The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - How MLB Players React To Owner Proposal, AC Twitter Wars, Celeb Uber Driver

Episode Date: May 12, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12-0-2 and H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Sports Talk 790.

I know sports RV is already locked and loaded. having gone in the trenches? Yes, with two former NFL football players, myself and Chris Gordy. I mean, you are built like a lineman. Well, maybe like an eighth grade lineman. Yeah. You would have definitely been the starting left guard on an 8B team. I was, and the defensive end.

Started both ways and played special teams. You go both ways. That's zero surprise. Joe George, the producer of the radio program today. How are you? Wonderful. I was until I got home yesterday. What happened? Well, yesterday we spent a lot of the show talking about Major League Baseball owners got together in a conference call.

Yes. And went, let's get done. Made a proposal. Let's go. And they all agreed to it. 82 game schedule sounds like. Yes. DH. Play the games inside your stadium as best you can. Play your own divisional opponents. And then the cross divisional of as far as geographical alignment. Yep. NLS versus AOS, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So Astros Dodgers on the schedule Six times Cody Bellinger going to get hit Jose Al Tuvae or somebody going to get hit

Carlos Correa going to get one in the ribs Mookie Betts would be like I'm good here I'm good y'all are fine and then there was something about 50-50 revenue share of the season Yes Now they didn't slip it in It seems reasonable it's on the proposal

Well it's on a proposal because again They asked the players in March to take a cut but they didn't presume that they were going to have a season without any fans. The thought was delayed the start of the season, and then we'll have everybody back in stadiums doing yada, yada, yada. Well, things obviously with the pandemic have gotten a lot worse. So they're saying, look, we can't make our money in our stadium this year. We just can't.

We can't advertise. We can't sell hot dogs. We can't park. We can't. We're just, that revenue's gone. So help us out here in this 50-50 split. Tony Clark, who has been on the show before, not as a guess, but we just played a bunch of his audio.

You and I were like two feet away from Tony Clark. He spoke for a really long time. Oh, my God, he did. And it wasn't about anything like this. It was about the Astor's cheating situation. A smart guy, knowledgeable. I feel like I mean good as a head of the PA. And ultimately has to be the fall guy.

I mean, that's when you take on you are the representative, the president, whatever you want, the grand pooh-bah, you're going to be the quote, you know, you're going to be speaking on behalf of one of the strongest unions in baseball. You know, baseball unions have been, generally speaking, in history, as strong as it possibly gets in terms of they win the battle again. They don't have a salary cap, which helps. They have won against revenue sharing before in the past. And they've had pretty much pretty good harmony over the last, you know, there was a strike

of 94, but that was 26 years ago. I mean, that's pretty good for a bunch of billionaires and millionaires to get along for 25 plus years until now. Hopefully they'll resolve this at some point, but yes, there is definitely, speaking of in the trenches, it looks like they're getting entrenched in either side, especially the players. So here's the reason why I felt so lousy. Hearing some of the quotes, you and I read some of the early stuff.

Yes. And then I went home and, you know, got on the internet because I was bored. Ken Wilsonthal put an article around after your show. Right. I didn't think they were going to say, yeah, owners, this sounds good. Let's knock this out today and get started. I think there are 8 million layers of this, not only for the finances of the baseball world, but the logistics of it, making sure it is safe and doing the thing.

But I just get the overriding sense that they're going to, and we won't, I don't think we'll get a complete and utter, this is a waste of our time. Why do you call us today kind of thing? But I don't feel like by the time this show ends at 3 o'clock this afternoon, we're going to be feeling particularly good about the relations between owners and players in Major League Baseball. And that would then, Ross, I think, put Major League Baseball on a clock. Yeah, we'll see how quickly it happens. But the baseball, the owners are going to make their proposal.

They had to know pretty much no matter what they put out, there's going to be a counterproposal from the players. They're not just going to say, you know what? You put all these terms up. These sound perfect. We're going to agree to this. No, that's not going to happen. There's going to be the players going to come back and they're going to want some. concessions or are going to not want to concede

some of the things that the owner are going to want. And this is going to go back and forth. And this is something that ideally would take place over the course of weeks or months. But we don't have weeks or months. Don't have that time. That's exactly right. But that's also something we had Chandler-Roman during the in the trenches show. And he said

that players that he's talked to have said, the MLB could have put this to us a week ago or a couple of weeks ago or even further ago. The reason that they're waiting this long is so that the negotiations can't draw out. And so some of the players or the players union is a little upset that it took MLB this long to put it together. But of course the owners can say, hey, this situation's changing

every day. We couldn't have put anything together. And that goes to the point of there's always going to be a distrust of the owners by the players, no matter what the situation is. Yep. And so they're going to want 50-50 revenue split. The players are saying, well, hold on now. That sounds a lot like a salary cap, which, and we're not operating under a salary cap. So if you're losing all this money that you're saying, you're going to have to open up the books. So the owners always open up the books a little bit. They're going to have to open up a little bit more wide if the players are going to agree to all of this revenue sharing type of plan.

Baseball will lose $1.2 billion in ticket sales if they go half year, $888 million in game day spending, $775 million in national media, $172 million in corporate sponsorships. They are talking about if you lose half of the regular season, $3 billion in lost revenue. Wow. That's intense, sports survey, is what that is. It's pretty crazy. So why don't you know what, do this?

Why don't they just take the numbers that just right off, put it in front of the union and say, there you go. That's what they're trying to say, but this is what the union is saying. They're saying, hey, well, let's say one year revenues are higher than normal. say the Astros, for example, their revenues have gone up the last several years, right? Because they've been selling a lot more tickets. And players salaries have gone in the last two years, by the way.

Players salaries have gone up as well. Down. Down. I'm sorry. Okay, they've gone down. Okay, then that's good. Then so if revenues are going up, they don't say, oh, well, we want 20% more in our contract next year. It doesn't work like that. So that's what the players are saying. Well, you go up and you keep it. You privatize your gains, as in you put them in your

bank account. But now when you want losses, you want everybody to feel it. You want everybody to take your losses. So you kind of understand where the players are coming from there. But if you go to a 50-50 revenue split, if things are going better than expected, you're going to make more money, correct?

That's true. But what if last year, a 50-50 revenue split would have benefited the players or two years ago or three years ago and they didn't get a dime of that? So now when you're losing, you're saying,

oh, we're crying poor and now you need help. I don't want to speak for the entire audience is listening to show, but I can speak for myself. You can throw numbers at me left and right. And you can, and again, that's why the union has its representatives. That's why the owners speak.

The players are going to take a public beating on this. Yes. Because even though you might have an inherent distrust of the owners, it would not take anything more than a GED equivalent for you to figure out that Major League Baseball owners are going to take a bath on this year in baseball. We just gave you the numbers of $3 billion in lost revenue among the 30 baseball teams. I don't think those are embellished numbers. I think those are real, real numbers.

The television contract is going to cost you the lack thereof over almost $800 million in lost revenue. So you can argue about what you think the owners are doing or what they're trying to call a salary cap or what you think about, well, you wouldn't ask of this when times are better. If Major League Baseball, the Players Association come out, whether it be today or sometime at the end of the week, and say, what they just gave us is a load of fooey and unacceptable, they're going to get crushed. And that's when the clock does start. Honestly, Ross, and you tell me if I'm wrong on this. I don't know if you can wait another month. Because here we are almost at May 15th, right? If you want to play July 1st weekend or July, whatever that is, that opening weekend of July,

you sure as hell need to be in your camps in the next, what, three, three and a half weeks, somewhere in that range? Because you're not going to want to put Major League Baseball pitchers into a training camp and a spring training and only have to give them two weeks, 17, 20 days tops to get ready for the season. Yeah. It'll be a disaster. If you get something, in theory, if the players agreed today, then, yeah, you can get the pitchers working their arms, doing their programs and all that type of stuff. start spring training camp two in a month

and then have them for a couple of weeks season starts early July. That's the plan. Here's the other part of it, guys. Think about this. If you want to spend all your next two or three weeks arguing about the money, don't you have two or three weeks of logistics to get to about health and safety and making sure there's a proper protocol

for every one of these baseball teams with their staff, their pitching coaches, their players, their traveling situations, you have to put together a schedule. I think the longer this goes on in terms of fighting about money, the shortest season you're going to have, and then you're going to start fighting that calendar because I know it would be very cool to play these games in their home stadiums, but I'm sorry, October 15th,

you do not want to have any home games in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You just don't. You're going to run into some serious weather problems. And then, oh, by the way, Ross, you're going to expand the playoffs. You're going to try to tell me you're going to play a November 15th game at City Field in New York and not be concerned about the potential weather situation. This is why, and maybe it was dast. But this is why you probably had to wait until the very last second so you can cut the negotiating time in half.

And I mean, as far as what you said, is safety. I mean, that's another thing. The players are going to say, we're putting ourselves at risk. We're putting our family at risk. So we're going to need a little bit of extra money for that too. So we're not going to. That's another reason they don't want to concede because owners are going to kick their feet up and make money. Jim Crane's not going to be as much risk as a player or a staff member or a security guy or anybody else.

Right. So they're incurring a lot of the. risk. They're the ones that are putting their families in danger. And so they're going to want some money on that on that end too. 713-212-5-790. If you'd like to join us this afternoon, 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. We'll dig more into this as we move along this afternoon. Also on the radio program today, when the man becomes a mom. I think it's a very interesting headline. If you're a wrestling fan, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Also, the NFL is thinking about additional ways to raise revenue this year. If there are no

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Your favorite song, Maddie? Was this the number one song in the last decade? I don't know. You want to do the 2010s? Because it is. The 2010s, I'm going to get the first pick, and that song's going to be it. Smashing. Is it smashing dragons?

Is that who it is? Raising dragons? Smashing pumpkins? Forest dragons. Smash mouth. See, Imagine Dragons. Imagine having a decent song. It only reached number four.

Thank God. Well, actually, it would have been easy number one pick. For you. All right, 12-19. I'll be picking. I'll have the choice since I won the last year. I know you did, but we're going to do something else. We've got to do something girl-related this week.

Well, we did, uh, didn't we do? We did sportscasters a couple weeks ago. You lost that. Yeah. What do we got? What's the next? What's the next category we can blatantly talk about hot women for a segment on the show? I don't know.

Anything so for Sophia Vergara is, uh, eligible for. We had the Monday night meeting yesterday and a question was put out to the boys, the greatest TV or movie mom. Yes. I saved, uh, I let Ross go second because I know the answer was going to be Sophia Vergara. It took me a second to come up with that one. You should have let Roscoe first because he went to me first.

He was scrambling. Who'd you eventually go with? The mom from Friday Night Lights. Yeah, maybe a list of questions beforehand will help us prep and give better answers. But I like spontaneity, though. That's true. I feel like, though, I never put you guys in a position to make it an awkward spot. So maybe what I'll do is there's stuff that I make sure you go back in your memory banks a little bit.

Then I'll be able to give you a little bit. You've done that before. You did that with the food question. Yeah. The Monday night meeting. Sports Talk 790's Facebook page. on that are exploding, by the way. They're huge. Huge. If I hear it one more time about a website's numbers exploding, I'm going to vomit. Are you? Yeah. Everybody's like bragging about their numbers.

Nobody's numbers are brag on. Don't vomit. The afternoon delights are doing very well. Now those are exploding. Excuse me. And the pictures are good too. All right, 713-212-5-790. If you'd like to join us today. 7-1-3-212-5-790. We've got some news. Not not news, but more like a prediction about a certain NFL quarterback who's going to make a boatload of money. We'll tell you about that coming up in about 10 minutes from now. And I mean boatload, Ross. Robert Griffin, the third? No, he would just like to get a paycheck period.

So back to this baseball stuff, just for a second. So here's what I don't. I need you guys, because you guys are better with terms of economics than I am. If a player has a salary, but all of a sudden they want to 50-50 split the revenue of a season. So how does that impact a person as under contract? Okay, so this is what they, basically what they said is, what the players have agreed to is pro-ration. So let's just say, Justin Verlainter is making 33, but let's just say 30 just to make it easy. If they play 81 games, he's going to make 15.

Yeah. But that's what they've agreed to. That's what the players have agreed to is that we're going to do that. We're pro-rating. What the MLB has said, well, even though we're doing half of the games, we're going to lose even more because there's no fans. We're going to lose money because there's no concessions and no luxury suites and no parking. and all that type of stuff. So even though it's 50% of the games,

we're losing even more than that of the revenue. Right. So whatever we do make, let's split with you 50-50. So that makes logical sense. But the MLBPA is saying, well, hold on now. When you're gaining revenues,

we don't get anything. And how do we know that you're being honest and open with your books as far as a split? Yeah. So that's basically where the impasse is. Because it really isn't a... You can pay anybody what you want.

