The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Pete Rose Stories, J.J. Watt Speaks & Putt For Money Challenge

Episode Date: July 9, 2020

Much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas Show. Good afternoon to you, and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt, Joe with the day off. Russ. Ross. Still recuperating.

Brandon Riley is our producer of the radio program, and we are with you today until 3 o'clock, where can I peel the curtain back for just one second of the old radio show? I hope you all don't mind. I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, didn't want to spend three hours today talking about, well, there be this, what's a delay on this? and so I went to my Rolodex like a muddha trying to get as many interesting people to come on the show today. Everybody is swamped. Literally everybody. They're like, oh yeah, we'll do it tomorrow, which we will have some guests tomorrow on the show. And hey, early next week sounds great.

So I'm telling you right now, as God is my witness, a 1202, I have a list. of a variety of sports stories that just basically is the same sort of thing. Will we have a season? Are there concerns? What's going on with testing? I'd like to avoid as much of that as humanly possible. But it's going to take y'all to get involved on the show today. And I know for a better part of, I don't know, five months,

there's not been a whole lot to people to call in and argue about. But today I'm going to lay the gauntlet down, so to speak. We have non-Florida stories coming up at 2.30 this afternoon. That's always a little nice little divergence from the horror that is this virus and what our society is all about right now. But if there's other things you would like to get to today, because I have, again, all the things that have unfortunately made up sports the last handful of months. If there's anything you like, man, I really have got to get this off my chest.

Or, hey, have you thought about this? Today would be the day to do so. Joe is working at the lids. Ross is still out. Brendan's training somebody. So today, it is you and me. Today is the day. If you ever thought to yourself,

I'd like to argue with Matt about this. Or I've never thought about asking Matt this, but here it goes. Today would be your opportunity. Because we are going to go over the main headlines of the day, which will include what Jay, Jay Watt had to say yesterday. The new NFL rules concerning post-game get-togethers. There's a new athletic department survey of athletic directors around the country

about the start of college football. The NBA bubble doesn't sound nearly as sucky as maybe people thought it was going to. And Tiger Woods is back. Plus, speaking of golf, Barstool Sports has a little challenge that they're asking their audience. and I thought it was a great question, so I'll ask you the same sort of thing. That's what's on my agenda, plus non-Florida stories. But today of all days, because Joe will be back with us tomorrow, and then Joe will be in with us next week as Ross goes on vacation

after being gone for two weeks, and that's on the here nor there. Today would be a day. So if you want to get in and argue with me about something, or just say you're as mad as hell and I can't take it anymore, because you can just basically say that the virus sucks, your life sucks because there's no sporting events, at least for now, a couple more weeks. Today would be the day. 713-212-5-790.

7-13-212-5-7-90 is how you reach the show today. If you want to reach out on Twitter, you can do that as well. At SportsMT. At Brendan Riley underscore. Astros are going to have a 145 intra-squad scrimmage. there is no television of it, there is no radio of it. We would care it if they wanted us to do it, but they didn't want to do it, so we're not doing it.

Or maybe, I don't know, they hadn't thought about it. Point being is that there's going to be some lot. And again, inter-squad scrimmages are very loose, just for the guys to actually see live pitching, make sure nobody gets hurt. It just shows you how crazy things are. The New York Yankees had their inter-squad scrimmages, and it's put on the regional sports television network.

The Oakland days at this point can't even get an inter-square scrimmage because they can't even get an inter-squad workout, much less his scrimmage. So I think, at least early on, when it comes to baseball, there's going to be a discrepancy of who's ready to start playing baseball in a couple weeks

and who's not. And thankfully, it sounds like the Astros have gotten their logistical issues out of the way when it comes to trying to get all the test results in and whatnot. I know Michael Brantley said some things, yesterday was a little concerning and he's just speaking on behalf of the rest of the team of Major League Baseball. They want all

these tests, that's great. They want to make sure they are safe and a good spot to practice at Minute May Park or U of H or Corpus Christi or wherever they're going and they just want to have the results as fast as possible and there has been a delay, a lot of it because of July 4th, but they don't want delays to become a part of the season

where guys have to be put out of the lineup or have to take days off or can't travel because test results aren't in. And I know it's a thankless job, but if you're going to undergo this massive 60 game schedule in basically two months, you've got to have everything in order. So I understand why Michael Brantley is saying that what he's saying, and I don't think he's speaking out of turn.

He's just saying, hey, we need these results back as soon as possible, whatever it takes, so guys can feel comfortable being on the field, practicing and getting ready for the 2020 season. 713-2125790 is how you. You get in on this show today. 713-212-5-790. All right. So J.J. Watt speaks to Gatorade.

You ever notice how these amazing interviews always come with a corporate tag to it. So J.J. Watt speaks. And he says among a variety of things that there's, you know, there's concern about a number of preseason games and how much working out. have to get in. There was just one thing that I thought was very interesting yesterday. And he said this with the pro football talk dude, Mike Florio. He said that skipping the season would be an option for him if something happened.

And what would that be? wearing a protective face shield apparently he wore it very early in his NFL career he hated it so much that he doesn't ever plan of doing it again

I was like and someone's quoting him I was like it looks so cool I want to put a visor on I had it on for about three periods of practice and I said take this sucker off I'm going to die out here so now you're going to put something around my mouth you can keep that if that comes into play

I don't think you're going to see me on the field. So I've had this creative idea that I haven't seen, and I don't know if it's actually possible. Now, is it just like Shark Tank? Minus the fact that I have absolutely no concept drawn up. I have no sales history. I've got nothing but an idea. What if you flipped the idea of the face mask?

Because all you're really trying to do is block the droplets, right? So what if the face mask guarded your mouth, or I'm sorry, the visor guarded your mouth, and your typical face math, I guess, didn't exist? Why does it need to be a face mask? All you really need to do is have the visor across your mouth. I'm trying to theater the mind on this, Brandon, and I don't know if I'm buying in on this.

Well, I'm not totally sure how it works. But I don't know why it needs to be a full face shield, which is, I think, the concept we've seen. You don't need to cover the eyes necessarily. Like, imagine, okay, I'm going to try and help you theater of the mind. Please do. Imagine the face mask, but you know how there's gaps in the face masks? Yeah?

Just don't put gaps there. I, okay. That makes a little more sense. I would just say anything that would destroy any sort of clear eyesight to their immediate job responsibility is going to make these players flip out. I just don't understand why you need to cover the eyes. Like that doesn't, I mean, I'm not a doctor. But the whole point is dropping the broad, the, the, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the, the, uh, the, the, the, uh, blacking the droplets, I'm only worried about covering around the mouth area.

Yeah. See, okay, I don't want you to do it. And when you get off the show, I don't know, I will take you to Shark Tank. And I don't know if these guys are going to buy into your bid or not, but it wouldn't be worth the worst thing in the world to try, right? Are they still recording Shark Tank? Well, they probably have to social distance between each one of them a couch. How many Shark Tank episodes have you watched in your life?

You know, quite a few. probably a good 30 or 40 Okay I'm in the 10 category My dad really liked it Sometimes it's kind of a curious show for me And then sometimes I just think They're just

These are bunch of rich dudes just fighting over something And then they get the dumb asses that are Overvaluing their investment Some of those things though Have you ever seen anyone on a Shark Tank episode That just it hit? I'm sure it has right I'm sure they've done a show with multiple hits

Right I saw a neck pillow That was memory foam with the hood and I now own one of those. What's the most famous shark tank investment? Does anybody have the answer to that? Have you ever seen, oh, there's a spike ball. Have you ever seen spike ball? That's super common around people my age.

I've played that several times. Is it a game? So yeah, yeah, it's almost a sport-esque. It's like a good beach game. So it's like a mini trampoline. Okay. Very, very small. And the idea is there's two teams of two,

and you're hitting it off this mini trampoline just using your hands. You get three touches, so think like volleyball, to hit it off that trampoline, and then the other team has to volley it back. And they sold it for how much? Do you have any idea? I don't know.

I can look that up. I don't think I've ever purchased anything that it's been on Shark Tank. Not that I wouldn't, but I'm just, yeah, okay. Spike is called Spike Ball? Yeah, it looks like it was purchased $500,000 for a 20% equity. Oh, so that's a win-win deal for everybody, right? Yeah, I mean, I know several friends who own it. I actually played it quite a bit when I first moved here.

Well, whatever you have to do, work on this face mask thing where it just covers the mouth only. And put like, we can put logos on it, right? Corporate sponsors? Oh, perfect. Whatever you got to do to make the investment good. And it's not blocking eyesight. And then we'll take it to Mark Cuban. Maybe the Rockets and Mavericks will play next year at TOTA Center and Mark Cubans there.

Maybe I'll put you two in front of each other. All right, let's make it happen. All right. Time is 1212. So JJ Watt wants no face mask. He's also a little bit concerned about the protocol, just like most NFL players are. We will discuss that among other things. And how about this?

The Astros just sent the schedule for 2021. We haven't even played 2020 yet. And the 2021 schedule is out. I'll tell you about some of the highlights of that coming back. It is the Matt Thomas Show. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-90 on Twitter at SportsMT at Brendan Riley underscore with a message here for bronze roofing.

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Sports790.com. Just remember you'll have to feed him. 1217. And this is the Matt Thomas show. How are y'all doing? 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-790. my buddy Brad

sending me a tweet he's at Big City Wings having a little lunch shout out to you Brad I just put on Twitter should we do a roadie for the Astros and Rangers now we won't be able to do it this year because I'm guessing that Globe Life Park will not be available to us for fans in 2020

the 2020 2021 schedule just got released man those people in the major league baseball offices they must have been scheduling fools because typically typically you announce your schedule for the following year in baseball like in September so you would think the September 24 the 21 season would be announced in September of this year now like now we're going to go ahead and give you guys a little

something to early to look forward to so without going through all of it because you guys can find it the Astros will open up the season in next year on a six game. We'll start with a six game road trip. Four in Oakland against the A's and then two against the Angels. They will open up the season at home on Friday, April the 8th, no, excuse me, Thursday, April the 8th against the Oakland A's. Boy, their first month.

Well, here we are. Look at us putting a cart before the horse. The first month is going to feature seven games against the A's, six against the A's. six against the Angels and seven against the Seattle Mariners A couple of Colorado games in a mix too Detroit's in there that you would think would suck So it's you know

Here we are already making schedule predictions Based off of the 2021 season When we have no idea how 2020 is going to go I don't think we have any idea That there's going to be a normal 2021 season You shut your mouth I mean I'm There's reason to be hopeful for 2021

But we can't show Sure. The reason is that it's still really far away. Now, you know, Brendan, the prediction I made is we're not getting full-fledged, regular stadium seats, fans, all that until 2022. I think I agree with that, too. I hope I'm 100% wrong. I hope that is a Nostra Thomas prediction that is absolutely falls flat. But it's pretty ballsy that are putting out the schedule right now, right?

If I offered you this deal right now. Uh-oh, your deal time. Go. If you get all 162 games in 2021, or 100, yeah, no questions asked. You get every game. Okay, that's all I'm going to do is just accept that? But you know there are no fans in the stadium. Do you take that deal?

