The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Farewell Kyle Tucker, Astros Trade With Cubs, Rockets Prep For NBA Cup Semi In Vegas, Texans Host Dolphins

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to breaking news that the Houston Astros are trading Kyle Tucker to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for third baseman Isaac Paredes, pitcher Hayden Wesneski and prospect Cam Smith. Matt and Ross also:preview the Rockets taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder in the semifinal round of the NBA Cupdiscuss the Texans hosting the Dolphins this Sundayreview the NFL's worst teams in "Ross' Rotten Five"talk with Dr. Roto to cure their fantasy football bluestell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 in H-town. Good morning, everybody. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross from Vegas. This is Sports Talk 790. You can hit the spot at Oyo is what you're saying.

You can hit that spot at Oyo. And it won't cost you as much as like hit the spot at Cesar's or at Cosmo. Are you talking about Vegas hooker prices right now? No. How about could you be section? attracted to your future stepmother? I believe there's a whole genre on that, Matt. Oh, where can you find that, by the way? I'm curious, Ross.

And first of all, how do you know these things? Depends on what state you're in. Him leaving is a punch in the gut, and then two of the Yankees would also be a punch in the nuts. Double whammy. So you're saying gut and testicles? Yes. Damn, it's a lot.

We're used to having something in your mouth. Right. How do you holding it? Show me real quick. Don't look at me in the eyes when you're doing that. You know what it's like to bob up and down. I just start honking. I'm just honking it everyone.

That's true. I'm going to ride this out for a little while. Did I hear a girl back there behind you? I mean, she's a bird. I wouldn't call her girl, but she's definitely a bird. What's the bird's name? Mrs. Thomas. What the hell was that?

Shout out to the bird, Mrs. Thomas. Shout out to all of you in Houston, Texas. 10.05 on the sports talks of running. Rossi, I think we rallied for Connor. He didn't have much material, apparently, until, like, the last 48 hours. We gave him a boatload of stuff. I think he's spilling over with materials what he told me. Yeah, I've got some leftover stuff.

Uh-oh, that's not good. I had Salisbury, and then I had McTaggart in there. Yeah, you cannot get enough of all those guys. Let's get make sure once per week we get somebody not named the Matt and Ross show in there, because there's got to be something Clinton has to say on a weekly basis. I imagine so, yeah. Sports RV, how the hell are you? I'm doing great, Matthew.

How are you? I mean, I'm in worse places, honestly. Are you at the craps table right now? No, no, no. I'm here. We're doing a major market radio show with you. Okay. Good.

I'm proud of you. But I'm going to be, I told you, I'm done with craps. It's all about blackjack. Yeah, but you've said that 50 times and you keep going back, Matt. I know. Well, you know, this year in 2024, it's full of now living up the promises. I'm done with fantasy football after this week. Thank you, Brock Purdy, for doing whatever the hell that was yesterday for me.

I really appreciate that. And I'm done with craps. By the way, how much of that Rams-N-Niners game did you watch last night? Unfortunately, I watched very little. I was busy. Well, I was going to say, I think fortunately for you, right? I mean, that was... Apparently it was terrible.

When you have an NFL game that goes, what, was it 12-6? 12-6, yes. You know that Grumpy Al Michaels was in a bad move. Oh, man, he probably fell asleep in the halfway through the third quarter. there were one, two, three, four, five, six field goals. That's it. Which, by the way, he is renewing one more year. One more year.

One more year of Al Michaels asleep at the wheel on Prime Video. Well, here's the thing, Ross. It's a year-to-year basis. He's not saying his last year or his life next year. He's saying he's doing it as compared to doing a multi-term deal, which, by the way, I think he was getting paid $10 million a year by Amazon. I mean, my God. He's like, I'll do $10 more million.

And they haven't seemed to notice or care that I'm not really paying attention to these games. I mean, how many 80-year-olds in this world which we live in are making $10 million a year and doing something? It's probably a handful, but not many. Not many at all. But, yeah, 12-6, the final score. We had a player for the Niners that decided he didn't want to play, despite suiting up. Yes. Oh, my gosh.

I mean, even though the Texans are going through some trials and tribulations right now, They're going through their own sort of adversity, Ross. Yes. There is adversity in other places. There's adversity all around us, Matt. Yep. Yep. There's momentum that can come sometimes with that adversity.

Oh, God. Please. I didn't even want to get into that discussion. And welcome to Symantec 790, right? Is that we're going to go away? No, that's two to six. That's true. Please clip that for them.

No, we can erase that. Yeah, we don't want it. They both know I'm right. They know. Hey, everybody, it is a, by the way, it's a beautiful day here in Las Vegas. It is really cold. It's like, it was like 38 degrees here last night, which I didn't think a city like this could ever get that cold. Okay.

And it remains a soulless city, Ross, as you know. Oh, my God. Solace dystopia. That's what I call Las Vegas. And everybody has their hand. I went out and got a donut this morning and coffee. and I went to the debit and the guy had his handout looking for a tip. I'm like, you handed me

a glazed donut and a cup of coffee. What else do you want? Yep. Tipping culture is a little out of control. That's what the thing I loved about Asia, Matt. No tipping. Anywhere. Zero? Unless you really wanted to hand

somebody some money for going above and beyond. No, it's not compulsory. You can do it. I would, yeah, I'd rather actually pay a service fee and put it in my check and just be done with this compared to having to go through the, well, do I give them 18% or 25% or 20 or that was a guy terrible? Well, you just want to be graded every time. But what if you feel like they didn't do a good job or they had a bad attitude?

I mean, yeah, I mean, that's not happening a lot, but it happens sometimes. But most time, I mean, the last 10 meals you've had, you've given at least 20% probably nine times of the 10, right? I would say probably 10 out of 10. Okay. Yeah. So, I mean, there's once in a rare while that you're going to get some bad. service. But generally speaking, I think service for, I mean, I've never had very few problems. I will say that there is no tipping culture over there, but the servers are also ruder.

But maybe that's because I'm a boorish American who can't speak Korean or Mandarin. Yeah, one time I went to London. It's the only time I went to London my entire life. And I got on the third, it was like one of those triple-decker buses, sightseeing buses. And the two people that were running the bus called me an eff and a-hole. And I was like, what, I didn't do anything. They're just rude. They're just rude in London. You know, without knowing the rest of the story, I'm going to side with those guys. They were probably right. Yeah, I figured you were going to do that.

You know, you are. You know, your team opposition is what you are. What they're saying is making a lot of sense. All right, whatever. Hey, let's talk about the radio program that we're going to have today. We have got, and again, major snafu on my part, we promoted the Rotten Five, which has always been Thursdays at 1.30. And I don't know why we just skipped it yesterday, but you've already composed it, right? You've already produced it.

It's a masterpiece. Yes. Lock and loaded. That's going to be 1130 today. And I would like to announce my. retirement from the Rodin 5. You're giving up, this is it? Yeah, as people have said, Conner does much better

job, so I'd like him to continue to carry the torch. Who said that? I don't know, some guy on Twitter. Brian on Twitter. So Brian is a big Conner D. McGovern fan, and he thinks that, I mean, you want to pass it on it. He's making a lot of good points. I think he's right. Connor does a far superior job, and I think Connor should do the segment. That's typical backhand and compliment from a sports

What was backhanded? We could hear it. Connor does a far superior job and he should do it. I mean, I'm 500 miles away from you and I can hear it. You're making stuff up in your brain. Okay. All right. We'll do a poll question.

Who should do the rotten five? No, I think we don't need a poll question. It's all Connor all the time. Let's go. I mean, Ross, it's your segment. I don't want to, you know, it's yours. It's Ross is rotten five. The alliteration, it just makes sense.

I want you to take it. No, no, you can have it. It's yours. I can tell you want it. I can do it. I don't. Ladies and gentlemen, on every Friday of this radio program, and it's been this way for 14 plus years.

Rossi, it is an anything. And I mean, anything goes Friday. Okay. Explain the essence to the audience, the newbies especially, of an anything goes from. Anything you would like to get to on the phone lines at 713-212-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want a full NBA,

Cup breakdown of the hawks and the bucks. You can get it at 713. 212.5.790. If you want full breakdown of the field goal techniques last night on Thursday night football, we can get to that as well. We also have the Texans and the adversity. Jalen Petrie, if you'd like to wish him farewell, he is out for the year for the Texans. Anything you want to get to, of course, off topic as well. If you want craps tips from Matt Thomas, you can get those at 713, 212, 5790. Yeah, I can definitely do that.

By the way, did I mention this on the show yesterday? Ticket prices for the NBA Cup are plummeting quickly? Yes, you did. I didn't want to look to see what it is today. Because what they were hoping the NBA was hoping was they would get at least one California team because you can jump over here to Las Vegas rather easily. Yes. So they got you.

Yeah, I don't know if Atlanta fans, I mean, I don't even know if there are Hawk fans, to be honest with you. Or are Hawk fans jumping on a plane to come to Las Vegas for this thing right now? No. No. No. With a weekends notice? Less than that.

Yeah, not even? Not even. Not even. All right. What else is going on on mainstream sports-wise? It was kind of a light day. If anybody's getting into a deep dive of the Rams and the Niners, you're a loser, because that was a field goal game involving two teams we don't care about.

Odell Beckham Jr. was released by the Texans opponent this week. Yeah, he was on the injury report, I guess, yesterday. today and then this morning he's gonzo. Lindsey Vaughn is back skiing. She's going to enter the World Cup. If you want to hit the slopes with Lindsay Vaughn. I believe she's 40 years old now. She is 40.

It looks good. Looks great. By the way, speaking of looking good, may I mention this here? The national rodeo finals apparently are here right now. In Las Vegas. Yes. Okay. And there's a certain stereotype that goes with dressing up like a cowboy and a cowgirl.

When you say? Cowboy boots, cowboy hat, cowboy big belt buckle. Yeah, I would say at least the half of people in this hotel we're staying at are wearing cowboy hats. A can of natural light in your hand as well, I believe, is part of the uniform. I'm going to be brutally honest with you. They're beautiful people. not every one of them that's here but a lot of them are okay I mean the guys look rugged big belt buckles cowboy hats are carrying themselves

yeah their little honeies are attractive the cowboys are hot is what you're telling us no I'm not saying that at all I'm just saying that they're I mean you know what a good looking man is right you've seen one or two in your life sure why not you look you stare across one every day 10 to 2 on sports that is not at all accurate all right but point being is that the cowgirl is I mean And 2024 has been a good year for the cowgirl. Hmm. I feel like every year is a good year for the cowgirl.

I'm just saying that my recent experience with the cowgirl is really good, because I'm seeing them like all over the place here. And with that, and then it goes Friday continues here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5790 if you want to jump into the conversation. 7-13-212-5-7-9. I'm going to ask you folks one simple question, especially for those of you that use social platforms. are you staring at your Twitter account, your Instagram account, your threads account. What's the new one?

Blue Sky. Is that what that one new one is? Yeah, people are on the Blue Sky. Are you staring at it for information about one or two particular people? We'll discuss that next. 1016 on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790.

All right, I need to make sure we clarify something, SportsRV. I am admiring the rodeo girl. girls. People are like, are you sure? You don't want, you know, I'm like, they're hot. Yeah, they're hot. Yeah. A lot of text coming in from friends of mine. Like, yeah, they're really attractive. Okay. Just want to make sure we pass it along. We are, as opposed to what? Well, I mean, you know, there could be some people, they're working into like an Arkansas County rodeo fair or something. This is, no, this is high-in cowboys and high-end cowgirls. I feel like I'm talking about another category. This is very weird, but okay.

You don't say anything goes Friday. Clearly. What do you want to get into a deep dive of the Texans' Dolphins preview? Yeah, why not? C.J. Stroud, protect them in the football, throw the ball down the field. Touchdown. Let's go. Okay. All right. I mentioned this in just a minute.

Rossi, during this winter meetings, which is wrapped up with baseball, I'm obsessed with checking my social media to find out what's going on with Alex Spregman and with Kyle Tucker. I mean, I woke up probably two times in the middle of the night just to see if something had happened. You woke up two times in the middle of the night to check in on Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman? Their future baseball destinations. Get some sleep, Maddie. I can't.

Take some deep breath. Opening day is it for four months. It's going to be all right. I know. I know. Spring training still months away. I get it. But honestly, I mean, the Texan.

I don't know. I don't know. I mean, the Texans are going to beat the dolphins on Sunday. So we're very happy about that. Yeah, they are. You're guaranteeing it? No, I'm not guaranteeing it. But I just have a good feeling.

Okay. Week off, they were fresh, they're alive, they know they've, I mean, they've got three games coming up in 11 days. That's not particularly fair or nice. The next two are going to be bears. This should be the week they should come out and flex why they're the better football team. Dolphins just lost four out of five. Jalen Petrie's hurt. Juice Scruggs is hurt.

but the dolphins had to go to overtime at home to beat the Jets. The Texans lost to the Jets. Oh, sorry, I should have used it as a... I didn't think about it that way. I still don't think the Jets are very good. All right, but you're... So I guess what you're telling me is that your curiosity factor is cool when you're awake and just doing your normal thing, but you're not thinking, man,

I'm afraid to look at the phone and see where he's going to be going. I will tell you, and perhaps this is a fault of mine, I'm not losing sleep over where Alex Bregman is going to... Well, I'm not losing sleep, but I'm just like, I'm very, very curious. If you're waking up in the middle of the night, you're losing sleep. Well, I'll wake up the night anyway. Yeah, I'm not that curious about... I mean, we'll see when we see.

I check when I wake up. Right, right, right, right. You're probably right. But, you know, I get up two, three times a night, and it's not because I have to go the bathroom. It just, I just get up. I just can't sleep. Like, I woke up this morning at 5 o'clock, Las Vegas time.

Wow. And could not go back to sleep. And why do you think that is, Matt? Why can't you sleep through the night? Has this been a problem for a little bit of time, or is this a recent development? Or would you say this has been going on for a long time? I feel like I'm on Dr. Villarreal's chair, and I'm okay with that. If you could help me figure that out, I mean, I don't take any melatonin.

I don't take any Tylenolp.m. I probably drink too much caffeine during the course of the day. Okay. I don't really have a stress-free life. My kids are... You don't or do? I don't. Not really.

I mean... What's stressing you, Matt? What's causing you this? You ready for today's stress question of the day? Yes, I am. My wife texted me about 15 minutes ago. Mm-hmm. And asked me if it would be okay if we hired a professional gift wrapper for this Christmas.

Because we have so many gifts. and they're piling up in the front of our house from all the deliveries from Ramazon rhyme. Okay. I said, sure, go ahead. You did. Now, how much does the, dude, this is the, I don't know if I'm getting stressed. That's what I'm saying. If that's the biggest stress in my life, I think I'm doing okay.

Okay. Now, I guess. That 401K is better than it was two months ago. I mean, I'm relatively healthy. So your wife? Yeah, your wife. is too busy at her job and raising children? No, I mean, she's

busy doing other things. She's very involved with a couple of groups that she's with, and she's involved with with Carly's and a lot of volleyball stuff going on right now. Yeah, I mean, my middle son is applying to graduate school, so she's working on the acceptance letter and the right, you know, the paper that's right to get in. So, I mean, I trust me, I'm not worried

about if she's sitting around and quote-unquote eating bonbons all day. How many gifts are we talking about here, Matt? I mean, I felt like there's like 10 to 11 packages in front of my house. Okay, but how many gifts is she okay, what

how does one contact a professional gift wrapper? No, you can look it up. I bet you could, it would take you less than 10 minutes to find somebody that could come either you bring their gifts to their house or they bring you, they come to your house and his rapper gifts. I'm going to be honest, Matt. This is the most privileged thing I think

I've ever heard of. It's not, and I'm not here to pass judgment. I mean, you are. You absolutely are ready to pass judgment. I'm just making a statement of how I feel. And you know what? Tell me how you feel. How much does this, do you mind me asking how much this service costs?

