The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - First NBA Player Opts Out, MLB Overreaction & Cade Cunningham

Episode Date: June 22, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12 o'clock at H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you. And welcome to a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 alongside Rossville or L.

Looks rested, fresh, alive. First thing he says is Matt, what I miss in sports. And I said, not much. Yep. Tried to have the conversation because, I mean, I was off for a couple of days. I wasn't listening to the station a whole lot. Sorry, Matt. No, that's okay.

And he said, you know, what's the good? Just fill me in, Matt. Just fill in the blanks for me. What's happened in the last few days in this world of sports and all the news and all the goings on? What do you got? And he's like, eh, you're good. Yeah, I wish I could give you this long, exhaustive recap. Brendan, what did he miss?

Did he miss anything? Oh, I won the Fantasy Five comfortably. Oh, you did? was a category. Category was best factor fiction, past or present, television shows. It was basically, you could choose any show you wanted to, like a sports center 30 for 30. You could choose

coach. You could choose Eastbound and down. But once you once you chose a network, you lost the network. So you had to go to five different networks. Interesting. Okay. So you took Eastbound and Down. I did. That's a great pick. He took Friday Night Lights with the first pick, which was an excellent selection. I've actually never

watch that show. But he went so bizarre towards the end that there were shows I had never even heard of before. Okay. And thus I won four to one. What did he go with like the the rocking jock basketball from MTV or something? Brendan, what did he have? There were a couple of shows that you actually knew about because you skew a little younger, obviously.

He had Blue Mountain State. Never watched it? I've heard of it. I can't remember off the top of my head what else he had. It was unremarkable. Well, he got his ass kicked. Yeah, he did. You know what?

He needed to be humbled in that fantasy five. No question about it. He won two straight. First of all, he robbed both of us, Matthew. you if we can just be completely objective completely honest, no bias. We both got robbed. And then, so he got all high and mighty and I'm glad you knocked him off his perch.

He also had the league and the last chance of you. Oh, okay. The league just fell off for me. Last chance you was on my board. It was. The league started off good and then it just, it was not great.

After the first couple of seasons, it wasn't very good in my opinion. I stopped watching. So I watched yesterday as the, you know, as fathers, we get a half day. Yes. We don't even get the full day. You get about 15 minutes.

Well, you know, I got a little bit more yesterday, but it was by no means a full day. Did you go to Lake Charles? No. And you wanted to. Say, kids, I'm going to celebrate being your father by being away from you. Yeah, boy, Golden Nugget sent me another thing. Come spend a couple days free. Oh, yeah.

It's because they took you. They took me too. It ain't free. Don't take the bait, Maddie. I know. That's why I can't do it. All right. So here's what I'm confused about.

I wonder, is sports center delayed here? Is this a repeat or a fresh sports center? Because 24 minutes ago. Top rights is live. Okay. And this is why I need you to look up Tim Kirkshan on Twitter to see. Bob Nightingale, USA Today, friend of the station. He's been on a couple shows here.

24 minutes ago says the 38 member executive board of the players union have scheduled a meeting this afternoon to discuss the modified MLB 60 game proposal. Enrique Rojas reports that a formal vote will be taken. Well, we're just finding out from according to ESPN's Jesse. Rogers that that vote has been delayed again. Is that because of what happened earlier? This says Jesse Rogers reports. So let me go to Jesse Rogers. Let's go to Jesse Rogers. Let's see. He hadn't tweeted anything in two hours. Okay. So that could be dated. So maybe he's dated up there. And by the way, you'll never see ESPN actually credit somebody else that doesn't want for ESPN. They're better about it, but they used to be horrible and now they're slightly better.

Yeah. All right. So at this point, we don't have a vote of the three. 38 people that will decide whether or not to accept a 60 game season. And that's again what Rob Manfred said over the weekend is that please stop talking about anything more than 60. The owners are not willing to pay you your prorated salary for that and we are

fighting the calendar. Rossi, there's absolutely zero reason why they should be fighting the calendar. It's the ridiculous greed of the owners and the players combined that makes us fight the calendar right now. Nobody else. Yes. They should be in spring training. Absolutely.

It's all about the owners and basically kind of what Tyler Bauer was talking about last week in the stall tactics. Well, they wanted to be able to throw their hands up and say, you know what, we don't have time for all this. That's because they've been delaying these negotiations for so long, giving out all these proposals that they know Major League Baseball is not going to accept. Yeah, they had a 48 game season in their back pocket. The 50-50 revenue split was a waste of everyone's time. And that took up the news cycle for like a few days. They don't be knew they were never going to accept that. They've just basically been stalling this entire time to get closer to the deadline.

And that's why at the end of the day, while it's easy to crush the players because that's the one, those are the people we see, you can certainly understand their frustration. There really was no negotiation. It was, we're going to continue to give you what you don't want to hear, but just put it in different ways to make it sound better to the national public. Yes. When all along, it was going to be nothing more. I mean, I guess they went from 48 to 60 would be their concession. I guess the expanded playoffs was a concession. The designated hitter being used in all baseball was a concession.

But other than that, and here's the thing, I think they've got to get a two-thirds vote, Ross, if not even a little higher from the owners to complete the season. If it's seven or eight owners that don't want to do this, who's to say that even if the players agree to this 60-gates? game season that the owners will do that. And then we're officially done. We did the math on the NBA, right?

Two-thirds is going to be... Well, there's 30-22-ish. Yeah. Okay. So I'd like to be able to tell you on this absolutely awful gloomy day with rain. 20. I'm an idiot. Of course it is.

Yeah. On my brains now, you know, I'm just getting back in here. Well, I feel like you're on a tape delay at this point. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm getting back into the swing of things. Like today is Monday, by the way. I haven't... What?

You know what our phone number is for the radio station? for people to call and say hello. 1-800-6-36-86-86? No, that's for getting a car. Okay. Isn't that the song of those cars for kids? No, I think it's close to the old Jim Rome number. Oh, that was, no, you just gave out Jim Rome's number.

That's not nice. You're not supposed to get out other radio stations' numbers. Nobody listens to him. It's fine. He says otherwise. Well, he's wrong. Nobody in this town is even on here? I don't think so.

I don't think so either. You know who killed Jim Roman. I don't know if you know this, Brendan. Who killed Jim Roman in Houston? It was the Matt Thomas show. The ratings were so dominant that they're like, we got to change something up, and Jim Rome got dropped.

That seemed like how long? We call him the Rome killer. Who's we? The fall of Rome, Matt Thomas. That would be your wrestling name. Thank you very much. All right. Oh, our phone number to join us today is 713-212-5-790.

Now, again, if y'all are driving around today, and you don't have hands free, don't call. We'd love for you to call, but it's... It's nasty out there. It's calmed down a little bit over here in the gallery, but for a couple of hours, it was a hot, hot mess. Yes, and it's very frightening because in my home, my, right before a lightning strike would happen,

one of my light, what do you call, electrical outlets, would make like a weird crackling noise like you're rubbing two wires together. No, no. No, no, no, no, no. Yes, yes, yes. I heard like, and then a lightning strike. Every time it was predictive.

And it was a scary. I could not sleep like the last hour and a half. I was supposed to be sleeping because I'm so terrified. My entire apartment was going to explode. We're going to have to get your new place. Thank you. We'll get an electrician in there. First of all, you need a roommate.

And second of all, you need a... No, I'm good. You need an apartment complex that's up to building... I love living I'm by myself. I never want a roommate. So you don't care if it's up to code or not. No, it's fine. Okay.

We definitely need somebody to look at it. that outlet. Oh, you really have to tell somebody. Yeah. I didn't all have to hear about a building fire on the west part of town, and it was your apartment company. Well, I should have looked at it to see if it was sparking or anything, but I was just scared. So you just thought the crack it would be fine?

Yeah, I mean, it was okay. Well, the place could be on fire right now. Wow. All right. I've got insurance. Among the things and the conversations to get to today, and again, we'd love for you to join us at any point at 713-212-5-790. We have an NBA player that says they're not going to Orlando.

Rossi. I know you're going to be shocked by this, but it's not because of the COVID. Okay. Okay. Or the Rona. Terrible, terrible situation in NASCAR with George Wallace's garage. I don't think there needs to be a long explanation about that, but we will at least address it a little bit. And I cannot wait to find out who it is because you would think with security cameras and everything else that I'm sure, and plus the limit of number of people that could be in or on that garage, it won't take them very long to figure out who it is.

Dak Prescott is a very smart man. He's going to make at least $31,400,000 this year. He's going to sign his franchise. I will discuss that. And see what else. Oh, I got to tell you, I've watched a lot of TV this weekend. The Ken Griffey, not tribute, but kind of a biopic, if you, so to speak, the MLB Network did.

Ross, I don't know if you were a Griffey guy growing up, but I was. He loved, loved. I think he's got the sweetest left-handed swinging the history of the sport. Absolutely. Well, as a left-hander, I loved Ken Griffey Jr.

He was my favorite. He was my brother's favorite athlete, too. Loved watching that. I'm talking a little bit about Griffey a little bit. We need to celebrate the 26th anniversary of Clutch City 1. That was the first championship, the Rockets won 26 years ago today.

Okay. Game 7 win over the Knicks. Wonderful. Matt Thomas on the PA. And yeah, I just turned 22. I was a baby. Hmm. And I'm done watching Celebrity Family Feud.

What? Why? Multiple reasons. Matt Thomas will explain. Yeah. I mean, no other radio show the marketplace are going to tell you why they're stopped watching Celebrity Family Feud. But this guy will.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-7. baseball at the end of the day sucks. We'll kind of recap what's going on and exactly whether or not we're going to have a season. And Ross, we keep in this for weeks. If they don't get a deal done by this weekend,

we can go to close the season off, right? I mean, how much longer can they hassle over the same thing? Baseball owners are not moving. Either they play the season as they want them to or it's done. And I'm tired of them running to every media source, to every person that covers a baseball beat

to give us a little tweet of either excitement or pessimism, either you sign the deals on both sides, you agree to it, you play, or we'll talk to you in 2021. 713-212-5-790. I got to tell you that the big city wings folks still have crawfish. Here we are late June, and they are still crushing the crawfish, five pounds for $25 in any of their eight big city wing locations. Today is also Monday, which means it's $1 chicken tender Monday. You know how those big, long, juicy, all-white meat strips are all about? a dollar apiece. You can get fat and happy for a very, very cheap rate. One dollar sauce and toss the

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Tex-Mex connoisseur. Well, is there anybody more Houston than Matt Thomas? No way. Back to the Matt Thomas show. 1217. Good afternoon. And this is a Matt Thomas show. Sports talk 790.

713-212-5-790. If you all run into flood problems, We'll take your flood calls. Tell everybody to make sure to be careful where they are. I mean, we are... 45 North is under water already. That's one of the places it's very early to flood. We are a flash flooding son of a gun town, right?

I know. I wanted to say something a little worse, but it's family radio on a Monday. Thank you. You know? God. Worst for me, I mean, Hurricane is number one, right? Number two was, remember Memorial Day when the rockets put the Warriors and actually won the game and I got stuck in the arena? Yes. And I wound up taking calls.

until like four o'clock in the morning. Was that a Friday? I don't remember what day of the week it was. But I was not with the Rockets officially at the time. I was doing the local pre-game, the post-game show. And we were doing shows inside the arena because it was just cool to be there and do that as compared to doing it in the studio.

And they just, the arena, they said, you just can't leave the Tota Center. Because it's, I mean, there's just massive, massive storms, lightning strikes, thunder. I mean, you could hear them, but crackle. That's how close you're inside this building. And so I started taking phone calls and after about 30 minutes of Rockets is like, hey, I'm stuck here on 45. I can't get out.

What are I supposed to do? So I was basically playing traffic cop for hours and hours and hours. And there were still probably 1,500 people in the arena, I think, maybe give or take. And one of the people that were still in the arena waiting to leave because they were giving the all clear to leave was Dwight Howard. So Adam Clanton takes his cell phone. I text Adam. I said, Adam, put Dwight Howard on the phone. and he came on the show.

He was on the floor from the arena. This must have been probably, I don't know, 12, 30, 1 o'clock in the morning. It was Uber surreal. I had to walk home from Mize in Midtown. Why not walk home? I had to walk home to my friend's apartment. He lives in Montrose and we were in Midtown. You walked in that stuff?

We had to walk, yeah. We had no choice. There was no other way to get home. We couldn't get an Uber. We tried to get an Uber, and we did Uber XL, so it would be an SUV. But they couldn't get to us. And so you were drenched or you just... Oh, yeah.

I think I told this story on air, maybe recently. Pneumonia? Maybe you weren't here. Or maybe it was with Joe or somebody. I had to take... No, I didn't get pneumonia. And actually, at one point, I'm sure this is ill-advised. I had to take my shoes off.

