The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - ENDLESS Alex Bregman Updates, Will Travis Kelce Retire? Kevin Durant Reaches Historic Milestone

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to yet another Alex Bregman update regarding his free agency. The 30-year-old third baseman has still yet to sign with a team as spring training approaches. Matt and Ross also:discuss the future of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelcereview Kevin Durant becoming the eighth player in NBA history to score 30,000 pointspreview the Rockets hosting the Sunstalk with Cougars men's basketball head coach Kelvin Sampsondebate who would win in a fight between former MLB pitchers Patrick Mahomes Sr. and John Rocker after the pair got into an argument on Bourbon Street in New Orleanstell people to "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 at H-town. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to yet sickie edition number 57 of the Matt Thomas Show Ross. I feel fine. Ross has a four-week-old cough that he can't get rid of. Part of this because he doesn't go to the doctor.

Let's go now. Stop tele-docking. Ooh, that sounds weird. Get to the damn clinic. Can somebody as a doctor come check out his patient Rossville or Yale today? you want a full you need a full physical don't you. You're going to get over with this terrible cough for years. And trust me, I

empathize for you because I have my coughs last forever too, so I'm not the only one. I'm worried about you. Just don't give me the flus. I can't even blame me for this one. I hadn't seen you in two months. I know, I know. We've been going for, what, three straight days? Yeah, I have had enough. You getting sick of me, you won't make on the road? Well, good. See you later. I'll see you next week in West Palm Beach. How about that? That's true.

We're actually going to West Palm Beach, and we're going to work while we're down there as compared to just pretend like we're having fun and just hanging out. Well, not working sounds more fun. That's true. West Palm Beach, by the way, for those of you that are Astro fans have never been before, whatever you used for your budget for Orlando add 30% to it. Because it's significantly more expensive. Okay.

I was looking at hotel rates just the other day for mid hotels, not even the normal ones that I'm accustomed to staying at. 475 a night. Mm. Mm-hmm. Now you could also stay in Fort Lauderdale But that's your looking at about an hour of 15 drive You know

To in front of the West Palm So it's, you know, teach his own Now Ross and I, a couple years ago, stay today And I'm glad to say it, Studio 6 Where there were murders being committed on daily basis There weren't murders being committed There was dry blood in our tub There was just one guy with the shakes

Looking, asking us where the office was And he was literally sitting on the bench in front of the office Yeah, and again the shakes was the key issue Yeah, he had the meth What do you call it? The heroin shakes The best part for me, and you don't even know this yet, is that the woman I asked for a receipt because we had to give receipts for our expenses,

and she was eating a cheeseburger from McDonald's. You know the little small ones? So she's eating a cheeseburger, and I said, hey, can you print out where she goes, I'll go in the back of the printer in the back of the office and get it printout for you. And she left her cheeseburger on the counter. So what?

Do you think that's how you're supposed to do with things? Oh, like raw on the counter? Like the cheeseburger and the wrapper on the counter in front of me as I'm waiting. In the rapper? What's what about that? Do you think they do it at the four seasons? They can do it at the Ritz?

We weren't at the four seasons. They can do it at the higher agency? What is she supposed to do with her burger? Put in her back pocket? Put it somewhere else or maybe, I don't know, carry it with her? She can't just put it on the counter? You can't put food on the counter. You're interrupting her lunch.

I'm the customer. So what? You're the customer. You can't put food items in front of your on the desk. She's a human being. What if I want to eat? I was actually more concerned about her because thank God I'm a normal person.

What if I was a not normal person and took a bite out of her cheeseburger? You should be glad she wasn't shooting up. Well, she looked like she could have been. She's like, give me five minutes. Well, you bet, I was nice for a printout. Yeah. She goes, I got this Daisy wheel in the back. I've got to get this bad boy printed out that way.

Dot Matrix, if you will. Desjet 500. Damn. The classics. I can get this copy server account. I'll have to dial in and get the email for you. Yeah. She's going to handwrite you one.

Handwrite it for me. and telegraph. Let me use this fax machine. See if it printed out for me. Are there even fax machines around anymore? Fax similes, yeah. But they're not. Do they still use them on signing day?

Well, they're faxes, but they're attached to, I think, to email addresses and to computers. I don't think they're, I don't know. Maybe can you go get a real fax machine? Like our fax machine is in our printer here at the office. It's just a phone number. Okay. So, that's it. All right.

I'm doing great, Matt. I mean, you look okay. Thank you. You sound like hell, but I think it looks okay. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, I'm working on it. We have had a couple of days. days of just doing the old regular 10 to 2 show.

Yes. And now we're about to get busy this week. We got back-to-back rocket games tonight against the Phoenix Suns, who, by the way, lost last night at home to Memphis. Wonderland. And triple overtime, hopefully? I did look on Flight Away this morning. They arrived at Hoppy at 3.20 this morning. Oh, that's great. Oh, yeah. And two days off for the Rockets. And Durant, I think, played a boatload. I think Durant played more than 40 minutes last night. Love it.

Somebody else. You know the Tai Tai, Tai Washington plays for the Phoenix Suns? Yeah, Tai Tai Washington. Rockets legend. I mean, I would, legend's kind of a strong term. But yeah, who else? Did Bradley Bill play, I think, a bunch of minutes? I'll bring it up. 43 minutes for Kevin Durant, 40 for Devin Booker.

Oh, Devin Booker's who I was thinking of him. But he's young, though. But you know, these guys are used to. They're starting bowl, bowl, boh. It's easy for me to say. Is it? Ball and a bowl. Yeah, it sounds like I trip you up.

We'll see. Okay. You can listen and critique if you want to. Okay. So Rockets tonight against the Phoenix Suns. Rockets play Golden State tomorrow. Golden State is playing tonight as well. Oh, thank goodness.

They're in the D playing the Dallas Mavericks. By the way, I never thought basketball in the passion were two words. You used in the same sentence in Dallas. Are they still pissed off? Did you see the SMU Mustangs played yesterday? No. And they were screaming fire Nico in that arena.

Wow, at SMU, really. Now, I don't know if Nico was there or the owner of the Mavericks. Was there? Somebody involving the Mavericks. I think it was Nico might have been there at the game. I'll have to look at the video here. But they were chaining that at a college basketball game. And then there's this one dude, you know, like on Twitter Mab's 775, whatever.

Yeah. Who videotaped through his phone, him getting kicked out of the arena the other day. And he's saying that I didn't, I'm following the code of conduct. I did not do anything to get, I did not do anything to get ejected. And they'd bring security people over. Yeah. They'd have brought them the cops over. And the cops were being very calm because they knew that if something crazy would have happened,

they would have just grabbed him and say, get your ass out of there. That'd have been even a bigger situation. The reality is this. There is an NBA fan code of conduct. Yes, there is. They can throw you out for whatever reason they feel like. And they can't. And that's what I kept, as I was watching this video, is like, I did nothing wrong.

I did nothing wrong. The reality is, if they think. think you did something wrong? Mm-hmm. The side is going to go to them. Now, if you throw people out just to throw people out, then you're going to build a terrible reputation and lose business, which maybe the Mavericks will do on this.

But apparently saying Fire Nico and putting up signs and whatnot is what they, the Mavericks thought was somewhat rude. Apparently, Mark Cuban is being seen, dropped on some F-bombs at some fans as well, which, by the way, he didn't have a dog in the fight anymore. He doesn't even own any part of the team anymore. He just... I thought he was a small, small. My owner is so small

But he's not involved in any decision making He had no idea that Luca was going to get traded Because the word in Dallas was if Mark would have known Luke would have never been under any First of all, anybody with the same brain Would have not made the deal I mean, forget about the fact that it was not Cuban didn't know about it

But yeah, it is ridiculously ugly For the people of Dallas that are Maverick fans Now again, they're going to be Maverick fans For another month or so until the Texan Until the Cowboys have their draft And then they'll go back in their hole But, I mean, you think Texans fans dominate this town, which really doesn't anymore because Texans haven't done enough to dominate a town.

It's an Astros town. It's an Astros town. But it can become a Texans town really quick. It's fluid. You just got to win. You got to win. Yeah, we are more. You're on Houston's love and respect.

You got to win, baby. Yeah, we more than Dallas are winning get in. Yes. Where the Cowboys have been futile for, oh, my God. 30 years and people still live and breathe on every move they make. Correct. I mean, they will say. I hate Jerry Jones more than life itself,

but when Jerry Jones makes his twice radio appearances on the flagship station, people listen to every word he says. So it's, you know, is it like a bad TV show that you just can't get rid of because you just are insistent on watching how it ends? It's like a generational curse because the Cowboys fans, like you said, they haven't won a Super Bowl in over 30 years at this point. So if you're a 30-year-old cowboy fan, you never saw a Super Bowl. It's from your parents.

It's generational. You don't even know what a championship game is. It was passed down. I mean, the Texans and the Cowboys have as many championship game appearances as each other in the last, what, 30 years, right? Give or take? I mean, the Texans have never been. And I think when's the last time the Cowboys have been? It's got to be the mid-90s at some point.

Nobody's up and become a Cowboys fan in the last 30 years. It's generational. Yeah. Everybody's been like, man, Quincy Carter. It's great. The Rangers won a World Series. Yes. The Mavericks have won an NBA title.

Correct. They went to the NBA finals last year. The stars have won a Stanley Cup. And they all get their shine. But it's the Cowboys that town. It's like the Broncos. The Nuggets won an NBA championship in Denver. The Avalanche have won, I think, a couple.

The Rockies went to the World Series when I want to say, oh, four or 08s? Maybe one of those. Four, they got sweat. By the Red Sox. But that's a town, that's the Broncos. And so, and maybe the Texas has become that in this market someday, but you've got to get to a certain level and that they have not reached that. The five Super Bowls will be a good start. All right.

So on the radio program today, we have at 1130 today. We have shut your bum ass up. I got a fresh one for you this morning. Okay. It involves my facial hair. Sorry, it was the 07 World Series, not 040. Okay. But I mean, I knew it was somewhere in that vicinity.

Yeah. I got shut your bum ass up at 1130. At 12 o'clock today, we have the news at noon. We have, believe it or not, today at 150. And we have another Alex Breggman update. Now, you know what? When I know a bit's good, is when everybody else, every other station, every other show in town is doing an Alex Bregman update.

It's an odys. It's a, you think so? I feel like other people could have organically come up with that. It's an Alex Bregman update. I'm doing it. Is it singing songs about it? Probably. I have no idea.

I mean, Sean and Brian will sing songs on her show all the time. I don't really listen to other stations. Do you listen to ours? You listen to the previous show? You don't listen to the previous show? Occasionally. Okay. I mean, Brian likes to sing, so maybe he sings an Alex Breggman update.

Maybe. I'm listening to podcasts. Not really. Okay. I'm listening to Plinko's and Powerbombs. That's such a great podcast. I know. It's pretty good.

The two episodes it was sent. It's so good you listen to it over. It was like a one-hit wonder is what it was. Yeah, I used it to go to sleep. That's not nice at all. All right, 713, 2190. 7-1-3-2-2-5-7-90. You know what a bit as good is when people send you material force at bit.

An Alex Bramond update is coming up next here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790 7-13-212-5-790 if you want to follow us on Twitter we'd love to have you at sportsMT at sports rvy and at connor d mcgovern 1013 on 790 back to matt thomas and ross via real on sports talk 790 so i want y'all to do me a favor just like a previous listener did anytime you see a Bringman update you have to send it to us because it gives us an opportunity to play an amazing sounder

The Bregman O'Dee on Matt and Ross's show The bits never going away Much to the chagrined of some All right Jim Bowden MLB analyst and insider for CBS Sports The Athletic MLB Network Radio

Sirius XM Foul Territory Former MLB GM 16 plus Bush years, executive in the year. Man, he's got... Why ain't he working? We got all these things going on. I don't know. 13 hours ago,

got a tweet from a listener on this. Teams that are still in on the Alex Spragman as of this hour. That was 13 hours ago. So what about 9 o'clock last night? Red Sox? Cubs. Tigers. We knew that

yesterday. Because Buster only told us it was down to three. Yes. Jimmy Bowden. Mike, might call him Jimmy. Jimmy is putting in the Blue Jays and the Astros again. Jimmy Bowden. That's it. That's the update.

Oh. Yeah, that was the passing list. Do you think they're just passing each other's updates to each other just claiming that they're stealing off other people and just claiming credit? No. Knowing their people. I think the update is there's no real update. That may be, that's, that's, you know what? You know what we ought to do?

We got to get our imaging guy, Muck Bill, Bion, to go there. is no update. Ooh. Oh, this is a good office. He's very busy. You better get in that request now. Yeah, he's probably new Michael Berry promos. That's okay.

That's fine. Lord knows we need to promote that show some more. All right. So, yeah. So now we're adding two more teams back to the list. We're back to the original five. That's all I got. Okay.

There's no contract. There's no dollar amount. There's no elimination. Buster says one thing. Passing and Jim Bowden to the other things. You know, be funny. What would be funny, Matt? I'll let you do it.

Why don't you add a 16? Who? Put a rando in. You're Yankees? Go put a tweet out. I'm adding a 16. Okay. Oh, you want to say sources close to me or say yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, nobody's going to check you on it. I feel like if you're wrong, who cares? No, I wouldn't do that. You've been asking me to do this for a long time. Yeah, I wouldn't want to damage my reputation. But your reputation, I don't care. Yeah, that's the thing is you don't care about mine.

It's about yours. Okay, that seems fair. That seems fair. All right, that's, in a nutshell, where we're at at this point. And it is funny that all the different MLB hot stove shows and the show's getting ready for spring training and the little reports that are done on various websites are all like, are y'all surprised at Alex Bergman's so doesn't have a job?

And the answer is, yeah, we're all surprised. I'm surprised. As a human to me, I would never let this go this far. When I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do in 2010 coming back to Houston. I had two offers and I'm like, three offers if you count the Minneapolis deal. I'm like, I can't handle this.

I wasn't going to let them get into a war. I was like, I've got to make a decision on this. Why didn't you let them get into a bidding war, Matt? Bidding war for a for a gold glove third baseman. A little different than a, you know, a major market radius, a media star. So it is what the, you know, you have to kind of temper your expectations.

You have to kind of know who you are. And Breggman's like, I'm a third basement. I can, that's got O.P. plus of 108. Yeah, maybe he, 118. It's probably it might be 1,08 this year. You're saying it's going down. I don't know. Could it go up? I guess it could. It's been going down for like three straight years. Okay, so OPE, you know what?

I got an OPS plus of 118. I can. And I hear more of a 100. I'd be lucky to get 60. Gold glove. Well, according to Chris Gordy's reporting on MLB.com's top 100 players list, do you see where he was? I did not. In all of Major League Baseball. Can I may, I guess? Sure. This is among every position play. including pitchers?

I think pictures are in the list too. I think. I'll have to go double check. I'll let you look it up to make sure. All right. Well. And then I don't even know. Now you're making me go to Gordy's Twitter page.

Oh, geez. You're going to get in mixed-in offensive linemen from Old Miss conversation? Yeah, it's kind of tough. Yeah, pitchers are on this list. Okay. How many Astros are on the list? Four?

In the top 100. Yes. Let's see how good I get on this. Do I get a range of, If I get with him... Well, okay, four, but they've only done to the top 20. Yordon will be in the top 20. Okay, so at this point, Yoron is on the list.

Brangman is probably 72. 37. Oh, damn. I love Brex, too. I didn't mean to downground, which is thinking to be a great players. They have him ahead of Matt Chapman by one spot. Well, that's the reason why I think Brankman wants one line. They got him head of Mike Trout.

That's just because he's been hurt. Trout's top five. He's healthy, but... Are the Angels signing like 15 free agents this office? season? Seems like it. He said they signed Kenley Jansen yesterday. Good for them. Well, I guess. Kenley Jansen keeps moving around from team

to team to team to. Well, he's at the end of his career. I lose track of how many teams he's been on. He's like 37 or something. Yeah. He's, I mean, he's their closer now. Good for him. Just like Ryan Presses is the closer of the Chicago Cubs. Well, he's battling with that young guy with the ERA under 2, whose name I can't remember.

