The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Dusty Baker Reflects On Front Office Battles, Rockets Final Preseason Game, How Much Can You Make From Donating Plasma?

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the latest comments from former Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker regarding his past battles with the front office. Matt and Ross also discuss:the Rockets final preseason matchupthe Texans dealing with multiple injuries on defensethe Cougars taking on Kansas with head coach Willie Fritzthe worst NFL teams in "Ross' Rotten Five"the best fantasy football advice with Dr. Rotohow much it costs to donate plasma and more

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-1 at H-town. What's happening in lunchtimers? Thanks for listening. And welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports 790 with Ross. It's not the Matt Thomas show with Ross. It's just the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

It's fine. It's getting wordy. It is. No, it's not worthy. We had to add Connor McGovern there. Oh, he'll be asking for stuff eventually. Oh, yeah. Making a lot of demands.

Yeah. That's okay. We're used to it. Once his football team became relevant, in college football. Well, and then the Aggie smacked him down. And then he's rotating three girls at one time. Not like at one time, but I mean, in... Why do you keep putting that man's business on the air? Because he's happy. What if one of his ladies started listening? There's zero chance of that. You're dry snitching right now is what

you're doing. That's not necessary. Nobody needs to hear that. Okay. Let's talk some sports. Let's get the show started and not try to put Connor McGovern on blast and get him in trouble with his ladies. I will never talk about any of those three ladies you're dating at one time ever again. That's a lie. All right. At least he knows. It is a busy show on this Thursday. We're coming up today at 1.30. We will get a complete fantasy breakdown of the world of the national football league with a good doctor rhodo. Can't wait.

He'll be with us until 2 o'clock today. Is he going to resuscitate the Toros? We've dropped two in a row. I lost a client, which is just a... Oh, I'm playing a professional embarrassment. You don't want to lose it to Clinton. You just don't. It's not good. Not good.

So we got that. We got Willie Fritz. Cougars are back in action Saturday. Let's go. 2.30 on ESPN, baby. Plus. It's fine. You're basically on pay-per-view at this point every week.

No, because you've got to pay for it. You know what? That's what I'll spin it. It's such a great matchup that people are going to have to pay to watch it. It's like Tyson Holyfield. You got to pay to watch it. It's a heavyweight match. If this was 1978, it would be a close.

circuit game. Who were they playing again? Kansas Jayhawks. And what's the over under attendance on that game? Now, I told you that when I looked at the Kansas box score, they had 47K in there. Which they had been in college. They were counting the workers, I think. Like I said, I'm looking forward to going because I've never been, of all the places, there's bucket list of places I want to go. Arrowheads on it? Ironically enough, two of them are in Kansas. I want to go to Allen Fieldhouse. Okay. And I wanted to go to Arrowhead Stadium. Well, I'm knocking off Arrowhead Stadium in the list on Saturday. That's great. It doesn't count, though.

I'm sorry. Technically, you're right. It's like seeing a minor league game at Wrigley. It doesn't really count. I know, but at least I know what it's like. Okay. You can see if it's the structure. Because here's the thing.

Do you know some of the coldest games ever in NFL history have been in Kansas City? That is true. And thankfully, I will not be partaking in any of that. That's why don't go in these road games during the playoff time? Why do you want to go to Kansas City when it's minus nine? Wasn't there a game last year that was, oh, and Miami went there? Remember how bad Miami was like, oh, we didn't scare the weather? Yeah, you are.

You lost like three touchdowns. And then people were trying to tough it out and act how cool they were. And then they got, I think a bunch of people got frostbite, right? And their fingers amputated. I mean, I know Chiefs fandom is big. Hey, I'm a tough guy. I'm going to be out here in the snow. Oh, my foot just got amputated. Yeah, and I cannot feel my fingertips.

Yeah. Not great. I got to be honest with you. Okay. Because I don't usually lie to you. I mean, I would, but not in this particular case. Only eight times a day you say. Is the NFL game the least

appealing I got to be in person game? Because let me give me my example. Sunday night football, Monday night football, Thursday night football. Absolutely. But if I have a chance to be at home, watch my team, and oh, by the way, flip on another game, or if I buy the direct, in that's our TV, the Roo-Rub Sunday ticket or the Red Zone, that's my day.

Right. Yeah, I think you're right because internet and stadiums are typically terrible. Well, the thing is, too, in the NFL, there's like, let's say, for example, you want to go to Georgia, Texas, and Austin. You can tailgate and catch the 11 o'clock in 2.30 games, and then you go to your game. In the NFL, there's like eight games going on at once. You don't want to miss what's going on. Right. And again, internet's terrible, typically.

I've never been to an stadium in sports and going, wow, the Wi-Fi is incredible in here. Yeah, there was a time and a place where we would do Texans post-game shows on this radio station. And I didn't like doing them because it would be on at three and I'd want to catch all the other games. I got news for you. Nobody was listening. That's not true. And we got full boards of calls on those, Matt. So I listened.

There were many. Full board for like a segment. Yeah. It was the same poor people. We had Mason Maddock, we were getting full boards of calls, depending on, depending on, mostly if they lost. It's funny. Houston fans typically only call when they lose.

I think that's, I don't know, I can't, I guess I can't really speak to other fan bases. Was it like that in Minnesota? Did you get more calls for losses than wins? Well, that was a special case because when I was there, Brett Farve had just gotten there. And it was such hysteria for having the Green Bay Packer wearing Minnesota Viking gear. That's like a Hatfield joining the McCoys. A blood joining the crib, if you will. Oh, wow.

Okay. And then he got his clavicle exploded on the turf of the Minnesota Golden Gophers. For two straight years, we had to do airport watch when he would fly a private plane from Hattiesburg. And so one year he flew into one airport in the area. And then next year he flew another airport to kind of catch people off guard. Really? And it didn't work either way. Hmm.

This is going back. That was what, that was 16 years ago. Okay. Now we're watching Alex. Bregman's private plane. Where's he going? I don't know. I'm just kidding. Well, I think. It's probably flight 309 on Boris Airlines. Yeah. Just follow the Boris plane. Yeah. All right. So, yeah, I would say that's probably the most, uh, now if you're, if you're, the most diehard fan probably is a football fan, right? I mean, because you only get, you only get eight or nine chances to see your team in person. College football fan most diehard.

Okay, but yeah. But in the NFL, you get nine chances at most in meaningful games. So you make events for it. You tailgate. You do this. So you lose some of that if you're at home. But yeah, for me, it's the least attractive place for me to go watch a game in person. Like a baseball game, I can sit back and enjoy myself.

But if I miss the one or two, there's one three or four days on the road. If you're a football fan, if you're a Texan fan, you get nine shots. That's all you get. So that's maybe the reason why the passion is there perhaps more than any other sport. But at the same time, it's probably the least attractive. It's time to go spend because, again, at home, I got Sunday ticket on, I got Red Zone, I got other games on. I'm happy. It's my decompressed day, if you will.

That's good. You can hang out and watch the Texans beat the Green Bay Packers. Gordy had the line of the day on the radio station. He did? Yeah. I'm proud of them. And Stan North Fleet was talking about the Packers wearing white helmets and white jersey tops and white pants. It's a whiteout in Green Bay.

And Gordy didn't flippantly say. He just said, oh, it's always a whiteout in Green Bay, which is actually true. Okay. That Minnesota to Green Bay Drive, which I've done twice in my life, very interesting. You just go to these weirdo bars. in the middle of nowhere in Wisconsin. You're stopping at bars on a road trip? Hey, we did both times.

We get a couple of pops and see you through? Yeah, we weren't over the limit. Okay. But we definitely, like, that must have been you and Greg Cook. The people I was with were Minnesota people that have been to Green Bay before, and we're like, we've got to stop off in Sheboygan, you know, these weirdos Wisconsin towns.

Yeah. By the way, if you want to go to the game on Sunday, you can get some tickets. The Texan. Yeah, the Texans gave back part of the, their allotment of tickets. Oh, they don't have enough people going up there? Traveling Texans said, I'm good. Interesting.

So, and I've never really heard of that. I mentioned it's on the show yesterday. If you're going to go to a road game, this is the one you go to. I would think so. And by the way, temperature is supposed to be 73 degrees on Sunday in Greenback. That's great. First of all, amazing stadium, great environment, reeks of history. It reeks of smelling of brots and hot dogs and all that good stuff and burgers and whatnot.

There is a target two blocks in the stadium in case you forget anything. Okay. It is so weird. It's in a middle of a neighborhood. Yes. Surrounded by strip centers. Hmm. That is weird.

If you could place where you think Green Bay's Lambeau Field is, you would never, in a million years, think where it is. Where do you park at the Target? I guess, I mean, you could park in the parking lots. I'm sure they jack it up to $100, whatever. But people leave their front yards available for you to park around. It's really odd. Interesting. but it's a great place.

So if you know anybody that can get you to, and look, you don't have to stay in Green Bay because first of all, the hotel rates are astronomical. There are not very many. Milwaukee's about hour 45 drive. It's not terrible.

45. I think it was closer than that. No, it's about 110 miles. But you can also go to Madison, too, and stay there and get kind of the college feel of Wisconsin. You know, Madison, Wisconsin is basically the Austin, Texas, of the north. Okay.

So it's got really bad traffic. and homeless shanty towns? No, I have just been told over the years the vibe at Wisconsin is very similar with the vibe of Texas. That's all, I'm just going off what people tell me. I don't know if there's, you know,

there's issues beyond that, but that's just they're saying that if you wanted a northern vibe of what Texas is, it'd go to Wisconsin football game. So it used to be a hippie haven, and now it's taken over by corporate overloads and finance bros. I mean, I really could have said it by myself.

So you're telling me that Austin lost charm. A lot of the soul of Austin has gone. You can still find it. Let me tell you this. You have on this radio show told us that Austin is lost at soul. Yes. You have told us that Las Vegas is lost at soul. Correct. Where is a soulful city sports, Harvey? New Orleans still has a soul. Oh, please. There's just urine on there and vomit. That's part of the soul of New Orleans. That's no. In crime. That's just on Bourbon Street. It's crime all over. It's not safe. I've never felt, I've never felt unsafe in New Orleans once. Well, I go three times a year.

I don't feel always particularly great. Oh, have anything ever happened to you? Not that I'm going to mention on air. You've been accosted or robbed? Maybe. You're a liar. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

Dr. Roto at 130 today. 2 o'clock, Willie Fritz. 2.30 the rotten five. Five worst teams in the NFL. And you'll hear them here exclusively. Oh, is that today? It's been Thursday ever since we started doing it this year. Okay.

It's funny. We've done things for like 15 years on the show and you feel like it's the first time we've ever heard it. It slips my mind. And we've got a rocket's preseason game tonight against San Antonio Spurs. Wonderful. So we've got a power pack show. Plus, Dusty Baker, a few little jabs of the old Astros organization. Oh, really? We'll have that at the bottom of the hour here.

I can't wait. I didn't catch that. 713-213-2-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90. Hey, friends, would you like to purchase a new vehicle, but you're really worried about the interest rates that some of these dealerships are giving? you. Well, how about going to the Shell Federal Credit Union where you can get a good interest rate, outstanding customer support, $250 in cash back, also two skip a pays a year, and deferred payment option as well. All with the Shell Federal Credit Union. Please do me a favor. When I went to go purchase a vehicle

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Dudes on dudes. I don't think Gronk and Edelman will have me on their podcast. I don't even know who host it. Yep. It's Rob Grunkelski and Julian Edelman. Are you more fatigued on Kelsey's or Gron? Kelsey's are a little much. Shout out to Taylor Swift.

She is so famous. She got the brother of the man that she is dating to be on like 16 commercials. Yeah. It's intense. Concurrently. It's intense. Now, Jason Kelsey was kind of mildly. famous but nobody outside of the sphere of the

NFL knew who Jason Kelsey was. I mean, all time great, going to be a Hall Fame center and all that, but by far the least popular of the Kelsey Boys. He's on chunky swoop. He's on this mediocre wing company. Mediocre is honestly being nice to the quality of their wings. He

does commercials for, he's on NFL Sundays like every single commercial break almost. Now, was he just the hidden treasure in this? Or did they, is he just gravy training like Ben Verlander does to his brother? I think he's decent enough on air and talent. Funny enough on these commercials.

