The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Massive Week For Return Of Sports, The Match 2, MJ Busted Lying

Episode Date: May 26, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers. I'm in my way I'm making. Is the Matt Thomas show. 12-01 in H-town. What's happening in luncht timers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports

Talk 790. Hope you guys had a happy, safe, relaxing, Memorial Day, weekend. Thank you to all our. servicemen, our first responders, anybody that had to work and has had to work during this time, we thank you for all that you do. And Ross and I, along with Joe Georgia, are here to try to entertain you the best weekend between now and three o'clock this afternoon. If you'd like to join us, you can do so very easily. Two ways.

One is to be a part of the show at 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. You can also tweet at us at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Joe-George Radio. Joe, good to have you back in the saddle again with us this week. Ross is always here as well. Guys, the notepad is just full. I mean, I'm just chock full of topics. So many.

It's almost like we need to spin the wheel of topics. But we'll start first with... That'll be at 6 o'clock. Oh, y'all do wheel of topics at 6? You had another bit still. We'll do it every now and then. You didn't invent the wheel of topics. I don't know.

I might have. I don't think you did. Okay. But you would fully admit the people. people do bit steel off of us. Of course. And it's not a bit steal if I'm on the show. That's right.

It's a co-bit. Co-bit. What do you want to start? We got a lot of things. Let me just run through. First of all, golf. Here is the problem I have with golf. Apparently it was wonderful.

I was ready to watch it, a lot of it. And I love DirecTV. I've been a DirecTV subscriber, 80% of my adult life. I really enjoyed it back when I used to get those illegal satellite cards, but that's a different story for a different time. You'd pay off the DirecTV guy? No, a buddy mine would send me cards. And the DirecTV, and I don't know if we've ever, we've ever talked about this?

Yes, you have. Okay, Joe, you don't know about this. You got every channel. And I mean, every channel. Which meant you got 40 CBSes, you got 40 Foxes, you got 40 NBC's, you got a bunch of WBs, you got all the movie channels, and you're, you're, you were watching the Spice Channel. And you got porn.

Teach his own. Mm-hmm. Okay, so DirecTV has been my friend for many, many years, decades. Matter of fact, when I got married in 1997, I asked for a direct TV on my wedding registry. I did not get it. Oh, why not? Because people thought, you know what? You need flatware.

It's more important. You got like a waffle maker instead? Yeah. Bad move. That's what I'm saying, Joe, if you didn't invite me to your wedding, I would have bought you a satellite dish. I just would have. I don't want one. Sheary doesn't.

Well, I live in an apartment complex. It's not possible. He can't use it. You can't put your own salad dish like in your back patio or something? I can, but I don't face the right direction. Okay, well, I would have gotten you a gift card for whatever your cable barrett. Next time. Next time.

There won't be one of the park. Really? You already forecasting that. I'm sure Mrs. George loves that. So DirecTV, when it rains, though, nothing goes on the air. I mean, it's, you know, cable's got its issues, too, but, man, it rains at all. and it rained and rained and rained and rain in my house on Saturday. So I only saw probably 25% of it.

And it would go for a while, then it would blip out, then it would completely go away. And I just, so I gave up. But I can tell you, I saw enough of the highlights to go that America loved it. In fact, America loved it to the tune of almost 6 million people that watched this. And it's a lot of it is because it's a live sporting event. But frankly, a lot of it is because of the people that were involved in it. Yeah, you had star power, huge star power. You had stupendous star power.

You had great analysts, like Charles Barkley, yuck it up with these guys. You had live microphones. It was very relaxed. I mean, there was obviously that competitive juices were flowing, but you couldn't do this every single week. And that's what people were saying, you know,

hey, come on TV networks, open it up. Let's see more of this. Well, of course the answers we want to see more of it. But Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods are not going to give you the access to their lives and what they're thinking and what they're saying if they're playing number 16 at the Masters. When you're playing for multi-million to dollars,

it's one thing. When you're playing for charity, it's another thing. So it was great. The golf was at times really good. There were some Tom Brady moments that probably he'd like to forget. He made you look human for a while, right? We thought Tom Brady was invincible, and then we saw some of his shots. And then he split his pants. And then he also held one out from a great distance away too.

Yes, it did. So it was a really enjoyable weekend. The weather certainly didn't help on our end, at least from the weather and then the rain in Florida beforehand. But they got out there and going. They raised a lot of money. And it was something to watch on Saturday. Do you notice something, guys, live sports events, really regardless of what it is, is doing very, very well? Yes.

And I want to talk about what nobody's talking about. Please. How much work is Tom Brady had done? He looks like a caveman now. I can't be the only one that noticed. He mean chin up? His face looks a little weird. You know what, Ross, I think I agree with you.

Thank you. Let me ask you this. If you're on that side of that argument, which I'm going to be on your side, why would you argue against it? I'm not saying argue against it. I'm just saying nobody's, I didn't see anybody tweeting about it. I was like, to me, he looks almost grotesque. He's got a lot of work done. He's got caveman brow now.

I don't think his jaws moved. I don't know what's going on. He looks like that past dispenser, right? I don't know who Giselle referred him to, but the man's had a lot of work done. It's almost like he's got bolts in it, like Frankenstein. Yes. Yes. Rossi.

He's 42 years old. He's about to quarterback a new football. He's got scoreboard. I'm sure he's got scoreboard. I'm just saying he looks a little weird. I didn't spend a lot of time looking at him. Okay. I didn't stare at him.

He was on my TV. I didn't go up to the TV and just look at his face. I just noticed. Well, you know what I'll do? I will try to find a rebroadcast of it. and give you a further analysis on this because, again, I couldn't see much of it yet on Saturday because of the weather. But yeah, he looks like he's had some, but most guys have had work done, right? Is Peyton Manning had work done?

Oh, that forehead's still huge. Yeah, you still got the giant forehead. You don't think Tigers had some lifts and tucks and pushes around? I don't know. Is he a free agent or is he with somebody these days? I think Tiger's a free agent. Yeah, because he was with Lindsey Vaughn for the longest time. How'd screw that up?

Well, I think she's... She's married, I think. Okay, she seems a little... What? Cuckoo? Yes. Cuckoo for Cucco. I don't think he was going to say that.

I was. You tell me off air what you were going to say? No. Remember, the internet only shows... He's basically got it. Yeah, okay. Not mentally strong? I didn't say that.

She's obviously mentally tough. Off her rocker. As an Olympic level athlete. Looks good. Yes. Didn't she have a terrible accident in her career? She's 5'10. I don't know a lot about skiing, but I'm just guessing.

And that's how I think that's how. I don't know. She seems to get around. So it made me think today a little bit about the fact that we need more of this until we get more sports. Now, it sounds like we're going to get some things going probably in the month of July, right? Mid to late July is what we're hearing, basically, between MLB and the NBA, as long as baseball renegotiates its structure of finances. The NBA just needs to get everything in place. But it looks like Charles Buckley said over the weekend, it's 100% certain the NBA is coming back, which is good.

So what do you want to see next? I told this to Joe off air. I think this is a no-brainer. Let's get one hellacious celebrity bowling match going. Because, you know, Chris Paul, former Rocket, loves to bowl. He could put together a team of three or four guys. You get somebody else, who's another famous bowler likes to bowl? Mooky Betts.

Mooky Betts is a big bowler. George Springer's a huge bowler. I'd watch bowl right. Yeah, I would watch it. Get them all miced up. Yeah. Get them some chili cheese fries like we were talking about last week. Cigarettes and beer?

Yes. You got to have a heat in your mouth when you're competing in the celebrity bowling event, right? So I'll run through a few. Although, how do you, I mean, everybody's got to bring their own ball. And they're going to be somebody cleaning it off every time it rolls. Yeah, because it hits a pin, it's going to have stuff, you know. Instead of polish, you just use a Clorox wipe. Yeah.

All right, so would you watch Celebrity Bowling, yes? Yes. Would you watch a two-on-two celebrity volleyball match, like beach volleyball, if you will? Probably not. Well, is Lindsay Vaughn going to be in it? Yeah, you didn't even ask who was going to be in it, Joe. How would you say no automatic? You know, yeah, bud.

Either say yes or no. I'll say no. You're a liar, too. Well, okay, it depends, I guess. Apparently Jerome Bettis and Torel Owens are big bowlers. The bus is good. Flag football. How about flag football on a beach?

Somebody might get hurt. A lot of waivers there. Yeah. And keep it bowling. The only thing I said no to was ping pong. Ping pong's too fast to watch on television. I watch it. That's great on television.

When there's like long, I don't know if they're going to be getting a long Rally. Yeah, that's a problem. I don't know. Darrell Mory has gotten in some epic games. I think maybe Daryl's one of the five best table tennis players in the city of Houston. Maybe. Gives it all as a guy.

I mean, but man, again, every time I watch table tennis on television, the points are so fast. I got one for you. I'd watch Celebrity Badminton. Like all those Olympic sports that you watch once every four years, you kind of fall in love with. And you go, that's cool. I think I should watch more of that. and then you don't, this is the time you put celebrities in it. The shuttlecock going back and forth over the net?

Yeah. That cock was hit hard and that that cock was hit hard. Shuttlecock, yes. Well, you know, you call it, you shorter terms. It's made out of goose feathers, you know. You don't say basketball was past. The ball was passed. All right.

So that's my point. This is where Fox TNT and all these other networks need to get together and do as many of these celebrity events as possible, raise some money for some charities. do this until late July. And then we start playing sports again, supposedly. I think it's an important week, by the way, for Major League Baseball. Huge week. I mean, I'm not saying this just to be joking. I think it's if they don't get this, they have basically 10 days, right?

To really solidify, break down the finances of the sport. And if they don't, they're really going to push themselves up against the calendar. And really force guys back probably a lot faster than they want to. There's going to be a possibility of some guys saying this, you know, that this isn't worth it. But yeah, the next 10 days, Major League Baseball, this is you getting your act together, getting the play, you as the owners negotiating a little bit, buying into what the concerns the baseball players are, baseball players having to have some sort of economic understanding that, yeah, having no fans in a stadium for most of the years, probably not going to draw any money for

the owners to help pay for your salary. Just come together, negotiate, let's have something here. Hopefully that will be the case within the next two days. Other things to get to, the general managers around the NBA have some options about what they need to do for the rest of the season. We'll get into that. The Astros are slowly returning the Minute Maid Park in West Palm Beach.

We don't know who. We don't know where. We don't know for how long because the Astros won't tell us. Kind of keeping it Uber secret. We'll discuss that. We have some audio of Michael Jordan that completely contradicts something he said

in The Last Dance. What? Already the lies are getting on earthed? I know. Stunning. Skinny James. James Harden will be a topic of conversation the day. Latest ESPN analytic projections.

How do you feel about ESPN analytic projections? They're fine. They're not that predictive. Well, perhaps. Just because somebody sits in front of the computer doesn't mean they're a nerd. Do you think the people that work in ESPN analytics are cool guys? You want to go have beers with? Sure.

Why not? Think about it. Just, again, you're saying, you're saying yes? Maybe they don't want to have beers with us. I'd be okay with that. And I went to Lake Charles this weekend. a full report on the do's and don'ts of trying to go to Lake Charles and go to a casino in late May. 1213 of the Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790, if you'd like to get in on the show today.

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This is Whitney Merciless. Back to the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. What's that, Matthew? I said, good to have you back. Hope it made a good happy Memorial Day weekend. Lengthy weekend. A couple of days off. Good for everyone.

So let me run to Lake Charles real quick. Got invited by a friend to go to Lake Charles over the weekend. Yes. First of all, that drive seems shorter and shorter every time we go. How much did you say the new normal? How many times did you say that this weekend? Zero. I don't use any of those terms.

I do say social distancing quite a bit. I do with my commercials. I say that a lot. But I don't say uncertain times, unprecedented times, the new normal. The more you don't like those phrases, the more I want to say them, though. Get away from me kind of thing. So, yeah, I went to Lake Tree, went to the Golden Nugget. I had a really good time.

It's just a little bit different for those of you that are casino goers. And clearly Texas is doing just fine because I thought 75% of the license plates in the parking lot were from Texas. That's how it goes at Lake Charles. Yeah. So the craps tables. Okay, first of all, let's go in from the time you enter. the time you enter the casino floor, you get your temperature checked.

Oh, really? That's good. Yeah. And once you do that, you get a stamp. And that stamp can last you two or three times, depending on how, if you go in and out of the hotel, and out of the casino area a lot, like I got a stamp at like 2.30 in the afternoon,

and I got re-stamped at 8.30. So they're checking your temperature every few hours. Really? Yeah. Where they check your IDs? Yep. Okay. So, I mean, it took five seconds.

longer than it normally would take you if you were passing an idea. That's good. I like that. So that was nice and easy. All of the employees were wearing mask. I forgot if the dealers are. No, I don't think the dealers are because, no, some did. Some did. It was optional. I'm trying to remember exactly because it would be hard if you're trying to talk to have to communicate through those things. I would say of the people that were there as gamblers, I would say 75% of the people were not wearing mask. Each blackjack table only had three people on it. Normally it fits six.

