The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Future Plans For The Astrodome, Altuve Wins Another Silver Slugger, CFP Rankings Are Out

Episode Date: November 13, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" review the latest redevelopment plans from the Astrodome Conservancy and discuss whether it is worth preserving the world's first multi-purposed, domed sports stadium. Matt and Ross also:talk with Rockets head coach Ime Udoka about tonight's matchup against the Los Angeles Clippersreact to Jose Altuve winning his seventh Silver Slugger awardtalk with Houston Cougars football head coach Willie Fritz about Friday's matchup against the Arizona Wildcatsreview the latest College Football Playoff rankingstell people "Shut Yo Bum Ass Up, Ain't Nobody Got Time" and more.

Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 102 in H-Town. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to a Wednesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Hope you guys are in a spectacular mood. Hope you are ready for a busy night of sports in the community because the Rockets and Clippers are in town for the first of two with the clips. We have a busy show for you today. We have some new news.

on what the Astrodome Conservatory Group wants to do with the Astrodome. We will discuss that. It literally has just come down in the last couple of a minute, so I don't want to necessarily get into it right now until I have a chance to read what exactly is being discussed. But at least the early blemishes, and again, we'll get more into it later on in the show,

is bars, restaurants, parking spots, but keeping the dome as is because it is the Astrodome. Which should have been destroyed 25 years ago. Tear it down. I am a Houstonian. 90% of my life I've lived in Houston, Texas. Rossi, you're at 100, right? No, I lived in Austin.

Okay, so you're 98%. Tear it down. Get rid of it. It's ridiculous. But you know what? We'll hold the rest of the conversation about that until we have a chance to read exactly what it is. Yes. Oh, judgment.

Yeah, I don't want to say something that's just ridiculous that we don't know the rules are. So we'll read that literally the press conference is going on right now. now as we speak, so we'll have a chance to digest some of that. And there'll be a press conference by the rats, I believe, at 11 o'clock. Yeah. I think the rats are like, wait a minute, this is our home. Can't take us out of our home. This is that mass deportation I've been hearing about. Yeah. Is this Trump's fault? Biden was running things. We didn't have to worry about leaving. Oh, my God. All right. We've got a very busy show for you today. Besides the Astrodome stuff, We have shut your bum ass up at 1130 today.

That's always our favorite half hour of the week. I got one. Do you really? Yes. It's from this morning and actually from something that happened last week. Okay. I'll leave it at that. I'm just going to tell you this.

Mine goes without saying, and I said this every single time, I left the house at 820 this morning and I got here at 942. Hmm. Hmm. I love Kingwood. I love when I get there, get into my house and relax. I love the fact that things are cheaper out there. The gas is the cheapest in Houston and Kingwood.

I'm just going to tell you that flat out it is. I have a lot of house for a little bit of money. Very nice neighbors. Got plenty of restaurants to go eat. But my drive sucks. And you're like, Matt, we do it every damn day. Guess what? I'm in your fraternity.

We are in a brotherhood of sucky driving. It took me an hour. Let me tell you what I did a day really quick. 69, 59, 59. Mm-hmm. To equipment. Okay. got off on the side street.

Oh, wow. You were taking Waze, weren't you? Ways loves that. Okay. So stay with me on this. Okay. A normal non-trafficky day, which I would used to do when we were working at noon, was 59 to 610 to this station.

Two freeways. Okay. Now, sometimes traffic was bad. I mean, it is what it is, but I can still leave the house comfortably at about 10-10 and get here by 11 o'clock. Okay. Today, 59 to Quitman, feeder road for two miles, then turned right, was on the feeder road of I-10 for about a mile. Yes.

Jumped on I-10. Okay. Got to the far left lane to go to 45 south to Galveston. Yes. Was on 45 from Smidge, got off at Allen Parkway. Wow. Alan Parkway You got on the running trail

Got on the side on the running trail At Allen Parkway They had you take a canoe in the Buffalo Bayou You're going to make me cry I'm sorry You're paddling to work Alan Parkway to another side street That I want to say

It's a, I can't think of the name of it at this point It's off of Allen Parkway. It's almost like it's past Studumond. It's the one past it. Shepherd? It's a five-letter word. I can't think of it right now. Twam? No, five. Four, not four. Five. Tuami? Not Elgin.

Whatever it is. Okay. Turned right at that street. Then a very quick U-turn on that street. Stop. To go to Memorial Drive West. Uh-huh. Memorial Drive West splits into Woodway to the the left, which I did, would way to the feet of road of 610

and then took the feeder road, you turned it back at Post Oak and got here. Wow. Welcome home, Matt. You folks hear the trials and tribulations he's going through to bring you four hours of radio greatness. Hey, Matt. Yes, sir?

I know you live a little bit farther north of me, but I've done that every day. That exact same route. Really? What's the name of that street? Is it what's the name of that street that I turned right on off of Allen Parkway. I can't think of it either, but it's, it's a really short road anyway to do the U-turn. Yeah, you have, I mean, seriously.

And by the way, Ways, give us a little more heads up, bro. I mean, far left off of 45 to get off at Allen Parkway. I mean, it gave me like 15 seconds. And I don't know if you notice, there's still rush hour traffic at 845 in the morning. You got to switch four lanes in like 100 yards. Oh, what is the name? It's bothering me. Not Elgin.

It's, um. It doesn't matter, man. We'll find it in the break. Get your map out in the break. So, instead of being happy go lucky and positive and thinking about great things in life, I come in and you're pissed. And I hate listen to sports radio in the morning. Oh, don't do that. See, that's what's frustrating. You put on some easy listening.

Put on your yacht rock. Well, that yacht rock documentary is coming out very soon. Your made-up genre, Yacht Rock. Put that on. It's going to be a huge documentary. It's going to be one of the most amazing documentaries. documentaries in the history of the world. I can't wait for that to come out. It's coming out the next couple weeks, I want to say. Wa. Waugh. That's it. Waugh. Good call. Yeah, W-A-U-A-H. That's it. Waugh. Good call. Yeah, Waw drives a classic. But you're barely on Waugh.

And then you're from Memorial Drive West. You've got to flip it fast. Yeah, lay it down and flip it fast, Maddie. Let's go. So again, I know 99% of you do the same thing every day. I'm not looking for sympathy. I'm just telling you this is my plate, and it sucks. But I love you guys, and it's worth it. And at some point, I will be financially available to get a high-rise apartment in this city and live there and not to worry about any of this crap. But right now, I'm at this point. I'm not in that particular situation. You almost got them all out of the house.

Is Carly a senior? She's a junior. Ooh. You got a little time. One more year. Are you pushing her to graduate early? It's funny. On Kirby enthusiasm, there was a he kept a calendar of getting rid of his girlfriend.

Yeah. And he was striking through. I have the same calendar in my office. Dad, what is this? Oh, honey, nothing. It's just counting down the days of your next birthday. Oh, you're going to miss her. Oh, I'm going to miss her.

Yeah, there's, yeah, it's going to be rough. I mean, I miss all my kids. I mean, my middle is at A&M about to graduate in May, so I miss him. So it's good, you know. Now, I feel calm now. That's good. It took me until about 10.09, and I don't want to say I'm giving you any credit for that. It was cathartic.

I walked you through that. That's actually true you did. But you couldn't come up with Waugh. I did come up with Waugh. No, it was a... Once I looked on the. Matt. Oh, did you? Okay. Yeah. So, you know, we ought to just start doing live, like, your drive is 15 minutes. Yeah. I should just start getting, I put my phone on live video and like do an Instagram live during the whole thing. You should not do that. Here's what I do. If you hit somebody, you're going to be liable. I swear. I can see that. I hate listen. Do you, what do you sing at the top of your lungs? No, I text a lot, not. Not the phone. Siri texts for me. Okay. I have, I have, I have, the. I have. The.

Apple Carplay is your friend. Siri and I are now very close. I always go, Siri, and she goes, hmm? Hmm? Yeah. Yeah, she does that for everyone, Matt. I know. Literally millions of people.

Yeah, I've had to learn that kind of, too. All right, that's what we got going on. We've got Rockets and Clippers tonight at 7 o'clock right here on these airwaves. Sports Talk 790. We'll talk to E. Mae, don't get one o'clock about such events. Wonderful. You gave yourself a high-five, didn't you? No.

You know, that Rockets' launch pad is earning any. percent done that's not true you know what 30 minute program mad are we going to talk to him for 25 minutes well we'll go 13 and you're going to ask three questions it'll sound like organic to you yeah i'm busy you're not got asking questions i got stuff to do okay uh we got wudley fritz at one 30 this afternoon oh wonderful shut your bum ass up and again we will get some to further details on this astrodome conservancy group do you know there's a somebody there's an executive director of this do who pays for that do the do the taxpayers pay for a conservancy this is what i'm saying it should have been dismantled decades ago and we wouldn't have to be paying these commissions

and these people and these grifters to come up with a plan what's your plan uh restaurants in a parking lot cool terrible by the way one other thing about this before we get to the other headlines today and we have not talked about this and wexler bought this up on on the a team yesterday you know the harris county sports authority has gone on over a massive overhaul they got rid of their executive director They got rid of their chief operating officer. I mean, the two top people at the Harris County Sports Authority, they got rid of. I think John Whitmire did that, actually. You know why, in part, they did that?

Why? It's because they're going to have to bring some people in here. They're going to start talking about stadiums again. Think about it. This is just a straight bits deal from Wex. Okay. Minute Maid Park, 2000. Yes.

NRG Stadium, 2002. Toyota Center, what, 2005-ish somewhere in that range? Pretty much a couple years after that. Maybe 2003. Something like that. These sports venues sports RV, in general, not everywhere, but in general, usually have to get either a massive overhaul or destroyed after about 20 years. October 6, 2003. Okay, so that's, yeah, we're talking 20 plus years on all three of those.

on those facilities. And my guess is John Whitmire's like, I'm getting ready to have to have some difficult conversation with the sports owners of these professional teams. So you got that to balance and the Astrodome Conservancy. We're going to be doing,

and you never got to live through this because you weren't in the business. I got a lot of dome talk. Ah, but do you build it to keep the team here talk? Yeah. You never got any of that. No, I never got that. And I don't think we'll ever be in that situation.

We better not be. But there's going to be some interesting conversations about what to do with the current facilities, whether you renovate them, whether you destroy them. Case and point, I'll give you this. We've got a little break here. Atlanta, Georgia Dome, 20, 25 years old, got rid of it. Turner Field, where the Braves played, 20, 25 years, got rid of it. They took the Braves of the suburbs and made a new community out of it. And I'm sure there are other Soldier Field completely renovated about 20 years ago.

Bears think about going to suburban Chicago. So I want to welcome you to the next phase of your sports talk career sports RV. Thank you. And that's going to be restaurant and hotel taxes, bonds, rental cars, bonds, tax at rates, hikes to pay for sports facilities. Hell, the San Antonio, the Frost Bank Center where the Spurs play, which is just outside of San Antonio. Actually, San Antonio proper, but it's not the same as the AT&T Center. It's a new sponsor. New sponsor.

They want to go back to downtown. Oh, boy. Now that they got Wimby. Welcome to Sports Radio 2024. Okay. All right. Up next. The Texans had another meeting, Ross.

Another team-only meeting? When are we going to stop meeting? Or players-only meeting, I should say? And I'm going to tell you something. Of all weeks not to have a meeting, this would have been the one not to have it. You don't have meetings before, taking on the Cowboys. 1014 on Sports Talk 790.

713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. We are giving away a pair of tickets to Justin Timberlake as part of, believe it or not, today, at 150. Major star. Absolutely. slightly fading star?

You think so? Slightly. I mean, we got tickets on the Matt Thomas show. It's got to be slightly. All right. Where are these at, Toyota Center or what? Toyota Center. And Conno will give you more details than that.

But we want to take care of those that listen to the show and this don't come on, turn the radio on at $2.50 to play the game. We're trying to weed out the prize horse. Yeah. So we're going to give the password out three times today. And I just thought of the, I thought of a new one.

Okay. Of what you want to use for, Okay, 10, 20, 11, 20, and 1220. Right. We're going to give it the password. Each of the three. So if they don't hear it, they're not going to play. Connor, today's pass phrase, D in the box.

So when Connor asks you... I work with a 12-year-old, folks. I hope you know that. So when Connor ask you what the passphrase is to let you get into the contest, you're getting more immature as we do the show. This is actually remarkable to see. That actually is... I didn't think it was possible.

Somewhat accurate. Okay. So what you're going to do, you're going to call for believe it or not at 150. Right. 150, we're giving away the tickets to Justin Timberley. You have to play the game to win it.

You have to play the game and Connor's going to ask you for the password otherwise he will not let you in. So you give him the password, Matt. D in a box. So give the password D in the box to Connor McGovern and we will let you on to be a contestant.

If you don't know the password, we will not let you be a contestant for the Justin Timberlake tickets. So if you can't call 150, have one of your friends calling, give them the password. Yeah, we can, you can password, pal. And the password again, Matt is?

D in the box. A fantastic S&L skit. Yes, it was. It's an all-timer. Yeah. So don't crush me for it. Yeah, but there's like a thousand different things we can say. Well, we're getting more tickets tomorrow.

We could say in sync. I don't do. No, no, no, no. Today is today. But out of the gates, the first day, we're rolling with D in the box. Yes, we are. Okay. 713, 212, 570.

Charlie on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Charlie, good morning. Hey, Matt, first time caller. Nice to hear from you. I have a lot in common with you. I actually ran into you once at Costco on Townsend. Oh, yeah. I said hello just because I recognized your voice.

and I anyway, I'm calling because I was screaming at the radio earlier I was yelling Wa

Waugh. Whoa. Good for you. I mean, I got one for you. Yeah. Go ahead. And I was just going to say,

I think Waugh is one of the most unrecognizable streets in Houston. I'll give you another one for you. Fornest plate. It's in Bel Air. It's like two blocks.

Oh, yeah. I know Fornes. I don't know. I feel like Waugh is kind of major. Something on wall. Go ahead. What do you mean? Name and name and a plate name.

Jacket of a box. There's a jacket box on wall. Sunny's convenience store. Charter, there's nothing on phone as plate either. I can tell you that right now. Continue on, sir. Hey, Matt. I lived in Kingwood since 2005.

And I used to drive. I work in television and sports. Television news and sports. But I used to drive to the gallery area from Kingwood. Yeah. In 2000, but now my kids, well, they go to St. Thomas. And I know Cameron did. And I hear Connor did. And I hear Connor did.

But Connor went to St. Martha's as well. So did my kids. But anyway, I now live in the Rice Military area. And my wife teaches at St. Thomas, and she taught Cameron. Oh, nice. What a great story. By the way, I'm very jealous you live in Rice Military. I'm just going to tell you that right now. I'm very, very envious of you. Congratulations on building a successful career in media and your wife working and your kids being raised right.

They've got a good father and a good parents. Well, you probably know who she is. I think I figured it out. Yeah. Connor will tell you. All right. Thank you, Charlie. We'll see you later.

All right. Nice to hear from you. All right. How about that? Oh, it's okay. I'm getting clarification. It's D in a box. Not D in the box.

Either way. Either way. Connor, I think you'll be able to figure that out, right? I mean, we're good. Okay. Yeah. You'll go Alex Trebek on this. We will accept that answer.