Is it hourly? Is it by package? Is it by square footage of the packages? We did it last year and I think it costs about 300 bucks. For 10 to 11 packages? I don't know. I mean, I don't know how many did it in last year, but I know this year it's about 10 to 11. And you, now do you go to like giftwrapper.net?

Like, how do you find? I mean, I could ask. Santa's helper.com? You know, little neighborhoods have like, hey, I'm looking for some part-time holiday work. Oh, on next door. Yeah, kind of that thing. Now, how do you ensure that they're going to do a good job? Do you have them do like one package?

I opened the gifts last year. The gifts looked tight. They were wrapped properly. I'm good. I was pleased. It looked nice, very nice ribbons and bows. And they were, sharp edges were taken care of. Now, initially I asked you to bring up a stressor, and you brought this up.

So is this stressing you out or you think you're okay now? That's what I'm saying, Ross. I don't have stress. I have two wonderful. Don't have stress. I have two wonderful jobs. You seem stressed out to me. Okay.

You know this music can you feel better though. That's good for this. I would like you to, if you could, just take one deep breath for me, Matt. To the maximum. No, no, all the way inhale to the maximum your lungs will possibly hold. This will sound a little weird on the radio. But I don't care, Matt. It's about you.

It's not about everyone else. We're here for you. Hold. Oh, you know what? I got it real quick. I got to take with this. And let this dress melt off. Shut up.

You exhale. I've been hitting on 12s against a three, and it's working. It's because you're supposed to, Matt. Okay. People are looking at me side-eye last on the table. I'm like, shut you bum ass up. Let me handle it. Tell them to look it up, Matt.

Yeah. Not a 13 against a 2, but a 12 against a 3. All right. Okay. Well, it sounds like you are stressed, Matt. I'm worried about you. Okay, we're going to talk to Cliff and Will and see what their stress levels are. All right, thank you.

1029 on the therapeutic radio that is Sports Talk 790. Want to send a quick shout out to our listener, Ryan. Ryan needs to tell his wife, or may he politely say it, that's, excuse me, that Santa doesn't wrap gifts on Christmas. He's very busy dropping off. off presents to kids all over the world. And unfortunately, he and his elves and don't have time to wrap all the gifts.

What do you mean? I thought he was asking, so he's, you don't think, just, just not giving way too much information, not knowing who's listening to the show. Just kids, if you're listening, Santa does not wrap your gifts. That's, wasn't the question?

Correct. But that's the kind of, I mean, yeah, that wasn't the question asked by Ryan. He should wrap that he should wrap his wife's gifts and she should wrap his gifts. But she's, but they're worried about the Santa factor

and I was just telling him that Santa doesn't wrap gifts. Yeah, his elves do. No, they don't know. Nobody, no, Santa and his elves have streamlined their process. They're just dropping the presents off. They're not wrapping them anymore. Why are you paying somebody to wrap presents?

Santa's not coming to our house. It's very confusing. Yeah. Not trying to give away too much. Just all the kids that are out there, Santa, if he brings presents to you this year, will not have them wrap. He's got a lot of gifts to drop off.

All right, let's go to the phone. Since anything goes Friday. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Cliff is in the woodlands at 1036 on 7-90. Cliff, good morning to you. Morning, ladies. Hey, Matt, while you're out in Vegas,

before I get by question, you need to go over to Ellis Island. It's over on Cobalt Street, right behind valleys. excellent breakfast, cheap drinks, best roulette table in town. Is that right? I'm not a roulette player, though. So, I mean, why make, what makes that table so good? Because the ladies there can't count, so they pay you when they shouldn't.

And they overpay. Oh, okay. So basic fundamental math is not in play, basically, what you're trying to tell us. They're not the sharpest tools over there, but, uh, well, well, budgeted place, you can get in there. Good breakfast, everything. Yeah, they've got $20.5. Nice. Thank you very much for that.

All right. Here's a question. We've got the company party Saturday night. A couple of hot girls in office. We're having a white, you know, elephant, you know, gifts exchange. Yes. You think it'd be appropriate if I bought something from like Zone Deerotica? No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Cliff, I'm mad. Let me, let me tell you, I had a friend of mine, a very good friend of mine that worked for a professional sports team, not in Houston, that they had a white elephant party. I'll tell you who was. she was. She worked for the St. Louis Rams as going back this many years, and the boss brought her a white elephant gift that was largely inappropriate

that eventually cost him his job. Well, what am I going to do? I already bought the crotless underwear. Okay, and seen. Just put it on. Yeah, I was going to say. That goes without saying, I got one pair on. I bought two. Well, yeah, it can't make you rip one. Yeah, you can't bring

crotchless underwear to a company party. That's just not appropriate. Well, it depends on the company. You work at Treasurer. something, Cliff? No, no, no. I work for a construction company. So, you know, there's a... You got a bunch of hot ladies at the construction company?

Hold on, hold on a second. I don't want a stereotype here, but construction ladies are worthy of cradeless underwear? They're working in the... Usually they don't wear any. Okay. You know, it's... People already get those thumb on. All right.

And... Anything goes Friday. When my friend told me about this story that what she got... from that i was i was like are you you're kidding right she just no i'm serious as a heart attack she got a um how do i put this um no she just got a very inappropriate gift and the why and the guy wanted a toy for christmas she that's she did get a toy people want toy i mean everybody wants a toy for christmas hmm i was not going to use the word toy like a fire truck or of hot wheels

Optimus Prime Action figure. She got a toy for Christmas. She got a toy for Christmas that ultimately cost the man and her boss his job. So we'll let you deduce what that was. Let's talk to Will, a much more important conversation. Will and pass a get down, Dina. Will, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, guys.

Hey, yeah, just wanted to talk on the Tucker thing. Seems like everybody's really jazzed up about the idea of a trade or it's kind of assumed at this point that it's going to happen. but I hope Dana Brown and people aren't forgetting. We're a little over two years removed from a World Series title with generally the same roster. I mean, they chose to go in this direction where they're overpaying guys like Hader to stay in the window.

What I don't understand is why I have no delusions that they're not going to re-sign Tucker next year, but why wouldn't you run this back? Why wouldn't you overpay for Bregman? Yeah, you're going to overpay and you're going to be paying them, you know, a lot of money, and probably the twilight of his career. But you've got Prime Altovae for maybe another year or two.

This is going to be the best chance that they probably got to win another World Series. If they run it back, then any chance they're going to have with any prospect they're going to get or even somebody that they're going to get to replace Bregman. I mean, I don't know. I just feel like people are forgetting that. And I'm not sure why it's beginning to be assumed that they're going to trade Tucker at this point. Well, it's a very compelling conversation you just gave us. And a lot of valid points because even though the Astros are probably going to lose Breggman,

they are still, not that Vegas is the end all, but Vegas still believes the Astros have a very good chance and only winning the American League West, but winning the American League. But at some point in an organization, you have to look from top to bottom and forgetting about the 26-man roster for a little bit and going where are we three, four, five years down the road. and I think what they're saying is we're on the back end of this championship run and that if we don't do things to be proactive, that this championship run goes to a time of despair, losses, a monolink system that is still not very good,

and it's going to take us a really, really, really long time to get back to where we were. The Atlanta Braves in the late 90s won those division championships year after year after year, after year, and then they had to start making some hard decisions. They were down for a couple of years, and now they're back among the top five or six teams in the National League. And I think that's what kind of what the Astros are thinking. They don't want to lose Kyle Tucker in a year for just a draft pick. He's too valuable of a piece of commodity. And Ross, I don't have an analogy for this, but you're holding onto something that you're going to be,

that eventually is going to go away, and before he leaves you, you want to get a great rate of return, well. And that's my simple answer to you is they have this huge. beautiful stock of this really very valuable portion of their franchise that he's definitely living in one year from now and they don't want to be left empty handed. Well, let me ask you this. Okay,

so would you trade a legit I mean, go look at the rest of the American League. I mean, the Yankees just lost Juan Soto. The American League is wide open. So I'm saying this one year, would you trade this to get one more World Series title, would you trade four or five years of being

really bad thinking? Because I would. I'd rather have that one world series and start the rebuild next year or whenever it is than just to trade Tucker and be mediocre for the next three to four years while you do some type of soft rebuild. I just, I think they, they should, and I don't think it's going to happen. I think they're going to trade Tucker. Yeah. I think Bregman's going to walk.

But I would, I would overpay for Bregman at this point to give yourself one more shot. You've already gone all in and keeping this window by trading prospects in the past. and, you know, obviously giving up better compensation picks by signing haters. So I don't know. I just, I would like to see them run up back one more time. But, again, I don't think it's going to, I don't think it's going to happen. But thanks for your time. Thank you, Will.

Ross, I mean, again, he, what he said makes total sense. I mean, it's not, this is not a bottom dweller team. They just won 88 games and they were out in two games in playoffs. It's also not like they're just banging down the door. And there are these all-world World Series contenders. and Justin Verlander is going to be gone. And, I mean, you still have Framber as your ace and Hunter Brown as well. But then it's Renel Blanco, Spencer Eriggetti, Luis Garcia.

We'll see what happens with that. And then from a position player's standpoint, I mean, they trotted out Jonathan Singleton. Alex Bregman's going to be gone. It's going to be what, Shea Wickham and Zach DeZenzo. Jake Myers is just a guy, unfortunately, in center field. What I will argue with the Will is that Will thinks that the Astros are closer to the World Series than perhaps you and I do. Seriously. Jose Al Tuvae. He's already at the back end of his prime.

It's unfortunate to say that, but look at the significant slippage in his OPS numbers last year, and he was also the worst defensive second baseman. By the numbers, not by my opinion, by the numbers, the worst second baseman in baseball defensively. So I don't think, Al-Tube is not in Al-Tubia Prime. He is on the back third of his career. It doesn't mean he can't play. It doesn't mean he can't get to 150 hits for you. It doesn't mean he can't play six days a week for you on a regular basis.

but they're still good, but they're not great. He's making it sound like they won 100 games and we're in the World Series last year. That's just not where they were. But he's saying that Soto's gone. The Yankees could be a little more vulnerable, which I don't know if that's initial of the case. They still have got a prime squad.

I'm just saying I don't want to give you the long response to the quick question. Rossi, I don't want five years of it 95 losses. And I think if you are proactive with moving, Framber Valdez and Kyle Tucker and getting a new third basement here that's not a guy that's a year away then you bring Melton in a year from now

you bring in Matthews a year from now who will be ready to go instead of forcing them up here earlier before they should be. I think you're set up for more long-term sustained success and I think that's what the Astros are thinking as well. And I also think they're thinking they want to stay away from being in

the luxury tax for a second straight year. Jim Crane the first time he ever did it was last year. And they also don't always stuck by giving up getting two first round picks for two. I mean, Tucker is an elite number one, number two free agent player next year. Bregman is

top five or six because of the market, they don't want to be stuck with two picks that may not do anything. They want a little bit more of a proven commodity, at least guys that have been at the professional level of the minor leagues that are like, yes, these guys are in the fast track to becoming major league baseball players. And quick correction, I'm from myself.

They did go into the tax during the COVID year, but that was also they didn't have to pay tax that year. Everybody was exempt. So he's only paid tax one year. And we'll see if he wants to do it again. They did it with the hater deal because their backs were against the wall. They lost a lot of relievers. But I'm curious to see if it'll happen again.

I just don't think it will. All right. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-2-5-790. We take this program to 2 o'clock. It's 1046, Matt here in Vegas, Ross, back in Houston. We thank you for being a part of anything goes Friday at 7-13-2-1-1.

2.5.790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790. Getting out some emails, my buddy Scott sent him some email. I want to make sure we're very clear on a couple of things. Not that anyone has directly told me this, but I'm an educated observer. I don't get everything right, but I feel like I get some things right when it comes to the local teams in his town. Cal Tucker has made no indication that the Houston Astros are his long-term destination after his contract is overworth.

There has been no, I can't wait to get in the room with Jim Crane and Dana Brown and work this out. He knows the track record of the Houston Astros organization is, I want to go and I want to play somewhere where they're going to pay me the godly amount of money of $35 million a year for $7 or $8. years. And if he performs like he has for the most part of his last handful of years as a major league, he's going to get that. He's a true six-year first-time free agent. There was no arbitration bought out, bought out, there was no extra years added on. He will be a true free agent for the first time in his major league career with six years of service time. He wants to go make that serious cash, and the Astros just don't do that. So this whole thought of let's hang on one more year for this

when the team probably needs him and others to have those awesome years of a couple years ago, that's a huge, huge risk when you know in your heart that he doesn't want to be here. He doesn't not like the Astros. He doesn't not like the organization. He doesn't not like Houston, Texas. He's not looking to go play in a colder city or a city closer to his home in Florida. He wants to go where someone is ready to write that big blank check that the Astros aren't won the right and if that's an indictment against the astros then you take it up with them but very

few teams are right in these hellaciously big checks it's the new yorks it's the l as it's the l aes it's frankly the two new york teams the dodger teams and maybe a team here and there that i'm not bringing up that's one thing okay so holding on for a hope for one more year to let him go away for a one year for a first round draft pick not even a high first round draft pick just a first round draft pick um that's that's that's that's too risky of a calculation of a guess. And on the other thing, again, this is just me being highly educated, but nobody's saying, Matt, here's how he officially feel.

I don't know if they completely trust Framber Valdez making ridiculous amounts of money in his first free agent contract, knowing that there are sometimes that he has imploded, that sometimes the mental makeup is not 100% all the way there. Now, as Ross has brought up on several different occasions, this year, he has, live this past season, he has remained cool and calm for the most part, but there have been times, and you guys have all seen it, where he doesn't look like he is the give me the damn ball, I'll go throw eight innings, and nothing's going to get in my way. There have been things that have gotten in his way.

He has been perturbed by strike calls or non-strike calls or giving up a base hit or a homerunner, defensive play. and I think if I'm going to put $25, $30 million in front of a player per year, he's got to check all the boxes. And I don't know if in the Astros minds checks all the boxes. And that's the reason why his name should be also discussed in trade conversation. Because again, you do not want to be held a year from now with those two guys leaving you. And now you're rebuilding off a guys that will not be a major leaguer for at least probably three years.

years, three or four years. This is my take on it. Yeah, it just boils down to where the future of the franchise is. And I understand, like, we had the caller that says, look, why don't they just run it back? Why don't they keep these guys? Why don't I'm like, well, I mean, they could try and do that, but are you contenders right now?

And then if you pay Alex Bregman right now, where does that leave you in several years? And that's what I think. If you pay it, Bregman, by the way, where is this extra funds going to be for Kyle Tucker and Framber Valdez to get their money. It's going to be nowhere. So that's why I am on board with what we've been talking about basically all week long and what seems to be at least the case in Kyle Tucker. We haven't heard much of anything about Framber.

As far as he is on the table, but I think it would take a little bit, well, probably the market's not as hot for him. Let's put it that way. And probably why is that, Ross? For the reasons you explained. Yeah. And so just move, just move Tucker. I would say move for number two if you could get something for him.

