The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Fantasizing with Dr. Roto, When to Have Your 2nd Kid, MEATLOAF

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

Hi there. It's larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Go 2 in H-town. Welcome to a Friday edition to the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790. How are you all today?

I'm doing great after that, man. Wow. I'm doing good. I got a full night's rest. You did? It sounds like you did. Yeah, I watched those baseball series where Bob Cossus again looks like you'd to be anywhere else but calling those games.

I think he was sleepwalking. I watched a little bit of Brock Purdy with my fantasy league scoring at nauseam yesterday. That's a great. Good job. Congratulations to the Toros. I think I was in bed by 10 o'clock. Life is good. Got a big road trip this weekend for a little recruiting with the daughter, so very excited. Wonderful.

And you got the Red River rivalry. Yeah, I do. Now, normally we'd have our Friday open start, but our buddy, Connor is getting over relationship issues and it has... Oh, you have the open? What didn't you tell? So you just hit it then. You hit it then. You got to tell us.

Talk to the audience. Talk the audience. See, when were you going to tell us? You got a communication is key, Trey. You didn't say it. How are we supposed to know that you have it? Because you're supposed to operate on the usual basis as if nothing has changed. But I've heard this show this week.

The lot has changed. So, no. That's not fair. Now it's a mouthful. All right. Well, Trey, Matt Thomas show and Ross. All right. Well, Trey, Matt Thomas show and Ross.

Hit it, baby. Like right now. If you're an attractive woman with large breasts, come shoot videos for us? No, no, don't clip that. We went to the D yesterday at the hotel and had a few cocktails. Matt was very deep inside the D. I mean, I was in the same spot you were in. No, I wasn't there.

No, you were right there with me at the D. No, that was, yeah, you were all on top. You were all around it. You're in a sense. six man right now but cacucci and verlander having stretched out that's her career and verlander even though i can't believe i just said that it's like 25 degrees in here it's seriously got so cold my nipples are ridiculously hard right now yeah they're cutting through your shirt yeah so if you and the broskis are going on the cheap you can get a two room and then you know you just

put you go butt to butt and then you can uh both sleep on the king but you want to go the other way No, I don't want to go either way. You want to go tip to tip? No. No, I don't want to either one of those things. That's gross. What's wrong with you? You go butt to butt.

He went head first for a double, now he's going for the triple. He's banging one off the wall. Excuse me? What? What were you talking about? Trey, did you put that together? Damn, dude, that's the best of those, but that was some good stuff. Good for you.

Some classics. Tray, trying to take over for all Conardee McGovern. Yeah, Trey Wally Pip Walker. Yeah, my goodness. That's good for him, good for him. All right, that's how you start the Friday right there. Can I peel the curtain back from one second? Sure.

Are you obsessive, compulsive about anything? What do you mean? Well, I'm not that natured, but I'm, so I'm checking in for my flight. I'm going to be leaving in a few hours to go on an East Coast trip with my daughter for a recruiting visit. Okay. On the first leg of the flight, I can only get a middle seat. Okay. So I keep refreshing the app about every 20 seconds to see if the aisle opens up.

That's more obsessing about how fancy you are. No, I don't want to sit in the middle seat. I don't think. I don't know. Weirdos. Correct. And thus I'm not weird. So I would like to.

Well, all I'm done, I've checked. And I'm surprised the app hasn't said, leave me alone. Okay. Yeah, you need to relax. Do it every hour. Were you doing it every five minutes? I would say about every 50 to 20. 15 to 20 is too much.

That's what I'm saying. I have a problem. Yeah, relax. Give me your phone. No. You know, I should take your phone for the show anyways. Too many secrets are there. I'm not going to look in it.

I'm not going to unlock it. Get it out of your possession for one second. All right. What's your daily screen time? 14 hours a day? I'd be third in my house. I can tell you that. Okay.

Kim Thomas 1, Carly Thomas 2, me 3. And I work for a living. I don't know. I mean, I did check on Taylor. wishing nothing fresh up today. Oh my gosh. Yeah, which one are you refreshing more? I choose not to answer that question.

Sounds like you're pleading the fifth. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is an anything goes Friday. And we got a lot of good things to get to because we've got some interesting things happening on the show today. Dr. Roto is, we'll get an update from him directly. Why not, you know, Fort Myers got hit hard as the entire west coast of Florida did, but he is, I think he's, I'm presuming he's back home or at least in a safe spot.

Okay. My aunt and uncle who live in me. Newport Ritchie, which is just north of Tampa, still don't have their power, but they're about four million other people in the same spot. So, but they're doing okay. So all things considered, the people that I know are at least living and being able to conduct somewhat of a daily life here, and their houses have not been destroyed, so it's good. So it'll talk to Dr. Roto today at 1.30.

Wonderful. Bob Soshe, the Voice of the Patriots, is going to join you at 2.30 today. And it'll be curious because he is an employee of the team. Yes. So he's not going to do a lot of super hard criticisms. But I'll be curious to get, and I'll be listening in the car. I'm going to grade your interview. Okay.

I mean, what is life with Gerard Mayo running things as compared to Bill Belichick? What's, you know, is the franchise? It's easy, man. Layup drills. Let's go. Okay. Oh, so see. I'll grade. I've handled dozens of interviews without you.

Yeah, I've heard them. And they need a little work. They just, they miss a few components. I get a lot of compliments. It's like, wow, that went a lot more smoother than normal. I don't know why. Your parents don't count. That's not true.

All right. So are people in the industry? No comment. I don't believe any of that. All right. It is also an anything goes Friday. Anything goes. I mean, anything.

At 713-212-5-7-9. FCC regulated station. That's true. If we were doing midnight to 3 a.m., then we would literally go with anything. We should do that one day. Like an after dark. Now, there have been some charitable.

things that have been done in the past by other radio hosts where they've done like a 24 hour radio sony did that the other week didn't they they were on the air for 24 hours i think so yeah they play music for 46 minutes because i was trying to record stuff in there and like oh sonny's doing some kind of radio thon it's like well

now what we would have to do is we'd have to make it a big deal with a big spot with not a big sponsor but a big charity okay and then we'd have to have like guests on like it would be cool if like Brangman called in at 1.45 in the morning or you know if i get a rocket to call it 250 and maybe fromber all it from um well he didn't speak english but i'm going to go into presumption it wouldn't be it wouldn't be difficult to find him at 2.15

um or it might be too difficult i don't know maybe it'd be easier to get athletes noon midnight to 3 a.m than it would be right now maybe there's prime napping time rockets are practicing right now the texans are practicing right now the matt thomas 24 hour radiothon let's get it going we'll see maybe we'll do it after the season it'll be for carly's n iL account oof yeah lying By way, a lot of mixed feelings about what we talked about yesterday with Kendrick Perkins and his loan sharking, basically. High interest rate. He has he busted up these kids' knees if they don't pay? We'll give you the money ahead of time. We're going to take a big chunk down the stretch. Predatory.

I would have to guess, though, if those of you don't know, Kendrick Perkins, and you guys to see an NBA on ESPN stuff, has an NIL firm where he's front-loading people, And he's also committing these guys to take anywhere between, was it 20 and 50% over like a 5 to 7 year period? Yeah. With a certain max, I think a cap of $125,000. My guess is if Kendrick Perkins is calling you, he thinks he's going to make his money.

He's not doing it. Yeah. He's going to be able to say, I'm going to try to catch this kid before he really strikes it big. And then when he does, I'm going to get a big chunk of what it is. My guess is that of the people that have signed up with Kendrick Perkins, many of them have been able to fulfill what Kendrick was looking for in terms of basically a profit. Another slimy part of the NIL industry.

It seems pretty, yeah. Because you're a really good athlete, Ross, and you think you can make some money off NIL because teams are frankly pushing you towards it, you don't only need a third person. You don't need a middleman, if you will. Right? I think I guess. I don't know what the benefit is or what they're selling that the benefit is. It's the upfront money rather than payments. Unless you have a family.

situation that's like, man, I need $25,000. Like right now. Yeah. Which I'm sure it happens. And he'll be happy to give you that in return of giving up your future proceeds for a significant period of time. Ridiculous. All right. On the show today, Texans Patriots, we got more Texans practicing today.

Good value of players actually practicing yesterday, which is nice. That's good. Getting better on that. NFL from last night was an overly exciting. San Francisco, Seattle. I mean, it was decent. It wasn't a bad game for Thursday night. Did Al Michaels begrudge anything?

I didn't notice. It's crazy. You had two of the most premier broadcasters in the history of sports broadcasting well past their prime, super cranky working in the same night. Bob Kosses was doing Yankees Royals and Al Michaels was doing

San Francisco and Seattle. Speaking of the Yankees, they're on to the American League Championship series. Let's go Guardians? Oh, we're rooting hard for the Tigers, right? It feels like they're going to the World Series. Terrick Scoobo is going game five. You bet against that?

No. Just saying. Go tag is. I'm saying it feels like the Yankees are going to go to the World Series, no matter what. I think you're right. I don't think in a seven-game series, AJ Hinch can go to his bullpen multiple times. I feel like it's going to have to do that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-7-90 is how you reach a radio program.

If you're on Twitter, I want to follow us. It's at SportsMT and at SportsRV. We take this show until 3 o'clock. At 1.30, it's Dr. Roto. 220. We'll have non-Florist. today. Now, Tray, since you're becoming very comfortable in your skin here on the radio show, do you have a non-floor story you would like to give the audience a 220? I will take after Ross,

and I will have one by then. Yeah, Ross usually finds his stories in the previous segment of said show. So, yeah, Ross. Oh, I'm talking about it's believed it or not, usually. What does that mean? I usually get your believe it or not's at like 249. Yeah, that's usually to write a, he's getting kind of sassy, isn't it? That's okay. That's fine. That's fine. It's kind of, never mind. I'm going to be nice. What's holding you back on that? Yeah, go ahead. What out of custom to do that? I'm going to go check it if I got out of that middle seat. 7.13-212-7-9.

It's an anything goes Friday. Call by anything you want here on Sports Talk 7-90. More Matt Thomas Now. On Sports Talk 790. Time is 1219. It is Anything Goes Friday in the Matt Thomas show.

We brought this up with Matt Thomas Show with Rock. Excuse me. 7-13-212-5-7-9. 713-212-5-790. I brought this up yesterday briefly to you, and it's just really worth pushing again. There are so many really interesting top 25 college matchups that you would expect bowl season.

But now they're just conference games. I mean, seriously, this is filthy. You have Penn State USC. I mean, two really historic programs. Conference game. Texas, Oklahoma. Well, now they're being conference foes again. They've always been the same conference, but, you know, that's a yearly thing.

Then you've got Ohio State Oregon. I mean, damn, that's huge. Conference game. This is a good weekend to sit back and just watch TV. Ole Miss LSU is playing. Stanford, Notre Dame. I mean, and you got, you know, Missouri UMass. Missouri UMass.

Missouri UMass. It's a huge one. Looking forward to it. Maybe that's turned to why Conner's off this week because he doesn't want us to tease him about playing UMass. You think that's it? No. Could be.

Maybe that's what happened. I think he's legitimately sick. Hmm. Maybe get the kissing disease or something. What are they called the mono? The monocleosis? Could have happened. I had mono back in the United's.

You did? Yeah. As a matter of fact, I had to miss some Rockets games as a PA announcer because I got mono. Yeah, wasn't that when you told some story about that, right? Yeah, I snuck out A couple days earlier to go watch it. That's right. You went to the movies and you tried to get everybody sick.

I went to see the Brady Bunch movie. With a friend. I wasn't married. Okay. It's a good movie. So you went and tried to get everybody sick? No, I was in a private area. That's cool.

I audited during Mono was watch the OJ trial and listen to hooting the blowfish, because they were the hot band in 94. And what else was there? The Brady Bunch movies were back in 94? Yeah, I think so, yeah.

Okay, 95. But yeah. It's a long time ago. I used to love that movie. Was that the one with the George Glass? And a very Brady sequel is good, too. When were those movies out? What years?

95 was the first one. And I don't know. I'm on the page. I had to find the sequel. Maybe it was 95 that I had the Bano. I don't remember what it was. Well, unless you got the sneak preview. No, you know what?

I got mono 95, I think. Yeah, Brady's sequel was 96. Okay. The first one was 95. Who played Marcia? It's married to Ben Affleck. Not Ben Stiller. I can't remember her name.

I'll find it. She's attractive. But I mean, they, in the real life, Christine Taylor. Yeah, they would, I think they got divorced, then got remarried or they separated. Yeah, they've gone through their ups and downs. Okay, that's what happens in Hollywood. Yeah.