Because every step I took, my shoes were falling off. Because they were so water-logged. So it was like, this is either... I'm either just going to have to put my shoes on after every step or just take them off and probably step in a heroin syringe. Three months into moving here. I had an almost identical story to Ross. I was actually so close to work.

I had to ditch my car and walk the rest of the way into work and just stay there for hours. And it was a nice little welcome to Houston for you, wasn't it? But same situation with the shoes. I couldn't keep my shoes on. I had the same thought. I was like, this is not where I want to be walking without shoes, but I don't know what my other choices are. Speaking of shoes, Tropical Storm Allison, this is a young, younger in my career, but way back then.

What was that? 0.1-ish? Give or take. I used to always, and not stupid me, I used to always wear collared shirt, khakis, and dress used to the office. As you can clearly tell, I've decided to get off of that mode of dressing. And so we had Allison coverage on KTRH.

I was doing morning sports the time, and they're like, you know what? We need to go out cover story. In June of 2001. So I went and covered a church that was hit by a tornado. Just kind of getting, hey, what happened here, that kind of thing. And I was ill prepared to be out in this weather with the flooding and whatnot. I destroyed a brand new pair of Cole Hahn shoes.

I mean, destroyed. So I got on my boss. I said, do you see what I did? I sacrificed my pair of shoes and the boss at times that I don't care. Oh, that was the, that guy. That guy. That guy. That we've heard about.

He's long gone now. Long gone. but he could give two craps that I mean not that you know at the end of the day people losing their homes and whatnot but it was still I would have liked that oh sorry that happened what can I try to repair them or whatever no you want to know part of that sorry I'm not better RAP to the Cole Hans 2001 it's only been 19 plus years so gone too soon I haven't been able to get rid of the memory but that's not the yeah my biggest memory about Allison was I was pumped that we were going to not have to go to school for a

couple days how about this I give you one more Allison memory I was doing the Comets play at the time. And they were having a hair, they had a game in Phoenix. And the rain was really coming down. This was probably early in the Allison. And so they said, hey,

we had a game we were supposed to do. And they said, everybody go to the arena. We'll take one bus from the TOTA center to the airport. We're going to get on a charter flight because all the commercial flights had been canceled. So we get on this bus and we go to this private terminal at the airport. And I'm in this.

us and I'm thinking to myself, I don't think I should go. Because if I go and I get stuck because they're not letting commercial traffic back into Houston, I'm going to get in trouble with my main job, meaning this, you know, it was the time clear channel. So I got on the bus with all the comment players and I told them, I said, we're going to have to go to a plan B. We're going to somebody else have to do the broadcast the game because I'm not going. And I turned around and came back. It was the right decision to make because I was needed at the radio station at the time. But that was one of those situations that I almost left town to broadcast the time a very inconsequential WNBA basketball game. I thought you were going to give us a final

destination type story and then something horrible was going to happen to the plane. I'm glad that it could, but it would be a completely false story. I was like, oh my gosh, Matt, this is my, Matt was the original final destination. So that's my story. That's when, and that's what pissed me off about the boss is because I decided to turn around and not go and be good for the radio station and then my shoes get to start. And he's like, I don't care. Thanks. RIP to the Cole Hans. Cole, that's my favorite brand of shoe.

Oh, really? Still to this day. I believe I'm wearing some right now. Very, very comfortable. We can do shoe talk on the show. Okay. I mean, we don't have to. I just thought it was a little anecdotal about the old past of this radio company.

713, 2, 1. Yeah, don't call with your favorite shoes. I'm a time, you know, 713, 1, 2, 5, 7 out if you'd like to get in today. 713-212-1-2-5-790. Real quick, I hope they find out what happened at Talladega. You know, NASCAR, trying and has tried for really, really a long time

to shed their stereotype of who they are, what they're made of, what their fan base is, and the Confederate flag went a long way to that, right? Was it about two or three weeks ago, I think they did that? Yeah, so maybe last week. Yeah, they banned the Confederate flag. Yeah, it hadn't been very long. So just because you ban the Confederate flag doesn't mean that racism is all of a sudden going to end in the sport of NASCAR.

I don't think anybody was thinking that. But here's the thing. And if you have not heard, Bubba Wallace is an African-American driver. And there was a noose found in the garage stall of his garage. Fans have not been able to go to any of these things. I'm assuming Ross these cameras work, right? Yeah. I'm assuming the person that would have done this has an IQ of less than 25.

Or it's a plant. Do you really buy that? No, I don't know. Are people saying that? No, they are. Okay, I mean. But it's conjecture. We've seen crazy stuff.

They're not doing it. It's in the realm of possibility. I'll put it that way. I really hope it's not. Me too. But however it got there, it's going to be found out, right? Unless that person was privy to know where, I mean, I'm going to assume in these super speedways with millions of dollars that are invested in these vehicles,

there are security cameras all over the place. Yeah. And there's also not a very many people allowed in the area where this was found, correct? No media, no fans, and these crews, which I don't know how big they are to begin with, apparently they're cut in half. So from what I read this, heard this morning, 15 to 16 people per crew, you know, that's part of a particular team. So you're looking at probably just a couple of hundred potential. people that would have done it.

And yeah, you brought up the plan, and I think you were doing kind of facetually. It is being discussed. Again, hopefully that isn't the case. But how in the world would someone think they could get away with this? Unless they were absolutely 100% privy to where the security cameras were. I don't think they were. I can't wait to find out who it is. And ultimately, no matter, and it's just one person, hopefully it's not a group people.

but for NASCAR who's trying to shake their image, this does them no favors. And I don't even know if they'll ever be able to shake it, to be honest with you. I don't even know, Ross, that the Confederate flag being eliminated from NASCAR events is ever going to really, at the end of the day, shake what people, generally speaking, think of NASCAR. Probably not.

I wouldn't think it would have any long-term effects, but, I mean, if there were a black family or something like that who wanted to go check out NASCAR and they saw a bunch of Confederate flags and it made them uncomfortable, they would never come back. And now you don't have that element. There are some African American NFL players that have started to really enjoy NASCAR. Yeah. How long is that going to stick?

I know that Alvin Camaro was tweeting out like Bubba Wallace is my guy or something like that. And again, I think this is where NASCAR could take advantage of no other line of sports going on to maybe grab some people that normally would. I've tried. I mean, there are just things I just can't get into. I can't get into. I can't get into soccer. I've tried. Hockey I can do a little bit around Stanley Cup playoff time, but that's about it.

NASCAR and soccer for me, I just can't never buy into it. Speaking of what you owe me on the over on the Man City Arsenal game. You said the over was one goal. They scored three. Well, that's because they loosened up the rules, I watched. Oh, did you? What rules did they loosen up? They thought off-sides was no longer a rule.

No, the off-sides was a rule. No, in the game I watched, there was definite many off-sides penalties. So hopefully Bubba Wallace's garage gets a thorough inspection, and then whoever was found guilty of doing that will never be able to ever walk to a NASCAR event ever again. And for that matter, just go sit in their room and shut the door and be miserable the rest of their life. Pretty much, right? I'm okay with that.

Just brutal, brutal that we still live in America that still think that that's important to do. It's awful. All right, 1228, Matt Thomas Show, Sports Talk, 790, 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Does DAC signing his franchise tag affect a certain other quarterback in this town? who may be looking for some cash. We'll discuss that coming up next as the Matt Thomas show continues.

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This is Sports Talk 790. your home for your home teams. 1233 on Sports Talk 790, a Monday edition of the Matt Thomas show. 713, 2125, 790, 713212, 5, 790. Dak Prescott, apparently today is going to sign his franchise tag, which will pay him $31.4 million for this season. The two sides have until July the 15th to work on a long-term deal. By signing his franchise tag, Fresco will be contractually obligated to report to training camp on time, whether he is, whether or not the Cowboys can figure out a long-term deal with him or not.

So he is locked in Rossi at $31.4 million. And you just give that detail. So they cannot negotiate anymore? They can't. Until July 15th. Okay. All right. That puts him at, I mean, he would be one of the highest paid quarterbacks in the league.

Now, right? Yeah, somewhere in the average. Right. So, but long term, I mean, they were thinking, if you're thinking, what are the numbers that have been floated around? Like, Pat Mahomes around 42, 45. Which would put him in a different strategy. 40, well, 40 apparently has been a number for Deshaun Watson.

And then I think Russell Wilson right now is at 35. So somewhere between 35 and 40, I'm thinking is probably going to be the number for Dak Prescott. I think it would behooving him to get something done. But the problem is, I don't know if it's a problem. Does the salary cap because of loss revenue in the stadium going to make a huge difference? I would think the answer would be yes, right? We're thinking, yes, yes. So you absolutely have to do something before then, right?

Because at this point, they're still basing on things off of revenue that was in last year. Well, maybe that's why maybe the Cowboys are. are kind of holding off on everything. If you get Cowboys, don't you hold off? I would imagine, yes. Because if you're... I know we always get these numbers or get all mixed up.

What percentage of the NFL's gate receipts, or I should say overall revenue comes from the gate receipts? They have the biggest TV deal, so I think it's... It's the smallest percentage of the three sports. Right. And you only have eight home games. Yeah.

But those eight home games, there's a higher ticker price. The sweet levels are costing. more. The concessions typically would cost more. Your parking's going to cost more. It's a huge, huge event. So if you're Jerry Jones, if for that matter, if you're Cal McNair, anybody that's got one of these Uber rich quarterbacks, Rossi, most teams are accustomed to having quarterbacks take up 10, 11, 12 percent of their salary cap. If you pay off of today's rate, what tomorrow will bring, that percentage could be 15, 20, 22 percent of a team's salary cap.

Well, our favorite revenue website that we've gone to the last three months that we haven't gone to ever before, Statista. Love it. Big fan of Satista. They say gate receipts only are, so not including concessions and all that, about 15 and a half percent of total revenue. So let's put concessions in the mix. No, 20. Just to be. Could you imagine a salary cap level 20% less when you're looking at these contracts for these quarterbacks going?

way higher than 20%. I mean, it's already a huge... It's already something you don't really want to have on your books is a very high-paid quarterback. And then so you're going to add that. And then you're going to have revenues or you're going to have the salary cap go about down 20%. Cowboys might be smart to do this.

Maybe we don't know the ins and outs. Maybe if they've pulled off the negotiations because of all this. But that would be the smart move. It would be the right move. And it would be kind of a cold-hearted move, which is very Jerry Jones. Let me ask you this. Just plain devil's advocate, which I do, by the way, agree with you on your side.

But you mean to tell me that Dac and the Cowboys haven't talked about a long-term extension prior to the Rona? Of course they did. So Dax people could go to them and say, wait a minute, why are you doing this to us because of the Rona? And the Cowboys come back to you say, well, Dak, we tried talking to you on February 15th, and you want to know a part of this conversation. So I think there's probably two sides of that. As far as we know, I mean, they've been basically talking for almost a year. this point. So if the advantages, I mean, do you think

Dax people would take advantage of the situation? If all of a sudden the number of the revenue for the league exploded? Of course. He would take advantage of that. No. So now that is being dropped, the Cowboys are going to have me more physically responsible with their position. I'm not even, yeah, I'm not saying it's a wrong move or a bad, it's a good move. It's a smart move. I mean, Dax people probably hate it. Of course. I think, I don't frankly think Cowboy fans particularly care. Where is Cowboy fan on that Prescott? Because Cowboy fan isn't going God, give him $40 million.

He needs it. I don't think any fan ever does that. I think fans, like, for instance, when Laramie Tunsell signed, nobody was running around Houston, Texas, unless you were the Uber Texan dork that said, we need to give him $20 million here. Nobody really cares what these guys get paid. They won't know the end game. They won't know how many years it is and how it's going to ultimately affect their cap.

There's probably a contingent of fans saying paid Deshaun Watson, though. Lock him up. But we don't know what that level is. we don't know what the acceptable level is. Is this Deshaun Watson's last year? And then he can get franchise next year. If we can franchise for it. If we fast forward one year, well, let's say we're living in a non-coronavirus pandemic world.

