The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rob Manfred Speaks, NBA Bubble Concerns, & Prohibited Substances

Episode Date: June 11, 2020

So much larger than life. Yeah. Lunch timers is the Matt Thomas show. 1201 in H-town. What's happening in Lunchtimers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Thursday edition of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. I'm Matt. Brendan Riley is our producer, Sports RV handling the co-host and duties very effectively from what I understand

the last three days. Entertaining, informative. Great commentary with you and Joe George. Is that accurate? Just wonderful, Matt. Great, smooth shows, tons of sports topics to get to. Tons. Millions. Yeah. I'll say this.

It's sometimes just good to get away. Recharge the batteries, so to speak. I could probably recharge a battery until sports returns, but I don't have that kind of vacation time. I don't think we're going to give you off until July 31st. Johnny Carson in the plan or anything. We just take your entire summer off.

It's like Craig Ackerman should have the best calls of his life when the NBA resumes. Because he hasn't done anything. He hasn't worked since March. I mean, he comes on our shows once in a while, but he doesn't... Yeah, what is he doing with his free time? I don't know.

Say, like, building a gazebo with his bare hands, his backyard or something? Collecting that part-time TV money? Well, I guess that helps. Like Robert Ford. Robert Ford did like 15 games, and then he's been sitting on a beach. That's true.

We don't know when his seasons, if there's going to be a season. So you were in Lake Charles? Yes. How did that go? Terrible. Oh. Just God. Was it a good time?

Yeah. I mean, if you like giving money to Louisiana economy. How are the procedures on the blackjack and the craps table? Same. Only four people to a craps table or five? No, six to a craps. Three to a blackjack. And for those of me that are thinking that midweek, the minimums would be a little lower, that's inaccurate.

Tellman's got to make that money back, Maddie. Tellman made his money back. He claimed it off an employee of his. That's his name. Are there his initials, M.T.? Does he work in sports? Yeah. It's funny.

I get paid to do Rockets games, but then I give it back to him. It's a give back program. It is. Buybacks. But it is nice to have you guys with us today. We have got, I wouldn't say, a pulpery of topics, but some interesting things. The Confederate Flying No Longer Part of NASCAR, which probably is long as long as Not probably, is long overdue.

Some people are upset about that. You mean that to have it? Yeah. Isn't that one guy said he wasn't going to race anymore? Yeah, I don't know who that is. The guy with the Italian last name. Yeah, it is what it is. Golf is playing right now.

Do we need to do a leaderboard update? Do you want to? I mean, we could do it. We've done it with golf tournaments before. We used to do golf sponsorships all the time. And it gives us an excuse to play the master's music, right? Even though it's the memorial. It's the Colonial.

By way, we're sitting in different chairs today, trying some different things out here. Yeah. Oh, it worked. There you go. Hello, friends. Well, somebody had ripped this from my personal audio. I don't want to name names. Hello, friends.

Thomas is Live of the 18th. This is the Colonial in Fort Worth. And I'm by myself with a mask on, calling all the great shots of a golf course that's empty except for the golfers on sports talk 790. Now, if I had to prepare for this segment, probably a little bit more than I should have, I'd have a leaderboard update for you. Is there a leaderboard, Matthew? Yeah, they're out there playing. Oh, okay.

Yeah, at some point, they're doing something out there. Justin Rose, leading at minus seven, just behind him. Jonathan Vegas. Longhorn, great, at minus six. His name is Jonathan Vegas? I don't know if it's Jonathan, Vegas, yeah. V-E-G-A-S?

Yeah, he's sponsored by, I want to say, the win or something like that. It's a perfect sponsorship, right? Why haven't I changed my name? I know. Maddie Lake Charles. You change your name to like last name, Beamer, and you get a BMW or something. Yeah, there's a lot of things I can change my name too.

What does Thomas get you? Hello, Matt. Train engines? I'm Matt Southwest Airlines. That's not your name, Matt. I get a lot of bonus points that way. Brian Harmon at a minus five. Do you remember?

Bryson Deschambeau. There have been there have been boxers that have tattooed logos in the back of their on their shoulders. They would all get Golden Palace on their back, but Golden Palace Online Casino back in the day. if you, how much would it take for you to get something tattooed of a sponsor on you? Not very much. Well, those were temporary tattoos. Oh.

Like if we were on 18T Sportsnet Southwest for me to get something on my forehead. And look at my forehead. Mine's big. That's true. There's a lot of space there. You can fit a whole longhorn helmet on there. And now I could actually, if I was on AT&T, I could turn my head left with a sponsor. Yeah, I like that.

I'd be like a rotation. And then if you want to contemplatively look down and they can as another sponsor, Yeah, I would donate. Like some kind of mental health sponsor? My forehead, my chin. Yes. Each one of my sides. By the way, I saw that you did it a few days ago.

You tweeted a picture of me and my wearing my long-horn stuff. Well, we were talking about it on the show, and then that was A-TX Hobo Girl tweeted that. Oh, I see. Well, she's evil. So that's, it works that way. It was her daily shot at you. You know, that happens all the time. Yeah, you're not supposed to take shots at me when I'm not there.

You wait for the shots until I'm actually on it. It had come up on the show because we played the liner where you sing Texas fight. Yeah. And we were just talking about bets that we had made on the show. And I couldn't remember the bet that I lost to you where I had to buy you a steak dinner recently. Oh, there's plenty of very little minutia ones. It was a buildup of things. But ultimately, the big ones you've always won. You made me sing the fight song. Yes. You made me get my helmet, a head full of a Texas Longhorn helmet. Yes. Brandtie, you probably enjoyed that, didn't you? Take a look at that little picture of me on there. I enjoyed the song more than the picture. Yeah, you're a man of audio. He's an audiophile. He loved the sweet tones. He was talking about how great you sang on that. I actually pulled it off pretty well. Do you have those lessons?

I'm actually, I earned the equivalent of over a dozen letter jackets in high school. Matt is a choir, like a choir nerd. He was a choir nerd in high school. That's not very nice. He got a dozen letters. I mean, come on.

It's fine. I was a theater nerd. They kept giving me, like, you've earned another letter jacket. They're not going to give you 12 letter jackets. That's true. You're like back to back to back state champ. Yeah, I mean, so they give you the bunch of medals.

So one day I put all the medals on my jacket. I'm like, yeah, I'm going to be a dork. I took the medals off. Okay. You were self-conscious about it. But I had lots of patches. It was high school. It was a difficult time.

Oh, difficult and confusing times. Major adjustments. For sure, for sure. All right. If you'd like to join us today and say hello, was I missed you. I missed you too, man. It's good to have you back. Yeah.

713-212-5-790 is how you reach our show today. 713-212-5-790. You want to reach out through Twitter, you can do so at SportsMT. By the way, I'm on a slow decline. Like, I'm almost a doubt of 25,000. I think I've lost like 200 people. I think a lot of it's because of inactivity. Either that or I just suck as a Twitter problem.

I've lost like 47. Yeah. So something's going on. Maybe Twitter's doing a cleanse, a slower cleanse. Or maybe just there's no sports going on. So people are like, I'm going to unfollow the sports guys. Okay. But let me tell you, if you stay with me, I won't disappoint you.

In fact, I will retweet some very interesting things, and I did that this morning. Go ahead. Is this our topic? Yeah, it is. I mean, we can bag on MLB and the NBA for hours, but we need to start with a little of something more encouraging. There is an Olympic boxer is. Her name is Jenny Fuchs. That's F-U-C-H-S.

Yes. She was recently in quarantine for the COVID. Okay. She was also at one point was going to be banned by the United States USADA. What is that? Is that what is that? Usada. That's the United States anti-doping agency.

Oh, okay. They're the ones that got Lance Armstrong eventually. Okay. So they're, and they govern over multiple sports. Yes, they're kind of a third party and then people contract them to use to use their test boxing. and they do, of course, the cycling and other stuff like that. So she was banned from boxing for a while because they found her to be positive testing of an illegal substance. Well, Jenny said, I don't use drugs.

I don't know what happened, but there must be some mistake. You know how you hear that all the time. Yes. So she goes to appeal this and she, I guess, and again, not knowing the complete backstory, she had to explain that such prohibited substances in her system were determined to have been ingested by her. Okay. Meaning, well, yeah, we don't need to get into a...

Well, ingestion can be any number of ways, Matthew. Please explain. Through the mouth. Okay. through perhaps, you know, if you would take a suppository, that would be rectally. Oh, so you can rectally ingest something, yeah. Or I guess, you know, any hole that the body has. Hmm.

Okay. It was determined that she had been ingested, something had been ingested by her. And then Mark puts in his tweet as Mark Berman at 26, unprotected sex without fault or negligence. and she will not face an eligibility. USA boxing told her that the U.S. ADA sanction is of no fault, and is the proper outcome, so she is fully eligible to resume her boxing career.

So what did she ingest? 7-13. You can't be uncomfortable if you brought this up. No, there's a delicate way to discuss this. Okay. Everybody driving around their car right now knows exactly what she ingested. Everybody except for children. And frankly, if you're a child,

child listening right now, you don't need to know. It's just some things that doesn't be said. So she ingested something, and I presented it without comment. Okay. That's fine. And you went to her Instagram photo. Yeah, I did. And is it worthy of putting on the WhatsApp

Match On my show page? I mean, we paned it pretty bad for kids. I'm not putting Ginny Fuchs's Instagram upon the What's on Mattson show page. You are not going to do it. Out of respect. I think you should. To the athlete.

You think I should? I think you should. Oh, geez. I mean, what's it going to hurt? We had record numbers yesterday. Yeah, we're doing fine. With great sports commentary on the WhatsApp match by Chaupe. I think we're set for the month, quite honestly.

So, congratulations to Jenny, who clearly, and she said the video, made a mistake. Unprotected sex. And the prohibited substance was something that she had ingested. So she was able to beat the charges. Because at one point, the charges beat her, beat her. The discharges? 713-212-5-790. We're going to hear for Rob Manfred when we come back.

Wonderful. And when we do, you're going to be really pissed off. I mean, I know we're supposed to be in the middle of the day, lighthearted sports commentary. But let's be brutally honest. She's just an awful, awful, this is an awful, awful, awful situation. It's only getting worse. We'll discuss that, plus your phone calls. And Rossi, there may be some.

snowflakes in the old NBA. Uh-oh. What does that mean? That means there may be some folks that don't want to play basketball after this months and months of trying to determine whether or not the bubble was the right solution. Is there snowflakes if they're worried about their personal health? Maybe that's the right term. Okay.

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Download the free iHeartRadio app for your phone at Sports790.com. Just remember you'll have to feed him. Time is 1218. It is the Matt Thomas show. Good afternoon, Houston, Texas. I'm Matt. Ross, Brendan here. Joe's hanging around somewhere.

Oh, there he is taking a nap already. Been here 18 minutes on the job. Joe being at 2.30 for the non-flority stories of the week. And by the way, are we not handing those reins over to Brendan yet? Brendan, are you ready for the non-flora stories yet? I mean, I don't have one, but I'm sure I can find one. You know, let's say farewell to Joe George with this week. And then next week, next Thursday you'll be here on the hook.

This is his final story. So hopefully it's a good one. And he's, and he cannot say that it was too busy. That's true. I mean, I know he's reading the Chicago Sun. He's executive producing right now. He's reading the Chicago Sun Times online. You think so?

I think he's a tribb guy. All right. Okay, so I took these days off, and I was hoping that maybe time away from the microphone would have a little more clarity on the baseball side of things. How did that work out? You're about to play a variety of Rob Manfred sound bites that have nothing to do with the season resuming. Is that correct? That is correct.

So here is Rob Manfred on NFL Network. First, let's hear him talk. about making a counter proposal to the players. We will be making a response to the proposal. We'll make a counter proposals shortly. It will be a proposal that once again moves in the players' direction in terms of the salary issue. And we're hoping it's a proposal that will elicit reciprocal movement from the player's side,

that they'll get off the 100% salary demand and recognize that 89 games in this point in the calendar and in a pandemic just, not realistic. So that's good. He says they're going to counter-propose and they're going to move in the right direction. They're going to move towards the player's direction. Answer my question. Did they put this out three months ago?

Why are they doing this this late in the game? Because we're running out of time. We're out of time. It's true. We're going to have a joke of a season. It wasn't the soft deadline 10 days ago? June 5th was like, well, no, the original soft deadline was like June 1st. June 1st.

Then it became June 5th. and now this is going to be a GF. Gallery furniture? You could say that. Okay. Oh, I think I know what you're saying. Okay. Rossi, baseball is my second favorite sport.

I love going to the games. I love watching my kids play. I love everything about it. I love the nuances. It's a smart game. It's tactical. It's decision making. It's gut.