The normal craps table seats 12. Only six were allowed. Not every table was open. In fact, more tables were closed than war because I think golden nugget, I'm sure that the same as LaBairge, doesn't know what to do in terms of what to expect. They have no, there's no historical perspective of, well, we had this much customer. these many customers a year ago, we had this many customers during a pandemic as an minute, a pandemic before like this.

So the only thing that probably was a buzzkill was an everything was a wait. If you weren't one of the six people in the craps table, you had to wait behind the craps table for ordering someone to leave. Now, you just can't sit right behind them like you can stand and watch somebody do it. You had to stand in theory six feet behind. So it made the walk. Was there a line for it? What if like two people were waiting?

You sprint out around. the table. There was never more than two or three waiting, but there was definitely people waiting. I waited several times. How long? Maybe as most 45 minutes, maybe as little as 15. You used to have to stand there for 45 minutes and not play. And you try to get the pit balls to say, hey, I want to play. Put my hand up. I'm here. Okay, sir, we'll do the best we can. See, poker room is easy in that way. There's a wait list and then they text you. They should do that for everything.

There might be, that might be something for the future. Because it was, I'm guessing it'll only get more crowded. And if it gets more, more crowded and the tables are not opening up, there's going to be weights. But yeah, there's no waiting system. They cleaned the dice after every person rolled. The chips were not cleaned. Trying to think what else. They'd wipe off when a player would leave. They would wipe off the new area where the person was before. So they're very conscientious. I mean, there's, there is, they're going above and beyond. But in terms of once you're playing, once you can start playing, it was just a regular old game.

Now, it's a little, black check is again very difficult because there's only three spots. And usually when you sit to play black check, unless you're just having an awful run of things, blackjack's one of those sports you could sit there for two, three hours. So the weight was probably longer. The limits were rather high, higher than they normally be on a weekend on a Memorial Day weekend.

But if you just went there and wanted to gamble and still wanted to eat, I mean, all the restaurants had a wait because they were social distance. Only half the tables were going there. And everybody, you know, there's a lot of checking. Louisiana police are always around making sure everybody's good. But generally speaking, if you didn't mind the weight, you had a really good time. What was the atmosphere like at the craft table especially? I feel like that's one of the ones where it's fun because of the table energy and like high five and we hit a point.

You still talk. Is it more business-like, I guess? I wouldn't say business-like. I would say just not as much. There's just one, there weren't as much celebrating. There wasn't as much. Come on, shooter. Roll that six. Yeah, that's what the draw of the craft table is to me. Well, the draw of the craft table is for me collecting money. Well, I'd like to do it. I'd like to do it. I If I could be on a craps table by myself, I could live with that. But, yeah, I think sometimes the energy of a craps table is a lot of fun, especially when everybody hits the on the number, on the point.

So that was a big thing. Same thing with Blackjack. You get six people at a Blackjack table and the dealer bust. Oh, you guys are high-fiving. By the way, there's no high-fiving. There's no fist bumping. It's no shaking of hands. Air fives, like on the golf thing?

I elbow to elbow a couple of people. Oh, good. I guess. Were they enforcing that or was that just like? No, kind of understing. Self-enforcement. They're going to handcuff you and throw you out if you high-five somebody. The only thing that was really funny to me is we were leaving the hotel on Sunday,

and we're on the 12th floor, and the elevator came, and there were three people down in the elevator before us as we were trying to enter on. And this dude probably about 35 years old, didn't have a mask on, and said, we're pretty full. And my buddy and I looked at the chair and said, full, there's three people on the elevator. And then, so he shut the door, and the next elevator came, they were like four or five week.

I got gone on. It was fine. I guess got news for America. You can't social distance in an elevator. Not unless you're an elevator at the Empire State Building. Our elevators are literally six feet across here at work. You would have to probably put your nose against the wall like you were punished in school. Yeah, you've got to get diagonal to diagonal.

Huh. Don't we talk about this on Friday? Yeah, I think so. With my elevator experience. Oh, yeah. How do we resolve that, by the way? That I have a bad person. I didn't think her bad.

You just made a major misstep. Yeah, that she would let her on the elevator. Yeah. Have you run into her sense? No. Okay. Well, it was a three-day weekend. There's still time. So you'll see her again at some point. Yeah, I'll probably just wait.

But she doesn't work on this floor? No. Okay. So, yeah, so it was normal. Limits were higher. People were nice. Food was good. Drive was easy.

Is it a buffet open? No buffet. No poker room. No poker room. You poker room, guys, you're going to be in for a big disappointment. I read a story that ain't I'm super glad I didn't go I read a story

in the Las Vegas paper this morning that some poker establishments are having trouble because they're only having four person tables and that's not

a lot of fun because if one person goes to the bathroom one person goes to eat and just lets the blind go you're sitting there going against two people and that's not great poker

no that's great poker short-handed is better actually more action faster I don't know there's a lot of people that's in the article said otherwise But everybody has their own strategy.

But they were just saying it's more entertaining to have six or seven people at the table and instead of a little energy. Or bad players lose faster on shorthanded tables. I like short-handed tables. You get to play more aggressive. You get to, yeah. You're the saber-toothed tiger, if you were. No.

I wouldn't say that. You just take advantage of the week. Well. You're playing on a two-four table anyway. You should be ashamed of yourself. All right. So, yeah, no poker room at this point. A couple restaurants were closed.

But generally speaking, it was probably opening it about, 75% Okay But every other table Less than 50% tables were full And I will say If you are a fan of Walking around the pool

At the Golden Nugget You wouldn't have been disappointed What do you mean? Nice scenery Oh they had the pools nice and clean immacculate Palm trees looking good Beautiful Dr drinks were available

Did they still have the swim up bar? Swim up bar was available Ladies were there Social distancing Social distancing What's that face? Thirsty It's something

Okay Let's face it Social distancing in America To pool and rivers and beaches Is not existing Not happening There was the Ozarks they showed in Missouri A bunch of people were to know

We were at a lake area With people were just literally on top of each other In the Ozarks There's a photo out there on Twitter You'd see that I'm sure Galveston was crazy this week weekend too. It's funny, we will social distance in restaurants, in libraries, in department stores. America's not social distancing at a pool or a beach.

Where people float, were folks floating the river this weekend? Yes, they were. It wasn't nearly as crowded, but people were doing that. Okay. So that's my report. Just want to pass along to you. And what I go back, absolutely. Do you play smart? Do you not put yourself in positions where you're, you know, close to each other and inhaling a cigarette smoke? well, you do the best you can on that. 1228 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show.

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you can join us at 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. I'm curious how much golf did you watch over the weekend on the Sunday event. And what was the main reason why you watched it? Because Barclay was awesome? Was it just live sports? Was it because you just love golf? Or was it because the four guys that were on that golf course were megastar? probably a mixture of that. I watched probably from Whole 13 on. Like, if it's Brooks Kepka, I might pass. What about Longhorn Great Jordan Speath?

That's another pass. The reason why I watched it was because I thought it was amazing star power, rarefied air, putting two of the greatest golfers together with two of the greatest players ever. In the NFL, I mean, these events just don't happen very often. And that's the reason why the ratings were so strong. You get two ordinary NFL players and two really good golfers but don't have much name recognition outside of their sport. And it's going to do okay, but it won't do like gangbushes like it did. Yeah, you've got to go with names.

You've got to go with Star Power. And a lot of people were tweeting about it. That's mainly I'd forgotten. I wanted to watch it. I'd forgotten that it was on and I saw a bunch of people tweeting about it. So that's when I flipped down. Like if LeBron James, does LeBron Bowl? I don't know what he does.

What does he do? And make documentaries. That's true. Well, his production company. And game shows. In Space Jam 2. What's that coming out? I don't know.

Next year? They are, they released some of the, didn't they release a poster for it? The logo? Yeah. I mean, he was title and that's it. He was really good in, um, train wreck. Train wreck. By the way, I did see uncut gems yesterday.

It was on Netflix for the first time. Oh, it is? Yes. I'll catch it then. Yeah. July 16th, 20, 21, Space Jam 2, man. Okay. Mark your calendar.

I'll be busy. Okay. BNBA playoffs of the next year, you would think. All right, let me get to baseball and we'll go to basketball. That would be finals time. No. July 16th? Oh, no, I guess it wouldn't be.

No, no, no. Oh, I guess you're right. And the new calendar, maybe it won't be. That's right. All right, Astros allowed limited player access today at Minutemade Park and two were they practice in West Palm Beach at the Fit Team Park. All personnel entering the facilities will be screened and must be cleared by medical professionals. No more than four players can be at the facility at one time.

Workout times will be staggered. Each pitcher will be provided with his own set of baseballs. Workouts will be for 40-man players, but some support non-40-man players may be required. Most of the workouts will take place outdoors to ensure proper ventilation players must wear masks when not working out. Astros, coaches, and staff must all wear equipment at all times. The entire clubhouse and all other accessible areas will be clean and sanitized at the end of the day, workouts are closed to the media and to the public. Let me just say, I want sports back desperately. And I do want everybody to be as safe as humanly possible.

But Rossi, my head hurt as I was reading all those different things. And very easily your response back to me could be, so what? We're in unprecedented times. Uncertain times. We have to do this in order for the sports to resume play. But the things we just, those, those were eight guidelines that were just given for a private workout. So that, remember that 67 page thing that was released about two weeks ago? That a lot of the players have issues with?

Well, what are you going to do? If you're having putting eight guidelines in for a workout, not even a spring training workout, then maybe the 67 pages is worth it we're supposed to have. I do want these sports back, Ross, but I also don't want them back in this hospitalization. Unorganic, unnatural, like spitting in seeds is baseball, right? Yeah, but I mean, why? Because it's always been no way. Is there spitting in football?

I'm sure. Does anybody have a spittoon on the court for an NBA game? You can play an NBA game you don't have to spit. You can play a football game. You don't have to spit everywhere. So why can't you play a baseball game and not have to spit everywhere? At least for now. People are going to have to make sacrifices.

These things are going to have to be done. You're going to have to satisfy the players who are at risk, who are putting themselves in line. You're also going to have to satisfy the general public. The public pressures. There's a lot of the reason that this is happening. But, yeah. I can't argue with you on this.

It just feels like one rule after the other. And how do you really get a good workout in if you're worried about all of the precautions? I mean, this is just, I don't know. This is just, it's happening everywhere. Matt, you went to go throw dice. All you wanted to do is throw dice. You had to get your temperature check. You had to social distance.

You had to wait. People wearing masks. All these types of things. This is just how it's going to be for a little bit. I don't know how long because I'm not a doctor. But if we are making sacrifices in our everyday lives and having to do these types of things, it makes sense that the players are going to have to do it. How much does it help?

We don't know. Can't hurt for that matter. That's the thing. Yeah, it can't hurt. That's the thing. It doesn't, it's not really hurting anybody that you can't spit sunflower seeds during a, during a baseball game. I'm sorry, that's the way you've always done it, but no spitting for a couple of months. Hopefully you can handle it.

Let me ask you at this one. Here's your million dollar check. Each pitcher will be provided with his own set of baseballs for bullpen sessions. You can't sanitize everyone? What's the cleaning power of pine tar? Well, the reason why they're doing that is because they don't want anybody putting any foreign substance on a baseball. at all to alter the way it's thrown. That's, I mean, that's how I would see it as.

You get some, like, some sticky hand sanitizer? Well, I mean... What's Trevor Bauer have to say about all this? Oh, he'll have a, he'll have a YouTube video before you know what about these things. I don't know. And maybe I should have caught this a lot sooner, but it just felt like reading the rules of just a workout. I was like, man, this is going to be a lot of work.

Mm-hmm. Just, and if it's baseball, where there isn't a lot of contact, how is basketball going to do it? Basketball is going to have this times three, right? Because there's only one basketball. There are 10 players on a court, plus officials that are sweating, that are bumping, that are hitting each other, that are diving for basketball? If workouts are eight rules deep on baseball, imagine what they are for basketball. Isn't that why, I mean, basketball wants, are they going to do everyday testing?

That's what they want, right? I think they do, yeah. That's why I think the number of people going to Orlando, if indeed it's just Orlando is going to be limited. I think they're going to say, look, do we need to be burning a couple of thousand tests over a few weeks span for the bottom 12 teams in the NBA? So you don't think any of the – does this – any of the bottom teams are going to go? No, I'm not saying that. I'm saying that I originally thought all 30 were going to go. I think they're going to alter it.

So teams like a Golden State, a Cleveland, who else would have no chance in a world are going to the playoffs? New York, those types of teams will not be going. Damian Lillard, by the way, and we'll talk more about this in the next segment, but Damian Lillard has some comments about his Portland trailblazers and whether or not he will be going. I'll read you the exact quote from them on that. And that's why part of me, Ross, wants these things to start going immediately. I want these basketball players on the court because it's going to take a while for them to get adjusted to this new life they have in practicing, and then it's going to take an adjustment ticket for the new players and put them together. And then they got to practice and they're going to scrimmage. I mean, get in shape. Get in shape. So as much And again, I think that the deadline, not the deadline, but the expected date for the return of the NBA

would be probably mid to late July. Yes. That's giving them about five weeks in order for them to get ready with their life of practicing with each other, traveling, getting to Orlando. I guess they're going to self-quarantine for a while. Yeah, everybody's got to quarantine when they get there, right? Yeah.

