The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Longhorns Beat Aggies In 2OT, Goodbye To A Texans Legend, Are The Rockets Scoreboard Watching?

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Texas Longhorns defeating the Aggies in double overtime to advance in the SEC basketball tournament and keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive. Matt and Ross also:recap the Cougars advancing in the Big 12 tournamentcomment on long snapper John Weeks signing with the 49ersdiscuss if they are scoreboard watching the Rockets as the playoffs approach.say farewell to producer Connor McGovernsay "I'm Sorry"tell their "Non-Florida Stories" and more on this "Anything Goes Friday."

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 101 in H-Town. Good morning. And welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I just point in the, you know, one-eyed lady that don't speak English gets a job done and I hand her eight bucks and we move on. We're the thickest, biggest I've ever seen in my entire life.

I literally had my vertebrae. sore for like a half an hour. Give me 40. Oh my God. Ross, I'd be so excited. 40% from three? I'd wet my pants over that. Excuse me? But that's still, for a guy to a girl, four inches bigger?

No. That's significant. Is Monday the suck off? I don't care what it's sound bite you play. Just play something that's going to piss us off right now. Connor, just play anything. I don't care what it is from today. You're trying to pick up the 9.5.

Then she goes home with someone else. Guess what? You've got to scramble to something. Sometimes that seven's more fun. Maddie. The seven will do more things. Not as much work. I gotta go.

I gotta go. Fewer drinks. All right. Less cuddling. Zero sugar squirt. And, uh... Excuse me? Squirt.

The grapefruit. So you like a squirt. It's delicious. What are you snort about? You never had a squirt? Yeah. Not in years. Well, I'll bring you some.

You can have one of my squirts. I don't want nothing to do with your squirts. I love your bang. Oh, God, the things we say. What is wrong with you? You've got issues. I love that great fruit soda. What's it called, Matt?

Squirt. You can't get enough squirt. Especially now that it's sugar-free. It's very hard to find. I guess they call it, zero sugar. Connor, are you sure you have to leave? That one's my all-time favorite.

That's why I said for the last one. Oh my gosh If I've ever bad day I just put that one on But you can keep it You gotta keep a folder at home now And by the way We gotta

We gotta do a better job The next producer, whatever his name is He's got to do a better job of Is Jonathan, he's here Oh, he's here Hi Jonathan, how are you? Thanks We got to make sure

That we get other shows involved I know Adam and Adam say things That should be on this Well, it should be on their producers Yeah So whoever's producing those shows You step up their game I know you don't take time to learn the little people

Matt so we'll I'll I'll communicate with him I know Jonathan's name but it is I just told it to you I had to guess God I had to guess I'll be your liaison to Matt Jonathan

No it's not fine Jonathan we're gonna get a lot Matt doesn't speak to the little people He only likes to be in five diamond hotels and take private jets I mean that is accurate but I will speak to Jonathan Okay We got a lot He's gonna speak at him

I'd prefer you speak with him. We have a lot of, he's got a lot of training. This show is very complex. It's why it's what we've done the last 15 years. Oh, well, that's true. I mean, we've built the lineups been stable in the mid-days. We haven't moved around much. Elsewhere, not so much.

Good morning, everyone. It is about the top of the show with Ross, and we're off to a. It's an anything goes. Rorying start. It isn't anything goes Friday. You're saying to yourself, what the hell is anything goes Friday, sports, RV? 7-13. 212-5-790 is the phone number to get in.

7-13-213-21-5-7-90. And yes, anything you want to get to on the phone lines. We can do it here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. If you want to talk about the huge, massive match-up, the Rockets have with the Dallas Mavericks tonight, we can get to that as well as the Chicago Bulls tomorrow. I'm going to start working on this Dallas-Mavs prep a little bit here in the next few minutes. Yeah.

They have no players left. The injury report took up two pages of text. Yeah, they're tanking. It's not a soft tank either. It's a hard take, is what they're going for. But they're in the 10th spot in the Western Conference. They don't want to be in. I know they don't want to be in it, but they're in it.

They're winning the championship. It's because Phoenix won't win either. Yeah, well, thanks to the Houston Rockets. Let's see, Astros have spring training stuff going on. We can get into that. You have the Texas Longhorns defeating the Texas. as A&M Aggies winning

this season series, knocking them out of the SEC tournament. We can discuss that. Now, that game yesterday was between a 2.30-ish and 5 o'clock. And he actually went to double overtime. It started at like 250 because the previous game went a little long. So you're telling me that Craig Wade did a 50-minute pre-game show for a

basketball game. It's all rough. Oh, God. What was that? A lot of Rodney Terry podium talk, I'm sure. Rest in peace to Adam's ratings over that. What do you mean? Oh, come on. Longhorn basketball? That's got to beat Adam and Adam. Have you heard their show?

Yeah. You know, that's not a bad thought. Texas Longhorn pregame or the A team. What would you rather listen to? 7-1-3-2-1-2? No, no, no, I'd call in on that. 7-1. I would rather listen to the A-teen.

I love the 18. Oh, I can't get enough of it. Anyways, then the game was on. And it was a double overtime, yes. Where, frankly, I mean, look, and I've told you this before, My son, my middle son, Peyton, who will be graduating May 8th, by the way, if you want to send gifts to him, I'm sure he'd appreciate that. I never sent a gift to your first son when he graduated. I was supposed to.

And my daughter's high school graduation is coming up next May. So I'm good. I'm tapped out. You're invited. That's okay. So having good food. Okay, where? From the house.

We're going to bread our cheese sticks. Oh, at the house? Yeah. You're going to have a hand-breded cheese stick station? Yes, we are. Yeah, it's great. It's good to be called the Sports RV Acceptance Factory. I love that.

Yeah. Put a little salt on it and you'll be fine. Yeah. It's a little flavor is all I'm asking for. That's all you're asking for. And it's not out of the question. No reason why I can't pull a salt on those cheese sticks. All right.

Let's move on. All right. By the way, this part I'm going to have, you know, we've got a sand volleyball court in our backyard. No, I didn't know that. You got a sand volleyball court in your backyard?

I didn't know that actually. Yeah. And then we're putting, I'm going to get some more banners today. You said my name's going to be up there, right? It is. You're putting me on the hall of honor in your sand volleyball. I'm going to get our friends at Cromberg's flags and flagpoles do banners,

and I'm going to pick up the banners today. And one of the banners has our logo, our name of our show, on the banner. So you will be in my backyard on the banner. Where's my, are my pictures on there, too? No, no, no, that's too expensive. My pictures aren't even on there. That's fine. But if there's to be one person with a picture, probably me.

I don't want people throwing volleyball at my face. Yeah, exactly. It's a target. Bullseye. What are we going with this? I don't know. What were you talking about? Oh, but the Aggies.

So my middle son is going to graduating this May. And he lives. Aggie sports through and through. He lives and dies all things. And I was really worried about him in the end of regulation. And then I think, I don't know what happened, but the light bulb went off in his head that when the game got to overtime and then the second overtime, it's almost like you. And I don't know if you've ever had this before in your life. But when you watch your favorite team play a bunch of overtimes, does the loss hurt a little bit less?

Like, let's just get this game over with. That's what I think he went through yesterday. Because he wasn't really that mad. Absolutely true. I'm like, I don't even care anymore. Let's end the game. Please. Remember when A&M and LSU played football many years ago?

I went like seven overtimes. Did anybody particularly care about who won at that point? We'll just get the game over with. I'm with you. So he was upset, but he wasn't like on the edge of just mass destruction. He was mad about the free throws that were being missed. And the Aggies said a lot of them. They missed, I mean, got to be half the free throws.

And they had a kid at the free throw line. They missed 13 free throws and the Longhorns missed eight free throws. Everybody was missing free throws. And then somehow the big man, by the way, for the Texas longhorns, Caden Shedric, who's not a good free throw shooter, went 10 for 10. And that guy, Trey, what's his name? The Trey Johnson was awesome in the first half and then didn't hear, where was he in the second half? I don't know.

Some people have him mocked in the top five, just saying, that means the NBA drive sucks. He's fine. He led the SEC, shut up. You know what? I'm not even going to let you talk. You watch five minutes of Trey Johnson and you're making a scouting report. You have no idea what you're talking about.

You're talking out of your ass. Thomas Sports Enterprise is not Polish on Trey Johnson. He led the SEC in scoring, number one. Okay. You don't have an anti-MBA draft. I'm not talking about. Back to my point, though. And then Buzz Williams calls two timeouts in these weird old randle places as the shots are

go up shortly after he calls the timeouts. Both of them were A&M three pointers that were attempted. As soon as the timeout was called and both were made. So I said, I'm going to go check on Buzz on Twitter and see how things are going. It didn't go well. People were not happy with those aliens. Anyway, it looks good, a nice three-piece suit every time. Although, does the suit look a little smaller?

Is it just perfectly tailored? I thought it looked well-tailored. Yeah. Yeah. He looked like he was going to be in like a who-done-done-it. Like knives out three. I am all about the quarter zip as I wear them six times a week. You're a Peyton Manning, quarter zip guys.

That's more of a half zip. Okay, whatever. Half quarter, whatever you want to call it. That's okay. Yeah, it's very... That's a third zip. It's very comfortable, and I think coaches should be comfortable, especially Ronnie Terry calling timeouts up and down the floor.

Your boy is not going to stay, by the way. Yeah, I don't think so. He's not my boy. Well, you can't, again, what I've learned about college and professional coaching is you can't let a single game determine whether or not a coach stays. The lost dot, not the lost dots. Chris Del Conte, the athletic director at the University of Texas, has had his mind made up probably for weeks.

I hope so. I just don't think, I think it's the little things. He's a decent enough coach, but he's not, well, it's not like Longhorn Basketball has this great story history, but it should have some prestige, and he's not to that level. Yeah. So, again, I don't think he stays. regardless of whether they make the tournament

and I mean, coach has been going on the tournament for years and have been fired shortly after that, so that would not be out of the ordinary. Yeah, just making the tournament should not be the bar with Texas Longhorns basketball. And that has become the bar with Rodney. And reality is you've got a firm recruiting base, you've got plenty of money, you have a gorgeous arena,

you have an excellent school, you've got great facilities, there's no reason why Texas shouldn't be a top 15 team every year, period. Agree. And they still haven't made a final four since 2003. Mm-mm-mm. All right, 713, 212, 790. Is that anything goes Friday? Ross, explain the essence.

If anything goes Friday, please. I did that five minutes ago, but I'll do it again. Anything you want to get to on the phone lines, it's 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. On topic, off-topic sports, not sports-related. If you're going out for St. Patrick's Day this weekend, and you need some tips from Matt Thomas,

you can call in with those. That is on Monday, correct? St. Patrick's Day is on Monday, but, you know, the drunks are going to be drinking their green beer on Saturdays and Sunday, I'm sure. Are we allowed to use a horrific Irish voice stereotypes? We would never do such things, Matt, here,

and do Irish accents and make fun of the Irish people here on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Do you think you could pull that off? St. Patrick's Day, the most holy of all days, on the calendar. Like, there are people that are professional actors and actresses that use a...

Dialect coach. Like, for instance, Shiv on... succession. Okay. She's from overseas somewhere and she's a very thick accent. But you could never hear it

because she spoke in the American dialect on the entire show. Okay. Kate Winslet, too, if I'm not mistaken, Ryan, has done a lot of... Oh, Kate Winslet, yes,

she's done some acting as an American. Everybody gets a dialect coaches, Matt. So here's what I want you guys to do. Renee Zelliger as Bridget Jones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we can go through... So what I don't want to use,

I want you do it for four. hours today because that'd be annoying as hell. Why not? But I want you when you do the Crawford box cast, which is about 20 minutes tuning in, two down. Do what? People love the Crawford box cast. I've seen the numbers.

They're not great. Oh, they're actually really good. Do you do 20 minutes of Irish dialogue during that? 20 minutes of Irish dialogue. That seems a little excessive. How would you like me to talk about Ken Smith in right field for the Houston Astros and how he's going to fit in?