But at least there's true romance remains. But, I mean, you talk about a guy way over kicking his coverage. Not kicking his coverage. My goodness. He's a movie star. Yeah, but you're a millionaire movie star. It's impossible. But she's significantly more attractive than he is.

17 years of marriage. They separated in 2017. They later reconciled after living together during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. So COVID brings people together. COVID saved their marriage. Isn't that nice? I like it. That is gorgeous.

I like it. and pass a get down Dean at 1223 on anything goes Friday. Hello Joe. Hello, Matt. How are you doing? Amazing. Okay. I want to tell you two things. I want to tell you about NHL and Washington commanders. I want to tell you, is Houston going to have an NHL team and second? Are the Washington commanders, are they going to change

a name? Because the fans don't like the name all there. Washington. They don't? I heard, that's what I heard. Okay. All right. Thank you, Joe. I appreciate it.

I haven't heard from Joe in years. Help me out. Called this show or call it? This show. You did? Yeah. I'm glad to see you're still kicking, Joe. Thank you, Joe.

Pretty long time, no talk. I don't think the NHL is coming anytime soon. Yeah, didn't they, didn't Gary Bettman say they're not talking about expansion? Yeah, there's nobody that's the only team that was thinking about moving and eventually did, with the Arizona Coyotes to Utah. That has happened and they're already playing games. Yeah, it's done. They're already playing?

Are they the Utah Coyotes or what are they? The Utah Hockey Club. They're going to wait. Are you serious? Oh, they're going to have a fan vote or something? I don't know if they're going to, but they decided they didn't want to rush it. They're going to do. They're doing the Washington football team thing. So it's going to be for one year.

Yeah, exactly what they're doing. And as far as the commander's concerned, I don't know. I mean, I have not heard whether now if they like it or not. I think what they were going to do was there was some talk of them changing because again? Well, they had a new ownership. Daniel Snyder made them the commanders, I think. And then they're basically going to do a middle finger to him and say, we're going to change it again. But that, frankly, to me, would be probably unfair to anybody that ever bought a commander's outfit at all or a shirt or jersey. No, it gets more value in 30 years. Does it? Yeah. Put that baby in plastic wrap.

I don't know. Does anybody have an older jersey that they've never worn before? And what's the value of that right now? Probably nothing. Maybe. Maybe. I think some old. The oilers gear is going on eBay. I haven't checked the markets lately. I was going to say, how often do you check it? You check it as much as middle seats and plans? I mean, this market for vintage gear? What's the most vintage thing that you own, period?

I have an oilers t-shirt. Do you really? Yeah. I don't wear it anymore. That's because it's probably too small. Well, no, it's because no. Okay, sorry. I've been around the same weight since college.

I'm actually weighing less than I did in college. But I was presuming it was a shirt when you were in junior high. Well, you know what the hell you're talking about. I just, I just thrown it out there. No. I don't own anything. I own, no, I don't have anything super historical. And I have a Mid-South wrestling replica belt that's probably about 30 years old.

Really? Yeah. Is it rusty? Yes, and ironically it is. Really? Yeah, it's a rusty belt. So it's going to give your whole family tetanus. You need to get rid of that thing.

No, it's a championship belt. It's one of those things you could buy online. Okay. Where'd you buy it? It was gifted to me. It was gifted to me. Okay. It's in my office.

You come to the Kingwood Studios, you can see it. Yeah, okay. I'll take out a loan and hire a Sherpa. I'll get up there eventually. I mean, I can't really over this point argue with you about that, but that's kind of a different issue for a different time.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I think the commanders they had talked about it, but I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon. Okay. I mean, because then it becomes kind of gimmicky. It's fun to call them the commies. I think football team was so,

bad. I got used to it and I thought it was kind of good. You ready for a hot tank? Who's the greatest football team of all time? What do you mean? Are you ready for a hot, hot take? Yes. Concerning the commanders? Okay. I'll tell you when we get back. Oh, look at this guy. And you're going to hate it because the Battle Reddress is going to hate it. Okay, good. Why do I mean good? You could be mad at me. You enjoy being mad at me? Yeah, it's fun. All right. That seems... That's what you call good radio.

All right. And this is going to be completely organic because you have no idea what I'm about to say, do you? You have no clue. That makes a good radio. 713-212-5-7-90. If you're going out tonight to watch preseason basketball, hockey, baseball playoffs, how about enjoying some delicious wings at Big City Wings? If you get out there tonight and you're out, maybe going to see a show, maybe you're going to check out some comedy,

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on Sports Talk 790. All right, Ross, I don't want you to hate me for this. But I'm going to give you a take that I don't think I'm by myself on this, but it probably reaches a little bit here in Houston because we like our guy

a lot too. And I want to make sure I tell you this. I think C.J. Strade is a wonderful quarterback. Oh, boy. Mm-hmm. I have a feeling that Jane Daniels will be as good if not better. Okay. Well, that's because you're Texans hater, Matt?

No, I'm not. He's played five games. He's thrown four touchdowns. He looks the part. Yeah, Jay, okay, first of all, this is the thing. When you're comparing two people and you really think, Both are really good. Just because you put one against the other doesn't mean you're downgrading the other.

Correct. I'm sure you would like to agree with that. Yes, 100%. Yeah. He is not quite there as far as the passer that C.J. Stroud is and maybe even was five games in. Now his completion percentage

is super high, but it's also been there was a on Twitter, one of the NFL accounts I follow was putting it like all of his completions are short into the right side. Correct. Because again, he's not driving the ball down. He doesn't have a lot of targets. He's a better scrambler than C.J. Stroud is. Is he a better quarterback than C.J.

Of course, he's not right now. Could he be? I mean, it could be arguable. And Jaden Daniels is very good. But I think to put him in C.J. Stroud territory is just, I think it's premature. Don't disagree. I'm just saying could be as good and maybe even better. I loved him out of college And I'm not because we work with a bunch of LSU mafia people here But he was special in college And remember I said to him and Jalen Williams were going to be the only two guys I thought were any good

Caleb Caleb on Jalen who was second cousin The rest of guys to me Bo Nex is playing a little better Okay I don't think Drake May We'll see this week I don't think the kid at Minnesota Wednesday McCarthy's Achilles is ripped

Yeah that's those are the five we were thinking about Michael Pinnix is just chilling, holding his helmet, watching Kirk Cousins throw for 500 yards. Yeah, why again, Atlanta? What the hell are you doing? Mm-mm-mm. Yeah, I'm just telling you, Jaden Daniels to me,

it's been pretty special. Okay. In a very, very small... You're breaking down a lot of commies tape. Well, you know, they call me Mr. All-22. Yes. I have not called them commies yet. Okay.

I've been accidentally calling them the other name just because that was the name forever. You think more people make mistakes about the Washington football team or the Cleveland baseball team. More mistakes today just uttered. I still say San Diego Chargers sometimes. Yeah. And that's been years. I know. I know.

I would say the Indians, Guardians thing. Probably so. Happens a lot. Because again, this commanders is two name changes. People love the Washington football team name. I thought it was so bad. It was good. Yeah. Who's your top five favorite all football team?

MERS. Buddy of ours. Kenneth sent me an email. the name still isn't, to the previous caller's point, the name still isn't resonating with the people of D.C. Okay. So you can change it again. Let me tell you, they go 12 and 5 this year. Yeah, it's fine.

You call them the seven dwarfs. It wouldn't make a difference. It doesn't. The city's excited. They have a good quarterback for the first time since what, Sonny Jurgensen? And they got rid of Daniel Snyder. I mean, there's at least not this negative aura around that franchise.

It's been for a long time. They're going to get a new stadium. It's all good. Who's their franchise's greatest quarterback? Oh, that teams? The commanders is this. Probably Sonny Jorgensen. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

It's been pretty rough for them. Let me just give you a few runs. Joe Fiseman, Doug Williams, Colt McCoy, Jay Schrader, Alex Smith, Kirk Cousins. It's not a real big list of the who's who. It's really not. Donovan McNabb.

Who's the greatest Chicago Bears quarterback of all time? Jay Cutler. Over McMahon? I would say so. I bet he leads on all their passing category. Well, actually, it's Sid Luckman, to be honest. So you have two of the greatest, longest-lasting NFL franchises that have just a beyond mediocre list of quarterbacks. I bring up Sid Luckman normally as a joke, but I guess that's the answer, for real.

Yeah, I would think so. Let's see. Sid Luckman, three-time pro-baller, five-time all-pro, four-time NFL champion. Done. So Sid, so Sonny Jurgensen. and Sid Luckman are feeling very confident about their spaces in their particular football teams. That's so bad. Let's go to Ryan and Montgomery at 1236 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross.

Ryan, good afternoon. Good afternoon, fellas. How are you all doing? Well, thank you for calling. Okay, so one, the oilers stuff, they still make Oilers gear. Like, I don't think it's as valuable as you would think it is because you can still buy it, right? Yep. That being said, with all the baseball kind of kind of kind of,

coming to an end and football seasons in full swing. Me and my buddies are talking the other day. Who on the Astros do you think would be the best two sport player? That's one. Two, our wife and I, we have a son. He's about six months old. And Matt, you being a family man, when's a good time to have kid number two? And I'll hang up and listen.

Excellent. By the way, excellent, excellent, anything goes Friday question. Two of them. Best potential two sport athletes. Two names popped in on mine immediately. Go ahead. Jeremy Pena and Yordon Alvarez. I had Yorda on top of my list.

I don't know if I'd call him a pass-catching. I'd put him in N-Russia. Pena's good? Yeah, that's... Tuvae could be a gymnast. He's short. Oh, really? Not the stereotype. That's fine.

I'm surprised you didn't say he was going to be a horse jockey. Now that you mentioned that? Oh, my God. Oh, you're the worst. Petitive Edge? You're the worst. Is he an equestrian enthusiast? Could Bregman play too?

How about Breggman being a rodeo cowboy? Sure. That's random. Let's talk about real sports. Oh, so you're downgrained the rodeo cowboy bit. All right, that's fine. Let's see, who else? I'm sure Kyle Tucker could do something, double sport.

Swim? Yeah. How's his wingspan? Jake Beyer. Webb defeat. Jake Myers on a relay team? Jake Myers? He's not going to be a math elite. First base, no.

I don't think John Singleton's going to be any sort of he'd be a nose tackle. Okay. Right. Who? John Singleton. Oh, come on. You're putting him at the nose? What do you want to put?

Not an edge rusher. Not putting him out as a linebacker to cover tight ends in space. I'm not doing that. All right. I'm tapping out on this. I think we're good. And then the second one he asked about was six months in, when do you start on number two? Well, I will give you the answer. My oldest was born in June of 2000. And my middle one was born in January of 2003. How did you feel about that spacing? Uh, completely indifferent to it. well if you could well he's asking for the ideal space

three years okay so you nailed it yeah and her excuse me I guess I did I never quite thought of it that way but thank you for putting that perspective now the third child

2000 2003 2007 hmm okay so we had a little space between two and three and three and I can Not to pull the curtain back too much, but I just...

Here I go. Does anything go's Friday? What are we going to do? So... You don't have to say whatever. You're right. You know, I don't. I don't.

I don't. Or you can. I mean, I will. Why not? So I had moved from... I think I know where this is going. Salt Lake to Minneapolis. And I lived by myself for six months in Minneapolis.

Okay. But as part of my deal with Minneapolis, they would buy... They were going to buy me tickets to go back to Salt Lake to see the family. Oh, wow. That's nice. So one of the flights, Minneapolis's Salt Lake City, picked up at the airport, got home, and nine months later, are you serious? Yeah, I could tell you the exact day of time. This is not necessary.

Well, you asked me to peel the curtain, so I peeled it. I actually didn't know it was going to go. I've heard that story from you before, but I didn't know you were really going to say it on air. Yeah. So my kids are June 2000, January, 2,000. January 2003, November 2007. So three and a half years in between the second and third. Would you rather have them closer together so that they're all kind of toddlers together and you can get it out of the way?

Yes. So my sisters are all two years ago. Because my daughter, my youngest, who's 16, has been asked for years and years and years about having another sibling because she wanted to be closer to her ages compared to the boys. I was like, no, no, no, we're good. Three's plenty. Three is enough. Yeah, that's for sure. All right.

Anything goes Friday. Hope that answered your question. That's what we're here for. 713-212-5-7-90. Dr. Roto's with us going to answer a lot of your fantasy football questions at 1.30. Good. You know what you ought to do? You ought to have a fantasy football competition between the two of you.