Are you holding out hope that you can get fans in the stadium? Who am I an owner or am I a fan? Oh, I'm just as a fan, you, as Matt Thomas. Okay. I think baseball is going to be pretty financially screwed, right? If you trust the owners. Let me ask you this. Why would the owners want to play a full 162 if there's no fans in the stands? That's fair.

I guess I didn't consider the plausibility of that aspect. If your thought is that 2021 would be in danger because they may not be able to have fans, then I think you're right. Now, I'll say this. The new Turner television deal starts next season. That's going to pump in. Is it another billion dollars of them? Is that what it is? I think a bonus of

in addition to what they've already been being paid by Turner. I don't know the numbers, but I believe that. It's something big. Now, Turner gets a Tuesday night game of the week as part of this new deal. So I think we're going to have baseball on national TV on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and then Tuesdays with the TBS stuff.

I don't think that makes up for it, clearly. But yeah, that's interesting because I'd have to know why they did this. Is there anything reason behind they would put this schedule out, A, early, because it is early even for Major League Baseball standards. And B, knowing that Major League Baseball hemmed and hollered about a short season because they didn't campaign anybody because there's no fans in the stands.

I guess what you have to do is you have to do this. You have to plan like there's going to be baseball with fans in the stands next year. even if it's half the stadiums. And that's why they released it the way they did. They have to be thinking, we can't be sitting here in January 2021, not knowing if we've got fans,

and we've got to put together some sort of schedule. So let's do this. Let's be positive about this. We have not done a station trip in a long period of time to go see the Astros play somewhere outside of Houston. And I do believe part of the charm of baseball is that going to different cities, every stadium is different. Fenway is different than Yankee.

Oakland Coliseum is different than Tampa. Toronto's different than Seattle. And so it does, when you go on a road trip, it doesn't mean something special. Like, for instance, if you go to the NBA, there isn't a huge difference. between the Pfizer form in Milwaukee and the Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. I mean, they're NBA courts, their beautiful arenas, they all have the bells and whistles, but there's nothing really definitively different where a game in Safeco Field is a completely different experience than it would be saying Cleveland.

So I'm going to right now, and here's the thing I'd be careful with, because if the rockets are playing, I don't want to schedule a little roadie for us to go somewhere, then I can't go because I've got Rockets commitments. And I'm presuming the NBA is going to start in December of this year and go until, I don't know, what, mid, late August before they crown a champion. So I'll do this. I want you all to put your calendars, get your calendars out right now, get your iPhones out, your daytimeers.

Hell, chicken scratch on a piece of paper. August 27th, 28th, and 29th, the Matt Thomas show is going on a roadie to Arlington. God help us if they don't have, if we can't see games on August 27th to 2021. Globe Life Park, it'll be the first season where fans you would think available. We can go take a look at that terrible looking roof. We can make fun of the fact that it's basically Minutemate Park North. And we can also make fun of those horrific powder blue uniforms as Rangers have.

It's a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We'll get a decent hotel. We'll have breakfast. We'll have eggs Benedict on Saturday morning. And we'll watch the Astros kick the Rangers' ass for three consecutive days, 27, 28, 29. So put it down. Get a sitter if you have to. If you don't have a kid yet, go ahead and go through the process of trying to have your child.

Then get the sitter then. We'll need you August 27th, 28th, and 29th. Nobody goes to Ranger games anyway, so we'll be able to find tickets. Book it. Other things interesting on the schedule to wrap up the exhaustive schedule conversation talk on the show. The Astros go to Los Angeles again, as the Astros will play in the National League West again. August 3rd and 4th. It's a Tuesday and Wednesday, two-game series with the Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles.

The Astros will also go to San Diego, which is cool. If you've never been to Petco Park, first of all, San Diego is one of my favorite places on Earth. Add on top of that, that San Diego, Petco Park is a great place to go. So if you ever think about a roadie, that's the first, that's actually Labor Day weekend. That could be tough. Although really not. I mean, San Diego and Labor Day, four school starts, or at least as school starts around that time, Provided that you get to go to school and again.

Wouldn't be a bad trip for you either. I'm trying to think there's anything else that would be halfway interesting. The Yankees, by the way, will be in for a weekend series, July 9th, 10th, and 11th. And I know there's quite a few Boston Red Sox fans. The Red Sox loan appearance in Houston this year will be a four-game series at the end of May and then in the first three days of June. So there you have it. So more importantly, get your pencils, paper, whatever, type it in.

We're going on a roadie August 27th, 28th, and 29th in Arlington to take on the Arlington Rangers and those disgusting powder blue uniforms and that half-ass new ballpark of theirs with an aluminum can lid on it. 713-212-790. 7-1-2-5-790. If you want to reach out through email, you can do that. Well, actually the best way to do it is go to at SportsMT. Follow me on Twitter and we'll go from there. We'll hear from JJ Watt.

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1232 on Sports Talk 790 It is the Matt Thomas show We are with you to 3 o'clock this afternoon 713-212-5-790 is how you've reached the number Have you put it on your calendar yet? We're going to Arlington in August of next year looking forward to it Brendan I'm telling you my man I hope we get to go because I I mean this will be weird like I actually caught myself watching a minute

and a half of the soccer today this morning I don't know who was playing but it was so boring I had to turn it all because I hate soccer nothing no nothing you know offensive anybody that does like it but it was weird there wasn't a you didn't even hear any chirping you didn't hear any voova zales or whatever the hell soccer people do when they're bored You heard nothing. Now, basketball will be a little bit different because you're going to hear some noise in the background. They're going to have some music.

You're going to hear the sneakers. You're going to hear guys. Plus, it's a much more interesting sport. Baseball is going to be weird because you're going to hear a hollow. You're going to hear a baseball game, but you're going to hear it instead of a hollow stadium. Can I tell you for bad teams it won't be that much different? Oh. No, wait a minute.

Now, like, who's the most awful? The Tigers are awful. The Orioles are awful The A's, but we're used to watching the A's on television They suck, or actually they don't suck Nobody goes to their games because they're afraid to go to Oakland at the time of night But do you feel like when you watch a game If the Astros are in Oakland

Do you feel like you hear the crowd make a major difference? I don't think they do one for bad teams It'll make a difference for the Astros, obviously Yeah It'll just feel like every team sucks Yeah, I'm okay We're doing this for a year I don't

2021 without fans is really going to suck And it's probably really going to hurt Not really It is definitely going to hurt the industry So badly And that's why We need fans in the stands So we don't have a long-ass lockout

Or strike in 2022 That's just the reality of it Because if there's not any money Out there to spend on these people These rich owners and these rich players They're just going to be arguing about money they don't have. We need it for our own mental health to get back in the stadiums. We're going to have our popcorn, our beer. Hell, let me tell you all something.

I want sports fans to be able to go to games so bad. I will even endorse the wave. Do you hear me? I will even endorse the wave. That's how crazy it is. 713-212-5-790. More from JJ Watt coming up. in a minute. Kyle and Pearland at 1235 on 790. Hi, Kyle. Matt, a long time, no here. How you doing, buddy? I'm all right. Yourself? I'm doing fine. Thank you. I watched the show last night. I'll get your opinion on Backstory. Have you seen the one with the Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Pete Rose with the gambling and staying out of the Hall of Fame? Have you seen that? What channel was it on? It was on ESPN. Was it like a 30 for 30?

Yeah, no, it's called Backstory. That's the name of it. Oh, you know what? That's a relatively new series. correct? Yes, sir. Because I did see the backstory episode of Serino Williams fighting with that chair empire. I saw that also, also. Wasn't that really good? I'm not even that big of a tennis fan. No, I like it when they go in depth on that. And they did that yesterday with Joe Jackson. And, you know, he got banned from baseball, of course. And apparently he said he did. He took the money, but he didn't throw the games. He played hard. And, you know, they banned him forever. And he was going to get back. back into a chance to get in the Hall of Fame until Pete Rose pulled his crap. And they interviewed Pete for a long time. Of course, he got testy as always. But how do you feel about that?

You know, what you did on the field is different than what you did. And Pete says he bet on his own team. Whether that's true or not, I don't know. But I think the man needs to be in a Hall of Fame, along with Joe Jackson. Let me ask you this before I let you run. Who spoke on behalf of Shoeless Joe? You know, he really didn't. He got some people that did some.

investigation. He has a museum in his hometown and the lady that's a curator also was there. Of course, she spoke and she had learned all about, you know, Joe Jackson. But apparently he was going to get back in and the committee for the Hall of Fame was going to allow that

until Pete did his thing. Then they said anybody that banned, you know, is banned from baseball for gambling. But then that was before you could bet on baseball. And it was funny. Pete was signing autographs at Mandalay Bay, which he does all time. I know you probably seen him. I've gotten an autograph from him there actually. Yeah. Yeah, so do I. And they were having the baseball winner meetings there at Mandelaide Bay. You know,

and of course, you can bet on baseball now. So I'm wondering if they ought to let him back in the league because that didn't have anything to do. I mean, he had 4,000 hits. He was one of the greatest I ever saw. Well, I mean, Kyle, there's no argument about whether or not his on-the-field resume deserves it. I mean, he's the all-time hit king. I mean, that's it. That gets you in. But the problem is there's a variety of things. One, I think Major League Baseball, Kyle, tried to get him to come clean really early in the game. Agreed. They said that. And he wouldn't do it.

No, he said that. He said that was his mistake. Yes. Second of all, he's a belligerent SOB. I mean, he's just not a nice person. And then lastly, the worst part of it all was when he finally decided he wanted to come correct and tell everybody what he did. He didn't go in front of a camera. He didn't go on a social media platform. He wrote a book about it so he can make some money off of it.

Yeah. But it still doesn't take away from his on-field accomplishment. That's right. It's like with the Barry Bonds and McGuire, they did these steroid things to help them their performance. He didn't do that that we know of. He bet on baseball on his team. You know, I watched the last night,

I was always against him being in the Hall of Fame, but as I watched it, I kind of felt a little sorry for him. I am for Joe Jackson because of that. And what's going to happen is he's going to, you know, he's 79 years old. He's going to die, and they'll probably put him in the Hall of Fame after it's over. You know what, Kyle? I have gone back and forth with it a lot because, you know, you try to combine Pete Rose in the steroid era and what shoes should get in, who should not,

and how many people have skeletons in the Hall of Fame, and there's plenty, obviously. Yes. To me, it's pretty cut and dry when you take everything. If you are banned from the sport, you are ineligible for the Hall of Fame. But he brought up an interesting point, and you can agree or not. In America, you're given a second chance. Absolutely. And just like with Joe Jackson, I think they made a point with the black socks to do that to keep people from gambling,

because it was getting rampant back in the back. I wasn't there in 1919, either were you, but that's what they said. But I know they had to do something, but, you know, everybody deserves a second chance, Matt, you know? Oh, I would hope that society is full of that. But the problem is you like to give people second chances for people that are very, very remorseful. And unfortunately, Kyle, it took him 30 years to finally come around and go, you know, yeah, I did screw up. And I think that kind of delay damaged to his opportunity. for good and that people never really thought he was being honest and saying, yeah, I shouldn't

have done it because, oh, by the way, I'm spilling my beans and go by my book from Simon Schuster. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, and that's what he said. But if you get a chance, I think you would enjoy that. I'm glad you told me about it. Thank you for the phone call. I appreciate you joining the show.

