The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - More Astros Injuries & Where Rockets Fans Energy

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

More Astros Injuries & Where Rockets Fans Energy

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Mac Thomas show. 1201 on Sports Talk 790. What's happening in lunch timers? I've got some more bad news coming from Dusty Baker. Yeah, yeah. We got some update.

He's sore this morning. He's going to return to Houston. this afternoon to get MRI. And, you know, we're being very cautious with it because he's had it before. And so we're putting him on the IL and we're calling up CNL Perez. Ah, great. How does team in baseball?

Certainly didn't feel like it. Should feel like it. Why can't we have nice things? Great starting pitching? Yeah. Really good hitting like last night. At least last night. Holy smokes.

Kyle Tucker is the goat. Well, what's a baby goat? Uh, I have no idea. I don't know the animal chain. I know that a baby, a baby kangaroo is a Joey.

Okay. Puppie goes to dog, kitten goes to cat. Oh, it's a kid, that's right. Or a Billy. Kyle the kid. Okay. And then we got Bregman

who's going to rip a solid base hit. He's rounding first base and then he pulls up and then he goes a second. And then he puts his hand up in the air. And then he walks right. Well, he limps right to the dugout. We knew that wasn't going to turn out well. No, that wasn't. And God loved Jeff Blum for trying to sell it as a cramp early on.

And then about five seconds after he said it, he's like, ah, no, this doesn't look like a cramp. He was optimistic, like all of us. You know, it's funny, our travel budget here at 790 because of all the astro injuries is increased. have sent Florida Evans at Denver. She was there to to cover the game. To cover the game for Sports Talk 7-90. Damn, down, down! No, Flo? Oh, no! Thanks for the report, Flo.

Oh, SportsRB, we just can't have nice things. No. Seriously, you've got Justin Verlander, Roberto Osuna, Michael Brantley, who will be coming off the aisle soon. You're going to now put Alex Spregman on there. Who am I forgetting? Anybody that we

really miss and care about? Did you say Yordon Alvarez? Oh, Yordon Alvarez. I forgot about that. Rookie of the year. If you just want to call the show and cry for an hour, that's how long our show is we have a snack-sized edition of the show. We have Astros on deck at 1 o'clock. This chair is like Yordon's knees. It's creaky.

Are you okay? Hear that? Yeah, I don't like that chair. I don't know. This chair sucks. A former host here used to use that chair a lot. All right. 71321.

If you just want to call and cry, here's how it works. You pretend you're a caller. Hey, Matt. Oh, no, no, I got to go to you first. I got to punch you up first. Let's go to line one. Line one, you're on 790.

Okay. Line two, Ross, calling out on a mobile on 790. Ross, how are things? Hey, Ma'am. Yes, you are. Oh, I want to talk to Matt. This is Matt. What can do for you?

Oh. Hey, Matt. Do you watch the game last night? I did. Also listen to it right here on Sports Talk 790. Bats are going pretty good, weren't you? they? Yeah, they were.

All right, Matt, thanks. Oh. So apparently, Ross on a mobile was not overly concerned with the fact that Alex Bregman pulled up and is now going on the injure list and has an MRI standard. No, you're not.

We put you. No, I cut people off very quickly on the show. That's a model of the Matt Thomas show. Okay. I can't sit in this chair. Is it noticeable on air? Just get this one. I'll wheel it over to you right now.

Okay. Well, all right. So let's do this. We're only on for an hour today. This is like a pit change This is seriously This is, yeah And the key to a good pit change

Is making it short And nobody gets hurt And nobody gets set on fire Okay, oh, we're much better You have a clock on me? What was the time? This is actually a grown-ass man's chair You see how like gay

I'm like four inches taller now I'm like your pit crew Yeah The show is on the AT&T Sportsnet Hala at the boys They could have seen the pit crew Change really quick Yeah, exactly

Driver gets all the glory But it's really the pit crew That do you still get paid Well, not as much as the driver That's true. Dea bonus? Well, not as much as the driver. That's true.

This is a terrible conversation. All right. So we got an hour of show today. And then we have at one clock, I'll go to Astros on deck mode. And you will go and do show prep for Friday mode. Yeah, I'll go into, I don't have to do any Rockets, pre-year post or anything. You get a one-hour day. Yeah, I might get day drunk, Matt.