And their negotiations happen. I think absolutely there's a huge group of Texans fans saying, pay this man. Pay Deshaun Watson, whatever he wants, he is our franchise. Yeah, I guess you're right. But I would still say the day, you're not working. worried about the dollar number itself. You're just worried about him getting signed. But if we're sitting here a year from now on these microphones

and there's questions about the revenue coming up and the Texans say, you know what, we're going to franchise you and hold off. I would totally understand. That's a relevant, smart football and slash business decision. Football's a business. Yeah, it's because of the money. Because again, if football was thriving,

and let's say they found, let's say they got another billion dollar TV contract because they took Saturday night football. football. That money would go towards what? The players and salaries, which would mean the salary cap would then explode, which would then mean Deshaal would say, well, there's more money for you to spend. I'm your franchise guy. I'm really going to break the bank. So it's like a stock, right? Yeah. It's sometimes it's volatile and sometimes everybody's thriving. Well, and with the 17 games next year, they probably will be getting some more money. I would imagine. Yeah. And the

expanded playoff game. And the fact that one game is going to be on the Nickelodeon channel. maybe do we know the game on the Nickelode or somebody's going to get slimed in the middle of the game I try to try to figure things out if you want to put an NFL game on Nickelode during a regular season I get that

but you're going to take a wild card game probably the Texans one well and you're going to have Jimmy Neutron call them play by play I just don't like it maybe it's the Nickelonians for the 27-year-old crowd,

a.k.a. Brandon Riley over here. That's true. I don't hate it for what it's worth. Yeah. That comes to zero surprise. Are Zach and Cody going to be in the call? Downstairs to Sam on one other side, it's cat. And that's about as far as I go up. Yeah, I've tapped out for a recent. I mean, I can go back in my day to the

All That and the Amanda Bind show and Rocko's Modern Life. Yeah, I can't do any of that. Those are my jams. What's your favorite Nickelodeon show right now? Secrets of the Hidden Temple. He put his shoulders up. I'm sorry, legends of the hidden temple.

Like, do we, that's, you know what? Believe it or not today, Nickelodeon programming. Okay. By the way,

we had a super easy believing around on Friday. Oh, what happened? We did a father's day. We took television families and we named all their kids. Or were they the rapper names of the kids?

For example, Cliff Hucksterner's kids were, whatever. And Joe did the list and it was just a little too easy. Okay. So we gave away our two very fast winners and we moved on. We have any prizes,

by the way, for blue? Did you do it on both days? Did you do it? Did you do, are we out of prizes? We're out of prizes already? I'll check with Brass during the break, our promotions person.

Okay. So, yeah. I just, I can't understand Nickelodeon with a play. Ross, a playoff game means something. I don't care if it's an extra playoff game. It's a playoff game.

Was it going to be a Nickelodee exclusive or a simulcast? No, simulcast. Okay. But they're going to put younger people in, like Mario Lopez, do play by play. He's not young. That's true.

I don't know young people. I don't know young people either. We're out of touch. I couldn't even tell you. Like Ryan Seacrest wouldn't be young. Yeah. How old is he? He's getting up there.

Beaver's not going to do it. He don't want to put the time in. Because when you've read the pub and play, you've got to prep for it. Yeah, he's not going to do that. He's going to be peeing in a bucket or something. That's true. All right, 1242. It is the Matt Thomas show.

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Sorry about that, friends to the north. Back to the Matt Thomas show. 1247 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. Looks like if you are south of I-10, you are getting pummeled right now. So be careful everybody that's in the Pearland League City, south of Rosenberg. It looks like everything south of I-10 is getting hit pretty hard right now. I'm sick of always seeing red on the radar.

Houston, Texas. We just want to light green? Yeah. Light green. Sprinkle, if you will. Yellow of the max. Okay. That's today's weather lesson, brought to by absolutely no one.

A little too much orange and red. Yeah, I get it. All right. So the NBA bubble is going to open up here in a few weeks, and the NBA has told its players that if you do not want to go, that's certainly within your right. But you got a lot of snow by Wednesday. Ross, there is a player that is not going to go to the bubble in Orlando.

He is a young man who has career highs across the board, points per game, 15.9, minutes per game, 29.3. shoots 42% from three-point range and over eight attempts. He is one of the best sixth men in the NBA. You know what I'm speaking of? Well, I do because I have solved the story.

Former San Antonio Spur, current Washington Wizard Davise Bertans. Davise has had two torn right ACLs. Oof. Have you ever torn something like that? No. I've never broken a bone either.

Nor have I. I think it's because we're wimps. But probably. We've never exhausted ourselves athletically. My younger age I did. I used to jump off the roof of our house and all this. Yeah, I used to be a little bit of a more of a wild child before I was. But yeah, we've never broken anything between the two of us. I don't think we're real men.

I think real men have a hamstring pull, a shoulder. I've had a shoulder separation, but that's just that's throwing the baseball too much and not warming it properly. I mean, I've had a grade two ankle sprain where the, it would just... No, if you're going to be a real man, you're going to break it. Well, it happened five years ago, and it still hurts to this day. Does that count? You didn't go see a doctor? Yeah, I did. Then you're not a man.

What do you mean? I went to the doctor, so I'm not a man? Correct. Okay, I guess that makes sense. Sprains, no doctor. Break? Not only do you go to the doctor, but you also get your manker. It just wasn't healing, so I had to go back to the...

I had to go to the doctor. It was disgusting. So, he's got two ACLs torn. and he's had a really good season for Washington after having a decent career in San Antonio and there's no mention Rossi of the Rona. He's not going to Orlando because the Rona, he's not going because he is going to be a free agent

at the end of this year. And he's thinking to himself, self, I'm going to go play for the Washington Wizards who we don't even think are going to make the playoffs because I think there are five, six games out of a playoffs, about for the 8th C in the East. Even if they make the playoffs, even if they make that playoff,

playing game, they're going to get their brains beat out by the Milwaukee Bucks, right? Yes. If Vegas has put up a Wizards' bucks series bet. Series price. Yeah. What do you think that price would be on the Wizards to upset the bucks in a seven-game series? Honestly, probably bucks like minus 2,000. Again, for those of you don't go to Vegas, you'd spend $2,000 on the Milwaukee Bucks to win 100.

and what will be in the plus side for the Wizards? Probably about 2000. Well, they probably do. They'll short you. They'll do like plus 1,200 or 1,300 or something like that. But if you want the, you want the Washington Wizards title odds? Sure, why not? For example, the Lakers are the favorites right now at plus 190.

This is at Bovada. The title odds for the Washington Wizards, hold on. Let me count all these zeros. Plus 100,000. So a $100 bet. would win you $100,000. Yeah, but the Wizards would have to win the NBA championship. But other than that, I mean, it's like basically one of the...

There's that small detail. It's like a two-time lottery win, right? Back-to-back lottery wins? Basically a thousand to one. Yeah. Okay. So he's like, no. Any first blushed thoughts after I tell you that Davies Burr-Tons is not going to play for the Wizards,

not because he's afraid of the Rona. It's because he's afraid of getting himself hurt and potentially costing him some serious My first thought is in the words of the great American philosopher, Marshaun Lynch, get yo chicken. I got no problem with this. Why would he go to this bubble, get tested, get swabs jammed in his nose, and have to go through all these protocols and go to, you know, he's a Latvian. I don't know if he wants to go to all the DJ sets that they're going to have here and all the movie screenings and all that stuff. Why would he go through all that and risk injury and he's going to be a free agent to play eight games? And like you said, get your face caved in by the Milwaukee.

bucks. Because maybe you slip to the, within four, the eighth seed, which means you've got to play two more games. Then you've got to win. So you're basically going to go there for the maximum of about 14 games. You're earning yourself the right to get swept by the Milwaukee bucks. Right. And you're risking injury.

And you're risking coronavirus. Davise Bertons. I've got no issue with this. You mentioned bringing up the virus, risking the virus. I've been having this argument with people, not arguing, but spirit of debate with people all weekend. Don't you think once you get to the bubble you're one of the safest places on Earth?

Probably. So frankly, if you get there, you got a better chance of avoiding the Rone than you do if you're just being a Joe Schmole unless you just don't leave your house. Yeah, because Dr. Fauci seems to say these bubbles are going to be very safe, right?

Right. The NBA wouldn't be, I guarantee the NBA wouldn't have been doing it unless they had all the rules in place to make this the safest place on Earth. I mean, yeah, we don't know what Davise Bertanz is doing in his free time. What are the, Matt, what are the outbreak levels in Latvia right now? I will check for you and to put it on on Twitter here shortly.

Okay, thank you. Like, we don't know, right? I mean, we imagine, obviously it's going to be much safer environment of what he's, even if he's following all the protocols and social distancing and wearing a mask in his only day-to-day life. I'm sure it's much safer to be in the above. Do me a favor. Let's look up the key free agents in next year's offseason. By the way, that will be in October.

Everything's going to happen in October. They're going to finish out the season. They're going to have the NBA draft, and they're going to have, I think, free agency all within about a week's time frame. Anthony Davis, okay, number one. This is a dated list.

Didn't Draymond Green re-up? I think I brought up this data list before. We know AD's a free agent. Yes. He's like the number one star, and I think the number two star is a dramatic fallout after that. Is Gordon Hayward a free agent? Is this a list accurate?

This is from Spot Track. Spotrick wouldn't lie to us I wouldn't think they would Paul Millsap, DeMarsan, Andre Drummond, Anthony Davis, Hassan Whiteside Okay, so that's a good list

But it's not one of those There's no crazy We're not gonna be We're not gonna be waking up to wodge bombs At 1 30 in the morning To see where Hassan Whiteside ends up Or Jeff Teague Okay, so with all that being said

If you're any of those guys Do you do the exact same thing Especially if you let's say you're 34 or 35 You're looking for that one last big contract before your career is over with? Well, I would say if you're on a contender, you would not. I mean, DeMard Rosen's not necessarily on a contender. I think he should consider it.

Otto Porter Jr. is not going to be there because he's on the bowls. I got this one for you. If DeVis Bertons was playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, would he be down there? How do you stomach that? By the way, the Wizards are all in for him not playing. They understand. Yeah. They're not.

But they also realize, oh, look at this. And the guy dropping fun. I'm tired of watching soccer with you, because every time I see somebody, they get hurt. Oh, I didn't see what happened to his foot. That was a flop. You didn't see what happened to his foot? It doesn't matter.

He's flopping. Okay, he can't move now. Back to my life. All right. So the Wizards have given him the all clear. We understand you don't want to play. We're not going to be mad at you. What does a contender do if a player says,

I don't want to play because I don't want to ruin my free agent status? That's the tricky part. This one is a layup, right, in terms of, There's no concern. Frankly, 90% of the NBA players, people that follow the NBA don't even know who DeVis Bertons is. Nor should they. Well, no, he's all right. If you're on a contender, I mean, well, let's wait, right? We're going to find out in a couple of days.

Two days. How many players are there going to be who are on contenders who say, I don't want to play? I think it's going to be very few, if any. How many players do you think they'll be total? Do you think we'll get 10 players? Depending on team, contract, where their schedule is, who they are, age. I'll say under 10. Yeah, I think everything that has been discussed was discussed because they wanted to make sure their voices were heard, whether it be about the Rona, whether it be about the civil injustice, how they properly plan to state their claim out there in society.

But I think the lumber will be very, very small. And as long as there's nobody of big time consequence, like if LeBron says I'm not playing, then you really could be in a very tricky spot. but I see no signs of him thinking about doing it. I would say anybody who opts out is going to be about the level of fame of Advis Bertans. Got you. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show starts in a matter of moments. 713-213-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-79.

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at SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Brendan Riley, underscore, or on the phones. At 713-212-5-790. Ladies and gentlemen, no other radio station this marketplace is going to give you the Latvian COVID rate,

but you're about to hear it now on Sports Talk 790. Just so you guys know, this is some Latvian folk music to go along with the numbers. Yeah. So, let's let me. Let's let it play first.

I want to hear this first. Yeah, when's the beat going to drop? What is the name of this song? Oh, boy, I don't. Make something up. That's true. Oli Janu D. De Nia.

Sounds about right. Okay. So, Latvia only has 178 active cases. Wow! And I've only had 1,111 total cases so far with 30 deaths. Lafeyas has been doing great. I'd say it's a pretty safe place to be right now. Yeah, so maybe Davis Bertans is going to go home to Latvia where he knows he's going to be safe, Matthew.

Have either one of you've been to Latvia? You know, it's not on the bucket list, Maddie. Where is it? It's very far down on the bucket list. Like, it's east of here.

Apparently I'm working with a geography major. It is north of Lithuania and south of Estonia. Of course. Everybody knows that, Matt. But I mean, is it a destination we want to go to? Or is it a country of civil unrest?

Well, a.k.a. The United States. Things to do in Latvia. Would the prices right ever give away a trip to Latvia? Ooh, travel is restricted to Latvia right now. Oh, okay.

Isn't travel restrictive to just about everyone? Well, it's number one thing to do in Latvia. This is according to the crazy tourist.com. Right. Walk in the town hall square. Okay. Number two, go to the seaside museum. Sure.

Number three, walk down, jongola. Okay. Sounds great. And number four, visit the Naval Port Prison. And there is your chamber and commerce tour of the country land. You're brought to you by Davies Burthans in his upcoming free agent contract. A prison and museum in the town square. Latvia's going to stay off the bucket list, I think.

