The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - NBA GM Survey & Return To Play Plan, Brian T. Smith, Fantasy 5

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Mac Thomas show. 1202 in H-town. Welcome to a Friday edition of the Matt Thomas show. Sports Talk 790 with my co-host

Ross, Villa Real. Our producer, our friend, a man who rallied on the non-flora stories last week. Friends now? Yeah, we've always been friends. We're just becoming good,

better friends. We've got his lunch. We're friends now. If you didn't get me lunch today, we would have still been friends. I don't know if Rossfield's the same way. Yeah, I need bribery. Yeah.

I mean, it didn't hurt. It did not hurt. How you doing, Matt? Good question. Any news in the, anything going on in news? That's a couple days. All right, I'll just get out of the way, and I guess anything goes Friday.

It is. I lived in Minneapolis, St. Paul, for three years other than St. Paul, but I worked in both communities. How far away is one? I know they are the twin cities. Eight miles apart. Okay. From downtown to downtown. Connecting highway or what? Yeah, it's 94, East-West Freeway.

What's the total pop of both of those? You put them together? They're probably... Metropolitan of Minneapolis, St. Paul's probably three or four million people? That's kind of a grandiose. Can you look it out? I'm Googling. First, I'm Googling the lyrics to how deep is your love.

3.28 million. Okay, so that's the two cities together. Yes. Really, really enjoyed my living there. There was just two problems. One, I didn't have any family there except does. And secondly, the weather is just obnoxiously bad. It's horrible for eight months a year.

I don't know how people live there. Well, people that fraud, you don't, like I was in the exception. I didn't go to Minneapolis. I mean, most people don't travel to take jobs in Minneapolis-State-Paul. Just happened that way. I was looking for work in 2005. I mean, this Minneapolis-St. Paul was among about one or four different places I could have gone. And I just chose there because it was a big sports city, new place to live, kind of that kind of thing.

And probably would have still lived there to this day, if not for the fact that I had no family there and the weather is just awful. I mean, you don't know what it's like until you've enjoyed a minus 15 day. Yeah, I think people, the first people who settled there were from like way up north in Europe, right? Well, the people they wanted, they were looking for weather similar to what they were coming from. You know how we always talk about Houston being a city of transplants? Yes. Just the opposite. Most people that live in Minneapolis or in the state of Minnesota are from that area or Wisconsin or Iowa.

They're very accustomed to the frigid cold temperatures. But it was a great place to raise my young family. My daughter Carly was born there. We still love going back. That's one of my favorite places to go in the NBA to see old friends. Great sports town. Great, great sports town. Really, really, really, super passionate about their teams.

Both college and pro for that matter. Netsurok is big cities don't typically do both, but Minnesota's big, big thing there. So I will just say the events of the last week have been absolutely horrific. And I don't think I need to go any deeper to that. I think we can all basically in unison say the tragedy of the lost life and everything that came with it. And the way that the police have mishandled the situation, needless, I don't need to go any more than it, right? I mean, I don't know. But what?

No, I'm just kidding. You know what I mean? There's nobody that's saying, oh, they did everything in the right way. Right? No one could be saying that. and so today we walk up this morning and i put on CNN just to kind of see what's going on and uh also have some friends that are on twitter and facebook that are they still look up there in some of the places that i went to the convenience store there was a drug store there was a liquor

store there was a there was a jewelry place that our radio station i worked at up up there was a big sponsor for i mean five or six landmarks within two months of my house have been vandalized, have been burglarized, have been looted on, have been a convenience store, you know, gas station, set a flame. Just really, really sad. So I went to Twitter and I said, man, this really is terrible that a lot of the places in around my area have been vandalized, looted, and destroyed. It was sad. And immediately somebody, a rock, his so-called rocket fan that lives in Chicago said, I can't, you know, when I did, I tweeted it out. and I misspelled a word.

I misspelled devastated. And so when you, you know, and Twitter doesn't let you correct your mistakes. So. I like that feature, by the way. Do you? Okay, I'm indifferent to it. So I took it down. It wasn't because I was getting any political brushback. It wasn't because I just said, you know,

and I, you know, you make mistakes. You sometimes you just take a tweet down. Did you make a mistake? I could have put it back up, but I was driving when I was doing this, and I thought, you know what? You don't drive in tweet, Matt. 280 characters driving at 65 miles an hour,

probably in the smartest. Yeah. But I have a radio show, so you guys can hear me say this. It's a very to see me just typing it. And this guy in Chicago says, I follow this guy, meaning me on Rock, because of the Houston Rockets. Oh, he gave you a little quote tweet. He quoted, he, quote, tweeted, and he also put at Houston Rockets. That's an extra little smarming when you put the quote tweet.

Yeah. And he goes, I can't believe I follow this guy. All he's worried about is the things in St. Paul are not worried about the bigger picture of this. And that's just couldn't be further from the truth. Mm-hmm. And so we had a little bit of back and forth, and essentially he's, you know, he called me a racist, which is par for the course what Twitter is. And so it just, it was just kind of a sucky morning. You can't say anything on Twitter in any way.

You can't even say like these are trying times or something like that without getting some kind of reaction. Yeah. Awful what's going on in Minneapolis with the police department is awful that what happened to, you know, it's just, you know, it's just, it's just we're in an awful awful time we have a pandemic we have we have riots we have bad police we have and to top it all off max scherzer is digging in with the players association and we're not and we're not going to have a baseball season unless things really change we're really we 2020 sucks i know matt

i mean give me the most redeeming thing of 2020 jeez joe you can jump into this Go ahead. I got married. You got married. You know what sucks? We wouldn't even go. That's not fair.

And you couldn't even go on a honeymoon. Yeah. So it's really 20. Yeah, that sucks. I would have added a lot to your wedding. And I would have given you a gift. And you could have gone on a honeymoon if it was a regular 2020 year. I've got the best of 2020.

What is it? Tiger King. Last dance was good, too. Documentaries are hot. They're so hot right now. I watch the Godfather. Oh, that's good. And I loved, and I've made, I mean, that's one of my bigger, bigger, what do you call, mass media,

pop culture mistakes I've made in my life. A faux pot, if you will. Yeah, a lot, lot sooner. A lot sooner. Yeah, you messed up on that. Because I loved the Godfather. I actually loved the Godfather. The first one, even better than the second one.

I'm on Teen Godfather one. There's a lot of people who are Teen Godfather 2 and I get that as well. So we were listening to the Beegeys before the show. Joe, that was good. So today I told Joe, I said, Joe, we need uplifting, interesting music that we all recognize. And so that's the goal today. And again, Bup music doesn't make a radio show. It doesn't.

It's what we talk about that makes a show. But I want to be in a good mood throughout the course of course of the day. So let's, and we got some things to get to in sports that aren't going to make you in a good mood. But you know what? I get some Texas is good news for you. You do? Yeah. What is it?

Right guard, Zach Fulton, renegotiated his contract. Wait, he sucks. But it's renegotiated. Okay. Fulton was, why am I going to this at 12? I'll wait this for the next second. It's such good news. It needs its own segment.

Let's talk about more about the BGs and how I'm about to tweet out some lyrics from how deep is your love. I'm telling you, do not do this. I want to see what people say. Joe, get, tell him not to tweet these out, please. It's not going to go well for him. It's just from how deep is your love. Too late, Senate. Let's see what happens.

Joey read his replies in about four minutes, maybe five. I just want to bring the world together with a little beegees, Matt, with a little how deep is your love? It's not going to end well. I like to make fun of a lot of your soft rock music, but that's just a straight jam. Here's the thing about you and my wife in the same category. You make fun of my music, but yet you sing to it, you want to dance to it, and you basically say, yeah, Matt, it's a good jam.

some of them. Not, no, we, you know what? We spent a lot. Matter of fact. No, no, no, hold on. Every song that we play today on the Matt Thomas show will be on my phone. Well. And then you're going to go, damn, that's a good song. No, that's not true because you know why?

I remember because we were, when we went on a road trip, when we were in, when we were in Tampa, we're in West Palm Beach. You were controlling the, uh, the radio. Yes. And we would argue over how crappy some of these songs. I was like, Matt, this song sucks. Okay. Well, I will give Joe like George Jones. Great song.

and you've got Gordon He stopped loving her today? Gordon Lightfoot. Gordon Lightfoot, what a great I was like Matt, this sucks. You don't like Sundown by Gordon Lightfoot? No. Does anybody?

You know what? I will choose songs that I think you will like. Is that fair? Is his real name Gordon Lightfoot? There's no way. No, there's no chance. 12.12 is a time. It is, and anything goes Friday.

The Matt Thomas show, 713-212-5-790. What is going good for you? If you got married this year like Joe George, call me and tell me about it. If your son scored two goals in deciding soccer game before the season ended, call us and tell us about it. Oh, I've already got a reply to my tweet.

And? BG's ruined music in the 70s. It's not very nice. It's not very nice. But that's our guy, Paul. Paul who? Paul Marlon. Appreciate you, Paul.

Is he normally a negative person? No, he loves us. Okay. He just doesn't like the BGs, Matt. Sorry. You know what? Different search for different folks. They had great hair.

2 o'clock, Brian T. Smith on the show, 230, the Fantasy 5. Last week, we did favorite non-all-star rockets. We're going to favorite non-all-star game Astros. This is going to take a little bit of research sports. Are you ready for this? I'm going, and you know, I feel like our team, there's going to be a little bit like the last one,

where yours might be more 80-centric than mine was. So we'll see where it goes. But I won with a relatively, well, not a relatively. He's a present player. He doesn't play for the right. Yeah, with a guy that quit on the team. Cool. You think Pat Beverly quit on the team?

Oh, I'm saying about Vernon. You got like two votes because of Vernon Maxwell. Yeah. People still love the, still a Mad Max. 1213. 713-212-5-790 is and anything goes Friday here on Sports Talk 790. Next time, tell Alexa. Playing 790 on I-heart radio.

Wherever you are, so is. Matt Thomas. Eyes in the morning sun. I feel you touch me in the fall a little bit better now, right? This is where we need Adam. Coming in at number three in 1977, that's how deep is your love? And time for a Casey Kasem dedication.

Dear Casey, I have a producer who just married his girl not too long ago and she wants to go to Kingwood and live in the suburbs, and I want him to live in the city because there's this Chinese place I go to four days a week. Casey, can you please play a song for me? Colin, I want to stay in this city, bitch. Joe, here's your song. I don't do a good Casey Kasem, but...

I don't even think today's kids know who Casey Kasem is. I don't think so. Joe, do you know who Casey Kasem is? Well, I do. On the I heart radio app, you can play old Casey Kaysom is. American Top 40 from the 70s and 80s. Really? Do you do that? Have you done that before? Daily. Is that what you just do on the weekends? Just listen to Casey. I put it on my tele... You know, I have an I heart...

On my smart TV. I have R.HartRadio's an app. I just put on there. So I'd do my chores. Why don't you put on Space City Saturdays? Or sports RV show. I do. Look at your face. You couldn't even keep a straight face for three seconds. Are you easy to play poker with? Can we play poker so I just take your money? I would love to play poker. I played with Matt once. I'm okay. I'm like... I think I'd be a lot. I think I'd be a

lot better if I played more. I just don't play very much. We should have a game. Yeah, I want to play more with Matt. I think you do too. I wasn't impressed. You don't even remember. Yes, I do. Well, I got, I had one bad beat. It wasn't the one that I was playing poorly. It wasn't a bad beat. There was a paired board and you kept on and you had one pair and you're like, I had two pair. I was like, man, because one's on the board and the other guy had the other had three of a kind because he had one in his hand of what was paired on the board. I was just tired. I think you were trying to get out of there because the appearance time was over. God, he is throwing me under the bus so badly. Sorry, I love Matt Thomas.

He's great and he's a wonderful poker player. Joe, do you throw a Clinton and Wex under the bus as often as Ross does to me? Well, we haven't been together as long as you guys, so. God Almighty. I feel like I'm like a month away from a year on the show, so once I hit that mark, I can start being a little more aggressive throwing them under the bus.

All right. Let me get to the, I was trying to set up a headline that really isn't there. Zach Fulton has agreed to a reworked contract. He was due $14 million over the next two years with zero guarantees, meaning they could have just sent him to camp and cut his ass and been done. Instead, he has now due $5 million guaranteed this season, $3 million non-guaranteed in 2021. So he's taking a pay cut, but he's getting guaranteed money. Zach's cap numbers fall by $2 million in 2020, $4 million in 2021, giving him a total of $5 million guaranteed.

He has a total of $14 million not guaranteed in his final two seasons. So he plays two years, he's going to get $14 million. At this point, he's only going to get one check at this point from the Texans for $5 million. He's guaranteed himself some $5 million. It's not bad. Yeah, it's compared to zero. It's a good day in the Fulton household. Yeah, here's the thing.

somebody called or email and said, is this because they want to get Deshawn Watson's? Let me tell you. Zach Fulton's savings here is not going to get Deshawn Watson to resign. Yeah, he was a $7 million cap hit? Now he's five or what? Or is he? That I don't know.

Is it still seven a year? Okay. It says it, Pat starts with out. It drops Fulton's cap number by $2 million in 2020 and $4 million in 2021. That to me sounds like that's just money you're going to spend $20. your draft picks. Because that's just, in the big picture, that's just, that's just pennies in the dollar. If you're going to, you know how you save cap space is you get, you trade DeAndre Hopkins.

