The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Missing Local Baseball Playoffs Everyday, Texans/Ravens Talk, Willie Fritz Joins

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

Missing Local Baseball Playoffs Everyday, Texans/Ravens Talk, Willie Fritz Joins

is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Welcome to a Thursday edition of The Matt Thomas show with Ross. Ross Fielder Real to my right. Jonathan Allen is our producer in the box studio that's 49 degrees. And I'm Matt. Nice to have all of you with us today. Oh, it's really cold in there. I feel terrible.

I'm surprised we don't have more pneumonia cases out of our studios in there, but that's their issues. And of course, we've got great affordable health care. So we're going to go out. Exactly. We take care of them. We do. Only the best benefits up here in I heart. All the best.

Got a lot of little things I want to get to today. A lot of little things. Okay. And I'm not going to go on any particular order because I do have one thing I want to get to at the very beginning. The U.S. News and World Report rankings of colleges are out. Uh-oh. I am stunned at how bad the Big 12 is when it comes to schools. You are?

Especially with a couple of them being private and a couple of them being about $90,000 a year. Give or take. should be good. You'll be surprised. We know U of H's. We're on the uptick. Not where it used to be. We're on the uptick.

Yeah. Getting up there. But I'll save it for that. I'm just going to say, you're going to be stunned if you've not seen it yet. I'm surprised you're bringing this up. Well, I mean, it is what it is. You of H must be doing better than they were.

Weren't they in like 125 or something? You'll find out later today on the radio program. I will say this. The very first thing I checked was the University of Rhode Island. Oh, okay. And I was very relieved. We are number 34. We're, of course, I'm maybe rooting hard for the Rams in the next handful of years.

We're number 34 in the country. That's great. And the number one public school in New England. Oh, it's a small area, but that's great. I don't know. Massachusetts, Delaware. What else is there? Rhode Island.

Yeah, you just named the four small estates. New Hampshire. Don't sleep on Massachusetts. I don't know good schools up there. Number 34 in the kind. Let me tell you, if you had kids and I said, I'm sending you the 34th best public school in the country, be like, oh, that'd be nice.

That's good. I hope they're cutting the check. Well, they are in some respects. And I know maybe a different story, but that's another here nor there. All right, we got that to get to. We have some not necessarily breaking news, but pending breaking news about the NCAA basketball tournament

we need to get to today. Oh, okay. When I say NCAA, what does it usually revolve around? Infractions? Well, that's not terrible thought. Expansion? Or lack of thereof. Additional opportunities for revenue.

They have figured out a way to make that happen. We'll be discussing out of the radio show today. We have the Major League Baseball playoffs. We have three game threes today. Huge. And I'll tell you what. I spent a lot of time watching them yesterday. And again, I didn't get into the deep dive.

I know what I'm going on in situations and decisions. But it's Wednesday night. Nothing else. going on? What else are you going to watch? Champions League was done? That's what I was thinking. I was like, I was going to put some champions like out if I couldn't find anything. A big win for Paris Sermain over Barcelona? That was huge. It was. I did a post game show on that actually. You did? On my YouTube channel. Okay. Wow. What did you think about Laminia Mall's second half?

I thought the officiating was very sketchy. Oh, actually that's true. See, I told you every watching. That's every sport. That's right. It's always when in doubt to say the officiating is sketchy and you can win. Nobody likes refs in any team and that's soccer included. That's right. It's a questionable penalty given in the Manchester City game. The injury report for the Baltimore Ravens, holy smokes. It's like half their rosters hurt.

It's basically like they're listing the depth chart. I mean, and you and I have joshed about this for, I don't know how many years, but the term must win. I would think, Rossi, even though you are not literally must win guy, hey, you know what? You were right about the must win game against the Rangers. if they'd have won that, they'd have made the playoffs. Ouch.

I, point taking them. That's why they call me the Astros Insider. But you really weren't right. But I think we use most wins all the time, which is fine. I think it's part of the reason why you get so cranky about it because everybody uses it. Yeah. Because it's beginning of October. But if you're going to Baltimore and no Lamar Jackson.

Yes. And like five defensive starters aren't playing. You have to win that game. it's of the utmost importance it's back to two and a half the line it's a field goal it's a toss up

it's a 50 50 game matty but I don't even care about Las Vegas in this particular case this is for you have to win a game you're not supposed to win to get back in the chase in the division

because you've got two teams that are two games in front of you and one of them holds a slight tie break over because they beat you and again I know we're maybe too early thinking about division races but I don't anticipate

two teams coming out of this Division as a playoff team, right? So you have to, you got to go grab one when you're not supposed to win. And the gods are telling you, you got to go to Baltimore and win this game. You can't let Cooper Rush Beachy. You just can't. It is a ripe opportunity that you did not have before all of the injuries. It would be nice to seize this opportunity, for sure.

Would it be too hot topicy if I said if they don't beat the Ravens, they're not going to the playoffs? I think that's fair. That'd be four losses now. within an AFC? You probably at least, we ran through the schedule. We had them basically at 7 to 8 wins. Or did we have them at 6 to 7?

We had 1 plus 6 plus 7. You're any minimum 9, maybe 10 to get in the playoffs. You're probably going to need 10. Well, since Annie may be in a free fall because of the Joe Burrow injury. We can check them off the list. But Jacksonville's a surprise. Indianapolis is a surprise.

The Chargers are pretty good. They made it as 9 and 8 last year. The Chargers, right? Was it 9 and 18 or was everybody 10 and 7? There was a huge tie up. Tiebreaker. Yeah, I'm trying to figure it out. I'm going back to Luke.

Did anybody, was anybody thinking Pittsburgh? I don't think so. Yeah. You needed 10 wins last year to make the playoffs in the UFC. Maybe the Patriots sneak in. You never know. So it's a pretty close to a must win for playoff hopes. Close.

I'll never change you, am I? I have to draw in a line and sand. There's too much gray area, folks. And I understand the entire. world is gray and we all try to make it black and white. Yeah. Okay. I had to think about that for a second. Let that percolate in my head. Except for a short, a certain amount of things. There's a short list of things that we have to draw a line in the sand, Matt. Okay. And I'm on an island by myself. I understand this. Okay. I'm going to give you, speaking of an island by myself, I'm about to go on an island by myself on this.

Okay. I got, you know how I feel about Texas Tech. It's my second favorite school in the state. What about Texas A&M? Third. But I mean, they're close. It could be two A2B. I mean, both those schools have given my kids, my boys outstanding education. Both had terrific experiences. You know, sometimes you go to college and have bad experiences.

My boys love their experiences of their two schools. That's great. And I love both those schools, too. I mean, I just do. They've gotten plenty of my money, and so I can say that. I can say we in a certain respect. And so this game with Houston, the Twitter streets, Rossi, are, I haven't seen it as spicy like this for a long period of time. And I don't know if it's because all the Texas Tech is showing up on my 4U tab this week or just Texas Tech fan is coming out after being in hibernation for as long as they've been.

But they're a really good football team. they went to Utah and smacked them around. They didn't have a, they had to use two different quarterbacks this year. Their defense for the first time, I think since puberty for me, has been decent. Probably since ever. I mean, I can't remember saying the words as a sportscaster, Texas Tech and great defense. Every game they had, had 55 to 52 written all over it. Well, that's how you won.

I mean, you know, that's, I mean, BJ Simmons will listen to the show occasionally. He was right a part of that. Yes. Cliff Kingsbury was doing that. And Graham Harrell. and go through all of them. I mean, you know, obviously there's one in Kansas City. It's pretty good, too. If you went to Texas Tech, you're going to score a bunch of points. You're going to have a huge offensive numbers, and then you're going to lose games 48, 45 playing 930 games at Arizona.

You know what I mean? It's just what it is. But they're as good as they have been in a long period of time. It is not coincidental. It is the fact that they are paying players crazy amounts of money, and it's paying off. In fact, the head coach I'm drawn a blank as I was just listening to him yesterday as a matter of fact

Joey McGuire it's Joey McQuire he's a fine coach I don't think Joe McGuire is working in Lubbock I don't think Irish car in Lubbock there's not

no I don't think so if I was himagrant made it to the middle of nowhere Texas in the west Texas fly out of the country Joseph McGuire so

what was I can go with this I don't know he was asked questions about contracts in his press conference, which is, it literally sounded like I was listening to a professional team's press conference. He's like, yeah, we got four or five guys. We got to one-a-half million-dollar deals. And we're looking to extend a few more. I was like, my God, has college sports changed? Yes, it is. You can openly tell them, ask questions to a coach about how much you're going to pay players and if you're offering new multi-year deals.

But just the landscape of college sports. But back to my central point. Texas Tech fan, I mean, they are breathing fire right now. They're getting chirpy. They're attacking everything U of H. There are U of H Texas Tech Twitter fights all over the place. I saw some of that. The Texas Tech Bureau is pointing the finger at U of H people. Yeah.

I mean, that comes to zero surprise. And here's the unpopular take. You ready for this? I don't mind it. Yeah, why is that unpopular? As long as everybody, nobody's getting personal. It's just fun. Let me ask you this. If nobody's doxing anybody.

Hey, U of H Police Department, there's going to be fights this weekend. I guarantee there's going to be a brawl at TDUC Stadium. I don't want it to be, but alcohol. You're guaranteeing a brawl? I guarantee you Monday morning, we're going to be looking at people throwing hands. Why can't you all behave yourselves? Come on, man. But it happens everywhere.

Yeah, but it's two mid-college programs who haven't done squat ever. Come on guys. I'm talking about in college athletics and alcohol. I'm just saying that we haven't had a fight. in a long time because frankly it's hard to fight with Tulsa. Yeah. It's hard to fight with Tulane or East Carolina. And I know you don't want to fight when

Army comes into town. Ooh, we'd lose that fight. I don't want a own part of that. Navy, no chance either. Yeah. No none of the military academies. You're going to get dislocated ankle. Y'all can win. I don't mind the smack. If you're insulting someone's looks or family

or origin or ethnicity, that's off the table. But just good old fashion, you suck, you and you don't fill your building up versus tech-to-tech. You have Raider rash and you're out the middle of nowhere and you have to pay your athletes because nobody wants to come there. Good. Let's go. Rossi, how many years have I been dreaming of a relevant 6 o'clock game

with two teams that hate each other? Even when the Cougars were playing for American Conference championships, we were playing Temple and Navy. We can't hate them. Well, let's not act like this is Ali Frazier. Y'all are 10.5 point dogs. Well, again, I'm not allowed to decide these things. I'm just saying I'm here for it.

Okay. Sure, sure. I mean, I haven't seen any of it. I'm not insulting either group because I want as many Texas Tech listeners as I do Houston listeners. I like both schools. I want the Cougars to win. But after that, Texas Tech, you want to run the table and take one loss? I'm all for you. Congratulations.

Let's go. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind seeing the big 12 championship game. Go Couges. Yeah. And go Red Riders after this week. I don't want them to go. It'd be funnier if they'll spend all that money and lost, don't you think? We've talked about that before.

There are a lot of schools in this country that are paying crazy amounts of money. They're going to be highly disappointed being on the outset looking in. Texas spends a lot of money and loses, so why can't I root for everybody else to do it? Imagine the money that A&M has spent over the years. Who has the worst money pit of a program in the last 10 years? It's got to be A&M. Like most amount of funds. Well, between that and paying for Jimbo, for sure.

I don't think there's any doubt. I mean, add that in. 713, 212, 5,000. 790. So you Cougars, are y'all getting upset? Y'all mind? I don't mind it. I live for this. Again, we don't fight, we don't smack talk with Memphis. There's nothing interesting about going after

since any Bearcat fan. I'm ready. I want this is why I wanted the Big 12. I want Texas Tech v. Houston. We want, I want pure hatred. But leave it on the football field. Just don't get it personal. And again, if you're going to throw hands at TdUC Stadium, if you got friends with you, have the videotape it and send it to me. 713.

212 5 7.7.9. So under the category of today's edition of sometimes less, who's more, I saw this before the start of the show and thought, well, I'll just pass on it. But then Ross says, hey, did you see what the Astros has tweeted out? And I'm like,

yes, I did. And what they tweeted out was happy birthday to Lance McCuller's Jr. Nice message. And I almost tweeted it back saying don't look at the replies. I looked at them. All right, would you like to read them? I mean, first of all, this is, this is what people are mean.

This is what social media is in 2025. People want to get their jokes off and be mean and try to collect likes with it. Lance McCullors Jr. has been one of the hearts and souls of this organization during its huge renaissance. World Series champion, 24 straight curveballs. Yes, he's had a lot of injuries, but he's battles his ass off to get back out there. and try to provide anything he can for this organization. He could have retired like at least twice.

And nobody would have said a word. He's out there trying to do what he can for this Astros organization. And you people just want to crush him on Twitter. And they did. Let's see. replies, his birthday gift should be full-time position in the front office. That's rude. Good luck elsewhere, LMJ.

Happy birthday. That's rude. Again. The rule should be in your life. Would you say this to his face? Well, then that would eliminate about 85% of tweets. Hopefully the last time this is tweeted for him as a member of the team. Oh, here's a nice one.

Robert, you know what, tip of the cat to Robert. I'm giving him a life. Just General Robert? Yeah, Robert Catoon. One of my favorite Astros, happy birthday, Lance. That's nice. Or you know what? Again, this is how I kind of live my life for the most part.

I'm not perfect. Trust me. But if you don't like something, you just scroll on by. You can keep scrolling. Yeah, that's what I did. Joseph said, just ruined my morning. Rude. So a man's birth and an opportunity to spend time with his family and friends is ruined because...

This one's funny. Cool. Now announce Centron is gone. Oh, God. Speaking of departures, did you see the angels the way that? they set up the Ron Washington goodbye tweet? No. You go to the

Angels Twitter account. There's no white chalk on there, is there? Oh. I'm just asking. Oh, my God. You know, again, I have been unfairly criticized for being mean. You this week have been way meaner than

I could ever imagine. How does that mean? Ross, this is probably one of the year like. Ron Washington had a cocaine incident. Okay, so that means to mean he's has one now. And then so you were saying that the Angels did something they shouldn't have done with the Twitter account. So I was connecting the two. I wasn't asking you to guess. Okay, well, I

was trying to guess. No. I was like, oh no, do they put a chalk line on there or something? I just figured you said that they were doing something that they shouldn't have done. Sometimes. Why wouldn't I guess that? What's wrong? No one else did. No one else did. No one else did. I don't care. That doesn't bother me. So let me answer my own question here. He likes to party down.

I don't care about that. They have two photos of him in stances in his uniform. And he's basically standing on a pillow of clouds. Oh, like he died. Yes. Did they put an angel halo on his head too? I don't, I don't remember seeing that. That would be pretty funny.

But I want you to look at it. As soon as you see that, the very first thing you think of is he's dead. Yeah, they put him in the clouds within angels. I mean, the angel halo logo. Well, that's half of it, unfortunately. Wrong team. If he was the devil, he'd be really in bad shape. I like this first comment.

The Angels have announced that Ron Washington, 73, passed his role of manager onto someone else in his sleep last night. Not nearly as rude as your comment. Say that for, hey, remember that tomorrow, Jonathan 1130, when somebody owes some people some apologies. What did I do? You owe Ron Washington an apology. First of all, like I said, I don't judge the man if he likes to,

okay, you're going to tell me how many managers. and players over the years in Major League Baseball like a little boog of sugar, whatever. But the point being is this is that if he's been long over, it doesn't mean you to assume he's still doing it. I don't know that. He's been clean for a long time apparently. How do I know that?