So what is it, what's going to happen if he goes there and he doesn't win the closer spot? And then he's not going to close. I mean, I don't hope he doesn't get upset and doesn't want to talk and went out. And he'll close and then they'll use that other guy like in 17th. It's like the, like the Brian of Brayee roll. We didn't have Ryan on the show last year. We needed to because you and I were pro-team press.

I'm pro-press, but he's also not as good as Josh Hater. Sorry. And he also blew us off at Fan Fest last year. And you would not have said something directly like, hey, what's it like being the second-best reliever in your team? No, I wouldn't have said that. We ought to be nice. Yeah, of course he would have been nice. But if he'd ask me directly, I would have to answer.

He wouldn't ask you. I don't think you would. Don't ask questions. You don't want the answer to, Matt. You know that. All right. Am I the best radio host on 790? No.

Damn. Shouldn't ask the question. I told you. See? You know what? It feels like an ask sports RV. Oh, yeah. What did we call it?

Brutely honest. Brutely honest RV. Oh, no. Well, I'm not going to put you to that. Let's do it. No, it's been a year. I'm ready. I'm irritated.

I'm upset. I'm sick and tired of being sick. Brutely honest RV. No more questions about that. Talent at 790, though. That was 80% of the questions. Sport 790. It's been done.

Co-workers are off the list. I already did it. I did it last year. Okay, let's do it right now. We got 10. This is a good way to segue here. Oh, my God. If you have a question for Ross that doesn't relate to people that work at sports talk 790,

but anything else in life, like brutally honest, what's your take on, I don't, religion. Brutely honest take on politics. Brutely honest on what car to buy. Brutely honest on women. We're looking for a brutally honest RV calls. This is a once a year bit. We organically just came out of nowhere here there. I'm already uncomfortable, but let's do it.

Only thing that's off limits is Sports Talk 790 talent questions. 7.13-212-5-790. If you have something you brutally honestly want to ask Ross, and he must answer and honestly. Now, are we going to allow you a free pass on a couple of these things? No free path. You really are going to answer every little thing that comes your way. We'll see.

Okay. I honor you for you. Oh, man. Nobody calls or you're going to be safe. That is. It's been fine. You're good. Looking good. Yeah, I think it looks good so far.

713, 21, 2, 1, 5, 7. I won't mention the number, but at least 10 more times. Is this brutal, honest music? Hey, it's Ross, and I'm here to answer all your questions in the most brutal and honest way possible. This isn't brutal and honest. This is like, um, soothing and I like it

but it's not how you're going to answer the questions you're going to lay somebody down gently Matt before you lay the hammer on them

exactly duh push and pull I like this I like this a lot all right here it is 713

212 5790 if you have something you brutally want to ask Ross and he'll give you the brutal answer whether you like it

or not 713 212 577 9 I'm actually in the mood for like a glass of tea or something now, hot tea with a lemon. I'll do a nice cabernet, ain't.

Are you? All right. Are we at a jazz bar? Where are we, Ross? We're not even in the studio anymore. What do you mean? It's a nice cocktail bar? You know what we are?

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They've got events coming up in February and in March. You want to go see them play because your daughter plays volleyball. You play volleyball. You play volleyball in yesterday year. It's a great family sport. and the women do it as good as anybody in this country. League one volleyball. L-O-V-B.com.

That's L-O-V-B.com. Welcome to the Sports Talk 7-90. Matt Thomas Show with Ross Cafe. I'm your Major D. And we'd like you to come on in, relax. I wouldn't say take your shoes off, but nobody in a... would go to a restaurant and have your shoes taken off.

Ross, do you want a booth, you want a table to handle those responsibilities? Let's go with a high top at the bar. That feels very uncomfortable. Okay, you want to get intimate then. Well, I mean, you're going to be the one sitting down for most of this segment, so. Now that you can cross my legs. How about more of a, like a

semicircle lounge chair? And you would want to sit crisscross applesauce. I might cross my legs here and there. Because you cannot see Indians down anymore. And that is correct. Okay. Incense in the air? No, incense.

In a public space. What are you drinking? Glass of wine? Bourbon on the rocks. Okay. Neat? Oh, you said, on the rocks. Okay, very good.

All right, there it is. He's got his Burma on the Rocks. I am drinking a Sex and a Beat shot. There's no, that's a cocktail. You ordered it as a shot. Yeah, I did. And everyone was stunned. Yeah.

And found it to be quite delicious. No, it made no sense. Second favorite shot, the Washington Apple. And then you get the lemon drop, if you will. God. You were an 18-19. year old everywhere agree. Josh, welcome to the Sports Talk 790 Cafe.

Oh my God. Josh, you need to be brutally honest with Ross and he'll be brutally honest back with you. Oh, well, I just have a question. It's kind of stupid, but I was curious on your trip to Asia if you got any action

or if you pulled any in your recent trip to Asia. This is an easy one. No. I didn't really go out of the bars. It wasn't really an aim of mine. I also didn't speak the language. I didn't try to speak the language. No, I didn't.

Unfortunately. Well, not unfortunately. I didn't. I was going to live vicarious for you. I'm sorry, Dave. That's a good one, fun. We do live vicarious. I didn't even really talk to it. There was just a group of us, and I just hung with our group, and everybody in our group was either male or spoken for.

Okay. That's kind of a nice, easy way lean into this segment. Brune on us wrong. Yeah. It was a fun trip. It was a great trip. Yeah, you'll go back again, right? Mm-hmm.

Okay. Over by Energy Stadium. Dave is with us in the 790 cafe. Dave, good morning to you. What do you got? Good morning, sir. This is about, I don't know, sorry to say,

$7.90 talent. No, no, you can't. It's off limits. Because I need, I can't. No, you can ask him. He does not require by this rule. I will reserve the right to not answer. There you go.

Okay, okay. That's fine. All right. These guys that come on after you guys, I got a little bit of a beef with one of them. He doesn't even know it because I have, I've been sitting on this for a long time. I called him one day. And I was, he's such a stat master. You know who I'm talking about. Dan Matthews. Dan Matthews, of course, yes. You're talking about Adam OX, sir. Go ahead. Oh, yeah, yeah. So I said, man, there's got to, I've been searching the internet. There's got to be a stat. for runs that score on walks because that was a big thing last year with the Astros we'd walk somebody and damn if they didn't score almost immediately no he said oh yeah you can find that and he'd say he'd help me but he never did okay now the killer is this

now what do you call that when y'all play music for a segment you call that a sounder is that right um music is it can be called a bed probably a sounder a sound is more like one of our promos or... Like when Jalen Rose, you hear the ding. That's more of a sounder. That's a sounder. Technical terms. Oh, okay.

All right. Well, they do this thing called Best of X. Mm-hmm. And now tell me, have you heard the music intro? With Wex singing. Yes, I've heard that, yes. Oh, my God. Ross, do you hate that as much as I hate that?

I got to be honest. I heard it once and I thought it was hilarious. But it could be one of those things if you hear it over and over again it wears on you. Can we hear this? Can we bring this up actually? Thank you very much. Dave, don't be mad at us. We want people to hear it so they can realize in the context which you're speaking of. This is every day I think they do it at 3.30.

The first time I heard it, I thought it was hilarious. I wouldn't characterize it as hilarious. But you know what? I'm not the judge at this. Not everything that I do, Adam thinks I'm, Wex thinks the spectacular. A lot of things at Wex says it's awesome. Did you all see this? You should be putting out between five and 15 posts a day.

400 people were arrested for things that they said on social media. History repeats itself. Type and you'll succeed. Never doubt that you're the one two posts or no one will believe. Every top you now, you're the best of X. Posting every single day and I, you're the best of it. 10 out of 10 no notes. Zero.

I think it's hilarious. Now every day, it could be a little shorter, I guess. You can tighten it up a little bit, play every day. But I like it. Connor, you want to break the tie? You'll be honest. It's brutal honesty. Brutal honesty.

I like it. I agree with Ross said it's a little long, but I've had to cover the... Clip that. You just clipped yourself right there. I can't control the edit, so I don't have to. Oh, I'm clipping it. I see how you are. 99% of what Wex says is awesome.

That one, I just, I don't like it. But that's to each his own. To each his own. Yeah. Two to six weekdays, sports talk, 790. Mm-hmm. Let us continue. James, in North Houston on the 7-90 cafe, James, party of one.

What can I do for you today? How you doing? Hey, I got across from Ross. Hey, Ross, you were betting my right? Do you go to Vegas? Sometimes? Yeah. Okay, cool.

Hey, all right, these two questions, and I'll hang up and listen. What's your body count? And do you get the plus or minus again? Matt. You know, we've never talked about this. Oh, my God. It's brutal honesty. He has been single way more than I have, so your body count is definitely plus.

Can I be honest? I don't know what it is. Yeah, I'm going to be safe and saying that mine is significantly less than yours. I've also been married for 27 years. Are you supposed to give a number? I'm supposed to ask other questions Answer questions about other people No, no, no, it's just Berlin's

It's Burlona C. I don't know the number. That's a lie. That's not a lie. Well, get a piece of paper. I'll start writing the names down. All right, give me some time. That many, you've lost count? Good for him.

Wow. Oh, now you hear that Connor, he's going to the golf card. You might have to get tested. I don't know what about that. Man, what's going on? You get the vid? You better not have the vid. I'm going to go on the Washington, D.C.

If you get the vid, you're giving it to me, I'm not going to be pleased. by this. Mm-hmm. So you're not answering the question because you're saying he, first of all, every guy knows. I don't. I swear to you. All right.

At 11 o'clock, we'll lead off the 11 o'clock hour with your list. This is supposed to be brutally honest questions about other things. It's also called brutally uncomfortable questions with Ross. All right, I'll give you, I'm not giving you the exact number. No, no, this is my segment. This is your assignment.

I don't want to Jones in your second. No, I'm good. I'll just say that I'm, I'm, mine is. I don't even know your number, but I know my number is less than yours. Okay. Because first of all, I was portly as a kid, so I didn't get a lot of, I didn't get a lot of teenage. I don't care about that. I didn't get a lot of teenage action, if you know what I'm saying. Mm-hmm.

And it's time for a break. Oh, no, it's now. We got another minute left. Another minute. We got last call here for the 790 cafe with Brutley-Hoss. See, we're supposed to answer questions about other people. people. I don't know I was answering questions about myself. I kind of like it. Two of the three questions were about me and my sex life.

That's what people really want to know about really. I mean, I'd never really want to know about your sex life either, but, uh, hmm, hmm. 713, 212.570. Final call. 713, 212 5790. 710. 713 212 5790. And you're going to win because no one's going to call in the next 30 seconds. Yeah, we're done. To meet the segment's over with and you got, you got away with it. Matt, you're not going to ask him a question? No. You know how you're brutal honest questions for it? Here's the reality.

We've had a lot of brutally honest conversations in the last 15 years. You got a question for you. You know everything then. Connor, do you have a question? Connor, what's your question for our man here? Who's a guest you've had on the show, but you'll never have back? Oh, that's a good question. That's a good question.

Oh, man. Help me think, Matt. I'm sure we can think of somebody. Oh, there's been some astrooom player. Our weekly astroguests, some have been terrible. I think Bob Nightingale's bad on air. Bob's a really good guy, just not granted in the air. This is a way easier question.

I'll let you think about it. We've got another question coming in. Oh, we have Cindy and Spring wants to say hello to the show. All right, here we go. Cindy and Spring? Brutely honest Ross wants a brutally honest question put it his way. What do you got, Cindy? It's the question I need an answer to because I'm not going to ask my son.

I'm 78. What kind of iPhones that I buy? I'm on, I have an I six right now, which I know is good. Oh, I like this. This is great. Thank you, Syden. iPhone 15 works great. What are you trying to spend some money?

No. I'm 78. I want the, Oh, then you're fine. Get like an iPhone 13 or 14 then. Whatever's cheap. Whatever's cheap? Yeah.

I mean, are you a big listener in music? Do you watch stuff on your phone or you just use it for communication and texting? What does it matter? iPhone can do that. I do. I read the Washington Post online. Okay. And I read the Houston Chronicles.

But it's hard to read a book when you're blind almost. Yeah, I understand. I do texting and I, you know, I don't listen to music. My hearing has gone bad. I need hearing aids. I'm telling you, want a phone to last me for about five years. And then I can die. The phone will all be fine.

Wow. I think you're fine. Okay, yeah, you can get like a 14, 15. Look, make sure this is what you've got to. do you got to buy the 256 gigabyte one instead of the 128 because they keep making the iOS bigger and bigger and bigger then your phone starts

operating slower and then they try to get you to buy another one so buy the bigger hard drive buy an older one with a bigger hard drive that's too much technology oh geez I'm 78 I'm sorry

yeah she's 78 Ross all right 256 gigabytes strike that down 256 Gb I can remember one number 256. Tell him I want the 256GB. You want the 256GB. 256 gig.

Yeah, write it down. That's good. I have to write it down. Thank you, Cindy. I will say two more times for you. 256 gigabytes. After that, just choose a phone that fits you best. Mm-hmm.

I got the 256 GB. Yeah. That's for all those pictures you download and videos. I felt personal there. This one was in a sports m antique segment. All right, there it is. You got to think about your worst guys coming about. That's somebody would never have.

Never have, somebody wasn't good. Kyle Tucker wasn't good. We had a lot of Astros that weren't great. Tedder Scott, great reliever, not a great interview. Yeah. He was not good for you with Astrofets, was he? No, actually, he was. Oh, was he?

Okay, maybe he just didn't like me. Yeah. He said, tell Matt Thomas, I want to punch him in the throat. That doesn't feel very nice. That was weird. Yeah. No, he didn't say that. Okay.

1046. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross 7-1-3-21-2-2-5. I would say that Justin Verlinder was not a good guess, but he never came on on the show. He was afraid to come on because our audience wasn't big enough. Oh, I interviewed him twice. He was great. That was on Astrofuss, and it wasn't, he didn't know your name. He didn't have to know my name. I don't care. He didn't come on because he wanted to.

Yeah, but it was on a Saturday. He had to be there. It's fair. All right, 713-212-5-7-9. You know what? I got a question answer for you. If you have appliance issues, like things aren't working, Listen to me, all of you that just have called, Uptown Appliance Repair is where it's at. You need to go to Uptownappliance Repair.com and find out what they can do for you. And then you're going to call them and you're going to say, hey, Matt Thomas from Sports Talk 790 sent me over to you because my refrigerator isn't cooling properly.

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Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross. That's me. Matt here as well. Phone lines open at 713, 212, 5. 790. Coming up, we'll have ain't nobody got time for that. By the show, bum ass up. The cafe is closed.

You cannot be sending me questions to ask Ross. It's not happening. You got a question now? Yeah. How difficult is it? It's not being discussed. Ooh. Zip. Zero Zine. It's about 790 and we're not doing it. Okay. Good.

You know what you all want? You all want tea about the station. They want to do it. Let me tell you about 790, okay? And this is your segment, but I'm going to bit seal off of your segment. We have a really good bunch of dudes that we work with. Some are quirkier than others, but we all, we all, not generally get along. We all get along. I have not been able to say that throughout my entire 790 career. Yes.

We all get along. long, we all kind of have the same goal in mind. We all do different shows. And like I said, I like that, that my, that you and I do a show that is completely different from the 18. That's completely different from Sean. That's what we do. We're, you know what? We're the 31 flavors. You would want to go to the same place and get the same thing every single day, all hours, every hour. You want variety. So that's what we're going to do. I am like the butter pecan You're the mint chocolate chip

Huh I hate mint chocolate chip Do you really It's not my favorites either But I would eat it It has too much Especially from Bluebell A very,

Connor McGovern is very upset Oh I didn't realize It tastes like toothpaste It's too much mint It's I like a hint of mint Like in Andes Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah for sure Or like a thin mint

Yeah It's like I don't want to eat toothpaste At dessert That's so good It's too much It's overriding. It's overwhelming, I should say. Yeah. So, yeah, we're the 31 flavors here. I argue with my brother and sister about it all the time. They love it, Connor.