And then the everyday testing begins, I guess. I don't know. I never in my entire life I'm thinking about doing this as a business would have thought would have had more unknowns and what are they going to do in my entire life than this right here. By the way, today

college football just announced a few minutes ago. Usually June 1st, they announced start times for the early season games, like usually the first two or three weeks of the college football season. Fox and ESPN and ABC and ESPN have said we're not going to do that. We're going to hold it off because

first of all, they don't know when the season is going to start. Secondly, they don't know if every one of the teams in college football is even going to play a game this year. A lot up in the air. That's what's been happening here. Sports Talk 7-hour in the last couple months. I really hope in July, like July 30th, we never have to say up in the air. I don't know ever again. I've said, I don't know more than the last two months and I have in my entire life.

I feel like I'm staring at you. Everything out of your mouth is I don't know. And it's not the wrong answer. It's just we're having grown-ass man talk and we just can't give me. My answer is I don't know. When is the virus? going to stop. I don't know. What are they going to have team fans back? I don't know. How about this? Why have we heard from any of the Astros?

Have we heard from any players, period? Who's on Twitch? Bregman? McCullors. We hear from them. We heard from Verlander during his injury rehab. Yes. We heard from... Oh, like in an official setting, yeah. Verlander's about it. Verlander, click, and Baker. That's it. That's it. Is it because they don't want to say something that may get them in trouble? Because here's a lot of media.

Who has? I mean, since the pandemic started, we've had Bregman on multiple times, McCullors on, Correa talked two weeks ago. But it was more about their charity things, right? I guess, yeah. Yeah, I was, I think the reason, yeah, I don't think that teams are putting players out there because they're afraid of the question of, so you guys are going to come back, or are you going to ask for a prorated salary or what a laborer gets like?

You don't want a Blake Snell situation where he talks and makes himself look like a dumbass. that's what it is. Every baseball team is like, don't Blake Snell us. Yeah, I don't blame me. Don't be a Blake Snell. This is Blake Snell. Don't be like Blake Snell. Yeah.

Blake Snell. Don't go on Twitch. Were you on Twitch? Was. Did you say the controversy on Twitch? I did not. Well, that's your fault, then. I know.

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I got to tell you, when you have three children, like I do, 2017, and 12, you give them new experiences. And yesterday's experience was watching movie airplane. I thought you'd watch it with your son before. One of them. Didn't he give a beer? He was like nine years old or something? No, no.

Now you're just making stuff up. It's not bad. Not a bad calling your part. It is, we've come to find out. It's one of the top ten funniest movies of all time. According to? Somebody. I think IMDB or somebody said,

okay. Airplane is one of the funniest movies. And it is still my funny. I still. I'm curious the rest of that list. I still better laugh at it like I watched yesterday. We bought it for $3.99 on Amazon. Rental or?

Rental, yeah. Okay. I could have watched it on my phone for free with ads, but I had the family. It used to be on Netflix. It's not on there anymore? No, it's not. the naked gun movies are on Netflix. Those are good, too.

Speaking of Netflix, I do want to get into uncut gems here too. Airplane just continues to make you laugh 40 years after it was made. But I will say this, Rossi, and I don't even any of any of you've seen it know exactly the scenes I'm talking about. Airplane of 2020

could not survive more than one day in a movie theater this year. It is so politically incorrect. It is so taboo languages, it makes you miss 1980 because in 1980, the things that we laughed about you can't laugh about in 2020.

So I'll just say that. Like a blazing saddles. Like a blazing saddles. Like Barbara Billingsley and her characters on that, on the plane. Can't do it in 2020. What, the speaking jive thing? Yeah.

Yeah. Can't do that. Guess not. The young man going to the young girl and asking if you can sit down and have a cup of coffee. I don't remember that. Okay. Anybody does.

She likes her coffee like she likes her men. Put it that way. Okay. Just put it that. It's just, it was just so funny. Sniffing glue, talking about abortion. Did you watch this with all your kids? All the kids, yeah.

Okay. Carly couldn't figure out some of it. I'm glad she couldn't because she was 12. The boys were rolling. Is that a rated R? It was PG at the time. It would be no way it would be, not be a PG in 2020 as well.

But if anybody just wants just to laugh their ass off for two hours, airplane satisfies. Now, Netflix yesterday. I went on Twitter to see what was trending and uncut gems was Twitter. It was trending on Twitter. I'm like, what was that for?

Because it made its debut on Netflix yesterday. Or Sunday, sometime of the week. Maybe I'll watch it tonight. And I watched it. I don't want to get away too much of it the movie because my good friend Adam Sandler's in the movie and I want Adam mad at me. friend? Well, we had breakfast together

in Los Angeles. You shouted like two sentences at him. It wasn't a shout. It was more like a loud yell. Go ahead. The first 45 to 50 minutes of the movie was a tough watch. You stuck with it, though? And I stuck with it.

Okay. And I'm glad I did. What was tough about it? The dialogue was hard to understand. It was moving in a breakneck speed. And it just It didn't have, I didn't see that it didn't go anywhere. And then it did. And then it was fantastic.

And the ending was quite surprising. Either one of you, you've not seen it. I have not seen it. Joe, have you seen it? I have not yet, but I think I'm going to watch it tonight as well. Yeah. So all I'll say is for those of you that have not seen uncut gems, and it's on Netflix, it's free if you have Netflix.

The first 30 minutes, 45 minutes, you're going to be bored, confused, like, what is this about? And then you'll start to enjoy it. You know what? We've been saying we're going to do this the whole time that we're going to have a movie Club. Yeah. And I still all you

and I'll have to watch something. Oh, that's fine. But I, but I feel like I don't know if that's going to be your cup of tea.

But I feel like I need to see it to see if it is my cup of tea. I just feel like it might be oversold to you a little bit. Okay. But yeah,

airplane was good. I love it. Bunby told you to watch it. Yeah, he did. So if you know, I trust, I trust Bumby.

Bunby. Bunby. He was going, he's like a Cohen's fanatic. He went through the whole thing. Miller's crossing of theirs is amazing. He talked about that. Fargo, of course.

Is it Fargo funny? Fargo, yeah. It's more of it. Yeah, it's kind of a comedy. You're right. It's not going to be out down my alley then. Well, up my alley, I guess. No, it's different than Fargo. Every movie the Cohen brothers make is different. That's what makes him so great. Did you belly laugh during the movie? During Big Lobowski? I would say so, yeah. Okay. It's just not like airplane. Airplane is joke a minute parody slapstick. Big Lobowski is not like that. So you know the guy in the control tower that always made fun of anything Lloyd Bridges said in the movie airplane? Yes.

I thought he was, you know, he steals a show. He's one of those great supporting actors. Apparently he was an airplane, he was an airplane, too, which we're going to go, we're going to watch that too. I thought that one sucked. It did suck, but at least you want to see it. And then he was also in a movie called Kentucky Fried Movie. Does that ring a bell to you? I've heard that, but I don't remember anything about it.

And apparently he steals a show in Kentucky Fried movie, too. I feel like that might be something I ran out on VHS when it was. And then we went to Wikipedia. And the guy died in 86. Oh, how do you feel about that, man? Are you okay? I mean, it was a little surprising. Is the family holding them together?

They're doing fine. Okay. I was the only one to check. I didn't tell him. You didn't tell him? No. Okay. So, yeah, the guy that was...

I went to the Kentucky Fried movie IMDB, and it's just... Ass. Yeah, what is on the photos page? Well, I think we need to have a watch party for Kentucky Fried movie. I'm not sure if that's female. Oh, okay. Well, well, I'll be... I'll be do a little recon on that first.

I could go either way. Okay. So, yeah, so, you know, that's what we're doing. We're not, we're watching movies. So uncut gyms. Really good. Okay. We should do MT Movie Club one thing a week that we watch and we talk about it on like a Friday.

I don't know what percentage our audience has Netflix, but if you do, it's available, go get it, watch it. Joe give you a password, no problem. Yeah, Joe, give you your password out of the audience right now. No. It's, uh, Cubs. Bulls, 94. Cubs. Bulls should have won it 94-95s, but it is one.

Exclamation point. Movement for white socks. Rocks my white socks. Joe's passwords. Have a thing for McMahon. Keep going. Let's see what else. Grossman underrated.

Fact. See? I miss Jake Keller, all one word. I think it's I love Jay Keller. I love J. Keller. It's with a hard emoji. It's with a, yeah, sideways and a three. Yeah, I got you.

A less than sign and a three. So you're going to be Chicago guy for the rest of your life, right? Is there any chance we can bring you to the dark side called Houston Sports? I'm wearing an Astros hoodie and Apollo 11 hat. And the Astros. Wow, you are all Astros. I love the Astros, and the Rockets have grown on me exponentially. So the Astros and the White Sox playing a playoff series, who are you going for?

Okay. The Astros and Cup is playing the World Series. The Cubs. Cubs and White Sox play. Who you're rooting for? Cubs. You just despise the White Sox? No, not really.

I don't like the Cardinals. Oh, okay. That's something we can all agree on. The Cardinals suck. Yeah. Cardinals suck. White Sox, Cubs' Robberies overrated. Oh, for sure. Very, very overrated.

Like, I think, I mean, how is the Rangers' Astros rivalry? Seriously, in all. It's better than it was. It's just okay. I mean, I say it's dialed up now more than it was. Of the three teams. when they were in the National League. Rankin one, two, three of the sports teams that play Dallas.

What's the most hated one and what's the least of the three? Astros. So you're kind of, you can't say. Astros, Rangers. Rangers, Mavericks Rockets, Cowboys, Texas. Texans have, some of them have this burning hate for the Cowboys. Well, that's because America hates the Cowboys, except Dallas and everybody else in every other state.

Well, they'll tell you their America's team. Okay, I'll do it then. I would say probably Astros, Rangers, because they play. each other so many times. You're just, you're just going to have to grow to hate them, followed by Mavericks, Rockets, followed by Texans, Cowboys. Because they only play each other for four years. There's never been a time where both teams have been good, though, Rangers and Astros when they play, since Astros moved to the American League. Like no playoff series. Exactly. If they had gotten into like some real rivalry stuff, like the, who won the Silver

boot last year? I think the Astros, I don't know. One in doubt, pick the Astros in that. But I mean, that's not something we're really keeping tabs on every year. All right, second hour starts in a matter of seconds. We'll talk about the NBA. The general managers have been asked to put their preferences out about what they should do for the season. We'll help the general manager.

GMs run the league. We'll help Darumori help finish out the regular season. Plus one major NBA star doesn't sound like he wants to come back and play. Second hour of the Matt Thomas show next on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. It is 102 on Sports Talk 790. This is the second hour, the Matt Thomas show,

with Joe George, our producer. My co-host, Ross Villarreal. I'm Matt Thomas. It is nice to have you with us here on this Tuesday. I hope you guys had a nice, safe, relaxing, enjoyable, restful, cooked out weekend. These overnight thunderstorms suck, by the way. They started crackling about 2.30 in the morning. I didn't go back to sleep the rest of the night.

I'm sorry, Matt. You're like Joe George's dog. I guess so. She's rough. She's not a fan. So I go to Twitter at 2.30. 245 in the morning sometimes and say, man, I can't sleep. You said it's lightning like a muddha?

Lightning and a mother. And I had like 20 likes in the first 10 minutes. It was really strange. Late night Twitter is a thing, Matt. I think, you know what I'll say this about late night Twitter? I think late night Twitter is a pleasant thing. I think it's the safest harbor of them all. Twitter after dark.

I'm not saying it's salacious. I'm not, I'm just not saying that people don't have their panties in a watt at 245 in the morning. Is Twitter after dark the key to getting to 30,000 Twitter followers? Yeah, so you've got all the people where they're are up 6A to 10P. You need to go 10P to 6A and start getting those people. I got news for your boys.

It's not happening. I'm never going to get to 30,000. You think you found your, this pandemic has cost me in many, many ways. Do you think you've plateaued? Yeah, I'm serious. I'm not going to get to 30,000. We're not going to go to Vegas. I probably lost like 25 of the last couple of weeks.

I don't know what's happened. I had people that I thought liked me, unfodeled me. Ooh. You want to name names? No. don't need to do that. All right. I'll ask you during the break.

You can't. Is it John McLean? John McLean never followed me. Point being is, I'm not going to bring it up ever again. If we get to $30,000, it's going to be wonderful of a great time. I'll organize the best Vegas trip you've ever organized in your entire life. But I'm just, I'm maybe we should have just had a $25,000 party. I'm, I've just given up.

Did we do something for when you hit five? No. It was only 10? 10 and 20. Okay. 10 was at Hooters. 20 was at a little, Woodrow's and 30 was going to be in Vegas, but that's just not going to.