I don't know, but I'm assuming... And again, if he's not, I'm not judging him. I mean, if you have a cocaine, if you're using cocaine, you have a problem, so I mean, maybe he's a recreational user and keeps it under control. Functional cocaine user? Yeah, what do you mean? Have you been to Wall Street? If any of you are functional cocaine users, let us know. 7-1-

No, don't call. Yeah, actually, 7-13 2-1-2-5-7-90. We can get another William. You don't know. Yeah, maybe who knows. All right, so yeah, we're having some problems with social media departments. I mean, because I literally thought Ron died.

You saw it and you really did. Everybody else is saying the same thing in the comment. Yeah, because it's like the, it's like the, it's a picture of him looking into the camera and another picture of him smiling and then it's in the clouds. But why clouds? That's what I want to know. Why would you put clouds in there?

Yeah, this is like he's... Put him on a base path. Yeah, this looks like he's passed. You could literally print this out at his funeral and nobody would say a word. It looks like a funeral photo. Just so odd, but that's another, okay. All right, so... Do you put that on your report?

When you're the social media, like, they want to know, you have to report your likes impressions. Like, hey, guys, I got a bunch of likes this. Like it's got a lot of... How many is it have? Impressions. It's got... Yeah, it's got 5 million views. So you put that on your monthly recap PowerPoint.

Hey guys, I got 5 million views on this tweet. Oh, really? How come? Well, people thought that I killed the manager. That's a good and a bad. But don't you think that most teams have more than one person in the social media department? Yeah, probably. So if I created that tweet...

Are you bragging? No, do I go to you and... say how does this look? That's true. It looks like he's dead. Yeah, I don't know who has the final say or autonomy or whoever the main social media person is. Astros have like three or four people.

They do. That's what I'm saying. There had to have been more than one person said, hey, this looks cool. Let's put them in clouds. Generally, the teams rotate rather quickly. Well, first of all, it's a low-paying job. Yeah. And I tell you this.

It's a difficult job. Well, it's not difficult. It's only difficult when you screw up. Well, exactly. They got in hot water when they put the A's. They said tens of runs in front of tens of fans or whatever they said. Yeah, yeah. That was a big virus.

All the A's fans got hurt. This fan base is hurting. Why would you say there's only 10 fans? Because there was only 10 fan in the stands. Sorry, A's. Yeah. Ridiculous. So soft. We got a PA announcer that got in trouble, too.

I'm, I've never been admonished for any. Did you ever get any kind of a hot? hot water for anything ever that you said? Well, I'll say this. I don't know if the NBA was overly pleased with my Western Conference Game 7 introductions. Oh, really? But did you hear anything from anybody? Nobody heard anything.

Okay. Nobody heard anything. No. What? I will tell you when we come back. Because what the guy said... They're putting Rod Washington Optuary.

Stop it. So bad. Get off that account. But... But it was a natural... It was a natural presumption. It just was. Exactly.

I mean, I'm sorry. It's a black and white photo. It says 24 to 25. So it's still his managerial career of the angels. That's pretty funny. All right. So I will brief. I don't even think there's audio of this because it's insensitive.

But as a PA announcing you can get into trouble and I'll explain what that happened. But way, are you all watching the playoffs? We did have three interesting games yesterday. I watched a fair amount of it. Yes. So we'll get a little bit of that. And we'll go over that Texans. injury report. It's not so bad on the Texan side, but on the Baltimore side, it's a hot mess.

That's a shame. Yeah, it is a shame because it's a must-win game Sunday. It'd be one you'd like to. It's a crucial game Sunday. I think it's a... It's a Seize the Opportunity Sunday. That's a little wordy, but I'll accept it. Okay. 713-212-5-790. You know what? We need a bump music change. We just do. Look, I'm not the biggest Imagine Dragon song. This song's kind of a jam, though. I'm good.

All right, real quick. Just be careful what you say in life. Florida A&M has a ban, you know, when you do band halftime, they have the announcers that are just the band PA guys. Uh-huh. This guy's been doing it for 50 years. Okay, Florida A&M University. What happened? They were playing Alabama State.

Is that a big rivalry? Feels like it could be. Yeah, kind of. Florida A&M was fined $10,000. over inappropriate comments made by an announcer during the Rattler's football game against Alabama State. The comments were directed at Alabama State's Honeybees Dance Group. Uh-oh. Oh, I saw this.

Well, they have, okay, so they have a team. Okay, you know, I'm going to let you read this. First of all, what is he talking about Alabama State for is what I don't know. But here's what he said. And again, I'm just going to say it, and then we're not going to get into any more than that. He said that the honeybees represent the new face of Ozembic and that you just come on. I mean, come on. So the dance team is specifically a plus size dance team? That I can't say. Because I saw it characterizes the plus size dance team. So I don't know, are they calling them?

Again, that was that's an awful generic way to describe an entire group of people. Exactly. So I don't know if they have a regular dance team and then they that I would have, I don't even speak to this. I would assume don't have a weight, two different teams based on weight. I would assume not. Maybe an inclusive, at least like an inclusive dance team. That's crazy to say, though. Bullard issued a public apology stating that his comments were intended as, quote, lighthearted banter.

I don't know, weight usually with women is never lighthearted. He recognizes that it was hurtful and disrespectful. So Florida A&M has been fined $10,000 and he has been suspended for two games. Yeah, the Alabama state honeybees bring positive plus-sized attitude to HBCU dance scene. Oh, so they are a plus-sized team? They're specifically, yes.

They are a plus-sized dance team that promotes body positivity, confidence, and self-love. Heathrowell Olympic, Haitianist of that. Can I tell you, as a wife, as a husband of a woman, and a daughter in my family?

And this goes for, I don't know anybody we as men can kind of give each other grief about weight that's just not going to be talked about with women under any circumstance zero it will never end well

like you know Jonathan you'll know this if you eventually marry the girl or whatever you do in your life does this make me look fat the answer is always no always 100% of the end time it's no it's never well don't even you don't even delay your response

by the time she says does this make You always say no. Yeah, it's a tricky scenario. You have to put it on yourself, Jonathan, and say, let's get healthier. Together. I wouldn't listen to Ross either. I'm just telling you.

Ross is giving you bad advice. I don't know. I'm just telling you. Ross got maybe on a couch. You can be by yourself. No, you just talk about your diet. We have to prove our diets together. Just trust me on this.

You don't say it when she's asking if you look fat. You're bringing up some other time. now I'll say this if you're lean and she needs to lose weight and she says we should do a diet together you know what you do? Here's the key you say absolutely

of course and then when you are at work on your way home you go get the cheeseburger why do you do that Matt why don't you stand tall with your lady and support her why don't you support your woman what if you don't have to lose weight I'm not saying I'm doing this I'm just saying I'm general

okay well yeah if you don't have to I guess you can bulk up some other time. But then, like, what if she finds out, though? How's she going to find out? Is she pocket watching you? Or just like, imagine you leave a rapper in your car. If you're getting two double-deckers on the way home, make sure you pay cash. Does she GPS you?

Does she shoot the water burger at $2.50 and every day? My girl does GPS me. Oh. It's the kids do that. Safety reasons, right? Yeah. That's what she tells you. That's what she's telling you.

That's exactly what she says. That is a complete falsity. You're like, I've never been kidnapped once. What are we talking about? Safety reasons. Well, if it's late at night, what if my car breaks down? Yeah, okay. And then tell me where you, then you can turn it on the location after that.

I've heard all those stories before. Like, phones are always at 100% and you're never in any... Let me tell you, after she's done with school, she's staring at that phone. She's watching you like a heart. Absolutely. It's her great. You go look at her screen time. Location services.

So you know what you're going to have to eat? Number one. You're going to have to eat fat and food here then, if that's ever a green issue. Yeah, you can't GPS. If you're at the Arby's every day at 2.30, that's going to be a problem. You're on that diet plan together. You can always as a default go, I just want to get a diet coat.

I need some caffeine. Yeah, I need some curly fries. Yeah, why did you go to RB? You got a garlic beans store. Yeah, why is the car smell like curly fries? That's right. We're going to crack those windows. Linger.

So, again, we are all trying to be funny. Weight is never funny. It just, and again, and if I was, you know, Wade is a sense to bitch you for a lot of people, men and women for that matter. It just was just really, I saw that like, come on, dude. It's never. So, yeah, I mean, he's frankly lucky he gets to come back. Because that's, that's, I mean, you heard, men, those are young girls, too. Come on.

Let them be. In this world of the words never hurt, and it's not that big of a deal, but also you should have known better because it, unfore, it is the world that we live in. Yeah. It's a harmless joke. It really was. I mean, should you have made it? No. Did anybody die?

No. Mongerald's like, why didn't you mention me? Exactly. Product plug out of it. Yeah, if you had a spit, if Ozimic would have dropped 20 G's on it, it would have been fine. Yes, exactly. 713-212-790. 7-1-2-5-79.

Let's go to line number two and talk to Leon. You know what, Leon, I don't know. We've never met. I just like the name Leon. I just think the coolest cats in town are names. Leon. Hi, Leon. I appreciate that. I called John's show a couple of times, but I appreciate that. Guys, I'm in my second marriage. The person was 19. This will be 14 next month.

Wow. And I was 10 years in between the two. So over 40 years, give or take, do not ever, ever tell them they look fat. And you was spot on when you said, you know, before they finish since, no, no, you look fine, honey, you're good. You're good. and unfortunately for me, I'm type 2 diabetic, and my lovely wife changed her diet to help me out. Nice. So that's a good thing. Nice. But at the same time, don't ever, I mean, if they got, if you got to go spend an extra $3,400 to change their wardrobe to let their self-esteem stay intact, do it.

Just, just just, just, just, just, there's no question there, just do it. You'll thank me later because if you don't do it and you tell somebody, well, honey, you might want to, wrong answer. and don't ever, ever pinch the gut. Please don't do that. You're asking for a fight. So, I'm just saying. Leon, so.

You are preaching the gospel and you're always welcome on this show. Okay, yeah, I'll have a good day. All, we'll see you later. So Leon got double digits with two ladies. Good for him. Don't pinch the gut. Okay.

Who's ever, I never pinch a woman's gut in my life. That seems like a horrible idea. Yeah, I was going to say, what position, situation would you preach it present yourself? I like your transparencies. He's a gut pincher. It was a mistake.

You've done it before. You learned your lesson, didn't you, Jonathan? I was just trying to be funny, you know? Oh. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. I think the rule should be you never should pinch a woman, period. I do a little pinching.

Well, you know what? Let me correct that. There's a couple of scenarios you can actually pinch. And grab. 713-212-570. The Texans injury report with the Baravins. Significant. We're going back to that.

Jonathan was doubtful after that. But he's back in the good graces because he puts his GPS on for the girl. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. The GPS saved your relationship. Ted 42 on Sports Talk 790. Coming up at 1130. It's this week's edition.

I just don't get it. And we'll have that. The news at noon is at 12. At 1.30 today, Willie Fritzby with us to talk about our Houston Cougars taking on the Texas Tech Red Raiders. And again, if you all want smack talk all the way until 9.30 at night, well, my guess will be smack talk into Sunday morning, right? It's good. I'm all for it. I needed it.

I've been asking for it. I want it. you really can't hurt my feelings unless you insult the way I look or my family. Is it short of that? You want to call me Cougar High. You want to, you want to Raider Rash, you want to say open enrollment, you want to, you know, all those kind of things. I'm here for. It's what I live for college football, but I don't, I never take it personally.

I think others probably do take it very personally. So not you. I'm a same in just general. Okay. The appetizer is Texas. Florida. The main course is Texas Tech Houston. So, so says the national networks. I don't think that's accurate.

I believe it could be completely accurate. Like I said, we'll check the ratings. Well, it's one of them's on ABC. Everybody's got ESPN, Matt. Yeah, but more people have ABC. Everybody's got ESPN. More of the got ABC. There's not some guy getting his rabberty ears out watching ABC.

Should be comparable. Okay. 713-212-5-790 all right so the injury report on the texans uh let me tell you this uh derrick stingly took a rest day rossi and that's okay right yes i mean he's obviously not a hundred percent he has been battling the oblique issue the obliques for a while and that unfortunately you need like a month to get the oblique's taken care of you just have to luckily he's not swinging a bat yeah um well anderson with a rest day good because you know what extra day rest is going to make him extra frisky on Sunday.

Danico You want him extra frisky? Is that what they say in the meeting room? All right, y'all, on Sunday, we're going to be some dogs. We're getting frisky. Whatever it takes. If you're a Will Anderson guy, and then they do that.

We'll be frisky lots of cats. Well, they probably are, they probably work a little bluer than that but since we're on an FCC regulated radio station. Okay. So let me tell you who's, not playing or did not practice yesterday among those for the Patriot of the Ravens.

Roquan Smith outstanding linebacker. Yes. Patrick is it Richard? Is that how they pronounce it? Ricard. Ricard. The fullback, yes?

Yes. That's actually a big, he's been missing some time. I think it's part of the reason why they've not been able to run the ball. He's actually an amazing fullback. That's why I brought up his name is I don't usually bring up fullback talk on the show.

You don't. Marlon Humphrey, cornerback, calf. He's supposed to miss the game, right? Nate Wiggins, Elbow, Devonte's Walker, oblique, I don't know much about him. Ronnie Stanley, I do know a lot about him,

offensive tackle, a bad ankle. Yeah, he's great. And then Lamar Jackson with a hamstring. It's a must-win Sunday. That's eight guys, we didn't mention all of them, but that's eight that did not participate. Three limited participants,

and that would include Kyle Hamilton. We know about him. Safety. Actually, there's more than that. Excuse me. Let me correct myself. Six limited participants. Linebacker Kyle Van Nuoy, limited.

Okay. Travis Jones, their nose tackle, limited. I'm going to say it. You must win this game. If you can't beat the Baltimore Ravens with all of that, you're never going to win in Baltimore.

As a matter of fact, I would, if I was Hannah, I'd be like, next year if the schedule comes out, you're going to go back to Baltimore, or pass on that game. Okay, you're just going to forfeit. You're going to forfeit the game. Well, think about it. The cost would be minimal.

Okay. You're so ridiculous. You know what you could do? What can you do, Matt? If you're the Ravens and the Texans forfeit, you have like a fan fest. For the game? For the game. Well, they could do like a scrimmage.

No, I would give them and be like an extra buy off week. Yeah, they would probably want their money. Yeah, they're going to want their money back. That's probably true. TV networks aren't going to be interested in Baltimore. Ravens fan day. I don't think CBS is going to be happy about that at all. That's stout, dude.

It just is. Who's on the call? Iron Eagle and JJ Watt. Ooh. Do you think they're like, oh, great. We came up all this way for Cooper Rush. Well, they're probably, yeah, because I think Lamar Jackson, say what, Lamar Jackson, say what,

is a dynamic player, an MVP, what, two-time MVP, correct? Two-time MVP, and very, he didn't win last year because the Bravens had a good defense and Derek Henry. Yeah. but his numbers were, to me, superior to Josh Allen's. Yeah. I mean, how long is, I always bring this up with college athletics.