So you're on there. Have we ever done, believe it or not? I mean, ice cream flavors. I don't think so. By the way, this Friday, Connor, this will be, I believe either the second or third time you have ever done a fantasy five of us. Has he ever done one? No, he's done one. I've done two. Okay. Okay. Last one I screwed up pretty good with the Matt's Christmas songs. Yeah. You, that's right. Nice. I wasn't air.

Yeah, you and I have not gone mono-a-mona-long time. Okay. We are going to celebrate the 50 years of Saturday Night Live. Okay. Now, we've done the best television. We've done the best actors on the show. Mm-hmm. Like Dan Aykroyd or John Belushi or Keenan Thompson.

You said Kenan Thompson in one, which is a travesty. Here is the Fantasy Five this Friday at 220. Okay. Top recurring characters. Okay. Now recurring would mean more than once. For instance, it has been discussed and widely recognized as the greatest skit of all time in S&L history. Do you know the answer to this question?

No. This is not me saying. This is what people have said. Is the cowbell segment. Okay. But that's not a recurring character. That is not a recurring character. So thus, you couldn't use Cowbell Guy as a Fantasy Five category.

Okay. So the recurring character has been at least more than once. And you and L of Fantasy 5 on that coming up on Friday. Oh, stop. I can't wait. Why? Because it didn't sound authentic. It didn't sound authentic.

I can't wait. That's much better. And we're going to draft probably tomorrow so we can have a little clips for Connor to play on Friday. If we can add more work to his workload. Love it. So we have to draft early. Yeah. We draft tonight.

At the Rockets game, I'll come see you at halftime. You ought to draft at half time of the Rockets game? Are you working at Rockets tonight? Yes. You're going to beat the game? Yes. Oh, it's Katie's in town. That's why.

Is he? The Sons are here. Now, whether you play it or not, it's a back-to-back. No, it's a home game, and I'm working the game. I usually like to go. I mean, Kevin Durant did play, oh, 43 minutes last night. He's 36 years old. We'll see.

I mean, I hate to see that. By the way, E. E. Medecoe will join us on the show tomorrow. Oh, okay. You were hoping, weren't you? I know. That's fine. What?

Hashtag mail it in, Rockets Launchpad. It's not mailed in, Matt. You're bringing a great interview to the people. Yeah. It's the head freaking coach of the Houston Rockets. I know. We get them. We get them on the show once a week.

We are very lucky. And we'll have Joe Spotted joining us on Tuesday, is one of the regular season starts. Two great interviews. Yeah. Joe's going to be a little more protective of his players, but he's still a great interview. You may? He's good with not protecting.

I mean, he'll protect a certain level, but he'll question asked. It gets answered. Yeah. He doesn't get surly with you like Dusty Baker. does. Ooh, or did. He dropped a damn

dude on me a couple times. That was rough. Yeah. The best question of the IMA-Doka season this year was when you asked him about,

what do you think about Cam Whitmore's statements? It's like, yeah, that's fine. Say all he wants. You know, I'm happy, I don't care.

I'm here, I'm a coach. I'm a love on him when he wants to play. Yeah. You know. He needs to lock in a little more on defense. You know, it's funny,

as we said that, we got a minute left here. Typically, in the NBA world of soft egos. Don't you think the NBA player has the softest... The biggest divas, yeah. Thinest skin of all professional athletes? Yes.

That Emei resonates with so many players because of who he is, his background is a friend... I mean, he was a fringe NBA player. He was never a starter on a regular basis. He was in a heavy rotation guy. He had to bounce around from team to team to team just to survive. And he did the same thing as a friend.

assistant coach. Those guys bind to him and I love it. Yeah. And I think it's going to ultimately help out when it comes to free and see. Guys are going to complain for him. Now if you know, you sign with the Rockets, you're going to get brutal honesty with you may.

Where a lot of their coaches will try to placate the stars and that sometimes causes friction. It's funny though, Phil Jackson for all those years coaching not only Michael in Chicago but Kobe in LA, he was the first one to tell you, I I treat everybody differently.

I treated Michael Jordan differently than I treated Steve Kerr. Kobe's like, or in Phil Jackson. I treated Kobe differently than I treated who would be a friend jelly player during that time. Samaki Walker. Yeah, great calling it. You know what I'm saying? I mean, and

Eme? Derek Fisher. Eric. Eric? Eme, a little different. Yeah. He's of, you know what? Jalen Green, you may eight shots in a row and you don't get back on defense? I'm pulling your ass. Yeah, they also don't have a big star player. Superstar player. That's right. And maybe Emie would change them. She was an All-Star, but...

But the Alpha Dog. I mean, if Kevin Durant came here, would he may have to probably change things a little bit for Kevin Durant than he would for Jalen Green? Probably so. Perhaps a little bit. All right. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show starts in a matter of moments. 713-213-213-2-2-790. 7-7-19. If you want to join us via Twitter, you may do that as well. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern.

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Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 1104 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. If you want to join our conversation, we have shut your bum ass up coming up today at 1130.

It's also ain't anybody got time for that. Let's see. Also today we have the news at noon coming up, believe it or not, at 150, and we have a Rockets basketball game coming up with the Phoenix Suns tonight. The Suns last night losing in Phoenix at home on their home court to the Memphis Grizzlies. So they're off a back-to-back. Rockets held back-to-back games with two teams that are trying to climb up the Western Conference ladder.

Of course, Phoenix tonight. and then the Golden State Warriors tomorrow inside Toyota Center. 713-212-5-790, if you want to join us on the radio program. Main headlines today in terms of what's happening around sports, Travis Kelsey has not decided about whether he wants to return or not. He says he's going to take some time before making a decision on whether he will come back for his 13th season. He went on his new Heights podcast to say the quote following.

I know everybody wants to know whether I'm playing next year, and right now I'm just kicking. everything down the road. I'm kicking every can I can down the road. I'm not making any crazy decisions. In the week leading up to the Super Bowl, apparently Kelsey was asked about his future and said he had planned on playing in 2025, but podcast with his brother said something else. Quote, I've been fortunate over the last five or six years. I've played more football than anybody. It's because of the people that are in the building. The fact that we are going to the AFC championship in these Super Bowls, that means I'm playing an extra three games more than

everybody else's in the entire league. That's a lot of of wear and tear in your body, and it's a lot of time spent in the building, focusing on your craft, focusing on the task at hand and every challenge that you set up for yourself. That process can be grueling. So he was very adamant early before the Super Bowl that he was going to come back for 2025. Not so much now. And I'm going to, I'm going to segue from the Kelsey retirement speculation to what I think is going to be something's going to happen in the next couple of years. And I feel like I've said the next couple of years for the last couple of years. Goodell is going to get this 18th game passed.

He is going to, and it's not really him. It's going to be the owners. They're going to say, look, we go to two preseason games, because you guys aren't playing them anyway, 18 regular season games, and we're going to make more money. We're going to put more money in your pockets, and you're going to bitch and moan about the fact that it's grueling. But you're going to also appreciate that quarterbacks can go from making $51 million a year to $54 million a year. You're going to be very happy that a wide receiver is going to go from $19 million a year to $22 million a year. At the other day, Ross, greed runs everything.

No one's going to play an 18-game schedule without there being a positive ram of financial benefit to the players that are actually playing these games. Yes. So it's a hollow conversation, frankly, to me. I just, I can't imagine. Now, if it happens, it'll be one for the ages. but will the union ever come out and say, we as members of the union, don't care that we're going to give our players

an extra 11% increase in revenue. We're going to give that up because we believe 17 is plenty. I don't see those words ever coming out of any union leadership's mouths. Well, union leadership is saying it now, or at least last week, Lloyd Howell. Now, a year ago, apparently, he said, who doesn't want to see more football.

This year he changed his tune. Wisely. Right now when I've talked to players over the last two seasons, no one wants to play an 18th game. No one. 17 games for many of the guys is too long. We are seeing more injuries than ever before. And the NFL has tried to,

and they can try how they want, but the reality is football is the most physically grueling, barbaric sporting men out there. I mean, if there were more injuries between 16 and 17 weeks, there's going to be an additional number of injuries that happened between weeks 17 and 18.

Now, I followed this out to you a couple of years ago, and I don't know if we ever really got into a deep conversation about this. What if everybody has to sit out one game? a buy within your season and that it's up to the NFL teams to say, okay, this week, Joe Mixon, you're not going to play against Jaguars. Damien Pierce, you're now our main running back.

And then, but that's if they're healthy for every game? Like what if Joe Mixon misses a game with an ankle injury, or two games or three games? Well, then that would count. Then that would count. That no player in the NFL can play more than 17 games. unless you're trade. Wasn't there a player that was traded that played

17 games? It could have been. Yeah, I mean, there's going to be obviously some, I'm just throwing that out there as a possibility. Because in reality, let's say that you are a team that is like the chiefs who were the number one scene in the AFC this past year. You didn't play your starters in the last week.

If you've got the bad boy wrapped up after 17 weeks, and then the 18th week is a piece of cake. You can just sit them out and say that we're done. Again, Here's, they're going to get it passed. If the union fights them on it, there may be some parameters that are attached to it. First of all, I think every team's going to get a second off week. So now you're looking at 20.

Like the Super Bowl is going to be into March now. No, I think what's going to happen is you're going to see the NFL season start pre-Labor Day. My guess. If you go 18 weeks and you put two buys in, it's 20 calendar weeks, do you perhaps, I don't know, do you eliminate the week between the Super Bowl? that, you know, there's two weeks in between the championship game. I mean, you could do that. That's tradition.

I like that tradition, by the way. It's the biggest game of the year. You've got to let the drama build. You also want to get people healed up, too. Yes. I don't think you get rid of that. I think you start, first of all, professional football does not care about the nuances and the history of the college game.

And then they put games on Thursday and didn't think twice about it. They put games on Friday, just like college. Nobody cares about any other facet of their industry. It's money. Yeah. So you put a 20 game schedule together and you

you take two weeks off. Now the one I'm thinking about is mandatory sit-out. That's just me just throwing something against the wall. I don't know if that makes any sense anybody or not. But here's the problem.

If you pick a rando week six to set your guy out, does that, you know, because the NBA has this issue right now, if you're a fan of LeBron James and you get one trip a year for the Lakers to play and say Chicago and LeBron sets that out are you shorting the fans in Chicago

an opportunity that wanted to see LeBron take on the Chicago Bulls? Yeah, that probably only applies to quarterbacks and nobody really even goes to a Texan's game. It's different in the NFL. It is different. Nobody's going to a Texan's game. I feel like it happens in baseball. Show Hey, Otani's in town, let's go. Yeah.

Whoever pitcher X is starting. It feels like to me that tickets are so hard to come by in football for most NFL cities. Like for instance, in Green Bay, you know, the waiting list is, you know, 15,000 deep. It's been for like 60 years. You got to be like as a kid as a 12 year old to maybe get season tickets when you're like 46. That if all of a sudden you were handed tickets to see Jacksonville play Green Bay. Jacksonville and Green Bay isn't sexy to you.

but if you get a chance to go to Lambeaufield, sit at the 50-R line, you're going to go sit in that game. You don't care who's playing. You're at Lambeau Field. You're a cheese head, you're a Packer fan. You don't care who's on their side. And again, if C.J. Stroud doesn't play for the Texans in a home game, and Money Mills is playing, you're still rooting hard for Money Mills.

You may be disappointed, but you're still rooting for him. Yeah, but if you hear the week before that Strout, I mean, the week of that Stroud is sitting out, you got to do that out of the road. Here's another thing. What if you put yourself in a spot where you've saved all of your off? Like, if they've finished 1 through 17 and they've played and they have the mandatory sit out a week and you've got like 31 players that haven't sat out yet. We've got a one seat on the line or something? Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.

It doesn't seem practical. I don't think, you know, I'm just saying that if you're really trying to avoid them having to put the suit to put on a, to put on a uniform 18 times, then you could probably space out some weeks. I mean, maybe they say you have to get it done by the first 14 weeks of the season. I'm just throwing stuff against the wall to see if it's saying sticks. And it's not. I'm just telling you, we're talking about players that are so adamant about this.

And Travis Kelsey was alluding to this. I brought this up is that he's like, man, we've been playing a lot of extra games. We're tired. My body is beat up over this. Travis Kelsey's got, what, $16 million sitting on the table for next year? Then we determined that yesterday, somewhere in that range? It's the cap hit.

I think he got most of the money up. front. I think his base salary is two and a half million. Oh, then if he's doing that. But I think if you retire, you have to give some bonus back. Let's say I sign a two-year deal with a giant bonus up front, but I don't leave out the two-year deal.

You have to give some back. But he's got plenty of money. He can give that back. I mean... He needs to get a loan from Taylor. Well, here's the reality. He's going to have a television career ahead of him. Yeah, he'll be on the panel with his brother. I mean, is the Kelsey 15 minutes almost over? No, Jason Kelsey is everywhere.

But I mean, I think he's making like 8 million a year from ESPN or something. Have you seen that ESPN late night show he's done? I have not, but the reviews have not been really, really good. I haven't watched a second of it. I forgot it was even on. Yeah, well, I'm here to remind you those things. I'm wishing him the best. I'm sure you are.

I don't care. Okay. But it's interesting to see what happens. If he really, if he, you know, if it's all about I'm tired or it's, man, I got that money still sitting there on the table for me. Like when people, most of me retire, it's because, Because the company has said, hey, we're going to cut your work back. We don't have the salary. You need a bonus structure.

He's got that money sitting there ready for him to be picked up. All he's going to do is play. I think he plays. I do too. I think he comes across to me as someone that is going to miss football a lot. And by the way, he's going to chase, what's your face around the world on tours? I mean, that's going to get tiresome after a while. Seeing the whole world?

Maybe he becomes a roadie for, for T. Swift. He's going to start loading up speakers and wires and cables. We're in a black shirt and his crew on it. Yeah. Security. He'd be good with security. I think everybody's going to recognize him. All right.

11.58 on Sports Talk 790. Shut your ball ass up in just 15 minutes. Get ready for that. 713. 212.5.790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. 1119. We're going to have Dan Hurley

as part of shut your bum ass up, the Connecticut coach. He told some people in Omaha to shut their bum asses up, and we'll hear that for you coming up at the bottom of the hour. Also, during the news at noon, did you hear what Dak Prescott had to say about his Dallas Cowboys? What else is he supposed to say? I don't know. Be a little more modest about the situation, maybe.

We have that coming up in about 40 minutes from now. Okay. But, Dak, would you say, bullish on his Dallas Cowboys? I think he is. I think most athletes are. Joe Mixon talked about him going to the Super Bowl. By the way, Joe Mixon is the king of the side eye emoji and

look what I'm about to bring. Big surprises are coming. Do you think he was doing that just to kind of get some extra juice? Is that on Twitter or what? A few weeks back. Yeah, a few weeks back. Like, you don't know what's... And again, he could be telling the truth, but he's basically alluding to the text and something surprising is going to happen. And it would obviously if you put two and two to the guys,

that we're to relate to something special is going to happen with the Texans. Whether it's T. Higgins, whether it's somebody else that wants to come here and play that he knows. I mean, Joe Mixon knows all players in the NFL. Yeah. So, I'm still seeing just the Bengals. He knows T. I like T. I had Tee to the Texans two years ago.

You did. And it didn't happen. So you're going to try to take full credit? I'm going to say that probably Joe was listening to the show. Ah. What about Nikki? Nicky C. Nicky C?

He's listening to the show? By the way, we're going to hear from the brand new offensive coordinator on the show tomorrow, as a matter of fact. Really? Yeah. He's going to join us? No, please. Oh. By the way, Calvin Samson is going to join us today at 1230.

He is? Yes. Love it. Yes. I love that a lot. So you can right, believe it or not. Yeah. I'm just feeling a little weary.