He's a decent enough actor, but yeah, he's huffing the fumes of Taylor Swift's fame. I'm glad you went there. I was like, huffing what fumes? I was a little worried there for a minute. 713-212-5-790. By the way, Carly and Kim, my wife and my daughter are going to Taylor Swift, not this weekend, but next. Yeah, you bought these tickets like six years ago, didn't you? It's a final run of the Ares Tour.

Oh, the Ares Tour? The Ares Tour is a millennium. She got in on the Ares Tour when it started, and they're going when they're finished. I'm like, do you understand she's going to sing the same songs? And she's like, well, Dad, how long is Paul McCartney singing the same song? Oh! Okay, that's too shay. She's got a great point.

How many more times you need to see Bussed up Paul McCartney go out there and whisper his songs in his 80s? I'm actually done. Oh, yeah, that's right. You said you're done. Now, I am going... I'm just seeing him the Dickie Center. Oh, God, I have the worst seats, too. $500 for the absolute worst tickets in the building.

Yeah, see, you're trying to judge me for spending $500 to watch Georgia, Texas. I didn't really, I didn't select the tickets. If I didn't know I was getting $500 for the crappy tickets. Now, my... This is really strange, and I'm going to go to sports, I promise. My middle son, Peyton, who is a soon-to-be fight in Texas A&M grad. When's he graduating? In May.

Oh, wow. You'll be getting an announcement. Oh, does that mean you're trying to get me to get him a present? Yeah. Okay. Well, I like him better than you, so I'll try to get him. Yeah. You never have to give me another thing in your life.

Give my kids things. So during the winter break, he was going to go with me to see Barry Mantle. He likes Barry Mantle like I do. And it got canceled. He likes Barry Manlo? I don't know how that happened. Because I never pushed it on him. I would hope you didn't.

He played in his. crib? So his mother took his place at the concert when it was rescheduled after Barry Ann COVID. I don't think she wanted to be there. She went, she had a good time. So we sent him a photo of us singing at the concert. That's right. And he was not happy.

So he doesn't know this yet, but he's in class, but we're going to go see him in Vegas. Oh, well. You should go with us. When? Next year sometime. Okay. Probably after the rocket season. I'm not going to Barry Manilow. Is he still at the Westgate? Yeah. Oh, that's good. And then bust him down at the Orleans or something? So he wants his like, does

at the hotel where Vegas performed. I said, yeah, in the Hilton back in the 60s and 70s. And it's like, let's stay there. And I'm like, I went and looked at the rates. I'm like, $300 a night. I'm like, the hell I'm sent to Westgate for $300 a night. It's well off strip. Well off strip. It's almost like South Reno.

I mean, I love their sports book. And the NFL Sundays, that's the place to be. That is the place to go. That is the place to go. But yeah, so that's just my little, I don't know how we got to. That's just my family's musical. Put it that way. It'll wrap up the conversation. Oh, wow.

Barry Manelow. Keeping the Thomas family together. But I'm done with Paul McCartney. Love it. And I'm probably done with Ringo Starr, too. I've seen it plenty of times. Good. All right, let's get to sports.

713, 212, 570. Again, Dusty Baker with some interesting comments. I've not heard them, I've read them. But I want to hear it in his tone of voice. So we'll hear that coming up in just a couple of seconds. Needless to say, a couple of subtle jabs, the old former organization that used to call him the manager. Love it.

I would expect nothing less. Let's go to and talk to my buddy, Kyle in Pearland at 713-212-5-790 and 1223. Kyle, good afternoon to you. Hey, Matt, how you doing? I'm going to talk to Rockets, and I want to tell you that Barry Mantelo show at the Westgate's awesome. Oh, I'm glad to hear that. Oh, he puts on quite a show. Great.

I'm glad to hear that. This is all great news for me. Happy to hear it. Well, I know you already knew, but Ross, he doesn't have a lot of taste of music, so, you know, that's the way it goes. But that's right. Anyway, with the rockets, you know, top to bottom, we're pretty strong. Do you see them making a trade to get a superstar? Because they got way too many players.

I don't know if they got enough rotation. The rotation will play itself out. There are a lot of back-to-backs. The NBA is going back to play more back-to-back. So I think you're going to see some guys taking some nights off. They're playing more now? Yeah. What happened?

I don't know. But they're more than they have. Does the PA lose? Lose a case? I don't know. I don't know. I think they're... The players at the end of the day don't care because they're missed... A lot of them

are not playing in the back-to-backs. Yeah, that's what I thought the NBA would care because that's costing them some marquee, ESPN, TNT games. They already got their new TV deal. They're fine. Okay, they don't care. They're not overly concerned. Are you looking... I'm going to assume you're going to say that if there was a member of the

Phoenix Suns, it would be maybe available. I think the Rockets would kick a tire on a superstar, a Duran, or a Devin Booker. But I think they want to, first full, two things have to play out. The Sun's got to figure out if their contenders are not this year. And secondly, the Rockets have got to figure it out. And if the Rockets are playing up to expectations and playing beyond it,

I don't think they're searching for, you know, in Kent Durant's case, 37-year-old towards the twilight of his career player. But as terms of a mega-mega-star that would be available in the middle of the season, the only way I can potentially see that happening is if things really go south and somewhere and that particular player says I'm not coming back like I'll give you an example and thank you for the phone call I don't think uh Janus is going to leave Milwaukee but I believe it's his last year of his contract of his rookie deal I know he re-uped recently did he honest I thought Janice I there were again I'll have to double check but I thought he's under contract for a while

but there was a there was some talk of would Milwaukee break up the pieces if the bucks were to struggle this year. Maybe he has opt-outs or something. I'll go look. Yeah. But I think the names that will be brought up will be Kevin Durant and Devin Booker. I think the whole NBA world

is kind of curious to see exactly what happens with what happens in Phoenix. This is two more years for Janus. Okay. $54 million and $58 million. But you could, you still could trade that. Yeah. Well, you could trade them.

Yeah. I don't think the rockets are in that category just yet. I think if the Rockets are going to ever make a splash Ross, you tell me you disagree or agree. We don't have any answer to this. They're not going to do it so much via midseason trade. I can see them doing something in the offseason or saving money and going to get that guy in free agents.

They're going to have a ton of cap space in this off season. Fred Van Vleet's $40 plus million is coming off the books. We have a team option if you want to keep them for another year. And then Jalen Green and Alperin Shingoon. We'll see what happens with them if they get extensions, but you can make them qualifying offers and then make them restricted free agents. Right.

But you're going to have a ton of cap space if you're the rockets. At the moment, according to Hoops Hype, only 39 million on the books next year. This was a plan. This is, in phase two or round two? Phase two. What was the other example? Not round two, phase two. Step two.

Sure, why not? Skip to Maloo. Uh-huh. Eschelon. And the reality is this. Are they pacing themselves at the proper time? Like, who is the megastar team in the Western Conference? Is it Oklahoma City?

I would say Oklahoma City or Denver. Can you, can those teams take a step back? And maybe in a year from now, it's just the, it's the Rockets in Oklahoma City competing for maybe supremacy in the Western Gulf. I mean, what is Dallas? Is Dallas going to be around the top of the list every year? I don't know. I guess Kyrie Irving's getting older, but that look at Donchish guy's pretty good. But Clay Thompson is there now, I mean, which is weird.

Yeah, but he's, that's the ghost of Clay Thompson. But then the question is, okay, so the rockets are ready to ascend. And we'll guess who may be also ready to ascend, the Memphis Grizzlies, the San Antonio Spurs. Yes. I mean, so you'd like to space it properly, but you just can't. Yeah. I just feel like they're far off from being a Western contender right now. They just are.

But maybe not a year from now, if they were to go make a splash. If they make a splash in the agency. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-1-7-90. How about that a rocket call to open up the show today? That's beautiful. Zero problem with that. Rockets and Spurs.

Taking on the Spurs tonight. 630 pregame show. 7 o'clock with yours, you're going to be listening? I'll be watching on TV. I'll be listening to Craig and Ryan. That's fine. They do a great job.

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Let me take a look here. It is the largest air conditioner manufacturer headquartered in Japan. Is what Michael Schwab is saying. So whether that's true. Yeah, I heard this from a, I heard this a few weeks ago. Okay. And I can't remember the source or who told me. Like, I don't buy air conditioners.

I bought one of my life. Okay. Because every house I've had, it's had one, and then I've had one break, which is about two years ago. And I know the name of the company, because it's a major, but I couldn't name five air conditioning manufacturers. Okay. Me either. So I don't, this is money that's wall spent or not. I don't know. I don't know. Did you go and buy a lot more minute-made juice the last 20 years than you would have? My daughter drinks Apple, so I guess in theory, yes.

Okay. I mean, I didn't buy any sunny B. but you love it. I don't like Sunny D. No. If anybody that's been consuming more D around here, it's been you, the Sunny D. No, you've been guzzling it down. I have not.

Far from it. All right, let's get to back to sports before this. We lose all sanity. So, former Astros manager, Dusty Banker, was on a podcast, mentioned not a podcast called The Show with Joel Sherman and John Heyman. Heyman's a douche. I don't know if Sherman is, but comes across.

If you're doing anything with John Heyman, you're a douche. Yeah, I think Joel Sherman, he was, there was something that happened. Was he the one pressing Alex Bregman or something and everybody got upset at him? I can't remember. Okay, but I mean, anything associated with John. He was a dochy stuff too. Yeah, so I wouldn't listen to it. It's probably a large waste of time.

Just follow the dudes on dudes podcasts. No, just the Crawford box cast, brought to you by Carbot Brewing. Oh, I've heard. With me and Chris Gordy. I've heard. It feels like it's just repeats of things you'd hear on $7.00 during the course today. true. Dusty Baker spoke fondly of both Astros owner Jim Crane in the city of Houston.

He wasn't as keen on the club's baseball operations at large. Now, Connor, do you want to go with one or two? What makes more sense to play? Are they both time not sensitive? Does one make more sense than the other one playing which cut? All right. He was not allowed to pick his own staff, and I don't think he was overly happy to represent.

about that. Here's the cut. You know, the thing about modern baseball now is that, you know, you're expected to, you know, to kind of fall in line on what they want you to do. And then, if it doesn't work, you're out there by yourself, explain it and justify it, you know, and say we when it really wasn't we, but it was, it was day, but you can't say they, because then you don't sound like a loyal employee, you know, like I. love Houston and uh you know i like the organization i like uh jim crane especially because you know he's one of the few people in in the game that never you know told me a lie and i'm big on on on you know being honest with me and you know but the one thing that that kind of bothered me a

little bit is that i only chose one one person on my staff and you know when you choose your staff most of the time loyalty comes with it. Not to say they were disloyal, but, you know, that was AJ Hensis staff. Everybody there except one guy. So I've got a lot of different angles on this in no particular order. Okay. I don't think Dusty was ever told by the organization. I don't have those firsthand.

But Dusty probably was not told, you can pick who you want and then they reneged on that. No, I don't think so. I think, I think Dusty took the job knowing that the staff that was. currently in place they liked. So if he didn't like, if that was a huge deal breaker for him, then he doesn't take the job, right? Correct. So I don't necessarily know if I'm going to spend a lot of time feeling bad for destiny that he didn't have the people around him when he knew the job was, if you want to be a manager, again in baseball, we've got the components, we have the lie lieutenants in place. Yeah.