Yeah. It's just overall revenues. It's going to be whatever they agree to. Because they know it's going to be, it's different. The CBA is in effect right now ripped up because what's happening right now. Man, I really hope they don't screw this up. But how, let me ask you this. Is there a way that we could empathize with the players?

The only way I would think we could is if the owners are flat out lying about what they think they're going to make this year. And we're not going to know that. And honestly, I mean, a lot of this stuff, it's going to be almost a battle of leaking. Like what's going to happen is if the players come out and reject this today, the owner is going to leak that the players are doing this and this and this and they're selfish. Then the players are going to have to come out and speak against that. Then that's going to create bad blood. Then that's going to create, we're not negotiating in good faith because you guys are leaking stuff out.

So this could get messy in a hurry. And I don't know how long that means it's going to be a mess. But Ross, they don't have much time. No, that's a thing. Yeah. They don't have time for this a minute. Like I said, normally this would be over months. So 80K, you're going to play 82 games.

You're going to play the first week of July. So that's 26 games in July, 26, that's 70, 52. That's going to get into what, early October to finish out the season, right? Because you're going to skip the All-Star break. You've got to give guys days off in between. So you're not going to be that far off on a schedule if you all get your act together. Yes. And then the players also say, well, you make all these revenue numbers that you're giving us,

don't factor in what you're making off of playoff games and that stuff. And you're going to have extra teams in the playoff. So that's more games, more games on TV, more revenue. So I guess they just don't believe that the owners are being honest with their revenue numbers or something? That is the case since the day that owners became billionaire. That's true. That the unions don't believe the owners. And the owners are like women.

We're the bosses. Like, for instance, I would love to be able to look at IHeart's books. I don't get to do that. That's, I don't, that's where we don't get the opportunity to do so. And the owners are saying, we're the ones that are, we are the ones that own these baseball teams. You don't. You're our employees. You're good employees.

You're highly competent employees. But you're not privy to everything that we spend. So if you're on the ownership side of the things, if you're a person that owns a business list in the show right now, you're like, back off. We're going to pay you an incredible wage. We're going to still pay a really good wage. It's going to prorated open the number of games we play. but how our books look are frankly none of your business. I'm curious how, you know, we only for the sake of this show,

only talk about labor negotiations when it comes to players and owners. I wonder what it's like in other unions. Like the auto workers. Steel workers or something, yeah. I wonder if the steelworkers union runs to the owners and says, hey, open up your books. I want to see what you got. Yeah, probably a lot of that stuff is they want as conditions

that the players are already going to get. benefits, dental plan, paid time off, those types of things. Working conditions, certain amount of hours limits, overtime, holiday pay, holiday, all that type of stuff. So yeah, it's a different, a little bit of a different situation. You're probably not talking about, I mean, those steelworkers aren't making millions and millions of dollars. All I know is that we're going to get some, somebody's going to say something today. That's why we're going to stare at our Twitter all day, because Rosenthal or Pass and or one of those guys will say something. And either we're going to be highly encouraged, like, man, this sounds great, or we're going to be professionally

depressed tomorrow. And maybe the rest of today. I don't know. I don't see one way or the other on this. Unless, unless Tony Clark says, had a productive meeting today, we look forward to further negotiations. I think there's going to be a counter offer or like, hey, they're going to send, kind of like when you're teacher, you put in something to your teacher or something. They're going to get it back with a bunch of notes on it. Changes, changes, change this, change this. And then maybe we can talk some more. So I think there's very little chance something gets done today, but I don't know. But I would say hopefully they have to know because like you said, Matt,

and we're talking about like we know, with any labor negotiation, there's public pressure. When there was a player strike, there was public pressure. A hundred times higher on the player's side. And it's going to be a lot higher now with everybody saying, oh, I'm sorry, boo-hoo players. I've been laid off. 20% of the population is unemployed. And you'd want to make $15 million instead of $14 million, boo freaking who? Yeah, with 20 million people in this country unemployed, they're going to be hard pressed

to get the court of public opinion on their side. There may be something like you mentioned. I put up a tweet today, said, I'm afraid that things aren't going to turn out well. We're not going to like what we hear from the union. And there were probably, I had probably 25 responses Ross. I think four or five of them were like, you know what? The owners are being greedy. They're trying to hide.

They're trying to win the court of public opinion. They're trying to put these things out. Good for the players to stand tall on this. Because the players have long said. This is the reason why there was a strike in 94. They didn't want revenue share and they didn't want a salary cap. Major League Baseball has won where the other sports have not. They've never wanted a salary cap and they never have.

Now, is there a greater distance between the halves and the halves and odds in baseball? Perhaps more than any other sport? Absolutely. In the NFL, small Green Bay and small Carolina has just as much chance to win a championship in the NFL as Big L.A., big San Francisco and Big Dallas. In basketball, well, the free – the – the – it's a little different. It's hard to get free to go to Milwaukee or Sacramento. It's also not a hard cap. There's luxury tax and stuff like that.

But in theory, you do have a chance in Milwaukee. If you draft well and spend your money well, then you have a chance to win a championship in Sacramento and Charlotte. Or Oklahoma City. Or Oklahoma City, for that matter. In Major League Baseball, it's hard for – Kansas City to routinely be in the mix with the New Yorks and the Chicago's and Los Angeles. It's, I mean, look at Oakland. I mean, big city, but don't put any money in their franchise.

They don't have a lot of big revenue streams. They're never going to be able to compete long term. They may win their 90 games every year, but the Oakland A's are never seriously thought of as a large component. Because, again, not everybody has a certain floor or a certain ceiling they have to spend. And if they are going to be contenders, it'll be because they've hit on draft picks in like small trades. It's not going to be because of huge free agent signings. Yes. Or the fact that the league shares all its revenue and everybody's on an equal playing field. The NFL has a salary cap and the Texans might have to just really get real damn close to it from what reports are about what Deshawn Watson could be making.

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How important was it? 1 to 10. 19. Okay. All right, so Deshaun Watson, there is a lot of, is buzz the word I want to use or just speculation?

Skettled butt? Okay. Smoke? CBS Sports has a story about it, 24-7 sports is a story about it, something called tiger something.com's Tiger droppings? Tiger drop, no, this is Clemson's Tigers. Okay.

Jeremy Fowler, ESPN's got something about it. Texan's thoughts have something about it. What we're talking about it is the fact that this is already Jeremy Watson, Jeremy Fowler's tweet. He says, several league execs believed that Deshawn Watson, will be the next quarterback to sign a mega extension before Pat Mahomes, who's considered in his own stratosphere. They think Texans have more urgency, and with making Laramie Tunsell their highest paid left tackle by a wide margin, it is time to do it for the quarterback.

You know what that margin is that we're talking about? Aaron Wilson had an article last Friday. He said $40 to $42 million per year. $40 million. Quick check, boys. What is the NFL's annual salary cap? Around 200. I think it's like 200.

We here at Sports Talk 790 are your unofficial home of Deshawn Watson. $198.2 million, according to my Google machine. Okay, so let's just run up for $200 just for Black & & Giggles, okay. What did Laramette Towns get? Well, 22, three years of 66, on top of what he's going to make this year. I think he's making 14. Yeah, so let's go to next year. Let's put it at 22.

Okay. Guys, that's $62 million on two players. Yes. No wonder DeAndre Hopkins' word in Cardinal gear. When Bill O'Brien said, we ain't got money to pay for you. That's the truth. T.D. Truth, yes. Theory being that the NFL salary cap is going to go up over the next several years,

but now in the midst of a pandemic, who knows? Yeah, the question is who does? look we as I said we're your unofficial home of Deshawn Watson like very unofficial like he's never been on the show before life but we love him nevertheless Rossi 40 million dollars a year and grant I know the quarterback spot

the numbers I mean the numbers are like Carson Wince and Jared Golf and Kirk Cousins and a bunch of pedestrian-ass quarterbacks are getting as absurd the top three quarterbacks in the league are Wilson, Rathusberger, and Rogers. But after that, it is like, it's like Golf Went.

I'll have to look. It's golf wins and maybe Kirk Couss. And by the way, Doc Prescott's going to join that club eventually as well. Is there any part of you when I say $40 million ago? Well, first of all, you'd say damn good for him. Show me the money! Yeah, show me the money. But isn't that, it feels a little absurd?

Yeah, golf cousins and, win or four, five, and six highest paid quarterbacks in the league. Because honestly, if you're Deshawn Watson, you're like, I'm way better than those dudes. And I would understand him saying that. But how in the world did the NFL allow its quarterbacks to get so obscenely paid? I would say the market was kind of set by Kirk Cousins and the money that he was given by the Vikings. And then he got an extension of what, just this past off season, right? But even the Kirk Cousins money was crazy because remember how much money he was made?

is when he was being franchised with the Redskins. The reason was making crazy money is because the average of the quarterbacks at that time when it was time for him to franchise was crazy. He got huge money by the Vikings with huge guarantees. So, I mean, and then Russell Wilson came after that, right? So, I mean, if you're Russell Wilson, Super Bowl, multiple Super Bowls with a win, you're saying, how can I be paid less than Kirk Cousins? So that's just basically, it's usually one outlier sets the market and then you go from there.

But it feels like there's several outliers. You just went through how many guys in the NFL are making north of $25 million a year at quarterback? Over 25? It looks like, yeah, yeah, 12? Yeah, 12. I always talk about when I grow up when I come back in my next life. I want to be a left-handed reliever, meteorologist, the host of the price is right. I'm going to come back as a professional quarterback. Included on this. Well, Jacoby Brissette's made, this is on a one-year deal, but included on that list is Jacoby Brissette. He's making 20, Almost $28 million. It's timeout.

Wait, they're paying over $55 million for two quarterbacks. That's what this says over the cap. Because Philip Irvers signed a one-year $25 million deal himself. Yeah. Can that be right? Well, he had to have made that money at some point. How? I don't know.

But, man, if you really wanted to fix sports, fix the quarterback position. I know it's important. It's the most important position on the team. But guys, between $40 and $42 million guaranteed for Deshaun Watson, I mean, good for him. He seems like a really nice guy. He tweets out song lyrics instead of telling us the world how upset he is about his buddy leaving.

Yeah. He also tweets about fake news, but that's okay. What do you do? What do you do? Well, here's a little tip about the bears this weekend. So the bears never met with them? That's a lie. Oh, yeah.

Well, he said the bears never talked to him. They might have never met with them. Apparently they talked with him on the phone, according to his own words. Yeah. He got caught saying that, yeah. But you know, when you have calls from different teams, you forget once in a while. It's true.

Hell, I forgot what I had for lunch yesterday. So, I mean, I don't blame to Sean. Yeah, I mean, if you had a nickel for every station that tried to call you and poach you, I mean, you'd have a dime. A dime. A dime. That's it? Well, Joe, I had two stations that wanted me at the same time in December 2009.

And that's when you're in Utah? I was in Salt Lake City. I was in Minneapolis. Okay. Yeah. coming back here. So I had a dime at that point. Very nice, Matt. But anyways, yeah, there are some spec names on this list. I mean, Jimmy Garoppel is making 27 and a half? Good, but I mean, is he? $27 million worthy? Probably not. No. Matt Ryan's making 30.

Carson one's making 32. Yikes. I think the biggest one to me, Ryan Tannehill, 29 and a half. Guys, I don't mean to go into other people's banging cats. Of course, pocket check. Correct. But if you're making $30 million a year, you use $100 bills to wipe your ass, correct? You pocket it and spend it all responsibly, Matt.

If you're Ryan to Anahill, you give most of that money back to Derek Henry, and you say thank you for the paycheck. But if you're anyone else, yes. But I mean, you, like, we go to talk. We're going to go start talking to Deshaun Watson next year, or two years from now, in a lot. We're going to be putting a microphone in front of a guy that makes $40 million. Rossi, $40 million a year.

He can't be that well. I can't afford that. You know how you have conversations like, boy, I'd love to have a house and Galveston. I know, but it's outside my pay grade. Or I'd like to own a boat. Or I'd like to be able to take my kids on a nice vacation. When you make $40 million here, you can do anything you damn well, please. Pretty much.

You buy a plane. You do okay. Do really good. How much is a plane? I don't know, but whatever it is, even if you can't pay it off in the first year, you paid off by the second year. Because guess what?

That $40 million check comes back the next year at $40 million. It's nuts. Gulfstream's going to run you about 65 mil. What's the rule? I'm on the Gulfstream pre-owned site. Okay. You can get one for six and a half mil. A pre-owned golf stream?

Yeah. Okay, I'm in for, percent of it. I'll put 20 bucks on it. That won't get you at least when I'm not even one ride well that's the bottom of the barrel Gulfstream. Some of these pre-owned nice little stream. Let's make a Let's get a new one. We can finance it. You might as well buy used, Matt. You're telling me, let's say I wanted to get a completely unbelievable jet, $75 million. Probably. That's like buying a house, right? Because the house I own, is more expensive than my yearly salary.

