The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Halloween Music, Hinch Hired & Wheel Of Topics

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

It's larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-town. It's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. This might be one of my five favorite days of the year to work this show. I would have to go with maybe a day before the last day. of the year that you and I work. We do our best of

best of the year, believe it or not. Usually you're off on vacation at that point. Well, that's why we've planned it for December 20th this year. I was going to say. You will be seeing me in late December. Just saying. Wait a second. Well, we're going to have to do it, though. I'm off the week before, because my birthday's the 19th is a Saturday. I'm off that week.

I'm working one day. I'm the 20th. Are we working together? Am I going to see you at all in December? Because I'm off and you're off. What the hell's going on, Indie? I'm trying to a major market radio show. What do you need? You can lose making sure Matt didn't steal some of his stuff or something. What you need now, friend? My card.

Credit card? No, the card that led us in and out of here. Ooh. I don't even have a door that locks automatically. What type of controversial crap are you saying on your show? We need proper security around here. Are you that big time? It's for Adam claim.

Is it? Yeah. Adam's a little sketch on Twitter. Everybody. He ticks off people. Yeah. How does Michael Barry not have a lock with what he talks about? Oh, he does.

I think he does. He has a curtain over his thing to. You can't even talk to him. You can't even look in there. Yeah, he's got... Oh, you talking about that little blackout thing? Yes. Oh, I thought that was for Black Lives Matter.

No, no, no, no. That's not what he has enough there for. Okay. So neither one of y'all stole my card? No, and if we did, we wouldn't tell you. Go Coogs. Go Coogs. Big, big game against UCF.

Careful where that finger goes. UCF. Yeah, the Knights. That's who y'all play. Yeah. Well, we're playing Tennessee, the likes of Tennessee. No, you're not. We lost swimming in double overtime.

No, no, no, no, no. Who'd you play last week? Tennessee. School in Tennessee. Keep going. The middle one. The middle one, yeah. Well, you were favored by six points.

They have like three or four. And by the way, you're playing Southern Miss this weekend, right, I think? Yeah, Brett Farst team. Yeah, but they've gotten rid of two coaches in the last, I don't know, four weeks. Hey, it's a pandemic year. There's some weird things going on this year. If you do not beat Southern Miss, you might have to close a program down. How old are you about to be?

Me? I'm 35. No, you're still a baby. Why? No, you said something about your birthday. Oh, okay. Well, I'm going to be 36, yeah. Oh, okay. What's the birthday party? Not sure yet.

Look at him. He carries your show every day. Thank you. Then he has his own show in the evening. Thank you. And he works on the weekend. Don't forget the Saturday show. We call that a success. An overworked success.

He's getting paid millions of dollars, I'm assuming, for all the work that he's putting in. That's right. That is respected by the I-Heart media community. Correct. As long as he doesn't go over a certain number of hours. you're pretty sharp when I listen to you I'm like man he's smart why didn't you graduate from you thank you indy was it that hard it wasn't that hard it was uh you're part of you i was yeah it's something like that i wasn't the most focused and mature 19 year old as you who is even

even less than Matt how mature am i as a 35 year old no did you graduate man no i did it took me eight years but i did it oh you're a doctor doctor no no no no no no no no no no no no no I worked full time in radio and went to school part time. Can you claim your school? Because I know Mike claims Texas Tech, but he graduated from somewhere else. Connor. Oh, okay. Wow.

Well, nobody ever calls him Mike. Nobody knows him calls him Mike. Well, his friends. No, that's not sure. He's not sure they call him Mike. I call him Ginger. MC. Go ahead.

Ross went to UT. He's an alum, even though he didn't graduate. Can you really claim Longhorn? I don't really, I don't ever, I don't, I don't have, I mean, I throw it up a The longhorn game. I call myself a Longhorn fan. Can I be a fan of the teams? Because that's the way I see it.

No, you can be a fan of anything. Exactly. But I'm saying, can we, and I'm asking, can we call you a mold guy? I don't walk around here with like a Texas ex's shirt on or. But technically, he isn't a loan. We just found out this a year ago that anybody that goes to a school, whether they graduate or not, is considered an alarm. Can Kevin Durant claim Longhorns?

No, then you, that answers a question. Yeah. And you paid them some money for some time? Well, they paid me, but. Really? Affirmative action. Well, that's the worst part of it is that he was getting a free ride and he still didn't finish. You know what, though?

Pre's Holmes, we call him Anthony Holmes. He's a year ahead of me. So when he went there as a freshman and I would drive down to visit him every weekend, that's part of the reason why I didn't go to UT. Because at 17, I said, if I go here, there's no way I'm graduating. So I could respect that. So you said to yourself, I can go play for the state's premier institution or I can go to a small division one school that barely cares about athletics.

At that time, we were big time. No, you weren't. I was a lot. I was here. You were never big time. Never. No. My senior year, we finished number 25 in the rankings.

In what rankings? New York Times football rankings. No, the Football Factory, New York. No. The best sales. We had Trevor Cobb, Doug Walker Award winner. We had my home boy Nathan Bennett. Who?

Nate B. That's what we called him. Yeah. Continue. We beat University of Texas. We took Texas A&M when they were... Hold on. They didn't have like nine starters or something like...

That's not true. Why don't you always lie about that? Fake news. Texas A&M when they were undefeated, they only beat us by a touchdown. And they scored on the first place. So where does that go in the win-loss column? Under the wins, loss, and barely-loss column?

It goes to show that how big time we were. Didn't you all open up the year against Ohio State that year? That was a year before. Okay, so who did you all open up with that year? That year, uh, Sam Houston? But we beat them. Okay. Then we played LSU.

And then how'd that go? It was down to the wire. No, I mean, I'm admitting we lost. It was down to the wire. So you might have been the best down the wire football team in America. Yeah, the 42 point margin. They scored them all like in the last quarter. Oh, I see.

Okay, fair enough. We were big time. But yes, I knew if I went to UT that I'd probably have about five little half-breeds running around and I would not have graduated. Half-breeds? Yeah, that's what you call them. I married one so I can say it. I didn't know that that was derogatory until like four years ago.

Yeah, you also can't say mulatto. That's offensive as well. Really? Yeah. What is that? A mixed breed. Oh, I'm not even going to say it then. I didn't know that.

I thought that was a politically correct term. No, I have to believe that's offensive. Like you don't say half a word. You say mulatto. No, you don't say that either. You say, I think you say mixed race now. shares one of her most famous songs in the 70s was called half breed yeah there's nothing wrong we should just say light skin i'm kind of a half breed i'm ebo and europe

excuse me yeah is it different tribes yeah does i get fixed with medication wow no that was racist no it wasn't no what did you do what what is it what is it what is it what is it what you've never you cover you've covered basketball for what four or five years years now. No, longer than that. And you've never heard of Ebo. No. It's because you're always trying to change their names.

That's not true. Like Emeka Ocalfo? No, nobody calls him that. Ameca Ocalfour. Everybody calls him a white person calls him that. But go ask him how to correctly pronounce his name. So you're telling me. Go ask a Nigerian how to pronounce.

Then why didn't he go to tell people that? Then you know what? You're absolutely right. Shame on him. Yeah. You know what I did? What did you do? I said, just call me ND.

Jamaica simple. Yeah. Just call me RV. Yeah. y'all the worst you're the worst you're the worst you're the worst you're the worst deviled the worst going to I don't think I'll go to Texas because I want to go to rice instead they must have offered him a better car or something my dad did that

right real truth story how did you really get recruited by Texas I was the number one recruit in San Antonio man okay you know what my wife knows that she always talks about the whole time did you go on your official visit no I didn't take any because I was a big time Hooper as well and I don't want to miss any of those visits I did all my unofficial. All my buddies from high school went on their visits, and they talked about how much ass they got every city they went to.

You missed out on a chanson. I am. I did not want to take a trip just to get ass. I wanted to play basketball. And God bless my mother. Unofficial visits. She drove me to every Texas school for my unofficial visits. When we were on our way to Waco, I was like, turn around.

Like, you're wasting everyone's time. I'm not coming here. Someone needs to do a story, and I'm going to let you go because my son's been waiting on me for like 30 minutes on how. on how in the world, in the 90s, Baylor got the top recruits in the nation, and I don't know what they were doing. They didn't win.

I know. They didn't develop. I mean, you talk about a, I mean, a program from the moment it got into the Big 12 didn't do squat. I mean, it's up until, until Browns, frankly. Yeah. Oh, we got breaking news.

Hit the breaking news, sounder. Now about your life or your kid. It's official, A.J. Hinch, the new manager of the Detroit Tigers. That is not breaking news. We knew what was going to happen. No, but it's officially happened now. Yeah, but you only play the sounder for like real breaking news.

The sounder should only be played like five times a year. Played again. Rice is going to lose this week. Now that's breaking use. Oh, if it happens. Who do you. Who is? All right, see, Andy.

10 the noon trenches show, sports talk 7. Night. You do want to listen. If you don't understand what anything goes Friday is, you just heard 12 minutes of it. Let me tell you about the program today. 1250. Chris Gordy's horrible Football Friday parody. Now, obviously there's no game this week, so he can't

do a parody on the team coming up. But we've got a classic from Halloween. Wait, he's not doing one at all? We're not going to do a regular one and a classic? No, no, just the classic. He's got to keep his creativity on. Giving him a bye week as well. 1.30 will make our NFL picks. I went one in three last week. The only game I got right was a Texan's game. I feel like garbage.

Brian T. Smith at 2 o'clock this afternoon for his weekly Friday visit. Now, Fantasy 5, we're going to do it 220 this afternoon, or maybe even a couple of minutes earlier. You and I haven't done a Fantasy 5 on Favorite Halloween Candy. So we had to take ourselves out of this. Best Halloween candy from a different perspective. Mr. Detroit, Brendan Riley, against Mr. Chicago, Joe George. Brendan Riley versus Joe George in a Fantasy 5.

You will be judge number six. Okay. If it comes to a seventh and deciding vote, it will become my vote. Okay. So Brennan's going to pick Deep Dish Pete. and Joe's going to pick portillo's. In Halloween candy? Yeah.

That sounds gross. We'll make you some money as well. We'll also spin the wheel of topics. I got to steal your show. I just do it on this particular thing. No, I stole it from the Matt Thomas show. It's been there for years. We're spinning the wheel because there's a lot of different things going on.

I'll give you the possibilities in a moment. 1213, the Matt Thomas show. It's an ending goes Friday. Come on in and join us. 713212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Hi, this is former running back of Herschel Walker. You're listening to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790.

This is also the theme song for Wave Busters. Did you know that? It's true. And it also ripped off, I want a new drug by Hewley Lewis in the News. Did Huey sue him? Yeah, there's a lawsuit over that, I think, right? I don't remember, I think you won. I don't know.

This is, the song is better than the movie. Agree or disagree? this song is better than the movie yeah ghostbusters it's good but this is better ghostbusters this is a classic yeah it's okay didn't see ghostbusters too so i can't i can't give me an answer with the stay puff marshmallow man it was all right i mean it was good i mean stay puff marshmallow man ghost busters one or two i think it was one okay which one was ghostbusters too then there was the one of the girls were the gross busters and that didn't work right well well you did you

watch it no oh then how do you know it didn't work out to it i think nobody went and saw it what was it a bust yes I think financially it was a bust. That's unfortunate. Are we going to have a get movie theaters back again, seriously? Uh, I feel like that everything's going to go to Amazon Prime or to other platforms like that. Oh, the Girl Ghostbusters made $230 million. I get some budget of $144.

Wait a minute. It gross $2.30? Yeah. I'm stunned by that. Why, Matt? Because you're a misogynist and you hate women? No, it's just the opposite. I just didn't think it was very good.

The reviews weren't great. What were the rotten tomatoes were on? on it. That's a great question. I'll have to look on. Did you see Ghostbusters with the women? No, I don't think I saw the first one. I don't think I've seen any other one. Seventy-four percent fresh. Okay, well, then I stand corrected.

Maybe it was a much better show. Maybe I should give it a little DVD try. Misogyny just oozes out of you, Matt. There's a lot of things that ooze out of me. Misogymy is not one of them. All right. Anything goes Friday. 7-1-3-212-5-790. That sounded very odd. I was going to leave it. I just was leaving that one. He's leaving it.

