The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Paying Deshaun Watson, Joe West Sucks & Replacing Texans Karen

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. You, sir! Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 12 o'clock in H-town. What's happening in lunchtimers? Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. Joe George is going to sit in for Ross for a couple days as he continues to recuperate.

Brandon Riley, our producer of the show. We look forward to spend in the next three hours with you. you on a day where I know Pat Mahomes is happy, but man, Deshaun Watson can't be far behind. Joe, George, I got a question for you. Do you ever hang out with people that just make obscene amounts of money way more than you? I mean, to the point where it is just, it ain't even close. I don't know, Matt. We've never hung out before, so I would say no.

Well, thank you for the cross-reference on that. I appreciate that. I was actually setting myself up for that. But seriously, and this is what I think about it. I don't know if guys are worth their fair market value or not. I mean, look, the NFL quarterbacks are getting $35, $40, $45 million. So to say that the deal that Pat Mahomes got yesterday was crazy. He just really wasn't.

It just wasn't. But I always think about, does that person ever let anybody buy them a meal ever again? I feel like you can't. unless it's like father-in-law. If it was you, me, and Pat Mahomes in an Uber, he's going to get it every time, right? Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

Unless, like, there's some kind of trade-off of maybe, like, we're buying the drinks at the bar, or he's buying all the drinks at the bar, and then, hey, I'll get the $5 Uber back to the hotel. But that's it. But the problem is he's not going to want the $5 Uber. He's going to want the Uber XL, the sedan package, which then becomes a $40, right? Because your customer.

to going in a chevette at $5 and he wants to be, he being rich athlete wants to be in an SUV, an escalate, if you will. These are the things I think about. And at what point does it, do you feel sorry for the super mega millionaire that he's got to pay for everything? Like if you go have dinner, like if you and I will go eat, we're going to go eat Chinese, right? Nice, reasonable amount of money. Well, maybe, maybe, maybe to Sean Watson, if the three of us want to go to have dinner. Maybe he doesn't want to have Chinese. He wants to have a Kobe beef. You and I can't afford Kobe beef on a regular basis. So is the presumption that he has to pay for the dinner if we're going to go eat somewhere super nice? I think there is a presumption that they have to pay

like if you get to a certain level, right? Like if if I go to a dinner with someone that makes significantly more money than I do. Right. And they choose the place. And it's obviously, of my price range, I don't think it should even be in consideration that I would have to pay, right? If it's in my price range, maybe I can pay. Right. Because look, we all at some point can afford an expensive meal. It just depends on what you're willing to budget for something. I'm just, I don't know why I think about silly things like this, but I do.

Because at this point, Pat Mahomes never, ever, ever has to worry about paying for anything ever again. He's the richest athlete in sports. And he's not by himself, by the way. There's lots of ridiculously rich athletes that never have to worry about a thing. But it's just coming off of the heels of what happened yesterday where a Kansas City liquor store employee broke the story. Did you ever imagine in your life that a liquor store employee would have it over Adam Schifter about the brand new deal that Pat Mahomes got? Now, no, she didn't do all the due diligence.

She didn't know the length of the contract. She didn't know the amount of money. She didn't know about the guarantee. But what she did know was that somebody from the Kansas City Chiefs ordered a bunch of very expensive champagne to pop. And by the way, who should be paying for that? The Chiefs, because they gave him the contract. I mean, wouldn't you think Pat should pay for that?

No, because he didn't ask for the, I mean, he's asking for the contract, but they offered it. But what if he said, let's get some champagne to celebrate? Then he says, I got this. If it's his idea, yeah. We'll have to find out eventually. It's like one of the things I find weird in life, that if you ever score a hole in one in golf, I think it's a pretty huge accomplishment.

I have never had a hole in a one. I've had an eagle before, but never a hole in one. The biggest scam I've ever believed in is that if you're the one that has the whole one, you have to buy drinks for everybody in the club. So not only do you not get to take advantage of being the big man in the club, but it's going to cost you, you know, depending on how many people are in the bar, a couple hundred bucks. I didn't know it's the whole club. Well, I mean, yeah, you can't go in the bar and say, hey, Joe George has got a hole in one.

You know what everybody's thinking? Double vodka for me. That's why you probably shouldn't play golf on the one small chance that you might get a hole in a one. it wind up costing a couple hundred bucks I tried to Joe about a decade ago tried to go to the my fictitious American Golf Association and said let's change the rule

how about you buy drinks the person that gets the whole one should be getting absolutely trashed and it shouldn't be on their dime but it fell on deaf ears it just did all right so the bigger issue today of the show is and this is the second thing I thought of after we found out that Pat Mahomes was going to make an incredible amount of money.

It could be as much as a half billion dollars. Are the Texans going to screw this up, Joe, George? Are they going to play this properly? They're going to make sure that he, that Deshaun gets taken care of. I wouldn't think at the level of Pat Mahomes, but it can't be that far away, right? I think it's just so hard to answer that because we don't know what Deshaun wants now. Like before yesterday, people were talking three to five years, $40 to $38 to $42 million a year.

Mahomes gets $45, $43, and then this happens, it's like starting over from square one. and the one thing that I won't hold against the Texans is it's much easier to gamble on a quarterback for 10 years that has an MVP, a Super Bowl, and no lengthy injury history than a quarterback who has no MVP, no Super Bowl, and toward both of his ACLs. So while you present very valid points, how do you go tell that to Deshaun Watson? when you're sitting down at the negotiating table. Deshawn, you're our guy, you're the franchise player, we got rid of a great wide receiver in order to make sure that your dreams financially could be taken care of. We got you the cornerstone left tackle Laramie Tunsell. By the way, we love you and we want to pay you a lot of money,

but you also have a pair of torn ACLs. There's a right and wrong way to approach it, but you have to. at least if you're going to offer him anything similar, the injury guarantees have to be significantly less. I mean, Pat Mahomes can Joe Thaisman in week one of the 2020 season and make $140 million. Dishon Watson, you can't put those risks in because he just has a longer history.

So, I mean, yeah, they can screw this up. They could, for some reason, they could go over the top and pay him more than Mahomes. they could low ball them, but if I'm Watson, I don't even know what I want now. Like if the pro football talk story is true that he wanted a three-year extension, and that was it. I wonder if he's changed his mind about that now knowing what Pat Mahomes wanted.

Yeah, exactly. Like, how does that change everything? We just, they're starting over. Like, the whole negotiation, I don't think anyone ever thought they would see a double-digit extension for Pat Mahomes. And I know he's like the fourth quarterback in NFL. history or the fifth quarterback in NFL history to get this. So it's not totally out of the norm, but it hasn't happened since Michael Vick in 2004.

And that turned out to be a bad deal, right? All of them did. I mean, Drew Bledsoe played one year on his $10 million deal before. I mean, no, he played, what, two games before he got hurt, and Tom Brady took over, and then he got traded to the bills, played two more years and got caught. Drew Bledsoe, you're talking about it, yeah. Yeah, Drew Bledsoe. Donovan McNabb signed his in the early 2000s.

I think he played out almost his entire contract, but on three different teams. Brett Farv had a lifetime contract or a 10-year contract. He didn't finish his career with the Packers. And then Michael Vicks signed his and obviously went to jail three years after his nine-year extension with one year left. So it's not unprecedented, but it hasn't happened since 2004. So I don't think anyone thought this was actually going to happen. So I guess the question is going to be, we are here as sports radio host, who, give the Texan some sage advice.

I feel like Easter being O'Brien are going to fight over this because I think they check each other out. I mean, I think it will be one of those situations that they will be unified when it's all said and done about what they want to pay him

and how many years and whatnot. But I feel like this is going to be a very interesting time for those two gentlemen. And I know that Bill O'Brien said all the right things about, well, our relationship with them, aging is good, and Deshawn knows how we feel about him, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That means absolutely nothing in the big picture.

Because Deshawn is already seen what Dax's going to get for being a franchise player, so he knows that's kind of a low bar number. He knows that money's going to be his a year from now, if indeed the Texans don't come to a contract agreement with him. And then on top of that, you see what already Pat Mahomes got. I mean, that's why JJ Watt. Boy, JJ Wat can't, he'll run the Twitter too, talk about his teammates. Took a gif of Shaquille O'Neal once he found out about Deshawn's future earnings.

I'll tell you, this is going to be a lot of money spent on a couple of players between what Laramie's going to get the next handful of years and what Deshaun is going to get. I wonder if the percentages is normal to what most NFL teams spend on their quarterback and left tackle, or they're going to have to go way beyond that, which means there's going to be a lot of other different players that are going to be looking for money down the road that's just not going to be there. Which is, you're trading all your draft picks away. Like the chiefs now to be successful over a 10-year period, a 12-year period with Mahomes. Yeah.

They're going to have to draft well. They're having to get cheap veterans that contribute. They're not going to be able to go get the next Tyron Matthew and overpay. him. Like you're going to have to draft and strategically find guys develop people. The Texans can't do that. I think the Chiefs can, but the Texans

have shown nothing that when they give Deshawn the contract he probably deserves, but it will at least still be an overpay in my mind a little bit. Like, how are you going to develop people? You can't show that you develop

people right now. Yeah, you can't develop it, you don't draft. Exactly. Especially for next year. That's what we have a Sage general manager who's been there through these wars, been there, done that, knows exactly how to massage the salary cap, knows how to massage a draft board. You don't say no. The evidence is already there.

No, it's not. The Easter B. O'Brien combination has, look what they put together the last couple of years. I know. They've been great. AFC South champions back to back. Back to back. for is back to back to back AFC South champs

over and over again we are a city that reeks of AFC South championship when you know when you land at the intercontinental airport you come in the city and it says welcome to Houston it shouldn't say welcome to Houston it should say welcome to your home of the AFC South champions with a giant banner waiting there for you

yes like we'll have an American flag a Texas flag and an AFC South champs banner And the AFC divisional participant. And then there'll be a little sign that says 2017 World Series champions. Very little sign. And I've even smaller sign that says back-to-back champions, Houston Rockets. But the big sign. You can brag on the Rockets.

I don't know. Granted, it was also 30 years ago or 25 years ago. The Rockets aren't winning divisions back-to-back years right now. Actually, they probably are. Can you even name the team in the Southwest Division? The Spurs, the Mavericks. You can't, you can't. All right.

On the radio program today. We're going to hear from Lee Steinberg in just a second. Lee Steinberg is one of the co-agents that put this deal together. We'll let you hear what he had to say about that. Mike Dantone spoke today for the last time until the team arrives in Florida. We'll let you hear a couple of those cuts. Astro's schedule release. If you love 8-10 starts, you're going to love the Astro schedule.

The state fair has been canceled. How is that going to impact OU, Texas? And the NFL apparently taking a page from MLS, be when it comes to labor issues. That plus one of the least favorite umpires in Major League Baseball says baseball needs him to be out there. I disagree, but apparently plus one of the least favorite umpires in Major League Baseball says baseball needs him to be out there. I disagree, but apparently this old, fat, out of shape, out of tough. Judge umpire believes he helps the game of baseball.