Okay. So I'm going to be able to, I could finance it. Yeah. Put, you know, can you, he could give 10 million. If you live in your house, you're going to live in your Gulfstream. Yeah, well, I could. If I had some of a million hour golf stream, I'd probably living in a lot. I'd run it out to you and I, we can go nonstop to Vegas and Lake Charles on a regular basis.

That'd be nice. How fast can we get there in a Gulfstream? Ooh, hour and a half? Really? Fastest Rod ever been in my entire life. I don't mean to name drop, but I'm going to you anyway. This is what it is. I rode with Jim Crane to

Kissimmee, Florida when the Astros had spring training there. We got there. We left Hobby Airport, and I think we got to Orta, to Casimian an hour in 21 minutes. We were going over 600 miles an hour in the plane. Dang. When the average plane probably goes 475 to 500. First of all, you get up higher than a regular commercial traffic.

Okay. And then you just start humming along. And you don't feel a damn thing. Just feels like a normal plane. Well, it feels like you're on a, it just feels like you're not zero turbulence at 44,000 feet. So I'm just telling you. So when you get in the Gulfstream, Maddie?

Let me tell you, if I hit the lottery, I'm not going to buy a golf stream, but I'll rent it. Oh, Megamilions today. Probably makes more sense. Well, like the guys on ESPN, they use that with that next jet thing when they always fly around or you fly or whatever. You know how they bring the players in for college game day? Mm-hmm.

The celebrities, they rent that out. That's what I'll do. I'll just run it out. And I'll take a list. listeners. You're still going to do a show? That's a great question. Were you going to become a professional crafts player?

No, I just think you won't be able to find me. Yeah. Because once you hit the lottery, everybody wants money from you. That's true. All right, 1243 is our time. Can I have some? Deshawn Watson. Can I have a lottery.

$40 million a year. Good for him, but damn, it's a lot of money for a quarterback. And boy, it's a lot of money put in two positions. And then JJ Watts money. What does he make? Another $20 million a year on that? top of that. So they're looking at about, I don't know, $72.805 million in three players? I think he's around 16 and 17. Good for him. 713-212-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9.

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Back to Matt Thomas on Sports Talk, 790. So how is the NFL going to make up the lost money and not having fans in the stands? We'll tell you about that coming up at the top of the aisle. I'm curious. You've piqued my interest, Matthew. Well, that's what we call a professional radio cheese. That's great.

A T. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Let's go to Ron on the north side of the Matt Thomas show. Ron, what do you got today? Hey, I was looking, I was reading where the Rockies was talking about looking at Van Gundy as a coach. It was speculation. I don't think they're looking at anybody at this point.

I don't think a decision has been made in any circumstance of what's going on there. But, yeah, I mean, that's a name that has been brought up in rumors for sure. Man, why would they do that? And he's been here before, and he's never won anything. And, you know, that just don't make any sense, man. I think these youth organizations, man, they just dumb. Just a generic dumb, huh? Just generic dumb, man.

Well, here's the problem, Ron. Most coaches haven't won championships. You know this, right? Yeah, I know this, but I'm just saying, why would you go back to the same thing? I mean, they're not proving nothing. And basically, you know, when I'm looking at, they need to get rid of the general managers, too. Man, they just wait a time, man. Been 20 years.

has Darren hasn't not been here for 20 years, has he? No, not that long. He's been the general manager for like 12 years over, something like that. Yeah, Ron, thank you for the phone call. I'll say he took over in 2008-ish. To tell you the God's honest truth, you know, look, 2007, he took over. It wasn't a great sign when Mike did not get an extension done this off-season. It just wasn't.

Whether it was arguing about whether the Rockets wanted to commit to him long-term, whether he was embarrassed by the money, whether they thought. They were giving them a lot of money. I mean, sometimes things just break up. And tell me, came out and said, like, he's from a business background. And in business, you don't say, oh, one year's deal left on your deal, let's renegotiate. In business, you say the contract's over, let's renegotiate. Yeah.

So it's kind of foreign to him in a way. Well, it's, I'm going to do business a different way. Yeah. Meanwhile, the agent for Mike Dantonie does business a way where they like, he likes to have his coaches re-up after with a year or two left for meeting on their contract. Yeah, they basically said, this is the way we all, always done it. And Tillman's like so. Yeah. So, and you guys know, I mean, I don't hide this. I love Mike Dan Tony. I think he's a great person, a great coach, and I love for him to be here long term.

But it takes two to tangle on that. And so if they decide to part at the end of this season, I will wish Mike the very best. I will always be a Mike Dan Tony fan of him in a where he goes. I do not believe he has done as an NBA coach. I'd like for him to stay here. But that's going to be, that's, you know, the old term way above my pay grade. That's exactly where this is a particular case. because, again, we're not privy to those real negotiations of whether or not the Rockets decided to come back and offer him something and then the agent. I think the agent has a lot to do with this because the agent, as his name is Warren and I forgot his last name. Sure. No, no.

But he negotiates contracts for a lot of coaches around the NBA. So he doesn't want to set the precedent of... Warren LaGaree? Warren LaGaree. Yeah. He's been a long, long, long time. coach agent. And I don't think he wanted to set the precedent like the Rockets tried to set this year. And on top of the fact, I think Mike feels very loyal to him because, you know, Mike gets let go in

Los Angeles. And that had been, you know, two coaching jobs in the last, what, six or seven years and things in that work out in either L.A. or New York. And he got, he helped get this job in Houston for him. So I think there's loyalty to it. That's okay. I respect loyalty. I think, I mean, I think Daryl likes Mike. I think obviously James and the players like Mike. It's just a matter of Tillman wants to see results. He wants championships. And that's okay if he's wanting to holding him to that standard. And frankly, the Jeff Van Gundy conversation makes good headlines because, A, you see him all the time.

B, he's dabbling back and coaching again, coaching that under 20 team. Third, he lives in Houston, so the transition would be non-existent. What was one of my texts? Say what? Nothing. said won't respond to my texts. Oh, I know. And I think, and we see this with all coaches at all different sports, they want to go out on top as quickly for that, if that, and that one last opportunity.

And so all that combined, I think makes Jeff Van Gundy a candidate. I think Ross, frankly, there's going to be probably four to five openings in the NBA this year. And that's why I think if things do not end for Mike here in Houston, he will get to an opportunity to coach somewhere else. Right away. I think Chicago is going to be an option. I think Brooklyn would be an option. I think if the Wizards move away from Scotty Brooks,

I think there could be an option there. Yeah. Mike Dan Tony, despite being 69 years of age, is going to coach at least I shouldn't say for a particular team, but he will not, this will not be his last year coaching unless he just says I'm done with it. But I don't think that's in his DNA right now. I feel really, if someone gave me betting odds of

will Mike Danconi, Dan Tony coach in the NBA game one next season, I would put whatever I could on yes. Yeah, I don't. Whether it's the Rockets or the Bulls or the Nets. He's not going to interview poorly. He's not going to get crucified by players. Coach, the players love him. It's just going to be, do you want that style in your basketball team?

And do you think that he can take your team to a different level? But, you know, I don't think, I think the time here in Houston has rejuvenated his career even though the team has not reached the NBA finals. What about like with the Wizards? Scott Brooks, yeah. Scott Brooks get out and then, yeah, because Mike Dantone needs a strong point guard.

Didn't have that really with the Knicks, didn't have it with the Lakers. Certainly had it with Steve Nash and Phoenix. And then James Hardin as the point guard here. Yeah, yeah. That's why I like Brooklyn, Washington make a lot of sense. If you want to go younger. Brooklyn, Brooklyn? Yeah, Mike Dantone and Brooklyn.

And Mike Dantonie can have to be. And Mike D'Antony can handle New York He's done it before. Yeah. And frankly, Brooklyn would be a piece of cake compared to the chaos that it was being with the Knicks. Obviously, I'm biased.

I know where I... If he's not with the Rockets, I know where I want him. By the way, Tom Thibodeau looks like he could be a candidate in Brooklyn, too. That would... Stop. Kare would demand a trade within two weeks. Here's the thing about Thibod.

I don't know him at all. Now, Craig Ackerman, you know, our travel broadcast partner, when he was an assistant he was the salt of the earth. And I'm not saying he's a bad guy. I'm just telling you in the years that I've watched him coach as a head coach. How has he not had five heart attacks? He looks like he is going to like literally burst into flames on the court.

He loses his voice every single night. Like every, like his voice is just perpetually lost. I told you this before. I know if I told you, I told this to Ross, Joe. We have at the Target Center in Minneapolis, we're, on the lower, the top floor of the lower level. We put a crowd mic down on the court side level. And every time we've had to go, we've had to turn it off

because he's swearing up and down where it affects my broadcast. Yeah. That's funny. I mean, he's great defensive mind. Oh, I think he's an excellent coach. I just think that there needs to be like a cool down period or something. Seems like a little bit of a tyrant. Seems like his act wears on the players as well.

And the one thing I will say this, and this is why I think Mike Dantone's been able to learn from Diamond, New York and L.A., if you are not a player's coach through and through, you're going to be fired. Period. And that's maybe what Van Gunde has to understand if he's going to come back. I think Jeff will get in what will try for one more opportunity, whether it's here or somewhere else. But, you know, hell, he could go to San Antonio. If Pop decides he wants to call it a career, I mean, maybe this pandemic has said, you know what,

I don't need to come back from all this. You know, he's 71, got more money than he ever needs. But man, you have, if you're going to be, there's a difference in being authoritative and being a guy that's just going to just drive people nuts. Because players in the NBA, I've seen it both in Houston and with other teams, they will tune you out really, really quick. There will be not very many team meetings. There will not be very many. Let's send in the plane with each other. There will be, I'm done with you.

And that's typically I think, that's why Jim Boylan struggled so badly in Chicago. To be honest with you, he has this old school mentality that ain't going to fly in today's NBA. He's also just an idiot. I wouldn't say that because I like him, but teach his own. Second hour, the Matt Thomas show, how does the NFL make money if there's nobody sitting in the stands? Ideas are flowing. We'll tell you about that in a matter of moments. 713-212-5-790 with a message here for Big City Wings.

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Buy one. Get one free wings tonight at Big City Wings. Is the Matt Thomas show. All right. So Ross and I decided to check on Twitter during the break. And we just browse Twitter throughout the show. You have to stay abreast of all the top news, Matthew. And apparently all the latest Twitter fights.

Well, they don't have to be fights. It just have to be like disagreements. Because you know, there's thoughtful debate on Twitter. Right? Well, is there often thoughtful, rational debate on Twitter, or is most of it pissy name-calling and I'm digging into my trench? I'm right, you're wrong, and I'm never changing my mind no matter what evidence I see to the contrary?

At SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Joe George Radio. I think we don't necessarily. You and I don't really get into it. Very rarely. I have a rule. I used to have a rule that I would not send more than three tweets in response to anybody in order to be in an argument, and now my rule is two. Two max.

Yes. Okay. So I'm talking to the audience here about checking on Twitter at the top of the hour. Just kind of see any news sends. I'm kind of waiting to see if they're in. I'm very, very busy fighting with people right now. That's the reason why we're calling you. I can't, listen, I'm about to really light out the entire Bay Area

because I'm tired of their fanboy cuck fake fanboys that are just like, oh, they're the worst. They put their Laker jerseys down for five years, and now they've got them all back on. And they're wanting to tell me about how, you know, Steph Curry, if you've swapped them up with James Harden, that Steph Curry would have led the rockets to like a billion championship. Get the bleep out.

Can you say, can you say Cuckface on the show? Yes, yes. I didn't put an F in front of it. It's the other word. Oh, okay. No, but seriously, Matt, I mean, seriously, since we're on the air. Yeah, of course we're on the air.

Answer me this question with a stray face. Like, if you swap Steph Curry and James Hart, right, like, the Warriors win a bazillion titles anyways. Curry doesn't win anything here with some of those teams. Like, Curry doesn't take the 2015 team to the Western Conference Finals with Dwight missing 42 games. That's Astonide.

Everybody knows that, too. Steph Curry is one of the most overrated superstars I've ever seen in my entire life. See, I think he's properly rated. I think he's properly rated. I don't think he's underrated. I don't think he's overrated. He's properly rated. Matt.

Let me ask you this. He is not the 13th best NBA player. I would agree with you on that. But he is considered by a generation of, sports fans and NBA fans of being the greatest jump shooter, maybe in the history of the NBA. Exactly. This skinny jeans generation that hasn't ever even watched MJ play in person and they think LeBron's better. Come on. That's the problem I have with it. I was talking about this with buddy in mine today. We were texting and it was like a group threat and I said, look, I understand people that didn't actually watch Michael play. So they want to argue that, you know, LeBron's better. But I honestly think that you're naive if you didn't. watch MJ play and you want to compare those two. And those are the same people that are saying that Seth Curry is like one of the greatest ever. But he's not. He's a two-trick pony and I'm

being nice. Who would you compare him to? Seth? Yeah. Like who, like if he's not 13th, like where should he be? I mean, he's probably top 25, top 30, I guess. But that's more about his resume to me than anything else. He's the all-time greatest shooter ever. I'm giving him that. Okay. So hold on. So hold on.