Yeah. 713-212-5-790. Wheel of Topics. Here are the categories. A.J. Hinch, the manager of the Tigers. A very well-loved and respected Tampa Bay Devil Ray, former Astro is now a free agent. A loved, and I think largely respected NBA

former Rockets coach is now back in the NBA as an assistant coach. Wow. A loved, perhaps. number one, maybe guarantee number one overall pick in the next year's draft, it has COVID. A loved television broadcaster, maybe not loved, but certainly respected television broadcaster has COVID. Bob Kossis? Nope. A ridiculously loved and much appreciated sandwiches back at your local McDonald's.

Oh, no, it's not. Yeah, it is, it is. And the bowl game season was announced today. Wow. Okay. Which one do you want to go with? we'll see. I totally zoned you out. So let me give you, how many topics was that?

Let me give you a number one. I got it at seven. Seven? All right. Let me give you number one through seven. How about number five. Desmond Howard of ESPN Game Day. Oh, no.

Testing positive for COVID. He will do his part of the show from his house. He's still going to do the show? Is he asymptomatic? I don't know. People still work when they're sick. Well, I don't want him to hack coughing all over everybody. Well, he won't be.

He'll be in his home. In his home, yeah, he'll be fine. I mean, Corsals far away, too. That'd be awkward if he's staying home and coughing on air the whole time. I don't know how sick he is. Okay. But the point is that he is going to do it from home. Good.

Okay. Yeah, stay home, Desmond. So we knocked that out. What number do you want to go to next? That was quick. Number two. Number two. Charlie Morton.

Charles? One of... Alfred Morton, the fourth? One of our favorite Astros of recent years, right? Was really good for Tampa Bay. Didn't pitch deep into games, but was very effective. Was owed $15 million. in the option of his contract for the Tampa Bay raise,

and they have decided not to accept him. They put him on waivers. He is out cut as a pitcher. So has his catcher, Mike Zanino. You would have thought if you would have looked at Mike Zanino as a baseball player during the postseason against the Astros in particular, you'd have thought this guy was a 250 hitter with a bunch of power. He's got a career banning average of 200.

Did you know that? I didn't know Mike Zeno know was that bad of a hit or no. I didn't either. He's had some meaningful hits. He was owed $4.5 million dollars by Tampa Bay and they have said, you're gone as well. A lot of these teams have taken some serious pay cuts. The for agency list this year, I think it's going to be pretty damn sexy.

The problem is, I don't know how many of those guys are going to get comparable money they were supposed to get before they got let go. Well, as John Heyman tweeted earlier, and you know, John Hammond never gets it wrong, that. John Hammond is a douchebag. Oh, I forgot you got a Twitter spat with him and you hate him forever now. I don't think I'll ever change my mind. I think once a douche, you're always a douche. I think he was mentioning that, uh,

It's looking like it might be a cold off season when it comes to big money. Does that help the team that's trying to keep a guy there? I don't necessarily believe so. With that help a team that's trying to keep a homegrown outfielder who has 30 home run power and has lived here his entire major league career? Unless that guy wants to leave just to leave. Well, that guy might want to leave. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I don't know if it has an advantage to the home team.

Well, that guy was very close with a man named AJ Hinch. Who, by the way, is now the new manager of the Detroit Tigers? Hmm. What's the outfit situation in Detroit, Brendan? Brendan, we go to the Detroit Sports Bureau. We've gone to the Sports Bureau on Detroit way too much. It's only because of AJ Hinch. True.

So what do we got? How's that outfit for the Tigray's? There's nothing in Detroit impressive right now for baseball. So they could use George Springer? George Springer, could he fit well there in center field? Until Miguel Cabrera's contract is done, they're probably not going to be big spenders. Isn't he got one more year or something? Yeah, he's getting close.

I don't think it's realistic. in play this year. It always feels like Miguel Cabrera is the Bruno Caboclo of M.OBE. How many years have you been there? God, it's like you signed a 40-year contract. Wait, wait. Yeah, well, apparently

it's until 2023. I thought he was like one or two more years. My God. I don't see them making a big splash free agent for a couple more years still. I'm going to call my shot. I believe that George Springer will become a New York Mett. Okay.

Just a, I guess I should have said it for a Tuesday gut feeling. Yeah. But I'm going to, I'm going to make it a little more than that. I'm going to go ahead and predict. This is a firm prediction on the board. Let me go through the Nosturongus page up. Go ahead. That's fine. You can do that. I should get to odds on this. I've got him at the Nippon Ham Fighters of the Japanese league. I certainly understand that too. All right. More to get to on the Will of Topics as we move

along here. Remember, number four. I want to get a call in first. Oh, I'm sorry. Let's go to the, yeah. Because you know what? We are the most interactive show. Yeah, way more interactive any other show I know of. We take calls. We actually like people. 713-21, two, 5-790. 713-212-5-790 on Twitter at SportsMT at SportsRV and at Brendan Riley underscore. Brandon Riley, are you a little nervous about being in your first fantasy 5 at 220 this afternoon? I did another one with Joe George. It was some video game related one that I lost. But nobody listened to that. I don't think I've ever won one though. So you're due.

And are you preparing your list as we speak? Oh, I think I'm ready to go. Okay, very good. So Joe George will be in a 220 to do the fantasy five. Let's say hi to Jay in Austin on 790 at 1225. Hello, Jay. Hey, I met a long time. No, Ski. How are you doing? Good. I'm sorry. The name is Ian. I thought it was Jay. My apologies, Ian. It's all good. So I'm here to talk from Cucza football. I got a big game going up against the UFC.

They have an amazing air attack. And as you know, get out the butter because our DBs tend to get toasted. shoot, I mean, even Navy put up some pretty big numbers in the air. But I was wondering from David, I mean, from Dana Holgerson's perspective, like how would you approach the game? Would you try to, you know, start off running the ball, or do you just want to go toe for toe in the air? Well, the running game has been okay this year. It hasn't been fantastic.

So I would say that if Mark West Davidson wants to be involved in the game and Keith Corbyn wants to get involved, I'll let those two guys run down the field, give Clayton tune some time to throw the football, short five-step drops, get rid of it quickly, and don't have him do too much scrambling. I think that the Cougars could put up some points for sure. I am in the, oh, sorry, I'm in the exact same thought process. I felt like especially against the BYU, his plan was to kind of, you know, run it, do some screens, eat some time up. But, you know, it seems like, you know, we get stalled out in that first, you know, quarter quite often. So I would like him to kind of veer away from then just, you know, go and punching at him.

No, I would, again, I think turnovers will be a huge part of the game. Thank you, Ian, for the phone call. I think Tom Possession will be a factor in the game as well because we saw how effective that was when the Cougars stayed on the field and kept Navy's offense off the field. But UCF probably has at least two receivers that are pro-worthy. The quarterback game has been really, really good. It was a fantastic as a freshman, and they're putting up big numbers. This is going to be an extraordinarily, I believe, very, very high-scoring game. And I was teasing this to Dana when he was on the show yesterday.

It might be first to 40 that wins a football game. Which means if you're going to the game and it's supposed to be the weather is supposed to be like today, just sit back, relax, enjoy getting four hours of your time in and watch a football game. But yeah, it should be a lot of fun. I look forward to it. I think those will be two very high-actant offenses. I think both defenses are going to have to struggle keeping the other teams' offense off the field. But thank you for the phone call.

and again, Clayton Tune, stay in the pocket, don't scramble, don't get hit, you'll be fine. And don't commit silly turnover. That's been something that has happened for the Cougars so far in each of the first three games of the year. Yes. And my player to watch is Chicken Noles this weekend for the University of Houston Cougars. I think he is just ripe to really set himself apart from the others. You done? Yeah, do you need anything else?

Not in the segment from you, no. Okay. 1228 on the Matt Thomas show. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Man, if I can get Matt Thomas shaking his head at me and sighing on a Friday, it's a good day. It is, anything goes Friday. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Tired of 6-10.

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This is Halloween Pumpkin's scream in the dead of nights I mean If you want to get into the Texans You know is the Sean Watson elite quarterback This probably isn't your day We got a lot of things I want to get to I just can't

The Texans have a bywhip week for a reason. Bye-bye to relevancy. Bye-bye to being a good football team. Bye-bye to the first round pick. But by to a second-round pick. They don't get three hours on my show today. They just don't. That's fine, Matt. They shouldn't. Do you know what movie that's from? I do not. It's from Nightmare before Christmas. Which is a Halloween movie, but also kind of a Christmas movie. Okay. Have we determined whether or not die-hard is a Christmas movie or not? It's not a Christmas movie. You and I are both on the same page on that.

I think so. Yeah, you could put it on in the middle of June when it's still loving. Nobody's learning lessons about family and togetherness and what it's all like when you're shooting German terrorists in the face. Yeah, John McLean's not chasing down Scrooge. Exactly. Nobody learns the meaning. Like, at a Christmas movie, you're supposed to learn the meaning of Christmas. It's a summer action thriller.

It was released in July. And the counter to that is always, oh, a miracle on 34th Street or whatever. Some movie from like 1930 was released. in the summer in May or something like that. And so that's the counter. Oh, we'll see. That was real. Well, yeah, that was moved because of some kind of Hollywood studio

snafu or something like that. It's a summer blockbuster action film. Plains, Trains, and Automobiles. Holiday movie? I've never seen that. Really? Really? I would, uh, I would advise you to go ahead and watch it.

Not my favorite John Hughes movie, but certainly a good one. Hmm. I'll take your word for it. Yeah. John Candy Mahe, RIP. Yeah, he's very dead. Yeah, for quite some time. So, good thing, I don't have to have, I don't have to listen.

Yeah, there's nobody, no debtor. What did you say, believe it or not, was going to be today? Halloween stuff. Oh, dang it. Because I don't think you ever use your Halloween material for previous shows, have you? What do you mean? Like, I'm best-ups? You've never used Halloween stuff.

I don't know. Probably. Maybe. Well, let's find out. All right, so best of Halloween. We have a best of Gordy parody coming up in the next segment of the show. It's just the best of the Matt Thomas show. Well, it's just, well, we consider ourselves the best every day 12 to 3.

You're the best around. All right. Headlines. No one's going to ever keep you down. I don't know about that. All right, AJ Hinch is the manager of the Detroit Tigers. You are surprised it took him only one year. I don't think I had an opinion.

I don't think I did. I think you were that saying, I know that Michael Connor and I argued about it and I was way in the wrong. So I need to like a call in and personally apologize on the Sean Salsbury show. Right. He was like, yeah, he'll have a job. You know what it is? What? His name is going to...

I think I put it at a three-year window. I think he was going to get back in the game, but I couldn't tell you that Jeff Leno's going to get back in the game. I will say this. There is one general manager spot open in baseball. I think, from what I understand, and it's the Los Angeles Angels. They have seven candidates in to apply for that job.

And Jeff Leno is not one of them. Dang good. I think of Jeff Lunon, and he stuck it to the Astros for the next decade. Oh. Repeated kick to the groin. repeated. I just thought his name was,

I thought AJ Hinch's name was going to be a little too radioactive from a PR standpoint. Baseball and a vacuum, smart manager knows what he's doing, championship pedigree, sign them, sign them, sign. But a lot of times, Matt, as you know, these sports teams think,

keep PR in mind. Well, let me ask you this. America hated the Astros. Everything that was reported about AJ was he did not like this. He didn't like the trash cans. He did not like the, sign stealing. He supposedly

broke two monitors. Now, again, breaking two monitors is cool and everything, but you probably should have done more than just the break to two monitors. You should have said, I don't care who's running this clubhouse. I'm the GD manager of this team, and I'm going to make sure this doesn't happen. So it was, it was he is in that fault because not

only did he know what was going on, if you smash televisions, that's cool, but you have to stop it. Also in a tough spot, though, because as a manager, your job is to be the club almost be the friends of people you have to keep yeah the clubhouse if you lose the clubhouse you'll lose the team so and i would say this i would say if you took 50 other managers in baseball probably 45 of them would have been in the same spot four or five would have probably

said i don't give a crap what you're doing it's stopping now and a jay has been always known as a very much a player's manager that's why that's why i think probably a lot of the reason why detroit went with him, is that they just know the relationships that were probably a lot of different players going to him and the respect of it. I've seen it on multiple occasions. It's not fair to say this, but because again, we have not been able to be in and around the team, but I don't think there's anything near the warmth with Dusty and his team that A.J. had with his team. It may happen in a year or so when everybody gets together, but I've always enjoyed A.J. We've had great visits on this radio show. I wish in the very best and he's going to need it because I don't think the Detroit Tigers

are right around the corner from being an overly relevant baseball team especially with Miggie's contract that's still saddled around that whole organization. It's until 2023 and then well there's vesting options two years after that but those aren't going to happen he has to finish top 10 of the MVP.