I mean, again, I'm not excited about this. I don't want to give off the impression that, oh, by Kyle, don't at the door here in the ass. I'm not saying that. I'm saying that it's going to be painful. But I'm not overly encouraged about seeing Kyle Tucker play one more year for the Astros leaving and then thinking about having to replace him and others for the next four to five years when you can go get a couple of high end. And again, I don't know what that's going to be.

The hall may not be as spectacular as you think it is because remember he is a free agent after next year so anybody that tries to take him is taking him on a one-year hope that he stays with that team that he gets traded to so no guarantees on that either yeah go ahead you don't have enough pieces right now to me to be a contender with the assumption that the very easy assumption that Alex Bregman is gone the reality is the next five years for this astros organization you need to sure up Third base, first base, center field, left field. And I'm assuming that Yoron is primarily D-H. And at least two-fifths of your starting rotation, at least, if not more. Dana Brown and his Astros organization has work to do. You might as well get started now.

Yeah, we'll get another year sample size. Is Hunter Brown really going to be an ace-level guy? Can Erno Blanco repeat what he did? Can Spencer Ergeti improve? what happens when Javier comes back? I mean, the arms. Is Luis Garcia, I mean, is he a starting pitcher again? He's a four or five guy.

I think if you're asking him to do that. I think he can do that. But also, again, I mean, can he stay healthy? He, of course, had the setback. He had the Tommy John surgery and then the setback. So, yeah, we got a lot of questions. A lot of questions. And you can fill up some of those answers to questions

by making a couple of significant moves to get that process started a little bit faster. second hour the matt thomas show with ross coming up in a matter of moments we have the rotten five in 30 minutes we have uh we'll wake the strippers up at 12 noon we got dr rhodo with us today at one o'clock normally with us on thursdays but he's got a family situation so we were able to accommodate to moving him today until one 713 212 770 if you want to jump in 713 212 5790 also ross and i will make our predictions on the texans dolphins game for sunday after we start the second hour, the Matt Thomas show, with Ross next on 790. Lunch timers.

This is the Matt Thomas show. 1101 in Houston, second hour of four of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Matt here from Las Vegas. Ross is back in our Houston studios. We'll wake the strippers up in a one hour from now. We will have Dr. Roto, we mentioned at 1 o'clock today. We have non-floor stories at 1.30. We've got the rotten five coming up in a half an hour.

And we have Texans and Dolphins Sunday at 12 noon inside NRG Stadium, where the Texans, with their win and an Indianapolis loss at Denver, Ross, Battle Red Ross, you will be another AFC South champion. That would be great. So you're saying this is a must-win game this weekend for the Houston's X? Not at all. Far from it. Just wondering.

You're always trying to catch me. Well, just like week 11 against the Cowboys was a must win, so I'm just wondering if this was a lot better. You could at least at least clinched the division in this one. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I don't, you know, to me, Miami is playing a lot better. They're trying to hold on for their life. They're going to need to probably win out and get some help to get in the playoffs. But, you know, I was, and I hate doing this, but I was looking at ESPN before the show started out.

What was screaming A. Smith saying? Well, it was one of those graphics, like, you know, had the Texans, I don't know exactly what it was. It was basically, is C.J. Stroud ready to help this team out in the next few weeks? Everybody's really working out about this schedule. Three games in 11 days. Three games in 11 games, three tough games in 11 days. And by the way, I don't want to hear the NFL tell me about any sort of safety protocols. They don't care.

They don't. It's about the bottom line. I mean, it's frankly, if you're going to put teams on a Christmas game, which is Wednesday, they should the week off before. They really should. I mean, just say that out loud again. A Wednesday football game. What?

It's really embarrassing. And I know you can't have a bye week or an off week this late in the season. I understand it. Then you know what? Just don't, well, here, here, listen to me. Don't take the 10-milly that Netflix games. forget what I said. They're taking it. Yes, they are.

It's really unfair. I mean, the NFL game, as we all know, is a brutal, brutal, physically and mentally taxing game. You need a day to recuperate. You need a day to kind of get your legs moving again. I mean, practices are stagger in terms of the intensity. They really go at it hard

Wednesdays and Thursdays, a little bit on Friday. They don't even really get on the field except to run up and down the field on Saturdays. you're taking out and you're just trying to squeeze it in. And it's just, and it ultimately, I mean, look at the game. I don't know. Would the Rams and Niners game been any better if they had a full week? I mean, I got to think that 12-6 would have not have been the score this Sunday if the Rams and Niners would have played yesterday.

I would have to guess yes. And think about this. Wasn't that Green Bay Detroit game awesome? Like yesterday, previous Thursday, you know why? They had a full week off because they put the previous Thursday. Well, we still watch. I'm going to be watching on Christmas. I'm going to complain about it all I want, and I'm going to be watching it on Netflix.

It's all they're worried about. It's simply the same hypocrisy that we have about college athletics. NIL and the Transfer Portal crash on the industry. No, we're still watching the games. Industry seems fine. And as expected, Roger Goodell, I think, within the last 48 hours, starting putting together a very slow implementation of the 18 game schedule. Which they were going to do.

You knew what that was going to happen. happen. The players have to agree to that, right? They will. Yeah, we'll see. They're going to watch some more piece of slice of the pie. Yeah, 18 weeks is going to happen. You're going to give each team two by weeks. Ross, we've been looking at like a mid-February Super Bowl.

I really think so. Yeah, I think my head to push it to March. Coming up next, Astros Marlon's spring training game. Super Bowl 57 or whatever number it is. Who knows? Down the road. I think we're going to... I still said this before. I don't know if it was a gut feeling or we didn't have to tell the truth. I have a sneaky

suspicion. Everybody's going to have to go play overseas once a year, too. Like, it's going to be obligatory for every team to play one game overseas? It might come with the 18-game thing and then you pair it with a by-week or something. Did I lose you? No. Can you hear me? Hi.

Okay. Apparently, Matt cannot. Matt, can you hear me? You're so great and talented and wonderful. You're such a fantastic host and I mean, I just look up to you so much in my career. I'm back. Did you hear any of what I just said? No. Are you serious? No, I really didn't. You ripped on me, didn't you? I have zero idea what you said. Okay. Yeah, go ahead and talking about the Texans. We were telling you. Oh, I know what I was saying when I guess you lost me. The 18-week schedule, I guess you would have to

if they make you play overseas once, then you would pair it with a second by week, or I don't know what they would do. No, you would still do what you're doing. Uneven, like one year, you'd have nine home games, and next year you'd have eight. It's terrible. I'm just throwing that out of out there,

but you know, Ross, they run out of money here in the United States to put these games. They might as well go overseas. They ain't run out of money. But I'm saying, clearly, they've dominated. this market so much they're looking to spread their wings yeah Berlin Australia Mexico capitalist imperialism is what you're saying all right let's go back to what I

missed what do you mean I didn't say anything I was just wondering where you were I was too and I came back and I started laughing I could I could hear you you were saying hello do I did I lose you so we could hear you so thank you for not cursing well I've learned because I've cursed before and so I wanted to make sure I didn't say anything anything. Okay. So you were saying something misdragatory about me then? I didn't say that. I wouldn't say that. Okay, then you know what? I'm lucky that you didn't. Thank you very much for being nice while I was

gone for that 20 seconds. I don't believe you. I'm going back to listen to the podcast. Speaking of that. Can we brag on IHeart Radio for a minute? I mean, there are our bosses and everything. What happened? They have a brand new, the app has been updated. Oh, really? Yes. Yes. Okay. Live radio dial, there's presets, you can scan, there's lyrics to your favorite songs. If you want to find your favorite radio stations, like I always have sports talks and a running on wherever I am across this country.

If you have a favorite artist, if you have a favorite podcast, go look and listen and enjoy the brand new IHeart Radio app, and guess what? It's absolutely free. So I want it today. That sounds great. Find the podcast, the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. And maybe after the rocket season, I'll start the brand new second season of Plinkles and Powerbombs. That's what I want to hear.

That's what the people have been demanding. Game show wrestling mix? Okay, that seems fair. It seems amazing. I mean, I've heard some other podcasts out there. I wouldn't be any worse than what I've heard lately. Can't be any worse, no. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-1-2-5-7-9. Can the Texans Rossi, I mentioned this earlier in the week? Can the Texans win a game in which the winning team has to score 30 points, or is that a detriment to the Texans because the Dolphins' offense looks a little more prolific these last few weeks? Have the Texans scored 30 points all here? Seriously.

I'll go look it up. Okay, 41 against the Patriots. 34 against the Cowboys, but there was a pick six in there. Right. Was there a pick six against the Patriots? I don't remember. Everybody scored against the Patriots, right?

Yes. Well, including DeMario Douglas and Kashon Booty. Nico goes for a touchdown in the game. Tink Dell goes for a touchdown on the game. Wow. A tight end will score in this game. Jono Smith? Well, I mean, oh, you meant what team?

That's unfair to you to do that. Joe Mixon does not score in the game. I'm going to tell you I'm a little scared of the dolphins, Matt. They've won four of their last five. The offense is playing a lot better. Tyree Kills had good weeks the last couple of weeks. Tootogalo is staying upright. Where's the Ramsey?

Who's going to cover on it? Is it going one-on-one against Collins the whole time? I don't know if they do shadow coverage. I can't recall. I don't think that they do travel Jalen Ramsey around. Okay. But the cornerback on the other side is good there with the dolphins, whose name is escaping me at the moment.

But they've got a pretty solid. Their defense isn't great, but they've got some good players. Yeah. You know what needs to have a big game? too and help me out if if if maybe i'm just gonna fuller kennel fuller's the other corner he's pretty solid is will anderson junior do for a

oh hell yeah game yeah they'd be nice and i mentioned this with our guest yesterday alexandro yeah alexandro sol uh sol loano i think i laano watching toa still makes me very nervous

and i have no dog in the fight i'm not a dolphins fan i'm not necessarily even a tua fan I'm just a I don't want him to be really hurt again but you know he he knows what he's going and he knows the risk he's taking correct I mean there's no

he's not getting bad advice yeah he very much wants to be out there so maybe Will Anderson just should like touch flag football too below you know too below with him because I don't want him hurt he's out there he's in between the lines you know what

if it is what happens it happens and he knows it okay maybe so he's got all the money in the world he needs he doesn't necessarily need anything else I mean look there's so a lot of money for him to make in his NFL career and he's still very good I mean I watched that overtime game against the Jets at least the overtime session

they can move the football down the field 25 years ago we wouldn't even be talking about this I know I know but Will Anderson needs to have a bigger game it feels like to me because again Alshayor's not available out there you've got no Petrie you're losing a couple of your hard hitters I think pass rush in making Tua as uncomfortable as possible.

And frankly, getting him, he's really good in the pocket. Wouldn't you agree? Yes, and on time. Improvising? Well, that's when you get scared. That's when you get scared. That's right. All right.

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1119 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We apparently have a new visitor jumping into the 790 studios. What's up, Matt? are you. Wait a minute. There it is. All right. I'm here to save the show.

What kind of weird device is next to your bed and your hotel room? I was just about to ask Ross at. Ross, look at my Twitter account. At SportsMT. I just took a photo of something that's next to my bed. Can you name what it is? Is that a massage gun? It is a massage gun.

Okay. What's the problem? I've never in my entire life had a miz gun next to my bed. kind of crazy-ass hotels are you staying in it so how'd you like it i mean didn't hurt so i'm gonna assume job done ross i'm gonna assume you're not staying at um lecinta circus circa circa circa circa you're not at el cortez no we're on the strip you're on the strip strip strip new york new york nope harris nope excalber You guys are 0 for three.

Stop guessing. It's not happening. Okay. I just know that I'm in a swanky hotel when there is a massage gun sitting there for your personal use. Yeah, that's, look, you don't want to touch anything in a Vegas hotel room. You certainly don't want to touch that thing. Oh, I think it's, I think this is a very clean hotel. I have zero issues about the.

Oh, okay. Nothing unclean has ever happened in a hotel. Come on now. All right. All right. Well, you know what? I kind of like this thing. This gorty little drive-by every day is kind of fun.

I don't know what you're bringing to this. the table. I mean, I think you clearly could add more to whatever Ross is bringing. I just, I think we need to pump the brakes a little bit, Astros fans, on what we're, what we're demanding or asking for in some of these trade scenarios. Like the one that Chandler floated out there yesterday on, you know, with the Cubs for a Kyle Tucker trade, he floated out there, Suzuki, the outfielder, who's awesome. The, uh, Percis, the infielder, who the Astros tried to get the trade deadline last year, but the Cubs gave him to get a better offer. And their third base.

base prospect, what's the kid's name? I can't remember. He's like one of the best third base prospects out there. But like immediately as soon as that got floated out there, like people in the, know what the Cubs put out there, no, no, no, no, no, you ain't getting all three. You get two, maybe, but you ain't getting all three. What Aster's fans aren't realizing, Matt, is like, this is a one-year rental of Kyle Talk. Right.

So you're, this King's ransom you think you're going to get, you ain't going to get. So, you know, it starts to become. And this is where Dana Brown is really in a rut. is it better to just take one more year of Kyle Tucker and let's go chase a championship this year with him in the lineup every day? Or, okay, I'm not going to get the King's ransom, but I get something knowing he'd be a free agent next year anyway.

I think some people are trying to decide what the value is. Run it back one more year and get a draft pick or go get two or three guys. Because I think my guess is, Gordy, whatever Kyle Tucker brings back in return, it's going to be a combination of people. It won't be just a player for play. situation. Ross and I've already gone on the record. We're saying that I don't want to be stuck

with a first round draft pick that may not see the field for four or five years, or for that matter, ever for the Astros, or if I can at least get some guys that have some sort of track record in a professional organization at the minor league level that is on a projected path for Major League, say, 2026. I'd take one down year to know that 2026, I'm beating my chest going. I got a pretty good shot here of having two to three new Major League ready guys. in my starting lineup. Well, I mean, what was so appealing about that package that Chandler floated out, like Sayas Suzuki is 30 years old, but he's an awesome outfielder.

About a 283 last year, 21 home runs, Sturvin 73. Like, he plugs it right into Kyle Tucker's spot in the outfield, so you make up for that. Esauk Paredes, you have some flexibility. He could play third or first. So if you lose Bregman, he could just take over at third. and then the KM Smith kid who was crushing it last year. I think it was a double air AAA with the Cubs. Like he's knocking on the door.

He batted at 213 last year in the minors. Like that kid could be here very soon. And then if he's ready to go at third base, you could slide Paredes over to first. You answer three different holes right there. Outfield first and third in a world where you trade Tucker and you let Bregman walk. And this thing sustains.

You know, there's a little drop off, but not a ton of drop off in that. were rebuilding now. So again, but you got, I mean, the Cubs would have to pull the trigger on that. If you're the Cubs, why are you going to do that for Kyle Tucker knowing he's going to be a free agent? You almost have to get that long-term contract worked out ahead of time before the trade's made. And I don't know, guys, can they legally do that? Can Kyle and the Cubs hammer something out before a trade is even done? There's been trades in recent years where there's been people have agreed to, hey, if you're trading for my guy a long-term, contract must be in the works.

Well, but put it this way, though, if you're Kyle Tucker, why would you want to do that? Why would you assume that the Cubs are going to give you the best deal out there when maybe you have a great season in Chicago? You bat 325 with 35-40 bombs. Then you go say, all right, Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Mariners, Angels, anybody else, Braves, come get me. Why would you want to sign a deal now when you've been thirsting for this opportunity to be a free agent for the first time in your majorly career?