Yikes. All right. So we're okay with Avis saying thanks, but no thanks. If he is a 76 or a buck, a rocket, a Dallas Maverick, he's playing. He's going to treat. Well, probably. But he wants to get his chicken, Matt. I mean, I say the same thing if you're on a contender and you're a free agent.

to protect yourself and you maybe haven't been in shape or whatever. Now I understand that people would question your competitive drive and all those things, but we always would bring up the example. What if Zion Williamson sat out his freshman year at Duke and things like that? Just in order to preserve his health. You know what it reminds me of? It's just like a college football player saying I'm not playing the bowl game. Yes.

If I'm a first round pack, first round draft pick out of Arizona and the bowl I'm going to is the Hootie Coochoochee Bowl in San Diego. Really? Well, I mean. Sponsored by Muddy Water. Right. And you're playing some other six and 16. Why would you want to play in that game?

He's, Yeah, I got no problem with that. He's calling in sick for a bowl game. Because there's no chance of Wizards are going to win the East. There's no chance they're going to make a deep run on the playoffs. And he ultimately, if he gets hurt, he's going to cost himself millions of dollars. Davies Bertanz is this year's bowl game. And he's obviously a very high ACL risk.

Yeah. All right. So that's going on there. Bob Nightingale one hour ago. This is Bob Nightingale USA Today. 38 member executive board of the Players Union of Baseball have scheduled a meeting this afternoon to discuss the modified MLB 60 game proposal.

Enrique Rojas reports there's a formal vote will be taken. What do they have to discuss? Major League Baseball has been very consistent. Anytime you ask us to play a number of games, we're going to only play 70% of the games you want to play. Well, what are the things that? that have been tweaked by Rob Manfred that the players would have to vote for. And by the way, I went to Enrique Rojas's Twitter to try to get the ladies from him.

It's in Spanish. So I'm not being able to a lot. So Bob Nightingale is stealing people's material from Spanish? Yes. Does your translator ever work on Twitter? Yeah. I'm going to start following some people that type in different languages and see if it matches to what I think they're saying.

Okay. That would mean I'm really, really bored. You got a lot of free time But anyways, so I mean, what has been tweet? I was asking, like, what's the latest? I don't really know what they're... They went from 66 to 60 games or something like that.

Was that it? Well, they wanted 70. Yeah, the players. Players wanted 70. Major League Baseball players at 60. They said, well, why don't we play 69? No, 60. 60.

I mean, no, whatever it's been, it's been the back and forth, really, there hasn't been a whole lot of back and forth. There was a meeting. You were gone last week. But Rob Manford and Tony Clark, the two sides that lead each other's unions were in a meeting in Phoenix and we were trying to figure out who's going to pay for

the hotel room because they had a big conference center obviously they were meeting and we had to figure out who paid for it and Rob Manfred left the meeting thinking they had a done deal because he went and chirped over to our buddy John Heyman who gets everything wrong and only had the perspective meanwhile Evendrelick who gets everything right said slow your roll down the players did not come out of the meeting the same way that the owners did yeah I was here for that because it happened in the middle of your show at like 130. We were like, whoa, breaking news. John Dayman said deal in a minute.

And then Evadrelic just peed all in our Cheerios and said, no. And that's why I don't trust John Heyman. You shouldn't. Here's what I've learned about baseball writers this year. I never trust what John Heyman has to say, first and foremost. And secondly, anything that Buster Olney writes for the foreseeable future will have some spin towards the Astros. You go and look at a Buster Only tweet, Ross. every five or six an astro fan chimes in.

This must be Lu No's fault. And I'll be telling you, I'll tell you the truth. I'm guilty of doing it myself. I'm okay with that too. Just hold his feet to the fire on that one because there was a dumb-ass take. And he's going to eventually respond. Guys, that's quite enough. Well, don't say stupid stuff if you don't want to get it pointed out to you, Buster.

And I liked Buster, but he ruined his credibility by putting out that crap. It's ridiculous. There was a tweet 20 minutes ago from John Heyman. for you how much credit you want to give to it. MLB players meeting this aft and are again expected to vote on a 60 game framework. Some key union people like

the grievance being kept as an option, which would mean rejecting the deal. Commissioner tweaked framework yesterday in hopes of getting yes vote and not having to implement season. We should say this. If the owners are afraid that the players are going to try to sue them and file a grievance,

saying they've had unfair labor practices, what they're saying is we're not going to play baseball if you threaten to sue us. That's what the owners are saying. The owners want in writing that we're not going to file a grievance against you. And we'll play your 60. We're going to play the 60 game schedule we want to play and we'll give you full proration.

That's what's on the table right now. And I think there are some players, if Haman's tweet is accurate, which is very much up in the air, there are some players that want to hold that grievance card saying, you know what, they don't want to play nice. Let's put a grievance card to them. The problem is you can hold that grievance car all you want to, Ross, if you file it, Manjali baseball is going to say, we're done for the season.

We're not going to play. So it's almost like having a firecracker in your hand, but no word of throwing up in the air and they'll see it explode, right? They're just going to say, fireworks off, done. No July 4 celebration. We're done. Okay. I mean, that's what it is.

Why would you threaten to file a grievance when you know for a fact that grievance is going to cost you the season? I mean, if you're agreeing to medical protocols and all that, the 67-page document and all that type of stuff, if you come to an agreement on that, then why would you need to further file a grievance? Because, again, they didn't win anything. They didn't get, the only thing got was full proration off of the 60 games,

which really is 12 more than my guess is the players the owners want to do. The owners have been thinking of this 48 to 52 game thing all along. So in some respects, the owners did give a little bit, not a lot, but a little bit. because I think in their mind they probably think 60 games sounds more authentic of a baseball season than playing a uber small 48 game schedule

I mean yeah in negotiations you have to step to the other side a little bit which is what this is going to be but it's still as you call you're you are still rejecting this as a as a full season right you said anything under 80 yeah I'm with you I've been with you with anything under 100

which has been kind of lame on this now it's funny because Joe George has when he was filling in for you yesterday, was making some compelling arguments about making it, saying that every game's going to mean a lot, that people are going to get all vested in. And I actually did a poll question on it. And I said,

if at the end of the day, remember you were there for that, 65% of our audience, over 1,000 votes said, yeah, even if it's 40 to 52 games, I'm vested. Because I think a lot of it is people that still love baseball, and people want something sort of live competition.

No disrespect to NASCAR, no disrespect to golf, but it doesn't carry the same cachet as watching your favorite baseball team play a game. It just doesn't. No, I totally agree. Once the game, I think, this is what I've said. Before the season, we're going to complain about it.

After the season, we're depending on who the champion is, we're going to complain about it. In the middle of it, we're going to be watching. Because here's the, I got some news for you. We're not starting college football and pro football on time. Is that right? Is the 48,000 star selection going to come through? It's going higher.

Ooh, you've up to Starage? I'll do it next. I'll bump that star up. All right. Bump it up, Maddie. 111 on Sports Talk 790. If you want to get in, and you are welcome to join us all throughout the course today. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

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Good gracious You're listening to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790 For any of you, I don't think there are many of you that were trying to sell us on Jamal Adams to the Texans Do you feel kind of stupid today that you would spend any length of time talking about Jamal Adams? He wants to go play for one team. He's not afraid to tell you who it is.

We'll let you know about it in a few minutes. But this whole, Ross, it was so stupid. Was it a firestorm in Houston? No. Oh, God. It was people that had nothing better else to talk about thought, Hey, Jamal Adams wanted to treat out of the Jits. And he puts the Texans as one of his seven teams.

Do you know why Ross that the Texans are one of his seven teams? Why is that? Why would you think it would be? Do you know why he was upset to begin with? Jamal Adams. Because he wanted to get paid. Correct. And the Texans pay everybody.

That's my boy. I'm so happy you figured it out. Thank you, Matt. If they're going to pay anybody, it's going to be Justin Reed. younger, not nearly as good, but will be a lot cheaper for that position. You are not going to carry that kind of price tag for a guy. And again, if you spent any, if traveling Texans spent any length of time talking about, Hey, Jamal Adams, what's good believe for the Texans?

Let's go get him. Let's go to City Hall and put a Texan flag on him. You very stupid. Yeah, I mean, they can, once they pay Deshaun Watson, which they're going to have to do, They're not going to have money to be paying just about anybody. Toro working on a pro bono situation. That's true. Mike and the Woodlands at 119 on 790.

Mike, how are you? I'm fine. I'm just not sold on a 50-game season. It seems like I don't even start listening or watch following baseball until 60 games into a normal season. And while it may make every game more important, I'm just wondering how it's going to affect the pitching. First of all, you're determining a Sy Young winner based on, what, 10 starts. And also, I'm just wondering how they're going to use pitchers or some teams might go to a four-man rotation or are starters going to go deeper into the games because they're not going to be used as much during the year. It's just interesting things to play with.

Mike, you make total sense. I haven't even really thought about the postseason awards. Have you? Yeah, you go like four and one with a three ERA and you're the Sy Young Award winner. As far as the rotations, I would imagine, because they're going to be packing a lot of games. You're still going to need five-man rotations,

maybe and more if there are a lot of double-ederation. Mike, I think they're going to play 60 games in 70 days. So they're going to need as many live arms as possible. So it wouldn't be a question of, I don't think you'd see longer games with pitchers. I don't think you'd see a four-man rotation. I think it would be just like it was a 162 game schedule. But I think that's up to every individual.

manager, Mike. But could we see like a Lance McCullers Jr. going deeper into games than maybe he would originally have? I guess so. Yeah. I mean, you know, Verniner should be healthy, completely healthy by the time they get this thing going. McCullors probably won't have any of the reservations he would have

had, although it's probably going to take him a little bit longer to get ramped up, although it's been a year and a half since he's pitched. Mike, it's funny. I'm right there with you on the, I don't really get into a season and get worried about it until you hit 60. I just think we're going to have to change our baseball viewing habits. for one year if you want to do so. Now, if you just want to reject the entire season,

you're not going to be the only one that does that. But I think if you're in that mold of wake me up June 1st and then we start really worrying about the team, I think that kind of thinking is going to have to come by the wayside for at least one season. I'm okay with one season. Yeah. That's good.

All right. Thank you. Nice to hear from me. Good call. Yeah. It's like NBA fans say I don't really worry about the NBA season until Christmas starts. If you're a baseball fan, like Ross,

I don't know how many times in my life I've done sports talk shows in the month of May when the Astros have lost four in a row and they want to fire the manager and they want to get rid of the hitting coach. They want to make a trade. I say, just chill out. That may be the greatest thing about this season's truncated schedule is there will be no chillout factor. You get off to a two and nine start.

If you're one of those guys that love to hit the panic button, you're going to be hitting it every single minute. It's not Dave Hudgens anymore. Who is the hitting coach now? I forget. They've had like five of them in the last eight years. Oh, here we go.

Alex Centron and Troy Snitker. He's, yeah, Troy's the assistant, I think. Okay. Well, we need Alex Centron out of here, Matt. If the first series, they're not, they're not hitting. Should Alex Centron be fired at 7-1-3?

Before game even starts. All right. They're not looking good in inter-squad spring training. Astros drop the opener to the Rangers 7-3. Is this the end of the year? Should Dusty Baker get a second year to his contract? Thank God Dusty didn't buy a house here. That's right.

He's still in Sacramento, right? Sacramento, too. Yeah. Pruning his grapes. Yeah. If you're dusty, do you get an apartment or do you just get a hotel? Imagine the points you'd get. Yeah. Just get him an extended stay?

No, you don't want something nicer. Like, get him a suite at the Hilton Americas or something. Okay. When I was, when I took the job at the University of Utah, Rick Majerus was leaving as I was getting there. That guy was an A-Hole, right? Major A-Hole. It was beloved nationally, but the stories I heard once I got to Salt Lake City were incredible.

He lived in a hotel his entire time there. Really? Yeah. Because he had never planned on staying there? He never planned on getting married. He was a slob and had no thought of ever having someone clean his house. Now, what Mr. Majores didn't realize in the early mid-2000s is that you could be a slob and have someone clean your apartment every single day. In fact, when you're Rick Majeris, you're making all the money that he's making, you probably could have someone.

furnish your apartment. You could have a living made. I probably would give you sexual favors if you so choose. What? Right. Yeah, you can pay for that. Matt, you've been on... Oh, please. What tube have you been on? Please tell me. You could not get a maid that clean your house and give you sex whenever you want. You're telling me that's not a possibility. Everybody has their price, Ross.