Yeah, it's probably not going to happen. Probably not. So he's got a job. Luno was not among the seven. Let me ask you this. Now that AJ, it took him just one year. Does that, is that in your mind

move up the process of maybe Jeff getting a job somewhere down the road? I would imagine. Does he want one? He was asked in the Vanessa Richardson interview, and he started talking about MLS and soccer and football and hockey.

If the New York Mets called tomorrow and said, please be our general manager, Jeff Linnell would take the chance. Would absolutely do it. I love how people like to tell me they're very happy in their new life, but when they get that great opportunity, like for instance, I've worked with people in radio before like, oh man, I'm so glad to be in front of a microphone every day.

And then six months later, they're back on another radio station or they're doing another TV job. Yeah, it happens all the time. So you're saying it's like the couple that posts is like, oh, happy date night and then two weeks later they're broken up. No, I put in the same category as. They post a picture of them and their boyfriend. Oh, I just could not love this person anymore. I just finally found someone who understands me and then they break up. I put them along the lines of

I'm spending more time with my family and then I take a vice president or president's job with the Philadelphia 76 years. Family and missing Now again some people have missed the business whatever it's in whether you're in sales whether you are

attorney like for instance our buddy Greg Cook said I hate being an attorney and he cold turkeyed it now he does a little bit of stuff here on there just to kind of make ends meet but he doesn't do the grind of it and I applaud him for that

Because he said, look, I don't know what I was doing trying to be a coming attorney when I didn't want to be one to begin with. I miss online poker. Do you? Yeah. Yeah, but that's not. You didn't, did you quit because you had, you lost the love for it? I quit because I was playing until like six in the morning every morning and it was affecting my work. Yeah, it did.

So what's your excuse now? What do you mean? I'm in here fresh and energized, ready to go, carrying this damn show for another decade. Let's go. Okay, that's true. You've only carried it for 10. How about I take care of the next 10 years? 713-213-21-5-7-9. It's and anything goes Friday. Let's go to Danny on the east side of 1241. Hi, Danny. Yes, sir. I'm Danny D from Eastern Harris, County. Yes, I'm Matt Thomas. I live in Kingwood. I'm also a northeast Harris County, but I'm currently in Central Houston. What can I do for you today?

Okay. Indy was in there a little while ago talking to y'all. Yes, he was. And I dreamed up this thing about this Pro Bowl for the last little while. I've ordered to talk to Michael Barry about it, but I never have got it. But you kept saying, open Friday, please call, please go. Oh, Miss Pro Bowl has been a big disaster for years. The only ballgame worse than it is the pre-season Hall of Fame game. Let me ask you before you any further, Danny. Why would you call Michael Barry about the Pro Bowl?

because I've been listening to him a lot longer than you Oh, that's fair. I understand that. I mean, he does like talking pro bowl. Let me give you a few other things that Michael likes to talk about. He loves for some reason bowling. I don't know why he's such a big fan of PBA bowling, but he watches it all the time. I hadn't heard that.

Yeah, I know. It's strange, but I listen to show every day. I know. He loves bowling. He also has an insatiable thirst. Are you ready for this? For country Western? dancing. People call him. Yeah, I didn't know that either. People call him and it's like, hey,

have you done the two-step lately? He'll go, yeah, I've gone to this bar and done it. So it's a stunner that some of the things, you will get updates on politics, religion, economics, oil and gas, the Pro Bowl, the PBA, and CW dancing. Oh, yes, sir. I understand that. Okay, very good. Now, to the Provo now. Yeah, sure. Here we do. Here we go. You got the ASC. Stores. Correct. You've got the N. It's a series

All-Stars. That is right. Okay. We put them in the Hall of Fame game, replace it with a Pro Bowl. One end zone, we have the LSU Tiger champions. Right.

The other end zone, we have the KC champions. Mm-hmm. Now, then the coaches of the two provos get this question, the LSU and the Kansas City players. Right. Do you all want to play in this game or not? Right.

Then they have a job. draft, and they wind up being the substitutes for the Pro Bowl. I think it's fantastic. And in the 50-yard line, give or take five yards. On one side, you have the Hall of Famers. On the other side, you have the very best-selected referees and umpires for all times. Like all-stars, if you will. Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. And they get the society. They want a referee or just watch. Right. And they get to go out and referee a little while. And it would be a banza for the NFL. Danny, I don't... Because the Pro Bowl has been a disaster.

Yeah, Danny, I don't know if I've ever agreed with a caller more than I've agreed with you, my friend. It's like you and I are on the same page on about everything. Oh, yes. I've been watching and reading the sports page here in Houston since 60s. Okay. That comes to zero surprise. It definitely sounds like you're a man that has decades of knowledge and

experience. Danny, thank you for the phone call, my friend. I appreciate you calling on it. Anything goes Friday. Yes, sir. Thank you for following the coogues. I asked them. You just, you just kind of like a sportsman made for me. You know what? I am a sportsman made. Thank you very much. That might be on my new business card, Ross. Matt Thomas, sportsman made. And by the way, Danny, go ahead and call Michael Barron and see if he likes this whole pro-ball idea that you have. Matter of fact, I will go checking with Ramon, his producer.

A guy that makes an exorbitant amount of money for God knows what he does. And see if he thinks that Pro Bowl topics should be a part of the conversation of the show today, don't you think? That'd be a great idea. I think so. Hey, one more thing for you, Danny, before I let you run. I got to take about classic Chevy Sugar Land. Ramon from the Michael Berry show likes classic Chevy. Michael Barry does.

Adam Clanton, Adam Wexler. I believe Teresa from 94-5 to Buzz. we're all part of the classic Chevy Sugarland family. Now, I don't know if you want to go into Classic Chevy and say, hey, let's talk Pro Bowl. But what they can talk to you about are some of the great deals at either one of their locations in Sugarland or their location on Highway 6. It's just a perfect opportunity for you to check out either one of their dealerships and find out what they're offering for you. They are the ready for this GM dealer of the year for 10 years in a row. That's good stuff.

They will also give you the opportunity to get a lifetime engine guarantee. they'll give you a lifetime of car washes and they will give you a two-year free maintenance certificate, all from classic Chevy Sugar Land and also Classic Chevy Highway 6. Two specials I want me to tell you about this week. One is a 2020-Silverado

LT Texas edition. You get it for 36 months at 349 per month. 2021 Tahoe LT signature package that's 36 months at $6.59 per month. All from classic Chevy Highway 6 and Highway in the one in Sugar Land off of 59. Go buy and ask for Jeff or Tiffany Sebastian, and please tell him that Matt Thomas from 790 sent you to the GM

dealer of the year for 10 years in a row. Classic Chevrolet, Sugar Land, and classic Chevy Highway 6. Load up on those napkins, straws, ketchup, hot sauce, mustard. Oh, and don't forget duck sauce. It's the Matt Thomas show for lunch on Sports Talk 790. This song reminds me of junior high school. Would you get rejected or dance to the song or something? What do you mean rejected in junior high, so I've got rejected in every part of high school and junior high. Okay. And college. Well, not some of college.

If failure is part of life, man, makes you stronger. I have too much of it. Way too much. You live in a palatial estate in Kingwood. Yeah. Insulated from the dregs of Houston. I do carry a lot of debt still. Oh.

It's called my children. Well, it's kind of me, though. You have three beautiful children. Yeah, they're all doing well. They're all doing great. and you also have, you can just let the hair fly in a convertible Volkswagen Beetle. Okay.

Yeah, I do that. You and I drive around occasionally throughout Houston. That's true. We could get chicks if we were single, right? Yeah. How attractive would they be? I don't know. Two grown-ass men and a beetle bug driving around downtown Houston.

We can do all right for us. Of course. But, of course, you know, you're happily married. Yeah, and you're, yeah, you. All right, 713, 212-790. 713-212-1-7-90. Every Friday during the football season at this time, we allow you to hear the dulcet tones of one Christopher Gordy,

a man who puts his chin up as high in the air as possible to belt out songs, basically parodying anything related to the Houston Texans. Well, it's a by-week, no game this week, and we look forward to having a fresh parody next Friday at this time. But right now, we honor one of the all-time greats in Friday football parodies from one Christopher Gordy, to the theme of the day, which is we celebrate Halloween. We'll be taking the field on Sunday and hoping things go the Texans way.

And when Nick Falls goes with a passing call, number 99 will be batting the ball. He had a swat. It was a JJ swat. From JJ what? He gets those a lot. He had a swat. It started making me hot. From JJ what?

It was a JJ SWAT. From the two minute warning to the final gun, the Texans' defense will be having some fun. With clowny blitzing watching the Eagles fall, nothing makes me happier than a batted ball. He had a SWAT! It was a JJ SWAT. From JJ Watt. He gets those a lot. He had a SWAT.

It started making me hot. From JJ Watt. It was a JJ swat. That is an all-timer. Another example of we needed at least one to two more verses. See, he won't let us help him write these things. I mean, you spend time with him after the show. Help him.

Get us a third and fourth verse on these songs. Because they're so good you just don't want them to end. Okay. I'll see what I can do. All right. I don't spend time. I mean, yeah, I guess he comes into the office of chats with me sometimes. No more chatting.

Yeah. Writing lyrics. You guys are like the, who's the great songwriter of today? Of today. Of anybody. Who's, you know. Ugh. I know.

It's an opening in question. Sorry, I don't even know. Kendrick Lamar. Okay. You are, you know, the weekend, if you will. You are the weekend of songwriting. Okay. Come on, make this happen.

I'll see what I can do. This year's Gordy Christmas Festival is going to be great because we're going to have so many good ones from this year. I think Adele writes all our own. music. Okay, well, good. By the way, so I'm the Adele of 790 is what you're saying. Yeah, I would say it. Hello.

Definitely. She hosted Saturday Night Live this past week. Do you watch any of it? I did not. How'd she look? And she lost weight. She's been thin for a while now, I think. Great voice.

Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't want to go see in her concert. I would. I wouldn't pay for it. My brother and sister went and there was like $300. They were like, hey, you want to go? I was like, what? You had to get the tickets like 12 months in advance, too. They got him in way in advance.

He had to do some kind of lottery system and all this crap. She's a megastar, as Matt Thomas would say. That's a Matt Thomas word. Megastar? I think other people say megastar. Most people say superstar or big star. You say megastar. It's not really anything wrong with it.

Okay. All right. All right. One of the thing I want to get to in this segment here because we like to go off the beaten track sometime. Well, this whole show's been off the beating track. It's that anything goes Friday. Can I just tell you that McDonald's step to the plate when they needed to step up?

Not only are they bringing the McRib back, but they're bringing it back for a national launch, meaning that every McDonald's you go to in this country will have the pork sandwich based in in barbecue sauce, dressed with onions, layer with pickles on a toasted bun. It is absolutely fantastic, and I cannot wait. There must be a lot of pork gristle gumming up their machines or something. They just need to clean out and press it. into a bunch of McRibbs. It's so easy

for you to rip on that genuinely delicious sandwich. It's disgusting. It's got like some of the same ingredients of the souls of shoes, Matthew. That's, that's fake. What are you doing the sounder for? The McRib? Look, I don't care what anybody says. The McRib is nasty.

The McRib is delicious. Let's do it. Damn it, that came out early. We did a Twitter poll once and I thought it was Yeah, but the Twitter poll sometimes can lie. A lot of anti-McRib people out there. All right, it's time for an instant poll. Simple question. Do you like the McRib?

Tangy barbecue sauce? Onions, pickles, toasted bun, delicious pork patty, all mixed together. It is one of the grandiose treats of the fast food industry. 713-212-5-7-90. Do you like the McRibb? line one do you like the McRib? Yes or no? Garbage! Yes. We didn't hear you. Sorry.

Let's go, baby. Line two, do you like the McRib? Yes or no? Hell no. All right. That's a yes. That's two yes is so far. Line three on the Insipol. Do you like McRibbs? I love it. Thank you. Oh, there you go.

All right, one vote for yes, two for no. Insipol, by the way, sometimes does lie. Line four. Do you like the McRibb? yes or no? I heard only bald old people like the McRib. That's a no. Well, that doesn't mean, do you like it, though?