I'm going to the pro side. Somebody that spends a lot of money and has a good team around him, ain't going to the Super Bowl yet again. Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson both can't end their Super Bowl jinx this year. Correct. Somebody's going to be in the eye. And a lot of folks, I was looking at ESPN's headlines. If the Ravens lose this game,

do we kick them out to the curb as a potential playoff team? I wouldn't. I wouldn't either, but you're digging yourself a pretty big hole on their early schedule. They've played the bills. Okay, they beat the Browns. The teams they've lost to are the bills, the lions, and the chiefs. That's like three Super Bowl contenders.

Then they have the Texans this week. They're probably thinking this is a must-win game for them. Oh, because of the fact the Texans have not gone up there and been very competitive. I agree with that. two and a half point dogs. It's a winnable game for them. They're at home. And then if they lose this game to the Texans, then they have the Rams next week

and you could be potentially one in five. So if we're on Baltimore radio, we're calling this a must win game for the Ravens. Now tomorrow we're having Nestor Asper. Oh, I was butcher his last name. And I'm butchering again. I'm going to read his name off my

of my text because it'll be easier. Nestor is a long-time Baltimore Sportscaster. Okay. He's been denied credentials now for the Ravens and the Orioles. Apparently he's pissed him off so much so. Oh, really? Because he crushes him or what? Yeah, apparently. Nestor Aspericio.

Okay. Sad three times fast. Asperitio? Let me tell you how to spell it here. It's A-P-A-R-I-O. Okay. Apparicio. You know, is he related to Luis Apparicio?

I wonder if it's his dad. I've never asked him that. Who is Luis Apparicio? Wasn't he a famous pitcher? I'm asking the wrong person. I'm Zico Osacio. I know him. No, no, no.

But Nestor has been a longtime Baltimore host, but apparently he just gets sideways with... Nestor Apparicio. Yeah, let's see if it's... Put father in Google and see what's... I'm known by the nickname Nasty Nestor. Yeah, Nastyner. Yeah, Nastyner's going to be on the show tomorrow.

That's the first line of Wikipedia. Yeah. Wow. A Venezuelan American. He... He is the first cousin of Luis Apparicio. Yeah, well, called first cousin. Okay, I got you. But he'll be on the show tomorrow because he's going to give us a Baltimore field for it.

And he will not be, apparently he doesn't. Oh, he's the first cousin once removed, which means his father is the first cousin. Oh, I see. Okay. There you go. Oh, is this a must-win game conversation point? Of course it is, folks. Last week was a must-win game.

This week's a must-win's game. Who knows? Next week can be a must-win game. game too. You can have 15 must-win games on the schedule. Sounds fair to me. Scott on 790, good morning. Matt Ross was going on, guys. This is a must-win game, and I'll tell you why. So obviously from a record perspective, however, when we were looking at the schedule at the beginning of the year, even in our most bullish prediction, this game was penciled in

as a guaranteed loss virtually by anyone who follows the Texans. So, now with the circumstances of changing. Winning this game almost feels like winning two games. It almost gives you the Jacksonville game back because we were never going to win this game with the way, you know, if the Ravens were fully healthy. I think the big key to the game for me is we need to start, we need to accept who we are. And that is not a very good offensive team, especially when it comes to passing the ball. The goal, in my opinion, especially with the Ravens' offense being so injured is we need to commit to running first and second down. The goal needs to be to get to third and short, second and medium.

And if we have to punt, we have to punt. Almost play not to lose. Because if our defense can play the way that it's capable of against Cooper Rush, you know, let's make this a 10 to 7, 13, 17, 13 type of game, run the ball. But yeah, this is a must win and we need to accept the fact that, dropping back to pass is just not something that we are very good at and stop trying to prove that it's something that we do well and commit to being a safe conservative offense. I know that sounds boring.

I don't know what you guys think, but I think we need to start playing to that. I mean, second and 30, we're not going to be able to hit those deep balls to Nico every time and overcome that to win games. So that is my analysis on it. Conservative football, lean on your defense. and we should be Baltimore. Well, there is here, D'emico Ryan's nodding his head. Yeah, D'Amico is like all in on this.

There's just one issue. You're going to have to get Woody Marks, get you four yards of carry. You can't be conservative. And I'm not saying that Woody can't do this, but you can't be conservative if you're facing a lot of second and eighth, third, and sevens. So stay on schedule. That's what you're saying. Yeah, I don't think, I, again, we're not going to be in Louisiana to bet this,

but I would bet the under on this game. Yeah, it's a low. I think it's 39 and a half or something like that. I'll go look. By the way, people were saying the Jaguars game was a must-win game too. They did? Yes. Oh, because you don't want to go 0-3.

You don't want to go 0-3. Because history says 0-N-3 doesn't make the playoffs. Correct. So it was a must-win game three weeks ago. This last week was a must-win game. We got another must-win game. Let's go. Let's go.

Let me tell you this. If the Texans win this week, Seattle game for me is not a must-win. You heard it here first. Okay. We got, I just don't get it. It's coming up in a half an hour from now. 713-212-5-790.

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Goodall. Goodall. Mm-hmm. Longtime animal enthusiast. Yeah, I thought she was dead. But I hadn't heard her name in years. Yeah. Now, somebody else also...

Didn't the one that used to go on the Johnny Carson show? She passed away too recently. What was her name? I'm drawn a little bit of a blank on her. Joan Rivers? No, this was... He used to have this woman on all the time as his... Yeah, Joan Rivers.

No, it was not Joan Rivers. Joan and Johnny didn't speak for 30 years after she went to do a show, but that's not here nor there. She was a primatologist and anthropologist. Really? Of course, she lives with chimps, right? well i don't think she like i don't think they live with her i'm sure they she was obviously spent a lot eating ants out of their hair and stuff i don't know she's doing all that oh tonight show zoo why shaking your head of me because i'm just so disappointed in you

the comments that have come out of your mouth today have been absolutely very very oh my god she wrote like 20 books yeah she was like 94 years old something 91 may she rest that's a life well lived with chimps uh joan and Brie was I was thinking of him. Oh, okay. See, I'm close. And I think she's also dead too. We're losing a lot of people, aren't we? Yes. Stop.

Sports, Matt. Sports. Okay. Channel Rome, front of the show. You know, he has his little podcast. Yes, he does. It's a bit steel podcast because it's called Crush City Pod. And that's called Crush City Territory. Whatever. Which is... Okay. And he's on this show with

the A team during the baseball season. It's excellent. Yes. He's breaking new... He's breaks news like a mudda. Yep, breaks news like a mother. Ask good questions. He's not like what you would normally hear at a Texan's press conference with one stupid question after another being asked, but that's not in here nor there. Wow.

He put a little snippet on their Twitter account about the future of Dana Brown. And I don't want to paraphrase. I don't necessarily want to play it either because it was just conjecture. But he felt very uneasy about that press conference on Monday and about how we've talked about this for a couple of days now. about neither one of them necessarily giving themselves, well, Dana in particular, giving himself a ringing endorsement of not only his manager but himself. The way that everything was worded?

Yeah, that it was just, it wasn't a fluid. The future of the administration is sitting at this table. The future of this team is, we're going to go in the room, shut the door, we're going to knock this out, we're going to figure out what's going on for next year and move forward. I am the general manager. Joe is my manager. We're running it back for 2026. And as soon as we get down with this press conference,

we're going to go in there, we're going to go have lunch, and we're going to talk about the wrong. Yeah. None of that happens. And again, press conferences don't tell a whole story. Sometimes you're not prepared for a certain question to be asked of you,

which I would think that would not be the case. Yeah. I would echo those sentiments. And we were talking about this week. He was more with Dana. He was more with Daniel than Joe. Joe. Okay.

That makes sense. I mean, that makes sense, too, just the way that everything came out. And the reason why it was brought up on their little pod, and it makes some sense. Hey, you don't call it their little pod. I mean, okay, they're massively huge pod. On their pod, you don't have to give any sort of descriptor. On their pod. There you go.

And it's funny because there's actually a legitimate pod by people that are in the media, and like others, but that's a different issue. On their pod, the question was, has done? Dana done what he was supposed to do when he got the job. Very clearly, when Dana got the job, it was to be, I think his number one focus was to rebuild the minor league organization because he got his, he learned the craft by working with Toronto and working with Atlanta, building drafts, being in war rooms, being a town evaluator.

And, you know, again, the Astros have sent, still, even during Dana's tenure as a general manager, a lot of players away in trades. Yes. They've had to. You've had to.

And do you give him the benefit of the doubt of the system not being where he's supposed to be because of that? Or do you say, well, the two guys that are most highly regarded in this organization. Help me out with this.

It's going to be Bryce Matthews and Jacob Mountain, correct? Yes. Bryce Matthews was his first draft pick and he's your number one prospect. And Jacob Mountain's number, the number two prospect, correct? Yes.

I don't think he drafted Jacob Mountain. Was that the year before? I had to go look. But, well, even if he didn't necessarily draft him, you are in charge of the minor league organization.

You're in charge of the instruction. You're in charge of placing guys where they need to be is and again those two guys would not would not necessarily decide whether or not a system is working it feels like to me they've they've had to go to the minor league system more than anybody would should ever have to go to and i would say the results have been pretty good for the most part i mean he wouldn't got jason alexander off the scrap heap okay melton was 22 the rest of your top four this is your top four bryce matthews dana brown draft pick jacobobes

Elton the year before. Xavier Nines is your number three. This is a Gordy, MLB pipeline, is your number three guy just drafted by Dana Brown. And then Walker Yanuk was your first round pick last year. Yeah. So, I mean, your top four guys are all guys that Dana has drafted. So Jake Hamilton was a draft pick of Dana.

No, no, no, he wasn't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, yeah, I misspoke. Okay. Three of the top four. Three of the top four are guys that he just drafted. But also, Bryce is a fringe, what was he, 98th? Top 100 guy.

Yeah. None of them are the best prospects in baseball, but I mean, it's something. And as you said, you've had to trade away a lot of guys. And, oh, by the way, you weren't drafting one, two, three, four, five because of the team's success. You were drafting in the lower third or the bottom five of the Major League Baseball draft order. The Kyle Tucker trade was very good. Finding relievers who fit and who have been effective off, basically off the scrap heap has been very good for Dana Brown.

And frankly, if Cam Smith spent this season at AAA, he'd be a top hunter prospect easily. He was. Top 25, right? I would think he was like, no, not that hot. Okay. But the point being is that he would be right. Comfortably in that top hundred list. Yeah.

So you had to move low profito. Yeah. Pre this year he was, baseball prospectus had a number 20. Major League MLB had him at 59, baseball America at 55. Okay, so there's three different. That's still good. It's top 60. I'd take it.

Among all the thousands of players that are myel-link systems around this country. Yeah, top 60 is very very good. acquired a top hunter guy, you drafted a top hunter guy, and then two of your other top three prospects are guys you've recently drafted. And how was Westesky considered? What was he considered? I mean, he wasn't a prospect, really, because he had pitched before. But he was, that was a good acquisition. Oh, I think, yeah. I mean, Westesky did pitch for the Cubs last year. So it wasn't like it was a guy that never seen a major league ball before. And Issaq Paritas was one of your best hit. Basically, when he went down, he was your best hitter along the opinion. Can I just say this? And again, Jim Crane has never asked my opinion about anything.

Well, it's actually not true, but that's a different issue. I would bring both guys back and not necessarily say this is a one-off, but when you've had such sustained success for so long, I want to see how Joe Espital handles this. I want to see how Dana Brown, what maneuvering that I will let them do. in terms of trades, money for agency. I want to see how he's, what things they're bringing to me to say,

hey, what do you think about this? I mean, flat out, I don't think they deserve to be fired. No. Now, I wouldn't be handing out extensions because, again, I want to see what, I want to see what they're doing, but don't you think that it would be

not the right, the more the responsible thing to do to just give them a year to go, all right, things didn't work our way. You could chalk a lot to injuries. You can chalk it up to moving Kyle Tucker and losing Alex Bregman. How do we adapt to this? Things are down at the office, as I'm talking about in real life, down sales year. Let's see what you can do. I think when you have such excellent success and the reputation is our good,

and Joe's been here for a long time, bench coach for AJ for a long period of time, was a bench coach for Dusty Baker. He has, you know, playoff appearance last season. I kind of want to see how these guys adapt to the, when things aren't as easy as they've been in said past. That's why I'd keep them. I'd keep them both. I think they both actually did a good job.

I think they're doing a good job. Now, the Haysu-San- We were a week away from calling Joe Manager the Year. Yeah. And then they got sweat by the Mariners. Yeah. The Hes-Sanchez deal has not worked out just yet. May it never, may you never work out.

It's painful for me. It may, it's very painful for me to watch him play. He might be on. You moved, you got Jose Arias for nothing, really. Yes. It'll be interesting, as we talked about, either one of he or Dubon, it feels like they won't both be back. Correct. And maybe you're looking for it.

Maybe Urius is a little more offensive punch down the road. I don't know. Also, you don't need the versatility of Dubon as much if you have Ureas and covering the infield as a backup. And then you have, I mean, you have a glut of outfielders right now. Right. Yeah. Especially with Zach Cole in the fold and Jake Myers and if Sanchez comes back, Cam Smith. Now, it's not a glut of great outfielders, but Chas McCormick is still in the system. We'll see what happens there. I mean, you've, you've got guys. Yeah. So all I would say is to circle back to the pod part of it was is that I think everybody has got their own opinions about what the interpretation was of how that press conference turned out.

But nobody felt like it was strong votes of confidence for either. No, I know. Nobody is going, okay, the organization is a firm handle about what they want to do with their administration. And maybe, and maybe Jim's, maybe, Jim definitely knows what he likes and doesn't like about the two men. And if he was exasperated on how things ended this past year or exasperated the fact that Jesus trade did not work out and is exasperated that you weren't able to get Dylan cease away from San Diego, even on a rental. Eric Getty and three prospects? Which that was probably leaked out by the Astros, by the way. Oh, yeah. Yeah. When someone says, why don't you get him? Do you see what San Diego asked?

Now, if Dylan Cs had two years left to control. Did you hear that report that I didn't like? Yeah. Now, if Dylan Cs had a year of if he was guaranteed, then maybe you make that deal. 1114, it's a Matt Thomas show of Ross. If you want to chime in anything we've discussed so far today, we've included in the following. The Texans Baltimore Ravens Injury Report is lengthy. We have the Astros and a little bit of uncertainty still at this point,

and maybe there'll be uncertainty until they come out with a release that says, here's who's coming back and who's not coming back. We have Texas Tech Houston smack talking each other, unbelievably large amounts of smack, frankly. Rarefied air for both these teams. Texas Tech had never been undefeated this late in the season. U of H, we had four wins last year. So we had four now. Woo!

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And of course we know Major League Baseball and the networks like that. ESPN getting their money's worth with all these games. Two o'clock on ABC, it'll be the Tigers versus the Guardians, Padres and Cubs going to a decisive game three. And then of course, the main event for ESPN, 7 o'clock, Red Sox versus the Yankees. Wow. Today's edition of Major League Baseball, nobody watches anymore, is not going to work well. Ratings are astronomical for this World Card Series.

Come on, I thought baseball is dying. Attendance is fantastic. Well, not in Cleveland. Well, you know what's funny? Because I had a buddy of mine text me that said that, what was I going to tell you? Oh, that they sold the game out yesterday. They did? You didn't look like it.

I watched the same thing you watched. No, this says Yesterday? Yeah. This says 26,669. For game 2. Am I getting bad information from people? Yesterday was October 1st, yes?