I'm just wondering what you did with your week, your Father's Day weekend, man. If I didn't have anything else going on in the show, I would probably look at Red Tube. I think you've altered that audio No, that's 1000. You meant you, it was a Freudian slip. You meant to say YouTube, but you said... If I didn't have anything else going on in the show, I would probably look at it. Well, then, if it was a furry and slip, you shouldn't use it against me then.

No, because it's what you said, what you really wanted to say. I don't believe that. All right, anyway, so Rick Majeris, how did we get on this? Oh, living in a hotel. Okay. Dusty's going to live in a hotel, right? I would hope so, I guess. He doesn't want a fully furnished room.

He has no interest. in cooking. Certainly with this short in season. Because if it's a 48 game schedule. Because that's what we're headed for it sounds like. Or maybe the very most 60. No, Buster only says that they're haggling right now. So hopefully we'll have something by today. So that means 30 home games, which means your home 35 days.

Yes. You live in a hotel. Ooh, how about Airbnb? Do you think 70-whatever-old, dusty baker is looking at Airbnb's? Now, his son might do it for him. That's what I'm saying. His son might do it. How often do you?

I've never seen an airman. Airbnb before. Oh, you haven't? Never in my life. I've done it. They don't clean your room, right? Well, while you're there, no. See, I like my bed made.

Make it. Not the way that the hotels do it. You know, I had the tight sheets. I hate that. The first thing I do when I get a hotel room is kick out the sheets. By the way, I don't think that room that maid service is happening much anymore. We were in Lake Charles and we had no rain service in time. Really?

Zero. We had to call up to get. Well, the maids got furloughed? No, they were there. They were just doing, they were only cleaning your room once you left. Mm. Okay. So, yeah, I was not yelling, but I was trying to communicate with a woman who didn't speak any English.

You probably yelled at her a little bit. I said, I was waving at her. Come in here and clean. And she's like, no speak English. I said, okay. And I'm doing the wave. You were like, oh, El Cline-O-Rumo. You probably said that, didn't you?

No chance. You're the worst. You really are. Just the worst. So we're going with this. Oh, so where should Dusty live for 35 days? Do you get an Airbnb set up by his 20-something-year-old son? Maybe he can go out of Craigslist and just rent out somebody.

You know, you can rent somebody's couch for like 50 bucks a month. He's worth millions and millions and millions. You know what? Question is, do you room dog it? He probably couch surfed in the 60s or something. Do you get a roommate? Make it cheap. Who's his room he going to be?

I don't know. Strami. Jew Espada. A couple of 70-year-olds hanging out in the room. What was that movie? What was that movie with Walter Mathau and Jack Lemon? Grumpy old man.

Grumpy old managers. I like that, actually. Oh, somebody get on Photoshop right now and do that. Although, Dusty's not grumpy. No, he's not. Neither is. They're both affable. A placid old man?

Regular? Decent. Chill? I do love watching old games in M&B Network. 81 World Series on Dusty Baker was playing one of the games. He,

I would have loved to have gotten the known, no Dusty Baker the player. Did you see him with those leisure suits and those big, pointy collars in the 70s? He looks so chill.

I know. You know how there are, there are angry athletes and that are just the most, the chillest ones? Yes. He to me would just, it would just have been,

when Dusty Baker walks in a room, maybe goes, Hey, Dusty, what's up and he's high-fiving people hugging the girls on the disco floor he's bought around for everybody cutting a rug

cutting a rug just a really just a really swell person drives an Eldorado yeah with velvet seats has a swisher sweet in his mouth that never smokes it I would have loved a nun

I'm gonna tell the next time we have Dusty Baker on I bet 30 year old Dusty Baker was the greatest guy ever because I can't find anybody like people do criticize his managerial skills in his reputation for burning pitchers out. Well, that's fair or not. I didn't look at every one of the games he managed.

But generally speaking, there's nobody in the world that would have said, oh, Dusty Baker, bad dude. No chance. He's an American treasure and he will be for ours. I'm sure he will. We think 60 games. And by the way, I'm getting asked if I said flaccid old man. No, I said placid as in peaceful. I thought I heard flaccid. You did? Placid as in, well, let me look it up for you. Well, explain the audience. The difference between placid and flaccid and Flacid old men. Placid. If a person or animal, not easily upset or excited, calm and peaceful with little movement or activity.

Flacid. Flacid. Soft and hanging loosely or limply. Especially so as to look or feel unpleasant. I mean, if the shoe fits. P-L-A-C-I-D. Placid. All right.

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It is the Matt Thomas show. 713212-790. Jamal Adams thinks he's going to be a... wants to be a Dallas Cowboy. We'll tell you about that in a second. I just got to get this off my chest and I apologize in advance. Since we're talking about Placid and Flassett a few minutes ago, why not? So as you don't know, all of you know,

that if the opportunity arises that I want to host a game show before my career, is all said and done. Yes. The chances of it happening are zero. They're not zero. I'd hire you, Matt. Well, since you're not in charge of a network or production company, it will do me no good. The second I become a CBS executive, Matt, you're the first person.

Thank you very much. So I do watch game shows because there's nothing else on. I did watch the Griffey special this weekend, which was fantastic. But I watched Celebrity Family Feud. And Steve Harvey's an okay host. The goat still is Richard Dawson. But he's fine. I love Steve Harvey.

Two problems with Celebrity Family Feud, and really all the family feuds. Do you know Celebrity Family Feud is nothing about sex now? That's one of the things I don't like about the family feud is because that's one of the ways that they make waves and go viral and stuff like that. They're huge into that. Like they say, name something you put in your mouth, but you don't swallow. And you're supposed to say toothpaste and gum, but they also say other stuff. Right. So, I mean, they do that.

It's like they set you up. So that's a problem, is that I would like to be able to watch. a game show while I haven't explained things to my to my 12 year old daughter. Yes. And it's one of those things that you wouldn't think family feud because the word family would be one that I'd have to explain things. Yeah, what's the TV? Is it still a TV PG or what's the writing on these? If I'm explaining to her match game, that's a 9 o'clock TV show, that's adults,

and it's going to be, there's going to be some double entendres that have a sexual reference to it. I get that. But not the family feud. But that isn't even the real reason why I'm done with it. So Celebrity Family, if you, when you win the game, you play the bonus in the fast money. Yes. If you get 200 points, you get $25,000 for a particular charity. Yes. And those questions are very easy.

They want them to win. Case in point. Well, in the regular game, they're kind of difficult, right? Because they don't have a lot of high answers. It doesn't necessarily matter because you're going against two families. This is where you're just trying to get points to get the 200 to win the money. I know, but they try to keep you from 200 because they use something. where the number one answer would only be like 20 something.

Right. And double and triple the value. That's a different issue. The fast money is where they want you to win the money. Now, when there's regular families like the Villarreal family, you'd be like, okay, name a city in Arkansas. And there would be a name something you would do before you go to bed. And it would be a mixture of easy and hard questions. The ones that the celebrity family, if you play our fast money, are ridiculously easy. Name your favorite scoop of ice cream.

Or what day of the week do you go to church? I mean, really, really ridiculous easy. I'm a Thursday guy myself. But yesterday took the cake. The last question on one of the family feuds, it was, it was Farrell Williams' family. Not Farrell. Who's the one that's married to the supermodel? Chris Tegan.

John Legend? John Legend. The legend family? It was the legend family against somebody else's family. I forgot who it was. Oh, it was against a real housewives. No. Oh, the reality show about the restaurant in Los Angeles.

Vanner Pump Rules. So Van der Pump Rules is playing the bonus game, okay? Didn't something happen to them with racism? They shut down? It was pre-taping, yeah. Okay. The last question on fast money was name a month in the calendar that starts with an M. What?

March. March. Okay. So let's say person one took March. Yes. And the other person that comes in to finish up the fast money the second go around says March. And then he goes, they go, try again. The next answer would be May.

And then after that, what? September. Right. So you're basically telling me you're going to give them a 300 points because you're asking a survey of people to survey this question. name a year a month in the calendar year that starts with the letter M. In the Gregorian calendar. In the Gregorian calendar. I don't think anybody said in December.

So guess what? Person A chose March. She got 39 points. Yes. I got news for you. Guess what person B chose? May. And what they get?

61. 61 points. It's terrible. So again. I know we're all sports all the time here. We're weak of sports. But for a man who likes to go outside of the sports comfort zone sports RV, Celebrity Family Feud, you're dead to me.

That's like Celebrity Jeopardy. I mean, that's what they've originally on SNL started making fun of is how stupid these questions were on Celebrity Jeopardy. Now, Celebrity Family Feud on SNL when they do spoofs of people is hysterical. Right. But the original Celebrity Jeopardy was so, it was just out of control. The questions were so easy. I used to be a huge Jeopardy fan.

I used to watch it when I get home from school every day. Right. Do you still watch it? Not all. I watched the champion, the tournament of champions thing that they had recently. I watched all of that. And it's on Netflix. I'll watch some of it sometimes.

I like to, if I'm with somebody, I like to, like if we're having a drinking game or something, I say, whoever gets the most right, the other person has to drink. So I like to do that. On a typical, what is there? There's six categories or seven? Six. And they each have five. So there's 30?

Yes. On an average, round one board, I can probably. name three to five answers correctly. Really? I'm in the two to three range on the second half of the game. Yeah. And then final jeopardy?

Final Jeopardy. I don't think I've ever gotten a final jeopardy way. I've got a pretty good amount of useless knowledge in me. So again, I know this is a game show talk, but it just pissed me off that that was one of the questions.

Yeah, that's ridiculous, Matt. I'm with you. Thank you. As you are Matt, if somebody in this in America cares about game shows more than you, I would like to meet that man. That's what you want to know.

He probably doesn't exist. So for you to make a stand with this principle and that completely just making a mockery of fast money. Yes. It's unacceptable, Matt, and I understand where you're coming from and I'm with you on that. And again, all the sexual double entendres

you know, name something you swallow. I mean, come on. Name something a grandma does that you like. What? I mean, just really, really uncomfortable questions. I'm really confused and uncomfortable. Well, it's good

you should be. That was my my little diatri about Celebrity Family Feud, and I move on. I'm sorry, Matt. I do like Steve Harvey, though. I think he does a good job. When he makes fun of people. You know when he introduces himself? You know what he says?

What does he say? He says, welcome to Family Feud. I'm your man. It's like he's like so congratulating himself. He's like, I'm your man. Like, hey, you're like, you're my boy. I'm your man. I'm your man, Matt Thomas.

That'd be cool. Are you sure? Yeah. What's wrong with that? It seems kind of like... Remember we had a caller texting Steve? My main man Matt Thomas. Where is Texan Steve?

We haven't heard from him for you. years. I hope he's okay. Hopefully Texas is okay, as you would call him. We've had a few regulars. I think the regulars will come back when sports comes back. Okay. How the phone lines now?

Let's check him out. If you're a regular on the show, you're welcome to call in at 713-212-5-7-90. You're on Family Feud this week. Go ahead. Line 1. Okay, technical glitches on that one. Let's go to Line 2 on Game Show tonight. Line 3, will that be a baseball season?

Line 4. will it be a college football season? Line 5, how about the NFL? It will. It's okay. Ross, you had to pretend to there are people out there, even if they're not. Of course they are, Matt.

People were asking me if I said Flaccid or Placid. Which one are you going to go with? I said Placid. As in Lake Flacid. Lake Placid. Not only the Olympics, but also that movie with a giant alligator. Look at our, who's handling our social media account.

Brendan. It says right now on the Matt Thomas show, SportsMT is done with Celebrity Family Feud. I like that gift of Steve Harvey too. Is that you doing that, Brendan?

That was me. You are a genius. I gave, I tossed it a like. You did? I'm going to give it a like too. Matter of fact, I'm going to give that a retweet.

That's how much I like it. Oh my guys. That's funny. 7.13, 2,1, 2, 5, 790. All right. So there was supposed to be this huge safety coming up.

with the Texans, supposedly. That's if you're an idiot. Jamal Adams never wanted to play for the Texans unless they were going to give him ridiculous amounts of cash. And they don't have that cash to give. We'll discuss that next on Sports Talk 790. Hey, it's Carmelo Anthony. The Matt Thomas show continues.

On your home of the Rockets. Sports Talk 790. Yes. Time is a 149. Monday night meeting tonight, sports RV. Oh, really? 7 o'clock. So I should be ready at 7.

Nope, you're not going to invite. I figured you know what would give you a little break. I've been out of the sports scene for a few days. I've been on those for a while, too. I can have my Monday night to myself. So Adam Sanger, Michael Connor, Adam Clant, myself, and Adam Wex will be on the Monday night meeting tonight at 7 o'clock. Facebook live, no, Facebook.com slash Sports Talk 790

is our Monday night meeting. And you know what? Since the guys don't listen to our show, I'll give you a couple here. Let's see if you can figure this out. Two of the questions I'm going to ask is we do these Monday night meetings We call them Monday night because of Monday night football What's your most memorable Monday night football game?