And also, are they a postseason team next year of the Cups? I don't know with them while I'm thinking of that answer. I just know that you're going to get, Gordy, here's my thought on this. And Ross jump in on this. My thought is you're going to get better value today on Kyle Tucker than you would be with a imaginary first round picker at this point. I would think, yeah, first of all, with short term,

short term with a first round pick. It would depend, of course. But I thought you were also going to go maybe, to waiting to the deadline. And at which point, you might be in a position. I don't think you do that because you're probably in a decent position

to be in the OS. But there's a lot of buyers at the deadline, or at least there have been the last couple of years because of the addition of the extra wild card. So, I think right now the precedent would be Juan Soto being traded to the Yankees with one year left. And that was a really

smashed deal that the Padres got. And then the Moogie Betts trade from the Red Sox to the Dodgers where the Red Sox, I think Alex Verdugo ended up being the best result of that trade Red Sox wise and it wasn't necessarily a great trade at the end of the day for the Red Sox.

The guys, the Yankees just spent some more money. They are finalizing a deal to acquire Devin Williams, the Milwaukee Brewers Closer. This is the guy who was hurt last year, only had 14 saves. But the year prior, 36 saves back in 2023. Really, really good. closer from the burrs.

How much money is you making? Jeff Passon has not put out the details yet. Oh, you said a signing or you said it? He said a choir. So I don't know if that means they've signed. Is he a free agent or does they trade? Hmm. Looks like he's under contract team option.

Did the team option get picked up? I don't know. I'm looking at the baseball reference page. That'd be $10 million for one year of Devin Williams. According to Jim Bowden, the Phillies have offered Nick Castellano and Alex Baum, Baum, Baum, what do you pronounce? Alex Baum?

Alec Baum for Kyle Tucker. The Astros declined that offer. Hmm. Be two major league ready guys. Guys have been there before. But you've got to get a young guy in there too. I need some kind of prospect. But I would love a starter because you've got two spots you've got to fill in your infield.

Gordia, how many teams that want to win have two spots that get to fill, much less one? Alec Baum has been an all-star. He was an all-star last year. Played against the Astros in the World Series? Yeah, he got better. He's good. Like, he's really good right now in his prime. Yeah, let me see what he's.

Alec Baum. Oh, well, he's in arbitration until 2026. So you'd be getting two years of Bome. Okay. Do you like these drive-bys with Gordy? I mean, I know he's got plenty of radio appearances in South Eastern markets across the country, but I don't mind these little drive-bys. Yeah, it's great.

I'm tired. I can let him talk. Anytime you can call me at 2 a.m. We'll talk Astros. What if we want to talk? about Mississippi State recruiting. Can we talk to you too then? What if I want to talk to you about the best bowl game in the city of Houston? What if I want to talk about that?

How many are there? There's only one. It's New Year's Eve. That'll make it the best then. It's such a good bowl game that nobody else wants to compete against it. New Year's Eve, 2.30. It's the Texas Bowl, Baylor and LSU, battling it out on the gridiron tickets on sale right now. Again, all my LSU faithful across Houston. Let's go. Let's get in there.

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Matt here from Las Vegas. It's in Anything Goes Friday. 713, 21, 2,1, 2,5. 790 is how you reach a radio program 713-212-5-790 it takes absolutely no ability whatsoever to give you the five best teams in the national football league it's just not very much work it takes time it takes effort or it takes at least ten minutes for ross to give you his rotten five they've gone bad hey they draw flies ooh it's ross is rotten fire This don't smell quite right. Oh my goodness, Matthew. The wait is over. The Rotten Five, folks, is finally here.

Welcome back. Also, not only the Rotten Five, but also welcome back the New York Jets to the list. They have lost three games in a row. They're now eliminated from the playoffs. How about those New York Jets starting off with those playoff aspirations? this year and Aaron Rogers back from his torn Achilles and then they traded for Devante Adams. Well, the Jets have been horrible. They have lost four games in a row. They have also lost nine of their last 10. The only win coming against the Texans and we'll have a start a pattern here on the list

with that. The New York Jets have not made the playoffs in 13 years. They are the fifth worst team in the NFL? Well, I mean, I've been here. I've started one year, so I'm part of it for one year. It's disappointed. We take accountability here. Rodgers. All right. Moving along, the good news is the Jacksonville Jaguars won their third game of the season. The bad news is, that was stupid. How can you get further and further away from a potential number one overall pick? Jacksonville. Jags beating the Titans in an ugly, terrible NFL game. But what do they really gain? Trevor Lawrence out for the year. Mack Jones is terrible anyways. Peterson probably on his way out as the head coach of the team.

The Jaguar is also just bad. They're 26th in the point per game, 28th in points allowed. Really nothing left to play for this season. They do have an extremely soft schedule. So will they make the mistake of winning more games against the Jets, Raiders, Titans, and Colts? But should they even try? Probably not. They only have three wins there, the fourth worst team in the NFL.

And I was in Miami with my new beach house. well, it was a couple minutes from the beach. What? Where's that been? Jaguars Lady is my favorite. And I was in Miami with my new Beach House. Well, it was a couple minutes from the beach. I just loved the Jaguars in this list so I can continue to play Jaguars Lady. All right, let's keep it rolling.

The Tennessee Titans, I mean, I normally put you ahead of the Jaguars, but you just lost to them. What was that on Sunday? 10 to 6, by the way. I don't think that one's getting sent to Canton. Losing to the Jaguars, that badly? Come on, man. Bad football being played in Nashville.

The awful Titans have lost four of the last five games. And, well, much like the Jets, the only win in that stretch coming against the Texans. Will Levis and Thomas Sports Enterprises, how we feel? And he did not look so hot over the weekend. The Tennessee Titans, I mean, they are just absolutely awful. The AFC South, you're noticing a pattern. They are terrible. And the Tennessee Titans are the third worst team in the NFL.

It's like deja vu. It's a lot twice in a row, shooting ourselves in the foot. I know, I know, Will. All right, congratulations to the Las Vegas Raiders. We're so proud of you. You're almost there. You've lost nine in a row. You're one away from losing a 10 in a row.

Desmond Ritter and sincere McCormick leading the way for the Las Vegas Raiders. Is that what we're going with now? I mean, Aiden O'Connell, Gardner, Minchew, Desmond Ritter, what is going on with Las Vegas. I don't like their coach Antonio Pierce. Either they're way, way too conservative when it comes to field goal and fourth down decisions. They don't play much of anything except for some defense. A common theme on this list, Raiders with the mess at the quarterback position.

And well, things are just not great for the Las Vegas Raiders who continue to lose and lose and lose. Will they get 10 in a row as far as losses this week? We shall find out. but as of right now, the Raiders are terrible. They are the second worst team in the NFL. All right, moving along, the losses continue to pile up for the New York Football Giants. Eight games in a row they've now lost,

the latest of which was an ugly, ugly game against the New Orleans Saints that included a total of 25 points. The Giants' offense is terrible, despite Tyrone Tracy and Malik neighbors being impact players. They're going from Daniel Jones to Tommy DeVito to Drew Locke, who's now hurt, It looks like it's going to be Tommy DeVito again.

I mean, what a mess over there in New York, or excuse me, East Rutherford, New Jersey. Giants might not have a win left on the schedule. They take on the Ravens, then the Falcons, and the Colts, and then the Eagles in the last week of the year, so they may stay right where they are. They are the absolute worst team in the NFL. This fucks more than anything that I've ever fucked before. And there's your rod in five.

There is no way the Raiders should be bad. I just drove, we drove by their stadium. yesterday. Ross, it is a palace. Yeah, Desmond Ritter plays in that palace, Matt. They are bad. They're really bad. Two and eleven. I think the Raiders are going to go

for a gangbuster amazing hire. I mean, and again, I have no inside intelligence on this. I just think that if you're the Raiders and you are trying to sell the sexiness that is Las Vegas, and granted, you don't have much of a roster.

You need a new quarterback for sure. They've got to go get somebody that people recognize. They just can't get some hot coordinator that is just turning. I mean, don't you have to go pick from the Detroit Lions tree, basically? I have a question for you that I don't exactly have an answer for you. By the way, we're agreeing that Antonio Pierce is not the guy. No. Has there been a situation where there's been an interim coach, the team plays well,

and the players all really give them a big vote of confidence. And then the organization, it's like bends backwards. It's like, okay, fine, we'll keep the interim guy. You guys want to keep them. This was the case with Antonio Pierce, and it worked out. I feel like I can come up with so many examples of when it didn't work out. Well, the number one thing I can think of is where was Romeo Cornell a interim coach and then got the job? Wasn't it Cleveland and it was a disaster?

It might have been Cleveland, yeah. Jim Tom Sula? Wasn't he like, international? coach or something? Or no, was it Mike Singletary? Was it Mike Singletary with the 49ers? Or was it both of them? Jeff Saturday with the Colts? Jeff Saturday? Well, that was an interim in the heat of stay. What he's saying is the guy that takes the interim job, gets the head coaching job, and

still fails. Rodney Terry and the Texas Longhorns? Why are you getting your team? Because I don't want to admit it. Interim coach that wind up being awesome. Now, Jeff Fisher was the interim coach. The older is one of him. a long-term career there with both the orders and Titans. Yeah, but I mean,

they made one Super Bowl. I guess that's a good one. That's a success. But doesn't it seem like nine times out of ten it fails? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interim coach that gets there and just because... Everybody's like, they look a little bit better,

they get excited, the players buy in, and they're like, you gotta keep this guy a coach, and then they fall flat on their face, like the Raiders are right now with Antonio Pierce. Everybody put their thing caps on and see if you have an example. What's to add sports MT? And sports RV too. Okay.

All right, let's go to Johnny, North Houston at 1141 on 7-90. Hi, Johnny. What's up, guys? Hey, just wanted to ask about Yord on Alvarez. I mean, if we're losing some of these guys like Bregnant and possibly Tucker that you're going to have some down years, aren't we losing value in his contract and how many years we have left, I believe, three or four, that you can just bring in a hall for him

and reestablish your farm system and rebuild it because we're not going to get to his fourth year and think we're going to pay him if we can't pay Tucker. I don't even think that that's on the radar right now for the Astros. They have a long-term amendment. Shouldn't it be, though? Not really. Not at this juncture now.

You're losing, like you said, you can have a down year maybe two. I mean, we're talking about going to the World Series, right? that you're going to put a team on the field within, say, in two to three years from now, that can compete for the World Series. I mean, he's signed a six-year contract. Yeah, he is signed through, I mean, I'm looking it up right now. He has signed for 28. So, I mean, yeah, no, I'm not worried about him at all.

I'm not worried about he's been taking care of. I don't envision the Astros if they make these moves to be sitting here 20, 26, 2020, worrying about whether or not they're contending or at least a competitive baseball team. I think you take, and again, it's easier said than done, but I think you take one small step back in order to think about what could be 2026, 2027, being back to where you were.

A lot of Braves would be a great example. We'll get to 27 or 28. We're not going to be able to afford him. We assume he's playing the same way. Johnny, why are you worried about he's already being paid a lot of money? He's doing fine. I'm not worried about the 2027 payroll right now,

especially as he's under contract. I mean, he's getting paid Soto money. So what do you, so Johnny, what do you want him to do? Do you want him to, do you want him to trade him to? I mean, what do you want? What do you ask him for? Yeah, I'm rebuilding. I'm in the rebuild mode. Oh, my God. You want to trade a yard on Alvarez, too. Okay. Who do you want to keep? I mean, when Tucker's gone and Bregman's gone, I mean, you have a pain of he can get his game back to what he did in his rookie year, hopefully.

I mean, really, that's the core. I mean, you really only have. Okay, so Johnny, what I want you to do is, I want you to come on my show right now, and I want you to say, I, Johnny, that lives in North Houston, want to trade Jordan and Alvarez. Just say it, so we can get it all out of our system. I just said it. I've been saying that. That's the whole point of the conversation. Shouldn't we already be thinking about that? If we're rebuilding, you're losing value in his contract every year and he's here, and we're not going to the World Series.

I could not. Just my thoughts. I don't know. All right. Thank you, John, for the phone call. I, no. No. that's ridiculous

I don't know what else I can say anything else Rossi am I missing anything I think you got it covered oh good old Johnny he's been calling for a while appreciate Johnny he was a he was a Mark Sanchez truther back in the day was he?

Yeah I don't remember what callers takes are typically well there's some memorable ones that's the first trade yarn on Alvarez call we've had the 27 year old in his prime that you have locked up on an extremely team-friendly deal.

Extremely team-friendly. He must be an Alden grad. Excuse me? Why would you say that? Did I say that out loud? You did. Oops, sorry. Shout out Aldine.

Love y'all. Yeah, I came up out of there. I'm doing all right. My takes are better than yours. I don't know. Maybe Johnny's feeling there's a lot of adversity around the Astor's organization right now. there is some adversity. Everyone goes through adversity, some at different amounts.

There you go. 1149. 1145, excuse me. I can't even read my own clock. I'm so flustered by Johnny's call. Oh, Johnny. Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. Johnny, I'm going to give you a great bit of advice right now.

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I don't think I have it on my bingo board, Ross. Anything goes, meaning trading Yorna Navarez, but to each his own. Johnny love you. Sometimes you get a little heated conversation going, and he kept us cool, and I was kind of losing mine because I was flabbergasted. Johnny did call back, apparently, according to Connor McGovern, if Connor wants to go ahead and tell us what he had to say. Oh, yeah, he was in, he is insulted that he said he went to Aldine.

He wanted to clarify and said he went to McArthur. Oh, well, same district. That is correct, the same district. Thoughts, Ross? Um, we Nimitz, Coogs, look down on the McArthur. I don't even remember what they are generals. Is the Alden-McArthur-Alene Nimitz battles interesting? I don't think so.

I mean, MacArthur, at least when I was there, they were the worst football. That was the easy dub on the football schedule. That's the only thing I remember. The big rival for Nimitz was Ike. That's Eisenhower. I mean, and Aldine as well, of course. But I would say, even though Eisenhower, I think, beat us every year I was there. It was the rivalry.

All right. Johnny, we love you. Keep calling the show. It's fun having you. You're good sport and your take suck. But on the night, you're just great. Hmm. I do not want your un-everest traded.

Oh, yeah, they are the generals. Absolutely no sense. Yeah, the MacArthur generals. All right. Let's talk to some people. Let's go to Felipe on 790, 1153. Felipe, good afternoon or good morning. Good morning, guys.

You know, honestly, I wouldn't have admitted to be going to make art. I would have took Aldine, but, hey, that's up to him, man. That's up to him. But, man, I just wanted to call in and give you some props, man. On Tuesday, I called in for gut feelings, and I gave you my gut feeling, but I said, you know, Kyle Thaker's going to, you know, actually going to be signing for, like, you know, close up 300 million, you're like, no chance. You know what?

I believe you. You know, I'm going to give you a problem with that. You've talked me off the edge. We should trade him. Trade him for as much as you get. I'm sorry. I love the guy. I really want him to stay here, but he's not.

You know, that's the reality. Me too. And I can go ahead and say this. I have a friend who grew up in Anaheim is an Angels fan. Even to this day, we talked about it when they still had Otani. And I told him in the offseason before his final year with him. I said they should trade this guy. Trade him and get as much as you can.

You're going to rebuild this team. You're going to be set for the future. Yeah. What are the angels through? They blundered it. They said, oh, we'll trade them. They decided not to, decided to go all in the last year. What do they get for them?