Watch a little Astros and Rock. Playoff Rock. and Astros at the same time, beers might be cracked. This is crazy. So we have, and look, to be brutally honest, we like games that start before 7 o'clock

because in the radio world, our main hours of broadcasting, where the radio station, this is with any station, no matter if it's rock and roll, country or sports, is what they call 6A to 7P. It's a 13-hour day where,

would you say Ross, 95% of the money's made? Yes. Probably give her 10%. take. It depends on some. Maybe some people will do some stuff at night. But we, we as a company, make our money, especially in this radio station, between six and seven. So anytime we have a sporting event in that window, which primarily would be after, we'll say 12 or 7, it's good for all of us. Because we attract more listeners than certainly this piss ant show we do. And so if we get Astros

Day games, they're like, this is good because Astro fans will be bumping around. They're driving home. They can't be in front of television. We get the radio, blah, blah, blah, blah. When we get a Rockets Day game, this is interesting too, because again, it's before 7 o'clock. Yes. But it's not the greatest thing when they're playing at about the same time. It's never happened. Rockets Astros are 210. Rockets and Thunder are about 240.

Again, I might get pushed to 247 depending at the first game, what's going on right now in the T&D? It's the opening. Whatever it is. Whatever early game gets bumped back a little bit. They haven't started yet. Heat Pacers is about to start. So that's the thing. the conundering. We would like to be able to double

dip. We're going to send the rockets over to KTRH. We're going to send you home early today, drink. Hannity fans are not going to be happy. Oh, no. Or nor are the Rush fans. No, they, they, they, Rush Limbaugh is still cranking out shows. And he's not doing well. I thought that's what I was going to say. He's really sick. What a warrior. I always thought David Stern.

Howard Stern was the greatest radio personality of all time. It's Russian and it really ain't even close. Yeah, I don't have to agree with everything he says, but I respect him as a broadcaster. He has been doing this. I got into business. The colded microphone, EIB. Oh, snorley here with me. Al Rushbow. He has been doing this

probably what since about the late 80s. Okay. And has been on top. There has never been a talk show host, much less conservative talk show host, that has tried to go mono-a-mono with him. And if they have, they've lost. Probably the second best

nationally respected talk show host is probably Hannity. And I think the drop from one to two is considerable. Yeah, as I said, I respect Rush Limbaugh as a broadcaster. And he's a hack, but that's my opinion. Well. He's a radio, like from a radio standpoint. Let me tell you, the man's got scoreboard and he's just as powerful and popular as he was when he was. Because that's how the radio station I used to work for, 700 got started, was that this young guy

named Rush Limbaugh was doing a national radio show on conservative talk, and as he exploded, so did our company. Yeah, well, there's some very successful radio hosts who are hacks, Colin Cowhert. He also, by the way, doesn't believe the Rockets should make the playoffs, and the Westbrook combination with Hardin's not good. By the way, Westbrook's got to be ruled out for today, right? I mean, I would imagine, yeah. I haven't seen the injury report.

Well, Dan Tony's going to speak at 1245, so I'm sure we'll get the care. And, you know, remember when you and I first talked about this, by way, thank you for filling in yesterday. You're welcome? I had never thought he was going to be in first two games. It's just, it quads just don't, I think quads are a lot slower to heal than we ever want to think about. Well, and the report from Jonathan Fagan, who's not going to go out there and just run with anything. It was said at least the first two games.

I don't think he said that. He said early. I don't think he meant, I don't think he ever said. He said, I think it was vaguely the least the first couple. Yeah, and you could figure that up. But the thought I heard was it was going to be probably the first two, which again would then put him, they don't play again until Saturday after this. So that puts them at a good, strong week plus to rest the thing. Yeah, I think the injury report is Luke Richard Baumutteamad is out.

I know you're devastated with that one. And then also Russell Westbrook out. That's the only people on the injury report for the Rockets. All right. So we are open line up until 1250. Then I will do the Rockets lineup. Will you film it for us again? Okay.