I'll give you one guess and one guess of only who that could potentially be. 713212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. It is the Matt Thomas show, Joe George filling in. And for Ross today, we've also got Brendan Rodney with us here, producing the show as well. And we look forward to having you with us all throughout the course of the day. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

This is Carlos Correa. Back to Matt Thomas. Henson inside the park. That's four stocks, Saturday. It's your home. That's just baseball. It is 1220 on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas with you on this Tuesday.

And Joe George is in for Ross today. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-1-2-5-790. If you'd like to reach out through Twitter, you can do so. At SportsM-T, at Joe-George Radio, and at Brendan Riley, underscore. Lee Steinberg, a guest this morning on the Sean Salisbury show. And as I was talking about on the show yesterday,

have you ever had Lee on one of your radio shows, Joe, George? I actually used to produce Lee's radio show that he had, so I know Lee pretty well. Okay. So before we play these cuts, just give us a couple of general thoughts about Lee and see if they match what I was talking about yesterday. Well, when I worked with him, he was a wonderful person

because it was really the start of his return to being Lee Steinberg. So it was after he was sober, after everything he had gone through personally, he was getting back on track with his life. And I think it was like right towards the end, it was like as soon as he stopped doing the show is when he started signing these like six and seventh round draft picks. And then like the following year signed Paxton Lynch. And then that was his first quarterback to go in the first round.

And then he followed that up with Mahomes. So, like, he was great to me. Like, I worked with him and his son pretty much once a week when he was doing a radio show. So I loved working with Lee. He's a great person and an awesome, awesome redemption story. Yeah, I've heard nothing but really, really good things about him. The only thing I was talking about the audience yesterday is that he's a little long-winded sometimes? Yeah.

Is that a fair assessment? Yeah, I think that's a very fair assessment. All right, here is Lee this morning, and how long he and his team been working on the Mahomes extension? Well, it was pretty clear by the end of last year that the chief wanted to quiet all the discussion about what Patrick's future would be. They had extended him for a fifth year, but then it was just a matter when the timing was right. And the reason probably why he didn't hear a lot about it is that we were very determined that, the supporting cast that Patrick needs to have around him to get back to another Super Bowl be retained.

So there were a whole series of transactions the entire offseason that went on that affected this. But this is Patrick wanting to make this his home. He's with the best owner he could have, the best front office, a great coach, surrounding cast and great fans. And so the question. was how could we sort of demonstrate a career commitment and that's what happened with the extension and all credit to Chris Cabot and Brett Veach and everybody worked on the deal.

Lee was also asked why this is a good deal for Mahomes and for Kansas City. Well, if you want to look, first of all, it keeps in there. Second of all, we did some rolling guarantees and the massive part of it's guaranteed, it gives them some salary cap flexibility. And then look, the top package average was for any player in the NFL ever had been Russell Wilson at $35 main dollars a year. And depending on the way you look at it, this is 47.5 or 50 a year. So it didn't take a MENSA IQ tester or, you know, a rocket scientist. to figure out that this is the biggest contract in sports history.

So I don't think we have to think twice about that. So Lee goes to the Kansas City Chiefs and says, hey, we want to build a long-term deal, pay my guy lots of money, lots of it guaranteed. And here's Lee on the reaction from what Kansas City had to say. I think they got it because the truth is that if there were a lot. The position is franchise quarterback.

And they have always been a good team. They made the playoffs. All sorts of things went well, but they never got much farther than that. And in their two seasons and in their two seasons with them, first of all

they came one overtime away from making it to the Super Bowl and the second year they made to Super Bowl. So this is what football's played for. It's played for the bill that went to the Super Bowl. And anytime you do a new forward-looking contract, it's got to take into account changes and all the rest of what will happen in the economics of football,

although this year we may see a one-year dip. But the truth of it is that they understood that to get a player under contract, all the discussion about his future is gone. There's no uncertainty. Everyone knows they can build around him for years to come. They understood that was such an extraordinary move for the franchise that the numbers would probably reflect that. All right. So you just sign the biggest contract in sports history.

Why is he at the airport flying commercially, Joe George? That's a great question. I mean, maybe that's all that was available? No. Do you think Scott Boris ever flies commercial? No. I mean, I know Steinberg doesn't have nearly the repertoire that Boris has, because he's been out of the game a little bit,

but that's one of those situations again. Pat Mahomes doesn't make Lee Steinberg fly Southwest. I mean, maybe he's flying first class, though. Well, that's right, because Southwest isn't nothing but first class seats all the way through. Fact. I don't know. I just sometimes the noise in the background makes me. me laugh a little bit. And you could

clearly tell that Lee is trying to answer the question, but he's also waiting to figure out when his boarding group is. If you hear a little bit of a pause because she'll say, okay, now a boarding group, and it's like, is that my group? Which again, if you're in first class, you get to boarding anytime you're damn well, please, correct?

You wait for nobody. I mean, that's a fancy Matt question. I think that's not a Joe George question. I fly like Southwest exclusively. You know why I like Southwest? Because they're on time about 95% of the time. Yeah.

You get to carry two bags for free. And there seem to be, generally speaking, nice people. Well, and if you time it right, like, I've figured out the Southwest system. I haven't paid more than $200 round trip from me and my wife to go to Chicago in the last two years. Like, even before pandemic prices. Like, you can find where they, the flights dropped out to like $45. You cannot fly to Chicago for $45.

Yeah, you can. You cannot. I literally just booked flights this morning to go to Chicago in August round trip for $45 each way for both of us. Okay, so it's not $45. It's $90. Well, yeah, sorry, $45 one way. Okay. So you're telling me you can fly to Chicago for less than $100 right now?

Yeah. Can I come with y'all? Sure. I mean, I got a place to stay with you, right? There's not enough bedrooms in the house. It's not that big. Oh. You can have a couch.

Room service still available? Because I'm accustomed to that. My grandma will make pancakes. Ooh. I bet Grandma George's pancakes are top shelf. One more cut from Lee Steinberg from this morning. This is the big, big question. How does this affect our buddy Deshawn Watson?

Well, anytime the quarterback market goes up, It impacts everyone. So it's great news for players throughout the NFL. But again, I think that someone aspiring to be compensated this way, the first question would be, what have you done for us? And quarterback greatness, remember the days of Troy Aikman? Well, he would have a great game. He'd be 17 for 22 for 205 yards.

But he won three Super Bowls. And so this is the ultimate test for a player. And, you know, obviously they're going to ask the next quarterback up, have you won the Super Bowl, you know, who's an MVP elite. Get paid. And then he never has to ever let us pay for anything. You see Deshaun Watson in a restaurant? Just take your tab and send it over to Deshaun.

Say, man, love you, big fan. You can afford this. He hasn't got paid yet. He's going to, though. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, how much is he, is he $40 million a year? See, I'm waiting, I'm waiting on DAC personally because he's going to, though.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, how much is he, is he $40 million a year? See, I'm waiting on DAC personally because I want to get that sweet spot in between. So is Deshaun better than equal to or lesser than Dak Prescott? I think right now he's equal to, but he eventually will be better, so they'll pay him better. So if Dak gets like 40 and I'm Deshaun, well, then I want like 45. I got terrible news for you.

I think where this team ends up is part of the equation, right? If this team flutters out again in the divisional round of the playoffs, how do you give anybody on this team that kind of crazy money if you're going to peter out in the second week of January? That's unfair to DeShan? But when you're the quarterback, you're going to make a lot more money based off of ultimately team success. But, I mean, Dak missed the playoffs last year and he's going to get paid. But then again, they didn't pay them. So maybe you're right.

They really didn't pay them. They just franchise tagging. Yeah, they basically had to play by the NFL rules because they couldn't come to an agreement. 1230 on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790 if you want to get on the show today. 7-1-3-212-5-790 on Twitter at Sports. M.T. at Joe George Radio and at Brendan Riley underscore. The Astros are back working.

Hallelujah. We'll discuss that and the schedule. How much did you guys break down the schedule like a mother yesterday on the 18 between 3 and 6? Not a time, but a little bit. Yeah. The 8-10 starts are kind of weird from you. We'll talk about that next here on 790. Hey, it's Craig Afferman.

4-3. Listen to the home of the Rockets on your smart speaker. Ask. Hey, Google. Play Sports Talk 790 on IHartRadio. So I went to Southwest to go book a flight from here to Midway on August of 13th. Come back on August of 16th. I'm not going, but I just thought I would do it.

$89.96 round trip. It's a good deal. Damn. That is. And the airlines must be in bad shape. Well, they, I mean, I'm telling you, like, they do. constantly drop those prices down. So, like, if you're going to fly to Chicago ever,

you can book, what, six months in advance is how Southwest works. Yeah. Those first flights are always $120 each round way, both way. So it's $2.40 total. If you wait, like, three months, they always drop to 90, and then they'll drop to, like, 45 for, like, a week, and then they go back up. Okay, I'm looking at Vegas right now.

One direction's $109. Not bad. and then the return those same days would be 119, so that's Vegas would be about twits. Checking the math here on this. $227

go to Vegas. Nice. Yikes. Yikes, yikes, yikes. All right. So there you have it. Go fly somewhere if you have anywhere to go. Although, I don't know if anybody wants to go anywhere.

You see the MLS is melting down right now as we speak. Not that we over talking about an MLS. But they are literally disaster. And it is freaking me out about the NBA. I'm just going to be honest with you. Why? Tell me. Because so FC Dallas, when they got on their flight, they had zero positive tests.

Then they had six. Now they have 11. Now they're out of the tournament. Now Nashville's got five positive tests, and their game has been postponed against the Chicago Fire. Like, it's supposed to be safer when you get to the bubble. But if you bring it to the bubble, it's going to spread worse, I feel like. So this is like, it's not, they're not going to play.

I don't think the MLS is going to happen in the Orlando bubble, at least in the way they intended it to. They're going to have to severely change it again. What do you think they're doing? Do you think they're being callous anywhere? Or is this just a byproduct of the virus? I don't. I think

I mean, maybe if they're like FC Dallas has been quarantined since they got there. So Nashville either brought it with them and the tests were negative when they got on the flight and that's the problem is that just because you get a negative

test on Tuesday doesn't mean you weren't exposed to it on Tuesday after your test. That's the problem. And that's what baseball is going through. You have to test every other day because you have to constantly know if you've been exposed to it. That's what's happened to me to the MLS.

They brought it with them, and that's the problem. The Cubs, by the way, have delayed their workouts because of the delay on the test. The Astros right now, as we speak, are working on at Minute Maid Park. So it appears, and thankfully it is, it was maybe just the July 4th holiday to delay the results of the test more than else. So at least they've got their back doing what they need to be doing, because guess what? And in two and a half weeks,

we got Major League Baseball starting up. So the schedule is interesting. They're clearly trying to make sure that the West Coast people get as many primetime games as possible. Thus, the reason why a lot of the Astros games against West Coast teams in Houston started 8-10 at night because that's a two-hour difference in California,

meaning that if you're a Dodger fan, a Giants fan, a Padres fan, you're going to be able to catch your games against the Astros, relatively speaking, in prime time. So, you know, and I guess normally we would be really upset and bemoaning the fact that we're getting screwed on times, but as a lot of you pointed out on Twitter to me yesterday,

what else are we going to do? Exactly. I mean, we're going to have baseball back. Like, that's, at the end of the day, like, that's the positive, that baseball is coming back, and that they're not 9-10 starts. Like, yeah, nothing, nothing on the West Coast is at 9-10, I don't think, right?