He was pruning great plants. Number two. I don't know how that works in major league baseball, but. In the NBA world, most teams do not select their assistant coaches. Now, if somebody comes in and says, I've got to have this guy, that can work. But I know for a fact when Mike Dan Tony was the head coach of the team, that Mike Dan Tony didn't choose a lot of his assistants. I think EMA was a little bit different because EMA was being sought after by a bunch

of different teams. So I think it's a bargaining chip. And I don't think at that point, and I'm just trying to put the two and two together. I don't think Dusty had a huge bargaining power. Dusty was out of baseball. Dusty was 70 plus. He wasn't being interviewed for multiple jobs at a year-to-year basis. So, again, if you've got leverage, then you take advantage of the leverage. If you don't have it, then you have to say, okay, then I will take the job.

So in that regard, while I understand it's cool to have people around you, I don't think the Astros bait and switch them and said, oh, you bring who you want, and then, oh, by the way, now you can't. And I also think that's probably smart on behalf of the Astros. because you want the old school sensibilities of Dusty Baker and the folksiness and all that type of stuff, but you also want to run your team in

modern day baseball, which had been highly successful for the Astros, with Jeff Luno and A.J. Hinch. Here is Dusty Baker comment number one about talking about going against the front office, wanting to win back-to-back World Series, his retirement,

off-season, and he's reflecting. This is a minute 48 of Bill's Astroskip. Okay. some of the battles with the front office I've had for a number of years. Sometimes you get tired of fighting City Hall on something that you are ready, that you're sure about. Now, granted, I did want to win back to back. That's what I wanted to do probably more than eight days of the reason. You know, I came back.

And let's face it, at 70 years old, you know, most people have just drawn their pension and their Social Security. and, you know, I was making a good living and doing what I like to do. All right. Is there a little bit more of another cut with a little bit more, maybe we'll fast forward to that part. Nothing salacious there.

That's good. Do you know one thing I didn't is I've watched so little the baseball playoffs because frankly, if ain't the Astros, I don't care. Well, it's going to be the Yankees and the Dodgers. He's been doing the TBS pregame show.

Have you known that? I did not know that either. I've been watching. And Dusty's, it's been always been good on television. He used to work for ESPN and he was in between managerial jobs. I don't make it a point to flip on the pregame show of anything. Yeah, I'm either.

Like on Sunday, if I'm watching 10 hours of football, the 11th hour is not the NFL today. Except Rockets Launchpad here on Sports Talk 790. And what time is that tonight? Astro's on deck. Well, in the regular season. Oh, actually, you want me to do launch pads at 6 o'clock? I'm on from 6630.

Are you really? Yeah. We can just tape the whole thing right now. Do the best of the mad time I show with Raw 6'6.30. Can you think, can we find 30 minutes for a best of stuff? You've taken kind of tough. You did a couple of breaks. You probably could get it to it.

Yeah, for sure. So, yeah, nothing crazy there. I still think Dusty would want it to come back. I just think it was time. Okay. I think the organization probably felt very good about Joe Espott. And they felt like if Joe's been a patient lieutenant through the AJ years, through the dusty years, and, you know, if... I thought he did a good job this year.

Yeah. I mean, nobody was perfect. No first year managers would be perfect. I guarantee you when we talked to Joe next. year down in spring training be like you know what give us your greatest accomplishment and you're the thing you'd like to take back anybody would do that so yeah i i i don't think there was anything and you help me with this it felt like to me that the lowest of hanging fruit is blaming the manager yes so the first two months of the year is everything was wrong with joe spotted over his head

even a radio host suggested they called dusty back to see if you wanted to come back i won't mention who that name is but it rhymes with man born meat. Man born meat? It still rhymes. Okay. I'm just trying to, you know, the gears are turning, man. But it's funny, the last four months of the year when they were playing 600

baseball, you can hear word one about how great of a manager, Joe Spoutary was. Yeah. While Jordan Montgomery was imploding with the Diamondbacks. Scott Boris got lost a client out of that. Yes, he did. All right, so there you go. There's just a little dusty from a podcast that I would not recommend. because again, John Heyman's just bad dude.

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And dudes on dudes. Dudes on dudes. And I believe Missouri football this week, hosted by Connor McGovern. Hmm. If we could get him on the payroll for that, that would be nice. How big is that Missouri, like, what do they call it, alumni group? In Houston? Like, is there a place to watch Missouri football on the weekends?

We've talked about this. They go to the big city marquee. Do they really? There's a guy who used to be in the band. He brings his trombone and they play the fight song over and over. Huh. I don't know if Connor's been out for. one of those. I couldn't tell

if you were being sarcastic or not. Is that actually this actually happened? He doesn't know. No, you know, Ben DuBose. Yes, I'm being serious. He's locked on rockets, right? Is that what he is? He, well, no, he's rocket. He used to be locked on rockets. Now that is Jackson Gatlin. Oh, okay. He's on the Rockets Wire, which is partnered with USA

today. Okay. That's Missouri. He's thoroughbred 100% Missouri. Yeah. You're going to find out where that's going. I've been to the alumni meetings here in town. meetings. What do you all do in the meetings? Break bread? I don't know. Just get together. Hear about updates from the university? Happy hour? Mixers?

Yeah. Free drinks. Yeah, free drinks. And I will not ask if he's met anybody there. Networking. Not we're going to ask. Good, Matt. That's none of your business. I'm taking, I'm taking your lead on this. I didn't cross anyone's mind except yours. You don't know that. Seriously, you don't mean to tell me that people don't go to alumni things not to hook up with people? You can use that as a natural segue? I'm sure that's a good way to meet people. yeah. Yeah, so it's not a terrible thought

on my part. The ones I've been to, I'm by far the youngest person there, though. Oh, well, if you're going to go rope a cougar or something. I'm going to say you're going cougar chasing in Tiger Country. Grab one by the tail. Just one drink, I think, probably. That's a package of Sigs. You're the worst. I'm sorry. You know what? I want to apologize,

Connor. No, you don't have to apologize for anything. It shows free foreman, baby. It's free what? Free form. We just talk whatever we want. Look at the Ross, read the headlines. Someone would say it's free falling. Yeah, well, it's that too. Let me tell you what Ross sent for headlines.

All right, let me just say what a crappy sports headline day. Hey, don't blame me. Troy Aitman calls on CD Lamb, duh. I think that's pretty funny. Tampa Bay Rays. Tampa Bay Rays need a new home. We could talk about that. Did I not call my shot on that one?

Yeah, you did. I think I kind of did. How are they going to get this fixed? Confusion with Vandy quarterback upset saying he didn't license his NIL to a T-shirt company. That's also something we can delve into. LSU Lyman's NIL deal includes him getting paid to go gator hunting. That's a great story.

I sent you gold and this is what, and you just want to talk about Connor getting laid. Justin Fields, I'm benching. I don't think it's, I played good enough if I'm being real with you. All right, we'll get to some of these. Don't worry. We got Rodo coming up in about 40 minutes as well. Let's talk to Yankees Keith. Oh, gosh.

Keith, I'd ask how you are, but I really don't particularly care. How are you? I actually thought it gave you a chance to win some money. Okay. Explain. Okay, so it's ABCA. The Yankees always be beaten Cleveland's ass. So that'll be overwinned by Saturday.

And I'm going to give you your MVP of the World Theater. His name is Aaron Judge. Further? I'm going to go one further. He's got like a 40% strikeout rate in the playoffs. Sir? Yes. Aaron Jones is going to get locked in.

And he's going to be the MVP. You forget the fact that he batted at 321 as well as beating everybody in home runs and RBI. He's going to get locked in. He's going to be the MVP. No, he just beats up on weak pitchers. He's going to get locked in. He's going to strike out in five pitches instead of four. Well, I try to give you a.

can. Thank you, Keith. And one more. Oh, God. One more. Hurry up. One more, the Baltimore Ravens will host the Lombardi Trope. Mm. That's, go get your best now. You really want to live on this, didn't you? You really want to. Let's give some, let's go. Let's give our radio audience in Houston a bunch of really, really strong, hot takes.

I like the Ravens one. All right. We'll see, Keith. Ravens are looking good. I mean, they've lost a couple of games, including to the Raiders. Oh, wait a minute. Battle Red Ross says the Texans. going to the Super Bowl. What are you talking about? I had them losing the AFC championship game to the Kansas City Chiefs. And I also said yesterday, literally, Chiefs and Ravens are the class of the AFC, the Texans

are next. Well, you're going to lose, you know what? No wonder the traveling Texans don't want you to go to Green Bay with them this weekend. All nine of them. Well, if they pay for my flight and my ticket, well, we can discuss. You've got to go to Lambo. I don't know how you're going to do it, but it's... On this salary? I don't know either. Wait a minute. You're the one trying to figure

out a way to go to see Georgia, Texas. You can go to Green Bay a lot cheaper than that. I know. I'm also trying to see how much they'll give me for some plasma. God, the plasma bit was so good back in the day. Can I give plasma on Friday and then still go to the game on Saturday? Is that okay? When I was in college, I never gave away plasma.

Do you feel differently if you've done it? I have no idea. I'm just been kidding. I would like to, though. The college kids, I was back in the day. We'd give plasma all the time. Let me check the tickets today. You can do the rest of the time.

this segment. That's fine. I'm just thinking, did you, if any of you in your college life gave plasma, did you really feel the effects of it? I mean, did it knock you out for an hour? Did you have to go take a nap? Did you feel a little you know, like

you lost your little energy? New tickets added. Oh, they're going down actually. Like, what is down? Compared to what it was? Get in price about $560. I think a couple weeks ago was closer to $700. I've not been to Darrell Kane a long time. Are there some horrific spots in the stadium?

If you're in the... You're basically on a third deck if you go to the north end zone and the back corner of that. So that's really not worth it, is it? So those are the cheapest tickets. And right now, before fees, they're $4.26. Those are probably closer to $5.50 after fees. Because these stupid ticket brokers monopolizing these tickets charge you like $100 plus dollars on top. It's ridiculous.

And I hate them. Yeah. Oh, by the way, Felipe on Twitter says a good headline today is a Taylor Mathis update. Well, when Keith was calling, I was checking to see if she'd updated things. You're checking every five seconds. It's ridiculous.

Not every five seconds, at least twice an hour. Okay. I don't follow though. Other members of the 790 air staff do. You do follow her. You see, if she's posting and you don't miss a scenario one of them, Matt. You're following her. You just haven't hit the follow button. I'm warm-blooded. What do you want me to do? It's fine. You know, it's not fine.

How did her picks do yesterday? Who? I don't really care what her picks did. She had Walker Bueller over, I think all of her Walker Bueller picks. I don't care about her walker Bueller. I care about her walk. Terrible. Oh, I have her muted. That's why she's not showing up. Her Twitter. I mean, she is gaining like thousands of people every day. Oh, good. Her last tweet, taking my first crypto course. Now she's any grifting instead of grifting picks to you she's been grifting crypto her last two tweets I love ranch dressing so much are you serious

I do too Big City of Wings you got great ranch and then she sends out 10 minutes ago good morning everyone who do you got today she lost all of her bets wow great job yeah but this whiteboard thing she does is working for all I mean what is that she just puts her bets on a whiteboard okay she just instead of jiggling while walking she's jiggling while in front of whiteboard That's smart. You got to diversify.

Look, if she can get some bunch of you rubs to follow her and make money off of it, good for her. I'm not mad to her. You shouldn't be. She's a princess. 713, 212, 5790. Oh, Dwight's giving away some plasma. That's a good one o'clock tease. Oh, baby. How do you feel after plasma giving?

As Matt Thomas would say, the only show in the marketplace. You tips on giving plasma. I don't know the answer to that. You did this to us, Astros. You did this to us. Yeah. I mean, yeah. We got to give you a Texan injury update.

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Lunch timers this is the Matt Thomas show here we go with a second hour of three 1 at 30, Dr. Roto gets your fantasy football questions answered for you. 2 o'clock, Willie Fritz, our Houston Cougars, up to Kansas, take on the hated Jayhawks, who are 1 in 5 this year. 2.30 kickoff on the ESPN. Plus. That's fine. And the Rotten 5 after that at 2.30.