By the way, for those of you playing at home, he did roll his eyes and you did hear the, and his voice. Yeah, I'll do it. At least this time we don't need to switch chairs in the middle. No. And by the way, people on Twitter loved it, but they didn't like the bum, bum, bum. We're going to find something else. Yeah, no, I mean, I was going to ask you off air if you wanted that again.

No, you're going to have something. We need something tension build. So why don't we come back from a break, every break so far today, and just find four or five things. Maybe we can find something that will fit. Now, we could also play the music from the musical Oklahoma, but that's people, singing in the background. Hmm. Okay. We need the appropriate

dramatic music to set the mood because we'll turn the lights off in here. We'll record it. Bada boom, butto be fired up. Hey, are Rockets playing and I don't think you're playing, what would be the phrase? When you already got one game one, you're already House money? That's exactly I was looking for.

Now, when road teams win in the playoffs, that's House Money when you split the first two games. Well, there's no such thing. I mean, game three will be technically in Oklahoma City home game, but it doesn't matter because they're playing in the bubble. So how fortunate would they be if the Rockets were to win both games without Russell Westberg? They'd be awesome. It'd be amazing. Does it slow down the Russ, take your time, be ready for that second round series?

Absolutely. As long as Russ can stay healthy, if they keep winning games, they're not going to rush Russ back. And that's definitely what you want. You need him healthy. If you're going to go up against, well, maybe the Blazers or the Lakers or whoever in the second round and then advance to the, maybe. the Mavericks or the Clippers, whoever. It didn't matter. There's going to be tough matchups in the Western Conference all over the place, so Rockets need everybody healthy. I've asked Sports RV his worry level for... Oh, Yordon Alvarez.

We will recap how it started, and ultimately how it ended right where I thought it would be, unfortunately. 713-212-5-790. If you'd like to join us today, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. If you want to reach out through Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Brendan Riley underscore. We've got your phone calls. We have the Rockets intro.

And then at 1 o'clock, it is Astros on deck, getting you ready for the finale of the series against the Belved. Are the Rockies just ambivalent to sports? People in Denver probably love them. But, I mean, does anybody hate the Rockies? No, they were at one point. You know how they did the Cross League rival? I think at one point it was the Rockies for the Astros. It still is.

It rotates between the Rockies and the Astros. Or in the Diamondbacks? Yeah. Okay. I didn't even realize they're still their rival. Now, see, next year it won't matter because the Astros put the National League West anyway because of the rotating division schedule. But yeah, nobody hates the Rockies.

You're ambivalent towards them. Yeah, I agree. Nobody hates the Astros except when 2020 rolled around. Well, everyone hates the Astros. And then everybody hates them. 713-21-2-5-7-90 with a message here for bronze roofing if you want to check on your roof I don't want you doing it it makes no sense for you to do that but getting a trained professional out there certainly does and that's why you got to call bronze roofing today that come up to your

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Bring me back something. Oh, you want me to? No. I'll be gone by the time you get back. All right. I'll see how it is. Hey, when I, we went to the Yordan's. scale of nervousness?

Yes. You started off at a four and a half? Four. Did you get to his highest six? Yes, or two days ago it was a six and a half to seven. And then, so he gets on the injure list, and that got you to six or seven. Yeah. But the MRI was clean, so that didn't get you.

Yeah, what happened? What was it? What is this BS about a clean MRI? How clean is this MRI? He's got a torn Patelor tendon and he needs surgery and he's out for the year. Your Honoris's knee is so creaky. How creaky is it? He had to go get a blank.

So I ask you at 1220 on a glorious Wednesday, Thursday. What's your worries of scale? Well, he's out for the year, Matt. So my worry level is zero now. There's nothing to worry about. He's gone. I don't have to think about him. When I got the news that there was an MRI and it was clean,

I mean, are they, are the Astros clueless or are they lying? Can you have a clean MRI? but that yet still have surgery. Well, did they not MRI? Did they only MRI his right arm and not his legs? I mean, I'm not a doctor normally playing on the radio. But that would be like a senior in high school getting an F on an exam, an F in a class, but still being able to graduate.

That's a terrible way. Well, they do that still. That's actually two of you pay off the coaches, but that's not here nor there. Sounds like you're speaking from experience. I may have given some sports tickets away when I was in college. I forgot about that. You're a bribe, or you're a briber. I was a horrible student at the end of the day.

