The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Houston We Have a Problem... Astros, Rockets & UH All Lose; Rockets & Astros Tonight

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

Houston We Have a Problem... Astros, Rockets & UH All Lose; Rockets & Astros Tonight

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 10-1 in H-Town. Good morning and welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 7-90. Why do you feel like you'd need to add that to the show? Hey, and what's that ointment that's put on it? Hello, everybody. Hey, Matt.

Hi, Ross. How's it going? Hey, it's, hey, um, kudos to you. I put on the iHeart radio app a handful of times yesterday you were on every single time it's Ross Talk 790 It was indeed Ross Talk 790 Thank you Matt

I appreciate that I calculated in the 24 hour period If you give me the grace of 1150 Rather than starting at midnight With the overtime Post game I was on air for seven hours yesterday Okay

And please tell me you're not working rockets tonight I am not You know what? Shout out Cole Thompson. He comes out to these things. He doesn't need to be at. He's helping out. He's social media tweeting. He literally just, I forgot to bring in the Comrecks because I'm just bleary-eyed and tired. I forgot to bring in our, it's called our access machine so that we can do remote equipment and he grabbed it for Dan. He literally just went to my car to grab it. Cole's the man. I appreciate him.

And yeah, I'm feeling better. Feeling good. Yeah. Going to make it. So great job by you yesterday. and frankly it's not been an easy time to be a Houston sports fan. On a day to do a double-dip post game, that was a dozy. Let me put it that way. Yeah. Okay, so let's go through my last 72 hours.

The Rockets lose to the Bulls. It was fun. Then we fly to Minnesota, where the rockets get down double digits in the game against Minnesota and put together this amazing. I mean, amazing. What was it, 26 to 2? Come back some sort when you take the last few minutes of the fourth quarter

and then the overtime? Yeah, 13 to 2 run at the end of the fourth and then 13, oh, at the beginning of overtime. We don't have to talk about what happened after that. So that's 26 for the good guys, two for the bad guys, right? If my math is correct. Yes. then the wolves score the last 15

yes 15 it went 13 oh pendulum swung the entire other way 15 oh it's never happened in NBA history then you go look at social media where every basketball account that you either follow or you go to your 4U tab has the highlights of this and the record implications of a team that had a 13 point overtime lead and lost it and nazreid had been ejected and rudy gobert had been had been had been have fouled out. Yes. I wonder if, you know,

Nasree, for those of you don't know, is a six man from Minnesota. Scott Foster was on the call yesterday. By the way, the two-minute report did not do them any good. They had six missed calls in the two-minute report in overtime. Six.

All right. So Nas-Reed gets ejected. Now, usually, if you get ejected from an NBA game, you have to get two technical files. but sometimes you say something so spicy that they can toss your ass after one. Basically, the pool report where the reporter goes to talk to the official out and says, why did you toss Nasreed after one? He attacked my integrity of the game,

meaning basically he, Nasreid said, what are they buying you off, basically? So just put that in perspective. If you tell an official that you think you're on the take, then you're going to get your ass thrown out of the game. and it's kind of sensitive because one of Scott Foster's good buddies 20 years ago was Tim Donahey who we know it was on the take for throwing games. And made hundreds of phone calls to Scott Foster, most of them under two minutes. Correct.

For example, you know what would be an under a two-minute call, Matt? If I called you and said, Rockets plus a three and a half, thanks. Yes, or did you butt-dial me? I think I butt-dall you about once every two weeks. Yeah. And for that, I'm sorry. It worries me every time. I'm like, oh, what did I do?

No, no, no, no. It's good. That's good. So I need to apologize for butt-delling you so much at 1130 today. Okay, good. So let's fast forward. Let's then jump on a plane and go from Minneapolis to where I am right now in Memphis, Tennessee, where I get to listen to a little bit of the Astros game, and I'm waiting for a hit.

I'm waiting for multiple hits. I don't know, Ross. I'm waiting for runs. A run. Something. I got Hunter Brown's pitch count really elevated after the first game of the season, which is... Yeah. It was lighting up like a pinball machine.

Yeah. I mean, that was just... The number was too high for me, but that's not here nor there. Yeah. At one point, it was pacing with the 50-50 jackpot at Dyken Park. How was the crowd, by the way? Full? Great.

Yeah. I mean, there was some pockets of emptiness, but I mean, it was built as a sellout. And, I mean, there was a few stray empty seats here or there, but it was a... like, you know, a rocket sellout or anything. So the Astros are held to three hits. Nobody scored. And you know what? There's 101.162.

I put the 10th inning on. 41, 329, by the way. Good. Yeah, nice crowd. So I listened to the 10th ending show a little before I went to dinner, and you had some interesting calls already talking about chemistry issues. The team's got no chemistry. Now, when you say, okay, they need Alex Breggman,

but they need Kyle Tucker for chemistry? Yeah. I think at this point, These people are just trying to troll. So I'm, my troll meter is a little higher on some of these things. No, I think that guy was, I will say not all there. Yeah, yeah. And you had the one guy that called, what was it?

Yeah, there was just a lot of one game ends the season talk. Oh, no, it was Joe Espott and he meets to rally the guys in the dugout. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or call timeouts to go rally, you know, talking between the pitching changes. and whatnot. All right, so I got past that. Look, it's 101, 162. I'm a baseball fan,

but I'm a sportscaster. I've been through these wars, 30 years covering this team, so I'm good. Then I go have a nice Italian dinner. You're like, Matt, you're eating Italian in Memphis? You know, I'm trying to explore different things on the road.

Okay. Yeah, I think it's never ending possible right now, too. So that's a good call. No, we went to a, oh, we went to a very, it was called Catherine and Mary. It was a very, very shishi Italian place. You keep using this word,

she-she. And I understand, I think we argued about, okay. Jonathan, do you know what she-she means? Not at all. Okay. Good. It's made a word. No, we googled it and I was, it's a phrase. I just had never heard of it. Yeah, a boogie, girly, not girly, but just kind of,

not a man, I mean, you're not getting in there and getting, you know, your fork and knife and cutting everything up a big chicken par. You know, you're, we were having small plates, as the kids would say. Shishi is a common word in Hawaii to go pee. All right. Okay. Maybe I should change the terminology. A hoity tooty.

How about the... It's casual Hawaiian Creole term for North... What? Okay, can we move on from this? Oh, I'm sorry. Hoity tooty. There we're going on. Okay, we're good.

Sorry. Why don't you go look up urban dictionary as a version of hoity tooty. If you can even spell it. I don't think it's an urban. Let's move forward. So we're getting close to tip time. And I'm like, I cannot. watch a basketball game.

I mean, I can't watch it on my phone, but I'd refer not to, I'd like to get to a big screen instead. So we left this hoity-to-to-dy restaurant in Memphis and went to a bar down the street called a, uh, uh, raw, not, I was going to say raw dog, but that's not, it's not it at all. You went to raw dogs, huh? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. What do you do there?

No, no, no, no. I'm even apologetic that I even said it. I got to think of it. Uh, uh, I don't, I lost the track of it. But the point of it, it was just, it was a bar dog tavern is what it was called. Bar dog. Bar dog. Bar dog. And so we went downstairs, the two floors went downstairs and I had a big screen TV to myself.

Beautiful. Beautiful. I don't really want to talk to me. And I don't really want to talk. Oh, man. When you're having a game, oh, you're really invested in and then everybody just wants to chat and have drinks and relax. I know. Yes.

Yes. That's one. I felt like a douche because I was, I just didn't always. want to talk. No, it's not your fault. But I will say it's maybe a little your fault in that if you know if it's a big game that you want to be invested in, like when it's Longhorn games and people are like, hey, let's go out. Let's go do this. I'm like, I want to be at home screaming at the TV, throwing my couch pillows on the ground when I get angry and making a fool of myself and rather not doing it in public and socializing. So of the group, they're trying to talk to me. And I'm like, I'm sorry. I'm

watching three pointers being missed on a regular here. I need to but focus on this. It was not often. I think Hunter Brown's pitch count was higher than the point scored in that game. Okay. Enough of this from you. So then at halftime, they're like, Matt, they're going to rally. The Cougar defense has been good.

I'm like, bra, we can't shoot. So one of the guys says, I'm going to prove it to you how much faith I have. The guy made a $250 halftime bet on the game. He showed it to me. Well, they had all the momentum going into half. Yeah, they hit the shot to end the half to get it within two, right? Yeah. And then the second half happened where they actually shot better.

They did. But so did Illinois, frankly. Yeah. So did Team USSR. So a 24-22 halftime game, which obviously set college basketball back 50 years, because you're supposed to score one point. You'd like to get it per possession, but you can't always get that. You're not supposed to score one point per minute.

It happens in college basketball. It does. And it's unfortunately happened to the Coogers. Yes. So now I've got, is Kelman going to retire? Oof. Is Chris Sanak going to come back, which I don't think he's going to. Kings and Flummings would be stupid to come back.

He's going to be a top seven pick in the NBA, definite lottery pick. So that's my last handful of days. Your callers, the Astros, the Rockets, and my Cougars. It's even, I love the, I look forward to the 10 a.m. start to this show with bang on the drum all day and all the funny clips from throughout the week. It didn't feel right today. No. It didn't.

I wanted to play It's the End of the World by R.A.m. I wanted to play that Johnny Cash song. Kurt. Yeah. I wanted to hear Eric Carmen all by myself. Let me tell you something. Jonathan, I want you to play all by myself by Eric Carmen coming back. If this song doesn't put you in a professional,

depression. No song will. Okay, with some low lights? Yes. Do we haven't? We got Angel. We got a Maitron home run probably. Oh, yeah. We got to get into this.

Can we please open the roof bit? Because if the roof would have been open, the a asteroid would have scored a run, right, Rossi? No, Aaron Boone says the wind would have blown it in. Oh, my God. All right. It isn't anything goes Friday here, as we just explained to you here on the show. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-1-2-2-7-90. I'm here in Memphis where the rockets are going to take on the Grizzlieses. We have I'm sorry's coming up at 1130. I will wake the strippers up at noon. There were some strippers near where we were sitting at the bar last night. Yeah? Do you holla? I said hello.

Oh, that's what I meant. Did you hello? I said hello. Is it me you're looking for? Oh, you didn't even mention, by the way, the fighting Texas longhorns. Oh, buzzer beater two. Point seven. It's fine.

Tremon Mark was playing on one ankle, and literally Jordan Pope played 33 minutes with a broken foot. I mean, that's insane. It is. Proud of the boys. You know, proud of the young men, sorry. Arizona destroyed. I mean, destroyed Arkansas.

And then you had Iowa, Nebraska, before the Cougars with Nebraska playing with four players on a play. That was crazy. Anything goes. 713, 212, 5, 7.9. 713, 212, 570. I'm sorry, 1130. News at noon.

And I'm sure a ridiculously peachy, happy, go lucky, Emadocca's going to join us at 1 o'clock today. Let's go. Non-Flority Stories 130, hell yeah, or not 150. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. Shannon's going to set a screen. Highland straight away.

Hands at two of the mid-court line near Ferrandle. Down to three, down the two, push off free throw jumper up and in 15 straight for Minnesota timeout Houston those days are gone blue ball gets the sign oh one pitch is driven to left and that's going to get into the seats for a home run Mike Trout unties the score on a homer and it's one-nothing angels final seconds are going to tick off the clock Here in Houston, the fighting aline I have got it. Knocked off the Cougars on their own home turf here in Houston.

Illinois, marching on to the elite. I couldn't find a clip of Craig Way sobbing and doing women's softball prep. Oh, my God. Oh, the kid out of Jenkins Jr. High. led to Purdue to the victory. It's a huddo hippos three A state champion team. What do you think Eric Carmen was thinking back in the day? Can I write a song that's just going to put people in a horrific mood for the rest of their lives?

While ripping off, Sergei, Rock Miningoff. That's why you're the official music historian of the Matt Thomas Joe Ross. I try. I try. Have we ever done a fantasy five of most depressing songs of all time? I believe we did. and I'll tell you I lost and I'm you know what I'm pissed off still

now that you bring you thank you for bringing this up and making me retroactively pissed off I had the better list but I accidentally said that Johnny Cash Hurt song it's from 9 inch nails and I accidentally said Nirvana okay they were both 90s bands that start with the word in

so I just misspoke I mean the letter in so I misspoke and two people voted against me because I accidentally said the wrong band Ross, it was nine inch nails. I'm voting for Matt. Shut your bum ass up. I didn't realize we had such a nine inch nails enthusiast.

Oh man, there's, you better watch out. Better not say anything bad about Trent Reznor. You're going to come after you. Yeah, I feel like we've done that before. I feel like if I ever asked it was a category of ever done it. You had, I believe, all by myself. I had hurt. I can't remember what else.

Oh, I think I had. had ain't no sunshine by Bill Withers. Oh, Bill Withers, great song. I had a great, no, I'm piss. Thanks. Longhorns are out. Cougars are disappointing again. Astros are all for seven with runners in scoring position.

And the Rockets just had literally, literally the worst overtime comeback they gave up in NBA history. Do you realize? So the play-by-play area, it only goes 97. but still 13-0 there had not been a 10-point lead given up and overtime people

Rossi I mentioned this on the broadcast people were leaving the target center leaving yeah mass exodus I mean it was a 99.7% win probability so sad that feels a lot better

than what we open the show with that feels way more right that was actually a pro Now, I know what Jonathan tried to do because, by the way, shout out to him for finding an Adam Clinton zinger in the open of the show, which is very impressive. Let me guess. When you guys did the show yesterday from Dakin Park, everything was, I hate this, I hate this, I hate this for. No, it wasn't like that. It was all pretty.

We're all pretty. It's opening day. You can be chipper and, yeah, hopeful on opening day. And then that. It was also being happy for the a show's. Let's not talk about the Rockets. Yes. We talked about the Rockets.

I love that that happened right after opening day because maybe we talked under five minutes for four hours. That's actually quite an accomplishment. Yeah. And you know what? The on-floor on-court stuff hasn't been great, but I do want to thank everybody that came out. We saw a bunch of people.

