The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - MLB 48 Game Season, Fantasy 5 Beatles Songs, Brian T Smith

Episode Date: June 5, 2020

So much larger than life Lunch timers Is the Matt Thomas show 1201 in H-town Gurs, it's a Friday Oh, G, shucks Happy birthday, Matthew What are you 50 now?

Shut the hell up. I'm just asking. You know, you know how old I am. 48? 48. That's he almost 50. Handsome A. F. A man of the people, sports, Harvey.

The Voice of Houston Sports, Matthew Thomas. We don't have anything at this point. Well, when they come back. When they come back. By the way, this song is being played. Who sings this, Ross? I have no clue. Go ahead and play a little bit more.

Play a little bit of a little higher here so you can hear it. Well, they sound like they got scra. catchy voices, can't really sing well. Not really picking up on it. You know what? The rhythm's good. You're suspended for this segment. Again? Yeah. Already? Well, that's early. I'm going to take a nap, actually. I'll be back.

I can't suspend you a minute and a half into the show. Yeah, come on. Just file an appeal. You're good. That's right. Brendan, are you a Beatles fan? I watched the movie yesterday recently. And what do you think? That's okay. I wouldn't call myself a Beatles fan.

No, they have some decent music. Okay. I respect the Beatles. I'm not really a huge Beatles fan. No, you antagonize the Beatles. Well, I only antagonize you. Okay. Just because you like the Beatles.

If you didn't care about the Beatles, I wouldn't bring them up. So you're just going to find things that are passionate to me and say, I'm going to just stick the needle in you. You have H football. You have H basketball. The Beatles. Uh, what else? Excellence. Excellence.

Hall of Fame Go worthy. Well, let's calm down now. All right. Happy birthday to Matthew Thomas. Thank you. call in or tweet to at SportsMT? You know what? Give the Matt Thomas a gift of a follow at SportsMT for his birthday.

It's not nearly as important. You go to your Twitter account. All the balloons are popping up. This is beautiful. Yeah. Twitter makes you feel good for about 24 hours. And then when it's not your birthday, the hatred resumes. Well, even probably on your birthday, you could even get something rude.

You haven't been getting much rude stuff. No, I haven't. No, I just, it's just, I've seen everybody else's rudeness. It's like this week has been I've watched way too much news channel coverage All the different channels about everything that is going on Yes And so I've had nothing

I had no last dance I've watched every repeat of a game possible I'm not going to I'm starting to rewatch Hell's Kitchen repeats now Really? Yeah Is that the one where Gordon Ramsey yells at people? That's every episode of every show he's done Okay

But I do like Hell's Kitchen. It's a good, it's a, it's a, for those we don't know, it's a competition worthy, there's like 16 interesting people. What were you trying to say? Was it not FCC regulated? No, they're just. Losers? Such a strong term. I've never watched a show.

They're a little challenged. They're not chefs? No, they are, but what they're asking these 16 people to do, these are people. that work at like chilies. Okay. And they want them to become five-star Michelin chefs. Oh, okay. So it's a little bit of a challenge. Man, that's Gilacaso is not going to make itself.

It's pretty tasty, by the way. It is. So, yeah, I've been watching that and, you know, just kind of waiting for the NBA season, which is going to be July 31st. We've got the players need to approve it today. They're going to. The only thing that's kind of a sticking point for those of you don't know is the NBA wants to start its season on December 1st of next year.

And they're doing that because they want to be able to extend their players to the Olympics. And the NBA is like, wait a minute, if we crown a champion on October the 12th, you're talking about having training camp less than a month after that. And there's a little bit of uneasiness about that. But that's only going to affect two teams. Correct. And if you're one of those two teams, just because training camps open up a certainty, doesn't mean those guys have to show up at a particular day.

That's true. But it is going to be the two teams that are in the NBA finals are probably going to have some Olympians on them. Yeah, so there's really going to be a very, very little break. Maybe not all-American Olympians. Maybe some Greek Olympians. I mentioned this to you off-air. And now we can certainly get you on this as well at 7-13-21, 5-790. For me, Ross, I saw the dream teams.

I've seen Dream Team 2, Dream Team 3, 4, 5, whatever there's been since 1992. We're talking 20 years. There was the Redeemed team in 2012. or 2008? For me, if I never saw a pro player go to the Olympics again, I wouldn't care. I turned it on during the Olympics. I know. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy it.

But if the NBA calendar is going to be permanently altered, and that means that maybe there are the Olympic that the NBA players don't get to represent, then I don't know. Do you get the sense that the super, super star players still dream of playing on the Olympic team? I mean, do you think when James Harden and LeBron James and any of the other great player, Paul George Link, put their heads down their pillow and either they go, man, I cannot wait to put the USA jersey on? I'm sure they consider it an honor. But I don't think it's one of those life aspirations anymore. Well, if they haven't done it before, I would say yes.

LeBron James probably not. I mean, how many gold medals do you have, at least two probably? Maybe three? It just doesn't carry the same sort of clout. A lot of it is because they've basically, for the better part of 25 years, beaten up everybody. I know there have been some closer competitions, and the international game is certainly a lot better than it was before.

But it's one of those things that I just go, eh, it just doesn't carry the same cachet for me than it does. That I would hope that college basketball players are better today than they were 25 years ago, and we could send the college best players and go win a gold medal. Don't know if it's true. Yeah, I don't know. the, I mean, the teams of like Spain and Croatia and those, Serbia or whatever, they're all pros. They're all pros.

But they would also affect the pro players that are in the NBA going to play for those other teams too. Right? Yeah. Are you saying you take the pros out of it completely? No, I'm not saying. I'm just saying that I don't know if I'm the, if I'm an NBA player, especially if I've already done it before, what kind of amazing event is this? Because I remember one time, Ross, weren't the guys complaining about, about, Maybe it was even Dream Team 1, where they didn't want to stay in the Olympic Village.

They wanted to stay in their own hotels. They wanted to be treated differently than the rest of the Olympians. And I think part of the experience of playing the Olympics is being USA all the way through from the time that you walk on the opening ceremonies to carrying the flag to play the games. And it almost feels like it's just a super tournament as compared to a real Olympic event. Yeah. I mean, guys who have done before, you had the, in 2016, a lot of guys were withdrawing from the team. And was there also like the Feeble World Championships maybe a couple years ago? You know, the team, you looked at the team and you're like, what is this?

It's like the best of the Phoenix Suns or something. And that also brings up the fact that just because the super, super star players and those championship teams you're talking about, maybe Kevin Booker plays and represents is the best player on the Olympic team. Yeah, Devin Booker's not really busy right now. No, no. you know, with, who's the Atlanta player?

Trey Young. I mean, you tell me that Trey Young and Devin Booker couldn't put up 100 points by themselves in the Olympic game? No, I think they'd be fine. Yeah. So, just want to bring that out. You know, again, it sounds like to me they've got some little wiggle room on the schedule, but thank God they're playing basketball. And thank God we're going to be able to have it for you right here on Sports Talk 7-9. Can it wait to do that first Rockets Launchpad?

I cannot. I am going to sit by the internet, not literally, but I'm going to stare until I get the schedule because I think it's going to be interesting who they play. We kind of have a feel of it, but it's not guaranteed because, again, some teams it's going to take a very short period of time to play the next eight. Other teams will have on their schedule what was supposed to be on their eight, there's going to be three or four teams like a Detroit or Cleveland that's not on there. They can't play them because they're not going to Orlando.

So when the NBA schedule comes out, that's one thing, who they play. Secondly, what time they play and how many back-to-backs they'll have? And could we potentially have a 3 o'clock Friday afternoon basketball game featuring the Houston Rockets and, I don't know, Indiana Pacers? Sounds great. I don't care who they're playing. I don't care if they play at 1 o'clock in the morning. I don't care when they play. I don't care who they play.

I want games. The second NBA game I've ever called play by play as a full-time member of the Rockets. I did some games earlier, obviously, years past. But I did a game at 6.30 in the morning, a preseason game in China. So any time slot's fine by me. Was that the one when Lance Erlain was on color? Yes. And doing his Pablo Pugioni voice?

I think he did a Pablo Purgioni right in the middle of a Pablo Purgioni game. I think is exactly what he did. Good times. Morning dry with the rockets? Sean's like, I'm all in for that. Give me a little morning. I get to sleep in late. There you go.

Put Sean on color. He can do. He's done lots of games before. You know, once you do color commentary, one sport, you can do them all. Wasn't he like a star high school basketball player? I don't know. I think he was. My guess is if you called Sean and said, Sean, were you a star basketball player? He'd say, yeah, probably was.

No, I think he was. Like, high, maybe even highly recruited. Was he the Dave Winfield of Southern California? Yeah, I think maybe. Draft in all sports? Yeah, UCLA and USC both offered him basketball scholarships. Are Sean Salisbury? Yes.

Damn! He's six, five. He's clearly the best athlete in this. on the station. We have to ask him how he would describe his game. I don't know if he was a back-to-the-basket kind of guy or if he was a point-forward or what. They didn't have point-forwards back in the 60s. He was the 70s.

Or was the, yeah, it was the 70s. It was the 70s. I'm just teasing. All right. 7-13-21-2-5-79 if you want to get in. It is that anything goes Friday. Ross, can I just say as we send it to break here, baseball, you suck. You suck, basically.

Yeah, they do. Ross say it. You suck. Baseball. I don't like you. Brendan, do you like baseball right now? Brendan? I just want sports and I don't believe him getting it back.

So absolutely not. So tell baseball that sucks. MLB sucks. You suck MLB. Ross, what do you think about the MLB this year? The Players Association and the owners, they suck. They suck. If you just want to call the show and tell us that these two teams,

the organizations suck, go ahead and take it. Call the show, say it and hang up, I don't care. Because I do suck. And if I keep calling you Brandon or Brendan, it's going to probably vis be B eventually. I'm telling you, I don't hear the difference between Brendan or Brandon. Thank you. I don't even notice.

Well, Brian, thank you very much. Thank you. 713-212-5-790. It's also if you have a nomination for the D of the week, you can do that to it. 7-13-212-5-7-90. Wide open for three around the rim and out. The put-back. Hey, it's Dania House.

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What a shot! Shots on your birthday, Matthew? That's not nice. By the way, Mike Dantone, you should be allowed to coach the team in Orlando in a few weeks. Well, we'll see. Did you see, did you watch any of that TNT last night?

I did not. I saw a little bits of piece. I didn't even know about it until the very end. But he was, he being, Adam, I always want to call him David Silver, because I'm watching Beverly Hills on him to him. David Stern? Actually, not bad there.

Adam Silver said that he's concerned about some of the coaches that are old. And the older would be Lionel Hollins, John Lucas, the Rockets Development Coach, and Mike Dan Tony, and Greg Popovich. I think Greg's 71, I think, somewhere in that range. Okay. Mike's like, no, I'm fine. I'm a pillar of health. And then Rick Carlisle, the Dallas Mavericks coach Ross, who is, by the way, the leader of the NBA Coaches Association, said,

Dang, everybody's got a union. Slow your roll down. Ref's got a union, the coaches got a union, and the players got a union? I think I could be the leader of the broadcasters and PA announcers a union. Sports Talk 790 union? Do we have a union? I don't think so. No, we would have wages taken out.

I don't think so. Board of a union would get busted pretty hard. Wouldn't last very long. Yeah, y'all be all for yourselves. He said, no, no, no. You need to be careful about talking about who can be there and who can't be there. And then Adam Sover said, you know, I think maybe. Maybe I may have spoken a little too soon.

Here's the number one question. And you can't go, I don't know, because I think you don't know the answer. But my son asked him all the time. He says, Dad, if everybody goes to Orlando and is tested when they get there, and they don't really leave, they stay on campus, whatever that campus is, why are they worried about, why should players be worried about getting it once they? again on campus. And my first thought was, well, because they're still an unknown to this, to this virus, right? And secondly, you have to then, you're then assuming that everybody that goes on this campus, on an NBA campus is not going to leave. And that's just not going to be the case. Everyone's going to want to sneak away a little bit. They're going to get tired of being

in the same place for two or three months in a row. Now, grand, the Walt Disney World campus is huge, but in reality, Ross, it's only going to be about, it's only probably five miles. Is that right? I have no idea. ever been to Walt Disney World? No. Well, I mean, when I was three. Oh, that's true. Somebody that's a better Walt Disney World, expert, B? Yeah, I went like twice a year growing up. Twice a year. I'm not kidding. What are your parents, like, Disney obsessed?

My mom had family in the Orlando area, so we went and visited family and went to Disney while we were there. What do you think it is from one end of the other? How many miles are talking about? If they were to stay only on the Walt Disney campus? Ten miles? It's a city. Well, that's not really a city. They're selling it as a city. I don't know, man. It's at the city of size of, uh, it's not Huntsville.

I think 10 miles is conservative. See, Ross, if you're playing believe it or not today, that'd be a great category. The circumference of the Walt Disney World property is this. Okay. You don't have to look it up. I'm just thinking. So, I mean, yeah, in theory, if you get tested, you're, you're going to be safe around other people that have been tested also negatively as well. Well, the question is, how many people, how many times will, can a thousand people behave themselves?

40 square miles, Walt Disney World, which is the size of San Francisco. Shut the front. No way. But San Francisco is pretty small. But, yes. 40 square miles? They have four parks, two water parks, a, like a giant outdoor mall, which is essentially its own part. Downtown Disney, yeah.