It's a lot of things. And so I enjoy it. I enjoy the seventh inning stretch. I enjoy mom and apple pie and the bunting around the stadium. You know, there's just, it's a summery thing. It's a fun. It gives you the sign that the spring is coming up. The weather's going to get warmer.

Life is good. They have ruined. First of all, the pandemic has ruined our summer and ruined our spring. And in 2020. And the entire year. They're really going to ruin it. I've watched a lot of this yesterday on television. Everybody is saying the same thing.

you had a golden opportunity. Even Keith Oberman said this morning, I was watching some of the Korean baseball league. You've ruined an opportunity to take your sport to a new level. And again, no fans is one thing. We all understand why that is. With that there's going to be a different kind of season, a different playoff, different game schedule.

That comes to the territory of a pandemic. But we could have been watching live baseball games, enjoying something. Because you know how sports has kind of driven all of us together, right? We all spent a lot of time watching the last day. We all spent a lot of time watching the golf, the celebrity stuff. Anything sports-related, we've kind of embraced. There hasn't been anything.

There are people that are watching NASCAR that never watched NASCAR before. And Major League Baseball Ross is screwing this up to unbelievable proportions. So now we're going back from 114 to 50 to 100 to 58. I mean, I have lost track of how many games supposedly one-side-one. I think the last, so the latest is 89 games from the players. Here is the one thing that no matter what they're telling me about negotiations has been very, very consistent. You know what that is?

The players do not want to take a cut of their prorated salaries. That has been ridiculously consistent. And what has also been ridiculously consistent is that the owners are saying you're going to play for a cut of your prorated salary. And so they can throw numbers at them all they want to. they can talk about testing and where they're going to play the games and how you're going to do it and what the expanded playoffs are.

Until somebody budges on those two things, we're not going to have a season. And Ross, we are running out of time. It is about to be mid-June. And I'll be damned if I'm going to watch a 48-game baseball season schedule because Major League Baseball, Rob Man, for demand that we play it. Yeah, so we had the report yesterday from Bob Nightingale saying that there's going to be about a week that they're going to have.

The MLB is going to send a counterproposal, and then we have about a week before. Rob Manfred triggers the 48 to 50 game season. Rob Manfred's saying we're going to play baseball in 2020. We're going to play baseball in 2020. 100% if it has to be under the March 26th agreement, if we get to that point in the calendar, so be it. But one way or the other, we're playing Major League Baseball. I will do post-game shows. I will do pre-game shows.

We will discuss the games because that's what our responsibilities are as talk show host. but I will at a 48 game schedule you're not getting my heart baseball you're not yeah I think that's how the way a lot of people feel and that's the funny part about like you're saying Matt they not only did they have an opportunity

to have the the interest of the entire America they're gone the other way they're losing the interest of the casuals they're losing the interest of the people who kind of are just on the fringe that follow baseball and those are the people that you need to keep if you're going to keep your league afloat if you're going to keep your league growing

is turning casuals into die-holt hard fans, which the Astros have been able to do the last several years because they've been winning. And if you go away, you're just not going to have anybody. You could have had a casual fan this month. You understand that wrong? Yes, absolutely. Because there are some people that just don't like baseball.

But they would take baseball over nothing at all. So now you've lost the casual. You're about to lose a diehard. That's me. Because, you know, and I shouldn't be this forthcoming. But if you and I were not doing what we're doing and we didn't love the Astros away that we did, would we give two craps about a 48 game season? It would be a lot easier to lose interest. And I think there are going to be a lot of casual

fans who lose interest. Which is terrible for us because we love talking baseball. This show and this station talks more baseball than any other station combined because we think we know what we're talking about. You don't talk about things you're not comfortable when talking about. I'm very comfortable talking baseball because I do love the sport. But this is, this is a, I mean, Rob Manfred, I watch a little bit of him on MLB Network yesterday. I saw some of the interview on ESPN. We're playing some of the sound bites now. So Rob Manfred is going to put his foot down the owners. I should say disdimate Manford. And we're going to bring them back to play 48 games. How much do you think

those players are going to give two craps about playing a 48 game schedule when their union could not negotiate a deal? Do you think there's going to be any fire in anybody's belly to play a 48 game schedule? I think they'll feel they'll want to put a good product on. But as far as media availabilities and post-game interviews and going on MLB Network and doing the extra media stuff, showing up at charity events, all these extra ancillary things that the players usually do, they'll have no obligation to do those and they'll have probably no want to do though. It's going to be bad blood. How about this?

How about diving for a base to save a ground ball to a shortstop or going and crashing into a wall? Why? Because there are competitors. So I think the baseball could be good. But guys take time off all the time. And you're right. And their DNA that are supposed to be competitors. Yeah, I don't think Justin Verlian is going to go up there and just start throwing meatballs because he's mad.

Like, he's going to care. But is he going to rush back if he's on 100%? No, nor should he. But I mean... I'm telling you, George Springer, God-loven, I'm using him as an example. If there's a player in baseball that throws his body around more to save outs, I need to know who it is. Right. But if I was George Springer, why...

And maybe I'd give him the advice. Don't do this. You don't want to be out here. Your union and the baseball owners could put something together. So you're going to try to put on a smiley face and go out and play a 33% schedule, not even 33%. I mean, Rossi, come on. And so we're supposed to sell this to the audience? I mean, I'm going to need somebody to sell it to me because I can't honestly get everybody, you know,

opening day here on 790 is a big thing for us. We go to the ballpark. We play center field. We play the old highlights. You're going to drag us into a 48. Again, I don't even know how much difference is going to be if they can come together on a side, but they're still so far apart that I'm not encouraged by that. But you're going to make me want to just jump up and down for a 48 game schedule

that the players don't want to be there and the owners are forcing them to? Good luck, America. Good luck baseball. On the schedule they've been on since basically last. Sunday was the first 114 game proposal from the players. We've had a couple of proposals since then. So I think within a week, hopefully you can get a couple of more and you get them close enough. And what you're talking about, Matt, about the owners, they're standing firm because they think they're losing so much revenue. Rob Manfred says it's revenue will be down over 70%.

We'll make another proposal to them that's consistent with the economic realities that we're looking at, including the fact that our revenues are going to be down over 70%. And hopefully we'll find some flexibility on the other side and make an agreement. Didn't we hear like 40% and 50% now we're at 70% revenues are down? Well, they've been consistent at least. They have said the lesser games we play, the better is for us. But the thing, again, I'll go back to my original point. The players do not want to take a cut of a prorated salary.

That has been very consistent. And the owners have said, we're going to ask you to take. we're going to, the reason why they're talking fewer games is that the players will get a lesser of a cut. But the players want more games, more salary. Owners are saying, we're still taking our cut. You're getting a pro-rayed salary minus a discount. And that's the impasse we're at right now. And it sucks because they're letting the sport go by.

And instead of getting some money, both sides are going to get no money. 1228. It sucks and I'm mad because I love baseball. 713-212-5-79 if you'd like to join in 7-13-212-5-790 If you want to reach out through Twitter, it's at SportsMT, at SportsRV And at Brendan Riley underscore, am I right about that? Correct.

Back in my game, sports RV a few days away from the sport gets you back going. 7-13-1-2-5-790 Big City Wings was there this Friday, as a matter of fact. Had a little dinner with a family, and we had a great time. Ross, I got a 34-ounce big brew. All those are nice. That's a little dangerous for old sports MT.

Not to refer to myself a third person, but I just did. How many orange wedges for your blue moon? Two, and I didn't drive home. Good, Matt. You should always drink responsibly. Thank you. Thursdays is buy one boneless, get one free. So you buy 10, you get 10 free.

That's Ross's jam. Sauce and toss the way that you want to. The key to getting great boneless swings I've learned, get them well done. A little extra crunch on the side, delicious. great burgers, great sandwiches, great salads, and great appetizers. We had the pulled pork nachos we were there that a night, and they were delicious. Hey, it's James Arden. What a pass.

What a finish. Listen to your home of the rockets on your smart speaker, just as. Hey, Google, play Sports Talk 790 on IHR radio. That is something else, folks. We're going to be making a responsive proposal to the proposal that we received late last night. It will be another significant move. in the players' direction in terms of the salary issue that has kept us apart. And we're hopeful that it will produce reciprocal movement from the Players Association

that we'll see a number other than 100% on salary and some recognition that 89 games, given where we are in the calendar and the course of the pandemic is not realistic. So it sounds like a 70-game schedule at the very most. players are at 89 owners I guess are still at Bob Nightingale said over 50 so we don't know what they can invoke and if something does get invoked by Rob Manford what kind of safety protocols and all that type of stuff

would happen or be involved frankly 60 makes the most sense if you're really going to have a truncated season you play each of your four division opponents 15 times it's 60 done right how would you feel about 60 as opposed to 48 slightly better not better it's still it's still off the table to you this may sound hypocritical I could probably

I mean first of all I don't 82 for me was the this is not a gimmicky season so anything less than 82 makes it gimmicky but in my mind 60 sounds a little more it's a lot bad even 12 a little more authentic than 48 48 plus 12 is a significant movement 25%

I mean and maybe you don't even have to necessarily play everybody 15 times you can play everybody 12 times and then you take your 12, those last 12 games and you play somebody in your own other division, you could do that too. But that means one of those five teams in the other division you don't play. That's fine. I mean, there's going to have to be special concessions

and things happening for this, for this truncated season, as they're calling it. Yeah, it's still very gimmicky to me. And there's going to be an asterisk all over this bad boy, all over at Ross. Because not only are you going with a shorter regular season, but you are adding playoff games. So what if that extra playoff team or teams in each of the league

wind up playing for the American League or National League pennter for the World Series. Yeah, what if you have some five, what if a team go there's a 48 game season or less 60? They go 30 and 30 and then get into the playoffs and then win a bunch of short series and win the championship.

Are they legitimate World Series champions? I say no. I say no as well. Yeah. You and I brought the question up to the audience whether 82 would be legit. And I think most people probably said at that point, yeah, we'll take 82 because,

look, the virus is costing us calendar dates. there is no way in the world you could play 162. They were going to have to negotiate something very early for it to be any more than say 110. But Ross, at least the owners are consistent. They've never wanted 110. Once they got in the virus mode, they're like, we need to keep it under 80.

Yeah, every game they continue to play is more money for the owners because they have to pay the players. They have to do game ops and all that type of stuff and pay those people. So they're just losing more money. Well, I think it's player salaries is the biggest thing. Player salary is the biggest one, but it's everything. And they're not getting extra revenue.

I understand where they're coming from. I also understand where the players are coming from. And I don't care which side concedes at this point. I just want somebody to concede and for them to make a deal. And like Rob Manfred is saying, it's kind of funny how you slip that in there. We would like for them to come off the 100% that they've been at this entire time and hopefully see this as a gesture of goodwill. They haven't changed.

They haven't. That's just crazy. They're like 100, 100, 100, 100. They haven't backed off that. Can I just be overly simplistic on this? And labor fans not going to like this. But, Ross, if they don't play and they just say, screw it, they're going to get zero. Why wouldn't you come back for 60 at 80% of a 60 game schedule?

So you're at least getting some money. And some is a relative term, Ross, but $10 million guys. is still going to probably take home three and a half, four million dollars. That's money that they're going to earn in a very, very short time. Do you know that the season is going to be done by the end of October? We're in June. Do you see what I'm saying? Short window, short season, pretty good chunk of change, nothing close to what they were supposed to make.

I think this is more about them being afraid of what's coming down the road than any even as about this. Because, again, Ross, if you're, because the average good major league players making $10 million a year, right? The average good one. Like the Josh Reddicks out there are 10 million north. Yeah. Michael Brantley making 1415. Whatever.

Get some of that. Yeah. Why are you falling on your sword for a crappy little 60 game schedule where you're going to make 80% of a 60 game schedule? because you don't want to back off of the previous agreement. And the players have gone on record. They say, Rob Manfred just said, oh, we're losing 70% of our revenues. Oh, you have the Cubs and the Cardinals owners coming out and saying, you know what? We just run a business here.

We're not making any profit off of our teams. And you know what the players say? Okay, cool. Show us the books. If you're losing 70%. There's no more book conversation, by the way. I think that's what they said. That's what they've been saying this whole time.

If you want to say you were losing 70%, if you want to say, you're running at a loss or you're not making net profits, then show us the books. Yeah, it's been non-starter. They've majorly put the owners, because they own the teams, feel it's not within their best interest to give out their books. And from the player's perspective, then stop crying out, crying poor. If you're not going to show us and stop crying poor, you can make the, you can go from we losing 40% revenue, we're losing 50% so now we're losing 70% revenue.