Yeah. Semantics there. Jeez. That's not coming from me. It's from somebody else. No, the password came from you. Oh, that's true. Don't blame anybody else?

That's true. All right. Real quick, Texans had another meeting. Why, Ross? Why not? Here's what you have to do. And this is a smart sports take you will hear from no one else except this show. Okay.

When you play the Dallas Cowboys and you get your ass kicked week after week like the Cowboys have and you're going to send Cooper Rush out there to quarterback. Yes. You know what you do in this particular game? You don't speak to each other this week. Why not? You have the anti-meeting. You go out to practice.

You fist bump, you high-five, you say hello, but you do not talk about what's wrong with you. Because it's going to prove that team meetings don't mean jack squat. No, it's going to prove that team meetings work once they beat the cowboys. Because the first team meeting worked, they covered the spread. Everybody thought they're right. No, no, no, no, no, no. No, don't even put that in people's minds.

That's ridiculous. the first one worked. Everyone thought they were going to get crushed. Some people predicted them to lose by double digits. Right. And they lost by a last second field goal. I guarantee you, they're not in the team meeting going, hey, everybody, I just won't let you all know. I know it hurts, but at least we covered. No one is saying that. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying, though, is that the meeting brought them to those new heights. Without that player's only meeting, they would have lost by 21. But since they had the players only meeting, it brought them that close to the Lions. and now this new player's only meeting is going to have them crushing the Dallas Cowboys.

Don't speak to each other during the week. You're going to beat the Cowboys. It'll prove that the team meetings don't matter. And apparently maybe me another one. Stop meeting. Just go. You know what? You should go meet with Nick Asara.

Why don't you go to Nick Cicera and say, hey, Nick, you keep throwing Titus Howard out there. And we could have gotten a better offensive guard at the trade deadline. But then you know why no one wants to meet with Nick? is because you have to go in there and hear to listen to 40 minutes of word salad. Yeah. Well, Titus wasn't ever going to be replaced. Maybe you should have been. You're not going to be resigned.

What's the deal? Probably not. I don't know. Does he have a new contract? Didn't he get? I think it was last year. Please tell me he doesn't. Last year he's just a guy.

Titus Howard's not that bad. He's just a guy. He's fine. I would say he's slightly above average. He's like a C plus student. In my opinion. Oh, God. I don't want to look at this.

Here it goes. What? Oh, three-year extension in July of 23. So, twice. Yeah, so last year. So he has one more year left in his contract. Yeah. Oh, only 1.8 of his 20-25 salaries guaranteed, however.

Okay. So you have him as a pre-June first cut or a post-June first cut? I am as a cut whatever it takes because the guy is just average. Now, you have to replace him with somebody better. So if there's nobody better, then you keep around. You're okay with Titus Howard. Is he going to be a first-team all-pro? No.

But he's not the problem to me. All right. 1028, sports talk 790, 713-212-5-790. D'emico did speak. We'll run through some of those cuts throughout the course today. We got shut your bow mess up at 1130. We've got EMA at 1 o'clock, 1.30. We've got Willie Fritz.

Believe it or not today, again, all things, we don't know it. Is we doing Justin Temperlake, believe it or not, today? Today? Let's do it. You want to do it? Okay. Justin Timberlake, believe or not, four, at Justin Timberlake tickets.

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I was in a good mood after Ross taught me off the ledge after driving. I'm reading this Chronicle story about the Astrodome Conservist, seeing what they're going to do. All right, I'm going to just read this a little bit here and there and you can interrupt me whenever you want to. Okay. I'm not going to read this verbatim. Oh my God. Do you want some reading music? Uh, sure. Let's do something from the 60s, though, because this is a stadium that was built in the 60s. Matt, that's too much to ask on the fly.

Okay, well, you said music. You put something whenever. Today, the Astrodome Conservancy, Conservancy. Unveiled, its ambitious $1 billion plan. The Vision. Astrodome with a mission to answer the decades-long question of what to do with the landmark. Something called Gensler Houston Design from Created the Redevelopment Concept. Okay.

The Conservancy's chairman, Phoebe Tudor. That's what I saw on TV last. I'm like, who is this woman? Phoebe Tudor. Tudor, T-U-D-R. She established a nonprofit organization. in 2016, she issued a $100,000 investment grant. She says the building is structurally sound,

has undergone remediation for asbestos, and is debt-free. Quoting her, it's over-engineered, solid, and strong. It's in really good shape and just need some TLC. So this architecture firm, Gensler, proposes 450,000 square feet of new, revenue generating space. It conceptualizes four state-of-the-art buildings under the Astrodome's iconic roof. Inspired by the Highline in New York, a boulevard would cut through the Astrodome to connect existing buildings with an NRG park.

There would be a room for 1,500 additional parking spots and animal handling facilities could be located under a new ground floor. for the rodeo. Okay. Not if your cats and dogs don't want to come, Hank. Come on, Ross. It's like what? We got a pet motel? Around the perimeter,

the vision is the Astrodome has conceptualized a retail village for year-round restaurants, hospitality, exhibitions, and shopping. An idea has been put forth to lease out real estate

within the dome's concrete walls for data storage. What? Okay. This conservancy has been aiming to take care of its two primary. attendants, of course, the Texans, and rodeo Houston.

Meanwhile, some dude named Chris Bowman, who's the president and CEO of the Houston livestock shown rodeo, sent an email to the Chronicle on Tuesday saying, as follows. The rodeo has not had formal conversations with the Astrodome Conservancy in more than a year. The rodeo does not support the previously presented concepts as they conflict with our organizational strategic vision and operational needs. So they're already getting pushed back from the road. Well, I don't know if the rodeo saw this. I would think if you're the Conservancy, you would show this to him before.

They would show the media, right? I would think so. Yeah, I mean, that would make common sense. Okay, so the rodeo is on board with this? No. Further on, we have voiced our concerns on several occasions with the Conservancy. There is no proposed or official plan that our organization has agreed to or been made aware of regarding the future of the Astrodome. However, the rodeo, Texans, and Harris County Sports and Convention Corporation have been working on plans for energies,

Park future. Our goal remains to focus on the functioning buildings, enhancing our experience, and growing our events. The Harris County Attorney's Office and a representative for the Houston Texans declined to comment on Tuesday. You know why they want to comment? They say this plant sucks.

For the love of God, blow the sum bitch up. No, don't play that music anymore. I don't want to hear that anymore. We're trying to call you down. It's not working. It's too late. bad driving and bad ideas for the Astrodome. I got some news for you. And as a Houstonian Rossi,

you and I have spent 95% of our life here, that part of town sucks. Sucks bad. It's got pawn shops. It's got crack. It's got prostitutes. Or as they say in the movies, hers.

This part of town sounds great. It's got seedy motels. It's got P.I. wannabes. We can't even get downtown busy all the time. Why in the hell would anyone want to go over there? That area sucks. It's bad.

It's not good. I'm sorry. Stella Link and Holly Hall and Murworth. You guys are lovely people over there. I just don't want to hang out with you. Uh-oh, you're thinking. My biggest concern is the price tag. on all this. One billion

dollars. One billion. And it goes on to say in this Chronicle article, which they got the exclusive, to take it to demol, a demolition would cost a hundred million dollars. Because they basically have to take it apart piece by piece. They can't blow it up because

that would, because the Astrodome is in underground, basically. Part of it is underground. And to blow it up with like crack foundations and probably ruin NRG Stadium or something like that. That would be, yeah. More on engineering majors, but that would probably make a lot of sense. It has to be dismantled. You basically got a wrecking ball this bad boy and take it apart piece by piece.

So that's why demolition would cost so much. But do it. If it's going to cost us $100 million to get rid of it and turn it into a parking lot, or it's going to cause us a billion dollars to turn into for-profit shops with an avenue in between that goes to the stadium where people aren't even going there unless there's literally a Texans game on Sunday. Or rodeo for two weeks. A rodeo for a couple of weeks. So eight, nine times a year and then a couple of weeks in February. And maybe Taylor Swift concerts.

Yeah, maybe. But how long, this ERIS tour has been going on for too long? Copa America? Copa America? I guess, but yeah. George Strait. How many events per year are at Energy State? Not many.

Not as many as you would think. How many more farewell tours can George Strait have? Geez, George! Hang them up! It's been lying to us for years. Okay. Not that we've been given any information. We're simply reading off of the press conference

literally finished about, I don't know, a handful of minutes ago. It was at 10 o'clock. We're getting this Chronicle exclusive. Yes. At bare minimum, it sounds like this conservancy and the livestock show and Rodeo are like, what? Who are you? We don't want anything to do with this.

We want out. We've been talking about this for so long, Matt. Oh, yeah. since the show began. You know, we had, back in the day, we had an iconic call on the Matt Thomas show. Yes. With a suggestion of what to do with the Astrodome. Do we have that audio?

We do. Here it is a, ladies' gentlemen, this is a deep cut of the Matt Thomas show, what, got to be 10 years ago at least? At least, maybe more. All right. Do you want to help me encourage people to drive their trucks into the Astrodome and start tailgating? Why? So you're telling me compact cars when I'm invited? Say again?

Compact vehicles are not invited to go in the Astrodome? Just trucks? Oh, man. You're limiting to a small detail. What about four tourists? Oh, I don't care. Hey, I'm not worried about the little details. I just picked the trucks because they can haul the seats out.

Could Kevin someone's helicopter be invited? Well, yeah, that would make the news. Ronald, it's been a pleasure visiting with you. But you won't encourage the tailgating? What do you want me to do and encourage it? I'll give you the last five seconds here of this radio conversation to encourage people to go into a place that is heavily infested

with rats and bugs and asbestos and tailgare. Yes. Yes. We can barbecue the rats. Barbecue the rats is on the all-time Matt Thomas show with Ross Bingo board. Barbecue the rats. He wanted people to tailgate inside of the,

just turn it into a tailgate lot inside the dome. Right. Like you could drive it to the fourth level of the arena. Like sometimes you see trucks inside arenas and they get like, how do they get up there? Well, I think that's what Marvin wanted. Barbecue the Rats. You can tailgate and Barbecue the Rats. You know, he's a practical man, Ronald.

I appreciate him for that. That was Marvin. Oh, wait. Ronald. Ronald. Okay, it may be the same person. People change your names all the time. No, it's not the same.

It's Ronald. Okay. Is Ronald still with us? I'm going to guess no. May he rest. That was a while ago. That was Kevin Summline. helicopter. So that's a clue.

So it was probably around 2012. Wow. I love the fact we still have audio that old. Most of stuff is gone. I'm here for you, Matt. As the official historian of the Matt Thomas show, now with Ross. So apparently, our friend Jones says that Phoebe Tudor is really rich. Well, she sounds really rich. She started commission and donated $100,000.

Now, I know there's a famous Tudor family that has spent a lot of money at Rice over the years. I wonder if it's a related. The field house? Yeah, Tudor Fieldhouse. Maybe that's her. Oh, do you know what? It's his wife. Oh, well, there you go.

That's exactly who it is. And Bobby played basketball at Rice back when Willis Wilson was playing. Let's go back early 80s. No wonder she's got this. Yeah, she's the vice chairwoman of the Houston Archaeological and Historical Commission, founder and chairwoman of the Astrodome Conservancy. She needs to be the vice chairman of the tear down the dome project. I don't want to call her Phoebs because I don't know her that well.

Okay. Miss Tudor, we appreciate you're trying to keep things alive. But we got to blow the sun bitch up. That's when, let's get some t-shirts made. Tear it down. No, blow the sun bitch up. No, that's, you can't blow it up. We've talked about this, Matt.

Oh, you're tear it down. Tear it the sunbitch down. Yeah. Structurally, it's just not feasible, Matthew. Okay. Does she not know that no one wants to go over there? We're going to go to break. Nobody, Ross, help me out.

Nobody wants to go over that part of town ever unless it's a sporting event. I've never been over there unless it's a sporting event. I mean, you can get, you know. Or I was picking up some crack. There's 14 churches' chickens on the way there. There's an Arby's not too far. That's true. There's a muddimerger on Kirby.

There's a Ripley Roeruts. Break it up. Tear it down. Oh, my God. You know what do you think, what do you think, Janice. What do you think Hannah's thinking about this? She's not thinking about this at all.

She's thinking about which tennis bracelet to buy. 713-212-5-790. I'm asking you all this right now. 7-13-212-5-7-90. How does billion dollars into building, four buildings within the dome's roof sound to you? Should we try to reinvent or create something in that part of town? 7-13-212-5-790.

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And I'm thinking about going to the alternate stuff, because a lot of people are asking me to, but Twitter is still number one. Until it completely implodes, I just... I'm going to check it out. I just opened up an account on Blue Sky. And what is your initial take on that? By the way, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee McGovern. Things are picking up on threads for me, Matt.

A lot of people are following at Sports RV on threads. And what are you, are you posting on threads? A little bit. Okay. I did put a poll question up. And you're more than welcome to get into. 713-212-5-790. 7-190. 7-1-3-21-2-5-79.

The question is, on the poll question, it's at SportsMT, at Sports RV, and at Conardee McGovern. And it is, I just lost it here. Stay with me. Oh, $1 billion to renovate Astrodome and create $450,000 square feet of revenue-generating space and 500 new parking spots. A quick question.

Is what's her name, To, Oregon? going to pay for this? Well, I mean, she's got money. She's paying for this conservancy. She created this herself. So far, small votes are in. 47% say sounds good, let's do it. 53% say tear it down.

Sports Talk 790 also put a poll up and 44% is leading as tear it down. The other options, hotel convention center, retail and event space, which is what they're doing. And renovate hash

slash leave as is. There's no, no, you can't leave it as is. What's its purpose? Just to sit there? Embarrass ourselves? Yeah. Well, they're embarrassing.

Well, yeah, no, I think it is. I think you have this majestic view of NRG Stadium when the national folks come in to call games and they have this small little astrodome. It's crazy to say that, but it is. And it just sits there and people say, well, what do you do with it? No, it just sits there.

Yeah. I mean, I've been team blow it up for, yeah, decade plus. Mm-hmm. So you're telling me it's 100 millie to tear it down piece by piece. Yes. Or a billy. Is that what the kid said, that Billy?

Yeah. Billions. Billion to put 450,000 square feet of revenue generating, meaning it could be a variety of things. Yeah, but what if it all fails? What if nobody goes there? Like we said, there's only a handful of events over there a year. If people aren't going there. Answer my question, because you're a city guy.

I'm not. If downtown isn't doing it, why are we going to take that part of town? Exactly. As you make, bars and restaurants are closing downtown? So people are you telling me people are going to flock to the southeast part of the town? The only way you could legitimately put that area, that 450,000 square feet of revenue generating space, is if that area had 300 events per year. Literally 300. Literally.

Now, in Philadelphia. They have a football stadium. They have a baseball stadium. They have an arena that has 300 events per year. And they have an epicenter with bars and restaurants in the middle of in the middle of the sparky lot. That makes sense. It's ridiculous. And I'm at Southwest Party Town, sorry.

All right. But these businesses will fail. They will absolutely fail. Downtown is saying, we love you. We have the Toyota Center. We have NRG. I mean, we have a minute-made park. We have terrific convention business.