Me too. That's my issues of occasional spelling of words. I got focus issues. Yeah. I listened to the show yesterday. I know what you're talking about. So is this now going to clean everything up? We're going to have a new and proved lighter feeling better about himself, Alex.

I mean, Jordan Alvarez, or are we going to be sitting here talking about Yordon's knees for the rest of his major league career? I mean, a Pettler injury is major. And is he 23? Yeah. 24-year-old? I'm supposed to have knees. Old dad bod, 48 year old dude's got knee issues.

My knees are better than his. And I don't play baseball. Can you donate? To do what? Donate your knees. I'll give him some cartilage. Yeah, we'll give them some patellar tendons. Is that what it takes?

Yes. Because things in life I've donated. Blood. Yeah. Plasma. Seed. That. Not true on that one.

Just asking. Although that's very profitable, I believe, correct? I don't know. Could you ever do Do you ever imagine doing that? I mean for money, yeah. But knowing that there is a little Ross Villarreal running around this country somewhere

and you have no idea what he looks like. Yeah, you're welcome, everyone. Oh, you're saying that there's multiple Ross, little Ross is running around? No. No, that wouldn't bother me. I don't care. It really wouldn't bother.

You wouldn't be curious. No. Oh, I would be. I'm not saying I wouldn't do it as a young single guy, but I would be curious about who's out there. And I guess, I don't know. It's not my son or daughter if I'm not raising them. So who cares?

Well, I'm saying I would care. That you're sending who I would say I would be cured. It doesn't mean I would want a relationship, but I'd be curious what's out there. Once I get that EFT hitting the bank account, I'm done. Brendan, we work with a kind, heart, a generous soul, don't we here? In the old show. I think I am, actually. Ross is one of the kindest people I know.

Thank you. Let's get you young and stupid. How about tacos? It doesn't hurt. So he's going to say that. And pizza wants, too. There we go. I think he's brought me food three times.

I know the way into Brendan's heart. So basically I'm working with two of the most shallow people in the world. That's fair. I get it. I get it. All right. How do we get to this? Oh, so you want me to donate knee plasma?

Yeah, but tell it tended. Telotenton plasma. This is not going to end well. I don't mean to be negative Nancy. Whoa. And I know people think I'm negative. You're going that card already? Hold on.

Let me get my nostrilongest pad. Go ahead and say something bold. He will continue to compete as an astro. Yeah. But this will not be anything close to the last we have to hear about Yordon's knees. Okay. That's not saying that he can't be productive. That's not saying that he's not going to build to hit home runs and that we're not going to be beyond excited.

Oron Alvarez will always have knee problems. Yeah, that's not that bold, is it? That's a two and a half star, three star selection. What do we say the other day? Once a knee, always a knee. Once a back, always a back? He's getting a fixed. Surge clear parries can be fine.

Okay. We know how you feel. Yeah. Brennan split the boat. And I'll buy you a cheeseburger. I'm on that side. Yes. Hold on.

Let me take that back. Ross. What will you buy me? Forget about food alone. What is your Detroit-style pizza? Well, your crystal ball says what? Forgetting about food bribes. I'm sorry.

I didn't catch either side. Let me go to lines. I didn't say he's just going to be fun. I'm saying, we don't know. I'm not his doctor. Of course we don't know. I'm asking you to make a prediction. Line three, what do you think about Yordons?

knees line four well make a I'm not his doctor I haven't seen the charts I'm going to say he's I would say if we were on Gray's anatomy and we were walking around from hospital bed to hospital bed mm-hmm patient 24 years old yordaunt alvarez who's that main chick what's her name Meredith gray yeah and they would say wait a minute why does this guy have knee problems at 24 and then the doctors would say let's go look up the research on men who have problems when their knees at 24 yeah

usually 24 year old men with knee issues probably aren't going to have similar issues at 27 he's going to be fine he's going to have a 10 year storied career he's going to the Hall of Fame he's going to hit 447 home runs to pass Jeff Bagwell for the franchise lead by one

or he could play 25 games again for the Astros hopefully I'm wrong on that well you know neither of us know So if you're going to sell out one way, I can sell out the other. Perfect. It worked out perfectly that way. I'm hoping I'm wrong. That's the thing about me.