I'm tired. We're going to get you some medication. Yeah, I know. We're working on it. All right. So Calvin Samson joins a radio show at 1230 today here on Sports Talk. 790. Let's talk to John in Southwest Houston

on 790. John, good morning to you. Good morning, good morning. Hey, Travis Kelsey, sex, yo, bum ass. You tired because you play too many damn games. I'm sorry to but you play too many games and you

tired? Well, there's nobody got time for that. Imagine how the assholes feel, you know how many games they played more than everybody the last seven years? That's the difference between somebody that's been given and somebody that's earned it. Hothelian he ain't crying. He ready to go play

the next game. And I hear what I got to say about that. Appreciate it. All right, thank you, John. Look at John getting in early before shut your bum ass up. Very upset with Travis Kelsey. You know, it was a question asked and answered. I'm not going to crush Travis for saying that.

Because, let's be honest, when the Astros were playing games into late October, November, some of the guys were saying, hey, our off-seasones are significantly shorter than others. Now, they'd rather have it that way as compared to being done in late September every year.

I get that. But I do believe that an extra 25 baseball games can play a role in a guy's recovery during the off-season. I think three extra football games putting the uniform on and practicing and wear and tear. I mean, it's a physical rough sport.

So, well, we'd like to crush athletes for being honest, or not being honest, I think he was being honest, and I'm going to, can I give him a benefit of doubt on that? Yeah, I would agree. I mean, you add it all up. I think that probably is part of the reason. There's no NFL team has ever three, Pete,

because you've got to get very lucky, and you're playing all these extra games, which means you have to avoid injuries. And you got to be top players. And when you're playing in a tournament format where you're one and done, you have to be, you just, you can't have an off week. Right.

You can't be bad for one game. You're bad in one game. You're done. In the Kansas City's case, your last game was your worst game. How many playoff games is Travis Kelsey played? It's probably a whole other season's worth. Well, I mean, there's five Super Bowls. Yeah.

And he was in part of all five of them. So that's what, at least three. That's 15 minimum. And they didn't all have buys every single year. He's played in 25 playoff games. So that's an extra season and a half. Yeah, for a team, you know, if you've been on the... How long, over how many years?

Since 15. So it's what, okay, so that's a decade. So he's got an extra season. And look. 10 extra games in the last three years? I mean,

you wouldn't have it any other way, but it is a byproduct of advancing. That's still like a whole extra season. Yeah. Plus. Yeah. Again, there are things worthy of crushing somebody for. I can't do it in this particular case.

But I will say this. I think when you look back at those things, you have to say, man, I wouldn't change it for the world. I wouldn't change having to put the pads on and go hit somebody or have somebody hit me for a chance at a Lombardi championship. Oh, by the way, the extra money that comes of being in a playoff team and the extra of being the best at your business. Yeah, they get paid for it.

Yeah. But it is real extra wear and tear on the highest wear and tear sport. Like for instance, you know, they had some of the Astros complaining, not complaining, but just saying admitting that, look, we play an extra 7, 14, but extra 20 games per year each of the last 7 or 8 years. It felt weird this year. They only played two. Yeah. You should play for the Angels. You don't play any playoffs.

Like for instance, and this is a situation, I hope the Rockets are in, hell, the Rockets have been done in mid-April for the last four years in a row. The champion of the NBA is crowned in late June. you get two extra months of playing if you're playing for the championship. That's ridiculous. Again, that's a great problem to have. LeBron James went to eight straight finals. Yeah. It's insane.

It's one of the reasons when they didn't know on the last dance when they made three straight finals. They talked about all the pressure and all the extra games. And Michael Jordan's like, yeah, man, I got to retire. Dennis Roman's like, I need some time off. And what to Phil Jackson say? Go on. Let's see you in Vegas. See you back when you get back from Vegas.

That's the thing is. you ask for time off, you're supposed to be in your bed. You're supposed to be maybe, you know, if you live in a city with a nice beach, you run down to the house. You don't go to. When Rodman said that in the last dance, when he went to Vegas, Vegas is not a relaxing place to go. You can relax there, but Dennis Rodman doesn't relax there. I don't think Dennis Rodman would relax in Wichita. No.

He'd be tearing up the apple. So how do you relax in Vegas? You just lay out the pool? Mm-hmm. Because even going to shows, you have to get dressed up and stuff. Stadium swim? Shout out, Circa. Mm, shout out. We need to go back.

I hope we do. Yeah, Vegas, I've never relaxed in Vegas. I've never said, you know, I think I'm going to stay in the room today. I did. Do you remember when there was like a bad storm, and I couldn't get back into town? And you tried to accuse me of like just milking it? Oh, you ran out of money too, didn't you?

Yeah. The whole last day, I just stayed, I didn't leave my room. Except to go to, I went to Gordon Ramsey's, fish and chips. How was that, by the way? It was good. Fish and chips, real quick, we got 30 seconds. If I gave you 10 different plates of fish and chips,

the best from the worst would be how big of a discrepancy? And not huge. It would be like pizza. I think hamburgers is the biggest oversight of that was the best hamburger I've ever had in my entire life. If you give me a mid, like,

wreckers. Hey. Okay. I like me a Wreckers burger. And the fries, the fries are to die for. You love it because it's cheap. Now, you too. I mean, I'm all about the cheap burger as well.

But a Rekers burger to what, let's say that you went to go to what's a high, a Rappas burger. Oh, they're on Westheimer. Okay. Remember we went that one time expensive? Yeah, we spent like almost your whole $50 gift card. It's ridiculous. Significant base difference between the checkers or the Rekers and the Pappas Burger? it's significant but like you said not as big as like you know yeah like a good steak as compared to

going to the mold of morale or something like that all right i don't know how we got to that but my point is my point is we have to go to time out here seven one three two one two five seven ninety i need you to get ready to tell some people to shut their bum ass up for ross damn dude get you a stairway or something 790 713-212-5-790 if you're on Twitter want to follow us there we'd love to have you at sportsMT and at sports every shut your bum ass up and ain't nobody got time for that next 1129 on 790 ain't everybody getting time for day hey nobody getting time for day hey nobody getting time for day you know we have time for at 12 o'clock the news at noon we have an update on yet another angels player that's hurt for the upteenth year in a row you know what in reality everybody's got a lance for colors some get paid more than others and we'll tell you about that coming up at the top of the hour

also you're going to hear dac prescott at the top of the hour and also we're going to have calvin sampson at 1230 what a show it's a major market radio show right there's incredible now we're going to ask you to call 713212 5790 713 212 570 because you're going to call us and tell us to tell somebody to shut their bumasses up, mate. Shut your bum ass up, man. Or if somebody at the office is stealing all of your copies off of your printer

because you share one printer, and you're going to go chase around for 15 minutes who took it? Well, I've got somebody who's here in the office by accident. Anybody got time for that? Oh, you stole their copies. Yeah. Let's say, Matt, shut your bum ass up, but anybody got time for your show.

You're shutting your own bum ass. Correct. All right, normally we go to ours, but our man, Javier is like, I got to work. I got to pay the bills. Wow. We appreciate the people. So Javier got in early.

We're going to get to him right now. 713-212-5-7-90. Javier, what's the matter with you? I just want to tell Patrick Mahomes to the goat, Tom Brady, to shut their bum ass up. Ain't nobody got time for that dumb comparison, bro. Mahomes. This is so bum-ass-up, man.

That Kermit the frog sounding, dude, ain't got nothing for the goat. Cut that stuff out. Ain't nobody got time for that. Yeah, have a good day, boys. Go Astros. Go Astros. There you go. So let me ask you this, Rossi.

We each of us can have an opinion on this. What's it going to take for Mahomes to supplant Tom's the Goat? Five Super Bowls. And how many NFL seasons have he played? How long as Baham has been around? He's been to 513. He's started for seven years and made the AFC championship game in all seven. So his five Super Bowls in seven seasons as a starter.

His percentage is pacing significantly higher than Tom Brady's. Tom Brady is one of the ones that sent him home in an AFC championship game. I think his first year is a starter. And then Joe Burroughs the other. Does he have to get to seven? I don't think necessarily. It's going to be, it's, Tom Brady's resume to me is unbeatable.

All-time yards, all-time touchdowns. It's going to be one of those things where you say he's accumulated the most Super Bowls, but who was better. And right now it's probably Tom Brady. I mean, not probably. I'm a huge Pat Mahomes fan, just as a player, forgetting about the team or whatever. He still has a significant amount of work ahead of him

to get into the Tom Brady conversation. He's been mediocre for two years. For instance, the conversation between LeBron and Michael Jordan is as close as has ever been. And it's only going to get closer, unless all of a sudden LeBron falls off the map in place so he's 46 and his average in nine points a game, shooting 36% for the floor.

His drop-off has not been significant, all things to consider. and he might be able to rejuvenate his career now that he's got Luca Donches as his wing. The difference between Pat and Tom still to me is quite a bit. So for anybody that would be trying to put them in the same conversation, you can. It's just premature. That's all it is.

Pat Mahomes' stats since losing Tyreek Hill have gone down significantly. He's had a couple of, meh, mediocre seasons. Under 4,000 yards this year, 26 touchdowns, 11 picks. It's a good season. Yeah. It's not incredible. It's not all world.

Didn't make the Pro Bowl, so he can play in tug of war. Didn't make a pro bowl. So he's got a ways to, ways and ways and ways to go. I'll give you one I'll give you a take for the gut feeling category. You don't get to seven. No. The odds are heavily in your favor.

Yeah. So it's something crazy for me. It just, and it takes 53 guys Ross to get you to the Super Bowl. Now, granted, one of those 53 have to be pretty much an amazing quarterback, and Pat Mahomes fits that mold. But it also takes a good defense. It also takes a good kicker to make field goals for you. A good special team is the block punts.

It takes a little bit of everything. It's a team game. I mean, Dan Marino is the greatest example of an amazing Hall of Fame quarterback. First ballot, one of the greatest pastors in the history of the sport. you close your eyes, you need 80 yards in two minutes, and Dan Marino's on your short list. He never had enough. He always had receivers, but he never had running backs, per se,

and his defense was always mid at best. In Tom Brady, really, the first five, six years of his career, they won three Super Bowls, and it wasn't because of him necessarily. He was good, but they had dominant defenses. If the tuck rule wasn't around, it's the Raiders. That's correct. If, yeah, any number, I think,

what was it in that 28 to 3 game? Who made a crazy catch? Was it Julian Edelman? Yeah. But also, you can flip the other way. If the Eli Manning doesn't make the crazy throw, the David Tyree throw. But I'll go about this. If Russell Wilson just hands the ball to Marshawn Lynch, that's another one. It's over. Yeah. So they're absolutely on the right side of luck, I think, winning seven out of however many plays. It should be just about the individual performance more than the team goals.

So he could get the seven and get the nine or he could never go again. It wouldn't necessarily be his fault. The one against the Tampa Bay bucket, when he was in Tampa Bay and against Chiefs, both Chiefs tackles starting tackles were hurt. Yeah. He threw for like 201 yards in that game. They didn't win because of him. They won because of dominant defense. It's team game.

Yeah. All right. If you want to tell somebody to shut their bum ass up, let's go. 713-1-2-125-7-90. May I go first today? Yes. Well, after Javier. Okay, I'm going a second.

So my wife spends a lot of money on her hair and her nails. And it's not an indictment against her. She's like, you need to do something for yourself that you enjoy. The one thing I hate doing is shaving my head and my face. So for about two years now, I have been going to a barbershop. I go to two different barbershops in Kingwood. And I have two different stylists. Actually, three.

You have three stylists? Well, I wrote, it's whoever's available. Wow, you are fancy. One works on a weekends only. One, she's off every Wednesday. Shout out to you, Candice. And then I go to the other Kingwood Barbershop where Kelly works, and he works on Wednesday. So I got up there this morning at 7.30, and he was sick and called in sick.

And so that, you know, life happens. So I went to Google Kingwood, or humble barbershops. So I was heading that direction. Okay. I found a place that said they were open at 8 o'clock in the morning that does shaves, head and face. And I'm like, bingo. I've got to go somewhere new. It's fine.

I'm not used to it, but it's fine. So I get there at 8 o'clock. The open light is on on this barbershop. I go to open the door. It's locked. Another guy shows up right behind me and says, I have an appointment with this guy at 8 o'clock. And I said, well, he says, do you have an appointment?

I said, no, I just had to walk in because I'm looking for it. So the guy who has the appointment, Ross, calls the barbershop. He says, hey, I can appoint with you at a clock. The barber says, I'm not coming in no 9. To that barber in humble, anybody got time for you to develop your own schedule when you set up an appointment for 8 o'clock and you got a walk at 8 o'clock?

Who says you're opening an o'clock? Anybody got time for that? Wow. Nobody got time for that? And they don't like staying in business. I couldn't believe. He's like, yeah, your appointment today, I'll see you at 9. I told that guy, you got to find somewhere else.

I'm getting the hell out of here. So I hope that guy runs out of business. It's going to when you have those kind of ethics. You open an 8? Get your ass at 8 o'clock. Maybe he really hit it hard at the bars the night before. On a Tuesday? Got the club going up on a Tuesday, Matt.

There's a whole song about it. Maybe you need to go seek some help then. Probably. That's all I got for now. Thank you, Matt. I'm sure I'm thinking of something else. Okay. What you guys got?

Can I go to Rodney Terry and Longhorn basketball? Please do. Take your time. I mean, my God! Why do we even spend time caring about this? I got myself excited when I looked at the spread and it was only four and a half yesterday, they got absolutely destroyed by the Crimson Tide, who shot 60% from three.

How does this happen? What is this defense? What is this offense? Rodney Terry in the Texas Long Orange basketball team, ain't nobody got time for you. Ain't nobody got time for that. May I go again? Yes.

To my son Peyton. My middle. Yes. My Aggie. Mm-hmm. Yesterday. His beloved Aggies were playing a college basketball game, and they beat Georgia 69 to 53. Right? Celebration, yes?

Yes. Georgia was in college station yesterday to play that game, and Georgia was up at the half, 32 to 23. I called a check on Peyton. Hi, son, what's going on? He starts MFing everything Aggies, screaming at them, saying they don't know how to take care of the basketball. So I went to look to the halftime box. They had six turnovers in the first half. Okay. It's not great, but it's just, it's not, if you double it for 12, it's not a terrible. It's a lot worse. Trust me. Then he hangs up on me because he's so

pissed off his Aggies are losing. It's great. Then I'm like, screw him. I'm not talking in the rest of the night. I'm going to take away his allowance. Then the Aggies outscore the Georgia Bulldogs 46 to 21 in the second half in the week. win 69 to 53. Do I get a phone call or a text? Sorry, Dad, I was so upset. Sorry, I dropped F-bombs in front of you and mom. Nata.

Zilch, zero. Peyton Thomas, shut your bum ass up, mate. Wow. Shut your bum ass up, man. It's straight for your own son. Sometimes you've got a cruel love is out there, and I just give it to him. You should respect my authority. I can't believe it.

I am proud of you. I first time I ever attacked one of my children, and won't be the last. kind of what you got what's mad with you so I'm looking into booking a trip and I was one of the places I was looking at because I had a cheap flight was Cancun I never been to Mexico and I have a group chat I follow some college buddies there's like 20 people in there

so I figured I'd ask if anybody's ever been to Cancun to get some advice and instead of answering the question seriously they proceeded to make a joke about how the that's where the rockets are going to go after their playoff exit so you're bros for that group

chat when I'm asking a serious question to make digs about the Rockets. Yeah, shut your bum ass up, 19, bros. Shut your bum ass up, man. I get some tips for you. By the way, two questions on that. Is this a bro's trip? No. Oh, you know. Big step. Hell yeah.

All right, all right, all right. Are you paying for her, too? Not all of it. I ain't got all that. How much of the flights? It was really cheap. It was $257. You're not doing an all-inclusive?

We're looking at all in Clancy. Okay. I've never been to Cancun. I couldn't tell you. All right. If you're going on a budget, I got some tips for him. What do you got? What do you got?

Well, let's talk off here. All right. Quick time out. If you got something you want to get to, so the 19 bros, by the way, did any invite themselves? Like, hey, why aren't you? Why am I going with you? One of them texts me individually.