We can't survive. Very few restaurants have long-term tenured success in downtown that are our stand-alones. The downtown Chamber of Commerce is saying, bra, try this. You'll go bankrupt. Biscuit on 7-91056. Hi, Biscuit. Cougar Matt.

Hi. Did you just throw a section of a second? city under the bus. Yes, I did. My, my Mr. High Mighty Kingwood. No, no, no, no. Everybody agrees with me. That whole part of town is crap. Matt, Matt, Matt. Almeida

is booming over there. It's a lot of new houses and things coming up over and a little up the way from there. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about, I'm talking about OSD, Holcomb, Holly Hall, Fanon.

Fanon. You know it. Biscuit, you know as well. It's not. Nobody wants to go over there except... They got a popa cedas, a papadose, a popas barbecue in the area. And an empty parking lot that used to be the Astrodome. His brother and sister hang over there every weekend. Well, I mean, you got to go eat. No, there's some clothes over there, too, man. Biscuit.

If you want to say this, cost it too high, I get what you. I'm trying to say the next thing of the city. That's not a great part of the city. There might be. I'm just saying, you know what? You may be right. I know. I'm not going to argue with you.

Okay, so I'll rephrase. That's not the worst part of the city. It's a bad part of the city. Is that better? All right, we'll see you later. I'm telling you, Matt, people will call. No, they're not. They're not going downtown.

They're going uptown. They're going to the heights. They're going to Midtown. They ain't going to downtown and they sure as hell ain't going over there. That's why the dome, that's why we're never getting a Super Bowl again. Flat out. Go ask the people that created that facility 25 years ago what they thought that area was going to be. Let me like, we tried.

We tried to build that area. It's not working. I don't think it's an indictment against that area town. It's an indictment against we as Houstonians. We don't go into a city from the suburbs, Jersey Village, Cyprus, Katie, Kingwood, Clear Lake. We don't go in three hours or four, and we don't stay three hours after. We go to our sports events.

We go to our concerts, and we take right back off going home. Back to Spring, back to Katie, back to Pearland, back to Clear Lake, back to where. All of them, Rossi. All of them. Kingwood. Yeah. Because it's just a spread out city. It's just spread out.

And we're just, we don't have the vibe. And we talk about this at least once a month when I go to different cities around the league. Yeah. We just don't have the vibe that other cities have. It doesn't make us a bad city. It just makes us different. No, it's different. Yeah.

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Launch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1103 on Sports Talks 790. Texans are actually off today. Normally there are Tuesdays are there off days, but because of the Monday night game they're taking today off. we will have a little bit of what Damiko Ryan said yesterday and his media available to come back up in a few minutes You know, Rossi, and to his credit, his glass is still remarkably half full.

Teams lost three out of four. Yes. It would be a huge lead. Yes. He's always going to be that way. I just don't want any more team meetings. The key to this week is not speaking to each other during the week. Players only meetings, baby.

Let's go. we need have a player's, we need to have a show only meeting let's do it right now host only meeting

yeah okay go ahead I mean to tell you about this uh oh uh you're deep seen in hatred for the university Houston is driving this show down

I have zero hatred for the city of Houston what is it called University of oh the University of Houston and those figures I mean just because we're more academically accomplished than what

than Texas just because we have a greater fan base worldwide are you sure see this is the delusion Go ahead. So you're saying bigger fan base. Yes.

Stronger academics. Stronger academics? Yes. Let's see. So if the fan base is so big, how come there's only 23,000 is your football games? Because we have a lot of family commitments on the weekends. Oh, okay.

And so nobody else has family commitments in any other fan base. No, because a lot of Texas fans don't have good families. How come the stadium only shoots 40,000? Because we want to make it more of an intimate atmosphere as compared to just like, making a big fair type atmosphere. Right. And then when it's only $40,000 and then it's half empty, then that's really extremely intimate. It's a closer group. Have you guys considered tarping off the top level of the stadium?

This show meeting is not going particularly well. Okay. I don't have any hatred, Matt. I know. This is your ridiculous blind homerism. Yeah, I used to always root for the Cougars. And then I started working for you. And you started calling them the Harvard of Southeast Texas. That's actually true.

And you have them winning the championship and everything. every sport every year and it never happens. Yeah, well, we're getting closer. That's true. I think we're second or third favorite to Vegas to win the NCAA championship. Well, you better get there before Kelvin Samson. I mean, he's approaching

70, is he not? You know what? I've not checked to see if I can go to any of the tournament games. The Rockets have precluded me from doing it. Now, one time I did go. When everyone went to the Final Four and I said, I'm Rossam going. Now, is that when they got blown out or was that when they lost in the last second? No, they got blown out by Baylor in the Final Four in Indianapolis. That's a show. I used

every flippant fly a mile I had. man. I did get a free room from a buddy that was there. But I went there and it was by halftime it was me and who's Deshawn Watson's attorney. Rusty Hart and I were drinking beers. I was going to say which

one. We were drinking beers at half time thinking about how we're going to get home. I'm sorry Matt. It was a great experience. Kelvin Sampson 69 years old. Yeah but Kellan's there and Kellyn's just, I mean literally Oh, son's taking over for the father.

has a great history of working in sports, Matt. Oh, God. Oh, here we go. You know what, this team meeting is over with. This show meeting is over with. Connor, by the way, you're doing a great job. Never change. And thank you for your Missouri Tigers

beaten Oklahoma on the very last second of that game on Saturday night. That was fantastic. Oklahoma, as they're known. 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Rockets taking on the hated Los Angeles Clippers James Hardin back in town tonight. P.J. Tucker, a Clipper, but not here. He's still looking for a place to play.

Everywhere he goes, he's unhappy. PJ? Yeah. I don't think that's true. Is he unhappy? I think he's just like 38 and just going where whoever will sign him. He's definitely unhappy in Los Angeles, that's for sure. Let's go to Steve in East Houston on the Matt Thomas Show with Ross.

Steve, good morning. Hey, good morning. I thought for the Astrodome is to tear it, like you guys say, tear it down and then put at the edge of the circumference of the circle there, a series of trees, and then step in 20 yards and then plant another concentric circle of trees. And then the rest of the area would be a lawn, a great lawn. Houston does not have a great lawn like many of the other great cities of the world do. And that would be my thought. Hmm, just build a lawn.

You know, we need some greenery. I'll give you that. And then, but then the trees and then, and then actually the county could sell, uh, spots that, uh, about the, that abut the, uh, the circle, uh, the circle, uh, the, the circle, uh, for tailgating. And then you could also use the lawn, in words, it becomes a whiteboard. It can be whatever you want it to be. You could have festivals there at the rodeo and then just anything. Yeah. All I'm saying is that I think at the end of the day, make it a bunch of parking spots.

And it can plant some trees. Yeah. Plant some trees. Make a little historical marker. Maybe build another area for the animals for the rodeo. I mean, I feel like that energy arena, energy park is kind of whatever. Okay. Make some barn to mediums.

Oh, some people are into barn to mediums. I would sleep in a Barn Dominium. Oh, you would. Yeah, granted, to have Wi-Fi satellite television. Oh, my God. And room service. Jesus. What?

You were the fanciest of Mats. Well, I mean, think about it. If you get a Barnum, if you get a Barnum. The Barno? And you could get all the OST restaurants. You could get to your KFC. You can get to your Ripley Roan Ruts. You can get to what now?

Ripley Roan Roanuts. You can get that in the breakfast in the morning. morning. What else is there over there in OSCE? There's a couple of pawn shops that can hand delivery the items you're looking to purchase or you're dropping the drop off. Yeah, what are we going to do with the Scottish Inn? You leave a Scottish Inn right where it is. Excuse me?

Oh, you got one more on your punch card for a free night? No. Remember that time we talked about the PI and the guy that owned a bunch of them on business? And it's like, stay in whenever you want and I'm like, I'm good. Yeah, I get you a jacuzzi room, Matt. So the jacuzzi water's nice. Let me say something.

If y'all ever see me in a PI, alarm everyone. Either I'm being held against my will or I'm doing something that's very, very bad. Now I'm going to mind my business, Matt. That's what I'm talking about. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Let's go to Tracy and Magnolia on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Tracy, good morning. Good morning, fellas.

How are we doing? Outstanding. Thank you. Well, I wanted to weigh in real quick. I don't think it's a good idea what they proposed, but I'm all for it as provided. is 100% privately funded. Don't come to the county looking for money. Don't come to the city.

No hotel tax. If they want to fund it and take a flyer on it, I say go for it. Well, Tracy, you're a wise man. You know these things would never come into play without us getting involved with it. So I don't know. Well, that's, yeah, that's my point. So that's why, you know, that's kind of my point. Yeah, just burn it down unless somebody wants to put up their own money for it.

I'm not paying for it. Yeah. I would be hard-pressed Tracey, thank you for the phone call that if he went to public vote, it would have a chance. Yeah. Even if we put it to a vote,

even if downtown was thriving, do we need another area of what, we're perceiving to be restaurants, real estate, hotels, bars, top golf. I mean, because they're saying it's 450,000 square

feet of revenue generating space. They're not saying what it could be, but those are the things we're talking about here. Yeah, but as you said and I said, and they need to realize the city of Houston is not just going to flock to that southwest sector of town to go

and to go to a restaurant, to go play top golf, unless you literally live in that area, which I imagine it's somewhat densely populated. Nobody's coming from all around town to go there and support those businesses long term. And you know why that part of the reason is beyond being spread out is the communities in which we just spoke of

have created their own entertainment metropolises in their own area. For instance, the woodlands. Yes. You don't, the woodlands. It's self-sustaining. You don't, you have the, the pavilion, you have the top golfs there. You've got the big mall. You've got, I mean, if you live in the woodlands, nice restaurants, beautiful restaurants,

new townhomes and, and what are they call in the East Coast, those little condos or what? A lofts? Flats, lofts. They have that now. Yeah. You go out to Stafford. They're doing that. Katie.

Katie. Cyprus. Pearland's getting built up. I mean, the only area of town, frankly, doesn't do my whole lot is where I live. Which is fine. That's fine. I can live with that. You can't have to Humble.

Go to the bowling lanes. I'm good with that. What's wrong with Humble? It's not great. What's wrong? It's got its issues. I think the people of Humble are nice. Connor.

That's a pretty good. Connor, how many nights are you hanging out with, are you cutting the rug and Humble? Maybe like once a year? Yeah, that's my point. What's wrong with Humble? Chuckie Cheese over there is very nice. There's one of those places you get to,

one of those bouncy houses, you know what I'm talking about? Urban air, yeah. Urban air? Okay. That sounds like I'm going to snap a tibia. If Taylor comes to town, we're taking it to urban air. Swift? No.

713, 21, 2, 5, 7.9. No. I mean, I guess Taylor could go if she wanted to, but there'd be a lot of security issues. 713-212-5-7-90. That's how you reach the show today. We are with you till 2 o'clock. I'm just combative.

Yes, 10 to 2, Matthew. It's been that way for a week now, right? And then we've got to shut your bum ass up at the bottom of the hour. We have the Rockets and E. May Idoch. We get the Cougars taking on the hated Arizona Walcats. Hated? Cougars went two out of three. They're going to go a bowl game.

All right. They got a meat loaf. Let's go. It took me a second to figure that out. Thank you. 1114 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. More Matt Thomas.

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Okay, so coming up at 150. Yes. We will be playing for a pair of tickets to see Justin Timberlake. That is correct. And you have to have the password. You have to tell Connor to get in. Right. This is to weed out the prize whores and to reward you the regular listener.

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Connor has danced this song. Connor got girl number one with this song. Hmm. I thought he got it with his smooth talking. And his new specs? Yeah, he looks like a NASA engineer. I know. Seriously.

No, it's a compliment, Connor. Yeah, we're not ripping you. Oh, I'm sorry. You look like a genius. No. Okay, fine. I didn't say anything. I didn't say anything.

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Those are sharp glasses I think I'm going to have to start getting glasses So I've got to start looking at frames I'm getting old Oh you are getting old I picked up vision coverage in my enrollment Jason and Katie on 790 Good morning Jason

Hey there is one way That that could work And this is it You build a 250,000 square foot casino You get with the state legislature to legalize sports betting within that complex. That would attract people to that area and that complex to gamble and sports bet. Yep.

You're right. Yeah, but you know what? Here's the thing. Yeah, that's good stuff. Thank you, Jason, for the phone call. Here's reality. You could build a casino anywhere in town. It'll be fine.

Exactly is my point. Why would you spend money converting this old asbestos-ridden building into a casino when you can build a brand-new Taj Mahal? like we were at Circa, Matt. Yeah. I mean, that had all the modern amenities. It has everything. Like you built it, you would build it from the ground up.

First of all, it's probably cheaper to build from the ground up than to refashion the Astrodome. So I'm all on board with sports betting and casinos here in Texas. But the fact of the matter is, it's probably just more cost effective. And you can make a better building long term if you build your own casino rather than just trying to put lipstick on that pig that is the Astrodome and make that into a casino. All right. So Twitter has given me a lot of mixed reviews on this. Okay?

This is the Chadwick says. Yankee Stadium was torn down because New Yankee Stadium took a city park land to build on. The original Yankee Stadium is replaced by McCombes Park. You want to demolish a dome for a parking lot in a city that is already a suburban hellscape filled with parking lots. It's obviously the Chadwick. It wants to keep the dome alive.

He already called it a hellscape. Suburban hellscape. Okay. Something that can generate revenue can make money back. Taring it down with forever would be a net loss. I don't know. Parking lots of money would be a revenue. I don't think all these businesses are going to be profitable.

We're going to be sitting here in 20 years like, man, these restaurants have turned over like crazy because they're going to charge too much rent. It happens. It's already happening downtown with, like at post-Hustin. There's restaurants that are already failing in there. Like, it's, it just doesn't. doesn't seem long-term viable. Casey goes on to say it's a plan and frankly by actually doing

something with it, it will result in a lot better return of investment than a parking lot for the McNair family. I don't believe. I simply just don't choose to believe that. And this is also my point. I don't want, apparently it's going to be a mix of public funding. If you're, if you are telling me as a Harris County taxpayer, we're either going to spend $100 million blowing it up or we want you to spend $500 million, turning it into restaurants, which I'm not going to see any of the revenue for, then I'm voting for the tear it down. It's very simple. And if it's even more than that of the billion dollar proposal, I'm certainly out.

I'm out if it's a cent over tearing it down when I'm not going to reap the benefits of any of this rent of these restaurants and all this revenue that they're going to be making, supposedly, where all these people are going to come from all the way around town to head to 610 on the Southwest corridor at Kirby. It's not going to happen. It hasn't. The NRG Stadium's creation did not revitalize that part of town. It was just the exact same part of town than it was when the Astrodome was built. There used to be a Luther's over there. I don't know if the Luthers is still there or not.

The Lubis? Luthers. I don't think there's any more. Let's go to Luthers. Remember those commercials? We used to go to Luthor's way back in the day of the Astrodome. Okay. There was a Luthor's in the Astrodome?

No, it was on, like, Fanon, I want to say, or Main Street. It was one street over, OST maybe. Mm-hmm. So, no. The return of investment will be a parking lot. Everybody complains about parking. Everybody loves parking spots. Okay.