I can't. There's a no vote. Line 5, do you like to make rib? Yes or no? Nasty ass. Oh, there we go. Okay, I'll definitely take it as a no. That's 4 to 1. Keep going.

Line 1, do you like to make rib? Yes or no? No. Okay. Close a poll off. Hey, you go. You have to be. Your palate stink, Houston.

I have a couple of McRib enthusiasts with you. Matt, you've got to kill your palate. You love the McRib. You don't like brisket, you don't like tamales, and you don't like enchiladas. Don't forget guacamole. Go back to Dallas. Don't forget guacamole. You don't like guacamole.

No. Actually, I'm okay with that. We used to say that because I didn't like guacamole. The only guacamole I like is my mom's. The best. So that put you in the don't like guacamole category. Unless your mother serves every guacamole in every restaurant. in America.

Although I'm very picky about the guacamole. Okay. It's like a tiramisu. Well, let me say something. It has to be made correctly. When we find out the official start day of the McRib, I will have a McRib watch party. Oh, we can do. We're supposed to be, we're supposed to do.

Would you eat a McRibb if we went and got one? Yeah. You really wouldn't eat. You're going to pay for it, right? Yeah, I'll pay for it. Yeah, they bought McRibbs up here one time. I ate it. Yeah.

Let me look. So you're a free food whore. Yeah, what are you talking about? You're the worst. You're the worst. This America of his free. give me three, baby. You mean people get into radio for anything other than free food?

Exactly. That's what we literally pay Brendan and free food. We'll find out when they make rib start date to start. It's December 2nd, I think they tweeted out. Oh, baby. Yeah. They're wedging all the pork gristle out of their machines. They're going to press it firmly into these rib-shaped sheets.

Lires. They're going to put nasty, disgusting base-level barbecue sauce all over it. And then they're going to slice... Slivered onions. They're going to slice the end of the pickles off onto it and then I'm going to sell it to people, gullible people who will buy it for five bucks. Second hour, Matt Thomas show next. Is the Matt

Thomas show. All right, do not go vote on Ross's poll question. It's just wrong. Ad Sports RV. No, I wouldn't even follow him. By the way, my mom just texted me. She says, I vote no for the big rib.

Oh, wow. Hi, Mama. Thank goodness I was able to broaden my horizons and not just listen to what my mother said everything about everything. Yeah, when it comes to fine dining, the McRib is just as good as it gets, Matt. It's paté. Actually, your poll is 60-40, no.

So that doesn't surprise me. Well, how many votes are you at right now? I got 65 on the board there. Yeah, it's about 60. It was about 70, 30 for a minute there. A lot of people don't like the McRibb. I understand it. And you all suck.

That's why it's off the year-round menu. And that's why people ask for it constantly and want it back. and that's why it's a national rollout. Hashtag McRib for Life. There are enough robs around that they can sell a bunch. I'm sure it's a very high markup. I'm sure this port gristle sheet doesn't cost them a whole lot to make, so they can just put that out there and then sell it for a little bit of time

because if you keep it on the full-time menu, I'm not going to sell. If you're listening, send your employee, I'm an alum of McDonald's. I work to McDonald's. You guys know that. It's true. And you used to give people floor burgers. I didn't give people, one person. And she deserved it.

All right. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90 it is an anything goes Friday so far on the day we've talked about a j hench becoming the new manager the detroit tigers jeff leno not among the seven finalists for the angels general manager's job mentioned the macrib we mentioned desmond hower we mentioned trevor lawrence we mentioned Trevor Lawrence right with COVID and we did not mention oh let's do it right real quick tested positive a couple days ago the question is uh And they're like a 30-point favorite against their opponent this week. I forgot who they're playing.

But it's somebody that doesn't really strike fear in anybody. Is it Syracuse? No, that was last week. Oh, wait, that was last week. They were 47-point favorites and did not cover. That's a shame. So Trevor Lawrence, you're supposed to isolate for 10 days after you first received the symptoms. He tested positive officially yesterday.

Okay. That would put him out. If the symptom, if he was based on the positive test, that would put him out for the game against notice. Notre Dame next Saturday. And that's the biggest game for them on the year probably because Notre Dame comes in number four. Boston College there.

Then the total is only 57 and a half. Everything is they've dropped five or six points off the spread since the results. Yeah, it opened at 32. Yeah, 24. So that's the question mark is when is he going to announce or when are they going to announce he first had symptoms and has that, will that be 10 days in between symptoms and the chance he can put the uniform on to play Clemson or Notre Dame in that big game? That's why they're only true test the rest of the way.

way, right? They're going to have an ACC championship game, but who would they be going against? I mean, they've already beaten the hell out of Miami once. I have no idea. I don't really follow the ACC. Look, I got to be honest, I'm not super tuned into the the ACC, the ACC football scene, Matt. Nor am I. I'm sorry. I will say this. Also, today, very weird. The NCAA announced the bowl lineup for this year. There are 37 bowl games. Okay. Okay. So you multiply that by two. 74. That's 74 teams. Okay.

Is everybody playing? No. Well, maybe not. Maybe everybody is playing now. Is there a league that's not playing at all? I mean, the Pac-12 starts this week. Big Ten started last week. Matt West's return. I think there is. Okay. But here's the question. I know Maxion came back.

When's Maxion coming back? I thought it was, right? I haven't seen any Mac action. Dang it. But maybe you're right. I don't know. I don't know. This next week.

Okay. So they go this Saturday or they'll follow it Saturday after that? They're starting on Wednesday. You know how Mackion goes, Maddie? Poor Mac. Hey, I'm a high school kid. So why should I go to play at Miami, Ohio? Well, guess what?

We get a national television all the time. Oh, you do? That's cool. When do you play? Like Saturday, 11 o'clock? No, Wednesday's at 6.30. Oh. Yeah.

There's nothing better for a degenerate gamblers midweek malaise than a little bit of Toledo Ball State. Yeah, a Bowling Green versus Western Kentucky Showdown. Yes, that really gets a Tuesday at 515. Yeah. Double-header match. I've seen somebody go down in flames betting on Toledo once. So I'll say this.

It feels like now everybody's playing. But the problem is in previous years, in order to qualify for a bowl game, you had to win six games out of a base of a 12-game season. What kind of prerequisites are there down for bowl games, just to have a winning season or 500? You have participated in a game, I think,

and then you're in. So you're telling me we're going to see... I just made that up. Okay, but in all seriousness, you're going to see under 500 teams playing in a bowl game? It's happened before. You've had five and seven teams in bowl games, right?

Yes, not often. Because a lot of times you don't even get enough teams qualifying, and then some people decline. Some colleges are like, hey, it's going to cost us millions of dollars to move our team and our band over there, so we're going to lose money.

We're not going to do it. A lot of teams do lose money. A lot of the small teams lose money, but they get national television exposure, so they go anyways. They do it because, again, it's a reward, and it also gives these coaches at least two or three weeks of additional practice in terms of preparing for the next season. So it's very rare that a team will not turn a bowl game down. I really don't know the answer to this question. Maybe a little research could help on this. I guess you have to be at least a 500 team?

I don't know. I think you just have to accept a bid, probably. That's going to make the bowl. I mean, first of all, bowl season generally, speaking sucks. You only care about the national championship bowl games. Maybe you care about the January 1st games and then you care about the team in which you're a follower of, their bowl game. Like right now, the University of Houston is pegged to play in the Frisco Bowl against UTSA. Now, we own Dallas. We've wanted the Armed Forces Bowl, we've wanted one of the

Heart of Dallas Bowl, we competed our ass off in the Cotton Bowl. But I want to go somewhere better than Frisco. I'm sure it's lovely. Mid-December in Dallas in a Dallas suburb sounds fun. You guys do own the crappy Dallas area bowls. You guys are just all over it.

Well, I mean, it's just the truth. I don't want to go to the Metroplex any more than I have to. The Frisco Bowl. You get rings for winning the Frisco Bowl, don't you? You get everything in the Bristrolet Bowl. You get to eat well. Well, I don't know. You may be doing the to-go orders. You know, I was talking to Chris Pezman yesterday, the Athletic University of Houston.

One of the cool things about traveling on the road for college athletes, Ross, is the big buffets before the game. You get to have steak and pasta. They'll feed you with barbecue. They'll give you eggs and bacon on game day. I mean, it's a good eat, right? All these college athletes now are having to have their meals put in to go boxes and they have to go right back to the room. They go downstairs, pick up their meal, and go right back. COVID sucks.

That's terrible. especially the big meals sec Let's see You had three teams that were losing records With bowl games in 2016 Two of them won Three teams in 2015 Yeah it's happened a lot

14, 12, 11 Ever since they started adding all these bowl games You've had teams of losing records getting into bowl games And a lot of them win Is it because of conference record they want They have a winning record against conference I don't know I think it's just because there's literally no other options

like Mississippi State was in the St. Petersburg Bowl. Hawaii was 6 and 7 and went to the Hawaii Bowl. Like I guess you're like. They always play 13 games though. Yeah. Because they like, because they bring another, a team gets to bring their squad over there.

Texas was a 5 and 7 and went to the heart of Dallas Bowl in 2016. God, it's just awful. It's the bowl season. I want to go anywhere but Frisco. But if we go to Friscoe, we'll make it a tier one bowl. That's what the University of Houston does. Yeah, okay.

you're going to call it the seventh most important bowl. Or sixth. Why is it going to... Well, the heart of Dallas is gone. There's New Year's six. Okay. Well, yeah, every bowl you guys are gone to has become defunct. Well, when you get stuck going to Dallas-Fort Worth bowls that don't survive...

You're just king of that mountain and that mountain just goes away. Well, they're like, you know what? The Cougars have won this game so good. No need to have this bowl exist anymore. Yeah, so bye-bye, Ticket City Bowl. 713-212-5-7-90. The McRib Bowl will be great. Imagine serving McRibb before the game?

Oh, baby. I don't want to go every game. Everybody did a bathroom break. You need halftime, one quarter in. Not true, not true at all. 114 on the Sports Talk 7-90. The Houston lunchtime sports conversation most respected by head coach Bill O'Brien. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas.

In his career here in Houston. Of sorts. The Matt Thomas Show. This is a little remix. What year is this produced? I'm going to be honest, I didn't realize I just grabbed it from the system. This is the club mix or something. I don't dislike it.

It's not bad. This is when they were playing this in the clubs. Ross and I were going to club Apple in 2010. Ah, with our waitress, Lucretia. Oh. RIP Club Apple at 610 and 290. She was 28 with a 14-year-old or whatever it was. Good kid.

She's working hard. Yeah, she was. We gave her a good tip. We did. That was our one-only trip to Club Apple. That's true. Okay. 120 on the Matt Thomas.

Show Sports Talk 790. One of the things we've not brought up today. So Mike Dantone decides he does not want to stay as the head coach of the Houston Rock. I've said this before. Mike's one of my favorite people on Earth. I think Mike got unfortunately some bad advice from his agent.

I also believe that Mike Dantone was the lead dog in becoming the new head basketball coach of the Philadelphia 76ers. I think he was all locked and loaded to get that until Doc Rivers got let go in Los Angeles with the Clippers, went interviewed for the 76ers, and must have amazed him with the conversation because he got a new five-year contract. Mike Anthony is back in the NBA.

as an assistant coach to Kevin Nash and the Brooklyn Nets. Not what I thought. Probably I mean, I wasn't surprised he went there because I know he wants to still coach. But I don't think the moment that Mike Dan Tony got on the plane and told Daryl and told anybody at the Rockets organization, they didn't want to be a head coach in Houston anymore that he was thinking, well, I'm ready to go be in a first lieutenant somewhere else.

So it's how, and obviously he was not interested in Indiana. Chicago made their hire pretty quick with Billy Donovan. New Orleans went with the Van Gundy. The only job that's open, Oklahoma City, and I don't think Mike didn't wanted that job either. I think everything Ross to me was that Philadelphia job because he had worked there before.

I think he had some relationship with that organization and probably thought that he could coach Joel Embed and Ben Simmons to becoming a legitimate Eastern Conference contender. Instead, he's with Kyrie Irving. and Kevin Durant. So if there's anybody that knows what it's like to have two mega alpha dogs on one squad, it's certainly Mike Danone.

So Steve Nash, Amari Stademeyer, and Mike Dantone are all reunited. Yes. Coming soon will be Rajabelle, Boris Diao. Who else? Barbosa? Yeah, Leandro Barbosa, Sean Merriman. Marion?