Yeah, they have like 40 miles? Like 40 different hotels. I mean, think about it. Then there's a bunch of unused space. They could still build parks that aren't currently there. Damn. I was unaware of it. I would have said 10 miles.

I was really off. Well, it's square miles. So I don't know how many miles across that means it is. We'd have to do some quick math. What's the square root of 40? You're asking the wrong person. Don't throw math at me. Math and pronunciations of strange streets off of 290.

Or NFL linebackers. It's 6.32. So it's about six miles across. If it's like a six mile box, then that's 40 square miles. Yikes. All right. 1222 on Sports Talk 790. So just NBA players, behave yourself.

We don't need an outbreak. It'd be even better if we could not even get one single person to test for the virus while they're there. Because I think if you get one or two or three, it's going to create some sort of hysteria that's going to make people want to stop the season again. And we've waited so long for the season to resume. We can't have it stopped. We just can't. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-21-2-5-790. Chris is in Copperfield at 1223 on 7-90. Chris, good afternoon. What's going on?

Is this, Matt? It is. Hey, Matt, I just want to wish you a happy birthday today. Thank you. And I really enjoy your show. I listen to it Monday through Friday. You're the best. And you just always have great topics to talk about. and good insight.

And I just want to tell you, I appreciate you. Thank you, Chris, very much. Have a wonderful weekend. I appreciate you dial on it. That's nice you to say that. And happy birthday. And happy birthday. Yeah, thank you.

To you to me. Happy birthday, by the way, to Matt Bullard today. He's not 40. He's older than I am. Barely. But he's also got incredible wealth and athletic skills. Yeah, his jumper is pretty wet. He's 53 years old today.

He's got a crunchy jumper, doesn't he? Crispy. Oh, it can't be a crunchy number? I mean, crunchy. No, crunchy jumper? It's not Peter Pan peanut butter. It's no, his jumper is smooth. Like peanut butter.

Okay. You crunchy or smooth? I'm a smooth guy, but I'll eat both. Ooh, I can't have enough peanuts in my peanut in my crunchy. Why? Oh, I just, the crunch is amazing. Eh. I don't like it.

Like, it's, I feel like condiments should be smooth. Jelly is smooth. It doesn't have crunches in it. Like, if you want to take some peanuts and just jam them on top of my toast, I'd be okay with that. Remember the peanut butter factory in Galveston? We could go get that homemade peanut butter and then they had the peanut butter fudge. Yes. I'm not a big fudge person, but yeah, I know what's not to like about fudge?

It's too rich. I can take one little small bite of it and I'd be about it. I've got to keep this girlish figure somehow. Okay. 713, 212, 790. We're going to get to why baseball sucks in about five minutes here on 790, but let's go to a David in Las Vegas. Hi, David, what's going on? Well, I would be remiss if I did not wish my favorite major market radio host to Happy

Birthday, first of all. You are a very generous man, my friend. How is everybody in Vegas doing? You guys going crazy with everything getting open? I have only, I snuck out, went to a local joint, a medium-sized place, and it's, you know, a little sterile and a little, very spaced out, sort of comfortable, clean and sort of antiseptic, and I, you know, lost my $40 of the machine, left. They do take your temperature when you go in and it's weird how they do they just walk in front of a black screen and then it's something that comes out of the sky and sort of zaps you don't see your ear or anything and then just three seconds later they say you're okay yeah I'm going to like Charles this weekend and that's it's really simple they just

yeah you've been through all that yeah they just they just check your temperature and they give you a little stamp and you go on in your very way once you get inside the casino it's as normal as it gets except for the fact that tables are obviously smaller but I'm going to check out Bellagio and Caesar's palace some of the bigger is soon to get an idea that maybe over the weekend, but all I've done now is that so far. But anyway, you know, I've been one of the people saying the baseball thing is really not going to happen this year that it's clear to me that the players are completely interested, they're not negotiating, not countering anything.

The owners have made it clear that the way things are, they're going to lose too much money, and I think they're ready to lock the thing down. I've been among the pessimists. But you know what? I actually think I see a way out of this, and for the first time, I have all hope. and this is basically Governor Abbott saving the baseball season. You know, here he is saying that first maybe 25% of outdoor sporting events could have fans, and now he's saying up to 50%.

And I guess their inklings from baseball saying that, you know, they might not insist on it being standardized across all the teams, then they may let the states that are more open, you know, do what they do and everything else. if there's a movement along these lines that spreads to other states and to enough teams, you get the real prospect of some fans being in the stands and some tickets and the Ohio rates for the ballpark advertising and everything else. The economics of the thing, I think, can actually change enough that the owners may swallow their pride a little bit and sit there and say, okay, well, maybe we can't accept the players'

stance on this because there are going to be a few more revenues coming in and we thought. What do you think about that? Well, the problem with that is, David, is that what you're talking about with the stadiums going to 50% in Texas is that that's not happening in the other 49 states. I mean, there are going to be some re-opening's. So I think the only way that owners would collectively suck it up and say, okay, we'll give in a little bit more is if every owner could make the same type of proceeds that potentially the Rangers and Astros can make. So I think we would have to wait and see on that, and we don't have time to wait and see because the season should be starting here in three or four weeks. No, but I'm saying that that would, well, first of all, I am suggesting that it's going to be spread to other states and stadiums. I'm suggesting that the baseball owners will be willing to allow it on a case-by-case basis of not insist that everybody play by the same crowd rules, so they will be able to allow this.

And that with the anticipation of this being out there, not knowing how much, absolutely not knowing how much, but that would be the way they could come off their negotiating position and accept the players offer, knowing there's at least some revenues. out there. Yeah, I think more people in the stands. Thank you, David, for the phone call. I appreciate the nice wishes. I guess, Ross, is how much money can owners make if the stadiums are at 10 or 20,000? I mean, it clearly is better than zero, but will it be really something they will go, wow, we're going to be able to get back to where we were? Will it will, can 10,000 people make that big of a difference to the bottom line in a short season? Yeah, I would think so, absolutely. 25% of your revenue that you're going to get from there is better than zero.

And we might see, I mean, would we see height ticket prices? Because it's going to be more exclusive. Well, see, the problem is you, while you would think that, there's also going to be a large number of people that are going to say, I don't know if I can, I want to go because I'm not completely sure I should be out doing things before. Have you seen these beaches? Have you seen these bars? Have you seen, I mean, the protests?

I don't know how concerned people are right now. But is that the same group of people that are buying? buying tickets at high dollar marks. Could you afford to jack those ticket prices up for that? What do you mean? Like, I mean, it's free to go to a protest. It doesn't cost you any money. Right.

So. But I mean, there's no concern level in their head. Yeah. But I'm also saying, but if I was a sports team, I would not want to play dynamic pricing, if you know what I'm saying? I think it sends a pretty bad message. I think it would be smart for them to do it. I think they would be able to, I think if you, if you said,

today, if you said today, Astros are going to have 30 games, 10,000 seats, I think they would sell up. I would think they would sell out every game. I would think in Houston for sure, because we're now a full-fledged baseball crazy town. But if I said,

hey, go check out your Astros and that seat that you pay $37 for last year because there's few of seats in the stadium, we're not going to charge you 74. I don't know if it's a kind of message I'd be sending out to the fan base. hey we want you back and just to see how bad you want to be back

we're going to double your prices. Now the thing that the sports teams can use is a dynamic price fan base. Hey, we want you back and just to see how bad you want to be back, we're going to double your prices. Now, the thing that the sports teams can use is a dynamic price all the time.

Yeah. In a regular season, a ticket to an A's game is going to be significantly cheaper than a ticket is going to be to a Yankees or a Red Sox game. I just, I think when you're trying to embrace people back, you've got to be very careful how you're dynamic price. And that's why I would say, I would not, if it's the Yankees and Red Sox, okay, yeah, huge draws. But I don't know if I don't want to all of a sudden try to take advantage of a smaller

stadium to make up the money that I don't have by charging higher prices for, say, the Cleveland Indians or the Seattle Mariners that are coming in the town. Would the Yankees and Red Sox even be coming into town? I wouldn't think so. Why wouldn't they? Aren't they doing, if they're doing like 60 games? Oh, okay, that's true. But if they go to 80, there's a chance, right?

Yeah, we'll see. Rossi, if they go to 48, you might as well just forget the season. And that's what I'm going to say. If you go to 48, you can have the season. I mean, I'll watch it and we'll talk about it, but there'll be no passion in it at all. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90. We're talking about buying tickets to a sport that can't even come together and figure out what kind of season they want to have if they can share the money.

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I was ready to give it up. I'm just kidding. I mean, me and Joe were thinking about things, and then we figured it's Matt's birthday. Joe loves the Beatles. Matt loves the Beatles. I do. I would never really be bigly. I would never be very bigly involved in a Beatles fantasy five.

So you know what? we've done favorite Elton John songs. Billy Joel, right? We've done... You did Billy Joel, maybe with Clanton, I think. Yes. We did Michael Jackson. I got robbed hard on the Michael Jackson one.

Don't want to talk about it. Sure. And so I think that's all we've done. Do we do Stevie, maybe? No, we've not done Stevie. Okay. We need to do Stevie next week. Okay.

So Joe... Steve Nicks, of course, we're talking about. Do you guys ever do music from like this millennia? No, because that... Today's Millennia sucks. Who's your favorite singer? You want us to do favorite? You want us to do favorite Huba Snake songs, or what do you want?

Favorite, favorite Imagine Dragons jams? What do you want us to do? Favorite Bruno Mars songs? Sure. Drake? Oh, God. These kids today. Drake, that Drake's not terrible.

Yeah, yeah. It's not a cup of tea, but, you know, it is. Which formulate crappy rap song do you want? I mean, look, Drake, respect to the guy. He's a hit machine, and I will jam some Drake. He's actually pretty good on SNL. I'm not even asking for the last 10 years. Like, you have 20 years to work with.

It's not that much to ask. Did you listen to our worst number one songs of the 2000 Fantasy Five? You know what? I think I might have. You want us to do best Britney Spears song? That would be wonderful. Yeah, that would be great. Joe, you beat him up before you leave.

Not like really hurt him, but maybe one or two bitch slaps. So Joe and I will draft the Fantasy Five. Look, don't, if you're a hater of the Beatles, don't vote for this. Why not? Stay out of your lane. Stay out of my lane, I can say. Both lists are going to be Beatles. Yeah, but I'm saying that beetle haters will come out of the woodworks.

You think so? Have you met our audience? Yeah. Okay. Just saying. Some of them. All right. So that's at 2.30 today.

It has been a tumultuous week to say the very least. Yes. What do you mean? Nationally? Yes. In our country? In our country? Yeah, I would say so. It's been trying times. So I try to keep things lighthearted as humanly possible on Twitter.

Uh-oh. And I notice that other people generally try to do the same thing, although sometimes there's something that you really don't need to get off your chest and you do so, and hopefully it's in a respectful way. Somebody today on Twitter had to get out his feelings about America. Okay. First line of this Twitter, I won't say who it is until the very end. I already know.

So let the drama build then. Oh, sorry. I refuse to hate police officers. We can stand by that, correct? Yeah, well, yeah. I refuse to hate black people. I think we can stand by that. I refuse to hate gay people.

We can stand by that. I refuse to hate dot, dot, dot. except the Houston Astros. I hate the Astros. You're saying to yourself, self, who put that on their Twitter? Mario Lopez. The guy that hit on your wife? You know what?

She's never really told me how much of a hit job it was. Excuse me? That sounded a little peculiar. Help me out with it. How much hitting on there was? How heavy the hitting was? He asked for her number and he and she gave it to him. Oh, really?

Oh, yeah. Wait, were y'all dating? No. Okay. No, no, no. At Sam's Bill, by the way. Okay. This has to be probably, we started dating in 95.

This is probably 93. How old was she? She's 21. Okay. She was born and no, she might have been 20. Well, he was just finishing up saved by the bill of the college years. Okay. That's fine.

I don't think he ever called her. But the numbers were exchanged. Oh, interesting. Okay. So Mario Lopez, let's run through Mario Lopez's life since saved by the bell. All right. By the way, Mario Lopez has a famous brother-in-law. Do you know who it is?

John McLean. No, not every answer you give me is John McLean. It's not always John McLean. Never. Sorry. You know this person. I know them personally or Nick Dutero. No, he lives in Houston.

Oh, Ken Hoffman. He's a former Houston athlete. Jeff Blum. He's a former Houston Texans player. Tony Banks. You're getting a little warmer. Stacey Matt. Cooler.

Avey on Black. Cooler. Billy Miller. Warmer. Oh, really? Yeah. David Carr. Warmer.

How am I going to get... Dom Kepers? You're in that time frame. Tony Bisselli? Keep going. Seth Payne? Nope. I just say it.

Kylie Wong. Oh, Kylie Wong. Kylie Wong. He said a linebacker. I would have said Moral on Greenwood, but... God, you... In your 2002 Texans references. Yeah, Kylie Wong's brother-in-law is Mario Lopez.

I didn't know that. And Kylie and I are friends, and I've loved Kylie. He had a great job. We used to do radio shows together back, way back in the day. And I always thought, I mean, it'd be cool to meet Mario Lopez. until he became an astro-hater. Well, he's Dodgers fan? Is he from L.A.?

I believe they are from Los Angeles. And you did want to run. You said you were going to run through his career since... Oh, let's do that. He was on a all-male version of the view for a short time. What was that called? I think it was called the other half. I'm not kidding.