I don't think so. The schedule's kind of, there might be a handful, but I don't think so. Yeah. So I'm totally good with what their plan is right now with the 8, 10 starts. I'll be able to stay up and watch, and it's not like we have the early shows. That's true. It sucks from Michael Connor. Oh, well.

Yeah, he'll, he'll just, he'll, he'll have enough WNBA for you when he can watch. Yeah, they'll be fine. So it's, you know, it's not every situation is going to be perfect. I would have liked more day games. I thought there were going to be more. I'm surprised that there is this huge disparity amongst teams with their schedules. Like the Astros play, what, five day games? Yep.

I saw someone on Twitter. It might have been Sager or just someone else I follow from Chicago. I said, like, the White Sox are playing 18 day games. So it's just there's, it's very different. There are teams that have two days. days off in the last two months. All their days off are in the beginning. Wow.

Like the last like 40 days, they have two days off. Yeah, I saw the Astros do not have one of the most difficult schedules, nor they have one of the easiest. They're right in the middle. And the schedule's weird. It's weird that they're going to play the A's 10 times, but seven of them are on the road.

But they're going to play the Mariners 10 times and seven of them are at home. There's some weird quirks in the schedule, but overall, like, it's, I'm just excited that baseball is going to be back. I'm still very confident that these sports are going to play. I'm a little hesitant right now. I'm not as confident as I was last week just because how bad the testing is gone for the MLB the last three days. But, I mean, we saw a schedule. I'm super excited.

What about this? And I don't think I've ever brought this up on the show. Let's say the Astros go to Oakland and they do their testing the day before a game or the day of the game. And nine Astros test positive. for the virus. Do you then have to rush to get nine players to California in time to play the game?

Do you forfeit a game? How do you use that taxi squad effectively by making sure that they're okay and they have passed the test and they're not going into a situation where they're going to be where they're contaminating the 15 or 20 players that are currently healthy?

I think some of them have to travel. At least some of the pitchers. Yeah, the The traveling squad would be like 35 and then you like activate 30 of them, something like that? Yeah, I mean, maybe they'll, yeah, I mean, but it's, no, it's 28 to start. No, it's 30 to start and then it goes down to 28 and then it goes down to the normal 26th in September. Yeah. So.

Yeah, I just thinking is that you can't, you don't want forfeits, right? You've got to be able to have backup plans in place. Double headers. They're going to cancel games. It's going to be like rainouts, right? Like they'll just, if they're scheduled to play the A's and the Astros have all these positive tests, then they'll just, hey, this, tonight's game is postponed. So tomorrow, the taxi squad will have to get there from Houston. Right.

Or from Corpus Christi. And, you know, it'll be, it'll be showtime. And they'll have to do it that way. They'll be doubleheaders. I still want to know, are these guys just stuck? Like if I'm an Astros player and I test positive for the virus in Oakland, I can't get on the plane to Colorado. Nope, and you can't get on a commercial plane either. So I'm just stuck in Oakland?

So here's the thing. If you get the virus, at least have somewhere nice to get caught, right? So L.A. San Diego. San Diego. Oh, that's a good. That's a good call. Colorado would be pleasant this time of year, not ridiculously hot.

I mean, the weeds legal there. So you're saying get high and relax. Yeah. So that's the key to getting COVID in 2020 if you're a major baseball player. I don't know if these stories are true or not, but there are stories that suggest weed helps. Well, then we should try it, right? Yeah. I think it's legal in California, too.

So wherever you get stuck, as long as you don't get stuck in Arlington, you're fine. But at least saying you could just rent a car and drive back. That's true. Yeah. Welcome to Davis. Yeah, I've got COVID. I want to drive this car home. What?

Is that going to work? Oh, and then you get to Houston. Hey, how'd the car work out? It's just fine. You may want to have it defumigated because I've had COVID for three days. Okay. Oh, the nuances of playing baseball under a pandemic. 1244, the Matt Thomas Show, 713, 212-5-790.

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I saw the story. I haven't read it yet, though, if you want to walk me through it. I'm going to have to very... Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have had a tumultuous marriage, right? That would be fair to say. There is some claims that she had abused him, vice versa, and he's really done with the whole thing. They're going to get divorced.

That's sad. Yeah, I mean, you know, nobody ever wants to talk about divorce. But apparently the fate of complete for Johnny Depp in the thought of, that he wanted to divorce Amber Hurd was an act she did in their home. Yeah, go on. Well, I'm trying to pace myself here. I know you are, but I'm going to push you to the limit. Okay.

Johnny Depp today claimed he decided to divorce Amber Hurd after she defecated in their marital bed as a prank. We've all done things in our marriage that we're not proud of, fighting over money, maybe stayed out too late maybe didn't do the honey-does but there is nothing in my life that I think I would ever do to my wife

that she would think I'm going to get you back by dropping a deuce in our bed I mean that's she's nuts yeah that's crazy like that's psycho material

that's not that's psychopath material. Apparently there's a new Twitter account available. If you would like to follow, it's Amber Turd. And that's hashtag Amber Turd. I don't if you're into that kind of thing or not, but that's certainly out there. Joe, I don't, and you're not supposed to be speechless on a radio show because you're supposed

to keep the communication lines going. And look, Johnny Depp seems like a really odd man to begin with, and I'm sure Amber is not all together there. But no matter what anybody does in their life, to irritate their spouse. defecating on your bed probably isn't the way to resolve it. But my question is, what caused it? I feel like there was a prank that Johnny's not telling us about yet. She says it's a prank.

Yeah, so if it's a prank, then what did he do first? This sounds like a retaliatory prank. Okay, so let's put the possible scenarios out there. In the car? What could you possibly do that would force a woman to drop trash? in her bed. You know, like an eye for an eye, it's a two for a two. Put a in the car.

I mean, did he cheat on her? But that's her bed too, right? Yeah, but not if she's not sleeping in it anymore. That's, yeah, I never quite thought of it that way. I'm just telling you, people in Hollywood are really, really bizarre. This is actually a great non-flora story. Florida story for Thursday. I'm kind of hoping it was going to wait.

There's no chance. There's no chance. I saw it. I'm like, I have to at least bring it up. So again, a little marital advice from your friend Matt Thomas here on Sports Talk 790. If things are really going badly, take a night out, maybe get a hotel, stay away from the misses, let everybody cool her heads prevail, go spend the night at a buddy's house. Or just give her her space. Because if you don't give her her space, she might go on your bed on your bed.

and relieve herself. I mean, God Almighty. That's, I mean, that's one of the grossest things I've ever heard of in my entire life. As a prank, was he supposed to go, hey, this is pretty funny? Your bodily waist is on our bed. I think I'd be more concerned if he just laughed. Like, if his reaction was just to think it was funny, that's a problem. All right, I just had to bring that up.

ATX Hobo Girl says their relationship is, was trouble to put it mildly, a lot of bruises. I want if there are freaks. Like freak, freak, you know what I'm saying? I mean, based on this, I think that's a safe assumption, Matt. Yeah, it is. All right. Second hour, we will go from drop and trow to hearing what Mike Dan Tony has to say. That's a segue that no other radio show in the marketplace will possibly give you.

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Joe George in for Ross today. I'm Matt. Brendan Riley, our producer, 713, 212, 5-790. If you'd like to join us today, 713-2125790. So far we've discussed Pat Mahomes' ridiculously big contract and what is ahead for Deshawn Watson. Also, Lee Steinberg, some of the... cuts this morning from Sean.

Show we played for you. We'll maybe mix a few more of those in. The Astro's schedule has been released. And still to come, the state fair is canceled. How does that impact? OU, Texas, plus, why is the NFL taking any labor relations

notes from Major League Baseball? That is all straight ahead between now and 3 o'clock this afternoon. 713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show. 7-13-212-5-7-90. and Tony spoke today to the media before the boys go to Orlando on Thursday. Here is coach on the challenge of being in the bubble. To me, it's not a challenge.

It's, you know, we did USA basketball. When you go to other countries for a month and you stay more or less in the middle room on the practice floor, back to the hotel to the middle room to the practice floor, a lot of these players have experienced that. And I think the excitement about getting back and finishing the season and play, it will carry them through the first couple, three weeks where it could be a little mundane and like, oh gosh, same old, same old. Then we start the games every other day, which will be fun.

Then we start the playoffs, which will be every other day. And so in a normal year, in the playoffs, you really want your players to go home, rest, don't listen to the media, don't do anything, come to practice, go to the meal, you know, get good food, go back home and rest, get ready for the next game. So it's going to be a whole lot like that. They're going to be locked down and in playoff mode. And there's not going to be that much different other than you'll be by yourself. You want to have your family.

And for some players, that, you know, that'll be tough. But those are, you know, just personal things. Mental health is important. But we have people that will talk and we're a family ourselves. So we'll get through this together. Mike is also talking about the mental health of the situation being enclosed for so long. I think that's part of the process and part of being a team and having your antennas up of coaches and even, you know, our trainers and different of the staff. If anybody's struggling needs anything.

But, you know, I look at it too in the modern day. I mean, I was over in Italy, there was no cell phones. There was no really computers that we were talking to people. So it was me in a book and about 30 hours of being just kind of wandering around. So I'm kind of used to that kind of life. But now you have, you can zoom any second. You want you got your friends. You can play games online with them.

You'll be with your family every day talking to them face to face. Not the same. Missing the hugs and all that. I get it. But the communication lines will be open. And again, that's part of adjusting and helping people out as much we can. And lastly, Mike was asked about the privacy regarding the history of players and whether or not they would be, in coaches for that matter,

more susceptible to COVID. Well, I think you've got to be very careful, and I think you've got to protect it as much as you can. You've got to be overzealous about it. And then it's up to the individual, either disclosed it or not. It's not up to us to talk about that. And everybody's medical issues are what they deal with. And even as writers, you should respect that.

And it's, you know, players have that right. staff or anybody has that right to keep it private. And, you know, will there be some mishaps, along the way, maybe? But I'll just hope that, you know, you feel to be better sensitive people that, hey, this is not something to play with or joke about. And people should be sensitive. And hopefully we'll get through this on the other side of great competition

and everybody being a little richer for the experience, that's for sure. You know what the weird thing about all this is that the Rockets are supposed to leave Thursday for Orlando. Joe, Mike and Antonio is not heard whether or not he is still able to go. Yeah, I don't really understand and they're just like, you know, we haven't heard yet, so we assume that means everything's all

good, but I'm, there's no way they're going to throw a last minute curveball and be like, yeah, Mike, you're not going, right? That's what I was thinking. It's, they can't at this point. It's too late. You change everything

if all of a sudden, now you're saying, and the coach can't go. So I think it's safe to assume, like he's assuming that he's going to Orlando and it's not going to be a problem. Yeah, could you imagine, Coach, I know we've been busy and I should have called earlier and it just kind of slip. We're not going to let you go. That would raise a firestorm like you would not believe.