Yeah, 26669. Okay, we're on the same page. I'm going to text the guy right now. Tell him to shut his bum ass up. Seriously, you cannot be sending me stuff and saying the game is sold out when it wasn't sold out. I'm sorry, Matt. Unreliable source. Put that in their contact info.

Yeah, I want to put it in there. Whatever his name is, like Doug. Doug Unreliable. Put that in there. Can't have it. Speaking of a team that's going to lose tonight, Keith is with us on 790-11-22. Keith, good morning.

I got bad news for you. How bad is it? Not only are the Astro is not in the playoffs this year. They may not be back in the playoffs probably like five more years. They got injury-prone players like Alvarez, they got Al Tuve, who he's like, he's like done. Dick or fork and he's about done.

Maybe one more year. And next year, all we're going to do is get better. We're going to get cold back. We're just going to be complete Yankee domination, probably for the next five years, while you're all sitting and watch us for five years at home. You know what I mean? No, I don't know what you mean. I mean, what a grandiose statement of complete inaccuracies.

Your squad was gifted in the American League Championship last year, where Aaron Judge went one for 75 during the World Series. You are one loss away from your season being ending. You are coming across extraordinarily cocky right now, which is kind of what you've been doing for years, my friend. Love you, though. What about this? I think the same fella that you're talking about,

he's bad at least 500 right now. and I'm looking at him having two home runs tonight and probably being the American League Player of the Year, well, playoff player of the year, whatever they call that, when we win a World Series this year and next year. Thank you. And I hope you have a fantastic day. I'm going to, especially when you don't call tomorrow when your squad loses. It feels even kind of dirty saying it, but let's go Red Sox.

Yeah, I'll, let me tell you. I can say, let's go Bregman. I'll say let's go Bregman. Yes. Let's go Kyle Tucker, one for seven so far in the playoffs. Not that that's America League, but if he was 0 for seven, you'd be better off. I guess he can help himself more than he can hurt himself at this point, I think. Yeah.

Sorry, Matt. What's the one? Is this a single? Yeah. Like an infield, single, slap, single? Several strike counts. No advancement runners. Hmm.

That's a big deal. Okay. we shall see hibachi I'm going to lose almost that I'm anything could happen it will be

the sweetest win if I get it if you get a short term he signs like a three year whatever with opt-outs 100 million dollar with opt-outs

then you will win that's the only way right basically anything else you're toast that's fine I've actually I told my wife I've actually budgeted our dinner.

You have? You're like, go ahead and put it in the... I have a gambling stash and I'm going to have to go to the gambling stash. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, she's really good about it, but we're going to Hobocchi and we're taking John then with us. It's going to be expensive between three hours. I know. Especially as you're going to earn.

He can eat. You can be to order in the filet mignon. Like, I'll think to Sirloin, no, we've got filet mignon coming. Yeah. No, yeah, we'll see what happens. I'll have a ribbi. Ribbi is mid. That's fine.

accept that. Ribby's great. Oh, ribby is tasty. I'm just saying that you can go three different ways on your meat. Yeah, I think I'm going to get the tomahawk. Oh my. You cannot tomahawk apache grill. I'm going to try. Can I bring my own? You cannot Chateaubriyong the abacchi grill. I'm going to try. By the way, Scott, our listeners, is tech was 10 and 0 ranked second in 2008. I don't think I said the best four and oh start in history. I say it's one of the best starts in history. Hey, you kind of, it rolled off your tongue. I wasn't. You kind of said it that way. Oh, that's fine. It's a little misused. Yeah, it's fine. It's not a big deal. well apparently it was to Scott

so people like to correct when we say things wrong it's the nature of this sorry I made a mistake everybody sorry I didn't make Google in front of me sorry sorry it's all good you're going to get the beat down let's go Cooges I don't care of half the billy's Red Raider fans

let's go Cooges I guess I'll have to get the report from you because I'm not going to be there yeah you're not invited Well, I could have gotten, yeah, I could have gone. No. The Longhorn games at 2.30, and like, if it goes into overtime and I have tickets, I'm not going to want to. And if Florida's winning 24 to 17, you would really be a bad spot.

Well, then I could go into the stadium easy. But I'm just worried if it's like a, I think it's going to be a low-scoring, close late game, so I don't want to take up tickets if I'm not going to be there on time. That'd be rude. I want to say. Is it a sellout yet? Of course. Got to be right. Yeah.

Okay. I want to say, as I was listening to Joey McGuire, I think there's five times the Texas has gone five and oh in their career. Okay. Don't hold me to that. I won't. Because I don't need to be getting an email corrected. Yeah, but how many times are those, a lot of those wins against like, well, actually,

it happened this year, right? Was it Arkansas Pine Bluff? And who's the other one? Well, the Utah win is a huge for them. Yes, of course. But, I mean, yeah, New Mexico. I mean, Texas, non-conference in the past has featured the likes of New Mexico State, New Mexico.

Mike Leach was the OG of the soft non-conference. Oh, cramity. The soft non-conference was invented by Mike Leach. Yeah. It was embarrassing every year. And Kirk Signetti did the Saints doing in Indiana, and he's like, y'all can suck it because guess what? We're two and all in the Big Ten.

Yeah. I mean, it kind of makes sense. I'm, Rossi, I, you know what? I get it. We're hypocrites because we want that sexy week one matchup. But guess what? When Texas lost Ohio State, Longhorn fans lost their damn mind. I didn't lose my mind.

I'm not talking about you. Okay. Collectively. All right. What don't you get? You'll find out next. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-21.

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Oh, yeah. I said, look, there's going to be a lot of Texas Tech fans. He goes, yeah, there's going to be like 70% Texas Tech fans. That's too high. I would hope for your fan base that it's not that high. I was thinking, am I wrong to think 60, 40 kooks? No. It's going to be hard to tell because everybody's going to be wearing red.

No, it's our blue game. Oh, yeah, but I mean, still, people are not everybody's going to. Not all the fans are going to wear blue. But I'll be wearing my blue. Okay. You're H-Town blue. H-Town blue, baby. All right.

You're going to get a cease and desist from 80. Amy Adams drunk. No. Eddie Nunez says that's all free and clear. Bridge on the water. They cut the check. 713, 212, 570. What don't you get?

Call us next. All right, what don't you get, my friends? 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. This is a segment where the three of us of three different age groups come together as one. We say, hey, we've got things in our life, whether it be sports-related. Whether it be life-related, we try to help each other out. And we as three men of worldly travel and experiences can try to help you out as well with any of your things you just don't get.

713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Now, Jonathan is moving quickly to the microphone. So I'm going to assume you got something like the law. If you don't, that's okay, we'll pass. I have something. I just thought you were getting anxious over there. I'm thinking, I'm like, all right, what do I want to say?

What you got? I just don't get, because I had a lot of. I have a lot of home girls before. And one of the main things is they want their partner, right, to tell them if they're getting flirted on, right? Or, like, say, like, Ross, you're getting flirted on, right? And they're like, oh, yeah, this girl said I had looked nice today. But if you don't tell them, what I don't get is if you don't tell them and they find out or, you know, what the case may be, like, they'll be, like, they'll be some type. They'll be hurt.

And you ask them, like, oh, I wouldn't tell you, like, you know, whatever. And they're like, no, you need to tell me. I need to know, I need to know if, you know, whatever the case. case might be, but I just don't understand why they get upset if a person thinks you look good. Does that make sense? Like, I don't like. It's jealousy. Don't ever tell them anything in any of that.

But you give it, I just don't get that. I just, you know, like if they want, you know what I mean? Like, why get mad at me if you want to know that? If you're trying, if you're trying to do that. I totally get. They're searching for intelligence. Don't give them anything. Don't go.

No. No. I got one for you. Don't go home and see like, oh, this bar, I think the bartender likes me. She gave me a drink. She's going to stab that bartender. All right. You're just, you're just, it's messing with her mind. So how about this one? If you ran into an old high school friend at a bar. Yeah. And it's a girl. You never ran into her. You don't even bring up the story. No. Sorry. Now if it's your buddy Scott, that's okay. But if her name is Belinda,

no chance. So it's always going to go that hell no matter what. Correct. Don't say I think this girl likes me or that girl, even if it's like a joke, even it's like the old, uh, 80 year old lady at work. Don't even joke that she likes you. Don't know, right. No. No. Relationships. No laughing matter.

Unless you're just trying to gaslight her and purposely make her jealous and make her crazy. So if we, if we flip it and Matt, like, so your wife's like, hey, this dude thought I would, said I was attractive to and he, she comes and tells you. Yes. Which has happened to me before. Right. And then so what, how do you, do you just be like, oh, okay. Like, you know, like, as a compliment to me, I got to, you know, attractive wife.

But like, yes. What I say to her back is something I cannot mention on the air. Okay. But I'm going to let you know. Your girl's getting hurt hit on every day. Basically. Women just get hit on every day. It's just,

yeah. We as men do not get hit on every day. She's getting hit on and not telling you about it probably. So like this is a story. And I had, you remember I told you that one time went to a dentist and the first thing the lady at the front said, he's like, oh my God, you have a pretty smile. And I did them a first thing.

state to go say that in store. You know what I mean? You can't go back there. You can't go back there. This is what I just don't get. Obviously, I can't go, you know. No, no and no. And we're glad to help you out with these things.

Let's learn. Some women are jealous and others. Yes, some have, well, you're my man, so sorry for her. But that's a minority. Because then it'll be in her head, like, why is he telling me this? Yes. Am I in trouble? Well, what did you say back?

Why would he tell me? Did he like her? Oh, does he like that he got hit on by her? Yeah. Oh, why does he keep talking about all these girls? Well, what is he doing that he's flirting with these girls and they're talking to him? Why is he flirt with everybody? Is you going to put seeds in her mind, planting seeds, and not seeds you want to grow?

Yep. All right, mine is a little sports related, and I'm watching golf here on the golf channel. Some term I don't even care about, but it's another here nor there. Why did we as Americans act like complete jackasses during the Rider Cup? What happened? I missed the whole thing. Just a lot of swearing, booing, unprofessional language. And the announcer who announced that the golfers was kind of pushing it along as well.

Rory McAvoy was getting yelled at, all these terrible, terrible things. Well, I heard him get called an F word and he had something tossed out. Yeah. It's the Rider Cup. It's not an individual. It's a team event, which are very few team events in sports. And I understand you want to rally for the flag, but it's still golf. There is never, there's one event per year, and they're even trying to back that down a little bit, that waste management tournament in Phoenix has become a huge cheerleading event.

But they're even trying to dial that back a little bit. People are getting tossed out of that place, right? Golf is a silent sport. Yes. Until the shot has been taken. And then you can cheer and yell and do all the things you want. It's in a whole, you know, all that kind of thing. The way that we acted, we as Americans, or maybe just New Yorkers,

I don't get why we did that. We haven't done that before a lot. It's not on the regular. You don't go to the show, whatever the Houston Open's called these days and do that. You don't do it at 90% of golf tournaments. You don't do that in New York at Beth Page when they were having other tournaments. What got into us? Is it alcohol?

I just don't get why we made it. complete ass out of ourselves. It just feels like everything has gone downhill since the pandemic, including fan experiences like this. And fans not conducting themselves properly. So what you did is basically is you acted like asses and you're never going to get the tournament back there again. So if you want to go do that and you live in that area of the country, you're going to

go somewhere else in a few years to watch the next Rotter Cup because they're not going to be coming back there. I just don't get why we continue to act like complete doofuses. in sporting events, especially when golf gives you something that most sports don't give you. You get to get as close as you can get to those professional athletes. I mean, basketball would be the difference, but even so, that's only the court-sides. Yeah. I've never been.

There's going to be a spot. It's nice. I've been there plenty times. You're going to be in a situation where you're not going to be able to do this if you continue to act like this. So I felt sorry for those golfers and I felt embarrassed for that part of the country. I just don't get while we did that. You ruined a good thing. And you were losing, by the way.

I would just say alcohol. Yeah. And post-pandemic. Yeah. All right. That's what I got in my stuff. What do you got? I'll just go to Cleveland.

26-669. Playoff game. You can't get 30K in there? I don't get what's going on over there. It's not like they've been to playoffs every single year. I mean, it was one Eastern. People have to work. Yes.

But it is the Guardian. They have a pretty good-sized fan base. It's not like it's a raise or something. You're also on this miracle run. I think it'd be fun to go catch. the team. And is it the way? It's attendance in the wild card just down because everybody's like,

okay, we'll see if they win and then we'll buy the ticket. But it's not, but Cleveland shouldn't be doing that. Detroit has led the division for 99% of the season. Oh yeah, they were in the ALCS. I forgot they went on that run in the ALCS last year.

So they've been in the playoffs three of the last four years. They go out. They go quite a bit. They do go more than I thought. Yeah. They do go quite a bit. Okay, maybe I get it. But you can't get 30K in there.

I wonder if the, I would be. curious to see wild card attendances as opposed to ALDSs, NLDSs. Okay, so they play today, they're playing a little bit later this afternoon. There's only three games compared to four. It's a must-win game, by the way. That is indeed. Yes.

Yes, it is. And the Tigers. Ooh, that's a tough one to have a must-win for two teams in the same field. Oh, like the Ravens and Texans. Must win. They both must win this week. Well, I think for mental health, it's a must win for the Texans. That's every week.

It's the NFL. Anybody ever happy after a loss in the NFL? I mean, I've, yeah, I mean, no. No, I mean, it's not great. 713-212-5-790. Let's take one call here to see what you don't get. And we as three enterprising young men can try to help you out with. Okay.

Geo on 790. Geo, what don't you get? All right, guys. As you know, I think the Matt Thomas Show Willie Ross is the best on the lineup. You know, you guys do a great job. Yeah, you're correct. And all that. But what I don't get, the only thing that you guys are lacking on right now

that the Sean Salisbury show is killing you guys on is when we come back from break, that they got some amazing music selections when they come back for break. And I just don't understand why you guys don't, you know, put a little bump, you know what I'm saying, coming back from breaks. And also, one thing for Jonathan, and for a woman gives you a compliment. Listen, man, that's for you. You put that thing in your pocket and you feel good about that. You don't have to tell you a girl about that.

I hear you, man. That's a good way to put it. Put it in your pocket and leave it there. It's my opinion. Well, it's that bump music doesn't matter for shows. Well, can I peel the curtain back? Yes. It's my fault.

Because when we play bump music, we tend to talk about the bump music. Yes. My fault, too. We play an Elton John song. Then we start, oh, which? your top five on John songs. So I will say this. When you hear bump music outside of the norm that we normally play and that the cool stuff,

it's for a purpose. We use the song as a reach for what we're going to talk about or a way we're artists we were discussing. Yeah. So as much as I would love to play different stuff, it probably keeps us on track if we don't do it that way. Yeah. And it keeps, yes, it keeps us on topic.

And this is a sports talk show, not a music show. Yes. Now, do we talk about music occasionally that goes to what we're just going to say, so much as I would love to add some other stuff, it's in our best interest to keep it as much as we can sport. I used to always argue with Indy Kalu about this because he liked, he's like, you got to play this, you got to play that. I'm like, yeah, it's a talk show. Do your talk show. It's not a music show. Yeah.

And he's like, oh, it pumps me up for the segment. I'm like, okay, well, if you can't do a 10 minute good segment without a good five seconds of music. Now, I do not want you playing classical music. that would bring me down. I'll give you that. No, I like, what's wrong? You're a little Tchaikovsky? No.