It may not be aesthetically pleasing. It may hurt your feelings that once great facade that you went to as a kid's no longer there. Yeah, so I'm saying. Like, it's about the sentimentality and get over it. Yeah. I'm sorry. The polo grounds are gone. Yeah.

They're more of his stories of the after. The kingdom is gone. Kingdom by. Yankee Stadium, buy. Veterans Stadium by Yeah Three Rivers is gone Riverfront Stadium gone

These stadiums have shelf life And we move on Yeah We can move on with our lives You people It's like this hoarder mentality We can't hoard giant buildings The history of the Astrodome

Won't go away The fact that it was the first dome stadium Won't go away Just the eyesore in the money pit that it is will go away The fact is I flung jalapinos to dodge her out outfielders during batting cage practice times. Yes.

They'll never shake those for me. Absolutely. And as you hit your deathbed, that will still be true. It's just that eyesore building that is a money pit will not be there. Pam of the Woodlands on 790. Hi, Pam. Hi. Are you ready for what I?

Go for it, Pam. Oh, no. Here we go, Pam. Let's go. Oh, anyway, why not turn it in to a place for the homeless? Nobody wants them all over everywhere. Just have them go there. First, they start in the parking lot with their tents.

That's up where they go. They have the choice to be charged with loitering and go to the count jails or go there. Then they stay in their thing. They're the ones that do the work. I mean, not they're the grunt work. They go in and to be there and to have that as their home, they get it cleaned up. And there's a million things you can do with it. You know, you could eventually when, you know, you can have the top shelf up there,

have a clinic, have people volunteer to help eat, you know, these people have a shrink up there, have, you know, a nice area for all this. The shelters could send their people over to learn how to work a cafe, have some food in there, have food banks in there, have, there's a whole bunch of things. In this town, you don't have to, not just the woodlands, I'm saying everywhere, the whole Houston outer area, inner area, has enough money, just the people if they wanted to. And you made it almost like a telethon to have the cleanest, you know, safest, whatever they think is bad about homeless people, pay for it.

They'll donate everything. I see them pay ungodly amounts of money for stupid things. They would pay for that alone. And as it goes, so let me get this right. You're going to pay for shuttle service so the homeless can stay in one area of town and not be in other parts of town. No shuttle service. They pick them up and they move them to move them.

They either have the choice to go to jail or go there. Then you make it nice for them over there. That's not going to work. Okay, I'm going to have to put a little moratorium on some things here. We are not going to spend the next however long this is talking about what to do with it. There's two options. The Astrodome Conservancy puts together a plan that puts it on the public ballot. The rodeo decides what they want to do with it.

or we tear it down. I don't want to create a Malibu Grand Prix. I don't want the ultimate putt-put. If you want to put a casino there, that would make sense. But again, if you're a casino, why do you want to go over there to begin with when you can just buy a plot of land and call it a day?

Yeah. It needs to be torn down. There is no plan B. There should not be a plan B. It'd be a lot easier to build a state-of-the-art hotel and casino from the ground up rather than trying to refashion the Astrodome. Yeah.

Put a casino needo call today. Let's go. I have thinking Galveston. Fine. Golf Greyhound Park is sitting out there. Put the casino there. Okay. Let's go.

You don't think Lamarck wouldn't scoop it up in a middle of second. I like it. We're not going to spend any more time taking conjecture calls about what to do with it. This is the Astrodome Conservancy, having a press availability today. that the rodeo's like, with all due respect, shut your bum ass up. What is that coming up, Matthew? It's next. On Sports Talk 790.

You got somebody you want to get mad at? Yes. Tell us about him or her. You got something, don't you? Yeah. You wrote it down too? I did. You didn't even forget it.

I'm proud of you. 713-212-5-7-90. 1128. It's the Matt Thomas show, and this is Sports Talk 790. Ain't nobody getting tough. Ain't nobody getting tap for it. Ain't nobody got time for day. Ain't nobody getting time for me.

Ain't nobody got time for you not to call this radio show and tell somebody off. If you aren't mad about something, well, then you're just not normal. And that's why this half hour's meant for you. 713-212-5-79. If you want to tell somebody to, you know, kiss. Kick rocks. Kick rocks. shut the bum ass up.

You know where to find us. Okay. Or if things are really busy in your life and someone at the office is pulling you aside and having a 12-minute conversation that you don't care about. Wow. This sounds wildly specific, man.

It's happening quite a bit these days. Ain't anybody got time for long conversations? Ain't anybody got time for hour 20 traffic going on WWA? Hey, Wai. You poor baby. I hate Waw. I love Waw Drive. It's a classic.

Waugh sucks. It's fun to say, too. Waugh. What is it good for? Sorry. There's a... I'd like to apologize. You can tell me to shut my bum ass up now? There's a convenience store in the Northeast called... Shut your bum ass up, man. Wawa that makes a mean sub sandwich.

Oh my God. I had some for the first time with Man Dathieus when we were in spring training. Oh, yeah. We were getting Wawa sandwiches like every day. Wawa can cook. And it's strange because a former partner mine, Mance Merline, it's like, you can't get any good food at convenience store. I'm like, you can get the tacos. Oh, you get those nasty nuts. nachos, though. I'm done with the nachos.

I moved down a little bit, but I can get me a wah-wah sandwich and be very happy. 7-13-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90. I ask you, Rossville and Real, what is the matter with you? Okay, so I was driving to the Toyota Center last week, and

as you know, Matt, I was taking Memorial, and there is Memorial Park, and there are biking and running trails. That is a delightful trail, if you are driving and you happen to see some people running that are athletically fit.

These two jokes are on their bikes and now look if you want I understand we've got to share the road and all that type of stuff with the bikers. It's frustrating because they go slow but it is what it is. But as I'm going to pass them and then we come up on a red light, they start swerving

in and out of cars and traffic and start breaking the rules of the road and don't stay in their space and nearly get killed multiple times. And oh, by the way, they're dressed up like in their full Lance Armstrong helmet and gear, like cosplaying as Lance Armstrong. And they're not following the rules. And then as I was coming to work today, there was a runner on the street who is,

I'm making a right at a red light and the traffic stops. And he bolts and takes off and I nearly hit him. But he's not, he has a red hand. Red hand means stop. Don't be zipping in out of traffic. I understand we have to share the road with you runners and you bikers, but follow the rules of the road or you're about to get killed. Ain't nobody got time for you breaking the rules of the road out there on your bikes and running.

Ain't nobody got time for that? See, I was on the sidewalk the other day and I was running. And I usually, when I have my headphones in, I don't do the noise canceling just in case people are around past me. And there was a biker. He doesn't say on your left and he almost hits me. Yeah. And scares the crap out of me.

So I ain't nobody got time for that. You got to be vocal. Say you're on your left if you're zipping by me in your scooter or your bike or whatever. Hey, nobody got time for it. Why are the bikers like the most stuck up pushy people on the road? How does this happen? You can get crushed at a moment's notice. Follow the rules.

Stay alert. And don't be zipping it out of traffic. Bikers. Preach. We've come after the bikers multiple times. Oh, yeah. I think all of us have done this over the course of the year. Anything else wrong with you, Connor?

Yeah. You guys were talking about me more of my glasses, and I appreciate you guys compliment to me on them. However, I'm just not a big fan. I like my contacts. Unfortunately, over the weekend, I've been, the reason I've been wearing the glasses is because I had an eye infection. It's all cleared up now. I've got the drops in and everything. And I'm extra cautious when it comes to my eyes.

That's why I'm still wearing the glasses. And I know there's worse health problems out there, but nobody got time for eye infections. It really just kind of screws everything up for me. Hey, nobody got time for that. Thank you. What kind of infections do you have time for? I mean, none of them, but eyes especially, I don't know, it just kind of freaks me out. Well, I'm actually going to leave it right here for now.

I was just upset about my traffic drive today. I'm really good beyond that. I mean, family's good. Okay. Shows doing well. Rockets are doing bad. I'm in a pretty good spot. I feel like I shouldn't really just make something up just to make it up.

Okay. That's fine. But driving today sucked. I didn't have time for wall drive. I don't have time for wall driving too. that's sure. 713-212-5-7-90. Felipe on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Felipe, what's the matter with you?

Well, we've been talking about it all the morning, so I guess I go ahead and say it for everybody. You know, I was on board with that whole controversy thing, like back way, you know, earlier in the year. But, man, it's just a waste of time. You know, do whatever I want with it. I don't really care. I like the casino part, but, man,

ain't nobody got time for you all to keep this building up. Let it go. I hate to say it, but let it go, man. Ain't nobody got time for you. You don't want to do? we're going to let it go. We're going to have a huge party. We as the considerate of Houston. We're going to have, we're going to raise some money for some charities.

Okay. And we're going to watch this project take a couple of years for happen. And we're going to tear it down, brick by brick. I feel like I'm talking about Cal McNair here for a second. Okay. And we're building a brick by brick by. Yeah, that's true. And oh, by the way, and this is brought up by something on Twitter a minute ago. Nothing gets passed without the blessing of energy and the Texans. That's just a flat out.

The radio, oh, the rodeo? The rodeo and the texswain. Texans. If they aren't on board, it ain't happening. Because they will fight that tooth and nail. So this conservancy can do all it wants to about preserving these old grape facilities. If you don't get out on board and you don't make sure the Texans don't make money on this and you don't make sure that the rodeo don't make money on this, nobody's making money on this. It's done. So it's going to sit there. This is going to be another blip on the radar. This to me, again, I'm looking at my crystal ball, Ross, looks like it's going to be a whole much to do about nothing. I think you're right.

I think you're right. I thought this was going to be bigger news than it was when I read the article. It's just a proposal by some commission that founded itself. Yeah. And a rich woman who's got money and got time, you know, likes the Astrodome. I love the Astrodome. Me too. I was for a sporting event there.

Me too. Well, I think so I did. Yeah. I mean, I was there when Mike's got for the no-hitter. I saw the Rolling Stones there. I've seen rodeo there. I mean, I love it. But it, am I doing a show in 2010?

This feels like I can do a best of. Yeah, I think so. Barbecue the rats. Mike in Cyprus. Mike, what's the matter with you? You know, I really, I know we appreciate all the female callers because there's not as many that come in, but Pam, oh my goodness. I went to the Texan's game the other night.

I can only imagine if, I mean, there was already enough obnoxious fans for any game to go to any visiting team. Detroit fans were actually pretty okay, but you imagine how. having to deal, it'll be an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot, yellow lot. Do you imagine them to deal with a bunch of homeless people on top of that? Just begging you. I mean, the rodeo would just be so freaking cool with a bunch of homeless people out there and drunk cowboys. I think it would, might have a new sport.

But anyway, anybody got time for that, Pam? Yeah, Pam, I understand your heart was on the right place, but that made absolutely zero sense. By the way, Joan tells us that old golf Greyhound Parks can be opening up a new concert venue in that area. So we have yet another concert venue. Oh, I'm sure it's going to be huge. I mean, I'd go. Okay.

I'm not going that way. No. 713, 212. On the way to Galveston. Put the casino on Galveston. That's what I'm saying. It's close enough so we don't get in trouble. Exactly.

Or far enough away, I should say. 713-212-570. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Jimmy and Tomball. Jimmy, what's the matter with you? man i got two things one of them pretty much piggyback with the last guy said you're trying to take your kids to the rodeo a walk around the carnival ain't nobody got it's already sketchy enough around there imagine it's another million homeless people all you know you go get in a carnival ride there's some dude in a corner no and secondly ain't nobody got time for the astrodome i mean seriously nothing was ever even one in that place that people want to look to the past you got men and may be Park. You've had five different world championship astro

teams compete for a World Series in there. Two winners. You've got an MVP, Cy Young's, no hitters thrown in that place. Enjoy what you got and move on from the past when there was literally nothing ever won inside of that building. So ain't nobody got time for the Astrodome or paying for

the Astrodome or anything like that. All right. Thank you for the phone call. This is a personal story I have to tell about the Astrodome because Dan Matthews, our producer of the A& Team wants it. When I was a young man, the Astros were playing the Pirates. Okay. And Dave Parker was playing.

And I was a young kid. I used to love Dave Parker. I used to love the Pittsburgh Pirate uniforms. Willie Stardial and all that group. So Willie got in a son. Willie. Dave. What I was going to?

Willie Star Joe. Dave got in some trouble with some cocaine back in the day. And somebody screamed right behind me. Hey, Dave. I hear things go better. with Coke. It was a play on the Coke cola. Of course.

Freezing. There you go, Dan. Here's your story. You happy? The mayor of Cyprus is calling in? Is that self-proclaimed or is that really the mayor of Cyprus? I don't even know. I believe it's self-proclaim.

I didn't even know Cyprus had a mayor. They don't have my vote. I can't vote for the mayor of Cyprus. I don't live in Cyprus. All right. If you got anything else that's bothering you, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212. 570. More of shut your bomb ass up. And ain't nobody got time for that after I tell you about Two Creeks Crossing Resort. I'm very pleased to tell you that you can get 40% off of a cabin rental. Now through the end of February, they want to see you out there. When the weather cools off a little bit, you can actually get outside and take a walk and enjoy all the modern amenities that you can find at Two Creeks Crossing Resort. It's not far from Lake Livingston. There are a lot of waterfront cabins on the premises. It's really relaxing. It's a very short drive. 90 minutes from downtown Houston.

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Two Creekscrossingresort.com. More Matt Thomas. Now on Sports Talk 790. All right, I got something for you. Remember when you and I had a healthy debate about how special it was for Bronny James at play with LeBron? Yeah, it was cool. It was not cool.

It was nepotism and it's worst. Not good enough. A 55th pick. Oh, no. A second round pick in 55th play with his son to make NBA history. It's not history. It was forced. It was not our natural. It wasn't because he deserved it.

It would be different if he deserved it. But let me further my point here on this. Again, it was, okay, go ahead. Further your point. Brian Winhorse reporting that, you know, he's been going back and forth between the G League and the Los Angeles Lakers. Yes. He is only going to play G-League home games.

He is not going to fly with the team on commercial air to go play G-League road games. Why not? He's only going to play in the South Lake Bay, South Bay Laker home games, according to Brian Winhorse. He's only going to be a kind of a part-time G-League player, and he's not getting on shmited airlines to fly to those

road games. I know he's getting somewhat special treatment or nepotism. Somewhat? That's fine. Honestly, I don't care. Like I said, it's normal. Now I think it's actually detrimental to him. I don't like that. I don't know whose idea it was, but obviously the Lakers are fine with it. They're doing it. On this particular instance, I think that it's

gone too far and I don't think it benefits Bronny. I don't think it benefits the South Lake Lakers and I don't think it benefits LeBron at this point. You know what the Ross? I thought you and I were going to agree on that we think was the right thing to do is we wanted Bronny to spread his own wings to create him be his own man. This doesn't

help that at all. He's not an NBA player and he's probably not going to have any sort of NBA career. He's enjoying as long as he can. Exactly. That's what I'm thinking this is. He's not an NBA player, He's not going to have an NBA career. He's not a mascot.

He's not the face of the Lakers. They smuggled him into the system because of how great LeBron James is, and he's strong-armed the Lakers to put his son on the floor with him for three minutes and to create NBA history. I don't have a problem with it. It's nepotism one,

but sometimes nepotism can work. He's on the end of the bench at a G-League team. And it costs him a 55th overall pick, which doesn't do anything. How many 55th overall picks don't have to travel on road games of G-League games? How many 55th overall picks have ever become anything in the NBA? So it doesn't matter. How many 55th picks that go to play for GLE?