One measly draft pick. Buckus. Yep. Good stuff. We have a good weekend. Thank you for the phone call. Ross, is he right? He's right.

We kept talking about Otani should be traded by the Angels. He wasn't going to sign there. They wasn't going to happen. They traded four. But they also, I think they thought they had a chance of keeping him. I feel like the angels had a better chance of keeping Otani. And did the Astros do with Kyle Tucker, it feels like to me, just a general feel? And they were trying to do everything they could to convince him to stay.

And by the way, he's a better player than Kyle Tucker. So I don't know he was going to break the bank. He knew he wasn't probably going to be in Anaheim, but he was at least maybe open to the thought of staying in Southern California, which he did. He did stay in Southern California. He didn't go that far away. But it's, yeah. I'm totally. on board with trading away Tucker

but you have Yordon Alvarez for four more years on an extremely team friendly deal. You're not going to trade him away. What you're trying to do is be back contending by the end of those four years. Take it on the chin for a couple years. I mean, I, you know,

why could 26 be the year that you go, guess who we got? We got Jacob Melton and playing for us. Bryce Matthews. We have at least two players from the Kyle Tucker move that's come into play. We've spent some money on free agency. I mean, I'm trying to, and I'm not trying to sell it because I'm

an employee of the Astros. I'm selling it as an astro fan. And the Astro fan in me says that I don't want Kyle Tucker to go bye-bye for a first round pick. Yeah, it's also about what's possible and what's probable. Is it possible that Jacob Melton and Bryce Matthews are all-stars? Yes. Is it probable that both of them are? No.

So, yeah, we don't know. We can't predict the future, but the best way to me to be prepared for the upcoming I don't want to call it swoon, but whatever you want to say. Retooling, I think, is the word that Brian McTaggart used,

would be to accrue as many prospects as possible with an asset that you're probably in all likelihood going to lose anyways, and that would involve both Kyle Tucker and Frammer Valmus. Juan, in Aguiland on 7901, good morning. Good morning. I held on all this time just to tell Johnny to shut your bum ass.

You probably put money on Tyson fight. You probably take your girl to McDonald's for Valentine's Day. Oh, no. Now I've got to give back to work. Johnny wasting some of my time. Hold on you know.

Go, Texas. Go ask you. Thank you. Thank you, Juan. Appreciate it. By the way, you can take your girl to McDonald's for Valentine's Day. And then I'm wrong with that.

Especially if she's a biggin. Supersize that meal. Get her dessert. Right, Ross? Hello? Seems like we're losing connection with Matt in Las Vegas. You mean the time you've never taken your girl to a fast food restaurant and said, this is the most interesting thing that weekend.

For McDonald's, no. Two McRibs, large fries. Okay, you should get that thrown into your face. One large 32 ounce, one 32-ounce drink, two straws and a dessert that you can share with two spoons. Here's some hot pork gunk on a bun. Yeah, that's great. What a Valentine's Day to remember, Matt. Maybe that's how I got missed it.

I think you've been married too long. You're probably right. All right, real quick before we get to, we waken the strippers up. Kyle on 790. Hi, Kyle. Hey, guys, how's going? Good.

So, I saw the report earlier about the coach package being Esauk Breed is and Cam Smith. One of the odds that we can get Suzuki in that trade too, because I think, I mean, instead of a re-referral of a rebuild. I think that package is more of a re-tooling, like McTagher said. And that Yankees package is, to me

it's not that enticing because, I mean, you don't know what Ben Rice is going to be. I mean, Louise Hill, he had a good year, but pitching isn't really a need, you know? So I was just wondering about Suzuki being in that package for the Cubs. Yeah, you know what? It's totally speculation. First of all, no one's going to be saying, well, yeah,

we're asking the general media what they think about this and seeing what's very. I mean, all this is right now is just rampant speculation. I just know they're not going to give Dana. They're not going to give him away for nothing, but they're also going to, I mean, the team's on the other side, Ross, got to be careful too, because there's no guarantee that Kyle Tucker would be a Houston, it would be a member of that team come 2026. I mean, we've got to be realistic about what you can get in return.

Yeah, I just wonder how much would the team weigh that Kyle Tucker puts them over the hump for I don't know championship contention how much do they weigh Kyle Tucker being in house helps him stay in house it didn't work for the Yankees right did work for Moogie Betts so I hmm there's a lot of

Carl's Beltran for the Astros when they went and got him right? No it didn't was that any rental was that a few that was a few months rental right? It was a rental they made the trade a little bit early I want to say it wasn't like a July August yeah it was more of an early season trade but still a rental

But there's risk that go with this. No question about this. For the other side. It's not just the risk on the astro side. It's the risk on the other side because of Kyle Tucker's like, let's say he goes to Chicago and bats, again, 325, 40 home runs, drives in 115. Why would he settle on just saying, well, you know what, Cubs? I had a nice season here.

I'm going to stay here because you traded for me a year ahead of time. He doesn't owe that to anybody. No. All right, let's wake the strippers up. We'll do that here after I tell you about Love Volleyball. One volleyball. LovB.com is the website. You can check out.

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Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1204 in H-town. And welcome to our three at the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. You're going to hit the spot at Oyo is what you're saying. You can hit that spot at Oyo. And it won't cost you as much as, like, hit the spot at it at Caesars or at Cosmo.

Are you talking about Vegas hooker prices right now? No. How about could you be sexually attracted to your future stepmother? I believe there's a whole genre on that, Matt. Oh, where can you find that, by the way? I'm curious, Ross. And first of all, how do you know these things? Depends on what state you're in.

Him leaving is a punch in the gut, and then two of the Yankees would also be a punch in the nuts. Double-in. So you're saying gut and testicles? Yes. Damn, it's a lot. I mean, you're used to having something in your mouth. Right. How do you holding it?

Show me, real quick. Don't look at me in the eyes when you're doing that. You know what it's like to bob up and down. I just start honking. I'm just honking it everyone. I'm going to ride this out for a little while. Do I hear a girl back there behind you? I mean, she's a bird.

I wouldn't call her girl, but she's definitely a bird. What's a bird's name? Mrs. Thomas. What the hell was that? Rossi, did you hurt the microphone when you heard that? My God, it was like something. I think I pounded the table. Is it like this?

That's exactly what it was. Strip. You guys are ready for Friday. It's 12.07. Time now for the news of noon. It is? Yes. All right, Matthew, some top sports.

Oh, don't do that. People hate that. I think people love it. We should do an instapole. Time for those top sports to do those idols of the day here all about the bad, Tauvin's show. You sound like Jimmy. He sound like Jimmy Fallon. The New York Yankees, acquiring closer, Devin Williams from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for left-hander Nestor Cortez and infield prospect, Caleb Durbin, and cash considerations.

Sources telling ESPN's Jeff Passon. Matt, what does this mean for the New York Yankees and their pursuit of possibly Kyle Tucker and or Alex Bregman? I think it doesn't affect Alex Breggman. Kyle Tucker probably is thinking, just call me when you trade me. I don't care where I go. I'm going to be a free agent from now. I'll decide where I want to play long term.

What do you think is going through Kyle Tucker's mind right now? I think he wants to stay with the Astros? You think he doesn't care? I think he doesn't care. I think he cares. He's got to be paying attention somewhat to see if he's going to end up in Chicago or wherever. I think, you know what my honest answer to that is?

I think he's happy that he's hearing that he will not have to answer questions about signing a deal in the offseason for the Astros because it's just not in play. It's not. So that's my answer to you. Okay, Matt. Well, elsewhere, of course,

you know the Houston Texans are taking on the Miami Dolphins this weekend. C.J. Stroud is speaking to the media, talking about a lot of respect he has for Tuatunga Voloa. Oh, what's my computer on? Is this working? Oh, boy. This should have.

Last year, you know, I got to meet him when we joined practice with him and got to talk to him and, you know, a lot of respect for him. Who he is as a person, who he is as a man of God, you know, and then, you know, just the advice he gave me. It was really good. You know, I really appreciate it. And, you know, it helped me throughout last year and this year. So, yeah, I'm a real big fan of two and I think he does a lot of great things on the field and, you know, glad to see him back playing and, you know, his career is going to, you know, continue to be great. I'm very happy for them. At the end of the day, on Sunday, who are we saying after the game has had the better game,

C.J. Stroud or Tua, Tunga Voloa. I'm taking Texans to beat the Dolphins 30 to 24. And C.J. Stride, the better game. So they are going to get 30 points for the second time all season. 30 to 20. So they're going to get three pick six is what you're saying. Hey, I got a little one for you. They're going to score a fourth quarter touchdown, too.

Offensively? Yep. Are you sure? Have you seen this team? What happened that I came back and you have more faith in the Texans than I do? Well, that's because they call me Liberty White Matt. Yeah, you are very Liberty White, Matt. That's why we appreciate you. Congratulations again to the McNair family that they inherited a $6 billion NFL franchise.

Also, Matt, well, elsewhere in the news, of course, you were in Las Vegas for the NBA Cup for the Houston Rock. Did you see the league's last two-minute report on the game against the Golden State Warriors? I'm so happy you brought this up, Ross. Give out the highlights because I want to tell somebody that we know and don't love to shut their bumasses up. The NBA has ruled that the foul called on Jonathan Caminga that sent Jalen Green to the line for the game-winning free throw was correct. They also ruled there should have been a five-second violation before the last shot. shots. One other thing, I guess Dylan Brooks should have been called for a three-second violation.

Yes. But the five call is pretty interesting that they not only... That's a double whammy against Golden Stitt. Never should have got the ball in to begin with. Yes, that is correct. So... So suck it, Warriors. I hope you enjoy your home game.

Meanwhile, I'm here in Las Vegas with a massage gun next to my bed. Hmm. Why do you have a massage gun next to your bed again real quick? To massage myself? Okay, then also, Matt, we do have actually, we're getting an audio from Bill Kennedy. He had some words for Steve Kerr as well. Shit your bum ass up, man. There is partly a group of people that believe the NBA does protect its referees.

But they also are the first. But they also admit when they made a mistake, and they make a mistake too. I mean, Steve Kerr reads that report. He probably goes, screw them. I know what I saw. I'm a basketball player. I can't let an official get away with making a call. He said 80 feet away from the play.

That was the first of all line. He might have been 30 feet away, but he wasn't 80. He wouldn't get a brusky in the concourse. He wasn't over at the Fertita Center making the call from there. Come on now. I hear a whistle in the distance. Hey, there's a game in Alden going on. Is that Bill Kennedy making that call?

Shout out Aldi. Shout out Tully. No, what is the stadium? I wouldn't Tully State, Thorne Stadium. Tully's, uh, yeah. Yeah, but we used to play over there. Back in our day, they were in district, but not anymore. Me either, yeah.

I graduated high school from Tully Coliseum. Really? Yep. They built it there, and that's where they held the games to Gladiators, correct? And guess where I went for my high school graduation meal? Chee-chis. No, but by the way, Chee-chis are coming back in Minnesota, by the way, would you say that? Yeah, you love Chee-C-C-C-S.

I love Cheetis. Shonis. Shonis. It's a, it's a chance. Beniggins. Beniggins. Three. Okay.

Beniggins is strike one. Shonies. Do you really think I want to shownies for my graduation meal? That might let you guess that. Hold on. You're taking your wife to get a McRib for Valentine's Day. My wife loves the McRib. No, she does not.

Are you serious? She absolutely does. Oh, hell, yeah, she does. She's disgusting. I'm going to have her text you right now. Tell her. Tell her what I say. And I quote.

Ross says you're disgusting for liking the McRib. Well, also, we knew that for liking Matt Thomas, but that's a different discussion for a different time. Okay, go ahead. You've got strike one. It was not Benegans. That's not a bad first guess. Hooters.

Strike two. Steak and ale. The answer was, Ball of Martin. Ooh, you fancy. Let me tell you. Ball of Martin back in 19. 1990. That was a jam.

When I went on my first, first date in high school, went to the ball of Barden. Did you? Classy joint. Salad's still amazing. Breadsticks. Yes. The food? Eh. But everything else with this, you know. It's not that great. But it's fine. It's mid. It gets the job done. It's mid.

It's basically like Bed Robster. Which they're out of bankruptcy now, I think. Oh, they got bought. They got a new CEO. And he said, no more endless shrimp. That's ridiculous. That's why would you go to Bed Robster if you didn't getting an endless shrimp. Well, that's why they were hemorrhaging money. People like you. They're like the size of dimes.

I mean, I don't think that they were, you know, they weren't the prime shrimp. You got people like you showing up having six buckets of shrimp crippling them. I've once had 41 scampi and one serving. I get that. That's what we call you Scampy Thomas. Nobody calls me Scampi Thomas. Your father managed Chi-Chi's? Yes.

Did you manage them well? Actually, you know the answer to that question. question. I'll turn it by the mic off. Bye. Yeah, yeah. I would ask if there's an offbeat story here, but I can't admit.

Are we late for the... Yo, look how late we are for the news at noon. A 790 staff member just texted that he took his lady to the OG last night. Oh, really? And more news, man. Late breaking news. What do you got now? A staff member has taken his lady to the ball of Barton,

literally last night. I think the ball of Barton is amazing. And that, my friends, was the news at noon. All right, we go to the phones next. Gilbert and Austin wants to talk about Kyle Tucker. We'll get to that as well. We have a new defensive coordinator at the University of Houston. You're welcome as the school continues to become the powerhouse that it is in not only the P4, but in the Big 12.

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1222, the Matt Thomas Show with Ron. Dr. Roto coming up at about 40 minutes from now for his weekly visit with us. Ross is going to text lately? Ross stepped out, I think, for a second. Oh, did he really? Okay. Yeah. So I'll co-host with you until he comes back. No, that's all right.

Well, you know what? Connor, how's your life? What do you got going on this weekend? What are the single kids doing in the streets of Houston this weekend? Oh, man. I might go out on Saturday. I'm playing pickup hockey tomorrow morning. Yeah.

So that'll be fun. Are you going to go to a NBA, Cup watch party somewhere? No, but I'll watch it on my own because I'm interested. All right, that's good. And, of course, listen to the radio for the epic calls

and I'll hopefully be bringing you for two and a half hours. Yes, of course, of course. You know what? I'll mute the TV and then I'll put your call on. You're the best. I don't deserve you.

And now Ross is back, so there you go. Oh, hi. Ross is talking to me? Sorry. I was getting to me. I was asking if you checked your phone lately. I have. So you did have your wife contact me.

And she said. You know how I have her in your phone? it's pretty funny. I have her as Mrs. at SportsMT, which I did not know. That's a compliment, I think, right? My last text from her is from over a year ago. Yeah.

Yeah, she said, I love the McRib in all caps, and I said in all caps, the McRib sucks, and you should be embarrassed. If y'all got beef, we could do a SportsMT theater, Mrs. T against Ross. I ain't scared. I know you ain't scared.

Let's go. 7-13 You know who does have beef? I actually meant to bring this up. I'm glad you just said this. What is going on between Pete Thammle and Breckman-Murphy? Brett McMurphy. Can we do a sports empty theater with it?

Not really, because Brett McMurphy keeps it short and simple. He called him a joke or a clown, I think. We should tell it because I think the average person doesn't know. These are the two of the leading college football writers in the country. Oh, wait, wait a second. Wait a second. Did I get duped by a fake? Did you?

Oh. I'm sorry. They have a checkmark. Elon freaking Musk. Oh, God. Wait a minute. Was this real? Maybe he didn't call him a joke.