The number just keeps growing. And that's why the players say, okay, if this is true, show us the books, we'll get something done. If there is no season, the players take the bull on in this one, correct? Absolutely. Oh, they're going to look bad. They're going to look way worse than the owners. Absolutely. Because we see them. We see them. We know them. If the Kansas Royal's owner walked into this room

right now, would you know what he looked like? No. Me either. I don't even know his name. I believe, is it Danny Royal? Is it David Glass? Okay, sure. That sounds right. That's just a pure guess on my part. See how close I got. Who owns the Royals? I am looking right.

Now, it is John Sherman. Okay, so I was wrong. Flat out wrong, not even close. John Sherman, who worked with Dynagy. Really? These energy guys. Oh, he purchased from David Glass a year ago. So you're close.

Then I get half credit then. Absolutely. You know, I give you three quarters. When you were on test, you know, when you fill in the blanks, you get half credit on stuff? I got a half credit for that one. Well, if it's wrong or right, it's wrong. But... Oh, that's true.

I didn't think of it that way. still though yeah it's it's going to be the players they're they're going to want they're going to lose in the court of public opinion i think uh i don't think it's and i think ross they're going to get annihilated yeah and it's always what happened in in labor negotiations and again we've got to be clear in saying that labor negotiations between millionaires and billionaires is nothing close to labor negotiations between a steel workers union in a plan you know what i'm saying I mean, there's, but at some point you have to take sides. And my side is this. Please, Major League Baseball players, accept the deal. Take the prorated salary minus a discount.

That's what Major League Baseball wants. They're the ones that are saying, they're the ones that are going to hold you. If you want to make any money this year, you'll do it. Because here's the thing. Here's what I need. I don't know the answer to it. And I mean, it's all sincerity. If they play the 48 game schedules, is that a full pro rated 40 game, and that's it?

They'll be full pro rated 48, not expanded playoffs. and that would be apparently Rob Manfred can invoke however many he wants but he would do as few as possible to save the owner's money. Yeah, and he was very carefully yesterday

not to say 48. But 48 makes sense because you'd play everybody 12 times in your own division. Yeah, well the Bob Nightingale article said it would be about 50, a little over 50, I think.

So we're going from somewhere between 48 and 60. It's semantics basically. Yeah, it's either way. All right. So I took these days off to hopefully have some good news. on at least one sport.

Well, you look relaxed. I do feel great. A little extra energy today. Wonderful. So I was excited the NBA is going to have their season and everyone's going to run down to Orlando. Or so we thought there is some apprehension among some in the NBA.

We don't know who's apprehensive or why. We'll discuss that next. 1242. The Matt Thomas Show with Ross and Brendan. 713-212-5-790. 7-13-212-5-7-9-7. We take you to 3 o'clock today here on Sports Talk 790. Greg Bizjo here, the heart of the order is up right now.

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What's the next lower level? Uh, Woge grenade. Lower than that? Woj, uh, Black Cat. Then a firecracker. Yeah. And then one of those little... A sparkler?

Is this a Woj sparkler? Woj put a sparkler out today. Okay. He says the NBA season is going to move up their start date. What? That's good. One day. Oh.

July 30th. Thursday? Yeah. I'm assuming a major TNT doubleheader. That sounds... Oh. I'm just thinking that. Rockets Lakers.

You know, it was supposed to be Rockets Lakers. on TNT the Thursday before the cancellation of the season or the Thursday week out of cancellation. Rockets Lakers, I'm ready. So here, yeah, so that makes a whole lot of sense, right? Yes. You put that in the night game,

but does that mean they're going to play a game at 10.30 Eastern time in Orlando? Yeah. They're going to play these night night games, aren't they? I think so. That's fine. These are night out people. I mean, it's their bodies in the same. If you have like a back-to-back,

from one city to another. It's not like your body has time to adjust anyways. So, you know. And plus, they've had months to get ready for this. Yeah, 10. 30 at night,

I actually want to put whatever the over under is on James Hardin's points. That's when he does his best work, Matt, after midnight. I don't know if those guys ever played a game at 1030. Since, yeah. Since junior high school.

Unless they're running pickup games all night, but they're probably not doing that as professionals. Yeah. Yeah, they've never played a game that late at night. Because they even think the latest you'd play a game would be like eight, you play an eight o'clock Pacific time game. But your body says eight o'clock,

although it's reality, it's 10, 10, 11 o'clock. So, all right. So Ross, they have spent day being the NBA, have gone over and over about protocols and what to do and what to wipe down and what to do for masks and where to have the resumption of the season. And yeah, it's important for the NBA to resume. And then there is a faction of people

we don't know their names, I don't think we do, that have said, we're not so sure if we want to be quarantined in Orlando for all these months. Because the reality is this. Rossi, they're going to get to Orlando. July the 7th, I think is the day that the first player is going to start arriving. The champion at the very latest could be crowned October the 12th. They're not leaving the Walt Disney Complex for August, September,

be three months. The NBA champion would not leave the complex for three months. And I think it's Wiggins and people out. After six to seven weeks, after the first round of the playoffs, so they would be allowed to have a handful of family members, correct? Three members of the family, yeah. Okay. So, yeah, this story from Woj says they're agreeing on a plan

that would allow players to stay home without consequences as well. So an opt-out is what we've been talking about with the MLB. so now the players are apparently looking for perhaps something like that as well, the National Basketball Players Association. This story says there are 40 to 50 players on a conference calls over the last 24 hours discussing a number of concerns centered on the restart in Orlando, but there's no formal petition of any group wanting out of the resumption sources say. Meaning they're waking out, they're scared to death,

but you just have to cuddle them a little bit, coddling those players and they'll wind up doing it. So the question is, since we don't know who's wicking out about it, we should guess. Okay. There's two sets of people that I would guess. Set one is any NBA player whose contract has already been paid out. There is one Ross, there's one notable player that has his full 2019-20 salary already paid out. Do you know who that is?

LeBron James. That'd be correct. I kind of guess there. I don't remember that story. Yeah. There's been actually, there's a handful of them. Some of them have pushed that, in fact, next year their salary reductions, well, their reductions are supposed to take this year. They'll get a next year's check. Everybody in the NBA has been asked to take a pay cut during this time.

Oh, that's right. That's right. But some guys have already been paid out for this year. So let me ask you this. Do you think LeBron James has any serious apprehensions about this? And I'll give you an example of why I think there is. First and foremost, he's already been paid. Okay. Okay. Secondly, he's thinking about being away from wife and kids for multiple months.

Nobody wants to. People like for freedom. You won't have freedom. You'll have the acreage, but that's all you get. How many kids do you have? Two or three? No, no. But Ronnie's still playing a lot of stuff.

That's the one that's most recognized. Yeah. Okay. But the last thing is, he's thinking to himself, I'm going to go in theory to Orlando and be there for two, three months to win a championship potentially that may have an asterisk. attached next to it. That doesn't build my legacy. Do you buy, you can say no.

No, I'm okay. I think he wants to play. Okay. I hope you're right. So the group that first and foremost to me sounds like they could be hesitant, could be the guys that have already been paid. The super megastars had it. And then the next group is that 7, 8, 9, 10 seed got teams.

Yeah, the tops and the bottoms, I think, are who you'd be worried about. San Antonio flies all that way to worry. Orlando. They have no Lamarckis Alders for the rest of the season. Greg Popovich is 71 years old. Doesn't want to worry about the, you know, the Corona. Why do the San Antonio Spurs, the Phoenix Sons, the Sacramento Kings, the Portland Treblowers really, really want to jump on a plane and go be in this isolation for at least 30 days when, in theory, it's going to take a magical run for them to make the playoffs and for Memphis not to make it. They probably don't. And that's why I've been preaching from the beginning that it should have been just the, the, the, the,

The 16 playoff teams start the playoffs, or maybe some games where they play each other with a new schedule, almost like a preseason, and then just go from there. But yeah, you're adding six teams that maybe don't even need to be there. But you can't have it both ways. You can't have the television money because that's why they're doing it for television money.

That's what feeds the salary cap next year is overall earnings. So, you know, Rossi, you just can't have it both ways. It's going to suck being in Orlando for that period of time. but this hopefully is a once-in-a-lifetime event. And my guess is you're not staying in a 250-square-foot hotel room. My guess is you're in a really good spot. They'd probably be okay. Yeah, certainly, especially how about when you start getting into the playoffs?

Can't they give every playoff team, like all the players, the nicest rooms and the nicest suites and the most palatial? Have Mickey Mouse serve you breakfast every day. Okay, yeah. Goofy's not doing much. Yeah. Cinderella, you know, that's a girl in college. Well, you know what Cinderella is showing up. That could be problematic. Cinderella is like, I haven't seen my boyfriend in three months.

He hasn't seen her prince. You look like a frog, but I'll still kiss you. Oh, geez. 1257. We start the second hour of the Matt Thomas show in a mere moment. 713-212-5-790. This is the Matt Thomas Show. Hour number two of the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790.

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Both sides. Oh, yeah. Both sides gain equal blame on this. I'm not playing the blame game on this one. Both are going to get it. Our guy, Mark Berman. Yes. doubled down on this story about Gina Fuchs.

Ginny. Gina, whatever. Jenny, G-I-N-N-N-Y. Is she from Houston? Oh, she is from Houston. That's why he's talking about this. Well, of course, yeah. I mean, yeah, I wouldn't think he was somebody from Des Moines.

And you will not... She's 32? And you will not put her on her Instagram. For those of you that didn't hear, what happened? Oh, she went to Episcopal and then LSU. 2001, 2001, 2003, 2003, 2004, 2005. Okay. So if you have not heard about Jenny Fuchs, and you have to say her name very slowly because you don't want to mispronounce it.

Correct. She tested positive. She's a boxer for a prohibited substance, which was determined to have been ingested by her without fault or negligence. As a result, Fuchs will not face a period of ineligibility for her positive test. So what does Berman do? He goes to his notepad on his phone, Ross, and gives us more detail. of what happened. What kind of details?

She tested positive for some sort of methanol, sulfone, sulfoxide, whatever it is. As a result of an out-of-competition urine sample she provided on February the 13th. Lettresol is a specific substance and non-specified substance in the class of hormone and metabolic modulators. Oh, my God.

This is a mess. So they're running, so he's, he's detailing all this. Yes. Page three of his notepad. During a thorough investigation into the circumstances of Fuchs case, the US ADA determined that Fuchs male partner was using therapeutic doses of letharzol and GW 1516 and the low amounts of latrolazole metabolite and metabolites detected in her sample were consistent with recent exposure to the substances via

sexual transmission. This isn't sound nearly as bad. Additionally, I don't want to read it. It's technicality. So let's take a step back. Ross, I mean this in all sincerity. How does she provide a sample? What do you mean?

They take her blood. Oh, okay. So they take her... and urine. They do blood and urine. She said, I didn't take this stuff. Correct. And the people at the US ADA say, yeah, you did. She then says, no, I didn't, right? Is this how the conversation goes? Yes. Then the US ADA says, prove it. Then she has to spill the beans. That I have, not inhaled. Ingested. Ingested. Ingested. what do you mean

what do you want me to say Matt? No, I think awkward silence is perfect I think it sets a tone for what we can and cannot say what we can and cannot assume because the natural assumption on ingestion is one thing

but thankfully we have a smart guy like yourself who completely understands that ingestion doesn't necessarily mean in that way Right. But I will say in my 48 years of my life, when I heard the term ingestion. Yes. I think of it orally.

Like taking a pill orally, swalling. Correct. It would be ingesting it. In your 30-something years of life, how often have you talked about ingesting things not orally? Not often, Matthew. Okay. So that's the apprehension that I. I've had during this entire thing.

Okay. But thankfully, you were able to set the rest of us apart by saying that, go ahead and use your words earlier. Uh, rectally? Or perhaps, I mean, are we speaking in doctor's terms here? Sure, why not? Vaginally. Vaginally.

So she and, well, this is actually a new workaround, Matt. Maybe now she can get this substance from her boyfriend all the time and just use this excuse. No, because there's now evidence of this happening. So that now means, well, what can they do? Tell her not to do this anymore? Or pick a partner that doesn't do it that way? Well, that didn't sound right. Do what, what way? That didn't sound right. Pick a partner that does not use such. What if she's in love, Matt? You can't just tell her a switch of boyfriends. No, you can tell her. We're not. going to do things that way or anyway if you're on that stuff.

Well, you know what? If Virginia is looking for someone, I'm ready to step up to the plate and deliver. You called a Virginia? That's a real name. Is that what you're going to refer to her as? Virginia. So when she says, Ross, I find you adorable. Yes.