We met a bunch of fans. People were taking pictures. We're out there kissing babies and stuff. It was a great fun opening day until the game started. Do we know if Ted Cruz appeared to any one of the two games yesterday? I'm just asking for a friend. I think I read he was in a tour. He went from Minneapolis to Houston, yes.

Is he here tonight by any chance? If not, I'm going to have to have him escorted out of the building. You better watch out, Matt. People are going to come back to you on Twitter. Like the last time you said you made a Ted Cruz joke. Again, I don't care about the politics. I just, if you get bad juju, you got bad juju. Who can we bring here to Memphis for good luck?

Who can the Astros put in the building tonight for good luck? Did the Mike Trout ball land? U. Darvish? You Darvish? Yeah. Yeah, it's got to be you Darvish. That's Kakucci. He's going to give up home runs.

Remember, he used to do that when he wasn't an astro. He gives up home runs and Minutemade. Or, sorry, Dikin. Well, it was Minutemade when he was doing it. That's right. All right. Anything goes Friday. Would you like to add to our depression?

Come on in. You know what? It's funny because we in radio say, hey, come lift the show up. Bring it up. Let's go. Yeah. What do you got positive? can we come up with anything?

No, no, no, we're going to reverse it. We're going to bring this down to an epically low level. Okay. Mike Burrow... Hey, friends. Yeah. Do you guys want to deep dive in the Olders Buffalo Bills game? Oh, God.

Don't do this. Hey, can we talk about the 83 championship game between North Carolina State and Houston? Don't do this. Hey, how about we go find the highlight of Damien Lillard hitting a shot against her rockets? Let's talk about Houston traffic on I-10. We'll talk about the wait-times at Intercontinental Airport. apparently did did I hear correctly the shutdown's over

yes he's going to start paying him so that's good TSA agents if you're looking for work you got it please go money thank you hey let's talk about my 401k hey let's talk about my gas prices yeah how's that doing I don't know would you fill up lately

you don't ever fill up do you I about once a month you suck 713 212 5790 I hate you Why? Well, how much do you fill up? Once a week, maybe, sometimes once every six days?

Okay, yeah, that's not that much more. I mean, I live in the city and I purposely moved as close as possible to this office. Blessed. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Anything Goes Friday. Matt in Memphis, Ross in Houston. You, thank you very much for listening to Sports Talk 790. 1034, Matt and Ross on anything. goes Friday. I'm here from in Memphis, Tennessee.

713, 212.5.790. 713, 212.790. We'll say I'm sorry. He's coming up in about an hour from now. We've got E. May Adoka Rockets coach to join us today at 1 p.m. 713-212-570. We'll start with Trevor on the Matt Thomas show. Ross. Trevor, thanks for holding a good morning. Hey, good morning to you.

I just wanted to point out a couple things. One, I think bringing in you Darvish for the second game of the year as a guest might be a bad idea. 2012, almost a perfect game until the last out with that ball that went through his legs from Marvin Gonzalez, might pick a different guy. But one thing I wanted to point out was, you know, there's been a lot of talk about ESOC and, you know, where does he fit on this team? I feel like even though yesterday didn't go as planned, how amazing is it, though, that we

get to plug in somebody that's kind of find it bats, whether it's Pena, he's stroking with a little bit of an injury, Correa has had an injury passed, Altoube is aging. Hopefully Yordon can place some left. There's been so many calls recently about where are we going to find time for this guy. Does this not kind of feel like something that's going to sort itself out? I don't know. I just wanted to point out the Darvish deal, but, you know, yesterday was a bummer,

but I'm excited to see what the lineup can bring. I just wanted to say, hey, enjoy your Friday over there. Thanks very much of the phone call. If you had a loaded outfield that had corner positions that had success, you probably would be feeling externally good about the situation. But what you have in a surplus in one category, you have a lack of depth and experience and success at the other. And so now, if somebody wants to take the reins in left field,

Ross, if Joy La Profito wants to be that guy. He had two hits yesterday. He did have two hits yesterday. And if Cam Smith wants to be that guy and Jake Myers continues to be with Jake Myers, typically has been over his major league career, then you ain't sweating it. But you are sweating it at this point until unless those guys I just brought up

all of a sudden become full-fledged major league guys that you would pencil in your starting line up every single day and not feel bad about it. Not necessarily feel bad, but feel confident they're going to produce for you more times than not. Yeah, it's, maybe it'll figure itself out. We'll see.

But yeah, Jeremy Pena, probably with it, we had a bevy of great. great guess yesterday. Brian McTaggart said probably it'll be the first week of the season. He's kind of yo-yoing in and out of the lineup and then he'll be established. So we'll see what goes on. Injuries can happen. As the caller mentioned, I think they don't want Jose Altova to play as much as he did last year. He paid, what was it, like 155 games or something crazy like that because of all the injuries. So they want to get him off of his feet and we're just going to see how it plays out.

Yeah, yeah. And I don't want the first 10 games to be indicative of what's going to happen for the next 152. But that's how baseball fans are. That's how some people are in line. I mean, oh, short sample sizes don't really matter, according to touch and go crazy sports fans. You know what's crazy, though? For example, most people who are a diehard sports fan,

you don't become a diehard overnight. Generally, a lot of us have been watching sports since we're kids. We know that they're up and downs in an 82 game season and 162 game season. and yet we still overreact, and I'm guilty of it as well to an extent, but there are some people out there who are just like their hair is on fire for like three straight losses. Now, let's put it this way. We are a radio show, and I'll just use us as compared to the others on our station, that we do invite people to calling because it's part of the fun of the show as we are a community.

So if you are someone that is with the ebbs and flows of something, you're probably not going to call and react and say, hey, guys, it's early, I'm not worried about it. Talk to you all in 50 games. Yeah. I think I got a couple of those. Something, a couple, but not very often. But typically, but if you are enraged or you are emotional one side of the other,

you're going to call and react to it. So what we're getting is Twitter, which is completely reactionary 24-7, adding calls to it when we do get them. So we're getting a vibe from people that are going to not have the patience one way or the other. When Bryce Matthews hit, did he have a, did they have a two home run game early in his career or something like where he was so awesome that everyone's like you got to make sure this

move out to Bay and make Berger Matthews a full-time second base? Yeah, I want to say for some reason Arizona's popping in my mind or something? I don't remember exactly. He had one game where he just was unbelievable. So it's a byproduct of what we do for a living and how this show is created.

Yeah, two homer game against Arizona. Yeah. And then the next game he had a home run. He had three home runs and two games with seven runs about it in. Yeah. So if you went off of that, you're like Jose El Tuve, we love you. You're the greatest astor of all time. Goodbye.

And then Bryce Matthews regressed to what he was, which was in fact so bad that he didn't finish up the season with the Astros. So I will just say this show, social media lends itself to quicker reactions than I would think most of the fans are. But I'll tell you what, I go the barbershop. Barbershop, same way, Ross. I don't know if you, when you go, you don't go very often, but I get my shades. And they're reactionary, they're, they, the barbershop is the, is the OG of overreactions. Don't you think? I would say so.

I don't, there's only one, it's, uh, when I go get my beard trimmed, it's just one guy. It's just me and him. Do you talk to him? Yeah, a little bit. See, I like to close my eyes. Yeah. like to relax. I mean, but it's me and him in there. If I'm like, he's talking to me and I'm not saying anything, that's weird.

Ooh, that is, yeah, the old one-way. But no, it's fine. He's not super chatty, which I like, I like, I like, a chattyness out of a 10, he's probably like a 3, and I like that. Not a 1-0, but 3's good. I have two barbers that I go to on a regular basis. I rotate. One, I hardly speak two, and I like it, and then the other person who's like to talk a lot and I like to talk, and I don't mind talking to him, so it's, I get a balance if you, Okay.

If you will. But yeah, I don't know. I just think that our industry, what we do for daily, is going to lend itself to that segment of the population that just can't tell you fast enough how bad or how good things are right away. I think most people are not that way. Okay. Because, man, you would want to be, if you are,

if you're wigan out after one loss, hell, if the Astros lose all four games against Angels, it's still anything in the world. wouldn't be great. We'll have aos on next Monday for sure. How are we feeling about them hitting coaches? Oh, Lord. Don't get, don't get them involved.

Let those men have lived their lives. They haven't even sign those leases yet on their apartments. Yes, they did. John on 790. Good morning. Hey, good morning, man. How are you? Good.

Oh, anyway, well, we're hanging in there. I'll tell you what after that game last night. It's just, you know, the thing about it is, this team all year and I'm following them a lot. I've watched a lot more college basketball since we're back in our glory days with the Cougars. But it was

this team was as good as last year's team, obviously, you know? They don't have postplay. I mean, they just, it's, they get two freshmen playing, you know. Anytime they went up against elite competition, they lost, quite frankly. You know, they lost Arizona. They lost to Kansas. They lost Iowa State.

And this, this Illinois team a great team. And it was a bad matchup. You know, they're big, you know, older guys. They're, you know, they had 23, 24-year-olds. And, you know, we got young guys who I don't really think are ready for the NBA. And Cynic is definitely not, in my opinion. And he should come back for another year. But, you know, I think the only disappointing things I kept thinking about last year, you know, and it's like, oh, my God, we missed it. We missed our window. And that's kind of really all I got to say. It's just,

I was, you know, I'm really happy for the school and the program, how it's come and how, you know, and what Samson's done, but it's just,

think about it. How many sweet 16s in a row? Is it five? It's just incredible. So what, you know, so it's kind of, you know,

it's bittersweet, right? So, but, you know, we'll see how it goes next year. How long do you think Samson's going to coach still,

by the way? I don't think he's going to retire. But, But again, that's one person's opinion. Well, actually, I'm sure his wife will be involved as well. He could change that on a dime. I mean, he could say, look, I'm losing my two all-star freshmen. This portal is a mess.

The NIL is a big thing. I'm 70 years old. I can make some decent money being consultant for you of age. I can give Kell and his son the opportunity. I mean, he called the program broke. Well, he walked that back. Yeah, but for that to come out of his mouth, I mean, maybe he's not happy with the situation financially. I think he would like to be a little more cash flush, as would, I mean, you know, you heard, remember we talked about this early in the week?

Mick Corny and UCLA coach, what was asked? How do you improve things? He goes about $5 million. I don't know, maybe it's in every coach's DNA. When they get money, they just want more of it immediately, just like the rest of us do. That's everybody. You've got to raise it work, 10%. Oh, I was looking for 15.

Yeah, we got a pony up them checks, Maddie. I know you're freeing up some club volleyball checks, so you're good. I got one month of free volleyball. We're going to Reno. You know how expensive is a flat of Reno? Well, she's already got to, didn't she sign the letter of intent? Yes, but that's just for a club. We got one more month of club.

Grade one ankle spring. Hey! Wink, wink. What do you wish injury upon my dog? I'm not wishing injury. I'm saying that's what she has. I'm not saying I'm wishing she's hurt. Oh, okay.

All right. Relax. I don't want you wishing to. Don't put that in the juju on my daughter's. Take the check back. Take the check back. And grade one ankle sprain. We're staying at Circus, Circus, too.

Circus. Circus? Oh, God. You know, the volleyball. Is that like the partnered hotel? Well, yeah, they set up hotels based on the teams and they said, you're staying. So my wife. You said, y'all are a bunch of clowns?

That's rude. I said, I said, Cam and Carlin. I said, we cannot stay at Circus, circus. I have a certain level of acceptance of. of acceptance of hotels. But dad, all of our team will be there. I'm like, I don't want to stay there. Kim's like, the daughter won't stay there.

It will stay there. They have sweet to the circus circus because I feel like I need... In sweets? Yeah, I'm some sort. Yeah. A bearded lady does your turn down service. The guy on stilts is the concierge. I'm not taking any photos of that, by the way.

You will not see me... Yeah, don't take photos of your... your maid in the hotel. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Anything Goes Friday here on the program. I'm sorry, it's coming up at 30 minutes. More of you next. Cougar Depression, Rocket Depression, Astrodepression.

We're here for you. Sports Talk 790. Anything goes Friday. Really quick for you go back on the phones. Ross, I need a ruling from you. All right, more not a ruling, but like advice. we're going to get to New Orleans about my guess is 1.30 in the morning maybe.

All right. That's just in time to hit Bourbon Street. Should I go to Caesars at 1.30 for a late night? No. Okay. On a Friday, limits can be high. They've got that continuous shuffle too. On a Saturday morning is going to be high? I guess so.

There's only a handful of tape. That place is very small, considering. It is. Yeah. The book is huge, by the, Great place to watch. I'm watching college hoops there tomorrow for Saturday for sure. You better make sure they don't require table service.

By the way, how is the Iowa game with Illinois going to be in the Toyota Center on Saturday? I believe, yeah, apparently the price is dive-bombed. Which I guess, well, the question popped in my head, so I'm going to ask it. Do you feel a little worse because if you got past Illinois, then Iowa, was very beatable, even though, I mean, Iowa's six and a half point favorites over Iowa.

I mean, I think if you get to the suite, if you get to the lead A, you've done something right. Yeah. You're winning games. I would, no,

I would not, I don't feel especially worse. I feel bad that we lost. Okay. I feel bad that we allowed so many offensive rebounds. I feel that we couldn't hit the broad side of a barn for about 34 minutes.

I'm sorry. That game took years off of college basketball's life. Forget about my life. College basketball's life. That was atrocious hitting, or lack there. I have a hitting of shots. Brick, brick, brick.

I'm sorry, Matt. I mean, it's fine. I mean, it's what it is. Last year, honestly, to me, last year hurts 500 times more than yesterday. Yeah, you get your points back now. Yeah, I did put the points back in. I was looking at hotels in Indianapolis yesterday

just to kind of get myself the juices flowing a little bit, and should never have done that. And he goes Friday. Jake on 790 at 1054. Jake, good morning. to you. Hey, Matt, just letting you know that Circus, Circus, Circus is a depressing hotel, but it has a great steakhouse called The Steakhouse.

So if you stay there, that's a recommendation to have a great dinner while you're at Circus Circus. Enjoy your trip. That's in Vegas, though. This is, I'm talking about Reno. You're talking about Reno or in Vegas? Oh, no. Good grief.