Yeah, he's getting special. I didn't say he's not getting special treatment. He probably shouldn't even have been picked where he was, right? Yeah, probably so. But it just further pushes me towards the, it wasn't special because it was manufactured. It wasn't authentic and it wasn't deserved. Yeah, but if they didn't manufacture, it never would have happened. So you know what?

Brony? Yeah, you're a kid. Your dad should be known, buddy. LeBron, shut your bum ass up about your son. Let him go on the road. Let him see what a commercial plan is like. So you're one of the all-time great NBA players and your first-born son.

You say, I have the ability to get my first-born son on an NBA floor and to play with me. Michael Jordan Jr. didn't get to do that. No, he didn't because he wasn't good enough. So it never happened. So Brony James didn't enough either. If we asked, well, Michael Jordan probably wouldn't because he hates LeBron so much, he's just going to say it.

But if you asked him in 1997, hey, if there were a way for us to get your son on an NBA floor with you, would you do it? He would probably say yes. I think Michael's ego would be like, no, good. I'm good. I'm going to enjoy it. He wants to win. Can we get your, yeah, he might do that because he's an ego psychopath. But I'm saying a 40-year-old man said, I have the ability to get my firstborn son on an NBA floor with me to make history.

Should I do it or should or not? And he said, I'm going to do it. And we're crushing the guy for it, I guess. Not crushing. It's just, it wasn't special to me. Okay. It's probably special to them, and that's what matters. And you know what's special to the Lakers?

Because when they did it, LeBron's like, yeah, I'll stay with you. I got zero problem with it. I mean, it was an end game. There was a few bumps to make the, me, look, we have nepotism in this world all over the place. Exactly. That's all I'm saying. We got a really close nepotism. He's Connor's dad

What are you talking about? The mayor of Cyprus Mayor, what does the matter with you, Mayor of Cyprus? I got issues with the Salisbury show in the morgue. Now, wait a minute,

that's our guy. What are you talking about? I know, I know. He is a grown man. They should not be referring to each other as dogs and call him people that call in dogs.

It's so cringing when they call each other dogs. Second, on top of that, he doesn't finish anything he's saying. He'll be on a subject, stop mid-sentence to start talking about something else.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Ain't nobody got time for that. Hmm. I will, I guess I would take that up with them. Yeah, call them. Phone's open, six to ten. Like that douche braced a couple days ago,

but I mentioned about me. Call me. Hmm. Yeah. I have no comment whatsoever. You know, Sean's big boy, he can fight his own battles? I didn't, I don't know,

they call each other dogs. What's wrong with that? What up? No. There may be a little bit of dad jokes their show. Okay. Occasionally. Okay. Still, good listen. I listen driving in. I don't normally catch the show.

When that duchbag that ripped on me called their show, I texted him. And by the way, Sean and Brian Lima, you didn't text me back. So shut your bum asses up, may? Ouch. Man, you got the cold shoulder? Shut your bum ass up. I'm serious. You got big time by Sean Salisbury. If I text you, you better damn well text me back.

And the proper way to end the text thread is by using an emoji. You know, exclamation point, ha-ha, thumbs up, thumbs down. You just are like, see you later or I'm busy. When I text you, you text me back. Period in the story. I sometimes I forget.

I know, you're the worst. So, Ross, anybody got time for you not returning my text? Hey, nobody got time for that? And no, Carlos on Twitter. Brani is not D of the year candidate. No, he's not D of the year. It's funny that you say that, though. If your dad's like, hey, I'm going to get, you're not good enough to be drafted in the NBA,

but I'm going to get you drafted and I'm going to get you on an NBA floor in a Lakers uniform, we'd be like, hell yeah, Dad, let's go. But you know what he did? He didn't want to separate himself. He's okay. He wasn't going to make. He's not, I will predict. There's gut feeling.

He's not going to have any sort of NBA career. So in five years from now, this is a moot point. Five years of now, it's a moot point, and you got, they got that special moment between father and son. And it's largely forgettable. Mack on 790. Mac, what's the matter with you? All right, guys.

How are you doing? Amazing. I don't know if y'all remember this call. You might not. I do, because it was a day where y'all made me feel like I was an idiot. I called y'all and I said Travis Hunter was better than Stingley. If somebody drafted Travis Hunter right now and said they trade him for Stingley, would y'all guys do it now? Let me tell you something right now, Mac. First of all, thank you for calling.

I don't recall that call. There's no way in the world I would ever, you come up bringing up Travis Hunter's name and saying that he's better and stinging than us making fun of you. Could have been somebody else. Are you sure? Oh, absolutely. Now, Mac. There was there was a different show tended to do that? Yeah, there's, Mac, I swear it wasn't us. Now, Mac, I will tell you, and honesty, if you listen to No Under 3 show, I wanted Sauce Garner over Derek Stingling. And I remain consistent on that. Sauce Gardner's had. I've been having a great year.

He's still better. It's up for debate. No, it's not. Thank you, Mac. Okay. How is Travis Hunter doing? He's trying to win the Heisman. My vote goes to Ashen Genti, the Boise State running back.

He's like 4'4-7. No. He's running for like 300 yards in game. But he's playing Wyoming. He ran for almost 200 yards against Oregon, the number one team in the country. Yeah, non-commerce Oregon didn't care. Oh, my God. Look at their body of work.

You're playing San Jose State. They're playing Nevada. There's 50 other running backs on that same type of schedule, and they're not doing what he does. Watch the games, Matt. A two-way awesome player is getting the Heisman. Probably. Put it on the board. He got 192 yards on 25 carries against Oregon.

The number one team in the country. 7.7 yards. That is good. And three touchdowns. That is good. I'll give you credit for that one. Come on, man. What do you do against central Wisconsin or something like that?

Georgia Southern. He had 267 yards. Let's go. You're helping my point. Dude, he's an animal. Bell and Katie, what's the matter with you? Yeah, Matt, I heard you and Biscuitke's going at it earlier about the Ashton. I'm going it up and making something out of it.

And Biscuit is just going about, you know, the people. will come. Ain't anybody come in there for people from third ward, Firt, Ford Ward, Knight Ward in Louisiana, Biscuit. I'm a brother. I ain't going that way. And I'm going to chat it. Ain't nobody got time for that, this.

Ain't nobody got time for that. Biscuit, you just got called out. I don't care what word do you come from. No one from any part of town is going to NRG. You have to go to Texans and a rodeo. It was a great point made by you, Matt, about how these suburbs now have their own self-sustaining restaurants and things to do? Yeah. Go to Sugarland.

Do you ever leave it? Does anybody in Sugarland ever leave Sugar Land unless they have to? They don't. Last call, real quick. Joe 790. Joe, what's the matter with you? Calling about in defense of nepotism, you know, a lot of people criticize, and it's okay to say that maybe the recipients of nepotism are not worth it.

But if you were ever a father and you have a son or a daughter and you're an fortunate enough position to help them succeed in life, you would most likely do it too. And everybody else that sees that and can't do it, I guess, or isn't fortunate enough to do it, they're kind of just haters. That is not the definition of nepotism. Helping your sons out and your daughters out as part of being a good father. Getting them jobs and they don't deserve them is nepotism. There's a significant difference. Anybody that's a parent, I would think, would try to help their kids in life, whether it be for education or buying a car or helping them get a job or whatever the case may be.

But flat out nepotism is getting a job and not deserving it. I disagree. I think it's getting an opportunity that would not be there if you were not the father. For example, where would no eagle might find his way? He would. But it would take a lot longer. It would absolutely take a lot longer. They would absolutely take it all along.

It is. So that's nepotism. That is absolutely nepotism. I'm not arguing that point at all. John, I got a roll to the top of the R. I don't, no. Noah Eagle, nepotism. Joe Buck, nepotism.

Tom Burnham and nepotism. They're good in their own right. But they became good. But it's not good. But I think as parents, I want to help my kids. If I can help him get him a job. Well, that's what LeBron's doing. What's to help his son.

But I don't carry any weight like that. He's trying to get him a job in one of the most exclusive jobs in the world, being an an NBA player. He has no business being there. And now he's hanging out at the G League. Home games only. Yeah. All right.

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Turn it into cash. Underdog fantasy, promo code sportsMT. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1207. What's happening in lunch timers? It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talks. I've been on time now for the news at noon.

We've had one main time. topic so far today, have we not? Well, Matt, and that's going to stay at the top of the news. Is it every time? No, I only do it. I'll have to have half. I can't help it. I hear this music, and I want to talk like this. How about this weather we've been having? Rendering of the Astrodome Conservancy's $1 billion plan to save the landmark stadium have been revealed today, Matt, in a Houston Chronicle exclusive.

The Conservancy is looking to turn this in. to a 450,000 square foot venue with new revenue generating space. Talking about shops, restaurants, facilities, storage of animals for the rodeo, hospitality exhibitions, shopping, of course. And it's going to cost a billion dollars. They say a mix of public and private funding. how much of that mix, we do not know. The alternative, which I am in favor of,

would be $100 million to demolish the Astrodome, which is just a money pit at this point. Because why does it cost so much to keep it operating with the electrical bills and stuff? They can't just flip that all off? It's past our pay grade. I don't have an answer. Because every time you try to get an answer,

you get into a word salad with people about it. I'm sure there is seriously. I always thought it was $1 million to operate, not $100. No, $100 million to demolish. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. My guess is because you can't do it the old-fashioned way just to implode it to some bitch. I don't like you calling it some bitch. I shouldn't.

That's my girl. But it's time to go bye-bye. I agree. But the new plan unveiled for the Astrodome, and we'll see what happens. But it feels like this happens every few years. I don't know if this is going to get on any sort of balloting. Apparently the rodeo is not really aware of these plans either. sent an email to the Chronicle in advance and says,

we're not aware of this and everything we've heard in the past doesn't make any sense. And I said this about a half an hour ago and it bears repeating because other folks on Twitter are saying the exact same thing. If you're with any conservancy group, if you are with anybody that wants to

build anything in around that stadium, you better get the Texans and Rorty on your side. And until you do that, this is a moot conversation. Phoebe Tudor in a statement, we are confident that because of the Astrodome's designation as a historical landmark and Astrodome redevelopment can leverage significant private dollars, dollars that are not available for new construction or other improvements to NRG Park to minimize public investment.

We can create a successful public-private partnership to ensure this Houston Treasure will have a bright future. Did she write this in 2002? Feels like it. Feels like we've been going through this for a while. This is one of the all-time classics on this show. I think. Pete Wilson Hall of Fame.

Is Matt Schob and elite quarterback? Vince Young, well, I guess it was Mario Williams before this show. But as far as Houston Sports Radio history, that's one of the all-timers. Certainly this one is well as well. Elsewhere in the news, Matthew, the Los Angeles Clippers in town

for a two-game set against the Houston Rockets. Rockets at this moment, a minus three and a half game tonight at 7 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. at the Toyota Center. Fred Van Vleet still questionable for tonight's game. As is Stephen Adams. Good feeling?

I'm going to say, you need Stephen Adams, but he played last game. Yeah. Feels like he's a 50-50 guy. He literally, every single day, he's 50-50. It's how he feels, how he warm. You know, a lot of times it's been actually how he warms up. So there's no need to guess. He's going against Ivitsa Zubats.

It's kind of a big physical guy. By the way, Kevin Porter Jr. back in town for the first time, being released by the rocket or being traded by the rockets okay okay okay I don't have a whole lot of comment on that okay that seems fair let's see also the college football playoff rankings are out met um the Oregon Ducks number one Ohio State number two a lot of people questioning this the Texas Longhorns are number three the team that beat them the Georgia Bulldogs it are 12th. Now the Bulldogs do have two losses, including the bad one at

Ole Miss, but a close one to Alabama. They beat Texas, and they also have a big win over Clemson, who is 20th, but they are 12th, despite the head win over Texas, who is number three. Now, again,

if just because you win your conference doesn't guarantee you a spot in the four, or are you... If you win your conference, yes. You're in the top. You're guaranteed. example, BYU is six in the rankings, but they're the four seed, which I think is ridiculous. So if you win one of the big four conferences, you get a top force. But you're not automatic if you are saying Boise State, correct?

They get an automatic bid, but not an automatic buy. They would have to go over one of those other four teams. Yeah. They're 13th in the college football playoff rankings, but they're in the playoff because right now, Georgia at 12th would be outside looking in because Boise State is the highest ranking outside of the power four. Oh, God is... You know what? Can I say this and I don't mean to be rude? Just wake me up on the decisions, final decisions made.

I don't think getting all but heard about where the rankings are was still three weeks left to go in the regular season. It makes much sense. Yeah. So there you go. It's the top four highest ranking conference championship, champions. Making the buy. So if Boise was better than say BYU. Boise could supplant BYU or Boise

could be better than SEC champion, right? You're only guaranteeing four conference champions in the top four, right? Yeah, if a group of five champion is not in the top 12, they will be automatically placed at 12. The top four teams receive a first round by to the

quarterfinals no matter what. So I think that's correct. I think. So Boise, if they somehow continue to win and finish ahead of BYU? So there are five conferences. The Power 4 and then the highest ranking of any other conference champion, I guess. So if you're Sunbell, it could be Mac, but in this particular case, it's Boise State.

So Boise State's guaranteed in, and if it had a higher ranking, it could supplant one of the other four teams that are Power 4 schools. Yes, so apparently, yeah, Boise State can, this is, I guess, where we need to bring in Gordy. They can earn a top four seed if there is, chaos with the Big 12 and or ACC. Okay. Got you. Interesting. All right. What else? We're looking at the ACC right now. Miami's

9th and they get a top 4C right now. Because they're a Power 4 school. They should have just done one through 12 plus the out of the side of the Power 4. Have them with the buys how they are. Okay. But whatever. And well, that's your news at new, Matt.

And Anthony Richardson is now the quarterback of the Colts. I was going to mention that also very quickly. Greg Popovich. It came out that it was a mild stroke was his health issue. He will be back coaching the Spurs, but the timeline is TBD. Okay, there's the news at noon. 1214 on Sports Talk 790, 713-212-579. So the question I have for the Conservancy, and I don't really necessarily have him on the show,

because I don't support her. So I don't want to hear the side. I mean, I know what she's going to say. But why bring this out today? Did something happen that was just this felt like that, mid-November, 2024 was the right time to put this out there? Do they finally have their ducks in a row? Does Ms. Tudor have the financial people backing her that maybe they haven't had five or six years ago?

What was the point of going out today and saying these things when we've been talking about this for 20 years? 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. On Twitter, it's at SportsM-M-T, at SportsR. and at Connor D. McGovern with a message here for the Shell Federal Credit Union. When you are buying a dream home or perhaps you're refinancing your mortgage or tapping into your home's equity, I want you to use the Shell Federal Credit Union. They're there to help you every step of the way.

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A lot of our conversations today, why do you feel like you're dancing? We're not on television. Space Hitties not here. So what, man? You don't. I like to groove. We play hundreds of,

Bump music songs on the show. You don't dance to them. That's a jam, though. Is it? Shooting tie. Come on. Crank this up. Crank it up.