I'm hoping. What I make predictions or say, it's in the hopes that I can have to eat crow or say, man, I was wrong on that one. Like, I'll give you, are you ready for a wrong prediction? Yes. I got a list of them. Framber Valdez.

Last year, it was painful to watch him pitch. Now, grand, he had very few high-levered situations in order to succeed. But every time Framber walked out there, I'm like, oh, my God. Here comes two walks, three runs scored, inning in a third. He's thrown 51 pitches. He's sweating profusely. This isn't good to good. He was fantastic again yesterday.

He's been really good this year. So, ladies and gentlemen, you know what we ought to do? We should create a new segment called what kind of crow is Matt having today. Today, mine is buffalo chicken flavored. I think crow is very difficult to eat, and that's why it's the, the, trope. Like it's, it's very chewy and difficult and not flavorful. But buffalo food, but if I put

buffalo sauce on it, Buffalo Crow. Like a Franks Red Hot, if you will? That sounds disgusting. Franks Red Hot can repair anything. I'm having Franks Red Hot Crow today on Framber Valdez. Framber Farnber Valdez. Is it Framber or Framber? It's Frumber. Okay, but nobody says that. Well, I do. You're the only one.

Matter of fact, I've listened to you, talk Astros. You never go Frumber. So, there you go, gang. I'm having some barbecue-flavored crow. Okay. And Frank's hot crow. Wonderful.

And I'll do this again. And by the way, the biggest crow that I'll eat, which will be like Thanksgiving buffet style is when Bill O'Brien takes the Texans to the Super Bowl because I have not backing off on that. Yeah. That ain't happening. Hope you're prepared for that. Yeah, it's probably not going to happen.

I actually have the percentage on my side. You know, I got one. Cliff's Kingsbury is never taking the Arizona Cardinals to the Super Bowl. Bold prediction. That's not that bold. Yeah, neither is the Bill O'Brien one. No, no, no, no, actually, I meant to say that other thing. That's bolder than mine.

You think so? Yeah, if you were to... I think Arizona's an up-and-coming team. Tell me who the dominant team in the NFC is. San Francisco Giants, Seattle Seahawks, New Orleans Saints. But are you telling me in the next five years of the 49ers, the Saints and the Giants? And then who did you say the third doing was? Saints, maybe not because of Drew Brees.

You think the Niners are going to? going to be year and year out. The Niners smell like to me a six and ten football team that Jimmy Garoppolo is due for a step back. I'm not going there. I think the Niners are going to be really good. Okay. I would say in the next ten years

the Arizona Cardinals are going to go to the NFC championship game and they might even win it. Okay. Well, I'm saying Cliff Kingsbury will never take him to the Super Bowl. Okay. Now, Brendan, if we were talking about the Detroit Lions saying that XYZ coach would never take him to the Super Bowl, is it Matt Patricia

to the coach there? Yeah. That's not bold because they've never gone. The boldest prediction you could make is that anyone would take them to the Super Bowl. I got another one. Adam Gase never taking the New York Jets to the Super Bowl. Lock it in. But the difference is that the Jets suck.

The Texans have talent. They're okay. If you want to consider division playoff appearance after division playoff, I just, I think playoff Bill O'Brien is well below average. I think 51 to 7 in a run in a divisional game could probably improve that point. But the problem is we know, here's the thing, Ross. We don't care what Arizona does. We only care about Houston.

That's true. And we care that Houston's never going to the Super Bowl until Bill O'Brien has removed his head football coach. Maybe he'll go as a general manager, but certainly that has a coach. 1229 on Sports Talk 790. Hi, this is Eric Dickerson. You're listening to Sports Talk 790. Real Texans talk here. Oh, this is it, right?

This is what you want to play. Lineups in 15 minutes. What is this? This sounds like the beginning of Benny Goodman's Sing, Sing, Sing. But that's better than the mention of him we played. Where did you find this? Good job by you. This is nice.

I literally built up tension, or I searched tension building drum beats. Boom. You can find any of that on YouTube these days. It's so great. I found my way to, the first one I found was shamanic drum beats with humming. I had to find one without the humming. You know what I do want to do? I don't think it's kosher anymore.