Okay. I came in halfway. Sorry. I, I, I'm misunderstood. but you're looking for there. I think they have a sizzler. I believe they have a mold and morale there that will be able to get a chocolate fountain

all I can eat, Jake. Thanks for the phone call. Rossi, I actually heard that, former of our listeners, that Circus, Circus in Vegas, which you and I will be going to this summer. We should go there and eat dinner because apparently it's steakhouse is fantastic.

The steakhouse. Is that different than Morton's the steak? I'm sorry, Bortons the steakhouse? Or is it? Or malt mill? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Now, the only way I'm not going to Reno is if the Rockets go to the second round of the playoffs,

then I'll be skipping that trip. Don't shut up. Don't even speak to this. Don't even. I don't even want to hear from you. I can hear you cackling. You're fine. Stop.

You're fine. Playoffs start today. It's Rockets, Lakers, in Los Angeles. The Rockets can beat the Lakers in a same game series. So then why are we fretting then? Um, hmm. I know. I don't want to be a championship or bust fan.

And I don't, but, uh, but, I mean, I don't think they're getting past the second round. Okay, so if we've had all this badness in the last, uh, 72 hours, we need a little something good, good. What, what are we going to get? What's the good news? Well, yeah, what, uh, Joey Loprifito had a couple of good hits. All right. AJ Blueball was hit 98.8 on the gun. He's looking like a boss out there.

He gave up the solo shot to Mike Trout. But other than that, he was dealing. He looked very good. Yordon Alvarez should have had a home run. And you can't get much worse than 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position, so they'll be better today. I personally guarantee... Christian Walker had a hard hit doubled, correct, yesterday?

I personally guarantee the Astros score run today. Yeah, Christian Walker, hard hit double. Yeah, yeah. We've got some positivity. It's one game. By the way, the game is on Rappell ReVee. So if you don't have that, News Radio 740, KTRH,

and then of course we'll have the Rockets here on Sports Talk 790. So very simple. Rocket 790, Astro 740. It's that time of year where both are going, so just always look for 740 or 790, whichever one you're looking for. We will not have any Texas games or Houston games, sadly. Yeah, we're all done with that.

Iowa and Illinois with about 5,000 people in the Toyota Center. I don't know. Maybe if you bought the whole session, you're going to go because you like college back. Oh, God. Big Ten basketball? Yeah, how many Hawkeye fans are there? I don't know. It seems like there's a decent amount of Illinois fans.

A lot of Nebraska fans. Now, you were walking on the other end of downtown, so it would not be fair to say. but did you see anybody wearing team gear in and around Diken Park yesterday? No. Of the schools? No, I didn't. I mean, I was, yeah, we were in Street Fest, so that was basically all, you had to have a ticket to get in Street Fest. Okay.

And then when I walked out after post game, it was like 7.30, so the games are going, or the first game was going. So you got in your car, and you listened to Texas Purdue. Yes, I did, actually. Bench took the lead. Yes, I got all excited. You popped a top of a cold beverage. of your choice and you watch Purdue

score basket with point seven on the clock. Correct. After the Astros lost and you did post game to like one o'clock in a morning with the Rocketsles and the Wolves. I wasn't that mad though.

As an 11 seed making the Sweet 16, I really wasn't that mad because I wanted them, I was rooting for them to win. But I didn't think they were going to win. It's better for my brackets if Purdue wins anyways. So there were silver linings.

all right let's get to the second hour of the show i'm sorry he's coming up in a half an hour right this is the matt thomas show with ross matt and ross and anything goes friday 1102 is our time if you want to join the conversation you may do so at 713212 5790 719713 212 5790 just check the 4 u tab during the brink rossi which usually is dangerous like the special ones that say hey i'm i'm 53 years old am i hot Well, of course, you are, darling, you are. I mean, it is what it is. But we move on.

Those aren't in my 4-U-Tab. What's in your 4-U-Tap? Matt, what are you? Why is my show? Am I hot for 53? I'm like, what? It's tailored for... Don't answer.

Don't answer. No, no, don't answer. You gotta stop liking this stuff, Matt. I'm not liking it. You know they can tell how long you hover over something. Who's they? The algorithm. They know if you, if you, if you,

look at a tweet for five seconds or three minutes and 15 seconds they know that's not right they're publicly i'm saying they know i'm saying they know all right a new fox news poll finds 72 percent of sports fans think major sporting events should be required to stay on free broadcast television not behind streaming paywalls all right sorry i'm still recovering say that again a new fox news poll finds 72% of

sports fans think that major sporting events should be required to stay on free broadcast television not behind streaming paywalls so the 28% are like yeah put it on Netflix 6 or something that's weird I'm surprised the number is as low as that is well the number is probably they don't want a governmental

intervention I mean so then moving on I would like them on broadcast television but I'm not going to say there needs to be a law for it. Okay. Also, nearly 6 in 10 fans said they've skipped watching a game at least a few times in the past year because it was too expensive, while nearly half of the fans said they've skipped games

because it was too difficult to find or access them. That feels about right. I wouldn't say 100%. I wouldn't even say 75, but I could see half the people that are perhaps limited by the amount of television they can watch and or pay for. you know if like the opener of the season between the Yankees and the Giants was on Netflix two days ago if that game's on ESPN where you can afford basic cable or basic satellite you're watching it if you can't afford to pay for Netflix you're not watching it so that's

the risk these sports these uh sports are taking and by large they don't care because Netflix paid to have the very first game of the season do you know who doesn't care about your television viewing habits the owners they just don't care. They want the check. And the reality is this. These regional sports networks like the space cities and the other fan duels and what, they're all going away.

They need to recoup that money somehow, some way. So they're doing it by having Rappel Rewee and RetRicks and Amazon rhyme. They're stupid about it. Yeah, we've talked about this. And it is interesting and it's becoming more and more on streaming services. How much are you going for the here and now and hurting yourself in the long term? In the short term, you're getting the cash. You're right.

How much are you forfeiting long-term growth of your product by making it more accessible? And maybe in five years, Ross, we will be accustomed to it, which my guess is we probably will. But I'm an NBA aficionado. I love to watch basketball, even when my rockets are playing. Now, I'm not a huge fan of Eastern Conference teams. but I'm very curious about how the West is, especially with seating, I have to go look at the NBA calendar to see what games are on what channel. We've talked about this before, too.

And I think a lot of people aren't doing that like I'm doing it because they're not nearly as aficionados as I am, where if you are at a hotel and you're flipping around and trying to find something to watch and ESPN happens to be on there's an NBA game, okay, I'll sit and watch it. If there's a baseball game on TBS, okay, you'll watch it. But if there's a game on Apple TV tonight, and it's the Astros. I mean,

is anybody in Cleveland going to really try to figure out three different ways to connect to their television or their phone to watch the Astros and the Angels play on Rappell Rewee? Yeah, I'm looking at the NBA calendar right now. There's no prime video or NBC or ESPN tonight because of the college basketball. On Friday? Yeah, that's just this weekend, this weekend only. Well, all right. Because of the NCAA.

It's, well, I will say this. Not everybody's confused. I'm confused. But half of America's confused, Ross. I don't say more. Yeah, probably 80%. We're at worst case, half of America, it's a sports fan, is confused by all these changes. Yeah.

And that's not good for the sport. What did you say again? Short-term game for long-term, what? Which is a lack of growth, or I can't remember the exact word I used. My brain, I'm tired. You worked a lot. Thank you. Ross talked 7-9 yesterday.

It was seven hours on air. It's fine. It's good. I'm happy. Best job in the world. Seriously. It is. It is a great job.

I can't. Talk to you guys every day. We're very excited about that. I'm very, very lucky. All right. Let's talk to some people. Let's talk to Sal and Pearland at 1109. On 790.

Sal, good morning to you. Hey, good morning, Matt, and Ross. Hey, I just had a quick question for Ross, mainly. Hey, Ross, I wanted to get your opinion on your top. five soccer World Cup kits that just came out recently. And then also I have a question for you, Matt. Are you excited for the World Cup that's coming up in Houston?

And I said, yeah. Thanks. The phone call. Ross, let's go to your question first. Okay, great. I love the... Did you see the United States ones with the flowing stripes and the red flag? I mean, the flowing red stripes as of the American flag?

I think they're amazing. I'll go look at it right now. Yeah, I put go USA. World Cup kits. Okay. Let me go to Google first. I don't know. I mean, I don't know if I have a top five.

The Mexico ones were cool. Argentina with the Blue Stripes is always a classic. And I'm honest, I don't know if I have a top five World Cup kits. But I'm going, USA number one. Yeah, these Mexico ones are sharp for sure. All right. No, they want to sell me these kits, apparently. Well, duh.

Where have you met a league that doesn't want to sell jerseys or any kind of competition. Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. Yeah, it's good. I like them. I think they're amazing. All right. So the question was, how interested am I in 1 to 10?

Now, is he asking me for Team USA or is he asking me for the entire world country? Well, give us both. USA, 5? Everything else? Collectively, three? That's, okay. I mean, maybe a 6 on the. if it's USA?

Because, I mean, my guess is maybe you and I will be out about this summer, you know, bumping around and people wanting to go to, you know, hangouts and watch parties. And I kind of think we do that kind of thing. I'd be in for that. As far as going to the event, I have no interest in going at all. Should be fun. If you could get tickets to like a final or a semifinal, you would be blown away. I don't think I could possibly argue with you about that.

Because it would be a bucket listing. It's the world's most incredible. It's the world's, what is it, the world's most popular. Popular sporting event worldwide. I mean, as much as I don't like soccer as a sport, I, it'd be stupid to not acknowledge how popular it is, especially when it comes to the event of every four years. And the passion, especially outside of America,

because the prices of tickets are the most expensive here than anywhere else, they're more affordable, literally everywhere else. You get more regular, passionate fans, and you get better environments. I mean, people talked about that at the, at the, WBC. How is better than the WBC better than any World Series environment in Diken Park? Yeah, because at the World Series, you are paying, you know, six times what you would pay for a normal event.

Yeah, you got wine and cheese crowd. So, I mean, like Super Bowls don't have great environments. I mean, just is what it is. Yeah, well, yeah, the Super Bowl games are nothing but corporate tickets to give away to do national and regional advertisers of the NFL. Yeah, so I'm a Manchester City fan, and I saw the, it was like a year or two ago, they were literally the fan groups were approaching. protesting the price hikes. I was like, oh man, how much are these tickets? They were like 75 bucks. They were literally like protesting outside the stadium, the price hikes. Do we know which teams are coming to United to Houston or do we not know that?

Yes, we do. It is Portugal's one of them. I'll go look it up if you'd like me to. Are you going to go? Have you, well, you haven't even talked about this. Are you going to try to go to a game? No, it's too expensive. It's Portugal versus Curacao. Okay. I mean, sorry, Germany versus Kurosau. Yeah. And Portugal versus there's a, well, the teams, there's like playing games basically.

So Portugal versus a play-in, ooh, the Dutch versus some playing people. Portugal versus Uzbekistan. Cabo Verdi versus Saudi Arabia. And then they'll have a round of 32 game and a round of 16 game. So a quarterfinal. Those might be pretty good.

it'd be like a spring break in Houston all over again summertime Jonathan so yeah if you want to go find you uh it might be some Portuguese ladies flooding the city of Houston and Dutch in German and Cabo Verdean you're not sold on it are you I don't know what Cabo Verde is I mean it's green like to find out 713-212-5-790 anything goes Friday.

You're going to break down the use Bekistan versus Cabo Verde game, Matt? Yeah, I think I'm doing Astros on deck that day. Okay. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. You want to say some sorrys? You owe some people apologies. We'll do it in 15 minutes here on 790.

Matt and Ross with you today until 2 p.m. We'll wake the strippers up in 40 minutes. He may don't get 1 o'clock. Roth will let you ask all the questions. I'll just sit back and listen. I can do that if you want. I said, hey, you do one o'clock? He goes, yes.

Okay. Looking forward to it. Hmm. I said, I told my wife this morning, I said the team's cranky, and she's like, yeah, I'd be cranky too if I gave up 15 straight points at overtime. Man, everybody was just jumping on them. You hear what Kendrick Perkins called him? A laundromat. So they fold like clean sheets.

Is that what he said? That's not a good line. Kendrick's making lots of money and is on every show. He's doing great. Oh, man. I mean, just incisive biting analysis that really enlightens the sporting basketball public. That's right. Yeah.

I mean, there are two guys at ESPN that work more than anybody else. It's Dan Arlowski and Kendrick Perkins. Oh, really? I'll take your word for it. I don't know. you know you're a better you're a better man for not watching it you just don't you know but i'm in a hotel i understand memphis i have nothing else i got to kind of catch up on things i know you're waiting for judge mathis to come on you got to put something on so today shut up so today first take was

let's they were talking about arkansas uh the arizona uh game against arkansas now do you think stephen a smith has any idea about either one of the teams with any of the players no of course not So what did he do instead of talking about how awesome Arizona is, which by the way, Arizona is a legitimate title contending team. That's a team I have winning the whole thing. Yeah, sorry, Willie. So you're throwing me off here a lot. So it was Stephen A, your thoughts about this game. I'm telling you, John Calipari has all these players.

When we're going to talk about John Calapari? Have been to a Final Force in 2005? he was like, what can I do to scream and yell for three minutes and not talk about just how good Arizona is and let's just go for somebody that we do know somebody he has a history with or at least, you know, has been around college basketball a long time. That's, of course, John Calapari.

John Calapari, they're not mad he's at Arkansas. They like him. They just do. And even really realistic Arkansas fans knew they had no chance of winning. Arizona was better on paper. They were better when they tipped off and they certainly were better when the buzzer went off last night. No shame for Arkansas was in Arizona. You just weren't as good.

So instead of talking about how great Arizona was, it was an indictment against John Calapari. Yeah, that's... I will say, hmm... Now, again, college basketball is impossible to discuss because largely there's so many teams, and unless you follow it from the jump, you can't... Like watching Charles Barkley yesterday,

he can't jump in and talk about college basketball. You don't pay attention to the NBA. You think he's going to pay attention to college hoops? No chance. Yeah, he was crushing Sean Miller for taking modest vocatitis off the floor. That's the plotting big man for the longhorns because they won on a putback. He's like, you need a big man in there boxing out. Like there's 11 seconds left and Purdue's big man had just fouled out.