You take care of yourself. All right, buddy, appreciate it. Yeah, I will tell you this. I have, and I think I mentioned this a few times before, Pete Rose, he used to do a radio show. And he, I used to be like his Houston correspondent. I was a young sportscaster. This has got to be probably 95, 96 somewhere in that range.

And any time there was anything Houston related, the Pete Rose radio show, he had somebody that was just a regular Joe that was his co-host, kind of as, he held his hand a little bit. And they'd call me and ask about the rockets or the Astros, or the orders of the time, or college football. And I'd go on probably Pete Rose's show. three, four times a year. Then a few years later,

I happened to see him in Las Vegas at a blackjack table, and I played blackjack with him. And it would have been easy for me to segue and say, hey, Mr. Rose, my name is Matt Thomas. I used to go on your radio show. I was like your Houston correspondent, and I did so, and he could give two craps. I think he was in a really rough spot.

I think he was not doing well at the table. that night and did not want to have any small talk with anybody the next time i run into him this is on another trip to las Vegas because if you guys don't know i've been to los vegas probably 35 times so i don't have a problem i just like to go it's not a problem if you you know doesn't become an addiction he is in front of me and uh he is uh going home to wherever he happens to live whether it's Cincinnati or i don't know where it was and he wanted to go through the first class line at the security at the Las Vegas airport. And I don't know if you guys have ever been to Vegas before, but McCarran Airport can have

some really, really, really long lines. This is one of the busiest airports in the country. And there's a huge difference in going through the regular person's security and the first class. And he wanted to go through first class. There was just one problem. He was flying Southwest. And Southwest, as all of you know, don't have first class.

seats or first class anything and he was such an a hole during this he just couldn't believe that the all-time hit king had to wait in line at the security just like everybody this is this is a way before tsa and it was he just couldn't believe that he used pete rose and he has to wait in the line like everybody else the very last time i saw pete was probably about 10 or 11 years ago at the Mandalay Bay in the shopping area and he was outside of memorabilia store and it said if you buy a Pete Rose item valued at this or higher he'll sign an autograph for free. So my father-in-law, I bought him a bat and he signed it and I got a picture with Pete. And once again, I brought up the fact that I worked with him on a radio show many years ago and he's like, oh, that was so long ago. And

So he got my money. I got a handshake with him, took a picture of him, and that's my Pete Rose story, about the four or five times I've talked with Pete Rose in my entire life. But to wrap this all up, basically this, one of my favorite all-time players. But just really, I think generally speaking, a putt in real life, and I think that's a lot of the reason why

that people have not forgiven him, and he has not been reinstated back into baseball, and while I do believe it in the day he will never get into baseball. Baseball's Hall of Fame. 1244 on the Matt Thomas show. We've got some Pete Rose calls. How about that? You know what?

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Let's do a Rangers Astros already August 2021. My buddy, Chris, who lives in Arlington, says first rounds on him. Got a bunch of people saying I'm down. At Mount underscore Hoyt says, if we're still here. That was

kind of a morbid thing to say, right? We'll still be here. Yeah, we'll still be here. You know what? might not be confident we're going to get a full baseball season, but I am absolutely confident we'll still be here. All right, good. Just keeping your, just keeping lots of fruit and vegetables.

Stay away from the sweet stuff. All right. JJ Watt spoke, and we're going to give you a couple of those comments in a little bit. But, you know, look, today is this kind of those free and easy days? I've had two Pete Rose calls in the first hour of the show, which I never thought I'd have in 2020. But you know what? That's why I love the show.

I do not want this show to be formatted segment by segment by segment by segment. We can move things around. A, because it's more interesting. And B, what else the hell are we going to talk about? Except whether or not we're going to be here in August 2021 when the Astros and Rangers. I mean, I'm assuming Mont was thinking that maybe there's an Astero is going to eventually hit. Although the Astor was supposed to hit the Statue Liberty, was it not? these conversations I hear about these asteroids coming to land on planet Earth

maybe they shouldn't have put up the the 2021 Astro schedule Do we have that kind of ability to predict where they're going to land? Well, that's what the Weekly World News said. It seems like a bit of overconfidence if you ask me. So you're saying if you were to predict where an asteroid would land, you'd want to, like, say the general New York metropolitan area, not just narrowed down to Staten Island. Oh, I mean, yeah, at least.

How about the state of New York? Or how about the Eastern Time Zone? Somewhere in the United States. So we can get 50 million people winging out about a potential asteroid landing. I guess that's why you say that. Yeah, 713-212-5-790. Ronnie and is that Banbury? I don't even know where that is.

Hi, Ronnie. Well, Matt, Matt, it's a small town. We've got one four-way stop. Where is it? mile out of that town. It's in between Alvin and Angleton. Banbury, huh? Okay. Yes, sir, a little two-a school. Nice. And you grew up there or you just having to live there now?

No, sir, I'm doing time here. No, I'm not from Danbury, but it is a nice place to live. You're doing time like you're in prison, are you? No, sir. Life is a prison. Matt, you know that. It depends how you look at it. This is true. But anyway, what I'm calling about, the young man who called in earlier talking about Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson, and let me preface my statement by this, I'm a big, big Pete Rose fan, always have been. Love watching he play, loved his competitive spirit, everything he did on the field. Hey, I kept telling my kids, this is the way that you play the game.

This is it. There's a difference, though. Shoel's Joe Jackson took money to throw games. Pete Rose bet on baseball. The action of the 1919 White Sox is what led to Judge Mountain Landis getting appointed as the commissioner to clean up the game because baseball at that time could not, and I was not alive either at this time, could not afford to believe that the games were not on the up and up. Because people bet on everything. Matt, I live in the country.

You can find people that two birds will fly on a wire and guys will bet which one's going to fly out first. It's just what people do. I understand it. But let me ask you this, Ronnie, because I, you know what? I can buy a lot of your argument. The number one thing that bothers me about when they try to justify what Pete did as compared to what Joe did is, if Pete's betting on baseball and he's

betting on his team to win, right? That's cool, right? You'd appreciate that he loves his team that much, correct? Negative. Negative. Because, Matt, Matt, you go to Vegas. You understand. At the end of the day, I tell people this.

It's not what you're willing to win. It's what you're willing to lose. But also, if my mama's in a foot race and I love my mama, if I think she's coming in second, who you think I'm back known? Well, my point is this. If Pete Rose six days in a week, the Reds played six days in a week, and he bet on the Reds to win four times in that six times, in those six, then the flag and the warning sign's going to go up on the two days that he doesn't, correct?

That is, that's where I'm at. He, to me, and I'm back to, I'm a P. Rose fan. But at the end of the day, just because he says, yeah, I bet on baseball, but I bet on my team to win, wait a minute, I'm back to the thing, the analogy with my mama. If I believe my mama's going to lose, I'm a bet against me. It's what gamblers do. That's why they're called gamblers. Yep.

And I think on the two days... Yes, sir. This is the problem. Go ahead. You finish up, please. This is the problem with what Rose did. And I'm back to... I think when he dies, they'll put him in the Hall of Fame.

They will not give him that honor while he's alive. And I'm back, too. I'm a Rose fan. I think that's due diligence. What he did was wrong. But as you stated, Pete Rose is a... Not a nice person. Never been around him.

I've only been around him one time. Didn't meet him. and just got to sign an autograph, shake a hand, kind of like yourself. So I'm not a judge of his character. But you know what? Guys that have that much success by nature, they're competitive spirits, their juices, they're generally not nice people. They're jackasses, and that's what drives them to be great.

Yeah, but you know what, if you are looking for him. Thank you for the fog. I've got to run on that note. If you're looking for forgiveness, because the court of public opinion is strong, you know what don't be an a-hole competitive fiery as a player is one thing when you are looking for america to forgive you and for you to get reinstated into baseball and to hopefully get enough votes for the media to get you in the hall of fame show some remorse don't be defiant because he spent 20 years after being banished from baseball being defiant and I think it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way.

If he would have come out clean and said, yep, I screwed up, I goofed, I'm sorry, what can I do Major League Baseball to get back in your good graces? He'd be in the Hall of Fame now. But all he's done, basically, is he's taken every bit of that time, and instead of trying to work on and clean up his image, he did autograph shows and made money and turned people away, and was not remorseful in interviews,

and came across as an unloving, unsympathetic character. And that's why he's sitting outside looking in at the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1257 on the Matt Thomas show. One hour of the books, two more to go. It has been a good conversation. I love the little bit of change. And if Pete Rose is the topic of conversation that's going to go on, I'm okay with that. J.J. Watts says a few things about the future football.

Plus, you golfers out there, I'm going to steal a bit from Barstool. There is a little fun contest they're having with their people that they follow on Twitter and they follow them about, can you make a put for some dough? I'll tell you about that too. Second hour, Matt Thomas Show next on Sports Talk 790. Is the Matt Thomas Show. 102 on Sports Talk 790.

Matt Thomas Show. The Rockets are on their way to Orlando for the bubble. and they will be in quarantine for a couple days. They are scheduled to practice for the first time on Saturday. I have not heard if anybody didn't get to go or coach didn't able to go. I've heard nothing. So I'm assuming that no news is good news on that as the Rockets and their 35-person traveling group can go to Orlando get themselves acclimated to life in the bubble. by the way did you see

and I got to pull this up here real quick by way if you'd like to join us 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 Astros by the way inter-squad game going to happen in about 45 minutes if there's ending spectacular one way the other we'll let you know what happens on that the NBA

is really pulling out all the stops and God I wish I had the story in front of me I'll give me a couple minutes but the perks of the NBA bubble life is really, really, really, really good. Now, granted, you won't be able to have sex for a while, but that's, you know, unfortunately, there's quite a few of us that problem.

And you cannot leave the bubble, or you're going to have to face multiple tests and quarantining and whatnot, but you're going there to win a championship. You're going there to do something. But the NBA bubble perks are getting better and better, better. One of the things I saw was that starting next week

that all the NBA teams can order food from Mastros, saltgrass, Mortons, Joe's Crabshack, all these restaurants that ironically are owned by Tillman Fratina. It worked out well for him. So he's going to make a little bit of cash, you know, getting those guys to have food delivered to their rooms that they so choose. Now, before everybody goes,

oh, look at Tillman Fratina making the big bucks. on on the bubble guess who is making the biggest bucks of them all Walt Disney World is and Walt Disney World is owned by ESPN or ESPN's owned by Walt Disney and vice versa so you know what if you can make some side deals with your business partners you might as well do it so I just thought it was funny that one of the perks they're going to have is the ability to order foods they don't have the Delta Airlines rack food that a lot of people are getting. Also, they're opening up golf courses for them,

bowling alleys, barbershops, parks. So while again it's going to be a little bit weird for them, especially those that are going to be around the NBA for a long time, I think they're going to be okay. I think these players will be able to adapt. Just the most important thing is it just hopefully none of them get the rona while they're down there because that's just really going to put them behind the eight ball and, you know, ultimately affect a lot of teams,

what teams are going to do, and maybe they don't hope that, you know, can finish out their seat. So, yeah, and I guess I want to run through some of the ones. I've, I had the story somewhere. I've got to look for it again. But point being is that the NBA, all things considered,

could be a lot worse for them than what they're experiencing or will be in the next a handful of weeks. And, of course, all the Rockets games, all the Astros games, right here either on Sports Talk 790 or our sister station, a news radio 740, KTR. age. 105 is the time here.