Was it programmed geared towards men or women? It was geared towards men. The people on the dais were him Danny Bonaducci What? Dick Clark And I don't remember Who the other person was?

Who's ever Like the most manly man I can think of Are Dick Clark And Danny Bonaducci? Yeah, it was And Mario Lopez. Oh, wow And there's somebody else on that

I just forgot who it was. So it was like the man show But worse. It was, no, it was like the view, but a male version of it. Okay,

that sounds terrible. Yeah, again, that's the reason why I didn't survive very long. He's also been on Extra Extra Extra. Yeah, I was going to say,

ET or extra or something right? It's extra. And then, as I put on my Twitter account today, when you turn your television on when you go to a hotel, who's the very first person you see every single damn time? So you put Mario Lopez on that. I have no idea what you're talking about. You don't? No. Okay. What's he on the Marriott? See, I don't live the fancy Matt on. You turn on your hotel TV? Matt loves to watch hotel television. And hold on. Wait, wait, wait, why is turning your hotel TV on a bad thing? I haven't used kids. cable in I don't even know how long.

Who are you? How do you watch sports? You get illegal streams? Definitely. You want us to listen to 2020 music and not watch television. No, I'm not telling you not to watch television. There's just better ways.

If you're in a hotel room, you don't ever just flip your hotel room TV on and it's like it's, you know what? Hey, Judge Judy's on. I'm about to watch 15 minutes of Judge Judy. I did watch the last two episodes of the of the last dance on my. hotel TV. So I guess... Okay, so what hotel are you at?

Oh, it was... Sleeveig? Palisand? Yeah. It would be basically. Okay. Okay, I want to speak to those of you that go to mid-level hotels and higher. Yeah, I'm out. No, Hampton Inn is not... Does Laquinta count? Lekinta counts for sure. Mario Lopez is on the Lequinta TV? You go to your television at a hotel and you turn it on.

And Mario Lopez is the first person you see on there because he's trying to make you buy a pay-per-view movie on the hotel. I've never seen that. Oh, hell yeah. No. Now, first run movies delivered right to your home and he's sitting there running through all the different movies. Somebody back me up on this at Mario Lopez. I mean, yeah, you got a number of retweets.

I'm sure some people are relating to that, but I don't, I'm just not living in the fancy man last style. So that's his life. He's the first dude you see on a television hotel, hotel television. He's done the other half. Yes. What else? What else is IMDB have? Saved by the Bell, Hawaiian style.

saved by the bell the college years saved by the bell wedding in Las Vegas that's his IMDB saved by the bell the new class damn extra

Sesame Street as himself NCIS New Orleans one episode Elena of Avalor seven episodes to the big issue we gotta get your break

Mario Lopez stay in your damn lane give me 10 second sound bites of celebrities we don't care about, or in the case of B, his favorites. And you stay away from the Astros. He's from San Diego. Yeah, but they're not even merely Padre fans in San Diego. He went to Chula Vista High School. They're all closet Dodger fans in Chula Vista.

I love Chula Vista. I love everything about San Diego. It's a beautiful place. Yeah, but they're not even merely Padre fans in San Diego. He went to Chula Vista High School. They're all closet Dodger fans in Ruella. I love Chula Vista. I love everything about San Diego.

It's a beautiful place. Great. Wonderful. All right. So, Mario Lopez, you know what you are? You're the day of the week. Ouch. I refuse to hate,

except the Houston Astros. I hate the Astros. We're already getting tweets in. Is it too early to cancel the new producer? Ooh, B. Cancel culture is even going to come after you, Brendan. You know what?

People who want to cancel me clearly understand the 2000. thousands. That's true. So you're canceled. Oh, my gosh. Oh, Billy D. Washington says the fourth panelist was a black doctor. I know this because I was almost cast in his place. Billy D. You should have been on there. Come on, Billy D. By that's a massive miscast. I'd have taken Billy D. Washington over Mario Lopez any day of the week. 1245. Anything goes Friday. Clearly that's the case. Baseball, you still suck. 713, 212, 5, 790. All right. And the rowdown. Hey, it's Daniel House.

Matt Thomas continues now. On Sports Talk 790. As the late, Jack Buck said, I don't believe what I just saw. We just pre-drafted. Yes. Pre-drafted what, Matthew? The Beatles for the Fantasy 5 at 230. It might take Joe George an hour to get one vote.

You know, Matt, you're looking. list is far superior. Should I, should my vote be off the table since, I mean, but that's my decision, though. We don't need you. We don't need you. I mean, I was being fair and impartial.

I just think Matt's list is way. That's going to be coming up at 2.30. Swartstock 790. Best Beatles song, Fantasy 5. Matt versus Joe. Like, they pre-drafted because we have to get the songs ready. I think Joe's list is pretty weak. I don't think it is.

Certainly in relative strength to Matt's. I think, compared to Matt's. I'm embarrassed for you No I wouldn't go that far I would I would I mean you're like

you're like the Brandon of the Fantasy 5 here right now I don't understand what that even means but it's not positive BM just walking me to the family I just let you know that

I think Joe started strong but I don't know about after that oh 230 ladies and gentlemen if you're a Beatles fan I think Matt just doesn't like me really he pretends It's all fun and jazz.

I adore you. Thank you. You're a big part of the family. We are a dysfunctional thing, but we're our family. So just got to head. I think we're that dysfunctional. We've been as, we've been as functional as we've been for quite some time.

Yeah, we've been okay. This show's pretty functional. Oh, yeah, because we haven't really changed. Everything else has moved around, shuffled around. The rock of the 790 lineup, the Matt Thomas show. You wouldn't believe, Joe, the two to four show we used to do. Who was that? It was me and Ross.

Yeah. And we were preceded by the Jay Moore show. Oh, I have heard about that. And you're going to take any show from, why that show? Well, it's no longer with us. It was a corporate mandate. Yeah. And we felt it where I felt literally for about the first nine months of the show,

Ross and I were talking to ourselves, literally talking to ourselves. So when you guys first started the Matt Thomas show, it was 11 to 2. And then? Why? Yes, it was it? Yeah. And then trenches came in to make it 10 to 12. That's right. Right.

Because Dylan Gwynne was 10 to 11. He had just one hour, right? Right. Mighty. Who writes for Bright Bart? Mighty was the first. Is he still the sports editor there? Good first.

First two radio shows are ever produced. I love Mighty. Where is Mighty? Is Mighty all right? I don't know. He still writes for Bright Bart. We still have all his drops in there. Yeah, we do.

Go through those. Yeah, the first two radio shows are ever produced, and they were Network were for Mighty and for Barry Warner. The day Caitlin Jenner became a thing. Oh, what? Yeah. You mean, yeah. Yeah, Caitlin.

Wait, me, you mean Loss a thing? No. Going from Bruce to Caitlin. Yeah. Do we have... Is that still taking? Did we spend an entire day talking about that? No, I don't believe so.

Okay. There are things we're talking about. All right, so, Joe, we love you like a stepbrother, but you're going to get annihilated in the Fantasy 5 at 2.30. Not even a real brother? Okay. Is it because I'm leaving the show? You know, you're like a half brother.

You're like, we have different mothers. Okay. Is that a compliment or not? I don't know. I don't say I don't know. I think it's good. We are blood of some sort. Half-brother you can treat like a brother.

That's true. Step-brother, you might have animosity towards... Yeah, there's a little jealousy. Or animus, Matt. Is that what do we say yesterday? Oh, by the way, we were talking about prorated salaries. Yes. And we've been saying proration.

Yes. Are we sure that's a word? I think proration is a word, yeah. Because yesterday, Jeff Passon, friend of the show, used a different nomenclature of prorated. Proration, the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something. But there's another word that comes off of that. To some fractional part of the total capacity.

Like he said pariety or something. It was something bizarre. I'd never heard before, but I'm like, it's Jeff Passing. He's being nerdy. Pro rata? That's it. Yeah, he's been using that one to sound smart. He's trying to show off his education.

Pro rata just means proportional. Would you want to have a beer? They both work. Would you want to have a beer with Jeff Passon? You think he'd be a beer drinking guy? Yeah, he would want, he'd be really snooty about his craft beer. Yeah, he's definitely a Nitro brew. Yeah, you're going to order like a, you're like, you know what?

I'm going to have a Coors Light or a Miller light or ice cold refreshing. I feel like he's the guy we go to a bar and he asked for the wine list. No, he would do that. No. No. He's going to want, like, he's going to want some nitro coffee brew, whatever that you've never even heard of from some brewery in like Portland. Yeah, Woge goes to the bar and gets the wine list. Oh, Woj is drinking wine for sure.

I could see Woj just going hard-licking. Like ripping like whiskey shots. Yeah, exactly. Now, I have seen it firsthand, Jay Glazer can drink beer like a champ. Yeah, I bet. Because Jay buys rounds of drinks for athletes. That's how you get sources. Whatever works, right?

Yeah. Let me tell you something. If somebody wants to drop some knowledge, I got a gift card. I'll give him something. We'll give him drinks and booze. I feel like if you're trying to get sources from an athlete and you pay with a gift card, it's not going to work. Yeah, it's not going to go. So I have to go with the Explorer Plus card then?

Yeah, maybe give some Whataburger coupons. No, you got to bring on the American Express black card out, right? That's a little bit of a... I don't have one of those. I don't either. I don't think I want one. Yeah, that sounds... You don't want your wife getting a hold of that one.

You got the line to me. 1256. We'll start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show. Do we have any news on baseball, gentlemen? either one of you? I haven't heard. What's the latest? That they don't...

Can we just... Do me a favor. Let's do a dramatic reading and what Tony Clark had to say yesterday. So you'll do the Tony Clark dramatic reading. Give us some song of despair and utter sadness. Okay. Basically imagine dragons off your playlist.

And we'll do that coming up with the second hour. The Thunder? No, don't do that one. 7-13-212-5-790. 1256 on Sports Talk 790. Is the... Thomas show. All right, it is a 101 on Sports Talk 790.

Happy Friday to all of you all. I'll be relaxing, peaceful weekend. We deserve some peace, don't we? Understanding. I'm being serious. Acceptance. Time to heal. Hopefully.

They'll be nice. Some sports. That'd be really nice. July 31st, we'll get the basketball back. Football sounds like, it sounds like to me Chris Pezman was with us yesterday. He sounds encouraged that we're going to start on time, which is a good thing. Beautiful. And again, Texas football stadiums, outdoor venues, football, baseball can be at 50%.

For example, Darrell K. Royal Memorial Stadium at Georgia Melfield. And they will open up the year against. Is it USF or UTEP? It's USF. Remember we were talking about the big payout game? Yeah. And then week two is supposed to be at LSU. No problem with that. I don't know what our skim of my U of H schedule is like,

but we should go down there for that game. Yeah, Gordy's been talking about going down there. That'll be September 12th. He knows people there, right? Yeah. We don't have to pay for a meal, do we? I think they have like $5 or you can drink joints? That sounds good.

Yeah. Baton Rouge has, by the way, for those of you that can consume your alcohol wisely and not drink and drive, there is a Dackery drive-thru in Porter. Is that legal? Yeah, the Thomas family is. been going there

some regularly. There was one off of, there was a dackery spot off of Richmond in Fountain View or something like that.

They're gone now though. Yeah, that's the only place I've seen in locally is the one. It's on 13-14 for them but it's up in the northeast

part of town. Local, Matt. It's Metro. South and that can it's Porter, Metro, Houston. Absolutely it is. Really?

Sure. Yeah. Okay. What market would it be then? If it's not. Nacadocious. Stop. It's probably,

probably closer to Cleveland than it is to Houston. Porter to Houston and Cleveland. Yeah, Porter is closer to Cleveland, but Cleveland's under, I think Cleveland's probably Metro as well. Cleveland is Metro as well? I would think so. Like an hour and a half away. Depends on how fast you're going 509.

Ladies and gentlemen, we asked you if you had heard anything new about the baseball scenario of a potential 2020 season, and the answer clear to that is no. Ross is going to give you a dramatic reading of Tony Clark. Oh, where am I finding these comments? probably an MLBPA.com or something close to that. Okay. Oh, the music is set, however. Let me know when you're ready, because I'll introduce you properly.

Okay. You ready? No. Tony Clark is a guy that you heard during spring training here on 70 when Ross and I went down there for a few days. He is a guy that was having to negotiate between the grumpy players that thought the Astros are cheaters and the Astros and making sure that people aren't getting plunked. Okay, here I'm ready. That was just the easy part. Now, with this pandemic and whether or not we're going to have a start of a season,

Tony Clark is trying to negotiate with the players, with the owners about what kind of season we're going to have. I present to you a dramatic reading of Tony Clark by one sports RV. Rossville-R-R-Ville. In this time of unprecedented suffering at home and abroad, players want nothing more than to get back to work and provide baseball fans with the game we all love. but we cannot do this alone. Earlier this week, Major League Baseball communicated its intention

to schedule a dramatically short in 2020 season unless players negotiate salary concessions. The concessions being sought are in addition to billions in player's salary reductions that have already been agreed upon. This threat came in response to an association proposal aimed at charting a path forward. Among other things, players proposed more games, two years of expanded playoffs,

salary deferrals in the event of a 2020 playoff cancellation and the exploration of additional jewel events and broadcast enhancements aimed at creatively bringing our players to the fans while simultaneously increasing the value of our product. Rather than engage, the league replied it will shorten the season unless players agree to further salary reductions. Earlier today, we held a conference call of the association's executive board and several other MLBPA player leaders.