I'm willing to ingest something. Is there anything? She's not going to say that. You don't know. learned from this. Has she not learned from this? Yes. If she's responsible, she's going to say before we,

before I ingest, am I ingesting something that's going to get me in trouble? I'm not on trepozoly or G1517 or whatever. Yeah. Well, I applaud Mark Berman for taking a story that I don't think any other sports station at town would touch with a 10 foot pole. He's really gotten to the bottom of this.

I mean, Mark's Mark is amazing but he some of the weirds I mean how does he find out about this

he really swallowed his pride okay that's enough what he didn't swallow his pride oh he went all the way okay

there isn't a story he's not going to stop pounding until he gets it he's gets all the dirty details yes but my what would make him did Ginny call him

and say hey I got a story you're not gonna you're gonna want to put on your Twitter account as soon as possible she's an Olympian and she's from Houston, that is Mark Berman's wheelhouse. But who told him this?

Ginny, I guess. He had a video of her. How would Ginny say, I got a story. I got to tell you about it. Did you watch the video that Jenny says? And he's asking these legitimate serious because he's a real reporter questions. Meanwhile, you and I are trying to walk on eggshells here at nine minutes past 1 o'clock over exactly the definition of ingestion.

We need sports back, Ross. Yeah, we do. Because here's the thing. If we have sports, Mark's not finding out about what she's ingesting or how she ingested. And how embarrassing Virginia did go to Mark Berman? So exactly, how did you get away with it? Well, he had it. Well, how do you know he had it?

Well, I just do. So for all you other stations around town that are doing stories about players getting ready for the season and players working out and players doing things the community. Mark Berman at 26 is getting the stories that just no one else would touch at all. Literally wouldn't touch. God bless you, Mark Berman. That's why he scoops. He's scooping up the ingestion. And making the entire city uncomfortable.

Yeah. Like, there's more pregnant pauses in this segment of the show than we've had in probably the last three weeks, right? Because you just, you want to fill, make sure you're filtering what you're saying properly. Yeah, eggshells, I think, is what you use. That's correct. We're going to try to do a non-egshell segment in the next segment of the show. Thank you, Matt. So it would take a couple of people to call and ask questions, right?

Sure. You know what? We haven't done AskMT or MT Googles in a while. When we could, we got non-flora stories coming up to 30. By the way, Joe, George, you can not use that story for your non-floridstores stories. I need to find one. You got to get working on it. 713-212-5-790.

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Let's go! Houston's official sports cliche translator. hard. I'm trying to be a good teammate. I'm trying to go out here every day and do my job. Matt Thomas. Taking it one day at a time. It is 117. The Jenny Fuchs

excuse me. The commentary off air, the internet only show. And it's not terrible for her. No, it's fine. It's the real... She's an American hero. She's a woman. Jenny Fuchs is great. I'm going to root for her really hard.

If I said name a female boxer, you're going Jenny Fuchs one, and they would say nothing after the second. Marlon Asparza. Okay, continue. Also from Houston. Layla Ali. She's retired. Why does it count? Because she's not.

There's a belt holder? I'll say active. Go. Active? Yeah. Marlon Asparza. Jenny Fuchs. And then there's some other Mexican chick.

And you know Ginny. Here you go. And you know Jenny Fuchs yesterday. No, we all do now. I think Marlon and Sparza is from Houston as well. Houston is just full of talent, Matt. Why aren't people calling me for these kind of stories? Why are they called Berman?

Well, do you know Jenny Fuchs? No. You didn't know who she was. Why would she call you to tell her story? Because we're compassionate here on the old 790. There's like five different things I want to say. I'm not saying any of them. All right.

Let's move on to something else. You direct the next. You keep putting me in an uncomfortable position, Matthew. That's right. That's right. You miss me. Okay, well, fine. Well, we were talking about before the end of the hour, the uncomfortable

position that some of the NBA players think they are in, so they're hesitant upon being in a restart. Do you think, I mean, you were saying you think it's the higher-in players who've already been paid or the lower-in? I think LeBron James would want to play.

I think James Hardin wants to play. Chris Paul is come, Chris Paul's like a six-seat. He's not going to win a championship. He came out and said he wants to play. I think these guys are wanting to get back. But there were like 40, not 40, they were more than that. There was a conference call. 40 to 50 players conference calls over the past 24 hours discussing a number of concerns centered on the restart

in Orlando. Okay, so let's roll play. What's that conference call like? I'll go, I'll be damned if you're not going to let me leave Walt Disney World. I can't stay in this same area for three months. Are you kidding me? Participants will not be allowed to leave the bubble environment without a 10-day quarantine upon their return.

Which means when they quarantine, it means they don't leave their room, right? Yeah, I guess so. You don't leave your room for 10 days. It's going to be a lot of video games, a lot of FaceTiming. A lot of room service. That's heavier charges. Yeah, that's true. At least if you get out of the room, you can go to the restaurant and do it from that,

you can go order what you want. Mm-hmm. If they're allowed to even do that. Ross, I don't have any, I should have some empathy. So I'll go ahead and say, I have empathy. But this is what they signed up to do. They wanted to finish the season. They wanted to play.

Wanted to play for a championship. Wanted to put some more money in their coffers for future Saturday cap. This sucks. aren't there guys that are put on ships that don't get to leave the ship for months? In the Naval Academy, people that are offshore workers? I guess so, yeah. They'll go away for a couple of months, and they'll be gone. I mean, think about, I mean, do they bring their families in the Olympics?

Every Olympian? Yeah, but that's only three or four weeks. I wouldn't think so. No, yeah. No, I'm saying, but it's a few weeks. I'm saying, do they get to bring their families? I don't think so. No, I don't think so.

Again, this is not a few weeks. They're supposed to arrive on July the 7th. That's right. They stay in the Olympic Village. and that's when they hand out like 20,000 condoms. They all have sex constantly. They're ingesting all the time. Nothing but ingest.

Ingestion. The word of the day, folks, is ingestion. Yeah. Ingest here, ingest there, ingest everywhere. They're just ingesting all over the world. They're ingesting in Canada. All right. Slovakia. Ingesting.

You know what I'm saying? Yes, Matt. Nothing but ingestion. All right. The words making me uncomfortable now. Okay. So they're going to get there July 7th. They're not going to, the earliest they leave

is mid-August. So that's six weeks. I mean, I think the NBA players would be the most hesitant to Matt because they're the reason, why did the NBA stop? Because multiple players, well, it started with Rudy Gobert. Rudy Gobert contracted this virus. Donovan Mitchell contracted this virus.

There are other NBA players who contracted this virus. Carl Anthony Towns's mother died from complications with this virus. So, I mean... Not that I'm arguing with you, but I'm going to throw a counterpoint at you. Walt Disney World, where the NBA is going to play, is going to be the safest place on Earth. But it just says that they're hesitant.

So I understand why there would be hesitation. So much hesitation that they're going to wodge and telling them about it. And there's going to be, apparently there's going to be testing every day. So that would help, should help assuage some fears. And especially, the huge thing to me is the opt-out. I've told you this before. I've said it off air. I've said it on there one time.

time. If the NBA called and said, we need PA announcers, I would go. My wife and I've already discussed this. A, because life has to go on and B, I think I could write a book about this experience. Not that I would write a book, but being in a bubble for three months, yeah, there's some down parts to it, but I think it would be a once in a lifetime. It would be, again, this is a terrible analogy, but You'd be like going on an overseas trip and not seeing, and just, you know, living in the wilderness or something. I don't know. I'm trying to think of the right equation for it.

It's just, it's, it's, I don't think it's ever going to happen again. You just want to hang out of Cinderella. No, I understand. It's something you could say that you could tell your grandchildren about, hopefully. Now, I have, one of the benefits of being home like I have been as I have spent an amazing amount of time with my family and I've been able to see Carly and Cameron and that's been fantastic. And you're sick of them. It's fine. And that six is a strong term.

Am I won't, do I want camera to go by Texas Tech? Sure, why not? Actually, he'll be here in a few minutes. He's a hint of buddy who's coming up here. Oh, will he? Yeah. I just, I think it's going to be really once in a lifetime. I wouldn't want to do it every year.

But let's face it, Ross, there are a lot of people that in spring training with the Astros, they go to West Palm Beach, they're gone six weeks. It's not completely foreign for athletes to go somewhere and be gone for a long period of time. And again, this is not the normal protocol for. for the future of the NBA. I think it's, it's, um,

I think they can't have their cake and eat it too, right? Is that the phrase I want to go? Yes. They want the money that comes with playing the games, but they don't want to actually put the time in. And that's not right. So stop, so don't bitch about your Saturday cap being an issue if you don't want to go play.

Yes. Tell me wrong. The player's concerns are family issues, the inability to leave the campus and the implications of the, coronavirus pandemic and also apparently they're concerned, I don't know what would alleviate their concerns about social justice issues in this country as well.

I got news for you. There were social justice issues before George Floyd passed and died was killed. And there'll be some after, unfortunately. Yes. Them in the bubble is not going to fix that. I don't know what they, I don't understand exactly what they're wanting.

Maybe a statement from the NBA or some kind of pledging of some kind of money or something? I don't know. I don't know what they were. No, I think there's just a lot of, there's a lot of unrest in our country right now. Yes, there is. And I think picking up and not seeing their families for multiple weeks

has got to be something. That's legit. That is legit. That's understandable. I'd have a reservation. I don't think I'm going to go to Orlando because I don't think the NBA needs me, but I would have a conversation about my family about it. I mean, not being able to see them.

And again, if you're the Lakers or the Rockets, hopefully, hell, screw talking about the Lakers. If you're the Rockets, you're playing for an NBA championship, Ross, you're not going to see your family until early October. That's sobering. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Or at least three members of them.

And even if Orlando, what do we figure out was the square miles or where they're going to be allowed to hang out? 40 square miles, I think it was? What was the square? Are we sure they're allowed to go to every part of that park? Or are they just going to be stuck to Y World? And where they live? I don't know. There's hesitancy to it.

I don't know if they can go to Epcot. I don't know if they can't. Frankly, you and I. They can't go to Disney World. Yeah. They can't go to Disney World. It's unfortunate. So, I mean, I did it.

But you can't, if you want to call the season off and affect your earnings, then that's fine, too. We can't, there's a cost for that. But you can't, you can't have the player association agree to it. The owners agree to it. Put all these plans in motion. And then come out, what, five days later and say, I'm hesitant. We're all hesitant. I'm hesitant about working here, especially with you.

Yeah, you should be, Matt. But we do it. Doug and South Padra in the Matt Thomas show. Doug, how are you, sir? I'm doing good, Matt. I appreciate your show. I had a question about Houston basketball, if I could. Sure.

When you look at Armani Brooks, for example, he left early. Had he stayed in school, he may have been their leading scorer. Had there been an NCAA tournament, the Cougars may have advanced. He may have been drafted. And now you've got Nate Hinton, who's leaving. Right. After last year, I think he averaged maybe 10 points. And again, he didn't get to play in a tournament because of the virus.

was no tournament. I'm just trying to understand the mindset of some of these younger players that the rush to go play in the CBA, knowing they're not going to get drafted, where if they stayed and they played their chance of getting drafted, it increases exponential. I'm just curious, what is their mindset? I know you speak to Calvin Sampson. I do. I'm just trying to grasp that. It's a multi-level answer, so I'm going to give it to you as quickly as I can. First and foremost, there's a lot of times there's family pressure to go get the money. And sometimes the advice you are given is not the best advice. If you have a lot of people in your life that all they want to do is be your yes man

and say, yeah, you're better than college basketball. You can go play in the NBA and make a lot of money. Go do it. Some kids feel the pressure of that. Some kids feel the pressure, well, if I don't, if I'm not a lottery pick or a first round pick for sure, the chance of me making the basketball team are just as good of me being a street for a agent as compared to a second round pick. I'm not really hurting my chances, especially if no one thinks I'm going to be a first round picking either year.

And then lastly, Doug, there's a lot of them that will say, we'll go play in Turkey, we'll go play in Spain, we'll go play in Greece. You can make in Italy, go make some good money there, work in your craft a little bit, and then come sign a deal with the NBA because a lot of teams, including the Rockets, have international scouts constantly looking at professional leagues over there. So there's the three-headed monster as to why kids that you would think would be better served by playing another year at college basketball. decide to go play pro. Cool. I do appreciate it. You got it. Thanks to the phone call.

I've never been to South Padre Island in my entire life. I've lived here since 1979. I've been to Padre Island, not South Padre Island. Is there a big difference? Yeah, one's further south. Well, thank you for that,

Geography Major. Appreciate that. I'm here to help me. So you're telling me if I went to Padre Island and the South Padre, they'd be two different places. Yes. Different vibe.