He's like, uh, and he's like, can I come? And I was like, no, you can't. So this is definitely a couple only trip and no S at the end of it. No, yeah, just two of us. You can make it if you try. I mean, I little guys growing up in front before our eyes. It's beautiful. I'm getting a little bit crempped on this.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. You want to tell somebody to shut their bum-ass up, anybody got time for that? You know, if you don't want to go to Cancun, you can take her to two-crease crossing resort. Get her a waterfront cabin, hot tub, the pool. Y'all can play some pickleball together.

Okay, maybe not for bros, but, you know, if you want to get the, bros together and throw some cards, throw the dice against the wall, have a good time, get away for a couple days in the beautiful area known as a lake living scenario, then you're going to go to two creekscrossingresort.com. Two, TWO, Creekscrossing Resort.com. We're going to have a catch and release pond. You're going to have great workout facilities. You're going to have high-speed Wi-Fi.

You're going to have a barbecue pit. You can grill out. You're going to have a fire pit. You're going to have a variety of different fun things to do to get outdoors for a couple days. Now, let's say you own an RV. Some of you do. You want to get up to there? 20% off the RV sites at this month only at Two Creeks.

And if you want to get a cabin, it's 40% off. Through the month of February right now, go online, check out the facility, and then make that short trip about 90 minutes from downtown Houston to Two Creeks Crossing Resort.com. That's 2TWO Creeks Crossing Resort.com. Matt and Ross return. Return on Sports Talk 790. We have a celebrity joining us here on Shut Show Ball Mass Up. I know what a good time for that.

713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. By the way, again, speaking to celebrities, Kelvin Samson's agree with us in about 40 minutes. Here is Dan Hurley. He is the two-time defending National Championship coach at Yukon. Yukon played at Creighton yesterday in a Big East game. Yukon Ross beat the Blue Jays in their home building.

Okay. You would then normally not S-talk the coach that won the game, correct? Correct. Creighton fan felt otherwise. So Dan Harley responds. He points to his hand, two rings, and then at the very end goes two rings baldy. Isn't he bald himself? Yeah, baldy, let me tell you about bald.

Bald is beautiful. We are deficient in some areas. we are spectacular and others. Oh, it's like going blind. You get a six cents? Mm-hmm. Interesting.

Yeah. Okay. So, why would Creighton fans smack talk Dan Hurley after his team won on their home floor? I don't know. People like to heckle. People like to make it about themselves.

They're probably drunk. Mm-hmm. What else is there to do in Omaha, Nebraska in February? Eat good steak. Get ready for college baseball. You eat a freezer burn mid-send? steak.

Omaha's got good now the other, okay, you know what, you're partly right on that. Partly. 713-212-5 7-7-Odi. Filippe I have one simple question for you. What is the matter with you?

Well, M.T, I got to call out a certain I'm an air-quote sport analyst who likes to make seriously bad hot takes and keeps referring to Petrope homes.

as the goat. Nick Wright, shut your bum ass up. Mahomas is far, far behind Brady. Keep his nuts

out of your mouth and go do a real force take. I got news for you. Nick's got a lot of those in his mouth. LeBron. Really anybody that he cares about. He just doesn't have a take. He just wants to make sure you go full in.

Yeah. He was my just, I just don't get it last. Remember that? I was like, I don't get Nick. What made him a national sports personality? I mean, the brand works for him. He pushed himself to all these heights. Very ambitious. Yeah. Credibility to be damned, but you know, hot takes galore. Mm-hmm. Self-aggrandizing as some

might say, Matt. To Nick's defense a little bit, he has been a lifelong chiefs fan. Where is he from? I know he came up through Kansas City Radio before coming here in Houston. But he I don't know. He went to Syracuse, which in itself is part of the problem. God, they're so arrogant. Won't return your phone calls? Like, there's a few that are really decent Syracuse guys, but there's a lot of pricks, too. They're just our.

Unsavory people. Is that better? Whatever. All right. Oh, born in Kansas City. So there you go. Yeah, so I give him a little bit of defense on that. But he does love him some Pat Mahomes. Yeah, born and raised Kansas City.

Good for him. Did go to Syracuse's Newhouse School for Public Communications. Is he have a Wikipedia page? He does. Jeez. Can you add what you want in there? Yeah, but it'll probably get policed. Hmm.

Who polices Wikipedia? Is it like, is it an AI component? Oh, there's a bunch of nerds that are on the internet all day. Like pro football focus guys? Not those kind of nerds. Oh, this is different nerds. Like Reddit nerds. So a Wikipedia, tell me about a Wikipedia nerd.

Describe what you think a Wikipedia nerd looks like. What they look like? You have two legs, arms. And they could look like anything. What do you mean? They have striking personalities? They could be. They have sex on a regular?

Why not? Okay. I don't know if that's my 40-hour week job of just correcting Wikipedia, that seems like a lot of working. It's probably a hobby. I don't think they get paid. Hmm. I don't think, does Wikipedia have paid employees? I don't know.

They're always asking for money at the top of their pages. Yes. I almost feel like I should give some time, don't you think? I donate to them all the time. I mean, they're not 100% accurate on stuff, but they're 90. I use them every day for, believe it or not, so I, I, I grab up a... Believe it or not, should be brought to you by Wikipedia. Yeah, I drop them a few bucks every now and then.

Can you imagine if we were in high school when we had Wikipedia at our disposal? Things would have been a lot easier. I had to use the Funk and Wagnalls, Matt. The one in Wagnalls? Funkin Wagnalls. Okay. You know about the F&G back of the day? Oh, I'm wrong.

I copied and paste out of the FNG. Absolutely. Kyle on 790 1156 Kyle what's the matter with you man I got one that you're going to like here the other day when Ryan Hollins had the incident with Grady Dick

and people got offended shut your bum ass up Yeah shut your bum ass up I'm glad you brought that up Kyle Thank you very much First of all Friend of the show Friend of mine

Excellent broadcaster Ryan Hollins is as nice of a person as you could possibly find he's a seven-foot teddy bear and I mean that in all sincerity the name is difficult

okay it is what it is and the first time I call a game involving Grady Dick did I chuckle a couple times of course but I got past it he was not doing what he said in order to get a rise

out of the aisle that was a poor choice of words I like this he was not oh screw it that's not Ryan Collins bit. To misuse Grady Dick. Yes.

He was properly using... Yes. Grady. Grady's name. And he wasn't doing it because he was trying to get on Brick Center. Is that the name of that Twitter account? Brick Center, I think it's what it is? I don't know what that is.

That's where it was caught and that's where we go and jump all over him. So he had to go apologize. The Rockins only made him apologize. He was like, man, I didn't mean to do this. Y'all cut me some slides. because he was getting, you know, ratioed on Twitter, and that's not a fun. Because, I mean, Ryan doesn't operate that way.

Yeah, we say stuff. We get clipped every week on this show. Yeah. What happens? I mean, we don't operate that way, but unfortunately, things get taken out of context and made fun of them on Fridays at 10 and 12. And that, my friends,

we'll shut you a bum ass up for this week. Good for that, Kyle. Thank you for dropping that in there. All right, news of noon. It's up next. Calvin Samson, 35 minutes away. This is. Sports Talk 790.

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1203 Sports Talk 790. Good afternoon. What's happening in lunch timers? It is hour number three and four. We take this program to 2 o'clock. And coming up in 25 minutes, we speak with the University of Houston head basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson.

Cougars knocking off Baylor a couple days ago. On the road this weekend to play Arizona. who is in second place in the Big 12. On the road of Arizona. Could be a second conference loss? I'm not going to mention that to him. Then Arizona said after that, down the home stretch, baby.

By the way, the NCAA, the tournament committee is going to announce, I believe they're top four in each one of their regions at this point. They've been doing that in the last couple of years. Okay. Will Texas be a part of that? I do not know. They may be top four in IT. You know you'll get a home game out of it?

I think they said bracketology with a win last night. They would have had an 87% chance. I don't know with a loss now. So if you're Craig Way, women's team makes a tournament. The team's great. They beat South Carolina. Let me give you this.

Women's game, you know, because Craig tries to do as many events as possible. Yes. Like he will go from C to shining C to broadcast a Texas sporting event. Mm-hmm. Women's tournament game or men's NIT game. Women's tournament. I think he probably would be contracted into the men's side first. He might be. I don't know. I haven't read the details of his deal.

Yeah, we've got to look at this kind. We'll call him on Twitch a text and find out. Time now for the news at noon. And with that, we go to the sports desk. The sports desk. We don't can't, sports center is a copyrighted phrase. To the sports desk. Here's Ross Villarreal. Yes, Matthew. Top sports news headlines of the day include Travis Kelsey, announcing that he's going to take time to decide on his playing future.

Right now I'm just kicking everything down the road. I'm kicking everything I can down the road. I'm not making any crazy decisions, says Travis Kelsey. You also talked about playing all of these extra games, a lot of wear and tear on his body, and a lot of time spent in the building, focusing on your craft,

and focusing on the task at hand in every challenge that you set up for yourself. Travis Kelsey, 35 years old, already one of the greatest of all time, a four-time all-pro, a 10-time pro bowler, deciding whether or not he is going to hang them up. If we were to make a prediction, I think both you and I agree that we believe that Travis Kelsey is going to try to come back for one more year. I would say he comes back for one more year.

The Chiefs could save a ton of cap money, a cap space, but also I believe Travis Kelsey would have to give back some of the bonus if he does retire that he got. Yep. All right, let's keep it with the NFL, Matt. Dakota Prescott, Dallas Cowboys quarterback, had some interesting things to say that as intriguing people and making headlines throughout the sports world, he thinks that they're pretty darn close to the Philadelphia Eagles.

I feel like we compete with the Eagles and beat them for the most part when we played them. I don't want to say check the record when they're the guy's holding the trophy right now. So credit to them, they've earned and they deserved it by all means. But yeah, very close, especially even watch them. NFC game, the NFC championship, and those two teams, teams that we battle against each and every year a couple of times

and, as I said, feel confident about we've gotten the better part each and every time to see them, to see it in such a dominating fashion, credit to them. It's our turn and it's on us. I listened to this soundbought originally on the 8th, yesterday, 2 to 6 here on 790. Didn't the Eagles get blown out by the Cowboys both

games last year? I don't even, I'll look it up as you go to the headlines, but when I think of the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles, I don't think about them being close last year. There's nothing close about what they are. The Eagles beat, yeah, the Cowboys. Let's see. Is this right?

34 to 6? Yeah. And 41 to 7. Yeah, that's right. I just saw that. So maybe he's thinking about Madden. He didn't play either of those games. So he would really have a pretty good idea because he was probably in the

luxury box sitting next to Jerra. He thinks they're close. If he was there, he makes up those 30 points in his mind. Oh my gosh. Okay. That's all right. Let's see. In 2023, the Cowboys lost to the Eagles 28 to 23 and then beat

them 33 to 13. So it hasn't happened in the past. So, Dag Prescott has beaten the Eagles before. Okay. He also thinks that they're close. Fair enough. I think he's supposed to believe they're close. I don't know.

There's a way of saying it. I'm not crushing him for this. I'm not. I'm going to say you don't say they're close. He said, we beat them before. We can beat him. We should beat him. And he's got the confidence that they can take the cowboys to the next level.

Along with Brian Schottenheimer. What a doubt. How lucky is Dallas Sports Talk Show host? God, I keep saying that over and over again. You do. It's a truth. It is a truth. They are damn lucky.

Yeah. You're right. All right, Matt. Elsewhere, in the news at noon, Kevin Durant makes history last night. He is the eighth player in the history of the league to score 30,000 points. The others, all-time greats. LeBron, Kareem, Carl Malone, Kobe, Jordan, Novitsky, and Wilt. He's 36 and still averages. That's the list.

he doesn't show signs of slowing down at all. Now, tonight he might go nine for 31 because they're playing off a back-to-back, but that rocket-stinty defense may come into play. So it begs the question, Matt. I'll beg a question of you. Yeah. Kevin Durant, does he crack the top 10 all time in your mind? All right.

Let's write this down. Might as well get accurate on this. Unless you and I come up with a consensus test. Okay. Jordan? Jordan. LeBron. LeBron.

Wilt? Wilt. Kareem. Magic? Magic? Magic or Kevin? Okay. Bill Russell or Kevin Durant? Oh, Larry Bird.

Okay, Larry Bird? Over Kevin Durant. Bird over Durant. Bird over Durant. Kobe Bryant. Kevin Durant. Kobe Bryant. No, no.

No, God. I think you... We can't do this. We can't do this list. I'm sorry. So we've got like six guys for sure, and then there's argument. Shaquille O'Neal. Kevin Durant.

We need to go to a pub. Hakeem the Dream Alajuan. We're Kevin Durant. We need to go to a pub. Hakeem. I think Kevin Durant's defense quite underrated. Tim Duncan? Carl Malone?

Steph Curry. Carmillone. Oh, he's over. I go Durant over Carl. Carmalone? Maybe the first or second greatest power forward ever to play. How about this, hot take? I'm going Kevin Durant over Seth Curry.

What's up? Better defender. And they were on championship games together? Who won finals MVP both of those years? Steph better scorer. He's a better shooter. Yeah. Kevin Durant's a better score.

Okay. Better shooter significantly in favor of Steph. Yeah, but Kevin Durant's one of the top five shooters of all time, in my opinion. Let's see what his numbers are this show. I got his pull up his numbers right this second. Okay. He's 36, by the way. I know, but he's shooting, oh, 53.

percent from the floor and 40 from three. Damn, he ain't slowing down. He ain't slowing down. It's just a reality of it. 40% from three at 36. It's not like he's just taking wide open corner jumpers like Steve Kerr. He is the leader of the contested tube, by the way, too.

One of the great mid-range games of all time. Just when you just say just a hooper, just a pure hooper, he's a hooper. Then why are we even arguing about Kevin Durant at all? I don't know. This is what we do, like you said. Boy sitting at the pub.

But having a point. Where do you got Kevin Durant? We just went to a quick five or six automatics. Why are we not putting Durant in the automatic club? Is this because there's so many great players of his similar talent? Yeah. Okay, so the, the, no doubt about it, is it inarguable? Inarguable.

Inarguable, five. Jordan, LeBron, Wilt, Kareem, Russell. Russell's the greatest, still considered the greatest defensive player of all time. Magic. Is magic inarguable? I'd say yes. Now, not a super big score, but didn't need to be when you had all those targets on that squad. Magic at 6.9 as a point guard could also play center if you wanted them to.

Yeah, go magic. All right, magic's in arguable. So that puts it at six people in the inarguable list. Now, we never saw Tiny Arch, we never saw... Tiny Archibald? No, I'm Tyner Archel. Oscar Robertson is an interesting one. I mean, Mr. Career Triple Double.

Oh, by the way, how much longer does Nikoliyokic need to be in this top club? Ooh, he's climbing the ranks. I mean, the guy, he just, he doesn't ever suck. You don't go, man, I wish Nikolokic wouldn't have gone four for 19. He wait, even when he sucks, they're like low triple doubles. The list I pulled up from Hoops Hype, they did, they ordered a list. They had Kevin Durant 12th behind Hakeem. And ahead of Steph.

I can't argue that. I mean, you know, I'm the biggest dream guy you'll find, but I could see why the National would go Durant over Akeem. No, this has Hakeem over Durant. Oh, okay, okay. Well, then it's, but it means... It's 1112. It's fluid.

It could flip in every under day. They also have a keen behind Shaq and Tim Duncan, which ain't right. Tim Duncan, maybe it's my San Antonio bias. I just can't... Me's great. But is Tim Duncan on my floor when I need a... basket that. I mean, I don't know. If you need a 15-foot banker.

I guess. All right, anything else? That's it for the news. No, off-of-beat the... We won't have time. Okay, very good. Calvin Samson did 15 minutes here on Sports Talk 790. 7-13-212-5-790 is how you reach a show. If you want to join the conversation,

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quick mention. Anthony Rendon's hurt again. Jesus. I mean, my God. I mean, this doesn't sound good either. Hip surgery? What is he 76? Remember he wasn't a huge fan of playing 162 anyway? Maybe he's just like self-hurting himself.

You think he threw him down, uh, himself down a flight of stairs to, in order to need hip surgery? Maybe he throws himself against the wall. Break. Break.