It would be a disaster. So my guess is because he's heard nothing, he shouldn't have to worry about answering those questions about whether or not he's going to be able to go or not. Yeah, but we've talked about, like, is this season legitimate? Is the champion legitimate? If there's an asterisk, what is it? To me, I'm still in the camp that there's not.

The teams are in the playoffs, playoffs or normal format. Everything is the same, except for the 9 versus 8 seed if they're within four games. I don't care about the NBA season if they tell Mike Dantone, he can't go. This season is not legitimate. If you remove him, if you remove Alvin Gentry, if you remove Greg Popovich,

even if those other two teams, the Pelicans and the Spurs, have no shot of making the playoffs, the Pelicans do. But the Spurs, I don't think they have a shot, but it doesn't matter. If you take away their coach of those three teams, it delegitimizes everything. It ruins everything. The whole purpose of starting the NBA season, it just puts it into a trash can and makes you a joke. in my opinion, I think it's a total joke if they don't take Mike Dantone.

No, I feel like if he's saying what he is saying today, he's going. Definitely. Has to. And I got news for you, Joe. And I'm not a doctor. I just like to play on the radio. This COVID thing doesn't care about age. It really doesn't.

No, we're seeing it now here in Texas. Like, it's younger people are getting and younger people are getting really sick from it. I mean, they're all, they all know the risk they're taking by participating. It's just like the risk we all take when we work. Right. And it's the risk I take every week when I go to my other job. I work at a mall.

Like, I need the job. It's important that I work there. But I understand the risk, and I'm willing to take that and putting the precautions in place to make sure that I can make money. They're doing the same thing. They're all aware. They're all aware that if this bubble system doesn't work, that there's a, that they could have long-term effects that would damn. much their basketball career. Mike's Antonio's aware of what could happen.

He's also aware that if he goes to the bubble, he can win it and be a championship. Yeah, do you like the fact that so many teams love the Rockets' chances, or is that just people just trying to find a storyline to get into? Because it'd be so much easier to say, well, it's going to be Milwaukee or the Clippers of the Lakers. I mean, I understand why they think the Rockets

could work out well because it's a veteran team that's still chasing after that first championship. But I almost feel like that. That's unfortunately setting us up for, well, they underachieve when they got there. Yeah, they're going to crush the rockets if they don't get to the championship now. It makes me feel it is weird when like we've talked about this, that Eric Gordon getting healthy, Russell Westbrook, now you're going to be able to, you know, really have like this second training camp after blowing up your roster and changing it so severely. Right.

It does benefit the rockets more than anyone else. It allows him to put some plays in That maybe he didn't have time to do so It gives PJ Tucker time off his feet And I don't realize I think you wanted this much time off his feet But you know where I'm going with that And Yeah I wonder

I would like to know who tested positive On the Rockets or in general The Rockets and how many players actually tested positive Because I know they can't tell us And they won't tell us and I don't know Tava Cephalosha, but the way he talked about it in his interview, he said multiple players tested positive on the rockets,

and that's why he backed out. So I would like to know who. I know we can't. Will we find out based on what they do practice-wise? Are they supposed to give us practice reports? No, I don't think they are. And if they give us a roster of who's flying to Orlando at the end of the week,

which are not. Then we're not even going to know who's in Orlando. I mean, there's no media. So for all they can tell us, until tip off of game one, we may not know until you guys get the starting lineup for the pregame for Launchpad. We may not know who the rocket starters are.

But before I'm fully confident, the Rockets are going to win a championship or that they have a better chance, I would like to know who Tavo is talking about. But we just don't. Yeah, I'm just kind of curious Whatever my games are Am I going to have to look and see who's eligible

And who's not and who's in the game notes and who's not? This is going to be really bizarre To start resuming calling basketball games For a team I have not seen in person since March And a team you won't see in person until Hopefully December Are we going to have December basketball? I don't think so

Well, wait a minute Don't be a negative Nellie already I'm already in negative Nellie So you're saying we're going to push the season back? They had to go to a bubble. What's going to, like, I just, I'm not at this point with the virus that you can convince me that things are going to be significantly better by December. Now, if MLB and the NFL are able to play, then the NBA can play. We need to pray for a successful MLB season.

Yeah. Because that's what everything's going to hinge on. The NFL is going to follow the model. Yeah, football may be too big. There may be just too many people, too many working parts. Well, the reports are today that they're having baseball problems already. We'll get to that coming on the break. Plus, speaking of baseball, a loud mouth, well, maybe not loud mouth,

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I'm Matt, and we are with you today until 3 o'clock. 713-212-5-790. If you would like to chime in anything from the Pat Mahomes big contract to how the Texans should handle that to the return of baseball on the schedule, which is very cool. We mentioned this a minute ago, Joe. the NFL Players Association and the NFL owners are not getting along, and it's over the safety and protocol of a return and the eventual start of training camp. I read just a couple of tweets from Tom Pelliserra, who covers the NFL for USA Today.

It was like reading the exact same thing three months ago with Major League Baseball. They're doing the exact same thing. These powerful owners and these powerful players just keep. can't ever be kosher at the same time. No, it's the players want to focus on protocols. The owners want to focus on money. But what I don't understand is, and it's kind of like what we've seen with the last couple days with baseball,

even though it appears to be getting back on track, is if your protocols are not good, if your protocols are not set in stone and in place and everything has been thought out, then the games don't matter. The NFL can talk about these full face mask shields all they want, but all NFL players complain about on Twitter is how they're going to fog up. If there's no way to prevent that, then they can't wear those.

So let's start there. Let's start with protocols and safety measures and go from there. because I will say, Matt, I feel like telling all the NFL players, you're going to have a visor that goes over the entire face mask, and everyone besides the quarterback is mandated to wear gloves is a good start. Other sports can't do that. Like, I know they, it's not great, but other sports can't do that if there's no way you can wear a shield in baseball, but you can if you can figure out a way to make sure

they don't fog up when it's 100 degrees outside and you're sweating like crazy. Like the NFL can figure that out. But what if guys take them off in the middle of the game? Then they can't play. You have mouthguard protocols. They don't follow those. But if you can make the technology work that they don't fog up when you're, you know, when JJ Watts lined up against a grizzly bear, then, you know, why not put those in place and say,

hey, we're going to, you're going to have to wear protective face shields on your helmets. We have the technology from Nike or Under Armour or whatever to make sure they don't fog up. And we're going to test this out in training camp. And if it works, they're going to be implemented. Everyone's going to have to wear gloves by Nike or Under Armour and make sure the only quarterback, the only person touching the ball with their bare hands will be the quarterback. Like, that's something they can work on. But they've got to figure all that stuff out first before games.

And training camp start in, what, less than a month? They start this month. Everything starts in July. They're supposed to report July 28th. No chance that's happening. The Texans probably report before that because they got the first game. I mean, the Texans probably report to camp in less than 15 days. Yeah, that's, I'm going to, you know, thank you for having my back, by the way, when I said there would be no preseasoned.

Ross is taking a nap when I make these Notre Thomas predictions. There will be no preseason. there's going to be a delay in the start of the season. And if these players complain about the gloves, then it's going to fall on deaf ears. It's going to be an adjustment. That's where you're practice is for a month. If you're a wide receiver and you're not acclimated

catching a ball with gloves on, you got a month. Let's go. Right? Yep. That's what you have to do. Everybody's having to wear, they're going to be wearing things and doing things

that are going to be out of the ordinary. You want to play football, you've got to play by these rules. You think these baseball players are loving the fact that can't spit? Do you think these baseball players are loving the fact they can't high-five each other or hang out in the can? I mean, everybody is having to adjust in one way or the other. And if they want a season, they being the NFL players, they're going to have to adhere to these things.

Because if they don't, then nobody can complain about they're not being a season except those players and they're going to be worried about money and all that. It all comes down to money, does it not? every single time. Wear gloves, have a protective shield on, you get paid.

I mean, look at all the NBA stuff. I mean, all those players originally when this bubble stand came into play, all these guys, I'm not doing this, I don't need this. You know what?

99% of the players are going to play. The only players that aren't showing up and playing are guys that play for the nets of the bullets or the wizards. And they know they're not playing because they suck and they shouldn't be there to begin with. Yeah.

It's everybody, and Blake Snell was the king No, I'm not doing this. Yeah, you are. Why do you get his money? If you look at baseball, though, it's all the rich players sitting out. Yeah, those that can take the 60 games and say, you know what, I don't need this season. Ryan Zimmerman's got like a Bobby Bonilla clause in his contract.

He's getting paid like $25 million the five years after he stops playing. David Price gave every minor leagueer in the Dodgers organization $1,000. He makes like $40 million a year. Tyson Ross, Joe Ross. they've made so much money in their career. They're all rich. You're not seeing the guys on the taxi squad sitting out. They're going to get up 400 bucks a week.

It's like me. We were talking about earlier about dinner. Like me versus a rich person. They can take luxuries I can't. I'm going to work. These guys who don't make a ton of money, they're going to work. And some of those guys, like, they've made enough money that winning, they might have already won. All the Nationals players, David Price, they already got a World Series.

What do they care? They got a World Series and they're rich. Yeah, the only other veterans that are really working are guys that know that probably they're going to be down to two or three years left in their major league career. Yeah. I mean, Felix Hernandez surprised me. I thought this was like his chance to have a resurgence, but he's also, he's made like a billion dollars, it seems like in baseball. Like, he knows his team sucks. And he's making like $30 million a year at least.

So, of course, he's sitting out. Why not? I would, too. I'm not risking my health if I'm already filthy, rich, and I'm not good anymore. And I'll have another contract next year. It's not like the Mariners are going to miss him. They're probably better off without him. Probably so.

Speaking of better off without him, guess who's going to be umpiring in 2020? Joe West. Oh, great. What happened to robot arms? What's that? The beginning of the pandemic, Matt, they said we were going to get robot arms. What the hell happened to that? I was so excited.

I'd rather have a robot up than Joe West. Definitely. Because Joe West is so out of shape and so out of sorts. The thing that's so crazy about what Joe West said is he, first of all, he said, he did a story with the athletic. He said that he's not, he doesn't believe that all these deaths are attached to the coronavirus. So I didn't realize he was a medical examiner. Okay? his quote i want to make sure i get it right here so i don't blow this screw this up uh let's see here

what did he say um oh i refuse to believe in my heart i don't believe in my heart that all these deaths have been from the coronavirus okay dr west so that could be up for conjecture then the second part of the quote that really was amazing by the way he says he's lost 25 pounds he's playing golf every day he's in the best shape he's considered high risk because he's in his late 60s. He says the main reason why he needs to be out there umpiring is the fact that younger guys won't be able to handle the pressure of being a major league umpire. Quote, I'm a little scared for baseball. If you take the seniority off the field, these young guys will be out there in a boat without an oar. Um, you suck Joe West. Baseball would be better without Joe West as an umpire. I will

take a 32-year-old umpire who has worked his way up the minor league ladder to get his first chance of being a major league umpire than a 60-something year old out of shape, out of touch, always behind the play, my way or the highway umpire. No chance, no way is baseball better with Joe West? It's just not. And even if he's lost 25 pounds, Joe, he's still 50 pounds overweight.