No, Matt, you can't do that's offensive here. Let me get a phone call in. Let's go to Larry and Galveston on 7-90. Hi, Larry. M.T., how are you? Well, I'm great, thank you. I tell you what, this Yorgon-Alvarez thing is just really got me blown over.

But you know what? I'm really surprised that you and RV haven't really even brought this part of this possible equation up as far as what really caused his battalette to get messed up on his knee. And, you know, it's really pretty obvious. poor Yardine, poor Yoron, unfortunately, got in touch with Carlos Correz, masseuse, and she just worked him over just a little bit too hard. And we need to put some restrictions on that girl so that she doesn't get to our Astros anymore. What do you think? Thanks, Larry.

Larry, I think you're drinking too much of the sea salt in the bay. Oh, yeah, buddy. Sea water. See you, buddy. Larry is a great listener to the show. We appreciate you, Larry. We love Larry like an older brother. Like a weird uncle that you see only on Thanksgiving. But you just got to leave the comedy to us.

I think I'm a pretty funny person. I'm a terrible joke teller. Are you? Yeah, all the worst. Okay. But I'm just naturally funny. That was just, that was a little, that was rough. All right.

We've not gotten to the NBA yet. How were the calls yesterday after that very impressive win over Oklahoma? Oh, do you want to know how many Rockets calls I got? In the three hours of the show? In the three hours. I believe I got one. Was it from Girard with a full, it was Gerard? Like the four minute recap?

Well, he talked Altuvae's batting stance for the first minute and a half, but then he went into, uh... Yeesh! Well, clearly Altuve listened to he got his only his third multi-hit game of the years last night, so. Blessings. That was, yeah, that was good to see. But yeah, we got not a whole lot of, right. Now, I'll tell you this, Matt, if they had a loss by 15 and James Hardin went three at 12 from three, probably would have gotten a lot more.

That's okay. I have a, I'm afraid that, you know how I like I like to do Instapulse on my Twitter account? I'm definitely afraid to ask what everybody's watching. And I think you are too. Like, for instance, I have a lot of people that follow me on. Twitter because they're Rocket fans and I'm associated with the team. Matter of fact, we're going to do a lot of I'm here in about 10 or so minutes. And I love those people.

And I value them tremendously because that's the audience that likes the Rockets and anything we talk Rockets. They just get really excited. I don't know if it's because it's Orlando. If it's this late in the year, if it's, you can't get to the arena and feel the buzz. Because it's hard to feel the energy of a playoff game. Forgetting about the Black Lives Matter, forgetting about the political. forgetting about the political. I'm talking about just the game itself.

Is it hard to sit down? First of all, you can't go to the bars and watch. Right. You can go to restaurants, but they have to be mainly a restaurant that can serve alcohol. But it's mainly got to be a... A lot of sports bar to serve food, so...

Yeah, but it's got to be... But there just isn't, let's go down to Woodrow's and knock it out. You know what I'm saying? And maybe just the fact that they're in this very neutralized facility that you just can't feel the buzz of a playoff game when it's a thousand miles away

when it's supposed to be games one and two are supposed to be in your home building. Well, I follow a lot of national NBA riders and accounts and all that type of stuff. I feel like they're more on top of it and then maybe here locally. Maybe it's because the games are at 5.30 and 3 o'clock. Like who's got time to watch these games?

You've got other stuff going on, and you're going up against Astros. But I feel like even during the game, you know, I like to tweet during the games about stuff. And I feel like the reactions weren't necessarily there for game one. Even more so.

