with eight soon to be locations in the Houston area. All I ask you to do is walk in there and say, yes, Matt, tell me about the $3 margaritas. And yeah, that's available to you at Big City Wings. Half-price appetizers at 9 o'clock. Dine-in, takeout, curbside pickup, delivery. Houston's wing joint is Big City Wings. And today you get the wings, you get the fries,

you get the dessert, you get a salad, you get a burger, and you get $3 margaritas at any of the eight, Soon-a-Nine, Big City Wings locations. If I'm the one near you, you go to to bigcitywings.com. That's bigcitywings.com. All right, I will join you guys for Rockets. Tomorrow, I've got Astros on deck tonight at 7 o'clock. Leading into the opening day of the weekend series of the Astros try to go for nine in a row against the pottery team

that has scrant slams in each of their last four games. Four Ross for Brendan. I'm Matt Wexler. Clatt next. They're the A team, and they're on the way next on 790.