I got, I got tricked. Oh, no. No, he did. He did. The real Bretman Murphy did it. There was also a fake Breckman Murphy's CFP with the same avatar with a checkmark so you can't discern between the two. Oh, no. No.

But, no, the actual Brett McMurphy. Pete Damel put out a Dan Mullen story about him agreeing to be the coach at UNLV. And then he put football scoop first reporting. I think Brett McMurphy was first on the scene because his reply was one word. It was joke. Oh, you're right. I'm looking at it right now. So I'll make a look at the replies of the joke.

Brett wants all the smoke. Yeah. The columnist credit beef is the best, worst slash best. What's the joke? Why you say that? You weren't first either L.O.L. Why you always acting like you break every story, L.O.L. Doesn't really matter.

It doesn't matter, does it? One guy says, get his ass, Brett. One says, G.D., you're thirsty, huh, Brett? Texas outsider says he blocked me for calling his ass out. Thammel's a joke. Wow. Hmm. Yeah, I don't know.

Reporter beef is not fun to me. I think it's amazing. What do you mean? What's not fun about this? Give me the last good reporter beef we've had. Ian Rappaport and Jason La Cunforah? Didn't he threaten him physically? Is Lock and Forre?

I think Locker 4 is working for like the Wichita Eagle newspaper. I mean, he's out of sight out of mind. He was with the Washington Post. I don't know where he is now. I think multiple people have had beef with Ian Rappaport, though. We haven't done a sports. empty theater in a long time. Yeah.

But if you all can find one, if you all find some tour people beefing on something, they'll be worthy of us reading. We'll be happy to that. Weren't Schaeftor and Rappaport beefing for a little bit? I don't know. It seems artificial. By the way, real quick, I was checking my son and I are, oh, I shouldn't say this out loud. Well, I'm going to take him to, we're coming here to Vegas in May. Okay. And he

wants to stay at a particular hotel. He wants to stay stay at the Westgate, which is very, very mid, right? Yes. To stay there here in May, four or $26 on a Friday night. Why? Freaking Westgate.

That's like, what would it be the equivalent of? Like a Sheraton. Is the Barry Manilow look-alike convention in town that weekend? Well, Barry's going to be there, so it's part of the jams. Don't tell him yet. That's one of his gifts, so. You just announced it on air. I know, but he's not listening.

I don't think he is. Somebody he knows might be. If you're one of Peyton's buddies, don't tell him. Okay. Gilbert and Austin on 790 at 1227. Oh, wait. We have some quick breaking news, Matt. I got to reply from your wife.

And? It's an emoji with one finger up. Oh. Oops. Hi, Gilbert. What's going on? Tell us. I don't know about the idiot over there talking about.

No, I think if you think about it, if Tom, think about it, Carl Tucker does great during the season. Postseason is terrible. Regman, the same thing. If he's got good defense, but he has no bat. So the thing is, if they get rid of both of them, as far as third base goes, if we can get a decent third baseman that has a good bat, then that'd be good.

So it's going to be hard to replace Tucker because he's got a good defense too, but we need somebody with the bat. So I think we'll be okay. And I think they know more about the baseball than we do. We're just a fan. So I'm pretty sure that, like, um, Anyway, the office knows what's up. I think they're going to be all right, and I think we're going to be okay.

Just hang up in this with you all guys. Let me summarize Gilbert's call, Ross. You ready? No. If a bat is good, but the bad is not good, but it's good in the postseason, but maybe not in the regular season, but if the bad is still good at third base, but it's the glove, it's the outfit, it's a work in the preseason in the past postseason.

In the regular season, it'll be okay, right? Well, since you're into the mind of Gilbert, I must ask, Is a guy who hit 26 and 25 home runs the last two years has no bat? No bat. Zero bat. Okay. Zilch. Just making sure. And by the way, really easy narrative is that guys don't perform in the postseason.

I got news for y'all. I've got a lot of players that don't perform in the postseason. Go ask Aaron Judge. Alex Breggman has performed in the postseason. Yeah, I just watched the highlight of hitting a grand slam against the Nationals on the World Series just either day. So he did that. I mean, look, Koff Tucker was bad for two games this year

And it was bad for a handful of The previous years, yeah We just make too much of these small sample sizes In my opinion We need to just appreciate With how good they were body work And remember, it's just harder to hit in the postseason Because the pitching is significantly better

Well, I guess Breggman's career postseason numbers Go ahead and say it You've already opened this Pandora's box 2.38 OPS of? 789. It's decent. Okay, so when he's making contact, it's impactful. By the way, he has 19 postseason home runs for somebody with no postseason bet.

Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm okay with his numbers. Very much so. All right, 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-7-9-0. Anything goes Friday continues. Dr. Roto in one-half hour, one hour from now. Non-Floral stories. Ross, where's your non-flora story from? It's from outside the state of Florida, Matt.

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Time is at 1235. We've got Dr. Orto coming up in 25 minutes. They'll get us ready for the weekend slates of NFL games. One quick and being out, obviously I'm here in Las Vegas with the Rockets. They'll take on the Oklahoma City Thunder tomorrow night. 7.30 will be the tip time will be on the air at 6.30 with a launch pad. Do we know who's hosting that, sports RV? I think it's Dan Matthews.

I know it ain't me. Yeah. Oh, I was going to go, okay, so we got that going on with the Rockets. They'll take on Oklahoma City, the winner of this game. We'll take on the winner of the game, which will be earlier in the afternoon, featuring the Milwaukee Bucks and the Atlanta Hawks. LeBron James is stepping aside for a while from the Lakers. They're saying personal issues.

Hmm. Now, that clearly means could be something family-related. It could mean that he's maybe just taking some time off because he wants to rest his sore foot. Again, no one really knows what it is, but it feels like to me that the world of social media has put, taking one and two and two and making 26 out of it. Personal reasons. Yeah.

Well, sounds like it's his business. It's an excused absence, says JJ Redd. You know what the number one thing that is brought out there, don't you? What, the Diddy thing? Diddy. Oh, gosh. When I went to Google, LeBron James, just off my phone three seconds ago. Let me give you the first ten things that show up.

Okay. Warriors. James Jr. Oh, you mean suggestions? Yeah, suggestions. Diddy party? Diddy party? Diddy party.

Age, net worth, news, stats, trade, diddy. The number one suggestion was Diddy. Yeah, it's also an algorithm based on you and your dirty searches. I couldn't even tell you who Diddy was until last week on all this. Are you serious? You'd never heard of Sean Puffy Combs, Puff Daddy. I couldn't tell you one of his songs. Like if you gave me, if you played three songs and said, Did he sing one of them?

I couldn't tell you which one of the three. Okay. So you've heard of them. Well, of course, I've heard of him. but I wouldn't know if a song came out and go, oh, that's Sean or that's Diddy. He dated Jennifer Lopez. Good for him.

You know that 50-plus crowd is doing really well. What do you mean? Sophia Vigara. J-Lo. Who did I see that was 60 that turned 60 the other day that was still so hot? Was it... Well, the surgeons are better than ever, Matt. Well, who's the one that was in my cousin Vinny?

what was her name? Oh, Marissa Tomeg. Marissa Tomey looks good. Also, the advent of sunscreen and people not chain smoking since the age of eight, I think, has helped. So? I mean, it works, right? Yeah, I'm not so. I'm just telling you.

I'm just talking. You know what it is, Rossi? We've got some good news. As long as you don't completely beat up your body between, say, 25 and 50, 55s, 65s looking okay. The girls are hotter, women, I should say. Coaches are getting jobs left and right. Bill Belichick,

He was Spride 27 years old yesterday in front of the press conference in North Carolina. We'll see how long that lasts. He's, you know, exchanging bodily fluids with the 24-year-old. I see. Why do you have to go there? Okay, I'm sorry. They're a hand-in-hand relationship. They're having a great time with a mutual trust and friendship.

Is that better? That's better. Oh, God. You really like talking about, never mind. Can we set an over-under on Bill Belichick? if I put two and a half, where are you going? Years. Five-year deal.

How about this? Why don't you settle a handicapping line on whether he finishes the contract? Oh, that's finishing the contract is like a plus $700. $350. Okay. Three and a half to one ounce on that. Two and a half years, I say he takes the over. I think he goes three, but I would be surprised if he finished the full five.

Okay. Three and a half. You know what it is, though? You know what you don't have to do anymore, Ross, in college athletics on football side especially? You know, what's a cliche term you hear with college football coaches all the time? The term program, right? Yes. You don't have to build a program anymore. You have to build a team.

And I'm stealing out from somebody else that said that yesterday. Okay. I mean, you know what the difference is? faster. You have to do it, but you can do it faster. You don't have to build a program anymore because the transfer portal doesn't allow you to build a program. You can't, you know, the portal lets you freely move from team to team to team to team with no consequence. Programs are built with going after high school kids and making sure they redshirt their freshman year and you slowly work them in their sophomore year and

then you give them an opportunity to be a major star in their junior and senior year. Now, if you don't play these players right away and you don't give them their what they think is appropriate playing time, or you don't give them enough cash, they go to the poor right away. So you're literally having to construct a new football team every year. I'm telling you, Ross, this year, watching Kevin Ashenfelder prepare for his football games,

you have to put their height, their weight, their classification in school, and then you have to put where they spent the last three years of their college football career. That's building a team. Now, that's how college football chose to run their operations. So I'm not feeling sorry for anybody. But the reality is 20 years ago, 15 years ago, for that matter, you were building from scratch.

And the teams that would go to the JC route to go get players, you couldn't have long-term success because you were not building a program. Now you're constructing a brand new 65-man football team every single year. It's just not different. It's too. It's different. But, I mean, I still think you have to build. And I still think you have to have philosophies that, and I think that attract the right. players and you have to pick and find the right players.

Otherwise, I mean, everybody would do it. Everybody every year would be contending and that's just not the case. Like the Cougars have got what, 60 new players this year and they weren't very good, but they should be next, but Willie Fritz under his next year should be better, right? Because you're finding the right players and you're... Yeah, but I think the portal is going to help the Cougars out. I mean, look at your most successful Texas receiver this year. DJ Moore?

Matthew Golden. He might have had the most touchdown. but I mean, it's a very impactful player for Texas. Absolutely. He got called up to the big leagues. Good for him. No, he didn't. He got paid off. And that's fine. It's his own. Yeah, he said, you know what? The University of Houston and the Cougars is not the place for me. I want to go on to bigger, better things. I want to make the playoff. And he did. He didn't want to be toiling at the bottom of the Big 12, so he moved on up. I appreciate him for that.

Mm-hmm. Okay. But my point being is that Texas didn't, that wasn't a program builder. That was an acquisition. And I'm not saying it's right or wrong. I'm just saying this is something that has changed in college. I mean, everything changes in college sports. This is the newest change. Is that when you, if you want to look at where a program is or a college football team is, see how many of the players three years from now have not transferred. How many players have been kids that Sark recruited or any of the coaches,

Mike Elko recruited, and now are still there? Because even when they're really good, who is it the kid Malink Murphy, at Texas, right? Went to Duke and played. Yes. And I was looking for his third school. That wasn't because he was mistreated. Duke, they got to a bowl game,

their winning football games, got a huge season as a quarterback. He's just looking to find the next place to go. Good for him. Wishing him the best. He obviously is not burning them in at all in the classes. He's just looking for his next venue. I mean, you have to have some sort of academic standing in the transfer, correct?

I don't think much. I mean, what did you think of when you... He went from Texas to Duke. He's got to have some kind of... He's got to be going to some classes. So tell me another kid in life that would turn down those two amazing academic institutions. Well, he's not there for academics. I mean, like, what was he going to next?

Arkansas? Maybe. That would be a downgrade. If I had three schools on my resume, I said, well, I went my freshman year in Texas. And I went to Duke. Oh, man. Would you go to Colgate next? No, I went to Memphis.

You hit the transfer portal, Matt, from North Texas. Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did. I went from a good institution to a great institution. Yes, you did. You know what? You can't even say it. I just said, yes, you did.

But you hemmed it hot over it. No, I didn't. You're a hymn and a horror. A great fine institution, the University of Houston. With an outstanding law school, great architecture, now a medical school. They got med school now. They do. Oh, man, Tillman's been pumping up the money in that.

bad boy got ourselves a new defensive coordinator from florida today it's great athletics haven't been great but the school is good got us a new quarterback the other day the guy with three touchdowns and five interceptions this year that guy hey you'll rule the day's asking it was that guy right

you know what they're about it felt like they were a quarterback away from really being good this year so wishing the cougars the best in the big let me tell you i wouldn't disagree with that assessment my friend 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 how does a team handle a player who flat-out quits on them in the game itself we'll discuss that next 1246 with dr rhodo in 15 minutes here on sports talk 790 with the cooler weather we now have your trees may not like the wind your trees may not like the cool temperatures if they don't they need to be taken care of and that's where martin spoon-mower and that's where martin spoon-mower and my buddy's over at affordable tree service want to come in and help you. That's right. They know about trees because you don't. You call 713-699-2663.

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Real quick, Devondre Campbell, a linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers was asked to enter the game last night between the Rams and the Niners and he said thanks but no thanks he will not go in. Fourth quarter he walked to the locker room with a towel over his head without playing a snap.

Pretty easy for Kyle Shanahan, right Ross? You got to cut the guy? I would imagine so. If he doesn't want to play, what are you paying him for? What's he putting the uniform on, though? That's the thing I did he buy him to lace up his cleats? That's true. I mean, there's probably, it can't be just a, I mean, it's got more than just a simple love, I didn't want to play.

There must be something deep-seated to it, but if you put the uniform on your, on the active roster to play that day, you're kind of expected to play if necessary. George Kittle, I've never been around anybody that's ever done that, and I hope I'm never around anybody who does that again. Yeah, there isn't a single team in on that side of the football field that's giving him any run there. By the way, John Marrosi. You used to be John Paul Marosey, right? JP? Yeah, and then he's not done very well.

So he's just going with the old John Maroz. How's he going to get him on the show once, and he didn't return an email or a text, so that's fine. Three minutes ago, Kyle Tucker trade talks between the Cubs and the Astros have continued to gain momentum sources confirmed. Rossi, when this show reconvenes on Monday, when you will be on with a variety of excellent people filling in for me. Monday, I think, is Dan Matthews.

You will have a Kyle Tucker trade to discuss. Believe it or not. Which means you're going to have to get a report around from Chicago that follows our minor leagues to talk about these guys who've never heard of before. That's true. You know what I'm saying? I'll figure it out. John Marozy has just shy of 500,000 followers. That's pretty good.

See, Matt, this is why I told you you need to break some news and get stuff wrong. it doesn't matter. Nobody remembers. Nobody cares. Bob Nightingale breaks wrong stuff all the time. What does he have? But you know what? He's gotten better. He's had a pretty decent winning streak. He's got $464,000. Wait a minute.

J.P. Morosi has more than Bob Nightingale? John Marosey's on TV a lot more than Nightingale is. I guess. By the way, you can get a cameo from Bob Nightingale? I just went to John Marosey's page. Guess what it says on this page? What? You have muted posts from this.

account. He must have came out with some bad news and I muted him. I know Bob Nightingale, okay? I actually really do know Bob Nightingale. He's a nice person. Okay, that doesn't mean he doesn't break bad news. Wrong news. I'm going down a different avenue here.

He's not the most spirited conversation. Okay. You can get a personalized video from him from Cameo for $45 plus. That's a good deal. That's cheaper than Matt Thomas.