The overwhelming consensus of the board is that the players are ready to report, ready to get back on the field, and they're willing to do so under unprecedented conditions that could affect the health and safety of not just themselves, but their families as well. The league's demand for additional concessions was resoundingly rejected. Important work remains to be done in order to safely resume the season. We stand ready to complete that work and look forward to getting back on the field.

As long as you pay us as much as humanly possible. Can I give you maybe perhaps not the most politically correct tweet of this all of all this? Or not tweet, but comment. Okay. I think it has nothing to do with player safety anymore. It's about these gentlemen want to play for as much money as humanly possible. I think that, I think they, if, if they weren't in the midst of a pandemic, I think we would already have agreed to it.

Well, that would have to do with if there were a scenario. I think this is an uneasiness, Ross, about the upcoming collective bargaining agreement, which expires after the 2021 season. I think this has a lot to do with the distrust of the Players Association to the owners. I think it's ineffective leadership by Rob Manfred. I think it's a strong union. I think it's a bunch of, I'm drawing a line in the sand. I'm not going to budge.

It's about money. It's mostly about money, but I think the safety is a factor. Absolutely. I do believe that. I do believe that there is the sentiment. And maybe you even go with what Blake Snell said about how, and I'm not putting my life on the line. I'm not putting myself at risk, unless you cut the check. So, I mean, that's the thing. It's we will do this if we will put ourselves at risk if you're going to pay us a little bit more.

So yes, it does become about money. That is the bottom line. But I still do think the coronavirus thing and the pandemic and the player safety. is a factor. I think there are players who have expressed their concern about that, and I think there are some who are legitimately concerned, and I think that is why in the baseball players proposal, you had the opt-out language. If Manjali Baseball owners force the Astros or everybody else in Manjali Baseball

to play a 48 game schedule, Rossi, we will watch it. Yes. We will talk about it. Yes. We will analyze it. Yes. We will still root and cheer for the teams we want to cheer for. but you will not be able to not put the biggest asterisk, asterisk, next to it. I hate saying that word. In the history of sports on this complete utter disaster of a season. Because here's the thing, Rossi, if they force them to go to 48, they'll play the 48,

and then there may be 25% of every team that says, I'm good. Yeah, I mean, what's going to be the opt-out link? If they force them to pay How can they force them to play 48? They can't, right? No, it was built into the first round of things. Yeah, but what if they say we're not showing up? You're not going to have police kidnapped them

and force them and throw them on a baseball field. You would bring them players in the minor leagues in that would want to do it. And then you're talking about a scab situation. Yes. Do you see how bad it is now and how worse it could get? You're going to potentially have a shorter, not even close to 50% of a season with a faux champion with front of them.

no crowd or limited crowds, you're going to have a chance of having a full baseball team without your favorite players. And no one gets paid except the minor leaguers and the owners that get money out of the television. And that's the 2020 season. If they don't play, if they don't play 82, the asterisk, that big squirrely thing is littered with this season. I still think there's a asterisk gift that there's 82. Anything I've... But I believe there's a good asterix and a bad asterisk. Okay.

A bigger one? The font size 18 instead of font size... Like this. Six. You know, there's... If you watch Kirby Enthusiasm, there's the... Oh, there's a disease that he always jokes about. It's a good one or the bad one.

Forget what I'm saying. Okay. Well, he'll... Somebody says, I've got this disease. And he goes, this is the good one or the bad? Like, there's one that's less her... than the other one. If somebody watches Kirby

enthusiasm, you know what I'm talking about. I can't remember what the name of the disease was. But point being is this, if you insist on putting an asterix next of the 80 game season, I'll let you have it there, but I'm going to see it's a legit season because, again, the pandemic steps

stood in the way. If you're going to put an asterisk next to a 48 game season, it's going to be not only because of the health issues, but it's going to be because of the finances. And that's where you get the, I don't care. And whoever wins a World Series, If the Astros win a World Series in 2020

of a 48 game schedule, instead of getting a yeah, instead of getting a downtown big parade, you get to surround Northwest Mall. Is that still in operation? Check that.

They had the big pillars at the, at the Macy, at the Follies. You get to go around the Galleria one time. That'd be nice. Got to stop at the Shake Shack? Instead of getting 12 to 16 fire trucks, all the players share two of them.

If the Astros won the championship, don't you think it would be the same reaction here, though? You'd get a big parade. Well, as long as parades are legal. I don't know. The protests were happening. People didn't seem to have an issue there. So it'll be interesting to see what happens with that in a parade.

And that would be, I mean, when would they be crowning a champion? In November? It'd be about the same, yeah? Yeah. Timeline. Because they're going to hold on to this 48 game thing until the very, very last second. guys, three of us are baseball fans, yes?

I mean, some more than others. 48 games is a joke. It's a joke. It is. And so when I say 2020 baseball season, the first word on my mouth will be, it's a joke. When my grandkids ask me about the 2020 baseball season, I said, you wouldn't believe if they were fighting over. A terrible disease, not disease, a terrible virus that's handicapped the nation for three months,

three or four months, spending how long this thing goes. And owners and players couldn't decide on pro-rated salaries and taking a cut off of pro-rated salaries. 48 games ain't legit. And those players know it too. Owners don't care. They want

their piece of the pie. 48 for them is money better than zero money. 112. 12. Jimmy and Christian hang tight will get to all of you. And the rest of you that want to come in at 713. 212-790. 7-7-19. 7-13.

2.1-2-5-790. This is awesome rivers. It's good! It's back. Hey, it's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 7-90. Time is 117. Anything goes Friday on Sports Talk 790. Ross, have been talking about this baseball and just pissing us off?

Is anything else going on, really, that we should address here and anything goes Friday? Anything other news-related? Baseball-related or you mean news-related? I mean, unless you want to get into the political realm, I think Donald Trump is speaking right now. I'm fine. Carl Crawford was arrested Yeah, he's had a terrible month He had those two people die in his pool

And then the details on that are not good About some domestic violence issues Accused of assaulting his girlfriend During an argument over a man she had begun dating Okay Sounds like I'd done a great talk show topic Arrested by Houston police Yeah, not a great

You want to delve into that one, Matthew? Well, you want headline number two on ESPN? Go ahead, why not? The LA Galaxy have released midfielder Alexander Ketai. Jimmy and Tomball on the Matt Thomas show at 119. Hi, Jimmy. Hey, guys. How are y'all doing today? Wonderful. I got to just get my two cents worth on peanut butter and then my idea of the week nomination. For me, peanut butter, it can't be crunchy enough. I mean, I've even put the crunchy on and then poured peanuts on top of it and squished them in there.

and they stick in there, and I just absolutely am a crunchy peanut butter guy. Yeah. You know what? We are brothers from another mother, my friend. And I feel like I've been voting for you a lot lately on the Fantasy Five, and I typically tend to think Ross knows the people my age better, but you've been killing it. And I don't really know any Beatles songs, so can I just go ahead and early vote for you today?

You know, Ross, you're a judge today this week. Can I accept an early ass? He can't vote for you if he hadn't even heard the... See, Jimmy, I tried. Selections. Come on, James. You can vote for a politician early before they've done anything. Because you know their views at that point, or at least their political party affiliation.

And that's the only way we vote these days. All right. So my deal of the week, and I'm going to be real careful, you're going to have to dump me. And I'm not stupid. I realize there's massive unrest in our country right now. But these social media justice, social, whatever the Twitter and Facebook people are, get off your computer. If you really care, go out, reach out to your neighbor, your co-worker that's the different colors.

You buy a police officer lunch asking if you can talk to them. But, you know, all this destroying, whether you just like or dislike Kaepernick or Breeze, I mean, they both have just as much right to their opinion or the current president, the former president, these people that are just destroyed. join people, people losing their jobs over saying different colors of lives matter when every single color matters. I mean, if you care, do something other than sit on your butt. And I would guess that most of these people aren't actually out doing anything. They're just typing on their computer. And I honestly feel like they're a huge part of the problem. I've unfollowed.

When I get on my timeline, I want to see sports, I want to see weather, my friends, and maybe a touch of local news. Like if I-45's closed, I want to know. You know what I want to mind? Twitter, thank you, Jimmy. That I should win the Fantasy Five more often, scantling clan women, and sports headlines. Hmm.

The Matt Thomas show. And funny gifts. That's good. Or videos, like Rex Chapman videos? Like, you know, what I don't want to see is, what I don't want to see is you may want to delete that one. Dude, you're so tone deaf.

delete your account, go back to your mom's basement. I'm not into that kind of stuff at this point. I am with Jimmy in that as far as people and they want to fight for causes, and a lot of it is idle talk. And I wouldn't be much, the world would be a better place if people would actually believe in the things they say and actually try to do, put some action behind their words. Like, remember there was that influencer girl who got fired from her job because she picked up a, somebody was boarding up their place of business and she,

She grabbed the guy's drill, took a picture, and then drove off in her Mercedes. Like, she didn't, she wasn't helping anything. And she put on Instagram that like she's helping rebuild the city. Hashtag influencer. Yeah. It's just, there's a lot of that going on. Yeah. On a much lighter note, America's favorite fast food chains based on the 2020 data from the public information and statistics society.

Favorite place, favorite fast food in Texas is? That would be an in and out burger. What a burger. which we had today. Coincidentally. Whatever, yes, of course, is going to rule Texas. Favorite fast food chains in other important states? Florida?

Dave and Busters? Dave and Busters, this isn't fast food, right? I think it's just chain restaurants. Favorite, that's right. I should fix that. Favorite food chains, not fast food chains. Favorite chains? Dave and Busters.

Yeah, I want to know what's going on in the Midwest. Let's go to a few other states around these parts. Louisiana? Popeye's chicken. Of course. Popeye's my, ugh. The spicy chicken. I mean, no disrespect to What a burger.

Let me tell you some. Give me three pieces of spicy. Okay. Red beans and rice. Biscuit. Yes. I even like the Kohl-Slaw, too. I'm a big koslau.

I like the mashed potatoes or the Cajun fries. And they have good sweet tea. I know you don't like sweet tea. And they have good apple pie dessert too. Oh, do they still have the cinnamon apple pies? Yeah, yeah. They used to be two for a dollar. Mm.

California's favorite food chain Denny's? There's no way. It's Denny's over in and out? Here's a few ones that are interesting. Tennessee. Tennessee. Long John Silver's. The seafood capital of the world.

Tennessee. I'm not hating on Long John Silver's. No. If you want nothing but fried food on a plate, that's your jam. If you want about 9,000 calories of straight fish grease, you go with the Long John Silvers. And by the way, next time I go to Long John Silver's. You better not short me in those little crunchies in the bottom.

Oh, the crunchies and the hush puppies. No, remember we were talking about how it was underrated and somebody brought us some Long John Silvers? We crushed it. Okay. You get the chicken and the fish combo? Oh, so good. Oh, the slaw, again, Slaw's got an equal out to fry stuff. Oklahoma.

Tim Hortons. Tim Horton? I didn't realize they were even a Tim Horton's in Oklahoma. But those of you, they don't know what Tim Hortons is, it's a Canadian place. It's basically a little. bit of Panera and a little bit of Dunkin' Donuts and a little bit of... Country and a little bit of rock and roll. Yeah.

But it's a coffee and donut place, by and large. You go further north to... Is that Kansas above that? Yes. What's above Kansas? Nebraska. The Nebraska. Candice and Nebraska.

Favorite food chain, Taco Bell. You go further east, Indiana and Missouri, or as the kids say, Missouri. Chuckie cheese Matt, that's Illinois Okay, like I said Are you sure? Yeah, that's right, the The, okay.

Minnesota Chucky cheese. Chuckie cheese is the favorite food chain? Iowa. In and out burgers. There are zero in and out burgers in Iowa. There's got to be at least some now, right? I can't confirm Michigan's

has zero locations in the state of Michigan. What is Michigan called? Jollabies. I don't even know what that is. And when I say confirm, I'm not telling you what I know. I went to their website. There are none in the state of Michigan. Favorite of Montana McDonald's, favorite in Idaho is Einstein Brothers Bagels. Yeah.

I need to check the debt on this. This is whack. Papa John's in Massachusetts? No, that's not Massachusetts. But I would have to say the one I'm most... Connecticut. Tim Hortons in Oklahoma would be a huge surprise to me. Rainforest Cafe in Colorado.

They get all high and go to the rainforest cafe and look at the cockatoos. Hawaii? Burger King? I like Alaska. Alaska's Bubba Gump? Bubba Gump. I love Bubba Gump, but Alaska? Is that a Landry's property?

It is. Okay. I'll treat you there sometime. Please do. I've never eaten at the Bubba Gump. I've had Landry's and the others. I just had to send those out there. Are you kidding me?

How does it in and out make it? in the middle of America when I thought they were really only in the West. How is Florida's favorite chain restaurant, David Busters? I mean, you go play the big, the Giant Connect 4 machine, get some baskets, get some shots up and then hit the burger, the burger bar? What's the name of that game where you hit the, uh... Wackamole? Yeah, I'm really good at that.

I'm really twitchy when you come to the game. Yeah, all you do is get you and a friend and you just use the other person, she used their hand, and you went all of them. It's called good twitchy skills. Yeah. You got to, you're a quick twitch athlete is what you're saying, Matt. exactly what I am. 127.