You tell Tchauski the news, by the way? What? You tell Tchaikovsky the news? When he rolls over, Beethoven. Jesus Lord. All right. See, that's why we don't do it. More phone calls next.

If you don't get something, we're here for you. Isn't that what they say when they say, if you know the news or whatever? Don't look at me. I don't know. I'm just looking at her. It's my fault. Much of the reason why this show goes off the beaten track is my fault.

I don't think that's accurate. 1145 on the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 713-212-5-790. What don't you get? 7-13-212-5-7-90. Matt and Ross with you. Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show.

7-13-21-2-5-790. 7-13-21-2-5-7-9. Let me get to, let's see here. James is with us on the show. James, good afternoon. What's going on? Good morning. Yeah, I don't get why you're giving women's advice.

When you can't hold your hands, wife's walking down the street. By the way, I've received multiple videos of people dropping hands quickly. Hold on. That video that you got on Twitter, they were going into the door. They went to go open the door so they stopped holding hands. No. You can use one.

hand to open the door. That's how it happens when you go to open the door. You can not hold hands for a second to open the door. And by the way, I was recently at a park and I almost texted you. I saw a couple holding hands for a long time on the walk path. The dude had one arm. He had one arm and he was walking with his lady holding hands. The one arm man can hold his lady's hand, but you can't. I can hold the hand. It's not for a long period. time. Okay. Two minutes. I thought of you immediately. I was like, this one-arm man is holding his lady's hand and Matt Thomas has two arms and can't do it. Do you just have clammy hands? Is that what? No. You're a heavy hand sweater? No. Did it start getting moist? No. It's just, it's just the average person has an issue, just walking in in unison for that length of time. Okay. You and I will not hold hands anytime. And no. However. Okay.

But if we're walking towards somewhere, are we walking in unison exactly the same speed? I would say about so, yeah. Absolutely. It's like an indie car race, one in front and one in back. Indy car race? Are you going to sync? What's going on, Matt? You're so wrong.

I just don't get you. You shouldn't. I got issues. I'm just saying that the average, I would say the average Matt and Kim Thomas hand walk is probably about. 200 yards. Is she more of like an arm holder? No, no, you can't even do that. You don't even know arm in arm.

Unless you put an arm around, put an arm around? No, I'm saying like she hugs the arm. Or like she's got her arm around you. Yes, that's nice. You feel like a man, don't you? No, the last time you go arm and arm is when you're doing the Aggie War chant. No, not like that. Saw varsity's horns off. James, he might have been right, man.

James didn't know who anything. Why did you cut James off? I thought he had another point. He hung up on himself. He hung up. Yeah. I'm not hanging up on people. Well, it said Texas Tech smack.

Oh, please. James with Texas Tech smack. Well, I don't know. I think he's a cougar, though. Yeah, right? I don't know. Yeah, he was trying to talk mess to Tech. You know what?

Can I get some Houston smack in here on this show? Sure. I want to hear a good Texas Tech joke right now. And then, you know what? Because we're fair and balanced here? I want to hear a good Houston joke from a Texas Tech fan. let's go. I'm ready to bring it.

I got zero to make a joke. Your program's already the joke. Is that your best attempt at material? I mean, it was the best. Wolf. I just came up with it. Oof.

Let me ask you all this. Serious question. Can y'all beat that? No. 713-212-5-7-90. If you're a Red Raider, bring your Houston smack. And if you're a red...

I thought we're going to wait for Friday for this. Nah, that's fine. It's a light week. Finally, we got a busy show. We got Nestor, and he hates everything. You know, Nestor from Baltimore. Apparicio. Aparicio, whose uncle twice removed is Luis.

First cousin. His dad was first cousins with Luis Apparicio. All right. Ray is where they sound seven on a. Hello, Ray. What I just don't get is, why people will agree with me that Cromber deserves eight years 240. I'm trying to explain it to people. And I would like him.

to get that million, almost a quarter of a billion to Frumber. And this guy will show progress. He will do good. I just would like Frumber to get locked in eight years, 240. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Yeah, all of baseball, just wait till the deal comes out. All of baseball is going to disagree with you on that. All 30 teams, he is not getting eight-year deal.

Trust me on this. I don't know contracts very well, but I know that one. All 30 baseball teams have said, ain't nobody got. time for that. It's Jim Crane's cash, you know, so Jim Crane may see light up in the tunnel with this guy. There's no way. No chance. And he may, and he may do that, guys. Obviously, I don't want to do that. I'm trying to get Jim Crank. Money, give Framber a dollar to come back. But he needs to get that

eight years, $240 million. Ray, you got to stop drinking the Atlantic Ocean Water. It's just not, it's not going to be for your benefit. Is that Galveston water? No, he lives in Miami. Oh, okay. I'm thinking, you're on that side of the right. Hey, Matt, if you're going to have us to, me and my coworkers follow you, you have to respond to us, Matt. What did you, what are you? What are you?

Maybe you don't follow. Matt doesn't respond to people who don't follow. Except for the follow sports, NT. Oh, I'll get everyone to follow you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Because they like the talk, you know, they like the dolphin talk. You mentioned sometimes, and, you know.

When do I bring up the dolphins? I don't think I'd talk dolphins. Do I talk enough dolphins in this show? Your big dolphins guy. Do I cuss and disgust the fans? What three got hurt. They were number one in the Rotten 5, but now they won. So I don't know.

They might be out of the Rotten 5, so that's good. Yeah. Tennessee Titans might be the worst team in football. Oh, yeah. I know a drop I can play on the Rotten 5 for the Titans. What? Oh, yes. Do we get a cleaner feed of that, by the way?

I'm going to find one right now. All right. Is the Rotten 5 today? 50. Thanks for looking at the show. 50? Yeah. Do I send that every Sunday? Jonathan, email the listing

of what we're doing for the show? Do I pre-show tweeted and include Ross on the tweet that says at Sports RV? Ross, I can't help you on this one, man. Yeah, you cannot. Third hour, Matt Thomas Show Ross next on 790. This is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. 1203 on Sports Talk 790.

It is the Matt Thomas show with Ross. as we do every single day in this spot, Ross, we present to you, ladies and gentlemen, the news of noon. Rossie, what do we have on the full plate of news items? And by the way, I could not be more prepared. Take your time on this. Oh, my God. That boy, hungry.

You know what? Some things are better left kept in house. All right, yes, I am extremely overpriced. prepared for the news at noon. Here on Sports Talk 790, Matt, we got playoff baseball action as three series. We'll go to the decisive game number three. Tigers and Guardians 2 o'clock. Cleveland's slight favorites in that one.

Padres and Cubs effectively a toss-up. And then the Red Sox and the Yankees, 7 p.m. Yankees at a minus 165. Your thoughts on Cam Schlittler. Remember, you got to say that slowly. Taking on Connolly Early. Who? And what? Early and Schlittler.

Mm-mm. No. Schlittler early. Nope. That's the male match-up. No, no, no, no. Because there's all sorts of phrases you could attach to this that would get me in trouble. So I'm not, you know what, silent, like in Twitter sometimes, silence is golden.

I hope it's competitive. You never want to be an early Schlittler. Well, I mean, somebody would say, who gives a Schlittler? Okay. Anyways, Matt, those are the matchups. See? This is what you may do. Okay, I want you to pick three winners for the three series.

I'm going guardians. Okay. Cubs. Yep. Red Sox. Tigers. Red Sox. Cubs.

Hmm. Well, we'll see what happens. Those teams will be moving on to the ALDS and NLDS, respectively. Dodgers already punching their ticket as they beat the Reds 8 to 4. in that game. Elsewhere in the NFL, we have discussed the Texans going up against the Ravens, and there are a lot of people on that Ravens injury reports. Chief among them would be Mr. Lamar Jackson,

looking like he is not going to be able to play in the game this weekend. As he is dealing with his hamstring injury, he was a DNP. yesterday you also have a number of players on that list including Kyle Hamilton Marlon Humphrey Patrick Ricard Roquan Smith Ronnie Stanley Kyle Van Ney I mean it is a laundry list of players on the injury report

for the Baltimore Ravens for the weekend clash with the Astros with the Texans and the Ravens and it's very nice that Domingo is like we're preparing for you the quarterback you don't have to worry about Lamar. He ain't playing. I don't think you would.

Even though Ian Rappaport tried to walk it back and be like, I wanted to get some more clicks since I'm going to not give credit to somebody else. It felt like somebody from the Ravens wanted to walk back the report

from the Baltimore Sons to try to, for gamesmanship and trying to keep the Texans on their toes. I just don't think no. That is going to have.

Yep. All right. Elsewhere, more injuries in the NFL, a Jaguars. Trevon Walker has a wrist surgery, but he still could play against the Chiefs. As the Jaguars are surprising right now in the AFC South. We called it a must-win game against the Jaguars, and it looked like the Jaguars were really bad, but they're 3-1 right now, man.

How are we feeling about this AFC South? Frankly, could have been 4-0 if they would not have gave that game away at Cincinnati. Correct. You could have a 4-0 Jaguars score. I did actually watch quite a bit of that Jacksonville. game with San Francisco. I still don't think Jacksonville is very good. I am way more impressed with Indianapolis. And Indianapolis,

they literally gave that game away with the what's the game? A.A.L. What's his name? AJ A.L. What's his former Texas receiver? Adonai? Adonai Mitchell. Yeah. A.D. Mitchell. A. D. Mitchell. We call an A.D. for short. That should have been a

Indianapolis win. I've watched Indianapolis and Jacksonville, especially red zone. I'm more impressed with the Colts. Jaguars, frankly lucky. Trevor Lawrence Still bad quarterback. All right, Matt. Elsewhere in the news, Jonathan Cominga had been sitting out in a stalemate with the Golden State Warriors.

He signed a two-year deal with him and will join the team in practice on Thursday. Jonathan McCaminga back in the fall with the Golden State Warriors. As they're basically trying to, along with Jimmy Butler, Dream on Green, and Seth Curry. Who has the older roster? Probably the Clippers. Do you see who the Warriors also signed? Who do they also sign, Matt?

Seth Curry. That's Seth Curry and Steph Curry. I believe Seth Curry has better lifetime three-point percentages in Steph. But Steph more of a primary ball handler. Correct. You always have to contextualize numbers, Matt. Numbers don't mean everything. You know what? They call me the contextualizer. That they do.

All right. Now, my turn to inherit the news from Newden. Oh, okay, go ahead. U.S. News or World Report. Oh, here we go. 2025 college rankings these are public these are all schools private and public together okay coming in at number 16 among the big 12 schools west virginia 22 that sounds right they even have classrooms this is where the insults just start what's their favorite major

wood whitland uh Texas tech at Oklahoma state are tied for one or 98th oh oh I'm sorry who Tech and Oklahoma State. Tech is that bad? Yeah, I think it's been in the 200s. And I'm not kidding. So they're climbing up. Good for them. Kansas State in Cincinnati are tied for 158th.

I want to go look at the SEC schools, by the way. We'll do this eventually, but I just saw the Big 12 first. This is among public schools or among all schools? Every school. This is private and public together. Okay, well, Utah 151. Kansas 143. University of Houston coming in at 132.

Ooh. Now, these rankings, everybody, when they see their rankings, they always get mad about how they were decided on and whatever. Everybody has to argue, but this is just one metric. U.S. has a world report. Arizona 127th. Arizona State, UCF, and Iowa State are all tied for 117th.

Jesus. BYU 110th. Colorado and TCU are tied at 97. Baylor, the highest ranked school in the Big 12 academically at 88th in the country. So what begs the question, Rossing, we do like to beg questions here on the show. Do you know that TCU and Baylor are astronomically expensive? I'm talking $75,000, $90,000 a year for, I know for TCU and I don't think Baylor's that much far behind. could you imagine paying $360,000 over a four-year time to have your daughter or son go to the 97th ranked school in the country?

That seems pretty high. So why is there, why is TCU so damn expensive? Yet you're making, you're tied for Colorado estate school at 97th? It's very competitive, Matt. It's difficult. Is that what it is? Sure, why not? All right.

Rice, number 7. by the way. Rhode Island, I think, came in 31 or 34. Rice is 17th just behind Cal Berkeley. Really? Cal Berkeley always just like, to me, they're always like in the top 20, year and year out.

North Carolina, I think Texas is also very highly in the list. Probably. So we will do this. We'll come back from the break, and we're going to give you the college, the SEC rankings. Oh, okay. Well, they're trying to make me sign up for their newsletter. No, no, no, no.

We can't have time for that. Okay. All right. So is line two, the guy's name is Harold. But that's... But that'd be H-A-R-O-D, right? Harold looks like as in... Not Gerald?

But you haven't spelled H-E-R-N-L-D. Does that you mean, Harold? Harold Minor? Is that how he you spelled it? No, Harold is... I just winged it. That was not a bad effort. You're not bad.

I mean, a good special for S-E-R-R-O-R-R-R. All right, let's go to the news. Harold, you have a Texas tag joke or a Houston joke? What are you about to tell our audience? Texas, Texas Tech. Okay. How come Jesus wasn't born in Texas Tech? How come Jesus?

Because he's born in Nazareth? Go ahead. They couldn't find three wise men or a virgin. Okay. That's the early bar. It wasn't that bad. Hey, Jonathan, let's ask Cam Ward how that was. I don't have it up.

Yeah. Give us time. We've got to get a better. Okay, here's what I'm going to do. Can you as a Texas tech fan out there beat that joke? Can you as a Houston fan improve on that? No, sometimes you ask for help from the audience and this is what happens. Yeah.

A lot of times y'all come through and we appreciate you. Sometimes it's my fault, though. I wasn't going to blame anyone else. You should. 1213. It's a Matt Thomas show at Ross. 713-212-5-790. Our attempted humor has failed miserably unless you can come through.

Welcome back to the Matt Thomas show with Ross, with janitor Thomas on the scene over here. What do you do now? We had some food. Okay, we had some lunch. You know what? Maybe I should just leave you alone. No. Matt spilled food all over the floor.

I mean, we keep. There you go. Matt spilled food all over the floor in here. Yeah, I think I got, let me try this one. I mean, we're keeping a book right now. We ask. I mean, we're keeping a book right now, we ask. Yeah.

Here we go. All right. Totally my fault. But I've dropped the food and it hit the side of the waste basket and then it spilled. There's rice everywhere. I don't make it easier for my life or my coworkers. I'm going to spend the next hour. and 40 minutes cleaning it up i hope so put some water on it i'll do whatever i can i want to you know

my fault you got you got to take you got to take uh take ownership of it god okay real quick we did the big 12 academic rankings now again this is all very uh not not speculative but it's it's it's uh subjective yes but generally if you rank 200 it's not like you should be up there with harvard okay so of the 16 school that are worse academically, which one do you think is the worst? And this is probably a, this is a layup for you. Worst in the SEC? Yep, Mississippi State.

That is correct. Oh, yes. At 208. 208. Yeah, that's like SFA level. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, hey. Whoa. He should be thanking SFA for helping him with his undefeated season right out.

Arkansas 183, Ole Miss 169, L. You 169, Alabama 169. No surprise any of those three either. Can I guess who the highest is? It's Vanderbilt, right? Correct. Where are they?