I think the water is further south and the water is better. in South Padre. Let's do a show there. You want to? Yeah, why not? We can not also do. Yeah, because I went to Mustang Island.

Padre Island is more near Corpus Christi. I'm in the Mustang Island and Padre Island and Corpus Christi when I was a kid. And which would like better? It was nice. I wrote, that was the first and only time I've ridden a horse was on Mustang Island. Really? You can ride it on the beach. Yeah.

I think two things I'll never do again. The instructor was kind of attractive. That's the only thing I remember about it. How old were you? I was probably 15. Okay. I'm thinking about 15-year-old Ross on a horse. Go ahead.

No, I have nothing to say. I'm actually blind. It was fun. It was a little scary at first, but, yeah, first and only time I've ridden a horse. All right, 713-212-5-790. It's how you reach our show if you'd like to join us. 7-1-3-2-5-790. 130 is a time here on the Matt Thomas show.

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I don't watch NASCAR Ross, so I don't know if this is being, I mean, I can go to Twitter and find out what people think, but that's not a fair indication. Generally speaking to me, it looks like to me, everybody that's going on ESPN, that's what I watch for sports, is people are generally speaking very happy the Confederate flag is no longer a lot of NASCAR. Is that the majority, half and half?

How do you see it? Well, it shouldn't affect this award at all. The cars are still going to go round and round. It should be fine. I mean, I don't remember seeing Confederate flags at a Texans game or I don't remember seeing Confederate flags at a Rockets game. I don't remember seeing Confederate flags and an Astros game. There's been some SEC games.

So they should be fine. Yeah. Yeah, I will go with the people that I trust. That's the stuff I see on television, not, you know, NASCAR underscore 47 fan. You know what I mean? Yeah. Again, you can go to NASCAR and you can go to Twitter and find a different variety of responses. But I think generally speaking that the drivers have said it's been good.

And NASCAR is taking advantage of something major league baseball is not. They're getting an audience of people. that are watching that normally wouldn't watch. I'm not one of them because I'm doing family time and stuff, but I bet there's some people that are watching NASCAR that haven't before because there's been no live sports. Would that be fair to say? I don't know.

I haven't been, I haven't gravitated towards it at all, but I guess probably somebody since I play golf. I enjoy watching the majors. I don't have a huge interest in watching Colonial. I just don't. I mean, I'm ready for my meat and potatoes of my football,

my basketball, my baseball. Watching golf just makes me want to play golf. Makes me miss, because I mean a few years ago, I was playing golf a few times a week, or at least hitting balls a few times a week and then going on the weekends. Watching golf makes me want to go take you to a putt putt and play skins. Oh, you want to do that? Yeah. Let's go.

We can live stream it. Let me ask you this before go back to the phones. Are there gimmies in put putt putt? No. Under any circumstance. No circumstance. You must finish the hole. Agree.

Do you, are you the, are you the putt putt player that you start the hole you finish her? Or does everybody take the shot and then you go down to where the other part of the hole is and then finish your thing? No, everybody goes at the same, every same time. But what if I can knock you off? Oh, I can. Yeah. If you win the hole, you get to go, you go first and the next hole. Okay.

So you can, if I got a good spot in my putt putt putt by the windmill. No, on the other side of the windmill. Yeah. You can knock me back in the windmill if you could. Yes. Okay. It's a fair game, baby. I think, I think Put Putt Putt's game would be.

I've done it. A former radio partner and I would play on a seminar regular basis. We were both not married at the time. We used to play at Mountasia over an I-10 in Derry Ashford. Mount Asia. Yeah. That's funny. I think it's Mount Asia.

Yeah. No, yeah. I love Mount Asia. The first date I ever went on was it to Mount Asia. We would carry the skin over. Yeah. There was the four of us. And there was a $25, $30 hole.

and 24-year-old Matt Thomas, that was a $25 for a hole was, that was, that was, what? Excuse me? $25 to make a shot in the hole. There's just no good way to see it to say that, is there? A little bit of pressure, frankly. There's a pressure for you to make it, make the hole. Yes. For $25.

I mean, I can remember, I think I've lost, I think the most ever lost, probably was $70. That's good. That's fine. That's fun. It's a lot of money to be. A little extra pressure. Put a little skin in the game. Literally, I'm in.

Me and you, we could film it. Yes. Do we want a for some? For some? Like me, you. On a put-putt? This is kind of different. Okay.

And we could have... Who's on whose team? Is it show versus a show? No, no, no. That's two versus them two? No, I think it... That would be like, that would be a best ball. Okay.

I'm thinking just straight-up skin games. Okay. We can do something to entertain the people. That's true. I don't get the people watching. Or we can put up videos or pictures of Instagram models on the what's on Matt's Mine That's probably going to be a much more effective, Matt. Judging from the data that we have,

we're exploding. Somebody is. What's her name today? Well, today was Ariana Blanco. Yeah, and yesterday was? Well, two days ago was Katie Bell. And she's still doing very well. The people just love Katie Bell.

On the what's on Matt's Mine show page, SportsTalk 790.com. Perfect. You know what? We did so well in South Padre Alley. We're going to stay along the coast. Okay. We're the number one coasts.

Station in America. Larry and Galveston, Larry, how are you? Man, I'm doing great. How about yourself? Not bad. Hey, I got two really good questions for you. I'll be the judge on whether they're good questions or not. Okay.

First of all, with the reduced game, I'm at the league baseball this year, contracts for them to be negotiated with, and second of all, if Major League Baseball only ends up playing like 48 or 50 or maybe 60 games, does that count against A.J. Hinch and Jeff Luno as far as being out of Major League Baseball for one year, and that's all I got. All right. Stay in the line here. Second question is, yes, this counts as a suspension year for Luno and Hinch.

even if there's zero games somehow. Yeah, it's a calendar year of suspension, not a season suspension. Secondly, if you're talking about service time, the answer is yes, that these players are all gaining, so if they play a 46 games, let's say a 50 game schedule, if they play the preponderance of a 50 game schedule, they'd be earning a full year of service time. We're in years past, they would have to play a fraction of a 162 game schedule. So yes, service time comes into play, which means, George Springer and Mookiee Betts, when this season is over with,

will be free agents having six years of service time in Major League Baseball. Wow. And what about Michael Brantley and all the rest of the guys? Same deal. Same deal. Yep. No, there's no, this only counts for half a year of towards your contract, which means next year, even if they don't play,

Josh Reddick and Michael Brantley are free agents. agents. And I would also, I think also it was Yuleigorello, it would be afraid you next year, too, if I'm not mistaken. I'll look into the contracts. You're absolutely right. Yeah. There's quite a few. The asteros, James Click, the new general manager, has going to have an amazing amount of work ahead of him this offseason. Wow. How about that, Larry? What do you? I think it stinks. All right. Hey, do me a fairly. I've taken two calls today, both have coming from Island cities. Can I somebody in the 7-13, the 281 to call the show today, Larry?

Can you call our friends? Take care, man. We'll see you later. I appreciate it. All right, bye. There's nothing wrong with the island people, man. We love the island people. We got a guy who calls from Tiki Island a lot. Yeah. We get him.

Who else we need? Corporates Christy, come on in the show. Yes, Mustang Island. Maybe the girl that I, the instructor, the horse instructor from Mustang Island is listening. Gabby. Okay. What about that strip club? Is that strip club still there on the cusp of Gobbles Island? Oh, the... What's that place?

What is the terrible ocean-y funny name? On the left side of there on 45 as you're going in, right past Dich Island. I've heard that it's quite disgusting. I have never been in my entire life. It's called like the Ocean Club or something like that. Ocean Cabaret. Is it still open? It's close.

They open at 7 o'clock. Tonight? Yeah, you can get there after the show. Very busy. You can go get some crabs. Lobster, crawfish, sea bass, Trout. 71321. I don't think they surf fish.

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790. So talking a lot about the Major League baseball and the issues that they're having, getting everything together. They continue to try to get something hammered out. Apparently, according to Bob Nightingale, they're going to need to do something by next week. Otherwise, we will

see the triggering of a season by one Rob. Manfred, probably 48 to 50 games. somewhere in that neighborhood. The NBA, of course. Everything's seeming hunky-dory there, but you have the news coming out today that they're moving it up one day,

and now Shams Sharaniam, and putting out a couple of tweet, or one tweet right just now, says sources. The NBA is planning to allow teams to bring up 17 players per roster, including two ways into the resume season. Previous estimate was a 15-player limit.

So you're going to get a couple extra people there, Matthew. Which means Chris Clemens and Isaiah Hartonsonstein are thrilled. about this. All right. You can't wait now. Well, they're getting more money. Well, that's true. Right. What were they going to be doing otherwise? That's a great question. Hanging out in the Valley?

17. Now, Mike Dan Tony said just the other day that he might expand his rotation to be perhaps as money as nine. Yes. Which would be really I don't believe that when I see it. Don't hesitate on that. Come on. If I see it, I'll see it. I'll believe it. All right. How about the, how about all the age talks? with the Rockets, Dan Tony, Greg Popovich of San Antonio, Alvin Gentry of New Orleans, other assistant coaches along the league that are the 60 plus.

Is they going to have to sign some kind of waiver? Are they going to have to wear masks? Would it bother you if a coach wore a mask while coaching the game? No, it wouldn't bother me. It was going to bother him. That's the question. I mean, how do you yell at officials effectively with a mask on? I guess you can get away with some things, right?

That's true. They can't read your lips. You can drop as many F-bombs as you want, and they're not going to catch it on TV. that she might catch it on the crowd mics. And then he got a technical foul called against you. And you're like, I didn't say that. Right. The mask muffled it.

Because you know, in the four years that coach Dan Tony and I, you know, I'm right in front of him or right behind him. I've never heard him swear directly in an official. I've heard him swear because he's upset about something happening. But I've never heard him go, you blank, blank, blank, blank, blank. That's good because he's smart. He knows how to worry. That's not the way you work the officials is treating him like trash. Now, other coaches in the league.

Like, I tell you, Tom Tibido again. And I know his name keeps being circulated for jobs. Oh, he wants the rocket's job, he said. Did he really directly say that? I don't know if it directly. Via sources, maybe. That's not nice. Guys are, you can't go for a job that's not open yet.

But that man, he walks in a court swearing. He's a bad one. Luke Walton, I tell you that, Luke Walton's a terrible swear. Yeah, you did say that. So, yeah, Tom Thibodeau, according to Mark Berman. No, not our Mark Berman. Of the New York Post. That's what I thought.

Mark Berman's chasing down. Jenny Fuchs. Jenny Fuchs stories. Yeah, ingestion stories. Mark Berman at the New York Post said that the Rockets, what? He says that the Rockets are interested in Tom Thibodeau if Mike Dantone doesn't make it. Craig Ackerman swears by him. And I trust Craig.

Yeah. Well, while he was with the Minnesota Timberwolves, they were some. somebody looked it up. They were like 30th, 30th, and 29th in three-point attempts or something like that. That wouldn't be the case here if you were in Houston. That doesn't sound like a Darrell-Mory hire because I think he's going to be, he's going to be a stat-based, and this team is built on threes, unless you're changing who the rockets are going to be long-term. I mean, he was here under Darryl-Mory, right? Yeah, as an assistant. So does there got to be some kind of relationship there?

Well, I mean, I think probably, I bet Tom could talk, has Darry-More's number. Maybe he'll come back and be an assistant for Jeff Van Gundy again when Jeff Van Gundy comes back and coaches the Rockets. But see, I have to step out of this for a second. I'm not, I don't want Mike Dan Tony to leave. You don't have to step out and have an opinion, Matt. No, I'm going to tell. Here's my opinion. I want Mike D.

He might. Okay. Well, assuming his contract expires because he's not under contract. That's right. Then what would happen? What if Mike Dantonee announces his retirement? We'll put it that way. I know it's not going to happen.

I don't think he wants. No. That's not in play. I've told you this before. If Mike D'Antoony is not coaching the Rockets next year, he's coaching somewhere in the NBA. I firmly believe he will get another one more. Where, though? Well, I mean, let's think about possibilities that could open.

I think Chicago's going to be potentially open. Brooklyn is still open. I think... Brooklyn, I think. I think Scotty Brooks might be on thin ice in Washington. Well, as he should be. Who else am I thinking about it? That would be...

I don't think New Orleans. I don't think Phoenix. Ooh, Mike Dantonee, New Orleans? No. he and average enter are tights. I don't think he would take that. If he gets fired, it's not his fault. It's not like he's going to go wrestle it away from him.