And again, I'm happy with my 25,000. Follow at SportsMT. No, no, no. Listen to his voice. No, no, I'm just dealing reality. I'm more disappointed about Vegas than hitting the 30,000, because I think we can still go to fast. But I can't take, I mean, I want to take a.

You can still do that. Just say, hey, come on. Yeah. But the whole theory was, that was me boastful saying, hey, we get the 30, we're going to go to Vegas. We could do the Joe George. Remember when Howard Dean was going to win this day and this day? I'm the Howard Dean of Twitter.

And then you're going to Washington, D.C. to take back the White House. And look what happened to him. He fizzled out. Yeah, things didn't go so well from. I'm the Howard Dean of Twitter account. There's plenty of time, Matt. Sports will come back. You put out the funniest, most relevant, interesting tweets.

I thought I had a great tweet on Saturday, on Sunday. That Tom Brady won in his golf balls deflated. I thought that would have been amazing. And it got some traction. Not enough. It's a little low-hanging fruit, Matt. Nobody else put it out there. Yeah, you think if I put Tom Brady and deflate in Twitter.

And golf balls. My tweet better show up. All right. 713212. 5. Tom can't deflate golf balls. I heard he deflated his golf balls. Let's see.

Brady going to accidentally deflate his golf balls. You can't deflate golf balls. Didn't know you could deflate golf balls. See? Did Tom Brady deflate his golf balls? Maybe Tom Brady just needs to deflate his golf balls. Can we deflate the golf balls? Tom Brady.

He's making this up. I'm the first one I thought of it. All right. So let's go through the scenarios in which the NBA general managers are having to kind of think

about right now as we hopefully return to a season probably by late July. Two-week training camp in a team's market, then a two-week quarantine training camp

in the playing location. That's four weeks. That's a month. That's a long time. We're a 526 already. So the earliest, if they get everybody there by June 1st,

the very earliest would be July 1st. But that's really just getting the people back in their own cities to practice work out, not necessarily have full practices. So look, it looks like again, late July is when the NBA is going to resume. Players are resistant to the full nasal swab coronavirus test. Coronavirus. Why would they be resistant to?

Is it hurts? The first one, the early ones that we've seen on, like on Twitter, they really get in there. Case in point. I had the flu in January. I had flew and strep at the same time. I would like to go see if, take the antibody test. But I have a friend, we all work with here, that had the antibody test.

And she says it was one of the most painful experiences of her entire life. I'm not in the mood for that in 2020. This year has been painful to me. They stick the swab. I mean, like all the way up your nose. Yeah, it touches your brain. Okay. And see.

And we're done. So the league. You don't want that. So the league is working on a choir. a more comfortable testing via saliva or via the tip of the nose. If you get a tip of the nose, this honk could handle it. Okay, next. Once in the bubble site, teams could share support services.

This includes doctor and security personnel to lessen the number of people involved. So the general managers around the league on Friday got this survey to say, hey, how do you guys feel about how to wrap up the season? Season formats for consideration. A, tell me how you feel about the sports as soon as I say. Say it. You advance directly to the playoffs. Skip the rest of the regular season. The 16 teams that are in are the 16 that are going.

Good for that. Okay. Hmm. Next, a playoffs plus option. Playoffs plus. You know how like there's Windex. Yes, I'm saying. There's Windex plus, Reynolds Wrap plus.

You get the like your direct TV package. Can I get the playoffs plus? Yeah. How much is that going to cost me? Like Coke Zero Plus has vanilla syrup in it. Does I come with HBO? expanding the number of teams with the opportunity to play, either through holding a play in tournament to determine the final seeds

in the playoffs, we'd play in the bubble, or replacing the first round of the playoffs with a group stage. Meaning, eight, nine, ten, and eleven would fight for eight. I'm just throwing that out there. Eighth record, you know how eight always play. It's a top eight.

Eight's no longer guaranteed. You'd have eight play eleven, nine, play ten. Winner, that becomes eight. What are the other teams doing at this time? Just sitting around? Just playing each other to stay warmed up. So the question becomes, if you believe in the playoffs plus blanket package, say that three times fast, how many teams should return to play?

18, 20, 22, or 24. So if you played playoffs plus, you'd have nine teams making 18. If you played playoffs plus, you'd have 10. So you see where I'm talking about it. So all 30 coming back is just off the table at this point? I don't think so. Oh, it is on the table, by the way. resume regular season with all 30 teams

resume regular season with all 30 teams plus a play-in. All teams play the same number of games followed by a play internment for the final seed and traditional playoffs. Ooh, I don't like that at all. This is called the resumes regular season with all 30 teams plus playing.

All teams play same number of games followed by play internment for final seeds and traditional playoffs. So everybody comes back. Then there's a play-in, and then there's regular playoffs. We have time for that? Well, in theory, that's part of the winch of the season coming to an end. That's a question that comes into play.

Next, playoff plus, play-in format options. Oh, my God, this is so convoluted. Play-in tournament featuring bubble teams for eighth seed, play in tournament for seventh and eighth seeds, or group stage that replaces first round of playoffs and all participating in groups, each team play two games against each group's opponent and top two teams from each group,

advanced traditional second round. Yeah, that's kind of, that's like the World Cup of a format. Yes, yeah. That's taking soccer. That sounds like a big mess, but it really isn't that complicated. Yeah. Okay. Number of scrimmage games prior to any restart, two, three, four, five.

They're giving the general manager's options on that. Okay. Total regular season games, 72 or 76. Remember we talked guys about 70 before? Yeah, that's the magic number. I think they were talking about the Mavericks playing 67. while other teams had only played 64, that then even things out a little bit,

so everybody gets a pretty good dose of number of games before their season ends. Playoff format, Eastern Conference, Western Conference, or do you reseed all the teams? For me, I'm not opposed to reseeding all the teams,

but I don't think you do it in the middle of the season. I think if you want to start a next year's calendar, you're playing in December, and then saying the playoffs are based on records and not conferences, I'd be okay with that. But the reason why this, at the start of the season, I think doing it in the middle of the year, it seems a little wacky. I have no problem with that. There's not going to be any home court advantage or anything. So I mean, there's not going to be East or West. There's not going to be travel considerations. I say if you want to do it,

especially for going forward, why not do it now? I just for now like separation at East or West. Your point makes all the sense in the world. I'm just selling my own personal preference. But I, that's one of those ones I would not go, oh my God, the league is being screwed. Roster considerations. Possibility of a limited roster expansion, choice of additional one or three players. The possibility of expanding playoff rosters for all playoff teams, one or two additional. The possibility of allowing two-way players to be eligible for the playoffs. That would be your Isaiah Hartenstein's, if you will.

The Chris Cummins, if you will. Mike Dantone is not concerned with the roster expansion of the playoffs. He'd be happy with just an eight-man rotation for the playoffs. You had an eight-man roster. He's good. Latest possible date for the finish. The options the general managers are being given. Labor Day, September 15th, October 1st, October 15th, or November 1st.

My guess is if you're picking November 1st, you want full seven-game playoff series. And possibly the 76 game thing. And you want lots of regular season games, yeah. Latest possible date of November 1st would then mean I would almost, almost guarantee Ross, December 25th will be the first day of the NBA season, because you still have to go through free agency. You still have to have a draft. Teams have to kind of figure out who they are, right?

To end a season on November 1st and start playing, say, pre-season games or training camp a month later would be way, way, way too fast. So I think if you're in that category of November 1st, you want 76 regular season games and you want seven-game playoff series. that sounds great to me honestly players off season is going to be no little to nothing

no downtime whatsoever but I mean isn't this the downtime you could you argue but yeah but teams can't make their general manner they can't make their moves draft wise and free agency wise

you got a few weeks yeah I'm fine with the few because I mean you think about this once the regular season's over I mean half the teams are done it's kind of like the regular season you're in off season mode

I mean 22 of the teams are going to be off season mode within a few weeks and it's not like general. It's not like Daryl Moore's going to be making moves during the playoffs. I'm going to make a prediction that October 15th is when the season ends. Okay. That gives them two months. Two months.

Let's go. Good time for free agency, good time for the draft, good time for guys. Let's go. I'm ready. Bill Simmons reported that what he was told, I think this is on his podcast from Sunday night. Yeah. That the playoffs would start July 25th and September 20th. The draft would be

September 24th and 25th and free agency would start October 4th. I'd be totally good for that. Let me tell you, that's detailed dates. He said he got that from a GM. Yeah, that sounds like concrete information as compared to him just. Is he still boys with Darrell more?

I think they're in a fight. Yeah, I'll have to ask Darrell. Okay. Darry, are you fighting with Bill Simmons? Like, I don't know if he and Mark Stein are getting along these days. It all depends. Here's the one thing you're going to know. General managers, all of them.

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Last time I checked for the final stop. That is correct, Matthew, three and a half. We're speaking of the Portland Trailblazers. Their biggest star, not even hands down. I mean, I guess you should say hand down their biggest star. Says the following. If we come back and they're just like we're adding a few games to finish the regular season, and they're throwing us out there for meaningless games and we don't have a true opportunity to get in the playoffs, excuse me, in the playoffs, I'm going to be with my team because I'm part of the team, but I'm not going to be participating. I'm telling you that right now. And you can put that blank in there. If we come back and I don't have an opportunity to make the playoffs, I will show up to work. I'll be at practice and I'll be with my team. I'm going to do all that blank and then I'm going to be sitting right there on the bench during the games.

who said that Damian Lillard So you're not going to get game checks then Is it what's he going to say? Is it going to DMP feelings hurt DMP won in the playoffs? That seems pretty weak to me.

Let's try to figure out why he's saying that. I got news for Damien Lillard. There have been decades and decades of years of players that have played out schedules knowing that in March they weren't going to the playoffs but yet they still play because they wanted to what, collect a paycheck, right? Yes.

They wanted to be a member of their team. If he's coming from the angle of, well, first of all, we don't know if he's going to be able to get in the playoffs, right? We just went through the scenarios. It's possible there's going to be playing scenarios. Maybe the Portland Trailblazers will be able to get in. Or if there's enough regular season games,

mathematically they're not completely out of it, although three and a half games to make up in 10 or 12 games is going to be really close to impossible. He makes no mention of the, That's what I'm saying. If he's coming from a place of, you know, I don't want to put my life and my family at risk, or is he like, this is lame. I don't want to play if we can't make the playoffs.

This is stupid. I'm done. But what if he said all that? And then it said, oh, by the way, I'm scared of COVID too. Would that have been a little lip service? Maybe. I don't know. We'd have to know his true intentions.

More quotes from him. I feel like that would be the match of people don't want to see, meaning a playing tournament. Because right now, if they were to get to 82, and they were finished the 8th seed that played the Los Angeles Lakers where he'd feel like they would be won and done. And not to say nobody wants to see Memphis

because they're in the eighth and they've been in the eighth spot for a while. They've earned that. You can't take anything away from Memphis. They play hard. But I'm trying to take something away from Memphis. They're exciting and they've got a lot of young talent. The Lakers would have their hands full playing against them.

Memphis beat the Lakers this year. Memphis would have nothing to lose. I feel like both series could be a little bit of headache for the Lakers. but I think more so for us because of the experience and where we are in our careers. Not too long ago, we played them in L.A. And obviously, I had a great game and we won a close one. And in the playoffs, I'm sure they would come up with some type of game plan to not allow that to happen.

But I want to compete. That's what we want. This is 100 Ross percent of a case of I'm not in the playoffs. I'm going to take my basketball and go home. Yeah, this seems like sour grapes. It seems like he's being weak over this. I mean, what if the season it never stopped? Were you going to think about it if it was just everything with business as usual.

Would you not play the last 15 games or whatever the season just because you're not in the playoffs? I guess. They've played 66 games. I have the feeling, and you guys tell me if I'm wrong, don't you feel like this neutral site thing is going to create a plethora potential upsets? That you don't have 20,000 people screaming at the Staples Center for the Lakers or the clippers could benefit the other team? I don't I think not at the professional level I don't feel like people get rattled by road crowds as much

I think like NBA players like they've done studies I was talking with Joe about it before the before the show they've done studies like things they can control for example free throws they looked at free throws when people are on the road and when they're at home because there's still a raucous crowd and you can control for that more

the percentages don't go down or up on the road. What changes is usually the referee's calls. Yeah. And that's... But I still think guys... What a play? There's one last plane flight. That's, you know, sleeping in their own beds.

That's being comfortable. It's having the roll of the crowd. Of course, you want it. But there are also guys who will tell you that the road crowd fires them up when people are talking trash. You know, that gets them going. But again, what he doesn't mention is, I'm worried about my health. I'm worried about my family.

his health. He's doing this strictly from a competitive aspect of, we're getting on our ass kicked. We're getting our ass kicked. Well, I don't know. I think you'd want the paycheck, right? Yeah, that's the curious thing to me, though, because they can shut teams down. I mean, players down, right? If they're not making the playoffs, for example, like right when the San Antonio Spurs were tanking, didn't they shut David Robinson down or something like that? A lot of teams do that. That's what I'm saying. It happens all the time. LeBron got shut down. Yeah, LeBron got shut down last year, or what was it, last year or the year before? I guess it was last year.