When should they put him on the 40-man roster? I'm not going to do that, Matt. It's exhausting, isn't it? I was out of my control. No, it didn't hurt. My brain turned off and I just started talking like that. Turn this music off. So the problem is I run into accidentally running into Mac Brown talk,

and that's what gets me in trouble. That's true. How about Mac Brown and whatever my Irish name would be? Russell Villarreal? Yeah, I just put it over there. That's a really OVittal Real would be a weird one. It's a little lengthy. You know, I could talk about the Astros' right-field situation,

whether Cam Smith will make the team. Where is Mac Brown right now? probably in Austin hanging out with Sally having some of that delicious peach cobbler He's on the boat blasting some Christopher Cross

I'm on the boat right now thinking back going back to that property and getting deer corn out and feeding the kids on the lake what's that lake up there like Travis? He's like Travis. Yeah like Travis

or Lake Austin or Lady Bird Lake yeah that's true there are a lot of lakes Austin thriving city traffic a hot mess 1015 it is the Matt Thomas show of Ross 7133212-2-579

And as in anything goes Friday. By way, call in today and wish Connor D. McGovern the very best as he gets a real job with benefits and salary. And I believe he's getting a pager and a company car, which is really nice for all the things he's getting here. So it's Connor's last show. 713212-5-790. Matt Thomas, Ross Villariel.

It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Usain on the bounce. Off the tuggler screen. Usan top of the key. Usan backs it away, launches another three. Got it. Milose Usan has 12 second half points in the Cougar lead back to 14. Trey Johnson, Poked, trying to drive past Taylor, goes in, wrap-around pass.

Out to Johnson. Trey along three. God! Johnson knocks it down. Top five selection Tray Johnson I was a lottery pick to keep it safe One and done

Five star One of the top recruits in the country And I feel bad Well they're going to make the tournament Now I wanted him to make the tournament He was the only reason I wanted the longhorns To make the tournament I'll tell you that I was like whatever

So if you have a super dynamic player like that You can go squeeze a victory out right? Yeah Or even two But he kind of As the season has worn on Hasn't been as as dynamic as he was earlier in the year.

I don't know if that's where to tear or what. I mentioned this in the last segment worth repeating. I don't think you, I think Chris DeConte's got the job already figured out. The only way you could possibly change it is if the Longhorn's making a sweet 16. Then I think there would be a little bit of what are you doing, taking a sweet 16 coach,

and firing him. And that does happen in sports. You have, you've had teams go on this incredible run, but incredible would be, First of all, getting in the tournament and then winning two tournament games. Yeah. And then it would probably be, like you said, I mean, Trey Johnson. I mean, they have some other good players.

And Alfred Columa and Tramon Mark has been pretty good. Come on strong when he wasn't been hurt. Three schools in four years. I think his college transcript looks right now. I don't know. You think he really even cares? Well, he kept on upgrading in school. Houston to Arkansas to Texas.

I don't think so. Hamically? Harvard is Southeast Texas. Don't think. Oh, please. Arkansas over Houston? Really? Say it with a straight face.

Go ahead. Let me check the U.S. the News and World Report. Wait, nobody even reads that. What are you talking about? Okay. I'm just looking. And what are you looking up the stat of what?

Best value. Public university rankings. Okay. We're waiting. You really want, okay. Yeah, this is not going to end well for me. I know it. That's fine.

It might. Let's see. Arkansas is, is, oh, they're trying to get, ranked number 103 in public schools. Okay. Oh, my God. Can we make it the top 102?

Thoughts and burst. Thoughts of burst. University of Houston clearly popped up. Hold on. Wait a while. I mean, we don't, do we even count that? University of Houston. Number 74.

Oh, thank God. I was nervous for a second. You check Rhode Island for me real quick. Hold on. I'm checking the University of Texas Austin. Number seven. And no, there's no doubt about that. How about A&M?

Oh, hold on. You wanted Rhode Island, right? Rhode Island. College. University of Rhode Island. Kingston, Rhode Island. 81. Okay. All right, that's fine.

That feels good for Carly, good for her. Texas Tech. Hold on you said Texas. And then in A&N, then we're done. I'm just checking out my family. This is a great radio. I'm spending money already and I'm about to spend some more money. Texas A&M number 21.

That's very good. All right. That's good. Gigum. Texas Tech University number 16. It's worse than Houston? I like Lubbock, though. It's worse than Arkansas?

By the, would you see the weather coming down? What are you the Red Raiders doing out there? Well, I mean, when you can buy a bush light at Walmart, things changed. Yeah, it said when you put it in the baby bottles out there, that's what they do. Don't you besmirch Lubbock? I like Loveick a lot. I'm sure it's wonderful. I've never been, and it's not on the bucket list.

It's not, but I've been probably five times in love it every time. And would love it. I accidentally drive 12 hours in the wrong direction. I'll be there and I'll check it out. You can get there nine and a half, but you have to probably skip eating. Yeah. Just gassing and going to pee.

All right. 713, 212, 5, 790, and anything goes Friday. I will say this. I love this time of year. And I think people will love the brackets when they come out because that'll be officially on Sunday. These college tournaments have been really good.

We've had a bunch of buzzer beaters. It's been good. We had the games between A&M and Texas yesterday. And oh, oh, by the way, The folks in Kansas City are not happy today. Do you see who's left in the Big 12th tournament? What happened? Houston.

That's great. Texas Tech. Uh-huh. Arizona. Good teams. BYU. Okay. So, good teams.

So let's deal in reality. Okay. These are businesses. Mm-hmm. You need hotel rooms filled. Not an issue. Okay. Plenty availability in Kansas City.

You need tickets in the building sold. not, it's an issue. Plenty of available seats available for all remaining portions of the Big 12 tournament. Because the two schools that are closest to Kansas City that have had great fan bases is Kansas and Ohio State. That's why they have it. They have it in Kansas. They rig it's rigged every year for a bunch of people from Kansas to show up. So you know what?

I'm glad Kansas lost it early. And by the way, it's supposed to be there until 2031. When Texas was in the Big 12 year after year, I always had to deal with that as a Texas fan to where it's basically home court advantage for Kansas every year. They used to rotate it. Yeah. And then at some point they're like, nah, we're going to do Kansas City every year because we sell a bunch of tickets. The thing about doing Vegas.

Good. Dallas is certainly the mix, but Brent, your mark, the commissioner of Big 12 said, yeah, the guarantee's too good in Casey. Yeah, exactly. You've got a billion Kansas fans in there. It's a home court advantage. It's unfair. But the biggest problem is, besides the seats being empty, and the hotels being available, one of the four teams, their fans don't drink.

And alcohol is a huge part of the community. I know it's not Cougars fans. Well, we can have... Well, it's the other Cougars fans. We have a few beverages. That's fine. Was we celebrate? Yeah, it's what you're supposed to do in college? Responsibly, of course. So what do you mean? The Cougars fans aren't all flying up there and filling up the seats? You're talking about a one seat team, one of the top teams in the country. Why isn't the arena full? We're saving our money for the tournament.

But I thought he had all these big money alums, Matt. They're there. I saw him. I talked to one yesterday. All three of them. Oh, okay. By the way, guess what I did yesterday real quick. I don't know. Don't. I looked at my rocket schedule. Okay. And I looked at the tournament and the one game I can go to will be Monday's national championship game. I'm in the Bay Area the night before. I'm going to call the Rockets Warriors game. Okay. And then I'm going to jump on a plane and fly to San Antonio from San Francisco. Why are you going to do that to watch like Auburn Duke?

No, because I believe the Cougars will be playing for the national championship. They very well could be. So I bought a plane ticket between San Francisco and San Antonio. Uh-huh. And then I'm going to go back and rejoin the team. You bought a ticket already? Yeah. Wow.

And I bought it. Look at the hubris. And I bought from San Antonio back to Los Angeles because the Rockets will be in L.A. at that time. Okay. And I got hotel and I'm ready to go. And I've secured a ticket. Now, I have to get two tickets. Now, what kind of notice you've got to get to cancel these?

Well, the airline business, you can cancel things all the time. One trip I used a voucher that I had that I could just use for more credit and then the other one's mile to put the miles back in the account. Do you use whilst zest? Well, I guess everybody gives you airline credit now. Everybody does. That's one thing nice about the industry.

It used to only be. These are charged you 150 change fees plus on money on top. So ridiculous. It was so terrible. But yeah. So let me tell you Houston sports fans and University of Houston fans. I have faith in my team that I will be doing

Monday, April, I think it's six. I think that's what the date is. The Matt Thomas show will. Ross from San Antonio the night of the championship game. Your Houston Cougars against probably Duke or Auburn. That reminds me, did I see you 20 bucks?

No. Oh, no, thank you. I appreciate that. I was looking for some cash. All right. 1030 on the Matt Thomas Show at Ross. And as anything goes Friday, 713-212-5-7-90. Please join us. We are here to talk about the Astros Outfield. We're talking about yet another Texans offensive lineman that has been signed. We've got college basketball in the brain. the Rockets against the Mavericks tonight, lots of things to get to.

And at 1130, your chance to call and say, what, Ross? Shut your bum ass up? Nope. I just don't get it. Nope. How are you? Believe it or not? No, it's, I'm sorry. I feel like you need to apologize for the last two response.

You just gave this show. Never. 713-212-5-790. Join us on it. Anything goes Friday. 3-1. that's lifted in the air pretty deep to left. It sends back Altuvae gets turned around on the warning track. He leaps at the wall and he can't make the catch.

It hits off the wall. Herrera on his way to third, throwing it into third base as Myers, but not nearly in time as it's a triple for Herrera. I wonder if Altuva with his experience out there in left field was unsure of how much further he had to go. It would have been a difficult play had he made it, but it seemed like a ball that that was potentially catchable. He never got there, but it hit a eye off the wall.

And Altuvae just was unable to time that jump at the top of the fence to come down with the baseball. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's fine. Ross, it's going to be a work in progress. What's that? The work in left field. No, it's fine. He missed time of a jump. Anybody could have done it?

Yeah, everybody. Anybody. A certain percentage of the time? I mean, probably the majority of the time. I think he catches that over 50% of the time. Oh, good. That's a question, who gets closer to 100? Him or, I don't know, Zach Zanzo or Mariso Du Bonn or whoever would else be out there?

Yoron Alperance would be out there, potentially. Yoron probably catches that, doesn't jump at all. Do you think Yoron's like, look, man, obviously he doesn't speak fluent English, but they like, I like playing left field. I think he does. And I think the answer's like, I'm sure you do like playing left field. You're not going to do it. Yeah. That happens all the time.

Players want to do something and the organization says we're going to put you in a different direction. Yeah. Sorry. That's how it works. And the greatest example, I think in the history of baseball is frankly again, Big Poppy was told you're never going to play first base again and you're going to D8 the rest of your life and you're going to be so good, you're going to be a Hall of Famer. And he was. Yeah, and he is.

So, Yordon, enjoy most of the rest of your life as a DH. What I'd tell you, I think I had 25 games in the left field max for him, maybe. I can't really put a number on it, but ideally that's what the spot is. I think the only way that it doesn't happen is if, for instance, if Jose gets hurt for some reason. And you're really trying to scramble to move some guys around. He could. He's going to be 35. Man, why don't, don't age shame him.

I'm not age shaming him. I'm 40. I know, and he looks way better than you do. That's spectacular. He looks great. Astros Futures game. We're going to have it for you here on 790. We'll start it at 1250 today. Okay. Can't wait.

I'm not seeing a lineup card for it. It's like a double-headed down there. They're playing the first game at 1 o'clock, and then they're playing the second game at 4. We're only going to carry the first game. Wonderful. Which means the A team are actually going to have to do a little bit of a show today. They were a little bit.

Not too much. Let's see, one o'clock first pitch. It'll be on for like an hour. Which means probably Clint will take the day off and he'll let wax are coming and finish it off. That sounds about right. He's very busy. How mad do you think Wax was yesterday that game with the double overtime? I don't think he was that man.