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Rest load management. You can do it at home. Oh, I don't want to get up. to ask your smart speaker. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHeart Radio. Ross. Yes, Matthew. Were you to say something?

Olive Garden is the favorite of New Jersey. We didn't talk about that one. Did I tell you about where I went to... That was your... You had your prom dinner there or something? No, my graduation dinner. Oh, graduation dinner. The farm Italian eats.

I mean, I think a home coming back in the day was at a Benningens. Beniggins used to be the jam. I remember going to Benegans. One of the days, like, and we didn't do a senior skip day. It was one of those days. you got off earlier, something like that. And a group of us went to Benigans. I felt bad because one of our friends, he was so poor.

He just had to order a bowl of soup. Two of the Benigans that I went to towards the end would have dollar beer. A couple nights a week. That sounds dangerous. Like 12-ounce draft. Wow. The one. There was...

When I was in Rockets games in the mid-90s, we'd go to the Benigans. There was one at Kirby and 59. I think there's a Taco Cabana there now. There's a place in Austin. Don't let me do that, but... There's a place in Austin called... Kane and Ables that would do dollar longnecks every

Tuesday night. And that place it was pretty nice. You mean the beer was tasty? It was nice to get. Canaan Ables all just West Campus Austin, Texas, dollar beers. Women don't care about the cost of alcoholic beverages.

Those are good times. Yes, they do. College women, broke college women? Sure, they do. But they're not paying for them, generally speaking. Like I told Cameron, Cameron's going to turn 20 this June. Next year he turns 21, and you as a father figure in his life are going to be going with us to Vegas for his first trip. Uncle figure. Yeah.

And I told him, I said, you realize when you go to these clubs, if you want to go on to them, you're going to be spending 10 to 15 times more than a woman one. First of all, you're not going to – the women don't pay – if they're hot, don't have to pay to get in. And most of them get free drinks. Meanwhile, dude's got to pay a heavy service fee to walk in. Correct. And their alcoholic beverages are $12, $13 a pop. Yes. I'm going to take that young man under my wing.

You'll stay far away from him. I got a few things to teach him about life. Oh, my God, no. He's asking about blackjack and poker. I don't know if he's getting the proper mentoring. Need to bring him into the light. That's why I send him out to West Texas. Does he know he lives in the 2000s?

Oh, this guy. You got a rim shot for yourself? When's your podcast? I do several of them. Do you really? Are they good? varying levels of good so sometimes you just do a podcast and you go to yourself

god I suck on this I wouldn't say I suck because I do shows like that all the time I go Ross what the hell do we do for three hours yeah no there are days that don't feel as good we have a good days and bad everybody I'll tell you something you've got to understand this show is about

1975 to 2020 we don't we don't play favorites here on the show I'm just going to move you forward we play all no I don't want I don't like the music of today Have you downloaded the new Run the Jewel's album, Matt? It's free. Duh. Well, what's your favorite cut?

The second one. Oh, the single, Ula, la, yes. That's a good one. It's okay. I want to keep it to myself. Christian Lamarck at 136 on 7-90. Christian, what's going on? What I'm this?

Brandon Riley. Well, you got a little run, Brandon. How about that? You got to be feeling good about yourself? Hey, Christian. How are you? I'm doing all right. I just got one question to ask

and one question only. I know that you, Mr. Thomas, I mean, I'm saying that baseball sucks for what they're currently going through with the negotiations on starting this season on time. Right. But let's try and reverse the roles a bit. If the NBA was going for the same type of stuff

right about now when baseball had their ducks in a row, would you probably be just as critical of the NBA Absolutely. Absolutely. I'd be harder on in the NBA. I'd be way harder because they're in a spot where their season is already

going and they didn't finish it off. You don't want to end the season the way that they are. Sure, I'd be much. I'd be as critical or not because I love the NBA. I love that that league is thriving. I love that there is collectively bargained agreements. I love the fact that

they revenue share. They understand that if not for the players, there are no owners and vice versa. So yeah, I'd be I'm never going to be shallow when it comes to sports if they're fighting over dollars, especially in this time that we're in right now, of course. Right, right. I see. But other than that, that's all I want to say.

All I just want to say is happy birthday, and I will talk to you on social media at Fort M.D. He's like a human billboard. Christian's the best. Thank you, Christian. You know what my favorite Christian moment is of all time? When his phone wasn't working, when we'd play the helicopter sounds? No, well, that's always a standby. I said, we were having our 20,000 Twitter party.

And I said, Christian, you're coming to our party. He goes, well, there may be some WWE on or something. Yeah, he was very busy. I was like, what? That's right. He wanted to watch wrestling instead. He's like, if there's no good wrestling on that I'll come. But if there's good wrestling, I got to watch that.

He's like, I got to check out the card first. You know what? That's fair, Matt. The man has his passions. He's always listening, and for that we appreciate Christian. Yeah, Christian's definitely a P1. We appreciate that very much. 138 on 790.

Let's go to Eddie in South Houston on the Matt Thomas show. Eddie, what's going on, friend? Hey, Matt Thomas. Appreciate taking my call. You got it. Hey, I lived in Hawaii for four years now. I lived on the Big Island. I never went to Oahu or Maui.

I lived on the Big Island. I was a tour bus driver for the volcano. National Park. Okay. But all our restaurants out there serve spam on their menu. Yes. I've actually had spam in Hawaii before. And it's crazy because when I first got there, it's like, I want to have a egg McMuffin. They say, you want spam on? I'm like, what? Here's the key to spam. Here's the key to spam. I would never normally eat it here. But if you really basically pan-fried, it's not the worst thing in the world. But you really have to It's got to be served well done for sure.

No, I mean, yeah, when I was a younger guy, I was making a living and everything like that. Okay, so explaining me how-in-the-shelf. Explain to me how Baba Gump is doing so well in Hawaii. No, what's doing well in Hawaii? It was Burger King. Why is Burger King doing so well in Hawaii? Well, I said, you know, I was there four years, but I've been back here on the mainland for six years now. Okay, I got you.

But my daughter works out. My daughter, she's the air traffic controller. She works out of the Hilo airport. Okay. And I went out there to help her, you know, raise the grandsons. Good for you. You're a good father. Yeah, yeah.

But the whole thing is about Hawaii is that if you're on Oahu or Maui, it's a different experience. You're on a big album. No question about that. Thank you for the phone call. Have a good weekend. I appreciate you dialing in. So Ross, Kim and I went on our honeymoon to Hawaii in 1997. This is when Chris Farley died?

Yes, it is. We went to a luau because that's what people do when they go on their honeymoon. Of course. We went whale watching, and that was awesome. I was scared to death until I got out there, and it was one of the most exciting experiences. I would love to whale. What kind of whales were there? Couldn't tell you.

I would want to go see the Orca. I've loved them ever since Free Willy. You've watched Free Willy as a kid. Yeah, I don't know what it was, but it was beyond amazing. So we go to this luau and there's another married couple. And now I don't think they're newlyweds, but they're just, but they're married and they're sitting across. And you know, you sit with strangers of these luau things. And you introduce yourself and you say, where are you from?

Well, we say, we're from Houston. And this other couple says, it's funny. We live in San Antonio. So we naturally drew up from Texas conversation. And she says, you know, I grew up in Houston. I went to such and such high school. And she goes, man, there is one Mexican restaurant. I miss more than anything else.

And I was thinking she was going to say loopy tortilla because that's my place. Mm-hmm. Or she was going to say papacitos or something that was very Houston-esque. She deadpan said ponchos. Raise the flag. Raise the flag. You know the term of spitting food out of your mouth? Yes.

Spit take? I almost spat. I went to ponies. Panchos. I used to love it when I was a kid. Our parents would take us there because, you know, we're growing and you're like, whatever. We'll pay eight bucks and you can eat all you can and we don't have to worry about it. Right. Buffets were my parents jammed because me and my brother used to eat at times. And as I said about ponchos. Go if you're getting tacos. Yeah. And the so Papillas, you're fine. It's when you get to the other things involving gravies. The enchilat. I mean, I went there as an adult because I thought I was kind of just curious to how it would be. And first of all, I only think there's a couple left in Houston. Yeah, they were really dying.

it was the one up of like 45 and Robinson Road I think I don't think that's yeah yeah well no no up 45 in Robinson oh I say okay okay kind of by the the woodlands anyways it was not good you had to put I put they doused everything in hot sauce

jalapinos salt and pepper to make it okay so I mean I wasn't trying to indict ponchos but it was just when someone tells you they're going to have they miss this great Mexican food from Houston they just pachos would not have been the first name of the kind of and I quickly bringing this data into question, Matthew.

Apparently, do you remember what it was for Colorado, the favorite chain restaurant? Yeah. Rainforest Cafe. There is not a rainforest cafe in Colorado. So something is up with this data. You're telling me there's malls in Colorado. There's no rainforest cafe. What?

This is a scam of a survey then. Yes. So maybe people in Tennessee don't love Lone John Silver's. Maybe they don't. Well, somebody probably does. I do. They're dropping like flies too. Next time you're visiting the Grizzlies.

Like there's some Long John Sovers and like A&W root beers mixed together. I like those. A big tall root beer and a four piece of chicken planks. Yeah, and some chili cheese fries from the A&W side. All used to do that. We used to do that in Austin because they would have little, they had jukeboxes at every table with oldies on them. I know Brendan doesn't like this, but there would be classic Motown music.

Yeah. It's good times. When I was working in some of the time, Like I said, the radio station I worked at, there was a can taco hut right next to our office. Okay. Go there four times a week. Get you a spicy bean burrito, some breadsticks, and a two-piece. You get you a little everything.

Yeah. Can taco huts are the best. It looks like there's still three ponchos around here. If I'd like to advertise, let's go. 144 on the Matt Thomas show. 15 minutes away, Brian T. Smith for a Friday visit here on 790. The Houston Lunchtime Sports Conversation most respected by. head coach Bill O'Brien.

I have a tremendous amount of respect for Matt Thomas. In his career here in Houston. Of sorts. The Matt Thomas Show. Our buddy CEO, Fosho said he used to order a hamburger when dining and ponchos. Do they cook a good burger? He says I always order a hamburger, so maybe he still goes. Apparently there are still three locations in the Houston area.

Okay. They're still raising the flag all over the place, Matthew. I go for a round of soap of Pia. Like, I don't, like, if I don't get a cake. Should we go to one? Well, here's the thing. I'm not, I told Kim not to get me a cake. I don't like cake.

There's one on the way home for you in humble. But we're going to Lupis tonight, so. Okay. Shout out to Lupi Tortillas. But yeah, I'd rather have soap of pias. I'd rather have, like, uh, bignets. That's more of my jam than just a piece of cake. Okay.

Benets are delicious. Yeah. Does Lupe Tortilla have soap apis? Yeah, everybody's got soap of Pias. Not everybody. But a lot of the good places, do. Correct. All right, 713-212-5-7-9.

If you want to get in today, 7-1-3-21-5-7-90. Brian T's going to join us in a little over 10 minutes from now. And the Fantasy 5 is, you notice how Joe George hasn't been heard from and like basically since the opening segment of the show? I think he's going to pull the songs. Is that what it is? Yeah. I think that's the case, but yeah, he kind of just walked out.

Yeah. You doing okay back there, Brendan? Brendan, we're on the air, right? Yeah, B, you're doing fine. I mean, you're, trust me. How are you feeling? How's your mood? How's your disposition?

Do you feel like you're warm to the team now? Do you feel like you're part of the fan? I feel like I'm working my way in. Yeah, that's fine. We're going to jump you in after the show. Trust me. Matt's going to put his brass knucks on. All right.

We just got to get you to get out of the year 2019 and 20 because they've kind of sucked these years. Is 2020 the worst year in the last 20, just generally speaking? I mean, this for me, 2001 was kind of bad. 2001 was awful. 2020 is right there. 2020's worse, though, I think. It's hard to even argue about what's worth. You don't want to come across as incentive.

They both suck. Absolutely. Nothing good happened. You know what was a pretty good year was 1999 going into 2000? Because remember there was a lot of angst about... NBA 2K. NBA 2K? There was all of angst, okay.

I didn't realize video games calls. Y2K. I said 2K. I don't have video games in the mind, I guess. Y2K, yes. There were people that worried about computer systems not work. and calendars, you know, in time cards and, like, air traffic control. Everything worked beautifully.

Mm-hmm. I think, in matter of fact, I think people would get on planes and try to fly from one end of the world the other so they could go back in time. Yeah, so they were somebody, well, they would celebrate in Australia and then go to California or something. I thought they were going backwards. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That was a good year. Yeah. 94 was a great year. Rocket's first championship. 95 great year. 2017 for Houston was a fantastic baseball year. The rest of the country hates him with complete passion.

Dodgers fans might disagree. Mario Lopez. Whatever. By the way, Mario Lopez is also a cheater. He was supposed to marry Derrito's girl. All right. Is that right? And they had to call up the marriage, I think two weeks prior to the to get together

because he admitted that he didn't get saved by the bell. What does that mean? He was ringing some other bells? You must have been. Do you watch Scybeother Bell as a kid? Please tell me yes. I don't think it was on as a kid for me. I'm familiar with it for sure, but I don't think it was on TV for me.

When was that on? It was on in the 90s, but the reruns. He's really a baby, isn't he? Yeah, he's a kid. How old are you? 27. And I just turned 27. These youngans in the biz.