Let's go to Jeff and Tampa open up the second hour of the show. Jeffrey, what's going on? Not too much, Matt. How are you? I'm okay. Thank you. That's great.

You know, before, there's been about a month since I called, and you said Tampa's like, you know, your number one market. I'm not going to have to. Tampa. Oh, here we go. Okay, so Pete Rose story.

So, daughter and son-in-law now went through culinary school up in High Park, Coney Institute of America. So when they got married, we all travel up there. Go to Cooperstown. Here's the Hall of Fame.

And I talked to some old owner of a bar. I said, how long do I need for the Hall of Fame? I'm here for like six days. He goes, you need two days. Got to have two days. Okay. Talk to wife. I go, got to go to a ball or a hallpane. I hate baseball. We're going. We walk in, we're looking at all the

plaques and everything. And, And bam, Johnny Bench is there. She goes, is he famous? I go, yeah, he is. Went over, shipped his hand. How you doing? I love the career. I'm from Indiana, da-da-da.

All I saw was Unicubs. Move on. I go, okay, now we've got to take the tour. Walk down the steps and Carl Yostrinsky's there. I went, okay, she goes, who's that? I go, Baltimore or Boston, da-da-da-da. I go, I wasn't a big fan. So that's cool.

I go. Okay, well, we got to go. We're going to come back tomorrow. go back in the next day. And it was like right before the induction ceremony. So I see Jill Morgan. So again, a little touch of fame, got a picture, handshake, move on. And the day after the wedding, we are ready to leave.

I said, we've got to go to the Hall of Fame one more time. So we're walking through the records area. And now Pete Rose's records are all through the Hall of Fame. He's not inducted, but all of his records are on all. the like hits or at-bats or games played or steals whatever. The records are noted. So then she says something about P. Rose. I said, well, you know, I try to tell her story because we've seen all the movies.

And she goes, oh, he's, as you phrase it, an a-ho. I go, like you knowing. Well, she's in a medical supply field. So the Reds used to train in Florida and Sarasota. But before they moved, her company sent down there, and they had things that they were for rehabilitation and everything. She was giving them, showing how they work. And they came to Pete Rose, who was not playing, obviously. He came through and he goes, that stuff doesn't work.

You know what works? A little bit of some oil and everything. And just keep hustling. That's what I did. And he walked away, and my wife goes, dang. her exact words like you said, what an a-hole. He had nothing good to say. Yeah, I know, unfortunately, yeah, he's never really become a person to root for.

You know, you root it for the player because he is an athlete. I mean, if you were any, look, he has a name Charlie Hustle for a reason. If you were to put together the list of the all-time hustle athletes in the world, He's in the top three. Never quit on anything. Sprint into first base. Ran out every ground ball, took the extra base when he could.

He was just everything you'd want in a baseball player. But it doesn't mean you're a good human being. And that's unfortunate what Pete's gone through. Thank you, Jeff, for the phone call. I appreciate the story. How about Jeff's wife? You're not even being a baseball fan and realizing the guy's a pud. It's too bad, too.

Because I was, I mean, he was, he was a guy grew up watching. Y'all, and this is going to probably age me a little bit. There was a show called The Baseball Bunch. Johnny Bench used to host the show. It was him, and the San Diego Chicken was on the show, and Tommy Loussortar was on the show, and a bunch of little Rugrats.

And every week on the Baseball bunch, they would have the baseball instruction, and they would play a game, and they'd show some videos, and then have famous people on it. and Pete Rose would go on that show once in a while. And I was like, man, this Saturday morning show that I watch called the Baseball Bunch with Johnny Bench as the host, has Pete Rose on the show with it. I mean, how cool is that? Come full circle, he finishes, he becomes an all-time hit king, and then he becomes the player manager for the Reds.

And the Astros and Reds were pretty good rivals for a few years in the mid-1980s when they were both part of the National League West. and that's why I really started to hate him because his reds were trying to beat my Astros and then all of a sudden all the stock talk about him betting on games and the betting slips and the leftover stuff and then the Defiance and then the Bargeiomani

and the Faye Vincent and all I mean it just spiraled out of control it is really at the end of the day one of the great tragedies in sports and no matter what he tries to tell you about how bad he or how much he doesn't care about being in baseball Hall of Fame because he's making all the money and signing all the autographs and doing all that, when he is on his deathbed, whenever that may be, he will be thinking about all the mistakes he's made. He tried to even come correct like 15 years ago and he wrote the book, but he couldn't even do that because he was like, you know what, I'll tell you my story about why I should have not bet on baseball.

as long as you buy my book. He's just not genuine. That's it. Money, greed, power, the thrill of victory became too much for him. And here's the worst part of it all. He had probably nobody in his life that would say, hey, cut that out.

And if he did, he certainly didn't take their advice. I don't think he's got a great relationship with a lot of his ex-player. I don't think him and Johnny Bench particularly get along. I could be wrong, but I don't remember them ever having a bunch of kumbaya Red's ceremonies to, you know, bring back old championship teams. Oh, well. But, man, it is, it's, again, if you were to think of the great tragedies in sports

in terms of missed opportunities, Pete's right out there on the top of the list. 112 of the list. 112. 712-790. 7-13-212-790 if you'd like to get in. on Twitter, you're welcome to join us at SportsMT. Headlines the day include J.J. Watt speaking out about the return of football. We'll let you hear that coming back.

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212.790. J.J. Watt did a video thing for a energy drink. They don't get the plug because they don't pay for it. But JJ was asked about the concerns if players cannot ramp up normally for the start of this upcoming. season. Iowa, Brendan, do your best gym from a player's standpoint, besides the obvious health concerns of COVID itself, but the injury rate in figuring out where guys' bodies have been,

have they been running at full speed, have they been cutting, have they been making those high impact, you know, moves that you have to make to play the game of football, which is where a lot of those injuries come from. I mean, you look back to 2011 in some of those industries, hamstring pulls, Achilles tears. Those are injuries that happen because you haven't been able to do what you need to do at that highest level. And so this year with the circumstances we're at, we just want to make sure guys aren't put in a compromised situation purely because we want to start on the set date.

JJ, on the chance to watch and see how other sports like soccer, basketball, and baseball are handling their business. You know, I think that's kind of one thing that we're all looking at the NBA and the MLB to see how it goes for them. I mean, we have an opportunity where we don't start for a little while after they do. So we've got an opportunity to learn. And I think obviously we should be taking that opportunity to look and see what works for them, what doesn't work for them. Do guys follow along with every set of the protocols? Do the teams follow along with every set of protocol? It's going to be very interesting to see. And for us, obviously, being in our own cities, there is no matter how you slice it, no matter how hard you try to make it as safe as possible, there is going to be some level of trust factor that's going to have to come into play where you have to trust that guys are going to be doing the right thing on their free time. And that's, I don't think that there's, I think it's very unrealistic to think that it's 100% safe. I don't think that's a realistic thing to think. It has to come down to how safe can you possibly hit it and are you comfortable taking that risk?

And that's where you have to have that option where if you're not comfortable or if you're in a compromise situation, you have to be able to have that option to not be there. And that sounds reasonable, right? I mean, what he's saying is not out of the ordinary. he's not naive to believe that not every single NFL player once I start practicing and getting ready for the season and playing is going to be in a spot where they're not going to get the virus it's just happening everybody in every culture and every age group and every demographic and every place of business is getting it unfortunately so if you opt

out JJ's like I won't judge you I don't I really don't I think that every guy's situation is different you know I know some like there could be a guy who has a a child with asthma and he really just doesn't want to bring it back home or you have a pregnant wife. And I think that the one thing that I would say to that is there shouldn't be a stigma if you do choose to op-out. If there is a legitimate reason for you to be opting out and you don't feel comfortable, whether it's for yourself, whether it's for your family, I don't personally think there should be a stigma with that because that's, you're making the best decision for yourself and for your family. And if we ever get to the point we're shaming people for dropping out of a sport

because they want to protect the health of their family. Then we're in a tough spot. All right. Lastly, he mentioned this. We mentioned this early in the show, but it worth it repeating, especially when it comes from JJ's mouth. There's one thing that he will not be wearing

if he's playing football this season. My second year in the league, I thought it would be cool. I put a visor on my house. I was like, it looks so cool. I want to put a visor on. I had it on for about three periods of practice, and I said, take this sucker off.

I'm going to die out here. I literally, just the face one. So now you're going to put something around my mouth. You can keep that. If that comes into play, I don't think you're going to see me out there on the field. All right, there you have it. Speaking of the field, Brendan, do you see the NFL is not allowing post-game bonding?

Yeah, I saw that. Meaning this. You know how you beat each other up for three hours, and then you shake each other's hand, you high five, you hug it out. Hey, it's been a long time. Hope you're doing well. See you in the playoffs.

See in a few weeks. The NFL is going to adhere to strict social distancing of six feet for players and teams. So there'll be no meeting in the mind to the 50-yard line. When the games are over, you'll be going to your locker room. You will not be doing any of the how-you-doings. And on top of that, you will not be able to exchange jerseys. that will be strictly forbidden. So let's get this straight, Brendan.

You are going to beat each other up for three hours. You're going to tackle. You're going to cover. You're going to sack. You're going to catch. You're going to hit, push for three hours and 15 minutes on a Sunday. But when the final whistle is blown and the game is over, that's when the social distancing order gets put into place.

I mean, it's, it's, it's not that surprising none of the NFL, though, is it? Because it's basically outwardly saying, hey, nothing's more important than keeping you healthy. But obviously, we understand that there's going to be guys getting sick literally while they're playing. My thought on that is, honestly, would be the reason why they're doing that is just so they can get the people off the field as fast as possible. I don't think they're being that callous and saying, yeah, we know that social dissing that, you know, saying hi to each other after playing each other in a three-hour football game is going to be less or more dangerous on what you just did for three hours.

They just want to feel cleared as fast as possible. I'm not going to kill them for it. It just feels like it's exclusively to me a PR move to show that they care. But in reality, if they really care, they wouldn't be. be playing the games to begin with, right? Right, and that's why I'm saying, like, I'm not going to kill them for it, but I'm also not giving them any credit. Like, to me, it's pretty, I'm also curious to see how all of these leagues do enforcing this.

Because I imagine the guys who are willing to play are going to say, this is stupid. I want to trade jerseys. Well, I mean, here's the bigger question. How many, what are you going to do in terms of policing that? Are they going to hire 10 security people to start with them? risking away players when they meet. I mean, well,

your best bet's suspending guys, but that seems dramatic, doesn't it? Yeah, it does. It does for sure. I just, I think it's very funny,

uh, that they're going, they made it a point to say, you know what, game over, you beat each other up, you're sweating like a mutta. And oh,

by the way, uh, don't exchange jerseys. Meanwhile, every NFL player is like, uh, you're high. We're going to do it anyway.

