The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Matt And Ross Present The 2024 Nominees For 'D Of The Year'

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" present the 2024 nominees for "D Of The Year".

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Houston, Texas, the home of the 2004 D of the Year. D of the Year. We present your host Matthew Lewis Thomas. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. No, no, no, no, people are applauding. You hear that?

Oh, I'm sorry. They're giving me a standing ovation. Thank you. Thank you. Now, you're going to those Texas Bowl. You can't be here. I'm on the Texas Bowl now. baby.

They're Seve-a Crawfichet 2-Fed Section 600? Excuse me, sir. Can you know what the cracklets are? Stop. I don't know raging Cairns were in this game now, man. Baylor Bears are like, is there any Sprite?

I bet the Bailer Bears can Sprite Zero, please. I bet the Bailer Bears can drink a few beverages too. Oh, geez. someone's dancing. It's making me uncomfortable. Those girls have way too much. Not enough clothing on. All right. Can we get back to the end of the year?

Let's get my focus here. Folks, I wanted to announce there's Bible study in Section 121 at halftime if you want to come. Why does Mac Browns like he's being there? Well, we're having an absolute great time at the Texas Bowl. All right, here we go. Nominee number one. By the way, last year's winner was Amy Krunk-strunk.

Okay. She didn't have my vote She had my vote She had America's vote every year She does She's an OG year as well She's the Hall of Fame Our first nominee is this year's

Non-Sports D of the Year Okay And it's The of the year Some douche name The Block Spot on Twitter Okay The funniest

Rawest Crasses Is that word crassus Most crass Most crass Most crass most successful roast ever in the history of roast

took place this year in 2024. It was at the fabulous form in Los Angeles, England, California. It was too long. It was on Netflix. It made a lot of money for anybody and everybody involved. It was Wally watched, and I may have been too long. It was six and a half hours long. I enjoyed everybody.

I love roast. But this D of the year candidate, the block spot said on May 6, 2024, Every racist love the Brady Roast. Every homophobe love the Brady Roast. True.

Every misogynist love the Brady Roast. Every anti-Semite love the Brady Roast. And then he goes into all caps. This is a problem. Stop giving hateful content a platform. Exclamation port, exclamation point. And then there's like four or five more exclamation points. You, Sam Block, of At the Block spot, are nominee number one for D of the

the year. Die of the year. Please have a little sense of humor. I mean, just a smidge. You know what America needs to do more in 2025, Rossi? What? Laugh.

Hmm. Wow. You know, let's put that on a t-shirt. Okay. We need more laughing in 2025. It's the best emotion out there. It's one of the best verbs. Hmm. Thank you, Matt.

All right. Number two. This governing body introduced, well, I didn't introduce, it just sat and watched this happen. And it's called name, image, and likeness. And instead of rewarding kids for hard work done and schools trying to take advantage of their abilities, this was a way to pay these players money they should have been probably paid for for many, many, many years. Instead, it's become an open recruiting tool. There is no legislation. There is no regulation. There's no regulation. There's no regulations. It's running rampant throughout sports.

You have schools that are promising money that they can't promise. You have donors who now are carrying bigger sticks because they are the ones giving the money to these kids. And there is absolutely zero oversight over something that could have very easily helped the sport. So to the NCAA for literally turning a blind eye to the out-of-control nature that is right now, name, image, and light. the NCAA, you are a nominee for D of the year. D of the year. I've got to disagree with this one. NCLA can't get involved.

Why can't they? Because the Supreme Court is going to strike them down for amateurism. They're already pretty much striking them down. If they get involved in their regulation, then they're basically admitting that they're a for-profit institution, which they can't do. They're not going to do. Then we've, then we're going to continue to. have this the rest of our life in college athletics? I don't think so. I don't think it's, I think the end game on this is disastrous. It hasn't come yet, but it's going to. You're

going to see more lawsuits by kids suing schools. You're going to have more people promising things they can't deliver on and it's going to get uglier and messier. Why don't we blame the coach for line to his players? Well, but that isn't the case every single time. We're just talking about one example there. We're apparently Leonard Hamilton at Florida State. lied to the kids and said we got the money. Let's play him Leonard Hamilton. Yeah, you're not big enough. You're not big enough for D of the Year.

Number three. D of the Year. Something is being watched more and more than ever in professional baseball. That's the strike zone. We have websites. We have Twitter accounts.

We have instant replay. We have television networks. We have technology that continues to see the evaporation of excellent ball strike calling by home plan umpires. Mistakes are happening more and more often. Umpires are getting testier and testier. And it is ultimately really causing a lot of problems for us that love America's pastime. And I know that Major League Baseball is going to experiment with the computer in next year,

which is a good sign. Let's go. But full ABS. But however, since we're talking about 2024. and how Major League Baseball continue to say everything is going great. Major League Baseball and the disintegration of what turned out to be a very worthwhile position and it's the home plate umpire because calls are being missed in an all-time high. Generally, the numbers are getting better.

I don't think so. From when they started tracking. The complaints are getting a lot higher. Well, yeah, we like to complain. I watch your Twitter account. You complain every night. That's not true. You do.

That's not true. You can play six days a week. That's not true. Six days of a week. Under. I say major league baseball, your continued blind eye to the human air that is becoming balls and strikes makes you a nominee that makes you the winner, but a nominee for D of the Year. I like that. D of the year.

And last, but certainly not least, we go to college station, we go to Austin, and we get the audio that we heard this summer from. Omaha and at that time A&M head coach Jim Slossnagle. Coach with respect to the difficult outcome tonight, but with the rumors circulating today about a specific job opening, what do you have to say about your future in Aggie Land? Yeah, I mean, I think it's pretty selfish of you to ask me that question, to be honest with you. But my, I left my family to be the coach at Texas A&M. I took the job at Texas A&M to never take another job again. And that hasn't changed in my mind.

And that's unfair to talk about something like that. That'd be like you asking Montgomery if he's going to sign in the draft. But I understand you've got to ask the question. But I gave up a big part of my life to come take this job. And I've poured every ounce of my soul in this job. And I've given this job every single ounce I can possibly give it. It's right that. Oh, yeah, write that.

I present to you with complete prejudice. Now you know that's it said with that prejudice. I know you're a longhorn hater and a clock. closet, Aggie? No, I'm a closet regular... I'm out front, decent human being. No, you came out of the closet. That's fine. Jim Slossnagle

as our fourth and final candidate for D of the year. A worthy candidate, based on that, I mean, that just wasn't right. It's pretty funny. So if you'd like to vote, the Twitter polls will be open here at the top

of the hour. If you'd like to comment in any of them. If there's somebody else that we have missed on our D of the Year candidates. I feel like we've missed some people. Well, that's why the floor is open. It's 713-212-5-790. If we've missed somebody, let us know. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. It could be you could vote for D of the Year for Alabama fans that are just bent that their team did not make the college football playoff. D of the Year. And basically made fun of SMU, getting their ass kicked by Penn State, and made fun of Indiana, losing their ass to, uh, Notre Dame.

And maybe Kirk Herbsters getting some late run. He's getting some late run. D of the year. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. 10-45. This is Sports Talk 790.