What's the earliest television show you remember watching? That we would all know. ER. No, you weren't a year. As a kid, though, I mean, cartoons work for you? Did you watch Zach and Cody? Oh, yeah, I watched Zach and Cody. I could probably, probably a little bit earlier than that I could go, but not much.

Did you watch Salmon Cat? No, I had aged out of it by then. You're going to know about Cat Dog. Rocko's Modern Life? Oh, yeah, Cat Dog, definitely. Hey Arnold. Yep. Yeah, that's, you're in the right time period right there.

Yeah, I used to watch Hey Arnold and Rugrats. Did you watch Boy Meets World? Yes, I did. So basically I got Fred Savage in front of me here. Now, Fred's the older one. What's his brother's name? Tom. No, Tom, the quarterback from him.

No, no. Not bad, though. Not bad. Let me see where we're going to, next. Let's go to Brian and Eto at 152. Hi, Brian. Ben Savage is here. You're looking at.

Ben Savage. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah. You guys actually stole my thunder. I was going to say, you know, you're talking about 2020, but I was going to say, and I remember 20 years. I'm almost 40.

I was like, I remember when Y2K was going to end the world. And hell, I'd take that right now. Just the Y2K problem. Yeah, Y2K was overrated. Way overrated. We handled it just fine. Yeah. Hey, MC, I don't have any sports takes today.

I want to call and wish you. Happy birthday. Thank you. For a long time. Hope the strippers are good. to you this weekend or and as Marvin would say good golf good tennis whatever makes you happy go out have fun and have an awesome birthday thank you thank you Brian I see here from your friend have a good weekend I am going back to Lake Charles this weekend going to take a few days

I know the weather's not going to be great but when I go to the casino I'm not going outside right woman need to be worried about any vitamin D yeah I don't know why it makes you uncomfortable when you say vitamin D. Because the sun gives you vitamin D. Yeah. It's going to rain in like Charles. It's okay. You're going to be in there.

You're going to be fine? I'll be having vodka cranberries. Yeah. And by the way, here's today's Matt gambling tip of the day. I have become way more aggressive gambler. Okay. And it's betting, for those of you that play craps, always putting money on the cum line. COME.

Excuse me? Yes. Okay. Beatty a gamble. I do, but Craps is not early my game. Do you drink? Oh, yeah. So you're...

Well, he's from the mid... Are you from the Midwest? He's from Detroit like I am. Oh, really? Yeah. A couple of Detroiters on the show. Yeah. Isn't there a sitcom called the Detroiters

or the Detroit boys or something like that? No. There was a show about people from Detroit. I don't remember the name of it, but it was very short of theirs. How'd you get down here? I was over at Gao for a few months before all this happened. Are we taking every Gall employees? left over here at Christmas.

We should call ourselves Gow Talk 790. It's like they're our farm system, Matt. They get called up to the big leagues. Now hold on. I was with IHart in Michigan. Oh. Do we let you go? It was, no, it was part-time. Oh, okay, so it wasn't for reason. For cause, as the

kids said. I chose to leave at that time. Voluntarily. But we're a much friendlier group here at I-Hard, Houston. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Very good. I like to hear. 155. We're going to Sacramento, California. No, this is We don't go to Sacramento ever on the show, Manuel. What's going on?

And Sacramento. What are you doing in Sacramento? Oh, I'm working all over in South Carolina. So I'm all the way from Pasadena, the other Pasadena, all the way to San Diego. I go all over. Oh, you're San Clemente, right? San Clemente, yeah. Yeah, I didn't think you were Sacramento.

You're up in the San Clemente. I got you. Yeah. Well, do you want to call you, wish you a happy birthday? I'm glad to hear that you're going to have some fun this weekend. It might be raining inside. You're going to hopefully be making it rain. I'm going to make it rain.

You got that right, brother. That's right, Manuel. I love your thought on that. Yeah, I'm excited about the NBA. I'm so glad it's back. I really think we got a shot just as good as anybody. I'm really fired up. I'm glad that we got some regular season games against some really good opponents.

Because, you know, iron sharpens iron. If we're going to get good, let's get good. against the best because if you beat a bunch of easy opponents, that's going to flip up your record. You're not going to be ready for the playoffs. So I'm excited. I'm ready to go and H-town all day. Let's go. You have

a good day. Thank you, Manuel. Appreciate the phone call, my friend. By the way, the rockets are fourth among the teams in the NBA, according to Vegas, to win the NBA championship. I saw opening now yesterday at 15 to 1. I've seen some fresher odds today at 20 to 1. Ooh, I'd get down

a little 20 to 1. I kind of like clips at about three and a half to one as well. I'm thinking about betting on that. I'm scared of the clips. Can I be opening on us with you? Absolutely. We should be. But don't you think this is the year for some kind of crazy long-shot stuff to be happening? Yeah. That's why a 20-to-1

of the Rockets doesn't bother me. Because here's, can we be selfish for a second? What eight-seed team do you think can beat the Lakers? A healthy Collins, a healthy Nurkich with Portland? they can beat the Lakers, right boys?

Yeah, I don't think so. Lakers are too good. Well, then you suck then. Sorry. There'll be series prices for every series if we want to get crazy. Can the Clippers lose the Mavericks in their first round? They could. Talk to me? I'm a big believer in the Clips, fully healthy.

They've been as good as they have been, and I mean, Paul George and Kauai Leonard have hardly put any games together. Are they going to be fine? Are they to manage, has their load been managed properly? You're a Debbie Downer. Sorry, Matt. I'm going to say in the first round, let's go Mavs. I would love for the clip to get knocked out.

Brian T. Up next, Joe, Patrick Joe. Hang tight. We get to all three of you. Also, in the next hour, the Matt Thomas show, this is Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. 201, Sports Talk 790, the final hour of the Matt Thomas show. One half hour from now, we play the Fantasy 5.

Joe George versus me and Beatles. It's going to be a great. Matt should have this one gift wrapped. And it's not even because it's your birthday, Matt. Have we confirmed that Joe's still here? Yeah, he might have left. I can make his picks. He's probably in the hall of shame right now.

Yeah, he's still up here, I think. All right, let's go to our buddy, Brian T. Smith was with us every Friday in the show for 10 minutes of quality commentary. Favorite Beatles songs, Brian, go. Brian, favorite Beatles song, quickly. Happy birthday to you. That's not a Beatles song. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Matt Thomas.

Happy birthday to you. So Brian's day drinking today. Brian, are you a borderline alcoholic right now? I'm drinking sparkling water, and I'm on the kitchen floor playing with my new puppy. What's the dog's name? It's an 11-week-old lab that my wife and I got from a rescue shelter. Nice. I'm very proud of, and its name is Monty.

M-O-N-T-Y. It's an incredible dog. I think we have the best dog in the history of dogs. Most famous Monty of all time, Quickly, gentlemen. Monty Burns. I'm going Monty Hall. Montgomery Clift.

Wasn't that a famous actor from like the 50s? Oh, Monty Ward. Monty Williams. Monty Williams. Pretty famous, yeah. That's good famous. All right, let's get to it. Let's go to the NBA first.

So, Mike Tantone and Greg Popovich might be too old to coach, huh? Was that what we're hearing? I think Adam Sover's backtracked in a little bit in the last 24 hours. He's definitely backtracking, and Silver gets a ton right, and the NBA has been incredibly careful with its bubble approach. It may be too careful.

We'll find out. I think it's going to be interesting if it all works out. The NBA is back on July 31st. But let's say the NBA, real quick, bringing the coaches about it. Let's say the NBA is playing in, you know, mid-August, September, and college football is back. And college football, you know, teams are traveling, and they're playing inside stadiums with 25% of the crowd. which in 100,000-seed stadium would be 25,000 people, that's going to be interesting to me.

If the NBA, and all this is so unpredictable, and it still is, we still have no idea how this is going to end up. But it's an interesting approach. Obviously, the NBA is taking to the point that when they announce that they're coming back and everyone gets excited and you're talking about having the NBA finals in October, one of the first news breaks is the potential that Mike Dantonie, Alvin Gentry, Greg Popovich, et cetera, the old guy. you know, it's not safe for them to be on the sideline or whatever when you don't have anyone really in the arena to begin with.

So I will be stunned if they don't allow their elderly, quote-unquote, coaches to coach. Mike Dan Tony is an incredible shape. But it also tells you how unprecedented, there's that word again for the billion time, unorthodox this whole enterprise is. Yeah, I just don't think it's too. if you want to give them perhaps some stricter rules put Mike Van Tony and Pee E gear. You know what I mean, I'm fine.

Put him in like whatever Dustin Hoffman was wearing an outbreak. Put him in one of those suits. Maybe he'll get more out of heart in that way. But you know, whatever you need to do, but he does, if he wants to be on the sideline and maybe he has to sign a waiver, but if Mike Van Tony wants to be on the sideline, he should be on the damn sideline.

All right. So the league put it together. The owners ratified it. The players are, I think we're going to hopefully rubber-stamp this today. Get your crystal ball out, because we're going to do this a lot of the next couple of months. But how do you envision sitting down on a particular night and watching an NBA game, at least for the regular season? Yeah, I don't know, right?

The more that I think about it, and we've been thinking about this for three months, I mean, every time I turn on your show and I'm driving around town, by the way, stay at home. It's been over for about a month. stay at home doesn't exist anymore. I've been running errands the last two days, working on my yard and dealing with puppy stuff. Nobody is staying home in Houston anymore, and Houston looks absolutely normal, which I think is actually very encouraging and positive, along with the unemployment numbers, which were very encouraging today.

Anywho, I don't know how this is going to go, Matt, because every time I drive around and I listen to you talk about it and I think about it, and I've written about it so many times in the Chronicle, we want sports to come back, but no, you tell me if I'm wrong. Is it not going to look a little like 10 dudes playing at 24-hour fitness? You know, I mean, because there's going to be no – you'll have NBA logos, but you won't have anyone in the stands. It's going to be very bare media.

You're not going to have extremist people on the bench. I mean, maybe they have people in the first couple rows. You know, I don't even know. and by the third game, if it's, let's say, San Antonio playing Phoenix or something like that, during the afternoon, that's not very appealing to me.

I mean, it's better than nothing, but I still think this whole bubble approach is going to be so different. And I just don't know. I think so much of the energy of the NBA playoffs comes from being in the arena with 20,000 fans and the buildup and the team.

TV excitement and, you know, Matt, you know what Toyota Center is like and all the other arenas. When they're absolutely juiced 100,000 percent, there's not going to be any juice in that building. And they're going to be in real uniforms. And it's better than nothing, but I feel like it's going to look like an exhibition game. You know what? I'm not going to go that far because I think when all of us have been talking about how much we crave sports and how we're looking for live action, that it just can't be perfect. And I'm not saying that you think it needs to be. It's better than nothing.

But it's better than nothing. And I think that we are in a world where we are missing our sports events so badly that you could put them outside in a park and play with peach baskets. And we would still embrace the game. We just would. Yeah, we would. And I think what will help is it'll be, obviously, it'll be on television and simply having the announcers, right? Simply having the announcer, you know, let's say James Hardin hits five straight three. and let's, you know, Marv Albert's calling it, and that fifth or James Hart, or Matt Thomas is calling, you know, you know, and you have that excitement, you're not going to have the crowd, you're probably not going to have any noise, but as long as you have elite superstar international talent playing in a highly competitive bubble-like atmosphere, it's going to be, I guess it's going to be like, I don't know, an AAU tournament with incredibly, you know, the best basketball players in the world playing in the NBA championship.

We've never seen anything like it, so I don't think it's going to be perfect, but the excitement will be there because the talent level is going to be so good. I had mentioned to the audience late last week that the players and the owners in baseball had until today for us to really jive with a potential 80 or more game schedule. I feel like that's now in the distant. The thought of 48, Brian, makes me physically ill. I'll watch it. We'll talk about it, but there will be no steam. You know, you were talking about how you were talking about how crazy the baseball basketball world is going to be a 48 game season when it's supposed to be 162 with potentially guys that don't want to be there. It's going to be who gives a blank league in 2020.

And I think, unfortunately, unless they get something resolved in the next handful of days, we are destined to be put in that direction. Yeah, here's my son bite for this this Friday, Matt. Look, if they figure it out and it's, you know, 80 or 100, fine. if because of their stupidity, because of their just being so dug in and their unwillingness to compromise at a time, you know, just, you know, you have protests and riots and looting and you have an insane coronavirus pandemic and you have businesses shut down and people out of job. I just saw the athletic laid off 46 people in our industry. If you have all of that and you can't, and you're making, the average major league baseball salary is like $4 million. a year and the owner girl billionaires, if you can't figure that out, and then when you do, because of your stubbornness, while everyone else is struggling on some level, you end up with

a 40-game season for the game season? I'm not going to care. It's stupid. There'll be a champion. It will be a historical aberration, and I promise you now, no one will ever look back if this happens in a 2020 baseball season and say anything positive about it. It will be a historic collaboration. Whoever wins, even if the Astros,

it will not in any way feel like a normal season. And that is the fault of both sides, owners and players, and Major League Baseball. And that includes everybody, no matter if you're a rich team, if you're a poor team, if you're a team, it's a world too.