Break. Maybe he's just a glass man. Hip surgery and a quote-unquote expected to miss significant time. Well, that's hard for the course. National's legend, right? For a while.

Yeah. I mean, when he played, he was good, but, you know. It's when he played. When he played.

Attendance is part of the grade, Matt. Uh, yeah. Attendance is part of the grade. right, Ross. Speaking of that, Chandlerone got some quotes from

Dana Brown and says the following on a couple of injury notes. Let's see. Luis Garcia continues to throw off flat ground because, quote, we don't want to rush him.

Love it. I.E. We'll see you in 2026. No. Louis Garcia pitches this year. Believe it or not. We have to make another bet. I mean, you're going to be eating full.

meals for a year. It's a 50-50 guess at this point. There's no significant favorite one way or the other. No, I feel like he's going to pitch. He's ready. He's not ready. He's not throwing off a minute. He's not thrown off a mountain. He's not ready. He's not ready. He's not flat ground. He's taking it slow. What was the setback in September?

Okay, so I'll take... No, no. We don't have the best. No bet? A cup of coffee. How about a coffee? He needs to get free coffee up here. Yeah, but it's terrible. Yeah, but I'm going to bring you. That's what I'm bringing you. Here, Matt. Okay, so you'll literally bring me the coffee from the kitchen. I'll go to the dumpster.

I'll go to the Marmux dumpster, get an empty cup, and then fill it up with the stuff here. By the way, they had free coffee for us on Monday. Did you know what I said? I thought you had, I thought Schmantam-Schmantan had some issues.

Yeah, because he was looking for fancy coffee. When I got the right roast or the right race, I was able to take, get a free tall. It was fine. Okay, good. I didn't do it. All right.

Okay, I'll just take the opposite for you to go get my coffee from me. I'll take you a dozen pitch this year. Lance McCullors, by the way, is throwing on. off of a mound. Hey, he's been posting on IG. Stuff's looking good. It's not like a file video or anything like that. No. I do want Lance come back because I would not want to have the legacy of a guy that signed the big contract and never fulfilled it. So for his own mental health and makeup, I don't want him to be able to compete. Yes. Lance McCullors this year,

starter reliever and will starter do we want gordy to ask my colors if he goes he's going on there today that's true

he's going to get Lance his finger in his chest again that didn't really happen no but we felt like it though we've been embellishing on that quite some time let me spin you a story Matt please

Astro's starting pitchers Fromber is an ace Hunter Brown follows up what he did last year go Absolutely. Spence are good. That's four.

They turn Hayden-Wesnesey around. We'll not turn him around. Throw him a different arm? Yeah, actually. He's going to kick the ball. Okay. And Lance McCuller's Jr. is good.

As your sixth starter. Because there can be some times that you're going to need six starters. Javier, not banking. Not worry about it. Jonathan Patrick France, we love you,

and we love that you like to go hunting deer in Louisiana woods. We will see you in 25 either. But we're good. How do you like that little story I spun you? not likely all that's going to hit. But it could have happened.

I'm not reading your story. I got to say, in reality is, and Lance wouldn't be mad if we said this. I got a seat to believe it. I can't forecast a guy that's been gone for two plus seasons. Odds are one of Brown, Blancor, Aregetti aren't going to be as good as they were. Rennell for basically the whole year,

and Brown and Erigetti the second half of the year. You ready for a distant gut feeling? The Astros will be looking for starting pitching at the break at the train deadline. you know what that's why ross is come on I just told you they got six great starters yeah we had six great starters last year until they kept dropping like flies

and they go get the good cacucci am I wrong about that we did the exact same thing a year ago they had to go and snap up cacucci yeah and they got the cacucci and it was good the cuckoochoochoochooch was excellent while it lasted and then it left yeah so you're going to go look for some different

different type of cacucci you had to give up a lot to get cacucci though yeah it's true a lot Jake Blas? Throwing bebies. Joey a Lophafito. Throwing BBs for the Syracuse War Chiefs or whatever they call them up there? I thought they were the Buffalo, the Buffalo, whatever.

Something Buffalo? Whatever, you got my point. All right. One other thing to mention before we get to Calvin Sampson, congratulations to former Texans offensive coordinator, Bobby Sloick. Yes. He's back in the Shanahan tree. This time under Mike McDaniel, the Miami Dolphins coach.

He is the senior. past game coordinator. So he doesn't worry about run ever? What a nice job that is. Just worry about one part of one part of the offense. Yeah, the past game was what was bad with the Texas this year. But a lot of that was the protection issues, of course. Watch two, Tagovolo throw for 50, 100 yards next year,

and you're going to suck it, towed y'all. You know what you can be? You can be a senior quarterback passing game analyst. a decent offensive line. Your offensive line sucks. You can be the greatest innovative mind in the history of offensive coaching and not going to pay off. Senior past game coordinator, Bobby Sloke.

Congratulations to him. Landed on his feet. Landed with someone he's worked with before. And he was going to get another job. He wasn't going to sit out because he got, you know, the axe here. Usually coaches get two or three opportunities unless you're just a complete menace. He was a hot commodity two years ago.

He didn't mean all of a sudden he couldn't coach. That happens. What's Eric Bien of me up to? Is he in college? College now, I think. His opportunity to be a head coach has been long gone. 1227. Calvin Sampson, speaking of head coaches, he'll join us next here on Sports Talk 790. Googers knocked off the Baylor Bears.

A couple nights back. 10 straight 20 win seasons. At the University of Houston, the all-time god of coaching. Calvin Sampson joining us here on the show. Coach, good afternoon. Thanks for joining us. Congratulations. It seems like just yesterday.

you and I were sitting atop that dump known as the Hoffines pavilion thinking, oh, you're going to fix us right away. And it took a couple of years, but you got us there. Congratulations on another 10-21 season for you and your squad. It does seem like a long time ago, but yet you and I both still remember it. So that says something about our cognitive state. Yep. It's still a, it's been a beautiful ride, wonderful journey.

and can't wait to see what the future holds. It feels like to me that you have had to balance a lot of aches and pains with your roster the last three or four weeks with guys getting some time, starting second halves, not playing in certain sections of the games. Where is the state of your squad right now, injury-wise? And is this kind of a, look, you don't want to ask for injuries for anything, but it's giving you an opportunity during this time to check out some different combinations. Am I correct on that?

No, that would be accurate. But I think health-wise, we're about as good as we've been, sitting Emmanuel down for a week or so, at least two games. I think really helped him. The only reason he did not start the second half was he had to re-tape his ankle. So he was late getting out to the bench at halftime. So we started Terrence. No big deal. Terrence played good.

And when Emmanuel got back out, we stuck him in, and he went out and played well, too. So I think our team is progressing. The great thing about your team as the season goes on is everybody settles into a role. It's a lot easier to define your role as the season goes on before the season starts or even early in the season because you're still learning your team. You know, we have a brand new point guard. It means everybody's game was going to change a little bit. But Milos has done an excellent job of, fitting in and not doing it his way.

And I'm really proud of that young man. You have mentioned, I was going to ask him about models right away. You had talked about him from the first time you got him on your campus to where he is now. Was there a certain turning point? Or was that just, I've got a young man, very talented. But me coaching him and others coaching him in his life are two different animals? I would agree with that 100%. every coach is going to be different, you know.

And however, the previous coach handled Milos was exactly the way it should have been. Every coach is different, but every coach is right in the way he does his own thing. I think the big thing with Milos with us is adapting to our culture, you know, just on a day-to-day basis, individual development, position workouts, team workouts. You know, we build our team through those three areas. You know, we work you out individually as applies to how we defend and play offense. And your position workouts is usually defense and then offense and then the team workouts. Kind of a smorgasbord of everything.

But he's a smart kid. I think he's gotten tougher and more competitive. And I think he's embraced that. He enjoys that. But like every basketball player in the country, he's not perfect. he still has some things he has to work on, some fences he needs to climb over. But a lot of that stuff is individuals. You know, as a basketball coach, you can put your team together,

but as an individual, you have to conquer your own demons. And I think he's done a great job of that. You've got so many young men that have obviously bought into your system, and if they don't buy in, they usually go somewhere else. Jawan continues to play great. Tuggler has even advanced even advanced even from last year. I want to go to Malik Wilson for a second because, you know, and look, you and I could have a deep conversation about kids that jump with the portal as fast as possible, kids that are jumping because of NIL or they're not getting playing time or whatever. Malik could have done that.

He's stuck around. He gets his minutes. He's had some impactful games for you in the time you've asked of him. But tell me about a young man like that that said, you know what, I'm not getting the, maybe I should be playing more. Maybe I've got to get on the good side or bad side. one way or the other, but he stuck it out and he has been able to give you what you needed in those times where you needed Wilson on the floor. Yeah, I think the biggest thing with Malik, Matt, is he enjoys being part of a team. His ego doesn't drive him.

You know, everybody wants to be in a winning program, but not everybody wants to win the way the program is set up. kids have a comma beside it. I want to win, but I want to win by getting the most shots or the most minutes or the most this. So as individual, we don't have those kind of kids in our program. And you're right. Sometimes it allows kids to go make a choice and go somewhere else. You know, Tremont Mark, Caleb Mills, Damien Dunn, all transferred. And that was the best decision for them. And that's okay. That's college basketball today. It's no mark against anybody. Kids look for better opportunities.

But Malik is unique. He's from Rayville, Louisiana, which is about as small town as you can get. I think he was raised with small town values by his mother. He's got a very close-knit family. They wanted him here. I remember when he was going through his process, his mother called me. And she said, Coach Samson, I want Malik to stay with you. And I said, well, we absolutely wanted him to stay here.

We brought him in. I sat down and was very honest with him about the way I saw his role being. I didn't think he would be a starter. But I thought he could develop and come off the bench and be part of a winning team and have that, you know, for the rest of his life. You know, Malik's been part of an NCAA tournament, Suite 16. team conference championship. Was he a starter and the leading

and score on those teams? No, but he has no ego. He wants to be part of a team. We don't be Kansas without Malik. He scored 18 points in that game. Don't let that cloud your future falls on him. That was probably a one-off. But he still does things that impacts winning for us.

His athleticism is a factor. His defense is a factor. And his personality and his heart is a factor. I absolutely love. love and respect Malit Wilson a lot. Well, I think you should recruit the Rayville area because my close friend,

Elvin Hayes, is from there. So there must be some sort of pipeline over there. Well, we're two-for-two from Rayville. We'll see. We'll monitor that area closely going forward to see if we can go three-for-three. Yeah. I want to ask big-picture question

for you, Kevin Sampson, with us here on the program. Kevin, when I was calling college basketball 20 years ago, when you brought transfers in, you always were, I'm not saying in every situation. but you are always leery about the transfer because he's transferring for some reason. It feels like to me in 2025 as your sport changes, and we've talked about this on numerous occasions,

do you have to kind of shake off that? Well, there must be a reason why. And maybe what you do instead of saying, well, why did you leave as compared to why do you want to come see us now? Why do you want to play for us? Does the mentality change a little bit, or do you still have to do the deep dive as to why a particular young man wants to leave a school and all of a sudden wants to come play for Calvert? Samson, the University of Houston. Well, absolutely, you have to do your due diligence, but Porter Mosier, the head coach at Oklahoma, is a very, very good friend of mine. He's

in his assistants, have been through here, spending time with this in the summer, he's changing ideas. I've known Porter since he was at Loyola in Chicago when he took that program to the final four. So I picked up the phone and called Mosier, and I know that had the potential to be an uncomfortable situation, but I think it speaks to our relationship with each other. And he had nothing but great thing to say about Milos. He knew he was going to leave, and he thought that it would be an adjustment, but he was worth the gamble. One of the things that helped Milos is his dad was a very successful high school coach in Las Vegas, and Milos played for him.

And I think the key thing, Matt, was Milos chose us. He did his research. He went through and said, what program can I go to and be the best version of myself I can be? And when we had started having initial conversations, he made that very clear to me. Coach Sampson, I want to come to Houston. We didn't have to recruit him. He chose us. And all the conversations we had with him was about him getting better.

and the reasons why he wanted to get better in the areas that he felt he needed to improve in. So he came in here with the right attitude. He has surrendered to the culture of the program. He has fit seamlessly in with our kids because like all of our kids, he's a great human beings, outstanding person. So, you know, Milo's best days, I think, are still ahead of him. We still want him to be a little bit more aggressive in the shot clock. His defense in space is getting better. But there's still a lot of work to do for him and all our players as we continue to push on through this season.

Farlett, you run. The last time I think you were in Tucson, I called the game. You were coaching in Oklahoma, and I was calling Utah games. Am I correct on that? You guys, you haven't played there since then, right? No. That was Andrew Bogus here. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You had Kevin Book out at Oklahoma. I remember them very, very well. Let's get to your squad has gone to Kansas and played. You have played at Iowa State. There are some ferocious arenas in the Big 12. But my guess is your team is mature enough to not worry about the elements. Just appreciate the big crowd. And I don't know what you want to put on it if it was just one game,

but you went to Allen Fieldhouse. There are a lot of great basketball players, Calvin, that have been in that building that have completely been shell-shocked by the moment. So going to Tucson, while again, great basketball team, they've got just a couple of blemishes in the conference. That should be nothing in terms of a overwhelming moment for your squad going in that building on Saturday. Well, I wouldn't say nothing. I coached in the Pac-10 against Coach Lude Olson's teams with Damon Stadammer, Khalid Reeves, Sean Elliott, Steve Kerr. I mean, that's up there with all the great basketball arenas in the country.

They do have a great home court advantage, which is why they never lose. I think they're undefeated at home this year in the conference. I think that's right. But, you know, when you go on the road and you're playing at Houston or at Arizona or at Kansas, if you win, it's an unbelievable win. But if you lose, it's not the end of the world. You're playing a team that probably should win this game at home. But for us, it's an opportunity to take a step forward

and see if we can compete in that kind of atmosphere with the team that's fighting for the league championship this year. They got an outstanding team, great depth up front. Coach Lloyd has done an unbelievable job there. Caleb Love, Jalen Bradley, KJ. Lewis, Delorso, good back court. So two really good teams. One of them's going to win, one I'm going to lose, and whichever one wins, we'll move on down the road. And whichever one loses, they'll do the same thing and get to the next.

And lastly, what's the one thing you want to see from your squad between now and the end of the season that thinks it will be the determining factor about how you go deep in the tournament? And obviously, we would like to get you back to the final four. Is there anything you're looking for still at this point? Or do you feel like just maintaining what you have brought to the program you started talking the kids about when you first got together during the side? summertime. Well, I think all coaches this time of year, Matt, your biggest concern is the things that are out of your control, and that's health. You know, Baylor took a huge hit when they lost their center. You know, you're going to look around the country. Everybody's got kids out, seems like, and we've certainly been through that with our program. And so we pray for good, we pray for

good health and just keep working on the things that's got us to where we are. I mean, we're 20, what is our record, 20 and 4, 12 and 1 in the league. There's some things we need to get better at, some areas that we need to shore up, but you're always trying to work to get better. You watch film, you identify problem areas, and you go out there and do the best you can to clean them up. But when you're playing good teams, you're not going to shut these teams out, They're not going to shoot you out. It comes down to your depth on the bench. I think one of the strengths of our teams is Malik, Terrence, and Javier coming off the bench.

Those three guys have all contributed to winning for us. And then the other guys just keep working, man. It's a, you know, you're going to lose games on the road in the Big 12 as all teams do. But your ability to bounce back and get to the next one. And we're only about three or four weeks away from getting to the, Hoppers tournament. So you just want to keep playing well this time of the year. Calvin, thank you for the time. As always, safe travels to Arizona. We really appreciate congratulations. And yet another 20-win season, I think 100 weeks in the top 25 outstanding

accomplishments for you and your organization, your squad, your staff. And we wish you the very best coming up in the next couple weeks. Okay. Thanks for having me on. You got a Calvin Samson with us here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1246 is our time. Again, the coach and the Cougars taking on Arizona on Saturday. They'll take on Arizona State on Monday as they head out west. 1246, Sports Talk, 790, 713, 212-5-790 if you want to jump into the conversation. 7-1-3-212-5-790. 1246 Sports Talk 790.