I'm just, I'm just saying this. I'm just trying to this debate. If you're considered the greatest shooter of all time, doesn't that automatically put you in a rarefied air to begin with? I mean, I guess, but here's it. I would respond to your question with another question. Who? What's Steph Curry as the lead dog on any other team where he doesn't have two or three

Hall of Famers surrounding him at any given time? What does he accomplish with that great shooting? Nothing. Because before him, his dad was a really good shooter, too. His dad didn't win anything. You know, Glenn Rice, Ray Allen, like all these guys until they got on super teams, they didn't win anything. Shooting doesn't mean anything.

I'm much more impressed if you can play on both ends of the floor. I'm much more impressed if you can, you know, do a lot of other things that I just don't think. Steph Curry is one of the worst defenders ever and get the path on it because he played on a good defensive team. Like the biggest bag on James Harden is that he can't play defense. I'm here to tell you right now. James Harden is a vastly better all-around player than Steph Curry. Nobody wants to hear that, but it's true.

That's debatable. I'm also here to tell you that Steph Curry is way better than Glenn Rice. And Ray Allen is right, actually. Glenn Rice is pretty good. Yeah, but like I was talking with Westbelt this other day. He was talking to me about Steve Kerr's three-point percentage, like all time. I think it's like either it was with the Bulls or his career. I don't remember which.

Okay, great. He shot 45% from the three-point line. Is Steve Kerr, like, one of the top 25 players of all time? No. So there's more too than shooting is the point I'm making. I realize that Curry is a better player than Steve Kerr. Yeah, exactly. I mean, he's shooting that the percentages that he does as the primary guy,

as a primary ball handle, and a guy who pull it from 30. I mean, Steph Curry can do things on a basketball court that nobody else can do. Right, but neither one of you have still answered my question. You put him as the alpha dog on a plain Jane team anywhere else that doesn't have two or three Hall of Fame or surrounding him. But you could probably say that for about 80% of the problem. players in the NBA. You could say, I mean, you could argue that James Hardin hasn't accomplished anything if you want to put it that way.

But they do. That's my point. That's exactly my point, Ross. Thank you. That's what people Hardin sucks. He has never won't. Well, I'm not trying to debate James Hardin versus Steph Curry. They're two different players in my world. There's two excellent players, two of the all-time greats. I'm just, look, as much as I despise everything that is Golden State Warriors, Steph's one of the greatest players ever to play in the game. I mean, when he can shoot from anywhere on the floor and make six, threes in about a minute and a half, he's pretty damn good. He looks even better next to his backcourt mate, Draymond Green, and a really good

defensive team, and then Andrew Bogie who can set illegal screens to get him free for all those threes. I mean, I just don't think Steph Curry by himself with like a random run-of-the-mill roster is going to do much for you. Well, nobody wins anything by themselves. Yeah, I was going to say, when is a one-man gang ever won a championship in the last two? Not named Michael Jordan. How, Michael Jordan didn't do it, because Scotty Pippen was there, and Dennis Robin was there. Hakeem, Hakeem, Elijah, one. in 1994. That's about it. That's 26 years then.

Hey, I've got to go. My wife is about the voice track, and I'm going to get in trouble. Let's get you on the buzz. Hey, we want to have you on a regular segment because we go to your Twitter. It's just gold. It just is. Well, you're going to have to clear that with Brian because he doesn't like it when I start tweeting angrily

at other fan bases. Well, how's it going so far? Have you got any fights with any warrior fans? Are these all declarative statements? Has John Middukhoffoyed in? No. I just set the fuse in and they all weigh in and they think that I'm reading them and I'm not. It's hilarious. Okay.

All right. Tell T. We said hello. Okay. Bye. Yeah. If Akeem Elizia won is the last player to win a championship by himself in theory, that's 26 years.

He had great players. He didn't have a straight number two, but I mean, I mean, Sam Cassell and Robert Orie and O.T. O.T. was a rebound in machine. Good players around him.

But yeah, nobody does help by themselves. Yeah. If you switch their careers, Curry probably doesn't have a championship. and James Harden probably has at least two. I'm just telling you, having been a fan of the NBA since I was seven or eight years old, Larry Bird was awesome for the Boston Celtics, but guess what? He had Dennis Johnson, he had Robert Parrish, he had Kevin McHale, he had Dennis Johnson,

he had, who else would be off the bench? Danny Aange, he had Bill Walton for a time. I mean, to say that teams win. with one player. I mean, LeBron for as awesome as he is, he didn't win a championship by himself. Kevin Love helped him win the championship in Cleveland, right? Well, or 50% of Kevin Love. Kyrie Irving. You get my point. You know, Kyrie, of course. And then... LeBron didn't carry his first banner until he had Chris Bosch and Dwayne Wade aside next to him. Of course, yeah. He did drag Zedrunasilgous and Boobie Gibson pretty far, though.

He did. He got into the finals. I said, you cannot win a championship. With a one trick point. You win a conference title, but that's as far as it goes. Yeah. Adams just... He's... Adam's an American treasure. You could also argue Dirk in 2011, but he also had a great team around.

Tyson Chandler was a defensive player of the year type of candidate. They were good all around. Actually, Joe and I were talking about... Actually, Joe and I were talking about this on the elevator randomly. Oh, they were playing the other. Ryan and Jason Kidd. And, I mean, Pagesa J.oyakovich, who they got in a buyout and was playing well that year two. Jason Terry off the bench as a score.

JJ Baria. I mean, they had a really good all-around. team, but Dirk was the clear number one, number one. They just had a, but they had a ton of veterans that, like, yeah, they hadn't, they had it all, like, really declined. They were still all solid. And by the way, Magic, one of the greatest players at all time,

he had James Worthy, he had Byron Scott, he had Creon Abdul-Jabar, he had Kurt Rambus, he had a, uh, AC Green, if you will. I think Klan and I are going to fight today. No, no need to fight. Yes, do it. No, because I, and by the way, Steph,

the only problem I have with this, list with Steph Curry at number 12 or number 13 is that Durant's at 14 and they should be flipped. Yeah. Like I think I have no problem saying Steph Curry is a top 15 player of all time. I don't either. And I don't like them. I don't like him. I don't like his

mouth guard. I don't like his lack of their defense which Adam is right. He gets he doesn't get exposed enough for his poorest defense. But my God, ladies and gentlemen, and you all have two eyes, he's the greatest jump shooter of this

generation. We have an emailer weighing in about Larry Bird. He says, shut your dirty whore mouth about Larry Bird. Shut your dirty whore mouth about Larry Bird. This emailer? Our boss? Yeah, we call him Tampa Bay Brian here on the radio show. 114 on the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790.

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Working in Houston Rockets game. and a good Adam Clayton Beef with a national Twitter account. At this point, I'm only getting two out of three at this point. Oh, Adam. Oh, when are you getting a steak? Tonight, I think I'm going to cook out. Oh, really? Yeah.

Well, look at you. Well, it's possible. You can also go to a store and two and get it. What do you mean? Steak? Yeah, I know. It's not impossible. I mean, yeah, I had one Sunday.

I had one Sunday. Did you? Yeah. You're a marinade guy or do you put it right on the grill? No, a little salt and pepper. It'll marinade. Oh, I put a bunch of stuff in here. See, no, you got to keep it simple, Matt.

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Don't put that part in. That'll ruin it. All right. So apparently the National Football League is going to have to find ways to make some extra cash because the thought is there's not going to be fans in the stands. Unless they push the season back a handful of weeks. By the way, what would be against them pushing it back? three weeks. If it gets them a chance to put 10,000 more people in the stands, or to put it at 25 or 30, I don't know.

We're all guessing at this point. But at this juncture, they're supposed to start the season in September, the Texans in Kansas City. There are advertising rules that are in place that might be up for change. One in particular is called the 40-foot rule, which I never notice this. And if you did, they just call me ignorant. It mandates teams cannot have local advertising in the space 40 feet above field level. For context, the goalposts top out at 35 feet. So if you go to a Texan game, you're telling me there's no local advertising above 40 feet?

So the club level, those screens must be below 40 feet, right? The ones that go like around the stadium? The ring around the stadium. Is that so that because they don't want the local stuff getting on national TV broadcast or something? Yeah, it has to be. For like wide shots? That's interesting. So let me say this again.

Teams cannot have local advertising in the space 40 feet above 50 feet. Okay, so above 41 feet they're okay. Oh, above they can't be below? Yeah, because those ribbon boards have all sorts of local sponsorships on them. So those must all be above 40 feet then. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

So 41 feet and above, you're good. 40 feet below, CBS is not going to give. local grocery store, a little extra pub. I was going to say, look, the Superdome has a giant Mercedes-Benz emblem on it. Yeah. Does it have to be a certain height? Now, this rule probably wouldn't be permanent, but

if there are not 72,000 or 144,000 eyes looking at said grocery store, then at least they can see the ribbon board on the NFL, on the stadium. So they're putting the game on television, I'd be able to see it then. Okay, so other things. On the walls surrounding the field, you don't see local advertising. You see it in college all the time.

Yes. You don't see it in the NFL. Of course, the walls of baseball have advertisements on them as well. Also, using a tarp across empty seats in the lower bowls. Usually not allowed, but you can do it now. So I can make it look better? Nobody has lower bowl tarp. Yes, well, I'm saying, so what's the point?

point is they're not going to sell the seats so they might also put a tarp over it and put a logo on it. Oh, put a low, okay. So like there'd be like the, the, like the left side of the field is going to be tarped off and it's going to have like a giant calorie furniture on there. I'm going to tell you something right now. And I don't mean to normally speak on behalf of IHeartMedia. But IHartMedia, our parent company and Sports Talk 790 would like to buy a tarp to put over NRG Stadium. That would be so awesome. That would be hilarious.

I don't think we can afford them. If you work for the Houston Texans in the advertising department, marketing, and you would like to get a sale, I would like to talk to you about putting a sports talk 7-90. Because that'd be great advertising for us, right? I know where we're going with this. Any chance we think we could get the jersey? Stay with me. Don't get a- I know, but I got excited, Matt.

Putting sports talks in our lineup right along the tar. Oh, yeah. Let's get your head on there. A headshot of Matt Thomas. It doesn't mean just about me. It's about the station. But yours is got to be front and center. Or I put my Twitter account.

I get the $30,000 like that. Definitely. All right. Other things they're considering. On the goalpost net, a very visible placement for fuel goals, i.e. what Allstate does during college football. Yeah. That's easy.

That's a good one. Again, sports talk 790 would like to advertise on that part too. Wonderful. That would not be the line of that because that'd be very confusing. Just putting our logo. We could put sports. Talk 790 year unofficial home for Texans football. And then we put it under hashtag very unofficial.

Let's continue. It's not getting cleared. In stadium virtual advertising that could be rotated throughout the game. Oh, okay. Like on baseball, behind the batter, they do the little green screen. You put a green screen and you put whatever you want up there. And you could put a little logo if your team is a 30-yard line, maybe you put a little logo with the 24.

So they're just going to whore themselves out basically this year is what we're here. exactly what you're saying whore themselves out. And then the last two things. Putting logos of corporate advertisers on the jersey and the helmet. And their helmets? Here's the big question. There is one team in the NFL.

Well, there's actually more than one. But there's one team that has a logo of their team on one's other helmet and nothing on the other. Pittsburgh? The Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, when they say putting logos on helmets, I'm assuming they're putting on the back. It's probably, or yeah, it's probably limited to a certain size. You can't just get their whole head with like the Chili's logo, like a chili pepper on there, right? Well, I don't think they would allow them on that.

Describing the helmet, what do they call it? The decal on the sides. You probably couldn't touch that, but you could put a logo on the back. Why don't you put the decal on the sides too? Or for extra money. Or put the logo above the face mask? Once you take the whole longhorn, I mean the whole Toro head off and put on, I don't know, gallery furniture, mattress Mac holding up wads of cash.

That'd be a super whore out. That's okay. This is desperate time. It's all about the money. Desperate times call for desperate whoring out. So. Doesn't the KBO, don't they have stuff on their helmets? Yeah, they have it on their jerseys.

I'm looking at it right now. They do. By the way, my team sucks. The KT whatever's, they're awful. KT. Wiss. Yeah, things are not going like. They're like one in five, I think. You can't jump ship, though, Matt. All they're Wizz are 1 and 5.

The game I'm watching right now, they're up 3-0. Yes! Maybe that's the game they won already. Let's go whiz. And they're beating my dinoes. Back to the big point. I think the dinoes come back. Back to the bigger point.