That's how you do it. In his, what was he making? 17, 18, 19 million dollars somewhere in their range. That's how you save cap space in order to get. But then they wanted to spend it anyway on Randall, I mean, they didn't really save that much cap space, right? Between Randall Cobb and Brandon Cooks. I don't think there's this overabundance of cap space.

And Kenny Still's making good coin too. Now, I'll tell you what, Kenny Stills think it makes $7 million. You want to cut him, that could be a little of a savings, too. I wonder if is Kenny Stills on the team week one? I tend to think no. Well, I don't know. I mean, unless you're going to throw the ball every single time. Because here's the thing.

If Will Fuller is healthy, Will Fuller plays more than Kenny Stills does. That if is holding a lot of weight in that sentence, though, Matt. I mean, what am I supposed to say? I know. I'm just saying. It is a huge if. That's the argument for keeping Kenny, right? But the wide receiving core is full of ifs.

That's what I'm saying. If Kiki Kuti catches another pass for the Texans again, I'll be stunned. Not that he's not a bad kid, it just can't stay in the field. I'm sure he's wonderful. Will Fuller stays in the field, but then he gets right back off of it. I mean, it's not, you know. If Kiki Kootie could be active and effective, if Will Fuller could be active and effective, if Brandon Cooks could be active and effective, you don't need Kenny Stills.

But you need a chain. If, if, if, if, if, if, then statements. Right. And that's why, but the problem is, can you afford to have a $7 million insurance policy? I think that's what Stills is owed in 2020. That's for the general manager decide. Yeah, screw up.

I think you have to. I think you do too. I think the whole thought of releasing Kenny Stills unless, well, unless you trade for, but I don't know. I mean, it seems like Kenny Stills is a fair market value at seven million bucks. I feel like you get like a sixth or seventh form. If a team was deaf. But it doesn't do any good.

If Kenny Stills is no longer in your football team because the two or three guys in front of him are hurt, you need Kenny Stills. Because I think Kenny Stills can still catch passes in the NFL. No one's arguing that. But it feels like a huge insurance price. And that's maybe what the Texans was saying. We've got, who is it, DeAndre Carter's another kid that's on their football team? Kiki. Kiki.

Those are perhaps more insurance policies than keeping guys to make $7 million. So, again, Zach Fulton, for those of you that are, wrestling of whether or not Zach Fulton was going to stay long term with the Texans. It also sounds like they're done picking up offensive alignment, right? I mean, that's... Yeah, you would think so. That's a lot of money guaranteed for a guy if you're starting right guard. All right, so that's on the Texans front today.

We're going to play, by the way, some DeAndre Hopkins audio. Was it off of a podcast, Joe? You're Mr. Podcast. It was off of Jailen and Jacoby on ESPN Radio. They have a podcast, but they do an ESPN TV show now. Where they just... Who's the Jacoby part? I don't know that guy at all. Jacoby something.

Oh, thank you. Thank you for the update of it. He's a guy who was really good friends with Jalen Rose, so then he got a show basically is what I. He was pretty good, though. David Jacoby. Is he an ex-athlet? You don't have to be an ex-athlet to be on radio or have a podcast, Matt.

I didn't say that. I'm just asking if he was an ex-athlete. Not that I know of. Jalen Rose might be my favorite ESPN guy. To me, I like him. I don't love him. I'm sort of like him more and more. There is some stuff that he says it's completely off base.

Yeah, but who doesn't? This show is full of being off base for three hours. That's not true, Matt. This show is full of strong, airtight takes. The Matt Thomas show 12 to 3. I just, I happen to like him. With so much of ESPN's talking that I don't like. Okay, and now if you want to put it in the context of that,

say against all the other talking heads on ESPN, he's definitely top tier one. Speaking of that, did you see Dan Orlovsky go after Damien Liller? Uh-oh. Oh, yeah. What did he say? He called him entitled and stuff like that? I think it was worse than that. Entitled and spoiled?

He called him a brat. Okay, Danny. Let's pump the brakes. But you know what? That's what you get paid to do on the ESPN. I love whenever Dan Orlovsky says something outlandish, the first thing you see in the replies is him running out of the back of the bounds of the lines. See, here's the thing.

You got to be really careful. All of us do. Especially when you're going to attack somebody and say, would you say it to their face? I mean, that could happen for any sports talk host in America, whether it's national or local. Yeah. You've got to be able to prepare to take the face of consequences, good or bad, by criticizing an athlete and saying, you can't do this. I mean, like I said, we tease about Kiki Kootie and Will Fuller being injury prone. But if they walked in here today, I'd root for them to be successful.

This isn't a case. I don't like who they are. I don't like what they're made of, but attendance is, you know, it's a huge part of the grade, right? You've got to be able to step on the field in order to help the team. In this particular case, Orlovsky, again, because the ESPN is in his ear going, say something outlandish, say something, you know, so hot takey that it's going to get out there. And so he does, calls another NBA player who, by way, Damien Lillard is not a brat.

Now, Ross, you and I both, I think, agreed on my assessment that this felt like, take my ball and go home. Yes. But that doesn't make you a brat. A brat's a pretty tough term to call somebody. Especially a guy that's worked as hard as he is to be an NBA player. Yes. And he's been as good as he's been.

And Damian and Lillard probably would have helped his case Morphy to try to play the safety angle more than the, oh, I just want to make the playoffs. But if you're a backup quarterback, and that's what Dan O'Lovsky's been, as compared to being an all-star, an MVP candidate like Damian Lillard is, you've got to be ready to face that consequence, correct? Yeah. But you're also entitled to your opinion. Whether you're a backup quarterback or never made it in the league or never did anything. That's right. You're still entitled to your opinion. That's right.

But I think you just have to be really careful how you phrase it. I would want no one to call me a brat. I don't think you'd want anybody calling you a brat. I get called a brat all the time. Well, yours is a special situation. Thanks, Matt. I just, for a non-basketball player who didn't have a remarkable NFL career, who, as Joe mentioned, there is nothing but PDA glit gifts of him stepping out of bounds, taking a safety.

You just got to be careful. Yeah, I searched Dan Orlovsky on Twitter, and literally the first thing is there is him getting going out of bounds. So, and he thus apologized. And that's what they do. You know, that's the beauty of Twitter. You can just go back and say you're sorry, and you move on, unless you look at the replies. 1229, Sports Talk 790. DeAndre Hopkins spoke on the podcast yesterday.

A couple of quotes about the Houston Texans. We'll let you hear those next. Plus, coming up in about half an hour from now, the general manager survey in the NBA, Sham's got a hold of it. And I think it's kind of a convoluted mess, to be brutally honest with you. We'll tell you about that too.

So a lot of lot going on. Brian T. Smith, the two, Fantasy 5, our favorite non-all-star Astros between now and three o'clock. This is Sports Talk 7.9. I feel quickly Honey Okay Google Play Sports Talk 790

on I Heart Radio See you Ross On my phone And it's a jam This is not soft rock though I'll give you the Definitive Yacht Rock song Coming up at about 50 days

I would call this disco funk I'd call it on my phone And it's a jam This is what you do when you're Up 2-0 in a series Or you've won five straight games When the Texans win like 11 games in a row Or what was how many games in a row did they win and nobody cared?

It was like eight or nine games. Every Monday we come on. Joey come on the show every Monday. Hey everybody, your Texans won seven straight. Yeah, it was over Tennessee 19 to 14, but it was a win. Call in and tell me how excited you were. You know how it went, Joe George? You went like this.

Line one, you're on Texans celebration talk. Go. Line two, you're on Texans Win Street continues. Let's go to traveling Texans on line three. they're flying back man they're jet lag Texans Karen's on line four see

it's all right and then they play the Colts that year and got their ass kicked right what's Colts right ah yeah who kicked their ass TY Hilton shut up in the claw mask eh

you don't want to make TY Hilton mad he's kind of washed up kind of he wants to finish his career as a Colt you see that good for us all they do all those cult receivers want to finish his Colts

Reggie Wayne Marvin Harrison and They've had some good... Do you think the culture of one more? Yes. Like, in terms of just

like going to Super Bowls more than they did? Yeah, they went to two Super Bowls. One, one. Yes. One, one. Lost one to the Saints. Went to an AFC champion.

They were an AFC championship game participant with Andrew Luck, as the banner says. Thus the banner at Lucaso Stadium. Yes. I remember Jim Ursay being, when we were at the Super Bowl in Indianapolis, he looked lit on something.

Oh, you're saying he was under the influence? Yeah. He was talking to, was he? Gadell was there? He was talking to somebody. very high-powered and he just looked blitzed. He was like five feet away from me. Do you try to get him on the show?

No, I don't think I did. I think he was busy. He had a swarm. He had a throng of media. Excuse me, Mr. Ursaid. We'd like to come on a Houston radio show and you can talk about how bad your team's beaten. Remember there was a stretch for like, what, 10 years where the Texans never won in Indianapolis? So when there were a time they had never won ever there? They haven't, I think still the only one maybe once or twice, still. It's a great stadium. Because you go up there

and Peyton Manning, just kick your ass every year. Peyton Manning versus David Carr or Tony Banks. Or Matt Schaub for that matter. Yeah, even well, Matt Scha was okay. Did Norlofsky beat him too? Yes. Yeah, because the Texans were lost the year. That was when they were supposed to win.

They were like, oh, Dan Oloski is starting for the Colts. Finally going to win one. Lost. Lost. God, I'm bringing up terrible memories. Supposed be a happy Friday. Sorry. 713, 21, 2, 5, 790.

7.1.3.212.5.790. All right. Oh, great. Oh, jean. You turn to your right. You put on your television on ESPN. They're showing May 29th, 1997. John Stockton sends jazz to the West to the NBA final.

I have seen this shot more in the last two months than I have in the previous 10 years. Literally. It was highlighted on the last dance. It was on now because, I mean, Jerry Sloan passed, so, I mean, he rest in peace. But my God. Look, they're playing it like six times in a row. And how did we as America let John Stockton wear those short shorts? You're right.

Yeah. Well, those are, no, those are like baggy long shorts compared to what he used to wear. But yeah, I mean, my God. Oh, here it is again. Okay, there's Malone holding. Yeah, look, they're showing it. They're showing Malone basically in a bear hug on Clyde Drexler. Charles Barkley's is short of the top of the key.

He's about six. You're breaking down the whole play? Yeah. He's grappling him like it's Brazilian jujitsu. This is, we can be angry right now. Dick Bavetto was on the, on the referee in the play there. I'm actually upset. Horrible uniforms.

Terrible nut hugger pants. I think that first one's a bad take, to be honestly. Which one? Those uniforms are sick. What? The jazz mountain uniforms? I love the mountain? I love the purple mountains.

That is terrible. Now, I like the jazz uniforms way more now. The retroes than they wore. Except those ones. I don't like those ones. ones from that The Beehive State. The tequila sunrise ones.

By the way, I got into a We were listening to Eagles that are at the house and I put New Kid in Town is my favorite song and I was like You're high. Tequila Sunrise is way better. Take it easy's better. Hotel California's the goat.

They all suck except for Hotel California. Life in the Fast Lane's okay too. I'd rather do if we were going to I don't even know you. Yes, you do. No, I don't. I don't want to know you right now. None of their songs suck.

That soft country rock crap, oh. That people still go to sea in major stadiums today. Yeah, that's cool. Even Glenn Frye no longer with his main recipes. People go on major stadiums to see Justin Bieber. Doesn't mean he makes great music. Yeah, but Justin Bieber's not going to be selling out 50,000 seats stadiums in 30 years. You don't think so?

No, I don't. No. I mean, I'm just throwing out of Ozers. Yeah, you don't know. I don't know. But all I know is the goats still sell them out. Elton John sells out. Billy Joel sells out.

Pelham Cernie sells out. The Eagles suck. Eagles do not suck. Are they even together? That is a loser take. That is not a loser take. That is no. You know what I want to do.

You do it. Instapol. I don't care if I lose. The Eagles suck. It's another tequila sunrise. They don't sing like that. Great song. Hit it.

This is, I cannot let this stand. Ooh, witchy woman. This is getting me going here. Oh, this is a great. Yeah. It's soft country rock crap. soft, it's soft rock, legendary status. And you still can't find that name

Insipol music. How long do you work the way? It's fine, Matt, you know, it's an adjustment period. It's on a different machine. Is he already producing the 2 o'clock show? It's not his fault. It's not his fault. Because, you know, we can't do an insipole without the insipole music. He's searching. Seriously, that is one of your worst takes.

What are you talking about? I don't care what you say. The Eagles are legendary. Legendarily crappy. I can't go to this NBA thing right now. I'm so mad at you. We've argued over. I'm stalling for all this time on the chain reaction instapole music. We've argued about this like 18 different times. And you should lose every single time.

Take it easy. Okay. And Hotel California is great. Best of my love. Crappy. Great. Desperado. Amazing.

More. Oh. Keep going to all those other top ten hits. Go ahead. Keep going. One of these nights. Is that a good song? Absolutely.

Are you serious? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Really good. Matter of fact, I'm going to listen to the Eagles on the way home. Yeah. And we're slowly running out of time on this Instapol because Joe continues to search it down.

Should I go in there? I'll be back in a minute. You probably could find it faster. Poor Joe. He bought me lunch and everything. I want to say nothing but nice things about him for three hours. And it's just not possible because he's continuing to search for the Instapol music. Folks, do not let me down. Let Ross know how awesome the Eagles are.

Just a horrendous, horrendous take. Joe what do you have to say for yourself? He went in there and found it in three seconds. I just... It's on something that was personal of mine, so it's not like he would know. It's not my fault.