Oh, I think he was furious. He's a big Longhorn guy. He's happy they won. Yeah, but do you want to listen to lots of pre and post game and the double overtime when you got some of us? Absolutely. I mean, Wax's got a lot of material in what's to get to. You hear Craig Way breaking it down like a mudda. He was doing that. your home for Longhorn

Basketball, Sports Talk 7-9. And people can't be happy enough about that. You're right. So why hasn't college basketball ever really hit here? Now remember, every part of the country doesn't love everything. For instance, New York is a huge college basketball place. They don't care about college football. No.

Nobody even did. I mean, who's the best team in that area? Rutgers, I guess is close enough. Well, you've got Army, Rutgers. Yeah. Syracuse and basketball school No

You still have very many options Yeah, for whatever reason I mean it's not a basketball hotbed Even though there's a lot of talent that comes from here Houston as a sports town in general Doesn't really get Feverish about stuff Unless the team is running

Locally to your team too Locally and winning a lot Yeah Like the Rockets are going to make the playoffs right now That's out on Monday was pretty sad Like yesterday, now granted, people were at work, and you shouldn't use Twitter as a measuring stick, but we do. There were very few tweets about the A&M Texas game. And you would have thought anybody that was an A&M or Texas fan, when those two teams meet, if it's in a rowing meet,

you would think it would be some blank talking. I did see somebody on Twitter. I know who it was said that this is Texas's mid-basketball team against an A&M team has been in the top 25 this entire season. and the Aggies still dropped two or three. Little Brother's syndrome still in place. Yeah, that wasn't me. I didn't say that. No, I would have said it was you.

The only thing I said was the attention of detail is lacking and Rod Deerre needs to go. Yes, you did. You are not afraid to bash your own. It is crazy, though, that A&M's basketball team on paper and record-wise, and they're playing Ross in the same conference, is significantly better.

They are. Than Texas. I mean, I didn't even close. Texas, I mean, A&M's probably going to be, what, a six or seven scene in the tournament? And if A&M gets in, it's probably, they're going to have to probably have to go to Dayton first to play in that first four. Unless they win the tournament and really spike up to get out of that. But yet, man, damn. And that's part of the reason why my middle is so upset is it, you know, it's one thing to lose to like LSU or to Arkansas or to Kentucky.

but the damn team you're losing to as a coach that the fan base of that particular school wants the coach out and you couldn't put the final nail in the coffin, could you? It's a real shame. I can hear it in your voice. Poor guys. I can see it in your smirk. Longhorns aren't going to be able to compete in the SEC.

We're big bad A&M spending all this money, ranked team. And they eliminate you from the SEC tournament. What a shame. That is just heartbreaking. I'm glad I'm Peyton isn't listen to this show. Send him a nice college graduation gift. Bullied the

SEC into giving you a home football game even though the last matchup was at your home in Kyle Field. Don't even score until like the second half. Are they playing each other this year? Yeah, in Austin. Oh yeah. You're going to be there? Depends on how much tickets are.

It can't be cheap. Exactly. Those A&M Texas tickets in California. I had to talk to my brother. He's looking and getting back into having season tickets. you know your brother but they keep asking to up the donations they're in these the longhorn people are insane they want so much of a donation for tickets you have any idea you're just you i'm not gonna no okay i was just yeah i don't even know five figures for so five figures and see just to have

the right to buy donation and then you have to buy the tickets wow yeah so what if i want to sit in the third deck first two rows of the end zone Will Do I have to write a five? Yeah, do I do a five-figure donation on that? You're probably, I'm totally spitballing here, but you probably got to donate at least $5,000, is not more.

Seriously. Now, is that money going to the university? Is it the Alhorn Foundation? Oh, whatever that means. What a scam that bad boy is. All right. Somebody who has tickets can tell me more, or I can ask my brother.

I don't remember all the details. But that doesn't sound of your honor. But, yeah. He had season tickets for years, and then they just keep adding and adding, asking for more and more and more to the point he's like, I can't do this anymore. But, you know, the reason why they keep doing that is because when Rayville or Rayal said, I'm out, somebody jumped in and said I'm in. Absolutely. He went back on our wait list. Do you know where he is on that list?

No, I don't. Okay. Would you want to call him? Well, I guess what you could do is you could write a bigger check and that you could move up if he wants to. Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, it's like, you feel, I think you can write it off. It's a charitable donation, but still, it's like. You know, that is a scam, by the way, in life. When they tell you the things are a tax right off, do you really get a huge benefit out of it?

I think so for like millionaires. Right, right, right. For regular people, no. Right. Okay, because you and I are regular. You're a little more regular than I am. Well, I did have some beef yesterday, and that's true. All right, 1044.

It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-7-90 if you want to join us. We're with you today until 1250. It is Connor D. McGovern's last day with us is he is going to work, go into the private sector to make lots more money and be a listener. Connor, you're going to listen to a show every day when you can't, right? We need you. Yeah.

If I can call in, I'll call in or for segments. I'll tweet us you guys. Okay. I feel like we're going to hear from him less than three times. Like Noah, our great former producer, we haven't heard from him ever. You got married. We didn't even know about that. It's fine.

Are you guys didn't catch an invite? Nope. Wait, he didn't, does there, I got a saved date. Mm-mm. They already got married. You didn't? No. Okay, I was making that out.

Yeah. I didn't go. I didn't get an invite either. It's okay. Do you guys to save the date, though? Oh, I'm kidding. I didn't receive a save the date for somebody and didn't get invited to the wedding. Really?

You got cut. I believe I did. And I'm still friends with her, but I want to make sure I'm bringing up to her at some point. I don't care. I don't want to go to your wedding for the most part. except for yours Connor as long as it's an open bar uh yeah that's required so you're saying you will not go to connor's wedding if you ever does get married if you do not have an open bar correct you understand connor no it's i'm i understand my wedding's going to have an open bar whenever that day comes okay

uh so i had a pasta station in my bar in my wedding i mean a pasta station yeah it was what like bowtie and pinet yeah absolutely okay i said can't we just do chicken fingers and beer no no no no okay the the hoity-to-dy place I got married, but not allow that. Wonderful. No, it was not wonderful. Do you have a little kava-topi? Excuse me? 7-13-21-2-5-7-90.

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This is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. Happy 314 date all of you. March 14th. That is, of course, happy pie day. You love pie, Matt. Yeah. P-I-3. You had the numbers. 3.1414-9-26535.

3.14159-26535. Does it ever end? No, it is not any. No, I think they're still looking for the end. It hasn't happened. Or at least they're repeating. You know, it's good to have as a good piece of pie for dessert. Okay.

You know what's a good main course? Shepherds pie? Nope. Meat pie? Steak. Okay, why? You should have pie for dessert and steak today for dinner. Okay.

That sounds good. Medium rare. A little salt and pepper. Okay, good. Not overly seasoned. Except for that cage and ribbi and Rortons. Sometimes it was a little overseasoned. No.

It was. I'm sorry. You're a seasoning Nazi. That's fine. I'm not a seasoning Nazi. I'm sorry I have discerning tastes, Matt. Discerning. I'm not arguing with rib-eye guy. I'm really not.

Discerning Stace guy. I mean, God, could you be any more pretentious? Go eat a press pork gristle sheet. Shut your bum ass up. Oh, did you say to make rib potato chips are available? That looked photos. That was as AI, probably. I had steak chips in Asia and they were delicious. That sounds really good. So good.

All right, so those of you that will have steak and some pie. Stake and pie today, we wish you the very best on that. Okay. All right. 713-212-5-790. Our David in Vegas. David, good morning to you. Happy Pye Day and happy anything goes Friday.

Same to you. Happy belated birthday, by the way. Thank you very much. Hey, you have, I think, influenced me. I have become an insatiable Rockets Schedule Watcher. Me too. Thank you very much for joining my problem.

I'm sorry, scoreboard watcher. I said the wrong thing. I was watching the schedule too. Scoreboard watching. I got you. Four teams are separated between second and sixth place, fifth place I mean by one single game, and three of those four teams are in action. Actually, all four of those teams are in action.

And I think all four are favored to win, if I'm not mistaken. Well, two of them are playing each other. Oh, okay, so that's the game I want to talk about. We have obviously Memphis is hosting streaking Cleveland. Oh, let's go cabs. Let's go cabs. would prefer the Eastern Conference team with that

match up, obviously. But the Nuggets are playing on the Lakers in Denver. But obviously, the question is, who do we want to win that thing? If the Lakers would lose, and they're supposed to, that would

flip the Rockets to the Lakers in the four and five spots, meaning we might face a first round series with the Lakers, but we would retake the possibility of home-corded in that series. So here's my answer. I would rather play the Lakers than the Nuggets. So whatever scenario that has the Rockets and Lakers playing each other, I would rather have

over a potential second round. I would like to avoid the nuggets and I'd like to avoid the Thunder under all, until as late as possible. I'm with you. Okay. That was my question. Thanks for the birthday wishes. Continue on with the showjo. Thank you for him. Appreciate it. Have a good weekend. I'm Tony Ross and you were supposed to give me some elixir to make sure I didn't do this, but I am, the Lakers did lose last night, got beat up badly by the Bucks. So now the playoffs were to start today, the Rockets would open up a series in Los Angeles against the Lakers as the Lakers have dropped a fourth now in the West. But there's a two-way tie for two between Memphis and Denver, and there's a two-way tie between four and five between the Lakers and the Rockets.

Golden State, meanwhile, is three back of the Rockets. Golden State has won, six in a row, and nine of ten. Matt. Yes, sir. This is too much. It's too much. Stop. Okay.

Just win, baby. Just have the Rockets win. Let's go. You got to focus on yourself. I'm going to do what EMA Adoka is doing to his players right now. Hey, guys. If they just win the games in front of them, the chips will fall where they may. Just focus on.

the game tonight against Dallas, Matt. Don't look at the scoreboard. Don't do it. It doesn't matter. If you take care of yourself, everything else will take care of itself. Let's do this to be fair. We have one minute left. Okay. If I'm going to stop being schedule and scoreboard obsessed,

give me something else to look at. What's Taylor Mathis up to? She's very pregnant. Oh. So that'll be a no. We can go through the archives. Get to scrolling. But they're the same thing every time. Oh, let's see.

She's bouncing on a Phoenix Street. Have you ever watched the Supranos? You don't like violence. The Sopranos is one of the greatest shows of all time. No. Watch that. All right, I'll tell you this. There is a new Netflix series out about the Boston Celtics history that I think I should start watching.

Oh, screw them. More Celtic stuff? Yeah, it's right. They're a bunch of, mm. All right, I go back and watch the OJ stuff. Is there 76 episodes, one for each number they've retired? Wow. Then you know what?

helping. You're right. How about you can watch the Lord of the Rings movies? Not interested. They're like three hours apiece. They're all Oscar winners. I'm okay. I just recently watched all three years. Stand back for 30 seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, I might be the only person besides my friend David in Las Vegas.

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I looked up some game show stuff. Okay, good. Okay, I thought you were going to say you looked at the standing some more. No, I'm going to do that before the game tonight. Okay. I'm going to run into my game prep here. I'm working on right now. By the way, those of you that are Dallas Mavericks fans,

the two of you that are left, Jaden Harvey, Hardy out tonight with a right ankle spring. Okay. Derek lively, the second out with a right ankle fracture. Fracture? Anthony Davis out with a ductor strain. Olivier's Maxins Prosper is out with right wrist injury. Kyrie Irving is out with a torn ACL and Daniel Gaffert is out with a sprain right knee.

That's six players. And by the way, they traded Luca. Is that bad? And by the way, Lucas scores a boatload of points, but they have not won games without LeBron. Luca needs LeBron. He can't do it by himself. And I know that Austin Reams is this great second fiddle guy. He's really a third fiddle.

They need it. When Austin Reams, LeBron and Luke are on the floor at the same time, time, that's good. When LeBron's not there, it ain't great. It's not. I would agree with that. I would say they're worse without LeBron on the floor, Matt. I'm going to agree with that, Senator.