Yeah. Look, Conner's feeling it. JT's got hits. Yeah. What's the car like at a JT concert? In this day and age? I mean, Connor can rope him some cougars over there. Connor, you'll go chase cougars once in all, right?

Hey, if we don't get winners, I'll be there. Oh. So he doesn't want you to win. Yeah. I'm ruined against him. for sure. That's actually very funny. Okay. 713-212-5-790.

I brought this up a minute ago, and if you're just joining us, A, where the hell have you been? B, dang glad to have you here. We brought this up about this conservancy creating this $1 billion plan to create...

Let me look at the poll question. How many square feet do we talk about 40... 450,000 square feet of... I don't know. shopping and I guess it's just going to become a glorified mall.

Well, they're living in open for interpretation. And they want to have an avenue that goes through the middle of it so you can walk through it on your way to NRG Stadium. Right. One bang in a renovate Astrodome, 450,000 square feet of revenue and 1,500 new parking spots. 304 votes are

in. 64% said tear it down, 36% say sounds good, let's do it. I think that's a percentage that's basically been pretty consistent for a better part of a decade. I feel like two-thirds of every person that I find is saying tear it down. I would agree.

What I don't understand is if you're with anything, any sort of business development, somebody, this architectural firm created this thing. But you have to do the due diligence on this and say, is the city of Houston, is Harris County,

is the seven-county area around us, thirsting for such a complex. And my answer to that has been for where that is in town, the answer is no, because of two things. One, we go into our sporting events, we go into our concerts, and then we leave. Well, some people can say, well, there's something for me to go to before and after.

That may be true. But with the number of restaurants and bars and social clubs that are closing on the daily... To put that amount of money, time and effort into that area of town doesn't make any sense at all, especially because the Woodlands had his own community. Cyprus has his own area of town where they do their thing. Katie's got their own thing. Sugarland has their own thing. Everybody's, for the most part, kind of has their own thing.

Kima? Yes. I think the answer is in plain sight. The last event in that building was in 2002. And in Houston, there's been a lot of business developments, a lot of architectural developments, and lofts and bars and venues and all that built up in that time. And not one company has said, I can turn this into a moneymaker. It just hasn't happened. This plan is put together by a commission that founded itself with Phoebe Tudor making a $100,000 donation to herself.

to found this thing and come up with this plant. I just feel like if it were profitable, it would have happened by now. We've been sitting talking about this for 20 plus years. More than that. Now, is Ms. Tooter doing this because she just loves the Astrodome or she loves, it sounds like to me her background is appreciation of all sorts of architecture. Yes. She likes to preserve all landmarks, not necessarily just the Astrodome.

Yeah, I think that's what it is. I think it's grasping at the straws of the history of what the Astrodome represents, and I understand all of that, and it is a historical building, but more historical buildings than the Astrodome have gone away. In every major city. In every one, yeah, in the entire world. How many seven wonders of the natural world are still up? I think one is the pyramids? Is that it?

I mean... And I appreciate the legacy that the stadium has. I appreciate the first of its kind. but as charming as the Astrodome is, it's just concrete. It's just metal. Yeah, it was, what was it? 63, 64, whatever, when it opened or built?

65, I think. Okay. So whenever, that's been 60 years, it's an old building. Sometimes after 60 years, buildings need to be taken down. Or buildings just, they need to be condemned, or they're not going to be, I think flipping it into this restaurant thing,

it's just not going to be viable. And I don't want to spend a public scent on it. I put this up for a vote. I can't wait. Let's do it. I mean, here's what I want. I want somebody that's with the rodeo. I want them to publicly come out and say,

girl, love you, appreciate you. But we don't buy into this. And as long as the rodeo don't buy into it, and as long as the Texans don't buy into it, nobody's buying into it. For $450,000. For what? A billion dollar plan.

They're talking about hotels. They're talking. I mean, it could be a variety of things. It's just, Gang, I I want downtown renovated before I want the Astrodome area renovated to be brutally honest with you.

Yeah. And as I mentioned this before, we've got to get a break on this one. This Harris County Sports Authority is going to be busy, really busy in the next 10 years. So we've got three facilities that are over 20 years of age.

They're either going to need a major facelift or they're going to want a new building. I think all the, well, I haven't been to energy. recently. They did do some... They liked the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, but they got rid of it. Okay. They liked Turner Field in Atlanta, but they got rid of

Toyota Center. It's just fine. Oh, no, they're going to refurbish it. They've got a nice new video board. It's nice, but they're going to be looking for other things. Every sports team in this, you're going to expect, if the Texas won the Super Bowl, are you kidding me? You're going to be hearing about getting a major facelift for NRG

immediately. Because here's the thing. They're not going to host a final round of the World Cup. They're no longer in Super Bowl rotation. So that's what they want. Is it for the bigger events, I guess? I think they want more bells and whistles, and they don't want to lose on other events.

Jerry World's being built. Sofi in Los Angeles. A Legion in Las Vegas. There are some facilities that are just, from a structural standpoint, have all the bells and whistles that these rich owners and rich sports leagues want. 713-212-5-790.

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And if you have missed that, we'll give away the password again coming up at 120. 713-212-5-790 is the phone number if you would like to get in. 7-13-212-5-790 as we continue rolling on Dome Talk 790. Don't Talk 790. How long are we going to go on with this? I mean, I'm talking about not today, but I mean, in general. Are we going to get this once a year? Is this going to fall on deaf ears?

Again, when you read the Chronicle story, and I invite you all to do that, the Chronicle reached out to the Texans. They said nothing. They didn't say, hey, this sounds encouraging. Can't wait to see the next stage. This is starting to feel like a nothing burger. If there were piles of money to be made with the Astrodome,

it would have already been done. Correct. That's my question. question is why is this popping up again now? Because our lady Phoebe Tudor just did her whole. God knows how much money she spent on this project. And then as our good friend of the show, Joan, has mentioned on Twitter, I guess it might not be torn down now since it was made a historical marker, but I don't know about the ins and outs on that. Okay. So at this point, we're saying it's either just standing there and sitting there or it's going to be refurbished. All right, fine, refurbish it.

Let's spend a billion dollars of our money. Let's not reinvest in our roads and our schools and our highways and, oh, I don't know, flood infrastructure. Let's spend money on the frigging asteroid. The power grid. No, let's just, let's make the Astrodome into an indoor mall. Yeah. That sounds like a great use of resources. Ridiculous.

Downtown shopping in Cleveland, where I stay at a nice hotel. Casino next door to it? Oh, hell yeah. Ghost town. If you're going to say, Matt, hey, Matt, let's go to a restaurant. And you know what? I want to get some shopping done.

Let's go all the way down to 610 and Kirby for it. There's 100 places we're going to pass that we'd rather go on the way. No. First of all, malls are dropping by the... They're done. Yeah. Old Navy.com is your friend. Well, Jeff Bezos is Amazon.com as well. Let me tell you.

The last two pairs of dress shoes I bought were on Amazon. Do they fit okay? Yeah, it feel great. Okay. Look good too. Did you know what I will do is I'll go try them on in the store and then order them online? You're disgusting. What's disgusting about that?

I don't know. I just want to say you're disgusting. If it's cheaper online, then why would I do that? So this person at the shoe store you go to, it's like, oh, hello, sir. What is your name? Ross. Ross, oh, it is my pleasure to have you here. Yeah.

I cannot wait to find the shoe that fits you best so we can make a dime to keep this company going and thriving. Yeah. And you go in. You know what you do? You taste test and then you leave. Basically. I did it with a, I went into Mar-Me-My, and I tried to the, I talked to the lady and I was like, yeah, I've been looking at the sleeping bag.

And I went to go see if I could fit it because it was on discount online. So I'm going to free market economy. So are you doing the same thing when you go to Rest Rye and you go look at a television, then you go buy it online? Guess what? That's absolutely 100% what I did. The television that is sitting in front of my couch right now, I went and looked at it. it mess my. You said sleeping bag?

Yeah. So you got like in the sleeping bag in the store? Yeah, they have they have So you're putting on shoes. No, I took my shoes. That you're not going to buy. No, I took off my shoes. And then you went in a sleeping bag, you're not buying from Rory Rye. They don't have to open, they have them hanging. They have test sleeping bags. The purpose of those sleeping bags is to see if you can fit in them. Oh, okay. Unfortunately, I need the wide body. Connor just sketch it all. It's just legit. Go ahead, Connor.

I know, just testing out sleeping bags. No, it's extremely common. Go to a camping store. my brother and you'll see them hanging up in there and you can hop in them if you see if you can fit. Why would you buy a sleeping bag if you're not sure you're going to fit in it? So when you go to Rari Rai, you never encountered that issue. And you walk in there and you try the sleeping bag on it. Yeah. And you say, oh, this feels good. And they say, well, would you like one? You say, no, I'm going to go online and buy it. I told her, yeah, absolutely. And what did she say back to you? She said, oh, that's a good price. It was, it was like 70 bucks off of what I was going to get.

And she was like, whoa, that's a good price. So it's all, it's all chill? What do you want me to do? you want to lie to her? I'm not going to buy it online. It was on clearance. I'm not going to buy it. You're kind of lying. You're giving her the impression that you're going to buy something. I didn't lie. I told her to her face. It had what the price was online, but it was on clearance, so I couldn't buy it and send it back if it didn't fit.

Go ahead. Poke some holes. No, I'm good. I think what you're doing is honest and above board. What I did was totally reasonable. So just remember, next time you go to a Ray Res shoe source, and you're looking at a pair of sneaks, Rossville, or I'll probably put them on first. I have. Well, anybody is.

put those on first. Dee Crittle on the Matt Tabas Show at 1240. D. What's up? What's up? Matt. Hi. Ross, what's up? Hey, how's it going? Dee Crittle? Long time no hear from. Yeah, man. Duke basketball is starting up, so just

pay attention. So on Astrodome Talk, man, there's only one person that I haven't heard. Nobody put all this blame on. And that's Ed Emmett. Ed Emmett is the sole reason while we're going through this conversation year in and year out because of his greedy

motives. And the last time I played in the Astrodome, it was 2003. I went to Willard Ridge High School and we played Madison High School. That turf was like playing on concrete. It was horrible. The Astrodome,

the locker rooms was horrible. And just for that one little moat, that one time that I played in the Astrodome, I knew that the Astrodome need to go. It was horrible. And so I just say, hey, it's time to get rid of that. I've been said it's time to get rid of it.

But I had a good feeling. I said, it's not going to get gone until 2032. May never go away. Thanks, DeCurdy. Why 2032? That's interesting. Because they keep prolonging. No, I think you know what, Dee Curdle, our grandchildren are going to be fighting about the Asthma, unfortunately.

Thanks for the phone call. We'll see you later. All right. Talk 790. What's he doing here? Who? Dan. Are you coming in for some reason? Are you coming in for some reason? Are you kind of heard of the talk? You keep staring at it. Yeah. I was like, this is really weird. What do you need? Number three. There we got. I do have experience in situations like this because of what the Braves did.

Yes. Building their own little mixed use. But here's the thing of why it worked in Atlanta. They built two hotels on site. They built apartments there. So you already had built in people who would be there. and also too you have to have attractions. Like this almost kind of looks like to me like another discovery green. We already have one of those and it's pretty much sparsely used anyway. So give me a reason to come down there. Then maybe it works. What I can't understand, why doesn't Cal McNair buy that plot and try to build his own thing where he can control all that revenue?

Because it doesn't need it. You don't need it. Why are owners buying anything when the cities will pay them for? Because they go and visit the Braves and they ask them, hey, you control all this revenue? do really yeah but i mean if that was the case then we see a lot more owners doing it we're not seeing that very many owners by the way Craig of laudy in front of the show i just left the press conference it is not a good sign when the rodeo doesn't want to do any have anything to do with this plan yeah could you imagine that woman what's her name phoebe phoebe tudor phoebe

two door yeah phoebe a question for you what's the rodeo's thoughts on this oh we we've had some Well, nothing. That's how I probably went. Yeah. They said, see you later. No. You will watch your plan go. I did bring up Atlanta earlier in the show today before you were even here.

I said that these stadium ages used to be 30, 40 years. It's 2025. And Atlanta is a great example of that. Well, it also takes somebody getting the ball moving, too, as well. Like somebody gets a new stadium, and then all of a sudden somebody else pops up and says, hey, what about us? and then Harris County tells them, well, we got them. That's when Fort Bend.

That's when Montgomery County hops in. Want a crazy take? Uh-oh. Yes, I love crazy takes. I sit by, I sit here and hear them Monday through Friday. We really prefer strong takes. Strong takes right here and I'll end my sentences to Cottle style. Let's hit the sizzle.

All right. This is an ultimate sizzle. Okay. The next Texans home will not be in Harris County. Ooh. Fort Bend? Yeah. Fort Bend feels like the favorite.

Montgomery's too far. Yeah, I don't know. Just throwing it out there. Okay, I like it. I don't like it, but I just see it happening. Just using an example. Right. Thank you very much.

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I'll bring you back some Japanese whiskey. I'll bring you back some Japanese. I'm not going to Japan, though. Oh, I thought you were. Korea and Taiwan. Bring us some Korean barbecue back. I'm going to put it in my belly. 1244 on Sports Talk 790.

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self-scouts, and also scouting your opponents. So you're always looking at tendencies and things to change, things to add, or do something a little different. But it's the day or the day of the day, you still have to execute whatever changes you make. But that is, that's part of any game. It's about, you know, adjusting. Man, his coach speaker is just,

it's top shot. it's every bit of Kubiak yeah doesn't give you a whole lot I would say that's the majority of coaches in the NFL have we been unlucky we just haven't had a real plain spoken

like who would you say in the history of Houston sports that we have had hearing that just man give it to you and it's like relatable it's it gives you a little bit more of it in depth I would say the coach that doesn't pull punches, the most that I can remember, at least recently, he's coming up on the show at nine minutes.

That's what you want to listen to EMA-a-Doka, 1 o'clock. I mean, he doesn't. It's like, we got to get better, we got to execute. I mean, he was even talking about first week of the season about Alper and Shingoon, playing himself into shape. I mean, Coach Udoka, he's not with the BS, as you know, Matthew. Now, he's not demonstrative. He's very, matter of fact.

Matter of fact. He doesn't call people out. He doesn't lose his. cool. And that's why I think his messaging works. It's because he's not reactionary and emotional about it. He's just matter of fact like, yeah, we got to play better. Yes, we need to execute better.

Yes, this guy's not playing well on defense. Yes, this guy's not making good decisions with shot selection. And it's just, it's not calling out people for the sake of calling out. It's question ask, question answered. I'll give you one. I thought Larry Dirker was excellent with that kind of stuff.

Okay. Only thing I remember about him is massive hands. well a lot of people have massive hands it's got like Andre the giant hands nothing to do with what he said for which I'm sorry play one more let's say I'm not let's go let's go

spin the wheel okay fine we have a number one through 10 you want to pick a number or one through 12 no don't do that let's go just pick one no how about just the he was asked about

coaches making adjustments and I think So a lot of the talk about with people has been oh no second half adjustments no second half adjustments and as D'emico says coaches are making adjustments

like after the first plays of the game adjustments are happening throughout the game here's what Domingo had to say about well people questioning the lack of adjustments in the second half from the Texans

first of all the biggest thing coaches make adjustments all throughout the game so it's not like a big second half adjustment that happens in games, defenses they don't run one cover the first half and come out and run a different cover.