Wait a minute. Mike Dantone's style, I don't know. I mean, look, Zion Williamson might be one of those once-in-a-lifetime kind of guys. But the general thinking of a Mike Dantone offense is having guards that can shoot. Not having a low post threat. I don't know. That's a good team, though. Got Lonzo.

Lonzo can shoot. Lonsos is the goat, some people in the room would say. Yeah, I know. they're wrong, but that's okay. My son is in the room with us, and he loves every member of the ball family, which is, I think I failed as a parent. I really, at the end of the day, I've just failed.

That's fine. Well, you can pay for his trip when Lanzo gets into the basketball Hall of Fame. He's not getting in. Oh. Name a ball that we'll get in. Maybe Lamello. How about Lavear as a contributor? No.

No, he don't think so. Maybe Fox Sports One wants to put him in their Hall of Fame, because he comes on their shows all the time and says stupid stuff. On the show, we got a great guest list today. Joining us, LaBar Ball and Mike Lupica. I mean, that's a good team, though. We've got Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram. Of course, the Longhorn Great, Jackson Hayes.

Is Drew Holiday still on that team? Drew Holiday, yes. Is he a free agent, though? I forget. That's the name I have to put on there. It's not spelled by normal Drew. I have to put on my scorecard. Yes.

D-R-E-W, just so I don't mispronance. J-J-R-R-D-E-D-E-R-E-D-E. That's a good squad. But isn't he a one-year contract, though? Yeah, well, I don't remember. I don't think so. I think it's a multi-year deal. You know, JJ Reddick is an answer to a question of name the current...

He's answered a lot of questions. Name the current NBA player who's been the most consecutive playoff appearances. Who is JJ Reddick? Who is J.J. Reddick. Oh, dang. You would have thought LeBron clearly, right? Well, yeah, they didn't make it last year. They didn't make it last year.

They ended the street. He's under contract for another year after this one, JJ Redd. Oh, is he? See, the Rockets have always tried to kick the... I think he'd be perfect for the Rockets. The problem is by the time he's a free agent, he may not be. Well, they can't afford them because they put a bunch of max players all in their roster, and then they can't afford any solid role players.

But he makes great money, though, right? And he's 15 plus? 13. 13. Okay. So I was off by a million. 713-212-5-79. If you want to get out on the show day, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90.

We are with you till 3 o'clock this afternoon. So, yeah, the NBA is going to bring up to 17 players. So that's 17 times. Do your quick math. 17 times 22 teams. Oh, gosh. I have no clue. 354?

300. And you're exactly right. Yeah, right? You've H math kicking in. That's what I'm talking about right there. Usually you forget to carry all your ones and stuff. So that's 354. That's 22 coaches.

It's probably two or three assistants per team. That's, I think. Would they figure the campus would be? No, it's more than 354, I think. It's like 374. Okay, I was off by 20. Now, look it up on your country. That's fine.

Yeah, 3-74. Okay, so what's that campus? About 1,000 people, give or take? They said 1,600. But it's going to dwindle. It won't increase ever. No. And a lot of them are going to leave right away.

Because you're going to go down from 22 to 16 teams as soon as the regular seasons. Yeah, and then seven games after that, you're going down to eight. And you believe they're going to play a seven-game playoff series in each of the series? That's great. It's wonderful. It's good for the, well, it's good for playoff revenues. You know what it does? It also makes it a little more authentic, too.

Yeah, it makes it more authentic. and then you can sell that to the local affiliates who are involved, and you can also sell that, of course, to the TNT. Yeah, and TNT, NBA, TV, ESPN. And again, if you have not heard, they're going to move the season up to July 30th, a Thursday, which does make sense for perhaps the back end of a TNT doubleheader, the Rockets in the Los Angeles Lakers.

Just calling a prediction on that one, because the Rockets' first game, if they're going to stick to this eight-game schedule, would be a game against the Lakers and technically a road game. 156, final hour of the Matt Thomas show, a half hour away from some non-Florida stories. And your phone calls at 713-212-5-790. Ross, let's irritate the audience to start the next hour

by playing a bunch of Rob Manfred Soundbites. Okay, we're finally not going to start an hour with Jiddy Fuchs. I got youngings in the room here. They're fine. They're of age. Yeah, but you're still going to be careful. We don't want to give the terrible dirt about her life and her... I'll talk to Mark Berman about it. Her ingestion patterns.

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fastest growing sports game show. And our friends at Hooters are going to drop some gift cards off for our winners next week. So very excited about that. We were to Zoom. We have people going to restaurants again. We've got stadiums opening up. And then we have, believe it or not, return. Are we just going to do one for like every person that has died since the last time we did, believe it or not? You have to explain it. It's been a lot, hasn't it? hasn't it? Like we kept, celebrities kept dying and we're like, oh, we need to do believe it or not for this person or that person, we just haven't had the game.

Well, who, okay. Bill Withers has passed. Yes. Who else? I'm trying to remember. It seems like there's been a number of them. Okay. Well, just save it because it's...

Wasn't there an actor that die? Like, uh, uh, what's his name? A Jerry Stiller died? Jerry Stiller. That's right. So, yeah, save this. That's not a terrible idea for, believe it or not, had they died? It's a morbid topic.

Let's come back to Jenny Fuchs. Matt. No, let's go to more. We need to cool your jets on that story. I won't mention it again, swear. Yeah, okay. Let's get to something that's really going to irritate some people. What's that?

We even heard from Rob Manfred in an hour. Oh, great. I was just wondering if you're going to have some audio right now. Go for it. Here's Rob Manfred on the counterproposal that the owners are going to make to the players. We're going to be making. a responsive proposal to the proposal that we received late last night. It will be another significant move in the players' direction in terms of the salary issue that has kept us apart. And we're hopeful that it will produce reciprocal movement from the Players Association that

will see a number other than 100% on salary and some recognition that 89 games, given where we are in the calendar and the course of the pandemic is not realistic. So did he say we're going to give a responsive response to the response? In that so many words? Basically. I like what he says are there about he's hoping they're going to come off their 100% thing because the players have been steadfast in their 100% pro rata, as the kids are calling it these days. So they haven't backed off about that.

They're going to try to inch closer and they're hoping that the players would back off the full 100% at some point. If you were to make a prediction and we have no foundation, either one of these, but just making, who backs off first? Do the owners pay the full 100? Or do you think the players say, all right, we want to play more? We'll take 80% or 90% of our prorated salary. I'd have to think, I'm going to go on the evidence that we've seen. We haven't seen the players back off. So I'm going to say they're going to stand strong and they're not going to back off on that. I think we're going to go to what is basically the fail-safe nuclear option is is the 48 games or 50 whatever games by Rob Manfred.

Just by looking at this, it looks bleak to me. So how are we supposed to sell that to our baseball audience when we're disgusted by it? Games are on, let's watch them? I don't know. Yeah, that's exactly what it would be. Listen, right here on Sports Talk 790. Well, I mean, as I said in the first out of the show, we're going to still talk about them. We're going to still figure out what that five-man rotation is all about. but it doesn't really matter.

This year is a wash. You know, we talked about how we want to see Kyle Tucker play and Forrest Whitley play. Do we really even have time for those guys to really develop? I mean, that 48 games is better than zero. What else are they going to do? But those are the Arizona Fall League? Well, I mean, every game means 10 times more, right?

Well, I'm not a little 10 times more. I don't need Kyle Tucker to bet 209 in the first two weeks of the season. That means that Josh Redick, might be better off playing on a shorter season, that you're not going to want to give up playing time to Kyle Tucker because at least Josh Rodick's been there and done that. It's going to cost you that much more. I get what you're saying.

I don't know. I mean, Josh James, short sample size. What's his name? Flame James? Josh Flames, James. Throws 100 miles an hour for three innings. The fourth inning? Six strikeouts into verse three,

three walks into fourth inning. We had him on. Remember at spring training? We were getting all, We were doing actual baseball stories. He was thinner. He was stout and profiling. You know, delivery changes.

Everybody's always changing their batting stance and their delivery in spring training. We always hear about that. So I was excited for Josh James. He was going to compete for a starter spot. Because think about this, as long as we've been talking about baseball, whether we were kids or as adults or as sportscasters, we've never worried about the first 40, 50 games of a baseball season ever. We have, I mean, didn't the nationals last year? Weren't that like 19 and 331?

19 and 31 in the first 50 games. You do that. This go around, you're not going to the playoffs. You're not defending your World Series trophy. And you are not thinking about it on a postseason. I don't care how many games are expanding a playoff. Well, that's why we're putting the asterisk on. And I think this will be one that will stay for a long time.

I think this will be one that you won't have to, it won't wear off. No, you'll never take it off. Like in the baseball books, like there are people that have an asterisk next to Barry Bonds. Not everybody does. there are some people that have an asterisk next to the 1999 San Antonio Spurs. Doesn't mean everybody does, but some people do. There will be no one that follows baseball for one second that won't think this thing is littered in just cheesiness and gimmicky. I mean, any term that you want to have, that would be the anti-authentic is what the 2020 season is.

And Ross, it might have been that way from the get-go unless they would have played 115 games like they're supposed to, when this original conversation began. But the owners have won a no part of that. Yeah, especially if you do the 58 game thing and then you have everybody getting in and the three-game series to start the playoffs, it's going to be weird. It's going to be, I think gimmicky is the right word to use.

It's just not going to feel like regular baseball. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to watch it. I mean, are we going to care 24 games into a 48-game season? Are we going to be somewhat trying to pretty much forgetting about the whole negotiations and all that type of stuff? And we'll just be talking about the pitching matchup that day. Oh, I think we'll talk about the games. Because that's what we're supposed to do.

But when we tell our kids' kids about the 2020, and you'll say, you wouldn't believe what they tried to do. We had this awful pandemic back in 2020. And when we had an opportunity... Much like the one in 2027. Oh, shut. And a little bit similar to the one in 2035. What?

Don't speak of these things. It could happen, Matt. People just got to stop eating bats. Next thing you're going to tell me is you're going to tell me is you're going to time we're going to another hurricane, the 800-year-old storm. It's, yeah, how come we have a 400-year flood every five, every five months? I don't know. We've had enough of the once-in-a-lifetime still lasts as a lifetime.

Like, remember last week there was supposed to be some asteroid supposed to land? There's an asteroid coming? Yeah, it was supposed to hit the Statue of Liberty. Oh, stop. I'm not lying. What? Brandon, have my back on this, please. Tell me I'm not telling the truth.

I don't remember. Where you? Oh, you're not. What a doubt you said? Yes, Matt, I remember reading that story myself. I did see a story about an asteroid, but I think you made up to Statue of Liberty Bay. Yeah, were you on Info Wars or something? What were you doing?

Is that where I'm supposed to go? No. No, we had an asterisk. We had an asteroid. We were supposed to destroy the country. You were listening to Coast to Coast or something is what it was. Well, I might be. Let me take something.

When you lose money in Lake Charles, you find alternative things to do. Yeah, okay. In your room, listen to the Internet. It happens. The Matt Thomas Show podcast. You were checking out our show. I appreciate you, Matt. I didn't hear a word you said.

Oh, that's fine. That's okay. Yeah, there is nothing more depressing. And these young men to my left will know this someday. Nothing more depressing than going to your hotel room at 10 o'clock in Lake Charles, Louisiana. All right. Well, sticking to baseball, Matthew, how about Rob Manfred and exercising the right of the amount of games to be played? I would prefer to negotiate a new agreement with the MLBPA that gets us more games and resolves the issues that have separated us amicably.

but at the end of the day, we negotiated for the right in March to start the season on a number of games that we select in these particular circumstances. And if we have to, we'll exercise that right. How cold and artificial does that sound? That's like we have that 48 game schedule in our back pocket and we ain't changing. And we have that. At the end of the day, we can force you to come play. That's, I mean, it's their Trump cards. So why?

So why would they want to negotiate? Why would the owners at this point want to do? Extending goodwill to the players and negotiating in good faith and doing so, also knowing that the new CBA is looming in next year. And also knowing that you might have to come to the table and do a similar type of negotiation if there's a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which people are talking about that possibly happening. What are we going to get? We get 60? Do you think we'll get 60? I think over.

How do you think our callers will be the day that we have, we have. officially tell them how many games they're going to be. Do you think they're going to be like, oh, this is great, I can't wait? You'd have to be happy that anything's happening at this point, right? I would. I'm going to be. So when the owners ultimately, and you may be right, you may convince me the other direction. So when the owners ultimately say, we were unable to negotiate a contract, we were unable, we're bringing the players back for a 48 game season, let's go. You think people are going to be excited about that? I don't know. I know that, I know that, I think there will be some sort of compromise.