I'm glad you found that analysis like nobody else could tell you in the entire marketplace. I appreciate that. He's still out for what, at least another week? No, he's been upgraded to day to day. Oh, that's good. So that means he might be able to get going here in the not too distant future. Now, we talk about him playing into his age 40 season. how amazing he is, he's missed a lot of games

a lot of several years. He hasn't played 70 games in like five years. I think you're going to get 60 for the rest of his career, but that career could go to 45. He still looks pretty good out there. And here's the problem, Ross. You're going to pay him obscene amount of cash until he retires, which means

when you miss him for those 20 or so games, that's going to hurt because you're going to be asking guys that are making, relatively speaking, bargain dollars to play valuable minutes. Okay. He played 70 games last year. But before that, it was 55, 56, 45.

He hadn't played 60 for three years before that. Yeah. All right. 713-212-5-790. If you want to jump into the conversation, 7-13-212-5-7-90. Astros playing a, what do you call it? Like a future's game, but a prospects game where they're going to have prospects of the Astros playing against prospects,

I believe, of the Cardinals. Wonderful. And we're going to have it for you. and then they're going to play Toronto right after that, but that's legit, but the players are going to be probably on the roster. Yeah, and we are not carrying that game. So we're carrying the afternoon game and not that one. We have Rockets basketball tonight against the Mavericks who come in at 33 and 34,

still in the 10th spot in the Western Conference. Texans make a move with another offensive lineman from Minnesota yesterday. I'm not an O-line guru. I don't even play one on the radio. Okay. But he was benched, right? I keep looking at these pressure rating numbers, and they're never good. But yeah, the Minnesota linemen, which name is not coming to mine right away and probably won't until I look at it.

But apparently it was not a full-time starter for the Minnesota Vikings. Oh my gosh, my brother must be listening. He sent me the season ticket. Is this supposed to be public information? Like how much you have to gift? Yeah, so give it an example. So give it an example. Let's say, let's do this.

Before we go to Jason and Candy, let's say I want to buy second deck. Okay. 30-yard-line seats. Second-deck 30-yard-line seats. Yep. They are 720 for the tickets, and you have to donate $2,500. $7.20? These seat gifts aren't as bad as I thought of us.

Per ticket. Yeah. Hmm. And then you have to gift that per ticket. So actually, yeah. That's about what I was thinking, I guess, per ticket. So if you want two tickets, it's $1,400 and you have to give $50,000. Nobody's buying one seat.

Right, right, right, right. That to me is not... Damn. Ross, that's not painful for me for SEC games or really good non-conference games. But I would just go in the arena and the stadium being pissed off on paying that kind of money for you, O. Monroe. No disrespect to you, war hawks out there, but... I mean, I actually am disrepected. If you want into the nice suite, $800 plus for the season.

tickets and then $5,000 seat gift. So you're basically, you want two tickets that's going to cost you 10 G's. Per game. Per season. Oh. And you're playing six games a year. Ish. No, I mean, you are.

When is UT not played six games at home in a season? It's probably been forever. It might be seven something. You know, I'm going to get a bunch of non-conference slappers up in there. Let's take a look at Texas. I'm going to look it up Texas Longhorn's football schedule. And let's see how mad. you're going to get when you're paying that kind of money for certain games.

They will open up the season. At Ohio State. Okay, but that doesn't count. I'm talking about this is the money you would pay to go see them play at home. And here we go. Don't look. I'm going to do this as drama for me. Okay.

I'm going to pay $3,000 to see them play September 6th at home against San Jose State. That's a big one. Huge. Then I'm going to get back. I'm going to go out of my car, do another hard work of work week. I'm going to go back over to DKR. Yes. On the next Saturday, I'm going to say another game against U-TEP.

Oh, the miners are tough, Maddie. No, they're not. You've got to watch out. Then I'm going to go home. I'm going to work another hard work work week. Uh-huh. I'm going to scratch and claw my way to 40 hours thinking Saturday. I get to go back to DKR yet again.

Yes. And I'm going to go watch and play. Sam Houston. Man, they're running the gauntlet start season. You ought to be ashamed of your... You ought to be ashamed of yourself you was. Hoity-toity Longhorns. You're giving me San Jose State, U-TEP, and Sam Houston,

back to back to back? Somebody must have dropped out. No, they're only playing one tough one since they would do the SEC. All right. So let's go to the conference schedule. Okay. At Florida. Okay. Oklahoma's in Dallas.

Oklahoma's in Dallas. Now, I'm going down here. here, October 18th, they will be playing at Kentucky. Oh, 25th at Mississippi State. They won't be home for like for weeks. But Halloween weekend.

Yes. They're going to go down and play Vanderbilt. Oh, Vanderbilt's tough. Gross. Vanderbilt beat Alabama last year. Tough game. No, it's not. Tough matchup. No, it's a joke. You should be embarrassed. That's great. All right. I'm going to assume there's a home game

right after that. Okay. Let's take a look. Nope. At George on the 15th. That's a tough matchup. Next week at home, Arkansas. Okay, that's not a bad one.

Arkansas, Texas. Rival. Then, at home against A&M. So basically, of the six games you're playing, you're embarrassed to play four of them. You're not embarrassed to play Van derbyteau. You get no LSU. It's tough matchup.

You get no Alabama. You get no Auburn. You have... Talk to SEC Scheduling about that. You have Vanderbilt, Sam Houston, U-TEP,

and San Jose State among your first four home games. You ought to be shamed, shame, shamed. I didn't make the schedule. Well, somebody made that non-conference.

Well, at Ohio State. Then you play some cupcakes. They're learning from the best. But you can't go to that game unless you have incredible amounts of wealth. Can't you, if you're a season ticket holder,

don't you get some of the allotment or something like that or like first dibs at the allotment? Excuse my French. please. You're not going to the game unless you got 10 Gs to spend. I'm not saying I'm going. I'm talking about you. Regular old Texas fan. I'm not going. Rear Vittal Real Texas fan.

Prague graduate. Yeah. Well, you could probably flip those Aggie tickets and make all your money. Not all your money back, but a significant portion of your money back. Honestly, if I was a Texas fan, which I am in some respects, I would flip the A&M game and just say, I'm going to take a season off. Now, I don't know if they let you do this anymore. I'd have to talk to, let's see, Clanton's stepdaughter is a student, right? Right.

And in, uh, Wex's daughter is going. Correct. When I was there, you could buy face value guest tickets. So we bought our season tickets. And then the three of us, um, there was three of us and we bought guest tickets. And you didn't have to make a donation as a student.

And we flipped those and made profit. Good for you. That's called economics. The collegiate age. You learned something. Yeah. I don't know if the students can do that anymore. But you can't flip four or six of the schedule. You can give away four, six of your schedule, but you can't flip it.

The whole season was like $600, and I made $800 on the Ohio State game in 2007. Good for you. Jason and Katie at 1111 on 7-0. Jason, good morning. Hey, I was going to talk about that A&M and Texas game. Before I do, you know, we're playing our Texas A&M's playing at Notre Dame this year. and me and a bunch of buddies are going to go, and that ain't cheap. I can tell you that.

We already been figuring out. But anyway, in that game yesterday, man, we're up by four points with under a minute left. Oh, yeah. And where Buzz got the great eye, I don't think anybody's talked about this yet today, to throw a 40-foot alley-U and say, just thrown it in bounds to a 91-percent free-throw shooter. They probably would have fouled who hadn't missed a, well, he had missed one free throw on the game. That was frustrating. And for the I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all the A&M fans that had to watch that game yesterday.

Well, say this. That was just brutal. And probably let them in the tournament. Hey, Aggie, listen to me. We do AIMS at 1130. You can't pre-I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, it just happened anyway.

All right, go Aggies. We're going to beat them in the tournament. Now Texas, watch us get put in the same bracket with them or get put with U of H again like we did the other year. And then you'll lose. Anyway. Thank you very much for you. See you later, Jason. All right.

Yeah, we beat the Aggies last year in the tournament. It was a good game, though. Who did you have H to lose to? Was it Duke? No. Yeah, it was Duke when we had Jamal Shed got hurt. That's a shame.

All right, so we are fair and balanced here. Okay. I have not memorized the A&M non-conference. Here we go. It doesn't matter. August 30th, first game, 100,000 people for UTSA. Okay.

Following week, You've worked hard all week, Ross, right? I guess so. But your 60 hours a weekend, you're going to go, I'm going to go to Calhield, hang out with my bros, right? Sure, why not?

I'm going to hollabaloo, and I'm going to connect, can I connect? No, I'd rather go to a nice city like Austin. And then Utah State comes in. So they went from UTSA to U.S. No, U.S.U. UTSU? No, just U.S.U. Utah State.

Sure, why not. Then you get a week off. Mm-hmm. Well, you don't get a week off. You have to go on the road to Notre Dame. Okay. By the way, I hate to tell you this, Aggie fans, you are not going to love, you're going to love everything about South Bend, except the game day itself.

Really quiet, stadium for as awesome as it is. Right in the middle of campus. It's literally right in the middle of campus. Okay. But it's not really like a huge energy place. Then you come home to play Auburn in the 27th. That's good scheduling. Then you have, let's see, after that, you have to go to Mississippi State.

That's annoying as hell. No, Mississippi State's at home. Oh, excuse me. Oh, would they bring the Cowbells to Kyle Field? No idea. All right. Let's speed this up. Quickly.

Home for Florida. Well, you're also, A&M schedules, best. way better. Is it? At Arkansas on the 18th. At LSU in the 25th. Home, oh, at Missouri in the 8th. That's a loss, right, Connor?

Yeah. Home for South Carolina. Home for Sanford. Not Stanford, but Sanford. It'd be ashamed of yourselves. And then playing at Texas to close out the year. So UTSA, Utah State, Auburn, Mississippi State, Florida,

South Carolina and Sanford. Yes. Yeah, I know. I get it. I just get it. I do. 1114. It is the Matt Thomas show of Ross. If you want to apologize for something,

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Fair bear. 23 to 20. The final. They knock off the bills at the buzzer. John Weeks, what was your favorite? But for a minute's gone. John Weeks, what was your favorite? You know, I didn't even do that.

Ross, I got to put that on Twitter real quick. John Weeks is signing with the 40-9ers and got himself a nice little raise from, I think he's one, make $1.4 million for him. That may be his highest number ever amongst him. is high. Damn you. When are we putting him in the ring of honor? We love you, John Weeks.

The last member of the Kubiak era Texans. Hmm. That's horrible. What are we going to do with our lives? We knew this was coming. By the way, I don't really know him, but from all accounts, he's a really, really good dude. First of all... Do you have word from Gary Kubiak?

That's sad. I know. Thank you, Gary. We appreciate it. How sad? Yeah, we heard you the first time, Gary. Let me tell you about what you want to do. What do I want to do?

You want to raise your kids to be backup quarterbacks, left-handed relievers, and deep snappers. Because, I mean, my guess is that John Weeks will not have to be out of a blunder in the last years of his life. He's only on there. He's probably got a few concussions. Well, yeah, a few, but probably less than most offensive line. I would agree.

He's not even, it's not like he's six foot five, 350 pounds either. I think he's rather small compared to other offensive linemen. You would think so, yes. There are rules protecting you. You can't just get crushed. So I would say deep snapper. I'm not saying it's an easy job. And if you make a mistake, you're the only one to blame.

There's nobody else that gets to blame except you. It's not an easy job. Relative to being a backup cordy rack and being a reliever. I mean, you have your head down a lot. You're snapping things between your legs quite a bit. Okay, yeah. Your L7 vertebrae is not feeling great. I mean, yeah, I mean, when you stand up right, you're like, this feels good.

Mm-hmm. You're not bobbing your head up and down a lot and pushing the ball through. I was the deep snapper on the eighth grade T middle school team. And how did that turn out for you? I was horrible. I was so bad. But at least you got to touch the balls. I mean, a lot of offensive linemen never get to do that.