That's not what it is, right? They're always rolling different calls, and you have to be able to make plays based on whatever you're seeing from that perspective. So it's not so much about, for me, not the adjustments. I look at us, first and foremost, right? A lot of people can focus on whatever adjustments, defense makes, but it's about us and our focus and our execution, and I'll continue to speak about that because that's the only thing.

thing that matters to me is the Texans and how we execute and how we operate. And right now, first half, we had some really good things that happened. It wasn't all perfect. And the second half of the game, we didn't execute the right way. We couldn't get plays started. We got penalties. We got negative plays. We're not blocking the right people on our assignment. So let's do that right. And then let's see how we can play and finish in the second half. It's about executing, Matt. I really want to go into the locker, and I want to hear him. Because I don't think we're getting even a close of a sample size of who he is when that door closes.

What do you think he's chewing everybody out and MF and everybody? I think so. I don't think so. I think he's like, what could I possibly accomplish by giving anything sort of incriminating or damning commentary about my guys in front of this microphone? The answer is zero. I'll never, nothing will ever be accomplished. But I can go in there and talk them down to them and yell at them and try to motivate them differently. I don't know if it's a Jekyll and High, but I think it's significantly more demonstrative.

You can't be that plain spoken with 53 grown men in a locker room. I know, of course. I imagine he loses school sometimes. But to me, he seems more of like a positive reinforcement. Let's keep plugging. Let's keep getting after it type of coach. So he's Tony Dungey? Too much?

Maybe. I would say, how about Pete Carroll? More, okay, more Pete Carroll or more Tony Dungey? I mean, or one of either of those guys. But he's not going to be... But he's not Bill O'Brien who just... Well, thankfully. Talk to Halfcock, yeah. Because what happened to Bill O'Brien is basically what would happen. People tune them out.

Absolutely. Let's go to before we get to EMA Adoka, let's talk to Steve on 790. Hi, Steve. Hey, you guys were talking about the piece of the dome. I think you're overlooking. something, what is becoming increasingly more legal in every state, but it's not yet in Texas, gambling. Yeah, marijuana.

Gambling and marijuana. But we talked about this before, Steve, and again, we got much as people surprised, we have audience turnover all the time because people are doing things. My thought is, we thought I thought was, Steve, if you're going to build a casino, why do you want to worry about doing it on the Master Dome property? You can build a casino in any plot of land throughout southeast Texas. You don't have to worry about doing it at the dome. Well, it's a great location.

You start building the bars and restaurants. You have the infrastructure. So when it does pass two, three, four years are set up. You have a sportsbook minimum, possibly if it's illegal, roulette, the whole casino. And it's perfect. It's right there near Reliant. Good part of town. No, it's not a good part of town.

What are you talking about? It's not a good part of town. Well, it used to be. It could be again. No, Steve, I could go build a massive casino in Kima and have plenty of people come see me. I could have built a massive casino next to Katie Mills Mall and people would go.

You don't need a central location to put a casino because people will travel to casinos. I mean, they put a casino in the middle of Lake Charles, Louisiana. Who the hell would ever go to Lake Charles, Louisiana except to go to the casino? Houstonians and Texans do.

That's why I go. And those are built... Gambler, I agree. That's good. I'm glad. And so, I mean, it's an iconic location. You have the Asperchamble. know and it goes to good use and he preserved both done uh yeah i just just thanks steve for the call i disagree i don't think you waste if you're a casino operator you're not wasting the time of having to

chisel your part of this 450 000 square feet you want your own casino you want to be out there by yourself you want to be able to have all your restaurants built you want to have all your sports books built you want your casinos lazy rivers you want you want you want resort you don't need just space right e-madoka joins us to start the final hour, the Matt Thomas show, a matter of moment. 713, 212-5-7-90, 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90, also Willie Fritz, coach of the Cougars with us in about 30 minutes.

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103 on Sports Talk 790. Our weekly Wednesday visit begins with the head basketball coach of your Houston Rockets. Tonight, the Rockets at 7 and 4 take on the Los Angeles Clippers for a matchup tonight. And they'll also play each other on Friday. It'll be a part of the in-season tournament. Coach Adok is with us here on the show. Coach, thanks for the time. Congratulations on the recent.

good run, nice streak for the guys. I got to be honest with you, and you're not talking about this almost every single night. You got a couple of guys off your bench, and I know men started for Fred the other day, but have been tremendous spark plugs for your squad. And that's no surprise to you, but the emergence they've had has been quite special to so far this young part of the season. No, it's good to have guys back healthy. You know, they both missed them time last year, and having those guys as a tandem coming off the bench,

reeking habit, the defensive things that they do, obviously, have given us a huge spark. Does that not necessarily motivate, but just keep everybody knowing that you may start a game, you may start a second half, you may be a part of a fourth quarter, but you're definitely as a coach not afraid to go with the hot hand, correct? Yeah, I mean, I kind of laid that law down last year where we're going to play the guys that play best and finish the game with those guys. And so guys understand that. It's not about starting as much as, you know, who's going to be in there at the end.

And we have a ton of options, a ton of versatility and a ton of different guys that have stepped up at different times. And so we're comfortable, you know, going 14 deep with all our guys. And we understand the sacrifice that it's going to take every night for a different guy to step up and lead the team. And I think we have very capable guys. And they've shown that so far. So honestly, you may, when most teams shoot the way we've shot so far this year, where it's been lower third in the league, you're not supposed to win a whole lot of those basketball games.

So it becomes the intangible. So if I told you that this squad was not shooting as well today as it did maybe a year ago at this point, you would say we're doing these things to win basketball games. What are the types of things that you are seeing that are helping you get over the hump when the team has not been overly hot from the floor? Well, first off, we always want to rely on our defense, and we've been playing really good defense overall. We've had a few quarters where we've given up 38. But other than that, we've been solid for the most part.

So we always know when the shots aren't falling, we can rely on the defensive end and still hold teams down. The second part, you know, we emphasize offensive rebounding this team or this year. and it's not due to poor shooting. It's just an added bonus that we have some guys that can really do it naturally. And so I think we're second in the league right now on offensive rebounds. So those extra possessions count, especially with the missed shots. But once the shots start to fall, we'll defend at the same level, play at a faster pace,

get some offensive rebounds. We'll feel like we'll be a much more complete team. But in the meantime, until the shots do fall, we can rely on those things to maintain a winning record. How much is that the play of the players and then you guys coaching as far as guys crashing and telling certain guys to crash for offensive rebounds or telling some other guys to get back in transition? No, we've really stressed that we want to be number one in offensive rebounds this year.

We finished eighth last year, and it wasn't a real emphasis of ours, but you had Tari back into the mix, who's naturally great at it. I'm in who's there. You get Stephen, you get Alpe and those guys that do it well. Jabari, who came on last year. So for us, it's really something that our guys do well already,

naturally, but we definitely stressed that, and our goal was to be number one. And so we're one away from that right now, and we understand. the impact it has on our game and we don't say any direct correlation with poor transition defense it's almost our first layer of transition defense teams don't want to leak out they have to get a body on the body and us attacking the glasses has proven that so far rocket head coach emmaudoka with us here on sports talk 790 you mentioned jabari smith

junior the shooting numbers have not been there but how are you feeling about the shots he is taking and working within the offense and about how are you feeling about the other aspects of his play Yeah, the shots, I mean, I think him, Fred, you know, I think Jalen's been okay, but some guys have been off to start the season. And we understand those numbers are going to come back to form eventually. And so we encourage them to be confident and take the correct shot and we'll live with the result. But he can do other things to impact the game. It's not just relying on a jump shot. He obviously is versatile defensively.

But we want him to crash the glass area. He really improved in last year. Get out in transition, try to get himself something easy. So it's just not relying on jump shots. still can impact the game in a ton of ways, playing at a small ball five, and put a bunch of guys around him that we're switchable and can do all those things. And so until the shot comes back around, we want guys to stay confident, continue to hunt the right shots, and we'll live with the result.

You went with some different guys in the fourth quarter of some games about a week, 10 days ago. Alpy was not out there. Since then, he's put up some huge numbers, back-to-back 27-point games. Where have you seen Alpi just in the last two weeks kind of a step his game up? because he's been, it feels like to me, he may pretty much automatic 10 feet inside. Yeah, I think, you know, we didn't get tricked by the easy miss shots at the start of the season. Like I said, Fred had missed them ones.

He missed Jalen, missed him in the Charlotte game, specifically. Jabari has missed him as well. But Alpi was missing point blank shots that he normally always makes. And so we're going to take those shots every time. We understand that's going to come back around. And when it does, he has these huge games. And so he has advantage pretty much every night. We want him to stay aggressive and understand when he gets in better conditioning.

gets up and down. He's a matchable problem for every lineup. And so that came to form the last few games against New York and then last game, obviously, and he's had the huge game. So with him, he's never going to lack confidence scoring. He gets the looks that we love and obviously he's going to start to put those in as the season goes.

How's Fred feeling right now? Fred's okay. He felt good today. He's going to test it before the game but Fred's a warrior that pushes through almost everything so you don't expect him to be out long at all. He can play through some things, high pain tolerance, but he looked good this morning and shoot around and we'll see what he feels like before the game. Is the hamstring the cruelest part of a basketball player's game that once you heard it during the course of the year that you've got to do everything you can to rest?

But you guys play three, four times a week. It's hard to have that day or two to rest. Yeah, I mean, it depends on the severity of it. And it seems like it's settled pretty quickly. He felt some tightness in the Detroit game. And so sat out last game, obviously. And sometimes for some guys, they're quick healers and he's back that soon. And so that's where he's trending. but we'll see how he feels before the game.

And obviously the severity wasn't that bad. We're going to keep them out long term. And hopefully have them back soon and later. Paul George, not a part of the Clippers anymore. You've had a chance to look at them a little bit on tape. You'll see them tonight and Friday, a glimpse of what they have been without him. A different team led by different guys. Obviously, Kauai Leonard's out as well.

But James Hardin's going to do what he does. And Norman Powell has really emerged in that PG role. And so, you know, average in 26 on the year, he's a 12-lead in squad. in the league and he's taking advantage of those opportunities. So a guy that's super confident, aggressive looking to score, and he's really taking on that scoring load that's missing with Kauai and Paul George. And so still guys you have to worry about. Zubak's a little more aggressive in the post this year.

And so we'll have our hands full. Obviously, James is going to dictate everything, but those guys are really looking to be aggressive as well. You know, Zubots is a guy that just kind of under the radar in terms of big physical guys, but I kind of look forward to seeing when him and LPA will do with each other tonight in terms of competing with each other. Yeah, they've gone out over the years. Alpi's had some really good games against the Clippers.

He's one of the most solid post defender, so Alpi will have his work cut out, but we feel good about Alperin every night against whoever he's guarding him. And so no different tonight. Like I said, they are posting Zubak up a little bit more, and so he'll have his challenge on that end as well. But, yeah, we're happy with Alpi against everybody, and we'll take advantage of whatever match he has. And I'm assuming you were talking about, we're talking about day-to-day situations.

Stephen Adams, still for you, for at least foreseeable future, kind of like how he wakes up and how the schedule looks, that kind of thing in terms of when he's going to play and when he's not? Yeah, until he feels 100% normal, you know, we'll be cautious with him, the shorter stints in the game, but also one day of rest might not be enough at times. And so anytime we have a chance to give him a few days, he feels much better and we'll play it by ear and how he feels until he's 100%. All right. Thanks for the visit, as always. We'll see you tonight at the arena. Good luck against the clips. I said, thank you guys.

You got it. That's the Madoca joining us here for his weekly Wednesday visit on Sports Talk. 7.19. 11 is our time. 713, 212.790 if you want to get in, 713, 212, 579. I feel, and it's small uptick that when I listen to you on the call-in show, there are a few more people that call in. I feel there's a little more buzz on the show. Again, I'm not trying to oversell anything under any circumstance because that's the last thing you want to do is sort of oversell something and then let people down. but a little more energy in the arena. It isn't a foregone conclusion that someone's going to come in and score 45 points and beat you now. The schedule's been pretty easy so far, relatively speaking.

Yes. You're about to get an upgrade a little bit with the clippers coming up. But I'm feeling a little bit better. Good. They really only have what? Two losses you kind of just shake your head at. The opening night game against Charlotte was kind of a... buzz kill. And then losing anything to San Antonio is bad, but let's face it. San Antonio's better.

They're not going to win 40 games, but they're going to win probably 30, so they've got to beat somebody 30 times. Yeah, I think that's bum and slash stiff Victor Wimbuniam. I think he scored what, 34 the other night? Yeah. He's just a guy. Says some people. Look, and sadly, I hope Victor is just a guy. I hope Victor continues to fall in love with the three-point shot because when he does, he's not very good. Yeah, well, it was against the Sacramento Kings. 34 points, 14 rebounds, 6 assists, 3 blocks. No tweet from somebody.

You can talk to that somebody in about 45 minutes if you want to. Just throwing that out there. That's just you, though. That's just me. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got Willie Fritz joining us coming at the bottom of the hour. and if you want to play believe or not, we'll have it for you in about 35 minutes.

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or do business in Harris County and enjoy that holiday shopping. With that Shell FCU debit or credit card and win a thousand bucks, it can happen to five of you from the Shell FCU at 713-8441100 or ShellfcU.org. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790. This is a perfect song for white people to dance to. When Connor was first cutting his first rug back in the day, St. Thomas High School, and he's going to those crossover dances with St. Agnes Girls, this is the song that was on. This song was everywhere for like a year.

I know. When it came out of like the Trolls movie, it was on every commercial. It was everywhere. It's a catchy tune. Oh, yeah. Again, as a white person, I can feel like I can start dancing. Matter of figure, this comes under in the Rockets again tonight. I'll be at my broadcast spot.

I get out of my chair. I may dance a little bit. Don't subject the public to that. Get on dance camp. I think I've seen more of your dance moves than anybody in history. That may be true. And you've never asked for any repeats. No, I have that.

I'm not thirsting for more. Do you think we're like recording artists going on and go, this is going to be really good? I think, yeah, absolutely. I'm going to sell a lot of singles. Oh, my God, we just made a mega hit. Yeah. Sometimes they can be surprised.

But anyways, Matt, why are we playing? This Justin Timberlake song. A pair of tickets giveaway. It's the first winner for today's edition, to believe it or not, at 150. Yes, the first winner. One pair today. But you cannot enter to play unless you know the password. Like you can't go to the bar.

It's like a speakeasy. The speakeasy like we were in Vegas without knowing the password. And the password is to play the game today for the last time, D in a box. D in a box. D in a box. The password. And if you're like, what does that mean? Sanat Live Skit.

Yes. most famously a couple different occasions with Justin Timberlake Who was the other guy who was in that? Is it Andy Sandberg on that one? I think it was Andy Sandberg, yeah. So at 150, you will call in for believe it or not

and Connor will ask you the password and you will say D in a box. Now Connor, I want you to tell us at the end of the show today keep tally. How many people don't know the password? Okay.

And we're going to start doing the passwords for all the good prizes. We value all the prizes We'll give away, but... So just now, we'll be good for the rest of the year. So we'll do that again all week. And again, nobody wins today. We'll push those tickets over to tomorrow.