You need somebody who can guard the perimeter and switchable defenders. So, yeah, they lost on a putback. But, I mean, Charles Barkley was way off base. But he's out there because he's a mascot. And he's entertaining. And I love Charles. I do love Charles. I won't regret saying that.

But he just doesn't know college basketball. But you know what? If CBS and Turner are going to pay him obscene amounts of money to do these things in ESPN, he's going to take the check. It's just where we're going. Just yell and dumb things down. It's everything. That's on TV.

That's on Netflix. Like people are talking about like how Netflix these days, They have to explain the plot in the middle of the movies when they're writing the scripts for people who are like scroll watching. They're scrolling while watching their movie. Yeah. I tell my kid, I admonish my kids at home. I said, if we're going to rent this movie off of our, you know, or get something on Netflix, we're going to watch it. We're not going to put our phones on and watch the damn movie.

I do not envy being a parent in these days and age. I mean, how do you even do that? You make them put their phones in a basket? No, you just yell at them. Put it down. just take them don't you lock them up in a pouch like they do at

concerts like you can't you can't bring a cell phone into a Dave Chappelle concert for some reason no you cannot well because they they don't want you filming their comedy

because they'll take one little joke you'll take one little joke out of context and then goes viral and then everybody crushes them and you try to get canceled if I'm Chappelle up there and I'm trying to do an act and I have like 6,000 people

on their phones yes that's rude that's another thing you want people present yeah you're supposed to be at a concert enjoying what's happening on the stage. I don't disagree. Roger on 790.

Roger, good morning. Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, I was just saying, you know, being a sports fan, if you seem it's not for the pain of heart. You've got to have something in the chamber. Something you got going on, maybe a weekend getaway

or vacation, some kind of light at the end of the tunnel to deal with this kind of level of misery that we go through a year in and year out. Now, granted, Our beloved city does give us the opportunity to have these moments, and, you know, we're here for them. Just, you know, you have to have something to soften that blow. And for me, it's golf because I've got the masters coming up, and I'll get psyched up for that.

And it's right at the end of this tournament. So either way it goes, I'm kind of psyched up either way it goes. And, yeah, it was pretty bad the last 72 hours, like you just mentioned. And the Rockets, I've already lowered their expectations dramatically after the, But what did to me was a two back-to-back loss of the Lakers and Portland. It's hard to do that, and yet they've managed to do it. So I kind of figure what kind of team that we have, unfortunately. I mean, they surprise us in the play.

They're not going to, you know, change my expectations. And it's because there's too many because we just can't at this point of the game. And with the Astros, I still think their pitching is good. I still think they're going to find a way in close some runs. But, yeah, I don't know why Jeremy Paine is still not playing. He hit a home run, and he felt fine. And now we're doing the whole strength wrapping in with a bubble wrap. From what, I've no idea.

Kids are 25 years old. Let him play. And that's it, guys. Just five here. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Come on. That was a silly statement, Roger.

Come on. If the finger's not ready to go, they're not bubble wrapping, and they want to make sure he's able to go. it's 162 games and if the finger's on 100% let him come back in a week why why are you worried about whether the asteros are trying to bubble right how old they'll too but hitting the first pitch he ever season every season just you know not working the pitch count just tired of that but whatever it's fine that's been the last 15 years of his life so i mean he's got over 2 000 yeah but he's not doing it at a great level anymore that's a problem okay that's why have a good one

you want to hear me sigh yeah go ahead i thought i was going to hear you yell. I was close. I'm trying to stop yelling. No, I think it's good at, and it's good on radio. Probably not good in life. Are you sure it's okay? Don't yell at the guy at the gas station, but you can yell at the callers because that's entertainment. Wait a minute. Bra, how much do you want? I said, I don't know. I'm going to fill the tank up. Bras, it's a simple question. Bra. I said, $94. He goes, have a nice ass. I said, I don't want you have a nice day. He lost his mind. Many people have said how clever that was when I told the guy not to have nice day. Well, many people have said you're an

a-hole, too. You know what the coming in. Jonathan, if I told you not to have a nice day, would you lose your mind? After you just did that, after you came in talking crazy. I would check you. Yeah.

Get him, Jonathan. First of all, Jonathan, I did not swear. I did not make fun of him. I simply said, I hope you don't have a nice day. That's all I said. The brother is working at a gas station. He's already tired. And you go say, don't have a nice day i would have checked you oh he checked me all right he came out with his middle

fingers not ready to come after me i didn't say don't have a nice day mfer or s my d uh am a night not of a nice i didn't any that stuff you know maybe that hurt worse because you didn't like cuss at him and that like made him think like that's called restraint on my part no that means you really meant that you really met that he you won't a good day i didn't mean it i I didn't think I swore. I didn't swear. I didn't swear. I didn't stutter. I don't want you have a nice day. Is that really going to really make people completely in a hinged?

I guess it is the anti. You know, when you're mad at somebody go, well, have a nice day. I threw him off for, you know what I did, guys? I threw him for a curve. He wasn't ready for that. He was polite to you. He wanted you to have a nice day. No, he did not. You were not there. He did not want to me have a nice day. So when I know he's lying to me, I want to tell him the truth.

I said, I don't want you have a nice day at all. He was quite pleasant. He was quite pleasant to me. Swell, fella. Yeah, different circumstances. If I asked for the bathroom, that's all I asked for, he'd be nice to me, too. 713-212-5-790. Keith and Kesa will get to you.

Plus, for you to say, I'm sorry. And I'm not saying to that guy to that guy in Florida. I'll know. All right, you can say sorry to me for the $5,000. I was waiting for that. Do you want me to say it next? I would love that. Well, we want you to mean it, but I don't think that's going to happen,

but that's okay. You don't know what I'm going to me. I might say I'm sorry to Jonathan next. I'm not holding my breath. 713-212-5-7-90. If you want to apologize for something you've done this week, let us know. 7-13-212-5 is 7-9. With a word for the Shell, Federal Credit Union.

All right. Listen to me very carefully. This is your next half hour to atone the mean things you've said and done this week. Simply call and talk to us here on 7-90 and say this. I'm sorry, so sorry, I didn't know. Love could be. 713-212-5-7-9. It is time for you to apologize with the great people of Houston.

Remember, if you're apologizing to somebody at the office, but you don't really want to tell them, here. Do it here on this radio show. Now, I've asked Ross for two consecutive weeks to let us know things he apologizes for, but I said, write that down. and he never writes it down. So you remember, Ross. This is kind of like your segment in a nutshell. Is it? Yeah.

Why? Why? I feel like you've done a lot of things wrong. Said sorry. Go ahead. What do you got? So yesterday we were at Astro Street Fest. Thanks to all the lovely people who came out.

We were out there basically in the left field-ish, left-center-ish. And I think I've talked about it. I've been kind of struggling, recovering from this floor. blue still for like weeks. And so I've been drinking a lot of fluids, drinking a lot of water. I've been drinking a lot of cow, uh, peterade, power aid, et cetera. So during one of the breaks, I needed to rush off to the bathroom. And it was far. It's like, uh, I don't know, at least a couple hundred yards. And we only had a four minute break. So I had to run out there as fast as I could. And there's people

streaming into the Dyken Park. And there was a point. where I should have politely let this older lady go in front of me. But I kind of sped up and cut her off because I needed to run to the bathroom. And I'm sorry. That was impolite. I'm sorry. But I had my reasons. And you felt better when you were done.

Yes. Did you find her after and say, I apologize? The situation was better. No, I didn't. I put up my, you know you put up the little sorry hand. A little pardon me. Oh, sorry. Sorry, hand.

That's what I did. Excuse me. Excuse me. That's what I did. You know what? Knowing the situation, I'm going to say you're okay with it. I don't think you owe anybody an apology on that. Okay.

It's not like a knocked her over. But I kind of sped past her. I would like to say I'm sorry to the housekeeper at the Minneapolis Hotel. Oh, no. I'm sorry. some coffee in the tea maker. What? Yeah.

We have a tea kettle in my room. And I thought I had put the levels properly to the amount of coffee that you could put in there to reheat. And I was wrong and it spilled everywhere. Now, I did get towels to mop it up. I did leave a significant tip. That's good. But it's still a hot mess. So for that woman or man

That will be cleaning my room in Minneapolis From yesterday after the tea kettle spilled all the coffee All over the place and stained the ground I say I'm sorry I'm so sorry I'm a little confused It was like a like a tea kettle you said Like you're supposed to heat water up in it

Yeah I heat water but I put coffee there instead Okay Hmm I did apologize That's good I'm glad you're apologizing I gave her 20 bucks for a tip I felt really guilty.

Yeah. Or him. I mean, I don't mean to sexualize housekeeping art. Hmm. All right. Other than that, I've been pretty much an angel this entire. That's good. Oh, I apologize to people that I was with last night.

I didn't want to talk to them during the game. That's not your fault. Oh, I'm sorry. It's your cougars. It's a sweet 16. Apologize to yourself for going out and socializing during the big game. But people want to say, hey, Matt. Let's go out. It's Memphis, Tennessee. It's interesting downtown, blah, blah, blah.

I mean, you got to go to the Rock Dog Tavern. Hey, bar dog. Oh, sorry. All right. Jonathan, what are you apologizing for? I guess I can apologize to all the truckers that listen. Because I don't think, I don't believe y'all should be in the left lane ever. And I'm never going to let you over. Wow.

And it happened today. I'm not, I'm not giving you no space, dude. I'm going to sit there on your side. I don't see the point in why you need to be in the fast lane when there's five other lanes. You're going to block it up, stop traffic. So I'm just going to say, I'm sorry to all the truckers out there. If you see a little centric going around and coming you off. Yeah, that's me.

I'm sorry. Yeah, I got moving. Wow. I mean, they have those big blind spots, Jonathan. They're trying to just get moving along. I'll make sure. Why don't you show some empathy? I'm going to call for Jonathan to apologize because he's not sorry.

Yeah, you're right. He said he's to feel bad. You don't feel sorry for him at all. You said, I'm sorry I'm an A-hole. I'm sorry in advance. A trucker, you know what, it's a anything that's fire. If y'all are driving a truck right now, y'all need to call on the show and explain to me why you should ever,

unless it's a two-lane street, two-lane road, why you should ever be in the hammer lane, why you should ever be in the left lane? Maybe they're behind on their deliveries. That's not my problem. Maybe they had to stop off at the Ballaro station, and it took longer than they thought. Shouldn't have been with the lot lizard.

That's not my problem. Oh, I'm sorry. The lot lizards. Will you see how we're corrupting this young man's mind? He didn't know what that was until us. That's not true. I did. I did, I did, I did.

I thought you said you didn't know how a lot of the lizard was in the fall of 1990. I've known about the lot lizard scene for 36 years. Yeah, I bet you have. That was the one that they get shiv'd you, right? That was at the Oklahoma City truck stop. Cross of the rest restern that I would stay at. We'd go to the horses up at the Remington Park in Oklahoma City. Okay.

18-year-old Matt, went to the ponies. That's why I got my gambling issues. So you're saying I do not need to go to Reesers at 1.30 in the morning? I wouldn't, but you can go. Go ahead. You know what? Yeah, go ahead, Matt. Can I text you at 3 a.m? Will you be awake?

I think you'll be awake. I want a hand-by-hand analysis. Play 6 to 5. You know, play six to five, $5.50 a hand. Just go ahead. No. No, it's great. What's wrong with you?

No, just do it. Who cares? I'll play 6'5 if I have to. Go ahead. That's fine. I'm not going to turn around and go, I can't play it to 6'5. Yeah, just play it. Why don't you play triple zero roulette while you're there too?

I mean, if you don't hit zero, it doesn't matter. You don't lose, right? That's true. Alan, what are you apologizing for? Well, I'll tell you, Matt, about a month ago, Cole and Dan, in the morning drive, we're talking about that Cole sounded like somebody. And they were trying to figure it out.

They thought it was somebody from the Transformers. But I kept bugging me. And then one Sunday or one weekend, all of a sudden I heard Monty Bilanos sounded just like Cole. So I'm sorry that Cole sounds like Monty Blanos from FS1. Oh, sorry. Monty who?

Monty Blanos, the sportscaster on Fox Sports One. What does he do? He sounds just like her. But who is that? Cole Thompson. No, the person you're talking about FS1, I've never heard of this person. It's a chick. It's a sports chick.

It's a sports chick. You ever heard of Monte Bolanos on FS1? No. All right, let's move on. All right, we're moving on. think. I watch FS1 for occasional baseball, occasional basketball, but none of their talk shows. I trust me. You think you lose brain cells watching first take? You watch an FS1 talk show? Oh my God. It's awful. And on that note, we'll take a short time out.

Ross, I'm trying to prep for this Rockets Grizzlies game. Do you know the Grizzles have played 29 different players this year? Wow. That seems like a lot, Matt. How many are allowed on a roster? Well, you're supposed to have 15 at one time. They made trades. They got injured players. Didn't the rockets come close to setting a record once?

They did back in the COVID days, right? I want to say. Oh, yeah. By the way, I guarantee a rocket win tonight. Guarante. 12.5 point favorites. I hope you're right. I don't care about the spread.

It's 104, 103. It's a rocket win. Okay. I don't care about this about either, but a lot of times I've seen big rocket spreads and it hasn't worked out, so I'm a little worried. Slightly. Not worry. Slightly. Our rockets are winning tonight.

Okay. Gio, Cody, K, so you're next 1143 on 790. All right, you got 10 minutes to apologize. We don't judge you. Unless you don't call and apologize because I'm telling you, folks, you don't behave yourselves. Cody on Seminani, Cody, what are you sorry for? Matthew, I'm sorry for last night making a comment about the class of 62 holding their class of reunion alumni night at the game last night for the Cougars. It was uncalled for and frankly, it was irresponsible.

I was in my field. It was a long day for a Houston sports fan, but I shouldn't have acted like that and I truly apologize. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah, I saw your tweet. Even though it was 99% accurate, I'm sorry. I know. You were upset.