Does any of this sound absurd? The answer is no, it doesn't. No. Tarping off a section of empty seats and putting a logo on it? Yep. Being able to let those ribbon boards be seen by national television cameras. Yep. Putting a decal behind the back of the helmet.

or on top of the face mask, putting a corporate logo like, I mean, did the NBA uniforms offend you? They don't. You hardly notice it. You don't. Actually, it's just another way to make money because, like, they don't sell, like, they sell those separately, those jerseys. You can buy them with the logo and without the logo. They're going full soccer kit now. Yeah.

Soccer, they have like, they have like five advertisers on one jersey. Because to the point we talked about earlier today, that set the number, I, um, I, um, I, um, amount of revenue the NFL has, if you don't have it, guess what affects future salary caps? So nobody should be saying word one. And again, it's not going to offend us, right? As long as you play the games. Now, granted, if you've got 30 virtual advertisers on the field,

we kind of figure out what yard line to land on, but... Yeah, but what if they took out of the 50 yard line and put a Taco Bell logo? Would you really be offended by that? No. That wouldn't be having a problem with it. They did that in baseball. I just don't want...

I don't need 40 logos to... to be like a NASCAR car, you know what I'm talking about? Sure. But just do a couple here and there. I'd be okay with it. Just give me the games. Major League Baseball, listen to me. You want to make some money?

Put some more logos. Where were they put them on? Jersey's. So I'm looking at the KBO players. The KBO players, the MECD players, they have the umpires wear logos. I'd wear it, yeah. Yeah, I mean, the KBO players, they've got them on like their right sleeve. And then the catcher has one across the middle of the, of the, of the,

catcher's body armor. Right in the middle. How about the outfield spots in shadow left, shadow center, in shadow right. Cool. Three little small logos. Virtual. Not going to kill anybody. If it gets me baseball and football, I'll take anything at this point.

We need to jump in on this conference call and tell these owners about this. Help them make some money. 713-212-790. It's how you reach a show. 7-1-3-212-5-790. At home say, Alexa. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHard Radio. All right, we're going to play a quick game of believe it or not.

I just checked my Instagram account. Darry is taking advice of somebody he follows on Instagram, and he's now an Uber driver. I don't believe this to be accurate. You think he's just Joshua with us? You think you really can get an Uber drive from Darrell Morey? Maybe.

Here's what he said. Let me pull up here a quick. I'm following Matt Stainbrooks at lead and becoming an Uber driver, hashtag pandemic life. Well, somebody responds, about to do a drive-by on some Warriors fans, Daryl says yes. Rossi, can we make some deals? I mean, I feel like that people aren't using Uber. I have not used Uber since March. Yeah, I haven't used it since it started, but some people have to use it to get around.

I mean, usually I use it because I'm drunk at a bar. That hasn't happened. So let's roll play here because we'd like to do that here on the show. Okay. Darry comes and picks you up and wants you to take you somewhere. Yeah. He's not following the instructions, right? What do you mean?

Why not? Because he's figured out another way to save a mile and a half. No, he's probably got an app that has an algorithm that's already figured it out for him. Well, that's what the GPS is already. Right, exactly. That's probably a Waze user. Because Waze has the live traffic and all that. But don't you think he's found another one that's not being commonly used and he's trying to go

outside the box and trying to find another app that maybe saves a mile, maybe saves a little bit of gas. Traffic analytics? Yeah. Yeah, I'm sure he's on top of those. Maybe he's trading a 288 for a 59, 610 intersection. Yeah. He's got to weigh the options, Matt. You got a volume versus time versus miles.

All right. He's going to get you there efficiently. Let's do this. If Jack Easterby picks you up. Uh-oh. First of all, do you even know what he looks like? Yeah. I don't.

He's bald, right? Five guys walked in here right now and all five of them said, Hi, I'm Jack Easterby. I wouldn't know what they'll. I could pick out Jack Easterby. No chance. I'm right there with you. He's bald with a big smile on his face.

Well, what if they're all bald with a big smile on their face? Well, you just said five guys. You didn't say five bald guys with big smiles. That's different. No, it's like a prison lineup card. There's a game show called To Tell the Truth, where they bring on five people or three people, and then these celebrity judges try to ask these questions because they say,

hi, I'm Jack Easterby, Executive Vice President of Houston, and Texans. Number two, what is your name please? I'm Jack Easterby, Executive Vice President. Rossi, there's no way five guys walking here and you could definitively tell us who Jack Easterby is. I think I could. Okay. Zero percent chance. That I could? No, that I could. I'm in the zero percent chance, too. Ross, and I think you're overestimating your belief system here. I've looked over it. I looked at his bio multiple times on the Texans website because I'm baffled every time by his resume. Have you Facebook stalked him yet?

No. Well, what are you waiting for? Have you? That's weird. No. Why would I look up Jack Easterby on Facebook? Back to my story. Jack Easterby picks you up in the Uber.

Yeah. What's that ride like? He's asking like 50 questions, trying to talk to you the whole time. Be nice. Wrong. Wrong. Yeah. Wrong.

He's like, hey, do you want to go this or do you want water? He's got everything for you. He's got the iPhone charger. Would you like some worthy of his original? Like what? First of all, he does have candy and cold water in the back. Yeah, exactly. But the problem is he has.

won't talk to you because guess what? He's on the phone with Bill O'Brien the whole time. Getting yelled at? Yelled that. He's like, sorry. What are you doing, Jack? I'm trying to make somebody. Get back here. Get back to my backyard.

Bill would know that he's doing Uber. You think? Wouldn't bother him? You don't think Jack wants a little bit of a secret life? I don't know if Jack Easterby has a secret life. Something's going on to rise from chaplain to vice president of player personnel, whatever. Dusty Baker is your Uber driver.

Here's how this goes. First of all, he's in his 70s. I don't want anywhere near his Uber. I'm going to pass on that one. No, I'm okay with that because I know he's going to have hands at 10 and 2 on the wheel. He's going to pick you up in a 74 Eldorado. No. Well, I was going to say a Valari, but that's even the same reference.

I'm going to go with, he's got a picture of, he's got fresh countrytime lemonade in the back. Yeah. He's got some country music on in the front. He won't let you change it. Country music. Yeah. No. Why is he listening to country?

No, he's going to be listening to some old funk jams. Oh, he did dress well back in the day That's what I'm saying Did you see those leisure shoots? Oh, you know what he's got? He's got Bill Withers on to the back He's got some parliament going on He's got Bill Wethers on

Forget the country music Parliament And oh by the way He's in a far right lane Not going over the speed limit Oh, he's a jazz guy too Maybe some John Coltrane Okay

Let me throw a few more at you Bill O'Brien is your Uber driver Oh no He's going to be very rude He's not going to want to talk He's going to talk at you Not with you By the way

He's going to text you I'm here G damn it You know what I mean? You know, where are you? Is he going to be honking? Yeah. He's not, I'll be there in a sec.

Why? And then he'll respond to you text. Why aren't you here now? Yeah. He's going to, he's, the, uh, the GPS is going to tell him to go one way. He's going to go his own way. He's going to turn around at the end of your ride and say, you're giving me five stars, right? He's cutting people off.

He's right. He's like riding, he's tailgating people, giving them the business, staring people down on the road. That's what he's yelling. Somebody cuts him off. That's what he's going to give him right there. He's middle fingering half the people on the freeway. Exactly. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know. We'll have to see. And by the way, you want to ask for music? No, you'll listen to what he wants you to listen to. What's he listening to? Heavy metal. Heavy metal. Yeah, the song with Breaking the Law is on.

I think he's into like classic rock. Like classic rock that's not that great. Bachman Turner overdraft. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like stuff like that. Okay. A couple other people here, let's think about. We've given you Bill O'Brien, Jack Easterby, Dusty Baker, Mike, Mike Dantone,

I think that would be great. It'd be leisurely. It'd be nice. Not sure we're going over the speed limit. There's wine cooler's in the back. Definitely. That's not good. In the back, not the front.

Not in the front, not open container. You pour, cover it up, go. Did he have a breathalizer on his? He's got a, he's got me. music on from Italy. Italian music? Yeah. I mean, really good Italian music. It was such a thing. Or Italian crooners, like perhaps a Dean Martin.

Dean Martin's in the back. Yeah. Yeah, I could go with that. Okay. Okay, let's go to a couple athletes. J.J. Watt is your Uber driver. Country music for sure. Zach Brown Band. Yeah. He's going to have one of those, you know, those bead things on his chair because his back's hurting.

He's going to have like a massager. You're walking out of your apartment building or the place where you are, and he rolls his window down and says, you guys ready to go. Let's go now. Let's go. He's really pumped. He really wants you to get in his car badly. He starts getting jacked up. By the way, you're in a big Ford truck with huge, huge wheels. Head butts a steering wheel, bust his nose open. He's got a Band-Aid on. Or he's wearing one of those breathe rights. He's wearing a breathe-right strip as he's driving. What's going on in here? That's J. Jay J.J. Slav. Okay. James Hardin is your Uber driver. He's going to be late. No, I just think we're going to, I know exactly where we're going. He's not going to be on time.

Yeah, you're going to have to stop by Onyx. There is a disco globe in the car. I think so. Maybe Onyx is there with you. Oh, yeah. By the way, you get friends to come with you as part of the bonus plan. Party bus. Yeah, it's a, yeah.

It's definitely one of those Mercedes-Benz party buses, like 14 to 20 seats. It's going to smell like beard oil. But he's not going to charge you of regular rate. He don't need the money. He's just doing just a... I feel like cars can be a little dirty. McDonald's trash in the ground. No, no, I've seen his vehicles.

They're all pristine. Yeah, but because of him? Well, the people he hires to clean it up. Yeah. Yeah, he's not by himself. No chance. Matter of fact, he... Is somebody going to be driving for him?

He's in the passenger seat. He's in the passenger seat as your Uber driver? James H is picking me up and he's got a beard. I'm going to get an Uber ride with James Hardin? Well, it's really his buddy to his driver. But he's in the car with you. His gopher. Yeah.

Any more? Carlos Correa is your Uber driver. Oh, no. Daniel is going to be there because she's keeping it out. She's not, she's no further than, she's not even in the backseat. She's either following him in a car or she's there. Or it's on Bluetooth and she can hear everything. She's FaceTiming.

All right, who is that? I heard her. Who is that? Like, calm down, Daniela. You told me you weren't picking up girls on this. I said cancel if it's a girl. All right, Daniela, calm down. Yeah, she's on top of it.

What situation? That makes a better sense. I think it's a pleasant ride, though. Yeah, it'd be fine. He'd be a nice guy. I think his seat is probably back further than you want it to be. His seat? Yeah, he's like, he's, why?

He's lounging. He's driving cholo styles, what you're saying? Come on, Matt. Well, I don't know what that means, but, you know, I'm just saying he's very comfortable. He's got, he's got salsa music on as well. Because his back, you don't want it in his back hurting. No, you want to be his car. He's probably going on the regga tone card.

I like it. All right. We just gave you a completely absurd look into the world of Uber driving because Darrell Moore apparently is doing it. Problem is Darry? I didn't think Darrell owns a car. Whose car is he using? Maybe he doesn't.

He doesn't drive? No, he Uber's everywhere. He Uber's everywhere. Well, then how does he be in an Uber driver? Well, there's other vehicles in the house. Uber can lease you a vehicle. You can do Uber lease. Can you make any money with that?

Nah, probably not. Because you're already spending enough money as it is Brent in the car out. It's kind of a scam because then you have to insure it and you have gas. Oh, no chance then. I'm not interested. If I, I mean, it's in all sincerity. If I could Uber for a day, I would do it. I did it for like six months.

But I don't, but I don't want to be on a schedule. I don't want to go through the training. You don't have a schedule. There's really no training. That's not good. Could you imagine if we went and we didn't, we didn't, sports radio Uber, we would just, you wouldn't put the radio on. You just talk to me, we could talk sports in the way.

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I'm sure they've already been in their meetings today. Something should be leaking. Yeah, I love when things leak. All right. Top of the hour. The most important group text in recent MBA history going down right now. Is that right? Top of the hour, though.

10 minutes away. Okay. I like wrestling. I do not like the current wrestling. I'm old school. Joe George likes the WWE. He's wearing a John Cena shirt right now. That's not true.

I'm wearing an NWO. Sure, kind of. He's got a bottle of baby oil back there as no. I don't have that. You notice that that tire material he goes with every time? What's tired? You think in every wrestler baby oils before match.

But in the wrestling you like, it was all baby oil. I don't think the junkyard dog used baby oil. Well, that's true, but like rock and stone cold, they did. Yeah, but that's even... Well, I like those guys. I'll give you that. Macho man, Randy Savage, he was oiled up.