Fact. And even though he can strum a guitar, I get that. But come on. Baseball would be young guys would be out there without a boat, there in a boat without an oar. You're telling me that Joe West helps these young guys out so much so? The whole. Get over yourself.

Part of the protocols are no fighting, no face-to-face arguing. So my question is, who's getting punished? when Joe West calls a crap call and instigates an issue with Josh Redick, then who's going to get the blame when they're face-to-face yelling at each other? Because that's not going to be a good look. There'll be no yelling. There will be no fighting. You just got to take it.

Oh, so that's see, and that sucks. And like, these guys, him and Angel Hernandez are going to throw guys out for, no reason, even more than before. I mean, this guy can go, now, he can be so arrogant that if someone gets within six feet of him, he can say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're crossing a line. Right. And he can chuck him faster than before.

Yep. These guys, they don't belong in baseball. If he's a good umpire and he's got an ego, I can live with that because that... Right. And he can chuck him faster than before. Yep. These guys, they don't belong in baseball. If he's a good umpire and he's got an ego, I can live with that because that job kind of has to have an ego like that.

But he is, I mean, he was atrocious on the Jose Al-Tube call. He gets in, he injects it feels like more players than anybody other umpire. He and Angel Hernandez are the two worst, period in his story. Baseball would be better without those two guys. It's just the truth. And so with the other umpires. they would benefit from the bad apples not being there. And you know what?

Young guys are going to make mistakes, but it's time to get a fresher crop of guys in there. The guys are going to actually run out and defend their position and call their position. Instead of going out 30 yards having to take a smoke break because he's tired. I love umpires. I love officials. They've got a really difficult job. But man,

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Will I.M. And Dwayne Tharling, both have been the exact same thoughts. Will says Joe West is an anchor and on an oar. Dwayne says Joe West is an oar without the paddle section. He does suck. And let me tell you something, Joe, I don't like to referee back. or official bash because it's a very difficult job. Not very.

It's almost impossible to get it right every single time. But he's out of shape. He is behind the time. You know the only reason why he's coming back? He wants to have the record for most games umpired in the history of Angel League Baseball. That's very important to him. How many does he have left? He has 70, or give or take.

He's going to have to umpire in the next season in order to break the all-time record. Also, Matt, shout out to Manuel. Did you know that Felix Hernandez is on the Braves? Yes. Not the Mariners? I did not realize that. Yeah. I forgot he left.

He won your deal. Okay. Yeah. There's no Braves left. Markakis isn't playing in it for them anymore? I didn't realize that. I was like, oh, Felix Hernandez is not playing Mariners bad. But he's apparently was supposed to be on the Braves.

Yeah. So does he, the Braves, I guess, have to pay him now, right? No, I don't think so. I don't even know. I don't even know what baseball decided on that. They are getting paid. If Felix Hernandez says, I don't want to pitch because I'm afraid I'm going to get sick.

I mean, it's well within his right, but he shouldn't get paid, right? You only get paid for what you work. You know, it's tough, Matt. I think companies during this pandemic are going to be severely judged by how they treat their employees.

And that goes, from people that work at malls and restaurants and I think that goes to professional sports too. Like, if someone says I don't feel comfortable playing because I don't want to get sick and you don't pay them, even if that's what it was agreed upon,

I think your league is going to be frowned upon since like that's not happening in the NBA. They're getting paid in the NBA. Every Bradley's getting paid, right? So how lucky are those guys? Better union? What's the incentive?

It's just to compete, right? Yeah. Win a championship. Does he get a ring if the Lakers win? I think it depends on the team. Like, if I was the Rockets, I would give one. Cubric Zirconia. Would you give one to Tabo if the Rockets win?

He didn't really play. Tabo. But I think if I'm the Lakers, I think I give one to Avery Bradley. He was a contributing factor. You know what? You probably give anybody that's worn a uniform for at least one. one game you probably give it to. Do you give it to Clint Capella?

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, well, then Tava Cepalo should definitely gets a ring if Clint Capella gets a ring. Well, I know, but Clint was traded. It wasn't like he was a, you know. Yeah, but you didn't want him. Well. You probably wanted Tabo.

Are you sure? No, because I think they're going to like Luke and Mabo say more. I was going to say, I don't know. I mean, how many minutes of Tabo get? You know the last memory I have of Tabo was getting a technical foul in a game he didn't play in? He was just talking trash on the bench? Yep. I think he was inactive, in fact.

That's awesome. Because he'll always, before the games, he'll come over and talk to me at midcourt. And I'm like, what did you say? And he goes, oh, I said nothing. I was nothing but a gentleman. I can't believe. I'm like, Tabo, you're so full of crap. That's a lie. If someone ever gets kicked out of a game and their responses, I said nothing. I just assume they said the worst things possible. Well, he didn't get kicked out. He just got a technical fact.

But, man, you must really have sent something if you're in street clothes and you get teed up. You know just always to get teed up with street clothes Was like, didn't Chris Paul get quite a few of those that way? That doesn't surprise me Russ is a good technical foul guy in street clothes No, Russ is a technical guy Doesn't matter if you're playing pickup wall or Yeah, but that way, where are the technical foul count?

I mean, is he due to miss a game soon? Yeah, I've forgotten about that I think he's got one more, right? Or two more? See, here's the thing. If you're an official, if you're an official, everybody gets to hear what those guys say to you, I don't think you're going to be able to allow a lot of stuff go by, right?

See, I think that's part of the reason why Adam Silver is talking about tape delay. Well, it doesn't matter about that. It's just whether or not you're going to be able to get away with what you want to say. Like if Russell Westbrook complains about a call and he says that's BS, under normal circumstances with 18,000 people and a lot of crowd, would he be able to get away with saying BS to an official and not get teed up? But you can't, you can't just give out text left and right. You know in the NFL, Matt, when they institute new rule and in the preseason, they really overdo it,

that's probably what's going to happen in these first eight games for the NBA. They'll probably call a lot of stuff that they shouldn't call on technicals to send a message, and then they'll have to back off in the playoffs. What if he says your mama or something like that? You can automatically team up then, correct? Yeah. Could you imagine if Russell Westbrook doesn't want to swear, but he tells your mama jokes to an official for how bad a call is?

I've had some fun producing your shows, but we did an hour of Yo Mama jokes one day, and it was a great time. So if Russell Westbrook just wants to, like, bring a script of Yo Mama jokes and drop him every time he doesn't agree with a call, I'm on board with that. And then he had, see, here's what he's got. He's got the Yo Mama jokes on a wristband.

So he doesn't have to worry about memorizing him. He just looks at his wristband and says, your mom is so big. Her birthday is on June 7th, 8th, that night. I think we're going to see it If I gave you a wager mat Of will someone say don't be a Karen To a ref and we'll hear it on national television

Do you think NBA players know who Karen is? Oh yeah Oh yeah Like I could totally see LeBron Just be like don't be a Karen On national television He's Who's Scott Foster makes a call

Offensive foul 23 if we're going the other direction and LeBron goes, Scott, don't be it, Karen. Oh, that would be an automatic tech. So worth it. But isn't LeBron a Karen in himself? Isn't he a male, Karen? No.

Are you sure? No, because I see LeBron more in a mask at practice, so right now Karen's no room. Oh, you're saying Karen doesn't do that. Karen complains about everything. LeBron might be close. Unless you're texting as Karen

and then you think everything is spectacular. Didn't we were we going to rename that? We did and I got shot down. I wanted to go, I wanted to go Debbie and somebody got met. Somebody said I couldn't do that one. I understand that one because Texas Debbie follows me on Twitter and she's nice to me. So I understand. Oh, so it's okay.

Oh, I see. I agree with that. So Debbie's out. So we got to still replace. So we have, Karen is being overused. We can't use Debbie. Tiffany sounds cute so that we won't use that one. Like, what's the most boring mom gene name for a woman?

Karen is just so good. Karen does fit beautifully. I like Carol. Carol's good. Carol's good. Carol could, you know what? Brendan could skew a little older. But Carol's not bad.

I kind of think the same with Karen. That's true. That's true. The only Karen I know is my grandma. So let's do this. We will come up in the next segment of the show because we've got nothing else to do. The definitive new name for Karen, because I think everybody's using Karen way too much. And this is just for the Texans?

No, in general. Okay. No, Texans Karen already has her spot. We know who she is, what she looks like, what she does, she goes in the row of the traveling Texans. We know what Texans Karen does. No question about that. What other name are we going to use to describe that fan? 713-21-2-1-2-5-7-90 the most middle-of-the-road

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You can also check them out online at oopssteam.com. When I listen to the Matt Thomas Show, I don't even understand. nature of the show, the dichotomy, the ostentatiousness, the perfunctory that sounds about as smart as LeVar Ball. Back to the Matt Thomas show. Whoever he is. All right, people are weighing in. Joe George, Texans Holly? Eh. Texans Melanie's good. Doesn't flow that well, but it's good.

Adam Clinton has chimed in. Susan? Yep, that's a good one. I got Rachel Ooh, Rachel Here's probably Rachel I think of Rachel

from friends And she's hot See, There's like certain connotations With people Because you watch the office No Okay

So Karen sucks on the office She does She sucks on the office Okay, is she hot Wait, you know who else sucks on the office? Who? But everyone likes her. Pam.

Pam is a good one. I mean, Pam Beasley is one of the most overrated characters in the history of television. I think the rule has to be first and foremost. And again, you and I are developing this on the fly. This person, this name is a name that doesn't necessarily equate to hotness, right? How many people do you know named Pam that are hot? Zero? Susan.

I mean, I just don't know if I know any Pam's. So, no, I feel like there's Suzanne Us. That's not the same. No, I know. That's what I'm just saying. So Susan, right now is that zero? Okay. Texans, I mean, Astro Susan, Rocket Susan.

She just doesn't. I don't feel like there's that those two teams, no, there's Astro Susan for sure. She loves a little Jose Al-Tubei. She loves Joshua. She does woo at every game. She's going to woo at her house when she's watching the games on TV. I want the woo to go away. Oh, stop.

It's fine. It annoys me. Well, trust, you don't, you're not having it this year, so you're nothing to worry about. No, they're going to woo. Who is? The players. There's no chance. Yeah, they are.

No. They're going to cheer. It's going to be like an empty high school stadium. Now, they'll cheer for their teammates. They'll woo after he gets a hit. And when he's coming out to bat. Are you sure? I think so.

Okay. These are the things we think about, whether or not Josh Roda is going to have woos when he takes A, B. and what we're going to call because Karen is just such a large, encompassing name, right? What about Mary? No, Mary seems sweet and innocent. Meredith? Meredith.