That's what people do when they run to their Twitter. They run to their Twitter accounts and they're emotional. I just simply put up a bunch of emojis, unhappy, vomit, sad. And then I said, ultimately, Ross, when they went up 10 with about 30 seconds left, I said, Ross, good night. I'm sorry, Matt. It's fine. I'm more sorry about it last year.

not only did I go not only did we lead for like 38 minutes of the game we lost in a double dribble or you know would have been it would have been a double dribble the ball just sat there on the floor Walter Clayton Jr. was on the floor

some say the ball is still rolling on the floor at the Alamo don't nobody no but there's absolutely no one that's saying that no one is saying that whatsoever I don't know I have a single person not no stop. You know what I'm sorry.

Logan, what are you sorry for? Well, I'm sorry for the fact we've got one of the best coaches probably ever in the game in basketball. And I believe last night I want y'all's opinion real quick, I'll let you go. I don't even want, I don't recall his name because I don't really want to. The power forward, the guy who I don't know how to say it, he peed all over the floor. he could not. He got eight or nine rebounds. Who's the guy that the center? What's his name I'm thinking of? The center.

The power forward. You're talking about Sinak or Tuggler? Senac, Chinak, Chinak, listen. There used to be a guy, and I'll be real quick. Joe Klein, there was a guy named Joe Klein for the Phoenix Suns. He used to come off of the bench, and the rockets, they were doing pretty good. And Joe Klein would come off the bench, and the rockets would disintegrate. he took over the game a guy number six man

I believe truly in my heart this is the best coach they'd rocked the the cougars have ever had or ever will have but last night I believe he made a total mistake and not telling Sanak to go take a shower and it was not his night and bring in what was it McFarland or his replacement McFarland made a couple of threes

he did some good what do you think of that I mean I believe he should have just taken Sanac out of it. of the game. Do you think that could have been possible? And he would have brought some life into that team. And just made a big difference. Sorry.

If he had to go take Tolts and Act or go take a show. Look, what's his name with Indiana? Used to do it, the big cut with Indiana. The guy with the coach with the Chicago Bulls, he used to, even the best player that used to help out. Michael Jordan when he wasn't having a good He told him to go sit down

go take a shot And it'd make a difference But I truly believe that Last night He should have told some of that To go take the shower And bring the numbers What's his name?

McFarland or wherever Because he did some good stuff What do you think of that? Well there's no McFarland In the roster So are you talking about McCarty You know who I'm thinking of McCarty

Maybe you're talking of Yes right he came in and he put three he threw from a couple from the perimeter he was he was working he was working i mean does that make any sense or not that because no chris what's his name man you got you got your names right you've been guessing on these people's names all day in this call what's going on with you you're all right well i really don't want to think of them because it was such a disaster it's not it's not coming to mind because i really don't want to think about the guy's same.

I'm sorry. It's just... All right. You know? It's the most important thing. All right, but let you go. Apparently, he wants Chris Anak to get a shower in, Ross. And if you caught that or not.

You got to go hit the showers. Yeah. How do you feel about these hotels now, not giving you bar soap and giving you the gels that are like multiple, these big bottles? You okay with it? I'm fine with it. The only problem is I am...

Like the one we had in West Palm. I have sensitive skin, so I, uh, that one, I, I always pack my own bar of dove soap just as a backup anyways, but. That's nice. Yeah, it's just life with sensitive skin's not great, but that stuff was making me itch after one day. So that's my only problem, but that's just me. You know what? If I need to buy you some, uh, special allergy soap for future road trips, I got hype. I have hypo on allergenic soap.

I usually pack it in my toilet bag. Nice. Gio, what's the matter with you? All right, guys, I want to start out by saying great show, as always. Is it, though? Isn't it really a great show today, Gio? Absolutely, baby. Are you sure?

It can be. It can be. All right. That's how you got to think of it. All right. But I want to respond to Jonathan's comment about truck drivers, seeing that I am a fellow truck driver here. Oh, get him.

Get him. Jonathan, what was the issue you were having with that truck driver? He was in the fast. Yeah, why are you in the fast lane? What's going? What's up with that? Okay, so let me tell you something, man. As a truck driver, we get in the fast lane sometimes to get where we need to get quick

because, you know, the stuff that you buy on a day-to-day basis was delivered by a truck driver. When you go to the grocery store, those groceries were delivered by a truck driver. When you go to the mall, those clothes, that jewelry, that cologne, it was delivered by a truck driver. When you go to the hospital, that medicine was delivered by a truck driver. was delivered by a truck driver. When you go to the coffee shop in the morning, all those supplies were delivered by truck drivers, Jonathan. So he was probably in that fast lane

because he needed to deliver what you want the most in life on a day-to-day basis. So all the fellow truck drivers out there, I am so sorry for people like Jonathan. And Jonathan, I love you like a long long time. Don't get it twisted, all right? But such don't go bum ass up, Johnson. Get him, Gio!

Get him, Gio! Get him. truckers make the world go around. Let me tell you something, folks. Geo just saved the show. That's what that's what's what Geo did. It was a mid show until Geo just called. Put Jonathan in his place.

Thank you very much for the phone call. Let's talk to Jason and Katie. Jason, what are you sorry for? So guys, about three days ago was listening to the show. And y'all had a caller. I don't know what he was talking about and make anything. Similar to the caller two callers ago about the shower. guy, similar with that guy.

And I changed the station to another station for the first time in a long time. It starts with the number six. And it was so bad that I got about five seconds in and I had to come back over because the SportsMT and

Raw Show is the best show in Major Market Radio. And I'm sorry for leaving you guys for those five seconds. Sorry. Sorry. Let me take you something. First of all, thank you for acknowledging your mistake. Second, of all, you, I mean, I'm being all honest in this, you don't want to listen to anything else in the middle of the day. You can be bored to death. I mean, literally to death. Thank you for the nice

words. Thank you. I appreciate it. That's it. We don't curse. What's wrong with you? That's a dollar. That's a dollar. Come on, man. Would you like to know the second most disturbing thing going out right now right now what's the most disturbing thing hushin sports that last me saying custom disgusts okay what's the second most disturbing thing so i have a window here in my hotel i like the windows open when i'm doing the show i don't like to be in a dark room okay there is a neighboring hotel with a guy in the whirlpool swimming and talking on the phone and i'm i have nothing else to do but staring at because the window i'm view i'm looking at is him in the in the tub he is swimming and talking on the phone yes

He's like like vigorously? Like what's his level of effort? Or is he like sitting in there? He's in a hot tub. Oh, okay. Now I could turn my chair in the other direction, but I like sunlight. It keeps me bright for the show. I don't want to have to worry about being in a dark place,

shut the door, turn the lights off. Uh-huh. So all I'm doing is instead of getting a beautiful Bucks of Memphis woman, I've got an old man with a hat on on his phone in the hot tub. Hmm. That is. disturbing. That's probably better for the show. You're saying I would be

not interested in doing the show if it was say a eight or a nine. Yes. Ray and Pearland, what are you sorry for? I'm sorry for telling the drunk guy at the U of H game last night that he had to sit the whole game because obviously it was unnecessary.

He kept making trips during a Nebraska game and I said this is not going to work during the U of H game. And also I'm sorry that my son had to sit next of the drunk guy and have him plead for him to be able to get up and go down the aisle. Oh, I'm sorry.

Ray, thank you for doing that. And if that listener is, uh, that fan is there, he heard you and he accepts it. Did you talk to him personally or did you wait for today to do this? Oh, no, I waited for today to do this. I'm also sorry for continuing asking the Nebraska fans when they were going to leave. Oh, sorry.

So who were nicer, Iowa fans or Nebraska fans? Oh, well, there wasn't very many Iowa fans there, so it definitely has to be the Nebraska fans. And I've got to say, the Nebraska women are... Go ahead. The Nebraska women are quite the opposite of Iowa women. They're a bunch of tall women in Nebraska. Huh. Hmm.

Hmm. Now, Nebraska's got an excellent volleyball team. I wonder if that was volleyball girls going down to watch the games. isn't it like the capital of volleyball in general in America? One of them. They had like 75,000 people at their football stadium. And that was, I'm sorry for the week. Koso and James.

Koso wants to talk about a sports. He's got sports fatigue, Ross. We don't know. You can't have sports fatigue on this show. It's been a rough 24 to 36 hours. You know what we're going to do to wake everybody up? What are we going to do, Matt? Get the strippers right.

You need to wake me up. I'm thinking about grabbing some coffee, but I'm going to try to make it to a two a nap. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Seven in H-town. The Matt Thomas Show and Ross from Memphis. This is Sports Talk 790. You guys, sports Harvey?

No. Y'all need to be careful with those. It's 200 milligrams of caffeine. That's like, good. A cup of coffees generally 8 to 100. Some of y'all are drinking. It's funny. You know what?

I'll go ahead and tell this story. My lovely mother, she drinks Celsius and she didn't know how much cats. She's like, man, every time I drink those, man, they really get me going in the morning. I'm like, Mom, it has 200 milligrams of caffeine. You've got to watch out. Like, she was drinking multiple. You got to be careful, folks. That's all I'm saying.

Watch your caffeine in dick. I was thinking about those coax that used to be about, 20 years ago. Oh, jolt cola? Do you ever have a jolt? I did. Those are terrible tasting. Yeah, jolt cola had 200 milligrams of caffeine

and a jolt cola. I just Googled it. That is awful. All right, time now at 1211. Here's something to put you to a test. You ready for this? No. We already know the Cougars lost.

So what don't want to get into that. Okay. We already know the Rockets lost two games already this trip. We know the Astros lost yesterday. I would like for you for the next. It's 30 seconds to easily describe the three new tanking procedures the NBA is thinking. Oh, hell no. I was reading those from Shams.

I don't know what the hell. Look, it's not going to work. The news and news. You want me to talk about all that and the news and noon? No. I want Shams to apologize for sending that out to us. Well, you know, it's not him. He's on marching orders.

I can try to shorten them. The NBA is trying to stop tanking. Okay. we don't have to worry about that because we're not going to take any more in this town we're done taking for this year and next and maybe one right we're going to play all we're going to play eric carman again coming out on the break we can

it felt right what's believe it or not today by the way uh Memphis Memphis you could also do all things about we can do George the Iceman Gervin did you see why he's in the news

Yeah, by the way, Caleb Williams, you ain't the Iceman. Sorry. George Gervin's the Iceman. Period. End of story. It's a great nickname, too. Do you agree or disagree? You agree?

I mean, I agree, but I think, I don't know, people who are maybe 25 and younger. Have you heard of George the Iceman Gervin, Jonathan? Oh, he's in the middle of bite. I'm sorry. Just give me a thumbs up or down. He's going no. See? I'm going to figure.

I'm going to put a picture of me and the Iceman from earlier this year. Okay. I'm in solid. I put it on your Instagram. Oh, I should, shouldn't I? Yeah, we're trying to be... How did that? I already put it up there once.

We're trying to be IG horrors. Put it again. We need to whore ourselves out, Matt. By the way, do you want the rockets to win tonight? Do you want the Astros to win tonight? The only way it happens is if you follow me on Instagram at SportsMT. You said if I did that,

you said that if I did that, my 401K was going to go up in a tank. It's tanking. So you lie. Well, then why? are you giving false promise? If you can't control everything, then why are you selling? That's what's going to happen if I follow you on Instagram. That's my repertoire. That's my strength.

You know what? Follow me on Instagram at Sports RV. No false promises. And until 1 o'clock, I'll follow you back. At Sports RV. I cannot guarantee a follow back, number one. Matt won't follow you back. I can't guarantee an Astros win and a Rockets win if you follow me on Instagram at

SportsMT. Matt thinks he's better than you and he hates you. I will follow you back at sports RV. I'm a man of the... I'm a man of the people. Unlike that guy in Florida. And you can see pictures of me matching with Adam Wexler.

We wore the same shirt. Why don't you wear the same shirt yesterday? We didn't coordinate. It just happened. Why don't y'all talk it out? I mean, I'm going to be honest. It's the only shirt that I have of ours that's been made in the last 10 years, so... And it fits, though. That's good.

Well, it fits now. Yeah, I didn't when I was a little more porky. I mean, you weren't snug. Yeah, it's, uh, hmm. Hmm. Yeah, it was a little snug. A little form fitting. Shout out to Eye the Tiger, the newest member of the SportsMT Instagram follow club.

Oh, my God. So you got a shout out. That's good. All right. Eric Carmen with some terrible highlights next. 1215 on Sports Talk 7-9. Shannon's going to set a screen. Highland straight away.

Hands into the mid-court line near for Randall, down to three, down the two, slight push-off, free-throw jumper, up and in. 15 straight for Minnesota. Timeout, Houston. And that's going to get into the seats for a home run. Mike Trout unties the score on a homer, and it's 1-0, Angels. If the roof were open, that would have gone over the train tracks and out of the stadium. The 34th career home run for Mike Trout against the Astros. That's the most among active players. Houston.

What? No Craigway? No Craigway. No Craigway. Don't be bitter, man. It's okay. And love so distant lives. CSFA basketball highlights.

Hey, come on, man. It's okay. Ming these guys. This is all right. Remember. A fottle on sports empty guarantees a rocket wing. No, it does. It does.

In my mind, it does. False promises at SportsMT. Let's see how many people have to follow back. Shout out to, let's see, D. Gordon, loves a journey, Don and Corey. Thanks for those all of you that follow me back. I appreciate that very much. Oh, I got dogs and cats following me.

Thanks to Zena and Don and Corey. There you go, see? We're a happy place. We're going to, you know, we're going to change the tempo and the style of the show for the final 138, except for EMA because he can be cranky at 1 o'clock too, so yeah, you know what, screw it. We're going to have four hours of depression.

We've already been in the first two hours in 22. I'm out another hour and 40. This is great. Believe it. Iowa and Illinois. Purdue is better than Texas. I mean, you gave him a good game. I'll give him credit for that. I mean, you just did.