I mean, you were intricately involved in the game. The center gets to. Yeah. But you weren't going to have to be a center. No, I wasn't. You weren't going to have to play four downs. I think must have been on our long snap or must have got hurt because I think I was replaced rather quickly.

I can't really remember. I must have gotten some concussions. Like if I was to play football, I'd like to be a holder. Usually the holder's the punter or the backup quarterback, though. Well, what's I'm saying? But if you really do a good job, you can be a full-time holder. Now you're not making John Week's money, but you're making some money, right? Yeah.

You need to put the uniform on, you get to touch the football, maybe even break a sweat bead of some sort. Can I tell you a guilty pleasure? fine that keeps popping up on my timeline. After that, we'll talk to John. I'm really embarrassed. Please. So there's this Twitter account, message board geniuses, and it keeps showing up in my 4-U.

Okay. And it's all these Aggie fans. They're like talking about needing to leave the SEC. Texas really is Big Brother. I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm really enjoying this. This is amazing. You hear that all my Aggie friends? Oh, man. This is good stuff.

Buzz Buzz should bolt for those Hoosiers and A&M should get Rick Patino Hmm Always the little brother Absolute choke job Texas owns A&M and everything Oh man this is amazing

Poor guys You hear that Aggie Doug? I'm sorry You hear that Aggie Chris It would be the other way If they if Texas were losing And they're posting a bunch of stuff Aggie Wade our friends would be enjoying

Aggie Wade You hear that Aggie Wade He's just besmirching your school yet again? I'm not besmirching anything. I'm reading messages from Aggie fans. But you're openly cackling. You hear that? It's a full cackle right there.

What a shame. John and League City 1124 on 790. John, good morning. Hey, what's going on that? How are you doing? Good friend. So, yeah, I've called and talking about a real college program. U.S. figures.

I mean, he's A&M, Texas. They saw. But anyway, What do you think about today? BYU's been pretty hot. I mean, and is Howard going to play? Have you heard that? I have not heard.

I do not believe much into conference tournaments. The Houston Cougars are going to be a number one seed. I don't think there's a lot of room for improvement. I could give two blanks whether they win the conference championship tournament or not. Six and a half is going. I just don't want. I was worried when Roberts got hurt. I guess I'm sure he'll make him.

He'll let him play. That's kind of the way Samson is, right? He doesn't sit guys. I'm telling you, if Robert's ain't 100% he ain't playing. There's one thing that Calvin doesn't care about in its conference tournaments, case in point last year. Yeah, that's true.

Well, yeah, we would have, I think they would have won it all if we don't lose our point guard against Duke. I mean, I think they definitely went out of shot. Now, Jamal Shed is killing the NBA. Thank you very much. Good for you, Toronto. But yeah, I'm, I, you know, conference tournaments for me are for schools to build resume.

When your resume has already been built, I don't care if you wanted or not. Right. So, real quick overview about the program. I mean, if you were to a vision 10 years ago, how the U of H program came back to prominence in the 80s, I mean, I just would have thought you were nuts. And I was a kid then, and I used to go to the games when I was 13 years old, 11 or 12 years old, when I came in Clivey there. And I never would have thought that this would have happened again.

And I think the excitement is pretty measurable. is what it was then. But I do think at some point they're probably going to have to make it. The venue is going to have to be expanded, don't you think? No, we can't even fill it up right now, sadly. No. They're sold out, aren't they?

Yeah, but people don't go to games. We have a huge no-show factor, which it pisses me off. And again, they're full for Baylor and for Texas Tech and for when Candace comes in. But the great, great, super awesome school, Fills fill it up for when Texas A&M Corporate Christie comes in, and the place is largely empty for games like that, and I'm a little disappointed. One last comment, but if you think about it, though, it's a huge metropolitan city. You look at UCLA games, they're half full.

USC, half full. I mean, that's the comfortable to Houston, right? Correct. It's got to be, it's the big city schools. And Houston does a decent job. It's, I mean, it's tough. It is. It is.

Yeah, it is tough. But if you want to be, thank you, John, for the phone call. You want to be among the creme de la crem of you can't ever. Now, granted, U of H beats everybody there, so they only had one loss at home this year, and it was a Texas tech. I mean, it's a very difficult place to play. But the reason why it's so difficult to place to play is because the kids are really good. I mean, you know, again, yeah, does Arkansas fill it up for when Ball State comes in?

Yeah, but Arkansas is Fayetteville, nothing else to do. I get it. But we're also not looking to fill up a 14,000-seat arena. I would think if you're a season ticket holder and you love the Cougars, you should go to 90% of the games or make sure that you give the tickets to somebody that's there 90% of the time. I do a lot of the non-conference games, the Toledo's, if you will, the Stetton's, if you will. And there are lots empty seats in there for those games. Maybe it's because they want to watch me on television, Ross.

Maybe that's the reason why. That's what it is. They're all at home watching you. It's got to be. That's got to be the reason why. That's what I was figuring. But I want the building full. I want every time for anybody to go into that game at the Fortita Center.

I want it to be you can't see an empty seat. And largely we don't see it until frankly the middle of conference play. Sorry, Matt. It is what it is. I'm fine. I can live past it. All right. You said you're sorry?

Did you really mean that? No. I didn't think so. If you like to apologize. Now, Connor, this is your last day in the show. So would you like to apologize? You should apologize for leaving. Sure?

Yeah. You should apologize for full-time wage and for medical benefits. I will next segment. All right. If you want to apologize for anything. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you don't have time to call us, but have time to tweet us,

give us a hashtag at Sorry Friday, so we can find your tweet. Sorry Friday. Hashtag Sorry Friday, and, of course, my Twitter account is at SportsM-T. I'm sorries. You want to apologize? We're here for you next. 1129 on Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-790.

This is the Friday where you say these few words. I'm sorry. So sorry. Sing it, Brenda. May she rest? May she rest? I'm assuming she's dead. Probably.

She's very young when she started a career very young. Those people are often troubled. I'm sorry to Chris Gardner. We don't talk enough SEC baseball on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Brenda Lee is alive. Oh, damn. She's only 80. That's it?

She was a child star. Good for her. I mean, she's probably like 12 years old when this song came out or something. Maybe she gave us an acoustic, acoustic version of this. 1960. She's born in 44, quick math. 81. No, she's 80, but she was 15 when the, she sang the song at age 15.

Child star. She's got pretty good. She's got like Leanne Rhymes. tone to her voice at that young age. Mm-hmm. All right. I'm sorry to the listener that's an Arkansas fan for taking a small jab at Arkansas. Oh, did somebody getting a mad at you?

Yeah, they did. But I like Arkansas. I've been to Fayetteville a couple times. I think it's very nice. You have? Yeah. I'm a big fan of college towns in general. Why I'm at?

Because of the, I didn't go to a college campus even place. That's why they call you the campus creeper. Nobody calls me that. So anybody that took a jab at Arkansas? I say I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Hmm. Okay.

I'm sorry that I yelled to my son yesterday for getting mad. His team was missing free throws in the second half of the game against Texas. Oh, I'm sorry. I was yelling at the top of my lungs. You were? Oh, my God. I'm like, he was flipping out upstairs and I'm like, Peyton, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. So I say to my son, Peyton, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. Connor? This is your final edition of the show, at least, as a employee. I'm sorry that you're leaving. Yeah, I'm sorry too. You're not really sorry. You're elated. I am.

Everybody's been saying nice things, and, you know, I'm sorry that I did this so well that it's going to be hard. I like that. I like that a lot. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Jonathan, our new producer, who starts next week. I'm sorry for maybe a few things I say to you in the next few weeks. It's nothing personal.

He's going to be great. Sorry. Cross, what you got to say, sorry for. You know what? I'm sorry I haven't publicly congratulated Brian Leema on leaving. He just tweeted us. I haven't tweeted anything

about him. You know what I'm sorry. I haven't been difficult times right now. We're losing Connor, losing Brian Leema. The business is hectic and I should have been nicer to Brian Leema and I'm going to congratulate him and send my well wishes to him on Twitter

very soon. I'm sorry I haven't done. I don't think you have to do it on Twitter. Why not? He and I talked on the phone yesterday. All fair. That's how it makes it real, Matt. But I'm trying to inform some engagement in life. It's like this. I'm going to tell you something right now.

I'm sorry that I don't tell my wife, happy birthday and happy anniversary on my Facebook page. Because you know what I do? You know what I do? I tell her directly to her face. I'm not seeking glory for my wife's birthday or anniversary. I just tell her right to her face. Honey, happy birthday.

Honey, happy anniversary. I don't need to call her my little pet names and put it on Facebook. No, Matt, it's not real unless you put it on social media. I don't believe that to be accurate. you learned anything? So I'm sorry, Kim, if you don't want me to, if I haven't put enough social media mentions of your birthday. Okay, well, I haven't even texted Brian Leema. Sorry. Oh, sorry. Yeah, because you're a crappy text. You're not as bad as Alima is texting, but you're bad. See, I was happy to find out somebody was worse. Oh, he's way, way, way worse.

Love it. Way, way worse. All right, uh, 713-1-2-790 is the way you reach us. If you also want to say sorry to someone and you don't want to do it publicly, at least on the phone, we'll do it for you. Go to your Twitter account and use the hashtag, Sorry Friday. Brian Lima just sent of some heartfelt messages, including he tweeted all of us, said, thank you for being great teammates, the laughs, the bleep talking, and the support.

And he said, just someone, please get mad at a new computer bag. I have a Toomey bag. I'm not getting a new bag. Is that like some kind of designer bag that I don't know about? He's very expensive, yes. Tooby? Toomey. T-U-M-I. Go look how much my bag costs.

What is wrong with you? That's what I'm saying. Brian Lima? Yeah, the bad's falling apart though. It's not falling apart. It's just fine. The zipper was undone. I'm sorry that Lelima's blind.

Holy crap. You overpaid. I didn't overpaid was a gift for me. My wife, who I didn't congratulate her for celebrating a birthday anniversary. You overpaid. Oh, that's true. Jim on the Heights. Who do you want to apologize?

I'm sorry. I like to apologize. I apologize right now. That's so rude. I'm sorry. Jim, who do you want to apologize? apologize to. I got a big one for a guy that was born at Heights Hospital and lived in Houston his whole life. Do not crucify me. But if you do, I deserve it. I've been a Dallas Cowboy

fan since I was a boy. My dad grew up in East Texas. He indoctrinated me with Roger Stalback, Walt Garrison, Tony Dorset, Drew Pearson. And I want to apologize because the Cowboys could not be a more you know what with Jerry Jones at the helm. The only man on earth that fired Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson. I'm sorry. Please, Houston, forgive me. That's heartfelt, Jim. Thank you very much.

Shout out to Heights Hospital. Hashtag sorry Friday. I'm sorry I've been a pain in the ass to HTX Seth 2019, but his humor and chatting with me at games the last few seasons kept me sane. Also, he's very easy on the eyes. Hashtag sorry Friday. Sorry. Please forgive me. Also, this is also from If I Behaved, you'd have nothing.

That's a long-ass Twitter account. Also, I'm so sorry to the old Dodge Ares I gave the bird to this morning. Why cut me off only to drive slower than I want to? GER, hashtag sorry Friday. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. What do you got over there? about something. Nothing? No. Aggie Doug, I believe that you owe the city of Houston apology.

Well, I called him yesterday to speak with Brian Lalima and tell him how, you know, much we're going to miss him. And then I went ahead and just called my shot. Like, I've never done all season long. I haven't said a word about Aggie basketball all season. And I said, yeah, I said, remember a bad day when you get in the sixth season. And they ended out. So that was interesting. So I'm sorry. I have not, I can't call in about the Aggies anymore and call my shot. I think I'm just going to retire from that. But I'll call in about Houston Sports. That's good.

But I can still be Aggie Tuck, right? Of course you can. By the way, you can always tease Ross about the Texas non-conference schedule. You hear me say that earlier today? Did you hear the Aggies non-conference schedule? That's not as bad as yours. You're super sucks. Are you serious?