No, it was last year because they didn't make the playoffs. He kind of had, well, did he have groin injury or something? But he probably could have played. If he were in the playoffs, he would have played. But this is obvious what he is saying. Yeah, he's saying we can't make the playoffs. Why am I going to bother to get into shape and play these few games if there's no incentive for me to get in the playoffs? And that's something that the NBA is going to have to consider.

Maybe they are going to have to do more of a play-in type of thing. Maybe not the full-on World Cup. well here's the thing either you get away you figure away for golden state and cleveland to somehow make the playoffs or you send them home i mean what would you even do for the eights like you have a tournament for you you have a tournament in the non-playoff teams and the eight seed but even golden state well like the golden state the 15 win golden state warriors could have a shot at getting in the playoffs i think you whether you think it's right or not i think you have to give them some incentive what's the format and how and how long does that go on what are the playoff teams doing during this time, playing each other in exhibitions or something?

I'm not saying this is what they should do, but I'm saying if you are, if the league office is concerned about teams that don't have any chance of making the playoffs coming to these cities and playing and being vested. Or see, the easiest thing, Ross, is just tell the teams that aren't in the playoffs don't come. And you're not getting paid, though, right? No, because the season would theoretically end. They completed their regular season.

They would get paid. That should be the incentive. Say, hey, what are we going to, what are we getting in shape and play all these games for? Money? Paychecks? Yeah. Does David, does Adam Silver call him and say, you're going to come because you play for an NBA team and you want your game checks? You're going to come and play and you're going to compete. But that's easier to send than done.

I feel like this is a little bit of a semi-ticking time bomb because not only is this a player saying it, but it's one of the most talented players in the NBA saying. Yeah, and if Dame's probably not the only one thinking this now. No, for sure. Reverend K.J. at 127 on 7. On 8. Reverend K, what do you got today? What's up, fellas? It's been a minute, man. I hope y'all and your family are doing fine under this situation. Same to you, my friend.

I want to speak real quick. Matt, Ross and my man, George, about the Damien Lillard situation. Let me give me an example first before I make getting to the gist of my comment. You know how every year Thanksgiving falls on a Thursday, right? Yeah. You know, not me. but a handful of jobs actually to still have their employees come in at Friday. Most jobs stay off the entire weekend, but a handful of jobs have that employees come in that

Friday. And me personally, I've seen several times over the years where guys are pretty much frustrated or disgruntled for having to come in just for that one day when they know they're going to be off for the entire weekend. Why have them come in for that one day when you're going to be out, you know, you're just coming in for one day, then you're going to be off for two more days, until Monday. My point to say that is these guys have been sitting off for

two, three months. And again, I don't know, far being for me to give an NBA player professional athlete an opportunity to not do their job because I feel like a majority of athletes overpaid anyway. But what that says, if you have these guys sitting on for two plus months, now you expect to be going to training camp for

two weeks to a month, I don't know, I haven't heard you guys mentioned the thing about warm-up games or scrimmages or whatever. So we're going to show it on that's a part of training camp. Then come back and play for a four or five games and be off again for the rest of the out season. Number one, you got, you have like one of y'all, you have a fee of contracting the COVID to take it back to your family.

And then number two, what's the legitimate point? Other than fans, and fans aren't going to be in the seat. So other than the fans, the fans support, so to speak, that are buying tickets to go to the arena, that's not going to be in play. So as I like you're letting down the fans, what's the point in them coming back for five, four, four, five, six games, or however many would be, if this was a regular, a continuous regular season, I would understand it. I wouldn't understand it.

I would be on the side of you guys or on the fans. It's your job. Go do your job. But there's been, for better or for worse, there's been an intervention for two months. And now you expect these guys to get up, be enthused about swarming up for a month, playing four or five games, knowing they don't have a realistic opportunity to play and go back home for the rest of our season. Oh, not to mention you run the risk, contract, the disease that you can bring home.

and unfortunately give to one of your family members. I'm going to get up out here. Man, I'm doing spring cleaning in early summer. I'm going to hear what y'all got to say. All right. Thank you, Reverend Kitchen. We'll come back and talk about that. Ken, if this would have made, how big of a difference would have made if he had said,

I'm worried about COVID? Not worried about competitive. He would have been a huge difference to me. Yep. But he didn't say that. No, he didn't. So there's a little bit of respect to have for him, ironically, enough. He didn't go to the COVID card.

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At home, say, Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-Hard Radio. Jeff wants to talk some baseball. We'll get to him in just a second. Real fast. How much does it change if everything he says is about COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID. COVID, COVID. COVID, COVID, COVID. It makes it easier to stomach, I think. I don't know. I guess it would seem more genuine. But I guess I understand where he's coming from too. Oh, he's saying what 20% the NBA players are saying. Do you really think there's any member of the Cleveland Cavaliers that wants to run back to the playoffs to get their NBA

and get their ass beat? After sitting not shooting baskets literally for two months? No. What about the difficulties of foreign-born players and all that? Getting everybody in. That's why they said June 1st, give everybody an extra week to get everybody into their respective cities. Some NBA teams are saying, let's just skip going to your cities and let's go right to

Orlando, yeah. Yeah. Toronto, New York's, Philadelphia, come back in quarantine. So you're just sitting around for a month. I don't know what to do. But here's the thing. If he goes exclusively to the COVID card, Ross, then if the NBA says we have made it as safe as anywhere in this world that we live into, come play basketball, then he'd have to go,

Well, okay, I'll be there. But he doesn't want to be there. But here's the craziest part of it. He says he wants to practice with his guys. He wants to be there with him cheering him on, but he just doesn't want to play. I will be with you, but I will not be on the court with you. How does C.J. McCollum feel about that? I don't know.

How does Yusuf Nerkich feel about that for finally? He'll be able to play now. What does Trevor Reza have to say about all this? God, he's bounced around a lot. Camelo's still there too, right? Yeah. They're not horrible. I don't, I'm frankly, don't understand why they're not.

They're so as bad as they are? Yeah, why are they as bad as they are? Is Nurkich that important? I guess. He's going to be ready to play, though? Yeah, I think so. I think he was about to come back. Yes, he was supposed to come back that week.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just didn't mind not having him either because having to get ready for, when you go play all these Western Conference centers are all these strange names, Yusuf Nurkich kind of helped out in him not playing. Really? Yeah. Having a plumbly out there was a lot easier. Yusuf, Nurkich.

What's wrong? How is that any? easier, more difficult to say than Plumley? I was just guessing on Plumley. They've had Plumlee's. They're down to one Plumlee in the NBA now. Is it really? Yeah.

Oh, man. Two of the three are gone. That's a shame. All right, let's go to Jeff on line one at 138 on the Matt Thomas show. Jeff, thank you for holding. Good afternoon. Hey, Matt. Love y'all show as always.

Thank you. Okay, first of all, the casinos open in Louisiana. Yeah, I was there this past Saturday. Is Kashat open? Don't know. I know that LaBerge, Isla Capri, and Golden Nugget were open, yeah. Oh, good. Good. Okay. I was going to go this weekend. I thought, well, they're probably not open yet. Are you like? Okay, well, first of all, my wife has two degrees. She's from Berkeley and one from Hawaii and plant biology, botany.

Wow. Anyway, she tells me, I ask her about this stuff because she's smarter than I am, of course. And she says, unless the players are French kissing each other on first base, nothing's going to happen. So spitting on the ground and not shaking his hands is a bunch of BS. You know, not allowing them to hang out in the dugout is a bunch of BS. Now, yes, you can, she said, yeah, they should test you when you come in. If you don't have a fever, you're not going to, you're good. So the players can huddle together, just like fans.

want to test you when you come in, you got fever? No, go in, go in. You know, it's driving to be crazy all these stupid rules. I can't believe the MLB is that dumb that they can't figure out, look, let's be normal here, and let's don't, because I guarantee you, more people are going to die in October of the flu next year than we ever, ever could possibly believe. and the economic effect on all of this, we'll get up a feeling this for years. Oh, I think there's no doubt about that. Thank you for the phone call.

You know, Jeff, I'll be honest, we'll tell our audience, Ross and I during commercial breaks, we've been, we wrestle with this about what you can do, what you want to do. Like, I have very little reservation about resuming my normal life. Ross is a little more to it. I am not of the belief that we should we should just go back to what it was because we're not we're not out of the clear of this. It may it may be years before we get out of that. But I will say this Ross and I said this open honestly to you last hour.

I was reading these rules. I'm like my God, this is nothing close to baseball. And it just felt like if it's if there's a list of eight or nine deep rules just for workouts, as much of these baseball players want to convince him on about the 67 pages of things, it might be an order. Baseball games might go four hours because they've got to clean every baseball. Or you've got to change everything out. Or you've got to penalize somebody for spinning. Or you've got to penalize somebody for spinning. What is the penalty for spinning?

I don't know. I don't know if they... You get an extra strike on your next and bat. You're not going to find you. There's nothing enforceable. The umpire just can't put his mask off and go, stop doing that. Yeah, I mean, we talked, uh, who do we have, Evan Drellick on last week? And he was like, there's really no way to enforce any of this.

You just make guidelines and then, and I think that's what's going to happen. Because here's the thing. Honestly. We're told us a society of social distance. I guarantee, gang, there's no, there's, the social distancing rules are being broken at restaurants, in bars. Yes. In grocery stores. I know you don't want to hear that, ladies and gentlemen, but it is happening.

You had to fight over that cantaloupe. Yep. Pools, beaches, the Ozarks. You didn't go look at the Ozarks. I saw it. No, yeah, I did it just for you. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, at the casino, at the beaches, at the everywhere.

People aren't following. So my philosophy is this. Wear a mask when I think it's appropriate. Do not bet you complain about you being using hand sanitizer. Don't complain about the fact that you may have to get your temperature checked. But it's been two months. It could be a lot longer. But I'm going to try to live as normal life as possible.

Yeah. Not doing stupid things to endanger myself or my family. I just also on Jeff's call I don't know that it's accurate if you don't have a fever then you're okay and everybody's cool I don't you're gonna get most most most most people in the medical industry have been fairly consistent about a lot of things one of them is temperature is a sign loss of smell and taste is a sign uh severe fatigue is a sign um I'm not ready to go jumping a I mean there's a lot of things I'm not comfortable in doing but I would be not comfortable doing it even before the pandemic Mm-hmm. But I'm not afraid of going an elevator with other people. I'm a little scared of you. You can't be. We've been together less than six feet for about two months now.

I'm scared. I don't mind the social distancing and the restaurants. I like social distancing. I tell you what I don't like. I want salt and pepper like right away. You have to ask. You have the little packets. You're fine.

You have to ask, though. That's just extra work for her. I had to get a little ramekin of hot sauce. Yeah. But you know what? These are the little things. That's fine. I'm just,

here's my thing, Ross, and again, I'm not a doctor. Why can't they test them when they walk in, do their thing, stay in the bubble, and they're not going to get it, right? You would think in theory? Hopefully. Somebody, you would figure there would be a positive test, though. So, I don't know. That's, you know. I don't know.

Let's see. But you can get a positive test at your workplace. You get your positive test in your neighborhood. You can get your positive test at the grocery store when you are at church, when you are, eating with your friends and family. Unfortunately, there's no like a little hover saying, hey, coronavirus hanging out right here. Come get it.

So they can be as safe as you want or you can stay away as long as you want. It doesn't guarantee that you're not going to. It would be interesting. Because we're, I mean, we've been talking about this. What if it's like the finals and it's the Lakers and the Bucks? And after it's game two and

the Lakers are up one nothing and LeBron James test positive for coronavirus. How would he get it if he's among people that don't have it? I don't know. It's one usher, one security guy, one person. Because that's the one thing about the bubble they're not talking about is that, hey, you're going to be in a hotel? Yeah, one food service person. That's going to clean your room, going to make your bed, it's going to cook your meals.

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Love your show. Look, what was I talking about? By the sound of it, some of you started the party at breakfast. Matt Thomas on Sports Talk 790. I forgot to mention it with uncut gems. By the way, I want you both to see it. Because I want to get your reactions to it. Yes, sir.

Kevin Garnett's in the movie. I'm going to wait for seven years like you did with Godfather. Seven? I waited a way longer than that. By the way, there will not be an uncut gems too. Matt. Spoiler. Well, now we know Adam Sandler dies.

No, you don't know that. Oh, Jesus. You don't know that at all. So what was I going? Oh, so Kevin Garnett's in the movie. Okay. How is his acting chops? How are his acting chops?

Okay. Not amazing, but okay. I thought LeBron was better in his movie than I thought J.J. Watt was better in bad moms or the hell what he was in. And Kevin Garnas? Was that? Yeah.

JJ, what was a soccer coach in bad moms or something like that. So you've seen bad moms, but you hadn't seen Godfather until a couple of months go. You suck. You always... I'm just asking a question. I know.

There is a sports talk show host in Uncut Gems. Oh, really? Oh, I know who was in. My Francesa. Yes. He's an American treasure. So if any of you would like to cast me in a movie, Hmm, you're more than welcome to call the show and tell me what movie I should be in.