Sure. But I was never... Hulk Hogan, oiled up. I was never a Hulkomaniac. Okay. I like to meet some Mid-South. And they're like a Mid-Nine Express, Rocket Roll Express.

They're showing WrestleMania 3 tonight on Fox Sports 1. Are they? Okay. So, you know who the guy, the man is, right? What's her name, Becky? Becky House? Is she a man? Becky Lynch.

Becky Lynch is the man. What do you mean? You know when you are the man and anything you are in the number one? You're the top? Well, she calls herself the man. so is everybody else. Oh, she does? Yeah. Why? Because she's the number, in her mind, the number one female wrestler out there. Is she the number one? Actually, I like Charlotte Flair for multiple reasons.

That sounds incredibly stupid. I think she's attractive. B, she's a friend of the Matt Thomas show, and C, she's the NXT women's champion. And D, when they popped in the ring, it was hilarious. And she's, she's, what happened? She's Bucksum. Did they really, was that recently? Like two or two or three years ago. Isn't that really dangerous? Yeah. Is there? Like, they could be, that could be fatal.

Is there a video? Is there images of this? There's YouTube videos. Full poppage or just regular? One poppage. Huh. Okay. We internally were talking, right?

Yeah. So Becky... Like blow up like a balloon. I got something to do during the break here. Becky Lynch... I gotta go. Is the man. Okay.

She's the woman's champion. Well, she was until yesterday. She announced she can't wrestle anymore. She's pregnant. So the man is having a baby. So the man handed off to somebody else who I never heard of and that new woman is the new woman's champion. Point being is this, you're the WWE, okay?

You are in a free fall financially. You just destroy the XFL under five weeks of action. You don't have full arenas. Your pay-per-view sales are terrible. Your ratings have gone way south. And your number one female star is leaving to become a mom. Good for her. but just another round of bad timing, right?

What's a maternity leave like in WWB? I think she said she's quitting. Oh, permanently. Well. The way she phrased and said she said she's leaving the WD. Yeah, I guess you can't be flying around a ring when you're like six months pregnant. You know, there's shows I've been watching that are like, I would never not normally watch because of the pandemic. The Bella twin show on E.

You love that. I love that show. Nikki and Bree Bella. Holy smokes. I love that. that show. Okay. I don't care what they're talking about.

I don't care what they're arguing about. It doesn't matter. You should watch. It's very addictive. I'm not going to watch it. Okay. So congratulations to the man becoming a mom, but probably Vince McMahon probably was like, oh, Christ.

We lost another star. What now? Well, as long as her boyfriend stays, they're fine. He's a heel right now, right? Yeah, Seth Rollins. As long as he stays, they're fine. I don't like the women wrestling, honestly. They get more main event coverage than I ever thought of females.

And it's not a question of being sex. It's a question of, it's just a question of the stars need to, we don't have any, we don't have any main eventers. We just don't. I understand what they're trying to do. They want to push it. They feel like it's the right thing to do. But if you were at the Royal Rumble at Minutemade Park, everyone like did what I did. The women match started, that was time to go get a beer.

And the stadium was quiet. Who is the face of the males on the W.D.? Who is the absolute face of the wrong of the WWE right now? Probably Drew McIntyre. He's a young guy though. Young guy that doesn't that doesn't reek of just, I mean, if I said Drew McIntyre is a Toyota Center tomorrow, would there be 18,000 people that would run to go see Drew McIntyre wrestle? No, they've lost most of those guys. Because like John Cena's doing movies now, the Rock hasn't been in it in years.

Like they haven't built as well as they should have. And I guess I said, Becky Lynch actually was fairly popular. I mean, really popular. Now, just give the belt to Charlotte Fern and let's call it a day. And then bring Rick Flair back, even if he has come in a wheelchair. I'd rather watch Rick Flair at 70, whatever he is that have these guys who weigh 164 pounds. When the arena announcer says, coming in 179 pounds, I'm like, what? I don't need teenage wrestling on grown-ass man wrestling and baby oil.

You want them more girthy is what you're saying. Well, I just want them to look like they've actually worked. out a little bit. I don't need, yeah, it's just, it's just, it's not me. But again, congratulations to Becky and her, Seth Rollins, a pretty good guy. You could a good heel. Let me go to Mike

on a mobile line on 7-Hen. Mike, good afternoon. Hi. He's in the car because you got the insurance gas and stuff like that. They think they've got good deals for you, but they're running $55, $60 a day, plus the taxes on them and stuff like that. So I don't know how Darrell Moray

is Uber, and he's probably going to cart his home. house you can take a picture of it, registration, license plate, insurance, and send it to Uber and get on going with. Yeah, Mike, I know that the Mori family has vehicles, and my guess is just a joke, but, and thank you for the phone call. Yeah, I can't imagine renting an Uber vehicle would be advantageous for anybody. Yeah, they'd get over on you, for sure. Like, the only reason why I don't do it is I'm afraid about the wear and tear of my car. I don't want to add 10,000 miles to my car. That's a thing. You're also going to run up miles on the car, and a lot of, sometimes the lease will have miles.

limits and you go over those and you got to pay penalties and stuff, it's just... Like, is there anybody driving Uber right now that's making six figures? If you are... Not right now. If you work six days a week and let's say you went out from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. You'd have to do a lot of airport runs. It could be done. You'd have to do a lot of airport runs. You'd probably have to be doing a lot of the... Your days off would probably have to be like Monday, Tuesday.

You'd have to work... Like, you've got to give up your weekends. Yeah, you would have to do... I mean, there were times where I could make a couple hundred bucks in a night. I just have to have people possibly throwing up in my car. And there are people who refuse to drive after like 8 p.m. on a night because they don't want drunks in their car. But that's when you make the most money because when the bars close, like if you're downtown and you're out of the bars,

it's 2 o'clock in the morning. If you try to get an Uber, the surge prices are crazy. And like if you can Uber in an event in a city where there's a championship being played, but I love the final four in San Antonio, they tried to charge me like 250. dollars to go a mile and a half. This is where, yeah. It's called a walk. Yeah, I walked.

It's, uh, I mean, you're going to make the most money around, uh, probably the week of, of rodeo. You could probably make a thousand bucks that week or more. So rodeo is going to be really popular. Uh, lights in the heights. Anytime like the, the day after Thanksgiving or the, I'm sorry, the night before Thanksgiving, new years, Halloween is huge. It's just going to be certain days.

But if that first person, you acts in your car, you're done for the night. You're screwed. happened to me the very first night I grew. The very first fare I ever had threw up in my car. Threw up in your car and you charge them like a huge surcharge. Well yeah I didn't charge them. You just file you take pictures of it and you send it to Uber and you took pictures of vomit. Yeah. Well how do I post? I know I'm not saying that that's not the way to do it but how do I prove. Yeah. That's the only way you prove to you that you that happened. So you're where the Uber offices and you get a picture. I got a picture from somebody. It's somebody's a terrible job. I'm sure they have to deal with that all the time. I had to send them a picture of the the vomit before and then a picture of the. receipt of the cleaners that I got. Cost me $200 to get cleaned.

The chick paid me to... It was one for one. I didn't get extra money because you threw up in my car. So it still costs you time. Yeah. It cost me time and lost wages. Yeah. I didn't get compensated for that.

Dang, chick. She hot? She cute. Get a number? Did I get the number of the girl that threw up all over my car? Well, what if she called you and said, I'm sorry, handsome guy with long hair? She probably doesn't remember. Yeah, she didn't.

I didn't have long hair at that time, number one. Number two, yeah, she probably didn't even remember. She was with her brother, too. Her brother was very apologetic. All right, we got an hour left to go. It came out of nowhere. Anyways. See, this is why I say this all the time.

You not driving Uber is a part of the show we just really miss out on. Because even if you weren't telling stories, you'd be like the penthouse form first. You could make stuff up and we would totally believe you. She was being a little flirty. I'll be honest. Really? Yeah. See, this is where Joe, you go,

have you ever canceled a fair in because you just found yourself enjoying the moment? I know the answer. What does that mean? That answer is no. The answer is yes. I go by the book. That's, I do not believe that. I don't believe that.

I don't believe it. And terms of service with Uber. Joe George, in your single days, would you turn the fare off if the girl said, hey, I like cute little Chicago Bear fans. probably no you don't let me phrase that yes top of the hour coming up there is a very important text thread

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A couple things I want to pass along. Los Angeles Times reporting that Los Angeles's county's stay-at-home orders will, quote, with all certainty, be extended for the next three months. months. This according to LA County Public Health Director, Barbara Frere, she acknowledged it during a Board of Supervisors meeting today. So let's put this into sports. This puts this into three months there. That would then mean end of August?

As in, I mean, no Dodgers, no Angels. I can't imagine those stadiums being opened up. Again, this is no fans this year for baseball. The Angels aren't in LA County, right? They are not. they're in Orange County. Okay. Los Angeles Dodger baseball certainly is in Los Angeles County.

So if we're, well, no, we're not assuming they're not going to be fans this year. We're assuming that they're not going to be as fans to start, but the plan is to put fans into baseball facilities at some point. At some point, yeah. I don't know. This is not come. This is Mark Medina who writes for the USA Today, tweeted this out. That's why I saw it. But what does that mean for L.A.?

That means no Dodgers, that means not even putting a game at Dodgers Stadium, does it not? If everybody, you're not employing people. You're not, you're not opening up that facility. Yeah, I think that just means they're playing in Arizona until they can go home. I think the bubble systems are going to be put into place in Arizona and Florida. And if you don't get approval from your city to play, you're going to be required to play in those states. Yep. Until you're allowed to go home.

And this says through the end of July, which means, in theory, you know, if baseball starts July 1st, they might only be in Arizona for 30 days. So stay and home is through July? Is that what you said? You're saying, okay. Okay, I'm glad you saw the date on that. So in theory, like, you play 30 days in Arizona and then you go home. Maybe they stack the schedule. Well, then you used to stay in Arizona.

So the Astros and Dodgers could play this year, three at Minutemade Park, three in Arizona's, my guess is Chase Field, right? Yeah. Yeah. And in the spring training facilities, you just make it work. But the players, I mean, they're going to agree to stay there and be sequed. They already, they shot down the Arizona idea because they don't want to be sequestered in Arizona. Well, my guess is the proposal the owner is sent to the players today.

All of this is included. Yeah, I don't, this isn't coming as a surprise to sport. I think it's probably coming to surprise to people in Los Angeles that are ready to come out and play again, or just to be normal citizens again. All right. Now, the text I was telling you about Ross, this is from Adrian Wardierowski. NBA teams, a lot of players, not all of them, but a lot of them were given or part of a group text. They were asked, it was asked a question, do you want to try and play this season? Yes or no.

Another series of texts went out from other teams that said the following quote, Do you want the season to start again? So essentially the same question, right? There's a lot of difference. Do you want to try and play this season? Do you want the season to start again? they're basically trying to figure out, and they've sent this out to about 400 NBA players,

which would be basically the entire league. Just about, yeah. At what point does the percentage send the NBA players association to the owners and saying, these guys don't want to play this year? Like if 10% said no, you're playing, right? Here's the range game, Ross. 10% say no, their NBA is going to try to play.

What if I said 20% of the players? You probably still try to play. What if I said 30% of the players? You're having major issues at that point. At what point does a percentage deter the players from going to the teams and to the owners and saying, let's finish this off? I would love to know how that threat is going. Are we ever going to get an answer?

We don't know the answer or how many? Well, I bet you will find out from what? Wodge. Probably. I don't view this any different than a CBA. 51% is all that matters. That's how I view it, personally. If I say I don't want to play. I know, but like it's your union.

You're telling me 49% of the players in the NBA don't want to play. If that is indeed the case, that you don't think we're going to get a terrible product when we get back? The NFL passed the CBA on 60 votes. I honestly, I just don't see what the difference is. It is different. Yeah, this is active playing as compared to. in negotiating what's on a contract.

I know, like, you're a union. So if you are going to make an overall agreement to do something, it's what 51% of the vote. But if we took 100% of the, if we took everybody that took a vote and we said, I don't care what you 49% think. We got 51% that said yes. How is it 49% going to play that basketball the rest of the way?

I know. That's the thing. When you're voting on a CBA because they want certain things change, they're not saying if the vote was, hey, should we play football? If under, or should we not play football, if this is the CBA, that changes the language

of it and that would make it complete, the percentages would be different. It's about wanting to play or not wanting to play. Not I want, what were they quibbling about with the PA and the owners or whatever? The 17-gauge revenue, 17-gare-

Like all that type of stuff. Yeah. Those are different, that's different than playing at all. And I guess another question I could throw out, y'all, is it even fair to make it that brief of a question? doesn't involve a few more layers to it? Because why would any player who has any sort of competitive juice in their body say no,

unless they're just scared to death that they're going to contract the virus by playing the game of basketball? Or they have somebody or family members that are at risk or they don't want to go to the bubble or, I mean, all that types of stuff. How about if you're, if you take this, you take this text poll and you play for the Charlotte Hornets who's not going to the playoffs, or if you are a member of the Los Angeles Lakers of the Houston Rockets of Oklahoma City Thunder that have a chance of winning it be a championship. Yeah, you drop a Scotty Pippin on them. I don't want to bleep my summer up. That's already kind of messed up.