I feel like Astros' Twitter has kind of come back, but Rockets seems to be lacking a little bit. I was at a, I dropped Carly off at volleyball on Tuesday night. And so I got to there, where she plays volleyball in spring, there's a bar next to us. And some bar and spending money with us, they don't get to run. I went to the bar and watched, and I would say 70% of the televisions were on hockey. Nobody was watching them, but just hockey was on 70%. none of them. I sat down, I said, hey, the Rockets game starts in 10 minutes. Can you put it on? And the next question, of course, is what channel? Which I'm thinking, if you're a bar that

calls yourself a sports bar, you're down to about two choices, ESPN, TNT, or AT&T, and on most occasions, the two of the three are going to have them on. And the Rockets are playing, and then getting up for that great first quarter start. And really, the whole game was, it was very little lag. I mean, the Rockets were hit three. all over the place. They're playing defense. And there were just a couple of just faint collapse. And I looked around and I'm like,

is this not because the rockets have any energy? Or is it because it's 5.30 in the night or 6 o'clock? And usually you think about this, a home playoff game. It's 7, 730, 8, 8.30. You're home or you're at the bars with your buddies. Or you're at the game. You're at Papacitos before the game. And then you're at walk cross street.

Go the game. There isn't any of that. It's you got to get home and you've got to watch the game on the same floor that the game previously, or at least the same facility in Orlando. And I don't know how much that has had affected it. Or maybe it's just let's get to some 7 o'clock start times where people can get it home, not to worry about getting home from work, their kids are already done for their school activities, and maybe we'll start seeing some of that more of that, you know what, in vinegar.

Or there may just be a case Ross where they're saying this is fine beating Oklahoma City, but go beat the Lakers, go beat the clippers, and then we'll really get fired up. Maybe. But I feel like the storyline is good here, and the Oklahoma City or Thunder are good. They're good. And you want to beat Chris Paul and all that type of stuff,

and they did that. And maybe it didn't, there wasn't a lot of drama in the game, I guess. Maybe that kind of factors in the owner. I like ass kickings. Me too. Especially when it's a team that you like. I said in the post game,

like I love this. Make your threes, play defense, no drama, no heart attacks. We're all good. There's no, there wasn't no any. foul trouble issues. It wasn't. Rockets have missed nine of their last 15 threes. They haven't gone. They haven't scored a bat. I mean, they were knocking back threes. Everybody was getting involved. Hardin was spectacular. Eric Gordon basically morphed into Russell Westbrook.

He kind of gave up the three. He didn't have a couple, but he gave up the three. He was attacking the basket like Russ was. Poor Terrence Ferguson looked like a deer in headlice chasing after one rocket defenders. Shegildedges Alexander, who I like a lot, non-factor. And you like to say his name. Sheigilius Alexander. Well, as they say in the radio, SGA. Oh, that's, I don't like that.

Let me ask you this. I'm calling game three in the radio on Saturday. Do I go SGA? SGA sounds terrible. But it is, I mean, but it's a hell for a play guy. Yeah, because you're in basketball. You got to go.

So what I will do is I'm going to say it on Saturday night. Okay. 1244. We'll get to Jeremy on Tiki Island about Yorda and then the rocket lineups. 1243 Sports Talk 790 with a message here for TGS insurance. would you like to save money with a company that's going to find you the best policies for your home? And that's why you get with TGS insurance. You text the word money, Mone1E1 to 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23, 23.

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All right. Stand by for the lineups because the Rockins are 1-0-0 when I've done it, and we've got to get fired up. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Jeremy, Tiki Allen on the Matt Thomas show. Jeremy, what do you got today? Well, first off, I'll-l-l pretty hard at the, what did they do,

MRI, his arm. that was pretty funny. So my question is, maybe he's covered this, maybe they've talked about it, maybe they haven't. Was the Patello Tendon something that was, did he tear that because of other issues? Does he have a degenerative knee or deformed knee and making him sprint when he wasn't, you know, over that issue? Rupured his knee? Or is this going to be the end all, be all, we're good to go after this surgery? You know what?

it has been asked of all the things you just said and they don't have an answer. They don't, frankly, and Ross, you were talking with Dusty and it came out yesterday. Did they even announce how it happened whether he was going first, a third or something? Or where he got injured? I did not see that, no. They're being a little vague and I don't think it's because they're trying to hide it from anybody. I just don't think they know. That's ridiculous.

Okay, thanks. Okay. That was it. in this particular case, I do want my teams to be honest, because again, you're not sure. If it's terrible, it's okay. But would you, I think shoulder shrug doesn't necessarily help the cause either. There's nothing to hide. He's already out for the season.