Uh-oh. You might not want to hear that one. Well, I want to see if people are nice to me or not. Like midnight to 5 a.m. Twitter, you guys are some of the nicest people out there. It's because everybody's probably drunk and or high or something. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. y'all are mean sons, bitches. At SportsM.T. Yeah.

713212.570. 7132. I did not know that Francesa was in it. Did you know what it was? Yeah. heard that. Yeah. He doesn't play, not a huge role, but he plays a role.

He has more than like two lines in it. Okay. He's in multiple scenes. Yes. And that's all I'll say. How's his acting? How is his acting chops? Very good, actually.

For what he was supposed to be playing? Yeah. Oh, people are already being rude to you via email. Email? You're getting emails? People know your email account? Well, some might be somebody in the building.

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I'm not fat I used to be fat I'm just telling you the show God people are so this guy's even on Twitter he's deaf on the 10-8 and 9p root group yeah shouldn't he be worried about what Tom Brady's Botox treatments yeah

Brian Seriously. The leadership in our building is affable, yet full of LSU and Boston. That's true. It's a fact. A nasty one-two punch. Let me go to Jeff and Tampa on the Matt Thomas show. Jeff, what's going on to the Bay today?

Not much. Not much. How are you guys doing? Good. Good, good. Great, great. And last time I called last week, I don't know if you're the favorite station in Tampa, but you're the favorite station of, you know, Casa Day, Jeff.

So we're good there. I've already seen the ratings. We're blowing up in Tampa, blowing up. And that's good. So you guys touched on the NBA stuff, but let me throw this in and you guys talk about it. I'd love to hear your thoughts. Okay, start a season, start a playoff, it's in the season. Then we jump right into the draft and free agency.

But, you know, we haven't had any of those Joe Smows from, you know, BF College in Indiana, to jump up and woo everybody through the play or through the tournament. And there's not been any college basketball. It's like who's everybody going to draft? Who are we looking at? And if you get to next LeBron out of the clear blue, and then we got, I know the contracts kind of determined the free agency, I mean, GM's going to have to like, I know that's their job.

How are they going to like figure out money? and these are like really off-the-wall questions because everybody just wants all the sports back. And I can't believe we're blown up in Tampa, but I'll take it. Thanks, thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you.

We are Tampa Sports Leader. What's he asking? Who the college players are? He's kind of a similar question to the NFL. Remember how the general managers were mad they weren't going to be able to get their hands on the players and all that type of stuff? how are the NBA general managers going to be able to properly vet

the prospects for the draft? They've already done a lot of their scouting already. Isn't a lot of it, though, kind of the individual workouts and having somebody come in and play against your players or former players or whatever? You know what they'll say is tough.

They have the combine thing. Yeah, Adam Silver is like tough. The NBA combine thing was supposed to happen. That got pushed back. Is that still going to happen? Or are they going to be able to social distance via that? I saw they might do like a virtual combine.

Were they, where the teams watch him go through workouts? I guess. Yeah, that makes sense. Like Anthony Edwards is going to set up a camera and just start making jump shots or something? Yeah. I do feel like because we don't have March Madness, I wonder if the draft process is going to be a little off this year. Did you consider the NFL draft process off?

No, but they played their full season, so they got their full scouting report. Yeah, but you can realize those general managers and scouts, have been watching games since the middle of November. Sure. It's still a piece of the puzzle, though, missing. It's not nothing, I don't think. And to me, at the end of the day, the number one overall pick is what matters,

and I don't know how you can clearly evaluate lamello ball, who could be and probably should be the number one pick, in my opinion, from what I've seen? From his Australia tape. But what do I know? He played 11 games on Australia and now can't do the combine. So, like, what do you... Yeah.

How do you draft that kid? I would have to... You'd have to ask, I think, every general manager. I think every NFL general manager feels like the combine is important for interviews, sometimes, some bench pressing, that type of thing. I don't know if the general managers get the kind of information that in the NFL they do in the NBA. I think the NBA doesn't consider it nearly as important. I don't think it's not, as you said, not a fact. It's certainly a piece of the puzzle, but I think what they see is they spend weeks and weeks and weeks chasing after these players.

you know, Darrell Moore will go overseas for three and four weeks and catch 15, 20 games. You know, I think it's just easier to sky an NBA talent, but in his NFL in terms of being able to see multiple players in a shorter period. I think it's a huge thing to have them in for workouts in the combine and have them going up against other competition for evaluating players. Obviously, not going to affect the rockets. But James Hardin's not going against a rookie prospect. No, they're going to go against other guys that are in their country. They're going against other guys they're going against that they would have already played. in college basketball.

I think the workout, I think the individual workouts are a big deal in the NBA. I don't think there's, again, these are the times you have to play with. You wish you'd have it this year. Even playing field. And maybe Daryl Morey was smart

and not having a first round pick for the next five years. How many draft picks really make a difference in her first year anyway? When you really think of it. It's rare. So if you can't figure out who the top six are at this point,

you need a combine to figure out the top six in your trouble. If you want to find the dime in the rough, then yeah, the combine helps that out. I'm saying for the top three, maybe it's not as important, but for everybody else, everybody else in the lottery. We don't believe in drafts here in Houston, any of the teams. None of the teams.

I don't really particularly care what happens with the teams in the NBA and NFL, he said easily. All right, let's get to the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. On the topics, big time ratings for golf, huge. NBA trying to figure out how they're going to bring back their season. The Astros are working out allegedly in Houston. in Florida. We won't know these answers. And by the way, let's get to the top of the hour. For those of you that were fans of the last dance, we have a piece of audio. It's not great, but it shows you that MJ did lie during the last dance. 157 here on the Matt Thomas show

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This is the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. We're going to discuss why the golf ratings were so bonkers over the weekend. The Astros are returning to spring training, sort of. Some of them. How many we don't know? And we got some MJ audio that basically backed up what we all thought where it was a bunch of BS during the last dance, right?

I'm saying Michael Jordan may have lied during the last dance. Also coming up in 20 minutes, the latest ESPN projections from the dorks at ESPN Analytics. Why do they have to be dorks? Matt. I don't mean to stereotype. But you're going to stereotype. But I'm going to stereotype.

They've described the number of victories that each team's going to have this year. None of them are straight up even numbers. They're like 11.2 or 9.4. That makes you a geek. When you predict number of wins with a decimal point at the ander, at the after, it makes you a geek. What if the Vegas total 7.5? That's got a decimal. But that's very, but none of them are 7.26.

You know, 9.5 or 9. Well, then you bet the under. Well, because they try. They try to influence your bets. It's about ranges. Okay. Well, I'm telling you that dorks make ranges of 8.4. Okay.

So the ESPN analytical folks have the Texans in a certain window, as well as the top teams in the NFL. We'll tell you about that. Coming up. Did Bill Barnwell do those? Oh, no, Bill Barnwell just hates everything in Texans. I think he's got him winning three games. Two against Jacksonville and one of the just coin flip. Okay.

Telman Fratito was on CNBC a half an hour ago on the future of the NBA. If we do Disney, it's really not Disney. It's the wide role of sports complex by downtown, and they want to bring all the players there. And I think we're all trying to decide right now the format. And you're seeing all these formats right now, all the leagues, you know, from sports fighters. And this is what I feel about it. If a player they want to play, they shouldn't have to play. The players vote against us playing, we shouldn't play.

And it goes the same for the owners, that the 30 owners decide that they don't want to play, we shouldn't play. But there seems to be a lot of positive one there right now. And I think we really have our act together when it's going to come to how we're going to contain and test. And it's going to be extremely safe for the players and all the personnel that with the team. But there won't be any fans there. If you're up, you're talking to you that. All right, there you go. That's, again, the Tim and Fratio from earlier to the team.

day on CNBC. It won't be any fans there. Revenue is going to be down. Isn't it funny since the pandemic started, Ross, how revenue was only like 14% of the leagues and now it's in the 40s? It's up in the 40, yeah. It's like, who's doing the math on this? ESPN dorks?

No, I think regular old general economist did it. Regular, regular accountants on the owner's side. What is the average ticket price of an NBA game? I'll say it's 100 bucks. 18,000 seats is $1.8 million just in revenue of tickets. Then you, the average person spends $20 on food and drink. 40? 40 seems a little if.

Well, I mean, if you have kids, I guess you're not, if you and your buddies are going to go, and you have two rounds of beers or something, that's already $40 right there. So $50 on average makes another $900,000. What, another $900,000? It's $2.7 million. Okay.

We haven't counted an ounce of parking yet. Right. So you're looking at about, oh, by merchandise sales. That's $3 million. Parking probably put you in the $3.5 million category. I mean, if the Rockets have 18,000 tickets sold, though, there are there 18,000 people in the building? Doesn't matter. It's about the tickets sold.

No, I'm talking about the concessions you're trying to factor in. Okay. Well, then you probably lower. Okay. It feels like to me. Or if you want to say for a playoff game, if you want to do it that way. $3 million a game. We've had the number.

they come out with the numbers at how much they make a per playoff game? I don't remember that, but I'm just doing the quick math out loud. Three, and it feels like that's even a low number there. Three million dollars a game, bare minimum, money you will not see

with no fans in the stands. That's got, that's, and you know what that does? That does go towards the revenue share. That does go towards the salary cap. One, one million, between one and two and a half million per game

for regular, teams. Warriors, Lakers, NICs may make between three and four million per game. Just in ticket sales. Oh, that's just ticket sales. Okay. Yes. Okay. There you go. So then probably the rockets are probably in the upper end of that. I took everything in account. The concessions,

the parkings, the wearing the hats, that kind of thing. It's a lot of money. So yeah, I think it's the players in the best interest for them to come back and play because any revenue, meaning television dollars, is better than zero because it ultimately is going to affect their salary cap for the long term.

as it is a revenue share business. All right. To Michael Jordan for a second. So we all love the last dance, right, Ross? It was good. It was good. As it moved along week to week to week, we kind of felt like there was more Michael Jordan influence than perhaps a normal documentary.

The more we're on, the more we're like, hey, this seems to be taking Michael's side on just about every single little thing that's happened. There were things that weren't discussed as far as lengthy as they should have. Michael was very rarely ever put in a negative light. Scotty Pippin was, though. No, Scottie Pippin took on the chin. Worst Grant. Scott Borell then looked particularly good during this whole situation.

Yes. And anything that was semi-controversial in Michael's life, everything led towards it was Michael. Case in point, him retiring, case in point, his relationship with the various coaches. And then the whole thought, of whether or not he was responsible for Isaiah Thomas to play with the Dream Team in 1992. And for years and years and years, all of us in sports said, yeah, Michael, you did this.

You were the one that pushed for Isaiah not to play. What did it Michael Jordan during the last dance, Ross? He said, I didn't do that. I didn't do that. Listen very closely to this audio. It's on a scale of one of the ten, it's probably a three and a half. The audio is not great, but you can make out what he's saying. It's apparently an interview with Jack McCallum,

who famous NBA writer, wrote seven seconds or less, wrote other NBA books. It's basically him saying, talking about Rod Thorne calling him. They called me to ask me the book. Rod Thorne called him. I said,

right, I love to play with Isaiah Thomas. He is sure, and he said, you know what? Chuck them with Isaiah. So Isaiah is coming up his team. So there you go.

That's Michael Jordan saying, I won't play if Isaiah's on the team. and then Thorne, he assured me, Chuck doesn't want Isaiah, so Isaiah's not going to be part of the team. This is Chuck Daly, not wanting his own player from the Detroit Pistons.

I was thinking Chuck, Charles Barkley. Oh, well, I was thinking Chuck Daly. Yeah, I was, hmm. I never thought Charles Barkley and Isaiah got sideways. And that may be true, too.

Why wouldn't Chuck Daly want him then? I don't know. Which, now we need to get to bottom of this. Which Chuck was. it? Well, because they talked about during the last, one of the things they said was Michael was like, it wasn't me because everybody, nobody wanted him. Okay, well then I'll go with Charles Barkley then.

That makes more sense because Chuck Daly would that would be like his son almost, right? But Isaiah Thomas? But hasn't Charles basically defended Isaiah during this whole time and all the interviews he's done about how unfairly treated he was during this time? I'm not sure about that. And again, Charles can also be revised history too. Yeah, you know what? I'll go with Charles Barkley.

I think you're right. Because one of the things that Charles Barkley did say during the show was that all the players in that Dream Team got along very, very well. And that maybe that Isaiah being on the team would have ruined that. Let me play it one more time, see if you guys can figure this out. Here it is. They called me to ask me to block. Rob don't call him.

See, right? I won't play with Isaiah Thomas. He is sure. He said, you know what? Chuck them with Isaiah. Okay. So I'm going to be a part of it. That's Charles Barkley.