So is it even fair that the text threat goes out with that simplistic of a question? Yeah, they probably need a more detailed questionnaire to try to get to. So what do they do with this intelligence? If 49% say no, I'm with Ross and that that's an alarming. number that makes me go think about what's going to be left of basketball that year. Because, you know, if they say the league is resuming and you want to get paid, you're going to have to gather your things and go. But your heart and soul is not going to be involved in it. I don't think you're going to get 100% either direction. But man, I would certainly hope of

those 400 people that get voted that vote on this text thread or whatever it is, I hope 95% them say, yeah, let's get going. I think most of them will. I wonder, I have no idea. I mean, any number I would throw would be a spitball number. But I figured a majority of a comfortable majority of players would want to be coming back because they want their paychecks. And they're still a boatload of players, especially with the way the parameters are going to be, where there will be no home court this year,

that Oklahoma City has got a shot at one in the championship. They just do. Chris Paul's been relaxing for two months. His hamstring is, in theory, really, really good right now. What about, I mean, the reality of it, too, is this is the only league that was running that had players get infected. Multiple players on multiple teams. And you had a player's mom pass away from this in Carl Anthony Towns.

It's a good point. So I could see some of them saying, you know what, this is not worth it. Let's not do it. Yeah, I'm trying to think if I'm in the offices of the NBA Players Association, what percentage am I going to get back of nose that's going to make me think, uh-oh, we're in trouble? what percentage would be the, that's not a good sign. 25%.

Probably. I'm just throwing a number. Probably any number of percent is a worry. It's about how much of worry is it going to be. 713-212-5-7-90. Again, I guess the question would be thrown out there is, is this too easy of a question, too difficult of a question to give a standard one-word answer to? 7-13-212-5-7-90 if you want to get in. It is 213 in the Matt Thomas show.

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Yeah. Hashtag Grindr. hour number six coming up at six o'clock how you feel ross sleepy you're gonna take a nap strong I might take a nap we need like a hotel room in this inside of our own building

yeah that shower a little turn down service omelette bar and a nice king size bed with fresh sheets definitely fresh sheets actually we got the posto killed next door I would be open to an omel bar

what if you could you walk over the post like to say look I know no one's in this hotel I don't trust some of you people taking care of your own business in that bed so $40 Let me have a room for three hours. Hourly? I mean, it's not a palace inn.

Yeah, but the hell's got to be hurting a little bit, right? You know, the mall's open. They have a nap place there. I don't know if that's open. Really? They just added it. It's a nap store? Yeah, something like that.

Well, you can go and take naps inside the airports. Didn't you come up with this recently, Matt? What? Maybe actually like a year or two. We're talking about it on air, how you wanted to invent a nap shop. Yeah. Yeah, those things are real, though. Yeah, they're in airports.

And malls and... They stole your office. idea, first of all, taking a nap at a mall is stupid. Well, no, but it's like you're in the little enclosed thing. It's not very nice. They stole your idea? If, like, your wife wants to go shopping for two hours and she drags you,

but you don't want to go, I'm going to go to take a nap. I like that. It's not a bad idea. Yeah, well, then she's going to go buck wild of the Victoria's Sierra. Because the problem is, where are you going to do this or it's quiet? Because the mall is going to have just this grand amount of noise. They can put on, like, sounds of a babbling brook

or something, right? Soothing sound, ocean sounds. Now, the airport nap is very key, especially let's say you miss you, let's say a flight is delayed three and a half, four hours, or you miss a connection, or there's a delay of some sort. Go get in a couple hours a nap in? Yeah. Would be amazing. Would you get in a nap pod or something? Yeah. And they put on some soothing music. It'd be like a massage place, except the minus a massage, unless you really got kind of freaky. And then you maybe want to see, that's what I'm worried about. I don't want to be in the bed after somebody's They change the sheets, Ross. I guess it's like a hotel room. You can't have

sex in the terminal? I guess you could. I think you probably could get away with it. There's no way those sleep pods can have sex. You can have sex in the air. You're the mile high club. What is it when you're in the airport? The tarmac club.

I think it's called the United Club. The Gate Club, the United Club. First of all, I, bathrooms are so small, you'd have to both be under five feet tall. Yeah, I mean, that's why they made the bathroom smaller these days, right? I think that only happens on, like, fancy planes. Yeah, let me ask you this. Have you ever been on a plane?

the last 30 years of your life that you went, my God, this is a huge bathroom. No, no, no. I try to avoid at all costs using that thing. I've only actually done it maybe once or twice ever. Done what? Go on the back in the airplane. Oh, I go three times a flight. I usually go a drinker now.

Three times a flight? Yeah, comfortably. Geez. Yeah. Never one, of course. I go before, and that's when I know I'm good. I can usually. Like a camel in that.

that way. I can hold it for a while. See, my problem is... I'm used to running a soundboard for eight straight hours where you had no time to go. I just run away. My body is trained. Well, my problem is if I get to the airport early enough and if I get through with

quickly through security, I'm a heavy drinker before a flight. And I'll keep drinking on the plug. Why? Do you get anxious or just because it's time to drink? No, it's time to drink. And by the way, not that we spent a lot of time on airport talk on the show, but have you gone to the Terminal C in the last six months?

No. You know, you want to go have a drink or something? United Main Terminal. Oh, see, I'm a Southwest guy. Okay, well, this will... And they go to Intercontinent. You know I'm right about this. You try to go get a beer somewhere and go to relax, have something to eat.

There's very few waitresses. They want you on these iPads to put your order in. These iPads are confusing as hell. And I'm not trying to be get off my long guy or old guy. I'm just saying it's generally speaking. You know, if you want extra something or taking something off, or you just want someone to say, what are the specials today? You don't get that with an iPad.

Human interaction is important, Ross. It just is. I understand, Matt, because you need a lot of help with computers. Now, if I'm going to Wendy's, I can put in. I want a Baconator with fries and a drink. No manis. No, I'm okay with mayonnaise. But when I'm at a fancy place, like, you know the expensive-ass restaurants I have at airports?

I don't mind somebody coming around and say, can I get you a drink. She's so fancy, Matt. No, it's not fancy. The special is just what they're about to run out or what we need to get rid of because it's going bad. Like, mahi, myee. The special is always something. seafood because they need to get rid of it. Where are we going with this?

Oh, Mile High Club and relaxing at airports. I don't know. Where were we going before that? Ross needed a nap. He's on hour five of radio. Yes. The nightcap will not make you sleeping six o'clock. Sports Talk 790. 713212.15-790. Are we a little anxious that we've not heard nothing from baseball at this point?

Not a word. Have you been checking Twitter, guys? I've seen nothing from Jeff Passon. I get this feeling it's happening right now. What's Bob Nightingale up to? What's John Heyman hearing? It's been breaking around the end of your show. Why is that?

Usually. It's been bad time for you. Yeah, like 1.30 to 3 o'clock is when it's been breaking. So I think their meetings are typically like in, they're like it's happening right now. That's the pattern we've seen. I'm just, I'm scared of death that at 3 o'clock, Adam and Clanton and Adam Wex are going to be talking about, you know, how Clinton's beefing at every warrior fan. bringing this big juicy baseball store and I get none of it. You can come back.

No, I don't want to come back. Why not? I'll be back tomorrow at noon. You can hang out for another three hours. I'm very busy. You know how to run a board? Way back in the day. I can take a nap.

No, Matt, we don't have a real machine back there, Matt. You are the worst. Just the worst. I know how to run those. 252 mentions. He's still fighting? Oh, man. It's a long show, guys.

Are you sure you don't want to run the show, Matt? We know we should do with Adam We should actually Find one of those people that call him Scum or whatever And give the number to him to call And they can debate on the air Well you know what they're gonna do

They're gonna call other people and complain about them Well that happened with the Astro's Astridg Guy yeah What happened? They call our bosses and complain Because they're too cowardly to call the radio show And so what happened after that? I don't know a slap on the wrist

So Brian gave Adam a slap on the wrist For Astro Astrook guy I'm not even sure I don't know the full story By the way is it Asteroic or Asterix Asterox? Asterisk. Like R-I-S-K, risk.

Astrosk? That's the correct. I think I say asterisk. Yeah, that's what I say, but it's asterisk. Yeah, but I think it's because I, I feel like I can't say it, right. Asterisk. Yeah, that guy sent me, randomly sent me a DM like a couple weeks ago. Oh, because you got mad at a break.

He got mad. No, I tweeted at him like in February. And he responded via DM two months later. But at 11 at night on Friday. Ross's DM, are they still open? My DMs are open, yes. At Sports RV. I can't endorse that.

Well, see, that... Why not? Because as well, I... Have you been in America? When I was a producer, because people will say, hey, what's going on with this podcast, or this is messed up, or... Right. People will have a lot of random questions, so I like to leave my DMs open to the people.

In case they have a question about the station or anything else. Send Ross a DM right now. Oh, geez. We can do a segment of what's in Ross's DMs. Nothing too juicy right now. All right. Let's go to Brian on 7-90. Brian, what do you got?

Hey, what's going on, Matt? Hi. Hey, it's good to hear from you, Matt. Hey, you know, because since you're so close to the NBA and everything, I mean, and I feel like I got a 100-something channels and nothing on TV because there's no sport. I've gotten kind of caught up in the last dance. And I kind of wanted to, I don't really, I guess maybe I've been working too much.

I don't know. But I haven't heard kind of like what your thoughts about that. Or have you been watching that at all? Absolutely. It's been amazing. Yeah, it's incredible, very compelling television, and I encourage everybody to watch it. The last two episodes, I can't wait until the weekend just to see that. But anyway, I just wanted to get your opinion on that, man.

I hadn't really hurt. Yeah, it's really good. Thank you for calling. I'll say this. Do either one of you care that Michael Jordan's got a great influence on this? Or does it not bother you at all? It's kind of just baked in, you know, going in. I wouldn't say it bothers me. Yeah, it's just knowing that even,

though we're being presented a lot of behind the scene stuff, you just can't take everything that they tell us in these episodes as the gospel. It's weird because, like, Jason Hare is continually going on media, going on radio shows. Who is? The director. Oh. He's doing interviews within the last two days. And he's saying constantly, Michael had all the influence, but, or he had the opportunity

to influence it and he didn't. And I just don't buy that. I don't buy that. Like, there's such a... Michael probably told him. say that. Well, this is, it's not a Bulls documentary. It's a Michael Jordan document, which is fine. This is what I wanted. I didn't want, I didn't care about the 97-98 season. Charles Barkley went on a show in Miami yesterday and said basically that, do you see who Michael Jordan picked fights with in his career? The smaller guys? The smaller guys. It wasn't coincidence that he and Steve Kerr got sideways, that Scotty Pippen and Michael Jordan never got sideways because Scotty was going to probably beat the hell out of him. He hates Isaiah Thomas. Charles Oakley is his greatest friend. It's the truth.

Get the muscle. I'm getting DMs. One says Matt is the peach basket with terrible fantasy fives. And also a picture of a murder hornet. So thanks, Matt. Yikes. Is that threat? Yeah.

By the way, I said the other day that Seattle deserved an NBA team and our buddy Dave in Vegas sent me a picture of the Seattle murder hornets. Would be the new logo. I like that. What would the Charlotte Hornets then come? No, there's not going to happen. Have you seen the praying mantis eat the murder horn? Yes. Wild video.

It eats half its head. Okay, we're good. What did you? You're talking about it? I know, I don't have brought it up, my bad. All right, I'm going to go stare at Twitter. Ross is going to check his DMs, and we're going to see if anybody's were ready to whisper anything about the owner's conversation today with the players about trying to get a 2020 baseball season underway. Still silence.

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They're vulgar, frankly. You guys are a bunch of sickos out there. Thanks, Matt. Well, I thought we'd have a nice polite audience. I stay incorrected. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-21-2-5. If you want to reach out through Twitter, you can do that as well.

At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe George Radio. You see the NFL odds are out for MVP this year. Okay. Can I guess? I did not see the odds. Yeah, let me throw a few at you. Okay, Pat Mahomes are the favorite. Well, let's just move around.

I'm going to move the list around a little bit to see how you're doing. Fine. Okay. Let's go with... MVP. There's some weird ones in here. Jared Goff. His odds? Yeah.

100 to 1. 600 to 1. Okay. 600 to 1 then. That makes sense. Actually, if it's plus 6,000, is that 6001 or is that 60 to 1? Plus 6,000 is 621. Okay, so I stand correct.