He has 23 reviews, all are five-star. Nice. I'm wondering what would be a $45 plus. I mean, I guess it would be if you want to get it done fast or if something more like a longer one. I'm curious what it is. I would not have put, first of all, I would not have put Bob Nightingale on my list of people on Cameo.

And second, to charge $45. That's quite a bit. You know who's the best value for Cameo? Is my man, Ryan Hollins. I think he charges like $10 or something like that. That's a deal. I'm just five messages from Ryan Hollins for one from you? Yeah, but I take a time and effort to put these bad ones.

No, I'll take, yeah, right. I'll do five from Ryan Hollins. Why don't you buy one for me? What for? The gift of Christmas. Imagine me telling all your friends, happy birthday or Merry Christmas, introducing your special team in my public address voice

or maybe doing some play-by-play. I mean, that's a gift that just keeps on giving. Make magical memories happen. Buy me on Cameo. Number one on Cameo. This is top 10. I've not been on this website in like two years. James Buckley, who is that?

I haven't done cameo probably in six months. Actor in the in-betweener. Santa Claus is number two right now. That's actually not a bad deal on that one. British politician Nigel Farage is number three. Checking to see if Taylor's got a camera. Those Costco people who

I still don't understand how they're famous. That's an I just don't get it. I ain't to write that down. $250 to get to get to, is this little kid? Is that a kid? The Rizzler? Yeah. No, it's the other, the younger one. I forget his name.

AJ. They're the Costco guys sing to you, right? Big Justice. Is this guy, is he a judge? No, they're just a family. They go to Costco. Oh, that's stupid. Stupid.

They bring the boom. Costco's good for three things. So you just said, go ahead, man. Churros, cheap hot dogs, and cheap groceries. And pizza. And pizza. Yeah. So they go to, say that again why they're famous, Connor?

Because they just go to Costco and then they rate things. And it's $250 to get a message from them on Cameo. These people are famous from Ramos. rating things at Costco? What are they rating? I've got six gallons of mayonnaise. This is delicious. What a world we live in.

I don't think I know who the Costco guys are and don't care. I see them on Twitter all the time and I just don't get it. Let's go. Let's mute that bad boy. Ross, you know how the mute button works. Oh, my God. I mute at least 10 accounts a day now. It's out of control.

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the Good Doctor is with us on Sports Talk 790 and he is with us for the final week of the regular season for some of us. Some of us in the first round of the playoffs. Dr. Roto, how much did you enjoy watching that field goal affair between the Rams and the Niners and how screwed are people right now with anybody on position players on both sides of those teams? MT was like watching paint drive. It was awful. I mean, really. And look, you had Cooper Cup.

You got the double bagel, the triple bagel, nothing. You know, Joanne Jennings five points. If it wasn't for Kyron Williams and maybe Garendo, those are the only decent days. It was just, listen, if you played any of those guys, you didn't do anything wrong. You just got horribly unlucky. But I think what this teaches us is something that's really important. Don't worry about names. Worry about the best matchups.

worry about the guys who statistically have, like, for example, you know, the defense plays a lot of zone coverage and this receiver's good against zone coverage. If that matchup dictates you play the guy, then you play him. It's the playoffs. It's time to win. All right. Carolina, not the sexiest. The noon game is all, frankly, this week, suck with exception maybe of the Texans game.

Is Bryce Young getting some good props from national media about him bouncing back the last couple weeks? fine value and a guy that was sent off to the clipboard but came back and was putting up some decent numbers? Well, listen, if Xavier Leggett catches that ball, they win that game last week, and whoever spent $3.1 million on that Eagles bet was going to lose. So young, they've been a much better team over the last three weeks. Sadly, Jonathan Brooks, as we all know, is done. Chuba Hubbard is firmly in number one running back and somebody you're absolutely playing.

Adam Thielen looks really good. and Xavier Liget, outside of, you know, a couple of bad drops, has been had a good rookie year. On the other side, Rico Dowdell is a must play. Jake Ferguson should have a good game. I like C.D. Lamb. I don't love Lamb this week. I think it's more of Ferguson and Dowdell. But Dowdell, Chuba, Thielen, get him in your lineups.

All right. Kansas City is at Cleveland. Yet again, another Chief's last minute doink off the goalpost win. Are we seeing even these close games? seeing a departure from the, and they haven't been great all year, but are the numbers even dropping even more on Kansas City's skill position players, have they been fairly consistent all year long? You know, look, are they the luckiest 12-1-1 team ever?

Yeah, but, you know, sometimes lucky teams are good teams. The Chiefs do, when it's third and eight, Holmes figures out a way to get nine yards, whether he runs four to throws it. So, look, are you going to play Pacheco? Yes. Are you going to play Hopkins, for sure? Are you going to play Kelsey? you are but I think the Browns have a fighting shot in this one because the Chiefs

past defense has not been great and you know what James Winston's going to do he is going to throw it around that field if David Nogoku plays he is a living lock in every lineup the chiefs are terrible against opposing tight ends if Njoku plays you play them I like Elijah Moore's a really sneaky play and of course Jerry Judy's been fantastic so I can't bench any of these Cleveland Browns because here's what happens the Browns put pressure on Mahomes. They get pressure on the quarterback. Mahomes could be making a couple of mistakes this week.

I think the Browns are good underdogs. Indianapolis and Denver is a decent 3 o'clock game on Sunday. Is this Richardson putting up some decent numbers and make this a close competitive game? Nick's obviously been probably the nicest surprise among all the rookie quarterback so far. How do you see this one in terms of fantasy play?

Well, you were right before. I think the 4 o'clock games are better than the early games, right? I really like the Broncos this week. So here's the problem with Indianapolis. First of all, they don't get a lot of pressure on the quarterback. So Bo Nix is going to have a lot of time sitting there. Secondly, they play a ton of cover three, which feeds right into Cortland Sutton, feeds right into Valle. And I think Bo Nass, look, if Jaden Daniels wasn't as good as he was, would we be talking about Bo Nix as a potential rookie of the year, I think we would be. So I don't really love Richardson this week. I think it all

depends on whether Josh Downs returns. They're hoping that he comes back. But remember, Certain is going to go up against Michael Pittman. So can Jonathan Taylor run on the Broncos and his Downs there? If Downs is healthy and Richardson can find him, maybe they

have a shot, but I really like the Broncos a lot at home, and I love Bowenix this week. The best matchup of the entire regular season week is going to be Buffalo and Detroit. Detroit showing those lines of slippage. We mentioned this earlier on the show today. Roto, they got a full week off to play their Thursday game because they played the previous Thursday.

How do you see this one? Are we going to see a similar like a Green Bay Detroit type score that we saw between the Bills and the Lions coming up on Sunday? Well, how about about the Bills and the Rams? We saw a ton of points in that one. So Vegas has this one at 54 and a half. I don't know whether we're going to see

that. I'm going to tell you why. Buffalo is not great at stopping the run. And what are the Lions great at doing, running the football? So the way to dominate Buffalo is to give the ball to Montgomery, give the ball to Gibbs, and just keep the time of possession, keep Josh Allen off the field, right? Then you got Amal Rah, St. Brown, who should have a good game. So I like both running backs.

I like Save Brown. I think they're firmly in play. For Buffalo, I think Josh Allen is a great start. And really, Amari Cooper is a fantastic start. The Lions play, I think, the first or second most man coverage in all the league. And that's what Cooper feasts on. And they know they need Cooper to be good. in order to try to get a buy here.

Dalton Kincaid is back this week, which is also good for Buffalo. They've been missing him, so he is definitely startable too. If the Chargers want to keep that AFC wall card spot, they're going to have to beat the Buccaneers. It's a decent three-clock game as well. How do you see these matchup between these two squads? I think this is a good game.

So really, it's going to come down to whether Ladd-McConkey plays. Ladd McConkey's a difference maker. And if you saw the Chargers in the first half last week, I mean, Justin Herbert couldn't find a receiver. But Ladd McConkey, against that, you know, Tampa's not good at covering slot receivers, and Ladd is going to find the space there. And remember, you can't really run on Tampa, so Herbert's going to have to throw. So names I like, I like Herbert, I like Ladd McConkey, and let me give everybody out there a name you haven't heard of, Stone Smart.

He's got a cool name, but Stone Smart is the new starting tight end there, especially with Will Disley on the IRR. I think he's definitely in play. On the other side, Bucky Irving did not practice today. I think Rashad White is a fantastic start, and I would certainly use him, and of course, Mike Evans. All right. Philadelphia wins last week, despite basically throwing the ball 80% of the time. The receiving core for the Eagles was quite grumpy about this. Do you think Jalen Hertz makes a concerted effort get those receivers in play against a Pittsburgh team that would love to keep their top spot in the AFC North?

You know, M.T. You're right about them run ball a ton. because look, there were some videos out there and I hope people saw it on social media. Jalen Hertz was just not willing to throw the football. A.J. Brown should have had 200 yards receiving last week. He was throwing outlet passes to guys who are five yards away as opposed to taking shots down the field. Now, the problem is this.

Pittsburgh is not the team that you take big shots with. It's just not the way it works out. That said, I still think A.J. Brown is in play. Seekwon should have a good week, not a great week. I like Devontas Smith a little bit. But look, this is the squeaky wheel narrative, right? You better feed A.J. Brown. You're going into the playoffs.

You can't have a pissed off Brown in there. You've got to throw them the football. I don't care whether Jory Porter's out there or not. If the Eagles want to make the Super Bowl, you can't just run the football. You've got to throw it too. All right. And, again, we're not worried about who wins and loses. Obviously, a lot of the folks listening right now want the Texans to win this game.

Miami got things going in the overtime, scored the touchdown to beat. the Jets. They finally got the use of the tight end going in that last fourth quarter drive. How do you see Tua in the skill position players against the Texans defense? And can C.J. Stroud does do something that Texans have not done a lot this year and put up maybe a 30-point or game against a team that like the Dolphins who can score some points? Well, you know, Vegas has the Texans scoring about close to 25 points. And this is going to have to be a trackmate. I don't think these teams can win on just, you know, running the ball, even though the Texans might want to do that with Joe Mixing.

So look, for Miami, I think two is going to throw for 265 yards and a couple of touchdowns. I love Tyree Kill this week, right? Absolutely love him. Don't think the Texans can stop him. John Hussmith, just like you said, he had zero, he had nothing during regulation, and then in overtime, he goes four for 45 in a touchdown. Where is he all game? They need to get him and more involved.

And a Chan, of course, they may not run the ball real well against the Texans, but he certainly will catch balls out of the backfield. So I think those guys are in play. For Houston, obviously, I think Stroud is a good start this week. I think Miami's defense is overrated. I love Joe Mixon. And look, this is Nico Collins time. I mean, Nico Collins is one of the top five receivers in the league.

He's going to need to be this week. He's going to need 100 yards in a touchdown. If he just check the box scores, if he's at like 60 yards, they're not winning. All right, ladies and gentlemen, you've just heard some of the games. If you've got a particular player you need to hear about, and Dr. Roto's here for you. He'll be with us to the bottom of the hour at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

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Promocode SportsMT. Matt and Ross return. Return on Sports Talk 790. All right, Dr. Roto with us to the bottom of the hour. 713-212-5-790 if you want to chime in. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Heavy T-B touchdown-dependent non-PPR. Pick two of these.

Jamison Williams, Quentin Johnston, Neighbors, Higgins, Westbrook-E-Kee-Nang. All right. Can you give me that slowly again? Yeah, I will, for sure. Jameson, Quentin, Johnston, Neighbors, Higgins, Westbrook-E-Kee-Nang. All right, so definitely 1,000% T. Higgins. Neighbors is okay, but, man, I hate Tommy DeVito.

I just think it's a bad fit. Quentin Johnson can't really catch the football. I'll go Jameson Williams in a game that should be high-scoring. So let's go Jameson and T. the way, M.T., what was that in Vegas? I saw that picture on social media. Do we figure out what that was? That is a massager.

Oh, okay. Very nice. We love Vegas. Okay. Oh, we love Vegas, Roto. We know we ought to do next summer. We ought to bring people out. We should have like a football, fantasy football expo, bring you out there,

go out of the clubs after that. At the circus. The circus. The circus. I know. Ross and I went last year. We had a great time. You should come and join us.

Next time. All right, here we go. I'm there for Summer League. Nice. M.H.K. No, M.J. Excuse me. D.K.

Cook or Johnston, pick one of those four. Hmm. I like Marvin Harrison, Jr. a little bit. I don't like D.K. McChaff at all. I think that game is kind of messy, and I want to stay away from it. Cook. Cook is going to have to do something on catching some passes because it's hard to run in the lions.

I don't hate him. it's the highest scoring game. The problem with Marvin Harrison is you've got to watch Kyler Murray. I mean, look, should I say this on air? Yes, I can. I had a slight parley, if you will, for $25 at $1.15K. I hit five out of six parts. My only part that missed is Marvin Harrison.

Thanks so much, Kyler Murray. You know, so we don't trust him. That's the problem. So I would say cook because I like the game. All right, there you go. Let's go to the phone. Talk to some people. Josh on 790 at 1-20.

23 for Dr. Roto. Josh, what's your question, please? Hey, Rodo, we missed you yesterday. We sincerely hope all as well. Thank you for your time today, sir. I got a double-heder question for you. We just heard you say that King Cade is a starter this week. Now, would you start him over Cade Otton? Probably not. I like Cate Otton. They play a lot of zone coverage, the Chargers. King Cate is fine, but I think this feels like a Cooper week. This feels, I mean, they're going to get Shakir involved, even though I don't love the matchup as well. King Kate feels to me like four for 40

where I think Aten has higher touchdown equity So I'd go with him Perfect, thank you sir And then I have Wide receivers Four of them Which two would you start Brian Thomas Jr, Brian Robinson Jr.,

Ridley or Metcalf All right So Robinson is a really good start this week Against the Saints So I mean he should be healthy I love him But Ridley and Brian Thomas are both in play

I would edge toward Brian Thomas. The Jets defense has been bad. They really have been bad. And if that game could shoot out a little bit, it all depends on Mack Jones. So basically I'm trusting Mac Jones, by trusting Will Levis. I don't want to trust either of those guys.

I'll lean towards Thomas. So Thomas and Robinson is a must play because I think he goes for 100 yards in a touchdown and whoever you think more of Ridley or Thomas, I probably would click the button on Thomas, but it's close. Brendan and Magnolia on 790 at 124. Hi, Brendan. Hey, guys.

a couple of questions. So first, I normally would never even ask this question, but based on matchup, thinking about Daniels or Winston. And then as far as my flex, looking like Mooney is obviously probably not a decent pick. So then I'm trying to decide between Stevenson and Hopkins. All right, so let's figure this out. Mooney, I don't love this week. I think last week was a Mooney week.

I don't necessarily like him on the road, especially against the Raiders. They're going to have Bijan. They'll use Drake London. So let's stay away from him. Here's the deal about Ramandra Stevenson. When the Patriots are winning, he is highly involved in a really great play. When they're losing, they barely use him. Okay?

It's as simple as that. So do I trust the Patriots to win this game? I don't. I don't trust the Patriots to win this game. I think it would be an interesting game, but I don't trust them to win. So I think I'm playing Hopkins. Now, on the other side, Jane Daniels is a must play. He is.

He's a must play right now. It's not that Winston's bad, but I think that the Chiefs will figure out a way, ball possession. That game could be, I don't know, 2420, something like that with the Chiefs and James Winston. So I would lean Daniels who has such, I mean, if he runs 60 yards, if he runs a touchdown in, you're going to wish you had him. All right. Let's go to Kingwin next. Satirich on 790 for Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Rich.