I'm listening again. Yeah. Because it would be really out of that Chuck Daley, his own player, his coach of his own team wouldn't want him on there. So Michael Jordan said he did not explicitly say, during the last dance, he says he did not explicitly say that he didn't want Isaiah Thomas on the team. 2011 interview with Jack McCallum. He says Rod Thorne called me and I said, Rod, I won't play if Isaiah Thomas is on the team. And that's why, as I said last week, when we were wrapping up the last dance, I think I want to, another documentary

straight down the middle one. With a straight down the middle one. Or the other side. But, okay, I want to go back to this Chuck thing real quick. Chuck Daly left the Pistons. Oh, so maybe he didn't want? And after the Olympics, he went to the Nets. What if it is Chuck Daly?

Oh, now you're throwing another curball. I'm just saying, he left. When was the last year he was with the Pistons? At the end of the 91, 92 seasons, before the Olympics was his last year with the Pistons, Immediately after the Pistons, he coached the New Jersey Nets. So he was no longer Isaiah Thomas's coach.

I mean, that team was kind of falling apart at that point anyways, right? So who, what Chuck is it? I'm taking daily. See, Ross had me convinced it was sparkling. Yeah, I'm taking Chuck Daly. Didn't they say Chuck didn't like him too? During that time? Because I know they were saying, like Magic didn't like them.

Bird didn't like him. Who else? I don't think anybody liked him. We'd have to pull that back up. You know what we're going to have to ask. I wonder if Waxler, is he interviewing Clyde Drexler right now? I hope so. Clyde would know.

Would Clyde say something about that, though? I don't know. Who are we going to ask? Michael Jordan in a long form interview and a documentary. I've attempted to get Michael Jordan on the air. Yes. And are people we miss hearing from? He said, you've never heard from me before, so why would you miss me?

Ouch. No. It's not very nice. All right, now I'm confused. Just tell him you don't think he'd do good at an interview. And they don't want to prove you wrong. And he'd be like, I'm going to not only go on another show, it's opposite of you, but I'm going to be great in the interview. Yeah, we should call him as another station.

Like, you know what? Your interviews suck anyways. Yeah. By the way, can you come on our show and talk about how awful you are as a general manager in the NBA? Yeah, I'd be happy to do that. Who's your competitor? LaBradford Smith would do a better interview. Just go say that.

We should get LeBratford. Hey, Michael, we had LeBerford Smith on. You want to come on and retell you what he had to say? LeBradford Smith from the Houston area. He is. Houston High School legend. Big time legend. All right.

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Come on, Matt. Like the party. Have a nice beer. I don't mind analytics when it comes to analyzing a team and how they perform. Okay. But using analytics to try to predict the number of victories seems like you're just a dork. I will say definitely some of these things and these number fires and these blah, blah, blah, RPI index or whatever.

They're made out. really predictive, yeah. Yeah, they're made up. Top five on ESPN projections has Kansas City, Baltimore, San Francisco, New Orleans, and Dallas, okay? They have the number of victories they anticipate them having this year and the percentage they make the playoffs. Kansas City is predicted to win 11.2 games this year. Okay.

94% in the playoffs. Baltimore is expected to win 11 games this year, 92%. San Francisco is expected to win 10.2 games this year and make the playoffs an 81% chance of making the playoffs. New Orleans is 10.2 with victories, 83% percent chance of making the playoffs. Dallas, they must have been NFC East Sucks this year. They're at 9.3 with a 69% chance of making the playoffs.

Their Vegas total is 9.5. I just pulled up all the Vegas totals. Okay, so really, Vegas totals and these analytics are not that far off. Let's go to the EFC South. This is the one... See, I think with Philip Rivers, you are either... This is the Fountain of Youth. Rivers or this is the guy that's looking just to grab a paycheck for the final year of his NFL

career? Because I think Frank Reich had said that they're hoping that Philip Rivers is their quarterback for the next couple of seasons. He was not good last year. It wasn't good. A couple years ago, the Chargers were very good. I think I picked in the winning the AFC West off of that. They have Indianapolis finishing with 8.6 wins and a 58% chance of making the playoffs. their Vegas total is nine Tennessee is 8.4 victories and a 55% chance of making the playoffs. Their Vegas total is 8.5. Houston, 7.6 victories this year.

Wow. Prediction to make the playoffs, 38%. Last 3,8%. Yeah, what does Houston's win total right now? 8. So they're all within about a half points. Isn't it their, that's their win total every year?

So again, these dorks, convince ESPN to pay the large amounts of money to do the same exact thing that a bunch of Guidos and Los Vegas have done. Matt. What? There's no need of stereotyping everywhere. These are very high-level thinking analytically based projections. Name Vito. It's probably a Polly in there somewhere.

A Pauly, a Stugats. A, what's the guy's names on the weekends? a Sal Probably a Sal Definitely a Sal A Palantonia Somebody with an Esposito At the end of the name

His end of his name And then the Jacksonville Jaguar is finishing last in the division At 4.9 victories And a 4% chance to make the playoffs Their Vegas total is 5 So basically The analytical folks at ESPN

Stole the Las Vegas number Alterated by Two tens of a point It's basically Seems to what has to think And sold it as Look at all the research Are the Texans going to finish third in the AFC South?

If the Texan, finish the blank, fill in the blank for me on this one. If the Texans finish third in the NFL, what happens? In the AFC South, excuse me. If the Texans finish third in the AFC South, what happens? What's their record, eight and eight or seven and nine? Does that you matter? Yes. I guess because you're seven in playoffs.

If they're third and they're six and ten, this is going to be bad. And now will Bill O'Brien be fired? No. Okay. Here it is, boys. And Joe, you can get out on this. I know you're busy getting ready for the other show, so we want to get you at least part of our show the last two minutes.

They're busy. I'm all here. Okay. Yeah, they're doing an interview. If the Texans finish seven and nine and do not make the playoffs, blank happens. Nothing. First of all, Bill O'Brien will have overtaken play calling duties at some point in the middle of the season.

Second of all, as far as if you're asking, is Bill O'Brien fired? If that's the bottom line of your question, no, he's not fired. Yeah, I think you're more likely to see Tim Kelly be. fired at the end of the season. After just two years? I know, I just don't think... The next step to me is Joe O'Brien has to fire everyone.

Who? He's already replaced his defensive coordinator twice. He's already replaced one offensive coordinator. How many offensive coordinators is he had? He's going to have... It'll be his second time having ripped the play calling duties from somebody. But that's like what Marvin Lewis did. And some of it was turnover of people leaving just like here in Houston. but it seemed like every year people in Cincinnati kept getting fired, kept getting fired,

but Marvin Lewis never got fired. That's where I feel like we are with Bill O'Brien. More people are just going to keep getting fired for the coach not winning, and it'll be another five, six years before Bill finally gets the ax. Another thing, though, is, I mean, Marvin Lewis was always in the bottom third of salaries, and he was really cheap and the Bengals were really cheap, so they didn't want to fire him. How much, do we know where Bill O'Brien is salary-wise? Do we have any clue?

No, because they don't have to release that. that information in the NFL. But you know he got a raise for being a general manager. You have to imagine. Well, he probably sold it as, hey, Cal, I'll do both jobs. You know, pay me two different salaries. Just give me a little bit of a bump for the first hour that I'm making already. Seven and nine, no playoffs.

Bill O'Brien is still your head coach, 2021. You know what you do? Nothing. I mean, it was the pandemic, and we couldn't meet with our draft prospects, and it was just kind of a weird year. I think we have to give Bill a pass. All right. Here, we're going to do something called the range game.

You tell me when he gets fired. You ready? Okay. Seven and nine. No. No. Six and ten. No.

Five and eleven. Can I ask? Is Deshawn Watson healthy the whole season? That's my question. Yes. Five and eleven? There are injuries, but it's on him. Yes.

I think at five and eleven, Bill O'Brien gets fired. Wait a minute. You're telling me you're going to fire a coach over two games? after the moves he made, if they go 5 and 11, my assumption is that the offense is taking a huge step back. DeAndre Hopkins has had lots of success in Arizona. The trade looks a complete joke.

Laramutson. You just made him the most overpaid player of the history of the NFL, potentially. Like, that to me is how they get to 5 and 11. And by the way, that 5.11 gives you that nice, big, fat, juicy early first round pick? That you don't have. That you don't have. It's in Miami.

So that, to me, is like 5 and 11. lot of things have started to go very, very wrong. All right. I want to go the other end of the spectrum. So you say it's fine. I'm going to go back to Ross. You're out at 5 and 11. Okay. Five and 11 Ross to keep his job. He might. No, no, we don't play it. Okay, fine. Yes. Four and 12. Yeah, he's gone. Okay. Even the last time he went four and 12, he got an extension. That's true. So maybe we should be just saying, just saying. If he goes four and 12, will he get another extension? Let me give you two more scenarios.

finishes 9 and 7 or 8 and 8, finishes either the 6 seat or the 7th team in the playoffs, wins the wild card game, beating somebody who's not supposed to beat. Okay. It loses the divisional playoff game again, either to Kansas City or Baltimore. Keep his job? Of course.

Might get an extension. Are you sure? Positive. There's no doubt in my mind. Yeah, because the new playoff format, if he gets the 7th seed, he'd have to beat Baltimore or Kansas City in the first round to get to the next round. That's not necessarily. totally true. Wouldn't they play the, they would play the three?

Wouldn't they not? No, they put a two seed. That's right. Yeah, because the new format. So there'd be a big win. In that way. Oh, then, then forget me. I even asked the question. He's getting an extension at that point. Okay, so let's say six seed. He plays the least, or he's the three or the six. He plays like the bills again.

Yeah. He beats the bills again. Loses the Chiefs 51, 28 again. This time, they fall behind quick 48-0 and they make it a ball game in the second half. Wait, if you get 48-0-0, are you making it a ball game? I'm throwing out possibilities. Hey, we got the new on-side kick roll. Maybe we don't know. It goes nuts.

He goes every time. I'll go for it. You only got two chances. Damn it, another one. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's getting embarrassed in the playoffs again.

His job's on the line. Okay, so to wrap this up, I want to make sure you guys are consistent on this. He either has to get embarrassed in the playoffs or finish 5 and 11 and not make them. No, if he gets embarrassed. I don't care if they make the playoffs in their 51 and not, to lose 51 and nothing.

He's not getting fired. So you think the only way he gets fired is with a 5 and 11 season? Yes. Okay. The best way for Bill O'Brien to get fired as soon as possible. I have to answer my own question. You know this right? Yes.

My answer my own question, there's no chance he's getting fired in any circumstance. You think they can go 1 in 15? That's Deshaun. That would sting. Deshawn can't. You're not going 1 and 15. There's not. Deshawn wants it is a cable in his life going 1 and 15.

And that's the problem is like as long as Deshawn's the quarterback, I don't ever see them going worse than 6 and 10 again. How much heat will he get if he doesn't shine to sign Deshawn before the start of the season? I think it was like what Ross was saying about the 8 and 8, 9 and 7, or 7 and 9, you blame the pandemic, you say things were weird,

we're working on it, we're going to get it done, we're confident that he's going to be our quarterback for the next 10 years. That's what Bill O'Brien's going to say. Okay. 228, we're screwed. 228, sorry Texans fans. I mean, I just don't like the future. And the future is 7.6 wins, Ross,

and a 38% chance to make the playoffs. And no first round picnic. And no second round pick next year, either, by the way. Do they have a third? I think. He'll grab some more thirds. They love thirds. 713-212-5-7.90.

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Have you seen the video, not video, but the still shots of James Hardin working out in Arizona? I've seen a little bit of it. Anything noticeably different? It looks a little slimmer. Let me tell you something. You're working out in the Arizona heat. You've got to be a grown-ass man for that. I mean, I know that James gets his ridicule for the Ole defense

and not showing up all the time and come playoff time. But that takes, I mean, there's a lot of places you can go to the upper peninsula of Michigan and really have a cool, calm, relaxing experience working out. Or you can go to one of the hottest places on Earth, aka hell, like Arizona in May and working out, that says something. And I hope it pays off. I think James Hardin's always had a really good

work ethic. I mean, you could just tell by the way his offensive game has progressed over the years. I mean, the step-back threes and adding the floater to his game and just it always seems like he's progressing and becoming one of the greatest offensive weapons we've ever seen and people want to talk about him and his effort level and all that type of stuff. Just because I think that's his personality. He's kind of an aloof guy, kind of a weird guy.

Not very charismatic at all. Exactly. Not a lot of charisma. And I think that's something that hurts him in the public arena just as far as the way he's perceived. But I feel like every summer we see him, he's at the Drew League in L.A. And he's working out and he's doing this. And he's like he'll have the Instagram videos of him after games. After he's, you know, sweating and putting his heart out on the court for three hours, he'll go in lift weights.

Yeah. To his credit. more times than not. I mean, again, he plays 100 games a year, give or take, right? Between players. 95 of them, he is the most valuable player on your basketball team. He is your go-to guy. He is the clutch three-point maker.