You guys are the only show who uses this thing that's like belongs in the 1970s. Time for an instant poll. Do the Eagles suck? Or are they great? I guess the question would, do you like the Eagles?

Hopefully, smart, intelligent people. we'll call 713 212-790 and tell Ross he's wrong 7-13-212-5-7-90 you don't have to put them on hold you don't have to screen them 7-13-212-5-7-90 I say the Eagles rock

hold on let me get my phone you know you cannot call your own instapole it's not possible 7-13-212-5-7-90 line 1 in the instapole do you like the Eagles Eagles Rock thank you very much that's one remember what the end's poll says Ross it never lies

well it's lied several times that's okay line two do you like the Eagles Ross and Ross what's a sucky school and he's got a sucky opinion about the Eagles the Eagles rock thank you very much I'm sure I know who our audience is non Aldeen

line three do you like the Eagles yes or no Ross has never been more right the Eagles all right we don't we lost Why do you hang up on that guy We lost the connection. You are so... I'm going to keep that word to myself.

Line four, do you like the Eagles? All right, he's on the line. Line 5 on the Instapole. Line 5, do you like the Eagles? Yes, very much. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. Three votes for yes, one for no.

It takes four to finish off an instipole. Line 1 on the Insipole. Do you like the Eagles? Yes or no. Hello? All right. He's speechless. He loves the Eagles so much.

Line two, do you like the Eagles? Yes or no. Matt's Desperado for win, the Eagles rock. Come on, bro. Thank you very much, bra. Have a good weekend, bro. What is it three one? At least I got one. It's done. It's done.

See, Tom and downtown's got it right. The Eagles are like the odules of rock music of what music fans listen to when there's no good music to play. That's just a false take. No, you know what? You know what the Eagles are? The Eagles are that cold, crisp, refreshing course life. No, they're really, okay. Yeah, that you really enjoy.

Yeah, a lot of filler and they're not delicious. No. And there's like a thousand better options. You know what? I can agree with that. They are the Coors Light of Music. No. They're not great.

They're not filling. They don't have a lot of flavor. It's cold. It's refreshing, delicious. It's just vanilla and uninteresting. This is an L. This is an L in your part. No, it's not.

A massive L. You've had some wins in your life. I'm not backing off of this. You shouldn't because you're just wrong in this one. 1244 on The Matt Thomas show. All right. NBA gentleman. managers give out the answers to their league-asked poll, and it's confusing what the results are.

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You can find that at Sports RV What's the latest? I think I had 25% last I checked That's a lot more than I thought I'd get Just kidding 62 votes are in What do we got? 74.2% say the Eagles are a good band

Not a good band, 25.8 Okay So I got 25% are smart 75% are sheep. 74.2 appreciate the good sounds of one of the legendary bands of all time. The country rock legends. Oh, my God.

You're not country rock? I don't think they would describe themselves as country rock. I don't know what they would describe themselves as. I'm talking about what... This doesn't sound like country rock to you. Turn it up. Turn it up, Joe.

Go to Wikipedia. What does the first line say about the Eagles? Well, how about I go to country rock? I mean, there is some country rock. Subgenre of popular music, blah, blah, blah, blah. reaching greatest popularity in the 70s with artists such as Emmy Lou Harris

the Eagles Linda Ronstad Michael Neesmith, Poco and Pure Prairie League Oh contraryly Country Rock also I'm just going through all your hits right here You little Amy

Country Rock also influence artists such as the band The Grateful Dead Creedons Clearwater Revival Blah blah blah blah This is it right here Country Rock the Eagles I didn't like that The first sentence

So the Eagles on a Wikipedia. The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971. They'd say country rock bands. But they are a country rock band. Okay, that's fine. I mean, yeah, I just don't like it. It is what it is. To each his own.

Yeah. Like, I think Bob Dylan's the most overrated singer of all time. And people think I'm just the worst human being for saying that. I think that's a good take. And I'm also thinking that Bruce Springsteen's overrated. Springsteen is maybe the most overrated artists of all time. That's an East Coast thing. He is horrible.

Jersey and Delaware. and we'd have fires in our front of our, you know, in front of our house. You know, I'm also, I feel that way about Dave Matthews band, too. I don't get it. Don't say that around Matt's wife. Mrs. Thomas Lobsworths from Dave Matthews. Yeah, I don't, I don't get it. But he's a, he's a, he's a one-note guy, right?

I mean, one of his songs sound the exact same. They have a lot of hits, though, right? I don't think of lots of raw. Maybe five or six. Are they huge or now? All right. See, you bring up Dave Matthews and that's what I immediately do. All right.

Well, I did it too. I just went, her, mherb. Going to tell you about NBA or GM surveys. Pretty Navy. Wait, they have not had a bunch of number, top 40 hits. All right, we owe you Deonoree Hopkins audio, but I want to play at the top of the hour. So we'll just do that. All right.

So the NBA released, well, to Shams, the general manager survey about what they want to do about the finishing out the season, okay? Rossi, tell me that I'm going to read this to you, and I'm going to feel like that whoever administered the survey didn't ask for definitive answers that everybody got to you know you can put check all that apply I don't know if this was the time to do that because somebody has to make a grandiose decision about how you're going to play the season how many games were you going to do it how long it should go this wasn't a if you like any of the above click okay

53% of the general managers in the league said they should advance directly to the playoffs. Really? 53%. So there's 30 teams. Half would be 15. Does that mean 16th?

16 said yes? Probably. Okay. 27% for resuming abbreviated season with play-in. As an abbreviated regular season? Right. Then play-in tournament?

Play-in tournament. Now here's the confusing part. If 53% said, let's go right to the playoffs, 60% voted for a 72 game season. So I guess you're saying, well, if we're going to play a year, how long do you want it to go? Is that right? I guess. Okay.

Playoffs plus, meaning you're going to see, you're going to bring an extra two or three teams in each conference. 83% voted for 20 or more teams in this playoffs plus package. Interesting. Meaning, keep Portland interested. keep San Antonio interested, keep who else is in that mix? Pelicans. Pelicans in the mix.

Spurs. Spurs, yeah. Non-playoff teams are split on resuming the season, meaning do I want to go, if I'm Golden State, if I'm Cleveland, if I'm, who else is we, New York, do I want to grab everybody,

Minnesota, do I want to grab everybody, go down to Florida, play these things out. Other things on this general manager survey, according to Shams, are from the athletic. most general managers want the season to end no later than October the 1st. I'm all for that. Then you've got to get your asses down to Orlando, right? Like pretty damn soon.

Yeah, something needs to happen pretty quickly. I don't think you can wait until August 1st to start playing and have a championship wrapped up by October the 1st. Because let's face it, you've got to give the finals two weeks, right? Because you got to figure 14 days for a champion. You don't want to play a finals game and back. to back to back situations. You can play every other day, but you can't play every day. It's going to be tough. So then you're going to give two weeks for that. You got to, in theory, give two weeks for the Western and Eastern Conference Finals. That's, that's 28 days. And then how fast do you play the conference?

How long do the play-ins take? How long do you're while the other, the other teams are just kind of sitting there and doing nothing? So the reason why I think they're saying October the first is because I think they want to have a draft, they want to have free agency period. They will, because These are huge decisions. I mean, imagine, do I want to spend X amount of money on a certain player? I don't want to be on a clock as to determine whether or not I can sign this player. Now, a lot of these teams should be already doing that kind of logistics and checking things out now. There are more.

It's in multiple occasions. But it's different than doing background research and looking at your cap as compared to saying, I'm willing to offer this. Who's the number one free agent this offseason? Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis. Is there, um, Kauai signed? Janus is not until next year, right?

I mean, it's 80 and I think the drop-off is a huge drop-off. Drummond, yeah, Google Machine says Draymond, Draymond, Green, Mike Conley, Andre Drummond, Gordon Hayward. This is the list is not updated because it says Eric Gordon. Yeah, I don't think Draymond's sign as well. I think the next guy is Gordon-Ha-Ward and DeMargis. Put it this way. I think the next guy is Gordon-Ha-Raeward and DeMargis.

It's not like it was last year or the last two or three years. This is the, of all years for that to be not be a huge deal when it comes to signing this is it. And Otto Porter Jr., if you will. Bradley Beals being talked about in potential trades with the wizards. So multiple teams. Yeah. General managers want a larger roster, more flexibility to manage a roster. That makes perfect sense.

53%. Again, that would presume 16 of the 30 general managers, voted to maintain traditional playoff seating. 47%. I'm thinking 14 of them said, let's reseed and put everybody in one big batch. So those are some of the findings. The biggest takeaway I get away from this is there were so many people that were more than 50-50

that wanted to go right to the playoffs. But in a separate question, if you are going to play a season, 60% of them want to get everybody to 72 games, meaning all 30 teams or anybody that goes to Florida plays to 72. So just some of the observations out of that. But most general managers want the season to end no later than October. October the first. Let's get going then. I don't know if that's possible. Want to and

R are two different things. 713-212-5-790. DeAndre Hopkins speaks about his old team on a podcast. Some of the highlights are next as the second hour of the Matt Thomas show continues after this. This is the Matt Thomas Show. On on Sports Talk 790.

In this hour, we have Henry Hopkins speaking about the Texans. And we also have a Yankee reliever who, would you say throwing shade on the Astros or basically saying, thanks to the virus, the Astros aren't getting no shame? We'll tell you who that is and what he had to say. I read his quotes,

it didn't get me all fired up like he got other people fired up. But I'm going to read it anyway. And we'll do that for you coming up in the next segment of the radio show. Plus 2 o'clock today. We will have Brian T. Smith, 230 fantasy five. This week, our favorite Astros that never made an all-star game. Never, ever made an all-star game.

How are you doing your list so far? It's tough because, like, for example, Jose Lima, I think it was a huge fan favorite. And one of my favorites, he made one of my all-star game. Same for Shane Reynolds. He made an all-star game. That was one of my favorite. So some of my childhood favorites have made at least one all-star games. It's going to be a tough list.

It is going to be a tough list. Yeah, we might have to go down to, well, Luke Gregerson, I think, was even a, I was going to make a Luke Gregerson joke. I'm not drafting him. But I think, didn't he. You can have Luke Gregerson. That was going to be the joke that I tried to make. No, he was never an ever an old star. He was America's closer. Do you remember, you know, they still do this. You have to have at least one Astro on every All-Star team. Yeah, that's why some of them made it. Jason Castro is an All-Star. Yeah, Michael Bourne made two. Boy, it's some lean-ass years. Nimitz High School Great Michael Born. And by the way, a great Houstonian owns some apartment complexes. Yes,

Yes, that's right. And told the folks for a couple months, don't pay your rent. You know what, Matt, that's what happens when you come out of the salt of the earth. That is the Aldene District and Nimitz High School. You take care of your people. I'll give you credit. I didn't do anything. That's one great alum.

That's what. All these years. Hey, Jason Glenn, Aaron Glenn, Dante Hall, Brittany Griner. Cedricin? No, no, I mean, who's that, Quentin? A little running back from OU. Okay.

Oh, he was really good back in the news. He was a Texas killer. Yeah. He wasn't he not? Yeah. We've got some people. And then me. Scientists?

Mostly athletes. Physicist? I don't know. Who are the physicists that went to Maid Creek? None. You don't know. Who cares? No.

Well, I mean, you don't have to be great athletes to be the great alumns of the school. Okay. I know people who are property owners and engineers. Yeah? Professional poker players? No, I don't know any of those. Mafia members? What is a professional?

poker player doing right now? Playing online, right? What if they can't? What if they, I mean, a lot of those sites, it's a gray area, how legal they are. Well, then they're hopefully saving their money. What are seriously what they're doing? That's what I'm wondering. Now, Vegas is opening up next weekend, but some of them are not involving poker. But even are, are the sharps going to play in the rooms in hotels in Vegas? Or are they just waiting for tournaments? No, no, tournaments are a huge way. Most of the professional poker players play cash games. Really?

Tournaments are not a waste of time, but they're just very what you would call high variance. If there's a thousand people, you have, in theory, a one in a thousand chance. Even if you're the best player in the world, you have like a one in 20 chance. So you're saying a guy that plays big time poker, professional, it's all he does. We'll get into his car, we'll drive to the Nugget, or we'll go to the kind of, the cosmopolitan. Yes. And play cards against General Joe Schmo and rake it in.

Well, if they're raking it in, it depends on them. Yeah, but yeah. But you can't win those kind of millions of dollars of jackpots like you do in the World Series kind of thing. Even if you finish like 300th in the World Series book, you're doing okay.

It's going to be high variance. You're going to win 200,000 once, but you're going to lose 1,000, 100 times. And it's just a lot of times it becomes a grind. It takes a lot of your time, especially the live tournaments. Because those can take days. You can make the second day of a tournament and not get any money.

You know, I mean, just depending on how big the tournament. tournament is it's stuff like that. All I know is Joe George, I invested in sports RV poker playing one time, and it didn't do me any good. Did you invest in a- I cash? I cashed in a Caesar's tournament and a Bellagio tournament. You didn't go in any of those? I did not either one of those. Yeah, those, I mean, that's the thing. If you're a great poker player, let me know, I'll invest in you. I would say I'm above average. I do believe you're above average. That's why we can go

back to Lake Charles, we've got to make sure the poker rooms are open. I'm an above-average craps player. I can help you out with that. Yeah, but you're playing against the house. You're never going to win long term. All right. DeAndre Hopkins was on the podcast, Jacoby and Jalen, or is Jalen and Jacoby? I guess it doesn't really matter. He was asked, I've not heard this. How forthcoming will he be?