17. Oh, 17. They must be tied with rice because I thought I saw rice at 17. The biggest shocker of them all. There's a tie for second. Okay. You get, would you like to guess? Not LSU. God, no.

Texas and Texas A&M. Texas is number 30. A&M is number 51. Tied for second among SEC schools in the college rankings according to the best U.S. schools. Florida. Well, I am astonished by that. Auburn and Missouri are at 102, Tennessee 102 as well.

Oklahoma at 110, South Carolina 127, Kentucky, 143. I thought Kentucky might be higher. Now, here's what I don't know, which I got to figure out. Do we, what do they decide? Is this about entrances? Is this graduates? How does, this seems like a really broad study to try to dissect 300 schools or whatever the case.

I don't know. I'm sure they have. I'm sure they've published their methodology. Yeah, it wouldn't be hard to figure out. But point being is whatever U.S. news spent their time on, that's what they've come up with. Mm-hmm. Now, sometimes they break up into public and private schools, and then sometimes they do put all those schools together, and that's what the U.S. News & World Report did on this one particular study.

So there you go. Okay. All right. So that's your update on how well your money is going, and you know who cares about these rankings? None of these schools, unless you're like in the top 40, right? I think of some, they can't too. They care to an extent.

Do you think the University of Alabama really cares the U.S. News & World Report, named them the 169th best school in the country? Their president probably does. Their president's looking at the full Bryant-Denny Stadium. I think they care. I would think they don't care as much as you may think they do. Because what they'll do is, again, what you would say is, well, what are your requirements? How do you see things?

And what do you judge as successful and not successful? Okay, ranking criteria. Graduation rates, first year retention rates, graduation rate performance, Pell graduation rates. That's people who get Pell Grants, I guess. Peer assessment is 20% of it. That's pretty high. Faculty salaries. Standardized tests.

Standardized tests. Citations per publication. They're all valid reasons. There's nothing goofy. Publication share in the top 25% of journals. So if they're publishing good papers that are getting recognized. But the reality is this, and I'll use the University of Houston as a small example. University of Houston goes to the final four last year, plays a national championship championship game.

The amount of people that were trying to get into the University of Houston had a massive uptick. Yes, it goes up. Butler had a huge uptick when they were going in the final fours and stuff like that. Put it this way. 25 years ago when Alabama football was crud. Did anybody want to go to the University of Alabama? No.

Enrollment has grown in a big way. Yeah. Yeah. So while again, Johnny Mansell did huge things for Texas A&M. He certainly did. Kevin Summling, not so much. Well, he made his cash. Jimbo Fisher, not so much.

He made his cash. Do you think Jimbo Fisher has any regrets? No, what does he do? Is he on TV now? I don't know what he's doing. I'm not seeing him. He was always an ACC guy. Is he working for the ACC Network?

I've not seen him. He seemed like he'd be good. The ACC Network. Yeah, that's one. No, I'm saying, is he working for them? How much is that paying him? Coming up next, a deep breakdown of Wake Forest versus Syracuse football. Ugh, gross.

That's why Florida State's got in Clemson and got out of that league. Bad league. Man, Miami's all right. Duke? No. North Carolina State? What are you speaking of? You're fine?

North Carolina? Bill Belichick over at UNC? How are they doing? They're barely beating North Carolina directional schools. They got wins against Charlotte and East Carolina or something. I don't even know. Huge. Yeah, huge wins.

Okay. Speaking college, real quick, before we get on to back on. to the most important news story of the day, which is we're still trying to figure that out, two and a half hours in. Baseball playoffs? Well,

Oh, North Carolina just lost a UCF 34 to 9. Ooh. Not good. Yeah, they only have two wins over Charlotte and the Richmond. Spiders. I knew you know. Yeah, just like I said,

directional North Carolina schools. So they crushed Richmond and Charlotte, and they got crushed by TCU and UCF. Clemson next up. Oh, well, that's a must win for Clemson. Oh, all right. Maybe not. Point being is this.

Oh, the NCAA tournament may be expanded by another additional 12 teams. What? They said they just, I thought they just said they weren't going to expand it. On 3 is reporting else otherwise. What? Mm-hmm. Oh, dear. They're thinking about adding some additional rounds and doing them at two different sites.

Stupid. 12 extra teams let me ask you this there are how many playing division one basketball give or take about 350 yes so if you get it to 72 is that the worst thing in the world

yes you think so I think there's 68 teams right now who have a claim to being the best team in the country and it should be in a tournament for the national championship they're going to go they're looking to go to 76 honestly it shouldn't be bored in 32 What's up? Oh, you are such a fool.

They're only doing it for money. Yeah, but everything's driven for money. I'm just telling you. I mean, it's ridiculous that the college football is expanded to 12. I don't know. Or 16, I'm sorry. It goes to like 16. I could be outraged at 76, but I can't.

I mean, we know it's coming. It's going to happen. It's all for money. It's all the prestige and the fun and all the thrill of victory. No, it's for money. It's all for money. Cash, cash, cash, cash, straight cash. They're talking about a 76 team tournament with a 12 game opening round played a two sites starting in starting in 2020, 27.

That's what I want to know. When does it end? You're going to get 100 teams in there eventually? When does it stop? Can I make it? I just don't get it? Sure. Because we talk about a lot of people are against NIL, right, and making it amateur sports or whatever. But they don't look at these people as Ross is saying, making it more schedule, more on these players, more of this to an after. for more money, but they're not receiving anything. A lot of these people

But now they are. Yeah, they are, but their people are still upset with it, and I just don't get that. What are they getting? They're getting $20.5 million. Those schools can give as much as $20.5 million. And primarily, most of that's going to the football squad. Every school gets that? Every school that agreed to this

back pay, get out of the lawsuit kind of thing. Get out of the law? See, that's why they're doing it. That's the only reason they're doing it. Because they're getting sued out of the ass. Now, I think there's only but a handful of schools that do not adhere to that. Just because you can give $20.5 million doesn't mean you have to give $20.5. I've got another thing to you for you. So if you're like Louisiana Monroe, maybe you're only allocating $14 million.

But every school that can possibly pay $20.5, which would be all of your power for is for sure, can give $20.5 million. And you can disperse it the way that you want to. You can give it to... And this is still amateur athletics or what's happening? No, it's not amateur. where they're getting, they're getting checks. That's what I'm saying. Like, no, what's so weird?

Don't even use amateur. Don't even use amateur. And then that, so that money is separate from NIL. That is completely separate from an NIL mind. Let's say a team plays in a conference championship game in three or four playoff games. Shouldn't they get playoff shares? In professional sports, you get playoff shares. That's my next point, yeah.

You're getting all these extra money to play these extra games. These football players are putting their bodies on the line for extra weeks and practice. and all that type of stuff. Are they getting extra playoff money? Coaches get bonuses. Coach gets a bonus when he makes the playoffs. Coach gets a bonus when he makes the final four. Right.

What about players? Can I just give you this answer? It's probably coming in due time. Okay. I don't think they're saying we're never going to do it. Because hell, they weren't, we're not even saying we're never going to pay these athletes again. They're paying them now. So I think this is the, by the way, that 20.5 moves up every single year.

So there's, there's, it's not going to be stuck at 20. $20.5 million. I think it goes up a couple million dollars every year for the foreseeable future. Look, if you're a college athlete, you're playing a high-end university, you're going to get paid. Especially if you're a football player. If you're a football player, you're definitely getting paid. Basketball, you're going to do okay. If you're a golfer, you're a tennis player, baseball, probably not.

And women's sports are probably getting nothing at all. But again, it's a direct result of what brings the money in. And college lacrosse does not bring the money in that a college football game will bring in. Yeah, that's fair. So it's what we're doing now in today's world. Those that bring the money in, we'll get the money. Michael Berry brings a lot of money in. We write blank checks, and you and I hang out for four hours a day, trying to entertain a few people.

And, you know, we're driving Uber's. You went a little Mac Brown there again. Yeah, I got to stop doing it. And we're taking our checks and we're going to do everything we can tend to do. You're on Sports Talk 790. better than our Irish accent at 10 o'clock this morning. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790.

If you want to follow us on Twitter, we'd greatly appreciate that. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Sports Talk 790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Welcome back to Matt Thomas Show with Ross. Hi, I'm Ross. Continuing with you until 2 o'clock here on Sports Talk 790. I'm actually quite impressed. I got a lot of the rice off the floor already.

I'm going to get you some knee pads. You've been down there scrubbing up a storm. I'm proud of you. Cleaning up after yourself. I'm not done. I got a whole hour left. Okay, good. I may skip the Willie Fritz segment.

I mean, I'm going to do the Willie Fritz segment. I'm going to keep cleaning up. I'm going to keep cleaning up. Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, keep on plugging, Maddie. If I make mistakes, I've got to correct them. That's, well, this is a new you. I'm proud of you.

Thank you. This is great. I just want to let you all know that, you know, when you spill something, I could just say, oh, I'll have the cleaning crew created it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it myself. It's my mistake. Thank you very much.

All right. Your mother would be proud. Yeah. So you, we've got to do a, we got the rotten five coming up in 15 minutes. Yes. We got a deep dive in the Texans game at 1 o'clock. You want to do that? Yes.

Okay. Because people, we were looking for Texans talk. We got to get it to them. That's true. Breaking it down like a mutter. We're going to go 12 solemn minutes at 1-1-12. Serious. I mean, film study, whatever we got to do.

You're going to be breaking down the film? No, ma'am. You call you all 22 Thomas. You should. Let's go to Mark on 790. Mark, good afternoon to you. Mark! Mark!

You've only called five times. What's going on with your phone? We just figured this out, Mark. Mark! That was a good talk. Appreciate you, Mark. You spent 10 minutes talking to Jonathan on his phone line. Well, the question.

He wanted to know what the highest rating for athletes were compared to the lowest. Oh, really? What rating? What rating? A graduation rate? Yeah, graduation rating like out of the athletes. Okay, Mark, there's something called Google. Knock it out.

Let's go. Now, we can do an Aspen T, but that would be something that would be outside of my normal framework of knowledge. You might not be able to find that either. Bitley University, Division 2 in CAA. 99% graduation rate. Lowest? Oh, looks like SFA in Washington, Kentucky, right there, one, two. It might be UVA with a gun violence.

I don't know. Oh! Oh! I heard some pops in a day. They got bulletproof glass on everything around there? Where? U.H. Yeah, near the campus.

You're lucky because my cousin goes to the U of age, so I can't talk too much. See? She's a guy or girl? Yeah, she, yeah. Okay. Yeah, you can't. Don't, don't. You work with somebody.

You live in the city of a thriving institution. Don't take needless shots at the school. I missed the old incident replay when I had the gunshot button back of the day. People used to get really. mad at me on that one. Oh, we still hate you. That's why. I mean, if we're keeping a buck right now, we ask. Thanks, Cam. See? We'll be hearing from Cam Ward in the next segment. Oh, they all right in time. Okay. Huh. Division one graduation rates at 91% says NCAA.

Call it a BS on that. Wait a minute, 91% of the athletes that go to school graduate, there's no chance, no way, know how that's accurate. I would agree with Matt. There's no way. I would say 9.1% would be a closer number. I wouldn't think about it. How many NBA players even graduate? Well, this counts every school. Oh, well, you know what they're doing. They're throwing tennis in the mix. Only about 30 players are drafted. I guess, yeah.

No, if you're not graduating. No, there's, even if you are, if you're throwing cross-country tennis, baseball, well, I mean, baseball. I mean, yeah, no, there's no way 91%. That seems way, way too high. Everybody's staying in longer. You get more eligibility. They do give you a longer grace period, though.

I will say that. They don't they give you like six or seven years to get your degree? Basically. And there's a, you know, the people that help, like, advisors and stuff. You mean the people that write the papers? Yes, yes. We had issues like that back in the day, too. So did a lot of schools.

U of H got dinged for that. It's AA infractions. Oh, by the way, when I was in Minnesota, they've always made fun of Minnesota because they had a tutor that wrote all the papers for the Minnesota team that went to the final four. All the Minnesota fans are like, I don't care. We got in the final four. Oh, we got in the final four.

We got our final four scrubbed away, our record. You can scrub all you want to. If you were there and you were a part of it, you enjoyed the experience. The Golden Gophers. That's one of the great mascot names, I think, in FBS. One of the rare schools that are in a major metropolitan city that the college teams actually care. Yeah. That's because they're inside.

They got to watch something. Too cold outside. Well, they're a stadium. Their football team's outdoors. Why do they do that? Yeah, money. You ever notice this that the stadiums that have domes usually cost more? There's not a college in a dome.

I mean, they play, I guess they can play in dome stadiums, but not that they're just their own stadium. I can think of one. Oh, Syracuse? Syracuse. Carrier dome? Yeah. Well, it's called something else. Something else now.

It's funny. It was called the Rarier Dome, and Rarier was the air conditioning company. Yeah, I'm more of a dyking guy. And it does an air conditioning in the building. Or heat? Well, that I've never been. Gotta have heat. I would think so.

Syracuse, New York. Although if you've got 35,000 warm-blooded Syracuse fans there, what's the reverse way, right? Diken doesn't have heat. That's exactly right. We've been to some Astro lunches. We're like having to bring a heavy coat in there. Yeah, that's a fan fest every year.

Yeah, when I'm interviewed in Justin Verlander. You know, we seem to drop that in. I had a chance to interview Justin Verland. Twice? Never been on this show. Appreciate him. Well, some other guys, too. Stray Hayden Wisenesky.

Go ahead. Cory Joel. If there's a middle reliever, we've had them. Yes. It's all good. We've had some good ones over the years. So, okay. The graduation rate's looking good.

Congratulations to the NCAA. What do you think the college basketball graduation rate is? I would say it's higher than you think. That's what I'm saying. There's 350 schools. How many there's 30 getting drafted every year? If you're talking about underclassmen getting drafted, And these days you can enter and come back, right?

Absolutely. You don't hire an agent. Right, right. I don't know. It's so hard to say. Because I'm my guessing is that Wisconsin Green Bay kids are graduating from college. Kevin Durant hurting the graduation rates. Yeah, Kevin Durant.

But he does he, he does contribute to the University of Texas. And you have guys who don't even go to school anymore. Right. The G League, well, G League nights done now. Done, right, yeah. But you had the, was the overtime elite? That's what I'm in Thompson went to. Yeah, you can also play overseas for a year if you wanted to.

Some guys are opting for that. Well, international players. Now I don't yell money, though. I think guys are going back to college. Isn't it crazy in just the time that we've been on doing the show, how the college landscape has completed? It didn't subtly come into play. It went full throttle.

And I still keep waiting for you to tell me, because you've told me this, and I do believe you, that things are going to even out. There has been voter fatigue. It's on a school-by-school basis. Every school isn't ponying up the same money that they have. A&M ponied up all that money

for all those five stars and the money went down and then it came back up. I think there will be some donor fatigue. Cody Campbell, not having any donor fatigue of Texas Tech. If they keep losing, you're going to think he's going to keep spending

the exact same amount of money year after year on the program? I would say no. But it's funny because there are some schools that you would think would be cash flush that are basically asking for more money. Well, you need billionaires.

Yeah, Alabama needs a billionaire. I'm sure they have some billionaires. One that kind of threw me off was Arkansas it needs a billionaire and the Walmart group is in that same town. We're like, we don't care that much about the Razorbacks. The last time Razorbacks has been even relevant. In football?