No, I'm not a competition. I'm sure he knows more than I do. No, but people in the streets were talking about your Arizona Green Bay knowledge. And were, first of all, astonished that you put any prep time into the show. And then secondly, you just, just picked a rando game and you nailed it. Maybe I made everything I set up though, Matt. Well, you know what we'll do?

No, I didn't. We can also throw a game at you and see if Roto agrees with you. Oh, no, I don't want to do that because I didn't do more. I was going to do two nights of prep and be ready for today. I didn't do anything last night. You didn't prep it all last night. No, I was just watching Thursday at football and then I caught up on Rockets preseason. What did you think? I think I'm in Thompson looks good.

He looks athletic. He looks fast. He looks confident. He is everything that we, new coming out of high school. And he also had a pull-up free throw jumper that airballed, which I don't think I've ever seen before. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 with the word for quality home products of Texas. Now, I've been telling you for months about getting a Generic standby generator. Of course, that's never going to stop because the message is clear. You want to have power when the power goes out. And that's why getting a Generatic standby generator from quality home products is where it's.

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Apply online at QualityTX.com. That's QualitytX.com. Lunchtimers, back to Houston's longest running lunchtime sports show with a guy that yells nothing but nylon. Nothing but for a living. Yes. Matt Thomas. The legend continues now. All right, 1248. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Nice to have all of you with us here today on this Friday. Anything goes Friday. Texans back on the practice field. Kind of a walk-through day. This is the day that come to Jesus by some guys that may be missing. But Joe Mixing looks like he's back out there. Was at least yesterday. Damien Pierce is out there. Mr. 50%. Laramie Tunsell was back out there again. What do you mean 50%? He practiced yesterday. That's what I'm saying. He's 50%. Well, if he practiced Thursday and Friday out of Wednesday, that's three, two out of three. He didn't practice much during training camp, didn't play in pre-season. He's on the meatloaf plan.

On the what plan? Meatloaf, two out of three ain't bad. Oh, okay. All right, very good. I was thinking about the ketchup-based crusted product. That sounds delicious. Actually, meatloaf's pretty underrated. Is it underrated or properly rated?

No, no, let me give you this. Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, green beans, dinner. Boom. That sounds great. That's underrated. Okay. I guess. Okay. I'll take your word for it.

I mean, you wouldn't say, hey, hey, Ross, Scott has some dinner. We don't go. Let's go get some meatloaf. You wouldn't do that. Where would we go? Well, Rackard Rhee is gone. Yeah. Who serves a good meatloaf? Moston Barkett. They've still had those? Yeah, I think. There's one not too far where I live from, it's on like Westheimer and Voss.

And I went there and I got some meatloaf. You know, I'm going to name a Boston Market. Your meatloaf was terrible. Was it really? I was so disappointed because I used to love them when I was a kid. I don't know if they're still operating. Honestly, I never go there. I went there once and that was enough. That's too bad.

All right. Where are we going with this? I don't know. We're talking about me. Oh, about Mr. 30%. What are you talking about? He plays almost 100% of the snaps.

Yeah, and he also commits 50% of the time he commits a penalty. He didn't fall start. He didn't get called for a full start last week. At least you realize that he got lucky. Could have been a couple more. It is what it is. We're not going to be overly concerned about that.

that, are we? Again, Texans, are they staying six and a half, seven depending on what book you're looking at? Is that how we're looking on the NFL? Let me go look at the old markets for you, Maddie. Yeah. Yeah, there's just, honestly, there's just a lot more sexier games this week to look at, right? Washington, Baltimore, it looks like it's going to be

first of 40 wins, maybe, in that bad boy. It should be a shootout. Tampa Bay, New Orleans teams seem to be intriguing to me. Well, I think Spencer Rattler's starting in that game. Okay, forget what I see. It will not longer be as intriguing. So, yeah, not as intriguing. Do you think, who's the Cleveland coach?

What's his name? Kevin Stefansky. Kevin Stefansky. Do you think he's in trouble if they lose this week? Especially what the Jets already have done. I think he's going to be okay. This is, first of all, I don't know. I think, I think he probably wants to put James Winston in there.

But I think the organization is like, we're sinking all this money. Sean Wants has been terrible. He's been the Jose Ibrayu of the Cleveland Brown. They played the commanders last week who don't have a good defense and they didn't score any points against them. And the week before they played the Raiders

who I mean their defense is okay. And they couldn't score any points. And I think it was Andy Dalton that lit up the Raiders, I think. So yeah, the Raiders defense is beatable. Mm-hmm. Because I think Max Crosby was out, I think, in that game.

So, yeah. Deshawn Watson in that offense got to be better. So let's go to the timeline of Deshawn, forgetting about the sexual predator history that he has. Okay. He goes... I'm forgetting what John Wilkes Booth did. He was a fine actor. But it has nothing to do with his on the field play.

Strictly on the field play. He goes from a super electrifying megastar Houston Texan. Yes. I can remember the press conference that the Texans had. And they were shooting in videos from all these people and live jump bands. and it was, oh, this is... And then he was losing games, but putting up hellaciously big numbers

where JJ Watt basically was walking to the sidelines, apologizing for his defense being so bad. Yes. To wanting out, to going to Cleveland, basically holding the Browns hostage to the situation. He gets a renegotiated contract with all that guarantee money, and he has, not just underperform, Ross,

he has actually sucked since he's been there. He's been one of the worst quarterbacks in football. I mean, he's like rookie top 20 bust pick bad. He's worse than he was as a rookie. He's like Bryce Young bat. He went to three straight Pro Bowls as

a Texan. Yeah. His last year, he led the NFL in passing yards. And yards per attempt. I don't know what happened. He doesn't look fat. He doesn't, I mean, there have been injuries. But have they caught up with him? What about this theory?

$230 million guaranteed What's my motivation to keep going? What's my motivation to put it in the work? What's my motivation to really study the other teams? Wouldn't we at this point be hearing that from teammates underneath their breath? What's the other explanation? I'm just trying to think of an explanation.

That explanation would make sense to me. We would know because there are loose lips in every NFL locker room. We would know if he was getting there late and leaving early and not putting the time in. I have not to this point heard stories to that nature. Because I don't, I mean, it's not like he's 32. Now, he did miss an entire season. Remember that?

Yes. Just being away from the sport an entire... He played six games last year and how many is he played this year? Five. He's been back for 11 games. He still looks completely lost out there. He's getting worse. He's regressing.

So if you were to just take it at what you've seen, I would have to go and lean. towards he's got his money and being the very best just doesn't mean as much as much to misused. Is he just as that he's mentally taxed from all the the outside noise?

They have weapons there. I mean they have Amari Cooper. I mean, David Joku's been out, but they got Jerry Judy. They got, I mean, the decent running game. They've had some offensive line injuries. But he has just been, he looks scared from pressure. He's missing easy throws. He's missing open

throws. He's making bad. He's making Houston. Never ever ever, ever, ever, go, wow, what did he do? Now, granted, DeAndre Hopkins, in his prime, would catch every 50-50 ball. Marry Cooper has had some drops. At least as a last week,

he was, I think, leading the NFL in drops. I don't know what the numbers are now. But I and I'm sure it's happened to other people, but I can't remember anybody right offhand that went from so electrifying to getting a contract and then sucking,

as bad as he. He's one of the three worst NFL quarterbacks right now, starting. That's a shame. Couldn't happen to a better person. Correct. Among sexual partners, she's in the top three. Mike on 790 at 1255, Mike, good afternoon. Good afternoon, Matt. Meatloaf recommendation. Don't sell out on the pin tweaks, as you would say. The pin tweaks, huh? Really? Apparently they've got some scenic views there. and good leap meatloaf. And allegedly the 29 degree beer.

That's true. Hey, Mike, thanks for the recommend on that. I really much appreciate that. Thank you. Awesome. Twin Peaks is a fine 790 sponsors. Meatloaf and ass meat. By the way. Good.

No. Mia's meatloaf apparently. A buddy Harris just texting me said is good. Where's Mia's? Matt, no free plugs. I like that place. Is it close? Very close.

You're going to go? We can't go today, but we can go. Why not? Oh, yeah. I'm going to flight to catch you. You're always doing something. Well, it's because I'm trying to balance family life and work life, Ross. I know it's strange to you, but I'm going to try to be both. Try to be a good dad, a good husband, and a good broadcast.

Well, I'm here for the show. Let's go. I've heard those nightcaps this week. You ain't here for the show. Yes, I am. Killing it. Six o'clock hour doing very well. Yeah, I don't think this week's going to be that much of a hit, but that's a different issue for a different time.

All right. 7.13, 2, 1, 2,7.90. By the way, Kenneth says that all of the Boston markets are closed for a year. Are they rebranding? Are they rebranding? Did Gordon Ramsey go to them and say, this is crap? Get in here and fix this. Hopefully.

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This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. As anything goes Friday here on the Matt Thomas show, real quick, I want to run through the Texas Injury Port from yesterday. The official report will be out this afternoon at, I guess, a little after 3 o'clock, and that'll be a real good feeling of who will play and who will not play. And then, Rossie, we're going to play. How insensitive was this? It's a very new game here on the Matt Thomas show.

Okay. And it revolves around Hurricane Milton and an NFL reference. Okay. You're like, what? I'm confused. I know. I'm going to, that's what I'm here for. Kamari Lasseter yesterday did not participate in practice.

Jimmy Ward did not participate in practice. Lasseter has a shoulder issue, bad groin for Jimmy Ward, and Robert Woods has a foot issue. Limited, Derek Barnett, Canyon Green, Jake Hansen, Titus Howard, Joe Mixen, and then full participation, Damien Pierce, and Lerner. Jeremy Tunsell. Okay. So that's how you have it. Look, they should lose this game, right? No, they shouldn't.

But you shouldn't lose their rookie quarterback, especially who didn't start out the season, has no games under his belt. New England doesn't have much of an offense. Stevens is a good running back, but I don't think they've got a whole lot of target. He's injured as well. Does he have a little fumbolaia too?

He's been fumbling. Yeah. Maybe all systems go for Antonio Gibson. Ooh, we'll find out when Roto coming up at the bottom of the hour. Yes, we will. Well, we'll have to look at Ramandre Stevenson Practice Report. All right. We'll have you break that down, Matt.

So let's get to, I don't think it's a big story, but I happen to see it a little bit on these Twitter streets in the 4U category. Okay. There is a weather reporter for the weather channel that is being criticized for making a football reference during his coverage of Hurricane Milton. I saw that. Okay? Now, the audio isn't spectacular, but it's, you can clearly hear what he had to say.

So here is the man at the Weather Channel giving you the rundown of exactly how he's interpreting what he is seeing so far a couple days ago when he was covering Hurricane Milton. But you might still be in the eye right now. There's a lot more to go. I think back to, you know, the Atlanta Falcons first half Super Bowl winner. We know what happened to the second half when the Patriots came back to life. So do not sleep on the second half of Milton. And we're definitely concerned now with the surge. Okay.

So he brought up the Falcons. So he's bringing up the Falcons huge lead. Patriots come back when the game. As compared to, hey, it's not so bad here right now. Just a lot of wind and rain. But the worst still could be coming. Okay. And of course, social media, because this is what social media does.

some people say highly insensitive. I, because they call me Mr. analogy, uh-oh. Think this was just a case of a ridiculously bad analogy. I mean, I don't know how hurricanes work, so I don't know if the analogy does it fit?

That's what I'm saying. Or just that it's just a little crass, a little insensitive. Do you think it was insensitive? I didn't seem like it to me, no. Now, you and I don't take a lot of things personally.

Correct. Because if you take everything personal, like that guy Chase to call me yesterday and call me a D head, I didn't take that person. I just went back and called him in the office and called him back and called him a bunch of swear words. Okay. Well, it seemed like that is taking it personally. Oh, I felt great, though. Did you notice the energy I had in the last hour of the show?

Trey, tell them how good I was back there when I called it. It was fantastic. I don't know that I've ever seen anything quite like it. Personally, on my end, it probably was the highlight of my day. Thank you very much, Jerry. Appreciate that. So it cleansed my palate on that. Okay, that's good.

But back to this. I don't know. Football reference? Yeah, he was just making a football reference. For a game that was five or six years ago? He was just trying to explain it to the people. Like, hey, there's a second half to go here. I don't have any issue with it.