He was asked what happened with Bill O'Brien. And he was asked, and he said this. All right. What percentage of the time did you go to audio does this work? Well, here's the thing. Somebody put it on mute, I think. Yeah, it happens. I'll say, it's not my fault this time.

All right. For the lot, I'm really building, I'm building the drama. He was asked what happened with Bill O'Brien. You know, man, he's a comparative guy. I'm a comparative guy. We both want to win football games. You know, so that's all. You know, I'm not going to speak on that too much.

You know, my time at the Texans, obviously, I didn't win a Super Bowl. And, you know, to kind of play a lot young, you know, it's really Super Bowl and nothing for me, man. You know, I really don't, you know, I don't get too high. on anything other than that, you know, so I didn't, I wasn't able to accomplish that there with the Texas. I feel like I did all I could do, you know, but unfortunately, you know, I'm not there, you know, but I'm on a great team, a great organization that, you know, hopefully I can help win their championship and, you know, help the Cardinals get to where they want to get to. But, you know, I had a great time with the Texans,

had a lot of great players that, you know, I played with them still friends with to this day, and we'll continue to be after football. So my time in Houston was great. You know, it's football. You know, it's business that goes along with that as well. So there's no hard feelings for me. I've been through much worse situations in life, you know, than going to a great organization. So, you know, it's a blessing for myself and my, for my, for my, for my family. It's a great opportunity. As expected, right guys?

That ship has passed. If you're really going to try to find DeAndre Hopkins to really throw Bill and O'Brien under the bus, it's probably not going to happen. I think the biggest takeaway for me from that was actually like the first five seconds where he says he's a competitor and he wants to win and I want to win.

The question wasn't anything about, you know, who's competitive or anything like that. It's just about their relationship. And when he says that, he wants to win and I want to win, and there was not much of a relationship, which he said before, that to me tells me they butted heads. That tells me that, you know, like you have,

I don't know, if you have a radio partner and you have just two different philosophies, and you both want to win, you both want to do good shows. Different ways. You just have different ways. I think maybe that's what he was kind of getting at is that they both want to win, but maybe in different ways and they butted heads.

That's what it seemed like to. And one person has more power together. The other person, that one person has the ability to give him as much money as he wants or to trade him. Yes. Basically absolute power with Bill O'Brien. I think at some point DeAndre will tell us the real story behind Bill, but it won't be until, again. You've noticed this, Ross, most guys don't really spill the beans until their careers are awroof.

Yeah, and he might not even do it then. I mean, we're just hearing about the Isaiah Thomas stuff, like, what, 30 years after, basically? That's right. That's right. DeAndre also asking this podcast, will his departure affect Deshawn Watson's relationship with the team? No, Sean's a warrior. Deshawn is a competitor. as long as he has a football in his head, and that's all he cares about. I know that personally from him, from knowing him over the years. And, man, Deshaun's an elite quarterback. One of the best quarterback I've had the chance to play with so far. And he's able to make players better.

And I'm pretty sure that that's what he's going to do. He's going to rally his team up to help them win. That's my boy. I wish him none of the best. I'm in the NFC, so I hope I see him in a Super Bowl. But obviously, you know, his best target, the guy that he can depend on not being there for him. I'm pretty sure that would impact any quarterback's game.

I'm really good. Deshawn's going to miss me. I think we can clearly get that, right? Yeah, so he answered the question towards the very end. He says, yeah, it's going to impact. That Brandon Cooks is nice. Randall Cobb is nice. Kiki Qutee if he ever plays, is nice.

Will Fuller is really good if he's healthy. But I'm the best. I'm getting no surprise on that way. I mean, that's how he's going to feel. Is he right? That's up for debate. I'm scared to see how good he's going to be this year. Is there not a team?

I mean, you guys, correct me if I'm wrong on this. The teams that are getting as much positive spin, this offseason is Arizona, Dallas, especially if they get Dag Prescott signed. I think there's been a lot of positive spin about Kansas City, and then maybe getting Deshawn signed. I think there is some optimism in Cleveland. But it feels like the every year there's optimism in Cleveland.

Who else is you also getting, you think is getting a lot of run this office being a team that's on the move up. Who else? I think Tennessee's gotten a fairly good run, especially if they're Tanna Hills' great second half of the season and then getting him signed there. Indianapolis has got a pretty good run. Indianapolis has gotten a really good run too. You know why Indianapolis is getting run is because I think there's a smart organization. I think Frank Reich is a smart football coach. I think Chris Ballard is a very highly regarded young general manager.

And the Texans here are overpaying for the best years of guys' careers gone by. They way overpaid, I think, for Laramie Tunsell. They don't have draft picks. And they don't have draft picks. They know their quarterback signed. And they've brought back and returned a lot of question marks. Not the team that is getting the most publicity. Or at least they are on Bill Bardwell's column, but it's probably for all the wrong.

reasons. 1112 on the Matt Thomas show. 713, 212, 5, 790. If you'd like to get in today, 713, 212, 5, 790. If you want to reach us through Twitter, you can at at SportsMT, at SportsRV, at Joe George, George Radio. And we have Brian T-Smith coming up to the Fantasy 5 favorite non-all-star Astros. That's at 2.30. This is Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas returns on Sports Talk 790 This is a sad song but it's a great band So that's good

Speaking of all right of bands All right I'm a beating man Ross, that's a disgusting I'm just messing Well you're not It's a terrible opinion No let's change a song

How about Give me God to get Got to get you into my life. Let's get a little more of fire. Yeah, the Earth Weren and Fire version. No, that's a great version. Give me, got to get you in my life, the Beatles. This is kind of bringing you out.

Or give me a revolution or something but George. I mean, there's got to be some other things in there. I mean, Eleanor Rigby is one of my top five favorite songs, but it's just, this seems kind of, there we go. What is the revolution? Yeah. This is the Beatles. Are you sure? Absolutely.

intentionally overmodulated, by the way. Of course. That's why they were so good because they were doing this, and they were doing Love Me Do and Please, Please Me, earlier in the decade. All right. Matt Thomas show continues at 119. How's your poll question?

I'm holding my tongue. How's your poll question? I think we're down to like 20% of people saying that Eagles are not a good band, but I don't care if it's 1%. All right. So there is a story moving, and this podcast, where why, you know why athletes are willing to go on podcast?

Ever since you tweeted it out with all your smarmy people that love Neil Sedaka, then it's kind of trended more in the other direction. But that's okay. I'm not going to put Neil Sadaka out there. I know I'll take the L on that one. First of all, most people would say who the hell is in Neil Sadaka. Okay. So, Adamadovino, reliever for the Yankees.

Would you just say he's just a regular old reliever, nothing special, nothing amazing? I forgot he was even still playing. I remember the name. I just remember it being a great name of a great Italian restaurant. Hey, Adamadovitos, Italian Restaurantante in Brooklyn. I forgot he was still in baseball. Okay. The biggest...

I forgot. I'm like, I dumped that. Oh, my God. I forgot my microphone was on. It's like we were in your mouth. That was disgusting. Did y'all in the stream hear that? I'm not going to talk to the rest of the show, goodbye.

Well, yeah, we're about losing. We're on my boat for the fancy five. You had to. You're the seventh judge for the fantasy. No, we need, I thought we were going to do it because I'll just raise my hand. He's when he's a Cubs guy. Oh, yeah, you know what? You don't get a vote.

I'll be five Adams. We're going to see if one of them. We'll get Wexer because I don't know if Clayton has the 80s memories of the Astros like that. Name four 1998 Houston Astros. Oh, never mind. Okay. So you're out. But Ross, who are you going to pick from?

Yeah, I'm going to, then the 19908 team is loaded with my picks. I've got seven players so far. I think I've got nine. I need to come up with three more. You know what's really hard to come up with? What? Relievers. Because any of them who are decent were all-stars.

How many of them are favorites, though? All of them are fan favorites? For sure. Relievers? No, my list is mixed. But every one of these players that I have, huge fan bases. Okay, let me get to Adam Aemanovinio for a second. He is convinced, according to the No Sport Report podcast.

What the hell is the No Sport Report podcast? Does everybody have a podcast except me? You do have one. I haven't used it in a while. It's just 15 minutes. But I do 15 hours a week, so I just feel like this is my podcast. What's 15 more minutes then? I guess I could do it more often and just swear a bunch.

That's the keto good podcast. When you were doing your Chicago podcast, you all swear like, you know what all the time? Nah. Did you belch on there too? Nope. Okay. You just want to save it for the Noon to 3 show. Yep.

here's the quote from Adam Anavino-Yo Yankees reliever. I don't think people are going to forget it. It mean the Astro Stealing scandal. But I think it's helping them because that was the story of the spring training up until the virus. That was all day every day. I was already to the point where it was exhausting. And I think that once the season started, they were going to be in for a lot of hatred from fans around the country. So to me, I think this is helping them, especially when they come back.

There are definitely not going to be any fans in the stands. So I think that helps them. Some of the Astros have kind of come out of the cave and went back on social media, doing all their stuff, and, you know, good for them. Power to them. I don't find anything in FlyMontore what he said. I was ready. I was ready to be upset at Adam Adavito and crush him for having a mediocre major league career

and not even knowing that he was still in the league. He's totally right. He's totally right. This has taken a lot of heat off the Astros. We've mentioned this for the last couple of months. I mean, the Astros would be the first one to tell you that you go to a Google search of daily baseball items in the month of March pre-epidemic, and look at this. I mean, it'd be nothing but Astros hate. It was Astros hit piece after hit piece.

It was every day a new player was saying something. It was one day it's Cody Bellinger. Then it's Kurt Suzuki. Then it's Chris Bryant. Then it's whoever. It's Mike Trout. It's something every day. That was the story.

And the Astros were bearing the brunt of it. And then all of a sudden a global pandemic starts and you have all this other stuff going on, labor stoppages. And absolutely there has been a trickle of talk about the Astros compared to what was basically Niagara Falls in February. If we would have had Harold Reynolds on yesterday and we had the regular season going,

don't you think half of our questions would have been, did you see how the A's fans reacted? Did you see how Mike Fires reacted if he pitched here? By the way, I win my bet, by the way, this don't I this year? No. that Mike fires didn't pitch a minute made yeah I mean I'm feeling pretty good about it if he does though you would feel like I lost

I feel like he'll pitch at Minutemade yeah that's what I'm saying he's gonna pitch at Minutamed probably still actually be easier for him to pitch at Minutemade this year than anything else because they're probably more than you want to call the bed off or don't you? The bet is off I knew you'd go that way I was gonna win that bet Joe before you were on the show we made a bet that I didn't think Joe

that Mike Fires was going to pitch in front of Houston fans yeah I remember that this year yes and we made Adam lexer was the a neutral third party, he was going to decide whether it was legitimate injury or, because if he just wasn't up in the rotation or if he had a legitimate injury, the bet was canceled. The bet is completely off now. Of course. Because you don't want to win the artificial way.

I wouldn't mind, right. Okay. What did we even bet? Steig Dinner? Yeah. So here's the thing. I just read you his quotes off the podcast. Nothing but net podcast.

I don't think that's it. Behind the net? Behind the net. Behind the eight ball. Under the mask? He didn't say anything inflammatory. No. In fact, he's 100% right.

Alex Breggman, I mean, you know how much we love Breggman, right? Yes. We are the official home of the Alex Breggman fan club. But Alex Breggman, for about two months, didn't do anything socially. Mm-hmm. And now Alex Breggman is going to high school graduation ceremonies, virtual. He's twitching. He's talking to kids.

He's twitching. He's raising a lot of money. And that's all wonderful things for the Houston Food Bank. But I don't know if he's doing all these types of things. if he's having to spend half of his day justifying his performance as a major league player because fans in every city he goes to are booing the hell out of him.

So, I mean, I don't know if I'd like Adam in Anavina. I don't think I'll ever get to know him unless he becomes an astro. But I don't think he said anything that was going to flame the fire of what the Astros are ultimately going to get. The Astros ultimately, when fans resume, even if it's at 25% in most major league stadiums, they're going to get booed. and I would if I was in the other fan bases I would do the exact same they had boo them

yeah if Adam Anavino would have come out and said they're getting all the heat of them and I think it sucks I can't believe their feet aren't being held to the fire and and it's they're just getting off easy blah blah blah blah blah he didn't really say anything of that at least the comments that you read in the comments I'm reading as well I don't see really anything that's too that's at all out of bounds from Adam on not a thing not a thing at all so Adam Ottabino it is what it is he's telling the truth. No, again, anytime you hear anything out of the Yankee mouth, you just want to get mad.

I mean, I see, if you just hate the Yankees, the Yankees are going to say today is a sunny, sunshiny day, you're going to get mad at him for saying that. Well, that's like what the Astros are going to be now. The Yankees get booed wherever they go, no matter how few times every four years you play them. Right. Or if you play them every other day, like the Orioles or the Red Sox would, that's what the Astros are now. They're going to get booed forever. They're going to be a hated team in baseball.

They're just... And the thing about it is, we don't know what it's like. Because Houston doesn't necessarily bring out the hatred of every sports team. Again, there may be some haters of Hardin and Westbrook, but when the Rockets go to Charlotte, they're not booed religiously.