In football is like the 90s? Yeah, like basketball, they were really good. 40 minutes of hell with what was the name? Nolan Richardson. They won a championship and I think, they went one or two. They won at least a basketball championship. I went to a couple other final fours in it.

I would say Arkansas has been a regular NCAA team, right? Basketball was good last year. Yeah. But man, the schools that you would think just because they're in the power conferences doesn't necessarily mean they're getting power donations. Yeah, and again, that doesn't guarantee you anything. Nope.

Aggie's been pouring millions and millions and millions every year. And they're going to the Music City Bowl. Well, we'll see what happens this year. You of age versus A&M and the Texas Bowl. Sure, why not? Energy Stadium. I would say the Aggies have high. aspirations than that, but

a lot of time they fall short of their aspirations. After we beat Texas Tech on Saturday, Texas A&M, 4 and 0, number six in the country. Well, then maybe their money is finally coming into play now. Yeah, we'll see. I don't think we're going to see top 10 schools anymore, Rossi, that do not have serious cash influx put into play. No, unless it's like a state goes from 2 to 10

to being a top 10 team now. That didn't happen because all of the sudden the coaches got smarter, the players grew and matured. They went to the, they went to the portal and said, we're going to cash whip some squats. Yeah, unless you have, like, you know, Boise State with a great running back, like Ashton Jentee. And they're beating up on, you know, Mountain West or whatever. Right. All right.

It takes absolutely no ability whatsoever to tell you who the five best teams are in the NFL, but it gives you some time to reflect on who are the five worst. And the man that gives us that is a man who's considered one of the five worst and a lot of things, but not the rotten five. It's all coming up next here. We got Woodley Fritz coming up at 130. And what is today's edition, believe or not, Ross? Jane Goodall.

I know. Jane Goodall. May she rest? Yes. The chimp lady. Yes. That's what she would be. It just feels worth even just saying it.

That's what her autobiography was called. The Chimp Lady? Okay, maybe it wasn't. I don't think so. By the way, Dan and Matthews of Texas, why isn't Jerry Jones pointing up at Arkansas? Does he not give cash? Yeah, he should. He's got plenty of spend. He's in his eight. He's got to get rid of that money somehow, some way.

713-212-5-7-90 with a word right now for the amazing folks at Uptown Appliance Repair. They've gone bad. They draw flies. Ooh, it's Ross's rotten five. This don't smell quite right. All right, Rossie. Yes, Matthew. Relax, sit back and let you do your magic. Present the five worst teams in the National Football League. Thank you, Matt.

Yes, we'll go ahead and get the list started off with a team that was number one on this list all year long. They finally got a win. Now, it was barely a win against the New York Jets, but it still counts on the ledger. Unfortunately, Tyreek Hill with that bad, gruesome knee injury going to be out for the season. At least Darren Waller is back, and maybe things could be looking up for the Miami Dolphins. So they were on the board with a win. Let's go ahead and give them the number five spot on the ride in five. You're Miami Dolphins.

Ah. I think I'm having issues with... And Jonathan left. No, it's not... Yeah, it's not his fault. It's this my computer. Oh, okay. That's going to shock you here.

Let me see if this one... Miami Dolphoo. All right, that's too loud. Oh. Did Jonathan like Yeah, he walked out. He got for smokebreak or something? He probably shouldn't have done that in the middle of this segment.

All right. That's okay. Hopefully he's back very soon. He just... See you. All right, let's keep moving on the list. How about for the first time all year long, but they've been bad.

They've earned it. They've lost three in a row. Oh, he's back. The... Yeah, it's all right. We're having computer issues, but I think we're okay now, Jonathan. Your computer was good.

Well, yeah, it was on, but it was too loud. Anyways, it's okay. Three in a row, loss for the Las Vegas Raiders. I mean, Ash and Gentie with the breakout game, three total touchdowns, 138 yards rushing. But Gino Smith, he has just been horrible. Six touchdowns, seven I&Ts on the season for him. You also have the Raiders going on the road against the Colts who have been pretty good.

They do get the Titans at home after that. But then they go on the road against the Chiefs. and then they're home for the Jaguars. Could be a lot of losses getting ranked up for the Las Vegas Raiders, who are the fourth worst team in the NFL. They're radis. Even though Ashton Jente had a great game.

Yes, he did. I brought it up. And rightfully so. All right, New York football jets, man, they are horrible. They just lost to the Miami Dolphins. Justin Fields came back, and he actually had some fun scrambles and played pretty well, as they didn't have to go to Tarad Taylor,

but they are still, winless. Poor Aaron Glenn Nimitz legend. They have a minus 30 point differential. Things have not been going well for them. Also some bad luck with two fumbles deep in Miami territory in that game. Now they're home for three straight, but

it is the Cowboys, Broncos, and Panthers. What is going on with the Jets? They're piling up the losses. They are the third worst team in the NFL. They can't stop a nose, bleak. All right, moving along, they've been on this list all year long and they'll

might continue to be on this list for quite some time. I'm talking about the New Orleans Football Saints. Now, it was a better effort against the bills. They actually got close to actually getting a win. And we know that the bills are one of the best teams in football. But the Saints are still one of three winless teams in football. Spencer Rattler, how about this? As a starter, O and 10 in his NFL career.

They still lost by 12 to the bills. They do have the Giants coming up, taking on Jackson, Darts. at home and the Patriots after that. So they're going to be dogs in both of those games, but they are winnable. But right now, who saints are terrible. They're the second worst team in the NFL.

Believe it, yeah, God's like the head up, the crawfish there. Thank you, Gordy. All right. I always want them to stay in the entire season. We can hear that once a week. I am totally with you. I mean, even if I'm 50-50 on them

and they're like going to be fifth or sixth, I'm putting them fifth just so we can play that from Chris Gordy. All right, we have to put this team down here because their own, quarterback knows they're not very good. Tennessee Titans getting shut out on the road by the Houston Texans. They have lost four games in a row. They are a winless team now. They do go on the road against the Cardinals and the Raiders. Both those games possibly winless, but I mean how hapless did that offense look for them. They did go up against a very good Texans defensive unit,

but Tony Pollard couldn't get anything going. Cam Ward, 10 of 26, no touchdowns and a pick. That is not winning football for the Tennessee Titans. So all of you are Titans fans in Houston, you can suck it. Cam Ward. How are we feeling about them Titans? I mean, if we're keeping a buck right now, we ask. Yes, you are. You're the worst team in the NFL, the Tennessee Titans.

Couldn't that's that, right? Yeah, that's something. I just want to play that one more time. I mean, if we're keeping it a buck right now, we ask. What do you see? If we keep in it what? A buck. A buck.

So he won. Are you keeping it a buck, medic? Well, let me ask you this. It's, the first. is a lot of keeping a hundred. Oh, look at this guy.

And then we said, the entomologist. We said we needed to get rid of that to try something else. Slang evolves a mat. It does. You know what, Jonathan, you are pretty good on the slang on our show. Yeah.

Why don't we at least once or twice a week come up with the slang a word of the week? Slang word of the week. Yeah. And you get, and so you can kind of inject what you're hearing throughout your society, your life,

and we can bring it on the show. like this week's slang world of the week was keeping it a buck now how would you use that in the phrase in a sentence yeah use that in the sentence for him for us matt but keeping it in the buck the cougars are going to beat texas tech by 12 and a half there you go yeah yeah yeah i don't think you're keeping it a buck on that though as long as i don't have to wager it if you're keeping it a lie

oh you keep it something you don't believe oh that feels personal maybe accurate but that's not personal all right thank you very much for the rotten 5. Seriously, did you think Tennessee ever had a chance in that game? Nope.

I mean, you missed, they missed two field goals. I mean, they were not easy ones, but they were certainly very makeable today's NFL world. I kind of was thinking like the Texans can't blow this.

Especially in the first half. I mean, they were getting drives sustained and then they had to settle for field goals. Right. And then the Titans could have made a couple of field goals.

That could have been a completely different game. And the third quarter was ugly as well. The Texans didn't pull away to the four. Yeah, it was one of the worst games that the Texans have won in a long period of time. But you know what? The good teams beat the bad ones, even the ugly games. 26 to zero.

Can't argue with the result. And you enjoyed Beth Mowans on play by play? Oh, actually, you did not. I was at the game. It may have been a blessing. Yeah. I enjoyed Modello. Modello was doing the color carpet?

Yeah, at my seat, yeah. Okay. 1259. We've got Willie Fritz at a half an hour. We'll get to the news headlines the day, which again, not a whole lot of piping things going on. We'll get the news at one. Well, I mean, I'm saying, is there something we've not addressed?

You know the top sports news item of the day, according to ESPN right now? It is. A coveted 2026 Hoops recruit commits to Yukon. You've been to Yukon before? No. Stores, Connecticut. I do not like it. He chose the Huskies over Arizona, Indiana, Maryland, and Purdue.

All throwbreads. One o'clock on Sports Talk 790. This is the Matt Thomas show. All right, I'm going to stat steal from our colleague, Adam Wexler. I mean, he's got no like, so I figured if that's the least we can do is like it. So I'm going to hit a like, so I'm going to give him credit for it. There's this link. Raven's quarterback Cooper Rush could make his 15th career start Sunday against the Texans.

I don't think it's a could be. I think it's probably very likely, right? Seems like it. He started 14 games for the Dallas Cowboys between 2,000. 21 in 2004. Do you think he... I'm still recovering.

What? From you talking about... From you like watching. Well, I mean, he needs... We got a second one since I did it. I gave him one. Oh, that was you, so it was me and you gave him the two likes.

He's three now. Good for him. Go like it, Jonathan. Jonathan, go like his tweet, so he feels like he did something worthwhile there. Why are we bashing him? We're not bashing him. I'm just trying to tell him.

We're giving him some likes. Here, look, I'm giving him a retweet. What's up? Oh, look at you. You're not getting any points. I'm going to retweet it too. Three posts. Beat you to it.

I already did. Suckusk. We're keeping a buck right now. We're ass. Okay. This show's ass today, honestly. That's not true. 14 games from the Cowboys between

2021 to 2024. In those 14 games, he went 9 and 5. Wow. 60% completion percentage, which is just okay. It's bad. 2,958 yards, 211 yards.

That's not great per game. 18 touchdowns, 8 interceptions, and 85.4 pass a rating. That's not great. 11 fumbles, four of them full lost. He's been sacked 21 times. He saw the Texans last year in that game in Dallas, and he was sacked five times in that game. He's a backup quarterback.

Yeah. He's a backup quarterback with, frankly, a very much underachieving running game that Ravens running attack has been not very good at all this year not saying something because they've got one of the all-time greats going back there in Derek Henry. Did he, he started that game

against the Cowboys last year? Yep. Remember, DAC was gone from much of the season. Texans crushed him on Monday night. And the reality is you don't have to score a whole lot because I don't think it's going to be a whole lot of scoring in this game between Houston and Baltimore.

So if you don't screw it up and you're a system quarterback, you should have some success, which would mean then it's not the end of the world for Baltimore. Again, nobody's going to dream of having two quarterbacks in your team because if you think you got two, you have none. 40 and a half is the total, which is pretty low.

Oh, it's working. The printer's working, by the way. Okay, thank goodness. Matt's been fiddling with the printer and cleaning up. You're getting busy. I've been more like the... You were sprinting for the free food. the fleet manager here at the station

more than the else. The absolute lowest total on the board this weekend is Brown's Vikings. Second lowest is Texans Ravens. 35 and a half Vikings Browns. Look, Will Anderson and Daniel Hunter should just feast this week. I don't really know the other way to say it.

They're feasting every week. Cooper Rush does not have a big arm, but you know what keeps you honest? Derek Henry Run game. But if it's, if it's been so disappointing this year I mean he hasn't been that bad his yards per carry have been very good he's been fumbling the ball yeah

but that's a big part of him there yeah but I mean that's that can go up and down he didn't fumble week one and he's fumbled he's lost two fumbles all year how many yards does he have so far this year he's got 284 5.8 yards per carry that's good

so he's got 284 in four games that's about 70 yards the game. And you know why that number is so low is because they've been trilling in so many games? Yes. Or they were blowing out the, you just go

out there and run Justice Hill and rest Derek Henry when they're blown out the Browns. So I would say I'm still wary of the run game for the Ravens. Oh, if you're thinking that Travis Henry has taken a significant downturn, I think you, Derek, you'd be in a very, very bad spot.

Travis Henry was the one. He didn't he have like 10 babies on like eight different women or something like that. By the way, did you see, he was putting up Sean Kemp numbers? Did you see the meme of Tyree Kill going around the streets? Tyree Kill?

Mm-hmm. No. How do I explain this? So there is a, I don't know who put it out there originally, but there are a bunch of women in nurses' outfits that are all bearing, they're impregnant. Okay.

And it says Tyree Kill after going to the hospital. Oh. I didn't catch that one. I mean, it gave me a fast chuckle, but it wasn't like a belly laugher. You know what I mean? Okay. I'll forward it to you.

I'm good. I want you to see it. Okay. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know much more to say than the Texans should win this game. This is the best opportunity they've had to go to Baltimore, take on a Ravens team that is reeling.

There's a lot of injuries. There's a lot of skepticism. him. There's a lot of, oh my God, Lamar Jackson's out even though he's not been perfect this year. Cooper Rush is only going to give him half the arm. He's got no mobility. He's a straight pocket passer. And the one thing the Texas has been able to do this year is get to the quarterback on a fairly regular basis. Yeah. It's one of those things where you feel good coming off the Titans game, but it's, you know, I think early the season, maybe we shouldn't felt as bad as they did after the Rams loss.

Rams lost. I'm not saying it was a good loss, but it was not a, embarrassing. The Jacksonville loss hurts because again, you go to Jacksonville. It's almost like a gimmee every year. Yeah, but they're three and one and they should or could be four and oh. And Baker Manfield's pretty good. The run game was really good and the Texans didn't handle business. I mean, you don't want to lose home games. I get that. Buckaneers are three and one in first place. Rams are three and one tied for first place. Could have been four and no. If not four of that. The three teams you've lost you are three and one. Yeah. Yeah, it's not a bad collection of losses.

I'm still not sold on Jacksonville, but they're better than I think a lot of people thought they were going to be at the quarter pole. Yeah, for sure. All right, 713-212-5-790. We've got Willie Fritz coming up in about 20 minutes. We'll go to the phones. We'll come back. If you want to chime in on anything you'd like to discuss whether it be the upcoming Texans Ravens game, whether it be about the college football slate this weekend, as you've got the Texas Longhorns against Florida,

You got the University of Houston taking on Texas Tech. And perhaps the most, would you say Rossi, the most spirited U of H home game in quite some time? I mean, Texas did bring some energy to it for sure. Yes. That was what, two years ago? Yeah. And good game.

It was a good game. Still won by you guys. Yeah, the underdogs had a shot. But they're committing penalties. And we're thankfully, we're much more disciplined today than we were two years ago. Thanks, Matt. He's now running things in Nebraska, at least on the offensive side. 713-212-5-7-9.

All right, we're back here on the Matt Thomas. Sorry, it took a little longer than we wanted to be. Hi, we're on? All right, so make sure. Hey, is this thing on? I can hear myself. At least the YouTube shows get on the air okay. God, bless it.