Next time, tell Alexa. Playing 790 on I-Heart Radio. Wherever you are, so is Matt Thomas. 1252 on Sports Talk 790. I was checking the 4U tab, and that's again my mistake. But again, it's not the people I would follow, but there are going to be some things that I'm going to like besides Taylor. Oh, they know you, Matt.

Well, they obviously know I'm an NBA guy because I just had the 4U tab on NBA Central. Mm-hmm. So let me tell you the two things that popped up on the 4U tab. Okay. In no particular order. One of some guy named Fit Founder. Uh-huh. He says, men who have sex once a month are 45% more likely to have cardiovascular disease

compared to those who have sex two to three times a week. so you need to up the activity. I would think with any aerobic activity you'd probably want to get that. Yeah. Maybe it's not just sex. I don't think. I think maybe just a brisk walk and probably do the same thing for you. Now this means with another person?

The brisk walk? All right. NBA Central. That's a aggregate. Oh, God. Now, which one is it? Centel or Central? Central. It's a legit one. Okay. I still mute them, I think. According to Win Horse at ESPN says

that Kevin Duran is probably going to get trained this summer, knows it the Sun's note and the rest of the NBA knows it. Okay. We talked about him earlier. 36 years old. Averages 36 minutes per game. Top 15 of all time. 27 points a game.

Six rebounds. Four assists. It shoots 53% from the floor. 40% from 3. 82% at the free throw line. And look, you can say 36 all you want to, but maybe he's the next round of LeBron James. teams would trade for LeBron tomorrow.

LeBron James starts for every NBA team in the association. That's true. Maybe with the exception of maybe Boston. No, he starts from Boston. Over whom? I'll figure it out. Just bump, Porzing is out and to go with three big forwards? Yeah, why not?

Who's the rest of the starting five? Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum. You got Drew Holiday. Is Derek White starting over? Derek White starts. He's starting over Derek White. Yeah, but you're not replacing. Derek White with Kevin Durant

unless you moved unless you moved one of the Brown James. Oh, Ron, excuse me, yeah. Could LeBron play two? I guess he could play two guard. I mean, kind of does any, he does everything. He's six foot eight.

You start him at center. That's true. Point being, if Kevin Durant's got five years left in him, and let's say he drops off 20% of his production, he's still going to get you 20, if he drops 20%, he's going to go 20, he's going to score 23 points a game for you,

going to get you four and a half rebounds, three assists, shoot about 48% for four and about 37% from three. It's insane. That's if he drops off 20% in the next three years. If you're Phoenix, not that we're going to spend a lot of time on Suns talk today, but if you're Phoenix, you have to train him. You're a hot mess.

It's Booker and everybody else is up for grabs. I don't think Devin Booker's live in Phoenix. I don't think so. Unless he asks, he'd have to ask for it. But I don't think he used to ask and doesn't have any, I mean, I mean, he obviously wants to win, but he wants to do it as being the alpha dog in Phoenix. He's trying to get it done. He's not.

The reason why we bring up the suns, rockets put the suns. And I'm not saying that Kevin Durant would be a rocket, but it will be talked about. I don't think so. I don't think the whispers out there have been just to throw Kevin and Durant and the rockets in the same conversation. I'm just saying that I think that as a wise man once told me and I'll say his name, Raphael Stone said, I'll listen to every phone call. Yeah. I'll take every phone call. Well, he should take every phone call.

But there are some gentleman who's like, ah, not interested. Dana Brown doesn't take phone calls from Scott Boris. Oh, oh, I meant to read that to you. Can I? Yes. Segway for a second when I get those quotes for you. How about we? In the next hour.

When we come back? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll leave off with that. Sure. Because it was another, not perplexing, because it's been remarkably consistent, but it's just another weird lack of dialogue, I guess,

between Bregman and the Astros. A Cold War? No, no, nothing cold about it's just You know what it is, Ross? It's a friendly breakup. It's, you know, I'm not into you anymore. You're not into me? Okay.

I think one party has moved on and the other maybe hasn't. Now, there's still longing. I got a better analogy. Go ahead. Can I save it? I'm into it right now. You and I, this is a bad example. You just said how great it was.

I know I'm talking about you and I. Oh. Okay, let's say that you're a girl. not if you were a guy I mean we could sub or whatever yeah what can I be a guy okay you and I are having a relationship how about you and con

how about you in a fictional person me and taylor taylor who swift sure okay we're gonna use connor because this is a

Connor Connor and his girl are like connor's like man I don't know if we're going to know each other anymore Connor's girl's like yeah i kind of agree maybe we should break up

but connor's but the girl's mom loves Connor. Okay. And she's the one saying, keep fighting for that relationship. Okay. Scott Boris is the mother. He's like,

Braggs, you've got to keep talking to the Astros. Scott Boris is Alex Breggman's mom? In this particular situation. Got to keep up in that money. Gotta keep getting that dollars. Maybe if we get him to, if we got him to 160 tomorrow,

we get him to 165 by the end of Friday. Maybe we get him to 170 by Sunday. And Breggman's saying, no, appreciate my worth. Bramman's like, man, I want to go somewhere else. I want to try something else. I want to dip my... Brickman's being stubborn.

Breggman's kind of trying to convince himself that he's worth more than was offered. You think Scott Boris is giving him the other side of it? Scott Boris is like, you need to sign this bro or you need his time for short-term opt-downs. Making him look bad, honestly. He is. People are talking. The streets are talking about how mom's looking bad. This analogy.

It's not your worst one. Thank you, because I know there's been plenty of bad ones. And how? All right. Dana Brown spoke on the Bregman situation. Not word salad, but something we've kind of basically heard. We got a Bregman update? Yeah, why not?

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the A team at 2 o'clock. Rockets basketball tonight. A little bit of a different starting time. We start the launch pad at 6.30. Tip time 7.30 because the sons last night were home for the Memphis Grizzles. You have to have a certain amount of hours in between. game starts. So we had to push the Rockets game back a half hour to a 730 tip as compared to a 7 o'clock tip. You know, the Rockets, before we get the Bregman update, always trying to decide

what would be better to get people in the building. Do you get them there at 7? Or do you potentially have them leave early if you start the game at 730 and realizing it takes, you know, 45, 50 minutes to get home for most people? I think you're damned if you do, damned if you don't. I personally, selfishly, would like 7 o'clock starts because getting out a little bit of But earlier. 6.30. Well, that's a little 640. You know, I'll tell you what, give me a 3-10 for 7.

7 o'clock. It didn't start to like 7-12 anyways. Yeah, give me a 3-10 tip off. I like that, actually. It was so weird. The Rockets put the Raptors on Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. It was 3 o'clock. I leave the building a 3-15, whatever it was.

I was like, I walked outside. It was bright, sunshiny day. It was very pleasant. Like, this is fantastic. The NBA doesn't play day games in the middle of the week. No. They should have. Why don't they have businessmen special in the NBA?

Like every other Wednesdays like a 110 tip. I like that. Probably Tillman wouldn't. The players wouldn't. No. Players are night owls. Now the only time you ever play during the day, typically is on the weekends when you're on national television.

Or Martin Luther King Day. Or Christmas. That's it. Oh, that's a national TV day. But yeah, even the national games are at night, mostly. I mean, the TNTs, the ESPNs of the week are at night. Yeah. The big Saturday game of the week on ABC is.

at night. So rarely do you get the afternoon game. You know what? I'm going to I'm going to ask Gretchen's here, the president of business operations and she's going to say, Matt, shut you a bum ass up. You should still petition for it though, man. Oh, looking to fill up 18,000 seats, not that big of a deal. Six million people in this town. How many sellouts this year?

Quite a few, actually. How many actual sellouts? Well, I mean, I don't sit there and stare at the numbers. You don't? No, maybe, you know what, you can do that tonight at the game. I'll count. I'll count. I don't want you going in the game. I'm going to be there. I'm going to count every single empty seat. I'm thinking about not going, actually. You got to go that.

You can't do anything until you go to the dock. I did. I'm talking about they gave me cough suppressants. They didn't work. That's great. Whoever you went to, I should sue them. Time now for a Breggman update. Breggman Update on Matt and Ross's

show. The bit's never going away, much to the chagrin of some. Chandler Ome asking general manager or maybe somebody that was there asking Dana Brown about whether or not the team was in a market for a third baseman. Brown replied, quote, as long as Breggman's a free agent, we'll continue to have internal conversations about it. It'll be like that until he signs or whatever happens. Man, these internal conversations, they're happening a lot.

Jim, do you want to up the offer to Breggs? No? All right. Talk to you next week. Those are the internal discussions. Yeah, that concludes today's edition of internal conversations. I put it this way. I do believe this is more driven by the owner than it is a general manager. I mean, it's his decision. And maybe more by the players than the general manager, too. The general manager is to improve the team.

Add a Alex Bregman improves the team. It just goes over a certain payroll threshold, and that's when it becomes to the owner. But Crane doesn't love him so much that he's like, all right, forget it. Let's get this done. Let's get the number to 175. Let's call it a day. Jim, it doesn't love Bregman that much in order to cashway. It can't be about years because they've already offered six.

So it's about money. Yeah. Oh, man. Internal conversation. You know what I'm going to do? And I'm going to tease Dana about this. I want to be invited to an internal conversation. I'm not internally with the Astros, but I could be, I mean, I've been a fan since I was seven.

Don't you think as a lifelong Astros fan I would be allowed to go to one internal conversation? I gave you the conversation. you want to up the offer no all right talk to you next week that's true he never gave he never gives you the length of time of these internal conversations yeah you don't have internal discussions could be a minute and a half yeah like when we have internal discount we had an internal conversation yesterday at the show yesterday that was 25 minutes it was like 30 oh it was it was good it was good it was worth it was trying to watch the manchester city game although they lost disappointed me so you're telling me you'd rather watch a foreign

Premier League soccer game that have an internal conversation. It's called Champions League, Matt. Whatever. The world's biggest tournament. It doesn't matter. Yes, it is. Just very few. To the... To more people watch the final than watch the Super Bowl. Get out of here. More rice being eaten, too. Oh, Lord. That's why they call

you Mr. Anology. They should. So the average length of internal conversations got to be less than three minutes. Like you're thinking about how much playing time minor leaguers

are coming to camp are going to get is there a spot for an extra outfielder do we kick the tires on an infielder do we sign a guy to a minor league contract are we really sticking with Ben Gamble is the fourth outfielder

hey Ben's listening he's not happy about you talking about it Ben knows you know there's a song Give Ben a chance Ben you've been available since up until last week Ben knows

okay but on the checklist of conversations is Brangman at the top to get it over with or do you wait to the very end He's the bottom. Yeah. Because they are planning, they are planning

to not have him this season. For a long time. Well, for the rest of his career. Yeah. Unless he wants to come back as a 39-year-old on a league minimum deal. Maybe he wants to sign a one-day contract and retire. Oh, God. It's so lame.

It's not that terrible. It's lame. One-day contract so I can retire as a whatever. So here are the Astor updates from Brian McTagger today. By the way, Brian will be with us coming up next month as part of a weekly appearance He will? Yeah.

We got him back? Yeah. Awesome. Maybe we had to deduct some of your payroll to get him paid. Yeah, you're telling me. Astroser up roster appears set. Dana Brown says he's always in the market for pitching. You didn't say third base.

Oh. How's Alex Breggman's arm? Hell's his elbow. Luis Garcia is throwing off flat ground. McCullors has been working off of a mound. Joe Espada says base running will be a focus of spring, including more drills. Yeah, there were some base running gaffs the last couple years. Most of them, Altuve, but...

The drop in talent, more apparent in the team's defense or in their base running the last year or so. I'll go with defense, all of it. Defense, base running. Just overall slippage. Hitting. Yeah. Not been as good. Slower start.

Bigger deficit. When they down 10 last year to somebody? Wasn't they down 10 to the Mariners? 10 games? Yeah. Yeah. And then they made it up in like three and a half weeks. Yeah, it took them less than a month.

Granted, planning aides a bunch of times helped and I beat the White Sox in that group. Well, yeah. And then the Mariners just completely imploded. Did beat Baltimore. Didn't they sweep Baltimore an impressive series here at Minuteman, I think? Or Dyken? Where one of those games, like on the Friday,

they were up like 12 runs and then it almost got close. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, all these games make. together, but I do believe they did sweep the oros a next part of that. So yeah, looking for an outfielder. So Ben Gamble should be looking for real estate. Ben Gamble's ready to go.

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last, I don't know, 25 years. Rossing and Young SportsMT were doing the radio show. John Rocker was the gift that kept on giving in terms of just putting his foot in his mouth under every circumstance. It wasn't like a Sports Illustrated profile? It was a Sports Illustrated column, yeah. And it did not turn out well for him. Major League Baseball, I believe that it was a suspension of some sort. I don't remember what it was, but it was, we don't need.

He basically torched every single sexuality, ethnicity. I mean, he ran the gamut. Oh, look at you. Of people to insult. The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. Asians, Koreans, Vietnamese, Indians, Russians, and Spanish. He handed them all. How did the hell do they get in the country?

So, apparently, he and Pat Mahomes, Peter, Pat Mahomes, senior, a former Major League baseball player, many, many years. I want to say primarily with the twins and the Mets, if I'm not mistaken on that. Maybe a little bit of time with the Cubs, too. I'm not 100% sure.

But was a well-traveled, I don't think he was ever a closer. I think he was a middle reliever? I mean, I don't really have much recollection of it. Yeah, basically a reliever. Okay. Middle relief, didn't get a lot of saves. So John Rocker,

get sideways with him, apparently somewhere in New Orleans during the Super Bowl. And they throw hands. Can Pat Mahomes, after this conversation, so Pat Mahomes, and John Rocker get into it in New Orleans.

Barstall Sports has the video of it. Then John Rocker says, This effing loser can't take a damn joke. Wish I laid him out right there and ruined his BS weekend even more. Then Mahomes goes back and says, you really haven't changed one bit in the last 20s. five years. Keep your name out your mouth.

I love that one. Keep my name out your mouth. Keep my name out your mouth. Oh, your loud mouth. Mm. You loud mouth. So my son, my oldest, just texting me and said that it's official. Dave Portnoy over at, uh, is that Barstall? Barstle, yeah. He's the owner. Pat Mahomes, Sr. versus John Rocker at something called Ruff and Rowdy on April the 19th. Yeah, they do these unsanctioned. paper view fights.

I don't know. It's like random staffers. I don't even know exactly who's on these rough and rowdies. You ever watch one of them? No, I have not. They do them for like, I don't know, any of it? Like 20 or 40 bucks or something like that. It's like a low cost amateurs beating up on each other type of thing. Oh. Well, guess who's not going to get their money?

Me. I'm not going to give it to them. Oh, you're not? I'm going to illegal stream it? April 19th. Hopefully the Rockets are playing a playoff game, so no. I'm trying to find the yeah, how many of these have there been? I think they just have like random people fight each other. And maybe it's sometimes there's staffers who have beef.

Okay, well, apparently there's enough beef for these. Now, do you think they're going to kiss and make up in the end? I'd rather them not kiss and make up. I mean, I don't want them to take money for a fight, beat the crap out of each other and say, oh man, we're all good now. Oh, you know, Jose Cansecoe, I think, was in one of them, got beat up by somebody. It was like Danny Banaducci in one of these things, too? No, that's the five is different.

That was on the Fox Sports Celebrity Boxing. Okay. Didn't my new bowl touch up a refrigerator Perry? May he, Manute's dead, right? I think they're both dead. Oh, I believe, yeah, I think both of them are dead.

May they all rest? Of course. See, this is going to end. This is not going to end. Well, this is going to end with those two guys beating the crap out of each other and hugging and going, man. Well, Frigrator Perry's alive.

Ooh, damn. I'd have messed that one. That's my bad. I could have swore. I thought he was dead. I mean, congratulations to you, Perry. That heart is still pumping. I wonder if he's like, how tall is he?