Michael Vic Against the Falcons or Redskins That's not memorable if you can't think of it was Right when at well I know he got me like 50 fantasy points And he just In the history of Monday night football you're thinking about a fantasy game Yeah okay fine

Do you want me to go with Matt Schab through a pick six after they came back against the Ravens? And the overtime was over in like 30 seconds. Memorable. That was a good one. If you had one Monday night game to watch over and over again. So think about that a little bit tonight. That's what we're going to do on our Monday night meeting.

Yeah, it was the Redskins in 2010. The Monday Night Massacre, it's known as, six touchdowns by Michael Vick. You know the one to me that I remember pretty damn vividly? And it's because I don't have a dog in the fight. Remember when Brett Farve's dad passed? Yes. He stayed with the Packers and played.

They were in Oakland against the Raiders, and he threw a bunch of touchdowns in that game. Oh, he didn't retire for two years? No, he didn't. No, he didn't do that. Did he retire? No. No. There was a Michael Jordan reference.

Yeah, okay. Yeah. That's what I remember. I remember Earl against the Miami Dolphins as a very young man. Didn't watch the game, but the highlights are just so memorable that I've seen rebroadcast of it. Yeah, the first two to me coming to my mind would be that game and the NIF. The match shop game.

The very first Monday night game I remember watching start to finish was the Vikings against the Cowboys, the Metrodome. Tony Dorset ran for 99 yards and a touchdown. I remember watching Bo Jackson against the Seahawks, long touchdown down the left side of the field. He ran into the tunnel. He kept running into the tunnel, yeah. Yeah, like a la Forrest Gump.

Yes. So that's one of our questions. All right, second one. And the rest of them I'll say for the meeting tonight. You know, this NBA bubble we're talking about is going to have all sorts of activities. Yes. DJs, entertainers, comedy shows, comedy shows, movie screenings, ping pong, but no doubles. No, I want to think of bowling.

Doesn't seem very COVID-friendly. Oh, actually, maybe it is. You just wipe down the ball after every throw. After every throw. You don't touch the pins. Yeah. You got to probably have to wipe down the little automatic thing that brings the ball back and that little conveyor belt. Yeah.

And the scoreboard. So if you're going to the bubble and they say, Ross, you are allowed to invite one entertainer to entertain us while we're there. Who are you going with? Dave Chappelle. Dave's got enough material that you go on a Monday at say 7 o'clock after a game. And you're like, man, that was so good. I'll see you in a couple days. Oh, you want to see him do a show every three days?

Oh, I can only watch one entertainer. No, no. You can bring somebody. They say, Ross, NBA player, Ross, Philadelphia. we would like for you to help us bring somebody to Orlando to entertain the people. Who could give you three months of entertainment? Yeah, if I kept him there, though, then I would get to hang out with him. So you can't do...

No, you got a social distance. That is true. Social distancing, though. Can you social distance properly with Dave Chappelle? Yeah, well, how much social distancing do you have to do if you're getting tested every day and wearing masks and find all the proper protocols? You're probably right. So who could bring you? entertainment for three months. I would have to think a singer. John Legend and the legend family?

No, no, you don't get Mrs. Legend. No. Unless he, no. She was on, uh, she was on our morning show when we were in Indianapolis at the Super Bowl. Matt and Adam. They got that as a get? They got Chrissy Teigen, yeah. And I took a picture with her. I got Carl Mecklenburg. I don't make this picture public because that was like the I was very haggard and tired at the end of the week and I just looked like hell. So I might have the picture somewhere. Okay. Put that on a blog post.

Before she had a lot of work done. You could tell her face looks different. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, I think you have to go for value. Okay.

If you went with an actor, you can only go over a movie role, so that way don't really work. Models are going to look the same. I mean, you're not going to touch them unless you really did frisky. Well, as you said,

never mind. Who could entertain you for three? I would watch. I, I bet you that Dave Chappelle could do a show every week in OBPic. I'm going to kill. I got to bring a singer. Okay.

Who's it going to be? Um. Share. No. Barry Manilow? I mean, maybe. I mean, you can't get tired of hearing it's a miracle. Is that a, is that a big.

That's a big one of his number wrong. I'll take your word for it. Yeah. I mean, Copacabani, you never get tired of hearing from. It's okay. Billy Joel, every time he sings piano, man. Thousands and thousands of people stand up and get their phones out with a flake. Yeah.

Are you going to watch piano man every week? I'm just saying I don't have to go there all the time, but I'm saying if I need entertainment for three months, and there's always a house show available for me to go check out, Snoop would be funny. Yeah. Can Snoop smuggle in all his drugs? Let me tell you,

there's no way Snoop's staying in the bubble. He will be fighting out of it because he, he, he, I'm going Chris Rock or Dave Chappelle? Chris Rock. Okay. Well, I'm just going with one of those two. Chris Rock Eddie Murphy in their primes. Oh.

rock to me is is number two all time behind Carlin but Chappelle's close now What about doubling up with a guy like I mean I'm sure Matt's not in the rap But if you went with the guy like Donald Glover Who does stand up Oh that is a good one

Don Glover does stand up He's a rapper, he's an actor He's actually he's so talented It actually makes me angry Could he entertain you for a better part of three months? Yeah, I think so Okay Well I'm not against it

I mean this is that each person individual choice. Glover's a good one, Brendan. I go, yeah, Chris Rocker. It had to be some of you wouldn't get tired of sing. I mean, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, for me, those are three I could listen to all the time. I wouldn't get tired of hearing them.

Oh, Elton John's playing the piano in the bar? I'm going. He's going to play Leavon tonight. I'm in. The next time he's going to play Tiny Dancer. Oh, good. Perfect. Well, he's, I mean, he'll probably play all of those in one show.

I don't stay the whole time. I remember the bubble. Okay. You can only say, well, yeah, I got a ping pong game at 830, so let's catch five minutes. I can only stay in a certain length area. Believe it or not today is a chance for you to win some Hooters gift cards. Wonderful. All things Latvia, in honor of Davise Bertans of the Washington Wizard saying, I'm not going to the bubble.

I wonder who the most famous Latvian star is. Hmm. Perhaps Ross would be able to help us out with that in one hour. Final hour, Matt Thomas show next. 713-212-5-790 Adam Wexer just sending me a text How many NBA players Would you have to ask before one of them said

They've seen Barry Mantelow or Billy Joel or Elton John in concert 100? 200? All of them? Ross, answer that question for me. Name an NBA player that has seen Billy Joel, Elton John, or Barry Manilow in concert? For some reason, I feel like... Chris Paul. I was going to say Chris Bosch, but he's not in the league anymore. Nope, got to be active.

Hmm. Has Gordon Hayward seen the Elton John? Wow, what a stereotype you are. What? Forward with the Celtics? What I mean... What were you thinking? I was thinking white bread?

Oh, he's white? Yeah, I know. See, I don't even see race. Me, no, or I. Okay. I just happen to see his pigment today. I will say this. You know what?

I feel like Chef Curry, Aisha, like drug him to like an Elton John song. Oh, Steph Curry for sure has seen one of those three. She was like, we're going to see Elton John, Steph. I can tell you this. A friend of mine is it works in the, another front of their team said that they were in Chicago. No, New Orleans for the All-Star game years back.

And I think Sting was the halftime entertainment. Okay. And this really recognizableable player asked this person that was with the team and said, Who is Sting? Yeah. What's the last time? What was the last hit Sting had?

Oh, I can't remember. That one with the lady singing in the background or him going, Yeah, Oh, yeah, yeah. The desert rose or whatever. Yeah. That's exactly right.

What was that song called? We're going to make you bring that up early. A dream of rain, isn't it? I can't remember. Don't even worry about it. Something with a rose or desert or something in it. I'm not sure. Yeah, don't worry about it.

Desert Rose. Yeah, I think that's what it was called. Try to find that. That was his last... That's not even a good sting song. That was his last top 40 hit in 2001, or 2000. Yeah, that doesn't come as any surprise. That song sucks.

But I wonder why the NBA would have thought he would have been cool at halftime. Yes. This song right here. This was 2001. This is not how we're going to start the 2 o'clock hour of the show. How is this a hit? Hit us with it, Sting. Let's see.

In 2000, this hit 17 on the charts with Cheb Mommy. Is he ever going to sing in this? Do we have relevant sports news to get to anything, please, anything but this song? Yeah, read the relevant sports news over this song. What's the headlines today? Read Sports Center real quick. Go ahead. Sources.

Richard Petty to attend Talleyega in support of Bubba Wallace. Okay, that's good. Here you go. Thanks, Sting. Let's see. Caden, Cade Cunningham is still going to Oklahoma State

despite their postseason band. Turn that off. I've got to bring that back in the comment. We have not talked about this. The apparent future number one overall pick in the, not this draft, but the year after. What's the kid's name again? Cade Cunningham. And how tall is he?

Above average height. 7-1, I think, right? Oh, is he? I don't know. 6-7. Okay. Or 6-7. And see, above average height. I was right. Yeah. I guess 7-1. I was off by a few inches. 6-7-21. and we'd be listening at 7-1 if you were a wrestler. Yeah, he's got incredible handles.

Can shoot. I'm going to say he can defend. He can do everything. He is going to play as college basketball at Oklahoma State. Yes. The NCAA, within the last 45, 60 days, came down against Oklahoma State for a variety of improprieties. And one of their penalties is a postseason band this year, if there's college basketball. Mm-hmm.

today, Cade decided he's going to stay at Oklahoma State. Now, the glass-half-full angel on my left shoulder says to me, Ross, this is a good, determined young man that's signed on the dotted line to play at Oklahoma State. He's committed at Oklahoma State. He wants to be a cowboy good for him. You, on the other hand, are the devil. Unswerving in allegiance. That's what Cade Cunningham tweeted out. And what do you think?

Now, what did you say at about 1151 when you read this? They must have already got a down payment on their house from the T. Boone Pickens Estate. I mean, he must have already put enough miles on the escalade. He can't give it back. He can't pull in Eric Dickerson. Didn't Eric Dickerson get like a Corvette from an A&M booster and then still went to SMU or something like that? Allegedly. It's funny.

I've never interviewed it. It was like a transam or something. I've never interviewed Eric Dickerson. But if I did, could you go to that card? could you say, hey, there's just been a lot of misinformation over the years. What about the A&M Corvette? I do believe Eric Dickerson told Bill Yeoman, what kind of car are you going to give me to go to U of H? And I think when Bill said, I can't do that, I think he told coach to go on.

Allegedly. I was a transam, which Eric Dickerson says the story is a total myth. Yeah, it's easier to say something's not true than it is. So where are we going with all this? I know you were saying, why does Kate Cunningham staying there? So what do you think? What is your gut? What does your gut tell you?

Because, I mean, look, does it matter if he plays for a national championship? If he was going to play for a national championship, he's not going to Oklahoma State to begin with. That's true. And then go to the tournament. He's got to be from Oklahoma or something, right? The guy's probably not from like Baltimore, Maryland.

Why would a kid? He's from Arlington, Texas. Okay, so it would be three hours from home. Said his dad go there or something? Man, why Oklahoma State? And they haven't been relevant forever since Eddie Sutton was there. Yeah, it's been over a decade. Andy was saying earlier they hired his brother.

Okay, it's always something. We knew it was something. God, I hate when you get those handshake deals for your brother and your sister and your mother and your dad. Hashtag illegal benefits. Hashtag extra assistant making $145,000 a year. Exactly. No wonder there was something strange about that. That's funny.

Because I'm going to say this. What's Cade's last name, Cunningham? Cunningham, yes. Sounds like you should be a member of the family. on Happy Days. There's Ralph, Mouth, The Fonz, and Cade Cunningham. That went over people's heads. Is Cade Cunningham's brother going to be at Oklahoma State in two years?

Three years. Hopefully. Will they be building a wing of the Cade Cunningham Brothers' Assistant Coach's Hall of Fame? He turned down Duke, Kentucky, and North Carolina. Something's not right. To go to Oklahoma State. No, can't do it. After they hired his brother Cannon as an assistant coach.

Where was canon, before this? Cannon Cunningham. Look it up. Cunningham. Look up where Cannon Cunningham's coaching pedigree is. Yeah, okay.

My guess is probably littered in the AAU stuff. Going to the Oklahoma State Staff Directory. Yeah. Is there going to be a bio on him this soon? He played at SMU.