The Texans are not booed anywhere. They're the most vanilla NFL team. It would take an extra oomph to boo the Texans. Yeah, what would one he really hate the Texans about? You can't. Yeah. Because here's the thing, Ross, you really hate the teams that always win. Unless Bill Barnwell's in the stands.

For instance, and then he's booing. When I was a kid, I didn't hate the New England Patriots. They didn't win anything. Yeah. In fact, I loved them because I love their red uniforms and the Patriot that was spiking the ball. I thought their helmets were some of the best in the NFL. I do like that logo. Whatever that dude's name is.

Does he have a name? Does Mr. Patriot have a name? Patty the Patriot? I don't know. Like, you know, but if they had won 11 games a year, I would despise the Patriots. If they were going to Super Bowls every other year like they do now, I'd hate them. Pat Patriot. It is Pat Patriot?

I thought it was making that up. All right, we'll get one more. Does the Orange, the Creamsicle Buccaneer dude, is he a real dude? Like the swashbuckler? Yeah, his name is Captain Fear. It is not. Captain Fear. The Swashbuckler?

Well, I mean, they're a mascot in the costume right now is Captain Feet. I want to know what it was on the Orange Helmand. Captain Fear is a Caribbean. pirate captain in the official mask what boat is he the captain up captain Morgan he drinks rum before games this his wiki pages two sentences

he has blue eyes black hair thick eyebrows and a full beard he replaced a parrot mascot known as Scully there is on another show in the marketplace is gonna give you breaking down Captain Fear and Pat Patriot 128 on Sports Talk 790

We should do, if we were doing Believe it or Not, we do Believe it or Not mascot names. We save that. You know what you should be doing? You should be getting ahead of the game a little bit. You should have months of Believe It or Notts ready. And by the way, Joe, you'll be not with us much longer. But when we do get live Believe it or Notts back, you got to come back and just screw one up for us, just for old time's sake. I think it's going to be funnier to listen to the new guy to do it when the person training him, I don't think knows how to play Belved or not.

Does our new guy know what is ahead of him? No. Well, you should train him. make sure he's ready. Yeah, but I don't know how to do it either. That's the brilliance of it. 129. Anything goes Friday.

713, 212-2-5-790. The pros do it on the bench. Rest load management. You can do it at home. Oh, I don't want to get up. Just ask your smart speaker. Play Sports Talk 790 on I-Heart Radio. Jam?

Yes. Please tell me yes Joe I don't trust Joe It's not bad Thank you This is about Chicago I was just defending the Beatles

So hard This is not Chicago Yeah he says Chicago Like the first like three words Oh I thought you meant the band No this is too He was also one of your soft rock favorites

I do like Chicago Chicago's got some couple of hits Second concert in my life I ever saw was Chicago First was Captain Antonio when I was youngster Uh huh And then I saw Chicago

at the summit in 1986. I was in the sixth grade. Ranked these in order, Matt. Chicago, Kansas, and Boston. I'll go in that order. Chicago, Kansas, Boston. Okay. Hey, what should we call ourselves?

Crap. I don't know. We're from Boston. Isn't it kind of weird? This will be Boston. You should have more original names for your band. I assume Chicago is from Chicago. I don't like the smashing pumpkins,

but that's a pretty damn good name. Yeah, I get it. Uh, who else has really good names? Like the red hot chili peppers? Yeah, that's not bad. That's a good jam name. I mean, I don't like it. Again, I don't like their music.

The Beatles, it's punny. We get it. Yeah, but that was 1962. I like The Who. Hey, I'm going to go. Did you hear that new Who? The Who's song by The Who? The Who?

And then there's Guess Who? Yeah. That's just confused everybody. Mm-hmm. Metallica, I think, is a good metal band name. Aerosmith. It's not bad. Just saying.

hand. Then you just go, you know what? Let's just go with Kansas. That's really going to electrify the people. The Miami Sound Machine? It's not bad. I think it's better. It's not terrible. Like, who are some really bad ones? The Bellamy brothers? Okay, that's a real good one. Let me go to worst band names. Well, that's going to be very subjective, don't you think? Yeah, I think so. I mean, Eagles is not very original. I mean, great band, obviously. but not a very original name. How do you feel about the butthole surfers? I'm going to say no on that.

How do you feel about Huba Stank? But won't they one-hit wonders? I think they might have had a couple of hits. But like, you know... How about a Chumba Wumba? Like the Zach Brown Band. Come on. Come on, Mr. Brown.

Let's get your group together and have something a little more original than that. You can't read a lot of these on the year. So good, though. What? Zach Brown Band? Yeah. Do you love them?

Yeah, it's top of your list. the greatest band of all time. No, no, no, no. Zach Brown. That's who I listen to the most. You're the second biggest metrosexual on our radio station. I listen to my top three bands are,

the top three things I listen to are Zach Brown band, M&M and the Beatles. Well, you are, you are being raised right. Let's go to the phone, see what you guys are thinking of. 713-212-5-7.

I'll start with John and Bear Creek at 136. Hi, John. Hey, how are you doing, guys? A few weeks ago, you guys were talking about ice coffee. I got a good story for you. I came to Texas in 1966 from Rhode Island. I grew up on ice coffee back then. So I came to Texas.

First time I went to a restaurant, I asked for ice coffee. They gave me a cup of hot coffee with ice tube there. So then a few years later, I went back to Rhode Island to visit relatives. I've been down here long enough. I've been drinking the iced tea. I got up there. As for an iced tea, they gave me a hot cup of tea with ice cubes in it. You can't win for losing, can you?

Nope, sure can't. Thanks. All right, thank you. It's anything goes Friday. I am a fan of the iced coffee and the cold brew. Yeah, would you please explain to the audience the difference is because you become very snobbish when we talk cold brew versus ice coffee. Well, what is iced tea? Is hot tea with ice in it?

Yeah, that's what ice coffee is. And you can do mocha frapicino, whatever. I don't do any of that. I drink it black, as I did when we went to house of pies. And cold brew means it's brewed cold. I have a cold brew pitcher where you put the grounds in there. You need to make them coarse. And then you put the grounds in the pitcher.

You do it overnight. And then you got a pitcher of cold brew in the morning. It's a cold brewed coffee. It's actually concentrate that you have to cut with water. Or if you're feeling frisky, you don't cut it with any water. Man, you put a hair in your chest on that one. Don't you? It's good.

Full flavored. Okay. It's got more of the oils. I use a metal filter, which keeps a lot of the delicious flavored oils in it. It's less acidic. It's less bitter. It's easier to drink. I am very impatient.

So if you give me a hot cup of coffee, I'm just going to scald my entire mouth. So I am a fan of cold brew and or ice coffee. All right. I think you broke it down better than anybody else in the market. The only thing I would challenge about ice coffee for you, Ross, is you mentioned House of Pyes. When we went there. That's not ice coffee.

That's impatience coffee It's hot coffee with ice on Yeah but like ice coffee If I wanted to ask If they had it on the menu I would have said give me an ice coffee You didn't just do it just to cool it down So you could drink it faster

Because that's what I thought you did I thought you just dumped your coffee Into a thing of ice so you could drink it right now That's what ice coffee is Like I said that's what iced tea is Ice tea is brewed hot And you should put ice on it See I thought it was more of an impatience thing

Well that's part of it Yeah I literally just said that And if I get hot coffee, I'm impatient. I'm going to scald my mouth. The struggle is surreal. You can't be patient for like two minutes? No.

Or put like one ice cube at a time? One ice cube at a time. That's weird. Then you just end up with room temperature coffee and nobody wants that. No, you just put like one ice cube. It cools it down enough. You're good to go. There's nothing better than Ross's life than a cold brew with a big old

CD full of all of the Eagles' greatest hits, one right after the other. Now, I do love the cold brew for all the reason. See, because I get heartburn and it's less acidic, the cold brew. and it's drinkable, it's refreshing. It's good. You've sold it to the audience. Okay. I mean, I'm just, I don't need to sell anything about it.

If there's a company out there that wants Ross to endorse cold brew. Oh, the nitro cold brew is good too. If you want a little fizz. Can you keep that part, just the, if you want a little fizz part? What's wrong with that? I just like you saying fizz. I just said fizz. I didn't say the other thing that rhymes with it.

Gilroy, you're on 790. Good afternoon. How are you? Good to see you guys. to straight off tell you that you guys are the most entertaining people on radio. Thank you. I'm dead serious about that. You know, you know, Ross is after your job.

You're doing a great job, Mr. Antagonist. Sorry, I mean. But I was going to mention something about that dream you had about Bill O'Brien. Yes. I think I have an interpretation for you, sir. Okay. Okay, you were talking to him, and he was being nice, he was listening. Yes, he gave him all that information.

You know, he's got some list of all these people. He's not going to give any interviews to you for the next 10 years. And if he does well, it's going to be dragged, too. And last time I called him, talking about somebody, well, his moves, I don't back his moves whatsoever. But I was playing the devil's advocate before, and I never stopped getting the crap from my friends. So, yeah, and I see your side on that completely yet. You said you're a little nervous during that dream. Now, why would you nervous?

You think maybe you were afraid to actually interview him? No, I love to interview him. I'm just telling you that I would have approached an interview a little bit differently as compared to what I was just being, I was just throwing things at him like, I can't believe you're so mean. I can't believe you yell at people. I can't believe you trade. I mean, I wouldn't do that in an interview. You know what I mean? Absolutely not. Well, not in that way, at least. Right. You might ask him, why don't you that move? Why did you try to destroy the team? Oh, I'm just kidding. Just a slip there. Yes, I want to tell you, I've been off two and a half months, and sometimes they've called mostly driving. I appreciate the expedient information we get for really basically in real time, and I think everyone else does too, and I appreciate your opinions, and I actually back up most of what you say.

I like hearing that. We have a great weekend. Thank you very much for calling. That's what the Matt Thomas show is. We back up most of your opinions. So, yeah, okay, I guess. Depends. Like, there are some of our...

audience that just thinks everything I or you say is the most ridiculous thing ever. That can't be true. Nah. Now, there can be like, I disagree with you a lot of things or I agree on everything you say, but there's just no way in the world you could disagree with every single take I ever had. Well, I consider you're a smart man, Matt, so you're not going to have a bunch of horrible takes. Like, there are some people I've listened to on the radio that I'm like, that person is

stupid. I can't believe that person thinks that. and I've said that like multiple times. Never Saturdays between 10 and 2, I can tell you that. Tomorrow, the sports RV show starting at 10 in the morning on Sports Talk 790. And then I think we're playing Mexican music after that. Is that correct at noon? Well, I mean, it's up to Joe and Adam.

I don't know if that's their jam. Probably not this week. I don't know if they're big cumbia fans. Are you going to belch during your show on that? I know. Only the stream heard that. Oh, I'm sorry, Joe. But the rest of the audience wants to hear.

Don't bring it up. Joe feels bad. No, he shouldn't. We love you like family. We tease because, yeah, I don't feel bad. Again, you didn't do it on your own show. You didn't have mine. Don't do it on the A-Team either. Yeah.

You know, these microphones and these voice processing, it gives us a great quality of our voices. We'll give you the desk there like you've never had. No, you know what? I think Wax would get kicked out of that. Well, then try it. I'll pass. See, you're willing to do things on this show that you're not on the other show. We get you for 50 more minutes.

I'm very happy about that. Brian Tia 2, the Fantasy 5 at 230. It's the Matt Thomas show. This is Sports Talk 790. Do not go anywhere. 713-212-5-790 on anything goes Friday. The Matt Thomas show continues on Sports Talk 790. We were talking about bad band names.

This has got to be one of the worst ones. Great band. We saw them this summer, last summer. They're really good. Hooty. Don't forget the blowfish. back. Yeah, but I mean,

didn't it, was it you or Gordy that said that guy hates being called Hooty? Well, then he probably shouldn't run around the country selling T-shirt to say Hooting the Blowfish. That's what I'm saying. If you're the frontman of a band and the band, and the band is named Something and the something. Yeah. If it's Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gladys' Knight's the front.

Yeah, but when he went solo, he didn't go by Hooty. He went to By Darius Roger. Yeah, but still, he's still from Hooty and the Blowfish. And he was the front man. I'm telling you, last summer, we went and saw them at the Cynthia Woods, Hot A-F. How's the crowd? Jammed. What were the people like?

All races, sizes, shapes. Yeah, they're probably all over. Yeah, their country, their pop. You're talking about country pop. This is what this is. This guy, and he loves South Carolina basketball. Huge sports fan. I interviewed him at the Super Bowl one time.

No, I mean, I remember when he was, when they made their final four run, I remember producing a show that interviewed him, and he was so excited to come on. You had a little bit. I've had Darius on before. At the Super Bowl. via the phone, right? So what I did is I told him, I said, when I had mononucleosis in 1995, and

your song, I heard on the radio every five minutes, because at that point there wasn't satellite music, or maybe there was, I didn't afford it, couldn't afford it. And this song was on like once an hour. It was when it was number one, it was played all the time, right next to replays of the O.J. Simpson

trial on the E. Entertainment Network. And then you also went to the movie theater and tried to spread it everywhere with mono. To see the bridge. You didn't wear a mask, no Purell, no social distancing. There wasn't social distancing in 1995. Yes, there was. In what respect? I'm sure you did a lot of

social distancing in high school. Yeah, that was not because I wanted to. I wanted to get socially closer, and the women back in the day said, no, you'll distance from me. By the way, I graduated high school 30 years ago this weekend. When's the reunion?