For a juror, about 510, 511 somewhere in that range? No, he's got to be bigger than that, right? Now he's not like to 185. 6-2-335 is what Google is. Maybe he's 6-2-10 now. Maybe he's very Schfeldt. I'm wishing him the best. So, but John Rocker basically talked blank to Pat Mahomes.

Pat Mahomes basically talked blank back to him. Yes. And they're going to get paid for it. Now, I know Pat Mahomes had several DUIs, but I'm still going to side with him. You're talking about senior, right? Yeah. Okay, yeah. I wonder what he says can't take a joke.

If you got beef with John Rocker, I'm going to imagine John Rocker's on the wrong end of this. That's just my guess. Who's got a quicker jab? He also looks quite roared up. Now, didn't John Rocker throw 100? John Rocker, when he pitched was as nasty as he is. Now, he would implode like nobody's business, too.

Now, C-MAT, a lot of the greatness of pitchers, especially with high velocity, comes from not strength. You can be as strong as you want. It's not necessarily, you know, a bodybuilder would throw 100. They don't. Right. It's the quick twitch muscle fibers that they have. And obviously, John's got that. And those also translate to punching power, in my opinion.

Now, how fast was Pat Mahomes? How fast does he throw on pitches? I remember him being just a guy. I don't remember anything remarkable about Pat Mahomes. He played for 11 years. He had a minus point four war. How many teams did he play for? Six. So he literally was a typical middle reliever, journeyman type player. So I'm going to guess he wouldn't throw in hunt it.

Hunt it. He was a crap. Was he crafty lefty? Let's see. He threw, he was a crafty righty, I guess. He was a change of pace throw. The only MPH I can find on him is how fast he was driving his DUI. That's not what you want looking for.

He's looking for MPH. Not at all. all right so we don't know the details of said fight but i would say early on i'm going to probably lean towards john rocker i'll tell you i want to lean john rocker he looks roided up and he throws a hundred so he can probably throw a punch so i would i would say he looks huge he looks huge and he looks like he's still on roids now if you're pat mohomes junior they don't call him pat mohomes junior do that i don't think i don't think i know if you're if you're pat mahombs is senior and then

Patrick Mahomes is the... Okay. If you're Patrick, do you go to dad and say, dad, listen. SportsRush.com says he threw his 97. Oh, no, maybe it's the younger. This is confusing. Dang it. Back to my point. Okay, go ahead.

If you're Patrick, tell Pops to... Don't take this. He's not going to allow him to do this. I don't think it's... This is not... For Pat's crystal clear, sweet image of just a good old-fashioned boy with his wife and kids, he can't be having dad out there throwing hands. Oh, and John...

Rocker's younger. Mahomes is 54. Rocker is 50. He's younger, through 100, and roared it up? And the lefty? I got Rocker at a minus 250. We don't even need fight club on this. This isn't going to end well for Pat

Mahom's senior. But you know what? There's also, you know, it's not also about the size of the dog in the fight, Matt. It's also about the size of the fight and the dog. You know, put that on your next t-shirt. You've been coming up, not I know I've heard this before,

but you are like becoming the T-shirt cliche machine of the show. Thank you. Well, I mean, if you're turning to a profit, go for it. I don't care. I'm just telling you. Maybe Pat Mahomes can throw hands. I'm going to go still, if I was a betting man on this, which I would never in a million years bet on.

If the early years of UFC have taught us anything, little guys can fight and beat up big guys. It can happen. I'd have to go see a current image of, because I don't think John Rocker's not fat. He looks rocked up. Like he's on Roids right now. Yeah, and he can be on Roids.

It'd be good for, I mean, it's legal for him to do it, I guess, if they were prescribed. I've seen a lot of street fights on YouTube, though, Matt. It's not always the big guy that wins. Sometimes a little guy can just fight. Okay, let's bet. I feel like Pat Mahomes has been on some scraps. Let's bet a fast food breakfast run. I told you, I got minus 250, so you got to give me odds.

I already got Rocker minus 250. I'm just saying maybe Pat Mahom is the live dog. If he's signing up for this, I don't think he's doing that. He knows just as well as you do. They were just sized up on Bourbon Street. He knows just as well as you and I do that he's smaller and that John Rocker's got roids. So if he's feeling that confident, maybe he's a live dog. There's also a part of me that's like maybe Barstool is offering him so much cash you can't say no.

Which again, there's no way. They make $20 on these pay-per-views. How much did Jose Canseco get for rough and rowdy or whatever? But Pat, Pat, Sr. doesn't need. money because he can go to Patrick. Well, I don't know. Those lawyer fees rack up. Not he can pay for T-D-U-I's. Not that he should be getting either one of them, but he could probably pay for him.

Apparently, Jose Canseco made over a million for the fight. So a million to get your ass kick for about 15 minutes. Maybe you do take the deal. You give a million to both of them? I'd take a million dollars for you to beat me up. I wouldn't hit you, Matt. You just push me down? No, I wouldn't lay a finger on you.

I'd give you a hug. man, that's not, Barstall wouldn't pay a million dollars for you to give me a hug. Oh, we could throw the fight. You know,

really good in wrestling. Why not? Yeah, they're not going to pay us anything. Nobody knows who we are, Matt. That's true. Certainly not me. All right. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-212-5-7-90. So John Rockers, 15 minutes. He's getting a 16th minute, Ross. Thanks to Barstool. Apparently, somebody called in and said Pat Mahomes Sr. was an amateur boxer.

Oh, no. One of golden... A golden glove. Oh, that changes everything now. And the caller who called in and told me that said he fought his father back in the day, amateur boxing. Okay. See?

Those odds have just changed, by the way. Absolutely. That's what I'm saying. I said, if he's taking up this fight, dude can fight. You're 54. What was the last time you saw a 54-year-old fight anything? Family reunion every year? What were they fighting over?

The last Modelo? We're not supposed to stereotype on the show. But sometimes you just have to. I'm kidding. And you do it beautifully. Thank you. Because if I said it, you get mad at me. You say it feels okay.

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That thing was a joke. Who told you to pet? Paul decision. Yeah, it was a joke. He wasn't going to crush Tyson because he didn't want to ruin the legacy. Yeah, he carried him. He did. And Tyson had,

and he lose like a gallon of blood or whatever it was? He was sick. I don't know if I was more offended by the fight or that thong that Tyson wore that was shown on television. Oh my God, that was disturbing. Or Rosie Perez doing the color commentary. Was she on the color commentary? Oh, yeah.

Why don't I remember that? She's a big, huge boxing fan, deep in the boxing game. I want to say it was Roy Jones, Rosie and the Pub, of a Play guy, and, like, Roy Jones and the clubby play guy were like, we're arguing the whole time about how Tyson was biting his glove. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I was it. And I think the guy was right, because Tyson did, he was talking about, Roy Jones was trying to make it more than it was.

Because Tyson, if you go back and watch his fights, it's something he did young in his career, and then he kind of went away from it. It was a tick, and then late in his career it came back. So basically Roy Jones did no homework about watching old Mike Tyson's fights. He's also taking a lot of blows to the head. Roy Jones, one of the great boxing talents of all time. Rosie Perez is an actress, go.

She was good in White Man Camp Jump. She was active. And I don't really remember her in anything else. I don't either. Can you name another movie besides White Man Can't Jump? Probably one of the five most annoying voices out there in history? Fran Drescher 1, Rosie Perez 2. Do you know there's a member of the Rockets broadcast team that thinks that Pran Dresher walks on water?

Craig Ackerman? Correct. You know what? He's so weird. I love Craig. Anytime there's, he gets fixated, he hates the randomest things, most random things, and he loves the most random things. Yeah.

That's why I love about Craig. You never know what you're going to get talking to him. So I'm going to give you a quick rundown of the Craig Ackerman likes and dislikes. You ready? Despises ranch dressing. Yes. Despises anything creamy, like blue cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream. Sour cream.

if it's got... So he and Klan are the only two people I've ever heard of my life. Yeah. And they're both in broadcasting. And they're both Sam Houston Bearcats, correct? Correct. Wow. So when Craig and I go eat, it's not just a, I'll have a number four.

Like, or I'll have this. I mean, it is, we even a sit-down restaurant. It's a deep dive explanation. He's got a, he's got the special order for like six minutes. Well, he, the king of his, I'll, I'll have this bacon cheeseburger combo. Mm-hmm. Ford at a nice restaurant with a burger, you know, like a bar, something like that. Okay.

And they're like, what do you put on it? So it doesn't become. Oh, he's to read the whole menu. Yeah. So he wants the things limited. The worst. He loves EDM music, which is very odd. Interesting that he does.

No, I like, you know, some EDM's fine. Now, he and I have to say, my toe. We are going to go to an EDM festival in Las Vegas. Oh, really? Yes. Oh, you're going to electric Daisy Land Carnival? Yeah, it's a San Boy Stadium. Are you serious?

Yeah, he and are going to go sometime. You know how the women dress at those things, man? Yes, we do. That's why you're going. You don't know that. Yes, I do. I told him, I said, you know what? Craig does everybody to go with?

I'll go with him. His sons are busy. I'll call you a restraining order, Thomas. No. You're going to do a festival? I've been in Vegas when they've had a DM festival. You don't have to walk, right? Yes.

You can be all right? I'll be more than all right. You're a fancy Matt. I'm a little worried about you. I can get a golf cart. That's fine. There's no golf carts. You're not trucking people in golf carts at the EDC.

Connell, let me tell you about the EDC. You're going to EDC? Stay with me on this. Oh, my goodness. I was in Vegas one time when EDC was already there. I didn't know it was there. And this is probably going to be about 10 years ago. So now these 21-year-olds are now 31 with kids and stretch belly buttons.

Well, it could have been 21 with kids. That's true, that. For the 20-something crowd, which you're in, you'll always want to figure out how to get to Vegas because they have no interest in gambling. Yeah. All they want to do is they want to sun during the day. Yes. Go to the pools. Uh-huh.

They don't care how much it costs because either dad's paying for it or they've saved the money up. And then they all, I don't know, is EDC still at San Boyd Stadium or they moved it to the dome? I don't know. You mean the sphere? No, no, no. They moved it to the San Boyd Stadium. I'm not saying that name. It's a pretty good haul from downtown, from, you know, from the strip.

And they got shuttles. It's at the motor speedway. Oh, they moved to the motor speedway now. Yeah, it's huge. Wow. Those shows go till like six in the morning. and Craig and I will be there at some point. Insane. I'm actually kind of jealous. My mind is blown.

So he also likes that. He loves anything Hello Kitty related. Yes. A little weird. Mm-hmm. And he's got lots of cats and dogs in his house. How many? I think total animals about 10. Are you serious?

Yeah. And he's not, I'm not talking to school. He's bragged, I mean, he's, he loves animals. So he and his wife are big animal fanatics. and they are able to, you know, take care of multiple kittens and dogs. Uh-huh. And his children are out of the house or at least one. They're all adult. They're both adults. Yeah, they are out of the house.

One lives in Utah and one lives here in town. Works with us on the Space City broadcast. Wonderful. Great kids. Great family. But it's just, just a few things that are weird. We all have things that are weird. But the hard thing is to go eat with him because it's, there can't be any cheese on things.

There can't be any sort of, um, man. or sour cream or a Rimalade or a barnaise. No Rimalods? None of that. He doesn't, he's, he's anti-sauce. Wow. Except me ketchup and A1, I guess. It's like a child.

Exactly. Exactly. Interesting. Tomorrow, pitchers and catchers report to spring training officially. Our man Chris Gordy. The Chris Gordy? The Chris Gordy? on the way out there now?

He's probably stopping off and doing some radio hits on the way there. That's true. Well, he's driving? No. But he's probably figuring, like, man, I could have done some stuff. I could have been on Pensacola Sports Leader today. I could have been in Jackson. He probably was.

Yeah, he probably did some stuff at the airport. He might have the most radio hits in America. Yeah. Seriously. But, I mean, all markets under 125, would you say? Uh, how's Mobile? Close. Got to be 90?

80, 85, 85. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they don't have full-time employees. Yeah. The shows pay for, you know, they pay. Birmingham's growing. Metropolis. I don't know.

There's a sports radio station there in Birmingham. It's pretty powerful. A lot of people live in Little Rock. Not a lot. I think he's really popular in Gatson, Alabama. I don't think Gordy pays for a meal in Gadsden, Alabama. Let me look at biggest media markets. I think he's got at least one or two in the top hundred.

No more than two. I mean, the man, Ocala, Florida, on North Central Sports Talk, he's all over that there. He's talking Gator football. Charleston, South Carolina is number 85. But he doesn't go on in Charleston. Columbia is South Carolina, 76. Oh, he's been on Columbia, that's for sure. Lafayette?

Lafayette is 124. Lake Charles? Lake Charles, 177. Hmm. Dothan Alabama, 170. Oh, yeah. Gordie's making maybe one or two top 100 hits. Little Rock, 50.

Okay, well, that's good. But they didn't care about the SEC in Little Rock? Yeah, Arkansas. They happen to be involved. Mobile's number 59. See? All right, so you know I'm saying correct. He's a top 60 talent.

All right, 143, believe it or not today, is the category of all things. I'm going to look it up right now. Let me see what we got here. We told you. I forgot already. Jackson, Mississippi. Oh, here it is. Just did my hit in Montgomery from the terminal at the airport.

Do we know Gordy or not? Baton Rouge 87th. That's top 100. But he went out of Montgomery. What's Montgomery's market right now? Montgomery is Montgomery Selma? No, Montgomery. Yeah, Selma.

121. I wonder if he gets Waffle House trade there for that. Hopefully. This report from Gorda on SDC brought to you by scattered, smothered, and covered hash browns from the Waffle House on I-47. Stop buying ass for Merlin. Jackson, Mississippi, number 99. That's the top 100.

Damn. See, don't be doubting the power of Gordy. Maybe he is getting some bigger markets than I thought he was. Good for him. 144, believe it or not, next. 713, 212-790. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. All things about the new coach of the New Orleans Saints.

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I know. The injury list tonight for the Phoenix Suns is lengthy. You ready? Here we go. And let's see here. Grayson Allen is also out tonight. So we see no illegal kicking and dirty play. He has left knee soreness.

Bradley Beal is out with a left great toe sprain. Devin Booker is out with a left low back contusion. Cody Martin is out with a sports hernia, and Vasily Michich is questionable with a left ankle spreen. Vasa Michich. I just like saying his name. And you are probable with ankle soreness. No, I got a lot of soreness.

I'm going to be there. I'm go take a nap. Get a shave. Good tonight for the Rockets. by the way there's going to be a piece coming out on the Chronicle about the and I think the Rockets Twitter candidate is I think 30 years ago today the Rockets made the trade for Clyde Drexler if I'm not mistaken on that or in and around 30 years I told the Chronicle Greg Rajan called me and said hey can you give a quote for this I remember having a I was super super sick

like I shouldn't have been there had a high fever just was just sluggishly feeling bad. But I'm like, Clyde Drexer's coming to Houston. He's going to be introduced in the middle of the game. I ain't missing this. So I didn't. I heard six people were hospitalized. Have you got them sick?

That's not true. You weren't even there. Halloween, you were 10? Do you remember when Clyde got traded here? Do you remember? I was 10 years old. I vaguely remember. Yeah.

It was in the middle of the game. He comes out in the middle of the game. Remember those old rock, those 90s hats with the word Houston Rockets really big letters ripped out. That was a really big letters ripped out. That was a really big bit. It was a big trendy thing back then. He wore a rocket's cap, his very first time wearing a suit.

I announced him for the very first time. It was very cool. 30 years ago, damn, I'm getting old. 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 B. Believe it or not, and here's how it works.

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No, he's 10th. Damn, dude. Wikipedia would have been your friend. Bill, what is your favorite Brooks and Dunn song, Bill? Not like us. Kellan Moore and his quarterback, Derek Carr, faced off in college where Moore's Boise State squad be Carr in Fresno State 57 to 7. Believe it or not? Believe it.

Believe it. Statement number two for the win. Kellen Moore's younger brother Kirby played wide receiver with him at Boise State. Believe it or not? Not. Believe it. Oh, I'm so sorry. You don't get to go see your favorite band of all time.

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