Not of Hill. I wonder how much. much of insurance policy if Steve Nash is like, you know what, I don't think I like this very much. Oh,

he's like a waiting in the wings, like a backup plan? You tell me. If you were to make a $5 bet right now, does Mike Dan Tony ever become

the full-time head coach of the Brooklyn Nets? Or do you think this is a Steve Nash bit for a long time? I will say no. I say he'll go somewhere else. I don't think they would get rid

of Nash in one year. Oh, I'm not saying if he'd get rid of it. I think he would say, Oh, you think he would say, you know what, I'm going to go back to calling soccer games on Champions League. This retirement bit's pretty good. Because the super, the mega, Ross, the mega, mega, mega superstars don't typically be our long-term NBA coach. That's true.

And I think Steve Nash is one of the best point guards ever to play the game. Two-time MVP. What a, what, 80, 10, 10 guy? No, what is it? 50-40-90. 50-40-90 club. Yeah, one of those amazing clubs of shooting percentages. free throw percentages and three point percentages.

Correct. Megastar. Yes. Definitely a top 75 and 75 guy. Yeah, I guess so. I think so, of course. No, I would think so, yeah. Yeah, he'll probably be on there.

Those types of people we just described don't normally stick around 10, 11, 12 years. Like right now in the NBA, among former players, who is the greatest player that's a head coach right now in the NBA? Right now currently? So let me go, let me just think off the top of my head here. Steve Nash was a, rotational player but by no means a spectacular one.

Steve Nash, are you? No, I'm sorry. Steve Kerr I was thinking about. Rick Carlisle was a NBA champion. In the looses of terms. Yes. Mike Dan Tony was a multiple, well, he's not a head coach anymore.

Multiple time Italian league champion. Okay, you're furthering my point. Steve Kerr, four-time NBA champion. I just said. Okay. Back into rotation guy. Tailu. Nope. I think the answer is Steve Kerr.

Mark Jackson would have been, if he was a coach again, he would have been over Steve Kerr. Doc Rivers? Oh. Doc Rivers better NBA player than Steve Kerr. Doc Rivers is good, right? Yeah. But not Hall of Fair, but very good. Doc Rivers, one-time All-Star.

Yeah, good. Better than Steve Kerr as a player. Luke Walton was a joke. Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be Doc Rivers. Okay. So the list is not very long, to be honest. you that's true that's why I'm curious it won't be it won't be that Steve can't do it

the question I think in my mind will be will Steve Nash want to do it long term let's go to Tracy and Cyprus at 125 hi Tracy hey Matt how's it going buddy I'm amazing I'm glad you shared the disdain for the primetime prices right on Tuesday night by this is Tracy from episode two of of Plinkos and Powerbombs oh great what happened on what was it Tuesday night uh it was primetime It was the price of this. This was this past Tuesday. I missed it.

Yeah, all the contestants are on stage. They don't have any studio audience there anymore. And he, again, looked like he was hosting the show for the very first time, which is... Yep. I'm just... I should stop with my bitterness towards Drew Carey. The guy is a successful man. He's making millions of dollars a year, hosting year number 12 of the prices, right?

But that's neither here nor there. Oh, well. But that's not why I called. So the first thing on the bowl season, I am almost certain that I'm... read a week or two ago that there are no win requirements for bowl season this year. That would not surprise me. You know why I think part of that is? It's Tracy because everybody's playing an uneven number of games.

Exactly. And they knew that there could be teams with games canceled, and it doesn't make them a non-quality opponent. Just it is what it is, right? Yeah. But then I wanted to talk mostly about the game tomorrow, U of H and UCF. Yes. I don't see either one of these secondaries stopping either one of these passers.

And I'm thinking we could see a game where both teams are in the 60s. Well, if that's the case, you and I will not be leaving the game because that will be a five-and-a-half-hour game. I actually said earlier this hour, last hour, the first to 40 can win this football game. I know that Dana's optimistic about what his team can do. They can stop the run. And last week's UCF ran for over 250 hours. But it's more about Gabriel's passing game that scares me about the night's more than else. And it's the secondary of both because UCF can't right now with their youth and a couple of injuries, their secondary is very suspect.

And they can't stop anybody on third and long or fourth down. Can I wait to see. Would you like to sing the UCF fight songs since you're a graduate of that great school? No, we'll pass. I am wearing my UCF shirt now since I can't wear it in the press box tomorrow. but I'm definitely looking forward to the game. I haven't seen them play in person since the LSU Fiesta Bowl, and I've missed the last two times they've been at U of H because I was out of town. So this is an exciting weekend for me. Either way.

It is. It's the game of the weekend in college football. I don't care what they say about Ohio State, Penn State. The game of the weekend is UCF versus Houston. That's the reason why it's on ESPN plus. That's the reason why it's on ESPN plus. Because it's plus It's such a good game

It means more than just regular ESPN It's a plus game Yeah I think it's on there with the local badminton championship Thank you Tracy buddy We'll see you tomorrow friend appreciate it Yeah what is up with the We're on ESPN plus tomorrow It's a guy boxing a kangaroo

It's the badmitten championships And it's a U of H UCF on ESPN plus this weekend I'm gonna find out right now What's on the regular ESPN channels And the reason why we couldn't be on a regular ESPN channel Let's take a look here at the old college football slate. Let's find out what games got jumped by U of H. All right.

East Carolina Tulsa's on ESPN2. Better game. Nah, it's not. Let's see what else is on here. You don't mess with the Golden Hurricane, Matt. Kansas State, West Virginia is on ESPN2. What day is this? This is tomorrow.

Let me look here. Right, Southern Misses on ESPN 3, so it's not even good enough to be a plus. What else is on plus? Let's see what's on ESPN Plus tomorrow, along with... TCU Baylor is on ESPN2, who cares? Okay, it's a way bigger game. First of all, Baylor was afraid of play us,

and TCU just doesn't be anybody except scores Texas. No, nothing else on the day. I mean, we got bumped for Appalachian State U.L. Monroe. They're on ESPNU. Let's see what else is on ESPN Plus tomorrow. alongside that UCF Houston game. You've got the Sunbelt Cross Country Championship. Okay, false.

You've got boxing in Spanish, Inouet versus Maloney. I've heard of in UA. You've got, oh, hey, you've got Australia versus New Zealand in the Bledeslow Cup that's rugby. Such hatred. And you've got a lot of Bundesliga soccer. You also have, oh, coastal Carolina, Appalachian State Women's Volleyball. That's a big one, Matt. You throw out the records when Appalachian State versus Coastal Carolina comes on.

We are back to make our NFL picks, and the lead for Brendan is starting to dwindle a little bit. Yes. 129 on Sports Talk 790. Hey, smart device. How do I play some good sports vibrations? Just ask me to play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard radio. She's so smart, almost as smart as my mother. Mr. Walberg.

Where are the funky bunch? Have you been to a Walberg as lately? Red Rowdies, Bulls on parade, and Astros fanatics, sports talk 790, your radio home for your home teams. Time for us to beat each other up. We call Beat the Shmows, where Ross, Brendan, myself, will be making NFL picks. And normally you would say to yourself, why do I care what you guys think on NFL selections? All I'm going to tell you is this. there are a lot of handicappers out there

and then there's us and all we do Ross because it is October, soon to be win in November is we win, win, win for you. The season standings Ross has played 24 games

he's won 13 of them and lost 11. You have made your fans 9,000 MT bucks. You're welcome, Mom. I have have been on 28 games. I have won 14 of them. I have lost 14 of them. But because I'm a wise man with my money, I have made you 4,000 MT bucks. Brandon, the new member of the Schmo's family, is 18 and 10, and you are plus 12,000 MT bucks. You can't take any money with you, except you've

got bragging rights on this show, and you get the opportunity to select first, your four games, minimum bet of 1,000 MT bucks, maximum bet of 5,000. They have to bet the Texans, and since they're not playing, you get to pick any four games you want to. Brendan, you are first. All right, I'm going to start with one of the biggest spreads I've ever seen. NFL teams don't cover spreads this high. I'm taking the Jets plus 19 and a half at Kansas City for 3,000 MT bucks.

ding ching it's all right I got no problem of that all right up next now you're doing it

not because you think Kansas City or the Jets you have a favoritism for either one of them you just think it's just too big of a lot I looked into this

earlier on in the week and it's not quite 20 but there's only been 8 20 points spreads in NFL history and it's only been covered one of those eight times is a half point short of that

so I'm just going to go with history all right game number two please game number two I'm going to go to Seattle versus San Francisco I think San Francisco is better than they've been playing, but I know Seattle is one of the best teams in the NFC. I feel all right giving up three points in that one.

So I'm going to take Seattle minus three for 2,000 MT bucks. Game number three, please. All right, New England has been bad this year, and this is the worst I've seen Cam Newton look, maybe ever, other than the quick start to the season. Buffalo, who I was slow to buy early, I think they're the better team in this one by more and four points.

I'm going to go Buffalo minus four, $2,000 MT bucks. My Eobace math tells me of $3,000. $3,000 left. $3,000 left. And I'm going to go to the division I know best, the NFC North. The Green Bay Packers,

you saw what they're capable of last week. I don't think Minnesota is more than the fifth worst team in the league. I'm given six and a half in this one, but I'm okay with that. The Packers minus six and a half for $3,000 MT bucks. Ross, you are next. please. By the way, Brendan's got the Jets, Seattle, Buffalo, and Green Bay as his four picks.

Can I take one of those and, but it's a different amount? Sure, why don't? I mean, you know, I'm with your bits. You're your bits dealing, but that's fine. Well, I'm with him on the, on the New York Jets. I mean, look, the Jets suck. The Jets are not a good football team, but 19 and a half points is just way too much in an NFL game. You can get down 26 in that game and score a garbage time touchdown. That would be what we call the Bill O'Brien's. special. So I'm going with the Jets as well for 2,000 MT bucks.

Next, this one is a very keep it simple, stupid pick. One of the best teams in the NFL with Tom Brady and a halacious defense, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. One of the worst teams in the NFL, the New York Giants, they suck. They've also got some injury issues. I'm going with them. E. 10 and a half. Don't mind the hook at all. Tampa Bay Buccaneers minus 10 and a half for 3,000 M.T. Bucks. A home team

Facing a team that went across the country The previous week is a 10 and a half point dog That's how bad the Giants suck Yeah, the Giants suck really bad All right, let's move along This is the anti-Brendon special I've been riding the Indianapolis Colts train

It's been up and down, quite frankly, all season, but I'm still going to ride it again because it is Philly Rivers, so you're going to go up and down But minus three I think to me it's kind of I think it's a game where the Colts are much better. So I'm going to go with them for the minus three for 3,000 MT bucks. My U of H math says you've got $2,000 to spend.

And for my last one, this is a fade, Brendan, actually. I think Seattle, San Francisco is a very, very close game. Maybe you give the slight edge to Seattle because they're home, but when it's a toss-up game and you're getting points, I will go with the dog. I'm taking the San Francisco 49ers for $2,000. mt bucks. All right, so you're fading Brendan on that one.

All right. Let's go to my selection. I'm going to try to stay away from all of your games. And we will start with the New Orleans Chicago game. Chicago is the biggest fraud winning football team in the National Football League. New Orleans, sluggish start, going to start to grab their

mojo. They'll do it at Windy Soldier Field. I like New Orleans, minus the four and a half over Chicago for 2,000 MT. Bucks. next I'm going to go with the Chargers Denver game Denver got their ass beat badly by the Kansas City and it wasn't even the Kansas City offense did all the favors

it was their defense and it was their special teams I think the Chargers are a team on the come Justin Herbert's been fantastic I will take the Chargers minus the three over Denver for 2,000 MT bucks next Tennessee almost remain perfect, but Stephen Gaskowski missed the field goal late.

I think Cincinnati likes to put up a lot of points, but they can't stop anybody. I think Derek Henry gets back on the motor, gets for about $125. I like Tennessee minus the six and a half over Cincinnati. 4,000 M.T. bucks on that one. And lastly, Dallas versus Philadelphia, I don't know the Dallas quarterback's name. Garducci, Manucci, Riverucci. It's a Benjamin Adonucci. Danuccia da Suki, Philadelphia, minus the nine and a half, over Dallas.

And I will give that for 2,000 MT bucks. And there you have it. May you all go 0 and 4? Wait, hold on. If he goes 0, 4, I lost 1 too. May you go 1 and 3 and you go 0.4? May the people that take my predictions go to Las Vegas, bet it wisely, and come back with riches. And if they lose a bunch of money?