Yeah, I don't either. Are Floridians upset or is it Falcons fans that are upset? No, I don't know who's upset. But apparently the tweet got out there and let me see if I can find any comments. I it to me it just felt like a whole lot of nothing but maybe you know maybe again I should be more sensitive to certain things and frankly in our business

we got to be sensitive to a lot of things because we don't know who we're going to offend on anything like for me again it's very hard for me to ever get offended at anything let's see I'm looking at the tweets here Nick De La Toro says typical topical and accurate that's true let's see

I've seen the Falcons catch many strays for 28 to 3, but this one really easily tops them all. The fact that the Weather Channel headquarters is in Atlanta. Let's see. Maybe that's why he was thinking about it. He's been waiting years to drop this reference. He chose violence. Maddie Ice is never going to live this down.

Man, Matt Ryan is catching a stray, preach. Kyle Shanahan, too. We all know what happened in the second half. Alex George says, I am triggered. this is amazing he cooked blank blank blank can't say that it sounds like most people

are okay with it weather channel trying to get some those football clicks I mean that's it worked I mean it's funny

it's not gonna make me turn on the weather channel because in the hotel I was in in Oklahoma City that we didn't have a weather channel we had acue weather you ever seen the acuweather channel no

it's it's not well it's like there's nobody on the channel it's not no it's it's very it's very non personality driven the graphics aren't incredible it's just weather

There's no stories. Wow. So you would retool it. There's no Jim Cantorri throwing his body around and stuff. That's good. There's no people like standing in puddles and having a hundred mile an hour winds bear down on them. Thankfully, we've had no deaths with news reporters covering this thing. Yeah, not that I can think of.

But here's the reality of it. And this, I don't mean to be morbid on you here, but is it going to take someone dying for people to back off on this stuff? It's really incredible. I don't know. Yeah, they're doing it because they're doing it as a sort of. service to the public, or are they doing it because they want to look like they're heroes and it's good television? I think if you're flipping or up and down

to, I don't know, weather coverage, and one has people in a studio and one has people like with winds and debris possibly flying on them, just from an entertainment standpoint, you probably stick on the second one, right? While I agree with you on that, I also don't want to see someone get hit by a road sign.

Flying debris and having someone get knocked out live on camera is something I'm looking forward to find. It's not what I'm looking forward to, but I'd watch it. It's madden with you. I didn't put them out there. I don't even, I didn't even watch much weather coverage either anyways. I, I don't say I'm obsessed with it, but I will turn it on over anything else on television.

I feel like, I mean, you can tune in for a couple of minutes, but then after that, I mean, the storm's moving nine miles an hour or whatever it was. And it's like a fast storm. What are you staying engaged for? To me. Maybe you're right. Maybe subconsciously I'm looking. Just check it every couple of hours. You have to watch hours of coverage.

You can, I guess. Yeah. But I mean, the other night when we were coming back home from, we went from Salt Lake City to Oklahoma City, they were on live at 1.302 o'clock in the morning. When I came home, the internet from Oklahoma City, I put the weather channel radar show on my XM and they were headed on. So, I mean, they go to 24-arm mode, just like we here at KTRH do.

Yes. Well, I shouldn't say we. I. It's you. You sleep well. No, I don't. But you would help out if we needed you to. I guess. I booked you a guest last time.

Who'd you get me? For a barrel. Oh, that's right. You got me weather dude. Yeah. Matt Lanzah. Space City WX. I believe he's up for Houstonian of the year?

Yes, he is. Good for him. I think I retweeted. I hope he wins. Mm-hmm. Just because he came and talked with you. Yeah. If he would have said no, thanks,

I'd have voted for anybody but him. That's true. What am I going to get some Houston of the year votes? What have you done for the city of Houston? Weather, sports, entertainment. A good man. Have you done a good job at all of those?

Asking for advice. Guy called in. You live in Houston. You're King Wooder? What do you call someone from Kingwood? Kingwoodite? Kingwoodite? I don't know.

I mean, I think you're a King Woody. I'm a Harris County guy. Okay, you're in Harris County. I'm saying. It's not Harris County person of the year. Okay, so you know what? I'll start small. I should be the King Woodian of the year.

King Wooder. The king, I'm the King, King Wooder. Hmm. Hmm. Doesn't ring well. Then do it well at all. Hmm. By I work in Houston.

I call Houston sports teams. That's true. That's true. I mean, as you've heard the promo say, I'm kind of Mr. Houston in many respects. Yeah, see, that promo, we need to get, we need to delete that. No, we do not. If we have Royce White still on the air, we're going to have that one. That's ridiculous.

713-212-5-7-90. How hard, Ross, are we rooting for this? tigers and our guardians to beat the Yankees. Extremely. And how hard are we rooting for the Padres to beat the Dodgers? We'll discuss that coming up in a minute. 11 minutes past 1 o'clock. Dr. Roto joins us at the bottom of the hour here on Sports Talk 790.

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220, we have non-flores stories. Ross, where is your non-flouristory from this week, my friend? It's from New Zealand, Matt. That's a lie. You can't even lie right. What do you mean? I will bet you unless you are going to start chasing after a story right now from New Zealand, you're a liar. What are you talking about?

You'd have been better at saying Arizona give you a better job. chance. We'll see what I can find. All right. And then we have Bob Sosci, the voice of the Patriots, drawing us at 2.30. Wonderful. It's good that we get voices of the show. You know what I mean?

No. I don't think play by play guys don't know anything. My experience. That's funny. I used to get invited on TV shows here in the marketplace and now they just take any random, random people to do their shows. I'm sorry, Matt. I don't.

I've never been on any TV show ever, so. You don't pay me on and going. I'm going to waste my time going to there. You do a great job, Matt. You're very knowledgeable. Everyone loves you. And you're the king of, King of Wood.

Yeah, no, that guy Chase called yesterday. He does not like me. Okay, maybe not everybody. No, there's a few people to do. A lot of people do. I blocked them on Twitter. It makes me feel better. That's okay.

That's good. 713-212-5-790. Let's go to Will at 118 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Will, good afternoon. Afternoon, guys. Hi. Same to you. So I would be careful.

with the nicknames for your Kingwood crown, I guess, because you know, like, it doesn't go, any of them wouldn't go well with the old throat goat nickname. So be careful

with that one. Thank you. But I got a couple questions for you guys. I've made a, let's, a parlay, and I don't, I usually never hit them. But, so I want to get y'all's

question on, I just took the over on every, like the U.C. Oklahoma game, Oregon and Ohio State and also Mississippi State and LSU. And then want to get y'all's take on those three. And then the last one is if, for some reason, the Yankees and the Dodgers may get to the World Series, how, it's probably impossible, but is there a one? to just like send a message out to just nobody watch it so it gets the worst ratings ever. You know, I was just... I know that's exactly what they want and I hate it with a passion. Yeah.

Thanks. Good questions. Well, the first one can't help you a lot on because I just don't know enough about the second two teams. You're not going to break down the LSU? Should we get Gordy in here? Yeah, where is Gordy? He can tell us if the over is going to hit in the LSU.

Who is it in Mississippi State? Did Gordy leaving 40 like 90% of employees of this company do on Friday? I don't know. And what was the third game? Ohio State Oregon. That feels like that could go over. All right. So Gordy, if you're in the building, come as give us a thought on the LSU O'Miss over under on that.

But why would my man will bet on three games and he didn't know how he had felt about him? He's trying to get parley going. Okay. You have always led me towards the one don't ever pick parley's. Parlays generally unless you treat it like a lotto ticket. like I'm throwing this money away. I would think if you want to make just a little bit more, you could probably combine two bets that you feel very strong about,

but that'd be about as far as I'd go. Yeah, three team to me would... Yeah, I know, I know. I think Texas wins by at least 14. Well, the line is 14 and a half. And then I will... Total on that is 48 and a half. Now, you're going to need...

I mean, OU's got a pretty solid defense. All of their... They got five wide receivers down, including their number one guy. So, could I see? that's going to be tough to go over. Could I see 2710? Yeah.

So I would take Texas giving the points and I would take the under in the game. Uh-oh. Oh! Goody's here! Thank God. First of all, I want to applaud you for being here. Tell the truth, how many of our employees

are in the office right now? Wex just got here. That's one. Continue on. He's got a show, though. Callum and I. That's okay, programmers. That's two or three.

Our big boss, Eddie Martini. Okay, that's four. How many salespeople are here? One. Okay. Can we play Gordy's intro? Do we have Gordy's intro? That's a staple of the radio show.

Yeah, let's just get this real quick. It's great. It adds the game. The Matt Tom's show. With Ross. All right, I'm here to save the show. All right, your thoughts on the Ole Miss LSU O'Ronder. Total.

What is it total right now? I'll look, hold up. Well, I'll tell you, and I'm not being full on Homer here. Oh, no, yeah, you are. You always are. LSU has won 16 of the last 22 meetings with Ole Miss. 62 and a half. Ole Miss has not won in Baton Rouge since 2008.

Brian Kelly, as head coach at LSU, has only lost one game in Death Valley. That was two years ago to Hendon Hooker and the Tennessee Volunteers. Wow. So there's a lot of things going in LSU's favor. Ole Miss is a three-and-a-half point favorite. They've been sitting about that. Their best receiver, Trey Harris, who leaves not just the SEC, but the country in receiving yards. May not go this week. He's questionable.

That's a big loss for Jackson Dart and that offense. And here's, you talk about good on good. Ole Miss leads the country, not just the SEC. They lead the country in sacks with 24. LSU, one of the least sack teams of the country. Garrett Nuss-Martius Olympic sack twice this year. Good on good. Something's got to give.

Can I ask you? So that sounds like an under 62 and a half. Why doesn't Gordy come do the show with me? Because he never, you give, you don't give this kind of material away. Yeah, I'm sorry I didn't break down the Ole Miss LSU game. I'll put that Red River if you want that one too. Oklahoma has won 11 of the last 15 meetings with the Texas. That doesn't have anything to do with this year.

Texas was awesome, right? They made the college football playoff. Still lost to Oklahoma. Yeah, because they got stopped on fourth down in the red zone a couple of times. Also turned the ball over there. They way out gained him. Which quarterback for two early interceptions in that game? I believe

it was Quinn Ewers. And who's their starting quarterback? That would be Quinn Ewers. And when's the last time Quinn Ewer's started a game? It's been like a month, right? It's been a couple of weeks. Yeah, he's going to be ready to go. So what? Are you predicting you to know you victory? Just get those cheers ready. Arch, arch, arch!

Arch! When Quinn turns it over twice. Okay. We'll see. Real quick, 30 seconds. Do the people that follow you on Locked in SEC realize you hate Alabama as much as you do? Yeah, but 15 other fan bases in the conference hate Alabama.

Okay, so you're just joining the club. We don't need to pander to the one fan base of Bama fans when the 15 others all hate them. Okay. Any idea where the current goal post is? and among the river in the Nashville metro area. So they chopped it off and they auctioned off the pieces. They sold out. They sold off the pieces of the goalposts.

You could buy it. They sold out by Monday morning, but I think the bids were going for like $1,100 a piece. Stop it. You could get a piece of the goalposts for $1,100 for your... $1,100. Would you pay that? No, I mean...

It was three inches, I believe. $1,100 for three inches. Yeah, four on a good day. Yeah, clip that for next week. That's Chris Gordy. Locked on SCC. He will be appearing on Montgomery, Alabama, on K-Mall. Radio coming up here at about an hour. I think he's in Lafayette.

He's going to be in Fayetteville later this day, today. He'll be in Pensacola this afternoon. The man moves all over the place. Before we get to Dr. Roto, Michael in the Woodlands on 7-90. Michael, good afternoon. Hey, what's going on, Matt? Hi. Ross.

Yo. Hey, man, real heartbreak and not seeing the shows in the postseason. Amen. I'm going to watch postseason baseball right now. Thanks. We're going to cry now. Thanks. Yeah,

you've just poured salt on our wounds, my friend. Yeah, thank you. Hey, I'm telling you, man. It's hard to watch baseball right now. I'll check on on the scores, but I'm not really in tuned. But a real reason I'm calling. I have some questions for you about the Rockets. Go for it.

Yeah. You got first-hand view, you know, first row. I did. Do you see us, you know, making a jump? You know, do you see Singoon or Jalen Green to have an all-star season or anyone on the Rockets? Are we going to have an all-star? And, you know, if not, you know, what needs to happen for us to, you know, even, you know,

make the play in this year? Well, I think the team, and thank you, Michael, for the phone call. It's the deepest has been in five years. So that'd be safe to say, Ross, I mean, I can't. It's got, so you've got a lot of different elements. You are getting Tari back, who's an extra reinforcement. You've got to read Shepard who's going to, I would think, be maybe the best perimeter player on the team behind Fred, into a much smaller extent.