Okay. He spent last season on the staff at Tulane under Mike Dunleavy senior. Okay. Where he was the associate director of video operations

for the Green Wave. I'm right. I'm exactly right. Boynton head coach, Mike Boynton says, I am thrilled to be able to add Canon to our staff. I've gotten a known Canon really well over the last year, so as I've watched his development as a coach. He has a great knack for player development and has relatability with players who will be a tremendous asset

to the continual growth of our program. Including his brother. Yes. So let's get this straight. Cannon Cunningham is the assistant video director. He was at the Tulane. I don't know. It just says assistant coach is his title here.

I look forward to the energy and relationships that he can bring to elevate our program to the next level. I got some news for you. I know we got some OSU fans listen to show. I'm going to call the NCAA ahead of time for you on this, and you might as well get your next round of suspensions out of the way here now. I mean, they're already on notice. They already got a postseason band. How in the world would you make that hire?

Got you Caden. Would Cannon go to Oklahoma State, if not for Cade? The answer's hell no. Yeah, because you know what? Probably Cade was saying, hey, look, I'm not going to Tulane. You hire a video coordinator at Tulane. Yes. And make him an assistant coach at a Power 5 at one point in very good basketball school.

Yeah, I'd say deepish history, Tier 2. Sure. Tier 3, maybe. Smells. Well, it's not, I don't think that's anything illegal. Hiring somebody's brother is not illegal. No, but most times when brothers are hired or cousins or dads, there is an ulterior motive to it. Or AAU coaches.

That's the worst. There isn't a filthier industry than AAU basketball. College basketball, yeah, it's pretty dirty. I don't think it's pretty. I think it's the dirtiest thing out there. If you were less, I would think I would agree with that. I think it's been that way for 25 years, especially when you have guys. Especially when you have guys that don't want me. Look at the whole Zion Williams and

then with Duke and Adidas and all. I mean, you have shoe manufacturers. You got dirty illegal coaches. You have dirty illegal AAU coaches. It's too bad that you, if you have a good basketball playing son or daughter for that matter. It's happening on women's side too. That you're going to run with a very, very dangerous crowd. That's not looking out for the best interest of your kid. They're looking for the best interests of how your kid can make money for them. I'm sure it's really difficult trying to figure out who who is really cares about your son. Wouldn't be nice. Not even from not only AAU coaches, but I mean, college coaches and college assistants.

It's like you going and I'm learning a little bit about this with my young, my daughter. Club sports is how you're getting scholarships. If you're really good in basketball at your high school team, that kind of helps. But what you're doing with your club teams, your AAU teams, and what you do when you go to these university camps, that's how you're getting your scholarship. Networking, yeah. It's not about Ross Villarreal scoring 19 points a game for an Aldenamed's high school and being, oh, that's got to be a kid we've got to have on our team. It's about what camp he went to and what AAU squad is on. I'm saying that with volleyball.

That high school volleyball players, generally speaking, all throughout the country, are not being picked from a high school team. They're being picked from a club team. because that's because people are paying to play those games. They really want to get good. They're doing it because I think it's an investment towards their kids' college scholarships. They'll be seen. We're college coaches and volleyball. I don't know what it's like a best.

How much time is Mike Cheshefsky really spending at a particular high school? Or any of those high D. Not a lot. A lot of them is maybe an individual workout, but a lot of them is when they go out from the month of July, usually, and they go to 50 or 20 different A.U. And they watch them. They're not deciding who their kids are based on,

well, if you have a good senior season, at Clear Creek High School will give you a scholarship. That's gone. And that's where it gets sleazy. 2.13 of the Matt Thomas Show. 713-212-1-2-5-790. 7-13-212-7-9 if you want to get in today. We take you to 3 o'clock.

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Three corner, nothing but. On Sports Talk 790. Malo! Your Rockies. 218 on Sports Talk 790. And when there is sports that we talked about, Ross, we will do it as good as anybody can. But at this point, what was the most exciting sports part of the weekend? Was there anything?

NASCAR got rained out. Golf got delayed badly. Jordan Speeth started great and faded. What happened to Jordan Speeth, by the way? I don't really follow his career golf in that matter. I don't know. Just such a star for a long time, and he has just fallen off the map. Yeah, that's a question for Michael Connor, I would think.

Yeah. I don't really follow golf super close. But, yeah, he had a great, I think a great first round and then just couldn't do anything after that. I wonder why Tiger is saying thanks, but no, thanks to all this stuff. Maybe he's not healthy? I don't know. I think that's part of it, right? Is back still giving him issues?

I mean, he is early in early 40s. He just can't stay consistently healthy for any length of time. That's a shame. But yeah, I'll, I don't think a lot of the audience particularly cares, but Jordan Speeth was supposed to be the guy that was supposed to carry the flag for, like, the new young generation of golfers, and I haven't heard his name atop a leaderboard in forever. But man, when Tiger wants to show up, television ratings go boncos.

Look at that celebrity thing That was the last time we saw Tiger Was that celebrity event, right? Yeah. I think the book on Spieth maybe is that he He doesn't hit it really long And so if his putter's not going And then it's not going to be working for him

Okay I will take that as the gospel from you Well Because you are official golf expert of the show Well, might have to go to Brendan on that I don't know, it's not me Speaking of injuries I watched this

Ken Griffey thing yesterday on MLB Network that you know the entire day was Ken Griffey games. They're doing that in a lot of the theme programming. And so they did an hour, I wouldn't call it a documentary, but just kind of a retrospect in his career, maybe one of my five favorite players of all time. Certainly one of my top two or three non-astro favorite players all the time. Didn't we, wasn't there a host on this?

I'll spare you the details. but I used to have a partner. Yes. Who didn't think that Ken Griffey was all that. His name rhymes was Schmatch, Shmarmine. Yes. Great fellow. So, great friends of this day.

Love, love Schmach, Shmar, mine. But didn't necessarily believe that Ken Griffey would have been a first ballot hall of famer. Thus, we proved him wrong. And thus he got the nickname, Mr. Baseball. And he had, like, beaten, uh, he didn't he beat like Tom Seaver whoever's record

until Mario Rivera was unanimous. He was like the closest ever. Right. Yeah. So we were like 630 home runs. What do he finish with? 630.

I said this yesterday on Twitter. And this is no great baseball prophecy. He would have been the all-time home run king, if not for injuries. They spent about a whole segment on his, you know, when he moved from Seattle to Cincinnati, He was 30, so he still had a lot of years. He wanted to see his kids grow up.

And they were all, the family was in Cincinnati. Rossi, for about five straight seasons, he would miss 70 games a year. I mean, one huge injury after the other. I mean, they would show the play and then he'd get hurt. Every single year for about, I would say at least a half a decade, he was missing significant period of time. But God, when he would swing, I still say to this day, And I mentioned this in the first hour.

The sweetest left-handed swing in the sport of baseball ever in my mind. The sweetest, regardless of handedness, sweetest swing I can ever think of. He, I mean, to play with his dad, to be the guy that had, that was 17, got drafted. They barely kept in the minor leagues. They knew they had a phenom on his hands. And basically save baseball in Seattle. Because if not for it, the way the Mariners finally rallied, it took them, I think it took the Mariners, like, 12 years to finally have a 500

baseball team. And it was on Griffey's watch. Could you imagine being a Mariners fan from like 1976 to like 88, 89 and never seeing them finish 500 or better? Not what a division, but go 500. And he did it.

Yeah. One of the greatest players of all time. I can't believe, I just can't believe somebody didn't vote him into the Hall of Fame. Well, that's a stupid thing. Because what I take about baseball media? They're the biggest smarming a-holes, generally speaking. We're lucky.

We have Jake, and we've got Brian McTaggart, and we have our buddy Chandler, who we just love the tease, but he's so good. There's a level of smarminess there. Yeah, but it's okay. It's good, smarmy. Okay. It's like he's our smarming. Sarcastic.

Yeah. And Jake's got that, too. And those two guys be the first to admit it. Oh, I like them. I like them all. But McTaggers, I mean, I don't know McTaggarters. He and I went to college. So, you know, he's just chill, period.

Point being is this, baseball media think they own the damn sport. And they partly do because they get to control who gets to go in the Hall of Fame or not. And most certainly the most holier than thou. For sure. Like John Heyman, major a-hole. Major a-hole. But he walks around in that clubhouse like he owns the place. And when they don't bow to him, he writes smarmy little articles.

about guys are not in a good mood. They're not happy. They're not happy. And then he goes with Twitter account and doesn't type in any caps. Well, he's changed. He's changed. He said, knock it off. Maybe he had some kind of third-party app that didn't put caps on it.

Is that what it is? Okay. Third-party app. That makes a lot of sense. Why would he intentionally put it in low-caps? Because he wanted to gain attention. That's just stupid. Well, it worked, I guess.

Yeah, I did. I follow him. Should I unfollow him? I don't follow him. There's no chance. Okay, so have you seen, if you can go back and see it, go watch it. Because he was so good for such a long period of time. And even when he was hurt, when he was healthy, it's a red, he knocked the living tire out of the baseball. Yeah, you still like beg my dad, let me put to, I mean, Griffey's shoes, as far as a baseball, obviously Michael Jordan number one as far as footwear and all that stuff.

I felt like Griffey was one of the only baseball players to cross over with shoes that people actually. wanted. Ken Griffey was just one of the coolest people athletes of the 1990s. Right. Right. And here's the thing about it

when I put that thing on the Twitter yesterday. He never got even accused once, Ross. Now, say what you will, he was probably a diva. When you're the granddad, of your sport,

and you were raised by a major league baseball player, there's going to be a level of divinness, right? Mm-hmm. No one ever even thought of him using steroids. He was the only player

really of his era among the super, super, superstars that was never even considered to be a guy that could have taken anything. As great as Bagwell and Bijio are, there were rumors about those guys, especially more on the Bagwell said than perhaps Bisio. But you never heard a peep about Ken Griffey not doing it the own natural way. Ken Griffey was just Ross, just one of the most amazing athletes in the history of sports. Forget about baseball. They showed a playoff game of him in 1995. He scored on a double-to-left field from first base.

Pretty tough. In an artificial turf stadium where the ball would bounce, naturally, he wouldn't have taken any funny hops. He was running as fast as you could ever see any running back in the NFL ever run. That's how talented he was. Yeah, he was great. I mean, even at 37, he hit 30 home runs when he was 37. So those of those years that you're talking about, he was hurt,

it was basically age 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. I mean, he didn't, 35 and 36, he didn't play over 150 games in any of those seasons. And the last thing that was so interesting about last night, I'm not trying to go away too much, is that he would come with his dad on road trips, as most kids would do when they're in their, you know, 10, 11, 12 years old, right? One time Ken Griffey Sr. was playing in New York at Yankee Stadium. And he wanted to shagg, you want to play shagg balls or do something and play a position in the infield. You know, like kids do at third base, grab the ball.

Apparently the people in New York would not let him do that. But they would let, I think it was Greg Nettles and his son do the same thing. And Griffey remembered that. And years later, he was signing autographs. And he was asked about, would you ever come play for the Yankees? He says, if I ever get traded the Yankees, it'll be the day I retire. He remembered that moment so vividly. And I hope I'm not messing up the store, but I think that's what it was.

Well, I saw the quote on Twitter that he said if he had only one contract offering it was the Yankees, he would retire. Yeah, and he's going off without exact reason. Hmm, I didn't know that. Now, is he saying that because the Yankees never offered him a contract? And it's just easy to say that to grab headlines, or do you think he really meant it? I don't know. Well, somebody said, right in that quote, he says, somebody said, I don't believe you. He says, well, then you don't know me.

He's a badass. Just a badass. Just a badass. I love Ken Griffey. Just loved him. I'm going to go buy some Griffey Airman. Max is right now. Are you?

No. They're very expensive. I was going to say, where do you? You're on eBay to find him? They're very pricey. All right. 228 Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you'd like to get in on the conversation.

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This is Sports Talk. 790. Home for your home teams. You know, Ross, these are uncertain times, right? And they're also unprecedented. Yes. They're also a little wacky. Some folks are not particularly happy with the history of one Christopher Columbus. Yes. So the city of Columbus, how serious would you?

You brought this story to me, so you're going to have to give me more details on this. But how serious is a city of Columbus about really trying to change your name of Columbus? have to pull up the story quickly. Let's see. So according to, this is a CNN story, the city of Columbus has vowed to bring down

its statue of Christopher Columbus, but thousands are hoping to erase the city's connection to Columbus's legacy even further by renaming it to just anything else. They want to get rid of the Columbus name. Apparently, there's been a wide-spread

conversation about police brutality and racial inequality in Columbus as well. Yeah. So for many people in the community, says the mayor, the statute represents patriarchy, oppression, and divisiveness,

blah, blah, blah, blah. So there also has been a petition to rename the city and a 32-year-old man named, something Woodbridge. What's his name? Tyler Woodbridge.