Well, you know how normally in any sport as the clock is ticking out a lot of times guys aren't actually out there playing. Can they get their high fives and their jersey exchanges in while the clock is still ticking? I don't know. That's a great question. You got 35 seconds because you don't need to take one last kneel down. You just hurry up and get the jerseys traded while you're still on the field. That's, uh, I had not thought about that way. It's pretty funny, actually. That's really funny. Yeah. At the two minute warning, if it's a close game, hold a second. I know I've got to make this pass, but hey, Deshawn, as soon as the games are a runover,

Hand me the jersey. I'll hand you mine and we'll get out of there as fast as possible. Coach is calling unnecessary timeouts to help their players, you know, get to do that kind of stuff. How about the Gatorade's splashes? Are they going to be able to still do that? I mean, I don't think they're expecting you to distance yourself from your teammates, are they? I think they want you off the field as fast as humanly possible. There's really no other way to say it.

If the goal is to keep you from your teammates, I'm really curious to see what sidelines look like. the sidelines they're going to be spread out you know how usually you stay within the 20s I bet there'll be players all around the field end zones say that again how about the end zones

yeah I think they'll be some there too they're going to want to separate the players by as many feet as humanly possible now will the entire end zone be in the way be used I don't know but I guarantee you the entire entire 100-yard football field will be used in order to make sure that the players are separated. My position groups, every other player, maybe you put a quarterback on the other end of the field that's not playing.

They're going to make sure that anybody that puts a uniform on that day will be able to go. All right, 127 on Sports Talk 790. It is the Matt Thomas show. We take you to 3 o'clock today. 713-212-5-790. 713-212-5-790 and on Twitter at SportsMT. If you're a golfer, Barstool Sports is presenting you a challenge, and I want to see what your answers are to this question.

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It's live and local. It's uncut and unbiased. It's Sports Talk 790. The best coverage of your teams continues. 132, halfway home on a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show, Sports Talk 790. All right. Barstall Sports put out a tweet earlier today that I think is interesting. If you're a golfer, I want you to answer this question for me.

You can do it one or two ways. On Twitter at SportsMT or you can call me and let me know it. 713-212-5-790. The question is this. You get one put to win money. The longer the putt, the more money you would be able to win. If you were to make, this is you get one putt and one punt only according to barstool. three foot put

$50,000 $5 foot put $100,000 $10 foot put $250,000 $20 foot put $1 million and you get one shot

at a 50 foot putt it's the one if you chose if you made it you'd win $3 million of those five what are you going with three foot putt for 50 that that's that's about a gimme right I mean there's nothing automatic in life but if you've been playing golf for any length of time the chances of you missing a three foot putt are very minimal five foot put for 100 10 for 250 20 for a million 50 feet for five million dollars which

One would you do? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. I feel pretty good from five feet. Do you? I don't think the difference for me would be that different from three to five feet. I think I could do five feet. I wouldn't touch anything longer than that.

I have made 50 footers in my life. I have made 20 footers in my life. I've actually made quite a few 10-footers in my life. but I think 10 feet for $250,000 would scare the bejes on me because I would think, oh, I got this, I got this, I got this. Brendan, I probably would go to the five-footer for $100,000. The thing is, that's still so much money. I think you just go with what you're confident in.

Like, if you don't think you, if you're not sold on five, then just take the $50,000. Because that's still a lot of money. Yeah, it is. But I'm thinking, but just two more little measly feet for $50,000. $1,000? That is the hardest difference to give up for sure. Ooh, baby. I would never try the 50-footer for $3 million.

Because here's what it would be like. Let's say it was you, me, Joe George, maybe Adam, Clanton, and We're all at the puttut, right? We're playing for this money. And I say I'm going for the 50-footer. And everybody's rooting for me. And I miss it. I get zero, right?

Meanwhile, Brendan, you're sitting there going, I'm not a very good golfer. I don't putt very well. I'm going to take that three-footer. You're going to walk away with $50,000 feeling pretty damn good about yourself, right? I do want to say the 50-footer that on the tweet I'm looking at says 5-mill if that makes any difference. Oh, maybe that's right. Or is there any number that they can do?

No, no, no. If you're looking at the bar still, I maybe just wrote it, wrote it down wrong. Yeah, it's 5 mil for the 50-footer. Now that makes me think differently. No, it doesn't. Yeah, I'm still taking the 5. I'm taking 5 feet for $100,000. and if I can't make a five-footer for $100,000 and I don't deserve a penny.

Because three feet is, now, since three-foot's easy because it's just, that's guaranteed money. That's basically someone literally handing you a check for $50,000. If you miss the five-footer, I feel like you can forgive yourself. If you go for the three-footer and you still miss it, I feel like it's hard to get over that. Yeah, if you miss a three-footer and there's anybody around you, which it would be, obviously, you couldn't live that down because here's what you here's what you've done

you've already spent that money before you even took the putt, right? It's easy to spend $50,000 especially when you think it's guaranteed because what you're thinking is I can make this little piddly putt I can pay off my house or I can get my new car

or I can take care of credit card problems you know what I'm saying? It's so, that would be the easiest one. The five footers Like, that takes a little skill. I'd be able to pay off my bills and put some money and savings for a rainy day. Yeah, I don't think I have to talk myself into this. I go the five-footer.

I concentrate. I say a small prayer. I make that putt, and I got $100,000 to my name. Nice and comfortable. Not too greedy, but yet still a makeable putt. All right, what y'all going to do if given the opportunity? 713-21. One, two, five, seven, ninety.

JJ, which putt you taking? Ten footer, no question. Ten feet for two-fifty. Yeah, I mean, kind of like you said, if you take a three-footer and you miss it, you'd feel awful about it. Five-footers, I mean, not saying a hundred grand isn't anything, but have a little risk in your life, make a big number. Ten-footer. But do you want the risk? If I give it, think about this first thing, JJ.

I'm giving you, you play golf, right? a little bit? Yeah. Five feet. You should be able to make a five-foot put no matter what level of competition you are in golf, right? You should be able to, yes.

But many of us don't from time to time. I know. Especially if you had a couple of beers. That's a free $100,000. Think about it. Yeah, but then you've got to pay tax. Oh, don't worry about the tax.

But 10-footers aren't gimmies. No, they're not. But I feel like I can roll it 10 footer better than rolling a five footer because the nerves in the five foot with a 10 footer at least you're getting a good a good rap at it you're putting a pace on it all I want you to promise me is this j jay if i make my five footer and you miss your 10 you don't ask me any money i'll buy you some drinks but i'll pay as far as our relationship deal deal buddy thanks for the phone call all right i want to see how adventures of you guys are so so far one of our listeners says

are going 10 foot for 250. Again, it's 20 feet for a million and 50 feet for 5 million. Boy, 50 footer for $5 million could certainly do a lot of things. But I would just close my eyes and say a small prayer. For me, I want some money out of this, especially if someone's willing to pay me to make a give me put. Jimmy and Tom Ball at 139 on 790. Hi, Jimmy.

Hey, guys. I'm putting 50 grand in the bank and just calling it a date. You're going with a three-foot. Yes, sir. No, no, no, I don't need that much kind of risk and kicking myself for the rest of my life for missing out on 50 grand. You have no yips in your game. Is that what you're trying to tell me? Yeah, I might play put-putt at the beach once every five years. That's about it. Dang, that's it? I did.

Okay. Yeah, you ever got to Gabbison and playing that putt putt on Seawall Boulevard? No, we got family in Florida. We end up at Panama City Beach now and then maybe around Christmas time. We'll go play a little bit of put-put. Panama City is like Put-putt-Hull-of-Fame. Yes, it is. Yes, it is. In Panama City, for those of you don't know, you can go from a put-put to a waffle house,

back to a put-putt to a waffle house, one right after the other for about a 15-mile stretch. Am I lying? Exactly. And a few go-car driving places next day. Oh, go-car is a jam, too. Good call on that. Thank you, Jimmy, for the phone call. He's won.

So he's going with the automatic. Because let me tell you something, gang, $50,000. Not bad. Walk up there. Take your little orange ball. Get that little cheap-ass putter they have at the puttput. Knock it down. Walk out with $50,000.

I like it. Man, we're all over the country today. We had a call from Tampa. Now we're going to Arizona now. Eric on 790 at 141. Eric, what's going on? Hey, man, I'm doing all right. Yeah.

I'm going to have to agree with JJ there. I mean, I've been playing golf for over 20 years, so I'm going to take that 10-footer and get myself a quarter of a million. So easy. So easy. So easy. Shout out to High Meadow. Shout out to High Meadow.

That's for sure on that one. Thank you, Eric, for the phone call. Appreciate you listening. All right, so far, our unofficial, you know what I'll do? I'll put a poll question up, and we'll see if we get some different results. Which one are you taking? Problem is, Brendan, you can only do four options on the Twitter poll. So I'm going to probably get rid of the 50-footer for a.

million, right? Nobody's taking that. I bet you we don't have a single person listening who's taking a 50-footer. How about this? If you're a damn good golfer, let's say you get a handicap about, say, 15 or less, okay? 20-footer for a million sounds pretty damn good, correct? I can see the appeal to 20-foot put.

I think I am capable of hitting a 20-foot put. I don't expect it, but I'm capable. I'm never hitting a 50-foot put. It's just never going to happen. But you know how much F-U money you would have for everybody in your entire world? Zero, because I wouldn't make it.

You know what I like about you? You know your limitations. That's true. I'm telling you, if I ever win the lottery, have I told you about my side business on which I'm going to start up? No, you seem like you got a lot of ideas for side businesses and inventions and stuff like that, but I'm not sure I know what the one is. Well, you know what I'll do when we come back?

I'm going to tell you about what it is. And I think I mentioned the audience a couple times over the years, but I really, really want to get this started. I'll explain what it is. It's my new company that I'm going to start. It's not remote for U.Dibs. It's already a thriving company. This is a company that I'm going to start up when I hit the lottery,

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where you can experience the new Buick. Cougars coach Kelvin Sapson here. You're listening to the Matt Thomas Show on Sports Talk 790. All right, Brenda. You're new to the Sports Talk 790, Matt Thomas Show family. And again, I've mentioned this to you before on the audience, I apologize, but we're going to get Brendan integrated in the show.

So when I hit the lottery, there's going to be a variety of things that's going to happen. First and foremost, I'm going to take all of my friends that I hold near and dear to me. We're going to charter a plan and we're going to go to Vegas for three or four days. I'll take care of the hotel, airfare. You've got to bring your own gambling money, but I'll feed you. It's going to be great. Three or four days, just to celebrate my multi-meg million jackpot. Then I'm going to come back.

to work, do the show, do the rockets, but probably take more vacation time. And then I'm going to start up a side business, Brendan. And I'm going to see if you've ever been in this position before in your life. Have you ever worked with someone, hopefully not here, but at a former radio place or a former place you've worked, that you just despise the person, but you didn't have the stones to tell them that? Man, you know, I don't, I don't to hate very many people, but going way back to, like, college,

jobs, I can say yes. Yeah. So I'm here for you that, for that, okay? The name of my company is 1-800, go-f yourself. Brandon, you're the customer, right? And I'm the owner of 1-800-go-f yourself. You call me and say, hi, I'm Brendan, and there is this guy that I used to work with when I was in college that treated me like scum.