Dylan. Jalen needs to be what he was in March. Alpi needs to be what he was the first five months of the season. I don't really care about whether or not they're All-Stars or not because it's really a popularity contest, to be honest with you, unless you're picked by a reserve. All-Stars are generally pretty good players. But if you're named and also, that means you've done something really, really good.

Correct. It's not some guys averaging 9 and 7 isn't normally making the All-Star team. I don't see why they can't make at least the play-in. I say the playing should be your aim. My goal to me would be 7-8. 7-8 seed. We have to only win once to get into the playoffs. That's my goal. It'd be nice.

We'll see. And for one of the three players you just brought up, Shingoon, Jalen Green, it's hard of me for men to be a superstar unless he starts to become a better point score, but he does everything else beautifully. You don't need him necessarily to score points and shoot. Yeah, that's what I'm saying is that of all things he doesn't need to do, I don't think anyone's going,

men's got to score 15 points a game. If Alpi can be serviceable three-point shooting, you can't have two non-shooters on the floor in 2024 in the NBA. So having a men Thompson and shingoon not take and not make threes on the floor, if that is going to be the starting five with a men-Thompson in there, that's really, teams are going to pack. the pain. So you're going to be limited in what you can do offensively that way. But if Shingoon can be kind of a stretch five, and he talked about it with us, Matt, when we had him on in media

day, talking about he makes them in practice. He just needs to kind of get over that mental hurdle of the pressure of being in game. And everybody makes more in practice. That's every NBA player, basically everywhere, then they do in the game. But if he can get those numbers up and be a threat. Be a threat. And a very small thing. Before we get to Roto, if he can get to becoming an 80% free throw shooter. That is going to add... That's going to add six points to his game. 80%.

If he gets to 73, he's going to add 4. 75 first. If he gets a 73, 74%, it's going to add 4 points to his game. What was he at last year? Like 70? High 60s. But he's had years where he's in the 70s, didn't he? He got off to a really fast start last year and then drop it.

Okay, 71, 71, and then 69.3 last year. Yeah, if that gets to 73, 74. Let's go. Okay, small goals. Yeah. And maybe a few more three-point shots made. But I can tell you this. I think Fred Van Bleet still runs this bad boy. Good assist man, good shooter, doesn't turn the ball over.

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oof. Tornadoes were close. You definitely could feel them, and that was, that was crazy. I know you guys know all about that. Oh, for sure. I've got, I have friends live in West Palm Beach that were getting the tornadoes, which is on the other side of the state. It's absolutely crazy. All right, we were talking about, by way, great to have you with us. And if you want to get a question in for Dr. Ordo, we'll take that in the next segment at 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-790. Help me out with something. I don't know if you're watching lots of Cleveland Brown football, but look, we all know DeShana Watson very well, both on and off the football field. What has happened to him when you watch him play that makes him a bottom three NFL fantasy, whatever you want to call a quarterback

right now in the league? Well, I mean, look, so here's the issue. He's played some bad defenses, and he hasn't been able to do anything against them. What's going to happen when he starts playing Pittsburgh twice and the Saints and the Chargers and Denver, it's only going to get worse. A, he's more inaccurate than he's ever been. And I think he could cover up better. I don't know, he seemed to cover up better when he was with the Texans. He's not running as well. And the offensive line is terrible. I mean, literally two of the three guys who are starting. Teller is out, Willis is out, Conklin is out. So nobody's protecting him. He's not accurate and he's not running as fast. Put those three things together. You have a disaster. So is there any hard? So is there any

hope that it can be fixed or are people dropping Deshawn Watson like flies right now? Here's hope, Nick Chubb. When Nick Chubb, because right now there's no running game to speak up. Don't tell me Jerome Ford, don't tell me Dante Foreman. That's not a running game. When Nick Chub is there, he's unstoppable. That means all of a sudden, instead of Watson throwing 36 to 40 times a game, maybe he's throwing like 24 to 30 times a game.

And if he can make a couple of connections here or there, maybe find a good pass somehow, Joku back healthy. Maybe they could be I don't want to say decent. I'm not as disgusting as they've been, but it's all about Nick Job. All right. Let's get some other games.

Tell me this Washington Baltimore game for us fantasy folks that have players on either side are going to get really excited because this feels like a game that first to 40 may win it. No. Yeah, this is a great game, right? You want every part of this game. You want Lamar, you want Derek Henry.

You want Zayflowers in the biggest way possible. I love Zayflowers this week. Isaiah likely should even do something. For Washington, I don't know if Brian Robinson's playing. He didn't practice today, but that doesn't mean he won't. He didn't practice last Friday and he played. Terry McLoren's in a great spot. Jane Daniels is in a great spot.

Zach Ertz is in a great spot. Diammy Brown might actually make a play this week. So I like every part of this game. If you're playing in DFS, you want to load up on this game too. All right. Give me some other news about, let's see, a matchup between, oh, Tennessee's going to go Will Levis this week.

The Joe Flacco run in Indianapolis. What are we seeing with both of these guys in their respective positions? Sadly, I wish we had more Joe Flacco. You're going to have Anthony Richardson be the starting quarterback. I feel pretty confident about that. Michael Pittman, shockingly, did practice today. So everybody thought, including myself, he was going to be out for a few weeks. He did practice, so don't rule him out.

Jonathan Taylor has been ruled out. So you're going back to Trace Sermon, you're going back to Tyler. and you're going back to Tyler Goodson. The biggest problem here is the defense. The defense has not played very well at all, especially in the back end. And so I think Tony Pollard's going to be really popular for the Titans, but let's not forget Calvin Ridley could have a big week.

And DeAndre Hopkins, everybody knows him pretty well. He could have a big week, too. We got a quarterback change in Las Vegas for the Raiders. Will it make a difference in the game against the Steelers? Yeah, I think it actually will. I like Aiden O'Connell. I liked him last year, too. He doesn't make a ton of a ton of.

mistakes. He's not exciting. He's not a guy's going to throw for 300 yards and four touchdowns. That's not who he is. Garner Mitch makes a lot of bad mistakes. We know this by now. So I don't think that O'Connell's going to beat himself, right? So they're going to run the ball. They're going to make some, he's going to throw it out. If he gets pressured by T.J. Watt, he'll make some smart throws. He will keep this game close. That being said, somebody's got to make a play. Do I expect Devante Adams to play? No. Do I expect Samir White to play? No, but I think Madison, Myers, Tucker will all have to step up. And the defense has really been bad, too. So the defense is going to have to stop Justin Fields from running for 80 yards. We'll go to New York this week. Giants and the Bengals. Now, the Bengals are one and four, but help me out, they're not disappointing us in fantasy numbers-wise, are they?

No, the Bengals are the best one in 14 that there is, right? Joe Burroughs has been fantastic. Jamar Chase and T. Higgins are going to have a great game. You know, Chase Brown has run really well. I know he's questionable, but I expect that he's going to play. So you want to start all your Bengals. Now, the Giants are interesting here. Malik Neighbors is out, okay?

Devin Singletary, very questionable, did not practice much today at all. So you might see another Tyrone Tracy game. You're going to see Darius Slaten again and Wondale Robinson. And I do think Daniel Jones is actually startable. Cincinnati's not very good in the back end. This could be a very high-scoring game. Buffalo and the Jets, new Jets coach. I don't know if I'd make a coaching.

change if I'm going against a Buffalo team that has two very disappointing losses in a row? I think they did. I think they needed to make a change. I don't think they were winning the division with Sala. Is he a good defensive coordinator? Yeah, I think he's a great defensive coordinator. Was he a great head coach? I don't think so. I think Rogers was frustrated. There's a lot of just frustration going on. So look, Breece Hall has to be better. And I don't blame Bruce Hall. I don't. I just don't think they've been using him very well. I think Aaron Rogers will do what he does. And, you know, look, if you can't run the ball with Brees Hall

against a Buffalo Bill's defense that is soft against the run, Aaron Rogers knows this, he's not going to go to Garrett Wilson 22 times. That's not going to happen. They're going to run the ball 22 times and watch for Braylon Allen as well. So Garrett Wilson is startable, but I don't like him as much as I did last week. For Buffalo, be careful here because there's a lot of injuries. Khalil Shakir, very doubtful. James Cook is questionable as well.

if Cook doesn't go, look for rookie Ray Davis. He's very explosive. Atlanta is at Carolina. Atlanta, I don't think, is anybody's title contender in the NFC, but Kirk Cousins is getting some yards down the field. And finally, he got Kyle Pitts involved in the offense going against Carolina this week. I would load up on Arizona players, correct? You would.

You're going to load up on Cousins. Bejohn Robinson should have a big week. Tyler Algier should have a touchdown this week. It's possible. Now, between Drake London, Kyle Pitts, and Darnell Mooney, I think one of those guys is going to have the big week. Is it London? May not because of J.C. Horn.

Pits, you've got to get Pits involved because if he doesn't get involved. It's like he doesn't care. He's not putting in all that effort. So it would be nice to see him be more involved. I don't think this is a Mooney week because they usually go to Mooney when they're losing. I don't think they're going to be losing here. For Carolina, you always want to start Chuba Hubbard and you want to start Deonté Johnson, who they just go to exclusively.

All right, Drake May starts for the Pats this week. Honestly, we really haven't paid much attention to New England since they upset the Bengals in week one in the Natty. The Texans are slowly getting some players back, especially in the running back room. If I have Texans running back, mainly Joe Mixon, am I playing him this week against the Pat's defense? I think you're playing Nixon if he plays. If not, I think we can play Damian Pierce, right? I think he's certainly playable. The question here is this.

Christian Gonzalez is a great cover guy. Stefan Diggs is going to be in the slot. So that should mean that Gonzalez is going to cover Tank Dell. If that happens, which it could, another Texans receiver is going to have to step up. Is that Xavier Hutchinson? Maybe. Is it Dalton Schultz? Maybe.

Some other receivers going to have to play well with Nico Collins not there. If C.J. Stroud can get Hutchinson and Diggs and Schultz and then the running game involved, Texans are at least 10 points better. Now, I do like Drake Major. Copi Percette stinks. I like Drake May, and I think I'm excited for the future of the Patriots, but the future is not going to be this week. What about sneaky Tank Dell maybe getting a few end-arounds over the course of the game? I mean, that certainly could happen. But Christian Gonzalez is a tough cover because he's big. He's like 6-2. I know Tank Dell is a small guy, he's very fast, but you don't want Gonzalez covering tank. You want Tank to be in spaces,

but it all depends on how the Patriots approach this game. Because you can't shadow digs in the slot, It just doesn't work that way. All right, ladies and gentlemen, now your opportunity to get some questions in for Dr. Roto. If you've got some, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-1-790. Dr. Roto to the top of the hour here on Sports Talk 790. Right now, I want you to take the things you are learning about these players from Dr. Roto, and I want you to make some money with it, and you can do that with Underdog Fantasy. Making picks on underdog is straightforward.

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All in one. You want to get in, 713, 2,1, 2, 5, 790, the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Dr. Roto with us until the top of the hour. Let's go to Justin in Montgomery for you and Dr. Roto. Hello, Justin. Hey, how's going, guys? Thanks for taking my call. You got it.

Dr. Roto, I got Kirk Cousins or Anthony Richardson, and I need a receiver since Malik Neighbors is out. Am I supposed to just guess the receivers who are available in your league? Yeah, come on now. Help the young man out. I have Cooper Cup and Tyree Kill. Yeah, so yes, I need to pick up one. All right.

I don't know who's available in your league, but I do. like Josh Downs a ton, take a look at Alec Pierce a little bit. So since you have Richardson, find a colt receiver, try to go for the hookup. Richardson is crazy. I mean, it doesn't make a lot of great place, but you can't run against Tennessee. You have to throw on Tennessee. That run defense is much better than people think. So look, Richardson likes taking chances downfield. Start with Downs first if he's available. Next go with Pierce and next go with A.D. Mitchell. All right. Thanks for that. Let's go to John in Missouri City for Dr. Roto on 17. 90 at 150. Hello, John.

Hello, guys. I got it doing today. Good. Flex spot, standard league. Should I go Brayland Allen or Remindry Stevenson and my defense? So I go Colts or Green Bay Packers? I'm going to go Green Bay for sure. Stevenson, that's a tough one. I don't know if he's very questionable, right?