So we got a busy, and then we got, believe it or not, all things about plasma, which I never thought. We're going to do plasma? Well, I mean, is there anything else you want to go to? I guess not. All right, real quick, a couple of news headlines pass along on the Texans injury front today. I don't know if any of you have been able to sleep, not knowing this, but here we are to provide the information to you. Al-Ziz al-Shahir is not practicing today.

Oh, my gosh. Kamari Lassiner is not practicing today. Robert Woods is not practicing today. That's fine. Foley, Fadukasi is not practicing today. Oh, boy. Jimmy Ward is not practicing today. What?

And Henry Toa Toa is not practicing today. Play the over, folks. Geez. It's going to be a shootout in Green Bay. Final score? Texans 33. Mm-hmm. Green Bay 31. Really? 33. You get the Texans winning 33-31.

Yes. I have Packers 30 Texans 20. 10 point loss? Yeah. Okay, that's good. Last time you predicted to lose by 10, they beat the bills. Yeah. I'm happy with this.

Texans picks have been horrible. They have for two years now. But I did have them losing to the Vikings. You been picking against them and they keep winning. So let's go, baby. I think there was zero chance they were going to lose to the Patriots. Zero chance. I don't know.

You were off air. In my mind, I did it. No, I was here on Friday. Were you? Yeah. Oh, you left early, though. I don't think you made a prediction. I listened to your interview with Bob Soshe.

Would you think? There could have been some better questions asked. You think so? I only got like two in. Those are the best kind of guest. Hey, I wouldn't imagine. I didn't hear you complaining. You heard it get on the nightcap, too.

Is that right? Imagine you. What do you mean? Taking things from the main show and putting it on the B show. That's not, hold on. First of all, that's not the B show. I've seen the numbers. I've seen the numbers, too.

It's prime time, baby. Yeah, okay. Yeah, sure. Some, I mean, well, normal prime time hosts go to seven. Some don't. Well, we can't ask that of our guys. Yeah, I mean, please, I mean. We don't want to overtax them.

Correct. I mean, they're being compensated heavily. That's fine. You have a TV simulcast now working for them. So things are growing away from them. Make money from rockets, too. That's fine. Yeah, they're doing, they're, they got a pretty good. They got, they know, games, Astrogames haven't even worked the entire day. I see Clanton walking in here with a new $400 jacket every other day.

Yeah. It's frankly, it's shameful that Clinton buys as much stuff that he does. For the little amount of work he puts in, for the amount of money he makes, hmm. It's like me as it works for our federal government. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Dwight at 106 on the Matt Thomas show. Dwight, good afternoon. Good afternoon, fellas. How are you guys doing today?

We're amazing. Thank you. So just to give you guys a little context, when I was in college, you know, young, 18-year-old kid had $0 to my name. I had a work-study job, right? Well, work study, I'm going to age myself. At that time, minimum wage was about $5.15 an hour, and we were limited to 20 hours a week. So you do the math, I got paid about $100 a week after tax. That's, give or take, I'd make about $60, $65 for 20 hours of work, all right? Well, a buddy of mine told me about giving plasma, and he said, basically, you just have to give your life and your soul sit there for about,

about two to four hours, give or take, depending on how hydrated you were. And I can make that same $65. So being a smart and intelligent college kid that I was, I was like, well, hey, you know, I make $60 and 20 hours of work

or $60 in two to three hours of work. So, you know. And of course, as far as how you feel, it really just depend on how hydrated you were. They would always tell you, like the night before to get a good meal, wake up, drink plenty of water, plenty of, you know, Gatorade and everything. And then afterwards, you would feel fine.

Now, the times when I was hung over, those are the ones that were really, really bad. So words that wise, just don't show up hungover, and you'll be all right. Wow. So that's my story. So all you're saying is, as long as you go in with plenty of fluids, you're going to be just fine. You'll be just fine. Yep. And the way they do it is with plat,

the difference between giving plasma and giving blood is when you give blood, they just drain the blood out of you. When they do plasma, they take the blood out of you, take the, remove the plasma from it, and the right arm and another one going in your left. So they're basically taking it out from your right and then they're putting it back in on your left. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. I don't feel like you're a medical doctor, nor are you trying to pretend that you are one, but I feel like we're getting some valuable medical advice from you today, and for that, we thank you. Yeah, that's my unlicensed, unprovoked medical advice. Yeah, you did, you did. You know what? You gave our audience information that we didn't have four minutes ago, and for that we thank you.

Well, this is good advice we're giving to the people in this economy. Yeah, I was going to say, why don't we have plasma places all over the place? because in college, my freshman year at university in North Texas, they were like plasma dump off spots every 30 feet. Really? No. Is there a lot of medical centers in Denton? No, but it was just like

we need bear money. That's great. That's great. Well, can you come up with eight questions on plasma? Yes, I can. I don't know if you can't. If you can't, you can't. I'm insulted. You even ask me if I could. Of course I can. I came up with eight questions on Cam Acres. That you did.

That was actually fairly impressive. That's most impressive thing that's done quite a work. Now, seven of them are nuts, but still. Yeah. When Ross tells you he's making stuff up like in an hour beforehand, he's really telling the truth. I am telling the truth. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We'll get it. We'll check in tomorrow in Green Bay. See what's going on with the Packers. They're 4-2. Oh, we are? Yeah. Cool.

That's great. You know it's funny by Jordan Love? What's funny about Jordan Love? How often he turns the ball over? Well, it was a head scratch when he got drafted because Aaron Rogers, all he was asking for was a top one receiver. Yes. Now, Devante Adams was still a partner at the time when Jordan was drafted.

Was he not? I think so. I want to say so, yeah. He hadn't been in Vegas that long. So it's like, I need another complimentary receiver. Instead, they went and got his replacement. They said, stop making demands. We've got your replacement.

And then he said, R-E-L-A-X. And then he said, get me the hell out of here. Utah State, not a real big proving ground for quarterbacks. But, I mean, he was drafted. He learned for a couple of years, and he was been good. And I think it was the right decision made by the Packers to kind of wait and let the future of Aaron Rogers be determined. And he inherited the spot, and he's been very good. And D'Amico Ryan said the best quarterback they've faced this year, Jordan Love.

And yes, I do think he was shading Josh Allen because they shut him down. I was going to say, what if Josh Allen would have gone 25 of 31 for 309 and three scores? He didn't against whose defense? It's his defense. He went nine for 30 with like 131 yards. Are you ready to deduce that if Jordan Love has a better game than Josh Allen does, did, that Jordan loves a better quarterback than Josh Allen. You can't find a single human being that would decide that would believe that.

Yeah, I mean, you have, I mean, two of your run-stopping linebackers are going to be out, and it's a different situation. You're on the road. It's a completely different situation. I'm going to tell you what this is. If you win this game with all the injuries, I told you this on Monday, Rossi, or Tuesday, this is going to be the most impressive one of the year. I don't care about being Buffalo at home. Because, I mean, you're supposed to win the really tough games at home.

You're supposed to. You are, but that's still an impressive way. Still a very good win. But this will be five times more important. I don't even care if it's 21-19. when a field goal wins it at the gun. We'll see how the weather is. Just win, baby.

The only thing that's going to be a factor for the weather, as I believe, is the wind. That's it. Well, the wind is the thing you need to worry about more than the rain. Yeah, but they also have a backup kicker. They have Brandon McManus' kicking this week for them. Oh, Brandon McManus? Yeah. That's cool.

I mean, he's one of the record holders for the longest kick ever, isn't he? I'm just telling you. I'm just telling you, there's no more Mason-Crosby there anymore. RIP, Buffalo's Legend He's not dead Oh Yeah, Sunday's daily temperature Is going to be a high of

70 It's going to be 76 degrees In Green Bay NFL weather.com Is usually where I go Wins out of the south-southwest at 15 15 is a little 15's about the pressure

That's brisk You don't want it over 15 That's right You get into like 20 Then it's going to be Joe Mixing 30 carries and Josh Jacobs 30 carries and bet the under.

Yeah, I don't think it's going to be nearly as high as scoring as everybody thinks it's going to be. Although 30 to 20 is a high scoring NFL game, right? Yeah. That's the over the, I think it's 47 and a half as it's total. Okay, so I guess it would be a slot over then. 30 to 20. Are you mad at me?

No. Because, I mean, I don't, you can't predict your team to win every single game. That's silly. No, you can't. I mean, unless you're a team employee, then you'd have to, though you get admonished. I think they're going to be better than the Green Bay Packers. We'll see.

The line opened at 3 down to 2.5. I'm just telling you, they win it. No more if answer buts about, well, they don't have a quality win or they don't have they win ugly. You go to Green Bay against a semi-super Bowl NFC contender, semi-tier 2 NFC. Tier 2. You get moved up. They made the divisional round. They're like you.

They surprised a lot of people, made the divisional round. Yeah. Last year. 713-212-5-7-90. Roto with us in 15 minutes here on 7-0. But first, a word for Two Creeks Crossing Resort. I want you to enjoy this beautiful fall weather we have, and I want you to go get a house for the weekend at Two Creeks Crossing Resort.

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Rotten 5 coming up in a few minutes. We're going to put the Dallas Cowboys in a Rotten 5. When you lose 47 to 9 or whatever it was, don't you put yourself in the Rotten 5? They're 3 and 3, though, but we've got teams, a lot of teams with just one or two wins. Yeah, maybe not. Patriots are bad, Jags are bad. So staying with the Cowboys, apparently Troy Aikman decided he wanted to take a shot at C.D. Lamb, the very highly compensated cowboy wide receiver, called the entire wide receiving cord lazy. I think the routes are terrible.

I think they run terrible routes. And I thought that beyond this year. I think C.D. Lamb has got to improve his route running. As a quarterback, if you are not, and here comes more of the tweet, part two. Part two. Oh, my God. That's huge. As a quarterback, if you're not certain where guys are going to be consistently, it's hard to play the position.

That's what I see. I see guys lazy coming off the lawn and scrimmage. Sometimes they run. Usually if they do, it's because they're anticipating they're going to get the football in that play. But if they're not, they don't. And it all ties together. I'm not impressed with that part of it. Lazy wide receivers.

Well, Brandon Cooks has been hurt. That's always been a good friend to the Cowboys for years. What do you think? Again, you and I are not rot-ring experts, so it's... I'm not busting a bunch of tape on Jalen Tolbert. I think you catch all his routes this week. I think that goes back to the core of the argument is the money that is being paid this off-season and previous off-season.

On retaining the talent that's currently there has not lived up to expectations. You're paying 30 plus millie for CD-Lam. Yes. And you've got one of your own, because he's still a cowboy through and through, wants them probably have to succeed more than anybody else. His receivers are being Lazy Routrunners. Now is this being,

is this trying to overly defend a quarterback or is he really being an objective football mind? That's a good question, because he is a quarterback and quarterbacks generally do try to defend other quarterbacks or whatever position. Receivers defend receivers, etc. Mm-hmm.

I mean, I'm just going to, I guess I'm going to have to defer to Troy on this. Yeah. He goes on to say in these same quotes, like he's watching the, they're going to be calling a Ravens game, and he's watching the Ravens wide receivers, and he think they're not being as lazy and lethargic as the Cowboys receivers.

So is that fat, happy compensated players? Or is that coaches that are not watching what is being done in practice? You're going to play how you practice. And my guess is that being lethargic in a game, in an important game against a Detroit Lions, they're probably ain't busting it Monday through Thursday. Yeah, and are they being lethargic when it's zero-zero, or are we talking about them being lethargic when it's 35 to 7?

because I'd be lethargic to get 35 to 7 I'd be like give me that post game meal what am I doing out here? Yeah that's right So I don't know That's interesting

From Troy Akeman Well I'll say this Something is rotten in Denmark With the cow I don't know Why are they so bad Now of course Micah Parsons has been hurt

Dexter Lawrence has been hurt They've had some injuries But you scored What was it? Nine points The Lions defense is decent But it's not Only giving up nine points per week

You shouldn't be at home getting destroyed by them, getting destroyed by the Saints who just gave up 51 points of the Buccaneers, and then they came back against the Ravens, but they were at home, they were down huge in that game. And what if Minnesota's offense scores 34 points this week? Is that going to make you look even worse?