It's everybody. Everyone else has come back, Matt. If everyone else can come back, how come Major League Baseball? Oh, they can't because they're too stubborn and they're too stuck in their ways. If you're on the player's side, you have to be believing that owners only want to pay play for 48 because they want to keep

you know cost low i i'm bothered by that so what can what i hear the dog in the background hey monny what's up money he's going crazy they make these like puzzles where you you put a a bunch of squirrels and like a little tree and the dog gets it out and he's just loving it It's really fun. Yeah. Okay. So if we're the belief that owners don't want to play the games, what can we convince the owners to do to get it to 80,

to give them as much money as they think they can do without going broke, supposedly, and give us some of a sentence of a season? Or are we just past it at this point? Isn't the idea of compromise that both sides have to give? That's the idea of compromise. That's how compromise works. I mean, go look at political history.

You go look at, you know, what it was, the compromise of 1850, right? You know, whatever it was. We learned that. Henry Clay, the rate compromiser, both sides lose. That's the art of compromising. Both sides lose and ultimately both sides win. And the NBA Players Association, the NBA has done that. You had that in the NHL.

You had that in Major League Soccer. They have a new collective bargaining agreement. The players lost. The players are getting the same money. Only Major League Baseball players are basically acting like they deserve the same money, even though there won't be fans in the stand. they have to give and the owners have to give, and that's the only way we get a decent season.

It's not happening, is it? It doesn't feel like it. But you've been saying, and I've been saying, ultimately, common sense will prevail, and there's no way we'll have 1994 again. If they do not play this year, there will be major league baseball in 2021, but they will face a worse situation

than they did in 94, and they will end up being, I mean, by far, the third most popular sport in America. It will be NFL, NBA, and honestly, college football, number three, Major League Baseball will be the fourth most popular sport in America, and MLS is on the rise, and it will be baseball's fault. Totally their fault. BTS, you and Moni, have a great weekend. We'll talk with you next week.

Thanks, Matt. We'll see you later. I'm not wrong with dogs in play on the show. I got another Monty. Monty Kiffin. Monty Kiffin. Monty Hall. Monty Ward.

Monty Williams. And Monty Burns. There's your Goat 5 group of the greatest Monies of all time. And Monty the dog. Thanks to Brian Tee for being with us here every Friday in the show. 2.14 is our time. Those of you on hold, we'll get to you in a matter of moments. Fantasy 5, where Joe George and I will battle off on the best Beatles song ever.

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I'm Matt. Joe George in with us for the Fantasy 5 coming up in about 15 minutes from now. Let's say how to some folks. Hope you guys are in a good mood on the hot, sticky human farty. Thankfully, the hurricane is, or I'm in a hurricane. I think it's been dropped or tropical depression. rename when it becomes a storm. That's the meteorologist in a box that I am.

Okay. Thank you, Matt. And the next name on the list will be? This Rhonda. Dolly. Oh. Close, though. Your top three dollies. Brendan, favorite dolly part and song?

I literally couldn't name one. Okay. Nine to five. Not bad. And I'm tapped out. Oh, no, she did Islands in the stream with what's his name? The Dead Guy. Here you come again.

Who, what, and what it again? Here you come again. She did that song with Nora Jones on her second album. Creep on in. Who could forget? Jolene is actually another one of her favorite, all times of their favorites. Jeez. She's had like 5,000 albums.

She has well quite for her. And she got an music partner named after herself. Dollywood? You've been to Dollywood? Not on the bucket list, Matthew. I've only been Nashville probably two or three times. Not a bad place. I just don't know very well.

Is it an actual theme park? I thought it was like, what's the, Elvis one called. Graceland. No, I think it's a real amusement park. It's not like, there's not like 15 roller coasters or anything, but it's a country western type thing. They have like a bamboo shoot, Texas Cyclone?

I never been. I don't know. I'm going to rides and, oh, they have the barnstormer. Oh, they do have rides. Yeah. The Amazing Flying Elephants. Oh, sure. The Black Bear Trail?

Yeah, absolutely. The busy bees? This is for kids. Yeah, but it's, you know. How about you and I go on a roadie to, to, Dollywood. We'll go to the Grand Ole Opry. We'll hit Branson, Missouri on the way out.

I don't think it's close. Oh. Missouri and Tennessee, no. $139 for a season pass. To Dolly World? To Dollywood. One day is $80. Screw this.

I am not going to Dollywood. I mean, I miss Asterold. Don't get me wrong. But could you imagine how expensive Asteroor would be in 2020? It would be pretty expensive. I mean, there's still six flags over Texas and Fiesta, Texas still running, right? Yeah. Yeah, I, you know, it's funny.

They were going to do such great things with that parking lot across the street on 610. They didn't do anything with it. Yeah. That's a shame. Do you want tickets to Six Flags Over Texas? How much? Let me guess within a couple bucks. One day pass.

You ready? I'll tell you. Okay. I'll go $78. I can't find one. They want memberships. No, they're not getting memberships. Season pass is $100.

bucks one day ticket okay how much you want to say 78 9999 for one day for the VIP package which you get to you get to cut and chat guided and self guided options well yeah that's 200 bucks okay that's a hard pass Joe North Houston at 220 hi Joe hey hey Dan good I was calling to see I was reading an article where it said that the Astros were going to be have home field advantage and I I didn't know if that meant that they said other teams were going to play here, too, and I didn't know if other teams were going to play their home game here in Houston or in Dallas, and that our mayor allowed 50% of the fans to go to the stadiums, and I'll hang up and listen, but I was just wondering how that works.

Is there be other cities and states that do the same thing, and I hang up and listen. I don't know of the rule that he's speaking of is the 50% rule where open stadiums can have 50% occupancy. Yes. Which would mean, I think it would mean any stadium not named an arena. Like you can't, TOTA Center's not allowed. The smart financial. Those are still unavailable to that kind of thing. They are still to be closed.

50% would be 20,000 people at MinuteMade in theory. In theory, you'd have 20,000 at TDCU. In theory, you would have 30,000 at NRG if they'd decided to do it. That Governor Abbott is allowing 50% occupancy. Every state's different. I don't know which states are available to do this and which are not. All I know is that Governor Abbott is giving the Astros and Rangers the potential for a financial windfall that other teams may not have. Because I can guarantee you California does not have a 50% stadium thing. Are they, they were still saying, or they're early on in these

types of things when we were talking about them. NBA teams, maybe it was. We're saying if one team can't have fans, no team will have fans. Are they still holding to that? Who is saying that the NBA? I think the NBA said that like months ago. Okay. Yeah. And now that's totally moot, of course, because they're now on a campus thing. I think baseball is not adhering to that. Okay. That baseball, they're having these games in these stadiums for the hope that these stadiums can open up. You think they would pool that revenue? No.

I mean, it's not fair to the Astros. I mean, it's not fair to the A's or whoever. If they can't have fans, do it via. I think the owners sat down and said, we know that it's going to be a longer time to open up in Oakland than it would be to open up in Houston. It's going to be longer to open up in Cincinnati than it is going to be in Houston. So no, they knew this from the get-go. They're not going to wait for all 30 to be open at the same time.

I'm not saying they're going to wait. I'm saying, what are they going to do? Is it possible they would try to pull that money or something? I don't think so. It's just your S-O-L? Yeah. Okay. and that's why I think you'll start to get pressure from other states that have professional sports teams to open up capacities.

Like, Braves can have, you know, Atlanta's been out there. Florida wants you to go to games. Now, granted, all their baseball teams have a roof over them. That doesn't really matter. But, yeah, I think states that have more lenient policies when it comes to fans and stands are going to stand to make more money for sure. Okay. It's how it's going to be It's not a revenue share sport

I mean in terms of among the owners Or if some matter from the players too They don't share to each his own Now there is a pool of money they do share from Which would be Television money and merchandising But not the individual gate receipts Did you that?

Yeah I mean they do some level of revenue sharing So that's all I was just curious Let's go to uh Mo calling us online for Hi Mo Hey how you doing Matt Well Long time listening

and I just want to anything goes Friday. I love your show. But I want to put this out there. I wasn't able to call after Bill O'Brien did his press conference about, you know, I don't know if y'all felt that it was cinnamon or whatever. Okay. Well, I just want to challenge him. And I don't think they're really going to, if they do play,

they're not going to do much this year. Why doesn't he give up one of them titles to a black head coach or a black general manager? And I'll just hang up and listen and see what you're. I've got to say about that. Well, first of all, Mo, don't hang up. Okay. He'd like to talk. He just got both roles officially this year, so he's not going to give one of them up.

Exactly. He want, but Moe, he's not looking to share responsibility. He wanted to be in charge of everything. So why would you give something up if you fought for years to get everything to begin with? Well, what I was looking at today, I just looked at Mike, I don't know, if it's Shanahan, I don't know if that's his first name, the head coach from San Francisco. Mike's his father. Mike's his dad, Kyle is the coach.

Uh-huh. Okay, okay, Kyle. Yeah, Kyle. There's only, there's only four head, black head coaches. Right. In the NFL and two general managers. Right. So that's why I'm just saying, okay, well, after this season, because I know you're not,

I'm a firm believer, he's not a good head coach. I don't think he's good. I don't think he's good at anything. Yeah, when it comes to crunch time, he just, he doesn't, he loses his mind. Like, he doesn't know what play the call. And I want Ross to look up that game against Kansas City in the playoff game in third quarter. We're still in the game when I think they called like a Tritch left where they threw it to DeAndre and he shuffled it back to Deshaun.

And then after the play, it looked like they were in the backyard laughing at each other because they don't know what the hell they were doing. So to me, I mean, I think he needs to give up one of them titles after this failure of this year if they do play. Well, I'll tell you this, Mo, between you and me, just you because we're friends. If the Texans go 4 and 12, I hope that Cal McNair rises to the occasion and says, you know what, you can't be our general manager and can't be our coach. I would like to let you go. And I would love for the Texans to go seriously go after the guy.

I think it will be the hottest commodity in assistant coaching this off season, which will be, and if everything works out according to plan, Eric Bienimi, the offensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs. And I don't care if he's black, Hispanic, white, Chinese. Eric Bienami is a very quality assistant coach and has been for quite a few years now and deserves the opportunity to run his own ship and I would love for him to do it in Houston, Texas. Exactly, exactly.

And the thing is he's more of an offensive-minded coach instead of putting a quarterback guru, the way Bill O'Brien does, I think Biener's like you're saying, he knows how to open up the office. So thank you, Matt, and I'm a real fan of y'all's man. Thank you. We're trying. I don't get the call.

because I'm a postman. I don't get to get on the phone, but, you know. Oh, and do me a favor. Can you keep playing that commercial from Danny Glover, with his parents being postal service employees? Man, we really need y'all help right now. What do you need help from? What can I do for you?

No, from the postal service. We just need more promotion because we're out there every day and nobody really talks about the postman, you know? Well, Mr. Postman, look at me. I want you to deliver a letter from me, Mr. Poe-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-S-man. Thank you, Mo. appreciated it. That was a terrible reference. A Beatles song, ironically enough, that was covered.

They sing Mr. Postman. Oh, well, they covered somebody else. Yeah, they covered. I want to remember who it was, Martha and Vendell's or whoever. But the Beatles did it better. Okay. It's early Beatles for me, not my jam, but... The Marvelettes.

Thank you, Moe for the phone call. Yeah. Look, Bill had a... Bill was compassionate this week. Yes. It's nice. Yes. Sorry that it took a terrible situation of social events for him to be compassionate and at least show it. But I'm not going to interrupt, interrupt that what I think of as a football coach and general manager. They're never going to the Super Bowl with Bill O'Brien as a head coach and general manager.

And I'll eat the big, big, big steaming pile of crow when I'm wrong. You can serve it to me, sports, Harvey. I'm not going to get my hands on a crow. I don't think you can buy that at the market. All right. Listen, we need some beetle aficionados to call the show and be our judges. What are like a beetle person who's like a really big into the beat? Like, for example, you're a parrot head if you love Jimmy Buffett.

You can be a beetle maniac. Beetle man. Yeah. Or you can just be a regular beetle fan. Okay. I'm a regular, like, respect to Beatles, not really huge into their music. Good enough for me. I already know who won this one.

Yeah. If you would like to be a judge in the Fantasy 5, Joe George is back from his two-hour lunch. She also says I'm number one. Oh, Joe. That was really sweet of you. We need some judges. If you'd like to be a judge for the Fantasy 5 best Beatles songs ever, 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-790.

The Fantasy 5 Best Beatles Songs next on 790. When you get home, Alexa, play Sports Talk 790 on I-hard radio. Real honest, real unbiased. On it, not-biased. Sports Talk 790. Real Texas. Talk here. It is time for the Fantasy 5 on Sports Talk 790. Joe George, happy birthday, my friend.

Not my birthday, it's your birthday. What's your birthday? January 4th. What can I get you? Money. Okay. You are stepping in because Ross Villarreal, who is a two-time loser in a row to the Fantasy 5,

has decided to wig out on this because he's not a Beatles officionado like you and I are. Yikes. Although, after looking at your... list. I don't know how big of an aficionado you are. Why? It's a rough list. No, it's not. And I shouldn't give, I shouldn't give out any. You're trying to skew the system!

Yes. I think you're pixel for the That's true. You got to, the judges have to be fresh, man. You're right. You're right. Objective judges. We need one more. We got four of the five lines lit. 713, two, one, two, five, seven, ninety. The category today is, best beetle songs. Now, honestly, I could give you 30 different list of the same, of different

groups of songs. Sure. I think it's just depends on... They're my all-time favorite group, so it's just easy just to pick a bunch of things. I think that was my problem. So, even though I've chosen these five, it doesn't necessarily mean they're absolutely my favorite five,

because you've taken a couple of things that I love. But more importantly, you didn't take songs that it didn't love, so that makes it even... Okay, sorry, no prejudge on this one. He's just hard to screw me over, Ross. There's no chance. You can help me out here? Your list is going to do all the work for you.