You're not protecting him from the, you're not withholding information from your opponents or gaining an advantage anyway. He's gone. Right. He's for the season. So I don't understand that either. Yep. All right.

713, 21, 2, 5, 790. 713-212-5-790. You'll need that number for our Astros Tribute question. Today's question, I'm going to give you all a little hint. The question concerns something that happened with the Astros during the 1990 season. So old school. Can you give me the question? Is 99 old school?

Yeah, 21 years ago. When does it officially get out of... Okay, when it was 1990 and you were in high school, was 1970 old school? Yeah. So 20 plus years makes it old school? Sorry, man. Well, I mean, you can set the rule. Well, Brennan was like a toddler. I was six.

His 2005 old school. He was still in diapers. He was 2005 old school. He had that issue. What? 2005 is that old school. Retro? I don't know.

Semantics at this point. All right. 15 years? Is that old school? I like the 20 ruling. I think so. I think 20 sounds better. Yeah.

Okay. Here we go. You ready? Yeah. Lights have been turned off. No, I'm not. All right. First of all, would there be, we wouldn't be playing an afternoon Rockets game if it was in Houston. Everything, we'd have all these different buildings.

There would have been no such thing. So without any further ado, good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to Toyota Center for game two of the Western Conference playoffs. Now, let's meet today's starters. First for the Oklahoma City Thunder. at forward 610 from Italy number eight danilo gaunari the other forward six seven from Tulsa number 23 Terrence Ferguson center seven feet out of new zealand number 12 Stephen Adams at one guard six six out of kentucky number two shay gildjus alexander and the other guard six feet from wake forest number three Chris paul head coach of the thunder billy donovan it's time

With your Houston! At Garde, 6.4 from Indiana. Number 10, Eric Gord. At 4, 6.6 from Texas A&M. Number four, Daniel House Jr. The center, 6.8 from Tennessee State. Number 33, Robert Covington. At the other forward 6.5 from Texas, number 17, P.J. Tucker.

And the other guard, 6.5 from Arizona State, the beard. James Hardin. The head coach of the Rockets is Mike Dan Tony. We fired up now? We need the rocket-powered answer. We should have rocket-powered dancers here. Yeah, it should come in here during this. I wouldn't object.

We need clutch. I'd have... A clutch can stay. Just the dancers can show up. Now, where would you like the dancers to sit? Wherever they're comfortable. Great response. Brennan's like, can I get four of them in there?

I don't know if that follows social distancing guidelines. Oh, so you're saying that you would not want to break such guidelines in order for four extraordinarily attractive women to come in a minute. I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble. I follow the rules here. He has a real follower sports RV. So I guess I'll all have to come into here and do the show. Okay. I'm okay with that.

And Clutch can have that. Now, you can't bring that bazooka with him because he'll want to take our eyes out because they'll be shooting shirts out as a very close distance. Well, we can sue T.Lellman and get some money. We're not suing Tillman for that. Well, if a gun, if a T-shirt gun takes my eye out, yeah. So you're telling me that. Basically, you go in front of a judge and say, so what happened? How did you lose the eyesight?

Well, clutch came in the room. Blasted me in the face with a T-shirt gun. And destroyed my face with 14-1 mission shirts. I don't think it necessarily works too well. All right, Ross. You're part of the day. Your day is done. Bye.

I'm glad you were able to grind it out for us here. I'm going to have two TVs going to the Rockets and Astros, and it's going to be magnificent. All right. And your day drinking. Well. And text and tweeting. Yeah. And by the way, be careful with your tweets. What happened? What did I say?

Not you, but other people. Oh. I was like, I don't think I tweeted anything bad. Well, no, but my buddy the Charlotte Hornets announcer did. And then Tom Burnham in yesterday. Well, yeah, don't treat every microphone in your front of as hot, Matt. Especially when you're wearing a headset. Because you can't, when you're not wearing a headset, you can walk like this over here. But if you're right in front of it, then, yeah, because Brendan does a great job,

but Brendan does accident left their microphone on once or twice. And, you know, it is what it is. Come on, Brennan. But when you were in the headset, you absolutely have to pretend the microphone is out. All right. Thank you very much, Ross. Look forward to what anything goes Friday. We'll wake the strippers up tomorrow at 12 noon.

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