Probably. This is the only part of me that wishes we lived in Dallas. Stay with me on this first session. You just maybe throw up in my mouth. If we weren't Dallas Cowboy fans, which would be, I don't know. My guess is if we lived in Dallas,

we would have generations of moms and dads and grandparents that were cowboy fans. We'd have to be to cowboy fans. And eating paint chips and... Correct. So would we give them a benefit of the doubt? We'd say, what are you doing? You're one of our own while you're ripping on us?

Or would you, as a responsible sports talk host, say, this team sucks. It smells. It's been bad for a long time. I think Cowboys fans are fed up. I think they're on board with this team stinks. I mean, you've got the owner threatening the jobs on his weekly radio show of the radio host. But it's the same problem. The coach isn't good enough.

The coach wasn't good enough when it was Jason Garrett. It wasn't good enough when it was Dave Campo. It wasn't good enough. It's Mike McCarthy. Well, I mean. Maybe those aren't good coaches. And who's hiring those coaches? But let me ask you this, not to be hypocritical for a fan base here.

but did Dallas Cowboy fan base saying you got to make sure C.D. Lamb stays. You've got to make sure that Dax Scott stays. So it's a little short-sighted. If they're going to be ripping on the two guys they wanted to stay in the cowboy uniform. And if you're paying those, if you have a 53-man roster and two of those players are making 80% of the cap, I think they're probably what? What are they, $75 million with just the two players? Maybe 80.

I was thinking 80 and the cap's around 200, I think. So I don't know if you can have it both ways. Oh, actually, what? Cal, the salary caps $250 these days. Hey, the NFL's making some cash. NFL's not worried about salary care. They're doing okay. That's why I always find it funny when any NFL team ever lays anybody off.

You must have a terrible business plan. Or you're just greedy and want more money. But what if you're like, you work for the team like in the corporate development department? You don't sell the deals, but you implement them. They call them activation people. Okay. And you're making probably $75,000 a year. you go to your boss and say, man, I could really go to 802.5, it would really help if I got 70.

And they'd tell you no. I mean, that'd be a tough, that'd be tough to stomach to work for a team and not be able to get a small little, small little wage increase. I like, I make a wage, depend on how long have you been there. I make a wage from the Rockets. Okay. I know what the dollar amount should be for the job that I do for the Rockets. Okay. And that I also know what my comrades, for the most part, make it on the NFL.

I'm fairly compensated. NBA, excuse me, that's right. The NBA. I know that I am at a good level right now. Okay. And shouldn't complain. Okay, then don't. Have you heard me complain once?

Hey, a little bit. Not really. Oh, no. I have to travel in the middle of the night on this private jet and go to a five-diamond hotel. Guys, feel sorry for me. I'm tired. I sleep well. I know you do.

I have that pillow and blanket ready for me when I get on the plane. Poor baby. It'll have. We'll start in a couple of weeks. Mm-hmm. Guys, I had to fly to Sacramento and then to L.A. into Beverly Hills. Oh, cool. Sorry, Matt. You poor baby. I feel the remorse pouring out of your body.

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Fastest 30 minutes at Major Market Radio. We present to you the one. and only Dr. Roto here on Sports Talk 790, coming to you from beautiful Fort Myers, Florida, where Dr. Roto's son is a proud Rice University student. How is classes so far? Is he like in our city at this point? He's loving it. Really is. He's got a lot of great friends and couldn't have asked for a better place for him. When are you going to make a road trip here? We can have a little meeting greet with the legendary Dr. Roto. I'll plan for it. Maybe later this fall. We'll see if he wants us down there to us. Let me take you something.

You want to get in his way. You bring cash. He'll want you to spend some time with him. That's absolutely for sure. All right. We have got two hellaciously big moves in the NFL. Let's get to the water receivers. Devante Adams is now reunited and it feels so good to be with the Jets.

Impact for Adams, impact for anybody that you have on your team that is a Jets specialty player. Okay. So let's just break this all down. I think it obviously helps out. Adams. I don't think it hurts Garrett Wilson as much as other people might think because you need two receivers in the NFL. Can't just go to one guy. And Garrett

Wilson might just even see the easier cornerback most weeks. I think it buries Mike Williams. I think the Jets are going to trade him. Maybe he goes to Kansas City. I don't know, but he's not going to stay a jet much longer because Aaron Rogers doesn't like him. In terms of Las Vegas, I think you bump up

Brock Bowers through the roof. You bump up Trey Tucker a little bit because he's going to start and Jacoby Myers is going to be their unquestioned number one. All right. Let's get to staying on that. Amari Cooper has now been moved to the Buffalo Bills. That gives Josh Allen a new target. And then what in the hell is Deshaun and a wants and going to throw two except other teams' defensive backs? Oh, my God. So we'll focus on the positive first. Amari Cooper is the unquestion

number one. Khalil Shakir goes to number two. Kion Coleman goes to three, which I think will be okay for him. Forget Curtis Samuel, forget Matt Collins. I think the guy who really suffers is Dalton Kincaid, to be quite honest with you. I think a lot of people took him in like the fifth round. And I don't want to call him a bus because I think he's a good player. But when you have Amari Cooper there, you're going to feed him targets like you did with Stefan Dick. So it may be weeks where Kincaid gets five or six receptions, but I don't know whether we can count on that. For Cleveland, this is a mess. When Jerry Judy is your number one, you're in trouble. But I will give you guys a name. Sedrick Tillman played at University of Tennessee.

Good young receiver. I mean, he's not Amari Cooper. And Deshaun Watson really stinks, right? now. But if there's a guy who could emerge there, I think Tillman's the guy. Our buddy Chris Gordy is a huge Saints fan. He is bemoaning tonight's matchup because, first, of course, the old coach is coming in. Secondly, he keeps telling me the Saints have no receivers left. Is this accurate? Well, there's a guy I actually like. His name is Bub Means. He's a rookie from the University of Pittsburgh. And, you know, a lot of smart guys who know college football like this kid. They cut A.T. recently. So I think

Bub Means, if there's any one receiver you might want tonight, he'd be the guy. Alvin Kamar is startable for sure. Juan Johnson may be startable, but I think it's Kamar and Bubb Means. And the other side for Denver, I guess I'll start Cortland Sutton, maybe

Giovante Williams, but literally it's an awful game. It's like the total's 36. This may be borderline on watching. Well, we don't need to watch it. Let's just go to Sunday. We're, besides our Texans game, taking on the Packers, we'll get to that a little bit. Detroit and Minnesota feels super sexy, right? I mean, my goodness, nine wins between the two teams, two hugely competitive rivals, lots of

skill position players ready to score some points, right? Yeah, for sure. There's nothing we don't like in this game. Now, firstly, I feel very badly for Aidan Hutchinson. Great kid, great family. Nobody wants a same injury like that. That does change the Lions because his pressure really allowed that secondary, that extra, they weren't getting picked on like last season, right?

So now if they don't have the pass rush, Sam Donald's going to sit back there. Sam Donald's going to find Jefferson and Jordan Addison. I think the Vikings are in play. People forget how good the Vikings were. I know they were on by last week. They're ready to go. So I like Jefferson.

I like Addison. Like I said, I like Donald. I'm a little worried about Aaron Jones. I don't know whether he gets a full touches, full thing of touches. But on the other side, Amal Ross St. Brown is in play. La Port is in play. play. Shiret Golf is in play. This is a great game.

The Niners from a strictly win percentage need this one more than KC does because the Chiefs are undefeated. But from a San Francisco perspective, you fall under 500. You're going to give to other teams that division second chances to get back into the league. So forgetting about the end result, how do you like the fantasy implications in Casey at San Fran this Sunday? Well, luckily, the 49ers are in a crappy division. The Rams aren't very good. Seattle's struggling. Arizona's mid. So I, I, I, I, I think the 49ers, even if they go, you know, win 10 games, they'll end up in the playoffs. The Chiefs are a different team.

That's why I think I like Mike Williams for the Chiefs. They are a time of possession team, as Hank Stram would say, they matriculate the ball down the field, right? They're just, they're not as explosive. You don't have Hollywood Brown. You just, you don't have her she rice anymore. Worthy's a guy that you don't trust with so many routes. So I don't want to say dinking and dunking, but Patrick Mahomes hasn't been the Patrick Mahomes.

that we remember. So I do like Kelsey in this game. I do like worthy in this game. I'm fine with Kareem Hunt. I think he's a great start. On the other side, really look at Debo Samuel. I think Debo Samuel's in a great spot. They play a lot of two high zone.

And I think that Debo is going to thrive. And George Kittle, Kansas City's been the worst team against opposing tight ends. This is a big George Kittle game. All right. Let's get to the Bucks who went in New Orleans, and I mean destroyed the Saints. The score kept getting higher. and higher and higher and higher. So I would assume at this point, after seeing them now for six games,

there's no letdown at what you have in terms of players of the Buccaneers, even going against a good team like Baltimore, correct? Look, Baltimore is a good team, but they're not a great team. Their defense hasn't been legendary this year. The defense has been really generous. So Baker Mayfield, 100% in play. I believe Mike Evans will suit up, and if he does, you play him. You play Chris Godwin, who has been sensational.

Kate Otten has actually been good. You know, he scored a touchdown last week. he could score one this week against Baltimore, who is not good against tight ends. Then you've got this kid, Bucky Irving, who looks sensational. So regardless of whether or not Roshad White plays or not, Bucky Irving is somebody that you might consider playing.

On the other side, Baltimore, I don't love Derek Henry this week because Tampa does have a good run defense, loves A-Flowers, love Rashad Bateman, and watch those tight ends. Mark Andrews found the end zone last week, which has a, you know, it's been a while since he'd been there. and as Isaiah likely has become a really popular target for Lamar Jackson.

We were talking about Buffalo a minute ago with the acquisition. They've had a rigorous three-game road trip all against really good teams. Are they just going to just lay one to Tennessee? Look, the Titans couldn't win last week at home against Indianapolis. Buffalo has been home in a month, basically. Can they put up a 40 spot this week? No. The Titans defense is too good for that.

but they can win and you know I like how Ray Davis looked so James Cook is out Ray Davis is fine but the Titans are pretty good against the run the Titans are stingy and here's the problem Buffalo's big issue

is stopping the run as we've seen okay and what does Tennessee not do well they don't pass well so they're going to give the ball Tony Pollard all game long and Tijey Spears is out so look if Pollard is running a lot and because we'll Levis. By the way, did you see he had 16

completions for 95 yards? That's less than 4 yards of completion. That's disgusting. So, I mean, they're not throwing. They're going to run this a slow game. Vegas has this as a 41 point total. So be really careful this week. I like Amari Cooper. I like Josh Allen. But I'm not sure this is the week to really

jump on that train. Rodo, any takeaways from Drake May's opening week performance against the Texans as the Patriots play again the Jaguars overseas? Well, look, I think if you're a Patriots fan, you're happy because Jacoby Bresset, you didn't want to see that anymore. And Drake May is an athlete. He's a good player. He was good in garbage time, and I think he'll give you garbage time production.

Di Mario Douglas is solid. They need to get Polk involved, but they didn't. We're Ramadra Stevenson's been out, which is a problem. You need him to help Drake May because Antonio Gibson's not very good. But look, you've got the Jaguars. Does it get better than having the Jaguars? I mean, the Jaguars, look, they made Caleb Williams look like the best. quarterback in the NFL. Caleb's not that good. It's just that Jacksonville's defense looked like they had given up. I don't know how Doug Peterson still has a job. So, yeah, if you're ever going to play your Patriots, this is the week to do so. All right. And now, Houston going to Green Bay. The Texans defense is beset by numerous injuries. They didn't

miss Nico Collins last week. I have a feeling they might this week against what should be a very high-scoring game. Tell me what Jordan Love is done since the injury and how you like and don't like players between the Packers and the Texas. Yeah, Jordan Love has been phenomenal, right? It's just throwing touchdowns and droves. And if you haven't, you're very lucky that you withstood that injury period. And now it's, you know, you're reaping the good. I don't love Josh Jacobs this week, but Jane Reed certainly in play Christian Watson,

certainly in play Tucker Kraft that did nothing for the last couple of games. But I think he comes back and has a good game again this week, too. And they're very deep at receiver. So, you know, even if a couple of guys are out, they just have swarms of guys. Romeo Dobbs could score. Bow Melton could score. So I think you play all your Packers for the Texans. Big fan of Diggs this week.