Aggie sucks. You're super sucks. Samford? That's true. Say you're sorry for Sanford, Agu-Dug. I'm sorry for us scheduling Sanford. Oh, God. Or anybody else's schedule. Yeah.

Yeah, but you're running the triple play of who cares? They have Sanford, Utah State, and who is the other crappy team? UTSA. Yeah. Texas has U-TEP. And San Jose State is good squad. You know what, in all honesty? Seriously.

to tell you this. Yeah. They're actually a pretty decent Mountain West football team. So I'm sorry, Ross. That's not Samford. Now, what happened with Sam Houston State? That's pretty bad. Well, Sam Houston State is a Division I.

It's 1A now. At least they're 1A now. Yeah. I went to that game back in the day when Sam Houston State came in Texas, beat them like 60 to 3. And the San Houston fans cheered when they got a field goal. Here we go. Baylor Doug, reaching out on Twitter,

you can stuff your sorries in a sack hashtag hashtag signfeld hashtag sorry friday I'm sorry bailor basketball can't win any big games you almost won one of the buzzer yesterday against Texas Tech I didn't watch that yeah come on Texas Tech couldn't cover our friend Joan I'm sorry Connor is leaving

but really sorry the Texans that John Weeks is gone she's so sad about John Weeks than Connor McGregor so frankly Connor Jones going to miss John Weeks more than she's going to miss you I understand that. I'm going to miss you more than John Weeks, Connor. I want you to know. Well, I sure hope so.

But maybe Joan is a big John Weeks fan. He's been with a team for a long time. That's true. Their names are almost the same. It's true. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we take one more time out before the news at noon. We have non-flora stories at 1230. We've got a very busy last hour.

He's very busy. We have the news at noon. Yes. We have non-floor stories at 1230. And we have, believe it or not, all things, Missouri and Conner, D. McGovern. It's a mixed bag. Wow. What are you playing for today? We have anything good? We got a pairs of tickets to see Journey at the rodeo tonight

at the rodeo and then the tickets to go see the psychedelic furs at the House of We'll get transferred immediately. We can transfer us right away, right? Don't come and pick them. They'll get them. Okay. Okay. If you want to apologize, your last chance is coming up next. 713-212-5-790. That's 7-1-2-790. If you want to apologize for something, we do not judge you. for saying you're sorry. And if you want to send us a tweet, use that hashtag Sorry Friday. 713212-570. I'm not sorry to tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. In fact, I'm very happy to tell you about the Shell Federal Credit Union. If you'd like to get an auto loan at 3.99% up

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We've got one little segment left Look I've met a lot of you You owe us some apologies And there's a few of you That I'm talking directly too If you know who I'm talking to Wink wink wink So come on in

Apologize for your actions Apologize for the things you've said I put one of your favorite John Weeks moments As a Texan Deep snapper One guy said when he had a good snap He had all When did the John Weeks ever have a bad snap? Right?

I mean he was really good By the way Darren had a good one He says when the position he plays on having a moment You remember means he was great 15 years of the Texans is an incredible run. By the way, a big statement came out today from Cal and Hannah and Janice on John Weeks leaving as a Texan. You think they wrote any of the three of them wrote any of the part of that? No.

Okay. You're very smart. So I'm sorry for the Texans PR stat that has to write letters for the owners. I didn't mean that. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-6. 790. You want to get in a sorry. Let's do this now or forever hold your peace until we do this again next Friday. Let's say hi to Justin on 790. Justin, what are you going to apologize for?

Hey, I just wanted to apologize to anyone who bets on the same college basketball games I bet on. I can't tell you how many times in the last probably two weeks, I bet on a game and it comes down to one shot. So anybody who bets on the same games I bet on, I'm sorry You didn't have that Marquette game, did you? Marquette, no. I had some small ones like, I think it was

Ohio, and then there was like Eastern Kentucky, just small ones. There was one the underdog was, the underdog was plus 10. I bet on them to win the first half.

Three seconds left, they're up by two. Come right down the court, hit a shot, tie the first half. Justin, you can't, Justin, you cannot name one Ohio player. No, you're right. I can't. Okay.

I can't. It's fun, though. I see it. I get the bets and I can't. You're right. I'm sorry, you have a problem. You can't. I'm sorry, Justin.

Thank you, Justin. Thank you for being so honest, though. Marquette was two and a half point favorites over Xavier. They're up five with the clock running out. And basically like a 45 footer Xavier hit. to cover the two and a half. I'm sorry if you dorks have put out five brackets. Why?

You should only have one bracket, one and one. Oh my God. I'm sorry you don't understand how things work. I'm sorry that people just can't have an opinion and stick with it. When you play the power ball, do you only play one set of numbers? No. Why not? Because I ask for 10 chances. Okay, so if I'm in a bracket pool with hundreds of people,

people, why can't I enter multiple entries? Because the chances of you winning a bracket pool are going to be much smaller than it would be for a lottery. I'm just, I mean, the lottery chances are wanting to be the same concept, Matt. It might be the same concept, but I'm just going to fall on my debt, I'm my, uh, sort of in this one. That's fine. Because here's what I don't like. I don't like douchebag Doug. No, I'm talking about Aggie Doug.

I'm just like just regular douchebag. How about, how about that? Is that better? Okay. Hey, man. I had. Arkansas in my pool. Did you have them in all three of them?

No, I had them in one, so I got it. And they said, and I had Ball State knocking off Arizona. Which one? Well, I had it in the third one. Man, I don't have time for that. Don't brag about having Ball State in one of your brackets. When you don't even, first of all, know what Ball State's nickname is, and second, you can't name a player.

And third, you had four or five brackets, and you picked the favorite in three of the four. whatever. It's terrible. I'm sorry for those of you that can't stick to your guns. I'm sorry, you don't know what it's like to gamble. They call me stick to your guns, Thomas. Oh, you slow guns, Thomas. I just think multiple bracket dude is, I can see maybe two, one of you're betting with your heart

and one that you barely betting when he was losing. I'll be doing four again this year. I usually do four. That's it. least two too many. At least. Okay. How about this year? Why don't you try doing two and see how it goes? No, I'm going to do four.

Last year I did four and I got fifth in the pool. I won $200. The rest of my brackets were crap. If I didn't make four of them, I probably wouldn't want anything. And by the way, if you hit a perfect bracket this year where you never get picked right? That's not happening. Ross is going to cut you a check to help you build a pool in your house.

That's true, actually. If you get a completely perfect bracket. Completely perfect bracket. You will buy someone a pool. Sure, why not? All right. I always feel better about this segment. That's good. But I always think about things I'm sorry about later in the week.

I'm so I got to hold it off until Friday. I probably should. Put in your not pad. You got more things you write down. You get more paper than anybody I know. I am not helping out trees, aren't I? No. I'm Mr.

I'm just to write things down. Oh, you lumberjack Thomas. I'm also a big whiteout guy too. Yeah. Okay. I don't sniff it. I just use it. I see the look in your eyes.

They're looking cross. Ross-eyed over there. All right. Let's, oh, we've got to wake the strippers up. You ready to do that? No. I'm going to do it anyway. They're still sleeping.

They're going to be waking up in about three minutes. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. We take this program today until 12. We're only under 1250, Rossie? Come on. We've got to stay around longer than that, don't we? No, we're not. We're going to send it to Astros baseball.

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H-Town. And welcome to our number three of the Matt Thomas Show and Ross. This is Sports Talk 790. I just point in the, you know, one-eyed lady that don't speak English gets a job done, and I hand her eight bucks and we move on. We're the thickest, biggest, biggest I've ever seen. seen in my entire life. I literally had my vertebrae

sore for like a half an hour. Give me 40, give me 40, oh my God, Ross, I'd be so excited. 40% from 3, I'd wet my pants over that. Excuse me? You love to get some full extension in the alleyway. I haven't gotten full extension since the late 90s. I've got pills for that. I've tried them. Is Monday the suck

off? I'm going to wear the Matt Thomas suck staff. Confession, we're all good. Forgive me for my sins. Let's roll. Here comes an ass whooping. They suck it, babe. Zero sugar squirt And excuse me Squirt The grapefruit

So you like a squirt It's delicious What you snort about You never had a squirt? Not in years Well, I'll bring you some You can have one of my skirts I'm good

I don't know nothing to do with your squirt God What is wrong with us What is wrong with you You're as big a part of that as I am What's wrong with you Cheese Conardee putting in some fresh material for the 12 o'clock hour.

Love it. That was your last Friday open. Teary out in here. We cut onions in the 790 studio here or what? Good gracious. All right. We are with you to 1250. Normally you think, Matt, we can't get enough of you.

You're only going to get 45 more minutes of us. Dang. We have non-thold stories at the bottom of the hour. And then we have, believe it or not, all things about Conardee and Missouri. No, it's just Conardee McGovern. Eight questions about Conardee Montgomery. Is there any interesting facts about you, period? There's a lot of interesting facts.

For how young he is, he's quite accomplished. And there's no way to look this up, so people can be just randomly guessing whether this is true or not. This makes it really truly believe it or not. All right. 713-212-5-790, this time every day during the radio program we give you and present to you to the news room, the news center, the news megaplex for sports RV and the news at noon. Well, yes, Matt. you, we are on the thick of Conference Championship Week.

A number of things going on here in Houston and in Texas in these conference championships. We will start locally with your University of Houston Cougars with a huge, massive win over the Colorado Buffaloes. Yuzan on the bounce. Off the Tugler screen. Usan top of the key. Usan backs it away, launches another three.

Got it. My Loos, Yuzan has 12 seconds. in half points in the Cougar lead back to 14. Cougars with the 77 to 68 win over to the Colorado Buffaloes, they did not cover the spread. That's fine, whatever. By the way, that spread was 17 and a half. That's shameful. I mean, I love my Cougars. I wasn't expecting win by 17 and a half.

Well, you should have bet the Buffaloes and you had won some cash, Maddie. Emmanuel Sharp scoring 19 points before fouling out. Joanne Roberts, the veteran forward with an ankle. injury in the second half, Matt. We go to you for the latest on Juan Roberts and his ankle injury. Don't play. Okay. That's what I'm going with.

All right. Where do they play tonight? Yes. What time? They will be playing the BYU Cougars tonight and tip off is at 6 p.m. If you want to fly to Kansas City, guess what? Plenty of seats are available. Now the Kansas and Iowa State are out of the tournament. No one's going.

It will be an empty rent center in downtown KC. Did you just rhyme me? Yeah. Okay. I don't know what it's called. Well, it rhymes with rent. Mint, spent. Quint. Keep going. Lent. You forget it. Ferment. Go on. All right, let's keep it moving. Also in conference tournament action.

The underdogs, the Texas Longhorns, defeat the mighty Texas A&M Aggies. Ray Johnson, Poke, trying to drive past Taylor, goes in, wrap around pass. Out to Johnson. Trey along three. God! Johnson. it knocks it down. Texas defeating Texas A&M in a double overtime thriller, 94 to 89, improving to 19 and 14 on the season. Could be making the NCAA tournament now, Joe Lennardi having them among the last four in. Rodney Terry saving his job? No.

I don't think so either, barring a sweet 16 run or more. But beating A&M with you having these fringe teams in, that's a top, that's a quad one win. Texas, I think now 7 and 9 against quad one teams? Yeah, that's going to get you in. But there, Ross, are you okay? Bad losses. Are you okay with watching the first four with your Longhorns in Dayton? What do you mean?

Why not? I mean, that's an extra day of college basketball watching for you. That sounds great. In Dayton, though. He's going to make me angry, actually. I'm going to tell you there were points yesterday. I was like just in the season. Just get it over with.

They can't inbound the ball late. They have horrible offense late in games. Roddy Terry's attention in detail is horrible. All the little things that good coaches do, he does not do. Out of that, things are wrong well. He doesn't have his team prepared for it. He just doesn't. And yet you're getting in the tournament.