I don't think it's going to be 48. I would go over that number. Or 50 or whatever. The league triggering it, I don't think is going to happen. I think there will be some sort of mutual agreement. For how many games? I don't know. There's going to be a...

They have to compromise. How? You and I have to. You have to. This show, we recorded this on June, on May 19th. I swear we did. Yeah, we did. Because nothing's changing.

Every time I hear a proposal, it's like, that doesn't come close. closer to it. That's just a different way of saying the same exact thing you said two weeks. That's what the baseball is doing. At least the players have been consistent. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Non-Florida stories coming up in about 18 minutes. It's the Matt Talmoschew on Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-79. 7-1-3-2-1-2-5-7-90 on Twitter

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Non-Florida. Oh, the Florida stories were plentiful yesterday. Do you feel like we need to... Let's say that thing is that every radio show does Florida stories. we separate ourselves by doing the but it's harder work. You leave that low-hanging fruit. I'm here to pick it up, baby.

See, I'll do Florida story history. Yes, we did. What was your story about? Oh, there was a man who was allowed a 12-year-old girl to drive 85 miles an hour in his Jeep and also bought her vape pens because he wanted to be a quote, cool father. And where was this?

And he wasn't even his daughter. Jupiter, Florida. Ooh, like where Robert Crawford was. Right now your old hunt, Orchids of Asia, yeah. You were there with you. You were there with me. I've never been there. Next year for spring training, because you went with me this year. We'll go up.

We'll do a Facebook live from Orgards of Asia. We'll do a Robert Kraft tour? Well, I say, have you all seen the owner of the Patriots around here lately? I'm sure they've had to deal enough with that. Is that place even still open? I'd rather not Google it on company. Yeah, because then you look at your search habits. Yeah, that's not good.

Well, those are already pretty bad because of the show. Yeah, that's true. All right. And then this will be the final Joe, episode of the non-floor stories. I know. Joaquina sent him a farewell party or buy me like a Mike Ditkut cake or something? We'll be less judgy of his story.

I'm never judgy, Matt. I'm extremely judging. I know. You're so hard on the young fella. And then, Brendan, you're on your turns next. I'm assuming every one of your stories will be from Detroit, right? Because you're from Michigan, just like me. I would tell you, I have a good source for non-flora stories. I shared it with Joe today. So let's tell you. Really? Okay. Well, don't tell us because I don't want to

pick you your fruit. No, you won't touch it. Okay. Let's go to Jeff in Brookshire on the Matt Thomas show Jeff what's going on Matt I'm glad you're back I hope you had a good time I'm going this weekend

to lose all my money Good I'm telling you they're going to take your money from you I don't mean to me rude Jeff but they're there there are wolves down there in Lake Charles wolves Okay okay look

Now look One thing I love about your show You're pretty much ain't afraid to speak your mind And you're all over the board Which is good That's how American should be but we all know, and y'all know this because, well, Matt, I know you're more of my age,

so you've been around the block a few times, so you know that Major League Baseball and all this talk of some more coronavirus only has to do with one thing, and that's the, that's who's in office. That's all that's about. And y'all know that as well as I do. Y'all can't say it, but I can't. Oh, hold on. Before you go any further, because I'm very confused. President Trump is not negotiating the contract between the players and the owners. He's got other fish to fry like turning himself reelected. So I would say- No, no, I realize that.

Okay. I'm talking more about, I'm talking about they're saying there's more corona cases and all that. I don't believe that. Okay. Because, you know, as fans, we want our sports back. And I know as some politicians said today, what we allow this country to go through when this pandemic happens. It ain't going to happen again because 20 years down the road, especially you younger guys, this economy is going to hurt you worse than the damn pandemic did it did.

So you're telling, hold on, let me get this right. Hopefully we get it together. All right. So you're telling me if the country hires or Alexa Democrat, the virus goes away. It's going down to tubers. I guarantee you. Huh. I guarantee it will.

All right. Something on. Thank you, Jeff. I appreciate the phone call. Shout out to everybody in Brookshire. Wrong. So the, so let me,

again, we don't talk politics in the show, but he's brought up a little bit of an interesting tale. You are fake news. So, Democrat in office, no Rona. Democrat in office,

economy, everybody's back to work. Because you'd be in jail. Trump reelected, continued Rona. And that's something that Nazi Germany would have done, and did do. Continued social distancing.

I love this country. Continued face mask. I think it's a disgrace. Continued 50% occupancy in restaurants. We have some bad umbraes here and we're going to get them out. Continued six people at the crats table. That's it. Believe me.

Ross? There is a lot. a political show in this country, that we'll give it the way we just give it to you here. So, according to Jeff, yes. And I think Jeff is,

fair to, I mean, again, we don't talk politics in a show. I'm kind of proud of it. Yes. But I'm only going off of what Jeff said. Hire a Democrat,

and thus, the virus goes away. To me, that's very personal. You're like a kid to candy store. I haven't been doing great. You mean to tell me,

after all these months, we don't have fresh Trump soundlights? I just paid one that was very Oh, did you really? That was fresh. Yeah. You see you're not paying attention, Matt. All right.

Speaking of that, do you watch the daily presidential press meetings? Is he still doing those? No, he's not. Okay. Well, yeah, then I'm not watching them. I never was. Have you met, have you, have you, how do I put this? The press secretary?

Uh, what, no. The blonde? Well, no. What's her, what's her story? She's, she goes after the reporters, too, big time. I don't know her name. But I want her on my side no matter what case I have. She's ferocious.

I don't know what her name is. Okay. But I could watch her for 20 minutes. Her and Jim Acosta from CNN, I don't even know why I know his name, but I do. They fight every single day. He's from the fake news media. So says the press. All right.

So just I don't know what her name is, but she is, it's not Kelly Ann Conway. It's somebody goes. Kelly and Conway? You like her? No, no, no. It's the press secretary. You guys, what's her name, Kaylee? Kaylee McKinney.

Oh yeah, Kaylee, Macanan. Macanney? I mean, she, a little easy on the eyes as well, if you're into that corner of the sort of thing. To be expected. But she's ferocious. Go get her YouTube rabbit hole with her. I think I'm going to. Go ingest some of her material.

What insanity did Kaylee McAnney just suggest? White House Defends Trump tweet. She's nuts. I mean, she's good nuts. Excuse me? You know, I mean, she's like, she, you go over the point of her, and she comes, she has like pages of material order to attack you right back. Oh, good. So she's smart.

Yeah, she's all right. Let's, uh, before we get to the non-flora story, say how to Terry and Katie. Hi, Terry. Hey, Mr. Thomas, how you doing today, sir? I'm well. Please call me, Matt. What's going on? Okay, good.

Hey, got quick question for you. Uh, Saturday night, I happen to see you at a little local establishment, Lopez, Mexican restaurant. My question to you is I respected I mean I saw you I pointed at you I made eye contact but I respected

to enough not to go over and bother you while you were eating Where was I at Saturday? Was it in Lopez Mexican restaurant? No, I think I went to

I went to big I think it was a big city wings on Saturday Good thing you didn't approach him Yeah I have not at Oh No Lupi Tortillas is where I went

Not Lopez Not Lopez. Okay. Well, anyway, just made my apologize for me. I'm not mistaken you then. But my question is this, how are you when it comes to people coming up and, you know, hey, Mr. Thomas, how are you doing? How are you doing? You know, love your show. I mean, does that bother you? No. No. I like that. I, I, uh, it's funny because Bo Jackson has made it a point. Now, granted, Bo Jackson is, what would you say, Ross, 25 million times more popular than I am? I was going to say 17 trillion. He does not like it. It doesn't bother me at all. In fact, Matt loves the attention. No, it's not. To go right to him. Stop.

No, I would rather, I've had so many people, and I'm not saying this to be braggadocious. I mean, please don't take this as way. But I've had a lot of people over the years say, I was at this particular restaurant or this place. And I wanted to come say hello, but I was afraid to. I've never been afraid to say hello to him. But I greatly appreciate my listeners and people that support me in the show. So there's never been a bad moment that I've ever said, please leave me in my family. alone. So next time, Terry,

you and I are at Lopez Restaurant, which I don't even know where that is, come by and say hello. Because I think you just mistake me for another ball, man, but I'm not offended by it at all. Because I was with my family, my two kids, I was like, I opened up your Facebook page. Is this not him? They're like, yeah, that's him, that's him. When was this again on Saturday or Friday?

It was a Friday night? It might have been Friday night. It was a part of town. What part of town? I don't they're off of what I would get towards Richmond 99 on Rich Ben between Richmond and Kate. No, I live in Kingwood, so that was not me. That would have been an awful conversation you would have had, but that would have

been, you have to go back to Lopez to take a picture of that guy and see if he's as handsome as I am. He's not as handsome. You thought he was. Thank you, Terry, for the nice words. And please, if we ever see each other on the north side of town, come say hello, all right? I apologize. All right, buddy.

See you later. Was that LaBeres, went across street over, crossing the Nugget. To change the LeBairs? To change things up a little bit. Oh, you wanted to change your luck. Didn't work out.

Yeah. Guy says, hey, Matt, and I see you here. I heard you were coming. I said, yeah. And he goes, I haven't seen you since the 20,000 party. He says,

you were trashed. Yes, I was. I was. Was that three years ago now at this point? I'm losing so many followers that we may have another 20,000 party. Yeah, if you get down a 20,000, We'll have another party. That'd be great.

Instead of going up to 30, I'm dropping down to 20. All right, non-Florida stories next. It's the Matt Thomas show on Sports Talk 790. 7-1-3-212-5-790 if you want to chime in before they close the show. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Back with those non-Florita stories next. To speak on H-Town Sports, you have to live H-town Sports. Sorry, ESP in Connecticut.

This is Houston Sports. Sports Talk 790. Time for us for some non-Flority stories. Brendan, we're going to give you the option here of judging which of the three of us has the best Florida story. Non-flora story. You're carrying a large responsibility today, my friend. Yeah, no pressure. Good luck.

Here we go. I'm going to start out. Mine's the lame list. Literally none. None. Dateline Arnold, Pennsylvania. Shane Lindsay's 32 years old, gentlemen. Yes.

She was arrested. After police said he entered a Citizens Bank on 5th Avenue and handed a teller a note demanding money. Just a good old-fashioned robbery. So the teller gave Lindsay a bag of money, and he ran from the bank, just as normal people do. Yeah, everything's fine at this point. Interesting. The teller described Lindsay to police who were able to use a surveillance camera in a nearby

restaurant to track him down. Police said after the robbery, Lindsay was hungry and entered Easer's restaurant, ordered some biscuits and went to the men's room where he removed the black coat and hood he wore during the robbery. He returned to the dining room, sat at a table where he eventually was arrested after eating the biscuits. Police found Lindsay's discarded clothing and a bag of money in the restaurant's bathroom. According to records, Lindsay told police he needed the money

because he had recently lost his job and, quote, doesn't have anything going for him. He is going to serve two to four years in prison. The question I have, gentlemen, is, If you're going to rob, and I've never robbed anything before my life. Never. With the exception of that one beverage. Well, yeah, you steal Coke from H.E.B. all the time, Matt.

One time. That's not robbery, I guess. You stole a Coke from HV? Not stole. It's petty larceny. I purchased over $200 with the groceries and was thirsty. Petty theft. And you just walked out of it.

No, I forgot to pay for it. Margins are insanely thin. At grocery stores, Matt. Yeah, I forgot. You can air-cored it. That's fine. Forgot. That's fine.

Point being is this. Was it at least a regular Coke? No, it was like it was a regular Coke? It was like the... Dr. B. Cola. It was like $0.25. I'm spending $200 at your grocery store. The least you knew is give me a fresh beverage.

That's not how it works. I know it's all fancy Matt lives. That's right. Somewhere H.E. Buddy is shaking his head, Matt. All right. So my point is this. If you're going to rob something, do you run to a local restaurant

and have a couple of biscuits before you decide to take off? If you're hungry... Yeah, you got to eat before the robbery, Matt. But you don't want to be too tired. You got to be fully awake. Do you want to be carbolole? If you're going to chase police, don't you want a carbload before the arrest?

I feel like I want a beer after, not biscuits. Yeah, biscuit. I think I'm going to a bar. Paribiscus. Straight to the bar. He needs rent money, Joe. So Lindsay says, I'm going to celebrate my robbery by going to have some fresh dough. What restaurant did you go to?

That was a terrible job. Like a bojangles or what? No, it was something called. Inseers Restaurant. Eezers. E-A-Z-E-R. Matter of fact, I'll look up some of the items at Eezer's Restaurant. You guys go to your story.

First you get the menu for us. Okay. By the way, this is not my last non-floor story. Why? It's not? No, because Ross is out next Thursday. Oh, that's right. Oh, okay.