I'm sorry. A.J. Hinch said a lot of I'm sorrys. He officially was announced that the Detroit Tigers manager just moments ago. We'll hear from him next. 142 on the Matt Thomas show. By the way, 2 o'clock, Brian T. 22, Fantasy 5 Halloween candy, Brendan versus Joe George. And believe it or not today, hell you or not today is the best of Halloween, believe it or not. It's 240, 143 on Sports Talk 790.

Don't leave Matt Thomas in your car. take him with you download the free IHeartRadio app for your phone at sports790.com just remember you'll have to feed him is this the scariest movie song this is Halloween right? Yeah

I'll go to the Exorcist Exorcist one, Halloween maybe two This is Halloween right? Mm-hmm Okay so this is Halloween Can you get the Exorcist theme ready? No, I'm scared Now let's compare it

No, don't do it. That was Halloween. Here's the exorcist Oh no You'll be fine I'll hold your hand during this As soon as it shows up Okay

Yeah it's fine Oh no Well this is a different version But that's okay This movie Somehow my mom let me watch this movie When I was like 10 years old And I am still scarred for life

They're similar This is scary No Well this is not right version. Oh, okay. It's all, I mean, it's not Brennan's fault. This is the first one on YouTube.

It's always wrong. I know that because I've been producing for many years. They sound like the exact same thing. Well, maybe to the untrained ear, Matt. All right. That's true. A.J. Hinch had a press conference. Who?

They didn't mess around. Who's that? They finalized the deal this morning and they said, let's put them on a Zoom call. The Astros were national prize and what they did were so wrong and they need asterisk and they all need to be stripped from their title. and they all need to be banned from baseball and everything they did was so wrong. That is correct.

If it's so bad, which is what Baseball America told me, if it's so bad, why did AJ get changed? He was available for like two days. Avila, the general manager of the Tigers, said that he reached out to AJ 30 minutes after the game. That's great.

I'm glad to be wrong on this, because that means to me, baseball people are smart, and they realize this whole Astros thing wasn't as huge of the deal as the baseball America public and stupid people on Twitter are making it. Yep. All right.

So let's get to some of the sound from the press guys. Well, let's just get to the nuts. We don't care about what he is at. Oh, you're excited to be with the Tigers. Yeah, we get that, AJ. Nobody cares. Let's hear what he says about being hired after a cheating scandal. As I've reflected back and learned and to grow and ultimately decompressed from something that was very wrong.

And, you know, as I told Mr. Illich and Al both, you know, that's part of my story. It's not the Tiger's story. And I understand the question and I understand how wrong it was. And I'm sorry for that. I've said that before. I'll say it again. I'll continue to say it.

I'll never forget the feeling that I've had throughout the past years. I've navigated this with my family. But you quickly get to the exciting time of getting back and leading a group of men again. and establishing what Tigers baseball is going to be all about. I'm sorry that today that has to be a topic, and I understand why, because this is such an exciting day for me and such an exciting day for the Tigers. But there are real conversations when you get into these positions, and I certainly, you know, I talked to both of these men

and many other people in the organization throughout the process. They were very thorough, and ultimately, we all, arrived at a partnership that we feel like is going to take Tiger Baseball into into winning ways. This is surreal for us. I mean, AJ was with us on a weekly basis for several years. Mm-hmm. And he's, I mean, he's thoughtful.

Didn't pull punches, honest. Didn't give you, you know, rehearsed answers. That sounded like a real human being saying, yeah, this sucks. I got to bring this up. I understand that's part of it. I get it. And he went out. He was also, of course, asked several questions.

about the scandal. Here's him talking about taking ownership of the scandal. I've taken ownership of it. I've only interview that I've done was, you know, before spring, or the initial spring training last year. And, you know, this game is about players. And this game is won by players.

And in the competition that goes on the field, it's incredible. And I congratulate Major League Baseball and all the teams for getting through this season and getting us to get to watch baseball and be a part of another team. championship season, you know, was simply remarkable. And you learn a lot along the way when you're on the outside and you're looking in. And I do have a lot of experiences to share. I do have conversations to have with players and coaches. And I've done that throughout this season,

not in this position, but, you know, absolutely those are tough conversations. And I will have them one by one. I will have them as a team. There's a clear message of that's part of my story and part of my career. It's not a part of the players that I'm going to be managing. And I'm sorry that they're going to have to deal with it and then again that we're going to have to talk about it. But that is our reality because wrong is wrong. And it was very wrong.

And I'll make sure that everybody knows that I feel responsible because I was the manager and it was on my watch. And I'll never forget it. He's going to have to have that rehearsed. And my guess is he's going to have to answer that all throughout the off season when he gets a spring training, when the opening game goes. and probably when the Astros and Tigers play for the very first time. Yeah.

You were going to say? Go ahead. Yeah, I'm with you. He's going to get asked about that a million times. He should just put on a T-shirt that says, like, yeah, I cheated or I was with the team that cheated. It was wrong. Let's move on. And he just point to his shirt any time he gets asked about it because it's going to be tiresome, I would imagine.

But unfortunately, he has to know, smart enough guy to know that this, whenever he was going to get the job, that was going to be part of it. By the way, the Tigers will be in town Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, April 12th, 13th, and 14th. It'll be among the first day. They open up the year on the road against the A's and the Angels. A's come in for the Astros home opening weekend. The second home series of the year is against the Tigers. Wow. And they will present A.J. Hinch with the busted up TV monitor for him.

Yeah. That'd actually be pretty damn funny. You know, Jim Crane is speaking to the media on Monday about the Houston Open. I wonder if he'll be asked about it. AJ getting a job. He'll say, oh, I wish AJ the best. But we're here to talk about golf. Yeah.

That's the truth, right? Yes. But the back nine is really tough this week. Yeah. I wish him to have been for the very best. Me too. I'm sad. The only manager, there's only been,

I was never here for Cecil Cooper. The entire Cecil Cooper time was not good Astros. The only manager in Astros history as a broadcaster and as a talk show host that I ever disliked with Jimmy Williams. just an a-hole, period, end of story. I didn't mind Ed Wade. I'd like Jeff Leno, liked Brad Mills, Bo Porter.

Bo Porter. I even liked, he was low over his head, but, you know, still a good guy. Yeah, Charles, you see it, Bo Porter, some tough ones. Loved, I bet he did. Loved Phil Garner because he was a neighbor at the time when he became the Astros manager. Plus, he was a guy who was on 86 team. I loved him. So, yeah, I mean.

Anytime there's a guy named Scrap Iron, there's got to be a good dude. Yeah, I mean, because nobody gets naked. I mean, there's no fresh nicknames anymore. That's true. Everybody's nickname has to do with something with their name or something very easy. Like, oh, James Hardin, oh, he has a beard. Let's call him the beard. Yeah.

Oh, Anthony Davis, his initials are AD. Let's call him AD. Justin Verlanders's awesome, filthy future Hall of Fame pitcher, JV. Yeah, let's go with that. By the way. Hey, Chris Paul wears jersey number three. CP3. How about this?

Would any of you like to put it down that Justin Verlander ends his career as a Detroit tiger? Anybody want to do it? No, I'm not touching that. That's got to be a minus 1,000, right? Yeah, I think it makes even more sense now than it already did. Because Verlander apparently has already reached out to him. Well, he said, yeah, let's play the sound about right now.

Yeah, I did. So JV and I developed a great relationship. He's an Altimer, Hall of Famer, incredible competitor. We had some incredible experiences together. And he sent me a message this morning, you know, raving about what Detroit is like when the team is winning. And there's no place like it, he said. It's an incredible place of a loyal fan base that wants baseball played the right way. They want baseball play to winning way.

And they have a deep-rooted history love affair with the Tigers and the English D. He said nothing but incredible things about his experience here. I will say this, and I'm not talking on a school here. I would tease AJ about how hard it was to pull JV off the mound. When the manager walked off the mound, half the time pitchers were. be like, no, I can go one more. The other half Ross are like, yeah, you know, I'm out of gas. I'm glad you're coming to get me.

I don't think J.V.'s ever thought he was out of gas on the mound. I would think if the truth sermon was out, that Justin Verlander would be the hardest pitcher that Alex, that A.J. Hinch would ever have to pull off a mound. Maybe St. Granking Games 7 of the World Series would be number two, but I think J.V. would be number one, pound for pound. You can see it. Go look at old games where AJ has to go to the mound. It sounds like you can't even look at them in the eye. No, you can't because you know that J.B. Scowl is going to get you.

Get out of here, Justin. Justin, good game, bro. And he's like, you're not getting the ball for me. Well, I got to do it because it's protocol. Okay, here it is. All right. We'll see what Brian T. Smith has to say about the A.J. Hinge hiring and how fast it came. Starting the final hour of the Matt Thomas show, Fantasy 5, favorite.

Oh, baby. Favorite Halloween candy between Joe George, all team Chicago against all team Detroit with Brendan Riley. That's in the final hour of the Matt Thomas Show. This is Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas Show. I always look forward to our Friday visits with my good friend. League columnist in the Houston Chronicle, Brian T.

Smith with us here on 790. BTS, the general manager of the Detroit Tigers waited exactly 30 minutes before calling AJ Hinch to fly him to Detroit and eventually sign him. I don't think you're completely shocked that he got a job. Are you a little surprised how fast it took?

If you had an open managerial position, Matt, and you were trying to rebuild a baseball team or get a team to the next level, and you had some young talent, and you were in a major market slash, you know, mid-ish major market. You're not in New York, L.A., you know, Boston for baseball, but you have a history. You want somebody who's anarchically driven

who can also bond with young players and veterans, who would you hire? I wouldn't hire Tony Larusa. Oh, no question. I'm sure as hell would not hire Tony Larusa. I think it makes 100,000 percent. It's America, right? It's big business. The second that A.J. Hinch is eligible to manage,

you can officially pick this guy up. And if you're the Tigers, if you're one of the 30 MLB teams with, you know, among those with openings, he's the best guy by far to hire. And, you know, I think it's like a lot of these things nowadays. We love to sit back.

I'm not saying you do. But a lot of people out there, the New York media, love to sit back. Oh, my God. How could they do this? It shames the game. He's already served as suspension.

So once he's served a suspension, you're going to sit around just, I guess, mind your manners and make him wait like three more months. No, if I'm a GM, if I'm an owner, and I think AJ's the right guy for the job, which he clearly proved he was in many ways, hundreds of ways for the Astros, why would you not hire him? Last question on this, because I've got a bunch of other things to get to. Does Jeff Leno feel better today that AJ got hired so fast? I know he's not on the short list in Los Angeles

or the Angels, but what do you now envision Jeff Leno's situation being, or do you have an opinion at all? I definitely have an opinion. That's a great question. And this is what I I thought all along. I thought that it would take Luno longer to get back in than it would, AJ. And now we have proof of that. I thought that on day one. Not that Luno had more of a hand that will never be proven. If it does, it might take 20 or 50 years until the official book and movie and screenplay

come out. Just because right or wrong, Matt, and you know this, and all the 790 listeners are Houston Chronicle readers, and the Astros fans know this, right or wrong, a lot of the things the Astros did that weren't considered, you know, on the up and up, you know, whether it was the culture, all those things, they ultimately were attached right or wrong to Jeff Luno, not A.J. Hinch. And so I think it only makes sense that it's going to take Jeff longer to get back into Major League Baseball. Jeff doesn't take my advice. You know, I don't have a consulting fee. but if I'm Jeff Luno, I go into a different sport.

And he mentioned that on KPRC. I go into the NBA or NFL or soccer, whatever it is. He is obviously smart and capable enough. If he wants to do it, I think the smartest play for him is to almost change his own narrative and say, you know what? I'm one of the few that's ever done it in multiple sports. And he is obviously smart enough to do it and succeed. And then if he's successful in that next sport, whatever it is, e-gaming, soccer, whatever,

he can bail the handpick his job at that point. All right, let's get to the Rockets. Yeah, let's get the Rockets. Your surprise level on Stephen Silas being the guy that's going to be the next head basketball coach. Yeah, if you go back, and I know you do this all the time, if you go back and listen to the 790 podcast from the previous Matt Thomas shows, you will clearly hear a certain columnist from the Houston Chronicle saying that Jeff Van Gundy made more sense in a lot of ways.