No, too... Too long? No. No, Meredith's a good name. I like the name Meredith. That was one of my shortlist names for my daughter. Well, I can't use that one then. Yeah.

Susan sounds really good. Susan's good. Can you name a hot Susan right this second? No. No, I can't. No. 713-212-5-790. We will address Pat Mahomes' brand-new deal at the top of the hour.

But first, let's say hello to Miguel in Fresno on 7-90. Miguel, what's a good word? What's going on, Matt? You did all right? I don't think there's a name that screams minivan more than Texans, Tammy. Tammy. Tammy. That's a strong one, too.

Tammy. Oh. I've never heard of a hot Tammy. Oh, well, there used to be a wrestler named wrestling manager. Her name was Tammy. She was sunny, but her name was Tammy. Then she got the drugs and porn, but that's another here nor there. I bet there's some hot Tammy's out there.

Yeah, but Texans Tammy, it sounds good. Texans Tammy. is thinner than Texans Karen. She's physically fit. She just sucks. She just has terrible takes. She has her hair in pigtails with Texans, pig tails.

The Tammy kind of rolls off the tongue, too. It does. Pretty plain vanilla, plain vanilla takes. Texans Tammy. Oh, yes. You know what? This might have legs to it. What if we, can we do like one for each team?

Okay. Rockets Rachel? We said Rachel was strong. Describe Rockets Rachel. Definitely a Red Rowdy. Oh, for sure. But doesn't go to all the games and claims she does. She's got a job.

She can't go to all. But she claims that she goes to all the games and she's a diehard Routy. But she's probably not. Okay. She also, or she has lower bowl seats and she's one of the reasons why they're half empty. She loves, she's devastated that Isaiah Hartinstein got let go. Definitely.

Definitely upset. What else is she? Her avatar on Facebook and her Twitter account has a picture with her and clutch. Yes? That's good. I'm about the Astros.

Oh, Astros, there's so many. It has to start, we have a pattern here. Amanda. Yeah. Astros, Amanda. But there's a lot of good Amanda's. There's a lot of good Amanda's, by the way. That's a tough...

Because I was thinking Ashley right away, and I was like... Nope, can't do that. Way too many hot Ashley's out there. Although these people can be attractive. No, they absolutely can be, but... Okay, so Astros Amanda loves the woo. She's against the fence. trying to get autographs before every first pitch.

She's upset about the Nets. Definitely upset about the Nets. Yeah. She brings signs of the game. What about Abigail? No. What is Astros, Abigail 80 years old? Aubrey?

No. No. Addison. Oh, Addison's new school. All right. This is what happens when you don't have sports for six months. you take horrible stereotypes of female sports fans and give them characteristics. We're almost done.

Sports are almost back. That's true. Maybe. So basically at this point, Texans Karen loves the attention she's getting. Because once the season starts, we're not going to care about what the fans look like. There'll be no fans in the stands beginning with. All right. Yeah.

I feel like Karen's found at Walmart now. Karen is taking pictures of people not wearing their mask and antagonizing. them and vice versa she's not wearing a mask and she's probably I mean it's a hot mess there's this did you see the video of the dude some old woman in a

Walmart was saying where's your master and the guy comes basically comes after and starts yelling in or dropping F bombs in front of her yeah it's tough people are really aggressive it is shout out to the resale people because you've got it tough right now

do you ever have a tough your place? Yeah. Like how bad is it good? Can we build a segment off of this? Yeah, we can do that. All right, let's do this. We're going to come back in 220. We're going to have Joe George's Lids Nightmares. Oh, Allison.

Alice, for the Astro Allison? Missy just tweeted that as. Astros Allison. Okay, that's got some legs to it. Astros Allison. She loves her L-2-Bay. she loves Josh Redick she's not a big fan of Roberto Osuna but she still cheers for him when he gets to save, right?

Are we described her properly? Yeah. And she has bright orange socks that go all the way up to her kneecaps. They're not higher? They're not like the thighs. No, they're right at the knee.

Okay. But they're astro-specific. All right. That's Astros analysis. Final hour, the Matt Thomas show, starts in a matter of moments. In 20 minutes, Joe George's Lids Nightmares. Really, really rich man is Pat Mahomes. How does that affect Deshawn?

We'll talk about that and start the final hour of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas show. 202 on Sports Talk 790. Third and final hour here on this Tuesday afternoon, Joe George in for SportsRB. I'm Matt. Nice to have you guys with us. Brandon Riley is the producer of the radio program, and we look forward to saying hi to you guys and ladies to 713-212-5-790, 7-1-3-2-5-790 to put a bow on the last segment of the show.

Guys, the answer is Astros Amy. That's the answer. What are we doing about Susan, though? Is that Texan Susan? Texan Susan, because we're moving Karen off. Okay. And Rocket Rachel. All right. But Texas is Karen will always live in our hearts. Oh, yeah. She's around.

And we'll always still talk about her. For sure. She'll get the first reference, that's for sure. 713-212-5-790 on Twitter at SportsMT at Joe George Radio and at Brendan Riley underscore. Pat Mahomes, the contract, what is it? $502 million if he even means.

meets all the incentives. Oh, yeah, 503. Sorry, I was a million dollars off. Come on, don't shortchange him like that. Let me ask you this. There are provisions that are in his contract, right? Yeah. Have you been able to figure out what those things are?

Shefter reported last night that his number was 477 at first. Pat Mahomes, starting in 2020, 2021, no, 2021. every time he makes the AFC championship game and every time he wins the MVP, he gets $1.5 million. So if he gets to the Super Bowl five times, he's going to get like $9 million or whatever. That's chump change to him, though.

Yeah, but that's part of it. And then the way the Ian Rappaport was talking about this, like, guaranteed money, it sounds like it's all guaranteed but they have to decide the year before if they're going to guarantee that money. And if they choose not to, he can opt out, basically.

I'd like to know of a scenario where he wants to opt out. Give me a scenario where he says, you know, this money I'm making here in Kansas City, it's not good enough. They're not winning. They're not building a good team. Andy Reid retires and they air. Eric Bienemy is not a good head coach.

Eric Bienmey gets a head coaching job somewhere else, and they hire a poor replacement for Andy Reid. Yeah, because how many years is Andy Reed do you think he's got left? Does he coach five more years? Well, he put on his best Hawaiian T-shirt for the media today to celebrate. So he's... Oh, he did? He's 62.

So I got a feeling they... Pat Mahomes knows that Eric Biener is the next head coach of the Chiefs. so maybe like two more years. Wouldn't it be nice if we liked our head coach? Yeah. Bill O'Brien has grown on me. He has? Not in a football sense, but

the way he's handled everything and the way he's talked about kneeling with his players, everything since George Floyd just it's kind of changed my perspective. We're like, I like him now. I just don't like the trades he makes. Oh, so as a person, you're okay with him.

As a general manager, you think he sucks? Yeah. Okay, I guess that's fair. So I like him. I just would prefer another coach. Yeah. I just think this is too much for one human being to chew on to take over, especially with a guy that's never really done it before.

Absolutely. And I want to know, and we'll never know the answer to this until Cal comes on this radio show, and you've been trying to book him for 10 years. What do you think the magic words were to Cal that said, yeah, we don't need Brian Gain. Yeah, we don't need Rick Smith. Yeah, we think you can handle both. There had to be something that,

there has to be like a certain player or a certain, like, track of players or something. I got one for you. You ready for this? How about the Jack Easterby? is handling way more of the general manager responsibilities that we're being thought that we think he's doing. And that it would be so abnormal for a guy that has no football personnel experience or salary cap to be named a general manager in NFL franchise. You know, I know it sounds crazy for the NFL, but they do it in other sports. Like, what is Billy Bean?

Like, what are these guys in baseball? What are their qualifications besides being nerds? What about Phil Jackson and all these guys? That's not a great example because Phil Jackson was a terrible general manager. No, but that's what I'm saying. These guys don't have great qualifications, but they get the jobs. Who is the LeBron James ride-along that is now the GM of the Sons? Josh, no.

James Jones. Like, what's his qualification? That I could tell you. So I don't think if Jackie Serby was the GM, I don't think it's that different than those scenarios. People hire who they think. What about, you know, what was it, Paul D. Podesta, right? With the bronze, what was his qualification?

There's a baseball guy. Yeah. I mean, there's, yeah, there's, so what you're saying is that what the Texans are doing is really not that out of the ordinary compared to other sports. Yeah, I think it might be more normal than we realize. But because we don't really, know what their defined roles are, it's hard to

explain it still. I got a $5 billion selection for you, for Noster Thomas. You ready for this? I think Jack Easterby outlast Bill O'Brien. I completely agree with you. I think the next move, if Bill O'Brien does not

take this team to the level that I'm assuming would be beyond what they've done before and they make a move that they will hire a brand new football coach and that will give Jack Easterby the title of the general manager, because is now he'll have working experience in doing all the things that a general manager should be doing under that title. I don't know if a coach would agree to that, though.

What if they made Jack like the president of the Texans? On the football side? Yeah. Like what Reed Ryan was. He's like, no, because Reed was president of the business side. They already have a president of the business side. Oh, that's true. No, I think this is a good soft landing spot for Jack,

who was clearly uncomfortable in the last days of his days in New England, realizing that, you know, as long as Belichick was running things, he was going to be kind of hamstrung by where he was going to develop as a professional. The Nick Casario guy was going to be there forever, too. There wasn't much room for Jack Easterby to grow in New England. But I could see a scenario where Jack is, Jack is in charge, like it's, like, we're like there's a hierarchy tree that goes Cal McNair, Jack Easterby, and then a GM, and then Bill O'Brien. Oh, I see what you're saying.

Where Jack's not the GM, but the GM and the head coach, they still answer to him and then before they answer to Cal. So basically a general manager would be hired to do all the dirty work, so to speak. Yeah, Jack's not the one cut in the guys the GM is. Okay. So let me ask you this. Knowing those two guys and Cal, who's negotiating this contract? Who's going to be the one that's going to eventually put the number down on a piece of paper for Deshaun wants it to be happy with what he's going to get? I mean, it's going to have to be, it's Bill and Jack together, but.

Because I don't think Cal, I mean, Cal's interested in his car. Well, Cal's going to have to determine how much money he's willing to pay the guy. But Cal is not worried about the salary cap. He's got people he's hired. He hired Jack and Bill to be in charge of the salary cap, right? Yeah, you're right. And here's the thing. They're going to have to probably, I mean, the reputation for the Texans right now is overpaying athletes.

So eventually it's going to come up and bite them in the ass, is it not? I think so. Actually, if I'm to Sean, I've been trying to think about this since like the first hour when we talked about this. You know how yesterday one of Schefter's early tweets was about a cap percentage from my homes? I wonder maybe the Texans go that route with Deshaun, and they say, hey, you're going to get X baseline per year just in case the salary cap drops. But if it goes up, you're going to stay at that percentage. So basically, as long as you're a quarterback for our team, we're going to pay you 24% of salary cap. No matter what it is.