Supposed to be some time later this summer. But I don't think people are doing reunions. Can you do that? My tenure got canceled before it even got planned. We were like trying to figure out a date and then people were just like, I'm not no one wants to plan it. Can I tell you 10 year is going to be, well, it would

have been for you disappointing. I don't know if you'll do it an 11 year or now. Why? It just wasn't enough time to say goodbye to people you didn't want to see again. Honestly, I think reunions are completely pointless now. Facebook ruined. Facebook ruined reunions. I don't need it anymore. Everyone I care about, I'm either friends with via text. But you don't see them very often.

True. And it's good. There are people that I wish I every time I go to my I've been to two I'm into my 10 to my 20 I always feel like that I need to do a better job of maintaining friendships with my old high school friends and then I just say I forget about them so I'm a douche that way well what if you want to flex on your

enemies it's like I'm Joe George I got a radio show oh I'm a sucker yeah I mean there's a little better did you have a high school nemesis Joe not really that's pretty popular you were pretty popular yeah huh people liked me you're an affable guy and I was involved in everything like I was a football captain like

No, I sat on the bench. But I did like football, theater, student council. I was like all over the list. Oh, really? What would be the treasurer? It's the press. Were you one of, you were a student council president? Oh, president.

Were you a class favorite of anything? I don't think so. The, what do they call them? Most likely to succeed, I think I actually. Really? That's really good. Yeah. How do you think you're doing so far on that?

You know, I feel like I'm doing it pretty well. I'm not. Some guy from a high school made the top like 30 under 30 and fours. Wow. I'm actually passionate with. So maybe your second most likely to succeed. Yeah. But you have to take an L on that one, friend.

Definitely he gets that one. That's okay. My high school nemesis is a super rich engineer. Did you really hate the dude? We were just intellectual rivals. God, I wish I had one of those. I was such a good student until my junior year in high school and then I gave up. We would always like try to finish our papers the fastest and get higher grades on this test.

in that test all through, I know him since since elementary school. My high school, I didn't have a nemesis, but there were people that there were the super popular crowd that just didn't have time for anybody else except if you were in the super popular crowd. And now 30 years later, they all want to be my friend. They want tickets.

Yeah. Yeah. You know, they can we take a picture on the floor at the Tota Center? And yeah, like, okay. Yeah, I remember how you all treated me 30 years ago. I'm confused like Ross. Ross, I thought you were a bad student. No, he was really good. Once upon a time, you were racing to get essays done first?

This, look, I was, this might not come as a surprise. I was capable of being a good student, but I didn't always fulfill that potential. Same. I don't just leave it at that. But yeah, I was, I was, I mean, I was a decent. I finished in top 10% of my class, but that was only because I actually tried only one year of high school, and that was my senior year. See, I'm just the opposite. Between like second grade and junior, if I got a B, I'd cry. And then I started getting involved in school activities. I got a job, started to hang out

with some different people and the rest is history. I kind of got a path in high school. You started cracking people over the back with pull sticks. Things really took a turn for Matt Thomas in the high school age. You don't understand how good of a time it was being 17 years old going into bars. Now, I'm not a huge As you know, I'm not a huge drinker. So I wasn't a point of going and getting drunk. It was, I'm 17 going to these places that you had to be 21 or older to get into, and I got in. Hmm. That was the cool part.

Now, hitting some with a pool cube because my buddy used his pool stick to hit somebody in the ass. That's not great. Especially with little, it's slick willies when they ring the bell, meaning call the cops. Oh, we just got a disturbing tweet. Both of my arch nemesis from high school are dead, class of 05. Geez. Oh, thoughts and prayers. So really, you're the number, you're the most famous graduate of 05?

No, this guy tweeted, I said. Oh, okay. All right. I didn't say that. No, my nemesis is doing very well. Okay. Let's go to Larry and Galveston. Larry, what's going on, Larry?

Hey, MT. How the heck are you? Wonderful. Thank you for calling on anything goes Friday. I tell you what, man. You guys are talking about reunions. You know, I went to my 40th and my first. and my 50th high school reunion for Memorial from 1967.

Yikes. And yeah, buddy, that was just a couple of days ago. And it was awesome. It is great just to go back and see the people that are still kicking, that are around, that you spent years. and years and years with in school. And I just want to tell you guys something that it is just, it's an awesome thing.

And hopefully those kind of things, irregardless of what social media is doing nowadays, hopefully that kind of stuff is continued. And one other thing, my very favorite Astro, non-All Star, is split between Jake Mariznick and Evan Gattis. And that's all I got, buddy. Thank you very much.

And I love your show. Thank you, Larry. Have a great weekend. Rossi, those are two very good selections. Jake Mariznick, Evan Gattis. Hmm. Will they make the Fantasy 5 of favorite non-all-star Astros? Guess you'll just have to tune in at 2.30 to find out.

We'll visit with Brian T. T. Smith, our weekly Friday visit with him is next 157 on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. All right, final hour of the Matt Thomas show. Ross put a poll question up and we're going to open this with BTS too because he loves music. Ross, explain your tweet about the Eagles from earlier today and what the latest standings are on such an event.

That would be, I just put the Eagles, good band or not a good band, which somebody made a good point in the comments. his name is Kurt. He says, you can't really say they're not a good band. I mean, they're good at playing instruments. They wrote music, whatever. I guess it's just a question of, I would say more than anything, I think they're overrated. But anyways, we're at 77.9% good band, 22% not a good band. BTS loves him some Pearl Jam. Are you an Eagles fan? Yes or no? The Eagles are complicated, Matt. Oh, I like this answer coming up. Now, Brian knows music. I'd much more trust his opinion over yours, Matt. Sorry.

Why? I'm right here. Part of me, well, for the rest of my life, it has been for about the last 25 years, is basically in a lot of ways, but specifically with this, Jeff Bridges, the dude, and the Big Lebowski, where it's like the Eagles suck, dude. You know, I think he's in a taxi, and he gets kicked out of the taxi because the guy's playing the Eagles. I think it's take it easy. And it's like the Eagles suck. Part of me is like that.

If you think about it, I mean, the Eagles were sort of just. cheeseball. They were a bit of a concoction. At the same time, and I don't want to send any longtime Eagles fans at the same time, I think you are also 100,000% wrong if you say the Eagles suck. They wrote some of the greatest songs of the 70s. They wrote some of the greatest ballads, you know, mid-tempo rockers, California, 1970s classics, and they were incredibly diverse. You look at the guitar playing, the harmonizing, on and on. So half of me thinks the Eagles too suck. Half of me is like they have some of the greatest written songs in American rock history and they were more diverse than just about any band out there. So I'm

very, very iffy, but, you know, praiseful of the Eagles. Okay. Right on the fence, my friend. That's exactly. No, I think that's a lot of that. What he said is absolutely spot on. But see, I think if you say the... The problem with the Eagles is they've been playing for way too long, and there's no one left anymore. And so they're like on the eighth incarnation of themselves. And people want to go see them because they want to go see here at Hotel California after their eighth beer.

But you're not... You haven't been seeing the Eagles for like the last 30 years. That's probably true. See, to me though, Brian, it's like saying, like when I say, or if somebody would say the Eagles suck, that's kind of like saying, you know, Ryan Anderson sucks. Ryan Anderson shot 40% for it. from three. He's one of the greatest basketball players walking on the planet.

But if I think he's overrated or overpaid, I'm going to say Ryan Anderson sucks. He doesn't suck, but you get what I'm saying. That's what I would say if you say that about the Eagles. I have to argue, Ryan Anderson and the Eagles are two different. That's not a great comparison. Sorry, I like Ryan Anderson, but that is shaming the Eagles. Every Friday is 2 o'clock for the last few years. Okay, well, how about, I don't know, Damien Lillard.

If somebody wants to say Damien Lillard sucks, he doesn't. doesn't suck, but he's just not one of the best players in basketball. The Eagles don't suck. They're just not one of the greatest bands of all time. Yeah, the Eagles don't suck, but they've been doing it for too long, and they're not led to play. No, you know what? I think James Worthing in the Eagles is a better comparison.

You're on the all-time greats. He's not the greatest. He's not the greatest. He's not. All right, let's go higher then. I liked it. I like where you're going with us. Let's come up with the name.

Isaiah Thomas. Clyde Drexler. Clyde Drexler. Clyde Drexler is the Eagles. Yes or no. that's not bad. All right, let's get to some baseball. BTS, we were really pissed off the last couple of days. And again, not that one verbal round of tweets and quotes is going to necessarily end conversation.

But Max Scherzer's tweet about how they found just ultimately an insult, and they want to add 100 games, and they don't want to take any salary reduction. They'll take the reduction because the games are reduced, but they're not taking any true reduction. I'm very discouraged. Can you walk me off the plank on this, or am I going to stay on it for a while longer? I think you're going to be on it for a little bit. I keep spreading this.

Ultimately, Matt, I believe, and maybe I'm just doing it so I have hope, right? So I can go through each day and be like, well, baseball is going to be back. I believe that ultimately they're going to do all this, say all this, and by the time September rolls around, no one's going to remember, no one's going to care, because they can't. be this stupid. I mean, they can't be dumber than they were in 1994, because in 1994,

they were, major league baseball was still huge, but you didn't have a pandemic. You didn't have 40 million unemployed. You didn't have, you know, restaurants and small businesses across the country, Matt, just struggling and people just dealing with unthinkable things. They're not that stupid. So it ultimately has always, to me, felt like it's grandstanding, it's public compromising. You know, there are a lot of people on Twitter that thought Max Scherzer was awesome by saying that. I will never understand that. I like Scherzer.

He seems like a smart guy. He won a World Series last year. He'll have probably on the Hall of Fame. Just by saying we're not going to negotiate when everyone else, you know, everyday people are struggling, it just sounds so stupid and in a bubble to me, just like Blake Smell did. But, you know, some people think he's awesome for going against the billionaires. Then again, it's always easier to hate billionaires than it is millionaires. All right, and I'm going to ask you just to put your crystal ball in front of you.

Both sides we have to assume are going to have to come closer to the other side. Let me ask you this. In order for this to happen, what is your gut? Do you think the owners have to give in more or the players do? I'm not pass on this one. I believe it's a truth. I think it's 50-50, but if I had to lean toward one side, it's obviously, the players. I'm not pro-owner and I'm not pro-players here. I'm pro-compromise. I am saying all this

and I've written it multiple times in The Chronicle and I will keep hammering it and I'm glad you're doing it on your show. I feel like it's not being talked about enough locally, especially with the Astros and their return being so important to the city of Houston. The owners are going to have to give, the players are going to have to give, but if the players had taken the owner's original deal, I'm not saying they should have, but if they would have, baseball would be back right now. You know, I mean, you'd be in early June next week, and they might have been having tryouts, I mean, sorry, workouts, and you would have spring training, and then you would have a few exhibition games, and then maybe July 4th, they're playing

baseball again. They are up against the wire right now, and nobody's talking big from the owner's side. I mean, the players would say the owners are putting it all out there. They're giving us this horrendous deal, but at least they are proposing deals and counter proposals. And, you know, You know, Major League Baseball, they're the ones that came up with the safety plan, not the players. So, again, I love baseball players in general as a whole, but you go back to 94 and even predating that. And every time this comes around, no one looks worse in pro sports than baseball players. We had Harold Reynolds on yesterday. He didn't mind the thought of it being as little as 70 games, especially the labor negotiations go on.

I think 82 is the bare minimum before the war. Flukey comes into play. Do you have a number in your mind or do you don't particularly care? I think that's a really good question. I've been thinking about this a lot late. Look, if 82 is the best they can do and we keep saying anything is better than nothing right now because of all the circumstances. But 80, 82, man, it's half of a season. And baseball, the beauty of baseball, even in 2020, is that you play every day and it's the long 162. and so there's, you know, it waters out of the flukes. You know, I mean, you can hit 800 for one week, and then you turn into Tyler White the next month.

So if that's the best they can do, it's the best they can do. If they start getting down that to 70, 60, I mean, gosh, if you go lower than that, you don't need a season. Baseball, Major League Baseball is way too serious and complex to have it become some fluky, 50-game regular season, and you throw everyone else into the postseason, if they end up doing that, they're better off just going on into 2021. Yeah, and what Harold's point was is that you won't care about the 60-game regular season if you have 14 teams playing in the playoffs, a good long playoff.

I'm thinking, I don't want my postseason as long as my regular season. It just seems kind of weird that way. I don't want the San Diego Padres and, you know, the Milwaukee Brewers, you know, playing for the World Series just because they got hot for one month. That's not – baseball has a long, long history. And it's never had a situation like that. All right. Shams just reported literally five minutes ago.