He is the guy that goes the rat, gets the free throw line, makes the free throws to send games over time to win games. 95% of the time. It's an amazing percentage. Yeah, he's, I mean, he doesn't ever want to take games off. He doesn't miss games. care for load management. He is always amongst the league leaders. And if we go like the past like five, six years and look at most minutes played in the NBA year by year, James Hardin's got to be one too just about every year. But the problem is the five that he's not, are the ones

that either come in the worst possible opportunity or the ones of the most high profile games that give the haters a greater opportunity to say how much he's not the guy. And when you can't back it up with comments and don't want to get in the war of words with media. And you're not, you don't get media benefit for the doubt. You just don't. When you're not going on radio shows and TV shows and doing lots of magazines and being available and, you know, and forthcoming with a lot of comments, you're not going to get the benefit of the doubt.

So those five, so those 95 games in large part just don't mean as much. I shouldn't say it means as much. those they don't get as much positive attention as perhaps the five negative ones that do yeah that's true it's like any other any other thing in sports and especially before you win a championship or multiple championships any bad game you have is going to be magnified in any type of thing you do that any turnover any bad shot any uh missing of a defensive assignment or anything like that it gets magnified yep and that's just how it is it's fine but i'll say this it's better to see him doing stuff like this in Arizona than it is with

him just, where's James been? Like somebody the other day, I was on the Channel 11 and they asked me about whether or not James should be upset that he was unable to be a part of that conference call with those players talking about trying to come back. That's not how James rolls. James does not want to be in those things.

I think James just wants to play basketball, period. Yeah, he's a baller. He just wants to, yeah, you're right. He just wants to play ball. And he wants to party. He likes to party. He likes the party too. It is what it is.

That's true he is. That's okay. He's not the first NBA player that likes to party. It just happens to be when he does. It's in very famous spots with very famous people. Yeah. Sometimes around Kardashians. Sometimes around Travis Scott.

Speaking of that, did you all see Chloe Cartaghan? I did. We don't talk a little of Chloe Kardashian in the show. Okay. She's gotten better looking over the years. Speaking of work, we're getting done. Is that her using a filter? her or is that a facelift?

You're talking about this picture? Yeah, that's not her, right? Well, you can see the left side of her. It is Photoshop. The left side of her necklace is completely gone. Yeah.

The left, those left side of her necklace chain, it's completely gone. Okay, so it's right at her. I mean, it's been photoshopped. It's been heavily touched. Because I think she has gotten better looking. Yeah, but this is a different person.

Yeah, it is different person. I mean, she doesn't look like OJ anymore. Someone tweeted. Hey, stop. No. Hey, don't slide that in there like that. I think she looks more like her hairdresser, her mom's hairdresser. Did you see that one?

There's no way Robert Kardashian's her father, though. No. I feel very confident. Look at Chris Jenner. You think he looks like her daughter? O.J.'s daughter looks very much like... Look at Chloe Kardashian and the mom's hairdresser. They look exactly the same.

Someone's joking. Chloe Kardashian entered a Chloe Kardashian look like contest. She wouldn't even be in the top 10. When did they recast Chloe Kardashian? By the way, I know, because you're watching Gray's Anatomy,

you have to be watching Kardashian too, correct? No, I do not. I don't participate in that. Is Courtney still sideways with a family? What? There's these side by

sides of her face as she used to look and how she looks now. Look at this. She looks like a completely different person now. She's had work done. But not that much work.

Like Tom Brady. Who's that? more work done. Chloe Kardashian or Tom Brady? Probably Chloe. That'll be the lead topic on the A team at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Oh, and he says that's the first topic. Adam Wuxman just gave me a sign. It's a first. Topic A.

Topic A, bringing that up. Dang, Chloe does look completely different. What the hell is going on here? Ian and Channel Vio on 790. Hi, Ian. Hey, man. Let me take you off speaker and the Bluetooth rope quick. Can you hear me? Sure. All right, all right. I was wondering

after this season with the U of H, Cougars, if anybody is going to do the redshirt rule or try to use it to their advantage with the four-game deal. You mean anybody? You mean like every college in America? Yes. Okay, okay. I got you. So, where do you have it projected at next season record-wise? Now, I do have the schedule up on the phone if you want me to read it off. No, it's okay. No, no, no, no.

You know what? I don't know. left. That was a huge blow. I mean, I don't even know if they're going to play their non-conference game. I don't know what the future of what the schedule is going to be like. I mean, I don't know if they're going to go to Washington State or play at BYU. I would be stunned if they don't play the North Texas game. I'm a stunned of that they'll play the Rice game.

And conference games may be in question, too, in terms of travel. I can't give you a record because I don't know if they're going to play 12 games around. I got you. I mean, I know both of our conference games are on the east side, so, I mean, we'll see what happens. All I know is that Clayton 2 better be healthy for him 12 games this year because there's really no backup behind him. Yeah, I mean, I have this weird conspiracy theory that Holgerson said if King went two and two that, you know, he would try to promote him. So I don't know. But I heard something like they said.

He's in Miami now. You're talking about Derek King? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But they were going to promote Why am I blanking on his name right now? Kyle Coutoon If King didn't go two and two. Like I heard something like that, that's what kind of...

Oh, yeah, well, got it mad. I see what you're saying. No, yeah, I don't know. It's a moot point now because Derek is going to school. Apparently the University of Miami or at least was going to be. You know, there's no way I can possibly give you any thought about the Cougar football season. For that matter, I don't know what anybody's going to write for it's going to be. You got them 12 and 0, don't you?

Well, usually. Let me put it this way. If they play 12 games, I win all 12 of them. They will win every game they are scheduled to play. Unless the officiating is so porous. Of course. That will cost them a couple of games. Other than that, it's 12 and 0.

243. Back to wrap things up in just a moment. 713, 212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-790. More on the Matt Thomas show straight ahead. The morning sports show for those who partied in Midtown way too hard last night. The Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right, so we opened the show today talking about the record ratings for Tiger, Payton, Tom, and Phil.

If they did it every week, I think the numbers would be dramatically off. I think these were four megastars. So if we could put together, Rossi, let's do this in the final segment of the show here. If we could put together our dream four, what sports? do you want it what two sports do you want to combine we took football and golf here okay are we going to keep with golf um that's it makes for a natural for some unless we're watching like a two on two pickup game or something it does it does it's easier lighter i know you don't have to be i mean you can put a microphone on not laborious yeah all right so take let's take two basketball players

you want to see i promise who do you want to see playing basketball and golf i don't i still like the idea of doing the celebrity bowling match. I like that one too. I want Russell Westbrook on my camera at all times, no matter what sport is being played. I think Russell Westbrook would dog cush you the entire area. Yes. And then if you had the alum's group, Gary Payton and your team would be a big dog cuss or two. How about Russell Westbrook versus Kevin Durant in some way?

Chris versus James? Yes. Okay, Russ. Oh, yeah, yeah. Chris and Katie. Let's set up basketball. Listen to about basketball dream team bowling alley competition against people that we think have trouble with each other. So CP3 and Katie versus James and Russ.

James and Russ. Do you put Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert on his own team? Can't put them on their own team. By the way, in the 16 team all-MBA format, if you go west, west teams and east teams, it would be Rockets Nuggets right now. If you went all NBA teams, the 7-10 matchup would be the Utah Jazz and the Houston Rockets. Oh, Rockets can knock out the Jazz. They can, you know why? Because first of all, they do it every year.

And secondly, Boyang Bogdanovich is not playing for the Utah Jazz. The winner of that would take on the winner of the 2-15 matchup. Two is be the Lakers? Lakers. Oh, no. Rockets could beat the Lakers. In the 15, I think it's the Brooklyn Nets. I'm actually more scared of the clip of, hey, this is actually.

my brain is exploding because we're talking basketball. That's okay. I'm all right. We can do that. I've actually liked the Rockets against the Lakers more than I do the clippers or the bucks. Thoughts. So, okay, I'll do this. Let's go from five to one.

Teams that scare us the most. Coming in at number five is east or west? I something that Boston Celtics are a great basketball team. They scare me. That's my five. Sure, I'll go with that. Okay. Number four, the Dallas Mavericks and a little bit of a surprise.

Yeah, they're scary. They play good on both sides of the ball. That's a tough matchup for the Rockets. I can go on board with that. Okay. Number three, Denver, I'm trying to think of somebody that would scare me as much. Three, I'd put the Lakers. Okay.

Oh, two clippers, one bucks? I think so. Okay, so we got bucks in terms of, of teams that just scare the rocket, should scare the rockets, bucks, clippers, Lakers,

Mavericks, and Celtics. Maybe I flip-flop the Celtics and the Mavericks. I'd tell you that one night where Dallas came in here and Porzinger was playing well, Donchish was playing well, Tim Hardaway Jr. was hitting shots all over the place. They ran the rockets out of the gym, right?

That was a scary, scary Dallas basketball team. Yeah, I can go in that order. Denver doesn't scare me Utah doesn't scare me Philadelphia is soft as a pillow Does everybody in the east That we'd be really worried about

Toronto maybe but They're good well-coached But anybody else in the east Toronto no Philadelphia know Miami's good Miami's good I don't know how scary they are right now I think they're just the classic overachievers

Of anything if you're talking about that And then the west I think it goes Clippers one Lakers 2, Mavericks 3, boy, who'd be four? In terms of teams I'd be worried about in Denver, no, Utah. You shouldn't be that many teams. No, there shouldn't be.

The Thunder don't scare me. No. Thunder overachieved. And again, Chris Paul, unfortunately, because of his history. That's fine. He is what he is. He's a good player, but. Ted a great season.

Is he a comeback player of the year in the NBA? They even still do that? I don't think so. I don't know who else would. I guess I can't think of candidates off the top of my head. Yeah. Comeback player of the year, Carmelo Anthony? Um, kind of too late for that, right?

Didn't play at all until the back half of the season? I guess you could win that. He's averaging like 15 games. I'm not too many games. There's still a big argument why Zion Williamson should be the rookie of the year in the NBA. It's got to be Jean-Marintho, right? Yeah, it does. But this little bubble thing, I'm telling you, I don't think the Lakers should be

sitting going, we'll easily get past Memphis. Carmela's played in 50 games this year. Has it been that many? Averaging 15 a game. He's come back. He has come back earlier. He is. I apologize, folks, if we're trying to get ahead of the game a little bit here, because we're still looking at Rossi, we're looking at almost two months for the start

of the end of the season. That's fine. No, this is great. But it doesn't mean we can't sit around the bar, have a couple of pops and talk about it. I'm glad we're spending a segment on actually talking basketball. Because I'm going to tell you something right now. And I don't mean to give out too much information. but it's become, and Ross and I've talked about this all fair,

it's become more and more exhausting to talk about the parameters of return as compared to the return itself. We just want games. We're like everybody else. Yeah. And I think there's some fatigue in the sports world about it too. I think that your sports centers don't do it as much until they get some hard, fast, concrete information from Wojj.

Speculation, I think, can drive people crazy. Like, I'll tell you this, Ross, we have not spent one minute today on speculation of college football. I only had the one caller I ask about U of H, but the only thing I can't say is I can't tell you who's going to do what, what their record's going to be, because I don't even know how many games are going to play or when they're going to start the season on time. That one said to me, the college sports are going to be really interesting. I follow a Twitter account. It's like the college football writers association, and they aggregate a lot of stories from all different across the country. I can pull up the last 10 tweets off that college website, and I can get 10 different athletic

director and coach's perspectives about how the season should start. One should be full go. One should be we shouldn't play at all. One should be we play with fans. One says we don't play with fans. One says we play with every team in the conference. One says we don't play anybody with a conference. One says you don't play any non-conference games. To me, it is

absolutely, I think while the NBA is kind of getting their act together and formulating a plan, Major League Baseball clearly has one big hurdle of the revenue. The NFL, I think, has been very consistent along the way they're trying to figure out way to get fans in at some point. I think college football is so

fractured and it doesn't come as surprised because college football in a sense is fractured. It just feels like a free-for-all. Like, hey, you guys are on your own. Figure, that's basically what the NCAA said. They didn't basically say Ross. They said you're on your own. Yeah. Like, who would be the most trusted voice in college athletics right now?

Who could you grab and say, I think this guy could lead and give us the proper direction? Mac Brown. You knew who was available. Oh, who? Oliver Luck. Well, he's in a lawsuit right now. Is there any kind of non-compete? Well.

And how much does... Because, you know, he's run an athletic director. He's worked for the NCAA. Dynamo? NFL Europe? Yeah. He's run organizations. He would have a background...

And what's the longest he's ever held one of those jobs? Quite a few. Nothing else anything wrong with that. Maybe he's just guys likes adventure. Okay. Point being is the NCAA has no interest in finding those people because they don't want... They don't want the pressure of telling... university presidents and conference commissioners

what to do. So they won't. That's it for the day. Today's Tuesday. We're at midweek tomorrow already. You're excited about that? We will come back, entertain the bejesies out of hell all of you tomorrow beginning at 12 noon. Can't wait. For the next three hours, it'll be Adam Clanton and Adam Wexer. They've got a major NBA guest joining them on the show. You hear them quite a bit. I wonder if he'll discuss the big three or the Rockets or both. Clanton, Wexler, they are the A team, and they're up next.

on Sports Talk 7. And he talked to you guys tomorrow at 12 noon.