Whatever. I've been seen Longhorn. Longhorn legend, Tremon Mark, played very well on a broken ankle for much of the game. And Jordan Pope played 33 minutes on a broken foot. I mean, shout out to those guys. So basically, sports medicine be damned at University of Texas. Well, they wanted to play. As Sean Miller said after the game, they were giving the option to come out.

They wanted to play to represent the University of Texas Longhorns. Good season. Keith on 790. Good afternoon. Well, afternoon, Matt. I got a couple questions for you. and Ross I got four predictions. All right, let me write these hair-brain predictions down.

One second. Go ahead. Okay, so I think last night they showed that either Calvin Samson don't know how to recruit shooters or he's intimidating them players so bad that they look nervous. They missed easy shots over and over again.

so that's one question for you do you think that's what's what's going on that he's intimidating these players and they're so nervous and they can't shoot secondly i want to talk about the rocket games they won 30 games this year they were you're telling me they were intimidated just one in this i mean i don't know if you know this or not but yankees keiths it's a sweet 16 against a really good basketball team i mean come on now man they missed a bunch of shots wide open shot that I probably could make. So you're saying because he barked at them, they missed the shots because of a scowl that Kelvin

Samson may have given them before the game. Well, that's just my opinion. That's just my opinion. Let's go to another question. Do you think rockets that's currently constructed, they cannot come back the same way next year. Do you think they're going to go after Yonis and do a wholesale change or not?

I believe they are going to kick the tires on the number one potential trade target. I don't have it on authority. I'm just telling you in my gut that Kevin Durant would like to probably have another legitimate generational type player next to him, as with most teams. I think, honestly, I think the Rockets will be talked about, Ross. I think the Knicks will be talked about as a team that he may go. I think Miami would be in the mix, and I also think Golden State would be in the mix. Those are the four teams in my mind that I think with the most traction for Janus because they have tradable assets.

They're big spending teams. They like to go for the jugular, and I don't think Janus wants to have Milwaukee. Okay. Let me go on my four predictions. You ready, Ross? Yes. Okay. Astros will win between 75 and 80 games.

They're not going to make anybody's play off. Oh, my God. Secondly, they're not going to have anybody on their team that, hits 35 home run. Nobody. Okay. Thirdly, the Yankees will win between 98 and 102 games, barring

a major injury. Oh, dear. And fourthly, fourthly, the Baltimore Ravens will win at least 13 games this year. Wow. I'm going to hang up a question. Is fourthly a word? Is thirdly a word? Secondly,

is thirdly? Sure, why not? I mean, it kind of sounds like, be a word. Yep. His last prediction was that Malika Willis was going to be top 20 in QBR. By the way, Matt,

I know U of H is a little bit of Oakland Roman when you went, but thirdly is a word in the third place to induce a third point or reason. Just want to do is not that. So thirdly is a word.

Yes. Yeah, fourthly is two. Okay, so fifthly, sixthly, seventhly, eighthly, ninthly, ninthly, ninethly, okay, that's good. Ninthly sounds kind of. kind of silly.

Thank you for the update on that. And again, U of A's not open a room. We're now tier one. Thank you very much. Once they got you out of there. That's actually not completely wrong. I mean,

I could cheat. I'm going to get you. You know what? You know how they took away Reggie Bush's Heisman? We're going to take away your degree. They can't do that. There's no chance. By the way, Yankees,

Keith had K.D. going on IR and the Rockets missing the playoffs. Okay. So his predictions don't carry a lot of weight. He did have Jesse Minter as the Ravens head coach. We'll give him some credit on that. But there you go. I started writing these down because he wants to

call in with all this braggadociousness. That's a word. Yeah, you got to write him and Brad's down because they like to call. They're two of the few callers that actually call back and give themselves credit for things they hit on. So. Mm-hmm.

All right. You may doke at one half hour. Now in Florida stories at one third. I got a doozy for a non-flora story today. Brooklyn, New York is the site. I figured you had one you liked because you texted Jonathan and I to claim it. You're like, my story's from Brooklyn. Don't take my story.

It's just good. I'm excited. It's not, it's not grotesque. It's just very funny. It involves a criminal activity, though. Oh, okay. And how some.

someone spends the money that that's not really theirs. That's all I can say. 1229. Matt and Ross with you. I'm here in Memphis for Rockets and Grizzlies tonight. 713-212-5-7-90 with... Purdue will inbound. They'll not pressure the ball.

He goes in-bounds. Here's Braden Smith. Seven seconds left. Smith to the right side. Trying to drive-pass. Weaver puts it up. It is no good tip-up. It's in.

With 0.7 to go onwards and no timeouts left. Point seven left. Inbounded Pope launches from 70. No good. And the season ends in heartbreak. And the Purdue Boilermakers do survive the Texas Longhorns in advance to the elite 8, 79, 77. All right, who did this? Gordy?

I cannot tell you who did it. It's Gordy. You don't know. Yes, I do. I'm right, aren't I? I don't know if you're right. He's the only one who would go and access the Learfield Center. Jonathan doesn't know where the Learfield folder is.

I don't know where the Learfield folder is. Stop staring at this man with your binoculars in the hot tub. What is wrong with you? Yeah, congratulations to the Texas Longhorns, their Sweet 16 run. It was a great run. They went as far as some programs who thought they were going to. make the national championship game

or a final four. Man, that's a shame. A little sad ingrates from certain message boards must be really upset. I'm sure those guys are sad too. Yeah.

As all of us are. Sean Miller, good coach, get him some players. Decent recruiting class coming in next year. Hit the portal. Spend some money. Longhorn basketball. can be back where they belong.

I don't know, fourth or fifth of the SEC every year. Do you see there's a video of Sean Miller on the Tonight Show when he was a kid? Have you seen that? I did not. I saw some videos of Bob Barker. Oh,

Bob Barker. Yikes. There is a two-part documentary out that is not going to necessarily help the legacy of one old Bob Barker. What's that? Actually, I'm interested now. I don't think anybody, everybody knows. Bob Barker was married to a woman for a very long period of time,

and she unfortunately passed due to cancer. And then he became a hound with the Barker Beauties when he was done. When the grieving time had passed. Well, not all the Barker Beauty. He's just one of them, the hottest one. And apparently he's also been an alleged racist now. ledge racist and fat shaming per as well so there's that

if they want to change the legacy they have my time but what happened to Sean Miller sorry Sean's fine oh he was on the tonight show he was a basketball 12 year old kid genius dribble the basketball back and forth and around his arms and like it was like a Harlem Globetrotter for white kids I'm just leaving that I'm just leaving it I mean I

He didn't do anything because Sean never played in the NBA, right? I don't see him on the... I'm Googling, oh, like with Johnny Carson? Yes. Like, I'm talking like 35 years ago. Maybe even longer than that, 40 years ago. Oh, he's juggling three basketballs? Yeah.

Okay, and then he's doing like the Pistol Pete fast dribble. Correct. This is not that impressive. I'm sorry. I watched it. I'm like, this is no big deal, but he went... He had two segments on with Carson. Two segments.

Two. You don't, you know, Jerry Seinfeld never got two seconds. Sean Miller did. He smoked a cigarette and hanging out with Sammy Davis Jr. What did he do after that? Coming up next, Dean Martin, Frank Sautry, and little 11-year-old Sean Miller. A special guest cameo, Roddy Dangerfield, and Sean Miller. Angie Dickinson coming up and Sean Miller.

What the hell is this? He's just putting a ball I can't believe you've not seen this before. It's awful. I just retweeted it. It had Sports Harvey if you want to see it. He's just putting the ball through his legs. Like we've been doing that like a sixth grade basketball camp.

I'm personally offended by this. I mean, I guess drug juggling three basketballs is cool, but it's hilarious. All right. Let's talk to Adam on 790. Adam, thank you for waiting. afternoon. Hey, good afternoon. I'm not from Houston, and I'm just here temporarily, but I'm going to say, are the

Cooter is the most snake-bitten team in college sports? Because they were, I just don't get it. Every year, everybody gets their hopes up, like, this is the year we finally do it. And then every year, like, Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown. and I went to the game last night. I was, that's another point I'll get to you a little later as was the ticket prices,

but I was able to get to the game. And there were, you know, I'm not a Coogers fan, but I just kind of felt sorry for you guys because there were Coopers fans and alumni crying last night. You know,

a grown adult crying. So I just don't know. I don't know if you guys are ever going to win it. I mean, I thought, If this year you couldn't do it, or at least get back to the finals, when is it ever going to happen? That's one thought. And then, as far as the game goes, I don't know, like, the poor shooting, I think there were a lot of factors.

First of all, this game was way too late. I didn't get home until 1230 in the morning. and then they were trying to keep, I think they were trying to keep the game in the prime time for the West Coast is why they scheduled it, but it was ridiculous. And then I just noticed during the game, you guys were saying earlier that Houston's shooting was so poor,

but it looked like they were just trying to force up a lot of three-point shots. And Illinois did the same thing, but they were making their three-point shots. and you guys also mentioned Arizona and one of the reasons why I think Arizona is so successful this year is because they have taken the least three pointers out of like all the teams and they're like way down there and what Tommy Lloyd, the coach of Arizona focuses on is he focuses on the mid-range game and like trying to go on the inside the way basketball used to be played

before the three-point line. You know, when the three-point line first came out, the three-pointer was, like, really rare. It was only if you were, like, down a lot, or you were completely wide open, and it was, like, really rare that you took a three-point shot. Now it's just in the NCAA and the NBA, it's just gobble inside

and then just kick it out for a necessary three-point shot. I don't know. What do you got to say? Did you say, do you mean unnecessary? Yeah, you got, in the NCAA and the NBA, they just keep, I don't understand why they just do this dual penetration and kick out for the three. Three is more than two. It's very simple. Yeah, but the percentages is a lot lower.

Yes, but. Why don't you just focus on the mid-range game? Generally, people don't shoot 50% from mid-range. If you shoot 50%, it is basically the same as a 33% three-point shot. Most teams do not shoot 50% from mid-range. You have the outliers like Kevin Durant. He shoots around 51-52% from mid-range. So you need to be a, I mean, the league average in the NBA is like 36% from three.

Okay. So it's more points per shot. Right, but I'm just saying Arizona's been successful by not shooting the three-pointer and focusing on traditional, like, the mid-range game and, like, trying to get it on the end-side. So you think that Tommy Lloyd, if he was bringing in a bunch of sharpshooters, guys or perimeter guys, he'd say, you know what, I know you shot 46% from three in high school, but we're going to keep you inside 15 feet. I mean, don't you kind of tailor your team to base off your strengths?

Yeah, but that's what I'm saying is that's what it looks like he brought in some, some of the players for strengths on the inside, like that one center they have, who's like 7-2 or something like that. He takes a lot of inside shots. Well, I would assume if you're 7 feet 2, you'd be taking a lot of inside shots. Wouldn't that make a little bit of sense? Right. Right, but it just seems like it's working.

And it just seemed like Houston, it just seemed like they were just trying to force three-pointers. Where do you live, my ask? Katie. Okay. I thought you were out of town. Okay. I was getting, I was a little confused.

I'm just here temporarily. Yeah. I am from out of town. So when do you leave in town then? Probably about a month, six weeks. Are you ever going to come back? I may try to come back for the World Cup. Hopefully,

are you giving away tickets? So if I tell you to shut your bum ass up, it won't hurt our audience, correct? no of course not okay then shut your bum ass up wow kind of felt good get some extra venom in there we snake bit we're not snake bit we lost

snake bit is I think it works honestly I don't think it works snake bit is losing a game at point seven on the clock no thank you I know for the phone call just means every time just something goes wrong every time and he like he mentioned Lucy in the football I don't see it at all that

way. Snake bit just means you know, I'm lucky. No, no, no, no. Do not justify Adam's call. Thank you, Adam, for calling. And I was just, and Adam, you were just the, you were just there. I don't want you to shut your bum ass up. It seemed, it seemed like you did.

You said that you said that if you full-throated that thing. Yeah, I heard that over here too. No, you didn't. I know, it was, it's my microphone. Remember, I bought this expensive microphone, so it's amplified. Yeah, okay. Well, yeah. It overmodulated, as the kids say.

No, I mean, Arizona, if you have four guys that can shoot 40% from beyond from three, they're going to shoot threes. There's not a college coach in America that says, eh, that three is just too risky of a shot. Not in the 2026, certainly. Yeah, you play to your strengths. And if you got two low-posts presence guys that are shooting north of 50% from 10 feet in, you're going to let those guys go. I mean, they don't shoot a lot of threes. Best they also got an amazing front line of, you know, 6, 8, 6, 9, and 7-2 across the front.

Man can dream, but I refuse to believe we are snake bit. I hope. 12. We're not losing the football, right? That means you just keep losing badly. Like, strange, well, granted, we lost the way it's most final fours ever without a championship. And the Jordan Poole shot there kind of remember. Is it a good?

Are we really losing the football? You're snake bit. I'm sorry. I don't know, Matt. Sometimes... Are we snake bit? The University of Houston Cougars? Yes. Most Final Four is about a championship.

Doesn't sound snake bit to you? Sounds like sketchy officiating. Miriam Webster's definition of snake bit. 1247. Emmaidoka in 13 minutes on Sports Talk 7. 1252, Matt and Ross with you. Until 2 o'clock. 1 o'clock, we've got E. May.

Doka, 130. We've gotten on Florida Stories. Ross, we've got some tickets to give away for a concert and rockets on today's edition of a Hellier or not at 150. Excellent. And the category will be. University of Houston

Cougars basketball, in honor of their great sweet 16 run. And how snake bit they are. Yes. Losing the football. Black Cat. walking under our ladder. What else we got?

It's an informal adjective. Informal adjective. Meaning plagued by bad luck, misfortune. Or sudden, unexplained inability to succeed. All right, maybe we're snake bit. Sorry, Matt. We're losing two-fits of our starting lineup. Actually, three-fits.

Actually, four-fiths. Really? I think Uzan's gone. I think Sennak, it's probably going to the draft. I think Fleming's definitely going on the draft. And who am I forgetting? Who's the shooting guard? Sharp.

Chicken Knowles. No. What do I even get you involved in Cougar conversation? Oh, Manuel Sharp. Milo's went two for 11 yesterday. Chris and Act 3 or 12. You can't, yeah. It's the tournament.