Jeff Van Gundy, in many ways, was the internal favorite. Jeff Van Gundy would get the job, but what I've been saying? They had to sell James Hardin and Russell Westbrook. That never happened. And I said that the person that I thought would ultimately get the job, I hate the term by default because that's a little demeaning. I thought the person ultimately get the job with Stephen Silas, that's who got the job.

Yeah, the thing I thought, tell me, loved Van Gundy. I don't know that for a fact because Tim doesn't text me or call me and tell me those things. I just felt that there was a guy that was very recognizable. The thing I just couldn't get past was I don't, as much as I believe Jeff Fottles adheres to watches the new style of

basketball because he works games on ABC and ESC. So he's around it all the time. It's not like this guy's stuck in his library just reading up on old plays in the 1980s. It's one thing to talk about it. It's another thing when you are in charge to sell it to a bunch of guys who are now running

the operation and as I've said 500 times. This is a Players League more so than even than now. And certainly with this organization, it is an organization run by James Hardin. And I just don't know, even if his playbook got up to the date to times where it is now, it would have ever satisfied James long term. I have no doubt that Jeff and Gundy could go take over. And I mean, that's nicely. The Sacramento Kings, you know, any team.

the Cleveland Cavaliers, any team that needs to take the next step, and he would theoretically do a fantastic job and make it work, and they would play their asses off and go old school. But me, modern, too. It's not about him adapting. It's a simple fact, and I never thought this would happen, and this is not a knock on Van Gunney. I said it many times about it.

I could just never picture. It's not about the preseason. It's not about Christmas Day. It's not about April. can could you really picture James Hardin and Jeff Van Gundy truly getting together over the course of an 82 game season and potentially two months in the playoffs and all the road trips and all the things that Hardin does or has done in the past

at some point they were going to clash and I think that tells you why there was never the full buy it. It's very simple, Matt. If James Hardin wanted Jeff Van Gundy to be the Rockets new head coach, Jeff Angone would be the Rocket's new head coach. All right. Lastly, my friend, I want JJ Watt traded. Not going to because I don't think he's owed anything. I think it's in the best interest for the organization to get some draft picks, replenish,

get somehow, some way, get in the second round. I also think it's in the best interest for JJ to go somewhere else where he'd be happier. He's clearly miserable. I don't think he's being an actor in front of these Zoom calls. I think he's pissed off. He's mad. He's about to run into a football team that could lose at the very minimum 10 games. So with that being said, I'm hearing no whispers, no.

buzz about this. I'm hearing only about Will Fuller and a little bit about the other receivers in the receiving core. What does your gut tell you about a week from now when you and I discuss what the Texans did before the trade deadline? What are we going to be talking about? Number one,

we all know things can instantly change with one phone call. We've seen that a billion times. Number two, as it stands, the last I heard, which was, you know, this morning. They're just think of what they said. Like, there

willing to trade DeAndre Hopkins for peanuts. They're willing to trade Jedeby and Clowney for peanuts. Jack Easterby played a key role in those deals, but when they actually have to, now the move is on you, right? The move's not on Bill O'Brien anymore, Matt. The move is on Jack Easterby. It's a lot different when you have to put your name on it, and he's trying to make multiple things work. He's trying to lay low. He's trying to be the big dog. He's trying to keep buddy up to Cala McNair and keep the respect within the organization and continue to earn respect. He's trying to make his career in the NFL at this level. He's an interim GM right now.

The whole thing, and Romeo is going to say what Romeo is going to say, and he has every right to say it. But this whole idea that they're not getting enough, shouldn't you have gotten enough for DeAndre Hopkins? Wasn't that a little more important? Shouldn't you have gotten enough for Clowny? Jack used to be, has been in this organization for two years right now. So right now, it doesn't look like they're going to do anything because, they're under the impression that they're building a dynasty. You know, it's like the Astros in 2017, 15, 16 at the trade deadline.

Well, we have to think about the short term and the long term. Give me a freaking break. This team would have to win its next nine games to even be relevant. They have nine left, yeah, nine games, right? You have to win, they have to go finish 10 and 6 to even be relevant right now. And that doesn't even guaranteed to make the playoffs. So I don't understand it. I've written about a billion times in the conference.

but this is the stance they're taken. And so you factor in JJ and the number two franchise space and the most popular NFL player still in some ways in the state of Texans, in the state of Texas, there's no way they're trading him unless they get blown away by a deal. Doesn't mean it's right. It's right, Matt. I hate it. But this is how the Texans operate now.

Well, I think they're also afraid of the backlash, which I believe, except for Texans, Karen, we'd all be like smart move. By God, you're doing something right. What I'm deathly afraid is if they don't pull the trigger on anything because they're afraid of getting is what Romeo Cornell said, would say peanuts. Ross, I should say, Brian, we're going to be in a, we're not going to trust any move that's being made.

We're not going to trust the interim GM. We're not going to trust the hire. We're not going to trust the general manager. They've got to move some pieces here. And I'm not talking about moving guys off injury reserve for future seventh round picks. I think if you really want to give a general manager and make this job a sex, your job. You've got to figure out a way to somehow, some way getting the second round of next year's draft to at least give the new GM something to think about come draft time.

The one thing you can do, and I'm not in favor of this, but what you can do, Matt, is basically punt on this season, which they've kind of done because they're one and six, they don't have a head coach general manager anymore. You punt on this season, you win as many games as possible. I mean, Cal clearly loves to win a few games, even though they can't do it right now. He'd be just fine going five and 11 and keeping all their players. you bring a new GM in, you bring a new head coach in, you have them both on board by early January, right, mid-January. Right.

And then your GM, your real GM, not Jack used to be, has two, three months to work out trades, to really get a feel, to talk, you know, to reshape things in the organization. Because here's a thing, Matt, we've seen blockbuster deals done on draft day for a long, long time in the NFL. So what's to say, just because they don't trade JJ now,

they don't trade JJ, that they could trade JJ, Jay before the draft. And he'll still have a year left on his contract. You trade him. You can renegotiate, whether that's JJ, whether that's Whitney Mercilis, whoever it's going to be. That's probably, probably what's more likely with his team as we speak right now. That then they basically punt on this year, keep everything intact.

You kicked Bill O'Brien out. And then the new GM can actually come in, get his hands on everything, and make the big moves in 2021. So as long as maybe JJ's not wearing Texan gear. say by the 2021 season. Not that we don't want them here, but this is going to take... It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Have a great weekend. What are you

wearing for your costume tomorrow? You know what? Two years ago, I needed a costume because I don't dress... I don't really... I love Halloween and I love candy, but I don't dress up a lot anymore because I'm just not a huge costume person. Two years ago, I made a huge investment. I went to one of those Halloween stores and

the State Puff Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. Yeah. I got one of those the blow-up one, it actually has a little fan in it. So I just put that on, so nobody knows it's me. And I end up scaring all the dogs and the kids, because they don't know the St. Puff marshmallow man. And they're like, why are you so fat? That's what I dress up every year is now.

Okay. It's fun. It's a lot of fun. Yeah, to scare kids and dogs. It sounds like a lot of blast. Have a great weekend, my friend. I'll talk to you next week. Take care.

You got a Brian T for the Chronicle at Cron, Brian Smith. Speaking of candy, our friend Brendan Rowley is going to go against Joe George as they battle for best Halloween candy. We need judges for the Fantasy 5. If you would like to be a judge, we're doing it right now because we're going to make some money for some folks a little bit later. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. We need judges for the Fantasy 5 Best Halloween Candy.

It's next on 790. Greg Bizjo here. The heart of the order is up. right now. Matt Thomas is swinging for the fences here on Sports Talk 790. Well, friends, it's time to play the Fantasy 5 since Ross and I have competed in what? If you'd say if we played 100 fantasy 5s,

you and I have been a part of 90 of them maybe comfortably, give or take? Say again? If we were in 100 Fantasy 5s, we've done 90 of them. Both, at least one of us. Have we ever done one where it's neither of us? Yeah, I think so. Me and Joe have gone against each other. What was the catar? Oh, video games.

So memorable that we forgot Out of town or something? Yeah. Okay, see, I wasn't here. And that's why I don't remember it. I think you had the round of technically. Yeah, we tried to text you as a judge, but you were sleeping. Oh, yeah, I woke up about eight hours after that text,

after I had already been sleeping about eight hours. There's a stunner. Joe George representing the NFC North. I just for the clarification, I'm not late. He said 220. Yeah, but we hit our breaks on time. No, well, he's not used to that in any show he works.

Yeah, I've seen... Oh, we're pretty good on the nightcap. I was saying nightcap. That afternoon show you work, no chance. 604 here on the nightcap. We're just starting up. All right. This is an NFC North Battle, Detroit v. Chicago.

Yes. Now, I won video games so he can choose. The question is, do Midwestern taste for candy change for the southern folks? Maybe. We're about to find out. Yeah. Are they going to do biscuits and gravy? That's what we like here in the south.

I don't like biscuits and gravy. gravy. I like biscuits. I like gravy. I don't like gravy on them biscuits. No biscuits and gravy. No, no enchiladas. No, no tamales. Nope. But yes to McRibb. Yeah. Yikes. Hey, we're going to get McRibbs in December? You me? Yeah, I guess. Don't sound too energetic about it. I mean, what's the Loubies together? What's going on, man? You get the roast beef poking out today, man. I know. I was running. I was running late this morning. Didn't have an understanding. You had sex with your pregnant wife. Did you know? That doesn't happen. like two months straight with all right since you won the video games you have the option of

this is best Halloween candy by the way so that you'd find in the bag that you would get tomorrow if you're going trick-or-treating uh you have the option of going first or in the snake system going second and third and giving Brendan the overall first election I'm gonna go first you're gonna go first yep I think there's a clear number one so I'm gonna take wait a minute there's no clear number one is there yeah let the man make his list go ahead Joe brandon I hope I get it right hopefully scoop them I'm gonna go Reese's peanut butter cups. Oh.

First pick. Is that, was that it, Brendan? Yeah, I think that's far and away of the first pick. Interesting.

What? I disagree. I disagree, too, but we're not doing it. So, you know, we're judges. That's true.

We should stay out of this. Keep your comments to yourself. No, it's all about commentary. What are you talking about? So by the way, I am Judge, Ross is Judge 6.

Okay. I am Judge 7, so I'm only used. Why should be one and two, so we get to get used. No, we want the audience to play along. Screw them.

No, We love you, audience. I'm just kidding. Seven winging. We need one more judge to be our fifth judge. 713212-790. 7-1-3-1-2-5-790. Brendan, you have the next two selections.

All right. I think this one is a little bit, I think it might catch a little hate for this, but I don't care. It's easily my second favorite, Teresa's peanut butter cups. I'm going with the Kit Kat. And then with my next pick,

I'm going to go with Twix. Okay. All right. So my next two. Twix is my jam. I'm going to go peanut M&Ms. Okay. And Butterfinger.

Peanut butter and chocolate with both of your first two picks. Well, I guess three, too. Yeah, you and all chocolate in this so far. Is there a peanut butter? No, there's no peanut butter. There's a peanut butter snickers, but I'm surprised you didn't take that. No, I said Butterfinger. Oh, Butterfiger.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you're miss hearing this. I'm sorry. So Joe's picks or Reese's peanut. butter cups, peanut M&Ms, and Butterfinger. So clearly he likes peanut butter and chocolate. Well, the last time I picked something sour, I got told I have a taste of a 12-year-old.

That was awesome, too. It was great. I'll hold my tongue on that. Brendan has Kit Kat Twix, and Brendan, you have the next two selections. So I think I mean, there's going to be a lot of chocolate naturally in this, but I do need one thing to change it up a little bit. And the best way to go, if you're not going to go chocolate,

it's starbursts. And then I'm going to follow that up with Snickers. Going right back to chocolate. Classic. Snickers is a classic. Okay. Joe, last two for you.

My last two. Skittles. And then... This is my last one. This is tough. This is honestly my favorite. And it's because the Halloween version is so much better

because it's the two Twizzlers that are a bite size that are so much better. So I'm going to Twizzlers. Mad, nice face, and Joe just instantly turns red. He's like, well, they didn't like that one. Hopefully, you better sweep up here, buddy. I got four.

I think I got four and a half strong. Last pick, Brendan. Jesus. The problem is I have two in mind here. Uh-oh. And one of them, I think, is the one that Joe might have got killed for before. So I'm not going to go that direction. I'm going to go with an underrated candy in Rolos.