It's 61. Kyla Murray. Kyler Murray? Kyler Murray. 50 to 1? 25. Really? Give me that.

You want 24? You want to... Guys, I don't know what's happened, but somehow I became like the biggest Cardinals fan. I think they're going to make the playoffs. I think Kyler Murray's a good MVP bet. I'm just like all... Why? What happened to you?

I don't know. I don't know if it's the Hopkins trade. It's the Isaiah Simmons draft pick. I like Kyler. It's the Cliff Kingsbury House. I've just bought in. I'm all in. Okay.

uh, Derek Henry. Uh, 20 to 1. 42 to 1. Jimmy Garoppolo. Jimmy Garapolo, 20 to 1. 30 to 1. So he's got longer odds and Kyler Murray?

Yeah. The team's going to be better. Dackeyes. Uh, Dakota Prescott. Uh, 17 to 1. 14. A few more. Russell Wilson.

10 to 1. 8 to 1. Uh, Drew Breeze. 10 to 1. 16 to 1. Tom Brady. 5.8 to 1. 20 to 1.

20 to 1. 2. DeShon Watson. Tom Brady's 21. I'll say Deshaunle Watson's 20 to 1. 20 to 1. 12 to 1. 12 to 1, really.

And then last, we'll give you, Lamar Jackson. Mark Jackson, 6 to 1. 6 to 1 is right. Pat Mahomes. Five to one. Four to one. There are some of the list that just are stunning. Drew Locke is a 100 to 1.

Pass. Dwayne Haskins, a 100 to 1. He should be a million to 1. Joe Burrell, 100 to 1. Tua, 200 to 1. Under the presumption, he's not going to start the season. Yeah, that's true. He's not going to win it.

Do you believe we will start the season on time? Do you aren't, what is your, if I had you go back up on the betting window right now, that early September Texans Canada City game is the first game of the year. Yes. Will it be fans? Probably not.

But I will say the season will start on time. Especially, I mean, we're looking at, we're inching and closer and closer to having baseball by July. Do you think they need to, though?

Is there any pressure for the NFL to start in September? Because if you're the number one sport, now I'm throwing it's just a devil's advocate, I don't really particularly care when it starts or finishes, as long as we get it. But if you are,

if you want fans, more fans, what would be the hurt of waiting and starting week four, meaning week one, and then taking those first three or four games of the season and putting them towards the end of January and having your Super Bowl played in late February

as compared to early February. I guess if you think one month is going to make that much of a difference, I just don't know that it will. So, I mean, you just keep it, the schedule came out, you try to keep the schedule, you keep a sense of normalcy, I guess, and keep yourself on your regular schedule.

calendar and you don't have to shuffle weeks. You don't have to shuffle. You have the Super Bowl on a regular schedule with a week off and let it build up that way and stuff like that. Just to keep it normal. Because I'll say this. If there's any sport that has shown they like to stick to the calendar, it's the NFL draft. Because remember how Roger Goodell's like, I don't care if you're already or now. We're going.

And oh, by the way, stop complaining publicly or there will be issues. Yeah. That is interesting. They would do that. But yeah. I don't know. Does 10,000 more people, I think it would make a sizable difference? If you could, if, you know how the folks in Miami have a 15,000 seat stadium and playing,

if that all of a sudden could be 25,000, that's a pretty good chunk of money difference. Would it be worthy of waiting? The thing I'm worried about is not necessarily the games Ross itself is are they going to be able to have training camps ready, properly tested, cleansed, protocols rules

by late July. It's a shoulder shrug right now. I don't know. It's a shoulder shrug. Hopefully. And by the way, what are they going to do

in Los Angeles? I don't know. The Rams and the chargers are going to go somewhere else. Probably. Playing Oakland. That'd be insulting to them.

The Oakland. Chargers for a year. Poor Oakland. When things are awful, what are we going to do? Let's go playing Oakland for a season. If the game's not ready yet, we'll stay in Oakland. Part of me wants everything to start on time because that would then mean to me that normalcy is back in playing. Right.

And that we can have a regular, I mean, maybe the preseason get cut a little bit. D&A four preseason games? No, especially if there's not going to be fans. Put it this way. If you could give me training camp starts in mid, let's say it starts in early August, second week of August and you play, say, two preseason games or one, that'd be plenty. They're going to want the little bit.

I mean, yeah, I guess you're going to have to go have the regular starters play a little bit longer in those in those preseason games. No, I think you're not play at all. You'll play at all? Yeah, you'd have, you'd have, Oregon. Then why are you going to have them?

Just to figure out the last 10 spots in your roster. Maybe Deshaun gets a series. Are they going to do, I mean, think about this. Like, you always have a team in for a, and you do inter-squad practices and stuff like that. I don't know if you can do that. You're going to be able to do that.

You're putting two teams together for a handful of days? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think those joint practices are a thing in the past for a while. So what you're saying is bet the under on the first few weeks of the season because it's going to be, they're going to be rusty. I think September 2020 football could be the worst month in the history of the NFL in terms of watching it. Yeah. It's going to look like the XFL. Like field goal kickers missing extra points left and right.

Guys dropping passes that are little screen passes. Out of shape. Quarterbacks not be able to move around, throwing lots of intercept. Let me tell you something. If you want to load up on unders, you should definitely do that in the NFL. That's a good idea. Or frankly,

the over if the defenses are so bad. Hmm. I think generally rustiness would favor and just nobody can score. That's right. But then Vegas isn't going to be stupid enough not to put regular numbers on these games. They already got the numbers out.

What is it? 50 with the first Texans? It's 56, I think. So listen to this. If the Texans are 10.5 point dogs, why don't we go fire off on that right now? On the Texans and the other? under normal circumstances, I would like the Texans in the over.

I think it would be a shootout. In normal circumstances, I think the chiefs are going to kick the Texans' ass. But I don't think we're going to have normal situation here. You ever notice that anything we talk about in sports always comes back to gambling purposes? Of course. As it should, Matthew. It's mom, it's apple pie, and it's gambling. That's when we need our sports back.

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Final segment of the Matt Thomas show God, I'm working with a third grader here, Adam Clinton bringing Cheez-It's to the office. God. Why do you and Wex have such a personal vendetta against this snack food? Because I buy too much of it for my house, and I don't like the taste of them. Buy Cheez-Its?

Oh, I buy probably two boxes a week. They're amazing. Amazing's a strong term. Well, what would you prefer to snack on if you had to? Hmm. That is food. Oh, okay. My gosh.

What? It's not even three, man. Take it easy. The go-to... I mean, any sort of potato chip is good for me. But see, this is my potato chips. Okay. Well, I mean, you're a fifth grader.

Well, that's the thing. When Wex and I talk about this, I said, I understood that if you're coming from the standpoint of saying that about goldfish. I buy goldfish, too. I look at goldfish. Why do you buy goldfish? For the kids. They love it. They're all older.

I know. They love it. Goldfish and Cheez-Ingis. Right? Carly's Younger. She's in the sixth grade. So she's 11-ish? 12, you know.

And she's still with the goldfish. Oh, yeah. I look at that more of it as a kid's food than Cheez-Its. They're in the same plane, I'd say. And there's nothing wrong. If you want to eat them, eat them. Yeah, I'm not going to crush you. I just feel like that I just want to get out some nursery rhymes or whatever.

Do you eat these? So what, like, what prompted you guys to call me earlier? We just, we have mental illness. What do you mean? Oh, I don't. Well, so. a little bit. So I tell you to be nice on Twitter, and yet I find myself

mesmerized by the fight you get on them. Yeah, I told Ross that too. I'm like, why do you want me to behave when you enjoy it so much? Well, because we're feeling at some point it's going to get over the top and you're getting trouble. And secretly, I think Brian enjoys it. Does he? I don't know. He checks an awful lot. I don't think so.

We should get him in here. No, it's okay. Why don't you call him? You're up to 263 mentions on that tweet. How's that going? Did you Have you viewed it yet? How many likes? I got a trick. I got a trick for that. You want me to teach you?

What's that? A trick on what? You can meet the conversation, I know. No, it's not about that. You can even avoid having to make that step. Okay. If people don't follow you, I don't know if this is a verified thing or if you have to be verified. Oh, really?

Say this again because go ahead. I want to hear this. If people don't follow you, you can choose not to see what people say to you. That's, I said that to Ross today. I said there are people that I do not follow on Twitter. I don't care their reaction about anything. anything. Right. So if you say something that is, let's just say, inflammatory, for example. Not you. Not me. Just another. Oh, no, anybody could do this. Advanced filters. I don't think you have to be

verified. Meet notifications from people who you don't follow and don't follow you. Yeah. So now that could, now somebody's trying to tweet at you. Hold on again. And you want to see what they're saying. I'm going to meet with a new account. You can meet people who have a default profile photo. Yep. I didn't do that. That's how you get rid of the eggs. People who haven't confirmed their email. Where is this again? And what categories this? Settings and privacy? Settings general. This is a great radio. There are a lot of people that appreciate this. Notifications, go to settings, then go to notifications

and advance filters. This is education. Because this is the thing. You guys call me and I'm like, well, something must have happened and I looked at it after the segment. I'm like, oh, wow, that got quite a bit of traction. Things haven't gotten that crazy. I do get weird stuff from people who don't follow me, that's for sure. Well, you leave your DMs open. That's why you get that. Well, that's so I can, the people need to know. Like I said, if something's happening up at the station

and I need to help. Like what? People will say, hey, this podcast is not up or this didn't get uploaded or... And they DM you about this? Yeah. If they cared enough, don't they already have your number? If they're really... Well, give out your number.

Yeah, why don't you give out your cell number? Okay. I almost give out your cell number for our NFL schedule coverage. Mine? Yeah. Because I know you love breaking down an NFL schedule like anybody else does around here. Listen, if people want to do that, that's fine.

I'm not going to... that is the lamest thing ever. It's just, I mean, we're in what, May? You don't know. There's all sorts of things that happened. Let me tell you something right now. I'm going to tell you something right now. The three lamest things in the history of sports radio.

Yeah. Besides eating on food. Besides cheesits. Well, yeah, that's. I won't even say list radio because sometimes you're just in the year of the dog days, which we are in the dog days, you know what I'm saying? The three things that annoy me more is grading a draft, especially when you have no idea who the hell these people are.

I get into a B draft. What's that? Mock drafting, I think, is lame. That's just me, though. I don't know something like to see, because I would like to see where people envision players going. Draft grades is number one. Scheduling, analyzing a schedule is number two. And number three is trying to talk NCAA March Madness.

It drives me up the freaking wall. I really do, I really do work in the perfect market because college basketball is dead here. Well, it's dead in most places I don't care for it though It's just not good basketball It depends I'm sorry to hurt your feelings I thought you like college basketball

Hey Adam If you're doing Raleigh-Durham radio You love Duke and North Carolina Being right next In your backyard I like Texas Longhorns basketball You like that in IT That's about it

Do you? NIT champions The people's tournament The people's tournament They are the default NIT champions Because there wasn't a WNIT tournament That's true

They're raining Shaka his job was saved By the coronavirus Imposibly That's amazing to me It's fine I think there's a lot of people like that that are not going to lose their job, and there's not going to be, like, coaching openings because of what just happened.

And how about this? Answer this question. Is it in the NBA that way, though? Yeah. And let me tell you all something right now. Mike Dan Tony's not going anywhere unless he retires. You heard it here first. I like it.

I'm glad. I'm okay with that. I already assumes that he's gone, and there's the Van Gundy rumors and the Thibode rumors. I don't think he's retired. Which Tom started, by the way. Because here's my thing. Tom Thibito started his own rumors? He did.

But he, I mean, who are you going to bring in here that's better than Mike Dan Tony to coach this roster? Unless you're going to gut the roster. And if you do that, well, James Hardin and Russ Westbrook are in the year. I don't think it's a question of what the coaching ability is. I think the question is what do, what does Mike value is his salary and term as compared to what Tillman and Daryl believe is the salary in term. I don't think it's, I don't think anybody thinks that Mike Dantone can't coach. It's just going to be a question of how much you willing to pay for that and how long you want to pay for it. Yeah.

The other thing that's going to happen with what we do for a living, too, What you were talking about? We're not going to have that July dead period. We just had it for the last month. Oh, yeah. We're going from a crowning of a champion in the NBA, probably to around September 15th, and then the league's going to start up training camp, probably what, the first of December. I'm very happy that that's a possibility of being permanent, by the way.

All right. Thank you for coming in. Thanks for bringing us snacks. Do you want some? No. Ross is going to wrap up things for us here on the radio show. Yeah. How are you guys feeling?

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All right, for Ross and for Joe George, I'm Matt. Thank you very much for listening. Up next. Adam Wexler with a beardless. Beardless Wexler. along with Adam Clinton. We combine them and call them the A team, and they're up next between now and 6 o'clock.

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