The NBA's Board of Governors has four options for the return of the NBA. Oh. 16 teams directly to playoffs. 20 teams with a group stage play. 22 teams, games to determine seeding play in tournament for final seeds. Or all 30 teams playing a 72 game regular season with a play in tournament. I know I'm putting you on the spot because it literally just came a couple of down minutes ago,

but I'm sure you had something in your mind about what you'd like to see the NBA return to. The 30 doesn't make sense to me. Now, granted, you would do the 30, right, and then have a play in tournament, but there's no reason, and I said this loud of there's no reason that Cleveland or Atlanta or something,

you know, the New York Knicks should have any shot to make the playoffs. That completely waste the entire regular season. I prefer the 16s rough. you just go straight into the playoffs, I understand the sentiment if you're New Orleans, if you're Portland and Damien Lillard, if you're the 17 best team in the league, you're like, man, we just need to five more games. We would have made the playoffs. Maybe you make some crazy run again, that waste of regular season. I lean toward the 20. I lean toward the 20 with some type

of, or even thinking to the 16 and the 16th or whatever. I'm making this up on the spot. 20-22 have a play-in, you know, for those final two to four spots, something like that. And really quickly, the rockets deserve a shot to improve their seating. And I'm not being pro-Rockets here. That's just the fact. If you're going to say Portland, Zion and New Orleans, they deserve a shot to get the eight-seed. Well, the Houston Rockets, Russell Westbrook, James Hardin, who's apparently lost 180 pounds, they should have a shot to move up to four, to move up to three,

and it's only going to take five games. So I lean toward that, Matt. 16, pull play, 20, and a play-in, sometimes a combination like that, they don't need the full 30. Yeah, Shams also reporting just a couple minutes ago that July 31st would be the target date for the return of the season. That's still two months, but you know what, at least it gives something for hope. The one owner that thought the idea of playing all 30 teams,

seems kind of silly. Hornets owner Michael Jordan. So Jordan knows that his team's just done in 2020. One of the most competitive human beings in the world of sports history is like, you know what, my team sucks. I don't want to risk injury of my star players, which I don't only have many. So why should I have to put them on a plane, send them to Orlando for five or six games that mean nothing to my team and my chances of at least even making the playoffs? That's Michael Jordan for you.

That's the same thing with the Knicks. that's the same thing with the hawks. And there needs to be a real 30-for-30 done on Michael Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets Bobcats. He's the best basketball player of all time, one of the worst owners of all times. But it's funny though, you could do that about a variety of different people. Isaiah and Thomas, a failed executive. Yeah, horrible. Bill Russell, not a great NBA head coach.

I'm trying to think of some other. Larry Bird was good, didn't do it very long, but wasn't very good. some of the best coaches, I mean, in the history of the NBA, I mean, could you even name the best player that turned on to be a coach later on in his life? That's something we can think about for another time, but it doesn't come right to mind, does it? No, you mean, you're absolutely putting me on the spot. In a good way, I enjoy it. I would have to do a little research before I suddenly. Doc Rivers.

Bill Russell? No, we just said Bill Russell. Lenny Wilkins? But Doc. Go ahead. No, I was going to say Doc Rivers is a good. good example, right? Doc, but yeah, and Doc, but Doc's been a, I don't want to say Doc's been a great coach,

even though he won a title, but Doc, you know, he was a good player, he wasn't a great player. That's hard. It's hard to find that combination of a great player who became a great coach or a great Jerry West, you know, but he wasn't really a coach. He's more of a, you know, if you're going to attach him to something, he's front office. Oh, yeah, he's as good. Yeah, he's as good of a player as he's a general manager. Magic Johnson failed as a coach, too.

BTSS, I want you to think about that all weekend long. Come up with some examples next week. And maybe we'll throw an instant poll question about if Pearl Jam is a good band. I know that all your friends will call in and say absolutely yes to that, correct? Best band of all time. So whatever, Matt. There it is. BTS.

Talk to you next week, friend. Thank you. Take care, man. All right, buddy. That's Brian T. Smith. I have two really good friends. He's one of them and my other buddy Ed who just lives and breathes Pearl Jam. Pearl Jam.

I have two of their songs on my on my list. Okay. So. I'm more a fan of Space Jam. Or Space Jam too? Yeah. Coming out next. Or Strawberry Jam.

All right. So let's run through Sham's tweets. We come back. Some NBA news of no. We'll recap it again. Bottom of the hour, Fantasy 5, the category this week, favorite non-astros who never made an all-star. 214 on Sports Talk 790. More Matt Thomas.

Now. on Sports Talk 790. Another one of Sports RV's favorite jams. This is getting the people going. This is not one of my favorite ones, but it's still a good one. It's like saying that, you know, like some Elton John song is not my favorite, but I still enjoy them. All right. So let's do this.

The survey of the 30 general managers, 16 said they would prefer the league come back with just the typical 16 playoff teams. with the teams and seatings based on the standings when the season was suspended on March of 12th. That's not going to pay all the bills, Ross. So I don't think we're going to get that. So now it's down to essentially four competition scenarios. According to Shams Sharania of the Athletic, which was put out less than 20 minutes ago. 16 teams directly to playoffs. 20 teams with a group and stage play, meaning they're going to keep,

they're going to have those seventh and eighth spots open. 22 with games that determined seeding a play in tournament for the final seeds or having all 30 with a 72 game regular season. It feels like to me the 30 is not going to happen. That Golden State, that Cleveland, that Charlotte, that New York can be told, we don't need you. No sense adding to the bubble of teams that have no absolutely zero chance. Yeah, that makes sense. And then, of course, you mentioned in the last segment the follow-up tweet about Michael Jordan saying talking about the safety and 30 team return is unlikely. Yep.

So what are we going to see? I don't know. The rockets are in any of these scenarios. So let's go. Let's kick that one to the curve. Let's not you can give that an option. The 31 is out. Of the three to you, which one is the three do you like?

I want to go with the 22 teams, meaning the 22 teams that in theory could still make the play. playoffs. It gives you a number of regular season games to play. I don't necessarily disagree with the playing tournament. It's got to be a very short, quick tournament, though. Maybe a one eliminated game kind of thing. One and done? Kind of like playing it. Like a playing. That's tough, but they do that in wild cards in baseball. They do it in the NCAA tournament. It gives incentive for Portland, San Antonio, I think Phoenix. Who else would be in that group?

we mentioned some of them it's the the pelicans and the the pelicans would be Portland gives them incentive to make the trip and go ahead and try to make the playoffs what's going to happen to the if you if we do the 22 or 20 teams or whatever

what's happening to the teams that don't what's happening the local TV deals of the teams that don't play I don't think anybody's a huge sticking point right well it's not a huge they just want as much as possible that I from what I've been able to gather off that if you if you give the local TV teams 66 games than compared to what they have right now, which is 60,

it's a dramatic tele. It's a dramatic increase in South. There's a big difference between the money in those six games. So yeah, the 70 game threshold seems impossible, especially for teams like the Lakers, the Clippers, who else is on television all the time, the Celtics, the Rockets are on national television. It's going to be a lot of work to get them to 70 games. So that that grandiose number might have to be thrown to the curb is, unless you let you live the league give those local TV stations more playoff games than you have in the past. You know what I actually don't mind? I don't mind the 16 teams straight to the playoffs.

You've all played almost 70 games. The standings are what they are. Anybody as far as the Eastern Conference, the Wizards are way out. As far as the Western Conference, three and a half you can try to sell yourself that that's, you know, that you're close when you're three and a half. But if you're three and a half out, the Grizzlies need to go and they play, let's say they play 10 games or whatever. Yeah. You need to go, what, eight and two, and the Grizzlies need to go four and six. How likely is that to happen?

Okay, so let's do this. You're going to balance the lack of regular season games and the money you can recoup in that versus the smaller bubble and get right at the playoffs and be done by it. Because remember we talked about in the very early the show, the general managers want the season done by October the first. That's what I'm saying. You're getting it done quicker. tough you know what for the teams that can't make the playoffs Damian Lillard didn't want to come back for meaningless games

hey guess what Damian Lillard you're not coming back at all you're not in the playoffs you didn't make it sorry we get the season over quicker there's no home court advantage that sucks but I actually kind of like the 16 team idea you're bringing in less teams less family members fewer coaches and gentlemen the bubble smaller I like that actually and half the teams are gone in two weeks

you're down to eight teams I don't understand how you can do a 20 or 22 game format to come back because what are you saying that the West is going to get all these extra teams? Yes, exactly what I'm saying. Yes. And that's, I would assume that's what they're doing, but that seems incredibly unbalanced then. Yeah, they doing the top 20 in the standings?

Or what would, I mean, like, you're just going to bring back all these extra Western conference teams. Yeah, there is no equal. It's no, it's no, it's no, it's no, from what I've read, it's not a balance where a certain number West, certain number of base. It could be all West teams. All right, how about this? What if I propose this to y'all? The 16 teams are in the playoffs today

are going to the playoffs. We'll go to Orlando and everybody will play four games, four pre-scrimages, not scrimmages, but like four pre-season games. Get themselves revved up. Yeah. And you have like the Lakers play the magic.

What's the likelihood they're going to play? You know what? Well, here's what you. You play four Eastern Conference teams. Interconference? Inter conferences. Yeah, I like that. So you don't give it.

away too much or get to know each other that well. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Four in a conference games. I'm sure that's easily scheduled with 16 teams. You can figure that out. All right. So let's, okay, let's take that at the bare minimum.

So you're, so let's go to, let's take it one step. Let's, why don't we add two more teams to each conference, do the same thing? And then maybe play the seven, eight, you know, the eight, nine playing game. Oh, so up to 20 games. 20 teams. That's fine. You're not adding that many more games. But like I said, you're adding...

I'd actually be adding two more. You're adding that many more roster. How many people are coming for every team? You said 35... 35. ...plus rosters or 35, including... ...inclying rosters. The only problem is...

So you're adding 140 people to this bubble with four more teams. But the only problem is you can't add two from each side, because there's no way you can justify... The Hornets. With the Blazers, Pelicans, and Kings, specifically all having the same exact win percentage. that one of those teams wouldn't make it in. So that's the only problem.

You can't do some kind of three-way scenario. Like you can't exclude the Kings. That's not right. I like the 16. So what Adam Silver is going to have to do is he's going to have to step up and say, all right, I've heard all this. I appreciate your opinions. But in the interest of the bubble,

in the interest of finishing the season by October 1st, because that's what you as general managers want, we're going to go to 16. We're going to play four preseason. We're going to play four preseason. We're going to call them what, four pre-playoff games against teams in your other conference and then we'll start the playoffs.

Well, it sounds like they trust them. Wows tweeted out as hard as owners and teams are pushing for proposals rooted in some level of self-interest, there's still a sense that they'll give Silver the latitude to implement the plan that he lands on with the NBA PA. Most expect that it will come inside the next week. So unlike baseball, it sounds like the ownership groups and the governors are going to say,

this is what we want, but Adam Silver, we trust you. Yep. Which is great. Like, that's awesome because I'm for that. And like, honestly, if Michael doesn't want his team to play, he should be able to choose for the Hornets not to play. And no one's going to miss the Hornets. We'll be fine.

No. I'm going to make it. We need some judges. If you are an Astros fan, whether you are 14 or 70, well, yeah, I guess 74 we work. 74 is fine. Yeah. Any age.

Are you going to take some Colt 45? I'm not taking any cold 45s. Dang. We need five judges to be our fantasy five judges today. The category is our favorite Astros that have never made an All-Star team. Favorite Astros that have never made an All-Star team. If you would like to be a judge, it's very simple. You vote for me, and then you hang up.

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I will give you a list of five, so will Ross, and it'll be up to you to decide. Joe, you do not get to judge this week because you'd only know Astros from, say, the last three years. So that won't do you no good. Chad Qualls, not on the list. Not on my list either, ironically enough. So we need some more judges if you'd like to come in. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90.

I won last week's Fantasy 5 on favorite non-all-star Rockets. I don't think there's a definitive number one, so I will give you, Ross, the number one overall selection. Well, you know, Matt, I'm just going to have to wholeheartedly disagree. There is one man who never made an All-Star team who was in my heart. He is the Astro Clipper. He was a pudgy slap singles hitter. He had the 24-game hitting streak over like 50 seasons it felt like.

And he was the backup backstop, which I feel like they're just made for fan favorites. I'm going with one. Tony Ayusebio. 24-game hitting streak. It took him six and a half years to get there. Yes. love the Astros Clipper. All right.

I'm going to go with guys that were characters and good pitchers. This is my first picked is. Okay. One of my all-time favorite teams was the 86 Astros. Mike Scott was the closer, and he didn't do us any favors against the Metropolitan's in that series. But his setup guy was a character. He was a cone head.

He was funny, and he could pitch his ass off. I'm going to go with Charlie Kerfeld. as one of my all-time favorite Astros that never made an All-Star team. Okay. Next, I'm going to go with a guy that was a part of the resurgence of the Astros in the mid to late 1990s, a little bit of 2000s. Okay. He played him some shortstop. He played some third base.

He'd play some outfield. He'd get you the key hit. He spoke in southern towing. I speak of one, Bill Spires. Bill Spires on my list. I feel like a lot of backup catchers and utility men are going to be on this list, man. It's really the essence of the contest, yeah. And keeping with that, the utility man, I'm going to go recent vintage.

He hit a huge home run in the World Series. He was a utility man. He was there in the Dark Times. He was there for a World Series championship. I speak of Marween Gonzalez. Marwin Gonzalez, now the Minnesota Twins. All we do is Marguin. Yes.

And this is where I go strategy. I have some guys higher up on my list, but I think you're going to take this guy and I want him. He was mentioned earlier on in the show. He's got long, beautiful, flowing locks. Jake from Rake Farm. Jake Mariznick, the Do Everything Outfielder. Great, great outfielder. Maybe not so great at the plate.

But we loved him, and he was handsome as hell. Jake Marizniznick. Snake Jay. Yes. Well, that was somebody else. Do you remember that? Who could bet any woman in Southeast Texas? Yes, he could.

And that really should be the reason why he wins the vote, not because of his plane. Great defender, though. Made a lot of great saving catches. Next, I'm going to go close to home. You hear this man on 790 occasionally. Okay. Yeah, on my list. A grant, another great utility player.