Way to two pair. So... And today's topic is about Justin Timberlake, right? Yes. Okay. Yeah, I just finished writing it. You know that or do that'll put this song on during the Texans' next team meeting.

What, can't stop the feeling? Yeah. Why? Get me in better mood. because obviously the previous two meetings haven't worked out. And Hannah's going to bust in there and start dancing like Elaine Venice. Do you think when Hannah walks in there like, oh, cool, Hannah's here? Or they're like, what is she doing here?

No, I think they're like, oh, the boss is here. Everybody's straightened up, fly right. You got to clean your little locker room space. Yeah. When Cal's in there, you're slapping a kick-me sign on his back. When Hannah's in there, you're straightened up and fly right. Hey, Cal, put your H's up. I think anybody over the age of 50

shouldn't have you putting up H's. I like smoke sausages. I didn't realize Gump was in there. I'm going to start calling your impersonation. Just call it Cal Gump. What are you talking about? I think it's dead on. It is not even close.

And I continue to tell you how bad it is. I do not want them to tear down the Astrodome. I want to go shopping there. We can put a big screen and I can play Grand Theft Auto. Stop doing it. It's not good. I'm sorry. I'll stop. Now, the key to, I've told you this, and this is the last time I'm going to tell you this,

just speed it up three times as fast. Where do I plug in my Xbox? You're not speeding it up. Just speed it up. I, um, I don't know where to go after this. Hannah got me an Xbox gift card. I'm getting nothing but shaking heads I'm seeing. I just ran over the prostitute.

Play that again. I just ran over the prostitute. Is that AI or is that Rawson? When did you say that? When did you say that? About Grand Deft Auto. Oh my God. I got my money back.

All right, I'm sorry. I'll stop. I'm done. Yeah, it's not good. Work on it. I try to work on my impersonations. In the shower? Yes. I'm glad you had to retire one of them. Mill Mosby.

Yeah, Bill, I haven't dropped the Bill Cosby on this show in a long period of time. And probably we'll never run it again. That's a shame. All right. 713, 212-1-2-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9-0. Texans off today, back on the practice field tomorrow. It's going to be strange a Monday night game.

This is three straight primetime games. We were like, damn, look at the Texas getting all this national running. We're almost like, well, you better think it back to New York. Let's see. Dudd, where C.J. Stroud was running for his life. one of the worst collapses in franchise history and TBD against the Cowboys. A great national television audition.

Houston Texans. You're doing great. Those uniforms look nice. I like the Battle Red. Those are really nice. The Battle Red with those helmets. I couldn't even really tell what the helmet was. Was it a horn?

Yeah, they got the Texans. Toro Horn. Toro horn. I like them. I like them a lot. And with the red face masks, too, I thought they were sharp. They were okay.

I thought they were spectacular. They're way better than the Atlanta Falcons ripoffs. They're not Atlanta Falcons, Matt. It's more of a Seahawks font. But the color is definitely Falcons. They look black and white, black and white with red trim, which looks like the Falcons.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I don't think of the, yeah, Seattle font with the Atlanta colors. Then things start to get a little easier. That's why maybe it was the right thing to do to have a team meeting. Yeah. It sounds like that Nico Collins is ready to go,

and they saved him to preserve him for the long term, which is probably the right move as well. So if we did it over under our Nico Collins yards this week against the Cowboys, if I said 64, I'd go over. That's probably about where the line is. Look at you, Matt. Did I just make that up? Yeah, it's probably close.

I really didn't mean to do that. I don't even any idea what it is. Okay. I'll go look it up. Niko's back. Schedule softens up. And I mean this in Austin, Sarah, and I brought this up a little bit a couple days ago when we first talked about it.

70.5. Man, that's awful. You're close. I'm proud of you. If the Texans win this game, it is feeling better about ourselves, check. Further giving more misery to Dallas Cowboy fan. Check. Love it.

Furthering your lead in the AFC South. because here's the thing. Anthony Richardson's starting. Jacksonville is not beating Detroit and Detroit. No. Anthony Richardson is not going to, well, I don't know. They're playing the Jets. The Jets have already, they're a lost cause.

The Jets suck, even though they crush the Texans. And Tennessee's home from Minnesota. So, I mean, there's a chance to even gain more ground on all your opponents in your division, not that it makes any difference. Conversely, Ross, you lose that game. Cowboy fans are like, it's one of our worst teams in the last decade,

and we still beat your ass. Two, it's three straight losses in four or five. And three locker room players-only meetings just don't matter. So we are calling this a must-win game for the Texans. I'm glad you thought the exact same thing. I'm telling you Houston, Texas, whether you believe me or not, Monday night is a must-win game. You're ridiculous.

You know we should do? We should get the sound effects of me with the reverb. Must, must, must, must win. Must win game. Yeah, we should do that. Yeah, we should clip it that part. That'll be good.

No, it's not good. That wasn't good at all. I would not have clipped that on any circumstances. I love it. Let's go. You tell me it's not a must win game. It's not a must win game. This city will lose its MF and mine.

So what the season is not over? Well, you lose the Cowboys. You go to the Titans a couple times and they're jagging. URs, they're not going to, they're not going to halt the season. No, it's not a must-win game. Stop. Okay.

It's an important game. You'd like to have it. But the season goes on. They're not getting eliminated in this game. They're going to get eliminated in the second week of the playoffs. I would say that is the bar right now. Yeah. 713-212-790.

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Time now for our weekly visit with the head football coach of your Houston Cougars. Our Cougars are going to be on the road this Friday in Tucson, Arizona, the take on the Wildcats. It'll be an 815 pregame show on 950 KPRC kick time at 915, which means coach Fritz, Willie, you guys can get back. back to Houston Saturday morning, just enough to cook breakfast with the team at about 6 o'clock in the morning it feels like. Exactly right.

It's going to be a little bit different game. We played some late games so far this season, so this will be another one, but this will be even later. So we're doing a few things a little different in terms of when we get up, letting the guys go back to sleep in the afternoon. I'm sure they'll enjoy that. They're kind of fixing our adjusting our eating schedule as well. too.

So it'll be interesting. We're excited about going out there. I've never played a game out there before. I heard it's a really nice stadium and venues. I'm looking forward to it. Let me ask you this, and you have been around and played all different time slots from 11 to 9 o'clock at night. What is the best time to play a football game on the road and what's the worst?

And maybe does it change for home games too? Oh, I'll be honest. I like playing early games myself. You get a little bit of time off it after the break. ball game and things so you don't have the, you know, anticipation of the game, you know, hanging over you, you know, all morning, afternoon and the end of the evening. So that's what I like. It doesn't matter whatever it is.

And they tell us to do, we'll adjust to it and do the very best we can. Look, you put in, your players do, your staff does the heart and soul of an entire week of play. And if you win a game or you lose a game, you're going to obviously be still, you know, full of emotions. Is it easy to go to bed after a game? Do you need an hour to decompress? Does it make it a sleepless night?

How does the Fritz family, you, the bride, the kids, what is it like trying to decompress after working so hard for six days to play that one game on the seventh day? Oh, we usually have to go home watching a little good TV. I mean, watch some games. My life and I sit around and talk and visit because I haven't had a chance to see her a whole lot, especially in home games. I stayed in the hotel at home games, and she stays at the house.

So it's good that we're able to talk and visit for a little while. And then we start about 1 o'clock on Sunday, so we have a little bit of time, you know, on Sunday morning. So that's how we kind of do. I'm assuming during this time you had some guys heal up a little bit. You had a chance for probably you as a coaching staff to get on the road and do some recruiting. This would be your first in-season run recruiting. recruiting the state of Texas wearing the University of Houston gear. What are some observations you've seen so far from Texas high school football this season?

Oh, it's been great. I went to a game last Friday night. I guess I can't say the game I went to, but one of the top games in the state. It was really exciting. So I saw a lot of crowd and two really good teams, very competitive game. We really enjoyed it. Kind of after first quarter, I kind of talked to the guy who's standing next to me. You know, this is why I came back to the state of Texas to see great high school games like this.

Then I went around to the schools on Thursday and Friday, so did my staff. So it's fun to jump in a car and drive any direction and find great football players. Do you balance on the big scale of things what they do on a Friday night as compared to what they do when they come to your camps or you've had a chance to visit with them? How do you balance that out? it's fun to watch from the sideline. I don't get an opportunity to do that very often, but you need to see how they interact with your teammates, and how hard they really do play.

You're able to kind of see that a little bit differently when you're out there, you know, blocking on the perimeter if they're a receiver, how hard they chase the ball if they're a defensive player. So, yeah, there's a huge advantage to actually going to games. I've gone to games before where I was, on the fence about recruiting a guy

and I said, you know, hey, this is a guy I got to have in our programs and I've got to have, and I've got to watch him playing in person.

I'm like, man, I don't want this guy playing for me. I don't know if I can get him switched to how we do things here at the university, Houston,

or wherever I was at. We got a huge advantage in the games and watching guys in Perkins. Unfortunately, the NCAA limits you in how many

games you can go to and you just don't get to do it very often. Well, I know that the off time is good, but man, the momentum that this program had after beating Kansas State the way that it did. There had to be a large segment of your guys that wanted to get back on the football field and play as soon as humanly possible. You know, we've gone on quite a bit of a run, and we were a little banged up. I think it was good for us having the time off.

You know, you've got to approach it that way because that's the way the schedule is anyway. So we took a little bit of time off. We practiced a couple days hard last week. And obviously we just pushed everything up a day. You know, Sunday was a Monday, Monday's a Tuesday, etc. Leaving up to a Friday night game. So I think the bye weeks are good. You just need to understand you've got a little bit of time off.

And then you've got to crank it back up when it's time to go to work. You've got momentum on your side. The team you're playing against the Walcast is not. They have not won in a long period of time. They got blown out by Central Florida the last time they took the football field. The one thing I noticed was that they're having a difficult time rushing the football. So I would think that's, you know, you want to maintain that as one of the things for a key for victory for you this week is not letting their ground game become a difference maker. No, you're exactly right.

It's one of the keys to winning football games. I was looking at some stats the other day. You wanted to turn over takeaway in the run battle. the teams that have done that Division 1 football won 92% of the ball games. So that stat is very, very important. We want to

do a good job running the football and do a super job playing with leverage and tackling. Every week we want to try to make the opposing team be one dimensional. It was something we did a good job of in our last outing, the team that was averaging I believe over 220

yards a game rush and we held him at 82 yards. And that was a big reason for the success that we had. So we've got to do that against Arizona as well. And lastly, I'm going to assume I don't know this for a fact, but quarterbacks that don't throw any incompletions usually win their games too, right? I mean, is Zion going to do that for you again this week?

I guess there hadn't been a quarterback who completed, you know, more than 10 and been 100%. I don't think that's happened for a little while. And yeah, he did a good job of it. You know, part of that, you know, limiting how many times threw the balls. You know, it was raining pretty hard during the game. And we kind of found out that we were able to run it and doing a good job defensively, you know, wanted them to go to the big feel.

So every week it's a little bit different, you know, your path to victory. And we'll have you see what that is on Friday night. Great visit as always, Coach. Safe Travels, Arizona. We'll talk again next weekend. Thanks for the time. And again, congratulations on the last couple victories. They've been a lot of fun to watch. Thank you, Matt.

You got it. You got it. That is the head football coach of our Houston Cougars, Willie Fritz, joining us, and he's brought to you by the Joint Chiropractic, the Official Chiropractor of University of Houston Athletics. We have, believe it or not, coming up, and I'm kind of nervous how this is going to turn out here, because, you know, we tried to cut out the prize horse.

We've never ever done this before. We've eliminated prize horrors. Nobody calls in, then we'll just let the prize horse. and I think we'll be fine. I think we're going to be fine too. I believe. I think it's a lesson learned. I believe in our audience.

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I mean, I guess it could be. He's got a couple. He'd like to. Yeah. If he wasn't got something else, that's fine. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-2-12-5-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-7-1. 9 to 0. If you want to play, believe it or not, but if you don't know the password for today, you can't play because we're giving away those Timberlake tickets.

We've got the Rockets tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers. We have Anthony Richardson as the new quarterback again for the Colts. First blush Rossi deck comes across as we're toast and Joe Flacko's best days are well behind him. Well, we were going to try to make the playoffs. Now we can't, so let's go back to the developing the young guy. Because Sam's sitting on the bench does him absolutely no good. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-790 our time is 143 it is the matt thomas show here on sports talk 790 where ross is going to try to pump you up yes we are going to pump you up well if you feel like you've been slowing down if you feel like the energy is down libido's not good motivation you don't feel like getting up in the morning you're in a rut you might need TRT a plan you might need it with center you are going to need it with synergenics but if you need a personal plan. This is going to be more advanced and basic standard therapy with other providers. They're going to tailor treatments specifically to you.

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Thanks again to our guests today with EMA Adoka. We had an interesting show today. It was fun. Astrodome Talk, which was. we're not going to do a lot of because, but we had to do it today. And I know that people are like, I've heard of this. Sorry, but it's a relevant story today. There was a new big proposal today. That is largely going to be shut down by anybody involved with the Texans or the rodeo. We had our own Craig Levani, our insider, said, I was there today.

The Texans had no comment. The rodeo folks had no comment. They don't care. That means it ain't happening. That means is this much ado about nothing then? Yeah. But I think when you do, when you, obviously the Astrodome Conservancy folks said, you know what, we got to pitch this again. Mm-hmm.

Okay. I just, as someone that grew up in this city and lived 90% of my life in this city, please don't do it. Please don't. You're going to lose money. There's bother, and we're not going to pay for it. I don't want to, I would not support it under any circumstance. I don't care if you give me the best bowling alley in the history of bowling alleys. I don't want it.

Yeah, it's not necessary. I don't want my public dollars going to it. If somebody privately wants to go ahead and foot the bill, then I'm okay. Yeah. What do you think that's chances are of that? Slim and none? Mm-hmm. When does anybody say, you know, I'm just going to buy this myself?

It's huge plot of land. I'm going to build all this and I'm not going to ask for a dollar from you. If it were easy, if it were easy to make it profitable, it would have been done. already. Yeah. It's basically just again a situation where this conservancy group is just trying to be relevant and keep the building alive, which you know what, Ross, as much as I don't want it torn down, and I guess it can't be torn down, I've come to the realization, it's just going to sit there. Yep. I think that's what all happened. Paul question again today. One billion dollars to renovate Astrodome and create 450,000 square feet of

revenue generating space and 1,500 new parking. working spots, 376 votes are in so far, excuse me. 35% say sounds good, let's do it. 65% say tear it down. And I guess I can't tear it down, but you get my drift. Yeah, demolish. Yeah, tear it down. That's demolishing it. But they can't blow it up.

Yeah, yeah. But they can tear it down. Tomorrow on the radio program, we will have Dr. Roto. I just don't get it. And we'll begin, Ross, the biggest deep dive in Texans Cowboys preview possible. Wonderful. Can't wait. You're down to two days. I'm well aware.

You'll be able to tell the audience, we'll be able to tell that you will be in full mail-in mode. I'm busy. You didn't notice I was in mail-in mode yesterday? I'm sorry. We noticed. I want to apologize. I'm trying to lock in, Matt. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

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