He spent seven of his years in Columbus and he has had a petition to rename the city, Flavortown. after Guy Fierry. Guy Fierry is a Columbus native. Do you watch his show? I have no.

What does he do, diner? I've seen diners dives and dives and dies, whatever. Here's my problem with that show. Because here I'm being the TV critic today. Okay, go ahead. Everywhere he goes, he loves it. He loves all the food. He's never taken a bite of a sandwich or whatever and said, this is no good.

I'm not asking him to go, oh my God. God, what the hell that I eat? I want him to be human, go, it's okay. It's all right. I have a local watering hole by my house that I go to quite a bit because it's close. And I love 80% of the menu items. 20% I don't care for. That dude goes everywhere off of Food Network's dime, eats at all these restaurants,

and he thinks everything he's ever had is the best food ever. I'm sorry, peanut butter on a hamburger. is not going to be the greatest thing you ever taste in your life. It's just not. People do do that, though. That sounds disgusting. As of yesterday afternoon, 17,000 have signed the petition, and also Budweiser has offered free Bud Light Seltzer to all the city's residents

if the city is officially renamed to Flavortown. Mr. Woodbridge describes Fierry as, quote, a charitable man who, as he has helped raise more than $20 million for restaurant workers who have been out of work during the pandemic. He's also officiated more than 100 L.D. GBTQ weddings. And Woodbridge says that kind of optimism and charitable work

embodies more of what Columbus, Ohio, is about rather than the tarnished legacy of Christopher Columbus. So, Matt, your thoughts on Columbus being renamed Flavortown. Would they change the name of the soccer team, the Flavortown crew? Yeah.

When you call Southwest Airlines, say, hey, I've got a trip going to go see Ohio State Play. What airport are you flying to Flavortown International? Well, we don't know. Is there airport already named after somebody? No, I don't think so. I think you fly to Columbus. Like when the woman says Southwest Airlines. It's the John Glenn

Columbus International Airport. But nobody says John Glenn. It would still be the John Glenn Flavortown International Airport. John Glenn Flavortown International Airport. Hey, say, yeah, I'm going to go a quick weekend trip. Oh, where are you going? Flavortown. I love this. this is awesome let me ask you this did sam houston behave himself i don't know was he a slave owner

or anything well the whole texas revolution was about slavery just my point is this i don't want to be in a spot where we're sitting here criticizing columbus when houston might not be far behind uh stephen f austin sam houston um um try well not clay travis cla davis whatever the name is john tra well who's the guy Travis and Do you see Clay Travis and Mike Florio getting in a major beef on Twitter? I don't care. William B. Travis, of course. So I don't necessarily always agree with what Clay Travis says, but I'm on Team Clay on that one. Well, okay.

I got no comment on that. William B. Travis, not Clay Travis. Yeah, the Texas Revolution was about trying to keep their slaves. Okay, so if we were to do that with Houston. Okay. What are we going to change ourselves to? A floodville? No.

What would Houston be changed to? You could go off of one of our recent legendary heroes, Bumbytown. Bunbyville. Bunbyville, Bumbytown. I mean, he's from Port Arthur, though. Oh, but he's claiming Houston. No, as of course. Al-Tubeville.

Ooh, I like that. Al-Tuvaten? Al-Tubeberg. Mattress McInvail? I like that. Where do you live? I live in Mattress McInville. Let's see

Clay Walkerberg No No You don't like that No Nothing involving the McNairs Hmm I guess we'd have to look at a seat

I don't know what's saying If I'm just saying Problematic is the is what the word you use in 2020 When there's some His history is problematic And by the way I am sick and tired Of later winning than sooner When's the last time sooner

When it's the last time sooner round One over later I'm waiting. When the NBA got done sooner? No. They're ready? No, we were talking. We said the NBA is hoping it back sooner rather than later.

We were saying that in middle of March. It's going to be July. That's later winning again. Okay. Name something that's won. Name something that's won sooner rather than later. Yeah, I didn't think so. To the phone.

Flavortown hopefully happened sooner rather than later. Tom and West Houston on 790. Hi, Tom. Thanks for taking my call. Use the question and this mess we have with baseball. You hear these rumors out there that seven or eight of the owners don't want baseball to come back. Do you think those are the small market cities and owners? And do you think Houston is one of them? Jim Crane has already gone on record. Tom is saying he would vote for a season.

Now, just because he says it to a meeting, he doesn't necessarily mean we would find out if a private vote, but I don't believe he would be one of those. I think it's, it's a, it's right along the lines of your Tampa's, your Oakland's, your teams that are really struggling to put fans in the stands, that, you know, that to me would be the small, the Kansas cities to a lesser extent, the ones that are the non-contenders for sure. Baltimore probably in the same boat. Well, they keep pushing this thing out. What's your current thinking about whether there really will be a season or not? I think we're going to have a 60-game season. And I think it's going to start in the middle. It's going to start probably the mid to late July,

which means, and thank you for the phone call, I think we're going to have July 25th, the start of a baseball season and July 30th, start of an NBA season. We're going to have these two seasons. running concurrently with each other. I think so too. And I'm okay with that. It's gonna be good. Compared to what we've had? Oh my God.

It'll be logistically for our station schedules to be screwed up. It's fine. We've got all hands on deck. We'll be fine. We'll be fine. I'll take a lot of the pre and post games. The launch pads.

If you will. You will. And what is it? What do we post? I remember Rockets wrap. I forgot what we called. On deck and tentating. It's so long since I've done a post game show.

I forgot what it was called. I did the last one we had. That was the win against Minnesota. Yes, 117 to 111. How do you remember that? I don't know. You just made that up, didn't you? You think so?

No, I'm just saying it'd be incredible if you remember the final score of that game. I can't remember even half the Rockets right now, much less the final score of the game. Damn, you're right. I remember they played crappy defense the whole game. They honestly shouldn't have won that game, but they didn't have Carl Anthony Town.

So they lost four out of five, and the one win wasn't great. But they're arrested. That is they're highly rested. They're motivated. And the bubbles should do them just fine. 242. Are we ready to play, believe it or not?

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Just reading a couple of tweets about, you know, this weekend was on a good weekend for college football. 23 Clemson football players tested for the Rona. That's what guys call it the Rona now? It's easier, right? There's a goal in the Mick versus Burr game. It's Manchester City versus Burnley. Oh, wow. They just,

they just, they just, they just scored two goals. Yeah. Oh, Sergio Aguero was down. And another guy fell down and faked illness. He's all right.

He's walking it off. Good for him. And the clock moves and moves and moves. By the way, stoppage time is a scam too. Yes. Stoppage time is very much a subjective. This cat looks like he's on meth,

man, calm down. All right. So, 23 players at Tech. No, excuse me, at Clemson.

Clemson. 12, I think, in Kansas State. Notre Dame reports today, 91 athletes tested one positive. And he was asymptomatic. That's good. Wisconsin, 117 athletes, not specified whether it was football or not. Two positives. Iowa, 40 players tested in the past week, nine positives.

Okay. I thought you were going to say 40 positives. No. So it feels like the Rona is moving around different pockets. of the country. Why? Well, just everywhere. Having the cases gotten really high in Arizona and Texas as well?

But why so low in those other places and why so high at the University of Iowa? There's maybe not a rhyme or reason to it. Maybe a certain, I mean, confounding variables just since we can't put our finger on. The only thing it bothers me is that we were told we being from us being the consumer said that the summer would help us. Yes. The heat. And Arizona, Florida, and Texas have been really, really, really. Well, they also, didn't they open up?

Yeah. But George has opened up and they're not any experience anymore than they're supposed to be, right? I don't know. Yeah. Not an expert. We need to get Dr. Fauci on. We've been efforting. Brendan, we've been trying to, any like I'm getting Dr. Fauci on the show.

I've got no word. No word yet. Keep effort. You never heard from my Antonio Fauci. Keep efforting. You know we ought to do. We ought to get Dr. Focci on mobile. Oh, boy.

Problem is, here's the problem with that. He's a big Nationals fan. He's going to start talking about Natitude. to-tude. Tomorrow on the show. You do it? Me? Sure, why not?

So here's what we'll do. We'll give the audience a little tease. Anytime I ask you about... Let's have Clinton do it. Okay, Clinton will do it. Dr. Focci and I'm all... He's a much better impressionist than I am. And we'll ask him a bunch of questions about the current health and anything is going to be about the nationals.

That's a brilliant bit. Thank you, Matt. I can't believe we're telling the audience ahead of time. It's fine. We'll do it tomorrow on 1 o'clock hour. audience moves overall throughout the day. And we're going to need

some guests, Ross, because the phone lines has not been piping up the last couple days or for that matter the last five months. What you mean? We've got a couple people

on hold right now. They're going to play believe it or not. They're looking for the prizes. You know, Bill can't call in for like 25 more days because they already won.

That's right. Bill or Dwayne or whatever he's called himself. Under other pseudonyms. Real quick, a reminder that tonight, 7 o'clock, the Monday night meeting

will be with Adam Sanger, Michael Connor, myself, Adam Clanton, Adam Wexer. 7 o'clock, Facebook.com slash sports talk 790 for the Monday night meeting. We have a really good time with it. We've got to goof around, talk lighthearted stuff, but it's a chance to get members of our 790 team altogether on one computer screen. So check out your Facebook. We'll promote it a few more times.

Facebook.com slash sports talk 790. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America. Eric's fastest growing sports game show. We simply call it B, believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

Today's edition of Believe it or not is brought to you by Woodhouse Day Spas. Printout your gift card for the gift of relaxation at Houston, woodhouse spas.com. Category today is all things about the country of Latvia, in honor of Davise Bertans, saying thanks but no thanks to going to the NBA bubble. I'll read your statement about Lafia. The statement's completely utterly accurate. You'll say this. If it's erroneous, full of bunk and made up, you will say this.

Not two, believe it or not, it's in a roll, win your prize. Ross, what's the prize? Matt, we got a $50 gift card to Hooters restaurants for delicious breaded wings and pickle chips. And you know what? Keyline pie's not bad there either. Again, if you want to play, $50 to Hooters, 713, 212, 5, 790. Let's start with Ron on 790. Brian, you ready to play, believe it or not?

Believe it. Latvia won the Latvian War for Independence back in 1920 with the support of France and the United Kingdom. Believe it or not? I don't believe it. You should. Sorry. Thank you for playing now.

I have a great day. Don't do. This is Lafian. Nobody doesn't have been Lafia. Joe on 7. John, on 7. You're ready to play, believe it or not, John. Believe it.

Latvia is known as the land of Blue Lakes and their capital Riga is known as the Paris of the East. Believe it or not. Believe it. Believe it. Yeah, thank you. Statement number two for the win. Latvia and border countries, Estonia, have a shared citizenship agreement.

Citizens of one country are free to live and the other as they please. Believe it or not. Believe it? No. No. Crosset sounded very believable, however. Thank you.

You're back in your A game. Matt on 790. Ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. The largest religion in Latvia is Latvian Orthodox. Believe it or not? Not. Yeah, it's actually Lutheran.

Statement number two for the win. The Smilteen Road, is that right? Yeah, I believe so. Smilteen Road in Riga, Latvia, is the oldest pebble stone road in the world. Believe it or not? Not. Not is right. Congratulations.

You thought you got him, didn't you? All right. Robert on 790, Robert, ready to play, believe it or not? How about if we proceed? The breakfast dish, Eggs Rothko, originates from Latvia, and is named after Latvia modernist painter Markout Rothko. Believe it or not. Oh, I say not.

Not. That is correct. Statement number two for the win. based on average, Latvian women are taller than any other country in the world. Believe it or not. Oh, not.

Oh, yes. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times. You've got to know how tall Latvian women are as compared to other people in the world. Line 5. Carlos on 790. Carlos, you're ready to play, believe it or not? I'm ready. Modern jeans were invented by Jacob W. Davis. who was born in Lopvia, believe it or not.

Believe it. There you go another winner today. How about that? And that wraps up, believe it or not. Brendan has just got this nail, by the way. He does. He's made very few mistakes. You can learn something from him a little bit there.

Yeah. Nightcap at six. Woo! What do you got on the show tonight? What interviews do we have today? We got Jeff Blum coming up on the 18th tonight. Matt Bullard. Chana Rome?

What else they had that we don't have? Bob Nightingale will be on the show. Do you guys have Carlos Correa scheduled this week? Because we do. Daryl Morey on the show. Look at this. We have Daryl Morey on. We have Carlos tomorrow at 1230.

Thank you for promoting me. We do. You got to communicate at this station. That's Adam Clinton's voice. He along with Adam Wexer are the A team. And they're up next on Sports Talk Seminary. Talk to you all tomorrow at noon.