You picked Rolos over Sour Patch Kids. the greatest candy. I know. But that's what they called me a 12 year old for. It's the greatest candy of all that. I agree.

They said, I said, what are you taking on an airplane? I said, Sour Patch kids. And they said, are you five? Let me teach you something.

You're young man, young in the fantasy five game. Go with your heart. Sometimes you got to go with your heart. All right. So here's what we got. I know.

It's how I won with the Beatles thing. Joe. Rollos. Reese's peanut butter cups, peanut M&Ms. Butterfinger. Skittles. and Twizzlers.

Man, our last picks are bad. Brendan. Brendan, Kit Kat, Twix, Starburst, Snickers, and Rollos. All right, so the audience goes first. If it goes to a six-vote, Ross gets it. If it goes to a seventh vote,

it goes to me. Early Twitter reaction, not good for me. You want to read a couple? How did Brendan Riley pick so much better than you? It's tough Go Ravens 713-212-5-790 Cory who wins the Fantasy 5

Joe or Brendan Well I was going to go with Brendan Because he had starburst But then he said Snickers And even though Matt likes nuts in his mouth I don't And I do love Twizzlers So we're going to have to go with Joe

Go to winner Go away You horrible human being Tell him to go to hell Matt Go to hell You're not even playing and you got a nuts in your mouth joke. Whatever, Twizzler breath. All right.

Manuel, on 790, Manuel, you have the second vote. Who do you go on with Joe or Brendan? I had to say, Brandon just knocked it out of the park. I mean, he just came out with some haymakers, goat picks, I say. Brennan and Pete Lordham. Got to go, Brandon. All right, thank you very much. One to one.

We need a fifth listener vote. We need one more listener vote because if not, We're going to move everybody up here a little bit. 713, 2,1, 2. 1,1, 2.1.1. 1, 7.9. Luke, who wins, Joe, or Brendan? Hello, man.

I will have to go with Brendan. Brendan, it is. Two votes to one. Don't think I even got that many votes last time. What is it? It's two votes to one. Two votes. All right.

Line number four, Joe or Brendan, on the Fantasy 5, who wins line four, which would be Brian. Hi, Brian. What's up, Matt? Hey, man. I got to go with Brendan. Who in the hell ever heard of a Halloween bag without a Snickers bar? All right.

That's very true. Snickers is the preferred one. And a beer, apparently. That's all right, Brandon. It's five o'clock somewhere. Bushlight, you're in. You don't like beer and Snickers? He's awesome.

Brendan 3, Joe 1. Man, I'm not to retire, I think. Cody on 790. Joe or Brendan, who wins a fantasy 5? Come on, Cody. my boy Joe George Oh, hold on, is this a friend? Let's go, Cody.

I don't know what he's. Liar. Shit, give me your phone. Cody, why do you have an Illinois area code on your phone? Fake news. See you later. All right, sports RV. You are the sixth vote.

Do you give it to Brendan and finish this thing off or does it go to a deciding seventh vote with me? How about you go ahead and pick Matt? You know what I will? Are you sure you don't want to go? Yeah, go ahead. May I assess this? I love peanut M&Ms.

I love Butterfingers. I'm indifferent on Reese's peanut buttercups. Really? Yeah. Skittles, I don't like a lot, but I understand why a lot of people do. Twizzlers sucks so bad. But you're going to tell me Twizzlers are worse than Rollos? How bad do they suck?

Rollo's is a bad pick, too. Los is not a bad pick. Stop it. It's terrible. Are they manufactured in Detroit or something? the old audience. All right. Let me go to yours.

Is the plant in Grand Rapids? Why are you so big on Rolos? I'm not huge on Kit Catter Twix. Starbucks I don't like. I love Snickers. And Rolos is actually underrated. That's three for me,

two for him. No, because with the six vote, I'm giving my, the fourth vote to Brendan. Brendan wins. Is this because I laughed at the joke? It's because I laughed at the joke.

I was going to say, Brendan anyway. This is biased behavior. I was going to end it, so I wanted a pass. pass it to Matt just in case. I was gonna say, Brendan. Twix is my favorite candy.

You went a little redundant with the peanut butter and chocolate. Twizzlers is a bad pick. Skittles was your best pick. Overall, none of you going with Sour Patch Kids was an egregious misstep. I didn't want to be called a five-year-old again. That's okay. I would have called you a genius and you would have gotten my vote. By way, where's baby Ruth in this mix, boys?

Over-hated. Oh my God. Twix is never one for me. How would have three musketeers played? No. guy of candy. Twix. Twix is incredible.

It's so so cool. Caramel. New good. One of my favorites, but I wouldn't pick it for this game. Put a Twix in the freezer. Put a twix in the freezer. I love coconut, so I'm a big almond joy going on.

Oh, Mounds is good too. I hate coconut. It's like, it's really divisive, I feel like, has a candy. Because you have, it doesn't put nuts in your mouth. Well, it does. If you eat almond joys. It's one of the middle.

Your Twizzers pick was wretched. It was so bad that it overtook the butterfinger love that I am. I mean, the last time I got lectured like this, during the fantasy five, I beat you with the Beatles. Yeah, with one of their worst songs ever. What did the octopus's god and fake news? Or was that what it was? I hate you now both equally.

Joe? Thanks. Sorry. By the way, I called your Bears the most overrated five and two team in the NFL. You agree with me? Maybe of all time. No, you really, I don't believe that. Okay, good.

They suck. Their coach should be fired. Really? You want him fired? Yeah, Gonzo. So you. There you have it. Ladies gentlemen, Joe George, part of the A team, 3 o'clock until 6,

where they don't hit their breaks on time. 2.30 is a time. We're going to make you some money next. 2.31 now on Sports Talk 790. Hey, this is the linebacker Whitney Merciless. Listen to real Texan talk on your smart speaker. Just ask. Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on Iheart radio.

Official home of your Astros and Rockets and unofficial, unbiased home of everything else. Sports Talk 790. I got news for you, Brandon, and Joe's already left us. A friend of ours just texting me and said, this is Bill O'Brien-Level GM slash drafting. Ouch. I won pretty handily, so.

You did win handily. Yeah, your picks were less... Your picks were like, okay. His were bad. The Twizzlers just destroyed him. Awful, awful, awful. And by the way, I thought the defendant in the first pick would be peed on Eminem. Really?

Yeah. I don't think so. I thought the definitive, no, this is not my number one. I thought the definitive for people would be Snickers. Snickers is good. Especially, you know what my son Cameron does? He freezes the Snickers sometimes. Freeze the Twix, too.

I think you can freeze any candy bar and be fine. That's true. All right, let's find out what Paul Nolan thinks is his favorite candy bar. If you were to put odds on a candy bar in a matchup versus, let's say, peanut M&Ms versus Snickers, how would you see that matchup, Paul Nolan? You know, don't waste my time. I come on the air, you're going to give me this. You've got Snickers.

Come on. Oh. It's got Nuggett. It's got Nuget. Whatever that, Nugget is. Yeah, I don't know. Nobody ever knows what Nugget is. So you're saying that Snickers is a minus 14, basically, right?

Two touchdown favorite. Well, I might have to go with the chalk there. You know, that's network talk. I'm a big value guy. I know. You give values in your weekend show. Saturdays and Sundays at 10 o'clock. It's sports investors weekly.

Freewinners.net. That's the website. Paul Nolan and his entire crew. When do I get to be like a host on the show once in a while? I want to come on there and do some handicapping. Well, we're going to be doing a live show from Vegas on Super Bowl weekend. Why don't come out then? Oh, don't tease me like that.

That's not nice. Yeah, man. Come on out. Come on out. Live weekend. All right. First and foremost, let's get to some of the selections. I consider the Bears to be the most overrated 5 and 2 team, maybe in the history the NFL. Do you see the same

way, the same feeling about them as they host New Orleans this Sunday? Well, you know, I wouldn't go that far. You know, to me, I try to keep things on a more of trying to never get too high or too low. And that's one of the things that you have to kind of avoid no matter what. But I do see where you're coming from a bit.

This is a team that kind of has done it with, you know, smoking mirrors. And, you know, they've got some legitimate issues, you know, offensively. I mean, to me, I think Nakey's got to be it to blame it. some point here because he's not scheming guys open. You know, you look at the average target distance and Falls is thrown into the tightest coverage

of any quarterback yet. And that's just a sign of coaching, not getting guys open. I mean, Shanahan, if he had these weapons, I mean, I'm sure he would do a lot better. I'm sure we could all agree on that. One of the problems with me is Jimmy Graham runs some of the worst routes I've ever seen a tight end or even a receiver or anybody run. I mean, he rounds off everything. He doesn't finish routes.

To me, I don't, I don't know, I don't know what he's doing out there. Watching a film, it's hard to look at. So, I know, this gave to me, the first thing that comes to mind is weather. You know, we have 20, 25-mile-out wins, 30-mile-in-out with Gus. This is the first time New Orleans goes outdoors for a game. Going outdoors for a game, you know, has a great impact. But not how people think, we know that New Orleans is going to think and dunk, and they're going to try to get Alvin Camarron some space early on.

You know, he makes more guys missed than anybody. you look at Roquant Smith, first round pick. I mean, he destroys people, but he goes for the home one hit every time instead of the short tackle. He's too many guys are breaking tackles. So I see a mismatch there. But I think the real benefit of this game will be New Orleans defense for the first time. They're not on a fast track. They get to play on a slower ground.

They get to play in a much better pace. Marshawn Latimore, I think should break out. If he doesn't break out in a game like this because he hasn't played his best this year in his career, really the worst of his career, I think we might have some mission. going on there with his injuries or his desire or something to do with the scheme. But I think this game should be a low-scoring game. Unfortunately, the total early in the week was 46 and a half. The wind kind of knocked this thing down to 43.

So I would still give out a free pick on the under only because both teams kind of match up perfectly against one or other. But I think of, you know, Falls who loves that deep ball is going to have some problems with that. So I think we have an issue there. So I would say the under in this game, Saints and New Orleans. All right. Next up, Indianapolis in Detroit. I think Detroit is a major surprise at three and three. The Colts want to stay close to Tennessee and the AFC South.

How do you see this matchup? You know, you talk about teams that might be overrated. Indianapolis probably could be a little overrated. They've had one of the easiest schedules, according to all metrics. The defense, I thought, was overblown and overhyped when they played teams that we knew had almost zero value in terms of offensive output. So, you know, they might be a touch overrated, but they get a little bit of healthy now off that buy. I think some of the things, some of the matchups here are really strong. We're just so thrilled about the development of Kenny Golodey on Detroit.

He goes up for a ball. And, you know, those contested catches are such a huge confidence builder for a quarterback. And, you know, he had six contested catches. And you can see it in, you know, in the confidence of Matthew Stappell. We're seeing more good Matthew Stappard as opposed to bad Matthew Stappard. He is as bipolar on the field as it gets. So I like what they're doing there. But the matchups he's got this week going against.

You know, Xavier Rose is just a tremendous, tremendous matchup. I love Xavier Rose and his ability to cover. He's so strong in terms of one-on-one. And I just think that's a good spot to nullify him. I think the Colts coming off the by will be in a really good shape. But I see some severe flaws in Detroit's game along the way, especially that pass rush, it's just nowhere's near what it needs to be. So I like Indian this one against that offensive line that should give a really clean pocket to rivers.

If he has a clean pocket, we know we can still distribute the ball. I like India on this one. All right, so Indianapolis is in the game over Detroit. You like the under in the Bears New Orleans game. Saturdays and Sundays on Sports Talk 7.90 at 10 o'clock in the morning at Sports Investors Weekly, Paul Nolan and his crew. Part of freewinners.net. And this weekend, you are offering a triple play of six, hopefully, very successful picks. Is that correct?

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Oh, it was. The last person has to answer just one question correctly to win. Austin on 790, ready to play hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. According to candy store.com, the most popular Halloween candy is Skittles. Hell yeah, or not?

Not. Hell it is, and we gave away nothing today. Nothing. That's a shame. So we'll keep the $50 gift card to roll over next week with more DVDs.

For Brandon, for Raw. I'm Matt. You'll hear Ross in three hours as part of the nightcap. You will hear from me as part of the UH pregame show tomorrow at noon on 950KPRC. And don't forget the sports RV show tomorrow at 11 a.m. here on Sports Talk 790. I'd frankly forget about it. Up next is Clanton Wexler. They are the A team. And they're on 790. Happy Halloween, everyone.