Yeah. I saw Andrew Brandt tweet this out that when he signed Brett Farrv to his lifetime contract, it was 18.75% of the salary cap. And that's pretty much what Mahomes is getting. That's a lot for 19% of the cap on one player. So maybe, you know, if I'm Watson, maybe that's the route I'd go. But how long about this? If you're Watson, how long do you want that contract? Does the 10-year deal that Mahomes got make you change your mind about how long you want to be texting?

Do you think he wants to go three to four or five years just to see how this organization plays out and where they are three or four years? But see, then I just wouldn't sign the deal, and I would just go the franchise tag route. You franchised twice, yeah. Because you know that third franchise tag like we saw in Washington with Kirk Cousins. It's probably not realistic. Yeah. All right. 212 is our time.

It is the Matt Thomas show. Good conversation on the Mahomes situation. and more importantly, how it affects Deshaun and whether or not he's going to get that halacious payday that the Casey quarterback picked up. When this program returns, our buddy Joe does some other things. He works at Lids at the Galleria,

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and I'm Matt, Brendan Riley here as well. Joseph, you work part-time at Lids. Yes. You have one or two stories that are, again, if they're accurate, that's fine. If they're not and you won't embellish, go ahead, because we're in live radio. So we can might as well just take whatever you go and run with it and probably add to it. I mean, I wouldn't say stories right now because, to be honest, before the last two weeks, I took the last two weeks off of work.

My family was in town, and then I was waiting until I got my negative results to go back to the mall. And so Sunday was like my first day back in two weeks. I will say that it gave me faith in humanity the amount of people that were wearing masks and didn't fight me on it. But before those two weeks and before things have recently changed with government mandates, it was tough. Like people trying to tell people to wear a mask and for the safety of the employees in the store, I've had people steal from stores I've worked at, whether it's this one or I worked at Banana Republic for like five years between high school and college. Yep.

Never came close to what felt like a physical confrontation was coming. and since things reopened, I felt closer to someone wanting to fight me more than ever before because they don't want to wear a mask and telling someone constantly that they need to because it's the rules we have in place at our location. It's tough.

It is not easy when people just don't want to. And it's not just like, as they're going viral, Karen's, like there's way more people. I mean, people don't even understand the fact that, like, when they're eating, we tell them, like, you have to wear your mask. And they say, well, I'm eating. Well, we're not our restaurant, so those rules don't apply here. So you're saying, I don't want to put words in your mouth.

Yeah. That you are more on edge for telling a customer to put a mask on than you are when you were in the past about whether that they were taking something from one of your stores. Yeah, because there's no confrontation. If you bust someone from stealing, one of two things is going to happen. They're going to give you everything back and they're going to leave after a small little confrontation. Right. Or they're going to run.

Like, it's, that's it. People don't, there's typically not some, like, throw down because they're stuff in it in bags and things like that. if someone steals from a retail store or a Walmart or whatever this is it is different it is more confrontational now on the customer's parts than ever before like that i think the viral videos that happen are i think accurate portrayals of and honestly i don't want to be in a situation where like you mentioned the person that goes viral and like i don't want the customers arguing about that because like i don't want to be involved in that that.

And we're so fast to put our phones up to record anything we see. Yeah. I mean, it's not great. Because I've gone viral before. You have? Yeah. Okay.

Last year. Yes. This is actually a funny story. So it was when I was working at Baybrook and these kids came in. I was helping one of them out. And they decided to take a clear fishing line and tell. tie it to a hat. And then they left the store.

And I'm the only person in there. And I'm telling you, Matt, out of nowhere, a white socks hat falls off the rack. And I look dumbfounded. And then it starts moving and being dragged out of the store. And I'm like, what the hell is happening? So I finally figured out, like, put my foot on the wire. and we got confrontational me and like these kids and that part wasn't in the viral part but me like catching them stealing and doing this prank went super viral and the only reason why

I won't be able to find the video for it is because they got sued by some of the stores at that mall because they still technically stole from like other like Macy's and things like that oh so other stores didn't get away with it you were able to put the kibosh on it yeah somehow Well, our store was small, and I figured it out quickly. Okay. But tell you what, I thought I was, like, real confused. I didn't think this was going to go in this direction with the mass thing. So we're going to lighten it up a little bit.

Are you okay with this? Yeah, of course. And you must answer every question open and honestly. Ooh, okay. So for the sake of this, just pretend you're not married. Okay. In your life as a retail, have you ever gone out with a customer? Yes.

Would that relationship be more than one date? Yeah. Long term? In college. Okay. Would you be at least a year? No, no, no. It was like two months.

Okay. Have you ever had a female customer say, hey, can you give me a discount? And you really couldn't, but you figured out a way that you could. No. It's more people trying to pay. with cash and try to like bargain with you. All right.

So how does that work? Hey, baby. You tell them no, it doesn't work here. So you're saying that they wouldn't say, I would love to go out with you, but you can pick up the last $9 of this hat? No, they just be like, hey, can I pay $37 for this $47 jersey? And you said no.

And she was hot when she said this to you? Yeah. And you were, it was, it was aggravating, wasn't it? it's annoying because it's not a street vendor okay all right i was i was hoping for something really crazy honestly i've been pretty lucky like you have i in all honesty

that makes me feel good that you haven't had a lot of drama in your life as a lids clerk yeah i mean i've never had like it's more just been like confrontational do they have dressing rooms at your location no thankfully i was going to say because you could see somebody putting a jersey on saying i i came in with this jersey Yeah, we don't have that. It's kind of nice. I don't have to deal with that stuff. Everything's on the floor.

Okay. Well, these don't sound like nightmares. Unfortunately, they sound like... I think everybody that's in retail is probably going through the exact same thing you're going through right. Absolutely. I think it's... You see it in the videos that go viral that people don't want to follow the rules. And, I mean, like, there's the ones where people are like...

They have, like, a shopping car and they're, like, barely and through the purse and get through the door. We're not dealing with that. Yeah. Thankfully. At least I haven't had to deal with that. But yeah, I'll tell you, it's more stressful now than ever before. What's not stressful today in 2020? Everything. Going, going to the grocery store, going to lids. Do you wash your groceries?

No. So my wife does because of all this. Everything? Everything. How about cereal boxes? Don't need cereal, so I don't know how to answer that one. I guess cardboard. She would probably wipe it down.

Well, like, baby wipes like we have here in the studios. But, like, by like ham, like, we had, like, sliders for Fourth of July. Yeah? So, like, we, like, whisk, like, washed the outside of the container to make sure that, like, if there was anything on there, because everyone's touching it. You know how many people have picked up that slider box? What kind of sliders were they? They were just like the pre-made H-EB burgers, little sliders. I must have lost the invite.

Man, it's, we're social distancing. That's true. I forgot about that. I can use that as an excuse. I like it. I like it. All right. So what I'm going to need from you from now on is even when you're not working on the show,

and Ross is back. If you have some incredible story, just come to interrupt the show one day. Because I live vicaracy through others. I've tried forever and ever for. Ross to resume Uber driving so he can tell us some Uber stories? Yeah, I don't think we'll ever be that crazy. I've heard some of those stories. I have found podcasts of some of them.

And my stories will never match Ross Uber stories. I'm just going to tell you right now. Yeah, I mean, and I applaud him for being able to accomplish what he was able to accomplish during that time. I have had customers, because when I have a fitting room, I have had intoxicated people, women, basically strip and try on clothes. And you said, please stop doing that. What are you supposed to say, Matt? Can I help you with something? Pretend like it's not happening is pretty much what we did.

I just looked the other way and was like, I don't know what's happening over there, but I'm going to pretend like I'm not seeing that. All right. It's been a strange show today. We've had Pat Mahomes talk. We've had Joe West as an out-of-shaped umpire who thinks it's up to him to keep the baseball going. And we had Johnny Depp's soon-to-be ex-wife dropping a deuce on their bed. I forgot about that already.

We need sports back. Really, really quick. And we're going to get it too, right? Although, how about the A's? Do you know they have not worked out yet still? How are the A's supposed to be ready in two weeks? Yeah, that's a problem. But they're the A's, so you know what?

The Astros can get happy off of them. They have 10 games against the A's, 7 in Oakland, three in Houston. I don't mind them going, the Astros going 9-1 against that. 228 on the Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212. 5-790 if you have a retail story since this pandemic has started and I would hope it has nothing to do with the mask but my guess is it probably does if you have a story that you

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over here. 233. Congratulations. If you're a fan of Luke Baamute, he has officially signed his deal with the Rockets. Joe George, I think old Mike D'Antony's going to have to have a 10-man rotation here, at least for the regular season, right?

Oh, definitely. I mean, is Russ going to play on that one back-to-back, you think? Probably not. Why would you change the appellate? Why would you change the course of action? there for that. Yeah.

I mean, I think they're going to have to go deeper than that. My guess is like Hardin's not going to play in all eight of these games. Yeah, because again, especially if you have the seating already locked in, why would you want to, you know, risk anything with those final two games? Yeah, because what those final three games are, you have the back-to-back, August 11th and 12th. And then you've got the Friday game versus, what was it, like the Wizards?

Philadelphia. is TBD. I mean, if you're already locked into the four seed or the sixth seed, whatever, like, what's the point in playing that game? Like, maybe play a half. But even then, like, once,

I think once the seeds are locked up, we're going to see teams not play much. And especially because the playoffs are supposed to start that following Monday, I think. Yeah. So if, once you're in, like once you're locked in, I think we'll see teams

really backed down a lot. Like, I don't think now that Bradley Beal's not going, once the Wizards lose like two games, they're going to be virtually eliminated, I think. How good is Milwaukee's life going to be? Cakewalk. I mean,

they're not, the Nets are hardly bringing anybody, the Wizards are hardly bringing anybody. What's the point? Whoever finishes in an eight spot is, I mean, if it's Orlando, I don't even know, I don't even pay attention to these.

Eastern Conference. It'd be Orlando. Yeah, Orlando's the eight seed, but I mean, the wizards are going to be terrible. No David, not, no DeVis Bertans, no Bradley Beal, no John Wall. I can't even name a wizard after that. I got nothing for you. Yeah, that's kind of think you did. All right.

713-212-5-790. If you name a wizard, we'll give you a prize. No, we won't. But I just thought it was interesting to say that. I can name their coach. For how much longer? You think they're going to fire Scott Brooks? I think it's within a realm of possibility.