And I hated him, and I want to tell him to go F himself. Since Brendan, you don't have the stones to do that, I'll do it for you. I'll call that person. I'll ask for that person's by name. And I'll say, excuse me, Don. Is this Don? Yeah, Don. My name is Matt Thomas, and I'm calling on behalf of someone that used to work with you.

And that person wants you to go F yourself. Now, is that all I get? Or can I, like, give you details? Is that an extra cost? You do whatever you want. You're paying for it. I mean, so here's what Don's going to do. Don's going to be very mad.

He's going to be like, who is this? and I'm going to say my name is Matt Thomas and on behalf of somebody used to work with they want you to go F yourself now the key would be to do it with somebody you currently work for but still don't have the stones in telling them that because what then's going to happen is

that guy is going to be so paranoid that everybody in the office that currently works with that person somebody or some persons spent money with 1-800 go F yourself to take the time and the money for me

to tell that employee, that boss, or that co-worker, what a horrible human being is. And he's going to hopefully change his ways or her ways, right? Because that can't be a pleasant way to live life, that somebody would spend $25, $25, $75,000,

depending on what I'm charging on a particular day, for me to call that person and tell them. And they're like, I want to know who told. That's a guarantee. We hear at 1-800 go up yourself, keep everything 100% confidential. Matt, if you got that call, wouldn't at least a party you think, like, it was comical, somebody was willing to spend money for that and just not talk to you? But it feels better, doesn't it?

I mean, it would be both. Like, there's a party that's like, man, I can't believe I, like, upset somebody so much that they need to do this. But then there's another part of me that's like, well, clearly they're the problem. I'm just telling you there are a lot of people in the world that have coworkers. they just don't have the stone to tell them how they really feel. Now, be honest, did you come up with this idea because of one of those co-workers? No, which is something I was actually in Hawaii many years ago, really drunk, and we were talking about startup companies, and I thought, you know what, I can use my voice,

and I think I can be composed enough on the phone to start up my own doll-up service. Now, by the way, we do have a new component in 2020. It would be 1-800-go-f-yourself.com where I can send an email of that person, too. You know, this is Matt at 1-800-go-eff-yourself. Hey, Don, my name is Matt Thomas, and somebody you work with hates you, despises you and thinks your crap. They want you to go-eff yourself. Sincerely, Matt Thomas, president of 1-800-go-F-yourself. Do I get my money back if that goes to their spam folder?

No, I guarantee red receipts. You don't like this idea. This is a deal, this is a something I will be doing when I'm, like, when my play-by-play career is over with and my talk show life is over, like I'm 85 years old eating food out of a blender, I'll be doing this. I see some value in the phone calls, especially like obviously it's different state to state. But if you could record certain phone calls and use those as, you know, as promo for yourself to show how they go. Oh, yeah. I can do a commercial on behalf of myself. Hi, this is Matt Thomas.

You want to hear another satisfied customer of 1-800 go after yourself? Listen to this. Now the rules are, can I record the conversation and them not know that they're being recorded? That's a state-to-state thing. I don't know what the answer is here. But I'm imagining this isn't just a, you're not just doing this in Houston. This is a- Oh, this is national for sure. So I'm sure you could find some material that you'd legally be allowed to use.

Because it actually would be easier if it was somebody I didn't know. like somebody called me from Kalamazoo, Michigan, or say, I don't know, Des Moines, Iowa. Because I can hold it together. I'm just telling you, if you all want to invest in this, I'm thinking about taking the company public. One remote for you, dot biz is already doing great. If you don't think, Brenny, you know what that is. That's where my company goes to your restaurant and changes all the channels for you, so you can put all the sporting events on.

Because if you go to restaurants, most of them have no idea what channels the games are on. I just come to your restaurant or your bar and program all your TVs before the day starts up. So there's no more confusion. You ever go to like to a Chili's and you say, hey, can you put the Astros game on? And the waitress has no idea what the channel it's on. Remote for you.biz comes to there and programs it automatically so they can win on the tables. I can focus on the televisions. You're not buying this, sorry.

You know, I'm not kidding. I can see the value to the FU calls. I don't think anyone's calling you to come change their TV Well, they should because the company is exploding I think that works a lot better You got to market yourself to like People who are so old, they don't know how to work there on TVs Here are the people I'm market to

Dennis office Applebee's Chili's You know, any place that has a single television It's not known as a sports bar Like that great Italian restaurant that you go to all the time But you know there's a game on and they can't find it,

Remote for you. Biz. I'd be marketing to great grandparents. And that too. All right, there it is. So there's my get rich quick scheme number two. Remote for you. dot biz is already being publicly traded on the NASDAQ. 1-800-go-outherself is something I'm looking for to do,

but that's only if I win the lottery. Because at some point, someone's going to find me and then hunt me down like a rabid wolf. We don't want that. Final hour of the Matt Thomas show starts in a matter of moment. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-7-90 the athletic directors from schools across the country have been once again polled about the future college football the latest results on that and your phone calls if you won't invest in 180-100 go-hout yourself i'd love to have you as a

business partner 713-212 5 790 157 on sports talk 790 is the Matt Thomas Show 201 on Sports Talk 790. Final hour. Matt Thomas Show, Sports 790. We really appreciate y'all spending some time with us today. We've been an interesting show. We've got putts being made.

We have JJ Watt worried about the practice schedules. We have what else? We had Pete Rose talk on the first hour. We have non-Florida stories in a half an hour. Brendan, are you prepared for a non-flora story in 30 minutes? Yes, I am. And where is it coming from today? Oh, shoot.

Duluth, Minnesota. Here's the thing. I've had some great listeners send me stories, and I thought I had a great one today, but it was from a fake news site. I actually, not this one, but I looked at another one that I was like, this can't be real, can it? Well, so I do want to give a shout out to the guy, Eric, who's listening. the show. He sent me a Facebook message. And the message was Troy, Missouri pool closed after incident. So this is not a real story, so I'm going to have to try to keep this as PG as possible

here. But I read it, I'm like, this is amazing. I'm going to do this at 2.30 today. Then come to find out it really wasn't a real story. The Troy swimming pool was evacuated and closed abruptly midday today. after an intoxicated couple fouled the water. According to Sergeant Blank Decent, the pool was packed when the two strip naked and entered. He yelled Cleveland Steamer, and she just reclined on the steps as they do this frequently.

And I can't read any more of it. But I was like, this is such an incredible story. And then it wasn't true. So if y'all send me none, Florida stories, please send them to me but make sure they're legit non-flora stories because you had me excited for about 10 minutes. Do you think he knew it wasn't real?

No, because it sounded legit. Until the name of the sergeant just didn't make any sense. And thus, I couldn't read it. So the PG, I try to get as PG as possible on that. All right. Oh, I want to talk about the athletic director's first second.

So there are still a lot of apprehension in the air about whether or not there's going to be a college football season. Stadium is a website that I think does some low-level Division I games. Brett McMurphy writes for them. Oh, I think Shams is a stadium guy too. I think he's their NBA reporter. They went and talked to athletic directors. I think they got the hold of three-fourths of them that played Division I sports. back from Utep to Alabama to UCLA to Ball State, any combination of them.

And they were asked a variety of scenarios about the return of most likely for college football. I'm going to give you what the options were, and then I'll give you the percentages after that, and then you guys can comment if you want to or say nothing at all. They were given six options. Season starts is scheduled. conference games only with a delayed fall start a full game schedule with a delayed fall start conference only starting in the spring

a 12 game schedule that starts in the spring or no college football at all in 2020 the number one response and I don't know if you if this is optimistic or pessimistic Again, it's all on the interpretation of what you think. 27% of the football FBS ADs believe, 27% believe the season will start as schedule. 25% believe it'll be conference only with a delayed fall start, meaning October, November, and you forget the non-conference games,

you just play your conference slate. Conference-only games starting in spring, 11%. 12 games schedule starting in spring 20%, 7% believe no college football at all. So let me give these to you again, and then you can chew on them. 27% of FBS ADs, that's anybody that plays Division I sports. 27% say you're going right on time. 25% say conference-only delayed fall start.

20% say 12 games schedule starting in the spring. 11% say conference only starting in the spring and a 12 game schedule with a delayed fall start is 10%. Last one, 7% of the ADs say no football at all in 2020. Now, I don't know, Brendan, how much you're paying attention to test results. You see schools starting to rev up ever so slightly. You see Ohio State having to shut their systems down their non-mandatory workouts because of an outbreak. Meanwhile, Notre Dame is testing like a hundred-something athlete a day, and they're coming up with zero cases.

And that's where the problem is, is that you may have some schools that are like, let's go. Let's make this happen. Let's play. Because they're testing, and they're getting less than 1% positive rate. Meanwhile, you have other schools that are, like, for instance, Clemson, that has got 40 players at some point. had the COVID and it's part of their hunter-band program. I think partially for that reason, the conference-only schedule makes so much sense. And we talked about it earlier on in the trenches today, too.

The other thing is if you go to conference schedule or just conference, you can complete the season. I think the Big Ten was supposedly talking about 10 games in 14 weeks. So now you have four by weeks and it gives you a little more flexibility should you have a breakout. Like move the schedule around a little bit. Right. I actually think that's a brilliant idea. I think every conference should be looking to go that route

because it seems like a breakout is going to be inevitable. And if you can't prepare for that, I just don't know how you're going to be able to play your sport. So if I gave you this scenario, regular season starts on time, you eliminate the non-conference games, maybe you push your season back a couple of weeks, and then you move your conference games around with buffers in between.

Would America be okay with a 10-game college football season? I think we'd be thrilled. I think we'd be thrilled, too. I think that would be a hell of a success. All right, let me take a few steps further. Do we have bowl games this year? I think that depends on how... So I actually think that it is going to be a delayed fall.

I think you'll have the Power 5 all try and do their own version of in-conference only. Yeah. I'll say this. I think you have some form of a bull season, but I don't think it'll look anything like your standard bull season. I would think if you have a bowl season, which I'm not sure that's going to happen. Because think about this.

These bowl games require these teams to get to these cities four, five, six days in advance. They want their fans to go to. They want them to spend the money and do that. I just don't think traveling in college athletics is going to be anything close to what it's been in years past. at least for a while. It would be hard for me to grab the Thomas family

if U of H was playing, say, Notre Dame in the Gator Bowl and go spend five or six days in Jacksonville, Florida. Because of we don't know what Jacksonville's going to be like in five or six months. So if you want to just to play the game and get the team there like one or two days ahead of time, play the game and leave, I could see that.

Now that would be obviously not. not nearly the cool of experience of being in a bowl game as it would be if you get to do the eating contest and you get to go on the beach and you get to do the rodeo thing like people that Texas Bowl do. But if you're going to preserve the bowl world, my guess is it's going to be at a much smaller amount. Plus, there's going to be a lot of bowl games too that just don't make any money. And maybe just don't think. I mean, how many people would travel to Birmingham? First of all, would travel to Birmingham, Alabama in December anyway. especially if you're going just for the game.