Big, big fan of Tankdale this week. They just, the way that the Packers play defense, it's going to align great for Tankdale. And I do like Dalton Shultz. So when we saw what Joe Mixon's going to do, Joe Mixon's back. So I think this game is very winnable for the Texans. but they've got to be able to make one or two big stops because if Green Bay is going to connect, if it's 3rd and 8 and the Texans can't get off the field, if the defense is stuck, they won't win.

But if it's 3rd and 8 and they can hold, they've got a real shot to win. All right, ladies and gentlemen, now your opportunity to visit with Dr. Roto comes at 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you've got any questions for Dr. Roto, they are available. He's available for you for the next segment of the show. 713-212-5-790. You're taking the good advice that Dr. Roto is giving you, and how about making some good money with underdog fantasy?

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Let's have the great folks of Houston, Texas. By the way, everybody, when you ask Dr. Roto how he's doing? Rodo, let's get this knocked out. Roto, how are you doing? Fantastic. You hear that, friends? Don't ask how he's doing it. He's fantastic.

Chris, downtown on 790 for Dr. Roto. What's your question, please? Hey, Dr. Roto. I have two. I wanted to see if you would choose Wondell or Brian Robinson. Also at QB, I'm starting Aaron Rogers, but I also see Jared Goff and let's see, Jared Goff or Bo Nix in the waiver wire. I was wanting to get your thoughts.

Yeah, so first of all, I'm starting golf. I mean, Rogers is fine, but Pittsburgh, that should be a lower scoring game, so I definitely want Goff in a game that I think should explode. Look, Brian Robinson, we don't know if he's playing, so you've got to be careful. Do I like Wondell? He's fine. So I prefer Brian Robinson, but I can't make that judgment on a Thursday. It's probably going to go down to Sunday morning.

All right, 713, 212-570. Taylor is with Dr. Roto on 790 at 151. Hi, Taylor. Hey, Dr. Rotto. I had two questions. This first one's terrible. Do I start Baker Mayfield, Joe Burrow, or Jordan Love? I don't think it's terrible.

I think it's realistic now. Baker's pretty darn good, but I still will start Jordan Love, but Baker's in consideration every week. Okay. And then question two, do I go with Tyreek, still with Tyler Huntley, or do I go at Tank Dell? Oh, I'd rather have Tank. If you have Jordan Love, I'd rather have Tank Dell. And the reason why is because they kind of correlate. If that game explodes, if Dell is doing well, means that Jordan Love is going to play well. If Jordan Love is playing well, a good chance that Tank Dell is going to have to do something. It's kind of what we use in DFS as well, so I'd probably go that route.

All right. Greg and Livingston, 790. Hi, Greg. Hello, two quick questions. I have golf or cousins. I'm wondering who may start there. And also, what is the status of Malik neighbors? And that's all I have.

I appreciate the phone call. I like her cousins this week. I think he's in a really good spot in a game that should blow up. I mean, the Falcons in Seattle. That game could be a 60 burger. So as much as I love Jared Gough, but I think I like cousins more. But Link neighbors, I expect to be back this week. I think they were trying to be extra cautious with him last week.

So watch for practice tomorrow. If he's practicing tomorrow, I think he will play. You know, I've never really talked to you much about Kirk in Atlanta. How's he doing, generally speaking? He's gotten better each week, right? Week one was a little rough. I think he didn't have his sea legs, if you will, but it's gotten better. He's very accurate, as we know. He's got a lot of targets. I mean,

Drake London has been good. Darnal Mooney has been good. He's got a running game behind him. They just need a defense that puts pressure on opponents. They're just not getting, they brought in Matthew Judon, but they can't get a pass rush. So if the defense could help this team out a little bit, it would really, the Falcons could be on to something. But Kirk has looked very good. There's no Michael Pennix talk right now in Atlanta. Brandon and Magnolia on Sevenani. Go ahead. Your question for Dr. Roto, please. Hey, Dr. Roto. Basically, I'm trying to make a decision on my two flex positions.

I'm trying to decide between Wondale Robinson, Cook, A. Chan, Iyuk, and Downs. All right, so the problem is that I want to answer this question, but it's very hard to because we don't know about a Chan. If a Chan's playing, you play him. If he's not, then I look to Cook. If Cook's not playing, then we've got to keep going down the list. I think Anthony Richardson is going to be back, and that's not necessarily a compliment, because Anthony Richardson is all about Anthony Richardson and his fantasy points, not necessarily Josh Downs.

So I think my third choice in that list would be I. I do like Wondale, but only if Neighbors doesn't play, and I'm working on the assumption that neighbors is playing. All right. Let's go to Justin and Magnolia for Dr. Rodo. Hi, Justin. Hey, I got three quarterbacks. Kurt Cousins, Anthony Richardson, or Justin Herbert? All right, we're definitely not playing Justin Herbert, so let's take him off the table. So let's talk about this for Kirk Cousins.

If he gets 240 yards and two touchdowns, not a bad day, that's about 20 points in most leagues. Anthony Richardson could get 60 yards rushing and a touchdown by himself, that's 12 points. If he gets 200 yards passing, now you're looking at. 22 points. If he actually throws a touchdown pass, you're 26 points. So Kirk is the safe play, but Richardson is the high upside play because the minute he starts running that football, he's a game changer. And Miami's an aggressive defense, and I think Richardson might actually have a sneaky big week this week. Kay, so what's your Chilican question for Dr. Roto? Tyler Conklin or Nujoku, I know that's bad. Also, Marvin Harrison, Harrison Jr. or Cooper Cup,

Which one am I starting? Thanks. All right. You're not starting Conklin. You're going to start in a joku. I worry about Conklin, especially with that trade. Problem with Marvin Harrison and Cup, we won't know that answer either. Cup is maybe back. He's looked good in practice, but they haven't said he's playing.

Marvin Harrison dealing with a concussion. If Cup is playing, you play him against the Raiders. For sure, you're playing him. All right. And Geo on 790 for Dr. Roto. Hi, Gio. Hey, Roto. Gio?

Or crap. Yeah, can you? You're breaking up there. Try it again. Better? Keep going. Okay. Is that bad?

No, this is not good. That was rough. That was rough. All right. That's poor Gio. Let me get a couple of emails. I can ask him a question. No, we don't need.

Go ahead, Ross. Seriously. Let's see. Have PPR, H.N or Hunt? Kareem Hunt? I would prefer H. but I mean, I think Hunt is a good start, but let's go H& if he's healthy. One for a flex PPR.

Pickens, Mason, Harris, Lockett, which one? I don't think Mason plays, and if he does, I think he plays, I don't want to say sparingly, but he's going to split time. I don't like Pickens against Sauce Gardner. That's a bad matchup, and Russell Wilson could be back, so that's a mess there. I kind of like Lockett. I think that game is going to explode. I think it might be the game that we look back on and wish we had as many pieces,

in that game as possible. Stevenson, Singletary, Hunt, or Chubb for a PPR league? Well, we don't know if Stevenson or Singletary are even playing this week. So right now, let's talk about Nick Chubb. I think he comes back. I think he gets 15 carries. I'm going to wish him well. So, you know, I think Hunt is the better play because he's going to be more involved.

But Nick Chub, give it a week or two, he's going to be back into our lineups every week. Sermon, Singletary, or Gibson? Yikes. That's hysterical. Yikes. poor guy Jason I'm sorry I'm just

I'm just the 20 team league yes yikes I don't know Singletary if you plays Singletary if you plays I like him but I mean Tracy's really done a good job

for the January Jameson Williams or Tyler Lockett at Flex oh that's a good one unlike Jameson you know the thing is is that Minnesota's going to blitz

we know that so if Jared Gough has time we don't know how bad Minnesota is on the back end yet because we really haven't seen their defense has been spectacular. But give Jared Gough a little time to throw,

he'll find James and William. I'll take the shot there. All right. Nick and River Oaks to wrap it up with Dr. Roto on 790. Hi, Nick. Hey, in my flex, I have Devontes with God, and I'm still on the... Oh, my God. Our phone says that's our problem.

It sounds like when it's on our... Yeah, it's... Roto. Wi-Fi is going down. Somebody's not paying the phone bill. Seriously, the money we pay you you should be going to funk good phone lines, but that's a different issue for a different time. They said everything would be better on the cloud, Dr. Roto.

Yeah. I don't know which cloud. The cloud sucks. The thunder cloud. You hit over your state about two weeks ago. All right. Let's get to the number one can't miss selection of the week. We asked Dr. Roto to give us his lock of the week. Lock of the week. Let's stay in that Lions

Vikings game. We haven't said enough of him. Justin Jefferson, fantastic start. Always plays well against the Lions. Should do so again this week. We still don't have T.J. Hawkinson. Sam, Donald, have time to throw. I think Justin Jefferson gets 100 yards in a touchdown, easy. All right, there it is. Ladies and gentlemen,

that's Dr. Roto's. Lock of the week. Where can we find you between now and Sunday? Because we're going to need you early again. Plus, we've got late injury reports to get to. I know. It's all the time, MT. On X, you can find me at DRROTO. You can find me at my website,

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. It is 204 on Sports Talk 790. We say hello to the head football coach of your Houston Cougars. Cougars taken on Kansas this Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium. Willie Fritz with us here, brought to you by the joint chiropractor, the official chiropractor of Houston Cougar Athletics.

Willie, thanks with time, as always. It's been a nice week off. I know you didn't get much downtime, but what did the kids do over the last couple of weeks? Well, we went last week. We lifted and watched all the film a week ago Monday, and then we practiced Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I gave him Friday, Saturday, Sunday off.

Coaches actually had Saturday off, so they're excited about that, and we came back to work on Sunday. One of the things I just wanted to make sure we did a great job of is getting that game plan and reping it over and over and over again. And I told him Kansas wasn't playing a game this last weekend and neither were we. So, you know, sometimes coaches wait, you know, a couple days and they modify or change your game plan a little bit.

I said, let's have it 100% ready to go on Monday. And coaches did a great job of that. You're at the halfway point. What have you loved from your team so far and what has disappointed you? Oh, there's been some good things. I think we're playing good defensively, you know, other than one game. And that game, some of it had to do with just momentum back and forth. But I thought we played good defensively.

We tackled pretty good. You know, against TCU, we didn't tackle that great. It was the first game that we had double-digit mistackles. I think we had 19 missed tackles. But overall, I think our defense has played very well. And, you know, and you see some good things on the other team. sides of the ball. There's been some good things in the kicking game. But the bad thing is we just had way too many penalties, had zero against TCU. That was something to build upon because it

hurts you more in the kicking game than any other phase. And then, you know, offensively, we just, we were having a tough time early, but, you know, kind of find our legs a little bit against TCU and ran the ball well and we're very accurate throwing the ball. And, you know, we need to continue to keep building on that. you have been looking for a guy and look you started with donovan then you went with zion a little bit and you've been mixing and matching and obviously zion did a good zion did a good enough job to inherit the spot up especially after that long touchdown run so beyond what we just saw were there other things that may decide to make the quarterback change and go with zion this week against kansas well you know some of his injuries you know some guys being banged up and uh zion's been banged up a little bit here early in the season and and has finally gotten healthy. And, you know, we just wanted to get a spark.