Hey, I got two-partier here. Golf for Tua, and then one starts between Sutton, Higgins, and Harrison. Okay, so I'm writing the guy's name down. So here's the deal. I like Tua, but I always start golf at home. It's a rule. You literally start golf at home. The lines play better at home.

The lines will have a good week. You start Jaird Gough. He will never hurt you, right? He will never hurt you. He can only help you. A bad Jared Gough Day is 14 points, and a good Jared Goptey is 30. On the other side, I love Cortland Sutton this week, and I really do like T. Higgins. He was almost one of the locks for the week.

I just feel like they're going to go to him. He just got a new agent, new contract. Everything is pointing into T. Higgins having a big week. Thank you for that. Let's go to Mike on 790 for Dr. Roto. Mike, your question, please. Yes, sir. Real quick.

James Winston, Sam Donson, Jared Gough, and then I got two receivers, Calvin Rittler, B. Thomas, A.J. Brown, our neighbors. All right. So, listen, I think, out of those, once again, I'm going to stay with Jared Gough. He's got a great notch.

I've been the highest scoring game by, like, five points. So if I'm going to lose, I'm going to lose with Jared Gop as my quarterback. Look, A.J. Brown, great receiver with a quarterback that does. doesn't want to throw in a tough matchup. I think Ridley and Thomas have better matchups this week. So the only way A.J. Brown gets the football is that they feed him that football,

and they force feed him that football. It just doesn't feel like something that the Eagles are going to do. So I'll go golf, Ridley, and Thomas. Gio for 790s, Dr. Roto. Go ahead, Gio. Hey, good afternoon, guys. Just, you see if I could start two out of these four between Garrett Wilson. Say Flowers, Marvin Harrison or Guy Cano.

He's kind of not leaning towards him. Geo, who was the first one, dude? Who was the first one? I'm sorry. It's Garrett Wilson, Zay Flowers, or Harrison. Yeah. And I'm going to go. Yeah, yeah, I appreciate you, Gio.

I love Zay Flowers this week. They play a lot of single high, the Giants, Zay feasts on that. I like Zay. I like Garrett Wilson. You know Aaron Rogers is, you know, putting up his stats right now, Trying to play maybe one more year, probably not going to be for the Jets. It's going to be for somebody in the NFL. I like Wilson.

I like to say a ton. All right, a couple more calls real quick. Let's go to Sam Marcus and Lane for Dr. Rodel. Go ahead, Lane. Hey, quick question. Dillon, Sutton, or Flowers? Wow, that's a tough call. I'm going to go Sutton because I think the game will be the closest,

and Sutton will be on the field for a ton of snaps. I love Zay Flowers. However, this game could be 30-0 at the end of the third quarter, and then all of a sudden say Flowers are not doing anything. I think Thielen is in play, but, man, do I really want to be watching a lot of that game? I probably don't. I'll lean Sutton slightly over Thieling. All right, and lastly, let's go to another Gio in a Tasca Cedar.

Go ahead, Gio. Hey, guys, Charbonnet, Tank Bigsby, or Naji Harris from our RB1 spot? Yeah, for sure. Charbonnet is fantastic, and if he's playing, what they do is they just feed him, right? I mean, how many times do you touch the football? It's all about opportunity in the NFL. You get 20 touches, good things are going to happen,

especially in fantasy football, so give me all Charbonnet I can handle. I do like Tank, though. He looks a lot better, and he looks like the starter there, but I'm going Sharpenet. All right, here we go. Time for us to get Dr. Roto's knockdown, dragout, number one, can't miss prospect of the week in fantasy football. We present to you, Dr. Roto's. Lock of the Week.

We've covered a lot of these guys. I do like Brian Robinson from the commanders, but my favorite play of the week, Derek Henry against the Giants, the Giants are reeling. Baltimore is going to come in, probably put up 30, 34 points. Henry might have 120, 130 yards and two touchdowns by halftime. So Derek Henry, absolutely the lock of the week. And there you go, that's the lock of the week. Oh, yeah, got to get that in there.

How are we going to find you between now and Sunday afternoon? You can certainly find me on X, a DRROTO. You find me at my website, Dr. Roto.com. And if you listen to Sirius XM Fantasy Radio, you can find me 8 to 10 a.m. Eastern on Saturday morning. All right, Dr. Roto, have a great rest of your weekend. And hope to all as well with you and your... For next week. I appreciate your MT and enjoy Vegas.

I'll see you guys next Thursday. Sounds good. Dieter is here on Sports Talk 790. An update from Ken Rosenthal is up next. On the Astros, and perhaps hours away between the Astros and the Cubs, that plus non-Flority Stories. It is at 1.30 on Sports Talk 791. I want to tell you about Game Day men's health.

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It's all your music, sports, podcasts, and talk free never sounded so good. 135 Sports Talk 790, Ken Rosenthal of the athletic, who says, Thanks, but no thanks to an interview last week, says the Cubs are close to acquiring Kyle Tucker from the Astros. That would have a package led by Isaac Perides, Hayden Wisnicki, and Cam Smith. West Necky is a pitching prospect. Peretti is an infielder, and Cam Smith is a third baseman. And Ken Rosenthal shortly after that said it would be a three-for-one trade. Looking at Twitter, and again, nobody knows these things, but just people, just initial reaction is either the Astrosin,

got well underserved on this. If indeed is that's the trade, or the Astros need to get more, or the Cubs better get more than one year from Kyle Tucker, or they'll lose this deal. So typical Twitter fashion, half of hate, half love the move. Shocking. Hayden was Neske, by the way, 27 years old.

What are these numbers? Oh, did baseball reference change up their stuff? They put war first now. That's cool. A 3.86 ERA. In 28 games, 7 starts last year at the age of 26, a minus 0.3 war. That's great. But overall, I mean, why is that so bad?

His ERA is under 4 and his whip wasn't bad. Interesting. Yeah, again, I don't know anything about these players in Ross and Monday when the deal is done. It looks like it's going to be done. Maybe if it happens during the ATM, I'll be really pissed. Seriously. They don't deserve it. Don't act like you're shocked.

I don't know. They get every deal. By the way, announcement on Tuesday from 10 to noon, I'll be joined by Brian Bogussevik on the show. Oh, nice. That's a good get right there. That is a great get. So we'd be breaking down baseball like a muddha, especially. Will we be breaking down at Kyle Tucker trade, Matt? Sounds like it.

Will there be a Monday, believe it or not, all things Hayden-W-Nex-Nex-N-N-N-N-N-N-X-K. Wes-Nes-N-N-K. Whatever, Westnack-Skey. Don't hurt yourself. H-N-W. W-D-W. W-N. Okay.

Hayden. Hayden Wisnski. No, I don't think it works. No. It doesn't work at all. Cam Smith. No. Isak Perides.

Kyle Tucker. Isaac Paredes or Issaq? It's Isaac, right? I'm going to go with Isaac. You're going to go with Isaac? Okay. All right. More on this shortly.

Right now, time now for some non-Florida stories. Rossi, I'm going to go first, and it involves a cold beverage. and they don't spend money on the show, so I'll rhyme it. Okay. Billerbyte. You ever had a Billerbyte? I've had several dozens. They call it the champagne of beers.

I had one last of the tables. No, that's not the champagne of beers. High Life is the Champina beers. Well, same company. Put it that way. So Billerbyf has got a new cologne out. Have you heard about this? Yes, this was my story last week, but go ahead.

Oh, no. is it really? It was High Life too. You're doing this all wrong. No, it's middle of light. It was middle of light. Okay, my story. Or is it in my life. Oh, my God. Okay, so it is a champagne. You know what? Go on. I'm going to find another story. I'm not repeating myself. Get out of here. You guys go.

Well, I've got to make sure these people are from Florida. Even though I, you know, I've had this story for weeks, Matt. Okay, yes. Let me tell you about Marjorie Fitterman and Bernie Littman. In Philadelphia, the couple are newlyweds, as they have just been betrothed in the city of Philadelphia. What's special about them? Well, they have set a Guinness world record. They are 102 and 100 years old and have become the oldest couple and the oldest newlyweds in world history.

I'm guessing you can figure out where they met, Matt, if you'd like to guess. Atlanta. No, like where? Oh, at an Eagles game. Yeah, actually, they were both drinking, they were tailgating so hard and they were chugging beers, and then that's when their eyes met. No. At a nursing home. Marjorie and Bernie.

I like Eagles game much better. Meeting at a nursing home after both of their longtime spouses had passed away. They dated for nine years before deciding to tie the knot and become the oldest newlywed couple in world history. We break away from non-flora stories. Oh, no. Hit the sounder. Oh, no. That's one.

Go on. That's two. Let's keep going. that's three let's one more for the good of the game might it even be yep hit it at this time that's the max

I think you're right I mean this is earth shaking even though we knew it was imminent and it happened during our show suck it's the last segment of the show we get no damn We can literally have believe it or not coming up next.

We can skip it and take calls. Skip it and take calls. Yeah, because we have, the topic is Las Vegas. We're going to be here multiple times the next 10 years, so we'll be fine. Yeah, actually some of them. Kyle Tucker to the Cubs for Isaac or Isaac, whatever. Isaac Perredis. Isaac Perides, Hayden West Necky, Cam Smith, done.

Kyle Tucker, gone. Okay, pass and said, or who has those three guys? Rosenthal? That's Chandler Rome. Jeff Passon, and I'm going to assume that Ken Rosenthal has it as well. I saw a deal done from Passing. He did not have the players. Yes, Chandler has the players.

Okay. Paredes, Wes Nesky, and Cam Smith. Done! Wow. This is what we... Kyle Tucker is a Chicago Cub and is no longer a Houston Astro. Your reaction. Let's just do it.

Let's take a timeout. What's your reaction? What is your reaction? 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. Your very first opportunity, because other stations in town are talking about dumb-ass football right now. I want to talk about the base.

This is the biggest off-season trade. The Astros have made since win, Rossi, because they didn't trade for Josh Hader. I mean, well, you acquisition or trading away? It would be Verlander, I guess, in 23. Yeah. The biggest sendaway. How about that one?

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That's Sethi's. Tucker hits it in the year pretty deep to right field. Here, King Talk. At the wall looking up. See you later. Do King things. This is Kyle Tucker. Sports Talk 790.

Is your home for Astros baseball. 2-2 again. And Tucker hits it in the year pretty deep to right field. That sends back McKenna at the wall. looking up. See you later. Kyle Tucker gives the Astros a lead with a grand slam. Seven to six, Houston. A hundred miles per hour from Batista, and more than that from Tucker to right field.

And the Astros stun him. Tucker's fifth grand slam of his career. All right, let's go. We got about six minutes in this show. Oh, Ross, no, we're not doing this, aren't we? Yep. King Tuck. Preston's more talented brother.

Significantly more talented. Noah, in Mississippi. Noah, Kyle Tucker's gone. Your thoughts, please. Not dead, but just gone. I don't like it. I don't like it. I feel like our team is just gone.

completely just been broken apart. I don't like how we've been spending our money. We let Springer walk because we say we're going to sign Correa. We let Correa walk because we say we're going to have to sign Bregman. Now we haven't signed Breggman yet because we said, oh, we possibly going to sign Tucker. Tucker has obviously not signed, and I don't know what we're going to do with Bregman.

Crane hasn't spent any money. I don't get what his problem is. I get not signing older players for long contracts, but Tucker is a generational player that we actually have. So I just don't get what point is letting him go. you gotta put your money where your mouth is. You say where the windows open as long as it's easier.

It looks like that window's closed. So that's all I got. Yeah. I know why you are I don't even know if Kyle would have gotten a decently blank check. It would have made a difference.

I just think he wanted to go somewhere else. I just did. I'm not saying he was unhappy. You just like, you know what? You set me to arbitration. I'm going to get you back. He got it back. And he has spent money, Ross. That's just a line of thinking that's just not true.

He may not have spent the money in the best spots, but he has spent money. He went and got a high-end first basement we thought, Jose Ibrahimbrayu. He went and got a high-end closer who was good and not great. He went and got Justin Verlender. He's put a lot of money in Jose Altova's piggy bank. He put a lot of money in Yorna Navarrez's piggy bank. I mean, this is not a miserly owner, but there is a certain threshold. and that threshold

does not include one Kyle Tucker Reagan incline at 152 hi Reagan hello how you doing beautiful day being astro fan huh I mean it's a different day for sure

what is y'all starting lineup right now without Kyle Tucker I mean in last year Dana Brown he said Kyle Tucker will be Astro for life. I mean, how does that feel now? That was just, that was lip service.

Nobody believed him when he said that, right? You were right. You believe that, right, Reagan? You didn't believe it, did you? Yeah, yeah, of course. Okay, okay. And I also found out Kyle Tucker's wife, she's from Chicago. If you're going to get a hometown discount now? No, there's no more hometown discounts. Thanks for the phone call. Parades, by the way,

maybe your first basement next year your sports over. Are you ready for that? Sure, why not? That's an upgrade. Or is he going to play? Where is it?

Wherever you place? Third base, first base? You couldn't put the first base. The first base contributions last year just weren't good enough. They just weren't, right? I mean, let's face facts. You had to get an upgrade there. Ronnie and Lake Jackson.

Say your farewells to Kyle Tucker. Sure, well. Matt, appreciate y'all taking the call. and I'm glad it broke on your show. Fantastic. Thank you. But listen. Suck it in, team.

You have no outfield. You have no outfield now. You had one legitimate outfielder that was a presence on the team. Now you have none. And they're evidently not just, and I haven't kept up with the National League since we went to the American League. So I'm not sure who these people are, but you gave away the only contributing outfielder you had. You got two center fielder that can hit a buck 50, can run into walls and catch a ball, can't throw, can't hit.

This just sucks. Sucks all the way around. Thank you. Pardon me, Ross says this is happening today when it could have happened a year from now. Does that make any sense to you? Yeah, it hurts, and I mean, we can hear the callers that we've ran through here really quickly, that your team is not better for 2024. They're not.

But you're hoping that the team is better for 25, 26, because. No, and all indications are... I'm sorry, 26, 27, excuse me. Yeah, yeah. Clearly, the indication from Dana Brown and the Astros was that Kyle Tucker was not going to stay here. So you had to do something. It wasn't...

This is not a premature move on the Astros part. This is getting ahead of it, Frank. I know you don't want to hear that. It's getting ahead of it. It just is. West and Humble, 155. West, good afternoon, take about a. Kyle Tucker.

Hey, man, let me give you some sanity talk here. Look, 10 and 15-year contracts in the Major League Baseball's are stupid. And Kyle's going to want a 10-year contract. If you waited until next year, you would have got less. Cam Smith is the number seven prospect in the Cubs system. Paredes hit 238, 19, and 80 last year, which is similar to what Bregman did, you know. So maybe there's a sign that they're going to ship Paredes to first and bring Bregman to third, keep regman to third

but i agree with the last caller we need help in the outfield and i don't think they're done so everybody needs to kind of step back from the ledge let dana brown work you were going to lose tucker last next year anyway there you go west thank you this is a good song too gosh let me tell you about big city wings

and then we're going to play this song to say farewell you want to say farewell to lousy wings go to other places Farewell to hunger. A load of great wings. Farewell to hunger. That's good call, Rossi. Big City wings.

Half-priced appetizers tonight. Sandwiches, salads, burgers, wings. Watch college football tomorrow. Well, you can't watch football tomorrow. But you can watch basketball tomorrow. Rockets.

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King Tuck, no longer in Houston.