I think it'll be a small amount. So I will make this semi-small prediction. I think that the conference-only slate of games will make sense. It cuts down on your travel. Still gives the guys a chance to compete. I think there will be a national championship tournament where they'll have a national semifinal and a championship game. But I would be astonished if every bowl game gets played in 2020.

20 slash early 21. Maybe you're heavy hitters, your peach, your fiestas, your roses. But the ones that A&M usually goes to like the Belk Bowl or the what they call it now, the Mayo Bowl, the music cities, if you will. I don't even know if a bowl like the Alamo Bowl would survive because they rely so much on other people from other cities coming in and spending four and five days in San Antonio. I'll ask all college fans. I think it's cool.

if I said right now 10 game conference only season now the big 10 it'd be only nine and maybe you play somebody twice if you if he came down to play a 10 game season would that be good enough for y'all to satisfy your appetite for college football I say 100% for me the answer is yes you give me some really decent bowl games that people care about you give me the college football playoff and you give me a championship game in the conferences that have a championship game and I think we could live with a 10-game season would be preferred

you'd miss out on your Alabama USC you'd miss on some other great non-conference matchups but if you're going to save on travel spread the season out a little bit just in case there's an outbreak on a particular campus but still give us the gist of a real football season I would take it 713-212-5-790

7-1-3-212-5-790 Would a conference-only slate satisfy you? Because in all honesty, if you're an A&M fan, do you really care that they're going to play Texas State ever again? I mean, honestly, are you going to be devastated Aggie fans you can't play Abilene Christian this year?

No. It's all about playing the conference foes and taking your rightful spot as the third or fourth best team in the SEC West. I kid. I'm teasing. You know how I am with college football? We tease each other.

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Saturdays they go 10 to 6. That's West Graham Montrose, the home of Shaw's Jewelry. The most awkward nooner you'll ever be a part of. This is the Matt Thomas Show. All right, we got some breaking news at 217. I'll tell you what, Brandon, I think the Big Ten was listening to us. Nicole Arabeck? She is a senior writer for the athletic.

She is reporting, and she did this nine minutes ago. The Big Ten is expected to announce today that it will go with a conference-only football schedule for this fall. How about that? Will this begin the fall of Domino's? Because it feels like to me everybody has been very, very careful. not to step out there on their own. The Big Ten, if Nicole Arbach is accurate, we'll have no non-conference games and will play a Big Ten-only schedule.

To me, it makes a lot of sense. Now, I'll say this. You know who it does screw, Brendan? It screws those schools that take big paychecks to go play at Michigan, at Penn State, at Ohio State. Oh, I think this is the start of those schools will not be playing this year. If you're not in a Power 5, I don't think you'll play a game this year. I wouldn't go that far.

I would not go that far. I don't think Group of Six schools are going to say, well, we can't collect these paycheck games. We're not going to play, period. But I will say it does, I think does hurt long-term financially. There's those schools. I mean, how much does Eastern Michigan get paid to go get their ass kicked at Michigan State every other year? probably 90,000, 150. I mean, crazy, crazy numbers.

I mean, there are schools in our area. TSU gets paid crazy money. Prairie View. A lot of those historically black colleges and universities, they play those games because it funds their athletic department. How many times have you seen a Florida-A-N-M Miami game? I mean, too many times it count. But it's not just HBCUs.

It's everybody. It's the lower-end, you know, like Abilene Christian plays FCS. They were supposed to play, they're supposed to play, I think, A&M this year. Nothing's been canceled yet, but those schools, they fund their athletic departments off of these payouts. We mentioned a few weeks ago, I mean, teams getting, you know, hundreds and thousands and millions of dollars to go play in front of these 100,000-seats stadiums. so I think it's good for the sport it means I think they're thinking about all steam all you know everything going towards playing but at the same time you're also eliminating those early guaranteed wins and you're also not having to write those

paychecks to those schools to take those losses but at the same time those smaller schools that need those paycheck games probably aren't going to get them most these most these Big Ten schools are in places where the breakouts aren't as significant right now. Don't you think them moving this way only means that every conference is headed this way? Yeah, yeah. Somebody needed to put their toe in the water, and the Big Ten's doing it. That's exactly right. Big Ten is doing it.

Now in Florida stories coming up at the bottom of the hour. Chris and Copperfield on the Matt Thomas show. Chris at 221, what do you got today, friend? How you doing, Matt? Good. Hey, man, great show, as always, man. Thank you. Hey, I want to just talk a little off, something a little off topic.

Please do. Okay. I used to sit on my back patio with my uncle, and he listened to Roy Overson. He loved that, man. And the other day, Van Halen come on, you know, doing the pretty woman song. Yes. and I was like man

David Lee Roth came he couldn't even hold you know Roy's guitar for him I mean it's it's night and day oh yeah first of all I like

Sammy Hagar way more than I like David Lee Ross so you're you're preaching the choir on this I understand and it's just kind of crazy because you know

whenever Roy would perform you know he'd woo the lady man and he had that velvet voice you know and last time I checked David came and growl as good as him I never quite thought of it that way but yeah one more little note about that sure

is last time I checked Roy never had to put socks down his pants to perform does David Lee admit this he was caught yes sir I don't really know how to respond to that Chris to be honest with you except to say I totally believe you and

if you think I'm going to try to compare Roy Orbison to David Lee Roth you're you and I are on the same page there's no comparison I believe that I just thought I'd give you something to think about maybe he could come up with some other bands and destroy the artist before them

oh we could spend days on people destroying covers for sure. Doing that in the future for me, Matt. And have a great day, sir. Thanks, Chris. Appreciate it. That's why this show works on a Thursday. I got the Big Ten playing only conference-load of games,

and my man, Chris calling and worried about how bad David Lee Roth is. I'm not the biggest Van Halen guy in the world, but I do like Sammy Hagar. And, yeah, bad covers. we've done, I think we've done a fantasy five before on best covers. I don't think we've ever done worse covers. I bet we've done both. I think at the end of the day, Ross and I always try to figure out what things we haven't done before

and we wind up one of always doing him because he has a much better memory when it comes with a type of things we've done. Yeah, I don't think David Lee Raw should ever cover our Roy Orbison song. Thank you, Chris. That was good. I like that. 713-212-5-790 7-1-3-212-5-790 the problem is anytime I get involved with music on my show you beetle haters come out of your woodwork and I'm not going to have that

because they are the greatest rock band rock and roll band of all time in and even close and if you want to fight me you can but you're just going to lose because if if you want to say that there are other great bands I get it but when anybody comes on my show or sends me tweets and says the Beatles suck, then your, your, your opinion doesn't count from me at all. If you want to say journey is better, you want to say the Rolling Stones are better, or you want I mean, I can I can buy into a bunch of, well, I like this group more, but you run to the Beatles suck to me right on my show, you know, it's like saying that make a rib sucks.

I can and do make fun of you for, for living in the past. But, I mean, the Beatles don't suck. That's just not a realistic take. Thank you. And when McDonald's gets the McRibbs back, I'll buy you one. How about that? It's been a minute since I've had a McRiv. There's nothing better in life than sitting at home on a nice fall day,

listen to Beatles and eating a McRib sandwich. Nothing, though. Nothing. Well, maybe having a very attractive woman next to you feed you to McRib. But really there's not much. put me on Coronado Island in San Diego, California, on a nice Saturday afternoon with a McRib in my hand, listening to Eleanor Rigby.

That's Americana right there, ladies and gentlemen. 7-13-2-1. I know the McRib jokes are coming. It's not a matter of if, but when? Are you being serious? Do you like the McRib that much? I can't tell you. I don't like the McRib that much.

I love the McRib that much. I mean, like, I enjoy it, but I don't know. anyone else who loves it the way you appear to. Yeah, the Matt Thomas show, all of our listeners, love the McRip. There's something that unifies us, Brendan, on this radio show, and it's the simple love of the McRip. Tangy, delicious, pork patty, pickles, onions, toasted bun, sweet, sassy barbecue saucey, fries, you dip the barbecue sauce and your fries.

Cold Coca-Cola, if you're choosing of that. I'm hungry right now. We talk way too much food on the show. I think we don't talk about food. That's right. 713, 2.1, 2.5, 790. Let's go to John and Galveston at 227. Hi, John.

John, you with me? I'm with you. Can you hear me? Yeah, go ahead. All right. What I'm proposing is, you know, the Big Ten's going on in Big Ten. Well, we just go state of Texas. Let's just go state of Texas. UT plays U of H.

U.S. U.S. as A&M. A&M plays Houston. and we go to TCU, we're making fuss everywhere. We'll have to worry about it getting on planes. So we'll just limit all the games unless you have a college in the state of Texas, and then we do a round-robin and play each other. How about that, Matt? You know, well, the Southwest Conference fan of me loves that, John.

But I also want to see Champions Crown in the conferences. And while I'm not the biggest fan of the Big 12, you'll ever find, if they're going to play college football and you are a part of a league, I want to see a champion crown. And I don't think you get to do that. if you're just going to just say screw the season. I think you have to play the season for something. Now, what you could say is conferences be damned, stay close to home,

and your record and who you play and how well you play against them can help determine whether or not you're good enough to play for a national championship. For instance, if we played a state of Texas League and Texas went 11 and, let's say 9 and 1 in those 10 games, is that 9-1 record for the University of Texas good enough to play for a national championship against an Alabama team who plays Alabama who plays Auburn would play UAB probably would pay

Mississippi Mississippi State you'd play teams within say four or five hours from you here's the problem gang even though it sounds easy to say that no plane rides is helpful bus rides are still going to be germfest too I mean, that's just the reality. If you're taking kids and traveling them from one city to the next over multiple hours,

you're going to have to understand that they're going to be put in close confines on a bus, train, plane, whatever. And they're just as good at getting the COVID as they would be if they were on an airplane. So while I wouldn't necessarily mind the nostalgia of an All-Texis league, I think if you can play, you play your conference foes, you determine a championship, and you crown one. just like hopefully the University of Houston will be crowned American Athletic Conference football champion. 229, non-flority. National Sports Talk.

Hell no. To the no-no. Houston Sports Talk. You got that right. This is Houston Sports Talk 790. Home for your home teams. We got some more phone calls to get to, but first time for a Thursday staple to Matt Thomas show.

It is time for a non-non. Florida story. Mine comes to you from Lakewood, Washington, near Tacoma. Washington State Troopers say that during a high-speed chase near Lakewood on Sunday, they were astonished to see a vehicle that reached 109 miles per hour on Interstate 5. It hit at least two other cars before driving onto a trail for cyclists and pedestrians. When police finally stopped the vehicle with spike strips, they pulled the man over, only to realize that there wasn't a man driving the car. It was a pit bull.

51-year-old man arrested. He told the troopers he had been teaching his dog how to drive. Quoting Heather Axman from the Seattle Police Department. I wish I can make this up. I've been a trooper for almost 12 years and a while I never heard this excuse. I've been in a lot of high-speed chases. I've stopped a lot of cars and I have never gotten an excuse that they were teaching their dog how to drive. Troopers of the pit bull was in the driver's seat while the man steered.