You know, as I've said, you know, many times before, the quarterback gets too much credit when things go well, too much blame. Things don't go well. And, you know, I think it really helped us, you know, against TCU, you know, we were very accurate early throwing the ball. Kind of a lot of guys involved, you know, carrying the ball. I think we have 14 guys who touched the ball, quarterback's, wide receivers, running

backs, tight ends. And when that happens, you know, it kind of opens up the whole offense. And I thought we played better on the offensive line. Did a better job protecting and giving the quarterback some time to throw the football, had some good seams increases, not only for the

quarterback, but for the running backs as well. We call run plays. I thought Coach Barbay did a really good job, especially early in the game, you know, giving us confidence. Willie Fritz, with us, getting ready for the game against the Kansas Jayhawks. A little strange that the Couges and we're playing this game in Arrowhead Stadium.

So, and there are a lot of young men that have watched a lot of Chiefs games over the years. Are any of the kids a little extra fired up of playing in a pro stadium this Saturday coming up? Oh, I think they are. I talked a little bit about that early. Kansas is undergoing renovations to their stadiums, so they're having to play. I think they played a couple games at the soccer stadium. They're in Kansas City, and they're going to play, I think, three or four. four games at Arrowhead.

And it's been a busy two weeks for me. I'm from Kansas City, so I'm getting inundated with ticket requests and all sorts of stuff. So unfortunately, when I go to these games and I get a lot of family and friends come, I don't get to really see anybody. But, yeah, I've been quite a few games out at Arrowhead, and I think it'll be a great venue to play. It's going to be, you know, we've kind of had a little bit of a change in weather, and it's

probably going to be about the same type of weather up there in Canes City. Can't you just text your family back and say, I'm busy, talk to you in the offseason? I mean, that doesn't seem fair. They're bothering you for this right now. They, you know, sometimes think, you know, they sometimes think about their job that, you know, I got time and people are doing stuff. You know, we only got 12 of these opportunities. Obviously, Saturday, I'm a little bit busy, but it'll be fun. I try to help everybody out as best I can. And in reality, you're taking on a Kansas team that has been beset by a lot of injuries, especially on the offensive side. They played a lot of one-score games.

So I would think you, as part of your rallying cry this week, you would fully expect this thing to be a game into the fourth quarter. Yeah, you know, they're not a real fast-paced team. We're not playing in a real fast-paced either. And we just got to do what we did, you know, the last game. I've preached it over and over and over again. We need to be plus one, turnover, take away against T. you were plus four. You know, we got to do a good job in the run game,

and we did a very good job in the run game, stopping them from running, and us run the ball effectively. And, you know, time of possession is going to be critical. There's probably only going to be nine or ten series in this game between the two teams. So you've got to take advantage of every single one throughout the ball game. I'm leaving it at that. Willie, thank you for the time.

Congratulations on the impressive win. I hope you got a little bit of downtime while we're out and look forward to seeing you in the squad Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium. and thanks for the visit as always. Thank you. Go Coogs. You got it. Willie Fritz with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

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Slam the Rockets of the Money Line. And I would say this. You should go for the team that's, your team is compared to what the other team's going to throw at you. Getting word that the following players will not play tonight for the San Antonio Spurs. Jeremy Sohan. Okay. It's fine.

He's a Dennis Robin wannabe. Just because his hair? Where's the same number? 10. Okay. Has he kicked any, any cameraman? I don't think so. Okay, that's good.

Next, Kelden Johnson's not playing. This is what it is. Okay. Let's see. Next. Chris Paul. Okay.

Next. I think it's faster for you to tell us who is playing for the first. Devin Vassell is not playing. Not playing? Devin Vassell. Okay. And no Victor Womenyama. So, Stefan Kassel is playing.

Who? First round pick. What's up? Of the Yukon National Championship team? He was their number four pick overall. So right after Reed Shepard. I forget. Is he the one that can't shoot?

27% from three? Yeah, okay. Brandon Boston, Jr., former Clipper. Blake Wesley. Malachi Flynn. Malachi Branham. How many Malichies do they have? That's maybe the record for most Malichies in one team.

Seriously. Zach Collins Okay, that's made up Oh Cidi Sizoko I believe it's I think I've called a game before

for him Undrafted rookie Riley Minnix Charles Bassie He will beat you up Okay He's a big guy And I think that's about it Okay

So that's one two three Four Five six seven You could have said this later man Hold on Julian Champany is going to play What? Tray Jones.

Duke. What now? Harrison Barnes, the former Maverick, former warrior. That sounds like a pop singer from the 80s. Like a French pop singer from the 80s. Harrison Ingram is going to play, rookie out of North Carolina, and Sandro Mamu Kalashvili is going to play tonight.

Oh, it's a fun one for you on there. I had actually done that a few times. Okay. Mamu Kamakamashvili, so that won't be the worst. Okay. Rossi, we have a phone call on the screen, and the subject line says, I swear. this show. Donating Plasma

and Rocket Season. There is not another radio show in the marketplace ever taking a phone call like this. Let's talk to Roger at 221 on 790. Roger, good afternoon. Roger. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. Hello. Okay, so

in regards to the plasma donation, I've been doing that for better half of 10 years, me and my wife. And what it is, it's just it depends on which plasma center you go to, but usually they start you out with a lot of grand for your first five donations a grand a grand for five dollars how long is each how long is each setting about depends on your on your on your uh b i you know if you're a taller larger guy probably

take you about 45 minutes to an hour me i'm shorter and don't don't weigh as much as i used to so i go around 30 35 minutes so and uh yeah it's nice you know you're saving lives it breaks down on the app how many gallons you've donated and how many lives you saved you know throughout the process and it's pretty cool and you break it after your your your your $1,000 intro you get about $100,000 a week which comes out like 500 extra six hundred extra bucks a month and you break it down like that it's you know it's nice if you got the time to do it and you know and it keeps you healthy and it but monitors if you have a protein deficiency or an iron deficiency or something all the blood work they'll let

you know what's wrong break it down and you get to go take care of from there but hey it's a lot of things about people don't find out of it. find out that something wrong with them to do with our donating. So it's like a, you know, hand-in-hand kind of deal. So it's pretty cool. Okay. All right. That's the first half your question. Now, the second half is more my speed, but continue on, Roger. Okay, with the Rockets, I just have a couple of questions about, you know, I think,

I'm going to tell you who I think is going to have the biggest jump and who I think, who needs to have a biggest jump. Okay. These team to get too worried and wants to go. Go for it. So I'm going to go with you guys. I'm going to go with Reed Shepard off the muscle, and then I'm going to go Cam Whitmore

as far as biggest jump, the most effective, they'll have the most effectiveness on the team. Now, who I need to have the biggest jump is going to be Jalen Green, and or the other, the power forward. Jabari Smith. Correct, Jabari Smith. So that's all I have for now, and I'll take your comment over the air.

Good day, Matt. Roger, thank you very much for the phone call and the loads of information. I got on the scale today. I'm 6-1-188. Okay. So does that make me in the healthy range to get some plasma? I think you're good. Probably. I don't know. You use a little extra cash. These recruiting trips are costing me some money on the side. Yeah, you've been losing a lot of weight. I'm worried about it. You still have that tapeworm? That's wrong with you. What do you mean? I never had tape. Everybody's asking, like, what's going on with Matt? You're 6-1? Yes, I'm 6-1 You know what?

You phonies, let's go get a tape measure And let's do it, let's get it done I'll be happy to I didn't say a word I'd be happy to measure 6-1 I didn't say a word Matthew That was Connor McGovern Talk to him

Back to the Rockets Okay Ross to me The only reason why Cam Whitmore Is not going to play more Would be what he does on the defensive end If he shoot first And think about everything else

second, I think he's going to hold him back a little bit. Okay. But he's a bench score. You wanted to come out there and shoot a bunch. Oh, he's instant offense for sure. Mm-hmm. But a big leap for him would be, you have to put in the starting five because he's just unstoppable.

That's what I think the big leap for him would be. I don't know that that's going to happen, but... No, I don't think it is. I don't, unless there's massive injuries or better yet, he just becomes a 24 point a night score in, you know, short period of time. So we'll see. I don't expect the super leap from him. We've been talking about this for a broken record.

Jalen Green, Aparin-Sangoon, Jabari Smith, play to an all-star level or close thereof. Although Al-Pie was close last year. If collectively they can all three do close, then you don't need... You don't need one of them to emerge as, like, the superstar level. But you all need them to take that...

There's a box and then jump on that box a little bit higher. They all need to get better. All need to get better. If you're going to be... what you want to be, which is a playoff team. And those guys individually want to be a playoff team. They don't, they know this has been a long, turbulent time for these guys. Well, let's go. I'm ready for it. You're ready for it. City Houston's ready for it.

San Antonio Spurs aren't ready for it. Tim Ferrita's ready. You're definitely ready. All right. 226 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to get in, 713, 212-790. The Plasma cop. I didn't realize our audience was such, we may be number one in the marketplace with most people giving up plasma. Should we be alarmed or encouraged by the, we have so many plasma donors in our audience? As long as it doesn't, no one's called and said they,

it hurts them. Okay. Right? Again, you shouldn't need to be properly hydrated. Four treatments for a G. I might have to start looking into this, Matt. Knowing what you make, I wouldn't disagree. I'm kind of a bad for you, but I don't feel that bad. No, I don't. 713-212-5-790.

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but worthy of mentioning. Kauai Leonard's been shut down by the Los Angeles Clippers again. God almighty. He just, either he can't stay healthy or doesn't want to really play that much. That is a case of injury prone, Matt, because when his leg ailments first came out,

they talked about him having like a degenerative leg issue. Yeah. Like it was always going to be he's going to have leg problems. And that's borne out over the years. Ever since he, I mean, you talk about a terrible investment the Clippers had put into him. Two different contracts, right? Why would they re-sign him and let Paul George go?

What are they doing there? Well, if the Rockets are going to sneak in, you're going to knock somebody out. Clippers got how you want. I say Clippers, bye. Which James Harden doing these days? I don't know. I can't wait to go to their new arena, though. The Intuit Dome looks amazing.

It's not open yet, is it? They've had exhibition games there, yeah. Okay, it's ready to go? Yeah, first season. Oh, okay. That was quick. If you want to come to L.A.? I'm busy.

I was going to stay with me. It seems expensive. We'll get pillows in between the bed? Yeah, that's fine. I can get two doubles, too. I hope I'll... Matter of fact, I'll actually, I'll demand two doubles. Okay, that's good.

Because I don't want to have to sleep on the weird couch seat they have. God knows what people do on those things. Very famous hotel we stay at, too. It's a pretty woman hotel. Hmm. I never saw it. Really? Mm-hmm.

Great movie. I'm sure it's fantastic. Julia Roberts, mm-hmm, magnificent. Are you okay? Yeah, I just had a movement of the back of your head. The rest of us did back in the day too. A little older now, but still, I mean, I would. 7-13-21.

It makes me think of Eric Roberts too much. I never think of Eric when I look at Julia. They don't look alike to you? They do, but not that much. Okay. Okay, let me save my comment for that. All right. Richard East Side hang time.

We'll get you in a minute. Ladies, Gemmon, we ask Ross to do very... Are we doing this now? You're not ready? You want to take the call first? No, that's good. Okay. We ask very few things of Ross, and he delivers almost never.

But he does give us the worst teams in the NFL. We call them the Ross Rotten Five. They've gone bad. Hey, they draw flies. It's Ross's Rotten Five. This don't smell quite right. All right, let's get it started off with the Tennessee Titans back on the list. They really deserve to be here all year long.

just a lot of shuffling, a lot of bad teams in the NFL, including Thomas Sports Enterprises, Will Levis and the Titans. They lost to Joe Flacco and the Colts at home? Come on, man. Will Levis a disaster. He somehow managed to complete 16 passes. That's good. For 95 yards?