You're out next week. You can't take any time off. What are you talking about? Oh, I'm out, baby. Eezer's restaurant. It's a delicate test in, too. Between now and July 30th. Oh, here's the menu.

Okay. You go, what are you going with, Ross is you going for? Do you want me to go? Yeah, go ahead, Joseph. By the way, real quick. Uh-oh. Breadded provolone sticks are 325. Quite affordable.

Caesar salad is $5.50s? That sounds good. Ham salad sandwich, $2.95. These are really cheap. Like a little diner? Black Angus cheeseburger, $3.90. Oh, these are like Masters prices. There's something called an Ezer Burger, which is a double cheeseburger,

served on a homemade Syrian bread with all the trimmings, available with American provolone or Swiss for just $4.90. This is a great value. Syrian bread? Yeah. You don't like pita bread. basically. Okay. All right, Ross, who's who's going? I guess I can go.

I can go. I'm just disappointed. I have money on Rohar and McElroy and he's only even. Are you betting golf seriously? You got to be ashamed to yourself. Oh no, I love betting golf. The odds are great. Yeah, all you got to do is one. Even like when Jordan Speeth won, the Masters, and he was the odds

on favor, it was like plus 250. Like there's, it's great odds in golf at all time. I just go to the field every time. Well, like instead, what, Tiger? Yeah. You can't go with a field. You can't make a field bed.

This is not a crap statement, man. You can't. There's not a go to do not pass lane. Way too soon. A woman arrested in Wisconsin for stealing a car. Not just a car. This woman was naked. And then she snuck into a police station parking lot.

Stole a police truck. Was then arrested driving down the highway for intoxication, drugs. Yeah. Didn't say where they found them. So imagination. hitting a deer, stealing a police car, prostitution, and she stole the car, was going like 85 down the highway in Wisconsin, got busted. But if you're going to steal a car, why a police car?

Explain why she was naked? It just says prostitution. She was just naked when they found her. But she was naked on the police cam footage. So she, like, jumped over the fence, got the police car, naked the whole time. Did you see the video surveillance? No. It's a loss on your person.

I didn't... I mean, maybe it's in the story. If it is, what's on Matt's My Show page? I know you want to put everything on Clinton and a Wexler's page, but you could put on something on my page once in a while. We're doing it okay for this month. Yeah, we're not. Matt's only going to bring it up for the next eight years.

Did you see our numbers? I saw your numbers. Really good. I saw our numbers. I was like, oh. Yeah, work to do. Go find you an IG girl. That's all I'm saying.

My turn? Yeah. Let me take you to a McDonald's. By the way, you're going to read the story about our girl. the boxer. I can't read it? Yeah. On East Northampton Street. Yeah. In Wilkes Bar, Pennsylvania?

Yeah. I never heard of that. Okay, let's go with it. Police responded to it or a complaint at a McDonald's where a restaurant manager told police that he was filling a cup with water when he was approached by a woman named Stephanie Monte Albano who had no pants on.

She said, quote, give me that. The manager gave the cup of water to her and then she ran behind the counter in the McDonald's into the kitchen area yelling for help. She then picked up a metal pole which she used to push down garbage cans and then struck the manager in the lower legs

with the metal pole. The police showed up to the restaurant where she fled. She ran across the street to the boulevard townhomes on Wilkes Bar Boulevard Boulevard where she broke into an apartment and stole a hairbrush

off of their table while yelling, help me, they are after me to the person living in this apartment. Well, she ran away from the apartment and the police eventually

tackled her in the street and she was arrested. And a reason for the pantsless? I don't know why she wasn't wearing pants, but she wasn't. I feel like if there's someone naked or pantsless in these stories, they don't give a reason.

There's not like a post-jail Q&A of like, hey, wear your pants. She was intoxicated, obviously. She had run into traffic, causing motorists to suddenly stop. She did not seem to have, according to the report, a grasp of reality. No, duh. As she continued to ask the officers to help her. All right.

And then there you go. She was finally eventually arrested. And she had charges of burglary, simple assault, defiant trespass, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, and harassment. She was jailed at the county correctional facility because she could not. post $25,000 bear. Thank you for that non-Florida story. We will wrap up a non-Florida story with an update on a story previously broken by one Mark Berman of Fox 26.

An update? What update? It just sounds good for an update. So you want to talk? Just read the same story. Just read the story. Just read Mark Berman's tweets? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Does he have to get into the substances? Usada told the Houston Olympic boxer Ginny F. I don't know. I'm not saying her last name because that's Fuchs. Fuchs. Fuchs. Fuchs.

pass who tested positive for prohibited substance was determined to have been ingested by her in parentheses unprotected sex without fault or negligence and won't face eligibility USA boxing told Fuchs told Fuchs the

Usada sanction of no fault is the proper outcome you didn't sell that very hard no I should make a Joe for it yeah why'd you go to me I don't know just not like your voice on the air for a few more minutes Our mistake. All right.

Mistake. Great job, Joe. That's Ross. Love you, Joe. That's all right. Ross, I have a question. What's that? If I beat you in the fantasy five tomorrow, you're going to take three days off.

Yeah, man. It was your birthday. It was your favorite band of all time. You had a 3-1 lead, and you lost. And he took three days off work because of it. By the way, I've told everybody in my entire life that you had Octopus's Garden is one of your favorite five Beatles songs. and they're like, there's no way you should have lost. Why?

Because it was a garbage list. No, it wasn't. And that was a garbageiest of all. No, fine. One song you know, like the other four were strong. But the Beatles have nothing but hits top to bottom. You picked something that just wouldn't be in the top 20 of anybody's list. Well, that's on my list, and I won, so.

You say suck it. Oh, God. That's why I take days off. Yeah, you're right. I haven't been the same since. Are you recovered now? I'm fine. So tomorrow's fantasy five is you versus Ross.

Yep. The category is? He wants to do best-looking bald dudes. No, our favorite bald dudes. So am I the first selection? Fringe top ten. Fringe? Top 30. Thanks, boys.

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Rockets app for all the information. 250 is our time. Tomorrow, as anything goes Friday on the show. Brian T. Smith will be with us as well. And we have a Fantasy 5, which you will go against Joe George. Yes, because you have, you retired? Are you on a one week hiatus? I'm pissed off, frankly.

You're still upset. Yeah, I'm mad. Yeah, that's exactly right. Because you lost. Correct. The Beatles. Correct. Your favorite band of all time.

Correct. He did a Fantasy 5. And the list was far superior. Your list was superior, in my opinion. Say far superior. Clearly superior. Okay. There was a clear winner in that fight.

Tomorrow. It wasn't a disputed decision, in my opinion. Thank you. Tomorrow at noon, when we have a counteroffer to the counteroffer to the counteroffer from Major League Baseball? Tomorrow at noon. Yes. Something will happen by tonight.

Good. We'll talk about it on the nightcap. Six o'clock. No. Save it for like 8.30. Why, 8.30? So it's fresh and material for us tomorrow. I can talk about it twice.

It's what I do every day. Yeah. Talk about the same topics on two different shows. It's funny. We go back and forth between MLB and why aren't they playing. Yes. And why the NBA is so hesitant to start playing. But the NBA is way, I mean, light years ahead of where baseball is right now.

I think. I think part of the problem is, I don't know. I think the NBA has screwed up in waiting until July 35. First. There's no... But that's true. July 30th. There's no reason why those guys can't be in Florida right this second.

Right this second. If you want to quarantine... What do you think they're pushing it back then? I think there is reasons. I don't know what they are. But there has to be logistical reasons and getting everybody back and quarantining and all that type of stuff. But I mean, fly them on a plane. Yeah.

Send them in the hotel for 10 days. Put them in the bubble. Set them there. Well, then you have to have training camps. They have to get in shape and the teams have to be together. Yeah. Do the quarantining? Sounds on July 15th.

Well, do you think they wanted to get it done on July 15? But they said, you know, let's just do it two weeks later just because? Yes. Absolutely. I think the NBA has been overly cautious. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay.

Because what are they doing right now? Well, they've been in the last 30 days. And they're negotiating with the Players Association. They don't even have an agreement. Well, I don't, they don't have the, it's not written down, but they're not fighting over things. They're, the NBA is now, now that we have a new season, the NBA is putting a protocol together. And they're voicing concerns.

Some of the players are hesitant for a restart. It's not like they're waiting for people to sign off on this. It's done. The Players Association agreed to it. The owners agreed to it. They agreed to the structure. They agreed to the 22-team thing and the 8-9 seed thing in the seven-game playoff series. Yeah.

So you think there's really room for what's there to argue about? For not to happen? I don't know. Medical issues, opt-outs, high-risk opt-outs, low-risk opt-outs, voluntary opt-outs. Will I get service time? Will I get my money? I mean, probably those. types of things. Yeah, the one thing that's curious to me is there's going to be some players probably

in both baseball and basketball that are going to say, I don't want to go down there. I don't want to risk my life because of this. And whatever this is, then has to be determined how serious this is in order for them to say, that's a right decision. We're not going to penalize you because your current health conditions make it difficult for us to have you in this bubble. So that's fair. I just, I don't know, it just feels like everything from the NBA has been extraordinarily slow players. I don't think they've clearly haven't sped it up. Not that we're asking the speed up. I just don't.

I think they've been overly cautious. And maybe that's what they had to do. But major league baseball was ready to start July 4th numerous times. I think it's in the NBA's best interest to be overly cautious because they were the one that was going on. They were the ones that had the players test positive. They're the ones that were going on and had to grind all this to a halt because Rudy Gobert and company tested positive for the coronavirus. But there's a smaller group of people that are. assembling together. They found the big property in Walt Disney World. I mean, I know they're going

to be complaining about being stuck in a bubble, but the bubble is going to be, I think, fairly sizable. And I'm going to do some research tonight. I want to find out how big this bubble is. How much of the Walt Disney universe or campus, whatever you want to call it, they can actually go through. Because if they're going between, I'm assuming it's many restaurants, I'm assuming it's many hotels. I'm assuming it's many basketball courts. I don't think it's going to be 800 square feet, put it that way. Yeah, it won't be different than what we've talked about, the Olympic. big village like they would have. Probably larger.

Probably, yeah. To be honest with you. I would imagine. And here's the thing. You don't want to hear from players complaining about lack of revenue in the league if they're the first one to tell you, well, we don't want to play. Because if you don't play, these TV networks are not going to pay out. They can't have their cake.

Yeah. And eat it too. How much everything is legitimate concern? How much you think if they're just divas? I think it's an individual basis. So there could be some divas in the mix. I think there are some divas. And I think, I mean, if the Timberwolves were coming back and Carl Anthony Town says,

I don't want to come back. How are you going to tell him, no, you're going to come back? Well, that's why I think he seems going to be a baby or something. They're going to have their own individual. Or Dwight Howard, who had a baby's mother, one of his baby's mothers die from the complications of coronavirus. I didn't know that. Yeah. Wouldn't that happen?

A month ago or something? Really? I did not know that. Dwight Howard says, this is very serious and I don't want to come back. I guess it would be, hey, you don't get paid or I don't know. I think if you opened it. up and said you can go anywhere you want to in Orlando. Don't have to be out in quarantine for 10 days.

I think the answer would be a lot different. I think to me, Ross, the biggest thing for them is we're afraid once we get to Orlando and once we get to the campus, we're not going to be able to leave. And they get frightened some people. Because whether or not you think it's right or not, it's a slight form of incarceration, right? But it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's not, it's going to be luxurious food.

They're not going to attract the players, they said. But they're going to have great facilities, clean, clean, clean, clung on this everywhere. They're going to be overly cautious when it comes to training and showers and most importantly tested every day. Every night they're going to be tested. Like I said, if I was to go, which I don't think I'm going to, but if I was to go, I feel like I'd be the same place on earth. I'd feel more safe there than, yeah, than you would just I can't. Yeah, I drive through the streets of Houston. I'm not going to be nearly as safe as I would be if I was a middle of a campus that was being checked down as much as they're going

to be. Because the NBA cannot afford under any circumstance to have a massive outbreak while they're there. Because not only does it cost you the rest of this year, but it probably cost you part of next season, too. And on that uplifting note, we say goodbye. Ross, great job while I was gone. Yeah, I know. Brendan, great job while I was gone. I didn't listen to the men of the show, but I'm sure it was great. You sure it was fantastic. I have a great rest of your day. We'll do it. Anything goes Friday tomorrow, and we'll have Brian T. Smith, and we will have the Fantasy Five and you. Stand by, Adam Clemson, Adam Wexer. They are known as the A. team, and they're up next right here on Sports Talk 7-A.