He's got a footish injury. He did not practice Thursday. He didn't practice today. So you're going to have to go. down to the last second on that one. I mean, if Gibson's available, you might want to look that direction. But I don't dislike Braylon Allen. Good chance that he scores this week in a standard league. I mean, the jet should move the ball and you can run on Buffalo.

All right, that's the good phone call from you. Thank you. 713, 212-790. If you want to get in, 713-1-2-5-79. Gio in Atascata for Dr. Roto. Hi, Gio. Hey, Rodo. Gnathy, you're doing okay, man.

So I have for my running back, my RB2 spot, Tray Sermon or Rico Dowdell. And for my flex, should I put in Diodre Hopkins, Darius Slayton, or Tyrone Tracy? All right, great question. So Tracy looked really good. He did. So I would wait. I would wait on the giant game. And let's see what happens with Singletary.

If Singletary plays last second, you pivot to Slayton. If Singletary's out, go with Tracy. he looked really hard to take down. In terms of Sermon and Dowdell, man, if Dallas wants any chance to win this game, don't they have to give the ball to Rico more? I think that he should be involved in that offense. Trace Sherman's okay, but you know Anthony Richardson likes running the ball. Goodson's going to be there.

I want to stay away from the Colts running game. Was Donald supposed to be as good of a receiver out of the backfield as he was last week? Yeah, yeah, he's pretty good. They just, you know, don't always throw it that way. Jack likes to throw it downfield, but Dowell, Look, they should have been giving him the ball from week one. I mean, use Zique at the goal line, use Zieg on fourth and one, but give doubt of the ball outside of that.

ATN, Connor, or Hall need two of those three running backs to be used this week? I am going to go Breece Hall for sure. Oh, man, that's a tough one. Give me Connor. Not that they don't like E.N., but Tank Bigsby's look good. All right. James Cook or Josh Jacobs this week? Josh Jacobs. Okay.

Let's go to our buddy H-Town Wiggy on 790. H-Town, what do you got for Roto? Yeah, I needed to see who I need to start. I got Kirk Cousins or Jalen Hertz. Oh, we're starting Jalen Hertz all the way. Cleveland plays a lot of man coverage. You put A.J. Brown and man coverage, good luck with that. A.J. Brown was an inch away from being the lock of the week.

An inch? That's it. That's it. I got a better guy, but, I mean, he was good. Now you're teasing us. All right. Let's go to Koso. What's your Chiliken question for Dr. Roto?

Hello. Koso. Hey, guys. Two separate leagues. Jordan Love or Baker Mayfield. And then in my other league, would I entertain, what is it,

Jared Doff or Aaron Rogers? And one more. We do you about the Atlanta defense this weekend. Thanks, guys. Thank you. I like the Atlanta defense. I think they're in a good spot. I'm definitely using Jared

golf against Dallas. And then, look, Jordan Love and Baker-Mayfield, that's closer than we think. Here's the interesting question. If Spencer Rattler plays well, then the Saints defense gets a breather. If Rattler, there's a lot of three-outs going on there, well, now the Saints' defense has to be on the field longer. If that happens, then Baker is going to take some shots. I like Mike Evans.

I like Chris Godwin. That said, do I think that Arizona is going to strike, you know, be, when another game on the road like they'd last week against Green Bay, hard to imagine out. I like Jordan Love. I got to tell you something in my fantasy expertise. I grab new defenses every single week. Am I playing with Fire Roda?

No, what you do is you stream defense is exactly the way you're doing it until one somebody in your league drops a good defense, and then you pick that defense up, and you don't change them after that. Yeah. All right. Let's go next to John and Conroll on 790.

Hi, John. John, you're on. Oh, hey. I have a, between James Cook and Travis E.T.N. I know they're both hurt, but. Yeah, so let's be real careful about James Cook. I like James Cook. I think he's in a good spot, and I think he's definitely playable,

but you're going to have to wait until Sunday morning. When I say Sunday morning, I mean Sunday morning, because Jacksonville is playing in London. So please get up at 8.30. If you may want to get up at 8 a.m. and watch that. If ETN is playing and we don't have any news on James Cook, play ETN. I don't want you getting a zero unless you can pick up Ray Davis and stash him on your team. I do like Ray Davis a ton.

All right. Let's go to Tim in, let me put this on the screen. Tim and Katie for Dr. Roto on 7.90. Hi, Tim. Hey, I got Dalton Shultz or Dalton Kincaid at Tide in and my flex. I've got Chuba Hubbard, Najee Harris, or Tony Pollard. all right so look chuba gets a lot of opportunities and that's what we want in our running backs i mean dave canales has given the football it gets her 20 times Atlanta's defense is not very scary so i do like

tony pollard i do but tajey spears is there they should be able to throw the ball this week i think i'm going to go with chuba over pollard uh that's a close one shultz and kinkade you know josh allen just has not been throwing the ball to kinkade as much as i want him to and it's getting very frustrating there, but it's hard to trust Schultz as well because he hasn't done much. I'll go Kincade, especially with Shakir being out. A.J. Brown, Terry McClorin,

C.D. Lamb, or Brian Thomas Jr. Start one of those four. Oh, man, I like them all. I would go Brown or Lamb. I think Lamb is a great play this week. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we asked Dr. Roto once a week to give us a knockdown, dragout, 100% guarantee winner for our fantasy

football leagues. We present to you Dr. Roto's lock of the week. I think the lock is C.D. Lamb. I'm going in that Dallas Detroit game. It could easily be Amal Ross St. Brown. I love him. But C.D. Lamb, Dallas features him. Jalen Tolbert's going to struggle a little bit this week.

I like Ferguson, but Lamb is the guy. When Dak is throwing a lamb, Dallas has a chance. When they don't, they lose the game. But I think Dallas is going to keep this close. I think this is the game of the week. Lock C.D. Lamb in your lineup. the lock of the week. All right.

I'm praying for warm weather. No more rain for you in your area so you can entertain people all throughout the weekend. Dr. Roto, where can they find you? I'm hoping for that too, M-T. You can find me at Twitter, a DRR-R-O-T-O. You can find me at my website, Dr. Roto.com. And of course, at Sirius X-M, Fantasy Sports Radio, Saturday mornings, 8 to 10 a.m. All right, Dr. Roto, great hearing your voice.

We'll talk to you again next week. Thank you, friend, as always. All right. Dr. Roto with us here on Sports Talk 790. The final hour of the show is going to be a busy one. We'll run through some of the top headlines the day coming up in a matter of moments. Then at 220, we have non-Florida stories. Ross, where is your non-Florida story from?

I told you, New Zealand. Do you really find one? I'm going to try. Yeah. You put yourself a lot of pressure there. We'll see what we can do. All right. And then we've got Bob Sosci, the voice of the Patriots, joining us at 2.30.

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Texans. Now, if you're listening to Rodo, he likes Drink May. I don't think Drake... Remember two years ago, Rossi, it was a two-man battle? was Drake May and who else for the number one pick in the Trafft? Caleb Williams? It hadn't have been the Caleb Williams because he had won the Heisman before that, yeah. And it was those two guys could be drafted one, two, no doubt about it, no a Fans or butts, and it didn't turn out that way.

As Jane Daniels kind of jumped the top of the list on there and was picked by the commanders at number two or whatever it was, but yes, number two. Drake, Drake, May went third. He, I mean, it wasn't like he was chopped liver. Still got a good contract. Still doing okay. Yeah. Still enjoying life.

No offensive line. No key receivers to throw two. Bad a line. Bad matchup for him. He's got a running back who's up the fumbleitis. Kids got to play. I'm okay with that. Throw them into the fire.

Let's go. Will Anderson's got to get a sack. Right. It'd be nice. It's getting close. Yeah. Sometimes. I feel like DeNeil Hunter's been better.

Has Anderson in your mind? Regressed? I don't think he's, no. I wouldn't say that. I still think he's feared. I would say so. I don't think he's reached his top of the world type player. Most feared defensive end.

His full potential. He's not at his apex. Okay. Look at the old. Let's pull up the old pass rush win rates. This is pro football focus? This is ESPN. They make up stats, though.

They haven't. Do they? Yeah, their quarterback rating is. It's completely made up. Him 13th in the NFL. How many eligible players are there? Pass rushers? Yeah.

I don't know. 60, 70. So you'd say each team had two. That'd be 64. Yeah, he's doing pretty well. Yeah, it's fine. Oh, Daniel Hunter is better. He's a 10th right now.

All right. First is Aidan Hutchison. Who's been the defensive MVP through the first five games of the season? Aidan Hutchison had a five-sat game. I'm talking about it on the Texans. Oh, on the Texans? Aziz al-Shayr He seems to be the right place, right time

Almost every single time He has been And I mean, D'emico Ryan's talked about He had a bad first drive He missed one tackle He got his arm on James Cook And he's kind of a half-miss tackle Kind of not

It was maybe could Made the play But then he missed one badly Yeah And then he was just everywhere He was everywhere all at once He was chasing down Josh Allen He was sick as a dog before the game

Yeah Apparently he was very sick Yeah He was running side line to slide He was blowing plays up. He was just, he was doing great. He was everywhere. Yeah.

It was awesome. Yeah. So I would say he's probably been the most recognizable as well. And at some point this year, Ross, would be able to properly pronounce his name. Because I feel like I still hear two different versions of it. Al Shire and Al Shire. Yeah. She called him Aziz.

Yeah, Aziz is a lot easier. A train. A, Diddy? A. No, you don't want to ditty anything, man. That's true. You can stay away from that. If you're getting ditty, you're in trouble.

Yeah. Might as well suggest A. Hitler at this point. That's true. That's true. Yikes. Again, so how are we going to kill our time on Sunday? The Texans are going to waste it. We're going to waste the Patriots. We're going to be looking for something else to watch. Red Zone. What do you mean? Red Zone's good.

That's a lot of good matches. Detroit Dallas game should be fun at 325. Yes, it should. A couple of good matchups at 3 o'clock, I think. Yeah. What are our TV games this week? You got the London game in the morning as well? Yeah, but are you? Are you really thrilled about that?

Does that really get you going? How often do you forget about the game even being played? The first time I catch a Sunday game is when I look on the crawl in the morning, and I see it's in the second quarter already. Well, I think... Oh, no, no, that's next week. Never mind. Liverpool, Chelsea is next week at 8.30.

Sorry. Not this weekend. Jaguars, Bears, Matt. I mean, I got up for Vikings and Jets. You know, the TV games we're getting this week are Tampa Bay, New Orleans, and Detroit, Down. Dallas. Tampa Bay, New Orleans.

Spencer Radler? Well, it's because we got a lot of Saints fans here for some reason. Well, there was a lot of evacuees from Katrina. Yeah. Well, we've always been a decent Saints market. I would say so. It's geographically close. Yeah.

Would you rather see Browns Eagles? The three choices. Probably Commander's Ravens. The three choices we would have had at noon on Fox would be Arizona Green Bay. Okay. Would you have a complete breakdown if you didn't hear the podcast? from yesterday. Yeah, I would rather watch that one. That should be fun. Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Tampa Bay, New Orleans.

Yeah, I'll go with Fox. I'll go with Packers cards. Okay. And, yeah, because you would think, worst case, it can be a high-scoring game. 47.5 total. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all. 7-1-3-21-5-790. So let's go to the positives on this. When Texas beats Oklahoma, you will have a couple of... You'll have some beverages consumed. You'll be doing a lot of high fives, a lot of broskey hugs of strangers. Maybe.

And if for any reason that Oklahoma shocks the world, minus five receivers and minus really any signs of a decent offense, wins a low-scoring 17-14 game because you're not, because OU's defense knocks out not one but two quarterbacks. Hey, come on. That's rude. May I text you and say sorry for your loss? No. Have you texted me during a Texas game all year long? No, because you haven't lost the game yet.

So you would only text me when they lost. Do you not hear yourself talking about how rude that is and bad it is? You know what I'm going to do then? When Texas beats Oklahoma, I will send you a congratulatory text. If I never hear from you all season long and then you text me when they lose, no. That's unacceptable behavior. You're just trying to twist the knife. And quite frankly, you're a bad person.

If I didn't just shame me, you probably would have done. If I say sorry for your loss, what is disingenuous about that? I don't hear me. I feel sorry for you. No, you don't. First of all, I know you're a longhorn hater and you're a liar. And you're a fraud. And you're a bad friend.

If you only hear from your friend when your team loses, they're a bad friend. Well, you don't, let me tell you something. When a member of your family passes away or someone is sick, you say sorry for your loss. If that person feels, hold on. That's different. If that person feels good at day, you don't say, I'm glad your grandmother's feeling great. This is why we call you Mr. Analogy. Your grandmother dying and then you and a football team are two completely different things.