This is awful. Sometimes we have equipment issues, Matt. This is the way of the world. It is. and let's the show must go on let's go on got some folks I want to talk let's talk to Mark on 790 Mark thank you for holding and good afternoon to you

Have you all been jacking with me with all this I've called 10 times Hello Anyway I got you right Yes sir you're on That time I was That time I was

I'm sorry Go ahead All right listen on the Astor. Spada and Dana Brown's back for next year, correct? Well, at this far as we know.

Yes. Okay. Let's go to real quick. I'll run through this. In my opinion, we're sending me more a lot. They need a first base and we'll believe. I like Christian Walker.

They've got to get somebody there. The infill set, the outfield, get the big board back and left. I like Myers a lot in center, so they need another outfit that can hit. And they need to replace, not replace.

They need some changes in their starting rotation as well as their building. And I'll hang up with you guys. All right. You're not getting all those things answered. You're not, you're not, literally you cannot overhaul a franchise every single year.

It's not possible. It doesn't happen. Not in baseball for sure. No, and certainly not when your farm system resources are limited. And again, you want to trade Christian Walker. I'm not saying you as a collective audience. But you, so you know who Christian Walker is. The Astros know who Christian Walker is.

I got news for you. The other 29 baseball teams know what Christian Walker is. You think he's got a little bit of value, though? If a team says, all right, he got 20, I mean, he got 27 home runs at the end of the day. the numbers were bad the batting average went down the OPS went down strikeouts up walks down

to where he could say you know what I was in a new place I was pressing right he had a good July and August and the end of September was good for him do you answer your question when you originally asked it the answer is yes he does have value you'll have some value to somebody because what if

how does this sound to you Coray at 3rd Pena at short, eventually Bryce Matthews at second and Isok Pradis at first. Isak Pradis is a pretty good defensive third basement, so I think he'll be good at first.

His problem at third is his range, everything he hits to him is good. He just has limited range. That's perfect for first base. But actually, he performed better than I thought he was going to when we first talked about him at spring training. But he was like a vacuum cleaner. Anything that got hit his way, he took care of. He just didn't, he's not super ranging. I just,

you know, what are you expecting in return? and you're going to have to pay some of Christian Walker's contract. Christian Walker on the market is not at his age and his year-declear decline is not worth $40 million over the next two seasons. Right, but you have a glut in the infield now that you made the Correa trade, which you made out of necessity because Paredes was going to be out for as long as he was. And all by the way, the one thing we've not talked about, the Astros made a concerted effort to move Jose Altuve to left field. Is that done? they weren't happy with him playing second base at all this season. They were ready to make that move.

Why would you think they would be so excited about him being there in 2026? He wasn't great. Yeah, he was bad at second base and bad at left field, no matter where you, any kind of metrics you want to look at. My guess is if we were to pull those guys apart at the Astros, they would like to give 80 games to Altova as a DH and give 80 games to Yardon Alvarez, which means if Yordan Alvarez can do it,

You can play quite a bit of second base or quite a bit of left field. And you have a split part-time situation with Jose Al-Tube playing second base. Or maybe not at all. But I can't imagine them going, well, that was just a one-year bit. We made a mistake because Jose wasn't great in the left field, but he didn't embarrass himself. One wasn't terrible at second base either. But defensive metrics were better with other people playing second base. Yeah.

Our friends at Fielding By will have him as the worst left fielder in only 47 games out there and one of the worst second baseman with only 66 games there. Okay, so that sounds like to me he'd be a full-time DH with any other baseball team except the Houston Astros because I got another guy that could probably be a full-time DH. Right, and I mean, you've got to figure stuff out at first base as well. So, I mean, if you're doing, okay, if you're keeping Walker and Esoc and Pena, And Korea. You're not.

Stop. You can't. Somebody has to go. Unless Eastside predates has no trade value because of his hamstring situation. Or you believe you can play him at second? You only get one D.A. spot. If his range isn't great at third, why would I think that second base would be any better? Middle infield, do you need where you would like more range?

Yes. All right. We will table this for now. But this is the deep conversations your organization has to have. can you move Christian Walker? Yes. Do you have to be in his position to pay some of his salary? Absolutely.

And also don't expect a whole lot of return. Because again, the Bible is out. The resume is out on Christian Walker. Who is? He's going to still hit you 20 plus home runs. So I'm going to drive in 80 in a 4-5-6 position for your team. But the numbers have decreased the last couple of years. And you would think age again is going to become a huge factor in his future,

last two years of his contract, which you pay $40 million total for. Well, allie, France is next. 129, Sports Talk 790. 131 on Sports Talk 790. Let's spend 10 call to minutes with the head football coach of our Houston Cougars 4 and O after an impressive win against Oregon State. Willie, Fritz, with us on the show. Willie, thanks, as always, for joining us.

Congratulations on the great start. Congratulations on having a little downtime. But let me ask you this. What changed? First half, probably not to your satisfaction. late fourth quarter the charge came through. Does special teams make that kind of difference to get the positivity going on both sides of the football,

especially when you're down late in the game? Yeah, I had a couple of big block field goals. Those are hard to get. You know, we knew they had, they've been having some trouble with their snap, hold kick mechanism, and, you know, Will James and LaTrell McCutcheon, you know, really the second one that Will James got. There might have been three or four guys.

They had a chance to get it, but they really came up big. And then, you know, we played really well in the second quarter, you know, offensively. We just didn't get the points. We think we had the ball first and goal on the one-yard line twice. And, you know, I had a kick a field goal out of it. It hurt us in the second quarter, you know, a couple of big plays defensively, which we hadn't given up much.

But no thing, I was just proud of the guys that we hung in there. everybody's believing on the sideline, you know, made a few adjustments, and we're able to pull the game out. It's a, you know, you go on the road, it's tough. All games are tough, but particularly when you go that far on the road. So I'm proud of the fellas. Willie, when you talk about adjustments, are we dialing up or dialing back offensively and defensively?

Are there such terms, will you go to your coordinator and say, hey, let's throw a few more blitzes at them? Will you go to your coordinator on the offensive side and say, hey, why don't we go a little more up-tempo? What are the little subtleties that maybe we don't know about, just watching the game that you could definitely tell there was a momentum shift in that game because of the special teams

and because things got more fluid on the offensive side of the football? Well, you know, you changed tempos. We wanted to do that in the first half, but we weren't getting first-downs. So it's hard to stay in a drive when you don't get first down. So do a good job with up-tempo. And, you know, it allows you to throw the ball a little bit more.

that can't substitute, you know, do a little better job with past protection most of the time when that's the case. You know, but the main thing is, hey, here's what we've been doing. Here's how we've gotten hurt with it. Here's something we haven't done yet. This is something that we think can be beneficial for us and, you know, make those adjustments on the sideline and then go with it. You know, we just started off slow.

Unfortunately, you know, we just, we have an opener, so we call them, script. and we've gone over those in great detail. They lined up like we thought they were going to line up, but we just didn't execute the way we needed to. Kept them in the game, got them ahead, got them confidence. And then we started playing a lot of cleaner, particularly in the fourth quarter. I know that it was a non-conference game, but can that build momentum?

Because most teams are down 14, fourth quarter, you're thinking about the long trip, you're thinking about the late night, and, you know, it just wasn't our day. Was there anything you had to say? Was there a beyond the special teams? Did you know, hey, we got this. If we can get this game to overtime,

we got a chance to win this thing. Yeah, that was, you know, there at the very end, you know, there's always scored and get within seven. The analytics would have told you to, you know, go for two. That way you kick the extra point. You make it, get the extra points. You win the game. You don't get it.

you got another chance to go for two. I just felt like we'd get the game in overtime. You know, and with our kicker, you know, field goal kicker in particular, we were going to have a great chance to win the game. So we kind of went against the book in that point in time. And, you know, we got the big 50-yard touchdown reception. You know, I almost kicked myself in the butt. You know, there at the end with calling some timeouts,

and we had them backed up. You know, we could have got him to punt and had about 50 seconds on the clock. but unfortunately we had to make it a little bit more of a nail-biting situation than we wanted to. So this Red Rider team coming in is also 4-0. No surprise you, Willie. You follow college football, especially Texas football for a long time. They're at 573 total yards of offense per game,

but it's their defense that I think is probably something that we're not used to. That Red Raider squad on that side of the football is playing some excellent football right now. Yeah, they're doing a good job. They're very, very, very talented without question. And they're very well coached, offense, defense, kicking game. You know, it's a very well-coached team. We're going to have to do a super job from the beginning of the game to the end of the game on Saturday night. It can be very important.

We've got to play four quarters. You know, this last week was the first game that we've been minus the turnover takeaway margin. We're minus one. We need to be plus one. We need to be plus two. We got to, you know, play up to the best we can play. It's going to be important when you play quality opponent like Texas Tech. So, you know, we've talked to our kids about that and had a good week of practice

and looking forward to the challenge Saturday night. You spend time focusing on a starting quarterback, obviously. You'll spend a little bit time, I'm assuming, during practices on the backup, but not very much. How do you do it when you've seen two quarterback? with some good amount of game tape on what Texas Tech has shown them so far this year? I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the two guys. You know, they're going to run their offense. You know, we've actually gone back and looked a little bit of the offense, you know,

the offense coordinator did at Texas State. He was the offense coordinator there last year and did a good job there. A lot of similarities, what he did there with what they're doing. at Texas Tech, it's the style of offense that they run. And, you know, the quarterbacks are going to pretty much, you know, run that offense. You're not going to get one guy's going to be primarily a runner and the other guy primarily a passer. So we just got to be smart with, you know, personnel groupings, formations, splits, you know, down in distance tendencies, you know, and then try to make the very best call based on all those different things.

So if you had a chance to, and look, you'll win a game by one point if it's 47 to 45 or you'll win a game of 14 to 13. If it goes the Cougars way, which hopefully it does, how do you see this thing turning out? You're assuming, you know, low turnover side on yours side, maybe grabbing one away from them. What other keys and tangibles could you anticipate for your squad if you're going to pull off this victory on Saturday night? Well, you're correct. We'll take it either way that you perceive it. Yeah. But, you know, we talk all the time about the plane.

to win. And the number one component in the plan to win for us is, you know, turnover, takeaway margin. You know, if we can be plus a turnover, takeaway margin, it's going to give us a, you know, a great opportunity to be successful. And then I think we've got to do a good job with, you know, the run game, you know, running the ball successfully,

stop them from running, you know, and make a team one-dimensional. You know, running the ball allows you to be two-dimensional, I think. And, you know, you don't allow a team to run the ball and makes them one-dimensional. I have to throw it every down. You've got some calls that are going to be in your favor.

Kicking game, I think, is going to be important. We talk about, you know, one of the special teams. And, you know, the thing I was disappointed last week. We talked about Kugi don't beat the Kukes all the time. We had way too many penalties. You know, we had 10 penalties. I think they accepted eight of them. Three of the penalties were pre-snap, you know, or self-inflicted loans.

So we've got to play a much cleaner game. Does time of possession mean a whole lot to you? Because I've watched plenty of games where teams will be on the field eight, nine minutes, and only score a field goal. And sometimes you're on the field for a minute and a half, and you go 80 yards and four plays. Is that a factor in your mind in terms of keeping that prolific offense off the field? Yeah, that certainly helps you.

But you've got to be able to run the ball and, you know, control the game with short passes and all those kind of things. You know, if you're on the field offensively, playing a really good defense. You know, they're not doing anything to you. So, you know, you got to see how the game happens. You know, we'll take a touchdown, whether it's a one-play drive or a 12-play drive.

You know, control the clock really, you know, gives you to leg up with not having to defend a potent offense like they have. Willie, thank you for the time, as always. Congratulations on the late-night win. You'll be in a normal spot at 6 o'clock. You'll be wearing the Royal Blue, the Houston uniforms. It should be a great crowd, great atmosphere, and I hope the kids enjoy the experience. Well, thank you very much.

Go Coogs. Thank you, Willie. Appreciate it. Willie Fritz joining us University of Houston football coach with us here at 141 on Sports Talk 790. Again, just passing along some words of advice. There's construction by the University of Houston area, which is probably going to make things a little tougher getting in. So if you're going to the game, 6 o'clock will be the kickoff time or thereabouts. Get there early.

There's lots of good tail getting to do. and flyovers and all that kind of thing where it's made a good crowd. Going to be amped up on both sides and hopefully it'll be the perfect main course to the appetizer that will be Texas versus Florida the pregame show before the real game of the week between the University of Houston and Texas Tech

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Thoughts and prayers on that. Five minutes left to go on the show. What should we do? We should play America's fastest growing sports radio game show Monday through Thursday. We call it, and we'll call it like that today. Believe it or not, and here's how it works. You'll call 713-212-570. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Today's edition of Believe it or not is all things once it gets sent to me. There it is. It's about all things Jane Goodle. Or good all. How are we going with it? I thought it was good all. Goodall. You've been saying Goodall? That feels like... No. It's not Goodell. It's Goodall.

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Right now. You're not going to win you know this, right? You know? Probably not. Jane Goodell preferred not. Here we go. Jane Goodell preferred not to answer questions about her love life, but biographies say she never married. Believe it.

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You folks, you got to listen to show. You just can't be a prize horse exclusively. Ken on 790. you ready to play believe it or not believe it Jane Goodall was given the presidential medal of freedom by Joe Biden in January of 2025

believe it or not not she got it all right Doug Scott on 790 Scott what was your fair part of today's 10 to 2 radio show Astros off season talk In 1989

Jane Goodall was brutally attacked by a chimpanzee named Frodo and it had to be hospitalized Believe it or not. Believe it? That's correct. Believe it. Statement number two for the way.

Jane Goodell became friends with Queen Elizabeth II and often consulted the queen on matters of conservation and climate change. Believe it or not? I'll go believe it. No, they hardly knew each other. Sorry. I like that one. That's good.

That may be on season ender, by the way. Jay on 790J, you ready to play, believe it or not? Yes, sir. Jane Goodall also did voice acting appearing as herself on the animated shows the Simpsons and the Wild Thornberries. Believe it or not? That's a believe it actually. I would not have anticipated hers. Which one of those two shows did you watch? Both. You big Wild Thornberry guy? He was on Nickelodeon back of the day. It was a little

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But normally, let me tell you something. If y'all call every day, I'm going to try to avoid you as often as I can. I just felt sorry for Roger because he hadn't called in a few weeks, so. And we've made. And we got a minute left. Okay. You want to talk about Jane Goodall? So I didn't know. One of the first times I remember hearing about her was in the far side. Do you ever read Gary Larson Far Side Comics? No. You, what? Not a comic guy. Not that I'm opposed to it. I'm just saying it wasn't a comic guy. Okay. Well, yeah, apparently there was a like a funny cartoon. Like the chimp was getting

jealous. They found a blonde hair and like her husband's hair. Like, oh, I see you've been hanging out with that Tramp Jane. And apparently the Jane Goodall Institute, like, admonished Gary Larson for it. So. But Jane, found it funny and invited him to the compound. So she had a sense of humor too. Yes. And when Gary Larson went to go visit her with the chimpanzees, he was attacked by that same chimp, Frodo.

They knew Frodo was attacking everyone. He was like a big, like an alpha male. So Frodo, the unfriendly gorilla. Correct. Chimpanzee. Chimpanzee. Is there much of a difference? Yes. Chimpanzees are a lot scary and kill a lot more humans. Both are ones. Yeah. Both are both dangerous? Stay away from both?

Yeah, I'm not going to run into either one. Okay. Up next, Clinton, Wexler, the A team. Chalk full of Texans preview next on 790.