Okay, so the dog actually was, like I didn't know if this was an excuse or like legitimate. The suspect has been charged with reckless endangerment. Head and run, driving under the influence of drugs, and felony alluding. Axman says, the dog, a very sweet girl, was taken to an animal shelter. Pitbull driving 109 in the driver's seat of a car on a busy interstate near Seattle, Washington. That, my friends, is this week's non-flora story. That's how you win a non-flora story. I don't even know how I'm supposed to follow that.

That's an incredible story. So let me ask you this real quick before we go to yours. So the guy is obviously drugged out of his mind. He's got his, I'm assuming his left foot on the accelerator? That's what I'm trying to figure out. Was the dog actually involved in driving at all? No, I think the dog was just in the driver's seat. Just chilling at 109 miles an hour?

Correct. I don't know how you. Everybody that has a dog. If you have a dog, and I'm sure most of the audience does, Just pretend your dog is in the passenger, in the driver's seat, and you're trying to drive a 110 miles an hour on I-45. How is that going to end for you? Yep, and scene. All right, Brandon, what do you got?

All right, naked man rescued from Duluth, Minnesota sewer. The rescue actually happened. This was last week. Wednesday afternoon, the police received a call about a man who'd entered through a manhole, searched for him nowhere to be found. Thursday evening, somebody heard a man underneath the manhole screaming for help. When they pulled him out, he was naked. They have no idea why he was naked or why he was down there.

But he spent over 24 hours in the sewers. So he decided to go for a swim, right? Or something? I can tell you he was found visibly in distress after his time spent in the sewers. But it does say his clothes were found near the manhole, but it doesn't say if it was in the sewers or above ground. How many times in your life have you fallen into a sewer? Zero.

Yeah, me too. Maybe in a video game. But if I was ever to fall into a sewer, I would think I'd have some clothing up. Unless it was just so hot down there that it was just easier just to drop trial. But he didn't fall in. He chose to go in. Oh.

was he arrested that's not the impression I get this is this was called a rescue it was this is in Duluth in Minnesota you know what maybe it's hot up there in that summertime maybe it was a way for him to kind of I don't know let it all air out well like you know sometimes up up north if it's it's hot you go into your basement

you cool down in your basement he doesn't have a basement so he decided to go so he just goes to a sewer in Duluth perfect not bad not bad And those, my friends, are this week's non-Florida stories. I still want you to think about having your dog in the driver's seat. And obviously, punching the car at 109 miles an hour. I've only been here a month, but that is so far in a way of the best non-Florida story I've heard of that. Isn't that crazy how you would...

The guy ought to be thankful that they're both alive, to be brutally honest. By the way, no one else was harmed, correct? Correct. Well, there was a couple of cars that got hit, but nobody else was hurt. That's the important thing. 51-year-old dude puts the dog in the driver's seat, takes his left foot, goes 109 miles an hour, hitting other cars because he wanted to teach his dog how to drive. That's why we love now in Florida stories. Let's go to Kenny, Southwest Side of the Matt Thomas show.

Kenny, what do you have today? Hey, good afternoon. Love the show. Matt, I can't believe you like that sandwich. That's a chopped and spun and formed product with all sorts of garbage in there. I think you probably like the barbecue sauce or whatever. But if you like pork sandwiches, go to someplace like Good Company or FM Kitchen and get a true pork sandwich made out of real pork that doesn't have any additives in it,

and having on one of those good company buns, man, you'll give that sandwich up in a heartbeat, I promise you. Kenny, I love you like a brother, but shut your dirty whore mouth. McRib is one of the goat sandwiches of all time, period. All right, I tell you what I'm going to do. When things get better, I'm going to buy one of each of them for you and bring it up to you and let you do it. Oh, I look forward to that immensely. Along with your car.

I've got two other quick things for you, and then thanks for letting me on. Number one, instead of the FU deal, which is not a bad idea, if you can figure out how to get back to these people that are calling nonstop with your car or your credit cards all day long, 24 hours a day, figure that out you could make millions that'd be the best way you could retire easily in a month I guarantee it that these apps they have don't work by the way that they did you mean like the do not like the do not disturb numbers and stuff like that yeah that yeah calls all I'm sure you got to get them on your cell phone or that you're all day long do you know what I do with that though

Kenny Kenny I'm a horrible person okay do you know I do I go along with their what they're what they I just, they're like, well, how much do you make? I say, well, I make $3.7 million. And they said, excuse me? Yes, I make $3.7 million. I mean, I take pleasure out of those phone calls. Isn't that horrible? No, because what I do, and they keep calling back the second time,

and they tell you how much money, I want to know how much money you want to borrow. I tell them, well, I owe my sister a $1.50. I don't my uncle about $12.60. sense. That make you. And then I got you. Either that or as soon as they come to the phone and answer,

I start pressing all the numbers or whatever because there is no one. One last question on the rockets, and I'll let you go and again. Love the show. Thank you. Appreciate everything y'all are doing that take us through these times. So are there any rockets that you think may not wind up playing in this? And also right now, are there any rockets that we're aware of that are?

and they're going to be out for a while. Great conversation, my friend. Thanks again for the phone call and the nice words. To answer Kenny's question, the only player that has said they're not going to play is Tabo Cephalotia, so he's off the roster. Luke Bob Mute has been added. And at this point, just like everything else,

the only time you're ever going to hear about a player testing positive for COVID is if the player wants to tell you. There are HIPAA laws that are keeping everything very quiet. So I have not heard of anybody from the Rockets testing positive officially. I know Tavo has said there have been some players from the Rockets over the summertime that have tested positive, but he would not name names. So I don't have an answer for you on that. All I know is today they were to have flown to Orlando, get to their hotel, lock the door a couple of days, and have their first practice on Saturday. Mark and Spring has a non-Florida story.

I'll listen to that. 244 on the Matt Thomas show. You know what I'll do? There's nothing better to listen to non-Florida stories with a cold, crisp Coors Light. The world's most refreshing beer is there for you like they've been there for decades. Coors Light, 144 ounces of deliciousness.

That's a 12-pack if you want to take the math on that. Do yourself a favor. Get you some cans. Make sure that the cans are blue with the mountains at the very top, which means it's absolutely at its peak level of cold and refreshing. If you're going to make some steaks tonight, if you're going to go out and have a couple of burgers and some wings somewhere, grab yourself a cold Coors Light where they are made to chill. Summertime in our area, of course, is so ridiculously hot. How about something to cool you down?

Do it today with a Coors Light. And of course, drink responsibly. That's what I ask of you, no matter what you're doing. Do it with a Coors Light and do it the right way. Obviously, do not drink and drive. So if you're looking for the epitome of summertime in Texas with cold, refreshing beer, it better be only one choice. That's Coors Light, made to chill. Daryl here. Let's go, Rockets! This is the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

Tomorrow on the show, we will spend a few minutes with Hoops critics, Brian Geltziler, on the NBA. They were bubble. Rockets should be comfortably in their hotel rooms by then. More on the big picture of the NBA. Also Brian T. Smith for a Friday visit as well. And Joe George will be back tomorrow. Maybe we'll do a little fantasy five.

I've got to see if he's up for doing that tomorrow. So it should be a busy Friday and a good one. And I really enjoyed today. I'll be honest with you. Try to get a couple of interesting guests on the show and just scheduling things just didn't work out. But Brandon's done a great job today. We appreciate his efforts and always appreciate y'all jumping in.

And I love the fact that some many of you love to make ribble like I do. It makes me feel like we're just one big happy family. Let's go to Mark in spring at $2.50 on 790. Mark, what do you have today? Hey, Matt. Hey, good afternoon. Hey, I heard your story about the gentleman trying to teach the pit bull over drive. And it brought back another true story that actually, I believe I heard on, maybe on this station.

but it was back in 2001, 2002. Anyway, places are the car that was weaving, driving down the road. So they pulled the car over, and there was an elderly gentleman who was not totally blind, could see some images, but not like, you know, a green light or a red light from far away. And he had, he's seeing my dog in the passenger seat. And so he had tried to teach his German Shepherd to, which I guess he did, successfully. When they came to a red light, the dog would bark once. And if they came, you know, and then the light turned green, then a German Shepherd would bark twice.

And if the elderly gentleman was approaching a vehicle, the dog would just bark. and, you know, he was sober, just, you know, still wanting to drive. I believe he was restricted to just take time driving and had tried to do this experiment with his thing I dog. So the question is asked, would you trust this man to drive you around town? If he was an Uber driver, would you accept it? Well, I guess it really depends, you know, if he had a cooler of maybe an adult better. average. I don't think water would cut it. I might consider it, but yeah, but in all honestly, probably not. But just struck me as, you know, I totally forgot about the story completely.

And then when I heard about the pit bull, I brought that back up. So I just thought I would share that with you. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. That's good stuff, Mark. I appreciate the phone calling. Thank you very much for listening. So the dog in his case was in the passenger seat. I guess it makes a little bit of a difference, right? Of the two, and I mean, I'm not a fan of either. I'd much rather let the blind man drive me than the guy who's trying to do it from the passenger seat. Because again, let's say here I am assuming he was using his left foot. What if he was trying to use his right foot?

How uncomfortable would that be being on a major interstate in Washington State with your right leg over your left leg hitting the accelerator, as hard as possible while also driving the vehicle. What about cruise control? He got it up to 109 and then just sets it on cruise control. Yeah. But he's going to have to reach over.

The dog can't move over it. Unless he taught the dog how to use cruise control. Oh, no. I actually, to be honest, in my head, I imagined him switching seats in the middle. I don't really know how you've gotten the dog into the front seat. But that's the most plausible scenario to me for driving. driving 110 miles an hour while sitting in the passenger seat.

I got to be honest with you, Brendan. I've never been high before in my life, just not because I'm not against it. I've just never done it. But how high would you have to be if you thought it was important for your dog, your pit bull, a sweet 12-year-old pit bull to learn the proper mechanics of driving a motorized vehicle? I'm less concerned with how high and more concerned with on what. That's true because marijuana use wouldn't make you do something that crazy, correct? No way.

I mean, you're sniffing glue at that point, correct? Yeah, I'm thinking something pretty heavy. What, I mean, it would have to be one of the all-time hallucinogens. Hello, 12-year-old dog. Why don't you sit in the passenger and the driver's seat and I'll do all the heavy lifting, but I want you to know what it's like to drive on a vehicle. And let's get on a major thoroughfare and let's go an obnoxiously high rate of speed. We can bond, man's best friend, driving.

109 miles an hour. Sniffing glue. Minimum. Maybe some form of mixture. Multiple drugs. Oh, for sure. For sure. All right. Astros are in their inner squad game.

And Adam Wexler and Adam Clant will tell you all about. In fact, they will give you the play-by-play on tape-delay basis. No, they won't. They'll just tell you some of the highlights. That's all coming up over the next three hours. A reminder tomorrow is that anything goes Friday. Brian Geltzider from Hoops Critics going to be on the show.

Also on the radio program, Brian T, and the Fantasy 5 and Joe George will be hanging out with us as well on Friday. So it should be a fun show. Thanks to everybody that called today, told us you're now in Florida stories, bad cover bands, and whether or not you could make a five-foot putt for $100,000.

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