Although, is it even fair to fire anybody this year? No, I couldn't imagine. I cannot imagine the Rock it's making a decision about Mike Danone's future based on everything that's happened. Like, how do you make a decision on this? If you're Scott Brooks, your argument is Bradley Beale, we could have made the eighth seat if he wouldn't have played. Let me ask you this, though. I think you're right that it would be very, very. difficult to see coaching changes, especially because you may have to, you're going to have a very

short period of time to figure out who you want, if you make a change. If that was the case, then why wouldn't the Rockets go ahead and just give Mike Dan Tony an extra year during this whole pandemic? They might still. They might just wait until everything's over. Now, as you guys know, I don't want Mike Dantony going anywhere. He's one of my favorite people. I think he is very much in the Andy Reed category of, you know what, this is a great coach that need the championship banner to kind of push aside the critics. Yeah, we'll look at, I think we'll look at Mike Tantoni the same way we look at Andy Reid now. Andy Reid had all those AFC or NFC championship games, what, like 10 in a row with Donald

McNabb, and then he had great success with Michael Vic. And he had a top five offense in the NFL with Alex Smith. And then now what he's done with Patrick Mahomes in two years, I mean, of the five quarterbacks that have signed more than 10-year contracts, he's coached two of them. Isn't that crazy? Donovan McDab and Patrick Mahomes. And if Mike Dan Tony

wins a championship with Hardin, it's going to validate the Steve Nash two MVPs, the seven seconds or less that they had there, the success that they had in New York with Carmelo Anthony. No, they didn't win in those places. It would validate everything, his style, how he's changed the game of basketball. You're right.

I mean, Mike Tantonie is Andy Reid. Because I'll say this. Anytime we go somewhere in the NBA, and the protocol before games is you get to talk to the opposing coaches talk before the game, and then I go talk to coach for our pregame interview on radio. Every time we go somewhere, people are always asking,

what do you think about how Minnesota is playing your style of ball? what do you think about the way Brooklyn plays your style I mean every different media member goes to Mike Dantonia and says can you believe that these teams are now basically stealing your ideas and you know and he's very modest about it but it's the truth and so some people that don't like the style of basketball a lot of 3 and D and layups and whatnot I mean they're going to be there's going to be those critics of that

but it's like 80% of the NBA does it and a lot of that is because of what Mike did when he ran that Phoenix Sun's offense for all those years. And so what you do instead of trying to reinvent the will, you distill other people's bits, and you steal other people's stories, just like the 18 does with our show. And so if it works, you go with it.

It's all of love, just for the record. You got a bits deal today? Is that what you're doing today, too? No, that's Wednesdays. Oh, okay. Today's that your responsible hot take. Those are daily three to six, though. No. Only when I talk.

Yeah, I love your irresponsible hot tics. I tried to go as far over the top as I can. You had like five different teams moving cities. Yeah. Well, that's what they're supposed to be. They're supposed to be severely irresponsible. Client and Leighton sees my point of view. And Wex goes Johnny Depp's wife on it.

Yeah. Please, if you don't know what we're talking about, I'm going to have to tweet out the Johnny Depp story. right? I mean, we have people, our audience moves all the time. For those of you who don't know, Johnny Depp and his wife are having marital issues. And as a prank, using that term, she dropped the kids off on the pool, I mean, in the bed. Right? Yep.

Fornicates the official word, I believe, is they use that the kids would say. Yeah, that sounds about right. That's, I mean, among all-time gross things, where do you put down the list? That's got to be like one or one A. No. Name something grosser. I can't. But I guarantee you, just even the realm of celebrities, we could find things that are way worse in this story.

So basically we believe that Johnny Depp and his wife have a freakish sex life. That goes without saying, correct? Definitely. I would say on a scale of one to ten, my gut tells me this is like a five. and that there are way Her defecating on the bed is only a five? I'm telling you Matt, with celebrities and then Florida man stories,

I bet you this is like a five compared to what we could find on the internet. That scares me that Johnny Depp's freakish wife who drops the deuce on the bed is only a five. That's just, that's my gut telling me. I can't even think what a 10 would be. I don't want to think about it, But I bet you we could find them.

Not on these work servers, though. I have trouble for that. All right. Final story to wrap up the show today. There is a professional athlete that wants you to book a cameo. And the price is rather steep. It's the highest price for any person on cameo. I want you all try to figure out who it is and what he's charging.

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Thank you, Bun. Final segment of the Matt Thomas show here on Sports Talk 790. Joe, you know I've tried this cameo thing a little bit. I've had a couple of people ask for some cameos. I have. I've been looking to do it myself, actually. Not for me, but to buy one. I understand.

I'm reasonably priced. I think I'm $35. Okay. And I've done anniversaries. I've done birthdays. I've done a little bit of everything. And it's fine. It's fun.

Well, there's a professional athlete out there. there that's charging more than any other athlete. Would you like to guess who that it is? I, it's funny, because I was literally looking at this because I wanted to get, my wife's birthday is in August, and Kyle Schwabber from the Cubs popped up at 200. So if it's not, I know it's not him. Nope.

If I gave you the sport, you'd probably guess it. So I will. Boxing. Mike Tyson, 500 bucks. Incorrect. Hold on. We're Clemper's a second. Floyd Mayweather?

I would say Floyd Mayweather. Floyd Mayweather is accurate. Oh, man. It's got to be at least two Gs. He's charging $999. I'm only a grand off. So what exactly will $1,000 get you from Floyd? He says, I can do birthday shoutouts, motivational messages, and even boxing tips.

He is quoted as saying this. I want to be the first celebrity to make a million dollars on cameo. That's a lot. That's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. I don't know if I would start with a grand then. I might go a little higher. Let me give you a few.

We're going to play the range game to see how you do on these. You're ready? Okay. Roy Jones, Jr. what does he charge? 150. 199. Mike Tyson. 300.

Right on the nose. Ray Lewis. 200 300 brett farb a pair of wrangler jeans and one of those things around his belt in his midsection it's like

85 bucks 300 bucks 300 dollars the most expensive person on cameo is not an athlete he well this is a loaded question

this person was a former athlete this person Joe charges 2,000 $500. So you would naturally think, first of all, if I say former athlete... Are they an actor now? This person is done acting, yes.

Is it the quarterback for Notre Dame? No. No, wait. Where did Mark... The guy from NCIS. Well, Mark Harmon? Yeah. No. So let me see that I can give some hints.

Former athlete. OJ. You're warm. So it killed someone? No. Because my next guess would have been Ray Lewis, but we already said this. Yeah. Former athlete knows OJ.

Charges $2,500. What else could I give away that would not be giving it away? Has had a massive change in this person's life recently in the last 10 years. I'm trying to think the best way. Reality television star. Jose Canseco. No. I got it.

Brandon, help out of the boy. Caitlin Jenner. You got it. You should have said he. No, I didn't say, if you noticed, I didn't say he or she. I know. I said this person. You know, I should have known that because, like, the first ever live radio show I produced

was with a radio host who used to work here at 790. Okay. And we were working together at Gao. And it was an interesting experience because he did not agree with, Caitlin Jenner becoming a thing. Former 790 host who went over the other place. I don't know if I can do a good impression.

Try it. 713, 212, 5-790. Mighty. The Mighty. The Mighty Gwyn. My first two radio shows that ever produced solo were for Mighty and Barry Warner. That was my introduction radio.

Both legends. Very much so. Sure. Do some more mighty for me Because we have some mighty Gwen soundbite. It's actually Ross knows where they are. That's all they got. I'm not logging in my computer.

I would pull them up. That is so funny. So he wasn't a fan of Caitlin Cheney. No. Of course not. Yeah, I don't know. Caitlin Jenner, $2,500. What's the most you would pay for a cameo?

You know what? Is there a person that would make you pay more than $100? bucks. Well, the problem is I wouldn't get it for myself. I'd get it for somebody like my wife watches like all the real housewife shows. Yeah. So my guess is if there was one that was a hundred bucks for a housewife, I probably could get them to do something for her.

We did like a group of us, a buddy of mine got diagnosed with cancer during the pandemic and he's a huge Marvel fan and we paid like we got like 20 of us and we paid like $600 hundred bucks total for a cameo to like wish him like good luck yeah as he started taking it on it was like one of the marvel actors well you know rick flair's been doing a bunch of him lately and i look at some of his samples they're all the same thing yep that's the problem it's here's what he goes limousine riding jet flying son of a gun woo happy birthday mark limousine ride and son of a gun big time happy birthday gregg you know i mean yeah you got to kind of you got up to if you're going to do these things you got to have to kind of make him change him up a little bit but yeah

Rick Flair would be fun, but the problem is Rick's like 70-something years old. I know. I know what I'm going to get out of that. Yeah. I don't know. I just, yeah, I'm trying to think of anybody that I would be blown away. Now, if Bob Barker could do them and Bob Barker want to wish me happy birthday, I'd be all under that. I was just watching Happy Gilmore the other day. He's so good in that movie. Problem is he's got to be 95 or years old. I can't imagine him staying on camera for more than five seconds. Yeah. Are there any good comedians on there? I feel like they've got to do good performance.

I would love one from Burke Kreischer. Is that your guy? Bert Kreischer is my favorite comedian right now. He's got three Netflix specials, and they're all, they're so good. My favorite guy right now is Jeff Ross, the Roastmaster, but I don't know if I want to pay $100 for me to be insulted for three minutes. Like, do I get to send him a picture of you? Oh, hell no.

And then just let him go, because Ross and I will absolutely do that. I'm not going to speak for Brendan. He still do. but he might contribute silently anonymous but I'm telling you if we can get Jeff Ross just to light you up Matt

I mean it would be the greatest we could use him for show bits to come back from I mean it's one thing when Mike Dan Tony's making fun of Adam Clanton because he can't say his name or Ackerman's taking a shot at one of your catch phrases

but like if we had Jeff Ross just annihilating you on a cameo we could record it and use it for intros for your show Is Jeff Ross have been on camera? Only $250? $250? $250?

Man, Ross is missing too much work right now. I'd have him just pay for it. Yeah. Are you paying him during this all time? Or what? I don't know. I don't answer to that question. Even if I knew the answer.

Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea. Just to get somebody that would just insult the hell out. I mean, use him for radio lines. Oh, man. It's like a sneaky good way to get liners for... Is there an athlete you'd want to have somebody wish I mean, what, if I, if I, let me think, if I gave you, if Jim McMahon did a cameo for you, would you lose your mind?

No, I mean, I wasn't born yet. Okay. I'm trying to think fast forwarding. A Jim Harbaugh. Nope. I would say Derek Rose probably at the top of my list. How about the linebacker? Brian Orlocker.

I see enough of him when I go to Chicago. That dude's on every. every three blocks on the highway, you see his not bald head anymore. So that does nothing for you, Brian Erlock or Vick cameo, does nothing for you? No,

I was more of a Briggs guy. Okay. Oh, Lance, what is, I wonder if Lance Briggs is on there. He is. How much is that?

I think it was like two bills. 200. He needs to drop that rate. Peanut Tillman would be really cool. How about Devin Hester? Oh, yeah, for sure. Brendan's got to be Detroit Lion players, right?

Miguel Cabrera probably. Miguel Cabrera. He's going to have to go with Herman Moore. We could go with someone with the greatest rotation of all time. Verlander, Scherzer, Porcelo. Who else is in there? That was really good. David Price.

God, that Tiger team was good. John Fister. Oh, man. Brought up some very bad history with the Detroit Tigers. They were so good. Now they're losing 110. games a year or this year they'll lose just 50. Hey, thanks for everybody to be joining the show today and commenting through email and

Twitter and whatnot. We'll look forward to talk with you guys tomorrow at 12 noon. Clack, Wex are next. They are the A team and they're on 790.