You can't have it. You got to play great for six games. James. That first half, the rocket, the rockets, the Cougars shot 9 of 33, 4 of 17 from 3. We shot two free throws a whole night. Let's talk to Easy at 1255 on 7 on an easy. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon, gentlemen.

Hey, man. That was pretty cool how you set him up, like a stand-up comedian, set up a heckler. And then since you're ready, host, you had the last words. and I thought you were going to do the paparotti on the shut your bum ass up on his ass. No, I was, he was just, he was just the guilty, he was the guy was right in front of me. He didn't deserve it, and he knows that.

I'm just teasing with him, but I just, I just don't want to hear about snake bit losing. I want to hear about winning in Final Four and rings and championships. I don't want to hear about all close, but no cigar yet again. Well, my call originally was the kind of cleanser the palate, But as I told you guys about two weeks ago, they laid me off of my job. And after I let go of the upsetness and the negativity, 10 days later, thank goodness, I started a new job on Monday.

So once I let that go, I put good vibes out there. So let's do that forward with the Rockets. Yeah, it was a tough loss. You know, it's kind of like they got laid off that day. Hey, they're moving forward. I'll tell you, it's not going to happen again. Same thing with the Astros. We got to put this vibe out into the universe and through the radio waves,

and I'll hang up and listen. You guys have a good Friday. Thank you, EZ. Congratulations on your new job. Hopefully it's for more paying, better benefits and good working conditions. Yeah, glad to hear EZ landed on his feet. Look, if the Astros are going to win, we got him in an 87 wins, right? Give or take.

87, I think, did you and I, did you say 87 as well in the, Sports Talk 7.90. Somewhere in that range. Because both Adam and Adam put the same number. I think they both put 89. That means that they're going to lose 75 times. At least. Gordy had 84.

Who had the least? Yeah, we both had 87. Yeah, Gordy had the least with 84. Okay. Dan was next with 86. Anybody in the World Series? No. No.

Oh, wait a second. Emmanuel Elmore, Triple E, producer of the morning show. The Astros over the Dodgers. Mr. Positive. And Joshua Jordan as well. Wow. Producer of the A team.

I mean, I want them to be in the World Series. We have the least optimistic producer in the building. Yeah, that's right. That's right. All right. All right. Let's get to EMAIDOCA. He's joining us in about three minutes here on the Matt Thomas show of Ross. If you'd like to join us right now, well, wait for after EMA,

because he'll talk to us next. And then we will get to now on Forest. stories, more your phone calls, and hell you are not at 150. So a busy final hour. I'm here in Memphis, Rockets and Grizzlies tonight, here on 790. The Astros Angels over on our sister station, 740. So radio for baseball and basketball tonight on our I-Hart family stations. E-Medocan next 1258 Sports Talk 790.

This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We're going to spend 10 minutes right now with the head coach of the Houston Rockets. Rockets here in Memphis is going to take on the Grizzlies tonight. We'll have it for you here on 790 beginning at 6 o'clock with the launch pad 7 o'clock tip time. I may doka with us here. I may, first of all, thanks for joining us. These conversations sometimes aren't fun, especially after the way the performance of the last couple of games. Has it been?

I mean, obviously the answer is yes to this, but to the level I want to get your thoughts on. Those two games against Miami and Atlanta were fun, interesting buzzer beaters. You beat some good teams. You get on the road. You got some teams that are probably worrying about the end of the season. in Chicago and then the Minnesota game without ant. I guess the level of frustration for you about this team's inability to stay consistent, especially in this time of year when you're trying to juggle for seatings in a Western conference.

Yeah, I would say, you know, it's been a problem of ours throughout the year. You know, we look and feel and play like a different team at times against the big matchups. You know, kind of get up with those and then have blows against them of the lesser teams with losing records. And so obviously something we want to change and be consistent regardless of who we're playing. And even in those games, you know, we got really good stretches. It was a poor quarter or two that kind of foot us behind, obviously the first quarter of Chicago after a good win. But even the end of the Miami game, letting them come back like we did. And then the first quarter of Chicago, outside of that, played a great three quarters.

Didn't play our best, you know, most of the night against Minnesota, probably a C-level game and put together, you know, good last three minutes and a great start to overtime. But have to be more consistent and sustain that effort. that defensive mentality and then offensive mentality and then offensively being aggressive and confident. Was there anything that Minnesota did in that last half of the overtime? I mean, look, that was minutes 53 and 54 of the game. What went from so good in that fourth quarter to, you know, allowing those free baskets that they were able to make that comeback and such as a short period of time? I mean, they started going after Kevin a little bit.

They blitzed a few times. We got to Alperin in the pocket. Jabari had a white open three missed a man in the pocket one time and had some wide open shooters and Alpi in the dunker spot and kind of shot over a few people. So a few missed cues outside out of the blitz and then some turnovers, a eight second violation, obviously, and some turnovers that got them out of transition. But that was the point. Once we got the lead, you know, our defense wasn't set because they were getting out running and scored pretty much, you know, seven to ten seconds on the shot like a few times in a row. Ema, you're so late in the season here. It's not about teaching. It's not about an extra practice.

It's not about intense film setting. It's a little bit of, I guess, the psychologist part of your job as a coach to say, look, guys, we've let a lot of these kind of games slip through our fingers. And if we want to be where we want to be and make a playoff run, we've got to get this corrected down with about 10 games of the year. Is that the way you're kind of approaching things? Yeah, absolutely, because even in those games that we haven't played a full four quarters, We've had really great stretches, really dominant stretches.

And obviously, like I said, to go down 21 on Chicago and come back as fast as we did in the way we did. Obviously, we played really good basketball and guarded at a high level. So how can we sustain that? That's the main thing. Coming out to start games with the same intensity that we bring when we get down. And so that's the real thing. I mean, I think we all know we can get back and want to be playing our best going into playoffs and have a chance to still do that. Rocketech coach, Imiddocha, here on Sports Talk 790.

Yeah, obviously when you go through bad stretches out here, one of the things that pundits like to go to is vibes or body language or things like that. And there's been some national people picking up on that. Just your perspective. How do you feel morale, chemistry, vibes, whatever you want to call it with the team? I would say everybody's frustrated when you lose and nobody's going to be happy about it. And so, yeah, body language isn't going to be totally upbeat when you're down 20 or giving up a big lead. But you have to have some resiliency and some deterrenties.

and some determination to get back in these games the way we have or, you know, to be even keeping it close when we're not playing our best. And so we look at that thing, those things overall and how can we, you know, manage to play a better quarter here so we're not down the deficit. So I don't put a ton in that. I think our guys are all on the same page, rooting for each other, chairing for each other. And, you know, when it's going well, we're upbeat and all that. And you just got to maintain that even in the downtime. And so I don't look too much into that. I think all our guys know what's at stake now and how we have to play it more consistent level.

And so we don't look at that. I don't really hear it. But, you know, we go about our business and try to put a full game together tonight against Memphis. Yeah, as you mentioned just going about your business. Is there, what do you do as a coach? You try to keep it just business as usual? Do you try to do anything differently when these types of stretches pop up? No, you definitely talk about it.

You don't sweep it under the rug and act like it's okay. Like we're playing our best basketball, our most consistent. We make that a point and see how we can get to it and show the great stretches that we've had to come back from down 11 in the last three plus minutes and then take a 13 point lead. We did some really good things. We were physical into the ball. They were the aggressive most of the night,

and we flipped it there. And if we can come out with that to start, and show them all the good things, the positive things. Obviously, we look at what went wrong as well, but you understand what can get you there and how consistent you have to be. And so we look at both, you know, put it on the table and see ways for us to improve

and how we can do it in these last nine games. How have you liked a men, the change when you put reading the start line up the last handful of games? Yeah, men's been great regardless. I think even going back to his last 20 or so games, even before Reed was in the lineup, he's been playing an extremely high level. On the ball, off the ball, it just gives him more variety when Reed is in to not have to handle as much. You know, he can get back into some of his dunker spots and screening and rolling

and do the offensive rebounding. So just gives him more varieties, ways he can score, ways he can attack. and not just having the ball and setting up. So if he's still doing that some, I want him to continue to grow in that role, but he's so good at the other things, you don't just want to limit him. Ema, you've got the Memphis Grizzlies in the night.

This is a team that's had 29 different players. What is it like, even for a division opponent, we'll see him for the third time this year, to have to basically draw up a new lineup, or at least film study-wise, of a bunch of guys you've largely never seen before collectively play together at the same. same time. Well, you just take a look at Chicago and Washington and all these other teams that are,

you know, guys are auditioning for roles for their futures. And, you know, they had a close game of Boston the other night. They beat Denver a few games ago in their last five. And so, you don't look at the names on the back of the jersey. It's the NBA. And you can get beat any night if you don't come out with the right mindset. And so for us, it's about coming out aggressive, guarding them just like they're anybody else. And we've got to get back to our physicality on that end, offensively, taking care of the ball, sharing the ball. And, and you know, being aggressive, attacking there, not looking for fouls or calls or anything like that.

And so, like I said, it's more about us, honestly. We'll go about our business tonight like we have to, but we want to see a consistent four quarters and then carry it on to the next game as well. We'll leave it at that. Thank you for the time. As always, we'll see at the arena later this evening, and good luck against the Grizzlies.

Thank you. All right, we'll see. Betsy Meadoka with us here on Sports Talk 790 at 109. And again, Rockets against the Grizzlies tonight. We'll have it for you with a launch pad at six tip time. will be at 7 o'clock. The reality is this, Ross, you're down? I mean, this is what,

game 773 tonight. You can't get to a practice court. You just got to be able to play four quarters. I think of a storyline this year has been sometimes 12 minutes sink you. It definitely sunk you in the Chicago game being down by 20, fighting all the way back.

And maybe part of that as well, being down double digits late to Minnesota was too much to be able to put that extra five minutes. You just got to find a will and a way to do that because that last two and a half minutes was certainly a different basketball team than we saw in the previous quarter against the Wolfram they came back

from that double-digit deficit. It's just been crazy the up and down and it's just been a bit of a funk. I mean, at least you do have the pair of wins over the hawks and the heat. I mean, those were great on the back-to-back. It was, especially after the two losses to the Lakers, but

that's basically what they're sandwich in between. The first loss of the Lakers where the fourth quarter was just so bad and then the second one where Luca Donchish just got hot at the end and then this bulls and this timber was lost, man. They're just tough pills to swallow. It's just

it's been frustrating as far as knowing that the team can play better and just not seeing it as much on the floor. And the reality is this. If the rockets look at themselves whenever the standings eventually come out after 82 and they're the six or the five or they don't have home court.

They can score to look at the number of bottom seven losses. Would that be fair to say? Yeah, missed opportunities. Like non-contending playoff teams? Teams that have multiple injuries? I mean, you had no DeSumu, you had no Anthony Edwards, you lost Nazri because he told Scott Fostery probably cheats. Rudy Gober fouled out.

Yep. You got to go, you got, that's a little that intestinal fortitude that I think the rockets right now are missing. We can point to that one in seven record in overtime. The clutch, the clutch shooting. I mean, I don't want to bring this up because I don't want to be cranky, but there were three numbers that I saw. Nine losses when leading after three.

Clutch games, I guess, was it, was it, clutch is within five, right? Within five and under five minutes, I think. 19 and 22. And 67 turnovers in clutch time. Oh, well, the problem is turnover has been an issue all season long. I mean, you know, you could extract those five minutes, but they've been turnovers in the second quarter games too, you know.

Yeah. Five minutes or fewer remaining in a game when a five-point margin is qualifies as clutch time. Which is funny because it shouldn't be six, two possession? Yeah. But whatever. All right. Can we do 40 minutes of non-depressing radio the rest of the way? Are we going to just stuck for the front of all?

What's believe it or not today? I thought you were going to do Cougar basketball history. You want me to? I was being, I was being a, hmm, I was being a jerk. How about that? Write that down.

What? Get your pen out. Write it down. Why? You being a jerk, 113 Friday, March 20th. No, I was. I'm saying it was earlier, though. Yeah. That's, I'm apologizing now. It doesn't mean as much. Okay.

Although instant notification of your rudeness was appreciated at least. All right, 113. We've got non-floor stories at the bottom of the hour. If you want to get in, this is your last chance to talk to us for the week. Come on in and talk to us. Cougar fans, if you're sad, let me know. Astro fans, if you want the heading coaches fired after one game, don't let me know. If you're a rocket fan that's aggravated, I get it.

We can be aggravated together. 713-212-5-7-90. Non-4 stories coming up in about 12 minutes. Here on Sports Talk, 790. 7-13-212-5-790. If you want to chime in right now, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Again, Rockets tonight here on 790 and the Astros, if you're going to catch the Astros game on the radio,

which, of course, good to hear Robert and Steve back on. We'll be over on 740 tonight with a start. time of 7-10. All right, let me get back on the phones, and we'll start with Willie, the Cougar fan. Willie, are you sad today? I'm assuming the answer is yes. Yes, there is a sadness about this. You know, it's like losing someone.

It's a grieving time. Now, I couldn't watch the game last night. My husband did. He had the volume down low or on mute because I thought, well, if they lose, I just I just don't want to see this. So at 11, I was in the bedroom finishing my book. And I came back into the main area where the TV is. And my husband said, you don't want to see it recorded.

They lost. And I said, oh, no. But I, you know, I didn't, I guess, you know, I didn't, you know, I didn't sleep well last night. I kept thinking about it. It felt bad for the coach. And, of course, the team feels. bad but um i was at the grocery store a few minutes ago i was talking to the bagger and he said well

i don't really like basketball but my friend does and he said my friend's neighbor broke the tv last night he's going to have to buy a new one so there some people are really upset never worth no sporting events worthy of breaking a television i find that i don't know if you see that thank you willie for the phone call i don't see on social media i i I don't think that's cool or interesting or first. I think it's stupidity. If you go, if you take something and you destroy equipment or a television or throw something, you need to check yourself.