Just a swell human being. Now, granted, one of his biggest hits was against the Astros. but we don't fault him for that because the Astros are moving along with player to player. But he came back to the Astros and had a long, successful career boasting all things Astros, and you see him currently on television right now. I speak of the one and only Jeff Blum as one of my favorites. How can I possibly say an ill word about Gioff Bloom? You cannot.

He'll be here in 20 minutes, so I would not advise that. Hopefully he's listening. Hopefully he's listening because, Jeff, you can call on and vote for yourself if you want to. When he was introduced and he told him, he told him. the story. When he was introduced in his first minor league game, they said Gioff Bloom. That's why I say that. Gioff. Second famous, famous,

famous, Jeff that spells his name that way. I don't know. Jeffrey Duraff from Toys R Us. I didn't say first. I said second famous. Okay. Am I right about that? May he rest in peace? Yeah, the whole company is out of business.

It is what it is. Next, I'm going to go with a big moment in how the Astros final. got past somebody. The Astros had a terrible time for a better part of a decade trying to beat the Atlanta Braves in a playoff series. I mean, first of all, the wide strike zone, Javi Lopez would open it up for Greg Maddox and Tom Glavin and John Smoltz.

But one year off in a game that took forever and ever and ever. We had one hero that hit a home run to win it. Home run! Myel, I don't really remember who it. It was. It's gone. It's gone. It's gone.

And Alan Ashby would say, Chris Burke. So I'm going with Chris Burke. Thank you. Good. I don't know if he had a fan favorite moment, but I don't know if he was a fan favorite player. For me,

for a guy that helped that beat the Braves after getting her ass kicked by the Braves forever and ever. I'm good. Let's see. So I went a little recent, last two picks. Now I will go. You know what? Let me go through

You know what? Same area you were going with. Let me talk to you about a man who was a legend locally from Galveston Ball High School. He was with the Tampa Bay Rays. He showed up huge in multiple playoff series. And not only that,

the man could hit at the plate. Anytime a pitcher is used as a pinch hitter because he can rake, I'm down with that. I speak of one Brandon Backy. Ooh, the pride of Galveston Ball, right? That's what I just said that. But you were texting, it's fine. That's fine.

Local legend. You branded Bakke. I love Brandon Bakke. K, showed up huge in that 2004 ALCS. Okay. NLCS. Oh, yeah, NLCS wasn't a thing back then for the Astros, you know? Next.

Oh, man, there's like five good names left on the list. I'm going to have to go with... Hold on. Actually, hold on. Matt, you talk. I have to make sure this person was not an all-star because I didn't get this one. Amazing Grace says that Ross wins.

Oh, damn. Hashtag Swoon. That's fine. Okay, this guy I wanted to pick as an all-star, so he is off the list. He made the All-Star team once. I'm going to go with... Geez, you took something like that good guy.

You know what? I'll go with another utility infielder. Sure, why not? This guy from the 1990s, he would play all over the place. He was a utility man. He was on that 1998 squad that was great.

He didn't play much. I'm going to go with Timmy Bowie. Tom Bogar. Timmy Bogar. Bogar. Bogues, as he was called. All right. Um, okay.

Tim Bogar? That's right, baby. Oof. I have, I'm down to three. I'm gonna go with the guy that acted a lot older than he was because he was a lot older than we thought he was.

He kind of fudged on his birth certificate. Um, When Billy Wagner needed an occasional night off, and you wanted to go to your bullpen to go get somebody to get it out, he was a part of one of the great setup group with Lidge and with Wagner. He was also a part of that combined no-hitter against the Yankees back in the day. Kirk Sarloos you're taking? I don't take you. No, I'm taking one Octavio do. Octavio do tell.

Okay. You, you're taking Tim Bogar and you're getting mad at me with Octavio doel. As a 14-year-old, I love Tim Bogar. I don't care what you say. All right. So, Ross's list is Tony Ysabio, Marwin Gonzalez, Jake Mariznick, Brandon Backy, and Tim Bogar. Mine is Charlie Kerfell, Bill Spires, Jeff Blum, Chris Burke, and Octavio Dothel. Oh, my list is way stronger.

The people I did not select, I did not select Evan Gattis. And also didn't go with Jim DeShay's either. You know, I... Oh, Billy Dorn was also on my list. I thought about Yulee? Oh, Marwings... I mean, not Marwin. Jordan Alvarez could have been on the list too

but his sample size is so small though You know I really wanted to draft? He just wasn't here long enough. Nori Yaoki. You would have definitely lost. I like him though. Any time of anytime somebody comes in and for it. Did Casman Sui ever make the All-Star? I don't think so.

That would have been an anal Fisher All-Star moment. Yeah, that's, if we're drafting best players who had Anil Fissures, Kaz Matsui is near the top of the list. All right, so here it is again. Tonyus, this is Ross's list. Tony Yusehiel, Marvin Gonzalez, Jake Marisnich, Brandon Backy, Tim Bogar. My list is Charlie Kerfield, Bill Spires, Jeff Blum, Chris Burke, and Octavio Dotel.

Who wins the Fantasy 5-7-1-3-212-5-790? We have two votes needed right now. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Jimmy on the Matt Thomas show, Jimmy, who wins a Fantasy 5? First off, the Eagles are terrible, but Marlon Gonzalez is probably the most talented player on that list. But I didn't really care for his remarks after all that. So I'm going to go with Chris Burke and Matt today. Thank you very much.

Have a wonderful weekend. And your music tastes suck. But thank you for my phone anyway. 713-212-5-790. Billy on 790. Billy, who wins a Fantasy 5? Thank you very much, my friend. Have a great weekend.

2-0. Let's go to line number three. Howard on 7-19. Is this you, Howard? A different Howard. It's more than me. one person named Howard he's old man

call me for 25 years believe it I believe it Howard how are you sir I'm doing well sir I was leaning Ross until he went Bogar and don't tell sclam it so Matt

taking it home to take All right That's three no You are your list Is not anywhere close To as good as mine But that's okay Frank on 790

Frank who wins A Fantasy 5 Me or Ross Sports MT in a route Wow. What? That's a sweep! That is a second sweep ever.

Let's see how much further I can go. Okay, go. Let's go. Let's go. Let's get these lines lit up together. Let's go. 17 wins. 21, 2.1, 25, 70.

James, who wins a fantasy five? Me or Ross. Anybody that says Billy's five wins it off. Oh, that's five in a row. I don't even know who Charlie Kerfeld is. Joe, you counting this? We're going for six. Come on.

Let's go six. Let's go six. Jim on 790. Who wins a fantasy five? Me or Ross? Right out the big Brom. It's Matt. Oh! Oh! Oh! No, you didn't! Six now in a row!

Joe, do you even know who half these players are? This is BS. No, I'm glad I did not participate in this. All right. We got another caller here. Maybe this may for Ross. Well, sure, why not? Line one. Who do you have in the Fantasy 5? Ross or me? Matt. For sure. Charlotte Kirpil got it.

I don't even know who Charlie Kerfield is. How do you not know who Charlie Kerrfeld is? He stopped playing when I was five. He is Mr. 1986 Astros. That's seven votes. Line two wins a fantasy five. Me or Ross. Well, Matt came on strong with the bluner,

but I think Beresnik and Bakke took the lead for Ross. All right. There's your first vote. You lost seven to one. Gosh, my list is so much stronger than yours. These people are wrong. A lot of bad opinions out there today. Okay.

I got you. It's okay. That's two straight wins. Somebody just tweeted me. Matt paid these men to call in. I agree. No, I don't think so. Back to wrap it up, 245 on 790.

Matt Thomas continues. On Sports Talk 790. Comes on like a storm, but you don't know where from she was thrown. I don't even know what this is. This is the first song of the three hours of the show. I have no idea what this is. Is this Pearl Jam or something?

This is Pearl Jam. I tried to take a shot in the dark of which one you had. No, you want to guess? This was my guess. Alive. And, uh, where, where could my baby be? Did he do that one? I get them confused with like Stone Temple Pilots and stuff.

So. Alive and Jeremy. Oh, I got alive, though. Yeah. Isn't Jeremy the depressing one about suicide? Here's the thing about what Ed and Brian T have said to me about this. They say you go to a Pearl Jam concert, you never see the same concert twice. What does that even mean?

Meaning that they just mix the songs up. Okay. Like I've been to two Paul McCartney concerts in the last three years. I've essentially seen the same concert. He doesn't change. He doesn't change a set list? Very little bit, but he says the same thing. What do you mean he says the same thing?

I mean, I can remember him saying, I remember back in the 60s when they did this. He talked about John. I mean, the same stories. It's almost like that, you know. But I feel like they tell me that every time you go to a Pearl Jam concert, it's just, the set list is different, the tone of the show is different, the way it's played. And again, I'm not a big enough fireworks are different. Yeah. But I bet you smell weed every time.

Yeah. Most weed I've ever smelled at a concert was at a Bob Seeger concert. Really? Yes. Most weed I ever smelled at a concert was probably the, it was the Hot Boys, SPM. This was at Hoffines Pavilion. gosh, I had to be around 2000. I was a teenager.

You want to hear? I probably shouldn't. You know what? I'll say it. Go ahead. My mom ratted on people for, they were smoking weed. She called the police and got him throwing. No, mom, let those people live.

So she would point them out? She went and got to police because, I mean, there was, it was like copious amounts of smoke weed in our faces. Yeah. A weed smoke. Right. So, and I was, I had to be like 14 at the time. So she was just, yeah.

Especially when you have the young ones around you. Yeah, I get it, but I don't know. Bob Sigger is the most weed and also the loudest concert I've ever been to. My ears physically hurt, yeah. Really, really ring. Followed by the Rolling Stones of the Astrodome. You would think it would be hard to get that going with the ears, but man, it was loud too. So you were living those Hollywood nights?

Yeah, and I was against the wind. And you had some night moves. I did. And what else was I? I was still the same during our. all this. Really? And then you left and you turned the page.

I'm out. Damn. I wish I can go longer with this. If I had all the songs in front of him, I could mix them in. Go ahead. I'm tapped out. No. Let's think about it.

This is a good bit. We just didn't think of it ahead of time. Anthony by Hobby Airport on the Matt Thomas show. Hello, Anthony. Hi. Ross, you got Rob, man. Thank you. I mean, you had the astro clipper with, he had the skinny legs at big

belly, the big old thing that chewing his mouth. Yes. Kimmy D. How about the mustache, though, as well for Tony Usabio? Oh, my God. I mean, he was the great. Yeah, he was the actual... He's my favorite, he's my favorite player.

And then you had Jake Mariznick, who was running around the city just laying pipe. Yeah. I mean... I mean, you were robbed. You were robbed. Thank you. I mean, nobody cares about Charlie Kerrfield or whatever. You know, Matt just got the old generation.

Yeah, I know. I appreciate you. Best list ever. You were robbed. Thank you, Anthony. You know who can... Anthony? Anthony, you there?

Yes. Do you know who cares about your list? Me? Me. Suck it! Play it in some more Bob's Secret. Give it to me. You can suck it, Anthony.

Take the L like a grown-ass man. He was right. Got robbed. I don't have people call this show after I lose and say, well, you were robbed. That's because you're usually not robbed. No. I'm always robbed.

Maybe I should tell you something, Matt. Is Wexler in there? Yes, he is. All right, did he hear the list? Wexler is like that has the intellect of a 60-year-old. He's going to vote for you. It's fine. That's not going to go over well.

That is not going to go over well. That is not going over well. I don't know if he heard the lists. I heard the intellect of a 60-year-old that came running. That's the means you're wise, Alex. Who's going to be able to tell. List A is Eusebio, Marwin Gonzalez. Favorite Astros never to make an All-Star Team.

Got it. Tony Yosabio, Marwin Gonzalez, Jake Marlon Wazzan, Giznick, Brandon, Becky, Tim Bogar. Uh-huh. List B, Charlie Kerfell, Bill Spires, Jeff Blum, Chris Burke, and Octavio Dotel. Jeff Blum, why would you draft him? List A.

Is what? The one that I would give the vote to. Thank you, Wax. You're high. You're a 60-year-old high man. You had me at Usavio. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, but you should get knocked.

Thank you. You should be destroyed for Tim. Bullar almost lost me. But Yusaybo was so good. It kept me there. But I had Jeff Blum on the list. I had Jeff Blum on the list. Yes, you did.

Brandon Backy, a local, no less. Why would you have Jeff Blum? There he is right there. Tell him. Jeff Blum on your list and validates the whole list. Love talking going on in here. Let's on your hair. Matt, you won.

Another vote. Another vote. You can't get Jeff Blum's vote, and he's on the list. No, invalidated. No, no, no. What's the vote about it? The list is, favorite Astros, never to make an All-Star team. List A, Tony Ysabio, Marwin Gonzalez,

Jake Marisnick, Brandon Backy, Tim Bogart. List B, Charlie Kerfield, Bill Spires, Jeff Blum, Chris Burke, Artibio, Dotel. You know what I'm voting for? Yeah, list A. I got hose, man. No, he won. I won seven to one.

won the votes and he's still upset. Man, this one turned into a popularity contest. Because some Gibranie called and said, Rush, you get robbed. Matt won and he's still being sensitive about it. You shouldn't get upset about everything everybody says online and on the air. Yeah, Adam.

Yeah, Adam. Jeez. Can you tell the people what's coming up next? No. Oh, it's the Jeff Blum show. Featuring Adam Clanton and Adam Wexler. So it's Blum and the team. Have a great week.

and talk to y'all Monday at noon on 7-nighting.