You know what? Maybe I didn't want more for Texas basketball. Oy, they. All right, moving along, but also with some college basketball news, Duke facing questions after injuries to both Cooper Flag and Malik Brown. Cooper Flag leaving the arena in a wheelchair after rolling his left ankle in the first half for the Blue Devils against Georgia Tech. And defensive star Malik Brown also was helped to the locker room with his left arm hanging limply. X-rays showing no fracture for Flag.

Not sure if he's going to be back in the tournament or the NCAA tournament. might even miss the first weekend. We'll see yet to be seen what's going to happen to him and Brown. Matthew. When you watch Cooper Fly, how much have you seen him over the course of the year? Minimal. Highlights. Yeah, me too.

Even though I have a Duke wife who just loves the Dukeies. I don't love him. I like him. I don't love him. Okay. And I think if I'm going to be 1-1-1 in the NBA draft, I want him to love the guy. But man, he has all the features. He blocks shots. He rebounds.

He can shoot from the out. side. But is there a little bit of the Duke hasn't had awesome players year after year come out of the draft? Is that Duke bias hurting like maybe like C.J. Stroud and Ohio State quarterback bias? No, I don't think so. Okay. Zion Williams is good. Kyrie Ervig's good. Jason Tannen was Kentucky, right? It's getting all these blue teams confused. But Zion just can't stay healthy. Attendance is a part of the grade. Well, wise sports host once told me. flag, though. It just doesn't. You know what I'm saying? You know what I'm saying? It shouldn't. And I told you the same thing when it was Ohio State and C.J. Charles. It doesn't matter.

Okay. These guys are different. I think you're right. For sure. For sure. All right, Matt, let's kind of keep it with sports, but a little bit off color. Are you familiar with the TPC Sawgrass event that's going on right now, Matt? I do not watch golf except for the majors. Well, earlier this week, there was an incident that spread on social media. Rory McElroy was heckled by somebody at TPC Sawgrass while playing a practice round. That feels rude. After hitting a drive that went into the water, he was heckled by a patron. He went over there, took his cell phone, walked away, and walked off, and then that patron was ejected. But there's more to the story, Matt.

What? The patron is University of Texas golfer Luke Potter. Wait, what? UT golfer Luke Potter was the one heckling Roy Macaroy and had his phone taken and was ejected from TPC Sawgrass. Why doesn't that college player know the etiquette of golfing?

Luke Potter did release a statement about the incident asked by the golf channel. He said, look, I just made a mistake. I take ownership for it. I apologize for it. That's about all that needs to be said. It's a good learning experience. Yeah, I apologize.

Terrible. Just terrible. Luke Potter's a pretty good golfer, apparently. Let me tell you something. UT will be asking for this and money for him eventually once he gets on tour. So they better make sure that there's no long-term ramifications. Like him kicked off the team or something like that, because he'll go somewhere else in a millisecond.

Yeah, I don't know about that. But hopefully Luke Potter is going to carry the torch for a long line of great UT golfers, Matt. All right. There you have it. By the way, I've got a gross non-florosaurus story coming up at the bottom of the hour, giving you guys advance notice. Appreciate it. And that's the news at noon. Yes, it is.

Where's your non-flor story from? When is this segment? In 18 minutes. No, figure it. All right. Mine's from New Hampshire. Wonderful. A state I've been to, believe it or not.

Washington? No, New Hampshire. New Hampshire State? No. That's correct. Okay. All right, 1213. It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790.

7-1-3-21-2-5-7-90. We have Stunna and Easy. That sounds like a good radio show. You're listening to Stunner and Easy in the morning, Ross. They play all your hits, and plus wacky bits. Stunner Easy on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas show with Ross. Now on Sports Talk 790.

Again. Just so you know. My non-Florida story is a little disturbing. Not like you're going to make you sick, but you're going to go ooh. Or, yeah. That's coming up in 10 minutes. Just be prepared for that. 713-212-5-790.

If you want to get in on anything goes Friday, non-Florida stories, all things about Connor D. McGovern. And look, there's no way you're going to know anything about Connor at all, because half the stuff we're talking about for, believe or not, is things we've never even discussed, correct? I think some of them we have. Really? Okay. So I would say the astute listeners.

The P1, if you will, may be able to have an advantage. All right, very good. Let's talk to Stunna on 790 at 1219. Stunna, good afternoon to you. What's going on, Matt? You tell us. You tell us. Man, I want to say I'm sorry to you because you, the man that have to clean up Shingoon on the radio.

So I got to be like, man, I know. that's a hard job for you. And, uh, wait a minute, hold up, hold up. Alperin Shangoon is shooting now 50% from the floor. He's, uh, he had, he went seven for seven against Phoenix dinner night, made a three-pointer, played 33 minutes, averaging 19 points a game. And yeah, his defense make me cringe sometimes, but me, the passing's been good. He's been really good since the all-star break, averaging more than 21.5 points a game,

nine and a half rebounds, making 56% from the floor, which you want. right now from him. Hey, yeah, you know what? In that game, I saw that game, and I say, Matt has to be working overtime right now to make him look that good. Make him look good. I'm only calling what I'm saying. I'm not making stuff up.

Do you think Shepard Shagoon is not a good player? I'm going to say he's not a good prayer. He's just, he does some idiotic things. He's an all-star. He's an all-star. Well, all of us do idiotic things. If you listen to show 10 to 2, you hear the idiotic things that are being done. Well, hey, but that's been y'all blood, though.

Y'all going to do it. I said our blood is stupid stuff. Okay. I feel bad. I can't argue with that, honestly. Stana, let me tell you, there are things about Alpi that drive me crazy, but by and large, he's having a very, very good season. I wish his free throw percentage was better, but he's shooting better.

I wish some of the crazy passes he would take, wouldn't he would not do them. but he's been incredibly efficient this month. Better free throw shooting the last five or six games. Not too much to complain about it from him right now. I got one more thing. That's Ross. Hey, is Texas the most hated team in the SEC right now? Duh.

Because Jay Billis was really like, hey, every time Texas do a foul, oh, that's not a foul, but if the other team, I mean, I think there was a couple times. I don't think Jay Billis hates Texas. I think the referees were horrible. I will say that number one. That game was awful. There was like every, it's like every foul that was called wasn't a foul,

and every time there was an actual foul, there was a no call. I think he mentioned a couple times when it was A&M that there were not some fouls. But I will say that the referees are terrible, and I will say I don't think Jay Billis hates Texas. don't know, man, because them guys, I mean, the whole SEC network seemed like being anti-longhorned. Hmm. You're right. It's anti-longhorn agenda, and I won't stand for it. Stunner, don't feed Daddy, man, Zigo. Thank you for the phone call. Don't feed into that. Yep, everybody hates Texas. You know why people hate Texas? Generally speaking, is because

you're entitled. Who's entitled? Uh, just a general Texas alum's. Who do you know that's entitled? I just feel the vibe. Is Adam Wexler entitled? I mean, a little bit. Come on, Matt. I mean... I'm not entitled. I could talk to 10 guys in a room. I could pick out the three Texas long-orn. It's a stereotype. It's not true.

Are you sure? Yes. All right. Let's go out next time sometime soon. Let's go to a bar with 10 different fan bases. And we'll see if we can figure out who the Texas guys are and who the A&M guys are. And who are the really cool people? The University of Houston people.

They couldn't get into either of those schools. So they went to Houston. Easy at 1223 on the Matt Thomas show at Ross. Thank you for waiting and good afternoon to you. Hey, gentlemen. A couple of things. What do you guys think about that Stephen A. Smith contract for $100 million, I mean, to talk crazy on ESPN, you know, LeBron. LeBron did.

And then the second thing I was going to bring up, gentlemen, if you find it, after you did the Good Morning strippers, I found the stripper on LinkedIn that now is. no more Ms. Cinnamon. She is now Samantha M. As a receptionist, should I add her or not? And I'll hang up and listen, gentlemen. Okay, easy. What was the very first thing you said? I don't know.

He's talking about LinkedIn. Oh, he's talking about Stephen A. Smith's contract. Stephen A. Smith and LeBron. LeBron James. I mean, that douchebag Jason Barrett from that media consulting group says, we should all be rooting for Stephen A. Smith They get as much money as possible. No, I'm not going to root for him.

Do I think it's wasted money? Absolutely. Was it competing against no bun for Stephen A. Smith's rights? Yeah, it wasn't. I mean, it's all right. So I wasn't going to go to a YouTube page. Guess why? He'll make 20 cents on the dollar that you make it from ESPN.

I mean, Stephen A's got value clearly. I think he does have a large fan base. I think it's very much a love-hate relationship. I don't respect him. I respect Stephen A. Matt. I don't. I think he I will have his back on the whole LeBron stuff. I'll tell you that. I mean, he was a beat writer. He's got a lot of personality. He does have a lot of charisma. I don't think that's deniable.

And he's not the best analysis of all time. But I do respect what he's done in this, in this media sphere to where he's making $20 million a year. He's made ESPN say, we cannot afford to lose you. I think when you host a show like that and you have a humongous staff around you, you can't make mistakes. He makes lots of mistakes. He does. But he's also asked to call, like, he's got to do NBA, NFL. It doesn't do a lot of baseball, but zero baseball.

Well, if he's asked to do it, then he can't do it, then he shouldn't get paid for it. If you make, if you get the assignment and you make great money, you should bat 950. And he bats about 725. I don't know what he bets. And honestly, every time I hear about him not want to run for president And he goes on every television show possible to tell us he not someone to run for president Yeah, the dude's on, I mean, he's got one of the most incredible fascinating media careers of all time It's big and it's very luxurious and it's very very advantageous for him financially

But I don't know, I just don't respect him I just makes a lot of mistakes I think he is more about the show than he is about content And but I will say this I have his story back on the LeBron stuff. LeBron was being a excuse my French. I won't say it. He was being a father.

No. He felt like somebody was being unfair to his son and so he told him. Guess what you do? You call. He did tell him. No, you don't do it in front of it in the middle of the game. You pick up the phone and if LeBron James calls Stephen A. Smith, Stephen A. Smith picks up the phone. Okay. Stephen A. Smith

will fly to L.A. to talk to him about it. to do in the middle of the game that you know people were looking at, you were looking to gain attention for it. That's a B move. I guess I don't know. But I'm going to say he definitely did it in the public sphere because he wanted, I think maybe make, I don't know if make an example or what the term would be. Maybe make an example of Stephen A. Smith.

I'm not a fan of that. So Stephen A, you were right. Yes. LeBron came to you as a father. And I respect that. I can't, you know, I do like the fact LeBron defended his son. And also, I don't know exactly what he,

what the issue was. What did Stephen A. Smith say that there was a video. He just said, he's saying that what everybody else is saying is that LeBron, you forced this. No one was going to take Barney James until you said, you went to tell the Lakers, go grab him. And they did.

So, So Stephen A, rightly so, said, hey, Brony James isn't in the NBA unless you tell the Lakers to do it. But if you got a problem, go tell him. Lobby phone call. Set an email. G-chat. Get on a Zoom call. Or just see him face.

Maybe you wanted to address him face-to-face. You don't think Stephen A. Smith would jump on a plane to go see him right away if he said come in a face-to-face meeting? I'm going to fly him out for a face-of-face meeting. That sounds ridiculous. Stephen A. Smith is never in studio. He likes to go to California. May Smith going to fly out to meet with a player to talk. He's making $20 million a year. He can clearly do it.

He said maybe, because you know what happened if it was a phone call? Oh, why can't you meet him face to face? Man to man. Why can't you? So, I mean, it's feel like LeBron can't win. If there was a Zoom call and he's calling him out. No. People would have said, no, why don't you be a man and meet him up face to face? Well, he met him. He was a man and he met him up face to face. And by the way, he'd have found him before the, he could have met him that night because he was at the game in Los Angeles. I don't know what the schedule was. Maybe he had shoe around. This is excuse making. LeBron. I'm my excuse making. Yeah, LeBron should have absolutely done it

not in front of everybody. But that's what he wanted to get the attention. For what? He wanted to embarrass him. He wanted to embarrass him. He definitely wanted to make an, like I said, make an example. And me face to face. If I had a problem with you, honest problem, which I never do.