If you want to have a pop or have a shot of something or you want to just yell and scream at people, that's one thing. But to go destroy a property, that's, come on, it's just sports. Be like going and destroying furniture at a Las Vegas hotel after a university. you Texas football loss, Ross. You know what I'm saying? It's so irresponsible. Yeah, I didn't do that.

I literally slammed my hand on a table and it shattered into 15 pieces. That is not accurate. Literally nothing broke. And then you went downstairs and got a proposition by a prostitute. This legend to girl. Excuse me? What?

Do you remember that girl? She wanted to party with you? Oh, yeah. I was literally playing video poker and this prostitute came up next to me and she's like, oh, let me show you how to play. like what? And then she was like, you know, if you had a jackpot, you have to give me money.

And I'm like, no, I'm good. And then, yeah. I love the story. Then she propositioned me and I said, no, I'm good. What did she actually did she say? You want a party? No, no, no, that's what it was. She wanted me to go to the, she wanted to go somewhere to have drinks with her or something.

I'm like, I'm about to get robbed if I leave anywhere with this girl. Maybe she probably had her boyfriend. She had her boyfriend with a ski mask in the alley ready to, jump on us if I left with her. You've been down on at least one intestine. She was not a kid. She was down on her luck. She was busted down.

Let's put it that way. So maybe you didn't. You know what? I will never bring that story. I forgot about it. First of all, those are two different stories. There's two different hotels. One happened at West in both times.

No. No. You're wrong. But anyways, you've never been watching a football game? It was Oklahoma State. I think they were losing. and I hated Mike Gundy, so I really wanted them to beat Oklahoma State.

And, yeah, I slammed my hand on the, on the end table or something, like, because I was pissed. I didn't break anything. I mean, don't you see your fraud in a liar. Of throwing, like, coffee pots and get the television, you know, kicking their television. Hey, I'm so mad. By the way, will you shoot a video of me thrust kicking my TV? Because I want to get it to go viral. Yeah, it's people with underlying health issue, mental health issues.

Correct. At SportsMT on Twitter. I'll look at him. By the way, I had a new follower to Instagram. Okay. So let me tell you really quickly. I won't mention this person name. I don't want to out him.

But apparently I was following him when he followed me earlier. He must have unfollowed me because as soon as he refollow me back, it shows that I was already following him. I'm like, all right, you little shady gangster. You know who you are, Gene? You said you weren't getting out of him. Oops. Koso! What's your Chile can comment, my friend?

Hey guys, how's it going today? Great. Yeah, as I told Jonathan, I think for the first time in a long time, I have sports fatigue. So much losing has happened in the last week. And I'm like, I'm almost trying to mentally check out at this point. It sucks.

I'm obviously like a huge Rockets fan. I'm a, you know, casual Astros fan, casual Texans fan, and huge UH basketball, you know, huge UH alum, you know, currently working here. You know, last night I, I tried to disassociate myself. I even tried to put on hockey. I just, I did nothing was working. I was just so bummed. and my wife, Mrs. Kayso, came to me

because I was watching the Pugers game and she goes, why do you care so much about teams that are always just losing in your life? And I just sat there, I didn't have a response for the first time in my life. And I just don't know what to do.

I just feel like I need like sports therapy to tell me I can watch a movie instead of watching the Rockets get blown out to the Chicago Bulls. It's just, it's crazy, Matt. And, you know, I listened and I watched the game against the Timberwolves. You know, it was a sure thing in the bag. It blew that 13-point lead.

And I think I heard Clanton say that he was in a dark room watching Space City Home Network or just listening to something. I was doing the exact thing. I was in my kitchen. I was butt-naked. I was listening to your call. And I just felt like this was not what I wanted to be doing anymore with my time. It's sad, but I hope something comes around and do you guys have any words of advice to

help me keep watching for the rest of the year? Astros, you know, I'll take it. I appreciate it. Yeah, you cannot be buck naked in your kitchen. There's just a lot of potential injury to happen there. It's not like he's cooking on three burners. All right. When's the last time he went to your kitchen and was completely buck naked? I mean, not a stitch. Within the last week. really okay had to get some water see we can't do it at the thomas

household because i've got yeah i i live alone oh so you can just walk around without any with nothing and yeah i guess you're in an apartment you could do that yeah yeah you come out of the shower you haven't put your clothes on yet i don't know that doesn't normally happen what if you're like chopping up like celery and uh yeah exactly i i am not uh i'm not

making homemade french fries with no clothes on just grabbing some water. What if you're cutting up a beef tenderloin or something? You got a hydrate. Yeah, I'm not reverse searing a rib eye. Let me ask you why do you think he brought up the fact that he was completely butt naked during this? Was there looking for a little element of, hey, I've been there, done that kind of thing? I don't know.

It adds to the story, though. It does. All right. To answer your question, Koso, you must still enjoy sports. but I would at least put some boxers on when you're in the kitchen just in case it's like anything

you can enjoy it but don't overdo it don't make it your life don't make it your whole personality okay yes I had three beers that sounds fine I had 14 beers take your girl out for a nice dinner go to a movie do other things yeah

yeah Aristotle had to write many years ago all things in moderation yeah Aristotle what a good Well, all he did was give us clever phrases. Yes. We had Paul Harvey. We had Aristotle.

Who's doing it for us in 2026? Duh. Tony Robbins. Oh, Kendrick Lamar. Yeah. Puehler's a prize winner. He's absolutely a fantastic poet. Wordsmith.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Now I'm four of stories after I tell you about uptown appliance repair. We find interesting stories. Stories that occur outside the state of Florida And share them with the people of Hugh It's time for- Mischak, 43 years old. In 2020, in Brooklyn,

she was promoted to director of the German-language immersion daycare called Kinderhaus. She was previously a program coordinator in 2013. Well, during her time running this immersion daycare, she was stealing money in tuition payment sports RV. What? Yes. Between January of 2022 and October of 2025, she stole the equivalent of $2.75 million.

Wow. That's a lot. I mean, that is no one watching the books. any circumstance. So she steals the 2.75. She spends a lot of the money on the two high-end apartments in Brooklyn, New York. But she also Ross and Jonathan spent over $350,000 on one particular thing. Would you guys like to guess what that one particular thing is?

Bitcoin. Predict. Tickets to WWE events. What? Yes. She's an enthusiast. Treated her three children to outings at WWE events like Monday Night Raw and paid top dollar for deluxe packages to meet wrestlers. She also spent over $600,000 on travel entertainment along with hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury items, food delivery, and riding sharing services.

I can't imagine spending $600,000 on Uber Lyft or Lyft for that matter. matter. She was arrested by federal agents early on Wednesday, pleaded not guilty to a Brooklyn court to wire fraud and money laundering charges. If she's convicted of the charges, Ms. Yac faces up to 20 years in prison. She was ordered to surrender a passport. She's a Swiss citizen, by the way, and was ordered a $200,000 bond, and she must wear an ankle monitor as well. Now, I know WWE tickets are expensive, but 350,000. thousand dollars to see the miss enrollment rains and sam punk

that is excessive spending my friends seems like a little much and that is my non-flora story thank you matt okay i guess i can go next oh it looks like jonathan's on hopefully he's all right he's on the phone uh well i had i'm going to be honest man i had a story and then i realize this in florida so i'm scrambling but

have this one. How about this, Matt? Do you subscribe to the publication called Environmental Pollution? In fact, I do. I'm glad you brought that up. Okay. I just renewed. So you must be intrigued by the latest edition, where

they were testing sharks off the coast of the Bahamas. As a research team led by biologist Natasha Woznik was analyzing blood samples from 85 sharks near Eleretha Island. El Eurasia.

This isn't going to end well, is it? This isn't going to end well, is it? Well, the nurse sharks, Caribbean reef sharks and juvenile lemon sharks, are all full of cocaine, caffeine, and painkillers. Researchers say the sources are, of course, all human-related. Sewage runoff, waste discharge, and, of course, tourists waiting in the water. of the Bahamas who urinate released trace amounts of whatever drugs

they have including cocaine. So if you want to avoid the cocaine sharks, don't head to the Bahamas. I thought she was going to lose limbs and stuff. Okay, that doesn't nearly sound about it. You get really worried. By the way, I want to make an announcement here,

and I feel like it's an honor of K, so I decided to go butt-naked for the last half hour of the show. Nobody, see, nobody needs to hear that. Well, I mean, I believe it all. but honest conversation in case those naked so can I. I'm uncomfortable.

I don't even know if I want to write that down. Please don't. Don't write it down. Cocaine sharks embezzling money for a school for WWE tickets. Jonathan, top those two stories, please.

I'm a try. But in Boston, you can stop at the call at boomer phone booth on Commonwealth Avenue in Brooklyn. Free of charge, just to connect with

Brooklyn or in Boston? Which one is it? On Commonwealth Avenue and Brookline. Oh, Brookline. I think she said Brooklyn. Okay. No, that's my bad. That's my bad. That's free charge. You can connect with the older person, you know, around you guys' ages, living in a senior housing facility in Reno, Nevada. They say that it shows in newer science that young people and seniors are the loneliest among AIDS groups.

The goal of this project is to inspire generational connection through meaningful connections. A plaque on the phone booth reads, calls work either way. If no one picks up, the caller can leave a message. The guy who set up as matter, set up another phone line early this year in San Francisco, and our neighbors, you know, Mr. Tex, you know, and Abilene.

Just designed to connect everybody on the spectrum. Would you pick up a phone map if someone called you those younger and he was lonely? If I could be therapeutic for him, sure, why not? See, I think it's a weird, if it's a weird, no Florida started, but I feel like it's positive. I feel like it's a good. I think it's a nice story.

It's a story of, hey, somebody needs some help. Grab a phone. Call somebody. I like that. That's what I went for. You're not going to believe this. When I was a kid, this is like when I was five or six. I was still in Detroit at the time.

It's one of the few memories I remember Detroit. There used to be a restaurant we used to go to. And each of the tables had a telephone. And if you wanted to talk to somebody in a different table, your table had a number to it. you could just call them and say, hey, hi, Table 14. I'm at Table 11 or I'm at Table 26. Now, I didn't have caller ID back then.

This is talking about the late, this is like the late 70s. But phone conversations can work to meet people. It could be cathartic. And if you want to have a rando hookup at a restaurant where you eat to cheeseburger and fries, you go to a 1978 restaurant in Detroit. Now, the problem was you could probably crank call some people too. And you're trying to eat your pizza or your cheese sticks and somebody's, calling your phone over and over again.

Now you can always just hang it up, but, you know, you never know who you're going to meet. Never even going to bond with. Jonathan, a wonderful story about older people meeting with younger generations to build relationships through communication and not texting. Exactly. Ross, less texting in 2026. I'm trying.

More phone conversations. Oh, I'm trying to. I'll do less texting. No problem. He doesn't even text anyway. Yeah, right. He's a terrible text or so. That's fine.

He runs between. between D plus and C on that's not true. I feel like I'm better than that. I would like to appeal this decision. Is it? Jonathan, how do you think your Ross's texting skills are? We don't really do. He's worse than me.

He definitely runs into the D. Oh. Excuse me? True or words never been spoken. And Jonathan, you're also a D too when it comes of texting. No, I feel like I'm, you know. I'm the best text of this group. By far.

because you're on your phone too much you travel all the time yeah that's true because I'm always thinking about the show and putting things in there and just you know I'm trying to be one step ahead of the program all right so I'm going to put some clothes on

and we're going to play hell yeah or not next so I did the one second I completely naked but I figure I'm going to get I'm going to Remy Rons to get some sandwich after the show so I hope Koso's happy terrible about going to Remy Rons or being

I'm ready to go home. I need a nap. I know. Ross did the noon fade. It's like I've working with a different person the last two hours. I'm sorry that you noticed that. I can hardly keep my eyes open. I'm being honest.

And I don't want to do coffee because I want to nap after the show. I'm really sorry. You need to take a good, deep nap. I'm really sorry. I'm still dealing with whatever this fatigue issue I've had as well. So it's like, it's okay. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do?

Believe it or not. Monday through Thursday, we call it. Believe it or not. It's America's fastest-growing sports radio game show, but on Fridays, we call it a hell yeah, and out. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-70.

Today's edition of Hellyer-Ear-N-Out is all things about the city of Memphis, Tennessee, where I currently am. I'll read your statement about Memphis, statement completely not really accurate. You'll say this. Believe it. No, you will not say this. You will say this? Hell yeah!

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but you must first win today on hell yeah or not. Let's go to Ken on 790. Ken, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Ken, good luck to you. Here's your question. The population of Memphis, the city itself, about $620,000. Hell yeah, or not?

Hell yeah. Statement number two for the win. Memphis, Tennessee is named after Memphis, Egypt. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Hell yeah! There's a winner. Bill, your favorite Pat Benatar song. Bill?

Yeah, C.Nak need to stay all four years. The southern city border of Memphis is also the state line between Tennessee and Mississippi. Hell yeah or not. Man, it's a hell yeah. Hell yeah. Good luck.

nicknames from Memphis include Hub City, Blues Town, and the cradle of Tennessee. Hell yeah, or not? Hell no. Not. I'm sure he isn't one in 30 days? I'm sure he has. Phyllis on 790. Phyllis, what was your favorite part of today's 10-2 radio show?

All of it. All of it. Who is in the background? What's his name? No one. All right, Phyllis The climate The climate of Memphis is classified as humid subtropical,

which is the same as Houston. Hell yeah or not. Hell yes. Statement number two for the win. According to TripAdvisor, the number one thing to do in Memphis is to visit Beale Street. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. Is it Graceland? Jeremiah on 790. Jeremiah, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Memphis is home the world's first holiday inn. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah.

Statement number two for the win. The Jersey sponsor of the Memphis Grizzlies is the same as their arena sponsor. That's FedEx. Hell yeah or not. That's a hell year? No, it's not. It's Robin Lundon. Ross.

Talk, 790 is over. You will not hear from him this weekend, correct? Correct. My get, he probably left the studio. I said correct. All right. Okay, good. Hey, listen, Rockets Grizzlies here on 790. Astros, Angels, 740.

The next four hours, you'll be highly entertained by Mr. Clanton and Mr. Wexler. They are the team. I'll talk to you for Rockets in Memphis here from the Mid-South at 7th.