And also, you're not sorry for my loss. You're a liar. I would be genuinely sorry you lost your grandmother. You're not going to be genuinely sorry. You don't know that? Yes, I do. Yes, I do. Let me tell you.

Cougar and Aggie Mad. I am. I know a loss is all. about. I've lived losses in my life. Yeah. I know you do. My Cougar football team has given me a lot of losses in my life. I know the pain of it. Matthew L. Thomas. I would know what it's like. So if I send you that text, you'll accept and say thank you if I appreciate you're reaching out. Well, don't be shocked if I lash out at you because you're not going to be sorry. First of all, you shouldn't have to worry about this this year because you're not going to lose a game. Maybe against Georgia in a playoff game. Maybe. Georgia is the next week.

But I'm saying you may seem in the SEC championship game or for that matter, the championship game. If we don't talk during games, I don't want to hear, I don't want to hear from you. Okay, well, I've already got the loaded text. All I'm going to do is hit send. Congratulations on your impressive win against Oklahoma. Okay. And what are you going to do? You're going to respond, thank you, or send nothing at all?

I don't know. We'll see how it goes. You think I'll be genuine when I do it? No, I know you won't. You better lock and loaded when Houston beats Kansas next Saturday week from tomorrow. I fully expect to congratulations. In front of 6600, Rockets, fans. That's not my fault that Kansas can't draw

flies. What's the line on that game? Is that? Or are you there off this week? Selfishly, I'm going because I've never been to Arrowhead Stadium before. Oh, right. That's right. I mean, I'm going to... Are they going to tarp over half the stadium? What are they going to do? Speaking of tarp, real quick. I'm not an engineering guy,

but do you think maybe they should just leave Trap open? I don't know. It's probably really hot in the summer there. You can't. to quote my father, what are we going to air condition the whole neighborhood?

There's no way you can get that place cold without a roof on it, right? I don't know. Again, I'm not familiar with the situation, but I'm just, I mean, I guess how much is a tarp going to cost? A couple of millie? Can you get it fixed in five months?

Are they even going to bother? Is there anywhere else they can play? It's a good question. It's a really, really good question. 713-21, 5, 7.9. 713-212-5-790. My non-Flority story this week is from Salinas, California. Was that next segment?

Trey, have we not promoted the segment like five times on the course of the show today? I mean, my goodness. You even knew it was the 220, did you not? He's got his non-Flority story locked and loaded. And loaded. And loaded. All right. Non-Florida stories are up next.

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We find interesting stories that occur out. outside the state of Florida and share them with the people of Houston. It's time for non-engine. California this week on this week's edition of the non-flora stories. And Ross, I got a question for you. A bit of a real to an estate sale where someone is trying to get rid of a lot of things. Someone maybe has dye where there's clothes, furniture, appliances,

televisions, that kind of thing. That doesn't seem out of the ordinary, right? Okay. Well, there was a real estate agent who was preparing in Salinas, California, for an estate sale when he went into the closet of the home of the person's house. And this person apparently has been deceased, so they're just trying to get rid of the stuff. Okay. What was in that closet?

A two and a half foot high explosive anti-tank rocket. Excuse me? Andreas Roses, the Monterey County Sheriff Commander, said, we're talking about a high energy device that is capable of blowing up a tank. What? Our team was able to take a look at the device using some sophisticated equipment

and confirmed that it did seem to be volatile and a danger. The units said a device like this heat rocket has a potential to cause significant damage. They said the potential explosion radius is unpredictable. Quoting Rosis,

imagine that if this device can blow up can blow up a tank, what can it do to a house, what going to do to a neighborhood? One neighbor living next door to the rocket said she had no idea it was there the whole time. The evacuation radius was set to 500 feet to create a buffer zone for safety of something went wrong during the removal process. He and officers show me the x-ray of the missile, which is really wild. He said, see how it's all dark?

That means there's a lot of stuff in it. Monterey County does not know if the deceased homeowner realized that the item he had possessed. was still active. Explosives like these can be taken home as souvenirs by service members, or they can be collected from a yard sale, not realizing the danger. Wow. I'm glad nobody was hurt. And that, my friend, you're kept a rocket like that hidden?

No, I do not keep explosives anywhere. So, I don't even like fireworks. If you had a rocket, you would let it out. No, I wouldn't own a rocket. But, yeah. So you're saying you would never have a rocket. I would never possess. No, I would never possess explosives.

It would never launch. Correct. Okay. So you would not be a, what the kids would call you, a heat-seeking missile. No, the kids wouldn't call me anything about anything rocket-related. I only like the Houston rockets, Matt. Same. I'm a rocket.

I'm a rocket, man. Oh, really? I'm burning up on fuels up here alone. Yeah, high as a kite or whatever. Well, you know, Mars in a place to raise your kids. Okay. In fact, it's cold as hell. Which doesn't make any sense.

Hell's very hot. Let me tell you. Elton John was high as a kite when he wrote this song. There's no chance he wasn't. I thought Bernie Topin was writing his songs. Oh, that's right. Bernie was high as a kite. Bernie was high as a kite.

And Elton was probably high creating the music floor. I'm sure he was not very sober either. And that is my non-Florida story. Thank you, Matt. You're welcome. I guess I'll go next. Sure, why not? Let me take you to a place called Portland, Oregon.

On Tuesday, there was a man and a woman driving alongside the south side of Portland, Oregon, and they were pulled over by police. Police pulled them over, and they found out that the car that they were driving was stolen. Mia Baganstos and Reginald Reynolds were arrested after having possession of a stolen vehicle. And as the police searched the car, they found a firearm. They found some cash. They found some scales. And they found a bag.

On the front of the bag, it said, definitely not a bag full of drugs. What was inside that bag? you can probably guess. Candy corn. It was crack cocaine and methamphetamines and powdered cocaine inside of the bag that said definitely not a bag

full of drugs. So what that person was trying to do was he's trying to create a false narrative out there. Don't even bother looking at these things. But that's exactly what I would do. Of course, they were also charged with drug charges and of course the possession of the stolen vehicle.

Like what percentage of things in your life when you see the word do not touch in front of them? Do you touch? Yeah. Things to ponder. I would say close to zero? Yeah, I'm pretty much. I mean, you're practically asking for it

if you're telling us not to do something. It's human nature. Oh, it had also had Xanic pills and other narcotics inside. So there it go. And no munchies? No. I had a loaded revolver though

Hmm Are they ever gonna get out of prison after all that? That's a lot of charges I feel like I feel like you can't bump two or three of those You gotta those are all pretty serious You're probably getting intent to distribute You're in a stolen car with a loaded weapon

What's sitting with this again? Portland, Oregon This is not Auckland, New Zealand No, as you promised No, I thought it was Portland, New Zealand When I read the story I thought it was from New Zealand because, yeah,

I thought it was Portland, New Zealand. No, do people in New Zealand call you mate, too? Because I know that, you know, Jacques Landel does so. I don't know if Stephen Adams, did Stephen Adams call us mates? You know, he called you D-Bagg. He did not. Yeah. He called me bro.

Of course, he's got 17 siblings, so we can call anybody bro at this point, right? Everybody says, bro. Or sis. That's true. And that is your non-flora story from Portland, Oregon. Portland, by the way, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but very troubled. And now, Trey, is this your first ever non-flot story? Maybe second.

We're going to judge this on you. Go ahead. Okay. Well, my story comes out of New York, and similar to Ross's, it is a bit of a joyride story, except this one has a little bit more weight behind this vehicle, if you call it. So police have arrested a teenage girl, who they say took an empty New York City subway train on a brief joyride before crashing and fleeing the scene. So how do you take a subway car on a joy? Right. You can, I think it'd be fairly easy. Just jump in there, turn it on and go. Yeah, if it's empty. But I mean, that's, that's, that's balzy. Seriously. So, they have pictures, both of her and her assumed male accomplice. She is in all pink, including a pink bonnet. And he in a blue tank top. So not exactly the most in conspicuous.

they say the two crashed into another train before they took off. They later found the 17-year-old girl and arrested her with charges of criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. Fortunately, nobody was injured. And what is the punishment

for stealing a subway train? At least criminal mischief and reckless endangerment. Are they operated by keys or do you have like computer programs? I have no idea. I would think that there would be a key. Is there a password?

There's conductors, right? Like a three-letter code or something? Huh, man, that's got to be... You have to have... Ross, you've got to have huge... Boys, you have to have huge stones to steal a subway. Seriously. Or you just got to be an idiot. I would say.

Well, they're not mutually exclusive. That's true. All right, guys, there was nothing completely awkward about any of our three stories this week. You can do better next week. Yeah, no, yeah, you always try to go with blood and guts and weird stories. Yeah, I do. I think I've left the audience down. No, it's fine. I think we're all better off.

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But right now, pleased to be joined by a multi-time guest here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, Bob Sochi, the voice of the New England Patriots. Bob, thank you for the time. Appreciate it. How are things over there? Well, things are good, Matt. and his daughter, who I know are visiting our neck of the woods, I have a beautiful day to walk to campus at a nearby institution today. So hopefully that visit goes well for them, and it's good to visit with you again, Ross.

Well, it's like 92 degrees over here, so we're not doing so hot. And we're actually doing very hot here in Houston. But let's talk about this matchup coming up with the Patriots and the Texans. Just in a general sense, your impressions, how do things feel over there in Foxborough? You had Bill Belichick there for so long. the dynastic run obviously probably didn't end the way that he or Bobcraft wanted it, but how are things over there now and does it, does it feel a lot different with Gerard Mayo at the helm? Well, it feels different. It looks different. It sounds different. That's for sure.

And unfortunately for the Patriots, they've really had two different seasons in one this year to get the Gerard Mail era started because they played very well, all things considered with their limitations offensively against Cincinnati and pulled out that week one win and then had a chance to get a week two win against Seattle and really let that game slip away from them. And now here they are in the midst of a four-game losing streak. And we're not only talking about Gerard Mayo's first season, but a new era with quarterback Drake May, about to make his first start. But, yeah, strange days indeed for the Patriots. And really, you go back over the last four years, Ross, post-Tom Brady. Bill Belichick and the Pats had a free agent spending splurge in 2021.

one. They drafted a rookie quarterback, Matt Jones. First round pick was the starter, got to the playoffs. It looked like, okay, they're headed in the positive direction. But then a lot of backsliding the last couple of years. Significant changes on the coaching staff in 2022. And Jones' regression accompanied by a 4-13 season last year. And ultimately the parting of ways between Valichick and owner Robert Kraft. And Gerard Mayle was on that staff as a defensive coach.

And really, I think someone identified a long time ago, even as a case. even as a captain for the Patriots calling their defense, with some similarities, certainly not the identical path as D'Amico Ryans has had, but some similarities to D'Amico Ryans, nonetheless identified as a guy, really had leadership qualities, someone who could connect with people in the front office,

in the locker room, his teammates, certainly was a conduit between the players and his head coach, Bill Belichick went into business, got into coaching, and it certainly was apparent from almost day, day one as an assistant coach with the Patriots, that Gerard Mayo had a future as a head coach. But it came sooner than some would expect. It came under certainly far from ideal circumstances. Frankly, the cupboard has been bare for the most part.

They've had some poor drafts in recent years. They did have a number of players that they signed in 2021 that worked out, Matthew Judon, Hunter, to name a couple, but Judon is now gone. Henry's the one guy who's been. held over from that period. So it's really been a true rebuild this year, a reset. And Mayo has a lot of the same, I think, philosophies as Bill Belichick, but just with a softer style. He certainly has been a lot more open with the media. And I think that some identify him as a player's coach. But I would say this, I think he's trying to be, I think he's trying to

find his voice, trying to find his way as a head coach, but under very, very difficult circumstances. As you mentioned starting off with the win against the Bengals, then four straight losses, and we'll get to the Drake May stuff in a second here, but just on the field, do you think, is there a feeling they are still falling short of preseason expectations, or is this where they expected to be? Well, you know, it's funny,

because I think this is where most people expected them to be outside of New England. You know, the odds on favorite for the number one pick in 2025, I believe, according to the odds makers, in Vegas were the New England Patriots. But with that win over Cincinnati, and then again, playing the way they did for the most part against Seattle in a week two, it really adjusted expectations on the fly. They had a good defense to begin the season.