This is different. No, it's not. I would say it all fair. I wouldn't do it on there. I wouldn't try to embarrass you. No. It's exactly the same thing. I was calling out, I don't even know.

Tarisan. And I was like, yeah, crushing. Terry Easton and he came and spoke to me face to face in front of the court. That would make sense to me. No, because the Rockets would say Tarry wants to speak to you. Or Tarry will say, go to the Rockets' PR apartment and say, hey, Ross, Atari wants to talk to you. I think grown people

do it, not in front of a microphone or in front of a camera. He wasn't in front of the camera. He didn't do it on Oh, he was on camera. Everything is in a game is in front of a camera. Like there was an element of that. It's not like he crashed his set. That'd be funny. Throwing stuff everywhere. 30 seconds here. Jason and Kingwood. Jason, you have a gender reveal you need information

on, please? Oh, yeah. So last time I talked to you guys, I told you all I was, I found out I was a dad. I'm trying to find a good way of doing an Astros related gender review. Well, you're going to do orange and blue. Well, yeah, I know, but how?

Like, should I, I don't know, like orange and blue smoke? Don't do, just don't do a gender reveal, Jason. What? Why not? Isn't that like part of the fun? No. Like having a game?

Nobody wants to go to your gender reveal. No, no. Jason, I will buy your family a gift, but just don't invite me to your gender reveal party. Okay. All right. You know, I'd let Jason do what he wants. If you want to do it, do it, Jason, don't do it. Take my sage advice.

I'm a father of three. I had zero gender reveals. Hmm. I left turning out okay. He might have to consult headquarters. Oh, you mean the misses? Yes. I got it's fair.

All right. The commander in chief. On 4 of stories up next, 1230 on Sports Talk 790. Lunch timers. It's the Matt Thomas show with Ross on Sports Talk 790. This is my final warning. If you have virgin ears and do not like sensitive, somewhat disgusting stories, you do not want to listen to my story. Five, four, three, two, one.

Non-forist story, folks, coming from the state of New Hampshire. gentleman a woman has been arrested you're saying well how did she get arrested police said she posted quote disturbing videos of herself online contending a store's food products by urinating on them it prompted a recall of more than a half dozen items the woman 23 year old kelly's tedford posted videos on an internet site showing her Pion products at the Mononark Food Co-op

is located in the southeastern portion of the state this grocery store. According to news release from the Keen Base Company, the incident took place on February the 10th and caused more than $1,500 in loss to the store. Apparently, she's done this before.

She was listed as an inmate online, line with the Chessar County Department of Corrections. She has a bond set and charged with criminal mischief. Apparently, she did this back in 2021, where she, and the police report said, did it numerous additional videos of Tedford peeing on products. The grocery store makes a release and says, at this time, we are asking for a voluntary recall the following products purchased between February the 10th

and February the 15th. So, if any of you bought this at a New Hampshire grocery store, take it back because it might have urinary on it. Raw walnuts? Jesus. Organic coconut shreds. Organic polenta. Organic red canona. Kiona?

Oh, boy. Kina. Stop! I was going to let him try some more. Kenoa? You ruined it. Yeah, keep going. Knoa? Is that our That's wrong, isn't it? It's quinoa. Kinoa, whatever.

Organic white quinoa, organic tricolor quinoa, organic cornmeal. Anyone who has purchased the recalled products are asked to throw them away and visit the business for a full refund. Quote from the grocery store. While this is a highly unusual incident, we have strict food safety protocols and recalled products in place. We are reviewing our security measures and procedures to further safeguard our store and customers, meaning please do not take a whiz on our products. And that is my non-Forda story. Thank you, Matt.

We appreciate you. If you've been to a grocery store and seen someone take a whiz on products. No. All right. I hope they never happen. All right, I'm going to skip the first one I was going to use. I'll just read you the headline, Matt. In Balmer, charged with castrating sex offenders corpse.

Okay. And skip. I told you I'm skipping, though. Thank you. Next, Matt. apparently things are getting pretty dire at the U.S. border, both with Mexico and Canada.

Contraband being smuggled and an alarming rate. Do you know what this contraband is, Matt? It's not fentanyl. It's not cocaine. Is it quinoa? It's not quinoa. Increasing by 36% at the U.S.-Mexico border,

people smuggling eggs. I thought egg prices were going down. Near the San Diego Tijuana border, egg smuggling has spiked by as much as 158% with the prices of eggs soaring 100,000 eggs totaling $40,000 in value were stolen from a distribution center in Pennsylvania and then also you have at the U.S. Mexico and U.S. Canadian borders

hundreds of thousands of eggs being smuggled through and being stopped by Border Patrol agents. This is a terrible problem we have. By the way, if anybody has gone to a Waffle House lately, excuse me, Baffle Bows, you know, they were charging a 50% per egg surcharge on your meals. I didn't know that.

Yeah. If that has been taken off the board, let us know because egg prices are dropping and gas prices are down to it. I paid 241 yesterday. That's good. So things are recovering nicely. Wonderful. Smuggling, you ever smuggling an egg, Ross?

No. Sorry, people are texting. How do you not know what King was? I've never had it before. It's a nice grain. It's delicious. What do you serve it? What do you serve it?

Do you have a quinoa bowl? Tell her to stop texting you on the, turn an apple phone off. It's not her. Is it him? It's a him. Okay. I don't know what quinoa. I've never had it.

It's okay, Matt. So if I never had it, I wouldn't know what it is. I know. You're usually too busy eating McRibs. I love McRibs. There should be a short charge of McRibbs. You should be paying you, or I should say, you should be paying extra to eat Mick Rips.

It's a delicious. fiber-rich, healthful, grain. But is it tasty? I just said, the delicious was the first word I said. What's the number one thing you'd have a quinoa with? Are you going to have it with anything? You can have it as a side dish? Like I said, it's kind of like rice.

It's a grain. Or lentils or yeah, cuss-coos? Eh, I don't like cuss-cuse. And I'm also anti-tabooly. Tabuli sucks. Terrible. Flavorless, gross. Oh, my God.

Yeah. I said it. You're probably getting grocery store Tibuli or something. Where did you eat Tibuli? I had Tibuli. You ready for this? In Tarpon Springs, Florida, a huge Greek community in Florida back in the 80s. Had it once.

Okay, you had it once in the 80s and you're giving it up. Yeah, Tibouli is delicious. You can also put a little quinoa on the Tibouli. You put the Kewan on the Tibu. I love Tibuil. You know what? Don't argue food with Matt. Don't argue food with that.

Don't argue food. Yeah, if you don't like the Bully, you suck. Mr. McRibb. loves the McRibb. You don't like to. You are the worst person alive. No tabooly. No tibouli.

No tibolis. No enchiladas. I don't like tibolias. I don't like tibolos. I like brisket. Falao fish, let's go. Falae fish, the goat. Again, I'm not all right.

I'm done. People like the filial fish. Turn my microphone off. Yeah, good. Go away. Connor, what do you got? This story is brought to you by Tom and Minroe, Louisiana, who sent me this story. Oh, nice.

Yeah, we go to Germany where a soccer match was postponed after an injury to a referee. The referee was conducting pregame checks of players pass. when a small child who was doing gymnastics on the field gave him a sharp bite on his left testicle. The young child was later identified as the son of a player on one of the German soccer teams. The referee's injury was so painful that he buckled over in pain and was unable to perform his scheduled duties as a referee. So the two clubs will play each other at a later date after needing to reschedule the match following the bizarre injury. And it has not been made clear whether the referee will return to officiate that rescheduled match. And again, recap the injury one more time.

Child bit him on his left testicle. That sounds painful. See, this guy is just calling a match, just running up and down the field. It's a hard job as it is. And somebody's kid on one of the teams. Bites us testy. Bites him in the nut.

That's horrible. That may be some of your best work right there. That was a good finale for your non-portish story. That's what I thought. I think we got to get to break like ASAP. Yeah, we need to go. All right now. Let's play a hell yeah or not.

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Sports Talk 790. Monday through Thursday, we play America's fastest growing sports radio game show we call it. Believe it or not. But on Friday, we play, hell yeah, and out. And here's how it works. You call 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. The questions are about Connor D. McGovern, our producer who's living us today.

I'll read you a statement about Connor. If the statement is completely utterly accurate, you'll say this. Hell yeah! If the statement's erroneous photo bunk and made up, you'll say this. Two hell yeah and answer about you. Connor wins what? We have two pairs of tickets left to see Journey

tonight at the rodeo, March 14th. A pair of tickets to see the psychedelic furs live on July 12th at the House of Blues and some 790 t-shirts. You know what we should do one correct question because we're going to get away those tickets today. So let's do the first two people if they want those journey tickets,

get one correct answer and you win on hell yeah or not. And again, you're just totally guessing unless you really know Connor. Like if your parents can't call on this, correct? My mom, I tried, but I said no. Brian, on 790, ready to play, Hell, yeah, or not? Hell yeah.

Connor McGovern and was born in Houston, but as a dual American and Canadian citizen, hell yeah, or not? Hell yeah. There you go, you're going to see Journey tonight if you want to go. Davis on 790 Davis, you're ready to play, hell yeah or not. Yeah, hell yeah.

Connor McGovern's major wall at Missouri was radio, television, and film. hell yeah or not not yeah he was a journalism major there is a difference congratulations Marty on 790 Marty what was your favorite Connor D. McGovern as producer of the Matt Thomas show with Ross Moment

it's got to be today with his non-Florida story that was brutal that was brutal for his 11th birthday Connor McGovern skated at center ice and held the flag for the national anthem at a Houston Arrows game in the TOTA center and even spoke to former president George W.

Bush before stepping on the ice. Hell yeah or not? Not. Of course. He did all those things. Duh. Ray on 790, Ray, you ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. While in Missouri, Connor

McGovern attended the viral commencement speech done by actor John Hamm. Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. No, wasn't part of it. He skipped it. I don't even think he did commencement. Ruben on 790, Ruben. You're ready to play Hell yeah or not?

Hell yeah. Connor McGovern's first car was a Chevy Colorado and he still drives it today. Hell yeah, or not? Not. Hell yeah! How many miles are you got on that bad war now?

Almost 100. 1,000. Paul, on 790, Paul, what was your favorite Connor McGovern as a producer moment in the Matt Thomas Show Ross?

There's so many I can't think of. I can't pick out one. All right. Connor McGovern has lost 50 pounds and starting here at Sports Talk 790. Hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Yeah.

Because we don't pay anybody. That's why he's always hungry. Yeah. Ken on 790, Ken, you're ready to play hell yeah or not? Hell yeah. Connor McGovern's favorite band is Blink 182 and has seen them in concert five different times and is featured in one of their music videos.

Hell yeah or not? Not. Yes, he was in a happy day's video. Patrick on 790. You ready to play? Hell yeah or not. Hell yeah. Connor McGovern often plays the piano and grew up taking lessons from ages 7 to 13. Hell yeah or not.

Hell yeah. No, he just plays a little guitar. That's it. Sorry. That's about when I took piano lessons, 7 to 13. I took piano in the 6th and 7th grade. And one of my biggest regrets besides working with you is not being able to finish up that piano career. Tickle the Ivories.

You could be a concert pianist at this point, Matt. Excuse me? I'm not working on a New Hampshire grocery store. I'm going to go have some quinoa and some sucky tabooly and some tamales. You know what? We're just going to get you a McRib and we're going to eat Korean barbecue. We're going to buy you a lot of us. We have Korean barbecue because that's what you would prefer.

By the way, if those of you don't think I like a cranberry sauce, you are mistaken. I am now team cranberry sauce. Up next, Astros. Well, like the sort of Astros. against the sort of nationals. We're back for Rockets basketball tonight at 7 o'clock right here on these airwaves that we call Sports Talk 790.