How? That's bad. Things are so bad. Supposed number one wide receiver Calvin Ridley fed up after the game complaining to the media about not getting any meaningful tariff. early on. He did get eight targets in the game. Zero catches. A lot of them uncatchable there for old Calvin Ridley, probably regretting signing for all that money in Tennessee just to get thrown, balls throwing them into the ground by Will Levis. Terrible Titans drawing

the bills and lions on the road in the next two games. Expect them to stay on this list. Right now, the fifth worst team in the NFL. It's like deja vu. It's not twice in a row, shooting ourselves in the foot. Yes, you are, Will. All right. Andy Dalton injecting some life into the Panthers. They won that game against the, I don't even remember who it was. The Raiders, they were terrible. But now, since then, losing three straight by double digits, the latest of which included them giving a 30 point, giving up 38 points to the Atlanta Falcons. The league's worst defense continues to give up an average of four touchdowns, a game easily the worst mark in the NFL. The offense continues to sputter. Probably just go back

to Bryce Young at this point. I mean, what is Andy Dalton doing for you if you're losing all these games and the defense is horrible. To make things worse, they face the commanders who also score a lot of points. Expect another loss. The fourth worst team in the NFL is the Carolina Panthers. They can't stop a nose, bleak. All right, Doug Peterson might not

bother coming back from London if the Jacksonville Jaguars cannot beat the New England Patriots this week. I mean, my goodness, the Jaguars suck. They've only won one game this year. Trevor Lawrence had been bad. He also got no help from his receivers against the Bears. They had four dropped

touchdowns in that game against the Chicago Bears. Defense also not helping either. They're allowing a league worst, 276 pass yards per game. Patriots, they do represent a get right spot for the Jags, but if they fail this test, they might not win another game this season. They are the third worst team in the NFL. Oh, we've been strong. We're just playing by the rules.

Love you, Jaguars lady. All right, welcome. Well, the good news is for the New England Patriots. They started the number three overall pick and, Drake May and he actually looked halfway defense. Decent against the ferocious front of the Houston Texans. Bad news, they turned the ball over like crazy,

lost by 20 points, and apparently Drake May underwinning MRI yesterday. Ah, reports that the MRI was just precautionary, so we'll see if Drake May is okay, because this week, they get a tasty matchup against that awful Jaguars pass defense. They could get that win in London this week, but as of right now, the

England Patriots, the second worst team in the NFL. Good right for Kansas. It's Jacksonville, Bill, and you're not even the coach anymore. All right, things continue to be abysmal over there. By the way, do you think Tom Brady's going to flex his 5% ratings and see if Belichick wants to coach the Raiders next season? They didn't like each other by the end of it for like 10 years. But you didn't see the warm roast they had at the end of the day?

That's true, but I don't know. I think they weren't getting along. I think you're probably. At the end of the run there. All right, things continue to be abysmal in Cleveland. The Browns losing games. Deshawn Watson looks like the most inept quarterback in football. They lost this past week to the Eagles after the game.

Kevin Stefansky asked if Deshaun Watson will start next week. He didn't have a whole lot to say. He just said, yes. Clearly, higher-ups going to force Deshaun Watson to keep playing, as he is at this point supporting the worst contract in the history of the NFL. Brown's averaging 3.9 yards per play. That's easily the worst in the NFL. Bengals, Ravens, and Chargers next three games.

Ooh, okay, Browns fans, sorry for you. your team is awful. They are the absolute worst team in the NFL. You are a factory of sadness. And that's your right and fine. I have a good friend of mine who works for the Browns. Do I, I'm sorry. Do I even reach out at any point? Or do I just let that be?

Maybe midweek. Don't do it on Sunday when they're getting their brains beat in. But is there any, I mean, they've had no happiness this year. One bit of happiness, right? They're one win. They have one win. So I mean, I can't even remember who that was. So tell me again, do I at any point reach out of that person and say, hey, I'm sorry, things are going the way they are? Or do you just say, you know what, things are better left said on that?

You say, I just do a little catching up and then say, sorry about the Browns. Because I like this person more than I like you. So I would never send a text of sorry for your loss. Okay. Or in her case, sorry for your losses. They beat the Jaguars. That doesn't count for much. The Jaguars also on the Rotten Five.

They suck. Yes, they do. You know what? And your boy, Trevor Lawrence sucks too. My boy, yeah, you're right. I did predict him, I think, like, two years ago. It was like he's going to have 30 touchdowns. He's not your boy in theory.

You've not been, like, overselling him. He just sucks. He's been bad for two years. He looked like he was on the ascent. Remember when he threw four picks in that one playoff game came back and threw four touchdowns and they won? Yeah. Like, they won a playoff game with him. He was like, Doug Peterson.

Oh, my goodness. Peterson? You think Urban Myers is like, ha, ha, ha, ha. Because he was getting all the blame. He does a podcast, too, man. He does? Yeah. I think we promote it too.

We do? We promote everybody's podcast. I'm glad we're playing Urban, paying Urban Meyer and Julian Edelman. I don't think we pay. It's just kind of marketing. You're probably right. There's got to be a little chunk of cash.

Richard on the east side at 240 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Richard, thank you for holding good afternoon. Richard, nice to have you with us. Enjoy the show. Thank you. I have overwhelmed at the competitive response of the Los Angeles. Angeles Dodgers once the playoffs have started. And their last four of their last five games, they're thrown shutout.

So by my account in the last 51 innings, their pitching staff has given up six runs and all of that was in one game. You know, they have really, really manned up and put the pedal to the medal. It's been impressive to watch. So I just, I'm interested in the scale of historical pitching. excellence where their current streak falls because with each passing inning, they're racking up some numbers that, I don't know, I just like to how they, I would like to see how those compared with numbers all the time. Well, part of the reason why is because Clayton Kershaw hadn't pitched and he usually sucks

into postseason, so that ended up to worry about that. Well, yeah, but like for example, I mean, the Padres are good. I listened to every inning of the Astros Padres game because I didn't know much about them and I really thought the Padres were the best team of all 12 teams going into the playoff round and the Dodgers dispatch the silence. So they are like that the Padres were staunch and they got put down. So it's been very, very impressive. The Dodgers are tough. They are, they are, they are, every, they are hardened and their competitive response has been very manly. So it's been quite... Manly. Are some responses girly out there? I didn't know that.

No, but there's all this garbage out there about how LA is a quote unquote soft team. But every year's different. Like the Astros, you know, a very hard playoff group. Not so much this year. Well, the Dodgers had flipped their supposed script, and that's impressive when teams flip it around. Yeah, well, I'll say this. And Richard, you're absolutely 100% right with all the things you've said about them. I still hate them.

So I'm not going to be the spot to give praise. Otani's been fantastic. The everyday lineup, one to eight, rakes, no Kershaw, which means no October meltdowns. Their bullpen's been solid.

I don't want to talk about this. No, I'm clinically depressed. Thanks, Richard, for the phone call. We like you, but... It's going to be the Dodgers or the Yankees. If you had to choose, pick one. Okay. Let me say each of them.

And then you tell me what sounds the least... Like you're going to violently throw up. Ready? No. Let's go Dodgers. Oh. Okay.

That was A. Okay. B. Let's go Yankees. Oh. I think B is slightly worse. I can root for Shohei Otani. I can't root for Aaron Judge.

All right. As far as this radio show is concerned, and everybody's show is the same. the answer is no doubt see none of the above. But if you had a gun to our head, yes. By 51, no, 50.1 to 49.9 margin,

I would say, let's go Dodgers. And please don't hurt anybody. Even though some people wearing Yankee gear deserved with their ass kicked. Yeah, at least there'll be a lot of hospitalizations in the fan bases when,

if that series happens, in both venues. I haven't checked on the He's got to be feeling pretty good, right? Whatever. You hear what I just said, ladies and gentlemen, 243? I feel like a dirty whore. You look like one, too.

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If you want to get in, you can call 713-212-5-790. Tomorrow we're going to check in in Green Bay. Or maybe Miliwake. And we'll do a gallery of the hottest women in Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field. Shouldn't take me too long. Don't be rude. I've got eight to ten hours to find a couple. Come on.

There's got to be some. There's hot women in Milwaukee. Yeah. It's just going to take you a while. That's all. Why is it going to take you a while? How long will it take you to find a hot women of Houston? Five seconds.

It's different, Matt. We're not talking about Houston. Milwaukee's a smaller town. And Green Bay. It's got two million people. It's got plenty of people. Green Bay's got another 250, so that's 2.25 million people. Can't find two hot girls there?

Let's go. I'm sure you can. And why does this matter? We're talking about football. I'm not. I'm talking about women. Oh, man. You want to talk football, Ross?

Then why don't you go deep down, break down on the linebacking court for the Texans? That's top of gay tomorrow. Let's do that. Let's knock that bad boy up. 10 to noon. Oh, that's right. Tend to noon. They're handling that part.

I've ever seen two grown-ass men arguing about line. back and core more of my life. You haven't mentioned Neville Neville Hewitt once all me. Neville Hewitt! Come on Man. That's tomorrow on the Chris Gordy show featuring St. North Fleet on the Sports Talk 790. Tomorrow we'll do that. We will also have non-flora stories.

Hell yeah or not. And complete breakdown of the Rockets v. the Austin Spurs. Okay. If you can handle that, you're going to be at the game. Yeah. Look at my prep chart. I've done like 7 players. You just ripped it up to shreds. I was like, man, all this work for nothing.

this is terrible. No Victor Webbenyama, no Chris Paul, no Kelton Johnson, no Jeremy Sohan, and no Devin Vassell. That line moved from five and a half to eight and a half. But a couple of Malachi's. Okay, that's good. Oh, so I'm a line move three points? Yeah. Sheesh. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show we simply call it believe it or not and here's how it works you'll call 713212 570 713 212 570 today's edition of believe or not is brought to you by affordable tree service at 713 699 2663 your trees need some tlc you don't know what you're doing martin spoon mower does 713 699 2663 for affordable tree service category today is all things about

plasma i read your statement about plasma statement's completely and utterly accurate you'll say this. Believe it. Statements erroneous, full of bunk and bed up, you'll say this. Two believe it or nots on all things about plasma when you're a prize. What are you playing for today? Connor. A pair of tickets to see Judas Priest live on their Invincible Shield tour October 22 at Smart Financial Center

and Sugar Land and 790 T-shirt. Connor, name a song by Judas Priest not name Breaking the Law. Who do you want to pot up first? Who wants to play? John on 790. Turbo lover. John on 790. Are you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. John, good luck.

The word plasma derives from the Latin word plasm, which means group or cluster. Believe it or not. Believe it. No, Ross made that up. I'm sorry. Greg on 790, Greg, what's your favorite part of today's radio show?

Earlier when you were talking, y'all were talking, oh. It doesn't matter. It's all right. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. you sound like you've been drinking.

Blood plasma is usually clear, light, white, and color and constitutes about 33% of human blood volume. Believe it or not? Believe it. No, it's a light yellow amber. Duh. Victor on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Scientifically speaking, plasma is the four state of matter alongside solid, liquid, and gas. Believe it or not? It is. How do you not have your four states of matter? Come on, folks. That's basic biology.

Roy on 790. Roy, your favorite part of today's radio show. Both of you. Plasma was first discovered in a laboratory by Pierre and Marie Curry back in 1889. Believe it or not? Not. No, sir William Crooks, of course, back in 1879. Statement number two for the win by federal law, you may only donate plasma twice. twice per week. Believe it or not.

Believe it. That's correct. There you go. You give it and you take it. John Paul on 790 JP. You ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. Plasma screen televisions are now a defunct technology

as they have been replaced by LCD screens that are cheaper and use less energy. Believe it or not. Believe it. That's right. Believe it. Statement number two, the 1997 Sonic Youth album Cosmic Plasma

reached number 32 on the U.S. Billboard chart. Believe it or not. Not. No, yeah, Ross made that album up. Dang it. It was not bad. It was a good effort. Roger on 790.

Roger, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. In Lightning, the charge carrier is mainly electrons in a plasma. Believe it or not. Not? Believe it. What the hell was that? That's true.

What do you mean? I'm trying to educate the people. The charged carrier is mainly electrons in a plasma. Duh. I'm starting you Ph.D. Villarreal's. I'm going to start calling you right now. That's terrible. This spooky season, enjoy the freedom of a free debit card with no monthly service charge.

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