There's no doubt about that. They've had a good defense in recent years. And that was clearly the strength of this team, you know, really through the first two weeks of the year. First, I would say the first game in three quarters and play well down the stretch against Seattle. But since week three especially, where the 24-3 loss to the Jets, which was not even that close, and then the subsequent losses at San Francisco, a game that, again, wasn't as close as the final score would have appeared in. It was loft-sided as it was. And then more recently, really what was a slog against Miami, the defense has incurred some injuries.

The offense hasn't been able to move the ball, let alone score points. And so I think that the expectations going into the season where that, But, you know, one in four is a real possibility for this team. But the way they have gotten to this point, I think expectations changed after a couple of weeks, and now there's extreme disappointment in where they are, and along with that concern, about, I think, going to May at this point for some, because it was sooner than, you know, their stated expectation. But then on the flip side of that, I think there is at least this week a little more intrigue,

a little more excitement about this team potentially, offensively just because people want to know what the rookie has in store for him. Yeah, and that a rookie, of course, being Drake May, talking with Bob Sochi Radio Voice of the Patriots here. How do you feel like the organization, the way that they, you know, I'm sure preseason they plotted certain things out. Like we want to have Drake May sit for this long and then we're going to go to him. Do you think this is kind of ahead of schedule of what they wanted? And do you feel this is the right time to put Drake May in? Well, personally, I think that, you know, next week against the Jacksonville Jaguars in London,

might be a better landing spot for him as opposed to standing in the pocket or at least trying to stay in the pocket with an offensive line that's been porous for the most part with Will Anderson and company coming after him. I think that, you know, for them, they certainly developed him with the idea in mind from the outset that it would take some time. He came into the NFL, third player taken overall, of all the first round quarterbacks, probably the farthest away from being NFL ready, considering the kind of offense he played in at North Carolina, just to take snaps under the center, to make play calls in the huddle. The footwork was certainly a well-publicized issue that needed to be addressed, the delivery, knowledge of the offense, going from college to the NFL, all those things. And Jacoby Brissette had been with Alexan Pelt, the offensive coordinator for the Patriots,

in Cleveland. He'd been with New England as a rookie, and he was seen as really the ideal guy for the spot, be the mentor to May, be someone who will take the punishment early on, the physical punishment, but manage the games well enough to keep this team in games, win some games, and they'll allow them to continue to develop Drake May on the appointed path. And they have said that the plan wasn't accelerated, but I have to think that have the offense not been playing as poorly as it has these last few weeks. And particularly, I think the last couple of weeks, there was more scrutiny on Brissette, who really has been under incredible pressure to this point. It really forced their hand. And I don't think that there is a right time. Could

this be the wrong time? As I mentioned, the quality of the opposition certainly could make it so. But May has improved by all accounts by reports in practice at a steady pace. He's improved, I think, most notably of late in terms of recognizing blitzes and, you know, the way he's handled those situations. They've given him more snaps than most backups get 30% of the snaps to this point with the number one unit. So I think that, you know, they may have been forced, their hand may have been forced in top of terms of the coaching staff and management for the Patriots, but I don't think that, you know, in their mind, you know, they really, in this case, you know, could stick with Brissette, given the current circumstances.

All right, and just on the Houston side, here in Houston, the team is four and one, but you do have some detractor saying, yeah, it's four wins, but all of them by one score, the one loss, obviously getting destroyed by the Minnesota Vikings. How do you view this season so far for the Texans, especially the job done by C.J. Stroud and Demico Ryans. Well, I look at the Texans right now, and I think about their win-loss record. and, you know, I hear what you say, and I wonder what Nick Cicero's thinking.

Must be bringing him back to his Patriots days when 4-1 wasn't good enough up here, considering the success that the patrons were accustomed to for so long. But I think, for example, I mean, they're coming off a game in which they didn't have Joe Mixit, and they didn't have, you know, Damien Pearson, some other guys, the offensive line, they had to move in a rookie to play at a tackle spot, and they did what they did against the bills. I know the bills came back in that game, but that game was really in control of the Texas

for a long while. And the numbers that their defense held Josh Allen to. I mean, it's really, you know, maybe in his rookie year or the second year, because we saw a lot of him, of course, during the course of his early days as a bill, nine for 30 was conceivable, but not at this point. So I look at the Texans and think, you know, this is a team that's already faced some injury issues this season. This is a team that has been behind in some games and come back.

to win. Strah didn't play, apparently didn't play very well, you know, in one game, but then when the game is on the line, he's got to drive down field. He's perfect on the game winning drive. And, you know, that to me speaks of a team that not only is talented, and the Texans certainly are, but a team that under D'Amico Ryan's is just making the plays it needs to make to win games. And, you know, I've been part of the Patriots broadcast for 12 years, and these times are very different, but my first six seasons calling games had a chance to call an AFC championship game. And the nitpickers and the critics out there in sports talk radio and general fandom, they would pick apart close wins. But you realize after you go through a stretch like the paths have

gone through in recent years, any win in the national football league should be cherished, coveted. Yes, there are things that they will need. to improve if they want to go where I think a lot of people expect or at least think they can go this year, but they're on their way. That's a very, very talented team. All right. So Bob Sochi, Radio Voice of the New England Patriots here, biggest key for the Patriots to pull out of victory in how you see this one playing out? Well, I think one of the problems the Patriots really face and try to execute one of those keys is the potential absence. And I haven't seen the practice report yet. It may have come out

since we've been on the line. But Remodry Stevenson has a practice the last two years. And for them really to have any feasible chance of winning this game, they have to get the running game going. And they did against Miami. They didn't stick with it, though. They averaged

over eight yards per carry, but it had huge disparity in pass versus run plays. Stevenson is their best player on offense. Now, Drake may be come in there on Sunday and really lighted up as a rookie. That's That's not my expectation.

I think they're going to have to really manage him very well in this game, and they're going to need a running game. And unlike the Texans, you know, where they, you know, have that have that screen game that they can use and involve a guy like a Gunbo Wallet in the passing attack really to substitute for their running attack, at least as I understand it. You know, the Patriots really haven't been able to get that part of the game going. So if Stevenson doesn't play, and it would be surprising at this point,

considering you didn't practice the last two days, And Antonio Gibson is the one guy in that bad field that, you know, they're going to have to count on for a lot of rest. It's going really hard to get that running game going consistently against a defense. Well, maybe that's its own only vulnerability. But certainly the Patriots have got to come up with their best effort by far. You know, maybe get some help from the Texas, but Straud doesn't turn it over. So we'll see. All right.

There you go. Bob Sochi, New England Patriots, Radio Play-by-Play. Bob, thanks for the time as always, and we'll talk to you down the road. I look forward to you. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. There you go. Good stuff with Bob Sochi on this. Texans versus Patriots matchup. Quick break here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross, but without Matt Thomas. We'll be back with the final segment right after this.

This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Welcome back to the final segment of the Matt Thomas show with. Ross without Matt Thomas. He ducked out early. He's going on to a recruiting trip to the northeast part of the country. So wishing him the best with that. But just a couple of minutes left here on this program with me, Ross via real. And coming up next, it will be the A team with Adam Wexler and Adam Clanton. After that, I'll be with you again for another nightcap 6 to 7 here on Sports Talk 790. That will be with Dan Matthew. So Bob, so. of the New England Patriots Radio Network joining us talking about how this game could go and will go. And well, we got some news, some recent news. Jonathan M. Alexander talking about the Texans team injury report. I haven't seen it posted on their website or their Twitter at least. But he has Joe Mixon listed as questionable on the team's injury report.

Kamari Lassiter out. Robert Woods out. Jimmy Ward out as well. Derek Barnett also listed as questionable. So there you go. Not good news to hear that Kamari Lasseter is out. The good thing is, well, I mean, you know, the New England Patriots do have some decent past catching weapons,

specifically Jalen Polk. I don't think that you're going to be extremely limited as long as you have Derek Stingley, go with the backups, and you should be fine there. And as Bob Sochi was mentioning, on the other side, I think you got more injury issues going on with the New England Patriots. as far as what's going to happen with Ramonjay Stevenson, who has been their best offensive player,

even though last week they start. He wasn't benched necessarily, was Ramonj Stevenson. It was more of a rotation with Antonio Gibson and Antonio Gibson getting the start on the first series. So at the end of the day, no matter who's ready and who's going to suit up, I would guess that Joe Mixon, if it comes out, I'm going to guess it was a limited practice for him again, that maybe one week.

It sounded like just from him speaking to the media that he could be a week. away and if you get Damien Pierce back, you're still going to be fine. You still should very easily handle these New England Patriots unless Drake May comes out there and he just lights the world on fire. He's been getting a little bit of taste, getting some snaps and getting some work, but I still expect him to come away in this game. Kind of puzzling in a way the way that I think this game could and should play out. The line continues to, it opened up at seven and a half, got down to seven, holding steady at six and a half, at least on ESPN odds. You do have to lay a little bit extra for the six and a half.

And it's going to be a low total game. It's going to be a low scoring game so anything can happen. It has been four one score game wins for the Texans. So could it be a fifth? That's what Vegas says here this Sunday. James and Garden Oaks getting in real quick. Just a little bit of time left. James B. Quick. What do you got? Yes. Thank you for taking my call, folks. Listen, I got a beef with you, Mr. RV. All right, let's go. I've been hearing stuff that you want anybody else to win except the Yankees or the Dodgers. Well, I got to lose you. I didn't pick them. I picked New York versus New York point blank.

And I'm going to tell you, I got not only a beef with you, but those Chipley's donut holes and everything. And you two showstopper, Dan. Listen, win is always win and hate is always hate. So you guys need to shut your back. Where's always win? York. That's correct. They haven't won. They were once in so nine when the whole team was juiced up on HGH and steroids. And that's the biogenesis. Hey, is that trophy at the biogenesis lab in Florida?

No, sir. No, sir. That's where it should be. juice up was A-Rod. The team, the players that won that championship was Hideki Matsui, Johnny Damon, and a lot of other people. Alex Rodriguez was your best player in that playoff run and he was juiced out of his gourd when he wasn't kissing himself in the mirror. No, that's not true. I mean, I agree with you by A-Roy. A-Rod is an S-O-B, but you can't say that the whole trophy

and all night was due to him winning. It was a team win. I mean, he should be just- Yeah, a team of the juicers. No, come on now. You ain't real, you ain't real. You ain't real. What do you mean?

That's okay. We could disagree. We're going to reach a disagree. But the bottom line is, like I said, pick your team. Who would you like to win? now and all the haters out there locally too that love to talk about me and New York. I just know what I know.

New York is just like they are. They're winners and winners always win. Though they spend the most money. They just get the benefit of being in New York City that's because a bunch of people live there and then adults like you are fans and spend money with the team

and so they have high value and so they overspend on every single player year after year after year. And well since 2009, like I said, with the with the trophy on display at the Biogenesis Lab, they've been disappointing. Okay, but look, I was hoping that the Astros would win that series. If you guys wanted it, the Tigers, now I'm care if the Yankees face Cleveland or the Tigers. Bring on.

All right. We're going to step over them teams. Thank you. Thank you for taking my call. Thank you, James, for getting in. Always a fun time with James and Gardneros talking about the Yankees. Yeah, I'm rooting against the Yankees. They paid Garrett Cole like 300.

million dollars. They got Juan Soto. They pay Aaron Judge making like half a billion. You got like six guys on your team making half a billion dollars. You should be pretty good. You shouldn't be disappointing every single year. And then same thing for the Dodgers. With their deferred money to Shohei Otani, 70 million a year, and they're deferring 68 million of it. Of course, the a show's payrolls haven't been too shabby the last several years either. But yeah, I'm going to root against the Yankees.

And yes, I'm going to root against the Dodgers. And no, I will not apologize for it. James. And we'll see what happens. Go tigers. I guess guardians have the best chance because tigers are going to be like in a bullpen game for half of a seven game series.

Feels like the Yankees are just going to waltz into the World Series, unfortunately. Go Padres. That's what we'll say. All right, that's going to do it for the Matt Thomas show with Ross. But for the last couple of segments without Matt Thomas, thanks to Matt Thomas. Of course, doing a great job as he always does.

Hosting this program. Thanks to Trey Walker, producing all week, stepping up in a pinch. with Connor McGovern out sick. Thanks to all of you for listening to the program, I do appreciate it, and all of you that called in, including James and Garden Oaks.

That's going to do it for me. I'll be back with you at 6 p.m. But right now, do not go anywhere because it's not only one Adam, it's two Adams. It's Adam and Adam. They call themselves the A-Team. They're coming up.

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