All right. Joe is the guest, so I gave him the option of having the first overall pick or going with the snake system and taking picks number two and three. And you decided to do what? I took the snake. All right. So I get the very first pick. I'm more of an aficionado of late Beatles than I am early Beatles.

And that there is a song that is still played on classic rock stations to this day. It is a song that has played at the end of every one of Paul McCartney's concerts and has been that way probably in the last 40 years. it is one of the all-time greatest songs. Not forget Beatles. Speed it up here, man. I speak of Hey Jude. First of all. Is this the Beatles even singing this?

Yeah. It's like a remake or something. Would you get this from? It's from the remastered version, I think. Sounds like they got higher tenured pitches. Pitch. It's a little different, yeah. Oh, that might be just the equipment.

Okay. All right. Well, there it is. number one overall pick to me, Hey Jude. You, my friend, Joe George, friend of the show, you get the next two picks. My first pick from the Beatles is

Come Together. Great song. Very good. Nonsensical lyrics. And this is why the Beatles are awesome because this song, keep it up a little bit, this song was made by the same group that gave you, please, please me. I mean, you know, they have such a wide variety a decade. I agree. And honestly,

this would have been my first pick. Great, great drum solo. So I was very happy that you went with Hey Jude. I mean, just great lyrics on that one. He wear no shoeshine. He got toe jam football. He got monkey finger. For the longest time, I was uneducated for a while, and I thought

for some reason they were USC fans. And I thought it said Trojan football. You were also the one and thought that Elton John's most famous song was Hold Me Closer. Now Tony Danza, right? Hold me closer, Tony Danza. No, I don't know.

Did I? I used to think Purple Hays by Jimmy Hendrix was, excuse me, while I kissed this guy. Ah, very nice. My next pick is, uh, from the Beatles is all my loving. Early Beatles, really good.

I realized why I made the picks I did. Why is that? I love across the universe. What is that? That's a movie. Okay. Now, you use this song as your wedding? No, I drafted the wrong song. I froze. He seized up like three times and five picks.

I froze when I said that. And I was like, wait, I chose the wrong song. That's a good. Again, I love that. I love all those songs. Nothing wrong so far. So far. It's going to get worse, though. Next up, this is going to be a top 10 as well. This is Paul on lead vocals. This is a song that talks about his childhood. It's a song that gets you emotional, it's just let it be. I can play silence for the next three songs and I've already beaten. Great record.

I can't believe about it. This is a great song. Joe messed up letting the slip. I know. Joe, you're supposed to be irresponsibly confident in your picks. Next, a song that was recorded intentionally over modulator. and it's pulled off beautifully. It is a song that spoke of change.

It's timely. Frankly, it is timely. It's revolution. I'm more of a Paul fan than I am John, but he kills it here. This is such a good song. That's all right. So all three of my songs are post-1967.

It's trying to show you where I am on the Beatles timeline. Okay. I don't really know my timeline, frankly. Okay. That's all right. No worry about that. They're all great. All right. My next pick, as a snake comes back to me, is she loves you. Very early Beatles. You really don't like the song. Not really. This is my own of mine. Again, I'm more 60-60 to 64, just not my jam.

This is catchy. This is Ed Sullivan. Definitely. This is what got Beatlemania started. And you sing to, you know the words to it. It's very true. It's also, I don't know the words. With a love like that. What? It's up to pick number four.

And my next pick. This is also one of my all-time favorites, and I was surprised, honestly, it lasted this long. Is help from my friends. I love the high part of it for Ross. Kid it. Thank you. This might be my favorite Ringo star vocal.

Joe Cocker made this way better. I will agree with Ross. It's probably a good... Honestly, that's a song. Joe Cocker's little help of my friends beats this one. I don't say that very often about remakes. It's not a terrible take. Next, this is more mid-60s for me.

I have the last two picks and then I'm done. This was covered by several people, including Stevie Wonder, but the original is the best. And it's something that Ross and I say every day after a big argument on our show. I say, Ross, we can work it out. If you get a tambourine in a song, good drums, duet, good harmony, We can work it out. All right. And last thing, the Fantasy 5,

so many different options around the Sun. But I went with a George Harrison song. Here comes the Sun. Very catchy. Honors the great voice of underrated voice of George Harrison. Nobody in the whole band could sing. Oh, shut your dirty pie hole. I just like how annoyed you get when Ross hates on the Beatles.

Because I'm used to it. It's been doing it for a decade. All right, my friend, you have... All right, my last pick. The last song. My last pick, this is... I was, uh, when I was younger, I was raised on this song. It was my cousin's favorite song.

It is a song that introduced me to the Beatles. It is the reason why I'm a Beatles fan. I know Matt Thomas hates my pick. You go from the heart sometimes, Joe. Picking from the heart, Octopus's Garden. It's not that, I don't know why you hate it so much. How high were they when they wrote this one? Super.

They were all, let me tell you something. I don't know the Beatles. They all were just gnawing on shrooms every five minutes. You have to be in the Octopus's Garden. That's actually not a bad Ringo star. Hey, when Ringo and his All-Star band comeback, we come with me? Yes, absolutely. We saw it when they were Cynthia Woods a few years ago.

Really good show. So two of the four still alive? Two of the four. It's good. And I think Ringo's even older than George, right? I think Ringo's almost 80. Probably. I mean, I'd ringle,

George, or wring old than Paul. Paul, yeah. Paul's, I don't know if you guys are under the carpal karaoke that James Corden does.

Oh, my God. The Paul McCartney one is awesome. The whole hour. And I'm like, I'm a very, I'm a man's man, you know what I'm saying? I cried like a baby

during that whole episode. Really? Oh my God. When they, when they like open the curtain out of the lower? Which was rehearsed, of course.

Everything. But I mean, him talking about James Gordon talking about his grandfather, His grandfather singing and talking about Let It Be. I mean, wept like a damn baby. Really? All right, back to some Fantasy 5 music, please.

So let's go with the categories. I have, Hey Jude, Let It Be, Revolution. We can work it out, and here comes the sun. You have come together, all my loving. She loves you, a little help from my friends and Octopus's Garden. Hell yeah. Let's find out who wins the Fantasy 5. Scott and Katie on 790.

wins Joe or me. Scott? You got it. Thanks, Scott. What do you say, me? Have you worth it? Now you didn't tell him to go to hell, Joe. No, he's polite. You're way more plodder than I am, Joe. I get it. We'll see. Mike in Missouri City, Mike who wins a fantasy five, me or Joe? I'd say Joe, because he picked come together with the perfect blend of Poppin, Hard Rock. Boom! It's a good song. I can't argue with you on that. I got a vote, baby!

Look how excited you are. See, it gets you kind of fired up. for all the wrong reasons. Tony on 790, Joe or me on the Fantasy 5. Okay, guys. The only thing that kind of happened for me was you guys kind of made it like almost like a great hit album of songs everybody knows because

when you're kind of sores and stuff, I mean, my... All right, let's get out with it. Who's... Yeah, who do you got? I mean, I'm going to go with Matt, but I was hoping here like the continuing story of Bunglow Bill or, you know, Blackbird.

Oh, Blackbird is a great song. I know. I got it wrong. Thank you for the Blackbird. Great song. But just didn't make the list. Kenny and Kingwood, who's got the, on the Fantasy 5? Who wins me or Joe?

It's a lot closer than you think, Matt. His list is not terrible at all. But I got it. All right. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Love the cable. But you knew that was coming.

Yeah. Line 5. Jason and Sugarline. Who wins me or Joe? Well, I got to tell you, I do this professionally. I sing professionally, although right now I'm out of work because of the pandemic. But you picked two of my favorite songs, the first two you picked. However, you only had three that I liked, and he had four that I liked.

So I got to go with Joe. Boom! What is it, three, two now? Let's go. Uh-oh. He's going to come back from a three-one lead? Is Matt going to blow a three-one lead, like the Warriors? All right, we need two lines, Phil.

We've already got, I've got to hang these people up here. Let's 7-1-3-21-2-5-79 if you want to judge. I have three. Joe has two. You want to keep me out of it. Joe's hoping for Ross not to get involved. All right, let me go. Line one, who wins, Ross or me?

Or Joe or me. Let me put him on the ear here. Let me. Line one, who do you got, Joe or me? Hello? Oh, no. Whoa. Game seven, baby.

Game seven. Come on, line two. Ruined Matt's birthday. Matt loses this one. Oh, his birthday. It's just... Let's go! This will be as rigged in the history of fantasy.

This is the last ever fancy fire. Octopus's Garden. It's a great song! Line two, who do you got, Joe or me? Hello? Hello? Hey, Matt, it's Tracy. I gotta tell you, I got to go with Joe.

Thomas blew a 3-1 lead. No, the idiots that called in blew the 3-1 lead. You're Shannon Tracy from UVC Power Sports. I don't know who that is. Happy birthday, Matt Thomas. Take that L, baby. Thank you, Shannon Tracy. Seriously, you have got to be kidding me. Matt is so upset.

I'm not upset. I'm upset for beetle connoisseurs. How ridiculous that is. You know what? Seriously, next Friday, I'm out as a protest. Matt has finally decided to protest, the Fantasy 5. Oh, I feel so great right now. This is the biggest embarrassment.

of my 25-year, almost 30 years in the business. Octopus's Garden. She loves you. And a little help of my friends, where Joe Cocker sang it better than the Beatles did? Time for a break. For a long one, I'm out of here. I'm going to take it early.

Matt's out of here. We'll be back next. Final segment to see how much you guys paid Joe George to win. 248 on 790. Greg Vizzo here. The heart of the order is up right now. Matt Thomas is swinging for the fifth. here on Sports Talk 790.

I list is better. Ross would have voted for me if we were to play by real rules. Hey, how do you go to hell? That made my weekend. I bet it did. I got some more news for your weekend. Oh, God. Uh-oh.

Do you? No, I just read that. What does that even mean? I'm scared. It's cryptic for a reason. Like when Matt would say, I hope you get the destiny you're so richly deserved. It was scary. when you lose these things on your own show and you go into the weekend

does it does it ruin the first part of it no is dinner not as good no dinner's good then i'm going to loopy tortillas tonight oh that sounds good put lime on the fajitas if you get them yeah pulse the onion it's amazing lime is so good and the original sauce the more of the pico vest the blend itself i'm not a big fan of how's your wife it's good i wanted to be like patrick beverly yeah she's good say hello to missus what did he say Say a Hillary wife for me. I think I found you. I'll talk from it and I think I found it somewhere.

Okay, what's coming up on the A team? This is called Cross Talk. We are going to have Al-a-Kambiziani to talk about the Rockets. We may or may not have a couple of special guests, but if they... How special are you making them up or are they roll a couple special? Mr. Bunn? Bumby? Okay.

Bumby? Bumby? Bumby? Yeah, Bunby. But that's not Lockton Stone. In fact, at this point... At this point, if he does make it on to the program, I'll be shocked. Okay.

It's a schedule thing. Sure. But, yeah, Lex and I'll have it out about all things. Are we going to have baseball? No. I don't feel like we are. It's not looking great. I think Lex will discuss that quite a bit.

It's been a roller coaster for me. I felt like at first there was nothing going to be, and then I felt like maybe a few days ago. I think by Monday I thought it may be something when the players submitted their thing. Now it's now. Joe and I have always been on the side that we don't, for about a week or so that we don't think it's going to happen. Wex has been steadfast. It's going to happen. It's just a matter of how many games. I think I will say that there just would be, they would be too stupid to not do that. The clip I have is from you. Oh, okay, good. You sent this to me on December 21st, 2016.

This is pre-unpaid vacation. Brendan, put this on my computer up here. This is Pat Beverly talking about my wife. Here we go. Let's see. I haven't heard this in a while. Don't heard yourself. Well, I hope you doesn't cuss. Why is my audio I'm proud of you, too. You look nice. Hey, hey. Hey, brother, I'm proud of you too, man. You look nice, man. Tell your wife I say hello, too. You better be careful now. Take it easy, brother. Always know.

Definitely. Take your wife, I said hello. My wife on the radio. That's unacceptable. All he said was tell your wife I said hello. Like, he, every time Say hello to your mother for me. That's when you stopped doing post-game interviews. We did them. We did them. Craig doesn't do him anymore. I do them

on the road sometimes. Yeah, he's at it. Well, didn't you have a couple of dump issues? With Patrick Beverly? My favorite was I was interviewing Klincapella after a game. We were in Phoenix, and we're on the court in Phoenix, and he's looking around trying to find me. Yeah? I was right in front of him. That's funny.

You weren't really someone in his life that was prominent is what you're saying. Hey, happy birthday, by the way. Thank you. Did you like my post? Yes. Everybody's enjoying the throwback to the voice of my childhood. Yeah, you always like to drop that in. But it's true. I was 13 and 14.

How old are you now? 39. I'm 48. I'm 9 years older than you. You're almost 50. Oh, my God. It's not his fault. You were a young broadcasting prodigy, Matt. Yeah. I was 22 doing the PA. Had the greatest gig in America at the NBA finals.

You should be proud of being the voice in my childhood. Maybe you should judge the Fantasy 5. Does a pour salt on my wounds next week. You lost. On your own show. Up next, the Adam Wexer Show here on Sports Talk 790. Have a good weekend.